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SOUTHLAKE, Texas, June 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Travelocity's weekly 48-Hour Sale launched today, and to celebrate the kick-off of the summer travel season, this week's sale features a twist. Travelers who book a flight + hotel vacation package during the sale (June 11-13, 2013) will be sent their very own travel companion: an eight-inch version of the Roaming Gnome himself. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130501/MM05302) "Summer is here, and it's time to go and...
The eight winners - Lucille's, Green Seed Vegan, Children's Museum of Houston, Doshi House, Frenchy's, Yoga House, Reggae Hut, and Conscious Cafe - are featured in a video airing on the GSMD Channel on Houston's Voice HOUSTON, June 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Greater Southeast District represents a very diverse and vibrant community of thriving businesses, historic neighborhoods and renowned cultural and culinary attractions. Known best for its world-class medical and...
AUSTIN, Texas, June 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- On April 1, 2013, Zahid Yoosufani assumed the role of director and unit leader for the Petroleum Extension Service (PETEX(TM)) at The University of Texas at Austin. Since its inception in 1944, PETEX has become a leading educator and a "trainer of choice" for workers at all levels of the oil and gas industry in both Texas and around the world. As director, Yoosufani provides leadership to all components of PETEX including instructor-led...
Raba Kistner, Inc. and Project Control of Texas have joined forces, having worked together on complex construction projects for almost 30 years, including the AT&T Center, the AlamoDome in San Antonio and the Texas A&M Kyle Field Expansion in College Station Texas. PC Sports, also purchased in the deal, is known for Program Management and Owners' Representative services on many sports projects across the country, such as the FedEx Forum in Memphis and the KFC Yum! Center. Texas...
Carr will now oversee Whitlock sales, delivery and service in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas. Dallas, Texas (PRWEB) June 10, 2013 Whitlock, a global AV solutions provider, announces that Jason Carr will now oversee an expanded South Central Region, which includes all of Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas. Whitlock’s three major hubs in this region are Dallas Fort-Worth, Houston and Austin / San Antonio, where the company has 175 employees and more than $80 million in...
AUSTIN, Texas, June 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- TVA Medical, Inc. (TVA Medical), a medical device company developing minimally invasive therapies for End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD), announced today that it received $9.5 MM in Series B financing. S3 Ventures led the round and was joined by TriStar Technology Ventures and existing investor, Santé Ventures. The funding will be used to further validate the Company's endovascular technology and complete additional clinical studies to...
MEMPHIS, Tenn., June 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Strategic Behavioral Health, LLC (SBH), a national behavioral healthcare provider of inpatient and outpatient services announced that effective May 20, 2013, it has acquired the assets of Peak Behavioral Services (Peak Behavioral) from Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS). The facility is located in Santa Teresa, New Mexico near El Paso, Texas. The acquisition is being made in connection with the divestiture requirements resulting from...
HOUSTON, June 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- HII Technologies, Inc. (the "Company"), symbol HIIT (OTCBB/OTCQB), an oilfield services company headquartered in Houston, Texas, today announced the location and time of its annual meeting. Annual Meeting HII Technologies is holding its annual stockholders meeting on Monday, June 17, 2013 at 4pm local time at the Houstonian Hotel in Houston, Texas. The address is 111 N. Post Oak Lane, Houston, Texas 77024. The Company has mailed a notice of...
FLOWER MOUND, Texas, June 10, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Go! Pages Magazine Expands into Louisiana (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130610/CG28610) In a time when many publications like Newspapers and Yellow Pages are facing reduced readerships and tightening budgets, GO Pages Magazine can proudly stand apart and boast that it has continued to flourish. Founded in 2004 by Scott and Kelly Murray in Flower Mound, Texas, their publications quickly became the leader in the...
Texas' Honeycutt Wins Co-Angler Title, $25,000 GROVE, Okla., June 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Rayovac pro Jason Christie of Park Hill, Okla., brought a five-bass limit to the scales Saturday weighing 17 pounds, 10 ounces giving him a three-day cumulative total of 15 bass for 58 pounds, 4 ounces and the lead for the third consecutive day at the Walmart FLW Tour at Grand Lake presented by Castrol. He now holds a solid 3 1/2-pound lead over second place pro Barry Wilson of Birmingham,...
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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...
