Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
The 1999 Exide NASCAR Select Batteries 400 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series race held on September 11, 1999, at Richmond International Raceway in Richmond, Virginia. Contested over 400 laps on the three–quarter (1.2 km) short track, it was the 25th race of the 1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season. Tony Stewart of Joe Gibbs Racing won the race, earning his first career Winston Cup Series win. Bobby Labonte finished second and Dale Jarrett finished third.

Background
In 1953, Richmond International Raceway began hosting the Grand National Series with Lee Petty winning that first race in Richmond.  The original track was paved in 1968.  In 1988, the track was re-designed into its present D-shaped configuration

The name for the raceway complex was "Strawberry Hill" until the Virginia State Fairgrounds site was bought out in 1999 and renamed the "Richmond International Raceway".

Entry list

Qualifying

Race recap

Race results

Race Statistics
 Time of race: 2:53:04
 Average Speed: 
 Pole Speed: 
 Cautions: 6 for 45 laps
 Margin of Victory: 1.115 sec
 Lead changes: 13
 Percent of race run under caution: 11.2%         
 Average green flag run: 50.7 laps

References

Exide NASCAR Select Batteries 400
Exide NASCAR Select Batteries 400
NASCAR races at Richmond Raceway
Nepenthes argentii (; after George Argent) is a highland Nepenthes pitcher plant native to Mount Guiting-Guiting on Sibuyan Island in the Philippines. It is possibly the smallest species in the genus and does not appear to have a climbing stage.

Nepenthes argentii inhabits subalpine shrubbery "with a smooth wind-clipped canopy 30 cm tall on an ultrabasic ridge". It grows at an elevation of 1400–1900 m.

On Mount Guiting-Guiting, N. argentii is sympatric with N. sibuyanensis at around 1600 to 1770 m. A taxon resembling N. alata grows on Mount Guiting-Guiting at lower elevations of 800 to 1000 m; it was described as N. graciliflora by Adolph Daniel Edward Elmer. Other plant species endemic to the mountain include Lobelia proctorii and Rhododendron rousei.

Nepenthes argentii has no known natural hybrids, although it may hybridise with N. sibuyanensis. No forms or varieties have been described.

References

 Amoroso, V.B., L.D. Obsioma, J.B. Arlalejo, R.A. Aspiras, D.P. Capili, J.J.A. Polizon & E.B. Sumile 2009. Inventory and conservation of endangered, endemic and economically important flora of Hamiguitan Range, southern Philippines. Blumea 54(1–3): 71–76.  
 Amoroso, V.B. & R.A. Aspiras 2011. Hamiguitan Range: a sanctuary for native flora. Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences 18(1): 7–15. 
 Co, L. & W. Suarez 2012. Nepenthaceae. Co's Digital Flora of the Philippines.
 McPherson, S.R. & V.B. Amoroso 2011. Field Guide to the Pitcher Plants of the Philippines. Redfern Natural History Productions, Poole.
  McPherson, S. & T. Gronemeyer 2008. Die Nepenthesarten der Philippinen: eine Fotodokumentation. Das Taublatt 60: 34–78.

External links

Photographs of N. argentii at the Carnivorous Plant Photofinder
Borneo Exotics: Nepenthes argentii

Carnivorous plants of Asia
argentii
Endemic flora of the Philippines
Flora of Luzon
Vulnerable flora of Asia
Plants described in 1997
Taxa named by Matthew Jebb
Taxa named by Martin Cheek
Maria da Graça Freire (1916?–1993) was a Portuguese writer of novels and short stories.

Early life
Maria da Graça Freire was born on 1 October 1916(?) in Cartaxo in the Santarém District of Portugal, one of four daughters of João Ribeiro de Oliveira Freire and Maria Emília da Cunha Freire. One of her sisters was the poet, Natércia Freire. In her teens she suffered from tuberculosis and was expected to die, but survived. At that time the family moved to the Portuguese capital of Lisbon, following the death of her father. In 1936, after marriage with Cláudio Azambuja Martins, she left for Portuguese Angola, where they stayed, until 1943-1944.

