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> This assumes the design is for a large, established bank. What if it's for
> a
> startup that wants to distinguish itself via exceptional ATM usability?
Well, you're assuming the banks make their own ATM's? I would say that's
not the case. A large bank would be the only one with the capital to change
ATM design. A smaller bank would simply pick one of the choices that's
available and buy it. I don't see a small bank paying the ATM manufacturer
to design the perfect ATM. Bank of America does extensive studies on ATM
usage, and is probably already working on more user friendly designs. The
one near me has a large touch screen with no pin pad, so all interaction is
done on the screen. The machine also doesn't suck in your card. It's a
vertical stripe reader, and as long as you have the stripe in the slot, it
will scan either way I'm pretty sure. It's the best design I've seen in an
>> This assumes the design is for a large, established bank. What if it's for a startup that wants to distinguish itself
>> via exceptional ATM usability?
The issue again is the established network of ATMs. There are a set number of manufacturers (NCR, Siemens Nixdorf, etc) who build and sell ATMs. It is difficult to imagine a start-up bank with enough resources to change the model.
More importantly, given the size of the standardized network of ATMs around the world, a start-up bank that deviates from card and PIN as its ATM customer authentication mechanism would risk limiting customers to using only their own ATMs (or require customers to also have a traditional card and PIN
for when they use other banks' ATMs).
I do agree that an exceptional ATM experience could be a highly visible point of differentiation for a bank. There are a lot of elements in the ATM software and network database that a bank could enhance to greatly improve ATM usability, many of which have already been mentioned in this discussion
thread. Since this discussion began, I can't help don't get frustrated by them:
1. Don't prompt me to select the desired account (Chequing, Savings, Line of Credit, etc.) if I only have one account with your bank.
2. Remember my language preference (very common prompt in Canada)
3. Remember my preferred withdrawal amount: based on the ATM I use; based on the day/time of the week
Hi everyone,
Thank you for your advice. I agree that the process of learning by
critiquing one's solution (in other words, learning from mistakes) is a very
powerful learning technique. I have experienced just that.
I must say that this has been an absolutely wonderful discussion from my
standpoint. I've taken away a lot from it.
Thanks to all of you for this great discussion,
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Responding more generally to the initial poster, my
advice is to read Cooper's books, then critique your
work in terms of the ideas you find there. This type
of principles-based critique can be a powerful
learning technique. I think designers owe it to
themselves to engage in this type of self-critique
from time to time.
"Pretend it's magic" and "Reality bats last" are not about unconstrained
creativity. Neither are they warm up exercises. They are about understanding
the space defined by constraints by testing those constraints.
How do you know what's out of bounds if you do not test your boundaries? How
do you know if a constraint is a real constraint, or just lazy thinking?
But I doubt that in day to day work, this blank slate creative
thinking is valuable beyond stretching and warming up the creative
muscle. The real work and creativity is when you begin to mesh user's
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Often, parents will usually agree on an arrangement relating to which parent has daily care of the children and where the children are to live etc. However, these arrangements generally tend to break down if one parent is finding that the arrangement is not working for them or if it is becoming inconvenient or difficult for them. This may lead to that parent not returning the child to the other parent. If this happens, you need to act quickly and contact us immediately so that we may apply for to the Courts for a Recovery Order. Here at LAC Lawyers, our experienced solicitors can guide you through this traumatic and cumbersome process, as painlessly as possible!
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A recovery order is defined in section 67Q of the Family Law Act 1975. It is an order of the Court that can require a child be returned to a:
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- person who has parental responsibility for the child.
A recovery order can authorise or direct a person or persons, such as police officers, to take appropriate action to find, recover and deliver a child to one of the people listed above. As well, a recovery order can provide directions about the day-to-day care of a child until the child is returned or delivered.
A recovery order can also prohibit the person from again removing or taking possession of the child. In these cases, a recovery order can authorise the arrest (without warrant) of the person who again removes or takes possession of the child.
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- person who has parental responsibility for the child in a parenting order
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- person concerned with the care, welfare and development of the child. For example, you may be the person who the child lives or spends time with but there is no parenting order that states this.
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Coyotes are becoming increasingly comfortable with living and breeding close to neighborhoods in the Santa Clarita Valley.
As development and the valley's population expand, the small, wolflike carniverous animals are displaced from their natural habitats and must learn to live among people to survive, a local wildlife expert said.
"They have no choice but to learn to live where we live," said Martine Collette, founder and director of Sylmar's Wildlife Waystation, which rescues and rehabilitates wild animals.
"People say, 'Why can't they go back to the wild?'" she said. "We are taking up their space. Every new subdivision you see built, every group of homes, every new park is a removal of the wild animals' habitat."
Coyotes have become unusually comfortable and bold around people, she said.
"Fright-flight distance is how close someone can approach a wild animal before it takes off running," Collette said. "It's quite short now. You might be able to approach them within 20 feet, whereas before 100 or 200 feet would have been more the norm."
Several Santa Clarita residents said they lost pets to coyotes and recent sightings are up.
"They live right next to people," said Raymond B. Smith, deputy director of L.A. County department of Agricultural Commissioner/Weights and Measures. "They're very successful animals along the fringes of populated areas, although their populations are higher in truly wild territories."
Coyotes will target food and trash that is left in back yards. Unsupervised pets also make easy snacks for coyotes.
