http://www.chron.com/neighborhood/article/Houston-July-4-Independence-Day-11253645.php
Older article tells which restaurants you can view the fireworks
http://houston.cbslocal.com/top-lists/top-restaurants-with-a-view-of-july-4ths-fireworks-in-houston/
Restaurant Specials for the 4th of July 2017
http://www.houstonpress.com/restaurants/houstons-best-fourth-of-july-restaurant-specials-2017-9562984
Thursday, June 29, 2017
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
$10,000 LiftOff Houston Business Plan Competition
LiftOff Houston Business Plan Competition
Liftoff Houston is the City of Houston's annual business plan competition. This entrepreneurial initiative aims to empower Houstonians with business literacy education and mentorship to start their own business while contributing to the local growth and sustainability of the Houston economy.
To be eligible, applicants must be in the start-up phase of their business which means they either must have a developed business idea or have a business in operation for less than one year with revenue of less than $10,000. Contestants must live in the Houston city limits with their business in the Houston city limits. Capital One Bank is the key sponsor for this event providing cash prizes totaling $30,000.
The competition will take place in four stages – orientation, workshop, mentoring, and presentation, over a 5 month period. Applicants will participate in a myriad of workshops ranging from business plan basics to access to capital, as well as information sessions on essential City of Houston business resources available through the Houston Public Library (HPL) and the Office of Business Opportunity (OBO.) The goal is to enable individuals to successfully research and develop their business plan. Applicants will also receive additional support from professional mentors from SCORE Houston and Capital One Bank to further refine the business plan for submission.
The award categories are Product, Service, and Innovation.
The award categories are Product, Service, and Innovation.
- $10,000 – Awarded for top “Product” Based Business Plan (Retail, resale, merchandise, etc.)
- $10,000 – Awarded for top “Service” Based Business Plan (Food, labor, consulting, etc.)
- $10,000 – Awarded for top “Innovation” Based Business Plan (Software, Hardware, inventions, new market businesses, etc.)
WHEN
Applications for the 2017 competition open this Summer.
Applications for the 2017 competition open this Summer.
The deadline to apply is July 16, 2017 at 11PM.
WHERE?
The competition will be mainly held online at www.liftoffhouston.com and the workshops will be held at multiple locations across Houston.
The competition will be mainly held online at www.liftoffhouston.com and the workshops will be held at multiple locations across Houston.
WHO IS ELIGIBLE?
To be eligible, applicants must be in the start-up phase of their business which means they either must have a developed business idea or have a business in operation for less than one year with revenue of less than $10,000. Contestants must live in the Houston city limits with their business in the Houston city limits. Please see competition rules & eligibility for more details on the Liftoff Houston website.
HOW DO I GET STARTED?
Apply for the competition by clicking the “APPLY” button below then create an account on the Liftoff Houston Competition website (www.liftoffhouston.com) and complete the Liftoff Houston Application. Click on the "Apply link" below.
To be eligible, applicants must be in the start-up phase of their business which means they either must have a developed business idea or have a business in operation for less than one year with revenue of less than $10,000. Contestants must live in the Houston city limits with their business in the Houston city limits. Please see competition rules & eligibility for more details on the Liftoff Houston website.
HOW DO I GET STARTED?
Apply for the competition by clicking the “APPLY” button below then create an account on the Liftoff Houston Competition website (www.liftoffhouston.com) and complete the Liftoff Houston Application. Click on the "Apply link" below.
Liftoff Houston offers workshops series to non-competing individuals to help create a business plan and start their business!
CONTACT
Liftoff Houston/ OBO Solutions Center
611 Walker St, 7th Floor
Houston, TX 77002
Telephone: 832-393-0954
liftoffhouston@houstontx.gov
www.liftoffhouston.com
This is a City of Houston Program. The competition is a collaborative effort between Office of Business Opportunity, the Houston Public Library, and Capital One Bank, and is designed to engage and empower Houstonians seeking to start a business using the robust resources of the City of Houston. The path to launching your business starts with Liftoff Houston!
