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The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Lucia GravesCarlos Ruiz Zafón
"Gabriel García Márquez meets Umberto Eco meets Jorge Luis Borges for a sprawling magic show."—The New York Times Book Review
A New York Times Bestseller
Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer's son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julián Carax. But when he sets out to find the author's other works, he makes a shocking discovery: someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book Carax has written. In fact, Daniel may have the last of Carax's books in existence. Soon Daniel's seemingly innocent quest opens a door into one of Barcelona's darkest secrets--an epic story of murder, madness, and doomed love.
" Anyone who enjoys novels that are scary, erotic, touching, tragic and thrilling should rush right out to the nearest bookstore and pick up The Shadow of the Wind. Really, you should."—Michael Dirda, The Washington Post
"Wonderous... masterful... The Shadow of the Wind is ultimately a love letter to literature, intended for readers as passionate about storytelling as its young hero."—Entertainment Weekly (Editor's Choice)
"One gorgeous read."—Stephen King
Cemetery of Forgotten Books Series , #1
Lexile:
990L (what's this?)
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFÓN is one of the world's most read and best-loved writers. His work has been translated into more than forty languages and published around the world, garnering numerous international prizes and reaching millions of readers. He divides his time between Barcelona and Los Angeles. He is the author of The Shadow of the Wind, The Angel's Game, The Prince of Mist, The Midnight Palace, and, most recently, The Prisoner of Heaven.
LUCIA GRAVES is the author and translator of many works and has overseen Spanish-language editions of the poetry of her father, Robert Graves.
A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept. My first thought on waking was to tell my best friend about the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. Tomßs Aguilar was a classmate who devoted his free time and his talent to the invention of wonderfully ingenious contraptions of dubious practicality, like the aerostatic dart or the dynamo spinning top. I pictured us both, equipped with flashlights and compasses, uncovering the mysteries of those bibliographic catacombs. Who better than Tomßs to share my secret? Then, remembering my promise, I decided that circumstances advised me to adopt what in detective novels is termed a different modus operandi. At noon I approached my father to quiz him about the book and about Julißn Carax-both world famous, I assumed. My plan was to get my hands on his complete works and read them all by the end of the week. To my surprise, I discovered that my father, a natural-born librarian and a walking lexicon of publishers' catalogs and oddities, had never heard of The Shadow of the Wind or Julißn Carax. Intrigued, he examined the printing history on the back of the title page for clues.
"It says here that this copy is part of an edition of twenty-five hundred printed in Barcelona by Cabestany Editores, in June 1936."
"Do you know the publishing house?"
"It closed down years ago. But, wait, this is not the original. The first edition came out in November 1935 but was printed in Paris....Published by Galiano & Neuval. Doesn't ring a bell."
"So is this a translation?"
"It doesn't say so. From what I can see, the text must be the original one."
"A book in Spanish, first published in France?"
"It's not that unusual, not in times like these," my father put in. "Perhaps Barcel= can help us...."
Gustavo Barcel= was an old colleague of my father's who now owned a cavernous establishment on Calle Fernando with a commanding position in the city's secondhand-book trade. Perpetually affixed to his mouth was an unlit pipe that impregnated his person with the aroma of a Persian market. He liked to describe himself as the last romantic, and he was not above claiming that a remote line in his ancestry led directly to Lord Byron himself. As if to prove this connection, Barcel= fashioned his wardrobe in the style of a nineteenth-century dandy. His casual attire consisted of a cravat, white patent leather shoes, and a plain glass monocle that, according to malicious gossip, he did not remove even in the intimacy of the lavatory. Flights of fancy aside, the most significant relative in his lineage was his begetter, an industrialist who had become fabulously wealthy by questionable means at the end of the nineteenth century. According to my father, Gustavo Barcel= was, technically speaking, loaded, and his palatial bookshop was more of a passion than a business. He loved books unreservedly, and-although he denied this categorically-if someone stepped into his bookshop and fell in love with a tome he could not afford, Barcel= would lower its price, or even give it away, if he felt that the buyer was a serious reader and not an accidental browser. Barcel= also boasted an elephantine memory allied to a pedantry that matched his demeanor and the sonority of his voice. If anyone knew about odd books, it was he. That afternoon, after closing the shop, my father suggested that we stroll along to the Els Quatre Gats, a cafT on Calle Montsi=, where Barcel= and his bibliophile knights of the round table gathered to discuss the finer points of decadent poets, dead languages, and neglected, moth-ridden masterpieces.
Els Quatre Gats was just a five-minute walk from our house and one of my favorite haunts. My parents had met there in 1932, and I attributed my one-way ticket into this world in part to the old cafT's charms. Stone dragons guarded a lamplit fatade anchored in shadows. Inside, voices seemed shaded by the echoes of other times. Accountants, dreamers, and would-be geniuses shared tables with the specters of Pablo Picasso, Isaac AlbTniz, Federico Garcfa Lorca, and Salvador Dalf. There any poor devil could pass for a historical figure for the price of a small coffee.
"Sempere, old man," proclaimed Barcel= when he saw my father come in. "Hail the prodigal son. To what do we owe the honor?"
"You owe the honor to my son, Daniel, Don Gustavo. He's just made a discovery."
"Well, then, pray come and sit down with us, for we must celebrate this ephemeral event," he announced.
"Ephemeral?" I whispered to my father.
"Barcel= can express himself only in frilly words," my father whispered back. "Don't say anything, or he'll get carried away."
The lesser members of the coterie made room for us in their circle, and Barcel=, who enjoyed flaunting his generosity in public, insisted on treating us.
"How old is the lad?" inquired Barcel=, inspecting me out of the corner of his eye.
"Almost eleven," I announced.
Barcel= flashed a sly smile.
"In other words, ten. Don't add on any years, you rascal. Life will see to that without your help."
A few of his chums grumbled in assent. Barcel= signaled to a waiter of such remarkable decrepitude that he looked as if he should be declared a national landmark.
"A cognac for my friend Sempere, from the good bottle, and a cinnamon milk shake for the young one-he's a growing boy. Ah, and bring us some bits of ham, but spare us the delicacies you brought us earlier, eh? If we fancy rubber, we'll call for Pirelli tires."
The waiter nodded and left, dragging his feet.
"I hate to bring up the subject," Barcel= said, "but how can there be jobs? In this country nobody ever retires, not even after they're dead. Just look at El Cid. I tell you, we're a hopeless case."
He sucked on his cold pipe, eyes already scanning the book in my hands. Despite his pretentious fatade and his verbosity, Barcel= could smell good prey the way a wolf scents blood.
"Let me see," he said, feigning disinterest. "What have we here?"
I glanced at my father. He nodded approvingly. Without further ado, I handed Barcel= the book. The bookseller greeted it with expert hands. His pianist's fingers quickly explored its texture, consistency, and condition. He located the page with the publication and printer's notices and studied it with Holmesian flair. The rest watched in silence, as if awaiting a miracle, or permission to breathe again.
"Carax. Interesting," he murmured in an inscrutable tone.
I held out my hand to recover the book. Barcel= arched his eyebrows but gave it back with an icy smile.
"Where did you find it, young man?"
"It's a secret," I answered, knowing that my father would be smiling to himself. Barcel= frowned and looked at my father. "Sempere, my dearest old friend, because it's you and because of the high esteem I hold you in, and in honor of the long and profound friendship that unites us like brothers, let's call it at forty duros, end of story."
"You'll have to discuss that with my son," my father pointed out. "The book is his."
Barcel= granted me a wolfish smile. "What do you say, laddie? Forty duros isn't bad for a first sale....Sempere, this boy of yours will make a name for himself in the business."
The choir cheered his remark. Barcel= gave me a triumphant look and pulled out his leather wallet. He ceremoniously counted out two hundred pesetas, which in those days was quite a fortune, and handed them to me. But I just shook my head. Barcel= scowled.
"Dear boy, greed is most certainly an ugly, not to say mortal, sin. Be sensible. Call me crazy, but I'll raise that to sixty duros, and you can open a retirement fund. At your age you must start thinking of the future."
I shook my head again. Barcel= shot a poisonous look at my father through his monocle.
"Don't look at me," said my father. "I'm only here as an escort."
Barcel= sighed and peered at me closely.
"Let's see, junior. What is it you want?"
"What I want is to know who Julißn Carax is and where I can find other books he's written."
Barcel= chuckled and pocketed his wallet, reconsidering his adversary.
"Goodness, a scholar. Sempere, what do you feed the boy?"
The bookseller leaned toward me confidentially, and for a second I thought he betrayed a look of respect that had not been there a few moments earlier.
"We'll make a deal," he said. "Tomorrow, Sunday, in the afternoon, drop by the Ateneo library and ask for me. Bring your precious find with you so that I can examine it properly, and I'll tell you what I know about Julißn Carax. Quid pro quo."
"Quid pro what?"
"Latin, young man. There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds. Paraphrasing, it means that you can't get something for nothing, but since I like you, I'm going to do you a favor."
The man's oratory could kill flies in midair, but I suspected that if I wanted to find out anything about Julißn Carax, I'd be well advised to stay on good terms with him. I proffered my most saintly smile in delight at his Latin outpourings.
"Remember, tomorrow, in the Ateneo," pronounced the bookseller. "But bring the book, or there's no deal."
"Fine."
Our conversation slowly merged into the murmuring of the other members of the coffee set. The discussion turned to some documents found in the basement of El Escorial that hinted at the possibility that Don Miguel de Cervantes had in fact been the nom de plume of a large, hairy lady of letters from Toledo. Barcel= seemed distracted, not tempted to claim a share in the debate. He remained quiet, observing me from his fake monocle with a masked smile. Or perhaps he was only looking at the book I held in my hands.
--from The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Safon, Copyright © 2004 Carlos Ruiz Safon, published by The Penguin Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., all rights reserved, reprinted with permission from the publisher."
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"Gabriel García Márquez meets Umberto Eco meets Jorge Luis Borges for a sprawling magic show."
" Anyone who enjoys novels that are scary, erotic, touching, tragic and thrilling should rush right out to the nearest bookstore and pick up The Shadow of the Wind. Really, you should."
—Michael Dirda, The Washington Post
"Wonderous... masterful... The Shadow of the Wind is ultimately a love letter to literature, intended for readers as passionate about storytelling as its young hero."
—Entertainment Weekly (Editor's Choice)
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The Shadow of the Wind is a coming-of-age tale of a young boy who, through the magic of a single book, finds a purpose greater than himself and a hero in a man he's never met. With the passion of García Márquez, the irony of Dickens, and the necromancy of Poe, Carlos Ruiz Zafón spins a web of intrigue so thick that it ensnares the reader from the very first line. The Shadow of the Wind is an ode to the art of reading, but it is also the perfect example of the all-encompassing power of a well-told story.
