Can?t Decide Between The Galaxy S II And HTC Amaze 4G? How About 25 Minutes Of Video To Help Decide.

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You?ve been asking for it and well, I?ve been asking him for it too as our good friend Aaron from PhoneDog has pitted the Galaxy S II against the HTC Amaze 4G in over 25 minutes of dogfight goodness. I can see by your comments, emails, Facebook posts and Tweets that a lot of you are having a tough time decide between these two T-Mobile premiere smartphones.

Hopefully seeing them battle for over 25 minutes will help sway you in one direction. The good news remains that they are both great phones, each having a few advantages over the other. One of the immediate examples is the Galaxy S II larger screen against the HTC Amaze 4G and it?s (arguably) better camera. Then of course you?ve got the age-old Android debate of HTC Sense versus Samsung TouchWiz. That debate is always fun!

You?ve got quite a bit of video ahead so it?s time for less reading and more watching!

Don?t forget to check out our review of the Galaxy S II as well!

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Did Giant Stars Feed Blue Stragglers?

In a letter to the journal Nature published this week, astronomers Aaron Geller and Robert Mathieu offer an explanation for the origin of blue straggler stars in a star cluster called NGC 188. Geller suggests the stars fed on neighbor stars, leaving behind white dwarfs.

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IRA FLATOW, host: This is SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm Ira Flatow. If you take a telescope, and you trained it on a cluster of stars, you're looking at a group of stars that formed at about the same time, but they may not all look the same. In some clusters, astronomers have caught a glimpse of some stars that stand out from the others: They burn bluer and brighter, they seem to be younger than they should be. They're called Blue Stragglers.

There are a couple of theories about how Blue Stragglers form. Are they the result of collisions between two stars? Or maybe they came from a merger of stars. Writing this week in the journal Nature, my next guest offers his theory on the origin of Blue Stragglers. Aaron Geller is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Thanks for being with us today, Dr. Geller.

Dr. AARON GELLER: My pleasure, thanks for having me.

FLATOW: Tell us about - what is a Blue Straggler, and why should we care about it?

GELLER: Well, like you say, Blue Stragglers are stars that we observe to be bluer and brighter than normal stars of similar mass and age. But let me give you a little context for that definition. And normal stars - well, normal stars for instance like our sun - they spend most of their lives having a very similar size and temperature.

And then at a certain point, toward the end of their lives, they become much bigger, up to 100 times the size, and become what we call giant stars. Even later on, they die and become stellar remnants, and for a star like our sun, that would be a white dwarf.

Now, we can predict how long it should take for a normal star to go from, you know, being this normal, kind of steady state, to becoming a giant. And when we look at Blue Stragglers, we see that they are - they have somehow maintained this normal state for longer than we would have expected.

Now physically, we think that this is because Blue Stragglers have gained some extra material from another star, and this extra mass has allowed the Blue Straggler to become bluer and brighter, and therefore it looks younger, if you will, than we should expect.

And this is basically why we call them stragglers, because they're in a sense straggling behind all the other stars that they grew up with in terms of star evolution.

FLATOW: And so what's the mystery about them?

GELLER: Well, they were discovered some 60 years ago, and you mentioned a few of the theories about where they come from. There have been a lot of other theories along the way, as well. And the three that have really survived scientific scrutiny is collisions, like you said; mergers; and also mass transfer.

And so the mystery is really which one of these is really the dominant way of making these Blue Stragglers in certain different environments. And we studied a star cluster, NGC188, and we were trying to determine where these Blue Stragglers came from.

FLATOW: And you discovered - which one of your theories is correct, then, that it sucks up other stuff?

GELLER: So yes, the theory that we think is the - explains most of the Blue Stragglers in our cluster is called mass transfer. And let me explain what that is. You start out with two stars that are in a binary system, so they're orbiting each other. One of the stars evolves to become a giant, like I was explaining before, and they are close enough together that the outer material from this giant star gets, like you were saying, sucked on to the other star, and this other star eventually consumes all of the outer material from the giant and becomes a Blue Straggler.

And in doing so, it - all that's left of the giant is the core of that star, which is a white dwarf. So you're left with a Blue Straggler that has a binary companion that is a white dwarf, and this is what we think we observe in NGC188.

