The Governor of Texas, Rick Perry has stated that over one thousand people decide to move to Texas each day. This number is higher than any other state in America. The state's successful economy and impressive job market make this state one of the most desired areas in the country to move to. Those searching out to find the American dream have found it through south Texas ranches for sale. The state has also been endorsed by the Southwest Movers Association to help aid those who are relocating to Texas. Texas boasts multiple tax breaks and low taxes, affordable housing, ...

The International Colorist Academy (ICA) will reach its two year anniversary at NAB 2011 and has announced its 50th class in Chennai India April 4-7, 2011. "There has been a huge interest in our training for colorists by colorists," comments Kevin Shaw, ICA co-founder. "We are impressed by how far some of our students will travel, and wherever the demand justifies it we try to run local classes. The response to our Chennai class has been extensive and we hope to run further classes in other Indian cities in the future." "We have expanded into our second year running ...

Author, Tamara M. Jones has released her new book titled A Taste of Soup on Purpose, Words of Encouragement and Inspiration for Everyday Life, which became available in March 2011 and is available at Xlibris.com and other channels. The book was written to encourage and inspire readers to live masterful and purpose-filled lives. Jones was inspired to write the book after years of talking with and listening to people who were stuck in a place of stagnation and complacency. She wanted to offer something practical to help people move into productivity and realize the results ...

A new art site is set to come online next week that promises recognition, exposure, and cash prizes for artists of all skill levels. The organizers of the site saw a need to offer a regular sustained contest for artists and have stepped up to answer the need. MonthlyArtContest.com will be operational shortly and will provide artists a regular online gallery that will provide links to the artist' s contact information and links to their individual websites. In addition, the monthly competitions will be juried by leaders in the art world and cash prizes will be awarded. In ...

Multi-published author Kelli A. Wilkins is announcing the release of her twelfth romance. A PERFECT MATCH will be released on March 27 in paperback and electronic formats from Amber Quill Press. "I've always been a wrestling fan, so it only seemed natural that I'd write a romance set in the world of professional wrestling," says Kelli. "My romances tend to be a bit different and have unusual storylines (including a Bigfoot romance!), but my characters are well-developed and readers seem to fall in love with them as much as I do." A PERFECT MATCH is a spicy romance about ...

If you have kids, you know that CRCT testing is around the corner, and come April, Georgia students will be gripping No. 2 pencils and putting to paper what they've learned during the 2010-2011 school year. The CRCT is designed to measure how well students acquire the skills and knowledge described in the Georgia Performance Standards (GPS), and assessments yield information on academic achievement at the student, class, school, system and state levels. There is much pressure on Georgia teachers to 'make the grade' each year in producing impressive CRCT scores. With ...

Foremay, Inc., a leader of technology innovation in solid state drives and one of the world's Top 10 SSD OEMs, has today introduced its first disk-on-chip solid state hard drive into its OC177 SSD product family offering. The chip disk is a NAND drive that features a tiny dimension of only 22 x 22 x 1.8 mm. The thin and light, yet robust disk chip is marketed as DOC . DOC supports standard IDE or SATA host interface, and complies with ATA-7 specifications. Current shipping capacity is up to 32GB with a read/write speed up to 70/40 MB/s. 64GB capacity is expected in Q3'2011. "Foremay's ...

People praise God in many varied ways: Some enter the clergy, some stay at home and quietly pray - and then some, like Shara Lee Ward, would rather sing about it. From British Columbia, Canada, Shara Lee Ward is a talented singer-songwriter who grew up in a musical family. Raised in her family's love for country/gospel music, it was inevitable that Shara Lee would take on a similar sound. At 20, she got her first guitar and taught herself to play it with a Guitar For Dummies handbook and help from a friend. After learning the three-chord progression, she started writing ...

KolbeCo is pleased to announce the hiring of Tabitha Meyer as Account Coordinator, Sarah Hoff as Accounting Clerk & Office Assistant and the promotion of Danieal Broz to Director of Accounts & Information. As an Account Coordinator, Meyer will be responsible for working with each account team to execute marketing, public relations and social media campaigns. Meyer holds over five years of experience in marketing and public relations, performing a variety of tasks including special events, social media, media relations, trade shows, and the development of marketing and ...

