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Intrapreneurs: How to Foster a Culture of Innovation at Work
When we talk about innovation, we often think about those big ideas that change the world. This makes us view the ability to innovate as a skill reserved for elite entrepreneurs or expert technologists. But in actual fact, we all have the ability to think outside the box.
Unfortunately, however, this ability is often stifled or even discouraged in the workplace, where aside from a handful of people at the top, the average employee is expected to get on with their jobs.
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Take a broader view of innovation
You have to admit it, there's a certain appeal to being an entrepreneur. They get to disrupt the status quo, bring new ideas to the market, and follow their own path. But it's not all excitement and success, of course – life as an entrepreneur is packed full of uncertainty and risk. That's why most of us opt instead for the relative security of full-time employment.
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Beyond its technological application, innovative thinking can be applied to other areas too, such as internal processes, the employee experience, and corporate culture. And who better to come up with ways to improve these things than employees themselves?
Your employees are in a unique position of being exposed to the inadequacies and inefficiencies of your current systems. They will know if they are needlessly complicated, frustrating, or slow.
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Once you have the right culture in place, it's time to take practical steps to enable and empower your people to think like intrapreneurs.
As previously mentioned, it's likely that your employees already have a good idea about what's working and what isn't – their exposure to internal processes, practices and policies makes them experts in this regard. The key is to give them a platform to discuss the problems as they see them, and to offer new and better alternatives.
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Alternatively, these feedback sessions could happen periodically as a team brainstorming session, allowing groups to discuss openly the areas where improvement is needed, and the ideas they have that could make a difference.
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You scored the interview, prepared your STARRs (Situation, Task, Action, Result, Relate), and have been pumping yourself for the big day! But… the interview didn't go well. Maybe you forgot your portfolio, totally blanked on a question, or spilled your cup of water on one of the interviewers. Ugh! Now what? Well now it is time for some of your charm and whit to start making-up for the bad interview.
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your family.
Nicole: I'm a mom to three beautiful ba-bies and a wife to an amazing husband. My
kids are five years old, three years old, and
I have a brand new 8-month-old. Before I
was a mommy, I taught public school. I got
my degree in early childhood education. I
taught all the elementary ages. When we
found out we were expecting, we decided
homeschooling was our route. That's what
led us to where we are today.
Lydia: How long have you been home-schooling?
Nicole: I started with my daughter, on my
own schedule, when she was just two years
old. I started with the alphabet. I wanted to
teach her letters that went along with Bible
verses. Now that she's five, that would make
it 3½ years we've been working on some
sort of curriculum. She worked on kindergarten curriculum last year through My
Father's World, so if you want to go by the
book curriculum, it has been a year. But,
before that, it's been a good bit.
Lydia: In your email, you mentioned that
you attended a School Choice Week event
about homeschooling.
Nicole: I did. I wanted to homeschool,
but I was nervous. I was debating between
some sort of awesome private school that
was going to do just as well with my kid, or
homeschooling. Everyone at the event was
just so welcoming, and I got to see some of
my biggest fears about homeschooling just
kind of dissolve. I didn't know what home-schooling looked like. I thought I was going
to need to have desks set up for my children in my living room and a white board.
I thought I was going to have to bring the
public school into my house.
Lydia: You mentioned some fears and
concerns you had about homeschooling.
Do you mind sharing some of those?
Nicole: One of the biggest concerns was
not knowing what homeschooling looks
like. Was I expected to be a public school
teacher at home, or could I be a mom who
is catering to my children's different personalities and building them individually
at home? I was concerned about the steps
in getting involved in homeschooling—the
legalities of it. There's always the fear that
comes up of "Will my kid have friends?"
That changed when I walked through that
door and saw all those kids. It was almost
like they had stronger friendships because
they were a closer-knit group.
Lydia: Did they offer any other helpful resources?
Nicole: The School Choice Week event
had a homeschool support group there to
talk us through how to get started, how
to get registered as a homeschooler, and
curriculum advice. They had a plethora
of ideas on how to get started at whatever
stage we were in. It does feel better knowing that I'm going to step into something
and that, if I have a question or if I stumble,
there are so many other people out there
who are doing it.
Lydia: Are your children enjoying being
by Lydia Hisey
Chris and Nicole Dardis (right) and their children
Kayleigh, Ryan, and Allison
School Choice
I ChooseHomeschooling!
An Interview with Nicole Dardis


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Browsing International Telemetering Conference Proceedings, Volume 52 (2016) by Title
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EXPLORING MESH NETWORKS WITH INET RADIOSThe integrated Network Enhanced Telemetry (iNET) radios provide a two-way telemetry link that interconnects the airborne instrumentation system with ground-based systems. This capability brings the flight test telemetry domain into the realm of the more classic mesh networks in a mobile ad-hoc environment. The underlying radio frequency (RF) communication protocols defined in the iNET standards support a variety of classic networking protocols. The scheduling algorithms between Link Managers and radios can operate as a collision network, like classic Ethernet. This paper describes the communication protocols and scheduling algorithms of the iNET radios, and it provides results of their use in a self-scheduling algorithm such as a classical token ring network.
