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Obama Administration Cover-ups Continue
President Obama's administration has blocked more than half a million Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests in the last six years, reports WorldNetDaily. This blatant circumvention of the law is causing some in the mainstream media to finally voice their concerns about how President Obama is running the government.
That is, unless you're David Brooks of The New York Times. "And I have my disagreements, say, with President Obama, but President Obama has run an amazingly scandal-free administration, not only he himself, but the people around him," Brooks declared on the PBS Newshour on May 29. "He's chosen people who have been pretty scandal-free."
That's simply absurd. Perhaps, for the Obama administration, it's proven easier to deny the media's access to information that might reveal further scandals than to admit the truth about its own deep-seated corruption. But as we've written, the derelict mainstream media leave "many scandals uninvestigated, minimized, or outright ignored," including Benghazi, Fast and Furious, the IRS scandal, and even the maltreatment of veterans or endangerment of our air travel.
FOIA is one tool for discovering the truth. Newsweek investigative reporter Leah Goodman recently "said there were no Washington-based editors or reporters from major publications on the panel testifying before the [House Oversight Committee] because they were afraid it would have a 'chilling effect' on their relations with the federal departments they cover," according to WND's Garth Kant.
"Goodman said that was also the reason no one had done a major story on the problems with government agencies stonewalling FOIA requests."
At Accuracy in Media, we have a lot of experience dealing with the government on FOIA issues, over many years. And they sometimes take years to resolve. As a matter of fact, we currently have filed dozens of such cases in our effort to fill out the record surrounding the terrorist attacks in Benghazi in 2012. What we already know based on previously released information through other FOIA requests and lawsuits, as well as from the public record and individuals who have brought information to our Citizens' Commission on Benghazi, is chilling, and points to a systematic government cover-up.
Leah Goodman, Sharyl Attkisson and others laid bare the record of Obama administration stonewalling and corruption on FOIA at the House oversight hearing this week on Capitol Hill. The most transparent administration in history has been anything but. Even New York Times' Assistant General Counsel David McCraw complained that the Times has to fight and sue at every turn to get the Obama administration to release information that the public has every right to know. That is ironic, considering that the Times is usually doing all it can to protect and defend the Obama administration. But there are exceptions, as we have cited before, such as New York Times reporter David Sanger who said, "This is the most closed, control-freak administration I've ever covered," and James Risen of the Times, who said that the Obama administration has been "the greatest enemy of press freedom that we have encountered in at least a generation."
"When Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, her staff scrutinized politically sensitive documents requested under public-records law and sometimes blocked their release, according to people with direct knowledge of the activities," reported The Wall Street Journal last month. Records that Clinton and her aides held back included documents regarding the Keystone XL pipeline and President Bill Clinton's speaking engagements.
Years later, these very same issues are still inciting controversy, as further Clinton and Obama administration corruption has been uncovered by authors such as Peter Schweizer. "As Clinton Cash makes clear, speech payments by Keystone XL investor TD Bank to Bill Clinton occurred at critical moments when Hillary Clinton's State Dept. was making key decisions affecting the pipeline," reports Breitbart News. "Moreover," citing Schweizer, "Canadian corporations with an interest in the project hired several senior aides from Hillary's presidential campaign to assist them in their efforts." Millions of dollars flowed to the Clintons personally for "speeches," and TD Bank got the decision it was hoping for from Hillary's State Department. Smoking gun? You decide.
No matter how much journalists like David Brooks try to boldly and falsely assert that this administration remains scandal free, it is clear that the Obama administration is hiding as much information about its corrupt activities as it can, including those brought about by its former Secretary of State. By stonewalling, delaying, and blacking out as much information as possible, this administration is doing its best to conceal the scandalous actions that it has perpetrated.
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Judith Miller Opens Old Iraq War Wounds, and Sheds Some New Light
Judith Miller, formerly of The New York Times, has sparked a fierce reaction from a mainstream media intent on continuing to blame George W. Bush's "lies" for the Iraq War with her new book, The Story: A Reporter's Journey. The book has produced a general disgust from a media intent on ignoring important revelations she's made in this book. Instead the mainstream media have chosen to focus on her alleged agenda-driven reporting leading up to the invasion of Iraq, while for the most part ignoring additional details about how weak the prosecution was against Lewis "Scooter" Libby.
Miller now says that not only was she wrong when she testified that Libby had outed CIA operations officer Valerie Plame to her, but that the federal prosecutor, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, was on a vendetta designed to implicate former Vice President Dick Cheney himself in the conspiracy to expose Plame, with Libby as a convenient victim sacrificed in pursuit of Fitzgerald's agenda.
Ms. Miller's testimony was vital to the trial. She was "the only reporter who asserted that Mr. Libby volunteered information about Mr. Wilson's wife," writes Peter Berkowitz of Stanford's Hoover Institution, in a long piece for The Wall Street Journal, entitled "The False Evidence Against Scooter Libby." Now she says her memory is unclear, and that Libby probably hadn't "talked about Plame with me that day."
Her testimony at the trial interpreted notes from a conversation years past. Not knowing that Plame had worked for the State Department, Miller interpreted those notes to support the premise that Libby had told her about Plame's position at the CIA.
"If Libby, a seasoned bureaucrat, had been trying to plant her employer with me at our first meeting in June, he would not have used the word Bureau to describe where Plame worked," writes Miller in The Story. That's because, she writes, "The CIA is organized by offices within divisions" whereas the "State Department is divided into functional offices and regional and other 'bureaus'…"
"Reading Plame's book had put my reference to that word—in parentheses and with a question mark—in a new light," she writes. "Libby probably hadn't used it, or talked about Plame with me that day."
"Had Fitzgerald's questions about whether my use of the word Bureau meant the FBI steered me in the wrong direction?" she wonders in her book. "Had I helped convict an innocent man?"
Such an error would prove troubling for any reporter, and probably for anyone who might have accidentally testified falsely. It was courageous of Miller to acknowledge that she had been misled given her already controversial reputation.
Her after-the-fact explanation actually fits with contemporaneous accounts "She was confused about that at first, she said," the Associated Press reported back in 2007. "'Through the context of the discussion, I quickly determined it to be the CIA,' she testified."
Fitzgerald had a transparent agenda, according to her 2014 interview with Joe Tate, Libby's lawyer until the criminal trial, writes Miller. Tate told her that Fitzgerald told him, "Unless you can deliver someone higher up—the vice president—I'm going forth with the indictment," a bargain Fitzgerald offered him twice, according to Miller's book.
Accuracy in Media (AIM) has reported extensively on the flaws in the way Libby's prosecution was conducted. Yet years later ABC News was still including this "scandal" in its top ten political scandals of the 21st century, and reporting the facts from Plame's and her husband, Joe Wilson's biased perspectives. "It's unfortunate that this story has to be re-litigated time and again," I wrote in 2013.
The story of Libby's trial will not be re-litigated again here, but my numerous accounts of the myths surrounding this story outline essential details on how this trial has become one of the most misreported stories in recent history.
Miller's account validates AIM's consistent reporting on the subject: "I wrote or co-wrote with Cliff Kincaid a series of articles during and after the Libby trial that showed he was wrongly accused, wrongly convicted, and that Bush did a disservice to Libby and his own legacy by not having the courage of his conviction to pardon Libby rather than just commute his sentence."
"Indeed, the prosecution presented no hard evidence that Libby had lied," I wrote. "Instead, the prosecution asked the jury to infer that Libby had (with no motive) lied, based simply on the jury's experience of the accuracy of memory."
And now Miller says her memory was likely not accurate at all.
Miller apparently discovered her error upon reading Plame's book, Fair Game; Libby himself had suggested to her she might find "something of interest" in it.
According to her account in The Story, Miller has been treated very harshly by the Times, and considers herself a scapegoat for the Times' and news media's overall discontent with the war coverage. "Other news outlets had followed my lead," she writes. "That made me Azazel, the biblical goat upon which the community heaped its many sins."
"'Judy's stories about WMD,' wrote the Times' Maureen Dowd, 'fit too closely with the White House's case for war,'" I noted back in 2005. "That was the bottom line of the anger and venom, some of it very personal, aimed at Miller by the likes of Dowd and Frank Rich." I also pointed out how Miller was far from being the only reporter, or editorial writer, at the Times to have written about Saddam's possession and pursuit of WMD, some of which turned out to be wrong, but by no means all of it.
Recall that it was then-President Bill Clinton, who in 1998 signed the Iraq Liberation Act, making regime change official U.S. policy, and he ordered the sustained bombing of Baghdad in December of that year. As the bombs began to fall, Clinton told the nation, "Earlier today, I ordered America's armed forces to strike military and security targets in Iraq. They are joined by British forces. Their mission is to attack Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs and its military capacity to threaten its neighbors."
The animosity between Miller and the Times remains palpable. "To Ms. Miller's credit, this is not a score-settling book, although Bill Keller, the executive editor who she says forced her out of The Times, gets walked around the block naked a couple of times and competing reporters receive just-for-old-times'-sake elbows to their rib cages," writes Terry McDermott for the Times.
"Cast out of the journalistic temple, she says she felt 'stateless,' and from the evidence here she remains a bit lost," he writes in the book review—ending it with a pointed, unnecessary jab. "This sad and flawed book won't help her be found."
Similarly, Erik Wemple of The Washington Post calls the book "depressing," "desperate," and written with a "tedious grand design." And while Wemple cites Libby early in his review for his criminal conviction, he never touches on the points made by Miller that pointed to his persecution by Fitzgerald and exoneration as it related to Miller.
"A two-year study by Charles Duelfer, the former deputy chief of the U.N. inspectors who led America's hunt for WMD in Iraq, concluded that Saddam Hussein was playing a double game, trying…to get sanctions lifted and inspectors out of Iraq and…to persuade Iran and other foes that he had retained WMD," wrote Miller for The Wall Street Journal in an op-ed published on April 3. "Often forgotten is Mr. Duelfer's well-documented warning that Saddam intended to restore his WMD programs once sanctions were lifted."
Miller's account is the more accurate, if less politically correct, one, despite the media's ongoing animosity toward any evidence or argument that may absolve Bush from the accusation that he lied—and misled us into the Iraq War.
"Neighboring Kuwait and Iran also thought Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction," notes Berkowitz for Real Clear Politics. "So did some of Saddam's field commanders." So did the British government, the French, and many of the other countries in the coalition that went to war with us in Iraq. Last year, The New York Times, of all places, revealed in a major series of articles titled "The Secret Casualties of Iraq's Abandoned Chemical Weapons," that "American troops secretly reported finding roughly 5,000 chemical warheads, shells or aviation bombs" during the Iraq War, but the Bush administration chose to keep it quiet. Clearly, the stockpiles of WMD that they expected to find once Iraq was liberated from Saddam Hussein were not found. The debate over that issue, and the significance of the Times' findings, continues. But it is wrong to argue that no WMD were found in Iraq.
Berkowitz, in his Wall Street Journal analysis, took a deeper look at the actions of Fitzgerald's prosecution of Libby, and it wasn't pretty: "Mr. Fitzgerald's conduct warrants revisiting not only to set the record straight about Mr. Libby, but also to illustrate the damage that can be done to national security by a special counsel who, discovering no crime, generates through his investigations the alleged offenses he seeks to prosecute."
And this, which detailed how Fitzgerald withheld exculpatory evidence from Libby's lawyers that could have absolutely made a difference in the final outcome of the trial: "Mr. Fitzgerald, who had the classified file of Ms. Plame's service, withheld her State Department cover from Ms. Miller—and from Mr. Libby's lawyers, who had requested Ms. Plame's employment history," wrote Berkowitz. "Despite his constitutional and ethical obligation to provide exculpatory evidence, Mr. Fitzgerald encouraged Ms. Miller to misinterpret her ambiguous notes as showing that Mr. Libby brought up Ms. Plame."
Berkowitz also made the most salient point regarding this whole prosecution. The idea, when the investigation began in late summer of 2003, was to find out who leaked Valerie Plame's name and identity to reporters, specifically to Robert Novak, who first reported it in a July 2003 column. By October, the FBI knew where the leak came from. It was Richard Armitage, from the State Department, who unlike some at the White House was opposed to going to war against Saddam. But that was kept quiet, and when Fitzgerald was appointed special prosecutor in December of that year, the case should have been closed. But Fitzgerald chose to seek a conviction against Libby by arguing that he was lying, rather than that his memory was confused when he spoke months later following his July 2003 conversation with Meet the Press host Tim Russert. Libby's team wanted to have memory experts testify, but Fitzgerald refused to allow it, allowing him to stack the deck by manipulating witnesses.
Miller now makes clear that Libby did not tell her about Valerie Plame.
I sat through parts of the trial, including the day that Evan Thomas of Newsweek, David Sanger of The New York Times, Bob Woodward, Walter Pincus and Glenn Kessler of The Washington Post, and Robert Novak testified—all of whom spoke with Libby during the period in which he was supposedly outing Plame—and each one said that didn't happen in their conversation.
The idea that neither The New York Times nor The Washington Post, nor others in the media, regularly and deliberately push an agenda when the facts are limited, only available from the administration's perspective, or conveniently fit preconceived narratives about reality is laughable. Accuracy in Media exists to document many such cases, including: the coverage of the Ferguson, Missouri shooting; the Rolling Stone article "A Rape on Campus;" Obamacare, and illegal immigration. Meanwhile, stories about Benghazi, Fast & Furious, and the IRS scandal, among others, are largely ignored by the mainstream media because they don't fit the established progressive agenda and might damage the current administration.
In the end, this is one of those books that each party takes from it that which conveniently suits their own narrative. And by doing so, many in the media are ignoring the important revelations to be found in Miller's new book, The Story: A Reporter's Journey.
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Why Print Media Will Never Regain Its Prominence
By Bob Sacks
Sometimes we in the industry get caught up in a type of professional fundamentalism. Everywhere you look in the trades, blogs, magazines and newspapers that discuss the publishing industry the dialog invariably ends up about the advancing death of print. There are the pro-death and the anti-death antagonists who have taken extreme positions which blind them to the truths of the situation. Those pundits insist on taking a black and white fundamental approach to what is happening so as to make the conversation almost meaningless.
It isn't really about the death, but about a decline in prominence. At the core of the discussion is an overall lessening of the vast quantities that we used to produce and distribute. But that fact doesn't necessarily have to be about a lessening of our self-worth, unless we choose to make it so.
There was a time when print was the least expensive, least complex way to reach a mass audience. Now print is the most complex and most expensive way to reach a large audience. It is a fundamental shift from the way things were. Add to that the enormous cultural shifts in information gathering, reading and re-distribution, and you see that print has an even bigger situation to confront -- that the public has only a limited time for reading anything.
More information delivered in unlimited ways on dozens of platforms, only one of which is paper, doesn't add to the time people have to read. In the last report that I saw from Mary Meeker, print received 6% of the time spent with media, while TV got 42% and radio received 9%. The internet got 20% and was rising, with mobile also on the rise. Internet/mobile was the only media category that continued to rise year over year. Time spent in the other categories was dropping.
The trend is inescapable and denying it is counter-productive to our sustainability. The bottom line as I see it is that print will not die, but it won't ever again be the predominant way that people read. There will still be billions of revenue in print for magazines, but as an industry they will be at best 1/3 of what they once were by 2020. That prediction must be understood to be an aggregate of the entire industry, there will always be titles and publishing houses that buck the industry trend.
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For nine months, Schmidt has been selling Street Roots between two locations: Bijou Café on SW 3rd and Pine and at 23 Hoyt in the evenings, a tavern in Northwest Portland. Although the neighborhoods are vastly different — Chinatown and the Alphabet District — Brian doesn't notice much of a difference at the heart of the customers he serves in either location.
When he moved to his location at Bijou, Brian took over the turf of a long-time, retired Street Roots vendor named Colleen. While transitioning into a location of a well-established vendor can sometimes be a difficult experience, Brian said it has been very positive, and he still gets asked about Colleen by her former clients who wish her well.
Brian's dream is to publish a book on positive thought and speaking. He has written a rough draft, and now is thinking about the finer points. He says that simplicity and clarity are the avenues toward real positivity.
Street Roots advocates for those folks who don't have a voice and you and your team work diligently, and with great humanity, humility and grace to bring those stories center stage for food, housing, healthcare and social justice. Portland is lucky to have an organization like Street Roots to help us understand the complexities of homelessness, politics and the community.


