1 year "Trainees Consilium 2006", 1 year of blogging!

Dear consilium trainee,
Our blog has an anniversary: 1 year! Can you imagine :)))
In order to celebrate it, we just moved to the New Blogger version. Yes, my dear trainee, if you want to continue to post, go to the old Blogger http://www.blogger.com/migrate-login.g and complete two simple steps:
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Paris in Vienna

For those who really want to know what happened with Paris in Vienna:

Hotel heirhead Paris Hilton had trash and lipstick tubes thrown at her during a publicity stop at a mall in Vienna. Paris left the stage in tears but later said the incident was "no big deal." Though a throng of screaming fans greeted her when she first appeared on stage, the event soon soured when other shoppers started throwing cigarette cases, tissues, and other objects at the girl.
Paris shouted, "Hello everybody, it's so good to see you. Happy late Valentine's Day!", and was quickly whisked away by security guards.
The Simple Life star was in Vienna to attend the prestigious annual Opera Ball with married geezer billionaire Richard Lugner. Predictably, Paris, who claims to love classical music, was reported to be very bored at the ball.
As for the garbage tossing incident, her host Lugner, who compared her to Marilyn Monroe and Princess Diana, simply told the press that it was sometimes a little rough being a celebrity.
After attending the Opera Ball, Paris and her parents are headed to the Tyrolean ski resort of Ischgl for her 26th birthday bash.

Happy Birthday Xiana!

"The Vienna Opera Ball" - "Alles Walzer"

The Vienna Opera Ball (Wiener Opernball in German) is an annual Austrian society event which takes place in the building of the Vienna State Opera on the Thursday preceding Ash Wednesday (tomorrow). Together with the New Year Concert, the Opera Ball is one of the highlights of the Viennese carnival season. The dress code is evening dress: white tie and tails for men; floor-length ballgowns for women.
Each year, almost overnight, the auditorium of the Vienna State Opera is turned into a large ballroom. On the eve of the event, the rows of seats are removed from the stalls, and a new floor, level with the stage, is built.
Austrian businessman Richard Lugner has attracted famous people as his guests to the ball. Among them have been for example Sophia Loren. In a joint venture, ORF and BR broadcast live from the ball for several hours each year.
The Opera Ball was first held in 1936, but was suspended during World War II. It was revived after the war; it has been held annually ever since, with the exception of 1991, when it was cancelled due to the Persian Golf War. Since 2001 Elisabeth Gürtler has been the chairlady (supervising organizer) of the Vienna Opera Ball.
In recent years, the Opernballdemo, a left-wing demonstration along the Ringstraße against the kind of capitalism represented by, as the protesters see it, many of the well-to-do guests at the Opera Ball, has regularly taken place on the same night. There have been occasional outbreaks of violence.
In 1995 Austrian writer Josef Haslinger published a novel entitled Opernball in which thousands of people are killed in a Neo-Naz terrorist attack taking place during that society event. The novel was the basis of a 1998 made- for-TV movie by Urs Egger with the same title.
The only ball officially associated with the Vienna Opera Ball is the Dubai Opera Ball. A similar, however not affiliated with the Vienna State Opera, ball takes place in New York City.

Debutantes at the Vienna Opera Ball

A lot of greetings from Vienna

Chris

One Year!

Coming soon... 1 year consilium trainee