Different Lifestyles is the fourth album by brother and sister duo BeBe & CeCe Winans, released in the summer of 1991. The album included the singles "'Addictive Love" and a cover of The Staple Singers' "I'll Take You There", featuring Mavis Staples. Both singles topped the R&B charts. Rapper MC Hammer made an appearance on the single "The Blood" at the height of his career. It was one of the top ten albums featured on CCM Magazines "CCM Presents: The 100 Greatest Albums in Christian Music."

Different Lifestyles won the Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album award at the 1992 Grammy Awards.

Track listing

Personnel
Vocals
 BeBe Winans – lead vocals, backing vocals (1, 2, 5, 8, 12), BGV arrangements (1, 5, 7, 9, 11, 12)
 CeCe Winans – lead vocals, backing vocals (1, 2, 4, 5, 10, 12), BGV arrangements (7)
 Donna McElroy – backing vocals (1, 2, 7, 12)
 Angie Winans – backing vocals (1, 2, 4, 10, 12)
 Debbie Winans – backing vocals (1, 2, 4, 7-10, 12)
 Joey Kibble – backing vocals (4)
 Carvin Winans – backing vocals (4)
 Marvin Winans – backing vocals (4)
 Michael Winans – backing vocals (4)
 Ronald Winans – backing vocals (4)
 Margaret Bell – backing vocals (4, 7, 10)
 Whitney Houston – backing vocals (4, 10)
 MC Hammer – rap (4)
 Mavis Staples – guest vocals (7)
 Mark Kibble – backing vocals (8, 9)
 Sherrie Kibble – backing vocals (8, 9)
 Mervyn Warren – backing vocals (8, 9)
 Suzan Brittan – backing vocals (9)
 Valerie Davis – backing vocals (9)
 Luther Vandross – backing vocals (9), BGV arrangements (9)
 Mount Calvary Baptist Church Choir (Palm Springs, California) – backing vocals (11)
 Keith Thomas – BGV arrangements (1, 7, 12)
 Rhett Lawrence – BGV arrangements (11)

Musicians
 Keith Thomas – synthesizers (1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 12), bass (1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 12), percussion (1, 12), arrangements (1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 12), drum programming (2, 5, 6, 7), percussion programming (3), string arrangements (3)
 Rhett Lawrence – keyboards (4, 11), bass (4, 11), programming (4, 11), arrangements (4, 11)
 Logan Reynolds – organ (4, 11), synthesizers (8, 9, 10), arrangements (10)
 Howard McCrary – acoustic piano (9), arrangements (9)
 Keith Andes – additional keyboards (10), programming (10)
 Jerry McPherson – guitar (1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 12), electric guitar (2)
 Tom Hemby – acoustic guitar (2, 8)
 Paul Jackson, Jr. – guitar (4, 9, 10, 11)
 Mike Wright – guitar (8)
 Andrew Gouche – bass (8, 9)
 Ricky Lawson – drum programming (1, 12), drums (9)
 Mark Hammond – drum programming (2, 7, 8)
 Steve Brewster – drums (3)
 Joe Hogue – drum programming (10)
 Hen-Gee – scratches (4)
 Terry McMillan – harmonica (7)
 Mark Douthit – saxophone (8)
 Dan Higgins – saxophone (10, 11)
 Kim Hutchcroft – saxophone (11)
 Chris McDonald – trombone (7)
 Mike Haynes – trumpet (7)
 George Tidwell – trumpet (7)
 Jerry Hey – trumpet (10, 11), horn arrangements (10)
 Gary Grant – trumpet (11)
 Cedric Caldwell – arrangements (8)
 Jeff Lippencott – string arrangements and conductor (3)
 Johnny Mandel – string arrangements (3)
 Jeremy Lubbock – string arrangements (8, 9)
 Carl Gorodetzky – contractor (3)
 John Coleman – conductor (8, 9)
 The Nashville String Machine – strings (3)
 National Philharmonic Orchestra – strings (8, 9)

Production
 Keith Thomas – producer (1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 12), additional producer (8)
 Rhett Lawrence – producer (4, 11), engineer (4, 11), additional producer (9)
 BeBe Winans – producer (8, 9, 10), co-producer (11), executive producer
 Keith Cohen – additional producer (10), mixing (4, 10, 11)
 Scott Folks – executive producer
 Todd Moore – production coordinator, assistant engineer (1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7)
 Skip Barrett – production coordinator, album coordinator
 Louis Upkins, Jr. – production coordinator, album coordinator
 Bill Whittington – recording (1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 12), mixing (1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 12), additional engineer (9, 10)
 Jeff Balding – engineer (4, 8-11)
 Ronnie Brookshire – engineer (4, 11)
 Sylvia Massy – engineer (4), mix assistant (4)
 Paul McKenna – engineer (4, 11), mixing (11)
 Craig Burbidge – mixing (9)
 Karen Segal – engineer (11)
 John Potoker – recording (12)
 Leslie Ann Jones – additional engineer (9)
 Andrew Kautz – additional engineer (12)
 Todd Chapman – assistant engineer (1)
 Todd Culross – assistant engineer (1, 2, 3, 5, 7)
 Patrick Kelly – assistant engineer (1, 2, 6, 8, 9, 10)
 David Latto – assistant engineer (1, 2, 3, 5, 7)
 John David Parker – assistant engineer (1, 3, 5, 8, 12)
 Kelly Pribble – assistant engineer (1, 2, 3, 5, 7)
 Carry Summers – assistant engineer (1, 2, 6, 8, 9, 10)
 Shane D. Wilson – assistant engineer (1, 2, 3, 5, 6)
 Greg Parker – assistant engineer (2, 6, 10)
 David Hall – assistant engineer (7)
 Thom Russo – assistant engineer (7, 10)
 Steve Hall – mastering
 Christine Beaudet – album coordinator
 Tommy Steele – art direction
 Stan Evenson – design
 Glenn Sakamoto – design
 David Roth – photography

Studios
 Recorded at The Bennett House (Franklin, TN); Emerald Sound Studios, Sixteenth Avenue Sound, MasterMix, OmniSound Studios, Hummingbird Sound and Javelina Recording Studios (Nashville, TN); Alpha International Studios (Philadelphia, PA); Quad Recording Studios (New York, NY); Ocean Way Recording, Cherokee Studios, Capitol Studios and The Bunny Hop (Hollywood, CA); Larrabee Sound Studios (North Hollywood, CA); Oakshire Recorders and Summa Studios (Los Angeles, CA); Aire L.A. Studios (Glendale, CA); Can-Am Recorders (Tarzana, CA); Angel Studios (London, UK).
 Mastered at Future Disc (North Hollywood, CA).

Charts

Singles

See also
List of number-one R&B albums of 1991 (U.S.)

References

1991 albums
Capitol Records albums
BeBe & CeCe Winans albums


Horatio "White Cloud" Jones (October 23, 1888 – September 8, 1985) was a professional football player who played in the National Football League during the 1922 season.

Biography
Jones was born on the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation and attended Haskell Indian Nations University. In 1922, he joined the NFL's Oorang Indians for two games. The Indians were an early NFL franchise based in LaRue, Ohio, composed only of Native Americans, and coached by Jim Thorpe.

References

Further reading

External links
Uniform Numbers of the NFL

1888 births
1985 deaths
Players of American football from New York (state)
Native American players of American football
Oorang Indians players
Haskell Indian Nations University alumni


The William R. Bateman House is a historic house located at 148 Monroe Road in Quincy, Massachusetts.

Description and history
The -story, wood-framed house was built in the 1890s for William Bateman, Boston-based wool dealer. The large Queen Anne style house is located in President's Hill, at that time a fashionable neighborhood for upper-class local and Boston businessmen. The house as a complex roofline and massing, and its first floor and porch are built out of fieldstone, a rare use of the material in the area.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 20, 1989.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Quincy, Massachusetts

References

Houses in Quincy, Massachusetts
Queen Anne architecture in Massachusetts
Houses completed in 1890
National Register of Historic Places in Quincy, Massachusetts
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Norfolk County, Massachusetts


Craig Kielburger  (born December 17, 1982) is a Canadian human rights activist and social entrepreneur. He is the co-founder, with his brother Marc Kielburger, of the WE Charity, as well as We Day and the independent, social enterprise Me to We. On April 11, 2008, Kielburger was named a member of the Order of Canada.

Early life and education
Craig Kielburger was born on December 17, 1982 in Thornhill, Ontario to Fred and Theresa Kielburger, two teachers and real estate investors.

He attended Blessed Scalabrini Catholic School, in Thornhill, and Mary Ward Catholic Secondary School in Scarborough, Toronto. In 2002, he entered the Peace and Conflict Studies program at the University of Toronto. In 2009, he completed the Kellogg-Schulich Executive MBA program at York University.

Activism

WE Charity

In 1995, when Kielburger was 12 years old, he saw a headline in the Toronto Star about a Pakistani child labourer named Iqbal Masih who was killed for speaking out against the carpet industry. In December 1995, Kielburger travelled to Asia with Alam Rahman, a family friend from Bangladesh to see the condition of child labourers. While there, he met with then-prime minister of Canada, Jean Chrétien. Kielburger advocated for Canadian action on the issue of child labour, making headlines across Canada and internationally.

Upon his return, Kielburger was featured on 60 Minutes and the Oprah Winfrey Show. His trip was documented in the Judy Jackson documentary It Takes a Child. In 1999, Kielburger collaborated with novelist Kevin Major to write Free the Children, a book detailing his trip and the founding of Free The Children.

