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blues classic Going Down Slow and the sultry I Shot the Sheriff.Tell The Truth,Ive Got A Rock and Roll HeartLayla was spellbinding in its simplicity. The Cream tune Badge thumped with heartache. TheRobert Johnson classic Little Queen of SpadesNobody Knows You.Nobody Knows When Youre Down and Out,Crossroads, the penultimate was possibly his trademark tune, Cocaine, penned by OklahomanJ.J. Cale.His set included the classics Behind Blue Eyes, The Real Me and I Can See For Miles. WhoAre You garnered a standing ovation and an ear-to-ear grin of appreciation from Daltrey

Ain't No Grave, For the Good Times, Corinthians 15:55, Satisfied Mind, Cool Water, Can't HelpBut Wonder Where I'm Bound

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Kris Kristofferson's For the Good Times to Bob Nolan's cowboy classic Cool Water and QueenLili'uokalani's song of farewell, Aloha Oe. The lone original, Corinthians 15:55

"One Week," "The Old Apartment," "Pinch Me," "If I Had $1000000" and "Brian Wilson."

See the video for the first single, "You Run Away," from the upcoming album, "All in Good Time."

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As my father always said: "if you want everything to be fair, you are on the wrong planet"

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thought of other things if you did*Nearly all the great furtunes acquired by entrepreneurs arose because they had nothing to lose*Conventional wisdom is often right. But when it is wrong, it can offer quite extraordinaryopportunities*Making money is a drug. Not the money itself. The making of the money*Prompt decisions and orders, right or wrong, are far healthier than endless demate andprevarication*Team spirit is for losers, financially speaking*You may not necessarily want to be in a glamorous sector of any market, and they are often verycrowded*How do you judge your own aptitude? Trial and error is the only way I ever heard of*Your credit rating is extremely precious*While it may not look like it to you, too much...capital seeking too few investment opportunities*Obtaining capital...is the worst part of the whole business of getting rich...(but) there is noavoiding it*By continually wishing and never delivering, you risk denting your confidence*Once you lose control of a business, then no bank, white knight, investor or new owner is likelyto permit you to gain control again*Cash flow is the heart beat of your company*Regular, even obsessive, monitoring is the key. I hated every minute of doing it in those eaerly

days

Dear S.R.: Several years ago, a research oncologist told me that "Pfizer has stopped using whiterats in their laboratory experiments and are now using attorneys. When I asked why, she said:"There are three reasons. (1) There are more attorneys than white rats, (2) You dont becomeattached to an attorney as you would a rat and (3) There are just some things that you cant get arat to do. Perhaps its time to begin fining lawyers for providing fraudulent advice; maybe its timefor the courts to hold lawyers accountable for legal prestidigitation that violates societys ethics;and maybe its time to close all the law schools for 20 years. This egregious species hasoverpopulated the planet, and their increasing numbers are counterproductive to society.

Man, I had my pet duck up on the fireplace mantel with a life jacket on!

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ears to the walls in high places

Michael Vick's days as quarterback might be over -- because last night in Virginia, the formerdogfighting Atlanta Falcon told our Fantasy Football playin' photog to mark him down as a "tightend."

Ironically, that was also his nickname in prison.

Numbness, tingling, burning, nerve pain, pins and needles


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Timeless tunes like Walkin the Dog, Last Child, Cryin, Livin on the Edge, Sweet Emotionand Love in an Elevator were possibly as popular with fans on Thursday night as they ever havebeen. The band grew to six pieces and even added a bluesy Fleetwood Mac classic, StopMessin Around.

Jennifer Chancellors fave Aerosmith hits1. Dream On

2. Walk This Way

3. Mama Kin

4. Sweet Emotion

5. Train Kept A Rollin

6. Back in the Saddle

7. Love in an Elevator

8. Toys in the Attic


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9. Same Old Song and Dance

10. Dude (Looks Like a Lady)

"Rainy Day Woman #12 and 35" by Bob Dylan. "Everybody Must Get Stoned!"

"Green Onions" by Booker T and the MGs

"Come Go With Me" by the Del Vikings "Dum Dum Dum Dum..."

"Blue Rondo a La Turk" by the Dave Brubeck Quartet

"The Rain, The Park and Other Things" by The Cowsills "Flowers in her hair, flowerseverywhere..."

"The Weight" by The Band "...aaaand, you put the load put the load right on me."

"Karn Evil 9" by Emerson Lake and Palmer "Welcome back my friends to the show that neverends..."

"In the Mood" by the Glenn Miller Orchestra. (Actually pretty much any widely played big bandinstrumental is like this)

EDIT: Also, an alarming number of people don't seem to know that the theme song to "Marriedwith Children" was recorded decades earlier by Frank Sinatra.

I think you have here two distinct unrelated medical problems. Rash and pain.

Burning, tingling, pins and needles sensation is a sign of nerve related issues called neuropathicpain. Burning sensation you are experiencing in your buttocks and sometimes shooting downyour legs and feet is most likely related to your back problem as already stated by neurologist.

This means the nerve on your low back is getting pinched thus resulting in neuropathic pain.What happens is that with aging or due to injury the area where nerves exit gets narrowed, thatmeans nerves have less space and they start getting irritated when you move. The more activitythere is the more irritated they get and the more inflamed they get. Well, there is already littlespace for them there, and when they get inflamed this makes things worse as even that littlespace left is taken, thus resulting in neuropathic pain.

