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The providers at Harter Physical Therapy in Goddard, Kansas welcome you! Specializing in physical therapy, we offer personalized care with optimum patient outcomes. Unlike any other physical therapy practice you've been to, our physical therapists are board-certified orthopedic specialists, giving us the expertise to correctly diagnose and treat all orthopedic conditions to the highest standards.
Dr. Amanda Harter is one of the regions only Certified Manual Physical Therapists (CMPT) and Board Certified Orthopedic Specialists (OCS). She grew up in Goddard, Kansas, and graduated from the University of Kansas with two degrees: a Bachelor of Science in Health, Sport, and Exercise Science and a Bachelor of General Studies in Psychology with an emphasis in personality, abnormality and health. At KU, Amanda was awarded the Josie Stapleton Honor Award which is given to one outstanding senior majoring in physical education based on citizenship, high academic achievement, and participation in extra-class activities. Amanda obtained her Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) degree from the Kansas University Medical Center Physical Therapy Program. In physical therapy school Amanda received the Student Research Award for her research study titled, The Effects of Collaborative Case Based Learning on DPT and PTA students' perceptions of the PTA's role.
Amanda was initially attracted to manual physical therapy after a clinical residency with one of the regions highest trained Manual Therapists at KU Sports Medicine and Performance Center. She saw first hand that intensive manual therapy training and certification led to an expertise that directly improved patient care. She also completed her STAR certification, a comprehensive cancer rehabilitation program aimed to create a multidisciplinary approach to assist oncology patients throughout their treatment and recovery. Amanda worked with many specialties including orthopedics, chronic pain, geriatrics, sports rehabilitation and conditioning, amputee rehabilitation, neurologic physical therapy and cancer rehabilitation. Amanda is passionate about genuinely getting to know her patients, their journey, and how their pain or dysfunction is specifically effecting their lives. She strives to utilize these interactions to provide individualized care to achieve her patient's goals.
As co-owner of Harter Physical Therapy, it is Amanda's goal to create a physical therapy clinic that utilizes advanced physical therapy techniques combined with current evidence based research with the sole purpose to help patients return to doing what they love while improving their overall quality of life.
Outside of the clinic, you might find Amanda covered in flour as she enjoys baking as a hobby. She loves to spend time outdoors, hiking, and is replenished by the beauty in nature. On a Saturday morning, she might be sitting on her deck with Gabe, drinking a cup of coffee, while reading a baking/cooking magazine, or a new book.
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Dr. Gabe Harter is one of the regions only Certified Manual Physical Therapists (CMPT) and Board Certified Orthopedic Specialists (OCS). He was born and raised in rural Hiawatha, Kansas, and being from a small town has grown to appreciate the tight knit community a small town offers.
He was a scholarship basketball player for Bethany College and was a member of the Bethany College Honor's Program. Gabe graduated from college in three years with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology with Honors. He earned his Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) degree from the Kansas University Medical Center Physical Therapy Program. In physical therapy school Gabe was awarded the Joan Mills Clinical Excellence Award for his superior performance during clinical internships.
Gabe is a published author for the research study titled, Aerobic Exercise in Subacute Stroke Improves Cardiovascular Health and Physical Performance. This research study was published in the Journal of Neurologic Physical Therapy (JNPT) and would later receive the Golden Synapse Award for best JNPT article of 2012.
Gabe has worked in a variety of physical therapy settings, and has experience with many specialties in physical therapy including orthopedics, neurologic physical therapy, chronic pain, geriatrics, and sports rehabilitation and conditioning. Gabe utilizes his multi-setting and specialty based experience to provide excellent care for his patients.
Gabe wanted to create a physical therapy clinic that combined his love for providing compassionate patient-centered care with his experience and enthusiasm for cutting edge research. Thus, Gabe and his wife Amanda created Harter Physical Therapy where their goal is to provide patients excellent quality care to help people achieve their goals while improving their well-being.
Outside of the clinic, Gabe is an explorer at heart. He enjoys exploring locally roasted coffee, listening to classical music, going on date nights with Amanda to locally owned restaurants, reading book recommendations, hiking, and supporting local sport teams.
Dr. Jana Weber grew up in Garden Plain, KS. She attended Fort Hays State University where she graduated with a bachelors degree in Health and Human Performance.
While at Fort Hays, she was an active member in Student Government Association and was a nominee for the Torch Award, which is a faculty nominated award that recognizes an outstanding graduating senior with leadership, high personal standards, and scholarship qualifications.
Following her time at Fort Hays, Jana briefly worked as an Exercise Specialist in Cardiac Rehab at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, KS. She then obtained her Doctorate of Physical Therapy (DPT) degree at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
While attending KUMC, she assisted with research evaluating the effects of diabetes on patient's cognition and safety. During physical therapy school, she was very interested in all fields of physical therapy from inpatient rehab to wound care. During her long term rotation at a private practice in Kansas City, MO, she discovered a passion for outpatient physical therapy.
Following graduation, she began a career at a private clinic in Overland Park, KS where she spent 3 years studying and applying motor control and specific muscle activation and training.
In spring of 2014, Jana's husband, Eddie, was offered a job in the Wichita area and they were excited for the opportunity to return "home" with their daughter, Hazel. Since then they have welcomed a second daughter - Nora - into family.
Jana completed training and extensive testing to become a Board Certified OrthopedicSpecialist (OCS) in 2016, and since then is working toward completing her Manual Physical Therapy Certification. Jana joined Harter Physical Therapy because of the clinic environment which puts patients before all else, and it was an opportunity for her to provide the care that she believes patients deserve and need to achieve their goals. She enjoys working with patients of all ages and has a passion for helping improve the quality of life of patients with chronic pain.
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Dr. Galen Chapman was raised in the Goddard community. He graduated from Goddard High School and went on to run track at Fort Hays State before joining the United States Army Reserves.
After completing his training to be a Medical Laboratory Technician, Galen finished his Bachelor of Arts degree in Exercise Science at Wichita State University. He earned his Doctorate of Physical Therapy (DPT) degree from Wichita State University in 2008.
Shortly after finishing his degree, he was commissioned in the United States Army Reserve as a Physical Therapist and has served as the physical therapist for all branches of service while stationed in Kuwait.
During Galen's career, he became interested in Lymphedema, and underwent training in Complete Decongestive Therapy, the treatment for Lymphedema, where he would go on to earn his Certified Lymphedema Therapist (CLT) certification in 2009 from the Norton School of Lymphatic Therapy.
Currently, Galen is completing training for Myofascial Trigger Point Therapy and Dry Needling through Myopain Seminars. Galen, his wife Shelby and their two boys, Aidan and Reid, moved back into the Goddard area in 2010. Galen is an involved father and can be found attending his son's hockey practice and helping coach their sports teams.
