After Mark Donham’s wife, Chris, fell under the spell of early-onset Alzheimer’s, he doubled down on his marriage vows. He quit his job as a well-paid sales representative in the printing industry and became his wife’s 24-hour caregiver: dressing her, doing laundry and scheduling social visits with friends. Faith, hope and courage became his new mantra.
As Alzheimer’s slowly progressed and Chris became frailer, their lives narrowed. To explain their painful emotional journey to friends and family, Mr. Donham, who lives in Portland, Oregon, began making videos and posting them on YouTube.
Unless you’re independently wealthy, it’s very likely that you’re worried about having enough money to last through your retirement. The most obvious problem, of course, is that the reality is many will run out of money prior to their demise unless they substantially adjust their retirement lifestyle, work longer, save more and invest wisely.
At the end of this column is a list of free calculators to help you determine some the best ways to go forward and help in your decision making.
September is Suicide Prevention Month. The campaign for this year is Be There.
Be There to help a Veteran or Service member in crisis feel less alone.
Be There to help those who are having thoughts of suicide to find critical and appropriate resources.
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Randy from our Lt. Ted Shealy’s Restoration Shop. Watch us at work in Hangar 79, our 2nd hangar. click on photograph to enlarge
Hawai‘i Air National Guard retiree Randy Lum has volunteered with the Pacific Aviation Museum for many years. Randy retired a senior master sergeant from the 154th Maintenance Group in the Weapons Branch.
Hotels are digitally dangerous places these days. And that’s not idle speculation. Security researchers have been sounding the alarm on sophisticated attacks directed at hotel users for years.
Most of the earliest reports pointed to surgical strikes on high-profile executives or representatives of government agencies, but they could prove to be precursors for more wide-ranging attacks on the general public. Modern business travelers, with their treasure troves of files and personal information, will be prime targets, and they’re also more likely to let their guard down after an exhausting journey.
The second that stroke symptoms appear, it’s a race against the clock. Every passing minute could not only increase the amount of damage to the brain, but also reduce the odds of recovery. Strokes occur in the brain, but they can affect the entire body and cause trouble with thinking, movement, and speech.
Governor David Y. Ige has appointed Edmund “Fred” Hyun as the Interim Chairman of the Hawaii Paroling Authority.
During the 2017 Legislative session, the Senate Committee on Judiciary and Labor will hold an “advise and consent” hearing to review Fred’s qualifications and take testimony from the public. A full Senate confirmation floor vote will follow the hearing.
Fred retired after many years of service in the State Department of Public Safety. After his retirement, he worked as an administrator with the City & County of Honolulu’s Liquor Commission.
Fred retired from the Air Guard after many years of service with the 293rd Combat Communications Squadron and the Hq, 201st Combat Communications Group.
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The QF-4 Phantom flew its final unmanned mission in the skies above White Sands Missile Range on August 17, 2016.
During the flight, the unmanned aircraft served its primary mission as an aerial target and was shot at by an F-35 Lightning II from Edwards Air Force Base, California.
“Our mission is to provide those airplanes as targets for our Department of Defense and foreign military sales customers to test the next generation of weapons,” said Lt. Col. Ronald King, the 82nd Aerial Targets Squadron, Detachment 1 commander. “Sometimes, that is a missile, sometimes a surface-to-air missile. For the final unmanned flight, we flew in support of an F-35 mission.”
- Swipe card.
2. Get scolded by cashier to use the chip reader.
3. Insert chip and cancel all foreseeable plans.
4. Wait.
5. Wait some more.
6. Celebrate once you hear that joyless “Remove card” sound.
Next time you experience this, I want you to remember that it’s not you. It’s the banks, credit card companies, merchants, payment processors, terminal manufacturers and many others that have created this checkout catastrophe.
But there’s a ray of hope: Your smartphone.
If you’re at all concerned about heart health, you probably have a good understanding of cholesterol and blood pressure, and likely know your numbers. But there may be another critical blood-related issue to consider — blood viscosity, or blood thickness.
According to a health report from Harvard University, people with thicker, more viscous blood may be at a greater risk for a heart attack or for developing heart disease.
Labor Day is observed the first Monday of September. It is a day to celebrate the American labor movement and the achievement of workers. It also marks the end of the summer season.
Labor Day originated by the Knights of Labor and the Central Labor Union. Oregon was the first state to make it a holiday on February 21, 1887.
In 1894, it became a federal holiday, officially celebrated by thirty states. It was approved as a national holiday following the deaths of workers from the U.S. Marshals and military during the Pullman Strike.
Robert K. Nalaielua, Jr. was born on April 13, 1942 in Wailuku, Maui, entered the gates of heaven on June 30, 2016.
After graduating from Kamehameha High School in 1960, Robert (Bob) served 26 years of military service combined between both active duty in the United States Army and the Air Force National Guard. Robert worked diligently for 42 years in various positions within the telecommunications industry finishing his working career with Verizon and TW Telecom. Robert retired and moved to Murrells Inlet, South Carolina where he enjoyed gardening and planning and taking road trips with his wife of forty years, J.R. Gilmore Nalaielua. Robert joins his dad, Robert, Sr. and Mom, Edith Nalaielua in eternal life.
He is survived by his sisters, Doreen Araujo and Joyce Nalaielua Quirch, children, Patricia Ann Puanani Nalaielua, Tracy Marie Leilani Furukawa, and Kyle Anthony Keal’i Nalaielua, step-children, David R. Griffith, Jody E. Margulies, Jack Griffith, and Col. Daniel Casey Griffith, 20 grandchildren, one great grandson, aunties and cousins throughout Honolulu.
A Celebration of Robert’s Life and inurnment will be held at Hawaiian Memorial Park Cemetery in Kaneohe, on September 10th, 2016 at 1:00 pm.
