The Graveyard Book is the story of Nobody Owens, called Bod, a boy who is raised by ghosts. When Bod was just a toddler the Man Jack slaughtered his family, but as a curious, adventurous child, he quite accidentally escaped that night and was rescued by the ghosts in the Graveyard up the hill. There, safely hidden from the Man Jack and the rest of the world, Nod grows up, makes friends, looses some of them, learns and saves the world.
The audio book was read by Neil Gaiman, which was lovely. He animated the text in a way that I don't think anyone else could and it was amazing.
I also really loved the book. The first chapter was great, I couldn't wait until the next one. Which was kind of a small, episodic story. And so was the next one. And the next one. And after a while I was getting worried that it was just going to be just a string of cute little stories but then it got pulled all together nicely in the end. It was beautiful.
The ghosts were amazing, and probably my favourite parts, the ghosts and the other monsters who are part of Nod's life. And he's a delightful little hero, written perfectly to match Nod's development. It's full of fun literary and historical jokes which I loved and did a really good job of delving into the deep history of England without ever beating you to death with it Edward Rutherford style.
Delightful, funny but maybe not a great kids book. It was also wordy and sometimes slow, with loads of description. Things that I enjoy as an adult, but I'm not sure I'd have plowed through as a child. I'd read it with high skilled readers I think, but probably not pitch it at every kid I ever saw.
Even if I loved it.
About Time I think. Most beautiful movie ever. So beautiful.
New experience: Vampire Sci Fi on CD!
My new, exciting librarian type job is great and I like it very much and it comes with a long commute. So I thought "Hey audiobooks!" And I have to say, I like them. I mean, I miss the smell of books and turning the pages and the snuggling aspect of the experience, but it's great to have someone else to read for you. And a super smart use of time.
So my audiobook virginity goes to the Immortal Rules, a story about Ally, an Unregistered who lives in the fringes of a vampire city, struggling to keep herself and her crew from starving and not getting bitten by any of the rulers of the city. Of course, it doesn't stay like this for long, and after a particularly terrible night she finds herself facing an impossible choice: die or become one of the race she hates the most, a vampire.
Obviously (spoiler) she chooses to become a vampire or else the book would be real short, and enters into another world, but not completely. Despite her undeadness and blood sucking nature she can't quite escape human feelings like love, compassion and loyalty, which drive her to do the most unvampire like things.
Man, it was good. It was a weird blend of mythology, mostly the vampire kind, and science fiction, where a pandemic is what leads to the post-apocalyptic dystopian Ally survives in. And it was positively delightful. Ally was a lovable heroine who struggles with her intense emotions, blood lust, duty and self preservation instincts and the supporting cast is great. Who doesn't love Zek and Kanan and even Caleb. It's a story of humanity in a world where it's mostly gone.
There's one big complaint I do have about it though, and that's the writing. As previously mentioned, I'm a snob. Any novel that uses the word "cacophony" three times minimum isn't winning any points for language use. And if I had a nickel for every time the phrase "hot blood flooded" was used, I'd never have to buy gas again. The world is vivid but the words are often clumsy, with dull sentence structures that quickly become patterns. The same collections of verbs and adverbs appear with the frequency of monsters dating Xander Harris.
I want it all. A great story, with real characters and language that's interesting.
Still, highly recommend and I can't wait for the next one. My god, that cliff hanger.
Spiderman II. I liked it. Even if the internet didn't.
Buffy. Oh god Tara. Why Tara why?
This book was great! In a well it was okay I guess I liked it kind of way.
I mean, it had most of your staples of solid science fiction. Strong female heroine, mysterious back story of earth, exciting and new tech and social issues all rolled into one story. Technically I think that's all you need right?
And I did enjoy it. Zoheret was a good heroine. The right mix of strong and feminine at the same time. Light love interest without it overwhelming the story. Flawed, mistake making but also with some admirable traits, like loyalty and protectiveness and stubbornness. She and the other kids she lives with have been grown and grow up on a spaceship, carrying them away from Earth on a mission to populate the universe. Humans were great and intelligent and driven to colonization after all (well, one of those is true anyway) but no one really understands the Project. They have a sentient ship, the ability to grow people from donated DNA and suspended animation. And there's a lot of discussion about how we treat the ill and disabled in our society, even what we define as "disabled", as well as what it really means to be human. You know, things that generally interest me.
But still, all I can muster is alright. I'd probably read the second, if I came across it somewhere and no one asked me for money for it. It was that good after all.
Where has Osama Been? Super interesting, if a little too warm and fuzzy. Funny though.
This graphic novel, with simple black and white pictures is the super complex story of the author, growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. As well as being a story about coming of age, cultural isolation, mental health and family, the thing that stuck with me the most was effect war can have, well past the physical trauma, to a place, a people and an individual, particularly on non-combatants.
The story follows Marjane from when she's about 10 years old. She grows up in a liberal household, with parents and family who support the Revolution, only to see it mutate into religious extremism. As a child she longs for stories about martyrs, but later learns a different truth about dying for the cause when her beloved uncle is executed by the new government. When she's 14 and Tehran is being bombed her parents send her to Vienna, to study but while there she struggles with her cultural heritage, puberty and crippling survivor's guilt until she becomes so isolated, sick and desperate that she returns home. But when she gets back, she finds she doesn't belong there either. Her friends and family have gone through years of war and her guilt about failing to make something of herself drives her deeper into depression, until she attempts suicide. But when she fails, Marjane starts to recover, attend school, fall in love, become politically active, eventually marry only to realize that she was never meant to belong to anyone else and starts her life again as a young woman and an artist.
It's a sad story, despite it's hopeful ending (presumably it's going well for the main character because the author looks happy in her picture on the cover). I think what upset and moved me most were the scenes of the children in the war. Marjane describes playing "torture" with her friends, where they'd try to force each other into giving up secrets through discomfort or pain. We talk about the ways children are hurt by war, often in terms of trauma inflicted, PTSD, displacement, loss and physical harm but this book made me wonder if maybe there is an in between space, for children who survive conflict without loosing a house or a loved one, but who forever carry reflections of human cruelty with them, even if it's only a child's game.
I also have a new appreciation for not living in a country where you can be arrested if you are out with your boyfriend who you have not yet married. That seems stressful.
Anyway, it really was a great read. Probably not great if you're having a rough week, but still, beautiful story.
The Empire Strike's Back. MAY THE 4TH BE WITH YOU.
Game of Thrones. Season 3. Episode 1. SO EXCITED.


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Frank H. Chapman (March 8, 1851 – June 29, 1923) was an American public official from Vermont. He served as Vermont's Deputy United States Marshal for more than 20 years (1901-1923), and was acting U.S. Marshal for Vermont for several days in 1903 following the removal of his predecessor.

Early life
Frank Hyde Chapman was born in Woodstock, Vermont on March 8, 1851, a son of druggist Charles Chapman and Emily Hyde (Whitney) Chapman. He was educated in Woodstock and his father trained him to join the family's pharmacy business. Chapman worked in Woodstock until 1880, when he moved to Rutland and purchased a drug store, which he operated as F.H. Chapman & Co. He later sold the store, after which he owned or worked at several other pharmacies in Rutland. In addition to working as a pharmacist and owning drug stores, Chapman also operated a real estate and insurance agency. A Republican, he served in local offices including assessor, member of the board of health, member of the liquor licensing commission, and justice of the peace.

Military service
Chapman joined the Vermont National Guard in 1881, and was appointed a hospital steward in 1884. During the Spanish–American War, he was commissioned a first lieutenant on the staff of Vermont's 1st Brigade, and provided advice and guidance on hygiene and medical support for troops preparing to serve overseas. During his military service, Chapman was credited with design and creation of a medical supply chest that became standard issue for Vermont National Guard units in the mid-1880s, and was fielded United States Army-wide beginning in the early 1890s. He continued to serve until retiring in 1903. During and after his retirement, Chapman was the treasurer of the unit fund for Rutland's Company A, 1st Vermont Infantry Regiment, a post he held for a total of 42 years.

Deputy U.S. Marshal
In 1901, Fred A. Field, the U.S. Marshal for Vermont, appointed Chapman as his deputy. Chapman remained in the position until 1923, serving under Field and his successors Horace W. Bailey and Arthur P. Carpenter. When Field's commission was terminated in 1903 after prisoners in his custody effected an escape, Chapman was appointed acting Marshal by Vermont's federal district judge, Hoyt H. Wheeler. He served for several days until Bailey was named as the permanent replacement for Field.

When Bailey became marshal, he reappointed Chapman as deputy. Bailey was in poor health beginning in 1907, which led to the amputation of both his feet, one in 1907 and one in 1913. Chapman performed the U.S. Marshal's duties during Bailey's prolonged absences.

Chapman's health began to fail in early 1923. He resigned as deputy in May and was succeeded by Esther E. Anderson, who had previously served as an assistant to Fred S. Platt, the clerk of Vermont's U.S. District Court.

Death and burial
Chapman was unhappy about his declining health and on June 28, 1923 he attempted suicide by drowning himself in his bathtub. He was rescued by his nurse, but after she fell asleep on the morning of June 29, Chapman killed himself by going to the basement of his home, using a razor to slash arteries in his legs, and cutting his throat. He was buried at Evergreen Cemetery in Rutland.

Family
In 1885, Chapman married Florence E. Clark (1863-1905). They were the parents of two children, son Charles H. Chapman (1888-1925) and daughter Mildred C. Chapman (1891-1965).

