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Die Toteninsel ist der Name von fünf Gemälden Arnold Böcklins mit dem annähernd gleichen Bildmotiv einer zypressenbestandenen Insel. Sie entstanden zwischen 1880 und 1886. Das Bildmotiv ist das wohl bekannteste des Malers und hatte zugleich eine vielfältige und andauernde Wirkungsgeschichte. Des Weiteren wird Die Toteninsel als eines der wichtigsten Werke des Symbolismus betrachtet. Von den ursprünglich fünf Versionen sind vier noch erhalten und in Museen in Basel, New York City, Berlin und Leipzig zu sehen.

Der Titel "Die Toteninsel" stammt nicht von Böcklin, sondern von seinem Kunsthändler Fritz Gurlitt, obwohl Böcklin in einem Brief selbst auch schon den Namen Toteninsel benutzte.

Bildmotiv
Die Gemälde zeigen eine steil aus dem Meer emporragende Felseninsel, die mittig mit Trauerzypressen bewachsen ist. In den Felsen sind Nischen als Grabkammern eingelassen. Auf die Insel steuert ein Nachen zu, in dem sich eine schneeweiß verhüllte stehende Gestalt, ein ebenfalls schneeweißer Sarg und ein Ruderer befinden. Die beiden Figuren wirken weiblich, was aber unbestimmt bleibt.

Die Felseninsel füllt den überwiegenden Teil des Bildes aus. In der ersten und zweiten Bildversion umgibt ein Nacht- oder später Abendhimmel die Szenerie, die aus unbestimmter Quelle etwas ausgeleuchtet ist, in den folgenden drei Versionen ist es ein Taghimmel mit drohender Wolkenkulisse. Die schmale Wasserfläche im Vordergrund ist glatt und spiegelt die Felsformationen. Die Zypressen überragen in der ersten und zweiten Version die Felsformationen deutlich, in den weiteren dagegen wenig. Einzelne bearbeitete Felsformationen bzw. Mauerteile treten aus den Braun- und Grautönen der Insel hell hervor. In der ersten, dritten und vierten Version ist das Ufer steinern eingefasst, in der fünften zeigt sich eine Art kleine Hafeneinfahrt.

Im Laufe der Zeit gab es mannigfache Spekulationen über ein reales Vorbild der dargestellten Insel. Häufig anzutreffen ist der Vergleich mit der Insel Pondikonisi vor der Küste Korfus; er ist nicht bestätigt und Böcklin war nie dort. Denkbar wäre für Olaf Metzel der erhöht liegende, felsenartige englische Friedhof in Florenz, in dessen Nähe Böcklin ein Atelier hatte. Gleichermaßen unbestätigt ist die Patenschaft der Insel Sveti Đorđe vor der Küste Montenegros. Hingegen soll Böcklin gegenüber seinem Schüler und Freund Friedrich Albert Schmidt geäußert haben, das Castello Aragonese des Alfons von Aragonien auf Ischia habe ihn zum Toteninsel-Motiv inspiriert.

Geschichte
Böcklin vollendete die erste Version im Mai 1880 auf Bestellung des Mäzens Günther Alexander, behielt diese Version allerdings. Noch während der Arbeit daran gab im April 1880 Marie Berna, Witwe von Georg Berna und spätere Gattin von Waldemar von Oriola, den Auftrag eines "Bildes zum Träumen". Böcklin fertigte ihr eine zweite Version der Toteninsel, anfangs noch ohne Sarg und die weiße Gestalt, die er aber bald in dieser und in der ersten Version ergänzte. Er nannte diese Version auch "Die Gräberinsel".

Die dritte Version entstand 1883 für Böcklins Galeristen Fritz Gurlitt. 1936 wurde diese Version auf dem Kunstmarkt angeboten und von Adolf Hitler erworben, der das Werk bewunderte. Er hängte es zunächst auf dem Berghof auf, ab 1940 in der Berliner Neuen Reichskanzlei.

Aufgrund von Geldnöten entstand 1884 eine vierte Version des erfolgreichen Sujets. Sie wurde später von dem Kunstsammler Heinrich Baron Thyssen erworben und in seiner Berliner Bankfiliale aufgehängt. Dort verbrannte sie durch einen Bombenangriff im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Es existiert von ihr nur noch eine Schwarzweiß-Fotografie.

Die fünfte Version wurde 1886 vom Museum der bildenden Künste in Leipzig bestellt, wo sie noch heute hängt.

Einordnung
Das Bild ist stark autobiographisch geprägt; das Thema Tod spielte sowohl in Böcklins Leben als auch in seinen Werken immer eine bedeutende Rolle. Er verlor acht seiner vierzehn Kinder; er erkrankte an Typhus und erlitt einen Schlaganfall. Ab der dritten Version versah Böcklin eine der Grabkammern in den Felsen mit seinen Initialen. In seinen weiteren Bildern beschäftigt er sich z. B. im Porträt der sterbenden Kleopatra und in Selbstporträt mit fiedelndem Tod mit diesem Thema.

Die morbide Atmosphäre der Toteninsel begründete schnell eine große Popularität im Fin de siècle, die bis heute angehalten hat. Einige sehen in "Die Toteninsel" einen Abgesang auf die europäische Kultur an der Schwelle zum technisierten 20. Jahrhundert. Die Bilder hatten großen Einfluss auf spätere Maler; es gibt bis heute unzählige "Neuinterpretationen".

Das Gemälde wird neben "Das Gestade der Vergessenheit" von Eugen Bracht als eines der wichtigsten Werke des Symbolismus betrachtet. Kaiser Wilhelm II. besaß eine Version von beiden Werken.

Die Lebensinsel

1888 fertigte Böcklin ein Bild mit dem Titel Die Lebensinsel. Es stellt ebenfalls eine kleine Insel dar, allerdings mit ausgelassen badenden Göttern und einigen Schwänen im Vordergrund, auf der Insel eine Gruppe einander im Reigen zugewandter Menschen und verschiedenartiger Baumbewuchs vor sommerlichem Wolkenhimmel. Es hängt im Kunstmuseum Basel, wo sich auch die erste Version der Toteninsel befindet.

Die Insel der Toten

In der Sankt Petersburger Eremitage befindet sich unter dem Titel Die Insel der Toten eine weitere Version dieses Motivs, die im Jahre 1901 von Carlo Böcklin geschaffen wurde, einem Sohn Arnold Böcklins. Es trägt die Inschrift "A. Böcklin invenit – Carlo Böcklin pinxit/1901" [lat. erfunden A. Böcklin – gemalt Carlo Böcklin/1901].

Daten der fünf Versionen
 Erste Version: Mai 1880 – Öl auf Leinwand, 111 × 155 cm; seit 1920 in der Öffentlichen Kunstsammlung im Kunstmuseum Basel.
 Zweite Version: Juni 1880 – Öl auf Holz, 74 × 122 cm; seit 1926 im Metropolitan Museum of Art New York.
 Dritte Version: 1883 – Öl auf Holz, 80 × 150 cm; seit 1980 in der Alten Nationalgalerie der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin.
 Vierte Version: 1884 – Öl auf Kupfer, 81 × 151 cm; in Berlin während des Zweiten Weltkrieges zerstört.
 Fünfte Version: 1886 – Öl auf Holz, 80 × 150 cm; seit 1886 im Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig.

