In Hawaii, what high school you graduated from is often among the questions asked when you first meet someone. Public versus private, old versus new, town versus county, island versus island – some high school rivalries continue well into graduates’ old age.
The Images of Old Hawaii website periodically publishes articles about various high schools around the state. We will post links about these Hawaii high schools on their website periodically.
In 1927, the Reverend Benjamin Parker School (originally called Kāneʻohe School) opened in Kāneʻohe, Oʻahu. It started as an elementary and intermediate school, grades 1-8.
Over the years, it expanded in size and grades taught; in 1937 it became an elementary and high school, grades 1-12. In 1940, Benjamin Parker School was a founding member of the Rural O‘ahu Interscholastic Association (ROIA – with Kahuku, Leilehua, Waialua and Waipahu.)
James Castle High School website
National Guard graduates include: Nolan Kanekuni, Robert Lee, Ben Murata, Mark Ishiki – Can you name others?
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President Theodore Roosevelt High School
President William McKinley High School
Hilo High School
Kamehameha Schools
Iolani School
St. Andrew’s Priory School
Henry Perrine Baldwin High School
St. Louis School
Waialua High School
Cholesterol plaque in artery
From the everyday Health website
To understand how cholesterol — good or bad, high blood levels or not — affects your health, you must first know what cholesterol actually is.
Cholesterol is a fatty, waxlike substance found naturally in all the cells of your body. Your body needs cholesterol to manufacture hormones and synthesize vitamin D, among other functions.
According to the American Heart Association (AHA), your body manufactures all the cholesterol it needs in your liver. But you can also get cholesterol in the foods you eat.
From the National Institute of Health website
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For those too young to remember, this is a good summary of 1968, a tumultuous year in the United States and the world. It was the beginning of many things while other things ended. For those more mature readers, we were part of a turning point of our American culture.
This 1968 image of the Earth rising over the moon is among the first ever photos of our planet taken by humans from deep space
A half-century ago, much of the world appeared to be in a state of crisis. Protests erupted in France, Czechoslovakia. Germany, Mexico, Brazil, the United States, and many other places. Some of these protests ended peacefully; many were put down harshly.
Two of the biggest catalysts for protest were the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War and the ongoing lack of civil rights in the U.S. and elsewhere. Two of America’s most prominent leaders, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, were assassinated within months of each other.
But some lessons were being learned and some progress was being made—this was also the year that NASA first sent astronauts around the moon and back, and the year President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law.
These photographs represent the turmoil in 1968
Special thanks to Walter Lai for sharing this link.
From the Air Force Times website
RQ-4 Block 10 Global Hawk
The Air Force has begun selecting the next group of enlisted airmen who will train to fly remotely-piloted aircraft.
The annual enlisted RPA selection board — the second convened by the Air Force — convened Wednesday to start choosing 30 airmen from the 134 candidates who submitted complete application packages, the Air Force Personnel Center said in a release. The board is expected to finish reviewing applicants on Friday.
From the everyday Health website
A congestive heart failure diagnosis doesn’t mean that your heart doesn’t work anymore. It means that your heart isn’t pumping blood as well as it should, and could get worse if you don’t take steps to slow or halt the problem.
“Heart failure is a scary term,” says Maria Mountis, DO, a staff cardiologist in the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. That’s because it’s urgent that you address the problem, but it doesn’t mean your life is over.
Brig. Gen. Keith Tamashiro, Shane Philpot, Lisa Piette-Edwards, Stephen Dawson and Allen Keller
Celebrating the Military Family
Armed Services YMCA of Honolulu recently presented its Celebrating the Military Family breakfast at Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikīkī Beach Resort.
Keith Tamashiro retired on December 31, 2017 after a long career in the United States Army and the Hawaii Army National Guard.
From the Air Force Magazine website
A B-52 Stratofortress bomber lands at Andersen AFB, Guam, Jan. 16, 2018. The Stratofortress is one of six B-52H from Barksdale AFB, La., deploying to Andersen in support of US Pacific Command’s Continuous Bomber Presence mission. USAF photo by TSgt. Richard P. Ebensberger.
