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PJ Byrne Wolf Of Wall StreetP.J. Byrne has joined the Martin Scorsese-directed The Wolf Of Wall Street. The Horrible Bosses actor will play “Wigwam” Cohen, one of the gang of brokers that hang around with the Wolf himself Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio). The film, adapted from Belfort’s bestselling memoir by Boardwalk Empire’s Terence Winter, chronicles Belfort’s rise and harsh fall on Wall Street. Riza Aziz, Joey McFarland, DiCaprio, Scorsese, Emma Koskoff and Alexandra Milchan are producing. Irwin Winkler and Georgia Kacandes are executive producers. Red Granite Pictures owns the rights to Belfort’s memoir and is financing the film, which is scheduled to begin shooting next month in New York City. Byrne also is appearing in The Campaign with Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis, which is out August 10. He is repped by Greene & Associates and Peikoff Law Office.

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Christmas Telly Round-Up 2018

It’s New Years Day and I’m feeling charitable so this blog is brought to you in a whisper, with a cold flannel (for your forehead) and a bacon sandwich (for your mouth… if you need instructions on how to eat a sandwich, maybe don’t get out of bed yet). Read my round-up of the best Christmas telly and figure out what you want to watch on catch-up to keep the festive feelings flowing, and I’ll pop to the shops for paracetamol. Alright?

Click and Collect – BBC 1

Dev and Andy off to save Christmas

A classic tale of mismatched neighbours Andrew (Stephen Merchant, playing exactly the sort of person he always does) and Dev (Asim Chaudhry) from Bedford on a 9 hour mission to save Christmas and buy the must-have toy (Sparklehoof the Unicorn Princess) for Andrew’s daughter. Dev is the lonely chubby one, separated from his family at Christmas, and Andrew is the awkward angry intellectual, successful but bad tempered with a family who loves him for some unseen qualities. Dev teaches Andrew to be a happier man and a better father, and despite themselves they’ll be best buddies for life. Basically it’s Planes, Trains and Automobiles or Jingle All The Way for the small screen. It looks lovely with cosy camera angles suited to our suburban action heros. There’s great pacing throughout with real tension and subversive moments of mischief. Neither lead performance is all that over-the-top and their situation, while silly, seems entirely probable. An unexpected gem.

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‘Ordeal by Innocence’ – BBC1

Agatha Christie’s murder mysteries are an international literary language; translated, loved and understood the world over. You know there’s going to be a big stately home, a cast of shifty upper-class characters, a few red herrings and a satisfyingly complicated conclusion. It’ll all hinge on the silver sugar tongs, a classified advert in the Times or the colour of the front door which you knew from the start but discounted as an inconsequential detail. It’s clever, gratifying and reassuring all in one shot. For a real-life example, please see me and Mr H on holiday in Turkey in 2014. We were, I’m ashamed to admit, battered out of our skulls on local raki and dealing with a day-long hangover in a hotel room easily as hot as the surface of the sun. What could be more soothing to the addled brain than finding Poirot dubbed into Turkish with English subtitles? In no small part thanks to Hercule we consoled the little grey cells that hadn’t been murdered by alcohol.

Ordeal by Innocence, the Easter Sunday BBC1 drama, is not your Turkish holiday Agatha Christie adaptation. There’s nothing soothing about this production. From the off it’s clear we’re in a nightmarish gothic horror. Producer and writer Sarah Phelps brings us a sharper, nastier, distilled version of And Then There Were None, her tremendous Christie adaptation from 2016. “Nine elaborate murders based on an extremely dodgy nursery rhyme that drive a young woman to suicide in a mansion on a deserted island is not really terrifying enough. Let’s kick it up a notch guys!”

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I did some thinking long and hard on how I wanted to present this section, who I would ask for testimonials and reviews of my wedding photography here in Cancun and the Mayan Riviera. How I would present them. Where on the website they would go… and well, like most tasks that include expanding my ego, I procrastinated and procrastinated as I don’t do this so I can have a bigger ego. Rather, I do this so that people have a great experience here in Mexico and get awesome wedding photography. I do this so that 10 years down the road you can look back at your wedding photos and remind yourself why you love that person and what a great time you had at your wedding. I do this so that you and your guests have a great time… and yes, I do this to support my family.

Then, while actively procrastinating, an email came in from a client and BOOM… Why not simply share the emails my clients send me. The love, the gratitude I get from my clients after they see their images is astounding. It is so raw and so motivating for me that I can’t but not share them… below are just a few of the emails I get and I cannot thank each and every single one of my past clients for your gratitude and appreciation.

Maggie + Tim

Wedding Location: Secrets Maroma Beach | Cancun | Riviera Maya | Mexico.

I love them! They look great! When will we get to see all of them?? …and of course we will leave you an AMAZING review :) on top of your work, you were a pleasure to hang out with. We hope you had as much fun as we did!

Lindsay + Matt

Wedding Location: NOW Jade | Cancun| Rivera Maya | Mexico

Hi Dean & Anna

Thank you so much for the preview!! They actually brought tears to my eyes to see them! It feels like that day came and went in the blink of an eye and the pictures are such a perfect way to remember the day…
Thank you thank you thank you!!!
And we mean our doors are always open to you guys if you are ever in our neck of the woods!
Matt & Linds

Lisa + Mark

Wedding Location: NOW Jade | Cancun| Rivera Maya | Mexico

Hi Dean,

Everyone that has seen the first 28 photos you sent us, have said that they are the nicest wedding photos they have ever seen and that includes other destination wedding photos. Hiring you, and Saku were the two best decisions Mark and I made.

So thank you so much again.

(Saku is an amazing florist here, if you want info on her, please contact us…)

Leah + Chris

Wedding Location: Royal Real Resorts | Playa del Carmen| Rivera Maya | Mexico

Hi Dean,

Thank you so much, the pictures look amazing. Chris and I just had our reception this past Saturday, everyone loved the pictures- and couldn’t believe the cenote pictures were actually taken under water, thinking the pictures were airbrushed somehow…

(And this after Chris said he could not go under the water without plugging his nose…. I love to see people let go, expand, grow, enjoy, and get awesome photos!!! – dean)

Jo + Jason

Wedding Location: Barcelo Maya Beach | Rivera Maya | Mexico

They are BEAUTIFUL!! We love them!! Thank u so much!! Going to send link to everyone to see today!

Thank you again! I never looked so good!

Talk soon!!

Jo. and Jay

Jessica + Filip

Wedding Location: Azule Beach Resort | Cancun| Rivera Maya | Mexico

Hi Dean!

Thank you so much for posting some of the wedding pictures to Facebook. They look fantastic and it was really nice to get a taste of what we can be expecting. People who have seen them can’t stop saying nice things about them. Thanks for making us look soo good! Feel free to submit whatever you would like for publication.

We’re very excited to see the rest of the pictures now. You certainly know how to build anticipation!

Thank you so much for your hard work,

Jessica and Filip Strycharek

Gina + Scott

Wedding Location: Ocean Coral & Turquesa | Cancun| Rivera Maya | Mexico

Hi Dean,

Thank you again! I love them. You captured many special moments that we will always cherish.

(You can also check out Gina’s full review on BDW and Google )

Cory + Pete

Wedding Location: Barcelo Maya Beach | Rivera Maya | Mexico

Thank you so much for shooting our wedding last week. It was a pleasure getting to know you and it felt like you were a part of our family! You made myself and the rest of our family comfortable and completely relaxed while your photographed us. Thank you again and we can’t wait to see our photographs!

Peter and Cory

Cassandra + Kayla

Wedding Location: NOW Jade | Cancun| Rivera Maya | Mexico

Hey Dean!

Thank you so much! The pictures are amazing! They are everything we wanted and more! We really appreciate all of your hard work and everything you put into our day. You captured it just as we had imagined it and we couldnt be happier.

All the best wishes to you and Anna and your little girl.

Thanks again,

Kayla and Cassandra

Ashleigh + John

Wedding Location: Gran Porto Real | Playa del Carmen| Rivera Maya | Mexico

Hi Dean,

I have to tell you how happy we are with these photographs!! They are phenomenal… so beautiful and the colors are perfect, and we are so happy!!!

Thank you thank you thank you!!!

Diana + Jesse

Hi Dean and Anna,

The Images….THANK YOU!!!! They are so beautiful…the light and colors are amazing as your images always are. I love the candid one of jesse, me, and the officiant at the ceremony- it’s one of my favorites. The huge vertical of the palm is awesome, all of the bridesmaids are gorgeous and the black and white of us dancing. I cannot WAIT to see the rest of them!

Again, thank you. So many little things you caught that will bring back memories forever- and will last long after we’re gone. (You can see that ankle bracelet in the one where i’m walking down the stairs….my dad gave that to my mom as a wedding gift and i forgot to have you take a picture of it- but there it is!) What you do is really special….thanks so much Dean.

love, diana and jesse

Andrea + Rob

Hi Dean

These are amazing!!!!! We cannot tell you how much we LOVE the photos!!!!! You did such an incredible job catching all the special moments throughout the day =) They are wonderful! When looking through them all we literally could re-live the entire day. I have downloaded them, if you could please keep them for a few more weeks just in case that would be great. I’ve bought an external hard drive and put them all on there, uploaded them to drop box but I am also going to burn them onto CD’s – I’d hate for anything to happen to them.

