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The family of Andrew Brown Jr. – a Black man shot and killed by sheriff’s deputies coming to serve search and arrest warrants at his home in Elizabeth City, N.C. – filed a $ 30 million federal lawsuit on Wednesday.
The lawsuit filed at the federal courthouse in the Eastern District of North Carolina comes months after 42-year-old Brown was shot and killed by Pasquotank County Sheriff’s deputies serving drug-related warrants at his home in Elizabeth City on April 21.
Amid ongoing demonstrations at the time, Andrew Womble, the elected district attorney for North Carolina’s Judicial District 1, cleared the deputies of any wrongdoing in May, announcing that the shooting “while tragic, was justified” because Brown allegedly used his vehicle as a deadly weapon.
Standing outside the courthouse Wednesday, civil rights attorney Bakari Sellers said the federal lawsuit was filed because the family didn’t believe they could get justice in the sheriff’s office or in state court.
NORTH CAROLINA DA: ANDREW BROWN JR.’S DEATH ‘TRAGIC’ BUT ‘JUSTIFIED’
“We had to come where we believe Lady Justice is blind and will have all things be equal,” he said. “We stand in front of this federal courthouse because we believe this is where Andrew Brown will finally get justice because he did not get justice in life and so far hasn’t even gotten justice in death.”
Harry Daniels, another lawyer representing the Brown family, listed Pasquotank County Sheriff Tommy Wooten II and several deputies as defendants in the lawsuit. He also stressed that he would get all body camera footage of the shooting released despite past limits set by a state Superior Court judge.
“Justice delayed will not be justice denied,” Daniels said. “Now that we have filed a federal lawsuit, let me be very clear in saying that I and this team have compulsory authority, federal subpoena authority, to get all the videos, all the tapes, all the recordings, all the records. And no district attorney, no county administrator and no state court can stop us from doing that because federal law trumps state law.”
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The filing is the latest in a string of federal civil rights lawsuits in the wake of high-profile police shootings of Black people. The family of George Floyd, who was killed in Minneapolis police custody last year, agreed to a $ 27 million settlement in March. In September, the city of Louisville, Kentucky, agreed to pay Breonna Taylor’s family $ 12 million and reform police practices.
Womble has said that Brown’s past involvement with law enforcement included multiple resisting arrest charges and convictions dating back to 1995. Investigators had used an informant to conduct controlled purchases of methamphetamine and cocaine from Brown on two separate occasions in March before obtaining the search and arrest warrants that ultimately resulted in his death.
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Residents have routinely gathered in protest. One of the deputies who fired his gun at Brown’s car has resigned. The FBI also launched a civil rights investigation into the death.
People cross Las Vegas Boulevard in Las Vegas. | John Locher/AP Photo
The more-transmissible Delta coronavirus variant is believed to be significantly more widespread than the current federal projections, according to two senior Biden administration health officials with knowledge of the situation.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data released late Tuesday shows the Delta strain accounted for more than 51 percent of new Covid-19 cases from June 20 to July 3. But the reality on the ground is likely much higher because states and private labs are taking weeks to report testing results to the CDC, the officials said.
“It is everywhere now,” one of the officials said, adding that recent data shows the Pfizer Covid vaccine works well against the Delta variant. “The risk really is in the unvaccinated community. We’re starting to see more and more people get sick and need medical attention.”
Covid-19 hospitalizations are up more than 40 percent over the last two weeks in Arkansas, Iowa and Nevada. And emerging evidence from a repository of genetic sequences compiled by Scripps Research’s Outbreak.info suggests that the Delta strain accounted for as much as two-thirds of new Covid cases nationwide over the past two weeks. The site notes the data “may not represent the true prevalence of the mutations in the population.”
The CDC’s data on where the variant is spreading and at what rate relies on reports from state and private labs that sequence samples that test positive for Covid-19.But the process often relies on testing batches of samples that can take weeks to complete. That delays the speed with which Delta infections are reported, according to the Biden health officials and multiple state public health officials.
The lack of real-time data has left local health officials unprepared as hospitalizations have surged in parts of the Midwestand Southwest. It also raises questions about how the officials can control the spread as the pace ofvaccination slows.
“I am a little surprised how quickly Delta has become widespread,” said Ashish Jha, dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health. “We’re one week into July and it is everywhere. It suggests that it is far, far more contagious than the Alpha variant. It makes me nervous … how contagious it is and how quickly it has spread.”
Mike Cima, an epidemiology officer with Arkansas’ public health department, said it can take from five days to up to two weeks to get CDC data back, adding that his state works with the agency and the University of Minnesota to sequence Covid-19 samples.
The CDC has offered to help several states battling the Delta variant speed up the sequencing process, multiple state public health officials told POLITICO. The Biden administration also is sending top health officials like Anthony Fauci, the president’s chief medical officer, to communities to help convince unvaccinated people to get the shot. But Biden health officials acknowledge that most of the salesmanship will fall to local officials and trusted community leaders.
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky told reporters Thursday her agency’s 51 percent estimate of the Delta variant’s prevalence is the government’s “best estimate at this point,” adding that “it has some uncertainty around it.”
“Although we expected the Delta variant to become the dominant strain in the United States, this rapid rise is troubling,” Walensky said. “We know that the Delta variant has increased transmissibility and it is currently surging in pockets of the country with low vaccination rates.”
The situation on the ground worries local officials. Arkansas’ Cima said among the individuals the state has identified as having contracted the Delta variant, 11 percent are hospitalized. Four percent are admitted to the ICU.
“Delta … is the dominant variant in the state. And it is fair to say there will likely be some increase in death,” Cima said. “It is far more infectious than the original strain that hit back in 2020. It is far more infectious than the Alpha variant. It is really important people understand this is a different situation we’re in. If you are unvaccinated … there is a very good chance you are going to become sick [with Delta].”
In Missouri, more than 80 percent of ICU beds are already filled, the highest percentage the state has recorded since the winter. That includes more than 300 Covid-19 patients, the highest total since early February.
On Tuesday, Steve Edwards, CEO of CoxHealth in southwest Missouri, tweeted that he desperately needed more respiratory therapists to deal with the surge in cases. As of Wednesday afternoon, more than three dozen had replied and offered help, but a hospital spokesperson said they could still use more.
Nearby, at Mercy Hospital in Springfield, staff on Sunday called on affiliate hospitals to send ventilators. A spokesperson for Mercy said the Springfield location has more than 120 Covid-19 patients, the most it’s had at any point during the pandemic. Of those, only two were vaccinated.
State officials asked the Biden administration for help, and the first CDC employee arrived on Tuesday to support efforts to track the variant in southwest Missouri. Lisa Cox, a spokesperson for the state health department, said more CDC personnel are expected in the coming weeks to assist with data collection, research and vaccine outreach.
Nevada Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak has reached out to FEMA for additional resources, hoping to tamp down the outbreak spreading across Las Vegas and Clark County. The state is reporting that more than 500 people hospitalized with Covid-19 for the first time since mid-February — almost all in Clark County.
Sisolak wants help with the state’s vaccination campaign but the governor’s office has not yet released details on exactly how surge teams would be used.
Colorado Democratic Gov. Jared Polis asked the CDC to help investigate the proliferation of the Delta variant in the western part of his state.
Six state laws allowing college athletes to earn endorsement money will take effect on July 1.
Six Division I conferences, including the SEC, ACC and Pac-12, are urging the NCAA to implement a stopgap measure that would allow college athletes to earn money off their fame before a federal law is passed.
In a letter sent to the head of the Division I Council, the conference commissioners recommended the council refrain from adopting the proposed reforms to the NCAA”s name, image and likeness compensation rules. The council is scheduled to meet Tuesday and Wednesday.
The letter was first reported on by ESPN.
NCAA President Mark Emmert also sent a memo to the association’s member schools Friday, pushing for an NIL solution before the end of the month when six state laws go into effect. In that memo obtained by AP, Emmert said if membership did not act on an NIL proposal, he was prepared to take executive action.
