Coming soon at 2035 Kennedy Road, Scarborough in Toronto is a new mixed-use pre-construction development – Ksquare Condos by Kingdom Property Investment Ltd.
KSquare Condos, which will rise to 35-storeys with 644 units in total, is Phase One of the three-phase complex. The project is proposed to have residential units, retail space, as well as amenity spaces.
Phase Two will be a new 45-storey residential tower that will stand to the east of Phase One.
Phase Three will consist of an 8-storey office building that will be located at the development site's northeast corner and is expected to add 10,000-plus square metres of new office space to the thriving neighbourhood.
The complex is planned to have an L-shaped lobby roughly 7,000 sq. ft. conjoined to the two buildings and which will house a waiting area, a concierge desk, coffee tables, chairs and sofas, all of which will be actually connected via an electric fireplace with the ability to cycle through numerous colours.
The Kenedy's lobby is proposed to offer amenity spaces like a fireside lounge and a waterside lounge each measuring 3,500 sq. ft. in size.
The two lobbies will serve as a general gathering place. Besides being an entry lobby, it will double up as a seating and working area. It is very similar to a hotel, in that it will support a Wi-Fi lounge, be lively and community-friendly.
K Square Condos is conveniently located in an area that has experienced rapid growth due to its strategic location right at the centre of numerous planned transit expansions.
To the north is the current Agincourt GO station and nearby are the SmartTrack & the Sheppard East LRT future stations, with the TTC buses operating down Kennedy Rd and to the Bloor-Danforth Subway line.
With Hwy 401 situated to the south close to the project site, motorists have easy access across the whole GTA. The development is surrounded by every amenity imaginable that matters. Whatever is the lifestyle you desire, everything is at your fingertips. The neighbourhood boasts of many green spaces, allowing residents to connect with nature. It has a touch of metropolitan, cosmopolitan charm, with a remarkable range of shops, cafés, plus world-class eateries only minutes away. The project site location is bordered by public, private and also Montessori schools.
KSquare Condos location has many transportation options. It is served by the TTC, the Scarborough LRT as well as the GO. Motorists can quickly and conveniently access Highways 401 and 401, just minutes from the development site.
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How did intelligent Irish women get through the day in the 1980s?
'One Day at a Time' and 'Roseanne' are on their way back; here are some olden-days shows that should also be remade, like "womanning competition" Calor Kosangas Housewife of the Year
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Poppy, Jemima, Humpty, Little Ted, Big Ted. from the BBC children's series Play School. We need them now more than ever
Looking ahead at the telly schedules for 2018, I see many, many reboots and sequels. This can be a good thing, Netflix's remake of Norman Lear's One Day at a Time is warm, uplifting and funny and I have high hopes for Roseanne. Also, new things scare me and they clearly scare television production companies. So here are some television properties from the olden days that should be remade or rebooted.
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This popular womanning competition was sponsored by a gas company because solvent abuse was the only way most intelligent Irish women could get through the day in the 1980s. Over the course of this programme, women with the wits to run CERN or perform brain surgery instead demonstrated how to bake a casserole while being patronised by a man in a nice suit. My proposed remake would be just called The Patriarchy and would be hosted by Panti Bliss and Edvard Munch's painting The Scream.
Tales of the Riverbank
Originally an adaptation of James Herbert's The Rats, Tales of the Riverbank featured real cuddly animal actors engaged in entertaining activities such as paddling a riverboat with a mole, taking tea with a wise old frog or piloting a plane alongside a cheeky field mouse. As wildlife documentaries go, it was very entertaining. For my reboot, I would retain the essential concepts but would add the odd anti-heroic touch, like having Roderick the Water Rat spread plague or Hammy the Hamster cannibalise his siblings or slow-coach sidekick Turtle not so much "teaching his friends patience" as "frustrating his friends by being very difficult to devour". HBO will snap it up.
Stig of the Dump
A young boy befriends an anachronistic caveman, or, possibly, just an ugly, weird man who lives in the dump. Which is it? The reboot, disturbingly, will leave that question to the viewer.
Worzel Gummidge P.I.
Worzel Gummidge (Jon Pertwee) was an elderly turnip-noggined gent who worked as a scarecrow and could change his head when required (much like Jon Pertwee's other famous role, Doctor Who). His best friends were baffled and neglected schoolchildren John and Susan, and he regularly said upsetting things like "I'll be bum-swizzled". The reboot will see him move to the city and the letters "PI" added to the title. I will, on reflection, also add "PI". to the title of Stig of the Dump, just to give him a more wholesome reason to be hanging around a dump.
Weekend at Bernie's
Two young ragamuffins go to spend a weekend at their rich boss's seaside mansion only to find him deceased. They do what anyone would do in the circumstances: they animate him using various ropes and pulleys, fool a woman into having sex with his corpse and proceed to have the most magical weekend of their lives. What joyful scamps. For my HBO TV reboot, I will spread the action over several seasons and explore, more deeply, what it means to live and party with a decomposing body.
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The John Player Tops
This cigarette-company-sponsored variety competition was ahead of its time. It featured the employees of various companies dancing, singing and japing in return for job security and/or love. Who can forget Waterford Glass versus Packard Electric? We sing songs about it still, where I'm from. Nowadays, in a de-unionised world of mobile, tax-efficient multinationals, the frenetic hoofing will be even more desperate and the corporate box will surely look like something from the Capitol in The Hunger Games. It would be inappropriate, nowadays, to have the show sponsored by a cigarette company, so we would make do with an anti-anxiety drug or methadone manufacturer. Apple will only be allowed enter if they give us the €13 billion they owe us (there's an incentive, lads).
The Spike
This was a gritty secondary school-set drama that aired on RTÉ in the 1970s but was cancelled after an art room scene featuring a naked life drawing model upset the whole country (then under the cosh of an autocratic blood cult brought over here by a deranged Welshman). The Spike was, by all accounts, terrible. But it might be nice if we rebooted just the art room scene and used it to replace the Angelus, just as a reminder of how far we've come.
The Eurovision When We Used to Win it
Wasn't it great when we used to win the Eurovision Song Contest? Didn't that feel good? Well, rather than pin all our hopes on some reedy-voiced tyke who has won a singing competition or completed his national service in a boyband, let's go all North Korean on the Eurovision and fake it. Yes, that's what I said: fake it. Why not? The licence payers won't notice, they haven't even read this far down the page. A big "live" shindig where performers from all over "Europe", all played by Glen Hansard wearing different wigs, are bested by Johnny Logan or Dana, would surely be cheaper than sending a team to Gdansk. And it would also serve as a nice propagandistic precursor to Irexit.
The Riordans
The Riordans was an ancient Irish soap opera that was also used to propagate new farm technology to a simple, agrarian people. My reboot would be set in Dublin's tech quarter and would follow several generations of a family of social media consultants as they sing folk songs about search-engine optimisation and have tea with the priest.
"I believe they're hiring vloggers up at the big internet factory," he'll say.
"No son of mine will vlog for the yanks!" Pa Riordan will tweet, banging his hand on the table and shaking the froth off his Frappuccino.
We should aim the new version of this infant BBC romp at grown-ups. We're all a bit stressed these days. I mean, who wouldn't want to have a kind lady read stories to us, take us to visit a bottle factory via a magic window and guide us in growing from an acorn to an oak, like Adrian Mole's dad? Adults have colonised all other aspects of youth culture – pop music/festivals/public tantrums – so why not Play School?
And while I'm at it, I'd also like to see Bosco getting a political interview show (he'd certainly be more aggressive than Piers Morgan). Also, I want all people with Blue Peter badges recognised as members of a paramilitary organisation and arrested.
Remember the television news? Remember a time before the day's events were vomited endlessly from the vibrating mobile hate screens to which our nervous systems are wired? Remember when new information did not come alongside the hysterical ravings of a thousand unhappy strangers? Remember when nice older gentlemen with unearned confidence, confirmed in firm, dispassionate voices that the government had the situation in hand?
Wouldn't you like to just watch the news, on television, at set times of the day, instead of falling to your knees under the weight of your iPhone, gibbering and wailing like a loon?
Well, that was my big idea: "Let's do news on the television again". However, according to some know-it-alls here at The Irish Times, television never stopped doing news. Well, la-di-da, look at them with their big news-capable brains. I bet they even read newspapers. They think they're so great.
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The influence of land processes and in particular of diffuse/direct radiation partitioning on surface fluxes and associated regional-scale climate feedbacks is investigated using ERA-40 driven simulations over Europe performed with the COSMO-CLM2 Regional Climate Model (RCM). Two alternative Land Surface Models (LSMs), a 2nd generation LSM (TERRA_ML) and a more advanced 3rd generation LSM (Community Land Model version 3.5), and two versions of the atmospheric component are tested, as well as a revised coupling procedure allowing for variations in diffuse/direct light partitioning at the surface, and their accounting by the land surface component. Overall, the RCM performance for various variables (e.g., surface fluxes, temperature and precipitation) is improved when using the more advanced 3rd generation LSM. These improvements are of the same order of magnitude as those arising from a new version of the atmospheric component, demonstrating the benefit of using a realistic representation of land surface processes for regional climate simulations. Taking into account the variability in diffuse/direct light partitioning at the surface further improves the model performance in terms of summer temperature variability at the monthly and daily time scales. Comparisons with observations show that the RCM realistically captures temporal variations in diffuse/direct light partitioning as well as the evapotranspiration sensitivity to these variations. Our results suggest that a modest but consistent fraction (up to 3 %) of the overall variability in summer temperature can be explained by variations in the diffuse to direct ratio.


