Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
Pennsylvania Route 438 (PA 438) is a  state highway located in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania.  The western terminus is at U.S. Route 6 (US 6)/US 11 to the north of Dalton in LaPlume.  The eastern terminus is at PA 247 in the Scott Township community of Montdale. PA 438 is a two-lane undivided road that passes through rural land in the northern part of Lackawanna County. The route intersects PA 407 in Wallsville and Interstate 81 (I-81) and PA 524 in Scott Township. The eastern portion of the route was designated as part of PA 247 in 1928, which was paved by 1930s. The western portion of the route was paved in the 1930s. PA 247 was shifted to the east in the 1940s, leaving the former alignment unnumbered. PA 438 was designated in April 1961 as part of construction of I-81 through northeastern Pennsylvania so that the latter road would interchange with numbered routes through Lackawanna County.

Route description

PA 438 begins at an intersection with US 6/US 11 in the community of LaPlume in La Plume Township, heading northeast on two-lane undivided East Laplume Road. The road heads through areas of fields with some homes, crossing Norfolk Southern's Sunbury Line and entering North Abington Township. The route heads into woodland and crosses the South Branch Tunkhannock Creek into Benton Township. Here, PA 438 turns east before curving to the north and back to the east as it heads through woodland with some fields and homes. The road heads into Lackawanna State Park and intersects PA 407 in the community of Wallsville. The route becomes Montdale Road and continues east through more of the park, passing to the north of Lake Lackawanna. PA 438 leaves Lackawanna State Park and heads through more rural areas, passing through East Benton. The road enters Scott Township, where it passes through Jordan Hollow and comes to an interchange with I-81. Past this, the route runs southeast through forests with some small fields and homes, intersecting the eastern terminus of PA 524 in Scott. PA 438 continues through rural areas, coming to its eastern terminus at PA 247 in Montdale.

History  
When Pennsylvania first legislated routes in 1911, the current routing of PA 438 was not given a number. In 1928, the section of the present route east of Jordan Hollow Road was designated as part of PA 247; this section of road was unpaved. By 1930, this section of PA 247 was paved. The unnumbered road between LaPlume and Jordan Hollow Road was paved in the 1930s. PA 247 was realigned to the east in the 1940s, leaving the section of road between Jordan Hollow Road and Montdale unnumbered. PA 438 was designated in April 1961 as part of a mass change by the state to number local roads to interchange with I-81 (the Penn-Can Highway) so that it would interchange with state highways. When designated, PA 438 ran from US 6/US 11 in LaPlume east to PA 247 in Montdale.

Major intersections

See also

References

External links

Pennsylvania Highways: PA 438

438
Transportation in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania
Shrinkage fields is a random field-based machine learning technique that aims to perform high quality image restoration (denoising and deblurring) using low computational overhead.

Method 
The restored image  is predicted from a corrupted observation  after training on a set of sample images .

A shrinkage (mapping) function  is directly modeled as a linear combination of radial basis function kernels, where  is the shared precision parameter,  denotes the (equidistant) kernel positions, and M is the number of Gaussian kernels.

Because the shrinkage function is directly modeled, the optimization procedure is reduced to a single quadratic minimization per iteration, denoted as the prediction of a shrinkage field  where  denotes the discrete Fourier transform and  is the 2D convolution  with point spread function filter,  is an optical transfer function defined as the discrete Fourier transform of , and  is the complex conjugate of .

 is learned as  for each iteration  with the initial case , this forms a cascade of Gaussian conditional random fields (or cascade of shrinkage fields (CSF)). Loss-minimization is used to learn the model parameters .

The learning objective function is defined as , where  is a differentiable loss function which is greedily minimized using training data  and .

Performance 
Preliminary tests by the author suggest that RTF5 obtains slightly better denoising performance than , followed by , , , and BM3D.

BM3D denoising speed falls between that of  and , RTF being an order of magnitude slower.