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One of my most favorite things in the world is listening to a great audiobook with my kids while we get ready for the day, prepare meals, and do other chores. Or go on a road trip. We have listened to a lot of books and stories on CD, like The Story of the World, featuring the voice of Jim Weiss. I have found it a superbly stealthy way of teaching my kids history. It's painless! I just pop a CD in the morning while my kids did their morning chores or in the car while we drove to an activity. If I am really on top of my homeschooling game, I pull out the corresponding activity book and quiz them at the next meal. My kids have a great grasp of history just from this method. The 19 year old can even quote portions word for word because he's heard it so often. I love that they learn history this way! They see history in terms of a story, which is the way it sticks in the brain. We've also loved all of Jim's retelling of classics available from his web site. One year for Christmas everybody got one of his autographed CDs as a stocking stuffer, after I met him at a homeschool event in Utah.
For our last trip to Utah and Idaho, I didn't load up on CDs from the library like I used to always do as in the photo above, because I knew I had some great goodies magically waiting for us on my phone. My husband actually got the stack above, before our trip to Nauvoo, I'm not that ambitious, LOL, I usually get about 1/3 the amount for a road trip.
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Plan of a company to be established for the purpose of founding a colony in Southern Australia, purchasing land therein, and preparing the land so purchased for the reception of immigrants
The Resource Plan of a company to be established for the purpose of founding a colony in Southern Australia, purchasing land therein, and preparing the land so purchased for the reception of immigrants
The item Plan of a company to be established for the purpose of founding a colony in Southern Australia, purchasing land therein, and preparing the land so purchased for the reception of immigrants represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
trueWakefield, Edward Gibbon, 1796-1862
Sutherland, George, Captain
Adelaide, Public Library of South Australia, 1962
74 p. (on double leaves)
Written by Edward Gibbon Wakefield
Facsim of: London : Ridgway and Sons, 1832
"Microfilmed by the Microfilming Service of the Public Library of South Australia from a copy held in the Public Library of South Australia, and reproduced for the Libraries Board by Microreproductions (S.A.), using the xerographic process"--Prelim. p
Appendix: Report of a voyage from Sydney to Kangaroo Island and of observations made during a stay of seven months on, and near the island, by Captain Southerland, (p. 67-74)
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South Australia -- Description and travel
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In Japan's submarine Nankai Trough, rock permeability is much higher when measured at larger scales, likely because of big fractures and faults that are not captured at small scales.
South of the Japanese coast and thousands of meters underwater lies the Nankai Trough, the site of a subduction zone that produces huge earthquakes every 100–150 years. As the Philippine Sea plate dips beneath the Eurasian plate, sediment scrapes off and accretes in the trough. New research by Kinoshita and Saffer reveals that at large scales, this accretionary wedge is highly permeable to fluid flow.
Rock permeability affects many processes and systems, including groundwater transport, oil production, and thermal vent ecosystems. In subduction zones, water flowing through rock can influence seismic activity. However, most investigations of subduction zone permeability have relied on drill core samples and have been conducted at small scales—as small as 1 centimeter. This means that data are lacking for scales of tens to hundreds of meters.
Recently, the Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone Experiment (NanTroSEIZE) provided a unique opportunity to investigate large-scale permeability of the Nankai accretionary wedge. As part of this project, scientists are drilling deep into the trough to collect samples and install sensors to illuminate earthquake- and tsunami-triggering processes in the area.
After installing pressure-sensing equipment in one of their completed boreholes, NanTroSEIZE scientists began to drill two more boreholes about 100 meters away. The authors harnessed this opportunity to measure the impact of distant drilling on fluid pressure at the completed borehole. They analyzed the pressure data using a two-dimensional mathematical model, which enabled them to calculate the permeability of rock spanning the distance between the old and new boreholes.
Their analysis yielded a permeability value 2–4 orders of magnitude higher than seen in previous small-scale experiments, including previous analyses led by the authors. Considering these earlier findings, it is apparent that permeability measurements in the Nankai wedge increase at larger scales, probably because big fractures and faults that contribute significantly to permeability can be captured only at larger scales.
Citation: Stanley, S. (2018), In a submarine trough, permeable rocks may lead to quakes, Eos, 99, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018EO109599. Published on 29 November 2018.


