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Bandwidth becoming a learning block at KM
District looking at referendum to pay for high cost of technology
At Kettle Moraine Middle School in one seventh grade house, students spread out with laptops to work on memoirs. Next door, laptops sit poised waiting for students to come in from their outdoor science exploration. Using technology like Google Apps for Education for online collaboration of assignments and mass communication of information available anywhere, anytime, provides efficiency for teachers; however, it comes at a cost.
Bandwidth and wireless access points limit use at KMMS where access points only accommodate 30 people at a time. KMMS Principal Theresa Gennerman has concentrated on installing additional access points in one house at about $1,000 each.
"The infrastructure is holding us back," Gennerman explained. "If we can spend money on access points, we can let kids bring their own devices."
While Gennerman is planning on rolling out BYOD (Bring Your Own Devices) to seventh-graders to increase use of technology and remove barriers of individual access, the district struggles to provide the necessary bandwidth to provide uninterrupted access.
ALEKS and Digits math programs allow personalized, interactive learning but are only available on a limited basis to KMMS students because of limited bandwidth and access points.
"This is how kids are learning," Gennerman pointed out.
However in an older building where the number of electrical outlets further complicate the situation, bandwidth is only one stumbling block to learning without boundaries, but its limiting grasp encompasses the entire district.
On Sept. 18 Director of Facility Services Dale Zabel outlined $14.4 million in urgent facility needs and $4.2 million in needs that can wait three to five years and Director of Technology Services Brandon Kostolni's listed urgent technology needs of about $2.5 million with further needs estimated at $1.9 million. On Oct. 16, the KM School Board looked at timelines for a referendum, aiming for one in 2014 provides time to gather information and inform the public, but pinches urgent technology and facility needs, which then wouldn't begin being addressed until 2015 or 2016.
While School Board members favored having more time to prepare for a referendum, interim solutions for pressing needs could be costly.
"It doesn't change the urgency of technology needs," said Superintendent Pat Deklotz.
Zabel said they could make things run for a while but might be spending more than they want as they continue to patch aging buildings and equipment.
Kostolni said he would have to find a short-term solution to bandwidth, possibly buying bandwidth for the interim, which would be "extremely costly."
"It's not ideal, but we'll have to make something work," said Kostolni. "Once you get into larger increments of bandwidth, the cost goes up dramatically."
School Board President Gary Vose said it would be preferable to take more time to allow the public to digest information about needs and associated costs.
"Success is called getting the referendum to pass," said Vose. "We want to do everything we can."
School board member Dennis Krueger stressed the public should understand they are still in the stage of gathering information on potential costs. Zabel and Kostolni will explore options and costs for interim solutions to technology and facility needs that could carry the district to a 2014 referendum and bring that information back to the board.
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VIDEO: How to Sprout Whole Grains
VIDEO: How to Dry Sprouted Grains
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Stocking the Kitchen
Introduction to Whole Grains: From Spelt to Quinoa
Nutritional Benefits of Whole Grains
The Dangers of Phytic Acid and Other Anti-Nutrients
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VIDEO: Soaked Buttermilk Pancakes
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How to Choose a Grain Mill
Why Freshly Ground Flour is More Nutritious
The Difference Between Sprouting, Soaking and Sourdough
How to Store Freshly Ground Flour
How to Soak Flour
How to Grind Flour
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Sprouted Flour Chicken Pot Pie
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VIDEO: Sprouted Flour Cinnamon Rolls
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Sprouted Flour Banana Bread & Muffins
Sprouted Flour Blueberry Muffins
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Sprouted Flour Christmas Cookies
Sprouted Flour Orange Hazelnut Biscotti
Sprouted Flour Cinnamon Rolls
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How to Start a Sourdough Starter
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Apple Pie with a Lattice Crust
Chocolate Buttercream Frosting
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- January 25, 2012 at 3:38 pm
What about those that have to be gluten free. Does this class help with that?
- February 4, 2012 at 2:37 pm
Hi Ann Marie,
I'm wondering why you don't just make your video classes a lot cheaper, like $10, instead of $149, and reach a lot more people? In the end, you might even make more money!
- February 6, 2012 at 10:01 am
The price for each class is roughly $12 per class. I think that is a pretty reasonable charge. I am looking forward to participating. Thank you for doing this. I have had my Nutri Mill for about 3 years. I like having fresh flour and I have experimented on my own with soaking unsuccessfully. I am still struggling to make a good bread and I look forward to learning how to prepare grains traditionally.
- February 6, 2012 at 9:55 am
Hi Anne Marie,
I would be very intereted in the information you have here as you have it or in a book format, but for a lot less money. I do not mean to devalue your product, but when you consider that Sarah Pope provides video tutorials on her blog for FREE and I can get Julia Child's cookbook for about one fifth of the price, it does not seem like a fair price.
- February 6, 2012 at 10:23 am
I agree with the post above on the price…I was very interested, but 149 is kind of steep, I think. I would love to take your class, but not everyone can afford that amount. I hope in the future you would reconsider offering the class at a lower price to reach those that can not afford to pay 149. Thanks for listening.
- February 6, 2012 at 3:31 pm
Hi Ann Marie,
I would like to take the class as well and I do think the price is fair for what you get but I cannot afford the cost all at once. When you do offer it for $12 a class I will definitely take it and would eventually take them all. Being unemployed, $149 at one time is a killer for me. Looking forward to when I can take a class : )
- February 8, 2012 at 12:40 pm
I also feel that the price in total is high, but I can just imagine the kind of work that it takes to put this together. Are there times of the year that you deeply discount your online classes, say for a special holiday or something. I think I remember a good price on a black Friday class I took of yours.
- February 9, 2012 at 7:23 pm
I'd love to start with you food allergies class and then move on to this one. Is there a coupon code for the first class? Or a discount for buying both classes at once?
- February 10, 2012 at 5:04 pm
Ann Marie,
This was awesome. Will this be offered again? I totally agree with you about the saving time part. I know from experience the amount of time it takes to find info, as there is so much out there. Congrats to you and much success.
- February 10, 2012 at 11:43 pm
Looks like a good class. Would it be possible for my daughter and I to share one purchase, we don't live in the same house. Actually we're not interested in the same parts of the course, I make bread, she makes sweets. And also, I did plug in your SPROUT20 coupon code and it doesn't work.
- February 11, 2012 at 5:22 am
I would like to order the course, but not sure if I will get to it in the next year Small baby here! However, I would like to save it to keep. Is this possible? Can these videos and materials be downloaded for later use throughout the years to come?
