text:
First three rounds of the new season flew by
2018-2019 season underway
Round 7 in retrospective. Scorpionii on the winning end. Plumbers lost against Best
Shmac 2/3 this weekend. Joulaks huge game. Plumbers overpowered Valbon2
Bastards on the losing end again. Younique on a roll
ACSA Management
Technical Fouls
Season by Season
Old ABLA Site
Fix. & Results
MVP Of The Season
Point Wizard
Rebound MVP
Block MVP
Assist MVP
Steals MVP
3 Point MVP
Point Wizzard
Steal MVP
MP Sport Timisoara vs Mandrii
ABLA > ABLA League > MP Sport Timisoara vs Mandrii
MP Sport Timisoara
Mandrii
ABLA League October 20, 2018 - 11:00 am
Dimitrie Tichindeal Arad
October 20, 2018 11:00 am ABLA League 18-19 ABLA League
Bulevardul General Dragalina, Arad, Romania
MPS 26 7 26 11 70 Win
MND 10 5 2 2 19 Loss
DFREB
OFREB
0 Serbanescu Lucian Guard 19 3 3 1 4 1 2 0 3 1 8 0 2 1 33.3 0.0 25.0
1 Parv Alexandru Forward-Guard 9 2 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 33.3 0 0
5 Onita Oprean Tudor Power Forward 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Muthi Razvan Power Forward 20 10 7 5 0 0 1 0 2 2 1 0 2 1 71.4 0.0 0
6 Ionescu Eugen Forward 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Pavel Sebastian Forward-Guard 8 2 3 1 2 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 33.3 0.0 0.0
20 Baltean Radu Small Forward 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Miron Alexandru Power Forward 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Solomon Adrian Power Forward 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
12 Pancu Liviu Point Guard 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
13 Kardos Ervin Point Guard 19 3 4 1 2 1 2 0 2 2 1 0 2 1 25.0 0.0 50.0
14 Gheorghe Stefan Shooting Guard 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
14 Bordea Rares Forward-Guard 15 0 2 0 0 0 3 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 0.0 0.0 0
15 Craciun Marius Forward-Center 13 2 5 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 20.0 0 0
11 Chiru Igor Forward-Guard 33 23 12 10 7 3 2 0 2 1 3 0 3 1 83.3 0.0 42.9
30 Giurcovici Alexandru Point Guard 19 10 7 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 3 71.4 0 0
10 Nicolici Calance Matei Forward-Center 26 10 10 5 0 0 2 0 3 2 6 0 3 2 50.0 0.0 0
99 Pasca Sergiu - 18 5 0 0 2 2 1 1 6 1 2 2 3 0 0 100.0 100.0
99 Moroz Denis Forward-Center 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 199 70 56 30 17 7 14 1 21 11 23 3 24 13 0 0 0
1 Dochita-Mihailescu Ionut Point Guard 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Charilaos Stikas - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Kofi Winfred - 37 9 5 2 6 2 7 1 5 0 0 0 4 7 40.0 14.3 33.3
3 Acke Zawia - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Csaba Csapo - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Aleonte Gelu - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 Nicola Borasio - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 Plesa Denis - 12 4 6 2 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 33.3 0 0.0
11 Charles Mbakwe - 30 4 5 1 4 2 1 0 2 1 0 2 0 4 20.0 0.0 50.0
11 Aimen Salhi - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
14 Dominic Williams - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
23 Rujan George - 18 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 4 50.0 0 0
28 Mandl Ralph - 27 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 2 1 0 5 0.0 0 0
32 Ababou Mohamed Amine - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
33 Talbaoui Zakaria - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
69 Bivek B. Rai - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
77 Benjamin Alexandru Hirja - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
92 Filippo Arcieri - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
93 Ranwant Rathor - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
94 Ivan De Tomasi - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
99 Eduard Cosma - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 124 19 24 6 12 4 8 1 13 4 2 3 5 20 0 0 0
First three rounds of the new season flew by October 21, 2018
2018-2019 season underway September 18, 2018
Federatia Romana De Baschet
TotalBaschet
Asociatia Judeteana De Baschet Arad
24secunde
FCC ICIM Arad
Str Abrud, Bl.170, Sc.A, Ap.2, Arad, Romania
wwwablaro@gmail.com
Amateur Basketball League Arad
Enjoy To Play Basketball


Chemical hair relaxers are widely used to permanently tame stubborn curls. But how safe are they, really?
Before discussing whether hair relaxers are safe for you to use, it's a good idea to learn a bit more about them first.
Hair relaxers are designed to straighten curls that resist other straightening methods. This means that they need to be pretty powerful.
Relaxers work by breaking the di-sulfide bonds deep inside every hair fiber, and re-forming them while the hair is being held in a straight pattern. They literally reshape the very fibers of your hair.
The chemicals needed to relax your hair have to be strong to work. That means that they come with their own dangers.
It's easy for the chemicals that penetrate your hair to damage its cuticle structure, leading to brittle hair. The reshaping of your hair's disulfide bonds can also lead to a weakening of the strand.
You also must be extremely careful to prevent scalp irritation, since the three main chemicals used in relaxers - sodium hydroxide, ammonium thioglycolate, and sodium thiglycolate - are all notorious skin irritants. They could cause stinging, redness or even chemical burns.
Any time you relax you hair you're exposing yourself to powerful chemicals that can be damaging.
After using a relaxer, make sure that you wash your hair thoroughly with a nourishing shampoo or co-wash, designed to give your hair and scalp the moisture they need. Follow these tips and you can keep your scalp and hair protected and moisturized, while enjoying straight, beautiful locks.


text:
package com.cspinformatique.kubik.server.model.warehouse;

import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.GeneratedValue;
import javax.persistence.GenerationType;
import javax.persistence.Id;
import javax.persistence.OneToOne;

import com.cspinformatique.kubik.server.model.product.Product;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonBackReference;

@Entity
public class ProductInventory {
	private Integer id;
	private Product product;
	private double quantityOnHand;
	private double quantityOnHold;

	public ProductInventory(){

	}

	public ProductInventory(Integer id, Product product, double quantityOnHand,
			double quantityOnHold) {
		this.id = id;
		this.product = product;
		this.quantityOnHand = quantityOnHand;
		this.quantityOnHold = quantityOnHold;
	}

	@Id
	@GeneratedValue(strategy=GenerationType.AUTO)
	public Integer getId() {
		return id;
	}

	public void setId(Integer id) {
		this.id = id;
	}

	@OneToOne
	@JsonBackReference
	public Product getProduct() {
		return product;
	}

	public void setProduct(Product product) {
		this.product = product;
	}

	public double getQuantityOnHand() {
		return quantityOnHand;
	}

	public void setQuantityOnHand(double quantityOnHand) {
		this.quantityOnHand = quantityOnHand;
	}

	public double getQuantityOnHold() {
		return quantityOnHold;
	}

	public void setQuantityOnHold(double quantityOnHold) {
		this.quantityOnHold = quantityOnHold;
	}
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


"Haunted Bridge" is a black and white shot of an old covered bridge on location in Euharlee, GA, where the weathered wood is still holding up, and the wooden platform settled on brick supports acts as a path into the dark maw of the bridge. There are many trees around the bridge, which could eventually surround it completely and hide it from trespassers. What could happen if they wander into the bridge's dark depths? Will they be taken hostage by old ghosts? No one knows. The water still flows on, oblivious or unconcerned about the structure above it.


Lantern Moon is proud to offer beautiful and functional handcrafted products. We acknowledge the skills and cultures of the people who make them and support socially and globally conscious living.
Lantern Moon Tape Measure "Pig"
Lantern Moon Greeting Cards - 5 pcs.


Gulzarilal Nanda was bornon July 04, 1898 in Sialkot, Punjab, British India (now in Punjab, Pakistan), Indian, is Former Prime Minister of India. Gulzarilal Nanda was an eminent Indian politician who is widely known for his stint as interim Prime Minister of India twice. Though both his terms were uneventful, the timing was crucial. When Jawaharlal Nehru passed away in 1962, India was trying to overcome from the war with China. At the crucial point, Nanda stepped up to lead the nation which was leaderless. Following the appointment of Lal Bahadur Shastri, Nanda stepped down from his position as interim Prime Minister only to take it up yet again in 1966 when Lal Bahadur Shastri passed away. Once again, the time when Nanda stepped up was crucial as India was reeling from a war with Pakistan in 1965. Nanda served both the terms for merely thirteen days each. However, Nanda's career isn't just about his role as interim Prime Minister. Before being appointed as the PM, Nanda served the nation through various government appointments. An economist by background, Nanda specialized in labour issues and worked as Labour Minister. Nanda represented India in various national and internal conferences. He also served as the Minister of Home Affairs from 1963 to 1966. For his immeasurable work during Indian freedom struggle and later in post independent India, Nanda was awarded the prestigious Bharat Ratna.
Nanda was born on 4 July 1898 in Sialkot in the Punjab Province of British India into a Punjabi Hindu family of the Khatri caste. (After the partition of British India into India and Pakistan in 1947, Sialkot became a part of the Punjab Province of Pakistan.) Nanda received his education in Lahore, Amritsar, Agra, and Allahabad.
Nanda worked as a research scholar on labour problems at Allahabad University (1920–1921), and became a Professor of Economics at National College in Bombay (Mumbai) in 1921. The same year, he joined the Indian Non-Cooperation Movement against the British Raj. In 1922, he became secretary of the Ahmedabad Textile Labour Association where he worked until 1946. He was imprisoned for Satyagraha in 1932, and again from 1942 to 1944.. He was honored with "Proud Past Alumni" in the list of 42 members, from "Allahabad University Alumni Association", NCR, Ghaziabad (Greater Noida) Chapter 2007-2008 registered under society act 1860 with registration no. 407/2000.
In the British Raj, Nanda was elected to the Bombay Legislative Assembly in 1937, and served as parliamentary secretary (for Labor and Excise) to the Government of Bombay from 1937 to 1939. As Labour Minister of the Bombay Government during 1946–50, he successfully piloted the Labor Disputes Bill in the state assembly. He served as a Trustee of the Kasturba Memorial Trust. (Kasturba was the wife of Mahatma Gandhi.) He served as secretary of the Hindustan Mazdoor Sevak Sangh (Indian Labor Welfare Organization), and Chairman of the Bombay Housing Board. He was a member of the National Planning Committee. He was largely instrumental in organising the Indian National Trade Union Congress, and later became its President.
In 1947, Nanda went to Geneva, Switzerland as a government delegate to the International Labor Conference. He worked on The Freedom of Association Committee of the Conference, and visited Sweden, France, Switzerland, Belgium, and the UK to study labour and housing conditions in those countries.
In March 1950, Nanda joined the Indian Planning Commission as its vice-chairman. In September 1951, he was appointed Planning Minister in the Indian Government. He was also given charge of the portfolios of Irrigation and Power. He was elected to the Lok Sabha from Bombay in the general elections of 1952, and was reappointed Minister for Planning, Irrigation, and Power. He led the Indian Delegation to the Plan Consultative Committee held in Singapore in 1955, and the International Labor Conference held in Geneva in 1959.
Nanda was elected to the Lok Sabha in the 1957 elections, and was appointed Union Minister for Labour, Employment and Planning, and later, as Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission. He visited the Federal Republic of Germany, Yugoslavia, and Austria in 1959.
Nanda was re-elected to the Lok Sabha in the 1962 elections from the Sabarkantha constituency in Gujarat. He initiated the Congress Forum for Socialist Action in 1962. He was Union Minister for Labour and Employment during 1962 – 1963, and Minister for Home Affairs during 1963 – 1966.
Nanda was the Prime Minister of India twice for thirteen days each: the first time after the death of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in 1964, and the second time after the death of Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri in 1966. Both his terms were uneventful, yet they came at sensitive times because of the potential danger to the country following Nehru's death soon after a war with China in 1962 and Shastri's death after a war with Pakistan in 1965. Nanda died on 15 January 1998 at the age of 99. From 25 November 1997, when former Malawi President Hastings Banda died until his own death, Nanda was the world's oldest living former head of state.


