Monday, August 5, 2013

Conn. boy: I was cheated over 'Jeopardy!' spelling

(AP) ? A Connecticut eighth-grader who misspelled the correct answer to a "Jeopardy!" question and lost money over it says he was cheated.

Thomas Hurley III correctly answered the Final Jeopardy question about the Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Abraham Lincoln. But Thomas spelled it "emanciptation" and was ruled out by host Alex Trebek.

He bet $3,000 of his $9,600 in winnings and finished well behind a rival who amassed $66,600.

"I was pretty upset that I was cheated out of the final 'Jeopardy!' question," he told The News-Times of Danbury (http://bit.ly/13KTg7D). "It was just a spelling error."

The Newtown Middle School student won $2,000 as the runner-up.

In an email, producers of Jeopardy! defended Trebek's decision.

"If 'Jeopardy!' were to give credit for an incorrect response (however minor), the show would effectively penalize the other players," they said. "We love presenting young people as contestants on our show and make every effort to be fair and consistent in their treatment."

Hurley's mother, Suzanne, said her son was "a little stunned" by the loss.

"He felt embarrassed," she said. "It was hard to watch."

Hundreds vented their anger at "Jeopardy!" and Trebek on the game show's Facebook page.

"Bad form, Jeopardy," said one comment. "Every game show has bad calls ... this takes the cake."

The Kids Jeopardy! program was filmed in February and broadcast last week.

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Information from: The News-Times, http://www.newstimes.com

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Samsung Galaxy Golden is an Android clamshell with old looks but new specs

Phone Arena writes, A new clamshell flip phone is apparently coming from Samsung; this seems to be a completely different model than the Samsung Hennessy (SCH-W789) that we told you about on Friday. Where that model will allegedly have 3.5 inch dual screens, the SHV-400EK, known as the Samsung Galaxy Golden, will have 3.75 inch dual-screens. The phone will have a numerical dial pad with triple tap letter entry...

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Sunday, August 4, 2013

RadioShack Debt Gets Even Junkier

After markets closed last night, Standard & Poor?s downgraded the already junk-rated debt of RadioShack Corp. (NYSE: RSH) from ?CCC+? to ?CCC?. That?s eight notches below investment grade. S&P?s outlook on the company remains negative.

S&P said that the downgrade reflects the agency?s view that RadioShack could default within 12 months without a major turnaround or increased liquidity. We should probably count out more liquidity because lenders willing to front some cash to RadioShack are likely to be pretty scarce. And those that are willing will want a pretty steep premium, which will not help the company in the short term.

Earlier this year we closed our eyes and held our noses and put RadioShack on our list of the nine most promising turnarounds of the year. But we added as many caveats as we could stack up:

We would simply point out here that this is a situation where investors are betting with enough dollars that whatever turnaround plan that will be formalized actually works, or at least stops the bleeding. With a new solid CEO, our key-man concern is that RadioShack hired a guy with a drugstore background. Maybe it is that no one else was willing to gamble on a career here. We remain doubtful, unless RadioShack will open a prescription drug delivery service as well.

Shares are down about 10.4% in the early afternoon today, at $2.59, in a 52-week range of $1.90 to $4.28. That?s still a gain of about 36% from the low. It?s also about 40% below the high.

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The battle for wild card berths in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup is heating up among Jeff Gordon, Brad Keselowski, Kurt Busch - NASCAR News | FOX Sports on MSN

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This weekend at Pocono will be the six-week mark until the 2013 Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup field is set. In just six short weeks I believe we are going to see some big names make it into the Chase field, but to me the bigger story will be the names that don?t make it.

I think you would be foolish to discount the possibility of Jeff Gordon making the Chase. He?s obviously got Hendrick power plants and he runs well at Pocono. Plus, it seems like the No. 24 bunch as a whole is getting more and more consistent. He could be one of the oddities as this Chase wild card situation is evolving. I actually can see a scenario where he can be consistent enough to actually hop over some guys and make the Chase field without a win during the regular season.

He is the only guy right now that I believe can do that right at the moment. I know at one time Kurt Busch had all the consistency in the world going his way and looked poised to make the Chase via being in the top 10 in points. Unfortunately, I think they?ve reached their high-water mark on that front, and if he wants to be in the Chase, he?s going to have to win a race plus put good numbers up on the board to make it happen for the No. 78 car.

You can say the same thing about people like Joey Logano. It?s going to take a win or multiple wins very, very quickly for them to make this 2013 Chase. I simply don?t see anyone else out there other than Gordon that has the consistency to affect the wild card picture by pushing a Kasey Kahne or even a Greg Biffle out with the one win.