- February 12, 2012 at 4:40 pm
I second this question… I'm wondering if the videos be downloadable for use when my family is getting back to grains post-GAPS?
I also second the desire to be able to purchase individual classes…your program looks awesome, truly, but I'm not a beginner and really would love to just get new tricks from you on how you do certain foods…. Cheers!! gabi
- February 12, 2012 at 4:41 pm
I second this question… I'm wondering if the videos would be downloadable for use when my family is getting back to grains post-GAPS?
I also second the desire to be able to purchase individual classes…your program looks awesome, truly, but I'm not a beginner and really would love to just get new ideas from you on how you do certain recipes…. Cheers!! gabi
- February 12, 2012 at 4:42 pm
oops, sorry for the deja vu there!!
- February 11, 2012 at 5:36 am
OMG! $149.00 is extremely reasonable! I usually don't waste my time commenting on the "entitlement attitude" comments, but you guys who are complaining about the cost need to hear this! There is a tremendous amount of knowledge that has been fine-tuned over many years in order to put these videos together! The author deserves payment for her KNOWLEGDE just as much as she deserves payment for the time and money spent putting the videos together! The value one obtains by taking this course is immeasurable. A single course in college for which you have access to once, and only once, ranges from $500.00 to $2000.00. I'm a doctor. I spent 14 years getting my degree and thus I am paid for that. This author, though i know nothing about her personally, studied, experimented, and then worked hard to put these videos together! $149.00 is dog gone cheap. You should take advantage of her GENEROSITY. Or, spend the years learning just like she did reading books and making mistakes in your kitchen.
- February 11, 2012 at 1:39 pm
If there was a like button to these posts, I would like this.
- February 12, 2012 at 12:49 pm
Me too. Try taking a cooking class sometime locally: they're expensive! And I'd much rather learn from someone who has worked the kinks out of sourdough and all the other recipes and techniques. I'm just glad I have such a great resource. I COULD do it all on my own for free, but sometimes that isn't worth the time and effort. I just want to learn it already!
- February 12, 2012 at 4:36 pm
Amen! Look, I really do sympathize with families that are cash-strapped…things are hard. But, honestly, AnnMarie is providing a great deal of work and knowledge here, and "the laborer is worthy of her hire!" I have struggled personally with knowing how to price my herbs and health consulting services b/c I want to be accessible to people, but I also put a LOT of time and labor into my creations and consultations, as well as years of study/training and a knowledge base. Can we all do the footwork and learn how to do all these things for ourselves? Sure…but the time has been spent and the service is being offered…and not unreasonably (!); this makes life easier for those desiring to learn. Even though I've been eating/cooking this way for years, I think I might buy AnnMarie's classes just to support her and to have some fun garnering new pearls from a fellow WAPF real foodie.
- February 12, 2012 at 1:16 pm
I have just signed up! The SPROUT20 coupon worked perfectly for the full payment- $149(really $199) of which I paid $129. Thank you. I am so pleased to have found this on-line course. This course is what I have been looking for! I want to learn to bake more tasty and healthy food. I crave for more freedom in my kitchen and this will give me the tools and skills that I will want to practice! I too am on unemployment at this time and finances are restrictive for me yet I can personally think of no better way to spend my time and money than learning how to be healthy and more self sufficient in my food choices. I can understand how a one time fee of $12 per class would be affordable, yet the lifetime membership and the ability to read the archives for a refresher or having the opportunity to problem solve with an expert innovative grain lover is priceless.
- February 14, 2012 at 8:33 pm
I'm interested in the a la cart option, too! Please post a link to that purchase option if you decide to make it available!
When do the classes start?
Many thanks!
- February 15, 2012 at 3:52 pm
Don't worry about people's comments about the cost. You do the work; you deserve to be paid. Everyone expects everything on the internet to be free. I'm sure they can check out their local community education offices/co-ops and see if there are free options there. Otherwise, there's always youtube. I don't take the classes either because they're too much for me too…but I definitely don't expect YOU to do something about that. Thanks for all the research you've done that you do share for free; we appreciate it!
- February 15, 2012 at 6:03 pm
So excited for this class! I have already taken Wardeh's sourdough e-course, which was incredible and I highly recommend it, but I'm excited to learn from another sourdough expert and get some different insights. I've also been wanting to experiment with sprouting grains to grind into flour, so I'm glad to have you teach me instead of fumbling around with it myself. Thanks so much for putting this class together!
- February 18, 2012 at 12:46 am
Someone mentioned that Rachel Ray and Martha Stewart offer cooking classes for free online…well RR and MS are highly sponsored and stylized brands, marketing their personalities more than anything else. The realfoodmedia.com classes are currently out of my budget, but as a fellow freelancer I must say that the prices, while higher than others, are completely reasonable. People think that just because someone doing freelance work loves their job, they don't mind doing it free. Nothing could be farther than the truth (although, because we do love our jobs, we do plenty of work that goes over-and-beyond what we are getting paid for); freelancers don't get paid vacation, training, sick days, materials, or benefits. We also often don't have to charge overhead for middle men, employees, office space, etc. The prices we set reflect not only the final product, but the depth of expertise as well as the hours and production costs that all went into the making of that final product–and more importantly, the prices are set exactly at the point we believe is most beneficial both to us and to the client. I wish more people would be respectful of small businesses, and the heart and strength that goes behind it–not money! Consumers can trust that the product they receive from a hardworking small business owner is worth every penny they are paying, if not more…which honestly cannot always be said about the larger corporations/brands!
However I do have a question; as much as I agree that it would be helpful to see the techniques in video format, when actually performing the techniques I would prefer to go by step-by-step printed instructions (after first familiarizing myself with the video). Is it possible to provide print-outs with your videos, chapter-by-chapter, for us more linear thinkers? I would be inclined to purchase a more expensive video class if it included outlines or printable instructions.
- February 18, 2012 at 9:07 am
I'm interested in taking the buckwheat & quinoa class, and the corn classes (as can't tolerate everything else – including yeast…….).
Are the individual classes available to look at as many times as we need to, as the whole course is ?
I'm in Europe, and we only really use corn as polenta/pasta. So excuse my ignorance, but can you use frozen sweetcorn, or dried sweetcorn in the recipes, or do you have to use fresh corn-on-the-cob?
Ann Marie, I really value being able to do individual classes, as so much is not applicable on whole courses – I've looked at your food allergies, and can't do three-quarters of the course. So thank you for giving us your expertise in a way that's best for individuals.
