Tuft & Needle Mint Mattress Tuft & Needle This mattress is deceptively soft.
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Tuft & Needle Mint Mattress Tuft & Needle This mattress is deceptively soft.
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Jennifer Lauren Tuft, a daughter of Diane H. Tuft and Thomas E. Tuft of New York, was married June 18 to Jay Brendan Brooker, a son of Marcia A. Brooker of Southbury, Conn.
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Tuft & Needle, a mattress industry disruptor, began its operations entirely online and notched 100 million in sales in 2016, said Jeff Wells of Tuft & Needle.
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" And then she also notes, "We have Tuft & Needle.
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Tuft & Needle merged with Serta Simmons Bedding in 2019.
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Insider Picks reporter Connie Chen has been using the new Tuft & Needle Mint mattress for the last three months and attributes its superb comfort to the Shop the Tuft & Needle sale now.
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Tuft & Needle Pouch, available on Amazon, $395Yes, it's expensive, but if you want to build a cozy reading nook for your loved one, you can't go wrong with the Tuft & Needle Pouch.
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Only the Tuft & Needle mattress allowed the glass to fall.
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For Tuft & Needle, however, the return process was more complicated.
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We contacted Tuft & Needle about the data exposure on Monday.
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Tuft & Needle: $150 off the Mint mattress plus two free pillows
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Stricken, Turtle watches it circle the tuft of grass, drawing closer.
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Tuft & Needle was much more affordable: only $350 for a twin.
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In the price department, Tuft & Needle was by far the winner.
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" Tuft & Needle has said that it "adapts to every individual's body.
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"It's not a pompom, it's a tuft," the seminarian tells me.
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A tuft of pollen-tipped filaments fizzed through the very center.
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Our tests found Tuft & Needle to be great for pressure relief.
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Mint Mattress (Queen), $846, available at Tuft & NeedleThe biggest selling point of Tuft & Needle's newest mattress is that it combines the contouring comfort and pressure relief of memory foam with the breathability and bounciness of latex.
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Carolyn Tuft suffers from debilitating headaches, nausea, and other serious health problems.
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Shop the Mint Mattress, , at Tuft & Needle**Promotion valid through September 19
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Casper and Tuft & Needle arrived in four days, while Leesa took five days.
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Casper's success has drawn competition from other startups, including Purple and Tuft & Needle.
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The key ingredient in my spell is what I affectionately call my tuft.
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Get rid of the cardinal tuft and mask, and make the beak black.
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Brunson's gnome-like tuft of beard serves to exaggerate his comically projected chin.
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Tuft and Needle's Original Mattress and Nod Mattress will both be 20% off.
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Tuft cells can recognize it and make a response if something is wrong.
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Tuft & Needle gives you 100 nights to test out its mattresses risk-free.
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Deals • The mattress giant Serta Simmons will buy an upstart rival, Tuft & Needle.
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Tuft & Needle, Casper and other online competitors offer 33-night trials for free.
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So I walked around for a year with a little tuft for bangs.
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Casper and Tuft and Needle, for instance, launched their own branded physical store locations.
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Tuft & Needle currently brings in around a quarter of its revenue through Amazon sales.
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Tuft & Needle provided the most unusual return experience I've ever had as a consumer.
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Her tuft of cotton candy hair had been styled with pinesap and pine needles.
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The Tuft & Needle mattress protector offers an essentially unbeatable price point and good protection.
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Darkstore's other partners include brands like clothing company Wildfang and mattress startup Tuft & Needle.
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"I went partying with them," JT Marino, a Tuft & Needle co-founder, tells Ingrassia.
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Moments later when he finds a sulphur tuft, I try not to look impressed.
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That's the message from the founders of deodorant and mattress brands Native and Tuft & Needle.
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Companies like Leesa, Casper and Tuft & Needle are three of the biggest in the space.
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I thought that Tuft & Needle was much more firm than the Casper or the Leesa.
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JT Marino, co-founder of Tuft & Needle, had a similar experience with his mattress brand.
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The only cells that gave off a red glow in their experiments were tuft cells.
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And then we bought a Tuft & Needle right before I even got assigned this guide.
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A model of how Tuft & Needle is planning to show off its in-store products.
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Sure, there was Tuft & Needle before, but it was Casper that made boxed mattresses mainstream.
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She looked down at the ground, hid her toes behind a tall tuft of crabgrass.
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From the crown of the woman's head, above ground, sprouts a tuft of green leaves.
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The young mattress company Tuft & Needle already gets 25 percent of its sales through Amazon.
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The results of one previous Tuft & Needle experiment resulted in more than you might think.
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Tuft & Needle make some of the highest rated mattresses on Amazon, reviewed by more 6,000 people.
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It was plump, with what appeared to be a tuft of white feathers at its breast.
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Serta Simmons, a legacy company, is merging with Tuft & Needle, which is only six years old.
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Darkstore first launched in 2016, counting mattress startup Tuft & Needle as one of its first customers.
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For the first time, biologists had found at least one explanation for what tuft cells do.
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Doctors haven't told Tuft how much longer she may survive, but she says she is struggling.
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The subject of this week's "We're Obsessed" segment is an online mattress company called Tuft & Needle.
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Tuft and Needle, another mattress startup based in Phoenix, comes in at $750 for that size.
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Shop Tuft & Needle's Labor Day sale hereNow through September 9, take $100 off any Mint Mattress.
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Each plate is anchored by a tuft of radish that Mr. Amchok pickles for a week.
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"A tuft of blonde hair was found in the entrance of the tank," Mr. Rourke said.
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Yet online startups like Leesa, Purple and Tuft & Needle are gunning for Casper's No. 1 position.
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The doll also came with a tuft of green hair, and a slightly pained facial expression.
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Tuft & Needle is adding the tablets, Echos and QR codes to the store without Amazon's involvement.
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He has large elven ears, and a tuft of hair atop his head and atop his chin.
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Tuft & Needle was profitable last year on $170 million in revenue — all without taking any outside investment.
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Tuft & Needle and Casper said their return rates were in the single digits, less than 10 percent.
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It's nothing shocking, until a closer examination reveals the dark, wild tuft of hair under her arm.
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The number of tuft cells in the new mice soared as the parasites colonized their intestines, too.
