Many of you have been following the progress of Jewel's new kids album project these past two months and may be wondering what to expect. Jewel has always had the ability to transcend any niche categorizations and never was this more apparent than on this album. This project officially began on January 22nd, with the initial writing of the song "Sara Swan Sleepyhead." Since then, it has been a remarkable non-stop ride and one of the most incredibly focused bursts of creativity that I've ever witnessed. Jewel has never explored such a broad range of styles on a single project and her ability to balance sweetness, humor, strength and sensitivity has never been more apparent. Folk, pop, jazz, country, bossa nova and even some avant-garde influences surface among these new songs. One of the keys was assembling such a talented team for this album. In addition to her song-writing collaborator, Patrick Davis, these musicians (Les Hall, Ken Halford, Eric Darken, Jonathan Yudkin, Jason Freese and her engineer, Mark Dearnley) are supremely adept at a wide variety of styles and lay down the perfect grooves for Jewel's versatile ideas. Their diverse abilities have helped Jewel to not only create an adventurous album that will entertain children (the initial goal), but have helped her to explore American musicology in a way she never quite has before.
One afternoon I had been feeling guilty for not having written anything for the children's album. I had a half hour before I had to leave for the movies (yeah, super important to get to the movies, right?) And so I decided to give myself a deadline... Come up with something before I left.
The result was Sara Swan Sleepyhead. I didn't start with an idea of what it would be about- I just started playing what would be the verse chords, and let the tape record as the song came out. Alan has that work tape.
But during this particular lucid dream, after ignoring her mom twice, her dream turns into a night mare, and gets a little too real... and she is scared and so glad to wake up... And that cures her... She no longer sleeps in or thinks dreams are better than real life... And her mom no longer has to badger her every day to get out of bed!
With that in mind, todays free Club EDA download is a lo fi preview of "Sara Swan Sleepyhead" in its unadorned solo acoustic form. This is a live recording made at home on her laptop, which is how many songs initially begin. In addition to the audio, there is a second free download for you of Jewel's handwritten lyrics that also contains one of her humorous drawings.
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#ifndef _LINUX_VIRTIO_NET_H
#define _LINUX_VIRTIO_NET_H

#include <pshpack1.h>
#include <linux/types.h>
//#include <linux/virtio_config.h>
#include <linux/virtio_types.h>
#include <linux/if_ether.h>

/* The feature bitmap for virtio net */
#define VIRTIO_NET_F_CSUM	0	/* Host handles pkts w/ partial csum */
#define VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_CSUM	1	/* Guest handles pkts w/ partial csum */
#define VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_GUEST_OFFLOADS	2	/* Dynamic offload configuration. */
#define VIRTIO_NET_F_MTU	3	/* Initial MTU advice */
#define VIRTIO_NET_F_MAC	5	/* Host has given MAC address. */
#define VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_TSO4	7	/* Guest can handle TSOv4 in. */
#define VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_TSO6	8	/* Guest can handle TSOv6 in. */
#define VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_ECN	9	/* Guest can handle TSO[6] w/ ECN in. */
#define VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_UFO	10	/* Guest can handle UFO in. */
#define VIRTIO_NET_F_HOST_TSO4	11	/* Host can handle TSOv4 in. */
#define VIRTIO_NET_F_HOST_TSO6	12	/* Host can handle TSOv6 in. */
#define VIRTIO_NET_F_HOST_ECN	13	/* Host can handle TSO[6] w/ ECN in. */
#define VIRTIO_NET_F_HOST_UFO	14	/* Host can handle UFO in. */
#define VIRTIO_NET_F_MRG_RXBUF	15	/* Host can merge receive buffers. */
#define VIRTIO_NET_F_STATUS	16	/* virtio_net_config.status available */
#define VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_VQ	17	/* Control channel available */
#define VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_RX	18	/* Control channel RX mode support */
#define VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_VLAN	19	/* Control channel VLAN filtering */
#define VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_RX_EXTRA 20	/* Extra RX mode control support */
#define VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_ANNOUNCE 21	/* Guest can announce device on the
					 * network */
#define VIRTIO_NET_F_MQ	22	/* Device supports Receive Flow
					 * Steering */
#define VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_MAC_ADDR 23	/* Set MAC address */
#define VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_RSC4 41	/* Guest can handle coalesced IPv4 tcp packets. */
#define VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_RSC6 42	/* Guest can handle coalesced IPv6 tcp packets. */

#define VIRTIO_NET_F_SPEED_DUPLEX 63	/* Device set linkspeed and duplex */

#ifndef VIRTIO_NET_NO_LEGACY
#define VIRTIO_NET_F_GSO	6	/* Host handles pkts w/ any GSO type */
#endif /* VIRTIO_NET_NO_LEGACY */

#define VIRTIO_NET_S_LINK_UP	1	/* Link is up */
#define VIRTIO_NET_S_ANNOUNCE	2	/* Announcement is needed */

struct virtio_net_config {
	/* The config defining mac address (if VIRTIO_NET_F_MAC) */
	__u8 mac[ETH_ALEN];
	/* See VIRTIO_NET_F_STATUS and VIRTIO_NET_S_* above */
	__u16 status;
	/* Maximum number of each of transmit and receive queues;
	 * see VIRTIO_NET_F_MQ and VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_MQ.
	 * Legal values are between 1 and 0x8000
	 */
	__u16 max_virtqueue_pairs;
	/* Default maximum transmit unit advice */
	__u16 mtu;
	/*
	* speed, in units of 1Mb. All values 0 to INT_MAX are legal.
	* Any other value stands for unknown.
	*/
	__u32 speed;
	/*
	* 0x00 - half duplex
	* 0x01 - full duplex
	* Any other value stands for unknown.
	*/
	__u8 duplex;
} __attribute__((packed));

#define VIRTIO_NET_DUPLEX_UNKNOWN                      0xff
#define VIRTIO_NET_DUPLEX_HALF                         0x00
#define VIRTIO_NET_DUPLEX_FULL                         0x01
#define VIRTIO_NET_SPEED_UNKNOWN                       -1

/*
 * This header comes first in the scatter-gather list.  If you don't
 * specify GSO or CSUM features, you can simply ignore the header.
 *
 * This is bitwise-equivalent to the legacy struct virtio_net_hdr_mrg_rxbuf,
 * only flattened.
 */
struct virtio_net_hdr_v1 {
#define VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_NEEDS_CSUM	1	/* Use csum_start, csum_offset */
#define VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_DATA_VALID	2	/* Csum is valid */
	__u8 flags;
#define VIRTIO_NET_HDR_GSO_NONE		0	/* Not a GSO frame */
#define VIRTIO_NET_HDR_GSO_TCPV4	1	/* GSO frame, IPv4 TCP (TSO) */
#define VIRTIO_NET_HDR_GSO_UDP		3	/* GSO frame, IPv4 UDP (UFO) */
#define VIRTIO_NET_HDR_GSO_TCPV6	4	/* GSO frame, IPv6 TCP */
#define VIRTIO_NET_HDR_RSC_NONE	5	/* No packets coalesced */
#define VIRTIO_NET_HDR_RSC_TCPV4	6	/* IPv4 TCP coalesced */
#define VIRTIO_NET_HDR_RSC_TCPV6	7	/* IPv6 TCP coalesced */
#define VIRTIO_NET_HDR_GSO_ECN		0x80	/* TCP has ECN set */
	__u8 gso_type;
	__virtio16 hdr_len;	/* Ethernet + IP + tcp/udp hdrs */
	__virtio16 gso_size;	/* Bytes to append to hdr_len per frame */
	__virtio16 csum_start;	/* Position to start checksumming from */
	__virtio16 csum_offset;	/* Offset after that to place checksum */
	__virtio16 num_buffers;	/* Number of merged rx buffers */
};

/* This is the header to use when either one or both of GUEST_RSC4/6
 * features have been negotiated. */
struct virtio_net_hdr_rsc {
	struct virtio_net_hdr_v1 hdr;
	__virtio16 rsc_pkts;	/* Number of coalesced packets */
	__virtio16 rsc_dup_acks;	/* Duplicated ack packets */
};

#ifndef VIRTIO_NET_NO_LEGACY
/* This header comes first in the scatter-gather list.
 * For legacy virtio, if VIRTIO_F_ANY_LAYOUT is not negotiated, it must
 * be the first element of the scatter-gather list.  If you don't
 * specify GSO or CSUM features, you can simply ignore the header. */
struct virtio_net_hdr {
	/* See VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_* */
	__u8 flags;
	/* See VIRTIO_NET_HDR_GSO_* */
	__u8 gso_type;
	__virtio16 hdr_len;		/* Ethernet + IP + tcp/udp hdrs */
	__virtio16 gso_size;		/* Bytes to append to hdr_len per frame */
	__virtio16 csum_start;	/* Position to start checksumming from */
	__virtio16 csum_offset;	/* Offset after that to place checksum */
};

/* This is the version of the header to use when the MRG_RXBUF
 * feature has been negotiated. */
struct virtio_net_hdr_mrg_rxbuf {
	struct virtio_net_hdr hdr;
	__virtio16 num_buffers;	/* Number of merged rx buffers */
};
#endif /* ...VIRTIO_NET_NO_LEGACY */

