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THE COUNTESS

H.R.H. Princess Stephanie of Belgium, Countess of Lonyay de Nagy-Lonya, formerly Crown Princess of Austria

The late King Leopold was one of the most selfish men alive; he was fond of France, and used to spend the greater part of his time there, making rare appearances in Brussels. He disliked his capital owing to the impossibility of leading there the easy, unfettered kind of existence he was so fond of, and of introducing to Brussels society the person whom he had married morganatically , and who, before he had done so, had been one of the stars of a music-hall at Montmartre. He built for her a splendid villa at Villefranche, near Nice, where he preferred living to anywhere else. So strongly was he attached to France as an abode that he became alarmed lest this might be made difficult or unpleasant for him were his daughter to wed the Pretender to the throne of the Bonapartes. Consequently he forbade the Princess Clementine to think of Prince Victor Napoleon, and did all that lay within his power, though without success, to oblige the latter to give up his Brussels residence and, indeed, to leave Belgium. When his daughter implored him to yield to her wishes, and to remember she had absolutely no to love or to take care of her, he brutally replied that she did not require anything of that kind, and that if she was not content with her present position she could go where she liked. The fact was that crafty old man was glad to find a pretext to quarrel with his children so as to have reason for cutting them out of his will. For this reason he had opposed every marriage offer which they had, and he cursed the Princess Stephanie when she declared that she was going to be united to Count Lonyay. He would have done the same in regard to the Princess Clementine had the latter not been wise in her generation and expressed her willingness to conform to the King's wishes – conduct which obliged him to treat her with some consideration, a concession which he denied to all the other members of his family, whom he bullied and worried in turns.

The Princess Clementine was somewhat of a diplomat. She knew that her father's health was not of the best, and she armed herself with patience, and made up her mind to wait until her father was dead and she became free to do whatever she liked. The heavens proved merciful, because the King succumbed a few months later to the disease of which he had long been suffering, and though quarrels without number followed concerning his inheritance, his daughters found themselves at liberty to shape their lives according to their own wishes.

The Princess Clementine at last married Prince Victor Napoleon Bonaparte at the castle of Moncalieri, near Turin, the residence of his mother, the saintly Princess Clotilde of Savoy, about ten months after the death of Leopold II.

Dowager Crown Princess Stephanie of Austria. Late 1890s

Ez is megy a levesbe... :-( 

Stephanie Contessa di Lonyay già Arciduchessa Rudolf d’Austria

Yazeed Al-Rajhi ganó el prólogo de la Baja Hungría

El piloto saudí Yazeed Al-Rajhi ganó el prólogo de 8 kilómetros que dio inicio a las actividades de la Baja Hungría en Varpalota, Hungría. El piloto de Overdrive Toyota recorrió el tramo en 5 minutos y 10 segundos, sacándole una diferencia de 10 segundos a Krzysztof Holowczyc, piloto de X-Raid y MINI. Mañana comienzan las especiales más largas, con dos especiales de 138 kilómetros cada una. 

Al-Rajhi está buscando quedarse con la victoria en esta ronda del Mundial de Bajas FIA para recortar diferencia con Yasir Seaidan, líder del campeonato, y acercarse así a su primer título FIA. Seaidan fue tercero hoy, quedando a 12 segundos de Al-Rajhi, en un buen resultado para un piloto que se destaca mucho más en el desierto que en etapas camineras europeas.

La actividad de la Baja Hungría sigue hasta el domingo, con casi 500 kilómetros de carrera por disputarse aún.

Resultados Viernes

Yazeed Al-Rajhi (Toyota) 5:16

Krzysztof Holowczyc (MINI) +0:10

Yasir Seaidan (MINI) +0:12

Pai Lonyai (Porsche) +0:15

Miroslav Zapletal (Ford) +0:15

Alexandre Re (Can-Am) +0:30

Imagen: Yazeed Racing

Gabor Lonyai, Graphic Designer / Web Designer / Web Developer

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A kérdéses épület, szemben pedig egy példa arra, hogy mire lehet majd számítani helyette.

MAY LOVES : DENIM ROUNDUP

Above: Paprika Southern captured this gorgeous shot with the bright red lips and hair in the beautiful denim colored interior of this classic car. A perfect shot to serve as inspiration for our May color of the month: denim!

Above, from top left, clockwise: shopSCAD’s Summer Wheat uses beautiful blues in her piece titled Excerpt from a Prison Letter, Bleu Companies of course has wonderful blue jean inspiration, first with the walls in their space and secondly with this bright blue dress and beautifully painted door. A custom Satchel bag, in two tone leather, dusty blue with navy denim colored leather contrast and tassel. Bleu Companies racks are filled with fashion in pretty denims!