FIBER BRAGG GRATING SENSOR SYSTEM FOR MONITORING COMPOSITE AEROSPACE STRUCTURESTo investigate strain-sensitive characteristics of fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensors, a minimal sensing system consisting of multiplex FBG sensors and signal demodulating and processing instruments was constructed. FBG sensors were designed with different package structures for respectively sensing strain or temperature parameters, and they returned measurand-dependent wavelengths back to the interrogation system for measurement with high resolution. In this paper, tests were performed on structure samples with step-wise increase of deformations. Both FBG sensing system and strain gages were tested and compared. Experimental work proved that the FBG sensing system had a good level of accuracy in measuring the static response of the tested composite structure. Moreover the additional advantages such as damp proofing, high sampling rates and real-time inspection make the novel system especially appropriate for load monitoring and damage detection of aerospace structures.
FINITE BLOCKLENGTH SYMMETRIC INFORMATION RATE OF SOQPSKIn this paper we compute a lower bound, namely the dependence testing (DT) bound, on the maximum achievable rates (expressed in bits/channel use) with military standard shaped-offset quadrature phase shift-keying (SOQPSK-MIL) and aeronautical telemetry SOQPSK (SOQPSK-TG) schemes over additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels under finite code blocklength, probability block error and equiprobable input constraints. The DT bound results for SOQPSK-MIL and SOQPSK-TG are used to lower bound their respective spectral efficiencies (expressed in bits/s/Hz). We simulate a serially concatenated convolutional code (SCCC) using SOQPSK-MIL as the inner code, and show that it performs within 1:1 dB of the SOQPSK-MIL DT bound for various coding rates. The numerical results also demonstrate the performance loss compared to the channel capacity due to the finite blocklength constraint.
FOCUSED AUTOMATED DISCOVERY OF TELEMETRY DEVICE CONSTRAINTSConfiguring typical devices in the telemetry community requires the creation of complex, device-specific configuration files. While the grammar of the configuration files is vendor neutral, the device specific details are vendor specific. Thus, a naïve approach to building these files is to construct a file, test it against a device, and then iterate. The specification sheets (and other documents) for the device can serve as a guide, but the details of flight test configuration possibilities are immense and, in this community, typically not fully documented. This paper describes a process of creating a set of general rules describing characteristics of a configuration file and using those rules to discover the configuration constraints of telemetry devices automatically. The discovered constraints posed by a particular vendor's device can then be quickly formed into a correct-by-construction constraint-based grammar for use in other systems.
Frequency Partition Techniques of FMCW Radar Imaging Systems for MIMO Multi-Static Array ModalityThe modalities of many imaging applications have been advancing toward the MIMO format for improved efficiency. This paper presents an approach to the implementation of the MIMO operating modality for FMCW radar imaging systems with multi-element data-acquisition arrays. The unique characteristics of the software-defined step-frequency FMCW imaging systems enable the simple and precise orthogonalization procedure through direct spectral partitioning. This paper includes the description of the data-acquisition hardware of an eighttransceiver radar imaging system, imaging formation algorithms, MIMO implementation, and results of laboratory experiments.
FUSION-BASED AND FLICKER-FREE DEFOGGINGDegradation in visibility is often introduced to images captured in poor weather conditions, such as fog or haze. In this paper, a fusion-based transmission estimation method is introduced to adaptively combine two different transmission models. Specifically, the new fusion weighting scheme and the atmospheric light computed from the Gaussian-based dark channel method improves the estimation of the locations of the light sources. To reduce the flickering effect introduced during the process of frame-based dehazing, a flicker-free module is formulated to alleviate the impacts. The system assessments show this approach is capable of superior defogging and dehazing performance, compared to the state-of-the-art methods, both quantitatively and qualitatively
HOW TO MAKE A RUGGEDIZED SSDSSDs are now commonplace in all types of computing from consumer laptops to enterprise storage systems. However, most of those SSDs would not survive in environments with extreme temperatures or high shock and vibration such as found in embedded and military systems. The problems in this space are more than just mechanical; they involve all aspects of the design including electrical and even firmware. A combination of all three engineering disciplines is needed to provide a robust ruggedized SSD product.
AN IMPROVED METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZING MULTIPLE TM FILESIn a previous paper "Merging Multiple Telemetry Files From Widely Separated Sources For Improved Data Integrity" presented at the 2012 ITC\USA conference, a method for synchronizing TM files at the minor frame level was presented. This paper expands on that work by describing a method for synchronizing the files at the minor frame level faster and at the earliest frame possible using an internal counter. This method is also useful if the minor frames fall out of sync due to large dropouts.