Rezeption

Klassische Musik
Knapp dreißigmal ist Arnold Böcklins "Toteninsel" vertont worden, so oft wie kaum ein anderes Gemälde.
 Heinrich Schulz-Beuthen: Die Toteninsel, Sinfonische Dichtung (1890)
 Andreas Hallén: Die Toteninsel, Sinfonische Dichtung für großes Orchester op. 45 (ca. 1898)
 Karl Weigl: Toteninsel, Fantasie für Klavier (1903)
 Sergei Rachmaninow: Die Toteninsel, Tondichtung für großes Orchester op. 29 (1909); die mit Abstand bekannteste Vertonung.
 Felix Woyrsch: Die Toteninsel; Nr. 1 aus Drei Böcklin-Fantasien für großes Orchester op. 53 (1910)
 Fritz Lubrich: Die Toteninsel, Nr. 3 (1912) aus Drei romantische Tonstücke für die Orgel (nach Arnold Böcklin'schen Bildern) op. 37
 Max Reger: Die Toteninsel, Nr. 3 (1913) aus Vier Tondichtungen nach A. Böcklin op. 128; sein Schüler Fritz Lubrich jun. komponierte im selben Jahr "Drei romantische Tonstücke nach Böcklinschen Bildern" für Orgel op. 37 (Nr. 3: Toteninsel).

Literatur
 Heinrich Mann: Die Göttinnen. Die Insel wird hier beschrieben, allerdings wird der Name des Bildes nicht erwähnt und es handelt sich auch nicht um eine Bildbeschreibung.
 Friedrich Dürrenmatt: Der Richter und sein Henker. Im Zimmer eines Verschwundenen hängt das besagte Bild. Es dient hier wie in unzähligen anderen Adaptionen als Vorbote von Unheil.
 Kai Meyer: Die Alchimistin. Der Familienstammsitz der Protagonistin ist dem Gemälde nachempfunden. Im Roman behauptet eine Figur, sie habe Böcklin den Auftrag gegeben, das Schloss Institoris zu malen und es "Die Toteninsel" zu nennen.
 Thomas Lehr: Nabokovs Katze. Hier wird die Toteninsel in einem Krankenzimmer aufgehängt.
 August Strindberg: Die Geistersonate. Am Ende des Stückes erscheint die Toteninsel im Hintergrund, begleitet von sanfter, ruhiger und leicht melancholischer Musik.
 Lena Falkenhagen: Die Boroninsel. Die auf dem Titelbild abgebildete namensgebende Insel ist sehr offensichtlich an die fünfte Version des Gemäldes angelehnt, wie auch der Romantitel in der Fantasywelt, in der die Erzählung spielt, ein Synonym des Bildtitels ist.
 Richard Voß: Die Todteninsel. Durch das Bild inspirierte Zeitschriften-Novelle, spielt in der Zeit der Christenverfolgung im alten Rom.
 Christian Kracht: Imperium. Das Gemälde hängt hinter dem Schreibtisch der Gouverneursresidenz, wird mehrmals erwähnt und gilt sicher als Analogie zur Insel Engelhardts, dem Protagonisten des Romans und einsamen Helden auf seiner "paradiesischen" Insel.
 Gerhard Meier: Toteninsel. Roman, Zytglogge Verlag 1979. Die erste Version des Gemäldes im Kunstmuseum Basel findet Eingang in die Erzählwelt des Autors.
 Kyung-Sook Shin: I'll be right there: a novel. An mehreren Stellen wird auf das Bild verwiesen, an einer Stelle genau beschrieben.

Film
Neben Kurzfilmen, die zumeist die Fahrt zur Toteninsel thematisieren, dient das Bild in I Walked with a Zombie (1943) zur Verdeutlichung des oben Genannten. Man sieht es sehr deutlich in einer Nachtszene über dem Bett der Hauptdarstellerin platziert.

Im Film Isle of the Dead (1945) thematisierte Val Lewton, der Produzent von I Walked with a Zombie, die Toteninsel noch ein weiteres Mal. Zu Beginn des Films ist eine der Gemälde-Versionen während der Titeleinblendungen zu sehen. Der ganze Film spielt auf einer griechischen Insel – die Filmkulisse ist ein Nachbau von Böcklins Gemälde. Die Pest hat eine Gruppe von Menschen auf der Insel eingeschlossen, die meisten von ihnen kommen zu Tode. General Pherides (gespielt von Boris Karloff) rudert am Anfang mit einem Nachen auf die Insel und entspricht so der Fährmannsgestalt auf Böcklins Bildern.

Auch im Science-Fiction-Film Alien: Covenant (2017) von Ridley Scott wird Böcklins Bild zitiert. Die Felseninsel mit Zypressen ist darin ein Garten in einer Nekropole, in dem der Androide David die verstorbene Dr. Elisabeth Shaw begraben haben will.

Malerei

 Mit einer 1890 von Max Klinger geschaffenen Radierung von Die Toteninsel wollte Böcklins Galerist Fritz Gurlitt einen Verkaufserfolg erzielen.
 Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach schuf um 1905 eine Hommage an sein Vorbild Böcklin.
 Salvador Dalí malte 1932 eine surrealistische Landschaft mit dem Titel Das wahre Bild der Toteninsel Arnold Böcklins zur Stunde des Angelus.
 1977 zeichnete der Schweizer Künstler HR Giger seine Hommage an Böcklin. In dem Bild wird die Toteninsel im giger-typischen, biomechanischen Stil gezeigt.
 Der französische Regisseur Patrice Chéreau ließ sich in seiner berühmten Bayreuther Inszenierung von Richard Wagners Der Ring des Nibelungen ("Jahrhundertring", in der Fassung von 1980) beim Bühnenbild zum Walkürenfelsen (Die Walküre, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung) erkennbar von Böcklins Toteninsel inspirieren.
 Der deutsche Maler Michael Sowa schuf 1992 eine Parodie auf das Gemälde Böcklins. In seiner Version fällt die weißgekleidete Gestalt wild mit den Armen rudernd rücklings vom Boot.

Comic
 Der italienische Comiczeichner Gipi hat eine Alltagsversion der Toteninsel aquarelliert, die in seinem Blog zu betrachten ist.
 Der Comic Die Toteninsel von Guillaume Sorel (Zeichnungen) und Thomas Mosdi (Szenario) vermischt das Motiv der Toteninsel mit Elementen des Cthulhu-Mythos von H. P. Lovecraft.
 In dem Anime Kuroshitsuji wird die Toteninsel als Ort der Übergabe von Ciels Seele an Sebastian gezeigt.
 Das Werk wird in den Ausgaben 224 & 225 (2000) des italienischen Comics Martin Mystère thematisiert. Das Cover der 224. Ausgabe ist eine Hommage an Böcklins Die Toteninsel.

Literatur
 Bernd Wolfgang Lindemann, Katharina Schmidt (Redaktion): Arnold Böcklin. Anlässlich der Ausstellung "Arnold Böcklin – eine Retrospektive" in Basel, Paris und München 2001–2002. Hrsg. von der Öffentlichen Kunstsammlung Basel/Kunstmuseum und den Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen/Neue Pinakothek München. Edition Braus, Heidelberg 2001, ISBN 3-926318-97-X. S. 260–265
 Franz Zelger: Arnold Böcklin. Die Toteninsel. Selbstheroisierung und Abgesang der abendländischen Kultur. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag. Frankfurt am Main 1991. ISBN 3-596-10514-5
 Der Traum vom Süden und vom Tod. Arnold Böcklin: Die Toteninsel. 1880. in: Rose-Marie u. Rainer Hagen. Meisterwerke europäischer Kunst als Dokumente ihrer Zeit erklärt. "Warum trägt die Göttin einen Landsknechtshut?" Dumont 1984. S. 308–320. ISBN 3-7701-1537-6
 The Metropolitan Museum of Art: German Masters of the Nineteenth Century. Paintings and Drawings from the Federal Republik of Germany. Harry N. Abrams, New York 1981, ISBN 0-87099-263-5