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Alledged GTA 6 Beta Tester Dishes A Ton Of Details In Latest Leak
by Paul Lilly — Monday, December 30, 2019, 12:53 PM EDT
Time sure flies, doesn't it? We are about to ring in a brand new year, and as we do so, the release of Grand Theft Auto V is now more than six years old (and is fast approaching five years on PC). Given the time that has elapsed, it is certainly possible (maybe even plausible) that Rockstar Games is deep in development on Grand Theft Auto VI. To that end, a supposed QA tester claims to have the skinny on the next installment.
We should preface this information with a disclaimer. There is no way of knowing if the supposed QA tester is what the person claims to be, or if any of the leaked details are accurate. All we know is that it's been a long time since the last Grand Theft Auto gaming (though Grand Theft Auto Online has been receiving continued updates and support).
What is interesting about the situation, though, is the anonymous source first posted the leak on Reddit, and it was removed by the moderators. It's not clear if perhaps Rockstar Games pressured the mods to take down the content. All that said, let's jump into it.
The folks at Dexerto managed to preserve the post. According to the original poster, the map in GTA VI is "huge" and covers to major cities, those being Carcer City and Vice City. Carcer City is based on Boston, and Vice City is based on Miami.
According to the leaker, GTA V is a "schoolyard playground" compared to the massive map in GTA VI. The leakers says Rockstar Games improved the weather effects and polished things up, borrowing from its experience on Red Dead Redemption 2.
"The map is huge, like stupendously huge, hence the game's emphasis on air travel. It makes GTA 5 look like a schoolyard playground. There is an array of atmospheric effects that bring out the life in everything. Light pollution, hurricane winds, morning fog, etc. I've never seen an open world game this realistic before," the leaker wrote.
Assuming all that is accurate, it would be a good opportunity to inject real-time ray tracing into the mix, though there is no mention of that. Instead, the focus is on the size of the map. The leaker says it's so big that it's "a little awkward traveling from Boston to Miami," in part because there are no other major cities in between them, in the game. Expect a lot of air travel, if that's the case.
The leaker also says GTA VI will again put players in control of multiple characters, just like in GTA V. One of the protagonists is said to be "an undercover cop or something," and other might possibly be a sibling. In addition, the leaker says Rockstar Games "complete revamped" the mission design.
"You can permanently abandon some missions or take different routes that sprout different consequences," the leaker says.
For more supposed details, you can check out this screen capture on Imgur, uploaded by another Reddit user (Colonize-Mars).
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A tour along the South Bank or North Bank route of the River Danube Cycle Trail is a journey back in time to the world of the Habsburgs. "One needs spectacles!" the Archduchess Maria Theresa (1717-1780) is said to have remarked and she certainly lived by this credo: When she drove her golden carousel carriage through the centre of Vienna, for example. This event was preceded by the Ladies' Carousel, which Maria Theresa had organised with the ladies of the court at the winter riding school to mark the occasion of the reconquest of Prague. They danced the quadrille with horses and carriages and then trotted on into the amazed city. One of the once eight golden carousel carriages has been preserved: You can see it at the Wagenburg in Vienna, where it is part of the exhibition entitled "300 Years of Maria Theresa." Other exhibits you can marvel at include the magnificent prince's gala carriage, by which the imperial family often travelled to official occasions.
Vienna is without doubt the cultural highlight of the Danube's fascination with the Habsburgs and the Baroque era. The Hofburg was the centre of power until 1918. The dazzling everyday life of the monarchs can still be felt in the Imperial Apartments today. Below them is the Sisi Museum, which explains the myths and truths surrounding the celebrated royal. The Imperial Crown of the Holy Roman Empire is just one of the many treasures at the Kaiserlichen Schatzkammer (Imperial Treasury), the most important treasury in the world, while the State Hall of the Austrian National Library is still one of the beautiful of its kind in the world.


