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Leave it the regional folks to steal the thunder of the Big Four. While we were all led to think that Sprint’s Epic 4G Touch would be the first subsidized Galaxy S II to officially land in the US of A, it looks as if Alaska’s GCI has beat ‘em all to the punch — and in more areas than one. A tipster residing in The Last Frontier just picked one up today, and best of all, it’s running a solid Benjamin less than it will on those other operators. Oh, and it’s compatible with the company’s “4G” (read: HSPA+) network. Unadulterated wilderness? Yep. Northern Lights? Definitely . Early / cheap access to the year’s hottest Android smartphone? Evidently. So, who’s up for a little northern exposure? [Thanks, Joshua] Samsung Galaxy S II now shipping for $100 in America… on Alaska’s GCI originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 09 Sep 2011 13:55:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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• Email rob.smyth@guardian.co.uk with all your thoughts • Press F5 to refresh this page or use our auto-refresher • Click here for all today’s scores from around Britain and Europe 8 min Carrick has come on for Cleverley. That’s a bad blow for United, and sadly predictable given the way Kevin Davies usually plays against them. 7 min Rooney clears off the line from Eagles. In open play as well. A cross from the left wasn’t cleared; Bolton had a couple of attempts blocked and then a third, from Eagles, was booted away by Rooney, who had sensed danger and drifted back. Shades of Eric Cantona against Chelsea in 1996. Ah, in fact it was Ferdinand who cleared it, although Rooney was right alongside him. 6 min Cleverley has to go off because of that foul from Davies. Michael Carrick will replace him. GOAL! Bolton 0-1 Manchester United (Hernandez 5) A goal of devastating simplicity. Nani runs at Robinson down the right and really hammers a low, sidefooted cross towards the near post; Hernandez runs Cahill one way and then the other before nipping in front of Jaaskelainen to poke the ball in. That was a beautiful goal. 4 min It’s been all United so far, although everything has been in front of Bolton. Kevin Davies takes Tom Cleverley from behind, which has both managers on their feet complaining. 2 min “Rob, could you please explain what you mean by your remark ‘You don’t have to be a foreigner to get a culture shock in Bolton,” says Eric Hyland. I mean that the fibrous element of Bolton’s play is a shock to those who are unfamiliar with it – whether that person is David de Gea, Chris Smalling or Tom Cleverley. Is that okay? 1 min There’s a lively old atmosphere at Burnden Park. The camera hovers on David de Gea, inevitably. This will be an interesting 90 minutes for him, one way or another. United kick off from right to left. They are in red; Bolton are in white. Question of the day What’s going on with Gary Barlow’s hardass act ? From the man who wrote Back For Good, it’s more than a little unnerving. “Being born in a stable doesn’t make you a horse (as the Duke of Wellington noted when explaining why he – unlike Owen Coyle – chose to be British, not Irish)…” continues Duncan McDonnell. This could go on, and what fun that would be for our readers. “‘Owen Coyle, possibly the next great British manager’?” quotes Duncan McDonnell. “He played for Ireland Rob.” And what a lovely Irish accent this Paisley-born manager has. Team news Both sides make two changes from their last game. Bolton bring in Dedryck Boyata and Mark Davies for Gretar Steinsson and Fabrice Muamba. For United, Rio Ferdinand and Javier Hernandez replace Chris Smalling and Danny Welbeck. That means Phil Jones will move to right back. Bolton (4-4-2) Jaaskelainen; Boyata, Cahill, Knight, Robinson; Eagles, Mark Davies, Reo-Coker, Petrov; Klasnic, Kevin Davies. Subs: Bogdan, Muamba, Tuncay, Pratley, Ngog, Kakuta, Wheater. Man Utd (4-4-2) De Gea; Jones, Ferdinand, Evans, Evra; Nani, Cleverley, Anderson, Young; Rooney, Hernandez. Subs: Berbatov, Giggs, Smalling, Park, Carrick, Fabio, Lindegaard. Preamble Evening. If Stoke on a wet, windy night is