The NCAA has asked Congress for a federal NIL law that would preempt state laws and help provide a uniform standard for its more than 1,100 member schools. But lawmakers in Washington are not close to passing a bill.
The six conferences said the NCAA’s proposal would be vulnerable to legal challenges and would be invalid in states with their own NIL laws. The commissioners for the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, Sun Belt Conference and Southwestern Athletic Conference also signed the letter to Penn athletic director Grace Calhoun, who is the chairwoman of the Division I Council.
They also sent a proposed alternative to the NCAA’s current NIL proposal that would go into effect July 1 if adopted. That proposal was obtained by the AP.
The proposal would allow athletes in states with NIL laws to follow those laws when they go into effect. Schools in states without NIL laws would adopt their own policies that would permit athletes to be paid by third parties — but not by boosters of a school —- for things like endorsement deals, personal appearances and sponsored social media posts.
Those policies would be used until a federal law is passed.
Proponents in both parties said the move was long overdue.
“For far too long, the story of our country’s history has been incomplete, as we have failed to acknowledge, address and come to grips with our nation’s original sin of slavery,” said Senator Edward J. Markey, Democrat of Massachusetts and a lead sponsor of the bill.
Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, who pushed for passage, said he had talked to Mr. Johnson “many times about his concerns.”
“I think he saw that this was inevitable,” Mr. Cornyn said.
Many states have recognized Juneteenth for decades, but only some observe it as an official holiday. The day is already celebrated in 47 states and the District of Columbia.
After the protests for racial justice last year, dozens of companies moved to give employees the day off for Juneteenth, and the push for federal recognition as a paid holiday gained new momentum.
Texas was the first state to observe Juneteenth as an official holiday, starting in 1980.
The push to recognition comes as Republicans around the country, including some in Congress, are pushing to bar schools from using curriculum that explores the legacy of slavery and teaches about the effects of racism on myriad aspects of society.
“We do know there’s a movement to erase history with attacks on critical race theory and teaching children about the presence of systemic racism in our country’s history,” Mr. Markey said.
Making Juneteenth a federal holiday “acknowledges slavery as the original sin built into the United States Constitution,” he added. “We celebrate its eradication, but we can’t celebrate how deeply racism resulted in America’s policies and is still built into education, health care, housing and every other policy.”
California prohibited the sale of assault weapons in 1989. The law was challenged in a suit filed in 2019 against the state’s attorney general by plaintiffs including James Miller, a California resident, and the San Diego County Gun Owners, a political action committee.
The judge, Roger T. Benitez of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, wrote that sections of the state’s penal code that defined assault weapons and restricted their use were “hereby declared unconstitutional and shall be enjoined.”
But the judge said he had granted a 30-day stay of the ruling at the request of Attorney General Rob Bonta, a move that would allow Mr. Bonta to appeal it.
Judge Benitez wrote that the case was about “what should be a muscular constitutional right and whether a state can force a gun policy choice that impinges on that right with a 30-year-old failed experiment.”
“It should be an easy question and answer,” Judge Benitez, who was nominated by former President George W. Bush, continued. “Government is not free to impose its own new policy choices on American citizens where constitutional rights are concerned.”
The judge wrote that the firearms banned under the state’s law were not “bazookas, howitzers or machine guns,” but rather “fairly ordinary, popular, modern rifles.”
In a statement late Friday, Gov. Gavin Newsom called the ruling “a direct threat to public safety and the lives of innocent Californians.”
Mr. Newsom also criticized the opening lines of Judge Benitez’s decision, in which he wrote that, like a Swiss Army knife, the AR-15 assault rifle “is a perfect combination of home defense weapon and homeland defense equipment.”
The AR-15 re-entered the American gun market in 2004 after the end of a federal assault weapons ban. It has a national following among gun owners, but it has also been used in mass shootings and vilified by its critics as a weapon of mass murder.
Mr. Newsom wrote that comparing the gun to a Swiss Army knife “completely undermines the credibility of this decision and is a slap in the face to the families who’ve lost loved ones to this weapon.”
“There is no sound basis in law, fact or common sense for equating assault rifles with Swiss Army knives — especially on Gun Violence Awareness Day and after the recent shootings in our own California communities,” he said.
Gun rights activists celebrated.
Brandon Combs, the president of the Firearms Policy Coalition, a group in Sacramento that helped bring the lawsuit to court, said in a statement that the ruling “held what millions of Americans already know to be true: Bans on so-called ‘assault weapons’ are unconstitutional and cannot stand.”
Alan M. Gottlieb, founder of the Second Amendment Foundation, another group that was involved in the lawsuit, said in a statement that the judge’s ruling had “shredded California gun control laws regarding modern semiautomatic rifles.”
“It is clear the judge did his homework on this ruling, and we are delighted with the outcome,” added Mr. Gottlieb, whose group is based in Washington State.
Some critics of the judge’s latest ruling, including Anthony Rendon, the speaker of the California Assembly, noted an irony: It was handed down on National Gun Violence Awareness Day, an annual project organized by groups that advocate for tougher gun laws.
The ruling is “alarming and wrong,” said Ari Freilich, the state policy director at the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, a group led by Gabrielle Giffords, the former representative from Arizona who was shot a decade ago. “It’s also an insult to families across the nation, on today of all days, who have seen in the most painful way possible how dangerous and deadly assault weapons are.”
Michael Levenson, Thomas Fuller and Shawn Hubler contributed reporting.
In a lifetime of working with horses, Gary Kidd, 73, had never adopted an untrained wild mustang before. But when the federal government started paying people $ 1,000 a horse to adopt them, he signed up for as many as he could get. So did his wife, two grown daughters and a son-in-law.
Mr. Kidd, who owns a small farm near Hope, Ark., said in a recent telephone interview that he was using the mustangs, which are protected under federal law, to breed colts and that they were happily eating green grass in his pasture.
In fact, by the time he spoke on the phone, the animals were long gone. Records show that Mr. Kidd had sold them almost as soon as he legally could. He and his family received at least $ 20,000, and the mustangs ended up at a dusty Texas livestock auction frequented by slaughterhouse brokers known as kill buyers.
When asked about the sale, Mr. Kidd abruptly hung up.
The Bureau of Land Management, which is in charge of caring for the nation’s wild horses, created the $ 1,000-a-head Adoption Incentive Program in 2019 because it wanted to move a huge surplus of mustangs and burros out of government corrals and find them “good homes.” Thousands of first-time adopters signed up, and the bureau hailed the program as a success.
But records show that instead of going to good homes, truckloads of horses were dumped at slaughter auctions as soon as their adopters got the federal money. A program intended to protect wild horses was instead subsidizing their path to destruction.
“This is the government laundering horses,” said Brieanah Schwartz, a lawyer for the advocacy group American Wild Horse Campaign, which has tracked the program. “They call it adoptions, knowing the horses are going to slaughter. But this way the B.L.M. won’t get its fingerprints on it.”
The bureau denies the allegations, noting that the government requires all adopters to sign affidavits promising not to resell the horses to slaughterhouses or their middlemen. But a spokesman said the bureau had no authority to enforce those agreements or to track the horses once adopters have title to them.
People who dump mustangs at auctions, the spokesman said, are free to adopt and get paid again.
It has been 50 years since Congress unanimously passed a law meant to protect wild horses and burros from wholesale roundup and slaughter and to ensure that they have a permanent, sustainable place on public land in the West. But decades of missteps, systemic problems and spiraling costs have put both the horses and the western landscape at risk.
Wild horses once roamed North America in the millions, but as the open range disappeared in the early 20th century, they were nearly all hunted down and turned into fertilizer and dog food. When they were finally protected in 1971, there were fewer than 20,000 left.
Once protected, though, the remnant herds started growing again — far faster than the government was prepared for. The bureau estimates that, left alone, wild horse herds increase by about 20 percent a year.
The bureau has tried for decades to stabilize numbers by using helicopters to round up thousands of mustangs annually. But the bureau has never been able to find enough people willing to adopt the untamed broncos it removes. So surplus mustangs — about 3,500 a year — have gone instead into a network of government storage pastures and corrals known as the holding system,
There are now more than 51,000 animals in holding, eating up so much of the program’s budget — about $ 60 million a year — that the bureau has little left to manage mustangs in the wild.