AN INITIAL LOOK AT ADJACENT BAND INTERFERENCE BETWEEN AERONAUTICAL MOBILE TELEMETRY AND LONG-TERM EVOLUTION WIRELESS SERVICEWith National Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA) Advanced Wireless Services (AWS-3) auction of frequencies in the 1695-1710 MHz, 1755-1780MHz, and 2155- 2180MHz bands, users of the Aeronautical Mobile Telemetry (AMT) band from 1755- 1850MHz, known as Upper L-Band, could be greatly affected. This paper takes an initial look at how the 1755-1780MHz band will be used by the cellular carriers and presents some preliminary testing results of adjacent channel (band) interference that could be experienced by AMT users. This paper should be considered as the stepping off point for future interference discussions, required analysis, and further testing.
INKJET PRINTED ANTENNASThe objective of this design project is to use inkjet printers with conductive ink to print functional antennas. The project is sponsored by the University of Arizona Electrical and Computer Engineering department. The project was completed with a Design of Experiments to determine the best method for printing a working antenna with different printers, inks, substrates, and printing methods. Conductive ink was used with standard inkjet printers to create a twodimensional antenna print, and the final results describe the best method for doing so. This technology is particularly useful because printed antennas may be produced quickly and inexpensively. Some potential applications include creating RFID tags, radio technology, mobile phones, and sensors for aircrafts. The printed antennas are particularly useful for some of these applications due to the size and flexibility of the print.
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The Killer App – Combining Embedded Processors, FPGAs and Smart SoftwareIn this paper, the benefits and advantages of combining advanced embedded processing capabilities with an FPGA based approach within a Data Acquisition Unit (DAU) are discussed. The paper begins with a discussion of some of the services and functionality that such a system enables. Basic features such as system discovery, verification, configuration and upgrade are discussed in addition to other value added services such as continuous built in test (CBIT) and embedded real-time parameter quick-look. Finally, the paper discusses some advanced services that could be deployed to these systems such as emerging communication protocols, multimedia connectivity and discovery, and advanced Machine Learning based systems diagnostics.
A LESSON IN CONFLICT MITIGATION: INTEGRATING DIVERGENT DESIGN PHILOSOPHIESThe Mars Rover Design Team is dedicated to building a next generation rover that will one day assist astronauts in the field. The complexity of such a project increases when the two conflicting design philosophies of agile software development and traditional waterfall development must work in tandem in order to design and construct a rover within a year. Agile software development promotes the flexible, testdriven production of coinciding design aspects, while the waterfall design philosophy relies on thorough planning and rigid, sequential design schedules. The project managers of the team work to balance these opposing philosophies by fostering individual interests, allowing team members to select their own focus areas within a wide variety of mission critical tasks. This practice accelerates the design and construction of the rover and in turn creates the momentum needed to achieve a common goal while consolidating both agile software and traditional waterfall development.
A LIDAR-BASED NAVIGATION SYSTEM FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIREDA common issue faced by people who are visually impaired is the difficulty of navigating and traveling through unfamiliar outdoor and indoor environments. The current state-of-the-art solutions to this problem consist of very expensive guide dogs and simple canes for obstacle detection. The team sought to develop a LIDAR-based navigation system with binaural auditory feedback that would allow the blind to navigate in unfamiliar environments and perform basic obstacle avoidance. Though basic auditory feedback relating to environmental obstacles was developed, further work is necessary to fine-tune the system and to determine the practicality of the device.
LOCATING AND REMOVING A PREAMBLE/ASM SEQUENCE IN AERONAUTICAL TELEMETRYThis paper describes how to locate and remove periodically inserted preamble and ASM bit fields in the presence of the phase ambiguity caused by decision-directed PLLs used in most telemetry demodulators. The phase ambiguity is resolved by correlating rotated or delayed versions of the data with a stored template of the preamble and ASM bits. A finite state machine in conjunction with a FIFO is used to remove the preamble and ASM bits from the output bit stream.
Low Cost Unmanned Aircraft System for Autonomous Flight and Computer Vision TasksThe Arizona Autonomous Vehicles Club is participating in the 2016 AUVSI Student Unmanned Aerial Systems Competition which offers various challenges to be completed by a fully autonomous aerial vehicle. To complete various mission objectives, a low cost, rotary-wing platform was developed and deployed. The vehicle was assembled and upgraded for autonomous capability using commercially available components and open sourced software.
MARS-COLONIZATION SENSOR SYSTEM FOR SOIL ANALYSISThis paper discusses a modular open source electronic soil analysis system embedded in a remote vehicle designed for use on a colonizationeffort Mars rover. The embedded system consists of a soil extraction drill sheath, a temperature and moisture array sensor sheath, a sample return bay specialized for RamanFluorescence spectrometry, and an Ethernet bridge radio for communication, all controlled through several microcontroller boards. A Windowsbased graphical engagement application provides real time control. A Linuxbased scripting application provides postprocessing, graphing, and statistical analysis. All software and electrical hardware has been made opensource for the public to build upon.
