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Nigeria election 2019: Muhammadu Buhari takes early lead

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Uche Secondus, chair of the opposition PDP, claimed the government had rigged the results

President Muhammadu Buhari has taken an early lead as vote counting continues in Nigeria’s general election, winning four of the country’s 36 states.

Mr Buhari took two states in the southwest, one in the east and one in Nigeria’s centre, while his rival Atiku Abubakar took the capital Abuja.

As results came in, Mr Abubakar’s People’s Democratic Party (PDP) alleged there were irregularities in the vote.

Party chair Uche Secondus called the count “incorrect and unacceptable”.

He claimed there was an “attempt by the government and other agencies to manipulate the result”, but did not give any evidence of manipulation.

The EU, US and African Union have all expressed concern about delays and logistical problems with voting on Saturday, but no independent observers have suggested there was vote rigging.

Mr Buhari, a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) party, is seeking a second term but faces a strong challenge from Mr Abubakar.

Both parties have claimed the other is working with the Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec) to influence the outcome of the vote, which was initially scheduled for 16 February but delayed at the last minute. Neither party has substantiated the allegations.

Mr Buhari has promised to take Nigeria to the “next level” and said he would build on his accomplishments so far, while Mr Abubakar, a business tycoon, has accused the president of wasting his term in office and has pledged to get the country working again.

Whoever wins in Africa’s most populous nation and largest economy will have to address a range of problems including power shortages, corruption, security threats, and an economic slowdown.

What are the results so far?

As well as the four states won by Mr Buhari and Mr Abubakar’s win in the capital, provisional results suggested Mr Buhari had also taken Yobe state in the north east, while Mr Abubakar had won the southwestern state of Ondo.

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Nigerians are anxious to find out the winner of the election

Final results are not expected until later in the week. But the PDP party chair, Mr Secondus has already criticised the initial tallies, claiming that the governing party was using “impeachments, manipulation, incarceration” to influence the results.

He told reporters it would be difficult for Nigeria “to accept this level of intimidation”.

In turn, the federal government accused the PDP of trying to “scuttle the polls” and prompt a constitutional crisis. Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, said the PDP had showed “disdain for the electoral process”.

Was the election peaceful?

Most of the country was calm but there were reports of attacks by the Boko Haram Islamist militant group in the north, and voter intimidation and attempts to steal ballot boxes from some polling stations, especially in the southern states of Rivers, Lagos, and Anambra.

A coalition of civil society groups reported that a total of 16 people were killed around the country – less than in previous elections.

Two people were arrested in the Surulere district of the commercial capital, Lagos, after voters were attacked by a group of young men “brandishing weapons: cutlasses, axes and stakes”, eyewitness Ralph Onodike told the BBC.

“What they were saying was that if you were not [voting for the ruling party] APC, you’ll be attacked,” Mr Onodike, who sustained an arm injury, said.

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Ballot boxes were destroyed in the Isolo district of Lagos

Inec said that voting had not been possible in about 8,500 of the 120,000 polling stations around the country, the AFP news agency reported.

But Inec official Festus Okoye said the commission was “generally satisfied with the process and the procedures for the conduct of these present elections”. He said 68% of polling units had opened by 10:00.

The initial vote was rescheduled in a dramatic press conference in the early hours of Saturday 16 February, just five hours before polls were due to have opened. Voters were also choosing members of the House of Representatives and Senate.

How does the election work?

The candidate with the most votes is declared the winner in the first round, as long as that person gains at least 25% of the votes in two-thirds of Nigeria’s 36 states. There are 73 registered candidates in the presidential election, but campaigning has been dominated by the two political giants and the established party machines behind them.

Both candidates are from the mainly Muslim north of the country. They are both in their 70s, while more than half of Nigeria’s 84 million registered voters are under 35.

What are the main issues?

Nigeria is Africa’s largest oil producer but corruption and a failure to invest the proceeds from the industry have hampered development in the country.

It slipped into a recession in 2016 and a slow recovery has meant that not enough jobs have been created to cope with the large number of young people coming into the employment market. Currently nearly a quarter of the working age population is unemployed.

Election in numbers

  • 73 million have voters’ cards
  • 51% of the electorate under the age of 35
  • 73 registered presidential candidates
  • 120,000 polling stations

Mr Buhari has quelled a militant Islamist rebellion in the north-east of the country, but Boko Haram remains active. There has also been an upsurge in violence in the country’s Middle Belt as traditional herders and more settled farmers have clashed.

Until 1999 Nigeria was governed by either short-lived civilian administrations or military rulers. But this year marks 20 years since the return of democracy.

Mr Buhari was elected in 2015 – the first time an opposition candidate had defeated an incumbent to become president.

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A couple of nights ago I was watching the movie “Spider-Man 2” with my son in my lap. It’s one of those relaxing moments that define your purpose in life. Some of you who have kids will know that moment. Others may recognize it as a single moment, sitting on a board waiting for the perfect wave with everything in sync, from the dolphins nearby to the sounds of the seagull overhead. Then you catch that perfect wave, and as you ride, the face of it just washes over you. This is what life is about.

Hopefully we all have those epiphany moments. As I was having mine holding my son, he looked up at me and pointed at the police cars being hurled across the screen by Dr. Octopus. He told me, “That is why I don’t like you going to work every day.” I had to pause and really appreciate that moment before I went on to explain that although Isla Vista can be a bit crazy at times, we don’t have very many visits from Doc Ock or the Green Goblin. Maybe once a year in late October they might show up for a day or two, but for the most part our villains don’t have fancy costumes or an extra set of rhino horns. The villains we have look just like you and me. In fact, sometimes they are you and me …

My bike was stolen, and the cop asked if I wanted to press charges against the person responsible. What does that involve? I don’t want to get a student in trouble.