/*
 * Control virtqueue data structures
 *
 * The control virtqueue expects a header in the first sg entry
 * and an ack/status response in the last entry.  Data for the
 * command goes in between.
 */
struct virtio_net_ctrl_hdr {
    __u8 class_of_command;
	__u8 cmd;
} __attribute__((packed));

typedef __u8 virtio_net_ctrl_ack;

#define VIRTIO_NET_OK     0
#define VIRTIO_NET_ERR    1

/*
 * Control the RX mode, ie. promiscuous, allmulti, etc...
 * All commands require an "out" sg entry containing a 1 byte
 * state value, zero = disable, non-zero = enable.  Commands
 * 0 and 1 are supported with the VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_RX feature.
 * Commands 2-5 are added with VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_RX_EXTRA.
 */
#define VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_RX    0
 #define VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_RX_PROMISC      0
 #define VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_RX_ALLMULTI     1
 #define VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_RX_ALLUNI       2
 #define VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_RX_NOMULTI      3
 #define VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_RX_NOUNI        4
 #define VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_RX_NOBCAST      5

/*
 * Control the MAC
 *
 * The MAC filter table is managed by the hypervisor, the guest should
 * assume the size is infinite.  Filtering should be considered
 * non-perfect, ie. based on hypervisor resources, the guest may
 * received packets from sources not specified in the filter list.
 *
 * In addition to the class/cmd header, the TABLE_SET command requires
 * two out scatterlists.  Each contains a 4 byte count of entries followed
 * by a concatenated byte stream of the ETH_ALEN MAC addresses.  The
 * first sg list contains unicast addresses, the second is for multicast.
 * This functionality is present if the VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_RX feature
 * is available.
 *
 * The ADDR_SET command requests one out scatterlist, it contains a
 * 6 bytes MAC address. This functionality is present if the
 * VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_MAC_ADDR feature is available.
 */
struct virtio_net_ctrl_mac {
	__virtio32 entries;
/*	__u8 macs[][ETH_ALEN]; */
} __attribute__((packed));

#define VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_MAC    1
 #define VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_MAC_TABLE_SET        0
 #define VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_MAC_ADDR_SET         1

/*
 * Control VLAN filtering
 *
 * The VLAN filter table is controlled via a simple ADD/DEL interface.
 * VLAN IDs not added may be filterd by the hypervisor.  Del is the
 * opposite of add.  Both commands expect an out entry containing a 2
 * byte VLAN ID.  VLAN filtering is available with the
 * VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_VLAN feature bit.
 */
#define VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_VLAN       2
 #define VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_VLAN_ADD             0
 #define VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_VLAN_DEL             1

/*
 * Control link announce acknowledgement
 *
 * The command VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_ANNOUNCE_ACK is used to indicate that
 * driver has received the notification; device would clear the
 * VIRTIO_NET_S_ANNOUNCE bit in the status field after it receives
 * this command.
 */
#define VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_ANNOUNCE       3
 #define VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_ANNOUNCE_ACK         0

/*
 * Control Receive Flow Steering
 *
 * The command VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_MQ_VQ_PAIRS_SET
 * enables Receive Flow Steering, specifying the number of the transmit and
 * receive queues that will be used. After the command is consumed and acked by
 * the device, the device will not steer new packets on receive virtqueues
 * other than specified nor read from transmit virtqueues other than specified.
 * Accordingly, driver should not transmit new packets  on virtqueues other than
 * specified.
 */
struct virtio_net_ctrl_mq {
	__virtio16 virtqueue_pairs;
};

#define VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_MQ   4
 #define VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_MQ_VQ_PAIRS_SET        0
 #define VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_MQ_VQ_PAIRS_MIN        1
 #define VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_MQ_VQ_PAIRS_MAX        0x8000

/*
* Control network offloads
*
* Dynamic offloads are available with the
* VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_GUEST_OFFLOADS feature bit.
*/
#define VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_GUEST_OFFLOADS    5
 #define VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_GUEST_OFFLOADS_SET        0