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The tuft cell, Herbert says, is constantly sensing the metabolic products present in microenvironments within the body.
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I've been using mattress company Tuft & Needle's bean bag chair, the Pouch ($395), since July of 2018.
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An added benefit of opting for Tuft & Needle's version is the company's generous trial and warranty policy.
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You'll remember flinging Wander through the open air to land safely in a tuft of Colossus fur.
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"JT and I started Tuft & Needle three years ago with $6,000 of our savings," Park told us.
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Now there's one clue; at one point in the book we see a tree without its tuft.
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The inside is basically gay entrails and the DJ booth is in the tuft in the middle.
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Plus, Tuft & Needle is the rate company in this space to have not taken any venture capital.
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A queen-size Tuft & Needle mattress was suspended from the ceiling by four white seatbelt-like hoists.
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Tuft & Needle, founded in 2012 by JT Marino and Daehee Park, sells mattresses, bedding and bed furniture.
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I had requested shaved sides with only a tuft of curls at the top of my head.
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The adaptive foam Tuft & Needle mattress provides a bouncy yet supportive feel that'll fit most sleeping positions.
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Tuft & Needle hasn't raised venture capital, and has largely built its business off of profits, execs say.
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Typically, around 28 percent of shoppers who visit a Tuft & Needle store make a purchase before leaving.
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If you're not wholly convinced Tuft & Needle is the right mattress for you, though, Park suggests checking out its Amazon reviews: After our first several months in business, we decided to list the Tuft & Needle Mattress on Amazon to provide an objective platform for customers to review us.
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There are other heavily funded start-ups with similar business models, like Leesa Sleep, Nectar, and Tuft & Needle.
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But starting in 2010, 2012-ish, you start seeing companies like Tuft & Needle, Casper, Leesa, things like that.
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Tuft and Needle Mint Queen Mattress for $945 ($200 off): The Mint is an odd mattress at first.
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The passage of a half-century, however, hadn't led to any greater understanding of what tuft cells do.
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At 15 months, Trevor was adorable with a tuft of blond hair and a pacifier in his mouth.
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Next to him is a rolled-up carpet and what appears to be a tuft of long hair.
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Read more about Tuft & Needle from the Insider Picks team:Tuft & Needle beanbag chair reviewTuft & Needle Mint Mattress review
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Tuft & Needle, Leesa, and Purple have recently expanded distribution at retailers like Target, West Elm, and Mattress Firm.
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On the ninth hole, his drive nestled in a toupee-like tuft of grass on a sandy hill.
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Tuft & Needle Presidents' Day Sale: You can save $175 on Mint and Hybrid mattresses thanks to this sale.
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Serta Simmons Bedding will merge with direct-to-consumer mattress company Tuft & Needle, executives told CNBC on Tuesday.
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It comes close to him, and he is screaming, and its grotesque tuft of hair brushes against his face.
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Bootstrapped mattress maker Tuft & Needle merged with market leader Serta-Sealy for somewhere between $200 million and $800 million.
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Some of Casper's rivals today include Purple, Nectar, Serta Simmons' Tuft & Needle, Walmart's Allswell mattress brand and Eight Sleep.
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The brand's already-affordable Amazon-exclusive Nod by Tuft & Needle mattress will also be marked down by 20 percent.
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Personally, I thought the the Leesa and Casper mattresses felt firmer, while the Tuft & Needle seemed a little bouncier.
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With Tuft & Needle, which sells mattresses for about $750, Darkstore charges them $20 for every mattress that goes out.
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That's also how it kept the price relatively close to mattresses from the likes of Casper and Tuft & Needle.
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Now there's even more evidence from Harvard-Tuft researchers in study indicating that cannabis helps our cognitive performance, i.e.
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Tuft & Needle, Darkstore's first customer, is based in Phoenix and is one of the mattress brand's most popular markets.
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Tuft & Needle is running a Prime Day deal on its popular mattresses — take 20% off on Amazon today only
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Research focusing on the interactions of the tuft cell could offer a glimpse of how organ systems work together.
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No one knew at first whether the tuft cells appearing elsewhere throughout the body play the same antiparasitic role.
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From his little tuft of hair to his curious baby expression, Saint might be our new favorite tiny human.
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All that's left to scour those plates is a shredded brown tuft where the scrubbing side used to be.
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My review of the Tuft & Needle Mint Mattress, a follow-up to a customer favorite The Mint mattress is an upgrade from the company's best-selling original mattress, a 10-inch, medium-firm mattress with almost 6,000 five-star reviews on Amazon and more than 100,000 total reviews on the Tuft & Needle website.
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Serta Simmons' deal for Tuft & Needle expanded the direct-to-consumer mattress company with Serta Simmons' pre-existing retail footprint.
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Casper is scaling fast, with $239.5 million in VC funding; startups Purple, Eight and Tuft & Needle are on its heels.
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His flame-red carpeting has been replicated from a tuft of the original that was found stuck on a nail.
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In many cases, tuft cells appeared to be intimately involved with the part of the immune response known as inflammation.
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He lifted a tuft of his beard and studied it, as though to convince himself that it was already white.
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Reminder: Mattress upstarts like Tuft & Needle, Casper and Leesa use technology to sell product, but they are not technology companies.
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If you like your mattress to offer comfortable yet firm support, the Tuft & Needle Mattress should help you sleep soundly.
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Tuft & Needle's founders, who started the company in 2012, will report to Serta Chief Executive Michael Traub, the companies said.
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They include the Tuft & Needle Original Foam Pillow, Tempur-Pedic Tempur-Cloud Pillow, and Therapedic Cooling Contour Memory Foam Pillow.
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Tuft & Needle, another Casper competitor, which never took venture capital, was acquired by mattress giant Serta Simmons in September 22020.
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For example, an AmazonBasics queen mattress costs $229, compared to $600 at Tuft and Needle and nearly $1,000 at Casper.
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While some established consumer brands continue to view Amazon warily, Tuft & Needle is trying to double down on the relationship.
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Stripe's merchant customers include Best Buy, Adidas, PacSun, Warby Parker, Saks Fifth Avenue, Wish, Tuft & Needle, Teespring, Hello, Glossier and FabFitfun.
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Mattress Firm has struggled as start-ups like Casper, Tuft & Needle and Purple have actively targeted millennials shopping for mattresses today.