Andrea xoxo

Maya + Christian

We’re looking forward to going through all of the pictures together. We absolutely loved the teasers!

Also, we’d like to send along a heartfelt thanks for your work on our wedding day. We are both notoriously camera shy – but that seemed to melt away with you. Not only was the experience bearable – it was actually fun! We felt relaxed and comfortable the entire time with you behind the camera. Thanks for teaching us those tricks for posing! We feel so fortunate to have had you share in our special day. Many of the guests, including a close friend that is a photographer sang your praises.

I have already told the Ana y Jose management that we would highly recommend you to any future couples. If you have any couples in the NYC area that have questions or would like to talk to one of your previous customers we’d be more than happy to give a reference.

Maya & Christian

Lauren + Jason

Hi Dean,

These pictures are absolutely breathtaking and we couldn’t be happier with the way they turned out. You captured the essence of our wedding and when looking at these pictures, it takes us back in time as if it were our wedding day again. Thank you so much for creating images we will enjoy and cherish for a lifetime. The picture quality and your professionalism exceded our expectations and we are so happy we picked you as our photographer.

Talk to you soon!

Please check back for more as I will be adding them as time goes on. And if you would like to get in touch with one of our past destination wedding clients, we would be happy to give you a few email addresses;


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They say tragedy hits when least expected. For Abraham Teka, two tragedies turned his world upside-down in the summer of 2000; his college girlfriend confessed she was in love with another man, and his parents were killed in a freak accident. The news of a failed relationship was a mild offense compared to the loss of the only parents he’d ever known. Once he’d wished his ex-girlfriend the best that life had to offer her, Abe took the next red-eye flight with his long legs folded between a reclining passenger in front and the immovable wall of the restroom behind, to his hometown in Houston Texas.

Abe hadn’t hesitated stepping onto the plane or going down to the morgue to take care of his parents’ corpses for the funeral, but climbing those familiar rickety steps to the front door of his childhood home proved to be more challenging. Fear snaked up his spine and a weight clamped down onto his ankles, paralyzing him in front of the house. Knowing his parents wouldn’t be there to greet him made the place feel like just a shelter and not the home he often longed for.

He swallowed the lump in his throat, his eyes moving over the lawn, the grass overgrown past what his mother liked. He could almost hear her berating her husband to fix the lawnmower or get one of the neighborhood kids to do it, to which his father would gruffly say he’d cut it when he was good and ready only to cut it promptly after being dealt the silent treatment from his wife.

Abe shook his head. Their voices would be no more, snuffed out by the unfairness of sudden death. His eyes stung with unshed tears; he had yet to cry even after making the funeral arrangements. He couldn’t afford to cry when he had four siblings to consider.

Staring down at the youngest two, Darah and Eleazar who stared back at him in silence, he felt the weight of dread drop onto his shoulders. They were orphans twice over because the sovereign God had planned it that way. Twenty years had passed already, yet the emptiness of his parents’ home made him that nine-year-old kid sitting in a musty attic room, wishing someone would adopt him.  That same sovereign God had brought him Yonas and Ester Teka on his tenth birthday, and he finally had a home. His story wasn’t unlike that of his four siblings, meaning they undoubtedly felt the same hollow pain now more than ever before.

He turned to Darah, the sullen pre-teen sitting on the edge of the floral couch with her head bent. As if it was just yesterday, he recalled the day she’d become family at the age of six. He’d driven miles from college to meet his new sister–his only sister. Eyes dim of joy, Darah was skeptical of her new family. However, under the doting love of their parents, her eyes shone with laughter and contentment the following year. Now witnessing that same lifeless stare on her face, broke his heart all over again.

He shifted his attention to Eleazar, the little boy curled against Darah, with big black eyes shimmering with tears just shed. Abe wasn’t sure if the little one remembered him but he recalled the day he’d arrived. A newly-orphaned infant diagnosed with fetal alcoholism, Eleazar suffered through his third birthday. During those trying years, twenty-four-year-old Abe constantly made the journey to and from grad school to help his aging parents, assuming responsibility for the older children while their parents focused their attention on Eleazar. The little one would undoubtedly feel their loss more acutely–they were all he knew.

Overcome with emotion, Abe reminisced the moments each of his four siblings came home and wished he could bring back the joy of adding a new member to the Teka clan. But alas, two had departed permanently and nothing he could do would bring them back.

When his youngest siblings looked up, he managed a smile that only wavered when they didn’t smile back. His shoulders drooped in defeat.

The other two, the brothers between him and Darah, were set to arrive within the day’s end; Clement was still in high school while Bart planned to take the last flight out from his home in California. Until they arrived, he would have to figure out how to make Eleazar and Darah comfortable on his own. First order of business; feeding them. Instantly, he wished for Ester’s delicious and ever-present meals but the fridge was empty–just like his heart.

Trying again with a wobbly smile, Abe addressed his youngest siblings. “Anyone want pizza?”

This is the beginning of a series featuring the Teka siblings that find healing and love.

Yonas and Ester Teka have died in a tragic car accident and their eldest son, Abraham, comes home to take care of his younger siblings who risk getting reassigned into the foster system.

FIRST STORY: “Guiding Light” (Year 2000)

1. Abraham “Abe” Teka: age 29. Responsible, self-sacrificing oldest brother of the Teka siblings.
2. Bartimeus “Bart” Teka: age 27. Sarcastic and career-driven, but a big softy like Abe.
3. Clement “Junior” Teka: age 17. Quick-tempered, broody, artistic and flighty.
4. Darah Teka: only daughter, age 12. Smart-mouthed and spunky
5. Eleazar “Eli” Teka: age 6. Youngest child. Intelligent and quiet, wary of noise and anger.
6. Phoebe Randall: age 28. Clement’s guidance counselor, self-proclaimed busybody.
7. Geraldine Pena: age 27. Handy-woman /plumber /fixer-upper extraordinaire.

GUIDING LIGHT: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

SECOND STORY: “Homecoming” (Year 2003)

1. Abraham “Abe” Teka: age 32, ever responsible and self-sacrificing eldest brother of the Teka siblings, still getting used to his roles as guardian-brother and now husband
2. Bartimeus “Bart” Teka: age 30, currently attempting to balance work and family. Hates drama.
3. Clement “Junior” Teka: age 20, away in the Northwest for college but secretly hates it
4. Darah Teka: age 15, still smart-mouthed, battling with raging teenage hormones
5. Eleazar “Eli” Teka: age 9, intelligent but not-so-quiet anymore, observant and keen
6. Phoebe Randall-Teka: age 31, Abe’s wife of 2.5 years, still a busybody now occupied with efforts to expand the Teka family tree.
7. Geraldine Pena: age 30, independent woman, daughter and mother
8. Joselyn Romano: age 2, Geraldine’s daughter

HOMECOMING: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

THIRD STORY: “Lighthouse” (Year 2013)

1. Abraham “Abe” Teka: age 42. Doting father, uncle, brother and husband. He and wife Phoebe, have 3 kids.
2. Bartimeus “Bart” Teka: age 40. He and wife Geraldine, have 4 kids.
3. Clement “Junior” Teka: age 30. Missionary currently serving in Ethiopia.
4. Darah Teka: age 25. Doting aunt to her nephews and nieces, struggles to find her purpose.
5. Eleazar “Eli” Teka: age 19. Reserved and increasingly elusive.
6. Phoebe Teka: age 41, wife to Abe. Doting, overly-caring matriarch to her growing family. Still a proclaimed busybody.
7. Geraldine Teka: age 40, wife to Bart. Fiercely-protective mother and sister-in-law.
8. Raju-Joel “J.R.” Obed: age 35. Calm, contemplative, patient. His aspirations often take backseat to his father’s plans, he struggles to find his own voice.

LIGHTHOUSE: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27

FOURTH STORY: “Sanctuary” (Year 2013/2014)

1. Abraham Teka: age 42. He & wife Phoebe, have 3 kids.
2. Bartimeus Teka: age 40. He & wife Geraldine, have 4 kids.
3. Clement Teka: age 30. Protective, opinionated and brave in the face of danger. Missionary/Advocate serving in East Africa.
4. Darah Teka-Obed: age 25. Sassy sister. Doting aunt and wife to J.R.
5. Eleazar Teka: age 19. Reserved & elusive.
6. Phoebe Teka: age 41, wife to Abe. Doting, overly-caring (busybody) matriarch.
7. Geraldine Teka: age 40, wife to Bart. Fiercely-protective mother and sister.
8. Raju-Joel “J.R.” Obed: age 35. Calm, level-headed, patient lawyer/refugee center director and doting husband to Darah.
9. Karen Wells: age 33. Former nurse practitioner. Vivacious, caring, audacious. Taking a sabbatical to visit and serve in East Africa.

