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Now that I have caught my breath, picked my jaw up off the floor and settled down, I did some research and sure enough, cyberspace is positively buzzing with news of this shock announcement. The news was generated by some really, really early sales art at Cannes for what will be Dario Argento's undoubtedly distinct take on the dark and sensuous tale of forbidden desire, obsession and centuries-old (blood) lust. In the current climate of obsession with all things fanged and morbidly forlorn, it might be interesting to see Argento's take on the classic tale.
FrightFest honcho and Dario Argento expert Alan Jones posted this on Twitter earlier, "Just announced, Dario Argento's DRACULA in 3D, filming in Italy January, period setting".
Argento is no stranger to gothic/period horror, having already helmed the spectacularly uneven, though still technically impressive Phantom of the Opera, and produced SFX guru Sergio Stivaletti's directorial debut Wax Mask.
Speaking of 3D, it was only last year that news spread throughout cyberland that Argento was toying with the notion of remaking his own masterpiece, Deep Red. IN 3D!!
When I interviewed Dario Argento recently he couldn't divulge any information about his next project as he was still negotiating the specifics with US execs – though he did reveal that he had no intentions of remaking Deep Red. We shall just have to wait and see what materialises from this interesting and, if I'm completely honest, bizarre news!
To listen to my interview with Dario Argento, click here. And please forgive me my gushing, it was a major dream come true and I was like an unsure, quietly ecstatic child in a blood-spattered sweet shop…
Thank you again to the positively delectable Francesca Brazzorotto for setting up the interview and translating everything! La ringrazio.


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Does it really never rain in California like the song says?
In California, the predominant winds are the westerlies blowing in from the Pacific Ocean, which bring in relatively cool air in summer and relatively warm air in winter. The winds do bring rain, quite a bit in northern California, but in San Diego there are only 10 inches a year on average.
Atmospheric Circulation Cells
The position of a region relative to the circulation cells and wind belts has a great affect on its climate. In an area where the air is mostly rising or sinking, there is not much wind.
The atmospheric circulation cells and their relationships to air movement on the ground.
The ITCZ
The Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) is the low pressure area near the Equator in the boundary between the two Hadley Cells. The air rises so that it cools and condenses to create clouds and rain (Figure below). Climate along the ITCZ is therefore warm and wet. Early mariners called this region the doldrums because their ships were often unable to sail due to the lack of steady winds.
The ITCZ can easily be seen where thunderstorms are lined up north of the Equator.
The ITCZ migrates slightly with the season. Land areas heat more quickly than the oceans. Because there are more land areas in the Northern Hemisphere, the ITCZ is influenced by the heating effect of the land. In Northern Hemisphere summer, it is approximately 5° north of the Equator, while in the winter it shifts back and is approximately at the Equator. As the ITCZ shifts, the major wind belts also shift slightly north in summer and south in winter, which causes the wet and dry seasons in this area (Figure below).
Seasonal differences in the location of the ITCZ are shown on this map.
Hadley Cell and Ferrell Cell Boundary
At about 30°N and 30°S, the air is fairly warm and dry because much of it came from the Equator, where it lost most of its moisture at the ITCZ. At this location the air is descending, and sinking air warms and causes evaporation.
Mariners named this region the horse latitudes. Sailing ships were sometimes delayed for so long by the lack of wind that they would run out of water and food for their livestock. Sailors tossed horses and other animals over the side after they died. Sailors sometimes didn't make it either.
Ferrell Cell and Polar Cell Boundary
The polar front is around 50° to 60°, where cold air from the poles meets warmer air from the tropics. The meeting of the two different air masses causes the polar jet stream, which is known for its stormy weather. As the Earth orbits the Sun, the shift in the angle of incoming sunlight causes the polar jet stream to move. Cities to the south of the polar jet stream will be under warmer, moister air than cities to its north. Directly beneath the jet stream, the weather is often stormy and there may be thunderstorms and tornadoes.
Prevailing Winds
The prevailing winds are the bases of the Hadley, Ferrell, and polar cells. These winds greatly influence the climate of a region because they bring the weather from the locations they come from. Local winds also influence local climate. For example, land breezes and sea breezes moderate coastal temperatures.
- High and low pressure zones related to the atmospheric circulation cells are important in determining a region's climate.
- Prevailing winds influence the climate of a region because they bring in weather from the upwind area.
- Boundaries between cells are often known for winds and stormy weather due to the contact of different air masses.
1. What are prevailing winds and how do they affect climate?
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VILLANOVA, Pa. (AP) - Once Villanova's band stopped playing its fight song, Jay Wright took over as pep rally conductor.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina started the year with a No. 1 ranking, swept the Atlantic Coast Conference regular-season and tournament titles and battled to the final Monday night of the season to play for the national championship.
HOUSTON (AP) - One good shot deserved another.
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) - Lon Kruger last coached in the Final Four in 1994. That's before most of his current players were born.
HOUSTON (AP) - Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim doesn't like using the term "clean" to describe a college sports program, because the opposite of that would mean "dirty."
Nobody in the NBA was knocking down Ryan Arcidiacono's door when his junior season ended a year ago. Buddy Hield - that was a different story.
When the word "Syracuse" popped up on the bracket for the first time, most of the so-called experts were crying "foul," not shouting "Final Four."
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Kris Jenkins made two free throws with 13.3 seconds remaining, Jalen Brunson added two more with 3.5 seconds left and second-seeded Villanova upset top-seeded Kansas 64-59 on Saturday night in the NCAA Tournament South Region final to reach the Final Four.
This mini-Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament has even higher stakes than usual: The winner earns a spot in the national championship game.
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - Buddy Hield hit eight 3-pointers while scoring 37 points, and Oklahoma advanced to its first Final Four since 2002 with an 80-68 victory over Oregon in the West Region final of the NCAA Tournament on Saturday.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The day before North Carolina and Notre Dame were to meet for a berth in the Final Four, the talk around the Wells Fargo Center was about a game played two weeks ago.
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - Dillon Brooks scored 22 points andOregonadvanced to the brink of its first Final Four in 77 years with an 82-68 victory over defending national champion Duke on Thursday night in the West Region semifinal of the NCAA Tournament.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Perry Ellis scored 27 points to match a season high, Wayne Selden Jr. added 19 and top-seeded Kansas topped No. 5 Maryland for a 79-63 NCAA Tournament South Region semifinal victory Thursday night. The win put the Jayhawks back into the Elite 8 for the first time since 2012.