Bike theft is the most common crime we have at UCSB and in Isla Vista. Unfortunately it has been regarded by many to be just a way of life here. I often hear people say it’s not a big deal, it’s just a bike and you should expect to have one stolen while you live here. I myself think that’s a pretty sad way of thinking. An Xbox 360 costs less money than most bikes. It’s just a gadget, admittedly a cool one, but a bike is transportation to and from school or work. Some need it to survive day to day and the loss of their bike is devastating. Yet, if I just walked off with your Xbox, it would be horrible crime, akin to committing genocide on baby harp seals. Frankly, stealing is stealing and a thief is a thief.

But I digress. When we take a report for a stolen bike, the value is usually under $1000, and if so, it is considered a misdemeanor. If you don’t want to press charges for theft, it makes it difficult for us to go after the bike thief and further investigate if they have stolen other bikes and get them back to the owner. Basically it could mean that we catch someone stealing your bike and if you don’t want to press charges, we might just dust them off and send them on their way to take someone else’s bike. It can be frustrating to us to catch someone who is making a living off stealing from others and not be able to do anything about it because the bike owner is concerned about being too harsh on another student.

Oh and what does it involve to press charges? Well, you have to say you are willing to press charges, and if it did go to court, you would have to be willing to say that the bike is yours and you never gave permission to that guy with those four extra mechanical arms to take it. That’s all.

Do cops write more tickets at the end of the month to fill a last-minute quota and get a good evaluation from their supervisor?

You seem to misunderstand the goals here. If I write 10 tickets, I get a toaster. Fifty tickets and I get a stuffed Stewie Griffin doll. Seriously though, quotas are illegal per California Vehicle Code Section 41602. “No agency shall set an arrest quota.” Now does it happen? Sadly some bad supervisors begin pushing numbers instead of effective enforcement, and next thing you know there’s an unwritten quota. Ironically, if you Google “California traffic quotas illegal,” you’ll see more articles about cops suing their departments over quotas than what the law actually says.

So, to answer your question, quotas are illegal. It can happen, but rarely; cops don’t even like quotas, and Stewie Griffin dolls are way overvalued. (Yeah, that’s right, Magic Mountain. I’m talking about you … )

That’s all for now. It’s time for me to pop in “Iron Man” and try to recapture some of that magic time with my kids. I’ll be sure to ignore my wife on the couch swooning over Robert Downey Jr. So for now, take care, stay safe and if you run into any problems, take a moment and Question Authority. I am here (insert double chest thump) for you!

Sgt. Mark Signa is an officer of the UCSB Police Dept.

Got caught by a cop? Your party popped by the Po-Po? Ticked by a ticket? If you have questions, don’t let it eat away at you, Question Authority! Email me anytime at: QA@police.ucsb.edu or call UCSB PD at 893-3446.

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Funeral services are planned later this week for Marco M. Giasullo, who died suddenly on June 8.

A Dover resident, Marco grew up in Scotch Plains and was a graduate of Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School, where he was a pitcher for the varsity baseball team. After earning an economics degree from the University of Rhode Island he worked in the banking industry in Rhode Island and in New Jersey.

An avid fan of the New York Yankees, Marco also loved to play golf. He played guitar and loved to mix music on his computer.

He is survived by his father, Robert Giasullo, and his wife, Teresa Parente Giasullo; his mother, Bonni Martin; sisters, Briana Giasullo and Micaela Parente; step-sister, Alexandra Miller; step-brother, Sean Orban and his wife, Julie; and his aunt, Caryl Watkins.

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On March 11th, 2011 at 5:45:24 UTC the 9.1 magnitude Tōhoku megathust earthquake shook Japan. I experienced this earthquake first hand in the basement of a skyscraper in the Shinjuku ward of Tokyo.

This artwork is about what it felt like to emotionally process one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded in human history.

The series of  paintings, Tōhoku 2011-03-11 05:46:24 UTC, is based on my own personal memory of the earthquake which emerged from a two year process of experimenting with the motion data in digital mediums such as 3D animation, 360 video, and mixed reality and in traditional media including graphite, oil pastel, technical pen, and charcoal on paper.  The series of experiments resulted in settling with acrylic on canvas--- the fluidity of the paint and the spatial presence of a large canvas presented the perfect conditions for what I was trying to express.  This felt right as my memory of the earthquake was very physical.

I reconnected with the five minute event on canvas through the psychological and physical space of gestural painting.  The performative painting was guided by motion studies that were developed by taking the seismic data recorded at 100 Hz and creating a very dense curve in Autodesk Maya.  The motion became visible when turned the curve into a motion path and animated a sphere along the path (like a rollercoaster).  Having the animation play next to me while painting, I had a guide for the movement. This allowed me to see the motion in time while using rollers, my hands, and small brushes to paint the earthquake experience.

Keywords: Getural Painting, Data Experiment
Programs Used: Python, 3D Maya, Max/MSP, After Effects

Tōhoku I 2011-03-11 05:46:24 UTC Acrylic on Canvas 48 x 48 inches

The motion path was created digitally from a 3D curve using 30,000 points from the x,y,z seismic data points.  A MEL script was used to generate the curve in Maya. Upon first viewing the curve, my heart-rate went up,  the density created by the data and technological signature present in the curve was intense --- it was hard for me to look at directly.

Maya rendering of earthquake data generated as a curve.


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February 16, 2005

Count me out. My wife and I bought a condo in Santa Cruz County (not exactly the Bay Area of course, but in the same weird bubble universe) a year and a half ago. We sold it this month and made a profit of 36%. That is utterly insane and unsustainable, and it's occurring in a market that was already very overpriced.

