Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
"Ker-Plop" is a science fiction novella written in 1979 by Ted Reynolds.

Synopsis
Cotter Oren is a checker-pilot, an elite group tasked to 'meet and greet' travellers from deep space who arrive in the automatic net around the planet Randar. His job is to locate and remove the arriving ship's 'sealsafe', thus nullifying any possible hostile intent, and sending the passengers and crew to the surface for psychotherapy, which most require after their long journeys. But during one shift, he is ordered by Flynn Rose, his controller, to check a ship which is supposedly of five thousand kilometers radius - unimaginably large, and therefore considered to be potentially hostile.

On returning from this mission, he is debriefed under hypnosis by an official known as The Examiner. He tries to recall the events of his journey into the ship...

Oren approaches cautiously in his miniaturised checkership, lands and is able to enter via an airlock. A still-functioning security system directs him to remove and deposit his checker-suit and weapons (which render the user invulnerable to almost any attack) and he continues on his way to the ship's centre of gravity, where the sealsafe must be located.

Cotter meets various inhabitants, none of whom exhibit any curiosity and are apparently unaware that their planet is really a spaceship. He sees no evidence of any government or officials in charge. He realises that the ship is populated in three dimensions.

Reaching the ship's core, he meets a man, who identifies himself only as Basho and describes himself as a janitor. Basho explains that the planet, known as Golgaronok, has now returned from the Magellanic Clouds - a journey that started 300,000 years ago. It is a remnant of a former galactic confederation known as the Amalgamate. Basho forces Oren to mentally calculate the living space and possible population of the ship; Oren, with increasing panic, realises that the population could be many times greater than that of the galactic confederation of which Randar is a part.

Basho persuades Oren that, rather than Randar accepting the arrival of Golgaronok, the latter should in fact absorb Randar. Oren then realises that he has been hypnotised by Basho and that Basho is pumping him for information. The Examiner is actually Basho and he is still within the planet-ship.

Old Pond / Frog Jumps / Ker-Plop!

Matsuo Basho

Sources
"Ker-Plop", by Ted Reynolds. Published 1979

External links
 http://www.coolbeat.biz/item/022/ker-plop.htm 

1979 short stories
American short stories
Science fiction short stories
Alternate history short stories
Post-apocalyptic fiction
Small Magellanic Cloud in fiction
Johann Nepomuk Hoechle (16 September 1790, Munich - 12 December 1835, Vienna) was an Austrian painter and lithographer who specialized in scenes from military actions and current events.

Biography 
His father was Johann Baptist Hoechle (1754-1832), an artist from Switzerland who later became court painter for the Habsburgs. When he was still a child, he was apprenticed to the engraver and etcher, Ferdinand Kobell, who died shortly after, in 1799. The following year, his father took him to Vienna. From 1804 to 1808, he was enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied history painting with Heinrich Friedrich Füger and landscape painting with Michael Wutky. His later career as a battle painter probably came from the influence of the French marine and military artist, Ignace Duvivier (1758-1832), who Hoechle met while he was visiting Vienna.

This may be what inspired Hoechle, in 1809, to make sketches of the ongoing Battle of Aspern from a hillside near Heiligenstadt. He was found and arrested by French soldiers, who thought he was a spy and were going to have him shot. Luckily, he spoke French and was able to convince the commanding officer that they were mistaken.

In 1814, after further studies in military art, he made more sketches at the scenes of major events, on behalf of Austrian Emperor Francis I, and turned them into paintings at his studio. His most important work from this period, and his best-known overall, depicts the crossing of the Vosges Mountains, following Napoleon's defeat at the Battle of Leipzig. 

In 1819, he accompanied the Emperor's entourage to Italy, followed in 1820 by attendance at major military maneuvers in Hungary. That same year, he did a portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven and, shortly after the composer's death in 1827, made a detailed sketch of his study (where he died) in the "Schwarzspanierhaus". 

In 1833, he was chosen to succeed his father as court painter, but died only two years later.

