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The Spa Town Bad Langensalza is the second largest town in the Unstrut-Hainich-District, Free State of Thuriniga and is located next to the small river Salza. Beside the remarkable old town center this is the place to enjoy the gardens and parks in a relaxed atmosphere. Over 100 years of horticultural experience, especially cultivated roses, shaped the appearance of this romantic town. Only 10 km outside of town, in the triangle between the historical towns of Bad Langensalza, Eisenach and Mühlhausen, the National Park Hainich invites for an excursion between nature and culture. Don’t miss the Treetop Path, which will give you an outstanding bird’s-eye view of the forest and educational insides to its environmental importance. Great fun for the whole family!Bad Langensalza, also known as the Rose Town, in Thurinigia, has a lot to offer. Stroll around the Spa Gardens and visit the Friederiken-Spring. Enjoy the beautiful Rose-Garden and visit the Rose Museum. Discover the Arboretum, (tree garden) the Botanical and Magnolia Garden, the Travertine and Japanese Garden. The beautiful restored historical town center, including the Gothic Market Church of Saint Bonifacius, is part of the important cultural heritage in Thuringia.Charlemagne (Karl der Grosse) first mentioned Langensalza in a document dating back to the 15th of September 802. Next, Langensalza was noted in a charter on the 1st of June 932, in a land deal between King Heinrich I and Abbot Megingoz of the Hersfeld Abbey. Since the 22nd of June 2002 Bad Langensalza calls itself the Rose Town. After the discovery of Brine and Mineral water in 1996, the Bad Langensalza Spa Association was founded and a year later the National Park Hainich was initiated.10 km outside of Bad Langensalza, at the Thimsburg in the National Park Hainich, (easy to reach by car or public transportation) you will find the starting point of the famous Treetop Path. It was opened on the 27th 2005 and has a total length of 546 meter, divided in 2 loops of 238 and 308 meter. The Treetop Path reaches a maximum height of 44 meter above the ground. At the starting point you will climb about 20 meter up. A Lift is available for seniors or wheelchair dependant visitors. Highlights of this fun and educational walk are the view from an open platform in a lofty height of 40 meter and the bird’s-eye view in the majestic crowns of 3 copper beech trees. (Fagus sylvatica) The way down will bring more inside views of the various levels of this magnificent beech grove.A bit more should be said about Hainich. It is part of the largest deciduous wooded area in the whole of Germany with a total area of 16,000 hectares. The National Park Hainich, located in the southern part and with an area of 7,500 hectares, was declared Germany’s 13th National Park on the 31st of December 1997. In the triangle, formed by Bad Langensalza, Eisenach and Mühlhausen, National Park Hainich is approximately located in the center of Germany. Overall Hainich is preserved as a primeval forest and home for many species rarely found elsewhere. A sensible tourist development is characteristic for this region and attracts growing numbers of visitors experiencing the unique natural habitat of National Park Hainich.A special Travel Tip not to be missed! On the last August weekend of each year Bad Langensalza hosts one of the largest Medieval Festivals in Thuringia.To enter the Treetop Path adults pay € 9.50 including exhibition, students € 6.50 and a family card for 2 adults + kids costs € 25.50. Treetop Path is open around the year. April to October 10.00 A.M. to 7 P.M., November to March 10.00 A.M. to 4 P.M. Closed on the 24th and 31st of December each year.This is an example of what you can do in Bad Langensalza while traveling in Germany. If you want learn more about Bad Langensalza we compiled a more comprehensive Bad Langensalza travel guide in collaboration with local residents that provides unique travel insider tips which you can use during you Germany vacation.