What's interesting to me is that many of my contemporaries feel that while they are paying an arm and a leg to maintain their homes, they are going to be vindicated in 20 years or so, when they have their homes paid off. Long-term thinking like that is sensible, but the cost of housing in the greater Bay Area has become so steep that most sub-millionaires are paying a huge chunk of their monthly income toward mortgages.

It used to be that you owed all of your money to the company store. Now we all owe on low-rate (but still high monthly expense) home mortgages.

Thomas Hawk

I'm increasingly convinced that there is a huge bubble being built in California real estate -- and yes, even the Bay Area. I read a similar article to this one last week in the Chronicle but thought I'd post on this topic when I saw Gillmor pick it up as well.

The decline in residential real estate values in Southern California when the last real decline took place was a slow, tortuous painful one which ended in about a 30% decline over the course of about five years. People easily forget. The housing start numbers reported yesterday were the strongest that they have been since the 1970s. Recently someone told me that the average expected permanent return on a home in California is 15%. Wow! Way too high. And then you have all these folks that have jumped on board the ARM train and have stretched to buy even more expensive homes. When rates start going up, and they will - Greenspan seems hell-bent on making sure long term rates eventually will go up - these folks will get squeezed.

I remember back when Nasdaq was above 5000 and people, myself included, were saying things like, "well, yeah it could correct but even if it went to 4,500 or god forbid 4,000 it would come back in a few years. Yeah, right. Now I hear people saying things like yeah but people in the Bay Area always need a place to live, if you live in a desirable neighborhood with a good school district you'll be fine. Things might flatten off for a while... or, but yeah home prices have never corrected as long as I've been alive, prices just keep going up (huh?)... or, well everyone needs the tax break you know (like they didn't three years ago?).

But why is that same home in the desirable school district worth so much more money than it was 3 years ago?

Have more jobs been created in the Bay Area in the last three years? Are people making 50% more money than they were three years ago?

I believe that the answer is more likely speculation and when you combine speculation with an average expected investment return of 15% and huge recent price jumps, look out folks.

Dan is a good man to fire a few warning shots across the bow. If you plan on living in your home for a long, long time, fine maybe go ahead and buy it. But if you are looking for a quick buck or to flip the house and upgrade in 3 or 5 years, watch out. And remember, a 30% decline in home values can easily be translated into a 100% decline in your investment in a down market given the leverage of real estate. Leverage can build great wealth but in a declining market leverage can also destroy completely.

Three years ago, the house we bought with a 20% down payment (at a slight discount through a probate sale) created a mortgage that cost the same as it would cost to rent the house. In the three years since, the value of the house has increased by about 50%, we'll find out for sure how much when the house goes on the market in 2 weeks.

At the time (2002, summer) it would have made sense for an investor to pay the down payment and receive rent to offset the cost of holding the house.

Today, the house has increased about 50% but rents have stayed EXACTLY the same, so to buy this house today would require 50% down to make the mortgage payments equal the current rent. I believe this prices investors out of this market, there are simply other places to tie up $400,000 in a non-liquid asset.

If it made sense for an investor to put $100,000 down and carry the house with renters three years ago, then at the time the people in the market were buyers, investors, and speculators. Now, the investors are taken out by the inability to cover mortgage with rent without putting down 50% in cash.

When the only people bidding are speculators and "regular" buyers, they are relying on low interest rates to buy $750,000 properties in San Francisco. If interest rates increase to "x" then they will be priced out of the market too, as their primary concern is the monthly cost of the mortgage, with the future value of the property as a secondary concern.

When speculators are the only buyers... with prices $750,000 and interest rates higher, or lending requirements tightened... then there will be far fewer buyers for a given property. The investors will still be interested in putting down $100,000k and making a break even on the rent, especially as all the homebuyers that overextended become renters again.

When $50,000 is the down payment on a $750,000 house
then the mortgage is about $4,000 per month. If the house
is only able to be sold for $685,000 and the owner is unable to
continue paying $4,000 (and can only receive $2,000 in rent,
and must also live elsewhere [the garage?]) then... If forced
to sell, the owner will have to come up with an additional
$65,000 to pay off the mortgage.

As long as interest rates stay low, this will continue. We need
it to last about 45 more days.

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Thank god.

Charlie Prael

Y'know, guys, this is starting to turn into one of those situations where you create the reality you want. Beat the "housing bubble" drum enough, and you'll have a bubble-like ending.

Esupido, all around. But I guess it sells.

Dan Gillmor

Create the reality by discussing it? Sure, just like when I was writing about the stock bubble in 1999 I was creating that reality, too.

For first-time home buyers, any talk of a bubble is like a sword hanging over their necks. First time buyers are buying to save money otherwise flushed down the hole in form of rent. Buying a home, even with a 10% down payment allows you to build equity, it is a safer investment than any other option available today.

Charlie Prael

Create the reality by pounding the drum. This article is the, what, fourth time in the last week this has come up - including headline placement on Yahoo and front-page coverage in both the Merc and Chron (and last week, it was the LA Times).

The operative phrase is "there's gotta be a pony around here _somewhere_."

Dan Gillmor

IMO, the operative phrase is "a sucker born every minute" --

Sanjay: Buying a home, even with a 10% down payment allows you to build equity, it is a safer investment than any other option available today.

I dunno about that. Many other investments are more liquid, let you diversify much more easily, and don't require you to be so heavily leveraged.

Thomas Hawk

Dan's a good man to point out this bubble. Really, the housing bubble will not be burst by the ramblings of a few bloggers. It's flattering but the impact of blogs on economic market shifts and reactions are quite simply insignificant.

