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transsolar · 3 months

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RothNEUsiedl: Internationale Jury kürt Siegerprojekt als Grundlage für vertiefende Planungen

Nach einem Jahr intensiver Arbeit unter Einbindung der Bevölkerung ist der dialogorientierte städtebauliche Wettbewerb für den neuen Stadtteil Rothneusiedl erfolgreich beendet. Aus den vier Finalisten wählte die Wettbewerbs-Jury das Siegerprojekt, welches nun die Grundlage für das bis 2025 zu erstellende städtebauliche Leitbild bildet. Der „Grüne Ring“ der Berliner Büros O&O Baukunst und capattistaubach urbane Landschaften, hat die international besetzte Jury mit ihrem innovativen und nachhaltigen Gesamtkonzept überzeugt. Mehr >

Im Frühsommer 2024 wird das Siegerprojekt öffentlich vorgestellt und damit der Start für den Leitbildprozess markiert, der circa ein Jahr dauert. Das städtebauliche Leitbild bildet die Grundlage für den Flächenwidmungs- und Bebauungsplan. Erst dann geht es in die Detailplanungen. Erste Umsetzungsschritten wird es frühestens 2030 geben.

Das interdisziplinäre Siegerteam aus Berlin setzt in Mobilitätsfragen mit dem Büro Rosinak & Partner auf Expertise aus Wien. Das gesamte Team setzt sich aus folgenden Büros zusammen:

Architektur | Städtebau: O&O Baukunst, Berlin Landschaft | Freiraum: capattistaubach urbane Landschaften, Berlin Mobilität: Rosinak & Partner, Wien Energie: Transsolar Energietechnik, Stuttgart Regenwassermanagement: Sieker Ingenieurgesellschaft, Hoppegarten Zirkuläres Bauen: Concular, Berlin

www.rothneusiedl.wienwirdwow.at

#blog #home #transsolar #klimaengineering #O&O Baukunst #capattistaubach #markus krauss

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designmiss · 9 years

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SWAY, una poltrona a dondolo per due https://www.design-miss.com/sway-la-rocking-chair-by-markus-krauss/ Una #poltrona a dondolo è quello che ci vuole per concedersi un po’ di relax…

#focus #poltrona a dondolo #poltrone design #relax #sdraio #sedia sdraio design #versatile

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non-bionical-mecha-dude · 3 years

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FANDOMS, CHARACTERS, HEADCANNONS, ONE SHOT, FANFICS, RULES & STUFF

Hello! Sorry if this is messy, I just wanted to lay down some ground rules! If you have any questions or asks, then feel free to let me know!

ALSO, KEEP IN MIND, I HAVE ADHD, AND I OFTEN FORGET SOCIAL MEDIA EXISTS, AND MAY DISAPPEAR RANDOMLY. IF YOU DECIDE TO REQUEST SOMETHING, PLEASE UNDERSTAND, IT MAY TAKE ME A LONG WHILE, I APOLOGIZE IN ADVANCE AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE!!

Undertale/Deltarune

Sans

Papyrus

Alphys

Undyne

Temmie (PLATONIC ONLY)

Muffet

Toriel (PLATONIC ONLY)

Asgore (PLATONIC ONLY)

Mettaton

Napstablook (PLATONIC ONLY)

Flowey (PLATONIC ONLY)

Frisk and Chara (PLATONIC ONLY)

Annoying dog/toby (PLATONIC ONLY)

Kris

Susie

Ralsei

Lancer (PLATONIC ONLY)

Noelle

Birdly

Roulx Kard

Seam

Jevil

Queen

Swatch

Spamton

Tasque Manager

The Addisions

Dream Daddy

Robert

Damien

Craig

Hugo

Mat

Amanda (PLATONIC ONLY)

Detroit become human

Ralph

Connor

RK900

Markus

Gavin

North

Stardew Valley

Literally all of the bachelors

Penny

Abigail

Resident Evil Village

Alcina Demitrescu

Karl Heisenberg

Donna Beneviento

Overwatch

Hanzo Shimada

Genji Shimada

Cole Cassidy (Mcree)

Gabriel Reyes (Reaper)

Lucio Correia Dos Santos

Mei

Hana Song (D.Va)

Ashe

Lena Oxtan (Tracer)

Bastion (ONLY PLATONIC)

Jack Morrison (Soldier 76)

My Hero Academia

Katsuki Bakugou

Shoto Todoroki

Izuku Midoriya

Tenya Iida

Denki Kaminari

Ejirou Kirishima

Ochako Uraraka

Tamaki Amajiki

Togata Mirio

Toga Himiko

Mina Ashido

Shota Aizawa

Eri (PLATONIC ONLY)

Ouran Highschool Host Club

Tamaki

Kyoya

Hikarou

Haruhi

Kaoru

Mori

Honey (PLATONIC ONLY)

Seven deadly sins

Ban

King

Gowther

Diane

Gilthunder

Meliodis

Merlin

Dereri

Escannor

Toilet Bound Hanako-Kun

Hanako-Kun

Yashiro

Mistuba

Kou

Tsukagimori

Tsukasa

Aoi Akane (the time keeper)

DeathNote

Mello

L

Light

Misa

Mitsuba

Near (PLATONIC ONLY)

