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Their journey is likely to take them past a small patch of land where a grill is set up in a parking lot. Here volunteers are offer, food, water, toiletries and boxes for gathering belongings from destroyed homes.
Across the street is the First Baptist Church of Moore. It’s a huge complex. And that’s where the Red Cross and FEMA have set up camp.
The tornado is now in the past. And people must now face their future.
Can Restaurants in India Legally Serve Beef?
A dish of grilled beef tenderloin at the Golden Globes Awards in California, Jan. 6, 2011.
Several states in India are ramping up legislation to protect cows, and maybe even buffaloes, in many cases making it harder to buy or sell their meat.
And yet it’s increasingly common to find restaurant menus in major Indian cities that feature dishes described as “tenderloin” or “filet mignon.” But what is this mystery meat? And is it even legal for it to be on the menu?
That’s hard to say even though there’s no national law banning the slaughter of cows or the sale and eating of beef. And no state laws explicitly ban beef from being eaten either.
But the two dozen local laws enacted to protect cows across India – in which the age, gender and even geographic origin of the animal all come into play – do make it pretty difficult for restaurants to legally source, store or serve beef.
“I still haven’t been able to figure out what is what myself even after three years of running a restaurant,” said Satish Warier, of the Delhi-based restaurant Gunpowder, which serves dishes typical of several southern Indian states, including Kerala, where beef is commonly served. At Gunpowder, those dishes are served with buffalo meat instead, as a nod to Hindu sentiment, which particularly in the north of the country frowns on eating beef from cows.
In Delhi, a 1994 law banned the slaughter of cows, calves, bulls and bullocks – but not buffalo. The 1994 ban appears to restrict Delhi restaurants from serving beef at all – even if the meat has been slaughtered somewhere where it is legal to do so, say Kerala or Australia, since it says that “no person shall have in his possession the flesh of agricultural cattle slaughtered outside Delhi.” That makes it kind of difficult to sell it or cook it.
In Gujarat, unsurprisingly, killing cows and bulls is totally banned and it’s illegal to possess the meat of these animals with no exception for imports.
In West Bengal, meanwhile, it’s okay to slaughter cows, bulls and buffaloes over the age of 14 – and therefore legal to sell and serve that meat.
In Karnataka, where it’s common to find beef in Bangalore restaurants, it’s fine to slaughter bulls – but not cows -- as long as they're over the age of 12. A new piece of legislation is attempting to change that however, making it illegal to sell any kind of beef in the state.
An earlier version of the legislation would have prohibited even buffalo, which is unusual, although that looks set to be altered in the process of securing presidential approval.
The restaurant manager also said that most beef sourced within India was likely be from an animal that was a dozen or even 15 years old – compared to three to four years or younger in the United States. But he said that was slowly changing.
Hands down, it’s Kerala that is India’s most beef-friendly state. There is no state legislation banning cow slaughter, “beef fry” is a beloved dish that is available at roadside stalls, and resorts market both their ayurvedic spa treatments and their beef dishes.
Anup Surendranath, a doctoral student of law at Oxford who blogged recently about beef laws upon realizing that his home state, Karnataka, planned to out-do Gujarat with new super-strict legislation, says that some aspects of India’s beef laws are so broad they could be open to legal challenge.
You can find India Real Time on Twitter @indiarealtime.
Amazon.com has released its paid streaming video service on Nintendo's new Wii U console, with a host of titles free to users who subscribe to its Amazon Prime service.
The Internet giant said Wednesday it has launched an app for the Wii U that will offer 140,000 titles for rent or purchase, of which 30,000 will be available free to Amazon Prime subscribers. The company offers the service on the three latest game consoles: the Wii U, Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3.
The company said the app will take advantage of the Wii U's advanced controller, which is closer to a full tablet with its 6.2-inch touch screen and motion controls. The controller can be used to choose titles and control playback, or as a standalone viewer to watch movies without a larger screen.
Nintendo has promoted the Amazon service, along with similar streaming services from Hulu and Netflix, as part of its efforts to brand the Wii U as more than a game console. The company has largely outsourced these efforts to such providers, in contrast to rivals like Sony, which also offers large video and music streaming libraries on its own Sony Entertainment Network.
