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Longstanding friend of several years, I started a thread at Easter about how she and her DP were starting to be continually late (sometimes by hours) and it was really starting to hurt my feelings.
Anyway, I left it for a few weeks and then she texted me to say she wanted to meet, really exciting news. She's getting married in August in Barbados! And she really wanted us to be there.
Unfortunately, it was going to cost something like £5K for us to be there, and as we already had a holiday booked, it would've meant coming up with the money in 8 weeks; something we're just not in a position to do at the moment. She was understandably disappointed, but the whole thing made me feel like a rubbish friend, like I can't be there for her on her special day because they simply didn't give us enough notice.
I asked if she fancied going out for a meal, or if I could organise her a Hen do, or a party when they got back, but she was really non committal and 'meh' about it.
I'm really upset. She came to my wedding, and I want to do something nice for her to wish her well, but it's like because we're not coming to the wedding, it doesn't matter so just forget it.
I know I'm over reacting, but I'm really upset about it. I'm left feeling like rubbish again (although I'd never tell her) and it's like she more or less wants to brush the whole thing under the carpet?
You may enjoy pointing out to her that it usually pisses with rain, for days on end during the wet season. The flash floods can make the pavements knee deep within minutes. Sometimes August can be nice, but often you will hear the rain start around 3am, hit a crescendo around 11am then ease of to a constant drizzle until it picks up again at around 4pm. Most of the hotels on the west coast (the nice bit, where the A- listers go) close completely leaving only the hotels on the south coast open (around st Lawrence gap/Hastings/Brighton). If you friend is going t one of these she may find her Caribbean trip feeling remarkably like torremelinos. The beaches are beautiful,, but if its raining and the hotel is doing 'buffet' every night (because too quiet to open the main restaurant) it won't be fun.
The hurricane risk is actually minimal, but perhaps once a month all the shops and businesses close down whilst a storm passes, just in case.
Don get me wrong, Barbados is great. I love going there. But I only go in August if I have renovating or decorating to do. If you absolutely must go to the Caribbean in August then an island with more Caribbean flavour would be better, because Barbados is only really knock-your-socks-off kicking when it is busy, whereas some of the other islands are still oozing with charm even when they're quiet. But f course the hurricane risk is higher on other islands.
5k by the way is a reasonable budget for 4 flights plus spending, hotel. You won't come in much cheaper.
I'm seeing the friend who rushed round with and choccies as being one of us, delighted that slatternly has finally had the balls to say 'no' to SelfAbsorbedBitch 'friend'.
Does she have some sort of fear of being in crowds or with lots of people around? Maybe she chose barbados so she could avoid having even a relatively small event that she would maybe felt pressured into having if she got married at home...
which would also explain why she is not good at going out - maybe she always thinks that this time she will manage to do it but when the time comes she really struggles and as such is either late or a no show.
which makes it all about her rather than you...
YANBU to not go to the wedding. Definitely. And the constant lateness sounds intensely irritating. Maybe you just don't need her in your life.
But YABU to feel so upset just because she wasn't frothing with excitement about your meal/party idea.
It's her celebration and she can do what she likes. Its sounds like she was pretty calm about you not going to Barbados. Why should she then immediately placate you by embracing your idea?!
And - another friend rushing around with wine and chocolates to soothe you because your friend wasn't enthusiastic about something you wanted to do for her wedding? That portrays you as as self-absorbed as she is I'm afraid.
I'm with teacher. Don't get it, sorry
It's far from just the wedding, though. The friend doesn't give much about a fart about the OP from the sound of it in the past.
I understand why you're upset, especially at her 'meh' reaction to you organising something.
I wouldn't walk away yet..
I think it's worth trying again...
I don't what exactly, but I've let friendships drift in the past, and, although this friend is all a bit 'her', especially with wedding fever. I would give her another chance.
Maybe your friendship has changed, that's life... But, it doesn't mean you should let it drift.
In this case, I don't think she deserves you walking away from her, especially on the build up to her wedding.
I think you need to toughen up to be honest. And think, 'ooh, she's a bit bridezilla, but hey... aren't/weren't we all?'
I think you need to reflect on why you feel so guilty (unnecessarily) about anything you do which is less than completely indulgent towards this particular 'friend'. It may be a history you have with her, or with other people that has made you feel that if you ever say 'no' or 'that's not doable' you feel terrible about it and feel you have to go to some trouble to make it up to her. But it is something in you that needs addressing IMO. She doesn't sound like a good friend to me, but something about her clearly hits a nerve that makes you feel guilty and 'not good enough' and I think it would help you to understand that and work on getting over it.
She generally sounds a nightmare but I do have a suggestion about why she doesn't't want a hen do etc. could it be that she just doesn't like fuss.
