Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
A midway at a fair (commonly an American fair such as a county or state fair) is the location where carnival games, amusement rides, entertainment, dime stores, themed events, exhibitions and trade shows, pleasure gardens, water parks and food booths cluster. The midway is located between the entrance and the big top of a circus; thus, a carnival is essentially a travelling midway.

Origin
The term originated from the World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago, Illinois, in 1893. It was the first world's fair with an area for amusements which was strictly separated from the exhibition halls. This area, which was concentrated on the city's Midway Plaisance, included amusement rides (among them the original Ferris Wheel), belly dancers, balloon rides, concession stands, and other attractions. 

After the Exposition, the term midway came into use as a common noun in the United States and Canada to refer to the area for amusements at a county or state fair, circus, festival, or amusement park.

Attractions
Attractions that have been found in midways throughout history include the following:
 Concession stands selling a variety of different types of food and drink including fruit, pastries, pies, wine, lemonade, popcorn, ice cream, confectionery, and fairy floss
 Carnival games, including various games of skill, games of chance, and cons (such as three-card Monte and the shell game)
 Carnival rides such as the Ferris wheel and carousel
 Sideshows such as illusion shows, menageries, wax shows, and burlesque

See also
 Travelling carnival
 Family entertainment center 
 Sideshow alley – term for a similar concept in Australia
 Showbag - themed bag for a fair with commercial wares or sponsored merchandise

References

External links
 Chicago's Midway Plaisance Walking Tour website
 CarnivalMidways.Com - Directory of Carnival Midway's in the U.S and Canada

Carnival games
The Narwhal is a species of whale with a distinctive long tusk.

Narwhal may also refer to:
 Narwhal (whaling vessel), a whaling ship used between 1883 and 1907
 HMS Narwhal, several ships of the British Royal Navy
 USS Narwhal, several US Navy ships
 Narwhal-class submarine, US submarines
 Project Narwhal, a computer program used in Barack Obama's 2012 presidential campaign
The Narwhal, Canadian environmental magazine
Nexter Narwhal, a 20mm remotely controlled naval autocannon made by Nexter

See also 
 Narwal (disambiguation)
 Narval (disambiguation)
 Narwhale (Dungeons & Dragons)
Horst Kassner (12 May 1937 – 21 April 2019) was a Grand Prix motorcycle road racer from Germany. His best year was in 1956 when he finished the season in fourth place in the 250cc world championship.

References

 Horst Kassner career statistics at MotoGP.com

1937 births
2019 deaths
German motorcycle racers
250cc World Championship riders
Isle of Man TT riders
Bregal Sagemount is a private equity firm based in New York City.

History
Bregal Sagemount was founded in 2012 by former employees of Goldman Sachs and Great Hill Partners.  Gene Yoon, the Managing Partner at Bregal Sagemount, was previously the head of Private Capital Investing at Goldman Sachs in New York.

The firm's first fund, Bregal Sagemount I, L.P., was a $650 million investment vehicle.  A majority of the capital for this fund comes from Bregal Investments, the investment arm of Cofra Group, a Zug, Switzerland-based holding company formed by the Brenninkmeijer family following the founding of the first C&A store in Europe.

Bregal Sagemount announced Bregal Sagemount II, L.P., the firm's second fund, with $960 million of committed capital on February 7, 2017.

In March 2020, Bregal Sagemount completed the final closing for Bregal Sagemount Fund III at the Fund's hard cap of $1.5 billion, exceeding the target of $1.35 billion.

In October 2022, Bregal Sagemount announced the close of Bregal Sagemount Fund IV at a hard cap of $2.5 billion, 66% larger than Fund III. The Fund had a 100% Limited Partner participation rate and a 130% re-up rate by dollar value.

Investments
Bregal Sagemount invests in middle-market companies across a number of technology sectors, including software, tech-enabled business and consumer services, digital infrastructure, healthcare services and technology, financial technology, and specialty finance.  The firm typically invests between $15 million and $400 million in growth-oriented companies with greater than $15 million in revenue.

As stated on the firm's website, Bregal Sagemount provides capital for situations including: funding organic growth, facilitating mergers and acquisitions, providing shareholder liquidity, and buyouts.  The firm invests in both control and non-control (minority) transactions.

References

External links
 Official Website

Financial services companies established in 2012
Private equity firms of the United States
Privately held companies based in New York (state)
American companies established in 2012
Bediako Asare (born 1930) is a Ghanaian journalist and author, initially from Ghana. He began his career working on local newspapers, then relocated to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in 1963, to help launch The Nationalist newspaper.

