Monday 12 August 2013

Too old to buy? - Zillow Real Estate Advice

I'm chiming in....I was in my mid-50s when I relocated from one state to another, and changed careers.? Having been a property owner all my life, I couldn't stomach not owning again. So I bought a place, got a loan.

Throughout the many times I have relocated --- during which I bought and sold, got 30- and 15-year loans --- the longest I stayed in one place was 6 years. Until now (9 years and counting!).? I figured I'd probably sell again when it comes time to simplfying, downsizing, or maybe even relocating.

Where do you think you will be in 10 years? 15 years?

Carpe diem!

Source: http://www.zillow.com/advice-thread/Too-old-to-buy/506370/

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Sunday 11 August 2013

The man who gave us 'Dufnering' leads at the PGA

PITTSFORD, N.Y. (AP) ? Jason Dufner is that guy who got caught on camera slumped against a classroom wall, gazing straight ahead with a blank stare, arms rigidly by his side.

"Dufnering," they called it.

He became an Internet sensation.

Maybe by the time he leaves Oak Hill, Dufner will be known as something else.

Major champion.

On Friday, Dufner came up about 18 inches short of a feat that's never been done ? shooting 62 in a major championship. As it was, he tied the scoring record with a 7-under 63 that pushed him to the lead midway through the PGA Championship.

"To join history, to shoot 63 in a major, that's pretty unbelievable," Dufner said. "To be leading the tournament, even better."

He heads to the weekend with a two-stroke lead over Adam Scott, Jim Furyk and Matt Kuchar, while eight other players are lurking within five shots of the lead.

For Dufner, it's a chance to shake off the low point of his pro career, when he squandered a four-stroke lead with four holes to play at the 2011 PGA in Atlanta.

After losing to Keegan Bradley in a playoff, Dufner didn't seem too upset. He said matter-of-factly that he expected to get more chances on the major stage.

Well here he is, two years later, back in contention for the title that slipped away.

"What's happened in the past with me in majors is in the past," Dufner said. "I'm still trying to chase it, still trying to learn from the mistakes I made in prior majors."

There weren't many mistakes on Friday. Dufner holed out from the fairway for eagle, rolled in a putt across the green for par and kept making birdies ? five in all ? until he stood 12 feet away from a shot at the lowest score in the 153 years of championship golf. He didn't give it a chance, acknowledging a case of the nerves for the first time all day.

Not even the tap-in for par was a gimme, the ball coming off the putter weakly but diving into the right corner of the cup.

"You couldn't have a better putt for a chance at history on the last hole," Dufner said. "I just didn't quite hit it hard enough."

Dufner didn't feel disappointed for long.

At rain-softened Oak Hill, where pelt-sized divots were flying and birdies were falling, Dufner tied the 36-hole record (9-under 131) at the PGA Championship, a mark he now shares with six other players.

His 63 broke the course record at Oak Hill held by Ben Hogan, Curtis Strange and Webb Simpson, who shot 64 about five hours earlier. Dufner became the 24th player to shoot 63 in a major ? Greg Norman and Vijay Singh, both in the Hall of Fame, did it twice.

And through it all, Dufner barely cracked a smile.

"He's very calm," said Steve Stricker, who had been the last guy to shoot 63 in a major and, in an interesting twist, played alongside Dufner. "I'm sure he was churning on the inside."

The possibilities were endless on a day that began with three hours of a steady rain until the sun broke through and took all the bite out of Oak Hill.

Simpson also had a chance at 63 until he made a bogey on the 16th hole of his round. U.S. Open champion Justin Rose shot 29 on the front nine. When the second round finally ended, 27 players remained under par ? this on a course that is stubborn when it comes to par. In five previous majors at Oak Hill, only nine players have finished the tournament in red numbers. Jack Nicklaus did it twice.

For all the low scores, Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson were left behind.

Woods couldn't get anything going, exchanging birdies with bogeys during a poor putting round that led to a 70. He was at 141 and 10 shots back.

"Obviously, I'm going to have to put together a really good weekend," Woods said. "It's definitely gettable. Got to hit the ball in play and keep the ball near the hole so I can be aggressive with my putts."

Mickelson's swing apparently went missing in the three weeks since he won the British Open. He was all over Oak Hill and still managed a 34 on the back nine until his wild shots caught up with him. Another 71 left him 11 shots out of the lead.

Dufner's popularity has grown since April, when someone took that photo of him during a charity event as the teacher taught children how to relax and concentrate.

He embraced the craze, which seems to fit perfectly with his laid-back approach.

