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Покро́вский монасты́рь — женский монастырь Владимирской епархии Русской православной церкви, расположенный на правом берегу реки Каменки в северной части Суздаля.

Основан в 1364 году при князе Дмитрии Константиновиче, но нынешний вид ансамбля сложился лишь в XVI веке, когда монастырь превратился в место заточения постриженных в монахини представительниц аристократических фамилий. В XVI—XVII столетиях монастырь был одним из крупнейших на Руси.

История

Датой основания монастыря считается 1364 год, и от его первых деревянных построек ничего не сохранилось. Наибольший подъём монастыря связан с именем Василия III, который в начале XVI века пожертвовал монастырю большие средства, использованные для строительства дошедших до нас Покровского собора и Святых врат, и, по-видимому, не сохранившихся келий и ограды. Одной из первых узниц монастыря стала обвинённая в бесплодии жена Василия III Соломония Сабурова, постриженная в монахини в 1525 году под именем старицы Софии.

Впоследствии возникла легенда, что Соломония во время пострижения была уже беременна и в Покровском монастыре родила царевича Георгия. Якобы мальчик тайно воспитывался где-то в лесу, а когда вырос, стал знаменитым разбойником Кудеяром. В 1934 году при реконструкции монастыря реставратором А. Д. Варгановым была вскрыта гробница предполагаемого сына Соломонии, в которой, он, по его словам, обнаружил лишь детскую рубашку. Однако историк Дмитрий Володихин приводит сведения, что протокола вскрытия гробницы А. Д. Варгановым в 1934 году не существует, а протокол о раскопках, проводимых в монастыре в 1996 году, утверждает, что «погребения на этом месте не могло быть по причине физического отсутствия места для него, ибо фундамент представляет единый монолит».

Имена других знатных обитательниц монастыря сохранились в усыпальнице монастыря, расположенной под зданием Покровского собора. Это дочь Ивана III Александра, жена Ивана IV Анна Васильчикова, первая жена Владимира Старицкого Евдокия Нагая, Евпраксия Пожарская, царевна Анастасия. Здесь же была заключена вдова Василия Шуйского царица Мария Буйносова-Ростовская (переехала в Новодевичий монастырь).

В 1551 году после смерти годовалой дочери Ивана Грозного была заново отстроена Зачатьевская трапезная церковь, заменившая деревянное строение XIV века. Апсида была пристроена к ней в XVII веке, тогда же появилась поварня и было продолжено строительство ограды, начатое в XVI веке.

В 1923 году монастырь был закрыт и разорён.

Начиная с 1933 года в монастыре была расположена военная биологическая лаборатория (БОН ОО ОГПУ, Бюро особого назначения Особого отдела ОГПУ) — шарашка, в которой работали заключённые специалисты, занимавшиеся разработкой биологического оружия. В 1934 году лаборатория была передана биохимическому институту РККА. В 1935 году находившиеся в заключении Николай Гайский и Борис Эльберт впервые в мире создали жидкую вакцину против туляремии. Лаборатория находилась в монастыре до 1936 года.

В 1950—1960-е годы монастырские постройки были реставрированы, в них открылись музейные экспозиции. В 1980-е годы здесь разместился туристско-гостиничный комплекс с рестораном и баром. В соборе был концертный зал.

С 1992 года в древней обители возродилась монашеская жизнь. В настоящее время монастырь действующий. Ему принадлежат собор, здание богадельни, хозяйственные постройки. Избы-кельи построены заново в 1970-х годах на месте обветшавших старых домов. 22 апреля 2020 года в безвозмездное пользование Владимирской епархии передана приказная изба — последнее до того времени не переданное здание на территории монастыря.

Архитектурный ансамбль Покровского монастыря

Центральным памятником ансамбля является трёхглавый Покровский собор (1510—1518 гг.), построенный на месте более древнего деревянного храма неизвестными мастерами. Собор представляет собой массивное четырёхстолпное сооружение, стоящее на высоком цоколе и окружённое с трёх сторон двухэтажной открытой галереей, на которую ведут две крытых лестницы. С обращённой к реке стороны к зданию примыкает трёхапсидная алтарная часть, прорезанная высокими окнами в глубоких нишах. Апсиды разделены гладкими колоннами и украшены резным карнизом с мелким рисунком, который повторяется и в декоре световых барабанов, увенчанных шлемовидными главками. Стены собора, декорированные аркатурно-колончатым поясом и перспективными порталами с дыньками, разделены лопатками на три части и завершаются килевидными закомарами.

Внутри белые стены собора не имели росписи, а его пол был вымощен чёрной керамической плиткой. Главным украшением интерьера служили великолепные иконы и произведения художественного шитья, часть из которых в настоящее время можно увидеть в музее. Под зданием Покровского собора находится усыпальница, где погребены инокини и старицы монастыря: ссыльные царицы, великие княгини, знатные женщины аристократических родов Руси.

За долгие годы своего существования собор неоднократно перестраивался, его первоначальный вид был воссоздан в ходе реставрации 1962 года.

С северо-запада от собора расположена шатровая колокольня. Нижняя её часть — столпообразная церковь Происхождения честных древ креста — построена в 1515 году. Она имела форму восьмерика и была увенчана главкой. В конце XVII века церковь была надстроена арочным ярусом, сочетавшимся со стоящим рядом собором, и высоким острым шатром, украшенным тремя рядами слуховых окон с обрамлением. Связывающая собор и колокольню крытая галерея отличается изысканным декором: два арочных проёма отделаны рустом, а ряд окошек в обрамлении изящных наличников разделён рустованными пилястрами.

Ещё одним древним памятником монастыря являются Святые ворота с Благовещенской надвратной церковью постройки 1515 года. Эти ворота уникальны по своей функции: они служили одновременно мощной крепостной башней и церковью. Трёхглавая церковь располагается в верхней части массивного четверика, прорезанного двумя арочными проёмами, и композицией напоминает Покровский собор. Два маленьких придела по углам церкви увенчаны световыми барабанами со шлемовидными куполами, а массивный центральный барабан с узкими окнами опирается на два яруса килевидных закомар. Фасады башни-четверика богато украшены затейливым декором, напоминающим резьбу по дереву. Как и Покровский собор, Надвратная церковь неоднократно перестраивалась. Реставрация 1958 года, выполненная по проекту А. Д. Варганова, вернула памятнику первоначальный вид.

С северной стороны от Покровского собора располагается Трапезная палата с Зачатьевской церковью (1551 год), характерная скорее для польской, чем для русской архитектуры. К двухэтажному зданию трапезной палаты примыкает маленькая Зачатьевская церковь, обозначенная снаружи лишь небольшой главкой. Мощные своды расположенного на втором этаже трапезного зала поддерживает стоящий в центре столб. Нижний этаж был предназначен для вспомогательных хозяйственных помещений. В качестве почти единственного украшения здания использован необычный орнамент из красного кирпича в виде ромбов, огибающий строение по всему периметру. С западной стороны пристроена шестигранная часовая звонница, шатёр которой опирается на арочный ярус и украшен одним рядом слуховых окон. Вокруг Трапезной церкви когда-то находился ряд подсобных помещений. Одно из них — использовавшаяся для приготовления пищи одноэтажная поварня конца XVII века — было восстановлено и являет редкий образец монастырской архитектуры.

