The members of the Hawaii Air National Guard request the honor of your presence during the 154th Wing’s Change of Command Ceremony. At this ceremony, Brigadier General Braden “Mongo” Sakai will relinquish command of the 154th Wing and Brigadier General Gregory “Woody” Woodrow will assume command.
This event will be held on Sunday, July 10, 2016 at 9 a.m. at Hangar 19 (map attached), Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam.
The members of the Hawaii Air National Guard thank you for your support of its mission and your service to the State of Hawaii.
The POC for this event is Major Jesse Park, e-mail: 154wgcss@us.af.mil, Phone: (808) 448-8101, ext. 444-6508 should you wish to attend, require base access, or have any questions.
Sincerely,
//SIGNED//
RYAN T. OKAHARA, Brig Gen, HIANG
Commander, Hawaii Air National Guard
154th Wing Change of Command invitation
Directions to Hanger 19
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Ahh okazuya. Growing up in the islands, a stop at your local Japanese-style delicatessen meant you got good marks on your report card, were going on a field trip or finally had enough quarters to purchase a super filling snack.
The build-your-own plate lunch format of okazuya meant that piece by piece, you could create the exact meal of your heart’s desire. From shiso ume musubi and kinpira gobo to shoyu hot dog and fried chicken, comfort food overflowed what in small-kid time seemed like massive platters. The earlier you went, the better the selection – and if you were lucky, they’d even ask which piece you wanted from the display.
The first time I met stress was at graduate school. I was studying chemical engineering. The only reason I’d chosen the subject was because of my love of science. But when I applied for a summer job, I found myself sizing pipes for an oil rig in Indonesia. I didn’t want to spend my life making oil rigs! The experience in that office wasn’t pleasant. In fact, I used to clock out at lunchtime for hours to avoid the boredom. And at the end of the month, my paycheck was a negative number! I’d taken so many lunch breaks, I owed the company money rather than vice versa.
When you look back on your life, is there anything you wish you could change? Most of us would say yes — and we’re not alone in that sentiment, according to a new Northwestern University study that categorized and ranked Americans’ biggest life regrets. “Regrets help illuminate mistakes we have made and allow us to learn from them,” says study co-author Mike Morrison, a graduate student in the department of psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “The sting of regret can motivate us to make positive changes in our lives.” Among the more fascinating findings: Twice as many women as men (44 percent compared to 19) reported a love- or family-related regret; men were slightly more likely than women to have career or education-related remorse.
See what else survey participants reported regretting most — and how your do-over wish list stacks up.
From the Images of Old Hawaii website
Photograph from Wikimedia Commons, taken by J JMesserly
Kamehameha Day was first proclaimed by Kamehameha V as a day to honor his grandfather, Kamehameha I.
I was curious about why June 11 was selected as the day to celebrate King Kamehameha I; I could not see the reason for the date.
Early Sunday morning the ground started to rattle in Alaska, and those who didn’t sleep through the 7.1-magnitude earthquake reacted in many different ways.
Some people ran outside of their homes, while others pressed themselves into doorways. Some people hurried down the stairs of hotels in their underwear, while others squatted under kitchen tables.
But what’s the best thing to do when you feel the floors start to sway?
Research shows that all nuts are a very healthy choice, and many new clinical studies highlight heart-related benefits of nuts. Dr. Jared Bunch highlights some nuts and their link to heart health.
Business and leisure fliers alike agree that getting stuck at the airport is seldom a pleasant experience — it can be boring, stressful and highly inconveniencing.
Many factors can impact the timeliness of a flight, like the season, airport location and holiday travel volume. An average of 15 percent of flights from U.S. airports are delayed 15 minutes or more, but some airports fall even further behind.
The team at WanderBat, a travel information site powered by the Graphiq suite of research tools, found the nation’s 85 airports where your flight is most likely to be delayed 15 minutes or more. To do this, we gathered 2015 flight data from the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics and only included airports that serve at least 5,000 flights annually.
Unsurprisingly, airports in popular cities, tourist destinations and major business hubs are prominently featured on this list, as are the airports of the East and West Coasts. In general, the size of an airport doesn’t appear to be correlated with the frequency of flight delays. It’s likely that factors such as weather patterns and geographic region have more impact on the reliability of a given airport.
Starting with the bad and moving to the worst, we’ll arrive at the most frequently delayed airport in the country.
There’s no crystal ball that can predict how long we’ll live, but there are numbers out there that can serve as a guide.
“Life expectancy is the average number of years that a group of persons in a population is expected to live,” says Elizabeth Arias, PhD, leader of the statistical analysis research team in the mortality statistics branch of the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). Estimates of life expectancy derive from national averages, and the Social Security’s online calculator is one source of that data. The NCHS, a division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is another; its researchers use population counts and death certificates to create life-expectancy tables. “Its basic information is a death rate that comes from the actual number of deaths that occur in a particular year,” explains Dr. Arias.
If you are like most people, you lead a rather stress-filled life — a life filled with demands, and little time for rest and relaxation. With little time for you, you eat fast food rather than preparing a healthy meal, you choose more coffee over getting more sleep, and you spend hours hovering over your computer or smartphone instead of being outside and enjoying nature. In response to the overload of rampant stress, your body’s inflammatory response goes into hyper-drive. Because of these high levels of inflammation, you feel dis-ease rather than ease.
Congratulations to BG Suzanne Vares Lum who was one of three Hawaii soldiers named to the Army ROTC National Hall of Fame. She will be inducted at ceremony at Fort Knox, Kentucky today. The ceremony marks the training’ program’s 100th anniversary.
From the Hawaii Adjutant General Facebook
Photographs from the 2016 29th Infantry Brigade Combat Team Memorial Ceremony. The ceremony was held on Friday, May 20, 2016 at Building 29 at Kalaeloa.
The brigade annually honors it’s Fallen Heroes, soldiers who died during the Vietnam and Middle East mobilizations.
We all know lemons are delicious, adding a citrusy kick to everything from salad dressings to cocktails. And the laundry list of health benefits is seriously impressive – not only does the fruit contain antibacterial properties that cleanse the kidneys and liver and strengthen your immune system, but it offers a hefty dose of vitamin C and antioxidants that fight free-radicals and help keep you looking younger.
What fewer people know is that lemons also have some unexpected uses. Here are seven ways the handy fruit can solve your trickiest kitchen dilemmas and help enhance your meals.
