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Meteor meets mine out in the Arizona desert in It Came from Outer Space. Except it's not a meteor, as amateur astronomers are initially led to believe, but a titanium box structure with a hexagonal hatchway, not unlike the Cannon Films logo.
There's a trail of weird fairy dust leading up to the craft, and something pulsating within, all set to a Star Trek theremin score.
Soon, a chopper is soaring over the crater, then landing nearby. It's piloted by reluctant Pete, who's accompanied by space-obsessed astronomers John and Ellen.
When John descends into the dust, he spies what looks like a soccer ball, then barely escapes with his life after rocks begin to cave in around him.
In one account, "It lit up the sky like the end of all creation!" so not surprisingly, law enforcement and media are quickly on the scene, trying to poke holes in rattled ol' Johnny's tale of seeing something sentient down in the sandy basin.
The morning paper riffs STARGAZER SEES MARTIANS, as journalists are following up for more quotes from John.
Upon his return to the scene of the crash-landing, John tells a scientist on hand: "I don't know what is odd and what isn't anymore. I expected you to be more open to the idea [of aliens] than the others, you're a man of science!"
Soon, telecom engineer George (Russell Johnson, best known for his role as Professor on Gilligan's Island) is behaving very strangely, wandering around out in the desert and leaving his vehicle with the doors wide open. Citizens are soon reporting that their significant others are acting abnormally.
Ray Bradbury wrote the original story on which It Came from Outer Space was based. According to Keep Watching the Skies! author Bill Warren, Bradbury would write two drafts of an outline, "one he preferred [and] one catering to the apparent demands of the studio."
In this case, the film went through several changes, not the least of which was going from the prosaic The Meteor to Man from Outer Space to Strangers from Outer Space, and finally, the incredibly evocative and hilarious title we've all come to know and love.
It Came from outer Space is not without its flaws: listless pacing and a few too many "I tell ya's!", common vernacular of the time, but it's interesting in that it predated Invasion of the Body Snatchers by a few years and also made the otherworldly intruders benevolent instead of evil as in Invaders from Mars and most sci fi films of this ilk.
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BOMB BLAST IN HYDERABAD 2013: A MEDICAL ANALYSIS
K. Vishnu Prasad, Vimala Thomas, K. Padmaleela, Bheemathati Ranga Rao
Posted 1 Aug 2018 By Dr. Kotipalli Vishnu Prasad
Terrorist activities have become increasingly and Hyderabad has been often a key witness to such activities. The most recent being on the 21st February 2013, when twin bomb blast rocked the peace fabric in Hyderabad and where 96 victims were injured and 17 killed.
1) To detail the action taken post bomb blast
2) Analyse the demographic profile of the victims,
3) Enumerate the pattern of injuries and disability sustained by the victims and 4)Recommend measures for Mass casualty Emergencies.
Method: Data collected from the primary site of bomb blast and also data received at the Directorate of Medical Education. Case records of patients taken prospectively as well as retrospectively from the hospitals were used.
WHO defines disaster as 'any occurance that causes damage, economic destruction, loss of human life and deterioration in health and health services on a scale sufficient to warrant an extraordinary response from outside the affected community or area'. A disaster could be natural or man-made hazard. What we witnessed on the 21st of February 2013, at Hyderabad was a man-made disaster – Bomb blast by terrorists.
Andhra Pradesh and in particular Hyderabad has been exposed to terrorist activities for many years. Hyderabad was on the edge after twin blasts which occurred on August 25th 2007 where at least 43 people were killed and more than 70 others were injured as two bombs rocked a crowded outdoor auditorium and a popular eatery (Gokul Chat) in Hyderabad. These blasts occurred at 8:10 pm in the night. Another incident occurred on May 18th 2007, where at least 10 people were killed and more than a dozen injured in blast at 17th century Mecca mosque in Hyderabad. date very few attempts have been made to analyze the medical situations of the victims post bomb blast in India, hence we are attempting to do one. This paper aims to throw light on the action take, the demographic profile of the victims, patterns of injuries sustained by the casualties and the residual disability they are left with and also suggestions for preparedness to tackle such emergencies.
On Thursday, 21st February 2013, a terrorist bomb attack was perpetrated in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, which led to a mass injury situation. Twin blasts a few minutes apart shook the entire neighbourhood of Dilsukhnagar area in Hyderabad. The explosions took place between 07:00 and 07:03 PM. This paper is based on the overall information and data collected by the authors and also reported by the Director of Medical education, on the number of victims treated at the different hospitals and primary care facilities at the scene. Data on the patients received at the various hospitals (Both private and Government) treatment taken and their status was taken concurrently and in a few parts obtained retrospectively. Data was analyzed and interpretations made. Out of the 113, casualties, 17 died. Data on the remaining 96 victims forms part of the basis of this report.
Initial emergency treatment and triage was carried out by emergency medical services (108- EMRI) near the scenes of the blasts. Triage of the disaster victims was done at the bomb blast site and the victims were segregated based on their severity and sent to Osmania General Hospital and other nearby private hospitals. The vast majority of survivors were evacuated by 108 ambulances and many others by private ambulances and vehicles. Most casualties arrived at the hospitals between 7:30 pm and 9:30pm. The average distance of the private hospitals from the bomb blast site was 3 kilometre +/- 0.5 kilometres and Osmania General Hospital was about 6 kilometres away. As suggested by Forensic experts, ammonium nitrate material was used along with sharp metal objects in the bombs. This resulted in multiple injuries, superficial and deep wounds which penetrated the vital internal organs of the body, fractures and head injuries among the victims. These type of injuries cause massive bleeding, shock and collapse and hence some of the victims died on the spot.
The Explosion and the causalities
The explosions resulted in 113 causalities, 12 of who were killed immediately ( deaths at the scene). There were There were 5 subsequent deaths (while resuscitation and in-hospital deaths), which occurred either on the same day or later on, among the 101 victims who were reported to the nearby hospitals, bringing the total death toll to 17 and the overall mortality rate to 15% (17 out of 113) and the 'critical mortality rate' to 4.9% (5 out of 101). The 'critical mortality rate' – the death rate among the critically injured survivors – more accurately reflects the magnitude of the disaster and the results of medical management than does the overall mortality rate, and so it should be used when comparing the outcomes from different disasters.5 The number of injured left who took treatment in the hospitals was 96. A number of procedures were performed as part of the initial resuscitation and stabilization of the injured victims upon arrival to the Emergency departments of the hospitals. Some of these procedures included medication (92.7%), fluid administration (68.8%) insertion of nasogastric tube (20.8%), and endo-tracheal intubation (7.3%). Subsequently all other medical measures were taken up. More than 20% of the victims received blood transfusions during their stay at the hospitals, some of them receiving up to 10 units of blood.
Type of Disability
Conclusion: Most of the injuries were due to penetrating metallic sharps contained in the explosives. Males were more affected than females. Timely intervention and good hospital care definitely helps save a number of lives. Still standard guidelines and protocols for managing mass casualty emergencies need to be developed in India.
Cunningham, W. G. (2003). Terrorism: Definitions and typologies. Terrorism: Concepts, Causes, and Conflict Resolution. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Threat Reduction Agency and George Mason University's Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution.
M. Kalemoglu. The Medical Management Of Bomb-Blast Scenes In The Emergency Department. The Internet Journal of Rescue and Disaster Medicine. 2007; Volume 6 No 1.
Statement on Disaster and Mass Casualty Management: Committee on Trauma, American College of Surgeons
J Peral Gutierrez de Ceballos, F Turégano- Fuentes, D Perez-Diaz, M Sanz-Sanchez, C Martin- Llorente,andJE Guerrero-Sanz 11 March 2004: The terrorist bomb explosions in Madrid, Spain – An analysis of the logistics, injuries sustained and clinical management of casualties treated at the closest hospital. Crit Care. 2005; 9(1): 104– 111.
The 7 T's of Management of Mass Casualty Emergency
1. Timely intervention (golden hour) 2. Triage 3. Transportation 4. Treatment Protocols 5. Transfusion and Treatment Supplies 6. Team Leadership and Spirit 7. Training of the Emergency team
DR. K. VISHNU PRASAD
Author: Dr. K. Vishnu Prasad
The Medical paper was published in IJCRR Vol 05 issue 12 Section: Healthcare Category: Research as a medical analysis on the bomb blast that happened in Hyderabad in 2013. The information has been condensed to fit this format here on the page. For the full paper published in the journal please write to mbhospitals1@gmail.com
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Workers at Andrew Puzder's restaurants, Carl's Jr. and Hardee's, were denied breaks, exposed to unsafe work conditions and harassment, and forced to work off the clock or prepare food while they were ill.
Fast-food workers, labor groups, and Democrats sought to torpedo the nomination of Andrew Puzder, a champion of workplace automation who opposes the existence of a minimum wage and labor protections, as well as the Affordable Care Act.
President Trump's embattled choice to serve as the next labor secretary withdrew his nomination Wednesday after months of controversy and new reports of defections by as many as a dozen key Republicans.
Andrew Puzder, CEO of a restaurant group that includes Carl's Jr. and Hardee's, said in a statement he was "honored to have been considered by President Donald Trump to lead the Department of Labor and put America's workers and businesses back on a path to sustainable prosperity," as the Associated Press reported.
Controversy dogged the fast-food magnate's nomination, including a recent admission that he employed an undocumented housekeeper, a violation that has historically forced Cabinet nominees to withdraw.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) reportedly told the White House that Puzder lacked the votes to win Senate confirmation, as the Washington Post reported.
The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee was scheduled to consider Puzder's nomination Thursday. The confirmation hearing had been delayed four times.
Reports Wednesday by CNN suggested as many as a dozen Republicans considered voting against Puzder's confirmation. Republicans needed yes votes from at least 50 of the 52 GOP senators, along with Vice President Mike Pence casting the deciding affirmative vote in case of a 50-50 tie, to confirm Puzder's nomination.
It was revealed this week that Puzder's ex-wife appeared on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" in 1990 as a domestic violence survivor, reviving allegations against the fast-food chief of repeated physical assault in the 1980s. His ex-wife retracted the allegations, but Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN), who chairs the committee that was to hold Puzder's confirmation hearing, told Politico he had arranged for senators to see the Oprah tape.
Fast-food workers, labor groups, and Democrats sought to torpedo the nomination of Puzder, a champion of workplace automation who opposes the existence of a minimum wage and labor protections, as well as the Affordable Care Act.
A scathing report released last month by Murray and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) alleged Carl's Jr. and Hardee's employees were denied breaks, exposed to unsafe work conditions and harassment, and forced to work off the clock or prepare food while they were ill. Workers at Hardee's and Carl's Jr. franchises filed 33 complaints last month, alleging wage theft, harassment, and intimidation at the restaurants.
Puzder told California State University students in 2011 that in "fast food, you sort of compete for the best of the worst." Puzder added that Hardee's employees were "the worst of the worst." He suggested robots could replace human workers.