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - Jordan Woodard scored 22 points and Buddy Hield had 17 points and 10 rebounds to lead the second-seeded Oklahoma Sooners to a 77-63 romp over third-seeded and cold-shooting Texas A&M in the NCAA West Regional on Thursday.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Ryan Arcidiacono and Kris Jenkins each scored 21 points, and No. 2 seed Villanova never trailed in routing third-seeded Miami 92-69 Thursday night in the South Region semifinal of the NCAA Tournament.
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[Comment: When a reference is made within this rule to a federal statutory provision, an industry consensus standard, or any other technical publication, the specific date and title of the publication as well as the name and address of the promulgating agency are listed in rule 4101:3-13-01 of the Administrative Code. The application of the referenced standards shall be limited and as prescribed in section 102.5 of rule 4101:1-1-01 of the Administrative Code.]
801.1 Scope. This chapter shall govern matters concerning indirect waste piping and special wastes. This chapter shall further control matters concerning food-handling establishments, sterilizers, clear-water wastes, swimming pools, methods of providing air breaks or air gaps, and neutralizing devices for corrosive wastes.
801.2 Protection. All devices, appurtenances, appliances and apparatus intended to serve some special function, such as sterilization, distillation, processing, cooling, or storage of ice or foods, and that discharge to the drainage system, shall be provided with protection against backflow, flooding, fouling, contamination and stoppage of the drain.
802.1 Where required. Food-handling equipment and clear-water waste shall discharge through an indirect waste pipe as specified in Sections 802.1.1 through 802.1.8. All health-care related fixtures, devices and equipment shall discharge to the drainage system through an indirect waste pipe by means of an air gap in accordance with this chapter and Section 713.3. Fixtures not required by this section to be indirectly connected shall be directly connected to the plumbing system in accordance with Chapter 7.
Exception: Approved health care related fixtures, devices, and equipment may be directly connected to the drainage system if required to be directly connected in accordance with the manufacturer's installation instructions.
802.1.1 Food handling. Equipment and fixtures utilized for the storage, preparation and handling of food shall discharge through an indirect waste pipe by means of an air gap.
802.1.2 Floor drains in food storage areas. Floor drains located within walk-in refrigerators or freezers in food service and food establishments shall be indirectly connected to the sanitary drainage system by means of an air gap. Where a floor drain is located within an area subject to freezing, the waste line serving the floor drain shall not be trapped and shall indirectly discharge into a waste receptor located outside of the area subject to freezing.
Exception: Where protected against backflow by a backwater valve, such floor drains shall be indirectly connected to the sanitary drainage system by means of an air break or an air gap.
802.1.3 Potable clear-water waste. Where devices and equipment, such as sterilizers and relief valves, discharge potable water to the building drainage system, the discharge shall be through an indirect waste pipe by means of an air gap.
802.1.4 Swimming pools. Where wastewater from swimming pools, backwash from filters and water from pool deck drains discharge to the building drainage system, the discharge shall be through an indirect waste pipe by means of an air gap.
802.1.5 Nonpotable clear-water waste. Where devices and equipment such as process tanks, filters, drips and boilers discharge nonpotable water to the building drainage system, the discharge shall be through an indirect waste pipe by means of an air break or an air gap.
802.1.6 Domestic dishwashing machines. Domestic dishwashing machines shall discharge indirectly through an air gap or air break into a standpipe or waste receptor in accordance with Section 802.2, or discharge into a wye-branch fitting on the tailpiece of the kitchen sink or the dishwasher connection of a food waste grinder. The waste line of a domestic dishwashing machine discharging into a kitchen sink tailpiece or food waste grinder shall connect to a deck-mounted air gap or the waste line shall rise and be securely fastened to the underside of the sink rim or counter.
802.1.7 Commercial dishwashing machines. The discharge from a commercial dishwashing machine shall be through an air gap or air break into a standpipe or waste receptor in accordance with Section 802.2.
802.1.8 Food utensils, dishes, pots and pans sinks. Sinks used for the washing, rinsing or sanitizing of utensils, dishes, pots, pans or serviceware used in the preparation, serving or eating of food shall discharge indirectly through an air gap or an air break or directly connect to the drainage system.
802.2 Installation. All indirect waste piping shall discharge through an air gap or air break into a waste receptor or standpipe. Waste receptors and standpipes shall be trapped and vented and shall connect to the building drainage system. All indirect waste piping that exceeds 2 feet (610 mm) in developed length measured horizontally, or 4 feet (1219 mm) in total developed length, shall be trapped.
802.2.1 Air gap. The air gap between the indirect waste pipe and the flood level rim of the waste receptor shall be a minimum of twice the effective opening of the indirect waste pipe.
802.2.2 Air break. An air break shall be provided between the indirect waste pipe and the trap seal of the waste receptor or standpipe.
802.3 Waste receptors. Every waste receptor shall be of an approved type. A removable strainer or basket shall cover the waste outlet of waste receptors. Waste receptors shall be installed in ventilated spaces. Waste receptors shall not be installed in bathrooms or toilet rooms or in any inaccessible or unventilated space such as a closet or storeroom. Ready access shall be provided to waste receptors.
802.3.1 Size of receptors. A waste receptor shall be sized for the maximum discharge of all indirect waste pipes served by the receptor. Receptors shall be installed to prevent splashing or flooding.
802.3.2 Open hub waste receptors. Waste receptors shall be permitted in the form of a hub or pipe extending not less than 1 inch ( 25.4 mm) above a water-impervious floor and are not required to have a strainer.
802.4 Standpipes. Standpipes shall be individually trapped. Standpipes shall extend a minimum of 18 inches (457 mm) and a maximum of 42 inches (1066 mm) above the trap weir. Access shall be provided to all standpipes and drains for rodding.
803.1 Wastewater temperature. Steam pipes shall not connect to any part of a drainage or plumbing system and water above 140°F (60°C) shall not be discharged into any part of a drainage system. Such pipes shall discharge into an indirect waste receptor connected to the drainage system.