Do Not Call Registry - US Gov't and Texas
Federal - https://www.donotcall.gov/
Texas - also has a Do Not Call Registry as well.
At
www.TexasNoCall.com -
Saturday, June 24, 2017
Thursday, June 22, 2017
Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
Ruth Simmons tapped as Interim President at PV!
Ruth Simmons, renowned higher education leader, tapped as Prairie View's interim president
Houston native broke barriers at elite universities
June 19, 2017 Updated: June 19, 2017 9:39pm
Photo: Billy Calzada, Staff
Dr. Ruth Simmons, right, who served as president of Smith College and Brown University, and Dr. Linda Webb, principal of Garza Independence High School in Austin, converse during a press conference on Tuesday
Ruth Simmons was retired. Absolutely retired. Until she met with Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp in Hobby Airport.
A renowned higher education leader, Simmons had led a swath of elite universities, breaking barriers, it seemed, with each appointment. She was the first black president of Smith College, a prestigious women's college in Massachusetts. From there, she hopped to Brown University, serving as the first black president of an Ivy League university for more than a decade before stepping down in 2012.
In retirement, she moved to Houston, where her family lives, and she was peppered with job offers.
This time, it was Sharp's turn to make a pitch: Prairie View A&M University's longtime president was stepping down to focus on teaching. Would she come out of retirement to be our interim president?
She was speechless, she recalled Monday. And then - unlike every other time she'd been asked before - she said yes. Simmons will start leading the historically black university on July 1 as it searches for a permanent president. "To think of the young people who come from circumstances where they are striving to move ahead, it's very emotional to me to be a part of that after having been president of an Ivy League institution," she said. "It brings a certain balance to my career, finishing with something like this."
Elected to Brown in 2000
Simmons, 71 and the daughter of a sharecropper, graduated from Phillis Wheatley High School in the Fifth Ward before matriculating at Dillard University, a historically black institution in New Orleans.
After graduation, Simmons enrolled at Harvard University, earning her Ph.D. in Romance languages and literature before starting to teach, first at the University of New Orleans and then in California.
A job at Princeton University brought her back east. She held administrative positions there and at Spelman College, a historically black college in Atlanta, before moving to Smith in 1995. She was elected to Brown's presidency in 2000. Simmons said she will serve until the university appoints a permanent president. She said she's "too old" to consider taking the permanent job. Still, she insisted to Sharp that she will be fully in charge as an interim president to avoid stalling the university's progress. Former President George Wright introduced a strategic plan through 2020 to boost enrollment and improve the university's image several years ago. Simmons wants to speak with him, she said, about that plan and make sure the university makes progress under her leadership. Regents approved her appointment unanimously on Monday afternoon on a call. Sharp said Simmons wouldn't miss a beat, calling her "an important figure on the national stage for decades."
"She has the credentials to be the president of any university in America," he said in a statement. "I am so excited to have her join us." Prairie View A&M students don't come from the same background as Brown students. Prairie View rejects about 15 percent of undergraduate applicants each year. Brown last spring accepted just 8.3 percent. About two-thirds of Prairie View undergraduates receive Pell Grants, which benefit low-income students. The median family income of a Brown student is more than $200,000, the New York Times reported. Prairie View is a historically black university. In fall 2015, less than 7 percent of students at Brown were black.
Using herself as role model
Simmons said she wants to show Prairie View students that they can make it - as she did. "I believe that there is an extraordinarily strong continuum across all of higher education," she said by phone Monday. "We overly emphasize the so-called top tier, or the elite, as against community colleges ... at Brown, I talked about that continuum. I talked about the importance of community college students having access to the Ivy League. A student who goes to a place like Dillard, for example, can leave Dillard, as I did, and go to graduate school at Harvard." She paused.