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Most tourists visiting the beach have a bodyboard or two thrown into the car and usually flap around in the white water or try to jump into passing waves. This is normally some degree of fun. However, bodyboarding is fundamentally misunderstood and is so much more than this child's play.
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Some years ago, during the beginning of worldwide recession we realised that we could share our passion for this coast, coasteering and bodyboarding with others. It took a couple of years to get organised, but we couldn't help ourselves launching IrishC despite the constant negative news reports of financial melt down. We worked night and day to get the embryonic business afloat, the fact that our new customers enthusiasm for our coasteering product was so profound certainly helped keep us moving forward despite the challenges. Over the next few years IrishC grew in influence and exposure, customer enthusiasm matching ours and driving us forward.
Last year we asked our customer for feedback and interestingly, quite a number of suggested that the name, IrishC didn't communicate who we were and what we offered strongly enough. The point was taken and we believe that through the brand Causeway Coasteering we will continue delivering a fantastic coasteering product but an even stronger brand.
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Der Lohrbach ist ein 3,365 km langer, linker Zufluss der Kyll.
Die Fließgewässerkennziffer ist 26696, das Wassereinzugsgebiet hat eine Größe von 3,646 km².

Ein rechter Zufluss des Lohrbaches ist der Bach von der Hochmark, der 805 m lang ist, ein Einzugsgebiet von 0,856 km² hat und die Fließgewässerkennziffer 266962.

Der Lohrbach entspringt im Ehranger Wald und bildet ganz überwiegend die Gemarkungsgrenze zwischen Kordel und Trier-Ehrang. Er fließt in südwestlicher Richtung und mündet in der Nähe der Burg Ramstein in die Kyll.

