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Sexual Health Testing in El Paso TX
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In El Paso, Texas STDs have been a growing public health concern. In recent years El Paso, Texas has ranked highly in terms the growth of new cases of chlamydia and gonorrhea. Because most sufferers feel no symptoms, this dangerous condition often goes untreated. As a direct result, an estimated 10 to 20 percent of those women with chlamydia later develop pelvic inflammatory disease which can result in pain, ectopic pregnancy and infertility. What's more, a woman can pass chlamydia onto her baby during the birth process. Using the Center for Disease Control's 2016 STD Surveillance Report for chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis and extrapolated using the latest 2011 US Census, it is estimated that 44.9 incidents of syphilis, 3283.9 cases of chlamydia and 975.6 cases of gonorrhea, would be attributed to El Paso in 2016.
The rate of exposure to herpes in El Paso, Texas is worth noting as numbers continue to grow with women having a dramatically increased risk of exposure. HSV-1 and HSV-2 are the two most common forms forms of the disease. HSV-2 is characterized by blisters on the genitals.HIV-AIDS infection is far less frequent in El Paso, Texas but remains a public health priority. Most often, AIDS occurs in people who are involved in same sex partnerships, primarily male. Though cures are on the horizon, AIDS can be fatal.
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Newspaper Publishes Gun Owners' Names and Addresses
(NEW YORK ) -- A newspaper in New York has received a wave of criticism from its readers after publishing the names and addresses of all of the individuals with handgun or pistol permits in its coverage area.
Hundreds of residents in New York's Westchester and Rockland counties were surprised to find their names and addresses listed on a map posted by The Journal News on Sunday. Users can click any dot on the map to see which of their neighbors has a permit for a gun.
The map sparked more than 500 comments from readers within a day of its appearance on the website, many of them voicing outrage at the paper's decision to make the information public.
"This is CRAZY!! why in the world would you post every licensed gun owner information?? What do you hope to accomplish by doing this. This is the type of thing you do for sex offenders not law abiding gun owners. What next? should i hang a flag outside my house that says I own a gun? I am canceling my subscription with your paper today!!!" said commenter Curtis Maenza.
"How about a map of the editorial staff and publishers of Gannett and Journal News with names and addresses of their families…," wrote commenter George Thompson.
All of the names and addresses were compiled through public records. The paper also requested the information from Putnam County, which is still compiling the records for publication, according to The Journal News' website.
In a statement to ABC News, The Journal News said its readers "are understandably interested to know about guns in their neighborhoods," because of the conversation about gun control on its website after the shooting in Newtown, Conn., last week.
"We obtained the names and addresses of Westchester and Rockland residents who are licensed to own handguns through routine Freedom of Information law requests. We also requested information on the number and types of guns owned by permit holders, but officials in the county clerks offices in Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties maintained that those specifics were not public record," the statement read.
"New York's top public-records expert, Robert Freeman, disagrees," it added.
The paper declined to answer further questions about the map.
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Götz Göppert
Beach IIAbout this photograph
I started to take pictures of landscapes pretty early in my photography career, in the beginning without really noticing what I was doing. I was searching for the right format for quiet a long time. In the beginning I used a 4/5inch linhoff, later, I think in 2003. I switched to a 6/17 linhoff which was much easier to work with. I took the camera everywhere, it a hassle to carry and I hated it a lot having this extra bag with me all the time. But I found out that once I did not take it there was something I wanted to take a picture of. So I had to take it with me all the time. in the beginning I was using the camera mostly outside but than I started to do pictures of insides as well and I really liked it. I started to shoot all the rooms I ever sleep in for example. Sometimes I also take images where are people, but I find it a little difficult and I am not sure if I like those images so much, though some turned out really great. The images I take can be anywhere, usually I am not searching for a location, I just happen to walk by something and I do the picture. I am not out there for this special thing. To me it feels more like a documentation of things that are around me. Things I see and that I think will look good as a photography.Read more Read less
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Götz Göppert was born in Munich in 1969. The photographer is based in Paris, but he travels around the world in search of 'unprecedented and unusual' subjects. He gathers documentation that he compares to a modern cabinet of curiosities. The photographer succeeds in imbuing all of his works with poetry. Even the most technical subjects are treated in the artist's own distinctly experimental and graceful style


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simonshack 4 Mar 12 2010, 10:17 PM wrote: Great contribution, kimlodrodawa !
Now, it just happens that TODAY a guy calling himself "Jean-Marie" has asked me to translate September Clues in French. I am about to do just that (my french is fluent since I spent several schoolyears in french-speaking Geneva/Switzerland).
hoi.polloi 4 Mar 12 2010, 10:20 PM wrote: Simon, how many more people do you need to suggest you get the videos in other lingos???
The fact is that symbols and so on are used by people and have been used for ages. Like the star, 666, Eye, triangle, eagle etc etc....
When looking into those symbols they itself represent nothing. It comes from peoples mind and from having been indoctrinated into other peoples mind, and then comes associations to certain stuff etc etc. It is people who gives those symbols value, not the symbols itself.
I was responsible for all of the Army's strategic intelligence forces around the world.
Sir, the United States is at war [...] go turn on the television!
I go turn on the TV, I see towers coming down
I said, Oh, that is a joke.
I switched channels: towers going down
I switched channels: towers going down...
The fact that the airplane hit ...it did ...it did not cause that collapse of the building...
Adherents of this theory are sometimes called "no-planers," though the term has generally come to be associated with the biggest cranks in the movement who believe no planes hit the WTC either
Crank is a pejorative term applied to someone who holds extremely unorthodox views on a subject and is often very vocal about these opinions.
" It was struck by an aluminum-skinned commercial aircraft that had already lost a wing before hitting the building: such an aircraft is mostly empty space, with voids in the wings for fuel and the fuselage for passengers; only the floor of the passenger compartment, the undercarriage and the engine cores are particularly solid objects. The damage is consistent with this scenario: nobody but truthers would seriously expect a cartoony plane-shaped hole."
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A classic, right? King Bidgood's in the Bathtub is one of those books that I don't remember reading over and over again as a child but when I saw it on the shelf, I smiled, finding an old forgotten friend. I bought it for my 4-year-old son for some occasion and it has quickly become his go-to book. Every afternoon for quiet time when putting together his pile of books to look through he always asks, "Where is King Bidgood's in the Bathtub?"
By the great Audrey and Don Wood, the story tells of King Bidgood who will not get out of the bathtub. The kingdom is in need of his presence and rulings but no matter how he is begged and pleaded with he won't get out. In fact, he keeps on inviting people in, to the room that is. How the King is lured from the bathtub in the end is a delightful ending to a enjoyable book.
The illustrations are lavishly detailed with rich colors from the food to the dresses to the people. Words aside, one could spend hours reading the illustrations. And that is just what my son does, every day, just after noon.


