House Representative and co-chairman of Connecticut's legislature tax committee have stated that Keno will be introduced as legislation in the forthcoming budget session. Co-Chairman Jeffrey Berger D-Waterbury is advocating the legalisation of Keno against opposition by other members of the legislature who feel that it would aggravate the problem of gambling addiction in the state.
Neighbouring states Massachusetts, New York and tiny Rhode Island also has legalised Keno and in Connecticut it is available in only two casinos. The revenues obtained from this form of gaming could help reduce the deficit in state budget but arguments about the legislation are strong on both sides.
The revenues from Keno could help balance the state budget by a large margin. So several Republican legislators are trying hard to convince opposition members about the advantages of this game form. Legislatures like Joseph Arezimowicz who is a Democrat from Berlin and Co.Chairman Berger are looking forward to a consensus among members of legislature to allow Keno which will conclude the budget on a peaceful note. Proposal for Keno has been put forward by the Democrats who control the tax committee but are being opposed by the Republicans who regarded it as only a stopgap arrangement that will not solve the problem.
Republican legislatures state that with controlled expenditure and sustainable welfare spending the state budget can be managed without adding gambling revenue which is going to create more gamblers. When government proposed taxes then lobbyists from Connecticut Business and Industry requested for blocking them which has reduced the government's revenue sources. Though the local government has been debating introduction of Keno for several years now but the strong arguments against it has managed to keep the game out legislation. Keno's spokesperson stated that Keno is the most transparent of all gambling games which uses simple techniques to play and compensate the winners.


The United States has its own unique social and cultural characteristics such as dialect, music, arts, social habits, cuisine and folklore. With its history of mass immigration dating from the 17th century, The United States is a "melting pot" of cultures from around the world and plays a dominant role in the world's cultural landscape. It is primarily Western, but is influenced by African, Native American, Asian, Polynesian, and Latin American cultures. Many American cultural elements, especially from popular culture, have spread across the globe through modern mass media.
American literature and theater is renowned worldwide. The first internationally popular writers were James Fenimore Cooper and Washington Irving in the early nineteenth century. Mark Twain, Henry James, and poet Walt Whitman were major figures in the century's second half. Eleven U. S. citizens have won the Nobel Prize in Literature, including John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, Pearl S. Buck, T. S. Eliot and Sinclair Lewis. Ernest Hemingway, the 1954 Nobel laureate, is often named as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. Eugene O'Neill considered by many to be the father of American drama. O'Neill is a four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for drama and the only American playwright to win the Nobel Prize for literature. The United States is also the home and largest exporter of modern musical theater, producing such musical talents as Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, George and Ira Gershwin, Kander and Ebb, and Stephen Sondheim.
Another very important aspect is that the US science and technology. Most of the new technological innovations over the 20th and 21st centuries were either first invented in the United States and/or first widely adopted by Americans. Examples include the lightbulb, the airplane, the transistor, the atomic bomb, nuclear power, the personal computer, the iPod, video games and online shopping, as well as the development of the Internet. Of course, you must have heard these names, such as Robert Fulton, Samuel Morse, Thomas Edison and a large number of Jewish scientists fled Germany and immigrated to the country, one of them is Albert Einstein.


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Q: Naming dict keys for fast lookup in python I'm going to have 1 small dictionary (between 5 and 20 keys) that will be referenced up to a hundred times or so for one page load in python 2.5.
I'm starting to name the keys which it will be looking up and I was wondering if there is a key naming convention I could follow to help dict lookup times.

A: I had to test ;-)
using

*

*f1, integer key 1

*f2  short string,  "one"

*f3  long string "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"
as one of the keys into a dictionary of length 4. Iterating 10,000,000 times and measuring the times. I get this result:
<function f1 at 0xb779187c>
f1 3.64
<function f2 at 0xb7791bfc>
f2 3.48
<function f3 at 0xb7791bc4>
f3 3.65

