General Motors emerged from bankruptcy court, where the Obama Administration forced it, the beneficiary of a tough love makeover that radically cut costs and made it profitable as long as the US car market has annual sales of approximately 10 million vehicles. Yesterday, GM announced a profit of $4.7 billion in 2010, its best year since 1999 and first profitable year since 2004.
Since 1970 GM had been in the process of slowly dying, a company that once had 50% of the US car market could not compete against Koreans and others that barely made a car in 1970. GM was so inefficient that it lost money even when the national car market boomed with annual sales of 16 million vehicles, as was the case for the first 6 months of 2008.
When the near depression following the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy on September 15th cratered consumer demand, car sales plummeted from a rate of 16 million cars to a depression level of just 9 million vehicles sold. GM couldn' turn a profit in a booming market and burnt through its remaining cash when the market crashed.
President Bush provided an interim bailout to keep GM and Chrysler on life support at the end of his Administration, leaving the big decision about what to do with both companies to President Obama. The President tapped Pennsylvania native, Ron Bloom who had worked with the United Steel Workers, to figure out whether and how GM and Chrysler could be restructured and returned to profitability.
Bankruptcy court and a tough, even brutal restructuring that forced changes that GM had refused to make for decades was the only recipe for profitability. Dealerships were closed and politicians attacked. Brands were closed and politicians attacked. Major labor concessions were made and politicians attacked.
Forget the scalpel. Bankruptcy court and Ron Bloom took out an ax and chopped.
The results are now in. As one analyst said, as long as car sales are above 10.5 vehicles, "GM can print money."
Those who said the government restructuring of GM could not work were wrong. This position was simple, pure anti-government ideology so those who took it will never admit they were wrong. Reading their confident, wrong predictions is, nonetheless, enlightening.
Moreover, the GM restructuring is a large lesson about the role of government, markets, competition, and public-private partnerships that has broad applicability to winning the future and competing with China to make things. America will be ruined if it stops manufacturing.
The question now becomes, will GM's new Board and managers be able to run this company efficiently? Is it positioned to gain major market share in now the world's largest car market: China? Can it prosper in a world of high gasoline prices?
The Chevy Volt looks better and better the higher oil prices go.


If you’re anything like me, then you probably use the same setting on your washing machine day in and day out, and you might only recognize a couple of the washing instructions on the care label of each garment. So, what do these intriguing little wash symbols really mean?
- How long should you actually be tumble drying your favourite pyjamas for?
- Can you put chlorine bleach on your fluffy white towels?
- What do those dry-cleaning symbols really mean?
- Should you be hand washing your designer knickers?
- Can your husband’s favourite jumper go in the tumble dryer?
- When should you use the gentle cycle?
Well, believe it or not, all the answers are right there on your washing instructions!
Now, if we only had a handy little printable guide which simply tells us what each symbol means, and…… as if by magic, that’s what I’ve made for you with my own fair hands!
So, now you’ll know exactly what one dot or two dots mean when you’re ironing a permanent press into those jeans!
In this post I’ll be revealing the secrets behind all those laundry symbols you wish you knew; you’ll learn how to know if a garment should be dry cleaned or machine washed.
You’ll know what temperature to wash the dog’s bed on.
There will be no more shrunken clothing as you’ll know when to drip dry and line dry your clothes.
Download your printable laundry symbols PDF for free here and put it up next to your washing machine!
Washing instructions explained.
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A W in a circle is for the dry cleaning company to know which chemicals are suitable for cleaning your garment.
American washing symbols and European washing symbols are pretty much the same, they may differ in some areas, however.
You may be using washing powder or laundry tablets which often contain bleach. Liquid detergent, pods and coloured products do not contain bleach and are safer to use on coloureds. See my guide to laundry here.
I would follow the other instructions on the wash care label.
It means just that; the garment is not suitable to be washed with products that contain bleach such as laundry powders and laundry tablets.
There is a cycle for hand washing, it may also be called delicates.
If one of his garment is needed to be washed differently to your normal wash just jot it down on a piece of paper and stick it up next to your washing label instructions chart for future reference.
P is the instructions for the dry cleaner so they know which chemicals to use to clean the garment.
I would usually put the clothes over a clothes horse in the bath to allow them to drip dry, or if the laundry instructions say it’s ok to spin the clothes I would spin them dry then dry them normally as if you had machine washed separately.
A triangle on the washing instructions is related to all things containing bleach so check the handy guide above to see what exactly your symbol refers too!
This is the do not tumble dry logo. Do not tumble dry means you need to either hang it on a maiden indoors or line dry outside.
If you’re in any doubt after reading this post, refer to the instructions on how to use a washing machine in your user manual.
I hope you liked your laundry symbols chart, let us know in the comments!


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Two British Conservative MPs accused the European Commission of engaging in a Soviet-style "disinformation campaign" designed to damage public support for Brexit, the Daily Telegraph reported Saturday.
Their intervention came after the Commission's chief spokesman on Tuesday accused British negotiators of creating a gap in last week's schedule of talks in Brussels by being unavailable when they were needed for meetings on Wednesday. Asked why there were no talks scheduled for Wednesday, he said: “Our teams are available 24/7 and I would say that the timing of talks depends on the availability of the U.K. partners.”
The Telegraph article quoted unnamed U.K. officials dismissing that claim as “completely wrong.”
Owen Paterson, a former Northern Ireland secretary, warned that this was part of a pattern of behavior by Commission officials aimed at discrediting U.K. negotiators.
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“This looks like a Soviet-style disinformation campaign designed to weaken Britain's resolve. The claims they are making are without merit and designed to whip up the opponents of Brexit in the U.K,” he said.
Another source of disharmony was revealed in the minutes of a meeting of commissioners on July 12, which were published on September 6. According to the document, the Commission's chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier said that “David Davis, the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, did not regard his direct involvement in these negotiations as his priority.” And the Commission's president, Jean-Claude Juncker, “expressed his concern about the question of the stability and accountability of the U.K. negotiator and his apparent lack of involvement, which risked jeopardizing the success of the negotiations.”
A few weeks earlier, in May, a German newspaper reported about a dinner between Juncker and British Prime Minister Theresa May. “I leave Downing Street 10 times more skeptical than I was before,” Juncker was reported as saying, although that account was denied by London.
John Redwood, a former British Cabinet minister, said in the Telegraph: "They wrongly think they can manipulate British public opinion. They still haven't learned from the referendum that those outside bodies who intervened actually made it easier for the Leave campaign
"I negotiated a lot in the Council of Ministers when I was single market minister for quite a long time. I remember it well," Redwood said. "There was always a bullying tendency. But when I on behalf of the U.K. government stood up to the bullying it went away. But you have to stand up to it.”

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Hundreds of boats across the state of Florida were damage by Hurricane Irma, and now, boat owners are dealing with damage to their insurance policies.