You need to see a pain management specialist. They may order MRI which will tell them exactlyat which level you have a problem or if your pain maybe related to other problems rather thanback, and even without MRI they can tell you at which level you have pain if you point them thearea of pain (as nerves have certain distribution pattern, and pain travels across the affectednerve only).

There are several options for pain management: medications, injections, other modalities such asphysical therapy.

If the problem is due to low back pain and pinched nerve then steroid injections usually work well,sometimes no other treatments are needed. (there are many different types of injections for pain,and depending on the specific pain type the doctors will deside which injection to administer.Steroid injections are most common).

Medications. For the type of pain you described, that is neuropathic pain, neuropathicmedications, medications that work on nerves would work the best. You already tried Lyrica, but


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you may not have tried high enough dose. You can take as much as 300 mg a day. Lidodermpatches do good job (not endorsing any medications), antiinflammatories, if you have musclespasms muscle relaxant can be added- these medications are called adjuvants. Narcoticmedications are a last resort as they do not work well for this type of pain. They will take edge ofthe pain but will not take care of actual pain, while neuropathic medications are specific for thispain.

Other modalities. Physical therapy, TENS unit, and accupuncture are other modalities used inmanaging this type of pain.

Sometimes all of these are used together. If injections did not relieve pain completely they maysend you to physical therapy, accupuncture, provide TENS unit, and neuropathic medications. Ifyour pain is still poorly managed then they may add narcotics (there is one narcotic medicationthat works well for this type of pain called Methadone) .

Regarding the rash, it is not related to your pain. In genital area most times rash is due to areabeing constantly moist. Try to keep the area dry. Sometimes it can be bacterial infection too. Forthis one see your primary doctor.

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Legendary investor Warren Buffett puts this idea a little different: "It's far better to buy a wonderfulcompany at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price."

I just want to know why:

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For an man who said his presidency would be "open," ???

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once you get your flash drive with XP ready you must boot from it and push Esc and select toboot from flash drive and press '1', and every time after that press 2 until windows is finalized


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installing

This is for both methods, booting from CD or flash drive:at the blue screen installation mode (text mode) erase the partitions and create a new one, thenformat it using 'quick FAT32"

so yeah, awesome PC, but need to fix it to make it usable.

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Actually, what sends the wrong signal is going to war with a phony justification, inadequate trooplevels, insufficient armor, an inept Defense secretary and an inability to admit for years, deadly

ones, that you needed counterinsurgency experts.

Chittum calls the interview "cringeworthy," a "disaster," and, most appropriately, a "dismalexample of bubble thinking.

Like in a divorce there are THREE sides to every story. His side, her side, and the TRUTH.

You sign enough Adrian Peterson's and you don't have to say a word

WTF is that crap? who pissed in your cheerios this morning?

"It's like wearing dark pants and pissing down your leg," Frank said before the bailout vote inOctober. "It gives you a warm feeling, but no one knows you did it."

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Some companies, like Synthasite and Weebly let you set up, for free, very simple Web sites thatare akin to pages. Other popular destinations, like Facebook, LinkedIn, or MySpace (NWS), canalso be used.

Gene Marks, CPA, is the owner of the Marks Group, which sells customer relationship, service,and financial management tools to small and midsize businesses. Marks is the author of fourbest-selling small business books and writes the popular "Penny Pincher's Almanac" syndicatedcolumn. He frequently speaks to business groups on penny-pinching topics. More penny-pinchingadvice from Marks can be found at www.quickerbetterwiser.com.

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A few readers last week were curious about the Vanguard Extended Duration Treasury fund. Isaid I would have it on my watch list for 2009 simply because it tracks the price of long-termTreasury bonds. I am concern that the price of those bonds might plunge from today's giddyheights. Obviously that would send the fund falling too. Those who want a fund that would rise inthis circumstance could instead follow Rydex Inverse Government Long Bond Strategy fund(RYJUX). This mutual fund tracks the yield on long-term bonds instead of the price. Bond yieldsrise when the price falls. If long-term Treasurys crash on inflation fears, the Vanguard fund will falland the Rydex fund will rise.


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You wanna be fat? Hang with fat people and let them drag you down to their level.You wanna be lean? Hang with lean people and copy them.You wanna be rich? Hang with wealthy people and learn from them.You wanna be a better runner? Run with people who run faster than you.

Twelve months ago, none of the Yahoo! Sports blogs existed in their current form. ShutdownCorner, Big League Stew, Ball Don't Lie, Puck Daddy, Dr. Saturday, The Dagger, From theMarbles, Devil Ball, Cage Writer and Roto Arcade were all born -- or at least redeveloped -- in '08.They now rank among the top sports blogs on the web and result from the efforts of two dozen-plus bloggers (each of whom is listed on the right-hand side of this page).

As it turns out, interest in these sites is up, not down. Burned by their banks and the stock market,people seeking help with budgeting, saving and investing are turning to sites with names likeMint, SmartyPig, Cake Financial, Wesabe and Credit Karma.

On social investing sites, including Cake Financial, Inner8 and Covestor, people rely on othermembers for investment tips.