Outside of the clinic, Galen is quite the barbecue hobbyist, and frequently spoils his co-workers and patients with smoked meats, cheeses, and good ole fashion Kansas barbecue. Galen shares Harter Physical Therapy's foundational principle to provide the best patient centered care in a positive clinic atmosphere.
Debra Funke is the Office Manager at Harter Physical Therapy. She was born and raised in Goddard and has developed a love for the wonderful community she's from. Debra attended Wichita State University where she graduated with bachelor's degrees in Exercise Science and in Psychology.
Debra came to Harter Physical Therapy with more than six years of experience in physical therapy clinics as a physical therapy technician and receptionist. She was excited to come back to Goddard to work with the talented therapists at Harter Physical Therapy and to serve her hometown community.
Debra is the epitome of being involved in and supporting her community. She is the head coach of the Goddard High School Color Guard, is involved in the Goddard Lion's Club and is a member of the Young Professionals of Goddard organization.
Debra is the life and soul of Harter Physical Therapy. She emits a contagious love to help others and is always willing to put forth the time, effort and energy to provide top quality care for all of the patients at Harter Physical Therapy.


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Although only a few years have passed since the 2008-2009 financial crisis, many Americans seem to have forgotten the trauma it caused to their portfolios and may now have a false sense of security about their current financial well-being. This is according to the 5th annual New Year's Resolution Survey from Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America.
Only 16% of respondents said they would include financial planning in their resolutions for 2014, less than half of the 33% who said they would make financial planning a high priority when making resolutions in 2009, the first year of the Allianz Life survey. Furthermore, nearly half (49%) of U.S. adults surveyed said they are unsure about seeking financial advice in 2014, up from 44% the previous year.
One reason people feel more financially stable is due to an expressed trend that they are shedding some of their bad financial habits. Fewer of the Americans surveyed said: l am "spending too much money on things not needed," (down from 30% in 2012 to 26% in 2013), I am "not saving any money," (down from 30% to 27%) and I am "spending more than I make," (down from 18% to 14%). Additionally, more people said they are guilty of "none of these bad habits" – up to 28% in 2013 from 24% in 2012.
"Though Americans say their financial habits are improving, which is good, being a little smarter with money is not the same as true financial planning," says Katie Libbe, vice president of Consumer Insights for Allianz Life. "Being more disciplined about spending and saving can certainly have a positive effect on financial stability, but that shouldn't be confused with financial planning. People need to take the next step and turn better habits into longer term-planning."
Although the top reason survey participants gave for why they are going to ignore financial planning was a belief that they "don't make enough to worry about it," (30%) this response was down from 34% in 2009 and is the lowest level in the survey's five-year history. In a bright spot, more people than ever (27%) said they already "have a solid financial plan," up slightly from last year (26%), and a full 4% higher than the 2009 response.
The more things change…
In the grand tradition of New Year's resolutions, excluding faith and family, participants again ranked health and wellness as their most important focus area for 2014. At 43%, the rate was almost unchanged from 44% the previous year. The second most important was financial stability at 30%, followed by career/employment (15%), education (6%) and entertainment/leisure (5%) These results were at nearly the same level as they were in preceding years.
The same emphasis could be seen in the resolutions survey participants believe they are most likely to keep. Exercise and diet came in first at 43%, down slightly from 44% the year before, but still average for the five years of the survey. Managing money better came in second with 40%, also on par with the five-year trend. As in earlier years, spending more time with family and friends, volunteering, and stopping a bad habit followed in that order.
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There comes a time when the solid ground we walk upon dissolves. Tried and true methods for navigating life as if we were dwelling on firm terrain no longer work. No matter how hard we try or how much we love, our reliable maps and compasses, insightful knowledge and beliefs, precise formulas and techniques fail. The lines connecting people, places and events vanish. Our actions don't produce predictable results. We can't get a grasp on things. Not only has the rug been ripped from under our feet, the floor is gone too. We find ourselves adrift with no land in sight. The solid earth has liquified. We are living in a watery world.
Our first response it is to flail about, desperately attempting to grab something that's not moving. We look for fixed reference points to tell us where we are. We search for clear signposts to guide our way. The watery world, however, has shimmering milestones and undulating pathways. Everything is swirling, rising, falling, rolling. Nothing is graspable or clearly defined. The separate billiard ball world we're used to has melted into an ocean that continuously heaves and breathes. It's bottomless. It stretches beyond all horizons.
It's time to sink or swim. So we start paddling. Maybe we embrace the challenge and have some fun splashing about in the waves. We carry with us the solid ground belief that we are separate from the watery currents, however, and our arms tire from the effort. Our bodies remember we are not dolphins; we were made to walk upright. But, we've be told that walking on water is reserved for saints. It only happens in the mystical realms of miracles.
We realize there's no alternative. The only way to find food, shelter and clothing is to step onto the shifting currents and find a trail across the roiling foam. Treading on water is counter intuitive, to say the least. It takes a powerful suspension of disbelief to stride through the rippling seascape. That's what life calls for these days. The analog world we have inhabited for thousands of years has been swept away by the digital tide. Everything is out at sea. The only way forward is to summon the courage to walk on water.
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Thirumal, E and Prabhu, D and Chattopadhyay, K and Ravichandran, V (2010) Synthesis, magnetic and electrical properties of Fe-containing SiO2 nanocomposite. In: Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 502 (1). pp. 169-175.
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Nanocrystalline Fe powders were synthesized by transmetallation reaction and embedded in silica to form Fe-SiO2 nanocomposite. Thermomagnetic study of the as-prepared Fe sample indicates the presence of Fe3O4 and Fe particles. Oxidation studies of Fe and Fe-SiO2 show an increased thermal stability of Fe-SiO2 nanocomposite over pure Fe. The Fe-SiO2 shows an enhanced oxidation temperature (i.e., 780 K) and a maximum saturation magnetization value of (135 emu/g) with 64 wt.% of Fe content in silica. Electrical and dielectric behaviour of the Fe-SiO2 nanocomposite has been investigated as a function of temperature and frequency. Low frequency ac conductivity and dielectric constants were found to be influenced by desorptions of chemisorbed moisture. High saturation magnetization, thermal stability, frequency-dependent conductivity and low power loss make Fe-silica a promising material for high frequency applications. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Monday, June 25, 2012
Event: Girlpower? Teenage Heroines in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction (Part Two)
(If you missed it, check out Part 1!)