FLATOW: Can we actually see any - if we had our, you know, our backyard telescope out or our binoculars?

GELLER: Well, you could see the Blue Straggler stars. These would be some of the bluest stars and brightest stars in the cluster. Now, you could not see with your telescope the white dwarf companion. It turns out that white dwarfs don't emit very brightly in optical light, in visible, that we can see.

In fact, the Blue Straggler is much brighter than the white dwarf. But if you were to switch to a different wavelength range, for instance the ultraviolet, then the white dwarf is actually quite bright in comparison to the Blue Straggler, and that is when you can actually potentially see these white dwarfs. And this is a project that my collaborator Bob Matthew(ph) and a few others are involved with to get ultraviolet images of these Blue Stragglers with the Hubble Space Telescope.

FLATOW: And what more would you like to learn about all this?

GELLER: Well, there is still a few - so we've looked at many of the Blue Stragglers in NGC188 and said that most of these look like they come from mass transfer, but that's not the whole story. There are still some other Blue Stragglers in the cluster that we don't know very much about, and of course I would love to get the confirmation on these Blue Stragglers that we have studied with the Hubble data. I would love to see the white dwarfs myself.

FLATOW: Why do you call them Blue Stragglers? That's such a demotion it sounds to me of the victorious star.

(SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER)

GELLER: Well, it's true. I guess when they were first discovered, they weren't called Blue Stragglers. It wasn't until a few years later that someone coined that term. Well, they're blue.

FLATOW: Yeah, that we can buy.

GELLER: They're blue stars, and they seem like they are straggling behind normal stars. They're just not evolving as quickly as we would expect. So they look younger, and they're straggling.

FLATOW: And they're better well-fed, is what it is, from the other companion stars.

GELLER: They are indeed, and this actually brings up a funny kind of analogy that people have been throwing around with the Blue Stragglers formed by mass transfer. They're calling them stellar vampires because they feed off of their companions to make them look younger, which is, I guess, kind of timely since we're getting so close to Halloween.

FLATOW: And I certainly can't top that. So I'm going to let you go.

(SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER)

FLATOW: And thank you for taking time to be with us today, Dr. Geller.

GELLER: Thanks for having me.

FLATOW: Aaron Geller is the Lindheimer Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

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Floodwaters seep into outer Bangkok as canals open

Residents ride on a bulldozer to keep dry at flooded Rangsit district on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand on Friday Oct. 21, 2011. Thailand's prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra urged Bangkok's residents to get ready to move their belongings to higher ground Friday as the country's worst floods in half a century began seeping into the capital's outer districts. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Residents ride on a bulldozer to keep dry at flooded Rangsit district on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand on Friday Oct. 21, 2011. Thailand's prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra urged Bangkok's residents to get ready to move their belongings to higher ground Friday as the country's worst floods in half a century began seeping into the capital's outer districts. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Resident wade through floods in Rangsit district on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand on Friday Oct. 21, 2011. Thailand's prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra urged Bangkok's residents to get ready to move their belongings to higher ground Friday as the country's worst floods in half a century began seeping into the capital's outer districts. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Flood victims ride on a military truck through a flooded street in Bangkok, Thailand Friday, Oct. 21, 2011. Thailand's prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra urged Bangkok's residents to get ready to move their belongings to higher ground Friday as the country's worst floods in half a century began seeping into the capital's outer districts. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)

A young Thai resident looks out a truck as they evacuate to higher grounds at flooded Rangsit district at the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand on Friday Oct. 21, 2011. Thailand's Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra urged Bangkok's residents to get ready to move their belongings to higher ground Friday as the country's worst floods in half a century began seeping into the capital's outer districts. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

A Thai resident uses makeshift floats to cross flooded waters in Rangsit district on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand on Friday Oct. 21, 2011. Thailand's prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra urged Bangkok's residents to get ready to move their belongings to higher ground Friday as the country's worst floods in half a century began seeping into the capital's outer districts. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

(AP) ? Thailand's prime minister urged Bangkok residents to get ready to move their belongings to higher ground Friday as the country's worst floods in half a century began seeping into the capital's outer districts.