The housing market will decline, and it will be painful, because the suckers really believe that 15% a year is a no brainer at this point in the real estate market. Just like people expected 20% a year in the stock market at the beginning of 2000.

Investment returns revert to the mean and 15% a year is not the mean for real estate. Just like when folks were saying "this time it is different" with regards to the stock market in 2000, people are trying to justify buying real estate today by saying things like, "people will always need a place to live," or "but it's in a good school district."

Yes, it's not much fun to be a first time home buyer right now. 95% of the time people should be doing everything they can to buy a home. It is one of the singlemost significant tools towards upwards mobilty in the U.S. today. But I'd be careful right now. And Dan's not beating a drum, he's firing a warning shot and you should be thanking him for it.

Ben Jones

I don't wish financial loss on anyone, but this bubble is terribly destructive. If food or gasoline was going up at this rate it would be a national crisis. I would love it if our wages started rising until we could all live in $750,000 houses, but what is the likelyhood of that? (If pay did start to go up we would be told that "inflation must be reigned in"). When internet stocks crashed, it didn't hurt those who stayed out. This bubble can harm us all.

Frank Provis

Actually, lots of ordinary people can afford to live in $750,000 houses in the Bay Area, provided they rent rather than buy.

I hope the supposed "bubble" pops and deflates 50% on all those greedy bastards. I've been scrimping and saving for years to get a down payment together. The condo I almost bought in Santa Cruz in 1999 for $170,000 is now being advertised for $400,000. I just can't get to the point where I can afford it. I make the same $55,000 a year I made in 1999. I went to some condo developments that were advertised for low 300's. By the time they were releasing them to the market the prices were being raised twenty and thirty grand just weeks later. If the prices don't come back to something I can afford, I'm out of here.....

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His spirit, his obvious driving leadership surge to the forefront”

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As a performer/composer “his [Dan’s] spirit, his obvious driving leadership and his passion surge to the forefront...” Butch Berman (Berman Music Foundation).  Joe Klopus of the Kansas City Star raves “ Sax Man Playing First Rate Jazz!”  Jazz critic Tom Ineck said “To survive as a viable art form in the 21st century, jazz must continue to evolve. In the hands of saxophonist and composer Thomas, that future is assured.”   Jazz Ambassador magazine praised Thomas for his “brainy compositional style” and said that his bands continue to “provide fresh compositions and arrangements…” BMF also noted the “often-complex musical assignments” get pulled off by “Thomas firmly asserting his leadership.”  Dan is known for “a tight ensemble, and muscular solos..” JAM Magazine.  Noted Jazz Critic Jack Bowers writes of Dan’s “chops-busting calisthenics” and goes on to speak of Thomas’s composing “there is enough variation in mood and tempo to nourish almost anyone’s interest.”  The Star noted that Dan’s bands have an “extensive repertoire from early jazz sounds to contemporary original compositions.”  Barakobama.com said that the Dan Thomas Quintet “lead a fresh conversation with his group”.  JAM stated “Fair warning! Jazz lovers will find them [Dan Thomas Quintet] addictive!”   His dear friend Bobby Watson also shares “Dan Thomas has shown himself to be a very soulful saxophonist with a warm sound.  He demonstrates great musicality and lyricism in his playing.”  The owner of an important historical jazz club in KC said of Dan “he emerged with confidence, class, style and a refreshing sense of joy in his playing, writing and overall presentation of his formidable talent. Upon repeated listening. Thomas is at the top of his game, both comfortable and adventurous in his musical exploits and dynamic releases.”  He goes on to say, “His artistry hearkens back to an older era yet still sounds fresh and new. Spend some time with [Dan] and you will be rewarded with music and spirit that shows not just where jazz has been but contains moments and hints where jazz is headed. Dan Thomas is a talent to enjoy now and continue to watch (and listen to!) in the years and notes ahead.”

Dan Thomas is a dedicated performer and educator who emigrated to the United States from his native Canada in 1993.  He has received countless performance awards, and has performed as well as presented with some of the most important jazz performers and pedagogues in nearly every state in the continental US, Canada and abroad.

In addition to being a busy performer and arts administrator,  Thomas has a passion for education.  He is a Yamaha Performing artist/Educator and for nearly 2 decades was the Associate Director of Jazz Studies at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance in the Division of Jazz Studies alongside the iconic jazz saxophonist, and friend Bobby Watson.  He has performed and/or presented in nearly every state in the continental US, Canada and abroad on a variety of topics, from every aspect of the jazz tradition to music business and 21st century arts management.  His efforts have garnered international attention for creative curriculum and degree development, summer programming and music business.  JB Dyas, VP for education and curriculum development for the Monk Institute is quoted as saying that Thomas is “..eminent, experienced, and effective..”  Former student and U of Memphis profesor says that “Dan, in addition to being a killer player, is a dedicated pedagogue who breaks down and de-mystifies the nuts and bolts of improvisation in a way that no other teacher I have encountered during my collegiate study can.”   Dan’s students can be seen around the world performing and teaching at the highest level.

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Friday, August 7, 2020

Wedding Story: Gurdev & Anish

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  • Wedding Story: Gurdev & Anish

Never in my life did we think we would have our families tune in to our wedding over Zoom and have a wedding where we couldn't have more than three people physically in attendance, but now that it's all over I honestly can't imagine a more special wedding day.

Q: How did you meet?

Anish: Gurdev was in her third year of Internal Medicine residency and I was new to the city, having just moved to Vancouver for my MBA. Being busy young professionals we actually met online and things blossomed from there.

Q: What do you love most about one another?