seen as the acid test of a foreign footballer’s capacity to like it up him, then Bolton isn’t far behind – the Jamie MacDonald to Stoke’s Malcolm Tucker (or should that be the other way round?). Owen Coyle, possibly the next great British manager, has brought Bolton’s football into the 21st century, but he has also been smart enough to retain the fibrousness that has made Bolton such awkward opponents in the past decade. As such, this will be a cracking test for Manchester United’s infectious, intrepid young side. Not just David de Gea – who plays – but also the phalanx of young Englishmen who have been so impressive in the early weeks of the season. You don’t have to be a foreigner to get a culture shock in Bolton. Premier League 2011-12 Bolton Wanderers Manchester United Premier League Rob Smyth guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …Krugman: Chicago Fed Chief Reminds Fed Officials They’re Legally Obliged to Lower Unemployment
September 10, 2011 No Comment
enlarge While Krugman had positive things to say about Obama’s jobs plan ( click on the link for the rest ), I think the more interesting news here is his report that Chicago’s Federal Reserve chief gave a speech about unemployment: First things first: I was favorably surprised by the new Obama jobs plan, which is significantly bolder and better than I expected. It’s not nearly as bold as the plan I’d want in an ideal world. But if it actually became law, it would probably make a significant dent in unemployment. Of course, it isn’t likely to become law, thanks to GOP. opposition. Nor is anything else likely to happen that will do much to help the 14 million Americans out of work. And that is both a tragedy and an outrage. Before I get to the Obama plan, let me talk about the other important economic speech of the week, which was given by Charles Evans, the president of the Federal Reserve of Chicago. Mr. Evans said, forthrightly, what some of us have been hoping to hear from Fed officials for years now. As Mr. Evans pointed out, the Fed, both as a matter of law and as a matter of social responsibility, should try to keep both inflation and unemployment low — and while inflation seems likely to stay near or below the Fed’s target of around 2 percent, unemployment remains extremely high. So how should the Fed be reacting? Mr. Evans: “Imagine that inflation was running at 5 percent against our inflation objective of 2 percent. Is there a doubt that any central banker worth their salt would be reacting strongly to fight this high inflation rate? No, there isn’t any doubt. They would be acting as if their hair was on fire. We should be similarly energized about improving conditions in the labor market.” But the Fed’s hair is manifestly not on fire, nor do most politicians seem to see any urgency about the situation. These days, the best — or at any rate the alleged wise men and women who are supposed to be looking after the nation’s welfare — lack all conviction, while the worst, as represented by much of the G.O.P., are filled with a passionate intensity. So the unemployed are being abandoned. O.K., about the Obama plan: It calls for about $200 billion in new spending — much of it on things we need in any case, like school repair, transportation networks, and avoiding teacher layoffs — and $240 billion in tax cuts. That may sound like a lot, but it actually isn’t. The lingering effects of the housing bust and the overhang of household debt from the bubble years are creating a roughly $1 trillion per year hole in the U.S. economy, and this plan — which wouldn’t deliver all its benefits in the first year — would fill only part of that hole. And it’s unclear, in particular, how effective the tax cuts would be at boosting spending. Still, the plan would be a lot better than nothing, and some of its measures, which are specifically aimed at providing incentives for hiring, might produce relatively a large employment bang for the buck. As I said, it’s much bolder and better than I expected. President Obama’s hair may not be on fire, but it’s definitely smoking; clearly and gratifyingly, he does grasp how desperate the jobs situation is.