Above, from left, clockwise: LIly Bay stocks these beautiful linen aprons that are PERFECT! Noble Jones Tours has the perfect denim shade in their logo. shopSCAD artist, Megan Proctor, made this beautiful tanzatite ring that is perfect as a nontraditional engagement ring! Also from shopSCAD is this silk scarf by alumni Paige Russell. There is something magical about Lapis Lazuli and in this ring by Amy Petkus it is just dynamite!

Above, top left, moving clockwise: Lettee’s has these beautiful blue beads layered with one of their recycled tee necklaces which would look great with jeans! Mamie Ruth has got the blues with this duster, short and lace top combo! Lily Bay Studio + Bazaar has this fun Open sign on one of their hand painted cabinets which also has a little bit of a denim vibe to it. E. Shaver, Bookseller has the most wonderful shade of blue for their front doors. White Whale Craft Ales has their signature blue koozies for taking that cold can right out the door to the park to enjoy! Sherry’s Honey Pot had these samples of dhurries they are about to carry last time I was in, I love the blue and the subtle textural feel to them.

Above, top, clockwise: Krisztian Lonyai captured this beautiful marsh shot with gorgeous sky and water in perfectly denim shades. Jessica Bassett added in some beautiful blues on this hair that make me swoon! The offices at Pediatric Dentistry of Savannah are so well designed with the perfect shade of cabinets! shopSCAD bee pouches are so cute for little trinkets. Southern Sugaring carries the BEST swimwear like this cross front two piece in the perfect shade of blue. Mamie Ruth tie dye skirt is perfect for summer temps. Andaz Savannah all dressed up with these gorgeous blue chairs and greenery bough.

Above, from top left, clockwise: Mamie Ruth’s graphic tees are always fun and this one with we got soul has the perfect worn in look. Satchel’s airline blue leather is perfect in this travel bag. Lettee’s recycled tee beads are in the perfect denim friendly color. Summer Wheat’s painting Peanut Butter and Jelly is one of my favorites from the shopSCAD fine art archive. M. Liz introduced me to chrysacolla and I am now in LOVE with this stone, especially in their bib necklace! Christina Edwards has the perfect pop of egg yolk yellow in this otherwise blue composition. Watson Works logo is the absolute stunning shade of denim blue and we just love it!  Mamie Ruth with the matching bikini top and shorts makes for the perfect summer festival outfit! Angela Burson’s Unflattering Buttocks is such a fun painting from shopSCAD. These kite earrings from shopSCAD artist, Hsiang-Ting Yen are just BEAUTIFUL! I can see them paired easily for dressing up or dressing down. 

Three Things that Might Surprise You About Voice and Retail

There’s been lots of back-and-forth recently on the topic of Conversational Commerce. Earlier this month Priya Anand of The Information called hype on voice-based shopping. He compared enthusiastic analyst forecasts with the current reality (as measured by the two percent of Alexa* users making purchases), and concluded—understandably—that the latter did not suggest a clear path to the former.

There was a bit of debate on the topic in Forbes, hosted by RetailWire. Neil Saunders, managing director of GlobalData, argued the con, writing, “This underlines how the impact of some technologies in retail are over-hyped to the point of silliness.” Others, including tech consultant Ken Lonyai, argued the pro, noting that, in the 90s, similar arguments were made against the web and e-commerce.

Hold on.

We’re in early days. This is a market transition in the making. In the storm-form-norm sequence of development, we’re surrounded by thunderheads and rushing winds.

As with any market transition, some of those winds will—of course—be no more than hot air. But despite it all, we dare not misunderstand three important points about voice in retail.

The first (and allow me to repeat myself):  When it comes to conversational commerce, we’re in early days. And to forecast the future, we’d be wise to look at other patterns of digital commerce adoption.

As Richard Kestenbaum of Triangle Capital wrote several weeks ago in Forbes, Conversational Commerce is where online shopping was 15 years ago.

Do today’s smart speaker users enjoy con-com shopping? Not really. Not yet. But the important thing is that they’re using voice interfaces overall—and a meaningful minority is beginning to test shopping.

Perhaps those shoppers are hesitant about sharing payment information (a major issue with e-commerce, as you remember). Maybe they want a screen to see the product.

The concerns should not surprise us.

A recent skeptical article noted that the ranks of voice-based shoppers were dominated by young males. I’m old enough to remember early 2000s’ PowerPoint* presentations that openly wondered if women would ever overcome their fear of digital devices and embrace this new thing of e-commerce.

Hmm. Wonder how that turned out.

Second:  As the data shows (and as Kestenbaum so wisely reminds us), this is not just about smart speakers.

Let’s not equate smart speakers with the larger market transition.

