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Blow-up criteria for Boussinesq system and MHD system and Landau-Lifshitz equations in a bounded domain
- Jishan Fan1,
- Wenjun Sun2 and
- Junping Yin2Email author
© Fan et al. 2016
- Received: 14 January 2016
- Accepted: 21 April 2016
- Published: 29 April 2016
In this paper, we prove some blow-up criteria for the 3D Boussinesq system with zero heat conductivity and MHD system and Landau-Lifshitz equations in a bounded domain.
- blow-up criterion
- Boussinesq system
- MHD system
- Landau-Lifshitz equations
1 Introduction
When \(\theta=0\), (1.1) and (1.2) are the well-known Navier-Stokes system. Giga [1], Kim [2], and Kang and Kim [3] have proved some Serrin-type regularity criteria.
The first aim of this paper is to prove a new regularity criterion for problem (1.1)-(1.5).
Theorem 1.1
It is well known that problem (1.7)-(1.11) has a unique local strong solution [4]. But whether this local solution can exist globally is an outstanding problem. Kang and Kim [3] proved some Serrin-type regularity criteria.
The second aim of this paper is to prove a new regularity criterion for problem (1.7)-(1.11).
Theorem 1.2
Let \(u_{0},b_{0}\in H^{3}\) with \(\operatorname {div}u_{0}=\operatorname {div}b_{0}=0\) in Ω and \(u_{0}\cdot\nu=b_{0}\cdot\nu=0\), \(\operatorname {curl}u_{0}\times\nu=\operatorname {curl}b_{0}\times\nu =0\) on ∂Ω. Let \((u,b)\) be a strong solution to problem (1.7)-(1.11). If (1.6) holds, then the solution \((u,b)\) can be extended beyond \(T>0\).
Remark 1.1
The aim of this paper is to refine (1.20) as follows.
Theorem 1.3
Theorem 1.4
In Section 2, we give some preliminary lemmas, which will be used in the following sections. The proof of Theorem 1.1 for problem (1.1)-(1.5) will be given in Section 3. The new regularly criterion of Theorem 1.2 for the 3D MHD problem (1.7)-(1.11) will be proved in Section 4. In Section 5, we prove Theorem 1.3, and in Section 6, we give the main proof of final Theorem 1.4.
2 Preliminary lemmas
Lemma 2.1
Lemma 2.2
Lemma 2.3
Thus, (2.4) is proved. □
3 Proof of Theorem 1.1
Since it is easy to prove that problem (1.1)-(1.5) has a unique local-in-time strong solution, we omit the details. We only need to establish a priori estimates.
This completes the proof of Theorem 1.1.
4 Proof of Theorem 1.2
We only need to prove a priori estimates.
This completes the proof of Theorem 1.2.
5 Proof of Theorem 1.3
We only need to establish a priori estimates.
We still have (5.9), (5.10), (5.11) with \(s=\infty \), (5.12) with \(s=\infty\), (5.13) with \(s=\infty\), and (5.14), (5.15) with \(s=\infty\), and then using (5.27) and (2.4), we arrive at (5.16) and (5.17). Then by the same calculations as those in (5.18)-(5.26), we conclude that (5.18)-(5.26) hold.
This completes the proof of Theorem 1.3.
6 Proof of Theorem 1.4
We only need to establish a priori estimates.
This completes the proof of Theorem 1.4.
J. Fan is partially supported by NSFC (No. 11171154), Junpin Yin is supported by the NSFC (Grant No. U1430103) and Beijing Center for Mathematics and Information Interdisciplinary Sciences (BCMIIS). The authors would like to thank the referee for reading the paper carefully and for the valuable comments, which improved the presentation of the paper.
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BEAMINSTER 279-5 (17pts) beat WIMBORNE & COLEHILL III 212-5 (7pts) by 67 runs
BEAMINSTER took full advantage of their opponents' decision to field first by hitting their biggest total of the season en route to victory in County Division Three.
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However, Wimborne's fourth team scratched the encounter, giving Beaminster the full complement of 20 points and being deducted 40 themselves.
Parley Fifths travel to Beaminster Seconds this Saturday.


