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I'm 30 years old. When I look back now, I haven't had a very pleasant life.
I lost my mother at a very young age. I didn't have a very supportive home. My father would only constantly tell me to study and pressurise me.
He was a Hitler figure. You know how little children are carefree and just play? I didn't have any of that.
I only had to study and there was nothing beyond it, that was how I grew up. As I grew up and questions about my gender identity arose, I didn't have anyone to share them with, about how they'd make fun of me in school and college.
It took a long time for me to accept myself as transgender. More than accept, it took me so long to realize it.
After that, a lot of things happened and I went to Poona and for a few days there I begged and took loans.
But that was possibly the first time I was actually happy. Though I had to beg there and that's a fact, that was where I realized I could live as a woman and be independent. I didn't have to worry about any relatives seeing me, or saying anything. I was free and I could live, so that you could say, was a very happy moment.
But I couldn't just spend my life begging and acquiring money so I came back to my hometown Trichy, then Madurai and Chennai and travelled to a few other places.
Then I got a job. As a transgender, I had to struggle hard to get a mainstream job.
But it wasn't a great joy to get that job because I wasn't interested in a monthly salaried regular life.
It didn't mean much and you can't say it was peace.
I came to Chennai after that and worked as assistant for a film under director Mysskin.
In this generation in the cinema field, to work under director Mysskin is a big opportunity. As a transgender, in the midst of such a challenging life, to get that opportunity was a big deal.
But it didn't satisfy me because there are many beautiful moments in life. When I worked in the bank, I spent a lot of happy moments with my colleagues but on the whole that lifestyle didn't make me happy.
In cinema too, I learnt a lot, understood a lot and acquired experiences as well as introductions, but it wasn't a fulfilling life.
A sort of fulfilling life is the one that I lead right now in theatre. I have acted in the productions of many theatre personalities- Sreejit, Mangai, Muruga Bhoopthi, Karuna Prasad, M. Ramaswamy.
Everytime I get on stage it is a beautiful moment. This is a pleasant life for me.
Other than that, I've always thought there are advantages and disadvantages to having been born as a transgender now that it was written that I had to be born in India.
If you look at my father and relatives, we are Dalit and a struggling family. But if I'd been born a biological female, they'd have gotten me married off at 18 to some fellow who could have been a scoundrel or a drunkard.
I'd have had two children then and spent my life bringing them up and not led a productive life. The only productive thing I could have done was give birth to children.
Even though I'm transgender and have to struggle in my life, I can be independent, make my own choices and choose my lifestyle. In that way, I'm happy.
But the tragedy is, because I was born in India and though I'm an Indian citizen because of this thing called gender, everybody can ridicule me and hurt me.
I feel like I've been born in a barbarian country and that is upsetting.
Other than that, there is no one big moment that I'd want to celebrate. The day I had my castration is an important one, every time I get on stage it is a happy one, I've loved and there are a few moments like that.
But my gender identity didn't allow the fulfilling life that I looked forward to. It was an obstacle to the life that I desired, a fulfilling one, and even so far I haven't got it.
A song that connects to my life...there are many.
In fact, in my autobiography I'd have quoted a song, which is Raja Magal.
It's an old song, one of Devika's. I'm very bad at singing so I don't want to sing and ruin the song because I love it that much.
It was sung by P. Leela. When I was very young and couldn't really realize emotions like love, I'd love to dance to that song.
Every time they played the song on the radio, I'd wear my elder sister's skirts and twirl around fast and then sit. The pleats of the skirt would be spread out when I sat and I enjoyed doing that. When nobody was home I'd always do it.
So that's why I like the song so much, for no particular reason other than bringing back a moment from my childhood.
Now, after my surgery, return from Poona and job at Madurai, I met my boyfriend, my life partner. He introduced me to Bob Marley.
I got to know Bob Marley through him. He's a guitarist and quite crazy about Bob Marley.
In all of his songs- I have two favourites. One is One Love One heart.
In fact, I wish to make an album- all transgenders and LGBT people leading a mainstream life, this is my idea. I've even written an article about this other song: (Sings) Get up, stand up. Stand up for your right.
So I called it Villithidu, Ezhunthe Porade Un Urimayke.
He used it for the liberation of Jamaica,
I look at it as for queer people and everyone else in society who are bound by gender. Sometimes when I'm depressed or down, this song energizes me. That's why this song is important to me.
The happiest moment in my life...there are a couple poems right now I dont remember.
But the one that comes to mind is my castration. The happiest moment in my life...I could tell you a couple. But the most important to me is the sex change operation because I'd experienced so much suffering and shame before that. Physically, my body didn't fit me.
Every day when I had bath, I'd look at it and cringe with shame. To now think that it was no longer a part of my body was a big freedom.
After that, I could face any of life's problems or disappointments and handle them. Castration gave me that new strong energy and that's why it is the most emotional and happiest.
In a transgender's life every second lived could have been a tragic one, so there's that many, embarrassments and the like.
For example, I acted in Bhupathi annan's play.
The organizers, husband and wife both, were writers. They're great people and they respect me a lot
After the play was over their daughters and their relatives congratulated me on my performance
Whenever I act in a play, I don't play the role of a transgender but that of a woman because I don't want to be tagged and typecast.
After the play while everybody was congratulating and praising me for my performance,
The organizing couple's little son, not ten years old yet, This was in the midst of everybody who was praising me saying I'd acted very naturally and pulled off my part very well told me that another little boy wanted to know if I was male or female, pointing to another little boy.
To be asked if I were male or female in front of everyone was terribly humiliating. He didn't mean to hurt me and just like that asked but it really affected me.
Similarly, once when I was begging on a train, there were four or five men who are like buffallos travelling.
The traditional occupations for the thirunangai, the hijra or the transwoman are sex work and begging. It is with great difficulty that a transwoman can find other ways of sustaining herself. This interviewee began begging but incidents of violence and humiliation pushed her to find other occupations. Now she is a well known theatre actress and director, she has been an assistant film director and various other jobs along the way. One of the most often talked about aspect in all these interviews are the love stories of people - how they found love, overcome obstacles or were defeated by them, people they left behind or others they longed for. As one of the interview subjects says about his journey as a transman and his tale of finding love - it was like a film story. Many of the stories are dramatic, funny and life-changing and here the interviewee shares one such incident from her life about her many loves.
I asked one of them to give me five rupees instead of the two he'd just given and someone else came forward and slapped me right across my face.
As soon as he'd slapped me many men from the compartment came forward and started beating me black and blue.
They kicked me off the train like a football onto the platform of a local station, where the train would hardly stop for a couple of minutes, and a man actually got off to continue beating me.
They wouldn't let me get back on the train. Then, with all the bruises and beatings, I ran and got into another compartment of the moving train.
It was the unreserved compartment. Though at least fifteen grown men beat me up that day, I stood up to them. I used profanity even as they lashed with belts on my face.
I even have a scar because of those dogs.
Once I got into the unreserved compartment, I just couldn't compose myself. It was only because I was transgender.
I begged in the same train everyday and I knew all the vendors and catering staff on it.
They'd all talk and laugh with me but that day nobody stood up for me or ask them to stop.
The whole train just looked on and nobody raised a voice.
Once I got into the unreserved compartment, I just couldn't compose myself because anybody could beat me up for no rhyme or reason and I was like an artifact to be watched with nobody to come to my rescue. I wondered if humanity was dead in this nation.