Personally I hate fuss and I'm 8 months pregnant and have some lovely lovely friends who really really want make it big fuss of me. We have compromised. I'm not having a work leaving do (finished today, worked late, got the bus home quietly) but we did have a meal out last night (as we do quite regularly).
I've agreed to the baby shower but it is going to just be a very quiet one at one of my friend's houses involving sitting on the sofa drinking wine (or elderflower cordial in my case) and gossiping as we also do regularly. (Although apparently there will be blue cake - I'm having a boy.)
Not saying your friend is like that but she may be. I really appreciate that my friends are so lovely and want to do such lovely things for me but I would much rather it be someone else we made a big fuss about.
(Incidentally my hen do was carefully arranged for a like-minded friends 21st birthday on the grounds that we could then each deflect the attention to a certain extent!)
You have a whole lifetime of married life ahead of her to make up.
Just have her round for a nice meal and champagne when they come back.
Or a posh meal out or whatever.
You must feel much more emotionally involved in the wedding process than I am.
I am going to get flamed probably for this, but why on earth do you need flowers and chocolates from other friends to make up for not being able to go to a wedding?!
Unless there is a whole load of back story I don't understand what you're so upset about. Friend has arranged last minute expensive wedding abroad, you've said you can't go. She's said that's fine. I honestly truly really truly don't get why you're so upset not to be sharing in her day. Weddings are quite boring. She doesn't want a big fuss/hen do in England, that's probably why she's getting married abroad. If she'd been insisting you stump up thousands of pounds you couldn't afford to attend, THAT would be unreasonable. I am sorry you're feeling upset about it, but in the nicest possible way, her wedding isn't about you.
'I will be nice, and send a card and modest gift, but I will be investing time in my other friends, who heard how down I was feeling and came round last night with a big bunch of my favourite flowers, wine and chocolates '
Why bother? Treat yourself and your family to a little something instead.
Maybe fluffi, I don't know...
It was all really sudden and I just wish they'd said they were thinking of it so we could've put some money aside
I will be nice, and send a card and modest gift, but I will be investing time in my other friends, who heard how down I was feeling and came round last night with a big bunch of my favourite flowers, wine and chocolates
So I am valued and wanted, just not really by this other friend. I hate quietly dropping people. I do.
Find some new friends that are real friends.
Getting married abroad is selfish unless you are paying for the guests in full. Annual leave is also very precious to some people so thats another big ask.
I wouldnt pay £5k to attend a wedding of a friend, simply not worth it.
We went on holiday to St Lucia about 25 years ago. I thought the weddings on the beach were the naffest things going. The wedding party (all pink and sweaty) were gawped at by people in swimsuits. I don't know if things have changed but as I said in my earlier post, you're not missing anything. It's very unreasonable to expect people to fly thousands of miles at their own expense. But maybe she's just going through the motions and doesn't actually want many guests hence the trip..
wibbly we also have a DC and though I didn't check BA's flights, it was around £2400 alone for flights, then plus a hotel and any expenses, plus DC needs passport... I'm not making excuses, I have checked it out and it's just so much money.
I do appreciate what you're saying though
You only get married (for the first time, anyway) once, but people have to be guests over and over again. It's unreasonable to expect other people to care as much as you do about your day.
She's can be pissy all she likes. If you drop her she'd be losing a good mate; you'd be losing an emotional millstone.
She takes the piss out of your time by being continually late, expects you to magic up over a thousand pounds for her wedding and then takes the huff with you when you try to be nice?
She's no friend, OP.
Find a real one!
Just checked BA's website and it's approx £600 return for flights May - October, so £1200 for you and a partner. If I were you, I probably wouldn't want to go now anyway, but I think the £5000 was a gross overestimation and if cost is what's putting you off, here's a cheaper way to go. Good luck, whatever you decide.
I remember your other thread and she doesn't sound like a very good friend to you unfortunately.
That aside - you absolutely cannot be annoyed if a friend doesn't come to your wedding abroad! She is crazy! I'd think it was cheeky to ask people to pay for a trip to Europe, let alone farther afield!
My only query would be the £5000 figure - where is this from? That's a hell of a lot for economy, low season flights. I think you could go for a lot less.
YANBU to not to able to make it over to Barbados. I recently got married and we were lucky enough to honeymoon in St Lucia. There were lots of people getting married & nearly every couple were either there on their own or just had a couple of people with them. I would be very surprised to hear they had lots of people join them.
YANBU to be disappointed that she's not that interested in having a party but in the run up to a wedding things all go a bit crazy. Everyone wants a piece of you and some (family) people seem to completely lose all common sense and brain power (do you think I'll need a jacket? Will the weather be good? When will the cake be served...ahhhhhh!!!) She may be silently pulling her hair out, or she might just not be as good a friend as you thought she was. Weddings do have a tendency to bring all these things out.