This weekend is one more piece of that puzzle as the Chase field picture becomes clearer, and it definitely is an exciting scenario. It?s hard to believe I keep having to say this, but our defending series champion, Brad Keselowski, is in that same group. He?s going to have to win for a chance to be in. It?s just that simple and almost a given at this point for the No. 2 car.

There are just too many guys with the one win that will wind up outside the top 10. It really is going to come down to the wire between two or three teams about how this is all going to play out. Depending on how they are running, I can see where it can affect strategy in a couple different ways.

With the one win in your pocket, do you go for broke on, say, a fuel call deep into the race and try to secure that elusive second win? Or do you simply play it safe, go for the good points day and hope that one win still will be enough to get you into the Chase?

Richmond is coming at us fast. It?s the last race of the regular season, and after that checkered flag, the 2013 Chase field will be set. So it?s going to be really, really interesting to see who puts it all out there versus who plays it safe just to get the points. Risk versus reward is what you are going to be hearing about. You actually might see some players forced to change their strategy as the clock ticks toward Richmond.

We know the good teams will still run well. The real unknown is who is going to step up and surprise us within the next six weeks. I am waiting to see who comes out of the woodwork and mounts a last-minute charge. Whoever that is could upset a lot of 2013 Chase apple carts in the process. It sure is going to be exciting to watch!

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Saturday, August 3, 2013

Obama likely to miss goal of doubling exports

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Back in January 2010, President Barack Obama set a lofty goal of doubling U.S. exports in five years. With just 18 months to go to 2015, that target seems to be slipping beyond reach and has vanished from White House talking points.

Blame tepid U.S. manufacturing growth, the lingering weak global economy, and a stronger U.S. dollar, which makes it harder to sell American goods and services overseas.

Monthly export numbers have been mostly stagnant this year. And only a scant 6,000 manufacturing jobs were added last month, according to Labor Department jobs statistics released Friday.

"The goal of doubling exports keeps getting harder to achieve, not easier," said Alan Tonelson, research fellow at the U.S. Business and Industry Council, which represents about 2,000 mostly family owned manufacturing companies. "We're actually backsliding, not making progress."

Obama and administration officials counter by asserting that 7.2 million jobs ? 500,000 of them in manufacturing ? have been added since job losses bottomed in March 2010, two months after Obama set his doubling-exports goal.

"Over the past four years, for the first time since the 1990s, the number of manufacturing jobs hasn't gone down. It's gone up. Now we have to build on that progress," Obama said this week in Chattanooga, Tenn., after similar stops in Illinois, Missouri and Florida the week before.

Actually, the number of overall manufacturing jobs has changed little over the past 12 months.

Those 500,000 "new" manufacturing jobs have been cited before by Obama, going back to his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention last September. The lack of a significant progress since then underscores how hard it will be to reach his goal of doubling U.S. exports by the end of next year.

Obama's boasts of job gains also ignores the millions of jobs, including hundreds of thousands manufacturing ones, that were lost in the early months of his presidency and in the final year that George W. Bush was president. Obama cherry-picked his starting point, making it the 2010 employment trough.

He is proposing lowering the corporate tax from 35 percent to 28 percent. As a special incentive for manufacturers, he would set a rate of 25 percent for companies "that bring jobs back to America." In exchange, he wants to pair changes in tax laws with new domestic spending.

Republicans balked at those strings attached.

The worst recession since the Depression began in December 2007 and officially ended in June 2009, although the unemployment rate continued to rise for six more months. It hit 10 percent in late 2009 before a slow descent to 7.4 percent last month.

"We applaud the president's discussion about manufacturing. I think the president never misses a chance to talk about the importance of manufacturing," said Chad Moutray, chief economist at the National Association of Manufacturers. He also praised the administration's efforts to push two new free-trade pact negotiations, one with Europe and the other with Asian trading partners.

But, Moutray added, "We've had really disappointing numbers so far this year. Hopefully, they'll start to turn around as we move into the second half. ... Next year, it's going to be almost impossible for us to meet the president's goal of doubling exports."

A new industry report on the level of manufacturing activity showed an expansion in July. But the improvement likely won't move the needle much toward Obama's export target.

"The more products we make and sell to other countries, the more jobs we support right here in America," Obama said on Jan. 27, 2010, in his State of the Union address. "So tonight, we set a new goal: We will double our exports over the next five years, an increase that will support 2 million jobs in America."

For all of 2009, U.S. exports totaled $1.6 trillion. Doubling that would suggest reaching a level of $3.2 trillion exports for all of 2014.