Minimum Euclidean Distance Algorithm for Indoor WiFi Received Signal Strength (RSS) FingerprintingWhile WiFi-based indoor localization is attractive, the need for a significant degree of pre-deployment effort is a key challenge. In this paper, indoor localization with no pre-deployment effort in an indoor space, such as an office building corridor, with WiFi coverage but no apriori knowledge of the placement of the access points(APs) is implemented for mobile devices. WiFi Received Signal Strength(RSS) in the considered environment is used to build radio maps using WiFi fingerprinting approach. Two architectures are developed based on this localization algorithm. The first one involves a client-server approach where the localization algorithm runs on the server whereas the second one is a standalone architecture and the algorithm runs on the SD card of the mobile device.
MULTI-SENSOR HEALTH PLATFORM WITH CLOUD ANALYSISWhat could we learn from monitoring our body processes with various portable sensors and an unconstrained analysis platform? Physiological processes in the human body produce observable biosignals. These signals contain a wealth of information about the condition of the body, and its reaction to environmental factors. Our study harnesses 9 unique sensors, integrated by the eHealthSensor platform for Arduino, to transmit data to an Android device. The Android device contains a local PostgreSQL database, which synchronizes with the cloud. Using this platform, researchers can monitor a subjects biosignals as they ride a roller coaster or participate in exercise activities. Nurses can monitor the vitals of multiple patients remotely. Analytic, cloud based services, managed by healthcare providers, could ultimately enable automated diagnosis of medical conditions.


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Like a pebble tossed, donations create far-reaching ripples
By Mathew Solso
Donations to the NH Community Loan Fund create ripples that will change people's lives.
The house where I grew up in southern Indiana was next to a three-acre pond. Besides swimming in the summer and ice skating in the winter, one of my favorite activities was throwing rocks into the pond. I loved the "ker-sploosh" and the ripples radiating out from the impact. It always amazed me that a small rock could create ripples that reached from shore to shore.
That's how I view your gifts to the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund. Every gift, no matter the size, is a rock thrown into the community pond, forming ripples that stretch farther and with more impact than you realize.
When you give, you provide the specialized training, coaching, or mentoring that helps our borrowers reach their goals of affordable homes or growing their businesses.
Then come the ripples.
First example: Welcome Home Loans is addressing N.H.'s housing crisis by enabling people, some with very-low incomes, to own manufactured homes. Many applicants have serious credit issues, sometimes because of health issues, job loss, or even identity theft.
Your donations allow us to spend more time with these applicants and connect them to resources they can use to improve their financial picture. They take advantage of that help, clear up their issues, and get that home.
Your gifts empower these borrowers with new knowledge of how to manage their money, leading to better financial decision-making. They're also more resilient, so when life happens—like an illness or an expensive car repair—they have the confidence and knowledge to overcome and succeed.
Finally, because they own their house, these borrowers are out of the volatile rental market and starting to build wealth.
Another ripple: Leadership
Second example: Your donations pay for leadership training for people who live in resident-owned manufactured-home communities (ROCs). Over six months, they learn how to govern and manage their cooperative, deal with conflict, and effectively build community by building relationships. When they apply these newly acquired skills to their jobs, some have received raises or promotions. Some have been elected to public office!
One young mother of two learned how to write grant applications for her ROC, then used those new skills to win a scholarship to a beauty school and start a career.
Your gift to the Community Loan Fund is the rock that generates ripples that change your neighbor's lives.
I can't wait to hear your "ker-sploosh," and have you see the impact of your gift.
Mathew Solso is Donor Relations Manager at the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund.


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For some reasons fashions come and go in tack, which makes little sense, really – horses are still horses, riding is still riding, the aims are still the same, but while venerable institutions such as the Spanish Riding School of Vienna stick to their 'tried and tested over centuries' combinations (a single-joint fulmer with drop noseband, for all the youngsters, before progressing to a double bridle, in case anyone wonders), many riders the world over follow fashion and swiftly emulate their heroes' and heroines' choice of tack. The number of show-jumpers in hackamores seemed to increase exponentially when a certain high-profile British rider had two top horses in succession in one, for example!
Unfortunately the fashion for tight flash and grackle nosebands doesn't seem to be going away, perhaps because tight nosebands have been demonstrated to increase a horse's sensitivity to the bit.
My previous article on Tight Nosebands is HERE if anyone wants a look. My sentiments haven't changed since then, and I truly don't care who the rider is, or what Championship they are riding at… if the only way they can get their horse to comply with their commands, and to soften at the jaw and poll, is to have the noseband tightened up like a vice, then either they aren't asking correctly, or the horse can't do what they want (for physical reasons) or it doesn't understand what their aids mean. Judges and stewards should be enforcing the 'not too tight' rule, and using measuring tapers, but for true horsemen and women the rule shouldn't need to exist in the first place!