803.2 Neutralizing device required for corrosive wastes.
Corrosive liquids, spent acids or other harmful chemicals that destroy or injure a drain, sewer, soil or waste pipe, or create noxious or toxic fumes or interfere with sewage treatment processes shall not be discharged into the plumbing system without being thoroughly diluted, neutralized or treated by passing through an approved dilution or neutralizing device. Such devices shall be automatically provided with a sufficient supply of diluting water or neutralizing medium so as to make the contents noninjurious before discharge into the drainage system. The nature of the corrosive or harmful waste and the method of its treatment or dilution shall be approved prior to installation.
803.3 System design. A chemical drainage and vent system shall be designed and installed in accordance with this code. Chemical drainage and vent systems shall be completely separated from the sanitary systems. Chemical waste shall not discharge to a sanitary drainage system until such waste has been treated in accordance with Section 803.2.
804.1 General. The materials and methods utilized for the construction and installation of indirect waste pipes and systems shall comply with the applicable provisions of Chapter 7.
Replaces: 4101:3-8-01
R.C. 119.032 review dates: 11/01/2016
Promulgated Under: 119.03
Statutory Authority: 3781.10(A)
Rule Amplifies: 3781.10 , 3781.11, 3791.04
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Some hi-res images have hit the web today of Vader, Luke, Padme, and Biggs carded from wave 1 and I've got to say... meh. I'm no carded collector but JEEZ these look boring. The card is almost entirely black and the blisters look so empty! I know they're not packaging any fewer accessories than they did with the Vintage line, but the larger blister makes it look like you're getting a lot less toy.
I'm also a little disappointed by the make-up of the wave as a whole. I know the line up was announced a long time ago (before being bumped into this new collection) but not a single one of the eight figures in this wave is a never before made character or costume. Sure, I think that Padme and the Clone pilot were good candidates for a resculpt, but this is the third time since 1995 we've gotten a pilot Biggs! A character with what, ten minutes of screen time?
It's been so long since I bought any figures that it almost feels like I quit collecting and line ups like this don't really do much to rekindle my interest in the hobby.


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Love pecan pie? Get the same great flavor in an easy bar cookie.
Lisa Chambers from Fort Ashby, WV created this recipe for a Celebrate the Season Holiday Cookie Contest.
"A decadent bar cookie, indicative of little pecan pies, these are truly rich and luscious. This recipe has been a family favorite for years and friends have requested an entire pan, just for themselves, as they are that good." Lisa Chambers
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Hershey's has long avoided addressing the issue of child and forced labor that persist in its cocoa supply chain. Let's keep the pressure on them. Announcing our Hershey Brand Jamming contest. It's time to use your creativity to tell Hershey's to raise the bar on their corporate social responsibility. Create an ad asking Hershey to end pervasive child and forced labor and trafficking in the cocoa fields and replace it with Fair Trade and be eligible to win a $1,000 cash prize.
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Just wondering. Since I've been playing Pokemon (since before I can remember) I've always used my old DS Lite. Even though I'm looking for a new one because the plastic hinges broke, I still love it for its GBA support. What do you use?
Nintendo DS
DS Lite
DSi (or XL)
Just wondering. Since I've been playing Pokemon (since before I can remember) I've always used my old DS Lite. Even though I'm looking for a new one because the plastic hinges broke, I still love it for its GBA support. What do you use?
I have a ds lite and a 3DS (can the poll be changed to select multiple answers?) also 3DS XL isn't on the list
Trading stuff:
Spoiler:- Friend codes::
White: 3525 8208 9126
White 2: 5201 0286 9219
3DS: 3523-3147-6204 - Friend safari: Electric; Dedenne, pikachu, galvantula
RNG'd shinies for trade: * (x2) (x2) (x2) * Mild nature and IV's: 22/16/27/31/31/30 (UT but not lvl 1) except *'s
Want: any shinys I don't have (I don't care about nature, moves, IV's etc, just shinyness :P)
I have a 3DS
my ds lite broke right when the 3ds came out so now I have a 3ds, but i still have the broken lite.
New 3DS FC: 2981-8908-8671
IGN: Brendan
Friend Safari: I have no idea I just got this new 3ds
PM me if you want a battle or trade
Thank you Mr. Iwata. May you rest in peace. You will surely be missed dearly.Originally Posted by Mr. Satoru Iwata
I have a phat DS that I bought from a friend for $20 after I gave away my DS Lite, and a 3DS I got last year.
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I've had a DS lite. I have not owned a different variant of DS in my life, although, I plan to get a 3DS soon. Pokemon games will be coming out exclusively for it soon enough, so why not.
I have a ds lite, a 3ds, and a 3ds xl.
Serebii FanFiction 2014 Awards
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Co-Winner, Best Trainer Story (Brothers' Bond)
Winner, Most Frightening Scene (Tales From The PokeDex)
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I own a DS Lite and 3DS. :P
Haha, DS-Ly
I own a 3DS
Formerly known as Azure_Gallade
Black 2 FC: 0562 4633 3655
I don't use my DSi enough to warrant buying a 3DS.
So, DSi. Blue, to be exact.
discord - Brandon#7991
last.fm - brandonger
the old silver ds, ds lite dsi XL and 3ds XP but i use to use my XL most but the charger port is damaged and is a pain to charge DX
banner made by Lucina Archealis (I don't think I spelt that right OTL)
^U^ I LOVE Crona from soul eater!
owner of the silver fan clubVM me and such if you wanna play some SSBB! im always up for a challange!
Only a DS Lite :\
Let's see...
DS Lite, DsI XL, and 3DS. I use the last two in equal usage
I still hear you in the breeze
See your shadows in the trees
Holding on, memories never change
Fizzy Bubbles
I used to have a DS before the hinges broke so now I have a DSi, but I don't care about the extra features
Here are mine:
As you can see, the white DS Lite is broken. The hinge is really weak and it broke when I was playing Emerald and I kept slamming the screen down.
However, I got a new black and blue DS Lite that works perfectly! I included my GBA so everyone could see.
Four Shinies now! Zara (Audino, female) (10/24/12), Kiki (Ledian, female) (10/16/13), Ivy (Carnivine, female) (10/31/13), Hoshi (Relicanth, male) (11/16/13)
Friend Safari: Rock (Dwebble, Onix, and Shuckle)
3DS FC: 2380-2837-4651 Name: Hy6507
I have officially claimed Chespin!
Current hunt: Chespin (MM) 200 eggs!