Health I am thankful to you – for giving me a wonderful Life!
Participating in #ThankfulThursdays #ThankYouNote – Week 1 contest, hosted by Amrita & Tina.
If you ask me ONE thing I am thankful to, my answer would be Why JUST ONE? I have many many things to be thankful to. For instance – I am thankful that I am able to write this post, using my fingers and brain. My eyes are working absolutely fine and able to see what I am writing. Able to feel the emotions while writing this heart felt post. Thankful that I am Healthy.
Gratefulness, Kindness, Compassion, Respect, Recognition, Reward, Appreciation – Gratitude gives us all. God has given each one of us a wonderful gift; its up-to us how we cherish it. Cherish or Peril is human's call. I am thankful to all aspects on this wonderful living God graced us with.
'Health is Wealth' I am thankful to life for being fair with me, till now. A body in workable condition, brain which keeps sane and heart that beats normally. Certain ups-n-downs are justified as course of living, but rest depends on how serious are we to lead a healthy life.
Lead healthy & fit life.
Exercise – not only to keep fit, but to push negative energy away.
Family is source of unconditional support and love. For a healthy life; human needs a body in working condition & happiness. I am Thankful for the continuous support from my family in whatever I do. Be it on professional or personal fronts. This support gives my aspirations wings to soar high, without the worry of fall. Because no one is going to laugh or judge me. Motivate to try it again wholeheartedly, a family is positive energy.
What kind of living it would be without Love in it? Sad, Stressed & Unhealthy. I am thankful for unending love and comfort from my better half. We met some 13 years ago, got married 9 years back; still rocking and going on. The small teases and fun elements keep the smiles and happiness intact. For a healthy life – Love is Requisite.
The love from the baby is most poise, her small talks and unconditional love fills me with so much hope. Love and trust from friends – who are always with me in heart & memories, despite being far away in terms of distance. Years faded, age matured but our love for each other is still the same. Friends who are guiding source, and show the real picture instead of just some good words. These are just a few ingredients to be a happy, healthy life.
I am thankful for the love of writing, this keeps me away from 'empty mind's devil workshop'. Writing is life and soul, its aiding in bread & butter too at times. Writing keeps wasted time & energy occupied; when energy is transformed into positivism; there leaves no chance of Stress or depression.
Life is all about change; if we do not change – we fall apart. This post gave me a chance to express my heartfelt Thank You for all the things that made my life wonderful.
What are you Thankful For? Leave your answers in the comments below.


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If you haven't heard of the TV series, maybe it's time you bought a TV. And for those of you left yearning for more once the outstanding six seasons came to a close, this promises to be more of the same.
Ok, I admit – I've watched all 94 episodes. In chronological order. Of my own free will. Granted, it's not exactly The Sopranos when it comes to appealing to male viewers, but you have to admit that it's great television – particularly the classily-scripted sixth season. If you had any burning questions once the curtain came down, we're now going to find out what's going on in the lives of these four sexy New Yorkers four years down the line. As you can imagine, things have become complicated.
Everyone from the TV series is back for the big screen version, so we will obviously be seeing Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, Kim Cattrall and Kristen Davis in the starring roles. Chris Noth reprises his recurring and tumultuous role as love interest Mr. Big, and one of the new roles created for this film goes to Oscar-winning Dreamgirl Jennifer Hudson. The film is written and directed by Michael Patrick King, who helmed the entire TV series.
City slicker?
For those of you (ok, us) who have watched the series, I'm sure you'll remember how great it is to watch the action-packed, often moving, season-ending finales. Well here's a chance to head back to the city for more, because this plays like an over-two-hour-long season grand finale. And although the end of season six seemed to tie up all the loose plot threads, they're all unravelled here for one last spin.
New to the city?
I'd imagine that it works better for those who followed the TV show, since these are characters that we know well and care about. But for those of you who are new to the series, the opening sequence offers a brief rundown of salient plot points, and even if you're still buying popcorn and miss that, the film's plot is quite self-explanatory and works as a way-above-average romantic comedy.
The good, the bad
Despite being about 20 minutes too long, it manages to keep a brisk pace throughout. Frivolous as it may seem at times, once you get past all the product placements and obligatory girl-power moments, this is a film which proudly wears its heart on its designer-label sleeve. Males may protest as their counterparts are reduced to sideline characters, but as expected from a film written and directed by a man, we do get to see at least some of the male viewpoint.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/newline/sexandthecity/ (High-res QuickTime)
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Demonstration of in-browser neural network inference on Kim CNN in the browser. See an online demo here.
There is no setup required to run this repo out-of-the-box. However, you can train your own Kim CNN model with the following instructions.
You can train the Kim CNN model and export the trained model as an ONNX protobuf after cloning and setting up Castor. Our code is based on PyTorch v0.4 and ONNX release 1.2.2.
Copy the model (kimcnn_static.onnx) into the onnx subdirectory.
Install protobuf for Node.js: npm install protobufjs.
Run node convert_onnx_to_js.js to output a model_parameters.js file containing all the model parameters in the parameters directory.


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Last night, our latest Market Package with enhancements, fixes and improvements was released. It contains one new API feature, as well as a vast improvement of the speed of another.
As for the new feature, it is now possible to login ('Connect' in API terms) as an administrator. This facilitates integration with external accounting applications, e.g. reporting tools.
To utilize this feature, instead of 'logging in' by using the Connect() method, you use the ConnectAsAdministrator() method, which takes the administrator user's credentials (administrator agreement number, user ID and password), as well as the agreement number of a client to which the administrator user has access, as parameters. Note that the client in question of course still needs to have the API add-on module enabled.
While we could conceivably implement a generic workaround directly in our ORM tool, for the sake of risk minimizing, we have instead opted to implement bespoke optimizations on a per-object level – starting with the objects our logs show us to be the most frequently used.
Last night's release includes this optimization for the IProduct object – in practice, the Product_GetDataArray() method, which now handles upwards of a couple of thousand objects in a few seconds. The relative speed improvement increases with the number of objects – we've measured the speed increase to a factor of 10+ with 2,000 products.
Our next Market Package release, due in mid-May, will include similar optimizations for a lot of other objects (IDebtor, ICreditor, IAccount, IInvoice, IInvoiceLine, etc.). As for all these registers, we still recommend 'paging' to approximately 500 objects for each call to its GetDataArray() method.
For more detailed technical API documentation, take a look here.
Hi. Nice to know that you are working on the perfomance of this. When we implemented our integration client to your system, we experienced the problem and actually measured the most efficient page size (time / item) to be around 80.
We will try again in may when IAccount and ICreditor have been fixed.
Btw, does this update require DLL upgrade or is it all server side?
Admittedly, I haven't tried the more-round-trips-vs-smaller-page-sizes measuring approach – but for 80 to be the optimal page size sounds fairly small to me. Then again – while 80 vs 500 yields more than 8 times as many round trips, the difference is likely negligible when weighed against the server-side speedup of smaller pages.