The best dressage trainers I have ever known have invariably put a HUGE emphasis on horse comfort, firstly (and then on LIGHT aids, forward-thinking hands, giving or holding the rein, never pulling). I would have been dragged off my horse (and deservedly so) if I had presented myself on a horse with a noseband as tight as the one in the picture. There is no way that cannot cause pain, numbness, and bruising. How very fortunate for the rider, that horses' skin does not show a bruise. 🙁 🙁 🙁
There is a vet study on "The effect of double bridles and jaw-clamping crank nosebands on temperature of eyes and facial skin of horses" HERE . It is an interesting read, and concludes:
"the tighter the noseband was fastened, the cooler the facial skin of the horse (and, presumably, the greater the impairment of vascular perfusion) when compared with baseline values (P = 0.016). This study suggests that horses wearing double bridles and tight nosebands undergo a physiological stress response and may have compromised vascular perfusion. Consequently, on welfare grounds, the use of nosebands that cause any constriction of jaw movement should be reviewed as soon as possible." That was published in 2012.
Animal lovers worldwide lose their collective shit in a massive, baying-for-blood way when they see a photo of a dog with duct tape around its muzzle. Don't get me wrong, this was a very bad thing to do, even if it was 'only for a minute' as this perpetrator claimed. Her FB post went viral, with hundreds of thousands of shares. The woman received multiple death threats and went into hiding, and was eventually charged with animal cruelty after police were inundated with literally thousands of calls from around the world. People were enraged enough to actually DO something about a dog with tape around its muzzle for 1 minute.
Yet all over the world, horses are worked daily with very tight nosebands, and we are apparently so inured to seeing them with their muzzles clamped shut (and one could argue that one can do up a strap a lot tighter than duct tape, although of course it's not sticky so won't hurt being removed, presumably) that nobody says a word. Because we're used to seeing it, it elicits no reaction? That's just 'how it is'? Is it because horses just stoically endure, they never whimper in the way a dog in pain would? (Of course, the ones who can't/don't endure can end up chucked away, or in a dog food can. Sometimes they manage to hospitalise a person en route.)
What can be done? Why aren't the riders who use tack judiciously, who do not overtighten flash straps, rewarded more, while those who have them far too tight should be educated, and perhaps made an example of? Of course, not everyone using a flash, grackle, or crank noseband has it overtightened; I am not trying to tar everyone with the same brush. But, WHY don't stewards and judges stand up for the horses in these cases, as the horses are unable to speak up for themselves? Do trainers encourage this sort of thing?
Answers on a postcard, please. I am a long way from the 'barefoot and bitless, no metal shall touch my pony' brigade, but when I see good horses mostly trying hard to please but trussed up like an ovenready chicken, I could despair… and in the modern world we very much need to be seen to be doing the right thing by our equine partners. There's a growing body of people who believe that eventing horses is cruel and dangerous. The best thing we can do is to show them a happy, comfortable athlete, just for starters!


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Top 25 Highly Rated Work places in Canada
Top 25 Highly Rated Work places in Canada : Finding a job in Canada to cover your bills, your luxury and becoming financially independent is everyone's dream here.
Some people work almost 19 hours. If they will spend most of their lives working, it may be good for you.
Canadian companies know how important it is to provide a good work environment and a top-notch experience for employees.
The Canadian government creates jobs for everyone, including permanent residents and immigrants. In other words, Canada remains one of the best places to work in the environment, culture and work experience it offers.
All you need is an employee who makes a good living, earns money and works with a company that helps you grow.
More than 50% of workplaces in Canada.
Some of these factors include:
- Allowances and other allowances.
- Work-life balance
- Great working culture.
- An environment with opportunities to thrive and grow.
- Good management.
- Job security.
However, based on the comments made by Indeed (the website that offers you available jobs), all the factors mentioned above are taken into account.
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Dr. Raychel L. Kim was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. She moved to Hawaii in 2001 to be closer to family. Growing up, Dr. Kim admired her own optometrist's multi-disciplinary approach to binocular vision and eye health. She further realized the full scope of optometry while participating in vision therapy in Honolulu. She graduated from Hanalani Schools in Mililani and later attended Corban University in Salem, Oregon, earning a Bachelors of Science degree in Health Sciences. She later attended Pacific University College of Optometry in Forest Grove, Oregon.
After earning a Doctor of Optometry degree from Pacific, Dr. Raychel L. Kim returned back to the islands to practice. Dr. Kim is honored to participate in the vision and eye care of her patients. She enjoys the opportunity to build lasting relationships with them. In her free time, Dr. Kim enjoys hiking, trying new crafts on Pinterest, and spending time with friends and family.


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Hawaii's 4th-largest island offers breathtaking views
Hawaii's 4th-largest island offers breathtaking views
Our first morning on Kauai, I stood on one of the 20 concrete helipads at Lihue Airport trying not to cry. My boyfriend squeezed my hand. "It'll be fine," he said.
This trip to Kauai was the present I gave myself for finishing six rounds of chemotherapy. I had one month between the end of chemo and a double mastectomy. Derek and I had picked Kauai three months earlier, when I had no idea how I'd feel when the chemo was over: We figured that if I were still fatigued, there were beautiful beaches to lie on, and if I felt good, there were outdoor adventures to be had.