For Amazon, the new app adds the Wii U to the growing list of devices that can be used to access its video holdings. These include game consoles, Apple's iPad tablets, and its own Fire tablets, as well a host of Internet-connected TVs and set-top boxes.
The company said videos purchased or rented on its platform can be viewed partially on one device, then finished on another, with the user's current position automatically synched.
Amazon offers its Prime subscription service for US$79 per year in the U.S., with a one-month free trial.
Nintendo said the Wii U had a successful U.S. launch over the weekend, despite long download times for a mandatory software update, outages to its online service and other software glitches.
The console is to go on sale later this month in Europe, and in December in Japan.
But is Chucky being replaced by a brand new villain?
The forthcoming movie reboot of the horror franchise Child’s Play will arrive in 2019, it has been confirmed – check out the first teaser poster for the film below.
The revival of the franchise – which became infamously synonymous with its playdoll villain, Chucky – comes 30 years after the release of the first Child’s Play film back in 1988.
With a companion TV series also in the works, the movie reboot of Child’s Play has now been confirmed for a June 21, 2019 release – ironically on the say day that Toy Story 4 will hit cinemas.
The first teaser poster for the new version of Child’s Play has also been released, which teases the arrival of a new doll, Buddi, and features the tagline: “More than a toy… he’s your best friend.” Check it out below.
The new Child’s Play will star the likes of Gabriel Bateman, Parks & Recreation‘s Aubrey Plaza and Atlanta‘s Brian Tyree Henry. It’s being co-produced by Seth Grahame-Smith and David Katzenberg, who both served as producers on the recent IT reboot.
As mentioned, a Child’s Play TV series is also in development. Announced back in the summer, original Child’s Play writer Don Mancini is driving this particular adaptation of the franchise.
KABUL, Afghanistan – An Afghan army officer says that six soldiers have been killed in the north-western province of Badghis after insurgents launched several attacks on guard posts.
Gen. Douod Shah Wafa, the commander of the Afghan National Army in the province, says Taliban gunmen used machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades to attack the posts in Bala Murghab district early on Tuesday morning.
In eastern Afghanistan, an official says an American drone killed five insurgents in Shirzad district in Nangahar province.
Ahmad Zia Abdulzai , the provincial governor's spokesman, says the drone strike on Monday killed three Taliban group commanders and two fighters.
Badghis and Nangahar are among Afghanistan's most violent provinces and have seen an escalation in Taliban attacks as the insurgent war has intensified in recent months.
Confetti flies around the ball and countdown clock in Times Square on New Year's Eve in New York January 1, 2015.
Ukraine, Ebola, ISIS — all year, we worked to find the personal stories behind the headlines. But the stories that resonated for those in our newsroom paint a different picture of 2014, a year marked by personal struggles, conflict and heartbreak — but also resilience, innovation and forgiveness.
Here are our 2014 newsroom favorites.
Esther Mujawayo and her daughters Amelia and Amanda.
Esther Mujawayo and her three daughters escaped from Rwanda during the genocide, and have spent the past two decades finding out what happened to their family. Our reporter Joyce Hackel found the Mujawayo family in Germany on the 20th anniversary of the slaughter in Rwanda.
Balkan Beat Box members include, from left, Tamir Muskat, Tomer Yosef and Ori Kaplan.
Goalkeeper Tim Howard of the US saves a shot during their 2014 World Cup round of 16 game against Belgium at the Fonte Nova arena in Salvador July 1, 2014.
Blacksad on the cover of Amarillo.
Hu Jie, who is also a painter, stands in his Nanjing apartment next to a portrait of one of the subjects of his films, Lin Zhao, a political prisoner who was executed in the late 1960s.
This artistic rendering of a canal system in the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston has people talking about climate change.
What was your favorite The World story from 2014? Tell us in the comments.
Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma increasingly seems like the Gandhi of our times. As the physically unimposing head of a nonviolent political movement, the Nobel Peace Prize winner speaks to world leaders largely from the authority of her moral stature.