"The hurricane put us out of business for about a week and a half," Tom Zsak, captain and owner of Top Shot Sport Fishing, said.
Zsak, whose fishing charter company operates in Fort Lauderdale, said he has been in business since 1974. But following the high winds, rain and damage from Hurricane Irma last September, it's his business that took a direct hit.
"A1A was shut down. All the debris all around, no electric, no water," he said.
Now that his clients have returned and his charters are becoming more frequent, he said he's worried about the aftermath of the storm that, for him, comes in the form of increased rates from his boat owners insurance.
"I imagine it will go up, just like everything else," Zsak said.
While Zsak said he won't know for sure if his provider will raise his rates until it is time to renew in April, other boat owners said theirs has already risen.
"Some of the insurance companies' premiums went up, some of them stayed the same. I don't know any that went down," John Jarvie, vice president of Oversea Yacht Insurance, said.
Jarvie is a broker who represents dozens of insurance companies. He said that while he has seen some provider's rates increase, it's not across the board -- at least not in the state of Florida.
"It mostly depends on the success or failure of these underwriters during the storms and how well they fared," he said.
John said for those customers who have seen their premiums rise, they still have options to search for another insurance provider.
He recommends going with an insurance broker who can show boaters all of their options.
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Over the past few years, as the Spurs have seemingly nudged closer to their current core’s expiration date, a specific, if predictable, form of curiosity about the franchise’s offseason plans has taken root. Are Tim Duncan and Manu Ginobli finally set to retire? Has Tony Parker lost a step? Can San Antonio cobble together another functional cast of role players? The Spurs proceed to answer these questions by finishing near the top of the Western Conference standings and embarking on deep postseason runs. San Antonio’s position in 2015 bears resemblance to that in years past, only reports indicate it also stands poised to vie for an A-list free agent in Blazers forward LaMarcus Aldridge.
The rampant speculation runs counter to the relative quiet associated with the Spurs’ recent summer personnel maneuverings. Whether San Antonio can realistically aspire to land Aldridge—and the salary cap space it would take to execute the move—has taken precedent in an offseason defined by a semi-awkward salary cap climate and fairly unremarkable crop of players on the move. If the Spurs do pull it off, they can thank Danny Green. Not only did Green’s contract situation present the potential to hinder, or at the very least complicate, the Spurs’ pursuit of a marquee big man, he may have commanded more lucrative contract offers had he decided to bide his time on the open market.
Green, 28, reportedly agreed to a four-year, $45 million deal with San Antonio on Wednesday.
That’s a freaking steal, but perhaps we shouldn’t have expected a different outcome. Green recently told the San Antonio Express-News that the Spurs “have expressed that they’d love to have me back and I’d love to be back,” while adding that he hopes he can “capitalize on I guess what you’d call a career peak.” It’s not difficult to see how those two priorities could have undermined one another. The Spurs, by all accounts, wanted to retain Green, and there were no indications he would have been opposed to signing on to play for one of the best-run organizations in the league, under the guidance of its best coach, for a few more years. Of course, the reality seemed at least seemed more complicated than that.
It wasn’t. San Antonio handled its business with Green less than 24 hours after the start of the free agency period (teams and players cannot consummate deals until July 9).
Green reportedly had multiple suitors from both conferences, including the Mavericks, the Blazers, the Pistons and the Knicks. Depending on how the Spurs planned to go about filling the rest of their their cap sheet—and to a lesser extent their urgency to chase Aldridge—several teams were likely to present Green with offers that eclipsed whatever San Antonio could fork over. That meant Green needed to weigh his affinity for and comfort with the team that helped groom him into a top-shelf 3-and-D threat versus his desire to get paid. It also left open to interpretation the level of compensation Green should have commanded and whether that squares with the deal he eventually did sign.
The general assumption at the end of the season that it was only a matter of weeks before Green would be cashing an eight-figure paycheck glosses over how close he came to being washed out of the league. He was selected in the second round of the 2009 draft by the Cavaliers after playing second fiddle to Tyler Hansbrough, Ty Lawson and Wayne Ellington on North Carolina’s 2009 national championship team. Green then appeared in only 20 NBA games as a rookie and logged two contests with the Development League’s Erie BayHawks before being waived prior to the start of the next season in favor of Manny Harris. The Spurs took a flier on Green in November 2010, only to cut him less than a week later.
San Antonio reportedly didn’t think Green would fit in with the team’s culture and was put off by his attitude. Green practically begged Popovich for another opportunity. "I'll do whatever you need me to do,” Green remembered telling Popovich in a voicemail, according to ESPN. “Rebound, defense, towel boy, water boy … whatever you need me to do, I'm going to do that."
That marked the low point of a career that saw Green latch on with the Spurs later in the season and start 38 games the following year before earning his first multi-year, fully guaranteed contract (three years, $12 million). He’s since developed into one of the league’s premier wings. Green is best known for breaking the Finals three-point record and making an unlikely case for series MVP, but he also deserves recognition for his consistency: He’s started 96% of the 229 games he’s appeared in over the last three seasons and only once over that span missed extended time due to injury. Still, Green’s appeal can be boiled down to two core traits: three-point shooting and perimeter defense (we’ll get to that later).
He ranks sixth among qualified active players in outside shooting percentage, and has finished in the league’s top 10 in three-point makes in each of the last three seasons. Green’s long-range marksmanship is rarer still because of his size and age; there are only two players 6’6’’ or taller and under 29 years old who have attempted a minimum of 700 threes and connected on a 40% clip or better over the last four seasons, according to basketball-reference. One of them is Klay Thompson, whom the Warriors maxed out last October. The other is Green. Khris Middleton would check all those boxes had he launched 100 more threes between 2011-2015, and the Bucksjust rewarded him with a five-year, $70 million deal.
In San Antonio, Green has thrived as a roving floor-spacer alongside Kawhi Leonard, Parker, Duncan and Ginobli. There are few sights more terrifying for an opponent than a shoddily contested Green three. His mere presence on the perimeter forces concessions in coverage, as defenders must account for the possibility of a quick ball reversal or action to free up space for Green. The Spurs wisely have deployed him in a capacity that leverages his deep-shooting proficiency. More than 60% of Green’s attempts in each of the last three seasons have come from beyond the arc and canned nearly half of his tries from the corners. Green also ranked in the league’s 95th percentile in jump shot efficiency in 2014-15, according to Synergy Sports,
Lose track of Green on the break, and your best bet is to turn around, shake off the mistake and start trudging back up the court:
Green has performed admirably as a complementary scorer within a system in which his chief responsibility perfectly aligned with his greatest strength. His range of offensive responsibility was narrow, and for good reason. Green is far from a prolific shot creator. According to SportVU tracking data, more than 77% of his shot attempts last season classified as either jumpers or pull-ups. When asked to put the ball on the deck as part of perhaps the modern NBA’s defining offensive set, the pick and roll, Green underwhelmed. In the 57 possessions in which Synergy logged Green as a pick-and-roll ball handler last season, he converted only 17 field goals, averaged 0.7 points and turned it over 14% of the time.