Continue reading …Sally Quinn Column on 9/11 Trashes Conservative ‘Ignorance,’ Sharia ‘Scare Campaigns’
September 10, 2011 No Comment
In Saturday's On Faith section in the Washington Post, they allow religious leaders to reflect on 9/11, including Imam Abdul Faisal-Rauf, the organizer of the Ground Zero mega-mosque proposal in Manhattan through his Cordoba Initiative. (He said don't worry about those violent Muslim radicals, they're a tiny and spent force.) Sally Quinn, the editor of the On Faith website, unleashed a column in the Metro section that quickly transformed from thoughts about where she was on 9/11 to trashing the “right wing Christians” for denouncing Islam and the intensifying “ignorance” of politicians and their clueless “scare campaigns” against Sharia law. She even blamed the media for calling Muslim terrorists Muslims and not calling Christian terrorists Christians: Sadly, the answers many came up with after 9/11 were to blame this and other atrocities on Muslims. There are over a billion Muslims in the world. Most are peaceful. Only a handful distort their religion to commit murderous acts. In the past decade, false perceptions and ignorance have intensified. When Barack Obama ran for president many thought he was Muslim (he is a Christian but almost 20 percent of Americans today still believe he is a Muslim and have a negative opinion of him for that reason.) Since then we have had candidates like John McCain say he would have trouble voting for a Muslim for president and Herman Cain saying he wouldn’t want a Muslim in his administration. Right wing Christian leaders have denounced Islam. Politicians have run scare campaigns against “sharia law” about which they clearly have no clue. The outcry against the proposed Mosque at Ground Zero, which was not a mosque and not at Ground Zero, became an international affair. The Koran burning resulted in many deaths abroad. Women wearing headscarves have been forced to defend their choices. Muslim terrorists are routinely identified as Muslim terrorists while Christian terrorists are not identified by their religion. Why won’t Muslim leaders speak out against terrorism if they are so against it, critics ask? They do all the time in newspapers and Web sites, including this one. Muslim communities across the nation are constantly reaching out to combat those who attack a religion that has been hijacked by a small group of zealots. One such effort, this week in Washington, are blood drives around the country to try to save more lives than those lost on 9/11. These are citizens who care deeply, many of whom have sent sons and daughters to fight and die for this country. At Dulles Airport last weekend with my family, I watched as a Muslim family, father and son in Western clothes, mother and daughter in long dresses but no headscarves, baby girl in tow, were stopped at immigration and fingerprinted. “Why don’t they dress like Americans?” someone in the crowd murmured. My daughter in law, who is half Persian and has not yet received a passport with her new surname, was questioned by the immigration officer when we came through. “How is she part of the family?” he asked. I pointed out that she was my son’s wife and that she had a different name from her husband as did I. I, of course, was not questioned. As I mentioned, I did not pray on 9/11. The only thing I could think of to pray about was for answers and there were none. However, I will pray this Sunday. I will pray that we as Americans, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, Atheists, Agnostics and others can come together to end prejudice, discrimination and hatred. Violence is not more a feature of Islam, than those qualities are features of other faiths and people of no faith. Let’s stop it before it gets really ugly and turns us into the very people we criticize and so desperately do not want to be. Quinn took the same approach in a new interview about 9/11 with evangelical preacher and author Joel Osteen: QUINN: Obviously the terrorists were Muslim and then a lot of people sort of became anti-Muslim in this country because of that. You know, there are over a billion Muslims in the world and most of them are peace-loving. What do you say to your parishioners and people you speak to when they try to blame Islam for this and focus in on that as sort of the source of evil? OSTEEN: I always encourage them that this is a small group of people that are way off base. It’s not one religion; you can’t define them all as a whole.
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Protocols drawn up in the wake of the World Trade Centre attack gave Blair the authority to blow the plane up, he has revealed Tony Blair has revealed how he came close to ordering a passenger jet over UK airspace to be shot down “some time after” 9/11 because it was not responding to air traffic control. He said fighter jets had been prepared to take off after the plane “appeared to be deviating for the path it was in” and new protocols drawn up in the wake of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre gave him the authority to blow the plane up. “We were really not very far away from having to take a final decision as to whether to bring the plane down, because we had the provision to do that,” he said. Asked how close he came to giving the order to shoot it down. “It came quite close. It was a situation where I ended up talking directly to the officer who was in charge of the operation and trying to work out whether the plane in question was for some reason a mishap which obviously was the overwhelming likelihood, but what if it wasn’t?” he said in an interview with Jon Sopel on BBC World News. “It was an extremely frightening moment.” He said that fighter jets had been “prepared en route to take off” in readiness to intercept the jet, which was later found not to be a threat. Blair did not specify when the threat occurred, but