- February 20, 2012 at 9:02 pm
I am very interested in learning to make real sourdough, which I've heard can be tricky. Is the method you use one that produces a true sourdough with all of the many health benefits? I currently use the no-knead Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day method to make bread (yum!) which produces a sourdough flavor, but I would really like to learn how to make the real thing. Thanks!
- August 20, 2012 at 4:08 pm
I am super interested in your class. BUT… I hate cooking, but I Love to eat bread, and I can't eat that processed crap from the store anymore, and the budget pinches on those $5 ezekiel bread loaves! Questions are: 1) how hard and time consuming is it really just to make bread? 2) how much/what fancy equipment is necessary? and 3)where does one buy these grains to sprout (if i live in a small town w no fancy grocery stores)?
- September 16, 2012 at 1:10 pm
Hi there Kathy, your course sounds interesting but I'm specifically looking for dehydrated bread recipes and yeast free a well. Do you offer these in your course? Please advise, all the best and Thanks much!!! Michellealeta
- September 16, 2012 at 1:14 pm
Hello there–regarding my previous comment and question re dehydration and yeast free– I would like to be notified via email. Thanks again, Michellealeta
- October 29, 2012 at 1:19 pm
I have been eating wheat free for a while now and I am getting ready to start using Einkorn flour and berrries for baking bread. Have you used this flour and is it different in the recipes that you have listed for regular wheat bread?
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AMARILLO - New jobs are on the way to Amarillo, but they come with a price. City commissioners approved a million dollar grant to bring a new AIG division to town.
The expansion will bring 120 new jobs to Amarillo. That includes professional and management positions as well as customer service jobs.
The majority of those jobs will be at the AIG facility on Osage Street.
Right now the company employs 1,100 people in Amarillo. That's after expanding operations here 8 times in the past 11 years.
That dedication to our area is why Brian Jennings with the Amarillo Economic Development Corp says the million dollar grant used to bring these latest jobs here is a worthy investment.
"They invest way more than we do. This is just our opportunity to partner with them," Jennings said.
The million dollar grant from the AEDC will be used for new equipment and software for the facility, as well as training new employees. That money, and any other money granted by the AEDC, comes from sales tax revenue within the city limits.
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The government's lawsuit against Goldman Sachs, announced Friday by the Securities and Exchange Commission, is a doozy. It alleges that the Wall Street firm defrauded investors in a synthetic — remember that word "synthetic," because it's important — collateralized debt obligation, or CDO. The charge is that Goldman let an investor named John Paulson help put together the CDO without telling other parties that Paulson was betting against it, thereby dooming them to lose money.
So far, so scandalous. But that's not the end of the story.
First, about that word "synthetic." The Wall Street Journal explains that
the investment at issue did not hold mortgages, or even mortgage-backed securities. This is why it is called a "synthetic" CDO, which means it is a financial instrument that lets investors bet on the future value of certain mortgage-backed securities without actually owning them.
Yet much of the SEC complaint is written as if the offering included actual pools of mortgages, rather than a collection of bets against them. Why would the SEC not offer a clearer description? Perhaps the SEC's enforcement division doesn't understand the difference between a cash CDO—which contains slices of mortgage-backed securities—and a synthetic CDO containing bets against these securities.
More likely, the SEC knows the distinction but muddied up the complaint language to confuse journalists and the public about what investors clearly would have known: That by definition such a CDO transaction is a bet for and against securities backed by subprime mortgages. The existence of a short bet wasn't Goldman's dark secret. It was the very premise of the transaction.
Now, it should go without saying that any investment is a gamble, that the only investments that forever go up, up, up usually result in someone like Bernie Madoff going to jail. The only honest gamble is one in which one side wins money and the other side loses.
And in this case, we are talking about a particular kind of CDO, one which is even more explicitly designed as a betting proposition. There is no consideration here of, say, income from the mortgages upon which the bet was based. It is purely a matter of up-or-down. No sophisticated investor — and the majority of the losses from this bet were sustained by big international banks — would make this bet thinking that everyone was betting on the upside. Yet that's one of the things the SEC alleges against Goldman: that it didn't tell some investors that other investors were betting on the downside, when that should have been plain to everyone.
The more serious allegation is that Goldman let Paulson build the CDO with mortgage-backed securities that were especially likely to fail. Actually, the complaint says that Paulson "played a significant role in the portfolio-selection process." Who else played a significant role? ACA Management LLC, which the SEC describes as "a third-party."
Undermining the narrative, however, is this revelation from Goldman Sachs on Friday: ACA was the largest "long investor" (meaning ACA was betting that the CDO would rise in value, not fall) in the deal, with $951 million.
So, ACA was not some disinterested "third-party." It put together a CDO in which it then invested nearly $1 billion. It clearly was building a CDO on which it thought it could make some money. Borrowing the language of the lawsuit, you might even say its "interests were sharply conflicting" with those of short-side investors.
What's more, Goldman itself lost $90 million on the deal, more than erasing the $15 million in fees it earned for arranging the deal. As the WSJ editorial puts it, "the SEC is suing Goldman for deceiving long-side investors in a transaction in which Goldman also took the long side. So Goldman conspired to defraud…itself?"
Can we assume the SEC would also sue Goldman if the bet had turned out the other way, and Paulson had lost money on the CDO he helped build, rather than ACA losing money on the CDO it helped build?
It's always tricky commenting on a just-filed lawsuit, because more information invariably comes out as the process unfolds. There may be some truly damning information about Goldman's role in this deal yet to come out. There may be other cases that are truly egregious — although, if that's true, one has to wonder why they wouldn't be the first ones out of the gate. But no such information has been unveiled yet, and based on the available evidence it's easy to imagine the SEC losing this case, despite all the bluster about this supposed breakthrough in revealing how Wall Street makes the sausage.
April 19th, 2010
10:43 am
"Can we assume the SEC would also sue Goldman if the bet had turned out the other way, and Paulson had lost money on the CDO he helped build, rather than ACA losing money on the CDO it helped build?"
Why would the SEC sue Goldman on behalf of Paulson losing? Paulson was in on the entire thing and should have been sued along with Goldman.
I'm hoping Germany follow through on their potential lawsuit. They stand a better chance of putting a real hurt on Goldman.
Also, those guys at WaMu who testified at the financial hearing last week are just as bad. I'm hoping they are the next group to get what should have come to them back in 2006 & 2007.
April 19th, 2010
11:12 am
Greed blinds.
April 19th, 2010
11:13 am
I'm betting that Paulson will be used to testify against Goldman. More than likely, some one who is no longer with the company and doesn't have a conflict. Also, Goldman is the middleman who had all the necessary information and they admitt to not telling buyers and sellers anything about each other.
