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I absolutely love antique linens. ?My grandma had piles of them. ?I think everyone in the family took a stack, when we helped her move a few years ago, and we still had plenty for the thrift store.
Many of the linens hold memories of visiting Nanie and Baumpa's house. ?The bedspreads covered the twin beds for as long as I could remember. ?I always loved the nubby texture and the fringe at the bottom. ?Someday, when my kids are grown and I have an extra bedroom, I will have twin beds with white nubby bedspreads.
I don't use all of the linens, all of the time. ?I usually start pulling them out in Spring. ?They feel light and bright to me, which feels springy.
Most of the linens were made by my great grandmothers (at least that's what I think my mom said).
I wish I had the patience to do this type of stitching. ?It's beautiful.
Most reality-TV housewives stick to hair-pulling. But Heather Thomson of the Real Housewives of New York City delivered a legal smackdown to shapewear company Spanx, claiming in a suit filed last week in U.S. district court in New York that its slimming tank tops are copies of designs she patented and sells under her Yummie Tummie brand.
The suit filed by Times Three Clothier LLC, the company Thomson founded to sell her shapewear, asks for sales injunctions against the garments and unspecified damages, including punitive damages.
In January, Times Three sent a cease-and-desist letter to Spanx over the tank tops. Privately held Spanx, whose founder Sara Blakely was dubbed ?the world?s youngest self-made female billionaire? by Forbes last year, responded last month by filing documents in federal court in Atlanta requesting a judicial declaration that Spanx was not infringing on Yummie Tummie designs and asking Thomson?s company to pay its legal fees.
?Anyone can make a claim, but it doesn?t mean it has merit,? Spanx said then in a statement that referred to ?countless imitators? of its products. ?Spanx has not infringed on any valid patent, and we will continue to make fabulous products for our loyal fans."
In the suit filed Tuesday, Times Three said, ?Defendant Spanx by Sara Blakely intends to continue its willful and intentional infringement of Yummie Tummie?s design patents asserted herein.? Spanx did not respond to a request for comment.
Thomson told TODAY last month she was ?in shock and appalled? by Spanx?s response, although this isn?t the first time she?s taken other garment producers in court. In 2011, Thomson got a $6.75 million settlement in a patent-infringement suit filed against underwear giant Maidenform. That year, it also sued the American subsidiary of manufacturer Li & Fung Group for patent infringement, which Women?s Wear Daily reported was settled for an undisclosed amount.
?I hope she?s ready for war,? Thomson told Women?s Wear Daily last month in reference to Blakely.
So far, it?s shaping up to be quite the battle of the bulge.
Panasonic Corporation has acquired Aupeo GmbH, an online music streaming service and technology platform provider, based in Berlin, Germany.
Panasonic will use Aupeo? technology to offer its automotive customers personalized audio content.
Tom Gebhardt , President of Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America said,?Providing connected services and mobile content delivery that both appeal to consumers and enable product differentiation is critical to the automotive industry.?
He added that there is a considerable need for a connected and personalized media content platform that enables consumers to access content on any device while also enabling businesses to have a richer relationship with their customers. Aupeo?s technologies and content delivery platform provide a solution that is complementary to Panasonic?s automotive, business-to-business and business-to-consumer product lines.
?Aupeo was founded with a clear vision to deliver online and seamless content services to internet-connected devices,? said Holger G. Weiss , CEO of Aupeo. ?At that point, we saw the car as our most important focus. It is exciting to become a part of the Panasonic family as our industry continues to grow rapidly and mature.? Aupeo and Panasonic remain deeply committed to providing current and potential customers in all industries with leading global music and audio streaming services and technologies.?
Aupeo was established in Berlin in 2008 by Armin G. Schmidt? and operates streaming services in more than 40 countries, offering consumers a rich personalized music experience.? Aupeo also offers consumers more than 6,000 channels of terrestrial radio, podcast streaming and other services and will continue to rapidly deploy new products to meet the demands of end-users as well as Panasonic?s customers in the automotive and other industries.