Because I ended up feeling great, we bypassed beaches to focus on the Na Pali Coast, a 17-mile stretch on the island's northwest corner. We explored it by every means possible — by foot, boat and helicopter. By car was not an option: The terrain is too rugged for a road.
Kauai is the fourth largest of the seven inhabited Hawaiian islands, more than 500 square miles with dozens and dozens of beaches. Some of the coast's brick-red cliffs (na pali means "many cliffs") rise 4,000 feet above the Pacific. Valleys and ridges are carpeted in hundreds of shades of green. The ocean is Smurf blue. Today none of the Na Pali Coast's canyons are inhabited — the area is a 6,175-acre state wilderness park — but people did live in all of them into the early 20th century.
From the ground, hiking along the Kalalau Trail, you see a hot mess of jungle on one side and cliffs and the ocean on the other. From the air and ocean, there are no signs that humans have ever been there; you can't even imagine anyone penetrating such a thick, forbiddingly fecund landscape.
My helipad tears had little to do with chemotherapy, mastectomies or cancer. Derek and I, both adrenaline junkies, had selected an hourlong scenic helicopter ride because they offered rides without doors. No doors! We could dangle our feet a couple of thousand feet above the ground, lean out to take killer photos and feel that, at any moment, we just might fall out.
But it turned out that only three of the four passenger seats of our Hughes 500 were doorless. The two back seats each had an open door, but in the front, the pilot got one of the doorless seats; one passenger had to get stuck with a middle seat.
After our group of four was weighed (seats are assigned this way) it turned out that middle passenger would be me.
Cancer wasn't enough? I wouldn't be able to feel like I was falling out of the helicopter? That was why I was near tears.
As the helicopter took off, rising like a bloated mosquito, I had already decided the next hour would suck. I was paying $280 for side views of my boyfriend and the pilot. When we got free of the crowded airspace immediately around the airport and the pilot asked how we were, I was too depressed to answer.
My sullenness lasted five minutes.
The pilot had us heading straight toward a ridge at 80 miles an hour. From my middle seat, I could see all the gauges, and I realized we were about 100 feet below where we needed to be to clear it. I thought we were going to crash.
At the last minute, the pilot rocketed us up and over. And then we careened down the ridge's far side, into a primordial abyss that dropped away for a couple of thousand feet. My stomach fell even farther. I loved it.
As my stomach returned to its proper anatomical position, I decided to grow up and stop pouting. Really, I could see fine.
For about 10 minutes, we flew over Waimea Canyon — at 10 miles long, up to a mile wide and 3,500 feet deep, it's also known as the Grand Canyon of the Pacific. Then we headed out over the ocean to take in the entirety of the Na Pali Coast, from Ke'e Beach in the north to Polihale Beach at its southern end. We flew along the coast close enough to see the foam from the waves crashing against the cliffs and the lines backpackers had strung up at Kalalau Beach, the terminus of the 11-mile Kalalau Trail, to dry their clothes on.
We dropped into deep, narrow valleys — the helicopter descending in tight spirals because the spaces were so narrow. As we hovered before various waterfalls that cascaded down their flanks, the pilot gave us details: One waterfall was among the tallest on the island; another had a pool at its bottom that people swim in; the really big one was featured in "Jurassic Park."
My favorite had three streams, and the pilot explained its name had something to do with marriage. Two main waterfalls joined high on the cliff; these were the husband and wife. Lower down, a third, much smaller fall came in. This was the mother-in-law. "Always there and a bit of a nuisance," the pilot said.
By land, the Kalalau Trail along the Na Pali Coast is serious business. Because of its narrowness and exposure — in its 11 miles, it sometimes traverses sheer cliffs that drop hundreds of feet to the ocean — and penchant for flash flooding, Backpacker Magazine once determined the Kalalau one of the 10 most dangerous trails in the United States. But it's also on lists of the most beautiful. National Geographic's top-15 list described it as "the finest coastal hike in the world."
It turned out that the finest hike in the world was so popular that all the permits to go beyond Hanakapiai Beach, two miles up the trail, were taken. So we just hiked those two miles.
The trail itself wasfar from awesome — overused and dotted with both boulders and mud pits, but "awesome" didn't even begin to do justice to the views.
When I was a kid my dad described such otherworldly dreamscapes as "phantasmagorical." Even as I slipped into a mud pit, that was the single word that popped into my head.
Arriving at Hanakapiai Beach was anticlimactic. Dark cliffs rose up on one side; tight forest on the other. The only views were out to the ocean, which looked fairly benign. But signs warned us to stay onshore, including a handmade one, of weathered wood, with a tally of the number of visitors who had drowned here: 83. Derek and I enjoyed our snacks a safe distance from the surf.
Two days later, we took a trail that doesn't require permits and was worth the two-hour drive from our hotel in Princeville: the Awa'awapuhi Trail in Kokee State Park.