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Pleocnemia submembranacea (Hayata) Tagawa & K.Iwats., Acta Phytotax. Geobot. 26: 61. 1974; Tagawa & K.Iwats., Fl. Thailand 3: 386. 1988; Boonkerd & Pollawatn, Pterid. Thailand: 207. 2000. – Aspidium submembranaceum Hayata, Ic. Pl. Formos. 4: 188, f. 126. 1914. – Type: Hayata & Sasaki s.n. (TI), Urai, Taiwan.
Pleocnemia winitii Holttum, Reinwardtia 1: 181. 1951; Holttum, Kew Bull. 29: 354. 1974; Tagawa & K.Iwats., SouthE. Asian Stud. 5: 100. 1967. – Type: Winit 36 (SING), Lampang.
Tectaria leuzeana auct. non (Gaudich.) Copel.: Bedd., Handb. Ferns Brit. India: 228. 1883, p.p.; C.Chr., Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 26: 331. 1931; Tardieu & C.Chr., Fl. Indo-Chine 7(2): 405. 1941.
Rhizome thick, short, erect, scaly near apex; scales about 20 by 1 mm, dark brown, more or less crisped, entire or irregularly toothed at margin. Stipes castaneous and densely scaly at base, stramineous, pubescent or glabrescent upwards. Laminae more than 1 m long, tripinnatifid; pinnae asymmetrically oblong-subdeltoid to oblong-lanceolate, acuminate at apex; rachis and pinna-rachis pubescent on upper surface; basal basiscopic pinnules of lower pinnae sometimes enlarged, pinnate with deeply lobed secondary pinnules; the other pinnules subtriangular, widest at base, gradually narrowing towards caudate apex, commonly about 10 by 3.5 cm, stalked, lobed to 4/5 way towards costule, the lower segments sometimes free; segments oblong-subdeltoid, moderately acute at apex, more or less serrate at margin; chartaceous, green, brownish in dried specimens; veins anastomosing forming costal and costular areoles, or with one more row of areoles outside the costular ones, sparsely hairy beneath. Sori dorsal on veins, in one to two rather irregular rows at each side of midrib, exindusiate, sporangia with glands.
NORTHERN: Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Lampang, Phitsanulok.
N India, Burma, Indochina, China (Hainan, Hong Kong) and Taiwan.
On humus rich mountain slopes usually near streams in dense forests at medium altitudes.


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SAP Extreme Sailing Team on the March in Singapore
– Shuffling the pack: SAP Extreme Sailing Team and Red Bull Sailing Team sail smart and fast to finish day two at the Extreme Sailing Series™ season opener in first and second place. Find out how they did it with the SAP sailing analytics here.
– New year new mindset. Pete Cumming, former Series winner, gives his thoughts on SAP Extreme Sailing Teams stand out day. Watch the video.
– The runners and riders: Watch the 2015 Form Guide here.
– Replay the day's Stadium Racing here with Land Rover Global Brand Ambassador Hannah White and watch the penultimate day's racing live from 1600 local time, www.extremesailingseries.com
SAP Extreme Sailing Team sailed a near faultless day on day two of the Extreme Sailing Series™ in Singapore, clearly relishing the inner city stadium racecourse, and striding ahead into first place – a day topped off by winning the Aberdeen Challenge Trophy. The Danish team were the stand out performers of the day, clocking up more points than any other, and their co-skipper and helm Jes Gram Hansen was quietly confident ahead of the penultimate day's racing tomorrow.
"There's still a long way to go and anything can happen in Singapore, but we're really happy to be leading halfway through the regatta. It's no secret that last year was a disappointing season for us so it would be great to get a good result here. Two years ago we were on the podium in Singapore, so we'd love for that again this year. We know we can do it, we just have to focus on the things we know."
Red Bull Sailing Team were also on fire and threatening the lead all day, with two race wins for the formidable duo of Roman Hagara and Hans Peter Steinacher and the team with the distinct charging bull on their sail from Austria boosting them up the leaderboard at the end of play. Speaking after racing, Hagara commented on the new team formation. "We are a great mixture of guys on board now. On one hand it is the experience and knowledge of Hans peter and myself. On the other hand it is the power of the young guns. They know no limits. This is the thoughest sailing competition on planet earth. There is no other regatta, where you need to win or sail constantly in 30 races, over four days, to end up on the top of the podium. As always, the winner in Singapore will be chosen in the final race of the regatta"
As a two-times champion looking for a hat-trick of titles on what is an eight-regatta circuit in 2015, McMillan and the team on The Wave, Muscat had an unrewarding day, with a yo-yo performance by their exacting standards, that saw them relinquish their day one lead to finish the day in third – but just one point behind the Austrians.
In a programme of six races plus the Aberdeen Challenge knock-out trophy, racing was made unpredictable by the city's ring of tall buildings that saw inconsistent performances from the majority of the fleet in the light conditions. But ultimately, the experienced hands got the measure of the track, with four returning skippers claiming the top positions including Igor Lisovenko and Gazprom Team Russia under helmsman Phil Robertson. Robertson summed up the day:
"This is the trickiest racecourse I've ever sailed on. It was a tough day, but we were never really out of the top five so that was the consistency we were looking for. Then we had a few fifth places, which cut us deep but overall we did well. Over the next two days we just need to continue to start well and then try and string the rest of the race together."
The light conditions also played in favour of British 49er sailor Stevie Morrison and the team on Oman Air who took their first race win of the season to upgrade their overnight position from seventh to fifth, and are now tied on points with Lino Sonego Team Italia, with Beko Team Turx another eight points back.
"It was great to win a race but winning the regatta is about performing consistently not just winning one race," said the British Olympic sailor. "We are a new team and this shows we have a lot of potential. If we can beat everyone, in theory we can do it again and again but we all know it's not as easy as that so it is all about establishing some consistency."
The local entry Team Aberdeen under skipper and round the world sailing legend Nick Moloney with Aussie Adam Beashel in the driving seat also had a better day, breaking into the top half of the fleet and adding 40 points to their tally. The locals are tied on points with the Aussies on GAC Pindar, who will be left feeling frustrated tonight, after they struck the sea wall in the pre-start of the second race of the day, breaking their bowsprit and knocking them out of the following four races.
Tomorrow the fleet head into the business end of the regatta, with just two days racing left at the opening Act of the season as all the teams look to establish a hold on the leaderboard as a sign of intent for the season ahead. Watch the racing live from 1600 local time, www.extremesailingseries.com.
Extreme Sailing Series™ Act 1 Singapore standings after Day 2, 15 races (06.02.15)
Position / Team / Points
1st SAP Extreme Sailing Team (DEN) Jes Gram-Hansen, Rasmus Køstner, Thierry Douillard, Mads Emil Stephensen, Brad Farrand 111 points.
2nd Red Bull Sailing Team (AUT) Roman Hagara, Hans Peter Steinacher, Jason Waterhouse, Shaun Mason, Stewart Dodson 104 points.
3rd The Wave, Muscat (OMA) Leigh McMillan, Sarah Ayton, Pete Greenhalgh, Ed Smyth, Nasser Al Mashari 103 points.
4th Gazprom Team Russia (RUS) Igor Lisovenko, Phil Robertson, Garth Ellingham, Alexander Bozhko, Aleksey Kulakov 97 points.
5th Oman Air (OMA) Stevie Morrison, Nic Asher, Ted Hackney, Ed Powys, Ali Al Balashi 89 points.
6th Lino Sonego Team Italia (ITA) Lorenzo Bressani, Enrico Zennaro, Gabriele Olivo, Tom Buggy, Adam Kay 89 points.
7th Beko Team Turx (TUR) Mitch Booth, Selim Kakış, Diogo Cayolla, Anıl Berk Baki, Cem Gözen 81 points.
8th GAC Pindar (GBR) Seve Jarvin, Jack Macartney, Marcus Ashley-Jones, Tyson Lamond, James Wierzbowski 64 points.
9th Team Aberdeen (SIN) Nick Moloney, Adam Beashel, Tom Dawson, Freddie White, Justin Wong 64 points.

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IT professionals who handle global networks need to know how to manage service provider relationships. This article explains how to be your own MSP.
In my previous article on managing service provider relationships for multicarrier networks, I provided questions to ask your service provider in order to assess whether they can act as a managed service provider or network integrator. In this article, I will discuss how to manage service provider relationships on your own if they fail to work with you in reducing network complexity.
If you cannot negotiate for your dominant service provider to give you a single point of responsibility, there's no choice but to manage service providers yourself. The key here is to recognize that you will need to define every provider boundary point between you and each service provider (and, if appropriate, between providers that are interconnecting on your behalf). Once those boundary points are identified, establish an integration policy for each. An integration policy is a plan to cover each of the FCAPS points -- fault, configuration, accounting, performance and security management. Any problem or change that impacts the boundary point should be covered in the integration policy plan, with a clear delineation of your role, the provider's role and the way disputes will be arbitrated. In nearly every case, the starting point in implementing that plan is boundary monitoring by both parties, which means either monitoring probes at both sides of an interface or the use of a shared and trusted monitoring tool.
The biggest issue in network boundary monitoring is securing adequate management data on intercarrier linkages, so when self-integration appears the only choice, it's important to find out just what operators are willing to provide for these critical interconnect points. Lack of reasonable data at a given boundary will make problem isolation nearly impossible, though it's sometimes possible to gather enough information from endpoints to deduce whether a problem exists in one interconnected network or the other. Here, though, there is a real risk that one or more operators won't agree with this sort of deductive reasoning.
Is it time to switch service providers? Follow this flow chart to find out.
The final way to manage service provider relationships is to manage your service-level agreements (SLAs). Apart from the issue of boundary monitoring to determine the source of problems, multiprovider networks often raise the issue of jurisdiction and adjudication. Where only one country is involved, this can be problem enough if local regulations and contract law varies (as it does in the U.S.), but major problems can be expected where international networks are involved. Even if one provider is prepared to take the lead and act as an integrator, it may be necessary to write an arbitration clause into an SLA and define the specific organization and country in which arbitration is to take place. Otherwise there's a risk of contract issues hanging up on differences in interpretation between your geography and that of the network operator.
Most large companies today can't avoid multiprovider networks, and as specialized access providers and cloud providers proliferate, such networks will become both more common and more complicated over time. Only careful planning can prevent the kind of finger-pointing that's created more than a few jokes, but sadly more than a few project failures as well.
Learn how to manage WAN services with your cloud service providers in the last article of this series.


