The Visoko Chronicle Tavcar, Ivan; Pogacar, Timothy
2021, 20211116, 2021-11-16
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This historical novel- Visoška kronika in the Slovene
original-is about two generations of the owners of the Visoko
estate in the Duchy of Carniola, a predominantly Slovene province
of the Habsburg ...Empire, in the seventeenth century. The events of
the estate and the fate of its owners are affected by witchcraft
persecutions, the mistreatment of Protestants, and the Thirty
Years' War. These themes are key to the construction of a Slovene
national identity, which was going through a decisive phase as
Tavčar was writing. By the time the novel was released in 1919, his
nation had left the Habsburg Crown for the new Kingdom of Serbs,
Croats, and Slovenes.
The work is both romantic and realistic. The deeply romantic
motive of crime, repentance, and punishment intertwines the lives
of father and son. The very acquisition of the estate is connected
to a murder, which casts a long shadow over the next generation.
Tavčar insists on the principle of man's full responsibility for
his acts, which can be repaired with action and determination. The
author's bleak realistic description of the farm life at Visoko
reflects his polemical view of the Slovene farmer of his time.
Insulinoma- how to localize the tumor? Kikovic, Sasa; Tavcar, Ivan; Dragovic, Tamara ...
Vojnosanitetski pregled,
12/2018, Letnik:
75, Številka:
12
Journal Article
Odprti dostop
Background/Aim. Arterial stimulation with calcium and venous sampling (ASVS) enables us to reach the goal of avoiding that any patient with insulinoma undergoes a blind surgical exploration. Since ...ASVS is both a functional and morphological localization procedure, its sensitivity is not influenced by factors that are causing the insensitivity of usual anatomical and morphological procedures. Based on our own experience in preoperative localization of insulinoma, we indented to show why we believe that ASVS should be performed to all patients regardless of data collected from other preoperative localization methods. Methods. We have analyzed the accuracy of preoperative localization methods retrospectively. First anatomical and morphological procedures like transabdominal ultrasound (US), endoscopic ultrasound (EUS), computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) were done. Then we analyzed the data collected during a functional procedure which, at the same time, allows regionalization (ASVS). To estimate the accuracy, the results of every single method were correlated with the operative findings in all sixteen cases. Results. Prior to ASVS, fourteen patients underwent US, fifteen had CT, MRI was performed in eight patients and EUS in thirteen. Using only one of these methods enabled identification of tumors in five patients, using two methods in six patients while three and four in one patient each. For three patients, none of these methods was successful. ASVS revealed that all seen tumors were functional except three of the six visualized with two methods (US and EUS). In two of these three cases, US and EUS localized the tumors in pancreatic tail/body while ASVS accurately identified the tumors in pancreatic head. For these patients US and EUS showed false positive results. In the third of these patients EUS showed the tumor localized in pancreatic head, while US and ASVS accurately pointed to tail. This, too, was a false positive result of EUS. ASVS successfully provided regionalization data in three patients where other visualization methods failed. Operative and later histological findings confirmed the accuracy of ASVS in all sixteen patients including two patients that previously underwent distal pancreatectomy based on false positive EUS findings. Conclusion. Two patients, with accurate insulinoma regionalization in pancreatic head, obtained with ASVS, previously underwent unsuccessful distal pancreatectomy based on the false positive EUS findings. The same goes to three other patients with the false positive results obtained with other anatomical and morphological findings, as well as those three patients that had no preoperative visualization with other methods prior to ASVS. Therefore we suggest ASVS performing in each suspected insulinoma patient before the surgery, regardless of the data collected using other methods. This would enable us to test functional characteristics of visualized findings and to regionalize part of pancreas with uncontrolled insulin secretion when no suspicious changes were found.
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Chapter Seven Ivan Tavčar
The Visoko Chronicle,
11/2021
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The next morning father was calmer. His speech attested to the fact that something had quieted his inner turbulence. When I went in to him, he ordered me to sit down, and I immediately knew that he ...wanted to tell me something which, until that time, he had not told me.
Indeed, he began speaking and he went on for a long time:
“That man from Loka consoled me. He told me that I needn’t yet despair of eternity. But what I’ve been charged with must pass, else I won’t be worthy of the mercy I need so badly. What
Chapter Twelve Ivan Tavčar
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11/2021
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The inquest was to begin at ten o’clock in the morning on the feast of St. Tiberius Martyr. Jurij and I rode to town bright and early. We hoped we would be alone and not be forced to cast our eyes ...down, since after all the whole valley from Žiri to Loka knew and was talking about our shame. But we were sorely deceived: there was almost as large a throng on the road as goes on pilgrimages. Hill folk and valley dwellers—there were plenty of both, and some of them were so lacking in any sense that they
Chapter Thirteen Ivan Tavčar
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11/2021
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Once again I write that Škofja Loka never saw such days as when they tried Agata Schwarzkobler. The oldest people, who had often watched as Gavžnik took the life of a poor sinner, swore that never ...had such crowds besieged the town. There was not room for everyone in the houses, even though as many of them as possible were put up in taverns and with acquaintances. The square was just swarming with people who did not have lodging. The beer cellars immediately jacked up their prices, the butchers were continually slaughtering cattle and killing smaller animals, causing one to
Chapter Four Ivan Tavčar
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We walked yet a long while in the terrible heat and drank heartily from the springs that frequently crossed our path. Here and there we met with a beggar or came upon a shepherd watching his small ...livestock. We asked if we were on the right path, since we could have easily gone astray. The afternoon was already half over when we arrived at a manor house surrounded by nicely cultivated land.
It was here that Jeremija Wulffing had settled and made himself a new home; surely he worked diligently and hard, because he had to turn a good deal
Chapter One Ivan Tavčar
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11/2021
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I was born in the year of Our Lord 1664, on the feast of St. Izidor, in this very place—Visoko. My father was Polikarp Khallan, also Khallain, the owner of two holdings at Visoko, and my mother was ...Barbara Khallanin, also Khallainin, born at Suha, the second daughter of the local farmer Volk Wulffing.
Father Karel Ignacij Codelli, then pastor at Poljane, baptized me in honor of St. Izidor in the small church of St. Martin. The baptism was talked about all over the valley. I had eight godparents, four male and four female. Such a quantity of Črni
Chapter Eleven Ivan Tavčar
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11/2021
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The Lord’s hand was upon my house! Heavy as iron and as hard as rock, set in the bowels of a mountain from the time it was created! We prayed, we assisted at divine service—but the Lord did not ...relent because He could not forget Jošt Schwarzkobler’s bloody death! And he was so angered that He crushed the children of both men and their childrens’ children, for both were great sinners, Polikarp Khallan as well as Jošt Schwarzkobler!
I do not know how many weeks later it was that my neighbor Debelak stopped before my entrance on his way
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