Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
Hopscotch is a 1975 novel by Brian Garfield, in which a CIA field officer walks away from the Agency in order to keep from being retired and placed behind a desk, and invites the Agency to pursue him by writing an exposé and mailing chapters of it piecemeal to all the major intelligence agencies around the world, including the CIA. Hopscotch won the 1976 Edgar Award for Best Novel.

In 1980, the novel was made into a film with the same name, for which Garfield also cowrote the screenplay. The film starred Walter Matthau. Although the novel has a dark, cynical tone, the film is a comedy, but the plot follows that of the novel fairly closely.

Historical context
The book came out during the period of the Church Committee Congressional investigations of the Intelligence community in the mid-1970s. The popular image of the CIA had been under attack before the committee was convened, and the Agency's image was not helped by the spate of spy novels like Hopscotch, in which the CIA was depicted as a paranoid bureaucracy out to kill any Agency insiders who dared to expose its blunders. In addition to Hopscotch, the same story was told by novels like Six Days of the Condor (1974) by James Grady (adapted for the 1975 film Three Days of the Condor), Dragons at the Gate (1975) by Robert Duncan and The Star-Spangled Contract (1976) by Jim Garrison.

The new batch of insider spy fiction that emerged 30 years after the publication of Hopscotch, has a certain resonance with the spy novels that appeared around the time of the Church Committee investigations. In Hopscotch, the Agency tries to retire Kendig—their most successful field agent—'in place', by relegating him to a desk job. Kendig decides not to take this lying down, destroys his Agency file, and walks away from the 'punishment' that his despotic bureaucrat of an office chief has ordained for him. The same scenario is repeated in The Dream Merchant of Lisbon by Gene Coyle (2004), and there are variants of this theme in Edge of Allegiance by Thomas F. Murphy (2005) and in Voices Under Berlin: The Tale of a Monterey Mary by T. H. E. Hill (2008).

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1975 American novels
Edgar Award-winning works
American spy novels
American novels adapted into films
USS Content (SP-538) was a motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1919.

Content was built in 1912 at Port Clinton, Ohio as the civilian pleasure craft Dolph II. She was later renamed Content.

After the United States entered World War I, the U.S. Navy chartered Content for use as a patrol vessel. She was commissioned as USS Content (SP-538) on 22 May 1917. She was assigned to the 1st Naval District, where she patrolled in defense of coastal waters in northern New England through the end of the war.

Content was decommissioned on 30 January 1919. On 3 February 1919 she was returned to her owner.

References

Department of the Navy: Naval Historical Center: Online Library of Selected Images: U.S. Navy Ships: USS Content (SP-538), 1917–1919. Previously the civilian motor boat Dolph II (1912) and Content
NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive Content (SP 538)

Patrol vessels of the United States
World War I patrol vessels of the United States
Ships built in Port Clinton, Ohio
1912 ships
Mesophilic digester or Mesophilic biodigester is a kind of biodigester that operates in temperatures between 20 °C and about 40°, typically 37 °C. This is the most used kind of biodigester in the world. More than 90% of worldwide biodigesters are of this type. In contrast, thermophilic digesters are less than 10% of digesters in the world, as it's more difficult to maintain the higher temperatures in a treatment plant, and they typically perform worse at separating liquids out of the sludge. Mesophilic digesters are used to produce biogas, biofertilizers, and sanitarization mainly in tropical countries such as India and Brazil.

References

 Science direct
 Mesophilic Digester

Anaerobic digester types
The 2007 Kangaroo Island bushfires were a series of bushfires caused by lightning strikes on 6 December 2007 on Kangaroo Island, South Australia, resulting in the destruction of  of national park and wilderness protection area. The fires occurred mainly across the western side of the island near Flinders Chase National Park, Vivonne Bay, D'Estrees Bay, Western River and Riverleas.

Overview 
The D'Estrees Bay fire in Cape Gantheaume Conservation Park was contained by 12 December 2007, while intense fires in the west, which included the protected areas of Flinders Chase National Park and Ravine des Casoars Wilderness Protection Area, were more difficult to extinguish.