Yes, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) expects 2018 U.S. smart speaker sales to reach 39.2 million units, a 44% increase over the prior year. And, as recently reported in Voicebot.AI, Canalys earlier this year estimated that the 2018 global smart speaker installed base will reach 100 million persons.

But that’s relatively small change compared to the reach of voice assistant platforms.

As of end-of-year 2017—and according to a Google blog post—the Google Assistant* voice platform was available on more than 400 million devices worldwide. The number now, eight months later? Probably north of 500 million. Apple and Microsoft claim similar numbers.

In China, according to voicebot.AI’s Brett Kinsella, the device availability of Baidu’s DuerOS* assistant has now reached 100 million. There’s support from some 16,000 skills developers, roughly 200 partners, and access through 110 smart devices.

Yes, Baidu has several smart speakers and smart displays—with a new device, named Xiaodu*, hitting the market this past June. But the DuerOS voice assistant will also be in smart displays, in-room devices for InterContinental Hotels*, set-top boxes, children’s story-telling machines, and home appliances…not to mention smartphones.

Third (and most important):  When it comes to market impact and importance, let’s not equate the value of conversational commerce only with purchases and revenue.

If we do so, it is at our peril.

If we do so, we’d be like the multiple brick-and-mortar retailers who for years dismissed online commerce for revenue reasons (“it’s really worth no more than one store”) and missed the enormous impact of online product and price research.

Today, according to Forrester (and other analyst firms), more than half of all in-store revenue is influenced by online content. Even for the store: if you’re not on the web, you’re dead.

Wise heads such as Mark Taylor, Capgemini’s Chief Experience Officer, have pointed out for the past many months that voice has the potential—in time, and as the technology evolves—to deeply re-shape the shopper-brand relationship.

That’s where the commerce magic will be made.

That re-shaping is now being delivered through bots, answering oft-asked (and high-value) questions of product availability and delivery dates.

It will—soon, and as the technology evolves—re-shape the relationship by providing simple in-store advice. Summations of ratings and reviews (“it’s rated four of five stars by 83% of respondents”). Offering the purchase assurance that drives conversion.

It will—in time, and as the technology evolves—move from the current state of robotic answers to a narrow set of questions toward simple dialogue and then, conversation. Dr. Brian Subirana of MIT’s Auto-ID Laboratory forecasts that voice assistant platforms will deliver active prediction (suggestions, reminders, recommendations) by 2020, and contextually aware expression (with personality) by 2025.

Even at the level of Q&A, there’ll be an impact on commerce. Much as online research drives in-store revenue, so will voice—from the smartphone to the smart speaker, from the children’s toy to the smart appliance.

And retail brands—as Taylor makes clear—will need to determine how they want to sound. Marketers have long examined a brand’s “voice” in the marketplace.

In today’s world, that comes with a literal as well as a figurative understanding.

Voice and Retail. Listen to all its possibilities.

Ears buzzing yet?

Tell me what you think.

#IamIntel

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Zeitgeist Asset Management enters Hungarian market

Zeitgeist Asset Management, a company specializing in property development and asset management services for private and institutional investors, has expanded its portfolio by the acquisition of a new property for a German pension fund, administered by Institutional Investment Partners. The residential project is located on Lonyay Street in Budapest. The company will... http://dlvr.it/QQ33Kp