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Darkstore's roster of customers includes mattress startup Tuft & Needle, premium headphones maker Master & Dynamic, clothing brand Wildfang and sofa startup Burrow.
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Investigators also found a tuft of blonde hair on one of the hatch openings they believe belonged to Celeste, he said.
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"This review is about how Tuft and Needle is blazing a trail to retail utopia," one particularly enthusiastic refund recipient wrote.
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Saatva, Tuft & Needle, Leesa are among competitors that sell online, also offer free shipping and lower prices than traditional mattress makers.
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If you're considering buying a new mattress, and you're ready to forgo those sketchy showrooms, have a look at Tuft & Needle.
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Companies like Tuft & Needle and Titan Supply Group are already using the company's services, according to a statement from Flock Freight.
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Serta Simmons will seek to take advantage of combining Tuft & Needle's e-commerce infrastructure and capabilities with Serta Simmons' retail reach.
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Peetrie, 7, toy poodle Depending on which way the wind is blowing, Peetrie sports a tiny tuft-like collection of hair.
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The Leesa and Tuft & Needle mattresses were able to hold up the full glass, but the Casper saw it spill all over.
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Walmart also created a new mattress brand called Allswell that competes against bed-in-a-box startups like Casper and Tuft & Needle.
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Bella had scratches on her body from being shoved through the hatch and a tuft of her hair had been ripped off.
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Trump wandered into a mob of supporters after the event, eventually encountering the child sporting a pacifier and tuft of spiky hair.
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He recalled that it looked just like a tuft cell—a cell type most often associated with the lining of the intestines.
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If something seems wrong, the tuft cells could send signals to the immune system and other tissues to help coordinate a response.
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Once succinate binds to a tuft cell, it triggers the release of IL-25, which alerts the immune system to the problem.
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It was headed online and a bunch of startups like Casper, Tuft and Needle, Leesa and others were starting to pop up.
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Serta Simmons Bedding, an Atlanta-based portfolio company of Advent International, agreed to acquire Phoenix-based mattress and bedding company Tuft & Needle.
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Mint Mattress Tuft and Needle Mint Mattress for $8963 ($100 off) The Mint is more affordable than it was earlier this year.
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The scientists knew that the key to the seed's flight was the tuft atop the stem on which hangs the dandelion seed.
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She needs some spots removed from her skin; she needs to dye her gray roots, the stubborn tuft that refuses to blend.
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Tuft & Needle will keep its headquarters in Phoenix, where it will run the e-commerce platform for all of the combined company.
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Crockett, a middle-aged man with a tuft of thick brown hair who speaks slowly due to complications with multiple sclerosis, was desperate.
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He's a real master of colour and texture, and every little tuft of fur makes me want to reach out and touch it.
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Serta Simmons is merging with direct-to-consumer mattress company Tuft & Needle, CNBC first reported, to transform its business as the industry changes.
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For the thousandth time Hemingway tears wide his shirt to display a manly tuft to Max Eastman before punching him in the face.
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As a lung biologist and a colleague of Herbert's at the University of Pennsylvania, Andrew Vaughan followed these tuft-cell discoveries with interest.
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He and Herbert infected mice with the influenza virus and searched the lungs of those with severe symptoms for signs of tuft cells.
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The cows would lie down on their fresh bedding while we treated each one to a nice green tuft, as a final tribute.
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"It makes me terribly sad and sick to my stomach and angry, and I just feel very sad for those people," said Tuft.
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Mr. Park and Mr. Marino hired a security guard to watch over cars on the parking lot at Tuft & Needle, on Grand Avenue.
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No pupusa is complete without a tuft of curtido, a bracing slaw of cabbage and carrots blanched and tumbled in vinegar and salt.
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This apocalyptic landscape stretched as far as they could see, punctuated by only the rare tuft of scorched but otherwise healthy juvenile palm.
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The invite-only conference included case studies from brands like mattress company Tuft & Needle and pet food provider I and Love and You.
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We turned to IEEE fellow, biomedical researcher and dean of graduate education at Tuft University's school of engineering Karen Panetta for an explanation.
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Now Tuft & Needle, one of the most popular mattress makers on Amazon, is making a splash in physical retail — with the help of Amazon.
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In 2014, during their visit to Australia, Kate suggested that her husband could use a tuft of alpaca wool to cover his bald spot.
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The origin story of Tuft & Needle is supposedly that they found a $0003 mattress and they found that it only cost $2000 to make.
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Bella had scratches on her body from being shoved through the hatch and a tuft of her hair had been ripped off, he said.
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After reading about some of the new findings, Vaughan began to wonder whether tuft cells might be involved in the lungs' recovery from influenza.
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Each storefront will prominently feature the Amazon logo emblazoned under Tuft & Needle's own brand—and be stocked with Amazon gadgets to bolster the experience.
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"Historically, mattress retailers have designed the physical space to drive sales and optimize maximum product display," said Tuft & Needle chief operating officer Nick Arambula.
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At the hospital, he fled to a tuft of grass on a street corner where he ate dandelions and extinguished cigarettes with his tongue.
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It's just so much harder getting out of bed now that I'm sleeping on Tuft & Needle's Mint Mattress (currently $100 off for $495-$1,045).
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Not only was Tuft & Needle the first to the party, though, its arguably the most ethical attendee as well, having raised zero outside capital.
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Serta and Tuft & Needle are calling the deal a "merger" to reflect the transformational impact they expect the deal to have on the companies.
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Tuft and Needle:Today, save 15% on the T&N Original Mattress, save $200 on the Mint mattress, and save $300 on the Hybrid mattress.
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Then there's Tuft & Needle, a mattress startup that was profitable on sales of around $2018 million in 2016 and has never raised equity financing.
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Puertolas is an aloof but unassuming Spaniard who stands about 5′22014″, with a tuft of gray in his bangs and a rough chinstrap beard.
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Breeder Stephanie Jimenez calls her "a real small miracle, blue and black (with locket)," referring to the small white tuft of fur on her chest.
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For today only, Prime members can score 20 percent off Tuft & Needle's popular bed-in-a box mattress, which has racked over 5,900 perfect reviews.
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Tuft & Needle is a success story, growing over the last five years to push a new model of e-commerce that's upending traditional bedding sellers.