Kielburger's parents supported the early stages of the organization, which was initially headquartered in the Kielburger family home. The group collected 3,000 signatures for a petition to the prime minister of India calling for the release of imprisoned child labour activist Kailash Satyarthi. Satyarthi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014. On his eventual release, Satyarthi said, "It was one of the most powerful actions taken on my behalf, and for me, definitely the most memorable".

Kielburger's charity fundraised for organizations that raided factories and freed children from forced labour situations. When it became clear that the rescued children were being resold by their impoverished families, Free The Children began to fund school building projects in Nicaragua, Kenya, Ecuador and India. It later focused on education, water, health care, food security and income generation.

In 2016, Free The Children changed its name to WE Charity. The organization implements domestic programs for young people in Canada, the US and the UK, and international development programs in communities in Africa, Asia and Latin America. In July 2019, Kielburger opened an educational facility WE College in Narok County, Kenya with former Canadian prime minister Kim Campbell, Margaret Trudeau and Kenyan First Lady Margaret Kenyatta attending the event. In August 2019, Bill Morneau, the Canadian finance minister and Craig Kielburger announced that the federal government would be donating $3 million to the WE Social Entrepreneurs initiative.

On 9 September 2020, Craig and his brother Marc announced that they were winding down We Charity’s operations in Canada and establishing an endowment that will sustain ongoing We Charity projects around the world. The brothers attributed the decision to the financial condition of We Charity caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the political controversy over the awarding of contracts from the Canadian government. Craig said that the decision to close We Charity would preserve life-saving projects, including hospitals, boarding schools, colleges for women, and food security programs.

Me to We

In 2004, Craig and Marc Kielburger published Me to We: Finding Meaning in a Material World. The book included contributions from Oprah Winfrey, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Dr. Jane Goodall, and outlined the tenets of the “ME to WE” philosophy, including the importance of community and the idea of service as a path to happiness.

In 2008, Kielburger co-founded ME to WE, a social enterprise that offers socially conscious products, leadership training and travel experiences. ME to WE donates a minimum half of its profits to its partner organization WE Charity, to support its operating costs and international development work and invests the other half back into growing the enterprise.

Controversy and criticism

Craig Kielburger and fellow WE Charity co-founder Marc Kielburger announced they were pulling out of a $912 million Canada Student Grant contract because of the controversy the awarding of the contract raised. The contract with the We Charity had raised accusations of favoritism, since the government was outsourcing a massive federal aid program to a private organization with close ties to the prime minister. Following this, Opposition members of Parliament (MPs) asked the auditor general and the procurement ombudsman to investigate the contract, and other contracts awarded to We Charity over the years.

Public life

Kielburger contributes a regular column called "Global Voices" for the Vancouver Sun, Halifax Chronicle Herald, Edmonton Journal, Victoria Times Colonist, Waterloo Region Record, Winnipeg Free Press, Huffington Post and Huffington Post Canada online.

He is the author of 12 books, several co-written with his brother Marc Kielburger Their latest publication (2018) is WEconomy: You Can Find Meaning, Make a Living, and Change the World, co-authored with Holly Branson, daughter of business magnate Richard Branson

In 2000, Kielburger was awarded $319,000 in damages as settlement for a libel suit launched against the now-defunct Saturday Night magazine. The settlement covered Kielburger's legal costs and the remainder was used to set up a trust fund for Free The Children.

In 2007, Kielburger was inducted into the Order of Canada.

In 2012, Craig Kielburger Secondary School opened in Milton, Ontario. The school was named Kielburger after a campaign by students.

In 2013, Kielburger was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame, alongside his brother Marc Kielburger.

He participated in the 2015 edition of Canada Reads, advocating for Thomas King's book The Inconvenient Indian.

Honours

Awards
 Reebok Human Rights Award
 World Economic Forum Global Leaders of Tomorrow Award, 1998
 Nelson Mandela Human Rights Award, 2003
 Action Canada Fellowship (2005-2006)
 EY & Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award (2008)

Orders, decorations and medals
  Meritorious Service Medal, Civil Division, 1997
  Ontario Medal for Good Citizenship, 1998
  Member of the Order of Canada, 2007
  Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, 2012

Commonwealth honours
 Commonwealth honours

Scholastic
Honorary degrees

Bibliography
 Free the Children (1998)
 Me to We (with Marc Kielburger, 2004)
 Take Action (with Marc Kielburger, 2002)
 Take More Action (with Marc Kielburger, 2008)
 Making of an Activist (with Marc Kielburger, 2007)
 Global Voices: Volume 1 (with Marc Kielburger, 2010)
 Lessons From A Street Kid (2011)
 My Grandma Follows Me on Twitter (with Marc Kielburger, 2012)
 WEconomy (with Marc Kielburger and Holly Branson, 2018)

References

1982 births
Canadian activists
Canadian humanitarians
Canadian Roman Catholics
Children's rights activists
Living people
Members of the Order of Canada
Recipients of the Meritorious Service Decoration
People from Thornhill, Ontario
Youth empowerment people
Trinity College (Canada) alumni
University of Toronto alumni
Schulich School of Business alumni
Toronto Star people
Writers from Toronto
Kellogg School of Management alumni
Recipients of the Four Freedoms Award
Canadian child activists
Canadian social entrepreneurs
WE Charity


The Baxter Street Historic District is a residential historic district roughly at 19-34 Baxter Street in Quincy, Massachusetts.  It encompasses an enclave of four duplex worker housing units of a type called the "Quincy Cottage", which were built in the 1880s for workers in a locally important shoe manufacturing company.  The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

Description and history
Baxter Street is located in a densely-built residential area east of Quincy Center, south of Washington Street and east of Revere Street.  It was laid out on a farm previously owned by Josiah Baxter.  John E. Drake established a shoe factory a short way east of these houses in the 1870s (near the corner of Parmenter Place), and was employing 250 workers by the 1880s.  He built the four duplexes in this district in the 1880s to provide residential space for some of his workers.

The four duplexes are all wood-frame structures, of a type called a "Quincy Cottage" which were once quite numerous in the city.  The basic form is a -story rectangular block, with a projecting entrance and a pair of gabled dormers in the roof.  This district includes 19–21, 25–27, 26–28, and 32-24 Baxter Street.  Stylistically they represent several subtypes of the form, with some finished in clapboards and others in stucco.  The presence and configuration of porches varies, as do added stylistic details such as bracketing in the eaves and the shape and size of dormers.  All have gabled dormers framed by carved brackets.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Quincy, Massachusetts

References

Historic districts in Norfolk County, Massachusetts
Quincy, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places in Quincy, Massachusetts
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts


Sean Eric Kennard (born October 3, 1984) is an American classical pianist.

Early years
Sean Kennard was born in San Diego, California to a Japanese mother and American father. He grew up in Hawaii and his family moved to Philadelphia when he began studying at the Curtis Institute of Music, at age 13.

Kennard began lessons at the Ellen Masaki School of Music on his tenth birthday, October 3, 1994 in Honolulu, Hawaii and began studies with Ellen Masaki on January 5, 1995.  In the summer of that year he gave his first public solo performance in Honolulu.  He performed in Carnegie Hall on May 18, 1996 as part of the Hawaii Music Awards, and travelled back to Honolulu the next day to place first in the final round of the International Chopin Competition of the Pacific.  He performed recitals in Poland in 1997 at the Fryderyk Chopin Society of Warsaw and Żelazowa Wola (Chopin's birthplace).  On October 3, 1997, the third anniversary of beginning piano studies, he performed a recital of Chopin's Études Op. 10 and 25 at the Academy of Arts in Honolulu.

Education
Kennard received his bachelor of music degree from the Curtis Institute of Music in 2004. He began studies at Curtis with Eleanor Sokoloff in 1998, and was the first student from the state of Hawaii ever to be accepted to the institution.  In his final year, he was awarded the piano department's Sergei Rachmaninoff Award, given to one graduating pianist each year.  During his time at Curtis, he won 2nd prize at the Hilton Head International Piano Competition.  Immediately after graduating, he competed in the Sendai International Music Competition and was the first American and contestant outside of Asia and Europe to win a prize in the competition.  He went on from Curtis to study with Enrique Graf at the College of Charleston in their Artist Certificate program in Fall of 2004. In 2012 he graduated with a Master of Music from the Juilliard School, studying with Jerome Lowenthal and Robert McDonald, before entering the Professional Studies Diploma program at Mannes College later that year to study with Richard Goode. He was accepted into the Doctor of Musical Arts program at the Yale School of Music in the studio of Boris Berman in 2014, and completed the residential portion of the degree in the Spring of 2016.

Concert appearances
After beginning studies with Graf, Kennard won various other prizes in piano competitions, including the National Chopin Competition, Iowa Piano Competition, and Dr. Luis Sigall Music Competition.  He was one of four finalists from the 2005 National Chopin Competition featured in the documentary "Pianists," relating the story of the American pianists as they travelled to Poland to participate in the 2005 International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition. In 2009 he was one of two pianists named "Vendome Virtuosi" at the Vendome Prize in Lisbon. He was a Laureate of the 2013 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels where he performed in the final round with the National Orchestra of Belgium conducted by Marin Alsop. When he was accepted into Yale's Doctor of Musical Arts program In 2014, he was the sole musician chosen to receive the Mustard Seed Foundation's Harvey Fellowship Award, a cash stipend given to exceptional Christian students in top tier graduate programs around the world.

