From the Military.com website
TRICARE pharmacy co-pays for most drugs will go up in 2018 due to a measure expected to be approved by lawmakers.
The measure, approved by the Senate early this year, is included in the final version of the annual Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), congressional staff said Wednesday at a briefing with reporters.
Over the next 12 years, the measure would steadily increase co-pays for most drugs through retail pharmacies, while adding new fees to those received by mail.
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From the PBS website
“VA: The Human Cost of War” explores what it does and how it functions, its vast size and critical importance, and its history and provenance — how and why it came into existence, how and why it has changed over time, how it has come to be broken in critical ways in recent generations and how it may be reformed going forward.
Told through a series of personal stories from veterans and intertwined with deep historical and political analysis from leading scholars and elected officials, the film illustrates the key ways in which the VA, and we as a society, fail our veterans, who, according to Department of Veterans Affairs research, continue to commit suicide at the harrowing rate of 20 veterans per day.
Watch this documentary film that explores the history of the Department of Veterans Affairs, from the troubled beginnings of the Veterans Bureau of the 1920s, to the modern VA system. The film chronicles, in depth and often wrenching detail, the workings of this crucial but at times beleaguered American institution.
From the Honolulu Magazine website
Longtime residents will remember we haven’t always had much of a craft beer scene. Compared to the robust craft beer hotspots of Portland, San Diego and Denver, Honolulu lagged for years. According to Timothy Golden, co-owner of the newly opened Village Bottle Shop & Tasting Room in Kaka‘ako, the craft beer scene in Hawai‘i changed for the better five years ago. “Up until that point, O‘ahu was plagued with a string of failed breweries,” he says. “Either the beers weren’t of the greatest quality or the businesses were just poorly run.”
Beginning in 2012, a wave of new openings—both breweries and bars—changed the craft beer landscape. “Real a Gastropub and Pint + Jigger both opened with stellar beer lineups. Then Honolulu Beerworks, Waikīkī Brewing Co. and Lanikai Brewing Co. all opened within a few months of each other and, all of a sudden, O‘ahu had three craft breweries,” recalls Golden, who began writing the popular Beer in Hawai‘i blog around the same time
From the everyday Health website
In today’s era of “clean eating,” many health-conscious eaters view processed foods with fear and disgust. But not all packaged foods are evil. In fact, most of the foods you buy in the grocery store have been “processed” in some way. Even whole foods, like fresh vegetables and fruits, nuts, seeds, and whole grains, have likely been cleaned, trimmed, shelled, husked, ground, or wrapped before they made their way to your grocery cart.
“The most exciting five seconds in football.”
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— NFL (@NFL) May 29, 2017
Webmaster Comments: The National Football League posted this video on Memorial Day 2017. It is equally appropriate on Veterans Day.
The video features flyovers in the early 2000s after 9/11. The A-10 Warthog unit featured is the 172nd Fighter Squadron, 110th Fighter Wing, Michigan ANG. The squadron flies out of Battle Creek ANGB, Michigan. In 2009, the wing transitioned to the 110th Attack Wing. The Wing now hosts an operations center for the MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle.
When you get to the second screen you need to turn on the sound
From the Air Force TV Channel on YouTube
This Veteran’s Day, check out the amazing story of the Women Air Force Service Pilots and the legacy they created that inspires even today. Their contributions during WWII were invaluable, to say the least.
From the Images of Old Hawaii website
World War I – known at the time as “The Great War” – officially ended when the Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919, in the Palace of Versailles outside the town of Versailles, France.
However, fighting ceased seven months earlier when an armistice, or temporary cessation of hostilities, between the Allied nations and Germany, went into effect on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.
Please honor our veterans and their families for their bravery and sacrifice in defending our country, upholding our values and protecting the people
From the everyday Health website
Stress has become a major modern-day factor affecting men’s health. The tension and emotional strain of day-to-day living has been linked to heart disease, high blood pressure, migraine headaches, back pain, diabetes, cancer, and a weakened immune response to disease.
Men experiencing high levels of stress can experience anxiety, insomnia, fatigue, and depression, and may turn to unhealthy habits like smoking, drinking, overeating, or drug abuse to help deal with their stress.
From the MedMD website
About one in five Americans drinks diet soda every day, according to the CDC. Is that a good thing?
Numerous studies over the past several years have reported links between diet soda and weight gain, diabetes, heart problems, and other health issues. Most recently, headlines sounded alarms about a higher chance of dementia and stroke among diet soda drinkers.
That may sound worrisome, but experts say you don’t need to clear the diet drinks out of your fridge just yet. Many questions must be answered before we’ll know whether diet soda raises your chance of health problems.
This photograph features a young Tamahlani Noh – then Tamahlani Nakamoto. Like many Hawaii Air National Guard officers she was commissioned after serving several years as an enlisted member. The photograph was taken in the CBPO (Consolidated Base Personnel Office – predecessor to the Military Personnel Flight).
She was instrumental is the establishment of Hawaii’s Youth Challenge Academy Program in the early 1990s. Later, she became part of the Hawaii National Guard’s Drug Interdiction Program. Her last military assignment was the 154th Wing’s Inspector General.
A great individual and leader though out her career.
From the Military.com website
Racial slurs posted outside the dorm rooms of five black students at the Air Force Academy were written by one of those students, the school said Tuesday.
The announcement was a jarring turn in an episode that prompted the academy’s superintendent to warn students that racists were not welcome at the school — a speech that attracted nationwide attention.