"We provide a lot of their food for them," Collette said. "People who don't take care of their pets properly will lose them to coyote predation.
"People who don't take good care of their orchards and there's fruit on the ground (will attract) possums, rats, voles, mice, those kinds of things ... that's all coyote food."
The city of Santa Clarita recognizes the increased number of coyotes but does not have any plans to relocate them or enforce measures to control the coyote population. Residents should take measures to protect their own yards and pets from coyotes.
"The city is not responsible for managing the coyote population. We simply do not provide any level of support for that," said Kevin Tonoian, city technology services manager.
"We direct people who have concerns to speak with the county agricultural commission. They deal with that type of natural wildlife and provide educational information about dealing with coyotes," he said.
Collette agrees that residents have the responsibility to protect their property from coyotes.
"My kind-hearted suggestion to the Santa Clarita residents or any other resident is you need to be conscientious about the protection of your personal belongings," she said. "There are certain responsibilities the public has to accept and protecting your children and pets is one. Unprotected animals are fair game."
People can protect their pets by building solid fences and feeding them inside the house or garage.
Coyotes usually do not target children as a food source, although parents can protect small children against coyote attacks by not allowing them to play outside unsupervised.
"As a general standard, children are not part of a coyote food chain," Collette said. "What normally happens is children will have something in their hands like food and the coyote may go for that food and bite the child accidentally, or children, being so gregarious, will run up to a coyote."
Residents can discourage coyotes from living nearby by removing potential food and water sources that coyotes could access.
"When there's a sudden increase in populations of coyotes, or they're becoming unusually bold, someone's feeding them in the area," Smith said. "If they're not getting food and water at your house, they'll move on."
Collette believes residents can learn to live peacefully with the coyotes in the Santa Clarita Valley.
"People at some point need to learn to co-habit with things," she said. "As we expand across this globe, there is less and less space for other residents of planet earth to live on. Therefore, the space needs to be shared. There are ways to share spaces without either party getting the worst of it. There is a cycle, and if people choose to, they can learn to live within an animal community and live peacefully."


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There was a story published last week about a local resident, Ruben Rivera, who confronted the Amarillo City Commission about improving T-Anchor Lake. Apparently, Rivera became adamant about his proposal, and that adamancy provoked two responses.
One reaction was from Potter County Commissioner Manny Perez, who criticized the city's government for focusing so much attention, not to mention development resources, at the city's southwest side. The second was from Mayor Debra McCartt, who denied the allegation and insisted that proper decorum be observed in presenting issues to the city commission.
Now I'm all for proper decorum, but when people bring issues to the City Commission, they may not be in a mood for polite declamation. It could be that things are actually bad enough for a resident to build up a significant head of steam when addressing the commission, and admonishing a resident to rein in is actually a good way to raise steam. My advice would be for the commission to maintain its own decorum, even in the face of what they may consider to be a scurrilous allegation.
But that's a small point.
Anyone who drives around Amarillo knows that the southwest side has drawn a number of high cards from the deck. It may well be luck, although the odds are against that. It could be economics, with the northern and eastern sides of the city getting only what they can afford. It could also be politics, with some kind of institutional grudge born by an unbroken succession of city administrations to do for those who support them and not to do for those who don't. I don't know. But the flavor of Amarillo changes as you drive around it, and it is unrealistic to expect people not to notice that.
As I read this story, the idea that hit me had more to do with negotiating strategy than it did with decorum.
Back in 1983 Roger Fisher and William Ury, both members of the Harvard Negotiation Project, produced an excellent little book called "Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In." The authors argue that there are essentially two stances we can take in any negotiation. One, the more common, is "position-based negotiating." This is the kind of negotiation we face when a car salesman won't take less than $30,000 for a car and we won't pay more than $25,000 for it. Where can such a negotiation go?
Answer: Nowhere, unless one side or the other "gives in." And as most of us know from personal experience, "giving in" doesn't feel very good.
By way of contrast, Fisher and Ury propose what they call "principle-based negotiating." This is the kind of negotiation we face when one party starts with, "I want to sell this car for the most I can get," and the other party starts with, "I'd like to buy this car for the least I can pay." When both sides recognize and respect the interests of the other then a mutually satisfying result is far easier to achieve.
As I read the story about T-Anchor Lake, I found that there are compelling safety reasons for not turning it into a playground. According to a consultant hired to evaluate the idea, only a few acres along the northeast edge of the lake can be turned into something like a park. So if a city resident were to take the position that the entire T-Anchor Lake basin should be turned into a recreation area then he would face a city position of "we can't do that for safety reasons." In that case, the city's course is clear: no park.
But what of the principle involved?
Does the City Commission care about the north and east sides of the city as much as it does the southwest side? I believe there is room for argument on this point. I don't doubt the good faith of the current administration, which has done more to include all of the city in its plans and decisions than any other administration I can recall. But residents in the north and east don't live in city zones as well maintained as the southwest, and they know it.
What is the correct answer here? I certainly believe that the city made the right call with respect to T-Anchor Lake. But I also believe the commission missed an opportunity to take another step toward reconciling the views of city residents with the intentions of the city's master plan for development.
It would have been so easy, not to mention an effective display of true decorum, for someone in the commission to ask, "What else can we do?" Ruben Rivera might have had a second idea.
Greg Sagan is an Amarillo business consultant and freelance writer.
