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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
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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)
Apr. 8, 2013 ? There's an epic battle taking place that's not on the national radar: intercellular competition. While it's not an Olympic event, new research from UC Santa Barbara demonstrates that this microscopic rivalry can be just as fierce as humans going for the gold.
Christopher Hayes, UCSB associate professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology, along with postdoctoral fellow Sanna Koskiniemi, graduate student James Lamoureux, and others, examined the role certain proteins, called rearrangement hotspots (Rhs), play in intercellular competition in bacteria. The findings appear today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Rhs proteins and related YD-peptide repeat proteins are present in a wide range of bacterial species and other organisms, including human beings, where they help establish communications between neurons in the brain when the visual system is developing. Hayes and his team found that Rhs proteins enable Dickeya dadantii 3937, a phytopathogenic bacterium causing soft rot diseases on many crops, to compete with members of its own kind through touch-dependent killing.
While Rhs have been recognized for more 30 years, their function has been enigmatic. This new research sheds light on the mystery. Rhs proteins possess a central repeat region, characteristically the YD-repeat proteins also found in humans, as well as variable C-terminal sequences, which have toxin activity. C-terminal regions are highly variable between bacterial strains even in the same species, indicating that a wide variety of weapons are deployed.
"Bacteria almost always have a different Rhs toxins," explained Hayes. "No one really knows why, but perhaps the toxins are rapidly evolving, driven by intercellular competition. In essence, these cells are fighting it out with each other. It's like an arms race to see who has the best toxins."
Cellular competition is analogous to that between humans and reflects a scarcity of resources. Like people, bacteria need a place to live and food to eat. "We think these systems are important for bacterial cells to establish a home and defend it against competitors," said Hayes. "In fact, bacteria have many systems for competition. And as we uncover more mechanisms for intercellular competition, we realize this is a fundamental aspect of bacterial biology."
These findings demonstrate that Rhs systems in diverse bacterial species are toxin delivery machines. "We have been able to show that gram-negative (Dickeya dadantii) as well as gram-positive (Bacillus subtilis) bacteria use Rhs proteins to inhibit the growth of neighboring bacteria in a manner that requires cell-to-cell contact," said Koskiniemi, the paper's lead author.
The toxic part of Rhs at the tip (the C-terminal region) is delivered into target cells after cell-to-cell contact. Some toxic tips destroy DNA and others destroy transfer RNA, which is essential for protein synthesis. These toxin activities help the bacteria expressing them to outcompete other members of the same species not carrying an antidote.
This work may help scientists design Rhs-based bacterial probiotics that kill specific pathogens but leave most normal flora unharmed. The research was supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health and by fellowships from the Carl Tryggers and Wenner-Gren Foundations.
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Red has announced that Dragon sensor updates will start tomorrow for Epic-M and Epic-X owners and, interestingly, is letting owners (and the public) see the operation for themselves at its NAB booth. The new sensor will bring 6K resolution, 120 fps at 5K and 15+ stops of dynamic range in a slightly larger format, according to Red. Early adopters will be able to pre-order now for $8,500, while Epic owners who wait until Thursday or later will be able to grab the update for $9,500. Filmmakers hoping for a new Epic-M with the Dragon instead of the Mysterium-X sensor will be able to pre-order tomorrow for $29,000 or so. Meanwhile, there's good news for those with the more budget-minded Scarlet -- they'll be able to upgrade to the Epic directly or get a 6k Dragon sensor and ASICs, with pricing details coming tomorrow and pre-orders launching on Thursday. Red may have a tough row to hoe with recent NAB news from the likes of BlackMagic Design and Vision Systems, but how many companies will actually let you watch your camera get operated on? Check the source for more.
COLLEGEVILLE, Pa. (AP) ? A couple from the Philadelphia area say they are shocked and hurt by accusations of mistreatment by an adopted son who left and went back to Russia.
Alexander Abnosov, 18, who was renamed Joshua Salotti when he and another youth were adopted five years ago, told Russian state-controlled media that his adoptive family treated him badly and that he lived on the streets of Philadelphia and stole just to survive.
Russia's Channel 1 and Rossiya television reported this week that Abnosov had returned to the Volga river city of Cheboksary, where his 72-year-old grandmother lives. He complained to Rossiya that he fled home because of conflicts with his adoptive mother, who was "nagging at small things," and said he stayed on the streets for about three months.