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Tourists planning a luxury getaway to the Greek isles are being increasingly hesitant to keep their bookings, thanks to both an economic crisis plaguing the nation's banks and the Greek government's inability to process thousands of illegal migrants sailing into island ports from Turkey.
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Greek newspaper Kathimerini is reporting that some tourism companies are offering up to 50% off on pre-packaged holidays to Greece in attractive European markets whose consumers may be hesitant to visit the island. It notes several outrageous offers in Germany, among the healthiest of the European economies: 982 euros for an originally 2,120-euro seven-day vacation in Corfu, a 2,220-euro visit to Rhodes for 1,074 euros, and 994 euros to stay in a four-star hotel on the holiday island of Kos, originally priced at 1,982 euros.
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Craft Guild of Chefs announces shortlist for New Restaurant of the Year award
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The Craft Guild of Chefs today (16 February) announced the eagerly awaited shortlist of its prestigious New Restaurant of the Year award. The winner will be announced during the Craft Guild of Chefs 25th annual awards at Grosvenor House Hotel, London, 4th June 2018.
Five restaurants have been expertly whittled down from an impressive list, and duly recognised for their outstanding level of food and service.
The New Restaurant Award shortlist was developed from significant new restaurant openings in 2017 and required no public nomination, with suggestions being made from within the industry.
Each of the restaurants were visited and dined at by a team of expert judges who were responsible for deciding the finalists - judging each restaurant on quality of food, service and experience.
Steve Munkley, vice president Craft Guild of Chefs, and a judge in this award commented: "The search for our 25th New Restaurant of the Year has been a challenging yet exciting process. The five finalists on the shortlist proved to be tremendously impressive, with each one representing a unique set of culinary talents.
"The intelligent creations we discovered in our journey to finalise the shortlist was both inspiring and stimulating, and we can expect to see more in the future from each and every one of these talented establishments."
This year, the majority of restaurants shortlisted are run by women chefs, with three out of the five being female chef-owners. The first to make the shortlist was Core by Clare Smyth, followed by Anne-Sophie Pic at La Dame de Pic and Monica Galletti for her new restaurant, Monica Galletti at Mere.
Alongside them are two restaurants by male chefs - Phil Howard at Eylstan Street and Claude Bosi at Bibendum.
All of the new shortlisted restaurants offer their own unique take on providing best-in-class dining. Claude Bosi at Bibendum, which is resident in South Kensington's iconic Michelin building, offers fine dining with signature contemporary and light-hearted flair.
Core by Clare Smyth conjures up an elegant and informal fine dining experience with an emphasis on natural, sustainable food, sourced from the UK's most dedicated farmers and food producers.
Phil Howard at Elystan Street aims to deliver culinary pleasure through serving pure, seasonal, ingredient-led and "gimmick-free" dishes which are full of vitality and flavour.
Anne-Sophie Pic at La Dame de Pic meanwhile invites diners to discover a taste of Valence (France) - known for the different ingredients, flavours, aromas and memories reflected and reimagined on each plate.
Last but not least, Monica Galletti at Mere is said to produce dishes that celebrate the passion and heritage of Galletti herself, while blending classical French with South Pacific influences.
Last year's New Restaurant of the Year was awarded to Vineet Bhatia London, with Chris White of The White Spoon taking home the title in 2016.
White said: "We were over the moon and couldn't quite believe it when they announced that we (The White Spoon) had won. We were so humbled considering the stiff competition we were up against.
"Although the award may have my (White's) name on it, it is truly a team effort and down to the hard work and dedication of the management, kitchen and front of house team as a collective."
The full shortlist of all Craft Guild of Chefs 25th awards will be announced in April 2018 with the awards taking place 4 June 2018.
New Restaurant of the Year shortlist in full
- Claude Bosi at Bibendum
- Core by Clare Smyth
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Defending world champion Lewis Hamilton has committed his future to Mercedes by signing a lucrative three-year deal with the Brackley team, just days ahead of this weekend's Monaco Grand Prix.
The reigning champion has been in negotiation with Mercedes-Benz since the end of last season regarding his future with the team, and both parties announced prior to arrival in Monaco that a new contract had been signed. Suggested to be in the region of £100m for three years, the deal makes Hamilton Britain's highest earning sportsman.
