Just like a candle, I feel that I am slowly fading … my body is losing its strength. I have no energy left. I leave him after we both say we will meet after this all ends and have a nice cup of tea by the sea. I keep walking with tears in my eyes.

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This collection of the timeless teachings of one of the greatest sages of India, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, is a testament to the uniqueness of the seer’s life and work and is regarded by many as a “modern spiritual classic”. I Am That preserves Maharaj’s dialogues with the followers who came from around the world seeking his guidance in destroying false identities. The sage’s sole concern was with human suffering and the ending of suffering. It was his mission to guide the individual to an understanding of his true nature and the timelessness of being. He taught that mind must recognize and penetrate its own state of being, “being this or that, here or that, then or now,” but just timeless being. I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj by Nisargadatta Maharaj – eBook Details

Henry Winkler's memoir begins on a Tuesday morning in October 1973, at his first audition for “Happy Days.” He was almost 28 — quite a bit old for a high schooler — and struggling with something he didn't know had a name. This is the equivalent of a human living to over 200 years old which, given our current medical capabilities, is completely implausible. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and no concrete evidence has been provided to prove his age. Now, the Guinness World Records has said it is investigating whether the claim the Portuguese mastiff lived to 31 years and 165 days is genuine. Subsequently, a Guinness World Records spokesperson told the Guardian: “We’re aware of the questions around Bobi’s age and are looking into them.”

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We are a science-based profession, so for the Guinness Book of Records to maintain their credibility and authority in the eyes of the veterinary profession, they really need to publish some irrefutable evidence.” The memoir is enlivened by an unusual move: Winkler includes long reaction passages from his wife, Stacey, who is pretty brutal about Winkler’s immaturity, his parenting, his own parents and a crippling fear of poverty. “A very big thing I’d learned about Henry was that when he wasn’t working, he was absolutely miserable. Adrift. Insecure. Anxious,” she writes. I thought I would never hear your voice again,” my friend tells me, crying. She says my call is the best one she has ever received in her whole life. I know she has received better ones, but I can imagine the fear she and all our loved ones must have felt.I was, in my mind, always a little boy,” he writes. “My real self was like a kernel of corn sheathed in yards of concrete — as insulated as the nuclear material at Chernobyl.” There are fun moments throughout: How Winkler came to produce “MacGyver” and how he got fired from directing “Turner & Hooch.” There's a hysterical section about trying to direct Burt Reynolds in “Cop & ½” and, while Winkler is a nice guy, he's still capable of throwing some shade at Michael Keaton.

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Later, Winkler dishes, the immense popularity of the Fonz eclipsed anyone else on the show and the network secretly approached him with the idea of spinning off a show or changing the name to “Fonzie's Happy Days.” Winkler refused. I am writing, but everything I write is a drop in the ocean. Like Manara, I feel only a part of me is expressing the pain I am going through, yet there are many left voiceless. I wish I could let out every emotion and experience and thought I have. I wish the walls could talk to share the fear we’re living in between them all night. I am with Ahmad getting some vegetables and a torch, when I see one of my best friends, walking in the street. He was the one who asked me to help him find a new place to stay since his aunt’s house is hosting more than 70 people and there is no more space for anyone or anything.Alongside widespread media coverage of the secrets to Bobi’s longevity, there has been intense scrutiny online of images of Bobi in 1999, in which he has different coloured paws to the dog which died in Portugal on 21 October. Vets have raised other doubts: although his age had been registered on the national pet database, this is usually based on owners’ self-certification. Furthermore, genetic testing he had received merely confirmed he was old, rather than his precise age. He said it would be helpful to compare Bobi with the five to 10 other oldest dogs to see how much of an outlier he is, though there would need to be strong evidence to verify the ages of all those dogs for this to be an effective exercise. Vets often find that owners are unsure of the exact age of their dog, he said, especially if it was rehomed, meaning ages on clinical records can be inaccurate. In some cases, parents replace a dead pet with a new one to prevent their child from getting upset. It's telling that Winkler — who writes he has lately benefited from therapy — includes a frank perspective from outside his own head. In his practice, he occasionally sees dogs reach their late teenage years, but they tend to be smaller breeds and not overweight, unlike Bobi, which would make it “even more surprising that he happened to live almost three times longer than average”.

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Danny Chambers, a vet and council member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, said that of the 18,000 members of the Veterinary Voices group he runs, “not a single one of my veterinary colleagues believe Bobi was actually 31 years old. According to Bobi’s owners, the Costa family, there are good genes in his lineage: his mother lived to the age of 18 while another of the family’s dogs died at the age of 22.

However, Andrew Knight, emeritus professor of veterinary welfare, said that throughout history, “there have been some other very old dogs”.