said it was some time “later” in his premiership. Asked by Sopel whether he would have given the order to take it down, he said he probably would have not. “I don’t know. I think we had already passed the first threshold of when I was supposed to take the decision, and I was pushing it back as much as I could for obvious reasons, and I think probably in the end I would have taken the risk that indeed it was – as it turned out to be – that they had just lost touch with air traffic control because of the consequences of shooting it down and finding that it was [not a terrorist threat]. “There was at a later time when we then had to put in place a whole lot of protocols, frameworks for action in circumstances where you lost contact with a plane or a plane was not in proper contact with air traffic control,” he said. In the same interview, Blair says he believes the battle against terrorism will be “a generation-long struggle”. But he says the world has learned a lot in the 10 years since 9/11. “We have learned a lot about how to deal with the terrorist threat, we have also learned a lot about nation-building.” He said the Arab spring was a good thing and the most important country in the region was Egypt. Tony Blair September 11 2001 United States Global terrorism Lisa O’Carroll guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …J.D. Salinger’s Son Threatens Legal Action Against Memorabilia Dealer, Gary Zimet, For Posting Letter
September 10, 2011 No Comment
J.D. Salinger’s literary trust recently threatened legal action against memorabilia dealer Gary Zimet for posting a letter on his memorabilia site, momentsintime.com, that was allegedly written by the famous author. The letter was addressed to a producer, and concerned selling film rights for Salinger’s classic “The Catcher in the Rye.” In the letter, Salinger appeared hesitant to allow a film adaptation to be made. He noted, “What he thinks and does so naturally in his solitude in the novel, on the stage could at best be only pseudo-simulated.” He continued: And Holden Caulfield himself, in my undoubtedly super-biased opinion, is essentially unactable. A Sensitive, Intelligent, Talented Young Actor in a Reversible Coat wouldn’t be nearly enough. It would take someone with X to bring it off, and no very young man even if he has X quite knows what to do with it. The author’s son, Matt Salinger, sent a letter to Zimet, seen by The Huffington Post, in which Salinger stated that “Any publication – even online – without express permission by my father and/or the Trust is a direct and clear infringement of my father’s, and now the Trust’s, intellectual property rights, under United States federal and/or state laws.” He demanded that Zimet “immediately cease and desist from all further display, publication, and distribution and/or advertising of any and all such letters, and remove and/or disable access to all the current item listed on the website http://www.momentsintime.com as well as any other site [he] may control or own.” In a phone interview with The Huffington Post, Zimet said, “The letter has been up [on the website] for probably a year and a half, and I just find it odd that only 10 days or so ago [Matt Salinger] asked that I take it down.” He also noted that he has never had any other problems concerning his memorabilia collections and copyright issues with posting them on the web. Zimet said he had told the estate that he would “confer with his lawyer,” but that he is “in no rush to take it down.”
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Will the networks have trouble remembering 9/11 without getting in their digs against President Bush and the lack of wisdom in his Iraq war policy? The Democratic Party narrative certainly slipped into a 9/11 remembrance segment Friday night on PBS's Washington Week. NPR reporter Tom Gjelten proclaimed the usual “we took the eye off the ball” line about Afghanistan, and later, reporter Alexis Simendinger underlined a large lack of confidence in Bush's going into Iraq: MAJOR GARRETT, National Journal: It was a short war on the front: rapid victory over the Taliban, consolidation of that country, elections, all of those things looked very positive. And then the president and his administration became extremely focused on Iraq. TOM GJELTEN, National Public Radio: Our attention and resources were diverted from Afghanistan to Iraq. Special operations forces that were key to the fight in Afghanistan were redirected to Iraq. As a result, there was not an end game in Afghanistan, and ten years later, we are still there. John Harwood of CNBC explained that the wars “became very polarizing,” and that everything we didn't like about the contentiousness of our politics (after the 2000 election battle, I'd assume) was made worse. Then Alexis Simendinger, with National Journal during the early Bush years and now with Real Clear Politics, underlined Iraq again as protester signs were shown: ALEXIS SIMENDINGER: President Bush felt so strongly that he wanted to rebuild confidence, and in fact his two-term presidency was undermined to such a large extent by the lack of confidence in some of the steps that were taken afterward, obviously going into Iraq, et cetera, weapons of mass destruction. The signs read “Why is our economy in the toilet? It's the war!” This is almost amusing considering how much better the economic indicators were in the Bush years compared to now. The other said “Bush out of Iraq” with the words “Nixon” and “Vietnam” crossed out and “Bush” and “Iraq” scribbled in red. There were only two historic soundbites in the remembrance, which took most of the show's half-hour: the first sentence of President Bush's remarks on the night of 9/11 (no National Cathedral speech, no standing on the rubble with a bullhorn), and the first sentence of Bush's announcement of war in Afghanistan.
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