Kennard has appeared as soloist with various orchestras around the world, including the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de Belgique, Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie (Belgium), Orchestre Philharmonique du Maroc (Morocco), Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra (Japan), Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra (Japan), Osaka Symphony Orchestra (Japan), NHK Chamber Orchestra (Japan), Kyushu Symphony Orchestra (Japan), Yamagata Symphony Orchestra (Japan), Orchestra Sinfónica Nacional (Dominican Republic), Deutsches Kammerorchester (Frankfurt), Orquesta Sinfónica de Chile, Orquesta Filarmónica de Montevideo, Orquesta Filarmónica Regional (Chile), Sinfonia Perugina (Italy), Orquesta Sinfónica de la Universidad de Concepción (Chile), Orquesta Sinfónica de la Universidad de Concepción (Chile), Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, Honolulu Symphony Orchestra, Sioux City Symphony Orchestra, Charleston Symphony Orchestra, Hilton Head Orchestra, New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra, and Florida International University Orchestra.

He has appeared in recital and chamber music in such venues as Teatro Caio Melisso (Spoleto, Italy), Teatro Municipal (Vina del Mar, Chile), Yomiuri Otemachi Hall (Tokyo, Japan), Kennedy Center Terrace Theater (Washington D.C.), Seoul Arts Center (Seoul, Korea), Hong Kong City Hall (Hong Kong), Salle Cortot (Paris, France), Theatre Royal de la Monnaie (Brussels, Belgium), Palacio Nacional de Queluz (Lisbon, Portugal), Tokyo Opera City Recital Hall (Tokyo, Japan), Chopin Society (Warsaw, Poland), Alice Tully Hall (New York City, USA), International Piano Series (Charleston, SC), Katsushika Symphony Hills (Tokyo, Japan), Hilbert Circle Theatre (Indianapolis, IN), Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon, Portugal), Orvis Auditorium (Honolulu, HI), California MTA Convention (San Jose, CA), Minami-Azabu Centre Hall (Tokyo, Japan), Togouchi Fureai Center (Akiota, Japan), Kresge Recital Hall (Pittsburgh, PA), Rantokaku Art Museum (Kure, Japan), Cine Teatro Municipal (Treinta y Tres, Uruguay), Steinway Hall (New York City, USA), Munetsugu Hall (Nagoya, Japan), Palais des Beaux-Arts (Brussels, Belgium), Hawaii Theater (Honolulu, HI), Oto no Izumi Hall (Oita, Japan), Flagey Studio 4 (Brussels, Belgium), Yamaha Hall (Tokyo, Japan), Teatro del Lago (Frutillar, Chile), Civic Cultural Hall (Morioka, Japan), Alumni Concert Hall (Pittsburgh, PA), Gallery Core Hall (Takasaki, Japan), Academy of the Arts (Honolulu, HI), Mar-a-Lago (Palm Beach, FL), Perlman Music Program (Shelter Island, NY), Christ Church Cathedral (Indianapolis, IN), Takarayama Hall (Kagoshima, Japan), Teatro Larranaga (Paysandu, Uruguay), Tobata Civic Center (Kitakyushu, Japan), Sala dei Notari (Perugia, Italy), Sogo Hall (Saijo, Japan), Hotel del Lago (Punta del Este, Uruguay)(  He is currently represented in Japan by Nippon Artists Management Inc.

Teaching Positions
Beginning in the fall of 2017, Kennard holds the position of Associate Professor of Piano at Stetson University's School of Music.

Recognition
Patrick Rucker of The Washington Post said of his performance of Beethoven's Sonata Op. 57 "Appassionata" that he played with "powerful and involved musicmaking"
Ruth Bingham of the Honolulu Advertiser said of his last-minute substitution for Van Cliburn Competition silver medalist Joyce Yang, playing the Grieg concerto with the Honolulu Symphony, that he displayed "a special affinity for quietly lyrical passages"

Awards
 2003, Hilton Head International Piano Competition (USA), 2nd prize
 2004, Sendai International Music Competition (Japan), 5th prize
 2004, Curtis Institute of Music Sergei Rachmaninoff Award
 2005, National Chopin Competition (USA), 3rd prize
 2006, Iowa Piano Competition (USA), 2nd prize
 2007, Dr. Luis Sigall International Music Competition, Vina del Mar (Chile), 1st prize and Best Performance of the Obligatory Work (member of World Federation of International Music Competitions)
 2009, Vendome Prize (Portugal), Vendome Virtuoso Award
 2013, Queen Elisabeth Competition (Belgium), Laureate
 2014, Mustard Seed Foundation, Harvey Fellowship Award

See also
 Sendai International Music Competition
 Curtis Institute of Music
 College of Charleston

References

External links
 Sean Kennard's website
 Curtis Institute of Music website
 College of Charleston website
 Nippon Artists Management Inc. website
 World Federation of International Music Competitions website

1984 births
American classical pianists
Male classical pianists
American male pianists
Contemporary classical music performers
American classical musicians of Japanese descent
Living people
Curtis Institute of Music alumni
21st-century classical pianists
21st-century American male musicians
21st-century American pianists


Timoleon Vieta Come Home: A Sentimental Journey (2003) is a novel by British author Dan Rhodes, a parody of the classic Lassie Come Home film. It was Rhodes' first novel, and won the 2003 Author's Club First Novel Award. It has been translated into at least 20 languages.

Plot introduction
The novel centres around Timoleon Vieta, a little mongrel dog with black and white patches of fur and eyes that are described as being as pretty as a girl's. Timoleon lives with Cockcroft, a retired, gay composer, who lives in a run-down farmhouse in Umbria financed by the occasional royalties he receives from the theme tunes he wrote. He reminisces about his failed career and former lovers, but is surprised when a man claiming to be a Bosnian shows up at his door with a business card he says Cockcroft gave him in a bar in Florence; Cockcroft often has such drunken weekends when he attempts to pick up men.

In return for the occasional odd job and weekly fellatio, Cockcroft provides him with accommodation, but Timoleon Vieta, who is a good judge of character, takes against the Bosnian, and the dislike is reciprocated. Cockcroft is forced to choose between them and agrees to abandon the dog in Rome. The remainder of the novel is about Timoleon Vieta's journey back home, and the people he briefly comes into contact with, as he tries to make his way back to his beloved Cockcroft.

Names
"Timoleon - Vieta" and "Carthusians - Cockcroft" were printed on the spines of volumes 22 and 5 respectively of the 14th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. Cockcroft's piano is also a "Spelman - Timmins" (volume 21).

References

External links
Timoleon Vieta at author's website
A not so pedigree chum, review from The Observer
Novel of the Week from the New Statesman

2003 British novels
Works by Dan Rhodes
Novels set in Italy
Novels about dogs
Lassie
Umbria
Canongate Books books
Novels with gay themes
2003 debut novels


The Baxter–King House is a historic house at 36 Heritage Road in Quincy, Massachusetts.  The -story wood-frame house was built in the 1860s, and is one of the city's finest Italianate houses.  The L-shaped house dominated by a three-story square tower with a shallow hip roof that has a bracketed and modillioned eave. An elaborately decorated entry projects from the tower.  Windows are varied in shape, including round-arch windows with drip moulding, and single and doubled sash windows.  The house was built by James Baxter Jr., whose daughter Helen married Theophilus King.  King owned a leather business in Boston and was president of the Granite Trust Company.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

References

Houses in Quincy, Massachusetts
Italianate architecture in Massachusetts
Houses completed in 1860
National Register of Historic Places in Quincy, Massachusetts
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Norfolk County, Massachusetts
1860 establishments in Massachusetts


Moss Brothers Aircraft Ltd  , known as Mosscraft, was an English aircraft manufacturer and repairer which was active between 1936 and the mid-1950s.

Formation
The company was formed on 1 January 1936 with a registered address at 45 Ashfield Road, Chorley. The aims of the company were "the design, manufacture and repair of aircraft of all types". The directors were William Henry Moss (managing), Geoffrey P. Moss, Brian E. Moss, Ronald L. Moss and Richard A.S. Moss.

Aircraft activities

The company was headed by William H. Moss. It designed and built two types of light sporting aircraft. The firm's aircraft and components were often referred to as "Mosscraft".

The Moss M.A.1 first flew in 1937. The firm advertised the M.A.1 in the aeronautical press, including "Flight" magazine where the aircraft was offered for sale to private owners for £750, equipped with a Pobjoy Niagara III engine of 95 h.p. The aircraft's maximum speed was advertised as 132 mph, with a landing speed with flaps down of 38 mph. However, no orders were received and the prototype was destroyed in a crash in June 1950 which resulted in the death of William H. Moss.

The firm then built the Mosscraft MA.2 in early 1939. This differed from the earlier aircraft in being powered by a 90 h.p Blackburn Cirrus Minor I and having a covered cabin. This aircraft was shipped to Canada in 1940 and made a long cross-country flight from Vancouver, over the Rocky Mountains to Toronto and south to New York. This achievement was recorded for several years by a lengthy caption marked by hand on the port side of the engine cowling.

The MA.2 was shipped back to the UK in 1947 and took part in the Kings Cup Air Race in 1950 and 1954. It was lost in a crash in mid-Wales during July 1958 whilst owned by the Fairwood Flying Group based at Swansea Airport. A second MA.2, was partially constructed prewar and stored. It has been the subject of a planned completion project.

Other activities
The company also undertook contract work for the manufacture and repair of aircraft components during the Second World War. All operations were run down in the mid-1950s.

Aircraft
Mosscraft MA.1
Mosscraft MA.2

References

Citations

Bibliography

Defunct aircraft manufacturers of the United Kingdom


Harris Francis Fletcher (23 October 1892 – July 1979) was an American academic, professor of English at the University of Illinois for 36 years from 1926 to 1962, an author, and a leading authority on the work of John Milton.

Early life
He was born in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Fletcher received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1925.

