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Column: Straw's stunning shift to shortstop with the Astros
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You can't compare Myles Straw, the Houston Astros rookie out of St. Johns River State College, to middle infielders like Edwin Correa or 2017 American League MVP Jose Altuve or to outfielders like All-Star George Springer.
But then, you can't compare them to Straw.
"Last week, he started one day in left field, the next day in center, the next day in right and the next day at shortstop," said Ross Jones, Straw's coach in 2014-15 at SJR State. "Those guys aren't able to do what Myles can do. Myles can go here and here and here and here."
Straw entered the Astros' game at shortstop in the 10th inning of a 14-inning marathon Tuesday night in Seattle. He had a 3-for-3 game last week against Oakland, scoring three runs and stealing three bases – joining Altuve and Hall of Famer Craig Biggio among only five Astros to do so. He's batting .250 in his first full season in the majors – and the first time he's ever played shortstop.
Straw walked on to SJR State as an outfielder from Bradenton's Braden River High School in the fall of 2013. He quickly earned the center field and leadoff positions and in the process, a scholarship. He started on two Mid-Florida Conference championship teams, batting .413 as a sophomore before the Astros selected him in the 12th round of the 2015 draft.
The Vikings gave Straw a look as a potential emergency second baseman but were well set at shortstop with Shawn Sanders and Kyle Hann, the latter a future Oklahoma State signee.
"We tinkered with him playing at second base, but never at shortstop. We had so much depth at the time," Jones said. "It was a question of what would we do if we got into the 16th inning and needed a second baseman. It was never about taking him out of center field."
Straw's rapid rise through the Astros system led them to find a way to keep him with the big club, so after bringing him up as an outfielder in September 2018 – he played in the American League Championship Series – Straw began to get offseason work at short. He started at shortstop for the first time in his life April 6 with the Astros' AAA Pacific Coast League club in Round Rock, Texas.
"Not many guys go from outfield to shortstop in the major leagues," Jones said. But Straw has.
A year after the Astros drafted Straw, the San Diego Padres took University of Florida center fielder Buddy Reed, who at 6-foot-4 towers over the smallish Straw, in the second round. He's still not in the bigs and Jones, a onetime UF assistant, can't resist drawing comparisons.
"I told every scout that if Myles Straw had 'Gators' across his chest, he'd be starting ahead of Buddy Reed. Instead, he had 'Vikings' across his chest and was taken in the 12th round or whatever," Jones said.
Jones and Straw have spoken only a couple of times since the Astros brought him up from Round Rock, but they text frequently.
"He's loving it. He's in the big leagues," Jones said. "Myles had a great experience here. The weekend before he went to spring training he and Nate Lowe came here to work out with the guys and watch them play. Myles appreciates everything he has ever gotten. He drove four and a half hours to be here. Our guys aren't five-star prospects out of high school. You give them a T-shirt and they hug you."
n A slugging first baseman and the 2015 state player of the year, Lowe went to Mississippi State before he was drafted by the Tampa Bay Rays, who have had him in the majors a couple of times this year. He's with the AAA Durham Bulls now and will probably stay with them until major league rosters expand in September. Were the Rays to bring him up a third time and send him back down, Jones said, Lowe would have to clear waivers.
"That means anybody can take him. He wouldn't last three minutes. The Rays will not do that," Jones said.
Three other ex-Vikings have signed with the clubs that drafted them last week – reliever Zach Greene as an eighth-round pick of the New York Yankees, outfielder Kerry Carpenter as a 19th-round pick of the Detroit Tigers and third baseman Josh Broughton as a 25th-round pick of the Kansas City Royals. Greene and Broughton had completed their college careers at South Alabama and Valdosta State, respectively, and the Tigers were able to entice Carpenter out of the year's eligibility he had remaining at Virginia Tech.
Greene, who struck out 70 and walked only eight en route to a school-record 13 saves this season at South Alabama, was recently named to the Collegiate Baseball Writers of America's All-America second team.
Andy Hall is sports editor of the Palatka Daily News.
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Expat pilot and paraglider killed in accident
An American pilot for Cargolux and accomplished paraglider has died in a tragic accident in France, it has been confirmed.
Gregory Knudson, 55, who lived in Luxembourg and was originally from California, worked as a pilot (captain) flying Boeing 747s for Cargolux.
An adventurer and passionate paraglider in his free time, Mr Knudson flew around the world and was part of an elite group of pilots and paragliders.
The father-of-two competed for Luxembourg in the 2011 paragliding world championships in Spain before abandoning the contest for a world speed record, which he proudly set in Kenya in 2013 and then beat the following year in Namibia.
American channel ABC News filmed a special report with Mr Knudson for which he proudly wore the Luxembourg flag on his clothing.
The pilot was found dead on Tuesday afternoon in Markstein, in the Vosges. The accident occurred shortly after the take-off in circumstances which his colleagues are still coming to terms with.
Mr Knudson was well known within the world of paragliding, where he will be fondly remembered. He leaves two young sons and a wife.
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Грузия и вторжение России на Украину — реакция и действия властей и гражданского общества Грузии на вторжение России на Украину, начавшееся 24 февраля 2022 года.

Власти
Власти Грузии изначально заняли проукраинскую позицию по отношению к вторжению России на Украину. Так, 24 февраля 2022 года премьер-министр Грузии Ираклий Гарибашвили заявил, что политика России по отношению к Украине является «вопиющим нарушением международного порядка». Также он призвал международное сообщество принять все меры во избежание дальнейшей эскалации военного конфликта.

Президент Грузии Саломе Зурабишвили также поддержала украинскую сторону и призвала Россию прекратить войну.