When the Hermannshütte closed in 2001, a long-standing chapter in the mining and steel history of Dortmund-Hörde, came to an end. Since 1843, as much as 300.000 tons of steel had rolled out of the blast furnaces each month.
With the transformation of the industrial brownfield site into the future PHOENIX world, the City of Dortmund tackled one of the most discerning construction tasks in the region directly after operations discontinued. The PHOENIX West ground, covering some 110 hectares, were to be converted into a commercial and services park, and the 98 hectares of PHOENIX Ost into high-end residential and commercial areas – with LAKE PHOENIX (approx. 24 hectares) as the eye-catching centre of things. ZPP was closely involved from the very start.
The specialists at ZPP were closely involved from the very first phase of the project onwards. The engineering JV formed by ZPP and its partners was commissioned to prepare an extensive modernisation plan. To this end, wide-ranging geological and hydrological studies had to be made to assess possible dangers, and in particular a sustainable soil and groundwater concept had to be developed.
In the definitive modernisation plan the key foundations were laid for the subsequent service phases, including obtaining the relevant official permits and approvals. It covered design planning and approvals planning as well as concepts for monitoring and follow-up as well as detailed schedules and budgets.
Images photographed with courtesy of the City of Dortmund.
Later on, ZPP was then commissioned by PHOENIX See Entwicklungsgesellschaft to plan various properties and load-bearing structures – for example for the dismantling of brownfield plant and to develop a guideline for soil management around the lake and renaturation of the River Emscher. And it was certainly worthwhile: Today, Lake PHOENIX is one of the most desirable residential districts in Dortmund and a popular recreational area.
Whenever we are asked about what differentiates ZPP from all other engineering companies, we always give the same answer: our consequent interdisciplinary thinking and acting, our many established specialists and our eye for the bigger picture.


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Kita Bisa: A Collective Effort to Move Mountains
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One of the things standing in the way between an idea and its realization is resources. As a nation, Indonesia has an impressive range of resources, be it natural, social and even monetary. What we might be lacking is the connectedness of resources to produce something great. Without connectivity, our individual resources are limited to merely the people who know where to go and what to do about it.
In this Internet era, the word 'connect' is taken to a whole new level. The Internet connects not only people but their resources and their potentials to make something great — together! Now isn't that the spirit of the country — gotong royong?
Think of the last event you went to; that two or three-hour event probably took months of planning, people donating their brainpower, and multiple other factors to execute. When a project or event is well organized, carefully thoughtout and strategically planned, then you really only need one more piece of resource: money. Waiting around for an anonymous donator to fall out of the sky, while clinging to all hope on the concept of 'build it, and they will come', can only go so far; there must be another way to fly in some funds for a project.
The good people of Kita Bisa are aware of this predicament. Instead of depending on a single donator, Kita Bisa utilizes the power of mass appeal; they connect the needs of a project to the whole of Indonesia's (and the world's) resources. Kita Bisa bridges the resources of many to support the creation and innovation of projects in Indonesia.
Kita Bisa is an online crowd-funding platform that serves as an information hub for ongoing projects in Indonesia, as well as a vessel through which the practical opportunity to donate money for said project is available. The website is accessible from practically anywhere in the world and uses payment methods such as Paypal and credit card transactions.
Following the success of similar online crowd-funding platforms in the USA such as Kickstarter, Kita Bisa works to replicate the effect in Indonesia, catering to projects in need of financial support in the humanity, social and environmental sector. The initial idea of creating Kita Bisa came from Alfatih Timur (Timmy) during his last year as a student at University of Indonesia in 2012. The website launched on 6 July 2013, following the support of Timmy's mentor, Professor Rhenald Kasali.
Kita Bisa's first project was one of its most successful to date; the #savemaster project. The word 'master' is short for Masjid Terminal, which is what a particular Jakarta school for marginalized children was called, for its location was near a mosque and a train station. The school was in danger of being relocated by the government. A couple of students from University of Indonesia who were concerned with this news set up a petition on change.org to overturnthe government's decision on relocating the precious school and partnered up with Kita Bisa for a fundraising campaign through its website www.kitabisa.co.id. The result was a staggering US$12,000, which helped the school to remain at its original location and to improve its facilities.
The Kita Bisa machine is powered by people who keep projects such as these close to heart. They identify themselves as the 'doers' in the Kita Bisa system. As one of the doers, Vikra Ijas, who is mainly in charge of marketing and partnerships, said about the platform, "I am convinced that Kitabisa is something that will be a game-changer, and there is an inherent need for it in a developing nation like Indonesia. In short, it's about putting the 'power' back to the people to decide what and who should get funded." The website's layout is fun and exciting, and very much stimulates the spirit of giving. The design is crafted by Kita Bisa's partner, Fajrin Rasyid and his superb team from Suit Media.
Like other crowd-funding websites, Kita Bisa's revenue comes from a small percentage of the funds coming in for a project. These impactful projects have funding goals that range from a couple of million Rupiah to hundreds of millions of Rupiah. To successfully fund a project through crowd-funding platforms such as this, cooperation from project managers to promote and disseminate their fundraising campaign is a crucial aspect in order to successfully reach their funding goals. "It comes down to educating users and project owners on how to utilize the platform and get the most out of crowd funding. Because when we all make a collaborative effort, we can achieve things beyond our imagination," explained Vikra.
Donators are rewarded not only by the sheer joy of helping a project in need, some projects give fun and creative compensative perks, such as merchandise, opportunities to meet or dine with influential figures, or tickets to the project's events. All of the perks are typically tailored to the amount of funds donated.
Kita Bisa is transitioning to its 2.0 site, scheduled to be launched on 1 September 2014. Coupled with this exciting new version, Kita Bisa has many projects in line to partner with, such as a youth leadership event that will feature Muhammad Yunus, a local startup business that processes kain perca (shredded/used fabric) into cool new products, and their biggest campaign yet, which is to raise funds for a blood donor mobile unit, in collaboration with the Indonesian Red Cross.
Kita Bisa, or literally 'We Can' in English, is a slogan that in itself promotes a spirited can-do attitude — a collective effort. The efforts of many could move mountains; mountains that may be hard to climb when you're by your lonesome self. Together, it's a piece of cake of a climb. Kita Bisa!
Visit the website www.kitabisa.co.id and see the success stories for yourself — how projects and ideas turn into a reality. Your project could be one of them!
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Alyoshkino () is a rural locality (a selo) in Goncharovsky Selsoviet, Fyodorovsky District, Bashkortostan, Russia. The population was 240 as of 2010. There are 4 streets.

Geography
Alyoshkino is located 14 km west of Fyodorovka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Goncharovka is the nearest rural locality.

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Rural localities in Fyodorovsky District


