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Prisoners and Felons Rights 1/28/08
Today's JS article about a complaint by a jailed Peorian with a long rap sheet is the prologue to the following sad state of affairs in our jails and prison systems. I quote from an article titled "When Courts Meddle in Prison Operations" written by Dave Morris, a semi-retired criminologist who worked for the IDC and currently serves on the adjunct faculty at Southwestern College in Bellevile.
Mr. Morris writes, "One hundred years ago prisoners were regarded as slaves of the state. In 1964, the Supreme Court in Cooper vs. Pate ruled that prisoners in state prisons could sue to force authorities to address complaints arising from the Civil Rights Act of 1871. The court said convicted felons remain citizens with rights protected by the Constitution. Imprisoned felons went from slaves to inconvenienced citizens.
Each year since state prisoner have filed more and more lawsuits. Think that doesn't affect you? Well, think again. The government hires attorneys to represent prison employees. You pay for the attorneys. Trials, depositions, witnesses, court costs - your money. Since most prisoners can't afford attorneys, attorneys are appointed to represent them. You pay their fees.
Remember that one of the reasons for the hands-off approach by courts was to avoid disrupting prison discipline. Since courts have become more hand-on, discipline has been disrupted in many institutions.
Some prisons now operate under legal consent decrees establishing numerous mandatory rules, some of which makes prisons unsafe for both inmates and staff alike. In addition, many prison administrators and employees are concerned that they may be hauled into court for just doing their jobs.
The result? The emotional costs that litigation inflicts on staff and inmates tend to increase tension, increasing violence, more management problems and in the long run, higher cost to the taxpayer's".
So you could expect the lawsuit/complaint issues of jails to increase all across the country. Now a complaint about unsanitary spoons at our County Jail. On Dec 4, 2008, a nine member Peoria County Grand Jury found the Peoria County Jail had no obvious problems with conditions and treatment of prisoner. The County Health Department also found no unsanitary conditions at the jail in a recent inspections.
Prisoners are so saavy now that they can file numerous lawsuits and complaints against guards and administrators. In the case of the plastic spoons, 60 other inmates signed on. They probably see the possibility of a lawsuit and would probably want to be called as witnesses to get them out of jail for some testimony time. (Maybe even possible damages? or harrassment at the least)
Thousands of frivolous lawsuits are filled by prisoners all across the U.S. every year. It is my opinion that the judges should be able to separate the charges that have merit from claims that reused plastic spoons are negatively affecting prisoners health.
A few pathetic people are further ruining this country. If the health department can show that the prisoners can't properly wash their spoons, then the sheriff and our competent Jail Superintendent Steve Smith will provide them with the proper soap.
The best advice I can give to the complaining inmates - stay out of trouble and you won't wind up eating with a plastic spoon along with other lawbreakers who get caught.
To all citizens of this county, stop the prevalent permissiveness that leads from a "broken window" to a smashed windshield and a pistol shot. Either support discipline in the school systems, home or public places or be prepared to eventually build another addition onto the County Jail, hire more safety officers more judges and probation officers. Stop helping create a less desirable community to move to or live in.
As I've warned before, offer love and if that doesn't work, offer tough love but always expect responsibility in return. As the song goes, "you can't have one without the other".
Not hard to figure what results in lower taxes.
They can weed out suits on the federal level. There's a merit review by a judge before the case gets going in earnest.
It would be easier to justify a hard line on convicts if only dangerous criminals were in prison.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008 9:20:00 PM
We need more people like Sheriff Joe Arapio from Arizona running jails. He doesn't fool around with the inmates and he doesn't coddle them either. They are in prison because they have no respect for anyone and therefore deserve no respect. Sheriff Joe gives them the bare necessities and absolutely no frills. Very very few come back to his facility.
Sunday, February 03, 2008 10:30:00 PM


The first season follows the Harmon family: Ben (Dylan McDermott), Vivien (Connie Britton) and Violet (Taissa Farmiga), who move from Boston to Los Angeles to start a new life in a Victorian mansion, after Vivien has a miscarriage and Ben has an affair with Hayden (Kate Mara), one of his students. On arrival, they learn from Marcy (Christine Estabrook), the real estate agent, that the previous owners of their new mansion, a couple named Chad and Patrick (Zachary Quinto and Teddy Sears), died in an apparent murder/suicide. Their neighbor Constance (Jessica Lange) and her daughter Addie (Jamie Brewer) become frequent, and mostly unwelcome, guests. Addie seems to have a connection with the house's mysterious past. Larry Harvey (Denis O'Hare), a former resident of the house who has suffered from terrible burns, also begins inserting himself into the Harmons' lives, giving Ben a cryptic warning about the house. The house also "comes with" Moira O'Hara (Frances Conroy/Alexandra Breckenridge), a housekeeper who appears young and seductive to men, but old and matronly to women.


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Valentin, Barbara
ACTOR (AUSTRIA)
BORN 15 Dec 1940, Wien - DIED 22 Feb 2002, München, Bayern
REAL NAME Ledersteger, Brigitte Barbara
GRAVE LOCATION München, Bayern: Ostfriedhof, St.-Martins-Platz 1 (left wall 183)
Daughter of movie art director Hans Ledersteger (1898-1971) and actress Irmgard Alberti. After her parents divorced she grew up in Bruchsal. When she was 19 she moved to Munich and during the 1960s she played in erotical movies like "In Frankfurt sind die Nächte Heiss" (1966).
In the early 1970s Rainer Werner Fassbinder enabled her to start a new career when he offered her parts in "Nora Helmer" (1973) and "Effi Briest" (1974). She was in three more Fassbinder movies.
She married three times and among her husbands was director Helmut Dietl (1976-1983). In 1984-1985 she lived with Freddie Mercury. After his death she was active for organisations against AIDS. In 2001 she suffered a stroke. She was in a come and then in a wheelchair until she died early in 2002.
• cooperated with Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
The grave of Barbara Valentin at the Ostfriedhof, Munich.
Picture by Androom (19 Jan 2004)
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Well construction of Lorenzi Park is in full blown mode!! They have completely drained the lake and are rebuilding back into its original "Twin Lake" configuration!
There are also several other amenities being constructed around the lakes.
Looks like the park will in great shape by the time Pirate Fest rolls around!!!


Crazy that some people still believe in TapGregor lol. Nate is better fighter in every possible way.
Nate got his black belt from cesar gracie (one of the hardest people to get a black belt from). His ground game is literally on a whole nother level than your average brown belt. Its like an 1800 player in RM playing a 2500 player. You can blame his gas tank all you want but he looked like a white belt when it hit the ground vs nate. Also he was getting ''battered'' in the first round because he literally took the fight on 10 days notice and had 0 sparring. And yes that is a BIG deal , 0 sparring = 0 timing in your stand up game. Once he got thru the first round he got in a rhythm and started to tag conor to the point of wobbling him and turning conor into a d1 wrestler.
The only way conor is tkoing nate is by landing a headkick ala josh thompson, he hit nate with his hardest shots standing and nate gave him the stockton slap in response. Dat dere look of defeat on conors face said it all. His best chance is to not gas out and win a decision. With all that being said tho ill take a full camp nate diaz by 3rd round TKO.
Here this camp bull**** all the time.
They are professional fighters, They are pretty much 90% without their camp..
At no point did i say nate hasnt got a better ground game but to say a brown belt has no ground game is laughable like the previous poster said that i responded too.
We will see. Wanna bet?