Six B-52s and about 300 airmen are deploying to Andersen AFB, Guam, to take over the continuous bomber presence mission in the Pacific. The B-52s, from Barksdale AFB, La., will replace six B-1B Lancers from Ellsworth AFB, S.D., as they wrap up their deployment later this month, according to a Pacific Air Forces release. Additionally, three B-2 Spirits deployed to Guam last week to support the Pacific deterrence mission.
With a B-52 touching down at Andersen on Jan. 16, according to a PACAF photograph accompanying the announcement, all three bomber variants are at the base for the first time since August 2016 and for just the second time in USAF history.
While at Andersen, the B-52s will provide a “credible, strategic power projection platform,” according to a Pacific Air Forces release. During their deployment, the Ellsworth B-1s flew multiple deterrence flights to the Korean Peninsula, along with participating in training exercises with Australia, South Korea, and Japan.
Since 2004, the Air Force has kept a constant deployment of strategic bombers at Andersen.
From the Military.com website
From the Alston & Bird LLP website
Former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole knew the art of the deal before President Donald Trump published the 1987 book of the same name.
The two shared a stage under the Capitol dome Wednesday as Dole, 94, accepted Congress’ highest civilian honor, the Congressional Gold Medal, for his World War II service and decades of work in the House and Senate. Trump, meanwhile, was mired in a pitched budget battle that threatened to end in a government shutdown at week’s end.
The president nonetheless saluted Dole as “a patriot” and gave tribute to Dole’s struggle as a veteran who worked his way back from a grievous shoulder wound he suffered in Italy.
From the Military.com website
F-16A, F-15C and F-15E aircraft fly over Kuwaiti oil fires set by the retreating Iraqi army during Desert Storm. U.S. Air Force photo
Nowadays when people think of Iraq, they think of the war that began in 2003, ISIS and the long fight against terrorism. But the U.S. military’s first major conflict with the country came more than a decade before that — more than 25 years ago, in fact.
Operation Desert Storm began Jan. 17, 1991, after Iraqi forces who had invaded neighboring Kuwait refused to withdraw. The conflict is now commonly known as the Gulf War.
From the Army Times website
An X-ray shows the 5-inch scalpel handle in the man’s abdomen. Credit: Courtesy of Faxon Law Group
An Army veteran who says someone left a scalpel inside him after surgery is suing a Veterans Affairs hospital.
Bridgeport resident Glenford Turner says the scalpel was only discovered years later, after he suffered from long-term abdominal pain. He sued the VA in U.S. District Court last week, seeking unspecified compensatory damages.
From the everyday Health website
Our bodies use B vitamins to convert the food we eat into the energy we need to function. Together the complex of eight B vitamins are important for metabolism, brain and liver function, growth, and building blood cells, as well as for maintaining healthy hair, skin, and vision.
More specifically, vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) — one of the eight — plays key roles in keeping the brain and nervous system functioning properly, says Sonya Angelone, RDN, a spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. “Vitamin B6 is involved in production of hemoglobin, the protein in blood that carries oxygen throughout the body.”
Congratulations to BG Moses Kaoiwi, Jr.
MG Arthur “Joe” Logan hosted a ceremony promotion at Washington Place yesterday afternoon. Governor David Y. Ige and Mrs. Joni Kaoiwi pinned on the general’s stars.
More photographs on the Adjutant General’s Facebook page
Great photographs by TSgt Andrew Jackson. Super job by MAJ Jeffrey Hickman who served as the master of ceremonies.
From the Daily Star Journal website
The Air Force has selected Truax Field Air National Guard Base, Wisconsin, and Dannelly Field, Alabama, as the preferred locations for the next two Air National Guard F-35A bases.
“Selecting Truax Field and Dannelly Field will increase Air National Guard F-35A units providing fifth generation air power around the world,” Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson said. “As F-35As arrive at these locations, we will use the existing aircraft at these fields to replace the aging F-16s at other Air National Guard units.”
Truax Field is the home to the Wisconsin Air National Guard’s 115th Fighter Wing
Dannelly Field is the home of the Alabama Air National Guard’s 187th Fighter Wing