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President Signs Improvements to Post-9/11 GI Bill
WASHINGTON – To bring the educational benefits of the Post-9/11 GI Bill closer to more Veterans and Service Members, President Obama signed legislation Jan. 4 that streamlines the 18-month-old education program administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). "Since the first GI Bill in 1944, this unique educational program has adapted to the needs of America's Veterans, active-duty personnel, reservists and Guardsmen," said Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki. Continue reading
VFW Announces Legislative Priorities for 2011
As a new decade begins, VFW is more determined than ever to fight for key veterans' issues.
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June 6, 2007 -- Drugs that curb male sex hormones may help treat some women with hirsutism (excess body hair), a new research review shows.
Women have varying amounts of body hair. Hirsutism refers to coarse, dark hairs that grow in areas such as the chin, chest, abdomen, back, or above the upper lip.
Hirsutism in women is usually caused by excessive levels of male sex hormones (androgens), according to background information from the National Institutes of Health.
The new review comes from experts including Brian Swiglo, MD, of the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, Minn.
They pooled data from 12 studies of hirsute women who took the drugs including spironolactone, flutamide, or finasteride for at least six months. Those drugs curb male sex hormones (androgens).
For comparison, other women took placebo pills, which contain no medicine, instead of anti-androgen drugs.
Some women also took oral contraceptives or metformin, a diabetes drug that helps control blood sugar and lowers testosterone production.
The review shows that the women's hirsutism was somewhat reduced by anti-androgen treatment. But not all hirsute women got that benefit, note Swiglo and colleagues.
The reviewers write that they found "weak evidence" that anti-androgens are "mildly effective" in treating women's hirsutism.
"We need more research that can tell us if the women themselves notice an improvement," Swiglo says in a news release from The Endocrine Society.
Since anti-androgen drugs can cause birth defects, they should be taken with oral contraceptives in women of childbearing age, Swiglo warns.
The findings were presented yesterday in Toronto at The Endocrine Society's 89th annual meeting.
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Hammer Time: MC stops by the O.co Coliseum, where he was a former batboy
MC Hammer is arguably the most famous batboy in the history of baseball. The Oakland native and hip hop artist served in the A's clubhouse during the Swingin' A's dynasty years in the '70s.
Hammer returned to the O.co Coliseum on Thursday to throw out the first pitch before Game 5 of the ALDS against the Tigers. He even got in a little dance move before shaking hands with pitcher Evan Scribner. Sadly, he wasn't wearing parachute pants.
The "U Can't Touch This" singer also hung out with Coco Crisp.
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Struggling tech companies have failed to acquire "cult" status in an oversaturated market and the successes of Google, Facebook and Apple in particular are largely due to their massive followings in a "cult-based economy", Keith Woolcock, Partner at 5th Column Ideas, told CNBC.
"Apple has one of the smallest R & D budgets; it spends two percent on R & D and has the smallest portfolio of products, so it's a little bit like what Voltaire once said, God is on the side of the sharpest shots not the biggest armies, and you know you're competing with a cult," Woolcock told Squawk Box Europe.
"We are now in a cult-based economy, Google is a cult, Facebook is a cult, Apple is a cult, cults are what you need to see through too much choice," Woolcock said.
In a week when Sony's new CEO Kazua Hirai doubled the Japanese electronics firm's annual loss forecast to a record $6.4 billion, Woolcock said things were likely to get worse for Sony if Apple enters the TV market.
He explained that Apple had not become "uncool" despite having a very narrow product range and devices that evolved at a slow rate.
"What's interesting for Apple now if you look at it over the last couple of years they haven't come out with any revolutionary products, you know the iPhone 4S was identical to the previous (iPhone) 4 or 3. The new iPad is absolutely identical to the previous one, so now you're waiting and this is bad news for Sony… Probably the next big product will be the TV market," he said.
'Cannibalization' Danger
Woolcock added that "cannibalization" within the tech sector - single products with multiple features - would render specialist use products made by firms like Sony obsolete. Woolcock singled out the digital camera market as an example.
"We all have digital cameras, we all have a multitude of digital cameras," Woolcock said.
"If you're a company like Sony or Cannon or Nikon that makes a lot of your money from selling single lens reflex cameras with those great big lenses you're going to have a problem because within the next five years that market's going to disappear because the new thing that's coming out, and it started on smartphones and you can turn the function on on your iPhone. It's this thing called HDR, High Dynamic Range," he explained.
"What that means is you use a very high powerful processor which you have on the smart phone to take multiple shots … it takes multiple shots and then it averages them out," Woolcock said.
"And now, if any of you viewers go onto the internet and put in HDR, High Dynamic Range, look at the types of photos you get, it's phenomenal, it's phenomenal, now that will kill the single lens reflex market," he added.


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Treetopia has listed down some romantic destinations for a memorable trip with your partner
The excitement surrounding Valentine's Day may be over but it doesn't mean you can't still be in a romantic mood. If you're planning an intimate escape for you and your partner, consider these romantic destinations on Treetopia's list:
A Taste of Culture and the Arts
If you and your partner love to immerse yourselves in culture and enjoy the excitement of a bustling city, then New York is the place to go. Take snapshots as you explore the city or dress up and take pleasure in Broadway or Off-Broadway productions. Find inspiration at the Metropolitan Museum or have a nice, romantic carriage ride around Central Park. When you've had your fill, you can head on over to the scenic Niagara Falls and cuddle as you enjoy the view of cascading water.


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9.19.12 (while trying to decide which scientific calculator to spend his allowance on): I think I'll go with the pink one. (Oh yeah? Why's that?) Well , you see, it's just that I've been thinking. You know how you have to have red to make pink? And you have to have red to get purple? And, you know, red is my favourite colour, so it would just be sort of like limiting my favourite colour if I didn't let anything be pink or purple. And, isn't it kind of silly to think of colours as boys and girls? I mean it's not like they have bodies and (stage whisper) penises or vaginas.
9.17.12 So Mommy, if another creature comes from another planet and decides to eat up all the humans, well, I think we should just give up with the fighting and just be like oh well, I guess I'm going to get eaten today! I mean, think about it this way: cows and pigs and chickens don't probably want to get eaten, but it's not like they get an army together or anything.
9.13.12 Daddy, I was thinking about: what if you were the doctor and I was the patient and you told me to open wide and I did and I burped!
9.6.12 Falling into a wailing mass on the floor after scratching his finger on the cheese grater: Why? Why would you let me bleed to death here on this cold, cold floor?
8.29.12 I wouldn't go anywhere near a
with an odd moustache.
4.23.11 In the car on the way home after seeing the Easter Bunny at the gym: It's getting funky in here.
3.18.11 In regards to the "Bad Mommy Detector" that he built at school: "A bad mommy is a mommy who talks with her teeth closed like this even when that kid has done practically nothing wrong." (And am I a bad mommy?) "Well, sometimes, but I am becoming really good at recognizing when your teeth are getting tight."
2.14.11 (After testing from 9am to 1pm: Are you hungry, buddy?) Yep. I think I thought away all my breakfast, even down to my banana.
2.2.11 Happy Birthday, Mommy! Do you even
how old you are today?
1.25.11 Ohhhh, Mommy. I am too sick to go to school today. I have a fever way down in my soul.
1.18.11 But Mommy, how did my DNA know I was supposed to be a boy? (Well, DNA has these things called chromosomes. Some are x's and some are y's. If your DNA has two x's, you're a girl. If your DNA has an x and a y, you're a boy.) Well, I think it must be that y one, then. That's why I don't sometimes follow the rules. Because Mommy? Mommies make the rules, but Daddies are made to just break them. (thinks for a minute) That makes me glad I will probably be a Daddy when I grow up.
8.1.10 What do you mean chicken? Like the chicken we eat or the chickens on the farm? (Well, Bug, they're actually the same thing.) No, I don't think they are. I think I would remember how feathers taste.
7.25.10 Mommy, do you remember when we went to Aunt Sarah's? Do you remember all my cousins? I liked playing with my cousins. But we had to sit for a very long time go get there and my bum got more tired than it has ever been. I don't know if we should sit that much again.
7.23.10 I am a very good swimmer, you know. I think I could probably race a fish. But it would have to swim in the pool.
7.19.10 I was not lying! I was TRUTHING!
6.23.10 (When did you start reading so well, Bug?) Well, you know I'm not going to be a baby
. Sometimes I need to read things for myself.
5.10.10 (referring to his DNA) Okay, Mommy, I know it's
the DNA. But how did it get inside me? Did I eat it when I was a baby?
4.26.10 Mommy, let me tell you about that song. Your voice was all crooked and the words were all crooked when you forgot and you sang it very bad. But you with think about that and next time? You will be better.
3.2.10 Well, hang on a minute. I have to think about what I am going to tell you first. I don't want you to get mad, you know.
2.27.10 (singing happily while on the toilet) Daddy is a farty clown. And he farts and farts all day long and even when he is happy he is farty because he is a faaar-teeee clown.
1.26.10 But it needs to be cooked, Mommy. Remember? I'm the chef. I'm the one who makes things. But you are the cook. So let's go cook it. Come on, Mommy
1.12.10 It doesn't
like a new year, so how do you know it is one?
12.22.09 (standing in front of the fireplace, looking worried) Mommy, I don't think Santa Claus can hear me. We better look up his phone number on the internet and make sure he remembers 'bout my dump truck.
12.15.09 I think we need to look it up because I really don't know about how night works and all that.
11.15.09 It's a disaster. And it will never be fixed unless I recharge my battery. So, Mommy? Can I have just
10.24.09 (after a big drink) Ahhhh. That's just what I want in an apple juice.
10.17.09 (9:00 pm, after an 8:00 bedtime): Well, I don't think I am
ready to sleep, so I'm just readin' a story to Cookie Monster. So he won't be afraid of the dark and then he will keep
10.15.09 (in response to the suggestion that he should wash his dishes after making soup in his kitchen. Looks like we need to change up the status quo around here...): But
not the mommy.
10.13.09 (in REI, loudly, of course) But
, now that my hands are in my pockets, I can't pick off the boogers that are stuck to my teeth.
9.27.09: I wanna be a car doctor for Halloween. Then I can fix the Jeep so that the engine is in the back and the spare tire is in the front just like on Daddy's fancy schmancy car. That would be much better if they were the same.
9.8.09: Mommy, how come do I need a "start" and a "cancel" on my microwave? (Well, how else will you get it to start and stop?) I could probably just use a code and dial in the numbers and then that will send the signal to the right gears and then the 'lectronics will auto...auto... well, they will know just what to do."
9.3.09 (at school): Ms. Shirley, "hansel" is when you are very smart and can figure stuff out and people will want to be around you. And, Ms. Shirley? I am very hansel.
8.23.09 (in the bath): So here's da plan. Dis is da tow-truck and it's gonna take the boat to the other side. Step aside, froggies! Outta da way!
8.13.09: I fink maybe it is a battery issue. Did you maybe have a 'matic (pneumatic) wrench so I can see what da problem is?
8.05.09 (in answer to "Do you want to be just like Daddy when you grow up?"): No, I wanna be the man who makes the pancakes and puts the blueberries on them.
7.19.09: Mommy, when is Daddy coming home? (We'll pick him up at the airport tomorrow, buddy. Are you excited?) Yeah. I'm kinda tired of talking to you all the time.
7.13.09 (on catching me snatch a bite of his cookie): Mommy James! I fink maybe dat was a bad choice. You need a time out until you can make better choices.
7.4.09 (To Daddy): That's the plan, ChickenNuggets!
6.29.09: I'm vewy fwustwated and angwy wight now. (Why?) Because it was my choice but you made me a boy instead of a wobot and I don't have any bolts or gears or... or... or NUFFIN' wike that. And that's why I am so angwy and fwustwated with you.
6.25.09: I'm sowwy but, well you're a little bit wong because WED is my favorite colow, but this has yellow on the stwipe wight here. So you see, it's kinda yellow AND wed. You see? You see that you are wong now?
6.26.09: Momma, you know, the mail... the mail... Who bwings us the mail? (The mail carrier?) That's wight. The mail cawwiew? Well, that job is sorta like being Santa Claus. 'Cause, you hafta be asleep or that's not when the mail will come. If you wait at the box? No mail for you.