Wish her well & send her a nice card with a gift. When she comes back from honeymoon offer again and maybe she'll be more receptive
To cheer yourself up (and if you like shopping), buy her an extra nice wedding gift. As you won't have to buy new clothes or travel to the wedding you can feel that you've done your very best.
I thought that part of the idea of getting married abroad was to save money on the catering /venue as many less people will come!
Maybe I'm just old and cynical.
I am totally going to be honest here.. she doesn't want people at her wedding. It is her right of course but if she truly wanted her closest friends at her wedding, she would have some kind of little celebration at home too (doesn't have to be expensive at all). The fact that she is getting married in a big hurry hundreds of miles away and refuses to let you have a little hen for her says a lot. I would love a friend like you but I think you are overthinking it. Leave her be.. give her a token gift and card. Wish her well. But don't beat yourself up about it. I really wanted a foreign intimate wedding but stayed at a local venue because it meant more to have the people I wanted there.
nothing wrong with a destination wedding - but don't expect many people there unless you pay for them to go.
she needs to grow up and use her brains, sounds a total airhead. Lose her and don't spend any more time or effort on her.
I think YABitU - she's not complaining that you're not going to Barbados. It's kind of you to offer to host a party for her, but she's under no obligation to take you up on that
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Storm Lake could go crystal clear virtually overnight if scientists can figure out the right chemistry.
Netting duo plops it into pond safely
By DOLORES CULLEN
Seven-year-old Storm Lakers James Bauer and Braxton Jensen netted a foot-long goldfish in Storm Lake near the Emerald Park home of Braxton's parents Nathan and Nancy.
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Buena Vista University students of the Integrated Media Campaigns class, otherwise known as Veri, are in the process of executing their Music Moves campaign into the Storm Lake community. The students of this class see music as a key component of this community and a tool that is often used to bring people together and unite the community.
Dray Walter, fisheries technician for the IDNR based out of Mt. Ayr, holds the
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Dray Walter, fisheries technician for the IDNR based out of Mt. Ayr, holds the
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Beauty queen is inch shy of state record
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Asking some questions ahead of time can help families of National Guard and Reserve Warfighters when it is time to deploy.
HPRC recently posted an article with questions that parents of deploying Warfighters need to ask, but families of National Guard and Reserve Warfighters have additional challenges when their Warfighter deploys (such as being away from support at installations, financial changes, and shifts in childcare). It can help to think through some of these challenges and come up with a game plan ahead of time. Here are some examples to start with:
- Who needs to know about the upcoming deployment? (Teachers, doctors…)
- What's the plan in case of an emergency (either stateside or while deployed)?
- Will the childcare arrangements need to shift during deployment? (This is especially important for single parents.)
- Will family income be reduced? Who will manage finances during this time?
- How will family members keep in touch with the deployed Warfighter? Does everyone in the family agree, or are there individual preferences? (For example, your oldest child may prefer to Skype rather than write letters.)
- Are there any military support organizations those at home can use for extra support?
- Will any holidays or birthdays be missed during the deployment? If so, maybe something special can be done ahead of time and saved for the specific day.
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Are gas fireplaces safe?
A. Yes. All Montigo gas fireplaces are equipped with safety features such as a 100% fail-safe shut-off valves; if the pilot flame goes out, the gas flow will automatically turn off. In addition, our IAS-accredited laboratory tests and certifies all appliances to the latest multinational standards. Please remember that, like any other appliance, your gas fireplace should be cleaned and serviced regularly to ensure that it continues to provide warmth and convenience.
Will my fireplace operate during a power outage?
A. Most current Montigo fireplaces that have a standing (continuous)
pilot ignition system will continue to operate during a power
outage. Fireplaces like these generate a small amount of their own
electricity - enough to operate the gas control - so that the
fireplace will operate safely even when your furnace will not. If
you have optional fans or a handheld remote control installed, they
will not run during a power outage. Please note: if you do have a
remote control installed, you may need to flip a switch in the
control compartment in order to light the fireplace manually.
What is a Direct Vent fireplace?
A. All gas fireplaces need a constant supply of fresh air in order to operate. Direct Vent fireplaces have a sealed, glass-fronted combustion chamber that keeps the byproducts of combustion out of the living space. Air is drawn into the firebox from outside the home using a special co-axial flue pipe system. This 'pipe within a pipe' also exhausts the flue products outside the home. Direct vent fireplaces offer good efficiency because they don't steal heated air from the living space.
What is a B-Vent fireplace?
A. B -Vent fireplaces (sometimes called Top Vent or Natural Vent) draw air into the combustion chamber from inside the home. This fresh air is mixed with gas and burned in the fireplace. The fireplace exhausts the byproducts of combustion outside of your home using a dedicated B-Vent flue pipe. Although fresh air is used from inside your home, products of combustion are never vented into your home.