SANCTUARY: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32

SHORTS: A Father’s Joy   |   Family Ties

***Disclaimer: The “Heart of a Home” Series are works of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.***


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 Fresh Roses waiting for your special person in your room upon arrival $39.00

Champagne Package $76.46

Champagne Packageswine1 Champagne with Godiva Chocolates or locally made Artisan  Truffles and two Lake Pointe Inn Champagne glasses – $86.56
Champagne with two Lake Pointe Inn Champagne glasses – $76.46

petalsRed Rose Petals – $20
We can sprinkle red rose petals in your room to create an even more romantic atmosphere.

Take a ride on the boat to your favorite lake front restaurant. – $50 per couple

Enjoy the beauty of Deep Creek Lake with non of the worries of driving. We will leave out from the inn at 6:00pm.  We will drop you off at Dutches, Unos, Aces or Brendas at 6:30ish and pick you up at 8:30 and bring you back to the inn.


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super muffins, DIY ice cream, and salted caramel sauce--it doesn't get any better than this

super muffins, DIY ice cream, and salted caramel sauce–it doesn’t get any better than this

Last week, food for fun featured a muffin recipe that had knocked my socks off. But the post was left only partially complete as there had also been mention of combining the much-loved muffins with vanilla ice cream. What with my fondness for homemade ice cream, this wasn’t a casual statement. I was going to make that ice cream. The tale picks up here…

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bake sale goodies

A few weekends back, I worked at a culinary garage sale for Les Dames d’Escoffier. Money was raised for Urban Roots, an amazing local inner city youth gardening program, and it was a fun way to spend a Saturday. There were bake sale treats to be enjoyed as well as fun kitchen and garden items looking for new homes.

Though officially working  the sale, I managed to find a good number of items that needed their new home to be mine. One such purchase was Cooking Wizardry for KidsPublished in 1990, this old-school spiral-bound gem offers basic-but-fun recipes and sweet cartoon illustrations. The Make Your Own Favorite Restaurant Food chapter dates the book especially with recipes for exotica such as milkshakes, pizza, chicken nuggets, tacos, burgers, sub sandwiches, and salad bars. (Though the chicken stir-fry was probably quite progressive at the time.)

In that same chapter were two recipes for ice cream. One used only a blender, and I’ll be giving it a whirl eventually. But the other, subtitled “With a Microwave Oven and an Ice Cream Freezer,” intrigued me most. It cooks the custard base (which contains flour of all things) in the microwave, chills it, then churns in an ice cream maker. Turns out the method works well.

This ice cream easily accompanies Super Muffins and would pair well with cake or cookies, too. It would also be lovely topped sundae-style or served solo. However enjoyed, this ice cream wins Best Garage Sale Find Ever.

Make-Your-Own Ice Cream Project (With a Microwave Oven and Ice Cream Freezer)

I’ve topped it here with a recipe from Lilly Sue and her fab Bites and Brews–her chocolate beer sauce is a revelation. Lovely poured over ice cream, it’s also worth drinking by the cupful. This stuff made me swoon.

  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons all-purpose flour
  • 1/8 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 cup heavy cream
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

In 1-quart glass measure, mix sugar, flour, and salt. Stir in 1/4 cup milk until smooth. Stir in remaining 3/4 cup milk. Microwave on HIGH 2 minutes. Stir well. Microwave on HIGH 3 minutes longer; stir. (Mixture should be smooth and slightly thickened.)

In small bowl, beat egg lightly. Pour small amount of hot milk mixture into egg, stirring constantly. Whisk egg mixture into hot milk mixture until smooth. Microwave on HIGH 30 seconds; stir. If mixture is not yet beginning to boil, return to microwave for another 30 seconds. Cover; refrigerate at least one hour, but preferably overnight. (Mixture must be thoroughly chilled before churning.)

Before churning custard, whisk in cream and vanilla. Process according to ice cream freezer manufacture’s instructions. Makes 2 cups.

proving the pudding…is delish

It’s been a double-down week for classes as my daughter and I taught a kids’ cooking class last weekend, then Monday eve I helped same daughter’s Girl Scout troop earn their Simple Meals badge. Originally intending to repeat my Saturday menu (DIY instant oats, noodle bowl, chicken tenders) for the troop, I realized that badge requirements called for a dessert. This realization hit the morning of the Scout meeting, leaving me little time to come up with a quick-and-easy sweet that would teach basic cooking skills and appeal to 10- and 11-year-old taste buds.

Little time was needed, though, as the obvious dessert choice was homemade chocolate pudding. A favorite dessert with my family (especially the husband), pudding needs only a few ingredients, cooks up quickly, and is undeniably swoon-worthy. I also imagined that at least a few of the girls may have only experienced the snack-pack variety of pudding. And I was excited to see these girls learn that homemade is so much better.

The recipe I turned to is from Make the Bread, Buy the Butter, a highly readabale book by Jennifer Reese of Tipsy Baker fame. Though I cut down on the milk just a smidge, I otherwise honored the recipe and its prose, quoting the recipe’s cleverly-written doneness test to the budding cooks: “It will start out looking like scummy hot chocolate, after which it will look like thin hot chocolate, until suddenly it becomes hot, bubbling glossy pudding. This is how you know it’s done.” While wordy, it’s also wonderfully descriptive and perfect for anyone who hasn’t cooked up pudding before.

As suspected, the pudding was a huge hit–sweet, but not overly so and also at a “chocolatey” level ideal for young kids who may not yet appreciate the darker side of chocolate. (Though using dark cocoa powder instead of the traditional would fix that.)

When I posted a photo collage of the foods the girls made that night (quinoa, roasted carrots and asparagus, breaded chicken tenders, and the pudding) on deLizious’ facebook page, all comments were for the pudding. And that’s when I knew I had a blog post.

From-Scratch Chocolate Pudding

tweaked only slightly from Jennifer Reese’s awesome Make the Bread, Buy the Butter

  • 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
  • 1/4 cup unsweetened baking cocoa
  • 3 tablespoons cornstarch
  • 1/8 teaspoon salt
  • 2 cups milk (2 1/4 cups in the original recipe and Reese recommends whole, though I use what we have which is usually 1%)
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

In medium saucepan, stir together brown sugar, cocoa, cornstarch and salt.  Whisk in milk. Cook over medium heat, whisking constantly, until hot, bubbly, and glossy. (The better doneness descriptor is given above.) Remove from heat; whisk in vanilla.

Divide pudding among 4 serving dishes. Cover with plastic wrap. (Or not–I do not as I like the thin layer of skin that forms on a pudding’s surface as it chills. Texture!) Refrigerate. (Or not–who can wait for chocolate pudding to chill? It tastes great warm and slightly thinner, too 🙂 ) Makes 4 servings.

creamy chocolate pud from scratch!

creamy chocolate pud from scratch!

teaching kids to cook and instantly oatty

When a friend who works as Director of a local cooking school asked me to teach a class on cooking with kids, I thought it sounded like fun. When she asked if I’d bring my 10-year-old daughter on board to “assist,” the deal got even sweeter. I loved the idea of sharing deLizious with my kids.

In planning the class, I thought about foods that were winners with my girls as well as dishes they might have a hand in preparing. In the end, the menu featured one recipe for each mealtime (breakfast, lunch, supper) with the lunch dish able to play snack role as well.

First up: Fast Food-Style Chicken Tenders, seen here before at foodforfun. Next was Asian Noodle Bowl, made from cooked whole wheat spaghetti tossed with an Asian dressing (6 Tbsp orange juice, 3 Tbsp low-sodium soy sauce, 1 Tbsp brown sugar, 1 1/2 tsp sesame oil, 3/4 tsp grated fresh gingerroot for 8 ounces dried pasta).

Students, ranging in age from 4ish to 10ish along with accompanying adults, took bowls of dressed noodles and tossed in favorite veggies from a colorful produce buffet that had been prepped before class. Whether tossing in snowpeas, broccoli, and bell pepper or just carrots (that would be my girl), kids were adding veggies they’d eat and making a (healthy) dish they were excited about. Besides this being a do-able lunch for school, it could also be packed as snack.

With supper and lunch/snack down, we moved on to breakfast. I’d found a fun recipe in ChopChop magazine (loving CC–a cooking mag for kids that keeps things simple without dumbing down) for DIY Instant Oats that struck me as brilliance. With all the other make-a-mixes out there, why not one for instant oats? True, old-fashioned rolled oats don’t take terribly long to cook: A hot bowl of steaming oats is never more than 20 minutes away and setting them up in a slow cooker the night before makes mornings even easier.

But how about this: Grind a cup of oats along with a handful of dried fruit, tablespoon or so of brown sugar, and small amounts of ground cinnamon and salt to powder in a blender or food processor, then add another 2 cups oats for a quick pulse. The result? A shelf-stable mix you combine 1:1 1/2 with boiling water (1/2 cup oat mixture to 3/4 cup water) for a quick-fix breakfast. It tastes way better than packaged with hearty, fresh, real flavors and has a great chew. The bowl of oats you want to fill your kid’s (or your own) tummy with in the morn? Just seconds away if you have this mix in your cupboard. And as with the noodle bowls, there was a topping buffet for this recipe, too: unsweetened baking cocoa, nuts, dried and fresh fruit, yogurt, nut butters, honey, maple syrup. (“Kid like choices, mom” was one sage bit of advice my daughter had given me as we planned this class.)