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Nice has been a storied part of triathlon history for almost 30 years. For over a decade the Nice Triathlon was considered amongst the sport's most prestigious races - while the IRONMAN World Championship was the race that put the sport on the map, during the early to mid 1980s the Nice race offered huge prize purses and the glamor of racing in the south of France. That's why Nice was the logical spot to host France's own IRONMAN race. After a couple of years in Gerardmer, the event moved to Nice in 2005 and has quickly become one of the most popular races on the IRONMAN events calendar.
In celebration of 10 years of racing, we came up with 10 things you probably didn't know about IRONMAN France:
History personified
The race director here in Nice, Yves Cordier, is a triathlon hero in France. Renowned as a phenomenal cyclist, Cordier finished second here in Nice to Mark Allen in 1992, pushing Allen to the limit on the run course. This was well into the six-time Kona champ's incredible 10-year winning streak at the Nice triathlon - his ninth win in a row, in fact. A year later Cordier was first off the bike again here in Nice, only to be run down by Allen again. In case you want to doubt the suggestion that the Nice event was amongst the most prestigious in the world, the top four in 1993 were: Mark Allen (10 wins in Nice, six in Kona), Simon Lessing (five-time world champion), Luc Van Lierde (two-time Kona champ) and Peter Reid (three-time Kona champ).
Eco-friendly race
Since its inception IRONMAN France has prided itself on its eco-friendly approach. Helicopters aren't allowed over most of the bike course because it is part of the Natura 2000 protected area. The local water network supplies three aid stations along the marathon and sponges are replaced by misters around the course. Special ambassadors work with race volunteers to sort every bit of waste to ensure that anything that can be recycled is.World champion racing
While there have been lots of Kona champs who have raced in Nice over the years (the Nice Triathlon attracted the who's who of the sport including Allen, Dave Scott, Scott Tinley, Scott Molina, Paula Newby-Fraser, Erin Baker, Sylviane and Patricia Puntous amongst many others), this is the first time an IRONMAN world champion will be racing the official IRONMAN event. Since van Lierde isn't part of the field this year it is Leanda Cave who is leading the Kona charge this weekend. The 2012 world champion is competing in Nice for the first time.Multiple wins
If you're a guy, it would appear that winning here in Nice helps. Marcel Zamora owned this course for five years (2006 to 2010) before handing over his crown to last year's Kona champ, Frederick van Lierde for a three-year stint at the top of the podium. Those two have won eight of the nine titles that have been handed out. Tine Deckers is the only woman with multiple titles – she's won here three times (2009/ 10/ 12).
Iron Girl and IRONKIDS share the stage
The one-loop bike course means that athletes disappear for a block of time in the middle of the day. That doesn't mean things slow down at the finish line on the Promenade des Anglais – race day includes Iron Girl and IRONKDS races.
An epic bike course
With 1,800 m of climbing the bike course is considered amongst the most challenging in the sport. The Tour de France has followed parts of the bike course in years past. The views along the course are beyond stunning.
Competitive pro races
The technical bike course combined with the often-hot run conditions require a diverse skill set to win here. This year's women's field is truly stacked: 2012 Kona champ Leanda Cave will take on Deckers, Caitlin Snow, Catriona Morrison and hometown hero Jeanne Collonge. Without Van Lierde back this year we're could see a fourth man finally add his name to the winner's list, unless 2005 champ Herve Faure can get to the top of the podium. Potential new champions include Bart Aernoets, Tyler Butterfield, Mathias Hecht, Victor del Corral Morales, Jeremy Jurkiwicz and Betrand Billard
Fast run times
The run course here in Nice is dead flat – four loops along the waterfront down and back the Promenade des Anglais. Every centimeter of the course is lined with spectators. Despite the incredibly tough bike course the guys, especially, have ripped up this run course. Last year Aernoets ran 2:37 to finish second here, while van Lierde went 2:42 for the marathon. It's hard to imagine what del Corral Morales (who went 2:36 in Florida last November) will do on this course. Kristin Moller holds the women's run course record of 3:00:28.
Speaking of course records
Both overall course records were set last year – van Lierde went 8:08:59 while Mary Beth Ellis broke Decker's record with her 9:12:54. (She did that despite a bike crash on the bike, too.)
Who says the swim doesn't count
The swim here in Nice is one of the most spectacular in the sport – the beautiful azure water of the Mediterranean off the Plage du Centenaire is gorgeous. The ocean swim has seen some fast swim times over the years. Germany's Katja Wollschlaeger set the women's swim record that still stands in 2005 – 51:13. Last year Ellis missed that mark by just nine seconds, which helped her shatter the overall course record. German super-swimmer Jan Sibbersen, who went 44:44 in 2007, holds the men's swim record.
Don't miss our live coverage of IRONMAN Nice-France here on Ironman.com on Sunday.