Weblinks

 Die Toteninsel in der Online-Datenbank der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin.
 Website des Malers Pascal Lecocq, der über Jahrzehnte alles sammelt, was mit der "Toteninsel" zusammenhängt. Er nennt es "eine Art Wikitoteninsel".
 Beschreibung und Deutung "Die Toteninsel"

Einzelnachweise

Gemälde (19. Jahrhundert)
1880er
Gemälde von Arnold Böcklin
Gemälde des Metropolitan Museum of Art
Alte Nationalgalerie
Kunstmuseum Basel
Tod in der Malerei
Landschaftsmalerei
Nachtstück


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With the latest release of Wrangler Enterprise, our team drew upon our experience working with large-scale enterprise customers such as Kaiser Permanente, PepsiCo and Royal Bank of Scotland and their needs transitioning data wrangling projects from early exploratory phases into production pipelines. Our initial success in powering data preparation initiatives for customers leads to an expansion of use across the organization and in turn, brings a new set of enterprise requirements around self-service scheduling, manageability and collaboration. This expansion also brings new users and use cases to the platform that need additional flexibility in generating samples and defining higher-level wrangling tasks that are commonly repeated. It's a great sign when customer success and expanded use accelerates the maturation of your product forward and we couldn't be more pleased with the direction our customers are pushing us.
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Joseph E Stiglitz
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Grain is loaded aboard ships in a port on the Parana River near Rosario, Argentina on August 28, 2020. File Photo: Reuters
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Given the mess that Argentinian President Alberto Fernandez's government inherited in late 2019, it appears to have achieved an economic miracle. From the third quarter of 2020 to the third quarter of 2021, GDP growth reached 11.9 percent, and is now estimated to have been 10 percent for 2021 while employment and investment have recovered to levels above those when Fernandez took office. The country's public finances have also improved. There has been significant growth in exports too, following the implementation of development policies designed to foster growth in the tradable sector.
Despite this significant progress in the real economy, the financial media has chosen to focus wholly on issues such as country risk and the exchange-rate gap. But those problems are hardly surprising. Financial markets are looking at the mountain of IMF-furnished debt coming due. Given the enormous size of the loan that needs to be refinanced, an agreement that merely extends the amortisation timeline from 4.5 to 10 years is hardly sufficient to alleviate Argentina's debt worries.
Cleaning up the previous government's financial mess will take years. The next big challenge is to reach an agreement with the IMF over the Macri-era debt. The Fernandez government has signalled that it is open to any programme that does not undermine economic recovery and increases poverty. Though everyone should know by now that austerity is counterproductive, some influential IMF member states may still push for it.
The irony is that the same countries that always insist on the need for "confidence" could undermine confidence in Argentina's recovery. Will they be willing to go along with a programme that does not entail austerity? In a world still battling Covid-19, no democratic government can or should accept such conditions.
Joseph E Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate in economics, is professor at Columbia University and a member of the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation.
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Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)
In 2008, COMESA agreed to including members of two other African trade blocs:
COMESA is a free trade area with twenty-one member states stretching from Tunisia to Eswatini. It was established in December 1994, replacing a Preferential Trade Area. COMESA is one of the pillars of the African Economic Community.
Rwanda and Burundi joined the FTA in 2004
Nine of the member states formed a free trade area in 2000 (Kenya, Djibouti, Egypt, Madagascar, Malawi, Sudan, Mauritius, Zambia and Zimbabwe).
Seychelles in 2009
Comoros and Libya in 2006
Tunisia and Somalia in 2018
The East African Community (EAC)
The Southern Africa Development Community (SADC).
Secretariat Zambia Lusaka, Zambia
Official languages English, French, Portuguese
Membership 21 Member States
Agreement Signed - 5 November 1993
Ratified - 8 December 1994
COMESA Authority The COMESA Authority, composes of Heads of States or Government and it is COMESA's supreme policy-making organ.
The COMESA Council of Ministers
COMESA Court of Justice The COMESA Court of Justice decisions have preference over any decisions of national courts.


NYC Major Michael Bloomberg has proposed a ban on sugary drinks over 16oz at restaurants, street vendors, sports venues, and movie theaters. The goal is to help lower the $4 billion a year the New York City Health Department spends on health care for obese residents. Yes, $4 BILLION a year just on overweight people. It's so bad that 5,000 people have died from obesity related issues and will soon exceed the number of smoking deaths. Too bad this bill will do nothing to solve the problem.
I came across that quote a couple of years ago when I was starting to learn about free market economics and why Government being involved with anything, especially health care is a bad thing. The test is if you can think of at least two problems that are now created due to the solution the Govt thought up. So lets see what this B- student can come up with.
Free Refills – Don't most restaurants do this already? I'm sure the movie theaters and sports venues can implement something like this for an extra $.50.
Buy Unlimited Amounts Of 12oz Cans – Ok, so I can't buy a 16oz bottle of pop but I can still buy three 12oz cans of pop, right?
Thats it. I found two problems that arise from this. What's dumber is those two things were already available to get around the 16oz rule. No creative marketing techniques even need to be thought up. This is another example of the Government trying to give their best intentions to "help" the people out but unfortunately it does nothing. There really is only one solution to help lower the $4 billion in costs that the New York City Health Department spends on obese residents and that is to eliminate the New York City Health Department.
What blows my mind is to think that they are realizing how big of a problem they have now at $4 billion a year. I wonder if it was as big (no pun intended) of a problem at $1 billion or even $10 million a year. The one thing I've been starting to pick up on is whenever Government has a problem the only solution is "We need more money. If we only had another $100 million we'd be able to fix the problem." What about the previous $100 million?
I wonder how quickly things would change if there wasn't money available to the obese residents for hospital visits or pills that don't do anything? I'm guessing the people would be forced to change their habits. There are hundreds of free articles on the internet that show how to cook and how to make basic workout routines that maybe only involve walking. Isn't that how Jared from Subway did it? They wouldn't even have to spend money buying the P90X workout or Shakeology to get their weight under control. Just walk. Problem solved.