Class ended and we were on our way home before I realized I’d taken no photos. My mind had been on wanting the class to go well and not so much on capturing the food on camera. To rectify, I made myself a batch of DIY oats today, snapping photos as I went. I’d like to write that my daughters helped me, but reality had them working on homework and cleaning their room instead. But it’s good to know I have recipes to share for those times when we all have time to play together in the kitchen. And even if they didn’t have a hand in making this batch of DIY oats, they’ll be enjoying them for many breakfasts to come.

ingredients in the food processor, ready to rock

ready to rock

ground to a powder

ground to a powder

more oats added, pulsed

more oats added, pulsed

containered up, ready for action

containered up, ready for action

clockwise l to r dreamy instant oatmeal toppings: raspberries, cocoa powder, honey, mini 'mallows, almonds, maple syrup, chia seeds, coconut

dreamy instant oatmeal toppings clockwise l to r : raspberries, cocoa powder, honey, mini ‘mallows, almonds, maple syrup, milk, chia seeds, coconut


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Nursing Homes in Poole

Looking for nursing homes in Poole that are right for you or your loved one? Sit back and relax knowing that the Delph Care Home is the place for you. We have years of experience in the industry and select only the very best staff. Our care home takes great pride in the fact that we have a solid reputation as a care home that really cares for its residents, so call us today on 01202 692279 .

All about our Poole nursing homes service

At Delph Care Home, we know that care is a unique concept that often depends on the individual and their special needs. We are proud to be one of the most flexible nursing homes in Poole with a broad range of services on offer.

Short Stay Respite

With a minimum stay of two weeks, a short stay respite at our Poole nursing homes suits a particular type of resident. We have the facilities and staff to offer 24 hour care should this be required. All of our facilities are provided in an environment that will be warm and comfortable at all times. Whether it is for you or your loved one, you can be assured that every need will be met during this time.

Residential Care

Our residential care package is one of our popular nursing homes Poole packages. The residency is a permanent placement within our home. When you or your loved one stay at The Delph Care Home, you can expect to live in a place that is home from home. Everything is included from accommodation, drinks and meals. We have an optional 24 hour care service if this is needed.

Residential Nursing

Residents with particular needs may need something more when they sign up for nursing homes. At Delph Care Home, we have a specialist nursing care team who are all registered nurses. We have the facilities to provide short-term and long-term nursing care as and when required. The best thing to do is to get in touch with us now.

Dementia Care

Dementia is a very taxing illness on the sufferer and their loved ones. With years of experience in dementia care, we offer support for all involved and will make this a process that is easy and smooth for everyone.

Palliative/ End Of Life Care

We approach palliative care with a great sensitivity as it is a very emotional time for all involved. Our care is done in a proactive manner with respect towards the resident and their relatives. We do our best to make sure that all wishes and needs are met be they physical, social right through to the psychological needs.

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Why our nursing homes in Poole are different

After searching around on the internet or through brochures, deciding on nursing homes Poole can soon start to be difficult. In order to help you make a decision that is right for you, we have listed more information about our care home and why it is different to others out there on the market.

We have a hairdresser that visits our Poole nursing homes every Monday. Just contact the team to book your appointment.

We do all of the laundry on our site and this will be collected right from your bedroom. We advise residents to label their laundry to avoid confusion with clothing as after a while it can be hard working out the owner of a pile of black socks. We have clothes bags available should your relatives wish to do the washing for you.

Religious needs

At our nursing homes, we understand that it is important for residents to see their religious needs attended to. We hold Church of England services at our home and more information can be found in our reception area. If you want to see a member of the clergy, do not hesitate to tell our team who will organise the visit. We also do our best to make sure that residents from other denominations have their needs fulfilled.

Our Poole care home policies

  • Open visiting
  • 24/7 staff consultation
  • Updated medical information on the service user
  • Users are able to leave the home with notice to see friends and family
  • We welcome physical and verbal development
  • Social events
  • Meals available on request during visits
  • Advocacy information is available
  • On request, meetings with the manager
  • Complaints procedure available
  • Telephone access
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“My grandmother received an excellent level of care here over the last year. The premises has a warm, friendly, homely atmosphere. The staff are amazing. They build strong, warm, friendships with all the residents. There is a wide variety of activities planned to keep residents engaged and meet their social, mental requirements. My grandmother also received excellent nursing care to meet her physical needs and was treated with dignity and respect. The food is great. Tasty and varied and adapted to residents needs. As a family, we were made very welcome to visit anytime. Comparing this to a previous location my Nan stayed at I feel this is a great place and the team of staff really go the extra mile to make a difference and enrich the days of the residents.”

Zoe C (Granddaughter of Resident)

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Call the Delph Care Home now on 01202 692 279 to discover more about our nursing homes in Poole.


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The Judge is your go to putter in all conditions and is an incredibly versatile disc for players of any skill level. The Judge is a great putter for use off of the tee and approach shots in addition to putting. The Judge was named the 2013 Disc of the Year in the Players Choice Awards.

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Hydrangeas and Azaleas

Show these southern landscape staples a little love for the best blooms!

By Brantley Snipes, PLA, MLA, MHS: owner of Brantley Snipes Landscape and Design, Inc.

I am not biased when it comes to selecting the best bloom season in our Delta Landscapes, as I believe that all our seasons are the best season. Yet, there is something magical about early summers in the Delta. We’ve just experienced our landscapes spring back to life, and we watch in awe as they transition into full bloom throughout the summer. This transformation is best represented by two of our most common Southern landscape staples, the azalea and the hydrangea. However, often these beloved shrubs are not pruned correctly and therefore, fail to achieve peak bloom or growth habit. Here are some tips to ensure you are pruning your azaleas and hydrangeas correctly.

Hydrangeas have mystified Delta gardeners for decades and now that the market is full of different varieties, I’m afraid the equation has not gotten any simpler. Hydrangeas are just starting to hit their bloom stride in May and June in the Delta. If planted in the correct location, hydrangeas really don’t need much pruning.

The first ones we will see bloom are our mophead/bigleaf/lacecap and oakleaf hydrangeas. These belong in the Hydrangea macrophylla and Hydrangea quercifolia family, which is important to note as these are pruned differently from other hydrangeas. These hydrangeas create blooms on old wood early in the summer. If you prune them in the fall or spring, you will remove the future blooms. Our old-wood hydrangeas should be pruned immediately after they bloom. To reduce height and encourage stem vitality, remove the oldest and largest canes at ground level. Again, power shears should never be used on your hydrangeas. Instead, use your hand snips to gently remove the old blooms.

Other hydrangeas that are popular in the Delta can be pruned during the spring and winter, as they bloom on new wood. These hydrangeas include: H. paniculata (our common Limelight Hydrangea), H. arborescens and H. serrata. The blooms on these hydrangea varieties are white and appear later in the summer; therefore, they can be pruned in late fall or early spring. In fact, light pruning of these hydrangeas can increase vigor and produce more blooms.

To recap, if your hydrangea blooms early in the summer, prune immediately after it blooms and do not prune in the fall or spring. If your hydrangea blooms later in the summer, prune in the fall or early spring to aid in performance.  If you are pruning correctly and still not enjoying any blooms, check to make sure your hydrangea is receiving enough sunlight and that it did not experience any winter damage, such as a late frost in early spring.

By now, our azaleas have finished blooming and are settling into their role as a beautiful evergreen shrub in your landscape. May and June are the ideal months to prune them. There are three levels of azalea pruning: deadheading, light trimming, and renewal pruning. All levels should be done with hand snips or hand loppers. You should never take power shears to your azaleas. And, azaleas should never be pruned in a box!

When you finish pruning, apply an azalea/camellia fertilizer, which can be found at our local garden and nursery centers. Avoid fertilizing and pruning your azaleas in the fall. The Delta grows our Southern Indica Azaleas the best. Remember that azaleas like filtered shade and acidic soils and do not like wet feet (or root systems).

Deadheading: Removing the dead blooms off your shrub to generate some more height on your azalea.

Light trimming: This is all that’s needed when you want to remove some height and/or reshape it. The best way is to visualize the height and shape of your azalea, draw an imaginary line in your visualization and then get to snipping. Your imaginary line should follow the natural growth habit of your azalea and the main branches within the canopy.

Renewal pruning: Save this for azaleas that have been left alone for several seasons and have become leggy, displaying an incomplete canopy. Remove the top third of the plant, again following the natural growth pattern. This should remove most of the existing leaf canopy and allow light to reach into the branch structure, so the new growth can begin and fill in a full canopy from ground to bloom.


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Sarah Burns ’12

Assistant Director of Admission
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Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming

Hometown: Sunbury, OH

Undergraduate major: Anthropology & Sociology and Spanish

Hobbies/activities: I am an avid reader and Netflix binger, and I am always down to share book, movie, or show recommendations! Although I’m not much for the outdoors, I like to snowboard and have recently gotten into hiking at local parks. I love trying new restaurants and hitting up old favorites. I also have two cats, Daniel-Tiger and Timón, who keep me company when I’m watching the Cleveland Browns or the Buckeyes!

