NEW!! Kit Young and Jonathan Ajayi at Bruno Mars concert!!

(via Jonathan Ajayi ig stories)

Bruh, okay I just had this idea so bear with me...

I'm re-watching heartstopper. now i hyper fixated on this show last year and I'm currently hyper fixated on Stranger Things especially the Fanon of Steddie and The Fruity Four (Six?).

I had a thought - the parallels. The similarities...

Nick Nelson and Steve Harrington - Golden retriever sports king, chaotic bisexual, Heart of Gold, and expected by social structure to be a certain way, date a certain type of person. Meets someone and *learns some things*. Fixated on his hair. A smooth mf whose also a dork.

Charlie Spring and Eddie Munson - The outcast at school but comes out of his shell with his friends. uncertain when it comes to love because of previous experiences. Nerdy, Curly Hair, Smart, Musically inclined. ? Potential MH issues - depending who you ask

Darcy Olsen and Robin Buckley - Awkward, Chaotic Lesbian, Confident in herself, Rejects society by dressing however they want, also musically inclined, Possibly knows Charlie/Eddie via band. The scene on the rugby field where Darcy asks Charlie if him and nick are friends or *friends*, I think Robin would do the same.

Tara Jones and Nancy Wheeler - Confident badass, Observing everything. Less confident in her sexuality than Robin as she hasn't consciously known for long.

Also, The kiss when we were 13 and Stancy dating parallel.

Tao Xu and Jonathan Byers - Film/photography obsessed, not academically inclined but copes well at school and smart in other ways. protective of friends/family

Elle Argent and Argyle - okay there's hardly any parallels between these but I also don't know much about Jargyle.

Isaac Henderson and Will Byers - Quiet, out the way, creative, when they speak they mean what they say and when they relax they come out of their shells. doesn't quiet work with the Byler ship and AroAce Isaac but they're parallels not 100% match up.

Harry Greene and Tommy H - homophobic prick who may or may not be in love with their best friend. (not that Harry and Nick are friends but some friend group)

Ben Hope and Billy Hargrove? - abusive arseholes that hide behind macho bravado. Tries to date women to hide their fruity tendencies (The girl at the gate and Karen Wheeler)

Imogen Heaney and Carol Perkins? - only girl in an all male friend group. Or Tammy Thompson - Tries to woo Steve but fails bc he is in love with someone else (I know in canon timeline

Tori Spring and Max Mayfield - ignoring the age difference, Sarcastic, Observant, teasing, sibling like relationship

Oliver Spring and Dustin Henderson - okay personalities don't quiet match up buuut hyperactive, annoying younger sibling energy, that absolutely adores both Charlie/Eddie and Nick/Steve.

Mr Ajayi and Mr Hagan - kind, amazing teacher who actually cares about their students well being. offers a safe space in their classrooms.

Julio Spring and Wayne Munson - protective quiet presence in their children's lives. not seen much but we know they'll be ready to bat for their kid in a heartbeat if they asked.

Yan Xu and Jim Hopper - no reason other than they "leave the bedroom door open a tad" comment...

Idk that's all I got there's sooo many more characters I've missed but those are the ones my brains found so far.

Sleepover weekend! Your rec lists are top tier sooooooo rec us something (anything) that ISN'T fic. Fandom-related or not! Books? Stores? That One Kitchen Gadget You Can't Live Without?

xoxo MJ/kiwiana-writes

i love talking about books and other media!!! (bonus kitchen gadget rec at the end for making it that far.)

Books:

Anger is A Gift by Mark Oshiro

Beach Read by Emily Henry

This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper

For those who enjoy political satire, anything by Christopher Buckley

I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual by Luvvie Ajayi Jones

Beauty Queens by Libba Bray

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay

Never Let Me Go by Kazoo Ishiguro

Linden Hills by Gloria Naylor

Movies (including my list of ones I rewatch):

Moonlight

Clue

The Meg

Knives Out

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

The Man from Uncle

San Andreas

Fast Five

Ocean's Thirteen

Mel Brooks movies, specifically Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, History of the World

The Wave (Norwegian disaster movie, one of the best tbh)

Downfall or Flight/Risk (because Boeing sucks and everyone should know it)

The Velocipastor. Go in completely blind. I promise when you think you have it figured out, you don't.

(as for that kitchen gadget, spend the money on a good meat thermometer and thank me later.)

sleepover weekend asks!