New Mayo software identifies and stratifies risk posed by lung nodulesPublic release date: 8-Apr-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
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ROCHESTER, Minn. -- A multidisciplinary team of researchers at Mayo Clinic has developed a new software tool to noninvasively characterize pulmonary adenocarcinoma, a common type of cancerous nodule in the lungs. Results from a pilot study of the computer-aided nodule assessment and risk yield (CANARY) are published in the Journal of Thoracic Oncology.
"Pulmonary adenocarcinoma is the most common type of lung cancer and early detection using traditional computed tomography (CT) scans can lead to a better prognosis," says Tobias Peikert, M.D., a Mayo Clinic pulmonologist and senior author of the study. "However, a subgroup of the detected adenocarcinomas identified by CT may grow very slowly and may be treatable with less extensive surgery."
CANARY can noninvasively stratify the risk lung adenocarcinomas pose by characterizing the nodule as aggressive or indolent with high-sensitivity, specificity and predictive values.
CANARY uses data obtained from existing high-resolution diagnostic or screening CT images of pulmonary adenocarcinomas to match each pixel of the lung nodule to one of nine unique radiological exemplars. In testing, the CANARY classification of these lesions had an excellent correlation with the microscopic analysis of the surgically removed lesions that were examined by lung pathologists, Dr. Peikert says.
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States.
"Without effective screening, most lung cancer patients present with advanced stage disease, which has been associated with poor outcomes," Dr. Peikert says. "While CT lung cancer screening has been shown to improve patient survival, the initiation of a nationwide screening program would carry the risk of overtreatment of slow growing tumors and would be associated with substantial health care costs. CANARY represents a new tool to potentially address these issues."
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New Mayo software identifies and stratifies risk posed by lung nodulesPublic release date: 8-Apr-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Joe Dangor newsbureau@mayo.edu 507-284-5005 Mayo Clinic
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- A multidisciplinary team of researchers at Mayo Clinic has developed a new software tool to noninvasively characterize pulmonary adenocarcinoma, a common type of cancerous nodule in the lungs. Results from a pilot study of the computer-aided nodule assessment and risk yield (CANARY) are published in the Journal of Thoracic Oncology.
"Pulmonary adenocarcinoma is the most common type of lung cancer and early detection using traditional computed tomography (CT) scans can lead to a better prognosis," says Tobias Peikert, M.D., a Mayo Clinic pulmonologist and senior author of the study. "However, a subgroup of the detected adenocarcinomas identified by CT may grow very slowly and may be treatable with less extensive surgery."
CANARY can noninvasively stratify the risk lung adenocarcinomas pose by characterizing the nodule as aggressive or indolent with high-sensitivity, specificity and predictive values.
CANARY uses data obtained from existing high-resolution diagnostic or screening CT images of pulmonary adenocarcinomas to match each pixel of the lung nodule to one of nine unique radiological exemplars. In testing, the CANARY classification of these lesions had an excellent correlation with the microscopic analysis of the surgically removed lesions that were examined by lung pathologists, Dr. Peikert says.
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States.
"Without effective screening, most lung cancer patients present with advanced stage disease, which has been associated with poor outcomes," Dr. Peikert says. "While CT lung cancer screening has been shown to improve patient survival, the initiation of a nationwide screening program would carry the risk of overtreatment of slow growing tumors and would be associated with substantial health care costs. CANARY represents a new tool to potentially address these issues."
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MULTIMEDIA ALERT: Video of Dr. Peikert discussing CANARY technology is available on the Mayo Clinic News Network.
Joe Dangor
507-284-2511 (evenings)
About Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic is a nonprofit worldwide leader in medical care, research and education for people from all walks of life. For more information, visit http://www.mayoclinic.com and http://www.mayoclinic.org/news.
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BRUSSELS, April 8 (Reuters) - A French teenager who had hidden inside a garbage container was crushed to death inside a trash truck in Luxembourg on Saturday, police said.
Garbage men only discovered the 17-year-old when he shouted out as they emptied the container into the back of the truck early on Saturday morning, but by then he was already in the grasp of the crushing mechanism.
"He cried out, but it was already too late," a spokeswoman for Luxembourg police said on Monday.
The young man, whose name was not released, died on the scene, in the city of Luxembourg.
Police have opened an investigation.
(Reporting By Ben Deighton; Editing by Kevin Liffey)
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