В юго-западной части монастыря сохранился ещё один памятник русской гражданской архитектуры — Приказная изба с воссозданным в 1970 году интерьером начала XVIII века. В подземелье здания находится каменный мешок, где содержались узницы монастыря.

Первая каменная ограда появилась ещё в XVI веке, но позднее была перестроена, а в XX веке отреставрирована А. Д. Варгановым. Наиболее старая часть ограды с лишёнными декора шатровыми башнями XVII века находится в северной части монастыря и образует небольшой замкнутый дворик. Восьмигранные башни XVIII века с полусферическими куполами значительно живописнее и, возможно, первоначально также имели шатровое завершение.

Список основных построек:
 Покровский собор (1510—1518 гг.)
 Шатровая колокольня (XVI—XVII вв.)
 Святые ворота и надвратная Благовещенская церковь (1518 гг.)
 Трапезная палата с Зачатьевской церковью (1551 г.)
 Поварня (XVII век)
 Приказная изба (начало XVIII века)
 Каменная ограда с башнями XVII—XVIII века

Насельницы

 Святая София Суздальская, бывшая супруга Василия III, отца Ивана Грозного. Соломонию почитали как святую уже при сыне Ивана Грозного царе Фёдоре Иоанновиче

Узницы монастыря
 Члены княжеских и царских семей (погребения):
 Инокиня Александра (ум. 1525) — московская княжна, дочь Ивана III от 1-го брака. Возможно, была сослана после поражения своего единоутробного брата Ивана Молодого в интригах со второй женой отца Софьей Палеолог. Погребена в усыпальнице под собором.
 Инокиня Александра (княгиня Мария Волоцкая) — вдова последнего волоколамского князя Фёдора Борисовича, сына князя Бориса Васильевича (брата Ивана III). Московский князь конфисковал унаследованный ею от мужа удел и заточил наследницу. Погребена в усыпальнице под собором.
 Княгиня Евфимия Щемятичева и её дочери Евфросинья и Марфа — жена и дети князя Новгород-Северского Василия Ивановича Шемячича (внука Дмитрия Шемяки), скончавшегося в заточении в Москве. Погребены в усыпальнице под собором.
  Инокиня Софья (великая княгиня московская Соломония Сабурова) — жена Василия III, сосланная в монастырь за бездетность ради заключения второго брака с Еленой Глинской. Святая, мощи с конца XX века покоятся в соборе.
 Инокиня Александра (Анна Васильевна Бельская) — двоюродная сестра Василия III, рязанская княжна, дочь рязанской княгини, московской княжны Анны Васильевны и Василия Ивановича. Вдова литовского князя Фёдора Бельского. Причины ссылки не ясны, возможно, была замешана в событиях 1508—1510 гг., развернувшихся вокруг Дмитрия Внука, её племянника. Погребена в западной стороне около собора, после пристройки крыльца погребение оказалось под крылечной лестницей.
 Инокиня Евпраксия (Евдокия Александровна Старицкая-Нагая), первая жена князя Владимира Старицкого, двоюродного брата царя Ивана IV. Оказалась в монастыре после 4 лет брака и рождения 2 детей, после чего её муж быстро женился вновь.
 Ирина Михайловна Нагая, её племянница, дочь князя Михаила Александровича Нагого. Могилы их находятся в усыпальнице под соборным зданием.
  Инокиня Александра (царевна Евдокия Сабурова) — первая жена царевича Ивана Ивановича, сына Ивана IV. Сослана в монастырь, вероятно, за бесплодие. Могила находится в усыпальнице Покровского собора.
  Царица Анна Васильчикова — очередная жена Ивана Грозного, отставленная через год после свадьбы. Как царица, погребена в усыпальнице под Покровским собором в Суздале.
 Царевна Анастасия Васильевна (1610) — дочь Василия Шуйского. Младенец, умерший во время пребывания своей сосланной матери в монастыре.
 (погребены в другом месте):
 Инокиня Параскева (царевна Феодосия Соловая) — вторая жена царевича Ивана Ивановича, сосланная за неплодность (погребена в Вознесенском монастыре, Москва)
  Инокиня Елена (царица Мария Буйносова-Ростовская) — жена Василия Шуйского (была погребена в Суздале, но позже перезахоронена в Вознесенском монастыре, Москва)
 Инокиня Ольга (царевна Ксения Годунова) — дочь Бориса Годунова (погребена в Троице-Сергиевой Лавре). По некоторым указаниям, содержалась в этом монастыре в числе прочих
  Инокиня Елена (царица Евдокия Лопухина) — жена Петра I (погребена в Новодевичьем монастыре, Москва)
 Прочие:
 Жена воеводы Алексея Дмитриевича Басманова. Имя её ни в одних списках умерших и ссыльных женщин в Покровском монастыре не значатся. Место погребения было найдено случайно при раскопках около западной стены собора. Имя её не сохранилось на надгробии, а возможно, и совсем было не упомянуто. Возможно, её сослали в Суздаль в год казни мужа, то есть в 1569—1570 годах. Умерла она, судя по надписи, 14 сентября 1597 года.
 Инокиня Александра княжна Черкасская. При раскопках в западной части собора рядом с северной стеной крыльца была найдена надгробная плита с хорошо сохранившейся надписью: «Лета 7094 (1586) мая в 5 день на память святыя мученицы Ирины представися раба божия инока княжна Александра Черкаська». Таким образом, Александра Черкасская умерла в 1586 году 5 мая. Кто скрывается под этим именем, неизвестно. Можно предположить, что она происходила из рода Темрюка и сослана была в период репрессий Ивана Грозного над родом князей Черкасских в 1572 году.
 Шуйские:
 Марфа Скопина-Шуйская, жена князя Фёдора Ивановича Скопина-Шуйского, отправленного в ссылку и умершего в 1557 году. Могила её находится под лестницей западного крыльца Покровского собора.
 Княгиня Александра Горбатова-Кислая и её дочери Елена и Евфимия — жена и дети Андрея Михайловича Горбатого-Шуйского-Кислого. Её время ссылки неизвестно, муж был казнён 1 февраля 1565 года. Александра была сослана вскоре после этого с двумя малолетними дочерьми — Еленой и Евфимией, которые умерли в монастыре (первая 12 февраля 1576 года, а вторая 14 августа 1579 года). Вероятно, вместе с ними была сослана и их родственница Анисия Кислых. Инокиня Александра скончалась в марте 1593 года и похоронена вместе с дочерьми на западной стороне около собора. После пристройки крыльца их могилы оказались в подлестничном помещении западного крыльца.
 Княгиня Варсонофия — жена Василия Борисовича Горбатого-Шуйского. Происходила из рода Яковлевых-Захарьиных — дочь Василия Петровича Яковлева, казнённого в 1571 году. Вероятно, тогда же была сослана.
 Княгиня Екатерина Григорьевна Шуйская — жена Дмитрия Ивановича Шуйского (царского брата), дочь Малюты Скуратова. Умерла в польском плену с другими Шуйскими, её останки были выданы и погребены в монастыре.
 Княгиня Марфа Васильевна Шуйская — жена Ивана Ивановича Шуйского Пуговки, другого царского брата. Сестра царицы Марии Долгорукой — первой жены Михаила. Похоронена около собора.
 Княгиня Марфа Ивановна Татева, урождённая княжна Голицина. Обладала буйным характером и была сослана «на смирение», за участие в заговоре о разводе Ирины Годуновой с царём Фёдором в 1587 году. В Покровском монастыре ей были созданы привилегированные условия. Она была окружена многочисленными прислужниками, дьяками, правящими её владениями и хозяйством. Год её смерти и место погребения не установлены.
 Инокиня Александра (княгиня Анна Фёдоровна Ногтева) — вдова князя Даниила Андреевича Ногтева, дочь Марфы Татеевой. Добровольно постриглась после смерти мужа в 1600 году.
 Княжна Марфа Вяземская. Дочь И. И. Вяземского. Причина ссылки не известна, возможно, после казни её отца в 1570 году по делу обвинения Вяземских в «изменном деле». Была сослана под «строгий начал» проживавшей в то время в монастыре её тётки Тарсилы Товарищевой (дочери Ивана Ивановича Вяземского «старого»). В 1610 году, после занятия казаками Просовецкого города, смерти тётки и свержения Шуйского, княжна бежала из монастыря. Была задержана в апреле 1614 года в Нижнем Новгороде скачущей верхом на коне в мужской одежде. Донес на неё нижегородский воевода Владимир Иванович Бахтеяров-Ростовский. Она была поймана и отправлена обратно в Суздальский монастырь. Дальнейшая судьба неизвестна.
 Инокиня Леонида (княгиня Дарья Хованская). Жена князя Никиты Андреевича Хованского (женившегося после неё 2-й раз), сестра Дмитрия Пожарского. Её беспокойный нрав доставлял много неприятностей в монастыре. Дарья Пожарская-Хованская была пострижена 21 августа 1645 года и скончалась в сентябре 1646 года. Тело её перенесено в Спасо-Евфимиев монастырь (родовую усыпальницу Пожарских в восточной части Преображенского собора).
 Ядвига Даниловна Ченстоховская — польская шпионка.