The government has opened several key floodgates in a risky move to let built-up water flow through the canals toward the sea, and it's not known how much the canals will overflow.

An Associated Press team Friday saw water entering homes in Bangkok's northern Lak Si district, along the capital's main Prapa canal. The water rose to knee-level in some places but damage so far was minor and not affecting Bangkok's main business district.

Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra told reporters the Prapa canal was a big concern.

"I would like to ask people in all districts of Bangkok to get ready to move their belongings to higher ground as a precaution," Yingluck said, while also urging people "not to panic."

Yingluck invoked her powers under the Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Act giving her overriding authority over all other official bodies, including local governments, to fight the crisis.

The action should allow better coordination with the municipal authorities in Bangkok, who normally have legal authority to make their own decisions. It also helps project Yingluck as a take-charge leader, after weeks of seeming indecision and confusion.

Bangkok Gov. Sukhumbhand Paribatra said managing the Prapa canal was a "top priority" but vast pools of runoff draining through it from the north are expected to intensify.

the immense networks of sandbagged barriers could deteriorate under pressure from the water, since they were not designed as dams.

Excessive rains and storms have wasted a vast swath of Asia this year, killing 745 people ? a quarter of them children ? in Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos and the Philippines, according to the United Nations.

Thailand's government said Friday at least 342 deaths occurred here, mostly from drowning as floodwaters crept across this Southeast Asian nation since July. The floods have submerged land in about one-third of the country, leaving some towns under water more than six-feet-high (two-meters-high).

Economic analysts say the floods have cut Thailand's 2011 GDP projections by as much as 2 percentage points. The latest damage estimate of $6 billion could double if floods swamp Bangkok.

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Associated Press writer Vee Intarakratug contributed to this report.

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Jury convicts 2 Minn. women in terror case

Two Minnesota women who claimed they were helping the poor in Somalia were convicted Thursday of conspiring to funnel money to a terrorist group as part of what prosecutors called a "deadly pipeline" sending funds and fighters to al-Shabab.

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After the verdicts, one of the women, Amina Farah Ali, told the judge through an interpreter that she was happy because she was "going to heaven no matter what," and condemned those in authority, saying: "You will go to hell." She was ordered into custody pending her sentencing.

Ali, 35, and Hawo Mohamed Hassan, 64, were each charged with conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. Ali also faced 12 counts of providing such support, for allegedly sending more than $8,600 to al-Shabab from September 2008 through July 2009, while Hassan faced two counts of lying to the FBI.

Both were found guilty on all counts. The terrorism-related counts each carry up to 15 years in prison, while lying to the FBI carries up to eight years. No sentencing date was set, and prosecutors said it was too early to predict what sentence they'd recommend.

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The women, both U.S. citizens of Somali descent, were among 20 people charged in Minnesota's long-running federal investigations into recruiting and financing for al-Shabab, which the U.S. considers a terrorist group with ties to al-Qaida. Investigators believe at least 21 men left Minnesota ? home to the country's largest Somali community ? to join al-Shabab.

Though others have pleaded guilty to related charges, the women were the first to go to trial.

The verdicts will likely lead to other guilty pleas, said Omar Jamal, first secretary of the Somali mission to the United Nations in New York. He also said it would be difficult for law enforcement agencies to rebuild the trust they had worked to establish with the Somali community.

Prosecutors had emphasized that the case was not about a community or a religion, but two women who deliberately broke the law.

"The verdict reaffirms the principle that everyone who lives within our borders has to obey our laws," Paulsen said. He added that prosecutors would keep trying to improve relationships with the Somali community.

Prosecutors said the two women went door-to-door in the name of charity and held religious teleconferences to solicit donations, which they then routed to the fighters. The defendants said they believed the men were protecting their homeland from the Ethiopian army, which many saw as invaders.

The government's key evidence included hundreds of hours of recorded phone calls, obtained during a 10-month wiretap on Ali's home and cell phone. Prosecutors say those calls, which included talk of fighting in Somalia and sending money to fighters under false pretenses, showed the women knew they were doing something illegal.

Defense attorneys painted the women as humanitarians giving money to orphans and poor people, as well as a group they felt was working to push foreign troops out of Somalia.