“It’s completely unsustainable,” said Terry Messmer, a professor of wildlife resources at Utah State University who has studied the program history. “I don’t think anyone who passed this law would be happy with how things turned out 50 years later.”
The bureau declined to comment on the record for this article.
Bureau leaders have repeatedly proposed culling the storage herds, but they have always been blocked by lawmakers mindful that a vast majority of voters do not want symbols of their heritage turned into cuts of meat.
Enter the Adoption Incentive Program, which is built on the idea that paying adopters $ 1,000 a head is far cheaper than the $ 24,000 average lifetime cost of keeping a horse in government hands.
The program nearly doubled the number of horses leaving the holding system, and the bureau called it “a win for all involved” that was helping “animals find homes with families who will care for and enjoy them for years to come.”
The bureau’s once-sleepy adoption events were transformed. “It became a feeding frenzy — I have never seen anything like it,” said Carol Walker, a photographer who documents the wild herds of Wyoming.
In February, she arrived at an event in Rock Springs, Wyo., and found a line of trailers a half-mile long. When the gates opened, people rushed to sign up for adoptions without even inspecting the mustangs.
“Those people weren’t there because they cared about the horses,” Ms. Walker said. “They were there because they cared about the money.”
To be sure, tens of thousands of wild horses have been adopted over the years by people who kept and cared for them as the law intended. Some became ranch horses, some work with the Border Patrol, and one became a world champion in dressage.
But the adoption program has hardly been selective. One man in Oklahoma was paid to take horses even though he had previously gone to prison for kidnapping and beating two men during a horse-slaughter deal gone bad.
The program has rules meant to discourage quick-buck seekers. Adopters are limited to four animals a year and do not get full payment or title papers for 12 months.
Even so, records show several instances where families like the Kidds banded together to get more than four horses. And numerous mustangs bearing the distinctive government brand began showing up at slaughter auctions after the one-year wait was up.
“We used to see one or two mustangs occasionally, usually old ones that someone had owned for years, but suddenly the floodgates opened,” said Clare Staples, who founded a wild horse sanctuary in Oregon called Skydog Ranch.
Ms. Staples said she had helped find homes for more than 20 adopted mustangs that were dumped at auctions, apparently after having been given little care. Many were emaciated, with unkempt manes and untrimmed hooves, she said, and they often had parasites.
The bureau has refused to provide lists of adopters. But an informal network of wild-horse advocates has pieced together what is happening by using donated money to outbid kill buyers at auctions. That way, they spare mustangs from slaughter and obtain title papers that detail the horses’ ownership history.
The papers show that many adopters who quickly resell live in stretches of the Great Plains where pasture is cheap and people often derive a living from several sources. These adopters often took the maximum number of horses and sent them to auction soon after their final government payments cleared.
Lonnie Krause, a rancher in Bison, S.D., adopted four horses in 2019, and so did his grandson. In an interview, he said he saw nothing wrong with sending the mustangs to auction and acknowledged that they would probably go to kill buyers.
“It’s economics,” he said. “I can make about $ 800 putting a calf on my land for a year. With the horses, I made $ 1,000, then turned around and sold them for $ 500.”
Mr. Krause said bureau employees had told him he wasn’t breaking any rules. “Once you get title, they told me, there is no limitation — you can do whatever you want with them,” he said.
Getting mustangs out of storage is critical for the bureau because its wild horse program is now in a crisis. The cost of storing horses has cannibalized the helicopter budget, and roundups can no longer keep pace with growing herds. There are now about 100,000 wild horses in the West — triple what the bureau says the land can support. If left unchecked, in another decade they could number 500,000.
Managers warn that the growing herds could graze public lands down to dirt, which would devastate cattle ranchers who compete for grass, and harm delicate desert landscapes and native species.
For decadesgovernment auditors and scientific advisers have warned the bureau to move away from roundups and instead control populations on the range through fertility control drugs delivered by dart and other management tools that don’t add horses to the holding system, but the bureau has never changed course, in part because the cost of storing horses has crippled its ability to do anything else.
“We are at a make-or-break point,” said Celeste Carlisle, a member of the wild horse program’s citizen advisory board and a biologist for a wild horse sanctuary called Return to Freedom, which has pushed for alternatives to roundups. “We have to turn things around, or it will result in disaster.”
At the kill-buyer auctions, people who love wild horses are scrambling to respond.
One night last fall, Candace Ray, who lives near Dallas, was clicking through photos on the website of a nearby auction when she spotted 24 young, untamed mustangs. Within hours she was rallying hundreds of donors on Facebook.
Ms. Ray cajoled a young couple who give riding lessons on their nearby farm, Cody and Shawnee Barham, to drive to the auction and do the bidding.
The mustangs were all small and skittish. None had apparently ever been handled. Serial numbers branded on their necks showed they had been born free in Nevada, Utah or New Mexico.
The Barhams kept bidding for hours. By midnight they had spent $ 16,000 in donations and owned 24 horses. When they got the title papers, the names of the adopters who sold the horses had been blacked out with marker. But holding the papers up to a light revealed the names and addresses of the Kidd family.
The Barhams brought the mustangs to their farm, opened the trailer doors and let them run. The couple plans to train them to accept a halter and then find people who will give them “forever homes.”
Cody Barham stood one recent morning watching the herd nibble in one of his fields, a grease-stained John Deere hat on his head and a 9-millimeter pistol on his hip (for snakes). He watched his wife walk quietly into the pasture with her outstretched hand holding a horse cookie. One of the braver mustangs, a little black stallion, approached to sniff.
“Our goal is to get them to the point where you can just love up on ’em,” he said. “But after all they’ve been through, it might take them a while to trust people.”
WASHINGTON — As the East Coast suffered from the effects of a ransomware attack on a major petroleum pipeline, President Biden signed an executive order on Wednesday that placed strict new standards on the cybersecurity of any software sold to the federal government.
The order comes amid a wave of new cyberattacks, more sophisticated and far-reaching than ever before. Over the past year, roughly 2,400 ransomware attacks have hit corporate, local and federal offices in extortion plots that lock up victims’ data — or publish it — unless they pay a ransom.
The most urgent fear is an attack on critical infrastructure, a point made clear this week to Americans, who were panic-buying gasoline. A ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline’s information systems forced the company to shut down a critical pipeline that supplies 45 percent of the East Coast’s gasoline, diesel and jet fuel for several days.
While every president since George W. Bush has issued new guidelines to bolster the country’s digital defenses, Mr. Biden’s order is intended to reach deep into the private sector. And it is far more detailed than past efforts.
For the first time, the United States will require all software purchased by the federal government to meet, within six months, a series of new cybersecurity standards. Although the companies would have to “self-certify,” violators would be removed from federal procurement lists, which could kill their chances of selling their products on the commercial market.
The order also establishes an incident review board, much like the teams that investigate airline accidents, to learn lessons from major hacking episodes. The White House is mandating that the first incident under review will be the SolarWinds hack, in which Russia’s premier intelligence agency altered the computer code of an American company’s network management software. It gave Russia broad access to 18,000 agencies, organizations and companies, mostly in the United States.
The new order also requires all federal agencies to encrypt data, whether it is in storage or while it is being transmitted — two very different challenges. When China stole 21.5 million files about federal employees and contractors holding security clearances, none of the files were encrypted, meaning they could be easily read. (Chinese hackers, investigators later concluded, encrypted the files themselves — to avoid being detected as they sent the sensitive records back to Beijing.)
Previous efforts to mandate minimum standards on software have failed to get through Congress, notably in a major showdown nine years ago. Small businesses have said the changes are not affordable, and larger ones have opposed an intrusive role of the federal government inside their systems.
But Mr. Biden decided it was more important to move quickly than to try to fight for broader mandates on Capitol Hill. His aides said it was a first step, and industry officials said it was bolder than they expected.