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Q: XMLStreamWriter - Java 8 - writeCharacters -
 The behavior of this method has changed in Java 8, it seems.
I need some quick-fix for my problem.
The problem is what I have some code which writes CR and LF after each XML node named <row>. Now (as we migrated to Java 8), instead of CR and LF the characters
 are written out.
Again, I need a quick fix, I cannot change the StaX implementation or do anything big like that.
    while (reader.hasNext()){
        event = reader.next();
        if (event == XMLStreamConstants.START_ELEMENT){

            if (reader.getLocalName().equals("row")){

                writer.writeCharacters("\r\n"); /// this is my problem now!!!
                writer.writeStartElement(reader.getLocalName());

                n = reader.getAttributeCount();
                for (int i=0; i<n; i++){
                    name = reader.getAttributeName(i).getLocalPart();
                    value = reader.getAttributeValue(i);

                                    ...
                    }
        }

A: You need to get access to the underlying writer that is the writer you decorated with the XMLStreamWriter (hopefully if there is one it would be the writer you passed into createXMLStreamWriter()) or you need to temporarily disable escaping which is implementation dependent.
The reason your getting the weird characters is that the XMLStreamWriter has no idea where you are writing these characters so it defaults to XML attribute escaping which is stricter than element (content) escaping. The escaping is also generally based on the CharacterEncoder. My guess is that in older versions of Java it was defaulting to XML element escaping which will not escape white space like newlines or a different character encoding was used. I can see why they fixed this as clearly attribute escaping is the correct way to do it. I also have no idea which XMLStreamWriter or CharacterEncoder your actually using and probably what more likely happened is that the default picked XMLStreamWriter or character encoding implementation changed (you should check in the debugger which one is getting picked).
Regardless if you get access to the underlying writer you can just write the characters directly and they will not be escaped. However make sure the writer you use is the one that is decorated and not one deeper (ie if you have a BufferWriter decorating a FileWriter use the BufferWriter).
For those that don't think writeCharacters does escaping you can look at the code.
EDIT
Apparently after looking at the code you can just call writer.setEscapeCharacters(false) on the default sun impl (unfortunately you probably have to do some casting) before you callwriteCharacters which is probably better than getting the original writer.
I did not know about this flag.
EDIT 2
Another possible quick fix if your hopefully using the Sun StaX implementation is to change your system level character encoding and picking an encoding so that the CRLF does not get escaped ideally to whatever it was before JDK upgrade. This is assuming the problem could be your character encoding changed from Windows or ISO to UTF-8 on Java upgrade but I can't be sure since you didn't specify your operating system. If it didn't change on upgrade (ie hopefully you have always defaulted to UTF-8) then disregard this option.
EDIT 3
After doing some testing I'm pretty positive your StaX implementation is not the default Java Sun implementation but probably Woodstox. I haven't tested Woodstox but it appears the library cares quite a bit about whitespace for performance reasons and appears to have different rules if its UTF-8 and ISO (again character encoding).

A: What I did as a fix was to just call the following method.
writer.writeCharacters(System.lineSeparator());
That works fine and produced raw (and not XML-escaped) CR/LF data.
Also, it turned out I was having my problem on Linux, while on Windows it was working OK.

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The sky at the bottom of the walk-in stone well looks almost blue – an illusion. We have not seen the sun for days. The snow is mostly gone, dissolved by days of cold rain. Last night, my niece left us to return to Mississippi with her parents, and it seemed to all of us that her visit had been much too short. Between the rain and a bad head cold that she and I both got, we never got a chance to go sledding, build a snowman – even walks with her Nanna were few and far between. This morning my father and I took down the Christmas tree and put the boxes of lights and ornaments back up in the attic for another year. The tree went out on the back slope below the feeders to provide the birds with a shelter from the weather and a refuge from the sharp-shinned hawk.
Among the baby's new books, there's one with a small round mirror on every facing page, each replacing the head of a different animal. She points, chortles, repeats her one word, Dada.
The book is from a series called Baby Einstein, designed to make your child smarter. But what is the lesson? That other beings are nothing but ciphers? I think of Einstein fathering his own thoughts on a non-capricious G-d.
Dada. Very good! And see how it smears when you put your fingers on it? When you bend the page back and forth, see how it warps?


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Funds for upgrading roads in Ecuador
Los Valles Road Integration Project - Ruta Viva - promoted by Quito municipality - will be executed with CAF support.
The project has received two loans totaling US$151.5 million.
Ecuador's ambassador to Venezuela and the CAF president signed a US$45.5 million loan agreement to upgrade roads in densely populated areas of Guayaquil.
(Caracas, March 6, 2012).- Quito Municipality is implementing the Los Valles Road Integration Project, better known as "Ruta Viva" to improve the quality of life of the city's inhabitants. CAF – Latin American development bank - today approved US$100 million for the second phase of the project which joins the US$51.5 million granted in the past.
In another development, CAF President & CEO Enrique García and Ecuadorian Ambassador in Venezuela Ramón Torres signed a loan agreement for US$45.5 million to support Guayaquil Municipality in implementing the Program of Road Works in Densely Populated Areas of the city.
During the signing García stressed the importance of both operations."Execution of projects such as "Ruta Viva" or the Guayaquil road works are high on the CAF agenda because they have a direct impact on improving the quality of people's lives."
Ecuador's ambassador in Venezuela said that projects like those being executed in Quito and Guayaquil were very important for his country. Along with Cuenca, these cities have grown significantly and require investments to upgrade and adapt their road systems to the needs of residents.
"Ruta Viva" will reduce traffic congestion in the Cumbayá and Tumbaco valleys, open a rapid route between the valleys and the city of Quito, and provide additional services for infrastructure related to the movement of passengers and freight.
The project, supported since its inception by CAF, is a key priority component of the Quito Metropolitan District Road Plan since it opens an access route for the inhabitants of Cumbaya and Tumbaco valleys and future users of the city's new international airport.
The executing agency is the Empresa Pública Metropolitana de Movilidad y Obras Públicas (EPMMOP) through the Quito Municipality Special Road Projects Unit.
US$45.5 million to upgrade roads in densely populated of Guayaquil
The loan agreement signed today at CAF headquarters in Caracas is in response to the demand created by the growth of the city and will contribute to the integrated improvement of vehicle traffic and community health in the area of the most vulnerable population, especially the Northeast (Paschal parish), and Southeast and West (Tarqui, Febres Cordero, Latamendi and Ximena parishes).
The works include construction and rehabilitation of road infrastructure, building of a market and additional civil works in various low-income areas. Specifically, CAF will finance five of the 11 projects in the program covering civil works, and environmental supervision and management plan.


