Although 3M’s patent on the product expired in 1997, “Post-it” and the original notes’ distinctive yellow color remain registered company trademarks, with terms such as “repositionable notes” used for similar offerings manufactured by competitors. While use of the trademark ‘Post-it’ in a representative sense refers to any sticky note, no legal authority has ever held the trademark to be generic, The original notes’ yellow color was chosen by accident, as the lab next-door to the Post-It team had only yellow scrap paper to use.
Over time, Band-Aid has become a well-known example of a genericized trademark in the US, but Johnson & Johnson has registered Band-Aid as a trademark on the Principal Register of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and the registration is valid and legal. Johnson & Johnson continues to defend the Band-Aid trademark against it being genericized.
To protect the name, their trademark, Johnson & Johnson always refers to its products as “BAND-AID® Brand Adhesive Bandages”, not just “Band-Aid”.
If there are adhesive bandages shaped like food (cheesecake, pizza and pineapples right now) by your cash register, people will ask you if they taste like the food.
You should tell them Yes, they do!, and watch them take a bite. Have your phone videotaping, of course.
In play: pineapples are an effective meat tenderizer because they contain the bromelain enzyme which can break down proteins.
Judy Mazel’s Beverly Hills Diet worked on this principle: The enzymes in certain fruit, like the bromide in pineapple, could break down body fat. It also worked on the idea that carbohydrates and proteins should not be combined, and fruit should be eaten by itself, not combined with proteins, carbs or fats.
Other diets based on this principle include Fit for Life, Suzanne Somers Get Thin on Sexy Food, and Marilu Henner’s Shape Up Plan. They are all offshoots of the Hay Diet Plan: eat fruit alone, combine carbs only with fats and proteins only with fats and you will be thin, healthy and sexy.
They are all bunk.
Marilu Henner has highly superior autobiographical memory, or also called hyperthymesia. It is a condition that leads people to be able to remember an abnormally large number of their life experiences in vivid detail.
Marilu Henner had romances with two of her Taxi co-stars, Judd Hirsch and Tony Danza.
Marilu Henner’s breakout role was Elaine Nardo, in the sitcom Taxi. That show also featured breakout roles for Danny DeVito (Louie De Palma) and Andy Kaufman (Latka Gravas).
Love me some Danny DeVito!!!
Danny DeVito, after Taxi, has starred in several films including *Tin Men,Throw Momma from the Train, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ruthless People, Man on the Moon, Terms of Endearment, Romancing the Stone, Twins, Batman Returns, Get Shorty *and L.A. Confidential.
Worldwide, about one in 90 human births results from a twin pregnancy (that is, the mother gives birth to twins).
The incidence rates for twins varies substantially by area: in the Yoruba people (an African ethnic group), the rate of twins is about 4.5%, and it’s theorized that this is due to a phytoestrogen which occurs in a variety of yam commonly eaten by the Yoruba. Meanwhile, in much of Latin America, and southern and southeast Asia, the rate is substantially lower than 1%.
Over the past several decades, the rate of twin births in the United States nearly doubled, from 9.4 twin sets per 1000 births in 1980, to 16.7 twin sets per 1000 births in 2009. It is believed that use of fertility drugs is a factor driving the increase, as well as American women becoming pregnant at a later age, and potentially a side-effect of the presence of growth hormones in the American food supply.
The Minnesota Twins baseball franchise was founded in 1901 in Washington, DC as the Washington Senators. They moved to Bloomington MN in 1961, and became the Twins and played in the old Met, the Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington. They played there until 1981, then moved the the “homerdome”, the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome where they played from 1982 to 2009. In 2010 the team moved to Target Field in Minneapolis.
The Twins franchise won the World Series in 1924 as the Washington Senators, and in 1987 and 1991 as the Minnesota Twins.
In about 1/8 of all twins, a “vanishing twin” occurs, when the second of two twins is re-absorbed into the first, who then develops normally. There is iften no detectable evidence, so the frequency is poorly understood.
As noted, the Minnesota Twins franchise was originally the Washington Senators franchise. The Senators were one of the American League’s eight charter franchises. The Senators began their history as a consistently losing team, at times so inept that San Francisco Chronicle columnist Charley Dryden famously joked, “Washington: First in war, first in peace, and last in the American League.”
Edwards AFB in southern California is the home of the USAF flight test centers. Back in 1910 the area was a railroad water stop, and then three men named Ralph, Clifford and Effie Corum built a homestead. Other settlers then followed, and the community was named Muroc, or Corum spelled backwards and also because there was already a nearby town named Coram. The US Army Air Corps began acquiring land for a base that they initially called Mohave Field, for the nearby town of Mohave CA. In 1943 the base was named Muroc Army Air Field, Muroc.
In 1949 Muroc was renamed to Edwards AFB in honor of test pilot Glen Edwards who died in 1948 while test flying the Northrop YB-49 Flying Wing.
President Harry S. Truman was elected in his own right in 1948 (it was not really his reelection, as he had succeeded to the Presidency on the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, born this day in 1882) despite the Democratic Party being split three ways - he was the Democratic nominee, but Henry A. Wallace ran as the Progressive candidate that year, and Strom Thurmond as the Dixiecrat.
Latrobe, Pennsylvania, with only 8,000 inhabitants, has numerous claims to fame. It is the hometown of Arnold Palmer and Fred (Mr.) Rogers. It is the training camp of the Pittsburgh Steelers and claimed to be the site if the first professional football game, and was the birthplace of the banana split.
Claes Martenszen van Rosenvelt (c. 1626 - 1659), the immigrant ancestor of the Roosevelt family, arrived in New Amsterdam (present day New York City) in the 1640s. Around 1652, he bought a farm of 20 ha or 50 acres several miles outside the city walls in what is now Midtown Manhattan, including the present site of the Empire State Building.
The overseas Norwegian Empire was mostly acquired in pre-Columbian tines. What is left is now inhabited – two rocky islands in the southern oceans, and a sector of Antarctica.
The Empire State Building, at 1,250 feet tall, was the world’s tallest building for nearly 40 years, until 1970 when the World Trade Center was completed. The building was modeled after the RJ Reynolds Building in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, which like the Empire State Building was also built by architect William Lamb.
The World Trade Center held the tallest-building title for only three years. Then, in 1973, it was eclipsed by the Sears Tower in Chicago.