But there were nerves, no doubt, and Dufner showed them at the very end.

"It's tough when you're chasing history," he said. "You will be the first one to do something. I don't think I've been the first to do anything in my life. So it was a little nerve-racking for a Friday. It's usually the pressure you might feel toward the end of the tournament."

That part is still to come.

Scott is swinging the club beautifully, and his only flaw Friday was not holing enough birdie chances when the rain stopped. Even so, he was in the hunt on the weekend for the fourth time in the last six majors. He will be in the final group with Dufner on Saturday.

Henrik Stenson, a runner-up at Muirfield, had a 66 and joined Rose at 134, only three shots behind. Stricker and Robert Garrigus were another shot back.

After his historic round, Dufner gave up his cap, shirt and glove to the PGA for its museum.

The prize he really wants is the Wanamaker Trophy.

"I'm looking forward to a good weekend," Dufner said, "and maybe closing one of these out."

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/man-gave-us-dufnering-leads-pga-072410108.html

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Can Millennials build a car that Millennials will actually buy?

Automakers are understandably worried about Millennials, who aren't buying cars in the numbers the industry would like.?A team of grad-student engineers at Clemson University is trying to change that.?

By Richard Read,?Guest blogger / August 10, 2013

The Mazda logo on a sign at the 2013 Pittsburgh Auto Show in Pittsburgh. A group of engineering students at Clemson University have designed a concept car for Mazda aimed at the wants and needs of young adult drivers.

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We've spilled a lot of virtual ink discussing Generation Y (aka Millennials) and their love/hate relationship with cars. Among the findings in recent years:

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Understandably, these doom-and-gloom predictions have automakers worried . Some are planning for a future filled with alternative mobility options. Others insist that, no, the kids are all right, just give them time and they'll come around. The latter have occasionally attempted to create cars just for Millennials, with mixed results.

And so, the younguns have taken matters into their own hands. According to Auto News, a team of grad-student engineers at Clemson University recently pulled the wraps off a long-awaited new car, built as a concept for Mazda.

Dubbed "Deep Orange 3", the vehicle looks like many other concepts at auto shows, right down to the itsy-bitsy, would-never-get-approved side-view mirrors and the lack of door handles. But there is something fairly unique about the car: it's a six-seater.

Apparently, Millennial drivers want to carry around exactly six people -- not five, like you could fit in a sedan, and not seven, which would require an SUV or minivan. They want seats for six. (Related prediction: triple-dating will be a thing in the future.)

To make that happen, they've designed a car that seats three folks up front and three in the back. (What that does for dating, we can't say.) Rather than including a bench up front to accommodate a third person, the team dropped a bucket seat right in the middle of the row.

Inelegant? Maybe. Awkward? Probably so. But remember, people said the same thing about texting when it debuted, and look at that awesome technology now, right Mr. Weiner?

You can see some stills of the Deep Orange 3 in the short clip embedded above. For additional details, you'll have to click to this video, which for reasons we can't explain, isn't embeddable.?

We fully applaud the Clemson team's work, even if it's not yet perfect. How about you? What constructive criticism would you offer? Is the Deep Orange 3 on the mark, or is it another case of The Homer? Share your thoughts in the comments below.

[h/t John Voelcker]

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Source: http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/In-Gear/2013/0810/Can-Millennials-build-a-car-that-Millennials-will-actually-buy

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Sunday 9 June 2013

Four killed in Santa Monica shootings, apparent gunman is killed by police

SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- At least four people are dead and several more injured after a gunman, who may not have been acting alone, went on a shooting spree through the streets of Santa Monica, the beachside town that connects the Pacific Ocean to Los Angeles.

One shooter, who then fled to Santa Monica College, was shot and killed by police. Authorities have also taken another suspect into custody.

The rampage started at 2036 Yorkshire Ave. in the eastern portion of Santa Monica, where fire officials responded to a call at 11:52 a.m. PT. A house was on fire when firefighters arrived. The first responders also noticed "shots fired," said Chief Scott Ferguson during a news conference.

Inside they found multiple victims, two of whom were dead.

Two officials said Friday night that the killings began as a domestic violence incident and the victims in the home were the gunman's father and brother, the Associated Press reported.

From that point, police received reports of a carjacking and random shootings as the suspect or suspects moved westward down Pico Boulevard, a busy artery that connects Santa Monica to Los Angeles. One victim was shot near Pico and Cloverfield, two near Pico and 19th and yet another near 19th and Pearl, an intersection near the campus of Santa Monica College.