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The tuft is the last remaining shreds of my bangs, a lonely, sparse island of hair surrounded by the inevitably rising seas of my forehead.
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Howitt and Garett's work suggested that tuft cells might act as sentinels, using their abundant chemosensory receptors to sniff out the presence of these intruders.
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Then, with help from tuft cells and other parts of the immune system, the body can fight off the invaders before they've gotten a foothold.
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In recent years, a number of new companies, including Casper, Helix, Leesa, Saatva and Tuft & Needle, have declared that they will abide by these rules.
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I could find a worthy organization on my own and send Tuft & Needle an ad hoc receipt of sorts, with a signature from the recipient.
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Amazon may be on solid footing with Rivet because the company has insight into Casper, Tuft & Needle, and Purple customers' shopping patterns on the site.
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While her own mane looks downright distinguished when worn down in loose waves, daughter MilliAnna's tuft of white baby curls are among the cutest we've seen.
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Cotton quality is most commonly determined by the length of the fibre, or staple, that emerges when a tuft is pulled out of a cotton boll.
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Schmitt is 5 feet 7 inches tall and 140 pounds, with a shaggy tuft of hair covering his forehead; he shaves the back and sides close.
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Earlier this month, the company started selling its own mattress, striking fear in the direct-to-consumer mattress startup market dominated by Casper and Tuft & Needle.
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TL;DR: The body-conforming Tuft & Needle memory foam mattress has a 215% off coupon at Amazon in in all sizes, saving you up to $112.50.
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Cotton quality is most commonly determined by the length of the fiber, or staple, that emerges when a tuft is pulled out of a cotton boll.
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"Some of our biggest promoters are actually people who've already returned their mattress," said Aaron Bata, head of customer experience at Phoenix mattress startup Tuft & Needle.
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Tuft & Needle's Mint Mattress (currently $100 off for $495-$1,045) improves on the online brand's popular original mattress by adding more support, breathability, and coziness throughout.
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To the researcher's surprise, they found cells in the lungs that are nearly the same as taste bud cells, called tuft cells, or solitary chemosensory cells.
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From the ground, passers-by catch just a tuft of tail and the bottom of a paw; from inside the building, shoppers see a giant nose.
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A tuft of fuchsia hair curled from under a spandex headdress with fabric-covered cylinders lined up in a row, like a Keith Haring-inspired Mohawk.
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Mattress and bedding giant Tuft & Needle left on an unprotected cloud server hundreds of thousands of FedEx shipping labels containing customer names, addresses and phone numbers.
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In the IPO, the company also notes that it's different from its exceptionally similar competitors — like Purple, Tuft & Needle, et al — because of its "joyful" experience.
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With his blinking blue eyes and small tuft of blond hair, baby Donald Trump seemed more like a joke than a threat to the world order.
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Launched in 2014, Casper is one of the online mattress retailers such as Purple, Nectar Sleep and Tuft & Needle that has squeezed the industry's old players.
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In his dreams he sees the delicate tuft of blond pubic hair he witnessed poking out of a pair of low-slung jeans in study hall.
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She comes out to the ring in a tuft of gray fur, and recently cut a hilarious, surreal promo where she threatened to beat up a child.
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When JT Marino and Daehee Park quit their engineering jobs in 2012 to create mattress startup Tuft & Needle, they decided to do so with no venture funding.
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The sides of Little Jans' head are shaved just like his dad's, and they both have a tuft of hair right at the top of their head.
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When we described our still-ongoing return experience with Tuft & Needle, the company said it was going to improve the way it communicates return options to customers.
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Tuft & Needle said if we had told our customer service rep that such a delay was unacceptable to us, it could have sent another pickup service sooner.
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A lineup of stark images—a butterfly wing, a dog's soft tuft of fur—build to a climactic scene depicting the carnal side of the animal world.
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As a postdoc at Harvard University in the lab of Wendy Garrett in 2011, Michael Howitt became fascinated with tuft cells, especially those found in the intestines.
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Answers soon began to roll in, and it became clear that tuft cells respond to more than succinate and do more than help repel the body's invaders.
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But Vaughan cautioned that the sudden emergence of tuft cells in tissues like the lungs, where they are not always present, might also cause its own pathologies.
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Bigger companies like Nike and Sears have made the same decision in recent weeks, and each of Tuft & Needle's primary competitors sells through Amazon to some extent.
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Tuft & Needle plans to concentrate the new stores in areas where traditional mattress retailers remain the strongest — states like Texas, Florida, Illinois, North Carolina, and New York.
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One is a tuft of hair, cut from my head when I was a year old; the other is a round stone the size of a pea.
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The Tuft & Needle Pouch bean bag chair is made using materials that will last for years and with design elements that will complement almost any living space.
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Eyeglasses seller Warby Parker, shaving brand Bevel, and mattress startup Tuft & Needle are all pursuing this approach (and, yes, incorporating brick-and-mortar retail along the way).
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Digital rivals, such as Purple, Leesa, Tuft & Needle, and Yogabed, have cropped up, while legacy retailers have taken a page from Casper, introducing delivery in a box.
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Check out the Tuft & Needle Memory Foam Mattresses See Details Because obsessing over small animals when you're drunk is a worldwide experience — especially when they're your little animals.
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The Tuft & Needle mattress provides some of the closest-conforming memory foam of any online mattress, cradling even the most awkward positions and providing much-needed pressure relief.
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He bent my fingers back for using too many keyboards and I would yank a hefty tuft of his hair out when the headphone mix was too loud.
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In addition to Tuft & Needle, Darkstore's customers include clothing brand Frank+Oak, ski and snowboard delivery service SkiPods, cell phone case company Peel and tomboy clothing brand Wildfang.
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All that's visible of the infant is a shock of black hair against her father's chest, where curls the same color tuft out of his v-neck tee.
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But surprisingly, when he inspected a small sample of intestinal tissue from the mice, Howitt found that they had 18 times the number of tuft cells previously reported.
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Howitt's findings were significant because they pointed to a possible role for tuft cells in the body's defenses—one that would fill a conspicuous hole in immunologists' understanding.
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Each of the Tuft & Needle stores will offer two-hour Prime delivery, a policy the company found boosted sales by 50 percent when it was tested in Phoenix.
