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Edward Cumming
Call 2006
Clerks 020 7691 2424
Edward specialises in most areas of chancery and commercial work as part of his busy practice. Chambers and Partners (2016) recommends him as a leading junior for chancery and offshore disputes as well as for commercial litigation, company litigation and aviation disputes, saying: "He is a lion in court," "incredibly bright with a maturity well beyond his years at the Bar," and "an outstanding junior who is one to watch". Legal 500, which has long recognised him to be "surely destined for great things" and as a "rising star", ranks him (in its latest 2015 edition) as a leading junior in six categories. His chancery expertise is recognised by his recommendation for private client: trusts & probate, company & partnership, and insolvency. His commercial expertise is recognised by his recommendation for commercial litigation, aviation, and banking & finance.
Solicitors praise him further as "a superb junior and great team player who combines intellect with great enthusiasm" and "a human dynamo - always available for a call and ready to assist". He is said to be "technically gifted, very approachable and always willing to go the extra mile", "absolutely one to watch; if his star hasn't risen already, it's certainly rising very quickly" and "excellent with clients... his quality of work is exceptional." "Ferociously hard-working and always a delight to deal with, he's clever, energetic and good at getting quickly to the nub of the problem" as well as a "formidable advocate" who has "a fearlessness that makes him fight hard for his clients".
Edward read Law at Downing College, Cambridge where he was President of the Cambridge Union. After leaving Cambridge he was a Thouron Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, studying at both the Law School and Wharton Business School. He then became director of a group of engineering and property management companies, acquiring a practical understanding of the commercial realities of business and, in particular, company law, before completing pupillage at XXIV Old Buildings.
He frequently appears in trials in the High Court and in arbitrations (both led and as sole counsel), and, in the past year, has been instructed on appeals to the Court of Appeal (as sole counsel), to the Privy Council and to the Supreme Court (as sole counsel). He also has extensive experience of interlocutory hearings, petitions and other applications. He is regularly asked to give advice, both orally and in writing, to settle pleadings and to draft other documents as part of his busy practice.
His recent work includes:
- Libyan Investment Authority v Goldman Sachs International [2014] EWHC 3364 (Ch) and (ongoing): Edward, led by Roger Masefield QC, acts for the LIA on its claim in the Chancery Division that, during the Gaddafi era, Goldman Sachs procured the LIA to enter into derivative investments of around US$1.2 billion by undue influence and/or that the investments were unconscionable bargains. The case has been described by The Lawyer as one of the top 20 cases of 2016.
- Wood v Sureterm Direct Ltd & Capita Insurance Services Ltd [2015] EWCA Civ 839, [2014] All ER (D) 152, [2014] EWHC 3240 (Comm) and (ongoing): Edward is instructed on behalf of Capita in this dispute arising from its takeover of a leading specialist insurance broker. As sole counsel (appearing against a QC) Edward successfully obtained judgment on a preliminary issue as to the proper construction of an indemnity in the share purchase agreement in the Commercial Court. Although the Court of Appeal overturned that decision, Edward, still acting as sole counsel, has recently successfully obtained permission to appeal from the Supreme Court.
- Libyan Investment Authority v Société Générale SA & others [2015] EWHC 550 (Comm) and (ongoing): Edward, again led by Roger Masefield QC, also acts for the LIA on its claim to set aside various derivative investments of around US$2.1 billion made during the Gaddafi era and said to have been procured by a fraudulent and corrupt scheme.
- Crociani and others v Crociani and others (2015) 17 ITELR 624, [2014] UKPC 40, [2014] All ER (D) 287 (Nov), [2014] JCA 095, [2014] JCA 089 and (ongoing): major trust litigation in both Jersey (where there have already been nine judgments of the Royal Court and Court of Appeal) and Mauritius, involving claims for more than US$100 million for alleged breaches of trust. In October 2014 Edward appeared in the Privy Council on behalf of the former and present trustees, resulting in the leading decision on jurisdiction clauses in trust instruments, a judgment which STEP has described as "landmark" and as having "far-reaching implications for trust lawyers".
- Fox v Hall [2015] EWCA Civ 794, [2014] All ER (D) 78, [2014] EWHC 2747 and [2014] EWCA Civ 930: Edward acted as sole counsel for the successful defendant (the son-in-law of an Oscar-winning actor). The claim concerned (a) alleged harassment said to arise from the defendant's own earlier pursuit of harassment proceedings and a complaint to the police regarding the claimant's attempts to recover an alleged debt, and (b) whether, in fact, any debt was owed. The final judgment, given after a week-long High Court trial, praised Edward's "forceful and skilful cross-examination" as well as the "skill and courtesy" with which he successfully presented the defendant's case.
- Key Homes Bradford Ltd & others v Patel [2015] 1 BCLC 402: a ground-breaking recent decision of considerable practical importance. Edward successfully persuaded the High Court to find that section 1140 of the Companies Act 2006 allows a claimant to serve a company director with proceedings at the director's registered address in the UK without seeking the court's permission and regardless of whether (a) the proceedings concern that company or (b) the director resides outside the jurisdiction.
- ACG Acquisition XX LLC v Olympic Airlines SA (in special liquidation) [2013] 1 Lloyd's Rep 658, [2013] EWCA Civ 369 and [2012] EWHC 1070 (Comm): the first case to consider the meaning of 'airworthiness' of an aircraft. Edward, led by Philip Shepherd QC, represented Olympic Airlines both in the Court of Appeal and at the Commercial Court trial of this US$17million dispute over a Boeing 737-300 which was found to have been unairworthy at the time that it was delivered to the Greek flag carrier airline.
- Thomas & Pick v Jakes & Nestarec [2012] All ER (D) 131, [2012] EWHC 525 (Ch) and [2011] EWHC 2619 (Ch): acting as sole counsel for English liquidators Edward successfully pursued an application to commit two company directors to prison for their contempt of court in transferring bearer shares to a third party, notwithstanding an order that they deliver them up, and in deliberately deceiving the court at an earlier hearing by advancing a false case. Each respondent was sentenced to 1 year's imprisonment.
- Major trust litigation, which settled partway through a lengthy trial in the Chancery Division, by which one of four trusts claimed to be entitled to exercise a right of pre-emption in relation to another trust's interest in companies owning a substantial London commercial and residential property: see Fattal and others v Walbrook Trustees (Jersey) Ltd and others [2011] 1 All ER (Comm) 647, [2010] EWHC 2767 (Ch) and [2010] EWHC 3049 (Ch). Edward was led by Alan Steinfeld QC and Elspeth Talbot Rice QC.
- Interest rate swap mis-selling claims and other substantial banking litigation (ongoing). Edward acted on many of the first civil claims against major banks concerning the alleged mis-selling of interest rate swaps and other interest rate hedging products, and has particular expertise in this area.
Please tick the boxes below to display further information on specialist areas of Edward's practice.
Edward is "praised by commentators for his ethical integrity [and] intelligence" and said to be "refreshingly robust in his advice and very good on his feet." "Extremely hard-working and diligent, he's a very fine tactician."
"He's got tremendous legal knowledge and he's dedicated, has a great work ethic and is a great team player."