The Kalalau Trail is on the coast; Awa'awapuhi is above the coast, dropping about 1,500 feet along its 3.2-mile length along a forested ridge. The trail stops when the ridge does.
Derek and I scrambled a couple hundred feet past where dirt gave way to rock. There were no warning signs, but there was also nothing but air between us and the ocean, far below. We ate and took more pictures than at any other point in our week-long trip.
On the hike back to our car, we walked into clouds. On the way down, we'd seen expansive vistas of the entire Na Pali Coast. Going up, we saw shades of gray. Anything farther than 20 feet away was invisible.
Passing hikers heading down, I envied them. The mist obscured all clues of what lay ahead. They would emerge from clouds and suddenly find themselves in a postcard.
On the way to the airport for our flight home, Derek and I finally did the beach thing. Flying back to that double mastectomy, it'd be good to soak up just a bit of relaxing ocean energy, right? Protected with warm water and soft sand, Anini Beach was divine. Snorkels slid everywhere through the water like shark fins. Kids built sand castles and buried one another. Teens splashed about. Dressed for the flight, we could wade in only to our knees. We'll do the beaches next trip.
Unless we get a permit for the Kalalau Trail.
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Women, young and old, should practise breast awareness. This involves getting to know what is normal for your breasts in terms of look and texture, so you can spot any changes and get them checked out as soon as possible. In particular, you should look for:
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Remember, most lumps are harmless, especially if you're young. But you should still get them checked by a doctor as soon as possible. For a more in-depth look at what it means to be breast aware, take a look at our Breast awareness feature.
The exact causes of breast cancer aren't yet know, but certain risk factors have been identified. They are:
Getting older – 80 per cent of breast cancer cases are in post-menopausal women.
Having no children or children late in life.
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There have also been suggestions that taking the oral contraceptive pill slightly increases your risk of breast cancer.
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Fewer than one in 20 cases of breast cancer are inherited. About one person in 1,000 carries the genes responsible. If a relative has breast cancer it may just be chance. However, you should be more wary if:
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Osteo Drug Stops Bone Loss From Breast Cancer Chemo (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
– THURSDAY, Aug. 21 (HealthDay News) — The osteoporosis drug Zometa (zoledronic acid) prevented bone loss at 12 months in premenopausal women undergoing chemotherapy after they had surgery for early stage breast cancer, a new study found.
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Happiness 'can protect against breast cancer', research shows (Daily Mail: World News)
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Positive thinking may protect against breast cancer (EurekAlert!)
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Tough decisions on breast cancer (Baltimore Sun)
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Validity test of purchasing power parity doctrine: An Indonesian case study
The goal of this study is to analyze the doctrine purchasing power parity (PPP) in Indonesia with the case study of the rupiah exchange rate to U.S. dollar. The autoregressive is used to estimate the relationship between the change of exchange rate and the difference Indonesia–USA inflation rate. The data used in this study are quarterly data obtained from the International Financial Statistics (IFS) and Bank Indonesia (BI) with the period 1997Q4-2013Q4. The exchange rate that used in this study is using the rate on rupiah to U S dollar. The price data used consumer price index in Indonesia and the United States with a base year of 2000. The results of this study show, that rupiah to the U.S. dollar is undervalued during the free floating exchange rate system and, the PPP doctrine to the case of the rupiah to the U.S. dollar is not valid in the period of this study.
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Winter has finally retreated, the shrink wrap is coming off, and the boating season is beginning. Think spring!
Dave Hannam with Classic Watercraft Restoration in Annapolis reports that it (spring) is definitely varnish season! So what exactly does that mean? "It entails tons of hours spent painstakingly sanding mahogany planks in between multiple coatings just to get your classic woody back up to factory specs from 50 years ago! But the time spent sure is worth it, Gin Mill, the 22-foot Hacker-Craft restoration job is complete, and she is shining like a piece of jewelry... just don't tell your wife. And a gem she will be this spring back out on the Bay. On another note this year's St. Michaels Antique Boat Show theme will be Classic Ski Boats. Hannam has already started on a Century Resorter, the most popular of ski boats back in the 60s and plans to have the restoration complete, just in time for the show this June."
Nancy Bray Booth has been keeping the paint shop busy at Hartge Yacht Harbor in Galesville, MD. "Hartge Yacht Harbor transformed a new 25-foot Chris Craft solid white boat from boring to beautiful with a bit of preparation and some deep blue Awlgrip. It required removing the engine hatch cover and bringing the blue paint up to meet the cushions. The result is remarkable. The restoration of the Waesque 32 continues inside the paint building. The preparation will soon be complete, and the boat will be moved into the paint booth for deck spraying. The Viking 46 deck repair is almost complete. The boat will be hauled for bottom painting and then transited to Ocean City for fishing season."
