Over the years, research has shown that tai chi and other traditional Chinese exercises—which all involve specific postures and gentle movement, combined with mental focus, breathing, and relaxation—can be good for wellbeing in a variety of ways.
Tai chi benefits (and those of similar practices) include easing back and knee pain, improving balance and stability in older adults or people with Parkinson’s disease, and improving the quality of life for cancer patients. Now you can add heart health to the list of tai chi benefits
From the Images of Old Hawaii website
Harold Melville Clark was born October 4, 1890, to Charles Asa Clark and Amanda Palmer Clark in St. Paul, Minnesota. The Clark family had a strong military tradition dating back to the Revolutionary War.
His father fought Spanish forces in the Philippines while assigned to Company E, 13th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, during the Spanish American War of 1898. Clark’s older brother, Charles, served as a field-artillery officer with the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe during World War I.
The first obvious clue might be a burnt piece of toast or a grandbaby’s dirty diaper.
You see it — and realize you should have smelled it. But you missed it, because your sense of smell that is not what it used to be. And, because the two senses are so closely related, either is your sense of taste.
It’s not just you. While declines in vision and hearing get more attention, impaired smell and taste also are common as we age. For many older people, these losses come on gradually. For others, the changes are sudden and can be downright traumatic, doctors say.
Military Retirees, Annuitants and Former Spouses –
The March 2016 Retiree Newsletter is ready for your review. It contains important information about the best way to get or replace your 1099R, Affordable Care Act IRS Forms, and Former Spouse SBP Coverage Open Season.
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Stephen Lum, Hawaii Army National Guard retiree and a member of the Department of Defense’s Public Affairs Office just completed another series on Hawaii National Guard history. This series is on Guardmembers who served in public office.
This photo gallery is in the hallway outside the Adjutant General’s office here at the State Headquarters. Each photograph includes a short biography of each Guardmember. To share Steve’s hard work, Retiree News will post a photograph each week.
This week’s photograph features Walter Frear
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Special thanks to Steve for another superb job
Move over copayments. “Coinsurance” is the new kid in town for many senior citizens.
A majority of drugs covered by stand-alone Medicare Part D prescription plans — which have nearly 25 million enrollees — now require patients to spend money out of pocket for coinsurance payments, according an analysis released Thursday.
And plans are increasingly likely to apply coinsurance requirements to even lower-priced drugs, the report by the Avalere Health consultancy found.
Mary Julia Klimenko thought she was prudent 20 years ago when she invested in a long-term care insurance policy, one she believed would help pay for the care she’d need as she aged.
Now she wishes she’d banked the money instead.
Her monthly premiums have nearly quadrupled over the past two years, and Klimenko, now 69, is furious about the choices she’s been given: pay the higher cost, lower her premiums by cutting her policy’s benefits or drop the insurance altogether.
For now, the Vallejo, California therapist said she will pay the higher premiums, but she’s not sure how many more price hikes she can take.
In the end, the FBI didn’t need Apple’s help to extract information from a dead terrorist’s iPhone. Hackers, the FBI says, did the government’s work for it.
On Monday, the Justice Department asked a judge in California to put aside a search warrant compelling Apple to assist law enforcement in obtaining information from the phone used by dead San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook. The reason: Apple’s help was no longer required.
That’s because tech companies and researchers around the world beat a path to the bureau’s door. Let us find a way into that phone that Apple won’t help you crack, they said.
It’s now possible to tour the seven galleries of the National Guard Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., from your home. Photos of the museum accompanied by narration became available last week on the website for the National Guard Educational Foundation at www.ngef.org.
The virtual tour of the museum, says Anne Armstrong, the deputy director of NGEF, fits the mission of the foundation to educate the public about the National Guard.
“It allows viewers easy and ready access for learning the history of the National Guard at their own pace and lets them concentrate on their own interests,” she says.
Many people unable to visit the nation’s capital and tour the museum in person now have an opportunity to see what is on display, Armstrong says.
Like the museum, the virtual tour follows the nearly 400-year history of the Guard from colonial days to the current efforts at home and abroad. One highlight is the ability to access the 785 names found on the museum’s Memorial Wall listing Guardsmen who have been killed battling terrorism since 9/11.
The narration was done by Staff Sgt. Frank E. Jackson II, a recruiter with the District of Columbia Army National Guard.
Going to the doctor isn’t everyone’s favorite thing in the world, but it’s important both when you are sick and for preventive care. Men, however, are much more reluctant than women to go to the doctor, whether it’s for a regular checkup or for a pressing health concern. Even men who have insurance and a primary care physician often resist using the health care system. Most preventive care services are now fully covered for insured patients, thanks to the Affordable Care Act, so cost is rarely the issue in these cases. The main source of the disconnect between men and women in this case isn’t totally clear.
Edmund “Fred” Hyun was appointed the Corrections Population Management Commission by Governor David Ige. A Senate committee reviewed his qualifications and confirmed him at a public hearing. Fred will draw on his 32 years with the State dealing with corrections to be a valuable member of the commission.
Fred continues at the Honolulu Liquor Commission as the special projects coordinator.
Fred served over 21 years with the 201st Combat Communications Group, retiring in March 1993.
What’s the biggest threat to a comfortable retirement? Ignorance. The decisions you make leading up to retirement, including how much to save, how to allocate your investments, when to take Social Security and how to anticipate your retirement expenses can make a big difference in your old age. And the decisions don’t stop on Day One of your post-career life. Once you’re in retirement, you’ll need smart strategies for taking withdrawals and investing your resources so they last as long as you do.
So how well-versed are you on this critical subject? Take this quiz to find out.
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From the Images of Old Hawaii website
In 1887, Daniel Paul Rice Isenberg (Paulo Liʻiliʻi) (son of the Paul Isenberg, one of the founders of H. Hackfeld & Co. (Amfac) and one of the organizers of the Līhuʻe Sugar plantation) invested a large part of his inheritance in the development of a 3,000-acre ranch at Waiʻalae, Oʻahu.