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Tuft & Needle will sell their wares exclusively through Amazon Prime (though the company says you can still buy them without a Prime membership if you forgo the shipping).
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Tuft & Needle and many of its biggest competitors have sold mattresses on the site for years through Amazon Launchpad, a program meant to showcase goods made by startups.
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Precisely because the internet has lowered barriers to entry, Casper is facing a surge of new mattress start-ups like Helix Sleep, Tuft & Needle and Leesa, among others.
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Grant—who is now sixty-one, with a tuft of silver hair and a chiselled, craggy face that he admits can look "sepulchral"—doesn't drink or use drugs.
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Tuft & Needle's mattresses are available in the following sizes, and for the following prices: twin ($350), twin XL ($375), full ($500), queen ($600), king ($750), California king ($750).
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Then, hip startups like Casper, Leesa and Tuft & Needle sold millennials on the concept of the affordable, but high-end, bed-in-a-box that arrives at your door.
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The Tuft & Needle memory foam mattress is one of the best mattresses you can buy online right now, and ordering on Amazon gets you an extra 15% off coupon.
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Instead, the deadly environment of The Rain calls back to Tarkovsky's Stalker, about a dangerous and uninhabited area—the Zone—where every tuft of grass threatens a hidden profundity.
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In researchers' assays for chemosensory receptors in tissues throughout the body, a cell type that kept popping up was a relatively rare, largely unstudied one called a tuft cell.
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The further discovery of taste receptors on many tuft cells only deepened the mystery: Given their locations in the body, they certainly weren't contributing to our sense of taste.
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Kathleen DelGiorno, now a staff scientist at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, helped to show that tuft cells can help protect against pancreatic cancer by detecting cellular injury.
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A big driver of that growth has been the success of mattress delivery startups like Casper, Leesa, and Tuft & Needle, which offer generous trial periods and hyper-compact shipping.
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Direct-to-consumer brands often launch in clusters; take the slew of mattress companies — Leesa, Tuft & Needle, Purple, Allswell — that entered the market around the same time as Casper.
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Mui, whom I also called Chu, was small and handsome with a thick tuft of jet-black hair and a face that reminded me of the actor Alain Delon.
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During his trip north, the truck carrying him and twenty-seven other migrants had been attacked by bandits; a bullet had grazed his head, removing a tuft of hair.
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Tuft & Needle said it would "comply" with any applicable state data breach notification laws, but did not explicitly say if the company would inform customers of the security lapse.
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He warns us that although the tuft are not deadly, if you eat one, you'll probably be on the toilet for 48 hours with a massive headache and palpitations.
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The company launched a mattress brand, Allswell, last February in both Walmart's physical and digital storefronts, to compete with other bed-in-a-box brands like Casper and Tuft & Needle.
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Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, with his untamable tuft of white hair, wild gesturing and radical ideas, is basically a real-life version of Doc Brown from Back to the Future.
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The openings to these tanks were just eight inches wide; Bella suffered bruising from being shoved inside and a tuft of blond hair was located on one of the hatches.
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Tuft was shot multiple times when a gunman opened fire at Trolley Square mall, where she and her daughter Kirsten Hinckley were shopping for Valentine's Day cards in February 2007.
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Even now, with over 50 copycats that have sprung up after we started, Tuft & Needle is still the only one advocating transparency and education for customers shopping for a mattress.
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It's one of the only bakeries to produce the cakes year-round, serving them in the summertime with house-made plum compote, cinnamon ice cream, and a tuft of whipped cream.
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Although Tuft & Needle sells its mattresses on Amazon, Darkstore is the only solution it can offer customers who walk into their show room and want to buy a mattress right away.
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This tuft, called a pappus, is made up of a sparse thicket of filaments, or bristles, that look something like the sprouting hair on the head of the Chinese crested dog.
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The new dean of Tuft University's Fletcher School and former U.N. Sustainable Energy envoy, told Global Translations that it's a good thing if other climate-shy philanthropists can learn from Bezos.
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Darkstore is unable to share the full roster of its customers, but it has worked with the likes of Nike, premium headphones maker Master & Dynamic, mattress startup Tuft & Needle and others.
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"There are a lot of companies out there with unsustainable marketing budgets and extremely high customer acquisition costs," said Michael Traub, CEO of Serta Simmons, which plans to merge with Tuft & Needle.
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The mattress category in particular is being flooded with competition from start-up brands like Casper, Purple, Leesa, Tuft & Needle, Eight Sleep and Nectar, which sell directly to consumers, bypassing department stores.
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"Our customers wanted faster delivery, and we're excited to be working with Darkstore in order to provide them with the best experience," Tuft & Needle co-founder John Thomas Marino said via email.
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Dempster's son, Arlo-Blue has a nice tuft of fluffy blond hair and blue eyes just like Ramsay, and the mother told BuzzFeed her baby even has Ramsay's temper when he's hungry.
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Dr. Barrera-Guzmán's team suspects that the first male mixes between snow-capped and opal-crowned manakins bore this dull tuft, an intermediate between the white and iridescent caps of their forebears.
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A dark slice of not-too-sweet "nemesis" cake alongside a tuft of fresh whipped cream is the little black dress of desserts, dreamy in its simplicity and always in good taste.
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He does address it vis-à-vis the mattress showdown, saying that Tuft & Needle claims it's always been profitable, but that 2019 could be the first year Casper posts a small profit.
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From Tuft & Needle in 2012 to the slew of brands that launched in 2014 (Casper, Leesa, Bear, etc), we've seen the booming success of the industry, which shows so signs of slowing.
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On a moist day in fall, or in the wake of melting snows in spring, a seedling appeared above ground—a stubby one-inch stem with a tuft of bright-green shoots.
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Tuft & Needle's founders took similar approaches with the company's pricing and marketing messaging, calling out what they saw as greedy mattress stores and overpriced traditional brands in the startup's early forays into advertising.
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During Amazon Prime Day this year (July 15-16), Prime members can save up to $360 on Casper mattresses, $231 on Leesa, $200 on Tuft & Needle, and even more on other mattress brands.
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In the thymus (a small globular outpost of the immune system nestled behind the breastbone), tuft cells help teach the immune system's maturing T cells the difference between self proteins and nonself proteins.