Святыни
 мощи преподобной Софии Суздальской.
 иконы великомученика и целителя Пантелеимона, святого благоверного князя Петра и княгини Февронии, святителя Луки Крымского, святителя Николая Чудотворца, святой блаженной Матроны Московской с частицами их святых мощей.

Примечания

Литература
 Акты Покровского суздальского девичьего монастыря XVI — начала XVII века  / сост. А. В. Антонов, А. В. Маштафаров. — М.: Фонд «Связь эпох», 2019. — 464 с. — (Акты Российского государства. Государственные и корпоративные архивы России XIII—XVII веков. Т. III)
 Курганова Н. М. Страницы истории некрополя города Суздаля. — М.: Отдел внеш. церк. связей Моск. патриархата, 2007. — С. 35—64. — 120 с. — ISBN 978-5-9243-0161-7.
 Тихонравов К. Н. Материалы для истории и археологии. Лица, погребенные в Суздальском Покровском девичьем монастыре // Владимирские губернские ведомости. — 1854.
 Токмаков И. Историческое и археологическое описание Покровского девичьего монастыря, в городе Суздале (Владимирской губернии) в связи с житием преподобной чудотворицы Софии (в мире великой княгини Соломонии) и царицы инокини Елены (в мире Евдокии Феодоровны Лопухиной). — Москва : «Русская» типо-лит., 1889. — II, [2], 58, 87 с.

Ссылки
 Покровский монастырь на сайте Владимиро-Суздальского музея-заповедника
 Официальный сайт Свято-Покровского монастырь Суздаля
 Монастырь на Wikimapia
 Описание Покровского монастыря в Суздале

Женские монастыри
Монастыри Суздаля
Усыпальницы России
Появились в 1364 году
Четырёхстолпные монастырские храмы XVI века
Русская архитектура XVII века
Суздаль
Монастыри, основанные в XIV веке

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Michael Knott's only collaboration with his first wife. This is also a lower-budget album (with drum machines), but still solid. This album remind me of early Sixpence None the Richer, but of course it came out years before that.


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Every hen party needs a trendy restaurant with a great atmosphere and delicious food to set them up for their big night out!
Your 3 course meal also includes a drink from the bar. A sit down meal is a great choice for the hen party wanting a little tranquility before the storm.
Girls, you can't beat a curry, especially when it's 23℃ outside, apparently spicy food gives you heat at first and then your body cools right down - hence why they eat spicy food in hot countries - makes sense (disclaimer; the last fact may not be 100% factual, please feel free to Google it!).
The best way to set you up for your big hen night out in Benidorm.
A fantastic beachfront restaurant offering incredible, delicious, Italian cuisine for the hen party looking for an amazing meal before hitting the nightlife of Benidorm.
A Casino is a great hen party activity for the bride who likes a bit of gambling fun.
Make the hen feel special on his weekend with this activity.