Google at EMNLP 2023

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Google at EMNLP 2023

Google is proud to be a Diamond Sponsor of Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2023), a premier annual conference, which is being held this week in Sentosa, Singapore. Google has a strong presence at this year’s conference with over 65 accepted papers and active involvement in 11 workshops and tutorials. Google is also happy to be a Major Sponsor for the Widening NLP workshop (WiNLP), which aims to highlight global representations of people, perspectives, and cultures in AI and ML. We look forward to sharing some of our extensive NLP research and expanding our partnership with the broader research community.

We hope you’ll visit the Google booth to chat with researchers who are actively pursuing the latest innovations in NLP, and check out some of the scheduled booth activities (e.g., demos and Q&A sessions listed below). Visit the @GoogleAI X (Twitter) and LinkedIn accounts to find out more about the Google booth activities at EMNLP 2023.

Take a look below to learn more about the Google research being presented at EMNLP 2023 (Google affiliations in bold).

This schedule is subject to change. Please visit the Google booth for more information.

Adaptation with Self-Evaluation to Improve Selective Prediction in LLMs Jiefeng Chen*, Jinsung Yoon, Sayna Ebrahimi, Sercan O Arik, Tomas Pfister, Somesh Jha

A Comprehensive Evaluation of Tool-Assisted Generation Strategies Alon Jacovi*, Avi Caciularu, Jonathan Herzig, Roee Aharoni, Bernd Bohnet, Mor Geva

1-PAGER: One Pass Answer Generation and Evidence Retrieval Palak Jain, Livio Baldini Soares, Tom Kwiatkowski

MaXM: Towards Multilingual Visual Question Answering Soravit Changpinyo, Linting Xue, Michal Yarom, Ashish V. Thapliyal, Idan Szpektor, Julien Amelot, Xi Chen, Radu Soricut

SDOH-NLI: A Dataset for Inferring Social Determinants of Health from Clinical Notes Adam D. Lelkes, Eric Loreaux*, Tal Schuster, Ming-Jun Chen, Alvin Rajkomar

Machine Reading Comprehension Using Case-based Reasoning Dung Ngoc Thai, Dhruv Agarwal, Mudit Chaudhary, Wenlong Zhao, Rajarshi Das, Jay-Yoon Lee, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Manzil Zaheer, Andrew McCallum

Cross-lingual Open-Retrieval Question Answering for African Languages Odunayo Ogundepo, Tajuddeen Gwadabe, Clara E. Rivera, Jonathan H. Clark, Sebastian Ruder, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Abdou Aziz DIOP, Claytone Sikasote, Gilles HACHEME, Happy Buzaaba, Ignatius Ezeani, Rooweither Mabuya, Salomey Osei, Chris Chinenye Emezue, Albert Kahira, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Akintunde Oladipo, Abraham Toluwase Owodunni, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Iyanuoluwa Shode, Akari Asai, Anuoluwapo Aremu, Ayodele Awokoya, Bernard Opoku, Chiamaka Ijeoma Chukwuneke, Christine Mwase, Clemencia Siro, Stephen Arthur, Tunde Oluwaseyi Ajayi, Verrah Akinyi Otiende, Andre Niyongabo Rubungo, Boyd Sinkala, Daniel Ajisafe, Emeka Felix Onwuegbuzia, Falalu Ibrahim Lawan, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi, CHINEDU EMMANUEL MBONU, Mofetoluwa Adeyemi, Mofya Phiri, Orevaoghene Ahia, Ruqayya Nasir Iro, Sonia Adhiambo

On Uncertainty Calibration and Selective Generation in Probabilistic Neural Summarization: A Benchmark Study Polina Zablotskaia, Du Phan, Joshua Maynez, Shashi Narayan, Jie Ren, Jeremiah Zhe Liu

Epsilon Sampling Rocks: Investigating Sampling Strategies for Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding for Machine Translation Markus Freitag, Behrooz Ghorbani*, Patrick Fernandes*

Sources of Hallucination by Large Language Models on Inference Tasks Nick McKenna, Tianyi Li, Liang Cheng, Mohammad Javad Hosseini, Mark Johnson, Mark Steedman

Don’t Add, Don’t Miss: Effective Content Preserving Generation from Pre-selected Text Spans Aviv Slobodkin, Avi Caciularu, Eran Hirsch, Ido Dagan

What Makes Chain-of-Thought Prompting Effective? A Counterfactual Study Aman Madaan*, Katherine Hermann, Amir Yazdanbakhsh

Understanding HTML with Large Language Models Izzeddin Gur, Ofir Nachum, Yingjie Miao, Mustafa Safdari, Austin Huang, Aakanksha Chowdhery, Sharan Narang, Noah Fiedel, Aleksandra Faust