The second issue of PPMAG is now available! I am happy to have one of my posters published in this edition. I have provided a link if you wish to read the magazine. It is also available for download. Check it out!
Posters on display for the seventh Domestic Violence Exhibition taking place in Querétaro, Mexico. All of the designs can be seen until Dec. 19, 2015.
On Nov. 25, 2015, we had a great opening of the Domestic Violence Exhibition at the Center of Justice for Women in the state of Jalisco, Mexico.
The fifth Domestic Violence Poster Exhibition reaches the Human Rights Commission in Puebla, Mexico.
Domestic Violence has been featured on the Poster Poster website for Poster Monday.
On Oct. 23, 2015, the opening of the fourth Domestic Violence Poster Exhibition took place at the Congress of Veracruz, Mexico. Thank you Escucha MI VOZ for organizing these events and bringing awareness to domestic violence.
A link to pictures that were taken at the Domestic Violence Exhibition in the Senate of Mexico.
The third Domestic Violence Poster Exhibition will be taking place at the Senate of Mexico.
The second Domestic Violence Poster Exhibition will be taking place a week from now on Sept. 26, 2015, in the Windy City, Chicago, Illinois. The exhibition will take place at the OPEN Center for the Arts. If you live in the Chicago area be sure to come see the show!
Here are some pictures from the first Domestic Violence Poster Exhibition at the City Hall of Zapopan, Mexico.
Today will be the opening of the first Domestic Violence Poster Exhibition in Mexico. Dozens of posters created by a group of international artists will be on display bringing awareness to the issue of domestic violence. The Museo de Arte de Zapopan will be hosting two extraordinary conferences taught by Marisa Rivera & Luva Lukova, which is sponsored by the American Consulate in Guadalajara. Afterwards, a tour of the exhibition of posters will take place at the City Hall of Zapopan.
I am honored to have my work published in Poster Poster Magazine. I have provided a link if you wish to read this edition. It is also available for download. Check it out!
I am grateful to be a chosen designer to participate in a series of upcoming exhibitions in Mexico! The poster competition deals with the issue of domestic violence. More details to come soon!
A short video clip from the Feb. 12, 2015 gallery show "Art in the 6ix" in downtown Toronto at 99 Sudbury.
Join me for a special night in the heart of downtown Toronto! I am pleased to take part in an event called Art in the 6ix. This is a multidimensional show that consists of various art forms including paintings and photography, and there will be numerous live performances throughout the night as well. I will have original art and prints on display for the show, and a silent auction will be held during the night for all of the showcased works. Hope to see you there!
I am excited to be featured on the Poster Poster website. One of my submissions was selected for Poster Monday.
The "Richter" exhibition has been featured in the Tehran Times.
I am truly honored to be representing Canada in this amazing collaboration of designers from around the world! My Fukushima poster "Fukushhh" has been selected for exhibit in Tehran, Iran, as part of a group show focusing on social posters. The exhibition will take place between Oct. 18-22, 2014, thanks to the Japa Group and Iranian Artists Forum.
Two of my pieces will be on display from July 10-16, 2014 at Project Gallery Toronto. The reception will take place Sat. July 12 between 1-5 pm. Save the date!
I am happy to have 2 of my portraits featured with over 25 Canadian artists at Moniker Gallery in Toronto. The show takes place on Thursday Jan. 30, 2014 between 7-11pm. The artwork can be seen until Feb. 5 between regular gallery hours. If you want to experience a fun night with some great art and live music, this is the place to be!
Copyright © 2016, Andrew Mayberry Illustration. All rights reserved.


Five a day - 80g = 1 portion. Winner 2013 Retail Industry Awards - Fresh Produce Retailer of the Year - Multiple.
I like these tomatoes, very tasty and yeah it goes soft as it should be anyway! I do prefer these rather than rock hard ones. I always remove the packaging and leave it in my windows to get some sun and they go lovely.
This is the last time I order these--all of them were underripe, two significantly so.
I have to agree with other customers. These tomatoes go off much too fast. They never used to. I suspect that either Morrisons changed growers, or their growers have recently begun to artificially ripen the toms. Unfortunately, faster maturation does lead to faster degradation. I would sooner pay extra for a product with decent shelf life. Wouldnt anyone? the money saved by the cusomer in wastage would surely cover the extra cost. This is one of those deal breaker products for me. I moved on from another big Supermarket chain because I couldnt get tomatoes that would last me all week - not even half a week - from there. And now partly moved on from Morrisons too, although i still keep giving them another chance. Its a great shame because I've often praised Morrisons quality in the past. It's really sad to see them going the same way as that other chain.
£1.37 other Morrisons but not WsM Morrisons! Seem to charge what they like and not the first time.
These were already soft when they were delivered, so much so I had trouble slicing them. I have had these before and they were fine, but these had a very short life and I don't think I would buy them again.
Inspired by West Indian home cooking, this classic Caribbean recipe will go down a storm. Leaving the chicken to marinate for over 24 hours allows the fantastic flavours to really take hold.
View all recipes containing Morrisons Vine Ripened Large Tomatoes Min.


text:
Geometry: Pythagorean Theorem
Related topics: More Geometry Lessons
In these lessons, we will learn
the Converse of the Pythagorean Theorem
how to use the Pythagorean Theorem
proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem
The following diagram gives the formula for the Pythagorean Theorem, scroll down the page for more examples and solutions that use the Pythagorean Theorem.
What is the Pythagorean Theorem?
A right triangle consists of two sides called the legs and one side called the hypotenuse. The hypotenuse is the longest side and is opposite the right angle.
The Pythagorean Theorem or Pythagoras' Theorem is a formula relating the lengths of the three sides of a right triangle.
If we take the length of the hypotenuse to be c and the length of the legs to be a and b then this theorem tells us that:
c2 = a2 + b2
Pythagorean Theorem states that
In any right triangle, the sum of the squared lengths of the two legs is equal to the squared length of the hypotenuse.
Note: Pythagorean theorem only works for right triangles
How to solve application problems using the Pythagorean Theorem?
The Pythagorean Theorem states that in a right triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides called the legs.
Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem using similar triangles
This proof is based on the proportionality of the sides of two similar triangles, that is, the ratio of any corresponding sides of similar triangles is the same regardless of the size of the triangles.
1. Determine the length of the missing side of the right triangle.
2. Mason wants to lay pavers in his families' backyard for the summer. It is important that he start the pavers at a right angle. If he want the dimensions of the patio to be 8 ft by 10 ft, what should the diagonal measure?
Show Step-by-step Solutions
What is the Converse of the Pythagorean Theorem?
The converse of the Pythagorean Theorem is also true.
For any triangle with sides a, b, c, if a2 + b2 = c2, then the angle between a and b measures 90° and the triangle is a right triangle.
How to use the Converse of the Pythagorean Theorem?
We can use the converse of the Pythagorean Theorem to check whether a given triangle is an acute triangle, a right triangle or an obtuse triangle.
For a triangle with sides a, b and c and c is the longest side then:
If c2 < a2 + b2 then it is an acute-angled triangle, i.e. the angle facing side c is an acute angle.
If c2 = a2 + b2 then it is a right-angled triangle, i.e. the angle facing side c is a right angle.
If c2> a2 + b2 then it is an obtuse-angled triangle, i.e. the angle facing side c is an obtuse angle.
Pythagorean Theorem Worksheets
Pythagorean Theorem (Find the missing side)
Pythagorean Theorem (Test for right triangle)
Pythagorean Theorem (Dynamically generated)
Pythagorean Theorem (Word Problems)
Factoring Quadratic Equations
Converse Pythagorean Theorem: Types of Triangles
This video shows how to use the Pythagorean Theorem and its Converse to determine if a triangle is acute, right, or obtuse.
According to the triangle inequality theorem, the sum of the two shorter sides of a triangle must be greater that the longest side.
Determine if the lengths represent the sides of an acute, right, or obtuse triangle if a triangle is possible.
1) 7, 24, 25
3) 6, 8, 9
How to use the Pythagorean Theorem?
The Pythagorean Theorem can be used when we know the length of two sides of a right triangle and we need to get the length of the third side.
Example 1: Find the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle if the lengths of the other two sides are 3 inches and 4 inches.
Step 1: Write down the formula c2 = a2 + b2
Step 2: Plug in the values c2 = 32 + 42
c2 = 9 + 16
c2 = 25
c =
Answer: The length of the hypotenuse is 5 inches.
Example 2: Find the length of one side of a right triangle if the length of the hypotenuse is 10 inches and the length of the other side is 9 inches.
Step 2: Plug in the values 102 = 92 + b2
100 = 81 + b2
Step 3: Subtract 81 from both sides 19 = b2
b ≈ 4.36
Answer: The length of the side is 4.36 inches.
How to use the Pythagorean Theorem to solve real-world problems?
1. Claire wants to hang a banner from the sill of a second-story window in her house. She needs to find a ladder that, when rested against the outside wall of her house will be long enough to reach the second-story window. If the window is 16 feet above the ground and Claire places the foot of the ladder 12 feet from the wall, how long will the ladder need to be?
2. During a baseball game, the second baseman gets the ball and throws it to the catcher to stop a runner before he gets to home. If it is 90 feet between each base, how far did the second baseman throw the ball?
3. A water park wants to add a zipline into a pool. If the platform at the top of the zipline is 25 feet tall, and the pool is 40 feet ling, what is the maximum length needed for the zipline?
4. A wheelchair ramp is needed at the entrance to a building. There is only 10 feet of space available for the ramp. How long should the ramp be?
5. A television screen is advertised as 50 inches. If the television is 35 inches wide, how tall is it?
6. A kite at the end of a 40 feet line is 10 feet behind the runner. How high is the kite?
7. A roof is being placed on a frame that is 9 feet tall and 30 feet wide. How long are the diagonal pieces of the frame?
There are many ways to proof the Pythagorean Theorem. We will look at three of them here.
How to proof the Pythagorean Theorem using Similar Triangles?
This proof is based on the fact that the ratio of any two corresponding sides of similar triangles is the same regardless of the size of the triangles.
Given Triangle ABC drawn above in the image and prove a2 + b2 = c2 using Similar Triangles
Triangle ABC ∼ Triangle ACD AA (Similarity Postulate)
Triangle ABC ∼ Triangle CBD AA (Similarity Postulate)
c/a = a/x (Converse of SSS Similarity Postulate)
c/b = b/y (Converse of SSS Similarity Postulate)
a2 = cx (Cross multiply)
b2 = cy (Cross multiply)
a2 + b2 = cx + cy (Adding the equations)
a2 + b2 = c(x + y) (GCF)
a2 + b2 = c2 (Substitution)
How to proof the Pythagorean Theorem using Algebra?
In this proof, we use four copies of the right triangle, rearrange them and use algebra to proof the theorem.
How to proof of the Pythagorean Theorem using Rearrangement of shapes?
The following video shows how a square with area c2 can be cut up and rearranged such that it can fit into two other smaller squares with areas a2 and b2.
Rotate to landscape screen format on a mobile phone or small tablet to use the Mathway widget, a free math problem solver that answers your questions with step-by-step explanations.
You can use the free Mathway calculator and problem solver below to practice Algebra or other math topics. Try the given examples, or type in your own problem and check your answer with the step-by-step explanations.
We welcome your feedback, comments and questions about this site or page. Please submit your feedback or enquiries via our Feedback page.
Back to Top | Interactive Zone | Home
Copyright © 2005, 2018 - OnlineMathLearning.com.
Embedded content, if any, are copyrights of their respective owners.
Math By Grades
Grades 9 & 10
Grades 11 & 12
Intermediate Algebra
High School Geometry
NY Common Core
Math By Topics
Worksheets by Topics
Worksheets by Grades
Common Core Worksheets
Math For Tests
GRE Math
High School-Regents
Math Fun & Games
Mousehunt Guide
Let's Play Blog
Math Video Lessons
College Calculus
Engineering Math
Test/Exam Prep
ACT Preparation
ESL, IELTS, TOEFL
GCSE/IGCSE/A Level
KS3/CheckPoint 1 Science
GCSE/IGCSE Maths
GCSE/IGCSE Biology
CGSE/IGCSE Chemistry
CGSE/IGCSE Physics
A-Level Maths
High School Biology
High School Physics