What is a Vent Free fireplace?
A. A Vent Free fireplace does not use a chimney or flue pipe. These fireplaces burn extremely clean so the byproducts of combustion can be vented back into the room. This eliminates the need for a chimney resulting in lower installation costs. Because they do not send hot flue gases up the chimney, these fireplaces are extremely heat-efficient. All models feature an Oxygen Depletion Sensor for maximum safety.
How often should I have my fireplace serviced or inspected?
A. Have your fireplace and installation inspected yearly by a qualified service person. Click here to check out our Cleaning & Care section for more advice on maintaining your fireplace.
What fuels are available to operate my fireplace?
A. All Montigo fireplaces are designed to burn either Natural Gas or Liquid Propane. When you order a fireplace, you and your Montigo dealer must determine which fuel you will need. If, after the fireplace is installed, you want to convert from one fuel to the other, this can be easily done (for most models) using a Montigo conversion kit. Your local dealer can tell you whether your fireplace can be converted; click here to find your closest dealer. Note that some models are approved for use with Natural Gas only.
Can I turn off my pilot in the summer when it is not being used, or should I leave it on?
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There is a white film on the glass, logset, and brick or inside the firebox. What is it?
A. This is a normal bi-product of combustion in gas fireplaces, and will continue to deposit over time. You will have to regularly clean the glass, logset, firebox, and gas control compartment. Follow the cleaning instructions in the manual or click here to follow our online instructions.
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A. The most common cause of pilot outage in gas fireplaces is actually
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I purchased a Montigo fireplace with Linear Burners (L-Series) and I want to put rocks inside. Can I use regular river stones?
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ANZ is facing a storm of protest on social media over its environmental record a week after the hoax that drew public attention to the bank's investment in coal mining.
A fake press release purporting to announce ANZ Bank's withdrawal from the Maules Creek Coal Project near Narrabri in NSW last Monday fooled the market and temporarily wiped nearly 9 per cent off the value of Whitehaven Coal, which is 20 per cent owned by embattled entrepreneur Nathan Tinkler.
The hoax has prompted an investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission and the person responsible for the hoax, anti-coal activist Jonathan Moylan, could face jail time.
But despite the official anger directed at Moylan, social media suggests public sentiment is firmly holding ANZ's feet to the fire for its decision to invest in the mine.
Both ANZ's Australian and New Zealand Facebook pages are filled with criticism from members of the public angry about the mine, which environmentalists say would destroy up to 2000 hectares of koala habitat, disrupt fertile agricultural land and generate huge amounts of greenhouse gas emissions. Most of the activity is on Facebook but there is also negative commentary on Twitter.
The comments include:
"Tell @ANZ_AU to keep its promise to protect the environment and overturn the coal mine loan."
"ANZ Bank of the Year? Not if you're a koala."
"I'm beginning to think that #ANZ don't actually live in my world. In my world coal investment is driving catastrophic climate change."
"ANZ needs to bank on the environment."
"ANZ is funding a huge expansion of Whitehaven coal mine in the Hunter Valley. More coal being dug up, burned and the carbon dioxide being put into the atmosphere is destroying our childrens' future sustainability. This actually means that Nick's and Shelley's children (when they get around to having them) may not be able to survive in our world as the increasing heat will make food production increasingly less possible ... Please check this out and ask yourself what you want for your children!"
"ANZ says it will still finance Whitehaven's proposed Maules Creek coal mine in north west NSW. If allowed to go ahead, this massive open-cut mine will raze 2800 football fields of precious forest and destroy koala homes in the process. These koalas have nowhere else to go. It's an outrage – not to mention the 30 million tonnes of carbon pollution every year for 30 years! Tell ANZ you won't stand for their dirty investment in Whitehaven."
Thousands of the social comments are via a petition site called Sum Of Us, which has the tag line "fighting for people over profits".
ANZ staff are directing people who leave messages on social media to check out information on the ANZ website and also passing on the feedback to the corporate social responsibility team. An ANZ Bank spokeswoman declined to comment further.
The managing director of Ogilvy Earth, a public relations consultancy specialising in environment and community issues, Andrew Ure, says ANZ's strategy of silence is not helping its cause.
He says the bank should use social media to communicate its ethical investment position and how it interprets the Equator Principles, a set of voluntary standards to help banks identify and manage the social and environmental risks associated with the direct financing of large infrastructure projects such as dams, mines or pipelines.
"ANZ needs to be engaged with this and needs to be prepared with content to show what they are doing and what the Equator Principles mean to them and their ethical behaviour," Ure says. "Activists are increasingly clever about who they target – rather than the attack the people involved in operations, they've gone after the consumer-facing organisation because it's more vulnerable to public pressure."
