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    FIGURE 1 in The first record of genus Gryllomorpha Fieber in Romania (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Gryllomorphinae)

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    FIGURE 1. Habitus of Gryllomorpha miramae (female) and the sarmatic sands quarry where the cricket was found for the first time in Romania (Credința, 2018.08).Published as part of Iorgu, Ștefan, Chobanov, Dragan, Skolka, Marius, Zaharia, Răzvan & Iorgu, Elena Iulia, 2019, The first record of genus Gryllomorpha Fieber in Romania (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Gryllomorphinae), pp. 581-583 in Zootaxa 4543 (4) on page 582, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4543.4.5, http://zenodo.org/record/261805

    Marius von Mayenburg and Roland Schimmelpfennig

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    Roland Schimmelpfennig and Marius von Mayenburg represent a new generation of playwrights to emerge in the German-speaking countries in the late 1990s; other prominent protagonists include Falk Richter, Lukas Bärfuss and Kathrin Röggla, as well as Dea Loher and Sibylle Berg. In this chapter, the author clearly shares some of their approaches, as both revisit and reinvent key conventional dramatic mechanisms, yet from a postdramatic horizon. Fireface, mapped out key themes as well as the (European middle-class) universe that keeps appearing in Mayenburg’s work in a variety of permutations. In Der Hässliche, premiered at Schaubühne Berlin in January 2007, Marius von Mayenburg plays a scathing game with postmodern ideas of the ‘performativity’ of subjectivity and contingency of identity. These academic ideas, in the context of neoliberal capitalism, contribute to an all-encompassing commodification of individuality. In fact, all of Marius von Mayenburg’s plays transcend the hyper-realities of his scenarios into grotesque exposures of absurdities of middle-class life under global capitalism

    Biblical connotations in Marius von Mayenburgʼs plays

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    Marius von Mayenburgʼs plays provide a critique of contemporary society, which is replete with violence and conformity. The playwright refers to the so‑called ‘new realism,’ and also incorporates elements of the post‑dramatic theatre. Biblical motifs in contemporary literature, including German literature, have recently lost their popularity; however, they have not disappeared altogether. They continue to be a source of inspiration for artists across various domains. Marius von Mayenburg is no exception, as he fearlessly incorporates and reinterprets these motifs, harnessing their universal messages in his plays. This paper aims to trace biblical motifs and determine their function in three well‑known plays by the author: Parasiten, Märtyrer and Mars

    Gryllomorpha (Gryllomorphella) miramae Medvedev 1933

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    Gryllomorpha (Gryllomorphella) miramae Medvedev, 1933 Examined material: 1 ♀ (nymph), 2018.0 8.0 5, quarry west of Credința village, Constanța county, Romania, 43.9782°N 28.2277°E, 70 m ASL (obs. M. Skolka); 5 ♀♀, 2018.0 8.25, same locality (leg. I. Ș. Iorgu & R. Zaharia); 2 ♀♀, 2018.0 9.28, same locality (leg. I. Ș. Iorgu & R. Zaharia); 1 ♀, 2018.0 8.28, Techirghiol lake, Constanța county, Romania, 44.0243°N 28.6101°E, 10 m ASL (leg. I. Ș. Iorgu & R. Zaharia). In early August 2018, on a typically hot and sunny Dobrogean day, one of the authors (M.S.) observed a young cricket nymph while actively searching for insects under stones in a sarmatic quartzose sands quarry nearby the village of Credința (fig. 1). Based on the taken photography, the insect was identified as most likely Gryllomorpha, a previously unknown cricket for the Romanian fauna. Several days later, an attempt of finding the insects at sundown was a disappointing failure. At the end of the summer, we decided to search for the crevice crickets at night, about two hours after the sunset. This time, the quest was successful and we managed to find five adult females at the light of headlamps, clearly identified as G. miramae (fig. 1). Later on, the species was accidentally captured on a Barber trap placed on the shores of Techirghiol lake, along with numerous Gryllus campestris Linnaeus, Melanogryllus desertus (Pallas) and Modicogryllus truncatus (Tarbinsky) nymphs. Gryllomorpha miramae is a nocturnal species, during the day staying hidden under stones or in the porous sarmatic rocks and possibly also in caves. In Bulgaria, the crevice cricket was recorded in dry stony areas within maquis (Quercus coccifera communities), steppe-like habitats on limestone and Quercus sp., Carpinus orientalis communities up to 600 m (Chobanov 2003 and own unpublished data). Even more interestingly, Medvedev indicated that the type specimens of Gryllomorpha miramae were collected in Citellus burrows (Gorochov 2009). Gryllomorpha miramae is characterized by a transversally striped pattern of dark and light brown, and Gorochov (2009) notes that the coloration is rather variable within the species: specimens from Europe have a clearly noticeable darkened area on the face, and dark, wide bands on body, while in individuals from Asia, the head is almost homogeneously yellowish and the body is shaded with narrow brownish stripes. Despite the fact that Dobrogea is the most studied historical region in Romania, being frequently visited by biologists, several new findings within the past years proved that ambitious, exhaustive field work in unknown territories can produce surprizing results when it comes to survey the orthopterans, such as the finding of Zeuneriana amplipennis (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1882), Vichetia oblongicollis (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1882) (Iorgu 2011), Gryllotalpa stepposa Zhantiev, 1991 (Iorgu et al. 2016), Parapholidoptera castaneoviridis (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1882) (Iorgu et al. 2017). The discovery of Gryllomorpha miramae in south-eastern Romania completes the distribution picture of this species, bridging the gap between the known occurrence areas.Published as part of Iorgu, Ștefan, Chobanov, Dragan, Skolka, Marius, Zaharia, Răzvan & Iorgu, Elena Iulia, 2019, The first record of genus Gryllomorpha Fieber in Romania (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Gryllomorphinae), pp. 581-583 in Zootaxa 4543 (4) on pages 581-583, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4543.4.5, http://zenodo.org/record/261805

    Effective planning for internal audit.