Advantages 
 Results are comparable to those obtained by BM3D (reference in state of the art denoising since its inception in 2007)
 Minimal runtime compared to other high-performance methods (potentially applicable within embedded devices)
 Parallelizable (e.g.: possible GPU implementation)
 Predictability:  runtime where  is the number of pixels
 Fast training even with CPU

Implementations 
 A reference implementation has been written in MATLAB and released under the BSD 2-Clause license: shrinkage-fields

See also 
 Random field
 Discrete Fourier transform
 Convolution
 Noise reduction
 Deblurring

References

 

Image noise reduction techniques
Jan Carel Fourie (1937 – 2007) was a South African jazz guitarist born in Postmas in the Northern Cape province.

Biography
Growing up in the town of Benoni in the Gauteng province of South Africa, his first passion for music came while watching cowboy movies and Fourie wanted to imitate the sound of the musicians. After hearing the George Shearing Quintet in 1949, he focused on jazz music.

At the age of 15, he left his parents' house in order to pursue his career in jazz guitar playing. His first gigs were with Boeremusiek (traditional South African Afrikaans music) bands, and he quickly gained recognition as a great guitarist in the Johannesburg music scene of the 1950s.

In 1961, Fourie took a boat to London. In the first two weeks, his money ran out and his wife was becoming desperate. Fourie then got his first gig playing with an Eastern European violinist at the Blue Boar Inn. He described the situation: "What I saw in Soho forced me to leave in November on a boat destined for London with my wife and baby and about two hundred Rand".

A short while after this, Fourie auditioned for the Ray Ellington Quartet of The Goon Show fame, and worked in London with jazz greats like Ellington and Tubby Hayes. Following the end of apartheid, he became a professor of jazz at the Technikon University in Pretoria, and told his students about the Ellington audition: "This was the biggest test of my life. It was a make or break period. I could not read the notes and initially I was turned down, but when they heard me play they told me that they would like me to perform. I was very exhilarated, but had no ability to read  music. I had two weeks to memorize four years of work. It was the moment of truth and I passed!"

After this, Fourie become the resident guitarist for the esteemed jazz club, Ronnie Scott's. Here, he was exposed to Bill Evans, Jim Hall, René Thomas, Freddie Hubbard, Stan Getz, Roland Kirk and Sonny Rollins, among others.

After London, he returned to South Africa to go and practice the new style of jazz fusion, which began its growth during the 1970s.  After this, he briefly settled in New York, where he worked with John McLaughlin, the famous British jazz/fusion guitarist.

He then taught students the guitar in South Africa for the remainder of his career. Fourie formed a band with friends Johnny Boshoff and Hennie Becker and played covers of John Mclaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra at The Branch Office club in Johannesburg. McLaughlin said of him: "Johnny Fourie is one of the greatest guitar players of our époque."

References

Further reading
Johnny Fourie and his influence on the development of the jazz guitar in South Africa; Master's thesis by Jonathan Crossley

External links
Johnny Fourie - a detailed biography by Jonathan Crossley (first published in Rootz Magazine 2002)
Obituary (20 August 2007, Mail & Guardian)
"Memories of a Guitar Master: Johnny Fourie" by Stefan Joubert (student of Johnny Fourie)

South African jazz guitarists
2007 deaths
1937 births
20th-century guitarists
Musicians from Gauteng
András Mihály [ˈɒndraːʃ ˈmihaːj] (6 November 1917 – 19 September 1993) was a Hungarian cellist, composer and academic teacher.

Life 
Mihály was born in Budapest. He studied there at the Franz Liszt Academy: cello with Adolf Schiffer, chamber music with Leó Weiner and Imre Waldbauer, and composition in private lessons with Pál Kadosa and . In 1946, he was the principal cellist of the Budapest Opera and in 1950 a professor of chamber music at the Franz Liszt Academy. He then became a musical advisor for the radio (1962–1978). In 1967, he founded the Budapest Chamber Ensemble, dedicated to the repertoire of contemporary music, and from 1978 to 1987 he was the director of the Budapest Opera. He was notably the teacher of all four of the original members of the Takács Quartet: violinists Gábor Takács-Nagy and Károly Schranz, violist Gábor Ormai, and cellist András Fejér.

Mihály composed the opera Együtt és egyedül (Together and Alone, 1965–66), three symphonies (the last one 1962), a cello concerto (1963), a violin concerto, a piano concerto (1954), a concerto for wind quintet and orchestra (1955), Monodia for orchestra (1970), chamber works, piano pieces, choral music and lieder.

Mihály died in Budapest at age 75.

