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EP381: Elias, Smith and Jones
By Mark English
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Mark is an ex-rocket scientist with a doctorate in physics so has an unwitting talent for taking the magic out of twinkling stars, sunsets, colourful flames dancing in a roaring fire, and rainbows.
His medium term aims are to introduce other fathers to the world of creative storytelling, and to find his feet with short story writing. This will involve him having to appreciate that what he sees as funny does not always accord with other people's points of view.
Christchurch, New Zealand has been his home for 10 years with all the ups and downs that entails.
Elias Smith and Jones
By Mark English
Every space in the four thousand seat lecture theatre was taken. Additional folk had snuck in to sit on the dark steps at the back. With everyone whispering discretely, the noise was deafening to the grizzled old-timer who stood leaning on the lecturn at the front—or it would have been except for the myPod player earbuds delivering their tinny frantic bluegrass tunes into his head. He chuckled to himself as he looked up at the wall of people in front of him. Political leaders, military leaders, space systems engineers; all desperate to hear the words of an aged ship's monkey from the Frontier. All because he and his co-conspirators had blackmailed the solar system.
Elias chuckled to himself again. Who would have figured things would have turned out so? He plucked the ear buds out. Instant silence. The university had scored a coup in convincing one of the Sundance gang to tell their tale since any spaceway robbers were generally executed. However the Sundance gang had a thirty year old secret, one that everyone wanted. With the removal of the first earbud old Elias had indicated he was ready to start; all the spectators held their breath.
Elias turned his face up to the watchers, felt the bright lights warming his face, and smiled a toothy grin. "Howdy folks, I'm good an' pleased to be here today, to see so many notables amongst you. Some I have met before." A five star general shuffled uncomfortably in his seat as if the warm smile made him sweat—which it did. Elias continued in his soft southern-states patois. "We are gathered here today to hear a story, so let's go back thirty years, back to when I was even more good lookin'. My partners and I had just obtained a large cargo of rare earth metals from an asteroid cargo waggon, and this had been mistak'n for a robbery. I guess after these years I gotta 'fess up and say that it sure as hell was a robbery!" Elias leaned forward and grinned at the Sheriff-Admiral in the front row like he was about to lay a golden egg—which as history showed he had (in a manner of speaking). The Sheriff-Admiral returned a tight grimace filled with thirty years of difficult restraint. (Continue Reading…)


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Since the crippling of the US property market following the financial downturn, the business of real estate has changed fundamentally. The days of loose credit conditions and even looser mortgage requirements are a distant memory that has been replaced by caution and cuts.
The sector has struggled against the backdrop of a sluggish economic recovery, plagued by structural problems in the labour market, the lack of new business formation, deleveraging by large private sector entities and the deceleration in private consumption that has put a halt to the construction, development and financing of real estate projects. Only now are there signs of a nascent recovery.
To survive through the uncertainty, property sector players have had to change the way they operate and in turn educators, including business schools that host real estate MBAs and electives, have had to evolve their curriculums to better prepare their students for the new risk-averse environment.
Required courses on real estate law, development and finance at graduate institutions such as the Wharton school at the University of Pennsylvania that teach real estate MBAs, have had to be taught in the context of this new environment.
"The courses don't change but the content does. If I taught the same lectures as I did seven years ago, students would think I was crazy," says Joseph Gyourko, professor of real estate and director of the Zell/Lurie Real Estate Center at Wharton.
"For example, in 2007 there was almost a quarter of a trillion dollars in commercial mortgage-backed securities issuance and last year there was almost zero. The world has changed and students have become aware the world has changed."
Wharton also puts emphasis on related subjects including real estate economics, urban fiscal policy, the relationship between government policy and private development, international real estate markets as well as the aesthetic and technical considerations of architecture.
Matthew Spiegel, professor of finance at Yale School of Management who teaches real estate classes, echoes this statement.
"To some degree you don't have a choice but to change. At one time the derivatives market didn't exist, the subprime market didn't exist, now they do. You can't have courses where huge sections of the financial community are ignored. You can't skip them," says Prof Spiegel. "There were huge real estate institutions that fell apart. Our job is to now ask how do they recover and what does the new version look like."