Гражданское общество
Большая часть населения Грузии также заняла проукраинскую позицию. 24 февраля 2022 года в крупнейших городах страны (Батуми, Кутаиси, Зугдиди, Поти и Тбилиси) прошли акции и выступления в поддержку Украины. Сотни людей вышли на улицы с украинскими флагами, украинским гимном, плакатами и призывами к прекращению боевых действий.

1 марта в Тбилиси прошел большой митинг с требованием отставки правительства Грузии и проведения досрочных выборов. После того, как Владимир Зеленский объявил, что Украина отзывает своего посла в Грузии из-за «аморальной позиции» правительства в отношении санкций и запрета грузинским добровольцам летать на Украину, произошла акция протеста в знак солидарности с украинским президентом.

Участники митинга в столице провели шествие до парламента Грузии, а затем выстроились в живую цепь до площади Свободы, перекрыв автомобильное движение.

Обвинения в помощи России
В апреле 2022 года Грузия, несмотря на проукраинскую позицию, отказалась присоединятся к экономическим санкциям против России. Премьер-министр Грузии Ираклий Гарибашвили заявил, что решение было принято исходя из интересов страны и народа, при этом выступив за необходимость скорейшего прекращения российской «военной операции» на Украине. Также, глава грузинского правительства не поддержал участие грузинских добровольцев в военных действиях на украинской стороне.

После отказа грузинской стороны вводить санкции, страну начали обвинять в помощи России. Так, Президент Украины Владимир Зеленский 31 марта 2022 года отозвал посла Украины из Грузии. Он заявил, что «посол работал только, чтобы оставаться на должности», и вообще — «он потерял время на дипломатическом фронте».

1 апреля Президент Грузии Саломе Зурабишвили заявила, что её страна поддерживает экономические санкции против России и все международные резолюции по поддержке Украине в войне.

5 апреля руководитель пресс-службы госдепартамента США Нед Прайс заявил, что он не может подтвердить или прокомментировать данные о том, что Грузия помогает России обходить санкции Запада, введённые в результате российского вторжения на Украину в феврале 2022 года.

Гуманитарная помощь Украине
26 февраля 2022 года власти Грузии заявили о том, что их страна окажет Украине гуманитарную помощь в виде 1 миллиона лари ($320 тыс или ₽26 млн), на которые, по их словам, будет закуплена фармацевтическая продукция и предметы медицинского назначения.

2 марта грузинские власти заявили, что окажут следующие меры поддержки украинской стороне: будут помогать приехавшим в Грузию гражданам Украины, запустят горячую линию 24/7 для украинских туристов; «Почта Грузии» будет бесплатно отправлять гуманитарные посылки на Украину, а тбилисская телебашня и стадион в Батуми были подсвечены цветами государственного флага Украины. У президентского дворца, наряду с грузинскими, были вывешены и украинские флаги.

Президент Грузии Саломе Зурабишвили написала на своей странице в Facebook:

Поддержка президента Грузии выражается не в флагах, а в его чётких заявлениях! Сегодня его присутствие в Париже и Брюсселе служит именно этой цели.

19 марта временный поверенный в делах Украины в Грузии Андрей Касьянов заявил на брифинге, что до 580 тонн грузинской гуманитарии отправлено на Украину 2 самолётами и 22 фурами. Также он добавил, что средства, поступающие на специальные счета посольства в Тбилиси, полностью расходуются на нужды вооружённых сил Украины. По его словам, на эти деньги в Грузии, Турции и Польше они закупают предметы быта, лекарства и специальные аптечные наборы.

11 апреля премьер-министр Грузии Ираклий Гарибашвили заявил, что его страна не будет оказывать военную помощь Украине.

Участие во вторжении военнослужащих из Абхазии и Южной Осетии

В 2017 году, по соглашению между частично признанной Южной Осетией и Россией, часть подразделений Вооружённых сил Южной Осетии вошла непосредственно в состав российской армии.  Первые группы южноосетинских военнослужащих из состава 4-й военной базы ВС РФ были отправлены в Украину в марте 2022 года. Данное решение было официально поддержано руководством Южной Осетии и лично её президентом Анатолием Бибиловым. По данным Генерального штаба Вооружённых сил Украины от 4-й военной базы в Украину было отправлено 3 батальонно-тактических группы общей численностью в 1200 российских и осетинских военнослужащих. Также южные осетины привлекались к формированию резервных батальйонов, включая батальон «Алания», которые были задействованы на донецком и запорожском направлениях.

Уже в конце марта 2022 года в Южную Осетию вернулось около 300 солдат, дезертировавших в Украине. Они жаловались на катастрофические условия, в которых им пришлось воевать, включая ошибочные тактические решения, плохо налаженную систему логистики и неисправное оружие. Предпринятая на фоне этого попытка властей Южной Остетии объявить референдум о вхождении в состав России обернулась провалом. Отправка солдат в Украину вызвала критику со стороны населения, что стало одной из причин поражения Бибилова на президентских выборах в  2022 году.

В частично признанной Республике Абхазия, где, формально, абхазская армия не входит в российские вооруженные силы, ситуация была иной. Вооружённые силы Республики Абхазия официально не были отправлены в Украину, однако в боевых действиях принимали абхазские «добрововльцы» в составе подазделения «Пятнашка» под командованием Ахры Авидзбы. Данное формирование действовало на территории Донецкой области с самого начала российско-украинской войны, его состав постоянно ротировался. В то же время имеются свидетельства о том, что в Украине действовали и официальные абхазские силы — в пропагандистском видео, опубликованном осенью 2022 года, были показаны двое бойцов в балаклавах, которые утверждали, что входят в состав «спецназа Службы государственной безопасности Абхазии под Авдеевкой».