References

Sources

External links 
 
 

Hungarian male classical composers
Hungarian classical composers
Hungarian opera composers
1917 births
Musicians from Budapest
1993 deaths
Burials at Farkasréti Cemetery
Academic staff of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music
Hungarian opera directors
Hungarian music educators
20th-century composers
Artists of Merit of the Hungarian People's Republic
20th-century Hungarian male musicians
Hungarian Jews
Jewish classical composers
Mikhail Timofeyevich Vysotsky (; 1791 – 28 December 1837) was a Russian composer, notable for his pieces for guitar.

Vysotsky was born in 1791 in the village of Ochakovo (currently part of Ochakovo-Matveyevskoye District  in Moscow), at the estate of the author Mikhail Kheraskov. He was a serf of Kheraskov, as were his parents, however, Kheraskov was also his godfather. Vysotsky was freed after the death of Kheraskov in 1807. In 1813 Vysotsky moved to Moscow and lived there until his death. 

Vysotsky studied guitar under Semyon Aksyonov. He played seven-string guitar and achieved a status of a virtuoso. His concerts attracted many local intellectuals such as poets Mikhail Lermontov or Alexander Polezhayev. He was also giving guitar lessons. Vysotsky published his first compositions soon after moving to Moscow. He mainly wrote variations of Russian folk tunes, or adapted pieces of Western composers such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for guitar. In total, 83 of his compositions were published. In 1836, he published a textbook on performance of seven-string guitar.

Vysotsky was a friend of John Field and they occasionally performed together. His guitar students included Polezhayev and poet Apollon Grigoryev.

References

1791 births
1837 deaths
Russian composers
Seven-string guitarists
Windsor station is a historic railroad station on Amtrak's New Haven–Springfield Line, located in downtown Windsor, Connecticut. It is served by Amtrak  and  intercity service and CT Rail's Hartford Line commuter rail service. The nearby Hartford & New Haven Railroad-Freight Depot serves as the home of the Windsor Arts Center.

History

Windsor Station was originally built in 1870 as the  Hartford & New Haven Railroad Depot and rebuilt to its original Victorian architecture by Town of Windsor, Amtrak and the Greater Hartford Transit District in 1988, the same year it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. 

In February 2017, the state announced an additional $50 million in funds, including money to complete design of the rebuilt Windsor station. Design will be completed by 2020; the platforms will be moved slightly, and a parking deck built nearby.

Hartford Line commuter service commenced on June 16, 2018. A second low-level platform was opened on September 14, 2018, and the track one platform was temporarily closed until September 24 for track work.

The Connecticut Department of Transportation has proposed that the existing historic station be moved to a new site approximately 500 feet to the south of the existing station. If this occurs the existing station would be expanded to include high-level platforms on both sides of the tracks, as well as the installation of elevators, stairways, an overhead pedestrian bridge to cross the tracks.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Windsor, Connecticut
Wallingford, Connecticut, Amtrak station – a station with a similar design

References

Further reading

External links 

Windsor – Hartford Line
Windsor Amtrak Station (USA Rail Guide -- Train Web)

Windsor, Connecticut
Amtrak stations in Connecticut
Stations on the New Haven–Springfield Line
Historic American Engineering Record in Connecticut
Former New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad stations
Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut
Railway stations in Hartford County, Connecticut
National Register of Historic Places in Hartford County, Connecticut
Second Empire architecture in Connecticut
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1870
Historic district contributing properties in Connecticut
"Catalyst" is a 1970 Australian TV play. It was a business drama with "CF Barnes" a nom de plume for an Australian novelist.

Premise
When minority shareholder Arthur Lambert moves out of the boardroom and becomes involved in the day-to-day running of the firm of Conquest Engineering, managing director Keyes and marketing manager Parrish start to wonder about the security of their jobs.

Cast
Tony Ward
Richard Parry
Peter Reynolds
John Warwick
Don Barkham
Brian Anderson
Kirsty Child

References

1970s Australian television plays
1970 television plays
1970 Australian television episodes
Australian Plays (season 2) episodes
Ausava is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae.  It is now considered a synonym of Lithacodia.