Since the downturn he adds, more emphasis has been put on risk analysis and its effects, noting that the financial crisis had its roots in the market for residential real estate.
"Before the real estate crisis, it was thought that you could diversify and eliminate risk through spreading it out. This fell apart. Now we're asking, 'Why did things fall apart?' There is a lot more discussion along these lines when there didn't used to be," says Prof Spiegel.
Other institutions such as the Haas School of Business and Kellogg School of Management offer real estate programmes as part of their broader MBA offering, acknowledging the need for tomorrow's professionals to have a thorough understanding of the theory and practice of the real estate industry.
Lynne Sagalyn, director of Columbia's MBA real estate programme, says that to keep courses as fresh as possible the business school has developed 65 case studies, including 10 in 2009 alone, that form a key component of the school's instruction.
Schools on the east coast have benefited because they are able to leverage the richness of New York City's real estate industry and Wall Street as a laboratory for learning. Experienced industry professionals serve as adjunct professors at Columbia and devise curriculum material while others act as guest lecturers. "We are constantly innovating to stay fresh. We want the educational perspective to reflect the evolution of changes," says Prof Sagalyn.
The evolution of the US property environment and the subsequent changes to real estate programmes at these schools have resulted in a shift in the make-up of the students on these courses. While many sought to go into development during the property boom, the numbers have dwindled as construction is at depressed levels compared with its record highs. Speculative development, while showing some signs of recovery, remains very low because many developers struggle to get credit from banks.
Aaron Blatt, a second-year MBA candidate at Wharton, is one of the few among his peers who still wants to work on the development side of the business.
"Most people who want to do the real estate MBA want to go into the investment and financing side of the business …I have a lot of family in real estate so going into development was a natural step for me," he says.
"Those candidates who want to work on the investment side will benefit from the big recruiters that come to the school like the real estate divisions of banks and private equity groups," he adds.
The US government and Federal Reserve have encouraged private sector participation to spur the country's housing market recovery through clearing the glut of foreclosed homes. These homes at depressed prices have generated considerable interest from institutional investors – future employers of these students – and are emerging as an alternative asset class. In the past year alone, private equity investors have poured hundreds of millions of dollars into these properties, often with the intent to rent.
Adam Cohen, a real estate MBA candidate at Columbia, ran Darwin Capital Management, acquiring, renovating and renting single-family homes in the south Jersey market.
"There are opportunities out there for investment with funds springing up across the US," he says.
Business schools have tried to internationalise their real estate programmes in line with the broader trend in MBAs. "One of the biggest recent changes at Wharton has been the rise in the number of international courses in the real estate programme. The world is a small place. A third of our students are foreign nationals. While things were slow in the US, there was development elsewhere – from Puerto Rico to China," says Prof Gyourko.
Aside from the increasing number of international students, US students are more aware of real estate environments beyond their borders.
"MBAs really are becoming more internationalised," says Prof Spiegel. "Our students want to know what it means to invest in India, for example. They're asking what are the advantages and disadvantages of holding real estate in a different country."
A greater emphasis on the social impact of real estate development and finance is another growing trend, reflecting a broader shift in MBAs. Columbia's latest offering will address topics such as socially responsible development, the challenges and opportunities of financing affordable and mixed-income housing and how shifts in public policy and priorities affect the availability of capital.
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Using a newly developed editing machine that he dubbed the "three-headed monster," Dann Cahn pioneered multi-camera editing on sitcoms in the 1950s while helping to craft a classic, "I Love Lucy."
"Lucy" broke ground in television by employing three cameras instead of one for filming, a then-novel system that allowed an episode to be filmed as though it were a stage play — continuously and in sequence.
But the abundance of footage overwhelmed editors, who quickly sought out a cutting-edge contraption that was being created for the game show "Truth or Consequences," Cahn later recalled.
Dann Cahn obituary: A photo caption with the obituary of film editor Dann Cahn in the Nov. 25 California section described Cahn as the last of the "I Love Lucy" show's creative team. As the obituary noted, Cahn was the last surviving member of the show's original creative team. The obituary also said that he was given a career achievement award by the American Cinematography Editors. The organization is called the American Cinema Editors. —
"It was a Moviola with four heads — three for picture and one for sound," Cahn told Editors Guild Magazine in 2006. "When they wheeled it in, I said, 'Boy, that's some monster!' And the name stuck."