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An example of a 777 cockpit fire, such as may have occurred to MH370. This fire, pictured, happened to an EgyptAir 777 while on the ground in Cairo in 2011.
I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving and over-ate abundantly, so as to give you sufficient energy for today's Black Friday sales. My daughter wants to go 'normal shopping' and I've had to persuade her to wait until the far side of the weekend's madness before getting within several blocks of any of the local malls.
I'm extending the Black Friday theme into one of the two articles added to this morning's roundup newsletter. Certainly, online, 'Black Friday' is becoming much more a fuzzy type of entire week of alleged bargains, followed of course by the new 'Cyber Monday' concept immediately afterwards. We're already seeing amazing deals on Amazon, including Kindles for as little as $49.99 and Fire tablets (the 7″ tablet is as low as $33.33, but our pick is the new 8″ tablet, if it can still be had for $59.99 instead of the regular $89.99 price – that's an astonishing steal of a deal – see our review of the 8″ Fire here), plus plenty of not-so-amazing "deals" on products that seem to be little discounted off their normal pricing.
We also expect to see some sales of smart watches. With total smart watch sales dropping rather than increasing in the last year, and a whole bunch of new improved models expected out in the next few months, that's surely a recipe for some price drops on the current crop of products. We've always desperately wanted a smart watch, but struggle as we might, we've also never seen the sense in buying one.
Have the steady stream of incremental improvements, combined with general drifting downwards of prices, changed this? Should you buy a smart watch if you find one on sale at present? For answers to those questions, please read the very detailed article that follows.
In terms of 'please read', I recognize that releasing new Travel Insider tours on Thanksgiving week probably shows less than a great sense of timing. But please do consider the two tours we released last Friday – our June 2017 Scotland's Islands and Highlands Tour, and our July 2017 Australia/NZ Family Tour.
Note also that I've managed to trim the cost of the 2017 Family Tour substantially, so even if you looked at it last week, please return to it again now.
One couple who are looking to join the Scotland tour were speaking with Icelandair about their travel dates earlier this week, and were surprised to learn that the airlines flights in June/July are already filling up. They – like me – see clear benefits to Icelandair, which with its flights through Reykjavik and direct to Glasgow allow you to avoid going through any of the potential trouble spots in the European mainland next summer. So please do think about this some more very soon, while you have air options and I still have hotel options.
There's also another article after the newsletter, rebutting one of the strange mistruths and misunderstandings that seem to obscure a full and fair understanding of the exciting appeal of battery-electric vehicles. Meanwhile, in a recent piece of good news for battery-electric vehicles (BEV), former BEV skeptic Toyota announced a day ago that it has made a discovery that might extend battery capacity by 15%, and which could be on sale within a couple of years. A 15% improvement might not seem like much, but add this 15% improvement to all the other incremental improvements which are appearing, and almost every month sees BEV technology move another step forward towards not just competing with internal combustion powered vehicles, but soundly beating them.
And what else this week? Please keep reading below for :
Very Detailed and Credible Explanation for MH370 Disappearance
Even Emirates Being Impacted by New Low Cost Airlines
Richest Man in Australia Accused of TripAdvisor Cheating
Airbnb to Add More Travel Services. Expansion? Or Loss of Focus?
Airbnb to 'Partner' with Chinese Company
Australia's Attempt to Increase Fee on International Travel Fails
Remember the mysterious disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines 777 being operated as flight MH370, way back on 8 March 2014?
After disappearing off the radar, the plane was subsequently established to have flown a bizarre route before settling into a steady south easterly direction and disappearing somewhere into the Southern Ocean. A massive, and still ongoing search, has failed to locate the plane's remains, although pieces of it are now starting to wash up on shares around the western Pacific rim.
While we totally don't know exactly what happened – or perhaps because we don't know what happened – there has been no shortage of possible explanations offered up. Some are simple – pilot suicide or terrorist attack – and others are fanciful in the extreme, involving state level actions by major powers such as Russia or the US.
As well as attracting fairly wild speculation, it has also attracted the sincere focus of people with very credible backgrounds and detailed knowledge, and indeed, these 'enthusiastic amateurs' have often been at the forefront of determining what little is currently accepted and known about the mysterious disappearance.
On the one hand, the matter is now 2.5 years behind us, and would seem to be a 'one off' event, whatever it was, and therefore of little interest or impact on us, today and tomorrow. But on the other hand, we are talking about the total loss of a common type of plane which many of us regularly fly, and if there's an underlying airplane weakness or vulnerability, either in the form of something that might accidentally go wrong or something that can be deliberately interfered with, we should understand what this is so we can ensure it doesn't happen again.
A new theory has been making its way to the forefront of discussion about the event which makes for compelling and very credible reading. In brief, the theory is that the plane's windshield caught fire, destroying the cockpit, the flight controls, and the communication equipment.
What's that, you say? How can a windshield catch fire? Glass doesn't burn! Well, that is all true, but cockpit windshields have heaters inside them, and it is the heaters that can cause a fire, with at least 39 such fires to Boeing 757, 767 and 777 planes being reported (and the suggestion of more unreported) between 2002 and 2014 , including more than would be randomly expected to planes in the same build series as the MH370 777.
Here's the very detailed explanation of how a windshield fire might occur and result in the strange observed behaviors and ultimate total loss of the plane (and the illustration at the start of this newsletter shows the type of conflagration that could occur – a problem made still worse when the cockpit windscreen breaks). Or, if you prefer, here's a summary explanation to introduce you to the concept.
It is an interesting and changing dynamic that speaks poorly to the US marketplace and regulation, but whereas a couple of decades ago, domestic flights within the US were marked by a reasonable amount of competition, while international flights were less competitive, that scenario has more or less flipped around.
Now there's almost no competition domestically within the US, and while it is probably fair to say there is not much competition internationally – particularly as a result of the dozens of airlines around the world obediently aligning themselves into three more or less equal groupings, there are more airlines now operating disruptively on international routes than there are domestically.
Some of these disruptive airlines compete on service rather than cost. Emirates itself – an airline that has come from nowhere (founded in 1985) to now currently be the world's fourth largest (by at least one of the several measures that can be used) – and if it keeps growing, may become the world's largest in only a few more years) is definitely disruptive, but it has grown primarily through providing a high quality/value product rather than by being a low cost airline. It has also been one of the world's most profitable airlines, with a US$1.24 billion profit in its 2014/15 fiscal year.
But its profit plunged 64% during its most recent half year. The reason? The airline says it is facing increasing competition on its long-haul international routes by low cost competitors. With open-skies treaties making it easier for new airlines to operate on routes that once were exclusively reserved for national 'flag carriers', and with the lazy non-competition between the Star, Oneworld and Sky alliance members, new airlines are challenging the traditional dinosaur brands and seeking to pluck some of the lowest lying fruit off the international travel tree.
This article, while explaining the phenomenon, also points out that there is one set of routes that have remained largely immune to the impacts of low-cost international airline competition. Inexplicably, those routes are to/from the US and the rest of the world. Strangely, the country that most prides itself on free markets and fair competition has less effective airline competition than most other countries.
Well, no, that shouldn't be a surprise. With bona fide airlines and totally compliant applications to add more air service to the US – such as that presented by Norwegian Air, and the massive delays and non-responses received from our Department of Transportation in return, our government is showing itself to be not one iota 'for the people' while resolutely 'for the US dinosaur airlines and their unions'.
However, the exciting thing is that surely there's only so long the DoT can delay this particular tide. How much longer before sufficient people find it impossible to ignore the inconvenient truth that better air travel options and lower fares can be found in other countries but are not available in the US?
Known as 'High-rise Harry', Harry Triguboff is considered to be the richest man in Australia (as an aside, Australia's richest person is actually a woman, Gina Rinehart), and has an estimated net worth of US$7.5 billion, much of which relates to his success as a property developer and serviced apartment/hotelier. He claims to be Australia's largest provider of hotel rooms, with a total inventory of more than 4,500 suites in 18 locations.
But in spite of – or perhaps because of – this, his company apparently is very sensitive to the risk of negative TripAdvisor reviews. The company (like many others) has an arrangement with TripAdvisor whereby all guests are solicited for feedback after a stay, but it is alleged that in cases where the company fears the possibility of a negative review, it will send TripAdvisor a deliberately mistaken email address for the guest so that TripAdvisor's solicitation for a review is never received.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has now brought a legal action against Harry's company (Meriton Property Services) alleging that it has been engaged in 'misleading or deceptive conduct in connection with the posting of reviews of its properties on TripAdvisor' over a one year period. The company denies the charges.