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Mondal S, Chakrabarty S, Sinha D, Ete T, Nag A, Chakraborty A, Prasad A. Joubert syndrome - A case report with classical MRI features. West Afr J Radiol 2014;21:102-4
Mondal S, Chakrabarty S, Sinha D, Ete T, Nag A, Chakraborty A, Prasad A. Joubert syndrome - A case report with classical MRI features. West Afr J Radiol [serial online] 2014 [cited 2019 Jul 19];21:102-4. Available from: http://www.wajradiology.org/text.asp?2014/21/2/102/134625
Joubert syndrome (JS) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder classically manifested by hypotonia, impaired motor development, oculomotor apraxia, and breathing abnormalities. Wider spectrum of anomalies involving eye, kidney, and liver characterize the term Joubert syndrome and related disorder (JSRD). The primary anatomic defect is a congenital malformation of mid- and hindbrain. In axial magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of brain, these anomalies produce the characteristic "molar tooth sign" (MTS), which is an essential component for diagnosis of JS and JSRD. We report a case of JS along with its classical neuroimaging features.
A 2-year-old boy was taken to the emergency department with sudden onset tachypnea. The boy has a history of similar episodes of respiratory irregularities in the past along with flabbiness and developmental delays. His birth history was normal with a full term normal delivery and a birth weight of 2.4 kg. His early postnatal period was uneventful apart from occasional episodes of irregular respiration with spontaneous correction. As his age increased, his family members noticed delay in developmental milestones, both motor and intellectual. Examination revealed gross hypotonia. There was also inability to follow moving objects, a finding known as oculomotor apraxia. His intellectual development was also sub normal for his age. A clinical impression of JS was considered based on these presentation and clinical findings. MRI of the brain was advised to confirm or rule out this disorder. MRI of the brain was performed with a 3 Tesla GE machine. Axial T2-weighted MRI of the brain at the level of midbrain showed thinning of midbrain with deepened inter peduncular fossa along with thickened superior cerebellar peduncle - the "MTS" [Figure 1]. Vermian agenesis with "bat wing" shaped fourth ventricle was also noted in axial FLAIR sequence [Figure 2]. Rest of the cerebellar hemisphere, supra tentorial structures, and ventricular systems were normal. Characteristic MRI features including the classical "MTS" established the final diagnosis of JS.
Figure 1: Axial T2-weighted MRI of brain at the level of midbrain showing the "molar tooth sign" (White arrow)
Figure 2: Axial FLAIR MRI of brain at the level of fourth ventricle showing "bat wing" appearance (White arrow)
JS is an autosomal recessive disorder. It was first described in four siblings with features of oculomotor apraxia, episodic hyperapnea, ataxia, and cognitive impairment. [1] The disease is very rare with a prevalence of 1 in 100,000. [2] This disorder is characterized by specific congenital malformation of the hindbrain and other phenotypic findings. In our patient, the phenotypic features were very similar to JS and later on characteristic hindbrain malformations were observed in neuroimaging. A defect in the structure or function of cilium is the pathogenic basis of JS as all the culprit six genes identified till date regulate the function of primary cilium. [3] AH1 gene is one of the identified gene, which encodes Jouberin protein. This gene is required for cerebellar and cortical development in humans. Mutation of AH1 gene has been found in a subset of JS patients. [4]
Classic JS consists of (1) The MTS on axial cranial MRI, (2) decreased muscle tone, (3) intellectual impairment or developmental delay, (4) one or both of the following (supportive): Irregular breathing pattern in infancy and abnormal eye movements (oculomotor apraxia, nystagmus). In our patient, all of these features of classic JS was present. Other features like facial dysmorphism (ptosis, hypertelorism, and broad forehead) may also be present. [3] Polydactyly may be seen in some patients. [5] Currently, wider spectrum of involvement of other organs characterizes a new entity known as JSRD. JSRD includes other central nervous system features (callosal agenesis and occipital encephalocele), ocular coloboma, cystic dysplasia of kidney, nephronophthisis and hepatic fibrosis. Combination of various organ involvements is known as various syndromes. In cerebello-oculo-renal syndromes (CORS), ocular and renal systems are involved and another syndrome better known by its acronym is COACH syndrome (Coloboma, Oligophrenia/developmental delay, Ataxia, Cerebellar vermis hypoplasia, Hepatic fibrosis). [6] In this case, facial dysmorphism or polydactyly was absent and there was no evidence of renal or hepatic involvement. The disease presents with varying degree of clinical features and organ involvement, so the disease outcome also varies from patient to patient. Most of the infants and children of JS survive the neonatal period and there may be improvement in muscle tone, respiratory function, and feeding behaviors.
MRI of brain renders an important position in diagnosis of JS and JSRD. The "MTS" in MRI is an essential component of the diagnostic criteria of JS. This sign is seen in the axial MRI of brain at the level of midbrain. The mechanism of genesis of this sign is due to lack of decussation of fibers of superior cerebellar peduncle, which leads to peduncular enlargement. Additionally, the peduncles follow a more horizontal course. Lack of crossing fibers reduces the anterior posterior diameter of the midbrain and deepens the interpeduncular fossa. [7] In our patient, the horizontal orientation of cerebellar peduncle and deepening of interpeduncular fossa was clearly evident in brain MRI. In a patient with JS, thickening and reorientation of the superior cerebellar peduncles, vermian hypoplasia, and fourth ventricle deformity are the primary neuroimaging findings and these features are seen in almost all cases. [8] "MTS", the pathognomonic feature of JS is seen in up to 85% of patients. [9] Indeed "MTS" is an important criteria for the diagnosis of classic JS. Presence of this MRI feature in our patient consolidated the diagnosis of JS. Vermian agenesis produces a midline cleft between the cerebellar hemispheres, resulting in a "bat wing" appearance of the fourth ventricle on axial MRI images. [10] In addition to "MTS", Vermian agenesis was also evident in our patient. Poretti et al. found marked infra tentorial abnormalities in patients of JS. In all the patients, verminal remnants were dysplastic with enlarged, distorted fourth ventricle. Marked verminan hypoplasia was observed in 53% of patients. Hippocampal malrotation, corpus callosal dysgenesis, and absent septum pellucidum were the supra tentorial findings. [11]
In this patient, the clinical features were highly suggestive of JS and the classical MRI of brain features confirmed the final diagnosis. This report is concerned with the description of a rare disease entity along with its classical MRI features.
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2. Parisi MA, Doherty D, Chance PF, Glass IA. Joubert syndrome (and related disorders) (OMIM 213300). Eur J Hum Genet 2007;15:511-21.
3. Braddock SR, Henley KM, Maria BL. The face of Joubert's syndrome: A study of dysmorphology and anthropometry. Am J Med Genet 2007;143:3235-42.
4. Dixon-Salazar T, Silhavy JL, Marsh SE, Louie CM, Scott LC, Gururaj A, et al. Mutations in the AHI1 gene, encoding jouberin, cause Joubert syndrome with cortical polymicrogyria. Am J Hum Genet 2004;75:979-87.
5. Saraiva JM, Baraitser M. Joubert syndrome: A review. Am J Med Genet 1992;43:726-31.
6. Satran D, Pierpont ME, Dobyns WB. Cerebello-oculo-renal syndromes including Arima, Senior-Loken and COACH syndromes: More than just variants of Joubert syndrome. Am J Med Genet 1999;86:459-9.
7. McGraw P. The molar tooth sign. Radiology 2003;229:671-2.
8. Kendall B, Kingsley D, Lambert SR, Taylor D, Finn P. Joubert syndrome: A clinic oradiological study. Neuroradiology 1990;31:502-6.
9. Maria BL, Quisling RG, Rosainz LC, Yachnis AT, Gitten J, Dede D, et al. Molar tooth sign in Joubert syndrome: Clinical, radiologic, and pathologic significance. J Child Neurol 1999;14:368-76.
10. Sztriha L1, Al-Gazali LI, Aithala GR, Nork M. Joubert's syndrome: New cases and review of clinicopathologic correlation. Pediatr Neurol 1999;20:274-81.
11. Poretti A, Huisman TA, Scheer I, Boltshauser E. Joubert syndrome and related disorders: Spectrum of neuroimaging findings in 75 patients. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2011;32:1459-63.


