An apparatus includes a plurality of channels, a converter, a control block and a counter. An objective lens system has a positive refractive power, and includes a prism for reflecting the object light being incident to guide the object light on the optical axis, and an aperture stop control device for passing the object light, the objective lens system forming an intermediate image by focusing the object light nearer to the object side than the light receiving surface. At least some or all game wagers may be an amount within a range of multiples of the player. The effective CPU time is a portion of the execution interval that excludes delays caused by contention for microarchitectural resources, such as time spent repopulating lines from the LLC that were evicted by other threads. Resulting holey fibers have a large hole dimension and spacing, and thus a large core, when compared to traditional fibers and conventional fibers that propagate a single mode. In another embodiment, the thermoelectric air conditioner is mounted external to the transit case.