Improving the Robustness of Summarization Models by Detecting and Removing Input Noise Kundan Krishna*, Yao Zhao, Jie Ren, Balaji Lakshminarayanan, Jiaming Luo, Mohammad Saleh, Peter J. Liu

In-Context Learning Creates Task Vectors Roee Hendel, Mor Geva, Amir Globerson

Pre-training Without Attention Junxiong Wang, Jing Nathan Yan, Albert Gu, Alexander M Rush

MUX-PLMs: Data Multiplexing for High-Throughput Language Models Vishvak Murahari, Ameet Deshpande, Carlos E Jimenez, Izhak Shafran, Mingqiu Wang, Yuan Cao, Karthik R Narasimhan

PaRaDe: Passage Ranking Using Demonstrations with LLMs Andrew Drozdov*, Honglei Zhuang, Zhuyun Dai, Zhen Qin, Razieh Rahimi, Xuanhui Wang, Dana Alon, Mohit Iyyer, Andrew McCallum, Donald Metzler*, Kai Hui

Long-Form Speech Translation Through Segmentation with Finite-State Decoding Constraints on Large Language Models Arya D. McCarthy, Hao Zhang, Shankar Kumar, Felix Stahlberg, Ke Wu

Unsupervised Opinion Summarization Using Approximate Geodesics Somnath Basu Roy Chowdhury*, Nicholas Monath, Kumar Avinava Dubey, Amr Ahmed, Snigdha Chaturvedi

SQLPrompt: In-Context Text-to-SQL with Minimal Labeled Data Ruoxi Sun, Sercan O. Arik, Rajarishi Sinha, Hootan Nakhost, Hanjun Dai, Pengcheng Yin, Tomas Pfister

Retrieval-Augmented Parsing for Complex Graphs by Exploiting Structure and Uncertainty Zi Lin, Quan Yuan, Panupong Pasupat, Jeremiah Zhe Liu, Jingbo Shang

A Zero-Shot Language Agent for Computer Control with Structured Reflection Tao Li, Gang Li, Zhiwei Deng, Bryan Wang*, Yang Li

Pragmatics in Language Grounding: Phenomena, Tasks, and Modeling Approaches Daniel Fried, Nicholas Tomlin, Jennifer Hu, Roma Patel, Aida Nematzadeh

Improving Classifier Robustness Through Active Generation of Pairwise Counterfactuals Ananth Balashankar, Xuezhi Wang, Yao Qin, Ben Packer, Nithum Thain, Jilin Chen, Ed H. Chi, Alex Beutel

mmT5: Modular Multilingual Pre-training Solves Source Language Hallucinations Jonas Pfeiffer, Francesco Piccinno, Massimo Nicosia, Xinyi Wang, Machel Reid, Sebastian Ruder

Scaling Laws vs Model Architectures: How Does Inductive Bias Influence Scaling? Yi Tay, Mostafa Dehghani, Samira Abnar, Hyung Won Chung, William Fedus, Jinfeng Rao, Sharan Narang, Vinh Q. Tran, Dani Yogatama, Donald Metzler

TaTA: A Multilingual Table-to-Text Dataset for African Languages Sebastian Gehrmann, Sebastian Ruder, Vitaly Nikolaev, Jan A. Botha, Michael Chavinda, Ankur P Parikh, Clara E. Rivera

XTREME-UP: A User-Centric Scarce-Data Benchmark for Under-Represented Languages Sebastian Ruder, Jonathan H. Clark, Alexander Gutkin, Mihir Kale, Min Ma, Massimo Nicosia, Shruti Rijhwani, Parker Riley, Jean Michel Amath Sarr, Xinyi Wang, John Frederick Wieting, Nitish Gupta, Anna Katanova, Christo Kirov, Dana L Dickinson, Brian Roark, Bidisha Samanta, Connie Tao, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Vera Axelrod, Isaac Rayburn Caswell, Colin Cherry, Dan Garrette, Reeve Ingle, Melvin Johnson, Dmitry Panteleev, Partha Talukdar

q2d: Turning Questions into Dialogs to Teach Models How to Search Yonatan Bitton, Shlomi Cohen-Ganor, Ido Hakimi, Yoad Lewenberg, Roee Aharoni, Enav Weinreb

Emergence of Abstract State Representations in Embodied Sequence Modeling Tian Yun*, Zilai Zeng, Kunal Handa, Ashish V Thapliyal, Bo Pang, Ellie Pavlick, Chen Sun

