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|No. It wasn't crazy at all. After I heard that story, it all made sense. The voice in my head. The two me's. There was only ever one real me all the time. Russell Smith. That's who I am. That's who I've always been.
— Kestler to Aidan Donahue
Willie Kestler was an abductor, one-time cop killer, and serial killer and copycat of Russell Smith-turned-spree killer who appeared in the Season Eight episode "Perennials".
"My grandpa always said I had the Devil inside me...the soul of a killer..."
On January 19, 1988, during Kestler's birth at Hobson Regional Medical Center in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, which was two weeks after he was due, his mother Beverly required a C-section to get him out. Simultaneous to his birth, a serial killer named Russell Smith was rushed to the same hospital, mortally wounded from a shootout with police. Smith was placed next to Beverly in the emergency room. Just as Kestler was removed from Beverly's womb, Smith died from his wounds, something that was observed by Beverly's father Bill (who presumably found out the nature of Smith's death afterwards and became unhinged by that). When Kestler was five, Beverly died, leaving Kestler under the care of Bill, who was extremely abusive towards Kestler, repeatedly accusing him of having "the Devil" inside of him and having the soul of a killer. A few years before the events in Perennials, right before Bill died of an unspecified cause, he told Kestler about everything that happened on the day of Kestler's birth. Intrigued, Kestler became an avid researcher of reincarnation, a religious concept in which the spirit of a body that has died travels into the body of a newborn. As a result, Kestler became convinced that he is the reincarnated form of Smith.
Three months prior to Perennials, in Chandler, Arizona, where Kestler had a residence, Kestler was injured in a one-car accident. He claimed that someone cut his brake lines, wanting the Chandler police to figure out who did it. The police found no sign of foul play, but Kestler was obsessed with it. For weeks, Kestler kept showing up at the local police station, saying that someone was after him, but was ignored. That was the trigger that got Kestler to travel to the Deep South and start killing people that he believed were reincarnated forms of the eight prostitutes that Smith killed because he believed that one of Smith's victims had come back to get him. Kestler started by killing Charlie Clayton, a resident of a rundown neighborhood in Gulfport, Mississippi, and Nina "Floressa" Skinner, a member of a religious sect in Citronelle, Alabama. In both crime scenes, he leaves behind larvae and animal hair he brought, ensuring that the two would never come back in human form.
"One of you found out where I was, and you tried to come and cut off my brakes, and kill me. So I had to find you. All eight of you."
In the episode, Kestler recreates a scar prominent on Smith's jaw and confronts a waitress named Brianna Wells later that day in Pensacola, Florida, calling her "Carol". Brianna becomes uneasy around Kestler and offers him the free food he requested. The following night, he ambushes Brianna in her car and kills her. Later, he arrives at a house, intending to kill one of the residents named Ted Sissler. Kestler knocks on the door, and it is answered by a college student named Kyle Owens, who is renting the house. When Kyle tries to close the door, Kestler swiftly knocks him out, and then holds Jane, Ted's wife who is still present in the house, at gunpoint, asking her where Ted is. When she tells him that Ted died from cancer, Kestler demands information about the date and location of his death. He then uses the information provided by Jane, finding a boy named Aidan Donahue and leaving the house without killing Jane or Kyle. Hours later, Kestler proceeds to abduct Aidan and take him to a downtown motel in Pensacola, where he explains his motivations to a terrified Aidan. By the time he is finished and intends to kill Aidan, the BAU and local police arrive, having deduced his location.
Recognizing only one possible escape route, Kestler releases Aidan and flees to Escambia Memorial Hospital, intending to kill himself in the presence of a newborn baby so then he can be reincarnated. He approaches a hospital clerk and asks where the baby rooms are. However, the clerk refuses to answer, as he needs to be a relative in order to have access. This prompts Kestler to shoot and kill the clerk in a fit of rage, in front of many witnesses. After killing a responding security guard, he makes his way around the hospital, searching for the baby rooms. He eventually finds them, forces a nurse out, and holds one of the babies hostage. The BAU burst into the room and hold him at gunpoint, ordering him to put the baby down. Kestler obliges, but once he does, he fires two shots, one of which hits Morgan, and the BAU shoot him in return. Kestler relishes in the fact that he will be reincarnated into the baby, but JJ carries the baby away to safety, and to his horror, he has dropped a box containing some of his larvae, one of which is, quite ironically, crawling on his arm. Hotch bitterly watches as Kestler dies, moaning, "No, no, no." It is revealed by the end of the episode that Morgan was protected by a bulletproof vest.
Modus Operandi
Kestler targeted people he believed were reincarnated forms of Smith's victims. Judging by how he found Aidan Donahue, he likely figured out his victims' names by typing in the dates of Smith's victims' deaths (which would also be the birthdays of Kestler's victims) into the search parameters of the websites of hospitals that were the closest to where Smith's victims died. He would select a target and find out where they lived and/or worked through their social media accounts. After tracking them down, he would kill them using an emulation of Smith's M.O., only with some differences. Like Smith, Kestler threatened them into compliance at gunpoint with a handgun, made them bite down on a stick, and fatally hammer an icepick into the back of their neck.
Unlike Smith, however, Kestler targeted ordinary citizens of both genders and operated in multiple states. His signature was leaving a sample of animal hair and the larvae of flies native to the Southwestern United States that he brought along on the victims' bodies. The motivation for doing so would be because that since reincarnation states that the spirit of a dead body travels into the closest newborn possible, Kestler wanted to ensure that the victims would never come back in human form, thus explaining the animal hair and larvae. Also, with the murders of Charlie Clayton and Brianna Wells, the former was abducted from his home and killed in a forest, while the latter was killed inside her car. During the Escambia Memorial Hospital shooting, he used the same handgun to kill his victims.
The unsub is a white male aged in his mid- to late 20s, who is operating out in the open with great confidence, bordering on arrogance and has been leaving a large amount of insects at the crime scenes, which would normally be meant as a forensic countermeasure (artificially accelerating infestation of the corpse), or it could also be a symbolic way to degrade and humiliate the victims. Either way, these larvae are serving some other purpose for the unsub; it is like an obsession, and they are an essential component to his kills. He is slowly turning himself into the image of infamous serial killer Russell Smith, even recently cutting himself on the jaw to replicate a similar scar Smith had, and as such, he may continue to alter his appearance: Smith had several distinctive scorpion tattoos, so the unsub might come to have them as well.
The unsub seems to know exactly who he is looking for, but he refers to his victims by a different name, which means that he is either delusional or is using these victims as substitutes for someone. The larvae that he is depositing at the crime scenes are indigenous to the southwestern United States, so his vehicle would probably have a license plate from Arizona, Utah, or New Mexico. Smith preyed exclusively on prostitutes and infrequently, killing a total of eight victims in a twenty-year period, but this unsub is killing at a rate of one victim per day and he is targeting ordinary citizens, making him extremely dangerous to the public.