Seduce me the Otome

James

Erik

Sam

Matthew

Damien

Malik

Diana

Harry Potter

Ronald Weasley

Hermione Granger

Draco Malfoy

Professor Snape

Tom Riddle

FNAF Security Breach (ALL PLATONIC ONLY)

Sunrise/Moondrop

Glamrock Freddy

Montgomery Gator

Glamrock Chica

Roxanne Wolf

DJ Music Man/tiny music man

Wet floor sign bots

Map bot

LotR/Hobbit

Bilbo

Thorin

Tauriel

Thranduil

Legolas

Sam-Wise

Mary

Pip

Aragorn

Gimli

Fili

Kili

Bard

Gladriel

Arwen

TMNT 2012

Donatello

Raphael

Leonardo

Mikey

Splinter (PLATONIC ONLY)

ROTTMNT

Donatello

Raphael

Leonardo

Mikey

April O'Neil

Big Mama

TMNT Bayverse

Leo

Raph

Donnie

Mikey

April

Vern

Mr. Sacks

Casey Jones

Hellboy (2004-2008)

Hellboy

Abe Sapien

John Myers

Johann Krauss

Liz Sherman

Prince Nadja

Princess Nuala

✨Lego Monkie Kid✨

MK

Mei

Red Son

Tang

Sun Wukong

Macaque

Ao Lie

Azure Lion

Spider Queen

✨Sparkles✨ mean I'm currently hyperfixating on this topic at the moment and will have a higher chance of writing for this/these one('s)

While these are not all the fandoms I'm in, these are the ones I'm most comfortable with writing about

Some rules:

I may or may not write smut? I'm not sure since I haven't really done it, but I will NOT write smut for characters under the age of 21

I won't write anything that has to do with the reader being super OP or being half of like, literally everything

When it comes to Y/N being an anthropomorphic animal/human or half of that, if stuff like that is canon in the fandom, then I'll write it (like a half human half monster for Undertale, or a Cat person for TMNT) but if stuff like that just doesn't exist in that world, then I most likely won't write it

I won't write a character being a racist, rapist, homophobic, transphobic or anything like that, those things are fucked up and aren't ok and that character I may write, might be someone else's comfort character and I don't want to ruin a character for someone

I won't write a character as being an abuser, sure, I could say they where abused some way in the past if it is relevant to the fic, but I will not write a character being an abuser themselves, that's just not right

I won't write yandere characters, it just feels to toxic to me to have someone be THAT possessive of someone

If a character is canonically underage, I will not age them up, if a reader or character is being romantically shipped with the underage character, the reader/character must and will be underage as well

(Keep in mind I might add rules or change certain rules)

I can do:

LGBTQ+(THIS ABSOLUTELY INCLUDES ASEXUAL AND AROMANTIC)

Any gender for reader, if not specified, I shall do gender neutral

I will write angst and mental health related topics of asked

I will absolutely 100% write a character or reader with ADHD and other neurodiversities

I can do shipping fanfics! Although, it depends on the characters, but I may be able to write it, even if I don't entirely agree with the ship! AS LONG as it is not anything like AbuserXvictim or MinorXadult or anything like that.

As a writer, I hope that I may advance in my writing skills, as well as have fun with what I write, so, I ask as many requests as your heart's desire!

Remember, I have every right as a writer to deny a request if I'm not comfortable with writing it.

HAVE A GREAT DAY YOU BEAUTIFUL/HANDSOME BITCHES, BROS AND BO BURNHAM HOES! (See what I did there?)

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justforbooks · 3 years

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The list is all about books and reading. Some are about or set in bookstores, others are perhaps about literary societies or book clubs, many are about libraries, and some are just about people who really love reading — you get the point. Overflowing in fun literary references and cozy nooks to read, it’s a great list to dive into if you’re looking for something to indulge the book lover in you.

If you have any additional suggestions, feel free to drop a comment below. Happy reading, book lovers!

The Shadow of the Wind CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookshop ROBIN SLOAN

The Book Thief MARKUS ZUSAK

Reading Lolita in Tehran AZAR NAFISI

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society MARY ANN SHAFFER

Fahrenheit 451 RAY BRADBURY

The Thirteenth Tale DIANE SETTERFIELD

84, Charing Cross Road HELENE HANFF

The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next #1) JASPER FFORDE

Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next #2) JASPER FFORDE

The Club Dumas ARTURO PEREZ-REVERTE

People of the Book GERALDINE BROOKS

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler ITALO CALVINO

The Book of Lost Things JOHN CONNOLLY

The History of Love NICOLE KRAUSS

Writers & Lovers LILY KING

The Bookman's Tale CHARLIE LOVETT

First Impressions: A Novel of Old Books, Unexpected Love, and Jane Austen CHARLIE LOVETT