#include <poppack.h>

#endif /* _LINUX_VIRTIO_NET_H */

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MP Minister Justifies Number of Rapes to Total Population: "Rape cases not that many in Madhya Pradesh"
April 23, 2013 tvaraj	1 Comment
By Suchandana Gupta
BHOPAL: At a time when the country has been outraged by the rape of a five-year-old girl in New Delhi, a Madhya Pradesh minister has claimed that the number of rapes in the state is "not that high" when the total population is taken into account.
"Evaluating the population of Madhya Pradesh, the number of rapes is not that high," Manohar Utwal, minister of state for urban administration and development, told reporters in Jaora town in Ratlam district on Saturday. "In a state where the total population exceeds 7.5 crore, only 4,500 rapes have been reported this year." Utwal said the rape figures were high because the police diligently recorded every complaint.
Women activists of BJP remove police barricade outside UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi's residence during a protest against the rape of of the 5-year-old girl in New Delhi. (Photo: The Time of India)
Even as the minister spoke, a four-year-old girl from Madhya Pradesh was battling for life in a Nagpur hospital, five days after she was allegedly raped by a youth in Seoni district.
National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) figures show that the largest number of rapes is reported from the state. In 2011-12, NCRB records showed a total 3,406 rapes in the state. Its report for 2001-11 said that of the 48,338 child rapes recorded in the country, the highest were from Madhya Pradesh (9,465).
Utwal's tactless remark came less than a week after state cabinet minister Vijay Shah was sacked for making sexist remarks against chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan's wife while addressing a students' gathering in Jhabua district.
Re-posted from THE TIME OF INDIA
#India- MP minister justifies number of rapes to total population #WTFnews (kractivist.wordpress.com)
Madhya Pradesh: 5-year-old rape survivor being taken to Nagpur in air ambulance (ndtv.com)
The Men in India and the Urge for Rape (orimzblog.wordpress.com)
MP: Four-year-old rape survivor critical, shifted to Nagpur (ibnlive.in.com)
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'Follow tradition or you would be thrown out, they warned me'
Mirror in conversation with Lt Kabdaula's wife, whose allegations of wife-swapping have rocked the Indian Navy's boat
By Gitanjali Chandrasekharan
Three complaints in three cities make you wonder about their authenticity, especially since the 25-year-old complainant has accused Marine Commando officials (an elite unit of the Navy) of wife-swapping. "You can't file the same FIR in two different police stations," says the wife of Lt Ravi Kiran Kabdaula, refusing to be identified by her name. "Call me Mrs Ravi Kiran if you want," she told this writer, speaking over the phone from New Delhi.
Kiran, the daughter of an IAS officer and the niece of a senior IPS official posted in New Delhi, says her complaint against her 26-year-old husband and his colleagues posted at INS Venduruthy, base station of the Southern Naval Command — she has accused them of beating, molesting, and illegally detaining her and forcibly cutting her hair — was lodged in Delhi on March 1.
"Since my husband and his colleagues are posted in Kochi, and the incident also occurred there, the case was transferred to the local Harbour Police."
The incident Kiran refers to happened in mid-January. A week before that, she alleges that she had discovered her husband in bed with a senior officer's wife. She also alleges that she was given an injection at the unit chief's office that left her unconscious. She left the base for New Delhi on the first flight the following day, but left her preparation books behind. Kiran, a 2008 BTech graduate from IIT (Powai), plans to give her Civil Services examinations next month. When she returned a week later to collect her books, she says she was confined in a room by her husband and his colleagues, who tied her up, beat and molested her. One officer, she adds, even forcibly cut her hair.
"I used to have long hair. Now it is like a man's," she rues.
This wasn't the first time she had lodged a complaint. "I had filed one with the Amboli Police Station on February 18, 2012, against my husband, his senior and the senior's wife," she says, because the trio had reportedly put up a "bedroom picture" of hers and Kabdaula's on a social networking platform. The senior and his wife would often make threatening calls, or send her text messages and emails, she says. When asked why, she replies, "Because I was pressuring my husband and his parents to legalise our marriage."
Kiran married Kabdaula, who hails from Uttarakhand, in a Kochi temple in November 2010, in the presence of his parents. Her parents had passed away earlier that year in a car accident in Bhubaneswar. "My parents knew about Kabdaula — I had been in touch with him since 2008 — and liked him. My brother didn't approve and argued that Kabdaula wasn't educated enough."
Kiran withdrew her complaint and the duo registered the marriage in the following month. However, according to Kiran, the rest of Kabdaula's family didn't know of their wedding till December.
Was it a stormy courtship? Kiran says no. Kabdaula had contacted her through a common friend on social networking platform Orkut. He would visit Mumbai to meet her, says Kiran, who was studying at IIT at the time. "He was a good-looking guy and I felt flattered. His parents would also call and talk to me at length. So I felt he was serious about us."
Kiran moved to the United States in 2008 to study Economics and stayed on as an equity research analyst at Morgan Stanley, New York, but returned to India — once in 2010, to marry Kabdaula, and then for good, in 2011 — to be close to him.
While dating, Kabdaula didn't tell her much about Navy life, she says. "He wasn't a full-fledged officer till the end of 2011. Perhaps he didn't know it himself. Perhaps he knew and he didn't tell me."
The first time she realised that all was not well was in May 2012 when she was living in Vishakapatnam while Kabdaula was posted in INS Kalinga. While out for a walk with her dog, she saw an officer getting cosy with another's wife. Later, she spoke to her husband who, she says, told her to accept it as part of the Navy life. "He didn't suggest at that time that he was involved".
Describing the "Navy life", she says there are regular parties at the base and a junior officer often makes a round of everyone's houses, outlining a dress code. Sometimes it would be 'wear short above-the-knee dresses', and sometimes it would be 'sleeveless'. Yet, Kiran admits that she only attended two parties — in May 2012 and March 2013.
Then, in January this year, she returned home to find her door locked. "My husband never locks the door, so I entered the house from the rear and found him with a senior officer's wife. I cried and abused them, but once again he said this was common in the Navy and that I'd have to do it too. The woman said that if I don't follow their tradition, I'd be thrown out." Kiran alleges that when she threatened to call the cops, they started beating her.
Asked how she made an allegation of wife-swapping based on this incident, she replies, "I could make out what's happening. Young officers (spend time) with married officers' wives when the seniors aren't around."
Soon after the incident, Kiran telephoned the Defence Minister AK Antony's office and wrote to the Chief of Naval Staff Admiral D K Joshi and the chief of the Southern Naval Command, Vice-Admiral Satish Soni. She complained that she was being forced into sexual relations with her husband's seniors.
The FIR she filed accuses three senior officers, two colleagues and the wife of one officer. She also accused her father-in-law, mother-in-law and sister-in-law of dowry harassment.
Kabdaula filed for a divorce on March 28, claiming mental and physical torture. "He must have done that under the order of his seniors. I am 5 feet 1 inch tall and have never weighed more than 45 kg. How can I cause him any harm?" It is his physical abuse, she alleges, that has left her with a damaged left ear drum and a broken tooth. "Who is he to divorce me?" she asks challengingly. Kiran doesn't see any chance of reconciliation. "I want to see all the accused arrested. My husband has got an anticipatory bail but what is stopping the Harbour Police from arresting the others?"
The Navy denied the allegations and issued a statement which said, "In cases of marital discord, there is bound to be bitter acrimony and mutual accusations and counter-accusations. Such issues need to be dealt with sensitivity and as per laws of the land." A spokesperson said that the officers were being unfairly dragged into the matter and that they had only tried to resolve problems between the couple. The spokesperson also alluded to a prior instance, where the Navy Wives' Welfare Association intervened and sent the couple to a marriage counsellor. However, Kiran emphatically denies that. "I have never been to a counsellor or a marriage counsellor. To get an appointment from the Navy Wives' Welfare Association (NWWA), one has to write an application and submit it. When I never wrote one, how would there have been any counselling session?" Meanwhile, the Southern Naval Command has begun an internal inquiry, and Antony asked officials to take serious note of the allegations, after a previous allegation of wife-swapping — also squashed by the Navy — surfaced in 2011 in Kochi.
Sitanshu Kar, Additional Director General (Media & Communication), said that two inquiries are on in the case. "The Kerala police is inquiring into it and the Navy is also conducting its own inquiry. The final decision can be taken only after reports come in." He refused to entertain any other questions regarding the matter.
There are also many within the Navy who are raising questions about the truth of Kiran's allegations. They wonder how a Marine Commando — known for being highly disciplined and hard working — would be involved in such an act. The Marcos is a highly elite section of the Indian Navy. Many who volunteer for this branch of the Navy don't last the rigorous year-long training, which involves swimming several miles, going without sleep for days on end, and sometimes, spending time in the ocean without supplies.
Re-posted from Bangalore Mirror
Antony says won't spare guilty in harassment case (thehindu.com)
Indian Navy lieutenant's wife 'forced into wife-swapping parties' (telegraph.co.uk)
Navy officer's wife says husband forced her to sleep with colleagues (ibnlive.in.com)
Strict action against any Navy officer found guilty in Kochi harassment case: Antony (ibnlive.in.com)
Marital discord behind officer's wife's allegations: Navy (vancouverdesi.com)
After minister's wife, Navy man's wife alleges abuse in Kerala (gulfnews.com)
Indian Navy Rocked By Sex Scandal (warnewsupdates.blogspot.com)
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Uttar Pradesh, India: Minor Rape Victim Put Behind Bars
The Supreme Court on Wednesday took suo motu cognisance of media reports about detention of a 10-year-old rape victim by the police in Bulandshahr district of Uttar Pradesh recently.
The apex court has now sent notice to the state government, asking how the police put the rape victim in custody.
The callous response of police came to fore after the girl's rape as she was put behind the bars by women personnel when she approached them to file a complaint along with her mother. The victim was rescued after several hours only after locals protested over the matter.
Two women constables have been suspended while two sub-inspectors, including the station-in-charge have been sent to police lines following the incident, SSP Gulab Singh said.
Re-posted from INDIATODAY.in
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The Reality at Jaitapur, Mr. Hollande by Anuj Wankhede and Cressida Morley
February 14, 2013 tvaraj	Leave a comment
French President Francois Hollande is making his first visit out of Europe since he was elected. And he has chosen India as a preferred destination for his visit starting 14th February.