He said during a press conference in Monaco: "I am very happy with the team and everyone at Mercedes-Benz is doing a great job. I was very pleased to win the title last year, and that is my aim this year and the next three years,"
Monaco is a race Hamilton loves, as do many of his fellow F1 counterparts, and before his arrival in Grand Prix racing, it was also a track he performed well at in F3 racing.
He added: "This is the race that every Grand Prix driver wants to win. This is a very special race indeed. Qualifying is very important as your position on the grid can make all the difference to your race."
Hamilton, who has been in scintillating form in 2015, is overwhelming favorite to make it back-to-back world titles, which would take his tally to three in total. He currently leads the overall standings this season, although team-mate Nico Rosberg was triumphant last time out in Barcelona two weeks ago.
Rosberg welcomed Hamilton's new Mercedes agreement, saying: "Lewis is the world champion and is a driver that everyone aspires to beat. I beat him in the last race, and my plan is to beat him around the streets of Monaco again this weekend.
"Monaco is like a home race to so many of us F1 drivers, the race has a special feeling as the track is like your playground, your back garden. I enjoy this weekend very much."
The Mercedes team have enjoyed a significant advantage over their rivals so far this season, although the Ferrari team have looked strong during the recent races.
Multiple world champion Sebastian Vettel leads the Ferrari attack and he said this week: "Mercedes are looking very good , but I don't think they are quite as strong as they were last year – or maybe Ferrari are performing better!
"This is a race I would like to win and I will be doing everything I can to place my red car right in the mix against the Mercedes Silver Arrows."
The Silverstone-based Sahara Force India team have had their struggles this season but are hopeful of scoring points this weekend with their two cars, driven by Sergio Perez and Nico Hulkenberg.
Speaking this week, Hulkenberg said: "I would like to have a good race this weekend as I feel that my F1 career is not going quite as well as I hoped it would.
"A good result in Monaco can really make people take notice. I really enjoy driving for Force India, we have a great team atmosphere and everyone in the team deserves a strong result here. My aim is to score good points on Sunday."
The Bicester-based Toro Rosso duo, Carlos Sainz Jr. and Max Verstappen, will both be starting their first Monaco Grand Prix. Sainz has experienced the track in Renault 3.5 races, and he said: "After the Spanish Grand Prix, this is the race I have been looking forward to most. The Monaco Grand Prix has so much history and I am looking forward to playing a part in the 2015 edition of this famous race."


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Attendees will descend on Palm 2 in Clapton for a five-course meal, where each dish will be paired with a Jägermeister-based cocktail.
In a bid to immerse guests in the city of Berlin, a live DJ will be on hand to play electronic music, of which the locale is known for, throughout the evening.
Ticketholders will receive a cocktail and Hunter's popcorn upon entry, before making their way over to a bread station to pick up a creation comprising Jägersalami by Hackney Wick's Blackhand Food, German herb quark, mustard and pickles.
Starters such as smoked mackerel on pickled beetroot and a dill and horseradish cream will be served at dining tables, followed by mains, which will take the form of sharing platters of German meats such as nutmeg crusted veal schnitzel and bratwurst sliders.
Dessert options will include a Rote Grütze pudding, which hails from northern Germany, and chocolate marzipans.
Guests will be invited to head to the bar upon conclusion of their meal, to sip on Jägermeister and listen to German music.
Jägermeister hosted a music gig in the sky, over the sea and on land recently, as part of its Ice Cold Gig event series.
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FRANK A. LEONE: (Member) born Hartford, Connecticut; admitted to bar, 1975, Connecticut. Education: Wesleyan University (B.A., 1971); Suffolk University (J.D., cum laude, 1975). Member, Moot Court Advisory Board and Chairman, First Year Moot Court Program, 1974-1975. Member: Hartford County, Connecticut and American Bar Associations; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America; Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association; Connecticut Defense Lawyers Association.Practice Areas: Civil and Criminal Litigation; Real Estate; Probate; Estate Planning; Business Law; Personal Injury; Wrongful Death; Landlord and Tenant Law.