On the other end of the floor, Green is considered an elite stopper. He can stay in front of opposing ball handlers, does well to recover to contest shots, maintains his composure on closeouts and is surprisingly disruptive. Among shooting guards who logged at least 300 minutes last season, only K.J. McDaniels posted a higher block percentage. Unsurprisingly, the Spurs have yielded fewer points per trip during Green’s floor time, and he ranked seventh at his position last season in ESPN’s defensive Real Plus-Minus. Yet what distinguishes Green from others is his ability to check virtually every perimeter position. At 6’6", 215 pounds, he’s strong enough to provide resistance against bigger wings and can hold up against quicker guards.
There’s no question Green can guard, but it’s fair to question the value he’d offer a different team. For one, he’s liable to make Pop go absolutely mental over a lapse in judgment, and like most every assessment of individual defensive proficiency, context matters. With Leonard typically shackling the opposition’s best player, Green often matches up with a secondary scoring option.
It’s instructive to compare the Spurs’ defensive performance in the absence of both Leonard and Green separately. When Leonard sat last season, the Spurs yielded an average of 0.05 points more per possession, compared to 0.03 when Green was off the floor. If that seems like a minor difference, consider that 1) it adds up over the thousands of minutes they log each season and 2) San Antonio’s defense, which ranked third in efficiency over the course of the season, slipped to 17th during the 17 consecutive games Leonard missed between December and January with a hand injury. At the same time, that’s holding Green to a lofty standard; Leonard was named the Defensive Player of the Year because he deserved it.
In any case, Green profiles as a high-level, two-way wing, one for whom rival teams—after watching the Warriors win a title on the strength of a three-point-happy offense and raft of versatile defenders—would have had to break the bank to pry away from southern Texas.
His contract is a bargain in any context, but it’s even more remarkable given the economic environment in which it was transacted. The Spurs managed to lock Green up on a cost-friendly pact through the end of his prime a year before the league’s new media rights deal boosts the salary cap to a projected $89 million. It’s impossible to know what Green would have fetched next summer, but teams who struck out on top targets may have been inclined to splurge on a valuable, if not quite superstar-level, guy like Green as a fallback plan. San Antonio got him to take a sweet hometown discount that looked even better hours after the fact when Toronto opened its checkbook for DeMarre Carroll.
The chart below shows displays Wings who have reached verbal agreements on new deals, ranked according to SI.com's list published late last month.
For San Antonio, the Green signing could be framed as part of a larger plan to add a more important piece. Given the price Green was expected to earn this summer, it seemed unlikely the Spurs could keep him and add Aldridge. Inking Leonard to a five-year, $90 million max deal was the first step in the process, and San Antonio cleared more room on Wednesday by unloading the final two years of Tiago Splitter’s contract in Atlanta (which is coached by former Spurs assistant Mike Budenholzer). The Spurs may not be in the clear just yet—getting Tim Duncan and Manu Ginobli to take paycuts is next on the agenda—but landing Green on the cheap was a huge coup. He’s already started recruiting Aldridge.
Even if the Spurs wind up missing out on Aldridge, they scored big on the first day of free agency by hanging onto one of their most coveted assets at a more-than-reasonable cost.
Most Memorable Moments of the NBA Finals
Memorable Moments of the NBA Finals
LeBron James | Game 1, 2014
With an air-conditioning failure making it feel like a sauna and causing LeBron James to battle cramps that knocked him out of the decisive stretch, the Spurs pulled away to win the opener 110-95 against the Heat. James finished with 25 points but played only 33 minutes, and Miami was outscored 36-17 in the fourth quarter. San Antonio went on to win the Finals in five games.
Danny Green and Gary Neal | Game 3, 2013
Danny Green and Gary Neal led the Spurs to a lopsided 113-77 victory over the Heat. The Spurs' 16 three-pointers set an NBA Finals record. Green made seven threes while Neal sank six from behind the line as the two scored 27 and 24 points, respectively. Two games later Green would set the Finals record for made three-pointers, when he hit his 23rd.
LeBron James | Game 6, 2013
While far from his usual dominant self, LeBron James still managed to turn in a triple-double as the Heat notched a thrilling 103-100 overtime victory. Helped by Ray Allen's tying three-pointer with 5.2 seconds remaining in regulation, James overcame a couple of crucial turnovers in the final minutes to finish with 32 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds and guide Miami to Game 7.
LeBron James | Game 5, 2012
Following a triple-double of 26 points, 13 assists and 11 rebounds that was representative of his play throughout the Finals, LeBron James won his first championship after nine seasons in the NBA. Two years earlier, he was vilified for the way he left Cleveland, and for believing that winning the championship would take care of itself now that he was playing with Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh. One year earlier, he watched Dirk Nowitzki redeem his own career with a championship earned at James' expense. But in 2012, LeBron got his title and was named MVP of the Finals in the process.
Dirk Nowitzki | Game 2, 2011
Dirk Nowitzki shook off an injury to his non-shooting hand and made the tie-breaking layup with 3.6 seconds left in regulation, and the Mavs roared back from a 15-point deficit in the fourth quarter to stun the Heat 95-93 and tie the series at one game apiece.
Dwyane Wade | Game 3, 2006
Miami lost the first two games and trailed Dallas 89-76 in Game 3. But Dwyane Wade scored 12 of his 42 points during a game-ending 22-7 run as Miami won 98-96, the first of its four consecutive victories en route to the franchise's first championship. Wade was named Finals MVP after averaging 34.7 points, 7.8 rebounds, 3.8 assists and 2.7 steals.
Robert Horry | Game 5, 2005
Robert Horry came off the bench to score all 21 of his points after halftime against the Pistons, including the game-winning three-pointer with 5.8 seconds left in overtime. The shot gave the Spurs a 3-2 series lead, and they won the title in seven.
Michael Jordan | Game 6, 1998
Michael Jordan scored 45 points and capped his Chicago career with a last-second jumper over Utah's Bryon Russell that clinched the Bulls' sixth title in eight seasons.
Michael Jordan | Game 5, 1997
Michael Jordan fought off an energy-zapping flu bug to get 38 points, seven boards and five assists -- including the game-winning shot with 25 seconds left. Chicago went on to win its fifth championship in seven seasons.
Steve Kerr | Game 6, 1997
Four years after another sharpshooter (John Paxson) provided the Finals-winning jump shot for the Bulls in a Game 6 (at Phoenix), Steve Kerr did the same with a mid-range J against the Jazz in Chicago.
Rockets vs. Knicks | Game 3, 1994
Hakeem Olajuwon and Patrick Ewing toiled in the NBA for 19 combined seasons before reaching these Finals. They were upstaged during Game 3, however, when NBC preempted Rockets-Knicks coverage to air police chasing O.J. Simpson down a Southern California freeway.