References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database

Eustrotiinae
EHV may refer to:
Equine herpesvirus, a group of viruses that affect horses
Extra high voltage, a type of power supply
Evangelical Heritage Version, an English language translation of the Bible
The Centro de Tecnologías de Información (CTI), or Information Technology Center in English, is a research center at the Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral (ESPOL) in Guayaquil, Ecuador. CTI's main research area is information and communications technologies in education.

CTI is located in the "Gustavo Galindo" campus of ESPOL and is one of the research centers associated with the Parque del Conocimiento (PARCON) project of ESPOL.

References 

Research institutes in Ecuador
Svarfaðardalur (, "Svörfuður's valley") is a large valley in central north Iceland. It is a part of the Dalvíkurbyggð municipality. The Svarfaðardalsá River flows down the valley, having its mouth near to the town of Dalvík.
About 10 km from the sea the valley splits in two. The eastern oneis called Skíðadalur and it keeps the main direction of the valley to the southwest, while the other one keeps the name Svarfaðardalur. Numerous small valleys branch off from the main valleys in between the mountains. There are small glaciers in many many of in these valleys. The largest glacier is Gljúfurárjökull, which is at the bottom of Skíðadal and overlooks the settlement. The mountains surrounding Svarfaðardalur are high and steep, with many peaks between 1000-1400 m high. The highest mountains are in Skíðdalur, the highest one is Dýjafjallshnjúkur, 1456 m.

References
Hjörtur Eldjárn Þórarinsson. „Svarfaðardalur og gönguleiðir um fjöllin“. Árbók Ferðafélags Íslands. () (1973): 9–119.
Kristmundur Bjarnason. Saga Dalvíkur 1–4. Dalvíkurbær 1978-1985

External links
Dalvíkurbyggð

Valleys of Iceland
Juan Pablo Maricich Garcia (born January 23, 1972) is an Argentine slalom canoer who competed in the early 1990s. He finished 37th in the K-1 event at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.

References
Sports-Reference.com profile

External links

1972 births
Argentine male canoeists
Canoeists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Living people
Olympic canoeists for Argentina
Place of birth missing (living people)
Spalam się (Polish I'm burning up) is the first solo album of Polish musician Kazik. It is the first hip hop style album in Polish rock music history. It was released on CD and compact cassette.

Songs 
 Nowy konflikt światowy (The New Global Conflict)
 Dziewczyny (Girls)
 Piosenka trepa (Soldier's Song)
 Cyrk (Circus)
 Jeszcze Polska... (Poland Is Not Yet...)
 Bagdad
 Spalam się (I'm Burning)
 Świadomość (Consciousness/Awareness)
 Oblężenie (The Siege)
 Temat z filmu "Bagaż nielegalny" (Theme from the film "Illegal Baggage")
 Dziewczyny (hard version)CD
 Nie mogę istnieć bez narzekaniaCD (I Cannot Exist Without Complaining)
 Spalam się (long version)CD

CD – only on CD, Zic-Zac label 0009

Credits 
 Kazik Staszewski – Voices, Sampler, saxophone
 Jacek Kufirski – Keyboard, Strings, Sampler, Bass, Drum Programming, Voices
  – Keyboards, Sampler, Strings, Conga, Voices, Drum Programming
  – Recordings, Sampler, Voice
 Wojciech Waglewski – Guitar
  – Saxophone
 Paweł Betley – Piano
  – Voice

Kazik Staszewski albums
1991 debut albums
Žiemelis is a Lithuanian masculine name. Its feminine forms are Žiemelienė (married woman) and Žiemelytė (maiden name). Notable people with the surname include:

Aleksandrs Žiemelis known as Sasha Siemel (1890–1970), Latvian adventurer and jaguar hunter
Gediminas Žiemelis (born 1977), Lithuanian businessman
Vidmantas Žiemelis (born 1950), Lithuanian politician

Lithuanian-language surnames
Anita Akua Kyerewaa Kuma (born 1980s) is a Ghanaian media personality, radio journalist. She is the host for Lunchtime Rhythms on Kumasi's most listened to English radio station, Luv FM. She was listed as number three of 10 on-air personalities in Ghana for 2018 which was put together by the Business Insider, operators of Pulse Ghana.

Education 
Kuma was born in Kumasi in the early 1980s to D.O.K. Kuma who was a geologist and his wife Victoria. She attended Wesley Girls Senior High School and graduated from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology with a bachelor's degree in Building Technology.