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


Through the thousand photos online with regards to Warby Parker Frames, we picks the very best series together with greatest image resolution simply for you, and now this photos is one of graphics series in your very best graphics gallery with regards to Warby Parker Frames. Lets hope you can like it.
This specific picture (Which War Parker Glasses Should Steemit throughout Recent Warby Frames Warby2) over will be labelled together with:put up through @Wadeframes.com at August, 31 2018. To determine most graphics throughout Warby Parker Frames graphics gallery you need to stick to Warby Parker Frames.


text:
How to watch Over the Moon
Get ready for an epic musical adventure.
By David Craig
Tuesday, 20th October 2020 at 5:52 pm
Disney might well be Netflix's biggest competition in the streaming war, but now the service is trying to beat the Mouse House at its own game.
This month, Netflix is dropping an exciting new animated film directed by two Disney veterans and boasting the kind of sleek animation you'd expect from a cinema release.
Over The Moon is a family sci-fi adventure, which sees a young girl build a rocket ship so that she can fly to the moon and prove the existence of a goddess who means a lot to her.
It looks to be an action-packed and emotional journey of discovery, with a star-studded voice cast including Killing Eve's Sandra Oh and Community's Ken Jeong.
Here's all the details you need on how to watch Over The Moon on Netflix.
Bored of scrolling on Netflix?
Sign up to receive the freshest reviews and recommendations for Streaming & On Demand
Thanks, you are now signed up to our On Demand newsletter! We look forward to sending you our email updates.
Sign in to/ register for a RadioTimes.com account to manage your email preferences
To manage your email preferences, click here.
Immediate Media Company Limited (publishers of radiotimes.com) would love to send you our On Demand newsletters. We may also send occasional updates from our editorial team. You can unsubscribe at any time. For details on how we use your data, please see our privacy policy.
When is Over The Moon released on Netflix?
Over The Moon will be available to stream on Netflix from Friday 23rd October 2020.
You can set a reminder on Netflix now to alert you when the film is ready to watch.
Over The Moon is a Netflix original movie, which means that it will be exclusive to the streaming service for anyone wishing to watch at home.
Head over to the Netflix website to start a membership from £5.99 per month, with 50 per cent off your first two months.
Prior to its Netflix launch, Over The Moon has seen a limited release in UK cinemas, so anyone craving the big screen experience should check to see if it's playing locally.
What is Over The Moon about?
Over The Moon follows a smart young girl called Fei Fei, who uses her scientific knowhow to build a rocket ship to the moon, hoping to prove the existence of a legendary goddess.
She gets more than she bargained for, as her attempt at spaceflight sees her beamed up to a whimsical sci-fi world full of strange alien creatures.
Over The Moon is a musical adventure about moving forward, embracing all that life has to offer and utilising the power of imagination, making it uplifting family fare.
Who is in the cast of Over The Moon?
Young actors Cathy Ang and Robert G Chiu lead the voice cast as Fei Fei and her hyperactive friend Chin, who are fired off on an intergalactic adventure.
Phillipa Soo (Hamilton) provides the voice of Moon Goddess Chang'e, while Hollywood A-listers John Cho and Sandra Oh also star as Fei Fei's father and potential step-mother respectively.
Listen out for the vocal talents of Community and The Hangover star Ken Jeong, as well as comedian Margaret Cho, Kimiko Glenn (Orange is the New Black) and Ruthie Ann Miles (The Americans).
The film is directed by Glen Keane and John Kahrs, both of whom have been involved in some of the biggest films to come out of Disney and Pixar in recent years.
Is there an Over The Moon trailer?
Even better: there are two! The first trailer was unveiled back in June, introducing the high-concept animated flick to the world.
A second (and final) trailer was released in September, ramping up anticipation for the film's release.
Over The Moon is available to stream on Netflix from 23rd October. Looking for something else to watch? Check out our guide to the best series on Netflix and best movies on Netflix, or visit our TV Guide.
25 of the best comedies on Netflix to watch now
The best movies to watch on Amazon Prime Video
All about Over the Moon
28 of the best horror films on Netflix right now
Best TV shows to watch on NOW TV


The experiment conducted to study the effect of different plant spacings and nitrogen levels on growth and yield of Eucalyptus clones revealed that adopting a spacing of 3 X 1.5 m recorded higher plant height of 5.84 m followed by 2 X 1.5 m and 3 X 1.5-1.5 m. Application of 225 g N/plant recorded higher plant of 6.43 m followed by 150 g N/plant and 75 g N/plant.
The trial on collection, maintenance and evaluation of Eucalyptus clones indicated that the clone, BCM-226 produced taller plants of 7.3 m followed by BCM-290. The lowest plant height was recorded with BCM-273. The maximum girth of 20.8 cm was recorded with BCM-2202 clone followed by BCM-290 (20.5 cm). The lowest girth was recorded with BCM-27 (11.3 cm).
The experiment conducted to study the effect of different spacings on growth and yield of casuarina clones indicated that plant height was maximum with spacing of 1.5 X 1.5 m followed by 2 X 1.5 m. The lowest plant height was recorded with spacing of 3 X 1.5 m.
The experiment conducted on response of Simarouba to Nitrogen and spacing indicated that adopting a spacing of 4 X 4 m recorded higher plant height of 2.64 m and was on par with 6 X 6 m spacing. Application of 225 g N/plant recorded higher plant height of 2.63 m followed by 150 g N/plant and 75 g N/plant.
The experiment on response of rice varieties to different levels of nitrogen under aerobic conditions revealed that application of 160 kg N/ha recorded higher grain yield of 1819 kg/ha followed by 200 kg N/ha (1545 kg/ha).


text:
Kimora Lee Simmons and Her Husband Adopt 10-Year-Old Son, Gary
Kimora Lee Simmons' Weight Loss View Image
The Baby Phat designer's brood is now a party of seven.
Congratulations are in order for Kimora Lee Simmons and her husband Tim Leissner!
The couple, who married in 2014, adopted a 10-year-old son named Gary, making the fashion designer's brood a party of seven.
Kimora and Tim welcomed their son Wolfe in 2015. She shares son Kenzo, 10, with ex Djimon Hounsou. Her two daughters, Aoki, 17, and Ming, 20, are from her prior relationship with Russell Simmons.
Kimora Lee Simmons Trashed for Advice She Gave Khloe Kardashian on Explosive 'KUWTK' Season Finale
The new addition to the family comes on the heels of Simmons relaunching her iconic fashion label, Baby Phat, last month.
The former model's daughters were the face of the new campaign, which dropped six months after the launch of Forever 21 x Baby Phat, a venture the 44-year-old called "a rebirth."
"Here we are again, 20 years later in 2019, and now [my daughters] are with me taking the reins," she told People at the time. "This is a woman-owned company, run by me and my daughters. I've been in fashion for 30 years. But now it's about passing the torch from one to the next."
Aoki and Ming appear to have a very hands on approach to helping out with the family affair.
Kimora Lee and Russell Simmons' Daughter Gets Into Harvard at 16, Proudly Proclaim She 'Can't Row'
"They are involved in every aspect of the business," she explained. "Ming studies business and fashion in college in New York, and Aoki is in Los Angeles and will be in college next year. They're very much innovators and influencers. We're like the Three Musketeers."
And the two daughters have been an inspiration to the business mogul.
"My world is shaped in so many ways by my daughters. They grew up walking the Baby Phat runways with me, and now they're grown and working with me on the design and creative direction of the collection and on building the business itself," she told Page Six at the time of the launch. "It's important to me to share Baby Phat in a totally fresh and accessible way with an entirely new generation of women."
Everyone Who's Worn a Version of J.Lo's Infamous Versace Dress View Photo Gallery
#KimoraLeeSimmons


text:
\section{Introduction}

Semantic Role Labeling (SRL) provides explicit annotation of predicate-argument relations.
Common SRL schemes, particularly PropBank \cite{martha2005propbank} and FrameNet \cite{Baker:1998:BFP:980451.980860}, rely on predefined role inventories and extensive predicate lexicons.
Consequently, SRL annotation of new texts requires substantial efforts involving expert annotation, and possibly lexicon extension, limiting scalability.