Here's where Broad began to really dig into the two texts, filled with spoilers and plot summaries (and she had a ton to say, all of it very interesting, that I won't recap fully here in the interests of brevity and the fact that much of this talk forms the basis of a chapter in a book Broad is co-editing for release this winter). As an aside, I was mildly amused by her summary of Catching Fire: "They're thrown into another Game." She pretty much moved directly from The Hunger Games to Mockingjay with only a line for Catching Fire. Which I'm not sure I can fault her for. I happen to love Catching Fire, and think it brings us some important character moments, but in retrospect it really is setting us up for the big battles of Mockingjay.
While on many levels, The Hunger Games trilogy is obviously an action/adventure dystopian story, on another level it's a love story, tracing Katniss' feelings for Peeta and Gale. The courtship(s) within the love triangle directly shape the narrative potential. Now initially this is the sort of commentary that gets my hackles up, but looking at the series in its entirety, it's kind of hard to argue that this is the direction Collins ultimately went in. And Broad makes some interesting arguments how even early on in the first book The Hunger Games falls into traditional romance tropes - for example, in traditional romance literature, the heroine often shows a disinterest in love and is changed over time by the hero. He convinces her that she craves love, while she gets to remain "pure" by stating she has no interest in such base emotions (and, it's implied, the carnal actions that come along with such emotions that Western society has often told women we shouldn't crave). Katniss fits that to a T, as she starts out being so adamant against marriage and children, and then the book concludes with disturbing (to me) references of how Peeta convinced her to have children.
Ultimately, Katniss isn't a character who makes a lot of choices. In terms of the romantic narrative, Katniss ends up with the boy that follows her back home. The men make the choices for her and Katniss follows along. While Katniss in many ways served to inspire a great revolution for the fictional universe, her ultimate choice to fall back into the modern-day status quo of marriage and children forces us to ask what has really changed by the end? Katniss hasn't presented any sort of alternative story for young women reading of her adventures, and in fact has fallen into a long line of adventuresome girl stories where the endings find them "less active, less assertive, and tamed by marriage."
And right there, I think Broad has put to words why I was just so disappointed with the ending of Mockingjay. Yes, within a fictional context, Katniss has won her freedom - to enjoy something she spent the first two books she wanted no part of. It falls back onto tropes of how young women just don't really know what they want and they'll eventually change their mind about things like raising children. And while overall clearly Katniss has a better future than what she would have had before the revolution, from a contemporary standpoint, getting married and having children as a happy ending doesn't look revolutionary at all.
In short, girls stories often end with marriage. Stories of empowered young women must subvert that, bringing us to Uglies.
In my view, when viewed through the romantic narrative lens that Broad used, Tally actually initially has a lot of regressive traits, rather than progressive. While the Tally/Shay BFF relationship is awesome, Tally spends three books being driven between ideologies by David or Zane. David drives Tally's first revolutionary act, to defy Cutter and protect the Smoke. Then, as Broad points out, Tally agrees to undergo the Pretty surgery and essentially go undercover only after David tells her she is beautiful without the surgery. Of course, the surgery is very successful and Tally forgets herself, essentially becoming a Pretty damsel in distress. It's Zane, and his drive to be Bubbly, that "enables Tally's revolutionary tendencies."
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At the end of Specials, Tally creates a revolutionary place for herself, not just in the context of her world, but in the context of ours as well. And while she is out there in the wilderness with David, it's not a romantic getaway for them, and she even made the decision before re-connecting with David. Broad states that Tally "asserts a place for herself defined by actions, not gender."
In conclusion, when examining YA dystopian fiction, readers should look at how the fiction imagines the results of adolescents striving to be something more and do something different. Do these rebellious characters get to keep that streak even as they grow up? In a setting that relies on traditional gender roles, how does the hero react against them? In Katniss, we see someone who lost her rebellious streak and falls into very traditional gender roles. Tally on the other hand is going to be a rebel of some kind for the forseeable future, in an action hero role that ultimately defies most feminine literary tropes.
There's one final upcoming post, covering questions and my own reactions to Broad's presentation! Check out part three!
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Yesterday I joined in on the largest coffee morning fun and hosted my own Macmillan Coffee Morning to help raise money for a fantastic cause.
This is something I wasn't going to miss as my two Macmillan nurses Cathy and Lesley played such a huge role in getting me through Cancer. Cathy was there from day 1 and helped me with any questions i might have had as well as my weekly flush for my PICC line which Lesley then took over.
They were always so cheerful and friendly and gave me the support I needed! Sometimes when you go through an illness everything can be filled with medical jargon that can leave you so overwhelmed and sometimes scared but Cathy and Lesley always broke it down and reassured me and my loved ones everything was going to be ok! They are such precious people and I will be forever thankful for having them in my life.
My coffee morning prep started off with some late night baking and icing which I think is always fun and best, as there is no little ones pulling at you to play or other halves looking over your shoulder trying to get a taste. Just you, your kitchen and a few delicious bakes!
On Friday everything kicked off early with my friend Jo and her gorgeous April dropping by first! I then had a steady flow of friends and neighbours popping in throughout the morning for coffee, cake and a chat. I think i should do this more often actually as it made for such a lovely day. I did have to jump in the pool in the afternoon to burn off all that cake though!
A coffee morning is such a great idea for any fundraising and I encourage you all to host your own next year! If not for Macmillan then for something else. The combination of cake and friends is always a winner!!!
Here are our #mugshots (#cakeshot for April) from my coffee morning...
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By: Amelia Solomon (Two Beers) –
Coming to America is a loosely based twist on The Prince and the Pauper novel by Mark Twain. The film is set in the fictional African country of Zamunda. Prince Akeem (Eddie Murphy) is set to marry his young bride in an arranged marriage, but he gets cold feet. His father, King Jaffee Joffer (James Earl Jones), agrees to let Akeem travel to America to sow his royal oats for 40 days. Akeem's long-term servant and confidant Semmi (Arsenio Hall) accompanies him on his journey. Semmi assumes they will have, "Forty days of fornication," but Akeem really wants to find a beautiful and intelligent bride. The two look at a map of New York and the city of Queens pops out at them. Having no idea about America, the two don't realize that Queens', especially in 1988, was not a place where one would want to vacation. When this film was shot it represented New York realness, right down to the homeless standing around flaming garbage cans. One stock footage shot of a British Airways Concorde jet later and Akeem and Semmi arrive at the airport, wearing dead animal furs and carrying over 20 pieces of Louis Vuitton luggage.
The outside their element gags continue, as the prince and his servant rent a rat infested apartment from a slumlord and find jobs at a local McDonald's knock-off called McDowell's. After night after night combing through every bar and nightclub in Queens trying to find Akeem's future wife, the men stumble on a Black Awareness Beauty Pageant and Akeem finally spots his future Queen. Like most romantic comedies, the woman of his affection, Lisa McDowell (Shari Headly), is uninterested at first and Akeem must work extra hard to win her love, all while hiding the fact that he is a wealthy prince from Africa.