Career
Freire's first literary writings (as Maria da Graça Azambuja) date back to 1944-1945, with the publication of short stories in Atlântico magazine. Her 1946 volume of short stories, As Estrelas Moram Longe (The Stars Live Far Away), denounced social inequality, sexism and poverty. Her time in Angola led to her first novel, A primeira viagem (The first journey), which was published in 1952 and won the Ricardo Malheiros Award. In 1955 she started divorce proceedings, which caused some scandal in Catholic Portugal, and married in the following year Antero Miranda Mendes, a lawyer, who later became director of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation travelling libraries service. 

Freire's 1950s novel, Bárbara Casanova, represented an attack on male society and was seen as being critical of the Estado Novo regime's approach to women. Her novel, A terra foi-lhe negada (The earth was denied to you), which won the Eça de Queiroz Award in 1958, features the marriage between a white woman and a mixed-race man, highlighting the sexism and racism of Portuguese society. A 1971 essay, Portugueses e negritude, argues for the independence of Portugal's colonies, at a time when the Estado Novo was fighting to retain them. 
 
Freire's best-known short story is The Death of Benjamim Trovisco. This was published in Italy as part of a collection that included stories by Jorge Luís Borges, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Camilo José Cela, Italo Calvino and others.

Death
Freire died in Lisbon on 13 May 1993.

References

1916 births
1993 deaths
20th-century Portuguese writers
Portuguese women short story writers
Portuguese women writers
People from Santarém District
WPUT may refer to:

 WPUT (FM), a radio station (90.1 FM) licensed to serve North Salem, New York, United States
 WPUT (AM), a defunct radio station (1510 AM) formerly licensed to serve Brewster, New York
Piazza Carlo Felice is a city square in Turin, Italy.

Buildings around the square
Torino Porta Nuova railway station

Piazzas in Turin
The Jingda Expressway () is an expressway in the People's Republic of China, starting from Beijing and ending in Datong, in Shanxi province. It is 334 km in length and was completed in full on November 16, 2002.

The Jingda Expressway is formed mainly by the main trunk route from Beijing to Datong in three stages. Leaving Beijing, the Jingda Expressway becomes the Badaling Expressway. After Kangzhuang in Yanqing County, it becomes the Jingzhang Expressway. Finally, it becomes the Xuanda Expressway.

As of September 2004, traffic has been clogging up more and more in the area. Due to the massive transportation of coal, what was a very smooth route in the summer is now clogged up with immense traffic jams.

Specific Information
 For the beginning section in Beijing through to Kangzhuang, see Badaling Expressway.
 For the section from Kangzhuang, Beijing through to Xuanhua, Hebei, see Jingzhang Expressway.
 For the section from Xuanhua through to Datong, Shanxi, see Xuanda Expressway.

See also
 China National Highways 
 Expressways of Beijing 
 Expressways of China 

Expressways in China
Road transport in Beijing
Transport in Shanxi
Ellen Dale (14 February 1865 – 26 February 1967) was a British school teacher who created one of the earliest books on teaching reading.

The earliest school-based literacy education was started by Dale at Wimbledon High School from 1892 to 1909. Ms Edith Hastings, to whom Dale dedicated her book On the Teaching of English Reading, was headmistress of Wimbledon High School for Girls from 1880 to 1908.

Dale published several books, starting in 1898 with On the Teaching of English Reading (green cover) with J M Dent & Co., London, England. This book taught the alphabetic principle and phonemic awareness. She taught the voiced and unvoiced consonants, vowels and silent letters by using different colors (black, blue, red and yellow, and she had her students step out the syllables. She showed her students how to notice voiced and unvoiced consonants.

Walter Crane published the Readers under the title The Walter Crane Readers in 1899 with J M Dent & Co in London. Dale later moved her books (excluding her first one) to George Philip & Son Limited, London and then called them The Dale Readers.

The Steps to Reading was also her book. To complement it, Dale contemporaneously published The Steps to Reading (red cover), The Dale Readers First Primer (blue cover), The Dale Readers Second Primer (yellow cover) and The Dale Readers Infant Reader (green cover). In the United States, these books were also printed by D Appleton & Co.

Dale later published The Dale Readers Book I (brown cover), The Dale Readers Book II (pink cover) and a revised book entitled Further Notes on the Teaching of English Reading (green cover) covering her original books plus The Dale Readers Book I in 1902. She intended to print further books, but never did. Her mentor in all of this appears to have been the linguist Walter Rippmann MA (1869-1947) who published The Sounds of Spoken English and Specimens of English (1911) in her book On the Teaching of English Reading.