См. также

 Грузино-украинские отношения
 Молдавия и вторжение России на Украину
 Протесты в Грузии (2023)

Примечания

Внешняя политика Грузии
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With bounties on their heads and evidence of a conspiracy that goes all the way to the top of the Pact Worlds government, the heroes travel to Absalom Station to clear their names and root out the duplicitous agents. But time is of the essence, as the suspects are on the verge of being elected onto the powerful Pact Council. With the operatives unmasked, the heroes have their final chance to come face-to-face with the puppet master behind all their troubles and the architect of the vast conspiracy that threatens the entire system!
"Puppets Without Strings" is a Starfinder Roleplaying Game adventure for four 11th-level characters. This adventure concludes the Threefold Conspiracy Adventure Path, a six-part, monthly campaign in which the players unravel the machinations of insidious aliens who have infiltrated galactic society. This volume also includes advice on how to keep your campaign going past the final encounter, a look at magical training academies across the galaxy, and a selection of new and inexplicable monsters.
Each monthly full-color softcover Starfinder Adventure Path volume contains a new installment of a series of interconnected science-fantasy quests that together create a fully developed plot of sweeping scale and epic challenges. Each 64-page volume of the Starfinder Adventure Path also contains in-depth articles that detail and expand the Starfinder campaign setting and provide new rules, a host of exciting new monsters and alien races, a new planet to explore and starship to pilot, and more!
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That's all it takes to undo hours and hours of painstaking yard work. Just one deer can wreak havoc on a beautiful garden. Those vegetables? Flowers? Uprooted. Well-raked planters? Trampled.
Fortunately, there are several low-impact ways to deter and repel deer. You don't have to resort to poison or nasty chemical solutions from companies like Dow or ConAgra. You can use tried-and-true, centuries-old methods that won't brutalize your soil or biome.
This pro/con chart can help you decide which tried-and-true method is best for your deer repellent needs.
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Mix all the ingredients in a blender with water. Add enough to make the solution sprayable. Go easy on water at first—you can always add more later, but you can't take any out.
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Reapply the solution every 6-10 days and immediately after rainfall or windstorms.
Deer dislike the smell of soap. Dish soap can work as effectively as the blended repellant described above, and it will not disgust you every time you step into the garden.
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Reapply the soap every 6-10 days or immediately after rain or a windstorm.
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Dig holes for and set up fence posts that are approximately 4 feet tall and space them about 4 feet apart.
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Rip the music on the old CD onto your computer if you haven't already. The CD isn't going to work after this.
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Hang the CD from branches, awnings, or fence posts near the affected area.
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A garden-variety wind chime could actually be enough to deter a deer. Try hanging a chime farther away from your house. Install it near or above the garden bed. The wind-swept chimes might make deer nervous enough to keep them away from your garden.
You can also make your own DIY rattlers that could scare away deer—fill up an old metal or plastic container with dried beans and hang it above the affected area.
The scent of some plants is more than enough to ward off deer. As with soap or the stinky solution above, deer just can't abide the smell of the following plants. It's like trying to eat dinner with rotting vegetables in the same room.
Tall grasses, ferns, and plants with thick/furry/sticky leaves, like lamb's ear, are also anathema to deer. Deer will struggle to digest any of those plants, and their foliage is unpleasant for them to walk through.
As a permaculturally-inclined gardener, you don't want to harm your deer neighbors—but you sure would like them to go the heck away. With these methods, you'll get both outcomes, and both you and the deer around your homestead will be happy.