"He's really smart and works very hard; he's very proactive and good to have as part of the team."
"Quick, calm, thorough, responsive; he's a pleasure to deal with."
"Approachable, down-to-earth and measured in conference; he's extremely user-friendly. He's also good at drafting."
Chambers Global (2015) also recommends him as "extremely hard-working and diligent, and a fine tactician".
Edward is ranked as a leading junior in six separate categories in Legal 500 (2015). His chancery expertise is recognised by his recommendation for private client: trusts & probate, company & partnership, and insolvency. His commercial expertise is recognised by his recommendation for commercial litigation, aviation, and banking & finance.
Legal 500 (2015) describes him as "[a] human dynamo – always available for a call and ready to assist", "very user-friendly" and "[a]superb junior and great team player who combines intellect with great enthusiasm".
Edward is also recommended for both insolvency and private client disputes in Who's Who Legal 2016 and as a prominent barrister dealing with contentious trusts in Citywealth Leaders List 2015. His client feedback is that "Edward Cumming is undoubtedly amongst the most able juniors of his call that I have come across. He has a quick and agile mind and combines exceptional analytical skills with interpersonal skills of equal calibre. I have absolutely no doubt that he has a stellar career in front of him and I think it very much on the cards that he will come to be seen as a market leader in private wealth litigation."
Academic history
- MA (Cantab)
- LLM (UPenn)
- Thouron Fellowship to the University of Pennsylvania
- Queen Mother's Scholar and Harmsworth Exhibitioner of Middle Temple
French and (basic) German
Professional memberships
- Chancery Bar Association
- Commercial Bar Association
- Institute of Art & Law
- Guernsey International Lawyers Association
- Bar Pro Bono Unit
- Co-General Editor of International Trust Laws (Jordans, loose-leaf)
- Regular expert contributor to Tolley's Insolvency Law
- 'Officeholders' remuneration: a cautionary tale', Recovery magazine, Autumn 2009
- 'Insolvency issues for trusts and estates practitioners', 23 Insolvency Intelligence (2010) 33
- 'Netting Assets', Solicitors Journal (2010) Vol. 154, No. 33, Supp. 21-22
Lectures and seminars
Edward is regularly asked to deliver lectures and also organises seminars and workshops (further details of these events and Edward's availability can be obtained from the practice management team by email to email@example.com).
His latest podcast is on the topic of anti-suit injunctions in insolvency proceedings (clicking on this link should take you to CPDCast's website where you can access the podcast by setting up a (free) account).
Business details
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Despite the fact that most, if not all business owners and online marketing professionals invest so much time and money into delivering high quality traffic to their website, there are still a huge amount of people out there simply ignoring their website and/or landing pages. The truth is, this is the area you should be investing most of your time into improving. When you see success with a landing page change, this success is shared amongst all of your other online marketing channels so it has huge potential in improving your overall performance.
The article found here by Mona Elesseily – https://searchengineland.com/3-common-landing-page-flops-to-avoid-124663 outlines 3 common parts of a landing page that a lot of people out there are getting wrong. If you're spending time and/or money getting traffic to your website, or even just want an improvement in your conversion rates, then you need to check this article out.
This is a great article that looks at the importance of how your authorship pages are set up within website blogs, and how it can help boost your SEO efforts significantly – if done correctly. Due to the fact that SEO is only getting increasingly competitive, with search engine algorithms getting ever more complex, information like this is vital in ensuring that your website is doing everything it can to milk the search engines for every bit of traffic it can get.
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On a menu full of appealing pork- and beef-centric dishes at the Rumpus Room downtown, it was the octopus salad that leaped out.
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BERNIE - Richard Q. Lomax Sr., 58, formerly of Sikeston, died at 1 p.m. Aug. 25, 2001, at his home due to complications from a terminal illness.
Born Nov. 22, 1942, in Sikeston, son of the late J.B. and Helen Lumert Lomax, he was a 1961 graduate of Gray Ridge High School and was of the Baptist belief. He served as an Airman First Class in the United States Air Force during the Vietnam War, had been a technician and mechanic for the Chevrolet division of General Motors and also worked in that capacity at Dan Taylor Chevrolet in Sikeston, Martindale Chevrolet in New Madrid and at Autry Morlan Chevrolet in Dexter.
On Dec. 17, 1994, in Bloomfield, he married Regina Dawn Dirickson who survives of the home.
Other survivors include: two sons, James A. Lomax, address unavailable and Derrick McMillian of Panama City, Fla.; one brother, Paul Lomax of Parma; one sister, Glenda Lomax of Sikeston; and one granddaughter, Caitlyn Nichol McMillian of Panama City.
He was preceded in death by one son, Richard Q. Lomax Jr.; and one sister, Mary Lou Gillum.
Friends may call from 5-8 p.m. today at the Nunnelee Funeral Chapel in Sikeston where services are scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Tuesday with the Rev. Caston Countz, pastor of the Matthews Christian Church, officiating.
Burial will follow in Garden of Memories Cemetery in Sikeston with full military honors provided by the Missouri Military Honor Guard unit.
Pallbearers will be: Billy McNew, Joey McNew, Dean Ellsworth, Randy Cooper, Larry Irwin and Jim Bennett.


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Issue No.07 - July (1982 vol.31)
pp: 637-647
J.-M. Ayache , Laboratoire d'Automatique et d'Analyse des Systemes, C.N.R.S.
This paper presents a fault-tolerant distributed system designed for real-time control applications (REBUS), which is one of the research basis of the industrial real-time system MODUMAT 800. It is made up of functional units, i.e., programmable multiloop regulators and operator displays, linked together by a communication structure. The communication hardware consists of a set of serial bus interface boards, one per functional unit, loosely coupled together by a double serial bus and linked to their functional units by a private parallel bus.
recovery, Distributed systems, fault tolerance, Petri nets, proof, protocols, real-time control
J.-M. Ayache, J.-P. Courtiat, M. Diaz, "REBUS, A Fault-Tolerant Distributed System for Industrial Real-Time Control", IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol.31, no. 7, pp. 637-647, July 1982, doi:10.1109/TC.1982.1676061


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NEW MADRID -- A New Madrid woman sustained fatal injuries after a tractor on a tow truck fell onto her vehicle late Thursday.
According to Missouri State Highway Patrol, at 11:09 p.m. on Interstate 55, two miles north of New Madrid, northbound motorist Charles W. White, 49, of Hayti was towing a road tractor when he crossed the median and traveled into the path of the southbound vehicle driven by Elizabeth K. Johnson, 71, of New Madrid. Johnson's vehicle struck the side of White's vehicle, and both vehicles traveled off the right side of the road. The tractor in tow overturned on top of Johnson's vehicle.
Johnson was pronounced dead at 1:34 a.m. today at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Her passenger, Lataja J. Gary, 18, of New Madrid sustained serious injuries and was taken to Saint Francis Medical Center. White's passenger, Sarfraz A. Choudry, 24, of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, received minor injuries and was transported to Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston.


