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Der Tod in Venedig -
Gustav Aschenbach oder von Aschenbach, wie seit seinem fuenfzigsten Geburtstag amtlich sein Name lautete, hatte an einem Fruehlingsnachmittag des Jahres 19.., das unserem Kontinent monatelang eine so gefahrdrohende Miene zeigte, von seiner Wohnung in der Prinz-Regentenstrasse zu Muenchen aus, allein einen weiteren Spaziergang unternommen. Ueberreizt von der schwierigen und gefaehrlichen, eben jetzt eine hoechste Behutsamkeit, Umsicht, Eindringlichkeit und Genauigkeit des Willens erfordernden Arbeit der Vormittagsstunden, hatte der Schriftsteller dem Fortschwingen des produzierenden Triebwerks in seinem Innern, jenem "motus animi continuus", worin nach Cicero das Wesen der Beredsamkeit besteht, auch nach der Mittagsmahlzeit nicht Einhalt zu tun vermocht und den entlastenden Schlummer nicht gefunden, der ihm, bei zunehmender Abnutzbarkeit seiner Kraefte, einmal untertags so noetig war. So hatte er bald nach dem Tee das Freie gesucht, in der Hoffnung, dass Luft und Bewegung ihn wieder herstellen und ihm zu eine.
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The Heart of Darkness
The story details an incident when Charlie Marlow, an Englishman, took a foreign assignment as a ferry-boat captain, employed by a Belgian trading company on the Congo River in Africa. Though his job is transporting ivory downriver, Marlow quickly develops an intense interest in investigating Kurtz, an ivory-procurement agent in the employ of the government. Kurtz has a strange reputation throughout the region. Rumor has it that he has made himself king of tribe of natives who worship him as a god. The book is partly the basis for the movies ?Apocalypse Now? and ?The Third Man?..
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Combined HIPAA Standards: Reformatted Text from the Federal Register
A regulation gets published in the Federal Register. When it gets revised, the changes are published But it's rare that you get to see a reprint of the entire regulation with all amendments and additions included. This document takes the original HIPAA regulations with all the revisions and presents it in its one comprehensive e-document. If the regulators had known all the changes when they first wrote the regulations it would look like this document. It includes the Privacy, Security, Transactions, Identifiers and Enforcement Rules and it covers the period from August 17, 2000 through September 15, 2004. The regulations are also made more readable by reformatting them from the three-column Federal Register standard into one column. Indentation makes it easier to understand, as does a larger typeface. The intended audience is anyone who is already informed about HIPAA and who needs to a comprehensive and convenient reference. This is not a document that will teach you the meaning of HIPAA. It is a resource for those who already have a working knowledge of this ground-breaking regulation. .
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