The Forgotten Garden KATE MORTON

Eight Perfect Murders (Malcolm Kershaw #1) PETER SWANSON

The Book of Lost Names KRISTIN HARMEL

Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows BALLI KAUR JASWAL

The Weight of Ink RACHEL KADISH

The Book of Speculation ERIKA SWYLER

The Bookshop of Yesterdays AMY MEYERSON

The Library of Lost and Found PHAEDRA PATRICK

The Library of the Unwritten (Hell's Library #1) A.J. HACKWITH

The Library Book SUSAN ORLEAN

The Invisible Library (The Invisible Library #1) GENEVIEVE COGMAN

Matilda ROALD DAHL

Ink and Bone (The Great Library #1) RACHEL CAINE

Inkheart (Inkworld, #1) CORNELIA FUNKE

The Book Charmer (Dove Pond #1) KAREN HAWKINS

Summer Hours at the Robbers Library SUE HALPERN

Camino Island (Camino Island #1) JOHN GRISHAM

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek KIM MICHELE RICHARDSON

The Giver of Stars JOJO MOYES

The End of Your Life Book Club WILL SCHWALBE

The Bookish Life of Nina Hill ABBI WAXMAN

How to Find Love in a Bookshop VERONICA HENRY

Beach Read EMILY HENRY

The Dictionary of Lost Words BY PIP WILLIAMS

The Librarian of Auschwitz ANTONIO ITURBE

The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them ELIF BATUMAN

Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore MATTHEW SULLIVAN

The Bookseller CYNTHIA SWANSON

A Discovery of Witches (All Souls Trilogy #1) DEBORAH E. HARKNESS

The Little Paris Bookshop NINA GEORGE

The Lost for Words Bookshop STEPHANIE BUTLAND

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry GABRIELLE ZEVIN

The Lions of Fifth Avenue FIONA DAVIS

The Children's Book A.S. BYATT

Possession A. S. BYATT

The Reader BERNHARD SCHLINK

The Strange Library MURAKAMI HARUKI

The Historian ELIZABETH KOSTOVA

The Left-Handed Booksellers of London GARTH NIX

Lost For Words STEPHANIE BUTLAND

Murder by the Book LAUREN ELLIOTT

Booked To Die (Cliff Janeway #1) JOHN DUNNING

Trouble on the Books (Castle Bookshop Mystery #1) ESSIE LANG

By Book or By Crook (Lighthouse Library Mystery #1) EVA GATES

The Case of the Missing Books (Mobile Library Mystery #1) IAN SANSOM

The Uncommon Reader ALAN BENNETT

The Violets of March SARAH JIO

Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason NANCY PEARL

The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession ALLISON HOOVER BARTLETT

The Lost and Found Bookshop SUSAN WIGGS

The Eighth Detective ALEX PAVESI

The Fifth Avenue Story Society RACHEL HAUCK

The Hazel Wood (The Hazel Wood #1) MELISSA ALBERT

The Stranger Diaries (Harbinder Kaur #1) ELLY GRIFFITHS

The Ghostwriter ALESSANDRA TORRE

The Editor STEVEN ROWLEY

Suggested Reading DAVE CONNIS

The Last Bookshop in London MADELINE MARTIN

The Bookshop on the Corner (Scottish Bookshop #1) JENNY COLGAN

The Bookshop on the Shore (Scottish Bookshop #2) JENNY COLGAN

The Haunted Bookshop (Parnassus Series #2) CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

The Camel Bookmobile MASHA HAMILTON

The Bookshop Book JEN CAMPBELL

The Last Bookaneer MATTHEW PEARL

The Jane Austen Book Club KAREN JOY FOWLER

The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend KATARINA BIVALD

The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers TERRI-LYNNE DEFINO

The Diary of a Bookseller SHAUN BYTHELL

The Jane Austen Society NATALIE JENNER

The Princess Bride WILLIAM GOLDMAN

The Library at the Edge of the World FELICITY HAYES-MCCOY

The Starless Sea ERIN MORGENSTERN

The Bookshop PENELOPE FITZGERALD

Confessions of a Bookseller SHAUN BYTHELL

The Night Bookmobile NIFFENEGGER

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires GRADY HENDRIX

The Lending Library ALIZA FOGELSON

The Borrower REBECCA MAKKAI

Lost in a Good Book JASPER FFORDE

The Name of the Rose UMBERTO ECO

The Library of Babel JORGE LUIS BORGES

Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading LUCY MANGAN

Anna Karenina Fix: Life Lessons from Russian Literature VIV GROSKOP

Howard's End E. M. FORSTER

Don Quixote MIGUEL De CERVANTES SAAVEDRA

The Last Book Party KAREN DUKESS

Daily inspiration. Discover more photos at http://justforbooks.tumblr.com

#JUST FOR BOOKS #Book List #books about books #book review

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whilereadingandwalking · 7 years

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A pile of precious, precious books...A couple of the books in this photo are on the list of all-time favorites of mine. But all of the books in this photo are signed.

#beautiful bookshelves #bookshelves #shelfie #zadie smith #roxane gay #arundhati roy #markus zusak #charlie jane anders #george saunders #nicole krauss #signed books #all mine

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meet-me-in-the-kitchen · 5 years

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what i’m reading now & have read this year

favorites in bold italics.

currently reading:

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FICTION:

- No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre

- The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald

- Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami

- Letters to Milena by Franz Kafka

-The Stranger by Albert Camus

- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

- Ariel by Sylvia Plath

- College Girl

- Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

- The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

- Crush by Richard Siken

- Normal People by Sally Rooney

- Hamlet

- The Hours by Michael Cunningham

- Lady Chatterley’s Lover

- Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri

- The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

- Perfume by Patrick Süskind

- Beautiful World, Where Are You

- Speak by Laurie Hansen

- Normal People by Sally Rooney

- The Time Traveler’s Wife

- Looking for Alaska by John Green

- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

- The Importance of Being Ernest by Oscar Wilde

- The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell by Chris Colfer

- The Yellow Wallpaper

- My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Otessa

- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

Breakfast at Tiffany’s

- The Judgment by FK

- A Country Doctor by FK

- A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka

- Angry Management by Chris Kutcher

- The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

- Angry Management by Chris Crutcher

- The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde

- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokev

- The Secret History by Donna Tartt

- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

- Coraline by Neil Gaiman

- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

- Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

- The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

- The Circle

- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

- The Iliad by Homer

- Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella

- Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger

- Swann’s Way: In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust

- The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

- A Witch in Winter by Ruth Warburton

- A Witch in Love by Ruth Warburton

- Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman

- The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling

- Siddhartha by Hermann Herat

- West Side Story

- The Brother Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

- Circe by Madeline Miller

- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalid Hosseini

- The Kite Runner by Khalid Hosseini

- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

- Macbeth by William Shakespeare

- Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

- The Book Thief by Markus Zuzak

- To Catch An Heiress by Julia Quinn

- Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella

- Metamorphosis by Kafka

- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

- Heidi by Johanna Spyri

- Thus Spake Zarathustra by Nietzsche

- Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding

- The Hating Game by Sally Thorne

- Heartless by Marissa Meyer

- Washington Square by Henry James

- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronté

- The Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

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NON-FICTION:

- Essays in Love by Alain de Botton

- People Change by Vivek Shraya

- The Course of Love by Alain de Botton

- When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

- On Writing by Stephen King

- Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

- Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath

- Our Band Could Be Your Life

- Letters to Milena by Franz Kafka

- The Rules by Ellen Fein & Sherrie Schneider

- Provocations by Camille Paglia

- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

- The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

- 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari

- Becoming by Michelle Obama

- Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes

- Mastery by Robert Greene

- Principles by Ray Dalio

- Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton

- Furious Love by Sam Kashner & Nancy Schoenberger

- The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

- Quiet by Susan Cain

- Know This edited by John Brockman

- The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin

- Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

- Shoe Dog by Phil Knight (The creator of Nike)

- Atomic Habits by James Clear

- The Art of War by Sun Tzu

- Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis

- Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki

- Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon

-The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck by Mark Manson

- Everything is Fucked: A Book About Hope by Mark Manson

- 50 Essays

- SHE SAID: Breaking the Harvey Weinstein Sexual Assault Case by Jodi Kantor & Meghan Twohey

- Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

- Women in Science by Rachel Ignotofsky

- Make Your Bed by William H. McRavin

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BOOKS I WANT TO READ:

- Everything by Fitzgerald

- Tolstoy

- Classics

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WHERE TO BUY 📚

it’s a truth universally acknowledged that collecting books is an expensive task, no matter how worthy of the expenditure. sites to browse would include:

better world books

EVERYONE NEEDS TO CHECK THIS SITE OUT. the books are in good condition, even if they’re used. it’s sustainable, affordable (prices as low as $3), & for every book you buy, a book gets donated to illiterate children in the pursuit of ensuring literacy. there’s free shipping for many countries, all of the time.

thriftbooks

this one i’d recommend solely for Americans, because shipping is extremely expensive otherwise.

amazon

after searching for your book title, scroll down and there’s a section filled with other sellers selling the same book for a lower price, but still having to go through amazon/provide fast shipping. i use this a lot

pdf drive is also an option for classics and most nonfiction (free of expense, but the writer doesn’t get money, sooo)

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enjoy, and stop by my ask box to talk about books or ask for recs//places you can buy/get them.

#books #literature #fiction #nonfiction #fandom #classics #lydia #Spotify

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alexandraswriting · 7 years

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Books You Should Read

Biographies

Yes, Please by Amy Poehler

I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

My Year with Eleanor by Noelle Hancock

Is Everyone Hanging out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling

#GIRLBOSS by Sophia Amoruso

Series

Miss Peregrine Home for Peculiar Kids by Ransom Riggs

The Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

Poetry

Whiskey Words and a Shovel (Volumes 1,2 &3) by r.h. Sin

Rest in the morning by r.h. Sin

Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

The Princess Saves Herself in This One by Amanda Lovelace

Dirty Pretty Things by Michael Faudet

Bitter Sweet Love by Michael Faudet

Beautiful Chaos by Robert M. Drake

Classics

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Pictures of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde

Fiction

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda

The Oxygen Thief by Anonymous

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

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kaitlynnlucas · 7 years

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Are there any books you can recommend about heartbreak

I discuss this a bit in a question I’ve previously answered here.

This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz: Love and infidelity. You hate the central character, yet there are parts about him that are so undeniably human that you can’t help but sympathize. A good portrait of modern love and infidelity from a male’s perspective. Although I know you’re probably rolling your eyes and thinking, “do we really need another portrait of love and infidelity from a male’s perspective?” the answer, usually, would be no. But from Diaz, yes - we need it.

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak: This book left me with an indescribable feeling of loss. It doesn’t center around a romantic plot, which, assuming from your question, is what you are looking for; however, I think there are elements of this book that will satisfy what you are looking for. Beautifully written (technically YA novel) about a young girl in Nazi Germany.