"It's rather troubling to me when those differentiations occur. The reality for the students is: if they go to Prairie View and perform well, they can go all the way to the top, just as a student who starts at Harvard as an undergraduate can. This is a message so few people get." At Brown, Simmons increased the faculty's size by 20 percent and removed a student's financial needs from consideration in the admissions process. In 2003, she created a committee on slavery and justice to investigate Brown's relationship with slavery and the slave trade. Marybeth Gasman, who directs the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Minority-Serving Institutions, said Simmons talked about graduating from a historically black college when she was Brown's president. That representation showed outsiders the achievements that graduates of these schools could go on to accomplish, Gasman said.
Her time at Brown also left her with "incredible connections" with higher education's major players, including big donors. "The president ... is like the living logo of the institution," she said. "That's going to be great for Prairie View." Wright said Monday night that Simmons's appointment was a "very significant step" for the university. The selection could boost alumni giving, he said, and would help the university's enrollment grow. "Can you imagine, for the students who are considering Prairie View?" he said. "They'll be very excited to know the caliber of the person there."
Honoring First African-American Astronaut Trainee at Buffalo Soldiers Museum Sat. June 24th
- Honoring First African-American Astronaut Trainee
The event will recognize Maj. Robert H. Lawrence, United States Air Force (USAF), on the 50th anniversary of his selection as the first African-American astronaut trainee on June 30, 1967.
Lawrence was in the third group of pilots selected for the USAF Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) program, a secret piloted reconnaissance platform in low-Earth orbit. That program was cancelled in June 1969.
Tragically, he died in the crash of a training jet aircraft in December 1967; but, had he survived, Maj. Lawrence would almost certainly have been transferred to NASA in August 1969, along with seven other MOL pilots who flew the early shuttle missions and later led NASA.
Local elected officials, NASA astronauts current and past and others will offer tributes to Maj. Lawrence. In addition, a new portrait of him will be unveiled.
Event Date: Saturday, June 24, 2017 Event Start Time:2:00 PM Event End Time:5:00 PM
Event Location: Buffalo Soldiers National Museum, 3816 Caroline St
Event Location: Buffalo Soldiers National Museum, 3816 Caroline St
Monday, June 19, 2017
Post Doc Fellowships thanks Dr. Pam Denkins for sharing !
FUNDING
OPPORTUNITY: POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS TO SAFEGUARD ASTRONAUT HEALTH AND
PERFORMANCE DURING DEEP SPACE EXPLORATION
NSPIRES Solicitation Number: TRIRFA1701
Release Date: May 26, 2017
Proposal Due Date: July 31, 2017
The Translational Research Institute (TRI) has been tasked by NASA to identify and fund groundbreaking research and development that can reduce the risks to the health and performance of humans on space exploration missions. TRI is also committed to developing a robust and well-trained workforce that can enable NASA’s missions. TRI is releasing a funding opportunity that seeks to support the nation’s brightest postdoctoral fellows in performing research related to human space flight. Two-year fellowships are available in any United States (U.S.) laboratory carrying out biomedical research. The full announcement is available at (https://tinyurl.com/TRI-RFA-17-01).
Fellowships enable young scientists to train as independent investigators with their own research projects while continuing to learn from experienced faculty mentors. The program serves as a mechanism to strengthen the high-tech workforce of the future.
Applicants must submit research proposals together with an identified mentor and institution. Independent investigators with existing research grant support may request to be listed as possible mentors for this program by contacting TRI@nasaprs.com no later than June 29. 2017. Selected applicants will receive a stipend for salary support, allowance for health insurance, and travel funds for related scientific meetings. An optional, competitive third year of support is possible. Funds to support the research itself must be supplied by the mentor.
All categories of U.S. institutions are eligible to submit proposals (universities, federal government laboratories, the private sector, and state and local government laboratories).
Full proposals submitted through nspires.nasaprs.com will be due on July 31, 2017. Technical questions should be directed to the NSPIRES help desk at NSPIRES-help@nasaprs.com or TRI@nasaprs.com. Programmatic or scientific questions may be directed to Dr. Dorit Donoviel, TRI Interim Director at donoviel@bcm.edu.