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Soon they were cutting open that mattress — eviscerating it in the name of research — and starting Tuft & Needle, through which they sold inexpensive boxed-up foam mattresses directly to consumers via their website.
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The company has made a strong effort to transform itself from an online mattress seller in a crowded marketplace of competitors like Purple and Tuft & Needle into a kind of lifestyle and wellness brand.
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Barry, who is seventy-eight, with a Clark Gable mustache and a bouncy tuft of silver hair, furrowed his brow, noting that a couple of men drew their firearms before they were meant to.
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Just like 38-year-old Collins had back in the mid-'80s, the baby has a small tuft of hair on the top of his head, and also shares the drummer's big blue eyes.
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Late in the afternoon the next day, a man with a tuft of spongy and unruly hair sat in Mariah's seat and called for his hair to be cut into a high-top fade.
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Why it matters: Because direct-to-consumer mattress startups like Tuft & Needle are estimated to have taken around a 20% market share from incumbents, which means this deal may be just the first of many.
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Jasper Rabbit and his tuft of curly hair return for a tall tale that owes a spiritual debt to Dr. Seuss's "What Was I Scared Of?" and that story's irrepressible if empty pale green pants.
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He has disparaged experts at almost every opportunity," said Daniel W. Drezner, professor of international politics at Tuft University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and author of the forthcoming book "The Toddler in Chief.
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What Ingrassia dubs "the mattress wars" does in fact live up to his billing of a "raucous, bare-knuckle brawl" between the market behemoth Serta Simmons and dozens of upstarts, including Casper and Tuft & Needle.
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Neanderthals had relatively 'chubby' fingers compared to [ours], with the bone under the fingernails—the so-called apical tuft—relatively broad and round, while in [modern humans] this part is more elongated, narrow and oval.
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He stuffed a freshly shaved tuft of his pubic hair into the gap between his little and ring finger, got his exasperated tour manager to light it, and sucked the hole in his fist heartily.
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But for the founders of Native, MVMT and Tuft & Needle, they've shown there is a different path — one that has been lucrative for them and their teams while letting them remain as leaders of their brands.
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The cartoon of Trump Baby looked exactly like its inflatable counterpart, with the president's signature sneer, a large diaper tied together with a clothespin, a tuft of blonde chest hair, and a phone for excessive tweeting.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads "The Arctic is melting faster than any other place in the world," writes Diane Tuft, in an introduction to her photo book The Arctic Melt: Images of a Disappearing Landscape.
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He was a bloke who went to the grave wearing linen trousers and a Panama hat—a sad, sorry tuft of baby-thin hair poking from under the brim, dickie bow unfurling in the stiff wind.
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More recently, it's possible to get a nice, relatively inexpensive mattress rolled up, boxed and shipped to you in two to five business days after ordering it online, thanks to companies like Casper and Tuft & Needle.
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Yet the company competes in an increasingly crowded corner of the industry, with competitors including Tuft and Needle, Leesa and Purple, all of which tout their own foam mattresses, and all of which sell them online.
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Uniforms included "Make America Great Again" hats in every color; T-shirts reading "Keep Trump, Impeach Congress"; "Trump 2020" rhinestone brooches; and buttons featuring a swooping yellow tuft of fuzz in homage to the president's mane.
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New York-based Casper was most recently valued at $1.1 billion, according to PitchBook data, but the mattress market has become more crowded with mattress and sleep start-ups, including Nectar, Leesa Sleep and Tuft & Needle.
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Less of half of these funds exist in the form of endowed funds that will be used for research in cancer and epilepsy, officials at Tuft said in a statement provided to the New York Times.
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Starting today, anyone who wants to buy a Tuft & Needle mattress upon seeing it in the company's San Francisco showroom can get one delivered that same day, as long as they place the order before 4 p.m.
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Mireya Acierto/Getty; Bruce Glikas/FilmMagic Harris arrived at the Tony Award sporting a freshly shorn style, ditching his usual tuft of spiky blonde hair in favor of a stubble no longer than his 5 o'clock shadow.
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Because some studies had hinted at a link between taste receptors and immune function, Howitt wondered whether the receptor-studded tuft cells in the intestines might respond to the microbiome population of bacteria living in the gut.
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And in Cohen's studies of chronic nasal and sinus infection, he discovered that recognition of bacterial pathogens such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa by receptors for bitterness on tuft cells causes neighboring cells to pump out microbe-killing chemicals.
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"We view Amazon as the most powerful force in the future of retail, and instead of resisting it like many other brands, we are fully embracing our relationship with them," Tuft & Needle co-founder Daehee Park said.
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Carolyn Tuft, whose 15-year-old daughter died in the Trolley Square mall shooting in Salt Lake City, has been unable to work, resulting in the loss of her home and business, she told The Associated Press.
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One included the famous Sir Edmund Hillary, the first Western explorer to reach the summit of Mount Everest who said Hillary also found a tuft of long black hair, thick and coarse, at 19,000 feet on Everest.
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Stout and pale, he stands out among the Madrileños, with wide dark glasses—he suffers from light sensitivity—and a tuft of white hair that a bird appears to have woven on the top of his head.
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Consumer demand for mattresses has expanded in recent years, according to a December 22015 report from IBISWorld, and so more startups are jumping into the fray, including Tuft & Needle and Leesa, which replaced Casper in West Elm stores.
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While the elusive tiger is what draws people to Ranthambore, visitors are equally as lucky to encounter an evasive caracal — a lithe cat with a flamboyant tuft of hair on its head — or a leopard or sloth bear.
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But when it came to my mattresses, the local Salvation Army truck was booked until October, according to the customer service representatives at Tuft & Needle and Helix who tried to help me before calling in the junk haulers.
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According to Recode, the Target investment also will help Casper expand its products to become known for more than mattresses and to compete in the growing "bed in a box" category against brands like Leesa and Tuft & Needle.
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Thomas E. Tuft, the Whitney's co-chairman, leads the international financial firm Lazard, which invests in Arotech Corporation, BWX Technologies, Boeing, CPI AeroStructures, AeroVironment, and Aerojet Rocketdyne — all producers of military equipment, missiles, drones, and nuclear reactor parts.
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"We've had a lot of internal debate about this since the beginning: The approach to resist Amazon as a force and see how we can go head-to-head against it," said Daehee Park, Tuft & Needle's co-founder.