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In 1988, Jack Weatherford published Indian Givers, How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World. I met Jack Weatherford after reading his book and learning about the many contributions of the different indigenous cultures of the Americas to our world.
We embarked on a project called Native Roots, a television series and website designed to bring the contributions of the native people of the Americas to more people and create connections with opportunities to learn more. The idea attracted the interest and support of broadcasters, including the American Public Broadcasting System and organizations like the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Ottawa and the Institute for American Indian Arts Museum in Santa Fe.
In 2003, Jack published Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World to reveal the cultural heritage and creative contributions of the Mongolian people to the world. In 2007, I was invited to join Jack and his family when he returned to Mongolia to receive the Polar Star, Mongolia's highest award of appreciation, for his contribution to Mongolia.
Jack and I were looking forward to catching up on our conversation while in Mongolia. On our journey, we talked about intercultural contribution and how creating connections with our native roots can contribute to cultural development throughout the world.
This is the story of our time together and what emerged from our conversations.
A Journey through Mongolia
I arrived at Chinggis Khaan International Airport in Ulaanbaatar late on Friday, June 29, 2007, and was greeted by the smiling open face of the President of Chinggis Khaan University.
Lkhagva took me to the new twelve-story, twenty-four suite Narantuul Hotel in the heart of Ulaanbaatar before returning to meet Jack's family, who were arriving later that night. Jack and his wife Walker were on their way to the Gobi Desert with Dulmaa Enkhchuluun, the Director of Borijin Travel and one of Jack's Mongolian students.
Enkee had made the arrangements for the travel and meetings for the visit. Jack's family and I were to join them on Sunday. I set out to explore Ulaanbaatar the next morning with Jack's son Roy and his wife Amanda, Jack's daughter Walker and her husband Eddie, and Jack's granddaughter.
Our first visit was to Gandan Monastery, the largest monastery in Mongolia. Its name means 'the great place of complete joy' and it is home to approximately 900 monks and the centre of Mongolian Buddhism. The 13th Dalai Lama lived in one of the temples here in 1904. In 1938, the Soviet regime suppressed religious communities in Mongolia and destroyed about 900 monasteries.
In 1990 after the Democratic Revolution and with Buddhism flourishing once more, the Gandan Monastery embarked on an ambitious restoration program around the country.
Our next visit was to the National Museum of Mongolian History. Among the many historical exhibits and displays of traditional Mongolian culture dating back to before the 12th Century is a collection of costumes, hats, and jewelry representing Mongolia's ethnic groups that would be an inspiration to contemporary fashion designers around the world.
At the Mongolian National Modern Art Gallery nearby, we saw an extensive exhibition of contemporary Mongolian paintings and sculptures from a range of artists that evoked the Mongolian heritage and the feeling of contemporary life in Mongolia today.
In the evening, Lkhagva, his wife, and a colleague took us to dinner where I learned more about Lkhagva, the man we would travel with for much of our time in Mongolia. He is an archaeologist, cultural historian, writer, and a well-known and respected leader contributing to the development of his country.
In the last few years, he took Chinggis Khaan University from an idea to an expanding 800-student university teaching the liberal arts and bringing the history and culture of Mongolia forward.
The next morning we flew to the small community of Dalanzadgad where we were taken by two Russian vans on a ninety minute drive to Three Camel Lodge, a comfortable ger camp in the middle of the Gobi Desert where we were greeted by Jack and Walker.
About half the people of Mongolia are nomadic or semi-nomadic, living in the traditional ger that has shaped Mongolian life for centuries.
After lunch we set out on a three hour drive across the desert to the Khongoryn Els, known as the singing dunes, some of the largest and most spectacular sand dunes in Mongolia.
The views of the landscape were beautiful as we followed desert tracks that come and go with the wind, trusting our drivers to find their way. The air-cooled engines of our engines over-heated periodically forcing us to turn our vehicles into the wind from time to time so they could cool.
We returned to the camp as the wind came up in the late afternoon bringing with it the threat of a sand storm.
Dinner was a traditional khorkhog, a meal made by cooking goat or mutton with vegetables in an urn with water and hot rocks from an open fire. It is customary before eating to pass the hot greasy rocks from the pot from hand to hand, a tradition thought to be good for the health.
While we waited for dinner five of the staff, wearing traditional clothing, entertained us with a performance of folk songs, throat singing, and music played with traditional Mongolian instruments, including the Morin Khuur, the unique horse-head fiddle most identified with Mongolia music.
The Morin Khuur has two horse-hair strings with a horse's head carved on the handle. It is played to accompany the Mongolian long songs that evoke the beauty of the country and the tales of nomadic heroes.
At the end of the day, we retired to the comfort of our beautifully decorated gers to sleep with the sights, sounds, and experiences of a culture that excited Jack's book and is still alive in the middle of the Gobi desert.
The next day, we set out under the great blue sky of Mongolia for a ninety-minute drive across the desert to a nearby mountain range. There we rode camels into a pass to find the remains of a glacier hanging on in the cool gap between the hills until next winter.
We left the lodge that afternoon for an evening flight back to Ulaanbaatar. I travelled with Jack and Walker, stopping at a cairn where Jack had tied a khadak several years before. The khadak is the ceremonial silk scarf used by Mongolians to mark special occasions and places. Our driver was a young man named Huyagaa adopted by Jack when there was a great drought in Mongolia.
We were welcomed into Huyagaa's family home and greeted in traditional Mongolian fashion with a bowl of fermented mare's milk, known as airag, an offer of snuff, milk tea, and a snack of dried goat's curd. Their ger was beautifully furnished, cool, and comfortable.
We visited Huyagaa's ger later in Dalanzadgad where he lives with his wife and new baby before boarding our Aero Mongolia flight back to Ulaanbaatar.
The next day I met with Tserenpil Ariunna, the Executive Director of the Arts Council of Mongolia, and her colleague Tsevegjav Enkhchimeg, a cultural heritage programmer.
The Mongolian Arts Council was working with two groups in Canada, Coleman Lemieux and Compagnie, a Montreal based dance company, and Red Sky Performance, a Toronto based contemporary aboriginal performance company.
The Arts Council of Mongolia has accomplished a lot since it was founded by business, civic, and arts leaders in 2002 with the financial support of the Mongolian Foundation for Open Society. Its aim is to support the sustainable development of the arts and culture and promote the role of arts and culture in national development.
In addition to providing individual and organizational grants, it operates a number of arts-education programs and cultural heritage projects.
A significant part of the Arts Council income comes from sales commissions on paintings sold at the Red Ger Gallery. The Red Ger Gallery provides space for the exhibition and sale of modern art generating income both for the artists and the Arts Council.
The chair of the Council's international board is Natsagiin Jantsannorov, Mongolia's Twice State Laureate composer and General Director of the Grand Art Agency.
I introduced myself to Ariunaa as representing the interests of the Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. We talked about the possibility of an artistic exchange and an exhibition of contemporary Mongolian art in Vancouver.
We talked about the Winter Olympics and the Cultural Olympiad being hosted by Vancouver in 2010. We talked about creating connections for Mongolian artists and performers in Canada. And we talked about how Mongolia, reemerging as a culture after eighty years of Soviet domination, could make a unique contribution to the Cultural Olympiad.
In the afternoon we met with members of the National University at the State Library of Mongolia, where Jack presented copies of his book in several languages to Dr. Serjee, the Director of the Library.
He also gave the library an ancient Tibetan book he had acquired in Mongolia nine years earlier and had taken around the world.
In the evening we met with Javka Davaanyam, one of Jack's Mongolian students who manages the Tourist Information Center in Ulaanbaatar.We talked about his interest in coming to Canada to become certified by a Canadian college in outdoor tourism. He wanted to return to Mongolia to teach and certify Mongolian guides at the University. We talked about how Mongolia's unique opportunity was in creating cultural travel experiences.
The next morning Jack and I talked over tea. I told him about my conversations with the Arts Council and their interest in creating cultural exchanges between Mongolia and Canada.
We talked about the Native Roots project we started as a television series many years ago and realized, with today's technology, it could now become an online communication centre. Native Roots could be an online marketplace where cultures could tell their stories and communicate opportunities to experience their cultural heritage, their contemporary cultural expression, and their creative contributions to the world.
The Native Roots communication centres could give people opportunities to explore their own native roots and the roots of other cultures, opportunities to create intercultural connections and cooperative enterprises around common interests, and opportunities to understand and appreciate our cultural diversity.
Native Roots as a television series was intended to tell the story of the contributions of the indigenous cultures of the Americas to a larger audience with a website to explore opportunities to learn more. The idea of the series was to excite interest in exploring our past to find our way in the future.
Native Roots as an online communication centre could be interactive, updated, maintained, available anytime to anyone with internet access, and could give everyone a media channel with webcasting ability. It could become a growing and permanent resource as stories are contributed.
The idea of creating the first Native Roots communication centre communicating opportunities to explore and experience the cultures of Mongolia occupied our conversations throughout our journey. The Native Roots centre created for Mongolia could be replicated with the indigenous cultures of Canada and with other cultures around the world.
That afternoon we left Ulaanbaatar for Mongon Mod, a ger camp located near Kharakorum. Kharakorum, the ancient capital of Mongolia, was built in 1235 by Ogodei Khan, the third son of Genghis Khan. It was the international commerce and trade centre for merchants from Asia and Europe and the centre of political and administrative life of the Mongol Empire until Khubilai Khan moved the capital to Beijing in 1264.
As we traveled over the beautiful steppes and under the big blue sky of Mongolia, we talked about the online marketplace where stories could be told, information, ideas, and opportunities could be contributed, and intercultural connections could be created
Native Roots could become the place where connections could be created across cultural barriers around common human interests rather than across national barriers around international interests. Native Roots could give people the opportunity to explore and experience the ideas, creative expression, and contribution of the different cultures of the world. It could increase our collective appreciation and understanding of our cultural differences and contribute to our cultural development.
At Mongon Mod, which means Silver Tree, we were entertained with Mongolian traditional music and a performance by a twelve-year-old contortionist, one of Mongolia's unique performance arts.
The following day, we visited the Erdene Zuu Monastery guided by Batsaikhan Lama. Jack had come to Kharakorum to visit friends he had met over the years.
Batsaikhan was the monk who advised Jack on the date his book should be published which Jack credits with its success. The book was published in Mongolia one year before it was published in English. It sold out within three weeks of its release.
Erdene Zuu Monastery was founded by Abtai Khan in 1586, and is one of the few monasteries that survived the Soviet regime.
The monastery once housed 62 temples and 1000 monks. During the communist regime Erdene Zuu became a national museum with no religious life or monks in residence.
It re-opened in 1990 and is a popular place to visit. We toured three of the temples that remain from the destruction.
Part of the Erdene Zuu National Museum now functions as a monastery, where we were welcomed by the abbot who greeted us with the traditional offering of mare's milk and gifted us with a blue silk khadak. We were honoured and blessed in a ceremony in the temple with prayers sung for us by the monks.
We then visited Erdene Zuu Endeavour School, a recently constructed Buddhist elementary school that Jack had contributed to building. Mongolia's nomadic culture was based on Buddhist principles and traditions which gave meaning and purpose to life.
The imposition of Communism eroded the harmony and stability of Mongolian life and left many with a sense of alienation.
The school teaches life skills in the traditional cultural values and ethics of Mongolian culture to give Mongolians a sense of their personal lives and enable the country to flourish as a stable, caring society in the modern world.
In the evening after moving to another ger camp we visited the home of Batsaikhan lama's sister, who were camped nearby with their horses, goats, cows, and sheep.
The family gifted Jack with a horse and the women prepared vodka from fermented yogurt cooked over the fire in the centre of the main ger and we enjoyed the traditional Mongolian khorhog of goat cooked with hot rocks.
I woke in the morning to the sound of rain on the roof of my ger thinking how Native Roots could be the centre for creating connections with cultures.
It is our experience of other cultures that excites our interest in exploring the creative expression and ideas they contribute to our appreciation and understanding, and to our cultural development.
In the morning, we visited the site of Kharakorum where Chinggis Khaan established his base camp. Kharakorum was probably the most religiously tolerant city in the world where followers of every religion could worship side by side in peace.
It was an international city where artists, philosophers, scientists, and craftsman from around the world gathered to connect and create with one another.
Not much remains of the original city but a few stone carvings near the walls of the Erdene Zuu Monastery.
The Kultigin tablets, which were erected in the early eighth century, are located nearby. These tablets were discovered, rediscovered, and deciphered between the 18th and 20th centuries. The tablets tell about the Tatars, one of the tribes that were forcibly incorporated into the Mongol armies by Chinggis Khaan when they swept through Eurasia during the 13th century.
The Turkish International Cooperation and Development Administration is preserving the Kultigin tablets and creating a cultural centre at the site.
In the afternoon, we drove to Ugii Lake, the site of a new ger camp recently built by graduates from Chinggis Khaan University.
Lkhagva and Jack camped here when they first met years ago and where their conversation led to Jack's decision to write about Chinggis Khaan, and Lkhagva's decision to create Chinggis Khaan University.
At Ugii Lake, we enjoyed the delights of fishing, horse riding, and archery and Jack was gifted with a sheep.
We returned to Ulaanbaatar to the Hotel Mongolia, a new hotel styled after the temples and gers that characterize the cultural landscape of Mongolia with a replica of the famed silver tree fountain of Kharakorum in the centre of the grounds.
Here we were entertained in the evening by Tumen Ekh, the national song and dance ensemble of Mongolia.
The performance by musicians, dancers, singers, and contortionists included a fashion show and was followed by an outdoor feast with the cast.
Enkee and I talked with the manager of the company about bringing the traditional music, song, and dance of Mongolia to Canada.
The next day Lkhvaga toured us through Chinggis Khaan University and described the construction underway to add a six-story expansion to the existing building complex.
The University was founded by Lkhvaga in 1999 with 20 professors and instructors and 130 students to contribute to national development and educate students and professionals in the traditions, history, and civilization of Mongolia.
The National Council granted accreditation to the Chinggis Khaan University in 2004. It now has more than 800 registered students.
The Chinggis Khaan University has become a center for researching the history of the Mongols, promoting the preservation of ancient archaeological sites, and sharing the legacy of Chinggis Khaan with other cultures.
We attended a birthday celebration for Biljun, Lkhagva's five year old son, who was named by Jack when he was born.
The fifth birthday is an important occasion in Mongolia and the abbot from Gandan Monastery was there to provide a blessing.
Jack was scheduled for a television interview and I decided to accompany him. On the way we stopped at the offices and educational facilities of the Global Leadership Foundation where we met Otgonbat Bankhu, the President of the Foundation. He is the host of a popular weekly television show where students engage in projects over a number of months with the opportunity to win scholarships at a choice of universities in other parts of the world.
When we arrived at the studio, we discovered Jack was to be interviewed as a special guest on a live broadcast of the show awarding the grand scholarship prize. As I entered the studio to sit in the audience a few minutes before the broadcast, someone clipped a microphone on my shirt and I found myself seated on the stage with Jack, his translator Otgonbat Bankhu, and my translator Bekhbat Sodnom, who was the Director of the Museum of Victims of Political Persecution, Chairman of the Centre to Support Cooperation between Mongolian and Japanese Youth, Chairman of the Construction Technology College, and active in many other organizations. His grandfather was the Prime Minister who was executed by Stalin for speaking out against the killing of the monks. I was introduced as a colleague of Jack's from Canada.
Over the conversation I spoke about how Jack had introduced me to the history and culture of Mongolia and how everywhere I had been in Mongolia I was struck by the friendliness, generosity, and appreciation of the Mongolian people. I was impressed and excited by what felt like a resurgence of Mongolian life and culture after eighty years of Soviet influence.
Toward the end of the program, I was asked if I planned to write a book when I returned. I said it was unlikely but recalling my conversation with the Mongolian Arts Council and feeling the need to contribute, I said it might be possible to create some connections with the Cultural Olympiad being planned for the 2010 Olympics.
The next day Jack received his award from the President of Mongolia in a private ceremony, the Mongolian tradition. After the ceremony he came out of the Parliament Buildings and was greeted by an orchestra, television cameras, and a large crowd of onlookers.
After a celebratory lunch, Jack, Lkhvaga and I met with Professor Sanjbergz Tumur-Ochir, the Vice Minister of Education, Culture, and Science for Mongolia and a former Chairman of the Mongolian Parliament.
He spoke very appreciatively of Jack's contribution and when Jack introduced our interest in creating cultural connections with Mongolia, he offered the resources of his Department of Arts and Culture for any assistance we may need.
In the evening a celebration banquet for Jack was held in the Royal Chinggis Khaan Ger on the grounds of the Hotel Mongolia.
Jack received many congratulatory speeches and gifts from his friends and colleagues, including the gift of a camel from Professor Jambaldorj Sumya, a writer and journalist with the International Association for Mongol Studies, who wrote the book, The Camel is a Living Dinosaur, about the critically endangered Bactrian Camel.
We were entertained by musicians and performers and with a performance by Khongorzul Ganbaatar, the internationally renowned Long Song singer and Cultural Ambassador of Mongolia who performed at the birthday celebration of the Queen of the Netherlands, at the opening ceremony of the World Cup in 2002, at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony in 2005, and at Carnegie Hall, Albert Hall, the Bolshoi, and many other concert halls around the world.
At the end of her performance, Lkhvaga, who was the Master of Ceremonies, spoke in Mongolian and I heard my name mentioned His comments created a round of applause and cheering from the audience.
A member of the head table came to where I was sitting and told me Lkhvaga had suggested I might be able to make arrangements for Khongorzul to perform as part of the Cultural Olympiad. My conversation about creating connections had escalated to unforeseen levels.
The evening continued with a performance on the open air courtyard stage of the hotel by the State Morin Khuur Orchestra, as one of the cultural events of the Naadam Festival.
The next morning Jack had breakfast with former Prime Minister Ts. Elbegdorj. He said that the people of Mongolia appreciate Jack's work because he had dusted off the history of Mongolia and given Chinggis Khaan some much deserved good press after centuries of bad press. I thought Jack had dusted off the history of the indigenous peoples of the Americas and given them some well-deserved good press in a similar way with his earlier books. The idea of giving indigenous cultures the ability to create their own press, tell their own stories, and communicate their own contributions in the past and in the present is what the Native Roots communication centre could contribute to our future.
In the afternoon we met with Mark Minton, the American Ambassador to Mongolia. We talked about the future of Mongolia, one of the most sparsely populated and poorest countries in the world with a wealth of natural resources, as it emerges to take its place on the world stage and about the challenges it faces with its economic development, the pressure of foreign interests, and the increasing urbanization of the nomadic peoples.
A number of people told me that Mongolia looks to Canada appreciatively, feeling some kinship with another country with an economic and cultural giant as a neighbour as they have. At this time there is no Canadian Government representation in Mongolia which makes travel and connections to Canada more difficult for Mongolians.
In the evening we had dinner in the home of Professor Shagdarsuren Amarbayar, Advisor to the President, former Member of Parliament, and head of Nomin Holding, a large company in the wholesale, retail, manufacturing, finance, and insurance business. He gave us each a copy of The Horses of Chinggis Khaan, a book about the history of the Mongolian horse that he sponsored and advised on. Nomin Holding is a major sponsor of the annual Naadam Festival.
The next day we attended the opening ceremonies of the Naadam Festival featuring competitions in Mongolia's three national sports: horse racing, wrestling, and archery. The President and Prime Minister of Mongolia and the Crown Prince of Japan were there for the opening.
On my last day in Mongolia, I visited the Fine Arts Museum and the Red Ger Gallery, where I viewed art from the thirteenth century to the present and where work by contemporary Mongolian artists was exhibited for sale.
Before leaving Jack, Enkee, and I reviewed our ideas and conversations. We had some ideas about how Native Roots could work and what it could contribute. We knew we have the technology and communication arts to make it possible.
We knew Mongolia was a great culture to work with to create the intercultural communication centre we imagined.
Native Roots could give Mongolians a place to communicate opportunities to experience their cultural heritage, contemporary arts, and creative contributions, and to create connections, conversation, and interest in exploring the knowledge and ideas they contribute to our cultural, community, and resource development.
When I returned, I began exploring ideas and opportunities that could contribute to creating the Native Roots communication centre. To the people who treated me so generously, I sent a print by Haida artist Bill Reid and copies of the book Bill Reid and Beyond: Expanding on Modern Native Art, on his legacy and contribution to the renaissance of Northwest Coast Native art. I sent a copy of Bill Reid's short story, The Myth of the Land Bridge to everyone I met on my journey through Mongolia.
The Myth of the Land Bridge
In the world today there is a commonly held belief that, thousands of years ago as the world today counts time, Mongolian nomads crossed a land bridge to enter the western hemisphere and become the people now known as the American Indians.
The truth, of course, is that the raven found our forefathers in a clamshell on a beach at Naikun. At his bidding, they entered a world peopled by birds, beasts, and creatures of great power and stature, and, with them, gave rise to the powerful families and their way of life.
At least that is a little bit of the truth.
Another small part of it is that, after the flood, the Great Halibut was stranded near the mouth of the Nimpkish River where he shed his tail and fins and skin, and became the first man. The Thunderbird then took off his wings and beak and feathers to become the second man, and helped the Halibut build the first house in which mankind spent his infancy.
And the Sxwaixwe rose out of the Fraser River. Needing a wife, he created a woman from the hemlock on the bank, and she, in time, gave birth to the children who became the parents of all men.
There is, it can be said, some scanty evidence to support the myth of the land bridge. But there is an enormous wealth of proof to confirm that the other truths are all valid.
From Solitary Raven: Selected Writings of Bill Reid
Chinggis Khaan
Chinggis Kaahn, the man who created an empire that brought the world into the modern age, sits on the front steps of the Mongolian Parliament. The Mongols brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and an explosion of civilization to the world. The revival of the Mongolian culture is creating community for the Mongolian people and can contribute to creating community for other cultures.
A Mongolian Experience – Music by Natsagiin Jantsannorov
From a presentation about opportunities for creative connections with Mongolia
Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art
Notes from our final conversation about creating Mongolian Native Roots
The Global Awakening – Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
by Jack Weatherford
Looking to Our Past to Find Our Way in the Future
In 2008, I returned to Mongolia to explore possibilities for intercultural encounters between Canada and Mongolia with ideas from the Vancouver Chamber Choir, Centre A, and Selkirk College and encountered even more opportunities to create connections and relationships between our different cultures and our different worlds.
Roger Chilton 2017 WordPress www.quantumideas.com


