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Titanium & carbon.
52cm center-top of seat tube.
57cm effective top tube.
173mm head tube.
110mm stem.
Approximate 73 head, 73.5 seat angle.
For a few years in the mid-80s I did some part-time driving for Midland Red Express, which became Midland Red Coaches, at Digbeth.
This 1986 picture was taken at the digs used in Manchester and shows the mainstay of National Express services at that time, a Leyland Leopard with a Plaxton Supreme IV body. This one is 576 (BVP 776V) which was delivered to Midland Red in late 1979 as a type C21 numbered 776.
With the split of Midland Red into five operating units in 1981 776 passed to Midland Red Express and subsequently became 576. MR Express, in an attempt to widen its market and lose its 'express coaches only' image was renamed Midland Red Coaches in 1985.
Parked alongside is another, somewhat more interesting Leopard.
794 YKM is a Plaxton Viewmaster bodied Leopard owned by Vale of Llangollen Travel and seen here on hire to D Coaches of Swansea who acquired her after VLT finished with her. Or perhaps this was after D Coaches had acquired her and the 'On Hire' paper was to cover the legalities.
794 YKM started life as RVJ 724S in the fleet of Penn Overland of Hereford in whose colours she can be seen on southlancs' photostream. In 1986 D Coaches acquired her from VLT, where she stayed until 1998.
Thanks to southlancs for the details above.
Masai Mara, Kenya, 2009
These storks have set up home in an Acacia tree.
Processed in Lightroom with Nik Dfine 2.0, and Silver Efex
Nikon D810 Photos Pro Women's Surfing Swatch Women's Pro Trestles Sports Photography With New Tamron SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD Lens for Nikon!
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Swatch Women's Pro in Trestles San Clemente with pro surfers /models Alana Blanhard, Lakey Peterson, Laura Enever, Sally Fitzgibbons, Coco Ho, Stephanie Gilmore, newcomer Nikki Van Dijk, and more!
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I shot in DX mode which crops away the extra pixels and takes me 1.5X closer while allowing for up to 7 FPS with the Nikon D810's Nikon MB-D12 Battery Grip using the 8 AA battery option! 8 Duracels took me through around 3,000 shots no problem--maybe more! I was shooting at the equivalent of 900mm with the 1.5x crop factor! Pretty close! Had I gone with the Nikon D4s, I would have gotten 12 fps, but no DX crop factor, as the sensor has only around 14mp, compared to the d810's 36 megapixels! Sure the larger pixel size on the Nikon D4s full frame sensor comes in handy indoors or at night, but in the bright sun, there's more than enough light for the smaller pixels in crop mode! Sure we lose some pixels from the outer edges when shooting in DX crop mode, but most of those pixels would be cropped away in lightroom anyway. And the smaller files make the memory cards last longer, while also upping the FPS to 7 shots per second! Not quite 12 FPS, but still awesome and enough I felt!
What a beautiful way to test the Nikon D810 and Tamron 150-600mm zoom lens for sports photography!
Athletic graceful girl goddesses! Tall, thin, fit and in shape! Pro women's surfers form the van's us open wearing both long wetsuits and bikini bottoms with shorty wetsuit tops/summer wetsuits. Sexy, beautiful beach babes and water goddesses all! Many are professional swimsuit bikini / surf lifestyle models too!
Tamron SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD Autofocus lens for Nikon AF-D Cameras.
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Gargoyle is a mouth for ejected words of sweeping Lucifer this took other angels that had the seed of desire planted within them, for it is selfish desires that fuel the ego. He was expelled from the higher regions because he no longer had the Christic virtues but had the ego crystallized instead. Since we assert that selfish desires and interests strengthen the egos hold on us, it is also true that altruistic, compassionate service vivify the Christic force within us that stirs us to self-sacrifice for humanity (The hanged man). Can 'Lucifer' be the Hanged Man #12 card ? Here are a few depictions of the card for reference first: The Hanged Man...also known as Perspective....now also known as "Lucifer"....here's why I think this is an awesome pictorial for the meaning. What is the central meaning for the Hanged Man?
Letting go...as in accepting God's Will (give me a chance to explain...just a little more)
Giving up control
Accepting what is
Putting others first
NOW WAIT A MINUTE, ERIC !! You said this would all make sense....Lucifer isn't this way!
...TRUE.....and that's my point. He is the card's "shadow side" (or Reversed). The shadow side of every card is the not-so-well known or publicized meanings that are just as much true as the upright meanings...just from a different 'perspective' (like how i tied that all in...LOL)
Lucifer...Satan....the Devil....whoever you may call him....he IS the Hanged Man's other half to complete the whole story.
