Texas Danger Zones, Why You May Need a Texas Injury Lawyer by Ms. Smith

Texas is the second largest state in size, trailing only behind Alaska. The two largest metro areas in Texas are Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth. With such large masses of people in these cities, there is a lot of congestion on the roads. Texas is a beautiful, diverse state full of opportunity and adventure; however, it can also pose many driving obstacles. Many times large cities are labeled "concrete jungles" because of the massive buildings, roads, and people inhabiting them. It can be a stressful place to operate on a daily basis, since the risk of serious injury or death on Texas roads is higher than most places. The outcomes of these accidents can be shocking.
They say when you're in Texas, that the "Eyes of Texas are upon you." When you are driving on the roads of Texas, that statement couldn't be truer. Rush hour in Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth is full of congested highways, interstates, and overpasses. Sometimes the roads look more like a stand-still parade than an expressway. Whoever coined the phrase "rush hour" was spot on. An unfortunate consequence of high traffic areas is high accident potential. Everyone has experienced just such an event where people are rushing from work or home, driving riskier than they should because they are in a hurry. This can lead to accidents with serious injuries and even death. In light of these obvious but often overlooked facts, drivers in Texas should take time to research Texas injury lawyers (http://hartlaw.com/Practice_Areas/20/Fort_Worth/Lawyer/Personal_Injury), so they can be fully prepared in the event of a serious or life altering car accident.
Car accidents involving 18 wheelers or other large vehicles are very visible in metro areas like Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth. Both cities have large oil based economies and it shows with all the traffic on the roads. Trucks alone can cause many accidents, but when there are flammable goods on board being transported, that can lead to catastrophic outcomes. In the event of any accident, you may need to hire a Fort Worth 18 wheeler accident attorney (http://hartlaw.com/Practice_Areas/22/Fort_Worth/Lawyer/Truck_Accidents) to be sure of your rights on the road. All drivers make mistakes, but when you're driving an 18 wheeler, your mistake can mean your life, or someone else's. A University of North Texas student was killed in 2008 when an 18 wheeler fell off an interstate ramp and fell right on top of her car, the driver of the truck was also killed. Additionally, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) every sixteen minutes a person is killed or sustains injuries in accidents involving 18 wheelers, tractor trailers or semi trucks. This is a staggering statistic and in Texas, with more trucks on the road and a greater population than most states, there is definitely cause for concern.
This article was not intended to prevent you from entering and enjoying large metro areas in Texas, it was intended to make you more aware of your surroundings. Commuters need to go the speed limit and not tail gate when traveling. Additionally, 18 wheelers need to be extra cautious because if they wreck, their mass alone poses a greater threat to all vehicles that surround them. If everyone makes safety a more important priority, injuries and deaths will hopefully be less frequent.

"Annie" Rates as One of the Most Uplifting, Harrowing and Positive Broadway Musicals Ever by Ed Bagley