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Valverde says new Amstel route does him no favours
Alasdair Fotheringham 2017-04-14T08:22:00Z
'There won't be such a harsh selection process,' says Movistar leader
Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) wins stage 5 at Volta a Catalunya
The U23 men's peloton acends the Cauberg early in their world championship road race. (Image credit: Sirotti)
The fans crowd along the Cauberg in the finishing city of Valkenburg for the 2009 edition of Amstel Gold (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Alejandro Valverde moments after sprinting to his stage 7 win and wrapping up the overall title at the Volta a Catalunya
Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) with his children on the podium (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Leading Ardennes Classics contender Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) has said that the newly redesigned finale of the Amstel Gold Race is not to his liking and that he preferred the route when it finished, as it has done for over a decade, on or near the summit of the Cauberg.
Cauberg finish removed from Amstel Gold Race
Haas stung by removal of Cauberg from Amstel Gold Race
Valverde has had a superb spring season, winning the Volta a Catalunya and the Vuelta al País Vasco, and he will be one of the big favourites on Sunday in a race that he has three podium finishes in but has never won.
However, the new 2017 finish sees Amstel Gold return to the flatter finale format that it last used in 2002. Although it will tackle the traditional last climb of the Cauberg three times, after its final ascent, 18 kilometres from the finish, the route will change.
The 2017 261 kilometer route will then go over the last two of its 35 ascents, the Geulhemmerberg at 14 kilometres from the finish, then the Bemelerberg with a little over five kilometres to go, before flattening out and finishing in the town of Valkenberg.
"It's a worse route for me," Valverde told Cyclingnews during the Volta a Catalunya, "there won't be such a harsh selection process as when it finished on top of the Cauberg or just beyond it.
"It's still a hard race now, but it's not so demanding."
A three times winner of Liège Bastogne Liège and a record-breaking four times champion in La Flèche Wallonne, Valverde did not race in the Amstel Gold last year, as he was taking part in the Vuelta a Castilla y León stage race, which he won, as part of his Giro d'Italia build-up. Together with Philippe Gilbert (Quick Step Floors) and Michal Kwiatkowski (Team Sky), though, come Sunday the Spanish racer will be one of the top favourites
Quite apart from his brilliant spring season so far, Valverde has long been a perennial contender in Amstel Gold: he took second in 2015, fourth in 2014, second in 2013, third in 2008, sixth in 2007, as well as a string of top twenty places stretching back to 23rd in 2006. However, victory has alway eluded him.
"I've never won it, of course, it's the Ardennes race which I always would like to win the most for that reason," Valverde added.
In 2013 the Amstel Gold route was changed slightly but significantly, pushing back the race finish at the top of the Cauberg to a position 1.8 kilometres further on from the top of the short, but punchy Dutch climb. Delving even further back in the record books, Valverde is one of a tiny handful of pros still racing who rode in Amstel when it last finished on the flat, back in 2002, in the not-so.glamourous surroundings of a Maastricht suburb in the shadow of a cement factory. But he was no fan of flat Amstels then, either, telling Cyclingnews "I did for one year only, I was very young and it was raining and I didn't enjoy it at all."
That year, Valverde was racing as a neo with Kelme-Costa Blanca's depleted six man team for the Dutch race. Whilst Michele Bartoli outsprinted Sergui Ivanov, Lance Armstrong and Michael Boogerd in a four-man rainsoaked finish in Maastricht from the finish, Valverde was a DNF. For the record, that Amstel's last climb was the Saint-Antoniusbank, with eight kilometres to go.
Apart from Valverde, the handful of pros who did complete the course back in 2002 who are still riding in today's peloton include Spanish veteran Angel Vicioso (Katusha) - also due to be riding on Sunday - Martin Elmiger (BMC Racing Team) and Davide Rebellin (Kuwait-Cartucho.es).
Four years later, on the new Cauberg finish in 2006, Rebellin won the Amstel Gold outright, but this April he will spend his Amstel Sunday on the other side of the world in the final stage of the Tour de Lombok in Indonesia, where the 45-year-old is currently lying fourth overall. Elmiger, meanwhile, is not taking part and Vicioso will be racing as a support rider for his team leaders. As for Valverde, suffice to say the Spaniard will be gunning for a very different kind of result to the one he garnered in Amstel 15 years ago.