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What Coming to America gets right is its constant humor. It is a strange, but winning, blend of dialogue peppered with constant punch-lines, Saturday Night Live (SNL) style skits, and Airplane-type absurdist comedy, through the use of inanimate objects given full-camera shot attention. Whether it's King Jaffe Joffer telling his son, Prince Akeem, "I've always assumed you have sex with your bathers. I know I do.", Eddie Murphy perfecting his African accent, or Mr. Cleo McDowell (John Amos) covertly reading a McDonald's Operations Manual they all garner steady laughs.
The film is also the first time where both Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall play more than one character. Murphy plays an older black barber as well as an older Jewish white barber. Hall too plays a barber, and their voices are the only thing that gives them away. Hall also plays an Al Sharpton-type Reverend and Murphy plays a James Brown-type singer at the Black Awareness Beauty Pageant. After seeing Hall crack jokes in last season's Celebrity Apprentice, at the expense of Aubrey O'Day (don't judge my TV viewing habits), I remembered he is funny, but I actually was impressed at his acting abilities. I expected to hate him in this film, but I couldn't find anything wrong with his performance.
There is a great scene that doesn't have much to do with the plot, except that it shows Lisa that Akeem is brave because he foils an attempted robbery of the McDowell's restaurant. The scene stands out because it showcases Samuel L. Jackson as the hold-up man and Jackson is in full Pulp Fiction style glory. He delivers his F-bombs like no other actor can and I only wish he appeared in a couple more scenes.
Coming to America was directed by John Landis. Landis had a real knack for directing comedies and he first rose to fame after directing Animal House. He later pulled other actors from SNL, like Chevy Chase and Dan Akroyd, and directed them in Spies Like Us. He also first teamed with Eddie Murphy, prior to this film, in Trading Places. Anyone who has seen Trading Places will appreciate the scene in this film in which Akeem gives a bum on the street a wad of cash. After Akeem walks away, the bum looks at the money and wakes up his passed out buddy. The two men happen to be Randolph and Mortimer Duke, the same two men who Murhpy's character, Billy Ray Valentine, bankrupted in Trading Places. I have to admit I get all hot under the collar when one film makes a secretive reference to a prior film. That's when we film nerds feel like we are in a secret society and that the directors are talking right to us. It's the little things that turn us on!
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Despite everything that Landis gets right in this film and the entertaining performances by Murphy and Hall, Coming to America still succumbs to the cheesy predictable formulaic climax and ending that every single romantic comedy falls prey to. Let's face it: The marketing execs at Paramount know what works and they aren't going to take a crazy risk and not deliver an ending where boy gets girl in the end. That would be….GASP, an Indie film. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Or Landis could have been braver, like Silver Linings Playbook director David O. Russell, and delivered the happy ending (not that kind, get your head out of the gutter), but the rest of the film is so superb we forgive any closing barfiness. Although, Russell's film came over twenty years later and we would have to jump in a time machine to fix Landis' film. Wait, then we'd be in Back to the Future. Shit, now I'm confused.
Coming to America is a great way to see one of America's best comedic talents, Eddie Murphy, do his thing in his prime. This was before he picked up that hooker in West Hollywood and made such Oscar-winning flicks as The Nutty Professor.
Drinking Game
Take a Drink: every time Eddie Murphy flashes his famous grin.
Take a Drink: every time there's a reference to Soul Glo.
Do a Shot: every time you see Cuba Gooding, Jr. on-screen.
Shotgun a Beer: if you spot the 1980s-inspired Garfield suction cup stuffed animal.


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Jeffrey Hopkins was translator for His Holiness the Dalai Lama from 1979 to 1989 and Professor of Tibetan Studies at University of Virginia, and has published more than forty books.
Jeffrey started meditating while at Harvard and then, inspired by Thoreau and W. Somerset Maugham, spent time in a cabin in the woods in Vermont. He describes this and other adventures as a young man where he discovered the power of the meditative experience, including a wild ocean voyage through the South Pacific. We hear how he developed various meditative practices without any formal knowledge of Buddhism and how he first encountered Buddhism directly when he met Geshe Wangyal. Jeffrey shares amusing and heartening stories about life with Geshe Wangyal and Geshe Sopa in Madison, Wisconsin, and how these two great teachers inspired him to begin delving into the intellectual exercise of Buddhist philosophy and guided him in his study and practice. He then tells of his many private conversations with the Dalai Lama about the books they created together, and how he was one of the first westerners to receive initiation from the Dalai Lama. We also hear about how Jeffrey began translating for the Dalai Lama, and how working with the Dalai Lama has influenced Jeffrey's thinking and translation. Additionally, our host Daniel Aitken asks Jeffrey to share his thoughts on the definition of emptiness, and the challenging experience and practice of having Lyme Disease.


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Chapter 0114 – This Must Be Real Strength
Not to say that Shui Yu completely lost his fighting spirit at this time, even if Shui Yu was still full of fighting spirit, he could still not completely block that Ning Cheng's incoming punch. However even if he still wanted to fight, Ning Cheng's fist was still more than enough to kill him.
"Bang…." Ning Cheng's punch immediately landed on Shui Yu, as his Dantian completely shattered, killing him on the spot.
"Little beast, you unexpectedly dare to kill Shui Yu, this old man will split your…." When he saw Ning Cheng punch land on Shui Yu with an intent to kill, an angry voice sounded out, while simultaneously a grey shadow rushed onto the tournament platform like a flash of lightning.
The Shui Clan was already rampant in the Mo Ze City, apart from the Falling Star Academy they did not fear many people, and as such they could basically do whatever they liked. Moreover, Shui Yu was the future clan head of the Shui Clan, so for such a person to be directly killed by Ning Cheng on the tournament platform, was completely unacceptable for the Shui Clan.
Unfortunately, the old man from the Shui Clan who rushed onto the platform had forgotten about what the round was about or even about the people who were presiding over it. He had not even reached the edge of the platform, when and overwhelming pressure descended over him.
This elder of the Shui Clan immediately woke up, this was not ordinary tournament, but the Tournament hosted by the Seniors from the Intermediate Class Continents to select a 6 Star Academy. For him to dare to rush onto to the platform of this Tournament, was equivalent to courting death.
Cold sweat immediately began to flow out in copious amounts from his back, he did not even have the time to look back and apologize, before a giant palm descended on him.