In 1969 he published his novel Rebel, about the conflict between traditional ways and modernity in Sub-Saharan Africa. Writing in Africa Report, Sheila Wilson said of The Rebel: "The story is simple and the language unpretentious, and the impact of change and hope gives strength and quality to the novel." Asare's novel The Stubborn was published in Nairobi in 1976. Stephen H. Arnold, reviewing it in the African Book Publishing Record, noted that its intended audience was "15-18 year olds of East African ruling classes" and that: "The main themes are science versus superstition and the value of counsel from elders."

Works
Rebel, Heinemann Educational Books, African Writers Series no. 59, 1969
The Stubborn, Nairobi: East African Lit. Bureau, 1976.

References

Ghanaian writers
Living people
1930 births
Ghanaian emigrants
Immigrants to Tanzania
Ghanaian novelists
A Waterford City and County Council election was held in County Waterford and Waterford City in Ireland on 24 May 2019 as part of that year's local elections. All 32 councillors were elected for a five-year term of office from 6 local electoral areas (LEAs) by single transferable vote.

The 2018 boundary review committee recommended significant changes to the LEAs in the 2014 elections due to terms of references requiring a maximum of seven councillors in each LEA and changes in population revealed in the 2016 census. These changes were adopted by statutory instrument (S.I.) No. 635/2018.

Voters in Waterford also took part in a plebiscite on whether or not to establish the position of a directly elected mayor for the council under the Local Government Act 2019. The proposal was rejected by a narrow margin of 50.8% No to 49.2% Yes. Two other council also held plebiscites on directly elected mayors: Cork City rejected the proposal, and Limerick was the only one of the three to vote Yes.

Results by party

Results by local electoral area

Dungarvan

Lismore

Portlaw–Kilmacthomas

Tramore–Waterford City West

Waterford City East

Waterford City South

Results by gender

Plebiscite

Changes since 2019 local elections
† Tramore & Waterford City West Green Party Cllr Marc Ó Cathasaigh was elected to the Dáil in the 2020 general election as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Waterford constituency. Laura Swift was co-opted to fill the vacancy on 26 February 2020. However, she subsequently resigned on 6 May citing conflict with her role in the Family Mediation Service. Following this resignation, Susan Gallagher was co-opted on 24 June 2020 to the Green Party seat in Tramore & Waterford City West.
†† Waterford City East Independent Cllr Matt Shanahan was elected to the Dáil in the 2020 general election as a TD for the Waterford constituency. Former Cllr Mary Roche was co-opted to fill the vacancy on 26 February 2020
††† Waterford City South Fine Gael Cllr John Cummins was elected to Seanad Éireann at the 2020 Seanad election, on the Labour Panel. On 24 June 2020, Frank Quinlan was co-opted to fill the vacancy.

Footnotes

Sources

References

2019 Irish local elections
2019
Umreth is one of the 182 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Gujarat state in India. It is part of Anand district.

List of segments

This assembly seat represents the following segments,

 Umreth Taluka
 Anand Taluka (Part) Villages – Ajarpura, Kasor, Rahtalav, Kunjrao, Tarnol, Samarkha, Chikhodra, Rasnol, Khambholaj, Vaghasi, Boriavi (M), Ode (M)

Member of Legislative Assembly

Election results

2022

2017

2012

See also
 List of constituencies of Gujarat Legislative Assembly
 Gujarat Legislative Assembly

References

External links
 

Assembly constituencies of Gujarat
Anand district
Caro Ramsay is a Scottish writer of crime fiction. Her first ten novels are police procedurals, set in Glasgow, featuring DI Colin Anderson and DS Freddie Costello.

Background
Caro was born in Govan, on Glasgow's south side. A graduate of the British School of Osteopathy, she runs a large osteopath centre in West Scotland, treating animals and humans, and writes in her spare time.

Her first novel Absolution was shortlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger 2008 and her second Singing to the Dead was longlisted for the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award 2010. The third in the series, Dark Water, was published on 4 August 2010, and the fourth book The Blood of Crows was published on 30 August 2012. Critic Cathi Unsworth in The Guardian opined that Ramsay's series "excels in sense of place, realism, plotting and caustic humour", describing it as "Bleak, black and brilliant".

Ramsay was the subject of a 2007 BBC documentary film, and appeared on STV show The Hour in 2010.