Hiking can get expensive, but going with an entry-level pair of hiking boots can keep your costs down and your feet comfortable out on the trail. Here's where to start your search.
According to the American Society of Landscape Architects, Americans spent $646 billion on outdoor activities in 2012. American men spent $26.2 billion on shoes in 2016, while women spent around $30 billion — so it comes as no surprise that consumers spend a lot on hiking shoes.
As a hiker trying to save money, you're probably used to seeking out the best deals. But buying cheap hiking boots can be risky. How do you know if the boot is comfortable, durable, or high-quality?
Here's a look at six of the best hiking boots that retail for $100 or less. Whether you're just getting started hiking, or have a few summits under your belt, you'll find high-value boots that offer plenty of miles at an entry-level price point.
Moab stands for Mother-Of-All-Boots, Merrell explains, and this versatile mid-vent boot easily proves how it got the name. Made of 100% suede leather and mesh, the boot features a removable insole. The mesh lining is breathable to keep air circulating around your foot no matter how hot and sticky the weather.
The men's boot comes in hunter green, black, and gray/blue, while the women's is offered in brown/purple or taupe. A fairly durable boot, the Moab 2 features Vibram traction to help you keep your balance on the trails. However, it is not waterproof, and many customers have reported frustration and complications with its lacing system.
Timberland's Mt. Maddsen Mid Waterproof Hiking Boots are packed with technologies to keep your foot dry, comfortable, and stable. The eco-conscious waterproof membrane (it's made with 50% recycled plastic bottles) helps your foot stay dry and still allows for good breathability. An anti-fatigue technology is also built into the midsole.
This boot is designed for people who are on their feet all day, and this technology gives you a good energy return, good shock absorption, and plenty of standing comfort. Reviews applaud the Mt. Maddsen for being comfortable, lightweight, and appropriate for any kind of terrain.
Women can choose from a brown full-grain or gray full-grain shoe, while the men's boot comes in light brown, medium brown, dark brown, or black.
This hiking boot touts two trademark features: Techlite™, a midsole technology providing comfort, cushioning, and a high energy return; and Omni-Grip™, the rubber outsole providing good traction without leaving marks. The shoe's upper is made of leather and mesh, and overall, the boot is sturdy and waterproof.
Men's sizes range from seven to 17 (including half sizes up to 11.5), and the women's boot runs from size five to 12. If the boot ends up not working out for you, Columbia allows returns within 60 days of the purchase date.
With the Targhee II, Keen has created a hiking boot that will keep your feet dry and give you good traction on any kind of terrain. The footbed is specially designed to fit the natural contours of your foot, and the heel has a pull tab to help you easily slide the shoe on.
The Targhee II is available in a variety of colors, and in addition to looking stylish, your ankle will be well-supported because of the mid-cut height. Keen recommends ordering a half size larger than what you'd normally wear, as both the men's and women's shoe has been running small. This hiking boot costs over $100 on Keen's website, but you can find some models on Amazon for under $100.
This waterproof boot is comfortable, durable, and will provide good support for your foot no matter how many miles you're planning to hike. Meant for day hiking or hiking with a light pack, the boot has athletic cushioning to keep you comfortable, and the UltraDry™ technology keeps you safe from puddles or rain as well.
The original list price on the Talus is over $100, but a quick search on Amazon will produce the same boot for $100. The men's boot comes in two color schemes: brown with red accents, or gray with yellow accents. The women's Vasque Talus Trek also has two options — tan with pink accents and dark brown with tan accents.
Lightweight but sturdy, the shoe's outsole has extra rubber that gives you better traction. The length is true to size and the heel cup, sculpted mid-foot, and wide toe box all provide support and comfort for when you hit the trails. Both the men's and women's boots have favorable reviews and reputations within the outdoor industry.
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Bangor's European Adventure Kicks Off
By LJ Taylor on	 June 29, 2017 Sport
Tonight Bangor City travel to Denmark as they hope to progress through the Europa League qualifying rounds.
The Citizens come up against tough competition in Lyngby BK, who finished third place in the Danish Superliga last season. The first leg, which kicks off at 16.30 BST, will mark new city manager, Kevin Nicholson's first competitive game with the Bangor outfit.
Bangor qualified for the Europa League after a 1-0 win over Cardiff Met in the Playoff Final in May, securing their return to European competition for the first time since the 2013-14 season.
The match could see a number of new signings make their first appearance for city, whilst newly appointed assistant manager, Gary Taylor-Fletcher, is sure to play a part.
The second leg against Lyngby will take place next Thursday, and Bangor will hope to come away from tonight still in with a chance of qualifying when they are back in front of their faithful fans.
Whilst Bangor are in Denmark, fellow WPL team Connah's Quay will begin their qualifying campaign in another tough fixture against Helsinki. That game will be played at the Bangor University Stadium and kicks off at 19.00.
Tonight's Bangor game will be broadcast on Danish TV and fans should hopefully be able to watch it online at www.tv3sport.dk
Tickets for the reverse fixture next week are available from the stadium's club office and are priced at £15 for adults of £10 for concessions (including students).
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And They Danced – Coming alive with music and contra dance
June 26, 2019 By Kate Abbott Photos by Christina Rahr Lane No Comments
People are dancing in the kitchen of an old farmhouse. They are laughing, spilling from one room to another, negotiating the uneven wood floor. The tunes come from a fiddle, an accordion, a group of musicians playing by ear, moving from one tune to another with a nod.
Growing up in North Bennington, Vermont, Matthew Christian would come to family dances in New Hampshire. He remembers the informality and the skill of it. The musicians would let him sit in, and his grandmother knew Dudley Laufman—a renowned caller and musician who has been keeping contra dance alive since the 1950s. (He is 89 years old and lives in Canterbury, New Hampshire.) Christian is now a musician in Brooklyn, New York, on fiddle, foot percussion and guitar; he performs regular gigs in Irish and traditional music. From 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. on July 13, he will play for a new monthly North Berkshire Community Dance series at the Williamstown Community Preschool on the corner of routes 2 and 43.
The tradition stretches from coast to coast and back more than 400 years. A caller teaches a series of simple moves, and people dance in lines with partners facing one another. The live music has a solid beat and quick melody. Contra dancing has grown in the Berkshires through the last century, and in the 21st century, it is a living tradition. Musicians are playing with harmonies in barn lofts and graduate programs. Composers are creating new reels and searching for old ones handed down. People are making a living in it, making friends, some meeting their life partner on the dance floor.
"Where else can you take a stranger in your arms, look into their eyes and swing them around the room?" asks Neal Chamberlain, an organizer of the long-running dance at Dewey Hall in Sheffield. His daughter has become a professional caller, and many who run the Sheffield dance are young, in their 20s.
The dance at Dewey Hall has been ongoing for more than 35 years and expanded this spring from four to eight dances a year. In Lenox, contra dancing has been going strong for more than 15 years, including an even younger group of people forming there and in nearby Chatham, New York: children and teens who dance fluently and talk together on the steps on warm nights. On the third Saturday of every month, people of all ages gather at the Lenox Community Center. On July 20 from 8 to 11 p.m., Chuck Abell will be on fiddle, Danny Elias on clarinet and doumbek, and Marnen Laibow-Koser on piano, with caller Donna Hunt.
The new North Berkshire dance grows out of that overflowing energy, says Doone MacKay of North Adams, president of the volunteer board. Earlier dances ran for years in Bennington and North Adams, and a conversation last fall sparked a revival. She met John Seto, a board member of the Country Dance and Song Society, when he traveled from California to North Adams to restore an apartment on Quincy Street. The Berkshires now sees a dance almost every weekend, and major festivals thrive nearby—including the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival from August 3 to 5 in Hillsdale, New York. They offer one of the few chances people have now to dance to live music—and one of the few chances musicians have to play for dancers.
Playing music for dancers is a high like nothing else, MacKay says. As a student at Williams College 20 years ago, she met a group of students who would go regularly to the weekly dances that still happen in Greenfield every Friday and Saturday night. They created their own band and college dances, she says. They shared the music the way they shared late-night conversations, playing reels on the marble stairs of the college music building and walking barefoot up a mountain at 3 am.
The music became the core of a creative life and community. MacKay was working at a local farm then and learning to play the fiddle, and she enjoyed the form and rhythm of the dance music. MacKay became aware of a growing community of musicians who were involved in professional dance bands and local jams.
The music keeps evolving. "You have the old jigs and reels," Chamberlain says, "but the tone and speed, the instrumentation and variety coming out of bands today is amazing."
He recalls a dance with multi-instrumentalist Jamie Oshima and piano, violin and harpist Clara Constance Stickney. "The two of them look at each other and you can see the music moving back and forth between them," he says. When the dancers spun to the end of the dance, the room erupted in spontaneous applause.
"When the dancers are enjoying the music, you can palpably feel that energy rise," says Sue Burns from the Lenox dance.
The band feels it, too, and the energy can build like a wave. It's rare today, McKay says, for musicians to share that kind of language and improvise. Riffing on a Quebeçois reel, a fiddler can keep the beat and the bassline and let the melody take off running. She hopes to encourage musicians, as Lenox has encouraged new callers with workshops and informal dances where they can try out dances they are learning—or new dances they are inventing.
Contradance is playful in its soul. "You learn it as you go," Sue Burns says. "It's a dance—just laugh. You don't have to come with someone, and you don't have to know what you're doing. Just come."
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In the late afternoon on the Friday before Christmas, de V.S.. Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) proposed a regulation introducing data collection and reporting requirements for cryptocurrency. FinCEN gave the public only 15 days to comment, over the holidays, instead of the usual 60 dagen. This was a clear attempt to push through a midnight regulation without giving the public time to respond, and it backfired. Despite the short timeline, ongeveer 7,500 people and entities submitted comments decrying the proposal, the most FinCEN has received on any proposed rulemaking. The comments on this proposal constitute nearly 70% of all comments FinCEN has received on all rule-makings since 2008 gecombineerd.
Marta Belcher, a cryptocurrency and civil liberties attorney, is special counsel to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, general counsel to Protocol Labs and an attorney at Ropes & Gray. She is also Board Chair of the Filecoin Foundation and the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web. Her views are her own.
So many people spoke up about this proposed regulation because it is a blatant violation of civil liberties. The proposal would require certain businesses like cryptocurrency exchanges to collect identity data not just about their own customers but also about non-customers who transact with their customers, and to keep that data and hand it over to the federal government when the transactions exceed a certain amount. This would give the government access to troves of sensitive financial data, going well beyond FinCEN's requirements for non-cryptocurrency transactions.
In aanvulling op, the regulation would give the government far more data than what the regulation itself even contemplates. The proposed regulation would give the government the identities associated with cryptocurrency wallet addresses. Because of the nature of public blockchains, that means the government would know the identity associated with all transactions for those wallet addresses, even when the amounts of those transactions are far below the reporting threshold.
In the Electronic Frontier Foundation's comment on FinCEN's proposal, Rainey Reitman, Danny O'Brien, Aaron Mackey and I argue that the proposed regulation violates the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
The Fourth Amendment requires that law enforcement obtain a warrant supported by probable cause before conducting a search or seizure. So why is it that, in the traditional financial system, law enforcement can engage in mass surveillance of bank customers without a warrant? The answer is the third-party doctrine – the idea that people do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the data that they share with a third party like a bank. In 1976, de V.S.. Supreme Court held in U.S. v. Miller that the Bank Secrecy Act (as it was implemented at the time) did not violate the Fourth Amendment because of this third-party doctrine.
But I believe the Court would come to a different decision if faced with FinCEN's proposed regulation – or, inderdaad, the mass surveillance that we have come to accept as normal in today's banking system. Even in the 1970s, the Supreme Court justice who authored Miller wrote in another case that "financial transactions can reveal much about a person's activities, associations and beliefs. At some point, governmental intrusion upon these areas would implicate legitimate expectations of privacy." Since Miller, the government has greatly expanded the Bank Secrecy Act's reach – and the 1976 decision was an as-applied challenge of the law as it was implemented at the time. FinCEN's proposed regulation goes even beyond FinCEN's other activities in non-cryptocurrency contexts.
More important, in the decades since Miller, the Supreme Court has issued strong pro-privacy opinions in multiple cases, chipping away at the third-party doctrine in the context of the digital world. Bijvoorbeeld, it held in Carpenter v. ONS. that law enforcement must have a warrant to obtain location information from a cell phone company. The information that could be gleaned from bank data in the 1970s is a world away from the detailed picture of a person's life that can be painted with access to digital financial transactions today.
Our financial transactions provide an intimate window into our lives – what organizations we donate to, what books and products we buy, who we support and even where we go. Recent images from the Hong Kong protests show pro-democracy protesters waiting in long lines at subway stations to purchase tickets with cash so their electronic purchases would not place them at the scene of the protest. These photos underscore the importance of financial privacy, and why we must protect our Fourth Amendment rights in the context of financial transactions.
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This woman from Florida used to be married to notorious murderer George Zimmerman before the great zombie epidemic that lead to Zimmerman's identification as patient zero and subsequent arrest after shooting and injuring an unidentified white child. She also worked for Kickstarter, and met her end there when the Washington Redskins *check link* attacked them silently in the night and burned their fortress down. She hasn't been seen since.
In the show, Mrs. Zimmerman is very loving and shares a close resemblance to Brad Pitt's wife in the film World War Z and the related parody in Cartman's dream.
...but in reality, George Zimmerman has no children and is divorcing his real life wife Shellie, who also looks different.