In February she appealed to Burma's trading partners to break economic ties with her troubled country to further isolate its oppressive regime. Though Burma's closest neighbors recently voted to accept it into the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, President Clinton vowed that no new United States investment dollars will go to Burma, which the military regime there calls Myanmar.
Since Mr. Clinton's announcement, Ms. Suu Kyi's enemies have threatened to "punish" her. The military junta that keeps her under virtual house arrest has imprisoned hundreds of her supporters in the past few weeks. Yet she bravely continues to speak out for democracy, as she has since returning to Burma in 1988. And her words, like Gandhi's, often carry a spiritual message that transcends politics.
Suu Kyi delivered just such a message to some of America's newest college graduates through a smuggled speech read for her in January at American University's winter commencement in Washington.
"Some are destined to lead tranquil lives, safe in the security of a society that guarantees fundamental rights," she wrote. "Others may find themselves in situations where they have to strive incessantly for the most basic of rights, the right to life itself."
"It is no simple matter to decide who are the more fortunate," she then added to the surprise of some in the audience, "those to whom life gives all or those who have to give all to life. A fulfilled life is not necessarily one constructed strictly in accordance with one's own blueprint."
Suu Kyi, who raised two sons in the West before she returned to Burma, suddenly had interjected into a talk about the wounds of her country mention of what many say afflicts the young in ours - that they have nothing but their individual pursuit of material comfort as a blueprint for constructing a life. They have been called Generation X. Though every day there is news about the unraveling of our social fabric, post-cold-war America is frequently described as a place where no compelling challenges exist for them. Though the world still burns in many places, as Burma attests, we are told that history has ended.
Why does most of the talk about the supposed banality of post-cold-war America come from the mouths and word processors of the educated middle class? The poor in our inner cities and impoverished rural areas don't complain about ennui. Perhaps, instead of experiencing the end of history, we are witnessing the end of the social connections between the middle class and the poorer segments of society.
DURING the first 70 years of this century, many in the growing middle class were themselves only a generation removed from the struggles facing the lower rungs of society. The differences in income were not great.
But as the Commerce Department reported last year, income inequality among households "increased significantly" between 1968 and 1994. The measure of family-income inequality showed a stunning increase of more than 22 percent. Prior to 1968, it had been decreasing for almost 20 years.
"Thinking and feeling people everywhere, regardless of color or creed, understand the deeply rooted human need for a meaningful existence that goes beyond the mere gratification of material desires."
What can bridge the economic distance that has led to today's emotional separation from the most significant problems of our time?
"Young women and young men setting forth to leave their mark on the world might wish to cast their eyes beyond their own frontiers towards the shadowlands of lost rights."
Or to the shadowlands that exist here. Contrary to critics who consider it too lightweight an activity for a president, Clinton should spend more time speaking for such things as volunteerism and community service. Generation X's challenge is the challenge that Suu Kyi faces: to reach beyond the connections of economics to find the higher connections of the spirit.
* Alexander Kronemer, a freelance writer, is an economist in the United States Department of Labor.
NEW YORK (AFP) - Al-Qaeda kingpin Osama bin Laden's son-in-law has been detained by US authorities and is due to appear in court in New York on Friday on terrorism charges, the Justice Department said.
Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, reportedly a 47-year-old Kuwaiti and allegedly one of the chief propagandists of the Al-Qaeda network, stands accused of conspiring "to kill nationals of the United States", the department said.
Attorney General Eric Holder said the arrest showed that the United States (US) would never relent in its pursuit of the militants who launched the attacks of Sept 11, 2001 on New York and Washington.
"No amount of distance or time will weaken our resolve to bring America's enemies to justice," Mr Holder said.
"To violent extremists who threaten the American people and seek to undermine our way of life, this arrest sends an unmistakable message," he said.
"There is no corner of the world where you can escape from justice because we will do everything in our power to hold you accountable to the fullest extent of the law."
US authorities accuse Ghaith of assisting Bin Laden, the Al-Qaeda chief who was gunned down in a 2011 raid by American commandos, and of taking to the airwaves to promote Al-Qaeda's war against America after the 9/11 attacks.