On 14 December 2007, the Country Fire Service officially announced that all fires were contained. The event was South Australia's largest bush fire operation to date with over 800 personnel, 7 fixed wing water bombers and an Elvis Skycrane Helitanker all assisting in firefighting efforts, together with units from Victoria's Country Fire Authority and the New South Wales Rural Fire Service.

A state of emergency was considered but was rejected on 10 December 2007 due to cooler conditions. A state of emergency would have seen the Australian Army move in to assist the Country Fire Service and Department of Environment personnel.

Before being contained on 16 December 2007, over  (or 20% of the Island) had been burnt, principally within National Park and Conservation Reserves. The most serious outbreak occurred in Flinders Chase, with  (or 85% of the total Park area) having been burnt. The total damage bill is estimated at A$2.3 million.

References

2007 disasters in Australia
December 2007 events in Australia
Bushfires in South Australia
2007 wildfires
Kangaroo Island
2000s in South Australia
Michael Ebeid  is an Australian business executive. He was CEO and managing director of the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) between June 2011 and October 2018. 
Ebeid has nearly three decades of experience in media, technology and telecommunications, having held senior roles at IBM, Optus Communications, Two Way Limited, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and Special Broadcasting Service (SBS).

Career
Ebeid worked with IBM for nine years in various roles across finance, sales and marketing, and worked in Tokyo and other Asian countries.

In 1995, he moved to Optus Communications, where he was Director of Commercial Operations  for the Consumer Division, with revenues of $1.8b and a staff of over 3000 supplying a range of services telephony, internet and pay television interests. He was on the Board of the subscription television industry body, ASTRA, from 2001 to 2005.

In 2005, Ebeid joined Two Way Limited, an interactive TV, mobile and online entertainment media business as COO and then as CEO. He took the company into Asia (Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, India and NZ) establishing new business opportunities for the company.

Ebeid became the executive director of corporate strategy and marketing at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) holding position until 2011 when he became CEO of SBS in 2011.

SBS 
Ebeid was appointed CEO and managing director of the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) in June 2011 and he resigned on 1 October 2018.

Telstra 
As part of a new structure, Australian telecommunications company Telstra appointed Ebeid as Head of its Enterprise Division, on 8 October 2018. This appointment is part of the Telstra Group Executive team. Ebeid was Telstra Group Executive – Enterprise from 2018 to 2020.

Honours and recognition
Ebeid was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2017 Queen's Birthday Honours for "significant service to the broadcast media and multicultural affairs as an executive, innovator and business leader".

Ebeid was named CEO Magazine's 'CEO of the year' at the 2017 Executive Of The Year Awards, while CEO and managing director at SBS. Ebeid was a judge for the same award in 2018, as part of an eleven person panel.

Personal life
Ebeid was born in Cairo, Egypt, and moved to Sydney, Australia, with his family when he was three.

Ebeid, who came out as gay in the 1990s, has been described as, "without doubt one of Australia's most powerful media figures".
Ebeid was married in November 2018

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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Businesspeople from Cairo
Egyptian emigrants to Australia
Australian chief executives
Australian LGBT businesspeople
Australian gay men
Egyptian gay men
Board members of the Special Broadcasting Service
Australian people of Coptic descent
Australian people of Egyptian descent
Members of the Order of Australia
James L. "Jim" Bean (December 15, 1933 – July 7, 2013) was an American politician.

Born in Clanton, Alabama, Bean served in the United States Air Force during the Korean War. He was a business owner of Holloway Transfer and Storage in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Bean served in the Mississippi State Senate 1988-2000 from Forrest and Lamar Counties as a Republican. He died in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

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1933 births
2013 deaths
People from Clanton, Alabama
People from Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Republican Party Mississippi state senators
Businesspeople from Mississippi
20th-century American businesspeople
Ralph Barclay Young  (born 1945) is a Canadian real estate developer. He has served as the Chancellor of the University of Alberta since 2012. He is the former CEO of Melcor Developments. Young attended the University of Alberta, University of Saskatchewan, and Queen's University.

References

1945 births
Living people
Chancellors of the University of Alberta
People from Saskatoon
A Daughter of Australia is a 1922 Australian silent film directed by Lawson Harris. It concerns a rich squatter, Arthur Fullerton (Charles Beethan), and his daughter, Barbara (Yvonne Pavis).

It is considered a lost film.