Evaluating and Modeling Attribution for Cross-Lingual Question Answering Benjamin Muller*, John Wieting, Jonathan H. Clark, Tom Kwiatkowski, Sebastian Ruder, Livio Baldini Soares, Roee Aharoni, Jonathan Herzig, Xinyi Wang

Weakly-Supervised Learning of Visual Relations in Multimodal Pre-training Emanuele Bugliarello, Aida Nematzadeh, Lisa Anne Hendricks

How Do Languages Influence Each Other? Studying Cross-Lingual Data Sharing During LM Fine-Tuning Rochelle Choenni, Dan Garrette, Ekaterina Shutova

CompoundPiece: Evaluating and Improving Decompounding Performance of Language Models Benjamin Minixhofer, Jonas Pfeiffer, Ivan Vulić

IC3: Image Captioning by Committee Consensus David Chan, Austin Myers, Sudheendra Vijayanarasimhan, David A Ross, John Canny

The Curious Case of Hallucinatory (Un)answerability: Finding Truths in the Hidden States of Over-Confident Large Language Models Aviv Slobodkin, Omer Goldman, Avi Caciularu, Ido Dagan, Shauli Ravfogel

Evaluating Large Language Models on Controlled Generation Tasks Jiao Sun, Yufei Tian, Wangchunshu Zhou, Nan Xu, Qian Hu, Rahul Gupta, John Wieting, Nanyun Peng, Xuezhe Ma

Ties Matter: Meta-Evaluating Modern Metrics with Pairwise Accuracy and Tie Calibration Daniel Deutsch, George Foster, Markus Freitag

Transcending Scaling Laws with 0.1% Extra Compute Yi Tay*, Jason Wei*, Hyung Won Chung*, Vinh Q. Tran, David R. So*, Siamak Shakeri, Xavier Garcia, Huaixiu Steven Zheng, Jinfeng Rao, Aakanksha Chowdhery, Denny Zhou, Donald Metzler, Slav Petrov, Neil Houlsby, Quoc V. Le, Mostafa Dehghani

Data Similarity is Not Enough to Explain Language Model Performance Gregory Yauney*, Emily Reif, David Mimno

Self-Influence Guided Data Reweighting for Language Model Pre-training Megh Thakkar*, Tolga Bolukbasi, Sriram Ganapathy, Shikhar Vashishth, Sarath Chandar, Partha Talukdar

ReTAG: Reasoning Aware Table to Analytic Text Generation Deepanway Ghosal, Preksha Nema, Aravindan Raghuveer

GATITOS: Using a New Multilingual Lexicon for Low-Resource Machine Translation Alex Jones*, Isaac Caswell, Ishank Saxena

Video-Helpful Multimodal Machine Translation Yihang Li, Shuichiro Shimizu, Chenhui Chu, Sadao Kurohashi, Wei Li

Symbol Tuning Improves In-Context Learning in Language Models Jerry Wei*, Le Hou, Andrew Kyle Lampinen, Xiangning Chen*, Da Huang, Yi Tay*, Xinyun Chen, Yifeng Lu, Denny Zhou, Tengyu Ma*, Quoc V Le

“Don’t Take This Out of Context!” On the Need for Contextual Models and Evaluations for Stylistic Rewriting Akhila Yerukola, Xuhui Zhou, Elizabeth Clark, Maarten Sap

QAmeleon: Multilingual QA with Only 5 Examples Priyanka Agrawal, Chris Alberti, Fantine Huot, Joshua Maynez, Ji Ma, Sebastian Ruder, Kuzman Ganchev, Dipanjan Das, Mirella Lapata

Speak, Read and Prompt: High-Fidelity Text-to-Speech with Minimal Supervision Eugene Kharitonov, Damien Vincent, Zalán Borsos, Raphaël Marinier, Sertan Girgin, Olivier Pietquin, Matt Sharifi, Marco Tagliasacchi, Neil Zeghidour

AnyTOD: A Programmable Task-Oriented Dialog System Jeffrey Zhao, Yuan Cao, Raghav Gupta, Harrison Lee, Abhinav Rastogi, Mingqiu Wang, Hagen Soltau, Izhak Shafran, Yonghui Wu

Selectively Answering Ambiguous Questions Jeremy R. Cole, Michael JQ Zhang, Daniel Gillick, Julian Martin Eisenschlos, Bhuwan Dhingra, Jacob Eisenstein