Aiming to address these limitations, Question-Answer driven Semantic Role Labeling (QA-SRL) \cite{He2015qasrl} labels each predicate-argument relationship with a question-answer pair, where natural language questions represent semantic roles, and answers correspond to arguments (see Table \ref{table:examples}).
This approach follows the colloquial perception of semantic roles as answering questions about the predicate (``Who did What to Whom, When, Where and How", with, e.g., ``Who" corresponding to the \textit{agent} role).

QA-SRL carries two attractive promises. First, using a question-answer format makes the annotation task intuitive and easily attainable by laymen, as it does not depend on linguistic resources (e.g. role lexicons), thus facilitating greater annotation scalability.
Second, by relying on intuitive human comprehension, these annotations elicit a richer argument set, including valuable \textit{implicit} semantic arguments not manifested in syntactic structure
(highlighted in Table \ref{table:examples}).
The importance of implicit arguments has been recognized in the literature \cite{cheng2018implicit, do2017improving_implicit, gerber2012semantic_implicit}, yet they are mostly overlooked by common SRL formalisms and tools.

Overall, QA-SRL largely subsumes predicate-argument information  captured by traditional SRL schemes, which were shown beneficial for complex downstream tasks, such as dialog modeling \cite{chen2013unsupervised_srlInDialog}, machine comprehension \cite{wang2015machine} and cross-document coreference \cite{barhom2019revisiting}.
At the same time, it contains richer information, and is easier to understand and collect.
Similarly to SRL, one can utilize QA-SRL both as a source of semantic supervision, in order to achieve better implicit neural NLU models, as done recently by \citet{QuASE_HeNgRo20}, as well as an explicit semantic structure for downstream use, e.g. for producing Open Information Extraction propositions \cite{stanovsky2016creating}.\footnote{Indeed, making direct use of QA-SRL role questions might seem more challenging than with categorical semantic roles, as in traditional SRL. In practice, however, when a model embeds QA-SRL questions in context, we would expect similar embeddings for semantically similar questions.
These embeddings may be leveraged downstream in the same way as embeddings of traditional categorical semantic roles.}

Previous attempts to annotate QA-SRL initially involved trained annotators \cite{He2015qasrl} but later resorted to crowdsourcing \cite {fitz2018qasrl} for scalability.
Naturally, employing crowd workers is challenging when annotating fairly demanding structures like SRL.
As \citet{fitz2018qasrl} acknowledge, the main shortage of their large-scale dataset is limited recall, which we estimate to be in the lower 70s (see \S \ref{sec:dataset_quality_analyses}). Unfortunately, such low recall in gold standard datasets hinders proper research and evaluation, undermining the current viability of the QA-SRL paradigm.

Aiming to enable future QA-SRL research,
we present a generic \emph{controlled crowdsourcing} annotation protocol and apply it to QA-SRL.
Our process addresses worker quality by performing short yet efficient annotator screening and training.
To boost coverage, we employ two independent workers per task, while an additional worker resolves inconsistencies, similar to conventional expert annotation.
These steps combined yield 25\% more roles than \citet{fitz2018qasrl}, without sacrificing precision and at a comparable cost per verb.
This gain is especially notable for implicit arguments,
which we show in a comparison to PropBank \cite{martha2005propbank}.
Overall, we show that our annotation protocol and dataset are of high quality and coverage, enabling subsequent QA-SRL research.

To foster such research, including easy production of additional QA-SRL datasets, we release our annotation protocol, software and guidelines along with a high-quality dataset for QA-SRL evaluation (dev and test).\footnote{\url{https://github.com/plroit/qasrl-gs}}
We also re-evaluate the existing parser \cite{fitz2018qasrl} against our test set, setting the baseline for future developments.
Finally, we propose that our systematic and replicable controlled crowdsourcing protocol could also be effective for other complex annotation tasks.\footnote{A previous preprint version of this paper can be found at \url{https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.03243}. }

\input{tables/qasrl_examples}
\input{tables/question_slots}

\section{Background --- QA-SRL}\label{sec:background}

\paragraph{Specifications}

In QA-SRL, a role question adheres to a 7-slot template, with slots corresponding to a WH-word, the verb, auxiliaries, argument placeholders (SUBJ, OBJ), and prepositions, where some slots are optional \cite{He2015qasrl}, as exemplified in Table~\ref{tab:question_slots}.
Such a question captures its corresponding semantic role with a natural, easily understood expression.
All answers to the question are then considered as the set of arguments associated with that role, capturing both traditional explicit arguments and implicit ones.

\paragraph{Corpora}
The original {\sf 2015} QA-SRL dataset \cite{He2015qasrl} was annotated by hired non-expert workers after completing a short training procedure.
They annotated 7.8K verbs, reporting an average of 2.4 QA pairs per verb.
Even though multiple annotators were shown to produce greater coverage, their released dataset was produced by a single annotator per verb.

In subsequent work, \citet{fitz2018qasrl} employed untrained crowd workers to construct a large-scale corpus ({\sf 2018}) and used it to train a parser.
In their protocol, a single worker (``generator") annotated a set of questions along with their answers. Two additional workers (``validators") validated each question and, in the valid case, independently annotated their own answers.
In total, 133K verbs were annotated with 2.0 QA pairs per verb on average.

In a subset of the corpus (10\%) reserved for parser evaluation, verbs were densely validated by 5 workers (termed the {\sf Dense} set).\footnote{\citet{fitz2018qasrl} also produced an expanded version of their dataset, incorporating questions that were automatically generated by their parser and then validated by crowd workers.
While this may achieve higher recall, using model-generated data biases the evaluation with respect to existing models and is not suitable for evaluation datasets.
For that reason, in our work we consider only the non-expanded version of the \textsf{Dense} set.}
Yet, adding validators accounts only for precision errors in question annotation, while role coverage solely relies upon the output of the single generator. For this reason, both the {\sf 2015} and {\sf 2018} datasets struggle with coverage.

Also, while traditional SRL annotations contain a single authoritative and non-redundant annotation (i.e., a single role and span for each argument), the {\sf 2018} dataset provides raw annotations from all annotators.
These include many \emph{redundant} overlapping argument spans, without settling on consolidation procedures to provide a single gold reference, which complicates models' evaluation.

These limitations of the current QA-SRL datasets impede their utility for future research and evaluation.
Next, we describe our method for creating a viable high quality QA-SRL dataset.
\section{Annotation and Evaluation Methods}
\label{sec:annotation_methodology}

\subsection{Controlled Crowdsourcing Methodology}
\label{sec:crowdsourcing_methodology}
\paragraph{Screening and Training}
We first release a preliminary crowd-wide annotation round, and then contact workers who exhibit reasonable performance.
They are asked to review our short guidelines,\footnote{Publicly available in our repository.} which highlight a few subtle aspects, and then annotate two qualification rounds, of 15 predicates each.
Each round is followed by extensive feedback via email, pointing at  errors and missed arguments, identified by automatic comparison to expert annotation. Total worker effort for the training phase is about 2 hours, and is fully compensated, while requiring about half an hour of an in-house trainer time per participating worker. We trained 30 participants, eventually selecting 11 well-performing ones.

\paragraph{Annotation}
\label{sec:consolidation}
We reuse and extend the annotation machinery of \citeauthor{fitz2018qasrl} over Amazon's Mechanical Turk.
First, two workers independently generate questions about a verb, and highlight answer spans in the sentence.
Then, a third worker reviews and \textit{consolidates} their annotations based on targeted guidelines, producing the gold standard data. At this step, the worker validates questions, merges, splits or modifies answers for the same role, and removes redundant questions.\footnote{Notice that while the validator from \citet{fitz2018qasrl} viewed only the questions of a single generator, our consolidator views two full QA sets, promoting higher coverage.}
Table~\ref{tab:consolidation} depicts examples from the consolidation task.
We monitor the annotation process by sampling (1\%) and reviewing.
\paragraph{Data \& Cost}
We annotated a sample of the {\sf Dense} evaluation set, comprising of 1000 sentences from each of the Wikinews and Wikipedia domains, equally split to dev and test.
Annotators are paid 5\textcent\hspace{0pt} per predicate for QA generation, with an additional bonus for every question beyond the first two.
The consolidator is rewarded 5\textcent\hspace{0pt} per verb and 3\textcent\hspace{0pt} per question.
Per predicate, on average, our cost is 54.2\textcent\hspace{0pt}, yielding 2.9 roles, compared to reported 2.3 valid roles with approximately 51\textcent\hspace{0pt} per predicate for the {\sf Dense} annotation protocol.
\input{tables/consolidation_examples}
\subsection{Evaluation Metrics}
\label{sec:eval_metrics}
Evaluation in QA-SRL involves, for each verb, aligning its predicted argument spans to a reference set of arguments, and evaluating question equivalence, i.e., whether predicted and gold questions for aligned spans correspond to the same semantic role.
Since detecting question equivalence is still an open challenge, we propose both unlabeled and labeled evaluation metrics.
The described procedure is used to evaluate both the crowd-workers' annotations (\S\ref{sec:dataset_quality_analyses}) and the QA-SRL parser (\S\ref{sec:baseline_parser}).

\paragraph{Unlabeled Argument Detection ({\sf UA})}
Inspired by the method presented in \cite{fitz2018qasrl}, argument spans are matched using a token-based matching criterion of intersection over union \textsc{(IOU)} $\geq 0.5$. To credit each argument only once, we employ maximal bipartite matching\footnote{The previous approach aligned arguments to roles. We measure argument detection, whereas \citet{fitz2018qasrl} measure role detection.} between the two sets of arguments, drawing an edge for each pair that passes the above mentioned criterion. The resulting maximal matching determines the true-positive set, while remaining non-aligned arguments become false positives or false negatives.
\paragraph{Labeled Argument Detection ({\sf LA}) }
All aligned arguments from the previous step are inspected for label equivalence, similar to the joint evaluation reported in \citet{fitz2018qasrl}.
There may be many correct questions for a role.
For example, \textit{What was given to someone?} and \textit{What has been given by someone?} both refer to the same semantic role but diverge in grammatical tense
and argument place holders.
Aiming to avoid judging non-equivalent roles as equivalent, we propose \textsc{Strict-Match} to be an equivalence on the following template slots: \textbf{WH}, \textbf{SUBJ}, \textbf{OBJ}, as well as on negation, voice, and modality\footnote{Presence of factuality-changing modal verbs such as \textit{should}, \textit{might} and \textit{can}.} extracted from the question.
Final reported numbers on labelled argument detection rates are based on bipartite aligned arguments passing      \textsc{Strict-Match}.
As this matching criterion significantly underestimates question equivalence, we later manually assess the actual rate of correct role equivalences.
\paragraph{Evaluating Redundant Annotations} We extend our metric for evaluating manual or automatic redundant annotations, exhibited in the {\sf Dense} dataset (\S\ref{sec:background}) as well as the output of the \citet{fitz2018qasrl} parser  (\S\ref{sec:baseline_parser}).