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Anirudh A Damani, Managing Partner – Artha Venture Fund
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The Topsy-Turvy Indian Edtech Sector
With the edtech industry doing the exact opposite of the playbook on how to build a business, the result would always be a damp squib, even in their best-case scenarios
09 November, 2022 by Anirudh A Damani
It was June 2022 when India's edtech ecosystem was celebrating the seventh entrant of its unicorn club, PhysicsWallah. The media sang songs about the fantastic business Alakh Pandey bootstrapped from a YouTube channel into a 1900-employee company that was profitable from the beginning. I will explain later the importance of the latter part of that sentence.
Now, if one searches 'Indian edtech' on Google, the first page provides articles about the layoff of over 7,000 employees by Indian edtech firms, why the edtech bubble is bursting, and which startups may do well in the edtech 'winter.'
So, how does an industry that was widely expected to reach a $10.50 billion market size in 2025 with 40 million paying customers across over 1000 universities and 42000 colleges suddenly find itself facing existential questions? Why would the limelight of success turn into a spotlight of interrogation?
A critical question facing every edtech startup founder raising venture capital is how quickly they would grab the winning slice of the limited amount of paying customers. Investors and founders know that India is a market where the top two players take away 80-90 per cent of shareholder value creation of that space. Therefore founders and investors needed to cement the numero uno position at (seemingly) any cost. Founders committed to winning at all costs, and investors committed to financing without asking (too) many questions. It was capitalism at its finest.
Each player estimated a specific cost to acquire a customer (CAC), to determine how much money was required to win. A good rule of thumb was to start their CAC at 50 per cent of the revenue brought in by the customer and to taper that to 20%. The expectation was that a satisfied customer would continue to return for future classes and might refer friends and family, helping the brand grow organically. The best businesses got built on this model, which worked well initially. However, things started to go horribly wrong.
I safely guess that if I added up the total number of paying customers predicted for 2025 for the top 10 most funded Indian edtech startups, it would add up to 3-4 times the entire available customer base! Consequentially, as more players entered the fray, the estimated CAC was not bringing in the predicted result. So, the founder had to increase their CAC, or the competition would triumph in a winner-takes-all situation. Before long, their CAC reached astronomical proportions; I've seen it at well over 150 per cent of the revenue from the 1st sale. I am sure there are models with much higher CACs than that.
When founders could no longer afford to increase their CAC, they began tinkering with revenues. The startups offered free trials, money-back guarantees, and, in some cases, even interest-free buy now pay later schemes. If nothing else worked, they began accepting payments as a percentage of future income! However, in a rush to land grab, the soil got destroyed.
While they were willing to pay, customers started getting bombarded with freebies; they felt stupid to pay. So, they started window shopping like the mass market these strategies would attract. As a result, the customer willing to pay got treated like freeloaders. It destroyed the customer experience, clouded the brand positioning in the customers' minds, and contaminated the KPIs for the business.
Let's look at an alternative route. What if edtech startups focussed on a niche, addressing a specific problem that no one else could easily replicate and focussed on delivering a high Net Promoter Score (NPS) customer experience with positive unit economics from the first sale?
In this case, they could replace venture capital with customer capital. In the bargain, they would own a significantly higher chunk of the business and have the power to chart their destiny like PhysicsWallah, where Alakh and Prateek own 86.50 per cent of a Rs 7800 crore startup.
With the edtech industry doing the exact opposite of the playbook on how to build a business, the result would always be a damp squib, even in their best-case scenarios. The issue wasn't with the industry since the schools hadn't reopened, and the Indian customers were willing to pay.
Ironically, edtech startups upsold their business to investors while deeply discounting it to customers. I would not be writing this op-ed if they had done the opposite.
Disclaimer: The views expressed in the article above are those of the authors' and do not necessarily represent or reflect the views of this publishing house