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That's why all vehicles, including vehicles, come equipped with a fuel filter. The job of the filter is to clean out little pieces of dirt and contamination. The filter captures the contaminants and keeps them out of the fuel stream. Of course, like all filters, it will eventually get clogged up and need to be replaced at PDR in Urbana.
Urbana drivers may find that they need to change their fuel filter at PDR more frequently as their vehicle ages. Over the years, additional sediment and rust accumulates in the fuel tank and can be drawn into the fuel system. Your fuel filter stands guard at the gates to your engine to protect parts and to maintain performance.


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A random button would be awesome at the top of the page by the categories. Press it and a random ible pops up I think alot of people would use it, I know I would.
Hey everybody! Have you tried the random button already? I suggest you do and replie here with which ible came first in line after clicking on RANDOM. I'll put the first 11 together in a guide. Who's in?
Instructables is in desperate need of a "Random Ible" button. I find that about 90% of the time that I've been browsing lately, I can never find something that is just intriguing. It would be useful to be able to click a button and be randomly sent to an Instructable on the database so I could find the interesting kinds of things that are hidden 10 pages in or more. It would be even better if there could be a classification with them that allows it to work like StumbleUpon, finding those projects that interest you based off of your taste. Am I the only one who wants such a button?
It is just me or does it look like the random sort option has been removed with the website update? Is anyone else completely bummed out by this? How will I randomly find new things to try?!?!?! Please bring it back instructables!
Hello! I have an idea so decided to share it with you. Would it be possible to make som kind of randomazier for different instructables? For example: I want to cook something, but I don't know what so I surf in on Instructables and can't decide what I want. So I just press the randomizer and the site finds something for me. Something like StumbleUpon. Of course you should be able to use categories, keywords etc. so you don't get the Portal Gun instructable when you want a bread recipe. Time to brainstorm!
So how do you make randomized scenarios in batch because im making a text based game where i need random scenarios like for example get a random customer for a shop game or random skeleton appearing with a randomized amount of hp that you can set.
What are they? They are under explore. Whenever you click on one of them, along with the popular and recent and all of that there's also a randomizer on the far right, it's different than random.
I think There shoud be a "Random Instructable" button, some of the best I have found have been just stumbled on, click, click, click.
Ok so im trying to make a text based game in batch, my concept was a batch store game where every time a customer walks in for example they ask for something its not the same thing every time you restart the batch file and if there is a way to put a section on the batch file where you could list a few scenarios and batch would randomize it to be one of those scenarios you had.
Something has always puzzled me - what governs the order of the comments in the email alerts?My most recent alert is typical - this list is the dates and times of the comments, in the order they appear in the email.Date: Aug 26, 2009. 5:29 PMDate: Aug 26, 2009. 8:36 PMDate: Aug 26, 2009. 7:36 PMDate: Aug 26, 2009. 12:59 PMDate: Aug 26, 2009. 6:53 AMDate: Aug 26, 2009. 9:51 PMDate: Aug 26, 2009. 7:32 PMDate: Aug 26, 2009. 7:05 AMDate: Aug 26, 2009. 5:25 PMDate: Aug 26, 2009. 3:57 PMDate: Aug 26, 2009. 7:42 AMDate: Aug 26, 2009. 3:43 PMDate: Aug 26, 2009. 9:35 AMDate: Aug 26, 2009. 11:20 PMDate: Aug 26, 2009. 6:33 AMDate: Aug 26, 2009. 3:09 PMDate: Aug 26, 2009. 5:10 PMDate: Aug 26, 2009. 11:20 PMDate: Aug 26, 2009. 8:23 PMDate: Aug 26, 2009. 9:30 AMDate: Aug 26, 2009. 8:00 PMDate: Aug 26, 2009. 3:23 PMDate: Aug 26, 2009. 8:08 AMDate: Aug 26, 2009. 10:05 PMDate: Aug 26, 2009. 3:41 PMDate: Aug 26, 2009. 11:18 PMWould it be so hard for them to be in chronological order....?
This is not a group of random generators, but of random ideas and instructables.
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On roughly a bimonthly basis, I find random advertisement videos downloaded in my "All Videos" file on my Android Milestone X. Is this the result of an app, or is it a default thing for Androids? I'd like it so that it stops happening, though it is more of an annoyance than a serious problem.
Does anyone think that there should be a button that pulls up a random instructable? I mean, I want to make something, but I dont know what. ewilhelm might awnser?
It doesn't need much description really.
I was thinking, that for people like me who just want a project to do, and don't want to search or anything why, why not have a 'View Random Instructable' link/button? It seems to work pretty well for wikipedia!
Does anyone know anything about connecting aquariums together? I think that in the end the "aquariums" will end up being random objects that hold water like blender jars, etc., but I was also interested in whether anyone has examples of aquariums joined (as in the fish can swim between the two aquariums) with tubing of some kind?
Hi does anyone know how it must work with the max7219, and arduino.a matrix of 8 x 8 led to a random to let go?? I have this set http://www.ebay.com/itm/MAX7219-Dot-Led-Matrix-Module-MCU-LED-Display-Control-Module-Kit-For-Arduino-/141012140148?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash;=item20d4fa8074 who knows a sketch or want one for me????
I am looking to purchase or looking to make or looking for someone to make or show me how to make a simplistic ramdom number generator with a simple 2 digit lcd readout. This will be used as an automatic dice roller for a board game. The random numbers can be fixed to read out from 1 - 12 or even up to 24. Or, if not too difficult, programble, to make it more versatile Perhaps a prototype could be made by using some existing components such as from a digital clock or watch. Can anyone tell me if; 1. There is anything like this on the market? 2. There is an easy, inexpensive way to built something like this? Or 3. If someone would be interested in building something like this for me?
I recently was asked a challenging question concerning a type of circuit design. My electronics knowledge is somewhat limited and was wondering if i could get some help on this project. The project is: How do you get one led to light up amongst a row of say ten or more leds by selecting from one switch from a row with the same number of switches. The system should be set up so every switch will have a randomly selected led circuit. In other words the leds are randomly scrambled for the switches. This is basically a type of led guessing game but also involves guessing witch switch will operate which led. Thanks!
Random Instructables button on homepage!
I want a random instructables button that shows a random selection of instructables. Can this happen?
I just thought it would be nice to be able to get a random instructable, it seems there was the option in the past, via explore, but no longer. Alternatively does anyone know a way of doing a google search to get a random page within a site?
I am a first time poster, love the site. This is a great place to post this question I hope. I have very little electronics experience and want to keep this as simple as possible. What I want to do is have 4 buttons, when any of the 4 buttons is pushed it will randomly (or at least seem random to kids)pick one of 4 12v circuits to energize. Any sugestions?
how does everyone like the new harry potter movie??
I saw the new movie but didnt like it. how do you like it?
Is there a hidden button or something one of the programmers have to do to have a random instructable? Like the random button on reddit.
Post anything wether it is your love of punk rock and anime or your crazy phobia of suffocating in Peanutbutter.
How about a random button?
What if the developers were able to incorporate a random button that would send you to any user created page on the site? I feel like it's rather boring to keep looking through pages of these amazing creations and alterations but it seems endless with 6,000+ pages to look through. I feel like this would be a pretty neat idea. What's your feedback on this?
We will see how this works out, I do this with my friends and it gets funny. Instructions: I will start with one word. If we were doing this in person it would be on a piece of paper. That paper is passed to the person next to him. That person writes a word, any word, and passes the paper on. This is repeated, and will form into: A. a funny paragraph B a totally random paragraph that makes no sense C a paragraph that tells an epic story that is the next "Hamlet" and makes perfect sense (That's no fun though) You can choose to end a sentence and start a totally new one anywhere Keep it appropriate. Example Cheese coated birds dance on top of my (*gasp*will it be appropriate?) head. Your pet cookie ate my cat. Here is the word: Why Oh, I forgot to say, add everything prier to your word into your comment (to avoid confusion and if you do that you can avoid a ton of replies to you that you will regret by just hitting post comment and not reply).