 To that end, we ignore redundant true-positives, and collapse false-positive errors (see Appendix for details).

\section{Dataset Quality Analysis}
\label{sec:dataset_quality_analyses}

\paragraph{Inter-Annotator Agreement (IAA)}
\label{sec:IAA}

To estimate dataset consistency across different annotations, we measure F1 using our \textsf{UA} metric.
10 individual worker-vs-worker experiments  yield \textbf{79.8 } F1 agreement over 150 predicates, indicating high consistency across our annotators, in line with agreement rates in other structured semantic annotations, e.g. \citet{abend2013ucca}.
Overall consistency of the dataset is assessed by measuring agreement between different \textit{consolidated} annotations, obtained by disjoint triplets of workers, which  achieves F1 of \textbf{84.1}, averaged over 4 experiments, 35 predicates each.
Notably, consolidation boosts agreement, indicating its necessity.
For \textsf{LA} agreement, averaged F1 was 67.8; however, it is likely that the drop from \textsf{UA} is mainly due to falsely rejecting semantically equivalent questions under the \textsc{Strict-Match} criterion, given that we found equal  \textsf{LA} and \textsf{UA} scores in a manual evaluation of our dataset (see Table~\ref{tab:expert_comparison} below).

\paragraph{Dataset Assessment and Comparison}
We assess our gold standard, as well as the recent {\sf Dense} set, against an integrated \textbf{expert set} of 100 predicates.
To construct the expert set, we first merged the annotations from the {\sf Dense} set with our workers' annotations.
Then, three of the authors blindly (i.e., without knowing the origin of each QA pair) selected, corrected and added annotations, resulting in a high-coverage unbiased expert set.
We further manually corrected the evaluation decisions, accounting for some automatic evaluation mistakes introduced by the span-matching and question equivalence criteria.
As seen in Table \ref{tab:expert_comparison},
our gold set yields comparable precision with drastically higher recall, in line with our 25\% higher yield.\footnote{The UA and LA measures ended up equal for our dataset after manual inspection since we found that all \emph{correctly} classified unlabeled arguments were annotated with a correct question role label.}
\input{tables/gold_and_dense_vs_expert}

Examining disagreements between our gold and {\sf Dense}, we observe that our workers successfully produced more roles, both implicit and explicit. To a lesser extent, they split more arguments into independent answers, as emphasized by our guidelines, an issue that was left under-specified in previous annotation guidelines.
\paragraph{Agreement with PropBank Data}
\label{sec:propbank_agreement}
It is illuminating to observe the agreement between QA-SRL  and PropBank (CoNLL-2009) annotations \cite{hajivc2009conll}.
In Table~\ref{tab:propbank}, we replicate the experiments in \citet[Section 3.4]{He2015qasrl} for both our gold set and theirs, over a sample of 200 sentences from the Wall Street Journal (evaluation is automatic and the metric is similar to our \textsf{UA}).
We report macro-averaged (over predicates) precision and recall for all roles, including core and adjuncts,\footnote{Core roles are A0-A5 in PropBank (recall) and QAs having {\it what} and {\it who} WH-words in QA-SRL (precision).} while considering the PropBank data as the reference set.
Our recall of PropBank roles is notably high, reconfirming the coverage obtained by our annotation protocol.

The measured precision with respect to PropBank is low for adjuncts, but this is due to the fact that QA-SRL captures many \textit{correct} implicit arguments, which fall out of PropBank's scope (where arguments are directly syntactically linked to the predicate).
To examine this, we analyzed 100 arguments in our dataset not found in PropBank (``false positives").
We found that only 32 were due to wrong or incomplete QA annotations, while most others were valid implicit arguments, stressing QA-SRL's advantage in capturing those inherently.
Extrapolating from this analysis estimates our true precision (on all roles) to be about 91\%, consistent with the 88\% precision in Table \ref{tab:expert_comparison}, while yielding about 15\% more valid arguments than PropBank (mostly implicit).
Compared with {\sf 2015}, our QA-SRL gold yielded 1593 QA pairs (of which, 604 adjuncts),
while theirs yielded 1315 QAs (336 adjuncts).
Overall, the comparison to PropBank reinforces the quality of our gold dataset and shows its better coverage relative to the \textsf{2015} dataset.
\input{tables/gold_vs_2015_propbank}

\section{Conclusion}
Applying our proposed controlled crowdsourcing protocol to QA-SRL successfully attains truly scalable high-quality annotation by laymen, facilitating future research of this paradigm.
Exploiting the open nature of the QA-SRL schema, our non-expert annotators produce rich argument sets with many valuable implicit arguments.
Indeed, thanks to effective and practical training over the crowdsourcing platform, our workers' annotation quality, and particularly its coverage, are on par with expert annotation.
We release our data, software and protocol, enabling easy future dataset production and evaluation for QA-SRL, as well as possible extensions of the QA-based semantic annotation paradigm.
Finally, we suggest that our simple yet rigorous controlled crowdsourcing protocol would be effective for other challenging annotation tasks, which often prove to be a hurdle for research projects.
\input{tables/parser_redundancy}
\section{Appendix}
\label{sec:supplemental}

\paragraph{Evaluating Redundant Annotations}
Recent datasets and parser outputs of QA-SRL (Fitzgerald et al., 2018)  produce redundant arguments. On the other hand, our consolidated gold data, as typical, consists of a single non-redundant annotation, where arguments are non-overlapping.
In order to fairly evaluate such redundant annotations against our gold standard,
we ignore predicted arguments that match ground-truth but are not selected by the bipartite matching due to redundancy.
After connecting unmatched predicted arguments that overlap, we count one false positive for every connected component, aiming to avoid penalizing precision too harshly when predictions are redundant.

\section*{Acknowledgments}
\vspace{-5pt}
This work was supported in part by an Intel Labs grant, the Israel Science Foundation grant 1951/17 and the German Research Foundation through the German-Israeli Project Cooperation (DIP, grant DA 1600/1-1).

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaArXiv


text:
Spiritual Realm
Spiritual Topics
Spiritual Concepts
Spiritual Movements
Spiritual Conferences
Spiritual Crisis
Masculine-Feminine
Karma, Reincarnation
Dark Forces
Communicating with deceased relatives or ancestors
Question: What is the Masters' view of communicating with deceased relatives or ancestors?
Answer from the Ascended Master Master More through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at a conference in Albuquerque (USA) in 2018.
If you go back to the 1800s, there was a phenomenon of spiritism or spiritualistic mediums, where many, many people engaged in these séances, sitting around the table in a dim-lit room and calling for the deceased ancestors of the people in the room to come forth and speak or give some kind of sign. This movement was, to some degree sponsored or at least initiated by the ascended masters. It is another example of how we have said that we have to work with people at the level of the collective consciousness. We have to give people something that they are open to, that they can grasp and then hoping that it can help them raise their consciousness so that now they can leave this behind and find something higher.
We are naturally not sponsoring this today - we are not encouraging our students to engage in this activity. Today the phenomenon has sort of taken on a life of its own where there are some people who are seeking to make use of it to enrich themselves or even ensnare people or tie people to them and in many cases, this simply no longer works. It isn't the spirits or their departed souls of people's loved ones that are coming through in these séances. It is actually impostors from the emotional realm, in many cases, who are seeking to get people to release emotional energy that they can then absorb. You will see that, as Mother Mary said about the channeling phenomenon, that the phenomenon in the 1800s of so many people seeking to communicate with beings in a realm beyond the material did have an effect on raising the collective consciousness and it set the stage for at least some people being able to accept that there were ascended masters in a higher realm, that could also communicate through a medium or messenger.
Copyright © 2018 Kim Michaels
Add Blog RSS Feed to Your Reader
Conferences for 2020
We now have four conferences planned for 2020.
You can find more information about them here.
Gautama transcript 2020
The transcript of Gautama Buddha's New Year's dictation is now on the website.
Gautama 2020
The sound file for Gautama Buddha's New Year's dictation is on the subscriber's website in a folder named 2020 sound files.
Estonia sound and Ukraine text
The sound files for the Estonia conference are now on the subscriber's website in a folder named Estonia 2019.
The text files for the Ukraine conference are on the Ascended Master Light website.
Reminder conference in Estonia
Just a reminder that our yearly conference in Estonia is coming up at the end of November.
Because it is usually a smaller conference, we have more time for people to get to know each other and for Kim to interact with people so we hope to see you there.


A speed controller is specially designed for the control of fans that are equipped with external rotor motors and also designed for conventional motors, adjustable through voltage reduction. There are fan speed controllers suitable for single phase motors and for three phase motors.
Airtècnics regulators are suitable for single phase motors 230V-50/60Hz up to 2.3kW and 10A and three phase motors 400V-50/60Hz up to 4.5kW and 10A.
1- Regulation box: Manufactured in galvanized painted steel enclosure with lockable hinged door that contains the power plate (5) and the electrical connections motor, both input and output. For single phase motors, the box is IP54 ABS plastic made (IP65 optional).
2- Controller: The standard controller is suitable to select the desired speed. Inside it contains some terminals to install a free voltage ON/OFF contact. It also operates as IR receptor.
Regulation panels with advanced functions for the electrovalves control, electrical elements stages, air shutters, weekly time programmer, pressure sensors control, temperature, position, presence, air quality, etc. are optionally available.
Possibility of BMS systems integration through interface connections.
3- Cable: RJ45 cable for easy connection between controller and regulation box.
4.- IR Remote control: IR controller to operate the equipment by infrared.
The installation of these regulators is easy and fast, does not need any configuration.
Do not generate any noise to the engine and includes a thermocontact protection.


- Goa is the party capital of the country and a hotspot for all the pubs and clubs in the country. This pub crawl tour of the best of the bars of Goa takes you on a ride that will change the way you look at the nightlife.
- Start from the Joseph Bar in Altinho at about 7 PM and start hitting various pubs of the area, and conclude the trip at Down the Road Bar at around 10 PM.