I.e no difference...
My code

A: There may be sensible names for them that just so happen to produce names whose hashes aren't clashing. However, CPython dicts are already one of the most optimized data structures in the known universe, producing few collisions for most inputs, working well with the hash schemes of other builtin types, resolving clashes very fast, etc. It's extremely unlikely you'll see any benefit at all even if you found something, especially since a hundred lookups aren't really that many.
Take, for example, this timeit benchmark run on my 4 years old desktop machine (sporting a laughablely low-budget dual core CPU with 3.1 GHz):
...>python -mtimeit --setup="d = {chr(i)*100: i for i in range(15)};\
k = chr(7)*100" "d[k]"

1000000 loops, best of 3: 0.222 usec per loop

And those strings are a dozen times larger than everything that's remotely sensible to type out manually as a variable name. Cutting down the length from 100 to 10 leads to 0.0778 microseconds per lookup. Now measure your page's load speed and compare those (alternatively, just ponder how long the work you're actually doing when building the page will take); and take into account caching, framework overhead, and all these things.
Nothing you do in this regard can make a difference performance-wise, period, full stop.

A: Because the Python string hash function iterates over the chars (at least if this is still applicable), I'd opt for short strings.

A: To add another aspect:
for very small dictionaries and heavy timing constraints, the time to compute hashes might be a substancial fraction of the overall time. Therefore, for (say) 5 elements, it might be faster to use an array and a sequential search (of course, wrapped up into some MiniDictionary object), maybe even augmented by a binary search. This might find the element with 2-3 comparisons, which may or may not be faster than hash-computation plus one compare.
The break-even depends on the hash speed, the average number of elements and the number of hash collisions to expect, so some measurements is required, and there is no "one-size-fits-all" answer.

A: Python dictionaries have a fast path for string keys, so use these (rather than, say, tuples). The hash value of a string is cached in that string, so it's more important that the strings remain the same ones than their actual value; string constants (i.e., strings that appear verbatim in the program and are not the result of a calculation) always remain exactly the same, so as long as you use those, there's no need to worry.

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For interactive programs it might be useful to offer a selection of the used language at runtime. To understand how to do this one need to know how the used language is determined while executing the gettext function. The method which is presented here only works correctly with the GNU implementation of the gettext functions.
Afterwards the path is constructed using the found value and the translation file is loaded if available.
What happens now when the value for, say, LANGUAGE changes? According to the process explained above the new value of this variable is found as soon as the dcgettext function is called. But this also means the (perhaps) different message catalog file is loaded. In other words: the used language is changed.
But there is one little hook. The code for gcc-2.7.0 and up provides some optimization. This optimization normally prevents the calling of the dcgettext function as long as no new catalog is loaded. But if dcgettext is not called the program also cannot find the LANGUAGE variable be changed (see section 10.2.7 Optimization of the *gettext functions). A solution for this is very easy. Include the following code in the language switching function.
The variable _nl_msg_cat_cntr is defined in `loadmsgcat.c'. You don't need to know what this is for. But it can be used to detect whether a gettext implementation is GNU gettext and not non-GNU system's native gettext implementation.