Career
Fletcher was Professor of English at the University of Illinois from 1926 to 1962, and Associate Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences from 1931 to 1938. Fletcher played a major role in the establishment of the university's Rare Book and Special Collections Library, which now include the largest collection of the works of the poet John Milton in the United States. He died in Champaign, Illinois in 1979.

Selected publications
 John Milton's Complete Poetical Works (1943)
 Milton's Semitic studies and some manifestations of them in his poetry
 Milton's rabbinical readings
 The use of the Bible in Milton's prose
 The intellectual Development of John Milton (two volumes, 1956, 1961)
 Contributions to a Milton bibliography, 1800–1930, being a list of addenda to Stevens's Reference guide to Milton

Personal life
On July 8, 1915, he married Mary Ellen Davis in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Mary Ellen Davis died of influenza in the flu pandemic October 20, 1918. On 22 June 1922, he married Dorothy Bacon in Coldwater, Michigan.

References

External links
 Harris F. Fletcher Papers, University of Illinois Archives

1892 births
1979 deaths
People from Ypsilanti, Michigan
People from Champaign, Illinois
University of Michigan alumni
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
20th-century American non-fiction writers


The Brown–Hodgkinson House is a historic house at 42 Bicknell Street in Quincy, Massachusetts.  This two story wood-frame house, built in 1832, was one of the first in what is known as the Germantown neighborhood.  It was built by Captain Charles Brown, who moved here from Provincetown, seeing the beginning of growth of a fishing community.  The house is predominantly Federal in character (despite a construction date that is late for that style), and received Queen Anne detailing in the 1880s.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Quincy, Massachusetts

References

Houses in Quincy, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places in Quincy, Massachusetts
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Norfolk County, Massachusetts
Queen Anne architecture in Massachusetts
Houses completed in 1832
1832 establishments in Massachusetts


The Building at 1–7 Moscow Street in Quincy, Massachusetts, is a rare turn-of-the-20th century wood frame apartment house.  It was built in the first decade of the 20th century, and is a long rectangular -story wood-frame structure, with two sets of paired entranceways  The gambrel projections over the entrances are a hallmark of the Shingle style, but its original wood shingle finish has been replaced by modern siding (see photo).

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Quincy, Massachusetts

References

Buildings and structures in Quincy, Massachusetts
Apartment buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
Queen Anne architecture in Massachusetts
Shingle Style architecture in Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places in Quincy, Massachusetts


KCCT (1150 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Corpus Christi, Texas.  It is owned by Manuel Davila, Jr., and airs a classic hits format, focusing on pop and rhythmic hits of the 1980s and 90s.  The studios, offices and transmitter are off Benys Road in Corpus Christi.  Programming is also heard on FM translator K281AV at 104.1 MHz.  The station calls itself "Retro 104.1."

History
On May 6, 1954, KCCT first signed on.  It was a daytimer, owned by the International Radio Company.  KCCT was a Spanish-language station through most of its history, aimed at the Mexican-American community in and around Corpus Christi.  In the early 1980s, KCCT was given nighttime authorization by the Federal Communications Commission to broadcast at 1000 watts by day and 500 watts at night, using a directional antenna at all times to protect other stations on AM 1150.

On June 2, 2017, KCCT changed its format from Americana and Texas-oriented country music to classic hits, branded as "Retro 104.1."

References

External links

Classic hits radio stations in the United States
CCT


Horatio Jones may refer to:

 Horatio Jones (pioneer) (1763–1836), soldier and pioneer in Western New York
 Horatio M. Jones (1826–1906), Justice of the Territorial Supreme Court of Nevada
 Buck Jones (American football) (1888–1985), NFL football player in 1922

See also
 Horatio Jones house, Tecoma, Victoria, Australia, built from kerosene cans


The Building at 51 Hunt Street in Quincy, Massachusetts, is one of a relatively small number of triple decker apartment buildings in the city.  Built in 1907 by Charles Stratton as part of his development of North Quincy as a rail-commuter suburb, it is a three-story wood-frame structure, with a flat roof and wooden clapboard siding.  The building is notable for its high parapet and its unusual porch balustrades.  The roof line has a cornice with dentil moulding and simple brackets.

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Quincy, Massachusetts

References

External links
 Quincy, Mass. Historical and Architectural Survey on 51 Hunt Street

Buildings and structures in Quincy, Massachusetts
Italianate architecture in Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places in Quincy, Massachusetts
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Norfolk County, Massachusetts
Houses completed in 1907


The Charles H. Burgess House is a historic house at 17 Whitney Road in Quincy, Massachusetts.  The -story wood-frame house was built c. 1903 by Charles H. Burgess, a real estate developer and auction-house owner.  The house exhibits both Queen Anne and Shingle styling, with Queen Anne-like projecting corner bay, and a wraparound porch supported by paired columns.  Decorative cut shingles make a string course under a slight flare at the base of the second floor.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Quincy, Massachusetts

References

Houses in Quincy, Massachusetts
Queen Anne architecture in Massachusetts
Houses completed in 1903
Shingle Style houses
National Register of Historic Places in Quincy, Massachusetts
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Norfolk County, Massachusetts
Shingle Style architecture in Massachusetts


Da Next Level is the second album by the American rapper Mr. Serv-On. It was released on February 16, 1999, as planned, through No Limit Records and Priority Records. It was  produced entirely by the label's in-house production team, Beats By the Pound. It was the rapper's last album on No Limit Records.

Commercial Performance
The album was more critically and commercially successful than the first album, debuting at number 14 on the Billboard 200 and number 1 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. It sold nearly 300,000 copies in its first week. The album's single was "From N.Y to N.O.", featuring Big Pun.

Critical reception
The San Diego Union-Tribune wrote that "a few introspective cuts, namely 'I Hate the Way I Live', 'My Homies' and 'Best Friend II', showcase his knack for writing touching, heartfelt ballads."

Track listing
"Forever My Life: The Beginning" 1:35
"Tank Nigga"  (Featuring C-Murder, Fiend, Kane & Abel, Lil Soldiers, Mia X, Big Ed & Mac) 4:48
"Boot 'Em Up" (Featuring Fiend & Mystikal) 3:09
"From N.Y. To N.O." (Featuring Big Pun) 2:51
"F.U. Serv" 3:14
"Murder" (Featuring Magic)" 4:27
"I Hate the Way I Live" 5:22
"Best Friend II" (Featuring C-Murder & Dorian) 4:00
1, 2, 3"- (Featuring Holloway of Ghetto Commission) 2:45
"Straight Outta N.O." (Featuring C-Murder & Magic) 3:48
"Snatch Them Hoez Up" (Featuring Mia X, Fiend & T. Scott) 2:51
"My Homies" (Featuring Sons of Funk) 4:25
"This Is for My Niggaz" (Featuring Ghetto Commission) 4:23
"Freaky Dreams" (Featuring O'Dell) 4:04
"Make 'Em Bleed" (Featuring Fiend)  2:15
"Hit the Block" 2:34
"Strap Up" (Featuring Fiend) 2:51
"I'll Be There" (Featuring Ms. Peaches) 3:38
"My Story" (Featuring KLC) 4:20
"I Luv It" 2:04
"The Last Song" (Featuring O'Dell) 4:05
"Forever My Life: The End" 1:26

Album chart positions

See also
 List of number-one R&B albums of 1999 (U.S.)

References

1999 albums
Mr. Serv-On albums
No Limit Records albums
Priority Records albums
Gangsta rap albums by American artists


The Frank Burgess House is a historic house at 355 Highland Avenue in Quincy, Massachusetts.

It was built in 1913 for Frank Burgess, the owner of Boston Gear Works, who paid $14,000 for it. It was one of the first commissions of Cleveland and Godfrey, who went on to build at least two schools in Quincy.

It is in a style known locally as "Prairie Bungalow", with elements of both the California Bungalow Style and the middle-west Prairie Style. It is unusual locally for its red tile roof, stucco exterior finish, and the Craftsman style portico with open rafters with shaped ends.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Quincy, Massachusetts

References

Houses in Quincy, Massachusetts
Prairie School architecture in Massachusetts
Houses completed in 1913
National Register of Historic Places in Quincy, Massachusetts
1913 establishments in Massachusetts
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Norfolk County, Massachusetts


Mese mariano (Mary's Month) is an opera in one act by Umberto Giordano. Its Italian libretto by Salvatore Di Giacomo was adapted from his play 'O Mese Mariano, which was in turn adapted from his novella, Senza vederlo (Without Seeing Him). It premiered at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo on 17 March 1910. The opera is described as a bozzetto lirico (lyric sketch) and has a running time of 35 minutes. It tells the story of a woman who visits an orphanage to see her child. Racked with guilt at having abandoned him, she is unaware that he had died the night before.

Composition history
The play which forms the basis for the libretto was immensely popular in its day. Written in Neapolitan language, it was first performed at the Teatro San Fernando in Naples on 20 January 1900. Giordano, who had seen the play in Milan, was deeply touched by it and asked Di Giacomo to adapt it for an opera. Di Giacomo accepted and agreed to make some changes from the original drama. The setting of the opening scene which allowed Giordano to include a children's chorus was changed to the sunny courtyard in the orphanage with views of the Neapolitan landscape in the distance. The roles of the nuns also became more prominent, making the opera largely one of female voices. In this respect and in terms of its plot, Giordano's work pre-figures Puccini's Suor Angelica which was composed some seven years later.