12/17/2015 D Carried over to 2016 Regular Session.
2/22/2016 H Bill scheduled to be heard by JUD on Thursday, 02-25-16 2:00PM in House conference room 325.
2/25/2016 H The committee(s) on JUD recommend(s) that the measure be deferred until Tuesday, 03-01-16 at 2:00 PM in room 325.
2/26/2016 H Bill scheduled for decision making on Tuesday, 03-01-16 2:00PM in conference room 325.
3/1/2016 H The committees on JUD recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 12 Ayes: Representative(s) Rhoads, San Buenaventura, Belatti, Brower, Creagan, Hashem, Kawakami, C. Lee, Morikawa, Takayama, Woodson, Thielen; Ayes with reservations: none; 1 Noes: Representative(s) McDermott; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Nakashima.
3/3/2016 H Reported from JUD (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 723-16) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and placement on the calendar for Third Reading.
3/3/2016 H Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1; placed on the calendar for Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) McDermott voting no (1) and Representative(s) Kong, Saiki, Tupola excused (3).
3/8/2016 H Passed Third Reading with Representative(s) Tokioka, Ward voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Choy, DeCoite, Har, Ito, Kong, McDermott, Oshiro, Tupola voting no (8) and none excused (0). Transmitted to Senate.
3/10/2016 S Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 174).
3/10/2016 S Referred to PSM, JDL.
3/11/2016 S The committee(s) on PSM has scheduled a public hearing on 03-15-16 1:20PM in conference room 229.
3/15/2016 S The committee(s) on PSM deferred the measure until 03-22-16 1:25PM in conference room 229.
3/22/2016 S The committee(s) on PSM recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes in PSM were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Nishihara, Espero, Baker, Inouye; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 1 No(es): Senator(s) Slom; and 0 Excused: none.
3/24/2016 S Reported from PSM (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 3065) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading and referral to JDL.
3/24/2016 S Report adopted; Passed Second Reading and referred to JDL.
3/28/2016 S The committee(s) on JDL will hold a public decision making on 03-30-16 9:30AM in conference room 016.
3/30/2016 S The committee(s) on JDL recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in JDL were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Keith-Agaran, Shimabukuro, Gabbard, Kim, L. Thielen; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 1 No(es): Senator(s) Slom; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) K.Kahele.
4/8/2016 S Reported from JDL (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 3490) with recommendation of passage on Third Reading, as amended (SD 1).
4/12/2016 S Report adopted; Passed Third Reading, as amended (SD 1). Ayes, 22; Aye(s) with reservations: Senator(s) K.Kahele, Kidani, Riviere, Wakai . Noes, 2 (Senator(s) Harimoto, Ihara). Excused, 1 (Senator(s) Slom). Transmitted to House.
4/12/2016 H Returned from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 501) in amended form (SD 1).
4/25/2016 H Reconsideration of action taken on 04-14-16.
4/26/2016 S Received notice of House reconsideration of action in disagreeing to the amendments proposed by the Senate (Hse. Com. No. 635).
4/26/2016 H House agrees to Senate amendment(s).
4/26/2016 H Passed Final Reading as amended in SD 1 with Representative(s) McKelvey, Ward voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Choy, Creagan, DeCoite, Har, Ito, Kong, McDermott, Say, Tokioka, Tupola voting no (10) and Representative(s) Ing, Oshiro excused (2).
4/27/2016 S Received notice of House agreement and passage on Final Reading (Hse. Com. No. 658).
4/26/2016 H Transmitted to Governor.
6/23/2016 H Act 109, on 06/22/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1210).
6/23/2016 S Act 109, 06/22/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1210).


Welcome readers, we have a new website coming soon. Please bear with us.
If you would like to see a website come alive before your eyes…watch carefully.
I have always enjoyed building my sites in real time. I don't always use testing servers….therefore you get to watch it unfold!!!


The tons of rituals — socialising, feasting, gifting and spending to excess — pegged to every holiday can get a little fatiguing. It's little surprise, then, that we're seeing a countermovement to over-indulgences on special occasions, which despite good intentions often make us lose sight of what we intend to celebrate in the first place; family, friends, renewal, and hope, to name but a few. More and more of us are forgoing lavish presents and Insta-bait voyages in favour of quiet staycation Christmases, while splashy CNY dinners culminating in lots of unconsumed food are being traded for more subdued, yet equally convivial gatherings.
Valentine's Day, however, is particularly fraught, since pop culture has always pushed the ideal of finding 'the one' who will complete our lives. But what if getting there first requires one to feel independently whole? Just as plane crashes can serve as good analogies for failed relationships, in emotional terms, should we not put on our own oxygen masks before attending to others? It may sound daunting to face an event as romantically charged as V-Day without a significant other, but Hugo is celebrating the men who have more than made their peace with their bachelorhood, with their spring/summer 2019 collection. In hopes of discovering the same serenity within ourselves, we quizzed them on their thoughts on romantic love, the benefits of personal growth and their definitions of freedom.
What is it like to be a single man in 2019?
Ayden Sng (AS): Humans are a social species, tribal by nature. I believe we have a constant yearning to belong to someone, to something. However, the method by which we satisfy that natural desire is constantly being reinvented. Increasingly so, you find younger people being fully invested in their work, their friends and even their hobbies. The value of being attached has not decreased, it's just that there are now more options that can fill a similar gap... at least temporarily. Ironically, I do think this reduced dependency on being attached makes it even more meaningful and rewarding to find someone who truly matters.
You're single this Valentine's Day. Thoughts?
AS: You win some and you lose some. Nowadays, every other day is celebrated; there's Valentine's Day but there's also Singles' Day. If you're single on Valentine's Day, it's normal and reasonable to feel lonely and left out — you just deal with it. Go out, have a night out, hang out with friends. Face the FOMO if you have it. If you don't, good for you. It's not a crime to feel dejected by what you don't have, but it's an injustice to yourself if you don't do what you can to fight for what you want.
AS: I don't, but I don't think that's a bad thing. I have obligations to my family, friends, bosses, colleagues, and most importantly, myself. I feel free when I've done justice to all my responsibilities.
Is freedom given, or earned?
AS: Freedom is earned — I work hard to give myself the luxury of choice. My freedom is illustrated by the decisions I make — the way I spend my time and my money on the activities I love, and the people I surround myself with. I get to choose how to live my life, and that, to me, is freedom.
When you think of 'the norm' in a Singaporean context, what comes to mind? And how have you gone against it?
AS: I try my best not to think about what that is. Life isn't that complicated; I just do what's right for myself and the people I love, and I believe everything else will fall into place.
How do you feel about singlehood?
Jasper Tan (JT): To be honest, singlehood can be both a lonely and a fruitful journey. When I got out of my last relationship, it was all about learning how to be alone and how to love myself again. I had so much time to myself! I partied a lot, spent all my free time with my family, shopped and travel everywhere too.
JT: I do feel liberated, but that's not the same as not having responsibilities at all. I have the freedom to wake up as late as I want, to do what I want, and to be selective about my clients at work. I don't have to answer to anybody except myself and my deadlines.
JT: That's a difficult question... But I think freedom is earned. Our Asian culture takes away our freedoms. I'm not saying that this is true for everybody, but I was brought up in a very controlling environment, having to study as hard as possible and achieve the best grades. My mom decided what schools I'd attend and what courses I'd take; I had few choices and didn't think that a hands-on, creative career was an option. I even studied engineering in ITE when I didn't perform well academically in secondary school.
I think that going against your parents and society's expectations — especially in terms of career choices — will always be difficult. Through the years I've learnt that anything is possible, it all just depends whether you choose to see it that way. I initially chose to follow the path that was set for me, but I ultimately went against my parents, and pursued my passion. Even when they scolded me and withdrew their financial support, I did some hairstyling, tattooing and wedding photography to make ends meet before getting into film-making. Even then, I continued to work part-time jobs and be an Uber driver. My success didn't happen overnight.
When you think of 'the norm' in a Singaporean context, what comes to mind? How have you gone against it?
JT: To me, 'the norm' is following what society views as being successful, whether that's having a high-paying job, working for a big company or being well-known. In the past, I went against the old-school norm of getting into a top university, then landing a 'good' job. Instead, I quit school, did odd jobs and learned more hands-on skills. Then I got into music videos, which paid very little. For a few years, watching my friends earn a regular living while I struggled to balance my passions with my subsistence work was hard. It made me question myself. But I'm happy now! I'm free, and I can at least say that my persistence paid off. I wouldn't say that I'm super successful now, but I'm more than content.
What are your thoughts on singlehood?
Yais Yusman (YI): Being single is freeing; I have the freedom to explore myself and focus on my work. I'm not in a rush to be in a relationship. If one comes my way, I'll bite. But I'm in no rush for sure.
Yafiq Yusman (YF): I'm fine being single; I know what my responsibilities are. I'm a family-oriented person who loves my family dearly. I want to make my parents happy first before making myself happy. Family first for now.
YI: I don't celebrate Valentine's Day but I like to believe that it's Singles' Awareness Day too. Valentine's Day is not really a big deal but I'm happy for the couples who celebrate it and wish them eternal love.
YF: Nobody is obligate to celebrate it, even those who are in a relationship.
YI: Yes. I used to work full-time, and always answered to a superior. Now, working freelance gives me lots of freedom.
YF: I do feel free! Being a full-time freelancer and working to my own schedule is pretty much the freedom I've been longing for. It's like I'm my own boss.
YI: It's depends on the situation. Some people were given freedom from an early age, but for most, freedom comes with trust.
How do you utilise your freedom, and how do you exercise your individuality?
YI: I am flexible when it comes to time, which allows me to explore and to do what I want. But I never take it for granted.
YF: Everyone deserves to feel free. I exercise my freedom by always telling others to be themselves, and to not be pressured by what others say is right or wrong. Just do you.
YI: In Singapore, most people think you need a degree to be successful. I don't have one, yet I don't feel any less accomplished than my friends who do have degrees.
YF: Everyone goes to school, finds a job and gets married. To me, it's less about taking a specific journey, and more about enjoying your own more. You can attend school and not do well, but still excel in your career.
All clothing from Hugo spring/summer 2019 collection. Hugo is located at Ion Orchard, #03-12A and The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands, #B2-19.


PromoJukeBox delivers music, pics, text or anything you want. Simply send all your digital products to your internal and external partners, be that radio, press, TV, clubs, online or inhouse.
No hidden costs and no sign up fee.
Unlimited mailings, products, bandwidth, downloads.
To make sure you like what you get: one month trial for free.
Of course you have all kinds of statistics.
Of course you have your own design, label brand or format. Whatever comes to your mind.
It goes without saying that your tracks are watermarked.
And yes! No contract duration. You are free to cancel your account every month.
Our mission is to make watermarked music promotion simple and affordable for everybody.