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Which reiterates a timeless Buffett-ism: "It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair pricethan a fair company at a wonderful price."

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"Beauty is fleeting, stupidity lasts a lifetime"

"Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it."

"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there."

My "crankiness" is directly proportional to your stupidity.

"Best intentions go astray among the pressures of money and relationships

Whatever the explanation, its plumb loco.


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ideology overrode pragmatism."

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Your setting yourself up for disapointment

"Quit whining and pull yourselves up by your bootstraps"

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There used to be this girl who worked in our officegreat kid, smart as heck, super helpful. Whenyou gave her an assignment, shed just run with it. No complaining. No procrastinating. Nochecking back every half hour to ask a dumb question about how to work around whatever minor

obstacle shed encountered.

Sure, sure, they say there are no stupid questions. Whoever they are, they didnt have interns.One kid came upstairs once to tell us hed used up all the letterhead, and would it be OK if therest of the shareholder letters went out on this goldenrod paper he found?

We had none of that with this girl. Karen was her name. She was a problem-solver. An initiative-taker. A go-getter. An obtainer of rare antiquities.

Kitco (Kitco.com, 877-775-4826). All coins are back up for sale except one-ounce gold Eaglesand Buffaloes. Premiums are above our recommended 6.5% limit, except for the Krugerrand,which is currently selling for an industry-low 5%. A one-ounce bar looks even better, at only$22.30 over spot (as of 12/12/08), the lowest we've seen. Delivery is slow, though: up to six

weeks after the order is paid.

Gold Eagles were available in the first week of December but quickly sold out. We advisechecking the website regularly for availability. Here's a link to Kitco's prices... Notice the companycharges a set dollar amount over spot, versus a percentage as most dealers do. This can work inyour favor as the gold price moves up (although Kitco does change its prices from time to time).You can also buy gold and silver in its pool account at just pennies over spot.

The Coin Agent (thecoinagent.com, 1-888-494-8889, [email protected]). WayneLemonier has gold Maple Leafs (the popular Canadian coins) at 6% over spot with a three- to


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four-week delivery time after a paid order. He can ship gold Eagles in about three weeks, but thepremium is 9.5%.

We don't recommend paying the high premium for an Eagle, especially when the premium on theMaple Leaf is so much lower. Remember, you're buying an ounce of gold regardless of whosepicture is on the front, and he's got one of the lowest premiums in the industry on Maple Leafs.

Border Gold (bordergold.com, 888-312-2288 ext. 7). Border Gold has Maple Leafs at 6.5% overspot and can ship within three weeks of a paid order. It also offers one-ounce gold bars at $25over spot and five-ounce bars at $22.50 per ounce over spot.

One-ounce Silver Maple Leafs are available at $4 over the spot price of silver. While that's one ofthe lowest premiums we've seen recently, it's still too high for our wallet. For gold, its direct link tothe Royal Canadian Mint allows a good price and prompt delivery.

Asset Strategies International (assetstrategies.com, 1-800-831-0007). Coin availability comesand goes, but ASI can deliver gold bars in one week after a paid order, the quickest delivery weknow of. A one-ounce gold bar has a 7% premium over spot and a 10-ounce bar is 6%. Silvercoins are available, but the premiums are not pretty.

January 20, 2009, 5:43 amQ & A: Printing Without WiresBy J.D. BiersdorferQuestion

I am shopping for a small laser printer for my home but none has a wireless network capability. Isthere a reasonably priced device that would enable me to print on a laser printer wirelessly fromtwo or three computers that are connected to my network?Answer

If you already have a wireless network router that you like, you can add on a gadget called awireless printer server. One of these connects to the printer itself (usually with a U.S.B. cable)and basically turns it into a networked printer for all the computers on that network.

Most wireless print servers range in price from $50 to $100 and require a little bit of configuring toget them on the network. When shopping, its a good idea to see if the manufacturer of yourwireless router also makes a print server, as equipment from the same company tends to workbetter together.

For people thinking of buying a new router, many models now come with a built-in print serverfeature that gets the printer on the network if you connect it to the router. Apples $100 AirPortExpress mobile base station, for example, has a U.S.B. port for connecting a printer, as well asan audio jack for hooking up a stereo or a set of powered speakers and blasting iTunes music ata high volume around the house.

Definition

Idiopathic neuropathy is a disorder that affects the peripheral nerves and has no identifiableprimary cause. According to this definition, a third of all neuropathies can be classified asidiopathic neuropathies.

Description

The nervous system is divided into two parts: the central nervous system (CNS) and theperipheral nervous system (PNS). The brain and spinal cord compose the CNS, and the nerves


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that lead to or branch off the CNS compose the PNS.

Peripheral neuropathies encompass a wide range of disorders in which peripheral nerves aredamaged. It may also be referred to as peripheral neuritis (inflammation of peripheral nerves), orif many nerves are involved, the terms polyneuropathy or polyneuritis may be used.

Some of the causes of peripheral neuropathies are common, such as diabetes, and others areextremely rare, such as acrylamide poisoning and certain inherited disorders. Sometimesperipheral neuropathies seem to happen for no particular reason. In such cases, they are calledidiopathic, meaning of unknown cause. Idiopathic neuropathies can be classified as idiopathicmononeuropathies and polyneuropathies. An idiopathic mononeuropathy, or radiculopathy, refersto the involvement of a single nerve or nerve root, respectively. A polyneuropathy usually refers tothe diffuse involvement of peripheral nerves.

