VUVUZELA : A SAFARI PICKLE

This year’s World Cup football has a special Safari treatment with Vuvuzela. Specially designed to create nuisance and instrument of masti . Also known as Lepatata (its Tswana name) and stadium horn, is a typical 65 cm plastic blowing horn that produces a loud, distinctive monotone note.
Several VUVUS are there and can create varying intensity and frequency outputs.
With the tide of soccer is up and up people are for and against of it. The Daily Telegraph's chief sports reporter Paul Kelso described critics of the vuvuzela as "killjoys" and said they should "stop moaning".
The intensity output depends on the blowing technique and pressure exerted. This is thrilling and can take its own toll .

Earlier prominent South African columnist and former sportswriter, Jon Qwelane, described the vuvuzela as "an instrument from hell" that had caused him to abandon watching live games, and urged that it be banned before the 2010 World Cup.

It has become a symbol of South African football as the stadiums are filled with its loud and raucous sound that reflects that exhilaration of supporters.


In response to criticism of the horn's use, President of FIFA Sepp Blatter commented, "I have always said that Africa has a different rhythm, a different sound. I don't see banning the music traditions of fans in their own country. Would you want to see a ban on the fan traditions in your country?"

The intensity of the sound caught the attention of the global football community during the 2009 Confederation Cup in anticipation of South Africa hosting the 2010 World Cup, though its frequent usage during sporting events raised health and safety concerns.

The vuvuzela has been the subject of controversy. Its high sound pressure levels at close range can lead to permanent hearing loss for unprotected ears after extensive exposure. A test, shows the maximum sound output varied between 113 and 131 dBA.

The vuvuzela became popular in South Africa in the 1990s. Well-known Kaizer Chiefs F.C. fan Freddie "Saddam" Maake claims to have invented the vuvuzela by adapting an aluminium version as early as 1965 from a bicycle horn after removing the black rubber to blow with his mouth. He later found it to be too short and joined a pipe to make it longer. Maake has photos of himself in the 1970s and 1980s at local South African games and international games in 1992 and 1996 and at the 1998 World Cup in France, holding the aluminium vuvuzela.

The origin of the name vuvuzela is disputed. It may have originated from Zulu for "making a vuvu noise," directly translated "vuvu-ing" because of the "vuvu" sound it makes, or from township slang related to the word for "shower".
The world football governing body, FIFA, expressed concerns that hooligans could use the instrument as a weapon and that businesses could place advertisements on vuvuzelas, in violation of FIFA regulations.

In July 2008, FIFA ruled that vuvuzelas would be allowed at the Confederations Cup, after the South African Football Association (SAFA) made the case that vuvuzelas were essential to an authentic South African football experience. FIFA President Sepp Blatter was opposed to banning the instrument, saying, "we should not try to Europeanise an African World Cup."
FIFA received complaints from multiple European broadcasters who wanted it banned for the 2010 FIFA World Cup because the sound drowned out the voices of the commentators. Despite the protests, FIFA decided that the instrument would be allowed at the World Cup the following year,albeit only instruments shorter than one metre in length.

2010 FIFA World Cup

A user blowing a vuvuzela at a football tournament.As part of its marketing campaign for the World Cup, Korean automaker Hyundai and a local South African advertising agency called Jupiter Drawing Room created the largest working vuvuzela in the world—114 feet (35 m) long—on an unfinished flyover road in Cape Town.
Lionel Messi who complained that the sound of the vuvuzelas hampered communication among players on the pitch, and broadcasting companies, who complained that commentators' voices were being drowned out by the sound. Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo went on record to state that the sound of the vuvuzelas disturbed the teams' concentration.

Others watching on television have complained that the ambient audio feed from the stadium only contains the sounds of the vuvuzelas and the natural sounds of people in the stands are drowned out.

COURSE OF CORRECTION

Media and Journalism- two mystique wosrds for me . When i think about mission and its piouso aims feel proud, but nowdays there is no reason for this. In India , the man, muscle, money and power is spoiling journalism both inside and outside. Hence some ambiguity is there .

Stories are being pumped in rims and rims, megabyte to terabyte . When some one tries to ponder on this no one pay heed on his words. Generally he or she is treated as ostracized.

Ultimately Media mafia are ruling. Really the culture of couch potato is flourishing . Skin has become so hard that it is not being affected by anything.

Compare stories of 2002 Iraa Attack or Godhra Riots and this year's IPL. What we get or lose when time elapses. Do we like to look back ?

The Beginning of New Era : RTE

Today is day of fulfillment of promise. Nearly one deade after the Constitution was amended to make education a fundamental right, the government today implemented a historic law to provide free and compulsory education to all children in age group of 6-14 years.

The 86th Constitutional amendment making education a fundamental right was passed by Parliament in 2002. The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, a law to enable the implementation of the fundamental right, was passed by Parliament last year. Both the Constitutional amendment and the new law came into force from today.

The new law makes it obligatory on part of the state governments and local bodies to ensure that every child gets education in a school in the neighbourhood.

Its implementation will directly benefit close to one crore children who do not go to schools at present. These children, who have either dropped out from schools or have never been to any educational institution, will be enrolled in schools.

According to ministry of MHRD at present, there are nearly 22 crore children in the relevant age group. However, 4.6 per cent of these children (nearly 92 lakh) are out of school.

The school management committee or the local authority will identify the drop-outs or out of school children above six years of age and admit them in classes appropriate to their age after giving special training.

The Act mandates that even private educational institutions have to reserve 25 per cent seats for children from weaker sections. Education will be every child's right . This makes obligatory for the concerned governments to ensure that every child gets free elementary education. But the hindrances are still ahead, certain schools have already challenged the law in the Supreme Court as being 'unconstitutional' and violating fundamental rights of unaided private educational institutions.

The Finance Commission has provided Rs 25,000 crore to the states for implementation of the Act. Government's estimates say, there will be a requirement of Rs 1.71 lakh crore in the next five years for implementation of the Act.

The Act says no school can deny admission to a student and all schools need to have trained teachers. In case of schools not having trained teachers, they will have to comply with the provision within three years.

As per the new law, the schools need to have certain minimum facilities like adequate teachers, playground and infrastructure. The government will evolve some mechanism to help marginalised schools comply with the provisions of the Act.

The government has already prepared model rules which have been circulated to the states for preparing their own rules for implementation of the Act. The Centre has also prepared separate rules for the Union Territories which will be notified by the Law Ministry next week.

As per the Model rules, the local bodies and the state governments will undertake household surveys and neighbourhood school mapping to ensure that all children are sent to school.

The rules say that the state governments or local authorities will determine the neighbourhood schools by undertaking school mapping. Such agencies shall ensure that no child is subjected to caste, class, religious or gender abuse in the school.

The local authority will conduct a household survey and maintain a record of all children in its jurisdiction. The record will contain detailed information about the child and the parents and will specify whether the child belongs to the weaker section or disadvantaged group or having any disability.

The state government or local authorities will identify children with disabilities and children from disadvantaged groups every year.

Unaided and private schools shall ensure that children from weaker sections and disadvantaged groups shall not be segregated from the other children in the classrooms nor shall their classes be held at places and timings different from the classes held for the other children.

The new law will ensure that quality education is provided to children of all community, including minorities and backward classes.

However, the reservation for weaker section will not be implemented from this year as the admission season is almost over. It will be implemented from 2011-12.

The state government and local authorities will establish primary schools within walking distance of one km of the neighbourhood. In case of children for Class VI to VIII, the school should be within a walking distance of three km of the neighbourhood.