I wanted a dynamic, social and enthusiastic person who can be able to sell products online while affiliate link. You ...link. You need to achieve a specific target to get the mentioned amount/salary. Visit the website of greetstore google it for product information. Target: Sell 30 mobile covers in 15 days Area of Marketing: Only India *T&C apply.
This Project requires you to develop a state chart diagram for an Oral B Braun 5...should first analyze the functionality of the toothbrush and its interaction with the SmartGuide and then, using suitable software, produce a state transition diagram which covers both. Your state chart diagram will be demonstrated subjected to tests you have developed.


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435Metro City Zombie War » by ladyspock7 Story idea inspired by Ramendobe of tumblr. Metro City is overrun by zombies, quarantined, and abandoned by the authorities. Roxanne brings a group of survivors to Megamind's Evil Lair, the only safe place left. To get them in, she's willing to bargain. What she discovers will change her perception forever. Some chapters may be rated M, for disturbing imagery.
Megamind, T, English, Drama & Romance, chapters: 24, words: 137k+, favs: 482, follows: 552, updated: 8/12/2021 published: 11/5/2015, [Megamind, Roxanne R.] Minion
202 Swansong » by Dal Niente Minion may not be as lost as he seems, but in the meantime, Megamind is struggling to pick up the threads of a life he's not sure he knows how to live and Roxanne is determined to help where she can.
Megamind, K+, English, Angst & Drama, chapters: 18, words: 144k+, favs: 142, follows: 128, updated: 10/18/2019 published: 11/5/2015, [Megamind, Roxanne R.] Metro Man, Minion
27Every Day » by Elf Kid2.0 Pre-movie. Includes anxiety/depression and intrusive thoughts. Probably a one-shot.
Megamind, K+, English, Angst, chapters: 3, words: 7k+, favs: 22, follows: 14, updated: 11/15/2018 published: 7/14/2016
347Cold Fusion: Twelve Days » by Dal Niente Deck the halls! Megamind is going to stay with Roxanne and her family for Christmas. There's only one problem: her family doesn't know who he is yet, and breaking the news is going to be difficult. Sequel to Hallows' Eve. Currently rated T, but that's going to change.
Megamind, M, English, Humor & Drama, chapters: 20, words: 210k+, favs: 214, follows: 256, updated: 12/26/2017 published: 7/15/2012, Megamind, Roxanne R.
83Within her grasp » by Chibi Renamon For young Tigress, earning the title of "Master" is all that matters, but something is holding her back. Will the crane who just arrived help her? Or will he just make things even more complicated? Eventual Crane x Tigress
Kung Fu Panda, T, English, Romance, chapters: 8, words: 26k+, favs: 57, follows: 52, updated: 10/21/2017 published: 7/18/2008, Crane, Tigress
49 Take Me Out » by setepenre-set The Metro City Wolverines are the worst team in the MLB. Megamind using the disguise watch to manage the stadium's illegal betting pool, is shocked when Roxanne wants to place a bet that the Wolverines can win against the best ranked team in the league. But then, maybe the luck is turning for all of Metro City's underdogs. Don't copy to another site.
Megamind, K+, English, Romance & Humor, chapters: 3, words: 11k+, favs: 110, follows: 48, updated: 5/28/2017 published: 9/21/2016, [Roxanne R., Megamind]
278 The Science is Not Impossible » by Jeannette Hetfield Roxanne finds out that her genius husband Megamind did a little bit more than just look into "the reset button".
Megamind, K, English, Romance & Humor, chapters: 27, words: 165k+, favs: 270, follows: 236, updated: 5/8/2017 published: 4/16/2011, Megamind, Roxanne R.
9Henchman by Elf Kid2.0 A series of shorts and drabbles, focusing on Minion! He doesn't get enough attention.
Megamind, K+, English, words: 805, favs: 9, follows: 11, 1/10/2017, Megamind, Minion, Bernard
573Here we go again » by Basil Allegri Merlin, middle-aged and Arthur's court sorcerer, gets himself stuck in the body of his nineteen-year-old self, and he finds that he'll have to relive his life if he's to have any chance of returning home. That doesn't mean he'll have to do things exactly as he remembers them. Time Travel fic. AU "The Kindness of Strangers"
Merlin, K+, English, Angst & Humor, chapters: 23, words: 114k+, favs: 1k+, follows: 1k+, updated: 12/27/2016 published: 3/25/2012, Merlin
107Thank You » by SabakuNoYoukai Thank you. Nobody had ever said those words to him, and he'd convinced himself that nobody ever would- but when an accident ends with him saving Miss Ritchi's life, Megamind can't help but wonder if the other things he'd never dared to consider just weren't as impossible as he seemed to think. (Rating may increase)
Megamind, T, English, Humor & Romance, chapters: 12, words: 28k+, favs: 180, follows: 217, updated: 2/17/2016 published: 2/8/2014, Megamind, Roxanne R.
134Sans Compassion » by MLoreley85 Sans may not have always been the loving brother we come to meet during Frisk's journey. Once, he might have been openly resentful. But a funny thing happens when you see someone you care for suffer... time... and time... again...
Undertale, K+, English, Drama & Angst, chapters: 9, words: 21k+, favs: 256, follows: 308, updated: 11/17/2015 published: 10/27/2015, Sans, Papyrus
272 Stepping Out » by ladyspock7 Set pre-movie. Fifteen year old Megamind has had it with prison life, and decides to set out on his own. With Minion, of course. Though perhaps the middle of a Michigan winter was not the best time to run away, and now he must escape from the clutches of a powerful enemy. Now complete.
Megamind, T, English, Adventure & Humor, chapters: 36, words: 196k+, favs: 110, follows: 85, updated: 8/25/2015 published: 5/3/2012, Megamind, Minion, Warden
209 Becoming a True Invader » by Hero Zero Zim loses his Invader title, so to prove his worth he plans to invade the strongest planet he knows. A tale of intergalactic adventure, doom, humor, doom, some romance ZAGR , but mostly DOOM. Can our former Invader succeed in his overly ambitious and craziest goal yet? Supporting OCs in later chapters.
Invader Zim, T, English, Humor & Adventure, chapters: 45, words: 224k+, favs: 210, follows: 132, updated: 7/26/2015 published: 1/17/2011, Zim, Gir, Dib, Gaz
176Death by Terran » by OneLastBird This is what happens when a crooked space pirate confuses 'abduct' with 'adopt.'
Guardians of the Galaxy, K+, English, Adventure & Family, chapters: 12, words: 33k+, favs: 478, follows: 504, updated: 11/2/2014 published: 8/8/2014, Peter Quill/Star-Lord, Yondu U.
6 A story of distance by kurushi After everything is over, Roxanne Ritchi thinks about Megamind, Minion, and what we think we should know about the people in our lives.
Megamind, T, English, Romance & Friendship, words: 2k+, favs: 25, follows: 5, 9/25/2014, Megamind, Roxanne R.
14 Conflict of Interest by ladyspock7 When Megamind has a heated dispute with his other arch-rival Psycho Delic, only one thing can make him lose his cool: a threat to his favorite reporter. A one-shot, though the story continues in "Terms of Engagement."
Megamind, T, English, Drama & Humor, words: 5k+, favs: 41, follows: 11, 9/9/2014, Megamind, Minion
687 Neckerchief Chronicles » by caldera32 If it had been a different Arthur he may have been able to appreciate that Merlin's neckerchief was simply his equivalent of a towel. (Or, a collection of shorts exhibiting the many uses of a certain warlock's neck wear. No Slash)
Merlin, T, English, Friendship, chapters: 42, words: 45k+, favs: 491, follows: 326, updated: 6/29/2014 published: 11/22/2012, Merlin, Arthur
9 Queen of Shadow and Starlight by Fialleril The underworld is vast and silent and full of the sleeping dead when Hel arrives. But she will change that. A coming of age story for the Queen of the Underworld.
Norse Mythology, T, English, words: 12k+, favs: 58, follows: 13, 6/3/2014, Hel, Loki, Nidhogg
85Fool Proof » by Aneirin Zim discovers the fatal flaw in his plans for world conquest: himself. He sees all of his errors. And he fixes them. his new plan can't fail, especially when there's a certain human on his side. Genre may change, Rating will change.
Invader Zim, K+, English, Romance, chapters: 9, words: 15k+, favs: 71, follows: 81, updated: 9/14/2013 published: 1/27/2007, Zim, Gaz
70Behind the little door » by sakiko of soleana Zim Vasquez is bored with his new home until he finds a secret door tht leads him into a world that's just like his own...but BETTER! but when this fantastical adventure turns dangerous, Zim must find a way back or be stuck forever in this other world R&R
Invader Zim, T, English, Adventure & Family, chapters: 16, words: 41k+, favs: 36, follows: 22, updated: 8/27/2013 published: 4/5/2011, Zim
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namespace Ivory\GoogleMap\Service\TimeZone\Response;

/**
 * @author GeLo <geloen.eric@gmail.com>
 */
final class TimeZoneStatus
{
    const OK = 'OK';
    const INVALID_REQUEST = 'INVALID_REQUEST';
    const OVER_QUERY_LIMIT = 'OVER_QUERY_LIMIT';
    const REQUEST_DENIED = 'REQUEST_DENIED';
    const UNKNOWN_ERROR = 'UNKNOWN_ERROR';
    const ZERO_RESULTS = 'ZERO_RESULTS';

    /**
     * @codeCoverageIgnore
     */
    private function __construct()
    {
    }
}

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Welcome to the science blog of the MRes in Biodiversity, Conservation and Evolution which is jointly run at University College London, Natural History Museum London and Zoological Society of London. Each year, the MRes students blog about latest research from the scientists at UCL, NHM and ZSL. Find out more about the MRes course here!