Amit Yoran, the chief executive of Tenable and a former cybersecurity official in the Department of Homeland Security, said the question on everyone’s mind was whether Mr. Biden’s order would stop the next Colonial or SolarWinds attacks.
“No one policy, government initiative or technology can do that,” Mr. Yoran said. “But this is a great start.”
Government officials have complained that Colonial had poor defenses, and while it established a hard shell around its computer networks, it had no way of monitoring an adversary who got inside. The Biden administration hopes the standards set out in the executive order, requiring multifactor authentication and other safeguards, will become widespread and improve security globally.
Senator Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia and the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, praised the order but said it would need to be followed by congressional action.
Mr. Warner said recent attacks “have highlighted what has become increasingly obvious in recent years: that the United States is simply not prepared to fend off state-sponsored or even criminal hackers intent on compromising our systems for profit or espionage.”
The new order is the first major public part of a multilayered review of defensive, offensive and legal strategies to take on adversaries around the world. This executive order, however, focuses entirely on deepening defenses, in hopes of deterring attackers because they fear they would fail — or run a higher risk of being detected.
The Justice Department is ramping up a new task force to take on ransomware, after the discovery in recent months that such attacks are more than just extortion, they can bring down sectors of the economy.
Mr. Biden announced sanctions against Russia for the SolarWinds hack, and his national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, has said there will also be “unseen” consequences. So far, the United States has not taken similar action against China’s government for its presumed involvement in another attack, exploiting holes in a Microsoft system used by large companies around the world.
The executive order was first drafted in February in response to the SolarWinds intrusion. That attack was especially sophisticated because hackers working for the Russian government managed to change code under development by the company, which unsuspectingly distributed the malware in an update to its software packages. It was discovered during Mr. Biden’s transition and led him to declare he could not trust the integrity of federal computer systems.
The review board created under the executive order will be co-led by the secretary of homeland security and a private-sector official, based on the specific episode it is investigating at the time, in an effort to win over industry executives who fear the investigations could be fodder for lawsuits.
Because it was created by an executive order, not an act of Congress, the new board will not have the same broad powers as a safety board. But officials are still hopeful it will be valuable in learning of vulnerabilities, improving security practices and urging companies to invest more in improving their networks.
Much of the executive order is focused on information sharing and transparency. It aims to speed the time companies that have been victimized by a hack or discover vulnerabilities share that information with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
Author: David E. Sanger and Julian E. Barnes
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Josh Duggar is behind bars and being held without bail following his arrest by federal agents in Arkansas on Apr. 29.
Former 19 Kids and Counting star Josh Duggar is in big trouble with the law. Federal agents arrested the 33-year-old in Washington County, AR on Thurs. Apr. 29, TMZ reports. In his mugshot, he’s seen with an odd smirk on his face. HollywoodLife.com has reached out to Josh’s rep for comment on his arrest, as well as a Duggar family spokesperson. We’ve also contacted the Department of Homeland Security, the Arkansas Justice Department and the Washington County Sheriff’s Office. It’s unclear what the father of six is being charged with, but he’s being held without bail.
In Nov. 2019, Homeland Security agents raided the car dealership where he worked in Springdale, AR, as part of a larger probe. At the time, a Duggar family spokesperson said, that it wasn’t true that “any member of our family is the target of any investigation of any kind.” The rep added, “Living a life in the public’s eye has taught us that it is best not to reply to every rumor and piece of ‘fake news’ that is circulated online. It would be a full-time job if we attempted to do so.”
In 2015, Josh admitted to molesting four of his younger sisters, as well as a babysitter, when he was a teenager. But by then the statue of limitations had run out for him to be prosecuted. In a statement in May of that year he said, ““Twelve years ago, as a young teenager, I acted inexcusably for which I am extremely sorry and deeply regret. I hurt others, including my family and close friends. I confessed this to my parents who took several steps to help me address the situation. We spoke with the authorities where I confessed my wrongdoing, and my parents arranged for me and those affected by my actions to receive counseling. I understood that if I continued down this wrong road that I would end up ruining my life.”
As a result of the scandal, TLC cancelled 19 Kids and Counting in July 2015. In Aug. 2015, came the bombshell news that Josh had been allegedly seeking one night stands with two different profiles on the website Ashley Madison, which was specifically designed for cheating spouses. He later admitted to having a serious porn addiction.
Josh put out a statement in Aug. 2015, where he wrote the that he had been “the biggest hypocrite ever.” Josh said he had been “viewing pornography on the internet” for the last “several years,” and his secret addiction led him to be “unfaithful to [his] wife.” Josh said he was “so ashamed of the double life that I have been living,” before apologizing for the “pain and disgrace [his] sin has caused [his] wife and family.” He then entered a faith-based rehab for porn addiction.
Josh completed a six month stay in a residential treatment facility in Illinois, and left the center in Mar. 2016 to return home to try to rebuild his family and his relationship with wife Anna Duggar. While things were frosty at first, they have continued to add to their brood. At the time of Josh seeking treatment, they had four children. The couple has since added two more kids to their family with the birth of son Mason and 2019 birth of daughterMaryella.
WASHINGTON — Four months after Congress approved tens of billions of dollars in emergency rental aid, only a small portion has reached landlords and tenants, and in many places it is impossible even to file an application.
The program requires hundreds of state and local governments to devise and carry out their own plans, and some have been slow to begin. But the pace is hindered mostly by the sheer complexity of the task: starting a huge pop-up program that reaches millions of tenants, verifies their debts and wins over landlords whose interests are not always the same as their renters’.
The money at stake is vast. Congress approved $ 25 billion in December and added more than $ 20 billion in March. The sum the federal government now has for emergency rental aid, $ 46.5 billion, rivals the annual budget of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Experts say careful preparation may improve results; it takes time to find the neediest tenants and ensure payment accuracy. But with 1 in 7 renters reporting that they are behind on payments, the longer it takes to distribute the money, the more landlords suffer destabilizing losses, and tenants risk eviction.
Millions of tenants are protected from eviction only by a tenuous federal moratorium that faces multiple court challenges, omits many households and is scheduled to expire in June.
“I’m impressed with the amount of work that unsung public servants are doing to set up these programs, but it is problematic that more money isn’t getting out the door,” said Ingrid Gould Ellen, a professor at New York University who is studying the effort. “There are downstream effects if small landlords can’t keep up their buildings, and you want to reach families when they first hit a crisis so their problems don’t compound.”
Estimates of unpaid rents vary greatly, from $ 8 billion to $ 53 billion, with the sums that Congress has approved at the high end of the range.
The situation illustrates the patchwork nature of the American safety net. Food, cash, health care and other types of aid flow through separate programs. Each has its own mix of federal, state and local control, leading to great geographic variation.
While some pandemic aid has flowed through established programs, the rental help is both decentralized and new, making the variation especially pronounced.
Among those seeking help is Saundra Broughton, 48, a logistics worker outside Charleston, S.C., who considered herself safely middle class in the fall, when she rented an apartment with a fitness center and saltwater pool. To her shock, she was soon laid off; after her jobless benefits were delayed, she received an eviction notice.
“I’ve always worked and taken care of myself,” she said. “I’ve never been on public assistance.”
A judge gave Ms. Broughton 10 days to leave her apartment. Only a last-minute call to legal aid brought word of the federal moratorium, which requires tenants to apply. She rushed to the library to print the form with 24 hours to spare. “But I still owe the money,” she said, about $ 4,600 and counting.
If Ms. Broughton lived in nearby Berkeley County, she could have sought help as early as March 29. In Charleston County, a few miles away, she could have applied on April 12. But as a resident of Dorchester County, she must apply through the state, which has $ 272 million in federal money but is not yet taking applications.
“Why are they holding the money?” she said. “I have thousands of dollars of debt and could be kicked out at any moment. It’s a very frightening feeling.”
The huge aid measures passed during the early stages of the pandemic did not include specific provisions to help renters, though they did give most households cash. But hundreds of state and local governments started programs with discretionary money from the CARES Act, passed in March 2020. These efforts disbursed $ 4.5 billion in what amounted to a practice run for the effort now underway with 10 times the money.