On his radar is to sell Areva's failed EPR (European Pressurized Reactor) nuclear reactors to India. Even as his own country has neither been able to implement the EPR reactors in France or Finland and nor has the US regulator certified it, the Indian government is eager to set up these reactors in a huge area in coastal Maharashtra – at Jaitapur – a highly bio-diverse region that needs preservation.
The carrot which the French president is dangling is the supply of fighter jets to India on "favorable" terms. The Indian government for want of more and more weapons (and probably with an eye on making some money out of the deal?) is turning a blind eye to the enormous damage this project will cause. Anuj Wankhede and Cressida Morley write about the Jaitapur protestors, who despite all efforts of the French and Indian governments, remain determined that this project will never see the light of day.
The beauty of the Ratnagiri coastline and surrounding area has to be seen to be believed. Any government official from DAE to NPCIL would be crazy to think of destroying or even putting at risk this kind of natural biodiversity. It is already established that Maharashtra state itself does not require any more electricity than is already being produced and the Chief Minister himself is on record as saying that the state will be free of any load shedding by the year end.
So for whom is the Jaitapur Nuclear Power Plant (JNPP) being built?
Certainly not for the local people, the fishers, farmers and ordinary people whose livelihoods will be destroyed and their lives threatened. The government tells us that nuclear power is needed for 'development,' but the people who will be directly affected by JNPP have a very different ideas of what development is and whom it should benefit.
The fishing village of Sakhri-nate, is just a few kilometers by road from the proposed JNPP site – only 3 kilometers as the crow flies. You can see the site clearly just across the sea.
Slogans such as 'No nuclear' and 'Areva go back' are painted on walls all around the village and the people against JNPP vehemently say they are prepared to give their lives rather than allow the plant to come up. Recent newspaper reports have shown just how desperate NPCIL is to do a deal with the fishers by raising the compensation for land acquisition to Rs. 22.5 lakh per hectare from Rs.1.5 to 4 lakh announced previously.
But the fishers are adamant…it doesn't matter how much they are paid when their livelihoods, their community, in fact their very lives are on the line.
Most of those opposed to the plant in Sakhri-nate are fishers but there are people of different professions as well, showing that it is not just a direct concern for livelihood but a much wider fear that JNPP will in fact destroy their lives and community. The activists have detailed knowledge of how the JNPP will affect their lives. For fishers, this knowledge may not be scientific in the academic sense of the word, but every day they observe the sea intimately as their lives literally depend on it. The knowledge that they have gained through long experience cannot be easily dismissed.
The fishing community is concerned that the effluent water used for cooling the nuclear plant – which will be pumped back into the sea at a temperature – at least 5-7 degrees Celsius higher than the natural temperature – will have a disastrous effect on the fish population and their breeding. The Government is trying to assure the fishers that a rise in seawater temperature would not affect the fish, except possibly to make them bigger! Obviously, the fishers are not buying this at all. They claim that the fish that presently inhabit their fishing ground will not be able to live in such a changed environment. Even if these fish are able to swim away to other areas of the sea, shellfish, for example cannot escape so easily and will surely perish. Perhaps, different species of fish will come to the area due to the raised temperatures but this also represents an unknown for the fishers. In any case, they refuse to believe that the environment will simply remain the same with such enormous quantities of heated water being pumped into the sea. As one fisher put it, even a refrigerator emits heat which can affect the surrounding air temperature and living things, so how can the government claim that an entire nuclear power plant will have no impact on the environment?
Others have expressed fears of terrorism and natural disasters.
The cliffs surrounding Sakhri-nate, directly opposite the proposed site for JNPP, are spectacular to say the least. The solid rocks here weather the eternal beating of the sea waves. Yet, this rock was split wide apart by lightening and electrical storms that are common in the area. It's easy to imagine similar lightening bolts falling just a few kilometers away, and the damage they would do to a nuclear reactor. It would be a disaster of unimaginable proportions indeed.
Especially after Fukushima, the fear of accidents is very real and no amount of government assurances has convinced the activists that JNPP will be totally safe. The level of distrust towards the government is very high and palpable. Activists claim that the government contradicts its own reports and does not disclose 'inconvenient' information besides they feel the government is least concerned about the locals.
Rather than the government, Sakhri-nate fishers would rather believe their fellow fishers from another part of the state – Tarapur. They have travelled to nearby Tarapur which as the site for the first nuclear reactor to be built in India and they have seen what the nuclear power plants have done to the fishing catch. The fishing community at Tarapur is practically out of business due to the low catch and the enforced security ring around the plant which forces them to take long detours into the sea and which entails huge costs on diesel – not to mention the time spent.
At Tarapur, the locals were told 40 years ago that the Tarapur NPP was a matter of national pride. The local community and fishermen in that area gladly agreed to its construction, fully believing government assurances that the fish and environment would not be affected and that they would be adequately compensated. They have since been thoroughly betrayed and have warned their fellow fishers near Jaitapur to fight against JNPP – lest the same fate befalls them. The information received by the Sakhri-nate fishers from the Tarapur fishers is based on their bitter experiences and a shared understanding of the sea and the environment, both of which are integral parts of their lives and livelihoods. Who would you rather believe—the actual experience of your peers or the theoretical science of distrusted governments?
Ideas on development: worlds apart
The rift between the local community, dead-set against the NPP and the government, equally determined to build it, is not just about differing information and mistrust. There is a more fundamental difference in worldview between these two parties. While the government's idea of 'development' focuses on achieving ambitious electricity generation, attracting foreign capital and making more and more 'goods' for an ever-expanding market, the fishers of Sakhri-nate have different ideas.
As one local explained "We are already developed. We don't need anything more; we have full employment in the village. Even disabled or illiterate people have jobs, mending fishing nets etc. We have enough electricity; all we ask is that the government allows us to pursue our livelihoods. We have enough money to live well now, as fishing is a lucrative industry, but if we loose our livelihood, we will have nothing."
Others said that if development was needed at all in their village, it should be in the form of increased educational facilities – including vocational schools – so that their children would get better employment opportunities – if they choose to. There are also calls for growth which minimizes environmental destruction and which compliments local industries such as food processing factories for the fish and mangoes, also produced in large quantities in the Jaitapur area. The already present ice factories, which provide ice to pack the fish so they can be sent to different parts of the country, are another obvious example of this type of development.
It would seem that the government has underestimated the level and type of knowledge and information that the local community has or even tried to understand their concerns – leave alone address them. This is not to mention the high income and living standards enjoyed by the fishermen who do not want this so called lop sided "development" at such high risks.
But most of all, the official model of development is being called into question: Why should large-scale industrial projects be encouraged, in this case a foreign-funded project that carries a risk of unimaginable destruction, and why should local communities be required to sacrifice their lives and livelihoods for lighting up city malls while the locals who are being affected by the project will still have only erratic power supply – just as is the case at Tarapur?
(The views expressed in the article are the personal views of the authors and not those of any organization or institution.)
Reproduced from DiaNuke.org
"We are sitting on the brink of disaster with Tarapur," says Former Chairman of Atomic Energy Regulatory Board. (chaikadai.wordpress.com)
Pact with Areva not in India's interest: Karat (thehindu.com)
Work on Jaitapur n-reactor from 2015 (news.in.msn.com)
'Protests against Jaitapur plant will continue' (news.in.msn.com)
Jaitapur a critical issue: It's all about money, honey! (kractivist.wordpress.com)
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Let Us Celebrate the 64th Annual Human Rights Day on December 10, 2012
December 9, 2012 tvaraj	4 Comments
"All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood." – Article 1 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)
. By T.V. Antony Raj
During the Second World War, the allies adopted the following Four Freedoms, as their basic war aims:
Freedom from want
The United Nations Charter "reaffirmed faith in fundamental human rights, and dignity and worth of the human person" and committed all member states to promote "universal respect for, and observance of, human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion."
After the Second World War, the world became aware of the atrocities committed by Nazi Germany. The world community concurred that the United Nations Charter did not sufficiently define the rights it referenced above. Hence arose the necessity for an universal declaration that specified the rights of individuals to give effect to the Charter's provisions on human rights.
At the 317th Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly on 4 December 1950, the members decided to celebrate Human Rights Day on December 10 every year because on December 10, 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It was the first worldwide proclamation of human rights, and also one of the major achievements of the new United Nations. The General Assembly declared resolution 423(V), inviting all member states and any other interested organizations to celebrate the day.
Traditionally, on December 10th, the five-yearly United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights and Nobel Peace Prize are awarded.
This year, the spotlight is on the rights of all people – women, youth, minorities, persons with disabilities, indigenous people, the poor and marginalized and to make their voices heard in public life and to include them in political decision-making.
Human Rights Day, 10 December (un.org)
Human Rights Day (en.wikipedia.org)
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (en.wikipedia.org)
Thousands of Israelis mark International Human Rights Day (timesofisrael.com)
Your Voice Does Count, But Only if You Use It: How to Participate in Human Rights Day 2012. (elephantjournal.com)
Human Right Day (learningenglishmyway.wordpress.com)
Universal Declaration of Human Responsibilities By David Swanson (ikners.com)