Ure says the public, particularly Generation Y, now expects businesses to consider their impact on the environment and community and any consumer-facing business is vulnerable to this sort of activist pressure at any time.
While he says businesses can't change their strategy "on a sixpence" every time there's a campaign, it's a disruption to the business-as-usual modus operandi because they need to think about sustainability in advance and be prepared to talk about it.
"Doing business in the 21st century means thinking about the way their processes impact on the environment and it's about processes not just public relations," he says. "If you're doing it but not telling anyone, you're vulnerable, but if you're telling people and there's nothing behind it and it's green wash, then you're also vulnerable."
In another sign of the heightened public discord about coal mining, an alliance of green groups took out a full page advertisement on page 9 of The Australian Financial Review today titled "Let's talk about coal". The advertisement, signed by 15 academics and the CEO of Greenpeace, calls for Australia to "cease the expansion of coal exports from this country and join efforts to prevent global warming running out of control and destroying lives and livelihoods here and abroad".
"Coal exports are Australia's biggest contribution to climate change and Australians are suffering its impacts now," the advertisement says. "We understand that it is not easy for Australians to talk about the role our coal plays in driving climate change, but we can no longer maintain our silence. Our coal is a contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions, which have worsened extreme weather ... Our choice is clear: cease expansion of coal exports or wilfully threaten the future of our children."


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John Fulljames, Associate Director of Opera for the Royal Opera House, introduces the ROH's A Faustian Pack programme. Watch John Fulljames and sound artist Matthew Herbert talk about the project and view rehearsal photos from Luke Bedford's upcoming opera Through His Teeth:
Ruth Padel recently joined the rehearsals for Bedford's Through His Teeth, which she describes as a "Faust without the supernatural. The evil is all human. But there's lots of it: demonic sex, demonic fraud, demonic psychological abuse."
Read the full text on Ruth Padel's blog.
Find out more about Through His Teeth on our dedicated blog.
Are they're off! The music of Luke Bedford's new opera is now on its way to London. We've added some photos to our Facebook page.
We've added some photos from our production department to our Facebook feed:
Find out more about Through His Teeth.
Here is a collection of our interviews with composer Luke Bedford. Bedford talks about Through His Teeth, his stages of composing, the use of quartertones in his music, working with playwright David Harrower and gives insight into two scenes of his upcoming opera:
Through His Teeth was commissioned by the Royal Opera House and will première on 3 April 2014. Find out more.
In February and August of 2013, theatre director Bijan Sheibani, playwright David Harrower and composer Luke Bedford had two workshops at the ROH, in which they were working on the libretto with actors.
Luke Bedford on the workshops:
It might seem strange to have an opera workshop where there are no singers or musicians present, but from the beginning of this project I was clear that getting the text right was crucial before I started writing any notes. Therefore the workshops we had on the piece involved a few days working with actors and trying out various ways of telling the story.
The first idea was to set it all in one flat, where R had two women installed/imprisoned. David had written a few scenes exploring this idea, hints of which you can see in the final version of the text. And while this scenario certainly had intensity, it soon became clear that clamping the story into just one location was too restrictive. Especially when R had forbidden the women to speak to each other. This kind of idea has been touched upon in opera before, but we felt it wasn't right for the piece that we wanted to make. Also, seeing the actors on the stage told us the mood was simply too dark: too monochrome. So David and I went away and thought about how to take the elements we liked from the workshop but find a better structure for them. After some work, we ended up the framework of the final piece: to focus on just one woman's story and have a series of snapshots of A and R's (and her sister's) relationship, intercut with A being interviewed after the events.
The second workshop was on something close to the final draft of the text. Hearing how the actors read the lines was really useful to me – partly as they confirmed many of my own ideas where the key dramatic moments are, as well as the pacing of the work. And sometimes they would read a line or two very differently to how I'd imagined it – and this was also useful, even if I rejected 'their' way in the end. In fact, this has haphazardly evolved into a technique that I now use when working with text. I try and imagine the opposite of how I've set some lines, to see whether it works better than my first draft. Often it doesn't, but just now and then it throws up something wonderfully unexpected – and it ends up in the final piece. One example of this is in scene 12, when R appears at A's flat and pressures her to leave with him. My first idea was to have very dramatic, crashy, wild music. But then I stepped back and tried to imagine the scene with almost nothing happening and I knew straight away that this was stronger. In the ensemble, there are just six pitched, extremely high notes from the violin, and underneath the whole scene is the distant, otherworldly sound of a thunder tube.
Find out more about Through His Teeth.
For the last few years, I've been working quite often with quartertones, and the most effective way I find of just practically hearing these notes is by having a second keyboard, so that one keyboard is tuned a quartertone below the other one. With a single keyboard you could obviously imagine what the quartertone would sound like, but I prefer to actually hear the physical sounds.