text: In addition to the birds on Mike H's posting today, here are some other species of note seen today: - Both N Hawk Owl (at dawn) and Snowy Owl (at dusk) along Airport Rd in Duluth, between the Cirrus building and the NRRI building. The hawk owl is probably the same individual reported earlier this month at Blackman & MacFarlane and at Rice Lake & Airpark Rds. The Snowy Owl is undoubtedly the one which has been seen several times this month (including yesterday) farther E on Airport Rd between the Federal Prison Camp & the FedEx building. Please be sure to exercise extreme discretion as you bird here, observing posted no-parking areas and other warning signs. Airport and prison camp security guards with little patience or understanding can be quick to investigate those with scopes and binoculars in this area. - The N Hawk-Owl in Sax-Zim seen by m.ob. this month was relocated along Co Rd 7, ranging between 1.0 and 0.5 mi S of Stone Lake Rd. - Four male Am Three-toed Woodpeckers were relocated in Sax-Zim: 2 of these together along Blue Spruce Rd, 0.4 mi N of Co Rd 133; and 2 others along Admiral Rd, 0.1 mi & ~0.3 mi N of Zim Rd. - Varied Thrush still present at Dave & Christina's feeder in Duluth (see earlier posts for directions); however, the Boreal Chickadee which had also been visiting this feeder as recently as last weekend has not been seen in a few days. (Speaking of Boreal Chickadees, note that the 2 posted by Mike on Arkola Rd in Sax-Zim were 0.5 mi E of Owl Ave, not 1.0 mi.) - At least 2 male Hoary Redpolls still present at Derek's feeders on Blue Spruce Rd in Sax-Zim, 1.0 mi N of Co Rd 133. Kim Eckert


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|Chinese Young People and Spirituality: an Australian study
|Chung, Mei Ling
|Australian Catholic University
|The research reported in this thesis is concerned with the spirituality of Chinese young people who attended a Chinese evangelical church in Melbourne, Australia. This research is a case study conducted in the framework of a qualitative approach using ethnographic methods, including fieldwork methods with data triangulation through participant observation, individual interviews and focus group interviews. Grounded theory was used to analyse data collected. The particular group of young people were Chinese in race, and Australian born, or had been living in Australia since early childhood. They attended the English speaking fellowship and services of a Chinese evangelical church in Melbourne, and their ages were between fifteen and eighteen years. They were born or had grown up in Australia, and had been exposed at least to two cultures, the Australian culture in the society, and the Chinese traditional culture in their family, in which the parents were the first generation in Australia. This research aimed to find out the characteristics of the spirituality of the Chinese young people through acknowledging the multicultural context in which they lived. Thus, it began with a cultural perspective and sought to study the cultural contexts that account for their distinctive Christian spirituality. In summary, the research reported in this thesis describes the young participants' spirituality from their own perspectives, discusses their construction of identity that led to their distinctive spirituality, and studies their parents' worldviews and the role of cultural institutions that have affected their spirituality. Finally, it concludes with development of theories of spirituality related to Chinese young people in a multicultural society, and proposes ways in which churches and families may encourage the development of spirituality for Chinese young people in a multicultural society.
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text: Hi Everyone, Sorry for the late posting! On Sat., April 5, around noon, Gary Ash and I observed an unbanded female Peregrine Falcon on the railroad bridge in Prescott, WI. Several hours later that day we observed a banded male Peregrine at the same location. The male was chowing down on what appeared to be a pigeon. Both birds were easily observed from the small parking lot along the Mississippi River next to Price Rite liquors on Orange St. in downtown Prescott. On Thursday, Apr. 10, around 3 p.m., while driving across the Hwy 10 bridge going into Prescott, I noticed a Peregrine flying around next to the RR bridge. I assume this was one of the two birds previously observed. Judith Sparrow Prescott, WI "The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page." --Saint Augustine of Hippo (A.D. 354-430) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20080413/2dfe02af/attachment.html


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West Texas A&M took over sole possession of first place Friday in the Lone Star Conference baseball race with a 7-2 win against Tarleton State at Cecil Ballow Baseball Complex in Stephenville.
The Buffs (17-4 overall, 5-0 in LSC) won their sixth game in a row. Tarleton State is 11-7 and 4-1.
WT built a 7-0 lead through 7½ innings, and that was enough for ace pitcher Justin Kuks (5-0). Kuks went 8.1 innings, allowing one earned run and striking out six.
The Buffs outhit Tarleton State 12-5, with four batters in their order producing multi-hit games. WT outfielder Jarvis Smith went 3-for-3. Jess Cooper, Parker Wood and Nick Marquez each had two hits.
WT leadoff hitter Eric Dorton drove in two runs.
WT and Tarleton State return to action in a doubleheader starting at 1 p.m. Saturday.
West Texas A&M 7, Tarleton State 2
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Justin Kuks and Patrick Ramirez. Aquino, Stockton (7) and Schmitz. W—Kuks 5-0. L—Aquino 1-3. 2B—WT: Parker Wood 2, Jordan Easom; Tarleton State: Small, Silguero. Records: WT 17-4, 5-0; Tarleton State 11-7, 4-1.


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September 6, 2007
More help is on the way for tornado victims in our area. McDuffie and Warren counties are in line for state and federal aid grants.
McDuffie County will get a little more than $114,000, and Warren County will receive about $80,000.
The tornadoes in March damaged or destroyed homes in several Georgia counties.


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Bradenton Herald
June 24, 2012
Voters here will not only be electing their mayor this election year — they'll decide how they want to do it. And with jobs, taxes and government spending on voters' minds, this is set to be an interesting three-way race, candidates and residents alike said. … Bradenton's proximity to institutions like the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee, New College of Florida and Ringling College of Art and Design is something "that we shouldn't take for granted," [Rick Fawley] said.


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University of Oxford
Terezinha Nunes is Professor of Educational Studies and a Fellow of Harris Manchester College.
Professor Nunes started her career as a clinical psychologist in Brazil and moved to a research career by obtaining a doctorate in Psychology at City University of New York, where she was supported by a Fulbright Scholarship.
Educational Studies
The work of Professor Nunes spans the domains of children's literacy and numeracy, including both hearing and deaf children's learning, and her focus of analysis covers cognitive and cultural issues, with a special interest in educational applications. Her work on "street mathematics" in Brazil uncovered many features of children's and adults' informal knowledge, and her subsequent work in the U.K. investigates how this informal knowledge can be used in education. Her literacy research focuses on the connections between moprhological awareness, spelling and vocabulary growth.
Professor Nunes is a tutor in Educational Studies with a particular interest in child learning
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October 19, 2006
You've no doubt heard Congressman John Barrow versus former Congressman Max Burns on TV. It's one of the most heated campaigns on your local airwaves.
Today, the debate came in living color to Augusta, when Barrow and Burns faced off in a debate before you, the voters in Georgia's 12th Congressional District.
It was their first face to face debate in Augusta, and News 12 was front and center.
Congressman John Barrow and his Republican challenger Max Burns faced a media panel before a big crowd this afternoon at the Julian Smith Casino.
We pulled each candidate aside to ask what makes him stand out from his opponent.
"I think you have to look at our records," said Burns. "Who's effective, who's ineffective. In congress we were the most effective of the new members in 2003-04. We'll get more done and represent the 12th district well."
