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BOCA RATON, Fla., April 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- MovieTickets.com has signed on to provide advance ticketing to LOOK Cinemas, a new, state-of-the-art, 11-screen, 1,900-seat stadium theater complex in Dallas, which opened on March 29th. The theater is part of a new upscale entertainment complex and the first project from LOOK Cinemas LLC, a company founded by notable theater industry veteran Tom Stephenson and Dallas-based entrepreneur Brian Mason. Stephenson and Mason have also...
HOUSTON, April 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- LyondellBasell (NYSE: LYB) announced the signing of agreements with TexStar MidStream Services, LP under which TexStar will install two natural gas liquids (NGL) fractionation units adjacent to the Corpus Christi, Texas, plant of LyondellBasell affiliate Equistar Chemicals LP. The fractionation units will be capable of processing a combined 63,000 barrels per day of NGLs produced from the Eagle Ford shale into ethane, propane, butanes and...
HOUSTON, April 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Copano Energy, L.L.C. (NASDAQ: CPNO) announced that it has further extended until 5:00 p.m. New York City Time on April 16, 2013 (as extended, the "Expiration Date") its previously announced consent solicitation relating to its $510.0 million in aggregate principal amount of 7.125% Senior Notes due 2021 (the "Notes"). Copano also has further amended the solicitation to increase the fee payable to consenting holders of Notes. Additionally,...
The Woodlands Realtors and Builders Awards took place last Friday April 5 where members of Tamborrel Properties team took home several awards. THE WOODLANDS, Texas, April 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Woodlands Realtors and Builders Awards took place last Friday April 5 where members of Tamborrel Properties team took home several awards, including Real Estate Team of the Year for Highest Units and Dollar Volume during 2012. Eight agents from Tamborrel Properties were welcomed to The...
TORONTO, April 10, 2013 /CNW/ - Livingston International Inc. ("Livingston") announced today the extension of its tender offer for its $135,000,000 principal amount of 10.125% Senior Unsecured Notes due 2015 (the "Notes") to 5:00 p.m. (Toronto time), April 17, 2013 (the "New Expiration Time"). The terms and conditions of the tender offer are set forth in the Offer to Purchase and Consent Solicitation Statement dated March 5, 2013 and the related Consent and Letter of Transmittal...
SAN MARCOS, Texas, April 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The City of San Marcos, TX has adopted the use of the web based budget transparency website www.budgetinfographics.com in support of increased transparency for its citizens. Historically city and county budgets contain hundreds of pages of numbers that are often difficult for citizens to analyze and understand. The Budget Infographics website solves this problem by providing an efficient graphical user interface which allows citizens...
Inventory of Homes for Sale a Key Issue for Most REALTORS® in the Dallas/Fort Worth Area Flower Mound, TX (PRWEB) April 08, 2013 Jeff Brand of Jeff Brand & Associates of RE/MAX DFW Associates has announced today a key initiative to obtain more homes for sale in the Dallas/Fort Worth Area. With home sales skyrocketing and increased relocation demand to Dallas/Fort Worth, most REALTORS® are having difficulty listing enough homes to meet buyer demand. “8 out of the last 10...
DALLAS, Texas, April 8, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Among the select few physicians honored with the prestigious Patients' Choice Award this year is Dr. Sarah Tevis Poteet, DDS. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130408/DC90768) In fact, of the nation's 870,000 active physicians and dentists, just five percent consistently received top scores from their patients on sites like Vitals (http://www.vitals.com), qualifying them for this honor in 2012. Millions of patients...
Genesis Water has partnered with Brownsville Public Utilities Board (BPUB) for one of the largest eco-restoration projects in Texas. DENVER, April 8, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Genesis Water has partnered with Brownsville Public Utilities Board (BPUB) for one of the largest eco-restoration projects in Texas. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130408/CG89387)The resaca water system in Brownsville serves as habitat for an array of species of fish and hundreds of species of...
Jeanmarie Mayfield and Romulo Crespo of Katy, TX receive award because “every hour counts” for community service hours given by students. Katy, TEXAS (PRWEB) April 06, 2013 Because every hour counts, two local Katy citizens were given honorary hourglasses today by intelliVOL, makers of x2VOL. Assistant Principal Romulo “Rom” Crespo from Morton Ranch High School and Jeanmarie Mayfield who volunteers at Seven Lakes High School, were recognized with a special award for their efforts...
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The Edwards Plateau is an area of west-central Texas which is bordered by the Balcones Fault towards the south and the east, the Llano Uplift and the Llano Estacado towards the north, and the Chihuahuan Desert and Pecos River towards the west. San Angelo, San Antonia, Del Rio, and Austin make a rough outline of the area. The eastern part of the plateau is the Texas Hill Country. The trees of this savanna include a juniper-oak mix and a mesquite-acacia mix scattered over the fairly short...
The Texas Blackland Prairies are a temperate grassland ecoregion that is located in Texas that stretches roughly from the Red River in North Texas to San Antonio in the south. This area covers an area of 19,400 square miles, consisting of a main belt of 17,000 square miles and two islands of tall grass prairie grasslands located southeast of the main blackland prairie belt; both the main belt and the islands stretch northeast/southwest. It hosts many different eco-regional organisms....
Guadalupe Mountains National Park is located in in western Texas in an area of the Guadalupe Mountains. The park contains 86,367 acres of land that once was home to hunter-gather Native Americans. The first Spanish explorers arrived in the area in the 16th century, but these groups did not stay long. They introduced horses into the area, which greatly benefited the nomadic Apache tribe that moved through the Guadalupe Mountains area. When Americans settled the area, it created turmoil with...
Big Bend National Park is located in the United States in the state of Texas. This park was first established in 1933 as a Texas State Park known as Texas Canyons State Park, but was later renamed Big Bend State Park. The park attained National status in 1935 when the U.S. Congress passed legislature to acquire the park. The park was completed and opened in 1944. The history of human presence in the Big Bend area dates back to prehistoric times, when several Indian tribes inhabited the...
Symbol: SCLER10 Group: Dicot Family: Cactaceae Distribution: County distributions for the following U.S. states are available at PLANTS:AZ, CA, CO, NM, NV, TX, UT Classification: Kingdom Plantae – Plants Subkingdom Tracheobionta – Vascular plants Superdivision Spermatophyta – Seed plants Division Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants Class Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons Subclass ...