Bibliography
 Absolution (2007)
 Singing to the Dead (2009)
 Dark Water (2010)
 The Blood of Crows  (2012)
 The Night Hunter (2014)
 The Tears of Angels (2015)
 Rat Run (2016)
 Standing Still (2017)
 The Suffering of Strangers (2017)
 The Sideman (2018)
 Mosaic (2019)

Note that Tambourine Girl was the working title of Singing to the Dead, not a separate book.

References

External links
 Official site
 Caro Ramsay interview at Penguin Most Wanted
 Caro Ramsay feature in the Daily Record

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Scottish crime fiction writers
People from Govan
Women mystery writers
Tartan Noir writers
Amédée Guillemin (born 5 July 1826 in Pierre-de-Bresse, died 2 January 1893 in Pierre-de-Bresse, France) was a French science writer and a journalist.

Guillemin started his studies at Beaune college before taking his final degree in Paris. From 1850 to 1860  he taught mathematics in a private school while writing articles for the Liberal press criticizing the Second French Empire. In 1860, he moved to Chambéry where he became a junior deputy editor of the weekly political magazine La Savoie. After the annexation of Savoy by the French empire, he returned to Paris where he became the science editor  of l’Avenir national (The Nation's Future).

Guillemin presently started writing books of physics and astronomy which became very popular. He wrote "The Sky" which was translated into many languages. His major work, "The Physical World",  consisted of five large volumes. His  publisher, Hachette, encouraged him to write a series of  booklets about astronomy and physics under the title "Small popular encyclopaedia", a scientifically sound but accessible collection about sciences and their applications. French astronomer Jacques Crovisier from the Observatoire de Paris suggests he may have been a source of inspiration for Jules Verne's 1865 novel, From the Earth to the Moon.

Bibliography
La Lune (the moon)
Le Soleil (the sun)
La Lumière et les Couleurs (light and colours)
Le Son (sound)
Les Etoiles, notions d’astronomie sidérale (the stars, notions of sidereal astronomy)
Les Nébuleuses (nebulae)
Le Feu souterrain. Volcans et tremblements de terre (underground fire. Volcanoes and earthquakes) containing 55 illustrations
La Télégraphie et le téléphone (telegraphy and the telephone) with 101 illustrations
Le Monde Physique (the physical world) 5 volumes with 31 coloured plates, 80 black and white plates and 2012 illustrations
Éléments de cosmographie (elements of cosmography)
La Terre et le ciel (the earth and the sky) 1888
La Vapeur (steam) Bibliothèque des merveilles collection
Les Chemins de fer (railways) Bibliothèque des merveilles collection

Guillemin also wrote L’Instruction républicaine (Republican Instruction), published by Lechevalier. He collaborated to a number of literary, scientific and political papers and magazines, notably La Nature,  la République Française and la Revue Philosophique et Religieuse. Additionally he wrote Electricity and Magnetism  in which he presented a theory of magnetism. It was Guillemin who drafted the entry on astronomy in the second edition of Dorbigny's Dictionary of natural history.

Guillemin was also involved in politics and remained faithful to his liberal convictions to the end.

See Also
Amédée Henri Guillemin (1860-1941), his son

Footnotes
La Nature, N°1024 14 January 1893
Angelo De Gubernatis, Dictionnaire international des écrivains du jour, 1891.

References

External links
 
 
 

1826 births
1893 deaths
French science writers
19th-century French journalists
French male journalists
French male writers
19th-century French male writers
The Fixed-Mobile Convergence Alliance, formed in mid-2004, was a global non-profit organisation for improving products for providing convergence between fixed and mobile networks. The FMCA was incorporated as a not-for-profit association under New York law in August 2006. The Alliance had a membership base of 20 leading global telecom operators, most of which were integrated telecom operators owning both fixed and mobile networks. The included vendor affiliation programme made the operators able to work closely with the associate members, who were all telecommunication vendors.

Members
The alliance was founded by six companies: British Telecom, NTT, Rogers Wireless, Brasil Telecom, Korea Telecom and Swisscom. The purpose of this alliance was to encourage seamless integration of mobile and fixed telephone services (Technological convergence).

The member operators had a customer base of over 850 million customers and collaborated with member vendors towards accelerated development and availability of Convergence products and services in areas such as devices, access points and home gateways, roaming and innovative applications.