Known Victims
- 2012:
- December 9, Gulfport, Mississippi: Charlie Clayton (the alleged reincarnation of Taylor Lynn Crover; abducted from his house and killed in another location)
- December 10, Citronelle, Alabama: Nina "Floressa" Skinner (the alleged reincarnation of Patricia Johnson)
- December 11, Pensacola, Florida: Brianna Wells (the alleged reincarnation of Carol Hansen; was killed inside her car)
- December 12, Pensacola, Florida:
- The attack at the Sissler house:
- Ted Sissler (the first alleged reincarnation of an earlier victim[1]; intended to kill, but gave up after finding out he already died)
- Kyle Owens (incidental; assaulted and tied up)
- Jane Sissler (Ted's wife; held at gunpoint, threatened to kill, and tied up)
- Aidan Donahue (the second alleged reincarnation of the earlier victim; abducted and intended to kill; was released)
- Two killed, and one superficially injured, in the Escambia Memorial Hospital shooting:
- An unnamed clerk (shot twice in the chest)
- Unnamed security guard (shot in the head)
- An unnamed doctor (briefly threatened at gunpoint)
- An unnamed midwife (briefly threatened at gunpoint)
- An unnamed new mother (briefly threatened at gunpoint)
- An unnamed nurse (briefly threatened at gunpoint)
- An unnamed baby (briefly held hostage)
- Shot at the following twice:
- Derek Morgan (shot and bruised in the stomach, but was protected by a bulletproof vest)
- Aaron Hotchner (missed)
- David Rossi (missed)
- Jennifer Jareau (missed)
- The attack at the Sissler house:
- Note: In addition to the four victims whose alleged reincarnations he went after, Kestler intended to go after people who he believed were the reincarnations of Russell's other four victims. However, he never got the chance to do so.
- Kestler seems to have been based on at least two past unsubs:
- Season Three
- Henry Frost ("Identity") - Both were serial killers (budding at least), abductors, and copycats who were abused by parental figures (Kestler was abused by his grandfather, and Frost was abused by his father), copied a deceased serial killer (although Kestler was successful, while Frost was not), killed at least one victim by shooting them, and died in a shootout with the BAU. Both also intentionally cut their own faces to match a scar the original killers had and took the names of the original killers for themselves.
- Novels
- Daniel Dryden (Killer Profile) - Both were abductors, one-time cop killers, copycats, and serial-turned-spree killers who copied the M.O.s of serial killers (though Kestler only copied a single fictional killer while Daniel copied multiple real-life killers and one fictional serial killer) and they both devolved into spree killers by shooting several victims at a hospital (though Kestler remained and was killed at the scene, while Dryden fled and was captured later).
- Season Three
- Kestler's story also has some similarities to the 2010 horror film My Soul to Take, in which the protagonist was born on the same day a serial killer died and believes himself to be possessed by his spirit whenever murders occur.
- Season Eight
- "Perennials"
- "Carbon Copy" (referenced)
- "The Gathering" (referenced)
- "Brothers Hotchner" (referenced)
- ↑ It is unspecified which victim


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Continuous Delivery – Vision vs. Reality
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Medical City Lewisville Grand TheaterHome Menu
About Us
Medical City Lewisville Grand Theater (MCL Grand) opened its doors with a three-day celebration on Jan. 14-16, 2011. The center is located at 100 N. Charles Street, between Main and Church streets, in the heart of Old Town Lewisville. Administrative offices and art gallery are open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
MCL Grand gives the many arts groups in the Greater Lewisville area a facility to perform and display their works and also hosts other regional and national shows and exhibits, events, classes and meetings. The facility features a 296-seat theater with acoustics designed for both speech and music, a 2,200-square-foot art gallery, a 2,400-square-foot dance recital hall, 3,000-square-foot black box and 1,750 square feet of classrooms. A courtyard from Charles Street to the theater lobby is large enough to host small outside performances and dinners.
Page Sutherland Page architectural firm designed the center, which draws upon similarities to the existing buildings in Old Town Lewisville. Several local arts groups provided input in the planning stages of the facility. Tax Increment Refinance Zone bonds funded most of the project.
"Draw the Message Paint the Heart" exhibit
- Date: May 25, 2019 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
- Location: MCL Grand
100 N. Charles
Lewisville, Texas 75057
Solo art exhibit by Yoonsoo Nam
May 18 - June 1
Explore heavenly paintings and poems by Yoonsoo Nam. These works are inspired by the Holy Spirit and, in the words of the artist, carry the heart of the Father to His sons and daughters. A prophetic artist and a current director of ARUKAHO, an art organization in Coppell, Nam invites visitors to experience the presence of God through her works. She graduated from Ewha Womans University with a Bachelor and Master of Fine Arts.
The exhibit will be on view in the Main Art Gallery of the MCL Grand Tuesday-Saturday 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. and evenings when there are other programs going on at the MCL Grand.
To reach MCL Grand from Interstate 35E, take exit 452 and proceed east on Main Street to Charles Street. MCL Grand will be on the left. Free public parking is available along Main and Church streets, or at Lewisville City Hall across Church Street from the center.
For details about upcoming events, or rental information for the facility, please visit MCLGrand.com or call 972.219.8446.


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(Re)Form Essay10/09/2010 - 12/18/2010
For the past 125 years the Kansas City Art Institute has been educating students not only in the techniques and processes of art-making but in the tools and steps to become professional artists. Graduates have taken those valuable lessons, entered the academic world, at prestigious universities and important community art centers, and established their own studios. KCAI graduates have won accolades, grants and residencies and garnered national and international reputations for themselves and the school's outstanding programs.
(Re)Form explores recent work by twenty-five graduates of KCAI's Ceramics Department program from the past forty years. The selected artists demonstrate a wide range of artistic investigations, expression and even media. Although the majority of artists incorporate clay into their work, this was not a prerequisite for inclusion, and while some artists have abandoned or diverged from ceramics, others have left only to return later and employ clay in new ways. After graduating, the majority attended the foremost and influential graduate schools, further developing their artistic visions, and many have found teaching positions that have given them the opportunity to interact with students and fellow academics and artists in other media and areas of expertise. All of the artists in the exhibition are committed to making art as a professional career, even those who have either just graduated from KCAI or are about to start graduate school. As professionals, some work in the context of a college or university or solely in a studio, as potters, sculptors or performance artists. Some of the artists employ a strong personal, social or art historical narrative in their work, while others focus on exploring innovative forms, textures and patterns. (Re)Form celebrates the vibrancy, productivity and creativity of an intergenerational and diverse group of artists with strong ties to KCAI, a school that continues to foster some of the most inventive, original and imaginative artistic voices of our time. Although not installed as a thematic installation, the works can be organized into three broad categories: vessels, walls and sculpture.
Vessels: Constructing and De-Constructing Form
Hand-building, throwing or mold-making is intrinsic to KCAI's Ceramics program, where students have learned from masters such as Ken Ferguson, Victor Babu and George Timock how to model a well-constructed vessel, mix a perfect glaze and develop rich surfaces. The contours of some vessels are functional, while others are deconstructed, reformed and become three-dimensional paintings. Decorative surfaces can elicit a narrative or can be embellished with patterns and texture.