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The Translational Research Institute (TRI) is funded by a cooperative agreement from NASA to Baylor College of Medicine with consortium partners California Institute of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Institute’s mission is to lead a national effort in translating cutting-edge, emerging terrestrial research into applied space flight and to support human risk-mitigation for exploration missions beyond low Earth orbit.
Click here to be notified of future TRI solicitation announcements.
NSPIRES Solicitation Number: TRIRFA1701
Release Date: May 26, 2017
Proposal Due Date: July 31, 2017
The Translational Research Institute (TRI) has been tasked by NASA to identify and fund groundbreaking research and development that can reduce the risks to the health and performance of humans on space exploration missions. TRI is also committed to developing a robust and well-trained workforce that can enable NASA’s missions. TRI is releasing a funding opportunity that seeks to support the nation’s brightest postdoctoral fellows in performing research related to human space flight. Two-year fellowships are available in any United States (U.S.) laboratory carrying out biomedical research. The full announcement is available at (https://tinyurl.com/TRI-RFA-17-01).
Fellowships enable young scientists to train as independent investigators with their own research projects while continuing to learn from experienced faculty mentors. The program serves as a mechanism to strengthen the high-tech workforce of the future.
Applicants must submit research proposals together with an identified mentor and institution. Independent investigators with existing research grant support may request to be listed as possible mentors for this program by contacting TRI@nasaprs.com no later than June 29. 2017. Selected applicants will receive a stipend for salary support, allowance for health insurance, and travel funds for related scientific meetings. An optional, competitive third year of support is possible. Funds to support the research itself must be supplied by the mentor.
All categories of U.S. institutions are eligible to submit proposals (universities, federal government laboratories, the private sector, and state and local government laboratories).
Full proposals submitted through nspires.nasaprs.com will be due on July 31, 2017. Technical questions should be directed to the NSPIRES help desk at NSPIRES-help@nasaprs.com or TRI@nasaprs.com. Programmatic or scientific questions may be directed to Dr. Dorit Donoviel, TRI Interim Director at donoviel@bcm.edu.
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The Translational Research Institute (TRI) is funded by a cooperative agreement from NASA to Baylor College of Medicine with consortium partners California Institute of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Institute’s mission is to lead a national effort in translating cutting-edge, emerging terrestrial research into applied space flight and to support human risk-mitigation for exploration missions beyond low Earth orbit.
Click here to be notified of future TRI solicitation announcements.
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Saturday, June 17, 2017
Health Disparities Education Awareness Research & Training Conference in Houston June 19th to 24th looks Excellent! Working Towards Social Justice
Friday June 23rd Girls virtual Hackathon from efamily member Zawadi Bryant
Girls, get your Hack On! On Friday, June 23rd, High school and college level students can participate in the Business Development & Design Incubator. We Hack Too also will host three 2-hour “Introduction to Coding & Gaming” workshops for girls ages 8 – 13. Takes place in the Microsoft store in the Houston Galleria. Also occurring in 10 other cities. All FREE and sponsored by Microsoft. Check it out!!
Houston Museum of African American Culture Happy Emancipation Weekend EVENTS
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Emancipation Park Rededication and Juneteenth Celebrations (Sat. and Mon.)
Mayor invites efamily to Join City of Houston, Houston Parks Department and Project Partners
Saturday, June 17th
and
Monday, June 19th 2017
10:00am - 5:00pm both dates
Rededication Program is on June 17th at 11:00 a.m. Emancipation Park
3018 Emancipation Avenue formerly Dowling street
More about the Rededication Ceremony:Historic Emancipation Park to be Rededicated Following $33.6 Million Dollar Renovation
The Houston Parks and Recreation Department invites you to join Mayor Sylvester Turner, the OST/Almeda Redevelopment Authority-Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone No. 7, the Emancipation Park Conservancy, and HPARD staff for the grand rededication of this historic park on Saturday, June 17, 2017! Emancipation Park is located in the Third Ward at 3018 Emancipation Avenue (formerly Dowling Street) 77004.