References

External links 

ArtNet: More works by Hoechle

1790 births
1835 deaths
Artists from Munich
People from the Electorate of Bavaria
Austrian people of Swiss descent
Austrian painters
Austrian male painters
Austrian lithographers
Military art
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna alumni
Vincent Dixie (born August 20, 1973) is an American businessman, politician, and a Democratic member of the Tennessee House of Representatives, representing District 54 since November 2018. Dixie is one of 32 freshman members of the 111th Tennessee General Assembly. He succeeded Brenda Gilmore after she was sworn into the Tennessee Senate.

Background 
Dixie attended Tennessee State University where he received his bachelor's degree in Accounting (BBA) in 1997 and a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) in 2004. In 2009, he founded the bail bonding companies A Way Out Bonding and Bail U Out Bonding. Prior to this he worked in the health care industry as an international auditor for Hospital Corporation of America and Ardent Health Services.

2018 Election 
The following are the results for the 2018 District 54 Election:

Legislative committees 
Dixie currently serves as a member of the following legislative committees:

 Education Committee
 K–12 Subcommittee
 Health Committee
 Public Health Subcommittee

Political positions and sponsored bills

Criminal justice 
Dixie sponsored HB 0883, a bill which allows felons who have gone at least five years without incident the opportunity to petition to have their criminal history sealed. He also sponsored HB 0881, a bill called the "Drug Treatment Instead of Incarceration Act".

Education 
Dixie sponsored HB1550, the "Tennessee Education Savings Account Pilot Program", a school voucher program for low- and middle-income students.

Health care 
Dixie sponsored the following bills in relation to health including HB 887, which is the "Prescription Drug Fair Pricing Act", HB 1259, which will expand Medicaid eligibility to people who have an opioid addiction and make less than the Federal poverty level, in the duration of their active involvement at any approved substance abuse treatment facility.

Gun rights 
Dixie has consistently received "F" ratings from the NRA Political Victory Fund in regards to his gun rights positions.

Personal life 
Dixie attends St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church where he serves as a member of the church's finance committee.

Others community involvements are:

 member, Omega Psi Phi fraternity
 member, National Association of Black Accountants
 member, Tennessee Association of Professional Bail Agents
 knight/ member, Knights of Peter Claver
 fellow/ co-chair, New Leaders Council Nashville Chapter
 House Member, 111th General Assembly
Democratic Caucus Treasurer

References

External links
Official page at the Tennessee General Assembly
Official Campaign Website

1973 births
Living people
Tennessee State University alumni
Democratic Party members of the Tennessee House of Representatives
Politicians from Nashville, Tennessee
People from Davidson County, Tennessee
21st-century American politicians
Knights of Peter Claver & Ladies Auxiliary
Wagle is a surname that occurs in multiple cultures.

 It is one of the common surnames from Coastal Karnataka, Goan region of India. It is found to be one of the surname/family name (Upanama) amongst the Konkani Saraswat Brahmin (Mostly Rajapur Saraswat Brahmins and Goud Saraswat Brahmins). They speak the Goan/Mangalorean or Malvani Konkani dialect. 
 Wagle (Wagale) is a family name of the Konkani community in the states of Maharashtra and Goa.

 In Nepal, the surname "Wagle" is used by the Brahman community.

 In Norway, Wagle may be a habitational name derived from farmsteads in Rogaland named Vagle, from the Old Norse "vagl" meaning a ‘perch’ or ‘roost’, with reference to a high ridge between two lakes.

The name Wagle may refer to:

Finn Wagle (born 1941), Norwegian bishop
Narayan Wagle (born 1968), Nepali journalist and writer
Nikhil Wagle (born 1959), Indian journalist 
Susan Wagle (born 1953), American politician
Swarnim Wagle (born 1974), Nepali economist and policymaker
Tellef Wagle (1883–1957), Norwegian sailor
Sukrutha Wagle  (born 1992), Indian actress

Other uses
Wagle Estate, industrial district in Thane, India
Wagle Ki Duniya, an Indian television series

Surnames
Sunshine Boy: The Unheard Studio Sessions & Demos 1971–1972 is an album by Townes Van Zandt.  It was released posthumously in 2013.