John Paxson | Game 6, 1993
John Paxson's game-winning three-pointer in Phoenix gave the Bulls their third consecutive championship.
Michael Jordan | Game 1, 1992
Michael Jordan hit six three-pointers and scored 35 points in the opening half against the Trail Blazers. Chicago coasted to a 122-89 victory.
Isiah Thomas | Game 6, 1988
Playing on a severely sprained ankle, Isiah Thomas scored 25 points in the third quarter and almost single-handedly carried Detroit to a series-clinching victory. (The Lakers won the game and the next one, too).
Magic Johnson | Game 4, 1987
In one of the most memorable moments in Finals history, Magic Johnson won Game 4 with what he called his "junior, junior, junior sky hook." That victory in Boston gave the Lakers a 3-1 lead; they wrapped it up two games later in Los Angeles, where 39-year-old Kareem Abdul-Jabbar scored 32 points and Magic closed with 16 points, 19 assists and eight rebounds. Johnson became the fourth player to win the regular-season and Finals MVP awards.
Ralph Sampson | Game 5, 1986
Ralph Sampson brawled with Boston guard Jerry Sichting (inset) early in the game and subsequently cursed in a live interview with CBS just moments after both players were ejected. The Rockets then routed the Celtics to extend the series to a sixth game. The Celtics won Game 6 at Boston Garden to claim their 16th championship.
Gerald Henderson | Game 2, 1984
The Lakers had the Celtics on the ropes, leading the series 1-0 and nursing a 115-113 advantage with 15 seconds left in Game 2. But Gerald Henderson picked off James Worthy's lazy backcourt pass and turned it into a game-tying layup. Boston prevailed in overtime to climb back into the series.
Julius Erving | Game 4, 1980
Dr. J's out-of-this-world reverse layup against the Lakers is still hailed by Magic Johnson as the greatest play he's ever seen.
Magic Johnson | Game 6, 1980
To offset Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's ankle injury, Magic Johnson moved to center and guided the undersized Lakers to a championship-clinching road win over the 76ers. The rookie Johnson scored 42 points and grabbed 15 boards.
Gar Heard | Game 5, 1976
Suns forward Gar Heard nailed a turnaround 22-footer at the buzzer to force a third overtime. Heard's improbable shot helped put the Celtics' 128-126 victory in the conversation of the greatest games in NBA history.
Walt Frazier | Game 7, 1970
An injured Willis Reed (inset) made a dramatic entrance and scored two immediate baskets, further energizing the crowd at Madison Square Garden. He then watched Frazier (pictured, 36 points, 19 assists) and the Knicks throttle the Lakers to win the championship.
Jerry West | Game 3, 1962; Game 3, 1970
The Logo was a postseason force, including being named the 1969 Finals MVP even though the Lakers lost the series to Boston. Two more signature moments: his steal and game-winning layup to give the Lakers a 2-1 series lead in 1962 (Boston won it in seven); and his buzzer-beating 60-footer (inset) to force overtime against the Knicks in '70 (New York won the game and the series, forcing West to wait two more years for his first and only title).
Elgin Baylor | Game 5, 1962
Baylor erupted for a Finals-record 61 points and grabbed 22 boards as the Lakers won 126-121 at Boston Garden to take a 3-2 series lead. But the Celtics rallied to win Games 6 and 7 (including a 110-107 OT victory in the clincher) in a classic first Finals meeting between L.A. and Boston.
Bill Russell | Game 7, 1962
In one of the greatest winning-take-all games in NBA history, the Celtics beat the Lakers 110-107 in overtime behind Bill Russell's 30 points and 40 rebounds. Bob Cousy memorably dribbled out the clock.
Bob Pettit | Game 6, 1958
The St. Louis forward scored 50 points (including 19 in the fourth quarter) in his team's title-clinching win against the Celtics.


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FORT MYERS, Fla. /Florida Newswire/ -- As of July 2018, Papa Inc. expands to the Fort Myers and Naples markets to assist seniors and elders with transportation, household chores, teaching technology, and companionship. Papa recruits college students, and bridges the generational gap of young adults and senior citizens through their platform. Currently Papa has 300 Papa Pals on board who have the freedom to choose their schedule.
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Ready for Next Tax Season? New TaxBird Tax App Designed for People with Homes in More than One State
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New Mobile App from Cloudvirga Connects Real Estate Agents with Loan Officers on Its Digital Mortgage Platform
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CANTON — Country music singer LeAnn Rimes is heading to Canton this summer to perform an acoustic concert.
The concert, billed as Rimes "performing all the hits and favorites up close and acoustic," is scheduled for 8 p.m. June 29 at Umstattd Performing Arts Hall at McKinley High School. It is presented by Johnson Controls Hall of Fame Village.
Tickets go on sale Friday and range from $149 to $250, according to the posting on Ticketmaster.
Rimes has had 12 songs on Billboard's Hot 100 list, including "How Do I Live," which peaked at No. 2 in 1997, and she has sold more than 37 million albums across the world. She has a summer tour scheduled through the United States and Canada.
Rimes is the second major country music act announced for Canton this summer and the third concert being presented by the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the Village this season. Tim McGraw will play Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium on Aug. 9, and Imagine Dragons will close enshrinement week with a concert Aug. 4.
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Functional MRI (fMRI) brain studies performed in the presence of a steady-state or “blood pool” contrast agent yields activation maps that are weighted for cerebral blood volume (CBV). Previous animal experiments suggest significant contrast-to-noise (CNR) improvements, but these studies have not yet been performed in humans due to the lack of availability of a suitable agent. Here we report the use of the USPIO ferumoxytol (AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Cambridge, MA) for functional brain activation in humans, termed contrast enhanced functional Blood Volume Imaging (CE-fBVI). Four subjects were scanned during a unilateral finger tapping task with standard blood-oxygen level dependent (BOLD) imaging before contrast and CE-fBVI after contrast injection. The CE-fBVI response showed both a fast (5.8±1.3 sec) and a slow (75.3±27.5 sec) component of CBV response to stimuli. A significant CNR gain of approximately 2–3 was found for CE-fBVI compared to BOLD fMRI. Interestingly, less susceptibility-related signal dropouts were observed in the inferior frontal and temporal lobes with CE-fBVI. The combination of higher CNR and better spatial specificity, enabled by CE-fBVI using blood pool USPIO contrast agent opens the door to higher resolution brain mapping.