At the first light of dawn in postwar Barcelona, a bookseller leads his motherless son to a mysterious crypt called the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. This labyrinthine sanctuary houses the books that have lost their owners, books that are no longer remembered by anyone. It is here that ten-year-old Daniel Sempere pulls a single book—The Shadow of the Wind—off of the dusty shelves to adopt as his own. With one fateful turn of a page, he begins an adventure that will unravel another man's tragedy and solve a mystery that has already taken many lives and will shape his entire future.
When Daniel speaks with Gustavo Barceló, a local booktrader, to find out more about his new treasure, word begins to spread that he has uncovered a long-sought rarity, perhaps the only copy of any of Julián Carax's works in existence. Soon after, a mysterious stranger whom Daniel recognizes as Laín Coubert, the leather-masked, cigarette-smoking devil from Carax's novel, propositions Daniel, offering to buy the book from him for an astronomical price. Daniel refuses, in spite of the man's thinly veiled threats. With the help of his bookselling friends, Daniel discovers that Laín Coubert has cut a swath of destruction through two countries, methodically searching for and destroying all of Carax's books while erasing every trace of Carax's life.
ABOUT CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, thirty-nine, grew up in Barcelona and currently lives in Los Angeles. The Shadow of the Wind spent more than a year on the Spanish bestseller list, much of it at number one, and has sold in more than twenty countries.
A CONVERSATION WITH CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON
Q. This is your sixth novel, and it has been sold in twenty countries and translated into several languages. What do you think accounts for its worldwide appeal? Do you find that readers here in the States respond differently from Spanish readers?
I think it is all about the story, the characters, the pleasure of the language and of the imagination, the experience of the read. American readers respond to The Shadow of the Wind in the very same way as Italian, Spanish, Norwegian, Australian, French, British, or German readers do. The pleasure of reading a great story and to experience the characters' adventures is universal.
Q. Daniel promises to show Bea a Barcelona that she's never seen. From the paintings of Joan Miro to the imaginative architecture of Antoni Gaudí, what is it about Barcelona that lends itself to fantasy? Do you believe, as Daniel says to Bea, that "the memory of this city will pursue you and you'll die of sadness"?
Barcelona provides an enchanting, mysterious, and romantic setting for the story because many things about the place, its streets, its history, and its people are unique. It is also my hometown, a place I know like the palm of my hand, and I wanted to use this fantastic backdrop as an organic character, very much like the great novelists of the nineteenth century did in creating the London of Dickens, the Paris of Victor Hugo and Balzac, etc. Hopefully, after reading the novel the memory of Barcelona and the joy of the story will pursue the readers as well.
Q. Daniel says, "Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart" (p. 8). What book was that for you? Are there any forgotten books you would like to rescue from obscurity?
I would say than rather than just one book, for me what did the trick was the world of storytelling, of language, of ideas. All books, all stories, all words and ideas, all the possibilities of the mind—such an infinite universe of wonders is what did me in and I haven't looked back. And I would like to save all books, those that are banned, those that are burned, or forgotten with contempt by the mandarins who want to tell us what is good and what is bad. Every book has a soul, as Daniel's father says, and I believe every book is worth saving from either bigotry or oblivion.
Q. Your work has been compared to Charles Dickens, Victor Hugo, and Umberto Eco. Comparisons could also be drawn between Shadow and the works of filmmaker Pedro Almodovar—the overt sexuality, the parents' sins visited on the children, the prismatic storytelling. Do you agree with any of these comparisons? Who, if anyone, do you consider your biggest influence?
I think many direct and indirect influences go into each author's work. In my case I believe I incorporate many elements from many different traditions of storytelling, from the Victorian novelists to the metafictional literary games that remind some readers of The Name of the Rose, as well as other techniques that come from a cinematic approach. My ambition is to blend all of those storytelling tools to provide the reader with a more intense, more engaging, and ultimately deeper reading experience. The wider the author's arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will be. I believe the craft is the most important element in any artist's work, and I try to learn from everything, to incorporate and develop as many techniques as I can into my own voice. I don't ask for credentials or classic status: from Dickens to Orson Welles, from Gothic fiction to Japanese anime. If it works, I'm in.
Q. This book is obviously an ode to books and to the art of reading. You have Bea state that "the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that only offers us what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day" (p. 484). Do you believe this to be true? Do you share Fermín's disdain for television?
I believe it is in our hands. Now more than ever, I believe it is up to us to decide if we want to think by ourselves, or if we want to accept and submit to what others would rather have us believe. As for TV, well, I share many of Fermín's views. I'd say TV is a very powerful medium, which can be used, and sometimes it is used, to accomplish great things. Unfortunately, those are exceptions to the rule. But blaming TV as an abstract entity is nonsensical. It's our hand on the remote. There's a world out there outside the tube. Life's short: Wake up and live.
Q. The Aldaya Mansion, the allegedly cursed Angel of the Mist, seems to be a character in its own right. It has a life of its own, creaking, moaning, and breathing fire in its belly. Where did you draw your inspiration for your novel's gothic centerpiece? Are you attracted to haunted houses, the supernatural, and other horror story trappings? Do you believe in curses?
I don't believe in the supernatural, but I think it provides excellent material for literary purposes. Ghost stories are great tools to explore symbolic and atavistic elements in a narrative. Shakespeare, Dickens, and Henry James used ghosts and phantasmagoric trappings in order to add layers of meaning and effectiveness to their stories. At the end of the day, it is all fiction, poetry, and magic. Real curses, however, don't dwell in dark basements but in our hearts and conscience. We make our own moral choices, sometimes far spookier than any horror tale, and the terrors of this world are far too real and ordinary.
Q. There are many casualties of love in your novel, not just the star-crossed love between Julián and Penélope, but also the love that makes Miquel Moliner and Nuria Monfort both lay down their lives for Julián. Why do you think we are fascinated with ill-fated tragedies of love?
Because that's the stuff that thing called life is made of. Love, deception, tragedy, joy, passion, murder, jealousy, lust, fear, generosity, friendship, betrayal . . . Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.
Q. Fermín once says of the cinema, "Between you and me, this business of the seventh art leaves me cold. As far as I can see, it's only a way of fueling the mindless and making them even more stupid. Worse than football or bullfights. The cinema began as an invention for entertaining the illiterate masses. Fifty years on it's much the same." Yet your narrative is cinematic in scope, its images lifelike and grand. You are also a screenwriter. Would you like to see your novel become a movie? If so, who would you have portraying the characters, and who would make the movie?
I have no particular wish to see a film made of the novel. I don't believe everything has to become a movie, a video game, a TV show, a T-shirt, or a piece of merchandising as a matter of course or just because the almighty dollar says so. I believe nothing can tell a story, explore the universe of its characters and its many wonders with the depth, joy, and effectiveness of a novel if it is done right. This is a book for people who love to read, who love books and reading, and it will remain so. Nobody can make a better film of this novel than the one you'll start to see when you begin to read its first pages. Film is a very interesting narrative language, and I use many of its elements—techniques from the grammar of images—to enrich the construction of the novel, but it is just one more piece in a much bigger puzzle. The greatest multiplex in the universe is inside your mind, and the only ticket you need is a good, well-written novel.
Q. To ask you a question you once asked author Christopher Fowler: The world ends next month and you've time to write one last book/story. What would it be about?
You always write about yourself, know it or not, so I would just floor it to make the doomsday deadline and finish the novel I'm working on right now, which picks up this literary experiment of blending genres and traditions from where The Shadow of the Wind left it and takes it one, or two, steps further.
Julián Carax's and Daniel's lives follow very similar trajectories. Yet one ends in tragedy, the other in happiness. What similarities are there between the paths they take? What are the differences that allow Daniel to avoid tragedy?
Nuria Monfort tells Daniel, "Julián once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are the puppets of our unconscious." What does that mean? What does she refer to in her own experience and in Julián's life?
Nuria Monfort's dying words, meant for Julián, are, "There are worse prisons than words." What does she mean by this? What is she referring to?
There are many devil figures in the story—Carax's Laín Coubert, Jacinta's Zacarias, Fermín's Fumero. How does evil manifest itself in each devil figure? What are the characteristics of the villains/devils?
Discuss the title of the novel. What is "The Shadow of the Wind"? Where does Zafón refer to it and what does he use the image to illustrate?
Zafón's female characters are often enigmatic, otherworldly angels full of power and mystery. Clara the blind white goddess ultimately becomes a fallen angel; Carax credits sweet Bea with saving his and Daniel's lives; Daniel's mother is actually an angel whose death renders her so ephemeral that Daniel can't even remember her face. Do you think Zafón paints his female characters differently than his male characters? What do the women represent in Daniel's life? What might the Freud loving Miquel Moliner say about Daniel's relationships with women?
Daniel says of The Shadow of the Wind, "As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller dolls within" (p. 7). Zafón's The Shadow of the Wind unfolds much the same way, with many characters contributing fragments of their own stories in the first person point of view. What does Zafón illustrate with this method of storytelling? What do the individual mini-autobiographies contribute to the tale?
The evil Fumero is the only son of a ridiculed father and a superficial, status-seeking mother. The troubled Julián is the bastard son of a love-starved musical mother and an amorous, amoral businessman, though he was raised by a cuckolded hatmaker. Do you think their personalities are products of nature or nurture? How are the sins of the fathers and mothers visited upon each of the characters?
Anyone who enjoys novels that are scary, erotic, touching, tragic and thrilling should rush right out to the nearest bookstore and pick up The Shadow of the Wind. Really, you should."
"Gabriel Garcia Marquez meets Umberto Eco meets Jorge Luis Borges for a sprawling magic show." —The New York Times Book Review
"Wonderous... masterful... The Shadow of the Wind is ultimately a love letter to literature, intended for readers as passionate about storytelling as its young hero." —Entertainment Weekly (Editor's Choice)
"One gorgeous read." —Stephen King