A community festival celebrating diversity in Carlisle was given a £2,000 cash boost from the Abbeyfield Society Community First Fund.
Carlisle Unity Festival, organised by AWAZ Cumbria and their partners, One World, was aimed at building unity among the many diverse groups in the city while tackling prejudice and promoting understanding.
Charities that work with ethnic communities and minority groups showcased their services and the range of activities on offer within the community. Stallholders included Carlisle Refugee Action Group, Carlisle Mencap, the Terrence Higgins Trust, Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Carlisle Lions Club.
Local people were able to share and learn new skills and had the opportunity to experience a wide variety of food and music, and enjoy performing arts from around the world, in Carlisle City Centre.
Cumbria is one of the least diverse counties in the UK, but this is beginning to change. Carlisle is becoming increasingly multi-cultural and diverse, yet there is a lack of opportunities for communities to come together and celebrate their cultures.
Minority and marginalised groups living in the city face issues such as racism and islamophobia which has been documented in recent hate crime reporting by Cumbria Constabulary. Aftab Khan, Development Officer at AWAZ Cumbria, hopes the event has increased awareness and understanding of the barriers and issues these groups face.
He said: "There is a need more than ever to demonstrate that people and communities are united in their spirit and action against any kind of intolerance, hate and xenophobia in Carlisle.
"Carlisle's first Unity Festival brought together a range of community groups and organisations to stand up to prejudice and show their community spirit in a time of great uncertainty.


Hello Class of 1999 Lafayette Lancers!
The FaceBook group page (titled "Lafayette Lancers Class of 1999") and email (lancerco99reunion@gmail.com) will be maintained after the class reunion so that we can stay in touch and plan future reunions.
This website is your one stop spot for everything related to our 20 year class reunion. First, we ask that you head over to the "Classmates" page to set up your profile for this website. Next, check out the "Polls and Surveys" and "Details of Events" pages. Tickets for reunion events are on sale NOW; get your tickets now and save $10 per ticket for the reunion party!
The "Messages Boards" page is a great place to post ideas and suggestions for all things reunion related; we've already started a few threads. Do you have any snapshots from our LHS days? Share them to our "Photo Albums" page; we're looking for photos for our reunion slide show.
We're starting the planning early in the hopes that we can cultivate an event that will satisfy your nostalgia and appeal to all of your senses. Our class was beyond awesome and memorable. The same will be said for October 11-13, 2019.


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Linden parents, teachers hear about vaping risks
By Alyssa Lidman on November 10, 2019 Comments Off on Linden parents, teachers hear about vaping risks
Photo by Alyssa Lidman
Sean Foley, the assistant director of community prevention at the Roselle-based Prevention Links, gives his presentation on the dangers of vaping.
LINDEN, N.J. — Parents and teachers must be aware of marketing campaigns by companies selling vaping products if they want to keep their children and students from picking up the e-cigarette habit, according to a social worker at a community meeting in the Wilson Pond Building on Oct. 28.
Sean Foley, the assistant director of community prevention at Prevention Links, a Roselle-based nonprofit organization that seeks to "eliminate the deleterious effects of drugs and alcohol," told the gathering that while vaping companies do not claim their products are good, they use other marketing ploys that work on young people.
"If you market it in a manner that makes you feel that you may be left out, then kids are going to be more prone to utilize this substance," Foley said. "And so marketing and advertisements are all based and designed to make you feel like you need something you don't need, and they make you feel bad you don't have it."
The desire that youth have to fit in is rooted in the survival tendencies of the hunter-gatherer society, in which someone who was expelled from a group, or did not fit in, might not survive, he said. And social media algorithms play a huge part in the businesses' advertising; vape companies employ targeted advertising through several social media platforms, in addition to billboards and magazines. For example, online celebrity photos featuring vape products are advertisements without explicitly saying so.
"They do it in a manner that hides the fact that it's an advertisement," Foley said.
Originally introduced in 2007 as an alternative to conventional cigarettes, vapes, or e-cigarettes, are devices that turn water infused with flavorings — and often nicotine or other chemicals — into a vapor that is inhaled. The flavorings often duplicate sweet tastes, such as candy, which Foley said is intended to get youth addicted to vaping.
The U.S. Surgeon General's website warns against vaping, stating that the flavorings often contain diacetyl, a chemical linked to serious lung disease and volatile organic compounds and heavy metals, such as nickel, tin and lead. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website, the devices can also be used to deliver marijuana and other drugs. The Harvard Medical School's website says its not clear if inhaling heated water vapor can cause lung damage and other problems.
While Foley said at the meeting that although the products are often promoted as a healthy alternative to cigarette smoking, health officials dispute that claim. The solution, he said, is to just keep discussing the dangers of vaping with teens.
"The median lead concentration in aerosols, for example, was about 25 times greater than the median level in the refill dispensers," Foley said. "Researchers also detected a metal-like element that can be highly toxic. Levels of these metals varied greatly from sample-to-sample, and often were much higher than safe limits."
Vaping surpassed cigarette smoking in 2014, and Foley said more teenagers today are using e-cigarettes than traditional cigarettes. In 2014, he said, tobacco companies spent $115 million on e-cigarette advertising and the rate of middle school and high school students who vape tripled in one year. About 5 percent of middle school students and 21 percent of high school students currently use e-cigarettes, he said.
Foley also disputed claims of vaping as a safe alternative to cigarette smoking, stating that there is no research evidence that vaping products are an effective smoking-cessation tool.
"The view at this time is simply just false," he said. "There is a better chance for them to go back to smoking cigarettes."
There are risks beyond inhaling nicotine, heavy metals or THC, Foley said.
"We also know that it has a potential risk for heart disease, asthma attacks, poisoning by these liquids, cases of batteries exploding in people's pockets and popcorn lung," he said, referring to a type of bronchitis named after a chemical used in both popcorn flavoring and vape oil, and which causes coughing and shortness of breath.
Teens and young people commonly report stress reduction as a reason for vaping. Vape pods can contain up to the equivalent of 20 cigarettes in nicotine levels, Foley said, and vaping creates cravings and withdrawal symptoms that can lower a person's emotional baseline. "Some of those symptoms are with stress itself, and the anxiety gets worse" from vaping, he said.
When asked by an audience member about the highly publicized deaths recently attributed to black market e-cigarettes, including one in New Jersey announced by the state Department of Health last month, Foley discounted those reports. He said legitimate vape product companies are pushing a false narrative and placing blame elsewhere to avoid accountability and present themselves as a safe alternative.
"That's just another one of their lies," he said.
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Sources: OU set to finalize deal with Venables
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Sources: Oklahoma set to finalize deal to hire Clemson DC Brent Venables as football coach
Chris LowESPN Senior Writer
College football reporter
Joined ESPN.com in 2007
Graduate of the University of Tennessee
Oklahoma officials are scheduled to arrive in Clemson, South Carolina, later Sunday afternoon to finalize a deal with Clemson defensive coordinator Brent Venables to become the Sooners' next football coach, sources told ESPN.
Venables has been a major part of Clemson's championship run under Dabo Swinney and has a long history at Oklahoma. He was on the Sooners' staff from 1999 to 2011, serving as co-defensive coordinator from 1999 to 2003 and defensive coordinator from 2004 to 2011.
While at Clemson, Venables was the Broyles Award winner in 2016 as the top assistant coach in college football. He has turned down multiple head-coaching opportunities in recent years to stay at Clemson.
Venables, whose defenses at Clemson have consistently ranked near the top nationally in most statistical categories, is the highest-paid assistant coach in college football. He received a contract extension prior to this season that took him to $2.5 million annually. That's after turning down the Auburn head-coaching job a few months earlier.
If a deal is reached with Venables at Oklahoma, sources told ESPN that Ole Miss offensive coordinator Jeff Lebby would be his top choice as offensive coordinator. Lebby, a semifinalist for the Broyles Award each of the past two seasons, spent four years as a student assistant at Oklahoma after signing to play there before suffering a career-ending injury.