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SSRI Ed note: Teen overdoses on antidepressant meds, paramedics are summoned to save her.
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11:17 PM PST on Saturday, December 24, 2005
By DAN LEE / The Press-Enterprise
Teams will administer advanced life support
MORENO VALLEY – The call came into Sunnymead Fire Station 2: a teenage girl had overdosed on antidepressant medication in her home and appeared to be comatose.
Engine Co. 2 arrived at the home within minutes, and a paramedic gave the girl Narcan, a medication to reverse the effects of the drugs.
Paramedics are a new phenomenon at Moreno Valley fire stations. Earlier this month, the Fire Department converted 18 positions to 16 firefighter-paramedics positions and two firefighter-engineers positions that will staff Moreno Valley's six fire stations, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
"That was one of the first calls we had," Capt. Chris Kemp said of the overdose incident.
The Moreno Valley City Council authorized the addition of paramedic services when it approved the city's $210 million, 2005-06 budget earlier this year. Councilman Bill Batey, a Riverside fire captain, said it was not good for firefighters to respond to an emergency and be unable to save lives because they didn't have a paramedic.
"It greatly expanded their capability," Batey said. "It'll be real good for the city to have that extra step."
Previously, firefighters could only offer basic life support: bandaging wounds, splinting broken bones, administering oxygen and cardiopulmonary resuscitation. But paramedics can provide advanced life support to patients more quickly, such as administering medications through intravenous lines.
"Advanced life support is any invasive procedure, whether it's breaking the skin, using an endotracheal tube or a defibrillator," Paramedic Dan Treiman said during an interview at Station 2.
American Medical Response ambulances have paramedics, but Batey and other city officials were concerned, because the ambulances aren't always able to get to an emergency as quickly as firefighters. AMR has only thee ambulance units in Moreno Valley, and they are often out on other calls, or driving out to the hospital, Battalion Chief Steve Curley said.
He said it was not unusual for it to take ambulances 20 minutes to arrive at the scene of an incident.
In contrast, Moreno Valley has six stations, and firefighters have set a goal of responding to 90 percent of their calls within five minutes, Curley said.
Paramedic candidates must first get training as emergency medical technicians. Then they must pass a pretest to get accepted to the paramedic program, which involves 10 months of training, including two months in a clinical setting and two months in the field.
The annual cost to upgrade the 18 positions to paramedics is $274,654 in salary and benefits and $30,000 in ongoing operating expenses, Curley said. An additional $238,000 was spent to purchase equipment to start the program, including cardiac monitors and defibrillators, he said.
The Fire Department averages about 30 medical-aid calls a day, but it isn't clear how many of those require paramedic services, Curley said.
Since the program started, paramedics have answered calls ranging from an unconscious diabetic man whose blood-sugar levels were too low, to another man whose blood pressure dropped after an allergic reaction to bee stings, paramedic Greg Petersen said.
As the paramedics were speaking, they got an emergency call: a man was sick in the parking lot of the McDonald's restaurant around the corner. Treiman, fellow firefighter-paramedic Jeff Nimisiriruengphol and a firefighter scrambled into their fire engine and roared off with lights flashing and sirens wailing to respond to the call.
It turned out that the stricken man was not suffering from any kind of gastronomical distress: rather, his pulse was racing at 208 beats a minute, far above the normal 60 to 100 beats, Treiman said later. The paramedics were able to treat the man and get his pulse down to 112 beats a minute before an ambulance transported him to a hospital, he said.
Batey said he hopes residents don't have a crisis that requires emergency medical assistance.
"But if they do," he said, "it's nice to know they have paramedics on hand to help."
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Full online promotion income in Nigeria has been projected to develop from $73 million in 2018 to $133 million in 2023. Online advertising and marketing, also termed on the net advertising or on the web advertising or website marketing, is a form of marketing and promotion, which works by using the Internet to provide marketing marketing and advertising messages to consumers. It features email internet marketing, lookup engine advertising (SEM), social media internet marketing, several sorts of exhibit promoting (including net banner promotion) and mobile advertising and marketing.
Like other promoting media Online marketing usually consists of both a publisher, who integrates adverts into its on line content material and an advertiser, who provides the advertisements to be exhibited on the publisher's material. In a chat with New Telegraph, the CEO, AF Dynamo, a digital promotion firm, Sean Riley, explained the on line promotion market place in Nigeria has noticed an unprecedented progress between 2015 and 2018, stating that by 2023, on line advertising is forecast to make $133 million in profits.
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The rise of social media apps like TikTok, Instagram and Facebook (Now Meta) is becoming leisure hotspots for millennial, turning a lot more people today to social media influencers and building them important to Nigeria's advertising and marketing marketplace. Riley stated: "Advertising is turning into more information and technologyfocused, with advertisers doing the job to integrate some form of synthetic intelligence or device learning into the blend. "Over the earlier few years, Nigeria has observed major increases in world-wide-web obtain and exercise and that growth will come with the opportunity for a lively digital advertising and marketing ecosystem.
"A Federal Communications commissioner is contacting on Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their application retailers more than issues that person data from the wildly common social media system is staying accessed in China." He stated there was want for worldwide enabler of electronic promotion, serving as a essential website link at the core of the worldwide digital ecosystem by connecting the greatest electronic platforms with thousands of advertisers and billions of buyers in rising and underserved nations.
He added that the the digital media corporation had to enrich what it is carrying out in Nigeria and its options for the in the vicinity of upcoming as perfectly as the comparative pros it gives in the nearby digital advertising landscape. According to him, his business, Advertisement Dynamo by Aleph, has industrial and, in numerous situations, unique agreements with over 30 of the primary digital platforms, including: Twitter, Meta, LinkedIn, Snapchat, TikTok, Spotify and Twitch. "Through these relationships, the firm offers digital platforms with a sustainable and scalable way to monetise their advertising stock in rising international locations at small supplemental expense and complexity. "They combine these associations with an comprehensive world wide footprint and an endto- conclude digital advertising and marketing resolution that allows advertisers in 90 nations around the world to achieve shut to a few billion people and maximise their digital promotion opportunity," he claimed.
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This is fantastic. I am floored. I cannot begin to express how much I love this. C-ville.com has produced a New York Times 'Snowfall' style local investigative piece covering a contentious local battle over a road project in central Virginia around Charlottesville. This got my attention because I frequently drive this route to go home and visit family and hate driving through this section of Charlottesville on 29 due to how much it slows me down (stoplights, congested traffic, etc). I had no idea that there was a 30 year old issue surrounding this section of road, a proposal to make a bypass around it and huge local political fight over it.
Late on the night of Wednesday, June 8, 2011, a few prominent Albemarle County real estate developers and other vocal supporters of the long-stalled plan to build a Route 29 bypass around Charlottesville strolled into Lane Auditorium at the tail end of a marathon meeting of the Board of Supervisors…. I would love to credit whomever reported on this and developed the story from a code sense. C-ville just credits its writers so it looks as if their whole news division contributed. Shockingly well produced.