I have all but the 3DS, which I should get for christmas.
I claimed Deoxys, and serebiiforums is my homepage. Good luck claiming it.
I have a DS lite, would like to upgrade to the 3DS at some point but right now I am happy with what I've got
I own all of them except the DSi
DS Lite. XD I never close the top screen on it either.
I'm a girl lol
Gay, happy triox! Wait, gay also means happy, right? :P Riiight?
Mew is my favorite pokemon
I have a MAJOR crush on korrina and i think she's totally awesome! best gym leader ever. Should be a champion.
I have autism and try to keep an open mind about things. My life can get weird.
...i'm wary of re adding my korrina forum to my sig. Those two trolls really got to me...
Even if it just ends up me and some close friends in the end, i'm happy, at this point. Just no more trolls. Thats all i'd ask...cuz, really, they can cause a world of damage for me :< and korrina mean's the world to me. and my friends i've made through her.
DSi, which I purchased specifically for White 2!
I own a Nintendo DS and a DSi. The hinges on my DS are broken but it's still useful for trading with myself. My DSi doesn't have a single scratch on it though.
I own a DSlite(broken screen), a DSi, and a 3DS. The DSi gets the most use, but that'll change in a few months or a year.
I have a DS Lite because it still works. Hell, my Gameboy Color still works. But that's not the point.
I might get a 3DS because of the new Mystery Dungeon.


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The accusation that Israel is an "apartheid state" is a deliberate misuse of language as part of a larger strategy to erode the Israeli state's legitimacy through what Professor Gerald Steinberg described as the Durban Strategy: just as South Africa's apartheid regime had to be destroyed (and rightly so), Israel has to be destroyed too.
Here, in addition to HonestReporting's own communiques dealing with this issue, we also present some further resources that put paid to this false analogy:
Addressing the Apartheid Slur
- Is Israel an apartheid state?, Maurice Ostroff
- Israel an Apartheid State – Really?, IsraelSeen.com
- Pro-Palestinian ads misrepresent apartheid, Rev. Dr. Kenneth Meshoe, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 May 2013
- Debunking the 'Israel apartheid' myth, Neil Lazarus, Times of Israel
- The Apartheid Smear, BICOM
Israel Apartheid Week
Nelson Mandela and Israel
- Defaming Mandela, defaming Israel, Benjamin Pogrund, Ha'aretz
- Nelson Mandela and Zionism, Ben Cohen, The Algemeiner
- The big lie: that Mandela viewed Israel as an apartheid state, Jake Wallis Simons, Jewish Chronicle
- Don't Distort the Meaning of Mandela, Jonathan Tobin, Commentary Magazine
- The hijacking of apartheid, Richard D. Heideman, Jerusalem Post


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Family: Cactaceae, Cactus view all from this family
Description A single large columnar or barrel-shaped stem gives this cactus the appearance of a very spiky ribbed barrel.
Habit: native perennial shrub; spherical in youth; 18-31 ribs along height of plant.
Height: 1.5-10 ft (0.45-3 m) tall, 8-20 in (20-50 cm) diameter.
Leaf: spine, straight and bright red when new, becoming curved and gray, of uneven length, to 6.5 in (170 mm) long, 0.1-0.2 in (2-5 mm) diameter; in radial clusters of 12-32 spines per areole, densely covering the stem; 4 spines form a cross at the center of each areole.
Flower: yellow to gold (rarely red), 1.5-2.5 in (3-6 cm) wide, sometimes tinged with red at base; held in ring at the top of the stem.
Fruit: bright yellow barrel, drying to brown pineapple shape, hollow, to 2 in (5 cm) long, to 0.8 in (2 cm) diameter.
Warning This cactus has very sharp spines.
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Habitat Interior chaparral, Mojave desert scrub, Sonoran desert scrub, washes, gravelly slopes, canyon walls, igneous and limestone substrates; 1000-5000 ft (300-1500 m); also cultivated ornamentally.
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Discussion Also known as barrel cactus, desert barrel cactus, Mojave barrel cactus, red barrel cactus, miners compass, compass cactus. Two varieties are recognized. This plant is protected in Arizona and Nevada. It is very slow-growing and long-lived, tending to lean south with age.
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Permit... sometimes...
Wow, didn't realize I'd be in such company when I joined this forum. Lefty, Del Brown, Marshall, etc. Still, here's what I know about permit from fishing the waters here in the Caribbean.
I agree with the strip theory, but Mr. Kreh is also correct, permit are often baffling. The thing is they are so analogous to bonefish that people expect their body language to be like bones. It is not. That's why having a guide that specializes in permit is so important to catching them on fly. It takes a lot of time on the water watching these fish to learn their behavior.
This is what I found to work for me. First, be direct. If the fish were moving I'd cast 5 feet ahead and let the fly sink. This is when I'd get the most interest. Fish would dart forward and take or inspect the fly. I actually missed half dozen strikes by waiting too long at this point. If a permit charges the fly on the sink, begin a slooow strip immediately. This seems to have the effect of taking all the slack out of the line and allowing you to feel the permit take. If you start to strip and feel nothing, stop for a second and watch the fish. If there is no further reaction, strip slowly again. This is that crawling action that actually looks like a crab.
Secondly, be persistent. If the fish didn't eat on the first presentation, I waited until they swam past and simply recast. Only after being sure I'd showed a fly to every fish in the pod would I change flies. It seems like sometimes I'd get a follow and then they'd lose interest (doing something wrong, I guess). Instead of continuing to strip and risk having the permit see me, I'd let them swim on and reapproach them for another shot. I've actually had them eat after maybe a half-dozen presentations with the same fly. Compare that with bones which usually spook and are long gone after a fly refusal.
Finally, I don't wish to appear an expert. I've only caught 1 permit myself and only ever hooked 3... all at home... but I've not spent too much time targeting them. I spent a week in Ascension Bay fishing for them and, though I saw a lot of fish, hooked zero. Now that I look back on that I week I think I actually had fish eat the fly (as I've had in Belize) but they eat and spit the fly so quickly that I couldn't get the hook in. Also, (and this is by no means an excuse) I was fishing with guides at the time. I find that I've been a guide too long to fish at my best with most guides... I don't think my brain is fully on at these times. Fishing on my own is a different story.