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A little girl has been fighting to stay alive after she was accidentally killed by her mother's car while on a holiday trip in Scotland.
The accident happened in June 2016 while the little girl was on a road trip in the Highlands of Scotland.
A coroner's report stated that the child was found in a ditch with a number of serious injuries and her mother had left her with a broken neck.
The little girl, named Kade, was rushed to a local hospital, where she later died.
Kade's mother, Linda, was also arrested for the manslaughter of the little boy and has since pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
The coroner's decision is likely to lead to more investigations into what caused Kade's death and what could have been done to prevent the accident.
The video is one of a number that have gone viral on social media.
It shows the little girls car travelling along a road and colliding with a car that is stopped at the side of the road.
The car then swerves, hitting the child, who then falls over the vehicle and dies.
The mother is now facing court after pleading guilty to the manslaughter charge.
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We can not mention the very first redesign yet, however, Hybrid and also STI versions deserve a reference. The 2020 Subaru Forester is likely to rollover drivetrains that will change the old ones in 2019. Overall, the 2020 year variation is not likely to alter the brand-new generation version. We prefer to mention an upgrade.
For the brand-new Forester, the engine benefits 182 equines as well as 176 lb-ft of torque. The very same engine created power for the previous version. Nevertheless, the brand-new system included 12 horses as well as 2 pound-feet of torque. Besides the Boxer engine, there are additionally straight shot as well as AVCS function for exhaust. The drivetrain features a greater compression proportion and also a brand-new transmission.
More modifications on the 2020 Subaru Forester are not much less remarkable. Well, the crossover SUV is going down the turbo engine. Followers of the Forester XT design are not likely to like it. The old 2.0-liter engine remains in guides permanently. Yet, Subaru planned for the substitute. It is a 2.5-liter typical Boxer device, which will be particularly tuned for the Sporting activity trim degree. This design is likely to be a substitute for Forester Turbo.
The Subaru Motor Company went down a hands-on transmission. So, just a Lineartronic CVT situation is readily available throughout the whole schedule. There are 7 pieces of equipment as well as paddle shifters on the Sporting activity version. Vehicle drivers will have a choice to choose different trip settings many thanks to the Smart SI-Drive function. Ultimately, there is Vision support modern technology. This is unable to combine the hands-on transmission, so the sensible action was to terminate the old transmission.
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by Luckless Pedestrian on Thu Nov 03, 2011 2:28 pm
There are some stupid band names out there - and some band names that are so bad they're actually great. What are the stupidest / most brilliant band names you've heard?
Here's one for starters. They were around in the '90s and I've never heard a note of music by them: Raging Speedhorn.
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by Davie on Thu Nov 03, 2011 3:46 pm
Yes that's what I said. Hugh not Lou.
Unless Lou Reed is now singing "Take a Walk on the Clydeside"
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by Adam D on Thu Nov 03, 2011 3:50 pm
Fair play - I misread your post.
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Have you heard them? Best bit is the song titles.
Funkadelic isn't a great band name. But they were a great band nonetheless.
Granted their earlier Noisecore stuff was rubbish but they got there in the end
RIP Seth Putnam
by Cari on Thu Nov 03, 2011 4:16 pm
Just poor band names (in my opinion):
Tompaulin (sic)
Staind (sic)
Alien Ant Farm
Pretty Girls Make Graves
The Twang (they should've dropped "The")
The Goo Goo Dolls
Chumbawamba
Mushroomhead
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Alien Ant Farm were gash. Gash.
Cari wrote: Just poor band names (in my opinion):
I like that name and band!
Each to their own Hobo. Poor name doesn't necessarily mean poor music - as we've seen already. I think some bands let themselves down with a rubbish name actually.
I can never decide if Red Hot Chili Peppers is a good name or not
I quite like that Demon.
Three things make a bad band name:
1. Pointless misspelling of words - classic example - substituting an S with a Z.
2. Using meaningless initials like EYC, EMF etc which aren't familiar to the general public - are you just being lazy or deliberately vague?
3. Using words that elsewhere are fine, but just sound crap for a pop/rock band e.g. Arctic Monkeys.
its all very subjective though isnt it?
For example (and picking with the two star crossed lovers in mind Mrs Electric Cari), The Smiths sounds boring. The Manic Street Preachers is unusual.
But of course there are some that are just wrong. Will.I.Am indeed.....
Cari wrote: I quite like that Demon.
I always thought it was Epsom Mother Funkers
by Glas a du on Thu Nov 03, 2011 4:54 pm
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Funny you say that Adam - I didn't listen to The Smiths for ages because they sounded crap Then they turned out to be one of my favourite bands.
Glas a du wrote: KLF
Better still, they were sometimes credited as the JAMMs!
(Justified Ancients of Mu-Mu)
Crazy name, crazy amount of talent.
To be honest, I tend to sneer at bands with "The" at the beginning.
there were some classic bands with initials:
nkotb....maybe not!
As for fave band names.
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There's an advert banner on this site for "The Phoenix Foundation"
That's a crap name.
Electric Six - now that's a name!
Mumford and Son/sons. Crap name, sounds like a furniture moving company and the music is awful tawdry MOR pish.
BALTIMORA wrote: Mumford and Son/sons. Crap name, sounds like a furniture moving company and the music is awful tawdry MOR pish.
Agreed. I hate that name and the band.
Electric Demon wrote: To be honest, I tend to sneer at bands with "The" at the beginning.
So you definitely don't like The The
Oh and I can't stand Mumford & Sons as a band name. Sounds like a frigging butchers shop!
Actually, The The is a cool name - because I assume it is itself a sneer at bands who's names start with "the". Unless of course its not. Then I need to re-assess how I feel about it.
by Luckless Pedestrian on Fri Nov 04, 2011 9:08 am
You're missing out on a hell of a lot of good bands that way - but some stinkers too, in fairness.
And you mentioned the Phoenix Foundation: they're a band from New Zealand and their last album is really good.
It's annoying when bands give themselves a name that you don't know how to pronounce (Husker Du, with the umlauts) or is just plain meaningless: I remember reading about a band called (hed)pe - that's pretentious as hell.
by Cari on Fri Nov 04, 2011 9:18 am
Lucky that's like Therapy? putting the question mark at the end of their name. Why?
Oh and I don't like The Temper Trap - silly name for a band.
Yeah, I liked that one song that the Temper Trap had but it's a rubbish name.
Anyone got any other faves?
I like these...either because they're just good to say or because a lot of thought went into it (or appears that way):
War Paint
Gorkys Zygotic Monkey
The Fratellis
Kenicke
Ned's Atomic Dustbin
Five Iron Frenzy
by dyrewolfe on Sun Nov 06, 2011 6:13 pm
Here are some names I've never liked:
Garbage (literally rubbish name but a great band!)
Sigue Sigue Sputnik
Haircut 100
Some I do like include:
Terrorvision
The Wildhearts
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by Luckless Pedestrian on Sun Nov 06, 2011 6:27 pm
I like Cheap Trick, that's a good name for a band; Def Leppard falls foul of Cari's pointless misspelling rule and Terrorvision is a lousy pun.
I think Tears for Fears is an awful name for a band.
by Cari on Sun Nov 06, 2011 6:31 pm
Some other ones I don't like:
Sneaker Pimps.
Olive - inappropriate for a band name.
Kinobe - not everyone knows how to pronounce it.
I Monster.
Chapterhouse.
Blind Mr Jones - it is the name of a band not a person...
Ver Vlads.
Oblman - not misspelt although it looks like it.
Telescopes.
Lucky - agree on Tears For Fears - I think they took it from a novel. Just goes to show what sounds good in a book, doesn't transfer well to pop stardom!
by MtotheC's Wrasslin Biatch on Sun Nov 06, 2011 7:13 pm
Wasn't there a band called Gay Dad?
(Someone might have already said it)
by Glas a du on Sun Nov 06, 2011 7:40 pm
Simon and Garfunkel. That has to be a made up name.
There was a band called Gay Dad. The NME loved them but they weren't great at all. It wasn't the first time they'd fallen in love with a band with more style than substance.
Remember 'Love your Money' by Daisy Chainsaw? Silly name for a band but quite an earworm of a song!
by Adam D on Sun Nov 06, 2011 8:18 pm
they were like Transvision Vamp from memory. All together now:
love, love, love , love all your money....
Transvision Vamp's not a bad name for a band.
by Glas a du on Sun Nov 06, 2011 10:47 pm
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - "ah-ah isn't it a lovely day? My patio's on fire..."
Super Furry Animals used to be called Ffa Coffi Pawb. Literally everybody's coffee beans, aurally Flip off to everyone.
Another Welsh band called themselves Mynediad am Ddim - Admission Free - just to urine off concert promoters.
by dyrewolfe on Mon Nov 07, 2011 1:02 am
luckless_pedestrian wrote: I like Cheap Trick, that's a good name for a band; Def Leppard falls foul of Cari's pointless misspelling rule and Terrorvision is a lousy pun.
Its not a rule of mine and I say Def Leppard is a great name...as is Motley Crue. Deaf Leopard, however, would've been an awful band name.
Also Terrorvision isn't a pun...its wordplay, which is quite different (puns are bad jokes which don't necessarily rely on mis-spelling).
by Luckless Pedestrian on Mon Nov 07, 2011 8:51 am
Okay then, Terrorvision is lousy wordplay.
I remember Melodymaker took Gorky's Zygotic Mynci to Moscow to interview them in Gorky Park. It was only on the plane home that the band admitted they'd meant 'gawky' rather than Gorky, but had misspelt it.
by Cari on Mon Nov 07, 2011 10:55 am
My favourite Welsh band names are Anhrefn (chaos), Llwybr Llaethog (Milky Way) and Tystion (Witness) - they're just better to say than the English words.
Oh and I really dislike Florence and The Machine as a band name. It's just cack.
by MtotheC's Wrasslin Biatch on Mon Nov 07, 2011 11:00 am
Do "The Machine" actually exist - or is it just Florence with a bit of a kooky name? Is it a band or a solo artist? I've never been able to tell, and couldn't tell on X Factor last night either
by Adam D on Mon Nov 07, 2011 11:12 am
Florence and the Machine (stylised as Florence + the Machine)[1] is the recording name of English musician Florence Welch and a collaboration of other artists who provide backing music for her voice. Florence and the Machine's sound has been described as a combination of various genres, including rock and soul.[2][3] The band's music received praise across the music media, especially from the BBC, before they gained mainstream success. Specifically, the BBC played a large part in their rise to prominence by promoting Florence and the Machine as part of BBC Introducing.
by President Trump on Mon Nov 07, 2011 11:25 am
Its still a pants name
by JPX on Tue Nov 08, 2011 5:07 pm
gorky's zygotic mynci
Location : Twatshire