If the SEC lose this case, we are in a no win situation against Wall Street; because anything goes.
FYI…. we have rules in Georgia for car dealers who don't disclose information about a vehicle. It doesn't matter what the product is that is being sold, disclosure is important. That's why if the SEC can't prove their case(I believe they will), I think the bank in Germany will not find it as hard to make their case.
April 19th, 2010
11:22 am
"What's more, Goldman itself lost $90 million on the deal, more than erasing the $15 million in fees it earned for arranging the deal."
As usual, the WSJ is misleading it's readers. By cherry-picking a single deal, readers are led to believe that Goldman lost money on their bets. The $90 million loss on a single deal is a tiny fraction of the hundreds of millions they made by betting against the garbage they were selling.
Of course, this article isn't really about the Goldman Sachs case. It's about undermining a legitimate argument for increasing oversight of the large banks and financial institutions which were primarily responsible for great recession.
April 19th, 2010
11:22 am
Wall Street is a lot like Las Vegas. Rule #1-The house always wins in the end. For people like me and most of the other members of the Great Unwashed, it's best not to play.
April 19th, 2010
11:41 am
We must stop the infidel volcano Eyjafjallajoekull with strict sanctions on Iceland and all those nations contemplating volcanic terrorism.
April 19th, 2010
12:00 pm
Very good and well researched article. I read an article in the New York Times about three weeks ago about an independent investor who bought securities from Paulson betting on them losing. He did it for the simple reason that things do not always go up, and he thought the fall was due. According to this article, Paulson convinced Goldman to allow him to enter this market simply as a hedge against a fall. This private investor made lots of money for his clients, and $951 million for himself.
In the end I think we will find Goldman is not as dirty as the SEC claims, and not as clean as Goldman claims.
April 19th, 2010
12:31 pm
"As usual, the WSJ is misleading it's readers. By cherry-picking"
As opposed to what, CJ? The New York Times? Time Magazine? Got news for ya pal: The WSJ is much more respected than that bastion of liberal OpEd known as the New York Times.
In any event, I do find the timing of the outing of this story suspect as a vote on more banking finance reform comes in the next week. It is no secret that GS was in the tank for the Obama administration all in the name of "fair housing" legislation. Further, it is no secret that just about all of our financial mess can be tied back to sub-prime mortgages, things that liberal Democrats like Dodd and Obama supported. Even further, it is no secret that the Bush administration and Seantors like McCain back in 2004 saw this train wreck coming and wanted to increase regulations on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, but liberal Democrats like Barney Frank all but blocked anything being done about it (Frank's boy lover was a big wheel at Freddie Mac).
So now here we are and the Obama administration is using these failures as an excuse to tighten the leash on banks and inevitably take them over completely, which is what they plan on doing with insurance companies with ObamaCare. Rather ironic that the bottom feeders got mortgages, many of whom fall into that bottom 50% of income earners who pay no income taxes. But that's what the left wanted, and banks were coerced – some say forced – to loan to people they knew were risky at best.
But we all know how fair liberal Democrats are now, don't we? Time's Joe Klein, the definitive foot stool of the left in print media, said yesterday on one of those left wing Sunday morning talk shows that Palin, Beck, and others are guilty of sedition.
Bill Clinton timely makes a comment on the 15th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing and said that Tea Party people are domestic terrorists and dangerous.
Now I have a question. Exactly where were these people, and all the other liberals out there for EIGHT YEARS under Bush? Did they all forget about the anti-Iraq war protesters, many of whom carried signs depicting Bush be hanged for treason or depicting Bush as a nazi? Where are all these people of the modern definitive left when G4 comes to town and protesters torch cars and throw bricks into businesses?
When the Right is in power, protesting and speaking out against the government is a good thing. When the Left is in charge, it's "sedition" and "domestic terrorism." When the Right is in charge, increasing regulations are bad. When the Left is in charge, it's good. Do we see a pattern here? And certainly don't look for the lame stream DNC media to report any double standards, back tracking, and hypocrisies of the Left running this train wreck of economic collapse we're fast heading towards.
April 19th, 2010
12:45 pm
The SEC is the best conference in all of college football!!!!!!
April 19th, 2010
1:15 pm
RNC2010 you are full of half truths and talking points. I laugh in your general direction. We see what the R's did, why do you think they were voted out?
The question is can the D's handle prosperity?
April 19th, 2010
1:51 pm
It's merely a smoke screen during financial reform regulation discussions (moved up) to take away our attention from the real culprits: Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac (& their buddies, Frank & Dodd).
April 19th, 2010
1:54 pm
No Kyle, ACA Management is not "the specific case in which the SEC has filed suit". It is, however, the specific case in which this article focused on.
Incidentally, there is a suggestion that the quality of the underlying securities, or lack thereof, was hidden from potential investors–hence the lawsuit.
April 19th, 2010
1:56 pm
You're projecting Linda. Republicans have an established record of filing lawsuits for political gain — not Dems.
April 19th, 2010
2:00 pm
Goldman is about to be in hot water. Not necessarily because of this CDO transaction, but because now they will have to be deposed. If the government asks about their role in the Greek debt crisis, do they have to answer? If the government asks about other CDO transactions, do they have to answer? If the government asks about transactions used to drive hedge funds out of business causing the markets to crash, do they have to answer?
If I'm them, I'd swallow the hubris and settle now. I don't think they really want to be questioned under oath. I don't think that we'll find out that they "are doing the lord's work".
April 19th, 2010
2:31 pm
I think some people from Wall Street should go to jail, are these the 1st bunch to go, we'll find out. The ethics on Wall Street are basically about the same as a used car dealer on Gordon Hwy. in Augusta. In many cases they did the equivalent of selling a car that they knew had been in a flood as a cream puff.
I still don't understand why you deleted my comments about Saxby last week, please explain.
April 19th, 2010
3:02 pm
The looters will always find a way. I think this book has already been written.
April 19th, 2010
3:05 pm
April 19th, 2010
3:07 pm
Banks, GM, Media, Health Care, and now Wall Street. Wonder who will be next? Is Chavez and Obama brothers from a different mother?
April 19th, 2010
3:19 pm
People were protesting the war in Iraq because it was, in fact, a fraud. There were no weapons of mass destruction and Iraq never attacked the U.S.A. on 9/11 or at any other time. Do you really believe that protesting a war where tens of thousands of people have died on the basis of fraudulent claims is somehow the same as protesting an attempt to make health care more affordable for all?