Plot
A young English aristocrat, Hugh Ranleigh, falls for Barbara Fullerton, but is falsely accused of murdering a gambler in a  night club and escapes to Australia. He finds work on a cattle station and falls for the squatter's daughter – who turns out to be Barbara. Eventually he proves his innocence.

Cast
Lawson Harris as Hugh Ranleigh
Yvonne Pavis as Barbara Fullerton
Charles Beetham as Mr Fullerton
Charles Villiers
Dorothy Hawtree
Gilbert Emery as Jimmy
J.P. O'Neill as Irishman
Lilian Tate

Production
The film was shot for a low budget on location in Sydney, with scenes at Ascot racecourse and the Royal Easter Agricultural Show. Contrary to the experiences of many local filmmakers, authorities were keen to give the producers permission to film in public places. A shoot out was filmed in Martin Place during Sydney's rush hour which caused a commotion, and leading to two extras being injured.

Scenes were also shot at a sheep station, Dalkeith, and on a ferry in the Sydney heads.

Marie Lorraine made her film debut in the cast.

References

External links

A Daughter of Australia at National Film and Sound Archive

1922 films
Silent Australian drama films
Australian black-and-white films
Australian silent feature films
Lost Australian films
1922 drama films
1922 lost films
Lost drama films
Kenneth Gordon Matheson (July 28, 1864 - November 29, 1931) was a professor at and a chancellor of several educational institutions.

Early life
Matheson was an 1885 graduate of the South Carolina Military Academy, now known as The Citadel where he was initiated into the Kappa Alpha Order. He then served as commandant of cadets at Georgia Military College in Milledgeville, Georgia from 1885 to 1888, at the University of Tennessee from 1888 to 1890, and at the Missouri Military Academy from 1890 to 1896; he also taught English at the latter two institutions. In 1896, Matheson resigned to enter Stanford University, and earned a master's degree in English in 1897.

Georgia Tech

Matheson was hired at the Georgia School of Technology (later known as the Georgia Institute of Technology) as a junior professor of English in 1897, but was quickly promoted to full professor in 1898 due to his department head's sudden and mysterious resignation. He then became head of the English Department.

After school president Lyman Hall's death on August 16, 1905, Matheson was elected chairman of the faculty and acting president. He was then officially appointed to the post in June 1906 and would serve until 1922. During his administration, Matheson oversaw the school's transition from a trade school to a technological university. 

Matheson pioneered the bill that would eventually result in the establishment of the Georgia Tech Research Institute.

Drexel University
While still serving as President at Georgia Tech, Matheson was elected president of Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry, now known as Drexel University, in the fall of 1921. Before taking office Matheson succeeded in establishing ties to other local colleges, universities and high schools. As a result, Matheson was able to establish a formal cooperation between Drexel and the University of Pennsylvania enabling students of the School of Home Economics to attend theoretical courses not available at Drexel. In April 1922 he took office and proceeded to increase the efficiency of the university. During his presidency Matheson expanded both the co-operative education program and the campus. In 1931 Matheson was granted a leave of absence by the Board of Trustees however he repeatedly postponed it until his death of a heart attack on November 29, 1931.

References

External links

The Matheson Early Years

1864 births
1931 deaths
The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina alumni
Stanford University alumni
Presidents of Georgia Tech
People from Cheraw, South Carolina
American academic administrators
Ghazemabad () may refer to:
 Ghazemabad, Saveh
 Ghazemabad, Nowbaran
Clyde "Ed" Sniffen, Jr. is an American attorney who served as acting Alaska attorney general from August 25, 2020, to January 30, 2021, in the administration of Republican Governor Mike Dunleavy. Sniffen had assumed office after the resignation of his predecessor, Kevin Clarkson, amid allegations of texting with an employee of the governor's office. Sniffen resigned in January 2021 after allegations of the existence of an inappropriate relationship with a 17-year-old high school girl whom he coached in 1991 surfaced. Three charges related to the allegations were filed in Alaska on May 27, 2022.

Career 
Sniffen earned a Juris Doctor from the Willamette University College of Law. After graduating from law school, he worked as a private attorney. He joined the office of the Alaska Attorney General in 2000, specializing in antitrust and consumer protection litigation. Prior to serving as acting Attorney General, Sniffen served as assistant attorney general, deputy attorney general, and chief of staff to his predecessor, Kevin Clarkson.