One week in Mexico: 0 permit. Three days on permit flat at home: 2 permit hooked, one landed (and helped guide my dad to his first as well - he, of course, went 1 for 1 whereas I lost mine to the reef).
On the water,
|The French guy
I know. Still no permits on fly.
I just share boats with some of the best in the KEys and I wanted to share their knowledge on the board. I did not know when Del started his hunt for permits, but if he fished 10 years for them, that is about 1000 days on the water with the best guides for over 500 permits on fly. The ratio is not that great finally.
However, if you fish with Bob Branham in Biscayne bay, the ratio is much better. His approach is just different. They are just Jacks. Bob is the only guy I know who got a royal slam on the flats with bones, permits, tarpons and a mutton snapper taken on the same fly the same day. He is just quiet and do not tell anyone he is catching lots of permits too. After maybe ten bones on fly, I stopped counting. I think recording the number of fish caught is ridiculous.
I agree that big fish are tougher than schools. Unfortunately, the permits I fish are in the 15-40 pounds range and the bones in the 7-13 pounds range. I just need to learn permits. I have now three flies for any situation... Again, I really think there is a learning curve with permits. Mel, it is good to see you here!
Here is an answer from Lefty about what I wrote (so you have another opinion):
Bob is the only person I have heard say that permit are easy to catch and apparently he knows something we don't.
I believe next to mutton snapper that permit are the most confounding fish to take on the flats. My experience is that there are no set rules and at times a floating crab works--at other times a sinking crab must be used.
I have spent days in the boat with Del Brown and Steve Huff perhaps, the two best at permit catching. I can tell you that permit are not predictable. The best presentation MOST OF THE TIME is to drop the fly within two feet of the front of the fish. Del felt and he convicnedme that the sink rate of the crab at this point is critcal. In fact, Del tapered his Merkins at the hook eye to improve their sink rate--I think this is imporrtant. A crab pattern that "settles" slowly in front of the fish doesn't draw as much interest.
If the fish circles the fly on the bototm--but fails to take it, Del would move it maybe AN INCH--just enough to impart life. If the fish left he would make another identcial cast and on at least 3 occasions the permit took the fly after two casts at it.
I once caught a big bonefish at Moore's Isand that wrapped around a sea fan and a shark bit off the tail. I opened that bonefish and it contained NINE crabs--no two were alike. I think the multicolors of the Merkin "suggest" many diffeent crabs--and the acrylic body gives a soft impact--I am convinced that crab patterns that have a lot of hard stuff on the bottom will often crash to hard to the surface.
I wish I had more time but I am going to be a week answering all my e-mails and other mail.
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Del Brown spent many years fishing 200 days a year chasing Permit with some of the best guides in the world, I would say that he caught over 500, (he said) by mostly being persistant.
I've hooked quite a few permit in Southern Belize and it still ain't easy to land them even tho they are usually pretty small.
As far as the Keys fishing goes, for Permit and Bonefish, those are BIG FISH and like all big fish they are tough. So often I hear people try to compare the schoolie fish of Mexico, Belize or the Bahamas to the Keys, but there just is no comparison, big fish are just a whole different world.
I would say for successful fishing there really arn't many secrets you just have to put in a lot of time doing it. And for those of us that prefere big fish; British Columbia Steelhead, Homosassa Tarpon, Keys Bonefish and Permit, you gotta put in alot of time to land a few.
|Actually Del caught 513 permit on fly.
Serge: you seem to have a lot of insight on permit for someone who has never landed one. The keys are well known for having Big Permit but as far as i understand the shots are limited. Perhaps you should plan a trip to a well known permit spot. One that has many small permit and will offer you lots of decent attemps at them such as Punta Gorda, Belize. Although permit will always be the holy grail in FF i bet that wants you haev caught a few and cracked the code you will see your numbers steadily increase back home. How else can Dell Merkin have caught 200 permit during his life. He cracked the code he understood how they feed and react. If you only had a shot or 2 at a bonefish every couple of weeks as opposed to every day you probably would also have difficulty catching them. You better Belize it!
|The French guy
permit myth...
I have not caught a permit yet... but I had many shots at them last year and this year (over 40).
I flyfish in Florida (Biscayne Bay) and from now until March bonefishing and permit fishing will be hot.
Last year, I tried the Merkin and followed advices given to me by Del Brown through Dan Blanton's Email (the guy was allergic to Emails).
I presented the fly correctly 80% of the time. I had the permit rushed to it and then I was waiting... sometimes more than 1 minute... which seemed to be an eternity.
Anyway, they refused my refusal by ignoring the fly, or I spooked them when trying a little twitch.
Wow they are picky... considering I catch a fair number of bones each year and nearly at least one for each half day of fishing... My main problem is probably the lack of experience with permits.
See, for bones, it took me some times to understand how they move and what is the eating mood of the day... Once you have all figured it out, they are really easy as you tune your presentation, stripping and fly according to their behavior... nothing more.
Now, for permits, this is another story...
The fish is so easy to catch on wrecks that they would eat a popper... In the surf they are easy too... and would eat a streamer... (According to the guys I fish with. most of them are guides).
Now, on the flats, they are not easy... but not spookier than a bonefish. Try to cast to a bonefish 3-4 times without spooking it... For permits, I could present the fly many times... switch flies and the permit would not spook, but would come and look at my offering... So, getting the fly to them is not that tough finally.
The problem is all in the retrieve and to read their behavior.
Here are the ideas:
1- when they are tailing like crazy, they are more easy to catch and presenting a crab dropped at less than a foot will generally do the job... (unfortunately, the flat I fish does not hold tailing permits). The Merkin would do the job, but a permit would not take it if it is not moving. The trick told by a friend (guide) who caught a lot of permits is that once the permit has seen it, you should drag the fly slowly on the bottom by 5" and then stop... wait and do it again.
2- when they are cruising on the edges of the channels, it is better to strip the fly. Bob Branham has his own ideas on this and I witnessed the success of his epoxy fly stripped in the current with a pulsating action. The permit generally takes when the fly reaches the boat. Bob says: "permits are not difficult on fly. The no retrieve thing is total bullsh*t. You cannot immitate a crab with a fly as it has no scent... You need to move the fly to make it alive and fool a permit. Permits are a little bit more difficult on fly than bones, but not much. The difficulty is to spot them in great number. They are a more rare than bones that is it. They are just jacks and by stripping the fly, you will wake up this jack instinct. They hit hard you know..."