Copyright © 2009 Ed Bagley
Annie - 4 Stars (Excellent)
"Annie" is certainly one of the most uplifting, harrowing and positive Broadway musicals in movie history.
Even if you did not see Annie as a moviegoer, you would recognize the key words to its award-winning signature song "Tomorrow": "The sun'll come out Tomorrow, so you gotta hang on till Tomorrow. Come what may. Tomorrow, Tomorrow, I love ya, Tomorrow. You're only a day away".
Based on Thomas Meehan's musical score of the enormously successful stage play, and Carol Sobieski's screenplay, Annie was directed by John Houston in his first and last effort directing a movie musical. None of their talent was wasted.
A tip of the hat to Carol Sobieski's effort with the screenplay, as I believe her feminine touch had much to do with the finished product. Annie is reminiscent of Harold Gray's comic strip Annie, but there was nothing from the original comic strip that could have been used in the musical. Sobieski also wrote "Fried Green Tomatoes".
Set in the depths of The Great Depression of the 1930s, Annie's life among orphans in miserable conditions changes dramatically when she is selected to spend a week in the mansion of Oliver Warbucks, a wealthy munitions industrialist driven only by making money and intent on polishing his capitalist image.
Annie (played superbly by Aileen Quinn) becomes an immediate attention-getter and an irresistible force by being simple and unassuming in a situation of opulence, power and influence dominated by Daddy Warbucks (Albert Finney is at his best in this role). She wins the hearts of everyone in the house plus Grace Farrell (Ann Reinking), Warbucks' right-hand assistant.
Despite everyone's growing affection for Annie's childlike simplicity, Daddy Warbucks' move to adopt Annie encounters a trauma as Annie is only concerned about eventually finding her parents so she can be part of a real family.
Enter the severe, unkind orphanage proprietor Miss Hannigan (an excellent character-acting performance by the one and only Carol Burnett), her brother and bad guy Rooster Hannigan (Tim Curry) and his girlfriend Lily St. Regis (Bernadette Peters). They conspire to kidnap Annie and Rooster tries to kill her. After some tense moments during great filmmaking, Daddy Warbucks' capable enforcer Punjab (Geoffrey Holder) comes to the rescue.
Do not miss the role of fellow orphan Molly (played by Toni Ann Gisondi), the helicopter Daddy Warbucks flies around in, and the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes. Both Carol Burnett and Aileen Quinn were nominated for Best Actress Golden Globe Awards.
The original stage play Annie premiered in 1977, won the Tony Award for the Best Musical the same year, and closed in 1983 after 2,377 performances. Annie hit the big screen in 1982, and remains a classic among Broadway's musicals. The rights to Annie were sold in 1978 for $9.5 million ($30+ million in today's dollars), a record that still stands.
Annie is everything that is good and right about a Broadway musical that becomes a movie. Annie teaches the adults around her about the importance of love, family, thoughtfulness, kindness, gratitude, understanding, optimism and hope, everything that was absent in her life as an orphan.

Facing Mars Health Museum by Vacation Finder

Discover the challenges of space travel at the Health Museum for the U.S. premiere of Facing Mars, a program scheduled to run May 30, 2009 to September 7, 2009. But, when you plan your visit, be sure to reserve a room at the luxurious Renaissance-Houston Hotel Greenway Plaza located in Houston Museum District.
You'll be glad you did because once you return from blasting off to space you will be able to enjoy the comfort of luxurious rooms or wind down at the hip Houston, Texas hotel bar.
Since our hotel in Houston Museum District is located near downtown Houston, you'll be able to enjoy all that downtown offers. This Museum District hotel in Houston offers complimentary transportation within three miles, making site-seeing, shopping, and travel around Houston more convenient and pleasurable. However, if you prefer your own transportation, Enterprise Car Rental is nearby.
For those who need to mix a little business with pleasure, this Houston museum district hotel is equipped with business services, including copy and fax services, network/internet printing, notary public, overnight delivery/pickup, and post/parcel. As you can see this is a full service business center conveniently located in the Renaissance Houston Hotel Greenway Plaza.
The Renaissance Houston Hotel Greenway Plaza is a AAA Four-Diamond, ENERGY STARS labeled luxury hotel that will enhance your vacation experience. Join the Marriott in May when you visit at The Health Museum for the U.S. premiere of Facing Mars, and let the Renaissance Houston Hotel Greenway Plaza help you blast off to a great vacation.