Airbnb has been spectacularly successful, and deservedly so. It is a poster child example of how the internet and its 'disintermediation' can create entirely new business models. As you probably know, Airbnb provides a way for ordinary homeowners to rent out a spare room to guests, becoming, in effect, a one or two room micro-hotel/bed and breakfast. Homeowners get a new source of income, and travelers get efficient access to a large inventory of alternate accommodation options over and above the usual hotel type choices.
Its latest round of capital raising was on the basis of a $30 billion valuation, an extraordinary sum for a company with no assets. This is an interesting article contrasting Airbnb's valuation with that of 'real' hotel companies.
The company is private, so little is known of its financials, and similarly, little is known about why it continues to raise so much extra capital (potentially up to $1 billion this year). One would assume that a company with very few assets could only command a $30 billion valuation if it is ridiculously profitable. But you know what they say about assuming!
This week sees interesting news that the company is about to expand its offering beyond simply connecting people looking for a room with people with a spare room keen to take in a paying guest for a few nights. This seems to imply the company has spare cash sloshing around and no clear view of how to spend it.
The company says it now wants to start offering 'Experiences' (note the capital E) to its customers. CEO Brian Chesky said "We realized we needed to create a holistic experience, for the whole trip".
A 'holistic experience'? Is that exactly what a person looking for a cheap room for a couple of nights is actually wishing to find on Airbnb? Is this a relevant appropriate extension of the Airbnb brand, or hubris writ large?
I've found that the more 'ambitious' a travel company becomes in what it seeks to offer, the more likely it is to spectacularly fail. It has consistently seemed that the more specialized a traveler's requirements, the more specialized a service they seek to fulfill their requirements. In other words, the market for specialized travel is both very small and very demanding. General travel sites are invariably unable to scale to meet the detailed interests and informational demands of specialized travelers.
Let's hope that Airbnb doesn't become the latest example of this trend. But switching from a 'new economy' business model to becoming instead a traditional online travel agency hardly seems like a recipe to continue commanding sky-high valuations. As an interesting comparison, publicly traded Expedia (which also includes subsidiaries such as Travelocity, Orbitz, Hotwire, CheapTickets, HomeAway, and assorted other brands) is only worth two thirds the value ascribed to Airbnb ($19 billion compared to $30 billion).
Another measure also points to the astonishingly high valuation ascribed to Airbnb (and which hints at how any move into more traditional type activities will surely threaten this). Airbnb is thought to have about 2500 employees (ie each employee represents $12 million in stock value – a number not unlike some other high tech companies such as Google and Uber). Expedia has over 18,000 (ie each employee represents $1 million in stock value – a number not unlike some other new economy companies such as Apple). Still more traditional style companies such as General Motors shows about a quarter million dollars in stock value per employee, and IBM about $500,000.
In other Airbnb news, the company has announced plans to partner with (or, more specifically, to buy out) a Chinese competitor, Xiaozhu, so as to hopefully succeed at breaking in to the Chinese market.
If this sounds familiar, it might remind you of Uber's failed attempts to enter China, culminating in eventually selling its Chinese business to local competitor Didi after expensive and failed attempts to compete. Or Google's failures. Or Facebook's latest gyrations and submissions to Chinese censorship in an attempt to get into a market it has not yet managed to break into. Lots of examples of failures by western companies to break into the Chinese market are provided here.
Xiaozhu is not the Chinese market leader in Airbnb type services, and is quite a distant way behind the leading company, Tujia, which has more than four times as many listings, and very deep pocketed backers. So the success of this alliance is far from assured.
It is very hard for any company that isn't majority owned by Chinese interests to compete in China. Will Airbnb become the exception to this rule? Or is it suffering from a simultaneous second attack of hubris?
A beloved source of income to rapacious governments, always seeking sources of more money to spend/waste, is to add fees (a 'fee' sounds nicer than a 'tax') to allegedly wealthy people such as international travelers. Taxes on international travel are particularly tempting because in most cases, it is reasonable to guess that half the people paying the tax are foreigners who don't vote.
So we've seen an explosion in fees levied on international travelers. When I first started traveling between the US and other countries, 30 years ago, the total taxes were either $4.95 or $9.95 on an international ticket (I forget which). That number has steadily climbed, both in absolute dollar terms and also when expressed as a percentage of the related airfare, but even as recently as the end of the 1990s was still usually only $19.95 per roundtrip ticket.
While the fees successively added to our tickets have generally been described as being required so as to provide 'better services' for international travelers (shall I pause for a minute here until you recover from your fit of laughing) or – even more mirthfully, in the case of Britain, to combat global warming, the reality and truth is that the largest part of all such fees simply vanishes without trace into the government coffers without helping the hapless people who were forced to pay it.
Any careful study, ever conducted, has always consistently and clearly shown that such levies on the cost of travel do more harm than good. By making travel more expensive, fewer people travel, and spend less money in the country they'd otherwise have visited. The extra $10 or whatever of fee – a small sum that seems 'harmless' to governments, eventually becomes a tipping point that results in the loss of a $5000 or more total expenditure by the visitor who has turned away from the country adding the fee.
This also happens regionally. Cities, counties, and states that add extra charges to hotel bills or whatever else invariably end up losing more money overall than is gained from the fee. But because the fee income can be measured, and flows directly to the taxing authority, while the overall loss of total travel revenues is harder to exactly establish, and harms the region's economy as a vague whole rather than the taxing authority specifically, the various authorities who levy such fees don't really care at all and continue to add more and more fees, no matter what the consequences of their selfish short-sighted actions.
The Australian government decided that it would increase the fee it levies on every international traveler from an already hefty A$55 to A$60. It's only another A$5, they reasoned, and hardly noticeable on an international airfare.
But this time, rather than trying to use reason and business studies to combat the proposal, the Australian 'Tourism Task Force' (an industry lobbying group) came up with an Infographic to explain the issue in simple form. Like most infographics, some of the information is a bit distorted and/or oblique, but the pictures are pretty and the apparent message clear. You can see it featured in this article.
A couple of the headline points it makes are interesting. The fee brings the government four times the income it needs to fund the alleged purpose of the fee, and has grown to a point where it now can be half the price of a discounted international ticket to NZ.
I'm not sure if one should be delighted (at the result) or dismayed (at the low-information methodology required), but the final outcome saw the Australian government narrowly vote against increasing the fee.
The never-ending saga of Britain's inability to decide what to do about its ever-more-desperate need for more international air service, and the related on-again/off-again twists and turns of maybe/maybe not an extra runway being added to Heathrow took an amusing twist this week. British Airways apparently realized, for the first time, that if a third runway is added to Heathrow – something it generally supports – the flight path to the runway would be such that its own world headquarters building, only recently completed in 1998, and at a cost of £200 million, would have to be demolished.
Adding further mirth to this merriment is that, due to the way that the costs of the airport expansion project would be passed on to the airlines involved, in effect BA would have to itself pay the costs of demolishing its lovely new headquarters building.
In other humorous airport news, here's a futuristic piece that predicts, with not a single smiley face to be seen, that the airport of the future will offer ultra-fast security processing and no more lines to check in. Technological developments and more self-service options will bring this all about, we are told.
I've got to call BS on this prediction. First of all, most of us already know that it takes us as long or longer to self-checkin for a flight than it used to take when standing opposite a checkin agent at a counter. Secondly, we also know that the most significant 'non-change' has been from not enough agents to check everyone in to now not enough machines to self-check in with, or not enough agents to accept our already tagged bags, or some other bottleneck, somewhere else in the checkin process. Speeding up one part of the process is only a benefit if all other parts of the process don't become new bottlenecks.
To suggest this will all disappear in the next couple of decades is nonsense, very much like the predictions that new airplane layouts will include shopping arcades, food courts, bars, casinos, and other space-consuming attractions. All these predictions were made of the A380, and before that, of the 747, but no matter how big the plane, airlines invariably decide they'd rather fill it with seats than with recreational amenities.
In the case of airports, to ensure no lines would require more physical space for checking in more people at once, and more equipment, and more staff (even after the automation). The reason that checking in and security all takes time at present is nothing to do with technology. It is simply because it is cheaper for the airlines, the airports, and the security services to have fewer people all steadily working than it is to staff up to handle the peaks of demand rather than smoothing them out via a requirement to stand in line.
It is the economics of the process that will never change. And therefore, so too will the need to stand in line never disappear.
Oh – and one side effect of taking a very long time in an airport? The need to use its facilities. In which context, good news for passengers traveling through MSP. Its restrooms, or at least some of them, have been awarded the title of 2016 Best Restrooms in America.
I'd like to see the runner-up restroom at Coca-Cola Park in Allentown, PA. The mind boggles as to exactly what the 'hands-free, motion-controlled, urinal gaming system' there might be….
Until next week, please enjoy safe travels