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Q: Why does my C# escape character not work when being decoded from base 64? I make a simple printing app where I use \n, \t to text format like tab or new line.
It is run perfectly when I input using hard code like this.
isi = "ARIEF - JL. ANGGA JAYA II\n\t\t\t\tSTRUK PEMBAYARAN NEXXT MEDIA\n\nIDPEL\t\t\t: 09343590348509435\nTGL. BAYAR\t\t: 2017-09-02 10:26:53 \t\t\tTAGIHAN\t: 1.000.000\nPRODUK\t\t:\t\t\t\t\tADMIN\t\t: 2.500\nNAMA\t\t\t: RYAN\t\t\t\t\tTOTAL\t\t: 1.500.000\nREF\t\t\t: ARIEF - JL. ANGGA JAYA II\n\n\t\t\tCATUR TUNGGAL KAB SLEMAN DAISTA YOGYAKARTA\n\n\t\t\tSTRUK INI MERUPAKAN BUKTI PEMBAYARAN YANG SAH\n\t\t\t     HUBUNGI CUSTOMER SUPPORT LOKET PPOB ANDA\n";

and runs like this:

But when I acquire the string from base64 decode using this code:
public string base64ToString(string str)
{
    byte[] data = Convert.FromBase64String(str);
    return Encoding.UTF8.GetString(data).ToString();
}

it doesn't escape format anymore and get this layout:

Is there something wrong with my code? Or am I missing some basic C# knowledge?
Here is UTF-8 base64 encoded string:
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

I got that string by using this:

A: The tool you used was not the right tool for the job. It took the literal text you pasted in there (backslashes and all) and converted it to a base64 string. From a programmer's perspective, it changed \n to "\\n". For that tool to work, you cannot enter \n and expect to see a newline, you need to actually type in a newline character. Same for \t, you need to type in actual tab characters (assuming that tool doesn't do any additional processing on the data).
It would just be easier to encode it in code.
string EncodeString(string str, Encoding encoding = null)
{
    encoding = encoding ?? Encoding.UTF8;
    return Convert.ToBase64String(encoding.GetBytes(str));
}
string DecodeString(string str, Encoding encoding = null)
{
    encoding = encoding ?? Encoding.UTF8;
    return encoding.GetString(Convert.FromBase64String(str));
}