This is another sentence suggested by a guide: Del (Brown) had more money than anyone to go fishing. He fished with the best guides more than 100 days a year. He had everything he wanted to facilitate his task and get a permit on fly. The merkin is a good crab immitation but with no retrieve the permit will not likely eat it. Del's method is good if you have many opportunities a day." This guide has caught lots of permit on his permit rat fly... with lots of 4 per tide...
Just some ideas about permit fishing and from the information I got from the Internet and friends. They are just fish. There is a learning curve with permits.
|Rick J
I would highly recommend Isla Blanca - the trip was very reasonable - guides and lodging at a great place in Cancun was $1750 for 2 - 4 days, 5 nights. So that was $875 plus air fare, food and tips!!
i might want to take my brother with me to fish for bones and permit
he used to fish but stopped because "the fish are too small" the only fishing he wants to do is offshore for marlin andthe such he's a big computer junky and is going to college to be an architec
that might just be the way to get him to go
this will be in the far future
i've always been fasinated with bones and permit
|Rick J
Spent a few days a year ago July in Isla Blanca (north of Cancun). The draw was mostly small tarpon to 25#'s but got hooked on chasing the permit. All the flies I had were crab patterns and relatively heavily weighted. Most all the permit we saw were trailing rays. The heavy flies invariably spooked the fish when you put it on their head. The third day the guide's son acted as our guide. He had a very small (#8) unweighted crab pattern using felt, mono eyes, rubber legs and epoxy. (He was an exceptional fly tier!!) Put that right on the permit's head and it barely caused a splash and they hammered the thing. Nothing big but my brother hooked his first permit on a fly, around 8#, and it promply ripped off at least 200 yards of backing!!! He is sure hooked for life!
Last day we both hooked but did not land slams. Very cool place to fish!!
A more experienced, competent angler probably would have caught one...
...or probably not...
Ascension bay?
Eddie did you go to Ascension bay?
I was in Placencia last june and we spent one day hunting for permit. I did not have any luck, but our Guide Egbert put us on several fish. A more experienced, competent angler probably would have caught one. Anyway, Placencia is an ideal place if you are interested in Permit.
Nice work. As Del Brown once said to me when he caught a rather small permit: "It's still a permit."
Besides that, you've already discovered that the real reason we chase permit is to go to beautiful places. You've already entered the "big time" if you get that part right, and that's what led Del to spend so much time fishing for them, IMHO.
"hit like smallmouth bass" huh?
sounds good to me. I'm aleady back from my trip. I just got tired writing.
Yeah - go git 'em Eddie
So, for another questionable theory I read somewhere that permit are total suckers when the light levels drop - early a.m. and late p.m. - "...hit just like smallmouth bass ..."
Hmmm, I'm really not too sure about that theory but hey - they made a sucker out of me enough times....
Those "margaritas grandes" make a great antidote to the permit fever.
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(April 28, 2008)--UTSA President Ricardo Romo and Provost John Frederick will host the Faculty Honors Convocation 2008 at 10:30 a.m., Friday, May 2 in the University Center Retama Auditorium (2.02.02) on the 1604 Campus. The event is free and open to the UTSA community with a reception following the ceremony.
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Winners of the President's Distinguished Achievement Awards and the Chancellor's Council Outstanding Teaching Award
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This column has long argued that the cost of investing via managed funds through intermediaries is far too high, relative to returns, with the net result that Mum and Dad buying into the standard financial planning investment proposition are frequently left with return free risk, i.e. after fees, the risk of equities with a return approximating that of bank deposits.
But, more often than not, these accusations have been generalised rather than specific.
The last time we looked at the actual cost of doing business with a financial adviser was in October 2011 in the report "Use Common Sense to Assess Financial Plans" where we analysed an investment plan prepared by a private bank.
Despite the new code of professional conduct for Authorised Financial Advisers, which says "you have to place a client's interests first" we estimated that the financial plan would see more than one third of the client's prospective returns going to the adviser/fund manager rather than the client. If that wasn't bad enough fees would take almost 50 per cent of the cash income produced by the portfolio.
Back in 2004 another Herald story looked at the actual costs of a selection of popular mastertrusts. We found that all up costs for a balanced portfolio totalled an eye watering 3.0 per cent pa. There is more significance to the 3 per cent than meets the eye many current estimates of the risk premium of equities over bonds are in the range of 3-4 per cent.
This week's story updates this work. It is difficult to get cost information and, unsurprisingly, most advisors are reluctant to give too much away however we managed to get the actual fees charged by one of the larger players in the industry no names because it isn't fair just to single out some providers and this writer doesn't need the aggravation. The good news is that fees are down a little but the bad news is far more significant and it is that prospective returns have collapsed with a capital C.
So let's get stuck in and see what is on offer for Mum and Dad, retired with $250,000 to invest, from the NZ financial advisory market, by looking at prospective returns and then deducting annual fees.
First under the microscope are fees. The firm in question uses a mastertrust platform which undertakes the management of each client's account and permits investors to access a range of investment products through one investment door. Many NZ firms use mastertrusts as this provides most of the infrastructure they need to do their job without them having to actually buy the infrastructure. In effect they lease the infrastructure and the client pays for it.
Great business model! Although the spin says mastertrusts make the admin of your portfolio cheaper and simpler a closer look suggests that the fee structures are far too high. Mastertrusts were conceived some 20 years ago at a time when all the stars were aligned for financial markets.
However their cost structures in today's low-inflation, low-return, environment are much too high. The master trust in question had total management and administration costs of 1.8 per cent so if you assume turnover costs of 0.5 per cent pa that brings total annual expenses excluding monitoring fees payable to the adviser to 2.3 per cent pa. Monitoring fees were quoted at 1.0 per cent to give total annual expenses of 3.3 per cent.
This is a big number and it doesn't include the cost of actually initiating the investment. To determine how significant these fees are we need to make a judgment about returns. A few years ago one "Fund Manager of the Year" declared that costs were irrelevant, it was performance that mattered. Of course, his view was quite ridiculous - various studies in the US and the UK show that a managed fund's after fee performance is inversely proportional to fees.