According to the indictment he allegedly threatened Americans, warning them that a "great army is gathering" and "the storms shall not stop, especially the airplanes storm".
A Turkish newspaper had reported earlier that Ghaith was seized by US authorities at a hotel in Ankara last month and was deported to Jordan, before being taken to US.
Police in Palma de Mallorca thrashed three Russian yachtsmen who came to the island to train and participate in the Copa Del Rey sailing regatta, according to the ITAR-TASS news agency.
The news has been confirmed by the managing director of the Russian Yachting Sport Federation Oskar Konyukhov.
All three sportsmen: Denis Rozhkov, Nikita Khrekov and Roman Konstantinov are members of the RUS7 yacht crew.
On the evening of July 28 the men were returning to their hotel when they were reportedly surrounded by eight policemen armed with batons who began to beat them without explaining their actions. According to Nikita Khrekov, policemen were clubbing the Russians in the heads and legs.
The men were then handcuffed and brought to the local police station – only to be locked up for the next 24 hours.
Next day, absurd charges of “attacking and beating eight policemen” were brought against them.
Oskar Konyukhov says the Russian yachtsmen sustained serious injuries that were confirmed by other doctors.
The Russian Yachting Sport Federation has already spoken with regatta organizers to lend their assistance in having the charges against the Russians dismissed.
The Copa Del Rey sailing regatta takes place from July 29 till August 6 in the bay of Palma.
Gretchen Brinza sports earrings with the chemical diagram for caffeine, made with a 3-D printer.
LINCOLN PARK — Gretchen Brinza wears earrings with the chemical diagram for caffeine. What else do you need to know about the Alcott Elementary science teacher?
Well, how about that she was just named the top STEM educator in the state for teachers in kindergarten through fifth grade?
Brinza is the fifth- and sixth-grade science teacher at Alcott, 2625 N. Orchard St. But integrative learning is the order of the day, and Brinza heartily endorses that. While she grants that "math is the language of science," she emphasizes that the overlap is not just in the areas of science, technology, engineering and math.
"It's really thoughtfully integrating the disciplines," Brinza said Tuesday, after claiming her 2017 Illinois STEM Educator Award last week in DeKalb, an honor bestowed by the Illinois Science Teachers Association, the Illinois Council of Teachers of Mathematics and the independent ETA hand2mind agency.
Brinza pointed to the way people learn in the real world and emphasized how the old education method of separating everything into different areas was unnatural.
"We all use critical skills in the work we do and we all use science in what we do," she said. "And I try to have students understand the STEM disciplines are literally everywhere in our lives.
"I love when a student comes to me and says, 'Hey, Ms. Brinza, look what I found in the real world that is related to what we're doing in class,'" she added.
It's not just the interrelationship between those fields. Brinza cited how students are studying the qualities of light in science class, at the same time her language-arts colleague is teaching the students about theater and drama, and they're putting those together to study how light illustrates mood, theme and direction onstage.
"They're beyond pumped about the project," Brinza said. "When they become invested in something, there's so much more that can happen."
That approach earned her the top spot in the state this year with the award, after she was one of about a dozen finalists for it last year. The judging committee recognized Brinza for originality of activities, incorporation of engineering principals, integration of the STEM disciplines, innovation in hands-on lessons and support of the school administration.
Brinza, who's in her third year at Alcott and 11th in Chicago Public Schools, said that the support was never in doubt.
"I am not a silo. I couldn't get where I am because of just me. There have been so many people in my career at CPS who have really motivated me to want more," she said.
The award came with a $1,000 check, but also a $1,500 gift card to be spent on school supplies and other materials. Brinza said she's aggressive in applying for grants, like the one that provided the 3-D printer in her classroom.
Brinza said it's all about making kids excited about learning and not fearful of failure.
"There's a sign on my door that reads, 'Failure leads to success,'" she said. "There is so much reward in failure. It's OK to fail in my class. And I don't mean like in terms of the grade, but we make mistakes along the way to help us better understand what we've figured out. And that's vital in everything we do as adults. We learn from our mistakes."