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Faiditus xiphias est une espèce d'araignées aranéomorphes de la famille des Theridiidae.

Distribution
Cette espèce se rencontre en Asie du Sud-Est, en Chine à Hainan et au Fujian, à Taïwan et au Japon.

Publication originale
 Thorell, 1887 : Viaggio di L. Fea in Birmania e regioni vicine. II. Primo saggio sui ragni birmani. Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova, ,  (texte intégral).

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Theridiidae
Espèce d'araignées (nom scientifique)

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Meet Whitbread's management Board, including the Executive Committee.
Established in 1742, Whitbread is one of the UK's oldest and well-respected companies. In 2001, Whitbread sold its breweries and pubs to focus on hotels and restaurants.
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The Honorable Vanessa D. Gilmore
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About The Honorable Vanessa D. Gilmore
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United States District Judge Vanessa Gilmore was born in October of 1956 in St. Albans, New York. In 1977, Gilmore received her B.A. degree in textiles and marketing from Hampton University, and in 1981, she earned her J.D. degree from the University of Houston Law Center.
Upon graduation, Gilmore began a thirteen-year career at the Houston law firm of Vickery, Kilbride, Gilmore & Vickery, where she specialized in civil litigation. In 1984, she was also hired as an adjunct professor at the University of Houston College of Law. Under Texas Governor Ann Richards, Gilmore became the first African American to be appointed to the Texas Department of Commerce Policy Board. She served as chairperson of that board until 1994, when President Bill Clinton appointed her as a federal judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas. At the time, Gilmore was the youngest sitting federal judge in the United States. In 2005, she presided over the high-profile Enron Broadband trial.
In 2008, Gilmore published her first book, A Boy Named Rocky: A Coloring Book for the Children of Incarcerated Parents, and has become a frequent speaker on issues related to these children and their families. In 2010, she released You Can't Make This Up: Tales from a Judicial Diva, a humorous look at her life on and off the bench. Her next book, a fiction novel entitled Saving The Dream, was published in 2012. In 2014, she released Lynn's Angels: The True Story of E. Lynn Harris and the Women Who Loved Him.
Gilmore is a sought after lecturer and speaker and has published noteworthy opinions on patients' rights, the first amendment and copyright and patent law. She has served on the boards and advisory boards of a number of charitable organizations including the Houston Zoo, San Jacinto Girl Scouts, Spaulding for Children and Habitat for Humanity. Gilmore also serves on the board of trustees for Hampton University and on the board of Inprint, a literary arts organization. She is the recipient of numerous civic awards for community service and is a member of the Links, Inc. and Jack & Jill of America, Houston Chapter.
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An elegant power yacht preceeds us into Magdalena Bay.
It is simple living at the fish camp.
Just steps from the water, life is lived close to nature.
Concrete pilons from an ancient jetty.
Gulls line the shore at Belcher Point.
We found shells of all shapes and sizes on the beach.
Friends come to join us ashore.
A peaceful view out into Magdalena Bay.
Closed up on the defensive, a rock.
Opened in offense, watch out!
Several pangas rafted up along the beach for a lunch break.
A thick bank of fog surrounded us as we crept out of the bay.
resembled glaciers in the distance.
water as the shoreline slipped away to the east.
Cabo adventures still lie ahead on the southern horizon.
together by a multiply looped line.
Francisco Bay, and it is teeming with fish and fishermen.
hanging out on clothes lines.
The fishing must be excellent.
pelicans seemed well fed and content.
important area for grey whale calving.
other ruins along the beach.
intact and separated into vertebral discs.
bodies across the sand and the powerful odor.
and then open themselves to reveal their claws.
circled the group looking for scraps.
Further down on the beach we found a shrine for a deceased loved one.
overlooked the bay and the beach.
Bay to Cabo San Lucas.
bank into warm dry sunshine and limitless visibility.
quickly it was just a brief encounter, but what magic.
that came to visit were totally intent on landing on our mast.
a few tries they both gave up and flew off.
deck as much as it thrilled us.
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After escaping from Hell, Judy has been trapped on Earth and thoroughly enjoying every minute of it. Unfortunately the starting Apocalypse threatens to ruin it all. Fighting with her bladed chain and making deadly use of her demonic powers, she's the perfect yang for Harry's yin.
A disgraced soldier of Heaven, Harry loses his wings and finds himself on Earth fighting for the fate of the World. Wearing his distaste for humanity on his sleeve, he'll carve a path of destruction with his sword to save everyone... even if he has to kill them first.