I suppose some of the people in that compartment too had watched me get beaten up. I didn't even realize that my nose was bleeding until one old woman pointed it out to me.
She cursed the men who beat me. Once she spoke up, I couldn't keep myself from crying. I cried like actresses in films do- completely ignoring my surroundings, I wailed and bawled. I screamed out all my rage.
That's a very embarrassing and humiliating event in my life.
Where do such people get their courage from? I can't do it, I'm female, and my circumstance is such that I come to you and ask for money having to leave behind all my education, the M.A degree and all my talent.
I debase myself and beg you for money and for 15 to 18 men to beat someone like that up, where's the masculinity or femininity or transgender-ity or whatever-ity in that.
That's why I hate Indian beurocracy or whatever.
A memory of my childhood that's silly or funny is...there are many such incidents.
I'd wait impatiently for my parents to leave the house and then lock the doors and windows.
The windows in my house weren't wooden or grilled, it was a wall like this that missed a brick. I'd hang a cloth to cover it from the roof and use a stone to suspend it, cover it with cardboard and even stuff the littlest holes and the keyhole with paper so nobody would see.
I'd listen for anyone coming. After all the preparation I'd take my sister's or mother's or aunt's sarees and skirts, wear them and dance.
I'd dance to the song like the one I told you earlier about. It was okay to do it when I was younger,
but I'd be upto such mischief even when I was studying my UG and PG courses.
To think of all that now is a that funny. When I was in Plus 2, I was quite madly in love with someone.
When we lived in the Somarsom area, there was a stream near my house.
Ilango was a milkman, he had a milk can.
He'd come to take bath or clean the can in that stream and to get there he had to pass our house.
Every time I saw him heading there, I'd quickly get there before him and pretend to be bathing. I behaved just as a woman, I'd dress provocatively to incite some emotion in him and do lots of things like that.
It was like a fever, I was so crazily in love with that man. I didn't know if a young boy, as the world saw me, could be in love with a useless milkman.
He was manly and looked quite nice when he smiled. I was upto so much mischief then, like the bathing in the stream.
He stayed in this little rented house that I'd frequent and what was terrible was that he was in love with a girl, and he'd always talk about her.
Whenever I got a chance I'd slip in something negative about her so he'd hate he. I've done so many silly things like that.
I'd brush myself against him, I'd fervently wait for him to change after bath, when he only had a towel wrapped around him.
I'd hope for him to see me as a woman one day.
Till the end nothing happened between us. He didn't even get it that I was in love with him.
I'd wait, feverish with excitement, every day from the time I woke up till around 8 when he'd come for a bath. I'd keep looking at the street, waiting for him.
But later, as my life went down different paths I completely forgot about him.
Only when i was writing my autobiography, did I think about him and all that again and realize how crazy I'd been for him.
I didn't even know what had become of him. After many years, about three years earlier, I saw him at somarsom are and that was when I even remembered him again.
Now he's older. I was so crazy about him that I was ready to die and now I didn't know where those feelings were. I saw him and it had no effect. I've been really silly.
A very sad event in my life was at a very young age, in my fourth standard when my mother passed away.
I was very innocent then. My father who only told me to study was distant, my relatives were coddling me and there were so many things happening.
Though I knew she'd died, I didn't realize what pain that loss meant.
Only after they'd carried my mother till the edge of the street did it strike that I wouldn't have a mother in my life anymore.
I screamed then, the way I did in the train. I cried. They say time heals all wounds, but for me time only carried me forward as I grew up.
But not having my mother is still a sorrow I can't find an answer for or judge.
But I had my sister, the eldest called Radha who was like a mother to me. My father would beat me. She gave me what a father must- discipline and responsibility with love,
a mother's love and in addition a sister's love. So she was a sister, mother and father figure to me.
It's possible that I'm alive today only because of the strength of having her beside me. That's a sorrow I can't get over.
When you say tragic, another humiliating experience comes to mind.
After going to Poona, the first time I begged, I was aware that I'd studied M.A and acted in plays and was growing differently.
If I'd finished Ph.D after my M.A, I'd have become a professor in the university I studied in. In fact, I'd even got my Ph.D seat, it was a good topic.
I was respected in my university because I'd secured a rank. I threw all that away and went to Poona to beg. I knew if I went to Poona,
I'd have to beg and only if I did this could I have my castration surgery. I knew all of that and I'd readied myself. When asked why I was like this and why I didn't take a job, besides the fact that nobody offered me a job,
I knew what I had to do and was confident. I only looked at the positive outcome of it, I was going to look like a girl and I went there with dreams of the future.
But when I actually stood at the shop, and Sathya my Gurubhai or elder sister.
She yelled to ask why I wasn't begging but just standing there, was when I...just couldn't extend my arm out to ask.
It was like my hand was stuck. Even I was surprised because I knew what I'd come there for but it was in that second that I realized the seriousness and true weight of my decision.
I just stood there like my life was void, the world had stopped and she was egging me on to beg.
She told me my education was of no use here and I'd better beg.
After that, I feigned and asked a couple of people for money without extending my hand but it didn't work.
Some didn't understand me, so they I asked in Hindi but nobody would buy it and give me money.
It was like I was useless even at begging and they knew it. She then scolded me and sort of trained me.
But the pain of this was less than the pain of waiting for my castration. It drove me and kept me afloat during all of this.
I adapted. It was only because I'm transgender that I had to beg and this society directly or indirectly was the cause of that.
So the rascals, whomever my eyes fell on, may as well pay a penalty for pushing me into begging- that's what I'd think.
Some people at the shops would talk too much when I begged and to all of them this is what I'd say- you all are the reason my life is in ruins and now that I've seen you, pay up the penalty or I'll curse you that you and any of your endeavours will never prosper;
If I curse you with all this pent up vengeance you really won't prosper. I'd say things like that and threaten them.
In fact, as a single person in 2006 I earned 1300 per day.
That's how ferocious I was, I wouldn't let go of a single creature I saw. I begged however I could, in standing trains and even in unreserved compartments.
In Pune's history, I was the first transgender to teach others to beg in the unreserved compartments.
Till then it was that only after the train had left the platform, that they'd take a one rupee coin, throw it into the river and only then would they clap their hands and ask for money.
But me, I'd start in the five minutes that the train stood in the platform at the unreserved compartments and within that 5 minutes have gotten a hundred rupees.
I didn't observe any sentiments like worshipping god, whether the train moved or not, I'd keep moving.
It would stop in the Lonavala station and I'd get off, I'd start at one corner till the Lonavala station and then get into the unreserved compartment at the other end.
I'd threaten everybody into giving me money. Everyday it was about 4 trains, so each day I'd earn about 1300 to 1500. My earning record for a day is 1800.
In 2006, think of the value that sum had. Today, you could say it'd be equivalent to 2000.
I begged like this but it was because I didn't want this wretched thing as a part of me, just cut it off.
As far as I know, at the time in Poona, it was at the end of December. I went there and after two days, no, it might be ten days, the Tsunami struck.
I started begging in 2006, and on April 26th, only after four months I'd collected enough money and had my castration done.
After that I came back to our town.
The first time I begged it was a very challenging and difficult moment but I adapted.
I understood that I didn't have to feel shy to beg in front of this world only later.
Now I don't even feel bad that I begged, in fact I'm quite happy about it.
In a day we meet a thousand people, we tease so many people. It was good.
Gender means, it is a very difficult question. I dont know what definition to give to it.