Lessons cited include the need to reach out to the poorest tenants to let them know aid is available. Technology often posed barriers: Renters had to apply online, and many lacked computers or internet access.
The demand for documentation also thwarted aid, as many people without proof of leases or lost income could not finish applications. Some landlords declined to participate, perhaps preferring to seek new tenants.
Despite rising need, programs in Florida and New York, financed by the CARES Act, returned tens of millions of unspent dollars to the states. By the time Congress passed the new program in December, nearly 1 renter household in 5 reported being behind on payments.
The national effort, the Emergency Rental Assistance Program, is run by the Treasury Department. It allocates money to states and also to cities and counties with populations of at least 200,000 that want to run their own programs. About 110 cities and 227 counties have chosen to do so.
The program offers up to 12 months of rent and utilities to low-income tenants economically harmed by the pandemic, with priority on households with less than half the area’s median income — typically about $ 34,000 a year. Federal law does not deny the aid to undocumented immigrants, though a few states and counties do.
Modern assistance seems to demand a mix of Jacob Riis and Bill Gates — outreach to the marginalized and help with software. Progress slowed for a month when the Biden administration canceled guidance issued under President Donald J. Trump and developed rules that require less documentation.
Other reasons for slow starts vary. Progressive state legislators in New York spent months debating the best way to protect the neediest tenants. Conservatives legislators in South Carolina were less focused on the issue. But the result was largely the same: Neither legislature passed its program until April, and neither state is yet accepting applications.
“I just don’t know why there hasn’t been more of a sense of urgency,” said Sue Berkowitz, the director of the South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center. “We’ve been hearing nonstop from people worried about eviction.”
There is no complete data on how many tenants have been helped. But of the $ 17.6 billion awarded to state governments, 20 percent is going to states not yet taking applications, though some local programs in those states are. Florida (which has $ 871 million), Illinois ($ 566 million) and North Carolina ($ 547 million) are among those that have yet to start.
“The pace is slow,” said Greg Brown of the National Apartment Association, who emphasized that landlords have mortgages, taxes and maintenance to pay.
In a recent talk at the Brookings Institution, Erika Poethig, a housing expert on the White House Domestic Policy Council, praised the “unprecedented amount of rental assistance” and said “the federal government only has so much ability” to encourage faster action.
Accepting applications is only the beginning. With $ 1.5 billion to spend, California has attracted 150,000 requests for help. But of the $ 355 million requested, only $ 20 million has been approved and $ 1 million paid.
By contrast, a program jointly run by the city of Houston and Harris County had spent about a quarter of its money and assisted nearly 10,000 households.
Not everyone is troubled by the pace. “Getting the money out fast isn’t necessarily the goal here, especially when we focus on making sure the money reaches the most vulnerable people,” said Diane Yentel, the director of the National Low Income Housing Coalition.
Given the challenge, she said, “I think it’s going OK.”
She points toward a program in Santa Clara County, Calif., that won praise for its outreach last year. Many of the people it served spoke little English or lacked formal leases to submit. Now, with $ 36 million to spend under the new program, it opted for weeks of additional planning to train 50 nonprofit groups to find the poorest households
“Giving away money is actually quite hard,” said Jen Loving, who runs Destination: Home, a housing group leading the campaign. “All the money in the world isn’t going matter if it doesn’t get to the people who need it.”
The second state program, started with $ 25 million in February, drew so many applications that it closed in six days. But South Carolina is still processing those requests as it decides how to distribute the new federal funds.
Antonette Worke is among the applicants awaiting an answer. She moved to Charleston from Denver last year, drawn by cheaper rents, warmer weather and a job offer. But the job fell through, and her landlord filed for eviction.
Ms. Worke, who has kidney and liver disease, is temporarily protected by the federal eviction moratorium. But it does not cover tenants whose leases expire, as hers will at the end of next month. Her landlord said he would force her to move, even if the state paid the $ 5,000 in overdue rent.
Still, she said the help was important: A clean slate would make it easier to rent a new apartment and relieve her of an impossible debt. “I’m stressing over it to the point where I’ve made myself sicker,” she said.
Moving faster than the state, Charleston County started its $ 12 million program two weeks ago, and workers have taken computers to farmers’ markets, community centers and a mall parking lot. Christine DuRant, a deputy county administrator, said the aid was needed to prevent foreclosures that could reduce the housing stock. But critics would pounce if the program sent payments to people who do not qualify, she said: “We will be audited,” possibly three times.
Latoya Green is caught where the desire for speed and accounting collide. A clerk who lost hours in the pandemic, she owes $ 3,700 in rent and utilities and is protected by the eviction moratorium only until her lease expires next month.
She applied for help on the day the county program started but has not completed the application. She said she is unsettled by the emails requesting her lease, which she lacks, and proof of lost income.
Still, Ms. Green does not criticize Charleston County officials. “I think they’re trying their best,” she said. “A lot of people run scams.”
With time running short, she added: “I just hope and pray to God they’ll be able to assist me.”

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A lot of people are turning to a vegan lifestyle for health or personal reasons. There are so many things that you can eat while on this type of diet, but you will find that if you have kids it can be hard to find something that they will eat. The term vegan may sound scary to kids, but in reality, there are so many different recipes out there that kids will absolutely love. If you are looking for kid-friendly vegan recipes then this is the place to find them.
The options for food while on this type of diet are endless. Below I am going to list some kid vegan recipes. Not only will your child love to eat these, but they will also want to be involved in making them.
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Mac and Cheese is always a crowd favorite! There is a special kick to this Mac and Cheese though, you actually will not be using cheese! Instead, you will be using things like coconut milk, raw cashews, carrots, potatoes, and more. You can find this full recipe here.
Another great option is the kid-friendly vegan grilled cheese! Once again there is absolutely no cheese in this sandwich! Instead, you will be enjoying the crispy, crunchy, delicious taste of vegetables in this sandwich. It contains carrots, onions, and potatoes! You can find this recipe here.
Every kid loves popcorn chicken, right? What’s better than a popcorn chicken snack? Instead of using chicken you are going to use soy chunks. Trust me, you cannot taste the difference! It’s amazing! This recipe is easily found here.
These are just some of the recipes that are easily found and readily available. It is not hard to do a quick internet search and come up with recipes that your whole family will absolutely love. Kids are sometimes more skeptical about trying new foods but they will quickly learn that the vegan lifestyle has lots of options to choose from.
The recipes that you can choose from are absolutely endless. There are even recipes for things like chocolate chip oatmeal cookies, cinnamon rolls, biscuits and gravy, and pizza. You will be able to find recipes even for the pickiest eaters.
The idea of changing to a vegan lifestyle can seem stressful and like it will be difficult, but it won’t be. It is actually a very easy and stress-free transition. There are so many kid vegan recipes out there that make this transition so easy for families.
More and more families are going to continue turning to this type of lifestyle so things are only going to become easier for them. A vegan lifestyle is not for everyone, but it is something that is becoming more widely known and accepted.
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Kentucky's Secretary of State faces challenges ahead of election
The Kentucky Board of Elections met Friday to finalize some plans for what could be one of the most unusual elections in Kentucky history amid the COVID-19 outbreak.
That's setting up Secretary of State Michael Adams to begin a massive voter education campaign while managing his own party's skepticism about the increased use of absentee voting.
President Donald Trump is helping to fuel much of the wariness, tweeting "Republicans should fight very hard when it comes to state wide mail-in voting. Democrats are clamoring for it. Tremendous potential for voter fraud, and for whatever reason, doesn't work well for Republicans."
Adams, himself a Republican, ran on measures to curb election fraud and successfully pushed lawmakers this year to pass a voter ID law, which takes effect in November.
"We've got ballot integrity built into this plan," Adams said. "We're not doing this West Coast-style, just mailing out ballots to people. We've got an application process. We've got a signature verification process. You're going to see barcodes on the absentee ballot envelopes, make sure we track the ballots going out and coming in, and very soon you'll see me announce a task force to fight election fraud as well."
The sentiments against absentee ballots only add to the workload for Adams.
