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The smartwatch trend is gradually catching on and as more and more companies bring their wearable devices to market, the more components they need to purchase in order to make them. LG seems to have struck gold since it’s currently the only supplier of displays for the Apple Watch and that has helped it to cement its position as the biggest smartwatch display vendor on the market right now.

During the first quarter of 2015 the entire smartwatch display market was estimated to be worth $240 million, with LG taking the lion’s share of $186 million. That’s more than 90 percent of the entire market.

Other vendors are trying to gain position as well but they’re quite far behind. Samsung Display only accounted for 3.1 percent of the market and Japan Display came in third with 2.1 percent.

LG accounted for 66.8 percent of the total display shipments with 8 million units being send out to OEMs in the first quarter of this year. This is nearly eight times the volume that LG shipped back in Q4, 2014.

It certainly works in LG’s favor that it’s the sole supplier of displays for the Apple Watch, which despite its supply issues appears to be doing quite well as opposed to the competition.

The Korean company also uses its display panels in its own smartwatches, LG has already released multiple smartwatches in the market.

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A diagnosis of cancer does not only affect the patient but also affects every single family member, friend, coworker, associate and acquaintance of that patient. Most important to note is that the patient receives the best of care possible from a whole team of doctors who are there to deal with and handle every medical need imaginable. And if all that a patient needed in order to deal with their cancer was the medical care then we could end this discussion right here. However, the medical care is far from the only factor in not only dealing with the immediate physical disease but also the mental toll that such an illness takes on a patient. There is also the matter of living your life during and after the immediate surgeries, treatment and long-term care that may be necessary. And that, of course, includes those who are most important in your life and their well-being at the same time.

For many, your spouse or significant other or other primary adult in your household will become the primary person who will be managing your care both with regard to your medical care and your normal responsibilities. Therefore it becomes most important to recognize that this person not only has to deal with their normal responsibilities but now must take on a whole new set that are yours and this is no easy task for anyone especially when there is also the added stress of your health and what that holds for the future.

Just like a patient needs a whole team of people to help, so should a primary caregiver be afforded the opportunity to have a support team. Your caregiver needs someone with whom they can talk and share how they are feeling. They need to have an emotional outlet especially if the patient has been the person with whom they usually share their most intimate thoughts and feelings. They will need to have help with dealing with the household chores including the cleaning and laundry and shopping and preparing of meals. And if there are children in the household, assistance will be needed to take care of the children and their daily needs as well. Perhaps a close family member or friend can help with the very young and their care. For the older children, you might be able to enlist the parents of your children’s friends to help with carpool duty to and from school and for extracurricular activities. Maybe a neighbor or some of your work associates would be willing to pitch in and deliver some home-cooked meals to you and your family or be willing to help with some of your grocery shopping when they head out to the store to do their own shopping.

And, of course, let’s not forget the children, who are in an especially vulnerable position at this time. Depending upon their ages, they may or may not understand what is going on but the one thing that they do know is that their parent is sick. Not only has their routine been disrupted but also they will have a fear that their parent will not be there for them in the future. I would like to suggest that each child is provided with an adult who is outside of the home who will act as the child’s very own “to go to” person. This may be a neighbor or a parent of one of the child’s friends or a family relative who is nearby. This person and the person’s home should be a place to which the child can escape when they are feeling overwhelmed or having problems with dealing with what is going on in their own home. This person can be someone who has been entrusted as a confidante and an overseer of the child’s wellbeing and can report any issues to the parent if it appears that the child is in need of other help or attention.

Help is always available for patients and those who are doing what they can to support the patient’s support team. If you find that you don’t know what to do or where to seek help, you can always look to answers from your medical team, your local support agencies, your church, your school’s PTO or just about anyone that you know. I have found that just about anyone is willing to help if you just reach out and ask them for that help or their opinion or guidance in finding the help and resources that you need. And there are always plenty of resources provided by a whole host of non-profit organizations that you can find with a little research on the Internet. Most important to remember is that you and your family are not alone. There is help available if you are willing to just reach out and ask for it.

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Forget piracy: BitTorrent is turning its attention to privacy.

The company on Tuesday officially released Bleep, a new mobile messaging app that purports to keep user information private.

It’s been in development for some time, and Android and Mac users have been able to access an alpha version since last fall. But the latest update brings the app to iOS and significantly overhauls that initial build.

When you register for Bleep, you only need to input a nickname. It doesn’t sync to existing social media accounts or email, which means you can be more or less “anonymous” on the app if you choose.

Perhaps the biggest appeal of Bleep, though, is that it offers a peer-to-peer connection. That basically means your data isn’t stored in the cloud, where it could, in theory, be hacked into remotely. Data sent via Bleep is stored on your device until it’s delivered, through an encrypted connection, to your friend’s device. It’s similar to the theory behind BitTorrent’s file-sharing platform: When you download data via torrent, you are essentially accessing that data from a slew of other people who already have it on their computers, rather than pulling it from a central server.

