The Hawaii Army National Guard will host a ceremony to name the Keaukaha Military Reservation (KMR) Armed Forces Reserve Center (AFRC) in honor of the late LTC Henry S. Hara, Retired.
Date: Friday, May 26, 2017
Ceremony: 1000-1100, facility tours will follow
Lunch: 1130-1230
Where: Armed Forces Reserve Center (AFRC), 1304 Kekuanaoa Street, Hilo, Hawaii
From the Pacific Aviation Museum Twitter Feed
Our Convair F-102 Delta Dagger is back in the shop for corrosion removal, resheeting & a fresh coat of paint.
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TED Talks are influential videos from expert speakers on education, business, science, tech and creativity, with subtitles in 100+ languages.
Donna Sapolin is the Founding Editor of Next Avenue. She posted her list of “The 11 Greatest TED Talks for Anyone Over 50 “on the nextavenue website in August 2013.
From the Honolulu Magazine website
Honolulu Magazine continues to feature excellent articles about local restaurants the culinary trends. In their February issue, they have an article about seven new restaurants in Honolulu’s Chinatown.
Dr. James Weinstein, a back pain specialist and chief executive of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health System, has some advice for most people with lower back pain. Take two aspirin and don’t call me in the morning.
From the Military.com website
Gregg Popovich served in the Air Force for five years before becoming the head basketball coach for the San Antonio Spurs, and you might be surprised to learn that his five hears in the military did a great job setting him up for this role.
Popovich majored in Soviet Studies at the Air Force Academy, and his first assignment put him with the 6594th Support Group in Sunnyvale, California. In those early years of service, he operated spy satellites monitoring Soviet missile launches under the top-secret Air Force Satellite Control Facility, under command of the Space and Missile Systems Organization.
From the U.S. News & World Report website
Most baby boomers can receive the full amount of Social Security they have earned at age 66. However, retirees who will turn 62 in 2017 need to wait an extra two months to collect their full Social Security payments. Starting this year the retirement age begins a gradual increase toward age 67.
Here’s how the older retirement age will impact how much you receive from Social Security.
From the nextavenue website
For most of us, it’s a lot easier to swap in one small good-for-you habit on occasion than completely overhaul the way we eat.
Based on recent research, any or all of the following seven strategies will help do just that, to reshape the food choices you make on a daily basis. So before you know it, in a month, two months or six months, you’ll be eating in ways that put your fifty something body in much better shape.
From the Military.com website
If you have a good insurance company, it is easy to get a little lazy about your insurance policies. They renew each year, and maybe you call to update information when you move, but generally it is easy to forget about them. I’m here to encourage you to take a little time to make sure that you have the coverage that you need, and that your policies are based on the right information. This includes auto, homeowners, renters, umbrella, and any other type of insurance you may carry.
I can’t speak to all insurance companies, but I use USAA and it was relatively quick and easy to do online. I was surprised to see that there were quite a few little things that were listed incorrectly in my policies, such as the age of the roof on one house, and security system information for a different house.
A few hours after dark one evening earlier this month, a small quadcopter drone lifted off from the parking lot of Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba, Israel. It soon trained its built-in camera on its target, a desktop computer’s tiny blinking light inside a third-floor office nearby. The pinpoint flickers, emitting from the LED hard drive indicator that lights up intermittently on practically every modern Windows machine, would hardly arouse the suspicions of anyone working in the office after hours.
But in fact, that LED was silently winking out an optical stream of the computer’s secrets to the camera floating outside.
If you’re living with type 2 diabetes, your doctor has probably told you time and time again that maintaining control over your blood sugar is essential.
“Controlling blood sugar is important for two main reasons,” says Lynn Grieger, a registered dietitian and certified diabetes educator in Prescott, Arizona. “On a day-to-day basis, people just feel better when their blood sugar stays in a healthy range. Over the long term, it’s the best thing you can do to prevent complications of diabetes from occurring.” Diabetes complications include nerve damage, kidney disease, skin conditions, eye damage, high blood pressure, stroke, and more, according to the American Diabetes Association (ADA).
From the Military.com website
A recent decision by the Department of the Army Human Resources Command has made a more reservists eligible for the Post-9/11 GI Bill.
On February 10 MILPER message 17-059 was issued, stating that reservists who had certain types of active duty after September 10, 2001 may now use that time to qualify for the Post-9/11 GI Bill under 10 USC 12301(d).
From the Huffington Post website
What are the steps seniors need to take if they suspect Medicare fraud?
Medicare fraud costs taxpayers more than $60 billion every year, making it one of the most profitable crimes in America. Here’s what you should know, along with some tips for preventing, detecting and reporting it, if it happens to you.