According to me gender is just another identity male or female and so on.
In Indian patriarchal society gender is given a lot of importance.
Gender means it is some special qualities. Talents, skill is there to all human beings and it is not restricted to any one gender.
In a patriarchal society man has supreme power women should be subodinates etc... These are quiet boring to tell as everyone knows these. It is a cliche and sterotypical.
When you say gender bias for example in my own house, my father also earned and my mother also earned.
My father worked as an office assistant in a government office and mother worked as a corporation worker as a person who sweeps the streets.
Both earned almost the same amount.
Apart from this my mother worked as a domestic worker in two houses plus she would also collect waste plastic and glass and sell as her duty time was in morning 5 to 10 and 3 to 6 in the evening.
In a particular season we could get a kind of neem fruit and she would make a mixture of it and sell.
In this way she would try and earn in many possible ways.
So by that way she would earn more than my father.
If you look at who spends maximum for the family it was my mother because she spent all that she earned on the family.
But my father if he earned 3000, he would spend 2000 in drinking and give just 1000 per month to home.
Later he would ask back from my mother to drink and to spend with relatives to drink and spend exuberantly. There is no big contribution from him to our family. But the way he spoke with the power being man.
Instead my mother works all through the day and is tired, she looked after us and also our father. She contributed monetarily and also physically.
My father who contributed very less in all these would rule the family just because he was man. With all these if he called her "Adiye" (a way of calling wife) even before a fly could go across she had to be standingin front of him.
If she would not come then he would beat her black and blue for not obeying and fight for a week.
So I am asking who gave my father that arrogance and power to harass my mother and who taught my mother this foolishness of not questioning back.
Who taught my mother to take all that shit and endure him after working all the time and all the day, who taught her to be obedient to him.
Then in this context what do you actually mean gender. How do you understand democracy here and rights here.
My parents lived in such violent situations and moments and like fools we as children could not even question anything.
So I hate saying this is gender this is man and this is woman.
Transgender in this would mean that it is further marginalised.
If you are asking the journey of my gender. When it comes to me I feel there is no journery whether physical or otherwise.
I have always seen it as how many days i have fooled my self and and how many days I have believed it and this I see as a journey.
For example I was in a state when I could not think about gender or identity.
I would always wear my sister's dress though I would get pant shirt which was quite fancy.
I would be more attracted to the midi that my sister would get. There would always be a question as to why only these people get this dress to wear and not us in a foolish manner.
In one stage of my life while studying UG and graduation my dress would be like unisex.
I would generally buy Kurtas and would never buy the pants that men would wear like colours of dark green, black, brown and maroon. Instead I would buy very fancy colours.
In fact that was the time I bought the underwear. Only during festivals we would get the dresses.
I did not know about myself and would always buy ladies panties. These would be sold on the street foot path 3 for 10 Rs. It had flowers and butterfly print in many colours on it.
First time when I bought it people in my family laughed at me saying you have bought ladies panties and spread it all over our village.
So when you think is it in dress that we locate gender then it is not.
Then while growing up around the age of maturation I would behave like women and people would ridicule me.
Then to prove myself I have tried acting masculinity which failed miserably. I could never flirt with women as I would be in awe of them and wanted to be like them.
I have often lied to my friends about my relationships with women to prove myself. I used to struggle to prove that I was a man.
Then I started realising about myself when I got the chance to speak to transgenders.
In fact before that I dont remember properly I have ridiculed transgenders along with other men. Because if you keep quiet and not laugh along with men I had the fear that they would also term me transgender and so i have definitely laughed about being transgender.
I still feel hurt that I have laughed at transgenders myself.
In an NGO I spoke to a transperson Sajan and realised that this is what I needed, this is how I wanted to live, this is what i have struggled hard for and so on.
Then I started thinking am I too this transgender? Am I too this Ombothu? (number nine which is given to transpeople by Society), Am I too an Ali (another name of ridicule).
Then there will be a rush of thoughts that what will happen to the dignity of our family, what will my father say and so on. I am not this trans and I start negating the truth. Focus Focus I AM MAN and I have to remain a man. I have waged a war inside my mind.
To accept that I am a transperson from within for myself I took lot of time.
Even if I accepted how will I handle. And if I am transgender what will be my future, how will this society accept an Ali, how will family accept? what will be my life future what will i become?
My passions about acting, about being professor and so many things.
But on the other hand in my childhood I have behaved like heroines talking like them and so on and I think about it now.
But when you think about all that today as adult 21 years what will be my future, then i was deciding that I will never express my gender.
But at the same time I will also not get married. I would live as it is. I would work outside have a separate house and in that house I will dress up the way I want.
But as you grow old you can never hide love affair, pregnancy and gender I feel.
I am a woman. I have never believed or taken the identity of being man or a transgender. I believe that I am a woman only.
It took enough time to take that identity. I had to convince myself to take a decision and spend enough to act upon my decision.
When I could not fool myself anymore and could not take a definite decision I even tried to commit suicide.
Then I thought why should I die being a man. It is okay if i die after I become a woman. During that time I spoke to someone for solace.
In this life journey when I had to face the milestones of gender there were many friends who have helped me.
Many people understood me or even put an effort to understand me. All of them liked me a lot and to help me out.
One of the friends took me to Chennai to NGOs. In fact in the community of Aravanis no body helped me.
Arunama the aravani guru made me chela (took me as daughter), and my Nani (grandmother in aravani community) and got the surgery done to me. This was the biggest help.
Otherwise as a transwoman another transwoman has never helped me.
As a friend I have Priya, Priya, Pratiksha, Titanic, Shambugam and many others in Poona who supporteed me.
After that when I decided that I should get back to mainstream job and not end up in an NGO or doing sex work or begging as aravani and live according to the dignity of my family.
For that many friends helped me. Bhoopathi Anna, Amudan, Ashok, Manager Anand Kumar, MD Uday Kumar if they had not supported then I would not have survived.
In a small town like Madurai these friends though I am transgender they let me stay in their houses and supported me in my work. Initially they just gave me space to stay and gave food later I started living as paying guest.
After coming to Chennai, Senthil, Swayam Uma, helped me. To join cinema Shiva Kumar helped me. Eshwari, I did not know her, she read about me in a blog and met me and started helping by introducing me to Myssikin. Then he took me as assistant director in cinema.
Like this many poeple have come into my life like gods and help me out. I could nto have survived if they were not there.
If you ask if the society has changed "quite a little bit" There hasn't been a very substantial or big change.
Say, for example… around 5-6 years back, if a transgender is seen anywhere people would normally laugh and tease openly.
But these days, there isn't much laughter. Out of 10, 3 may turn around to look, but the other 7 just go about their way. So it has only been at that level…and I wouldn't call that change.
When there comes a time when a transgender man or woman could exist and be, just as a biological man/woman are, amidst a group of say a 100 people, THAT is what I would call change.. true social change.
What's more important is access and opportunity for education and employment.
Take any marginalized community, say the dalits or women. Look at how things have changed over the last 100 years for these communities.
The state of members of the dalit community then and now.. Ofcourse, I wouldn't deem it a complete transformation, but there certainly has been a change.
They have the opportunity to apply and be employed at Government sector jobs or the fact that we can say that there isn't any sector devoid of women employees now..the fact that women can be employed anywhere/take up any job.
All of this has come from education and employment opportunities, without which none of these changes would've been possible.
So I'd say that it's absolutely necessary to include reservation for transgenders , as it's the only way to bring about change.