Clinical manifestations depend on the type and distribution of the affected nerve population, thedegree to which they are damaged, and the course of the disease. For example, if a motor nerveis damaged, the neuropathy manifests as weakness and muscle atrophy, whereas if the damageinvolves sensory nerves, it may cause loss of sensation, pain, and sensory ataxia.

Demographics

Idiopathic peripheral neuropathies occur typically in middle-aged and elderly individuals andaffect two million people in the United States. However, epidemiological studies are scarce.Available studies suggest that 2.48% of all adults may have some form of neuropathy. The mostcommon cause is diabetes, which accounts for approximately one-third of all neuropathies; theremaining two thirds are idiopathic and of all other known causes.

Causes and symptoms

There are no known causes for idiopathic neuropathies, and therefore they are consideredprimary diseases. If a cause is detected, then the neuropathy is secondary to that, and notidiopathic.

Nonetheless, there are many different peripheral neuropathies, among them the idiopathic type,which demonstrates the functional diversity of PNS activities. Symptoms may involve sensory,motor, or autonomic functions. Symptoms are classified based on the affected nerve type and theduration of disease development. Acute development refers to symptoms that have appearedwithin days, and subacute refers to those that have evolved over a number of weeks. Earlychronic symptoms are those that take months to a few years to develop, and late chronic are theones that have been present for several years.

Most times, the first symptoms include numbness, tingling and pain, unsteadiness when standingor walking, muscle weakness (including weak ankles), or cramps and faintness. Depending onthe affected group of nerves, secondary symptoms may vary from loss of vibratory sensation atthe toes to loss of temperature perception to muscle atrophy.

Diagnosis

Several tests are necessary in order to eliminate all the possible primary causes of the disease,after which idiopathic neuropathy may be defined as a diagnosis; hence it is a diagnosis ofexclusion. The patient's history plays a major role in the diagnosis and has to include allsymptoms, date of onset, duration, extension of affected area, and amount of discomfort andpain. Specific details about tingling, numbness, weakness, or other symptoms are also veryimportant.

During the neurological evaluation, a physical examination will test for loss of vibratory sensation,


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control for diabetic neuropathies, and surgery for compressive neuropathies.

Over-the-counter pain relievers can help treat mild-to-moderate pain associated with peripheralneuropathy. There are two main types of over-the-counter pain relievers: acetaminophen andnonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). Acetaminophen is used to treat mild-to-moderatepain and reduce fever, but it is not very effective at reducing inflammation. Acetaminophenprovides relief from pain by increasing the pain threshold. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs(NSAIDs) reduce pain, swelling, stiffness, and inflammation. Two drugs in this category, ibuprofenand naproxen, also reduce fever. When these drugs are taken regularly, they build up in theblood to levels that fight pain caused by inflammation and swelling, and also provide general painrelief.

Support groups often help patients cope with feelings of isolation and frustration and improvetheir quality of life.

Clinical trials

As of 2004, there were no clinical trials for idiopathic neuropathies; however, there are severalthat aim at other types of neuropathies, such as the diabetic neuropathy.

Prognosis

Prognosis and complications depend on the type and severity of the neuropathy. Idiopathicneuropathies range from a reversible problem to a potentially fatal complication. In the best-casescenario, a damaged nerve regenerates. Nerve cells cannot be replaced if they are killed, butthey are capable of recovering from damage. The extent of recovery is tied to the extent of thedamage, to the patient's age, and to the general health status. Recovery can take weeks to yearsdue to the slow neuronal regrowth rate. Full recovery may not be achieved in some cases.

Special concerns

Complementary and alternative therapies can help manage pain caused by neuropathies. Theseare noninvasive, drug-free treatments that support natural body healing. They may be used alone

or combined with other medications and treatments. Some alternative therapies are biofeedback,acupuncture, and relaxation techniques.

My symptoms include loss of true feelings and strange sensations in my feet,like a burning sensation or freezing pain

Neuropathy means disease or abnormality of the nervous system which is not a very helpfuldefinition. We need to think of neuropathy as any DAMAGE to the nervous system. CarpalTunnel syndrome, Herniated Discs and Strokes are all insults to different areas of the nervoussystem, all with differernt symptoms. Diabetes is a systemic disease that affects all nerves of thebody from the brain, eyes and small nerves of the heart and digestive system, to the nerves inthe hands, feet, and legs.

The peripheral nervous system is made up of the nerves that branch out of the spinal cord to allparts of the body.

Peripheral nerve cells have three main parts: Cell body, axons, and dendrites (nerve/musclejunction). And part of the nerve can be affected, but damage to axons is most common. Theaxon transmits signals from nerve cell or nerve cell to muscle. Most axons are surronded by asubstance call myelin, which facilitates signal transmission.

There are two types of symptoms with PN; negative and positive. Negative signs, which comefirst, are when damage to the nervous system, obviously,brings about a LOSS of a particular


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function. For exaample; loss of reflexes, loss of strength, loss of sensation like numbness. Butthese are rarely detectable to the patient, because the brain makes up the differernt in the losses.Only after some time do the sick and damaged nerves develope the positive signs of neuropathy;tingling , burning, biting, stabbing, shooting pains. This too is a reaction of the brain and thenervous system, unfortunately this over reaction tears apart the fiber of the patients lives.