Career 
Kuma has about 13 years experience working in radio. She is currently the host for  Lunchtime Rhythms on Kumasi's most listened to Ashanti radio station, Luv FM.

Awards 
Here are some awards she has won and been nominated for:

 
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References

Living people
Ghanaian women journalists
Ghanaian journalists
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
1980s births
Mieszko Mieszkowic (979/984 – aft. 992/95), was a Polish prince, and a member of the House of Piast.

He was the second son of Mieszko I of Poland, but eldest born from Mieszko's second marriage to Oda, daughter of Dietrich of Haldensleben, Margrave of the North March.

Life
Little is known about his first years of life. Mieszko's first appearance is in the document "Dagome iudex" (ca. 991/92), along with his parents and brother Lambert. The purpose of the document was to protect Mieszko's and Lambert's inheritance from their older half-brother Bolesław I the Brave, who isn't named there. After Mieszko I's death (25 May 992), a war began between Bolesław I and his half-brothers. There is disagreement among historians as to the course of the conflict; the struggle may have lasted only a few weeks or may have only finished in 995. 

In the end, Bolesław I took control over all the territories of his father and expelled his stepmother and half-brothers from Poland to Germany. Mieszko's further fate is unknown, but in 1032 a certain Dytryk (son of either Mieszko or his brother Lambert) returned to Poland and took control over part of the country after the fall of Mieszko II Lambert. Dytryk's reign was short-lived: in 1033, he was deposed and expelled by Mieszko II, who reunited all Poland.

References
Thietmari chronicon (edited by Marian Zygmunt Jedlicki), Poznań 1953, p. 224.
Kürbisówna B., Dagome iudex - studium krytyczne, [w:] Początki Państwa Polskiego, vol. I, Poznań 1962, p. 396.
O. Balzer, Genealogia Piastów, Kraków 1895.
K. Jasiński, Rodowód pierwszych Piastów, Wrocław-Warsaw 1992, pp. 100-101.
J. Widajewicz, Początki Polski, Wrocław 1948.

Piast dynasty
Megi Doçi (born 14 October 1996) is an Albanian footballer who plays as a forward and has appeared for the Albania women's national team.

Career
Doçi has been capped for the Albania national team, appearing for the team during the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualifying cycle.

International goals

See also
List of Albania women's international footballers

References

External links
 
 
 

1996 births
Living people
People from Mat (municipality)
Albanian women's footballers
Women's association football forwards
KFF Vllaznia Shkodër players
Albania women's international footballers
4310 may refer to:
a year in the 5th millennium
4310th Air Division
4310 Strömholm, an asteroid
KAMAZ 4310 6x6 Chassis truck
Dennis "Bo" Biteman (born October 23, 1978) is an American politician and a Republican member of the Wyoming Senate representing District 21 since January 7, 2019. He previously served in the Wyoming House of Representatives representing District 51 from 2017 to 2019.

Elections

2016
Biteman challenged incumbent state Senate Majority Leader Rosie Berger in the Republican primary and defeated Berger with 56% of the vote. Biteman defeated Democrat Hollis Hackman in the general election with 69% of the vote.

Political positions
Biteman is a staunch conservative. He supports restrictions on abortion; as in February 2020 he introduced a fetal heart bill to regulate abortion. He opposes instituting a state income tax in Wyoming and supports lowering taxes on mineral extraction (which contribute the majority of Wyoming's tax revenue). Biteman has supported the debunked claims of election fraud alleged by Donald Trump in the aftermath of the 2020 United States presidential election and is a proponent of the Stop the Steal movement.

References

External links
Official page at the Wyoming Legislature
Profile from Ballotpedia

Living people
Republican Party members of the Wyoming House of Representatives
Republican Party Wyoming state senators
1978 births
Grand Valley State University alumni
21st-century American politicians
Ivan Gulev (; born 12 December 1957) is a Bulgarian sports shooter. He competed in the men's trap event at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

References

External links
 

1957 births
Living people
Bulgarian male sport shooters
Olympic shooters for Bulgaria
Shooters at the 1996 Summer Olympics
People from Asenovgrad
Sportspeople from Plovdiv Province
20th-century Bulgarian people