Cahn, 89, the last surviving member of the original creative team behind "I Love Lucy," died Wednesday of natural causes at his West Los Angeles home, said his son, Daniel Cahn.
A second-generation film editor, he was the son of Philip Cahn, who in 1937 co-founded what is now the Motion Picture Editors Guild. Dann Cahn's son, who is also a film editor, is president of the guild.
"The amazing thing about 'I Love Lucy' is that they were making up things as they were going along, and Dann was a big part of that," said Gregg Oppenheimer. His father, Jess Oppenheimer, was the creator-producer behind the wildly successful comedy that starred Desi Arnaz as a bandleader and Lucille Ball as his wife.
Earlier this year, Dann Cahn told CineMontage magazine that when "Lucy" started out "television was a live medium related to radio" so they learned to apply "the rhythms and tempos of filmmaking" to TV.
But when the demands of production soon caused Cahn to hire more editors, he said that Arnaz remarked: "Danny, you want a crew bigger than my band?"
Eventually that was exactly what happened, according to Editors Guild Magazine, as Desilu Productions expanded along with Cahn's role in the company owned by Arnaz and Ball. Cahn rose to supervising editor of all productions, staying until Arnaz left Desilu in the early 1960s.
Cahn's contribution to "I Love Lucy" was "immeasurable and his generosity of energy and spirit to the Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Center and museum has been unmatched," said Journey Gunderson, executive director of the center in Jamestown, N.Y.
"Fans would literally come from around the world," she said, "to listen to Dann Cahn regale them with stories about what it was like to be part of the creative team on one of the most successful television shows of all time."
Daniel Richard Cahn was born April 9, 1923, in Los Angeles. His mother ran a dress shop on Hollywood Boulevard that catered to silent movie stars, according to a biography by the American Cinematography Editors, which gave Cahn a career achievement award.
After raising chickens on property near Universal Studios, his father joined the studio in the 1930s after a power outage put an end to his ranching. With two associates, he later founded the editors guild.
The younger Cahn started out as a child actor, appearing in the 1938 Jackie Cooper movie "Newsboys' Home" and other films before working as an assistant editor on the 1942 movie "Pittsburgh."
While in the Army Air Forces, he honed his editing skills at "Fort Roach," the nickname given the old Hal Roach Studios in Culver City when it housed the First Motion Picture Unit during World War II. He worked on training films and spent a year at the Pentagon editing combat footage into newsreels.
"Most of us got a world of experience," Cahn told The Times in 2005, the year he hosted a gathering at Warner Bros. for 19 surviving members of the unit and screened a short film he made about Fort Roach.
He served as an assistant editor on the 1948 Orson Welles film "Macbeth" and the next year was given his first chance at full-fledged editing when a fellow soldier, producer Stanley Rubin, hired him for the NBC dramatic anthology "Your Show Time."
While editing the 1951 movie "The Lady Says No," Cahn was interrupted by his friend, director William Asher, who told him that he had declined an offer to edit "I Love Lucy" — and had suggested Cahn for the job.
Talented and a quick study, according to the reference work "Lucy From A to Z," Cahn edited "I Love Lucy" until it left the air in 1957.
Often called "Danny," he wanted a more distinctive name for the "Lucy" credits and decided to drop the "y" from his first name, Oppenheimer said.
At Desilu, Cahn oversaw a slate of TV shows that included the 1950s sitcom "Our Miss Brooks" and the crime drama "The Untouchables," which debuted in 1959.
His nearly 100 television and film projects also included such shows as "The Beverly Hillbillies" and "Police Woman," and the 1970 film "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls."
After he married Judy Baker, a former professional golfer, in 1953, the couple had two children. His daughter, Dana, died in 1973 and his wife died two years ago. Diagnosed with dementia, he had moved in with his son, Daniel, who is his only survivor.
"He was a raconteur who just had an overwhelming personality," his son said. "He was a Type A who mentored a lot of people. He had an incredible life."


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A Harlem Globetrotter almost trotted his way into the next life after an attempted dunk went awry in Honduras.
The New York Daily News reports William "Bull" Bullard was trying to do an alley-oop dunk at the Nacional de Ingenieros Coliseum in Tegucigalpa when the hoop toppled over onto him.