Indus Travels Predicts 11 Trends For Travel to India and Beyond For 2011: Guys Hit Abu Dhabi's Ferrari Extravaganza in World's Largest Indoor Theme Park Girls Go Treasure Hunting at Bustling Bazaars in Colorful Settings Richmond, Canada, March 16, 2011 - The best tour company for India from the Americas, Indus Travels, shares their view on hot destinations, new experiences as well as overarching trends in India and nearby countries. 1. Adrenaline Rushes in First Ever Ferrari Theme Park - On this ultimate new splurge package to Dubai and Abu Dhabi, travelers ...

Direct sales marketing has just been made even easier with a unique and new offering, the Direct Sales Power Book-of-the-Month Club for home party plan sellers who want to learn how to book, sell, recruit and profit more. Just released, this opportunity to get one of the powerful programs offered by this site is not only budget-friendly, but geared toward the seller who wants to grow her business on her terms. "Instead of getting a huge program, like our Direct Sales Boot Camp Success System or Party Plan Business Breakthrough, this program will let you learn and grow ...

Mark it a strike! Sleep Country USA (www.sleepcountry.com) today announced the record-breaking success of its dual-city Pajama Bowl events to raise money for area foster children. Hosting events in Washington and Oregon, this year's Pajama Bowl drew nearly 1000 bowlers who rolled out of bed and bowled in their pajamas, procuring donations totaling over $125,000 for the region's nearly 20,000 foster children - a 38% increase over last year's event. "We're blown away by the success of this year's event and proud to deliver such generous donations to our foster organization ...

Striata, a leading provider of email billing and secure electronic document solutions, has partnered with SincerePrint - a secure printing company based in Malaysia. The partnership will enable SincerePrint to extend its current document management service offering to both print and electronic. Striata's 'email billing' and 'ePolicies' solutions will complement SincerePrint's existing printing services, allowing lower margin paper-based services to be migrated to more cost effective, higher margin, environmentally friendly electronic delivery. The partnership agreement ...

The Motomarathon Association kicks off its 2011 motorcycle endurance riding season with the second annual New England Motomarathon, June 9-12. Routes are kept secret until the night before each day's ride, and participants must complete a sequence of self-recorded check-points using digital cameras over the four days, averaging approximately 400 miles per day. Day One routes will be handed out to participants at Kawasaki/KTM/Aprilia dealer Motofit, located at 10 Mill Plain Road in Danbury, at 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday, June 8th and again at 8:00 a.m. the morning of Thursday, ...

Dr. David Aplan, a Las Vegas braces expert, used National Nutrition Month as a springboard to discuss the importance of diet and nutrition on the outcome of orthodontic treatment with his patients. March is National Nutrition Month, a nutrition education and information campaign sponsored annually by the American Dietetic Association since 1980. NNM recommends a well-balanced diet filled with whole grains, fruits, vegetables, healthy fats, low-fat dairy and lean protein for health and wellness. "Since teeth are anchored in the jaw bones, getting the calcium and vitamin ...

The flow of Russian tourists into Italy in recent years has increased notably. In response to frequently increasing requests for rental apartments, Rentxpress has developed a site dedicated to the Russian market. Compared with 2009 figures, the first half of 2010 saw an increase in Russian visitors to Italy of 35%. The Russians are attracted to Italy for a multitude of reasons: high-end shopping experiences; the museums and monuments of the cities of art; excellent cuisine; renowned mountain and seaside resorts. The most popular destinations for family vacations are ...

There is no such thing as white van man. Or is there? The Ford Motor company sells 60,000 Ford Transit vans a year and 84% of them are finished in white. Ten years ago, that figure was 95%, so there has been a change, but not much. On the other hand if someone is buying a German marque, they are more likely to go for a colour, and quite often a metallic colour. This desire to be different has not really caught on though. Favourite van colours are silver (7%), red (8%) and blue (13%), but 64% of vans running on British roads are still white! In other words, white ...