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enormous falcon nervously talons the ground, wings mantling.
clutching an opaline falcon that has been cleverly carved into its crest.
though they occasionally flick open or shut in a jittery twitch.
Dame Dioyne Fairquillion tilts her head curiously.
Dame Dioyne Fairquillion says, "Why, how funny to see you here."
surprise to see you again, Dame Fairquillion."
it not? But a soothing one."
Volucer holds himself up proudly.
Dame Dioyne Fairquillion inclines her head politely to Volucer.
Amused, Dame Dioyne Fairquillion says, "Yes, I had been hoping to see you."
melancholy painting, but a lovely one nonetheless."
Dame Dioyne Fairquillion ponders Volucer thoughtfully, looking him up and down.
Glancing at Volucer, you say, "Volucer has a request to politely beseech of you."
Volucer clears his throat in an attempt to gain everyone's attention.
Volucer says, "I would like a doll, please."
stifled as her hand moves to politely cover her mouth.
see word travels fast in the Beacon of Harmony."
Dame Dioyne Fairquillion's eyes sparkle with amusement.
profession I have dedicated myself to."
Dame Dioyne Fairquillion waves her hand dismissively.
saw it, we were simply covetous."
falcon, as well. I have never seen a bird quite like him."
Dame Dioyne Fairquillion says, "Though, one thing does bother me, you see..."
You tilt your head curiously at Dame Dioyne Fairquillion.
Volucer tilts his head curiously.
You say, "What is that?"
Volucer looks up at Zyphora for guidance.
mysterious benefactor of sorts, if you will."
to shroud their identity. But she does no harm, does she?"
(The Canvas): You say, "Yes."
teleport to me if you wish."
here with cool austerity, hands folded politely upon an elegant walking cane.
around here. An enormous falcon nervously talons the ground, wings mantling.
paradise lute in her left hand. State Company Member Raikogen Tanestra is here.
here, surrounded by sparkling motes of light.
You curtsey gracefully before Isune.
Allyrianne kneels before Isune, swearing her allegiance to Her.
Dame Dioyne Fairquillion blinks slowly, looking positively bewildered.
Raikogen kneels before Isune, swearing his allegiance to Her.
Volucer inches bashfully over to Isune and nuzzles Her tenderly.
Stammering, Dame Dioyne Fairquillion says, "Oh, my."
pleased with what I have seen of you."
flattered that you believe such of me."
Dame Dioyne Fairquillion lowers her gaze, still curtseying low.
travels, and I have seen nothing but potential within you."
I have not met all of those gathered. How rude of me."
Dame Dioyne Fairquillion curtseys gracefully before Raikogen.
Raikogen bows respectfully to Dame Dioyne Fairquillion.
with her talents in a way that she seems to not be."
distressing that you know much of me, and yet I know so little of you."
talented and humble then it seems."
Volucer nods his head at Raikogen.
involve myself with Divine, and certainly not to question them..."
governess. I fear I terrify her."
(Order): Volucer says, "It's the feathers, Lady."
Gently, you say to Dame Dioyne Fairquillion, "Do not fret, Dame Fairquillion.
Our Lady is very kind and compassionate."
need not fear asking them of Her."
It is now the 14th of Kiani, 356 years after the Coming of Estarra.
that... A cruel Goddess could not have filled that void in me, no?"
Volucer mumbles to himself something that makes Isune give him a dark look.
Volucer hums innocently to himself.
may be hidden or unknown, and seeks to give it aide and encouragement."
bureaucrat. What does it mean to serve the Aesthete?"
Isune, the Aesthete looks about to those gathered with a faint smile.
question far better than I."
its forms. We have our leaders, our bureaucrats, our artists, and our defenders.
exalt the perfection of Hallifax, Her Sister's city."
Her talents that shall uplift and maintain Her three Tenets."
Volucer lowers his head and carefully scratches one ear with a taloned foot.
Volucer lays his ears back and relaxes, his eyes lidding halfway.
Isune, the Aesthete says, "Then I shall remedy this, if so you wish it of Me."
the best of my mortal ability."
Dame Dioyne Fairquillion kneels before the Goddess Isune humbly.
Dame Dioyne Fairquillion glances up, eyes widening at the spectacle before her.
to teach those of Mine, you need only look to her for this knowledge."
Compassion than this. So will it be done," she says at last.
(The Canvas): Isune says, "Welcome, Dame Dioyne Fairquillion, to My Order."
(The Canvas): You say, "Welcome, Dame Fairquillion."
(The Canvas): You say, "We are happy to have you among us."
(The Canvas): Allyrianne says, "Welcome, Dame Fairquillion."
(The Canvas): Dame Dioyne Fairquillion says, "I am humbled to be here, my Lady.
I cannot thank you enough for all you have given me."
(The Canvas): Yatrius says, "Welcome among Hers, Dame Fairquillion."
Dame Dioyne Fairquillion smiles softly.
(The Canvas): Raikogen says, "Welcome, Dame Fairquillion."
Dame Dioyne Fairquillion says, "I believe, ah, I had..." She shakes her head.
about the doll I fashioned for him."
Volucer's ears perk up with a sudden interest.
Allyrianne tilts her head curiously.
Dame Dioyne Fairquillion says, "I certainly wouldn't mind."
Dame Dioyne Fairquillion ponders the situation.
Dame Dioyne Fairquillion says, "Well you ask me about my wares if you'd like one.
A wry smile spreads across Dame Dioyne Fairquillion's face.
Volucer bounces up and down.
You clap your hands together merrily.
You pay 15 dingbats and receive a plush doll of Volucer.
You laughingly say, "Ah, thank you, Dame Fairquillion."
It bears the distinctive mark of High Scion Zyphora Windwhisper, the Gilded Iris.
You pet a plush doll of Volucer ingratiatingly.
Raikogen buys a plush doll of Volucer.
the traffic. So many pigeons to deal with! And they're such slow flyers."
A plush doll of Volucer gives a pained sigh.
Raikogen pets a plush doll of Volucer ingratiatingly.
Keeper of the Archetype likes me better than Zvoltz!"
A plush doll of Volucer struts proudly about the room.
Allyrianne's eyes sparkle with amusement.
Volucer flies around in circles with glee.
figurines. Now he will be immortalized as a doll as well."
Volucer struts proudly about the room.
Dame Dioyne Fairquillion hides a grin behind her hand.
Dame Dioyne Fairquillion says, "I found him rather inspiring, at least."