She also used a Tabulating Frame and Pricked Sounds for Embroidery, the latter are only found in the Toronto Public Library, no copy of the tabulating frame has been found.

References

English educational theorists
Reading skill advocates
1865 births
1967 deaths
British centenarians
Women centenarians
The Greenland Guide and Scout Association (, ) is the youngest of the Danish Scout associations, founded on February 2, 1973. Previously Greenlandic boys had belonged to one of the Danish Scout associations and girls belonged to one of the corresponding Danish Guide associations. Scouting in Greenland started in 1943, and Guiding began in 1950. Greenland Guide and Scout Association, however, is a coeducational organization, and has been recognized as an associate member of the Fællesrådet for Danmarks Drengespejdere since 1976 and of the Pigespejdernes Fællesråd Danmark since 1981. Initial grants from the Parliament of Greenland helped the fledgling organization. Today, the association has about 500 members.

The association focuses upon local conditions, skills and handicrafts, sea and mountaineering activities and subzero camping, as well as nature conservation, of particular importance on the Arctic island. The limited means of public transport render a camp for all members impracticable, so camps are instead arranged at district level. The membership badge of the association incorporates elements of the coat of arms of Greenland.

See also 

 Scouting and Guiding in Newfoundland and Labrador

External links
 Scouting 'Round the World, World Scout Bureau, Geneva, Switzerland, 1977

Sports organisations of Greenland
Overseas branches of Scouting and Guiding associations
World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts member organizations
World Organization of the Scout Movement member organizations
Scouting and Guiding in Denmark
Youth organizations established in 1973
1973 establishments in Greenland
Leon Neal (born September 11, 1972) was a running back at the University of Washington.  He was drafted by the Buffalo Bills in the 1996 NFL Draft, but played for the Indianapolis Colts.

High school
Neal attended Paramount High School in Paramount, California.

College
Neal played for the Washington Huskies from 1991 to 1995 for coaches Don James and Jim Lambright.  Neal and six teammates, "The Medford Seven," were severely injured in an automobile accident while travelling home to California during winter break in 1991.  Neal primarily served as a backup to Napoleon Kaufman, until starting his senior season in 1995.

References

1972 births
Living people
Players of American football from Saint Paul, Minnesota
American football running backs
Washington Huskies football players
Indianapolis Colts players
is a former Japanese professional baseball player for the Nippon Professional Baseball Chunichi Dragons, having played his professional career for them since his debut in . He was drafted in the first round in the  NPB Draft.

Tatsunami holds the all-time NPB double record with 487, and is a member of the Meikyukai (Association of Great Players, or Golden Players Club).

After the 2009 season, Tatsunami retired, having seen his skills and playing time diminish for the last few seasons. He retired with a career .285 batting average, 171 home runs, 1,037 RBI, and 2,480 hits.

On 15 January 2019, Tatsunami was inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame for his achievements as a player.

On 13 October 2021, it was confirmed that Tatsunami has been approached to become the new manager of the Dragons ahead of the 2022 NPB season.

References

External links
 

1969 births
Living people
People from Settsu, Osaka
Japanese baseball players
Nippon Professional Baseball infielders
Chunichi Dragons players
Chunichi Dragons managers
Nippon Professional Baseball Rookie of the Year Award winners
Japanese baseball coaches
Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame inductees
Managers of baseball teams in Japan
The Ngagyur Nyingma Nunnery Institute () was founded by Penor Rinpoche in 1995. Buddhist nuns there study a nine-year course on sutra and tantra along with poetry, grammar, composition and so on, a syllabus virtually identical to that of Ngagyur Nyingma Institute. In 2002, the institute began sending teachers to teach in other nunneries including to India, Bhutan, and Nepal.

Related Academy with NNNI
 Ngagyur Nyingma Nunnery Jr. High School
 Ngagyur Nyingma Institute (NNI)

References

External links
 Namdroling Website
 Tsogyal Shedrub Dargyeling Nunnery
 Palyul Ling International 

Buddhist schools
Buildings and structures in Mysore district
City of a Thousand Suns is a 1965 science fantasy novel by American writer Samuel R. Delany,  the final novel in the Fall of the Towers trilogy.