"Poof…." Only a bloody mist remained, the Elder from the Shui Clan could not even resist for a single fleeting moment before he was directly turned into a bloody mist before the giant palm even struck him.
"YOU DARE, a mere ant, trying to rush onto the platform of the Battle Round." It was not until they heard this sneering voice did they come to know that it was of the old man hosting the 3rd Round of the Tournament. After saying that, he once again fell back onto the main altar.
The audience outside the square platform suddenly drew a cold breath, that Elder from the Shui Clan was a cultivator in the Essence Building Ream. Thus his cultivation was a lot superior than them. But in front of that old man from the Intermediate Class Continent, he could not even resist the pressure of that giant palm.
Some of the people did not think much of the people from the Intermediate Class Continents. But at this time they could not help but shiver, nobody else dared to make a move anymore, because they all felt that they were simply prisoners in their hands. Now even if someone from the Shui Clan even dared to offend them, they would just end up being executed immediately on the spot.
This kind of decisive attitude, was very shocking to them. Even the shock of Ning Cheng killing Shui Yu, when compared to this, looked very weak.
Ning Cheng on the surface looked very calm, but in his heart he was also very shocked like the other people. Of all the masters that he had seen. That old woman was definitely much more superior to all of them, but it was simply because the old woman did not think much of him, so he was not much concerned about that old woman. But at this time he understood, just how far away was he when compared to these masters.
The palm strike that the old man, who was presiding over the 3rd round, that he had sent out a moment ago, he could clearly see it, it was actually congealed from a massive amount of Killing Intent, directly arousing the Killing Intent in the surrounding. That Killing Intent was obviously not directed towards him, but it still aroused a kind of helpless feeling in his heart. If that slap was directed towards him, he would definitely end up dead even before the palm reached him, just like that Elder from the Shui Clan.
Sure enough. Strength was everything in this world. This old man's palm attack definitely had the strength of a cultivator of the Profound Core Realm behind it, and Ning Cheng knew that the Shui Clan also had a cultivator in the Profound Core Realm. If the Profound Core cultivator of the Shui Clan tried to kill him, even he would not get the opportunity to fight against him, not to say even trying to escape.
Real Strength. This must be real strength. Ning Cheng clenched his fists, as he once again firmed his resolve, even if he had to pay a heavy cost for it. He had to enhance his own cultivation as soon as possible. He absolutely just cannot wait for death to arrive; he knew that the God Wind Academy would not protect him forever. Not to mention. He also knew that if the master of the Shui Clan personally came for him, even the God Wind Academy would not be able to protect him.
Ning Cheng slowly heaved a sigh of relief. Putting away the things from Shui Yu, he simply lifted his hands and used it to cast a Fireball turning Shui Yu's body to ash. Now that he had already offended them thoroughly, he would not hold back for even half a moment.
Seeing Ning Cheng slowly walk down from the square platform, the entire plaza was completely silent, but then immediately erupted in a cacophony of different noises. Ning Cheng not only killed Shui Yu, but even directly turned Shui Yu to ash. This type of courage and strength, previously, just who could have thought of it?
At this time the score on the big projection Array Formation screen changed once more, in front of Ning Xiao Cheng's name the score changed to 20 points, while Shui Yu's name completely vanished.
At the same time, seven or eight more names also disappeared. However, although their names did disappear, it was because they had voluntarily given their scores to the other members of their Academies.
For the people looking at the fights on the platform, this was basically unimportant, what was much more shocking to them was that a cultivator at the True Condensation 3rd Level could unexpectedly kill Shui Yu who was at True Condensation 7th Level. Everyone thought that it was because that Shui Yu had just advanced to the True Condensation 7th Level, so his cultivation was not yet consolidated, but what was more important was that this person at the True Condensation 3rd Level was just too vicious.
Liu Xian was completely surprised as he looked at Ning Cheng stepping down from the square platform, he had never thought that Ning Cheng would be this powerful, even that Shui Yu who was at True Condensation 7th Level was easily killed by him. Moreover, this was after Meng Jing Xiu's victory, that he had obtained which made him pleasantly surprised. Did his God Wind Academy really had the opportunity to finally come to the forefront?
Meng Jing Xiu just curved her lips in a sneer, and said with disapproval in her voice, "That Shui Yu is really unworthy of his name, he should have let the other powerful members of the Falling Star Academy to challenge him, humph……."
When Liu Xian heard Meng Jing Xiu's words, he simply did not chose to answer. Of course he knew about this much clearer than Meng Jing Xiu herself, although Shui Yu was representing the Falling Star Academy, he was ultimately a person from the Shui Clan. To say that Shui Yu would succeed for the Falling Star Academy, he was not convinced.
As for Meng Jing Xu saying that Shui Yu was not worthy of his name, he also thought so, that Shui Yu had just advanced to the True Condensation 7th Level, so he had not yet consolidated his cultivation. The reason he had requested a place, was entirely in order to kill Ning Cheng. But he had never thought that not only would he fail to kill Ning Cheng, but in the end he would end up digging his own grave.
"Well, that Shui Yu was really a bit too unworthy of his name, he just simply had a big name and nothing else to back it up." A deacon from the Falling Star Academy saw Shui Yu getting killed, and spoke after remaining silent for a while as he shook his head.
"He is the elite of the Shui Clan, and usually lets others work for him. Over time he just became accustomed to be a master, and never even thought of his own strength. In fact, he was just a person who reached his level by the help of pills, how high could his ability even be?" Someone from the side said with a sneer.
Meng Yu Jing who was also one of the representatives representing the Falling Star Academy, after seeing Ning Cheng kill Shui Yu, she also was looking at Ning Cheng intently. She always felt that Ning Cheng was somewhat familiar, but this kind of sense of familiarity with him, she just couldn't recall.
"Although this Shui Yu was unbearable, but this fellow Ning Xiao Cheng perfectly played the role of pig eating the tiger. Maybe he really had a good reason why he scored bad grades in the first two rounds of the tournament. Che Zi Wen, Meng Yu Jing, although you are ranked in the top ranks of our Falling Star Academy, but in the final round of the tournament, each of the Academies will definitely bring out their masters. And since you two are the ones from our Academy who carry the most points, most of those people will try to challenge you, so you both have to be careful. Especially that Ning Xiao Cheng, you must pay special attention to him……."
The Elder of the Profound Congealing Realm from the Falling Star Academy stood up, and spoke in a dignified way to the two people, a young man and a young woman, beside him.
"Yes, we will Master." The young man beside him nodded and said, he was the strongest cultivator of the True Condensation Realm from the Falling Star Academy, called Chi Zi Wen, the Falling Star Academy was depended mainly on him for this 3rd round.