Let's look at the original card again...upside down or Shadow side: This way what does the card suggest? The man is now grounded again, able to walk on his OWN TWO FEET, under his OWN power. What about his head? It's still a-glow with enlightenment ! But wait....I thought the man got his enlightenment while hanging upside and submitting? He did....but he also CAN on his own...
...just like Lucifer did !
Remember the first card above said "New Vision"? The figure was 'standing tall' with wings spread, leaving the corpse on the ground that was a slave to the 'old ways'. Keeping these images in mind lets see the meanings of the Hanged Man again...as it's 'True' other "Shadow"
Reversing...turning the world around...overturning old priorities
Seeing things from a new angle or perspective
Up-Ending the old order...doing an about-face
Living in the moment...for the NOW !
Defiance
Self-assertion
Sound more like the Lucifer you know? Let's look again: What we are witnessing is the moment Lucifer made his choice to rebel...and just BE HIMSELF ! On the left...heaven...his appointment there, where he was told what to do and had limited choice. On the right, FREEDOM as not a PLACE, but an IDEA....where he stretches his hand out in acceptance (notice the other is more closed with a "shackle of light" restricting it's movement).
Notice, also, the color of his wings: white on left from that of God's control, dark on right to show expansive freedom like that of space. In-between there is a struggle for control, for power, and for self-enlightenment. Both God and now Lucifer know this....the time for a new perspective has come...and Lucifer chose FREE WILL.
Whether I believe in Lucifer or not is unimportant...only the symbolism here to help see the relationship of the meanings of both Light and Shadow...neither one more important than the other....both necessary to the True meaning of the Hanged Man card.
Which side are you? Do you submit to what others tell you is right...or do you find you listen to what your heart tells you? You may have more in common with this card than you previously thought ! Cheers !
Eric "MoonLightTrucker"
“Esoterically, the Hanged Man is the human spirit which is suspended from heaven by a single thread. Wisdom, not death, is reward for this voluntary sacrifice during which the human soul, suspended above the world of illusion, and meditating upon its unreality, is rewarded by the achievement of self-realization.” – Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages.
In the Tarot with the twelfth (12th) card called ‘The Hanged Man”or in French, “Le Pendu.” The Hanged Man (XII) is the twelfth trump or Major Arcana card in most traditional Tarot decks.
This card portrays a young man hanging upside down by his left leg from a horizontal beam, the latter supported by two tree trunks from each of which six branches have been removed. The right leg of the youth is crossed in back of the left and his arms are folded behind his back in such a way as to form a cross surmounting a downward pointing triangle. According to Elphias Levi, the Hanged Man thus forms an inverted symbol of sulphur. Elphias Levi had stated in his book, Transcendental Magic; ” It is also implied fantastically that the Roman alphabet is related to Tarot cards, but whereas the Hebrew Mem answers to the card of Death the Roman M is referred to the Hanged Man, Resh to the Judgement card but R to the Blazing Star.” Levi likens the hanged man to the legend of Prometheus, the titan who gave fire to mankind and in turn suffered the wrath of Zeus by becoming the eternal sufferer, not just by being bound to a rock, but to also have his liver fed upon by an eagle each day. the Egyptian Tarot the hanged man is hung upside down between two palm trees, which is said to signify the Sun God who dies perennially for his world. In some Tarot decks, the figure in the 12th card carries under each arm a money bag from which coins are escaping. Some people have said that this latter card is that of Judas Iscariot who is said to have gone forth and hanged himself, the money bags representing the payment he received for his crime. The Hanged Man is a form of Pittura infamante;
(Italian for “defaming portrait”; plural pitture infamanti) is a genre of defamatory painting and relief, common in Renaissance Italy. It came to be regarded as a form of art rather than effigy; the power of the genre derived from a feudal-based code of honor, where shame was one of the most significant social punishments. Common themes of pittura infamante—which were meant to be humiliating—include depicting the subject as wearing a mitre or hanging upside down, being in the presence of unclean animals such as pigs or donkeys or those deemed evil like snakes; pittura infamante would also contain captions listing the offenses of the subject.Pittura infamante could originate as more favorable depictions, only to be transformed after the subject had fallen out of favor.
This piece of art, entitled "For the Love of God", was created by Damien Hirst and will be on display at White Cube Mason's Yard. It's a skull made out of platinum, diamonds, and human teeth. The total thing has 8,601 diamonds and comes in at 1,106.18 carats. It's the most expensive piece of art ever created, costing between $16 and $20 million to make, and $99 million to buy.
London’s White Cube gallery announced that British artist Damien Hirst diamond-encrusted skull sold for $100 million dollars, a record price for work sold by a living artist.
For Macro Mondays - Theme: Still Life A Small Grouping of Tiny Items. A random thing I started a few years ago is to buy different turtle ornaments from countries I visit. This is one of the tiniest ones I have. Wanted to make him appear as if he was swimming using blue water and reflections off black surface.
For the last full day of our short break in Italy we headed 179Km south from San Nicola Arcela to the port of Villa San Giovanni, from where you can catch a ferry to Sicily. The Straits are a little over 5km wide at this point and high speed ferry takes around 20 minutes to make the crossing into Messina central district where it moors next to the train ferry berths. I would have liked to have used a train ferry, but the times would not have worked out for this visit.
Messina was already very hot - 40C - but the week after we left the Cerebus heat wave took it up to 47C! At least there are public water points dotted around the City and you can always pop into one of the delightfully cool cafes for an iced Granita!
12 Months for Dogs
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#97 -- Sleeping animals -- 124 Pictures in 2024
It's not that easy to take a photo of Dart without rousing & waking her -- she's so very alert. I caught her at a tired moment---
(Lensbaby Velvet 85)
The new covers for my final mix of 2011, with this months mix being a special 4hr mix (as the number of great tunes around at the moment made it near impossible to narrow it down to even a 2hr mix).
The tracklist is as follows:-
1. Mossy - Leaving The Planet (Original Mix)
2. Andy Moor & Ashley Wallbridge featuring Meighan Nealon - Faces (Original Mix)
3. Jonas Steur featuring Julie Thompson - Cold Winds
4. John O'Callaghan featuring Kathryn Gallagher - Mess Of A Machine (Original Mix)
5. Arnej - We Need Them (Club Mix)
6. Armin Van Buuren featuring Winter Kills - Take A Moment (Shogun Remix)
7. Protoculture - Topaz (Max Graham Remix)
8. BT & Adam K - Tomahawk
9. Menno De Jong featuring Ellie Lawson - Place In The Sun (Rube and Tony Remix)
10. W&W featuring Bree - Nowhere To Go (Shogun Remix)
11. Shogun - Skyfire (Alex M.O.R.P.H. Remix)
12. Markus Schulz & Jochen Miller - Rotunda (Original Mix)
13. Jon O'Bir featuring Julie Harrington - Perfect As You Are (Original Mix)
14. David Forbes featuring Antonia Lucas - Because Of You (Pulser Remix)
15. Armin Van Buuren & Laura Jansen Vs Jerome Isma-Ae - Use Somebody Vs Speed
16. Armin Van Buuren - Blue Fear (Orjan Nilsen Remix)
17. Dimension - Yellowstone (Original Mix)
18. Dash Berlin featuring Emma Hewitt - Disarm Yourself (Filo & Peri Remix)
19. Ronski Speed Sun Decade featuring Emma Hewitt - Lasting Light (Original Mix)
20. Mike Koglin, Genix, Above & Beyond - Helion & The Moon (First Effect Mashup)
21. Stuart McNiven featuring Sharon Fehlberg - Surrender (Original Mix)
22. Bjorn Akesson & Jwaydan - Xantic (Aly & Fila Vs Bjorn Akesson Remix)
23. Dash Berlin featuring Jonathan Mendelsohn - Better Half Of Me (Alex M.O.R.P.H. Remix)
24. Jorn Van Deynhoven - Spotlight (Original Mix)
25. Henrik Christensen - New Life (Jorn Van Deynhoven Remix)
26. Luminary - Amsterdam (Smith & Pledger Remix)
27. Paul Gibson - Reactor (Trance Arts Remix)
28. Jacob Hudson featuring Ameera - Lost Without You (Angel Ace Remix)
29. Rene Ablaze featuring Synthesia - Inner Touch (Original Mix)
30. White Water featuring Melinda Gareh - The Unknown (Club Mix)
31. Blue Tente featuring Aelyn - You're Not Mine (Uplifting Mix)
32. Ferry Tayle & Tonks - Vol De Nuit (Manuel Le Saux Remix)
33. Sean Tyas - Banshee (Original Mix)
34. Menno de Jong - Turtle Paradise
35. Super8 & Tab - Helsinki Scorchin' (Alex M.O.R.P.H Remix)
For Tony's group Funny Face Friday
So where are the strong?
And who are the trusted?
And where is the harmony?
Sweet harmony.
'Cause each time I feel it slippin' away, just makes me wanna cry.
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding? Ohhhh
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding? Ohhhh
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding?
~ Nick Lowe
Photo made during the recording of a short movie for a trailer contest for the Imagine festival in Amsterdam in April 2013.
The longer version of both contributions to this contest can be found here:
youtu.be/XOCKbPGYv6w
Chincoteague NWR
The endangered and completely protected Delmarva fox squirrel is hanging on in just a handful of mature coastal pine and oak forests in the southern Mid-Atlantic, which may be analagous to the status of the red squirrel in Wales. Delmarva fox squirrels come in various striking shades of silver-gray to melanistic. Fox squirrels are nearly twice as big as common gray squirrels, weighing in at about 1 kg.
Unbeknownst to me, I happened to lie in wait for this one near one of its acorn caches; its face is dirty from digging them up.
f/6.3, 1/500, 500mm, ISO 320
Kesenia for the next challenge of the International Jet set Divas contest, made a short stop in Sanremo to enjoy a day to the beach, even if it's freezing in Italy actually, she've enjoyed and spent a great time.
Kesenia standing on a shining green throne as a medusa escaped from sea!
LEWISTON, Maine — The Bates men’s swimming and diving team defeated NESCAC rival Middlebury in a dual meet for the first time in at least 20 years on Sunday, scoring a 152-142 head-to-head win marked in part by junior captain Travis Jones’ record-setting diving.
The Bates women also performed well in a 154-134 head-to-head loss against the perennial powerhouse Panthers.
Jones (Ithaca, N.Y.) made his first-ever national cut by scoring 312.00 points on six dives in the 3-meter diving competition, breaking the former pool record of 304.80 set by seven-time All-America Andrew Hastings ’02 in 2002. Jones won the 3-meter and the 1-meter diving, in which he scored 267.75 points.
First-year Matthew Gagne (Wilmette, Ill.) also had a tremendous day at Tarbell Pool. Gagne won the 200 fly in 1:59.18, as well as the 100 fy in 52.83 and the 200 individual medley in 2:00.79.
Other event winners for the Bates men included:
* Senior captain Tom Boniface (Youngstown, Ohio) won the 200 free in 1:46.35.
* Senior Dan Aupi (Branford, Conn.) won the 50 free in 22.17
* First-year Andrew Briggs (York, Maine) won the 200 breaststroke in 2:18.53.
* First-year Alex Smachlo (Rexford, N.Y.) won the 500 free in 4:57.96.
* Bates also swam under the former pool record in the 400 free relay, but the Bobcats’ 3:14.20 time was edged by Middlebury’s 3:14.07. Swimming the race for Bates were Aupi, senior Nathaniel Depew (Hudson, Ohio), Gagne and Boniface. The former pool record of 3:14.77 was set by Bates’ Aupi, Depew, Boniface and Ned Scott ’12 on Jan. 23, 2010.
“We had tremendous victories from our freshman and senior class today,” said Bates head coach Peter Casares. “I couldn’t have been more impressive with the heart the team showed.”
Bates head coach Peter Casares gives captain Kara Leasure '12 a hug after the women's 1,650-yard freestyle race against Middlebury.
Sophomore Emilie Geissinger (Bismarck, N.D.) had an outstanding meet for the Bates women’s team, including a win in the 100 free, with a time of 55.55 seconds. She also finished second by .14 seconds in the 200 free at 1:58.27 and was the runner-up in the 50 free by .21 seconds, in a time of 25.38. “She is well on her way to a breakthrough season,” commented Casares.
First-year Sarah Bouchard (Annapolis, Md.) was the Bobcats’ other event winner, winning the mile freestyle race in 18:12.73, less than two seconds ahead of senior captain Kara Leasure’s (Los Alamos, N.M.) time of 18:14.31.
“The women swam terrific, too,” said Casares. “Bates showed that we are very tough — and deeper than ever. Middlebury is clearly more talented and we are hoping our hard work helps us get even closer come NESCACs.”
Liberty Park , call for participation for collaborative creation. You can propose 3D new creations, modify some créations, provide knowledge, thoughts...
Liberty Park will be an amusement park that will trace the history of neoliberalism, theorists, those who have developed and implemented around the world, implications in all areas (production, health, general surveillance, consumption, etc. ...).
The reference is the Garden of Delights by Hieronymus Bosch. "Take the ghost train"
, grotesque but meaningful because it will not only condemn but to understand that we as willing victims.
2 first propositions :
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- www.flickr.com/photos/39000262@N05/7887357452/in/photostream
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Appel à participation pour une création collaborative.
Liberty Park sera un parc d’attraction qui retracera l’histoire du néolibéralisme, ses théoriciens, ceux qui l’ont développé et appliqué de par le monde, ses implications dans tous les domaines (production, santé, surveillance généralisée, consommation, etc…).
La référence est le jardin des délices de Jérôme Bosch. « Prenez le train fantôme »
un parc d’attraction , à la fois grotesque mais aussi porteur de sens parce qu’il ne s’agira pas seulement de dénoncer mais aussi de comprendre que nous en sommes aussi les victimes consentantes.
les 2 premières propositions :
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contactez moi
This is dedicated to Janet [Dark Spinner] for being such a good flickr friend. Thank you for always having such kind words and kindness!
For posting to Worlds Monthly Sunset group.
Taken near the Kizu river in Kyotanabe, Kyoto, Japan.( Yahoo map is not accurate, although it says Soraku-gun, it's actually Kyotanabe.)
::: Soundtrack ::: OPETH [For Absent Friend]
perchè ogni tanto ti fermi a pensare a chi non c'è più.
a quegli occhi che ti guardano fissi da dentro una foto, ora.
a quel sorriso che l'ultima volta avevi visto in piscina tra il sole che accecava gli occhi e gli spruzzi d'acqua che sapevano d'estate.
al freddo che ti è corso su per la schiena quando l'hai saputo, ancora più forte di quel trentuno dicembre che ti ha lasciato il gelo dentro.
dopotutto a quindici anni non hai mica vissuto il meglio di già, eh j.?
perchè ogni tanto ti viene anche in mente che non è vero che non ci sei più, j., tu ci sei più di prima.
guardami un pò.
Sorry for the lack of updates in recent weeks this due to a busy work and ice hockey schedule. Advanced warning no photos of Hollie in the last week of the month due to being away.
However I have another day as Hollie next Saturday and I might have some new bits to show you ladies and gentlemen as well.
P.S looking for vintage Skirt Suits 80s and 90s preferably any help would be much appreciated. Ideally one knee length skirt and jacket and one maxi skirt and jacket and not black.
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The Vienna Opera Ball
Viennese Opera Ball
Just as already the operetta and the waltz had been imported from Paris to Vienna, comes also the model for the Vienna Opera Ball from the Seine metropolis. By a corresponding approval of Duke Philip of Orleans, on 2 January 1716 a "public ball" can be held for the first time, to which everyone has access who can pay the admission fee of five livres. First, the balls take place at the Comédie française, but already in 1717 was given the Académie de Musique, the Paris Opera House, the special right of the organization. Nevertheless, in the Comédie furthermore take place balls, with the audience far more popular than the 'opera balls'.
In 1861 the construction of an opera house begins at the Ringstrasse, on the explicit desire of Emperor Franz Joseph not solely intended for performances of operas and ballets, but also for the staging of the Opera Ball. With this, have been created both the spatial and the official conditions for a genuine Viennese Opera Ball according to Parisian model. It should, however, take another eight years before a dance event in the opera could be held for the first time after the completion of the house in 1869.
Initially, due to the increasing violence at the Paris balls but only Court Opera soirees take place. This includes elegant evening soirees with musical entertainment, but without dancing. On 11 December 1877 opened the court musical director Wilhelm Gericke the first Court Opera Soirée with the "Wedding March" by Felix Mendelssohn. After several concert pieces the baton is handed over to the Strauss family. First, Johann Strauss son conducts the Vienna Philharmonic with a waltz, followed by his brother Edward with a specially for this day composed "Opera Soirée Polka". After that, the dance-crazed Viennese are no longer stoppable: all chairs were put to the side, and the evening, which was thought without dance pleasure, ends like a ball. This is the hour of birth of the opera ball, even though for the time being still far away from being called so.
Already the second event on 15 January 1878 is announced officially as "Second Hofopernsoirée (Ball)". The third, for 12 February 1878 scheduled Soirée, is canceled for reasons of piety, since Pope Pius IX. a few days earlier had died. After the uncomplicated election of Leo XIII. to new head of the Church the ball is on 23 February rescheduled.
After these three opera soirees from March of the same year take place redoutes in the Court Opera, continuing the tradition of masked balls and linked with strict dress code: "in the hall, with the exception of the lodges, the ladies the stay is only permitted in an elegant mask, short costumes are not allowed. The gentlemen of civil appear in evening dress with white cravat, cylinder or Claquehut (opera hat - chapeau claque). "During the next twenty years during the carnival time each year should be organized two, in some seasons even three redoutes. However, at these festivals the Viennese society is not as boundless as once united in the common ball pleasure, because in the meantime the guests are spread across three different levels, not only differing in space but also in the appearance of guests from each other. Are the boxes the aristocratic guests in elaborate ball gowns reserved, so gather in the stalls the bourgeois guests, for which there is no mask constraint. In addition, there are the galleries that are accessible to every viewer without special admission ticket.
1899 the popular balls for the time being come to an abrupt end, as is discovered that the opera for such festivals does not comply with the safety regulations. Since an appropriate conversion proves to be too costly, the redoutes are discontinued for an unforeseen period of time. A certain compensation for those festivals offers in the following years the in the new town hall held "Ball der Stadt Wien".
Only in 1921, the tradition of the redoutes in the Court Opera has been resumed, but without being able to follow on the success of previous years. After several breaks followed in 1924, 1928 and 1929 again opera redoutes, neither musically nor stylistically corresponding with the level of the defunct imperial monarchy-time and they are not characterized by the former wit, charm and temperament. The twenties are not only politically, but also culturally a very different time in which with the progressive emancipation of women the meaning of a redoute became obsolete.
And so 1935 is launched the first as such referred to Opera Ball. In a time of political uncertainty, it complied in addition to social also with diplomatic and official representative purposes. Therefore, it takes no wonder that the guest list has many personalities from politics. The last opera ball before the outbreak of the Second World War should be organized in 1939, when Austria was already 'connected' by Adolf Hitler to the German Reich. Therefore respectively stiff and artificial resulted according to that this night on which no happiness will raise, previously the rule.
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Reopening of the Vienna State Opera, 1955
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Shortly before the end of World War II, the Vienna Opera House on 12 March 1945 almost completely was destroyed by a bomb. It should take ten years until the house was rebuilt and with Ludwig van Beethoven's opera "Fidelio" at the 5th November 1955 ceremoniously could be opened. In the following carnival season with this also the first opera ball of the post-war period can be celebrated, but which has changed its face much: "Actually, the Opera Ball is not a Viennese event anymore, but already a pan-European one. A ball night for which the world envies us".
This new image has remained to this day, with the only difference that the Opera Ball is now no longer considered only as a pan-European, but as an international event. A highlight of the evening is the annual opening of the ball by about 180 debutantes who on the arm of the to them for this evening assigned Cavaliers in a Polonaise move in. After the Vienna Philharmonic for many years had taken over the musical interpretation of the evening, there is since 1982 a Vienna Opera Ball Orchestra grounded specifically for this purpose. In addition, since 1984, there is also a Viennese Opera Ball Ladies Ensemble, made up of 15 musicians and beyond the ball unfolding a very busy concert schedule.
Today on the Opera Ball there is not exclusively danced just waltz anymore. Up to ten orchestras or soloists play at the same time in different places of the house, and as a concession to modern times there is since some years even a nightclub. And yet, the waltz enjoys as the king of dances to this day unbroken popularity, without which for many no Viennese Opera Ball is thinkable. Another innovation is also the since 1981 in the Schwind Foyer installed Viennese Opera Ball Casino, which is a special attraction especially for the younger guests. Collectors will also appreciate the annually by the casino issued special Opera Ball chips.
How to become a debutante?
Proposals are now mostly send in by the dance schools of the country. The first condition is the perfect mastery of the links waltz, which is checked at a Vortanztermin (dance audition date - don't worry, the Lipizzans are doing the same!). Has the potential debutante overcome this hurdle with flying colors, it is about to find a suitable partner for the big night. The criteria for this choice are less situated in personal relationships than in pure dance qualities. After finally the couples have found each other, for five days under the expert guidance of several ballet master not only the links waltz, but also the choreography of the marching in is practiced until everything is perfectly rehearsed. The question of clothes is strictly regulated for the couples: the ladies in white dresses with a little crown on the head and the gentlemen in evening dress. To underline the internationality of the ball, every year also Debütantinnen and Debütanten from around the world are invited.
Guests
Artists from the world of the theater and the music, film and television can be found on the Vienna Opera Ball as well as well-known athletes and fashion designers. Diplomats and politicians from home and abroad appreciate the special atmosphere, and every now and then you meet also members of the European nobility. The Opera Ball today is no longer just a lavish celebration in which together a whole evening and a full night is celebrated, but increasingly also a social forum that connects professional and political contacts in a pleasant way with a social event.
Scandals
In recent decades, the Vienna Opera Ball, however, has not only found unanimous support, but has been increasingly criticized. In the 80s made fights between angry citizens that characterized the event as a "festival of the political and monetary bigwigs" and the police the headlines. Unforgettable is also the demonstration against the reprocessing plant Wackersdorf when in 1987 the Bavarian Prime Minister Franz-Josef Strauss participated in the Opera Ball. In addition, now almost every year during the opera ball take place demonstrations against these seemingly senseless waste of funds in the face of hardship and misery, hunger and wars, social and health problems in the world.
Nevertheless, the Opera Ball has lost none of its fascination and all over the world - from Bangkok via Kuala Lumpur and Korea to Tokyo, Singapore, Seoul and Dubai, Ankara, Istanbul, Kiev, Prague and Budapest to Rome, New York, Los Angeles and Washington - it found imitation, without being able to ever really come close to the Viennese model. Even if the question of the contemporaneity of the Vienna Opera Ball ever and again was controversially discussed, at the latest in 2005 has been shown that even this traditional event cannot stop short before general social changes: for the first time a smoking ban for the Opera Ball was pronounced.
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Just found a cool new site for Serials, if your as hooked on the cliffhangers as much as I am. This site may be worth looking at. It’s called Creepy Classics, here’s a link to the serial. They have lots more things to look at on the home page. Enjoy !
The Green Hornet 1940
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The Green Hornet Strikes Again 1941
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THE GREEN HORNET STRIKES AGAIN. Directed by Ford Beebe and John Rawlins. Warren Hull is handsome and stalwart as The Green Hornet (newspaper owner Britt Reid) in this second chapter-play based on the exploits of the radio crime fighter [who later had his own comic book adventures as well as a TV series]. As in the first serial, The Hornet and his partner Kato (Keye Luke) are busy quashing the anti-social activities of a ruthless syndicate, such as a phony lottery that exploits the poor. Other characters include the lovably gruff Irish reporter Michael Axford (Wade Botelier) and his teasing associate Lowry (Eddie Acuff), Reid's pretty and admiring secretary Lenore (Anne Nagel), and Grogan (Pierre Watkins), who is the low-key but slithery leader of the racketeers. At one point the gangsters hit upon the idea of forcing a wealthy woman to sign checks over to them while a female crony awaits a call from the bank. There's an interesting segment in which ownership of some oil wells depends upon the date of a contract which has been doctored. The Hornet still drives his souped-up sedan and uses his gas gun to put adversaries to sleep. One sequence shows a helpless worker in a plant with terrible safety conditions falling to his death in a smelter; Hull doesn't have much of an emotional reaction to this but one could say that the Hornet was inured to violent death, even of innocents. One of the best cliffhangers shows a car with the struggling Hornet inside rushing onto a bridge that is rapidly rising high up into the air. Using Flight of the Bumblebee as the theme music is one thing, but the serial is also full of snatches of semi-classical music that are inappropriate and only distract from the action. Foranti, the head of a crooked association, is essayed by Jay Michael, an actor who has a colorful and unusual style of playing. Not top-notch, perhaps, but all in all a credible and entertaining serial.
Working to capitalize on their huge success with the Green Hornet serial of 1940, Universal Studios put into production this follow-up serial continuing the masked crusade of wealthy newspaper publisher, crime vigilante Britt Reid/The Green Hornet and his Filipino valet, Kato. Warren Hull took the reigns as the Hornet in this 15 episode chapter play and Keye Luke returns as Kato. The story of the Green Hornet debuted on radio in 1936 and continued until 1952. Other than radio and the two serials released in 1940 and 1941, there were comic books and a television series in the 1960s as well as a feature film version made just last year based on the character!
Created by Fran Striker, who also brought the Lone Ranger to life, the Green Hornet was first heard over Detroit's WXYZ radio station on January 31, 1936, and became an instant sensation. By day Britt Reid, crusading publisher of the Daily Sentinel and great-nephew of the Lone Ranger himself; by night the Green Hornet and his aide Kato fought gangsters and racketeers, all the while pursued by the police who mistakenly thought the Hornet to be as great a menace as the criminals he battled. The Hornet first appeared on movie screens in 1940, with this follow-up produced quickly thereafter. Starring Warren Hull as the Verdant Avenger and Keye Luke as his black-clad assistant, this serial is a fast-paced gem, as the Hornet and Kato battle racket after racket, leading up to a climactic encounter with archcrook Crogan (Pierre Watkins).
Warren Hull’s only non-Columbia serial was The Green Hornet Strikes Again (Universal, 1940). Gordon Jones had starred in the first Green Hornet serial the preceding year, but Hull’s popularity as the dual-identity hero of The Spider’s Web apparently made Universal anxious to enlist him for the similar Green Hornet role. Like the Spider, the Green Hornet was a lone-wolf crimefighter hunted by the police, and, again like the Spider, was secretly a well-respected member of society–Britt Reid, editor of the Daily Sentinel. In the serial, Hull as Reid tackled a city-wide crime syndicate in print (as Sentinel editor) and in person (as the Green Hornet) with the help of his Oriental valet Kato (Keye Luke). The Green Hornet Strikes Again was a good sequel to a good original, and Hull stepped into the Green Hornet part with ease, talking in two differing voices to distinguish between Reid and the Hornet. His slickness was well-suited to sequences that featured Reid quizzing evasive syndicate front men, and he became believably tough and menacing when intimidating gangster in his Green Hornet guise.
For today's Macro Monday theme of 'Obstacles'. A view inside my medicine cupboard, the obstacles to extended symptoms of lurgification. :)
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One for Sorrow!
"One for Sorrow" is a traditional children's nursery rhyme about magpies. According to an old superstition, the number of magpies one sees determines if one will have bad luck.
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Four for a boy,
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A pastoral station 35 kms east of the town site was taken out in 1858 and named after John Copley the first Baron of Lyndhurst. Around 1860 Sir Thomas Elder acquired Mount Lyndhurst station and eventually that passed to the Beltana Pastoral Company. In 1869 a copper mine, and later in the 1880s several silver and lead mines, began on Mount Lyndhurst station. They lasted into the 1890s and some gold was mined from 1899. The town was surveyed for the coming of the railway to Farina in 1882 but it was not gazetted until 1896 when town blocks were put up for sale in June. The siding became important for wool carted down the Strzelecki Track from the QLD border and from closer stations like Cordillo Downs (another Thomas Elder station) and Mount Lyndhurst. A general store was licensed in Lyndhurst in 1891 and it had a license to sell wine by 1893. The Lyndhurst Hotel was licensed from 1896. This burnt down following a gas explosion in 1988 and was replaced with current building. The government school opened in 1920 and closed in 1942. The hotel now runs a caravan park. North of the town are some Aboriginal ochre (saprolite) pits were mined for thousands of years by the local Aboriginal people. The quarries are 6 kms long and up to 2 kms wide and 30 metres high. The red ochre was highly prized and traded along routes into the gulf country of QLD and elsewhere. The first railway yards were developed in 1882 and the second east of the town in 1957. Lyndhurst has a population of 24.
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I shot in DX mode which crops away the extra pixels and takes me 1.5X closer while allowing for up to 7 FPS with the Nikon D810's Nikon MB-D12 Battery Grip using the 8 AA battery option! 8 Duracells took me through around 3,000 shots no problem--maybe more! I was shooting at the equivalent of 900mm with the 1.5x crop factor! Pretty close! Had I gone with the Nikon D4s, I would have gotten 12 fps, but no DX crop factor, as the sensor has only around 24mp, compared to the d810's 36 megapixels! Sure the larger pixel size on the Nikon D4s full frame sensor comes in handy indoors or at night, but in the bright sun, there's more than enough light for the smaller pixels in crop mode! Sure we lose some pixels from the outer edges when shooting in DX crop mode, but most of those pixels would be cropped away in Lightroom anyway. And the smaller files make the memory cards last longer, while also upping the FPS to 7 shots per second! Not quite 12 FPS, but still awesome and enough I felt!
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View your artistic mission into photography as an epic odyssey of heroic poetry! Take it from Homer in Homer's Odyssey: "Tell me, O muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted; moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home; but do what he might he could not save his men, for they perished through their own sheer folly in eating the cattle of the Sun-god Hyperion; so the god prevented them from ever reaching home. Tell me, too, about all these things, O daughter of Jove, from whatsoever source you may know them. " --Samuel Butler Translation of Homer's Odyssey
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