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URMC study examines doctors' compassion
Justin Murphy
@citizenmurphy
Terminal cancer patients, by definition, aren't expecting much from their doctors.
The drugs didn't work. There's no miracle therapy. It's just a matter of time.
But oncologists surveyed in a recent University of Rochester Medical Center study attempted to offer the best help they could: compassion in speaking with and listening to their patients.
The study, led by student Rachel Cameron and professor Ronald Epstein, tracked 23 local oncologists as they visited patients with stage III and IV cancer and looked for "key observable markers of compassion" — recognizing suffering, acknowledging it and attempting to alleviate it.
"These are people who are very sick and very scared and most in need of physicians' understanding and compassion," said Epstein, director of the UR Center for Communication and Disparities Research. "We wanted to see what actually happened in these doctor visits. When doctors were compassionate, what did they do, and are those behaviors people can learn?"
The study drew no conclusions but is part of a larger grant-funded research project with the goal of improving communication between doctors and terminal patients.
The doctors' comments as recorded in the study reflected an interest in the patient's well-being, emotionally as well as medically.
Epstein, who has previously studied doctors' communication with HIV/AIDS patients and the mentally ill, said work is now underway to train doctors in compassionate communication. Part of the emphasis is on an expanded conception of the ways a doctor can help a patient.
Most doctors, he said, say the ability to solve problems is one of the most attractive parts of their job. "We need to help physicians realize that providing pain relief and support is solving a problem. You can't always get rid of the cancer, but you can make an impact on the patient's life."
Those communication lessons can be extended to non-terminal care, where patients getting blood work or check-ups often also feel anxiety.
"By describing compassionate communication, we render it teachable and learnable," Epstein said. "The whole goal of this is to change the landscape of medical care and provide a means and a language for people to express compassion."
JMURPHY7@DemocratandChronicle.com
Twitter.com/CitizenMurphy

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I just loved this evening flight over the Elkhorn Valley. The yellow sunset, the glow of the red balloon canopy just told me to shoot.


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Zeljka Zorz, Managing Editor April 1, 2019
3.1 million customer records possibly stolen in Toyota hack
Personal information of some 3.1 million Toyota customers may have been leaked outside the company, the Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announced on Friday.
The announcement comes a few weeks after Toyota Australia said they have been "the victim of an attempted cyber attack".
New breaches
The attackers targeted TMC sales subsidiaries (Toyota Tokyo Sales Holdings, Tokyo Tokyo Motor,Tokyo Toyopet, Toyota Tokyo Corolla, Nets Toyota Tokyo) and three independent dealers (Lexus Koishikawa Sales, Jamil Shoji, Toyota West Tokyo Corolla), all based in Tokyo.
They apparently breached their systems and gained unauthorized access to servers storing the customer data.
On the same day, Toyota Vietnam Motor Company (TMV) told Vietnamese news site Tinmoi that they might have also been hit.
Both TMC and TMV are still investigating and have yet to confirm that customer data has actually been compromised. In any case, TMC noted that the server did not include customers' credit card information.
"We take this situation seriously, and will thoroughly implement information security measures at dealers and the entire Toyota Group," TMC concluded.
Old breaches
As mentioned before, Toyota's Australian subsidiary confirmed on February 21 that they have been hit by cyber attackers, but offered no more information than that.
According to some sources, the attack apparently messed up the subsidiary's parts and cars distribution process.
Also, it has been speculated that the attackers were APT 32 (aka OceanLotus), a hacker group believed to be backed by the Vietnamese government, and that the reason they attacked Toyota Australia was because they searched for a way into the networks and systems of Toyota Japan.
For the moment, though, the extent of all of these breaches is unknown and Toyota has declined to say anything about who they believe performed the attacks.
Even older breaches and data leak incidents
Toyota is no stranger to cyber attacks, data theft and leaks.
Only a few months ago some of its sensitive documents were found exposed on a publicly accessible server belonging to an engineering service provider specialized in automation process and assembly for original equipment manufacturers.
Also, some five years ago, a former IT worker at a Toyota plant in the US, was convicted of intentionally damaging the company's computer systems.
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I have come to believe that time is both generous and selfish. It will give you the impression that there is plenty of it to go around and then without warning slip from your grasp. This is never more apparent than in pictures where generations of loved ones can parade in front of your eyes in a moment's time. Children with smiles and ice cream in the span of one glance pass through the teen years and become adults. Beloved parents and grandparents embrace us with a hug and are then remembered by their graves.
How does time manage to do this? The answer has eluded me. Perhaps I am thinking about it more due to my own revelation that my time on this earth will not last forever or because I now have more than one generation following my own. The reason could be that as soon as I'm used to the fact that it's Monday, Friday rolls around. How do the days go by so quickly? And it's not just the weeks or months! I wake to the sun coming in the window, blink and I'm turning down the bed wondering just where the day went. What happened to those days of childhood which seemed to drag on endlessly when I was waiting for my birthday or Christmas?
All this musing about time has made me realize that it is truly something precious. If I'd known I'd only have a few hours to prepare for this or that, would I have spent some of it washing dishes instead of putting my best into whatever I'd be on call for? If I'd realized that my children would grow up much faster than the time of childhood indicated would I have played with them more, held them more, sacrificed myself a little more than I did? Had I known the time I'd spent with my father during the last week of his life, was actually that, the last week of his life, would I have treated it differently? Or that when I saw my mother that weekend in July that it would be the last time I saw her, would I have remembered to thank her for shaping me into the person I am today, hugged her a little longer, or even prolonged the visit? I'm not sure I understood in those moments that those times were as special as they were. I do now.
And yet, I know that I have treasured time as well. There are thousands of pictures that attest to this! In moments when I miss my father or mother, I turn to a picture and cherish the memories that are attached to it. I catch a look or see some sort of action by my grandson and place it next to a picture of my son doing the exact same thing and can't help but smile over the mystery of genetics. I remember the places I've visited and the wonderful experiences that took place there and can feel them all over again by looking at a picture taken when I was there. While time can (and will) steal that physical moment it generously gives it back in my memory.
While time is allowed to speed by in our culture, and in fact, it is virtually pushed to its limit by our non-stop pace, it can easily come crashing to a halt when a catastrophe strikes. Storms, illness, or personal issues can all too quickly put time into a position where we clearly see its value and fleeting nature. So it is all the more reason to look closely at how we are spending it and with whom. For we never know when time will be gracious, or when it will slip away without warning.