Meng Yu Jing finally woke up, she finally remembered who this guy Ning Xiao Cheng who killed Shui Yu was. A few days ago when she left the Mo Ze City together with Qi Ping, there was a man who passed them by, afterwards that person seemed to have sensed something and slowed down, letting them pass by him.
At that time, she did not think of it much, as there were lots of people coming and going on the road she was travelling on, so she did not care about that person, and only glanced at him at random. Now she finally remembered, that person really was Ning Xiao Cheng.
After Meng Yu Jing came to know that that person was Ning Xiao Cheng, she then thought that Ning Xiao Cheng had deliberately slowed down to be behind her, she really did not know if that Ning Xiao Cheng had done that to track her or if it was just a misunderstanding?
Meng Yu Jing's expression immediately turned cold, she had never thought that she would unexpectedly be followed. Every time that she went out, she would be extremely careful about it, moreover even when she went to the village cottage, she was extremely careful about it. She was even confident that even an Essence Building Cultivator would not be able to track her to her small cottage in the village nearby.
But on that day she actually had a feeling of being spied upon, was it the same Ning Xiao Cheng who had followed her to the cottage and peeped on them from the outside? Regardless of whether it was true or not, this person definitely cannot be left alive.
Of course, she didn't know that the reason why she did not find Ning Xiao Cheng outsider her cottage, was mainly because of the help from the old woman.
There were only two matches held in the 3rd Round till now, and in both of them the God Wind Academy was the one who actively went to battle, and moreover won both of the fights. As far as the score of the 3rd round was considered, the God Wind Academy already had 70 points in total, and was in the front of the rest of the 4 Academies.
The talks about Ning Cheng's performance in the plaza finally stopped after a cultivator stepped onto the stage for the 3rd fight. This cultivator looked extremely strong and was even tall to boot, this cultivator also had a ripped upper body which threatened to tear the clothes that he was wearing.
This was one of the fellows with the cultivation of True Condensation 9th Level, Ning Cheng had already seen through his cultivation level from the distance.
"Clear Sky Academy's Yuan Jian, asks for consultation from fellow brothers and sisters with my 10 points." This strong cultivator cupped his hands in front of him and had a slight smile on his face, it at least did not make the people who looked at him to not hate him.
That Yuan Jian had just finished speaking, when someone immediately came flying onto the platform, this person was also an exceptionally tall person, as soon as he came onto platform, he immediately took out his Artefact and said, "I am Ge Ye from the Thunder Academy, also carrying 10 points……"
As he was speaking, this Ge Ye had already started waving his Flying Sword Artefact, and brought out a dense sword curtain.
Yuan Jian did not seem to expect that Ge Ye would start immediately, but he did not show any nervousness on his face, and immediately brought out his own Artefact, a copper mallet.
This copper mallet in his hands was flashing with golden light, when it collided with Ge Ye's sword curtain, a platform almost burst open, forming many crackling light flashes, which truly looked amazing.
Ge Ye also had the cultivation of True Condensation 9th Level, and was similar to Yuan Jian's cultivation. Ning Cheng could sense from those two, that their grip over their True Essence was really deep. Moreover, both of them were evenly matched, and thus the winner would not be decided in a short amount of time.
Although this fight was evenly matched, but the overflow of True Essence from their fighting was really wonderful to look at. But after Ning Cheng looked at them for a moment, he felt that there was simply no meaning nor anything to be gained from their fight, those two men may look powerful with their formidable cultivation level, but they would not even be able to defeat Meng Jing Xiu.
Yuan Jian seemed to the most powerful person representing the Clear Sky Academy in this round, so if Yuan Jian lost, the Clear Sky Academy would really be in a very dangerous position against the other 5 Star Academies.
This evenly matched pair fought for a full half an hour, just when the others were thinking that both of them would still continue for another half an hour, Ge Ye suddenly brought up his sword and casted out another sword curtain. But this sword curtain quickly condensed into a giant sword, and just like cutting an egg, this giant sword tore through the mallet shadows brought out by Yuan Jian.
"Poof…." blood sprayed out of his mouth, before dying Yuan Jian had not thought for a single moment that this Ge Ye who was evenly matched with him till now would bring out such a formidable technique.
"Thunder Academy's Ge Ye carrying 20 points challenges God Wind Academy's Chu Yong Xin……." Most of the people did not think that Ge Ye would not even wait for a single breath after killing Yuan Jian, before immediately challenging the God Wind Academy.
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Membership of The Walbrook Club is open to men and women on an equal basis.
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Part 4 of 5. A special UPI report on the state of smoking in America.
Yul Brenner went before the cameras in 1984 in one his most dramatic roles -- as a lifelong smoker dying of lung cancer who had a message to deliver to the audience: "Just don't do it."
A year later Brenner was dead and three years later poet Gerald Locklin memorialized Brenner's anti-smoking commercial in the poem, "An Uncool Yul", which characterized his widely praised public service message as "an ignominious and mechanical form of immortality."
The "Uncool" poem illustrates the difficulty facing the anti-tobacco movement: The message is difficult to deliver and always open to ridicule. Nevertheless, it does not dampen the enthusiasm of actors -- such as Esai Morales of television's "NYPD Blue" -- who represent the forefront of the Hollywood anti-smoking campaign. Morales spends much of his free time discussing his own experience with tobacco.
Morales is not a smoker but it was not for lack of trying, he told United Press International. His first attempt to smoke in high school turned him "green," he said. That self-described "gut reaction" was enough to turn him off tobacco, but he still lived with smoke because his mother was a smoker.
He recalled that he spent much of teen years trying to get his mother to quit.
"I used to steal her cigarettes, sort of misappropriate them," he said. Although she finally was able to quit the habit, Morales said the process was difficult and at one point his mother "used to sneak cigarettes behind my back" while claiming she was smoke-free.
"I remember how betrayed I felt when I realized she was smoking," he said. His mother's problems convinced Morales cigarettes are addictive.
Richard Marx, the Grammy nominated songwriter, also is a never-smoker who is active in the entertainment industry's anti-smoking drive. Marx told UPI the 1964 U.S. Surgeon General Report on Smoking and Health had an immediate effect on his father, a three-pack-a-day man at the time.
"That report singularly convinced my father to quit immediately. That report was all he needed, although he was very lucky in that he didn't have as difficult time quitting as some. He never smoked again."
In his private life, Marx tries to live a smoke-free lifestyle.
"All of our decisions are based on the non-smoking issue in that we won't go places, especially with our kids, where people can smoke," he said. "It's easier in the United States than overseas, but it's slowly getting better."
When Dr. C. Everett Koop, the former surgeon general of the United States, kicked the habit it was a pipe, not cigarettes, that he put down.