Two graduates from the class of 1985, Sarah Jaeger and Josh DeWeese exemplify the traditional studio potter, producing meticulously crafted functional wares. Jaeger's Tureen and Tray marries an elegant porcelain form with a rich tortoiseshell glaze of turquoise blues and ambers. DeWeese's Jar, traditional in shape, belies its inherently historicist appearance with glazed decoration reminiscent of the palette and formal compositions of Richard Diebenkorn, animated by drawing and text. Chris Gustin, class of 1975, creates forms of such large scale that although their outlines echo useful pots their sheer size removes them from the realm of function into pure sculpture. In his Vessel with Dimple, #0807, the tall thin walls of the twisting and turning cylinder are activated by the sensual pale blue-green crystalline glaze, the undulating and swelling surfaces leading the eye up and over the shifting shadows and crevices of the skin into the depths of the interior.
Chris Staley, special student, 1977-1978, creates works of modernist simplicity. The spherical shape and black and while palette of Snow Falling at Night evoke an abstracted narrative of snow softly wafting on a cold, moonless sky. Combining functional sculpture and painting, the shallow arc of the handle and the white disc of the lid disintegrate into a pattern of small white spots on the deep black ground that both defines and negates the volume of the jar. John Gill, class of 1973, and his wife Andrea, special student, 1972-1973, have taken the vessel, deconstructed it and found new ways to reinterpret and energize the medium. Andrea Gill's Entari plays with spatial relationships that change with the viewer's perspective. The arrangement of forms of Gill's large vessels, with necks, shoulders and torsos recall the human figure, while the vibrantly-colored and layered patterns that ornament them evoke the repetition and formality of historic textiles—the vessels seem to be enveloped and in motion. Also vertical in structure, John Gill's Obstacle Series, Tall Vase suggests Cubist or Supremacist images of skyscrapers. The complex structures of cut, folded and joined clay and bold blocks of color exert forces that draw the viewer around their architectural organization.
A more recent graduate, Daniel Ricardo Teran, class of 2007, makes expressive functional wares with seemingly dark and apocalyptic images conveyed through sgraffito decoration. The finely delineated incised designs of a skull and abstracted plant life create a narrative full of mystery and suspense. Irv Tepper, class of 1969, elevates the cup and saucer to new heights of delicacy and ruin, in Morning…Wake-up! He throws translucent forms that articulate light, shadow and volume, while the sheer scale, tears and folds negate the functional aspects of the nature of the ordinary. Tepper has been working with this every day object, found in kitchens, dining rooms and diners, for over 35 years exploring its potential for narrative and its hidden beauty.
Kurt Weiser, class of 1972, has transformed another easily identifiable object, the table globe, with sumptuous forms meticulously painted with provocative scenes of Rubensian nudes set in lush landscapes. The globes become canvases for surreal, other-worldly vistas, rather than maps of the earth or the heavens. The figure of Empire perches on a crocodile, holding elements of water while the vividly colored Luna and her realm float over a detailed depiction of an Italian Renaissance walled town, rendered in sepia tones.
Although known for his functional wares, Andrew Martin, class of 1979, is exploring new sculptural, although still useful, forms in Shadow Lake. Whereas his utilitarian wares frequently refer to Middle Eastern and Asian ceramics and are often mold made, in this work Martin looks towards the natural world for the form and surface as the bowl evokes the rough, weather-beaten terrain of a glacial lake.
Walls: Activating the Two-Dimensional
Several artists included in (Re)Form investigate the vertical and horizontal surfaces of the gallery, activating them with imagery, text and texture. Overhead, in Firmament of Fixed Stars, Jesse Small, class of 1997, combines an enameled steel armature with porcelain lanterns to create a sublime and ethereal chandelier. The forms and translucency recall the stereotypical Asian festivals of paper lanterns swaying from tree branches, yet Small modernizes the traditional lighting device with new materials and a sense of high design and fun.
Maren Kloppmann, class of 1993, also works with a modernist aesthetic, in her case one derived from European modernism of the mid-20th century, with simple, often geometric forms embellished with abstract decoration in minimal colors. In Wall Pillows IV/09 (8 elements), the rounded edges of the eight squares and variations in the white glaze contrast with the strong horizontal and vertical lines of the deep black border as the forms engage the spaces beneath and around them, creating depth with contours and shadows. Bobby Silverman, class of 1980, also uses a limited, although more vibrant, palette in his compositions of large wall tiles, combining text and texture. In Sappho, the texts from several of the ancient poet's powerful works about love and longing are rendered more mysterious through their legibility and illegibility on a dazzling red background.
Richard Notkin, class of 1971, is well-known for his dystopian ceramics, such as teapots in the form of skulls or nuclear reactor cooling towers finely rendered in traditional Yixing clay or Chinese peach bloom glazes. In This Is What You Were Born For (after Goya), five Yixing tiles tell a painful, yet abstracted narrative of birth and death, sandwiching scenes of destruction. Notkin's technical expertise and attention to detail make his works more universal and powerful. In the mixed media work Hate, Richard Carter, class of 1985, uses the stark, bold letters that spell HATE, combined with images of anonymous people, ceramic body parts and found objects in shadow boxes to provoke endless permutations of a disturbing narrative. The wood-fired ceramics and shadowy imagery never resolve the story and leave the viewer with a feeling of disquiet.
Two recent graduates, Nathan Mabry, class of 2001, and R. Justin Stewart, class of 2003, have moved from ceramics to other media. In Ossacip (Numbers 1-4), Mabry subverts the art historical canon, not only using the name of the most well-known artist of the 20th century, Picasso, spelled backwards, but also literally inverting images of masks. Mabry has shanghaied works that Picasso appropriated for his Cubist paintings and plays with both Picasso's and his own motives in co-opting imagery, provoking questions of authorship and originality. In his latest works, Stewart looks to a different source of inspiration, the scientific organization of the physical world. Stewart combines three-dimensional elements, constructed from Teflon O-rings and zip-ties, that are suggestive of sea slugs and caterpillars with schematic drawings that conjure cellular or biological maps, seemingly both recording the natural world and fabricating alternative life forms.
Cary Esser, class of 1978 and Professor and Chair of the Ceramics Department, has been exploring the potential of traditional wall tiles for most of her career. In a new work, Topography 10, that builds upon her investigation of modular forms, Esser experiments with compositions of dynamic landscapes, no longer installed vertically or even permanently.
Sculpture: Investigating the Figure
Recent works by Akio Takamori, class of 1976, have investigated his belief in a collective memory. The large figures represent shifting historical, cultural and racial perspectives that help to create individual and group identity. In Pink Princess, Takamori has appropriated a character from one of the 17th-century masters of classical painting, Diego Velazquez. The figure is not an exact copy from the painting, Infanta Maria Teresa II. Instead, Takamori suggests a historical and social context that is contradicted by the character's very modern and expressive face. Nobuhito Nishigawara, class of 1999, also explores cultural icons in his work Hotei. Frequently called the Laughing Buddha, Hotei is often depicted as a bald man carrying a bag with his few belongings and a string of prayer beads. Nishigawara has copied the traditional pose and garb of the iconic figure, yet undermines the image by replacing the laughing and smiling monk's face with a slightly menacing cartoon donkey's head. The work addresses questions of multiple cultural identities, traditional and popular culture brought on by comparisons between realistic versus cartoonish depictions.