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Historic Detroit
Every building in Detroit has a story — we're here to share it
Old City Hall - Demolition photos
Old City Hall
Nearly a century of Detroit history reduced to nothing but a heaping mound of rubble.
Photo from the Walter P. Reuther Library.
The storied clock tower was the last piece to come down.
Photo from Walter P. Reuther Library.
Half of City Hall lies in rubble in September 1961.
Photo from Detroit Free Press archives.
One of the heads of the virtues statues is lowered. They were removed in pieces.
One of the maidens of virtue is removed from the cupola in pieces.
Nearly the entire northwest corner is reduced to rubble.
Demolition moves to the northwest corner. The demolition work was done at night.
The porch lies in a heap in front of Old City Hall.
The clock faces and sculptor Julius T. Melchers' four maidens went to Ft. Wayne in pieces.
The statues of French pioneers are now at Wayne State University.
Demolition is finished and work on razing the Majestic begins, its windows removed.
Nov. 1, 1961: Nothing remains. Demo signs are on the Majestic Building, which met the same fate.
Photo from the Detroit Free Press archives.
The rubble is mostly gone, carted away to be used as fill at a marina in St. Clair Shores.
Demolition begins at night unannounced on Aug. 14, 1961.
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We are all the Women of Honduras
JASS and our Mesoamerican allies Las Petateras express our solidarity with all the feminist organizations and social movements of Honduras in condemning and repudiating the coup against democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya. The coup, led by the armed forces and the president of Congress, Roberto Micheletti, with the support of the elite-owned and controlled media, occurred in the early hours of June 28th, 2009.
Feminist Radio Stations Taken Off Air
Shortly after the coup, feminist radio stations broadcasting live from Honduras were forcibly removed from the air and replaced with religions programming, according to the Centro de Derechos de Mujeres (CDM). The interrupted program, "Time to Talk," in partnership with Feminist International Radio Endeavor, was broadcasting the voices, solidarity, and support of women attending a regional feminist leadership school in Panama. The joint program was initiated the day after the coup, in order to give voice to feminist activists through interviews and discussions.
Feminist Protesters Repressed
Various feminist organizations and women's groups protested on July 14th in front of the INAM, the Honduran National Institute for Women, opposing the appointment of a new director, fundamentalist Maria Martha Diaz, by coup leader Roberto Micheletti. Their peaceful demonstrations were interrupted by violent opposition from heavily armed riot police. An officer of the squad is said to have threatened the group of mostly women by loading a grenade launcher and keeping his finger on the trigger while pointing it towards the crowd. The women did not back down in the face of this intimidation, and held their ground.
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Stas Kostyushkin squabbled with the wife about the boat
The singer and his significant other are unable to refrain from a dispute on the rest. Yulia and Stas Kostushkin was in the middle of a family quarrel, which was caught on video. Due to the rapid entry of the video caused laughter among the fans of the couple.
Yulia and Stas Kostushkin second son was born at the end of last year. Happy family have become accustomed to the new way of life. Celebrities together to divide parental responsibilities and cope with household tasks, while finding time for work and leisure.
On the eve of the star the family got to stay in the suburbs and was at the big pond. Stas offered the service of renting a yacht. Around the same time, it became clear that the younger son of a pair of Myron wants to sleep. Dad decided to rock the baby on the boat.
When the family was on the ship, it turned out that Myron not get to sleep. On the contrary, the boy began to act up. Then between his parents was a real dispute. Julia regretted that he was on the boat. Stas insisted that everything should be sorted out, because he paid the rent of the vessel.
"I get carsick!", – outraged Stas. "But both of us want to puke…" complains Julia. "Not gonna throw up! Father paid," says an angry Kostyushkin.
Fans of the star couple quarrel on the ship that Stas has published on his page in Instagram seemed very funny. First, because the singer turned on the recording at an accelerated rate. Secondly, fans of the pair know that the couple of lovers only in jest, and in fact, in their family there is complete harmony.
Proof of this is the recent Kostyushkina congratulations with wedding anniversary. In the morning Kostyushkin wrote to his wife congratulations on the 10th anniversary of family life. The actor admitted that he and his wife still keep each other loyalty, and their feelings are becoming stronger.
Stas Kostyushkin admitted fidelity to his wife
"God! Ten years from the wedding day with Julia! I love you, dear! On the reverse side of wedding rings you and says "loyalty", and how nice to know that over these 10 years no one broke their word. The only thing that scares, that every year I understand more and more that I can't live without you," wrote the wife Kostyushkin.
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Jeremy Bulloch, angleški igralec, * 16. februar 1945, Market Harborough, Leicestershire, Anglija,  † 17. december 2020, Tooting, London.

Navkljub številnim vlogam v televizijskih produkcijah Doctor Who in Robin iz Sherwooda, je najbolj znan po vlogi lovca na glave Boba Fetta v filmih Imperij vrača udarec ter Vrnitev jedija v znanstvenofantastični sagi Vojna zvezd.

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Bullochov prvi profesionalni nastop je bil v reklami za britanske kosmiče. Temu je sledilo še nekaj drugih vlog, prva redna vloga je bila v televizijski seriji Counter-Attack iz leta 1960. Še istega leta je sledila vloga v seriji The Chequered Flag. Leta 1961 je nadaljeval z vlogo v seriji Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School, v obdobju 1965-67 pa je imel redno vlogo v seriji The Newcomers. Pri svojih sedemnajstih letih je zaigral v vlogi Shakespearovega Hamleta in skupaj s Cliffom Richardom nastopil v filmu Summer Holiday. Sodeloval je tudi pri  filmu Hudičev agent, v katerem je med drugimi igral tudi Christopher Lee. Kasneje je nastopal tudi v Vesoljskem muzeju (1965), Časovnem bojevniku (1973), ena izmed njegovih bolj znanih vlog pa je nastop v dveh epizodah serije Doctor Who.  Po naključju je v seriji Jon Pertweer sodeloval z Davidom Prowserjem in Johnom Hollisom, ki sta kasneje poleg Bullocha nastopila v filmu Imperij vrača udarec. Pojavil se je tudi v filmih o Jamesu Bondu v vlogi asistenta enega izmed agentov.

Vojna zvezd
V svoji polstoletni karieri je verjetno najbolj znan po vlogi Bobe Fetta v filmih Vojna zvezd: Imperij vrača udarec ter Vrnitev jedija navkljub zelo kratkemu času v kadru. Za njegov nastop je zaslužen predvsem takratni producent in njegov polbrat Robert Watts. V sagi Vojne zvezd se je nato pojavil še enkrat, oblečen v častnika; v kadru, kjer zgrabi Leio, ko ta opozori Luka Skywalkerja na Vaderjevo past. Pozneje je bil zamenjan s kaskaderjem Johnom Mortonom v prizoru soočenja njega in Dartha Vaderja med mučenjem Hana Sola.

Ponovno je v svoji prvotni vlogi nastopil za oboževalski dokumentarni film, kjer je bil razočaran nad likovo smrtjo, hkrati pa je dejal, da je bilo upodabljanje Fetta najbolj neprijetna vloga, predvsem zaradi njegovega kostuma. Za upodobitev svojega lika je navdih črpal pri Clintu Eastwoodu v filmu Človek brez imena, kjer lahko najdemo podobnosti med glavnima igralcema, npr. kostumografija, nošnja orožja in način rokovanja z njim.

Leta 2004 je posnel kratek prizor za strip Marka Hamilla The Movie, v katerem so sodelovali tudi nekateri igralci Vojne zvezd. Leta 2005 je tudi zaigral v vlogi predsednika Skellona v odrski uprizoritvi Davrosovega sojenja. Leta 2006 je tudi glasovno sinhroniziral sira Logana Prowlerja v seriji Night Traveler.  V letu 2008 je skupaj z nekdanjimi soigralci sage Vojne zvezd sodeloval tudi v filmu Motti now.

Zasebno življenje
Rodil se je kot eden izmed šestih otrok v Market Harboroughu v Liecestershiru. Šolska predstava ga je navdušila za igranje in petje, toda resneje se je začel ukvarjati v starosti 10 let. Nastopil je v več Disneyjevih filmih, situacijskih komedijah () in igrah. Igralstvo je študiral na akademiji odrskih umetnosti Corona Stage School.

Jeremy je imel partnerico Maureen, skupaj sta imela tri otroke: dva sinova in hčer. Živel je v Londonu. Njegov sin Robbie je nastopil v seriji Robin iz Sheerwooda v vlogi Matthewa iz Wickhama.  Njegov drugi sin, Jamie, je prevajalec, hči Sally pa je izvršna direktorica hotela Athenaeum. Sam je dejal, da je bil ljubitelj Zvezdnih stez in kriketa. Avgusta 2018 je naznanil svojo upokojitev.Bulloch je umrl zaradi zapletov Parkinsonove bolezni 17. decembra 2020 v bolnišnici St George v Tootingu.

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Televizija

Sklici in opombe

Bibliografija

 McFarlane, Brian . (2005). The Encyclopaedia of British Film. Methuen. 2. izdaja
 Rinser, J.W. (2010). The Making of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.
 Windham, Ryder in Wallace, Daniel. (2011). Star Wars Year by Year Chronicle. Dorling Kindersley.

