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2011年11月16日 星期三

Books on the Southern Castle

The Backa and western Banat castles and former inhabitants of the volumes on the author, Podhorányi Zsolt research editor, said that the Hungarians beyond the border areas in the harshest fate are among the southern Hungarian castles, which were not previously made any comprehensive work. The idea of ??the volume appeared in 2006, when writing his book Storyteller manor born - added Podhorányi Ps.

II. After the devastation of World War II many villages in the desert or on the verge of manor houses looted simply because they did not mind. In addition, owners of mansions in Hungary or in most cases Magyarized lords were so destructive passion of hatred against the landowners over the Serbian-Hungarian ethnic conflict is fired.

The monuments to his friend to hurry if you want to see is the price collapse could come temesvajkóci Mocsonyi-Bissingen-Nippenburg Castle Fernbah-family residence or the baby alone. Dead is a nice memory of the Hungarian Classicism, the beodrai Karatson mansion, designed by Nicholas Ybl Zsombolya-csitói Csekonics Castle in the Count's own family bontatta down because of reduced land was unable to pay the huge tax structure.

The zárgondnokság, executive familiar concepts are in the salons, where before hunting on horse races, bálokról bright coastal sites was woven in the conversation - enter the website of the Senta, Vojvodina Hungarian Cultural Institute, which is the volume of the Budapest Sobek Bt together with this already.

The author also said that research in the province of Vojvodina and Hungary, spoke to the former owners' descendants, lejegyezhet? collected the stories, the yellowed photographs. The book is so rich in imagery and includes many of the famous Southern anekdotakincsb?l read as well.

2011年3月13日 星期日

Don't buy car just because of gas prices, analysts say

Buyers shifting their shopping to small, fuel-efficient vehicles because of high gas prices run the danger of making a long-term decision on a short-term price spike.

They could find themselves driving a car they don't want, some analysts warn.

"It is like people who look out the window, see that it is raining and then think it is going to rain for the next four years," said Jack Nerad, an analyst with auto information company Kelley Blue Book Co. Inc. in Irvine, Calif.

Though most oil watchers believe the cost of petroleum is on an ever-upward curve, the steepness of the climb is likely to be uneven, and it's not clear whether prices will remain high if political turmoil in Arab oil producing nations recedes.

"The prices of gasoline could collapse overnight if things settled down in the Middle East," said Phil Flynn, an oil analyst with PFGBest Research in Chicago.
Unpredictable

The problem is that no one can predict whether the revolution in Libya and unrest in neighboring nations will be limited or spread, disrupting oil supplies from Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf nations.

That means gas and oil prices will remain high until commodities traders and petroleum buyers have a better sense of where the political situation is headed, Flynn said.

For now, there is significant spare petroleum capacity in Saudi Arabia and reserves in other major markets, "which could be very helpful in defraying a price-spike episode," said Ellen Hughes-Cromwick, an economist at Dearborn carmaker Ford Motor Co.

But with gas prices well into the $3-a-gallon range nationwide and hovering at $4 in some areas, consumers are starting to migrate to smaller cars. Ford's subcompact Fiesta sells best in California, where gas prices are among the highest in the nation.

The trend is reflected in Web traffic at auto information and pricing Internet sites.
Interest way up

At kbb.com, the Web portal for Kelley Blue Book, searches for hybrids and electrics jumped 73 percent from the weekend of Feb. 19-20 to Feb. 27-28. Traffic to compact cars as a segment blossomed 46 percent in the same period.

2011年3月2日 星期三

Did Obama Meet the Wrong Big Wave Surfers?

It was reported that during his recent trip to the West Coast, President Obama had

dinner with a dozen Silicon Valley executives. The appearance of the technological and

financial captains of industry such as John Doer (Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers),

Carol Bartz (Yahoo), Larry Ellison (Oracle) and John Chambers (Cisco) set the press

wires buzzing. While these people would all be considered at the top of the tech

industry heap, perhaps the President was meeting with people whose technology and the

waves they created have already passed instead of meeting with people who are creating

and forming the new waves that will rock the tech world.

Ken Thurber, author of Big Wave Surfing: Extreme Technology Development, Management,

Marketing and Investing, sees these companies as mature - "some like Apple (Steve Jobs

was reportedly seen at that dinner meeting) will surely impact the American economy as

it moves forward, but the real action is forming out at sea with new surfers and

technologies such as nanotechnology, wind-powered cars, extremely fast Exascale

Computers and powerful new lasers being developed by the military. The future lies

with serial big wave entrepreneur surfers like Elon Musk, who founded PayPal, SpaceX

and runs Tesla motors, which looks to revolutionize the electric car industry, if they

don't run out of cash first."

Thurber sees companies such as Oracle and Yahoo as the old world order and the new

surfers like Elon Musk (Tesla, SpaceX, PayPal), Tim Westergren (Pandora) or Jack

Dorsey  (Square & Twitter) as the coming Big Wave Surfers.

Thurber goes on to say," As these new Surfers and others like them go, so goes the

future of the American economy. Like any surfers there will be wipeouts and winners

and losers, but without embracing them and what they represent in the innovation

economy, America will be in for trying economic times and profound structural changes

will occur in American society. Understanding of the current innovation economy will

not be found by meeting with the current captains of industry. The understanding to

forge the nation's innovation strategy will only be formed by meeting with the current

entrepreneurs who are trying to spot and ride the next big wave!"

About the Author: Kenneth J. Thurber, Ph.D., is a renowned computer architect and has

developed technology and systems worth billions of dollars. He developed the concept

of "technology big wave surfing" to empower readers to understand and harness the

opportunity of an ever-changing technological world.