Fabini's Auto Trim Company started in 1968 as a one-man shop located in Roanoke, Indiana. In 1972, John Fabini became a partner and the organization moved to Fort Wayne, Indiana.
John took over the responsibility of new business development, allowing Joe to concentrate on his forte, reupholstering automobiles, specifically antique and custom cars.
With the power of two Fabini's the business has grown into a full-service vehicle upholstery and accessory installation shop with two buildings, 20 bays and over a dozen employees.
The majority of the work done at Fabini's Auto Trim is for automobile dealerships, dealer referrals, and retail customers in the tri-state area. We install customer-requested options, accessories & upholstering.
The requests for extras have become more technologically challenging. A few years ago, upgrading to power windows or power door locks was about it. Today, we install television sets, DVD players, seat heaters, navigational and keyless entry systems to name a few. Virtually any vehicle can be equipped with today's consumer devices.
We do complete upholstery work, including carpeting, seats, and headliners. Also, we do specialty faux convertible tops and vinyl roofs for upscale cars.
Demand for these products is always high. Many dealerships require a car be done by the next day. The scheduling can be very tight. We work very hard to do what needs to be done to finish it on time.
Success in this industry is built on continuous quality work and strong business relationships. Both brothers credit their employees with helping Fabini's reach the level of success it has today. It is the experienced craftsman working here at Fabini's Auto Trim Co. that makes your vehicle look good.