"Folks who look at Congress realize that's a body that ain't done nothin', because each side is more interested in scoring points rather than taking care of people's business," Barrow said.
Congressman Barrow says he has a record of crossing the aisle to vote with Republicans on a number of issues.
During the debate, the candidates sounded off on issues like transportation, social security, prescription drugs, and exactly what you hear about in those ads: taxes.
"I think we've got plenty of taxes in this country," Barrow said. "What we need is some accountability for the taxes we're paying."
"Give some relief to working America," said Burns. "I have supported the Bush tax cuts. I think those tax cuts should be made permanent."
Remember, John Barrow beat Max Burns for the seat just two years ago.
Now Burns is hoping to return the favor.
Oh, and you may have spotted me up there.
I was honored to be the moderator for the debate, which was sponsored by the AARP of Georgia and the CSRA Coalition of Advocates for the Aging.


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Leonard Stein
|Leonard Stein
December 1, 1916
Los Angeles, United States
|June 23 or 25, 2004 (aged 87)
|20th-century classical
|Musicologist, pianist, conductor, and educator
|Years active
|Associated acts
|Arnold Schoenberg, John Cage
Leonard David Stein (December 1, 1916 – June 23 or 25, 2004) was a musicologist, pianist, conductor, university teacher, and influential in promoting contemporary music on the American West Coast. He was for years Arnold Schoenberg's assistant, music director of the Schoenberg Institute at USC, and among the foremost authorities on Schoenberg's music.
Stein studied piano under the Busoni disciple Richard Buhlig at Los Angeles City College, and composition and theory under Schoenberg at USC (1935–36) and UCLA (BA: 1939, MM: 1941, MA: 1942).[3][not in citation given] In addition to the composers Gerald Strang and Richard Hoffmann, and the musicologist Patricia Carpenter,[citation needed] Stein was an assistant to Schoenberg at UCLA from 1939 until Schoenberg's retirement in 1942, thereafter until Schoenberg's death nine years later Stein was his personal assistant, working closely with Schoenberg on the editing of his scores,[4] and later, completing four of Schoenberg's posthumously published theoretical writings pertaining to counterpoint, harmony, and composition, including an extended compilation to the second edition (1975) of Schoenberg's thought (Style and Idea). Lawrence Schoenberg, the youngest of Schoenberg's children, considered Stein the most important advocate of Schoenberg's music.[4]
Stein later returned to the University of Southern California for post-graduate studies, receiving a DMA in 1965 with a dissertation titled "The Performance of Twelve-Tone and Serial Music for the Piano",[1] which included analyses of important piano works by Schoenberg, Anton Webern, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Boulez, and others. Beginning in 1946 he taught at Occidental College, Los Angeles City College, Pomona College, UCLA, UC San Diego, Cal State Dominguez Hills, and primarily at the California Institute of the Arts, and what is now Claremont Graduate University.
Highly regarded among peers and composers, such as Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft, and Pierre Boulez,[4] Stein's pedagogy, which stems directly from the teachings of Schoenberg, was a historical turning point in the cross fertilization of European art music in the development of mid-to late 20th-century music in America, having influenced a generation of American performers and composers of all genres, particularly in the development of the West coast-derived movement that later became known as minimal music, as represented in the works of La Monte Young, Terry Jennings, Lois V. Vierk, and others.[citation needed] Stein was a guest lecturer at many universities and schools, including Harvard, Columbia, the New England Conservatory of Music, and at Darmstadt.[citation needed] For his students, See: List of music students by teacher: R to S#Leonard Stein.
Stein was not only an influential pedagogue but also active as a conductor and pianist: his recorded performances on piano ranged from the music of Busoni, Schoenberg and Hindemith to more contemporary works of Cage and on the Moog polyphonic instrument for Donald Erb's Reconnaisance, among the earliest works (1965) written for live synthesizer and acoustic instruments (Nonesuch H-71223, 1969).[citation needed] He oftentimes toured with the violinist Rose Mary Harbison, a disciple of Rudolf Kolisch, performing at Harvard, Duke and Wisconsin universities (LA Times, 01-13-91).[citation needed]
Stein also created and directed the Encounters concert series in 1960 with Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and John Cage in attendance;[4] and the Piano Spheres series in 1994, which on May 2013 directed a concert in tribute to Stein, performed by his former piano students Gloria Cheng, Vicki Ray, Mark Robson, and Susan Svrček.[citation needed] Described as "legendary" in a 2009 Los Angeles Times article by Josef Woodard, John Harbison composed a work of thirteen pieces for piano as a tribute to Stein, based on word permutations of Stein's name, entitled Leonard Stein Anagrams, which was premiered by Gloria Cheng at the Colburn School of Music on October 13, 2009.[5]
While working as an adjunct professor Stein was the music director of the Schoenberg Institute at USC from 1975 to 1991, where he played a seminal role in promoting Schoenberg's music and his legacy to the American public by also organizing seminars and performing in concerts devoted to Schoenberg and new music.[3] Notable was Stein's role for a 1987 conference on Pierrot Lunaire to have the Schoenberg Institute's commissioning of musical settings by prominent composers on the other 29 poems of the Pierrot cycle, that are not included in the original 21 poems of Schoenberg's work.[citation needed] Stein was also editor of the Journal of the Schoenberg Institute from 1977 to 1991.[3] At his retirement in 1991 Stein was awarded the Phi Kappa Phi Diploma of Honor for Lifetime Achievement. The UC San Diego houses the Leonard Stein Papers,[3] consisting of a collection of his voluminous correspondence with major composers from the late twentieth century, including Ernst Krenek, Elliott Carter, Olivier Messiaen, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Milton Babbitt, György Ligeti, Pierre Boulez, Iannis Xenakis, Luciano Berio, et al. He also toured as a conductor and pianist.[1][not in citation given]
Stein died of natural causes at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, on June 23[4] or June 25,[3] 2004.
- 1963. "The Performer's Point of View". Perspectives of New Music 1, no. 2 (Spring): 62–71.
- 1963. "New Music on Mondays". Perspectives of New Music 2, no. 1 (Autumn–Winter): 142–50.
- 1965. Stein, Leonard David. "The Performance of Twelve-Tone and Serial Music for the Piano". DMA diss. Los Angeles: University of Southern California.
- 1978. "From Inception to Realization in the Sketches of Schoenberg". In Internationale Schönberg-Gesellschaft: Bericht über den 1. Kongreß der Internationalen Schönberg-Gesellschaft: Wien, 4.–9. Juni 1974, edited by Rudolf Stephan, 213–27. Publikationen der Internationalen Schönberg-Gesellschaft 1. Vienna: Lafite.
- 1986. "Schoenberg and 'kleine Modernsky'". In Confronting Stravinsky: Man, Musician, and Modernist, edited by Jann Pasler, 310–24. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520054035 (cloth); ISBN 9780520064669 (pbk).
- 1987. "Busoni e Schonberg: op.11 n. 2 come emblema di un rapporto". In La trascrizione Bach e Busoni: atti del Convegno internazionale (Empoli-Firenze, 23-26 ottobre 1985), edited by Talia Pecker Berio, 105–28. Quaderni della Rivista italiana di musicologia 18. Florence: L.S. Olschki. ISBN 9788822235350
- 1963. Arnold Schoenberg. Preliminary Exercises in Counterpoint. London: Faber and Faber. Reprinted New York: St. Martin's Press, 1964.