Performance history
Mese Mariano premiered at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo on 17 March 1910 conducted by Leopoldo Mugnone with Livia Berlendi in the leading role of Carmela. It was warmly received both in Palermo and in Rome where it was performed a month later at the Teatro Costanzi. On that occasion it was conducted by Pietro Mascagni and presented as a double bill with his Cavalleria rusticana. Emma Carelli sang the role of Carmela.

However, when the opera was first performed in Naples (10 April 1911 at the Teatro San Carlo), it was not a critical success, and Giordano and Di Giacomo further revised the work in 1913. Although Mascagni considered it one of Giordano's best operas, Mese Mariano never achieved the same success as Di Giacomo's play or as Giordano's other (longer) operas, Andrea Chénier and Fedora.

Even in Italy, performances following its initial runs in 1910 and 1911 have been sporadic. In 1931 and 1932, La Scala produced the work and also broadcast it; Augusta Oltrabella appeared in both productions in the leading role of Carmela, according to the notes by Clemens Hoslinger on the Lebendige Vergangenheit CD compilation of commercial recordings by Augusta Oltrabella. This CD includes her 1940 recording of Carmela's monologue "E come?! Ma la pare, signora superiora." Mese Mariano received its first performance in Turin in 1937 at the Teatro Carignano (in a double bill with Hänsel und Gretel), and in Venice in 1949 at La Fenice (in a double bill with Le jongleur de Notre-Dame). Its US premiere did not come until 1955, when it was presented at Carnegie Hall in New York. There have been a few late 20th century revivals including those in 1992 at the Teatro del Giglio in Lucca and the Teatro Pergolesi in Jesi and the 1998 performance at the Festival della Valle d'Itria where it was paired with another now-forgotten opera by Giordano, Il re. In addition to Livia Berlendi and Emma Carelli, notable sopranos who have sung the role of Carmela include Clara Petrella, Magda Olivero, Augusta Oltrabella, and Patrizia Ciofi.

Roles

Synopsis
Time: 19th century
Setting: an orphanage in Naples

It is Easter Sunday and the children are playing and singing as they await the arrival of the Contessa, one of the benefactors of the orphanage. When she arrives, they serenade her as she distributes gifts to them. One of the children, Valentina, then reads a sonnet written in the Contessa's honour by Don Fabbiano. After the Contessa leaves and the children have been led to their rooms, Carmela enters the courtyard bringing a freshly baked Easter cake for her little boy and asks Suor Pazienza if she might see him. Carmela recognizes the nun as her old childhood friend. Overcome with guilt, she tells Suor Pazienza and the Mother Superior how she had been seduced and abandoned as a young girl and left with a son to bring up on her own. She eventually married a worker who refused to have the child of another man in his house and forced her to leave him in the orphanage. Carmela then goes into the chapel to pray. While she is gone some of the nuns arrive to tell the Mother Superior that Carmela's son had died in the night. The Mother Superior decides not to tell her, explaining instead that child cannot see her because he is with the choir practising for the Mary's Month celebrations. Carmela leaves the orphanage in tears.

Recordings
Umberto Giordano: Il re and Mese mariano – Orchestra Internazionale d'Italia and Coro del Teatro Petruzzelli, conducted by . Recorded live at the Festival della Valle d'Itria with Patrizia Ciofi as Carmela. Label: Dynamic CDS-231.

References
Notes

Sources
Augusta Oltrabella. Lebendige Vergangenheit. Preiser CD. Notes by Clemens Hoslinger.
Archivi Teatro Napoli, Mese Mariano. Bozzetto lirico in un atto. Accessed 16 March 2009.
Borrelli, Clara, "Di Giacomo e «Flegrea»" in Salvatore Di Giacomo settant'anni dopo, Liguori Editore Srl, 2007, p. 71.
British Film Institute, Mese Mariano, director: Ubaldo Pittei. Accessed 22 August 2020.
Budden, Julian, Puccini: His Life and Eorks, Oxford University Press US, 2002.

Gelli, Piero (ed.), "Mese mariano", Dizionario dell'Opera, Baldini Castoldi Dalai, 2007, . Accessed online 16 March 2009.
Levine, Robert, Review of Il re and Mese mariano (Dynamic CDS-231), Classics Today. Accessed 16 March 2009.
The New York Times, "Mese Mariano, Giordano's One-Act Work Is Presented in U. S. Debut at Carnegie Recital Hall" by J. B., 7 June 1955, p. 38.
Pugliaro, Giorgio (ed.), Opera 2007: Annuario dell'opera lirica in Italia, EDT Srl, 2007, p. 354.

Operas
Operas by Umberto Giordano
Italian-language operas
Verismo operas
1910 operas
One-act operas
Operas based on plays


The Clarence Burgin House is a historic house at 95 President's Lane in Quincy, Massachusetts.  The -story wood-frame house was built c. 1900 by Clarence Burgin, a bank executive and father of Quincy Mayor Thomas S. Burgin.  It is one of the city's finest examples of a gambrel-roofed Colonial Revival house.  Notable features include the gambrel-roof gable dormer above the main entry, and the wraparound porch with multi-columned Greek-style projection.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Quincy, Massachusetts

References

Houses in Quincy, Massachusetts
Colonial Revival architecture in Massachusetts
Houses completed in 1900
National Register of Historic Places in Quincy, Massachusetts
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Norfolk County, Massachusetts


Felaniella zelandica is a species of medium-sized marine bivalve mollusc in the family Ungulinidae.

References
 Powell A. W. B., William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland 1979
 Morley, M. S., Photographic Guide to Seashells of New Zealand, New Holland Publishers (NZ) Ltd, 2004

Ungulinidae
Bivalves of New Zealand
Bivalves described in 1835


Burey Bhi Hum Bhale Bhi Hum is an Indian comedy-drama television series on Star Plus. The series premiered on 16 March 2009 and ended on 26 June 2009. It was produced by JD Majethia and Aatish Kapadia under the banner Hats Off productions.

Plot
Based on Gujarati backdrop, it features the story of two brothers who live together in a same house with their families.

Cast
Firoz Irani ... Ambalal Popat (the head of the family)
Arvind Vaidya ... Pranlal Kaka (Ambalal's best Friend)
Ashiesh Roy ... Mansukh Popat(Ambalal's older son)
Monoj Goel ... Bhallu Popat(second son of Ambalal)
Harshada Khanvilkar ... Rasila (Mansukh's wife)
Priti Joshi ... Sushila (Bhallu's wife)
Piyush Ranade ... Kaivalya (Mansukh's elder son)
Shital Thakkar ... Jyotika Kaivalya Popat (Kaivalya's wife)
Srman Jain ... Baabli (Mansukh's younger son)
Ashutosh Kulkarni ... Jai (Bhallu's youngest son)
Parakh Madan ... Krishna (jai's wife)
Shruti Bapna ... Hetal (Bhallu's daughter)
Rutu Gaglani ... Yashvi (daughter of Kevailya and Jyotika)
Prasad Barve ... Barkiya (House servant)
Bijal Batvia ... Gargi (daughter of Mansukh)
Nitin Jain ... Gourang (husband of Gargi)
Rocky Verma ... Tapori ... Goon

Production
Speaking about the series, Vivek Bahl, Senior Creative Director of Star Plus said, "Burey Bhi Hum Bhale Bhi Hum is a Gujarati family drama revolving around characters we will love... and love to hate. With the launch of Burey Bhi Hum, Bhale Bhi Hum, we aim to give our viewers even more variety in our prime time line-up."

In May 2009, some of the cast members were fasting in real during a fasting sequence in the series. In the same month on 27, the series which aired at 7:30 pm (IST) was shifted half an hour early due to low viewership compared to rival shows in the same slot.

Reception
Hindustan Times stated, "One family is very nice, the other family is not at all nice. They all look like they should be in a saas-bahu (mother in law- daughter in law) soap (in terms of their clothes, etc), and they’re not that funny, but hey, it’s a comedy."

References

StarPlus original programming
Indian drama television series
Indian television series
Indian comedy television series
2009 Indian television series debuts
2009 Indian television series endings
Hats Off Productions


The Central Fire Station is a historic fire station at 26 Quincy Avenue in Quincy, Massachusetts.  The -story brick Colonial Revival structure was built in 1938 to a design by local architect George Robinson (who also designed a number of Quincy's other period firehouses).  The building is evocative of (if less ornate than) Philadelphia's Independence Hall, with paired side chimneys on its main block and on its three wings, and its cupola.

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Quincy, Massachusetts

References

Fire stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
Colonial Revival architecture in Massachusetts
Fire stations completed in 1938
Buildings and structures in Quincy, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places in Quincy, Massachusetts


The Chickatawbut Observation Tower is a historic tower on Chickatawbut Road in Quincy, Massachusetts, in the Blue Hill Reservation, a Massachusetts state park.

Unlike Great Blue Hill Observation Tower, a similar tower at the opposite end of the reservation, Chickatawbut tower is not open to the public. The tower was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s.  It is named for Chickatawbut, who was a 17th-century sachem of the Massachusett Indian tribe.

The tower was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Quincy, Massachusetts

References

Buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
Buildings and structures in Quincy, Massachusetts
Civilian Conservation Corps in Massachusetts
Observation towers on the National Register of Historic Places
Towers in Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places in Quincy, Massachusetts


The Chien Français Blanc et Orange is a breed of dog of the scenthound type, originating in France. The breed is used for hunting in packs and descends from the old Hound of Saintonge type of large hunting dog.

Appearance
The breed is a typical large French hunting pack hound, with a lean and muscular body, long legs, slightly domed head, long drop ears, and slightly square flews. Size is 62 to a maximum of 70 cm (23.6 to 27.6 ins) at the withers, making it slightly smaller than the Chien Français Blanc et Noir.