Well, not together at the same time.
Because that'd be awkward – mainly for me. And probably a little for him.
He would talk about Olympic Gold and Silver medals and Olympic opening ceremonies…and I would talk about plastic trophies from junior ski racing when I was 8 years old. Really not entirely equal.
Thus, we're talking separately – in two unique sessions. But together, we're still considered part of the top five reasons to attend.
This will be the third year I've presented at the ANT+ Symposium. It's my opportunity to talk to all of the sports technology companies out there*, and tell them what you want. I also get to talk about all sorts of cool ideas and where I think the industry is going.
Which, essentially means – anything I darn well want.
Actually, no, I've got a really cool well defined outline for this year – with a new twist on things from past years. I'm going to tackle some of the areas where I think companies continue to falter (both in hard product, as well as customer service). It's gonna be good!
If you want to check out last years presentation to get the flavor of things – I've linked to it below.
In the past I've tried to rig up some sort of live way for you to watch me and haven't entirely been successful due to interweb issues. I'll see what I can pull off this year.
For those companies that will be at the ANT+ Symposium in a little under two weeks, definitely schedule a bit of time – I'd love to talk (NDA's are fine). Historically, I've had meetings (formal or otherwise) literally from 7AM until near-midnight – so I definitely want to get you on the schedule (and preferably not a timeslot at 3AM, as The Girl might become suspicious…).
I'll pay you 2 beers in Brussels if you tell them that a usability expert is not just a cost but really improves their product.
"Really not entirely equal." Don't sell yourself short. You are at least as (if not more)"famous" than he is. I didn't even know the name until I read this post.
please ask the ANT+-guys to let users pair at least two HR-transmitters with one watch. Some people may have one transmitter in their sports bag etc. and another one eg. at home.
You've started just fine: "…Me and Simon…" Simon has done his job well in triathlon, but you are NUMBER ONE on this field! I can hardly wait for your posts and I guess I am not the only one! So it's just a respect you deserve!
I would like to link the new Garmin tempe Wireless Temperature Sensor and get ambient temperature and transmit the data wirelessly to my Forerunner 910XT. This would be great for runners as temperature affects performance as I would attach it to my shoe. So far the 910XT is not listed as a compatible device. I believe the tempe uses the ANT+ protocol, so it should be practical to enable communication between the Forerunner 910XT and the new tempe Wireless Temperature Sensor.
You have touched on this before: I would like to have the ability to have multiple user profiles on my watch.
Thanks for posting last years presentation it was really interesting getting an overview of the people that read your blog,their opinions,concerns and the different requirements for different types of athletes. I look forward to viewing this years presentation!
To add on to above with the temp sensor shouldn't the baro altimeter have a temp sensor on board to help correct it? wouldn't it be easy to add that to the data it collects?
Re the last question – you can get temp without tempe, it's just that the temp on the watch is bad at best. In my testing thus far, it rarely reflects reality – especially colder temperatures where the skin/body heat radiating out drives it quite a bit.
Another area that I believe that fitness companies need to look at is to allow more ANT+ devices to link to fitness equipment. This would bridge the gap between indoor and outdoor fitness activities so you can track and store data from a treadmill run or a spin bike workout.
Presently Garmin has agreements with a very limited number of compatible brands, however not with most of the top-end treadmills. I recently purchased a Precor 9.35 treadmill, however I have to use my Garmin footpod and heart monitor to track my workouts. I cannot link the heart monitor to the treadmill display unless I wear both the Garmin, a Polar heart monitors.
How do you see the temperature from the 910XT? I found it on the diagnostic screen, but I don't know how to see it for activities.
Oh, sorry, I thought you were asking about/referring to Fenix. Sorry for the confusion!
The biggest problem for me is that the phones mostly don't support Ant+ only a handful of current phones do and just about all of those are from SonyEricsson. Sony appears to be holding back on Ant+. If Ant+ doesn't make it into the phones soon I predict Bluetooth 4 will be taking over as the protocol for health and fitness sensors. The phone market is a really strong driver as it does things that watches and head units wont be doing for he forseeable future like music, spoken audio notifications and cell data connections for upload and maps. Protocol separation is bad news for consumers because we will end up replacing our sensors and head units for the wrong reason. They should be replaced for new functionality, not differing protocols. And worse, we risk a protocol war for 5-10 years that severly holds back the segment.
I find you to be the perfect spokesperson to represent me in my quest to find the ideal race/training solutions. I loved the 2011 41min ANT+ symposium presentation!
I value my tools and use/promote them daily. If my race/training tool dies on me or becomes obsolete because a communication protocol is pushed aside, then I'll just stop using said tools.
I know I wish for perfection, but if they build it, they will come! (at least I will). I'm still looking for a cell phone training computer replacement (I fear my zip lock protected cell phone will not survive the Spartan race).
I'm even taking May and June off to train for Spartan. Heck, I need the break anyway! So I need a water loving cell phone replacement solution to help me attain my race goals.
Thank you for being you and I cannot wait to read your comments and new reviews!
Unfortunately, the watches are somewhat few and far between as it stands now. The underwater requirement and integrated GPS really narrows it down to only a few options: FR310XT/FR910XT, Timex Global Trainer/Run Trainer, Garmin Fenix.
The TGT/310XT/910XT are all too big to wear as day watches. The TRT2 and Fenix though are acceptable day watches, though both slightly big. Check out both those reviews for whether either might work. Enjoy!


5. Then Peter said, Lo, we have left all; and followed Thee. And He said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the Kingdom of God's sake, who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting (Luke, 18: 28-30).
6. And another also said, Lord, I will follow thee; but let me first go bid them farewell which are at home at my house. And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back is fit for the Kingdom of God (Luke, 9: 61 & 62).
Here, without arguing about words, we should look for the thought behind them which quite evidently was: The interests of the future life should take precedence over all other interests and human considerations. This thought is in accordance with the substance of the doctrine as taught by Jesus, whereas the idea of renouncing one's family would be a frank denial of this teaching.
Moreover, do we not have these maxims in mind when we consider the sacrifice of our interests and family affections for those of our homeland? Do we, by chance, censure those who leave their parents, brothers and sisters, wives and children in order to fight for their country? On the contrary, do they not gain in merit for having given up their homes and families in order to fulfill their duty? This then is because there are some duties which are greater than others. Does not the law impose that the daughter leave her parents in order to follow her husband? The world is full of thousands of cases in which painful separation is necessary. Nevertheless, affections are not broken because of this. These temporary separations do not diminish either the respect or the solicitude that children owe to their parents, nor the affection of these parents for their children. Therefore we see that even if we take these words literally, with the exception of the word hate, they would not be a contradiction of the commandment which prescribes that Man honours his father and mother, nor that of parental affections; and would certainly not be if they were understood in their spiritual meaning. These words had the finality then of showing through overstatement, how imperious is the duty of occupying oneself with the future life. Besides, they would have been less shocking for a people in an epoch in which, as a consequence of their customs, family ties were not so strong as they are within a society which is morally more advanced. These ties, always weak in primitive peoples, fortify themselves with the development of sensitivity and a sense of morality. Nevertheless, separation is necessary for progress. Without it families and races would become degenerate if there were no intermingling of different strains. This is a law of nature, and is as much in the interests of moral progress as it is for physical progress.
Here things are considered purely from the earthly point of view. Spiritism makes us look higher by showing us that the real ties of affection are not of the flesh but of the Spirit, and that these ties do not break with separation, nor even through the death of the physical body. In fact they become more robust in the spiritual life by means of the cleansing of the Spirit. This knowledge is a consoling truth from which great strength can be gained by all beings to help them support the vicissitudes of life (See chapter 4, item 18 and chapter 14, item 8).