Britanski igralci
Umrli za Parkinsonovo boleznijo

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Take your partner's hand, and lead them out into the wild, free your instincts and satisfy your desires, throughout a month-long series of events, known as ISM, International Swingers Month.
Throughout your stay, experience a series of intimate activities, workshops and events, tailored specifically for couples, to enhance your relationship, no matter how you play.
This month only, you and your couple will have the opportunity to embark on a journey of unimaginable bliss, during our 5th Edition of ISM.
STAY TUNED FOR ADDITIONAL INTIMATE DETAILS AS DATES APPROACH!


Here's a little video blog about the challenges of shooting on the amazing medieval village set that Chris Dane and others have built for Ren.
I've been using the Artemis app a lot to test out lens choices and compositions for "seeing off the set" issues. That way if I'm set up for a shot and we're waiting on costume or an actor, I can preview the next shot on Artemis and warn Chris that he'll need to move a wall to hide the car park.
More soon from the set of Ren.


MRI Software will be exhibiting at this year's MIPIM Conference taking place on 12-15 March 2019. Visit us on stand R7.C13 to speak to a member of the team and learn more about our solutions.
This year, we will be demonstrating our investment software solutions across the entire investment life cycle – transforming your investment strategy forever.
In just 15 minutes, we'll model for you – in real time – the impact a specific scenario of your choosing has on either yours or an example portfolio. To see how you could transform your investment strategy, simply follow the instructions here to select a preferred time.
We'll also be on hand to show our other leading software solutions for sectors including property management, facilities management and CRE.
MIPIM is the world's leading real estate event, gathering all the key players of the property market. Explore the most exciting commercial development projects from around the world and gain insight into the latest trends from leaving industry experts.
For more information please visit the MIPIM website.
If you are attending MIPIM and would like to arrange a meeting with the member of the MRI Software team please let us know using the form below.


HITTING THE PAVEMENT: Gubernatorial candidate Joseph A. Trillo, a former Republican state representative who has owned several manufacturing and retail businesses in Rhode Island, is running as an independent in the Nov. 6 general election. Trillo uses two buses and a truck to travel around the state and spread his message to voters.
In a year of highly partisan politics, can independents boost political competition in R.I.?


Our friends over at The Center for Public Integrity and Global Integrity have created an incredible, insightful report dedicated to rating states on their transparency and accountability. It's the result of a year's worth of investigation, and the result is a really thorough analysis unveiling important information about which states are plagued by influence loopholes, conflicts of interest, weak open records laws and more.
The sad part of the report is not a single state received an A. Not one. In fact, the highest grade recorded was a C, and a grand total of three states received it: Alaska, California and Connecticut.
Most states received D grades, but 11 states earned an F. Those include: Delaware, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota and Wyoming.
"State governments are plagued by conflicts of interests and cozy relationships between lawmakers and lobbyists, while open records and ethics laws are often toothless and laced with exemptions," CPI and Global Integrity wrote in its release on the information.
You can check out the work and their in-depth review of your state here.
The investigation comes at a critical time in state politics. With gridlock in Congress at the federal level, a lot of special interest legislation is moving to the state and local governments where those supporting their efforts feel the atmosphere might be more hospitable to getting laws passed. It's important that citizens and lawmakers pay attention to areas of concern to ensure transparency and accountability in state government.
Sunlight is doing its part to increase accountability in cities and states across America through the What Works Cities initiative. Read more here about the project and how we're helping local governments develop sustainable open data practices.


The research unit Biological Oceanography focuses on responses of marine plankton to ocean change, their impacts on ecosystem functioning and their consequences for biogeochemical cycling. It aims at (1) achieving a mechanistic understanding of ocean change sensitivities of key biological processes at the organism level, (2) assessing the potential of evolutionary adaptation in mitigating short-term physiological responses, (3) elucidating how organism responses play out at the community and ecosystem level in shaping trophic interactions and food web efficiencies, and (4) unravelling how changes in ecosystem composition and functioning impact biogeochemical cycling.
Marine microorganisms control biogeochemical exchange processes between the surface ocean and the atmosphere as well as between the surface ocean and the deep sea. To investigate the microbial cycling of dissolved and particulate organic matter our studies address processes of production and exudation, uptake and respiration, as well as aggregation and export of particles.
Research approaches include compound and size specific analyses of organic matter combined with microbial rate measurements, incubation experiments, culture studies with single species/strains under well-controlled laboratory conditions, field experimentation using an in situ mesocosm platform, field surveys across natural gradients of key environmental parameters to substitute space for time, and numerical modelling of ecosystem and biogeochemical processes. Our field studies take us from the ice-covered polar region to the warm tropical seas.


I have heard and read so many definitions for Empathy but the one that resonates with me is: the capacity to share what someone else is feeling, such as having butterflies in your stomach when your very nervous team mate has to do a presentation in front of the whole organisation.
Emotional Empathy - sharing someones feelings and matching their emotional state, like feeling of loss when a friend loses a close one.
Cognitive Empathy (theory of mind or mentalizing)— the capacity to think about and understand another person's feelings.
Compassion - motivation to do something about someone's suffering.
Empathy is fundamental for forming productive relationships with the ability to relate to people more effectively. In some instances, empathy can cause emotional distress and it is naturally biased toward someone you consider to be close to you.
Fortunately empathy can be learned and it alleviates conflict. Our core ability to empathise depends on our own internal state and also our perception of what someone else is feeling.
People that lack empathy show abnormal neural connections and neural activity in areas of the brain associated with empathy. Research has shown that to activate empathy some level of concern for the distress of others is necessary but when the distress is excessive, individuals tend to avoid rather than engage. This is probably why some one you regarded as being a close friend avoids you when you need them most.
When stressful or painful emotions are experienced, empathy is painful - which is why some people avoid such feelings. In certain professions, such as medicine and law enforcement, they tend to suffer from excessive burnout and stress or they may be at the other extreme where they have become desensitised and show little empathy. A more universal problem is the fact that empathy is biased - where you generally have more empathy for your family and people you consider to be friends than other people.
This is why the problem of in-group and out-group does not just apply to differences in race and ethnicity but also amongst rival teams in organisations but worse so even within teams. This is also important in client relationships with entrepreneurs.
Compassionate people tend to offer help to others more often than those who are upset by others distress.
Compassion (motivational empathy) is defined as a feeling of concern and includes the motivation to help others. The ability to understand facial expressions and other nonverbal expressions in others helps with developing empathy. A part of the brain called the fusiform specialises in decoding facial expressions.
People who believe that effort could change one's level of empathy are more likely to try to take the perspective of someone from a social out-group than those who think of empathy as a stable, unchanging trait (Zaki, Dweck and Karina Schumann).
Another school of research showed that group norms can inspire people to be more helpful.
The top part of the Anterior Cingulate Cortex (ACC) alerts other parts of the brain of harm and responds when there is a threat of interpersonal rejection. Damage to the ACC results in decreased empathy and maternal behaviour. When we or people we love experience pain or social ridicule, the ACC activates.
We have all felt the empathy of a caring friend or teacher and also been possibly upset by it's absence from friends or a boss. A lot of leaders feel that showing empathy is unprofessional as people are "just meant to get on with it". Empathy does have it's place in the workplace and its about thoughtfully considering peoples feelings along with other factors you have to consider when making conscious decisions. I have witnessed two managers deal with change so differently and the outcome was no surprise. An organisation I worked with were facing financial issues which led to redundant jobs in most departments. This led to a lot of anxiety as you would expect. One manager got her team together and explained the situation to them and promised that she will do everything in her power to protect them and always keep them informed. A second manager called his team together and had a rant about the senior leadership and how the organisation was trying to get rid of people that they did not like. The first manager had empathy while the second manager was too self absorbed to think about his anxious team's feelings. The first manager thought about her team's feelings and tried to reassure them with her words. The result was the first manager's team supported each other and remained strong with all the talented people staying on and some taking higher positions whilst the demoralised second team literally lost all the employees including the manager.
To improve staff retention, morale and productivity, leaders must be empathetic and learn to consciously listen to the opinions of their team members. In this current world of globalisation, empathy is crucially vital to ensure you as a leader or entrepreneur are able to understand the multi-cultural biases of people you work with as employees or clients. For example the way people from different cultures communicate is quite different and you need to remain alert to understand or sense the body language by reading between the lines and understanding the unspoken words. Empathy is also vitally important to enable leaders give effective feedback the right way. Leaders with empathy use their knowledge of their employees to improve their organisations in subtle ways that are very crucial for growth.
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Chester is home of the Chester-Joplin-Inverness School. The school consists of grades K-12.
The Liberty County Museum is a place visitors will want to make time to see.
The Liberty Village Art Center also is a great place to visit.
6 Churches in Chester offering a large variety of services.
Be certain to check out the Liberty County Chamber of Commerce web site for additional information on businesses and areas of local interest.
Photo taken by Pat Ludwig of the sign on the east end of town looking into the sunset.