Gurdev: Anish is the kindest, most patient, caring human being I have ever met. He makes me laugh all the time. He respects and supports who I am as an individual, but we also have common goals and passions that we work on together. He is someone that I am privileged to build a life with. Anish: Gurdev is the most caring, loving, and hard working person I have ever met. She makes me extremely happy and really understands me. She makes me strive for more and want to achieve incredible things in life. I can’t wait to do that together with her.

Q: Could you share your proposal story?

Anish: Gurdev is a private person and she loves being outdoors, especially close to the water. She had a lifestyle photo shoot set up with Sohal Studios. With the help of her sisters and Sohal Studios, I was able to surprise her during the photo shoot by proposing at Pitt Lake. It was a private moment with beautiful nature surrounding us which I know she really appreciated. Gurdev is not someone who is easily surprised, so it was amazing that we were all able to pull it off! Kam and Gurm were able to capture some incredible moments which we will cherish forever.

Q: Describe your wedding day. What was your favourite moment?

We loved that our civil ceremony was small and intimate. There was something beautiful about the simplicity of it all. We were supposed to have our big Indian wedding in July, however, given the circumstances and the uncertainty of when it would be safe to celebrate in person with our loved ones, we decided to have a COVID-friendly civil ceremony. Never in my life did we think we would have our families tune in to our wedding over Zoom and have a wedding where we couldn't have more than three people physically in attendance, but now that it's all over I honestly can't imagine a more special wedding day. We especially loved the surprise car parade after the ceremony and appreciated the surprise decoration of our house by our family. Our new neighbours mentioned in the days after that it brightened their days especially with the current climate of COVID-19.

Q: Could you tell us about your reception?

Gurdev: We are yet to have a formal reception but we were pleasantly surprised after our civil ceremony. Our closest family and friends showed up in a huge car parade. They dressed up in their Indian outfits & had beautiful signs and balloons. Music was blasting from their cars, and people were dancing out of their sunroofs. It brought so much cheer and joy to our special day. We are so happy and blessed to have such incredible family & friends. The show of love and support that day is something we will never forget.

Q: Can you describe your outfits?

We had gone to India in November and bought outfits for our week long big fat Indian wedding which was planned for July of this year. Unfortunately, we had to cancel, as many couples did, due to COVID-19. Gurdev: I settled for a comfortable knee length white dress with lace sleeves & nude pumps. Anish: I wore a tailored grey suit with black shoes with a black tie to match our dog Max’s black bow tie. Definitely very different from the decadent Indian outfits we had planned to wear to our religious ceremonies and wedding events.

Q: Where did you honeymoon?

Gurdev: Nowhere yet! Anish was back to work first thing Monday morning and I went back to work within 48 hours in ICU. This was during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic here in BC. We have yet to travel for our honeymoon (for obvious reasons) but would welcome any suggestions!

Q: What are your goals as a couple?

We want to be happy, healthy, and contributing members to society. Our goals will continue to evolve as we do, but I know we will be there to support each other. We believe it’s very important to have respect for your partner, support each other’s ambitions, and to make sure to lift each other up. We hope we continue to do that for the rest of our lives.

Q: What are the strengths of your marriage?

We both have similar upbringings in terms of our principles, beliefs and values. It’s so important to have that foundation. We have mutual respect for each other as individuals but most importantly, we are both each other’s best friends and balance each other’s personalities well.

Q: If you could provide any advice to other married couples, what would it be?

We are in no position to be giving advice at this point! We are newly married so we are learning & getting advice as we go along. We will say that finding someone who is your best friend and who has similar core fundamental beliefs just makes everything a bit easier. Be patient, support each other, and grow together.

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Engagement Photos: Sohal Studios

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Wedding Story: Sangam and Inder

"We actually met for the first time in person just five days before the wedding. It seems quite unbelievable, but it just felt as though we had known each other for ages."

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Gagan often says that we “shouldn’t compare our insides to other people’s outsides,” and this really resonates with both of us.

Wedding Story: Seema and Sunny

"We truly are partners in all facets of our life – personal and business. We respect, love and truly care about each other. We are each other’s best friends and biggest cheerleaders."

Wedding Story: Rajveer & Gagan

Raj flew to Calgary to surprise me for Valentine’s Day last year. He was waiting for me as I walked out of class with roses – I was very surprised to see him.

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We’ve been married only six months to give any significant advice but what works for us is to always have happiness, love and laughter in our life.


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Ghostbusters USB Thumb Drive

This dates back to one of my very first ideas on this site, but a few things about that flash drive design bugged me: it could not fit into any USB port (the plug was recessed), and it had no indicator light. Well I’m glad to finally put together a redesign, which features a flip plug and an LED light to indicate that it is plugged-in.

The ghost trap is a plug-and-play device used by the Ghostbusters, so it makes sense it would be a USB flash drive. You’re just transporting data instead of ghosts.

There are a few other variations for this design: the USB plug could flip out of the trap doors; the trap compartment could be a flash drive that slides out of the main trap; or the foot pedal cable could be a USB plug that is tethered to the flash drive trap. Either way, I hope to get one of these some day.

16 thoughts on “Ghostbusters USB Thumb Drive

  1. I love checking your blog, you always have the coolest “why doesn’t this exist yet?” stuff!
    While this is accurate, it seems a little delicate to carry around with you for moving data from computers at home to work/friends’/etc. I would sacrifice accuracy for durability, with it a little closer to a slide-out mini drive; keeping the “hazard” stripes on the top, or course – and maybe putting the activity light inside, so they glow with ghostly energy when it is in use?