Regarding reservation, we aren't faced with much physical challenges, and mentally, "we're good enough" (although the reservation doesn't compensate for the psychological issues that may have gotten in the way of one's education, it addresses and increases access to opportunities that may have been lost on account of these psychological challenges).
For instance, when I took my 10th standard exams, I scored a 418 on 500. That's equivalent to scoring a 480 on 500 these days.
When it came to my 12th exams, my scores dropped (I got an 875 on 1000) It was in those teenage years that my internal crisis with gender and my gender identity came up..
it was psychological changes that took place in response to all the teasing, and my depression that caused my academic scores to severely drop.
I feel that most transgenders drop out of school for these same/similar reasons.
This is why I emphasize that these contexts need to be considered, and reservation made possible.
We also need to revise our syllabus, we say biology, science sociology and all, to include an understanding of transgenders.
Who are transgenders, what are the transformations they go through – biologically what happens to them in science should be taught. psychologically a way to accept that they are equal to the rest of us.
Subjects like the social sciences must teach how the community has been oppressed and side-lined when it comes to their rights. The syllabus must be designed to educate the public about these things.
In addition to this, it's important that cinema and the media in general stop representing transgender men and women in a lowly fashion. Media tends to portray and report news about lesbian couples and transgender couples in such a disrespectful way.
It is critical that these be censored. That should be aware to media people. Syllabus should include information about transgenders, there should be reservation in education and employment.
More fundamentally, individuals who are going through the transformation or have gone through the transformation need support and understanding from their families. The government has a role to play in bringing about such awareness and understanding.
There exists so many campaigns and drives oriented towards social improvement/upliftment/maintenance that are initiated and encouraged by the government – like the careful use of water, electricity, conserving and protecting our environment.
Similarly, the government needs to ensure that people know about transgenders, their lives, the relationship between gay and lesbian couples, sexual orientations and identities and all the associated problems that arise. They must take the responsibility to communicate these things to the public.
All of these constituent changes will bring about true social transformation. As I said earlier, such a day will be characterized by people truly accepting transgender men and women as (a composite part of society, their lives, and shared physical spaces) as equal and normal.
Given that, the small improvements are still far too minor in comparison.
I must say that there are changes amongst members of the transgender community. Much radical thinking has emerged from these people… especially the young trans men and women.
Many have broken out of the ___ of begging or prostitution. Many seek to be part of the mainstream – they seek education, gain employment (as doctors, IT professionals, just regular jobs!) and development immense confidence and strength to boldly face challenges. So I think there are definitely changes in the LGBT community.
Edhai izhakkirom endra mayakatthil
(In that trance of "what are we losing?")
anasthiya illamaleye
arutthu kodharum nodiyilum,
(in that moment when it rips and shreds)
seruppukadiyil thanmaanathhai
(with self-respect under soles of shoes)
oru malam-indri midhitthapadi,
kai neetti kevalapattu nindra naatkazhilum,
(even in the days when we stood, insulted, begging)
Vanmatthudan nuzhaiyum kuriyaal moocchu mutta,
(breathless and choking from the arrow of spite?)
Nurai-eeral thinari nirkum nilaiyilum
(even in the stage when one's liver sputters and struggles)
edharkendre puriyaamal
(not even understanding what for)
engal meedhu thuppapadum
(that which is being spat on us..)
veecham adikkum echizhgalai kaetkiren
(the ____, I ask)
veecham adikkum echizhgalai kaetkiren
(the ___, I ask)
maranam mattuma maranam?
(Is dying the only death?)


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Highlights The highest states of human consciousness appear to be consistently linked to states of self-transcendence (trans-personal states).States of self-transcendence are often accompanied by a sense of interconnectedness and unity, which often leads to pro-social behaviors like altruism, compassion and service to community.Increased altruism and compassion in a community leads to more harmony, cooperation and well-being both for...Read More
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Gibsons, BC – A Compassionate Community
"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion." – Dalai Lama After reading through many concerned, frustrated and compassionate Facebook comments on a local community group with regards to the new Homeless Shelter that opened recently in Lower Gibsons, BC, I would like to make some humble and respectful suggestions. Suggestions which hopefully can help bring the tone of the...Read More
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It has been over 40 years since homosexuality was (finally) removed from the clinical bible of psychology and psychiatry, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Yet, those with "kinky" or "fetish-sexual" preferences, are still considered as having a sexual perversion/deviation and their adult, consensual, sexual activities listed as one of the many paraphilic disorders in the DSM. Along...Read More
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Could the selfie transform global industries?
We're all familiar with the selfie by now – and what started as something that was seen as being limited to hipsters and trendy young people has long since become a global phenomenon.
Indeed, Oxford Dictionaries declared 'selfie' the Word of the Year 2013, so it can now be seen as a firmly established activity. Entire social networks thrive on the popularity of taking a selfie in a variety of locations and at a wide range of events.
With this in mind, the impact of the selfie is growing from humble and occasionally derided origins to something that could have a much more profound impact on the wider world.
A new report from futurologist Dr Ian Pearson, Futurizon and Sony Mobile has found that consumers all over the world are potentially open to a vast number and wide range of applications for camera photography.
The study, which was based on a survey of 6,500 Europeans in the UK, France, Germany and Spain, explored various sectors that are likely to incorporate smartphone photography and selfies as a technological function in the future.
Possible applications ranged from leisure-based to more practical everyday uses, such as theme parks building 'selfie-coasters' that allow adrenaline junkies to capture their experience on the latest rides, to clothes shoppers using it as a virtual personal assistant to see how they look in several outfits at the touch of a button.
For the survey, participants were also asked their thoughts on the evolution of selfies as a social trend, as well as the appetite for these more functional uses of smartphone photography.
Michio Maruhashi, from marketing strategy at Sony Mobile, said this provided a strong sense of the social development of selfies and how this could lead to them having a transformative impact on a wide range of sectors.
The top ten ways in which consumers identified selfies as having the potential to evolve over the next five years were led by dating in the top spot. This was followed by medical and banking in second and third places respectively. Over a quarter of people would prefer to see their GP via a selfie or video call in the first instance and almost half of 25-34-year-olds would feel more secure if they were able to access online banking with a 'selfie password' – possibly using facial recognition technology.
Leisure purposes such as the selfie rollercoaster came in fourth place, with gym or fitness possibilities coming in fifth.
Dr Pearson said: "Through this report, it has been fascinating to chart the evolution of selfies and smartphone photography with the team at Sony Mobile. But even more encouraging has been the response from consumers, who have shown they are open to the range of future uses for selfies and video calls.
"The results clearly show that selfies are well on their way to transitioning from frivolous fad to technological phenomenon and provide food for thought to a number of industries. The potential is huge, and it will be exciting to watch this unfold over the coming years."


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Wed 29th May 2013, 11:23 am
The BBC is inviting firms to bid for a development contract of the 0.54 hectare BBC Maida Vale recording studios.
According to the notice in the Official Journal of the European Union, the estimated value of the contract for the freehold site ranges between £15 million and £40 million.
The description of the contract says: "The existing studio building requires major investment to bring it up to a modern standard, so the BBC is considering its options.
"It is anticipated that shortlisted applicants will provide proposals that will provide for a mixed use residential and studio development on the site to include the BBC's studio requirements such that the value generated meets or is greater than the cost of the providing the new or refurbished studio building to a fully serviced shell and core basis.