64th Human Rights Day of United Nations on 10. Dec 2012: "My voice, My right, My voice counts" (imcradiodotnet.wordpress.com)
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Police Say Pinki Pramanik Is a Male. Doctors Contest That Claim.
November 14, 2012 tvaraj	2 Comments
On June 14, 2012, the West Bengal police arrested 27-year-old Indian track athlete Pinki Pramanik after the West Bengal police received a complaint from her live-in partner, 30-year-old Anamika Acharya.
Anamika alleged that Pinki being a man had raped her.
The following day the court turned down Pinki's bail plea and remanded her to a 14-day judicial custody and lodged her in the Dumdum correctional home.
Next the police took the sprinter to a private nursing home in North 24 Parganas district for medical tests to determine her gender. Subsequently, a 29-second MMS went viral online showing the athlete naked and undergoing tests at the nursing home.
The tests conducted at the district hospital were inconclusive. Initial private tests claimed to show Pinki to be male. She disagreed with these results, and police ordered a separate government-led test as part of the trial. The Court then directed a chromosome pattern test (Karyotyping) to be conducted at the West Bengal University of Technology.
On July 10, 2012, the 11-member medical board of Seth Sukhlal Karnani Memorial Hospital (SSKM Government Hospital) in Kolkata, formed to determine the gender of Pinki Pramanik, after studying the reports of the Karyotyping concluded that Pramanik has 46, XY Karyotype which is common in a normal male. This came on a day a local court in Barasat granted Pramanik bail in the rape case.
A member of the medical board, who did not want to be named, told The Indian Express, "Normal Karyotypes for females contain two X chromosomes and are denoted as 46, XX. Males have an X and a Y chromosome and are denoted 46, XY. Test reports revealed that Pramanik has predominantly male features. The test reports, along with our observations, have been submitted to the court."
"At the same time, Pramanik has the disorder of sexual development. In medical science, not everything can be said in black and white. This case has shades of gray. Pramanik does not have all the features that a normal adult male has," the doctor said. When asked if such a person can rape someone, he said that it was "very difficult" to tell.
However, Tuhin Roy, Pinki's lawyer, said that based on the medical reports, the district and sessions judge's court held that the athlete is "physically incapable of committing rape" and granted Pramanik bail after 25 days in custody.
Now sharp differences have emerged between the police and the members of the medical board after the former submitted a charge sheet declaring Pinki Pramanik as being a male and proceeding to accuse the person of raping a woman. However, the doctors contest the claim by the police and say that Pinki is not a male but a "male pseudo hermaphrodite."
Defending the police version, Shantomay Basu additional public prosecutor said, "The medical board that examined Pinki Pramanik declared Pramanik as being a male having the ability to rape. The police have filed the charge sheet in this regard."
Members of the medical board told Hindustan Times they differed with the police. "Pinki Pramanik is neither a male nor a female. Pramanik is a male pseudo hermaphrodite. It is a genetic disorder. That's the medical opinion. It's now for the court to deliberate," Dr BN Kahali, board chairman, said.
Who is Pinki Pramanik? Did She Rape a Woman? (tvaraj.wordpress.com)
Medical report says Pinki Pramanik a male (thehindu.com)
Police say Pinki Pramanik is male, doctors contest claim (kractivist.wordpress.com)
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Who is Pinki Pramanik? Did She Rape a Woman?
July 10, 2012 tvaraj	2 Comments
By T.V. Antony Raj
Pinki Pramanik (born April 10, 1986, in Purulia) is an Indian track athlete. She specialises in the 400 metres and 800 metres.
Pinki had success with the national 4×400 metres relay team. She won silver at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, gold at the 2006 Asian Games, and another gold at the 2005 Asian Indoor Games. She won three gold medals at the 2006 South Asian Games. She won the 400 metres and 800 metres events, as well as the relay.
Her first success was at the age of 17 when she won two bronze medals at the Asian Indoor Athletics Championships. She was chosen to represent Asia at the IAAF World Cup.
In domestic athletic events, she has won three times at the All-India Open National Championships. After 2007 she rarely competed due to a series of injuries and a car crash.
Pinki was arrested on June 14, 2012, in West Bengal after she was accused of being a man by her live-in partner, a 30-year-old estranged woman, who also alleged that Pinki raped her.
Photograph of the policemen taking her to jail show her being groped by one of them.
On June 15, 2012, she was remanded to 14 days judicial custody. Pinki was lodged in Dumdum correctional home since June 15, after her bail plea was turned down by the same court.
This led to medical tests to determine her gender at a private nursing home in North 24 Parganas district where the sprinter was taken subsequent to her arrest. Subsequently, a 29-second MMS showing the athlete completely naked and undergoing tests at the private nursing home went viral online.
The tests conducted at the district hospital were inconclusive. Initial private tests claimed to show Pinki to be male. Pramanik disagreed with these results and police ordered a separate government-led test as part of the trial. The Court then directed a chromosome pattern test. She was then taken to the Seth Sukhlal Karnani Memorial Hospital (SSKM Government Hospital) in Lala Lajpat Rai Sarani, Kolkata, where an 11-member medical board carried out tests.
Today (July 10, 2012), the 11-member medical board of the SSKM Government Hospital, formed to determine the gender of Pinki Pramanik, has concluded that the athlete has predominantly male features. This came on a day a local court in Barasat granted Pramanik bail in the rape case.
After the Karyotyping — a chromosomal test — was conducted at the West Bengal University of Technology, the reports were sent to the SSKM Hospital on Monday. On Tuesday, the hospital's medical board went through the reports and concluded that Pramanik has 46, XY Karyotype which is common in a normal male.
A member of the medical board, who did not want to be named, told The Indian Express, "Normal Karyotypes for females contain two X chromosomes and are denoted as 46, XX. Males have an X and a Y chromosome and are denoted 46, XY. Tests reports revealed that Pramanik has predominantly male features. The test reports, along with our observations, has been submitted to the court."
"At the same time, Pramanik has a disorder of sexual development. In medical science, not everything can be said in black and white. This case has shades of grey. Pramanik does not have all the features that a normal adult male has," the doctor said. Asked if such a person can rape someone, he said that it was "very difficult" to tell.
Today, members of women's forums and former athletes gathered in front of the court and demonstrated, demanding Pramanik's immediate release.
Pinki Pramanik appears to have a following in Bengal. Some amount of discontent is building up in the country regards to the treatment given to Pinki Pramanik.
Activists say the government is doing nothing to protect a woman in police custody.
Indian ace swimmer Padma Shri Bula Chowdhury Chakraborty
Indian athlete Jyotirmoyee Sikdar
On Friday, July 6, former athletic champions from Bengal, Jyotirmoyee Sikdar and ace swimmer Padma Shri Bula Chowdhury Chakraborty, came out in the open to rally around Pinki Pramanik, claiming that the athlete's human rights have been violated and that she deserves a more dignified treatment.
Rebel Trinamool Congress MP Kabir Suman
Rebel Trinamool Congress MP Kabir Suman has taken up cudgels for the Asiad gold medallist sprinter. He has composed a bitterly sarcastic song on the Asian Games gold medallist. It goes like this:
Desher janya rupor padak, desher janya sona /
Relay race e tumi desher gorbo seta mone rakhbo na /
Tomar linga jaachai porbo video te dhora aache /
Mobile e tola sei chobi aaj internet e nache
(You have earned gold and silver for the country.
You did the country proud, winning medals in relay races, but we don't want to remember that.
The video grab of your gender test is the talk of the town.
It's doing a jig on the internet)
Meanwhile, a four-member team of the West Bengal Commission for Women, led by its chairperson Sunanda Mukherjee, met the athlete in prison during the day.
"After speaking to her, we realised that there have been several instances of violation of women rights. Ms Pramanik was kept in the prison without any female police personnel and was referred to as a male in police records," she said.
Earlier, representatives of civil rights groups and sportspersons raised concern over Ms Pramanik's alleged mistreatment at the hands of the police.
While the Calcutta High Court had asked the State government to file an affidavit in connection with the case, the West Bengal Human Rights Commission asked for a report from the State's Home Secretary and the Director-General of Police.
To add fuel to the fire, Madan Mitra, Hon'ble Minister of Sports (Independent Charges) and MoS Fisheries said today, "I have not received anything from Pinki Pramanik's family, nor from any sports organisation. Nobody has talked to me or written to me saying that what is going on is illegal."
A problem of being (mid-day.com)
Pinki gets bail after 25 days in custody (thehindu.com)
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Why Koodankulam reactors are Killers of Indians and Fisheries
May 8, 2012 tvaraj	4 Comments
Reproduced from http://tshivajirao.blogspot.com/
By Prof. T. Shivaji Rao on Saturday, May 5, 2012
Prof. T. Shivaji Rao
Director, Centre for Environmental Studies,
GITAM UNIVERSITY, Visakhapatnam, India
SHIVAJI RAO- ENVIRONMENTALIST Born in 1932 at Mudinepalli, near Gudivada, Krishna Dist. Andhra Pradesh, received Bachelors degree in Civil Engg., from Viswesaraiah Engineering College, Banglore (1956) and Masters Degree in Environmental Engineering from Rice university, Houston, Texas, (USA) (1962), Ph.D. (Hony). Former Head of the Department of Civil Engineering and principal of College of Engineering, Andhra university. Formerly Hony. Professor in Andhra University, Manonmanian Sundarnar University, JNT University. Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, India Recipient of the University Grants Commissions National Award "Swami Pranavananda Award on Ecology and Environmental Sciences" for the year 1991. Recipient of Sivananda Eminent Citizen Award for 2002 by Sanathana Dharma Charitable Trust, Andhra Pradesh state. Presently Working as Director, centre for Environmental Studies, GITAM University, Visakhapatnam, India.
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Just as a highly irritated snake kills a man, nuclear plants silently kill mankind and nature for providing illegal money to the greedy contractors, officials and politicians?
Nuclear Plants are just silent killers of man and Nature. In nature the Uranium ore contains 99.3% of Uranium-238 and the remaining 0.7% is Uranium-235 and they are almost harmless in nature. But greedy business people dig the Uranium ore and convert the least harmful Uranium-235 into the fuel form of Uranium-235 by purifying it to make it a fuel by enriching it from 0.7% to about 4%. It is packed into pellets which are put into Fuel rods and inserted into the core of the nuclear reactor for producing both electricity and Radioactive material for making the killer nuclear bombs. In the reactor when the nuclear atom is given a blow by a neutron, enormous intense heat and other poisonous Radio-active atoms like Xenon, Barium, Cesium, Strontium and Plutonium and a few neutrons are produced.
Nuclear fission (en.wikipedia.org)