Each patient will decribe their pain in their own individual language of pain. This can easilyconfuse a doctor not trained in the recognition and treatment of these patients. So the patientusually continues at suffer, going from doctor to doctor, to stronger and stronger doses of pills intilthey are either completely drugged up and out of it, or lost in their own world of suffering.

Some neuropathies come on suddenly, others over many years. Some people are affected onlyby a weakness in the arms and legs which legs which leads to difficulty standing, walking, orgetting out of a chair. The loss of sensation from the feet, ankles and toes contributes to patientsnot having a good sense of where there feet are in space, touching the ground, and this causesthem to fall very easily. These under-recognized sensory losses CAN ONLY be detected withproper clinical exam. This office has the necessary tools to uncover the underlying cause of thissilent nerve damage.

Some patients will eventually become unable to walk at all. Others start with a tingling, pin

pricking feeling that turns into deep sharp stabbing pains and burning eletric shocks. Thesedebilitating problems can also be at their worst at night while trying to get to sleep, because thePAIN never goes away. In fact, once started IT ONLY GETS WORSE!!

The tingling and stabbing is on the bottom of the feet. I just hope that this does not get any worse.After reading some of the posts I fear that it will go up my legs and to my hands.

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Abnormal nerve sensations such as pins-and-needles, tingling, burning, prickling or similarfeelings are all known as "paresthesias". They usually result from nerve damage due to pressure(such as a pinched nerve), nerve entrapment, or diseases. Continued nerve damage can lead tonumbness.

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So how did Goldman Sachs cause the housing bubble? It got into CDOs, the game of buying,repackaging and selling mortgages.

Says Taibbi:

Goldman used two methods to hide the mess they were selling. First, they bundled hundreds ofdifferent mortgages into instruments called Collateralized Debt Obligations. Then they soldinvestors on the idea that, because a bunch of those mortgages would turn out to be OK, therewas no reason to worry so much about the lovely ones: The CDO, as a whole, was sound. Thus,

junk-rated mortgages were turned into AAA-rated investments. Second, to hedge its own bets,Goldman got companies like AIG to provide insurance - known as credit-default swaps - on theCDOs. The swaps were essentially a racetrack bet between AIG and Goldman: Goldman isbetting the ex-cons will default, AIG is betting they won't.

There was only one problem with the deals: All of the wheeling and dealing represented exactlythe kind of dangerous speculation that federal regulators are supposed to rein in. Derivatives likeCDOs and credit swaps had already caused a series of serious financial calamities: Procter &Gamble and Gibson Greetings both lost fortunes, and Orange County, California, was forced todefault in 1994. A report that year by the Government Accountability Office recommended thatsuch financial instruments be tightly regulated - and in 1998, the head of the Commodity FuturesTrading Commission, a woman named Brooksley Born, agreed. That May, she circulated a letterto business leaders and the Clinton administration suggesting that banks be required to provide

greater disclosure in derivatives trades, and maintain reserves to cushion against losses.

Yeesh. It's hard to know where to begin.

First there's the stunning assertion that there was only one problem with the deals -- namely thatthey were complex derivatives. Sorry, but CDOs aren't derivatives. Maybe because both CDOsand CDSs start with 'CD' he thinks they're close enough to just lump in together. But thedistinction is more than semantic. His whole argument is that Goldman cronies conspired totorpedo regulation that would've regulated derivatives. So for his argument to make any sense,CDOs have to be derivatives -- even though in reality, regulators tasked with managing thatmarket wouldn't have touched them.

But then, even if they were, this bit about cherry-picking a few example of derivative bets gone

bad (Orange County, Procter & Gamble, etc.) strikes us a very weak argument that they weredestined to be A Bad Thing.

In fact, Taibbi is really just repeating an annoying tendency of mainstream financial journalistsand pundits, who claim that the problem with CDOs is that they were exotic and 'not vanilla'. Infact, we might as well rename them 'Complex CDOs', since that's how they are always referred.But that's wrong. The problem wasn't lack of regulation or their complexity -- the problem is thatthey represented a bet on housing and that bet went horribly awry. What about that is so complexand hard to understand? If valuing CDOs were so impossible, whey did the collapse of thatmarket in late 2007 precede the broader collapse of more normal securities?


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Next he goes onto make another charge, that while Goldman was selling CDOs, they were alsoshorting them:

Not that Goldman was personally at any risk. The bank might be taking all these hideous,completely irresponsible mortgages from beneath-gangster-status firms like Countrywide andselling them off to municipalities and pensioners - old people, for God's sake - pretending thewhole time that it wasn't grade-D horseshit. But even as it was doing so, it was taking shortpositions in the same market, in essence betting against the same crap it was selling. Evenworse, Goldman bragged about it in public. "The mortgage sector continues to be challenged,"David Viniar, the bank's chief financial officer, boasted in 2007. "As a result, we took significantmarkdowns on our long inventory positions .... However, our risk bias in that market was to beshort, and that net short position was profitable." In other words, the mortgages it was sellingwere for chumps. The real money was in betting against those same mortgages.