PRESTO: A Multilingual Dataset for Parsing Realistic Task-Oriented Dialogs (see blog post) Rahul Goel, Waleed Ammar, Aditya Gupta, Siddharth Vashishtha, Motoki Sano, Faiz Surani*, Max Chang, HyunJeong Choe, David Greene, Chuan He, Rattima Nitisaroj, Anna Trukhina, Shachi Paul, Pararth Shah, Rushin Shah, Zhou Yu

LM vs LM: Detecting Factual Errors via Cross Examination Roi Cohen, May Hamri, Mor Geva, Amir Globerson

A Suite of Generative Tasks for Multi-Level Multimodal Webpage Understanding Andrea Burns*, Krishna Srinivasan, Joshua Ainslie, Geoff Brown, Bryan A. Plummer, Kate Saenko, Jianmo Ni, Mandy Guo

AfriSenti: A Twitter Sentiment Analysis Benchmark for African Languages Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Idris Abdulmumin, Abinew Ali Ayele, Nedjma Ousidhoum, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Seid Muhie Yimam, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Meriem Beloucif, Saif M. Mohammad, Sebastian Ruder, Oumaima Hourrane, Alipio Jorge, Pavel Brazdil, Felermino D. M. A. Ali, Davis David, Salomey Osei, Bello Shehu-Bello, Falalu Ibrahim Lawan, Tajuddeen Gwadabe, Samuel Rutunda, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Wendimu Baye Messelle, Hailu Beshada Balcha, Sisay Adugna Chala, Hagos Tesfahun Gebremichael, Bernard Opoku, Stephen Arthur

Optimizing Retrieval-Augmented Reader Models via Token Elimination Moshe Berchansky, Peter Izsak, Avi Caciularu, Ido Dagan, Moshe Wasserblat

SEAHORSE: A Multilingual, Multifaceted Dataset for Summarization Evaluation Elizabeth Clark, Shruti Rijhwani, Sebastian Gehrmann, Joshua Maynez, Roee Aharoni, Vitaly Nikolaev, Thibault Sellam, Aditya Siddhant, Dipanjan Das, Ankur P Parikh

GQA: Training Generalized Multi-Query Transformer Models from Multi-Head Checkpoints Joshua Ainslie, James Lee-Thorp, Michiel de Jong*, Yury Zemlyanskiy, Federico Lebron, Sumit Sanghai

CoLT5: Faster Long-Range Transformers with Conditional Computation Joshua Ainslie, Tao Lei, Michiel de Jong, Santiago Ontanon, Siddhartha Brahma, Yury Zemlyanskiy, David Uthus, Mandy Guo, James Lee-Thorp, Yi Tay, Yun-Hsuan Sung, Sumit Sanghai

Improving Diversity of Demographic Representation in Large Language Models via Collective-Critiques and Self-Voting Preethi Lahoti, Nicholas Blumm, Xiao Ma, Raghavendra Kotikalapudi, Sahitya Potluri, Qijun Tan, Hansa Srinivasan, Ben Packer, Ahmad Beirami, Alex Beutel, Jilin Chen

Universal Self-Adaptive Prompting (see blog post) Xingchen Wan*, Ruoxi Sun, Hootan Nakhost, Hanjun Dai, Julian Martin Eisenschlos, Sercan O. Arik, Tomas Pfister

TrueTeacher: Learning Factual Consistency Evaluation with Large Language Models Zorik Gekhman, Jonathan Herzig, Roee Aharoni, Chen Elkind, Idan Szpektor

Hierarchical Pre-training on Multimodal Electronic Health Records Xiaochen Wang, Junyu Luo, Jiaqi Wang, Ziyi Yin, Suhan Cui, Yuan Zhong, Yaqing Wang, Fenglong Ma

NAIL: Lexical Retrieval Indices with Efficient Non-Autoregressive Decoders Livio Baldini Soares, Daniel Gillick, Jeremy R. Cole, Tom Kwiatkowski

How Does Generative Retrieval Scale to Millions of Passages? Ronak Pradeep*, Kai Hui, Jai Gupta, Adam D. Lelkes, Honglei Zhuang, Jimmy Lin, Donald Metzler, Vinh Q. Tran

Make Every Example Count: On the Stability and Utility of Self-Influence for Learning from Noisy NLP Datasets Irina Bejan*, Artem Sokolov, Katja Filippova