I got my second keyboard about a year ago. Up until that point I'd actually used a guitar and a banjo, tuning those down a quartertone – it was ok, but it wasn't very effective.
You can of course use computers as well, but I don't like doing this sort of creative composing on the computer. I feel that especially with most notation software it's limiting, you end up writing more what works on the computer than actually what works on the instruments or on the voices.
So I thought it was important to get this second keyboard if I wanted to explore different tunings and different quartertones – I suppose if I worked on eighth tones or third tones I'd just have to keep getting more and more of them. But I think that at the moment quartertones are enough.
Luke Bedford
Find out more about Through His Teeth.
Luke Bedford on the instrumentation of Through His Teeth:
Through His Teeth is scored for eight instruments. It's quite a small ensemble, but I tried to get as big a range of colours and sounds as I could out of that. So there are quite a few instruments that are capable of playing chords. There is a harp, there is an accordion, there's various tuned percussions, and there's violin, cello and bass. And against that there is also a clarinet and a trumpet. It's a kind of small, mixed ensemble.
I tried also to balance it as much as I could, so I count the accordion as a sort of wind instrument. So there's a clarinet, trumpet and accordion doing some wind-side of things, there are three strings, and then the harp and the percussion as tuned instruments.
Because of the quartertones, it had to be instruments that can play them better than others. Obviously for the harp, percussion and accordion, it's not easy to get quartertones on, but for the other instruments, especially the strings and trumpet, it's something that shouldn't be too much of a problem.
I decided that the singers were not going to be singing in quartertones – these are only heard from the ensemble. It's partly a practical thing: some singers can obviously sing quartertones, but others find it very hard. And for a while I wondered whether if the note was strong enough in the ensemble, whether it would be ok to use it in the voice. But in the end I decided against it: partly just to keep things clear in my own head, but also for the singers – they've probably got enough to do anyways without worrying about the quartertones.
So it's something that is happening from the music surrounding the characters really, it's something in the air. They never go into that directly.
Composer Luke Bedford talks about working with Scottish playwright David Harrower and how they created the characters for their upcoming chamber opera Through His Teeth. The interview was recorded in Berlin in October 2013.
Luke Bedford on the story line of Through His Teeth:
I've been speaking to David Harrower, who has written the libretto for the new opera, about what kind of subject or theme we wanted to play with. David very often works with true stories as a starting point, either things from newspaper reports or something you have heard.
We'd been speaking to the Royal Opera House about doing this piece, and they asked whether we'd be interested in doing something on the subject of Faust – which initially we weren't over the moon about. A sort of traditional telling of the Faust stories has been done so many times that we were quite unsure about what we could add to that. So we knew that we had to find our own take on that, a different way of doing it.
Read the full text on our seperate blog on Through His Teeth.
This is the interview with Luke Bedford that was mentioned in the introduction of this blog. It was conducted in June 2013, when Through His Teeth was still without a title. Harrower and Bedford already had very clear ideas about the storyline and the instrumentation, however.
Read our seperate blog on Through His Teeth.
In June 2013 we conducted a video interview with composer Luke Bedford about his upcoming chamber opera Through His Teeth. The opera was commissioned by the Royal Opera House and will première on 3 April 2014.
Intrigued by the composer's words, we decided that we'd continue to document the work's process of creation. Starting today we will provide you with regular updates regarding the development of Through His Teeth, ranging from the composing of the score and the writing of David Harrower's libretto to the actual printing of the score and its production – who knows, we might even catch the postman when he finally delivers the score to Sian Edwards and the Royal Opera House.
What will the rehearsals at the ROH look like? Do you want to catch a sneak peek of the score before the première? Now's your chance.
This post and all future posts in this series will be available on our page dedicated to Through His Teeth, which you can find here.


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Dear Carolyn • I'm in love with a wonderful guy and thinking long-term with him. But, he is an EXTREME football fanatic and I'm not interested, despite efforts by both of us to get me excited about the game.
I feel like the current football season has really put a strain on our relationship, sapping all the time we would normally spend together. I'm also still nursing wounds because he got offered last-minute tickets to a playoff game and canceled plans we had made months earlier in order to go.
I am very, very self-conscious about coming across as a nag or a shrew. I generally try to be as understanding as possible about it; he actually gave me the chance to veto his trip to the playoffs, and I told him he should go.
Sometimes I join him to watch the game, sometimes I make plans with girlfriends or stay home instead. Either way, I feel like I am making a sacrifice for the sport.
The idea of feeling this way for several months every year is the ONLY thing that gives me pause about this guy. Put in those terms, do you think this is major enough to spell incompatibility, or not that big a deal?