U.S. exports did rise to $2.2 trillion in 2012. But then came slowdowns in Europe, China and Brazil.

In May, the most recent trade figures available, monthly U.S. exports slipped 0.3 percent, to $187.1 billion. New trade numbers are out next week.

White House officials agree trend lines don't look good. But they emphasize big-picture improvements.

"You can look at the export slowdown in one or two ways. You can say, 'Well, job growth hasn't been as good in the last 12 months.' But what I would say is that we haven't created 500,000 (manufacturing) jobs like this since the '90s," said White House economic adviser Gene Sperling, using that familiar job-creation number.

"I feel like the wind is at our backs. Like a lot of things in life, good things happen when you seize opportunity, when you have a trend going your way and you seize and expand on it," Sperling said.

Treasury Secretary Jack Lew suggests economics is "kind of collective psychology. When people feel better about the future, they act better and the economy picks up. When people worry, it also has an effect on the economy."

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Hello Moto X

moto-x02After Google acquired Motorola Mobility last year, we wondered what was next for the smartphone company. It spent ages clearing out its pipeline of smartphones that were already in development before rumors of an X Phone made in America started making the rounds. In those early X Phone days, Rick Osterloh, Motorola's SVP of Product Management said the team that worked on the device was plopped in front of a whiteboard and asked to describe the product they wanted to make. That brainstorming, plus loads and loads of user testing, came together in the form of the Moto X. Motorola isn't the same company today as it was when Google snapped it up last year -- it's smaller, leaner, and if recent reports are indication, gutsier than ever. The Moto X is that new Motorola's coming out party, and they've definitely got something worth celebrating.

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Friday, August 2, 2013

Selfish traits no good: Nice guys finish first, evolution researchers say

Selfish traits do?not?pose an evolutionary advantage. Selfish traits can actually harm an individual and an entire species. Nice guys and girls, and nice families, finish first.?

By James Norton,?Guest Blogger / August 2, 2013

Selfish traits pose no evolutionary advantage while cooperation does. Jacey King, left,and Jessica Murch sample some of their sweet corn fresh out of the patch in Henderson, Ky., on July 18.

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Nature is cold, hard, and ruthless, and only the most aggressive - and selfish - survive and pass along their genes. So would suggest one standing school of thought about the nature of the world, a philosophy that plays itself out in the writings of authors like Ayn Rand, who elevated selfishness to high ideal, the most powerful force of creativity and industry possessed by humankind.

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James Norton got his professional start at the Monitor as an online news producer, before moving over to edit international news during the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Since leaving the Monitor in 2004, he has worked as a radio producer, author, and food blogger.?He lives in Minneapolis with his wife Becca, his son Josiah, and three pleasantly sassy cats: Bartlett, Braeburn, and Nola.

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As it turns out, this isn't merely an oversimplification of the natural order of things - it's probably mostly wrong. A team from Michigan State University used a logic model to demonstrate that exhibiting only selfish traits would have spelled the end of the human race a long time ago, and that cooperation and mutual benefit are, in fact, core to our success.

This makes sense, when you look at nature for even a moment - families of animals (and insects, and other organisms) take care of one another, communities? defend themselves, and even entire species join forces with one another in displays of symbiotic mutualism that work to the advantage of all those involved. Communication and memory mean that short-term boons gained by trickery and selfishness tend to poison the community to the detriment of all - and disrupt potentially positive cooperation.

Examples abound in the natural world - everything from the remarkable teamwork of ants and their helper species (such as aphids) to the co-evolution of flowers and pollinators such as bees (which have their own fantastically cooperative hive structures) to human interactions with livestock and pets.

Something is given, something is taken, and (generally) everyone's better off for it. (Ask a factory-farmed pig or chicken about this, and you may get a more negative spin on what "cooperation" means in this context, of course.)

And in a family, too, there's a dual challenge at hand: to teach cooperation among family members (including convincing siblings to stop whaling on one another long enough to enjoy each other's company or help one another with chores), and also to teach good citizenship - which is to say putting aside selfish impulses in order to better the community as a whole.

Weave strong enough webs of community and it pays off in more ways than a deserved sense of self-satisfaction - people who live in so-called "blue zones" of longevity are seen as greatly benefiting from high levels of social engagement and rich relationships with nearby friends and family.

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Thursday, August 1, 2013

FBI Taps Hacker Tactics To Spy On Suspects

wsj.com:

Law-enforcement officials in the U.S. are expanding the use of tools routinely used by computer hackers to gather information on suspects, bringing the criminal wiretap into the cyber age.

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