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9/11 Mastermind, 4 Co-Conspirators Still Awaiting Trial 18 Years Since Attacks
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The death penalty trial of the self-proclaimed 9/11 mastermind and his four co-conspirators held at the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is still pending nearly two decades after the jihadis executed the attack, the deadliest on American soil.
In an unprecedented move, however, the judge overseeing the military tribunal at Gitmo finally set a date at the end of last month for the start of the trial for the five defendants.
On August 30, U.S. Air Force Col. Shane Cohen, who took over as the judge overseeing the case in June, said the trial would begin January 11, 2021, as the nation approaches the 20th anniversary of the day that triggered the longest war in American history.
The United States invaded Afghanistan in October 2001 to remove the Taliban from power for harboring the late al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in the days leading to the attack and prevent the South Asian country from again becoming a haven for terrorists seeking to attack America.
Afghanistan is now home to the "highest regional concentration" of terrorist groups in the world, including the Taliban, al-Qaeda, and the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), the Pentagon reported in July.
Pre-trial hearings for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) and the four other men alleged to have played vital roles in helping carry out the massacre on September 11, 2001, resumed Monday.
As the U.S. holds another memorial service Wednesday for the nearly 3,000 people killed by al-Qaeda 18 years ago, the five defendants will still be awaiting trial.
KSM and his co-conspirators — Walid Muhammad Bin Attash, Ramzi Bin Al Shibh, Ali Abdul-Aziz Ali, and Mustafa Ahmed Al Hawsawi — could face the death penalty.
The U.S. is still holding the five terrorists at the detention facility in Guantánamo, commonly known as Gitmo.
U.S. authorities did not arraign KSM and his four co-conspirators until May 2012, more than a decade after the attacks. American service-members captured KSM in 2003 and transferee him to Gitmo in 2006.
The military commission at Gitmo has repeatedly delayed the prospective trial of the 9/11 perpetrators in U.S. custody.
In setting the trial date, Judge Cohen acknowledged that the U.S. military base at Guantánamo "will face a host of administrative and logistics challenges," the Military Times reported.
National Public Radio (NPR) added:
[A] number of other deadlines would need to be met for the long-delayed trial to begin.
That includes the U.S. government turning over all evidence it is required to give to defense attorneys. Lawyers for the five defendants say prosecutors have not been forthcoming.
Several defense attorneys told NPR they think the scheduled trial date is unrealistic, and they say Guantánamo isn't physically ready for a trial of that magnitude. But prosecutors have been asking for a trial date for several years and say that finally having one will motivate all parties to meet the deadline.
The tribunal overseeing the case of the 9/11 attackers is a hybrid of the federal and military justice system.
This week, the German news agency Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA) revealed:
Crucial pre-trial hearings for the accused mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks and four other men alleged to have played key roles in helping carry out the passenger plane hijackings will resume on Monday (September 9) in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
[KSM], who confessed to being involved in the capture and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, was subjected to extensive torture and was waterboarded 183 times.
The procedure simulates a drowning experience.
Lawyers for the defense are arguing that any confessions or other material should be invalidated because of the torture and are likely to file motions to have the entire trial set aside.
Gitmo is still housing 40 jihadis, the majority of whom are considered "forever prisoners," or too dangerous to release.
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has only transferred one detainee out of the facility. Former U.S. President Barack Obama had approved the prisoner for release.
The Trump administration is considering sending newly captured terrorists to the prison, particularly the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadis.
Citing the slow-moving pace of the military commissions and the cost of operating Gitmo, critics continue to argue in favor of allowing civilian courts on U.S. soil to handle the remaining cases.
U.S. law approved under the Obama administration, however, makes it impossible to transfer any Guantánamo prisoner to the United States.
Gitmo's military tribunals have only produced eight convictions, including four overturned completely and one partially.
KSM and the other four defendants are among the only seven prisoners still held at Gitmo who face charges before a "military commission."
Of the four overturned convictions, the military commission will have to deal with three. The other prisoner has appealed his life sentence to the U.S. Supreme Court.
U.S. authorities only charged 16 detainees held at G with criminal offenses, Human Rights Watch reported.
Yemenis make up the single largest national group at the prison, followed by Saudis.
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Estrées-Deniécourt is een gemeente in het Franse departement Somme (regio Hauts-de-France) en telt 245 inwoners (1999). De plaats maakt deel uit van het arrondissement Péronne.

Geografie
De oppervlakte van Estrées-Deniécourt bedraagt 6,5 km², de bevolkingsdichtheid is 37,7 inwoners per km².

Demografie
Onderstaande figuur toont het verloop van het inwonertal (bron: INSEE-tellingen).

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Gemeente in Somme


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Freeview to go, please!
Freeview, the UK's biggest TV platform, has jumped in to the mobile world with the launch of its new app. The Freeview app is now available on the App Store, ready for iOS users to download on to their devices.
Users of the app will be able to stream shows live from the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 and also play on-demand content on the go from BBC iPlayer, ITV Hub, All 4, My5 and UKTV Play – all for free.
The Freeview app has a number of features available to give you the best viewing experience possible. Of note is On Demand Recommendations which helpfully takes note of what entertainment you lean towards and suggests content just for you. It could be your longstanding go-to show or the new favourite that you are yet to discover but whatever it is, with thousands of hours of content and ten genres, the Freeview app will have something for every user. Bring on the TV binge!
For those who like to plan their TV-watching schedules, you'll be pleased to know that Freeview has included their trusty TV guide in the app. The TV guide will span 15 days showing content from both the previous week and the week ahead so that users will be able to plan both their live and on-demand viewing.
The Freeview app is currently available on the App Store. In keeping with its name, it's free to use as neither a download fee or subscription is required. Android users, don't worry the Android version will launch later this year.
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Q: ember - Failing to save a new model I have a very simple author model with one field, name. I have a form in my authors/new template that calls the action save when it is submitted.
<form {{action "save" on="submit"}}>
  {{input value=model.name placeholder="Name"}}<br>
  <input type="submit" value="Save">

</form>

In my route for authors/new I define the model to create a record for author, then define the action save to save this model.
import Ember from 'ember';

export default Ember.Route.extend({
    model() {
        return this.store.createRecord('author');
    },
    actions: {
        save() {
            this.get('model').save();
        }
    }
});

However when I click the save button, I get the following error in my console.
Uncaught TypeError: this.get(...).save is not a function. Can anyone help me out as to what I'm doing wrong?