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Charlie Wade is a live-in son in law. At the age of eight, his father and mother were hounded out by the grandfather. They lived a miserable life and soon died one after another. The child Charlie was then sent to an orphanage where he spends the rest of his life.
"You shut up." Qin Gang glared at Steven, then turned and respectfully said to Master Jinghai: "Thank you for your advice, I will definitely pay attention to it in the future."
Mr. Jinghai nodded meaningfully, got up and left.
As soon as Master Jinghai left, Steven immediately said: "Second Uncle, Mr. Jinghai is a well-known master of Xuanjitang. How can a liar like Charlie can be compare to him? This time, Mr. Jinghai will solve all the problems in our family. Yes, it doesn't cost a penny!"
"Mr. Jinghai didn't charge any money, but Charlie cheated our family a lot of money. He spent 100 million and took a piece of a broken shell. This is a scam! You are too naive, how can you give him so much money? If this spreads out, people in Aurous Hill won't call us Qin family fools?"
Qin Gang was silent, but his face was already suspicious.
Mr. Jinghai's reputation is indeed very strong, and the things that Mr. Jinghai just let himself see are vivid and have to be believed.
More importantly, Mr. Jinghai did not take a cent, while Charlie spent more than 100 million on the auction.
The more such a comparison, the more he felt that Charlie might be something wrong!
At this moment, a housekeeper of the Qin family knocked on the door, and only stepped in after getting permission from Qin Gang.
"Mr Qin, there is your express."
After speaking, he handed over a paper box.
Qin Gang frowned, and after unpacking the paper box, he found a token lying quietly inside.
Looking closely at this token, it seems that it is only a thin piece, only the size of a matchbox, worn with a cheap red string, and it looks exactly like the stalls in tourist attractions.
Qin Gang looked at the sender and saw that the word Charlie was written on it.
Looking at the remarks, there are only a few words written on it: "Scary talisman, hang in the main hall to break the evil!"
When Steven saw it, he immediately cursed: "d*mn, second uncle, this Charlie treats you as a fool! Just where is this broken shell, maybe it was bought from a stall on the street! How can it be broken?"
"Moreover, he gave us such a thing for more than 100 million? He still sent it to us! He doesn't care about you face! You said, this Charlie is not a liar, what else can he be?"
Steven was so angry, and said sharply, "Second Uncle, let's take someone to Charlie and get the money back! Otherwise, if Charlie runs away, our loss will be too great. !"
"You shut up first, let me think about it." Qin Gang said, rubbing his eyebrows, looking at the startled talisman, he really couldn't see any magic.
After hesitating for a while, Qin Gang summoned the Qin family members and said with a sullen face: "It is a matter of life and death of the Qin family. It is of great importance. I will go to Charlie tomorrow and ask what happened! You must wear Mr. Jinghai's safety talisman. Feel free to take it off!"
"Second Uncle, I want to go too!" Steven gritted his teeth: "This person named Charlie has done a lot of harm to me. Now that I'm catching his fox tail, I have to break his leg by myself."
"Only you? Can you beat him?"
Qin Gang frowned and said, "But if you really want to go, you should bring a few more bodyguards. First inquire about Charlie's whereabouts tomorrow, just in case."
After speaking, he paused again and shouted: "Remember, I didn't ask you to take people to trouble Charlie, I am afraid that you would act recklessly and be beaten again!"
Steven was overjoyed and immediately said, "I understand."
Qin Gang said coldly: "Although my Qin family is not a top-level family, it can't tolerate others to deceive me. If anyone deceives me, I will respond back! I must check this out. If Charlie really pretends to be what he is not, I will not forgive him!"
This article was updated on December 7, 2021
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