Functional MRI using blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) has allowed the study of physiological and neural processes in response to external stimuli (Ogawa et al., 1990; Ogawa et al., 1993). The BOLD signal depends on complex and dynamic interactions between cerebral vascular responses to neural activation, including cerebral blood flow (CBF), cerebral blood volume (CBV), and oxygenation (Buxton et al., 1998; Lin et al., 2008; Malonek and Grinvald, 1996). Ultrasmall superparamagnetic iron oxide (USPIO) agents provide a strong T2* MR contrast mechanism which alters MR signal in relation to CBV (Boxerman et al., 1995; Weisskoff et al., 1994). Because of its small diameter, USPIO particles are not rapidly cleared by the reticuloendothelial system and, therefore, have long blood plasma half-lives (Weinstein et al., 2010). The presence of USPIO causes signal reduction that is dependent on CBV, which changes during neuronal activation (Belliveau et al., 1991). Therefore, MR signal changes in the presence of USPIO primarily reflect dynamics of CBV during neural activity, which overwhelms the signal changes due to deoxyhemoglobin concentration changes (Leite et al., 2002; Lu et al., 2007; Mandeville et al., 2004; Mandeville et al., 1998). Such CBV-based methods also facilitate comparison between subjects and different centers, as signal changes can be directly translated to changes of physiological parameters (Mandeville et al., 2004). Leite et al (Leite et al., 2002) used USPIO in macaques and showed dramatically improved activation sensitivity using USPIO-based fMRI compared to BOLD fMRI. Furthermore, unlike BOLD fMRI which has relatively low spatial specificity due to sensitivity to large vessels, CBV based fMRI was found to provide high spatial specificity allowing study of the ocular dominance field in animal models (Harel et al., 2006; Zhao et al., 2006).
The advantages of high detection sensitivity and spatial specificity make CBV-based fMRI using USPIO particles as exogenous contrast agents an appealing technique for human studies. Until now, there has been no human study on the use of USPIO for CBV based fMRI, or what we term contrast-enhanced functional blood volume imaging (CE-fBVI). In the current work, we explore the feasibility of CBV based fMRI in humans using ferumoxytol, an USPIO that is FDA-approved for treatment of iron deficiency anemia in adult patients with chronic kidney disease. Specifically, we studied the time constants of the CBV response to neural activity and the contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) gain of CE-fBVI over BOLD fMRI. We hypothesized that significantly higher CNR can be obtained for CE-fBVI compared to BOLD.
where K is a function of the concentration of contrast agent. Following the derivation of (Mandeville et al., 1998) and (Lu et al., 2007), the relaxation coefficient R2*, post at resting state after the contrast injection is
where R2*, pre is the relaxation coefficient at resting state before contrast injection, and CBV0 is the cerebral blood volume at resting state. The signal intensity at resting state after contrast injection is
The signal intensity during neural activation is:
And the change in signal intensity with respect to resting state is then:
The approximation in the second derivation gives close estimate when the change is small, and the error is about 4% for a true change of 25%.
Here, S0 is signal intensity at TE=0. R2 *, pre and R2 *, post are transverse relaxation constant before and after contrast injection respectively; ΔCBV(t) change in CBV; ΔR2*, BOLD, change in transverse due to BOLD effect.
When TE is fixed, the maximum signal change is achieved at a contrast concentration when
When the contrast concentration, i.e. K is fixed, the maximum signal change is achieved when:
For subjects scanned with the same with same TE for both BOLD and CE-fBVI, the percentage CBV change during task can be calculated as:
where Spre, act and Spost, act are signal intensities during BOLD and CE-fBVI task respectively, and Spre, base and Spost, base are signal intensities at resting state before and after contrast injection respectively.
It is important to notice that the detection sensitivity also depends on noise, and the temporal noise in fMRI data include three components (Kruger and Glover, 2001): , where σ0 is the thermal and system noise that is independent of signal and is expected to be unchanged before and after contrast injection. σB and σNB represent physiological noises that arise from baseline fluctuations in cerebral blood flow, cerebral blood volume and cerebral blood oxygenation level as well as cardiac and respiratory functions. σB represents the component that results in fluctuation in . This component is closed related to spontaneous brain activity at resting state through the same mechanism of tasked induced responses as well as cardiac and respiratory functions. This component is proportional to contrast changes in BOLD experiments. σNB represents physiological noise that is independent of TE but is proportional to the signal intensity.
Four healthy right-handed male volunteers were recruited for the study (24 years to 53 years old). This research was approved by the institutional review board and informed consent was obtained from each volunteer.
MR imaging was performed at 3T with an 8-channel head coil (MR750, GE Healthcare, Waukesha, WI). Subjects were scanned with the following protocol: A 3D T1-weighted inversion recovery spoiled gradient echo (IR-SPGR) sequence covering the entire brain was acquired (TR/TE/TI = 9.2/3.7/400ms, Matrix = 256×206, in-plane resolution = 0.94 × 0.94 mm, slice thickness = 1.2mm, 120–130 slices depending on head size). BOLD fMRI and CE-fBVI were performed using a 2D gradient echo EPI sequence before and after the slow injection (1ml/s) of ferumoxytol (510 mg Fe [approx 7 mg Fe/kg], AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, MA) respectively (FOV=22cm, Matrix = 64×64, slice thickness = 4 mm, number of slices = 36, TR=2s). The subjects performed 4 epochs of 48s of right hand finger tapping and 48s of rest in response to auditory cues. The echo time (TE) was 35ms for pre-contrast BOLD. To experimentally validate the optimal TE for CE-fBVI, one subject underwent CE-fBVI scans with both 20ms and 35ms, another one with TE of 20ms, and the other two subjects with TE of 35ms. A 3D multi-echo gradient echo sequence was acquired for T2* mapping before and after contrast injection (16 echoes with a smallest TE of 3.3ms and an echospacing of 4ms, Matrix = 256×232, in-plane resolution = 0.86 × 0.86mm, 10 slices of 1mm thick).
Images were processed using SPM8 (Wellcome Trust Center of Neuroimaging, UCL, UK) and custom MATLAB (Mathwork, Natick MA) scripts. T2* maps were generated by fitting the following formula using Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm
where S(TE) is the signal at echo time of TE, σ is the noise level which was measured in the image at a region of air. The noise term σ was added to the model because at long echo time after contrast injection the signal approaches noise floor. The 3D T1-weighted image was segmented using SPM8 and re-sliced to the space of the T2* map. A gray matter mask was then created and used to calculate the mean T2* value of the gray matter before and after contrast injection.
The 2D gradient EPI images from both BOLD and CE-fBVI experiments were first co-registered to correct for motion and then smoothed with a Gaussian kernel with a full-width half height of 7mm. A general linear model was used for the detection of activated region, where a hemo-response function (HRF) was convolved with the paradigm as a regressor. For BOLD fMRI, the canonical HRF from SPM8 was used, while for CE-fBVI the HRF was generated with the bi-exponential model fit described below. The activated region in the motor area was identified from BOLD fMRI and a region of 3×3×3 voxels from the unsmoothed images was exacted. The mean value in this area was used to estimate the time constants of both BOLD and CBV responses by fitting mono- or bi-exponential model with the following equation using Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm:
where n = 1 for mono-exponential model, and n= 2 for bi-exponential model; Tci characterizes the response speed of the BOLD or CE-fBVI to external stimuli; ai specifies the relative weighting the of the two exponential terms in the bi-exponential model and a1+a2 = 1.