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ARC: The 'Ohana Tree by Rebecca Addison
19 Apr 2016 19 Apr 2016 Miriam Michelle3 Comments
Author: Rebecca Addison
Genre: Romance, Contemporary
Links: Goodreads | Amazon
Goodreads Synopsis: The first book in the 'Ohana Series by Rebecca Addison.
On a small island in Hawaii, twenty-eight-year-old Kai is contemplating his life.
He's a talented singer-songwriter, stuck playing other people's music for tourists at the local bar. With his own songs and with that voice, he has the potential to be the next big thing. But as much as he lives and breathes to play music, Kai knows he will never leave the island to pursue his dream.
On an old bus rumbling along a winding road, a girl named Tessa looks out the window. She sees frog-green plants clinging to the side of sheer cliffs, snatches of a bright blue sea. She's come to Hawaii to reconnect with the only person who really knows her. And to escape. She's a winged seed on the breeze, never settling long enough to grow and put down roots.
In her second novel, Rebecca Addison tells a soul-stirring story about family loyalty, love and loss, long-held secrets and the chance for new beginnings.
I was kindly provided the arc by the author for my honest opinion. One of my new years resolution was to read more indie authors, and luckily this book fits the criteria. I'm trying to read different genres, instead of sticking with the same old genre.
The 'Ohana Tree begins with Kai, an inspiring musician that constantly puts his family's needs above his own. Kai's father and brother rely on him on just about everything. Kai dreams of leaving the island and pursuing his dream. Kai is stuck on the island and he doesn't believe that he'll ever leave.
Perhaps that was the problem. Nothing out of the ordinary ever happened to me. I was still young, my body strong and my head full of dreams and ideas. But I felt old, and my world grew smaller and smaller each passing year. There were expectations. That I would stay on the island. That I would look after our land. That I would watch over my family.
One day he meets Tessa, an equally gifted musician who constantly travels. Kai is immediately captivated by Tessa, especially her music.
She was free, spontaneous, curious and independent. It made me happy. But it felt risky, too. I knew that I was in a dangerous waters with Tess. There was a real chance that she was going to give me a glimpse of a a magical, high definition version of my life, only to leave me to live out the one I had instead.
Tessa is a girl who doesn't want to fall in love because she has many failed relationships. Tessa is attracted to Kai as well, but she knows that she'll end up hurting him if they start a relationship. Tessa decides to push Kai away, but Kai never gives up on her. Kai and Tessa manage to form a relationship even though both protagonists have tragic backstories.
I haven't read in a male point of view in such a long time, so it was a refreshing change. As for the characters, I really liked them equally, but if I had to pick my favorite, it would be Kai. Kai was the perfect boyfriend to Tessa. He hardly has any faults. He sacrifices his needs and puts others above him. Kai loves his 'ohana more than anything. Though Tess wants to keep her privacy, Kai never gives up on her. Both characters bring out the best in each other. Tess made Kai feel that anything was possible, especially leaving the island behind. While Kai helped changed Tess' perspective on love and family. Kai and Tess' relationship is really stable, though there were some moments that they bickered.
The secondary characters were just as great. I felt sad for Kai's father. Though Kai never had a loving relationship with his father, his father cared deeply for him. Tess saw another side to Kai's father that Kai was not seeing.
Why do you do that?
Make it sound like he's this callous, evil man. You don't have to thank me for hanging out with him, Kai. I like him and I like spending time up there.
Akamu (Kai's younger brother) is very supportive of Kai's relationship with Tess. There were many funny interactions with Akamu being a third wheel.
Before I started reading The 'Ohana Tree, I didn't know what to expect. After reading the first book, I was amazed at how emotionally invested I was with the characters and their situations. Also, this book had several steamy moments. I really enjoyed reading The 'Ohana Tree and I can't wait for the sequel. This book felt more like something I would take on the beach, and it's set in Hawaii.
My favorite quote:
Ohana isn't just your blood, Tess. It's the family you choose for yourself. Family isn't just the people who made you; it's the people who love you.
Final Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Website: http://rebeccaaddison.com/
Advanced Reader Copy, Contemporary, Indie Author, may 2016 book release, realistic fiction, Rebecca Addison, Romance, set in Hawaii, The 'Ohana Tree
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Mystery Date with a Book says:
20 Apr 2016 at 4:57 am
Great review! I feel like adding it to my TBR list now 🙂
Awesome!!! 😀
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Port-Cros (fransk:Île de Port-Cros) er en af de tre hovedøer Îles d'Hyères i i Middelhavet ud for den franske Riviera i regionen Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. Øerne ligger ca. ti kilometer ud for kysten, øst for Toulon. Øen udgør kerneområdet i Parc national de Port-Cros.