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My Little Pony: Equestria Girls Legend of Everfree Movie is sequel of 2015's My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Friendship Games and this is the fourth installment in the Equestria Girls film franchise.
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Video Conversations: Using Customer Feedback to Increase App Revenue
By: Robi Ganguly. September 1, 2012
We recently recorded a two part conversation with Ryan Morel of PlacePlay about how app developers can increase their app revenue through customer feedback and communications.
We covered a whole host of issues and tactics, here's the first part of the interview, talking about the basics about what we've built and the benefits that developers are seeing:
In the second part of the interview we dug into more of the ways in which customers who you connect with become evangelists, how we eliminate shipping app updates to fiddle with settings and survey changes and why customer lifetime values climb when you have real relationships.
Here's a full transcript of the conversation:
Ryan: Hi. Today, we're here with Robi Ganguly from Apptentive. So thanks for joining us, Robi.
Robi: Happy to be here. Good to see you again, Ryan.
Ryan: Yep. So before we get started, why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself and what Apptentive does.
Robi: Sure. So, a little bit about myself and my background. I spent a bunch of time in Silicon Valley working for some of the big tech companies, most recently, Yahoo, where I was responsible for display advertising. And I had a bunch of experience with marketers and advertisers, as they were thinking about how to use the Internet and digital channels to talk to their customers. And then, after that, I actually did some work for Del Monte and Nike, with similar strategies around talking with their customers. Which leads us to what we're building with Apptentive, which is really a tool for anybody developing apps on iOS, Android, and Mac OS10, to talk to their customers in their apps. You know, set STKs for them to do that. We think it's just really important to have a relationship with your customers in the digital age.
Ryan: So, if I understand this correctly, you guys do two relatively specific things. So, one, you help developers get better reviews, and then the second thing is to communicate directly with consumers for feedback, relationship, et cetera. Is that fair to say?
Robi: Yes, absolutely. The ratings and reviews part is relatively straightforward, in terms of we give them tools that make it easy to prompt in their app to identify if customers are happy and they're enjoying it, and then to prompt those people who are happy and enjoying the app to actually go to the App Store and say something wonderful about them. The flip side of that is making sure that the customers are having a great experience. So if they're not really 100% in love with your app yet, that they get a chance to talk to that developer, and so the net result of that is your ratings and reviews are wonderful and you have a channeled action talk with people who, instead, would have gone to the App Store and ranted.
And then that second piece of really getting feedback is… A lot of apps have a "contact us" or support button, we power that and our SDKs present a native ballot box where you can solicit that feedback from an end customer and then you can also, when you get feedback from them, see the context of the device that they're on–the carrier, OS, Virgin–and any other data that you choose to attach. So as a result, when you get feedback from a customer, it's really rich because you understand their situation and the environment.
And finally, we also allow you to really structure some of that feedback through the use of surveys in your app, so that makes it very easy for the end customer to give feedback. It's basically tapable responses in a survey ballot box in the app, so that they're invested in the end customer's investment and telling you more about what's going on in their experience is 10-15 seconds, which then leads to a higher participation rate.
Ryan: App Store review rants have long been a problem for app developers, and specifically their inability to go back to that customer and help them solve that need. So it sounds like your solution helps prevent those App Store review rants and provides consumers and developers a channel of communication that they didn't otherwise have before.
Robi: Yeah. That's right. I think one of the things that we heard early on, when we started building Apptentive, was that it was super frustrating to go through the App Store and see somebody complain and then see an anonymous username. We actually heard from many developers that they'd Google those usernames and see if they could figure out a Twitter account or Facebook account in order to get in contact with them, which just really tells you how frustrated they are about not being able to go address those concerns.
I think we know, pretty obviously, at this point that on the Internet, anonymity leads to a lot more extremism in terms of comments–a lot more yelling, ranting and raving. And so, what we've done, by creating this rating and review process that helps qualify how somebody feels, is that we end up intercepting the rants that people who were going to go to the App Store and really shout, instead come directly to the developer. And as a result of being able to come to the developer and the developer being able to respond, the dialogue goes from this extremist yelling and screaming to an actual constructive dialogue. And we hear a lot of developers telling us about situations where the initial contact from a customer was really vitriolic–somebody was really angry–and then as soon as the developer responded back and said, "I'm sorry, are you having trouble?" The person toned it down and they got to a place where they were able to actually discuss something cordially and worked constructively to make the app better, together.
Ryan: Obviously, one of the big benefits you guys are providing is preventing developers from stalking consumers, so that's a good thing. And so, the other thing I heard you say was that you provide a way for consumers to feel engaged in the process of the app development. So the app developer becomes kind of like a partner instead of a supplier. So maybe, you could talk a little bit about how you've seen those close relationships affect consumers' engagement within an app and with the company?
Robi: Yeah. I think that it's a really simple thing. It's very, very easy to understand if you think about yourself as a consumer in daily life. When you come across a situation that doesn't make sense to you or you're frustrated, if you have the ability to raise your hand and talk about what's going on and you feel hurt. Just by feeling hurt, I think, as a consumer, it changes the tenor in the relationship with whoever you're dealing with. Whether that's me going to Starbucks and getting the wrong drink and then telling them that I got the wrong thing and that he fixes it for me without a hassle, or it's in the app, knowing that my opinion matters, right?
And then I'm actually giving you insight into what it's like to use my app because it's very hard, as an app developer, as anybody creating a piece of software, truly stepping into the shoes of the end consumer. And so this partnership is great for the developer as well, because they can really get advice and an understanding about what they thought it was going to do and then how it's actually being used. So, just like you said, there's this partnership in terms of making the app better, together.
Ryan: And I would assume, as a result of that, that some of those detractors end up becoming promoters?
Robi: That's actually 100% correct. That's the coolest thing. Developers, anecdotally, will come to us and say, "So and so came in. There were very upset. We went back and forth. I pushed out an update to the app. I told that person explicitly, that had complained, I pushed out an update and I listened to you." And then shortly thereafter, that consumer becomes a person who is an evangelist–someone who's on Twitter and Facebook sharing it with their friends. But one of the coolest things about this is actually hearing the stories where an end customer, now, because they have this relationship with the developer, will start using the developer's name.
Like, "I was talking with Robi about their app. They responded. You should use this app, it's amazing." And so, it's a way to really cut through that wall of the piece of software between you, to develop that relationship that then extends into the real world.
Ryan: Can you summarize what the really big benefits, for app developers are, of using Apptentive?
Robi: Sure. So there are a few things that people really are enjoying today, as a result. So the first thing is, the big problem with App Store is that Microsoft, Google, Apple–they own the customer relationship—and so as a result, by default, you as a developer don't know who those customers are. Now, using us soliciting feedback, you develop relationships. You understand the email address. You understand the usage patterns. You have a way to dialogue with these people on a regular basis.
So that's number one–direct customer relationships. Number two is better ratings and reviews. So, by and large, when people use our rating systems, they see increases in volumes and more ratings and reviews–50 to 100% more. And then they see increases in those actual ratings–another star or more. In fact, we see a lot of app developers, once they use us, get their ratings pegged pretty close to five stars, and the reviews take on a totally different tone. So people use words like "love" when they're describing your app and that's amazing to have in the App Store. And then the final thing is, because you have this dialogue and you're engaging with your customers and you're learning and you're making the app better, your retention rate goes up.
Ryan: Do you guys do any analytics to identify what the best time is to promote, like a review or a rating feedback? Are you guys doing that right now?
Robi: Yes. So, what we have is, in our ratings prompt, everything's instrumented so we can understand when it's shown and then what the result is. So, we asked this question, "Do you love this app" whatever the app name is and we have all the data around when it's shown, who clicks "yes" and who clicks "no" at each point in time.