The relative sensitivity of BOLD fMRI and CE-fBVI were compared using CNR ratio and Student’s T statistics. We define the contrast to noise ratio (CNR) to be the ratio between the standard deviation of fitted signal time course and σ0, It is defined against σ0 instead of σ so that CNR does not depends on image resolution, which affects signal intensity and hence σ. The standard deviation of the fitted signal time course quantifies the amount of variance in the data that is explained by the fit, which is consistent with the definition of commonly used F statistics in linear regression. To quantify the number of voxels activated in the primary motor cortex, a mask image of the primary motor cortex was generated in the MNI (Montreal Neurological Institute) space and then dilated by 2cm to account for subject variability. The MNI T1 weighted image was then registered to the mean EPI image of each subject, and the transformation derived was then applied to the dilated primary motor cortex mask to create masks in image space of individual subjects. The peak t value (Tpeak), average t value in the commonly activated region (Tcn), and average t value of the 50 most activated voxels in the respective method (T50) were quantified for both BOLD and CE-fBVI.
To quantify the temporal noise of BOLD and CE-fBVI, the mean and temporal standard deviation of first 24 time points (48s) when the subject was resting for both BOLD and CE-fBVI. The T1 weighted image was segmented using SPM and a gray matter mask was created and registered to the image space of BOLD and CE-fBVI. Then mask was then used to calculate the mean signal intensity (SGM) and mean temporal standard deviation in gray matter (SDGM) for BOLD and CE-fBVI.
We also compared the level of signal dropout between BOLD and CE-fBVI in the frontal region due to susceptibility difference at the air-tissue interface. A region of interest (ROI) was placed in the frontal region where signal dropout was observed, and a control ROI was placed in a posterior region of the brain. Signal dropout ratio was calculated as the ratio of the mean signal intensities between the two regions.
Figure 1 shows T2*-weighted and T2* maps acquired before and 5–10 minutes after contrast injection. Significant signal decreases after contrast injection were observed due to the strong T2* effect of ferumoxytol, more so in gray matter than in white matter. The mean(SD) T2* value of the gray matter was 50.8(2.0) ms and 23.2(1.9) ms before and after contrast injection respectively (Table 1).
Robust activation was observed for both BOLD and CE-fBVI, in regions including primary and supplemental motor regions, and the cerebellum (Figure 2). Generally, at the resolution acquired in the present study, activated regions overlapped between CE-fBVI and BOLD, although this overlap was not perfect. For example, in one subject, there was a large activated region in the occipital lobe with CE-fBVI, which was not seen in the BOLD activation maps. The overlap between of activated CE-fBVI and BOLD in the primary motor cortex was 67.6% (3.5%) and 55.0% (21.9%) for subjects with TE=20ms and TE=35ms respectively. Figure 3 shows an example of the signal time course during BOLD and CE-fBVI acquisition. The BOLD effect induced a positive signal change during the task with respect to resting state, with a relatively short time constant (Table 2); therefore, the signal plateaued after short period time of task and it returned to the baseline during rest. In contrast, CE-fBVI induced signal reduction during the task due to increased CBV; the time constant was longer than BOLD and the signal did not return to baseline during rest. A mono-exponential model provided a reasonable fit to the BOLD response with time constant ranging from 3.8s to 8s (Table 2). As the mono-exponential model did not provide a sufficient fit for the CE-fBVI response, particularly lack of fit for baseline, a bi-exponential model was explored. The adjusted R2, which penalizes the number of parameter in the model against goodness of the fit the model, suggested a bi-exponential model was better than a mono-exponential model for fitting the CE-fBVI signal response. A fast and a slow component of the CE-fBVI response were observed. The response time for the faster component ranged from 3.9s to 7.0s, which was close to the response time of BOLD. The relative weighting of the fast component ranged from 0.83 to 0.92. The response time of the slower component ranged from 48.2s to 115.2s. For subjects scanned with same TE=35ms for both BOLD and CE-fBVI, the mean (SD) percentage peak CBV change was found to be 26.1%(8.7%) during task.
The CNR gain of CE-fBVI at TE=20ms was 2.0 and 2.9 for the two subjects evaluated with these parameters, respectively. For CE-fBVI at TE=35ms, the gain was 1.1, 1.5 and 2.0 for three of the subjects. Higher t statistics was obtained for CE-fBVI compared to BOLD (Figure 2). Table 3 shows peak T (Tpeak), average T value in the 50 most significant voxels in the primary motor cortex (T50), average T value in regions commonly activated in both BOLD and CE-fBVI, the mean signal intensity of gray matter (SGM) and temporal standard deviation of signal in gray matter (SDGM). A sensitivity gain of a factor of 1.6 in both Tpeak and T50 were observed for CE-fBVI with TE=20ms over BOLD, and the factor was 1.4 and 1.3 for Tpeak and T50 respectively for CE-fBVI with TE=35ms. The mean signal intensity of gray matter, SGM in CE-fBVI was lower than in BOLD, and the temporal variation of signal as shown by SDGM was smaller though comparable in CE-fBVI compared to BOLD.
Severe signal dropout was observed for BOLD images at the frontal and basal temporal regions near air-tissue interface, which was significantly alleviated with CE-fBVI (Figure 4). The dropout ratio, defined as the ratio of signal intensity between ROIs in a frontal region and a reference region in posterior part of the brain, was calculated. For subjects scanned with CE-fBVI with TE=20ms, the mean (SD) ratio was 0.11 (0.04) and 0.36 (0.12) for BOLD and CE-fBVI, respectively. For subjects scanned with CE-fBVI with TE=35ms, the mean (SD) ratio was 0.10 (0.04) and 0.20 (0.08) for BOLD and CE-fBVI, respectively. The ratio was higher in all CE-fBVI scans with TE=35ms than their respective BOLD scans.
To our knowledge, this is the first study that uses blood pool USPIO for functional brain activation in humans. We characterized the response time for CBV changes during neural activation, and CE-fBVI was found to have up to about a factor of 3 sensitivity gain over BOLD at the dose of 7mg Fe/kg.
CE-fBVI using USPIO primarily reflects CBV changes during neural activation, through its R2* effect in the presence of a blood pool (persistent) contrast agent. Although it has been known that gradient echo images are sensitive to large vessels (Boxerman et al., 1995), previous studies have established that only capillaries, smaller arterioles, and some of the smallest venules are capable of constriction and dilation (Atkinson et al., 1990; Duelli and Kuschinsky, 1993; Lu et al., 2003). Therefore, CE-fBVI is more specific to changes in microvasculature, hence providing better spatial localization. In contrast, BOLD is more sensitive to larger vessels since deoxyhemoglobin concentration is also altered in veins draining the region of neural activation. Animal studies have demonstrated the higher spatial specificity of CE-fBVI, and have shown that columnar and laminar imaging is feasible with CE-fBVI (Harel et al., 2006; Lu et al., 2004; Zhao et al., 2006).