By • Olalekan Fagbade Why Nigeria has 1,411 delegates at COP28 despite econonic hardship – Presidency explains Temitope Ajayi, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, has responded to the controversies surrounding the 1,411 Nigerian delegates at the ongoing Climate Summit, COP28, in Dubai. The high number of Nigerian delegates, the third-highest at COP28, has generated a lot of controversies and social media conversations in the last 24 hours amid the economic suffering of the citizens. Reacting to the criticism on Sunday morning in an article titled ‘Nigeria at COP28: Separating the facts from fiction,’ the presidential aide, Temitope Ajayi, stated that the 1,411 delegates are not all government-funded. He said the delegates also include civil society actors, journalists, businesspersons, climate activists, and others who have different roles to play at the conference. “In Nigeria, like so many other countries, interested parties comprising government officials from both federal and sub-national governments, environmentalists, climate activists, business leaders, journalists and agencies of government such as the NNPC and its subsidiaries, Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, NIMASA, and the NDDC are present in Dubai. “Many youth organisations from Nigeria, especially from the Northern and Niger-Delta regions, whose lives and livelihoods are most impacted by desert encroachment and hydrocarbon activities, are also represented. The President of Ijaw Youth Council, Jonathan Lokpobiri, leads a pan-Ijaw delegation of more than 15 people who registered as parties from Nigeria. Among delegates from Nigeria are also over 20 journalists from various media houses,” he wrote. However, the presidential aide did not state the exact number of delegates being funded by the government among the 1,411 delegates.

All about Super Eagles List

Nigeria will not compete in the 2022 FIFA World Cup following three consecutive participation in 2010, 2014, and 2018, as they were eliminated in the last qualifying round by Ghana's Black Stars.

Before FIFA's November deadline, 14 countries that qualified for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar have begun unveiling their team lineups.

Which of Nigeria's army of exceptional athletes would have made the team's 26-man super eagles list if the three-time African champion Super Eagles had purchased a plane ticket to Qatar in 2022? Soccernet.ng's Imhons Erons makes the selections.

Former Nigeria striker Jonathan Akpoborie has commended interim Super Eagles coach Austine Eguavoen for selecting the team that will face the Black Stars of Ghana in the 2022 World Cup playoff.

The goalkeepers are Francis Uzoho (Omonia Nicosia), Maduka Okoye (Watford), and Adebayo Adeleye (Hapoel Jerusalem)

Okoye and Uzoho didn't get much playing time for their clubs in England and Cyprus, respectively, due to a lack of Nigerian goalkeeper alternatives in Europe, but they would still have made the super eagles list.

Adeleye, on the other hand, has made a mark in Israel and deserves his most recent call-ups.

Chidozie Awaziem, Leon Balogun, and Semi Ajayi of West Brom, Kevin Akpoguma of Hoffenheim, William Troost-Ekong of Watford, Kenneth Omeruo of Leganes, Tyronne Ebuehi of Empoli, and Kenneth Omeruo of Leganes are among the defenders (Hajduk Split)

Injuries have sidelined some of Nigeria's top full-backs, including Jamilu Collins, Ola Aina, and Zaidu Sanusi.

Calvin Bassey and Chidozie Awaziem, in addition to Ebuehi and Akpoguma at right-back, would be solid left-back options.

In compared to Olisa Ndah of South Africa and Valentine Ozornwafor of Sochaux, the skills of Balogun, Omeruo, Troost-Ekong, and Ajayi tip the scales in their favour.

Midfielders: Joe Aribo (Southampton), Ahmed Musa (Sivasspor), Wilfred Ndidi (Leicester City), Oghenekaro Etebo (Aris FC), Frank Onyeka (Brentford), Raphael Onyedika (Club Brugge), Samuel Chukwueze (Villarreal), Ademola Lookman (Leicester City) (Nottingham Forest).

Nigerian flying forwards Chukwueze and Dennis are two of the best on the right wing on their best days. On the other wing, Moses Simon and Ademola Lookman may torment the opposing fullbacks for the whole of the game.

Victor Osimhen of Napoli, Paul Onuachu of KRC Genk, Terem Moffi of Lorient, and Taiwo Awoniyi of FC Barcelona are all forwards (Nottingham Forest)

It's uncertain how much damage Victor Osimhen would have caused opponents if he had been Nigeria's first-choice attacker at the Qatar World Cup in 2022.

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top 9 books

saw @wellhalesbells post and thought she needed to know everything about what i read. because that's what friends do. these are in no particular order.

Linden Hills by Gloria Naylor. I wouldn't say it's a re-telling so much as it takes a lot of cues from Dante's Inferno, but it actually kind of blew my mind when I read it my sophomore year of college. Excellent commentary on what success looks like and how far we're willing to go to obtain it.