Houston Life Insurance - Bigger is Sometimes Better by Scott Thiltgen

Do you and your family enjoy your Houston way of life? Are you interested in helping your family maintain that way of life even in the event of your death? If so, you should contact your insurance agent for information about life insurance and Texas today. They can present you with valuable information about the different types of policies that may be available to you, what your best option might be and how best to budget for it on the income that you have today. Life insurance is not a luxury, it is your legacy. What you leave behind to the people you love can help spare them undue stress and anxiety in a time when they need it least.
The fact about life insurance is pretty simple. Making sure that your family has the level of coverage that they would need in order to keep leading the lifestyle that you have developed for them is one of your most important responsibilities. An insurance agent can help talk you through the different options that are available and help you find an insurance company that you feel safe entrusting your family's future to. Many people have the mistaken notion that life insurance is something that only the rich get to enjoy. The reality is that every person is worth insuring, no matter what his or her net worth.
If the measure of a man is the people that he leaves behind in death, then that is a good place to start in determining how much coverage you will need. In some cases bigger really is better. This holds true about Houston Life Insurance .The bigger the policy that you carry, the more provided for your loved ones will be. An Houston Insurance broker can help you figure out how much insurance you can afford and find the least expensive way to leave the most money to your family. No man or woman should neglect to get a life insurance policy.
Single, married, young, old there is a policy that is just right for you. To learn more about Life Insurance In Houston,contact your local insurance broker. They will collect information about your lifestyle, health and income and help develop a great financial plan for the future that will protect your loved ones and your assets. No matter how young or old you are, life insurance is the best investment that you can make for your family.

Reasons to Visit San Antonio, Texas by David H. Urmann

With vast lands and military presence, you might think San Antonio, Texas is a dull place. Read on and discover why millions of tourists visit this city annually.
San Antonio is the second largest Texan city and seventh largest in the United States. It is the gateway to the American Southwest. It is home to over 1.3 million people and attracts about 26 million visitors and tourists annually.
There are plenty of military installations here in the city. Lackland Air Force Base, Fort Sam Houston, Brooks City-Base, and the Randolph Air Force Base and the Kelly Air Force Base are just some of San Antonio's military outposts. These are however only part of San Antonio's fame. With its rich cultural heritage, obviously Hispanic, San Antonio is a fascinating place to visit.
Paseo del Rio or the River Walk, is a creative genius of the 1920's. This network of walkways runs along the San Antonio River and is one level down the main streets of downtown San Antonio. Built as an alternative to a paved over walkway over the San Antonio River, architect Robert Hugman designed a plan toward both commercial development and flood prevention. The result is an intricate pedestrian street a step below downtown San Antonio's vehicles street now lined with bars, cafes and shops, forming an important part of the city's urban life.
The Six Flags Fiesta Texas is a seasonal theme part sitting on a 200-acre land in an old San Antonio quarry. Taking almost two years to construct, this theme park is more than just rides and fireworks display. With the White Water Bay, its water theme park, music shows and laser shows at nights, it is a truly different amusement experience for people young and old. The Fiesta Texas' themes and parks are renovated periodically for a fresh new look and feel.
The SeaWorld San Antonio is another reason tourists flock to this city. This marine-life themed park located on the Westover Hills is part of the SeaWorld chain. The world's largest of its kind, the SeaWorld San Antonio plays host to an annual Halloween party called Howl-O-Scream. This annual Halloween event features Jack the Pumpkin King along with Hunted Houses and Scare Zones for a spooky fun and thrill.
SeaWorld's shows use top of the line 4D graphics and animation in giant screens for an even realistic feel. Locals and tourists alike, young and old, first timers or old timers, all love the shows.
The McNay Art Museum is a hub for art buffs in Texas. Built in 1950, it is the first modern art museum in all of Texas. American art teacher and painter Marion Koogler McNay is credited for this museum. Her 24-room mansion of a Spanish Colonial Revival style sitting on a 23-acre of land with broad lawns, a Japanese-inspired pond and garden and landscaped fountains was half of her original bequest.
The other half is her extensive and important art collection. The museum's collection now include 19th and 20th century American and European art pieces from famous artists like Pablo Picasso and Diego Rivera. Now at about 14, 000 art pieces, the McNay Art Museum's collection is the finest of Contemporary Art and Culture in the US Southwest.
The people of San Antonio, Texas have plenty to be proud of. Apart of its rich cultural heritage and diverse population and its wealthy oil industry which saw millionaires among them, one of NBA's more successful teams in the league's history calls it home. The San Antonio Spurs is a Texan attraction themselves.

AN OVERVIEW OF HOUSTON WEB DESIGN by Albert Decruz

Houston Web design is committed to revamping the Internet and website itself is an important marketing tool so, given below are ways for developing it.