These radioactive substances are discharged into the air and water by several ways and they enter into the environment consisting of air, water and soil and foods like vegetables, fishes, prawns and they ultimately get into human beings and produce cancers and birth defects in generations of people for many decades to come.
Basic Nuclear Fission (library.thinkquest.org)
Environmental Impact of Nuclear Plant (sites.google.com)
These poisonous radioactive substances destroy natural and human life and culture and convert lands up to hundreds of kilometers into permanent nuclear burial grounds for ever.
1) AS A THREATENED COBRA KILLS A MAN, PURIFIED URANIUM IN REACTORS POISON MANKIND AND NATURE
How the harmless Uranium ore materials in nature are converted by man into destructive and killer materials can be understood by the following simple example. For instance king cobras live in nature in anthills in forests and lead their normal life peacefully by catching their prey for food during nights. But greedy who want to extract their venom people go and poke their iron rods into their abodes and disturb the Cobras when they become angry and bite the trespassers to inflict death over them by their poisons. Similarly, the selfish business people are mining the harmless Uranium and converting it into harmful Enriched Uranium and then using it to produce electricity by means of the Nuclear plants and in the process they are producing Radioactive pollutants that poison man and nature as radioactivity gets into the environment. In course of time if an accident occurs in the Nuclear plant due to several reasons like in Fukushima or Chernobyl, the poisonous pollutants are thrown into the atmosphere and they kill thousands of people slowly and inflict cancer to millions of people living downstream up to hundreds of kilometers as in case of Fukushima and Chernobyl accidents.
2) NUCLEAR EXPERTS MISLEAD ON ABSOLUTE SAFETY OF NUCLEAR PLANTS
The Nuclear plant operators are misleading the public by stating that Nuclear power is safe and cheap just like the medical representatives of various pharmaceutical companies praise before the doctors about the virtues of their medical tablets and tonics as part of their sale promotion activity the nuclear authorities are praising the nuclear plants as safe and cheap energy producers which is a social crime. This misinformation is dangerous to public health and welfare because in European states almost all people agree that safety of Nuclear power is a Myth as accepted by Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany. She had consulted the genuine experts on nuclear plants and realized that nuclear safety is a myth and ordered for gradual closure of all the nuclear plants in Germany. If Indian Prime Minister and Union Cabinet Ministers including the Chief Ministers of the states want to know the truth about the safety of the nuclear power plants they must go and visit advanced countries like Germany and Japan and discuss the issue with foreign experts so that they can refrain from promoting nuclear plants as is done by the peoples leader like Mamata Banerjee, Chief Minister of West Bengal.
i) Center and State Government Nuclear experts are recklessly propagating that nuclear reactors are absolutely safe because firstly they are not at all experts as per Section 45 and 51 of Indian Evidence Act and they cannot understand nuclear safety as envisaged by the standards specified by International Atomic Energy Agency.
EVIDENTIARY VALUE OF EXPERT OPINION UNDER INDIAN EVIDENCE ACT (works.bepress.com)
IAEA Safety Standards for protecting people and the environment (pdf document) (www-pub.iaea.org)
ii) The Government appointed experts have never studied how Fukushima reactors exploded only due to a series of human failures as had happened even in the case of Bhopal disaster. The experts never studied the case of Bhopal disaster to realize that human errors cause disasters for several reasons. The experts never studied even the 1985 reports on Environmental Impact Assessment report published by the British Government for 1100 MW nuclear power plant at Sizewell including the risk analysis, disaster scenario depicting the travel of radioactive pollutants up to 160 km from the reactor, the emergency evacuation procedures, rehabilitation of the victims and the cost benefit analysis. They have never studied even the causes and effects of nuclear reactor explosions in Three Mile Island in USA in 1979, the Chernobyl disaster in Russia in 1986 and Fukushima explosion in Japan in March 2011 and the damaging effects on public health and ecological systems and the enormous costs of compensation amounting to 4 lakh crores of rupees leading those countries to virtual economic bankruptcy.
What is a nuclear reactor? (whatisnuclear.com)
3) SAFE LIGNITE COAL TO BE USED FOR ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION IS DIVERTED FROM TAMILNADU TO UTTARA PRADESH AND THRUST IMPORTED AND RISKY REACTORS OVER THE HEADS OF TAMILIANS
While it was the duty of the experts to identify several alternate methods of producing the same amount of electricity in place of the proposed hazardous reactors they have omitted describing such alternatives by utilizing the cheaper, safe and socially acceptable solar power, wind power, natural gas and lignite coal which are available in plenty in India itself. The experts failed to point out to the state and central Governments that their plan to divert lignite coal from Neyveli of Tamilnadu to a far-off sate like Uttara Pradesh in North India to generate same electrical power amounts to denying the supply of electricity by using their own local resource instead of dumping on the heads of the people the most costliest and deadliest large reactors to be imported all the way of from the far off country like Russia. Such an action amounts to denying the right to life, right to health and right to livelihood of lakhs of people of Tamilnadu.
i) Since the Tamilnadu expert committee consists of 2 mechanical engineers, one commerce Post Graduate and one Physicist, they do not have the necessary academic background to grasp the fundamentals of the different kinds of radioactive substances in the natural background and their damaging impacts on the mode of breaking the single strand and double strands of the helix in the DNA located in the Chromosomes present in the nucleus of the different kinds of cells present in different organs of humanbeings, animal population, marine fishery organisms and the terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. They may not be in a position to grasp the food chains and food webs in nature through which the different kinds of radiation may enter the fisheries and other food. The biological magnification of some of these radioactive particles with both short and long half life spans are bound to cause prolonged damaging effects on normal cells and sperm cells which may result in the birth of mutilated and unnatural offspring.
ii) Consequently the state nuclear experts are disabled to grasp that any increase in radiation above natural background radiation is bound to damage the life systems by causing sickness including cancer and loss of immunity that are conducive for promotion of the incidence of several exotic diseases and new forms of ill-health in the organisms. Some of these experts blindly believe that as compared with the background level of radiation, their nuclear plants at Kudankulam containing one or more large sized reactors are going to contribute radioactive pollution to the Environment which will be negligible as compared with the background levels. These experts are blind to the real facts that a nuclear reactor discharges enormous amounts of radioactivity into the atmosphere and into the natural water courses like lakes and oceans on a very large scale as can be seen by the data published by several honest nuclear plant operators in other countries. See Website:
Who are these Nuclear Safety 'Experts'?: It Is Time the 'Lay' People Rise Up and Ask! (dianuke.org)
PROBABLE NUCLEAR REACTOR (1100 MW) EXPLOSION SCENARIO AND DISASTER MANAGEMENT (bhujangam.blogspot.in)
iii) The Indian experts also bluff the public by designating the nuclear accidents as excursions and nuclear plant locations which will be nuclear burial grounds as nuclear parks. They also do not know that nuclear reactors are responsible for several small scale, medium scale and large scale accidents running into hundreds of accidents per year as can be seen from the following website:
ACCIDENTS, LEAKS, FAILURES AND OTHER INCIDENTS (pdf document) (ib.cnea.gov.ar) (Item No.812, Page-115)
812. 1987, June – U.S.A.
More than 23,000 mishaps have occurred at US commercial reactor power plants since the Three Mile Island accident in 1979, according to Public Citizen.
1979 – 2,310 accidents
1986 – 3,000 accidents.
(Public Citizen Critical Mass Energy Project WISE NC 275 June 87)
WHY NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS ARE DIFFICULT TO BE AVOIDED? (tshivajirao.blogspot.in)
During all these accidents high levels of radioactivity will be discharged into the Environment but the plant owners never present the true facts to the public and hence the people only know these facts by the increased levels of cancer and birth defects among the population living in the vicinity of the nuclear plants in Rajasthan, Uttara Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Tamilnadu as assessed by the independent medical practitioners located in their respective areas. Thus nuclear plants are just silent killers of mankind and nature.
4) SAFETY OF REACTORS
In order to avoid the core melt-down, experts have provided a series of safety devices. One major line of defence is emergency core cooling system (ECCS) which provides an instantaneous water supply that keeps the core from melting. Another lineof defence is the concrete containment that surrounds the core and the pressure vessel so that even during a loss of coolant accident, no radioactivity will escape into the outside environment. Such engineering safety measures also fail sometimes. If the main pipe in the primary cooling breaks, immediately the control rods eliminate the nuclear fission process, halting the activity. But the radioactivity in the already disintegrating fission products cannot be arrested. In a 650 MW plant, the heat formation by the radioactive disintegration process amounts to roughly 200 MW three seconds after the reactor is switched off, 100 MW after one minute, 30 MW after one hour and 12 MW after 24 hours.
Under normal operating conditions, the reactor has an external fuel casing temperature of about 350oC, while the interior fuel rods remain at 2220oC. If the cooling liquid is lost, the outer surface of the rods heats up rapidly within 10 to 15 seconds, the fuel casing will begin to break down and within a minute, the casing will melt.
WHY INDIAN NUCLEAR PLANTS ARE ACCIDENT-PRONE AND SOME MAY EXPLODE IN THE LONG RUN? (tshivajirao.blogspot.in)
Unless the emergency cooling system comes into operation within a minute, the fuel (approximately 100 tonnes) and the supporting structure will all begin to melt, leading to a major accident. At this stage even if the emergency cooling system works, it will make the situation worse. The molten metals react with the cooling water to produce steam and hydrogen and heat from the fission products adds to this, thus sinking the melten core to the ground. In a 200 MW nuclear reactor radio-fission products accumulated after one year would be equivalent to the amount released by approximately 1000 atom bombs of the Hiroshima variety. Since the reactor pressure vessel contains the core, any loss in the pressure vessel in excess of the supply from ECCS leads to the escape of the coolant, thereby exposing the core that gets overheated within seconds. The failure of the vessel can inflict serious damage to the core and also break the containment.
5) EMERGENCY COOLANT FAILS