  2. Worth at least considering in your go-to-market design considerations that this flip-up design is too bulky to work with any “ultrabook”, including any modern Apple laptop.

    You’d be cutting out the majority of the currently-selling market (though the long tail of already-purchase and in-use laptops does constitute a larger market).

    All depends if you’re in it for the fun or profit, but fabrication will be quite expensive.

    1. There are TONS of bulky and toy-like USB designs, I own a Stormtrooper figure that won’t fit if there are adjacent plugs in use.

      It’s a novelty design for Ghostbusters fans, nothing more.

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Print of the Month | December 2019 | Zhi Zulu

It is well known that Zebras have stripes to confuse their predators. Zhi Zulu’s pink Zebra in her work Zebra Crossing, 2019 however, seems to have been confused by it’s own tactics having taken the city’s notion of a Zebra crossing a bit too literally and winding up perplexed by it’s inner city surroundings, munching on a traffic light in resignation.

Zhi Zulu. Zebra Crossing, 2019. Silkscreen edition of 25.

The city is a disorienting space for anyone – humans and animals alike. Johannesburg is one such city and has been known by many names, Joburg, Jozi, the city of gold, but most suitably in this scenario as the ‘concrete Jungle.’ A mix and match of natural and urban, old and new, home-grown and cosmopolitan. This Zebra stands out, and captures a feeling that many of us experience when faced with the streets of inner city Johannesburg. A sort of surrendering to the unpredictable busy-ness of ones surroundings.

Zhi Zulu created this silkscreen print as her first collaboration with the David Krut Workshop (DKW) this year – 2019 – and debuted the work at the Turbine Art Fair. Zhi was assisted through the silkscreen process by printer Roxy Kaczmarek. With Zhi’s passion for education and the arts, and how they intersect with culture to create knowledge, it’s no wonder her vibrant image has such an appeal. Zhi has a skillful knowledge of how to balance seemingly mismatched colours, which was especially considered in the silkscreen process – resulting in some surprise results, beyond the artists control. This is common of the printmaking practice, and was a unique experience for the digital artist.

Visit the David Krut Workshop to see this limited edition silkscreen print today, available framed and unframed. E-mail for pricing and availability.

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A Charcoalized Hedge

My stepdaughter, Jillian, and I were heading to lunch. We could smell the legacy of the fire before we could see it: A freshly gutted pizza restaurant. Immediately to its north was a sculpture of charcoal skeletons, lined up in military precision.

Others might have seen an incinerated arborvitae hedge. I saw the sculpture—or, at least, the potential for a sculpture. All I could do was stare. But Jillian urged me to act. So, after lunch, I went back home, got my bow saw, and went to work.

Reassembled, I call it â€œHold the Pizza Orderâ€. . .or, informally, “that bunch of burnt sticks in the basement.” Whatever we call it, it will be in the main gallery in my March show at Gallery 114, InkBodySkinPaint+Fire.

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Bill Daily, witty sidekick on ‘I Dream of Jeannie,’ dies at 91

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(CNN) — Actor Bill Daily, best known for his role as Roger Healey in the popular 1960s sitcom “I Dream of Jeannie,” has died at the age of 91, his son J. Patrick Daily said.

Bill Daily died at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on Tuesday, publicist Patterson Lundquist wrote on Facebook.

Patrick Daily said his father “was a very happy man. He was happy with everything he did.”

His father loved New Mexico, Daily said.

“One of his favorite ethos in life was, ‘Happiness is a decision that you make’ and he made the decision to be a happy guy,” Patrick says.

Daily also appeared on 140 episodes of “The Bob Newhart Show,” according to the Internet Movie Database.

Bill Daily told Larry King in 2003 that he was a standup comedian when “I Dream of Jeannie” was being cast and he was originally set to play a character of “My Mother the Car.”

“And I said, ‘Well, I’ll do it.’ I didn’t know what it was,” he told King. “He said, Well, I can’t because you’re going to do — they changed the whole thing around, and you’re — you’re going to — they sold “I Dream of Jeannie,” and you’re on it. That’s how I found out.”

Daily played an Army captain, later a major, in the space program, the funny sidekick to Larry Hagman’s Air Force Maj. Tony Nelson, on “Jeannie.” The title character, a 2,000-year-old genie, was played by Barbara Eden.

“Our favorite zany astronaut, Bill Daily has passed,” Eden tweeted. “Billy was wonderful to work with. He was a funny, sweet man that kept us all on our toes. I’m so thankful to have known and worked with that rascal. Until we meet again Billy, xo -B #RIPBillDaily.”

The show ran for five seasons, from 1965 to 1970, and aired many years in syndication.

On “The Bob Newhart Show,” Healy played the nervous neighbor and airline navigator Howard Borden.

“It was great. And Bob is not only the nicest, sweetest guy in the world, he is a comic genius. But I hated working with him because he doesn’t like to rehearse. He’s very quick and very bright, and I’m very slow,” he told King in 2003, with his typical humor at the end.

Newhart said he had known Daily for about 60 years.

“He and I were both trying to get into standup,” Newhart tweeted after news of Daily’s death. “Later, he joined the Bob Newhart Show. He was our bullpen guy – you could always go to him. He was one of the most positive people I’ve ever known. I will miss him dearly.”

Daily’s son said his father lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for 30 years in a high rise that overlooks the Sandia Mountains.

“Every time I would come over he would say, ‘Look at that view of the Sandia Mountains. Isn’t it gorgeous?'”

He recently moved to Santa Fe.

Patrick Daily said he was happy he will carry on his father’s enduring wit.

“For me growing up with him, he gave me a great set of values of course, but, the best thing I got from my father was a sense of humor. I got his sense of humor,” Patrick said.