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ADAM J. TELLER: (Member) born Manchester, Connecticut; admitted to bar, 1987, Massachusetts; 1988, U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts, Connecticut and U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut.Education: Harvard University (A.B., summa cum laude, 1984); Harvard University (J.D., cum laude, 1987). Presidential Scholar. Tau Beta Pi Prize, 1984. Oliver Ellsworth Inns of Court, Member, 1991-1993; Treasurer, 1992-1993. Law Clerk, Hon. Peter C. Dorsey, U.S. District Judge, District of Conn., 1987-1989. Dep. Asst. Public Defender, Superior Court, Enfield, CT, 1989-1992. Special Master, U.S. District Court, 1998—. Hearing Officer, Manchester Board of Education, 1998-1999. Alternate, 2001-2003 and Member, 2003—, Town of Bolton Planning & Zoning Commission. Member:Hartford County, Connecticut and American Bar Associations. Reported Cases:State vs. Diaz, 226 Conn. 514 (1993).Practice Areas: Civil Litigation; Personal Injury; Wrongful Death; Criminal and Drunk Driving Defense; Family Law; Divorce; Child Custody and Support; Probate; Civil Rights; Employment Discrimination; Workers Compensation.
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MARIO R. BORELLI: (Associate) admitted to bar, 1997, Connecticut and U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut. Education: University of Notre Dame (B.S., 1993); Indiana University - Bloomington (J.D., magna cum laude, 1996). Forrest E. Jump Scholar. Managing Editor, Indiana Law Journal. Member, Moot Court Board and National Moot Court Team. Book Awards, Criminal Law and Federal Criminal Law. Law Clerk, Hon. John D. Tinder, U.S. District Judge, Southern District of Indiana, 1996-97. Member: Hartford County, Connecticut and Connecticut Hispanic Bar Associations. Chairman of the Board, Connecticut Center for Children's Advocacy. Practice Areas: Civil and Criminal Litigation; Insurance Coverage; Commercial Litigation; Business Law; Property Litigation; Landlord and Tenant Law; Evictions; Personal Injury; Probate; Wills; Leases; Collections; and Real Estate. Languages: Fluent in Spanish.
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Tax professionals will work with you to determine if there are any routes to reducing taxation on your business including local incentives that may be available. You'll also want to talk about projects taxes, investments that could reduce taxes, and having all possible deductions in place.
#10: What's the right profit margin?
Working with a financial team often comes down to this question. How much should you charge to make the best profit possible while still ensuring your company can grow? It's not a simple question, but having the right team by your side ensures it will be clarified as much as possible.
Make an appointment with Dagley & Co. to get your business off to the right start. We are here for you for any tax, payroll or accounting questions or issues you may have for your new business.
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Employer Offered You Health Insurance but You Got Yours through the Marketplace. You May Be in for an Unpleasant Surprise!
The premium tax credit (PTC) is one of the key provisions of Obamacare. It serves as a subsidy for the cost of health insurance for lower-income individuals and families. Although the credit is determined at the end of the year based upon income, taxpayers are allowed to estimate their income and receive the credit in advance, thereby reducing their premium costs.
Another key provision of Obamacare requires large employers to offer full-time employees affordable healthcare insurance. The term "affordable" means that the employee's insurance costs less than 9.66% (2016 percentage) of the employee's household income. In addition, because the government wants to limit its outlay for the PTC, the law denies PTC to employees who are offered affordable healthcare insurance by their employer.
This is where a potential problem arises! Quite often, the cost of insurance subsidized by the advance PTC obtained through the Marketplace is substantially less costly than the "affordable" insurance offered by the employer; as a result, the employee will instead obtain the less expensive insurance through the Marketplace, while not realizing that they are not entitled to the PTC because the employer offered them "affordable" insurance.
Prior to 2015, the government had no way of determining who was offered "affordable" insurance by their employer and therefore was unable to enforce the "no PTC rule." However, beginning in 2015, employers with 100 or more equivalent full-time employees were required to file the new Form 1095-C, which shows month-by-month when an employee was offered "affordable" healthcare insurance. Generally, the employer is required to furnish a copy of Form 1095-C (or a substitute form) to the employee. Beginning in 2016, even employers with 50 or more equivalent full-time employees are required to file 1095-Cs.