April 19th, 2010
3:31 pm
RNC2010: Now I have a question. Exactly where were these people, and all the other liberals out there for EIGHT YEARS under Bush? Did they all forget about the anti-Iraq war protesters, many of whom carried signs depicting Bush be hanged for treason or depicting Bush as a nazi? Where are all these people of the modern definitive left when G4 comes to town and protesters torch cars and throw bricks into businesses?
Weren't the protestors who were against Bush called TRAITORS and UN-AMERICAN?? Weren't those protestors railing against economic policies? Did those protestors blow up any federal buildings recently?? Look…the vitriol is on both sides…but the LEVEL of then vs. now speaks volumes. It's NOT just a policy issue with Obama….and many here refuse to acknowledge that fact!!
When the Right is in power, protesting and speaking out against the government is a good thing. When the Left is in charge, it's "sedition" and "domestic terrorism." When the Right is in charge, increasing regulations are bad. When the Left is in charge, it's good. Do we see a pattern here? And certainly don't look for the lame stream DNC media to report any double standards, back tracking, and hypocrisies of the Left running this train wreck of economic collapse we're fast heading towards.
It was REAGANOMICS that started the nation down this path…and the nation getting BUSHwhacked exacerbated it!! Do you expect Obama to fix in 2 yrs what it took over 250 years to do?? C'MON, MAN!!
April 19th, 2010
4:17 pm
Joe@3:19, I'm a Tea Party participant & I can assure you that we are not protesting "an attempt to make health care more affordable for all."
I can assure you that imaginary thought never entered our minds.
April 19th, 2010
4:25 pm
HDB@3:31, The subprime mess started under Clinton. Affordable Housing/Social Justice is a Dem/Progressive strategy. It was a great part of Clinton's history.
April 19th, 2010
4:39 pm
Linda, you are just wrong.
April 19th, 2010
5:01 pm
Linda, that perfectly explains why the COMMERCIAL real estate losses have been as bad/worse than the residential real estate losses. All those minorities and their affordable commercial property promised to them by Clinton.
Don't let reality get in the way of your mythological world.
April 19th, 2010
5:06 pm
Goldman was pimping these CDOs to investors as a safe AAA investment (even retaining the equity tranche for show, I'm guessing these are the "losses" you refer to in your blog), while placing backdoor massive bets in the other direction at the same time.
It actually seems to be a pretty "open and shut" violation of GS's responsibility to its clients.
April 19th, 2010
5:15 pm
No way the SEC loses.
April 19th, 2010
5:18 pm
April 19th, 2010
4:25 pm
HDB@3:31, The subprime mess started under Clinton. Affordable Housing/Social Justice is a Dem/Progressive strategy. It was a great part of Clinton's history.
The "Ownership Society" was a key tenet of the BUSH campaign. The subprime mortgages exploded when the Bush regulators ignored the markets!! Glass-Stegall WAS repealed under Clinton…but the laissez-faire economic practices were implemented under Bush…..
Lest you forget…..
April 19th, 2010
5:19 pm
Kyle…….Please tell me why the ratings agency's are not on the hook ?
All know they said the paper was A+.
Bottom line GS will not get charged with anything in the end…… It is all about buyer beware, and due your homework on the product.
April 19th, 2010
5:19 pm
Avery — GOOD POINT!! It was the commercial property crash that accelerated the real estate crash…not the residential market……
April 19th, 2010
5:33 pm
Hey Kyle…… This vote may have some clues as to whether the SEC can actually win the case…….
By: Bob Pisani
CNBC Reporter
Word that the SEC vote to sue Goldman Sachs was 3-2, right along party lines (first reported by Bloomberg), came out a bit after 2pm ET and helped lift Goldman and the overall market.
Volume in GS immediately picked up and price moved from $159 to $162 in a matter of minutes, putting GS into the green for the first time today.
Why is this important? Because it implies that if the SEC cannot get a unanimous vote, culpability may be less than clear.
Kyle, I would suspect the Dem's voted 3….. perhaps they are being over anxious with the thought of banking reform, and wanting to "GET SOMEONE" to prove the point.
This may turn out to be a huge back fire.
April 19th, 2010
5:58 pm
What does the word "bet" mean as it was used by both Kyle and The WSJ? Bet against? What does that entail?
April 19th, 2010
6:08 pm
Jefferson@4:39, How am I wrong? Are you accusing Bill Clinton of lying?
April 19th, 2010
6:16 pm
Avery@5:01, Are you accusing Clinton of lying? Are you denying that the MANDATE under Clinton was not the catalyst that caused the world-wide economic crisis?
April 19th, 2010
6:21 pm
HDB@5:18, You, too, are accusing Clinton of lying when he ADMITTED that the Bush adm. & the Reps tried over & over again to rein in the GSEs. I'm not saying that Bush was innocent, but blaming Bush for the economic crisis is stupid. It started under Clinton & he BRAGGED about it in his biography.
April 19th, 2010
6:36 pm
Where were the tea-partiers when Bush was creating the largest government entitlement (Medicare Part D) since the '40s? Where were the tea-partiers when the Constitution was being completely trampled by warrantless wiretapping and data-mining of American's communications on a massive scale? Where were the tea-partiers when the deficit was being exploded by two unfunded wars?
Linda, the economic collapse wasn't caused by subprime mortgages. It was caused by the deregulation of the banking industry and the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act; if that hadn't happened, there would have been no financial meltdown. The bill that repealed that Act was introduced by Phil Graham (R-Texas) and Jim Leach (R-Iowa) in 1999. The bills were passed by a Republican majority pretty much along party lines, with most Republicans voting for it and most Democrats against in both the Senate and House.
And did President Bush do ANYTHING to rein in the easy availability of credit to pretty much anyone with a heartbeat? No, he pushed it and pretty much took credit for it!
We're creating… an ownership society in this country, where more Americans than ever will be able to open up their door where they live and say, welcome to my house, welcome to my piece of property. – President George W. Bush, October 2004.
April 19th, 2010
6:40 pm
The sub-prime loans were MANDATED by Congress in the '90's. They were originated by mortgage companies, used by homeowners & investors, purchased & bundled into securities by Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac (mandated by Congress), rated by Moody's & Standard & Poor, insured by AIG, resold on Wall St. & all over the world & regulated by thousands of govt. bureaucrats.
Public & private retirement accounts invested in them.
The fed. govt. has bailed out the homeowners who used them (even paying for their moving costs), are paying the real estate agents who benefited from them & who are now negotiating short sales, has bailed out AIG along with almost all of Wall St. & is now stuck with states & cities in the dilemma that there's no money to fund retirement & health care benefits to govt. workers.