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If I had been on my game, I would've submitted a dynamite candle lighting clip (maybe even with real dynamite). I'd bring all the VideoJew friends together (Jelvis, Gino, Aaron Kemp, the guys from the kosher Subway, mah-jongg lady Elaine Sandberg)...the list could go on forever. But I suppose the VideoJew holiday special will have to wait until next year.
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TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie is out with another television ad today, this one aimed at touting his support for mandatory drug treatment of nonviolent offenders.
The commercial — the campaign's second in two days — is part of a $1.5 million purchase of air time on New York and Philadelphia networks and statewide cable stations.
So far in the general election race, the Republican governor has spent more than $3 million on TV commercials while his Democratic challenger, Barbara Buono, has yet to raise enough cash to promote herself on television, an expensive proposition in a state that draws from the New York and Philadelphia media markets.
Titled "Compassion," the 30-second spot features generic images of drug-addicted youth, followed by footage of Christie speaking, during a May visit with former Gov. Jim McGreevey, to women in at substance abuse recovery program called Integrity House at the Hudson County Correctional Center.
"We can't forget that what we're dealing with here is an illness, and we need to treat it that way. Because I believe that no life is disposable and everyone deserves a second chance," Christie says in the ad.
On Thursday, Christie and his wife, Mary Pat, will be the guests of honor at an annual gala put on by Daytop Village, a substance abuse treatment center in Mendham where the Christies live. The governor has said his experience serving on the center's board had a "profound effect" on him and convinced him that treatment can work.
Some criticized Christie for ordering state flags lowered to half-staff in honor of Whitney Houston after her death in February. Christie rejected the notion that the Newark native's well-documented drug problems should negate her talent.
"I believe that drug addiction is a disease, and I think that she struggled mightily with that disease," Christie said at the time. "I don't believe that diminishes the cultural contributions that she made to the state."
Christie has modeled himself as a "compassionate conservative" in the mold of formter President George W. Bush, for whom he fundraised before Bush nominated him to serve as the state's U.S. Attorney.
Earlier this year, Christie signed a bill expanding participation in county drug courts -- with dedicated teams of prosecutors, treatment providers, substance abuse counselors, probation officers and judges.
New drug courts were to be established in Hudson and Ocean counties and the region covering Somerset, Hunterdon and Warren counties by July 1, through a pilot program intended to admit more nonviolent offenders to mandatory treatment.
Christie has said he wants to bring all counties into the fold within four years, but state Sen. Raymond Lesniak (D-Union) has blamed him for failing to fully fund the program.


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The Victorians in the late 19th century gave us many of our current Christmas traditions. How did these change during wartime? This is a companion program to "Call of Duty" in the Sabatini Art Gallery and the "Holidays in WWII" exhibit on the 2nd floor.
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Answer: Sony should have returned your camera by FedEx with a signature required, and when it got lost, it should have taken the matter up with its shipping company — not asked you to pester the shipper for the package.
As far as I can tell, your entire correspondence with Sony took place by phone. I find that problematic. Had you emailed Sony, your request would have been assigned a case number and you would have a clean paper trail (or in your case, an electronic trail) that documented your queries and its responses.
But when you call Sony, only the company has a record of the conversation. That puts you at a disadvantage when you're trying to resolve the case.
Appealing to a supervisor was a good instinct, but why not ask for the supervisor's email and get the response in writing as well? Again, when only one side is recording the call for "quality assurance" purposes, it's your loss.
The only way to stop this game of corporate ping-pong and escalate your case is to start moving up the chain of command at Sony, starting with an email through its site. (Here's a tip: If your email goes into a black hole, try an electronic chat. You can easily copy the back-and-forth for your own records.)
If that doesn't work, try sending an email to a supervisor. Here's a a list of Sony's executives. Most email formats are firstname.lastname@example.com (and sometimes they add the division, like @playstation.sony.com).
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> Which aperture do you use?
April 14, 2010, 08:20 PM
Just wanted to see which aperture was preferred on BUIS.
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April 14, 2010, 08:27 PM
All of mine have the 0-200 night aperture and the 25-300 daylight aperture, I keep it on the 0-200 aperture if I have to use it, the night ap works for most engagements and since i usually keep them deployed up and just focus on the red dot, the wide ap is easier to ignore until I need it.
way I see it, if your using it for competition or defense, the 0-200 is faster and can be used in low light, the smaller aperture is near useless in lowlight or for speed.
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April 14, 2010, 08:58 PM
I have an Army issue version of the BUIS which only have the small aperture. It's also what I've always used on my issue M4. So it just feels more natural on my AR-15.
April 14, 2010, 09:01 PM
Ragnar, which version did they issue you, the ones I had to use were crap.
April 14, 2010, 09:19 PM
I was issued crap as well.
I figure the day sight is MOA, and the night sight is MOM.
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April 15, 2010, 05:05 AM
i use the Ma tech BUIS linked below and i think it is the same as what Ragnar is talking about. It only has one apeture which is fine with me. It is low profile, adjustable for various ranges, and so far has been a great addition to my ar, and the M4's i have had them on in the Army.
April 15, 2010, 10:09 AM
On some of my carbines I use a Same Plane aperture from XS sight systems (no elevation change when switching from the small 'peep' sight to the larger "ghost ring").