I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara. I'll be honest, it had me checking the locks multiple times at night. A lot of true crime novels really just read like a thesis, but this almost felt like fiction. I couldn't stop reading, even if it did scare the shit out of me. I'll always be heartbroken that Michelle never got to see how her work helped find the Golden State Killer.

Coming Out Like a Porn Star: Essays on Pornography, Protection, and Privacy by Jiz Lee. A collection of essays and testimonials written by people in the industry and their experiences as performers, including advocacy, mistreatment, and how and when they tell the people in their lives that they're adult performers. It adds humanity to the subject where simple research does not.

I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual by Luvvie Ajayi-Jones. If you like judging but also want to learn how to do better, this is the book for you.

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller. I realize this is kind of a polarizing book in the sense that you either really like it or you really don't, but I read the Iliad in college, was bored by it, and despite knowing how this book would end it still kind of broke me.

Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston. This should go without saying, but, I also don't generally re-read books. I really don't. I picked this up again because of the movie and it hits different after four more years of life under my belt. Is it still escapism wrapped in a lot of idealism and wishing for what 2016 could have been? Absolutely. Do I care? Not a bit.

Anger Is a Gift by Mark Oshiro. I actually met Mark at the cursed Tumblr Con (yes, I went, it was an experience) and listened to him read Garfield fanfiction and laughed so hard I cried. He's a lovely man, and this book hadn't yet come out, but it stuck with me for weeks after I finished it. Excellent YA novel, wonderfully diverse cast of characters, tackles complex issues beautifully, absolutely recommend.

Beauty Queens by Libba Bray. A group of teenage beauty queens stranded on a lost island? This book is the perfect amount of chaotic. Just read it.

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay. As a person navigating the world in a fat body, and one who loves Roxane Gay, I just really loved this book. It covers so, so much, and it was both hard and liberating to read it.

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. This book devastated me. It's absolutely not what it seems. Go into it knowing nothing about it.

Authors I love in general and couldn't just pick one book: Tess Gerritsen (author of Rizzoli & Isles), Jonathan Tropper (messy people and messy family dynamics), Christopher Buckley (top tier political satire). They're all auto-buys for me, along with Roxane Gay. I also enjoy Edith Wharton, but that feels a little bit niche lol.

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By • Olalekan Fagbade JUST IN; Presidency reveals where presidential Yachts emanated from The Presidency on Thursday clarified that the N6 billion budget for Presidential Yacht and Vehicles, emanated from a request from the Nigerian Navy. Mr Temitope Ajayi, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity made the clarification in a statement in Lagos. He noted that the trending issues on social media were two items in the 2023 supplementary budget. “One is the provision for a presidential yacht in the supplementary budget by the Navy and the other is over N6 billion for vehicles to the State House.” The statement reads: “It is important to state clearly that President Bola Tinubu didn’t ask for a presidential yacht and I doubt if he needs one to perform the functions of his office. “From what I know, the request for a yacht, however it is named or couched in the budget, is from the Navy and they must have operational reasons for why it is required. “The budget office should be in a position to also explain to the public why such expenditure should be accommodated. “I must readily admit that the one reason our budgeting system has been a subject of public attack is the very simplistic way some of the line items are described by civil servants, who prepare the budget. “Examples abound; Sometimes in 2016, an Enterprise Resource Planning ( ERP) project of the Ministry of Solid Minerals worth over N300 million then was captured in that year’s budget as “website”. “Naturally, it generated a massive controversy as people, rightly, asked to know the type of website that will be built with N300 million.” According to him, it is important to say that journalism should enrich public enlightenment and not create an atmosphere of siege. He pointed out that always reducing State House budgetary provisions to the President and Vice President was poor reporting. “When the State House makes provision for vehicles, it is reported as if it is the President that will use all the vehicles or eat all the food when a provision is made for food and catering services. “We have had such inaccurate reporting in the past. A President and Vice President cannot, for any reason, spend N20 million naira to eat in a year if it is about the food they will eat as first and second families. “How much food can a person really eat? Yet, we will read headlines that Tinubu, Buhari, Jonathan or whoever the President is wants to spend N5 billion on food and catering in a year when in actual fact such budgetary provisions are made to accommodate many state events, meetings, hosting of VIPs, foreign dignitaries, and even visits by other Heads of State, and bilateral and multilateral meetings that the State House will deal with in a given year. “It is worth stating that in August, President Tinubu as the Chairman of the Authority of Heads of State and Governments of ECOWAS hosted two extraordinary summits of the regional body over the political crisis in Niger Republic. “The two summits required catering services for the ECOWAS leaders and their delegation. Just this past Sunday, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz was on a State Visit to Nigeria with a delegation of top business men and women from Germany. “The President hosted the visiting Chancellor and his delegation to a state banquet. State House budget for food and catering services is spent on such events. It is not spent essentially to feed the President and Vice President. According to him, on matters of vehicles, the N6 billion budget provision is not to buy vehicles for the President and Vice President alone. “President Tinubu and Vice President Shettima are not using any new vehicles in their fleet. They are using inherited vehicles. “There are hundreds of civil servants and political aides working at the State House who need operational vehicles. “I am a senior aide of the President. I am using my personal car and at my own expense since I resumed work more than five months ago.