You’re likely familiar with how the concept leads to illegal downloading, though BitTorrent and peer-to-peer connections are in no way against the law themselves.

The new and improved Bleep also adds a function called “Whisper,” which obscures key information in an effort to frustrate would-be screenshot-takers. When you’re using Whisper, messages and images will be deleted 25 seconds after they’re viewed, and they’re never displayed at the same time as an individual’s username. Unfortunately, the system isn’t exactly fail-safe: While you can’t nab a screenshot that contains a user’s name and message at the same time, you certainly can take two different screenshots to get both. So, as with everything else online, you’d probably do well to keep anything truly private to yourself, just in case.

That said, Christian Averill, vice president of communications and brand for BitTorrent, says that Whisper isn’t actually meant to protect against screenshots.

“The current approach is not protecting users against taking the screenshot. This is not the intention. Whispers protect users against making the association between who sent the message or image,” Averill told The Huffington Post via email.

Bleep isn’t the first app of its kind. But it’s notable for its scope — the app is available on iOS, Android, Mac and Windows — and because of BitTorrent’s efforts in recent years to rebrand itself as a legitimate tech enterprise, freed from the stigma of its platform that can be (and often is) used to pirate content. That same platform, after all, is also used by businesses like Blizzard Entertainment, which lets you download large games and updates relatively quickly by delivering data via peer-to-peer connections.

In addition, BitTorrent has a TV series in the works and now offers paid media downloads.

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No, it’s not about jewelry.

While on “Late Night with Seth Meyers” Monday, comedian Louis C.K. revealed that when he was in his 20s and a writer on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien,” he tried really hard to get dirty jokes past the censors.

The dirtiest joke, he says, was one he made announcer Joel Godard use during the nightly introduction, a part of the show that was never thoroughly checked out. The joke involved a “pearl necklace,” and that’s all we’ll say. Check out the clip for the full joke, and head to Google after that if you don’t get it.

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As Mother’s Day approaches, I’m reflecting on the example I’m setting as the most influential female in my boys’ lives. Unintentionally, I have been teaching them about women. As scary as it is, as mothers our influence on future relationships with women, both positive and negative is massive. Sometimes it takes a small incident to make one pause and reflect…
 
Landing at JFK at nearly 3:00 a.m., I wasn’t paying attention to my surroundings. I was focused on walking from the west side of Central Park to the east, where I could plop on a bench lazily and watch my kids play. “Hold up,” a young guy spoke into his phone, “I’m looking at a damn perfect ass.” But no matter how exhausted, my boys didn’t miss a beat.  Neal and Liam started giggling, and said, “Did you hear what that guy said about you?” “No, I didn’t.”  They re-told his comment, and were 100 percent sure he was referring to their mother’s “ass,” an outline you could see through my American Apparel leggings. My own mother, their grandmother quickly chimed in, “well, you just made your mother’s day.” 
 
I have to say, for a brief moment I was quite pleased that my booty was being called “damn perfect,” especially in the day and age of Kim Kardashian booty expectations.  My behind, while not large, has always been a body part with which I’ve never been concerned. It’s not where I gain weight, and has been a pretty consistent player — staying the same even after motherhood. As a woman in the high pressure world of feeling like we have to meet a perfect beauty standard, I appreciate having a body part not needing constant scrutiny.  
 
As soon as I listened to the words in my mother’s comment, “Well, you just made your mother’s day,” I felt a knot in my stomach. Growing up in a predominately male household, I heard the conversations my brothers and their friends would have about girls. Although I was raised as a feminist, it was what I took in around me that had more of an effect on my own self worth.  Beauty was important.  
 
Who taught me this lesson at a young age? My grandfather. He was tall, handsome and quite charming. Working in the high-end fashion business, he spent most of his adulthood surrounded by glamorous models. My Papa wasn’t like my father; he was intimidating, elegant, quiet and not the most nurturing.  So who better to ask a question I knew would get an honest answer?  “Papa,” I looked up at this handsome man with my big brown eyes, wild hair and awkward smile. “Yes Mara?” “Do you think I’m pretty?” Without hesitation he looked at me, a child, and said “Well, you’re no Cindy Crawford.” It was at that moment I learned my own beauty had limits.  Even in the subjective eyes of a grandparent, he confirmed my beauty was limited.  In typical Mara fashion, I accepted his comments as truth hiding my feelings of rejection with laughter. 
 
This was a poignant moment in which as a young girl I learned to seek approval regarding my looks from men.  This result was due to a mixture of being raised around males and society’s influences. And seeing my own boys, who will one day be men, watch two females’ positive reaction to a man’s low brow comments was a horrible lesson. How do you undo a child’s observation? Or better yet, how do you undo years of women being conditioned to seek approval for their beauty? 
 
I don’t have the answers, but I’m happy to be asking the questions. Is it wrong to feel good after being objectified? If I didn’t have kids, would I even struggle with these questions? And, the question still lurking deep inside most women, including me, how does my ass look? 

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