Tom joined GCA Altium in March 2014 and has since completed a wide variety of deals from M&A and private equity transactions on both the sell-side and buy-side, through to corporate carve-out and public company takeovers. Prior to joining, Tom spent two years at a corporate finance boutique in the North West of England following an internship in Shanghai.
Tom holds the ICAEW Diploma in Corporate Finance and a Bachelor's (Hons) degree in Money, Banking and Finance with French from the University of Birmingham, spending a year at Université de Bordeaux IV on the Erasmus programme.


text:
Curled up with a good book
Honest Book Reviews, Meet the Author, Blog Tours, Cover Reveals & More!
Book Blitz & Tours
Monthly Round Ups
Bookish Boxes
Monthly Round Up: March & April 2020
Posted on May 12, 2020 Author Curled Up With A Good Book
Evening everyone. Soooo…..I promised to keep on top of it and I failed miserably!! But in my defence, there's been a lot going on over the last few months – not only the whole COVID-19 issues but I left my job as well, so it's been a bit crazy! However, I didn't want to miss out on a round up as I've had some fabulous interviews and have read some brilliant books, so I've combined March and April!
Hopefully if you've missed anything, you can catch up here……..So in February and March we had 15 Meet the Author interviews, 16 reviews, 3 cover reveals and 6 promo's!! That's crazy! So without further ado, lets get into it…….
D Wells ~ AnneMarie Brear ~ Jackie Marchant ~ Heleen Kist ~ Helena Dixon ~ Judith Barrow ~ AA Warne ~ Michael Ross ~ Drēma Drudge ~ Mary Grand ~ Elizabeth Moore ~ Victoria J. Price ~ Vivien Brown ~ Karen King ~ Vicky Peplow
blog tours & reviews
Gloved Heart by Charlotte Brentwood ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Can she ever trust again?
Amy Miller is struggling to come to terms with her new life as a mother, while being a reluctant guest in a rigid gentry household. A victim of abuse, she is determined to never trust a man again.
Henry Russell has loved Amy for as long as he can remember, but his family want nothing to do with her. A chance encounter with Amy rekindles a friendship which might save both of them.
The discovery of a secret which holds the key to Amy's past will change them forever, and jeopardise any chance they have for happiness. Can Henry show Amy that true love will give her everything she could ever need?
Where Would You Fly & Other Magical Stories by Lillian Darnell ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Welcome to the radiant imagination of Lillian Darnell, a wonderful and unique human being, the kind who comes around only once in every 56,000 births, as she is missing the short arm of her 18th chromosome.
Leave this reality behind and enter enchanted lands awash in mysteries, happy endings, adventures, and inspiration. Come within and discover heartwarming and beautiful tales, woven with love and magic, brought forth from the imagination of a young woman with a different perspective. Lose yourself in wondrous adventures as you follow courageous, enchanting characters, kind animals and plant life, and graceful Mother Nature.
For Love of the Brave by Angelica Hart ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
In a savage world, only the brave can save her…
Harriet Palmer has lost all. Captured by evil men in the dead of night, her family murdered before her eyes, she has become little more than a slave.
But when she manages to escape, she runs as though her life depends on it – for indeed it does. Pursued by the same men who have kept her hostage, wounded and near to death, she encounters a man who will teach her what it is to trust, to learn, to love. At first she sees him only as a savage, a man who lives in the wild and is more than a little wild himself. But soon Harriet learns how much more he is.
Mohe is a Cherokee. A man who has lived among the forests and open spaces of his people, but who also knows the world of the white man. When he finds Harriet wounded, he knows nothing of her – only that she is hurt, and that he must protect her from whatever evils have come into her life. As he nurses her to health, though, he comes to know Harriet. To love her strength. To love her kindness.
To love her.
But the men who came for Harriet once are still on her trail. Led by a man who knows only hatred and blood lust, they will never stop until they find her. Until they take her back, and kill any who dare to help her.
Can Harriet escape them long enough to find help? Can her protector stand against the men who follow her?
Harriet does not know. But she knows that, for any chance at life and love, she must trust herself only to the brave…
Dead Wrong by Noelle Holten ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The serial killer is behind bars. But the murders are just beginning…
DC Maggie Jamieson's past comes back to haunt her in this dark and gripping serial killer thriller.
Three missing women running out of time…
They were abducted years ago. Notorious serial killer Bill Raven admitted to killing them and was sentenced to life.
The case was closed – at least DC Maggie Jamieson thought it was…
But now one of them has been found, dismembered and dumped in a bin bag in town.
Forensics reveal that she died just two days ago, when Raven was behind bars, so Maggie has a second killer to find.
Because even if the other missing women are still alive, one thing's for certain: they don't have long left to live…
Tour hosted by Book On The Bright Side
The Unreliable Death of Lady Grange by Sue Lawrence ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Edinburgh, January 1732: It's Lady Grange's funeral. Her death is a shock: still young, she'd shown no signs of ill health. But Rachel is, in fact, alive. She's been brutally kidnapped by the man who has falsified her death – her husband of 25 years, a pillar of society with whom she has raised a family. Her punishment, perhaps, for railing against his infidelity – or for uncovering evidence of his treasonable plottings against the government. Whether to conceal his Jacobite leanings, or simply to `replace' a wife with a long-time mistress, Lord Grange banishes Rachel to the remote Hebridean Monach Isles, until she's removed again to distant St Kilda, far into the Atlantic – to an isolated life of primitive conditions, with no shared language – somewhere she can never be found. This is the incredible and gripping story of a woman who has until now been remembered mostly by her husband's unflattering account. Sue Lawrence reconstructs a remarkable tale of how the real Lady Grange may have coped with such a dramatic fate, with courage and grace.
Tour hosted by Love Books Group Tours
The Necromancer's Prison (Bluewater Grove Series Book 1) by Alec Whitesell & Craig Bonacorsi ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
She wanted to find her place in the universe. She never imagined it might not be on Earth.
When Emily Murphy over slept the morning of her college entrance exam, she thought missing her test was the worst thing that could happen. She never expected she would wind up lost halfway across the galaxy, battling aliens with laser guns and mages hurling lightning.
Like most seventeen year olds, Emily's main concern had been navigating the perils of high school, not surviving shootouts and sorcery. That changed when her school was attacked and a student was kidnapped. While everyone else smartly fled from danger, she recklessly ran toward it mounting an impossible rescue that would lead her on a journey unlike anything she could have imagined.
Dropped into a strange world teeming with merciless criminals and ruthless aristocrats, surrounded by violence and betrayal, Emily must untangle a web of intrigue and deceit to solve the mystery behind the abduction, save her classmate, and discover the destiny which awaits her.
It is either that, or die trying…
The Betrayal of Ka (The Transprophetics Book 1) by Shea Oliver ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
As the spaceship secretly lands on Earth, Ka's mission is clear: find and kill Transprophetics. His shipmates think of him as a killer. On his home planet of Koranth, he is considered a murderer. Haunted in his dreams by the boy whose life he stole, Ka struggles to define who he really is.
A girl in a temple in Thailand. A boy kidnapped in Mexico. Both can do the impossible. Both can move objects with their minds. These two Transprophetics pose grave risks to the Donovackia Corporation as it plans its invasion of Earth.
With a blade in his hand, Ka's decision to kill, or not, will reverberate across the galaxy.
A Cruel Deception by Kim Booth ⭐⭐⭐/⭐
For Joan and Ted Warner, an innocent and trusting couple, a chance encounter with Barbara Hendry, a cunning con-woman who turned their settled lives into a living nightmare
The Warners were not victims of a remote scam, carried out over the internet by fraudsters from afar. For six years, faking a friendship face-to-face, this plausible woman carried off the impersonation of a member of the nobility fallen on hard times, manipulating the emotions of her victims, deceitfully draining them of every penny they had set aside for their retirement, and plunging them into debt.
Hendrys intention was to slip away, having sucked the Warners dry of all their hard-earned savings. But for some dogged investigative work by a determined detective she would have succeeded- and remained free to prey on other vulnerable victims.
Follow this journey of fraud and depravity in the company of the one man who knows the full story – the British detective who cracked the case and brought Barbara Hendry to justice.
Seacity Rising: A Tale of Unwatery Adventures by Elika Ansari ⭐⭐⭐⭐
When the underwater animals of Seacity pond learn that their home is in danger, they decide to investigate further by doing something no one has ever done before – go up to land to seek the answers they need. An unlikely team of two royal turtles, a genius goldfish and a timorous frog are then assembled to embark on a series of adventures. Whether they are racing the fastest tortoise on earth, falling in love with travelling mice theatre, or bringing peace to warring ant colonies, each unique experience is taking the group of friends closer to the heart of what is really going on. But will they make it back in time to save Seacity before the Winter's Slumber?
KA・E・RO・U: Time to Go Home by B. Jeanne Shibahara ⭐⭐⭐⭐
A whisk-you-away, thought-provoking novel. Desert-dweller Meryl travels to Japan, returns a WWII flag, and brings home an understanding of life that opens her heart for the unexpected.
"In Japan…everywhere…red strings tie all people we meet together. Some strings are weak. Some have tangles. Some strong."
Meryl—Vietnam War widow—misses her grown son, feels left out after her father's recent marriage. A WWII Japanese flag falls into her hands. The gentle push of a love-struck professor starts her adventure—take the flag home. From the neon of Osaka, to the ancient capital Nara, to the forests of Akita, the trail follows British and US expats, a newspaper reporter, factory manager, ikebana teacher, a Matagi hunter and winds through Japanese culture, past and present. A story of shared humanity and love "in the simplest things."
A Train from Penzance to Paris by Laura Briggs ⭐⭐⭐⭐
When Maisie accepts a celebrated author's invitation to mentor her, she finds herself leaving Cornwall behind on train tracks bound for the glitter city of Paris. Instead of making beds and serving coffee at the Penmarrow hotel in Cornwall, she's making notes on her manuscript while sitting in a French cafe, meeting famous writers at private dinner parties, and trying to ferret the secrets behind the author's unfinished future novel. It's glamorous, it's breathtaking … but it's also an ocean channel away from the place that she loves, and, more importantly, the person to whom she just recently confessed her deepest feelings. Separated from Sidney by distance and circumstances, Maisie fears that their connection will be lost despite her words to him – and maybe because of those words, and the ones she didn't allow him to say in return.
Meanwhile, there are plenty of things in her new life trying to distract her – the professional editor hired to critique her novel, the eager young literary agent who sees pie-in-the-sky potential for Maisie's talent, but Maisie finds solace in the eclectic group of amateur writers into whose midst she finds herself by accident. Their critique and advice is fast becoming as important as the editors – maybe even more important than the published author Maisie believed held the keys to refining her skill.
But it's missing Sidney that fills Maisie's thoughts the most, along with her life back in Port Hewer, and she can't stop wondering whether his feelings are the same as her own. His unspoken answer has become one of the most important pieces of her life, even as she struggles to match the pace of her new life and keep her dreams in sight. And when she unwittingly becomes privy to a seeming literary conspiracy, she must decide what to do in light of its truth – and decide what's most important in her quest to become a professional writer.
Tour hosted by Rachel's Random Resources
The Contract by D E McCluskey & C William Giles ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
There's a killer on the loose
Three Gruesome Murders.
A shooting, a garroting, a drowning… all in different states with no connections between the victims.
But, as the victims are identified, it appears they are not model citizens. Add to that, the fact that a calling card has been left at every scene…
A single white feather!
But no ordinary white feather.
It becomes apparent that there is a serial killer on the loose.
As the body count rises, FBI Agents Cox and Symes are plunged into a cat and mouse chase across the USA and beyond, to find the elusive, brutal killer. All they have to go on is the description of a thin, white male with a blond beard, and the trail of strange white feathers.
But just like his signature, there is nothing ordinary about this killer.
Judge, Jury, Executioner…
This contract must be fulfilled
The Lost Children by Theresa Talbot ⭐⭐⭐⭐
First in a gripping new thriller series featuring investigative journalist Oonagh O'Neil. Perfect for fans of Susie Steiner, Patricia Gibney and Broadchurch.
Investigative journalist Oonagh O'Neil's instincts tell her when a story is worth pursuing. And the death of an elderly priest on the altar of his Glasgow church, just as she is about to expose the shocking truth behind the closure of an infamous Magdalene Institution, tells her a sinister cover up is in play.
DI Alec Davies is appointed to investigate the priest's death. He and Oonagh go way back. But now they're united in uncovering not only what happened to the lost babies secretly born in the Institution, but what happened to the young women that survived by vowing loyalty to one another… forever.
The doors of the Magdalene laundries hid the most harrowing secrets from the world – secrets Oonagh is determined to reveal, whatever the price…
That Night in Paris by Sandy Barker ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Note to self: don't sleep with your flatmate after a curry and three bottles of wine… especially if he's secretly in love with you and wants you to meet his mum.
Cat Parsons is on the run. She doesn't do relationships. After ten years of singlehood even the hint of the 'L' word is enough to get Cat packing her bags and booking herself onto a two-week holiday.
A European bus tour feels like a stroke of genius to dodge awkward conversations at home. But little does Cat realise that the first stop will be Paris, the city of love itself.
Joined by new friends, Cat has got two weeks, eight countries and a hell of a lot of wine ahead of her. As they discover hidden treasures and the camaraderie of life on the road, will Cat find a new way of looking at love?
Chasing Moonbeams in Merriment Bay by Emily Harvale ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Cat has found true happiness in Merriment Bay. Will a discovery in Devon Villa change that?
Cat Devon is finally with the love of her life – and she couldn't be happier about that. But discovering the identity of her real dad and the fact she has two half-brothers was a shock. Getting to know her new family is now a priority.
Kyra Devon is only eighteen, but she's more mature than her mum in many ways and is coping far better with everything that's happened. Kyra knows what she wants and unlike Cat, she's not going to let opportunities slip away.
Mary Devon has regained her daughter and her granddaughter, but she's grieving for her mother, and also for the loss of the love she thought she'd found. Putting on a brave face may not be the best way for Mary to get over it.
When a long-lost painting called Moonbeams Kiss is discovered in a hidden cellar beneath the floorboards in Devon Villa, a story of love, loss and treachery unfolds, bringing with it repercussions for each of the Devon women.
Hackney Central by Michael K Foster ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Gripped by gang wars, London's East End is plunged into an endless reign of terror. . .
Walk these streets at your peril!
When newly appointed Detective Sergeant Jack Mason steps through the doors of Hackney Central Police Station, he is tasked with his biggest nightmare. A pensioner lies dead, his flat has been ransacked, and no one is willing to talk.
But why pick on a vulnerable old man?
No stranger to London's East End, Mason is under no illusion that the chance of finding the killer is slim. Gripped by notorious drug gangs, knife crime runs rife, and nowhere appears safe.
With time rapidly running out, it soon becomes clear that he's dealing with a version of justice terrifyingly different to his own. . .
Halo by Olga Gibbs
Death in Vermilion by Barbara Elle
Cloth of Grace by Rachel J Bonner
Game Changer by Lasairiona E. McMaster
A Question of Country by Sue Parritt
One Last Shot by Stephen Anthony Brotherton
Daylight's Deadly Kiss by Jay Raven
How Do You Kill 11 Million People? by Andy Andrews
As always I want to say a huge, huge thank you to all the wonderful blog tour organisers that have invited me on to the their tours – I know they have a challenging and tough job!!
Thank you to all the authors and publishers for providing me with a copy of their books, whether that be paperback or via kindle, I really appreciate it.
Thank you to all the authors that have taken part in my Meet the Author feature – I'm so glad to have it back and love reading each and everyone one!
And finally, thank you to all of you out there who actually read my blog and reviews! I really appreciate it, and if you have any suggestions on things you would like to see (new features?), any improvement to reviews or ANYTHING, then please either drop me a comment below, or pop me an email.
Have a wonderful evening everyone
Chelle x
Posted in Monthly Round UpsTagged 2020, A. A. Warne, Alec whitesell, Angelica Hart, AnneMarie Brear, April, B. Jeanne Shibahara, Book on the Bright Side, C. William Giles, Charlotte Brentwood, Craig bonacorsi, D Wells, Dave McCluskey, Drēma Drudge, Elika Ansari, Elizabeth Moore, Emily Harvale, Heleen Kist, Helena Dixon, Jackie Marchant, Judith Barrow, Karen King, Kim Booth, Laura Briggs, Lillian Darnell, Love Books Group, March, March & April 2020, Mary Grand, Michael K Foster, Michael Ross, Monthly Round Up, Noelle Holten, Rachel's Random Resources, Sandy Barker, Shea Oliver, Sue Lawrence, Theresa Talbot, Vicky Peplow, Victoria J. Price, Vivien Brown3 Comments on Monthly Round Up: March & April 2020
Blog Tour & Review: A Cornish Escape by Jenny Kane
Blog Tour & Review: A Shop Girl at Sea by Rachel Brimble
3 Replies to "Monthly Round Up: March & April 2020"
Lu Reviews Books says:
You had a busy month 😉. Great reviews! Thanks for sharing 💕
Curled Up With A Good Book says:
Thanks lovely xx
ShootingStarsMag says:
Looks like a couple of awesome months! That's great you really enjoyed most of what you read. Thanks for sharing.
View Curlupwithbooks's profile on Twitter
View curled_up_with_a_good_book's profile on Instagram
2020 Goodreads Challenge
Michelle has read 9 books toward her goal of 100 books.
Michelle has read 12 books toward her goal of 100 books.
Follow Curled up with a good book on WordPress.com
© 2021 Curled up with a good book