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Community rallies to help out ailing Groton couple
Groton — Most of the time, John Grant looks at his wife and sees the same woman he married 30 years ago.
But sometimes, Cindy Grant grows tired fighting multiple myeloma, and he wishes he could help.
"She's the girl I married. She's everything I ever wanted," he said.
But he can do little. John Grant has progressive multiple sclerosis and has been out of work for nine years.
The Groton family's struggle has moved co-workers, friends and strangers to help, not only because they imagine Cindy Grant's pain but because they know her spirit. She worked as an emergency dispatcher in Groton for 20 years, became the sole income earner after her husband became sick. The couple raised three boys, all of whom served in the military.
"Both her and John have been very open in saying what's happening. I think that part's pretty impressive to me," said Frank Socha, a dispatcher who's known Cindy Grant for 20 years. "A lot of people become very private. The two of them are sort of role models. (They say) 'Here's what we've got, here's what we're doing, and we're going for it.' There's not a lot of down time in terms of them feeling sorry for themselves or feeling depressed."
A pasta dinner fundraiser on March 4 jammed the B.F. Hoxie firehouse in Mystic. There wasn't a free seat, and people left early so others could eat.
On May 9, dispatchers have organized Grant a Wish Night, a bingo fundraiser at Foxwoods Resort Casino for the family.
Doors open at 4 p.m., games start at 6:30 p.m. and tickets are $15 for general admission. Tickets are available at Groton Fire Alarm at the town police station or through Glen Riffe at firstname.lastname@example.com.
The New London Motorcycle Club also has stepped in to help. About two months ago, the club sent 20 people to the couple's duplex, which it had used as a single-family home, and rebuilt the separating wall so the family could rent an apartment and bring in income.
Cindy Grant continued to work 12-hour shifts while undergoing chemotherapy until two weeks ago.
"How she's been doing it, I don't know," John Grant said.
She's using her sick time now, then will go on short-term disability.
Grant found out she had cancer on Thanksgiving. She wasn't officially diagnosed until early December, but she said she knew before then, even if she didn't know what kind it was.
The couple had to traveled to Virginia to visit their oldest son for the holiday, and Grant said on Thanksgiving morning, she woke up feeling like she was going to pass out. Her chest hurt, her back hurt and she felt lightheaded, she said.
John Grant brought his wife to the emergency room.
Doctors drew blood, took a chest X-ray, then ordered a CAT scan. They returned and told Cindy Grant they'd found pneumonia, lesions on her spine, and asked if she'd ever had cancer before, or if anyone in her family had cancer. Then they came back with morphine, which she didn't want, she said.
They never said the word "oncologist," but it didn't matter.
"They can give you hints and you can see it in their eyes," John Grant said. "And my wife knew." She told him she thought she had cancer and he told her not to think like that. Then he said he walked outside and lost it, crying.
Cindy Grant said she lay in the hospital bed not crying. She knew what they'd told her, but she felt like she just had pneumonia.
"It felt like it wasn't happening," she said.
Then the couple left the hospital and went home. Thanksgiving dinner was almost ready.
When Cindy Grant saw her son, she said she broke down, though she didn't tell him right away. She waited until later that evening.
They left for home early, drove nine hours from Virginia to Connecticut, and cried most of the way, John Grant said.
By Monday, they were back at the doctor and he ordered more tests. He told Grant the name of her diagnosis as soon as results were back, but Cindy Grant said Dec. 5 is etched in her brain, because it was her first appointment with an oncologist.
Multiple myeloma is a blood cancer in which the body makes the same plasma over and over. It may affect the bones, kidneys, red blood cells, the immune system or all. It's treatable, but not curable. Grant has been through five cycles of chemotherapy and eight rounds of radiation to her back. The radiation stopped the tumors from progressing and took away much of the pain. But the chemotherapy is exhausting, she said.
The next step in her treatment is a procedure at Yale Medical Center, where doctors will harvest her own stem cells, give her a large dose of chemotherapy to kill the bone marrow in her body, then reintroduce the stem cells to try to put the illness into remission.
The process, which includes drugs to make her body mass produce stem cells, begins May 3.
Grant said so many people have helped her.
"There have been so many people that have stepped up to help us. It's amazing. It's overwhelming," she said. Her co-workers take turns bringing the couple dinner. One visits and cleans the house.
Two of the Grants' three sons are visiting at the moment.
John, 30, serves in the U.S. Air Force. Adam, 26, just ended his service with the U.S. Marines, completing two tours in Afghanistan. Nicholas serves in the U.S. Navy.
John Grant was never in the military, but his father was, and was stationed in Groton.
The couple has three grandchildren.
A fund has been set up to help the Grant family. To make a donation, write to: The Cindy Grant Fund, c/o Groton Dispatch Center, 68 Groton Long Point Road, Groton, CT, 06340.
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For the first time in Wes Anderson's career, it looks like we may get films in back-to-back years from the Moonrise Kingdom director. While it was originally thought that we wouldn't be seeing the filmmaker's next movie, The Grand Budapest Hotel, until 2014, apparently plans may have changed.
Screen Daily has learned that Fox Searchlight has acquired worldwide distribution rights to the new ensemble comedy, and while nothing has been made official yet, the site reports that the studio is currently considering releasing the film sometime in late 2013. The indie subsidiary has previously worked with Anderson before, having previously released both The Fantastic Mr. Fox and The Darjeeling Limited.
But that's not all. The report also has the first detailed description of what the movie is actually about, providing the following synopsis:
The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé.
The film's amazing cast includes Ralph Fiennes as the concierge as well as Edward Norton, Owen Wilson, Tilda Swinton, Jude Law, Bill Murray, Adrien Brody, Harvey Keitel, Jason Schwartzman, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Saoirse Ronan, Tom Wilkinson, Mathieu Amalric, F Murray Abraham, and Bob Balaban.
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A few thoughts from what thus far has been a joyous Olympic Games being staged in London...
A few thoughts from what thus far has been a joyous Olympic Games being staged in London:
-- I have no proof, but fully believe that the entire USA women�s gymnastics team could be smuggled through airport security inside LeBron James� luggage.
-- Count me among those who only can take Bela Karolyi in small doses. In very small, microscopic doses. From another room. Behind a locked door.
-- What I know about swimming wouldn�t fill one of those funky looking caps they wear, but I have more respect for what Michael Phelps has accomplished during the past week than his amazing 8-gold performance in Beijing. Phelps got off to a worse start in London than the 1976 Tampa Bay Bucs and somehow was able to turn a potential meltdown into a victory lap for his sterling career.
-- And now for a racial profiling moment: Is it possible that our continued dominance in swimming and volleyball has anything to do with our gifted tall white athletes being channeled into those sports at an early age rather than basketball?
-- Whatever happened to champion swimmers being of average physical dimensions?
-- Only in America could the story of our first-ever gold medalist in judo evolve into a personal journey that overcame sexual abuse and underscore a champion�s quest to help others change their lives.
-- It is one thing to have fun while competing, but our volleyball players, both indoor and the beach teams, seem driven to punctuate every point won like Lindbergh has just landed in Paris. Is this a direct result of our fixation with the self-esteem of our children that began about a generation ago?
-- If Olympic boxing judges had been hired to certify our vote count in 2008, Dennis Kucinich would be the 44th president of the United States.
-- Now that we�ve included our professionals, the day the U.S. doesn�t win gold in both men�s and women�s basketball will be the day that the Chinese are upset in table tennis and synchronized diving.
-- I don�t care what the explanation was, I know what every American viewer was thinking when they watched the Japanese gymnastics representative walking up to an International Olympics Committee official with a wad of cash in his hand.
-- Cheating at badminton is like texting while in the bathroom. The sanctity of the shuttlecock will never be the same.
-- As much as I enjoy the rowing competitions, watching the coaches riding bicycles along the entire course is almost as interesting as what is happening on the water.
-- I�m not sure that Great Britain�s canoe slalom doubles teams and their coaches have gotten out of the water yet.
-- All we need to know about Gabby Douglas is that she had such an immense desire to become a champion she was willing to live in Des Moines.
If only Week 2 is as entertaining.


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Southwest: Pay $40 to board earlier
Southwest Airlines may not charge customers a fee to check their bags or to change their tickets, but the carrier's list of fee-based perks is growing.
The latest: For $40, Southwest will let customers pay to jump into its "A" boarding group and get onto the aircraft ahead of others.
Southwest, of course, has open seating on all of its flights. It boards its aircraft by dividing customers into three boarding groups. The "A" group boards first, followed by B and then C.
AP: Southwest: Fliers can pay $40 to board first
THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC: Southwest announces fee for last-minute early boarding option: $40
Customers can guarantee a spot in the A group by purchasing one of Southwest's more-expensive "Business Select" fares. Otherwise, boarding positions for cheaper tickets are assigned based on when a person checks in for the flight.
The airline's new $40 option to jump into the A queue will be made available at the gate 45 minutes before departure, and only if there is space available.
"Customers will hear an announcement in the gate area and will be able to purchase an available boarding position via credit card from a Customer Service Agent," Southwest says in a statement announcing the $40 option. "Customers will only have the opportunity to purchase these positions if available."
Southwest says it "successfully tested this new boarding option in San Diego last month, and received positive feedback."
The new option also comes following another fee-based option that Southwest had added back in 2009. That "EarlyBird Check-in" costs $10 and promises to automatically check customers in as soon as they are eligible to do so (24 hours prior to departure). That ensures customers the earliest possible check-in — and consequently gives them their best-possible boarding spot for their fare type.
Still, the $10 EarlyBird Check-in does not give customers priority over Business Select customers — meaning they are not guaranteed a customer a spot in the A boarding group. And, with the advent of Southwest's new $40 gateside early-boarding option, it appears that the EarlyBird Check-in option will slot behind yet another group of customers in Southwest's check-in queues.
The Los Angeles Times was one of the first media outlets to report on the move, with reporter Hugo Martin writing that Southwest's new "fee is one of dozens that airlines began to add to regular fares in the past five years — so many that such fees now represent 10% to 30% of all revenue for most of the nation's largest airlines."
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Just call us Pavlov's dogs: We're conditioned to bundle up, even if it comes at the expense of an adorable outfit. It sucks. And, even more sucky: The time-wasting that comes with figuring said topper into the rest of our outfit. But, seeing as to how you spend almost as much time finding cabs, walking from errand to errand, and
waiting in cutting lines at clubs as you do indoors, it's only right you put as much effort into your shell as you do to that so-chic ensemble underneath.
To solve this cold-weather dilemma, we've rounded up 15 of the most stylish coat looks spotted on real New Yorkers. Our trusty photographer hit the streets to snap up the most eye-catching outerwear on the block, and the outfits didn't disappoint: From Karlie Kloss' classic trench to a structured peacoat on Steven Rojas, these protective layes are so inspiring, they might just make you want to keep bundling up straight through springtime. But then again, maybe not. Woof woof!