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Absurd hardware requirements and compatibility problems aplenty. Sound familiar?
Windows NT has hit an important milestone. Its launch is now closer to the first Moon landing than it is to today.
With its debut in July 1993, Windows NT ushered in a gloriously pure 32-bit future, free of the 16-bit shackles of the past. While the majority of PCs at the time were running MS-DOS, often with Microsoft's Windows 3.1 perched precariously atop, like a giant lemon balanced on a peanut, the kernel-based NT represented a stab at something entirely new.
Originally intended as a successor for IBM's OS/2, before the collaboration between the two companies foundered on the rocks of the success of Microsoft's Windows, NT required some tasty hardware. Nothing less than a 386-class processor (for the Intel iteration) would do, and running it in less that 16MB would make for a very sub-par experience – astonishingly excessive for the time.
Development was famously led by DEC's Dave Cutler, who joined Microsoft five years earlier, with the goal of making the operating system portable via a common code base and a Hardware Abstraction Layer to do all the grungy low-level stuff. Non-Intel architectures such as DEC's Alpha were initially supported but later dropped. Support for POSIX and OS/2 APIs was also present, but faded away as the Windows juggernaut rode into town.
The current Arm incarnation of Windows 10 owes some debt to the early work of the Windows NT 3.1 team.
The NTVDM (also known as Windows on Windows, or WOW) allowed legacy applications to run as though on a DOS computer, except without access to protected areas of memory. The theory went that applications running in this subsystem could not take down the operating system if things went south, only the NTVDM itself. Alas, this protection also meant that a substantial number of applications (notably games) simply did not work because NT blocked access to the hardware.
Windows NT 3.1 initially matched its DOS-based sibling version number-wise, but stepped out of sync a year later with the launch of NT 3.5, and then 3.51. NT 4, in 1996, is peak Windows as far as this grizzled hack is concerned, before NT was retooled for consumers with the launch of Windows XP in 2001.


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Q: Parsing a user-input value I would like to allow a user to enter some input, and the program to parse that as a js type, if it can. For example, in what the user types into the text input is:

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*Hello -> "Hello" (string)

*2.13 -> 2.13 (number)

*true -> true (bool)

Would the following accomplish this in a very basic fashion, ignoring nested objects and such?

function parseValueFromText(text) {
    try {
        return JSON.parse(text);
    } catch(e) {
        if (e instanceof SyntaxError) {
            return text;
        } else {
            throw e;
        }
    }
}
let a=parseValueFromText('hello'),
    b=parseValueFromText(123);
console.log(a, typeof a);
console.log(b, typeof b);

A: Your implementation is pretty close, but if JSON.parse results in a string then you likely want the original string, not the result of the parse.
Also, I think that any exception should result in the original string.
function parseValueFromText(text) {
  try {
    const result = JSON.parse(text);
    if (typeof result !== 'string') return result;
  } catch {}
  return text;
}

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«La doncella sin manos» () es un cuento de hadas recogido por los hermanos Grimm como la historia número 31.  Es un cuento tipo 706 en el sistema Aarne-Thompson-Uther.

Sinopsis
Un día, un molinero recibe la oferta de mucha riqueza por parte del diablo a cambio de que le entregue todo lo que se encuentra detrás de su molino. Creyendo que se trata solo de su manzano, el molinero accede, pero el diablo se refería en realidad a su hija que se encontraba allí. Después de tres años, el diablo regresa, pero la niña se ha mantenido libre de pecado y con sus manos limpias, lo que provoca que no pueda llevársela. Este amenaza al padre con llevárselo a él si no acepta cortarle las manos a la niña; ella se lo permite, pero llora sobre sus muñones y los deja tan limpios que el diablo no puede llevársela y desiste de ella.

A pesar de la riqueza de su padre, la chica decide aventurarse en el mundo. En un momento ve un jardín real y desea comer unas peras  que hay allí, y recibe la ayuda de un ángel. Al faltar las peras al día siguiente, el jardinero explica cómo fue que ella apareció. El rey la aguarda al día siguiente y cuando aparece, se casa con ella y le regala unas manos de plata. Más tarde la chica da luz a un hijo y le envía la noticia a su esposo, que se ha marchado a pelear en la guerra. El mensajero hace una parada en el camino y el diablo cambia la carta para darle a entender al rey que su esposa ha dado luz a un monstruo. El rey responde que deben cuidar al niño de todas formas, pero el diablo se hace con esa carta también y la cambia por una que dice que deben matar a la reina y a su hijo y guardar los ojos y la lengua de ella como prueba.

El criado del rey se desespera y para ayudar a la reina y su hijo, decide matar una cierva para usar sus ojos y lengua, y los echa del castillo para que vayan a esconderse. La reina se va a un bosque, donde un ángel le brinda un refugio en el que puede cuidar a su hijo.

El rey regresa al castillo, descubre que las cartas fueron falsificadas y sale en búsqueda de su esposa y su hijo. Después de siete años,  encuentra el refugio y se acuesta a dormir con un pañuelo cubriéndole el rostro. Su esposa aparece y el pañuelo cae de su cara, y esta le ordena a su hijo que lo vuelva a poner. El niño se enfada porque le había dicho que Dios es el único padre del hombre. El rey se levanta y le pregunta quiénes son y ella le responde. Él dice que su esposa tenía manos de plata pero que las de ella son naturales. Ella le responde que Dios se las ha devuelto. Recoge las manos de plata que se le cayeron y se las muestra al rey. El rey se regocija de haber encontrado a su esposa y ambos regresan a su reino, donde viven felices para siempre.

Variantes
Los Hermanos Grimm alteraron la historia que habían recogido e incorporaron un motivo de otros cuentos: el de un hijo prometido sin querer (encontrado también en «Nix Nought Nothing», «La ondina del estanque», «El príncipe agradecido», y «El rey Kojata»), que no se encontraba en la versión original. De hecho, un estudio de cuentos folclóricos alemanes encontró que de dieciséis variantes recogidas después de la publicación de Cuentos de la infancia y del hogar, solamente una siguió el mismo comienzo que el de los Grimm.

En versiones más crudas del relato encontradas alrededor del mundo, el desmembramiento de la doncella ocurre cuando se niega a los avances sexuales de su padre o su hermano, como la versión xhosa del cuento, «Un padre corta los brazos de su hija».  En «Penta, la de las manos cortadas» de Giambattista Basile, la heroína se corta sus propias manos para repeler los avances de su hermano.  Otras variantes de este cuento incluyen «La niña con una mano», «La niña sin manos» de Aleksandr Afanásiev, y «Biancabella y la serpiente» de Gianfrancesco Straparola.

Esta no es la forma más común de cuento de hadas con un padre que intenta casarse con su hija. Se encuentra con mayor frecuencia en relatos como «Bestia peluda», «The King Who Wished to Marry His Daughter», y otros cuentos del tipo 510B en el sistema Aarne-Thompson. Sin embargo, este motivo es tomado en romances de materia caballeresca exclusivamente en cuentos como «La doncella sin manos»; ningún romance incluye el final como Cenicienta con tres bailes, que es la conclusión característica de la heroína perseguida. La versión más antigua de este tipo aparece en «Vitae Duorum Offarum», específicamente en el rey Offa, quien parece ser un personaje histórico, pero los detalles de su reino son imprecisos.  Otros romances que usan la trama de este cuento de hadas incluyen «Emaré», «Mai y Beaflor», y «La Belle Helene de Constantinople».

Se han hecho varios intentos para explicar por qué las manos son el objeto de la ira de su padre, o a veces su hermano, al ser detenidos en sus avances, pero el motivo, aunque extendido, nunca ha sido aclarado y las razones dadas varían mucho. En «Penta, la de las manos cortadas» Basile se esfuerza por darle un motivo a las acciones de su heroína: su hermano, al hablar de su belleza, se preocupa en particular por el atractivo de sus manos. En la novela de caballería «La Manekine», la princesa lo hace porque, por ley, el rey no puede casarse con una mujer a la que falte una parte de su cuerpo.

La madre acusada falsamente de dar a luz un hijo extraño es común entre relatos de este tipo y del tipo 707 de Aarne-Thompson, donde la mujer se ha casado con el rey porque le daría niños maravillosos, como en «El pájaro de la verdad», «La princesa Belle-Etoile», «Lanzarote, rey de Provins», «Las hermanas malvadas», y «Los tres pajarillos».  Un tema relacionado aparece en el tipo 710, donde los hijos de la heroína le son robados al nacer, lo que lleva a la calumnia de que ella los ha matado, como en «La hija de la virgen María» o «La muchacha y su madrina».