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Single-Family-Built-To-Rent-Communities Meet a New Range of Renter Needs

Posted on Nov 11 2019 - 11:28pm by 2!xMyNQ#FV8h4U

How detached units in multifamily-style managed communities—including NexMetro’s Avilla Homes—are drawing in renters of all ages.

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For the most part, the recent boom in the single-family rental market was built around small and large investors buying up existing single-family homes—starting in the late 2000s with homes foreclosed on during the Great Recession—and offering them back to the market as rentals. Many of these homes were not originally built as rental properties and may be strewn across communities of owner-occupied homes.

While this poses a great solution for single-family hopefuls, traditional detached home options—built to rent or otherwise—are not feasible for many renter profiles: A full-size family home may not work for a single person, and an isolated rental property may not offer the community and amenity prospects that some renters want. In response to this need, a growing number of companies—including AHV CommunitiesBB Living, and NexMetro Communities—are taking a different approach to the single-family rental model with entire communities built to rent.

While these communities encompass a range of home types, Phoenix–based NexMetro Communities has chosen to focus on rental demographics that usually go for attached multifamily. The Avilla Homes model is made to mix the best of many residential property worlds, offering the structure and lifestyle of a “right-sized” single-family home with the flexibility and financial structure of a rental property, plus the benefits that come with a professionally managed community like maintenance-free living. NexMetro has 10 open and leasing Avilla Homes communities across Dallas, Denver, Phoenix, and Tucson, Ariz., with new communities in progress in Orlando, Fla. The firm has completed, started, or developed over 3,300 rental units, with another 1,000 units in predevelopment, and more than $1 billion in total assets under management or in escrow across the country.

A New Niche

The Avilla Homes model got its start in 2010, when Diamond Ventures started building single-family rental communities in Tucson. When the communities proved successful, Diamond Ventures partners Ken Abrahams and Donald Diamond formed NexMetro Communities to scale the community concept to markets across the Sunbelt.

The partners had thought their main demographic would be former homeowners in need of transitional housing, according to Josh Hartmann, NexMetro president and COO. “They thought it was a great product for people who were losing their homes … but what they realized was that the consumer was not who they expected,” he says. “They were seeing new consumers who had great incomes, great credit scores, and could certainly afford to buy a home, but didn’t want to have the burden of a mortgage. They also didn’t want to live in an apartment, a traditional three- or four-story walk-up where you’ve got people above you and beside you and you don’t have your own private space.”

Hartmann was NexMetro’s first outside employee, hired in 2013 after 10 years with PulteGroup. As a civil engineer, he has developed residential, commercial, and industrial projects, with specific focus on home building, land operations, and master-planned community development with PulteGroup and Sunbelt Holdings.

“From that background I knew there was a missing space in the continuum of housing product that wasn’t really fitting these consumers,” Hartmann says. “We don’t think that Avilla Homes is going to take over the world. Not every single customer wants this type of lifestyle. But for those who do, it provides the hybrid of worlds from apartment living and single-family living.”

Unlike traditional single-family home communities, Avilla Homes’ communities make use of multifamily zoning, with a single site plan and no individual lots. All Avilla Homes neighborhoods are gated and ideally located close to employment, retail, and service centers in desirable geographic locations.

On the financial side, each of the communities is priced competitively with nearby Class A apartments and managed by a professional multifamily-style management company. Residents are not charged mortgage or HOA fees.

The floor plans are all for one-story homes, with one to three bedrooms and one to two baths, and exterior elevations are designed to emulate local architectural styles. The homes’ consistent design allows for greater construction efficiency, NexMetro says, and the finished units may be occupied even as construction continues on the site.

Each unit includes luxury-level features and furnishings: 10-foot ceilings, quartz countertops, stainless steel appliances, full-size washers and dryers, and a private backyard and covered patio. Hartmann describes them as “apartment-sized spaces, but they’re fully detached.” All units are pet-friendly, with up to three pets allowed in each home and no restrictions on dog sizes or breeds.

Each home also includes reserved covered parking, with optional garage parking available, and charging stations for electric vehicles. Community residents share landscaped recreation areas and a neighborhood resort-style pool. All maintenance needs, inside the homes and out, are performed by management at no added cost to the renters.

“The main advantage for the owner is that we are able to maintain and manage our homes a little easier if we have 200 or 250 homes in a single neighborhood,” Hartmann says. “We have an on-site, full-time maintenance person, so they can be very responsive to our residents and give them the feeling that they have someone they can go to personally to help them address any issues they may have. Of course, because we build them all, we know what goes into them and we can control the quality of the homes.”

Unexpected Demographics

Renters in need of transitional housing are still one of NexMetro’s main demographics—particularly those who are moving for jobs or have gotten divorced. However, the product has appealed to a broad range of renters for a variety of reasons. Given the “right-sized” format of the single-family homes, the communities’ largest demographics are high-income young professionals, usually without children, and downsizing retirees.

Often, Avilla’s residents have the wherewithal to buy, but have chosen instead to rent for one of many reasons. According to Hartmann, younger renters want to live in a single-family home but don’t want to tie themselves down with a mortgage.

“For young professionals, young families, people who are living together but maybe don’t have kids yet, it gives them flexibility,” he says. “Maybe they’re looking for a place they want to settle in, and we give them the option of being able to live that kind of lifestyle in a neighborhood that they maybe wouldn’t otherwise be able to get into at that time. Or they’re deciding what they want to do in their career and they’re not sure they want to tie themselves down to buying a home and having a mortgage, but they want to live in a home.”