Sunday April 16th 1922 Hattie to church. I was down to Otts awhile. The folks rode in afternoon. Rob worked in evening. We all read till early bedtime. Monday April 17th 1922 The girls did washing but could not put the clothes out. I went to town with Rob after dinner. [Charged?] satin slippers. Was at Otts office and made new will. Went down to Station for pullman reservation. Was a Jennie Sterretts. Took treatment of Dr Stryker. paid $18.00 Home with Rob. Tuesday April 18th 1922 A nice day. The girls put the clothes out and did a lot of cleaning in the garret. I was busy with my own affairs. I had a letter from Mary. We were all down to Ott for supper. pleasant time. Wednesday April 19th 1922 Rob brought me to the station in time for the 7.45 train. Mary met me (William away). Had lunch at Harris Emorys. Went to vaudeville. Evening at home. A cold windy day. Thursday April 20th 1922 Mary came with me to the station. Left at 8. oclock. Fine train. Reached K. City at four. waited till seven for another train. Went to bed after we left Topeka at nine oclock. Friday April 21st 1922 Reached Oklahoma City 8.30. I had a good nights rest. Art & Ella met me. I got a room at Mrs Masons. Spent day visiting and arranging my room. Weather fine wrote some cards. Saturday April 22nd 1922 Was at Janes all morning. wrote to Mary. Went downtown in PM. Saw picture show "Smiling Through." Spent evening with visiting and music. Then went to my room.


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Åsa Maria Bergh, född 27 juni 1966 i Oscars församling, Stockholm, är en svensk sångare och musikalartist. Hon gjorde rollen som Ulrika i Västergöhl i musikalen Kristina från Duvemåla i uppsättningarna i Malmö, Göteborg och Stockholm.

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Åsa Bergh är dotter till sångaren Einar Bergh och syster till skådespelaren och sångaren Frida Bergh. Hon gjorde sin scendebut 1979 som piccolon i Vita hästen vid Säffleoperan, som hennes far Einar Bergh startade 1974.

Bergh spelade 1995-1998 Ulrika i Västergöhl i uruppförandet av Kristina från Duvemåla. Sommaren 2005 hade hon huvudrollen som Yrsa i Hednadotter på Gotland. 1997 spelade hon in soloplattan "Vi sjunger i natt" där också Christer Nerfont medverkar. År 2011 gjorde hon sin regissörsdebut med Wilhelm Peterson-Bergers taldrama Arnljot.

Teater

Roller (urval)

Diskografi
Album
1998 – Vi sjunger i natt

Singlar
1997 – "En sådan natt" / "	Regnig morgon"
1998 – "Pepita dansar" / "Vi sjunger i natt" (promo)

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Externa länkar
Officiell webbplats

Kvinnor
Födda 1966
Svenska sångare
Svenska musikalartister
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Sångare från Stockholm


Whenever dharma declines and adharma dominates the land, God incarnates to uphold dharmic values—this is the conviction of our culture. In order to uplift the world, the infinite God-consciousness assumes a body through its own cosmic illusion, Maya. Just as all the water in a tank is channeled through a pipe, God's blessings flow out to the world through an Avatara.
Srimad Bhagavatam states that "Krishnastu Bhagavan svayam"—"Krishna was the Lord Himself." Like a dark-coloured raincloud, the dark-complexioned Krishna showered truth, dharma and beauty upon the world. And he has continued to do so to this day. Bhagavan Sri Krishna is like a vast ocean. On that ocean's infinite shore, we dig small ponds and lakes and believing each of them to be Sri Krishna.
For any ordinary person, life is a mixture of happiness and sorrow. But for the Lord, there was only one meaning to life: supreme bliss—bliss irrespective of the situation. Sri Krishna was a mahapurusha [a God-realised person] who celebrated every circumstance, remaining equally blissful in each. Therefore, in order to know the Lord, one must know bliss. Until then, it is impossible to know Krishna or to really comprehend his actions.
Krishna was born one dark, midnight within the walls of a prison. Regardless, it was as though the full moon had risen. The coolness of moonlight and the brilliance of a million suns shined through Lord Krishna's life.
Each one of us is actually born into the darkness of a prison—the prison of ignorance and karmic bonds. We are born crying, live crying and die crying. However, Krishna was born with a smile, lived with a smile, and was smiling even when he cast off his mortal frame. Krishna was able to do this because he always saw the unchanging true face of Eternity behind the ever-changing masks of impermanence. Thus, when we are able to realise the Krishna-hood that is our true nature, we will likewise be able to look death in the face, thumb our nose at it and laugh.
Just because a light bulb fuses doesn't mean the electricity gets destroyed. The True Self is eternal and never can be annihilated. It is only that the forms it expresses through may change. There is gold in golden ornaments and golden ornaments in gold. There is formless within the form and the form within the formless. Pure consciousness is eternal and never changes. The forms come and go, but the consciousness remains ever the same.
Everything that has taken birth will die. This body, which is comprised of the five elements, must succumb to its nature, one day or the other. However, for those who have developed the awareness that the True Self is eternal, death becomes is no different than the experience of moving from one room into another. Such individuals take death light-heartedly. That is why it is said that Sri Krishna's life was one big laugh.
We see this in Sri Krishna's life. Even when Gandhari cursed his whole clan to be destroyed, Krishna smiled. The Krishna we see in the Bhagavad-Gita always has a smile on his face. Spirituality teaches us how to face success and failure and, in fact, every situation, with equanimity. It helps us air-condition the inner realm. Air-conditioning the external world is not enough. There are people who live in air-conditioned rooms and yet have to take pills to fall asleep. Some even commit suicide in such rooms. Scriptures like the Bhagavad-Gita teach us to air-condition the mind. We become adjustable to every situation. At times when we are driving, the roads may be fine, but there also may stretches full of potholes, bumps or hairpin curves. We may also have to drive up and down steep inclines. When this happens we have to shift gears according to the situation. Similarly, when facing the various situations in life, we must be able to patiently shift the gear called the mind. This is one of Krishna's teachings.
Lord Krishna is a mass of contradictions. The same Krishna who could cool the devotee's heart with a smile could also vanquish adharma with the fierce splendour of his sudarshana cakra [divine discus]. The same Krishna who played sweet melody through his flute could also mercilessly blow his Panchajanya conch to protect dharma. Completely still and established firmly in the True Self, Lord Krishna still displayed a life of intense action to the world. In Krishna's life, one can see the majesty of a vast ocean combined with the rustic beauty of a small village stream.
Lord Krishna showed us how to face problems with discernment instead of running away from them. However, one has to perform actions with a sense of surrender, not with a sense of ego. That is when the attachment and burden of the action fall away from us. Sri Krishna's life itself is the authority on several truths expounded by the Bhagavad-Gita, such as yogah karmasu kaushalam ["Yoga is skill in action"] and samatvam yoga ucyate ["Equanimity is said to be yoga"]. In fact, the Bhagavad-Gita can actually be called a commentary on the life of the Lord. In the same way, we can say that Lord Krishna's life is a commentary on the Bhagavad-Gita as well.
The sun of love that is Lord Krishna is ever-shining. If we choose to shut our doors and windows and stay inside, how will we ever experience that light of that love? We should open the closed doors of our ego and come out. That is when we will be able to experience the sweetness and coolness of Krishna's love. May all my children have the strength to surrender the mind, with its selfishness and negativities, at the feet of the Lord, which will free us from the self-created jail of our ignorance.
It is my great pleasure to invite you to the 64th Birthday Celebrations of Her Holiness Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi—our Beloved Amma. The celebrations will take place at the Amrita University Campus in Amritapuri, Kerala, on the evening- of Sunday, the 8th of October, and on the morning of Monday, the 9th of October 2017. We would be overjoyed if you would be with us on this auspicious occasion.
Manikandan, the son of plantation workers in Palakkad, Kerala, was born with a rare medical condition called Eencephlocele. Encephalocele is a rare congenital disorder in which bones of a baby's skull do not close completely in the mother's uterus. This creates an opening through which brain tissue and cerebro-spinal fluid protrude out of the head in a sac-like structure.
Manikandan's parents watched their son's life unfold as a daily, unending tragedy. Past infancy, patients usually live an isolated life, ashamed to show their face in public. Manikandan was no different – until earlier this week, a fist-sized ball of brain matter hung from his nose as a pendulum and he did not mingle with children his age because they would make fun of him. It obstructed his vision and deformed his nose and face.
A 10-member team of surgeons at our own Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences & Research Center, Kochi changed all that, removing the entire deformity in a surgery that lasted 11 hours.
Doctors at Amrita say they were drawn to working at an institution that does not shy away from big challenges, and where patients in need can get treatment, regardless of the level of complication or their financial situation. Since 1998, Amrita Hospital has been building up a cutting-edge medical infrastructure that has become a leader in innovative procedures, and has treated more than 4.5 million people free of charge.