If you are considering a Tampa property management company, try one simple test: how many calls (to or returned by) does it take to talk to someone in authority who can help you? The most desirable answer is one call served by a live person, who treats you as a valuable customer, not an interruption.If the property management company mishandles the call, imagine how they could treat your tenants, or worse, you, when you are trying to resolve a problem.A. Setting the rent and marketing the propertyWill your rental rates be competitive? Property managers succeed or fail on one measure: they must understand their market and know how to keep your property rented at market rates.Do they have a local presence and experience in the market where your property is located?Do they carry the required property management license and any state required insurance and bonding?How do they find qualified renters? How many rental Web sites does the property manager post your vacancy to and how fast? What search optimization strategies do they employ, and how do they answer tenant inquiries?B. Selling and renting to a qualified tenantWhat is their process to qualify and rent to a desirable tenant? Each potential tenant must complete an application for the purpose of verifying employment, rental, credit, and criminal histories. This verification, selection, and rental process must be done within applicable municipal, state, or federal regulations and requirements.C. Managing (maintaining and re-renting the property)To protect the property condition and your rental income, the property must have quality and timely inspections and maintenance.Who provides maintenance, when, and at what cost? Ideally the in-house maintenance staff and preferred vendor relationships reduce the amount of time spent waiting for emergency 24/7 repairs, routine repairs, or making the property rent-ready for a new tenant.Does the property management company perform interim inspections during the lease period to ensure that the tenants are caring for your property as spelled out in their lease agreements?What are the inspection protocols at move-out? Reconciliation of willful versus wear-and-tear damage against any deposit, lease-up, and move-in?D. Collecting deposits and rents (accounting and compliance with local, state, and federal law and regulation)No surprise, time is money, and the timely and accurate collection, depositing, reporting, and payment are vital requirements of a successful relationship with your property management company.If rents are not paid on time, will the property manager initiate the legal steps necessary to collect rents and/or evict tenants?Does the property management company use an online system that allows landlord-investors access 2417?E. Reporting to the landlord-investor in a timely mannerProvide the landlord-investor with timely and accurate financial statements that show money collected and authorized expenses incurred plus reports such as tenant rental histories, property rental histories, and profit and loss statements.What is the scope of these reports?Are the reports available online?The property management in Tampa database should keep a record of compliance events with fair housing regulations (such as the Americans with Disabilities Act). What sort of notice and compliance advice is provided by the property manager?Does the reporting system include a database of ongoing property maintenance, appliance, and other inventory associated with each address?Maintenance coordination regarding any needed work, supplying bids, associated work orders (acceptance and approvals), completion notice, and actual costs should be communicated to the landlord.
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“Technology in the long-run is irrelevant”. That is what a customer of mine told me when I made a presentation to him about a new product. I had been talking about the product’s features and benefits and listed “state-of-the-art technology” or something to that effect, as one of them. That is when he made his statement. I realized later that he was correct, at least within the context of how I used “Technology” in my presentation. But I began thinking about whether he could be right in other contexts as well.What is Technology?Merriam-Webster defines it as:1a: the practical application of knowledge especially in a particular area: engineering 2 b: a capability given by the practical application of knowledge 2: a manner of accomplishing a task especially using technical processes, methods, or knowledge 3: the specialized aspects of a particular field of endeavor Wikipedia defines it as:Technology (from Greek τέχνη, techne, “art, skill, cunning of hand”; and -λογία, -logia[1]) is the making, modification, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems, and methods of organization, in order to solve a problem, improve a preexisting solution to a problem, achieve a goal, handle an applied input/output relation or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, including machinery, modifications, arrangements and procedures. Technologies significantly affect human as well as other animal species’ ability to control and adapt to their natural environments. The term can either be applied generally or to specific areas: examples include construction technology, medical technology, and information technology.Both definitions revolve around the same thing – application and usage.Technology is an enablerMany people mistakenly believe it is technology which drives innovation. Yet from the definitions above, that is clearly not the case. It is opportunity which defines innovation and technology which enables innovation. Think of the classic “Build a better mousetrap” example taught in most business schools. You might have the technology to build a better mousetrap, but if you have no mice or the old mousetrap works well, there is no opportunity and