"The BBC will fit out the interior of the building including the studios and ancillary office areas including the provision of studio facilities on a new site."
The BBC and developer Stanhope also this week announced their plans for a major mixed-use redevelopment of West London's Television Centre, including an office and studio for the BBC.
The site was bought by Stanhope in July 2012.
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Michael Hartnett, Bank of America's Chief Global Equity Strategist, recently published a masive report titled The Longest Pictures, which includes tons of charts with some of the most obscure data out there. The include the US Treasuries and British Bonds going all the way back to the 1700s.
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Ariya is on the move! On February 28, Ariya took her very first crawling stretches and she woke up on the 29th and was off like she'd been crawling all her life. The next day she pulled up to standing and now she's essentially looking like a toddler and I wasn't quite ready for it.
Ariya wants to play with anything that isn't formally considered a toy so we basically have baskets of colorful, singing decor taking up space in every corner of house while she happily spends her days hunting down and knawing on Nerf darts :) She puts everything in her mouth but thankfully (knock on wood) has yet to have any choking incidents.
Ariya is growing at about the same rate as her brothers did at this age: WAY too fast. At her 9 month appointment, she measured in at:
29.5" long (95th percentile)
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Ariya eats finger foods almost exclusively now and is still a good eater. She very much prefers fruits to vegetables, blueberries, grapes and mango being a few of her favorites. She will often clean all the fruit off her plate, throw the rest off onto the floor and whine for more of her beloved fruit... such a rascal. In other news, she's consumed her weight in dirt and sand and summer hasn't even officially begun yet. Yikes!
Ariya is such a celebrity when we go out and about. She smiles her big winner smile and just loves to have people talking to her. She's started saying 'hi' and waving when we pass people and going grocery shopping is the best, I just love watching her spread her light throughout the store. "Hi Dada!" is her sweetest phrase and something she says very frequently now when Justin walks into the room. She tends to only say "mama mama" when she's tired and wants to nurse, but I'll take what I can get :) Clapping is still one of her favorites. She knows what 'no' means and when I do say 'no' and she listens, she immediately applauds herself and giggles.
Time is a crazy thing, and motherhood has totally warped my sense of it. I find myself wanting to take photos of everything or write things down more so I don't forget these days, I'm so grateful I get to spend them with my babies. A fun little photo project 39 weeks in and 39 weeks out:
And our sweet baby girl at 9 months old. This world is such a brighter place with her in it!
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One Last Word
I forgot to talk at the end of my last post about how modeling is helpful for studying cosmology, but I have a feeling it's pretty obvious. We basically couldn't study cosmology without modeling because there is no way to make the cosmos in a lab.
Well this is my last post of the semester. This post is probably going to be kind of skimpy cause it's the middle of finals. Sorry, guys.
Anyway, if you watched the Carl Sagan video of a few posts ago you may be wondering what Carl meant when he said, "If you want to make an Apple Pie from scratch you must first create the Universe!"
What was Carl talking about? Basically that all the natural elements that exist are formed in the cores of massive stars! Isn't that amazing! And awesome, of course. In order to have all the carbon and nitrogen and oxygen it takes to make up our world if first all had to be fused out of Hydrogen and into Helium in the core of stars!
Space is a massive place, but it all started out of the same tiny compacted point, which is just all around incredible when you think about it.
A lot of people also wonder if we're the only planet with living sentient beings. Of course no one knows and there are lots of arguments for and against "aliens." If you're interested you should check out SETI's website. It's very informative.
Well, I guess that's about all. It's been fun. I would write more but I have a big Astronomy final to study for.
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In many parts of the state, wet fields have delayed or prevented corn and soybean planting. Farmers are looking at the prospect of reduced yields, stunted growth, and pest, weed and disease problems. Fruit and vegetable producers and gardeners face similar concerns.
Here is a list of Missouri-specific Unit 9 of Recovery After Disaster: The Family Financial Toolkit, created by University of Minnesota Extension and North Dakota State University Extension Service. Information specific to Missouri was added by MU Extension.
If your well has been flooded, the well and entire water system should be cleaned and disinfected. Floods can contaminate wells with silt, raw sewage, oil and disease organisms. Here are the procedures for proper disinfecting.
Learn how to get out the water and prevent future problems in this PDF from North Dakota State University Extension Service.
North Dakota State University Extension Service says have a plan to shelter in place if roads become impassable. The shelter should have everything needed, such as communication devices, food, water, electricity, fuel, medical kit and emergency transportation.
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Cleaning your home after a flood takes special care. EMW1023, Quick Tips for Cleaning Up After a Flood is an MU Extension publication that provides basic cleaning and safety advice.
You can take steps before the river rises to minimize water damage to your home. This North Dakota Extension publication outlines the steps. Preparing a Home that Will Be Flooded
Properly secure and mark propane tanks located in flood prone areas to avoid safety problems. The Missouri Department of Natural Resources has recommendations. Reducing the Impact of Flooding: Propane Tanks (PDF)
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It's a sorry state of affairs the U.K. citizens are struggling! – we are being systematically abused by our own government, a government by the way which Scotland's people did NOT vote for, and never would.
I say abused and I'm certain this is correct – ordinary families with baby's and young children are being forced to go to food banks because their standard of living means they are a burden on the State – the last time food banks were used was after the second World war in 1945, this is now in mid-Summer so you can only imagine what is in store for the Winter months for heating and hot water – very few of us can afford a £39 breakfast allowance but Westminster MPs can – some families do not have £39 left to feed themselves for a week – the MPs have just awarded themselves an extra 11% pay rise so they will not wonder how they are going to heat their homes this Winter, why? simply because they obviously do not care!
The wheels of the NHS bus are falling off with patients who can pay being manipulated to the front of the sick queue. Stories and rumours are rife about very ill patients being forced to wait while paying patients with not so important problems are going first.
One example which sounds unbelievable was passed to me today; an old lady broke her shoulder and has been given pain killers to tide her over until the 29th of July when her own Doctor comes back from holiday – the x-ray showed up a broken shoulder – this is an example of the things that are happening today, ie 19th of July 2014. The old lady was advised by people to go to accident and emergency, but like most of the ageing population; she did not want to become a bother and she had heard it may cost her money she needs to heat her home.
A little research will reveal that in 2008 the public sector contracts in the NHS amounted to the staggering 9.6 billion, yes I said billion.
You would be forgiven if you always thought that the NHS was for everybody and anybody who in the event of an accident or sickness and needed medical attention could walk into any surgery or hospital throughout the U.K. that help was at hand for nothing as it had already been paid for in our taxes.
Remember that huge figure of 9.6 billion in 2008 for Public Sector Contracts in the NHS has now escalated to the colossal and unbelievable figure of £101 billion – no longer do we wonder what is happening to our NHS, it is a treasure trove for greedy shareholders who have interests in the private health care schemes. So this means that in six years time we can expect the health care schemes will be up again to the assumed height of around £1 trillion, is there a Doctor in the house – I need smelling salts!
There are at this present time(July 2014), over 200 parliamentarians who have vested interests in private health care and although the majority are Conservatives there are cross party members in there also.
The profits in these NHS private health contracts is obscene and the NHS was never intended to be run for profit, it was solely for the benefit of patients who needed help in their trials of sickness and ill health.
In 2010 the U.K. NHS was voted the best health service in the World by the World health organisation.