Mayor's 6th Annual Juneteenth Parade - Acres Homes 90 entries in the parade!
Mayor Turner’s 6th Annual Acres Homes
Juneteenth Parade Saturday, June 17
Mayor Sylvester Turner will host the 6th Annual Acres Homes Juneteenth Parade Saturday, June 17th.
“This is the biggest Juneteenth Parade we’ve ever had,” said Mayor Turner. “I hope everyone in Acres Homes comes out to see their neighbors and friends.”
The Parade will take place beginning at 10 a.m. It will start at the Acres Homes Multi-Service Center, 6719 W. Montgomery, head north on W. Montgomery, turn left on Dolly Wright and end at Greater Zion Missionary Baptist Church, 1620 Dolly Wright.
West Montgomery will be closed along the route during the duration of the parade.
The parade will feature marching bands, dancers, schools, cars and motorcycles, floats, horses and more. Larry Hale of KTSU Radio will announce each participant.
“We have over 90 entries in the Juneteenth Parade,” said Mayor Turner. “Come out to hear the music, watch the drill teams, enjoy the many vehicles, both horse-powered and horse-drawn. Come out and support our school kids and community groups and wave to your family and friends as they march by.”
We look forward in seeing you there!
Zika Defense - Houston
Watch a 3D Zika Defense video and get more information about protecting your family against the Zika virus at houstonhealth.org.
Mosquito season is underway and will intensify during upcoming summer months. That's why the Houston Health Department urges you to learn its 3D Zika Defense; it is the best way to protect your family against mosquito bites that could result in severe birth defects in newborn babies.
The three Ds stand for DEET, dress and drain. First, spray insect repellent with DEET on exposed skin while outdoors. Dress in long pants and long-sleeve shirts as the weather permits. Make sure door and window screens are in good condition to stop mosquitoes from entering your home. Finally, drain outdoor items that hold water, such as flower pots or old tires, at least once a week.
The Zika virus can spread from a pregnant woman to her unborn baby during pregnancy. It is spread to people primarily through the bite of an infected Aedes species mosquito. It also can be spread by people who are infected to their sex partners.
All Zika cases in the Houston area are among people who traveled to regions with outbreaks, mostly Latin America and the Caribbean.
Many people infected with Zika have no symptoms. Of those who do have symptoms, the most common are fever, rash, joint pain, and conjunctivitis (red eyes). There is no vaccine or treatment for Zika.
Friday, June 16, 2017
Juneteenth BBQ on Sat June 17th after Mayor's Acres Homes Juneteenth Parade
Join Efamily members St. Monica Knights Annual Juneteenth B B Q this Saturday after the Mayors Acres Homes Parade.
There will be baseball games hosted by the St. Monica Youth Sports Ministry.
Music, games and more......
Call281.847.0767 for more information
MoneyLIVE 2017 - Teen Financial Event
MoneyLIVE 2017 is a money simulation for high school students. Participants will learn about careers in various areas, after learning and getting a career participants will build a monthly budget based on their incomes. Each student is given a new life/identity with a family, income and a checkbook / debit card. The students will then be allowed to purchase cars, homes, cellphones, food clothing and more while being tempted to purchase things like computers, big screen TV's, trips and more.
Join us
Saturday June 17th 2017
NRG Center One Reliant
Check In Begins at 8:30 AM
Event Starts @ 9:00 AM till 2:00 PM
This event is being hosted by Alliance Financial Ministries, Inc. a non-profit financial literacy company. AFM mission is to promote financial literacy. Funds for this event is being provided through the generosity of companies like Dow Promise, CapitalOne Bank and other companies that have a heart for financial literacy.
For more information call (281) 845-3642 or visit www.moneylive.org
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