- 1967. Arnold Schoenberg. Fundamentals of Musical Composition, edited by Gerald Strang, with the collaboration of and an introduction by Leonard Stein. New York: St. Martin's Press. Reprinted London: Faber and Faber, 1970. 9780571092765
- 1969. Arnold Schoenberg: Structural Functions of Harmony, second edition, with corrections. New York: W. W. Norton; London: Benn. ISBN 9780393020892 (Norton, cloth); ISBN 9780393004786 (Norton, pbk); ISBN 9780510359102 (Benn, cloth); ISBN 9780571130009 (Benn, pbk).
- 1972. Arnold Schoenberg. Models for Beginners in Composition: Syllabus, Music Examples, and Glossary, revised edition, Los Angeles: Belmont Music Publishers.
- 1975. Arnold Schoenberg. Style and Idea, revised edition. New York: St. Martin's Press.
- 1975. "Schoenberg: Five Statements", edited by Leonard Stein. Perspectives of New Music 14, no. 1 (Fall–Winter): 161–73.
- 1988. From Pierrot to Marteau: An International Conference and Concert Celebrating the Tenth Anniversary of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute, University of Southern California School of Music, March 14–16, 1987. Los Angeles: Arnold Schoenberg Institute.
- Donald Erb. Music for Instruments and Electronic Sounds: Reconnaissance; In No Strange Land. Reconnaissance performed by Bonnie Douglas, violin; Rand Forbes, double-bass; Ralph Grierson, piano; Kenneth Watson, percussion; Michael Tilson Thomas, Moog synthesizer; Leonard Stein, Moog polyphonic instrument; Donald Erb, conductor. LP recording. 1 sound disc: analog, 33⅓ rpm, stereo.; 12 in. Nonesuch H-71223. New York: Nonesuch Records, 1969.
- Arnold Schoenberg. Brettl-Lieder. Marni Nixon, soprano; Leonard Stein, piano. LP recording, 1 disc.; 33⅓ rpm. stereo.; 12 in. RCA Red Seal ARL1-1231. [New York]: RCA Red Seal, 1975.
- Hindemith-Gross: Violin Sonatas. Robert Gross, violin; Mike Reese, piano; Leonard Stein, piano. Recorded: New York, New York City Center, 1944 and 1945. LP recording: 1 disc, 33⅓ rpm. mono. TownHall S32. Santa Barbara: TownHall Records, 1982.
- Joan La Barbara: Singing Through: Vocal Compositions by John Cage. With William Winant, percussion; Leonard Stein, pianist. CD recording. 1 sound disc: digital; 4¾ in. New Albion Records NA 035. San Francisco: New Albion Records, 1990.
- John Cage at Summerstage. Joan La Barbara, soprano; William Winant, percussion; Leonard Stein, piano, whistles, voice, and percussion. Recorded at John Cage's last concert given in New York's Central Park, 23 July 1992. CD recording. 1 sound disc: digital; 4¾ in. Music & Arts CD-875. Berkeley, Calif.: Music & Arts, 1995.
- ^ a b c Paula Morgan. 2001. "Stein, Leonard". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.
- ^ "The Register of Leonard Stein Papers, 1942 - 1983", UCSD.edu.
- ^ a b c d e (July 01, 2004). "Leonard Stein, Pianist and Music Scholar, 87", USC News (accessed October 28, 2013).
- ^ a b c d e Swed, Mark and Pasles, Chris (June 25, 2004). "Leonard Stein, 87; Schoenberg Institute Chief, Pianist, Teacher", Los Angeles Times. Accessed October 28, 2013).
- ^ Josef Woodard, "Gloria Cheng and Piano Spheres at Zipper Hall", Culture Monster blog site of the Los Angeles Times (October 14, 2009; accessed May 7, 2014).
External links[edit]
- Swed, Mark, et al. [1] List of articles on L. Stein published in the Los Angeles Times.
- Schultz, Thomas (October, 2004). "Remembering Leonard Stein", ThomasSchultzPianist.com.


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By Mr. Rhys Fullerlove (AMC)January 12, 2009
Rock Island ArsenalAca,!a,,cs historic Quarters One was rocking last week as more than 200 people ushered in the New Year.
Maj. Gen. Robert M. Radin, commanding general of U.S. Army Sustainment Command, and his wife, Sara, hosted a Jan. 10 reception celebrating the ArsenalAca,!a,,cs long history as a vital part of its surrounding community.
Local citizens, elected officials and military personnel were greeted by Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Radin and Command Sgt. Maj. Stephen D. Blake and his wife, Karen. The RadinAca,!a,,cs wheaten terrier, Mauri, reportedly added an enthusiastic welcome.
While Quarters One no longer houses the commanding general, it is a grand structure and the perfect site for a reception. Aca,!A"We are purposely using Quarters One for this event to offer Quad Cities residents a chance to come see this grand building and observe that this building has not been forgotten,Aca,!A? Radin said.
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Definition of conga in English:
1A Latin American dance of African origin, usually with several people in a single line, one behind the other.
Example sentences
- Inside the Big Swan Stadium, celebrating England fans danced a massive conga through the stands, carrying Japanese children on their shoulders.
- At 9.30 am, I find myself dancing the conga with 100 Ghanaian women.
- Then the band played 'Road to Amarillo' and the guests danced the conga through the hotel, and the men played rugby in their kilts at midnight.
2 (also conga drum) A tall, narrow, low-toned drum beaten with the hands.
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- The primary musical instrument is the conga drum.
- Her traditional sokay sound comes from the harmonica and a conga drum known as a balah.
- After a quiet intro where the interweaving trombone and sax establish the melancholy theme, the full band of drums, piano, congas, bass clarinet, trombone, and tenor sax aggressively joins in.
verb (congas, congaing /-ɡə-iNG/, congaed /-ɡəd/ or conga'd)[no object]
Dance the conga.
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1930s: from Latin American Spanish, from Spanish, feminine of congo 'Congolese'.
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If anything, 2013 is a tough year for cloud computing services so far. From Amazon.com going down at extremely inopportune times, to Microsoft' multi-day breakdown, cloud computing services are still seemingly as unreliable as ever.
It turns out, the cloud computing services and architectures are just as prone to downtime as their on-premise counterparts.
Do you see cloud computing outages will cause systemic problems to your organisation in 2013 and beyond? What are you currently doing to prevent your cloud computing outages?
Here we take a look at the biggest cloud outages of 2013 … so far.
Amazon.com home page goes down
Date: Jan. 31, 2013
Duration: 49 minutes
Failure: Earlier this year, internet users were unable to reach the Amazon.com's main website for a 45-minute-long period, with the site returning a mostly blank page that reads "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable."
Fallout: some industry-watchers estimated the site could have potentially suffered close to $5 million in missed revenue.