Anyone who wants to join the Tea Party is welcome.
April 19th, 2010
6:56 pm
Mike@6:36, I can't speak for the entire Tea Party & I do not endorse all the actions of Bush. I beg to differ with the root cause of the economic collapse. It was caused by the ideology of Dems/Progressives of Affordable Housing in the name of Social Justice, the number one agenda of our president in the '90's as well as our current president. Clinton negotiated for his agenda by signing the Glass-Steagall Act.
Clinton ADMITTED that the Dems denied all efforts by Bush & the Rep's efforts to rein in the GSEs.
April 19th, 2010
6:57 pm
Linda, you're either seriously misinformed about the Community Reinvestment Act, or just practicing typical right-wing revisionism. The actual wording of the act… "help meet the credit needs of the communities in which they operate, including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods, consistent with safe and sound operations." I'll repeat that last part for emphasis – CONSISTENT WITH SAFE AND SOUND OPERATIONS! It was NOT a mandate… no percentages were required, and it gave the banks a huge amount of discretion on who they approved and denied.
The other points you bring up don't conflict at all with what I was saying was the result of banking deregulation and the repeal of the Glass-Stegall Act. And we all know what party worships at the feet of deregulation and unregulated capitalism!
April 19th, 2010
6:59 pm
Kyle, at this point if the ratings agency's can say anything and not be considered negligent when they totally blow it, as they did in this case……it kind of makes me worry about this thought…….
Are also in the back pockets of these wall street big guys ?
April 19th, 2010
7:15 pm
A jurty will determine whether the SEC v. Goldman Sachs case is a slam dunk or not and NOT the editorial pages of the WSJ. For any American who lost or had his/her 401 wiped out due to Wall Street chicanery, the lawsuit is welcome news. I commend Obama and the SEC for having the guts to bring action against Goldman. I hope similar cases are brought against other players in the mortgage mess and pray for criminal charges as well.
The foundation of our capital markets is the free flow of information. Goldman is a publicly traded entity and subject to public disclosure requirements. Certainly, the information that was withheld from the public would have mattered to any investor. If such information was not disclosed, then they broke the law and would have their day in court.
I dont think Goldman Sachs needs another choir master to sing its tunes. They already have attorneys and PR folks.
April 19th, 2010
7:20 pm
I'm wrong Kyle. You're right. Very sorry. My neurons are misfiring today.
Yes, Goldman Sachs did make billions betting against the housing market but did lose millions on the CDO specific to this lawsuit (Abacus).
Essentially, Goldman Sachs appears not to have properly disclosed John Paulson's role in developing this product, and such lack of transparency is, evidently, illegal.
April 19th, 2010
7:59 pm
Mike@6:57, Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac were given QUOTAS by the fed. govt. for subprime loans. Let me give you a website:
In case this doesn't work, the New York Times says:
"…to individuals whose credit is generally not good enough to qualify for conventional loans…Fannie Mae, the nation's biggest underwriter of home mortgages, has been under pressure from the Clinton adm. to expand mortgage loans among low- & moderate-income people…loans to so-called subprime borrowers…whose incomes, credit ratings & savings are not good…Fannie Mae has expanded home ownership for millions of families in the 1990's by reducing down payment requirements…Fannie Mae is taking on significantly more risk…but the government-subsidized corporations may run into trouble in an economic downturn, prompting a govt. rescue…by the year 2001, 50% of Fannie's & Freddie's portfolios be made up of loan to low- & moderate-income borrowers. Last year (1998) 44% of the loans Fannie Mae purchased were from this group."
April 19th, 2010
8:02 pm
Mike, My source did not work, but you can find the article based on my link. Get back to me after you do. I look forward to hearing from you.
April 19th, 2010
8:08 pm
You are right, Linda.
April 19th, 2010
8:28 pm
Isn't the timing of this Goldman thing "REALLY GOOD", Kyle? Wonder how long the SEC sat on this deal all shush, shush? Now that Comrade Pelosi has no need of her broom anymore – I mean, with Air Pelosi and all at her service to fly around on – her broom could be put to better use over at the SEC – cleaning house!
One other thing Kyle, what do you know of this Kotlikoff "limited purpose banking" idea?


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Boeing now expects India's commercial aviation fleet to grow more than five times in size over the next 20 years, with demand for 1,600 new airplanes valued at $205 billion.
This is an increase from a Boeing forecast last year of 1,450 new airplanes worth $175 billion. Rival Airbus
Dinesh Keskar, senior vice president sales for Asia Pacific at Boeing, told Reuters that the 737 MAX planes are 14 percent more fuel efficient compared with its 737 planes, making them particularly attractive to Indian carriers hurt by high fuel costs.
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"Yes, the Indian market right now is going through its difficulties... Today everybody is selling below cost. And that means they are losing money," Keskar said in an interview on the sidelines of the Hyderabad airshow.
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Jet Airways and Air India did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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IndiGo is currently the only one among India's five national carriers that is making a profit. Airlines hope that upgrades to their fleet and new investments will revive their fortunes.
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CES Day 0 Report: MS: "We love games." Sony: "What games?"
If you somehow froze yourself in the early '90s and thawed out just in time for Sony's CES press day event yesterday, you would hardly know the company has been in the forefront of the console video game market for nearly 15 years now. Sony's press presentation was packed with reporters and similarly packed with new product and service announcements, ranging from 3D-capable TVs to webcams, e-Readers to 3D TV networks, and even cameras and camcorders that support standard SD cards as well as Sony's overpriced Memory Sticks (now where's our SD-capable PSP?). Sony also used the presser to unveil a new marketing campaign, "make.believe," which CEO Howard Stringer said is "supposed to mean different thing to different people." I suppose that means other people may not think it's the stupidest slogan they've ever heard.
So amidst all this news from across Sony's electronics divisions, what did we learn about the company's gaming plans? Absolutely nothing.
To be fair, Sony Computer Entertainment CEO Kaz Hirai did mentioned the PS3 in passing, bragging that the system sold 3.8 million units worldwide during last year's holiday season. But to hear him talk yesterday, the PS3 seems more important to Sony as a device for purchasing a selection of 2,700 movies and 16,000 TV episodes than for playing games. And it won't even be Sony's most important streaming video device for very long, as Hirai announced the PlayStation Network video service is coming directly to Bravia TVs, Blu-Ray players and Windows PCs this year. Your existing PSN account will work on all these new devices, seemingly proving that the PS3's true utility is not as a gaming system, but as a trojan horse to get sign-ups for Sony's video-on-demand service. That was the impression I got from the press event, anyway.