Background 
Sunshine Boy collects alternate takes, cover songs and demos from what many believe to be Van Zandt's most productive period, culminating in 1972 with the release of two heralded albums:  High, Low and In Between and The Late Great Townes Van Zandt.  Disc one contains alternate takes of several compositions, such as his classic "Pancho and Lefty", which is stripped of the strings and mariachi horns that augmented the original, and "White Freight Liner Blues," which contains southern rock elements.  The second disc contains intimate demos mainly featuring Van Zandt and just his guitar, an approach many believe to be ideal for his poetic, often sad songs.

Sunshine Boy has received positive reviews from critics.  Fred Thomas of AllMusic writes, "Though all of the songs on Sunshine Boy found their way to official albums in more fleshed-out versions, these uncluttered takes offer a beautifully bare look at a young artist whose combination of astonishing gifts and troubled life would eventually make him an American folk hero."  David Grossman of PopMatters insists the LP "captures the raw power of his songbook as well as any collection before it, and likely several more thereafter."  Brian T. Atkinson of The Telegraph states, "By close, Sunshine Boy'''s joys number many and they're hardly reserved for purists. Superior packaging and key alternate takes (most notably, a far better 'Pancho and Lefty') alone make this collection essential even for casual fans." In a five-star review, Kelly Dearmore of American Songwriter'' asserts, "Each song forces the listener to stop and wonder where Van Zandt's mind was taking him as a specific song was cut, or what might've been 'really meant' when a certain line was sung. Such unavoidable thoughts and questions give this beautiful double record the weight of an historical document."

Track listing 
All songs written by Townes Van Zandt unless otherwise indicated

CD 1
 "T For Texas" (Jimmie Rodgers)
 "Who Do You Love" (Ellas McDaniel)
 "Sunshine Boy"
 "Where I Lead Me"
 "Blue Ridge Mountains"
 "No Deal"
 "Pancho and Lefty" (Alternate 1972 mix without strings and horns)
 "To Live Is to Fly"
 "You Are Not Needed Now"
 "Don't Take It Too Bad"
 "Sad Cinderella"
 "Mr. Mudd and Mr. Gold"
 "White Freight Liner Blues"
 "Two Hands"
 "Lungs"
 "Dead Flowers" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)

CD 2
 "Heavenly Houseboat Blues" (Van Zandt, Susanna Clark)
 "Diamond Heel Blues"
 "To Live Is to Fly"
 "Tower Song"
 "You Are Not Needed Now"
 "Mr. Mudd and Mr. Gold"
 "Highway Kind"
 "Greensboro Woman"
 "When He Offers His Hand"
 "Dead Flowers" (Jagger, Richards)
 "Old Paint" (Traditional)
 "Standin'"
 "Untitled"

Additional information 
 Recorded in 1971 at Larrabee Sound Studios, Los Angeles and 914 Sound Recording Studios, New York
 Recorded in 1972 at Jack Clement Recording Studios, Nashville
 Mixed at O.F.R, North Hollywood, CA
 Mastered Lurssen Mastering

References

Townes Van Zandt albums
2013 albums
Omnivore Recordings albums
Rasim Akhmed oglu Balayev (born 1948, in Agsu) is an Azerbaijani cinema and theatrical actor. He starred in the leading roles in more than 60 Azerbaijani films.

Early life
Rasim Balayev was born on 8 August 1948 in Agsu region of Azerbaijan. At the age of 15-16, he got involved in theater performances. Being from rural area, Rasim's family attempted to push him to choose a different career, though he never did and got enrolled in Azerbaijani Institute of Arts, from which he graduated in 1969.

Career

The actor's first film experience on big screen came with a short role in the film "Stars don't die away". Rasim Balayev's fame came after his part in 3 movies and participation in two film festivals: the 7th Soviet festival in Baku and 3rd International festival in Tashkent where he received an award for Best Actor and several proposals for main roles in future movies. Among his best performances are films Nesimi (about Nasimi), Babek, Dada Gorgud, The Scoundrel, Anecdote, and The Bat.

Personal life
In 2012, he has campaigned to stop male violence against women.

Awards
 Best Actor
 Award of Lenin's Komsomol.
Shohrat Order (1998)
Sharaf Order (2018)
Medal of Nesimi (2020)
 Istiglal Order (2023)

Notes

External links
Famous People: Then and Now - Rasim Balayev in Azerbaijan International (AZER.com), Vol. 7.4 (Winter 1999), pp. 32–33.

