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Fidelis Announces New Residential Division

Fidelis Realty Partners recently hired Kenady Davis, Ford Allen, and Trey Waggener to launch Fidelis Residential, a multi-family division within Fidelis Realty. The new division will concentrate on new multi-family development and acquisitions in strategic locations in Houston and other major Texas markets.

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Overlap allows nanoparticles to enhance light-based detection

Rice University scientists discover how plasmons amplify electroluminescence

Rice University scientists have found revealing information where light from a molecule meets light from a nanoparticle.

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Synthetic cells make long-distance calls

Rice scientists' circuits help bacteria quickly pass signals to an entire community

The search for effective biological tools is a marathon, not a sprint, even when the distances are on the microscale. A discovery at Rice University on how engineered communities of cells communicate is a long step in the right direction.

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Oprah Winfrey Interviews Award-Winning Actresses Lupita Nyong'o and Cynthia Erivo For An OWN Primetime Special Airing Saturday October 2

Interviews Highlight the Actresses' Rise to Fame and How They Are Breaking Down Barriers in Hollywood

Oprah Winfrey sits down one-on-one with the award-winning actresses Lupita Nyong'o and Cynthia Erivo, who discuss their fast rise to fame and how their leading roles have shaped them personally and professionally, on an all-new primetime special entitled, "OWN Spotlight: Oprah At Home with Lupita Nyong'o and Cynthia Erivo" airing Saturday, October 26 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network.

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Pharrell Williams' Something In the Water Returns for Year Two With An Expanded Art, Culture and Music Festival

Today visionary recording artist, producer, songwriter, philanthropist, fashion designer, and entrepreneur, Pharrell Williams announced the second year of his acclaimed SOMETHING IN THE WATER, a multi-day music festival and cultural experience on the beach in his hometown of Virginia Beach.

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Houston Habitat for Humanity Receives Grant of $1.34 Million from Qatar Harvey Fund

26 homes in Houston and Harris County to receive needed repairs

Repair work will soon be getting underway on 26 homes in Houston and Harris County that were damaged during Hurricane Harvey two years ago. Houston Habitat for Humanity is administering the project after receiving a grant of approximately $1.34 million from the Qatar Harvey Fund.

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Rice U. launches Center for African and African American Studies

CAAAS will provide unique hub for conversations about race, identity and more

Rice University has announced the creation of a robust new center in response to increasing interest and expertise in African and African American Studies on campus.

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Astros pitcher Gerrit Cole shuts down the Rays to advance to the 2019 ALCS

There was a loud sigh of relief tonight in the city of Houston, even though some believed that there was never any doubt coming into an elimination game that their ace in the hole would come through for them in the clutch.

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“Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth” by Kevin M. Levin

History is a big subject. And yet, each era has inside it a thousand little clues for people, places, and everyday life: clothes folks might’ve worn, toys children played with, maybe, or foods they enjoyed. Those are the things that make history fascinating, even powerful. But add in a bit of quarrel and, as in the new book “Searching for Black Confederates” by Kevin M. Levin, they might make history wrong.

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New TV Ad: Buzbee's Pay-to-Play Corruption Hypocrisy, Part Two

The Sylvester Turner Campaign began airing a new TV ad today: “Follow the Money.” The ad raises questions about potential corruption and influence peddling surrounding Buzbee’s arrest for drunken driving and the thousands of dollars in campaign contributions made to the district attorney by Buzbee and his lawyers.

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Deepak Chopra on the Healing Power of "Love-in-Action"

Deepak Chopra has been a mentor of mine from the day of my first interview with him more than a decade ago. I will never forget the day in 2008 when I asked him to explain such existential concepts as the distinction between the brain, mind and soul; the concepts of space and time, and how meditation benefits our physical and mental health. His answers then were clear and precise and without hesitation; on my end it felt like waking up from a dream and setting about on a continuous path of discovery.

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History-Making Tyler Perry Studios Has Grand Opening Gala

Actors, directors, musical artists, filmmakers and politicians such as Oprah Winfrey, Beyoncé, Stacey Abrams, Ava DuVernay, Viola Davis, Samuel L. Jackson, Spike Lee, Tiffany Haddish, Whoopi Goldberg, Reginald Hudlin and Halle Berry showed up to support filmmaker and entrepreneur Tyler Perry as he formally opened his Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta.

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A Real Homecoming

Texas Southern football returns to campus for the first time in 11 years

There will be an old familiar sound on Saturday, October 12th to the students, fans, faculty, and alumni off of 3100 Cleburne Street in Houston, Texas. After playing all their home games since 2012, at BBVA stadium which is home of the MLS Houston Dynamo, the Tigers fans can finally stand on their own campus and scream out this phrase they have been holding in for a while. Football is back!

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Harris Health System Receives ‘Most Wired’ Award, Eighth in Nine Years

Harris Health System has received a Most Wired award from the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), the eighth such designation in the past nine years. Most Wired is a benchmarking of healthcare institutions and their adoption and implementation of technology to improve patient safety and outcomes.

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Rockets’ GM’s Hong Kong Comments Anger China

Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey tried to defuse the rapidly growing fallout over his deleted tweet that showed support for Hong Kong anti-government protesters, saying he did not intend to offend any of the team's Chinese fans or sponsors.

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To His Wealthy Donors, Trump Is Their Grifter

To decipher President Donald Trump’s presidency, apply the basic rule of politics: Follow the money.

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Fotofest Full Frame Luncheon

Photography by Vicky Pink- FotoFest hosted their annual fundraising luncheon for the Literacy Through Photography …

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Brian J. White Adds a New Title in Psycho Thriller

It is officially spooky season and what a better way to cap it off than with a psychological thriller, drama, comedy? Yes, the “Dear Frank” movie, a Muddy Waters Pictures & Webber Films production is shaking up Hollywood with a merge of genres that hasn’t been seen. The drama centers on Brian White (“Moonlight,” “Stomp the Yard”) as husband, Frank, and Claudia Jordan (“Middle Men,” “Love is Not Enough.”) as his wife, Beth.

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Tony Buzbee has gone to a new low in this city

KPRC-TV Channel 2 has sunk to the bottom right along with him.

Mayor Sylvester Turner issued the following statement on Tony Buzbee’s new TV ad:

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Mayor Turner’s “$95,000-a-year internship” story: Is KPRC 2 News trying to meddle with the City Election?

One of Mayor Turner’s major opposition in the upcoming City general election, Tony Buzbee (Left) has already called for a full investigation into the issue. Currently, the Buzbee campaign has infiltrated the networks will advertisements created off of KPRC 2 News’ consistent bashing of Mayor Turner (right).