Sniffen, who had previously served as deputy Attorney General, succeeded Kevin Clarkson, who resigned from office after allegations of Clarkson's texting with an employee in the governor's office who was not a subordinate.

Attorney general of Alaska 
Sniffen served in an acting capacity while the governor searched for a permanent replacement. Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy designated Sniffen as his permanent nominee for Attorney General on January 18, 2021, subject to confirmation by the legislature. However, on January 30, Sniffen withdrew his nomination due to allegations that he had an inappropriate relationship with a 17-year-old girl in 1991, who is now in her late 40s.  The woman lived with Sniffen for a period of years after she turned 18.

Personal
His marriage to Stacy Steinberg was dissolved in May 2000. They had no children.

References 

Alaska Attorneys General
Alaska lawyers
Living people
Willamette University College of Law alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
2035 Stearns, provisional designation , is a bright Hungaria asteroid and sizable Mars-crosser inside the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately  in diameter. It was discovered on 21 September 1973, by American astronomer James Gibson at the Leoncito Astronomical Complex in Argentina. The transitional E-type asteroid has a long rotation period of 93 hours. It was named after American astronomer Carl Leo Stearns.

Orbit and classification 

Stearns is a dynamical Hungaria asteroid, a large group that forms the innermost dense concentration of asteroids in the Solar System. It is also a Mars-crossing asteroid, a member of the dynamically unstable group, located between the main belt and near-Earth populations, and crossing the orbit of Mars at 1.666 AU.

The asteroid orbits the Sun in the inner main-belt at a distance of 1.64–2.13 AU once every 2 years and 7 months (945 days; semi-major axis of 1.88 AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.13 and an inclination of 28° with respect to the ecliptic.

The body's observation arc begins with a precovery taken at Palomar Observatory in January 1954, nearly 20 years prior to its official discovery observation at Leoncito.

Physical characteristics 

In the Tholen classification, Stearns is a bright E-type asteroid. while in the SMASS classification and Bus-DeMeo taxonomy, it is an Xe-subtype that transitions from the X-type to the E-type.

Rotation period 

Several rotational lightcurve of Stearns have been obtained from photometric observations since 1988. Analysis of the best-rated lightcurve by Robert Stephens at the Center for Solar System Studies  gave a rotation period of 93 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.20 magnitude (). This makes the asteroid as close slow rotator.

Diameter and albedo 

According to the survey carried out by the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, Stearns measures between 4.82 and 6.00 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo between 0.443 and 0.65. The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes a standard albedo for members of the Hungaria family of 0.40, and derives a diameter of 5.28 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 13.0.

Naming 

This minor planet was named after Carl Leo Stearns (1892–1972), American astronomer at Wesleyan University and Van Vleck Observatory who measured a large number of stellar parallaxes. The official  was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 November 1978 (). The lunar crater Stearns was also named in his honor.

Notes

References

External links 
 Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB), query form (info )
 Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Google books
 Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (1)-(5000) – Minor Planet Center
 
 

002035
002035
Discoveries by James B. Gibson (astronomer)
Named minor planets
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Coffee in Nicaragua may refer to:

 Coffee production in Nicaragua
 Coffee consumption in Nicaragua
The Saurer 6DM is a heavy truck manufactured by Adolph Saurer AG.

The name 6DM reflects its 6 tonne payload. The two-axle vehicle has a power output of 250 hp. The driving Formula 4x4 is driven 4 of 4 existing wheels. Its bigger "brother", the Saurer 10DM, has 3 axes (6-Wheel), a 10 tonne payload and 320 hp.

The vehicles are equipped with Saurer six-cylinder engines and turbochargers are connected via a semi-automatic transmission. Some units are equipped with a winch,  which costs 60 liters of fuel capacity.

The 6DM and 10DM were the first military vehicles of the Swiss Army, which went into operation with NATO structure. The most widespread are flatbeds with tarp for troops and supplies, but they also serve as fire engines for military airfields. The firefighting version includes the special F/A-18C Maquette device. It also serves as a crane truck and as container transporter for the operating components for TAFLIR (tactical aircraft radar). As these trucks reach the end of their useful life they are replaced by trucks from Iveco.