"This is my first election, actually," Adams noted. "I just got sworn in less than four months ago and it's a lot of work to prepare for even the most normal election. This is not that."
Adams worked with Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear on the changes the bipartisan state board of elections approved.
The primary election date was moved back from May 15 to June 23, and the last day to register was extended to May 26.
With so few poll workers willing to risk their health and a shortage of personal protective equipment, local county clerks will likely be forced to reduce the number of polling locations.
In response, early voting will begin two weeks ahead of election day, curbside or drive-thru voting could be offered in some counties and voting by absentee ballot will be heavily pushed, Adams said.
In mid-May, postcards will be mailed out to registered voters explaining many of the changes and directing them to a new online portal to request absentee ballots, he said.


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In a stark contrast to the spring of 2022, rainfall at our storages was only around half of the long-term average.
This resulted in inflows of just over 5 GL to our storages on the Coliban River, which is around a third of the median inflow that we have received over the same period since 1975.
Executive General Manager Strategy, Anna Lamont said despite the drier conditions, previous wet years mean our water resource position is good.
“We’ve had three years where rainfall was significantly above average. To put that into perspective, the average annual rainfall is around 710 mm at Malmsbury, and last year we recorded over 1,100 mm of rain.”
“As a result, our storages on the Coliban River are at 94% of capacity, we’re holding 98% of our share of Lake Eppalock, and we have received 100% allocation for our surface water entitlements in the regulated Goulburn, Murray and Campaspe systems managed by Goulburn-Murray Water,” Ms Lamont said.
The local conditions are replicated around the country, with Bureau of Meteorology data showing that for Australia as a whole, October rainfall was 65% below the 1961–1990 average, the fifth driest October on record (since 1900) and the driest since 2002.
While the region remains in a strong position, the organisation is reminding customers to consider how they’re using water around our homes and businesses.
“We are expecting hot and dry summers ahead, so we need to ask ourselves how we’re monitoring our water use and whether we’ve slipped back into any wasteful behaviours.
“We have a range of resources on our website to help our customers save water, including our popular Smart Gardens for a Dry Climate booklet. We’ve also created a Drip Saving Tips page and we’re encouraging customers to contribute their favourite ways of saving water,” Ms Lamont said.
Permanent Water Saving Rules remain in place across our region, which include 5 common-sense rules designed to help us use water more wisely:
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2. Watering systems can be used for residential or commercial gardens and lawns between 6pm and 10am.
3. Watering systems can be used for public gardens, lawns and playing surfaces between 6pm and 10am.
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NBC – Police released dashcam video of a gas explosion that leveled an Ocean County, New Jersey, home, injured 15 people, and shook homes in every direction Tuesday morning, including one of a young mother.
“My windows blew out of my house, and I dropped, and I covered my daughter, because she was next to me,” said Stafford Township resident Melissa Lewis. “I stood up, and I heard them screaming outside, and there were people being taken to the ambulance.”
Police received the initial call for an odor inspection in the Cedar Run neighborhood of the township near U.S. Route 9 around 8:55 a.m., about an hour and a half before the blast occurred, according to Stafford Township Police Capt. Tom Dellane.
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Susan L. Aberth holds Edith C. Blum Professor in the Art History and Visual Culture distinguished chair at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. She is widely published in books, exhibition catalogues, auction catalogues and periodicals. Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art was the first monograph on the artist and is still in print its 8th edition. In 2020 she and Mexican curator Tere Arcq published The Tarot of Leonora Carrington. Some of her essays in exhibition catalogues include: Surrealism and Magic, Guggenheim Venice (2022); Not Without My Ghosts (2020, traveling exhibition in England); Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist (Phoenix Art Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2019), Leonora Carrington: Cuentos Magicos (Museo de Arte Moderno & INBA, Mexico City, 2018). She has written essays for many books and for the Journal of Surrealism of the Americas; Artforum, ASAP/Journal; Words without Borders; Mélusine; Art Journal.
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In Houston’s restaurant scene, high value is often placed on innovation, novelty and newness -on the trendiest restaurant, the most unique dining experience or the latest foodie fad. It is no wonder, then, that so many of the city’s oldest eateries have disappeared.
Fortunately, not all of the area’s old eateries are a thing of the past. Several Houston-area stalwarts have managed to keep their doors open for decades.
Listed chronologically by opening date, here’s a look at the longstanding Houston-area restaurants, cafes, bars and bakeries still going strong after over a half-century in business. Note that the first three establishments listed here are more than a century old and belong in an elite league of their own.
Founded by San Giacinto Gaido in 1911, the Galveston institution has offered generations of beach goers ocean views and fresh local seafood. Fourth-generation Gaidos own and run the seafood restaurant to this day. The restaurant is located at 3828 Seawall Boulevard.
Located on the corner of 14th St. and Market St. in Galveston’s Historic District, The Original Mexican Cafe is the longest continually operating restaurant on Galveston Island still at its original location.
Theodore Christie first opened Christie’s restaurant in Galveston in 1917 as a fried fish po’ boy shop. Soon after, he moved his restaurant to Houston, where he opened five additional locations. In 1967, James Priovolos -- Theodore’s adoptive son-- and his cousin Steve bought the restaurant from Theodore. As Theodore had no children of his own, James and Steve changed their family names so that the Christie name would live on. Theodore passed away in 1968. James passed away in 2013. His children own and operate the only Christie’s restaurant location still operating. Situated at 6029 Westheimer Road, the location has been open since 1965.
Brothers Tom and James Papadakis opened their first restaurant in 1923 on the ground floor of the Beatty-West Building on Walker and Main in downtown Houston. A flip of the coin decided which brother’s name would grace the sign. Obviously, James won. Following the success of its original location, several additional locations followed. There are currently 17 locations operating in and around Houston.
A beloved area institution since 1928, West Alabama Ice House is located at 1919 West Alabama Street in Houston’s Montrose neighborhood. The institution opened as an ice house peddling blocks of ice. Over the years, as its functions as an ice house grew ever more obsolete, the business evolved into a local watering hole and now functions as an outdoor patio bar.
Brothers Gus and Raymond Moeller started the small bakery on Almeda Road back in 1930.
Houston’s oldest family-owned bakery has changed locations twice over the course of 90 years and is currently located on the south side of Bellaire Boulevard, west of Wesleyan Street. Despite nearly a century in business, the Houston institution has stuck firmly to its roots -- The bakery still uses the same oven that it used in 1942 and bakes its desserts following the recipes Gus crafted back in 1930.
Doug Prince opened his first burger joint in Dallas in 1929. Soon after, he relocated to Houston to build his burger empire. He opened his first Houston restaurant in a former Weber’s Root Beer stand on Main Street and went on to open an additional 20-something drive-ins and restaurants. Though the chain expanded to other cities like San Antonio and Beaumont, the bulk of the restaurants remained concentrated in the Houston area. Prince’s Hamburgers closed its last Houston location at 3425 Ella Blvd. at the beginning of 2018 due to issues resulting from Hurricane Harvey. In October 2020, current owner John Broussard revived the iconic restaurant at a new location inside the clubhouse at the Sharpstown Park Golf Course.
Texas barbecue legend John Davis and his wife Leila opened the historic Houston restaurant in 1935 as Shepherd Drive Bar-B-Q. After the couple passed away, longtime customer Jerry Pizzitola bought the business, renamed it and got to work restoring it to its former glory. Upon his retirement in 2019, Pizzitola sold the barbecue joint to veteran restaurateur Willie Madden. The barbecue joint continues to smoke its meat on the brick pits John used back in the day.
Young newlyweds Herman and Lorene Brenner opened the original Brenner’s in 1936 under the name Brenner’s Cafe. The restaurant served light fare including breakfast food, sandwiches, fried chicken and some steaks, which were rarely sold because few people could afford them. In the early 1950′s, the Brenner’s began serving prime beef filets and the restaurant’s evolution into a renowned Houston steakhouse began. Herman passed away in 1976 at the age of 67. His wife continued to operate the business for many years thereafter but ultimately closed the restaurant in 2002. In an effort to preserve Houston’s history, Landry’s Inc. purchased the restaurant, revitalized the concept and opened an additional location.