then the technology to build a better one becomes irrelevant. On the other hand, if you are overrun with mice then the opportunity exists to innovate a product using your technology.Another example, one with which I am intimately familiar, are consumer electronics startup companies. I’ve been associated with both those that succeeded and those that failed. Each possessed unique leading edge technologies. The difference was opportunity. Those that failed could not find the opportunity to develop a meaningful innovation using their technology. In fact to survive, these companies had to morph oftentimes into something totally different and if they were lucky they could take advantage of derivatives of their original technology. More often than not, the original technology wound up in the scrap heap. Technology, thus, is an enabler whose ultimate value proposition is to make improvements to our lives. In order to be relevant, it needs to be used to create innovations that are driven by opportunity.Technology as a competitive advantage?Many companies list a technology as one of their competitive advantages. Is this valid? In some cases yes, but In most cases no.Technology develops along two paths – an evolutionary path and a revolutionary path.A revolutionary technology is one which enables new industries or enables solutions to problems that were previously not possible. Semiconductor technology is a good example. Not only did it spawn new industries and products, but it spawned other revolutionary technologies – transistor technology, integrated circuit technology, microprocessor technology. All which provide many of the products and services we consume today. But is semiconductor technology a competitive advantage? Looking at the number of semiconductor companies that exist today (with new ones forming every day), I’d say not. How about microprocessor technology? Again, no. Lots of microprocessor companies out there. How about quad core microprocessor technology? Not as many companies, but you have Intel, AMD, ARM, and a host of companies building custom quad core processors (Apple, Samsung, Qualcomm, etc). So again, not much of a competitive advantage. Competition from competing technologies and easy access to IP mitigates the perceived competitive advantage of any particular technology. Android vs iOS is a good example of how this works. Both operating systems are derivatives of UNIX. Apple used their technology to introduce iOS and gained an early market advantage. However, Google, utilizing their variant of Unix (a competing technology), caught up relatively quickly. The reasons for this lie not in the underlying technology, but in how the products made possible by those technologies were brought to market (free vs. walled garden, etc.) and the differences in the strategic visions of each company.Evolutionary technology is one which incrementally builds upon the base revolutionary technology. But by it’s very nature, the incremental change is easier for a competitor to match or leapfrog. Take for example wireless cellphone technology. Company V introduced 4G products prior to Company A and while it may have had a short term advantage, as soon as Company A introduced their 4G products, the advantage due to technology disappeared. The consumer went back to choosing Company A or Company V based on price, service, coverage, whatever, but not based on technology. Thus technology might have been relevant in the short term, but in the long term, became irrelevant.In today’s world, technologies tend to quickly become commoditized, and within any particular technology lies the seeds of its own death.Technology’s RelevanceThis article was written from the prospective of an end customer. From a developer/designer standpoint things get murkier. The further one is removed from the technology, the less relevant it becomes. To a developer, the technology can look like a product. An enabling product, but a product nonetheless, and thus it is highly relevant. Bose uses a proprietary signal processing technology to enable products that meet a set of market requirements and thus the technology and what it enables is relevant to them. Their customers are more concerned with how it sounds, what’s the price, what’s the quality, etc., and not so much with how it is achieved, thus the technology used is much less relevant to them.Recently, I was involved in a discussion on Google+ about the new Motorola X phone. A lot of the people on those posts slammed the phone for various reasons – price, locked boot loader, etc. There were also plenty of knocks on the fact that it didn’t have a quad-core processor like the S4 or HTC One which were priced similarly. What they failed to grasp is that whether the manufacturer used 1, 2, 4, or 8 cores in the end makes no difference as long as the phone can deliver a competitive (or even best of class) feature set, functionality, price, and user experience. The iPhone is one of the most successful phones ever produced, and yet it runs on a dual-core processor. It still delivers one of the best user experiences on the market. The features that are enabled by the technology are what are relevant to the consumer, not the technology itself.The relevance of technology therefore, is as an enabler, not as a product feature or a competitive advantage, or any myriad of other things – an enabler. Looking at the Android operating system, it is an impressive piece of software technology, and yet Google gives it away. Why? Because standalone, it does nothing for Google. Giving it away allows other companies to use their expertise to build products and services which then act as enablers for Google’s products and services. To Google, that’s where the real value is.The possession of or access to a technology is only important for what it enables you to do – create innovations which solve problems. That is the real relevance of technology.