On other rifles I have the smaller 'peep' zeroed at 50y/200m and flipping to the large ghost ring gives me an approximately 100y zero. (I've sifted through a number of apertures in my parts drawer to find ones that work this way).
With an A2 sight that has the elevation wheel, you can calibrate it and can then adjust the wheel so that you can use either aperture at whatever range you wish.
For quick snap shots at close range (under 25-50y), I use the ghost ring. For 50y+ precision shooting, I flip to the smaller aperture.
April 15, 2010, 10:10 AM
Keep in mind that different standard AR15 apertures have varying elevation changes when flipping from one aperture to another.
AR-15/M-16: Rear Sight Elevation Shifts and the need for a Same Plane Aperture Sight
As originally designed the AR-15/M-16 sight system adjusts for windage at the rear assembly and for elevation in the front to zero the rifle to the individual shooter. To obtain the ballistic adjustment needed for longer range shooting the original rear sight had one aperture higher than the other. While this system would not give the shooter an exact elevation adjustment for a specific range, it would under battle conditions put the bullet close enough for government work so to speak.
The new A2 rifles and carbines employ a rear sight system that includes a range cam to allow the shooter to more precisely adjust the ballistic arc to their needs. This system eliminated the need for an elevation shift between the large close quarters aperture and the smaller long-range aperture. However the aperture shift is still with us today.
Comparing some of the rear sights available today there appears to be 3 variations available. The 1st style (and oldest) has a .014 offset. This gives a 2.52 inch shift in point of impact at 100 yards between the two apertures. The 2nd style has a .017 offset, which shifts point of impact 3.06 inches at 100 yards. The 3rd style has a .024 offset giving a 4.36 inch shift in P.O.I.
All of the points of impact shifts shown above are for the standard barrel AR-15/M-16 that has a sight radius of 20 inches. The shorter sight radius (14.5 inches) of the M4 carbine and weapons of similar configuration increase the amount of point of impact shift. The shifts for these shorter sight radius weapons are 3.48, 4.25, 5.96 inches respectively.
The only reason for the various shifts would be for changes in the ammunition used by the military over the course of this weapons employment.
Most people are completely unaware of this elevation change that occurs when the aperture is shifted from one to the other. They just figure that their rifle is doing something strange.
Our aperture sight for this weapon has both the large and small apertures on the same plane so there is no difference in the point of impact when you shift from one to the other. We have also offset one of the apertures by .007 to make up for the sideways movement of the aperture on the windage screw as it pivots.
By installing our same plane rear aperture you now can sight in your rifle using the smaller aperture and shift back and forth between the two apertures as your light and range needs change without having to do mental gymnastics to know where your bullets impact will be.
April 15, 2010, 12:58 PM
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Bartholomew Roberts
April 15, 2010, 01:15 PM
I use the Santose IBZ with my A2 sights and use the small aperture for above 300m/precision/day and the large aperture for moving/low-light.
For my Troy folding rear sights, I have a same plane aperture and zero at 50yds. This puts me within 2.5" of point of aim out to about 250yds with 55gr M193. I just hold about 8" high at 300yds to make hits with irons at that range. I typically don't use irons outside that range unless I am just screwing around, so that works for me. Same principle, use the small aperture for precision/day and the large aperture for moving/light
Zach S
April 15, 2010, 07:05 PM
The large one on my .22 and 9mm. The large one on my 5.56 as well, but it has an EOTech with absolute co-witness.
April 15, 2010, 08:10 PM
I use the big one as intended and the little one when the range is beyond 300m.
April 15, 2010, 08:19 PM
Like Bartholomew Roberts, I normally use the IBZ with the small aperture. And the large one for low light conditions. Haven't moved on to optics since the A2 sights are so good.
April 15, 2010, 08:46 PM
Maybe I should have been more specific.
First, BUIS means Back Up Iron Sights, you A2 guys don't apply here, sorry.
Second, I was referring to BUIS that only have windage adjustment and aren't same plane, of course. Lower 1/3 co-witness should be thrown in the mix too.
So, basically if you were stuck with ONE aperture for a BACK UP sight, which would you choose. I guess the poll's kinda screwed now.
April 16, 2010, 09:17 AM
Which BUIS are you thinking of?
Most have a standard A2 aperture which flips between a close range ghost ring and a smaller 'peep' sight that is set a little higher for a longer range zero.
Like was said earlier, it is usually recommended to zero the small peep with a Santos IBZ (http://www.m4carbine.net/showthread.php?t=22) (50y/200m zero, giving you +/- 2" out to 250m) and you can flip to the larger aperture for closer range zero, low light, and/or wider field of view.
Of course, you could swap the A2 aperture for an earlier A1 type aperture which has two smaller peep sights at two different elevations. Or an XS Same Plane if you want the same zero for both apertures.
I'm the only one on the thread that mentioned an elevation wheel, and I just brought it up as an alternative for those with fixed carry handles.
April 16, 2010, 11:25 AM
and you can flip to the larger aperture for closer range zero
Doesn't work that way. I have my A2 sight zeroed (per IBZ) with the small aperture at 8/3-2. In order to be on target at the same range with the large aperture, I have to go to 8/3. That's in increase in elevation, meaning that if you left the setting the same the rifle would shoot lower at the same range, and even lower than that at shorter range. The only way what you said would work is if you zero on the large aperture and use the small aperture for close range. Doesn't make any sense to do it that way though.