"That's how audacious these assholes are," says one hedge-fund manager. "At least with otherbanks, you could say that they were just dumb - they believed what they were selling, and it blewthem up. Goldman knew what it was doing." I ask the manager how it could be that sellingsomething to customers that you're actually betting against - particularly when you know moreabout the weaknesses of those products than the customer - doesn't amount to securities fraud.

"It's exactly securities fraud," he says. "It's the heart of securities fraud."

Now the first time we read this, our eyes were sort of skimming over it and we got to that last linethat said "It's exactly securities fraud... it's the heart of securities fraud" and we stopped rightthere and looked up to see who said it. Turns out, it's just an anonymous hedgie, who, given hisanger, probably got fat at the CDO trough for a few years and then blew up. Boo-hoo.

But securities fraud this isn't. As McArdle reminds Taibbi, there was this whole Eliot Spitzer-ledinquisition on Wall Street to ensure that the left hand didn't know what the right hand was doing --so a company can sell a product and its traders can be short it, and that's okay. Again, it's theopposite of what's called securities fraud.

As an aside, it's also total crap when he says that the securities were dumped to "old people" asthough they were being sold at the corner to grandma and grampa. These pension funds maymanage money for old people, but they weren't being run by unsophisticates. They're run by justthe opposite -- highly paid, sophisticated managers that knew exactly what they were buying.

He goes onto note that, like with the IPO boom, Goldman Sachs has faced lawsuits related to itsdealings in this area, as if that's damning (he talks about this elsewhere in the story, too). But themere fact that someone is sued by angry investors, or the fact that a bank pays a fine to aregulator doesn't mean anything, given the perfunctory lawsuits anytime someone loses gobs ofmoney.

In addition to his failure to pin the housing bubble on Goldman Sahcs -- which in our book doomsthe whole thing -- there's one other odd thing about the article: the dog that doesn't bark, the lack

of evidence that the company's vaunted entanglement in the public sector has proven to be sobeneficial. Taibbi brings this up in the beginning, ticking off names of famous Goldman alums, butother than talking about their role in fighting derivatives regulation, they don't seem to do a wholelot for the company. You'd think he'd explore that more.

That being said, there are two good points that come out of this. First is his prediction that cap-and-trade will prove to be the next bubble or at least market for financial chicanery. Of this wehave little doubt, and it's why Goldman and GE are so eager to create this new market wherenone currently exists.


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He also pokes at a very interesting question on whether Goldman Sachs' culture of risk changedat some point.

It also, oddly enough, had a reputation for relatively solid ethics and a patient approach toinvestment that shunned the fast buck; its executives were trained to adopt the firm's mantra,"long-term greedy." One former Goldman banker who left the firm in the early Nineties recallsseeing his superiors give up a very profitable deal on the grounds that it was a long-term loser."We gave back money to 'grownup' corporate clients who had made bad deals with us," he says."Everything we did was legal and fair - but 'long-term greedy' said we didn't want to make such aprofit at the clients' collective expense that we spoiled the marketplace."

But then, something happened. It's hard to say what it was exactly; it might have been the factthat Goldman's co-chairman in the early Nineties, Robert Rubin, followed Bill Clinton to the WhiteHouse, where he directed the National Economic Council and eventually became Treasurysecretary.

Talk about having the story right in your face and then missing it. What changed in the 90s?Goldman transitioned from being partner-based to being public, a structure that many have citedas being crucial to being more tolerant of sloppy risk.

Of course, saying Goldman's change was due to its involvement in the Clinton administration isway more sexy. And besides we don't think the "Backstage with the Jonas Brothers!"-crowd reallycares to read an article about the nuances of unpartnering.

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Vision

The revolutionary iPhone also includes an equally revolutionary screen reader, and otherinnovative accessibility features that make it easier to use for those with impaired vision.

VoiceOveriPhone 3GS displaying VoiceOver settings. The VoiceOver and Speak Hints buttons are on.Three instructions appear: To select an item touch it. To tap the selected item, double-tap. Toscroll, flick three fingers.

The same VoiceOver screen reader made popular on the Mac is now a standard feature oniPhone 3GS. Its the worlds first gesture-based screen reader, enabling you to enjoy the fun andsimplicity of iPhone even if you cant see the screen.

What makes VoiceOver on iPhone truly remarkable is that you control it using simple gesturesthat let you physically interact with items on screen. Its easy to learn and fun to use. Instead ofmemorizing hundreds of keyboard commands, or endlessly pressing tiny arrow keys to find what

youre looking for, with VoiceOver, you simply touch the screen to hear a description of the itemunder your finger, then gesture with a double-tap, drag, or flick to control the phone.

VoiceOver delivers an experience unlike any screen reader youve ever used before. Traditionalscreen readers describe individual elements on the screen, but struggle to communicate whereeach element is located or provide information about adjoining objects. This contextualinformation is very important but typically filtered out by other screen readers. For example, off-screen models used by traditional screen readers to represent applications and web pagesintentionally strip away contextual information and describe web pages as a list or menu of items.But with VoiceOver on iPhone 3GS, youll experience something entirely new.