At that point, campus police exchanged gunfire with a single shooter, who was dressed in black and carrying what's believed to have been an AR-15, semiautomatic rifle, police said.

The suspect ran onto the school's campus, where he shot a woman who later died, before fleeing into the library.

Several witnesses said they saw a broad-shouldered man, approximately 6 feet tall, walking casually inside the building with the rifle at his side.

"I'm a huge gun advocate; I've been around guns all my life, I knew exactly what was happening," Brett Holzhauer, a 19-year-old student, told Yahoo News at the scene. "I ran to my stuff, packed it up as fast as I could and dove into a study room."

Police followed the suspect inside the building, where they fired upon and ultimately killed him. No police officers were injured.

ABC News reported that Santa Monica Police Sgt. Richard Lewis said, "At this time, we believe it is a single gunman and that part of it has been resolved"

Holzhauer said he hid in the study room for 35 minutes, until police arrived and evacuated the building.

"I saw hundreds of rounds of ammunition in the lobby of the library," Holzhauer said. "I saw shattered glass. I saw blood all down the stairs of the main entrance to the lobby, and as I was walking out I saw a dead body."

Ava Rezai, 20, hid inside a room in library after hearing shots. "I was just praying, just hoping that I could go home," Rezai told Yahoo News.

Three women were taken to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. According to Dr. Marshall Morgan, chief of emergency medicine, one died, another was in surgery and a third was in serious condition. Three other women went to UCLA Medical Center in Santa Monica with minor injuries.

The rampage played out on a morning when President Obama was across town for a fundraiser.

Police officials described the gunman as a white male, 25 to 30 years old and wearing a bulletproof vest.

They took another person of interest into custody, according to Santa Monica Police spokeswoman Jacqueline Seabrooks at the news conference. ABC News later reported that person was questioned and released.

Police were adamant that this was not a "campus shooting" but rather a series of shootings that ended up at a school. They have not determined the motive for the shootings, but Seabrooks said the incident on Yorkshire "appears not to be [random]."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/gunman-kills-six-santa-monica-shooting-spree-then-003443452.html

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Friday 7 June 2013

Report: UK security agency also gathering secrets through Prism

The United Kingdom's main security agency, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), is also working with the United States' Prism intelligence program to gather data on various internet companies, The Guardian reports. Documents given to the UK news outlet indicate that GCHQ was able to retrieve "personal material such as emails, photos and videos" from internet companies operating outside the UK, and the GCHQ employed 197 intelligence reports in 2012 alone.

Apparently the GCHQ's been working with the US Prism service since "at least June 2010," and it's unknown how that's impacted UK citizens in the past several years. Though the GCHQ didn't directly confirm the collaboration, the agency issued a statement to The Guardian stating it, "takes its obligations under the law very seriously."

The Prism system enables access to records held by the nine largest internet companies, from Apple and Google to Skype and even Engadget's parent company, AOL.

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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/07/report-uk-prism-gchq/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget

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Monday 29 April 2013

Win of the day: Weather Channel pummels interns with 'tornado'

Tornado Week kicked off today for the Weather Channel ? both on screen and in the network's office.?

The channel has announced a Twitter campaign to promote its upcoming mega-block of tornado-centric programming. Weather Channel interns will be buffeted by a "Twitter-powered tornado" throughout the day, which can be seen on a live feed streaming to the web. The more tweets referencing the campaign's #TornadoWeek hashtag, the harder the artificial wind blows. Should the campaign notch one million mentions, the winds will hit?EF-5 levels. On the Enhanced Fujita Scale, EF-5 is the fiercest type of tornado, with winds topping 200 miles per hour.

By midafternoon, the campaign had racked up thousands of tweets ? many of them, perhaps unsurprisingly, snarky ? as curious Twitter users sought to make things more interesting for themselves, and for those wind-battered interns.

You can watch the live stream above. If you get bored, you know what to do.

Source: http://theweek.com/article/index/243432/win-of-the-day-weather-channel-pummels-interns-with-tornado

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What Games Are: The Scientism Delusion

quote-there-go-my-people-i-must-find-out-where-they-are-going-so-i-can-lead-them-alexandre-auguste-ledru-rollin-116359While it makes game makers often feel better, the idea that designing games is a science is largely a delusion. The industry often thinks of itself in those terms, and self-reinforces the notion that being successful in games is all just one big engineering problem. Not so. Games are an entertainment business, and that means being crazy and willing to take chances is vital.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/Yg_P8oq7VCg/

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