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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Carlos Santana and the Santana Band have announced that they will kick off 2013 with a series of January and February dates performing An Intimate Evening with Santana: Greatest Hits Live--Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow at the House of Blues at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. The first show is scheduled for January 19, and tickets are on sale now. Santana began a two-year residency at the venue last year. Additional dates have been announced...
HONOLULU, Jan. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Hawaiian Airlines today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with airframe manufacturer Airbus to acquire 16 new A321neo aircraft between 2017 and 2020, with rights to purchase an additional nine aircraft. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130107/LA37625) (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20040827/LAF044LOGO) The long-range, single-aisle aircraft will complement Hawaiian's existing fleet of wide-body,...
HONOLULU, Jan. 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Alexander & Baldwin, Inc. (NYSE:ALEX) announced that as of today, its joint venture, Kewalo Development LLC, has pre-sold 274 units at its 341-unit Waihonua high-rise development located in urban Honolulu, near Ala Moana Center. Of those contracts, 259 are binding, well exceeding the presales requirements for drawing on the project's $120 million construction loan. Financing is provided by a consortium of lenders led by First Hawaiian...
HONOLULU, Dec. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- For the first time, Hawaiian Airlines will offer twice-daily nonstop service between Los Angeles and Maui to answer growing demand during next summer's peak travel period. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20040827/LAF044LOGO) Hawaiian is adding 34,000 air seats to Maui's travel market over 10 weeks of service. The summer flights answer the popular call for a 'Magic Isle' vacation by southern California travelers. They also capitalize...
SINGAPORE, Dec. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Mariana Express Lines Limited (MELL), a regional ocean container carrier offering service between islands in the Pacific Ocean and Asia and Australia, today announced it will launch a U.S. West Coast service to select Micronesia locations commencing on December 15th. The carrier's new Micronesia Express service will offer weekly departures from Los Angeles, Oakland and Tacoma to the Pacific islands of Majuro, Pohnpei, Chuuk, Yap,...
HONOLULU, Dec. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Blue Startups, a new technology accelerator with an Asia Pacific focus, is accepting applications for its first cohort of startup companies. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121212/LA28065LOGO-a) (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121212/LA28065-b) Blue Startups is recruiting capital-efficient and scalable-technology companies, including Internet, software, mobile, gaming and e-commerce. Blue Startups, part of the Global...
HONOLULU, Dec. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A partnership of public agencies and non-profit organizations today announced the purchase of more than 1,700 acres of land from the estate of George Galbraith on Oahu, protecting it for farming rather than development. The land, near Wahiawa northwest of Honolulu, has been fallow since 2004, when Del Monte ceased growing pineapple there. George Galbraith, a native of Ireland, moved to Hawaii in the late 1800s, and died in 1904....
HONOLULU, Dec. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Starting today, Hawaii residents are invited to vote for their favorite design that best represents the unique culture of the Aloha State in Alaska Airlines' "Paint the Plane" contest. The public can visit www.alaskaair.com/hawaii until Dec. 18 to cast their vote, which will help Alaska Airlines determine the winner of the statewide contest. A panel of 10 judges representing Hawaii's government, community, arts, education and tourism leaders...
HONOLULU, Dec. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Hawaiian Airlines, Inc., a subsidiary of Hawaiian Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: HA), today announced its systemwide traffic statistics for the month of November and year-to-date. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20040827/LAF044LOGO) Systemwide Operations NOVEMBER 2012 2011 % Change -------- ---- ---- -------- PAX...
HONOLULU, Dec. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Hawaiian Airlines today announced plans to launch nonstop service between Taipei, Taiwan and Honolulu in July 2013, further extending the airline's strategic expansion into Asia. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121203/LA22401) (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20040827/LAF044LOGO) The new service, which would operate three times a week, capitalizes on the extension of the U.S. Visa Waiver Program to cover citizens of...
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Charles Lacy Veach served as a United States Air Force fighter pilot for over 14 years before being selected as a NASA Astronaut in 1984. Veach served as an astronaut until his passing from cancer on October 3, 1995 in Houston, Texas. “Lacy” Veach was born in Chicago, Illinois and with his family moved to Honolulu, Hawaii. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Marshall E. Veach, still reside in Honolulu. Veach graduated from Punahou School in 1962 and went forward in his academics to the United...
Honolulu is located in the Pacific Ocean and has a mostly marine time climate. Honolulu has a pretty consistent temperature average from month to month. This is a look at the La-Nina impacts on the local area. January 2010: For the month of January it is typical to see average high temps in the 80’s while overnight lows drop into the 70’s. During the El-Nino event January temps were 60% of the month at the normal, while 40% of the month was marked with above temps and 0% of the month...
If you live Honolulu Hawaii or the surrounding low elevation area’s this is what you can roughly expect to see with impacts of the three features below when it comes to your heating and cooling budget. The above graph shows the situations that occurred during previous phases of all three events such as normal conditions along with EL-Nino and La-Nina. During a normal cycle it is easy to see that the cooling degree days during March were around 355.5 days. During the same month of March...
Honolulu, located in the Pacific Ocean, has a mostly marine time climate and has a pretty consistent temperature average from month to month. This is a look at the La-Nina impacts on the local area. January 2012: For the month of January it is typical to see average high temps in the 80’s while overnight lows drop into the 70’s. During the La-Nina event January temps were normal 71% of the month at the, with above temps 23% of the month and 6% of the month found the temps dropping...
Symbol: CYAC5 Group: Dicot Family: Campanulaceae Duration: Perennial Growth Habit: Subshrub Shrub Native Status: HI N Synonyms: CYACC Cyanea acuminata (Gaudich.) Hillebr. var. calycina Hosaka CYOC4 Cyanea occultans H. St. John Distribution: County distributions for the following U.S. states are available at PLANTS:HI Classification: Kingdom Plantae – Plants Subkingdom Tracheobionta – Vascular plants...