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Q: Can second rank antisymmetric tensors be constructed from vectors using tensor product? My background is in physics. I am motivated to understand tensor behind "a tensor is something that transforms like a tensor." My understanding of a tensor in that a second rank tensor is an elements of $V\otimes V$. I very basic understanding of multilinear maps, but have no understanding of exterior products.
My initial assumption was that if a tensor, T, is an element of $V\otimes V$, there must exist some $\vec{v}, \vec{w} \in V s.t. T=\vec{v} \otimes \vec{w}$. This clearly cannot hold for antisymmetric tensors or a "null" tensor where all the elements are zero. I am not wondering how it is possible to construct an antisymmetric tensor (or, for that matter, other tensors with zero elements) from a set of vectors in V. If so how? (Someone suggested linear combination)?

A: Here is what I think you are asking: is every antisymmetric tensor of the form $v \wedge w$?  The answer is no, just as not every tensor in $V \otimes V$ is of the form $v \otimes w$ (when $\dim V \geq 2$).
Example: let $V$ be a $4$-dimensional vector space with basis $e_1, e_2, e_3, e_4$. In $\Lambda^2(V)$, which is 4-dimensional with
basis $e_i \wedge e_j$ for $i < j$, the sum $\omega := e_1 \wedge e_2 + e_3 \wedge e_4$ does not have the form $v \wedge w$ for some $v$ and $w$ in $V$.
To prove that, we describe a property that all $v \wedge w$ have but $\omega$ does not have: under the bilinear mapping $\Lambda^2(V) \times \Lambda^2(V) \to \Lambda^4(V)$ where $(v \wedge w, v' \wedge w') \mapsto v \wedge w \wedge v' \wedge w'$ on pairs of elementary wedge products in $\Lambda^2(V)$, we have $(v \wedge w, v\wedge w) \mapsto v \wedge w \wedge v \wedge w = 0$. However,
$$
(\omega, \omega) \mapsto \omega \wedge \omega = (e_1 \wedge e_2 + e_3\wedge e_4) \wedge (e_1 \wedge e_2 + e_3\wedge e_4) = 2 e_1 \wedge e_2 \wedge e_3 \wedge e_4,
$$
which is not $0$. Therefore $\omega$ is not of the form $v \wedge w$ for some $v$ and $w$ in $V$.