Microsoft at least acknowledged how central games were to the success of the Xbox 360 at their keynote speech later that night. Yes, they did mention that the system can be used to stream Netflix videos and post Facebook updates and stream last.fm internet radio and dress up avatars and make coffee (I may have made that last one up). But they also devoted a good 10 minutes talking up the system's lineup of 2010 games, exposing the audience of 10,000 tech reporters to already-seen but still impressive footage for Alan Wake and Halo Reach.
They even threw out news of a major new feature for the system; a lineup of downloadable classic games from the arcade, Atari 2600 and Intellivision, playable on both the Xbox 360 and PCs. The new marketplace will start with thirty games, but Microsoft promised there will be 1,000 available in three years' time (are there even that many classic games worth playing?). There are all sorts of Xbox Live-centric trimmings around the experience, including a customizable Avatar arcade and the ability to challenge online friends to high score battles, but the most interesting part of the announcement to me was the pricing model, which includes a "try it once" option for 40 Microsoft points. That's 50 cents, people! Put your quarters up on the screen if you want next!
And while Sony failed to even mention the existence of their motion-sensing Wand controller at their CES press event, Microsoft closed out their keynote with an extremely over-the-top video talking up Project Natal, complete with recycled E3 video and hyperbolic praise from developers saying how many new ideas the device makes possible. There was even a speck of actual news about Natal when Microsoft confirmed rumors that the device is coming out in Holiday 2010, but with key details such as price and game support still under wraps, it's hard to get excited about the announcement of a vague three-month release window.
Still, the dueling CES presentations, coming back to back yesterday, really seemed to highlight a disconnect in how these two battling console makers see the video game portion of their business. Perhaps Sony just felt CES wasn't the best venue to talk up their gaming initiatives, with GDC and E3 just around the corner. Perhaps Microsoft is simply proud of their dominant market position. Regardless, it was hard not to come away with the impression that Sony sees gaming as an afterthought while Microsoft sees it as a central part of their consumer electronics business. I know that's not true, but I'm just not sure how many of the other reporters here are similarly aware.
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Six years after Radiohead performed one of its most memorable concerts at the 2006 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee, a fan has posted a downloadable version of the complete show online, all but challenging the band to shut him down.
The 28-song performance included early versions of several songs that would eventually appear on Radiohead's 2007 album In Rainbows, such as "15 Step," "House of Cards," "Weird Fishes/Arpeggio" and "Bodysnatchers," and has become famous among Radiohead fans. Shortly after the gig Thom Yorke reportedly told the BBC that it was one of his favorite-ever Radiohead shows and that it would be released on DVD.
That release has yet to arrive. But the fan who posted the show writes on his website RadioheadBonnaroo.com , "This website will not need to exist for long, because as soon as I post these songs, they will spread across the internet and then I can take them down and give my server a rest." He claims to be a mastering engineer who worked on cleaning up the sound on the recordings for months -- having been given a soundboard tape of the show from someone working the board.
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from Ken Campbell of The Hockey News, With the lockout on the verge of entering its third month, the Fehr Factor has entered negotiations in a big way. That much has become crystal clear with the NHL's rising level of frustration in recent days. Negotiating with someone as intelligent and canny as Donald Fehr is difficult at the best of times. The NHL is finding out that when it comes to tactics, one of Fehr's is to push the buttons of the guys on the other side of the table. What the league is seeing is Fehr at his absolute best. Several times, he has delayed bargaining sessions with the league. He will occasionally "forget" his notes and get up and leave the table in the middle of an important discussion. This might give him the aura of an absent-minded professor, but chances are it's all an orchestrated effort designed to frustrate. And by all accounts, it has been a smashing success of late. And who can blame Fehr for doing that at this point? Are Fehr's negotiati...
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Adelaide Mestre has been a woman divided for much of her life.
Her heritage on her mother's side is the world of WASPs, Park Avenue and the Social Register. Department store magnate Marshall Field III and Metropolitan Opera co-founder Cornelius Bliss were her great-grandfathers.
Distinguished in its own right, her father's family was listed in the "gold book" of Cuban society. Her grandfather, Abel Mestre, and his brothers owned CMQ, the country's leading radio and television network, until Fidel Castro drove the family into exile. Yet until she took a trip to Cuba in 2010 in search of memories and her late father's Steinway piano, Mestre's connection to that part of her identity was far more ephemeral.
Reconciling the many facets of her life is at the heart of Top Drawer, the play with music Mestre will perform Saturday and Sunday at Miami-Dade County Auditorium's OnStage Black Box Theatre.
Mestre, who lives in New York, is the first to tell you, in Top Drawer and in conversation, that she has had a pattern of not following her passions to fruition. She dropped out of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, had an off-again on-again career as an actress (including a small role in the Woody Allen movie Husbands and Wives) and never quite became the cabaret singer she intended to be. But Top Drawer, which she's working to turn into a memoir and maybe a movie, is different.
"I hadn't put the pieces of my life together. I knew them all separately ... but this was like looking back and seeing the patterns in my life," she says. "I never would have imagined the show would bring such healing. Writing it, working through it, facing it all — it became a tribute to my dad, a way to keep him alive. I created a piece of art that has transmuted my sense of loss."
Mestre's father, Luis Enrique Mestre, dreamed of becoming a concert pianist but went to Harvard Business School to please his parents. He pursued performing until a teacher told him he'd never be one of the great pianists, then switched careers to become an art dealer. He was also a gay man whose "best friend" was his lover, a truth that came out (as Mestre himself did) when Adelaide was a child.
His relationship with Mestre's mother, Barbara Bliss Mestre, began through a shared love of music — her quashed dream was to become an opera singer — while Barbara was married to a State Department officer. When Mestre's parents wed, Luis wept, answering Barbara's question about why by saying, "Because I never thought I'd have this."
In collaborating on Top Drawer with director-actor Lauren "Coco" Cohn (Rosie in the current Broadway production of Mamma Mia!) and musical director Doug Oberhamer, Mestre found that elusive thing called closure.
"It was amazing to tell my dad's story. I grew up with the shame of having a gay dad in the '70s, when it wasn't OK. And then he committed suicide, which was another kind of shame," she says.
" Top Drawer aired it all out. … People respond to different things — the story of a gay dad, the suicide, my parents' love story. I have a feeling of wholeness. This does feel like it completes something in my family."