“Like me, virtually all the appointees of the President are using personal vehicles at their own expense for official duties. Most of the vehicles in the pool for various departments are run down.” He noted even members of the State House Press Corps do not have a functional bus to ease their movement. “I know for a fact that a request for a new bus for State House Press Corps is captured in the supplementary budget for vehicles. “It is necessary to add that none of the political appointees has drawn any benefit and perks from public treasury. I must add that in five months, we have not even received a kobo as salary because of procedural issues involved in capturing new appointees on the payroll via IPPIS. “The Presidency is a huge bureaucracy with hundreds of staff. Any budget head for the State House is to run the system, not for epicurean fantasy of a sitting President and Vice President. “In this pageview-centric and social media age, it is easy to provoke public rage.” According to him, it is also tempting for bloggers and quack journalists to take the easy road of sensationalism to attract traffic to their blogs and news websites. But good journalism, I believe, should be about substance and nuanced reporting. (NAN)

All about Super Eagles List

Nigeria will not compete in the 2022 FIFA World Cup following three consecutive participation in 2010, 2014, and 2018, as they were eliminated in the last qualifying round by Ghana's Black Stars.

Before FIFA's November deadline, 14 countries that qualified for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar have begun unveiling their team lineups.

Which of Nigeria's army of exceptional athletes would have made the team's 26-man super eagles list if the three-time African champion Super Eagles had purchased a plane ticket to Qatar in 2022? Soccernet.ng's Imhons Erons makes the selections.

Former Nigeria striker Jonathan Akpoborie has commended interim Super Eagles coach Austine Eguavoen for selecting the team that will face the Black Stars of Ghana in the 2022 World Cup playoff.

The goalkeepers are Francis Uzoho (Omonia Nicosia), Maduka Okoye (Watford), and Adebayo Adeleye (Hapoel Jerusalem)

Okoye and Uzoho didn't get much playing time for their clubs in England and Cyprus, respectively, due to a lack of Nigerian goalkeeper alternatives in Europe, but they would still have made the super eagles list.

Adeleye, on the other hand, has made a mark in Israel and deserves his most recent call-ups.

Chidozie Awaziem, Leon Balogun, and Semi Ajayi of West Brom, Kevin Akpoguma of Hoffenheim, William Troost-Ekong of Watford, Kenneth Omeruo of Leganes, Tyronne Ebuehi of Empoli, and Kenneth Omeruo of Leganes are among the defenders (Hajduk Split)

Injuries have sidelined some of Nigeria's top full-backs, including Jamilu Collins, Ola Aina, and Zaidu Sanusi.

Calvin Bassey and Chidozie Awaziem, in addition to Ebuehi and Akpoguma at right-back, would be solid left-back options.

In compared to Olisa Ndah of South Africa and Valentine Ozornwafor of Sochaux, the skills of Balogun, Omeruo, Troost-Ekong, and Ajayi tip the scales in their favour.

Midfielders: Joe Aribo (Southampton), Ahmed Musa (Sivasspor), Wilfred Ndidi (Leicester City), Oghenekaro Etebo (Aris FC), Frank Onyeka (Brentford), Raphael Onyedika (Club Brugge), Samuel Chukwueze (Villarreal), Ademola Lookman (Leicester City) (Nottingham Forest).

Nigerian flying forwards Chukwueze and Dennis are two of the best on the right wing on their best days. On the other wing, Moses Simon and Ademola Lookman may torment the opposing fullbacks for the whole of the game.

Victor Osimhen of Napoli, Paul Onuachu of KRC Genk, Terem Moffi of Lorient, and Taiwo Awoniyi of FC Barcelona are all forwards (Nottingham Forest)

It's uncertain how much damage Victor Osimhen would have caused opponents if he had been Nigeria's first-choice attacker at the Qatar World Cup in 2022.

The four wingers can alter positions in-game, providing the manager a range of tactical options.

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