The new work The Mourner by Tia Pultizer, class of 2001, also focuses on issues of iconic historical figures and their position in contemporary art. Pulitzer's figure of a heavily draped monk initially seems closely derived from mid-15th century French alabaster sculptures of mourners that surround the tombs of John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy, and his wife, Margaret of Bavaria. The Mourner, however, is thoroughly modern, fabricated with heat-sensitive paint, letting light dictate the mood of the work, and injected with a sense of humor as the monk crosses his fingers probably hoping to keep death at bay.
The most recent graduate of the program, Paul Anthony Smith, class of 2010, uses his own physiognomy as the everyman who is placed in historical and contemporary situations. In World Histories: Ancestral Transcience, the figure struggles to emerge from a barrel of oil, or the primordial ooze, a reference to the origins of man as well as America's dependence on Middle Eastern oil which both allows the country to grow and holds it back from progress.
Arnie Zimmerman, class of 1977, creates scenes of workers in diverse urban locations and settings in a dynamic world of frantic and never-ending labor. In Bag Man, Diver and Tenement, all from the Men in Cities series, individual vignettes are united to form a narrative of repetitive energy that appears both like a Rube Goldberg construction and an Orwellian nightmare. Although there is a whimsy in the comical costumes and groupings of figures, these tiny men can never escape from their relentless toil.
Casey Whittier, class of 2008, also explores nostalgic versions of the past, allowing visitors to interact and try to create a coherent narrative with a collection of seemingly random objects. In (Re)collection: A Confrontation with Time thin sheets of porcelain with photographic images, letters and jewelry rest in a box. Some seem related, while others seem to push the characters in new directions, giving the viewer control over the story.
Teri Frame, class of 2006, has composed a performance piece based on the iconic early 16th century painting by Quentin Massys titled Massys' Venus. Using her body and clay facial prosthetics, Frame morphs into the fantastic character from the painting in a work that explores the connections between youth, beauty, and love.
(Re)Form reveals the breadth of creative expression for a representative group of KCAI's graduates actively participating in the contemporary art world. As students enter this vibrant program, they will learn from and build upon the work of their professors, fellow students and graduates forging new paths and breaking new ground.


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Concern over Murchison Highway condition
SIGNIFICANT safety concerns have been raised by West Coast residents about the condition of Murchison Highway between Rosebery and Tullah.
A photo posted to The Advocate's Facebook page by Theresa Button showed what she said was the current condition of the road.
Ms Button commented that the section of the road, which was recently sealed, was filled with potholes and gravel.
A State Growth Department spokesman said preliminary work for the Mount Black section started in March 2013 and the works were being completed before the onset of winter this year.
The works were part of the $21 million Murchison Highway upgrade.
"There are some areas where the sealed surface has broken up and these have been repaired by the contractor," the spokesman said. "Ongoing problems have arisen with the West Coast weather causing unusual problems with the bitumen sticking to tyres and spraying up on cars."
The spokesman said the contractor was monitoring these areas and applying grit to prevent pick-up of material.
" One section of seal is to be replaced with a more durable asphalt material, but this work is very much weather dependent," the spokesman said. "The contractor has a winter maintenance and monitoring plan for the works and will rectify any problems as they arise."
West Coast Mayor Robyn Gerrity said the council had not raised concerns about the road with the department. "The councillors haven't really been made aware it was such a problem," she said.
"And you've got to look at the weather, you can't do anything with asphalt when it's wet."
The State Growth Department urged motorists to drive to the conditions and report any specific issues as soon as they arose.
The spokesman said construction season on the West Coast was very short.
Any road user with concerns about the condition of the Murchison Highway over Mount Black is asked to call Shaw Contracting.
They can call Nick Broomhall on 0419319295 and State Growth Department project manager Steven Kaczmarski on 61663427 if they are not satisfied with the response they received.
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Today Mongolians typically eat only boiled meat at every meal, year round, but this was not always true. In the days of Chingis Khaan, I am told that it was illegal to eat animals in the summer. Mongolians ate meat in winter and vegetable and milk products in summer.
When Mongolia was associated with the Soviet Union, they had large irrigated farms and produced enough vegetables for export. When the Soviet Union dissolved, Mongolia's agriculture market crashed and individual family herding practice (still seen as the easiest/safest route to self-sufficiency) became nearly the sole occupation.
I worked with herders who lived on lands that were once great farms. You can still see irrigation channels from satellite photos. I was surprised when they asked me to teach them farming. Surely, people in the community must have once been farmers? It was bewildering. Research into the issue revealed that that the majority of international donor projects teach or fund farming and the requests for teaching are exponential.
My apartment had a large south-facing window, so I started a home vegetable garden with heirloom seeds carried from the USA. I sprouted seeds in egg containers, transferred them to plastic drink bottles, and finally into halved gallon jugs. The soil in Mongolia is exceedingly poor, but my work with the Mongolian Women Farmers Association meant that I had access to beautiful black organic compost that my plants loved.
When it came time to leave Mongolia, I began searching for a home for these plants and now my green babies are helping care for Mongolia's babies. The Lotus Children's Centre is a Buddhist residential and outreach service for abandoned children in Mongolia. The children at Lotus, eat nutritious meals heavy in vegetables. This year Lotus secured money to build greenhouses and teach the children gardening. My little garden of tomatoes, herbs, and flowers is now getting them started.
I just received a letter and this photo from Lotus. They report that my plants have been transplanted outside and are in the ground now.
Everything is in fruit and flower now. The tomatoes are cold weather heirloom varieties from the North America, so the kids are in for a colorful treat soon! If all goes well they can save seeds and continue these works for years to come.


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GREENLAND — The field of candidates in Rye, Greenland and Newington are now set. Elections in all three towns will be held March 8.
GREENLAND — The field of candidates in Rye, Greenland and Newington are now set. Elections in all three towns will be held March 8.
Rye: The town has three contested races. The most hotly contested appears to be the Planning Board with Curtis Boivin, Bill Epperson, Jerry Gittlein and Raymond Tweedie Jr., vying for a single two-year position.
The other two contested races feature Steven Borne, Paul Goldman and Ned Paul competing for two three-year terms on the Budget Committee and Melvin Low, Thomas McCormick and Tyler Morse for two three year positions on the planning board.
In uncontested races, incumbent selectman Joe Mills is looking for another three-year term, Roger Philbrick is going for a three-year term on the cemetery trustees, Ann Malpass and William McDade are going for two three-year terms with the library trustees, Jeffrey Balboni is after a three-year term with the trustees of the trust fund and David Kohlhase is seeking to return for a three-year term as a sewer commissioner.
Greenland: Every race will be uncontested. One seat has no candidate: a three-year term on the town's school board, which is part of SAU 50.
Kenneth Bellevue and John Vitale are vying for two open three-year terms for selectmen, James Rolston for a single one-year seat as a treasurer, Donald Arsenault for a three-year seat on the board of adjustment, Richard Rugg for both trustee of the cemetery and trust funds, Stuart Gerome for the Planning Board, Adele Wick for library trustee; Stephen McKenzie, James Trowell and Mary McDonough for budget committee and Ann Mayer for school board. With the candidate filing period closed, anyone looking for the second seat on the school board will have to be a write-in candidate.
Newington: The filing deadline passed, but the identities of candidates were not available Friday evening.