The U.S.A. was found to be the most expensive – per head of population I think that the most expensive in the World title will soon be stomped on by the U.K. greed, and the best in the World title will also vanish, again because of the U.K. greed.
It is not to late to have your voice heard – simply go to the website below and vote the way you want your NHS to be!
Scotland can show the way in an independence vote for yes – the longer we can keep these greed merchants at bay the better – the National Health Service is for everybody and was intended to be free to use and to be treated, let us try and keep it that way, in Scotland at least.
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With games running out, Stags knew this week that the two games over Easter would be massive, and they don't get any tougher than the visit of runaway leaders Northampton Town on Easter Monday.
A narrow defeat at Wycombe Wanderers on Good Friday put a further dent into Mansfield's hopes of claiming a top seven spot this season, with Adam Murray's men eight points adrift of the play-offs.
Click HERE to read Friday's report from Wycombe.
HERE for Adam Murray's reaction and play-offs verdict.
The Cobblers have been simply magnificent this season with boss Chris Wilder surely set to be named divisional Manager of the Season.
A 1-0 win over Newport County on Good Friday stretched Northampton's unbeaten league record to 16 games and extended their lead at the top of the table to 13 points.
Adam Murray be again be without Reggie Lambe, flying home having completed his international duty with Bermuda the night before, and the suspended Adi Yussuf.
Shearer, Alfei, Tafazolli, Pearce, Benning; Collins; Rose, Clements, Blair; Dieseruvwe, Green.
Ahead of the Newport County game, there was only one player currently out injured, which was midfielder Paul Corry who hasn't featured all campaign due to a serious knee injury picked up in pre-season.
Marc Richards has been out of action since February 16 with an Achilles strain, but was expected to be fit for the Easter weekend
Smith; Moloney, Diamond, McDonald, Buchanan; Holmes, O'Toole, Byrom, D'Ath; Richards, Collins.
KEY BATTLE: CHRIS CLEMENTS v JOHN-JOE O'TOOLE
Stags will desperately need to win the central midfield battle with Chris Clements likely to be head to head with the distinctive John-Joe O'Toole.
Signed by Wilder in the summer of 2014 on a three-year deal, O'Toole had a nightmare first season - famously of course being sent off at Mansfield on 'John-Joe O'Toole Day' when Cobblers fans turned out in O'Toole wigs and headbands.
Wilder was not impressed and transfer-listed the player at the end of the campaign, but there were no takers.
Still out of favour until as recently as the end of September, O'Toole was handed his chance due to suspension, and hasn't looked back.
He is now one of the first names on the team-sheet, has formed a strong central midfield partnership with Joel Byrom - and has scored an impressive 11 goals.
Click HERE to see a video of O'Toole talking about John-Joe O'Toole Day
The former Portsmouth man was out injured until December due to a back injury, but what an impact Holmes has had since returning to the team, with a string of devastating attacking displays.
The Cobblers were already playing with plenty of attacking flair, but Holmes has made them even stronger.
Never a prolific scorer in his career, he has also scored seven times in his 23 appearances this season, with four of them - in the matches at Luton, Dagenham, Leyton Orient and Stevenage - of the 'stunning' variety.
Click HERE to see video of Holmes' spectacular winner Stevenage last week.
Former Alfreton Town boss Chris Wilder has probably never been more highly regarded in his career than he is right now by the fans of the Cobblers.
Just over two years ago he left play-off chasing Oxford United to take over Northampton when they were six points adrift at the foot of league two, and managed to keep the team up with a 3-1 final-day win - over Oxford.
Last season saw the team endure another difficult spell and they were in the bottom six at Christmas, but a surge in form in the second half of the season, with Wilder deciding to play a more attacking game saw them finish comfortably in mid-table.
Last summer saw Wilder able to get rid of any players he didn't sign, and the squad is now all his, playing the way he wants to play, and it has been a fantastic season, with the Cobblers showing a genuine attacking threat, scoring some fabulous goals. This is an exciting team to watch, and that is down to Wilder.
The fans also love him for the way he stuck with the club - turning down offers from at least two other clubs - in those troubled times before Christmas, and the way he galvanised the players and kept them focused.
He has managed to create a real 'in it together' between players and fans at Sixfields.
Wilder is a no-nonsense, straight-talking manager, and is now on the brink of his first Football League promotion as a boss.
Click HERE to see a video of Wilder talking about his side's late winner in the 3-2 success at Stevenage last weekend.
After a mixed start, the season has snowballed into one of the best in the club's history.
There was a lot of recruitment last summer, with the likes of Nicky Adams, Dave Buchanan, goalkeeper Adam Smith and Alfie Potter brought in to add to what was already there, players such as Ricky Holmes, Marc Richards, Brendan Moloney and Joel Byrom.
The team didn't click straight away, but since they lost at home to Dagenham on September 5, they had lost just twice in 31 League Two matches before their Good Friday home clash with Newport.
The run really clicked in at the height of the club's financial troubles in October and November, with the players not being paid for more than a month, and has continued following the rescue package put together by new chairman Kelvin Thomas.
Town, who were able to add extra strength in the January window with the signings of James Collins, John Marquis, Lee Martin, Luke Prosser and Danny Rose, are currently on a 15-match unbeaten run, and before Friday's game hadn't lost in the League on their travels since going down to Cambridge United 2-1 on October 17.
Saturday, 14th November 2015: Northampton Town 1 Mansfield Town 0
Mansfield Town's goal drought went on after an early Marc Richards header handed fellow promotion-chasers Northampton Town all three points in a 1-0 win at Sixfields.
The Stags came into the game having not found the net in their previous three games in all competitions and they were behind after four minutes.
There was no shortage of pressure from the visitors, however, who threatened the Cobblers goal on numerous occasions.
But a Northampton side, who had by now lost just once in 11 League games, survived a handful of scares to escape with victory.
Click HERE to read a full match report
Click HERE to see video highlights of the game
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It is a treasure trove of everything any Mansfield Town fan could want to read and from there you can also trawl back through older material you may have missed.
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Currently under construction with occupancy anticipated in the summer of 2017, RWJBarnabas Health at Bayonne will provide the Bayonne community with greater access to high quality healthcare. The facility will be open 24 hours, 7 days per week and will be connected via pedestrian bridge to a new parking garage providing an ample supply of covered parking spaces.
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Session Abstract
American historians, like their counterparts in other fields of historical inquiry, have become increasingly interested in integrating religion into our historical narratives. Prominent religious figures now appear in survey courses; we see theological ideas contributing to the formation of political philosophies and programs; and we use popular ritual practices to convey the culture of an era. But in studying the most religiously diverse country in the world historians have implicitly perpetuated an interpretive hierarchy of American religious life that inflates the illuminating power of certain religious communities and circumscribes or even ignores the historical (and historiographical) contributions of others. Exploring the contours of the Protestant work ethic or evangelical conceptions of the state tell us, scholars argue, about the foundation of America's capitalist ethos or our core political values. Catholic street feste to particular saints or changes within Reformed Judaism, however, are about urban culture or the immigrant experience—about Catholics and Jews, not about "America."