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, MD, has officially announced its next major shipyard project: a restoration of the 1912 tug Delaware. The restoration will begin with lofting this winter following the launch of the 1889 bugeye Edna E. Lockwood in October 2018 and start in earnest in January 2019. "This is a full stem-to-stern restoration," said CBMM shipwright James DelAguila, who will serve as lead on the project. "We're excited to get started."
With work taking place in full public view, CBMM's shipwrights and apprentices will begin work on Delaware's keel, stem, and horn timber in early 2019 and then progress to framing and planking in the latter half of the year. Work on deck structures will follow, with the project anticipated to take two years. Built in Bethel, DE, by William H. Smith, Delaware once hauled scows on Broad Creek—often laden with lumber—and towed ram schooners to and from Laurel, DE. Occasionally, she carried parties of young people to Sandy Hill for day trips on the Nanticoke River. Donated to CBMM by Bailey Marine Construction in 1991, Delaware is now a member of the floating fleet on display along CBMM's waterfront campus.
This project will run concurrently with and adjacent to the build of a new Maryland Dove, a joint effort between CBMM and the Historic St. Mary's City Commission (HSMC). Dove, a replica of the late 17th-century trading ship that brought the first settlers to what is now Maryland, is owned by the state of Maryland and operated and maintained by HSMC. Construction on Dove will also begin in January 2019. "This is a truly exciting year for CBMM, thanks in large part to the flurry of activity in our shipyard," said CBMM president Kristen Greenaway. "Working on these unique vessels helps us further tell the story of the Chesapeake Bay and the state of Maryland. We can't wait to share them with our guests."
Last fall we featured boat builder John Cook of Hollywood, MD, as he began building a log canoe in his side yard. The canoe, named Eve, and now in his garage, is nearing completion. John has planned a launch date of May 19. More to come on this story, I am sure.
Forrester Boat Works in Suffolk, VA, has had a busy winter and is looking forward to the spring. "We have been hard at work finishing our 23-foot Duck boat for Wingman Guide Service and finishing up the 17-foot Trout skiff that will be for sale shortly. We have also been very busy with maintenance projects all winter. We have a couple of really exciting projects coming up that will start this summer and early fall."
Boat Builders often turn their hands and talents to other projects, and that's exactly what happened when Chesapeake Light Craft of Annapolis's John Harris designed a "tear drop" trailer for amateur builders. "In March, the team of boat builder-instructors helped five crews of students build their own CLC Teardrop Campers in a two-week class in our Annapolis workshop. Additional Teardrop Camper classes also are offered in April and July, with a possible repeat later in the year. The regular spring class series continues with weeklong sessions devoted to rowing craft, kayaks, and canoes, through May 19 in Annapolis before the summer sessions at the legendary WoodenBoat School in Brooklin, ME, the Great Lakes Boat Building School in Cedarville, MI, the Center for Wooden Boats in Seattle, WA, and more. We'll be back in Annapolis with additional classes in September. A CLC build-your-own-boat class is a great way to spend a week's vacation or staycation, with a take-home souvenir much better than a fading tan and a phone full of photos: a completed boat (or teardrop camper) ready for finishing. See the complete schedule here: clcboats.com/classes.
All Annapolis classes, along with whatever else is going on in the busy workshop, can be seen live on Shopcam. Don't forget to mark your calendars for CLC's 20th annual OkoumeFest boatbuilders' rendezvous, including an open house at the workshop on Friday, May 18, with a range of technical seminars on boat building techniques, followed by a full day of on-water fun at Matapeake State Park on Kent Island, where it will be possible to try nearly all of CLC's dozens of boats, on Saturday, May 19.
The crew at Worton Creek Marina in Chestertown MD, has had a busy winter, as evidenced by the following excerpts from the marina's newsletter. "…We were extremely busy on a number of winter boat projects, including a complete galley remodel, a new generator install, major refits on three Bertram 31s, and extensive exterior repair and hull paint job on a 52 Sea Ray. Now that the bottom repairs to the Spencer are nearly done and the hull is structurally sound, we have moved into a new phase of the project. The big news for the month is that we installed the new engines and generators into the boat. This major milestone occurred almost exactly a year after we removed the old engines and gen-sets. The process was very similar to last year, just in reverse.
The next major milestone will be the application of fiberglass to the outside of the hull. This will involve using vacuum-bagging technology, and we have hired consultants to assist us in that process. Once that is complete, the next step will be repairs to the strut and rudder area and installation of the new sea keepers. Then, we can move on to final reassembly of the boat. In other news we bought another distressed boat. This one is an 83-foot Burger yacht that sustained hull damage to her starboard side when her fenders failed during one of the Florida hurricanes last fall. It turns out that a concrete bulkhead is a lot stronger than an aluminum boat hull! She also sustained some interior damage to the same side, but otherwise the boat is in great shape. We have already made the necessary repairs to get her ready for the trip north, and John and crew are in the process of bringing her up from the east coast of Florida. Once the boat gets back to Worton Creek, we will hold off working on her until the Spencer is done. We continue to add staff to ensure that the 'distressed boat' projects do not affect our normal boat yard work."
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