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3/30/2014 Robert W. Sullivan IV Free Masons and the occult
3/30/2014 Robert W. Sullivan IV Free Masons and the occult
The only child of antique dealers, he was born on October 30, 1971 in Baltimore, Maryland. He graduated high school from Friends School of Baltimore (the oldest private school in Baltimore, founded in 1784) in June 1990. He attended Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania becoming a brother of Lambda Chi Alpha (Theta Pi, member #1199) fraternity. He earned his B.A. in History in 1995. Mr. Sullivan spent his entire junior year of college (1992-1993) abroad at St. Catherine's College, Oxford University, England studying European history and philosophy. While in Oxford Mr. Sullivan was a member of the Oxford Union, the Oxford University Conservative Association, and the Oxford Law Society. Upon returning to the United States in June 1993 he took a year off from Gettysburg College to serve as office director of the Washington International Studies Council located on Capitol Hill.
Prior to attending law school in the United States he spent the Michaelmas Term 1995 at Trinity College, Oxford University studying jurisprudence and international law. From 1997 to 2000 he attended Widener University School of Law, Delaware Campus, from where he received his Juris Doctorate. Admitted to the State Bar of Maryland (2000) as well as the District of Columbia (2002), Mr. Sullivan spent 2001 to 2008 working at various law firms in the Baltimore area practicing primarily in the area of insurance defense. Mr. Sullivan is a Freemason, having joined Amicable-St. John's Lodge #25, Baltimore Maryland in 1997; he became a 32nd degree Scottish Rite Mason in 1999, Valley of Baltimore, Orient of Maryland. The Royal Arch of Enoch: The Impact of Masonic Ritual, Philosophy, and Symbolism is his first published work and is the result of twenty years of research. A lifelong Marylander, he resides in Baltimore.
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Engaged Behavioral Health, PLLC is comprised of a group of trained and licensed mental health professionals dedicated to the highest standards of elder care. Each Engaged Behavioral Health professional provides residents, practitioners, staff and facilities with an integrative and collaborative framework for long term community based care. Our clinicians are trained by the Inclusive Behavioral Health Institute, LLC in the Bridges Elder College and Support Group – Integrating the Life Span (TM) algorithm. Our specialty is to empower all stakeholders that comprise the elder care facility ecology with quality community mental health services and standards. Our staff recognizes that empowerment, empathy and compassion drive the quality of care for any organization or family unit. Our hosts include intermediate care facilities – ICF's, skilled nursing facilities – SNF's and independent living communities – ILC's. Engaged Behavioral Health teams are comprised of FNP's, LCSW's, PhD's and MD's who have been certified in the Bridges' algorithm. Their presence in the life of individual residents and psychotherapy group's has been remarked upon by each of our clients. Click here for our latest video testimonials. In addition, Engaged Behavioral Health services are available for private insurance or Medicare/Medicaid family mental health visits.
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Engaged Behavioral Health, PLLC is the developer and management of the Bridges Elder College algorithm. Our trainings provide value added services. We provide facilities, staff and professionals with mandated in-service trainings. Communities within the "long term care provider" network in Florida and North Carolina may avail themselves of seminar plans for training on wellness and prevention. Our trainings provide value added services and benefits of bio-psycho-social long term therapy and corporate customer service culture optimizations. Testimonials from facilities which benefit from Bridges Elder College training are available by request.
Inclusive Behavioral Health Institute, LLC trains and certifies Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Licensed Clinical Social Workers and Family Nurse Practitioners in the Bridges Elder College & Support Group Integrating the Lifespan® algorithm. Training and certification candidates are required to have a background in Shared Living Communities and to have taken related classes in Elder Law. Experience and credentials may replace the requirement for program 1 & 2 workshops. The program is divided into three workshop programs comprised of two day seminars each (16 hours based CEU's per program). The first program is Biopsychosocial Process for People Living in Shared Communities (ACF- Assisted Care Facilities and SNF / Skilled Nursing Facilities). The second program is "Rules and Laws, Medical Mistakes and Ethics in Long Term Care". The third program is a training certification class in Bridges Elder College & Support Group Integrating the Lifespan® algorithm.
The syllabus of Bridges offers psychosocial, wellness and prevention topics specific to long term care including but not limited to: loss and grief, adjustment, finding privacy, the best communication style, your locus of control, the holiday blues, mindfulness, the art of allowing, sensing and feeling, the power of presence, getting the most out of your day, resident on resident abuse, coping with loss, lack of family visits, specific and unique stressors, strategies of pain management, loss of physical function as well as fall prevention. The format of the group always includes opportunity for personal and group concerns and issues of the residents supersede the weekly topic. The current topic would be carried over to the next week.
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Vanilla Pumpkin Pie
Here we are – the weather has changed, a crisp air hangs in the sky and Thanksgiving is tomorrow! It's a holiday that swings open the arms of home to invite in everyone that can fit at the table. We gorge ourselves to the brim with chat and turkey with all the trimmings until we can't possibly fit another bite… but then comes the pie.
Pumpkin pie is one of those sacred American dishes – you simply must have it on Thanksgiving. No ifs, ands or buts about it!
The culinary rules say that since dessert is the last thing to cross our pallets, it had better be impressive, with flavour that beats out everything you've eaten thus far in the meal. Never to be an afterthought, I have added a vanilla pod to the mix to ramp up the warming aromatics that make this pie utterly deserving of centre stage. I think this Vanilla Pumpkin Pie is just the ticket to round out the most generous of holidays.
One Quantity Basic Pie Crust (See my post on Short Crust and follow directions for Basic Pie Crust)
425g solid pack pumpkin puree
2 large eggs
250ml double cream (or a combination of double cream and evaporated milk)
180g caster sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 vanilla pod, seeds stripped for use
1 1/4 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
First thing, preheat your oven to 200°c / 400°f.
Pumpkin pie is terribly easy because all you do is mix your spices and vanilla seeds together with your sugar in a bowl, stir in the pumpkin, then stir in lightly beaten eggs and leave it to infuse while you make the pastry. Try not to incorporate too much air as you want zero bubbles with any baked custard (yes, that is what this technically is). Don't throw away that vanilla pod case, by the way! Put it in a jar of sugar and use this in whatever you like – it's great in pancakes, cakes, cookies, even a cup of coffee.
Cover the pumpkin mixture and pop it in the fridge to infuse while you sort out your pastry for the pie crust.
Roll out chilled short crust pastry and line a fluted 28cm pie tin. Pop it in the freezer for 15mins to relax and chill. Or if you, like me, have zero room for anything in your freezer (not even ice), pop it in the fridge for 20mins. It should be completely firm when it comes out. Keep the scraps of dough for patching after blind baking.
After chilling the pastry until firm, line it with a round of crumpled parchment paper big enough to hang over the edges once filled with baking beans. Push the paper into the corners well and fill with baking beans to the rim. Blind bake the pastry at 200°c/400°f for 15 minutes or until the sides are set up. Then remove the beans with a large spoon and the cartouche and bake for another 5-10 minutes until lightly golden with no grey patches of raw pastry left behind. You want a nice crisp bottom to your pie. If the pastry has ballooned up, use the back of a metal dessert spoon to gently rub the pastry until it settles. If the pastry isn't cooperating, you can also pierce the pastry with a fork in the center of the bottom, which will let the steam escape and allow you to do the spoon trick. Lower the temperature of your oven to 160°c/325°f.