"When I had my first press conference in 1982," he told UPI, "I was asked by a Wall Street Journal reporter why I had quit smoking my pipe. I told him that the ashes from my pipe were making too many holes in my suits -- so I quit smoking pipe tobacco for economic reasons."
On the other hand, Koop said then Surgeon General Luther Terry, who released the 1964 report that linked cigarettes and cancer, was a two-pack-a-day smoker himself.
"He realized that he had a very hot report that ought to go to the American people," Koop said. "But he was very embarrassed about his own smoking. He quit cold turkey and only after about six weeks when he realized that he probably could make it and not go back to smoking did he release the report."
Koop noted the report, issued in January 1964 -- 40 years ago this month -- actually was not a report of the surgeon general but a report to the surgeon general by an ad hoc committee of people concerned about smoking and health.
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Garmin is not at all a stranger to producing cool gadgets. They provide a vast array of products for GPS navigation, activity trackers and technology for multiple sports and fitness activities.
We here are of course looking at a product that would benefit the traveller, perhaps a more adventurous one, is wearable, utilitarian and looks great while doing all these things. The Fenix 2 claims to be a "fully featured training watch for multisport athletes", but let us see what does it have that would make it beneficial for the traveller
1. Tracks distance, pace and heart rate – Not the most primary need however is a great thing to have for those travellers who like doing slightly more energetic activities. I like to cycle and run; many of my trips are for the purpose of cycling or running, so these would definitely be great features to have.
2. High-sensitivity GPS positioning, 3-axis compass with altimeter and barometer – This would be one of the features that would appeal to all kinds of travellers. From the adverture mountain climber to the wanderer would like to track their position. For those who are more adventurous these are extremely important features to have.
3. Smart Notification – This is a wonderful feature, truly enhancing this device and making it smart. The smart notification receive emails, texts and alerts right on your watch. This however still does need to use the wireless signal device like the iPhone and reduces the benefit of this feature tremendously. It would have been wonderful to provide a method to have internet connectivity built in within the watch.
And what else is this cool watch supposed to have?
1. Temperature Sensor
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3. Bluetooth Support
4. Advanced Fitness Metrics
5. HRM-Run monitor adds data for cadence, ground contact time and vertical oscillation
6. Uploads to Garmin Connect and BaseCamp for live tracking and sharing
This device is USB as well as AC chargeable.
At nearly USD 400, this is an expensive product but definitely worth it for those travellers who feel the need of its features. It is also a cool looking gadget to own.
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Welcome to you visitor, my name is Kevin Bouchard, I am native to the province of Quebec in Canada and I am currently an assistant Professor at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. I am an active member of the Laboratoire d'Intelligence Ambiante pour la Reconnaissance d'Activités (LIARA). Our team is focused on ambient intelligence through the development of multimodal smart homes. These smart homes aim to provide day to day assistance to semi-autonomous residents in order to enhance their quality of life and promote autonomy. The LIARA team also focus on developing smaller assistive technologies targeted at smaller restrained sets of problems (e.g.: independent smart stove to assist while cooking).
Here is my complete curriculum.
I invite the reader to consult the "Scientific Activities" page for research project opportunities, datasets, and other fun things.
My Interests
My main interests of research include:
In addition to research which I am passionate about, I am the kind of person which like to try new things whether they are extreme or not. For example, I have been to Cedar Point and Magic Mountain to try the biggest rollercoasters in the world, I bungee jumped in Outaouais, the highest jump in Canada, and I have driven a Lamborghini at more than 250km/h on a closed circuit. I also discovered a new passion for stock trading in 2011 and I particularly enjoy trading on market sentiment by using both technical and fundamental analysis (which is, in fact, comparable to the work I do on spatiotemporal series). I also created my own six GPU mining rig to extract LTC during the cryptocurrency gold rush. I am currently learning to fly Ultra Light Aeroplane and I earned my Student Permit Pilote. I'm flying a paramotor (you can see my very first flight here !). I love road trips, the great outdoors. I have been to 38 states in the USA, I have seen around 50 national parks/monuments, hiked hundreds of miles and drove 35 000 km (traveling in the USA). I am always seeking new experiences and amongst the list of what I want to do next, there are: watching lava flow, assisting to a tornado storm, restoring a car, climbing Kilimanjaro (or any other major mountain) and scuba diving in a shipwreck.
Latest news
July 3rd, 2018
Tracking objects within a smart home published in Expert Systems With Applications, Elsevier.
January 15th, 2018
A More Efficient Transportable and Scalable System for Real-Time Activities and Exercises Recognition published in Sensors
November 30th, 2017
Presentation at the GOODTECHS conference in Italy.
May 18th, 2017
Presentation at the 2nd Quebec Congress in Adaptation-Rehabitlitation Research at the Mont-Royal center in Montreal.
May 16th, 2017
Presentation at the Colloque TI des professionnelles et des professionnels SPGQ about Big Data opportunities at the Cégep de Chicoutimi.
April 21st, 2017
Awarded an NSERC discovery grant of 100 000$/5 years as principal investigator.
December 21st, 2016
The video game team I mentored in collaboration with the NAD publish the "Inner Strike" game demo.
October 24th, 2016
Won a Best Paper Award during the The 7th IEEE Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics & Mobile Communication Conference which was held at Columbia University, New York, USA.
August 1st, 2016
New appointement as assistant Professor at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi.
April 12th, 2016
Won a Postdoctoral scholarship B3 from the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies (FRQNT) 35 000$/year for two years.
December 11th, 2015
Full paper accepted at PAKDD 2016! Acceptance rate of 17%. The datasets of the experiments are available on my website.
November 4th, 2015
Won a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Rhodes University based on my curriculum and research potential (international contest). Declined for my new contract at UCLA.
November 1st, 2015
New postdoctoral position at UCLA. Research manager for the Wireless Health Institute.
February 6th, 2015
A paper accepted for publication in the IEEE Intelligent systems journal (impact factor of 1.92).
September 21th, 2014
Two book chapters accepted in Trends in Ambient Intelligent Systems: Role of Computational Intelligence published by Springer and a new journal paper will appear in the Journal of Smart Home.
July 3th, 2014
Ph.D. thesis defended with success. The mention of excellence was attributed for the contributions to smart home research and to data mining.
April 14th, 2014
A paper accepted for publication in the proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI'14) as part of the AAAI.
March 24th, 2014
Two papers accepted to appear in the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA'14) published by ACM.
February 6th, 2014
Two book chapters accepted to appear in Opportunistic Networking: Vehicular, D2D and Cognitive Radio Networks published by Taylor & Francis.