This roundtable seeks to bring the deeply rooted Protestant presuppositions of American historiography to light to challenge its assertions. Historians who insist on the historical primacy of Protestantism (singular) are not describing the past; they are implicitly reproducing a particular nationalist ideology that has long equated the identity and wellbeing of the United States with "Protestantism." "Protestant," moreover, entails assumptions about the kind of religiosity that has been consequential in American history. Embedded in the enduring and unchallenged identification of America as "Protestant" is an implicit argument about religion and modernity that endorses specific ways of being religious. Jewish orthodoxy, Mormon revelation, Catholic devotionalism, spiritualist meetings, Pentecostal tongue speaking, and other ways of being religious are excluded or defined as historically marginal. What would it mean to re-imagine American history from a more robustly plural religious perspective—not to include other religious idioms in our stories, but to rethink the narrative itself from a post-"Protestant" perspective?
This round table convenes a number of scholars who work on religious traditions other than "Protestant" to explore this question of a post-Protestant historiography. Lila Berman considers the consequences of Protestant paradigms in Jewish studies, where authors have contorted Jewish beliefs to underline their seamlessness with America's "Protestant" values. Wallace Best argues that assumptions about the Protestant nature of African-American religiosity have obscured the spiritual beliefs of admittedly secular and non-believing black activists. Robert Orsi suggests that the way Catholics have been "American" demands revisions of the idea of a singular American modern. Catherine Albanese asserts that though loosely organized and poorly defined, metaphysical religiosities have been a potent "third force" in American history that has inflected and shaped much of what we see as purely mainline and evangelical Protestantism. Richard Bushman highlights the distinctive perspectives Mormons brought to many phases of American history and how these have engaged and shaped the contours of the nation. Though each participant brings a particular insight to the panel, the roundtable hopes to put these perspectives in conversation with the audience to explore the possibilities of a post-Protestant historiography as a field.


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Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), polyvinylidene difluoride (PVDF), fluorinated ethylene propylene (FEP) and fluoroelastomers are the major types of fluoropolymers. Polytetrafluoroethylene was the largest product segment, which accounted for over 60% share of the total fluoropolymers volume consumed in 2014. Polyvinylidene difluoride (PVDF) was the second largest product and expected to exhibit significant growth rate during the forecast period. Moreover, demand for fluorinated ethylene propylene (FEP) and fluoroelastomers product segment is also anticipated to grow at rapid pace in the year to come.
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Global Fluoropolymers Market: Product Segment Analysis
- Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE)
- Polyvinylidene Fluoride (PVDF)
- Fluorinated Ethylene Propylene (FEP)
- Fluoroelastomers
Global Fluoropolymers Market: Application Segment Analysis
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- Electrical & Electronics
- Construction
- Industrial Equipment
Global Fluoropolymers Market: Regional Segment Analysis
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- Europe
- Germany
- France
- Asia Pacific
- China
- Japan
- India
- Latin America
- Brazil
- Middle East and Africa
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Study Explains Why Men Lose Weight Faster Than Women
"Oh, I just stopped drinking a liter of Mountain Dew every day and I lost 30 pounds!"
"Shut up! I hate you! I haven't had a regular soda since 1997!"
The above is a common exchange I have with men who tell me they've just lost weight. (Hint: The guys are the ones giving up the questionable Mountain Dew habit.) Why are guys able to lose weight so easily?
New research from Slimming World points out some obvious factors, and some less obvious ones. First, men have more muscle mass – so they burn calories faster. They also weigh more and require more calories in the first place.
But it's not all physical; women make more of an emotional connection with food than men do, and are more likely to eat for comfort when things go wrong in their lives.
'Women more typically want a deeper level of emotional support to uncover their issues around food and to help them take back control over their choices in what can be a difficult and persuasive food environment, and they're more likely to tell us that stressful or emotional events in their life sabotage their slimming," says Dr. Jacquie Lavin, Slimming World's head of nutrition and research.
She also says that men are more solutions-based, so they won't struggle as much once they've made a decision to lose weight. "It's important not to categorize men and women too rigidly, though," she cautioned. "Every individual – man or woman – is different."
Do you think these findings are right? I definitely order fried rice and reach for the tub of ice cream when I'm feeling stressed. Why must our genes be against us, ladies?


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ALISO VIEJO, Calif., May 14, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE via COMTEX) --
QLogic (Nasdaq:QLGC) today announced that the company gained share in the Fibre Channel adapter market in the first quarter of calendar year 2013, according to new data from the Dell'Oro Group Q1 2013 SAN Report and the Crehan Research Q1 2013 Quarterly Market Share Report. With a sequential quarter-over-quarter gain of more than four percentage points, QLogic led its nearest competitor by more than 11 percentage points. QLogic currently holds a total revenue share of 53.5 percent according to Dell'Oro Group and 52.1 percent share according to Crehan Research.
"The latest market share reports continue to validate the strong preference by more end-users and OEMs for the QLogic brand. Backed by field-proven reliability and steadfast interoperability, QLogic has been the market leader in Fibre Channel adapters for nine consecutive years," said Amit Vashi, vice president of marketing, Host Solutions Group, QLogic. "Our award-winning FlexSuite 16Gb Fibre Channel adapters carry on our leadership tradition with unparalleled flexibility for today's virtualized data centers. These versatile, dual-personality adapters can also be configured for 10Gb Ethernet environments, protecting and future-proofing customers' IT investments."
QLogic market share leadership is driven by IT professionals in Global 2000 corporate data centers where virtualization-dominated IT landscapes and enterprise I/O performance is crucial. Fibre Channel adapters from QLogic offer a suite of technology advancements that enable storage administrators in large enterprises to ensure comprehensive business continuity, maintain application performance and cost-effectively scale their networks.
QLogic – the Ultimate in Performance
QLogic (Nasdaq:QLGC) is a global leader and technology innovator in high performance networking, including adapters, switches and ASICs. Leading OEMs and channel partners worldwide rely on QLogic products for their data, storage and server networking solutions. For more information, visit www.qlogic.com.
Disclaimer – Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains statements relating to future results of the company (including certain beliefs and projections regarding business and market trends) that are "forward-looking statements" as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected or implied in the forward-looking statements. The company advises readers that these potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: unfavorable economic conditions; potential fluctuations in operating results; gross margins that may vary over time; the stock price of the company may be volatile; the company's dependence on the networking markets served; the ability to maintain and gain market or industry acceptance of the company's products; the company's dependence on a small number of customers; the company's ability to compete effectively with other companies; the complexity of the company's products; declining average unit sales prices of comparable products; the company's dependence on sole source and limited source suppliers; the company's dependence on relationships with certain third-party subcontractors and contract manufacturers; the ability to attract and retain key personnel; sales fluctuations arising from customer transitions to new products; seasonal fluctuations and uneven sales patterns in orders from customers; a reduction in sales efforts by current distributors; changes in the company's tax provisions or adverse outcomes resulting from examination of its income tax returns; international economic, currency, regulatory, political and other risks; facilities of the company and its suppliers and customers are located in areas subject to natural disasters; the ability to protect proprietary rights; the ability to satisfactorily resolve any infringement claims; uncertain benefits from strategic business combinations, acquisitions and divestitures; declines in the market value of the company's marketable securities; changes in and compliance with regulations; difficulties in transitioning to smaller geometry process technologies; the use of "open source" software in the company's products; and security system risks, data protection breaches and cyber-attacks.
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Based on the frequently reports, final diagnosis of brucellosis is facing delay problem. Significant percentage of hospitalized patients has been under unspecified and mostly single treatment. Therefore laboratory evidence and use of highly sensitive methods have an important role in final diagnosis.
