10.21.07
Houston chef to take on “Iron Chef”
Charles Clark, chef at Houston’s Ibiza, is going to face off with the Food Network’s “Iron Chef” tonight at 9 PM.
Resources:
Footnotes:
1 = free registration may be required
10.17.07
Houston home sales show biggest decline for years
Houston home sales show biggest decline for years
– Houston Business Journal
The Houston area real estate market has experienced the largest decline in home sales in more than a decade.The number of single-family homes sold in Houston in September was 5,061, 15.1 percent lower than in September 2006 and the largest year-over-year decline since April 1995, according to statistics from the Houston Association of Realtors.
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10.16.07
Happy Boss Day
Some media covering today’s “holiday:”
- National Boss Day a chance to think positive
Expert tells how to upgrade your relationship with your supervisor
– at the Houston Chronicle - Happy National Boss’s Day!?, at Quality Service Marketing
Suggestions on how to celebrate. - National Boss Day? Not on local CEOs’ radars
from the Boston Business Journal
I’m taking my boss out for lunch later this week. Staff got together to get her a card and flowers.
Did you celebrate?
Renu Khator named UH president & chancellor
The University of Houston system has a new chancellor & president. Renu Khator, who was provost at the University of South Florida, was the board’s only finalist. She will begin her job in January.
Resources:
- UH board names chancellor, by Houston Business Journal
10.15.07
Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day
Houston’s Joel Osteen has just released his second book, “Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day.” The Houston Chronicle is running excerpts.
10.12.07
Bayou City Art Festival
The weather this weekend is going to be perfect for the Bayou City Art Festival. From KHOU, “The Bayou City Art Festival Downtown will take to the streets of downtown Houston October 13th through the 14th. It begins at 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. showcasing the works of 300 fine artists and 19 artistic media formats.“
Resources
- Bayou City Art Festival
- Bayou City Art Festival Downtown this weekend, by KHOU CBS Channel 11 (may require registration)
10.10.07
Houston tech companies get funding
Congratulations to four Houston-area tech companies for being awarded funds through the Texas Emerging Technology Fund. These total nearly $4 million. Recipients included: ThromboVision Inc., Bellicum Pharmaceuticals Inc., Visualase Inc. and Laser Tissue Welding Inc.
Resources
- Houston-area tech startups receive funding, by the Houston Business Journal
10.03.07
science festival for middle school girls
From Gish Creative’s newsletter:
MIDDLE-SCHOOL GIRLS REACH FOR THE STARS, SCIENTIFICALLY.
The “Sally Ride Science Festival” is coming to Rice University on Saturday, October 27 from 11am until 4:15pm and aims to boost middle-school girls’ interest in science and engineering and is sponsored by the Rice Space Institute. The festival includes workshops for girls taught by local scientists and engineers and workshops for parents and teachers on ways to support girls’ interests in science and math. Also planned are a street fair with booths, hands-on activities, food, prize drawings, music and an inspiring talk by Eileen Collins, the first woman to command a space shuttle mission. Advance registration is required; the cost is $18 and includes lunch.
For more information, call 713.348.6774 or log onto www.media.rice.edu/media/NewsBot.asp.
watch for the weather
Gulf storm could visit Texas coast late this week
– by the Houston Chronicle
A tropical disturbance that continued developing over the southeastern Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday could bring rain or even high winds to the upper Texas coast later this week.[snip]
Computer models predicted that the storm will come ashore somewhere between the central Texas coast and Alabama late Thursday or early Friday. The most likely location appears to be near the Texas and Louisiana border.
Because the heaviest storms are likely to wrap around the system’s eastern side, a landfall at the border would probably yield only marginal rainfall over Southeast Texas.