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Three local students, Katelyn James, Brittany Johnson, and Landon Price were recently named on university Dean's Lists. The be eligible for the Dean's List at either university, students must have earned a grade point average of 3.5 or more while carrying a class load of at least 12 hours. For more information, see the February 9 edition of the Mount Vernon Optic-Herald.


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Today I want to discuss jobs. I have switched careers and now I work as a nurse.
It may surprise you, the faithful Facehookin' reader, to know that I worked in both the state prison and county jail as none other than a correctional officer before going to nursing school.
So you may ask how one would make such a leap from one career field to the other? Well, simply because I can't be an LOL cat.
I'm grateful everyday I pay my student loan because I love being a nurse. I had my son and decided it was time for a career I wanted to be in for the duration of my working years.
Now you may ask if it was difficult to deal with inmates? No, actually they weren't usually all that bad. I mean, you just expected some of them to be assholes and some were, no big deal.
However even sporatically dealing with drunks, and crazed idiots on bath salts might have made the place less desirable to work than say, waking in a bathtub full of ice and a note saying one of your kidneys was stolen. So what was something I dreaded more than all of it?
Working with "Old heads" and Delusions of Grandeur
Okay, so I think at a lot of jobs people that stay at the same place of employment like to brag that they spent overwhelming majority of their adult life there.
Which is fine, but these people always wanted to say one name in particular to raise some consequentially impressed eyebrows. Fate Thomas. Fate….Goddamn…..Thomas. Get it? Got it? Good. You better or a fiery vengeance will be wrought upon you and your posterity. This dude, besides admittedly having a pretty cool name, was the sheriff…um, like a long time ago. Thus being present for the Fate Thomas era made all hearing aware that said employee has been with the agency for decades. There have been other sheriffs, but none with names that command attention, respect, fire. So in service training was two grueling days of classes like; sexual harassment, workplace safety, mental health, first aide, CPR and the list goes on.
It never failed that at some point during classes some decrepit old bastard would interject, "Back in the Fate Thomas days…" Then some elaborate story would ensue about how county jail thirty years ago was a post apocalyptic battlefield and the inmates were half breed human gorillas capable of murder, murder everywhere. The officers it seems were all….um…
According to these guys, there were fights and riots. Riots and then fights, um death, fights, riots, riots and fights. And fire. And Fate "Son of a Bitch" Thomas. Every day. These war stories took up time that the instructor needed to tell us not to sexually harass each other anymore and how to perform CPR. Not the Fate Thomas way, which was immediate setting fire to said inmate for dying during a riot.
Actually working with these guys was pretty bad, for one, the had to remind you every day that they were there longer than you have been alive. They had to tell you resolutions to problems that might have been acceptable in the 70's, you know, like let's disco all night. Well, maybe not that but, they never really had a current or relevant solution. Only stories, epic stories, comparable to those told by Homer.
Perhaps other reasons I'd rather not use this venue to expound on why that particular place wasn't my cup of tea. I will say some pretty incredible supervisory titles materialized over the years…
I always wished Fate would become wrathful with the lack of violence withing the facilities and bring about his powerful spiritual vengeance and then salt the earth…only to fly into the sun and burst, spreading his incredible ashes among us. Or maybe just give me a make-believe position of power.


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Faculty, too, sometimes spend a semester abroad, reflecting commitment that supports the college's emphasis on providing an education that prepares students to lead and serve in a global society.
Pictured at the pyramids in Giza is Dr. Annie Dandavati, who is a professor of political science and director of international studies at Hope. During her spring 2012 sabbatical, Dr. Dandavati is serving as a visiting professor at the American University in Cairo and working on understanding the transition taking place in Egypt.


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I have many memories of my Alter Ego Glo'. The early days when Glo' tried to make peace with her damaged & brilliant sons, Michael & Kevin, and succeeding...sort of...LOL. But Glo's best days were irritating JACK and ASHLEY!!! They hated her, and she loved being the itch they could never scratch. Trashing their elegant home, and now, selling them overpriced food and double priced champagne...HAHA! Glo' will always regret that cream thing out of love for her John Abbott. To the next 10,000! - Judith Chapman Photo credit: JPI Studios