Dropbox crashed and burned
Date: Jan. 10, 2013
Duration: Around 16 hour
Failure: Dropbox, the hugely popular file-sync-store-and-share service, Around 3:30 p.m. Pacific Time, Dropbox acknowledged its services were on the fritz, telling customers via Twitter that all client-syncing and file-uploading would be unavailable "for approximately the next hour."
Fallout: Dropbox customers took to Twitter to voice their dissatisfaction, using the hashtag #DropboxDown to organize the complaints. "Dropbox is down. Users are wailing. Can't trust cloud 100%," one user said.
Facebook Down
Date: Jan. 28, 2013
Duration: Two to three hours
Failure: Facebook users around the globe found themselves unable to keep up with their friends' status updates on the morning of Jan. 28. Facebook said the downtime was the result of a DNS issue that "prevented people who typed 'facebook.com' into their browsers from reaching the site" — an issue that was easy enough to resolve.
A rough month for Microsoft
Date: Feb. 1-2, 2013
Duration: Around two hours
Failure: On Feb. 1, the Microsoft's Office 365 editing suite and Outlook.com mail service both stuttered. Users were unable to access the services for about two hours. Then, a day later, Microsoft's Bing search engine suffered a nearly two-hour outage of its own.
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Date: March 18-19, 2013
Duration: About 17 hours total
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Date: March 3, 2013
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Them Feathers are a Flyin!
Ah, the blaaaaas of August are past and wildfowl and shorebirds are starting to hit the area. Another reason fall is a favorite time of year for me. While the ducks, geese and shorebirds are in their fall plumage, it's fresh, new plumage which makes them great targets of opportunity! But how can we do more then just take a photo that says, "They have arrive" and rather say "Hot dogs, they have arrived!"?
On of the best ways is to change your angle! I've become pretty famous for that video clip that shows all to well my poor imitation of a beached whale but getting down low is a must! This shot of a Red-necked Grebe is a classic example. I'm not totally flat on the ground but perhaps 12″ off it, the legs of the Gitzo not totally flattened. I did that because I loved the pattern in the water which is what attracted me to the photo in the first place. Shooting with the 600mm w/TC-17, it was easily to isolate the reflection of the trees on the other shore which you see as simple green breaking up the pattern of blue. So you start to move your images forward by not just plunking down your tripod and being satisfied with getting a sharp image.
You knew this was coming but gotta say it anyways. You gotta greet the sun! The sun hasn't even come up on these Short-billed Dowitchers still napping into the day. This is important for two key reasons. The first is the mellow light and lack of shadows. That's important for the second reason, the calm water. The mirror properties is what makes these fall drab plummaged shorebirds spectacular. So, greeting the sun is a must in my book!
One thing I can't encourage wildlife photographers to do enough is go out shooting when the weather sucks! I've been saying it for 30+yrs and still say it, some of the best photography is in the worst weather! Fall is when winter storms start to make their appearance. Before, during and after a storm you can have some incredibly dramatic light like on these Blue or Dark Phased Snow Geese. They didn't have that single shaft of light on them when I started to pan with them but knew they would fly into it and they did. Click! You and your gear won't melt if it gets wet. Simple, basic care like a clean, white towel and blotting your gear dry (do not wipe!) and you're rockin in that dampness. And the photographic rewards of that one magical image will warm you up better then any fire!
The whole trick to all of this is getting out! DO some homework, visit bird hotlines and websites and see where the birds are coming in and then get there! Do you need a 600mm? I'm often asked that question and if you wanna play with the big boys, you sure do! If you're just starting and learning, you sure don't! A 400mm lens does a great job and is all the focal length I had for years and started my business with. Never loose sight, it's the person behind the camera that counts!


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I have these in the front with 5 1/4 CS coax in the rear powered by a 4-Channel (Pioneer GM-D8604). Also a new Stereo (Pioneer FH-X700). I've followed a Crutchfield guide in regards to setup, installation and tuning.. There's only one issue I'm having, one set is playing at a higher db than the other (no filters or anything in the equation) I can't tell if this is a 'get what you paid for' or defective product at this point. Hopefully I can figure something out. On the bright side, the one component that works correctly is amazing (these are an upgrade from stock Pioneers)
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Roger celebrates 200 consecutive weeks as No. 1 in the ATP Rankings today.
Our star reached the summit of the men's game on February 2, 2004, following his second Grand Slam success at the Australian Open. And Roger shows no signs of relinquishing his position. Earlier this month he won his fourth Tennis Masters Cup crown in Shanghai.
During his tenure as ATP World No. 1, Roger has captured 41 titles from 65 tournaments, including 10 major championships. He has compiled a match record of 308-24 (92.8 %) with only Rafael Nadal, David Nalbandian and Guillermo Canas beating him more than once.
At 26 years of age, Roger is considered to be starting his peak years as a tennis player. He has already broken a number of records, but now has his sights on three players: Jimmy Connors (268 weeks), Ivan Lendl (270) and Pete Sampras (286), who have each spent more weeks at the top of the ATP ladder.
Earlier this year, on February 26, Roger broke Connors' long-standing mark of 160 consecutive weeks at No. 1.
With a substantial lead in the ATP Rankings and 12 Grand Slam titles already to his name, our superstar has an opportunity to create more history in 2008.
(courtesy of ATPtennis.com)
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Definition of inaccessible in English:
1Unable to be reached: a remote and inaccessible cave the city centre is inaccessible to traffic in most places
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- The team of officers will also be able to respond quickly to 999 calls and reach areas inaccessible to vehicles.
- They penetrated ravines and reached precipitous mountain peaks inaccessible to mechanized troops.
- Twelve months ago, the annus horribilis was launched on the spectacular floodwaters which made North Yorkshire inaccessible to all except oarsmen - or so the world was led to believe.
unreachable, out of reach, beyond reach;
cut-off, isolated, remote, in the middle of nowhere, in the back of beyond, out of the way, off the map, lonely, godforsaken;
informal unget-at-able
archaic unapproachable
1.1Unable to be used: such costs would make litigation inaccessible to private individuals
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- Much of this audio was hitherto inaccessible, locked in record company vaults, private collections, archives and radio station libraries.
- Unemployment in South Africa is at 40% and for those individuals, antiretrovirals are just inaccessible.
- Due to rising rates that accompany privatization, electricity has become similarly inaccessible for thousands of families.
2(Of language or an artistic work) difficult to understand or appreciate: 'High' culture is largely inaccessible to the masses
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3(Of a person) not open to advances or influence; unapproachable: her unassailable, inaccessible image
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- They are polite to the 'English' but inaccessible and unapproachable; they don't take photographs and frown on others photographing them.
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inaccessibly adverb
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Minority VimpelCom Investors Pay Dearly For Unexpected Russian Generosity
Russian investment company Alfa Group knows how to scare investors -– its tough tactics shocked BP, its oil business partner, in 2008, and triggered a plunge in Telenor's shares in 2009.
After Vimpel announced a $450 million buyout offer Tuesday, many of them would have been better off ignoring the warnings.
Telenor and Alfa, owners of more than three quarters of VimpelCom's shares, made peace last autumn. They then launched an offer to combine the company with Ukraine's largest mobile operator, which they jointly owned.