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Swissmotor German only
Fahrzeuge der Schweizer Armee by Markus Hofmann (2000)
Saurer 6DM Lastw 6t gl 4x4 Militärfahrzeuge.ch

Military trucks of Switzerland
Off-road vehicles
Fire service vehicles
WLD or Wld can refer to:

 Strother Field, a public airport in Cowley County, Kansas, U.S., by IATA and FAA codes
 Worldcoin, an iris biometric cryptocurrency project, by token ticker
 We Love Danger! or WLD! for short, a Canadian punk rock band
 Wilderness Air, an airline based in Botswana, by ICAO code
 Wermlandite, a mineral; see List of mineral symbols
 World Localization Day, an online global event founded by Helena Norberg-Hodge

See also 

 W. L. D. Johnson Neighborhood Library, a library in Houston, Texas, U.S.
 WLDC (disambiguation)
Jared Timmer (born April 29, 1997) is an American soccer player who currently plays for Sacramento Republic in the USL Championship.

Career

College and amateur
Timmer played college soccer for over five seasons at Butler University between 2015 and 2019, making 67 appearances, scoring 6 goals and tallying 13 assists. Timmer captained the team for his final three seasons at Butler.

Whilst at college, Timmer played with NPSL side Grand Rapids FC in 2016. In 2017, 2018 and 2019, Timmer played in the USL League Two with Flint City Bucks, helping the team win the USL League Two title in 2019.

Professional
On March 3, 2020, Timmer joined USL Championship side Reno 1868. He made his debut on July 29, 2020, appearing as a half-time substitute during a 4–1 win over Portland Timbers 2. Reno folded their team on November 6, 2020, due to the financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

On December 11, 2020, Timmer joined USL Championship club Indy Eleven ahead of their 2021 season. He was released by Indy Eleven on November 30, 2022, following the conclusion of the 2022 season. 

Timmer was announced as a new signing USL Championship side Sacramento Republic ahead of their 2023 season.

References

External links
Butler bio
Reno 1868 bio

1997 births
Living people
American men's soccer players
Men's association football midfielders
Butler Bulldogs men's soccer players
Flint City Bucks players
Indy Eleven players
National Premier Soccer League players
People from Hudsonville, Michigan
Sportspeople from Ottawa County, Michigan
Reno 1868 FC players
Sacramento Republic FC players
Soccer players from Michigan
Sportspeople from Grand Rapids, Michigan
USL Championship players
USL League Two players
Lieutenant General Sir Scudamore Winde Steel,  (1789 – 11 March 1865) was a British Army officer of the East India Company.

Steel was the son of barrister David Steel and Mary Winde, daughter of Scudamore Winde, judge of the Supreme Court of Jamaica. Steel joined the East India Company's service as a cadet in 1805, and the following year was promoted to lieutenant in the Madras Army. He was slightly wounded in the Third Anglo-Maratha War of 1817–18. He was promoted to captain in 1821, and joined the 51st native infantry in 1824. He served on the quartermaster-general's staff at Nagpur and in the First Anglo-Burmese War in 1826. Steel was promoted to major in 1832, and  from 1832 to 1845 served as secretary in the military department at Madras.

In 1834, Steel took part in the capture of Coorg, and the following year was promoted to lieutenant colonel. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1838 Coronation Honours.

In 1845, Steel was appointed military auditor-general and promoted to colonel of the Madras fusiliers in 1847. He commanded the Madras army during the Second Anglo-Burmese War in 1852–53. He was knighted as a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in December 1853. He was promoted to Major General and given the command of the Pegu division and the Martaban provinces in 1854. Steel returned to England in 1856 and was promoted to lieutenant general in 1861.

Steel married Elizabeth Margaret, the eldest daughter of Lieutenant Colonel William Read, in 1840. His eldest son, Col. Charles Steel, served in the Crimean War with the 12th Lancers and was present at the Siege of Sevastopol. He married Anna Caroline Wood, daughter of Rev. Sir John Page Wood, 2nd Baronet.

Sir Scudamore died at his home at Hyde Park, London, in 1865.

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1789 births
1865 deaths
British Army personnel of the Second Anglo-Burmese War
British East India Company Army officers
British military personnel of the First Anglo-Burmese War
Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath