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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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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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' The religions of the world, though all aiming at teaching truth, express that truth in different ways, and we are more prone to emphasize the differences than to look for the correspondences in what they teach.
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Thus, then, was the origin and birth of Religion. And Religion is a word implying a "binding back" (re-ligare). As with the setting and bandaging a broken limb, so the collective soul of humanity, fractured and comminuted by its fall into countless individuations and their subsequent respective progenies, each separately damaged and imperfect, needed to be restored to the condition from which it had become dislocated and once more built up into a perfect harmonious whole.
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To the spiritual guardians of primitive man, then, one must attribute the communication of that universal science of rebuilding the fallen temple of humanity, of which science we now surprisedly find traces in every race and religion of the world. To this source we must credit the distribution, in every land and among every people, of the same or equivalent symbols, practices and doctrines, modified only locally and in accordance with the intelligence of particular peoples, yet all manifesting a common root and purpose.
This was the one Holy Catholic (or universal) Religion "throughout all the world"; at once a theoretic doctrine and a practical science intended to reunite man to his Maker. That religion could only be one, as it could not be otherwise than catholic and for all men equally and alike; though, owing to the perverse distortive tendencies of humanity itself, it was susceptible of becoming (as has so happened) debased and sectarianized into as many forms as there are peoples. Moreover, its main principles could never be susceptible of alteration, though they might be (as they have been) exoterically understood by some and esoterically by others, and their full import would not all at once be apparent, but develop with increasing fidelity to and understanding of them. It provided the unalterable "landmarks" of knowledge concerning human nature, human potentialities and human destiny. It laid down the ancient and established "usages and customs" to be followed at all times by everyone content to accept its discipline and which none might deviate from or add innovations to, save at his own peril. It was the "Sacred Law" for the guidance of the fallen soul, a law valid from the dawn of time till its sunset, and of which it is written "As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end." It was the science of life – of temporal limited life lived with the intention of its conversion and sublimation into eternal universal life; and, therefore, it called for a scientific or philosophic method of living, every moment and action of which should be directed to that great goal; – a method very different from the modern method, which is entirely utilitarian in its outlook and totally unscientific in its conduct.
This Proto-Religion is related to have originated in the East, from which proverbially all light comes, and, as humanity itself became diffused and distributed over the globe, to have gradually spread towards the West, in a perpetual watchfulness of humanity's spiritual interests and an unfailing purpose to retrieve "that which was lost" – the fallen human soul.
We have already said that in early times the humanity then under its influence was far less materialized and far more spiritually sensitive and perceptive than it subsequently became or is now; and accordingly it follows that with the increasing age and density of the race the influence of the Proto-Religion itself became correspondingly diminished, though its principles remained as valid and effective as before; for the self-willed vagaries and speculative conceptions of man cannot alter the principles of static Truth and Wisdom.
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The Mysteries came to an end as public institutions in the sixth century, when from political considerations they and the teaching of the secret doctrine and philosophy became prohibited by the Roman Government, under Justinian, who aimed at inaugurating an official uniform state-religion throughout its Empire. Subsequently, as the Roman Empire declined and broke up, the Roman Catholic Church emerged from it, which, as we know, has resolutely discountenanced any authority in religion and philosophy as a rival to her own and at the same time claimed supremacy and an over-riding jurisdiction in temporal matters also. For the Freemason the result of that Church's conduct is instructive. For when an authority upon matters wholly spiritual and belonging to a kingdom which is not of this world, lays claim to temporal power and secular possessions, as the Roman Church has done and still does, it at once vitiates and neutralizes its own spiritual qualifications. It becomes infected with the virus of "worldly possessions." It loads itself with the "money and metals" from which it is essential to keep divested. The result has been that what might have been, and was designed to be, the greatest spiritually educative force in the world's history, has become a materialized institution, exercising an intellectual tyranny which has estranged the minds of millions from religion altogether. As Lot's wife is metaphorically said to have crystallized into a pillar of salt through turning back in desire to what she ought to have renounced altogether, so in trying to serve Mammon and God at the same time the Roman Church has failed in both and, as the result of the false steps and abuses of centuries, the world is to-day a chaos of disunited sects and popular religious teaching is as materialistic as Masonry. It is a pity, for in its original design and practice Christianity was intended to serve as a system of initiation upon a catholic or universal scale, and to take over, supersede and amplify all that previously was taught, in a less efficacious way and to a more restricted public, in the Ancient Mysteries. It is not possible here to enter upon the extremely interesting questions involved in the transition from pre-Christian to Christian religion, or to explain why and how the Christian Mysteries are the efflorescence of the earlier ones and transcend them. In their central teachings, as in the philosophic method of life they demand, the two methods are identical. The differences between them are only such as are due to amplification and formal expression. Christianity came not to destroy, but to fulfil and expand. That fulfilment and expansion were consequent upon an event of cosmic importance which we speak of as The Incarnation. By that event something had happened affecting the very fabric of our planet and every item of the human family. What that something was and the nature of the change it wrought is too great and deep a theme to develop now, but, to illustrate it by Masonic symbolism, it was an event which is the equivalent of, and is represented by, the transference of the Sacred Symbol of the Grand Geometrician of the Universe from the ceiling of the Lodge, where it is located in the elementary grades of the Craft, to the floor, where it is found in the Royal Arch Degree surrounded with flaming lights and every circumstance of reverence and sanctity. How many Masons are there in the Order to-day who recognize that, in this piece of symbolism, Masonry is giving affirmation and ocular testimony to precisely the same fact as the churchman affirms when he recites in his Creed the words "He came down from heaven, and was incarnate and was made man?"
By a tacit and quite unwarranted convention the members of the Craft avoid mention in their Lodges of the Christian Master and confine their scriptural readings and references almost exclusively to the Old Testament, the motive being no doubt due to a desire to observe the injunction as to refraining from religious discussion and to prevent offence on the part of brethren who may not be of the Christian faith. The motive is an entirely misguided one and is negated by the fact that the "greater light" upon which every member is obligated, and to which his earnest attention is recommended from the moment of his admission to the Order, is not only the Old Testament, but the volume of the Sacred Law in its entirety. The New Testament is as essential to his instruction as the Old, not merely because of its moral teaching, but in virtue of its constituting the record of the Mysteries in their supreme form and historic culmination. The Gospels themselves, like the Masonic degrees, are a record of preparation and illumination, leading up to the ordeal of death, followed by a raising from the dead and the attainment of Mastership, and they exhibit the process of initiation carried to the highest conceivable degree of attainment. The New Testament is full of passages in Masonic terminology and there is not a little irony in the failure by modern Masons to recognize its supreme importance and relevancy to their Lodge proceedings and in the fact that in so doing they may be likening themselves to those builders of whom it is written that they rejected the chief Corner Stone. They would learn further that the Grand Master and Exemplar of Masonry, Hiram Abiff, is but a figure of the Great Master and Exemplar and Saviour of the world, the Divine Architect by whom all things were made, without whom is nothing that hath been made, and whose life is the light of men. If, in the words of the Masonic hymn:
"Hiram the architect
Did all the Craft direct
How they should build,"
it is equally true that the protagonist of the Christian Scriptures also taught universal humanity "how they should build" and reconstruct their own fallen nature, and that the method of such building is one which involves the cross as its working tool and one which culminates in a death and a raising from the dead. And, of those who attain their initiation and mastership by that method, is it not further written there that they become of the household of God and built into a spiritual temple not made with hands, but eternal and in the heavens and of which "Jesus Christ is the chief corner stone, in whom all the building, fitly framed together, groweth unto an holy temple builded for an habitation of God?"
Neither the Ancient Mysteries nor Modern Masonry, their descendant, therefore, can be rightly viewed without reference to their relation to the Christian evangel, into which the pre-Christian schools became assumed. The line of succession and evolution from the former to the latter is direct and organic. Allowing for differences of time, place and form of expression, both taught exactly the same truths and inculcated the necessity for regeneration. In such a matter there cannot be a diversity of doctrine. The truth concerning it must be static and uniform at all periods of the world's history.
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" Art on the contrary sought this harmony in practice (of art itself). More and more in its creations it has given inwardness to that what surrounds us in nature, until, in Neo-Plasticism, nature is no longer dominant. This achievement of balance may prepare the way for the fulfilment of man and signal the end of (what we call) art."
(1921/23), Michel Seuphor, Dell Publishing Co.,1964, p. 85
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The Trust is established in Great Britain under the title "Lucis Trust Ltd.", in Switzerland as "Lucis Trust Association", and in the Netherlands as the "Lucis Trust Stichting."
In order to place a closer focus on the work of the UN, the Lucis Trust has set up a new blog, World Goodwill at the UN, which will focus on defining new Sustainable Development Goals for humanity after 2015 when the Millennium Development Goals expire.
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William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice:
" The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
An evil soul producing holy witness
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,
A goodly apple rotten at the heart.
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath ! "
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Corpus Areopagiticum:
' However, does not a false harmony arise in this process? Have not we overlooked the existence of evil? Perhaps Dionysius has too brief an answer to this question. God cannot be the cause of evil. Good always begets good. Therefore, evil "is not any sort of objective reality." It has a completely deprivative significance. Evil exists not in and of itself, but in another; evil is something incidental for objective reality, something extra which does not enter into its essential definitions. Evil only destroys and therefore presupposes objective reality and good. Evil does not create anything and is not the authentic beginning of origins.
Therefore there can be no pure, unadulterated evil; there can be no "self-evil." Evil always presupposes good as its foundation and support. As creations of God, the demons themselves are not evil by nature; there is something positive in them — reality, movement, life. Evil cannot be an independent principle, for then it would have to be invariable. However, invariability and self-identity are properties only of good. Evil is a wasting disease and similar to darkening, but light always remains light and also shines in the dark without turning into darkness.
Nothing which exists is evil as such — neither is matter evil. Evil is disharmony, disorder, αταξια. But pure disharmony is impossible and a total absence of form and order is tantamount to non-existence. Matter is not total chaos — it is connected with order and forms. It has the power of birth and preservation. Not matter as such, but an attraction for what is lower, is the reason for evil in the soul. By itself, matter cannot hinder souls from striving for good. The beginning and end of evil things lies in good. In other words, evil does not so much exist as "be present"; it exists in and upon something else. Evil is parasitical; its cause is impotence — ασθένεια. In all evil deeds and phenomena we see primarily feebleness. Evil is a certain stepping out of the measures of nature and objective reality, a "defection from true goodness," an unjust and improper action, a certain "blending of the dissimilar." '
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Topic: Insects are everywhere. Photograph a bug in your environment (no spiders - they're arachnids). (@DeForestRanger)
OK, dear Crow, please help me find a bug in pouring rain when it's dark outside. And I do not plan to get soaked :)
So, there you go, a bug in (un)natural environment, with rain (or proof of presence thereof) in the background... I swear I'm going to submit a vindictive Daily Shoot subject proposal... errr... errr... sports cars!!! Maserati, to be precise. Revenge is sweet.
Strobist info: SB800 zoomed to 105mm, manual power of 1/64 through a homemade honeycomb grid coming from camera left to illuminate the bug. SB900 as fill to illuminate the board and blinds camera right, zoomed to 24mm, bare, bounced off the ceiling and the wall, manual power 1/128. The flashes triggered by the commander unit in the camera. Ambient light (streetlight) used to illuminate droplets of water on the window pane.
Postprocessing: SOOC (in my interpretation; it's a raw file converted to JPEG in Lightroom without editing)
PS. I'm sure DeForestRanger knows I'm only teasing. I won't submit impossible assignments. Contrary to what others do!
PPS. I won't be poisonously bitter anymore. No, really. OK, just a little.
PPPS. Seriously, I wanted to shoot a grasshopper or a fly or ants, or so. Well, stretching it a little, a little frog... But then, on my way back home on foot from the train station I needed to stop for 30 minutes and wait under some balcony for a merciful soul to pick me up. It's been raining cats and dogs for 2 hours or so. No chance to do this assignment today in Warsaw.
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In this episode, Karl Havens, Johnny Sisson and Simon Forster cover a multitude of topics including LTM39 vs SLR
lenses, a few f/1.2 lenses and as well the least informative review of the new Fuji X-H1 (a name which Simon forgets already).
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I just received the Ariel and Elsa LE 2500 Character Keys by Acme Archives. They are variants exclusively sold by Hot Topic online and in stores. They are not individually numbered, unlike the original LE 500 Character Keys sold directly by Acme Archives and at the Disney Parks. The variant images are also not as detailed as those on the original character keys. They retail for $24.95, versus $39 for the originals. They are 8'' W by 6'' H matted, with the image size 5.5'' W x 3.5'' H. I show them in their original packaging, and then removed from the packaging.
A Character Key is a Cel an animated movie character, together with illustrated descriptions of role of the character in the movie, as well as their physical and personality traits. An animation Cel consists of an image of a character printed on the backside of a clear acetate film, that is floating above a normally printed background scene and other graphics.
I have also ordered the Anna Character Key from Hot Topic, and should receive it shortly.
A scan of the issue for the Summer of 2009/2010 with 1986 Volvo B58 Wellington trolleybus No. 268 (now preserved in Foxton) on the cover, viewed at the Lambton Interchange bus hub along with Go Wellington yellow-liveried Designline-built trolleybuses that saw their last day of service on 31 October 2017.
Since the closure of the Wellington system, Foxton now has the distinction of the being the only place in NZ's North Island where one may still see the possibility of trolleybuses operating, albeit preserved examples of the trolleys that once operated in Wellington (including No. 268), on the township's small museum trolleybus system.
The new $8.6 million Te Awahou Nieuwe Stroom Dutch and Kiwi cultural centre opened in Foxton on Saturday, 18 November. It is the newest addition to the Te Awahou Riverside Cultural Park on Foxton's Main Street, which also includes the Whare Manaaki Māori gallery, Foxton Flax Stripper Museum and a Dutch windmill, and is the base for the town's horse-drawn tram.
With the new centre having put the town on the visitor map all that’s needed now to compliment the town’s attractions even more is a re-emergence of the trolleybuses that once ran around the local streets. Unfortunately, that is unlikely to happen in the immediate future. Those interested in seeing trolleybuses working will still need to travel to Ferrymead in Christchurch for that experience.
Tramway Topics published its final issue with No. 256, December 2015. Issue No. 1 was published in 1962.
After trying on this creepy mask at a Hot Topic outside of Lincoln and _not_ buying it, I regretted that decision, and so looked for it -- successfully -- at Lincoln's Hot Topic!
This is a new project in which I'm working in. The topic is "women", their mood, their soul, their pain, their faith and love. The inspiration for this project comes from my life in the last few years. When a woman starts feeling like a woman, the life suddenly gets deeper, the skin gets thiner and the dreams become the real objective that makes you wake up every day. Even if sometimes you feel the pain for a dream far from becoming real, the only thing that makes you move is that you have it. Is that you know the reason for which you have to fight on that day. And everyday is a new opportunity to generate a new sign...a new seed to generate happiness.
The sun is the shining love in my heart, the buldings are like a touch of rational side, but then the clouds again reminds me I'm a dreamer and I love my dream so much that I could love my dream for all my life.
Hot Topic (closed)
10101 Brook Road, Suite 304, Virginia Center Commons, Glen Allen, VA
This location opened in the early 2000s and closed in winter 2019; it was originally a Rave, which opened October 2nd, 1991 and relocated to the Sears/Macy's wing in the early 2000s. It became Mi Angel Palace in June 2022, which closed in October 2022.
For Our Daily Challenge topic - 'Typeography.'
For several years I worked part time running a letter press, setting type by hand, loading it into the 100 year old Chandler & Priice press and inserting the paper one sheet at a time in perfect harmony with the machine so that I did not get my fingers or hand smashed. I loved it and before going abroad I used to go in at night and do at least one letterpress project a year. I only have one sample with me now, the rest are in storage.
As a kid I loved to draw and color letters. I thought they were so beautiful each alone - and then there was all the magic that happened when they were put together. This summer I took a 3 month class to become a chaplain and I took all my notes and did all my homework by hand - a big divergence from my daily use of the computer. Sometimes, when I was working hard on a new concept I found myself doodling on the page and at times drawing an elaborate title, after my writing was finished, when the ideas were still too active for me to close my notebook. When I did these they just started with the first letter and grew - I did not plan or even know what I was drawing.
Captured at my local Home Depot in the lighting department.
Our Daily Challenge - More Light - 12/23/10
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Flag:Liberia
Vessel type:Bulk Carrier
Gross tonnage:35,300 tons
Summer DWT:60,000 tons
Length:199 m
Beam:32 m
Draught:7.5 m
Home port:Monrovia
Build year 2016
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Hot Topic
4554 Virginia Beach Boulevard, Suite 690, Pembroke Mall, Virginia Beach, VA
This location opened in the late 2000s and closed in winter 2021.
1989- Winston Phillips
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Hot Topic (1,768 square feet)
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Opened in 2003; originally 5-7-9 (opened in fall 1989), later Rolling Pin Kitchen Emporium (April 1995-early 2000s)
The crows are a very hot topic here. Just how do you get rid of them? Council wants a cull but that does not sit well with the animal activists.
Coronavirus is too depressing to dwell on. We need levity now more than ever. So, we're releasing a batch of photos that need humorous captions. Help us out. Here's a couple to get you started.
Tragedy ensued at the local marksmanship competition when the "...for heads of families ONLY" rule was badly misinterpreted.
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"Easter at the nudist colony."
Our Daily Topic - Vintage
right to left: my grandmother Pearla, my uncle Maximilian (Mordekhai), my grandfather Ruben, and my mother Dora (Deborah). my mother was born on 1943, so i'm guessing this photo was taken around 1950. i have a 7 years old nephew that looks a lot like my uncle in this photo...when i was a kid i looked a lot like my mom does here, but now i look more like my father... that's kinda weird.
anyway, i really love this photo. my grandparents were so beautiful, like movie stars from the 50's. Ruben died when i was 3 years old, so i didn't get to know him at all. he was a tailor, and on WWII he was forced to sew uniforms for the Red Army's soldiers, and that's what actually saved him and the rest of the family from the Nazis.
my mother loves to tell me, over and over again, about her father's pay-day - they would wear their fancy clothes and go to a fancy restaurant just to celebrate this day. this photo was taken on a day like that.
** a lot has been goin' on in my life lately, and now the final exams period is starting and i really want some good grades, so i'm gonna try to stay away from the internet for a while and focus on studying for a change. i'm not sure i'll be strong enough LOL. i'm too addicted to Flickr and Facebook...but i'll do my best. **
Original Photomatic portrait. Found in Ohio. The back states "You're always in the center of the news picture when you read HOSPITAL TOPICS. Souvenir of the A.H.A. Convention, Philadelphia, Sept. 15-18, 1952."
So, I don't really plan on making a Christmas wishlist with dolls because I honestly have no idea what dolls I like or want xD Because of this, I'm making a Hot Topic wishlist, as it is my favorite store xD I know I won't be able to get all this (I'm getting a gift card from my uncle for a pre paid Visa card...with like, 100 dollars on it as a combo for my birthday and Christmas) So yeah. And none of this is in order xD
1. High low black and white pullover- It looks so warm <3
2. "Freak" cropish shirt- I'm a freak. So, I need my shirt.
3. Once Upon A Time shirt- I always love that little part of a fairytale..Don't ask.xD
4. Zombies Make Better Boyfriends shirt- Just because I love the saying xD
5. Marked Book Series shirt- I love this book series, so obviously I'd love the shirt :3
6. Ariel tank top- I don't care if it's winter, Ariel looks awesome here and she's my top Disney girl <3
7. Stop F#@king Saying YOLO shirt- I hate that damn saying.
8. Farewell My Love shirt- Just found out about their band about a week ago, and I'm in love <3 Plus, I can always use a few new band shirts :3
9. I <3 Daryl Walking Dead shirt- I'm a huge Walking Dead fan, and Daryl is so freaking hot it's like...GAH. <333333333
10. This Is My Zombie Killing Hoodie jacket- I need a new jacket as my Gir one is wearing out and starting to rip :o
11. Vegetarian Before It Was Mainstream shirt- I'm a vegetarian, and idk, I've been eyeing this shirt for a while but I wasn't sure about it..But, I like it a lot now!
12. Adorkable shirt- Because I'm adorkable. And sexy. x"D
13. Swagg Doesn't Cure Ugly bracelet- Another saying/word I hate, and in my school EVERY PRISSY BITCH AND MANWHORE USES IT. So, eh.
14. Spock jacket- I died when I saw this. *___*
15. Purple beanie- Pretty self explanatory..
16. Where's Waldo hat- I LIKE EPIC HATS. c:
17. Red and black checkered armband- Again, self explanatory
18. Falling In Reverse Ronnie bracelet- I need more FIR merch, and I collect these rubber bracelets :3
19. Dubstep beaded bracelet set- I'm not a big fan of Dubstep, but the colors are awesome and I just like the bracelets overall..No, I don't care if it says sex on it. xD
20. Get In My Pants shirt- I found it funny. So, calm your cheese. <.< xD
21. Green Day shirt- I've never been able to find a good looking Green Day shirt and I stumbled across this on by accident, and I love it <3
22. CAAARRRLLL!!!! shirt- I know it's a male shirt, but I like Llamas With Hats too much to pass this up.
23. Blackheart neon body paint- Personally, I just want to see how it glows, and it would be fun to goof around with :3
24. Teal eye liner- Self explanatoryy.
25. Asking Alexandria wallet with attached chain- I love this wallet, and instead of just buying a seperate chain I cant have the wallet with it. I couldn't find any AA shirts that I liked, so this makes up for it :3
26. unicorn gloves- I'm a unicorn, that's why.
So yeah. I don't plan on being able to get all this, but I hope I can get at least 4 things off this list by the end of this year xD