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Message: <blockquote data-quote="brocknroller" data-source="post: 1599205" data-attributes="member: 665">Sancho,The WP/ED redesign and new 8x42 configuration suggested above might overcome the non-optical advantages of the EL except the one-hand hold. Plus, if you are sensitive to CA, the optics should be superior to the EL in that regard (even the existing SE probably shows less CA, from what I've read about CA in the EL). I was wondering where those American Blue-Winged Teal were! They had a nice pond a couple blocks from my house, but now it's next to a construction site. So I figure they probably got tired of all the construction noise at night and decided to fly south early this year when they heard the construction was resuming. A group of developers is building an upscale hotel & spa  for wealthy alumni who come to town for football games and other events (up to 80 alumni events per year), and who feel they are too important to rub elbows with the commoners at the local Motel 6. They are charging $259,000 and up, depending on the condo size and amenities. The hotel & spa will also maintain and rent condos when the owners are not in town, for a fee, of course.However, you can tell the ducks, they can come home. Despite the fact that the hotel's sales & marketing manager told me the construction was back on this month after a year hiatus, which I wrote in my article for the business newspaper, I heard from her last week, and she said that due to the bad economy, the developers decided to delay the project until next year. As the bank CFO I interviewed last week told me, the recession took a longer time to hit our area, but it's finally arrived. I think what probably happened to the ducks is that on their way south, they flew into the Bermuda Triangle, and that messed up their internal compasses so they headed north and ended up in Dublin where they flew into an open barrel of Guinness and after sipping the "water" decided that they liked Irish "water" better and decided to stay. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />Happy 250th to Arthur (Guinness)! Brock</blockquote>

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