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton: I read this years ago, when I was in AP Literature, so it’s not fresh. I do remember enjoying it thoroughly, though. It’s a very bleak and tragic novel, but it will satisfy your cravings if you are longing for something similar to Austen or the Bronte sisters.

The History of Love, Nicole Krauss: Staggeringly beautiful writing. Nicole Krauss is undeniably one of my favorite writers, and although this book was internationally recognized and won several prizes, I still think it’s overlooked. I recommend it to everyone I can.

The Neapolitan Novels, Elena Ferrante: I’m going to put her novels here, although to categorize them as “about heartbreak” would be criminally reductive. These novels tugged my heart in every possible direction. Ferrante writes with such power and fury, it is so so satisfying. Yet there are also moments of gentle beauty. The novels follow the friendship of two women growing up in fascist Italy, and the cyclical nature of their inner and outer lives.

The Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson: a re-telling of the Greek myth of Heracles. It is so strange, so tender, at times oddly crass (in the most beautiful way, if that makes any sense at all). A quick read, but something you will want to revisit again and again. I love Anne Carson. I love love love her.

#literature #questions

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cleverwordsandotherstuffilike · 7 years

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i) scents: familiar skin and unfamiliar skin, bedsheets left to hang in the sun, sunlight, warm light, the earth after a storm, the different perfumes of a night sky in every season, in every city and mountaintop, pine-sol, the soft, tender space of a small child’s head, the scent of the ocean that stays with you days after you’ve visited the shorelines (hidden in pockets and the soles of your shoes and in the little hollow of your belly button), passing by christmas trees with my eyes closed at seven in the morning ii) sounds: street musicians, cellists playing on subway platforms, snow falling on more snow, the silence of the world coated in that snow — your footsteps like avalanches out your front door, the hush, hush, sigh, of slippered feet in the morning. a weekend morning, waking up because of sunlight licking your limbs, and hearing the coffee brewing in the kitchen. coltrane’s ‘in a sentimental mood.’ hearing ‘i love you’ as an alarm clock. august’s crickets. sparse guitar music. voices that sound like water falling over rocks. the sound of a smile over a phone call. iii) things to touch: skin to skin, the hair out of someone’s eyes, a warm mug of fresh tea, people who wear textures like it’s a lifestyle. grass under bare feet, pulling at them like bedsheets with your fingers. wet stone. the skin of another person’s hand. drawing lines across a lover’s face. pen to paper. every surface of the world — wooden floors, moss floors, the floor of your palms. iv) colors: wine in clear glasses. the eerie black of a guinness. the pink of flushed cheeks. the paler parts of a boy’s body. a peachy sunset. deep wooden floors. red lips. a colored pencil the color of tree lines. the clarity of water pulling towards the shore. a pale, pale, moon in the daylight. v) books: the english patient (michael ondaatje). in search of lost time (mostly vols. v and vi). fugitive pieces (anne michaels). a convergence of birds (edited by jonathon safran foer). bluets (maggie nelson). just kids (patti smith). beloved (toni morrison). as i lay dying (faulkner). the collector (john fowles). perfume: the story of a murderer (patrick suskind). bel canto (ann patchett). the book thief (markus zusak). the history of love (nicole krauss). the people of paper (salvador plascencia). vi) movies: the fall, amélie, princess mononoke, almost famous, ferris bueller’s day off, cruel intentions, donnie darko, the bfg, anastasia, inglorious basterds, moon, garden state, perfume: the story of a murderer, delicatessen, a very long engagement, lord of the rings, spirited away, edward scissorhands, eternal sunshine of a spotless mind, all dogs go to heaven, wristcutters: a love story, the diving bell and the butterfly, pan’s labyrinth, chocolat, howl’s moving castle, the pianist, it’s a wonderful life, the truman show, trainspotting, big fish, laputa: castle in the sky, the science of sleep, blood diamond vii) kisses: the ‘kiss me like you won’t see me in three weeks’ kiss viii) touches: the one that says ‘promise me you’ll stay’ ix) words: kitten, kaleidoscope, kitten, melodious, soliloquy, kitten, pamplemousse (this wasn’t an actual list of words i don’t have the time for that) x) voices: my father’s preacher voice. patrick watson. joni mitchell — her voice like water, her voice like rain. the voice of someone who trusts you. the three in the morning voice. the soft voice of a boy who will always love you.

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Berlin’s Visionaries Club outs two new €40M micro funds for seed and growth-stage B2B

Visionaries Club, a new European VC focussing on B2B, is disclosing that it has raised two micro funds of €40 million each, aimed at pre-seed/seed and Series B, respectively. The Berlin-based VC firm is founded by Sebastian Pollok and Robert Lacher.

Pollok was a VC at e.ventures in San Francisco and also founded Amorelie, which exited to to Pro7Sat.1 Media Group at a valuation over $100m in 2018. Lacher was previously founding partner of La Famiglia, where he is said to have been an early investor in companies such as FreightHub, Coya, Asana Rebel, OnTruck, and Personio.

LPs in Visionaries Club include numerous successful European founders, such as Hakan Koc (Auto 1 Group), Jochen Engert and Daniel Krauss (Flixbus), Johannes Reck (GetYourGuide), Dominik Richter (Hello Fresh), and Florian Gschwandtner (Runtastic).