As in the other two books, the setting is the post-apocalyptic empire of Toromon, confined by a surrounding "Barrier" of highly-radioactive land, and inhabited by mutant/evolved "forest people" (some of whom are telepaths) and devolved "neanderthals", as well as normal humans.  The events of the book focus on a claimed war.  Soldiers are told repeatedly "we have an enemy behind the barrier" and placed in coffin-like modules to be teleported into enemy territory to do battle.

However, it turns out that the matter transporter or teleportation system has never worked, and the war is a hoax.  The soldiers are wired into a computer prior to their "teleportation" experience but remain in their coffins. They hallucinate battles, with their experiences generated and coordinated by the computer.  The pre-determined fatalities are killed by an enemy energy weapon within the communal reality, as the survivors remember it, but in reality are electrocuted and burned within their coffins.  In some respects, this foreshadows the 1999 film The Matrix.

However, Toromon does have a real enemy of sorts, on another plane of existence, and at the end of the book there is a cosmic conflict which leads to this entity being prevented from conducting further malicious experiments on Toromon.

The stories of the Fall of the Towers trilogy were originally set in the same post-holocaust Earth as Delany's earlier The Jewels of Aptor; however, linking references were removed in later revised editions.

References
Notes

Bibliography

External links
 

Novels by Samuel Delany
1965 American novels
1965 science fiction novels
1965 fantasy novels
Data USA is a free platform that allows users to collect, analyze, and visualize shared U.S. government data. Launched on April 4, 2016, Data USA is the product of an ongoing partnership between Deloitte, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Collective Learning Group, and Datawheel.

The platform won a 2017 Webby Award for Government & Civil Innovation, along with a 2016 Kantar Information is Beautiful Award.

On May 1, 2019, version 3.0 of the platform was released, which included a new "Viz Builder" tool, which allows users to build custom data visualizations using data from all of the data sources included on the site. This allows for cross-dimensional queries of the data, which were previously unavailable given the vertical-nature of the profile pages.

Data USA belongs to a larger family of data visualization and distribution platforms, created under the vision of César Hidalgo, which take open data sources that are traditionally siloed and collates them into a single data portal with narrative profiles and data exploration tools. These sites include: The Observatory of Economic Complexity (OEC), DataChile, Data Africa, and Data KOREA

Architecture

Back-end 
Data USA consolidates data from 21 open data sources, cleaned and standardized into a PostgreSQL database, and accessible via a public API. The ETL steps are currently written in python, and the API is constructed using mondrian-rest.

Front-end 
The front-end of Data USA is written in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, using a React framework called Canon. The codebase, much like the underlying data itself, is made open-source on GitHub under a GNU Affero General Public License v3.0. The visualizations found on Data USA are created using D3plus, a library built on top of D3.js that enables quick visualization development by providing default styles and helper functions and classes.

See also 
 USAFacts.org
 United States Census Bureau

References

Internet in the United States
PostgreSQL
Datasets
Federal government of the United States
Carolyn Hopkins is an American public service announcer. Her recorded voice announcements are heard in major transportation systems around the world.

Career
Hopkins's recorded unattended baggage announcements range from service status updates to safety tips. Her voice can be heard in more than 200 airports over the world, including Pittsburgh International Airport, LaGuardia Airport, John F. Kennedy International Airport, Incheon International Airport, Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport, Mérida International Airport, and Denver International Airport. She has also recorded for such public transit systems as the New York City Subway, the Staten Island Ferry, Grand Central Terminal, and the Paris Métro.

Originally from Louisville, Kentucky, Hopkins now lives in Hampden, Maine. Her first voice recording was for RCA in Indianapolis, while her first airport service announcement was for O’Hare International Airport.

When co-founder Hardy Martin and three other partners started IED (Innovative Electronic Designs), they chose Hopkins as one of their first voices. It was for the Typhoon Lagoon attraction at Disney World in Florida in 1989.

Hopkins records all the public address announcements from her home studio in Hampden, Maine and sends them via email. Hopkins was named one of the 500 most important people in history by Mental Floss Magazine in December 2015.

According to Hopkins, she has ridden the New York City Subway just once, in 1957.

As of 2016, Hopkins still records for IED from her home.