1)	Heat 2 tbsp of ghee in a deep non stick pan and add the grated carrots. Saute it for 3-4 minutes.
2)	Add the milk and mix it well with the carrots in pan.
3)	Cook on high heat till all the milk is absorbed by the carrots.
4)	Add sugar and mix it. Saute till you see the ghee (fat) pouring out the bottom of the pan.
5)	Add the cardamom powder and 2 tbsp of ghee. Mix and cook for a few minutes.
6)	Serve hot or cold. Optionally, garnish with grated dry coconut, almonds and cashews.
Gajar ka halwa is one of the favourite home made puddings in India. It is mostly prepared in winters when carrots are in abundance and has also been made memorable through Bollywood as one of the favourite 'Mom's hand made' delicacies that every kid craves for.
1)	Heat 2tbsp of butter in a non stick pan on low heat.
2)	Break and add eggs directly on top of butter.
3)	Add chopped onion, chillies and ginger. Mix well with the (now) semi-fried eggs.
4)	Raise the heat to medium and continue mixing as you add 1tbsp of Garam Masala and Salt to taste. Add chopped coriander leaves.
5)	Keep mixing and frying till the onions turn golden brown and you could smell the butter on eggs.
6)	Turn off the heat and serve with slightly toasted white bread.
Egg Bhurji is one of the Indian Dhaba (food stops on highways) dishes. It is widely popular in Northern and Western parts of India, and is had with tea. Often it serves as an accompaniment to Whisky at night, as it's spicy nature mellows down the drink.


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\section{Introduction}
In machine translation, neural networks have attracted a lot of research attention. Recently, the attention-based encoder-decoder framework~ \citep{SutskeverVL14,BahdanauCB14} has been largely adopted. In this approach, Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) map source sequences of words to target sequences. The attention mechanism is learned to focus on different parts of the input sentence while decoding. Attention mechanisms have been shown to work with other modalities too, like images, where their are able to learn to attend to salient parts of an image, for instance when generating text captions~\citep{XuBKCCSZB15}. For such  applications, Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown to work best to represent images~\citep{He_2016_CVPR}.

Multimodal models of texts and images enable applications such as visual question answering or multimodal caption translation. Also, the grounding of multiple modalities against each other may enable the model to have a better understanding of each modality individually, such as in natural language understanding applications.