Investors in the funds also include family businesses of Markus Swarovski, Shravin Mittal, Felix Fiege (Fiege Logistics), Christian Miele, Max Viessmann (Viessmann Group), and members of the Siemens, Henkel and Bitburger families.

In an email Q&A with Pollok and Lacher, we dug a little more into Visionaries Club’s remit, its steadfast focus on B2B, why it is doing seed and Series B but not Series C, and the pair’s views on Brexit.

TechCrunch: Why B2B?

RL: We believe the next big wave of disruption will happen in the B2B space, with the potential to re-shape the backbone of our European economy. Reinventing the B2B IT stack is the here-and-now opportunity since there is no reason for any part of the value chain not to be digitized in the long run if there is potential to streamline and automate processes.

SP: In the past 15 years we had a great wave and momentum of consumer-driven companies. But if you look at our European industry landscape, our true DNA are especially those industrial world market leaders that we’re famous for. Most of them run a profitable business, but often fail to manage the digital transformation on their own. That´s where we see the opportunity for us!

With our network-driven approach, we want to bridge the information asymmetry of “what´s possible” in the technology startup space and “what is actually needed” in the industrial space. With Visionaries Club, we bring those two worlds together to fuel the next wave of disruption.

TC: Visionaries Club has two funds, one for pre-seed/seed and one for later growth rounds, and plans to invest in B2B startups across Europe. On the seed fund, can you be more specific regarding the size of cheque you write and the types of companies, technologies, business models or B2B sectors you are focussing on?

SP: Sure! We are planning to invest between €500K to €1.5M into great B2B founders in the pre-seed and seed stage taking around 10% ownership in their companies. We love to look at technologies that kill inefficiencies across the B2B value chain and create a significant (10x) improvement – starting from sourcing and procurement platforms, modular production systems, warehouse automation, new digitally-enabled logistics platforms to more digital after-sales solutions.

RL: The nice thing about these technologies is that almost every company has a supply chain and the same problems: So most technologies here are relevant across verticals and create big market opportunities to tap into for startups. Great examples of recent European champions in this space are Celonis for process mining, UiPath for RPA or Graphcore in the AI-driven processor space – all of them B2B fast scalers, and all of them relevant across verticals. And the next generation is in the starting blocks with companies like Munich-based Arculus which has re-invented production with a modular approach already serving their first customers Audi and Porsche and now expanding to other verticals.

TC: The Visionaries Club growth fund is targeting Series B and is designed to enable you to double down on the most promising startups in your portfolio and even later stage startups you haven’t yet invested in. Related to this, you explicitly say you have chosen Series B as you want to avoid overcrowded Series A rounds. What is your thinking here?

RL: There has been a significant influx of capital into the European VC ecosystem in the last two years with most VCs having raised bigger funds with €100 – 350M in size focusing on the Series A stage as an entry point. First and foremost: This is an amazing development for founders and our ecosystem, since great founders can choose with which fund they want to team up.

SP: At the same time the VC landscape has become a red ocean for the many Series A focused VCs competing for the same stage and ownership, with the value propositions of many funds being rather similar. We want to stay out of this game and build a complementary VC product for the early growth stage where B2B tech founders can choose one of the Tier I European or US funds as a lead while we co-invest with a smaller check bringing in our industrial LP network to help them scale.

TC: You say that the importance of money has decreased in venture capital and that in 2019 access and network has become the most important currency to get into the best deals. How do you plan to access to the most promising companies Europe and what makes your network standout (because, frankly, every new VC is trading on the same promise)?

SP: Fair point! What separates us from other VCs is that we really have 1) only leading entrepreneurs as investors in our fund 2) that these entrepreneurs are both from the old and new economy and 3) that we take our approach also to the early growth stage.

As to our seed fund: Our 12 unicorn founders are great satellites and scouts in the market to access deals via their entrepreneurial networks early before they get “into the market” for fundraising. At the same time they have already been a great support in our past investments joining board meetings and helping young teams to transition from a seed to a growth company because they have just went through this same process themselves.

RL: As to our growth fund: We believe our biggest USP is the family business entrepreneur network from the industrial space as we can help B2B companies refine their product market fit and scale within our network. Lead gen in B2B is one of the most difficult challenges for startups, since you don’t win customers via digital channels such as Facebook. It is a “foot on the ground” business – we can help companies build those relationships faster.

Compared with typical publicly-listed corporates, family business entrepreneurs have an entrepreneurial DNA themselves, make fast decisions, are willing to take bigger risks and think long-term: All ingredients which make them a great sparring partner for B2B entrepreneurs in their growth stage.

TC: Both funds are relatively small, and you say this is deliberate. What are the advantages of a micro fund and also the disadvantages?

RL: It gives us more agility to co-invest with other great funds instead of competing which is good for founders because it is all about getting the most value-add on board. We also do not expose founders to a signaling risk at the early stage since we only lead Seed rounds and then support our founders in raising their Series A with one of the larger Tier I founds from our network while keeping our pro-rata share.

On the downside: It gives us less management fee ;) But since this is really not what we’re optimizing for anyway that’s ok. We also put our own money into the funds and want to keep our Visionaries Club team small and agile.

TC: Is Brexit good or bad for European tech or arguably just bad for the U.K.? Perhaps you can provide your perspective on Brexit as an early-stage VC firm based in Europe but outside of the United Kingdom.