Standards
In order to accomplish its goals, the FMCA developed close relationships with leading Standards Development, Specification and Certification Organisations (SDO/Fora), including the Wi-Fi Alliance, Wireless Broadband Alliance, Home Gateway Initiative and 3GPP. The FMCA actively contributed towards the delivery of existing and emerging standards that were relevant to FMCA product and service requirements. The FMCA did not aim to create standards but rather to accelerate the adoption of the Convergence technologies by encouraging consistency across product and equipment standards.

Disbanding
The FMCA was disbanded in March 2010, allegedly because of lack of demand for its services.

References

BT Group
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
Rogers Communications
KT Group
Telephony
Fixed mobile convergence
Strategic alliances
Keki is a Hindic given name that may refer to
Keki Abdi Pasha (died April 1789), Ottoman statesman
Keki Adhikari, Nepalese actress and model
Keki Byramjee Grant (1920–2011), Indian cardiologist
Keki N. Daruwalla (born 1937), Indian poet and short story writer
Keki Hormusji Gharda (born 1929), Indian chemical engineer and entrepreneur
Keki Khambatta (1910–?), Indian cricketer
Keki Mistry, Indian chief executive
Keki Tarapore (1910–1986), Indian cricketer 
Keki Tarapore (coach) (1922–2001), Indian cricketer and coach

See also
KeKi, a Finnish ice hockey club

Indian given names
The Nuovo Teatro Carisport, better known as Carisport, is a multipurpose indoor sports/concert arena located in Cesena, Italy. The City of Cesena (Comune di Cesena) is the owner of the venue, although it is managed by Consorzio Romagna Iniziative.

History and events 
It was opened in 1985 and simultaneously named "Carisport", with reference (Caris) to the bank (Cassa di Risparmio di Cesena) who had designed and supervised the project and the construction, along with the city administration (Comune di Cesena).

The Carisport hosted important basketball, volleyball and football competition. It is also the official venue of the volleyball club Pallavolo Cesena and the former venue of the Associazione Sportiva Romagna Calcio a 5.

Since the opening, the structure has had two big operations of restyling: one in 2001 and one in 2012.

The arena is also the most important concert venue of the city and it is also used as city theater. It hosted music concerts from national and international artists, opera, drama theater and shows of the most important national comedians. Many important artists performed concerts in the arena, such as: Laura Pausini, Morrissey, Foo Fighters, Goran Bregović, Steve Hackett, Nek, Marco Mengoni, Carmen Consoli, Massimo Ranieri, Franco Battiato, Francesco De Gregori, Daniele Silvestri, Alex Britti, Mario Biondi, Marco Masini, Raf, Marco Carta, Francesco Renga, Negramaro, Caparezza, Fiorella Mannoia, Elio e le storie tese, Raphael Gualazzi, Antonello Venditti, Morgan and so on.

Basketball venues in Italy
Volleyball venues in Italy
Indoor arenas in Italy
Sports venues in Italy
The Sorcerer's Apprentice is a novel by François Augiéras. First published in France in 1964 as L'apprenti sorcier, it was translated into English by Sue Dyson in 2001 and published by Pushkin Press.

Plot summary
The novel is set in the Sarladais (the Dordogne region of France). An adolescent boy is sent to live with a 35-year-old priest, who becomes his teacher and spiritual mentor, and exerts a powerful control over the boy.  He abuses him physically and sexually, but the boy willingly accepts his 'punishment.'  The boy falls in love with a slightly younger, and very beautiful boy, meeting in secret and having sex.

This disturbing story is much more than a tale of a sexually violent predator. The adolescent himself experiences sexual activity with the other boy, but this relationship is one of genuine love and affection, rather than the coercive, harmful abuse he is subjected to by the priest.

1964 French novels
Novels set in Aquitaine
Novels with gay themes
Éditions Julliard books
1960s LGBT novels
Julio Raúl González Pérez (born 23 October 1952), known as Raúl González, is a Spanish football manager.

External links

Soccerway profile

1952 births
Living people
People from Avilés
Spanish football managers
CD Ensidesa managers
Real Avilés CF managers
Zamora CF managers
Equatorial Guinea national football team managers
Villarreal CF managers
SD Ponferradina managers
Pontevedra CF managers
AD Alcorcón managers
Burgos CF managers
Real Oviedo managers
She's Out is a British primetime television crime drama. The six-part series was produced by Cinema Verity for Carlton Television and screened on ITV in 1995. Written by Lynda La Plante as a sequel to her 1980's series, Widows, She's Out takes up the story of the central character, Dolly Rawlins, ten years after the events of the previous series. Ann Mitchell, who reprised her role as Dolly and Kate Williams, who played Audrey Withey, were the only cast members from the original series to appear in She's Out. The executive producer for the series was Verity Lambert and the series was directed by Ian Toynton, both of whom had worked on the original series.