Historie
Da øen på grund af sin smukke natur, i 1920'erne var truet af intensivt hotelbebyggelse testamenterede ejerfamilien af øen til den franske stat på betingelse af at der blev oprettet en nationalpark; denne blev oprettet i 1963.

Her opholdt kunstnere som Paul Valéry og André Gide sig om sommeren. Ind til i dag er den tidligere herregård Maison d'Hélène eneste hotel på øen. Den tidligere franske præsident François Mitterrand kom ofte på øen, en gang sammen med daværende Bundeskanzler Helmut Kohl.

Eksterne kilder og henvisninger

 Officiel website for nationalparken

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Home / Uncategorized / LEGO Dimensions enters its second year with new characters and a new portal – Ghostbusters reboot brings the film experience
LEGO Dimensions enters its second year with new characters and a new portal – Ghostbusters reboot brings the film experience
Uncategorized Admin 09 Jun , 2016 0
Hardly a secret now due to rumour and leaks, but the new packs making up LEGO Dimensions' second year have been revealed, and, they're quite something.
Starting on September 30 sixteen new packs will become available for the game starting with Harry Potter and Adventure Time level packs (characters, vehicle, item and level) and an A-TEAM fun pack (character, vehicle and item).
Additionally to this, the game will be getting a tie-in with the upcoming Ghostbusters movie reboot. This will feature a Chinese restaurant overlay for your portal along with Melissa McCarthy's character Abby Yates and the new Ecto-1 vehicle. The pack is something entirely new for LEGO Dimensions in that it's a Story pack, making it the game of the movie.
After this initial flurry we'll see movie based packs on the LEGO Batman Movie and the upcoming Harry Potter follow up Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find them. After that we can expect old skool favourites like The Goonies, Beetlejuice, Gremlins, Knight Rider and E.T. not to mention Cartoon Network's Powerpuff Girls and Teen Titans GO!
But, possibly the biggest surprise is the inclusion of SEGA's mascot, the cocky blue hedgehog Sonic, seen at the end of the above trailer stealing The One Ring away from Gollum.
If you thought they would stop there you'd be mistaken too. In a first for the LEGO games, you'll be able to take part in 4 player split screen co-op with new battle arenas. The minifigures within the new toy packs will come with special golden tags that will unlock arenas based on the franchise they belong to. Each arena will come with a set of modes and hazards specific to their brand.
Phew, that was a lot to take in. There's a lot to be excited about if you're a LEGO Dimensions fan, and a lot of money to be spent.
I just hope my son doesn't find out.
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Q: Find all computers on network using NetServerEnum() Am trying to find all computers on network. The following code is working fine for Win7-32bit, but giving following error for Win7-64bit.
NetServerEnum() is returning code -6118.
public sealed class NetworkBrowser
{
    [DllImport("Netapi32", CharSet = CharSet.Auto, SetLastError = true), SuppressUnmanagedCodeSecurityAttribute]
    public static extern int NetServerEnum(
        string serverName,
        int dwLevel,
        ref IntPtr pBuf,
        int dwPrefMaxLen,
        out int dwEntriesRead,
        out int dwTotalEntries,
        int dwServerType,
        string domain,
        out int dwResumeHandle
        );

    [DllImport("Netapi32", SetLastError = true), SuppressUnmanagedCodeSecurity]
    public static extern int NetApiBufferFree(IntPtr pBuf);

    [StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)]
    public struct ServerInfo100
    {
        internal int sv100_platform_id;
        [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPWStr)]
        internal string sv100_name;
    }

    public static ArrayList GetNetworkComputers()
    {
        ArrayList networkComputers = new ArrayList();
        const int MAX_PREFERRED_LENGTH = -1;
        int SV_TYPE_WORKSTATION = 1;
        int SV_TYPE_SERVER = 2;
        IntPtr buffer = IntPtr.Zero;
        IntPtr tmpBuffer = IntPtr.Zero;
        int entriesRead;
        int totalEntries;
        int resHandle;
        int sizeofInfo = Marshal.SizeOf(typeof(ServerInfo100));

        try
        {
            int ret = NetServerEnum(null, 100, ref buffer,
                                    MAX_PREFERRED_LENGTH, out entriesRead, out totalEntries,
                                    SV_TYPE_WORKSTATION | SV_TYPE_SERVER, null, out resHandle);

            if (ret == 0)
            {
                for (int i = 0; i < totalEntries; i++)
                {
                    tmpBuffer = new IntPtr((int)buffer +(i * sizeofInfo));

                    ServerInfo100 svrInfo = (ServerInfo100)
                                               Marshal.PtrToStructure(tmpBuffer,
                                                                      typeof(ServerInfo100));
                    networkComputers.Add(svrInfo.sv100_name);
                }
            }
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            return null;
        }
        finally
        {
            NetApiBufferFree(buffer);
        }
        return networkComputers;
    }
}

I've Googled a lot for it, but haven't found any solution for this scenario.

A: I think, this answers your question exactly.
Retrieving a list of network computer names using C# - Code project article comment

Bug and resolution - designmaistro - 25-Feb-14 23:46
I've read, that some people had an issue using this piece of code on x64 based systems. It is probably related to pointer operations, more precisely this line is where the code breaks:
tmpBuffer = new IntPtr((int)buffer + (i * sizeofINFO));
Because on x64 systems the address space is 64 bits in width, the code should be changed to the following:
tmpBuffer = new IntPtr((long)buffer + (i * sizeofINFO));
After this change everything should work fine.
Best regards!

A: may be this will help
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/1107608f-ef56-4719-a5e5-f6966d111043/win32-api-compatibility-on-windows-7-64-bit?forum=winforms
it says
"When youset the Target Platform of your application is 'AnyCPU', byt default it will run in 64bit mode on 64bit machines and runs in 32 bit mode on 32bit machines. Now, assume that your app is running in 64 bit mode and at some point of time, it has to invoke some API or code that is specific to 32 bit machines (like your PrintDlg API). But, since your process is already running in 64 bit mode, your 32 bit code cannot be loaded and hence it will fail.
Byt setting Target platform to x86 - your application will always run in 32 bit mode on both 32 & 64 bit machines. Since, the application is always running in 32 bit mode, your 32 bit components or API can also be invoked without any problem. Now, the only problem is - if you have any 64bit specific component, it cannot be invoked (because 64 bit code cannot be run in 32 bit process). But I don't think this can be a problem to you are designing your app specifically for 64 bit machines."