Soon after Avalon Drug Store opened at the corner of Westheimer and Kirby in 1938, an informal restaurant of sorts began operating in the back dining room. The makeshift eatery ultimately evolved into a full-blown restaurant concept and now boasts four locations.
Lankford’s Grocery & Market opened in 1939 and continues to operate out of its original location, located at 88 Dennis St., near Houston’s Midtown neighborhood.
Dimitri and Peggy Bokos opened Tel-Wing Grill in 1940 and relocated the restaurant to its present location on Telephone Road in 1962.
Anabelle Collins and Martha Kavanaugh opened Cleburne’s Cafeteria on Fannin Street in 1941. In 1952, newlyweds Nick and Pat Mickelis bought it from the pair and in 1969 relocated the restaurant to its current location on Bissonnet Street. Throughout its history, the restaurant has burned down and been rebuilt twice.Today, Nick and Pat’s son, George Mickelis, runs the restaurant.
Houston’s oldest family-owned Tex-Mex restaurant got its start in 1941when Raul Molina and his wife Mary purchased the restaurant where Raul had been employed for 10 years-- the Old Monterrey Restaurant, located at 1919 West Gray. Throughout the decades, Raul and his sons opened and moved various Molina’s Cantina locations throughout Houston. Raul’s grandsons now own and operate the three locations currently operating. Many of the restaurant’s original recipes remain on the menu.
Louis and Nell Skrehot opened The Barbecue Inn in 1946. Their son Wayne and his son David now run the business, which continues to operate at its original location on West Crosstimbers Street in Houston’s Greater Heights/Garden Oaks area.
Touted as Houston’s oldest bar, Leon’s Lounge opened in Midtown at 1006 McGowen back in 1947.
The Midtown-area institution has been serving Houston since 1948. Greek immigrant Johnny Platsas and his Ecuadorian wife Patricia acquired the restaurant in the early 1960s and added to the menu several dishes that reflected their heritage. The couple’s children Gianni and Zoi now operate the restaurant.
The iconic Three Brothers Bakery has served as a cornerstone of Houston’s Jewish community for generations. In 1945, Holcoaust survivors Sigmund, Sol and Max Jucker emigrated to Houston from Poland to start a new life. A few years later, in 1949, they opened Three Brothers Bakery on Holman Street, across from Temple Beth Israel.
Opening day wasn’t as successful as the brothers had hoped it would be -- They sold just $19 worth of product. But the brothers ventured on. They learned to make American cakes and pastries but ultimately gained distinction for their Jewish and Eastern European recipes, which included challah, rye bread and Kaiser rolls. It’s said the trio was the first to bring the bagel to Houston. They survived on Holman with one parking place for five years and in May 1955, they moved the bakery to Almeda Street at Southmore. The great parking made them successful enough to move again to South Braeswood in May, 1960, a location that remains open to this day.
In 2012 and 2014, TBB opened two more locations on Kingsride Lane near Memorial City Mall and Washington Ave. off Shepherd, respectively.
Fifth-generation Juckers own and operate Three Brothers Bakery today.
Goodson’s Cafe opened in Tomball in 1950. Several years later, one of its employees, Ella “Ma” Goodson, bought the cafe, which soon after began catering to the oil field workers nearby. Over the years, the cafe gained distinction for its chicken fried steak, which has been featured in several publications and programs both locally and nationally. The restaurant is located at 27931 State Highway 249.
This unassuming bakery in southeast Houston has proved its staying power. Opened in 1956, The Original Kolache Shoppe serves up savory and sugary treats galore: Notable mentions include klobasniky, sweet kolaches and Texas-sized croissants.
La Carafe began operating out of 813 Congress St., the city’s oldest commercial building still in use, back in 1958.
In 1959, Frank and Mattie Jones opened This Is It in an A-frame house at 1003 Andrews, located in Freedmen’s Town, a predominantly African American neighborhood in Fourth Ward. The restaurant has relocated multiple times and now operates at 2712 Blodgett in Houston’s Third Ward. Frank and Mattie’s grandson Craig Joseph now owns and operates the restaurant.
Opened in 1961, Stanton’s City Bites began as a family-run grocery store. Over the years, it evolved into a burger joint, which currently operates at 1420 Edwards St.
The Tex-Mex restaurant opened in 1964 and currently operates at 6444 Westheimer Road.
Houston native Tony Vallone opened the first Tony’s restaurant in 1955. Tony’s has moved three times since it began operating and currently resides at 3755 Richmond Avenue in Greenway Plaza.
Brennan’s opened in 1967 as a sister restaurant to the world-famous Commander’s Palace in New Orleans.
Dot Coffee Shop was the first of many restaurants opened by the Pappas family. Since 1967, the diner has been serving up comfort food favorites like chicken fried steak, pot roast and pecan pie. The eatery still operated out of its original location, situated at 7006 I-45 South at Woodridge.
Flying Saucer Pie Company, the beloved bakery in Houston’s Independence Heights neighborhood has proved its staying power. Opened in 1967, the Houston institution has baked thousands and thousands of pies in its time.
Burger Park opened in Houston in 1968 and is currently located at 6704 Martin Luther King Blvd.
In 1969, New Orleans native and Houston transplant Percy “Frenchy” Creuzot opened Frenchy’s as a po-boy shop on Scott Street, near UH and TSU.The small establishment soon added fried chicken to its menu. Following the success of its original location, several additional locations followed and a local fried chicken empire was born.
Now a mainstay of the city’s restaurant scene, China Garden began as the Chinese Food Products imports store in 1968. After a year of serving the community’s culinary needs, owners David and Marian Jue decided to switch gears and in 1969 they opened China Garden’s doors for the first time.
Whether it was a great meal or a special moment, share the fondest memories you’ve made at one of these longstanding Houston-area spots.

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“There can be no criminal gang without the support of the Police,” confesses exraso
Former member of National Police Rubén Eladio Uceta Gómez
A former member of the National Police who became a criminal by conviction while he was part of the law enforcement agency ranks confessed that it is the institution that supplies firearms to antisocials to commit crimes.
In an interview with the journalist Alicia Ortega, the former Rubén Eladio Uceta Gómez assured that in the neighborhoods, crime gangs coexist because of the support that the Police provide them.
These statements were offered by giving his testimony as a corrupt policeman that was nine years ago.
He confessed that he became a corrupt policeman when he saw that the criminals, protected by his superiors, had more authority than the officers.
«We could not say anything; sometimes we felt that the criminal had more authority than us then, seeing that I entered the crime … A criminal protected by a colonel has more authority … If you are a criminal and have the money, you have more authority than the policeman,” he confessed to the journalist during a tour they made in the Las Cañitas sector of the National District.
According to Uceta Gómez, for there to be a true police reform, it is necessary to remove the high command officers from the ranks and not the subjects who only receive orders.
“What is needed for police reform is that they clean up the high command, not the low command. As long as the sergeant recruits, the officers who are not superiors will always remain the ringleaders; the ringleaders are the ones who set up the network,” he said.
Uceta Gómez spent a year in preventive prison for possession of a high-caliber weapon. Upon leaving prison, he confesses that he abandoned corruption and converted to Christianity. He has terminated from the law enforcement agency eight years ago for misconduct, although he says his dismissal was due to his refusal to continue with acts of corruption.


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Sumary of Relief for Oyo as NCLAT stays bankruptcy case:
- Hospitality firm Oyo on Thursday said the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) has ordered a stay on the formation of committee of creditors in proceedings under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code against its subsidiary Oyo Hotels and Homes Pvt Ltd (OHHPL)..
- Earlier, the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) had admitted a petition for initiating insolvency proceedings against OHHPL for recovery of Rs 16 lakh, an order that the hospitality firm challenged before the appellate tribunal on Wednesday..
- “Closing @riteshagar’s thread from yesterday – Today NCLAT has admitted our plea and ordered a stay for the formation of COC in IBC proceedings against OHHPL, an OYO subsidiary..