"My reaction to that, it's very hurtful because we poured our lives into these boys," Abnosov's adoptive father, an emotional Steve Salotti, told a Philadelphia TV station.
He and Jackie Salotti of suburban Collegeville told WPVI-TV that they adopted the two 13-year-old boys in 2008 after raising three children of their own, and tried to raise them as typical American children, with fishing trips, barbecues, pets and Christmas presents.
All went well, they said, until Josh turned 18 and went on a trip back to Russia, where he was introduced to drugs and alcohol. They said they noticed a change in his behavior and established house rules including no drugs or alcohol, drug testing, no disrespectful talk to them or to teachers, counseling and a curfew.
Their other adopted son agreed to abide by the rules, the couple said, but Josh eventually left and went back to Russia, where he made public accusations of mistreatment.
"With the press pounding on the door and Russia putting these programs on the television, I just couldn't believe what I was hearing," Steve Salotti said.
The couple hired a lawyer to help them handle what is expected to become an international political firestorm between the U.S. and Russia.
Family attorney Charles Mandracchia said it was "outrageous" that his clients were "being made out as villains."
"Why the Russian government or the American government would allow this to happen is beyond me," he said.
The Kremlin has stoked anger in recent months over the treatment of Russian children adopted by Americans in order to justify its controversial ban on U.S. adoptions. The ban came in retaliation for a new U.S. law targeting alleged Russian human-rights violators.
"Russia's going to do what Russia's going to do," Jackie Salotti told the TV station.
But while the couple said they are angry and saddened by the rift between the two countries, "it doesn't change the fact that we're concerned about our son and what's happening to him in this," Steve Salotti said.
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Information from: WPVI-TV, http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi
Although it can be exciting to own commercial property, it also does take plenty of effort to upkeep. As a result, you may wonder where to start to be sure that all the details are handled. There?s certainly a lot you need to learn before you get involved in commercial real estate, but this article will familiarize you with the basics.
Your investment may require a large amount of time to begin with. It will take time to find a lucrative opportunity, and after purchasing a property, it may need repairs or remodeling. Don?t throw in the towel because the process is taking too long to complete. You will reap the rewards of all your hard work.
It is important to have a good understanding of your business? requirements prior to searching for a commercial property. You should be aware of every aspect of your ideal office space. If you have plans for future expansion, it is in your best interest to purchase a larger space that can accommodate future growth. If the market is currently low, this can save you a great deal of money.
If you desire commercial property for rental purposes, locate buildings that are simply yet solidly constructed. These buildings give off an appearance of being well-maintained and are more inviting to potential tenants. These properties are also more cost effective for you and your tenants due to the fact that they only require minimal upkeep and repairs.
Be on the lookout for sellers who are motivated. Sometimes you will find sellers who are willing and able to sell well below the market value. You need a good deal and a seller who is excited to make it in order to purchase commercial real estate.
Take a look around properties you are interested in. It may be a good idea to take a professional contractor with you when you check out properties you are interested in purchasing. Start the negotiations, and make the necessary preliminary proposals. Don?t decide on anything without careful consideration.
If you put the commercial property up for sale, have it inspected. If anything turns up during the inspection, you should immediately address the problem.
When renting out your own commercial properties, keep in mind that is always best to have them occupied. Vacancies cost you money, because you have to pay for maintenance and upkeep without drawing income from them. If you have more than one property without someone in it, think about why that is, and fix any problems that might be occurring.
Whether you want to get into real estate or you?ve been into it for a while, visit some websites that will help you find out how to invest in commercial real estate. You can never know too much when it comes to commercial real estate, so never stop looking for ways to obtain more information!
Commercial loans require the borrower to order the appraisal. Your bank will refuse the appraisal if you try to submit it. Cover your bases and order the appraisal yourself.
See to it that you initially make use of the right type of financing. There is a big difference between a home loan and a commercial loan. They can be better for you as a borrower. Larger down payments are required for commercial financing, but you have the safety of avoiding personal liability should things not end well. Banks are also considerably more lenient about letting you borrow down payment funds from associates.
As you have read, to be really successful, you do have to do your proper research, and then put in a decent amount of work and effort into it. It?s also truth that you must be persistent. By applying the advice of the previous paragraphs, you can start easily and safely down the path to commercial property ownership.
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