Now patch up any cracks with scraps from the raw pastry and pour in the pumpkin mixture until it is full as you can make it without slopping over. As this is a sort of custard, you don't need to worry about it rising, so leave about a half cm or a quarter inch of pastry at the top. Bake this for 40-50 minutes until the center of the filling moves only slightly when jiggled but isn't liquid at all. Allow it to cool completely to room temperature. If serving the next day keep it in the fridge over night and take out a couple hours before serving for it to come up to room temperature. I often pop my pumpkin pie in the oven for 5-10 minutes just before serving to crisp the pastry again and take the chill off.
Serve with a generous dollop of vanilla whipped cream.
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The Detroit Red Wings got 22 saves from Jimmy Howard as he blanked the Nashville Predators 3-0. Justin Abdelkader, Henrik Zetterberg and Johan Franzen each scored their ninth goal of the season in the win. Pekka Rinne made 29 saves in the losing effort.
SPIN: Detroit leapt over Dallas and Columbus into the eighth spot with 47 points following this win. Howard has played well this season but has days where he doesn't get much offensive support. Nashville is nine points out of a playoff spot with five games to play so that whole team is into garbage time. Look for Rinne to get some down time here at the end of the season. With six straight losses, it's officially time to pack it in on the Predators for 2013; they were never the same team after Phoenix bombed them with a six-goal first period a couple weeks ago. Including that game, Nashville is 1-9-0 in its last 10.
Chicago shutout St. Louis 2-0 behind a 30-save effort from Corey Crawford. Marian Hossa and Brian Bickell scored for the Blackhawks.
SPIN: Chicago has won five in a row and has all but officially wrapped up home-ice advantage throughout the Western Conference playoffs. Brian Elliott saw his scoreless streak end at 214 minutes for the Blues and has been their best goaltender this season. The Blues are sixth in the West right now but have a favorable schedule with six of their final seven on home ice (VAN, PHX, DAL, @COL, COL, CGY, CHI) and three in a row against bottom-feeders to make a final push for the playoffs.
Buffalo knocked off Tampa Bay 3-1 thanks to
Ryan Miller Jhonas Enroth making 32 saves on 33 shots for his second straight win. Tyler Ennis, Kevin Porter and Joechen Hecht all scored for Buffalo while Benoit Pouliot broke up the shutout bid.
SPIN: Enroth has suddenly come from nowhere to pick up two straight wins including a shutout for Buffalo. The Sabres are just a couple wins out of the last playoff spot and sit 10th in the East. Enroth might be the difference-maker for Buffalo as we've all seen teams ride a hot hand in goal. Enroth has been hot as of late but has a tough road for the final games of the season. With this schedule (@BOS, NYR, @PGH, WPG, NYI) the Sabres will chase the final spot and still play a big role in how the East shakes out this season. With that schedule, it would be hard to rely on Enroth over the final few games.
Tampa has dropped three in a row and has just one win in its last eight road games (1-6-1) and it's all over but the shouting for the Bolts in 2013. They had all that offense early on and a great start but they've been vomit-inducing on defense regardless of it's Anders Lindback, Mathieu Garon or Ben Bishop between the pipes.
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Stat of the Night–One Hundred Lights in The String
Chicago is the lone Western Conference team to allow fewer than 100 goals this season, The Hawks have allowed just 85 goals on the season. Ottawa is the best in the East at 89 goals against. Boston (91) and the Rangers (96) are the only other teams to not allow 100 goals so far.
Three Stars of the Night
1 Howard
2 Crawford
3 Enroth
Monday's Games (all times ET)
Ottawa at Boston 7pm The Senators look for more points to make the final push easier.
New Jersey at Toronto 7pm The Leafs look to extend the Devils' misery.
Philadelphia at Montreal 730pm Philly needs a win to save its season and avoid a five-game losing streak.
Dallas at Chicago 8pm Can the Stars keep streaking into a playoff spot?
Vancouver at Nashville 8pm The Canucks look to take advantage of a spent Nashville squad.
Columbus at Colorado 9pm The Blue Jackets need this win to keep pace with the West.
Minnesota at Calgary 9pm Minnesota needs to snap its three-game slide to try and chase down Vancouver.
San Jose at Phoenix 10pm The Sharks look for home ice while the Coyotes need this win, badly.


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YouTube user John Esquivel uploaded this hilarious video of his family's cat trying really, really hard to tag along on the dog's evening walk ... but obviously she doesn't want Esquivel to notice her.
"The family house cat likes to follow us whenever we go on our walks," Esquivel explains in the video, "And then acts nonchalant whenever we notice."
Everywhere Esquivel and the doggie go, she's lurking just a few steps behind, completely failing at being stealthy.
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Edited by Aliye P. Celik, Ashley Simone, H. Oner Yurtseven
This book is a record of the proceedings of a conference on gateway portals to cities from the perspective of sustainable urbanization. It was held on 19 May 2017 at UN Headquarters, New York City. The partners that cosponsored the conference are the Consortium for Sustainable Urbanization (CSU), UNHabitat, and the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Presentations in the book offer a range of gateway portal concepts, remarkable and beautifully designed examples of gateways, as well as the lessons learned for future design, financing, construction, and management of sustainable cities.
Edited by Aliye P. Celik, Ashley Simone, H. Oner Yurtseven
Public space is the heart of any community. The physical, mental and spiritual well being of a community's residents is impacted by the presence, allocation, design and respectful use of public space by citizens. The concept of 'public space' has been a topic of discussion and planning since the formation of the very first community. Public space is a critical and essential requirement for sustainable urbanization. As communities grow to become large urban centers, the complexity of making successful public spaces also grows and demands a heightened awareness of designers, planners and policy makers. This book is a collection of presentations and panel discussions that took place at a conference held at UN Headquarters in New York City on 15 November 2015. The contributors are experts who represent a wide range of fields and specializations in the area of sustainable urbanization.
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Edited by Aliye P. Celik, Ashley Simone, H. Oner Yurtseven
This book is the result of an event which took place at the UN Headquarters in New York on 18 May 2016 to bring a positive narrative to the on going large movements of refugees and migrants all over from the perspective of sustainable urbanization.
The idea is to look at the challenges and opportunities, and to solve problems through efforts in humanity, technology, planning, designing, organizing, financing, and maintaining. This book is only an introduction of a vast amount of solutions that can be shared and is expected to be a catalyst for partnerships in the service of migrants, refugees, as well as sustainable urbanization.
Published: September 12, 2016 / 136 Pages
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Edited by Aliye P. Celik, Maxinne Rhea Leighton, H. Oner Yurtseven
This book is an effort to look at practical ways to achieve an integrated and cross-sectoral approach to sustainable urbanization. Its objective is to give examples of the best practices that are being used to achieve the UN policies in the area of an integrated approach in the development of cities by the local authorities and the planners as well as designers and managers of cities.
This is a very ambitious objective, and the book hopes to engage stakeholders in a global conversation on the implementation aspects of sustainable urban design and where innovative technologies, including information, communication technologies, and systems are used.