Google has recently changed the algorithm which determines the ranking of web pages. Website owners globally have cause for concern over the effects these changes will have on their websites' visibility. These changes took effect on February 24th in the US and will filter to the UK in due course. Whilst having an unfavourable outcome on some web page rankings, Bird and Co clients can rest assured that their online presence will be unaffected. With high-quality web pages, their websites will gain from the fact that legitimate search engine optimisation (SEO) methods ...

Brick Marketing (http://www.brickmarketing.com), a Boston-based Internet marketing and SEO services company, today announces the publication of their SEO guide, "SEO Checklist Guide: SEO Best Practices by Brick Marketing." Written by the expert SEO staff of Brick Marketing, the SEO checklist guide is an in-depth look at the various steps and components that webmasters and business owners should incorporate into their SEO strategies. Nick Stamoulis, President and Founder of Brick Marketing, says the free SEO checklist guide breaks down the process of SEO similar to the ...

Contact: Michael Bernstein m_bernstein@acs.org 714-765-2012 (Meeting, March 27-31) 202-872-6042 (Before March 27) Michael Woods m_woods@acs.org 714-765-2012 (Meeting, March 27-31) 202-872-6293 (Before March 27) American Chemical Society 'Nano-bricks' may help build better packaging to keep foods fresher longer ANAHEIM, March 27, 2011 — Scientists are reporting on a new material containing an ingredient used to make bricks that shows promise as a transparent coating for improving the strength and performance of plastic food packaging. Called ...

Contact: Michael Bernstein m_bernstein@acs.org 714-765-2012 (Meeting, March 27-31) 202-872-6042 (Before March 27) Michael Woods m_woods@acs.org 714-765-2012 (Meeting, March 27-31) 202-872-6293 (Before March 27) American Chemical Society Taming the flame: Electrical wave 'blaster' could provide new way to extinguish fires ANAHEIM, March 27, 2011 — A curtain of flame halts firefighters trying to rescue a family inside a burning home. One with a special backpack steps to the front, points a wand at the flame, and shoots a beam of electricity ...

Contact: Michael Bernstein m_bernstein@acs.org 714-765-2012 (Meeting, March 27-31) 202-872-6042 (Before March 27) Michael Woods m_woods@acs.org 714-765-2012 (Meeting, March 27-31) 202-872-6293 (Before March 27) American Chemical Society First identification of nicotine as main culprit in diabetes complications among smokers ANAHEIM, March 27, 2011 — Scientists today reported the first strong evidence implicating nicotine as the main culprit responsible for persistently elevated blood sugar levels — and the resulting increased risk of serious ...

Contact: Michael Bernstein m_bernstein@acs.org 714-765-2012 (Meeting, March 27-31) 202-872-6042 (Before March 27) Michael Woods m_woods@acs.org 714-765-2012 (Meeting, March 27-31) 202-872-6293 (Before March 27) American Chemical Society New trash-to-treasure process turns landfill nuisance into plastic ANAHEIM, March 27, 2011 — With billions of pounds of meat and bone meal going to waste in landfills after a government ban on its use in cattle feed, scientists today described development of a process for using that so-called meat and bone meal ...

Contact: Michael Bernstein m_bernstein@acs.org 714-765-2012 (Meeting, March 27-31) 202-872-6042 (Before March 27) Michael Woods m_woods@acs.org 714-765-2012 (Meeting, March 27-31) 202-872-6293 (Before March 27) American Chemical Society 'Green' cars could be made from pineapples and bananas ANAHEIM, March 27, 2011 — Your next new car hopefully won't be a lemon. But it could be a pineapple or a banana. That's because scientists in Brazil have developed a more effective way to use fibers from these and other plants in a new generation of automotive ...

GLOBAL ArtXchanges is focused on art being an integral part of helping enrich the lives of youth, in any impoverished community, large or small. Recent News: "At this moment we are working with a needy youth art school in Kathmandu, who have no proper art supplies. We work to maintain and help the art groups to try to sustain themselves, motivating youth to freely express their visions through art. We seek to aid through 'artaid' into the poorer regions worldwide, to war-torn places, to make a positive difference and create hope in the lives of youth." GLOBAL ArtXchanges ...