A: Easiest and cleanest would be to pass the model to your save function:
<form {{action "save" on="submit" model}}>
save(model) {
    model.save();
}

A: try to use modelFor only for nested routes.
As you only implement the model hook in your route, ember will apply all the other hooks with default implementation.
It sets whatever is returned from the model hook as model on your controller.
So what you can do here is:
   let newAuthor = this.get('controller.model');
   newAuthor.save().then(() => { return console.log('it saved!') });

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Washington Post, Leftist Generals Stoke Hysteria About a 2024 'Insurrection'
By Robert Spencer Dec 19, 2021 6:48 PM ET
AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana
The Jan. 6 "insurrection" hasn't worked out quite the way the Democrats obviously hoped: Trump wasn't convicted in his second Stalinist impeachment show trial, no one has actually been charged with orchestrating or participating in any "insurrection," and the witch hunt to demonize and marginalize Trump and his supporters as "white supremacists" who pose an imminent threat to our "democracy" (it's a republic, folks) has so far been a huge fizzle. But three ferociously partisan retired generals are thinking ahead, publishing an op-ed in the Washington Post Friday, which warns that those dastardly Trump supporters would certainly stage an "insurrection" in 2024, so the military must start preparing now to "preserve our democracy," that is, destroy our republic.
Paul D. Eaton, a retired U.S. Army major general and senior adviser to the far-Left VoteVets, Antonio M. Taguba, a retired Army major general, and Steven M. Anderson, a retired Army brigadier general, began their manipulative and disingenuous piece by noting that "the first anniversary of the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol" is approaching. They didn't bother to mention, of course, that the insurrection was deadly only for Ashli Babbitt, a Trump supporter. Nor do they bother to remind their Post audience, which wouldn't have wanted to hear it anyway, that the supposed "insurrectionists" were unarmed and were let into the Capitol by guards, and that no evidence of some premeditated coup attempt has emerged or is likely to emerge.
Facts, however, are not the order of the day at the WaPo, and so Eaton, Taguba, and Anderson write that "we — all of us former senior military officials — are increasingly concerned about the aftermath of the 2024 presidential election and the potential for lethal chaos inside our military, which would put all Americans at severe risk." Lethal chaos is just the warm-up. "In short," the generals continue, "we are chilled to our bones at the thought of a coup succeeding next time."
The Post ought to be ashamed of itself for publishing such incendiary nonsense, but, of course, that would require it to have some journalistic standards in the first place. If Jan. 6 was a coup attempt, it was the most inept, poorly planned and leaderless coup in human history; if Jan. 6 was not a coup attempt, these generals are irresponsible (at very least) to add fuel to the already brightly burning fire of the establishment's hatred for Trump and his supporters.
And it is Trump's supporters that the generals want to defame and destroy. "On Jan. 6, a disturbing number of veterans and active-duty members of the military took part in the attack on the Capitol. More than 1 in 10 of those charged in the attacks had a service record. A group of 124 retired military officials, under the name 'Flag Officers 4 America,' released a letter echoing Donald Trump's false attacks on the legitimacy of our elections." Eaton, Taguba and Anderson show no interest in what might have motivated these military men to be out at the Capitol on Jan. 6. They are blithely unconcerned about the possibility that these veterans and active-duty members of the military may have been deeply concerned about credible evidence of election fraud, and wanted to show their support for a president who was America-First in a way that presidents whom these generals would find acceptable never have been.
Related: Bad Words and Desperation: Democrats Flail to Keep January 6 Relevant
Eaton, Taguba and Anderson also go out of their way to criticize an opponent of Biden's handlers' mandate tyranny, even though he has nothing whatsoever to do with the alleged Jan. 6 "insurrection" at all. "Recently, and perhaps more worrying, Brig. Gen. Thomas Mancino, the commanding general of the Oklahoma National Guard, refused an order from President Biden mandating that all National Guard members be vaccinated against the coronavirus," fume the generals. "Mancino claimed that while the Oklahoma Guard is not federally mobilized, his commander in chief is the Republican governor of the state, not the president."
Such resistance to untrammeled federal power cannot stand, as far as these generals are concerned. "The potential for a total breakdown of the chain of command along partisan lines — from the top of the chain to squad level — is significant should another insurrection occur. The idea of rogue units organizing among themselves to support the 'rightful' commander in chief cannot be dismissed. Imagine competing commanders in chief — a newly reelected Biden giving orders, versus Trump (or another Trumpian figure) issuing orders as the head of a shadow government. Worse, imagine politicians at the state and federal levels illegally installing a losing candidate as president."
All this is paving the way for any contesting of the 2024 election results to be dismissed and perhaps even prosecuted as another attempted "coup." It is the sort of thing a person would write if he planned to cheat and wanted to ensure that any challenges to his activity would be ruled out before they ever had a chance to gather steam.
The republic is indeed in peril these days. But the threat is not coming from those who entered the Capitol on Jan. 6, or from Trump. Rather, it is coming from those who relentlessly smear their opponents as "white supremacists" and then insist that "white supremacists" constitute the greatest terror threat the nation faces today. That kind of discourse, like this Washington Post op-ed from three Leftist generals, is designed to destroy the mutual respect and consideration on which a functioning republic depends. If Easton, Taguba, Anderson, and the Washington Post really want to find some "insurrectionists," they should look in the mirror.
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 23 books including many bestsellers, such as The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades), The Truth About Muhammad and The History of Jihad. His latest book is The Critical Qur'an. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.
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At the heart of the Spanish Costa Brava, the Hotel Peralda Wine, Spa & Golf triumphs thanks to its architectural beauty and its impressive surface.
With 55 high standard rooms and suites, the costumers are the kings. It 18-holes golf course will fit all the fans of greens as well as any beginners that want to try this sport.
The very big asset of the establishment remains its Wine Spa, a wellness center that uses water and wine of the Peralada's region for body, skin and mind treatments. Air-conditioned pools, steamed baths, couple and group spaces as well as Jacuzzi and sauna are parts of its offer.
Rich from a culinary tradition that has crossed the centuries; the Costa Brava is proudly represented in the menus of the hotel's restaurants. From the Olivera, the Olivera's Terrace, la Masia to the Wine Bar, the choice is large, sophisticated and unforgettable.