Discover how your Verinder ancestors earned their living and spread across the country. Find out more about your family history by using the Free Search box.
The surname Verinder is the 2nd most popular variant of Verrinder.


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Q: How can I store an image to the database from modal? I want to store an Image through a modal, usually, I store images this way. But it never stores, it stores null on the database, like the file wasn't even uploaded. Everything else on the modal stores perfectly, except the image.
This is the code for the image on my controller.
 if($request->hasFile('image')){
            $file = $request->file('image');
            $extension = $file->getClientOriginalExtension();
            $filename = time() .'.'.$extension;
            $file->move('uploads/event/',$filename);
            $event->image = $filename;
        }

In my view, this is how I upload the image.

                                <input type="file" class="custom-file-input" name="image" >
                                Upload picture

A: For the code I had, the only problem was that I didn't use the enctype="multipart/form-data". After looking for options, I found this and wrote it on the form of action and form-group div. It worked, the image stores and it also updates.
  <form action="{{action('CalendarController@store')}}" method="POST"  enctype="multipart/form-data">

                    {{csrf_field()}}

Since I got this working I will start implementing other codes for better performance and start to learn about the Storage in laravel. Thanks to all of you!

A: Try this on your Controller:
use Image;
    public function store(CreateRequest $request)
    {
        $file = $request->file('image');
        $imagename = $file->getClientOriginalName();
        $imageext = $file->getClientOriginalExtension();
        $path = 'upload/image/'.time().'.'.$imageext;
        $image = Image::make($file);
        $image->save($path);
        $input = $request->all();
        $input['image'] = $path;
        $user = $this->userRepository->create($input);
        return redirect(route('users.index'));
    }

do the same with update() function
The file will store in /public/upload/image folder

A: You can also try and use the 'Intervention\Image' and File class:
composer require intervention/image

<?php
...

use File;
use Intervention\Image\Facades\Image

...

if ($request->hasFile('image')) {
    $image = $request->file('image');
    $filename = 'image.'.$image->getClientOriginalExtension();
    $save_path = storage_path().'uploads/event/';
    $path = $save_path.$filename;
    $public_path = 'uploads/event/'.$filename;

    // Make the user a folder and set permissions
    File::makeDirectory($save_path, $mode = 0755, true, true);

    // Save the file to the server
    Image::make($image)->resize(300, 300)->save($save_path.$filename);

    // Save the public image path
    $event->image = $public_path;
    $event->save();
}

    return response()->json(['path' => $path], 200);
} else {
    return response()->json(false, 200);
}

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Madrona Labs has announced an update to Aalto, the company's semi-modular software synthesizer.
Aalto now runs 25 to 50% faster than version 1.0.
Easy install using Apple's Installer puts Aalto's bits where they belong.
In addiion, many bug fixes have been implemented. Details at the Madrona Labs site.


First of all, congratulations on your upcoming wedding. You must be so excited for your special day! Walt Disney World is a wonderful place to honeymoon, and I think you'll find that you and your husband will be able to keep up your fitness regimen with ease.
Several resorts have fitness rooms available for guest use: Coronado Springs, BoardWalk, Grand Floridian (guests at Polynesian use this one too), Contemporary Resort, Yacht Club, Wilderness Lodge, Animal Kingdom Lodge, and Kidani Village, and Saratoga Springs.
As far as running trails, there are several. I really like being located on the BoardWalk. It gives you the ability to run between Hollywood Studios and Epcot. The running trail at Wilderness Lodge leads to Fort Wilderness and is quite scenic as well. The concierge at your resort will be happy to provide you with a map of available running trails.


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In economics, gross output (GO) is the measure of total economic activity in the production of new goods and services in an accounting period.  It is a much broader measure of the economy than gross domestic product (GDP), which is limited mainly to final output (finished goods and services).  As of first-quarter 2019, the Bureau of Economic Analysis estimated gross output in the United States to be $37.2 trillion, compared to $21.1 trillion for GDP.

GO is defined by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) as "a measure of an industry's sales or receipts, which can include sales to final users in the economy (GDP) or sales to other industries (intermediate inputs).  Gross output can also be measured as the sum of an industry's value added and intermediate inputs."

It is equal to the value of net output or GDP (also known as gross value added) plus intermediate consumption.

Gross output represents, roughly speaking, the total value of sales by producing enterprises (their turnover) in an accounting period (e.g. a quarter or a year), before subtracting the value of intermediate goods used up in production.

Starting in April 2014, the BEA began publishing gross output and gross output-by-industry on a quarterly basis, along with GDP.

Economists regard GO and GDP as complementary aggregate measures of the economy.  Many analysts view GO as a more comprehensive way to analyze the economy and the business cycle.  "Gross output [GO] is the natural measure of the production sector, while net output [GDP] is appropriate as a measure of welfare.  Both are required in a complete system of accounts."

Historical background
In his work, The Purchasing Power of Money: Its Determination and Relation to Credit, Interest, and Crises (1911, 1920), Yale professor Irving Fisher introduced a theoretical measure of "volume of trade" with his equation of exchange:  MV = PT, where PT measured the "volume of trade" in the economy at a specified time.

In 1931, Friedrich A. Hayek, the Austrian economist at the London School of Economics, created a diagram known as Hayek's triangles as a theoretical measure of the stages of production.  Hayek's triangles formed the basis of gross output, before GNP or GDP were invented.  However, Hayek's work was strictly theoretical, and no attempt was developed to statistically measure gross output.

Simon Kuznets, a Russian American economist at the University of Pennsylvania, did breakthrough work in the 1930s in measuring national income, "the size of the final net product."  He defined net product as follows: "If all the commodities produced and all the direct services rendered during the year are added to their market value, and from the resulting total we subtract the value of that part of the nation's stock of goods that was expended (both as raw materials and as capital equipment) in producing this total, then the remainder constitutes the net product of the national economy of the year."  Thus, net product focused on final output only, and excluded business-to-business (B2B) transactions in the supply chain.  He expanded his "net output" data to measure Gross National Product (GNP) starting in 1942.

Following the Bretton Woods Agreement in 1946, GNP became the standard measure of economic growth.  Wassily Leontief, a Russian American economist at Harvard University, followed with the development of the first input-output tables, which he regarded as a better survey of the whole economy.  I-O accounts require examining the "intervening steps" between inputs and outputs in the production process, "a complex series of transactions…among real people"

I-O data created the first estimates of gross output.  However, Leontief did not emphasize GO as an important macroeconomic tool.  He focused on gross output-by-industry, i.e., the inner-workings between industries, not the aggregate GO.  The BEA began publishing GO data on an annual basis in the early 1990s, and was not updated on a quarterly basis until 2014.  BEA director J. Steven Landefeld spearheaded the effort to bring gross output and gross output-by-industry up to date and released quarterly.

Mark Skousen introduced gross output as an essential macroeconomic tool in his work, The Structure of Production in 1990;  see also Mark Skousen, "At Last, a Better Economic Measure", Wall Street Journal (April 23, 2014).  According to Skousen, GO demonstrates that business spending is significantly larger than consumer spending in the economy, and tends to be more volatile than GDP.   Earlier-stage and intermediate inputs in GO may also be helpful in forecasting the direction of economic growth.  He contends that gross output should be the starting point of national income accounting, and offers a more complete picture of the macro economy.  GO can be integrated into macroeconomic analysis and textbook economics, and is more consistent with leading indicators and other macroeconomic data.  He makes the case that GO and GDP complement each other as macroeconomic tools and that both should play a vital role in national accounting statistics, much like top line and bottom line accounting are employed to providing a complete picture of quarterly earnings reports of publicly-traded companies.

Controversies
Economists have praised and criticized gross output.  They include David Colander, followed by a rejoinder by Mark Skousen, Steve Hanke,  Gene Epstein and Steve Forbes

Skousen has also criticized the BEA's measure of gross output for failing to include a measure of total gross sales at the wholesale and retail level, amounting to more than $7.6 trillion of business spending (B2B) in 2014.