Mestre had left performing and was studying to become a Gestalt therapist when Top Drawer drew her back to family and the arts. Oberhamer, who won't be playing the Miami shows because of a New York conflict, describes Mestre as a performer with "a lot of trepidation. She's the kind of person who thinks, 'Well, who wants to hear this story?' "
Lots of people, as it turns out.
Top Drawer moves back and forth in time as its nearly cinematic score leads Mestre in and out of song — everything from the bolero Sin Ti to the haunting In a Very Unusual Way from Nine, a show she saw with her mother just a few months after her father's death.
Oberhamer believes she communicates with audiences in a way that transcends traditional musical theater.
"I don't even think of her as singing in this," he says. "It's all such pure emoting."
Cohn, who has been Mestre's pal since they met at NYU, says, "Her voice has a lot of ache in it. You can't help but enjoy and respect someone who is willing to be that raw."
Top Drawer hits different audiences in different ways. Cohn says a non-Cuban New York crowd "relates to the stuff about the Upper East Side. Cubans see it and weep. But it has this universality."
What Top Drawer has done for Mestre, besides giving her a deeply personal piece that its creators hope will have an Off-Broadway run, is to restore a lost part of her life.
She would always say "I'm half Cuban" because it felt more exciting than the WASP side that dominated most of her growing up, and visited her father's side of the family in Miami as a kid. But it wasn't until she went to Cuba that she felt, "Oh. There are people like me."
Mestre's journey of change continues in unexpected ways. She recently wed businessman Eric Schwartz, and in January, past 40, she'll welcome her first child — a baby girl Mestre plans to name Lucia, in honor of her father.
"I hadn't had this idea of motherhood," Mestre says. "But the timing of the show, the conquering of my demons — it all feels synchronistic."


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On the final day of Social Media Week, let's fire up the Radian6 analysis dashboard and find out who was talking about the event. We'll focus on the four cities with the most conversations.
New York City
Opening up a Conversation Cloud, we can see the 50 words used the most in conjunction with Social Media Week NYC.
Communications giant Nokia and social media's latest obsession Pinterest both cracked the top 50. Eli in Tanzania drove conversation as well thanks to this tweet from @UN_Women.
For every hashtag use of #SMWMagic in next hour, Eli in #Tanzania gets $1 to finish school! Keep tweeting! owl.li/97xfU #smwnyc
— UN Women (@UN_Women) February 16, 2012
Hopping across the Atlantic over to London, let's see what was driving UK conversation.
Nokia makes an appearance again as well as Google, the search engine giant scores with Google+ and the #SMWGoogle hashtag. Londoners were also discussing social media use by athletes in conjunction with the upcoming London 2012 Olympic Games. Former Olympic Silver medal-winning Badminton player Gail Emms also factored largely into the conversation.
Next, let's see what the Canadians were discussing this week in Toronto.
In terms of brands, Bell Media and BMO Financial Group drove a fair chunk of Toronto conversation. The Women Shaping the Social Media Landscape panel and the #WIW hashtag also sparked an incredible amount of discussion this week in Toronto. For more insights on #SMWTO happenings check out the latest two posts from our own Jason Cassidy.
Finally, let's move from the cold of Canada to the warmth of Florida and see what drove social conversations in Miami.
The "Personal Branding through Social Media" panel was the clear winner here with "Branding", #PersonalBranding and the Twitter handles of the panellists dominating the Miami conversation cloud. For more on #SMWMiami, check out this post from our own Trish Forant, who was in attendance this week.
Most Active Tweeters
Speaking of Trish, she checks in at number nine amongst the most active tweeters this week. Using the influencer widget and adjusting to account for only on topic posts, here were this week's biggest Social Media Week enthusiasts.
Language Breakdown
Finally, given the global presence of Social Media Week, let's have a look at the language breakdown of social media week posts using a topic analysis widget.
English dominates with 87.1% of all posts with Japanese placing second with 4.7%. In descending order, Portuguese (3.7%), French (1.8%), German (1.7%), Spanish (0.8%), and Italian (0.3%) round out the list.
This snapshot shows just how diverse the social-media conversation has become. It's brought the world together on the major platforms while still allowing for discussions of more regional interest to flourish.
But we've got one more trick up our sleeves. We asked a few social media week attendees about this week. Is it useful given that social media is already well known? Here's what they had to say.
Were you in attendance this week at any of the 12 locations? Any particular panels or presentations our audience should be aware of? Has Social Media become so prevalent in our daily life that a week devoted to it is becoming unnecessary? We'd love to hear your thoughts in the comment section!
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The old "I thought it was my house" story has made a comeback. Scott Timmins of the AHL's San Antonio Rampage reportedly went down that road early Monday morning, as San Antonio television station KENS reported that the 23-year-old broke into a family's home after leaving a bar and took a seat on the couch.
Homeowner Benjamin Garza, who was not home at the time, was none too pleased. His three children and wife were in the house alone. Garza said his wife discovered Timmons on the couch and asked him who he was, to which he responded, "Don't worry about that."
"He was yelling, 'What are you doing in my house,' " Garza told KENS. "My wife said, 'You need to get the hell out of here.' "
Garza said his wife called 911 and then him. When he finally met Timmins face-to-face, he let him know how fortunate he was that the man of the house was not home when he decided to come in uninvited.
"You're lucky I wasn't here because I would've put a bullet between your eyes and it would've been over for you," Garza said he told Timmins. "My first instinct was to beat the hell out of him. He needs to pay for what he did, traumatizing my family like that."
The police report stated Timmins was so heavily intoxicated that he was barely able to stand and did not remember how he got into Garza's home. According to the report, he did admit that he had been out drinking with some teammates, but added that he thought he was in his own home. Timmins has been charged with criminal trespass.
Hey, at least he thought it was his own house. That's a better explanation than the one this guy gave when he broke into an MLB general manager's home in November 2011.
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At the library, characters come to life! Join us for the Symphony of Words Book Tour and meet the four heroines from the novel "The Tempo," the first book in the Elemental Symphony children's fantasy series by local author Lakisha Spletzer.
In this series, four young girls who each possess one of the powers of the elements must embark on an adventure and work together to save their kingdom from a false queen.
For more information on this promising series, visit the website: http://www.elementalsymphony.com.
Tour dates and Locations:
Saturday, March 24, 3:30--4:30pm, Lakes Region branch
Saturday, April 7, 1:30--2:30pm, Homosassa branch
Saturday, April 14, 3:30--4:30pm, Coastal Region branch
Saturday, April 21, 1:30--2:30pm, Floral City branch
Saturday, May 19, 11am--12pm, Central Ridge branch
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