October 25th, 2013
Journal paper accepted to appear in the International Journal of Wireless Information Networks (IJWI) published by Springer.
October 15th, 2013
Provisional patent issued to the LIARA's team (acting as co-inventor) on the smart stove project.
August 28th, 2013
Nomination to the pretigious "Cercle d'excellence" of the Quebec University network (UQ). To see full list of nomination: click here. Media coverage here.
August 7th, 2013
Journal paper accepted to appear in the Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (AIHC) published by Springer.
December 14th, 2012
Won the prize of best presentation at the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Networked Embedded Systems for Every Application. Media coverage here and here (french).
October 10th, 2012
Invited to speak at the "Informatique-Santé" symposium regrouping the main actors of the technological development in health & social services and the healthcare professionals & administrators on a National scale.


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Chatuchak Friday Night Market!
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It all happens at the same place, except it's on Friday night instead, from 10pm to 4am. This is great for a couple of reasons:
- The weather is cooler as there's no sun
- Crowds are much thinner since the hours are unearthly
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So here I am, after my first week of accessing my ability to start running. The good news is that my previous injuries are gone. That bad news if that I somehow gained 20 lbs since then! So I will need to take ti easy so as to avoid any knee and foot problems until I can get the weight down.
Plus, it's been a little hot and humid the last few weeks with the temperatures hovering around 95-100oF. But I decided to keep my startup runs outside, either at the beach or Yorba Linda park. To slowly build up to a 5k run with no injury, my plan is to do 3-4 interval runs a week with 5 min walk breaks in between as follows.
Week 1 – 4×5 min
Week 2 – 3×10 min
Week 3 – 2×20 min
Week 4 – 1×30 min
So no 1/2 marathon on my birthday this year. But as a short-term goal if I'm feeling good, I might sneak in a 5 k trail run in Olympic National Park after some Kayaking. I'll let you know how it turns out.


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Earlier this year Leeds City Coun Peter Gruen said in a letter to the Wetherby News that he agreed with me that residents had very limited rights in the planning application process.
At the recent October planning meeting he was the proposer for the acceptance of the application to build houses at Spofforth Hill.
Ironically, this was at the end of a process which saw our limited rights diminished even further by the planning officers apparently not reading all of the hundreds of objections submitted by residents.
I understand from a government planning department that the council is required to take into consideration all representations concerning the application.
Despite our repeated requests in letters and at meetings, the council has still not been able to confirm that all the residents' representations have been considered.
In last week's Wetherby News, Coun Gruen accused our MP Alec Shelbrooke, of taking a position on housing policy which is designed to save his parliamentary seat.
Throughout our campaign, which began in July 2013, we have been non-political but in the interests of balance and fairness, concepts which Leeds Council appear to give scant regard to as far as their citizens are concerned, we would like to comment on this allegation.
We would like to emphasise that Mr Shelbrooke has given consistent support for the retention of greenfield sites such as Spofforth Hill (this site is providing over £8 million for development in other parts of Leeds in a manner which we believe, defies national policy).
In this respect our MP is on the same page as Mr Wood, a planner for 'The Campaign for the Protection of Rural England', who was reported in last week's Wetherby News, as criticising Leeds Council's house building strategy which amongst other things, depends upon the extensive use of greenfield sites.
Furthermore, I suggest that as the proposer for acceptance of the application, at the planning committee meeting, last month, Coun Gruen was well aware of the fact that Spofforth Hill is prime agricultural land; a vitally important fixed asset which is in increasingly short supply.
At a public constituency meeting in February 2014 Mr Shelbrooke, unlike Coun Gruen, said that he disagreed with the taking of food producing land for development.
On another matter, if Coun Gruen does read this, would he please reply to my e-mail sent to him several months ago as the councillor responsible for heritage, asking him to confirm that the Wetherby Town Centre Conservation Area would be protected from congestion and pollution.
In our opinion, Coun Gruen's comment of electioneering in a deprecating context is wide of the mark.
Alec Shelbrooke, in our experience, is an outstanding constituency MP who effectively represents the interests of Wetherby and its residents.
We suggest that the councillor reflects upon his own conduct, as a senior member of an important planning committee, and on his duty to all the citizens of Metropolitan Leeds, including those in Wetherby.
E J Walton
Carlton Approach, Wetherby


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The revision aims to improve the reputation of one of the most infamous genera of Andean plants: Cinchona. Occurring spontaneously in premontane and montane forests from central Bolivia to northern Colombia and Venezuela, Cinchona is medically important as a source of quinine. The goal of this treatment is to sort out many of the 330 names used and species ascribed to this group by taxonomists and pharmacists from the late 18th century to the present. Includes keys, descriptions, illustrations, phylogenetic analyses, and distribution maps. / The 16 species that comprise the genus Erisma (Vochysiaceae) are tall trees predominantly in terra firme forests of the Amazon region, most of them with a limited distribution. This treatment includes a key to the species of Erisma, synonymy, descriptions, distribution, habitat, local names, uses, and specimens examined. Keys to the tribes and genera of Vochysiaceae are also provided.
Maria Lucia Kawasaki Graduated in Sciences Life at the University of Sao Paulo (1980), master's degree in Biological Sciences (Botany) from the University of Sao Paulo (1985), doctorate in Botanica by The New York Botanical Garden (1992) and post-doctorate from the Field Museum Of Natural History (1993). She is currently Researcher at the Institute of Botany and has experience in Botany with an emphasis in Plant Taxonomy. She specializes in the following topics: Erisma, Vochysiaceae, taxonomy. and the Myrtaceae family at the Department of Botany, Field Museum of Natural History. Maria Lucia Kawasaki's Author Page
Bengt Lennart Andersson ( 1948 - 2005 ) was a Swedish botanist and taxonomist Andersson was Professor and Chair of Systematic Botany at Gothenburg University from 1987. His research focused on the neotropical Marantaceae and Musaceae, looking at their taxonomy, morphology and geography. Bengt Lennart Andersson (known as Lennart) was born in Alings†s and studied at Gothenburg, where he received his doctorate in systematic botany in 1978. His thesis was on the genus Ischnosiphon (Marantaceae) and he went on to analyse and reinterpret the complicated inflorescences of genera in the family, revising Thalia and Maranta and describing the new genus, Sanblasia, from Panama. He also intended to produce a monograph of the intricate and striking Heliconia genus (previously assigned to Musaceae), but the work was never completed. He did complete a major monograph on the quinine source Cinchona (Rubiaceae), published in 1998. Andersson was an indefatigable plant collector in neotropical areas and co- editor of Flora of Ecuador, founded at Gothenburg in 1973; he was the sole author of several of its volumes. Bengt Lennart Andersson's Author Page