SP: It’s bad for both ecosystems! Take the Oxbridge-London triangle alone where you have some of the world’s best researchers and technologists and where one of the most important assets is a direct line of cooperation between ground-breaking research on the one hand and leading industrial corporates on the other side as key driver to commercialize promising technologies. We have now seen the first corporates from Germany and France re-locating or closing down their UK offices which will make it tougher to collaborate. As to our goal of helping to form more European champions this is a very sad development.

On the other hand the London startup & VC ecosystem has matured and brought up amazing funds and entrepreneurs to back the next generation of founders. We hope that the VC and startup ecosystem will ignore Brexit wherever it can and see this still as a collaborative European play to be successful: We promise that we will try to do that whenever possible!

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transsolar · 4 months

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#tstransition Markus Krauß: Maßschneidern – von der Skizze zur Lowtech-Lösung

Eine Handskizze am Anfang eines Projektes hat sich als Ansatz für mich bewährt: In so einer Skizze sind die wichtigsten Randbedingungen zusammengefasst. Als Visualisierung und zur iterativen Weiterentwicklung hilft sie nicht nur mir, sondern dem ganzen Designteam bei der Diskussion der Gegebenheiten und erleichtert es, diese zu priorisieren, besonders dann, wenn alles zunächst recht komplex erscheint. Die Skizze verdeutlicht die physikalischen Gegebenheiten und begünstigt so, die logisch folgernden passiven Maßnahmen abzuleiten, die Grundlagen sind, um möglichst umweltfreundlich, energie- und kostensparend den gewünschten Komfort zu erzielen. Lowtech ist hier das Prädikat für die robusten Lösungen, die auch in das Design der Architektur integriert sind. Die Lüftungssäulen in einer Mensa können hier als Beispiel dienen, oder die zeitgemäße Version einer „Berliner Lüftung“ für eine Schule. Es begeistert mich immer wieder, wenn sich aus einer Skizze im Einklang eine elegante, maßgeschneiderte und nachhaltige Lösung entwickelt.

Markus Krauß ist einer der zehn neuen Assoziierten, die sich aus der Belegschaft auf den Weg machen, sich in naher Zukunft an Transsolar und Transplan zu beteiligen. Mit der erweiterten Gesellschaft beginnen wir, uns zu diversifizieren und ein solides Fundament zu schaffen, auf dem der Generationswechsel kontinuierlich und offen voranschreiten kann.

#blog #home #transsolar #klimaengineering #markus krauss #markus krauß

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allbestnet · 7 years

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The 21st Century's 100 popular books

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7) by J.K. Rowling

The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) by Suzanne Collins

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6) by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5) by J.K. Rowling

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2) by Suzanne Collins

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1) by Stieg Larsson

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2) by Dan Brown

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

Harry Potter Boxset (Harry Potter, #1-7) by J.K. Rowling

Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3) by Suzanne Collins

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Twilight (Twilight, #1) by Stephenie Meyer

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Divergent (Divergent, #1) by Veronica Roth

The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1) by Rick Riordan

City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1) by Cassandra Clare

The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1) by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

American Gods (American Gods, #1) by Neil Gaiman

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1) by Dan Brown

The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium, #2) by Stieg Larsson

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Breaking Dawn (Twilight, #4) by Stephenie Meyer

The Host (The Host, #1) by Stephenie Meyer

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Eclipse (Twilight, #3) by Stephenie Meyer

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3) by Stieg Larsson

New Moon (Twilight, #2) by Stephenie Meyer

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

City of Glass (The Mortal Instruments, #3) by Cassandra Clare

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

City of Ashes (The Mortal Instruments, #2) by Cassandra Clare

Room by Emma Donoghue

Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart by Tim Butcher

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Freakonomics, #1) by Steven D. Levitt

The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1) by Patrick Rothfuss

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz

Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog by John Grogan

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9) by Philippa Gregory

Vampire Academy (Vampire Academy, #1) by Richelle Mead

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore

Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

The Shack by Wm. Paul Young

Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay

Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult

The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan

What Is the What by Dave Eggers

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski

Empire Falls by Richard Russo

John Adams by David McCullough

Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss

Gilead (Gilead, #1) by Marilynne Robinson

A Million Little Pieces by James J. Frey

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens

Anansi Boys (American Gods, #2) by Neil Gaiman

People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

Looking for Alaska by John Green

The Secret Magdalene by Ki Longfellow

Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

Insurgent (Divergent, #2) by Veronica Roth

#books

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The International (2009)

Action, Crime, Drama |

The International is a action thriller film directed by Tom Tykwer and written by Eric Warren Singer. Starring Clive Owen and Naomi Watts, the film follows an Interpol agent and an American district attorney who jointly investigate corruption within the IBBC, a fictional merchant bank based in Luxembourg. It serves organized crime and corrupt governments as a banker and as an arms broker. The bank’s ruthless managers assassinate potential threats including their own employees.

Inspired by the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) scandal of the 1980s, the film raises concerns about how global finance affects international politics across the world. Production began in Berlin in September 2008, including the construction of a life-size replica of New York’s Guggenheim Museum for the film’s central shootout scene.