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Tuft cells had been known to science since the mid-1950s, when microscopy studies found them in the lining of practically every organ in the body, including the gut, the lungs, the nasal passages, the pancreas, and the gallbladder.
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And just last week, mattress giant Serta Simmons said it intended to merge with Tuft & Needle, a six-year-old startup that makes and sells a line of foam mattresses that it folds into boxes and ships directly to customers.
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The revenue is just a drop in the bucket compared to the entrenched $15 billion mattress industry, but it shows the dent Purple and other bed-in-a-box startups like Casper and Tuft and Needle are starting to make.
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Okay, well, Paige is already kind of the worst (am I the only one still shipping Emily and Sabrina over here?) but Pretty Little Liars writer Allyson Nelson teased that we should pay attention to that tuft of red hair.
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Bata claims Tuft & Needle has a return rate of around 5 percent, and its three physical galleries where customers can try mattresses out before having them shipped to their door all boast average reviews of 4.5 stars or higher on Yelp.
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The company, led by mattress industry entrepreneur Philip Krim, faces stiff competition from a host of young competitors like Tuft & Needle, Leesa, Purple Mattress and GhostBed, but has built a brand it believes can extend into more products around the home.
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For more Prime Day 2019 deals for the home, check out what home decor and furniture Amazon has got on major discount, including steep savings on the popular Tuft & Needle mattress and up to $75 off the cult-favorite Gravity Blanket.
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When Altintoprak was young, his father wrote Islamic prayers in the old Ottoman Turkish-Arabic script on eggshells so that his son might get the kind of chick he wanted: one with a tuft of hair on top of its head.
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Casper, as well as Tuft & Needle, Leesa, Purple, and Yogabed, took advantage of retailers clinging to the status quo by offering shoppers a new solution for their bedding needs: shipping mattresses in a box to their homes for no added costs.
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But listen, if a movie can nearly bring you to tears during an extended sequence in which a tuft of Simba's hair floats away in the wind and then along a river, and then flies into a tree, where it is eaten by a giraffe and then turned into a giant poop, which then hardens, and then the poop is rolled around by a dung beetle before it cracks open and the tuft of hair flies, again, to Rafiki, who figures out Simba is alive, then I would have to say that yes, the movie in question absolutely slaps.
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Instead, these new consumer brands want to use great brick-and-mortar experiences to court the consumer—come take a nap in my showroom, and when you need a new mattress two months down the line, you'll choose Casper over Tuft & Needle.
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As on the standard Tuft & Needle Mattress, the top layer of foam is infused with "heat-wicking graphite" and naturally springs back into shape, but the real star may be the layer of green ceramic gel foam that provides support and disperses heat.
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A chubby toddler with a tuft of Tweety Bird hair, accompanied by a caretaker with a mass of braids coiled on top of her head, passed by, enacting a kind of call and response, whose vibrations bounced off the tunnel's walls: Cuckoo?
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Untarnished by water, it was wiped dry, like a cow, with a tuft of ishinge , the soft, fine grass that girls offered as a tribute to distinguished guests, and varnished with a layer of the butter that was mysteriously created inside it.
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Daehee Park, a co-founder of Tuft & Needle, said that if I had spoken up about the van rental bill and the time-consuming nature of the potential donation, the company might have hired a errand runner from Taskrabbit to handle it.
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There's a bevy of online mattress startups that have cropped up in the last couple of year, but Tuft & Needle is the industry pioneer, having launched in December 2012 before the likes of Casper ( launched April 2014) and Leesa ( launched January 2015).
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Its famous huevos rancheros are offered alongside sweet and savory blintzes, knockwurst and pepperette, and for dessert, strudel — which, when I ordered it in December, was charmingly if incongruously accompanied by a tuft of canned whipped cream topped with a single red grape.
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The Batek, a hunter-gatherer people known to range for weeks in trackless rainforest, were deeded with a tuft of eight acres of "communal" forest; Kuala Koh, which sat adjacent to a massive forest, was now completely encircled by oil palm plantations.
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" Daniel S. Connolly, a representative of the deceased Raymond and Mortimer Sackler, denounced Tuft University's decision, saying that it's "particularly disturbing and intellectually dishonest" to "remove the name of a donor who made gifts in good faith starting almost forty years ago.
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We are just getting started with our efforts to ensure that every business in America sees the benefits of starting or expanding in our state — just as Tuft and Needle, a mattress company start-up; or Dot Foods, the nation's largest food redistributor — have done.
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The e-commerce giant launched an accelerator program through which companies could develop new Amazon-only products last year; so far, they include a line of sweeteners from the sugar substitute brand Equal, a mattress brand from the startup Tuft & Needle, and two supplement brands from GNC.
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With the president and news cameras as his witness at the airport, Nungesser joyfully lifted the leg of his pants to reveal a goofy pair of socks: Each ankle bore Trump's face, complete with a signature tuft of fake blond locks waving daintily in the breeze.
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Consider that on the 20th day of May, 1859, the protagonist of "Fathers and Sons," by Ivan Turgenev, encounters at a post house along a Russian high road a round-cheeked servant with dull eyes and a chin adorned with a tuft of pale-colored down.
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The researchers don't yet know what the tuft cells are doing in the lungs or what they are sensing, but Herbert believes that their ability to continually "taste" the environment for different compounds provides a key opportunity for the body to respond to even minute threats.
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As Tuft University researchers found, in the "Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, " restaurant dishes at non-chain establishments across the country typically contained 1,200 calories — about half of the 13,000 or 2,500 calories recommended for moderately active women and men in an entire day.
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Not only are its mattress among the most affordable out there ( its California king goes for just $750, to give you an idea), the experience Tuft & Needle offers its customers is much simpler: Every mattress purchase comes with a 100 night sleep trial and free shipping.
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As Tuft University researchers found, in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, restaurant dishes at non-chain establishments across the country typically contained 21,2070 calories — about half of the 2,000 or 2,500 calories recommended for moderately active women and men in an entire day.
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In about three hours on the beach, we each found about 20 fossils, mostly belemnites and some beautiful ammonites, but also a few stones with cross sections of the star-shaped Crinoids, or "sea lilies," a still existent animal that, when alive, resembles a tuft of flowers.