The efficient integration of multimodal information still remains a challenging task though. Both \citet{huang2016attention} and \citet{caglayan2016does} made a first attempt in multimodal neural machine translation. Recently, \citet{calixto2017doubly} showed an improved architecture that significantly surpassed the monomodal baseline. Multimodal tasks require combining diverse modality vector representations with each other. Bilinear pooling models \citet{tenenbaum1997separating}, which computes the outer product of two vectors (such as the visual and textual representations), may be more expressive than basic combination methods such as element-wise sum or product. Because of its high and intractable dimensionality ($n^2$), \citet{gao2016compact} proposed a method that relies on Multimodal Compact Bilinear pooling (MCB) to efficiently compute a joint and expressive representation combining both modalities, in a visual question answering tasks. This approach has not been investigated previously for multimodal caption translation, which is what we focus on in this paper.

\begin{figure}[t]
  \begin{minipage}[t]{.475\textwidth}
    \vspace*{-\baselineskip
   \label{TSalg}
\begin{algorithm}[H]
  \setstretch{1.1}
  \caption{Multimodal CBP}
  \begin{algorithmic}[1]
    \State input: $v_1 \in \mathbb{R}^{n_1}, v_2 \in \mathbb{R}^{n_2}$
    \State output: $\Phi(v_1, v_2) \in \mathbb{R}^d$
    \State \textbf{for} $k \leftarrow 1 \hdots 2 $ \textbf{do}
    \State \qquad \textbf{for} $i \leftarrow 1 \hdots n_k$ \textbf{do}
    \State \qquad \qquad sample $h_k[i] $ from $\{1, \hdots,d\}$
    \State \qquad \qquad sample $s_k[i] $ from $\{-1, 1\}$
    \State \qquad $v'_k = \Psi(v_k,h_k,s_k,n_k)$
    \State \textbf{return} $\Phi = \text{FFT}^{-1}(\text{FFT}(v'_1) \odot \text{FFT}(v'_2))$
    \State \textbf{procedure} $\Psi(v,h,s,n)$
    \State \qquad \textbf{for} $i \hdots n$ \textbf{do}
    \State \qquad \qquad $y[h[i]] = y[h[i]] + s[i] \cdot v[i]$
    \State \qquad \textbf{return} $y$
  \end{algorithmic}
\end{algorithm}

  \end{minipage}%
  \hspace{4.75mm}
  \begin{minipage}[t]{.475\textwidth}
   \label{MCB}
    \centering
    \includegraphics[scale=0.55]{okfini.png}
    \vspace{-5mm}
  \end{minipage}
  \caption{Left: Tensor Sketch algorithm - Right: Compact Bilinear Pooling for two modality vectors (top) and \textit{"MM pre-attention"} model (bottom) ; Note that the textual representation vector is tiled (copied) to match the dimension of the image feature maps}
\end{figure}

\section{Model}
We detail our model build from the attention-based encoder-decoder neural network described by \citet{SutskeverVL14} and \citet{BahdanauCB14} implemented in \textit{TensorFlow}~\citep{abadi2016tensorflow}.
\textbf{Textual encoder} \quad Given an input sentence $X = (x_1, x_2, ..., x_T), x_i \in \mathbb{R}^E$ where $T$ is the sentence length and $E$ is the dimension of the word embedding space, a bi-directional LSTM encoder of layer size $L$ produces a set of textual annotation $A^{T} =  \{h^{t}_1, h^{t}_2, ...,h^{t}_T\}$ where $h_i$ is obtained by concatenating the forward and backward hidden states of the encoder: $h^{t}_i = [\overrightarrow{h_i};\overleftarrow{h_i}],h^{t}_i \in \mathbb{R}^{2L}$. \\
\textbf{Visual encoder} \quad An image associated to this sentence is fed to a deep residual network, computing convolutional feature maps of dimension $14\times14\times1024$. We obtain a set of visual annotations $A^{V} =  \{h^{v}_1, h^{v}_2, ...,h^{v}_{196}\}$ where $h^v_i \in {R}^{1024}$.\\ \\
\textbf{Decoder} \quad The decoder produces an output sentence $Y = (y_1, y_2, ..., y_{T'}), y_i \in \mathbb{R}^E$ and is initialized by $s_0 = tanh(W_{init} h^{t}_T + b_{init})$
where $h^{t}_T$ is the textual encoder's last state. The next decoder states are obtained as follows:
\begin{equation} s_t, o_t = LSTM(s_{t-1}, W_{in}[y_{t-1} ;c_{t-1}]), y_{t-1}  \in \mathbb{R}^E\end{equation}
During training, $y_{t-1}$ is the ground truth symbol in the sentence whilst $c_{t-1}$ is the previous attention vector computed by the attention model. The current attention vector $c_t$, concatenated with the LSTM output $o_t$, is used to compute a new vector $\tilde{o_t} = W_{proj} [o_t ; c_t] + b_{proj}$. The probability distribution over the target vocabulary is computed by the equation : \begin{equation}
p(y_t|y_{t-1}, s_{t-1}, c_{t-1}, A^T, A^V) = softmax(W_{out} \tilde{o_t} + b_{out})
\end{equation}
\textbf{Attention} \quad At every time-step, the attention mechanism computes two modality specific context vectors  $\{c^t_t, c^v_t\}$ given the current decoder state $s_t$ and the two annotation sets $\{A^{T},A^{V}\}$. We use the same attention model for both modalities described by \citet{vinyals2015grammar}. We first compute modality specific attention weights $\alpha^{mod}_t = softmax(v^T tanh(W_1 A^{mod} + W_2 s_t + b))$. The context vector is then obtained with the following weighted sum :
$c_t^{mod} = \sum\limits_{i=1}^{\lvert A^{mod} \rvert } \alpha_{ti}^{mod}h_i^{mod}$\\
Both $v^T$ and $W_1$ are considered modalities dependent and thus aren't shared by both modalities. The projection layer $W_2$ is applied to the decoder state $s_t$ and is thus shared~\citep{caglayan2016does}. Vectors $\{c^t_t, c^v_t\}$ are then combined to produce $c_t$ with an element-wise (e-w) sum / product or concatenation layer.  \\ \\
\textbf{Multimodal Compact Bilinear (MCB) pooling} \quad Bilinear models~\citep{tenenbaum1997separating} can be applied as vectors combination. We take the outer product of our two context vectors $c^{t}$ and $c^{v} \in \mathbb{R}^{2L}$ then learn a linear model $W$ i.e. $c_t = W [c^t_t \otimes  c^t_v]$, where $ \otimes$ denotes the outer product and $[$ $]$ denotes linearizing the matrix in a vector. Bilinear pooling allows all elements of both vectors to interact with each other in a multiplicative way but leads to a high dimensional representation and an infeasible number of parameters to learn in $W$. For two modality context vectors of size $2L = 1024$ and an attention size of $d = 512$ ($c_t \in \mathbb{R}^{512}$), $W$ would have $\approx $ 537 million parameters. We use the compact method proposed by \citet{gao2016compact}, based on the tensor sketch algorithm (see Algorithm \ref{TSalg}), to make bilinear models feasible. This model, referred as the \textit{"MM Attention"} in the results section, is illustrated in Figure \ref{MCB} (top right)