The colour of the coat is white and orange, but the orange should never appear to be a red colour. The dog's skin is the same colour as the fur, orange under the orange fur and white under the white fur. Faults are listed as physical or behavioural abnormalities, and a dog with such faults should not be bred.

The breed is noted for its perseverance on the hunt as well as a good nose and voice. Unusual for pack dogs, it is friendly and easy for humans to manage.

Use
The Chien Français Blanc et Orange are pack-hunting dogs, which means that groups of dogs are hunted together, always directed by a human, not running about hunting by themselves.

See also
 Dogs portal
 List of dog breeds
 Anglo-French Hounds
 Dog terminology

References

External links
 Search The Open Directory Project (DMOZ) links for clubs and information about the Français blanc et orange

FCI breeds
Scent hounds
Rare dog breeds
Dog breeds originating in France


The Coddington School is a historic school building at 26-44 Coddington Street in Quincy, Massachusetts.  Built in 1909, this three-story brick building is the finest Colonial Revival school building in the city.  It was designed in late 1907 by Charles A. Brigham, who is not to be confused with the better known and similarly-named Charles Brigham.  It was used from the 1960s to the 2000s as part of Quincy Junior College (now Quincy College), and is now the headquarters of the Quincy School Department, as well as other municipal departments.

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Quincy, Massachusetts

References

School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
Colonial Revival architecture in Massachusetts
School buildings completed in 1909
Schools in Norfolk County, Massachusetts
Defunct schools in Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places in Quincy, Massachusetts
Buildings and structures in Quincy, Massachusetts
1909 establishments in Massachusetts


Oleksandr "Oles" Terentiiovych Honchar (; 3 April 1918 – 14 July 1995) was a Soviet and Ukrainian writer and public figure. He also was a veteran of World War II and member of the Ukrainian parliament.

Biography

Early years
It has commonly been written that Oles Honchar was born in Sukha sloboda (now  village) in , Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire in family of factory workers Terentiy Sydorovych and Tetiana Havrylivna Bilichenko. However more recently found documents from the regional archives of Dnipropetrovsk Region tell that he was born in a village of Lomivka that just before World War II was incorporated into the city of Dnipropetrovsk. His mother died when he was three, while his father perished on a job site later in 1941. Being left parentless, he was taken by his maternal grandparents to live in the village of Sukhe. Living with his maternal grandparents, Oleksandr took their last name and, thus, became known as Oles Honchar (Oles is diminutive of Oleksandr).

Since 1925, Honchar studied first in his village (Sukhe) later in the village of Khorishky (today Kozelshchyna District). In 1933 he finished a seven-year school in the neighboring village of Breusivka. After finishing the school Honchar found a job with a local newspaper (Kozelshchyna District) "Expanded front". From 1933 to 1937 he studied journalism at the Kharkiv vocational school of Nikolai Ostrovsky (notorious for How the Steel Was Tempered). After the study Honchar worked as a teacher in a village of Manuilivka (today Derhachi District) near Kharkiv as well as a journalist in Kharkiv Region newspaper "Lenin's shift". In 1937 he started to publish his first works, mostly short stories, through various republican publishers: Literary newspaper, Pioneeria, Komsomolets of Ukraine, Young Bolshevik.

World War II and first recognition
In 1938, Honchar enrolled into the Department of Philology of Kharkiv University. During his study, he wrote such novellas as "Ivan Mostovy", "Cherries bloom", "Eaglet", a story "Stokozove field". On his third year at university his study was interrupted by World War II in June 1941 when he volunteered into the Red Army as part of a student battalion of the 72nd Guards Rifle Division. During the war, he was a staff sergeant and later the first sergeant of a mortar battery. Being wounded twice Honchar also earned numerous awards including the Soviet Order of Glory. During that time, he wrote poems (collection of poetry "Frontlines poems") that were published in 1985 as well as starting to work on his important future novel "Guide-on Bearers".

After the war, he resumed his studies in the Dnipropetrovsk University at the Department of Philology where he started to write the first part of his first major work, Guide-on Bearers "Alps". The novel was noticed by Yuri Yanovsky who being a chief editor of the magazine "Fatherland" at that time published it in 1946. He soon invited Honchar to Kyiv (Kiev) where Oles entered an aspirantura at the Shevchenko Institute of Literature of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. In Kyiv Honchar received an apartment (#65) in the specially designed Rolit building (68 Bohdan Khmelnytsky Street). Yanovsky becomes a kind of a mentor for the young writer who will extract a lot of creative lessons out of the communication with the maestro. Later in 1975 Honchar wrote a novel dedicating to him "Blue towers of Yanovsky". In 1947 Oles published a story "Earth is rumbling" about the underground movement of the Poltava Region as well as the second book of the novel "Guide-on Bearers" "Blue Danube". The novel which tells about the liberating mission of the Soviet Army in Europe was noticed by officials and critics. The young writer received the recognition (Stalin Prize (1948)) of authorities, critics, and, the most importantly, public.

Further career and literature accolades
In 1940s and 1950s, the writer continued to develop a war theme in his several novellas as well as publishing the last book of the Guide-on Bearers trilogy "Golden Prague". Along with his military themes, there started to sound a new one, a peaceful life of people and the moral aspects of their relationships. Novellas and novels in that direction ("Mykyta Bratus", 1950; "Let a light burn", 1955) prepare the future peaks of artistry for Honchar in 1960-70s. The historical-revolutionary dilogy of Honchar "Tavria" (1952) and "Perekop" (1957) commemorating to the events of the civil war in the Southern Ukraine is being left as the weakest anemic work. Around that time Honchar was starting his public and journalistic activities. He was conducting some traveling abroad which resulted in books of very short stories "Meeting with friends" (1950), "China up-close" (1951). For his literal work in 1959 Honchar was elected a chairman of the Union of Ukrainian Writers (1959–1971) and a secretary of the USSR Union of Writers.

In 1960, there was published the novel "Person and weapon" which opened a new page in the artistry of Oles Honchar. The romantic-philosophical direction of the piece, the emphasis on intimate matters of life and death of a person, problems of indestructibility of morality of human spirit distinguish the novel that is based on the writer's recollections about the student volunteer battalion during the war times. The novel was awarded the newly created Shevchenko Prize in 1962. The second part of the dilogy, the novel "Cyclone" (1970) was written after a break. The theme received a sudden continuation where the aged hero from "Person and weapon" becomes a film director and shoots a movie about war. Intertwining of reality and staged scenes of present and recollections about the past as well as the very subject of cinematography reminds of Yanovsky's "Master of ship".

The novel of short stories "Tronka" (1963) was the first major work of Honchar commemorating to a contemporary peaceful life. Constructed in the form of an original "wreath of novellas" revealing different aspects of life of ordinary people, residents of the Ukrainian steppes, the novel paints a complete panorama of characters, images, situations. In "Tronka" for the first time in the Ukrainian literature was acutely posed the problem of Stalinism eradication, the struggle of old with new. On the wave of the Khrushchev thaw the novel was awarded the Lenin Prize in 1964.

Cathedral and later career
A sad fate was destined for the next Honchar's novel The Cathedral, 1968. In comparison with "Tronka" the novel is much more closer to the traditional realism with broadly distinct positive and negative characters. The struggle for the revival of spirituality, for the historical memory of people as the foundation of decency in relationships between people is situated in the epicenter of story. The prototype of the cathedral in the novel served the Novomoskovsk Holy-Trinity Cathedral (Dnipropetrovsk Region). The Dnipropetrovsk Region Communist Party leader Oleksiy Vatchenko recognized himself in the image of a negative character the soulless party member opportunist who deposited his father in a retirement home. Being a friend of Leonid Brezhnev, Vatchenko requested a ban on the novel. The novel was published only in magazines, while the already printed copies of the book were confiscated and the translation to the Russian language was suspended. Despite the attempts to protect the piece (articles of Mykola Bazhan and others) it was prohibited and the mentioning about it has ceased. The only thing that saved Honchar from further prosecutions was his position in the Writer's Union.

In works of his later period, Honchar continued to raise the contemporary morale-ethical subject (novel "Your dawn", 1980), a subject of young searches romance (story "Brigantina", 1973). In 1980, he released the book "Writer's reflections" where he has summarized his artistic work. From 1962 to 1990 Honchar was a People's Deputy in the Supreme Council of the Soviet Union. In 1978 he was awarded the title of Academician and the membership at the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. With the fall of the Soviet Union, Honchar was one of the creators of the Society of Ukrainian Language and the People's Movement of Ukraine. In 1990 he quit the Communist Party of Soviet Union during the Revolution on Granite. In 1991, Honchar released a new book "By that we live. On the path of Ukrainian revival". In 1992, the University of Alberta recognized him as the honorary doctor.

He also to be known as one who urged the president of Ukraine to rebuild the St Michael's Golden-Domed Cathedral in Kyiv, which was destroyed by the Soviet authorities.

Oles Honchar was buried at Baikove Cemetery in Kyiv.