Because VoiceOver works with iPhones touchscreen, you interact directly with objects on thescreen and can naturally understand their location and context. So, when you touch the upper-left

corner of the screen, youll hear whats in the upper left corner of a web page, and as you dragyour finger around the screen, youll learn whats nearby, providing an amazing new sense ofcontext and relationship between the items you hear. For many, VoiceOver on iPhone willprovide, perhaps for the first time, a true sense of how things appear on screen, not justdescriptions of what they are.

Youll hear descriptions of every item on the screen, including status information such as batterylevel, Wi-Fi and cellular network signal levels, the cellular network provider, and time of day. Iteven lets you know when the display changes to landscape or portrait orientation, and when thescreen is locked or unlocked.

The speaking rate is adjustable so you can set it to a speed that best suits your listening ability.VoiceOver uses distinctive sound effects to alert you when an application opens, when the screen

is updated, when a message dialog appears, and more. And, when Voiceover is talking, thevolume of background sounds and music are automatically lowered, ducking under the voice, soyou can clearly hear what VoiceOver is telling you.It speaks your language

VoiceOver includes built-in voices that speak 21 languages including Bahasa Indonesian,Chinese (Cantonese), Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Dutch, English (US), English (UK),English (Australian), Finnish, French (Canada), French (France), German, Greek, Italian,Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian,Russian, Slovak, Spanish (Mexico), Spanish (Spain), Swedish, Thai, Turkish.


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Getting started

VoiceOver is built right into iPhone 3GS. Theres nothing extra to purchase or install. All you needis iPhone 3GS, iTunes 8.2 or later, and a Mac or PC. You can activate your iPhone and enableVoiceOver without sighted assistance using iTunes with a compatible screen reader likeVoiceOver included in Mac OS X and GW-Micro Window-Eyes for Windows XP and WindowsVista (sold separately). When you activate iPhone using iTunes, you can enable VoiceOver oniPhone to start using it right away. Sighted users can also enable VoiceOver for you directly oniPhone using the Accessibility menu in the Settings application.How it works

With VoiceOver enabled, youll use a different but simple set of gestures to control iPhone. Forexample, instead of tapping to activate a button, tap the button to hear a description of it, double-tap to activate it, and swipe up or down to adjust a slider.

When an item on the screen is selected, a black rectangle called the VoiceOver cursor appearsaround it. The VoiceOver cursor is displayed for the benefit of sighted users with whom you maybe sharing your phone. When you prefer privacy, VoiceOver includes a screen curtain that turnsoff the display so no one can read it without your knowledge.

In addition to touching and dragging around the screen, you can also flick left and right to movethe VoiceOver cursor precisely to the next or previous item on the screenno matter how big orsmall it is. By flicking, you have precise control of what you hear even when it might otherwise bedifficult to place your finger on it.Two iPhones. The iPhone in the background shows the home screen. A dialog bubble indicatesVoiceOver speaking the hint: Mail. One new item. Double-tap to open. The iPhone in theforeground shows the Camera application with a beach ball in the viewfinder. The VoiceOvercursor is on the mode switch button and a dialog bubble indicates VoiceOver speaking the hint:Photo button. Switches camera to video.Entering Text

When youre typing text, such as an email message or a note, VoiceOver echoes each characteron the keyboard as you touch it, and again to confirm when you enter it. You can also have

VoiceOver speak each completed word instead of and in addition to individual characters as youtype them. A flick up or down while typing moves the insertion point cursor left and right within thetext so you can edit a word just as easily and precisely as typing a new word.Two images side by side. The first shows a text-suggestion bubble containing the word restaurantbelow the partially typed word r e s t a u. The other shows a text bubble containing the word greatabove the misspelled word g r w a t.

To help you type more quickly and accurately, iPhone features word prediction and suggests thecorrect spelling when you type a word incorrectly. With Speak Auto-text enabled, youll hear asound effect and the suggested word spoken automatically. You can just keep typing to ignore it,or press the space key to have iPhone type it for you.The RotorTwo fingers touching a iPhone display and a counter-clockwise arrow indicating how to enter a

rotate gesture.

VoiceOver features an innovative new virtual control called a rotor. Turning the rotor byrotating two fingers on the screen as if you were turning an actual dial changes the wayVoiceOver moves through a document based on a setting you choose. For example, a flick up ordown might move through text word by word. But when you choose the character setting, eachtime you flick up or down VoiceOver will move through the text character by character perfectwhen youre proofreading or editing text.

You can also use the rotor to navigate web pages. When youre on a web page, the rotor


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contains the names of common items, such as headers, links, form elements, images, and more.You select a setting, then flick up and down to move to the previous or next occurrence of thatitem on the page, skipping over items in between.Applications

VoiceOver works with all of the built-in applications that come with iPhone 3GS, such as Phone,iPod, iTunes, Mail, Safari, and Maps. So, you can place and receive calls, surf the web, text andemail your friends, check your stocks and the weather, and much, much more. Apple is alsoworking with iPhone software developers so they can make their applications VoiceOvercompatible. Learn moreTwo iPhones. The iPhone in the foreground is displaying the Voice Control screen awaiting aspoken command. There is a large cancel button at the bottom. The iPhone in the backgroundshows iPhone dialingVoice Control

In addition to gestures, you can use your voice to play music and make a phone call. Just pressand hold the home button, listen for the audio prompt, and speak the name of the artist, album, orplaylist you want to hear. You can pause, play, change tracks, even shuffle your music.