Marie Henriette, queen of the Belgians, who died suddenly after a long illness, Septebmber 19, at Spa, Belgium, in the palace where she had lived in retirement for the last five years, is said to have been the unhappiest queen in Europe. The pictures usually published of this unfortunate woman give no intimation of the extent to which her many sorrows had actually worn upon her, as they were all taken while she still possessed the health and beauty for which she was formerly noted. The accompanying recent photograph of her is interdicted by King Leopold II, because he does not wish to have it generally known how greatly his queen had suffered from domestic infeelicity. Marie Henriette, born August 23, 1836, was the eldest daughter of Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary, and Marie Dorothea, Princess of Wurtemburg, and the great-granddaughter of the famous Empress Maria Theresa of Austria. Her father died when she was ten years old, and the young archduchess was reared in quiet simplicity with her sister, Elizabeth, of whom the Queen-Regent of Spain is the daughter. In 1853 King Leopold I of Belgium accompanied by his young son and heir, Leopold, Duke of Brabant, visited the court of Austria. Duke Leopold fell in love with the young Archduchess Marie Henriette, then but seventeen years old. Their wedding was celebrated with great pomp and magnificence in August of the same year, and for a time the marriage seemed to be a happy one. The Queen's first sorrow was on account of the death of her son, the young Duke of Brabant, in January, 1869, when he was ten years old. This was four years after her husband has succeeded his father as King Leopold II. For many years the King and Queen lived virtually a life of separation. Queen Marie Henriette's unhappy lot brought her into the sympathy of her husband's subjects. Her next affliction was caused by the conduct of her daughter, Princess Louise, who was married to Prince Philip of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. It was she who had the scandalous escaped with Lieutenant Keglevitch of the Austrian hussars. Her lover was imprisoned and she was declared insane and confined in a lunatic asylum. Her husband obtained a decree of divorce. The second daughter, the Crown Princess Stephanie, lost her first husband, Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, in a shocking tragedy at Mayerling in 1889. In 1900 the Princess Stephanie incurred the displeasure of her father by her marriage with Elmer, Count of Lonyay. King Leopold refused to permit this marriage to be legalized, and the king has been so bitter against his daughter ever since that he even excluded her from the funeral ceremonies of her mother, though the Princess had the sympathy of the people of Belgium, and the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria had approved of the marriage that King Leopold openly designated as a misalliance. Even years before Queen Marie Henriette had to suffer such humiliation from the misdemeanors of her daughters, and the wild gossip about them which was spread through every city of Europe, the excution in 1867, of Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico, was a terrible blow to her, as she had been one of those kinsfolk of his who had urged him to accept the Mexican throne. Still more of a grief was the fact that the overthrow and execution of the Emperor Maximilian drove insane his Empress, Charlotte, who is the sister of King Leopold II. Undoubtedly the recent summary action of the dissolute young King Alfonso in expelling from the court of Spain his mother, niece of Queen Marie Henriette, in order that he might pursue his origes unchecked by the restraining influence of the Queen-Regent, was a severe shock to the unfortunate Queen of the Belgians. But the half has not yet been told of the sources of the many sorrows of the late Queen. The worst she had to bear was in the character of her husband. In the case of King Leopold II, the dignity of age does not conceal a multitude of follies. At the age of sixty-seven years this king is one of the gayest profligates in Europe, and in his many amours he has apparently lost all sense of shame. After his relations with the Princess de Chimay and Mlle. Cleo de Merode had become notorious, he thought nothing of bringing to the palace these women, who are only his best-known favorites, and presenting them to the late queen. He used to insist upon the reception of the Princess de Chimay even after the scandal became so flagrant that when she appeared at a royal party she was avoided as if she were a leper. When the the Belgian authorities forced Mlle. De Merode to leave Brussels, King Leopold followed her to Paris. Clericals and socialists in the Belgian chamber denounced him openly for his immorality. In the low resorts of London and Paris he is well known. The way he is now protecting the great gambling institutes that have sprung up in his domain seems to indicate an ambition to make Ostend superior to Monte Carlo as a gamblers' paradise. When his conduct became intolerable the late Queen Marie broke out in righteous wrath and indignation and made preparations to leave for her home in Austira; but she was held to her servitude by the pressure brought to bear by all the sovereigns of Europe. The publicity of Leopold's intrigues with Emiliene d'Alencon and Mlle de Merode, both of whom he brought from Paris and established in sumptuous quarters at Brussels, was the probably the main cause of the queen's attempt at suicide. King Leopold II has won a great deal of praise by possessing himself of the Congo Free State. In this enterprise he squandered the whole fortune of his demented sister, the ex-Empress Charlotte. Although, what with illness and domestic troubles, Queen Marie Henriette had known few pleasant days in her life, she had always taken great interest in religion and philanthropy. On account of her great piety Pope Leo XIII sent her the golden rose of virtue, a consecrated gift and the highest token of papal esteem for the children of the church. She had also been a patroness of art. She had herself painted some good canvases. She was fond of music and could play skilfully upon the piano and the harp. Driven to the entertainment of herself by her own methods in her retired life in the palace of Spa, she became expert in many things, even sleight-of-hand, which she learned from Hermann the magician. In her young days she was an excellent equestrienne. During her retirement at Spa she kept many fine horses and dogs. The only other surviving child of King Leopold and Queen Marie Henriette is the unmarried Princess Clementine, who was born in 1872. The heir apparent to the Belgian throne is the young Prince Albert, a great favorite of the late Queen, and whose father, Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders, brother of King Leopold II, has renounced his right to the throne in favor of his son.

Ivan C. Waterbury, The World To-day, 1903

A wonderful image of Princess Stephanie of Belgium, Countess Lonyay and previously, Crown Princess of Austria. 1900s (decade)

She s wearing her beautiful “fleur de Lys” tiara and a stunning choker (part of the parure, i believe)

Image courtesy (and property) of my dear friend, Ralf De Jonge. ❤️

Listed Building with inner courtyard. 26 Lonyay Street, Budapest, District 1X, Hungary.

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