The IRS will begin matching the information on the 1095-Cs that the employers have filed with taxpayers who claimed the PTC for months during which they were also offered "affordable" insurance by their employer. Those taxpayers will be receiving notices from the IRS requiring them to repay the premium tax credit for the months when they were offered affordable care.
If you are concerned that you claimed the PTC and might be subject to repayment, you can look at your copy of Form 1095-C from your employer. Check line 14 and see if there are entries in any of the months. The entries will be codes, which are explained on the reverse of the form.
If you need assistance or additional information related to Form 1095-C and its impact on the PTC, please give Dagley & Co. a call.
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Ways To Deduct Health Insurance
In the wake of the "Affordable Care Act," one of the largest and most substantially rising expenses are health insurance premiums. Although the cost of health insurance is allowed as part of an individual's medical deductions when itemizing deductions, only the amount of total medical expenses that exceed 10% of the taxpayer's adjusted gross income (AGI) is deductible. The 10% limitation is reduced to 7.5% through 2016 where a taxpayer or spouse (if any) is age 65 or over as of the end of the year. Prior to the increased limitation imposed by the "Affordable Care Act," the limitation was 7.5% for everyone.
The purpose of this article is twofold: first, to remind you what insurance can be included as a medical deduction, and second, to inform you of an alternate means of deducting health insurance for certain self-employed individuals—a means that avoids the AGI limitation and allows for deduction without itemizing.
Let's start by looking at what is treated as deductible health insurance. It includes the premiums you pay for coverage for yourself, your dependents, and your spouse, if applicable, for the following types of plans: Health Care and Hospitalization Insurance, Long-Term Care Insurance (but limited based upon age), Medicare-B, Medicare-C (aka Medicare Advantage Plans), Medicare-D, Dental Insurance, Vision Insurance, and Premiums Paid through a Government Marketplace net of the Premium Tax Credit.
However, premiums paid on your or your family's behalf by your employer aren't deductible because their cost is not included in your wage income. Or, if you pay premiums for coverage under your employer's insurance plan through a "cafeteria" plan, those premiums aren't deductible either because they are paid with pre-tax dollars.
If you are a self-employed individual, you can deduct 100% (no AGI reduction) of the premiums without itemizing your deductions. This above-the-line deduction is limited to your net profits from self-employment. If you are a partner who performs services in the capacity of a partner and the partnership pays health insurance premiums on your behalf, those premiums are treated as guaranteed payments that are deductible by the partnership and are includible in your gross income. In turn, you may deduct the cost of the premiums as an above-the-line deduction under the rules discussed in this article.
No above-the-line deduction is permitted when the self-employed individual is eligible to participate in a "subsidized" health plan maintained by an employer of the taxpayer, the taxpayer's spouse, any dependent, or any child of the taxpayer who hasn't attained age 27 as of the end of the tax year. This rule is applied separately to plans that provide coverage for long-term care services. Thus, an individual eligible for employer-subsidized health insurance may still be able to deduct long-term care insurance premiums, as long as he isn't eligible for employer-subsidized long-term care insurance. In addition, to be treated as subsidized, 50% or more of the premium must be paid by the employer.
This above-the-line deduction is also available to more-than-2% S corporation shareholders. For purposes of the income limitation, the shareholder's wages from the S corporation are treated as his or her earned income.
If you have any questions related to deducting health insurance premiums, either as an itemized deduction or an above-the-line deduction for self-employed individuals, please give Dagley & Co. a call.
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Employers: Beware Of "Employer Payment Plans" For Health Insurance
Figuring out a health plan for your employees can be tough, and it's best to examine all of your options instead of taking it lightly. The IRS earlier this year cautioned employers of the consequences of reimbursing employees for the cost of premiums the employees pay to purchase qualified health plans, either through a health insurance marketplace or outside the marketplace, rather than establishing a health insurance plan for its own employees.
Employers may think they can use this strategy to avoid the employer insurance mandate required by the Affordable Care Act that applies to mid- and large-size firms, as well as shift some of the expense of providing employee health care away from the employer. Not so, says the IRS, which refers to this method of avoiding the employer insurance mandate as a "dumping" strategy.