Published: September 13, 2016 / 104 Pages
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Edited by Aliye P. Celik, Roxana Zyman and Rafat Mahdi
Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA)
Division for Public Administration and Development Management
United Nations, New York, NY 2009
Published: 2009 / 188 Pages
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CFPB Sues Prime Marketing Holdings for Misleading Marketing and Illegal Fees
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has filed a lawsuit against Prime Marketing Holdings for misleading consumers about its credit repair services and charging illegal advance fees before the services were completed. The CFPB is requesting the company cease its harmful and illegal behaviors, and is seeking compensation for consumers affected by the practices.
There are several different allegations in the lawsuit. Prime Marketing Holdings allegedly collected fees in advance for credit repair services before they had been completed. Federal laws prevent telemarketing companies from collecting these fees until certain services have been delivered. Some consumers were charged "hundreds of dollars" in setup fees, in addition to monthly fees as high as $89.99.
The suit claims the company misled consumers about the benefits they would gain from the credit repair services. The company suggested they would be able to remove negative elements of a consumer's credit report or increase the credit score without having an actual method for doing that.
Consumers were also mislead about the continued cost of their credit repair services, such as the monthly fee. Consumers were charged monthly fees automatically, even though many were told they would only be charged if they opted to continue service after 60 days. Prime Marketing Holdings did offer a money back guarantee, but they failed to disclose that the guarantee only applied to people who had used their services for at least six months.
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H a p p y S u n d a y!
Wow, it's been such a wonderful weekend so far and we're still only at the start of my favourite day of the week! Pete and I had a really relaxing weekend and it's been so nice. We cleaned our place, took my niece Ivy out on a birthday adventure (bought her a new dress, went to the toys store and got ice-cream!) I attempted to play ukulele, we watched good movies, went to st.lawrence market and made our favourite type of meal! Mmmm. I snapped some photo's to share with you!
The next few hours will be spent listening to music, puttering, hand lettering, and then making some guacamole and heading over to my brothers place to celebrate my niece Ivy's 4th birthday!
I hope you all had a wonderful weekend! I am posting an awesome giveaway later today on my Instagram @julierosschristmas // got some fun posts coming up for you all, loveeeeee ya.


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1 in 100, so quite common. Terrifying really
Nightcrawler with Jake Gyllenhall, is an accurate study of a man with Aspergers but also sociopathic traits
50% will relapse within 18 months if smoked after recovery from an episode.
However, there is less cognitive impairment and better sociability in those whose illness remit, and used cannabis beforehand.
More skunk use in EIS teams 50%.
Psychological therapies do not improve outcomes.
Out of the blue, musician friend gave our Early Intervention Service a complete bass guitar rig
Treating musicians
Meds slow down people's reaction times, can stiffen muscles, and thus impair technique, and thinking during performances such as recovery from mistakes.
But it is possible to get good health and still feel inspired.
Some drugs like Fluoxetine even improve creativity according to some studies.
Negligence claims
I have learnt lots about how I could improve my own practice whilst fact finding in negligence cases. The old dictum of writing good notes still stands btw.
Equality Act
Most of the Employment work seems to be the result of poor communication between Occupational Health and Managers. The Claimants often have untreated or partially treated illnesses
Capacity Assessments
These seem a straightforward at first glance. Usually when a formal exam is requested, it's triggered by a complex of factors, then the task is to sift the relevant facts from a mountain of red herrings.


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AminoGenesis was proud to present at the International Esthetics, Cosmetics, and Spa Conference (IECSC) June 20-22 in Las Vegas, NV!
At the IECSC, we had AminoGenesis products for sale, including our latest AminoGenesis E.Y.E. Control, which will be featured on the Morning Blend in Las Vegas on Friday, June 26!
Our AminoGenesis E.Y.E. Control was one of the newest technologies emerging at the spa and wellness conference. We were able to introduce many spa and wellness professionals to our E.Y.E. Control, which is amongst the world's first products to lift the upper eyelid and treat dark circles on the lower eyelid. [Read more: How AminoGenesis E.Y.E. Control Lifting and Control Serum Works]
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Pangong Tso, which means "long, enchanted lake" in Tibetan, is very aptly named. The view of the 134 km long lake with backdrop of snow capped mountains and clear blue skies can be described as "enchanting." On a good day, the rays of sunlight shining through the sparse clouds create an illusion of water in the lake changing colours. The best time of the day to enjoy the views are in the evening just before sunset and in the morning just after sunrise – this experience lets you witness both by staying overnight in eco-friendly tents overlooking the lake.
The lake is one of the largest natural brackish lakes in India – brackish water is more saline than fresh water but less than seawater, usually resulting from the mixing of seawater with freshwater. As a result of this composition, there is very little aquatic life in the lake, with the exception of small crustaceans and ducks over the lake surface. The temperature of the water in summer is close to freezing, while in winter the lake completely freezes over.
On this experience, visit the spectacular Pangong Tso and stay overnight at eco-friendly tents overlooking the Lake. Immerse yourself in the culture and heritage of the region by visiting some of the oldest and largest monasteries in Ladakh, including the Shey Palace and Monastry, Thiksey Monastry and Hemis Monastry.
When can I go?
May - September
Pickup and Drop off: Leh
Experience Highlights
- Witness the stunning scenery of Ladakh as you make your way from Leh to the spectacular Pangong Tso
- Stay overnight at eco-friendly tents in Pangong
- Learn about the history of Ladakh through your visit to the Sheh Palace, Thiksey Monastry and Hemis Monastry
Detailed Itinerary
Day 1
After meeting your guide, you will be driven in an SUV to Pangong Tso via Shey and Thiksey. You will first be driven 15 km south of Leh to visit the Shey Palace and Monastry, which were built in the 17th century. You will then be driven 3 km to the Thiksey Monastry, also built in the 17th century and one of the largest and richest monasteries in Ladakh.
You will then be driven to the spectacular Pangong Tso, located on the border of India and Tibet.
Stay overnight in an eco-friendly tent at Pangong.
Day 2
Begin your journey back to Leh in the morning. You will stop at the Hemis Monastery, founded in the 17th century and one of the largest monasteries in Ladakh, located 45 km south of Leh.
After the visit, you will be driven back to Leh.
Experience includes: Overnight accommodation, Transportation in a SUV, All entry fees and permits.


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What to do With the Children in Agadir…..
So we drove away from the hail and rain that Marrakech had to offer this weekend, and headed down to Agadir. Busy as always hubby was off to design and decorate with some dear friends of ours.
Some say that Agadir isn't like the rest of Morocco, its devoid of Moroccan culture, to modern and superficial but maybe they don't realise, that poor, poor Agadir suffered a terrible tragedy on the 29th of Febuary 1960 the city was destroyed by a freak earthquake, killing thousands of the cities inhabitants and therefore denying us from viewing its historic past.
My children have fallen in love with this city by the sea. They don't realise that Essaouira is more hip and trendy, we have tried them there before, but they just hate the wind that blows the sand in their eyes. We have tried to explain about the culture thing but they just look at us with blank expressions and tell us they have lived in the Medina already………(I'm becoming afraid that they may have historic & cultural overload.) I think it's the glamour of 5star hotel life that they crave, getting dressed for breakfast, finding other English speakers. (My children are often amazed when they over hear English being spoken by strangers in Marrakech) Hanging by the pool, hanging at the kids club, having lunch with their new found friends, getting dressed up for dinner and drifting of to sleep in those big hotel beds……I suppose for lots of us it's a dream come true.