The increasing of brucellosis in recent years is due to increasing livestock infections and insufficient coverage of vaccination; we should also consider absence of active supervision on the distribution of livestock products specifically in local manufacturers and inefficient diagnostic procedures. Lack of coordination between responsible and decision-making centers such as subsidiaries of Ministry of Health and Agriculture has an important role. Unfortunately, despite the publication of numerous scientific papers, especially in the field of epidemiology, no clear picture of the status of brucellosis has been presented by the responsible authorities in Iran.
In this study, we tried to look at the situation of brucellosis in Iran and to find out more about the limitations and advantages of each method by describing the diagnostic properties of each method. The aim of this study is to provide routine diagnosis limitations and errors to undertake necessary revision in diagnostic measures, in particular at the health labs level.


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A cold that's stretched a fortnight; I'm no good with a boggled head.
I usually shake the sneezes with a little rest, a mug of hot lemon water, a dash of exercise; usually yoga, and I really thought the mucus monster nipped in the bud - energy dial up, tissue box returned to shelf - the day before Little A's birthday party. S'not.
How could I have forgotten the year before? How exhausting, how dementor sucking the preschooler soiree. This year, the sandwiches and cake were ordered; but I still fought wind and rain to the shop, in the name of perfect sandwich triangles, inch thick chocolate icing, an intermission from mummy's slapdash baking. Actually, I never bake. Two hours before kick-off, a panic, the table cloths, there were no table cloths, I'd forgotten to order them. You can't have a party without plastic sheeting. After berating the omission on the to-do list, wagging finger at jelly head, I found myself back in the car, back in the city centre, back in the budget priced oasis of Pound World.
I don't remember much of it, the party. A haze of food preparation, tea making, and scattered snowflakes. There was the magician - mad cap chequered trousers, high pitched helium voice - made for the job. There was plate spinning. The parachute. The tidying up. I hardly had chance to catch up with anyone, let alone enjoy Little A throwing herself into magic tricks, chasing her friends around the hall.
The morning of Little A's actual birthday, Younger Dad announced, 'we are going to the Natural History Museum.' We are? Little A had a cough, hacking like a pneumatic drill. I felt rank, a pair of mouldy old pants, eyeing up the paracetamol like a box of chocolate buttons. 'We still have to go,' Younger Dad said, 'it's Little A's birthday.' And he was right of course. Lurgy or no lurgy, we were off to see the dinosaurs. Roarrr.
It wasn't long before I wilted in the Actual History Museum (Little A's words), a bag of old bones among the other old bones. Younger Dad and I cheerfully bickered...
OM 'I'm sure there was a T-Rex in the main hall last time.'
YD 'No, it's always been a Diplodocus.'
OM 'That can't be right, there was definitely a T-Rex.'
YD 'Darling, trust me, it's been a Diplodocus. Always.'
OM 'No, I'm not so sure.'
YD 'Diplodocus, I'm telling you.'
OM 'I'm sure there was a T-Rex,'...
Ailing Mummy found herself dumped in the cafe, consoling herself with a mug of hot chocolate, popping more chocolate buttons. By the time Younger Dad and Little A had returned from insects and birds, I had begun the process of petrification, a stuffed cat, staring at a pensioner's raincoat. 'It's time to go now,' Younger Dad said. I looked up at him, 'ugh?'
Tea time, back home, Little A had a roarrring temperature, while I continued petrifying on the sofa. In our jim jams we stayed for the next twenty four hours...
I've only just made it to the other side, viral free; but I'm still in a grump. Meh.
Do you breeze through colds, or, like me, moan on your death bed?


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Thursday, June 14, 2012
Pissarro's People
Pissarro's People brought to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, (Golden Gate Park | 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive • San Francisco, CA 94118 | 415.750.3600) one of the most complex and captivating members of the Impressionist group, a man whose life was as quietly revolutionary as his art. The exhibition, on view October 22, 2011, to January 22, 2012, offers a groundbreaking perspective on Camille Pissarro (1830–1903), the painter and printmaker best known for his large body of landscapes and urban views. This is the first exhibition to focus on Pissarro's personal ties and social ideas through his lifelong engagement with the human figure.
Based on extensive new scholarship by curator Dr. Richard R. Brettell, the exhibition brings together more than one hundred oil paintings and works on paper from public and private collections around the world. Ranging from Pissarro's earliest years in Paris until his death in 1903, these works explore the three dimensions of his life that are essential to a full understanding of the human element in his art: his family ties, his friendships and his intense intellectual involvement with the social and political theories of his time.
According to Brettell, "Scholars have tended to treat Pissarro's politics and his art in two separate categories, often refusing to see the most basic connections between them. This is largely because Pissarro was less a political activist than a social and economic philosopher. The title of the exhibition, Pissarro's People is not merely an allusion to his politics, but points to a larger attempt to explore all aspects of his humanism. The exhibition embodies his pictorial humanism and creates a series of contexts, linking his web of family and friends to his profound social and economic concerns."
Exhibition Highlights
Presiding over the powerful themes of this exhibition are three of the artist's four major self-portraits, starting with his earliest Self-Portrait (1873) from the Musée d'Orsay, painted at the age of forty-three.
Pissarro's People was the first exhibition to bring these works together with portrait likenesses of every member of the artist's immediate family, reflecting the importance that he attached to his roles as devoted husband and father.
Pissarro was the only Impressionist who made figure paintings in which the domestic worker is the central motif. The exhibition brings together an extraordinary group of paintings representing maidservants and washerwomen, including
The Maidservant (1875, Chrysler Museum of Art),
Washerwoman, Study (1880, The Metropolitan Museum of Art),
The Little Country Maid (1882, Tate Collection)
and In the Garden at Pontoise: A Young Woman Washing Dishes (1882, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge).
The key theme of domestic labor is linked, in turn, to Pissarro's views on agricultural labor and the market economy in works such as
The Harvest (1882, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo),
The Market in Gisors (1887, Columbus Museum of Art)
and his remarkable, biting album of 28 anarchist drawings titled Turpitudes sociales (1889–90, private collection) which is being shown for the first time.
Pissarro held firm to the belief that the miseries of modern capitalist society would inevitably lead to revolution in Europe, and in his late multifigure rural genre paintings, he envisioned a better world as he imagined it would appear in the aftermath of such a momentous uprising.
His late scenes of the grain harvest in Haymakers, Evening, Éragny (1893, Joslyn Art Museum),
apple picking in Apple Harvest (1888, Dallas Museum of Art)
and potato planting are utterly joyous in feeling, bathed in an idealized glow of light and health and abundance.
The Artist
Pissarro was in many ways a political and ethnic outsider in his adopted country of France. Born into a Sephardic Jewish family on the Danish colony of Saint Thomas in the Caribbean on July 10, 1830, he would never become a French citizen. He died a Danish citizen in Paris on November 13, 1903.
Pissarro's lifelong interest in the human condition is unique among Impressionist landscape painters. From his early years in the Caribbean and Venezuela until his death, he produced a vast oeuvre of drawings, paintings and prints dedicated to the human figure. He was also a committed reader of radical social, political and economic theory. His profound knowledge of social philosophy, which informs much of his art, far exceeded that of any other significant painter of the period.
Pissarro's People was organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.
The catalogue Pissarro's People was written by Dr. Richard R. Brettell, one of the world's foremost authorities on Impressionism and French painting from 1830 to 1930. Richly illustrated with more than two hundred paintings, works on paper and archival images, this compelling volume offers a definitive portrait of one of the most passionately political painters of the nineteenth century.


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