See also
Emma Clarke, the voice on a majority of the London Underground
Bernie Wagenblast, another voice on the New York City Subway, AirTrain JFK and AirTrain Newark

References

External links
NPR: The Voice That Gets You Where You Need To Go
Metro Videos: Carolyn Hopkins Woman Behind The Voice at 200 Airports

Public address announcers
Living people
New York City Subway
Year of birth missing (living people)
The 1999 Irish local elections were held in all the counties, cities and towns of Ireland on Friday, 11 June 1999, on the same day as the European elections.

Ireland was divided into local government areas of administrative counties and county boroughs, in which the local authorities had last been elected at the 1991 local elections, and a second tier in certain areas of boroughs, urban districts and towns, in which the local authorities had last been elected at the 1994 local elections. The elections had been scheduled for 1998, but were postponed.

Each local government area was divided into local electoral areas (LEAs) in which councillors were elected for a five-year term on the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV). During the period of office of these councils, local government throughout the state was restructured under the Local Government Act 2001.

Results 

18 Workers' Party councillors had left the party in 1992 upon the creation of Democratic Left. In January 1999, Democratic Left merged with the Labour Party. One Workers' Party councillor had joined Labour since 1991.

County councils

City councils

Borough and town councils

Borough councils

Town councils

Notes

References 

 
1999 elections in the Republic of Ireland
1999 in Irish politics
1999
June 1999 events in Europe
Brian Keith Greer (born May 14, 1959) is a former Major League Baseball player.

Greer was drafted eighth overall in the 1977 draft. He appeared in five games with the San Diego Padres in  and . He was the youngest player in the NL in 1977.

Sources

External links

1959 births
Living people
Amarillo Gold Sox players
Hawaii Islanders players
Major League Baseball outfielders
Navegantes del Magallanes players
American expatriate baseball players in Venezuela
Sportspeople from Lynwood, California
Baseball players from Los Angeles County, California
Reno Padres players
Salem Redbirds players
San Diego Padres players
Walla Walla Padres players
The Klamath Lake sculpin (Cottus princeps) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Cottidae, the typical sculpins. It is endemic to the United States. It is endemic to the Agency and Upper Klamath Lakes in Oregon. It reaches a maximum length of 7.0 cm. It prefers rocky and sandy shores of the lakes.

References

Fauna of the United States
Cottus (fish)
Fish described in 1898
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Taxa named by Charles Henry Gilbert
Béalcourt () is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

Geography
Béalcourt is situated on the D99 road, by the banks of the Authie river, the border of the departments of the Somme and the Pas-de-Calais.

Population

See also
Communes of the Somme department

References

Communes of Somme (department)
Tom Heydinger (August 24, 1940 – July 10, 2012) was a former judge and Democratic member of the Ohio House of Representatives who represented the 58th District briefly in 2008.

Life and career
A native of Plymouth, Ohio, Heydinger served in the Vietnam War, where he flew helicopters for the United States Army. He also worked as a lawyer in the Judge Advocate General's Corps.

A former judge, Heydinger served on the bench in Crawford County, Ohio, and as an assistant to the Ohio Attorney General. He also worked as a prosecutor for Huron County, Ohio. In 1975, Heydinger was appointed by Ohio Governor John Gilligan to the Huron County Common Pleas Court, Probate Division, a controversial decision at the time because of the issue of whether he had actually practiced law the requisite number of years to qualify for judicial office. However, a writ of quo warranto (pursuant to the Ohio Revised Code) was never filed, and the Ohio Supreme Court never ruled on the matter. Heydinger served as probate judge from 1975 until 2003.

Ohio House of Representatives
In early 2008, freshman representative Matt Barrett ran into ethics trouble after mistakenly showing pornographic content to high school students during a presentation. He subsequently resigned, leaving House Democrats to appoint a replacement to the seat. While numerous candidates applied for the position, Heydinger was chosen. He was sworn into office on May 21, 2008.

Initially, Heydinger sought to retain the seat in the 2008 election. However, Heydinger dropped out of the race, citing mounting health problems and influences from within the Ohio Democratic Party. The seat was won by Republican Terry Boose.

References

Democratic Party members of the Ohio House of Representatives
1940 births
2012 deaths
People from Plymouth, Ohio
21st-century American politicians