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SUGAR LAND, Texas, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- CVR Partners, LP (NYSE: UAN) (the "Partnership") today announced that Coffeyville Resources, LLC (the "Selling Unitholder"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of CVR Energy, Inc., will sell, subject to market conditions, 12,000,000 common units representing limited partner interests (the "common units") in the Partnership in a registered public offering. In connection with the offering, the Selling Unitholder is also expected to grant the...
Airline Brings Low-Fares, High-Tech Amenities like Fleetwide WiFi, Power Outlets and Live TV to Austin - SF Route SAN FRANCISCO, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Virgin America, the award-winning domestic airline, today celebrated the launch of its new daily roundtrip service to Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (AUS). Low-fare, tech-forward nonstop flights are now available from the carrier's home base at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) to the Texas capital. As the...
Honoree Vijay Goradia, Chairman & Founder, Vinmar International, LTD plus four life-time achievement awardees and over 40 entrepreneurs recognized at the Houston Technology Center's annual gala HOUSTON, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Houston Technology Center (HTC), Texas' largest technology incubator and accelerator hosted its 10th annual gala, "A Celebration of Entrepreneurs". The black-tie event honored local entrepreneurs who have made a significant impact on the region's...
Austin Ventures backs Adaptive Commerce company set to change the way people make buying decisions AUSTIN, Texas, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Compare Metrics, an Adaptive Commerce company that empowers brands to harness disconnected information from across the web to power individualized discovery experiences and drive sales, today announced that it has received $4.2 million in first-round financing. The financing was lead by Austin Ventures and includes follow-on investment from...
Forge Energy, Thornton Drilling face negligence claims following young father's death SAN ANTONIO, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Attorneys from Dallas' Sayles Werbner have filed a wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of the children of an oil rig worker who was electrocuted in a West Texas oil field only days after his second child was born. Sayles Werbner attorneys Mark Torian and Darren Nicholson represent the daughters of Ke-Andre Ross, a former standout player for the Lindale...
COLLEGE STATION, Texas, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum at Texas A&M University announced the launch of Blue Star Museums, a collaboration among the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, the Department of Defense, and more than 1,800 museums across America to offer free admission to all active-duty military personnel and their families from Memorial Day through Labor Day 2013. Leadership support has...
Company Shares Small Cell Insight and Best Practices with Attendees LAS VEGAS and ALLEN, Texas, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- CTIA 2013 -- Soaring demand for mobile data services is making small cell technologies the go-to solutions for expanding wireless capacity and coverage. The massive interest is reflected in analyst predictions, most of which forecast the small cell market to more than quadruple by 2016, resulting in multi-billion dollar annual growth. Industry analysts...
AMARILLO, Texas, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Hastings Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ: HAST), a leading multimedia entertainment superstore retailer, has announced they are now offering PayPal as a payment method on its e-commerce website, www.goHastings.com. PayPal service allows consumers to send money without sharing financial information, with the flexibility to pay using their account balances, bank accounts, credit cards or promotional financing. Customers can now check out...
Sente Reverse Mortgage Supports The Reverse Mortgage for Purchase Program Austin, Texas (PRWEB) May 20, 2013 The Texas House of Representatives has approved legislation that would strengthen reverse mortgage lending in Texas. On Thursday, with the support of consumer groups, the House approved Senate Joint Resolution (SJR) 18 by a 139-1 vote. The legislation now goes to the voters of Texas on November 5th for approval before it can become law. The Texas Senate approved this legislation...
Dana R. Hando, who has spent a significant amount of time working in a salon, comments on an article explaining how nails can act as indicators of health issues. Houston, Texas (PRWEB) May 20, 2013 Dana R. Hando knows that nails are an important part of the body. After her years of experience in a salon, she has seen nails of different shapes, sizes, and colors. Now Dana is speaking out on a new article that explains how this small body part can actually serve as a clue to the health of...
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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...
David Walker was a United States Navy officer and a NASA astronaut. He was born David Mathieson Walker on May 20, 1944 in Columbus, Georgia and graduated from Eustis High School in Eustis, Florida in 1962. He then went on to attend the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland and received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1966. Upon graduation, he went through flight training in Florida, Mississippi, and Texas and was subsequently named a Naval Aviator in December 1967. His first...