1948 births
Living people
People from Agsu District
Azerbaijani male film actors
Azerbaijani male stage actors
Soviet male actors
People's Artists of Azerbaijan
Soviet Azerbaijani people
Sheikha Aisha bint Khalfan bin Jameel al-Sayabiyah was appointed the President of Public Authority for Craft Industries, Oman in 2003.

Early life
Khalfan was born in Samail town, the youngest in a family with eleven children. She attended the Sultan Qaboos University, from where she graduated with a degree in arts in 1995.

Career
After finishing her education, Khalfan worked as a teacher. In March 2003, the Sultan of Oman Qaboos bin Said al Said issued a decree appointing Khalfan as the president of the Omani Public Authority for Craft Industries. This post is equivalent to the rank of minister without portfolio and hence she is regarded as the first woman minister of Oman. With this decree, Oman became the first country from the Gulf Cooperation Council to have a woman minister.

Khalfan is a member of the executive council of Arab Women Organisation (AWO) and headed the Omani delegation at the 2016 AWO Conference where Oman was chosen the president of AWO until 2019. She has also served on the University of Nizwa's Board of Trustees and is a cabinet member of Omani Women's Association.

References

Living people
21st-century Omani women politicians
21st-century Omani politicians
Omani educators
Sultan Qaboos University alumni
People from Ad Dakhiliyah Governorate
Date of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Women government ministers of Oman
Sirius is a diffraction-limited storage ring synchrotron light source at the Laboratório Nacional de Luz Síncrotron in Campinas, São Paulo State, Brazil. It has a circumference of , a diameter of , and an electron energy of 3 GeV. The produced synchrotron radiation covers the range of infrared, optical, ultraviolet and X-ray light.

Costing R$1.8 billion, it was funded by the Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communication (Brazil) and the São Paulo Research Foundation. Discussion started in 2008, and initial funding of R$2 million was granted in 2009. Construction started in 2015, and was finished in 2018. The first electron loop around the storage ring was achieved in November 2019. Its first experiments were made during COVID-19 pandemic at MANACÁ beamline, dedicated to macromolecular crystallography.

Sirius is the second synchrotron lightsource constructed in Brazil. The first one, UVX, was a second generation machine operated by LNLS from 1997 to 2019.

Characteristics
Sirius is used to understand the atomic structure of substances, which can help in the development of new drugs, new materials used in construction, oil exploration and in many other areas. The 68,000-square-meter building houses a ring-shaped, circumferential 500-meter facility. To protect people from the radiation released by machine operation, designed to be the most advanced of its kind in the world, the whole is shielded by 1 kilometer of concrete walls. Around R$1.8 billion were invested in the project, which makes it the most ambitious scientific project ever made in Brazil.

Beamlines 
Currently, Sirius has 9 operational beamlines, 1 in scientific commissioning, 2 in the assembly phase and 1 the design phase.

References

External links 

Synchrotron radiation facilities
Science and technology in Brazil
Florence Alberta Fallgatter (1891 – April 8, 1973) was an American educator and home economist. She was head of the home economics department at Iowa State University from 1938 to 1958,  the first woman president of the American Vocational Association, and president of the American Home Economics Association (AHEA) from 1950 to 1952.

Early life and education 
Fallgatter was born in Rock Valley, Iowa, and lived in Parker, South Dakota as a girl. She earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota and a master's degree from Teachers College, Columbia University. She was awarded an honorary doctorate by Iowa State University.

Career 
Fallgatter taught school in Iowa and Minnesota as a young woman. In 1926 she was state president of the Montana Home Economics Association. From 1935 to 1938, she was chief of the Home Economics Education Service, a program of the United States Office of Education; she succeeded Adelaide Steele Baylor as chief, and was in turn succeeded by Edna P. Amidon. She was a home economics instructor at the University of Minnesota in 1923. She was a professor and, from 1938 to 1958, head of the home economics department at Iowa State University, the largest such department in the United States.