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Mass grave found in Syria's Palmyra after city recaptured from Islamic State - state media
LISA BARRINGTON
Inside Palmyra: See ISIS Destruction of Ancient Syrian City
BEIRUT, April 2 (Reuters) - Syrian troops have identified 45 bodies so far in a mass grave found in the city of Palmyra after it was recaptured from Islamic State, a military source told Reuters on Saturday.
Syrian government forces backed by heavy Russian air support drove Islamic State out of Palmyra last Sunday, inflicting what the army called a mortal blow to militants who had dynamited the city's ancient temples.
The communal grave, on the north-eastern edge of Palmyra, is the only one found so far in the city by the Syrian forces, the source said. It held the bodies of both civilians and Syrian army members captured by Islamic State.
Syrian state news agency SANA said on Friday the grave contained many women and children and some of the bodies had been beheaded.
In May last year, as Islamic State took control of Palmyra, the hard-line Islamist militants were reported by Syrian state media to have killed at least 400 people in the first four days of control.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the five-year-old Syrian conflict through a network of sources on the ground, said that Islamic State had killed a number of people at an earlier time and buried them on the outskirts of the city.
The Observatory reported on Saturday that fighting between Syrian forces and Islamic State around Qaryatain to the west of Palmyra. It also reported, and Russian and Syrian air strikes in the same area and to the east of Palmyra around the town of Sukhna.
Attacks by government forces against Islamic State positions to the around Palmyra are aimed at moving east across the desert to Islamic State-held Deir al-Zor near the Iraqi border, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said. (Reporting by Lisa Barrington, editing by Jeremy Gaunt, Larry King)
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The Gardens of the Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte.
Cole Swensen's book Ours is a sequence of poems — or is perhaps best described as a poetic project. André Le Nôtre (1613-1700) was the principal gardener of King Louis XIV; he designed and led the construction of the park of the Palace of Versailles. The poems in Swensen's book indicate a range of interests in Le Nôtre's work and beyond, but his Gardens of the Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte are of special interest, and they are the topic of the poem we chose to discuss, "If a Garden of Numbers." The poem, and our talk about it, raised a number of compelling questions. Are historical research and the lyric compatible?
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Cerith Wyn Evans, 'Acephale' (2001).
The poem constitutes (and is constituted by) potential energy resonating from the practically indiscernible event horizon(s) sundering the autonomous contours of discrete operational systems (subject from object from world). As a result, "the poem" is not just language (or, more radically, not even language), but precisely what is left unsaid in the thing itself (and how this excess disrupts the faux placidity of language through readerly engagement). Surplus meaning infloresces between reader, writer, and world in the relational space constituting the poem's immanent outside, but it's the poem itself, its words, that allow us to touch this remainder. As such, the poem is not so much cipher (concealing a singularly esoteric content), but an opening, a cut, as Fred Moten has it (after the work of Saidiya Hartman).
For a long time we have divined both order and disorder in the world and projected these as measure and excess. But every poetics led us to believe something that, of course, is not wrong: that excessiveness of order and a measured disorder exist as well. The only discernible stabilities in Relation have to do with the interdependence of the cycles operative there, how their corresponding patterns of movement are in tune.
So she wrote
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News from the Asylum - Monday Edition
Ouch. According to the CDC, teen births hit a record low. I should hope so. It must be quite an ordeal for the mother to give birth to a teenager.
Photo source: White House photo Not listening. Reuters reports that according to a Quinnipiac University poll, "Americans are eager to hear President Barack Obama address the U.S. economy and federal deficit in his State of the Union speech on Tuesday." Meanwhile, in Washington, the president is putting the finishing touches on his speech, which will focus on gun control, immigration, and how he got Charles Dorner.
Tragic day. The New York Post reports, "The distillery behind Maker's Mark bourbon is reducing the amount of alcohol to meet a rise in global demand, company officials said today."
It would behoove Maker's Mark to heed the advice of Sonny Bunch, managing editor at the Washington Free Beacon. His alternative? Instead of "diluting their product in order to ensure that more people have access to a crappier product," apply freshman economics and "raise the price!"
Photo source: AceShowBiz.com Film critic Rex Reed is under fire for referring to Identify Thief star Melissa McCarthy as a "female hippo." Reed's detractors have a point. McCarthy looks nothing like a hippo. She looks like a governor of New Jersey.
Iranian Media reports that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says he's ready to be the first Iranian in space. Does that even need a punchline?
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Photo sources: rantersbox.blogspot.com, The Inquisitr Senate Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi told Fox News yesterday, "It is almost a false argument to say that we have a spending problem," and "The fact is, we've had plenty of spending cuts." When told that federal spending actually increased $192 billion between 2011 and 2012, the former speaker said, "Math is hard."
This morning's top story is the announcement from the Vatican that Pope Benedict XVI will resign at the end of the month. The news came as a shock to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. She thought she was in charge of the Catholic Church.
Meanwhile, anonymous sources at Buckingham Palace reveal that Britain's Prince Charles spent the morning subtly planting news articles about the pontiff's resignation around his mother's wing of the palace.
In an interview with CNN's "The Science Seat", astronomer James Kalirai warned that someday, "The outer layers of the sun will actually reach the Earth, and so the oceans will evaporate and our planet will be fried." In response, former Vice President Al Gore blamed global warming and renewed calls to deindustrialize the planet.
In a related story, President Obama promised to "lower the sun level."
Check back throughout the day for continuous updates.
Michael Isenberg is the author of Full Asylum, a novel about politics, freedom, and hospital gowns. Check it out on Amazon.com
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Josh Scarabin February 11, 2013 at 5:27 AM
She's right,math is hard. It involves solving problems. If solving problems is hard to her then she has no business in govt.
Michael Isenberg February 11, 2013 at 5:53 AM
Solving problems requires admitting that we have them. Our politicians seem to be in denial about that. The economy is rosy, entitlements are sustainable, $16 trillion in debt is fine. Whatever you think of the Ryan plan, you have to give the guy credit for being practically the only person in Washington to offer one.
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Modartt releases Concert Harp for Pianoteq
Modartt has announced the release of the Concert Harp for its Pianoteq instrument.
This Concert Harp for Pianoteq is physically modelled after a Salvi concert grand harp. It allows to play pinch harmonics (flageolets) and glissandos. It includes a diatonic mode with seven pedals to change the pitch of the strings and play in all keys.
The harp has appeared in many forms since as early as 3500 BC. The pedal harp appeared around 1700, and was improved in 1810 by S. Erard's double movement, which allows to play in all keys and is still today's standard for the concert harp. The harp was extremely popular in the 18th century, used by many baroque and classical composers of the time (Händel, Mozart and others) and later started to appear in operas by Puccini and in symphonic music and ballets by Liszt, Berlioz, Massenet, Debussy, Tchaikovsky, Wagner and others. The harp is also featured in modern music, appearing in works such as "She's Leaving Home" by The Beatles and "Dark Lady" by Cher. In the Marx Brothers movies, the very skilled harp player by the nickname Harpo often dedicates entire scenes playing the harp.
The concert harp possesses 47 strings attached to a soundboard, and is played with the fingertips of the first four fingers with both hands. Since there are no damped strings during playing, the harp has a special magical sound which the Pianoteq technology manages to capture with astonishing authenticity.
The Concert Harp add-on for Pianoteq is available for purchase for 49 EUR.
More information: Pianoteq / Concert Harp
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module Twelve where

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--(**) Decode a run-length encoded list.

--Given a run-length code list generated as specified in problem 11.
--Construct its uncompressed version.
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data Frequency =  Single Char | Multiple Int Char deriving Show

getTerms :: Frequency -> [Char]
getTerms (Single c) = [c]
getTerms (Multiple k c) = replicate k c

decodeModified ::  [Frequency] -> [Char]
decodeModified [] = []
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text:
\section{Introduction}
\label{sec:intro}

Distributional semantics models create word embeddings based on the assumption that the
meaning of a word is defined by the contexts it is used in
(for an overview, see: \citealp{sahlgren2008distributional,lenci2018distributional,boleda2020distributional,emerson-2020-goals}).
A fundamental challenge for these approaches is the difficulty of producing high-quality embeddings for rare words, since the models often require vast amounts of training examples \citep{adams-etal-2017-cross,van-hautte-etal-2019-bad}.
To address this problem, various few-shot learning methods have been previously introduced. The goal
of a few-shot learning technique is to learn an embedding that captures the meaning of a
word, given only a few context sentences. The rare word's vector has to be placed in an existing \textit{background} space of embeddings.

Few-shot learning in distributional semantics is a relatively underexplored area,
with important practical applications. Having good representations of rare words is highly
desirable in applications aiming to understand dialects or regionalisms, as well as specific technical language.

In this work, we explore the idea of incorporating information from the dependency parse of sentences in the context of few shot-learning. An intuition why this might be useful is provided in Figure \ref{fig:parse}. In the given sentence, the most relevant word for inferring the meaning of the target rare word ``conflagration" is ``destroyed". Even if this word is located far from the target, it is directly connected to it through a nominal subject dependency. Moreover, the fact that the target word is used in a certain dependency structure might reveal important characteristics related to its meaning. Since in the case of few-shot learning the data is limited, using dependency parsing information is a resource with great potential to boost existing models.

As a first effort in this direction, this work provides three contributons. Firstly, we explore the effect of using dependency-based word embeddings as background spaces. Secondly, we introduce new few-shot learning methods leveraging the dependency parsing information. Lastly, we update a previous dependency-based background model to make it more suitable for few-shot learning.

\section{Background: dependency-based word embeddings}
\label{sec:dependency}

\begin{figure*}
    \centering \small
\begin{dependency}[theme = default]
   \begin{deptext}[column sep=0.2cm]
      The  \& severe \& \textbf{\textit{conflagration}} \& which \& affected \& Troy \& on \& 10 \& May \& 1862 \& \textbf{destroyed} \& 507 \& buildings. \\
   \end{deptext}
   \depedge[edge height=5mm]{3}{2}{amod}
   \depedge[edge height=10mm]{3}{1}{det}
   \depedge[edge height=5mm]{3}{5}{relcl}
   \depedge[edge height=10mm]{11}{3}{nsubj}

\end{dependency}

    \caption{A dependency parse, illustrating that context words connected by a dependency can be important for inferring meaning in a few-shot setting, such as ``destroyed'' for the rare word ``conflagration''.}
    \label{fig:parse}
\end{figure*}

The widely-used Skip-Gram model introduced by \citet{mikolov} takes the contexts of a word to be those words surrounding it in a pre-defined window size. The model learns the embeddings in an unsupervised manner, using a feed-forward neural network trained on
large amounts of sentences.

\citet{levy-goldberg-2014-dependency} proposed a different way to construct the contexts of a target
word in the training process of the Skip-Gram model. Instead of taking the words from a
pre-defined window, one takes the words that are connected to the target word by a syntactic
dependency. The contexts were defined as the concatenation of the connected word and the
label of the dependency. This allowed the model to differentiate between same words used
in different syntactic roles.

The dependency-based word embeddings were found to be better at capturing similarity, while the window-based models capture relatedness. For example, a dependency-based model would produce close embeddings for ``Rome" and ``Florence", which are \textit{syntactically similar}
since they can be used in the same grammatical contexts, while a window-based model is likely to place closely the embedding of highly related terms such as ``Rome" and ``ancient", even if they cannot be used interchangeably since they are different parts of speech.

\citeauthor{levy-goldberg-2014-dependency}'s model successfully captured syntactic similarity, but failed to express
how different dependency types affect relations between words. Moreover, it introduced sparsity issues.
\citet{czarnowska-etal-2019-words}
developed the Dependency Matrix model to address these shortcomings. Instead of incorporating the dependency labels in the context vocabulary, each dependency type $d$ is associated with a matrix $T_d$, which
acts as a meaning representation of the link between the target and the context words. The matrices $T_d$, as well as the vectors holding the target vectors $e$ and context vectors $o$, are learned during training. Let $\mathcal{D}$ be the set of training examples given by tuples of target word $t$, context word $c$ and dependency type $d$. For each tuple, we generate a set $\mathcal{D'}$ of negative samples $(t, c', d)$ by drawing context words $c'$ from a noise distribution and maintaining the same target word $t$ and dependency type $d$. The learning goal is to maximise the function in (\ref{eq:1}), where $\sigma$ is the sigmoid function and $e_t$ and $o_c$ are the vectors of the target and context word
\begin{align}
    \sum_{\mathclap{(t, c, d) \in \mathcal{D}}} \Big ( \log\sigma(u^{t,c,d}) &+ \sum_{\mathclap{(t, c', d) \in \mathcal{D'}}} \log\sigma( - u^{t,c',d}) \Big ) \label{eq:1}\\
    u^{t, c, d} &= e_t \cdot T_{d} \cdot o_c\label{eq:2}
\end{align}