Ali, who had been found in contempt of court when she refused to stand for religious reasons at the start of the trial, told Chief U.S. District Judge Michael Davis after the verdicts that she knows justice in God.

Her lawyer, Dan Scott, did not immediately return a phone message seeking comment. Ali's husband declined to comment.

Hassan was taken into custody but will be placed into a halfway house when possible. She will be on lockdown and monitored by GPS. She expressed concern in court about whether she would have to remove her head covering. Davis said she would be allowed to wear it.

Hassan's attorney, Tom Kelly, said he would wait until the sentencing before deciding whether to appeal.

"She seems to be at peace," he said of his client. "She's a deeply religious woman and puts her trust in Allah. I think there's a lesson to be learned there."

As part of its case, the government had to prove the women knew al-Shabab had been declared a foreign terrorist organization, or that they knew it was engaged in terrorist activity or terrorism.

During his closing argument, Scott said Ali began supporting al-Shabab before the U.S. government declared it a terrorist group in February 2008. He said the government offered no evidence that showed Ali knew al-Shabab had received the designation.

Prosecutor Steven Ward contended that Ali and Hassan were in contact with key al-Shabab leaders and getting frequent updates on the fighting. He said their conversations showed they knew al-Shabab was a terror group, sometimes celebrating casualties.

In one of those calls, Ali told others to "forget about the other charities" and focus on "the jihad." In another, she said, "Let the civilians die."

The case was closely watched by local Somalis. Dozens of supporters ? mostly women ? attended court each day. Several women in the courtroom sobbed after the two were taken into custody.

"I'm real sad," Fartun Abdiloor of Minneapolis said after the verdict. "It's so emotional, so intense. This decision is the opposite of what we expected."

Others in the Somali community were pleased.

"Because of the delay in the justice system there was a sense in the community that these folks are untouchable," said Abdirizak Bihi, whose nephew left Minneapolis as a teenager to join al-Shabab and was later killed in Somalia. "I'm very happy that justice is starting to deliver."

Bihi did not attend the trial but said the verdicts send a message to others that supporting the "brutal" acts of al-Shabab is a serious crime and "the government means business."

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AP writer Steve Karnowski contributed to this report.

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Article Place ? Investing in Silver Eagles

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Producing the determination to invest in silver is a single of the greatest things you can do for your economic foreseeable future. What really should be your following step? Study, analysis, study. It is important to know what you are purchasing, ...

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Halo effect: Family members of gastric-bypass patients also lose weight, study finds

ScienceDaily (Oct. 18, 2011) ? Family members of patients who have undergone surgery for weight loss may also shed several pounds themselves, as well as eat healthier and exercise more, according to a new study by researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine.

A year after the 35 patients in the study had Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery, their obese adult family members weighed on average 8 pounds less, the researchers say.

In addition, many of the children in these families also appeared to benefit through their close association with the patient, exhibiting a lower body mass index than would have been expected given their growth curve.

The study notes that overweight women on a traditional medically supervised diet, such as Atkins or Ornish, lose between 2 and 5 percent of their body weight over 12 months. Over that same period of time, both obese men and women in the families of the surgery patients lost 3 percent of their body weight overall -- slimming down, on average, from 234 to 226 pounds.

"Family members were able to lose weight comparable to being part of a medically controlled diet simply by accompanying the bariatric surgery patient to their pre- and post-operative visits," said senior author John Morton, MD, MPH, associate professor of surgery at Stanford and director of bariatric surgery at Stanford Hospital & Clinics.

The findings will be published Oct. 17 in the Archives of Surgery. The lead author of the study is Gavitt Woodard, MD, a 2011 graduate of the Stanford School of Medicine.

The 50 adults and children who participated in the study did more than just share a house with the bariatric patients; they also, as Morton noted, accompanied the patients to all of their pre- and post-operative clinical visits, where they received dietary and lifestyle counseling. These sessions would emphasize a high-protein, high-fiber, low-fat and low-sugar diet and small, frequent meals. The sessions also set daily goals for exercise and stressed a good night's sleep, alcohol moderation and less time in front of the television.