- In a tweet, Oyo founder and group CEO Ritesh Agarwal said, “I am so grateful to everyone for their support on social media since yesterday (Wednesday)..
- Thank you for discouraging misleadi… https://t.co/xI0AMmG2tu Agarwal on Wednesday had rubbished the reports that the company had filed for bankruptcy…


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By Jude Gaya
The Discovery’s biggest competition emanates from within its own stable in the form of the new Defender. Land Rover has, therefore, looked to further differentiate the two by repositioning the Discovery as a premium offering.
Land Rover Discovery face-lift includes the revamping of the several features, to render some levels of luxury, including air suspension as standard fitment, which endows the new-look Discovery with a composed – and eminently comfortable, ride quality.
To meet stricter European union EU emissions standards, new straight-six turbo-petrol and turbo-diesel engines have been installed. Easiest to spot is the technology updates inside the Discovery, with the same Pivi Pro infotainment system – that’s on current Jaguars, taking centre stage on the premium SUV’s fascia.
There’s no doubt that the Discovery offers genuine dual-purpose ability, even if this generation model looks a little softer on the edges than its predecessors. It’s the most capable SUV in its segment across varied road surfaces and terrains. In a nutshell, the Discovery is the only premium SUV that you would actually consider taking on extended off-road trips. Yet, the standard air suspension equally enhances the model’s on-road abilities too, by minimising body roll without compromising ride quality.
In terms of handling dynamics, the Discovery is nowhere as nimble as a BMW X5 or Audi Q7, but it’s not a wallowing hippo on the tarmac either. And it’s more composed on-road than its Defender sibling yet it is a big SUV. Such lofty levels of on-road comfort make the Discovery well suited for undertaking arduous journeys.
Land Rover has made it its quest to make off-roading as hassle-free as possible with every new iteration of SUV it produces. The Discovery has built-in Terrain Response – you activate it by pressing the rotary dial in the centre console, then waiting a second for it to raise up and then swivelling it to select the mode that matches the terrain you intend to tackle. Low range is easily selected with a simple press of a button beneath the rotary dial. The result is a luxuriously capable off-roader currently on the market.
The introduction of the new 11.4-inch Pivi Pro touchscreen infotainment system in the face lifted Discovery yields improvements in connectivity options, as well as the speed with which the hardware responds to inputs. The glass screen and hi-res display lift the cabin ambiance and gives the fascia a more contemporary look.
What is more, the Discovery is billed as a 7-seater that can actually accommodate 7 adults, in absolute comfort. Seats are folded electrically via switches near the respective pews or via a cluster of switches located in the load bay.
The electric tow-bar and electrically deployable tailgate are useful with the latter capable of holding 300 kg, which is more than useful for having impromptu boot picnics. Speaking of the load bay, it’s no less than massive and, with all the rear seats folded down, you have access to the largest utility space in the segment – 2,500 litres.
The new 3.0-litre power unit is effective at moving the big Discovery around at a brisk pace. It produces healthy peak outputs of 221 kW and 650 Nm and it’s allied with a 48V mid-hybrid system, which recoups power when slowing down and then redeploys it as torque to assist the Discovery when it accelerates from a standstill. It’s a very quiet motor; in fact, all you really hear from inside the cabin is a hint of wind noise.
An abundance of overtaking acceleration is a real strength of the new engine – you don’t get that kick of low-down torque that tapers off quickly, which can leave you a bit exposed if you’re overtaking at speed. The acceleration is consistent and it hauls along the big-rig Discovery with impressive speed. It’s easy to see how this work-horse claims a 0-100 kph time of 6.8 sec in acceleration.
Clients also have the option of ordering the petrol MHEV model, which utilises the P360 engine fitted with Mild Hybrid technology. The unit is capable of churning out 265 kW on the power spectrum and 500 Nm of torque. The British manufacturer claims an impressive 6.5 seconds for the 0-100 kph sprint.
The new Discovery is an expensive proposition, yet it represents one of the most luxurious ways to go off-road. The updates push it further up the premium ladder as it tries to make a case for itself above its Defender sibling.
If you’re wearing your sensible cap and looking for a large family car that executes everything from on-road journeys to off-road excursions in a more comfortable, connected and practical manner than any other offering in the premium SUV category, you should consider the Discovery on your short list. It is an expensive proposition, but it lacks for absolutely nothing. The official dealer is Inchcape Kenya, situated in Westlands, Nairobi, Kenya.


Huntelaar's future up in the air
Klaas Jan Huntelaar's future at Schalke remains uncertain as negotiations over a new contract are yet to get underway.
And Schalke's director of sport Horst Heldt is well aware of the fact that there are a whole host of top European clubs watching the situation of his star striker with much interest.
Huntelaar has only a year remaining on his contract and Heldt remains hopeful that a deal can be struck in the near future.
Although, it might be in the Gelsenkirchen outfit's best interests to cash in on the former AC Milan striker, otherwise he could leave as a free agent next year.
The Dutchman was the Bundesliga's top goalscorer last season with 29 goals and talks over a new deal have yet to take place.
And Heldt says he is giving the 28-year-old time to decide whether he wants to stay with the Royal Blues.
"It is up to Huntelaar," he said. "We want to extend his contract and I believe that it would make sense for both parties.
"But we need him to be 100% convinced. I cannot force any player to sign a new contract."
However, Heldt insists his club have the ambition for success that can fulfill Huntelaar's dreams.
Not only is Gelsenkirchen near the Dutch border, allowing him still to live in his home country and travel easily to training, but Schalke have proven their consistency over the past couple of seasons by qualifying for the Champions League once again.
"We finished last season third and played a leading role in the Bundesliga," he told Germany's Sky Sport News.
"We have good cards because I know what we have planned for the future."
"Klaas Jan is an absolutely top-level footballer and of course he will have other options," he added.


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Published at Wednesday, October 14th, 2020 - 17:45:27 PM. Lamp. By Mathilde Calvet.
One part lighting and one part sculpture, the table lamp is an important design element in any room. Table lamps can affect the entire tone of a room, from bright and cheery to dimly-lit and mysterious. Lighting can change the entire ambiance of a room. Following are a few tips to think about when choosing a table lamp for your home or office.
Always remember when buying decorative table lamps that the lamp bases and the shades are proportional. A lamp that fits the furniture of the house is the best, and make sure that when seated you don't see the light bulb by setting the lamp shade at eye level. Make sure that the lamp is proportional to the table that it is placed on. For a short table a taller table lamp is required thus choosing a short table lamp for a tall table.
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We'll keep our trip to NYC this September as planned. We already have tickets to see David Byrne's American Utopia and Moulin Rouge! The Musical that trip. Looks like we'll be forced to go back to New York next September as well! (Not a complaint! Always looking for an excuse to travel. )
Sounds like the two of you will still have a grand old time.

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Join Margaret and Graham for an intensive five days of bassoon and oboe escapades! Warm up every day with your double reed peers and learn more about the intricacies of playing your well-chosen instrument. Play dainty and daunting double-reed chamber music. Participate in special sessions on breathing, practice techniques, vibrato, posture, and intonation. Turn a piece of cane into a crowing reed. Resonate your reed in an all-double-reed concert on the last day of the workshop! All levels welcome.
Thank you to all of our 2018 participants for a fun week of double reed music making! See you next year!
Mark your calendars! The 2019 Double Reed Workshop will run August 26-30, 2019. Registration for the 2019 Double Reed Workshop will be available in spring 2019.
The 2018 Double Reed Workshop participants following their performance of the second movement of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony.
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Stock Market Outlook entering the Week of February 5th = Uptrend
- 20/50 Day Moving Averages: Uptrend
- Price & Volume Action: Uptrend
- Objective Elliott Wave Analysis: Uptrend
US markets had a hard time getting going last week, but found their footing on Friday as the Trump administration started dismantling Dodd-Frank.
All the indexes closed the week above their respective 20 and 50 day moving averages.
Price and volume action remains positive; leading stocks continue to advance without major sell-offs. The number number of distribution days experienced by the general market is neither high nor low.
OEW continues to signal an uptrend.
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