This type of arrangement, termed an "employer payment plan," is considered a group health plan by the IRS, and as such, is subject to the reform provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the penalty that applies for failing to meet those provisions. These reforms include a prohibition on the annual limits for essential health benefits and a requirement to provide certain no-cost-sharing preventive care. Employer payment plans can't be integrated with individual policies to achieve the market reform requirements, and therefore they fail to satisfy the market reform requirements. As a result, the employer may be subject to a $100/day per employee excise tax penalty amounting to $36,500 per year per employee for failure to meet the ACA provisions.
However, an employer payment plan does not include an employer-sponsored arrangement under which an employee may choose either cash or an after-tax amount to be applied toward health coverage. Individual employers may establish payroll practices of forwarding post-tax employee wages to a health insurance issuer at the direction of an employee without establishing a group health plan.
The employer group insurance mandate takes effect in 2015 for larger employers (those with 100 or more full-time employees) and in 2016 for employers with 50 to 99 full-time employees that meet certain conditions. Employers with fewer than 50 full-time employees are not required to provide health insurance coverage for their employees.
One last item: because an employer payment plan is considered a group health plan, the employees participating in such an arrangement who purchase their health coverage through a marketplace cannot claim the premium assistance credit because employees who have an employer plan are not eligible for the credit.
If you have further questions related to this issue, please get in touch with us at Dagley & Co.
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Founded in 1990 in Montreal, Canada, Event Labor Works (ELW) provides skilled and experienced workers for the event industry, specializing in tent installation, permanent installations and general labor. With offices in both Canada and the United States, we can create teams of both local and traveling laborers to supplement existing teams, or lead a project completely, anywhere in the world.
Over the years we have earned a strong reputation working with major events or partners such as Formula 1, the Vancouver Winter Olympics, the U.S. Open, Nike, Audi and many more. You can see a list of some of our other clients here.
ELW understands that every event is unique and deserves full attention to ensure its success. ELW can assist you for the short or long term, as your project requires.
Why should I hire your workers instead of just finding more laborers myself?
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The term was coined as a metaphor to illuminate Parkinson's Law of Triviality.
Parkinson observed that a committee whose job is to approve plans for a nuclear power plant may spend the majority of its time on relatively unimportant but easy-to-grasp issues, such as what materials to use for the staff bikeshed, while neglecting the design of the power plant itself, which is far more important but also far more difficult to criticize constructively.


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Florals for Spring? … Groundbraking. I'm back with another blog post, and this one features this amazing maxi dress I recently snatched. The weather had not been up to par to wear this baby , but this week I decided that although there might be a bit of wind, I wanted to go ahead and wear something a little different. I decided to pair this fall floral maxi with a floral shoe, but as you can tell the shoe is a very subtle floral. So this is my take on the floral on floral for spring.
If you've been following along for a while, you know I love my neutrals although from time to time I do like to mix it up. This dress was a perfect match for me because it had warmer tones but still a Spring inspired print. It's comfortable, breathable, and it shows off a little leg for some skin action. I decided to have an original and subtle take for florals on florals that still works. My Kat Macone flat tie ups have attached floral detail for an extra wink to wrap up the whole outfit. Add on a little neutral crossbody and some round sunnies and you're ready to go.
It may be difficult to find a way to stay on trend especially when fashion magazines are throwing colors and prints and textures which you are not familiar to. The majority of my wardrobe used to consist of mostly black pieces. I started testing the waters with grays, subtle prints. and now I like to try every trend but with my own twist. Sending all my love and make sure to stay true to you!


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Fortunately, BBC 4 radio allows streaming outside the UK. Just in time for Halloween, I gave Hammer Horror's The Unquenchable Thirst of Dracula a listen.
Endeavoring to do things right, I closed my eyes and tried to immerse myself in the world, created from a Hammer script by Anthony Hinds for the Christopher Lee Dracula series. It was abandoned in favor of Dracula A.D. 1972.