The percentage CBV change was found to be 26.1% (8.7%), which is consistent with previous reports (Belliveau et al., 1991). We also found a fast and a slow component of the CBV response to stimuli, consistent with previous animal and human studies (Leite et al., 2002; Lu et al., 2003). It is noteworthy of the relative large inter-subject variation in the estimated time constant of the slow component of the response, which is likely the combination of true inter-subject variation and errors in the model fitting. Scanner drifts may also contribute to errors in the estimation; however signal response of BOLD did not show the similar cumulative effects of slow component observed in CE-fBVI, suggesting scanner drift is not a dominant factor in the estimation error. Larger scale studies may further characterize these variations. The fast components may reflect arteriolar and capillary components, while the slower component may represent venular contribution, which is believed to the source of the post-stimulus undershoot in the BOLD signal (Buxton et al., 1998). In a previous study of non-human primates (Leite et al., 2002), the time constant of the slower component was found to be around 14.5s and the signal level returned to baseline after 60s of resting. However, in our study, the estimated time constant of the slower component ranged from 48.2s to 115.4s, and the significant signal change was still present after 48s of rest. Shorter time constants have been observed in rodent studies (Lu et al., 2007). This suggests more prolonged venular responses in humans compared to animals.
We observed a CNR gain of CE-fBVI at 20ms over BOLD with a factor of 2.0 to 2.9. It is noteworthy that the optimal TE (~50ms) was not used for BOLD experiment. However, the CNR reduction using TE=35ms with respect to TE=50 is less than 5%. Therefore, the CNR gain is primarily due to the use of the contrast agent. This CNR gain is translated to higher t-statistics in the activation map. Comparable noise levels were also observed between CE-fBVI and BOLD. As the signal intensity is lower in CE-fBVI, it is expected that noise due to cardiac and respiratory functions and subject motion would decrease (Kruger and Glover, 2001). The finding of comparable noise levels between CE-fBVI and BOLD suggests an expected increase in noise related to intrinsic fluctuations in neural activity at resting state. However, whether this increase is proportional to CNR gain of response to external stimuli is a subject of further study, since the slower response of CBV with respect to BOLD acts as a different low-pass filter of the resting state neural activity. We observed a T statistics gain that is not proportional to CNR gain. This may be due to variations in response that is not captured by exponential model, and a larger cohort would allow the derivation of population wise canonical CBV response function that is not captured by exponential models. Together, the increased contrast sensitivity can be efficiently invested in imaging at higher image resolution.(Kruger and Glover, 2001; Triantafyllou et al., 2005). Combining the improved spatial specificity and sensitivity of CE-fBVI, it may be feasible for more accurate surgical planning and high resolution mapping of human brain functions such as orientation column mapping, which is only currently feasible using spin echo technique at 7T (Yacoub et al., 2008).
Largely overlapping regions were found activated with both CE-fBVI and BOLD. For the subject showed in Figure 2, CE-fBVI however showed a large activated region in the occipital lobe, which was not found with BOLD. This finding may be specific to the subject due to unreported visual related activities. This may also be due to the fact that CE-fBVI and BOLD have different hemodynamic responses to stimuli and that CE-fBVI has higher sensitivity in detecting activation. Future studies with high-resolution fMRI may reveal differences in activation loci between CE-fBVI and BOLD.
We also observed less signal dropout in the inferior frontal and temporal lobes due to susceptibility variation at the air-tissue interface. We believe the reason for this is two-fold: firstly, the optimal TE is smaller with CE-fBVI than BOLD; secondly, the high susceptibility value of USPIO also partially offsets the diamagnetic effect of the brain parenchyma, leading to closer magnetic susceptibility value between the post-contrast brain and the air. The shorter TE used with CE-fBVI also allows higher temporal resolution or larger volume coverage.
In conclusion, we demonstrated the first use of USPIO for functional blood volume imaging in humans with a CNR gains of 2–3 fold compared to BOLD fMRI. Both a fast and a slow component of blood volume response were observed, and optimal CNR gain can be obtained with long stimuli. Less susceptibility-related signal dropouts were observed in the inferior frontal and temporal lobes with CE-fBVI. The combination of CE-fBVI using blood pool contrast agents opens the door for improved human brain mapping.
The study was supported by National Institute of Health (2RO1NS047607, 1R01NS066506, 5P41RR09784), GE Healthcare, Lucas Foundation and Oak Foundation.
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The Beautiful Rings of Saturn The Saturn system reveals tantalizing vistas. NASA's robotic spacecraft named Cassini carries with it 12 instruments designed to take precise measurements of Saturn and its surroundings, including Titan, other icy moons, and the rings, as well as the magnetic environment. For many of us, however, the images are what put us there, at Saturn, almost a billion miles away from home. Some of those images unveil overwhelming beauty.
I wanted to illuminate the whole earth. There is enough electricity to become a second sun. Light would appear around the equator, as a ring around Saturn. Nikola Tesla, The Nikola Tesla Interview hidden for 116 years!


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YouTube - Sweet Caroline - A Trumpet Multitrack in HD
isue4you3, that was great! Although I've always wondered how you do that...?
So you lost me. Are you recording the clowns solo down an octave (or some interval) and then electronically moving it up? If not, my hat is off to you as you are certainly playing it better than I can.
You seem to have a good ear intonation wise.
wow realy very nice..............
I really liked the Sweet Caroline video. The percussion track was well done. But, next time, wear different clothes and a wig for each track so it will look like an entire group doing it.

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- The magazine: “Kefalos – The Literary Magazine of Kefalonia” and the publishing house: “Kefalos Publications” announce the 2nd Panhellenic Artistic Competition “Kefalos”.
- The categories of the competition are two:
- In the category of painting you can participate with one of your works, regardless of style and with a free subject. You must photograph the work and send it to us in a high resolution (.jpeg) photo.
- In the photography category, you may enter one to two high-resolution (.jpeg) photographs with a free subject, either in one or both of the following subcategories. Black and White Photography.
- The competition is open to participants in either:
- Adults 18 years of age and older.
- Students aged 18 to 18 years old.
- You can send the files of your project(s) only via email or wetransfer.com (for large files) to [email protected] in digital image (.jpeg) format until February 20, 2023. Together send in a word or pdf file the following information: name, age, address, email, title of work, dimensions (for painting), style (for painting) and year of realization.
- Will be awarded:
- In the adult category 18 years of age and older: three prizes, three commendations and three honorable mentions. Those who do not win an award will receive a commendation for their participation as a souvenir.
- In the category of high school students: three prizes and three commendations. Those who are not distinguished will receive a commendation for their participation as a souvenir.
- Members of the jury are appointed as follows:
–Maria Andreadi, Photographer.