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Lifetime honour for NHS stalwart
PUBLISHED: 15:37 11 November 2009 | UPDATED: 09:43 12 August 2010
HONOURED: From left, Truett Tate, group executive director wholesale Lloyds TSB, Naaz Coker and Kamel Hothi, Asian markets director Lloyds TSB.
A MEDICAL professional who has worked in the NHS for nearly 40 years has received an award at a ceremony celebrating the achievements of the British Asian community. Naaz Coker, from Bromley, was presented with a lifetime achievement honour at the Lloyds
A MEDICAL professional who has worked in the NHS for nearly 40 years has received an award at a ceremony celebrating the achievements of the British Asian community.
Naaz Coker, from Bromley, was presented with a lifetime achievement honour at the Lloyds TSB Jewel Awards last Saturday at the London Hilton, in Park Lane.
Ms Coker, whose career spans 38 years, was commended for her contribution as chairman of St George's Healthcare NHS Trust, one of London's premier undergraduate teaching hospitals.
She is also non-executive director of the Ethical Property Company and, until November last year, was chair of homelessness charity Shelter. From 1998 to 2006, she was chair of the British Refugee Council.
Receiving her award at the glittering ceremony, she was commended for her voluntary work, which includes being a council member of St George's, University of London.
Ms Coker, 61, said: "I felt proud to get the award but I feel like I have more goals to achieve in my life as chair of the trust, so it was unexpected.
"We have always had the best clinical care in the world but in the past we have failed to deliver on all aspects of care.
"I want us to become a centre of excellence, the hospital of choice. Becoming a foundation trust is an important part of that goal."
The winners were chosen from thousands of nominations from across the region, spanning business, education, politics and the charity sector.
The final decision was made by a panel of judges, who included star of Dragon's Den James Caan.
Now in its seventh year, the event presented nine awards to individuals, including entrepreneurs such as Dr Kartar Lalvani, president and founder of Vitabiotics Ltd, and Rami Ranger, chief executive officer of Sun Mark and Sea and Land Forwarding Ltd.
Commenting on the awards, Kamel Hothi, Asian markets director, Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets, said: "For over half a century, the Asian community in Britain has been making a huge contribution to all aspects of life, not least the economy.
"I would like to congratulate all the winners on their outstanding achievement as they continue to set a benchmark in these challenging economic times, when their abilities and acumen are truly put to the test."
Khalid Darr, chairman of Carter Andersen, organiser of the awards, said: "Asian men and women are truly breaking new ground in their professional careers and adding real value to the UK economy.
"This is what these awards set out to recognise.


Nasarawa State University, Keffi (NSUK) Postgraduate Qualifying Examination Date, Time, Venue and Requirements for 2018/2019 Academic Session.
Date: Saturday, 18th August, 2018 (for all Ph.D,Mphil/Ph.D,M.Sc,M.A,M.Ed,LLM).
Date: Saturday, 25th August, 2018 (for all MBA,MPA, MAF,PGD's).
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College spokesperson Diana Lawrence wrote in an email that the College is concerned about the Planning Board's increased discretion in reviewing applications.
"The potential impact of the decision extends well beyond Dartmouth and is relevant to others in the state committed to responsible development based upon clear and definite standards of design and review," Lawrence wrote.
The College hopes to define the scope of the Planning Board's power to apply and interpret regulations through this appeal.
In 2015, the College proposed a plan to build a $20 million, 70,000 square foot indoor sports practice facility. The facility, which would be built next to the Boss Tennis Center, would be utilized for indoor practice during the winter.
The Hanover Planning Board denied a permit for the facility despite the fact that the plan complied with zoning regulations. Four of the five members on the Planning Board voted against the proposed plan, citing other regulations. Furthermore, the Planning Board members called for projects to comply with "harmonious and aesthetically pleasing development of the town" as well as the town's master plan, which each town in New Hampshire is required to have.
The College appealed the Hanover Planning Board's decision to Grafton Superior Court on the basis that the Board lacks the authority to deny an application that complies with zoning regulations. The Grafton Superior Court denied this appeal on Sept. 21.


Dr. James W. Anderson is the president and founder of the HCF Nutrition Foundation, established in Lexington, Kentucky in 1979.
HERMITAGE, TN, August 16, 2018 — Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to present James W. Anderson with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. An accomplished listee, Dr. Anderson celebrates many years' experience in his professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes he has accrued in his field. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Dr. Anderson is the president and founder of the HCF Nutrition Foundation, established in Lexington, Kentucky in 1979. The foundation promotes nutrition as a choice for better health, as well as advocates for a healthy lifestyle that includes regular exercise, not smoking, and stress management. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Anderson was the professor of medicine and clinical nutrition at the University of Kentucky, a post he has continued to hold since 1973.
Previously, Dr. Anderson was an assistant professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco from 1968 to 1973. In addition to his professional roles, he has held numerous civic duty positions within his community such as deacon and Sunday school teacher with several Baptist churches since 1974, a volunteer physician with both the Mission Lexington Medical Clinic and the Salvation Army Clinic, and the chairman of the board of trustees of Georgetown College from 1994 to 1996. Likewise, Dr. Anderson has been a member of the American Society for Clinical Nutrition as well as founder and chairman of the Obesity Research Network.
Dr. Anderson earned a Bachelor of Science degree from West Virginia University in 1958, and later earned a Doctor of Medicine from Northwestern University in 1961. He went on to fulfill an internship at the Presbyterian Medical Center in Denver, and later a residency with the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research in Rochester, Minnesota, where he received a Master of Science degree in 1965. Dr. Anderson has also been awarded fellowships by the American College of Physicians and the American College of Nutrition.
Dr. Anderson has authored 15 books and 400 scientific publications. He has served on the editorial boards of several publications. He was a major adviser for six PhD candidates and four master's degree candidates between 1990 and 2008, and has traveled to over 100 countries and lectured in 60. He also has his own videos uploaded on YouTube. Furthermore, Dr. Anderson has been listed in several editions of Who's Who in America, Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare, Who's Who in Science and Engineering, Who's Who in the South and Southwest, and Who's Who in the World.
In recognition of outstanding contributions to his profession and the Marquis Who's Who community, Dr. Anderson has been featured on the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement website. Please visit www.ltachievers.com for more information about this honor.


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Giocatore di calcio per il Bristol City F.C. fino ai 14 anni (era portiere), ha iniziato a giocare a rugby a 17 per stare insieme ai suoi amici.

Negli anni iniziali della sua carriera da rugbysta ha giocato per i club di Newport, Bridgend  e Swansea. Nel 2003 è poi passato ai Celtic Warriors. Quando questi si sono sciolti per problemi finanziari, nel 2004, Jones si è unito agli Ospreys con i quali disputa tuttora Celtic League e Heineken Cup. Con quest'ultimo club ha vinto la Celtic League nel 2005 e nel 2007 e la coppa Anglo-Gallese nel 2008.

Il 6 novembre 2004 ha fatto il suo esordio con la maglia del  in una partita contro il .

Nel 2005 ha vinto, con la nazionale, il Sei Nazioni facendo il Grande Slam. Lo stesso anno ha preso poi parte al tour dei British and Irish Lions in Nuova Zelanda. Escluso in un primo momento, è stato chiamato per sostituire l'infortunato Simon Taylor. Per le sue ottime prestazioni durante i test match è stato considerato uno dei migliori giocatori del tour.