After a year, not only did obese adult family members lose several pounds, but their waistlines also decreased on average from 47 inches to 44 inches. Weight loss among non-obese family members, however, was not significant (180 to 176 pounds), and their waist circumference held steady at an average of 39 inches. But the number of alcoholic drinks consumed by the adult family members, regardless of weight, decreased sharply, from 11.4 to 0.8 each month.

In addition, the mean body mass index among obese children in the study was lower than what would have been expected based on projected growth-curve metrics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Adult family members made significant changes in their eating habits, with less emotional and uncontrollable eating. Both adults and children made substantial increases in their activity levels. For adult family members, metabolic equivalent task hours, a measure of physical-energy expenditure, more than doubled from 7.8 to 16.8; for children, the increase was from 12.9 to 22.4.

When behavior changes as a result of social-reinforcing conditions, it is sometimes known as a halo effect. For example, studies have found that people are more likely to quit smoking if their spouses quit, or become obese if a friend becomes obese.

Today, 26 percent of American adults and 15 percent of children are considered obese, which increases the risk of mortality related to diabetes, heart disease and cancer, the study says.

Morton noted that Stanford surgeons perform about 300 bariatric surgeries every year, and more than 200,000 are done annually in the United States.

"Can you imagine if every one of these bariatric patients were an ambassador for good health? You would have a huge, grassroots movement with bariatric surgery providing a vehicle for healthy change for patient and family alike," Morton said. "Obesity is a family disease and bariatric surgery sets the table for future, healthy family meals."

The authors conclude by saying, "Bariatric surgery programs should encourage family involvement in support groups and education sessions to capitalize on these halo effects."

Other authors of the study are Tina Hernandez-Boussard, PhD, MPH, assistant professor of surgery; and former Stanford medical students Betsy Encarnacion, MD, and Joe Peraza, MD.

The study was funded by the school's Medical Scholars Program.

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[OOC] Fruit Basket Agency: Way of the Merc.

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Above is a typical add that the Fruit Basket Agency puts up around train stations and such.This is because the land they live in is plagued by Demons. This is also because the retarded Leader of this agency has crap spelling.

It was not always like this, a little over a generation ago Demons and Humans lived in complete harmony. But some sort of thing that can only be described as a plague has reaped chaos on the peaceful co-existence. Demons have started to become crazed, unexplainable anger and hatred turns them into beasts. As a result they have become innately?savage. Some turn into animalistic beings with no bearing on their minds, while others into cunning agents of greed and chaos. These Demons have done horrible things to entire villages and are now feared. But sin has crossed both sides, as Half Demons have fallen victim to a fear crazed society. Hated and even hunted, no Half Demon is left unscarred. But a group of them calling themselves the Fruit Basket angecy has gathered together as a hired blade business. If you have a demon problem, they can solve it. For a price that is.


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    2. And there will be an ooc page with information on the Angecy and how it works specifically. All of this list will be done tonight mind you.
    3. And please note that I will be playing the Monk role and the Captain, this is for the sake of the rp's developement.

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Senators announced agreement on education law (AP)

WASHINGTON ? Signaling some unity in the Senate on fixing the "No Child Left Behind" law, two senators announced Monday an agreement to move forward on bipartisan legislation to overhaul it.

Soon after, however, Education Secretary Arne Duncan issued a statement noting that the bill did not include a provision the administration favors, which is a requirement that local and state districts develop teacher and principal evaluation systems. Duncan said he believes "that comprehensive evaluation system based on multiple measures, including student achievement, is essential for education reform to move forward" and "we can't retreat from reform."

Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, and Mike Enzi, Wyo., the top senators from their parties on the Senate committee with jurisdiction over education, made the announcement two days before the committee will consider the bill. Last week, Harkin released an outline of the plan the senators had been working on behind closed doors that did include a component on teacher and principal evaluations. At the time, Enzi hadn't yet publicly signed onto the plan.

Last month, President Barack Obama said he was frustrated with Congress' inability to update the law passed in 2002, so he was moving forward to allow states to apply for waivers around certain requirements. At least 39 states, in addition to the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, have said they intend to apply for a waiver. The administration has said the waivers are a stopgap plan until Congress acts.

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