There are also lots of things to do with the children dotted around the city. One of the places you will find is a beautiful little garden called The Valley of Birds right in the centre of town. Here you can skip along the shaded paths and discover a menagerie of African and European birds all hanging around the pond (slightly like the pools of the hotels in Agadir) there are a few monkeys that I suppose used to live in the nearby mountains and lamas who share with the wallaby's. The Valley of Birds is open all year round from 11am to 7pm, and is free to enter, there's also a really good children's playground with jungle gyms and swings, all set amongst the exotic looking foliage that southern Morocco has to offer………
After you've finished at the bird gardens (if you time it right) parked outside you will find the Petit Train, you can hop on board and take a whistle stop tour of Agadir, it will take about 35minutes and the cost of the Petit Train is 18dhs for an adult and 12dhs for a child.
While we were at the valley of Birds we stopped off to see the candy man where we treated ourselves to some bubbles much fun was had as we we sped around Agadir on the Petit Train leaving a trail of bubbles behind us…..
7 Responses to "What to do With the Children in Agadir….."
thanks for the artical about Agadir , my lovely city that i miss so much , i dream when to go back to swim in the wonderfull sea and have a walk on the golden sand at the beach ohh memories memories 🙂
I spent summers as a kid hanging in agadir … it really hasnt changed much. My parents are from marrakech but we live, and I was born in new york. Agadir had a bit more of a local scene than it does now, but I too loved the pools and the other kids not to mention the fact that there was no cultural overload.
my partner & i are tossing up between spending 7 days in Essaouira or agadir. it is our 1st time in morocco. we are doing a side trip with intrepid that ends in marrakesh. we would like to be on a nice beach preferably not too touristy. around 8-15 aug. any suggestions. is it always windy in essa…and can we swim in the waters? any help would be greatly appreciated.


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The occasional dance between stations and community bloggers has often been awkward. Stations looking for street cred can be wary of associating with a controversial viewpoint. Bloggers, while welcoming the exposure, often have disdain for mainstream media. But KING Seattle believes its has found the right rhythm by throwing its weight behind CitizenRain.com. The site aggregates blogs with a Seattle focus, and offers links to the latest, juiciest news items centered on the No. 14 DMA.
CitizenRain is the in-house project of Cory Bergman, KING's director of digital media. Bergman cites The Drudge Report and Huffington Post—sites featuring an ever-changing lineup of stories from an array of sources—as influences. "I thought, why not do that at a local level, and add blogs to the mix?" he says.
CitizenRain showcases the work of 240-plus Seattle bloggers. The site is divided into a dozen categories, and features a "cover story" and four news slots. Along with a few staffers, Bergman—who founded the new-media blog Lost Remote, which he runs with digital-news maven Steve Safran—scans Seattle's blogs, newspaper sites and other station sites to keep Rain fresh and flowing.
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Bergman soft-launched Rain's blog component in May, then added the news aggregator a few weeks ago. KING, he says, will step up promotion for it, both on-air and at King5.com.
Rain's emergence comes as parent company Belo Corp. announced it was splitting in two, with newspapers in one group and its 20 TV stations in the other. This will give the stations the freedom to flourish without being hampered by an ailing newspaper segment. Belo Corp. Chairman/CEO Robert Decherd is bullish on TV's digital future. "We'll continue to develop products and seek out new advertisers," he says.
Market leader KING is not the first station to tap bloggers for content (in fact, King5.com already features a number of blogs). Young Broadcasting's WKRN Nashville made waves when it launched blog aggregator Nashville Is Talking in 2005. Then-G.M. Mike Sechrist also hired Brittney Gilbert to become what was likely the lone fully professional TV station blogger in America. Sechrist left WKRN earlier this year, while Gilbert, citing hostile blog comments and a lack of management support, departed months later.
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text: Every month, the UN Assistance Mission in Iraq releases a report documenting the violence here that month. It's a grim read, but such is the nature of our work.Those statistics are vital in informing people of the scale of violence here. But it's easy to forget that behind the numbers are people who got up that morning and who didn't survive the day.People with dreams and hopes and sorrows and all the stuff of life that makes us human.Recently, those statistics became real for me, and in a very personal way.My friend Ahmed was with his family in the middle class neighbourhood of Tunis in northeast Baghdad. It was night time. Ahmed and I work together in Al Jazeera's Baghdad office and spend our days newsgathering and reporting. In a place like Baghdad, you develop a shorthand for the almost daily violence that occurs. You find yourself talking in numbers and neighbourhoods. "Imran, X people have died in X neighbourhood," Osama Mohammed the producer here often tells me.On that day, it was the religious occasion of Ashoura, and the city's Shia community was out on the streets in their thousands. Shias around the world commemorate the Prophet Muhammad's grandson Imam Hussein's death in battle in 680 CE, during the Ashoura period. Hospitality tents were set up outside to cater to the observant. ISIL had promised to attack the processions.Ahmed left the office and, like many others, went home first, and then took his family out to pay homage to Imam Hussien. As he left, I said goodbye and wanted to say "be careful out there!" But I didn't, as he was grinning from ear to ear about something. I'm not sure what it was.A few hours later, news broke of bombings in the Tunis neighbourhood. As always, I got to work, gathering the facts. How many dead? How many injured? What type of explosive? Where? As I prepared to go live on Al Jazeera English, our producer Osama called. Ahmed was with his family when the bomb exploded. He had survived, but his two cousins had died on the spot, and his aunt had been seriously injured. The statistics had become personal.Ahmed is now grieving, but at least he is alive. The dead have passed, but the more heart breaking stories are those of the injured, like Ahmed's aunt who now faces years of physical pain and months of rehabilitation. People like her are left behind as physically broken examples of the hellish violence, and they outnumber the dead by the thousands.That's why, when I was invited to watch the Iraqi Paralympic Basketball team in action, I jumped at the chance. This is a team of young men who survived bombings and violence, and built something, despite their injuries. Young men like Ahmed Nasser who was sitting in a cafe when his promising career in football was cut short by a bomb.Watching those guys glide around the court in modified wheelchairs made the hair on my neck stand up. They've found some joy in otherwise terrible circumstances. They are a source of pride and inspiration for other injured Iraqis.But not all who are seriously injured in this country are as fortunate as Ahmed Nasser. Few have access to a basketball team and a coach to give them hope. Many struggle with poor health as the system struggles to cope with the large number of injured. In pharmacies I've seen bomb victims queue for painkillers. Many are emotionally and physically scarred by the shrapnel that has embedded into their skin.Iraq's injured are a forgotten minority reduced to a statistic. A minority that I'm reminded of whenever I report on the violence here. I'm reminded that for every bomb there are people like my friend Ahmed who is mourning his loss, and Ahmed Nasser who is trying to rebuild his life through sport. And I'm reminded of the thousands of broken people like Ahmed's aunt, who are left to live on with their wounds. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Imran Khan @ AJImran Middle East