The BUIS I'm using is from Samson MFG, sold from Del-ton and Spike's.
April 16, 2010, 04:38 PM
I have my A2 sight zeroed (per IBZ) with the small aperture at 8/3-2. In order to be on target at the same range with the large aperture, I have to go to 8/3. That's in increase in elevation Yes.
You had to increase the elevation on your wheel to make up for the lower elevation of the large aperture. Col Santos mentions that in his IBZ instructions.
1. Sight should be at 8/3 -2 clicks, that is, all the way down, not up a click. Please note removable handle sights are
marked 6/3 (rather than 8/3); also some are in 'half-clicks' as well. There should be 3 clicks between 3 and 4 on the
knob. If there are 6 clicks then the sight needs to be set at –4 clicks (instead of –2).
2. Small aperture, nose to firing handle weld.
3. Distance is 50 yards.
4. Point of aim should be point of impact of bullet.
7. Remember you're adjusting the FRONT SIGHT for elevation, not the rear, and that each click is about 1/2"
(actually a little more) at 50 yards. You won't get it closer than that. Don't frustrate yourself trying.
8. You're done. Leave the sight in this position for 99% of your shooting.
9. If you have to shoot targets you KNOW are 300 meters away or more, just click to the right number on the sight.
10. If you're patrolling, set the sight to 8/3 and snap the aperture forward to 0-2. This will provide the same
trajectory as above but with a larger, easier to see thru rear sight. Use this setting if you also have the M68 mounted
as it's quicker to transition to if the sight fails. [Editor's Note - there is some variance with the offset of the A2
aperture - they SHOULD be a 2 click difference - however some manucatures produce them with larger offsets.
Setting the sight to 3 then flipping to 0-2 might now work for your AR. Check it at the range, you want the group to
be centered at 50y, you might need to set the sight at 3 +2 or even 4 to get the large aperture to be correct]
April 16, 2010, 06:53 PM
...Which means I'd be shooting lower than with the small aperture...
Which means and you can flip to the larger aperture for closer range zero is incorrect.
But the discussion of elevation adjustments is a digression here. I'm going to have one aperture to use without sighting in the gun over again, and just want some opinions on which to use. I know what IBZ is, I know the intended purpose of both apertures, and I know that there are same plane sights.
My sight has 2 apertures and no elevation adjustment; it flips up with the large aperture in place (no choice).
April 16, 2010, 09:30 PM
OK, here's an example of the elevation shift. If I zero at 200m with the small peep, the bullet will also cross at 50y or so. It's an arc right? If I now shoot a group at 100y, it will be about 1.5" high, it's going up towards it's peak. Now, I flip to the ghost ring and shoot a group at 100y. It will be very close to zero and it's at the peak of its arc already. It's not going up anymore from there. Now if I shot at 200y with the larger ring, I'll be about 2-3" low. If I flip to the small peep, I'll be about zeroed and won't be 2" low until about 250y.
But anyway, that is not the point of your thread.
You say you have a regular A2 flip aperture with no elevation wheel. When you raise the BUIS, it comes up with the larger ghost ring in place. OK, I have the same setup on my carbines with ARMS #40s.
Option #1 You can zero the large aperture at whatever you wish your battle zero to be (aka: PBR or Point Blank Range). A 200m or 200y zero is usually recommended, but that's your choice. When you flip to the small peep, you will have a zero at some longer range. You'll have to test it to see what that is. It will vary from one sight to another (see XS FAQ above). Shooting a group at 100y with the small peep and plugging your result in a ballistic calculator should give you an answer.
Option #2 The way I do it is zero my longer range peep at my favorite PBR and accept that the larger ghost ring will not be zero'ed the same. In my experience it does shoot lower. At under 100y, being off an inch or three isn't going to matter that much. At longer range, your error expands in a cone shape. If I do my part, the smaller peep and known zero gives me a higher probability of an accurate hit at longer ranges.
That is the only two choices you have unless you get the same plane aperture.
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Best-known names in their games fish here for steelhead
Tinseltown, the Big Apple and the Steel City have nothing on Erie's stretch of Steelhead Alley.
Celebrities, athletes, artists, politicians, CEOs and even past presidents have visited Erie County to try their luck catching the region's prized game fish: Steelhead. Celebrities, it turns out, are as star-struck as anyone else by the big trout that have started their annual fall migration up the Lake Erie tributaries.
"Some of the visitors who come to my shop might be famous, but they just come to fish and do their best to make themselves look just like anybody else,'' said Dan Seaman, owner of Elk Creek Sports Store, 10543 Old Lake Road, Lake City.
Actress Sharon Stone, 54, who grew up in Meadville and went to Saegertown High School and Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, has frequented the Elk Creek Sports Store with her younger brother, Pat, on her trips to visit family.
"They have been here when the steelhead begin to run,'' Seaman said. "Pat is a dedicated sportsman and is a top competitor in archery, and he brings his sister along to fish. Naturally she will have a cap on and wear apparel to look nondescript and blend in with the crowd. But she's just here to enjoy the fishing and the relaxation.''
Seaman cited the likes of former Cleveland Indians slugger Jim Thome and members of the Buffalo Bills, Cleveland Browns and the Tribe who have stopped in to gear up for steelhead.