En la segunda parte del cuento, los hermanos Grimm también se apartaron de los temas de folclore más comunes. Usualmente la chica es la víctima  de su suegra, como en «Los doce gansos salvajes», «Los seis cisnes», «La bella durmiente» de Perrault y «Los doce hermanos». Este motivo, donde el villano surge de un resentimiento pasado, también aparece en el cuento literario francés «Piel de oso».

Adaptaciones

Literatura

 Muchos poetas y escritores de ficción contemporánea se han inspirado en este cuento de hadas. Los ejemplos incluyen la novela The Handless Maiden de Loranne Brown, el cuento «The Armless Maiden» de Midori Snyder, y poemas de Margaret Atwood («Girl Without Hands»), Elline Lipkin («Conversations With My Father»), Vicki Fever («The Handless Maiden»), Nan Fry («Pear»), Rigoberto González («The Girl With No Hands»). No Rest for the Wicked de Andrea L. Peterson tiene un personaje llamado Clare, que es la chica de esta historia.
 Anne Sexton escribió una adaptación como poema llamado «The Maiden Without Hands» en su obra Transformations (1971), una recopilación donde reimagina dieciséis cuentos de los hermanos Grimm.
 Stephanie Oakes escribió una versión moderna del cuento llamada «The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly», un libro para jóvenes adultos que trata de una chica de diecisiete años sin manos que vive en prisión.

Videojuegos
«La doncella sin manos» fue adaptada para un episodio del videojuego American McGee's Grimm, donde al final la chica toma venganza de su padre usando el ejército de su esposo.

Teatro
En 2011, la historia sirvió de base para una producción teatral de Kneehigh Theatre llamada The Wild Bride.

Cine

 La doncella sin manos es una adaptación cinematográfica animada, dirigida por Sébastien Laudenbach en 2016.

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'I felt my life was over': Lenny Royal on the horror of being deliberately infected with HIV
'There was no voice for any of the victims' ... Lenny Royal. Photograph: Jill Mead/The Guardian
One of five men infected by hairdresser Daryll Rowe, Royal explains why he waived his anonymity to talk about the case
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'There's no guide book for how to deal with this," says Lenny Royal on his life since being maliciously infected with HIV. Last year his attacker, Daryll Rowe, became the first person to be jailed for using his illness as a weapon by deliberately infecting Royal and four other men with the virus, and exposing five others to it.
Royal, 38, is an engaging and personable makeup artist whose celebrity clients have included Sigourney Weaver and Hailey Baldwin. The day after our interview, he will create glamorous looks for the Brit Awards. He is used to operating behind the scenes, but has waived his anonymity to appear in a new BBC documentary about the Rowe case. He explains that his purpose in contributing to The Man Who Used HIV as a Weapon is straightforward: "There was all this video of Daryll, Daryll, Daryll, Daryll and there was no voice for any of the victims."
Despite its Rowe-centric title, the documentary tells the intimate, often poignant stories of Royal and four other gay men from around the UK who had the misfortune to meet Rowe online. It is the work of first-time director Charlotte Charlton, who says at the outset that her film constitutes an attempt to provide these men with some answers. She interviews Rowe over the phone in prison and spends time with his foster parents. The bewildered Jacqui and Harry first took Rowe – now 28 – into their home in North Berwick, East Lothian, when he was a small boy with scars on his body and a collection of 120 Barbie dolls. Jacqui says that as a child Rowe was "good company ... a really lovable boy".
Royal, who used to live in Brighton but is originally from New York, encountered Rowe, a handsome hairdresser, on the Grindr app in 2015. His 12-year relationship had broken down and Rowe was the first person he met on the app. "I was like, let me have sex with somebody else and maybe I can get over this depression," Royal tells me.
There was an exchange of flirtatious messages and images before Rowe called Royal from a withheld number and announced, "I'm outside your door."
This was peculiar. Royal had blocked Rowe on the app because of Rowe's suggestion that the pair should have unprotected sex. "But I had already given him my address, and when he showed up, I let him in – something I obviously regret now," he says.
Daryll Rowe before sentencing at Brighton crown court. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire
After a couple of hours of banter, the pair had sex. Rowe wore a condom at Royal's insistence, safe sex having been non-negotiable on account of his devastating family history. "My parents died of Aids in the 80s," he explains in the documentary over faded photographs of an attractive young couple. "My dad was a junkie, contracted HIV through needles and passed it on to my mum. It was a death sentence then. It was a very scary time; I knew that they were going to die. I grew up saying I would never, ever, in a million years, let this happen to me. I never wanted to utter those words that I had HIV – I never put myself in a position where I would be exposed to that."
After the sex, says Royal, "we watched stupid YouTube videos of a cat or something" and Rowe talked about his veganism and his passion for juicing, mentioning that he was staying with a family in Saltdean, a village on the eastern edge of Brighton. Royal had dinner plans. "I was like, OK, you need to go now," he recalls.
Subsequently, as Royal puts it, "things got a little weird". Rowe sent messages that were by turns possessive and xenophobic. Royal blocked him again, this time across multiple social media channels.
The following Wednesday, Royal received another anonymous call. "How dare you block me, stupid American," said the voice, which then revealed itself to be Rowe. "You can't get rid of me … you're gonna burn … I ripped the condom." Royal told himself this was just the unpleasant invective of someone who felt rejected.
Two weeks later, Royal started to feel ill. He began a course of antibiotics, before a sexual health check revealed he was HIV positive. "I felt like that was it, my life was over," he says. "I was crushed." After his parents died, he had been adopted and raised by his older cousin and his wife. They, too, were devastated by the news. "My [adoptive] dad felt like he'd failed in protecting me and that's the thing that he had promised my mom to do before she passed away. [I told him] it's not your fault – it's not like I'm going to have my dad protecting me while I'm having sex, but he cried."
Attending the clinic the day after his diagnosis, Royal told the nurse what had happened with Rowe. "She was like, I shouldn't be saying this, but you're the fourth person who has said the same exact thing," recalls Royal. His determination that the police should be contacted, and the information he was able to supply them, resulted in an address in Saltdean being raided. Inside, Rowe was in bed with another man – his eighth known victim – but an examination of his phone revealed that hundreds more unsuspecting men had been targeted using dating apps. All of them had to be contacted and told of possible HIV infection.
Footage of Rowe's calmly deceitful answers during his interrogation by Brighton police features in the documentary. He was bailed to his foster parents' house in Scotland on condition that he immediately started HIV treatment to reduce his viral load to untransmissible levels. It is now known that Rowe had previously declined safe and effective antiretroviral medication in favour of drinking his own urine, which he considered to be a cure. YouTube footage exists of Rowe vlogging enthusiastically about the supposed benefits of coconut oil.
What happened next is worthy of Rebus. Rowe absconded from his parents' home and went to ground in the Pentland Hills above Edinburgh, where police discovered an empty tent containing his prescription medication. A nationwide manhunt was launched in August 2016. By this point 22 men around the country – several of whom had been taunted with messages from Rowe, disclosing his HIV status with a barrage of laughing emojis – had spoken to the police about him. He had fled to Newcastle where, using the pseudonym Gary Cole on the dating site Plenty of Fish, he inveigled his way into the home of Tom, another contributor to the documentary, who discovered lacerated condoms among Rowe's belongings. Rowe was eventually arrested there.
It was in March 2016, while Rowe was still on the run, that Royal went back to the US to be close to his adoptive parents and he hit rock bottom. "It was the classic Hollywood movie situation," he recalls. "I checked into a hotel and I was going to end it all, but then a friend happened to call just at the right time."
He returned to the UK to give evidence in Rowe's trial, which he describes as gruelling, mainly because of what he felt was the defence barrister's homophobic line of questioning. "The questions she was asking were basically just making sure I was shamed in front of the jury," Royal says. Unlike other witnesses, whom he saw cry in the witness box, Royal was unyielding and unapologetic. "I was like, yeah, I sent him a dick pic, what else do you wanna know?"
At one point during cross-examination, the barrister seemed to suggest that the knowledge that her client was a vegan should have alerted Royal to his HIV positive status. "I looked at the judge and I was like, that's one of the most ridiculous questions I've ever heard. I thought, you are not going to do this to me and I put up a fight with her."
These days, Royal is on medication and healthy – and intends to stay that way. Dating someone with HIV is less stigmatised than it used to be, he says, partly because of the growing number of gay men taking PrEp, medication that can protect users from HIV transmission. "It's no longer a death sentence, not even remotely. But it is messed up when somebody makes that choice for you, when they take that right away from you. That's what's difficult to get over. It really is a harsh reality when you think about it, and that's the thing that I struggle with, on a day-to-day basis. How can somebody be so cruel?"
Rowe's motivations remain largely unclear. Part of the documentary has filmmaker Charlton playing Rowe's victims a recording of her conversation with Rowe, during which he says he hopes his victims can forgive him, just before incongruously chatting to his foster mother about the DVDs he has been enjoying in jail.
Royal is understandably scathing about the exchange, which makes for an unsatisfying, but astonishing, denouement: "It doesn't make any sense at all. He obviously has a screw loose because he's like, oh, I hope they forgive me. No! And then he's talking about Cougar Town. That really does show where he is, mentally."
I ask Royal whether he's going to watch the documentary. "My friends are like, shall we have a viewing party? But I'm not going to get everybody over for martinis and popcorn."
He then pauses and laughs, puncturing the tension for my benefit. "Actually, you know what? Maybe that's not such a bad idea."
I tell him I don't think anyone would dare to disagree. Like the man says – there is no guide book.
The Man Who Used HIV as a Weapon will be on BBC iPlayer from 15 March and on BBC One on Tuesday 19 March at 11.05pm.