–Yiannis Koutris, Sketch Artist.
–Spyridon Troousas, Painter – Writer- Artist – Graduate of the Rhodes School of Fine Arts.
- The results will be announced no later than the first ten days of May 2023.
- The award ceremony will take place in June 2023. All the winning works of the competition will be included in a commemorative visual-photographic album.

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New York, NY / August 4, 2014 / AntriaBio, Inc. (OTCQB: ANTB) today published a new blog post on The Chairman’s Blog, written by the Company’s VP of Clinical Development, Dr. Brian Roberts. TheChairmansBlog.com is an exclusive online media publication that enables key executive officers a unique platform to share insights about their company and industry trends.
In his guest blog post, Dr. Roberts shares his perspective on the clinical promise of the Company’s lead diabetes product candidate, AB101. He writes, "If AB101 is successful in clinical trials and eventually approved by the FDA and other regulatory bodies throughout the world, I believe that it would be a ground-breaking advancement in insulin replacement therapy." Read the full blog post from Dr. Brian Roberts on TheChairmansBlog.com (http://www.thechairmansblog.com/antriabio/brian-roberts/expanding-treatment-options/).
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The 1958/59 season was a special one for Wolves, retaining the First Division title and scoring more than 100 league goals for the second campaign in a row.
Today marks 60 years since they achieved the mighty feat, grabbing their third top-flight trophy. And can a triumph be more emphatic?
Successfully defending the crown by a six-point margin – back in the days when a win was worth two, not three – ahead of Manchester United, who fought so valiantly a year on from the Munich air disaster, takes some doing.
But this Wolves team was full of quality, with Billy Wright donning the armband, Ron Flowers the midfield powerhouse and Peter Broadbent and Jimmy Murray grabbing goals by the bucketload.
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Jackie Henderson came up with three goals across the spell, which began as they beat Blackpool 2-0 and continued with a 3-1 success at Villa, a 2-1 win at Blackburn and a 4-0 victory over Villa at Molineux.
That purple patch proved to be his only one of the term for Wolves though. The Scot did not get on the scoresheet again as he moved to Arsenal, where he enjoyed four impressive years.
October kicked off in fine fashion, beating Manchester United 4-0 at a raucous Molineux. Murray, Mason and Jimmy Mullen were those on the mark. And history was made in the process as it was the first-ever league game to take place on a Saturday night.
Broadbent and Deeley then struck to dispose of Manchester City 2-0, and they ended the month unbeaten thanks to a 1-1 draw with Arsenal and a 3-1 victory against Birmingham City.
But a big blow was dealt at the beginning of November.
Travelling to The Hawthorns to face Albion, Deeley’s goal was not enough to prevent Wolves from being downed by their bitter rivals.
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Alan Jackson, who was handed an opportunity because of an injury to Mullen, got his one goal of the season in one of those wins, prevailing 2-0 against Burnley. Deeley, who ended the campaign as third top scorer with 17 in the league, netted the other.
Broadbent made history during the month too, scoring Wolves’ first European Cup goal against Schalke. But the German side won the two-legged second round affair 4-3 on aggregate.
We all know the festive period can be busy when it comes to football – and Wolves had to make sure they did not have too much turkey on Christmas Day as they played on both Boxing Day and December 27.
But they came out on top twice, of course, in a double-header against Portsmouth.
Pompey first fell at the hands of Cullis’s charges at Fratton Park, with Broadbent’s hat-trick and strikes apiece for Deeley and Colin Booth seeing Wolves win a madcap encounter 5-3.
And it was seventh heaven at Molineux 24 hours later. Trebles for Booth and Deeley, and Des Horne’s goal, gave them their biggest victory of the campaign – 7-0. A phenomenal way to end 1958.
January only consisted of two league games – a 2-1 loss to Chelsea, and then a 5-0 victory against Blackburn.
Wolves’ FA Cup involvement started and ended during the month too. They got past Barrow in the third round, beating them 4-2 with Deeley (two), Booth and Mickey Lill on the mark. But they were knocked out in the fourth, losing 2-1 to Bolton.
February included the final defeat of the term. Thrilling 4-3 and 6-2 wins against Newcastle and Leeds respectively were followed by a 2-1 loss to the Red Devils at Old Trafford, perhaps giving Matt Busby’s side a psychological edge in the title race as they moved level on points, albeit having played one more match than Cullis’s men.
A 4-1 success over the Citizens rounded off the month and began the 13-game streak. Wolves went up another level.
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And, again, talk about doing it in style. A 3-0 win at Molineux against Leicester was in keeping with a truly terrific season. The efforts of United, who were even level on points on April 11, were in vain as Wolves made the most of their games in hand.
It was written in the Express & Star at the time: “Moments of restlessness they had suffered during the game were forgotten by the thousands who stayed behind at Molineux to give Wolves their real championship cheer. This time there were no ifs and buts.
“They sang ‘The Happy Wanderer’, they swung their rattles and they released a giant balloon that disappeared out of the floodlit arena to take its ‘Wolves, the champions’ legend into the darkness.”
One more game still had to be played – and Wolves won that too, beating Everton 1-0 thanks to Murray, pulling the curtain down on a sublime spell and the illustrious career of Wright.
With 541 appearances as a Wolves player, and more than 100 England caps, the club’s most iconic, decorated and successful player hung up his boots in the manner most could only ever dream of. A captain and team of legendary proportions.


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In a traditional Prenuptial / Post-Nuptial setting one party hires an attorney who drafts an Agreement that reflects their client’s wishes and sends it to the other party, who hires an attorney to review and comment upon the draft and sends it back to the first attorney, who talks to their client and then responds.
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Two dozen U.S. House members from New Jersey and New York have urged President Donald Trump's transportation secretary, Elaine Chao, to ensure that federal government pay its share of the Gateway Tunnel project.
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The $30 billion project to build a new train tunnel under the Hudson River and a new Portal Bridge over the Hackensack River is the region's top transportation priority. The new tunnel is needed so the existing tubes can be closed temporarily to repair the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy.
Payne and Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., acted after K. Jane Williams, deputy administrator of the Federal Transit Administration, said there was no funding agreement between Washington and the states of New Jersey and New York to fund the new tunnels under the Hudson River.
Payne called Williams' statement "patently false."
President Barack Obama's administration had agreed to share the costs of the project with New Jersey and New York.
Every New Jersey House member except Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen signed the letter, as did 11 lawmakers from New York.
Frelinghuysen, R-11th Dist., met with Williams after sending his own letter to her that made it clear that he believed the federal government needs to share the construction costs.
"There has long been agreement among federal, state and local officials that the Gateway project is an urgent national infrastructure priority," Frelinghuysen wrote to Williams.
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To help ensure federal participation, Reps. Josh Gottheimer, D-5th Dist., and Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., called for placing a U.S. Transportation Department representative on the board overseeing Gateway.
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