Re-imagined as Unquenchable with Mark Gattis directing, it proved to be an interesting experience, and I think I was successful in maximizing my immersion. I read of the Hammer films in The Monster Times and Famous Monsters of Filmland as a kid, long before I got to see any of them on late-night TV, so I have experience in visualizing the stories.
For the audio, I was quickly back in a Hammer Dracula world as soon as a young British woman named Penny just made it aboard a departing train, on her way in search of a cooler spot in 1934 India. A least that's what she claimed, upon meeting a pair of Indian teens and an Indian businessman.
It's pretty quickly clear Dracula's alive and embedded with an ancient Indian cult who are helping supply him blood as they plan rituals and nefarious activities.
The plot moves pretty fast with Penny and Prem, the young Indian man, working together to unlock Dracula's secrets and of course, survive, and it builds to some rousing moments and an appropriately chilling ending.
There's a bit of an in medias res feel, but then that's not unusual for a 90-minute feature that has to convey back story and character in fast order and get things rolling.
I enjoyed the aural descent into dark caverns and through twisting passages, and I was OK with the portrayal of the Count, though some reviews seem to complain about a lack of development. You mileage may vary, as with much of horror.
Though it's narrated by the great Michael Sheen, that's where my disappointment kicked in, that it was narrated at all. Some of the voiceover sounds like it's straight from the original screenplay, perhaps a bit of preservation-thinking at work. That sometimes reminds that it's from a screenplay, a little like the Blacklist Table Reads.
It might have been more fun to let everything come to us by way of dialogue and effects, but it wasn't truly a spoiling impact.
Overall, I'm glad I got a chance to drop back into something almost part of the Hammer cannon. Apparently it'll be online another 28 or 29 days. Put it on while you wait for trick-or-treaters.


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NWGIS 2018: Conference Updates & Deadlines
The 2018 NWGIS Conference is fast approaching and with it, a few things to keep in mind
There are some fast approaching deadlines to keep in mind:
The 2018 NWGIS Conference is fast approaching and with it, a few things to keep in mind
There are some fast approaching deadlines to keep in mind:
We are planning another great conference this Fall 2018 in Bremerton, WA, but we need your help to truly make it a success. Day-of-conference volunteers provide invaluable help as session moderators and assist with many other behind-the-scenes tasks. This is also a great opportunity to network with your peers and enhance your visibility in our professional community.
Volunteer opportunities
Visit https://nwgis.org/2018/volunteers-moderators to submit your interest for Volunteer or Moderator opportunities
Registration for the conference as well as the Pre and Post Conference workshops is now open!
Join us at the 2018 Northwest GIS Users conference, October 29 - November 1, 2018 in Bremerton, WA at the Kitsap Conference Center. The 2018 Bremerton Conference will feature Esri President, Jack Dangermond as our keynote speaker. We will also have training workshop opportunities, presentations, the Esri Hands on Learning lab, a vendor hall and a Map Gallery.
Information about the conference can be found at https://nwgis.org/2018
Registration links are at https://nwgis.org/2018/registration. Early registration ends October 5, 2018 and prices increase on October 6, 2018.
The 2018 NWGIS Conference will take place in Bremerton, WA at the Kitsap Conference Center October 29 through November 1, 2018.
The Conference website (work in progress) is here: nwgis.org/2018
The overall conference schedule is as follows:
Conference registration will open no later than August, 15, 2018 - you can find conference rates here.
Exhibitor and Sponsor Information and Registration is available here.
Jack Dangermond is the founder and president of Esri, the world's sixth-largest privately held software company. Founded in 1969 and headquartered in Redlands, California, Esri is widely recognized as the technical and market leader in geographic information systems, or GIS, pioneering innovative solutions for working with spatial data.
Dangermond is recognized not only as a pioneer in spatial analysis methods but also as one of the most influential people in GIS. He actively manages Esri and is closely connected to projects, clients, and company vision. He takes a leadership role in national and global initiatives to facilitate standards for data access and sharing across agencies and organizations. He is personally committed to applying GIS methods for environmental stewardship and sustainable communities.


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On Calculus - Did Newton Lie
The Mathematics of Poetry
Multicultural Mathematics
Dr. Rachel Hall
The mathematical field of Combinatorics includes the mathematics of combinations and
permutations. Combinatorics starts with questions of how many ways there are to do or
make something. Some early studies in Combinatorics were done by Ancient Indian
scholars studying poetry!