Just a quick update following on from a couple of comments in my previous post.
I've now sorted out the Amazon listing so the paperback and kindle editions are on one link.
I've also managed to fix the image issues that were preventing the book uploading to iTunes, so now all you iOS users can download it from from iBooks.
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Lit couple and editors of CLASH, Christoph Paul & Leza Cantoral, debate on what are the top 3 witch movies of the decade.
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The things that make me proud
Outgoing director Camilla Toulmin looks back at her early work on drylands and the three achievements while leading IIED that have made her most proud.
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Camilla Toulmin is director of IIED
IIED director Camilla Toulmin speaks in a plenary session on day one of IIED's Fair Ideas event in Rio de Janeiro, June 2012 (Photo: Tom Broadhurst/IIED)
I joined IIED in November 1987 to set up the drylands programme. What was it attracted me to IIED? To be honest, I didn't know about Barbara Ward and her legacy. This was to be a revelation over my first months there.
Rather it was most of all the sense of possibility I felt when I visited – a place where I would be given responsibility, and space to develop my own ideas and activity. A place with the same interests as me, and people interested both in research and making a practical difference – where the barriers between research and development had been broken down.
In the 1987 IIED annual report, it says "change is in the air… with the Brundtland Report Our Common Future presented in October 1987, the World Bank and other development institutions starting to establish Sustainable Development units, and at grassroots level, NGOs demonstrating what sustainable development meant in practice." That spirit of change seems to be afoot again now as reflected in the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Just the fax, ma'am
To give something of an idea of what things were like then, the IIED budget for 1987 totalled £1.5 million and I was paid £17,500 a year. We had a telex machine if we wanted to get in touch with people overseas, though sometimes you could make long-distance calls work too. In late 1988, we got a fax machine, which spent the first few weeks quietly in reception. Almost no one else we knew had a fax machine, so there wasn't anyone to communicate with.
The drylands programme, which I set up, aimed to reframe the debate about the huge areas of arid and semi-arid lands that make up 40 per cent of the earth's surface.
After the great drought of 1983-84, many observers, governments and donors said that it would be better for everyone to move out and resettle in more humid zones, as you could never make a living in the drylands. We wanted to show many of the positive stories around local action and land rights in these extensive dryland regions.
I had been working in West Africa for four years, collecting household data on livelihoods, assets, climate, land use, water and livestock. This research became my PhD thesis, published as Cattle, women & wells – managing household survival in the Sahel. In a world where there were few senior women, I thought it was really important to get a doctorate as a way of showing that I had proper qualifications and was as good as any man.
From the drylands work, I am really proud of many things we achieved:
First, reframing the drylands narrative. We set up a regular newsletter, Haramata, and produced around 200 issue papers, all in French and English language editions. This allowed us to change the way science, policy and agencies thought about pastoral development, and local practice. Ced Hesse, Charles Lane, Ian Scoones and Richard Moorehead were key members of the team. We also engaged with the desertification debate, and helped shape the Convention to Combat Desertification.
We embedded participatory methods in francophone Africa, in collaboration with Bara Guèye, who is now head of IED-Afrique. In 1989, interest in participatory planning and management of land was growing, but there was no systematic training or methods to mainstream the approach. Working with Bara, we set up a training of trainers programme, which really helped embed this knowledge and approach.
And I am proud of our work on land rights, tenure and common property, especially pastoralism, which we started in the early 1990s, and then hooked up with French colleagues. The UK and French governments had decided to work more closely together, in a rare moment of cross-channel cordiality. This was well before the "land grab" became a hot issue – but we could see that land in Africa was becoming a scarcer and more valuable asset.
Most of all you could see there was a fundamental mismatch between customary rights on the ground and law as recorded in the statute book – a mismatch that offered room for powerful groups to acquire access and control over large areas of land.
We have seen only too clearly how vulnerable local rights can be, especially over common resources, and how little interest many governments show in strengthening the rights of smallholder farmers. One of the best things I did was to hire Lorenzo Cotula, who with his team has taken forward this work to great success.
In my time as director, there is a lot which I can celebrate, thanks to the energy, ambition and deep partnerships of my colleagues – which include investing in locally controlled forests, adapting to climate change, building cities that work for squatter communities, and recognising the vibrancy of informal markets for creating jobs and livelihoods. As always, by working with others, we seek to reframe the storyline and offer evidence and engagement which lead to change.
So if I had to choose three things we've done from the last 12 years that I value most, they are:
Making IIED visible and respected as a source of ideas, evidence and sometimes unexpected approaches to building a fairer, more sustainable planet
Maintaining a values-driven approach, based on partnership and respect, understanding that you can learn as much from a smallholder farmer, nomad or market stallholder as you do from a prime minister, or professor, and
Offering an attractive but demanding environment for committed staff, maintaining the strong collectivist spirit that underlies the organisation, and ensuring people have the space to grow, given trust and confidence.
My long-term plan is to seek funding to do a systematic re-survey of the villages in Mali where I did my field research in 1980-82. This would survey and document how things have changed over 35 years in terms of land use, household livelihood systems, climate change, livestock-crop relations, land tenure, and much else.
In the interim, I will remain involved in many of IIED's activities. I have accepted a position as visiting fellow at the Oxford Martin School, which is largely honorific, but keeps me in touch with this lively centre for ideas. I have also been asked by Zed Books to prepare a new edition of my book Climate Change in Africa (2009).
Climate change will remain a very pressing issue for decades to come, given our inability to address the need for change with sufficient urgency.
Even if we get a halfway reasonable agreement in Paris at the end of this year, it is very unlikely to be strong enough to hold global average temperatures to 2 degrees Celsius. And alongside climate, we must also remember the vital role played by biodiversity, water, soil, and forests in providing livelihoods and conferring ecological resilience.
There will be plenty to keep my successor busy!
Camilla Toulmin (camilla.toulmin@iied.org) is director of IIED.
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Sustainable Corporate Governance in 21st century
Author(s): Bistra Boeva / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2019
This book is dedicated to those, who wish for a stress-free natural environment for themselves, their children and their children's children. The narrative tells the story of how investments – a critical factor in the global economy – can mitigate the impact of climate change. Finding a way for the key corporate governance players to reconcile economic and sustainable development criteria is the main theme. This is a point that needs to be understood by the global community, because, unlike financial crises, the ill effects of global warming can not be reversed.Working on sustainable development issues from the vantage point of corporate governance is a continuous journey, as new topical phenomena emerge and their proper place must be found in the scientific narrative.English. First edition (Updated First Bulgarian edition, 2018)
Cave fauna of Bulgaria
Author(s): Petar Beron / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2015
Petar Beron Sc.D worked at the Institute of Zoology and the National Museum of Natural History at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences as a biologist from 1963 to 2010. Specializing in acarology and Biospeleology, he began exploring caves and cave fauna since 1955. He went on expeditions in New Guinea, Indonesia, Mexico, Cuba, China, Vietnam, on the Balkan Peninsula, in Corsica and South America. In his journeys, he discovered many new species of caves and animals. Author and co-author of many books and articles on speleology, zoogeography, and acarology. The present publication contains data on 153 species not recorded so far in the previous catalogs of Bulgarian cave fauna. Data on 813 caves, including 189 published for the first time in the list of caves from which animals have been recorded find a place. After these changes, the total number of the animals known from Bulgarian caves becomes 866 (including 130 troglobite and 72 stygobites species). The updated bibliography of Bulgarian cave fauna contains 584 titles.
Faune cavernicole de la Grece
Author(s): Petar Beron / Language(s): French / Publication Year: 2016