It begins with Dolly Rawlins' release from prison after serving a five-year sentence for the murder of Harry, her husband. She teams up with several other parolees and make plans to stage a train robbery on horseback. Dolly's new companions in crime were fellow former inmates, brothel madam Ester Freeman (Linda Marlowe), Julia Lawson (Anna Patrick), a doctor who sold prescriptions to finance her heroin habit, arms dealer and fence Gloria Radford (Maureen Sweeney), prostitute Connie Stephens (Zoe Heyes), Angela Dunn (Indra Ove), a young woman embroiled in Ester's vice schemes and forger Kathleen O'Reilly (Maggie McCarthy).

The series was released on Region 2 DVD.

Cast
Ann Mitchell as Dolly Rawlins
Linda Marlowe as Ester Freeman
Maureen Sweeney as Gloria Radford
Anna Patrick as Julia Lawson
Zoe Heyes as Connie Stephens
Indra Ové as Angela Dunn
Maggie McCarthy as Kathleen O'Reilly
Adrian Rawlins as D.S. Mike Withey
Kate Williams as Audrey Withey
Hugh Quarshie as D.C.I. Ron Craigh
Douglas McFerran as D.S. John Palmer
Sophie Heyman as Susan Withey
Terence Beesley as Jim Douglas
Huggy Leaver as Eddie Radford
Richard Lintern as John Maynard
Buffy Davis as Norma Walker
Antony Webb as Jimmy Donaldson

Episode list

References

External links

1995 British television series debuts
1995 British television series endings
1990s British crime television series
1990s British drama television series
1990s British television miniseries
British crime drama television series
Carlton Television
English-language television shows
ITV television dramas
Sequel television series
Television series by Fremantle (company)
Television shows set in Buckinghamshire
The Crown is a historical drama television series about the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, created and principally written by Peter Morgan, and produced by Left Bank Pictures and Sony Pictures Television for Netflix.  The first season was released on Netflix on 4 November 2016, the second on 8 December 2017, the third on 17 November 2019, and the fourth on 15 November 2020. The fifth season was released on 9 November 2022.

 In July 2020, Netflix announced that the series would receive a sixth and final season.

Series overview

Episodes

Season 1 (2016)

Season 2 (2017)

Season 3 (2019)

Season 4 (2020)

Season 5 (2022)

Season 6

References

External links 
 
 

 
Lists of American drama television series episodes
Lists of British drama television series episodes
The 1956 European Figure Skating Championships were held on January 19–21, 1956 in Paris, France. Elite senior-level figure skaters from European ISU member nations competed for the title of European Champion in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.

Results

Men

Ladies

Pairs

Ice dance

References

External links
 results

European Figure Skating Championships
European Figure Skating Championships
1956
European Championships 1956
European Figure Skating Championships
European Figure Skating Championships 1956
European Figure Skating Championships
Tuyunga or Tujunga (Tongva: Tuhuunga, “place of the old woman”) is a former Tongva (Fernandeño) village now located at Sunland-Tujunga, Los Angeles in Los Angeles County, California. The village was located near the original Rancho Los Encinos that became the Mission San Fernando Rey de España in the San Fernando Valley.

People of the village frequently intermarried with people from neighboring Chumash villages. The nearby valley renamed Crescenta Valley by the Spanish was potentially used as a seasonal hunting location with access to the waters of the canyon. The Tongva regularly cultivated plants in the region, as reported by a Spanish survey of the area in 1795, who sought to exploit the site for the construction of another mission.

Toponymy 
The village name is referred to in the following places:

 Big Tujunga Creek, major stream in Los Angeles County
 Big Tujunga Dam, dam in Los Angeles County
 Sunland-Tujunga, Los Angeles, a neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles
 Tujunga Wash Greenway, a cycling route
 Tujunga Wash, a tributary of the Los Angeles River
 Rancho Tujunga, a former rancho

See also
Tovaangar

References

Tongva
San Fernando Valley
Former settlements in Los Angeles County, California
Former Native American populated places in California
Former populated places in California
Tongva populated places
Native Americans in Los Angeles