We deliver that in our dashboard to you, so that you as an app developer can understand what's happening with your existing settings but, importantly, the settings are all server-driven so, without having to ship an update to your app, you can act on that insight into what's happening and change the settings of when you're prompting and the end customer can answer that question. And, with our surveys, we also have it instrumented, and with our feedback it's also instrumented. So, our goal is to make you, as an app developer, much smarter about interactions and the results of when you're trying to interact with somebody because the worst thing you can do is be clumsy about it and end up hurting your app. So, that's why we track all that data and present it to you.
Ryan: We all know that any app developer can hard code a question to ask their user, to review their app. That doesn't cost very much. So, why would an app developer, essentially, pay you guys to handle that for them?
Robi: What we see when developers hard code that stuff in is that they don't understand what's actually happening. They haven't instrumented it, so they don't know, for example, how many times a customer has actually seen that prompt. You don't know how many people are then clicking and going to that app store and reading it. The lack of data around that, plus the fact that you have to ship an update to your app, results in a really long cycle time around trying to figure out the appropriate time to ask somebody this question and making sure that only people who actually love your app are going to the app store and giving you a good review, as opposed to coming to you.
What we do, is we instrument that process. We ask the qualifying question, "Do you love this app" which ends up resulting in most people who are unhappy with your app coming directly to you. That's this notion of intercepting negative feedback that really is occurring across all of our developers. Also, importantly, because we've instrumented this and we're presenting it in this dashboard and we tell you and people are saying, "Yes. I love this app versus anything else," and because it's connected to the server for settings, that developer can, today, launch an app with settings around what they're prompting and then, tomorrow, change those settings without having to ship an update to the app.
So, that cycle of really getting very specific to your customer base about when you're prompting them and trying to get as many happy customers as possible, goes from taking 6 to 12 months with not very much data to three to four weeks with tons of accurate data about all the activity around this. So, that benefit is a real reason why people are using this pegged because they have an insight into every step of the process and they don't have to ship an update into the app store.
Ryan: Outside of the fact that they're getting all this data and reporting, which is fantastic, it sounds like it's like they're paying you just because they don't have to do updates.
Robi: Yes. I think one of the biggest smiles I get when I talk to people about our service is that we're pretty focused on this idea that any time we can remove shipping updates to your app, in the process, we will, because people, in particular in the Apple ecosystem, are terrified of having to wait two weeks for the review process and that's slowing down the development. So, we move that ahead.
Ryan: Can you provide any specific examples about developers who are using you who have made improvements to their app, based on the feedback they've gotten?
Robi: Absolutely. Here in town, there's a great team of developers working on an iOS app called Chewsy, and Chewsy really helps you understand dishes at specific restaurants. Using their app, you can rate and review specific dishes and take pictures. So, it's a pretty wonderful way to explore a menu through other people's eyes and get really good data about what you should be ordering. One of the problems they run into is that, in markets where they don't have a ton of coverage, so, for example, let's say, Kansas City. If they don't have a lot of users, they say that's a great experience with any customer isn't as good as it is here in Seattle. They've been using us to collect feedback and get insight from their end customers about what that experience is like and then how they would expect that experience to look, when there is volume and that's allowed them to iterate on their product and really deliver something that is making more of their customers around the world happy. And it's something they couldn't have done just through metrics and analysis. They have to actually go talk to the customers in these different markets.
Ryan: And we talked about communicating with consumers is a really powerful tool for app developers. Do you have any examples of developers using you who have seen their revenue, ultimately, increase after integrating your SDK?
Robi: Absolutely. The easiest way to think about us is the idea that your app store page is really your storefront. As a result, consumers, when they're shopping, think about downloading an app or buying an app. They're looking at your storefront before they make that decision. The thing that they look at, most often, are the ratings and reviews. That's what's dynamic. Your description is important and screenshots are important. They certainly help, but thanks to Amazon and many others over the past decade, we've really been trained to look at what other consumers are saying about something. It helps us sort through all the noise, and as a result of having much better ratings in terms of higher volume ratings, as well as higher star ratings, people are more likely to download your app.
So, we hear from developers, of both free and paid apps, that they're seeing more downloads, that the conversion rate of people who are seeing their apps page is just going up, that more people who see that app store page are downloading. Then, as a result, there's a boost in revenue because you have more people using your app and they're happier, as well, because you're making a better app.
I think, over the long run, what we're also seeing is that when you have relationships with customers, particularly if you're in a free-to-play game, or something like that, you have that relationship and people trust you and they develop a relationship with you, they're more likely to stay in your app. So, retention is really big. That difference between having a customer for a month versus 6 or 12 months, is massive from a revenue perspective, and we're hearing from companies on a regular basis that's true.
Ryan: So, it's not only increasing initial downloads, but it's increasing the retention levels and, ultimately, the lifetime value of the consumer.
Robi: Yes. Absolutely. And I think a really big point here, that a lot of folks don't necessarily understand right off the bat is that trust is key to having lots of commercial transactions, whether or not you're buying a car from somebody or you're buying a latte. If you trust the business you're dealing with, you're more comfortable spending money with them and that's happening in the app space incredibly fast.
Ryan: OK. Is there anything else you want to talk about before we go?
Robi: Just, the main thing is it's really an exciting time to be an app developer. We have more customers signing on every day, and we get to talk to them about their businesses and are pretty fortunate to see across the landscape and businesses that never existed before are now springing to life because of this personal device that everybody has in their pocket. It's pretty wonderful.
Ryan: Great. So, before we sign off, tell everybody how they can find you and learn more about Apptentive.
Robi: Just surf to our website, www.Apptentive.com, you can find us on Twitter at@Apptentive as well.
Ryan: All right. Thanks a lot, Robi.
Robi: Thanks, Ryan.
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Juan Pablo Perez Castillo, born in Caracas, Venezuela and now living in Bethesda, Maryland (USA), has a masters and doctorate degrees in economics (with honors) from Tulane University (New Orleans, La. USA), as well as a doctorate in law (with honors) also from Tulane University. He is presently doing research and consultancy in economics and finance. He resigned and later retired from the Inter-American Development Bank (Washington), after managing its technical cooperation operations for 13 years, having being Director General for Operations in the OPEC Fund (Vienna) for 2 years, Executive Director representing Venezuela and other countries in the Board of Directors of the IADB for 6 years, and founding member in the Board of Directors of the Venezuelan Investment Fund (1974/75).
Before these full time activities, he had been Professor of Development Planning at Central University of Venezuela in Caracas for 4 years and Professor of Economics and Planning for 10 years at the University's postgraduate Center for Development Studies (CENDES), while also participating in several research projects on the venezuelan economy, using computer models. As head of the Group of Mathematical Models, he coordinated the publication of the research project Estilos de Desarrollo (3v) in 1971, which studied three long-term (30 years) development strategies (styles) of the venezuelan economy.
He is also the author of many studies and articles on planning and development, including problems with the economic development of Venezuela during the last 10 years. He was visiting professor at the Universities of Tulane, Puerto Rico, Guadalajara, El Colegio de Mexico and in Venezuela the Universities of Merida and Zulia; in addition to having been lecturer in several post-graduate seminars in and out of Venezuela; and consultant to several public national and international agencies (Planning, Public Works, Communications, Foreign Trade Institute, Corporacion de Los Andes, UN, OLADE).
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Amduat (staroegipčansko jmj dwꜣt, dobesedno "Tisto, kar je v onem svetu", prevaja se tudi kot  "Besedilo skrite sobe v podzemnem svetu" in  "Knjiga o tistem, kar je podzemni svet", arabsko كتاب الآخرة,  Kitab al-Akhira) je pomembno staroegipčansko pogrebno besedilo iz Novega kraljestva. Kot številna druga pogrebna besedila je bil tudi Amduat napisan  v notranjosti faraonove grobnice. Za razliko od drugih pogrebnih besedil je bil rezerviran samo za faraone, do Enaindvajsete dinastije skoraj izključno, ali zelo pomembno plemstvo.