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AMVETS Hawaii mission is to provide advocacy, support and assistance for all who served honorably in the United States Armed Forces: past, present and future veterans and their families; To inform, influence and inspire others to serve in our military and civilian communities; and To especially honor and never forget not only our World War II veterans who died at Pearl Harbor and Ewa Field, but also those many more who died in sea battles, distance coral atolls - Coral Sea, Midway, Wake- their names often never recognized or mentioned for their sacrifices.
Honoring the Past, Inspiring the Future
- Preserve and Honor: Remembering the legacy of those who came before us
- Educate and Inspire: Passing the legacy on to the generations who will follow
It is our duty and our solemn vow to never forget those who fought and died. Let us always honor the brave men of the USS Arizona with this memorial so they may rest in peace among the waves and know they will never be forgotten.
President Lincoln said that speeches and statues are not an adequate repayment for service in defense of one's country. One day of remembrance is simply not enough for what these veterans did 73 years ago. For we are able to choose freedom today because of the bravery of those men and women whose fate, on that day, had been chosen for them.
About AMVETS
AMVETS (American Veterans) is the nation's most inclusive Congressionally-chartered veterans service organization, representing the interests of 20 million veterans. AMVETS is open to and fighting for all who honorably served in the United States military, including the Reserve and Guard. With more than 250,00 members nationwide, we are veterans serving veterans.
AMVETS NATIONAL MISSION STATEMENT: To enhance and safeguard the entitlements for all American Veterans who have served honorably and to improve the quality of life for them, their families, and the communities where they live through leadership, advocacy and services.
AMVETS has been proudly serving American veterans for more than half a century. Founded by World War II veterans, the organization has grown to where, today, its membership enrolls veterans from all areas, Anyone who has honorably served in the United States Armed Forces after Sept. 15, 1940, to include those on active duty as well as in the Reserve Components. The purpose and goals of AMVETS, as spelled out in the organization's 1947 congressional charter, still ring true today. Among these aims are:
To preserve for ourselves and our posterity the great and basic truths and enduring principles upon which this nation was founded.
To maintain a continuing interest in the welfare and rehabilitation of disabled veterans and to establish facilities for the assistance of all veterans, to represent them in their claims before VA and other organizations.
To dedicate ourselves to the service and best interests of the community, state and nation to the end that our country shall be and remain forever a strong and free nation.
To encourage universal exercise of the voting franchise to the end that there shall be elected and maintained in public office men and women who hold such office as a public trust administered in the best interests of all people.
To advocate the development and means by which all Americans may become enlightened and informed citizens and this participate fully in the functions of democracy.
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American Veterans "AmVets" Hawaii is a 501(c)(19) non-profit, ALL volunteer Veterans Service Organization (VSO).
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A Brief History of Barbers Point
Barbers Point was named for Henry Barber, master of Arthur, a 100-foot British brigantine that ran aground on the point of Oahu during a storm in 1796. The Barbers Point tale first emerged from vintage Pacific lore, when a vicious tropical depression battered the southwest coastline of Oahu. Captain Henry Barber, determined to get underway despite the storm, hoisted anchor on his 100-foot brig Arthur on October 31, 1796. All other captains held their ships in port while Arthur was deluged by wind, rain and pounding surf. The ship went down taking with it all but six crewmembers and its captain. The seven survivors struggled ashore near a tract of land referred to by native Hawaiians as "Kalaeloa" (long cape or headland), a legendary birthplace of Hawaiian Kings. Kalaeloa later became known as Barbers Point. In the early 1930's, the Navy leased a 3,000 square foot piece of land from the estate of James Campbell. This tract was to be used as a mooring location for the dirigible, Akron. During the 1930s the Navy leased a section of the James Campbell estate, building a 1,500-foot outlying field (OLF) near the mooring mast that had been erected for use by US Navy airships, none of which ever cruised to Hawaii. Once the original lease expired, in September 1940 an additional 3,500 acres were acquired from the Campbell estate for the enlargement of the OLF, which became Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Ewa. The site, chosen for its ideal peacetime air training atmosphere, was completed in early 1941. Concurrently with the