Fun fact: I’m the only person in my family who is left-handed!

Something I love about Denison: I love the Denison community! It’s an incredibly diverse group of people who all encourage you to push your limits academically and through campus involvement.

Advice to prospective students: VISIT, VISIT, VISIT! Do whatever you can to get on the campuses of the schools that you are interested in. Being able to see and feel the environment around you will help you be sure it’s the right-fit school.

B.A. (Denison University), M.S. (Robert Morris University)

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(CBS Philly/CBS Local) – And if your New Year’s resolution is to give up alcohol, you may be interested in this study.  British researchers found that people who gave up drinking for the first month of 2018 reported drinking less eight months later.

Researchers from the University of Sussex observed over 800 people who took part in “Dry January” — a health campaign to abstain from alcohol.

“The simple act of taking a month off alcohol helps people drink less in the long term: by August people are reporting one extra dry day per week,” says Dr. Richard de Visser, the study’s psychologist.

Seven in 10 participants slept better the study noted.

Three in five participants lost weight.


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10 Simple Steps to Refresh Your Instagram Account

Taylor Swift did it. She deleted her Instagram account before re-emerging with a newly refreshed persona. The tactic was part of a campaign for her new album release, but shows a good point: sometimes your accounts just need a refresh.

You can learn more about how Swift did it, or take on a personal challenge to refresh your Instagram account. It’s easier than you might think. (Once you get over the mental block of changing the way you post photos, anyway.)

Here’s how you can refresh your Instagram account in 10 simple steps (and maybe even feel as diva as Taylor Swift in the process).

1. Become an Expert

When planning an Instagram refresh, the first step is to think about who (and what) you want to be and be known for on the social media channel. Do you want to be known as a designer or maker? Curate images on Instagram that showcase that ability.

It comes down to how you plan to use the tool. Is it for personal or professional purposes? Are you trying to sell services or merchandise? (Or maybe a mix of everything?)

Tweak your profile information to say who and what you are and what’s important to you. Include a URL to your website. While Instagram isn’t the best place to create conversions, it can help you build a brand following. The first step is to establish what you want that brand to be.

2. Pick a Signature App or Filter

Whether you plan to post photo or video or a little of each, pick a go-to app or filter. From Instagram’s own Hyperlapse or Boomerang to other add-ons, there are plenty of ways to add a little something extra to posts.

Then consider using a signature filter every time. This consistent strategy helps establish professionalism and lets followers know what to expect from you. (Looking for the perfect filter? Try popular options Mayfair, Inkwell, Amaro, Walden and Lo-Fi, which tend to generate the most likes.

3. Make It Personal, But Not Too Personal

Designers who use Instagram should include a good showcase of graphic elements, but it can be a little personal too. Users would rather interact with other people than brands. Consider using a photo as a profile image and mix in photos of work with real life.

Be real and authentic. Should work in progress or mishaps and elements of life that happen as a designer. (We know it’s not all beautiful posters and five-star projects.)

4. Image Quality is Everything

If the image is not of top quality, don’t post it. Nothing will ruin your Instagram profile like poor quality images. Every image needs to be sharp, in focus and amazing every time.

Otherwise, don’t post.

5. Find a Routine

While many of the algorithms mix up posts, users still like to have an idea of when they will see images from you. Set a routine for posting – daily, every other day, etc. – so that you stay in the feeds of followers and on their minds.

Part of that routine might also include actual interactions with followers. Respond positively to comments and messages. Just posting and falling off the grid won’t help develop the social conversation that this platform is designed for.

6. Jump on Relevant Hastags

Hashtags can be your friend. Use them well.

Sounds easy, right? It can be a little tricky. To avoid hashtag disaster, stick to one or two hashtags (maximum!) per post. And they need to be relevant. If you post an image from yesterday with #tbt, you’ll feel like a fraud; post a project from college for success.

Mix it up as well. Use common hashtags to interact with the #design and #webdesign community, but follow and use trending elements if they are relevant as well (#nofilter is always a win if you get just the right image and post raw).

7. Like, Follow and Chat, But Don’t Troll

Growing your Instagram brand includes following, liking and engaging with other designers on the platform. (This post includes 10 great accounts to follow if you want to start engaging right away.) The network connects you to other similar Instagram users; the bigger the network, the more suggestions and linkages you will make.

But don’t be a jerk. There are enough trolls on social media already. Engage in positive and useful conversations. If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.

8. Pick a Palette

Match your Instagram design aesthetic to your personal tastes with a go-to color palette or photo style.

Anthony Burrill, above, does this masterfully with a curated typography showcase on white backgrounds. Users will come recognize the “brand” of photography when his work appears in their feeds.

9. Think In Keywords

While Instagram is a visual medium, it does include text. Make sure to include well-written descriptions for photos and use keywords relevant to you and your work.

Keep a list of top keywords that are important to you, if necessary. Think about keywords that can help you expand your repertoire as well. Not only is Instagram a good place to show off your current projects and style, it’s also a playground to help you develop, learn new things and become who you aspire to be as a designer.

10. Be Yourself

Just be yourself. If you are quirky, that should show on Instagram in the photo style you choose to display. Authenticity is the key to finding the most success – and having the most fun – on social media channels.

Other users are most likely to connect if you are who you are. The design world is wide open on Instagram and you are sure to find plenty of like-minded designers to connect with. Be open, honest and real to find your tribe.

The reality of finding success on any social media channel is that it can take a lot of work and even more luck. Don’t expect your favorite image to go viral overnight just because you like it.

It takes time to earn a following and Instagram is unique in that there’s not a lot of call-to-action directed traffic. It really is rooted in small interactions. But you can curate an account that showcases your design style and projects and helps cement your place in the Instagram design community.


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Diagramiq Flowcharts

Diagramiq is the perfect tool to capture and connect your ideas into beautiful diagrams with unbeatable speed and ease. It offers a great collection of shape libraries with virtually unlimited styling options for creating Flowcharts, UML Models, BPMN, Network Diagrams, Decision Trees and other unique diagrams.

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Retail Signs

The importance of retail signage cannot be underestimated. It is the difference between someone strolling past, without any acknowledgement of your company’s existence, or coming through the door and spending the money that keeps your business afloat. A simplistic notion – but absolutely true. Effective retail signage is eye-catching, unambiguous, and consistent with brand and livery.

Window graphics

It’s not just doors that are effective places for signage. A window’s ideal natural light can emphasise the lettering – either way around – and can create shadows too. Self-levelling film helps to eliminate air bubbles, sticks to flat glass (but not car windows), and is easy to remove. Clear or opaque options are available.

We only use eco-friendly inks for window signage crisp in detail, bold in colour and 100% weatherproof.

Projecting Store Signs

Think of signs grabbing your attention and the first type that pops in to your head will more than likely protrude 90 degrees from a wall. This type of signage is known as a ‘projecting store sign’. An extremely cost-effective method of getting your business noticed – and can be made from polyester powder-coated aluminium for outdoor use – they are available as round, rectangular or oval signs and perfect for the shop or office.

Shop Signs

With so many shops battling for your attention, ensuring your shop signage stands out from your competitors is crucial.

Projecting a strong brand image in to the psyche of your potential customers is your goal. But, you have to consider every element of the process. What are you selling? Does the sign reflect your offering? Is the establishment open when it’s dark (i.e. do you require illuminated signage?

Retail Signage

Well-made retail signage is the difference between someone walking on by, or coming in and buying your product.

The whys are wherefores of shop and retail signage are covered on this page. As we reiterate throughout our site – you only get one chance to make a first impression.

Talk to our team about the myriad of the fully weatherproof sign options that are designed to last a lifetime.


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Save the date! Android Dev Summit is coming to Sunnyvale, CA on Oct 23-24, 2019.

Note: Google Play uses the <uses-library> elements declared in your app manifest to filter your app from devices that don't meet its library requirements. For more information about filtering, see the topic Google Play filters.

  android:required=["true" | "false"] />
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Specifies a shared library that the application must be linked against. This element tells the system to include the library's code in the class loader for the package.

All of the android packages (such as, android.content, android.view, and android.widget) are in the default library that all applications are automatically linked against. However, some packages (such as maps) are in separate libraries that are not automatically linked. Consult the documentation for the packages you're using to determine which library contains the package code.

This element also affects the installation of the application on a particular device and the availability of the application on Google Play:

If this element is present and its android:required attribute is set to true, the PackageManager framework won't let the user install the application unless the library is present on the user's device.

The android:required attribute is described in detail in the following section.

The name of the library. The name is provided by the documentation for the package you are using. An example of this is "android.test.runner", a package that contains Android test classes.
Boolean value that indicates whether the application requires the library specified by android:name:
  • "true": The application does not function without this library. The system will not allow the application on a device that does not have the library.
  • "false": The application can use the library if present, but is designed to function without it if necessary. The system will allow the application to be installed, even if the library is not present. If you use "false", you are responsible for checking at runtime that the library is available.

    To check for a library, you can use reflection to determine if a particular class is available.

The default is "true".

Introduced in: API Level 7.

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PGI CUDA Fortran is available now, providing native support of the NVIDIA's CUDA architecture. CUDA Fortran is supported on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.