Get complete assistance for varied bbPress based CMS/Blog solutions.
Our professionals work in perfect synch & coordination to fulfill exact specifications of our valued customers.BBpress is powerful forum software that has been initiated from the inventors of Wordpress. To grab maximum benefits of BBpress Forum in an efficient manner, hiring specialized resources become mandatory.
Hire bbPress developer for 5 days in only $399 USD & try them on your pilot project.
OurBBpress experts reveal their talent by creating appealing BBpress based forum solutions that perfectly compliment to Wordpress. By utilizing the enormous expertise in the respective technology of BBpress platform, our proficient developers are able to meet the unique business requirements of our clients.
Our proficient professionals work with the formula of quality coding and delivering effective and powerful outcomes. While using this platform, our team keeps in mind step-by-step instructions to cater satisfactory results to our esteemed customers.
Our efficient team of in-housebbPress developers has an outstanding track record for developing & deploying successful outcomes. When you outsource to our dedicated developers or team, we assure complete reliability for quality benchmarks.
We are one of the distinguished organizations engaged in rendering dedicated hiring solutions assisted by our proficient team of bbPress developers.


I recently digitized my vinyl copy of Barrington Levy's Poorman Style album and I have been enjoying it tremendously. The combination of the Roots Radics band, Barrington, and Scientist is so sweet and heavy. The tempos are slow, the basslines are irresistible, and Barrington Levy's delivery is so direct and earnest that it doesn't even matter what the lyrics are. And as if that wasn't enough, one of my favorite dub specialists, Scientist, peppers the whole affair with subtle dubwise interventions throughout. For those who are familiar with Barrington Levy, there are plenty of whoa-yoii-yeeeaaa's but not so many woodly-oodly's in this session.
Barrington Levy over the Roots Radics sound, mixed by Scientist. So good. Some damn fine guitar work, too.


For tax preparation in Westminster CO, you can count on Darlene J. Buss, EA at D J Buss & Associates LLC. Darlene J. Buss, EA assists taxpayers and small businesses with taxes in Westminster CO and the surrounding communities. Whether you are an individual or a local business in or around Westminster CO, Darlene J. Buss, EA has years of valuable experience as an IRS registered tax preparer. Contact Darlene J. Buss, EA, tax filing specialist in Westminster CO, for help with your taxes.
Darlene J. Buss, EA is a local tax preparer at D J Buss & Associates LLC located in Westminster CO. Darlene J. Buss, EA and other tax preparers located in Westminster CO will help you with tax preparation, tax planning, bookkeeping, estate and trust taxes, and so much more.
Are you Darlene J. Buss, EA, a tax preparer from Westminster CO?


geeeeeeeeez, tho I've been a slight good boy too I'll admit! Does save alot on the wallet I gotta say!
Lool Didn't Know About That. And Yeah, I Know About Grimmjow. At Least His Cab Matches Hit Teeth. Btw, Selling Botox Isn't Considered Drug Trafficking.
» Justice League Unlimited now with Pics and some randoms.


The El Dorado County Board of Education called a special meeting Saturday to discuss its legal exposure because of Meyer's alleged drunken driving cases, but no other action was taken. Because Meyers is an elected official, the board has no power to remove him unless he is convicted of a felony, is recalled from office, is mentally or physically unable to carry out his duties or moves out of the jurisdiction, according to the state Government Code.
The superintendent had been at work prior to the crash, according to county officials. But it is unclear whether Meyers was on the clock when the accident happened.
Meyers was appointed superintendent of the El Dorado County Office of Education in 2013 to complete the term of Vicki Barber, who retired. He was unopposed in the 2014 election and won a four-year term. He currently draws a $196,837 annual salary and $9,320 in medical, dental, vision and life insurance benefits, according to the Office of Education.
The county Office of Education does not provide Meyers a car but pays him a $7,600 annual travel and expense allowance. "The travel and expense allowance is deemed to be reimbursement for mileage and expenditures incurred during the course of employment," Gentry said in an email.
Meyers was released from jail on $17,500 bond at 4 p.m. Thursday, according to the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office. He faces four misdemeanor charges, according to the CHP: driving under the influence of alcohol; driving with a blood alcohol content of at least 0.08 percent; driving with a blood alcohol content of at least 0.15 percent; and violation of court-ordered probation.
Meyers was cited for driving under the influence in the June incident and convicted in August. He received a five-day alternative sentence, which he served as house arrest, and paid a fine.