When you want to make a call, speak the name or telephone number of the person you want to

call. iPhone 3GS understands 21 different languages. Learn moreZoomTwo iPhones. The iPhone in the background is displaying the weather application. The iPhone inthe foreground shows the weather application zoomed 200%

While many iPhone applications let you zoom in and out specific elements such as images inMail, or webpage columns in Safari, Zoom lets you magnify the entire screen of any applicationyoure using to help you see whats on the display. Zoom can be enabled on iPhone 3GS usingiTunes when youre setting up iPhone, for yourself or someone else, or later, using theAccessibility menu in the Settings application on iPhone.

Zoom works everywhere, including the Home, Unlock, and Spotlight screenseven withapplications you purchase from the App store.

Two iPhones. The iPhone in the background is displaying the Accessibility Settings screen. TheiPhone in the foreground shows the Accessibility Settings screen in reverse video.

A simple double-tap with three fingers instantly zooms in and out 200% and you can double-tapand drag three fingers to dynamically adjust the magnification between 100% and 500%. Evenwhen zoomed, you can continue using all of the familiar flick, pinch, tap and other iPhonegestures to run your favorite applications. Zoom can also be used with white-on-black (reversevideo) and speak auto-text.White On Black

For those who need or prefer higher contrast, iPhone 3GS provides an option to change thedisplay to White On Black. This reverse video affect works in all applications including the Home,Unlock, and Spotlight screens and can be used with Zoom and VoiceOver.

Speak Auto-text

When typing, iPhone suggests a word before you finish typing it or a correction when a word ismisspelled. Speak Auto-text speaks these suggestions so you can hear them when theyrepresented. When zoomed, for example, the suggestion might not be visible on screen, but youcan hear and accept it without seeing it. If youre using VoiceOver, you wont have to interruptyour typing and touch the suggestion to hear it. Speak Auto-text can be enabled even whenyoure not using VoiceOver or Zoom.Callouts indicate the name and location of the physical buttons on iPhone.Tactile Buttons


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iPhone includes a few, easily discernible physical buttons used to control the phone: theSleep/Wake button, located on the top edge; the Ring/Silent switch and volume-control buttons,located on the upper-left edge; and the Home button, centered below the display.Giant Fonts For Mail Messages

For improved email readability, you can increase the default font size of email text from Medium(the default) to Large, Extra-large, or Giant.iPhone earbuds with clickable microphone built into the cableiPhone Stereo Headset

iPhone comes with a stereo headset with a high-performance microphone built into the cable.Plug it into the standard 3.5 mm stereo headphone jack and the headset lets you control musicplayback and answer and end calls by clicking the built-in remote control button.

Several add-on products are also available to work with iPhone that can help those with hearingdisabilities, including a hearing aid-compatible induction ear loop from TecEar, wireless remoteheadset from Oticon, and others.Hands-Free Speakerphone

Enjoy hands-free communication using the built-in speakerphone, which you can also use tolisten to Visual Voicemail, music, podcasts, and video.Audible, Visible, And Vibrating Alerts

Turn the ringer on, and iPhone delivers both audible and visual alerts. You can activate alerts forphone calls, text messages, incoming and sent mail, and calendar events. iPhone also offers anaudio option confirming keyboard clicks. You can even set incoming calls to display a full-screenimage or photo of the caller.

In silent mode, iPhone vibrates instead of playing a tone. To ensure that you never miss anotification, you can also have iPhone vibrate and play an audio alert.Downloadable, Assignable Ringtones

You can assign distinctive ringtones to individuals in your contacts list, using the ringtone as anaudible caller ID. Visit the iTunes Store to create, purchase, and download additional ringtones ofyour favorite songs (sold separately).A visual representation of a ringtone sound wave as it might appear in iTunes while it's beingcreated.Accessible iPhone User Guide

The iPhone User Guide has been designed with accessibility in mind. You can read the iPhoneUser Guide in HTML format using a web browser with your favorite screen reader on a Mac, PC,and iPhone. Or, you can read the iPhone User Guide in tagged PDF format using the Previewapplication in Mac OS X and Adobe Acrobat for Mac and Windows.Hearing

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I love Google. There, I said it. I'm in a passionate affair with all of the lovely features of Google.

Most recently I discovered Google Voice. This revolutionary service offers you a full-featuredanswering service, for none of the price. I just changed my office number to my GV number, and ILOVE it!


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Here are my favorite features:

1. Transcriptions of voice messages2. Downloading audio messages to specific client files3. Saving audio email messages to specific client files4. Being able to answer calls5. A reliable call log of all phone numbers (inbound and outbound)6. Ability to call from GV7. All this for FREE!!!

GV is helping to expand my practice with its wonderful features. I'm not sure how this would workfor a well-established practice, but since my practice isn't well-established, I was able to utilize theservice for a small investment. My biggest cost was ordering new business cards and sending outnotice letters to the clients and other contacts who don't use email.

If you're starting out, GV is a great option. It'll take a bit to get your number/invite, so GETGOING!!! GV is just one of the multitude of programs I use on a daily basis.

Here's a simple list of my daily programs:

1. Google Reader2. Goog-4113. iGoogle4. Google Docs5. GV6. Gmail7. Google Apps

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