Me vs. Football
Dear Me vs. Football • If you're ready to accept a life of never making ambitious plans on a Sunday afternoon from mid-August to early February, then you can have a really happy life with a rabid football fan.
If you like that he has a passion even if you don't share it, then you can have a really happy life with a rabid football fan.
If you can respect his choice of passion, instead of speculating (openly or internally) what's so darn special about men in tights jumping into piles, then you can have a happy life with a rabid football fan.
But if the only way you can see his football habit is as an obstacle to the life you'd rather have, then do both of you a favor and rethink this guy as a viable long-term prospect. Relationships are complicated, but happiness in a relationship isn't: It's just wanting exactly what you have. Wanting something else is dispiriting.
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TOP STORY >> Despite shortages, battle will be long
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Maj. Gen. Marc Rogers, 19th Air Force commander at Randolph Air Force Base in Texas, told airmen at Little Rock Air Force Base the ongoing global war on terror is stretching military budgets and personnel.
There is not enough money in the budget to upgrade our fleets and build the capabilities its going to take to fight through the long term, Rogers said about the challenges airmen face as they fight the global war on terror, or the Long War, as he called it. But he vowed to fight the war with all the resources at his command.
Its our duty to support the lead dogs on the ground who are face-to-face with the guns (in combat). Thats our Army soldiers and Marines. I love those guys and will do everything in my power to support them, Rogers said.
Air Force officials are trying to balance the high costs of personnel and organizational inefficiencies to meet national and worldwide defense needs with a plan called Air Force Smart Operations 21. Part of the plan will reduce 40,000 personnel by 2011, about 12 percent of the 340,000 people now serving in the active-duty Air Force.
Most of the reductions were made in support roles, including 270 positions at Little Rock Air Force Base, such as communications, public affairs, chaplains, civil engineering, legal and finance, according to Maj. Joe Atkins, 314th Mission Support Squadron commander.
To date, no aircrew or maintenance positions were identified as part of the cuts.
These cuts arent about faces; this is about spaces. Its a difficult time, but we need to do this for the force for the country, said Brig. Gen. Kip Self, commander of the 314th Airlift Wing. The personnel cuts will help support the hardware side of the Air Force mission, such as replacing older C-130 cargo aircraft with the newer C-130J models.
Were working with headquarters to ensure the mission of training the worlds best aircrews doesnt stop, Self said.
Rogers agreed, saying the key to success in the face of the personnel cuts is efficient thinking and organization.
Its going to impact us, but we have to do it because our most expensive system is people. We have to upgrade our aircraft and capabilities, Rogers said.
Military organizations throughout history have always had one core competency. They had to pay attention to the training piece. Its part of our job every day, Rogers said.
I applaud what you do, and never make any mistake about how important you are on the war on terror. You cant help but believe that if we dont get the training piece right and keep the pipeline flowing, none of that operational stuff forward would ever happen. We wont be able to execute out there. We are producing expert and well-trained human beings who can go out and execute their missions decisively in a professional and excellent manner in the face of a lot of adversity, Rogers said.
Rogers is responsible for the day-to-day training of approximately 2,000 U.S. and allied Air Force students. The training ranges from entry-level flying training through advanced combat crew training, and ultimately provides fully qualified aircrew personnel for the war-fighting commands. The 19th Air Force is composed of more than 31,000 assigned personnel and 1,800 aircraft in 25 units throughout the country.
Rogers has led combat operations in both Iraq and Bosnia. He has 2,300 flight hours including 184 combat hours.
Tech. Sgt. Arlo Taylor and Capt. David Faggard at Little Rock Air Force Base contributed to this article.


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Plans to build a long-awaited senior center in a west Knox County community are moving forward.
On Wednesday, Mayor Tim Burchett and other county leaders announced the Karns Senior Center will be built at the Knox County Sportspark off Oak Ridge Highway.
The center will be easy to get to, with a level parking lot for increased accessibility.
Leaders hope to approve the final designs and break ground on the project soon.
Mayor Burchett says the community has been very involved in the process of establishing the center and there will be plenty of activities for seniors to enjoy.
"It used to be that senior centers were just a big open area. There will be physical activities, there will be something going on everyday. They actually, a lot of the seniors take field trips, dance classes. The most trouble I ever got into as mayor is when we changed the date of a dance," said Mayor Burchett.
Leaders hope the project will be finished sometime next year. The senior center will be the county's sixth. There are three additional locations in the city.


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Early this morning, reporters received invitations to "Come see a new look for News Feed" March 7 at the Facebook campus in Menlo Park, Calif., reports ABC News[3].
Speculation centers on Facebook showing off a new look for its new feed system for mobile devices. The company has been testing new features for its apps for both Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL[4]) iPhone and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG[5]) Android devices.