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He joined the Labour party on his 17th birthday in 1942 and has been a member for 64 years. In 1950 at the age of 25 he entered the House of Commons where, with two brief interruptions, he remained until he left in 2001 - in his words - to devote more time to politics. He is the longest-serving Labour MP of all time.
Benn was a minister for 11 years between 1964 and 1970 and 1974 and 1979, serving as postmaster general, minister of technology and secretary of state for industry and then energy, and sat in the cabinet of all four of the Wilson and Callaghan Labour governments. He was also a member of Labour's national executive from 1959 to 1994, and in 1971 was elected as chairman of the Labour party.
He stood twice for the leadership of the party, losing to James Callaghan in 1976 and to Neil Kinnock in 1988, after Kinnock's defeat to Margaret Thatcher in her third election victory in 1987.
He also stood twice for the deputy leadership of the party, losing to Roy Jenkins in 1971 and, in one of the bitterest left-right clashes in the history of the party, by less than 1% of the vote, to Denis Healey in 1981.
He was not always associated with the left wing of the Labour party. In 1955 he voted for Hugh Gaitskell against Nye Bevan in the election for leader of the party.
An entry in his diaries records that until 1968 he considered himself just a career politician and that some of his thinking about technology wasn't particularly socialist. He even described a Fabian tract which he wrote as late as 1970 as almost anti-socialist and corporatist in character. But by May 1971 Tribune described him as one of the few Labour leaders who left office more socialist than when he went in.
During the years in opposition to Ted Heath's government between 1970 and 1974, he moved further to the left. He played a leading role in drafting Labour's February 1974 election manifesto, which called for wide-scale nationalisation, a wealth tax and workers' control in industry, and as secretary of state for industry in Wilson's third administration in 1974 he was responsible for implementing a programme of nationalisation and state intervention in industry.
In 1976 his wife Caroline gave each member of the family Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto in their Christmas stockings. After reading the present, which he shyly admitted in his diary he had never read before, he recorded that, without having ever read any Communist text, he found that he shared Marx's view.
Tony Benn has been involved in at least three campaigns of constitutional importance. His father had been a Liberal MP who crossed the floor of the house to become a Labour cabinet minister under Ramsay MacDonald and Clement Attlee. In 1960, Benn inherited the hereditary peerage which had been conferred on his father by Winston Churchill in the wartime national government to strengthen the Labour representation in the Lords.
In an attempt to retain his seat in the House of Commons, he fought and won a byelection in his Bristol South East constituency, but an election court ruled that he was ineligible to take his seat. Among the contributions to his legal expenses was a donation of £5 from Winston Churchill. After three years in the wilderness, his campaign to change the law succeeded and he became the first hereditary peer to renounce his peerage, whereupon he was again re-elected to the Commons.
In the early 1970s he campaigned successfully for a referendum to allow the British people to decide whether to withdraw from the European Community, the first, and so far only, national referendum held in the UK. The subsequent vote was a resounding defeat for the anti-EEC camp.
In the late 1970s he campaigned for the principle that Labour MPs should be subject to reselection by their local constituency parties and that the power to elect the party leader should be transferred from the parliamentary party to a wider electoral college of unions, MPs and constituencies.
In the 27 years since he left office in 1979, Benn has been a tireless campaigner for socialism both in the House of Commons from the backbenches and more particularly outside it. In the 1980s, as MP for Chesterfield, which he won after losing his Bristol seat in the Thatcher landslide of 1983, he was closely involved with the miners' strike and was a supporter of Arthur Scargill, who he described as one of the finest trade union leaders of his generation.
In 1990, before the first Gulf war, he visited Saddam Hussein to seek the release of foreigners being detained as human shields, and, in 2003, before the invasion of Iraq, he again flew to Baghdad to interview Saddam on television.
As well as publishing his diaries, which span the longest period of any leading contemporary British politician, he has published countless articles and essays and made countless speeches exploring the future of democracy and socialism.
Since leaving parliament he has continued to campaign for a wide variety of leftwing causes. He is president of the Stop the War Coalition, which he describes as the most powerful movement of his lifetime, and at a recent meeting he described himself as the "untrained classroom assistant to the nation".
In a recent programme for Channel 4 in which he interviewed Jon Snow, John Humphreys, Jeremy Paxman and Nick Robinson, Tony Benn questioned the use of adjectives by interviewers to introduce interviewees and the ability to get beyond the soundbite in interviews lasting only a few minutes.
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Metallic and salty. Thick and warm. Dripping, gushing, clotting... splat! Blood is the life force coursing through our veins. It scurries hither and thither reddening up our vital innards... white to pink to red. Red! Crimson, scarlet, vermilion... the colors of life and sometimes strife. But when left unattended without a host, that red turns to crust. Rust. A Cabernet to a brick. Alone without a home... curdle, clabber, congeal. Platelets and plasma plug the pang hardening up into a protective shell like that street urchin orphan without a relative, without a home. Toughen up, Oliver. Consider yourself out of the family. Off you go to join the rest of the wretched Dickensian waifs wandering the Île Rachat until that day of Judgment arrives. Upon check-in, help yourself to a bowl of sand soup and a pashmina of tree bark. This season they are available in Fawn, Doody, Umber and Drab. Here's hoping you like earth tones. Let's recap, shall we?
Our story begins at dusk without a chicka to be heard. Instead, tiny motors slosh and gurgle through the azure sea as our fearless Cruise Director, Dimples (Jeff Probst), stands atop a grassy knoll. I can only assume he will be backflipping off said knoll into a ring of fire all the while juggling knives and wearing pointe shoes, right? I have come to expect danger and amazing displays of death-defying feats of courage over the years from my Dimples. Whether he is tiptoeing along the landing skids of a helicopter or being blown off the top of a rocky cliff, Dimples always gives me the goods... those three lines I wait for every premiere night. Give it to me, baby!
39 Days!
20 People!
ONE Survivor!
*looks around the room* That's it? That's all I get? I invest 85 years of my life writing about this nonsense and THAT'S ALL I GET?!? Womp, womp, womp. We've seen the hands on the hips move before, Dimples. You did it last season. Only, last season you were standing on a pointy cliff with razor sharp rocks and crashing waves surrounding you on all sides. This little hip dance of yours doesn't deliver the same punch when you're standing in a fluffy dewy meadow of perennials. Tell me you at least got bit by a mosquito or a pelican pooped on your head. I realize spending your days tirelessly calling veterans and convincing them to play again has exhausted your phone finger, but let's try to put some effort forth for crying out loud.
With Dimples safely nestled back in his tent getting a "massage" from a local, our ten teams are told to spend the night in the jungle with only their wits to guide them. Unfortunately, for the witless HayDouche (Hayden), this is an impossible task. He looks around himself and asks no one in particular, "Drrrrr... a night in the jungle by ourselves? Drrrr..." And then he tried to crack open a rock and drink its juice. When that didn't work he went to the Diary Room (a tree stump) and shouted, "THIS IS LIKE BIG BROTHER WITH NO HOUSE!"
The next morning at sunrise, the weary and tousled Survivors shuffle to a beach where Dimples awaits. "Welcome to the 27th season of Survivor," he announces. The group cheers and whoops in response. But that sassy Dimples is wearing not only a fetching navy blouse on this early morn, but a smirk and a glint in his eyes. He then continues, "You will experience this game with your loved one, but you will not be playing with them. You will be playing against your loved one." Hearing this, Fancy Pants (Colton) clutches his pearls and gasps as Rachel (Tyson's girlfriend) stares off in the distance through tearful eyes. Laura B. (Rupert's wife) fidgets from side to side as KitKat (Kat) nervously looks over her shoulder to HayDouche who is standing there wondering what time Julie Chen gets there.
Dimples smiles very pleased with himself and continues to poke and prod until the most drama-worthy moment leaks out of someone. He fails with Tina who delivers a ho hum speech about how competition is good for the soul, but he hits pay dirt when he turns to Brad Culpepper. Brad replies that on the surface he'd like to beat his wife, Monica's, ass in every competition. But deep down, down in the ooey gooey mushy parts of his soul, he could totally see himself throwing a Challenge in order for his wife to win a tarp. Oh no he di'in't! Oh yes he did! Hearing this, Marissa (Gervase's niece) stares open-mouthed shaking her head and declares, "Not if you're on MY team! You better not be on my team saying that." A tight-lipped Monica slyly stabs the heel of her stiletto into her hubby's foot with all the force she can muster. Brad quietly winces to himself as a single teardrop falls into the sand. Five minutes into the game and already he's in the doghouse.
The group is then told to say their goodbyes and divide up into their designated tribes. For the purpose of this little bloggy blog, the Returning Players will henceforth be known as WangChung (Galang) and the Loved Ones will be known as Benihana (Tadhana). If you are new here, don't worry. By the time I'm done with you, these nicknames will become second nature. The WangChung tribe is as follows: KitKat, Tina, Grizzly (Rupert), Aras, Monica, Medusa (Laura), Fancy Pants, Gervase, Candice and Tyson. The Benihana's are: HayDouche, Katie, Laura B., Vytas, Brad, Ciera, Caleb, Marissa, John and Rachel. More nicknames will emerge over time quite organically. Players who already have nicknames acquired them on previous seasons.
Now that the tribes have been formed, it is time for each one to vote someone out. Say what? Why?! That seems not only weird, but incredibly unfair. One twist is ok. Two twists is pushing it. Three twists is just plain overkill. Cool it with the twists, CBS. Just let the players play the damn game!
OK so Fancy Pants, hated by everyone and everything, quietly freaks out as Brad lowers his baseball cap as far as it will go hoping no one will remember how he just said he'd throw Challenges in order to let his wife win. Meanwhile, Grizzly looks around himself puzzled as Tyson tears the lid of his marker off with his teeth and happily scrawls down a name.
The Benihana's reveal their votes first and, strangely, almost everyone has voted for Laura B. I say "strangely" because nothing about this woman looks the least bit threatening. She's not a hulking meathead nor is she young and spry. Watching the votes reveal themselves, I couldn't help but wonder what background information we're not privy to.
Next it is the WangChung's turn to vote. The WangChung's have more history together and therefore more scores to settle so their votes aren't as unanimous as the Loved Ones. The votes end up almost split between Medusa and Candice with Candice being the one voted out. The ladies will now be sent to Rhode Island (Redemption Island) where they will compete in a duel to stay in the game.
But wait, there's more! Now that Laura B. and Candice have been voted out, their respective husbands are given the opportunity to take their places on Rhode Island. If they choose to play for them on Rhode Island then their loved one will return and compete on the opposing team. I know, I know, it's a lot to take in and so unnecessarily confusing. At home I was hoping that the person voted out would simply be sent to join the other tribe not be shipped off to Rhode Island so early in the game. Since when do I ever get what I want?
Grizzly, playing the noble and selfless card, hastily runs over to Dimples, shoves Laura B. out of the way and takes her spot. Dimples panics and immediately radios to Burnett back at HQ, "Mayday! Mayday! We have a situation! Our lovable season clown could be sent home early! Mayday!" Defeated and forlorn, Dimples then presents the same offer to Wifey (John gets the first new nickname of the season!). Wifey doesn't exactly react like Grizzly did. Instead, he stands in the sand and cries all over his apron. The apple pie he's holding in his hands gets soggy as his wife, Candice, stands with her arms crossed glaring at him. Wifey and his stupid pies. He's always baking pies! Apple, peach, key lime, rhubarb.
After more tears and more goodbyes we finally end up at WangChung where the returnees fall into a group hug and dive into their chest of supplies. They have a hammer, a machete, but no flint. Look, you pampered peasants. You should have nothing. NOTHING! You would be constructing your shelter with twigs and spit if I had anything to say about it. Hoity toity Aras sneers down his nose and sighs, "I can't believe we don't have any flint." Tyson replies, "On Heroes v. Villains I watched and helped Rob start a fire with bamboo. We can do it." Aras quietly buffs his nails against his shirt and thinks to himself, "No way I'm ruining my manicure!"
Meanwhile, Gervase is throwing pebbles at Laura B.'s head. Each time she turns around to catch the culprit, Gervase puts his hands in his pockets and whistles to himself. He didn't want to play with Laura B.. He wanted to play with Grizzly! Aras agrees and tells Laura B. to her face, "I so wish your husband was here instead of you. Ugh! I mean, you're great. You're fine and all that, but your husband would be SO much better." And then he helped Gervase collect even bigger rocks to throw at Laura B's head.
As the day continues, the WangChung's work well together and manage to not only construct a shelter, but make fire. Their canteens are full, they're eating rice... and even Fancy Pants is helping! Monica isn't fooled by his "good little helper" act though. She played with him back on One World and knows firsthand what a sneaky backstabber he can be. Now, I don't know what sort of Assertiveness Training Seminar the Culpepper's took before arriving in The Philippines, but it's doing their game in left and right. First, we had Brad and his verbal diarrhea and now we get Monica trying to convince Fancy Pants that they should squash all that nonsense that happened back in One World.
Assertiveness Training Tip #1: Be forthright about your wants and needs.
Speaking of Brad, don't look now, but he's holding a group meeting over at Benihana. He tells his tribe that if any of them ever see him not giving 100% in the Challenges, then they are more than welcome to vote him out.
Assertiveness Training Tip #2: Accept responsibility for your own mistakes.
Assertiveness Training Tip #3: Gather up the dudes, including the gay, and take a bath.
While sudsing up and scrubbing one another's hard to reach places, Brad tells Wifey that they should make one big Dude Alliance. They'll gather up all the guys - and the gay one, Caleb - and that should give them like 67 votes or something. Hearing the plan, the men all grunt and scratch themselves. It's a go! It's almost too easy!
Brad then run downs to the beach to double check the figures on his abacus.
"One gay plus one douche minus my wife plus two grams of heroin. Wait, are there one douche or two douches? Let me start over."
"Two douches plus no John Cochran's and one gay... maybe I should make it two gays. Wifey does cook a lot of pies. OK and two gays... daggumit, I lost my place!"
"I hear the gays like fisting"
Assertiveness Training Tip #4: Math is for suckers!
With the Dude Alliance firmly in place, the Benihana's continue working on their shelter and trying to make fire. But staring into the unlit bamboo, the visions start to dance in a few of the Benihana's heads. Ciera's eyes glaze over as she watches Brad huff and puff trying to get a flame. It reminds her of when she huffed and puffed and pooped out a baby at the age of 16. Shuddering at the memories and the image of Medusa locking her in the closet yelling something about dirty pillows, Ciera collects herself and thinks, "I'll get her back. I'll get my revenge!" Similarly, Vytas stares at the frustration Brad is feeling and remembers his own frustration back in college when he used to scour the back alleys in search of a fix. He recalls his parents' disappointment when he went to jail for that year. That was the year Aras won All-American for something or other, Prom King and Most Likely To Succeed. Vytas inhales deeply and thinks to himself, "It's MY turn now, little brother!" The rage and resentment in these families are totally making my nipples hard, how about you?
Meanwhile on Rhode Island, Candice is training to be a serial killer. She lines up coconut after coconut and assigns each of them a name. Raising her machete high in the air she shouts, "This one is for Fancy Pants!" Thwack! The tiny leaf sweater Candice tied around the shoulders of the Fancy Pants coconut tears in half as his coconut water brains leak out onto the sand. "And this is for Tina!" Thwack! "I'm going to kill you Medusa!" Thwack! Coconut brains and guts litter the Rhode Island shore as Grizzly shakes his head disapprovingly and curls up for a nap. As he snoozes, Candice stands over him watching his chest go up and down... up and down... With an eerie calmness she raises her machete and holds it over high over the sleeping giant's head...
And this brings us to the big Immunity Challenge. Come on in guys! For today's Challenge, Survivors will have to race over a series of obstacles, perform a belly flop, abandon their tribe mates, complete a puzzle and raise their flag. The first tribe to gloat obnoxiously wins Immunity. Survivors ready, go!
The tribes burst off the start and into the water. The WangChung's gain a slight lead as Merman Tyson swims ahead of everyone. The Benihana's, however, are using a different tactic. It's this new thing called helping and apparently it's the latest rage. The beefier bunch assist and lift the womenfolk over each and every obstacle. Perhaps there is something to this "helping" thing after all because the Benihana's pull ahead and gain a huge lead. They successfully untie their boat and begin to paddle back to shore.
But back in WangChung's lane, helping each other hasn't caught on yet as Aras lays splayed on the rolling pin and Gervase sinks to the bottom of the sea. Eventually, Aras manages to dislodge his leg from the spokes of the rolling pin and dives down to retrieve Gervase's bloated body. He hurls Gervase into the boat and the WangChung's attempt to paddle back to shore with KitKat calling the shots, "Go this way! No, that way! I mean, this way!" Naturally, the WangChung's end up paddling in circles creating a drain-like effect and getting sucked into the darkest depths of the ocean.
Miraculously, the WangChung's reappear just in time to battle it out with the Benihana's at the puzzle. We have Caleb, Ciera and Katie against Monica, Medusa and Tina. It's young v. old, daughter v. mother, rage v. resentment. In the end, in this case at least, with age comes wisdom and with wisdom comes focus and speed. WANGCHUNG WINS IMMUNITY!!!
And like all the great reality moments through history and time, a song is born. We've had unforgettable hits like 'Pants On The Ground' and 'Gone With The Wind Fabulous', but none compares with the new chart topper... 'Don't Let That Fool You, Baby!' Sung by Gervase Peterson with passion and zeal, 'Don't Let That Fool You, Baby!' is an anthem for all ages. The lyrics are simple, but full of meaning... "Don't let that fool you, baby! Don't let that fool you! Don't let that fool you! Don't let that fool you!"
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Back at Benihana, the mood is dank and depressing. Brad tries to lift everyone's spirits by telling his tribe that everyone gave 100% today in the Challenge. Katie listens to the speech and clenches her lips tight. She choked today trying to finish the puzzle and she's worried that the tribe will hold it against her. Not only that, but her mother beat her! Katie grimaces and thinks to herself, "I'm not going to play with her anymore, ever!"
Marissa is also a little nervous about her place in the game. Her uncle's chart topping hit, 'Don't Let That Fool You, Baby!' may have pissed off the members of her tribe. The problem is that Marissa isn't distancing herself from the Gold Record. In fact, she's making a spectacle and mocking her Uncle Gervase for bad sportsmanship. Watching it all, Katie smiles to herself and shields her body with a bush. The less attention she draws to herself, the better!
So the big question now is who will the Dude Alliance choose to get rid of? Wifey and Caleb aren't too happy about Gervase's showboating after the Challenge. Brad then scratches his chin and wonders out loud if they should get rid of Marissa and send the WangChung's a message. His ideal message would be, "Let's win with grace from now on." In reality, the real message would be, "Suck it, Gervase!"
And this brings us to Tribal Council. Dimples is fetching in cornflower blue and begins the evening posing a question to HayDouche, "What's the toughest part of these few days for you?" HayDouche replies, "Drrr hehe I vote to evict... no, wait... umm fire! It's fire. Fire good. Fire warm."
Dimples then turns to Ciera and asks how her experience has been so far. Ciera replies that all the stories the mother drilled into her head over the years is nothing like being out there and living it for yourself. The hunger is unbearable and she feels like
We then turn our focus to Wifey. "Wifey, you let your wife go live in a rickety shelter with a hirsute fellow and no food. Don't you feel guilty about that? Oooh is that Banana Cream? My favorite!" Wifey sniffles through the tears and nods. He hands Dimples the pie and manages to give a timid smile in response. His wife may be living in misery right now, but pie always makes everything better.
Alright, let's get to the vote. With an almost unanimous decision, Marissa is the first person voted out of Survivor: Blood v. Water. It turns out that sending a message and twisting a knife is more important than keeping a tribe strong. On the upside, 'Don't Let That Fool You!' will be out on iTunes soon!
So, what did you guys think of last night's episode? Did the right person go home? Will Gervase care that Marissa is gone? What does Brad think 4+5 adds up to? Comment it out bitches and have a great day!