Petar Beron Sc.D worked at the Institute of Zoology and the National Museum of Natural History at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences as a biologist from 1963 to 2010. Specializing in acarology and Biospeleology, he began exploring caves and cave fauna since 1955. He went on expeditions in New Guinea, Indonesia, Mexico, Cuba, China, Vietnam, on the Balkan Peninsula, in Corsica and South America. In his journeys, he discovered many new species of caves and animals. Author and co-author of many books and articles on speleology, zoogeography, and acarology. The second monograph of the series, devoted to the cave fauna of the Balkan Peninsula, treats Greece, a country full of caves (more than 10 miles) and only 240 caves have been the subject of biospeleological research. The 630 species of cavernicolous animals, published until 2015, are listed with their localities and notes on their biology. The caves of some animals are briefly described, and some observations have been made of the zoogeography of this fauna. The Greek fauna is compared with the cave faunas of neighboring countries. The bibliography contains more than 300 titles of works regarding the Greek fauna inhabiting the caves. This fauna is very different from the fauna of neighboring countries. During the author's field surveys (since 1968) he has found several new species such as Speleodentorcula, Telsonius, Titanophyllum, Thassoblaniulus, Alistratia, Maroniela, Jason and others.
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Here, in this album, Tzotcho Boiadjiev is a photographer. Good photographer, excellent photographer. But Tsocho Boyadjiev is not just a photographer. He is also a philosopher, a professor, a historian, theoretician of photography, a poet, a lecturer, an interpreter... Tsocho Boyadjiev transforms the crucial moments caught in reality into moments of determination, showing eternity of life, the freedom of life. With several techniques of photo-capture: parallels, intersections, branching, crossings, contrasts.
Rhizai. A Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science
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In the countries of South-Eastern Europe, ancient philosophy is often seen to be at the root of national traditions and achievements. Ancient philosophy is therefore intensely studied in these countries, but results are rarely shared outside the national boundaries. The new journal for ancient philosophy and science, Rhizai, is launched by scholars from South-Eastern Europe with the aim of promoting academic co-operation in the region and improving connections with international scholarship. Rhizai will be published twice a year under the editorship of Ivan Christov, University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Contributions in all fields of ancient philosophy and science are invited. Papers and book-reviews will be published in English, German, French and Italian. Manuscripts should be typed in double-spacing with wide margins. Footnotes should be collected at the end, with personal details enclosed on a separate sheet. Contributions sent by e-mail are welcome. They should be sent as e-mail attachments in MS Word or rich text format. Contributions in electronic form will be prepared for blind review by the editor. Editorial Board ------------------------------ Ivan Christov (Editor-in-chief), University of Plovdiv István Bodnár, Eötvös University and CEU, Budapest Pavel Gregorić (Book reviews editor), University of Zagreb Katerina Ierodiakonou, National Technical University of Athens Advisory Board ------------------------------ Jonathan Barnes, Paris, France Tzotcho Boiadjiev, Sofia,Bulgaria Myles Burnyeat, Oxford, UK John Cooper, Princeton, USA Michael Frede, Athens, Greece Filip Grgić, Zagreb, Croatia Vassilis Karasmanis, Athens, Greece Filip Karfík, Prague, Czech Republic André Laks, Lille, France Péter Lautner, Piliscsaba, Hungary James Lennox, Pittsburgh, USA Alexander Mourelatos, Austin, USA Carlo Natali, Venice, Italy Christof Rapp, Berlin, Germany Heinrich von Staden, Princeton, USA Address: ------------------------------ Rhizai Ivan Christov, Editor Faculty of Philosophy University of Plovdiv 24 Tzar Assen Street 4000 Plovdiv Bulgaria
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Author(s): Anisava Miltenova / Language(s): English,Bulgarian,Old Slavonic,Old Bulgarian / Publication Year: 2018
This book represents a study of the textology, typology, sources and literary peculiarities of the so-called 'miscellanies of mixed content' in the South Slavonic tradition (from the end of 13th – the beginning of 18th c.) – less known or unknown in the Humanities. The problem is closely related to the apocryphal collections in the Balkan Cyrillic manuscripts, as the Apocrypha are a significant part of this type of manuscripts. The scope of the study is to popularize the series and texts that fill the gap in the translation and perception of the Slavonic Apocrypha. New information is presented over the sources of translations, as well as the compilation approach of Slavonic writers, which reproduces a new version of the texts. The copies of the Slavonic texts are published in the supplement. The typology of manuscripts is supported by plectograms produced in the Repertory of Old Bulgarian Literature and Letters (http://repertorium.obdurodon.org/).
Амдуат. Записи от скритата зала
Author(s): Teodor Lekov / Language(s): Bulgarian,Egyptian (Ancient) / Publication Year: 2006
"Amduat – Text of the Hidden Chamber" is an ancient Egyptian esoteric book that describes and magically recreates the journey of the Sun God to Duat (the Realm of the Dead). The book has been recorded on the walls of the royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings - it contains the names of the inhabitants of the afterlife, their sacred images and spells to overcome the obstacles in this journey. It is a secret doctrine taught by the Egyptian king and his companions. It appears for the first time in the middle of the second millennium BC, and its tradition is preserved until the sunset of Egyptian civilization. The book is a magical means of immortality, and with its help one goes the same space cycle to his resurrection as the Sun God on his night journey to the new sunrise. The edition contains an introduction, a translation from Ancient Egyptian and a commentary on the book. It is published for the first time in Bulgarian.
АНТИкорупция / антиОБРАЗОВАНИЕ
Изследвания върху корупцията във висшето образование в България
Author(s): Georgi Dimitrov,Petya Kabakchieva,Dimitar Blagoev,Pepka Bojadshieva,Vassil Garnisov,Georgi Ganev,Ivan Hristov,Valentin Dantchev,Martin Gramatikov,Elena Stojkova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Publication Year: 2005
"This book presents an analysis of the first, and in this sense unique empirical sociological survey representative of all higher education institutions in Bulgaria (except those under the jurisdiction of the Interior Ministry and the Defense Ministry) at the faculty level. The survey covered 31 universities and all their 147 faculties in 12 cities, based on a sample that is exhaustive with respect to higher education institutions and their faculties, and typological with respect to students and teaching staff. The sample included full-time second-, third- and fourth-year students, and habilitated and non-habilitated members of teaching staff – a total of 1,313 students and 283 members of teaching staff. The survey used two standardized anonymous questionnaires – one for teaching staff and another for students – that included a common set of questions for both groups and specific questions relevant to the respective group. It was conducted in May 2004. The purpose of the survey and of the analysis is not to exonerate or accuse the academic community of corruption. The purpose is to see whether the problem of corruption exists in the academic community and, if it does, to identify the institutional conditions for its existence and, consequently, the institutional possibilities for its elimination. That is why the approach applied in studying corruption was institutional, connecting corruption with a specific type of institutional practices in the public sphere that result from abuse of uncontrolled power. The analysis shows that the problem of corruption in higher education exists as part of the informal culture of the academic environment, and that the gravity of this problem is judged differently by the key participants in the educational process: students are the most critical, followed by non-habilitated members of teaching staff, whereas habilitated members of teaching staff are the most satisfied with the status quo. This means that perceptions of the problem are determined by academic status which, as the analysis shows, is constituted above all as power status. In the respondents' perceptions the phenomenon of corruption is certainly not limited to bribery only, but includes various forms that are specific to teaching staff and students as well as the administration. However, the numerous forms of corruption are grouped around two basic elements of the educational process: firstly, examinations, which are rated first both by teaching staff and students; secondly, admission to university, involving both entrance examinations and transfer from one university or discipline to another."
Архив за средновековна философия и култура
The Archive for Medieval Philosophy and Culture / Archiv für mittelalterliche Philosophie und Kultur is founded in 1994 by Tzotcho Boiadjiev and Georgi Kapriev with the idea to offer an integration centre for all researchers in the field of medieval thought (with an accent on philosophy). It represents a forum, where the issues of the research field could be freely discussed and expressed in their specialized language and strict norms. The second aim of the Archiv is to introduce translations of shorter medieval tractates and texts of Latin and Byzantine authors. In this respect is built up an international editorial board with representatives of various centers for medieval studies, which allows more intensive work between medievalists not only within the South-Eastern European region, but all over Europe. Since scroll three (1996) Andreas Speer joined the chief editors. Since December 2000 is the Archiv the official organ of the Institute for Medieval Philosophy and Culture with director Tzotcho Boiadjiev. The annual includes texts in various European languages, but mostly in Bulgarian and German. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Editors in Chief ----------------------------------- Tzotcho Boiadjiev (Sofia), Georgi Kapriev (Sofia) and Andreas Speer (Köln) Editorial board ------------------------------------ John Demetracopoulos (Patras) Wouter Goris (Amsterdam/ Köln) Andrei Plesu (Bukarest) Pasquale Porro (Bari) Stefan Sanjakoski (Struga) Bogoljub Šijaković (Beograd/ Nikšić) Carlos Steel (Leuven)
Българите
Социологически погледи
Author(s): Petar-Emil Mitev / Language(s): English,Bulgarian / Publication Year: 2016