The company has been focusing on developing its mobile platform. It recently acquired Atlas — a digital advertising company — from Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT[6]), released a new messaging service and added free calling to its iPhone messenger app.
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Hiking Trip RMNP 2010
Colorado Rockies!
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A collection of photographs of the Colorado Rocky Mountain National Park, visiting Bear Lake, Dream lake, Nymph Lake, Lake Haiyaha, and Alberta Falls.
Características y detalles
- Categoría Fotografía artística
Apaisado estándar, 25×20 cm
46 Páginas
- Fecha de publicación ago. 08, 2010
- Etiquetas Ray Martinez, Travis Thompsn, Scott Thompson, Sarah Van Horn, Alberta Falls, Bear Lake, Nymph Lake, Lake Haiyaha, Colorado, Rockies, Mountains, RMNP
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Mr. Martinez is also a writer. He has published seven books. The latest are Baby Boy-R, Just Another Opinion, Growing Daily, From Darkness to Light--Mai Tran's Journey of Passion, and The Truth About Marijuana; America's Snake Oil . In addition, he wrote a weekly column, for nearly two years for the local newspaper that addressed a wide range of subjects. See his stories and bookstore at www.raymartinez.com. He is also a past radio show host-live Talk Radio Show on KFKA Radio, 1310 AM called Saturdays Opinion (www.1310KFKA.com ) While Mr. Martinez has written about others, he is featured in a book about notable men in northern Colorado. In 2002 Arlene Ahlbrandt, an historical author who has written several books, published 101 Memorable Men of Northern Colorado, which Ray Martinez was recognized as one of those men. Ray is the past Mayor of Fort Collins, CO (Apr 99 - Apr 2005) and a retired Fort Collins, CO, Police Sergeant.
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The success of success Nani-Nithya Menon combo in Ala Modalaindi created a hype on their next film Sega. Adding to that the movie is coming from Gautham Menon's home production Photon Kathaas. But the poor screenplay by newcomer Anjana Ali Khan has played the spoilsport.
Karthik (Nani) and Balaji (Muthukumar) are the sons of a drunkard, who left the family to their fate. Their mother, who was a patient, commits suicide by taking poison from the hands of Balaji. Karthik and Balaji were brought up by their uncle, who is a painter. Though Balaji ekes out a living by painting the sign boards, he wants to give a good education to Karthik. Karthik and his uncle"s daughter (Nithya Menon) love each other. Karthik has a friend called Vishnu (Karthik), who runs a mechanic shed. Karthik"s father, who was once a drunkard turns a broker and runs a brothel on his own. He has the support of Ammaji (Jennifer) who smuggles drugs and used to drug-trafficking. Vishnu falls in love with Vani (Bindu Madhavi), a prostitute in the brothel. Once, Vishnu meets the broker and agrees to transport the drugs to Goa on a condition that the broker should leave Vani to her. However, Vani comes to know that the broker is planning to get rid of both Vishnu and Karthik and alerts them. While Karthik and Vishnu returns to their place there was a minor scuffle and after Karthik suffers a head injury, Vishnu gets killed. Everybody presumes that Karthik killed Vishnu. What happens next should be seen on-screen.
Nani has done a neat job within his limits. He is apt for the role. He Karthik too is okay. Nithya Menon and Bindu Madhavi have no big roles to play. While Bindu Madhavi has filled the glamour slot, Nithya Menon is also good in modern costumes in a song. Other artistes including Muthukumar, Jennifer and others have done justice to their roles.
Dialogues by Sashank Vennelakanti are good in parts. Camera work by Om Prakash is laudable, as he has perfectly captured the slum localities, songs and action scenes. Editing by Antony is okay. Music by Joshua Sridhar is good as two songs in the film are quite melodious and topped the charts at one point of time. Background score is also okay and lifted the moods of some scenes. Storyline is okay but the director has failed to narrate it properly. Being a woman, Anjana has failed to handle the film with a little action and drugs backdrop. The screenplay penned for the film lacked the sharpness. Hence, the film runs on a nominal way and most of the scenes are quite predictable and there is nothing novel either in narration or its presentation.
It is just a time pass film and don"t expect anything high from the film. The combination of Nani-Nithya Menon only created the hype on the film and actually there is not much to talk about the scenes involving them.
Cast: Nani, Nithya Menon, Karthik, Bindu Madhavi, Muthukumar, Jennifer and others.
Credits: Dialogues – Sashank Vennelakanti, Music – Joshua Sridhar, Cinematography – Om Prakash, Editing – Antony, Presents – Master Atchyut, Producer – Ashok Vallabhaneni, Story, screenplay and direction – Anjana Ali Khan.
Banner: Manadesam Movies.
Released on: July 29, 2011.


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