\section{Background: few-shot learning}
\label{sec:few-shot}

As a straight-forward yet successful baseline, the vector
of the rare word is estimated by the sum of the vectors of the words in contexts, as proposed by \citet{lazaridou} and \citet{herbelot-baroni-2017-high}. The latter noticed that not including the stop-words greatly improves the performance on the evaluation tasks. To optimise the performance of the additive model, \citet{van-hautte-etal-2019-bad} proposed weighting the context words according to distance and frequency, as well as subtracting a ``negative sampling'' vector. These modifications take hyperparameters that are important for Skip-Gram's strong performance, such as number of negative samples $k$ and window size $n$ \citep{levy-etal-2015-improving},
and apply them to the few-shot setting. For each word $w$ in the vocabulary $V$, with frequency $f(w)$ and distance $m$ from the target rare word $t$, and for a frequency threshold $\tau$, we calculate the subsampling weight $s(w)$, the window weight $r(w)$ and negative sampling coefficient $n(w)$.
\vspace*{-2mm}
\begin{align}
    s(w) &= \min\left(1,\sqrt{\frac{\tau}{f(w)}} \label{eq:sub}\right)\\
    r(w) &= \max \Big (0, \frac{n-m+1}{n} \Big) \label{eq:window}\\
    n(w)&= \frac{f(w)^{0.75}}{\sum_{w \in V} f(w)^{0.75}}\label{eq:neg}
\end{align}

Assume $\mathcal{C}$ is the collection of non-stop context words for the given target rare word $t$ and $v_c$ is the vector in the background space for each $c \in \mathcal{C}$. The vector of the target rare word $t$ will is:
\vspace*{-1mm}
\begin{align}
    v_t &= \sum_{c\in C} v_c^{\text{add}} \textrm{~~~where }\\
    v_c^{\text{add}} &= s(c)  r(c) \Big (v_c - k \sum_{w \in V} n(w) v_{w} \Big ) \label{eq:7}
\end{align}

More involved models have been proposed for the task of few-shot learning. \citet{khodak-etal-2018-la} introduced A La Carte, which applies a linear transformation to
the sum of the context words obtained by the additive model. The weights of the linear transformation are optimised based on the co-occurrence matrix of the corpus. \citet{van-hautte-etal-2019-bad} takes this approach further in the Neural A La Carte model, by using a neural network with a hidden layer to produce a non-linear transformation matrix, which adds flexibility.

The meaning of a rare word can often be deduced from the word form itself. This information has been leveraged in few-shot learning models. For example, the Form-Context Model \citep{schick2019learning} is a hybrid method  which retrieves the weighted sum between the surface form
embedding of the rare word, obtained using FastText \citep{fasttext} and the context-based embedding, produced using the A La Carte model.

In this paper, we focus on additive methods, which do not require additional training on few-shot learning examples. This keeps the inference fast and in line with the \textit{true few-shot learning} setting proposed by \citet{perez2021true}.

\section{Dependency-based FSL methods}
\label{sec:dep-fsl}

Dependency relations proved to be an informative tool in the context of creating distributional semantics models. Based on this success, we introduce two dependency-based few-shot learning methods which build on top of the Additive model. In this section, we assume we have already trained a background space of embeddings $v_i$ for each word $i$. In our setup, we chose to consider only the target embeddings learnt by the aforementioned background models, i.e. $v_i = e_i$. Alternatively, one could use the concatenation of the target and context embeddings.

\paragraph{Dependency Additive Model}
The starting point of our methods is the assumption that the closer a word is to the target word in the dependency graph, the more relevant it is for inferring the target's meaning, as seen in Figure \ref{fig:parse}.

Our method assigns weights for each word in the sentence by considering the distances from the rare word in the dependency parse. For each context word $c$, let $d_c$ be the number of dependency links from the target rare word $t$ to $c$ in the parse. Note that we consider links in both directions. The inferred vector $v_t$ of the rare word is the weighted sum of the vectors of context words, where the weight $w_c$ of each context word $c$ is given in (\ref{eq:4}). The weight is chosen so that it is inversely proportional to the distance from the target, and we add 1 in order to avoid discarding context words which are far from the target in the dependency tree.

\begin{align}
    v_t &= \sum_{c\in C} w_c v_c^{\text{add}} &\textrm{where } w_c &= 1 + \frac{1}{d_c} \label{eq:4}
\end{align}

Initially, we experimented with simply applying the coefficients $w_c$ on the vectors of the context words $v_c$.~However, a better performance was achieved when we incorporated the the weighting steps in (\ref{eq:7}), so we used $v_c^{\text{add}}$ instead of $v_c$.

\begin{table*}[h!]
\centering
\addtolength{\tabcolsep}{-1pt}
\begin{tabular}{|l|l|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|}
\hline
\multirow{2}{*}{\textbf{Backgr. Model}} & \multirow{2}{*}{\textbf{FSL Model}} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{\textbf{DN}} & \multicolumn{3}{c|}{\textbf{Chimera}} & \multicolumn{5}{c|}{\textbf{CRW}} \\ \cline{3-12}
& & \textbf{MRR} & \textbf{MR} & \textbf{L2} & \textbf{L3} & \textbf{L6} & \textbf{1} & \textbf{2} & \textbf{4} & \textbf{8} & \textbf{16} \\ \hline
\multirow{2}{*}{\shortstack[l]{Skip-Gram}} & Additive & 0.010 & 5312 & 0.12 & 0.19 & 0.20 & 0.11 & 0.12 & 0.13 & 0.15 & 0.15 \\ \cline{2-12}
& Dep.~Additive & 0.021 & 4007 & 0.13 & 0.20 & 0.21 & 0.12 & 0.13 & 0.14 & 0.15 & 0.16 \\ \hline
\multirow{2}{*}{\shortstack[l]{\strut Dependency\\ Skip-Gram}} & Additive & 0.023 & 4671 & 0.14 & 0.21 & 0.21 & 0.11 & 0.14 & 0.15 & 0.16 & 0.17 \\ \cline{2-12}
& Dep.~Additive & 0.027 & 3785 & \textbf{0.16} & 0.21 & 0.23 & 0.12 & 0.15 & 0.16 & 0.17 & 0.18 \\ \hline
\multirow{3}{*}{\shortstack[l]{Dependency \\ Matrix}} & Additive & 0.017 & 3367 & 0.13 & 0.23 & 0.25 & 0.15 & 0.17 & 0.20 & 0.22 & 0.22 \\ \cline{2-12}
& Dep.~Additive & \textbf{0.034} & \textbf{3140} & 0.14 & \textbf{0.26} & 0.29 & \textbf{0.18} & \textbf{0.20} & \textbf{0.22} & \textbf{0.24} & \textbf{0.25} \\ \cline{2-12}
& DM Additive & 0.019 & 3163 & 0.15 & 0.24 & \textbf{0.31} & 0.16 & 0.20 & 0.20 & 0.21 & 0.22 \\ \hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{\label{tab:results}
Results for different combinations of background and few-shot learning model, on three evaluation datasets. The best result for each column is marked in bold.
Higher is better for all columns except MR.
}
\end{table*}

\paragraph{Dependency Matrix Additive Model}
The Dependency Additive model above does not take into account the type of dependency on each edge in the graph, which, as we have seen, plays an important role in capturing the meaning of the words in relation to each other. We thus devised a strategy to make use of this information.