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Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini has challenged Micah Richards to prove he is worth a place in the England starting XI.
The Etihad Stadium right-back was not particularly favoured by previous national team manager Fabio Capello, but the Italian resigned on Wednesday evening and this would have given Richards renewed hope.
Right full-back is one of the most competitive positions in the England side, with Glen Johnson and Kyle Walker both previously in front of the 23-year-old and Mancini wants Richards to take this new opportunity.
"Micah has everything to become a top full-back. I think he has improved a lot in the last year but he can still improve, he can do better," Mancini is quoted as saying by Sky Sports.
"At this moment for the national team, probably Johnson or Walker are better.
"But I don't want to say Micah can't play for the national team - if he wants, Micah can play always."
Despite the Citizens' manager being full of praise for Richards, he admitted there is room for improvement in the young defender's game.
Mancini also pointed out that, with such a lot of competition for places in the squad, there was bound to be someone disappointed.
"If one England manager has a choice of three - Johnson, Walker, Micah - one of these players stays out," added the Italian.
"Micah played for England with Capello but there are a lot of players in England and one manager can call only 20-22 for a European Championship.
"I think Micah can really be a top full-back but he needs to improve."
Richards can continue his improvement during City's race for the Premier League title, which they lead by two points over fierce local rival Manchester United.
The next challenge they face will be a clash with Aston Villa at Villa Park late on Sunday afternoon.News Now - Sport News


