An apparatus is provided that includes a support body having a scale, a suspending member that suspends an article to be weighed by the scale, a display unit that displays the measured weight of the article, a retractable and extendable handle, a tape measure, and a temperature probe. The reflectors select a best repeater from a set of possible repeaters and redirect the client to the selected best repeater. The low frequency component can then be added to a future control signal to form an adjusted control signal. An adaptive filter filters the parallel ray format data with each of a plurality of different filter channels based on a calculated photonic noise of each reading and assuming an arbitrary noise reduction factor, different for each filter channel. Increasing the reddish coloring of a white golf ball enhances the fashionability of the ball and improves the way the ball looks and feels to the golfer when it is played.