From The New York Times website
It was one of those findings that would change medicine, Dr. Christopher Lewandowski thought.
For years, doctors had tried — and failed — to find a treatment that would preserve the brains of stroke patients. The task was beginning to seem hopeless: Once a clot blocked a blood vessel supplying the brain, its cells quickly began to die. Patients and their families could only pray that the damage would not be too extensive.
But then a large federal clinical trial proved that a so-called clot-buster drug, tissue plasminogen activator (T.P.A.), could prevent brain injury after a stroke by opening up the blocked vessel. Dr. Lewandowski, an emergency medicine physician at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit and the trial’s principal investigator, was ecstatic.
Originally this list was going to include those that have achieved over 25 years in business. However, there are now just way too many that have already done that!
Reaching the milestone 25-year silver anniversary is already an incredible feat, especially considering how demanding and competitive the food and beverage industry is here on Oahu. Yet let’s recognize and show our love to those who have REALLY gone and limped, walked, roughed and ran the extra miles, having celebrated and surpassed their 50 year golden anniversary and beyond. That truly is amazing!
Congratulations to all the Oahu eateries now a part of the 50+ Club, and here’s to many more!
Webmaster comment: Please note this article was written in 2013 and a few of the businesses listed have since closed.
With my 65th birthday — and eligibility for Medicare — arriving in a few months, my mailbox is full of solicitations for Medicare Supplement and Medicare Advantage Plans. If I accepted all the free lunches and dinners I’ve been offered in exchange for attending these Medicare workshops, I’d be 10 pounds heavier.
The fact is, I’m experiencing a range of emotions as I approach this landmark age. How did I get this old? It seems like just yesterday I was entering the workforce and starting a family. On the other hand, hooray: No more high-deductible health plans or worrying about Congress overturning the ban on exclusions for preexisting conditions.
For all of us, the future will include a period — perhaps brief, perhaps extended — of frailty and physical decline. No one is immune. Broccoli and advice from relatives are things we apparently like to avoid, and clearly many people have added old-age planning to that list. I hope you don’t.
I would like to scare the stuffing out of you today but will try to lighten the tone enough so that you don’t kill the messenger. Still, I want you to feel a compelling need to spend just an hour or maybe two doing some planning for the future.
Hawaii Air National Guard photograph
This photograph was taken in late 1959/early 1960 at the Hawaii Air National Guard’s alert facility. The 154th Fighter Group was in the middle of an aircraft conversion from the F-86 Sabre to the F-102 Delta Daggar. The pilots are unidentified.
From the U.S. News & World Report website
Once you get through the first year of retirement, you probably think you can coast for the next 30 years. That’s not necessarily true. This is not the time to get comfortable. Things are never that simple in retirement. As you head into year two, it’s the perfect time to assess what you’re doing right and what you may be doing wrong.
“Five years before you retire and five years after are the most important,” says Reid Abedeen, managing partner at Safeguard Investment Advisory Group in Corona, California. “If you have everything in line, you are able to do certain adjustments. There is a big difference between doing them because you want to and doing them because you made mistakes.”
Your circumstances will change throughout retirement, and your finances will need to adapt to those changes. Consider making these updates for year two of retirement:
Off the Hawaii Adjutant General’s Facebook page
The Hawaii National Guard support of the Kauai County relief efforts continue. This video by TSgt Andrew Jackson shows more Guardmembers on the ground providing much needed support of residents.
From the Adjutant General’s Facebook page
The State of Hawaii, Department of Defense assisted Kauai County with a Task Force of over 45 personnel on State Active Duty. Hawaii National Guardsmen, along with Soldiers from the Active Duty 25th Combat Aviation Brigade conducted search and rescue efforts using boats and helicopters.
From the Kiplinger Magazine website
There are so many decisions you have to make when you’re planning for retirement, it can be tempting to delay the ones that seem as though they can wait.
Take, for example, the required minimum distributions (RMDs) you must begin withdrawing from your tax-deferred investment accounts at age 70½. Dealing with the tax consequences of those withdrawals may seem a long way away when you’re in your late 50s or early 60s, but there are strategies you can put into place now that could save you thousands of dollars later.
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The Air Force is sending a clear message: re-enlisting with a dinosaur puppet on your right hand isn’t funny.
Three Tennessee Air National Guard individuals involved in a viral dinosaur puppet re-enlistment video have been removed from their posts — one immediately retired with a demotion — and reprimanded for undermining the gravity of the oath of enlistment, officials said Wednesday.
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This photograph is from the retirement party for Roy Matsumura after the June 1994 drill weekend.
After serving in the Air Force, Roy returned to Hawaii and joined the 201st Combat Communications Group. During his Hawaii Air National Guard career, he served in staff positions, and later became the 202nd Combat Communications Flight commander. When he retired, he was the Group’s Director of Logistics.
A soft spoken leader
From the U.S. News & World Report website
During your retirement years, the list of expenses you’ll face can be daunting. For those who have paid off their home or only have a small mortgage, a reverse mortgage may be a way to help cover retirement expenses. A reverse mortgage allows you to borrow against the equity you’ve built up in your home. By doing so, you can supplement your income and remain in your current home. If you are thinking about this strategy for retirement, you’ll want to know exactly how a reverse mortgage works and evaluate whether it could be beneficial for your retirement years.
Consider these factors before getting a reverse mortgage in retirement:
From the Air Force Times website
Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force Kaleth Wright on Friday suggested the service move to a so-called “indefinite enlistment” system that automatically keeps senior enlisted airmen in until they decide it‘s time to leave.
Wright, speaking at the Airlift/Tanker Association Symposium in Orlando, Florida, said that shifting the re-enlistment process could be a way to reduce paperwork and administrative tasks that unnecessarily keep airmen busy, according to a release posted on the Air Force’s website Monday.
Thanks to Gordon Lau for sharing this article with Retiree News
R. Lee Ermey, a former Marine who made a career in Hollywood playing hard-nosed military men like Gunnery Sgt. Hartman in Stanley Kubrick’s “Full Metal Jacket,” has died.
Ermey’s longtime manager Bill Rogin says he died Sunday morning from pneumonia-related complications. He was 74.
The Kansas native was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his memorable performance in “Full Metal Jacket,” in which he immortalized lines such as: “What is your major malfunction?”
Be sure to watch the two videos in this article. Better yet, download “Full Metal Jacket”, especially those of you too young to remember this 1987 movie. R. Lee Emery became a legend, appearing in only 40 minutes of this two hour movie.