Fortran is a key programming language used by high performance computing developers. It is the language of choice in many application domains including computational fluid dynamics (including weather and ocean modeling), finite-element analysis, molecular dynamics, and quantum chemistry.

Many popular HPC packages were originally developed in Fortran and continue to be enhanced over time. A Fortran compiler allows developers to program in their native language (Fortran) to recompile these codes to take advantage of new performance and architectural features.

NVIDIA worked with The Portland Group (PGI) to develop a CUDA Fortran Compiler that provides Fortran language support for NVIDIA’s CUDA-enabled GPUs. Fortran developers with data parallel problems will be able to use this compiler to harness the massive parallel computing capability of NVIDIA GPUs to create high performance applications for scientific computing. Available in PGI 2010 and later release.

NVIDIA has a long history of embracing and supporting standards, as a wider choice of languages improves the number and scope of applications that can exploit parallel computing on the GPU. With support for the C, Java, and Python languages and DirectCompute APIs and now Fortran, the performance advantage of GPU Computing is accessible to mainstream developers. NVIDIA is the only processor company to offer this breadth of development environments for the GPU.

Apply to NVIDIA's CUDA Registered Developer Program for early access to new releases and more.

Fortran relevant links:

  1. PGI CUDA Fortran
  2. OpenACC Directives

Read more about how CUDA Fortran could help you accelerate your application and how to apply for a free trial : An Introduction to CUDA Fortran

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Dr. SinghDr. RashbaumDr. Nitin ParikhDr. Long B. NguyenTammi D’Elena, PA-C; and Vanessa T. Dang, MSN, APRN; and the staff at Digestive Care Physicians welcome you as a new patient. For your convenience, please print and fill out all applicable forms and present them to the front desk when you arrive for your first office visit.

Medical Records Release

To have a copy of your medical records sent to another medical facility or to obtain a copy for personal reasons, please complete the following steps.

  1. Download the Digestive Care Physicians Authorization for the Release of Protected Health Information form.
  2. Fill out and sign the Medical Release authorization form.
  3. Fax (770-227-2220) or mail the completed and signed Medical Release authorization form to the Digestive Care Physicians at either of these addresses:
  • Digestive Care Physicians, LLC
    6300 Hospital Pkwy, Suite 450
    Johns Creek, GA 30097
  • Digestive Care Physicians, LLC
    3970 Deputy Bill Cantrell Memorial Road, Suite 210
    Cumming, GA 30040

Board-Certified physicians Dr. SinghDr. RashbaumDr. Nitin ParikhDr. Long B. Nguyenand providers Tammi D’Elena, PA-C; and Vanessa T. Dang, MSN, APRN; care for patients in the North Atlanta, GA area including Lilburn, Suwanee, Doraville, Roswell, Sugar Hill, Sandy Springs, Mountain Park, Dunwoody, Chamblee, and beyond. They have four locations including Alpharetta, GA; Cumming, GA; Johns Creek, GA; and Lawrenceville, GA. The In-House Endoscopy Suite at the Johns Creek location of Digestive Care Physicians, is a certified facility which has achieved the highest level of accreditation by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC). If you suffer from gastrointestinal problems or need a colorectal cancer screening, contact us at (770) 227-2222 to schedule an appointment.


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With Record Store Day almost upon us, it’s time to update the Diggin’ Melbourne map again. If you’re a new store, or know of a new store not currently listed it’s time to send us the details. Submissions and payment for the 2014 Map close on Friday April 4. Please contact Northside Records for more details – tel. (03) 9417 7557.

We will once again be launching the map in the week leading up to Record Store Day (Sat. April 19), along with a Record Store Day collaboration with Beat Magazine to be distributed on April 16. The Diggin’ Sydney map is also launching their 2014 edition in the next couple of weeks. Watch this space for more details.


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“The MISO (Measuring Information Service Outcomes) Survey is a web-based quantitative survey designed to measure how faculty, students, and staff view library and computing services in higher education” (http://www.misosurvey.org/). Fifty-five colleges will be using it in 2016 to collect user input regarding library and IT services. It has been administered at the College at Brockport every two years since 2008. SUNY Geneseo began using the tool a few years later. The survey assesses use, importance and satisfaction for a sample of campus groups that can include undergraduates, graduates, faculty and staff. The survey has helped to track changing technologies and resource use and can be used to determine service gaps (e.g., need to increase wireless coverage or improve quiet space, etc.). This poster will compare how the MISO instrument is administered and used at two public four-year comprehensive colleges in New York State. It will focus on the populations included, survey methodology, results, and how responses have been disseminated. The MISO online comparison tool will also be highlighted as a way to benchmark with peers. Suggested improvements to better use MISO data as part of assessing library impact and to ‘close the loop’ will also be included.


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Welcome to the Dignity Trans blog!

It’s about time! We are excited to share with you the main webpage where we will post news and updates about the DignityUSA Trans Caucus. We will also link to news posted here within our monthly email newsletter and Google discussion group

Please see the pages above to learn more about who we are and what we’re all about.

A diverse community

Is the Dignity Trans Caucus only for transgender Catholics?
This is an important question. The answer is no, we need the involvement of all kinds of people to make this group work! It is important for us to have many voices.

No matter your faith background or how much you know about transgender topics (or even if you just stumbled upon this page), we need you. We could particularly use the support of those who are unfamiliar with gender diversity, since we would like to hear from you about what questions people have, and how we can improve awareness and outreach. Gender identity is something that we ALL have as individuals, so understanding gender and how we as a society appreciate gender diversity is something that affects all of us.

We hope for a varied community because we exist for many reasons, and our primary goals are Support & Advocacy, Education & Awareness, and Outreach. These goals rely on human connection and can only be achieved with the help of many–especially with the support of allies and people who want to learn more.

Please see our Vision for the Future page to see what our long-term goals are for the Trans Caucus. As awareness of the existence of gender diversity increases in society and in faith communities, we hope to be here to dispel myths and bridge gaps. We are dreaming big.

How do I get involved?

Please connect with our Facebook page to be added to the list for our monthly email newsletter.

You might also wish to join our Google discussion group where members can discuss matters of faith and identity, and provide support to each other.

Finally, you can join in the discussion here on our blog by replying in the comments below.

A time for growth

Our caucus is laying down a foundation for growth and we are looking for individuals who are interested in becoming involved–to share their presence, time, ideas, and talents with us.

Do you have suggestions for resources, connections, or edits to this webpage? Please add your comments here on our blog or email one of the caucus moderators.

Thanks, and we’ll be in touch!


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Support for Parents and Pastoral Care

Listening Parents

We are in the process of creating an internal contact list of parents who might be willing to provide occasional support to those with a child who has just recently come out as transgender, gender-variant, or questioning. At the moment, we are temporarily borrowing from the idea and structure of the Fortunate Families Listening Parents program (and hope to collaborate with them in order to grow the contact list).

Parents with transgender children who have experienced this process are an immense resource to those who may have questions or feel alone with this new information. We hope to eventually have enough contacts to be able to match parents together who have similar situations and children close in age (young to adult-aged), as well as children who are MTF, FTM, and fluid or diverse in gender expression.

If you are in need of support or would like to be added to the Listening Parents list, please email ___.

Pastoral Care

Are you a Catholic priest, nun, minister, deacon, spiritual counselor, or social worker? Do you have an interest in becoming more competent about transgender topics or providing support to transgender people and their families? There is often a great need for parents to have access to speak with affirming clergy members when their child comes out as transgender. This support is occasionally needed as well for children or siblings of transgender individuals.

If you are a local pastor who is facing this question for the first time in your parish community, we would like to help and would be happy to provide you with resources. We will give you all the education you need to provide pastoral support, and will maintain confidentiality.

Please contact ___ if you are a pastor with questions or if you would like to be added to our confidential list as an occasional pastoral contact for those in need.

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The Prolific Fault-Finder faces an uphill battle against Najib Razak

May 30, 2015

The Prolific Fault-Finder faces an uphill battle against Najib Razak

by Terence

Mahathir-Vs-NajibCOMMENT: Probably the most prolific fault-finder ever in Malaysian politics is Dr Mahathir Mohamad. The faults he has found in others have led to the deposing of one Prime Ministers (Abdullah Badawi) and the replacement of three Deputy Prime  Ministers (Musa Hitam, Ghaffar Baba and Anwar Ibrahim).

This harvest of position-forfeiting flawed individuals is the most extraordinary collection of the fallen a decapitating politician is responsible for. However, in focusing on his third prime ministerial quarry, Najib Abdul Razak, Mahathir’s finds his modus operandi has been well learned and, as a result, a counter of some effectivity is being deployed.

Balthasar GracianThe going is not so easy for Mahathir this time and that is because his adversary has mined some insights from Balthasar Gracian whose understandings of the springs and wheels of political mechanics exceeded Niccolo Machiavelli’s from whom the former Prime Minister has, undoubtedly, learnt an awful lot.

Nobody learns the art of politics from a book, The Prince, certainly not PM Najib whose reading tastes must run to books on management which explains the plethora of managerial jargon in his administration.