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Pollution experts have "serious scientific concerns" that newly unveiled U.S. air quality standards may pose risks to human health and welfare, according to a letter made public Tuesday.
WASHINGTON Pollution experts have "serious scientific concerns" that newly unveiled U.S. air quality standards may pose risks to human health and welfare, according to a letter made public Tuesday.
The experts, all charter members of a key advisory panel to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, questioned the agency's decision to keep annual standards for fine soot particles at the same level they have been since 1997.
The panel's scientists, along with a broad range of environmental and health groups, had sought to lower the amount of soot permissible, citing research that showed health risks from even small amounts over the course of a year.
"There is clear and convincing evidence that significant adverse human-health effects occur in response to short-term and chronic particulate matter exposures at or below 15 micrograms per cubic meter (of air), the level of the current annual ... standard," the experts wrote in a Sept. 29 letter to EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson.
Johnson announced the decision to leave this standard unchanged on Sept. 21, saying it offered "cleaner air to all Americans," and would reduce premature deaths, heart attacks and hospital stays for people with heart and lung disease and bring health benefits valued at between $20 billion and $160 billion a year.
While Johnson agreed with the advisory panel to strengthen daily air quality standards by nearly 50 percent, he did not follow their recommendation to reduce the annual standard to 13 or 14 micrograms per cubic meter of air.
Rogene Henderson of the Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, who chairs EPA's Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee and who signed the letter along with six other panel members, said the key concern was for health and welfare.
"The main thing is to protect the public health," Henderson said in a telephone interview from Albuquerque, New Mexico. The unchanged annual standards do not provide a margin of safety, as stipulated by the U.S. Clean Air Act.
EPA spokeswoman Jennifer Wood, in an e-mail response to questions about the scientists' letter, said, "Where the science was clear, EPA took clear action."
"Administrator Johnson fully considered the science, (the panel's) advice about the science and more than 120,000 public comments in making his policy decisions about the appropriate levels of the particle pollution standards," Wood said.
However, Henderson and others have noted that 20 of the 22 members of the full advisory committee advised more stringent annual standards. The two who advised against tightening the standards were a former longtime employee of General Motors and the former president of the Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology, funded by chemical companies.
"I think they did present the industry viewpoint," Henderson said of these two members. "They would say they based it on science."
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Sunday Sweets: Avengers, Assemble!
Greetings, Wreckies. I know you've been waiting for some Avengers Sweets, and here they are! Brought to you by me, Lindsey, the least qualified person on earth to write about the Avengers. It's a movie? With superheroes? Something about a hammer? Don't hurt me.
Right then, I'll just fake it. Here we go.
One of the original Avengers, as everybody knows, was Wolf-Spider-Man.
No? Not a real thing, you say? Well, it should be, because I would be way more afraid of him. Wolf spiders are TERRIFYING. (The cake is 100% cute, though!)
(PS: Spider-Man and Wolverine actually were original Avengers. See? I do know a little something.)
(Ok, fine; only because Jen told me.)
And here we have Thorn and his mighty meat tenderizer!
I kid, I kid. I've actually seen Thor, and I even liked it. (Chris Hemsworth, what?)
And what I love about this cake is not just the fantastic frosting graphic, but also that it doesn't have the typical birthday-cake script. That's a Thor-approved font, I'd say.
Who's the leader of the club that's made for you and me? (If you and I happened to be superheroes?)
Submitted by SuperChunks and made by Royal Bakery
Captain America! He has ever so neatly popped out of this cake to save the day.
(He is the leader of the Avengers right? He's, like, in the middle of all the posters at least.)
(I really need to see this movie.)
Look, I can name most of them. Here we have Captain America, Iron Man, Hulk, Thor, don't know, don't know, and whats-her-bucket:
By Sarah Trefny of Klickitat Street
But enough about me: let's talk about how amazing these cookies are! Smoosh your face up close to your monitor and drink in all that detail. What a shame to eat them! My favorite are Hulk's little toes. Nom.
And how could you not love Hulk's fist punching through this cake?
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I like the bricks flying out from the sides. Simply smashing.
For this next cake I consulted an expert on all things Avengers: my ten-year-old son, Blake. However, he was appalled that Thor was using a binky, and exclaimed "Thor is like, the second-manliest one of them all! They should have given the binky to Iron Man!"
[Note from Jen: I just sprained something laughing. Please thank Blake for me. And ask him who the first-manliest is.]
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I tried to explain that this was a cake for a one-year-old, but by then Blake had stomped away in disgust.
Good thing, because I don't know how kindly he'd take to these Hello Kitty Avengers.
Submitted by Sarae B. and made by Animated Cupcakes
But, seriously, aren't they the most adorable things you've seen all day?!
Mjölnir time!
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And I also spy Captain America's shield, and ... a defibrillator? The All Spark?
I have no idea what I am talking about.
[Note from Jen: It's Tony Stark's arc reactor. Never change, Lindsey.]
And finally: Avengers, assemble!
Blake has informed me that Thor's hammer should not be on top, because it would smash through all the other layers. Hmmm. That would be a shame. Better pass that piece to me.
Have a Sweet to nominate? Then send it to Sunday Sweets [at] Cake Wrecks [dot] com!


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I'm liking this old man more and more.
Could you link me a higher resolution version of the first pic again? Pweese?
she looks strangely manlier in the first and second last panels, not rugged, just looks like a guys face
thats because she doesnt have lips in these pics, her mouth looks like a guys mouth in this comic, thus she has a guys face.
All that because the author forgot, I mean choose to not draw her voluptious lips in those pics
Lilith brought hell's clowns to the old man for a reason, maybe an ambush. He sure doesn't seem to be afraid of them, more like contemptuous.
Hmmm, for all I know Enki was the Sumerian god of earth, water and creation. I have this odd feeling that Beelzebub is about to get his ass kicked…. =]
Awesome page nonetheless, though I must agree that in some of the panels Lilith looks a little… umm, masculine. Her face in the last panel is really freaking awesome!
He looks annoyed TBH. Mr. "Lord of the Flies" is about to get drenched.
Ouch, was that last line from Lilith a poke at some of the members of the group? Or is it stall tactics, seeing as Laz wasn't there like he was suppose to be. They are going to be in for a big surprise soon.
Lilith: "So, where's my kid?"
Lilith:"….. FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-"
Lilith doesn't expect Laz to be here. According to the "perfect plan" her sister was looking forward to seeing carried out, her sister should have taken Laz from Enki's farm before Lilith got there. So as far as Lilith knows, her sister is currently taking Laz to where Lilith wants him to go. Lilith won't know her plan has gone wrong until a) Enki lets them know he hasn't seem any boy, and/or b) that Lilith's sister showed up and is currently hiding somewhere near the farm.
Its rude to shove Beezelbub…
Dang. Can't win 'em all, I guess. 😛
wonder what beezelbulb will do next
"Fade into obscurity?!" This guy wrote a nam-shub, he was also featured in "Snow Crash!"
Enki… Enki… *googles* Oh! This guy's a Mesopotamian god of, among other things, water, knowledge, and creation!


