From the everyday Health website
Your skin is affected by everything from the sun to irritating laundry detergent and cigarette smoke.
And it can show — with anything from redness to wrinkles, and in some cases even skin cancer. But before you resign yourself to the effects of your environment on your skin, consider the five most common culprits of skin damage and find out what steps you can take to avoid them.
MG Arthur “Joe” Logan, Adjutant General Hawaii; Rep. Tulsi Gabbard; MG James Hoyer, NGAUS Chairman, Adjutant General Virginia
Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, representative of the 2nd district of Hawaii, received the Charles Dick Medal of Merit during the second business session at the 2017 National Guard Association of the United States (NGAUS) General Conference and Expo in Louisville, Kentucky, September 9, 2017.
The Charles Dick Medal of Merit was established in 1988 and is designed to recognize the contributions to the National Guard by elected representatives to legislative bodies at the state and national levels.
The medal is named in honor of Major General Charles Dick, NGAUS president from 1902 to 1909, a major general in the Ohio National Guard, a Congressman and later a Senator. Dick was responsible for the passage of the Dick Acts of 1903 and 1908 that established the foundation of the modern National Guard.
As part of Freedom Day USA, the Leeward Pediatric Dentistry is offering dental cleaning for military dependent children.
When: Thursday October 12, 2017 from 8-5 (working through lunch). Appointments at 808-671-0055 but you can just walk in.
Where: Leeward Pediatric Dentistry, 94-229 Waipahu Depot St #501 (old American savings bank building in Waipahu)
What: Exam, X-rays, cleaning all services free for military dependents.
Special thanks to Tommy Hirao who sent this information to Retiree News. Tommy’s friend, Dr. Jim Hori, needed some assistance to spread the word about their free offer.
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From the Military Times website
Veterans Affairs officials will start issuing new veterans ID cards next month, giving recipients an easy way to provide their military service for business discounts and other promotions.
The move, first reported by Military.com, comes two years after Congress passed legislation for the cards. A VA spokesman said they’ll be made available for no cost to any veteran who applies through the department’s website.
From the everyday Health website
What’s your poison? At the right serving size, alcohol may not be poison at all. While red wine is most often tied to heart health, other types of alcohol can provide the same benefits.
The most well-documented health benefit of alcohol is the way it affects your cholesterol levels, specifically raising your HDL (“good”) cholesterol, say Steven Nissen, MD, and Marc Gillinov, MD, heart specialists at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio and authors of HEART 411: The Only Guide to Heart Health You’ll Ever Need.
From the Frolic Hawaii website
The event referenced in this post was on Saturday, September 30, but you can find out what 14 eateries are covered in the Frolic Hawaii article.
From the Military.com website
There’s nothing quick, easy or simple about TRICARE changes. But I’m going to do my best to give you a quick and easy guide anyway.
Your TSP Account – What to Think About When Nearing Retirement or Considering Leaving the Government (Archived Webcast Now Available)
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board co-sponsored a program titled “Your TSP Account – What to Think About When Nearing Retirement or Considering Leaving the Government” on October 3, 2017 and a link to the archived webcast is here:
https://www.sec.gov/video/webcast-archive-player.shtml?document_id=100317tsp
This program is designed for federal employees and members of the uniformed services who may be considering retiring or leaving Federal Service. The program covers TSP distribution options, withdrawals and roll-outs, as well as fees, the common red flags of investment fraud, how to check out a financial professional, and questions to ask when thinking about moving funds from the TSP.
For questions about TSP, go to https://www.tsp.gov/ParticipantSupport/Content/contact/index.html or call TSP’s Thriftline, 877-968-3778, to speak to a TSP expert.
For investment-related questions, go to the SEC’s Investor.gov website or call the SEC’s help line, 800-732-0330.
Special thanks to Carol (Yamaguchi) Kellett for sharing this photograph.
Carol’s email included the following comments
On Monday, Harold Fujii and I were at Hawaii Public Radio at the Fall Pledge Drive! Harold Fujii (aircrew on the F-4Cs and KC-135s) is a Hawaiian Airlines retiree. I volunteer at HPR every pledge drive.
Carol served in the Missile Shop and later win Quality Control, retiring as a senior master sergeant. In civilian life, she continues as a systems librarian at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Hamilton Library.
The just published October 2017 – January 2018 issue of Army Echoes features the following:
– Changes are coming to TRICARE
– Army recruiting needs your support
– Forever GI Bill 7
– Meet your Installation
– AER is helping Active and Retired
– Soldiers impacted by hurricanes
– Have you recently retired or are you getting ready to retire?
– 2017 NDAA Reserve Component SBP Beneficiary Changes
– Annual consent for automatic prescription refills began Sept. 1
– Empowering antiterrorism preparedness
– Armed Forces Retirement Home now accepting applications
Special thanks to MSG Lelanya Watson for sharing this information.
From the Huffington Post website
With more than 40 million licensed drivers in the United States age 65 and older, many automakers today are designing certain vehicles that are friendlier for older drivers. But what makes a good car for seniors? For many, top priorities include a vehicle that’s easy to get into and out of, easy to adjust for fit and comfort, easy to operate and see out of, as well as reliable, safe and a good value.
From the Wired Magazine website
Even if you checked to see if you are part of the Equifax data breach, you need to read this article.
The initial drama over Equifax’s September data breach has mostly subsided, but the actual damage will play out for years. And indeed, there turns out to be plenty of spectacle and public controversy left. It was all on display at a Tuesday Congressional hearing, in which lawmakers questioned Equifax’s former CEO Richard Smith in an attempt to make sense of how things went so wrong.
It’s hard to even hold all the failures and missteps in your mind at once, but each revelation makes the overall picture seem that much uglier.
Before delving into the hearing itself—which went poorly enough—it’s worth mentioning that it was bracketed by further unfortunate Equifax revelations. The company announced Monday that the total number of people impacted by its breach is not 143 million—the amount it first disclosed—but in fact 145.5 million. Its ability to casually misplace 2.5 million lives upended by the breach is alarming, as is Tuesday afternoon’s revelation that the IRS awarded Equifax a no-bid, multimillion-dollar fraud-prevention contract last week.
And there’s a lot more where that came from. Here are six important (and astonishing, disappointing, you name it) tidbits that came out of Tuesday’s hearing.
Earlier Retiree News posts:
LifeLock offers to protect you from the Equifax breach
Equifax Officially Has No Excuse