Louis Salinger, a British ex-Scotland Yard officer-turned Interpol detective, and Eleanor Whitman, an Assistant District Attorney from Manhattan, are investigating the International Bank of Business and Credit (IBBC), which funds activities such as money laundering, terrorism, arms trading, and the destabilization of governments. Salinger’s and Whitman’s investigation takes them from Berlin to Milan, where the IBBC assassinates Umberto Calvini, an arms manufacturer who is an Italian prime ministerial candidate. The bank’s assassin diverts suspicion to a local assassin with political connections, who is promptly killed by a corrupt policeman. Salinger and Whitman get a lead on the second assassin, but the corrupt policeman shows up again and orders them out of the country. At the airport they are able to check the security camera footage for clues on the whereabouts on the bank’s assassin, and follow a suspect to New York City.

Director: Tom Tykwer

Writer: Eric Warren Singer

Stars: Clive Owen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Ulrich Thomsen, Brían F. O’Byrne, Michel Voletti, Patrick Baladi

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►Cast:

Clive Owen…Louis SalingerNaomi Watts…Eleanor WhitmanArmin Mueller-Stahl…Wilhelm WexlerUlrich Thomsen…Jonas SkarssenBrían F. O’Byrne…The ConsultantMichel Voletti…Viktor HaasPatrick Baladi…Martin WhiteJay Villiers…Francis EhamesFabrice Scott…Nicolai YeshinskiHaluk Bilginer…Ahmet SunayLuca Barbareschi…Umberto CalviniAlessandro Fabrizi…Inspector Alberto CeruttiFelix Solis…Detective Iggy OrnelasJack McGee…Detective Bernie WardNilaja Sun…Detective Gloria HubbardSteven Randazzo…Al MoodyTibor Feldman…Dr. IsaacsonJames Rebhorn…New York D.A.Remy Auberjonois…Sam PurvitzTy Jones…Eli CasselIan Burfield…Thomas SchumerPeter Jordan…Berlin DoctorAxel Milberg…Klaus DiemerThomas Morris…Chief Inspector Reinhard SchmidtOliver Trautwein…Dietmar BerghoffLuigi Di Fiore…Carabinieri CaptainVerena Schonlau…I.B.B.C. Secretary (White)Laurent Spielvogel…Commissioner VillonMarita Hueber…Woman in Knit CapGiorgio Lupano…Milan SniperLoris Loddi…Calvini’s Chief of StaffNatalia Magni…1st Speaker / PoliticoDino Conti…Café Barista (as Emilio Dino Conti)Lucian Msamati…General Charles MotombaBenjamin Wandschneider…Cassian SkarssenAlessandro Quattro…Milan Airport SecurityMarco Gambino…Calvini LawyerMatt Patresi…Calvini Defense Security ChiefTristana Moore…World News ReporterNaomi Krauss…I.B.B.C. Secretary (Skarssen)Franco Trevisi…Italian GentlemanAntonio Santoro…Lab TechnicianHakan Boyav…Attendant / Bodyguard SunayLuca Calvani…Enzo CalviniGerolamo Fancellu…Mario CalviniBen Whishaw…Rene AntallSedat Mert…Bodyguard SunayTevfik Polat…Bodyguard SunayDarren Pettie…Elliot WhitmanMike Braun…HitmanMichael Bornhütter…Hitman (as Michael Bornhuetter)Heiko Kiesow…HitmanMarkus Pütterich…Hitman (as Markus Puetterich)Ronnie Paul…HitmanGerd Grzesczak…HitmanPiet Paes…HitmanSigo Heinisch…HitmanGeorges Bigot…André ClementEric Warren Singer…CashierFederico Pacifici…Man in a Green FedoraBrad Holbrook…TV ReporterJon DeVries…New York MayorChris Henry Coffey…Museum VisitorAlex Cranmer…Museum VisitorRobert Salerno…Little Boy WhitmanNicole Shalhoub…WitnessGeorge Aloi…Museum VisitorAnders Bramsen…Guggenheim VisitorLogan Crawford…ReporterJoel Cross…Bus PassengerElli…Rabbi ElliResit Berker Enhos…Funeral AttendeeMayil Georgi…Hotel ladyNatalie Gold…Assistant District AttorneyTakako Haywood…Gunshot VictimLars Joermann…SolicitorSteven J. Klaszky…Museum Visitor #3Amy Kwolek…Samantha SalingerLidia Napoli…GirlThelma O’Leary…Airport PassengerIzzy Palmieri…Little Girl WhitmanChrista Pasch…Scarcon’s WifeRaffaello Perfetto…TouristYusuf Piskin…Turkish GuyRoberta Potrich…Girl in the barJihane Tamri…Airport workerPaul Darren Varricchio…TouristNicolas Walier…Visitor Guggenheim MuseumElizabeth Watson…Muriel RogueRicky Watson…Guggenheim Museum VisitorYusuke Yamasaki…Guggenheim VisitorAlexander Yassin…Guggenheim Museum VisitorÖzcan Özdemir…Boy in the bar

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Tom Krauss extends his contract with RB Leipzig

RB Leipzig has extended the contract with young player Tom Krauss. As the Bundesliga team reports, the midfielder will be committed to the club until 2025. According to the ‘Bild’, Krauss is to be promoted to the second division for the coming season.

Sports director Markus Krösche is happy: “Tom is a talented boy who has great potential. He has developed very well in recent years. ” The…

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endenogatai · 5 years