According to the advocates of nuclear power when the primary coolant comes out of the major pipe break in the coolant water loop, the control rods are immediately driven into the core to stop the fission reaction and the ECC system releases the cool water from the accumulators intended to cope with such emergencies. But the environmental experts and opponents of nuclear power emphasise that by the time the emergency coolant water gets in the core, the temperature in the core would become so high that the water turns into high pressure steam, either obstructing the entry of more coolant or forcing it to exit through the breakage in the pipes so that the reactor core gets overheated to cause a major disaster. When the Aerojet Nuclear Company conducted tests of ECC system at the National Reactor Testing Station in Idaho, USA, mechanical failure occurred. Subsequent tests at Oakridge National Laboratories indicated that the Zircalloyclad fuel rods may swell, rupture and obstruct the cooling channel thereby preventing the emergency cooling water from reaching the reactor core. Fuel rod swelling commenced about 1400oF and at 1880oF the coolant channels were blocked by 50 to 100 percent and such a blockage could be catastrophic. The combined effect of the rapid cooling during an emergency core cooling with the rapidly rising pressure in a reactor vessel could lead to its rupture, an accident that no nuclear plant is designed to cope with. Failure of the vessel could occur due to inherent weakness in the construction of the vessel itself or due to factors such as molten fuel coolant explosion or the gross failure of the vessel support system. Steam generators also cause problems due to deformation of tubes because of corrosion of support of plate materials, fatigue failures and tube pitting problems. The feed water system piping is exposed to water-hammer, leading to the damage of valves. These valves on their own face problems from packing, gasket leakage and erosion.
FAILURE MODES, EFFECTS AND CRITICALITY ANALYSIS (FMECA) FOR COMMAND, CONTROL, COMMUNICATIONS, COMPUTER, INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE (C4ISR) FACILITIES (pdf document) (armypubs.army.mil)
i) Places to be evacuated during accident at Kudankulam: When an accident at a nuclear plant releases enormous quantities of radioactivity into the air, water and soil environment, there will be immediate fatalities and long-term genetic damage among the exposed populations. All the people within the zone of influence from the reactors must be evacuated.
Evacuation must be completed within
6 hours for 2 to 5 km,
12 hours for 5 to 25 km,
24 hours for 25 to 75 km, and
40 hours for over 75 km
downwind from Kudankulam as per the British Accident scenario for the 1100 MW, Sizewell reactor, based on a wind speed of 5 m/sec rainfall of 1 mm/hour and natural stability conditions of the atmosphere.
After thorough scrubbing and decontamination of lands, equipment and residences due to radioactive pollution from an accident, people may be permitted to return to their original residence along with their cattle and other properties
after three weeks up to 170 km,
one year up to 140 km,
from 5 years up to 115 km,
10 years up to 98 km, and
20 years up to 77 km
distance from the nuclear plant.
Depending upon the weather conditions during the accident, certain places will be more affected than others.
Many villages of Ramanathapuram, Tirnelveli and Kanyakumari of Tamilnadu and Trivandrum and Quilon districts of Kerala will be affected seriously.
Killakkarai, Sattirakudi, Abiramam, Virudhnagar and Watrap of Tamilnadu and Gudalur, Thekkadi, Vengamala, Pantalam and Karunagapalli of Kerala lie within 170 km.
Sayalkudi, Nattakkadu, Sivakasi and Sattur of Tamilnadu, Edathora, Aruppokottair, Srivilliputtur and Rajapaliyam lie in between 140 km and 170 km.
Karilgatti, Kalugumala and Puliyangudiof Tamilnadu, Tenmala, Kadakkal, Attingal and Kadiamkulam of Kerala lie within 115 km.
Taruvaikulam, Kadambur, Tirumalapuram and Tenkasi of Tamilnadu and Palad and Attipara lie within 98 km.
Tuticorin, Kayattar and Trivandrum lie in between 98 km and 77 km.
Sayarpuram Pudukkottai, tirunelveli, Ambassamudram, Mannar, Balaramapuram, Neyyattinkara, Nanguneri, Panakudi, Kolachel, Nagercoil and Cape Comorin lie within 77kms from the nuclear plant site.
KUDANKULAM NUCLEAR PLANT EXPLOSION SCENARIO AND DISASTER MANAGEMENT (tshivajirao.blogspot.in)
KUDANKULAM – A NUCLEAR BOMB OVER TAMILNADU? (tshivajirao.blogspot.in)
Lessons of Chernobyl and Fukushima: Nuclear Safety is an Oxymoron (dianuke.org)
6) WHY TAMILANDU NUCLEAR EXPERTS MISUNDERSTAND NUCLEAR SAFETY
When radioactive atomic nuclei breaks up due to instability or impinged by neutrons radiation is released as particulates or high energy wave radiation. When such radiation hits on living cells the atoms in the cell get ionized. The atomic nucleus contains in its electronic sheath negatively charged electrons equal to positively charged protons in the atomic nucleus and so an atom is electrically neutral in its outward effects. If a negatively charged electron of Beta particle radiation bombards a neutral atom one or more electrons will be thrown out of the electoral sheath of the atom which becomes an ion that is a positively recharged atomic residue the newly formed ions have considerable electrical attractive power and so have capacity for strong chemical reaction. If such reactions occur in air or dead matter nobody bothers but if ionization of atoms occurs in living tissue it often causes damage resulting in cancer cells it causes severe damage like deformities, still births, enzyme defects and metabolic disorders. It has to be assumed that even the smallest quantity of radioactivity can cause a corresponding damage in living cells. If the radioactive particles or rays bombard a DNA molecule it causes ionization of atoms and the subsequent chemical reactions cause variations in basic arrangement of base sequels and break either a single strand or double strand of the double helix in DNA and so changes occur in the heritable information and the consequential damages on living organisms. The strand of the helix sequences of phosphoric acid residual and Deoxyribose residues while the bases contain Adenine, Thymine, Guanine, and cytosinev residues.
7) RADIATIONS DAMAGE THE HUMAN AND ANIMAL CELLS ALSO
Inside the nucleus of human cells there will be 23 pairs of chromosomes each of which is packed with DNA the genetic material to receive from the parents. The DNA is always exposed to damaging agents like ultraviolet light, chemicals and reactive oxygen species generated by ionizing radiation. Direct radiation like alpha or Beta (electrons) particles or X-rays which create ions that physically break one or both of the sugar phosphate backbones or break the base pairs of the DNA. The base pairs of ATGC are held together by weak hydrogen bonds. The bonding of these base pairs can also be damaged by ionizing radiation. The base pairs of the DNA form sequences called nucleotides which inturn form the genes. The genes direct the cell to make proteins which determine the cell type and regulate its working when such breaks occur the DNA repairs itself by a process called excision which occurs in 3 steps.
Endonucleases cut out the damaged DNA
Resysnthesis of the original DNA by DNA polymerase
Ligation by which the sugar phosphate backbone is repaired
Since evaluation of species occurred in sea of radiation the DNA repair processes constantly occur.
8) WHY INDUSTRY HIDES FACTS ON RADIOACTIVE ROUTINE RELEASES ALSO
Everyday DNA gets 10,000 injuries due to routine chemicals. A radioactive substance contains 1 curie when 37 billion radioactive disintegrations occur in it per cell. Natural radioactivity of earth per gram is 1 pico curie equivalent to 1 trillionth of a cancer. In dry air one Roentgen or Rad or Rem produces 2 billion ions per cm3. One Rad is the radiation dosage given out by 100 ergs of energy for gram of any substance. But since different radiations have different energy dosages their biological effectiveness is given a quality factor to identify Relative Biological effectiveness. The RB factor is one for Beta, Gamma and X-Ray radiations. While alpha and proton radiations have 10 times higher while neutron radiation has 4 units for slow neutron that gradually rise to 20 for fast neutron radiations. Proton at one 10-millionth part of a gram can cause cancer as it emits alpha rays of very high radiation doses with a high factor of 3 lakh units. If a lorry containing 25 kg were to overturn in road accident the plutonium thus released could cause 250 billion cases of lung cancer. 25 kg of Plutonium can be used for an atomic bomb. Tritium with its weak Beta rays comes into waste water at 100 curies to 1000 curies per annum for a nuclear plant of 1000 MW capacity. During decay tritium atom emits an electron and is converted into stable Helium. Tritium occurs in natural waters at 40 pico curies per liter and in public water supplies its concentration is limited to 3 million pico curies per liter. If one strand of DNA breaks the second strand of helix as a duplicate repairs like replacing one spoiled bulb by a new one and holds the chromosome together. Even when double strand breakages for a radiation of 100 to 500 rads exposure the repair is done in 2 to 8 hours. But when dosage of 0.08 rads per year for a decade caused extra chromosomal damage among people of Alaska. There will be 600 millions cells in one CC . In Humans one percent of single strand lesions (breaks) are converted to about 50 double strand breaks in DNA for cell cycle. Similar to the double produced by 1.52 to 2 Grays of sparsely ionizing radiation. Although DSBs are repaired on a reliable basis, the errors in repair mechanism often cause high rate of cancer in human beings. 100 rads Gamma rays cause 300 tracks cross every nucleus of the cell based on 630KeV Gamma rays from Ce 137 and one track for nucleus is due to 0.33 rads of Ce 137. Background radiation causes a fraction of one track per year. An X-ray produces 6 to 10 tracks per cell nuclei. A Gamma ray produces one MeV( soft Gamma ray gives 100 KeV) Beta particle produces 2 MeV and Alpha particle produces 6 MeV. 1 Sv or 100 rems give one Joule per kg of energy in human tissue. Radiation causes DNA damage in Million molecule lesions per cell per day. Human exposure to background radiation is about 2.4 mSv per year and the nuclear plants add to the public about 1 mSv and 20 mSv for workers per year and this limit is based on the assumption that there is no threshold dose below which there would be no effect which means that any additional dose will cause proportional increase in damage to public health and it is based on the precautionary principle which is universally accepted. While one kg of granite or coffee produces 1000 Bq, one kg of coal ash 2000 Bq, one kg 7000 Bq and 1 kg of low level radioactive waste produces one million Bq. Since the Indian Nuclear Power Corporation hides facts about routine releases of radioactivity from nuclear power plants it becomes inevitable for Indians and others to know the true facts from published literature in other countries dealing with nuclear power plants. The following website present the detailed data
Tritium Releases to Air and Water from Nuclear Power Plants – Tables of Release Data from 2004 or 2005 (ieer.org)
Consequently the common people cannot trust the experts of the Government organization about radiation exposure due to nuclear power plants and hence must anticipate that under different kinds of nuclear accidents there will be large scale radioactivity discharged into the environment at all the existing plants which are causing serious health impacts as reported by independent scientists. Since the nuclear plants cannot be prevented by the Indian experts to discharge radioactive pollution from the reactors the people have to make their own estimates in the matter and visualize what kinds of illnesses including cancer are waiting in the wings to harm lakhs of people in the near and distant places from Kudankulam reactors up to hundreds of kilometers downwind.
Description and Effects of Different Doses and Dose Rates
Description / Effects
0.3 to 0.6 mSv/a
This is the typical range of dose rates from artificial sources of radiation, mostly medical.
This is the range of worldwide average annual radiation dose from ingestion of foodstuff and water. Variations about the mean values by factors 5 to 10 are not unusual for many components of exposure from natural sources.