It’s unlikely that Najib has ever heard of Gracian, a Spanish Jesuit, an aloof and aphoristic cleric more concerned with worldly affairs than with a spiritual vocation he conceived in the 17th century. In ‘The Oracle’ (1647), Gracian prescribed the route to power. The good priest wrote: “To enslave our natural superiors by the use of cunning is a novel kind of power, among the best that life can offer.”

No doubt, Najib considers Mahathir his natural superior; the oleaginous way he has, until recently, tackled his predecessor has made it difficult for the older man to get Najib in his cross hairs with something less than charity.

That’s probably why there was a time-lag of six months between Mahathir’s withdrawal of support for Najib, announced last August, and an outright declaration of hostilities, made two days after Anwar Ibrahim was consigned by the Federal Court to Sungei Buloh on February 10.

Mahathir has moved with more lethal alacrity when it suited him. It was a mere week between his public humiliation of then Deputy Prime Minister Anwar at the opening of the UMNO building in Penang in late August of 1998 and Anwar’s sacking from party and government in the first days of September that year.

Till the last, Anwar has hoped that what was sinister but hidden in all the preceding weeks would not arrive at the abrupt and cruelly public denouement it did in September.

Mahathir is a systematic and relentless man, moving step by step, stage by stage towards the attainment of his goals. Nothing is spontaneous, everything is planned. Not for nothing was he, a medical doctor, the first occupant of the PM’s office from the sciences and not the humanities, as his three predecessors in the post were.

The scientific habit of holding facts in solution marks his approach to political affairs: he owes no allegiance to what is true, except that which it suits him to say, at any one time, is true.

A plum pudding of a chance

Both Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Mahathir’s second prime ministerial casualty, and now Najib let go a plum pudding of a chance to nail the Mahathir when they had the opportunity.

Abdullah shelved the Royal Commission of Inquiry’s (RCI) report of March 2008 on the Lingam videotape which recommended that legal action be taken against Mahathir and a slew of political and judicial officials for offences that included case- and judge-fixing. Those were no small offences. You only allow someone to get off the hook on those charges if you cared not for what the let-offs do to the system.

Even graver than the fault of case- and judge-fixing is that of granting shady foreigners citizenship, just so their votes can help win elections. In addition to electoral fraud, the sins here savour of treason.

Paspor IndonesiaYet, Najib and his cohort of senior civil servants and former and serving judicial officers contrived to shunt the Royal Commission of Inquiry into illegals in Sabah from arriving at a conclusion that would have been disastrous for Mahathir though the testimony adduced before the RCI moved more plausibly towards indicting Mahathir than the tendered evidence that he committed a sexual crime moved against Anwar in his trials for sodomy.

Fat chance you get any favours from Mahathir for let-offs you grant him once he has already decided that you are his next target.

However, it now seems that the Najib forces have an arrow in their quiver: the newly-formed Citizens Governancefor Accountable Good Governance (CAGG) has asked Mahathir to account for the billions of ringgit in taxpayers’ money that were squandered during the 22 years (1981-2003) that he was PM.

In a nice display of chutzpah, the NGO’s spokesperson Mohd Zainal Abidin said they are not taking sides and would go after other Prime Ministers, including Najib, once they are done with Mahathir.

Mohd Zainal threatened to file a citizen’s lawsuit for the amount of RM50 billion against Mahathir should he not explain the ventures that incurred losses of over RM100 billion under his prime ministerial watch.

This development only means that Mahathir’s battle to oust Najib is more steeply uphill now, with the onus of eviction of Najib on reasonable grounds falling more onerously on Mahathir himself.

Given that Mahathir is the unrelenting sort, he will not give up but will have to come up with more compelling reasons than he has thus far offered for Najib’s ouster.This is now a clash between a relentless force and an immovable object with not a little guile, a la Gracian, behind it.

Who is going to win is not as important as the vitalness of an inevitable byproduct: the battle will destroy in the Malay mind what it has been hard for it to grasp – that UMNO has been more blight than boon to its long-term future.

If that happens, it will be a supremely good upshot.

TERENCE NETTO has been a journalist for more than four decades. A sobering discovery has been that those who protest the loudest tend to replicate the faults they revile in others.

8 thoughts on “The Prolific Fault-Finder faces an uphill battle against Najib Razak

  1. Abdullah Badawi could have put an end to Najib’s political career if he had ordered a full investigation of the Altantuya murder. In stead, he went to say that Najib was not involved.

    Was there a deal between the two? Or was Badawi not willing to get into a battle with his predecessor since Najib was Mahathir’s preferred choice? We will never find out since it is UMNO’s style to be dishonest.

    Badawi was not Mr. Clean. That image was a creation of the mainstream media and his political strategists .They made use of his religious credentials and Islam Hadhari to good effect to make him win decisively in 2004. The Malaysian voters were smart to see that he was a fake to give him a thumping in 2008 General Elections when he lost the 2/3rds majority in Parliament. Because his dismal electoral performance, he was forced him to resign in 2009 and hand over power to Najib.

    Najib also made a mistake in not demanding that Mahathir defend himself against the findings of the Royal Commission on Project IC. Both were foolish in not taking action to silence Mahathir for good. So today Najib is paying a heavy price for letting Mahathir to go scot free. –Din Merican

  2. The 1PM has crossed the Rubicon with his “NGO” front group offering
    a RM1,000,000 award. Once again, it is our tax payer money folks.

    As important affairs of state are neglected in this protracted war, I fear that
    1Malaysia is heading for a serious economic crisis, perhaps the worst in our
    history as an independent nation.

  3. Just waiting when TDM is going to play the Sirul card, if he dares. Remember Siti Hasmah’s umrah prayer for Najib not to do anything against Islam? She very rarely make politically sensitive public statements.

    My guess is the Sirul card will be played when Muyhiddin signals his final readiness to challenge Najib for the presidency.

    Knowing how UMNO politicians work, that so-called “leaked” video of Muyhiddin’s “last straw that broke the camel’s back” was deliberately leaked to test the waters.

    To his disappointment, the reception within UMNO was a bit muted. So looks like TDM has to go for Plan “S” soon regardless. If not, it may be too late.

    I hope TDM loses all the way. We of the 52%, (should be more by now), would then kill two birds with one stone.

    One, to teach TDM a good lesson on “karma”; two, Najib to lead GE14 in which Mukhriz will definitely be sidelined which means some really vicious in-fighting within UMNO and hopefully internal sabotage in the marginal States.

    Things are actually looking good.

  4. “So today Najib is paying a heavy price for letting Mahathir to go scot free.” Din.

    I’m glad we still have Octo around – with all his strange alchemy, warts and selective amnesia. All that jazz about that RM 100 bil NGO will be seen as another futile, puerile and sterile project by PMO – esp after they offered a RM 1 mil bounty for ‘information’ of Octo’s economic transgressions. Where did that come from? Robert Kuok?

    Jibros does not have the brains, nor one eighth of his cojones. And is now crying out like a sick lost puppy caught in the tentacles of the Kraken. Imagine going on a nationwide tour, just to counter the ‘rambling and ravings’ of a senile-crazy old coot? Instead of running the country as he should be.

    1MDB is not only about mind boggling losses due to greed, sheer incompetence and hubris – it is about the very nature of dictatorial folly, the lack of liability, integrity, accountability and transparence – and more vitally, the loss of ‘Tanah Pusaka’ and self-control of our Manifest Destiny. He should apply all those wonderful KPI and other wonderful, magical acronyms on that. Big Fail. Sounds Familiar?

    Octo for all his hoary corruption and cruelty, never sold us out to Arabs – although he got the unsuspecting ragheads to imitate them – hyper-religiosity, genocidal tendencies and all of that.

    So soon, we’ll have TRX and Bandar Malaysia as Cameltown and IPP producing electricity that must be paid in Dinars.. Gold Standard.

  5. Allow me top regurgitate some thoughts on this matter which I’d just posted elsewhere. Perchance some folks may think some bits make sense…

    Whatever else he may be, Mahathir is no fool. Nor nyanyuk

    He is surely, beyond any doubt, well-versed in the dirty, hard-ball, gutter-level tactics which power plays such as that which he is enmeshed in with Najib ultimately descend to.

    He would have counted his bullets, tallied all the weapons of mass destruction he has in his arsenal and double-checked the loyalty of his soldiers. And done the same for his opponent’s side of the balance.

    And formulated his battle-plans, plus kicked his intelligence network into high-gear.

    Whilst the possibility of some mutually assured destruction bluff being called [with resultant doom for both sides] cannot be discounted, I’d say Mahathir must have planned to win as a final Daddy-kasi gesture, which would mean an I-fall-you-also-fall die-die is not on.

    Has Mahathir’s battleplan failed? If not, then he must be counting on Najib capitulating at some point, or points, in the plan. Thus far, Sirul-Altantuya, a couple of major points along the 1MDB fiasco, have not seen Najib waving the white flag. What else may be next to be revealed?

  6. This silly thing about RM1m offered by CAGM for information on TDM’s hidden billions, or for that matter any incriminating evidence on any PM, past or present, presumably going all the way back to the 1st PM?

    Well, Barry Wain’s book on Mahathir’s ill-gotten billions only costs US$33.97 on Amazon 🙂

    And Sarawak Report is giving out information to all and sundry for free.