Funnily enough, common sense comes to the same conclusion. But to put these costs into proper perspective we need to know what sort of return is likely from a balanced portfolio in the next 20 years. If we can expect 15 per cent a year from shares and 5 per cent from the bank who cares if fees are 3 per cent or even 4 per cent?
Alas, 15 per cent from shares is unlikely short term and impossible long term. Economics says that returns from shares will be equal to the dividend plus the growth rate, i.e. for international shares today the prospective return is 2 per cent to 3 per cent plus 4 per cent = 6-7 per cent. This is the same conclusion a meeting of experts in the US came to earlier this year which we covered see Herald article 25 February 2012 "Leave Market Forecasts To The Badgers".
Further evidence of low prospective returns comes from the leading regulatory body of the banking and financial services sector in the UK, the FSA, who recently updated a discussion paper on what is acceptable practice as regards projections of future returns by the financial services industry.
The FSA commissioned PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) to come up with the numbers and they forecast long-term nominal returns from a diversified portfolio of just 5.0 per cent per year. PWC also cautioned that there was considerable downside risk from this forecast. That is not difficult to understand when you look at bond yields.
Assuming a portfolio is 50 per cent in bonds yielding 3 per cent and 50 per cent in shares with a prospective return of 6 per cent, that is gives a blended return of just 4.5 per cent. If we use the FSA's figures plus an extra 1.0 per cent for good measure, we get a pre-tax, pre-fee return from a balanced portfolio of around 5.5 per cent.
So there you go - if your average financial planning firm is stinging you for 3 per cent a year that's well over half of your return gone. The financial planning industry is not providing value for money the standard investment proposition offers investors the return of bank deposits with the risk of shares.
Not compelling is it! Unfortunately things don't look likely to improve in the short term as many advisors are still in denial. Just last week a highly qualified and educated AFA wrote in a newspaper saying that actuaries expect "8 per cent returns before tax and fees". This is correct, or rather it was, back in about 1990. LOL.


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After the longest pregnancy in the history of the world, Jessica Simpson has finally popped out her new little bundle of joy. Based on how long she seemed to be preggers and the size that her belly bump reached, one would have assumed she was either going to drop a 10-year-old or 10 one-year-olds.
Simpson and her fella, Eric Johnson, became the very proud parents of a nine-pound-13-ounce little girl whom they named Maxwell Drew Johnson. It's a good thing Simpson and Johnson can afford help with their infant because after that pregnancy, Mama Simpson is going to want to rest up for the next several weeks, months or maybe even years.
Although it's hard to believe, because all eyes were on Jessica and her ever-growing baby belly, she was not the only celebrity who is (or rather was) currently pregnant. Nope, not even close. Shockingly, there are other celebrities in the world and some of them, too, have been sporting or, in some cases, trying to hide their "baby bump" from the media until they're ready to announce it from the rooftops. Magazines do pay a pretty penny to be the first to drop that type of coveted information first, as we all know.
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A few thoughts:
Mylar tinsel bodies can be made much more durable by putting a coating of head cement or other clear cement on the hook shank just before wrapping the tinsel. To reinforce more, run a bead of head cement along the top of the tinsel body. And as said, rubbing tinsel helps also.
A Winter's Hope sinks remarkably fast for an unweighted fly. McMillan undoubtedly had that in mind with his design; not even a tail, which would have a slight upward-planing effect on the fly.
You can knock off effective, quick "using" versions (the kind I carry in my Cannon Fodder box) using maribou: yellow veiled by dark orange. However, the original feather wings are not difficult to tie.
Tie the fly as Pastortd does with G.P. crest as a wing topping, it will provide the same color effect as using golden olive calf tail. The color golden olive is really a bright yellow with a very slight (and I mean a very slight) very light olive cast to it. Golden olive is actually almost identical to the color of G.P. crest, it is only very lightly darker, so little darker that it is not worth worrying about.
Remember what I posted earlier about McMillan not knowing how to straighten and tie in G.P. crest feathers so they sit on top of the wing at the time he created the fly. I've seen Winters Hope tied be him more recently that have G.P. crest feathers as a wing topping.
For those of you who do not know this, McMillan has been living in the Skagit Valley for about the last 5 years. He still ties the fly on large standard salmon irons and still fishes it on a floating line with a very long leader (minimum of 12 feet long up to 20 feet depending on water depth). The large irons are for the weight to take the fly down. If you use sink tips, you can use any hook you wish to get it down.
Hey Pastortd
One of my favorite bodies bodies for spey style winter's hope is back half oval tinsel, front half silver mylar shred type dubbing. Same hackle as your but wound together from the dubbed part of the body. yellow dyed amherst pheasant tippet underwing, orange goose shoulder wing, no golden olive topping (which Is why I asked you if it was an olive crest topping, I want some!)
I'm am one of those people whose flies don't last t that long, meaning I lose them long before they come apart. I catch a fish on a sinktip, I guarantee you I'll lose the fly on a snag within three casts
Which is why I cut off my fly after every fish and save them. Been doing it for years. The only problem is that after awhile you end up with incontravertable proof that you can only fish one or two patterns and catch as many fish as anyone else...
SH69 - I know what you meant. I was just being difficult. It is interesting that they were developed on such large hooks, but work so well in smaller incarnations.
Doug - Save yourself some $$ and frustration. Buy chinese necks or strung saddle (crocheted together in bags) instead of spey hackle for these flies. Much easier to tie and you will find the rachis much thinner. It is easier to make the wing work with those hackles.
Philster - FWIW, when I tie these for my own fishing I use silver diamond braid. Tough as nails and you don't have to rib it. Flat tinsel by itself only lasts through one fish or one rock before it breaks and unravels, corkscrewing around all your hard work. Braid does'nae do that.
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Thanks Pastortd, I tried it with schlappen and it's way to webby, think I'll try it tomorrow with some Spey ( or... add $2 and remove 50% of the package) hackle...or go out tomorrow and buy some more stuff....
I think what was meant
Was that the flies true form is to be tied on large hooks. I have Bill McMillan's book, and he suggests them be tied on 1/0-5/0 partridge hooks. So, that's the designers method of tying them. BUT, and it's a REALLY BIG BUT. You can tie them anyway you want, and they will catch fish. What Bill's thoughts were was using a floating line in rivers where most guys would be dredging with heavy sinktips and huge bushy flies. This way he has a sparsely tied fly on a heavy hook that sunk it for him (per his book). I understand the method.