Fallgatter was national president of Phi Upsilon Omicron from 1934 to 1938. In 1945 she testified before a Senate hearing on women's postwar employment. She was the first woman president of the American Vocational Association, an office she held from 1946 to 1947. As AVA president, she preferred state control over federal control of vocational education programs. In 1949 she attended the International Federation of Home Economics congress in Sweden. In 1951 she served on the planning committee for the White House Conference for Children and Youth. She was president of the American Home Economics Association (AHEA) from 1950 to 1952. She chaired the advisory board of the Journal of Home Economics.

Publications 

 The Teaching of Art Related to the Home: Suggestions for content and method in related art instruction in the vocational program in home economics (1931, with Elsie Wilson Gwynne)
 The home project in homemaking education (1933, with Jane Hinckley Blake)
 "Consumer Education Aids" (1934)
 "The Modern Homemaking Department" (1936)
 Space and Equipment for Homemaking Instruction: A Guide to Location and Arrangement of Homemaking Departments (1936, with Edna P. Amidon)
 "Trends in Home Economics Education" (1951)
 "Our Responsibility for Freedom as Home Economists of Today" (presidential address, 1951)
 A guide for planning homemaking departments in Iowa (1955, with Louise Keller and Gladys Grabe)

Personal life 
Fallgatter died in 1973, in Ames, Iowa. Her grave is in the Iowa State University Cemetery.

References 

1891 births
1973 deaths
People from Rock Valley, Iowa
Iowa State University faculty
Home economists
20th-century American educators
20th-century American women educators
University of Minnesota alumni
Teachers College, Columbia University alumni
Alessio Chiaverini  (born July 20, 1984 in Firenze, Italy) is an Italian footballer currently free agent.

External links
Profile 

1984 births
Living people
Italian men's footballers
Men's association football goalkeepers
CS Sporting Vaslui players
Liga I players
Expatriate men's footballers in Romania
SSD Sanremese Calcio players
US Imperia 1923 players
Footballers from Florence
Laura Kane (born ) is an Australian sports administrator currently serving as the executive general manager of football at the Australian Football League (AFL).

Kane was appointed to the position in August 2023, having acted in the role since May, and is the first female to hold that place. In her role, which is the most senior football position in the AFL, Kane is responsible for a wide range of football operations including umpiring, the laws of the game, the AFL Tribunal, and the AFL Women's competition.

Early life and schooling 
Kane grew up loving the sport of Australian rules football and participated in Auskick as a pre-teen. While still in high school as a 16-year-old, Kane completed work experience with Victoria Legal Aid at the Supreme Court of Victoria. Following high school, attended university at Victoria University, Melbourne from 2009 to 2012, achieving a Bachelor of Laws (Honours). During this time, she also studied abroad at the Humboldt University of Berlin.

Sporting career 
Kane joined the Melbourne University Women's Football Club while in year seven at high school. Her first three years at the club were limited to training only, as the club did not yet have a youth girls team. Once old enough to represent the senior women's team, Kane became a powerful centre half-forward and played into her early 20s before eventually coaching the club.

Business career 
In July 2014, Kane began work as a qualified junior solicitor at Waller Legal, at one point representing victims in the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. By October of that year, Kane had risen to the position of president at Melbourne University Women's Football Club (MUWFC), and in 2015 approached fellow female football administrator Sonja Hood about a role at the North Melbourne Football Club, who had established a partnership with MUWFC dating back to 2010. Kane eventually joined the football operations team at North Melbourne in April 2016 while remaining as MUFWC president and holding a position on their board.

In 2017, Kane led North Melbourne's application process for an AFL Women's (AFLW) competition license, and in September that year, was nominated for the Football Woman of the Year award as recognition of her dual roles in senior football. Much of Kane's time developing the application was spent educating staff and the male playing group on the differences between men's and women's football, and she established a player integration committee to further the growth of the female game. North Melbourne was eventually admitted to the AFLW ahead of the 2019 season as part of a joint venture with AFL Tasmania.

Kane moved to the Australian Football League in November 2021 as general manager of competition management, subsequently resigning from the MUWFC board.

References 

Living people
Australian sports executives and administrators
VFL/AFL administrators
Date of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)