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    The purpose of this thesis is to find a way to effectively plan for internal audit. Conditions necessary for effective planning are formulated by using analysis of scientific literature. In second part author suggests a model for effective internal audit planning. In third part model is applied and analyzed using a case study

    TO PUBLISH A DENIGRATING VOLUME DURING THE COMMUNIST REGIME: AFTER FIFTY YEARS, AUTHOR: MARIUS MIRCU

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    Innovative ideas were seldom appreciated by the communist dictatorial regime, all the more so as they were a critique of the system. The idealism of the romantic period of communism, when some of those who suffered in previous eras joined the beliefs promoted by politicians, was radically transformed when the true intentions came to light. Isolated in the circle of the loved ones, one of the few places where he could express his true thoughts and feelings, Marius Mircu took refuge in writing, believing that irony and satire, the weapons of literature he mastered so well, would help him mask the true meaning of his words from the volume După cincizeci de ani [After Fifty Years]. The purpose of our study is to illustrate his efforts to publish this volume during the communist period, the reactions of the state authorities, and the actions taken against the author

    Daniel 9 as part of an apocalyptic book?

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    Daniel 9 relates how Daniel studies the Hebrew Holy Scriptures and finds the prophecy of Jeremiah that Jerusalem will lie desolate for seventy years. He reacts by devoting himself to prayer and fasting in order to remind God of this promise of restoring his people. The better part of the chapter is dedicated to the contents of his prayer. During the prayer, the man, Gabriel, appears with the intent to give Daniel an understanding of the meaning of the seventy years, which is the measure of the punishment of Israel�s transgression and sin and which will end with eternal righteousness, when the Holy of Holies will be anointed. The Book of Daniel consists of two sections: the tales of the first six chapters and the visions of the last six chapters. This article asked the question: what role does Daniel 9 play as a part of the apocalyptic section of the book? Is Daniel�s prayer and Gabriel�s revelation apocalyptically conditioned? Why did the author or compiler include it in the book and, especially, in the second, apocalyptic section of the book? The conclusion of this article was that Daniel 9 was placed intentionally by the compiler in the latter half of the book because of the revelation about the seventy weeks, which is in line with the last three chapters� indication of the end times and Israel�s elevation to become the ruler of the earth. Several arguments were formulated to support this conclusion.</span

    Pentecostal hermeneutical considerations about women in ministry

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    At first, the Pentecostal movement made no distinction between genders in the ministry. Anyone anointed by the Spirit was allowed to minister, whether to pray for the sick, testify about an encounter with God, preach or teach. The emphasis was not on the person of the one ministering, but on the Spirit equipping and empowering the person. Due to Pentecostals' upward mobility and alliance with evangelicals in order to receive the approval of the society and government since the 1940s, women's contribution to the ministry faded until in the 1970s some Pentecostals with an academic background started debating about Pentecostal hermeneutics; questioning also the omission of women from ministry. Although many Pentecostals still read the Bible in a fundamentalist manner, the article proposes a hermeneutical strategy-in accordance with the way early Pentecostals interpreted the Bible-that moves from the experience with the Spirit to the Bible, allowing one to experience the confusion and conflict necessarily associated with contradictory statements found in the Bible about issues such as women in the ministry. While the author agrees it is important that discrimination against women in the church should cease, the purpose of the article is not primarily to discuss this discrimination; it is rather to show how a movement's hermeneutical viewpoint and considerations can cause the movement to change its stance about an important issue such as women in ministry

    History of Medicine #25: Race: a history of a bad idea

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    Upstream, the BAME Action Group and the Working Group on the History of Race and Eugenics are pleased to invite you to a book launch: Historicizing Race by Marius Turda and Maria Sophie Quine (Bloomsbury, 2018). Co-author Marius Turda will introduce the book and read a few extracts. In response Sasha Coutinho, International Relations and Business Management, and Graham van Wyk, OBI, will reflect on the contribution the book makes in understanding the idea of “race” and its implications today. The event will be chaired by Syed Imam, History. We invite you to participate in what will be a lively discussion of the idea of “race” across history, and which unfortunately, is still making history! "To be black was to confront, and to be forced to alter, a condition forged in history. To be white was to be forced to digest a delusion called white supremacy", James Baldwin, ‘Dark days’ 198

    The signs of the Messiah (‘Otot Hamashiach) and Jewish apocalypticism

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    Fomerly know as Acta Patristica et ByzantinaDuring the Second Temple period several Jewish writings refer to the oral tradition of the 'otot hamashiach, the signs that would accompany the coming of the Messiah. The subject is utilized by the author of the Gospel of John in his deliberate and calculated references to 'signs' as a way of authorizing Jesus as the expected and promised Messiah. The signs enumerated in Near Eastern apocalypses range from natural disasters and cataclysms, to social and political upheavals and preternatural occurrences. The 'Otot Hamashiach is a Jewish apocalypse of uncertain date, from around the third to the sixth centuries C.E., describing ten signs or portents that would transpire before the end comes. The Apocalypse opens important perspectives on Jewish medieval expectations of the Messiah and the end of times, as well as the enemy of Israel, Armilus
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