The Jain writer ¹Ac¹arya Hemacandra (c. 1150 AD) studied the rhythms
of Sanskrit poetry. Syllables in Sanskrit are either long or short. Long syllables have twice
the length of short syllables. The question he asked is How many rhythm patterns with a
given total length can be formed from short and long syllables?
For example, how many patterns have the length of five short syllables (i.e. five \beats")?
There are eight:
As rhythm patterns, these are (corresponding to above)
xxxxx, xxxx., xxx.x, xx.xx, x.xxx, xx.x., x.xx., x.x.x
To investigate the general rule, we can make a chart:
Patterns Length Number
5 8
It turns out that the sequence of numbers of patterns is called the Fibonacci sequence,
after the Italian mathematician Fibonacci, whose work was published 70 years after
Hemacandra's. The numbers in the sequence are called Fibonacci numbers. In your own
words, give the rule for finding the next number in the Fibonacci sequence.
Returning to our musical question, the answer is that the number of rhythm patterns with length n is the sum of the number of patterns of length n - 1 and the patterns of length n - 2.
Why? Write out the eight patterns of length five beats in a special way. First list the ones
that start with a L|there are three of these:
Now list the five patterns that start with a S:
Write out the three patterns of length 3:
and the five of length 4:
Explain how the patterns of length 3, 4, and 5 are related:
Another question inspired by the study of rhythm is: how many patterns can be formed from a given number of syllables? For example, how many patterns consist of three syllables? The syllables can be all L's, all S's, or some mixture of L's and S's. The answer is eight; see if you can discover how I grouped them.
Pingala's Chandahsutra (c. 200 B.C.) enumerated the possible poetic meters of a fixed
number of syllables. Syllables are short (1 beat) or long (2 beats).
He classified 16 different meters of four syllables in the following way:
1 meter of four short syllables
4 meters of three shorts and a long
6 meters of two shorts and two longs
4 meters of one short and three longs
1 meter of four longs
Now nd the number of patterns consisting of two syllables, grouped by length:
Let's make a chart of the results and look for a pattern:
Number of Syllables Number of patterns Grouping of patterns
2 4
3 8 1 + 3 + 3 + 1
4 16
5 1 + 5 + 10 + 10 + 5 + 1
6 1 + 6 + 15 + 20 + 15 + 6 + 1
We see that the answer to our original question is that the number of patterns composed of
n syllables is 2n. In addition, there's something really interesting going on with the
groupings of patterns. Fill in the following triangle with your values for the groupings:
1 note 1 + 1 = 2 patterns
2 notes 1 + 2 + 1 = 4 patterns
3 notes 1 + 3 + 3 + 1 = 8 patterns
4 notes 1 + 4 + 6 + 4+ 1 = 16 patterns
5 notes 1 + 5 + 10 + 10 + 5 + 1 = 32 patterns
6 notes 1 + 6 + 15 + 20 + 15 + 6 + 1 = 64 patterns
7 notes
This is called Pascal's Triangle!
This observation was first made by the Indian writer Pingala (c. 200 B.C.), who lived
eighteen centuries before Pascal! It also appears in the commentary on this work by
Halayudha (c. 10th century).


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One of the primary steps in effective brand development is creating a logo that
communicates the message behind your business
, to the rest of the world. Corporate branding is the essence of successful brand development and is not a matter of creating pretty pictures; it is more a point of devising a functional representative for your company and company name.
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Invest in the services of a trusted,
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Are there any colours, fonts, designs in particular that you want to
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? Present them to your
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Use bright colours
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Without ignoring the creative appeal, your
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Your corporate branding and logo design should be created in such a way that
they can be used on multiple platforms
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Always remember that successful brand development
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Don't try and turn your product or service into your company brand. Your
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Remember too that
your logo is also not your brand
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Avoid trying to design a logo that is very obviously in line with the latest trends. In 10 years' time that "look" may not be appealing anymore and it will make your corporate identity appear tired and out of date.
Remember that a logo is that piece of information that will always
remind you of a particular brand
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