Nel gennaio 2008 Jones è stato scelto dal coach del Galles Warren Gatland come capitano della nazionale. Durante il seguente Sei Nazioni la squadra ha conquistato la seconda vittoria del torneo con Grande Slam in quattro anni.

Nel 2022 a soli 41 anni gli viene diagnosticata la demenza senile.

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Postcards from home: Playing the catch up game
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Adam cares deeply for the people in his life. Zach fights desperately to maintain his individuality. Jayleen examines every word for underlying meaning, and I oscillate between the desire to be in touch with them all, while never quite knowing how to bridge the gap of months or even years passing without contact.
The four of us formed a tight-knit group fresh out of high school. We traveled together, laughed and cried together, spent sleepless nights arguing over everything from politics to the personal. Time passes, though, and our personal goals came more into focus. As we each lived our lives accordingly, bit by bit, our daily experience diverged, but Adam's approaching nuptials brings with it the spark of reconnection, an opportunity to bring our group together once more.
Adam reaches me from Florida to tell me he's engaged. He's already found Jayleen and Zach to tell them the good news, but it's taken quite a few back and forth calls before he was finally able to catch me.
It's a relief to know that down below, we are both the same. It makes me miss him even more.
"How've you been?"
"Oh, the weather? It's sunny. It's always pretty sunny here. So, what's it like there?"
I tailor my opening words for show, as if to say my life is fine without betraying my strong desire to know who you are again. It's a way to test the waters and read the response.
Would it be too presumptuous to burst through layers of ice with blunt honesty? Is it too much to dive immediately into the dark waters beneath and say "I have no idea who you are, or who you've become, because I haven't been around to know."
What if that first rough crack isn't hard enough to break through the surface? Will I be left standing precariously, ice pick in hand, at the edge of freezing waters, waiting for the certain click of the phone, the final note of an awkward conversation.
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No, it's better to start off with the polite opening, light and easy, designed specifically to chip away the icy surface at a gradual pace.
After a few minutes of the light stuff, it's time to go deeper, "So how are you really? What have you really been up to?" With those words, the tempo alters from light and falsely familiar to slippery but not quite so hazardous.
Now, It's Time To Dip My Toe In
Is it still possible to see the world the way you do? Have we slipped too far away from each other. I listen, trying to place myself in front of you as a real, tangible part of your life, but I can't help feel I'm no more than a voice on the phone. To ease my discomfort, I talk about myself for a while. It takes a moment before you notice I've gone in a different direction. Do you follow? Will you you move yourself a thousand miles to stand in my life? Can you?
"Not much going on right now, " I tell him. "Just trying to stay busy, I guess. It being the slow season and all, you know."
"Um, no, I don't know. What do you mean?"
"Oh, Spring is slow season for tourists here. Most people just come to Hawaii in the winter."
"Must be nice to live on the beach. What do you do for fun?"
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"I'm on a pretty remote island. We usually go to another one to hang out. We're headed to Oahu next weekend."
"To Oahu."
"Oh, okay. Who's we?"
Things have changed. No longer can we take for granted a general understanding of the details of our lives, but at least the ice has been broken. He wants to know more, as do I. We might as well jump feet first now, cannonball into numbing waters.
I expect a blast of shock after the splash, but the water is more temperate than I imagined. Instead of unbearable cold and distance, our conversation takes us past the outer layers of circumstance and down to the person we each know. It's a relief to know that down below, we are both the same. It makes me miss him even more.
"By the way, he adds, "I need the measurements for your tux as soon as possible."
"Oh yeah," I answer apologetically. "Sorry I haven't called you back."
"No worries. I'm used to it already." As always, he tries his best to sound calm and contemplative.
"Will you send me Zach's number?" Adam asks. "I told him about the wedding, but I can't remember if I sent him an invitation."
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By the sound of it, I think Adam's driving somewhere as we talk. I hear her voice in the background. Adam, still trying to be thoughtful and deliberate, pauses to listen. "Oh, yeah, that's right, I need to mail you one, too."
"Yeah, don't worry about it," I say. "I'm used to it already." I can almost hear him smile on the other end of the line.
After a moment, he speaks up."I don't think Zach will be able to make it." Adam somewhat manages to mask the disappointment in his voice.
I'm not surprised and shake my head, green-eyed at Zach's ability to remove himself from obligations so casually without ever having to pay for it emotionally. "Zach is just way too free to pin down," I say. "I doubt that will ever change."
"Probably not?" Adam says, thoughtfully. "But that's what makes him Zach, right?"
"But Jayleen will be there," I say. "In spite of all her bouncing around."
Jayleen. She does her best to stay grounded, tries on personalities like jackets as she melts from solo backpacker to business woman to hipster sharing an apartment in New York City. It will be good to see her, too, after so long, whatever outer layer she'll be wearing.
After a pause, I speak up, "So, I guess we'll see each other in Florida."
"Yep, see you in three weeks." This is the point when words are finished, and silence creeps in. I can't believe he's getting married so soon.
As I hang up, I know there is so much more to tell, but it's too much for one call. "Bye."
Then the click. The final note of a meaningful conversation.
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Marko Kraljević, auch Kraljević Marko und (bulgarisch) Krali Marko ("Königssohn Marko"), seltener auch Marko Mrnjavčević (* um 1335; † 1394/1395 bei Rovine) war ein serbischer König (1371–1394/95) und Held der südslawischen Volkspoesie.

Historische Person

Über die Person Markos ist wenig bekannt. Marko war der älteste Sohn des serbischen Königs (gr. krales) Vukašin Mrnjavčević und der Anca, einer wallachischen Adeligen. Er begleitete seinen Vater 1361 nach Dubrovnik auf eine diplomatische Mission. Eine Notiz aus 1371 erwähnt ihn in Zusammenhang mit einem Angriff auf den benachbarten Župan Nikola Altomanović.

Markos Vater Vukašin führte als Koregent des serbischen Zaren Uroš den Königs-Titel krales. Da Uroš kinderlos war, ernannte Vukašin seinen Sohn Marko zum Kronprinzen. Mit dem Tod Uroš' erlosch die Dynastie der Nemanjiden. Unter den verbliebenen serbischen Herrschern entbrannte ein Streit um die Nachfolge. Die Mrnjavčevićs, die sich als legitime Nachfolger Uroš' betrachteten, besaßen weite Teile des heutigen Mazedonien. Nördlich von ihnen breiteten sich Fürst Lazar Hrebeljanović und sein Schwiegersohn Vuk Branković aus, im Süden herrschte Dušans Halbbruder Simeon Uroš über die griechischen Gebiete des serbischen Reiches.

Nach dem Tode Vukašins und Uglješas bei der Schlacht an der Mariza 1371 scheint sich Marko zum König erhoben zu haben, was auf Münzen und Portraitaufschriften bezeugt ist. Gleichzeitig musste er erhebliche Gebietsverluste hinnehmen: Die Balšićs nahmen ihm Prizren, Vuk Branković Skopje, seine Besitzungen im Pindus wurden ihm von albanischen Anführern strittig gemacht; vermutlich blieb ihm zuletzt nur noch Westmakedonien um Prilep. Wie seine Nachbarn Johannes und Konstantin Dragaš erkannte er die Oberhoheit des osmanischen Sultans an.