The book concerns the fundamental questions set by the founder of Bulgarian sociology Ivan Hadjiiski: Where are we coming from? What have we gone through? How far have we reached? Where are we going? Sociology is a science in which the person puts his imagination and heuristic potential. Sociology is a craft, in the practice of which the outcome depends on the mastery of the techniques and methodologies, the correct observance of rules and procedures. Sociology is a business that requires certain resources and also can reproduce or increase them. Sociology, however, is something else; it is not only a knowledge of society, but it is a public activity. It loses its meaning beyond the public realization or changes it if this realization does not correspond to the scientific credibility.
Българска граматика
Author(s): Alexander Stoyanov Teodorov - Balan / Language(s): Bulgarian / Publication Year: 2012
Second phototype edition of the series "Bulgarian Grammar Literature of the XX Century".In the research of academician Alexander Teodorov-Balan grammatical works occupy a special place not only with regard to the preceding grammars, but also because of their influence on the development of linguistic science in our country. From the position of modern linguistic theories, it is now possible to rethink or challenge the opinions, views and theoretical expressions posed more than half a century ago. Undoubtedly, however, Alexander Teodorov-Balan contribution remains a place in the history of Bulgarian science and education. - Prof. Ph.D. Vasilka Radeva- Prof. Ph.D. Vasilka Radeva
Българска лексикология и лексикография
Author(s): Vassilka Radeva / Language(s): Bulgarian / Publication Year: 2017
"Bulgarian Lexicology and Lexicography" is a result of the lasting interest of V. Radeva in semantics of the words as the main language unit. It does not only lean on lectures and lecture courses in Leipzig, West Berlin and Saarbrucken, but also it contains a wealth of information that gives the opportunity to create interest in further lexicological issues. Built on the theoretical foundations and achievements of modern lexicology, the work reveals the character of the word as a nomination unit, which through its speech realization performs the communicative function of language. The presentation of word formation is consistent with the role of the derivative word in structuring the lexical system and clarifying the link between word-forming and lexical meaning. Semantic connections in the lexical system are addressed in their development and modification to reveal the dynamic nature of vocabulary. The creation of new lexical units, the elimination of outdated words and meanings, as well as the acquisition of a foreign language vocabulary are clarified as adaptation of the vocabulary to the communicative needs of the spokespersons of the language. Included lexicography section contains information that shows the close relationship of lexicology with lexicographical theory and practice. Designed primarily for philology students, this work will be useful for anyone who seeks to learn and use the Bulgarian word(s) correctly.
Българска транскрипция на немски имена : Bulgarische Transkription Deutscher Namen
Author(s): Boris Parashkevov / Language(s): Bulgarian,German / Publication Year: 2015
Boris Parashkevov, born in 1938 in Sofia, is Professor for Historical Grammar and History of the German language. He studied German Language and Literature and from 1964 to 1967 was a Ph.D. student at the University of Leipzig. After completing his studies he became an Associate Professor at the St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia, where he taught until 2005. He was also a Lecturer in Bulgarian at Helsinki University (1974-1978) and Guest Professor at the University of Delaware (1989). At the beginning of the Eighties he received a grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, which awarded him the AvH-Prize in 1994. Boris Parashkevov has translated well-known authors, including Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Martin Luther, Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen and Rudolf Steiner. In 2005 he published a free adaptation of the Middle High German original of the Nibelungenlied.
Български тълковен речник
The present "Bulgarian Encyclopedic Dictionary" is addressed to all those who are interested in the word enriching of the modern Bulgarian language. It covers mainly the commonly used vocabulary, whose correct use in speech is an important prerequisite for building and enhancing the language culture. The interpretation of the words is short and sparing with the aim of accurately presenting their lexical meaning, making the use of a one-word lexicography booklet easy and convenient. The inclusion of the foreign language vocabulary that has entered the Bulgarian language in the last decades gives an opportunity to realize its place and role in enriching the Bulgarian vocabulary, considering its use in the speech practice. There are also new words and meanings that reveal the dynamics of the Bulgarian lexical system without reflecting individual and professional uses. The Bulgarian vocabulary is intended for all the Bulgarian language spokesmen who are not indifferent to the correct understanding and the correct use of the words.
Византийска философия. Четири центъра на синтеза
Author(s): Georgi Kapriev / Language(s): Bulgarian / Publication Year: 2011
Instead of a short abstract, please refer to the PDF-files of the introduction to the book, its table of content and the sample-PDF which, each of them, you can download for free from here. We hope you'll get through this files a more comprehensive impression about the book than would be provided by just a few lines of an abstract / summary.
Владетелят | Двуезично издание
Author(s): Niccolò Machiavelli / Language(s): Bulgarian,Italian / Publication Year: 2014
"The Prince" was written by Niccolo' Machiavelli in the 1500s. It has continued to be a best seller in many languages. The Prince is a classic book that explores the attainment, maintenance, and utilization of political power in the western world. Machiavelli wrote The Prince to demonstrate his skill in the art of the state, presenting advice on how a prince might acquire and hold power. Machiavelli defended the notion of rule by force rather than by law. Accordingly, The Prince seems to rationalize a number of actions done solely to perpetuate power. It is an examination of power-its attainment, development, and successful use.
Граматика на българския език
Author(s): Stefan Mladenov,Stefan Popvassilev / Language(s): Bulgarian / Publication Year: 2012
With the series "Bulgarian Grammar Literature of the 20th Century", East-West publishing house aims to familiarize the Bulgarian reader with the outstanding contribution of prominent Bulgarian linguists in the development and formation of our literary linguistic norms in the 20th century, as well as in the development of Bulgarian linguistic science in general. All the editions included in here have been out of print long ago or difficult to find bibliographically. The first two grammars in the series will be phototype editions. This will enable Bulgarian specialists-linguists to look into the history of the development of the Bulgarian grammar literature from the beginning of the 20th century, which predetermined the further development of Bulgarian and general linguistics, showed its valuable contribution to our national cultural treasure.
Държавата КТБ
Author(s): Zornitsa Markova,Tatyana Puncheva- Vassileva,Nikolay Stoyanov,Rosen Bosev,Ilin Stanev,Ani Kodzhaivanova,Desislava Leshtarska / Language(s): Bulgarian / Publication Year: 2017
This book is the result of a two-year journalistic investigation that traces the history of Corporate Commercial Bank from its origin to its bankruptcy (1994-2014). The investigation was conducted on the basis of dozens of meetings with direct participants or witnesses of the events, representatives of state structures, political parties, business, regulators. In the process, hundreds of official and informal documents have been analyzed. Access to information by Bulgarian and international organizations has been requested many times. The collected facts, data, documents, and exclusive testimonies included in this book contain for the first time conclusive evidence of political corruption in Bulgaria. The aim of the KTBfiles project is to show the genesis of the "CCB model" (Corporate Commercial Bank model) and the technology of its expansion to magnitude, which pressed all key state institutions to the wall. The book explores the circumstances that made this vicious model possible, as well as the mechanisms for its eradication. This makes the investigation much more comprehensive, multi-layered and important than the chronology of bank bankruptcy, whether it is the largest in Bulgarian history. This qualitative journalistic investigation answers not only to the question #WHO but also to the questions how, why and especially what follows if we stop asking and live permanently with civil indifference and cynicism.
Загадки на зоогеографията
Author(s): Petar Beron / Language(s): Bulgarian / Publication Year: 2015
The book explores contemporary trends in zoogeography. Hypotheses for the settlement of the islands of Madagascar, New Zealand, Fiji, New Caledonia and many other areas of the earth and oceans are discussed. This edition raises many questions, some of which about mysteries and real puzzles - how the moa came to New Zealand, why the Madagascar fauna is so different from the African one. There is evidence of the mysterious fauna of caves such as Movile and Ayalon. Along with the past of Sahara and Antarctica, the fauna of the Balkan Peninsula has not been missed. The separate chapters are accompanied by the most important literature on the issues at stake.
Из говора на село Драганово
Author(s): Rumen Stoyanov / Language(s): Bulgarian / Publication Year: 2018
The gardening in Hungary owes much to three Bulgarian settlements: Lyaskovets, Draganovo, Polikraishte. Two museums (in Budapest and Lyaskovets) testify to the importance of this link in Bulgarian-Hungarian relations. Draganovo is a village in Gorna Oryahovitsa Municipality, in Central Bulgaria. Draganovo is known in the area for its farms and vegetable gardens. Due to the fertile soil around the village, it is one of the main producers of cabbage and tomatoes in the central/northeastern regions of Bulgaria. After World War II gardeners from Draganovo has been dispatched to Hungary and other parts of Europe to help rebuild the land and make it fertile again. The river Yantra flows through the village. The river contributes for the village's fertile soils. In this book, you will find specific words, part of the dialect of speech from the village Draganovo, collected in a dictionary by Rumen Stoyanov.