"Jimmy Carter and the first George Bush were here to fish for the steelhead,'' said Terry Farrell, president of the Pennsylvania Steelhead Association. "I know Jimmy Carter is still an avid fly fisherman. The Secret Service agents made for a good-sized group.''
Athletes seem to visit the tributaries in abundance.
Former Pittsburgh Steelers kicker Gary Anderson, 53, has made the trip to Erie since the 1980s. Now his company, Perfect Season, promotes fly fishing and trade shows and distributes fly rods, reels and boats.
"I still come to Erie from time to time to see my friend Jeff Blood, who is from Erie, and I was up there regularly when I was with the Steelers,'' said Anderson, who retired to the Canadian Rockies after a 23-season NFL career. "Not only does the area have some of the best steelhead fishing in the world, but what it's done for your economy is amazing, and that doesn't go unnoticed.''
A 2004 study commissioned by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission indicated steelhead fishing pushes an estimated $9.5 million into the Erie County economy and supports 219 jobs.
NFL players hold that line
Tuesday is the traditional day off for NFL players, and Anderson, a native of South Africa and a Syracuse University graduate, made the two-hour ride to Erie often while kicking for the Steelers from 1982 to 1993.
"I would come just about every week, but most of the players stayed back to rest. Being a kicker, I had plenty of time for that,'' Anderson said with a laugh. "Sometimes I would be along one bank, and there would be Cleveland Browns fans on the other side who would harass me, though it was all in fun.''
Anderson said he would bring former Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Randy Tomlin to fish.
Green Bay Packers running backs coach Alex Van Pelt, 42, a Pittsburgh native, has fished for steelhead since around 1990. Van Pelt owns passing records at the University of Pittsburgh, played for the Bills from 1994 to 2003 -- primarily as a backup quarterback -- and then was an assistant coach with Buffalo.
"My father-in-law, David Harbison, got me interested, and I went out whenever I got a chance,'' Van Pelt said. "I went up to streams like Elk and Walnut Creek when I was at Pitt, and I often went there when I was with the Bills.''
Van Pelt said he fished alongside quarterbacks Jim Kelly, now in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and Todd Collins, who beat him out for the starting job in 1997. Bills offensive lineman Jerry Ostroski was another avid angler.
"On Tuesdays, our day off, we would fish at Cattaraugus Creek" -- southwest of Buffalo -- "which has great steelhead fishing," Van Pelt said. "When the water was murky and not conducive to good fishing, then we would head west where Elk Creek could have a clear bottom. The bottom line, though, is to get away. You look at your watch and the hours have melted away.''
Van Pelt correlates playing quarterback to fly fishing.
"You want to be perfect, call the perfect play and then execute,'' Van Pelt said. "The same with fishing. It's a competition between myself and the fish. You make the perfect presentation, so the fish goes after your man-made fly as if it was real.''
No doubting Thomas
Joe Thomas, a 6-foot 6-inch, 312-pound Pro Bowl offensive tackle with the Browns, can be equated with fishing almost as much as football in Ohio. He was the former co-host, with longtime Cleveland Plain Dealer outdoors writer D'Arcy Egan, on Outdoors Ohio, a program on the SportsTime Ohio network.
"Northeast Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania have some of the best trout fishing streams in North America,'' said Thomas, 27. "Many people don't realize how lucky we are to have these rivers and streams in our backyard. I was surprised to find out when I came here that people from out west travel to Ohio and Pennsylvania each year to fish the steelhead because of the numbers and the size of fish that are caught out here. It is truly a hidden gem in this part of the world."
How much does Thomas like to fish? When the University of Wisconsin All-American was selected third overall by the Browns in the 2007 NFL Draft, he was not at New York's Radio City Music Hall to be greeted by then-Commissioner Paul Tagliabue. He was fishing on Lake Michigan in Wisconsin with his father, Eric.
Guides to the stars
"Joe is a great, unassuming guy who loves the outdoors,'' said Girard native Greg Senyo, 35, who owns Great Lakes guide service Steelhead Alley Outfitters. Senyo, a 1995 Girard High School graduate, is a sergeant with the Wayne, Ohio, police. But he's well-known in outdoors circles for designing flies as a member of the staff for JagflyCo. as well as a top guide around Toledo, Ohio, the western part of Steelhead Alley.
Senyo has many noteworthy clients who fish all sides of Steelhead Alley, including the Dolan family, who own the Cleveland Indians, and Flick Ford, an artist renowned for his paintings of fish.
Erie-based stream guide Karl Weixlmann said Pennsylvania Auditor General Jack Wagner and Leigh Perkins, the retired chairman of the Orvis Company, were two of his well-known clients.
Weixlmann said he has yet to guide any big-time entertainers.
"I almost got to take Ace Frehley out on my boat when he was in Erie a few weeks ago,'' Weixlmann said of the former Kiss guitarist who was the headliner at Celebrate Erie in August. "He fishes wherever he travels and really wanted to go, but there was not enough time to fit it in. I can't complain though, because I'm so lucky to be doing what I do.''
In concert with fish
Senyo's friend John Clouser, 50, the principal bassoonist in the Cleveland Orchestra, moonlights as a guide himself and has fished all over the world.
"First off, we always seem to have better seasons than the Browns, the Indians and the Cavaliers,'' Clouser said with a laugh. "Except for the month of June, we are performing, and fishing is the perfect escape. What I like about my schedule is that we play at night, so I can fish without encountering too many people. I avoid Sundays since that's about the only time many people have to fish.''