groundbreaking, plans were already being developed for an expansion of naval aviation facilities at Barbers Point. Construction of an airfield west of Ewa began in November 1941, but was temporarily suspended after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor so that construction crews could rapidly complete Ewa. Base construction was well underway by Dec. 7, 1941, when the Japanese attacked US forces in Hawaii, marking the United States' entrance into World War II. Although much of the attack was concentrated at Pearl Harbor, Wheeler Air Force Base and Hickam Field, the Ewa Marine Corps Air Station (and its supporting equipment) sustained a great deal of damage. The Pearl Harbor attack, along with the increasing need for additional facilities to train pilots, led to an extensive construction project. Barbers Point--originally intended as an OLF for NAS Ford Island in Pearl Harbor--was still not complete when it was established as a naval air station on 15 April 1942 with 14 officers and 242 enlisted personnel. The new air station quickly became a hub of aviation activity as the Navy amassed forces in Hawaii to carry the war across the Pacific. Base operations centered on working up carrier air groups and squadrons for deployment to combat operations farther west. Carrier Air Service Unit 2 was assigned to the station to support the hosted squadrons. In addition to Naval aviation squadrons, NAS Barbers Point hosts the Coast Guard, which has been part of the station as a Coast Guard Air Facility since 1949. The facility was designated Coast Guard Air Station Barbers Point in 1965 and is the only Coast Guard aviation unit located in the 14th Coast Guard District. Their C-130 Hercules aircraft and H-65 Dolphin helicopters perform search and rescue missions within the central Pacific maritime region. Aircraft also conduct water pollution patrols in the Hawaiian Islands.
NAS Barbers Point in 1958
NAS Barbers Point, Administrative Office Building
Barbers Point NAS, MCA Station Ewa Aircraft Revetment
Naval Air Station Barbers Point, Theater,
Naval Air Station Barbers Point, Maintenance Hangar
Barbers Point Lighthouse
Oahu Hawaii 1952
ORION Aircraft
The Navy's last naval air station in the Hawaiian Islands was disestablished during a 01 July 1999 ceremony, closing out 57 years of service. NAS Barbers Point--"Crossroads of the Pacific"--carved out of brush and coral on the leeward side of Oahu early in WW II, was turned over to the state of Hawaii. With more than 3,800 acres and up to 6,500 military, family members and civilian employees, Naval Air Station (NAS) Barbers Point served as the largest naval air station in the Pacific theater. Barbers Point provided homeport services for numerous naval and defense organizations, including maritime surveillance and anti-submarine warfare aircraft squadrons, a US Coast Guard Air Station, Defense Investigative Service, Defense Reutilization and Marketing Office (DRMO), a Hawaii Air National Guard (297th Air Traffic Control Squadron) air traffic control facility, Fleet Imaging Facility and Commander, Patrol Wings, US Pacific Fleet.
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Where can I find information on your wedding and event favors? For pricing, quantities and label choices please visit our Wedding and Event page.
Can I order less than the required minimums? Yes, but keep in mind that the prices you see are for those minimums. Orders placed for less than our minimums will be subject to a higher price, depending on your final quantity. You can email us at info@leahspralines.com to discuss quantity and pricing.
When should I order my favors? You can place an order for wedding and event favors at any time as long as it is at least 2-3 weeks before your desired pickup or shipping date. The reason we ask for 2-3 weeks notice is so we can adequately plan our production schedule. Weddings typically happen during particular times and event days in the year, and to ensure we deliver the best product possible to you, we need to keep it within a workable schedule. So get those orders in early to avoid missing out or incurring a rush charge.
How do I order favors? Orders for wedding and event favors are only taken over the phone or in our store. Please call 504.523.5662, Monday - Sunday from 10am-5pm CST. If you're not ready to order but have some questions, and can't find the answer here, you can email us at info@leahspraines.com. Orders cannot be taken via email. If you'd like to sample the candy, you are always welcome to visit us at 714 St. Louis Street in the French Quarter during our normal business hours, and orders can be taken in person as well.
I missed the 2 week deadline to order, is it too late? Possibly not, we often make exceptions. Please be aware that orders placed with less than 14 days notice may be subject to a $40 rush fee. Orders placed with even less notice may incur additional charges. If you are concerned about incurring a rush fee or late fee, please call us and we will let you know if a fee will be applied to your order.