Amduat pripoveduje zgodbo o Raju, egipčanskemu bogu sonca, ki potuje po podzemlju od trenutka, ko sonce zaide na zahodu do trenutka, ko  ponovno vzide na vzhodu. Besedilo pravi, da isto pot opravi tudi mrtvi faraon, da bi se na koncu združil z Rajem in živel večno.

Podzemlje je razdeljeno na dvanajst nočnih ur, od katerih vsaka predstavlja različne zaveznike in sovražnike, s katerimi se lahko sreča faraon/bog sonca. Amduat poimenuje vse te bogove in pošasti. Glavni namen Amduata je povedati vsa ta imena duhu mrtvega faraona, da  jih lahko pokliče na pomoč ali uporabi njihovo ime, da jih premaga.

Poleg naštevanja in poimenovanja prebivalcev Duata, dobrih in slabih, ilustracije dela jasno kažejo topografijo podzemlja. Najstarejša popolna različica Amduata je bila najdena v KV34, grobnici Tutmoza III.  v Dolini kraljev.

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V 1. uri bog prestopi zahodno obzorje, ki je prehod med dnevom in nočjo.

V 2. in 3. uri preči obsežno vodovje, imenovano  'Vernes' in 'Ozirisove vode'.

V 4. uri doseže Imhet, težavno peščeno Sokarjevo kraljestvo, kjer naleti na temne sikcakaste poti. Za prehod se mora pogajati. Boga zvlečejo na kačji čoln.

V 5. uri odkrije Ozirisov grob, ograjen prostor, pod katerim je skrito ognjeno jezero. Grob prekriva piramidi podobna gomila, identificirana z boginjo Izido. Na njenem vrhu sta Izida in Neftida v obliki škarjarjev (sokolov).

V 6. uri se zgodi najpomembnejši dogodek na potovanju v podzemlju. Ba (duša) Raja se združi z njegovim lastnim telesom (ali z Ozirisovo ba) v krogu, ki ga tvori kača mehen. Ta dogodek je točka, ko sonce začne svojo regeneracijo. Trenutek je zelo pomemben, a tudi nevaren.

V 7. uri ga čaka nasprotnik Apep (Apofis), ki ga mora ukrotiti v verigah z magijo  Izide in Sera ter močjo Serketa, ki mu pomaga bog Her-Tesu-F.

V 8. uri bog sonca odpre vrata grobnice in Hor pokliče pošastno kačo z neugasljivim ognjem, da uniči sovražnike njegovega očeta Ozirisa, tako da zažge njihova trupla in skuha njihove duše.

V 9. uri z živahnim veslanjem zapustijo peščeni otok Seker in se vrnejo na vode.

V 10. uri se proces regeneracije nadaljuje s potopitvijo v vodo.

V 11. uri se božje oči, simbol njegovega zdravja in dobrega počutja,  popolnoma regenerirajo.

V 12. uri vstopi na vzhodno obzorje, pripravljen znova vzhajati kot sonce novega dne.

Ko so pokojni zemljani končali svoje potovanje po podzemlju, so prispeli v dvorano Maat. Tu bi se podvrgli obredu tehtanja srca. Njegova čistost je bila odločilni dejavnik za dovoljenje za vstop v Ozirisovo kraljestvo.

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Forman, Werner and Stephen Quirke. (1996). Hieroglyphs and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. .

Erik Hornung; Abt, Theodor (editors): The Egyptian Amduat. The Book of the Hidden Chamber. English translation by David Warburton, revised and edited by Erik Hornung and Theodor Abt. Living Human Heritage Publications, Zurich 2007. (Images, hieroglyphs, transcription and English translation).
 Knowledge for the Afterlife - the Egyptian Amduat - a quest for immortality (1963), Theodore Abt and Erik Hornung, Living Human Heritage.