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In Mexico City's poor La Merced neighborhood, hundreds of cheering residents yelled "death" and various insults as they watched the explosion of the grinning papier-mâché mock-up of the real estate tycoon, replete with blue blazer, red tie and his trademark tuft of blond hair.
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As far as why its price was lower than the others, Tuft & Needle said it's able to keep costs down because it keeps margins as slim as possible, selling the mattress for the price it has to be sold for, not the price it could be sold for.
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One founding population To date, only three Aboriginal Australian whole genome sequences have been described -- one from a historical tuft of hair from Australia's Western Desert and two other historic sequences whose exact origins were unknown -- making this study the most expansive investigation into indigenous Australian origins yet.
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His best idea was to get a tattoo depicting an imaginary scar of his own, drawn along his own knee with a tuft of green grass representing the playing surface at Wimbledon where Mattek-Sands was injured last July, and the date of her gruesome fall written under it.
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It's not practical for individual consumers to recompress their beds, shove them in the original boxes and hand them back over to UPS or FedEx, though one early Tuft & Needle customer did manage to box up his mattress for return and stick the company with a $300 shipping bill.
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I was OK for years and had a few areas that I would say were a bit thin, but then I started to lose quite a lot of hair in a horseshoe shape at the front of my head, leaving a tuft of hair, there was no hiding it.
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In addition to Bridget, they often hosted an assortment of hard-drinking Germans from Hans/Anders's work, whatever it was, and Mei Ling, a Chinese-Canadian woman who had a cluster of gray whiskers on her otherwise smooth cheek, like a tuft of crabgrass thriving on a lawn.
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With his proud-nerd glasses, slight potbelly and teen-boy striped T-shirt, as well as a tuft of hair that, for me, came to seem a symbol of his chipper resilience, he suggests a character from "Peanuts" come to life, or maybe a more angst-riddled Neil Patrick Harris.
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Here are the best mattress protectors: Best mattress protector overall: Bear Mattress Protector Best mattress protector with padding: Casper Mattress ProtectorBest mattress protector for the budget-conscious: Tuft & Needle Mattress ProtectorBest low-maintenance mattress protector: Helix Mattress ProtectorBest thin mattress protector: Purple Mattress ProtectorUpdated on 10/21/19 by Caitlin Petreycik.
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Founded by JT Marino and Daehee Park, two software engineers from Silicon Valley who were fed up with the lack of transparency and fairness in the mattress industry, Tuft & Needle has successfully stripped away all of the gimmicks and insane price markups and turned the entire industry on its head.
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Thomas H. Lee Partners sought to grow Art Van Furniture by acquiring the Levin Furniture and Wolf Furniture chains in Pennsylvania, according to a report by Crain's Chicago Business, which noted that as Art Van Furniture expanded, it faced increasing competition from online competitors such as Wayfair, Casper and Tuft & Needle.
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Twirling in a black coat with a tuft of fur around the collar — part of a winter wardrobe provided by a $136.95 stipend from Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens, one of the eight organizations supported by The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund — she ran to her mother, her arms outstretched.
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For Casper, the funding gives it some runway to continue dominating the field in an already crowded (but apparently quite lucrative) online mattress market as it competes against startups like Tuft & Needle and Purple, which both own their own manufacturing facilities and operate in much less expensive areas to keep operating costs low.
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The MVMT and Tuft & Needle deals, plus P&G's purchase of Native last November, raise important questions about how the next generation of great consumer brands will be built: Why are many DTC entrepreneurs ceding large ownership in their company to investors in exchange for capital, when there are now blueprints for a different way?
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First, the bones were found in unusual clusters — for example, one mastodon tuft was vertical and some femur bones were found side by side — that suggests they were buried, as opposed to the result of the mastodon dying naturally, according to co-author Thomas Demere, a paleontologist with the San Diego Natural History Museum.
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Scientists are only just beginning to understand them, but it is gradually becoming clear that tuft cells are an important hub for the body's defenses precisely because they can communicate with the immune system and other sets of tissues, and because their taste receptors allow them to identify threats that are still invisible to other immune cells.
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Together with a third paper in Nature by Philippe Jay of the Institute for Functional Genomics at the National Center for Scientific Research in France and his colleagues, these studies provided the first explanation for what tuft cells do: They recognize parasites by means of a small molecule called succinate, an end product of parasite metabolism.
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Most dramatically, in January 1999, moments before the place closed for the day and her body was removed, a former F.B.I. agent who had been enlisted in the cause yanked a small tuft of hair from the head of George Gershwin's sister, Frances Gershwin Godowsky, as she lay at the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel on Madison Avenue.
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Clockwise from top left: Lucy Nicholson/Reuters (Black); via Art Institute of Chicago (Levy); Henny Ray Abrams/Associated Press (Tuft); Todd Kirkland/Associated Press (Ressler); Richard Perry/The New York Times (Wynn); Brant Ward/San Francisco Chronicle, via Polaris (Fisher); David J. Phillip/Associated Press (Kinder); Steven Ferdman/Getty Images (Hess); Cindy Ord/Getty Images (Mack).
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For Casper, the new money gives it the funds to continue to expand into new products and invest in marketing as it tries to become known for more than just mattresses and break away from a pack of competitors like Leesa and Tuft & Needle, which have raised little to no venture capital but are still growing.
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You don't need venture capital to build a $100 million consumer brand: Recode Senior Editor Jason Del Rey goes inside the rise of direct-to-consumer giants MVMT (a watch startup recently acquired by Movado), Native (deodorant, purchased by Procter & Gamble) and Tuft & Needle (mattresses, merged with Serta Simmons) that just said no to inflated investor offers as they bootstrapped and scaled.
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He was dressed simply in a fashionable T-shirt, loose-fitting jeans, and completely unfashionable running shoes, the sole flourish in his appearance his distinctive, sculpted tuft of narrow dreads, and he responded agreeably but shyly to each person he encountered, most of whom seemed to realize they were meeting the guy from those songs only after he walked away.
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"I need to return to my culture," said the shoe designer Giuseppe Zanotti during his presentation, looking longingly at one of the delicate court shoes with a tuft of feathers and horsehair at the ankle on display, rather than one of his sneakers, which he called a monster of his own creation (though he still had a lot of them; needs must).
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