See also

GDP
GNP
Input–output model
Intermediate consumption
National accounts
Net output
Sectoral output
United Nations System of National Accounts (UNSNA)

Notes and references

National accounts

External links
 Gross Output – Mark Skousen's Website


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Das Behnhaus, offizieller Name Museum Behnhaus Drägerhaus, Galerie des 19. Jahrhunderts und der Klassischen Moderne, ist ein Lübecker Museum und Teil der Lübecker Museen, verwaltet durch die Kulturstiftung Hansestadt Lübeck. Es zeigt die Malerei der Nazarener und vorwiegend deutsche Malerei des 19. Jahrhunderts, des Impressionismus und Expressionismus sowie bürgerliche Wohnkultur aus Rokoko, Klassizismus und Biedermeier.

Architektur, Gartengestaltung und Wohnkultur

Behnhaus

Das Gebäude des Kunstmuseums ist eines der repräsentativsten klassizistischen Bürgerhäuser in der Königstraße der Lübecker Altstadt, unweit von St. Jakobi und dem Koberg. Es wurde 1783 als großbürgerliches Wohnhaus errichtet und Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts von dem dänischen Architekten und Inneneinrichter Joseph Christian Lillie für den späteren Bürgermeister Peter Hinrich Tesdorpf im heute noch erhaltenen klassizistischen Stil umgebaut und eingerichtet. 1823 erwarb der Arzt Georg Heinrich Behn, Vater des späteren Lübecker Bürgermeisters Heinrich Theodor Behn, das Haus; es war bis 1920 im Familienbesitz. Um es zu erhalten, erwarb es der Lübecker Senat Anfang Februar 1921. Der Lübecker Museumsdirektor Carl Georg Heise richtete es als Museum ein.

Die Diele ist zum ersten Obergeschoss offen. Im Gartenflügel befinden sich die Privaträume der ehemaligen Bewohner. Im obersten Stockwerk ist noch die Anordnung der ehemaligen Gästezimmer zu erkennen.

Drägerhaus

Das Behnhaus wurde 1981 um das links daneben liegende, gleichermaßen repräsentative Dräger-Haus ergänzt. Das Dräger-Haus wurde aus Mitteln der Dräger-Stiftung von Heinrich und Lisa Dräger 1978 bis 1981 umgebaut und der Hansestadt Lübeck übergeben. Behnhaus und Drägerhaus sind im Erdgeschoss und im ersten Obergeschoss durch einen Durchgang verbunden. Der Gartenflügel beherbergt mehrere ineinander übergehende Festsäle im Rokoko-Stil. Das Drägerhaus war das Wohnhaus des Bürgermeisters der Hansestadt Lübeck Nikolaus Brömse (1472–1543). Eine Gedenktafel am Haus erinnert an ihn.

Skulpturengarten
Rückseitig öffnet sich über eine Freitreppe von der Terrasse zwischen den Seitenflügeln beider Häuser Blick und Weg durch die Bürgergärten auf den im Garten inmitten einer Skulpturensammlung liegenden Pavillon der Overbeck-Gesellschaft im Stil der Neuen Sachlichkeit von dem Lübecker Architekten Wilhelm Bräck.

Lübecker Wohnkultur des 18. und frühen 19. Jahrhundert

Das Behnhaus zeigt seine Gemäldesammlungen im Kontext zeitgenössischer Einrichtungen und Innendekorationen aus der Entstehungszeit der beiden Museumsgebäude und gibt damit ein Bild der bürgerlichen Kultur Lübecks vom Rokoko über den Klassizismus bis zum Biedermeier. Einer der seltenen Stockelsdorfer Öfen erinnert an die kurze Blütezeit der Stockelsdorfer Fayencemanufaktur vor den Toren der Stadt am Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts. Die Zeugnisse gehobener bürgerlicher Wohnkultur werden um eine Sammlung alter Musikinstrumente ergänzt, von denen viele aus Lübecker Häusern stammen.

Eine kleine Jugendstil-Sammlung ist im Mezzanin des Behnhauses zu sehen.

Schwerpunkte der Sammlung

Nazarener
Der Sammlungsschwerpunkt Nazarener kreist um den in Lübeck geborenen Friedrich Overbeck und seinen Freundeskreis. Er beruht auf einer großzügigen Schenkung der Charlotte Overbeck, die 1914 den künstlerischen Nachlass Overbecks der Hansestadt schenkte. Eines der in Lübeck gezeigten Hauptwerke Overbecks, Die Beweinung Christi, hängt allerdings in der Marienkirche.

Romantik
Die deutsche Romantik ist mit Caspar David Friedrich, Carl Blechen und Carl Gustav Carus repräsentativ vertreten.
Dem Museum wurden von dem Lübecker Sammler und Mäzen Christian Dräger große Teile seiner Sammlung von Zeichnungen der Goethe-Zeit und der Romantik übertragen.

Impressionismus
Der in Lübeck geborene Gotthardt Kuehl gehört zu den frühen deutschen Impressionisten. Er behielt zeit seines Lebens auch als Professor an der Kunstakademie Dresden einen Bezug zu seiner Heimatstadt und Travemünde, die er häufiger besuchte. Die Themen der auf diesen Reisen entstandenen Bilder sind also für ein Lübecker Kunstmuseum naheliegendes Sammlungsinteresse. Die Entwicklung Kuehls spiegelt sich in der Ausstellung wider und wird im Vergleich zu den gezeigten Bildern von Max Liebermann, Lovis Corinth, Maria Slavona, Ulrich Hübner und Max Slevogt verdeutlicht.

Expressionismus

Aufgrund der Beziehung Edvard Munchs zu dem Lübecker Arzt und Mäzen Max Linde befindet sich ein zentrales Werk für die Porträtkunst Munchs, das Porträt Die Söhne des Dr. Linde im Behnhaus (2006 im Museum of Modern Art gezeigt) und wird als Sammlungsschwerpunkt des Museums durch weitere Werke des norwegischen Künstlers ergänzt.

Das Bild Die Söhne des Dr. Linde zeigt von links nach rechts Hermann (den verträumten Ältesten), als Zweiten Lothar (den Jüngsten), als Dritten  Helmuth (den Maler anschauend), ganz rechts Theodor (in Gedanken). Die Kinder stehen vor der weißen Flügeltür zum Garten. Sie wurden vom Spielen im Garten zur Begrüßung des Gastes Edvard Munch hereingerufen und von diesem in dieser Szene gemalt.

Die von Heise 1920 bis 1933 aufgebaute Sammlung deutscher Expressionisten wurde durch die nationalsozialistische Kunstpolitik zunichtegemacht. Im Rahmen der Aktion Entartete Kunst wurden 1937/38 zwischen 210 und 255 Werke beschlagnahmt.

Im Jahr 2006 erhielt das Museum aufgrund einer großzügigen privaten Schenkung mit dem Stehenden und knienden Mädchenakt ein Gemälde von Paula Modersohn-Becker, das Heise bereits 1930 zu kaufen versucht hatte. Es ist fraglich, ob das Bild heute in Lübeck hängen würde, wenn der Ankauf in jenen Jahren zustande gekommen wäre. Von Ernst Ludwig Kirchner wird das Bild Straßenbahn und Eisenbahn von 1914 ausgestellt.

Regionale Künstler
Der Museumsbegründer Carl Georg Heise begann in den 1920er Jahren zielgerichtet, ihm bedeutsame regionale Künstler durch Ankäufe für das Museum und durch Ausstellungen zu fördern. Dazu gehören Albert Aereboe, Erwin Bossanyi, Erich Dummer, Karl Gatermann d. Ä., Alfred Mahlau und andere. Gezeigt werden auch einige Ansichten von Travemünde.

Skulpturen
Die Bronzeskulptur Brigitte von Gerhard Marcks ist eine Wiedergabe seiner Tochter. Die Figur wurde 1932 von Heise angeschafft, von den Nationalsozialisten als "entartete Kunst" aus dem Behnhaus entfernt und kam 2011 als dauerhafte Leihgabe der Berliner Ferdinand-Möller-Stiftung wieder zurück. Von Georg Kolbe ist im Behnhaus die Büste aus Bronze Bildnis Viola Tegtmeyer um 1911 ausgestellt.

Ausstellungen
 2014: Augen auf! Thomas Mann und die bildende Kunst Katalog. Zusammen mit dem Buddenbrookhaus.
 21. November 2015 – 28. Februar 2016: Niederländische Moderne – Die Sammlung Veendorp aus Groningen.
 15. September 2019 bis 5. Januar 2020: Max Liebermann und Hans Meid. Schwarz auf weiß.
 16. Januar bis 15. März 2020: Mühlenpfordt – Neue Zeitkunst und Anna Dräger-Mühlenpfordt – ausgewählte Werke.

Siehe auch
 Kulturstiftung Hansestadt Lübeck
 Museumsquartier St. Annen

Bildergalerie

Literatur
 Ilsabe von Bülow: Joseph Christian Lillie (1760–1827). Ein Architektenleben in Norddeutschland. Deutscher Kunstverlag, München u. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-06610-6, S. 39ff.
 Abram B. Enns: Kunst und Bürgertum. Die kontroversen zwanziger Jahre in Lübeck. Christians, Hamburg 1978, ISBN 3-7672-0571-8.
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 Zeitreise: 100 Jahre Kunstkatakomben im Lübecker Behnhaus
 Internetauftritt des Museums Behnhaus-Draegerhaus
 Overbeck Gesellschaft
 Sammlungsobjekte im Museumsportal Schleswig-Holstein

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Erbaut in den 1780er Jahren
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Kunstmuseum in Schleswig-Holstein
Lubeck
Weltkulturerbe Lübeck
Kulturdenkmal in Lübeck-Innere Stadt
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