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Killing Humbaba the monster, who looks just as human as they do.
Priya, from The Girls Who Saw Everything, after Romy plays Humbaba:
'But what was it like?' she persisted, earning an approving look from Runner. 'What was it like to be the monster Humbaba?'
'Stop pestering her.' (Missy.)
'But we have to talk about it, Missy. Otherwise it's a waste of time. To the victors go the spoils, but the victims get the visions, and people should hear about it.'
'What people? What visions?' asked Missy.
'Us people,' said Priya. 'Our visions.'
Romy, from The Girls Who Saw Everything, after playing Humbaba:
'Since I'm dead,' she said, 'I can finally admit that I read all kinds of shit, like even the crappy magazines that I pretend to despise. I read bad, pulpy books, too, and books that scare me, though not so bad as when the rabbits died in Watership Down. I read all kinds of shit, I might as well admit it since I'm dead. And I'd be a hypocrite to mind you comforting the traumatized and fallen heroes, the men, since I wish the women could comfort me too. I do. I really do. I might as well admit it since I'm dead ... '
She couldn't quite believe she was speaking out loud like this.
'Emmy could hold me to her soft breast too, and I would feel her breathing and slow down my breathing to the level of her breathing too. That's comfort. That's what comfort is. And people get comfort when they win, not when they lose. Do you see why I want to be alone for a bit? I'll see you tomorrow, 'kay?'
And then she was gone. Disappeared into the stairwell. Slipped down through the floors and out into the darkening streets as a god.
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Disgraced designer John Galliano is taking bosses behind French fashion house Christian Dior to court for unfair dismissal.
The style guru was convicted of racial abuse and fined following allegations he hurled an anti-Semitic tirade at a couple during a night out in Paris, France in February, 2011.
The controversy cost him his job as head designer at Christian Dior, as well as his role at the helm of his eponymous label, which is majority-owned by Dior.
He appeared before an employment hearing in Paris, France on Monday, where his lawyers claimed he should not have been dismissed as he was struggling with addictions to prescription pills and alcohol.
The initial hearing was deemed a victory by Galliano's lawyers after court officials decided to look into the case in more detail instead of sending it to a higher court, which lawyers for the fashion house had wanted.
Galliano's lawyer Chantal Giraud-van Gaver says, "I am satisfied because Dior's request has been rejected, and our arguments have been upheld."
Bosses at Dior have been granted 15 days to accept the ruling or appeal.


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By Michael Tidemann
Staff Writer
This is a monthly column on the writing process. Topics will range from books and authors to writing conferences and workshops to the writing process itself.
The Writing Life by Annie Dillard. Harper Perennial. ISBN 978-0060919887.
This is probably the only time you'll see a review of a book by the same title as this column.
The Writing Life by Annie Dillard could be considered a paean to all writers - published or unpublished. In so doing, Dillard offers an inspiring - yet realistic - perspective of what it is to be a writer.
"A work in progress quickly becomes feral. It reverts to a wild state overnight. It is barely domesticated, a mustang on which you one day fastened a halter, but which you now cannot catch. It is a lion you cage in your study. As the work grows, it gets harder to control; it is a lion growing in strength. You must visit it every day and reassert your mastery over it. If you skip a day, you are, quite rightly, afraid to open the door to its room."
Dillard is of course talking about the writing process itself here - and what it's like to be deeply embedded within it.
Replete with analogies, a writer's best fodder, Dillard's book is a refreshing approach to what many of us may have been taught long ago in school - the best way to write is to outline everything, have a thesis, have topic sentences, blah, blah, blah, gag, gag, gag.
"Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block.
Dillard isn't afraid to borrow ideas from other genres or even art forms. Here's what Anne Truitt has to say:
"The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one's own intimate sensitivity."
What Dillard - and Truitt - are talking about here are entering the writer's or sculptor's studio and leaving the outside world behind. Art becomes one's life, one's reality.
This idea is antithetical, even heretical, perhaps, to the idea of the artist in control.
Says Dillard:
"Only after the writer lets literature shape her can she perhaps shape literature."
And this of course means pushing the envelope.
"Push it. Examine all things intensely and relentlessly. Probe and search each object in a piece of art. Do not leave it, do not course over it, as if it where understood, but instead follow it down until you see it in the mystery of its own specificity and strength."
And this means holding nothing back, not saving something inside us for that next story or novel.
"One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes."
This classic and inspiring book by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author is one that's likely to never be dated.
For the writer seeking inspiration, it's a necessity.


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The 2012 season will mark the 10th year for head men's soccer coach Myles Berry. The second longest tenured coach in the program's history, Berry has helped the program improve into a conference tournament contender every season he has been on the bench.
Last season, Berry brought the Beacons back to the postseason
after a four-year hiatus. After recording his second 11-win
season, UMass entered the ECAC New England Tournament as the fourth
seed which was the highest ranking ever in the programs
Since taking over the program in 2003, Berry has guided the Beacons to .500 or better records four-times, which included a pair of 11-win seasons in 2011 and 2006. In 2006, Berry nabbed Little East Conference Coach of the Year honors after leading UMass Boston to their first Little East Conference tournament semi-final round appearance.
Under his tutelage Berry has seen 10 of his players earn Little
East All-Conference accolades, including six on the first
team. He has also coached the Little East Conference Rookie
and Offensive Player of the Year in Stefanos Galouzis.
Four of his players have also gone on to earn NSCAA
All-Region honors, with two also selected to the NEISL Senior
All-Star Game.
Berry is not unfamiliar to the Beacons' soccer scene, holding the distinction as UMass Boston's first-ever Head Women's Soccer Coach from 1995-97. He ranks second for coaching wins in women's soccer with 16.
Prior to his arrival to the Harbor campus, Berry coached next door, guiding the boys' soccer squad at Boston College High School as the Eagles' Head Coach for 12 seasons from 1980-1991 . During his time at BC High, he posted a 104-58-38 record and led the Eagles to a pair of Catholic Conference Championships as well as eight state tournament appearances.
Berry played his collegiate soccer at Boston College, where he was a defensive starter under three different head coaches.
Not only has the longtime UMass Boston coach excelled on the soccer sidelines, but he was also the Beacons' Men's Lacrosse coach for 20 seasons and compiled 152 victories to rank in the top-30 on the NCAA's all-time list.


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Japanese Tattoo Lettering - History, Basics, and Style
Japanese tattoos and tattoo lettering are steeped in tradition, symbolism and mysticism. From their roots as religious symbols to their usage as signs of the Yakuza, to their current day popularity in the West, Japanese tattoos are unique to both the wearer and the artist. Find out about the different types of Japanese tattoos and tattoo lettering, before you decide to get one yourself.
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Japan home electronics makers play dumb on smart TVs
Last year Panasonic ran up against a wall when it came out with its first dedicated "net TV set" for the domestic market. Though TVs had entered the Internet age years before, this new "smart" model in the home electronics giant's Viera line was an all-in-one device. It hooked up to the Internet directly and basically acted as a computer monitor, so users could stream movies from on-demand services, watch YouTube videos, mirror their PCs and tablets, whatever, while also enjoying the usual offerings of terrestrial and satellite broadcasting.
Smart TVs were already available overseas, so in a sense Panasonic was playing catch-up, but it ran into opposition from the broadcast industry, which, perhaps justifiably, believed smart TVs bypassed advertisers, so at least one station refused to run commercials for the new Viera model, thinking the ads would make other advertisers uncomfortable. Eventually, the station changed its mind and started accepting the CMs, but the resistance is indicative of not only the media's mindset, but that of the home electronics industry in general.
Some might call it a sympton of Galapagos syndrome, but the fact is Japanese manufacturers are in the smart TV race overseas. Panasonic and Sony both make smart TVs for the American and European markets, and they are available in Japan but are barely promoted. Given that Japan's reputation as the world standard for television sets and home electronics in general has suffered in the last decade, it's surprising that this sort of vanguard technology is being overlooked on the domestic front, but maybe it's simply a matter of perception. According to an article published last summer in the New York Times, smart TVs are popular among younger consumers in Japan, but the TVs they are buying are not made by Panasonic or Sony. They're made by LG, a South Korean company.