My event is not in New Orleans, do you ship Wedding and Event favors? Yes, we currently only ship pralettes and creamy pralines favors. We cannot ship the regular sized traditional praline because they do not ship well at large quantities. We do suggest expedited shipping be arranged in some cases. Some instances include orders for creamy pralines shipped in the summer months, to avoid softening and damage.
I placed my order months ago, but my guest list has changed, and the wedding is a few weeks away, what can I do? We do ask for adequate notice when changes need to be made to your order. If your order is for unlabelled favors, 10 business days notice is adequate notice to make increases or decreases to your order. Orders that have labels included, are harder to change. While we do not make the candy until 24-48 hours before your pickup/shipping date, we do make the labels anywhere from 1-4 weeks before your event depending on when you placed your order. If you need to decrease the order and your labels have been made you will be required to pay for the unused labels - which will be provided to you. If changes are requested the week of your event, it may not be possible, but we will do our best to accommodate you.
When will my favor order be made? All orders, regardless of when the order is placed are made within 24-48 hours or your requested pick or shipping date. We do not make the candy when you place your order or hold candy from when you place the order. All orders are always fresh when you receive them.
Can I change the colors of your label choices? Yes, of course! You will find a selection of colors we've devised based on wedding popularity. You can choose just about any of our label designs with any of our color choices. If you have a color that you do not see among our choices, please email us a swatch or sample and we will do our best to match that color. We recommend when choosing the background and text color, that there is enough contrast between the two. All of our color choices with the exception of white look best with white text and imagery.
Can you make a label with artwork that I provide? Absolutely! If you have a wedding logo or design we can print it as long as the artwork is a high-res pdf, jpeg or tiff file. Email us info@leahspralines.com to discuss what you are looking for.
What is the shelf life and best way to store your pralines? We would like our pralines to be enjoyed within 2-3 weeks from receipt, for optimum flavor. The best way to store them is in an airtight container.
Why are there white spots on my pralines? The white spots are a natural process called crystallization. Because our pralines are made with NO preservatives, the white spots occur over time as the cooked sugar returns to its original crystal form. The process begins as soon as the candy leaves the pot, and does not affect flavor. For optimum flavor please enjoy your pralines within 2-3 weeks or purchase.
What forms of payment do you accept? We accept Visa, MasterCard, and American Express. We also accept Paypal when you order online.
Does Leah's Pralines charge sales tax on shipped orders? Out of state shipments are not subject to taxation.
What shipping carrier do you use? We use UPS to ship all of our mail orders.
How long will my order take to arrive? When you order, choose between UPS Ground or UPS 3 Day Select. UPS Ground should take 3-5 business days depending on the distance in transit.
What if I need my order by a specific date? Please make a note of when your order needs to be received at its destination in the order comments section of the checkout process. We will do every we can do ensure it is delivered by that date.
How can I track my order? After you place your order you will receive an order confirmation email. Once the package is picked up by UPS and scanned in, you should receive an email with the tracking information.
Shipping to more than one address? Unfortunately at this time online orders must be made separately when sending different items to different addresses. If you want to send items to multiple addresses, you can always call us at the store and place your order over the phone.


How Long will it take to start a new trucking company?
We strongly recommend every trucker have a Federal ID Number. If you don't have one, that needs to be done before we can begin the process.
Day 1) Start process for FMCSA Authority. Get MC Number and US DOT Number. Start application for IFTA fuel permits and IF we need to do Tag registration start that as well.
Day 2) Send information off to get the proper Insurance filed with FMCSA and any state that may require a filing. Apply for Process agents to go with MC Number. Put checks with any applications that need to be mailed and get them mailed.
Day 10) Verify that insurance is on file and that checks have been cashed by the states we sent to for permits.
Day 15) If everything went just picture perfect, we will be notified that the FMCSA Authority has been granted and we can now apply for and get the Unified Carrier Registration. The IFTA fuel permits should have already come back and been applied to the truck, the tag will be on the truck. The truck will have been lettered and this Trucking Company is ready to get to work!
If you need further assistance starting a new trucking company, please contact Truckers Accounting and Permitting Service, Inc. at 800-553-8277.
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