We try a second model inspired by the work of~\citep{fukui2016multimodal}. For each spatial grid location in the visual representation, we use MCB pooling to merge the slice of the visual feature with the language representation. As shown at the bottom right of Figure \ref{MCB}, after the pooling we use two convolutional layers to predict attention weights for each grid location. We then apply softmax to produce a new normalized soft attention map. This method can be seen as the removal of unnecessary information in the feature maps according to the source sentence. Note that we still use the \textit{"MM attention"} during decoding. We refer this model as the "\textit{MM pre-attention}".
\section{Settings}
We use the Adam optimizer~\citep{kingma2014adam} with a l.r. of $\alpha = 0.0007$ and L2 regularization of $\delta = 10^{-5}$. Layer size $L$ and word embeddings size $E$ is 512. Embeddings are trained along with the model. We use mini-batch size of 32 and Xavier weight initialization~\citep{glorot2010understanding}. For this experiments, we used the Multi30K dataset~\citep{elliott-EtAl:2016:VL16} which is an extended version of the Flickr30K Entities. For each image, one of the English descriptions was selected and manually translated into German by a professional translator (Task 1). As training and development data, 29,000 and 1,014 triples are used respectively. A test set of size 1000 is used for BLEU and METEOR evaluation. Vocabulary sizes are 11,180 (\textit{en}) and 19,154 (\textit{de}). We lowercase and tokenize all the text data with the Moses tokenizer. We extract feature maps from the images with a ResNet-50 at its $res4f\_relu$ layer. We use early-stopping if no improvement is observed after 10,000 steps.

\section{Results}
\vspace{-3mm}
\begin{table}[!htb]
  \caption{The BLEU and METEOR results on the test split containing 1000 triples. 		All scores are the average of two runs.}
  	\vspace{10px}
	\label{sample-table}
    \begin{minipage}{.400\textwidth}
      \begin{tabular}{lcc}
      \multicolumn{1}{c}{\bf Method}  &\multicolumn{2}{c}{\bf 				Validation Scores}
      \\ \hline \\
      &BLEU&METEOR \\
      Monomodal Text          &29.24&48.32 \\
      \textbf{MM attention} \\
      Concatenation            &26.12&44.14 \\
      Element-wise Sum         &27.48&45.79 \\
      Element-wise Product     &\textbf{28.62}&\textbf{47.99} \\
      MCB 1024                 &28.48&47.57 \\
      \hline \\
      \textbf{MM pre-attention*} \\
   Element-wise sum        &28.57&46.40\\
    Element-wise Product        &29.14&46.71 \\
      MCB 4096        &\textbf{29.75}&\textbf{48.80} \\
	\textit{ *with Prod as MM att.}
      \end{tabular}
    \end{minipage}%
      \hspace{20mm}
    \begin{minipage}{.400\textwidth}
      \centering
     \begin{tabular}{lll}
          \multicolumn{1}{c}{\bf Compact Bilinear $d$}  &\multicolumn{1}{c}{\bf BLEU}
          \\ \hline \\
          \textbf{Multimodal attention} \\
          512         &27.78\\
          1024         &\textbf{28.48}\\
          2048          &28.12\\
          \hline \\
          \textbf{Multimodal pre-attention} \\
          1024            &28.71\\
          2048            &29.19\\
          4096            &\textbf{29.75}\\
          8192            &29.39\\
          16000           &27.98\\

          \end{tabular}
    \end{minipage}
\end{table}

To our knowledge, there is currently no multimodal translation architecture that convincingly surpass a monomodal NMT baseline. Our work nevertheless shows a small but encouraging improvement. In the \textit{"MM attention"} model, where both attention context vectors are merged, we notice no improvement using MCB over an element-wise product. We suppose the reason is that the merged attention vector $c_t$ has to be concatenated with the cell output and then gets linearly transformed by the \textit{proj} layer to a vector of size \textit{512}. This heavy dimensionality reduction undergone by the vector may have lead to a consequent loss of information, thus the poor results. This motivated us to implement the second attention mechanism, \textit{"MM pre-attention"}. Here, the attention model can enjoy the full use of the combined vectors dimension, varying from 1024 to 16000. We show here an improvement of +0.62 BLEU over e-w multiplication and +1.18 BLEU over e-w sum. We believe a step further could be to investigate different experimental settings or layer architectures as we felt MCB could perform much better as seen in similar previous work~\citep{fukui2016multimodal}.

\section{Acknowledgements}
This work was partly supported by the Chist-Era project IGLU with contribution from the Belgian Fonds de la Recherche Scientique (FNRS), contract no. R.50.11.15.F, and by the FSO project VCYCLE with contribution from the Belgian Waloon Region, contract no. 1510501.

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