Q. If there is a pool on the property and a valid pool safety certificate has been issued, does the Pool Inspector and Pool inspection date section of the contract need to be completed on the contract?
A. No. The pool inspector and pool inspection date only need to be completed if there is no pool safety certificate issued on the property.
TIP- If there is a pool and there is no valid pool safety certificate, leaving the pool safety inspector and pool inspection date section of the contract blank automatically makes the pool inspection date due the earlier of either the building and pest date or 2 business days prior to settlement.


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Swedish journalist shot dead in central Kabul- UPDATED
Journalist was shot by unknown gunmen central Kabul on Tuesday morning and died of his wounds in hospital
A gunman shot dead a Swedish journalist outside a restaurant in a brazen attack in one Kabul's most heavily guarded districts on Tuesday, police and embassy sources said, underscoring growing insecurity threatening next month's elections.
The Swedish Embassy identified the victim as Nils Horner, 51, who worked for Swedish Radio and had dual British-Swedish nationality.
"Nils was one of our absolute best and most experienced correspondents and what has happened to him today is terrible," said Swedish Radio's director-general, Cilla Benkö, who described this as one of the worst days in the corporation's history.
"We are now trying to get as many details as we can."
Horner had been waiting outside a Lebanese restaurant with his driver and translator when two men in Western clothes approached and one shot him at point-blank range in the back of the head, said Zubir, a guard at the restaurant who uses only one name.
The guard and a nearby shopkeeper said only one shot was fired.
The attack took place barely a minute's walk from the site of another Lebanese restaurant, where Afghan Taliban fighters killed eight Afghans and 13 foreigners in January.
Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the Taliban, said the group was unaware of the attack but would investigate.
Hashmatullah Stanekzai, chief spokesman for the Kabul police chief, said Horner's driver and translator were being questioned but there were no suspects in custody.
The neighborhood is home to several embassies, supermarkets and cafes frequented by foreigners. Police vehicles are permanently stationed at a roundabout a block away and the mansions that line the road have guards at each gate.
A daytime attack on a civilian walking in that part of the capital is highly unusual.
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News> Nominate now for Australia Day awards
Nominate now for Australia Day awards
It's time to fill out a nomination form for the 2019 Mount Alexander Australia Day Awards.
Do you know someone who is making a real difference in our community?
Now is the time to put pen to paper or jump online and nominate a person or event for the Mount Alexander Shire Australia Day Awards.
The awards are a chance to recognise the contribution of our talented and generous community members who have made a difference in our shire.
"I'm sure everyone can think of a passionate volunteer or a wonderful community event they've attended over the last 12 months," said Bronwen Machin, Mayor of Mount Alexander Shire.
"All you have to do is take a few minutes to complete a nomination form and submit it by Sunday 25 November," she said.
The four categories are:
•	Citizen of the Year
•	Young Citizen of the Year (aged under 26 on 26 January 2019)
•	Senior Citizen of the Year (aged over 65 years on 26 January 2019)
•	Community Event of the Year.
Eligible Award nominees must live in Mount Alexander Shire, be an Australian citizen
and have given outstanding service to the local community over a number of years.
Recipients will be announced at a community event on Australia Day at Victory Park.
Nomination forms are available on Council's website at www.mountalexander.vic.gov.au/AustraliaDay. Printed copies are available from the Civic Centre or Visitor Information Centre on Castlemaine and Maldon.
Image: This year's recipients of the Mount Alexander Shire Australia Day Awards. (L-R) Castlemaine Billy Cart Challenge organisers Camilo Demarco and Jane Goodrich, Grace Saltmarsh, Mayor Bronwen Machin, Maryanne Murdoch and Ken McDougall. Photo by Diana Domonkos.


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Q: Free MobileGIS like ArcPAD I'm looking for open-source program like ArcPAD.
I have read all questions and answers, but i find nothing. I need the program for PDA (Dell axim x51v + GPS modul) and I want mapping points (trees or buildings), lines (roads) and polygons (forests).Then I want to do a simple web-mapping project. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Regards Brtko

A: There is a program called gvSIG Moblie https://gvsig.org/web/projects/gvsig-mobile/tour/image-gallery

A: MapTools (Mobile)
http://mobile.maptools.org/index.phtml?page=home.html
Full list of Open Source Mobile GIS Applications:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Mobile_Solutions#Existing_Projects

A: Can I ask the question "if you want something like ArcPad, why not use ArcPad?" There are two clear parts to your project, the data collection and then the web mapping part.
I guess you are not going to find something as detailed as ArcPad, because it has a 10 year history of development. I often wonder why people don't just pay for the product as many people don't take into consideration the cost of their own time as part of the cost in the project. How much time are you spending researching other software applications, testing them and the potential ongoing costs of maintenance for custom applications. It also depends on your skill set personally or in your office that you can pool from. If you have .Net people or Java then maybe look for something that suits them to help solve the problem. Where if you have no support around you and you want to have custom applications then maybe that sways your decision too. Finally, which software is going to fit best into your organisation? What devices are available? Many more questions could be asked.
Sorry if this muddies the waters but I feel these are all good questions to ask yourself before just wanting to go open source.
Cheers,
Gareth

A: I would look at QMAP.
http://nathanw.net/2012/09/10/announcing-qmap/
I don't have personal experience with it, but when I asked the same question you did in LinkedIn forums this was the resounding open-source / cheaper answer.
To Gareth's point if you need something and have the cash flow to buy it ArcPad is a very good option. Especially now with version 10. That said I have been using it since version 6 and for a complex application. I made it work but I did ask whether there was a better way.