Marko war mit Helena, der Tochter des Woiwoden Radoslav Hlapen verheiratet. Zu seinen Stiftungen zählen das Erzengelkloster in Prilep und das Marko-Kloster (Demetrioskirche) in Sušica bei Skopje.

Marko fiel 1394 oder 1395 in der Schlacht bei Rovine als osmanischer Vasall im Kampf gegen den walachischen Wojwoden Mircea den Alten. Sein Territorium wurde von den Osmanen annektiert.

Markos' Geschwister waren Andrijaš, Dimitar und Ivaniš sowie Olivera, Frau von Georg Balšić. Andrijaš und Dimitar erschienen nach dem Tode Markos in Dubrovnik, wo sie eine größere Geldsumme einforderten; sie zogen anschließend nach Ungarn und traten dort in die Dienste des Königs. Ivaniš dürfte 1385 gemeinsam mit Balša II. Balsić in der Schlacht am Voiussa-Fluss gegen die Osmanen gefallen sein.

Mythos
Kraljević Marko ist eine zentrale Figur in der südslawischen Volkspoesie und wird in Epen besungen. Epensänger begleiten sich traditionell auf Streichlauten, in Serbien auf der Gusle und in Bulgarien auf der Gadulka. Es ist unklar, warum gerade die historisch wenig bedeutende Person Markos zum Gegenstand derartiger Verehrung wurde. Einer in Serbien unpopulären und wenig bekannten Theorie zufolge hatten die Osmanen die Epen um Marko gefördert bzw. verfälscht, um die Betonung der Loyalität zum Osmanischen Reich zu unterstreichen. In den Epen ist Marko der größte Held aller Zeiten, der allein ganze Armeen schlägt, aber dazu verdammt ist, dem türkischen Sultan zu dienen, was Marko mit einer gewissen Ironie und Gleichgültigkeit hinnimmt. Er wehrt sich nicht gegen dieses Schicksal, obwohl er eigentlich das gesamte Osmanische Reich besiegen und sein Volk befreien könnte. Andere weisen darauf hin, dass der Name des Königssohns Marko prägend war und andere epische Personen wie Miloš Vojinović vor der Türkenära oder Stefan Lazarević aufgesogen hatte, deren Namen die einfache Bevölkerung weniger ansprachen. Andere meinen, dass der epische Marko einen Unterhaltungscharakter hatte, in dem sich die Menschen unter der osmanischen Herrschaft, wiederfanden und mit dem sie sich identifizieren konnten, nach dem Motto: "Mit Miloš (Miloš Obilić, der den Sultan Murad I. auf der Amselfeldschlacht getötet haben soll und in serbischen Epen als der edelste und größte Ritter gilt) überlebt man, mit Marko aber lebt man". Der edle Miloš opfert sich, doch Marko muss weiter (oder möchte lieber) leben. Zwar wünscht sich auch Marko, in die Reihen Miloš' und des Fürsten Lazar zu gelangen, aber irgendetwas kommt immer dazwischen. Es ist dieser Humor der Besiegten, welcher den Epen um Marko ihre Ausstrahlung verleiht.

In der Vita des Despoten Stefan Lazarević beklagt Marko vor der Schlacht von Rovine seine Lage als christlicher Vasall des Sultans und wünscht sich, als einer der ersten in der Schlacht zu fallen, wenn damit der Sieg der Christen gesichert wäre. Bereits in der Musachi-Chronik trägt er legendäre Züge. In einem 1555 von Petar Hektorović aufgezeichneten Gedicht erschlägt er seinen Bruder Andrijaš wegen eines edlen Pferdes, das er als Beute behält.

Die Dichtung des 19. Jahrhunderts beschreibt Marko als Beschützer der Entrechteten und Unterdrückten, der an den Türken Rache übt. Gelegentlich zettelt er Streit an, ist dabei jedoch meist gerecht und lässt sich in seinem Urteil "weder von Vater noch von Onkeln" beeinflussen (serbisch ni po Ocu ni po stričevima).

Dagegen lässt die Tradition des 17. Jahrhunderts Markos Vater und Onkel, Vukašin und Uglješa, in einem wenig vorteilhaften Licht erscheinen. Dies hängt vermutlich damit zusammen, dass die Mrnjavčevićs in Konflikt mit den höfischen Strukturen der serbischen Kaiserzeit standen: Sie galten als Emporkömmlinge, und nicht alle gönnten ihnen den Anspruch, die Nemanjiden zu beerben, vor allem nicht Fürst Lazar Hrebeljanović, der im Unterschied zu den anderen Fürsten auf die Unterstützung der serbischen Kirche zählen konnte.

In den epischen Dichtungen vereinigt Marko verschiedene Charaktere, die oftmals sehr konträr sind. Das spricht dafür, dass den Dichtungen und Volksliedern verschiedene Vorlagen und Quellen zugrunde lagen. Er kann einerseits brutal und unberechenbar sein, Unschuldige oder Menschen angreifen, die ihn lieben oder ihm helfen, sie verletzen oder gar töten; dann wieder trägt er Züge eines Helden, der an der Ungerechtigkeit in der Welt verzweifelt. Er handelt irrational und äußerst grausam, wenn er der jungen und schönen Schwester seines guten Freundes, des Hauptmanns Leka, um deren Hand er zuvor geworben hatte, die Hände abhackt und Augen aussticht, nachdem sie ihn mit Spott ablehnt, oder wenn er die Mohrenprinzessin tötet, die ihn liebt und aus der Gefangenschaft befreit. Dann wieder ist er ein Ideal an Gerechtigkeit, wenn er den Armen hilft und die Reichen ablehnt, die "Brautsteuer" der schwarzen Araber abschafft, oder seinem Vater die Zarenkrone nicht zuerkennt (weswegen er vom Vater verflucht wird, den Türken zu dienen). Für seine Gerechtigkeit wird er von Christen und Nichtchristen gleich geachtet. Marko hat Freunde und Blutsbrüder unter vielen Völkern. Er ist der Auserwählte der Feen, denen er seine übermenschliche Stärke verdankt und auf dessen Hilfe er mitunter angewiesen ist. Marko liebt Tiere, er kann mit Tieren reden, ebenso eine Gabe der Feen. Einmal führt er ein monastisches Leben, dann ist er wild und unbeherrscht. Er ist gottesfürchtig, dann jedoch ein Säufer und Trinker, der Streit anfängt – Marko ist dann bekannt für seine Streitlust – und in dem immer jemand umkommt. Er ist groß gewachsen wie sonst niemand, und so stark, dass er im Kampf niemals eine Rüstung braucht. Er trägt sein volles Haar lang und wild, und seine Waffe ist vor allem der Streitkolben. Sein treuester Gefährte ist sein Pferd Šarac (anders als andere Könige oder Helden hat er keinen Schimmel oder Rappen, sondern ein geflecktes Pferd, was seine Verbindung zum einfachen Volk betonen soll), mit dem er tagelang philosophische Gespräche führt. So hat Marko in den Epen zwei Charakterzüge: das christliche, zivilisierte, auf der anderen Seite das archaische, wilde.