Awards and prizes

Civil
 Stalin Prize (1948), for the first two books of the novel "Guide-on Bearers" (1946–47)
 Stalin Prize (1949), for the third book of the novel "Guide-on Bearers" (1948)
 Order of Lenin (3 awards in 1960, 1967, 1978)
National Shevchenko Prize (1962), for novel "Person and weapon" (1960)
 Lenin Prize (1964), for novel "Tronka" (1963)
 Order of the October Revolution (1971)
Hero of Socialist Labor (31 March 1978), for great achievements in development of Soviet literature, productive public work, and in regard to the sixtieth birthday of the writer Oles Honchar by the order of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Soviet Union (Order of Lenin and medal of Sickle and Mallet)
 USSR State Prize (1982), for novel "Your dawn" (1980)
Order of Friendship of Peoples (1982)
 Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1984, 1988)
Hero of Ukraine (2005), posthumously

Medal "Veteran of Labour"
Medal "In Commemoration of the 1500th Anniversary of Kyiv"
 Alexander Fadeyev Gold Medal
 S. Nejman Prize (Czech Republic)
Military
 Order of Red Star (1945)
 Order of Glory, III degree (1945)
Order of the Patriotic War, I degree (1985)
 Medal For Courage (3 medals in 1944 and 1945)
 Medal "For the Capture of Berlin"
Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

Major works
 , about the Great Patriotic War; two Stalin Prizes
 The Cathedral

References

External links

 Biography and overview of his diary
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The Cranch School is a historic school building at 250 Whitwell Street in Quincy, Massachusetts.  Built in 1900 to a design by local architect Arthur Wright, it is a high-quality local example of Renaissance Revival and Queen Anne architecture.  The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. It was converted to a condominium building in the 1980s.

Description and history
The former Cranch School occupies a roughly triangular lot in a residential area of central Quincy, bounded on the south by Whitell Street, the north by Glendale Road, and the west by Maywood Avenue.  It is a two-story brick building, rectangular in layout with a projecting central pavilion on the main (west-facing) facade.  The two main floors are separated by a granite belt course, and there is a band of corbelled brickwork at the eave below the slate hip roof.  The projecting section, two stories with sash windows, is flanked by single-story shed-roofed entrance pavilions, with the entrances recessed under round-arch openings that have a basket-weave brick pattern in the arched section.  The side elevations have four sash windows at each level, and the rear has 18 bays, roughly grouped in four and five sets of windows.

The building was designed by Arthur Wright, and built in 1900, a period of significant growth in the city.  It was named for Richard Cranch (1726-1811), a prominent local politician who once owned the land on which the school is located.  The building was converted to residential use in the 1980s.

Gallery

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Quincy, Massachusetts

References

School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
Renaissance Revival architecture in Massachusetts
School buildings completed in 1900
Buildings and structures in Quincy, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places in Quincy, Massachusetts
1900 establishments in Massachusetts


The Frank W. Crane House is a historic house at 11 Avon Way in Quincy, Massachusetts, United States.  The -story wood-frame house was built c. 1902, on President's Hill, an affluent residential development made on land formerly part of the Adams family estate.  It is a graceful Colonial Revival house, with a symmetrical three-bay facade.  The front entry is sheltered by a portico, supported by doubled Doric columns, projects, and is topped by a low balcony with urn-shaped balusters.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Quincy, Massachusetts

References

Colonial Revival architecture in Massachusetts
Houses completed in 1902
Houses in Quincy, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places in Quincy, Massachusetts
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Norfolk County, Massachusetts


Indian School Darsait is an Indian School in Muscat, under the supervision of the Indian Embassy in Oman. This school is affiliated to Central Board of Secondary Education Of India. It is located in Darsait, Muscat, in the Sultanate of Oman.

History

Indian School Darsait was initially set up as the Kerala State Board Syllabus Stream (KSBS) of Indian School Muscat in July 1992.

In 2004, the school management decided to run a parallel CBSE stream. Later, the KSBS stream was discontinued and the school continued as a full-fledged CBSE affiliated school.
It is the only Indian Community School in Oman that received NABET accreditation.

Academics
The school follows syllabi prescribed by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and offers Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Computer Science, Informatics Practices, Biology, Accountancy, Business Studies, Economics, Psychology, Painting, Physical Education and Marketing as elective subjects in addition to the core subjects like English to the students of Classes XI and XII.

References

External links
 http://timesofoman.com/article/110486/Oman/Education/Indian-School-Darsait-exuberant-over-Class-X-results.

Indian international schools in Oman
1992 establishments in Oman
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The Noah Curtis House is a historic house located at 313 Franklin Street in Quincy, Massachusetts.

Description and history

The -story Federal period Cape style house, built in 1795 by Noah Curtis, is the oldest Cape-style house in South Quincy. Noah Curtis was an early local pioneer in the manufacture of boots and shoes, which became one of Quincy's major industries.

The house is five bays wide, with a center entrance and a centrally-placed chimney. The entry is sheltered by a later portico, and there are additions to the right side and rear.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 20, 1989.

See also
Thomas Curtis House, built nearby by his son
National Register of Historic Places listings in Quincy, Massachusetts

References

Federal architecture in Massachusetts
Houses completed in 1795
Houses in Quincy, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places in Quincy, Massachusetts
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The Speed Merchant or Talgo Train was a bi-directional five-car train used by the Boston and Maine Railroad in commuter service between 1958 and 1964 on the road's Eastern and Western routes. Power for the train was from two Fairbanks-Morse P-12-42 diesel-electric locomotives, one at each end of the train, connected by multiple-unit control. Fairbanks-Morse referred to the locomotives as "Speed Merchants" in its promotional literature, but the Boston and Maine never used this moniker. B&M timetables simply called it the "Talgo Train" in advance announcements but, once the train entered service, no names were attached in the printed schedules.

The Talgo Train was purchased by the Patrick B. McGinnis administration of the B&M, and was virtually identical to the John Quincy Adams, one of three experimental passenger trains purchased by the New Haven Railroad (under McGinnis) in an attempt to modernize rail travel and lure people out of their cars. The cars were built by American Car and Foundry to a lightweight Talgo design.

The train consisted of five articulated cars, each made up of three short segments. The center car of each section had two axles (one at each end), with the remaining cars having a single axle each, being supported by adjacent cars at the end opposite the axle. The ride was rough, as with most of the other lightweight trains of the period, and the train was not a success.

Service lasted until 1964.

See also
 Boston and Maine Railroad Talgo Train
 Downeaster (train), the Amtrak train that currently runs between Boston and Portland
 John Quincy Adams (train)

Further reading

References

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North American streamliner trains
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The Forbes Hill Standpipe is a historic water tower structure located on Reservoir Road in Quincy, Massachusetts, USA. The tower was built in 1899-1902 to contain a  steel water tank. The site originally included an adjacent reservoir that supplied Quincy with water from the Metropolitan Boston Water System. The standpipe was taken out of service in 1955 and the reservoir was filled in.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

History
The tower was constructed by the Metropolitan Water Board (now the MWRA), after the City of Quincy joined the system in 1897. Dexter Brackett was the supervising engineer for the project. It is built from local Quincy granite, and is  in diameter and  in height. Although now closed to the public, the crenelated tower roof is accessible via a spiral staircase located between the steel tank and inside tower walls. The standpipe and reservoir were fed from the Chestnut Hill Reservoir. The adjacent rectangular reservoir measured 280 feet long by 100 feet wide at the bottom, with sloping concrete sides, and an average depth of 18 feet.

The Forbes Hill reservoir provided a reserve capacity of , as part of the southern high-service system that fed Quincy, Milton and parts of nearby Dorchester. The Forbes Hill reservoir and standpipe were discontinued in the 1950s, after the construction of the Blue Hills Reservoir in the southern part of Quincy.

Radio equipment at the tower serves the Minuteman Repeater Association, a regional amateur radio club.

See also
Arlington Reservoir (Arlington, Massachusetts)
Bellevue Standpipe
Chestnut Hill Reservoir Historic District
National Register of Historic Places listings in Quincy, Massachusetts

References

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Site 133, also known as Raduga ( meaning Rainbow), is a launch complex at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia. It is used by Rockot, and previously Kosmos carrier rockets. It consists of a single pad, originally designated 133/1, and later 133/3.

The first launch from Site 133 was of a Kosmos-2I, on 16 March 1967, carrying the Kosmos 148 satellite. 91 Kosmos-2 launches were conducted, the last of which was on 18 June 1977, with Kosmos 919. It was later reactivated as Site 133/3, and supported 38 Kosmos-3M launches between 1985 and 1994.

During the late 1990s, Site 133/3 was rebuilt as a surface launch pad for Rockot, following the decision to use it for commercial launches. There were concerns that noise generated during a launch from Site 175 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, a silo-based complex, could cause vibrations that would damage the payload.

Rockots are wheeled up to the complex in a vertical position, and then the service tower is rolled around it. The payload is lifted by a crane and placed on top of the rocket. The procedure is in contrast to many other Russian and Soviet rockets, which had traditionally been assembled horizontally and then transferred to the launch site via railways. The first Rockot launch from Site 133 took place on 16 May 2000, orbiting the SimSat-1 DemoSat. The last Rokot flight took place 26 December 2019, from Site 133. 31 Rockots in total were launched from the site.

References

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The John Quincy Adams was a named train of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, between New York, New York and Boston, Massachusetts. The John Quincy Adams was an attempt by the New Haven to modernize rail travel and lure people out of their cars. The train was built by American Car and Foundry to a lightweight Talgo design, and was powered by two Fairbanks-Morse P-12-42 Diesel-electric locomotives, one at each end of the train, connected by multiple unit control.

The train consisted of five sections, each made up of three short cars articulated together. The center car of each section had two axles (one at each end), with the remaining cars having a single axle each, being supported by adjacent cars at the end opposite the axle. The ride was rough, as with most of the other lightweight trains of the period, and the train was not a success.

The train was sold in 1962 to the Ferrocarril de Langreo in Spain, where it was used until 1983. The locomotives remained unused after that sale of the train, and were scrapped in 1971.