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Melania Trump releases letter from attorney claiming she didn't violate immigration laws
By Rebecca Shabad
Updated on: November 5, 2016 / 10:27 AM / CBS News
Update: A Politico investigation in September later found that the issue of Max, the French men's magazine where Melania Trump appeared, was published in early 1997, contrary to earlier media reports.
Melania Trump on Wednesday released a letter from her immigration attorney in which he denies that she had ever broken visa laws and worked illegally in the U.S.
"It has been suggested by various media outlets that in 1995 Mrs. Trump illegally worked as a model in the United States while on a visitor visa. Following a review of her relevant immigration paperwork, I can unequivocally state that these allegations are not supported by the record, and are therefore completely without merit," attorney Michael J. Wildes writes in the letter.
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— MELANIA TRUMP (@MELANIATRUMP) September 14, 2016
Wildes is managing partner at New York-based law firm Wildes & Weinberg P.C. He said he is an attorney who was admitted in good standing before the bars in New York, New Jersey and Washington, D.C. While he said he has never previously represented Donald Trump's wife, he said he has represented several of Trump's companies, including The Miss Universe Organization and Trump Models.
The reports Wildes referred to came after the New York Post published nude photos of Melania Trump from a photo shoot that it claimed took place in 1995 in the U.S. for French men's magazine Max, which is now defunct. According to several media reports, the issue featuring Trump was published in January 1996. The photos raised questions about whether she was using a tourist visa rather than an H-1B visa, which is required for employment in the U.S.
Wildes, ignoring the reported publication date of the magazine issue, said these allegations are not only "untrue," but also "impossible" because he said she was never in the U.S. in 1995.
The first time she entered the U.S., Wildes said, was on August 27, 1996 through a B-1/B-2 visa, which is used temporarily for business, tourism, pleasure or just visiting. She then received her first H-1B visa from the U.S. Embassy in Slovenia on Oct. 18, 1996, he said. This visa would have authorized employment to be a model in the U.S. Between that month and 2001, she was issued five H-1B visas and became a lawful permanent resident or "green card" holder on March 19, 2001, he said.
"In reality, through an interview with Mrs. Trump, we ascertained that the photo shoot in question did not occur until after she was admitted to the United States in H-1B visa status in October 1996," Wildes wrote in the letter.
Wildes also said that while foreign workers are usually issued H-1B visas for up to three years, but he said that Foreign Affairs Manual used by U.S. consulates at the time issued that type of visa to Slovenian citizens for only one year.
She became a U.S. citizen in July 2006.
"I am pleased to enclose a letter from my immigration attorney which states that with 100% certainty, I correctly went through the legal process when arriving in the USA," she tweeted Wednesday, with the letter.
In addition to the New York Post claiming the photo shoot happened in 1995, a biography written about her by two Slovenian authors claimed she moved to New York in 1995, according to Politico.
"Melania Trump: The Inside Story," said that she first met another model in New York in the middle of 1995.
"In 1995 she started coming to the USA according to the jobs she was getting at fashion agencies," one of the biography's authors told Politico. "We don't know the exact dates of those before she officially settled in New York but her visits prior to that were temporary business opportunities that she had as a model."
According to Wildes' biography on his law firm's website, he served as the Democratic mayor of Englewood, New Jersey from 2003 to 2006 and he is "nationally recognized in the Democratic Party as a leading fundraiser for Congressional and Senate candidates throughout the United States" including Hillary Clinton, the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, and former Sen. Joe Lieberman.
The letter comes more than a month after Trump, the GOP presidential nominee, said his wife would hold a news conference to address the reports "in the next couple weeks." She never did.
Melania Trump has largely been absent from the campaign trail since the Republican National Convention, when she was accused of plagiarizing her convention speech from first lady Michelle Obama's speech at the 2008 Democratic National Convention. She also had to take down her website after a biography in the RNC's program this summer incorrectly claimed she had received a college degree in design and architecture at the university in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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Back-to-back presentations in council chambers Monday morning painted a stark picture of a Seattle divided between the homeowning haves and the renting have-nots, and also showed once again with data (not the ever-popular anecdotes) that the tighter the supply of any form of housing, rented or owner-occupied, the more expensive that housing is.
The relationship between supply and demand—or, put another way, vacancies and rents—is starkly illustrated in the following graph, which shows that as supply tightens (that is, as development slows down), rents go up; as more housing gets built, rents decline.
That's true, Scott pointed out, even though new apartments are usually more expensive to rent than existing stock. (The Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda, which proposes to build 50,000 new units over the next decade, including 20,000 affordable units, would make a dent in the need but would not by itself accommodate the 120,000 people expected to move to Seattle by 2035).
The exception to that rule was microhousing, small efficiency units that are expensive per square foot but affordable in practice; according to Scott's presentation, the average microunit rented for $871 in 2015, compared to an average studio rent of $1,433. Unfortunately, city regulations have effectively banned the development of new microhousing, and that housing type has been replaced by so-called small efficiency dwelling units, or SEDUs (which Scott insisted on pronouncing, "Said-Yous"). Those are still cheaper than studios, but significantly more expensive than micros, at an average of $1,151 a month.
None of those rents are particularly affordable to struggling working-class or middle-class renters, of course, and the solutions seem obvious: More housing, and more opportunities for homeownership. Unfortunately, city rules that reserve nearly two-thirds of the land in Seattle for single-family homeowners make it extremely difficult to build the massive quantity of new housing stock the city would need to significantly push rents down, and first-time homeownership, as a presentation by Zillow's chief economist Svenja Gudell illuminated, is elusive to all but the wealthiest and becoming more so. In January, single-family home values were up 11.8 percent over last year, and condos were up 14.2 percent. "That's very, very strong—much stronger than you would see in a normal year," Gudell said. The average home in Seattle was valued at $533,000, making this the definition of a seller's market as long as you don't want to buy another home in Seattle.
As for first-time buyers, they're being buffeted by a near-perfect storm: High rents that make it difficult to save money for a down payment; a high-demand market where lenders can afford to be selective about who they loan to; lending standards that have tightened in general since a recession caused largely by banks loaning money to people with bad credit; and the simple fact that there just aren't many houses, condos, and townhomes on the market to begin with.
"Rents are extremely high, so it's still hard to save for that downpayment, and if you've qualified, it's quite difficult to find anything at all, because affordable housing at all price points is in very tight supply right now," Gudell said.
How tight? Here's an unsettling stat to ponder as you write your next rent check: Right now, there are only 906 homes of any kind for sale in Seattle—a 21 percent drop from last year. So while buying a home is currently much more affordable than renting one (as the graph from Zillow, below, illustrates), it's out of reach to all but a few. One reason for that is the fact that there are still a significant number of homeowners (about 7 percent) whose homes are underwater, meaning they owe more than the value of their condo or house. Those people, according to Gudell, tend to be lower-income owners of lower-price houses, and they aren't selling, which means that what would be entry-level homes are simply off the market.
The moral, for both renters and buyers? Hang tight and hope* Organize and demand that the city allow more density, which will reduce rents, and wait for the next downturn to roll around.
*Mike in the comments makes an excellent argument for this edit.
Foreign investment, "dark housing" (where investors buy up property and sit on it, rather than rent it, while it appreciates), and speculation by "flippers" drive up the costs. Every time a property sees a stepped-up value makes the City less affordable. This has nothing to do with single family zoning, which the Mayor has chosen to attack as racist and exclusionary (the big bully!).
Our Residential Urban Village has tons of capacity under existing zoning to handle new development, but the market has determined, for whatever reason, that the NC property owners do not want to build here. They figure if they wait long enough, much like dark housing, they will be able to build bigger, even though building now, under current zoning, would help immensely.
I became a HALA skeptic as soon as I heard that they were hanging their hat on their "fact" that 65% of Seattle was zoned single family, but in reality that the area they used included roads, parks, and lakes… Yes, Discovery Park, Seward Park, Sand Point, even the surface of Green Lake was included as developable property. Why, I asked myself, did the City feel compelled to base their rationale on fake data? What other "facts" we're cooked in the report?
Be skeptical. Current property owners share the same concerns about affordability. We have all been there, trying to scrape together money to own. Do not allow the Mayor to turn this into a "renters vs. owners" campaign. We need more, smaller starter properties, which are the first to go, gobbled up by speculators, when our neighborhoods are opened up for rampant access by some of the strategies in HALA. Do your research!
You're absolutely right, Gregf. Seattle has decided it wants to be a "global City." It seems as though growth this developer-led building boom is being driven by this mind-less goal. How can we say this growth is for jobs when so many of the high tech jobs being produced are being filled by people who are coming here — because it's cheaper to live in Seattle than San Francisco? As long as there are so many high paid workers, developers and landlords can get the prices they want; they have no incentive to charge anything less. Seattle leaders sponsor this growth through tax incentives for prosperous companies like Vulcan and then do little or nothing to mitigate the consequences. They are also producing gentrification in what used to be lower and middle class neighborhoods.
What don't city planners move out of the 20th century and into some 21st century housing alternatives — like more tax incentives for co-housing and Community Land Trusts? Why don't they support local builders instead of NY and Chinese investors? You can't build your way out of this situation as long as it is being driven by city policies that promote growth led by and for developers. Hala needs to start considering other strategies, especially in a city where almost 60% of residents live alone. That alone is a waste of resources. BTW, from my research it is not uncommon for cities the size of Seattle to be over 70% single family zoning. Quit sponsoring the developers and come up with some more creative solutions, HALA!
We are hoping there will be some money for Community Land Trusts in the Housing Levy if that passes.
One, new developments tend to be more expensive (you mentioned this yourself). Two, the supply and demand argument might work if Seattle lived in a bubble. But it does not. If you incentivize building to make it very profitable, which it currently is, then you get investors from outside of Seattle who buy up properties (decreasing supply) as an investment to to turn into luxury apartments which increases prices. I think the argument could actually be made that this boom in development is the cause of our affordability crisis and not the solution. As we build more luxury apartments, along with frequent flight between here and China, we can be very attractive for the Chinese tech company who wants to build an office on the west coast. We are still cheaper than San Francisco. The argument that more dense cities are cheaper cities simply does not hold up. Usually it is the opposite and it is because these cities do not exist in a bubble. Build it and more people will come.
The city has said that 65% of Seattle is single family zoned but this is misleading, since in the calculation they also included non-developable land such as parks, schools & roads. The number if you only figure in actual developable land is closer to 50%.
I would instead like to see rent prices, not percent increase or decrease considering new apartments are more expensive. If the prices start higher then a percent decrease does not mean as much.
You are talking about 50,000 housing units in 10 years vs 120,000 people (70,000 housing units) in 20 years, please also keep in mind that many housing units house more than one person.
This was an excellent review and equally excellent solution before the edit.
I would like to note, that the Magnolia Community Council approval a letter we send to Council supporting the Mayor's first HALA ordinance that allows for more density in Magnolia with taller buildings that include subsidized below market units. Working together is how we build more housing. Making demands will just create fights while slowing down progress.
Anyway, this was a very well crafted review of housing needs. Thank You.
No. Demand the city to start allowing more density. The renters of this city could change the rules tomorrow if they found their voice and all worked together. Renters are a popular majority in this city, but likely a voting minority.
The City is in the process to allow more density. Proposed Urban Village expansions and upzones within village boundaries will add development capacity. Couple that with the 224K additional units already allowed under current zoning (per City's Development Capacity Report, Sept. 2014).


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Bahraini star Hala Turk...
Bahraini star Hala Turk to dazzle fans with a debut song exclusively at City Centre Mirdif on Saturday January 17th at 4:30pm
Bahraini star Hala Turk to dazzle fans with a debut song exclusively at City Centre Mirdif.
Majid Al Futtaim, in partnership with the Dubai Festivals and Retail Establishment (DFRE), the organisers of Dubai Shopping Festival, will be hosting Bahraini entertainer Hala Turk who will debut a few of her latest hits during a special appearance at City Centre Mirdif this Saturday January 17th at 4:30pm. The rising starlet, who shot to fame on Arab's Got Talent is in town as part of the 20th Anniversary celebrations of Dubai Shopping Festival and will be performing a selection of songs exclusively for City Centre Mirdif guests.
"As part of Dubai Shopping Festival celebrations, City Centre Mirdif has partnered with the Dubai Festivals and Retail Establishment to further enhance our program of activities with an exclusive visit by rising star, Hala Turk," said Hussain Moosa, Associate Director, Shopping Malls for Majid Al Futtaim Properties. "Unique experiences such as this reiterate our commitment to creating great moments for everyone, every day for our valued guests."
Majid Al Futtaim is a Strategic Partner of DFRE.
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