Clouser is particularly fond of fishing on the Pennsylvania tributaries.
"Steelhead Alley has a great reputation, and it's close to the Alaskan fishing experience,'' said Clouser, a Philadelphia native who moved to Cleveland in 1997. "The Pennsylvania streams are better than those in Ohio. There are more steelhead, better quality. The stocking programs have a lot to do with that.''
Guide and Fairview resident John Bodnar, who has taken many high-profile types for outings, agrees with Clouser.
"The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission and the 3CU Trout Association have done a great job in stocking in Pennsylvania to make this one of the best steelhead fishing areas in the world,'' Bodnar said.
Clouser, who said his biggest steelhead was 36 inches and 18 pounds, equates a fine-tuned orchestra to having a steelhead strike the right lure.
"People don't realize what you have to do, and to have the patience to develop the skill for fly fishing,'' Clouser said. "It's a slow, step-by-step process, to have man-made lures become part of nature, and you and the fish are one. It's almost Zen-like. It's really an art form, and you have to be devoted. It's similar to be playing beautiful music, and you have to reach every note with perfect timing.''
Angler with a good line
Pittsburgh-area anglers are commonly found on the Erie County streams.
Bob Rager has been the men's basketball coach for 23 seasons at Point Park University, where his penchant for producing high-scoring teams has made him the winningest coach in team history.
Rager runs up and down Interstate 79 to combine steelhead fishing and basketball.
"A bunch of us first came up to fish around 1978 for the coho salmon, and we had no clue what we were doing,'' Rager said. "Instead of using flies and suitable lures, we were using lead sinkers and everything else that sunk like the Titanic. But we learned, and I got hooked. During the season, we would practice from 2 to 4 p.m. I'd zip up to Elk Creek and fish until dusk, stay at the campgrounds there, get up in the morning and fish again, then hurry back to Point Park for practice.''
Rager said several coaches tried their luck for steelhead.
"We would go to the Avonia Tavern" -- on Route 5 in Fairview -- "for dinner and conversation, and the greatest thing is that the coaches could lie about fishing instead of basketball,'' Rager said.
He once fished before a game.
"We were playing at Mercyhurst in November, but I went out to fish for steelhead first,'' he said. "I had to hurry back, and, when I got to the (Mercyhurst Athletic Center), I walked in still wearing my hip waders.''
Could any angler from Hollywood or Washington beat that story?
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West Erie Plaza Cinemas to close after 58 years
ERIE, PA — After almost sixty years in the business, the Plaza Cinemas is scheduled to close.
The locally owned Plaza Cinemas screens will go dark for the final time next week. The theatre, located in the West Erie Plaza, will close on Tuesday, December 23, after nearly 58 years of business.
The theatre, opened in 1950, was the area's first suburban theatre showing top Hollywood blockbusters. Opened as a large single screen theatre, it was converted to a four-screen multiplex in 1980.
Read the full story at WEP Cinemas.
December 16, 2008
Fenton Cinemas close
FENTON, MI — The 8-screen Fenton Cinemas closed permanently December 7 after 23 years in operation. It opened as a twin cinema and eventually added six more screens. The economy is blamed for the cinema's closing.
Additional info from the Flint Journal at MLive and MLive2.
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December 15, 2008
Developer buys four closed Showcase Cinemas in Connecticut
HARTFORD, CT — A developer is paying National Amusements $45 million to buy four abandoned Showcase Cinema theaters in the area to convert them to commercial and industrial use.
The developer has been negotiating with NA for two years. All the properties add up to nearly 100 acres and their excellent locations near major thoroughfares were compelling enough to make the deal even in this economy. One of the properties has already been resold to a local electrical utility.
December 10, 2008
Auburn's Old State Theater to close, but….
AUBURN, CA — Here's an unusual situation. According to this article the Old State Theater is or will shortly close (the theater's website indicates Dec. 5 though the article says Dec. 20). The theater will be transformed into a performing arts center. However the current operator has copyrighted the theater's name and intends apparently to use it as the name of her relocated cinema.
The Old State Theater, a haven for art-house films in Downtown Auburn, will close its doors Dec. 20 as an art deco movie house it has called home since opening in mid-2004.
Owner Theresa Cote said Friday that she has decided to move to a new location to let building owner the Auburn Placer Performing Arts Center non-profit move forward with plans to modify the Lincoln Way theater for live performances.
Cote, who has copyrighted the Old State Theater name, said she is looking for a building in the Auburn area with about 3,400 square feet of floor space and good parking access to re-establish her movie business. She owns the projection equipment and screens at the theater.
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SunStar to close Sarasota theater
SARASOTA, FL — SunStar will close the Sarasota Crossings 10 on December 14. SunStar took over the theater from the Regal chain in 2002.
The managers found out several weeks ago that the theater at 5521 Fruitville Road, at the Honore Avenue intersection, will close, and the other employees were informed this week.
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Delaware's last drive-in closes
FELTON, DE — The last drive-in theater in Delaware is closing Saturday. The theater operator can't afford to buy the land and the property owners want to sell.
The Diamond State Drive-in Theater opened in 1949 and converted to adult films in 1966 until 1985. The screens were dark from then until 1995 when the present operator reopened it.