See also

 Speed Merchant

Footnotes

References

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The Edward J. Lennon House is a historic house at 53 Taber Street in Quincy, Massachusetts.  Built c. 1888 for a local health inspector, this -story wood-frame house is a well-preserved Queen Anne cottage.  Its main gable had Stick style decoration and bands of decorative shingles, and its porch was elaborate decorated, but these details have either been replaced (in the case of the porch) or obscured by the application of modern siding (see photo).

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Quincy, Massachusetts

References

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Queen Anne architecture in Massachusetts
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National Register of Historic Places in Quincy, Massachusetts
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The Dan'l Webster was a named train of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, between Grand Central Terminal, New York, New York, and South Station, Boston, Massachusetts. The Dan'l Webster was an attempt by the New Haven to modernize rail travel and lure people out of their cars. The train was built by Pullman to their lightweight Train-X design, and was powered by two Baldwin RP-210 diesel-hydraulic locomotives (one on each end of the train), connected by multiple unit control, through the train.

The train, introduced in 1957, consisted of nine, short, all-aluminum cars articulated together. The center car had two axles (one at each end), with the remaining cars having a single axle each, being supported by adjacent cars at the end opposite the axle. The ride was rough, as with most of the other lightweight trains of the period, and the train was not a success.

The train was retired in 1960, and was sold in 1964 to Jones Tours (owned by the Pickens Railway), for excursion service. After a long period of storage in South Carolina, the train and locomotives were scrapped around 1970.

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Dénes Gulyás (born 31 March 1954) is a Hungarian tenor. A native of  Budapest, he studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in that city. He had an international career in the 1970s, and sang at the  Metropolitan Opera, among other houses; one of his performances there, a Manon in which he replaced Neil Shicoff as Des Grieux to the Manon of Catherine Malfitano, was broadcast live as part of the company's Saturday radio broadcast series.

He was also a member of Parliament, representing the Fidesz party, between 2006 and 2014.

Life
He completed locksmith trade school. At age 19, he was admitted to the Music Academy, where in 1978 he was awarded diplomas in Opera Singing and Artistic Instructor. In 1979, he won two prizes in the Giovanni Cantanti Lirici competition, as well as in 1982 winning 1st prize in the first national Luciano Pavarotti vocal competition. He was a soloist at the Budapest Opera House as well as the Szeged National Theater, led the Gyor Kisfaludi Theater Opera Association, and as Musical Advisor to the National Theater, he revived the Chamber Music Series at the refectory.

Since 1995, he has been teaching voice at the Liszt Ferenc Music Conservatory.

Political career
Until 2003, he had no party affiliation. However, at the (then) Fidesz Congressional Convention, he joined the party. In 2004, he was nominated for Presidency of the Pest Valley 10th district (Pilisvörösvár) where in 2006 he won by a substantial margin. Since 30 March 2006 he had been a member of Parliament's Cultural and Media committees.

Awards
 Franz Liszt Prize, 1982
 Artist of Merit of the Hungarian People's Republic, 1985
 Outstanding Artist of the Republic of Hungary, 2000
 Hungarian Heritage Award, 2014

Personal life
Gulyás is married and has three children.

References

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The third series of the BBC family sitcom My Family originally aired between 6 September 2002 and 25 December 2002. The series was commissioned following consistently high ratings for the second series. The opening episode of the series, "Absent Vixen, Cheeky Monkey", re-introduces the five main characters, but also writes out the character of Janey, who plays only a recurring role in this series. In Episode 3, Abi Harper, played by Siobhan Hayes, is introduced to replace Janey. All fourteen episodes in the third series are thirty minutes in length, including the Christmas special. The series was once again produced by Rude Boy Productions, a company that produces comedies created by Fred Barron. The series was filmed at Pinewood Studios in London, in front of a live audience.

Episode Information

Reception

Viewers
The series was once again given a prime-time Friday evening slot, airing regularly at 8:30pm. The first episode of the series gained 8.10 million viewers, a considerably less amount than the second series – however, it was the third highest rating for the week. The third series averaged 7.20 million viewers for each episode.

References

External links
My Family: Series Three at the British Comedy Guide
My Family: Series Three at My Family Online
BBC Comedy- My Family Series 3

2002 British television seasons


Alexander Laufer is the Director of the Consortium for Project Leadership at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is best known for developing a practice-based theory of project management, utilizing the tacit knowledge of competent practitioners from successful organizations.

Biography
Laufer's first eight years of professional life were devoted to the design and implementation of construction projects. After receiving his Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering at University of Texas at Austin, he broadened his scope to the management of technological and organizational projects in a wide range of industries. Through research and consultancy at organizations such as AT&T, Motorola, Procter & Gamble, Skanska, and the United States Air Force, he demonstrated the importance of learning to unlearn  the traditional paradigms of project management to better suit today's highly dynamic and competitive world.

His rich academic career includes roles at various universities, including North Carolina State University, University of Maryland, Columbia University (where he served as the Director of the Center of Project Leadership), and the University of Wisconsin. He is currently a chaired professor at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (where he also has served as Dean of the Faculty of Civil Engineering). He is also the Director of the Consortium for Project Leadership at the University of Wisconsin.

Laufer has served as the editor-in-chief of the NASA Academy of Program and Project Leadership Magazine (ASK Magazine), and as a member of the advisory board of the NASA Academy of Program and Project Leadership. He is currently associate editor for Innovation and Entrepreneurship of the IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society's IEEE Engineering Management Review (EMR), and a member of the editorial review board of the Project Management Institute's Project Management Journal.

Published work
Laufer has authored and co-authored six books and numerous research articles on project management.  In his books he tackles central issues and dilemmas in the complex reality of today's project environments. By using real stories told by real people he is able to develop and illustrate new project management practices and principles. For example, in his Simultaneous Management (1997) book he demonstrates that successful project managers embrace seemingly contrasting concepts such as project stability and flexibility, proactive and reactive behaviors, and formal and informal processes, thus abandoning the "tyranny of the OR," and embracing the "genius of the AND." In Project Management Success Stories (2000) he and his co-author argue that successful project management requires both leadership and management. In his book Breaking the Code of Project Management (2009) Laufer stresses that project management principles and practices must be adjusted to the unique context of the project and must not follow the prevailing "one best way" approach. In his most recent book Mastering the Leadership Role in Project Management (2012) he demonstrates that projects are plagued with frequent unexpected events. While successful project managers attempt to prevent most unexpected events via planning and control, in order to be effective, they also must cope with many of these events reactively.

Books
 1994 In Quest of Project Excellence Through Stories with Robert C. Volkman, George W. Davenport, and Susan Terry, Procter & Gamble
 1997 Simultaneous Management, American Management Association
 2000 Project Management Success Stories, with Edward J. Hoffman, John Wiley & Sons
 2005 Shared Voyage: Learning and Unlearning from Remarkable Projects, with Tod Post and Edward J. Hoffman, NASA
 2009 Breaking the Code of Project Management, Palgrave Macmillan
 2012 Mastering the Leadership Role in Project Management: Practices that Deliver Remarkable Results, FT Press

References

External links
 Interview with Alexander Laufer, 2009, ASK Magazine article, NASA website
 Laufer A., Russel, J. “Living Order: On Becoming a Project Leader,” a monthly blog

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The fourth series of the BBC family sitcom My Family originally aired between 21 March 2003 and 25 December 2003. The series was commissioned following consistently high ratings from the third series. The opening episode of the series, "Fitting Punishment", re-introduces five of the main characters, with the exception of Janey, played by Daniela Denby-Ashe. The episode also introduces a further main character into the fold – Roger Bailey, played by Keiron Self. All fourteen episodes in the fourth series are thirty minutes in length, including the Christmas special. The series was once again produced by Rude Boy Productions, a company that produces comedies created by Fred Barron. The series was filmed at Pinewood Studios in London, in front of a live audience.

Episode Information

Reception

Viewers
The series was once again given a prime-time Friday evening slot, with most episodes airing at 8:30pm. The first episode of the series gained 8.77 million viewers, a rise of over 1 million viewers from the previous series. The episode was rated the second highest rating for the week. Following heavy promotion, the episode "The Great Escape" managed to break the 10 million barrier, becoming the most watched episode of the series. The fourth series averaged 8.30 million viewers for each episode.

References

External links
My Family: Series Four at the British Comedy Guide
My Family: Series Four at My Family Online
BBC Comedy- My Family Series 4

2003 British television seasons


The fifth series of the BBC family sitcom My Family originally aired between 19 March 2004 and 25 December 2005. The series was commissioned following consistently high ratings for the fourth series. The opening episode of the series, "The Mummy Returns", re-introduces the six main characters from the previous series, as well as Janey, played by Daniela Denby-Ashe, who had not been seen on-screen since December 2002. The fifth series includes four specials: two-hour long Christmas specials, a 30-minute "best-of" special, and an exclusive 5-minute Comic Relief short. All thirteen regular episodes from the fifth series are thirty minutes in length. The series was once again produced by Rude Boy Productions, a company that produces comedies created by Fred Barron. The series was filmed at Pinewood Studios in London, in front of a live audience.

Episode Information

Reception

Viewers
The series was once again given a prime-time Friday evening slot, with most episodes airing at 8:30pm. The first episode of the series gained 9.17 million viewers, considerably more than episodes in the previous series, becoming the most watched programme for the week. Ratings for the series were consistent, however, two episodes failed to reach the 5 million mark, and the Christmas special failed to attract more than 5.5 million viewers. However, ratings were good enough for a sixth series of eight episodes to be commissioned.

References

External links
My Family: Series Five at the British Comedy Guide
My Family: The 2005 Specials at the British Comedy Guide
My Family: Series Five at My Family Online
BBC Comedy- My Family Series 5

2004 British television seasons