\citeauthor{czarnowska-etal-2019-words} proposed the idea of using the learnt dependency matrices of the Dependency Matrix model for the task of semantic composition, by multiplying word embdeddings with matrices over chains of dependencies. We apply the same idea in the context of few-shot learning. More precisely, instead of giving a weight for each vector of a context word, we multiply it with corresponding dependency matrices on the chain of dependencies from the target to the context. To be able to do this based on the original Dependency Matrix model, we would have to take into account that when we advance in the dependency parse, we have to switch between using the context vector (retrieved from $o$) and target vector (retrieved from $e$).

To simplify this process, we modified the Dependency Matrix model to use only one embedding per word, instead of separate context and target embeddings.\footnote{%
    This cannot be applied to Skip-Gram
    without causing every word to predict itself as a context.
    To allow Skip-Gram to use only one vector per word,
    \citet{zobnin-elistratova-2019-learning}
    propose using an indefinite inner product,
    which corresponds to $T$ in~(\ref{eq:5})
    being a diagonal matrix of $1$s and~$-1$s.
    In a similar vein, \citet{bertolini-etal-2021-representing}
    propose a more radical simplification of the Dependency Matrix model,
    which uses matrices that are non-zero only on the diagonal and off-diagonal.
} This also reduces the training time of the model. More precisely, we have the same training loss as in~(\ref{eq:1}), but (\ref{eq:2})~is replaced by:
\begin{align}
    u^{t, c, d} &= v_t \cdot T_{d} \cdot v_c\label{eq:5}
\end{align}

Having trained this model, we then make use of the matrices $T_d$, optimised for each dependency type $d$. For the target rare word $t$ and each non-stop context word $c$, Let $D(t, c)$ be the path of dependency types from $t$ to $c$. The vector of the target rare word is calculated as:
\begin{align}
v_t &= \sum_{c\in C} v_c' &
\textrm{where } v_c' &= \left(\prod_{d\in D(t,c)}\!\!\!\!\!T_d \right) v_c^{\text{add}}
\label{eqn:sum}
\end{align}

\section{Experiments}
\label{sec:experiments}

In our setup, we considered three background models: window-based Skip-Gram, dependency-based Skip-Gram and the modified Dependency Matrix model which only uses one embedding for each word. To allow a direct comparison, we trained them all on the WikiWoods \cite{wikiwoods} snapshot of English Wikipedia. The same hyper-parameters were used: a dimensionality of 100,  15 negative samples, a batch size of 5, and an Adagrad optimiser with an initial learning rate of 0.025. For the dependency models, we used the universal dependency parser provided by \texttt{spaCy} \citep{spacy2}. We applied the two few-shot methods we devised, as well as the Additive model with window weighting, subsampling and negative sampling described in~\S\ref{sec:few-shot}. The hyperparameters were $t = 10^{-6}$, $k = 15$ and $n = 5$.

\subsection{Few-shot learning tasks}

\paragraph{Definitional Nonce (DN)} This task \citep{herbelot-baroni-2017-high} provides a single definition sentence for each test word. The test words are frequent words, which have gold vectors of high quality in the background space. At evaluation time, a new vector is computed for each test word, based on the few-shot learning model. The rank of the gold vector relatively to the inferred vector is then calculated, i.e.the number of words from the vocabulary which are closer to the inferred vector than the gold vector is. The distance metric is cosine similarity - the bigger the similarity, the smaller the distance. The metrics retrieved are the Mean Reciprocal Rank (MRR) and median rank.

\paragraph{Chimera} The Chimera task \citep{lazaridou} provides non-existing words (chimeras) with 6 context sentences, as well as similarity scores between
the chimera and other existing words. The way in which the dataset was built simulates
few-shot learning for humans, since the participants of the experiment needed to infer the
meaning of a word they never saw before and rate its similarity with other concepts, based
only on the 6 context sentences.
Trials with 2, 4 and 6 context sentences are conducted. After each trial, the similarity scores
between the inferred vector and the vectors of the words provided is compared against the
human similarity scores by retrieving the Spearman's rank correlation coefficient.

\paragraph{Contextual Rare Words (CRW)} Like Chimera, the CRW task \citep{khodak-etal-2018-la} is based
on human ratings between pairs of words. This time the pairs contain a rare word and a
frequent one, with an assumed reliable embedding in the background model. For each rare word, 255 context sentences are provided. The vector is generated using
the few-shot model for 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 context sentences, selected at random. For each such experiment, the similarity scores between the few-shot vector and
the background embedding of the non-rare word are calculated and compared against the human scores using the Spearman's rank correlation coefficient. The scores are averaged out across 10 random selections of context sentences.

\subsection{Results and Discussion}

The results in Table \ref{tab:results} show that the dependency-based background models performed better than window-based Skip-Gram on all three evaluation tasks. For all background models, applying the Dependency Additive technique consistently improved the results of the Additive model. For the DN task and DM background model, there were three cases where the  Additive model gave a rank of over 30,000, while the Dependency Additive model gave a rank of 1 or 2, showing the method's potential for sentences of specific structures. The DM additive model showed a promising result for the Chimera task, but was still outperformed by the Dependency Additive model, and its scores had the biggest variance across all combinations. This suggests that more careful weighting might be required.

\section{Conclusion}
\label{sec:conc}

We investigated the use of dependency information
for few-shot learning in distributional semantics.
We found that dependency-based contexts
are more useful than window-based contexts,
with better performance across three evaluation datasets.
We proposed a simplified version of the Dependency Matrix model, using only one vector per word,
which makes it easier to apply in a few-shot setting.

An important next step would be to investigate the use of the proposed methods for other languages, since our work was limited to English data and it is possible that the dependency structure is more relevant for few-shot learning in the case of specific languages. In order to do such an analysis, one would additionally need to create test data for the few shot-learning tasks, which would require the participation of speakers of the selected languages.

In future work, performance might be further improved
by training an A La Carte model (discussed in~\S\ref{sec:few-shot}),
where the use of dependencies
would make it possible to use a graph-convolutional network
\citep{marcheggiani-titov-2017-encoding}.

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