December 1, 2008
Historic Ioka Theater to close Christmas Eve
EXETER, NH — The historic Ioka Theater, which has operated since 1915 when it showed "Birth of a Nation," will close its doors on Dec. 24th. The main reason is the high cost of installing a sprinkler system, with high energy costs and insurance costs as contributing factors.
The theater has 500 seats in the main auditorium with a smaller second screen in the basement which formerly served as the area's YMCA.
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First 20 screen theatre to close
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Westgate Cinemas to close
After nearly 30 years anchoring Westgate Mall at the corner of Odana Road and Whitney Way in Madison, Wiscconsin, Westgate Cinema will close.
Milwaukee-based Marcus Theatres leased the space and operated Westgate during those three decades, but the four-screen theater struggled to get the most popular art and independent films after the much-heralded opening of the Sundance Cinemas in the Hilldale Mall in May 2007.
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The Ministry of Defence has announced plans to invest in the US
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Defence Secretary George Robertson said that the UK intends to invest
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laser is a vital element of such work.
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I assume your point is that people are stupid. None of this sounds like a
VMS, CHARON, or Windows problem. It sounds more like non-existent
configuration management on even less communications.
Mike Ober.
"Neil Rieck"
wrote in message
<<< We only open our wallets when the price is dirt cheap. >>>
It turns out that current out-of-pocket costs determined all of the
recent decisions made by employer. No consideration was given to other
metrics like TCO (Total Cost of Ownership). That is how we ended up
moving a mission-critical VAX/VMS application from a dual host
VAX-4300 cluster with 20 spindles on four DSSI busses to a platform
consisting of two DL380 chassis and one full MSA chassis even though
we still have the source code.
The new OS is Windows Server 2003 and VAX emulation is done with
CHARON. The whole thing works so you cannot blame MS, or HP, or the
CHARON product, but only time will tell if this PC solution will
outlast the VAX it replaced. My employer is responsible for three
fubars, which I will pass on to you now.
1) Even though we are using controller based RAID, someone requested
that system disk shadowing be "host based". OK, this should not be a
big deal except one of the installers was doing a VMS shutdown at the
same time another installer manually stopped the service (did I
mention that a fully configured CHARON environment runs as an NT
service?). This resulted in a corrupt system disk, which meant that we
received a stack dump whenever the shadow driver loaded at the next
boot. This could only be fixed by a conversational boot (on whichever
disk was good) then remounting the mate disk to it. Ouch!
(back in the day we saw real time events like AC-low and DC-low which
would warn the processor to prepare for a catastophe; its kind of hard
to emulate that level of detail when the emulator is stopped by
someone without enough caffeine :-)
2) Whenever our Windows people hear about a new system, they need to
get involved too. So even though this is not a real Windows
application, they decided to configure all the windows domain stuff.
Now any corporate idiot browsing the windows domain can see this box
and attempt to connect with it (hopefully network-based authentication
and privs work properly). The first time our application went off-line
seemed to coincide with something in the Windows event log with a
message similar to arbitrating for Windows domain mastership or some
such nonsense.
(One NIC belongs to Windows whilst the other two belong to VMS; Others
have told me that smart CHARON users unplug the Windows NIC and only
reconnect it when Windows maintenance is required. Not so with my
3) This is a Windows box on our corporate intranet so someone decided
to install McAfee anti-virus protection. The CHARON installation group
warned everyone to restrict McAfee to only monitoring the C
partition. Two days later, another nosy Windows expert noticed that
McAfee was misconfigured and so decided to help us poor sods. That is
when McAfee noticed some software mysteriously writing directly to the
D partition, assumed it was a virus then shut it down. Did I mention
that CHARON runs out of the D partition? That virus was CHARON.
Neil Rieck
Ontario, Canada.


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Your Take: When Frugality Becomes Stealing?
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I loved this post by Clark Palmer on Bankrate about when people take frugality too far (it even features Liz Pulliam Weston, one of my favorite personal finance writers). In it he talked about a guy who would take advantage of hotels when traveling on business – swapping out burned out light bulbs from his home with the ones in the hotel, taking towels from hotel pools, and getting free breakfast at local (to his home) hotels. That's pretty ridiculous.
One thing I was interested to read was that "There are certain things that hotels expect you to take, like shampoo. So, the hotel basically builds the loss into the cost of the room, says Weston. But taking toilet paper and towels crosses the line." I thought they threw out anything we used but didn't finish, so I always took the half used shampoo because they come in nice TSA-friendly containers. I still think they toss them but I never thought a hotel would build that loss into the cost of the room.
There are a few other crazy things in that post about how frugality can go a little too far… I'm curious to hear your thoughts on this!{ 50 comments, please add your thoughts now! }


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About seventy cases of congenital heart block have been recorded. Yater's1 review of cases prior to 1929 included only thirty cases of well established block. The criteria used by him and in subsequent reviews were auriculoventricular dissociation proved by a graphic method in a relatively young person, development of bradycardia at a fairly early age, and absence of a history of infection which might cause heart block. In 1934 Hays2 collected twelve additional cases. Since then about twenty-six additional cases have been reported. The age at which the diagnosis of heart block has been made varies from birth up to 20 years. Only five cases including our case have been diagnosed before birth. Yater,1 Witt,3 Heubner4 and Ottow5 have made a prenatal diagnosis of complete heart block. The diagnosis of heart block before birth has also been made by White, Eustis and Kerr,6
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