The strongest appeal to older renters is the maintenance-free lifestyle, which frees them from the responsibility for the home’s upkeep. “We hear that all the time, that one of the most appealing attributes of our model is that hassle-free, carefree lifestyle,” says Jacque Petroulakis, vice president of marketing and investor relations at NexMetro Communities. “Not just no burden of a mortgage, but no burden of having to change a lightbulb.”

They’ve also found themselves serving renters with “unusual” schedules, including pilots, nurses, and public service workers like firemen and police officers. “They’re people who want to live in a home, who can afford to live in a home, but really need something that’s maintenance-free,” Hartmann says.

All Avilla Homes feature 10-foot ceilings, stainless steel appliances, quartz countertops, and a private backyard with a covered patio.
All Avilla Homes feature 10-foot ceilings, stainless steel appliances, quartz countertops, and a private backyard with a covered patio.

Strategic Moves

Over the past eight years, NexMetro’s housing model and business plan has proved popular with its private investors and “disrupted the concept of home” for its renters, according to Hartmann. “We take calls from new residents all the time, saying, ‘I can’t believe that this never existed before, but it’s so perfect for me and for my lifestyle and how I want to live,’” he says.

The firm is expanding the Avilla model into new markets, including Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Washington state. It also anticipates growth from its existing offices, such as moving into San Antonio, Austin, or Houston from the Dallas office in Texas, for example.

“We use a combination of macroeconomic trends, employment trends, and our existing 2,000 residents to understand who exactly our customer is and where they are in these markets,” Hartmann says. “Our business model is to enter a new market, build up to about 500 homes per year, then we’re looking to move into different markets. We’re very disciplined, and we feel like we can effectively deliver 500 homes per year. And it doesn’t oversaturate the market, but it does give us a brand presence.”

The company has recently made heavy investments in the Denver metro area, with 500 new units across three sites coming online in 2019 and 2020. The first, Avilla Buffalo Run in Commerce City, opened in early 2019 with 123 homes on 12.5 acres. Avilla Prairie Center in Brighton will open 136 homes in mid-2019, and Avilla Eastlake in Thornton will open with 244 homes by mid-2020.

In a January release, Reed Ruck, managing director of NexMetro Denver, described the Denver metro as “an ideal market for Avilla Homes neighborhoods given its exceptional employment expansion, continued population growth, supply issues, and the resulting demand for high-quality rental homes.”

In Texas, Dallas has been another strong home market for NexMetro. Its latest development, Avilla Heritage, opened in Grand Prairie in July, and new communities are currently underway in Arlington, Celina, and Fort Worth.

NexMetro also made its first asset sales in July 2018, selling three of its Phoenix-area Avilla Homes communities to three different buyers for $98 million. Avilla Palm Valley set a cost-per-door sales record in the West Valley submarket at $200,800 per door, while Avilla Heights and Avilla Grace placed second and third for the Chandler submarket at $240,000 and $232,000 per door.

Hartmann believes that, in this current economic environment, single-family home communities built for rent are an attractive option for households who want to live in single-family homes, but do not fit into the traditional purchase structure. In his view, single-family rentals are here to stay given the ways in which both American household demographics and single-family home prices have shifted.

“The demographics of our country aren’t going backward,” Hartmann says. “For years we’ve been seeing people getting married later, we’ve seen people starting families later, and we also see the housing cost to purchase going up much more quickly than incomes are going up. Unless there’s a dramatic change somehow in demographic trends, which I don’t see happening, I don’t see how it’ll become a thing of the past. I think it’ll always be a part of our world.”


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Clouded leopards going back to Taiwan?

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Clouded leopards could be reintroduced to Taiwan

The Formosan clouded leopard was hunted to extinction in Taiwan in the 1980s, but it might get a new start on the island in the future, according to Scientific American.

Two years ago, after a 13 year search, scientists concluded that the leopard (Neofelis nebulosa brachyura) had gone extinct in Taiwan.

But a new paper by the same scientists states the island’s ecology has improved so much since the leopards disappeared that they might once again thrive there.

Clouded leopards disappeared from Taiwan decades ago, probably in the 1980s after intense overhunting for their furs followed by destruction of their forest habitat and declining populations of the cats’ prey species.

However, Taiwan has been so successful in slowing deforestation and protecting its other wildlife over the past few decades that the island could once again support populations of leopards.

As Po-Jen Chiang of the Institute of Wildlife Conservation in Taiwan and his fellow authors point out, Taiwan banned commercial hunting in 1973 and stopped logging its natural forests in 1991.

Although poaching and habitat loss continue, populations of some mammalian species, such as the Formosan macaque and Reeves’s muntjac have grown – so much so that they are now considered pests on farmlands.

The authors suggest that lack of predation by the now-missing clouded leopards could have something to do with this overpopulation of some mammalian species.

Meanwhile, Taiwan’s natural forests have had time to regenerate. The researchers concluded that the island now has enough broadleaf, conifer and cypress forests, along with natural vegetation to support the prey mammals.

All told, the researchers calculated that 24 per cent of Taiwan – more than 8,500 square kilometres – contains suitable habitat for between 500 and 600 clouded leopards.

The cats of mainland Asia would make strong candidates for reintroduction.

Genetic studies published in 2006 and 2011 indicate that the cats on Taiwan probably weren’t a unique subspecies after all, so mainland clouded leopards would not be out of place on the island.

The main clouded leopard species (N. nebulosa) is currently considered vulnerable to extinction, with a total population of fewer than 10,000 individuals and no populations larger than 1,000 animals.

Their habitats are “undergoing the world’s fastest regional deforestation rates” according to the IUCN Red List and trade in their skins and bones continues to devastate their populations. So, Taiwan could become a much-needed refuge for clouded leopards in the future.

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