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Deplyoment: He won the roll off and deployed first, choosing Fallback Plan, the strategem granting Bushwhack to a model/unit once per round. I chose Feinting Gambit which grantss +2 MAT and -2 DEF to a model/unit for a round once per game. I started with all Whelps on the table.
Cygnar turn 1: He cast Arcane Shield on both units, Snipe on the Stromclad and ran everything else, the Ragman falling in behind the Storm Guard.
Trollbloods turn 1: The Scouts ran up my right flank, the Burrowers burrowed and the Mauler and Earthborn both ran up. EHoarluk advanced, casting Transmute (the Earthborns animus) on himself and Refuge on the Earthborn and Janissa placed a wall.
Cygnar turn 2: He upkept all spells. The Ragman attempted to Bone Shaker a Scout, but missed. The Stormclad shot a Scout and thus another one was hit by the lightning arc, but both made their tough rolls (the ones with the blue markers). The Journeyman ran behind the barrel by the house and the Storm Guard ran up in a somewhat trample-resistant formation, followed by the Forge Guard. Ol' Rowdy and Stryker advanced, Stryker using his feat, making the Storm Guard ARM 25 and the Forge Guard ARM 26.
Trollbloods turn 2: Hoarluk upkept Refuge on the Earthborn. Two Scouts assaulted the Ragman, taking him out. The Mauler advanced and cast Rage on the Earthborn, who then moves up to kill the three base-to-base Storm Guard (after copying their POW + Rage it is a p+s 21) and Refuges back. Hoarluk activates, casts Transmute on himself and casts Rage and Refuge on the Axer, who, by way of boosting damage, kills the other two forward SG and Refuges back. Realizing the Burrowers can't even scratch his crazy ARM, they back off to regroup when they can do something, with one of them running in front of the Mauler to force my opponent to deal with it first (a Whelp does the same). Janissa then places another wall.
Cygnar turn 3: Stryker upkeeps nothing, but Jr. upkeeps AS on the Forge Guard. Ol' Rowdy and Stryker advance, Stryker casting Arcane Shield on the Stormclad and shooting a Scout. The Forge Guard advance, with Murdoch shooting a second Scout dead and Jr. capping a third, forcing a command check, which they fail. The Stormclad tries to clear a path to the Mauler by shooting and killing the Whelp in front of it. The lightning arc hits the Burrower, but it made it's tough roll, so only two Storm Guard were able to charge it (doing decent damage), with a third failing a charge on the Axer and the remaining two finishing off the KD'd Burrower. Light bounces did a couple damage to the Axer.
Trollbloods turn 3: The Axer ate Whlep to manage fury, Hoarluk upkept Refuge on it and the Scouts rallied. Said Axer advanced and Threshered four of the five Storm Guard (now at normal ARM) and Refuged back. The Mauler healed some damage by snacking on the Storm Guard that was in his face, Goadimg back so as not to get rushed by the Forge Guard and regenerated a bit more damage. Hoarluk cast Transmute on himself (as usual), as well as Rage and Refuge on the Earthborn. The Earthborn was then able to walk up to the Stormclad (with p+s 22 fists) and wreck it before Refuging back into the woods. Lastly, Janissa made yet another wall.
Cygnar turn 4: Jr. upkept AS on the Forge Guard. Ol' Rowdy ran forward, as did Stryker who camped his focus. The dwarves then ran forward/protectively around Stryker. Jr. tries to shoot a Scout and misses.
Trollbloods turn 4: Nothing was upkept and the Earthborn ate a Whelp to manage fury. Even though the Burrowers had +2 MAT from the strategem this turn, they popped up and swung/shot very ineffectually at the Forge Guard, killing only one. The Scouts assaulted, 2 on the Forge Guard (killing one) and one on the Journeyman (doing two points). Janissa was able to move up and have Ol' Rowdy within 3" to Tectonic Shift him to my right, revealing Stryker. Hoarluk cast Rage and Wild Aggression on the Earthborn and feated, allowing the Earthborn to walk 10" over to Stryker and kill him in two swings.
Aftermath: Going into it I was worried about how to deal with his feat turn along side two castings of Arcane Shield, but fortunately for me he feated before we got fully stuck in and I was able to hang back a bit and avoid more retaliation that I would have otherwise. I definitely felt that Refuge (though techinically EHoarluk) was the MVP of this game, as it allowed the Earthborn to stick and move safely and still take care of business.
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