2.4 mSv/a (approximately)
The normal average background radiation from natural sources. Approximately half of this exposure is from radon in air.
13 mSv/a
This is the highest known average annual dose from background radiation that occurs in the Kerala and Madras states in India where a population of over 100 000 people is exposed to this level.
This dose averaged over 5 years is the limit for regulated practices and working activities such as the nuclear industry employees and mining and mineral processing workers, who are closely monitored.
This dose is conservatively the lowest dose rate where there is any evidence of cancer being caused. It is also the dose rate that arises from natural background levels in several places. Above this, the probability of cancer occurrence (rather than the severity) increases with dose.
1000 mSv
This dose accumulated over some time, would probably cause a fatal cancer many years later in 5 of every 100 persons exposed to it (i.e. if the normal incidence of fatal cancer were 25%, this dose would increase it to 30%).
1 000 mSv
This dose received as a short-term dose would probably cause (temporary) illness such as nausea and decreased white blood cell count, but not death. Above this dose the severity of illness increases with dose.
Between 2 000 and 10 000 mSv
This dose over a short-term dose would cause severe radiation sickness with increasing likelihood that this would be fatal.
10 000 mSv
This dose in a short-term dose would cause immediate illness and subsequent death within a few weeks.
9) DAMAGE TO LIFE FORMS IS OFTEN IRREVERSIBLE AND INEVITABLE MAKING NUCLEAR SAFETY A PIE IN THE SKY AND HENCE PEOPLE MUST OPPOSE THEM
When an electron passes through a biological cell the electron releases its energy along its path (called a track) by interacting with the electrons of nearby molecules. The energy thus released is absorbed by atoms near the track causing excitation ( a push in the orbit of an electron to a higher energy level) or ionization (release of an electron from the atom) and the residue unstable atoms are known as radicals and are chemically highly active. X-ray and gamma rays unlike Beta particles release high speed electrons from atoms first. Positively charged particles transfer energy to molecules in the cells electrically uncharged neutrons impact of the nuclei of hydrogen atoms namely protons. Since the masses of the proton and neutron are similar the impact results in an elastic scattering process as occurs in Billiards game. The ejected protons work like charged protons. Ionizations due to radiation act directly on cell molecules or indirectly on water molecules causing water derived radicals which react with nearby molecules causing breakage of chemical bonds or addition of oxygen atoms by oxidation of the affected molecules. The major effect in biological cells is at DNA breaks either in single strand or double strands and the later is important biologically. Single strand breaks can be repaired normally because of the double stranded nature of the DNA(the two strands complement each other so that an intact strand serves as a template for repair of its damaged opposite strand) In case of double strand breaks the repair is more difficult and the erroneous rejoining of broken ends may occur and such misrepairs cause mutations, chromosome abrasions or cell death.
Radiations differ not only by their components like electrons, protons and neutrons but also by their energy. Radiations by neutrons and alpha particles cause dense ionization along their track and are called High Linear Energy Transfer ,High LET radiation that is energy released per unit length of the track. Low LET radiations by X-Rays and Gamma rays produce ionizations sparsely along their track and homogeneously within the cell. High LET radiations release energy in a small region of the cell and the localized DNA damage caused by High LET radiations is more difficult to repair than the diffuse DNA damage caused by the sparse ionizations from Low LET radiations. The same radiation dosage produce the same total number of ionizations with the difference that Low LET radiation causes sparse ionizations whose damaging effects can be normally repaired while the High LET radiation causes dense ionization along their track causing double strand breaks which are more difficult for repair and hence are bound to cause cell deaths or mutations resulting in cancer and other forms of illness.
How radiation affects cells (rerf.jp)
10) CRUCIAL ROLE OF THE PUBLIC TO SAVE THEIR RIGHT TO LIFE, RIGHT TO HEALTH AND RIGHT TO LIVELIHOOD AT ANY COST
When India became independent Mahatma Gandhi addressed a public meeting on the occasion. He said "by making Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru as the Prime Minister of India I call him an uncrowned King of India. Like anyone of us he is a human being and all of you know that to err is human. In course of his work to uplift the nation he will plan and execute several developmental projects during the course of administration he may commit some errors who will correct such errors. His Minister or his administrative officers will not dare to point out his mistakes and rectify them and then who will take the responsibility to put the nations destiny on the right track".
Since none of them people present at the meeting opened their mouths he told them point blank "it is you, the people of this great social welfare state in the democracy who have to correct even the mistakes of a Prime Minister. If you do not come forward to rectify such defects you are unfit as responsible citizen of the great social welfare state."
Similarly Prime Minister Mrs.Indira Gandhi also wanted all the responsible citizens to protect public interest and for the purpose amended article 51A and introduced sub clause "g" by which she proclaimed that it is the first duty of the responsible citizen to protect the water, the air, the forests, the wild life and to develop compassion for all living creatures. "That is why it has been always said that eternal vigilance is a price that the Indian people have to pay to sustain their democracy. Thus it is the people of India who have to fight against the anti peoples actions perpetrated by the Government at the state and Central levels to safeguard the health and welfare of the present and future generations of the people in India."
Coming to the case of Kudankulam nuclear reactors the people must play an active role to stop them as they are just silent killers.
In case of Kudankulam reactors it is better that the local people and school children must collect funds by begging in Tamilnadu villages and towns and present the money to the Chief Minister and Prime Minister for abandoning the present reactors on the plea that in case these reactors experience explosions on the pattern of Fukushima rectors, the people have to pay a heavy penalty of Rs.4 lakh crores which will make the state and the country fall into the trap of economic bankruptcy. In fact in one of the villages of Cuddapah the school children who found that their family members addicted to liquor are not only dying but also ruining their families because the state Government has considered liquor business as their main economic source of survival. The children wanted to pay that amount realized through liquor sales to the state Government to ban liquor sales so that the families will save their own heads of families who are the bread winners. In Tamilnadu the experiment can be copied and implemented to stop the reactors and thereby stop the state Government do indirectly declare a nuclear war on millions of people of South Tamilnadu.
Even in history there are many instances when a Kingdom was invaded a treacherous foreign ruler the local people used to fight against the invasion or alternatively purchase peace by paying compensation money to the invader. Veera Pandya Kattabhraman refused to yield to the dictators of the treacherous British rulers so he was hanged in public. Today the people of this historical Pandyan Empire have to save their lives and of their progeny against the invasion by the people in the North of Pandya Kingdom in Tamilnadu and those from the North India. The Pandyans if they want the survival of their future generations they must resort to this alternative course of action as followed by the children of the Cuddapah village of Andhra Pradesh.
ACCIDENTS, LEAKS, FAILURES AND OTHER INCIDENTS (pdf document) (ib.cnea.gov.ar)
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Day 13: Alex Paul Menon, District Collector of Sukma, Chhattisgarh has been released from captivity.
At last a heartening news: Alex Paul Menon, the District Collector of Sukma, Chhattisgarh abducted on April 21, by Maoist insurgents has been released from captivity today (Thursday, May 3, 2012).
"I am tired, shattered. I want to go home to my family first. I would just like to rest … I am fine. I will speak after a day…" said Alex Menon.
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India Maoists free abducted official Alex Paul Menon (bbc.co.uk)
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The Carousel on the National Mall, Washington, DC.
By T. V. Antony Raj
On March 31, 2012, my wife and I visited the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
Click here on this link to see a fantastic –> photo of the National Mall and The Capitol in Washington, DC.
Near the Smithsonian Castle, on Jefferson Drive, on the National Mall, is an authentic carousel with brilliantly painted hand-carved animals.
This old carousel called "The Smithsonian Carousel" is not big, but is a big draw on the Mall for kids – young and old. Even if you are not so young like me, it is still fun to just see a bit of old-world fun and the old horses.
The Smithsonian carousel was built in the 1940s by the Allan Herschell Co., but its history is far richer than the families who frequent it might suspect.
Before the carousel arrived on the Mall in 1981, it was a popular attraction at Gwynn Oak Amusement Park in Woodlawn, Maryland, one of the region's most booming parks. Gwynn Oak, as many amusement parks were at that point of time, was for whites-only.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave the famous speech "I Have a Dream" on August 28, 1963. According to Amy Nathan, author of "Round and Round Together, "Gwynn Oak Amusement Park dropped segregation on the very same day as the March on Washington, and on that day, Sharon Langley was the first African-American child to go on a ride there.
Carousel on the National Mall
Smithsonian Metro Station (Blue, Orange)
L'enfant Plaza Metro Station (Blue, Green, Orange, Yellow)
Archives Metro Station (Green, Yellow)
March 1 to Eve of Labor Day: Daily 10 am to 5:30 pm
Labor Day to February 28: Daily 11 am to 5 pm
Closed on December 25.
ADMISSION: $3.50
A friend said that he took his kid to the mall in November last year and the price for the ride was $2.50 and he hitched a free ride with his toddler. So, it was free then for the parent or guardian if the children were under 42″ high or needed supervision.
As of April 30, 2011, the ride costs $3.50. And if your child is under 42″, and even if you aren't going to ride a horse, you have to pay for an extra ticket to supervise them.
The Carousel on the Mall: Spinning civil rights history. (wtop.com)
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2012 Centennial of Cherry Blossoms in Washington DC (tvaraj.wordpress.com)
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WW1 pair & Memorial Plaque to 35245 Pte. Wallace S. Sheldrake, 1/5th Bn., Yorkshire Regt. (T.F.), 150th Bde.: 50th Division (T.F.)
Group of 4 to Squadron Leader Fredrick Ronald Flynn, RAF. Chief Flying Instructor at No.4 Air School, flew on the Royal Flight (1953 Coronation), King's Commendation, LG 1/1/1945, Air Force Cross 2/1/1950, photos, officer's promotion document & 4 logbooks
Group to 2195 Chief Motor Mechanic Henry Hipwood, RFC (1914-18) RAF (1918-1947) RAF Meritorious Service Medal (LG: 3/6/1919) RAF LSGC (13/11/1932) OBE (LG: 1/1/1941) Defence of Malta: April - Aug 1941, retired Wing Commander 1/11/1947, see description
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