A: Your function was worked completely by using this annotation :
[DllImport("Netapi32", CharSet = CharSet.Unicode, SetLastError = true)]

instead :
[DllImport("Netapi32", CharSet = CharSet.Auto, SetLastError = true), SuppressUnmanagedCodeSecurityAttribute]

Regards.

A: int ret = NetServerEnum(null, 100, ref buffer,
                                    MAX_PREFERRED_LENGTH, out entriesRead, out totalEntries,
                                    SV_TYPE_WORKSTATION | SV_TYPE_SERVER, null, out resHandle);
You need to pass domainname to the initialization
int ret = NetServerEnum(null, 100, ref buffer,
                                    MAX_PREFERRED_LENGTH, out entriesRead, out totalEntries,
                                    SV_TYPE_WORKSTATION | SV_TYPE_SERVER, domainName, out resHandle);
And it works perfectly
Thanks

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One of the Dudley puppies doing the Craney Hill Way.
A very special fun weekend at Craney Hill. Rich was able to handle his new dog DJ in the field and also do obedience drills with the help of Todd this weekend. Rich and Sarah drove all the way out from Boston to have some fun at Craney Hill and to enjoy their new dog.
DJ still has more training to do here at Craney Hill, so I'm sure the ride home to Boston will be long for Rich as he will be missing his dog. There are some big plans for this team so keep an eye out on our news page.
Indie Doing The Craney Hill Way!
Here is an awesome photo of Indie who is from Boston doing her version of The Craney Hill Way. Thank you Sarah for sending in this wonderful photo. Indie has spent many months with us at Craney Hill for her field training. Indie and her owner Rich are planning on a hunting trip out west chasing wild pheasants and sharp tail. We look forward to seeing many photos of that hunting trip.
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For those of you that wonder why we sell our dogs I think this photo tells it all.
Posted on August 31, 2017 Author Spaniel TrainerCategories Client News, English Springer Spaniels, SpanielsTags springers2 Comments on Alder Update!
Heidi is a complete joy to us and by far the best dog we have ever had. Heidi seems to have adjusted very well to life in NYC, particularly since we live across the street from Riverside Park. She seems to have a dual personality: In our apartment she's the "love bunny", always wanting to be with us (she sleeps between us) and showing enormous affection. She seems to think of herself as the "furry person" member of the family. We run her every morning in the park and she is in very good condition. However, in the field she's all business. As soon as the shotgun cases come out she knows it's time to go to work and all thought of anything but chasing birds seems to leave her mind. Living in the city, this combination works very well for us.
Corinne & I would like to thank you again for selling us a very well trained dog. She's total joy. You two are the best. If we ever move out of the city, we'll be coming to see you for a second springer.
Sully is doing well. He has turned into an incredibly sweet dog who is now fully integrated into house life as well as farm life. He loves his weekly egg from the chicken coop and all the hickory nuts, walnuts, etc that begin to cover the ground this time of year. By the way he is very popular with all our guests who cannot get over how handsome he is.


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Pita with imagination
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Target, the production of the best pita for souvlaki in the market.
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• The most modern unit of dough production, with capacity of 25000 pieces/hour in a roofed building of 3500 sq. m.
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• Young, qualified people with visions and ideas
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Our products appear in more and more consumption points, like restaurants, hotels, coffee shops, retail food stores and supermarkets.
Furthermore, we sign contracts with food industries, satisfying their need for the best quality result.
The contact of Evangelos Kolios with the pita industry was made in 1981, when he started to work as a constructor of pita-making machinery. In this course, in 1989, he worked in the company Elviart, in a shareholding position, taking up the production management of the plant. Soon he excelled, which had an obvious positive impact in the final product.
His passion, his commitment and his techniques were transferred to his sons, who became the successors of his work.
The craftsmanship and the experience of the father were combined with the freshness and the "desire" of the new generation, and together they constituted the ingredients for the recipe of success.
New flavors, new shapes, new uses, new perspectives have transformed the favorite traditional pita into an entirely new product in the hands of the Kolios family. This project has been embraced by the market, increasing the popularity of the products of the "Pites Kolios S.A." company and rewarding the efforts of its founders. In this way, the family has braced themselves with greater desire, but also with increased food for thought.
Fluffy pitas for souvlaki, most delicious bases for pizza, new proposals for sandwiches, ideas for including pita in pastries or anything else you can imagine, "Pites Kolios S.A." is here to offer it to you. With fresh proposals and smart solutions, it promises to cover any gustatory and corporate need.
Our company applies Quality System according to ISO 22000:2005.
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Main › Metaphysics and Paranormal › Psychic Development Forums › awakened= more anxiety?
Dale 1 year, 3 months ago.
Hi everyone! I am really happy I found this community! Does anyone else feel more anxiety the more you become "awakened"? I find myself lately unable to be in large crowds, im feeling EVERYONE's energy and its so overwheming!! any advice?
I'll chime in on this one! I've seen many people over the years experience this type of thing. You start meditating, messing with the chakras, and then BAM! You become a psychic sponge. You pick up on unnecessary junk from people. Crowds are overwhelming. Hospitals are a nightmare.
Many systems of metaphysical training refer to this as getting "flooded." All this information comes into you. Maybe it effects your energy level. Maybe you get physical pains in your own body from people around you. Maybe you start getting depressed.
The good news is that this type of thing usually isn't because of an increased awareness. Rather, it's increased awareness, With No Control.
Psychic and Intuitive ability can be powerful and helpful in your life. When you shift into a higher level of awareness, these abilities become more accurate and useful. Spiritual awareness is like nothing else, right? But I'd suggest, when you don't need them, Bring Yourself Back Down. You might be able to get away with walking around in an elevated state all day, but you also might suffer the effects of this.
I've met a lot of psychics and people into developing spiritual awareness who have cuts and bruises all over their legs. I know, it's strange isn't it? I can confidently say the reason why is they are walking around all day bumping into furniture. They are constantly in a higher states, spaced out, not grounded. This isn't necessary, or healthy.
In fact, if you aren't careful, you could do what many people have done – put up a subconscious block, a defense mechanism, which blocks all spiritual awareness. Your inner self says "this is too much" and then takes steps to fix the problem, without your permission.
When I walk into a large crowd or cancer ward of a hospital, I pull all my attention into my body. Try condensing your awareness this way. Shut off all curiosity. Pull your focus internally. If you can't figure out how to do this on your own, get some training. We offer this here.
There is no reason to live a limited life because you have more spiritual awareness than the average person. That's crazy. You should be able to go where you want, and do what you want.
I regularly work with clients on a psychic level (including cops, doctors, CEOs, etc), and when I'm done, I'm done. I can go wherever I need to go – crowds, hospitals, situations around toxic people. And it doesn't effect me. This is simply because I training and experience which allows me to control myself. I'm not bragging, just trying to give you and idea of what's possible.