I myself, think they look really good smaller sized. But have not had a chance to really use them. Have tied them, but not use them. May give them a shot this winter if my shoulder feels up to it.
Don't think they were knocking you. You tie a super gorgeous fly. I'm always in awe when I see what you bring out. I just think they were bringing up the true intent of the fly in question. At least the intent Bill had when he published his dry line steelheading book. Not sure what he thinks today, since I don't know him.
Doug - the hackle is from a rooster cape specially designed for SW flies. (I didn't want to plug a non-sponsor, so being careful what I say here.) They are nice because they have well rounded tips for the wings and long fibres for the hackle. You can use schlappen or Chinese hackle or whatever you find that is the right length. I like the shinier feathers (not much barb like schlappen has) because it makes the colours more vibrant in the water IMHO. That's just personal preference, though.
Thanks to the crew for the hair/GP crest info. Must say I like the way the crest curves with the feather and complements the hook bend.
I'm really new at tying spey flies so I need to ask, the hackle and the forehackle, are they schlappen hackle or something else... sorry if it's a dumb question but, I need to ask.
Stu is correct
In regards to the hook. to get the true intent of the pattern it needs to be tied on a large heavy wire hook 2/0 for shallow tail outs annd up to 5/0 for other locations depending on depth and speed. The commercialy available ones tied on 2's totally defeat the purpose.. This fly is designed to be fished on the swing with a floating line. The hook needs to be large and heavy.. Also the olive Bill used was not really olive but a drab yellowish green not a dark olive. I know he always had a difficult time finding the proper Olive calftail to suit his need for that fly and the Washougal Olive
As usual of your flies, a very nicely tied fly.
To answer the question of why McMillan used yellow-olive calf instead of G.P. crest, it was because at the time he originated the fly, he had not learned how to straighten crest feathers or how to tie them in so that they stay on top of the wing. The yellow-olive calf is pretty close to G.P. crest in color and yellow-olive Veniard's dye was readily available for McMillan to use. There is no reason not to use a crest feather as a topping.
Not only does oval tinsel ribbing (usually silver but some flies use gold) over flat silver tinsel look elegant, it serves the very practical purpose of protecting the flat tinsel from getting torn apart; thus the fly lasts longer.
Folks, the torquoise listed in the original pattern recipe is what people on the west coast now call "Kingfisher Blue", and people on the east coast call "Silver Doctor Blue", a bright, light blue. In other words, the exact color that Pastortd used on the fly he pictured.
Beautiful fly. Inspires me to tie up some more now. LOL. But too bad mine didn't look like that. Love using those hooks. May have to try that instead of the standard salmon hooks.
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Bill McMillan's pattern
Thomas, since you asked about the original pattern:
The Winter's Hope was developed by Bill McMillan of Washougal, WA. In his excellent book "Dry Line Steelhead", McMillan offers the following recipe (reproduced verbatim):
Thread: Burgundy 6/0 prewax
Body: Wide silver mylar
Hackle: Turquoise, long and weepy
Forehackle: Purple, long and weepy
Wing: Two deep orange hackle tips enclosing 2 yellow hackle tips (or pale orange)
Topping: Several strands of olive calf tail
Hook: 3/0 - 6/0 Partridge Std. Salmon
As the name suggests, McMillan developed this pattern for the cold water and high floes of winter in the Pacific Northwest, hence the large & heavy hook. He says that he tried a hairwing variaition but found that the hackle tips gave the fly more movement.
You can find color photos of the Winter's Hope and other of McMillan's patterns, tied by him, in Dick Stewart's & Farrow Allen's "Flies for Steelhead".
|It's a beautiful tie. I really like the ribbing. I never rib my silver flies, but everytime I see one with ribbing it always strikes me as one of the most elegant bodies out there. Per early writtings, including recipe in his "dry line" book it was golden olive bucktail. Never did say why he chose bucktail as a material. Love the blue and purple hackle. It looks like neon underwater.
Down memory lane!
For many years this was my main 'go-to' fly for winter steelhead. I think I got the orig. pattern from Trey Combs first book on steelhead fishing.
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OTOH, I think that there is plenty of waste/fraud in the welfare system, even the SSI system, that can be remedied. I can recall that not long ago a man was identified in Philadelphia collecting welfare under 7 different names! I have seen the system "gamed" first-hand. Until we find a means of detecting fraud (and/or waste) we will never quite know the extent of the problem.


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I am still painfully obsessed with digital roots. No luck in constructing a proof for the persistance of the patterns, though it may not be necessary. Digital Roots contain additive and multiplicitive properties, so it is highly possible that there is just some natural fallout occuring that produces the patterns. I wish I knew proofs better, but alas I do not.
A new curiosity that has crept in though is that the Digital Roots can be used to find a likely prime, and to potentially prove a prime. Again I can't find any pre-existing information in this area, but I have some very cute programs that demonstrate it well enough. In fact, David Barksdale (aka amatus) has come up with a proof for one of my two digital root prime finders that shows it to be the equivilant of Fermat's Little Therom, and thus it is subject to the same shortfalls i.e. Carmichael Numbers are also found. So while it is nothing knew, it is neat to think that it evolved from something I came up with while trying to sleep at night:
b-1 is prime if for 1 .. b, DRb(n ** 1) == DRb(n ** (b-1)))
The second algorithm I have is more curious as it seems to make no sense, yet when it claims something is a prime it is indeed a prime. Unfortunately it misses pointing out that 3 is a prime, the final version that amatus came up with looks a bit like:
p is prime if sigma(2 .. p+1, (n ** (p+2)-1)/(n-1)) mod p) == p
While the second algorithm originally used Digital Roots to see if the sum of everything was equal to 1, amatus factored them out trying to create a slightly more general version so he could come up with a proof for it I suppose. You can still find the original DRb() version if you think of using b-1 in place of p. It also doesn't get trapped by Carmichael numbers, but it fails to find the prime number 3, so it might miss others. Finding a way to remove the sigma from this one is my current focus, that and finding a proof.
note: I might have typos in these as I am effectively plucking them from memory at the moment. I will look them over later when I find my notes and validate them.


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Somehow I got lost on the math there DC. 1.28 * 1.28 = 1.6384, divide by 4 and you get .4096.How do you come up with .5 watt?
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