A professional web designer is to be employed to enhance the look and feel of your website. The website will be the primary point of communication connecting you and your customer. The sturdy part of any company or business is stimulating attention and traffic. The website must be proficiently designed as it makes a lot of difference when your web design is volunteered.

In Houston, the web designer in no way use a Splash Page that has some form of image or animation and is employed like a door to enter a website. The web designing must be that enhanced that it immediately gives significant content to the visitors of your website. Great emphasis should be given to your Products, Services, & Contact Information and must draw attention to them instantaneously. Avoid using barriers to prevent browsers from receiving what they are actually finding for. Constantly make an attempt to give information within minimum clicks to the visitor.

The web designing in Houston provide contact information substantially along with the phone number and email address to each & every page of the website design which will avail the browsers to contact as soon as they locate what they are looking for. Keep in mind, a Web site offers you with reliability, exceptionality and authenticity. Remember to attach contact information to the main real estate on the website to make it easy to strike upon.

A popper is to be offered as your website may be a remarkable means for creating a consumer database. A successful website must be elegant and customer focused. Actualize a form on your homepage that coherent something like, "Enter name and email address for our free newsletter", or "20% off coupon on our products or services". The small forms in the Homepage will accumulate consumer email addresses and provide you with authorization that you can promote to in the future.

The web designing in Houston focus mainly on core proficiency and gain the best to do the rest. Concentration on content part is an important task. Website design should hold abundant numbers of text based content so that it can be indexed by the main search engines. Keyword phrases are to be used often while building the paragraphs and text based navigation must be used to enable the search engines to recognize what your links say. With a very little work, your site moves up the ranks in Google. There are many ways to set your web design; the key is to strike upon that difference and use it to set up and communicate an advantage for your consumer.

Houston Tours by E J Jolivet

Not every Houston tour can give a you a nostalgic architectural view of how Houston looked during the Victorian era at the turn of the century, the roaring 20's and the fabulous 50's in a single day. But, the tour of the Historic Heights gives you more than that, it's warmth gives you a feeling of how the one-time small town was merged and morphed into one of the largest cities in the South. The Home Tours The first Saturday of every month the city's best known neighborhood kicks open it's doors, to the community, for the Heights First Saturday tour. The Houston tour takes you to see some of the eclectic architecture that dominate the streets near downtown Houston. The Heights, are appropriately named because of its elevation, that's almost 23 feet higher than downtown Houston. The area offered it's first residents a promise of a sanctuary of health and well-being. Businesses on The Houston Tour The tranquil journey takes visitors to an array of small antique shops, clothing boutiques and specialty restaurants that thrive along the boulevards and streets in the area. Many of them operate out of former Victorian style homes built in the early parts of the 20th century. Many of the antique stores are located along 19th street. You'll be enamored by the trendy chic fashion stores and cozy restaurants interspersed throughout the bustling neighborhood. Facts About The Historic Heights The Heights, is one of the States first planned communities. It's original inhabitants included Indians, led by Chief Canos of the Orcoquisacs, who controlled most of this area. Since the 1890's the Heights has become a place where successful entrepreneurs and other hard working people live and work, as a community. The majority of these current young, new residents are not moving to Houston Heights to build new homes but to restore the historic homes built by others. They are part of a national trend to buy old houses with all its charm and architectural distinction and restore it. The sightseeing route is too far to walk, so a plush trolley carries you past places that despite their whimsical names are rich with old school southern charm. Fast food franchises and major retailers take a back seat in this community, where laid-back owners operate their own businesses and know most of the customers by name. The Trolley Route The sightseeing route is too far to walk, so a plush trolley carries you past places that despite their whimsical names are rich with old school southern charm. Fast food franchises and major retailers take a back seat in this community, where laid-back owners operate their own businesses and know most of the customers by name. The Houston tour through this historic area is only held from 11- 4:00 pm. The excursion last approximately 30-40 minutes roundtrip depending on the pace of the visitors. That's just enough time to browse, shop, or grab a bite to eat and decide which of the quirky and offbeat places you'll like to inspect on your next Houston tour.