Although minority shareholders may have thought the terms were unfair, most either tendered their shares in support of the deal or sold them to others who supported the deal. Their stock is now worth $14.84 per ADR, but VimpelCom has offered to pay around $19 per ADR to the other minority shareholders — representing 2.13% of all stock — who ignored the advice and didn't tender their shares.
To get the deal through, Telenor and Alfa needed support from four fifths of VimpelCom's shareholders. Most brokerages said the terms of the offer favored Telenor and Alfa over VimpelCom's minority investors, but discouraged their clients from opposing the offer, since dissenting investors could be squeezed out on unfair terms.
In their offer documents Alfa and Telenor said if more than four fifths of minority shareholders supported the deal, those left over would be bought out "in a mandatory squeeze-out at a later stage at a price determined under Russian law" . [Read Vimpel's statement here.]
VimpelCom's more diligent minority investors probably didn't expect the Russian legal system to come down on their side–they had spent most of the last year, trying to fathom the decisions of a Siberian court, which ordered Telenor to pay $1.7 billion in damages, in a decision that the Norwegian company blamed on Alfa.
One brokerage warned dithering VimpelCom minorities that "a squeeze-out would probably be made below market [prices], as Russian law would allow it to be based on vaguely defined valuation criteria."
Another said "there's a growing sense that it'll be hard to stop the deal, so people who are fundamentally opposed to it are better to sell out." As those investors got out, the price of VimpelCom's New-York listed stock fell sharply. (It's now down 20% since January, compared to a 4% fall for peer Mobile TeleSystems).
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We spend at least a third of our lives in a single room. We turn there for comfort, refuge, and daydreaming. So why don't we give more thought to our bedrooms? Not to get too personal about it, but it may have something to do with our private and public selves. We give our all to impress and entertain others, so the kitchen and other main floor rooms get our primary focus. But the bedroom is private, and if no one else is going to see it, we may think it unworthy of our attention — to our own detriment.
|Top: Enlarging the front dormer and adding a shed dormer off the back only added to the impressive character of this Arts and Crafts home. Insert: Exterior of home before the dormers were added.
|Top: The new master bedroom layout makes the most of the available space. Insert: The original master bedroom was awkward and had no proper places for the furniture.
|The rear dormer added enough room for this new spa-like master bathroom, which includes a deep stainless steel soaking tub, large walk-in shower, and a semi-private water closet.
|Left: The owners gained a walk-in closet and a full dressing area with ample storage space. Right: The original closet lacked headroom and was inadequate.
|The existing bathroom (right) served as the master bathroom and was reconfigured into an efficient, child-friendly bathroom (left).
Years ago, I house-sat for my boss, a woman I appreciated for her professionalism, generosity and confidence. Alone for the first time in the home, I explored and admired its rooms, until I reached the master bedroom, which was mine for the stay. The room itself was uninspired, and small, barely accommodating the bed, two nightstands, and a dresser. With the lack of storage, miscellaneous items had been crammed under the bed. One had to walk through an open jumble of a closet to reach the dark, cramped bathroom. I was dumbfounded that this busy woman, who gave so much of herself in her daily life, would appropriate so little for herself in the way of a restorative retreat.
Most homeowners don't set out to buy a home with a knockout master suite. They tend to focus on the bigger picture of location, lot, the number of bedrooms and bathrooms, and the appeal of the kitchen. But over time, the need for a true retreat can become imperative.
When the owners of this 1924 story-and-a-half bungalow first purchased it, they were impressed by the cozy Southeast Portland neighborhood, the large front porch, overhanging eaves with brackets, original hardwood flooring, and beautiful wainscoting. They didn't anticipate that the 2,100 sq ft home would eventually become too small for two busy adults and their growing family, even after adding a 1,000 sq ft guest suite in a basement conversion.
With the birth of their third child, the couple decided that the home's three bedrooms were inadequate in number, placement, and layout. The two children's bedrooms were insufficient with the birth of the new baby, and also because the owners wanted to use one of those rooms for a home office. Also, the master bedroom, which was housed in the finished attic, was at an uncomfortable distance from the main-floor bedrooms of their young children. Finally, the sloping ceilings and poor layout of the attic bedroom made for unworkable spaces, awkward ceiling heights, and a cramped feeling overall.
Not willing to give up on their home, the owners investigated what it would take to add another bedroom and bath to the upstairs. They called the design team at Craftsman Design and Renovation, a local design/build firm, and after just a couple of initial meetings, decided to move forward with a major second floor renovation. They were particularly thrilled to learn that the home's second floor could accommodate two additional children's bedrooms and a bath, as well as a more luxurious master suite.
"The main design challenge was to add more room without destroying the integrity of the house," says Wade Freitag, owner of Craftsman Design and Renovation. "We added full-width dormers to the front and back, with the front dormer being broken up with a small, stepped-out gable. This added more square footage while preserving the proportions of the home."
Enter the master bedroom now and the rest of the world melts away. The private suite consists of an ample sized bedroom, a separate dressing area with loads of customized built-in storage, and a spa-like bathroom. Chelly Wentworth, senior designer at Craftsman Design and Renovation, says, "It's extremely rare to have a private suite in a home of this era, let alone two separate closet areas, room for a desk, and a separate tub and shower." The key to adding such amenities in an older home without changing the footprint? "Masterful space planning," says Wentworth.
While the dormers added 330 sq ft, an impressive redesign was also necessary to allow for the many improvements, including the additional two bedrooms and bath, a better landing at the top of the stairs, and a wider hallway with a large linen closet and a bench containing a concealed laundry chute.
For the clients, the surprise was not just how much space could be added without changing the home's footprint, but how much more the new space enhances the entire home, as well as their daily experience of a welcoming, restful space of one's own.
Craftsman Design and Renovation is a full-service residential design-build firm in Southeast Portland, OR. They have won numerous awards for the design and renovation of older homes, and have been providing outstanding design, craftsmanship, and service in the industry since 1995. Contact them at www.craftsmandesign.com.
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Kathleen "Kitty" Van Story Doughty Acuff, age 87, of Oak Ridge, passed away Wednesday, May 8, 2013, at Norris Health and Rehab Center.
She was preceded in death by husband, John E. Acuff Jr., on May 24, 2010.
Mrs. Acuff worked at what is now Y-12 during World War II as one of the "Calutron Girls." Kitty had a love of music and was a life member of the Knoxville Area Dulcimer Club. She was also a member of The Tuesday Group, playing lovely harmony on her lap dulcimer.
She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Michael and Linda Doughty of Knoxville; and cousins, Virginia Lee Currier of Annapolis, Md., and Wilma Wilson of Knoxville.
The family will receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, May 10, 2013, at Weatherford Mortuary.
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Conservative Groups Press Lawmakers to Pledge Spending Cuts, Caps
Conservative groups have rolled out a new pledge aimed at reining in the budget deficit, and will be rating lawmakers on how they measure up on that task.
The pledge, written by a coalition of more than 40 conservative groups, calls on lawmakers and candidates to cut and cap spending and to support a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget.