    And Najib himself has said he has inherited a fabulous fortune from his father, the 2nd PM.

    So CAGM can save the RM1M?

    BTW, we should first of all ask where did CAGM got RM1m in the first place?

    So I am offering RM10.00, (plus GST of course), to anyone who can give me information on where and how CAGM managed to have RM1m in its bank account, presumably in cash and not in “Units”?

  7. Re CAGM, I suggest they do even better and start with the 1st PM.

    If not for him bolehland would still be a brutish colony and all the scandals, corruption, grand larceny, cronyism ad nauseum would not have occurred. Or even if they did it woulda not been on de scale that the BN and its prime mover de UMNO people are so clever at doin. Besides even if they did the full force of Brutish integrity and probing would have seen many politicos languishing in de Kamunting.

    So yes, blame it on the dear Tengku. And go for him. And sins he begone maybe jump on his braders and sisters and chuldren, no Meester Md Zainal Abedeen of CAGM? Dat way you also allow the Boogisman and his pretty mama more breathing room and space till their mansions in that Stan is completed. That’s wat frens are for, no?

  8. Now that Jibby got one Tunku fella to speak for him. Lets see the mamaks response or from kadir jasin or rockybru. Jibby now will call on the different State Royals to come to his aid. I am quite sure they will most happily return compliments to Mamak. As they say revenge is a dish best served cold.
    As Gen. Half track wrote time for the Royals to act.
    Mamak will surely get a right ROYAL FLUSH.

    time is right to flush out this pestilence Mahathir

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114 Town Street, Horsforth, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS18 4AH

Jacaranda Flowers

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Flowers by Louise

157 Roberttown Lane, Liversedge, West Yorkshire, WF15 7LE

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Lawnswood Floral Designs

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A Little Bit of Eden

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Flowers by Salindra

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Flower Couture

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Day Of Mourning

Saturday, March 1st, the disability community will gather across the nation to remember disabled victims of filicide–disabled people murdered by their family members or caregivers.
Autistic Self Advocacy Network - February 24, 2014

Some facts from the Autistic Self Advocacy Network:
"In the past five years, over forty people with disabilities have been murdered by their parents."
"In the year since our last vigil, our community has lost at least ten more victims."
"In January of 2014, two more disabled people were lost in murder-suicides at the hands of their parents: Damien Veraghen, age nine, and Vincent Phan, age twenty four."
The deaths are bad enough. The reason disability activists are angry about them and having vigils is how the deaths are often portrayed in the media and treated by the judicial system.

Too often, news stories portray the killings with more sadness than outrage. It's sad, you see, that the murdered person had such awful, trying disabilities that their caregiver just couldn't take it anymore. The there's my personal favorite situation ... where the killer is a very old man or woman and the disabled "child" they kill is a 50 year old adult who has been "cared for" by just their parents their entire lives. It's sad because the poor old man or woman just didn't know how their baby would be taken care of when they die. Far better to kill them now than to have them cared for by *gasp* strangers!

Then, juries and judges seem to go out of their way to lessen the consequences for the killers. The law can't condone murder, no sir! But, wink, wink, shake of the head, we understand. NO ONE can know how hard it is for caregivers, so who are we to judge? He was a saint to dedicate his life to this person to begin with. It's sad that in the end he cracked, but what's to be gained by punishing the poor old guy?

The thing is, a lot of these sentiments make sense, once you view the person murdered as something less than fully human ... a dead weight “vegetable", a bundle of unsolvable logistical problems, or a screaming, irrational hurricane that simply won't act normally, ever! Except that they are all fully human, with self awareness and points of view. Where is the outrage for their loss of life, the end of their existence and potential?

Still and all, I don't care, frankly, about seeing these killers literally punished for what they have done. I care about the message it sends when they are let off the hook in the public consciousness.

Organizations involved in the nationwide vigils include:

The Autistic Self Advocacy Network, ADAPT, Not Dead Yet, the National Council on Independent Living, and the Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund.

Check the article linked above for a list of places holding vigils on Saturday, March 1. You can also participate in a “virtual” vigil via a Facebook Page.


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Lydian Quartet in Moscow: Firsova, Chausian, Child, Lee. MCA Classics AED 10108 (1990)

Lydian String Quartet in Moscow: Firsova, Chausian, Child, Lee. MCA Classics AED 10108 (1990), barcode 008811010829

Lydian Quartet in MoscowLydian Quartet in Moscow back

Track listing:

1. Elena Firsova String Quartet No. 3 “Misterioso” in memoriam Stravinsky
2-4. Levon Chaushian String Quartet No. 3
5-8. Peter Child String Quartet No. 1
9. Thomas Oboe Lee Morango… Almost a Tango

West meets East: interesting discoveries, but short timing
Originally posted on, 18 February 2007

Those were the heydays of the CD and a new label seemed to pop up on every street corner. MCA Classics had a small but interesting output, including reissues from the mythical Westminster catalog, and the releases on their Arts & Electronics branch, a “Soviet/American Joint Venture”. It was soon gone, an event certainly related to but less thunderous than the demise of Soviet Union. Still, while it existed it gave the opportunity to discover rare Soviet composers and compositions by Soviet artists seldom featured in the West

This is only half-way true here, as the Lydian Quartet is an American string quartet, established in 1980 and artists-in-residence on the faculty of Brandeis University. There is no indication given on this CD as to why it is titled “The Lydian Quartet in Moscow”. Only two of the featured composers are from (now former) Soviet Union – and one of them, Levon Chaushian, is Armenian. Peter Child was born in England in 1953 and has lived in the US since 1973, and Thomas Oboe Lee is an American composer of Chinese origin, born in 1945. So presumably Moscow is where the recording was made (no information about location or date are given). So it is rather a case of West meets East – and it afforded an opportunity to make interesting discoveries.

It was the first time I believe that the music of Elena Firsova was represented on CD, at least in the West, and it brought to western public awareness, alongside with Sofia Gubaidulina who’d been increasingly well documented, and before the older Galina Ustvolskaya whose re-discovery was still a few years ahead, another strikingly original female Russian (or should I say Soviet) composer’s voice. Born in 1950 in St-Petersburg (and married with the composer Dmitri Smirnov), she was trained there and in Moscow, but most influential was her encounter with composer Edison Denisov and with Philip Herschkowitz, a pupil of Anton Webern. Her short (10′) 3rd Quartet “Misterioso”, composed in the memory of Stravinsky in 1980, is a lament written mostly in hushed, subtle and haunting sonorities, with high-pitched violin melismata akin to bird cries or sobs, and a few more violent outbursts. It seems to depart from where Shostakovitch’s last quartets arrived and, in its stark simplicity, it is reminiscent of another masterpiece inscribed to the memory of Stravinsky: Schnittke’s Canon. Firsova’s Fourth String Quartet, “Amoroso”, from 1989, was also recorded, by the Chilingirian String Quartet, together with the Second SQ of her husband Dmitri Smirnov, “Stravinsky, Schittke, Roslavets, Smirnov, Firsova – Chilingirian String Quartet”.

I am not aware of any other recordings of the music of Levon Chaushian (born 1946), but on the face of his 3rd quartet he deserves to be better represented. It is written much in the same mood as Firsova’s quartet, starting with high-pitched violin harmonics and hushed melismata, giving way to a more agitated passage favoring the ensemble’s upper registers. The second movement is a slow moving (and moving – pun intended) dirge with moments of dance-like acceleration, sometimes evocative of the kind of crossover world music that has become a trademark of the Kronos Quartet. The finale is a wild dance reminiscent of some Shostakovich finales (like that of his piano trio), with moments of mysterious repose.

I would indeed suggest that what makes the compositions of these late Soviet composers so original and interesting is that they were trained away from the Western, post-webernian traditions and strictures, and therefore used the parameters of music-making in a more free and personal fashion.

No so with Peter Child. His quartet displays fine contrapuntal science and passionate and fiery expression but couched in a stark and thorny language, reminiscent of Berg’s Lyric Suite but without Berg’s sensuousness. The last movement, in form of a short epilogue inspired by the final chorales of Bach’s cantatas, is more tonal in an Ivesian sort of way.

 Thomas Oboe Lee was born in Beijing, China in 1945. He and his family left Communist China in 1949 and lived in Hong Kong for ten years until 1959 when he moved to Brazil, before emigrating to the US in 1966. He has a prolific output of 120 opuses, though his 6 and ½ minute “Morango… Almost a Tango” (1983) is his only big hit piece. It starts as a slow moving dirge-like tango and soon evolves into more animated, sinuous, dance-like and nostalgic melodic lines, before ending in the same mood as its begining. It sounds again like the kind of music the Kronos Quartet would commission and perform – and actually, they did, and you can find it on their 1987 album “White Man Sleeps” on Elektra Nonesuch.

The notes are informative enough on the performers’ and composer’s biographies and provide analyses of the quartets of the two western composers’, but other than date of composition, they are unfortunately silent on the Soviet works. With 48 minutes the CD’s timing is short.

Additional Information

You can hear excerpts on the Lydian Quartet’s website.

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