Legenden nach lebte Marko 300 Jahre lang. Schließlich teilten ihm Feen mit, dass seine Zeit gekommen sei, woraufhin Marko seine Waffen zerbrach, auf dass seine Waffen niemanden zu dienen mögen, und sein Pferd Šarac tötete, auf dass es niemand sonst dienen mochte. Dann legte er sich auf den Boden und verstarb. Viele Reisende, die an Marko vorbei kamen, glaubten, er schlafe nur, und wagten nicht, den vermeintlich Schlafenden aufzuwecken. Erst ein Mönch vom Athos-Kloster Hilandar erkannte, dass Marko verstorben war, und bestattete ihn. Marko ist in den Legenden nicht wirklich verstorben, vielmehr schläft er, verborgen am Berge Urvina einen tiefen Schlaf, bis zu dem Tag, da den Serben höchste Gefahr droht. Zu jener Zeit werde er aufstehen und die Nation in die Freiheit führen.

Marko ist ikonographisch um 1370 in der Kirche des Demetrius (Marko-Kloster) im Dorf Markova Sušica bei Skopje und in der Kirche des Erzengel-Michael-Klosters in Prilep, Mazedonien, dargestellt.

Ivan Meštrović schuf im Rahmen seines Kosovo-Zyklus eine Skulptur von Kraljević Marko samt seinem Schlachtross.

Siehe auch
 Personen aus den Epen um Marko Kraljević

Literatur
Verwendete Literatur
 Frank Kämpfer: Marko Kraljević. In: Mathias Bernath, Karl Nehring (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon zur Geschichte Südosteuropas. Band 3: L – P (= Südosteuropäische Arbeiten. Bd. 75, 3). Oldenbourg, München 1979, ISBN 3-486-48991-7, S. 103–105.

Weiterführende Literatur
 Gerhard Gesemann: Heroische Lebensform. Zur Literatur und Wesenskunde der balkanischen Patriarchalität. Wiking Verlag, Berlin 1943.
 Gabriella Schubert: Marko Kraljević – eine Identifikationsfigur der Südslawen. In: Gabriella Schubert, Wolfgang Dahmen (Hrsg.): Bilder vom Eigenen und Fremden aus dem Donau-Balkan-Raum. Analysen literarischer und anderer Texte (= Südosteuropa-Studien. Bd. 71). Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft, München 2003, ISBN 3-925450-95-5, S. 101–120.
 Barbara Beyer: Marko über allen. Anmerkungen zum südslawischen Universalhelden und seinen Funktionalisierungen. In: Reinhard Lauer (Hrsg.): Erinnerungskultur in Südosteuropa. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, Boston 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-025304-7, ISBN 978-3-11-025305-4 (e-ISBN), S. 149–188.

Weblinks
 Volkslieder der Serben; übersetzt von Talvj; veröffentlicht von Brockhaus, Leipzig 1853; Tod des Königssohnes Marko, ab Dateiseite 312
 Kraljević Marko und die Vila

Einzelnachweise

Person (serbische Geschichte)
Person in den Türkenkriegen
Historische Person (Südosteuropa)
Literarische Figur
Roman, Epik
Literatur (Serbisch)
Literatur (Bulgarisch)
Literatur (Mazedonisch)
Geboren im 14. Jahrhundert
Gestorben im 14. Jahrhundert
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Flames burst through the roof of the centuries-old cathedral and quickly engulfed the spire، which collapsed.
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Firefighters cleared the area around the cathedral، which marks the very centre of Paris. Buildings around were evacuated.
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Dr. Lorenzo Mendoza Fleury, a Venezuelan lawyer, inherited a soap factory from his family during the late 1930's. Although this factory proved to be a financial failure, Fleury established a business style worthy of future success; he soon sold the soap factory in pursuit of a more profitable industry. The search ended in 1941 when he established a brewery in Antimano, a suburb of Caracas. The rapid expansion that followed is the legacy of Mendoza Fleury's far-sighted decision.
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By the end of the decade yet another brewery, Cerveceria Polar del Centro, began operations in the city of San Joaquin. A major innovation, signifying a technological breakthrough in the brewing process, was initiated at this site: the San Joaquin facility became the first brewery in the world to use a one-tank system with cylinder-conical tanks from the start of production. The efficiency of the process marked the end for the company of the kind of beer supply shortages which had occurred in the past. The small Antimano brewery now outlived its usefulness and was duly closed.
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CPR News | By Bente Birkeland
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, left, waves to the crowd accompanied by his partner, Marlon Reis, in 2019. The two were married Wednesday, marking the first same-sex marriage of a sitting governor.
Colorado Democratic Gov. Jared Polis wed his longtime partner on Wednesday, marking the first same-sex marriage of a sitting United States governor.
In 2018, Polis became the first openly gay man ever elected governor in the U.S. A decade earlier, he was the first openly gay man elected to the U.S. House.
"Over the course of Jared's career in Congress, you know, we didn't set out to be the first of anything. Things sort of happened that way," said his now-husband, Marlon Reis.
As recently as 2014, same-sex marriage was prohibited in Colorado. The U.S Supreme Court made gay marriage legal across the country in 2015.
"As I was growing up, marriage was not even in the realm of possibility," Reis said. "And in fact, the reality was that there was a lot of misinformation out there about what could potentially happen if you came out — what opportunities would you lose, how it would negatively impact you. So for a long time, the idea of getting married, we didn't talk about it."
Both men are now in their 40s. Polis noted the stereotypes that came along with being gay when he was younger.
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The couple was married Wednesday in a traditional Jewish ceremony at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
Polis and Reis decided to hold their wedding on a significant day to them personally: the 18th anniversary of their first date. They picked CU-Boulder because that's where Reis graduated from college.
"We met online and went out on a date and we went to the Boulder bookstore and then went to dinner," Polis said.
During Wednesday's ceremony, the couple's 7-year-old daughter served as the flower girl; their 9-year-old son was the ring bearer.
Polis said their daughter was probably more thrilled than anyone about the wedding.
"She was all in on being a flower girl. She's been prancing around. She got a great dress. She's terrific."
Their son was also happy, but more ambivalent about it all.
"Kids are so modern that their responses to things are sometimes funny. Our son honestly asked us, 'Why do people get married?' " Reis said.
He said he explained the legal rights afforded to married couples and that it's an "expression of the caring that you feel for one another."
Practically speaking Reis has been considered the state's first gentleman since Polis took office, but Polis said the wedding meant the world to them.
"People could say we took 18 years to get around to it, or you could say we took six years to get around to it," said Polis, counting back from the Supreme Court ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges.
"But it was great to celebrate our love for one another with our family."
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Bente Birkeland
Bente Birkeland has covered Colorado politics and government since spring of 2006. She loves the variety and challenge of the state capitol beat and talking to people from all walks of life. Bente's work has aired on NPR's Morning Edition and All Things Considered, American PublicMedia'sMarketplace, and she was a contributor for WNYC's The Next Big Thing. She has won numerous local and national awards, including best beat reporting from the Association of Capitol Reporters and Editors. Bente grew up in Minnesota and England, and loves skiing, hiking, and is an aspiring cello player. She lives in Lakewood with her husband.
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