Specifically, lawmakers would promise to "oppose any debt limit increase" until spending cuts and spending caps are enforced and a balanced-budget amendment – one that includes "both a spending limitation and a super-majority for raising taxes, in addition to balancing revenues and expenses" – is ratified. A balanced-budget amendment has been proposed a number of times over the last two decades, but has never gained much support.
Six conservative groups announced Monday that they would rate lawmakers on their willingness to "cut, cap and balance" the federal budget. Four of the groups — Club for Growth, Freedom Works, Liberty Counsel Action and 60 Plus—will include whether a lawmaker or candidate signed the pledge while two others, Americans for Prosperity and the National Taxpayers Union, will tally lawmakers' votes on budget-related legislation.
Some of the organizations spent significant sums to help candidates in the 2010 election cycle, and the new ratings could hurt campaign contributions if candidates are perceived to be irresponsible with taxpayers' money. One of the groups, 60 Plus, spent more than $6.5 million, and Club for Growth listed more than $2.5 million in independent expenditures in 2010, according to OpenSecrets.org.
"Congress has proven itself incapable of responsibly handling taxpayers' dollars so constraints need to be placed on the government to get our fiscal house in order," Club for Growth said in a statement. "The conditions in this pledge help achieve that."
Colin Hanna, president of the conservative organization Let Freedom Ring, was part of the coalition that spearheaded the "cut, cap, balance" initiative. He said the pledge aims to prevent future debt ceiling crises. "People want to see a permanent solution to this problem," Mr. Hanna said. "That's why cuts are not enough. Cuts are the first step, but they are not enough, no matter how deep, no matter how wide."


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Anatomy of Duff's DeviceOctober 27, 2009 – 6:04 pm
Duff's Device is one of the most brilliant exploits of C syntax. It's used to unroll loops and save some cycles spent on loop 'maintenance'. Let's take a look at typical fill_n function:
template<typename T> RDE_FORCEINLINE void fill_n(T* first, size_t n, const T& val) { for (size_t i = 0; i < n; ++i) first[i] = val; }
Now, assuming that element is not too expensive to copy, execution time of this function can be heavily influenced just by loop 'maintenance' I mentioned (counter modifications + jumps). Let's see how does it look in assembly (12 bytes element, no funky copy constructors, so cheap to copy):
; 621 : for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i) mov ecx, DWORD PTR _n$[ebp] test ecx, ecx jle SHORT $LN1@NormalTest mov eax, DWORD PTR _first$[ebp] add eax, 8 $LL3@NormalTest: ; 622 : first[i] = val; mov dl, BYTE PTR _val$[ebp+4] movss xmm0, DWORD PTR _val$[ebp] mov BYTE PTR [eax-4], dl mov edx, DWORD PTR _val$[ebp+8] movss DWORD PTR [eax-8], xmm0 mov DWORD PTR [eax], edx add eax, 12 ; 0000000cH dec ecx jne SHORT $LL3@NormalTest $LN1@NormalTest:
Simple enough. Apart from the job that really has to be done every loop (copying stuff) we've 3 additional instructions per loop (add eax, 12/dec ecx + jump). Could this overhead be reduced somehow?
Duff's Device has been introduced around 1983, back when every instruction mattered. Here is the original post by Tom Duff. Almost 30 years have passed, do such little tricks still matter nowadays? Let's try… Here's my version of Duff's Device, with 4-x loop unrolling:
T* last = first + n; switch (n & 0x3) { case 0: while (first != last) { *first = val; ++first; case 3: *first = val; ++first; case 2: *first = val; ++first; case 1: *first = val; ++first; } }
It can be a little bit confusing if you see it for the first time (..or second, or third, starts to make sense around 10th). Should be easier, if you ever programmed in x86 assembler. Basic idea behind Duff's Device is almost the same as behind copying non-multiples of 4 bytes with movsd & movsb. First, you'd calculate the number of 4-byte packages to copy with movsd (n >> 2), then copy the rest (n & 0x3) with movsb. What makes things a little bit more complicated here, is the way DD exploits switch construction. We calculate number of "leftover" items to copy (3/2/1 or 0), copy them first and then proceed with 4 elements per loop. Let's see generated assembly:
mov edx, DWORD PTR _n$[ebp] mov eax, DWORD PTR _first$[ebp] ; 627 : switch (n & 0x3) movss xmm0, DWORD PTR _val$[ebp] mov ecx, edx imul ecx, 12 ; 0000000cH push ebx mov bl, BYTE PTR _val$[ebp+4] and edx, 3 add ecx, eax sub edx, 0 push esi mov esi, DWORD PTR _val$[ebp+8] je SHORT $LN5@DuffsDevic dec edx je SHORT $LN1@DuffsDevic dec edx je SHORT $LN2@DuffsDevic dec edx je SHORT $LN3@DuffsDevic $LN4@DuffsDevic: pop esi pop ebx pop ebp ret 0 $LN5@DuffsDevic: ; 629 : case 0: ; 630 : while (first != last) cmp eax, ecx je SHORT $LN4@DuffsDevic ; 632 : *first = val; ++first; movss DWORD PTR [eax], xmm0 mov BYTE PTR [eax+4], bl mov DWORD PTR [eax+8], esi add eax, 12 ; 0000000cH $LN3@DuffsDevic: ; 633 : case 3: *first = val; ++first; movss DWORD PTR [eax], xmm0 mov BYTE PTR [eax+4], bl mov DWORD PTR [eax+8], esi add eax, 12 ; 0000000cH $LN2@DuffsDevic: ; 634 : case 2: *first = val; ++first; movss DWORD PTR [eax], xmm0 mov BYTE PTR [eax+4], bl mov DWORD PTR [eax+8], esi add eax, 12 ; 0000000cH $LN1@DuffsDevic: ; 635 : case 1: *first = val; ++first; movss DWORD PTR [eax], xmm0 mov BYTE PTR [eax+4], bl mov DWORD PTR [eax+8], esi add eax, 12 ; 0000000cH jmp SHORT $LN5@DuffsDevic
It's actually easier to see what's going on here. For 8x unrolled loop MSVC will use jump table instead of 8 comparisons at the start.
OK, so it's a funky way of unrolling loops, but does it make sense to use it these days? I performed 50 loops of copying of 200002 (200k + 2) elements via 'normal' loop and Duff's Device on my 2.2GHz laptop and got the following results:
- standard loop: 70ms,
- Duff's Device (4x): 57ms,
- hand unrolled loop: 54ms
(Would be interesting to see this on PPC)
Obviously, the most important factor is: how expensive is the operation we're performing per loop iteration. The more expensive it is – the smaller gains from unrolling, as overall cost will be dominated by loop body. I'd say that nowadays DD is more of a curiosity than something you should be using in production code, but it's still good to know what kind of tricks you can pull off in pure ANSI C (+ it gives you better understanding of switch/case statements).


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"Large Bowl" (1997)
"Large Bowl," 1997
Cast bronze, 13 1/2 x 9 feet in diameter.
Installation at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri.
© Ursula von Rydingsvard, courtesy the artist and Galerie Lelong, New York.
"I made very thick walls on the outdoor pieces. I've never made an outdoor piece with two-by-fours...my outdoor pieces are very contained, stable, anchored-looking structures."
- Ursula von Rydingsvard


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