Gateway DX4870-UB2B

The Gateway DX4870-UB2B ($499.99 list) is a basic tower desktop PC that checks all the boxes on what you need from a new desktop, particularly if you already have a LCD display that you're carrying over. It's speedy for its segment, has capacious storage, will let your family keep many documents open simultaneously, and it's relatively inexpensive. Unlike the $300 bargain basement specials, the DX4870-UB2B comes with a modern Intel Core i3 processor, dual-band Wi-Fi, and lots of drive space. It's expandable, so it can grow with your family. It's not ground breaking, but it's a solid choice with a great bang for the buck, so it's our latest Editors' Choice for budget desktop PCs.

Design and Features
The DX4870-UB2B follows other Gateway desktops, looking almost identical to the last black tower Gateway DX4870-UB17 ($500). Like that model, the DX4870-UB2B comes in a tower chassis with black panels all around, including the plastic front panel and metal side panels. The system's tray-loading DVD burner is hidden, but two of the system's USB 2.0 ports, SD card reader, and audio jacks are exposed on the top front of the chassis. In the back, the system has four more USB 2.0 ports, two USB 3.0 ports, PS/2 mouse and keyboard ports, HDMI, VGA, Ethernet, more audio jacks, and two connectors for the included WiFi antennas. It would have been nice if the front USB ports were USB 3.0 to accommodate USB hard drives instead of the slower USB 2.0.

The inside of the system is certainly expandable, with plenty of space to move around for future upgrades. The system has space for two additional drives: one optical 5.25-inch bay and one 3.5-inch hard drive bay. Theoretically, you could shoehorn another three to four 2.5-inch notebook class drives in the same space, provided you have the correct brackets to hold the drives. The motherboard has four free SATA ports to service these drives. The system also has two DIMM slots free, along with a slot for a PCIe 3.0 x16 graphics card and two additional PCIe 2.0 x1 expansion cards. One PCIe x1 slot is occupied by the included 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi card, which will serve most users well. This is an improvement over other budget systems like the Lenovo IdeaCentre Q190 ($400) and Zotac Zbox ID83 Plus ($473), both of which don't support 5Ghz WiFi, only the more common and crowded 2.4GHz channels.

The last consideration you have to make for expandability is the system's 300W power supply. While sufficient for additional drives and minor expansion cards, 300W will be insufficient for a high-powered discrete graphics card with Nvidia's or AMD's highest end GPUs. You can of course swap out the included power supply, but most budget system buyers never open their chassis, even if they are tempted by the system's expandability. Bring a screwdriver if you dare, because you'll need it for the case door and the drive bays. At least the internal card slots are tool-less.

Like other Gateway systems, the DX4870-UB2B comes with quite a few pre-loaded applications and utilities. These include 7digital, Zinio, Kindle, eBay, Chacha, Netflix, NewsXpresso, Amazon, Tunein, Hulu Plus, Xbox Games, Cut The Rope, Stumbleupon, Skype, Merriam-Webster, Britannica, Spotify, Microsoft Office (ad), Norton Internet Security), and Wild Tangetn games. That's a lot of pre-loaded apps, and most if not all are available for free from Microsoft Windows Store. While you may want to spend a few moments uninstalling all these programs, fret not, since the system has a capacious 1TB hard drive with plenty of free space left. The DX4870-UB2B comes with a standard one-year warranty.

Performance
The system comes with a third-generation Intel Core i3-3240 processor, 6GB of DDR3 memory, Intel HD Graphics 2500 (integrated in the Core i3 processor), and a 1TB 5,400rpm SATA hard drive. All of these components mean the system is plenty fast on our benchmark tests, certainly faster than the Lenovo Q190 and the Zbox ID83 Plus. That said, there are systems in this price range that are faster, notably the Polywell Nano i3-Q7 ($595) which trades physical and storage space for SSD speed, and the Acer Aspire AT3-600-UR11 ($600), which has a discrete graphics card and slightly more powerful processor adding to its performance totals. Check the performance chart link to see the final numbers, but suffice to say the DX4870-UB2B has the performance to keep your family happy for the next five years or so.

The Gateway DX4870-UB2B is a great choice for the budget-minded PC buyer who wants to replace that old desktop, but still needs the traditional large screen, keyboard, and mouse of a PC. It's not anything flashy, but it's a great buy, and likely will last you another five years before you need to replace it, something that can't be said if you decide to go with a cheaper tablet or laptop. This mix of components (and the changing of the seasons) lets the DX4870-UB2B inherit the budget desktop Editors' Choice from the previous Gateway DX4870-UB17.

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Movie review: 'Fruitvale Station' puts a human face on a tragic shooting

| courtesy Sundance Institute Octavia Spencer stars in "Fruitvale," screening in the U.S. Dramatic competition at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival

Review ? Quiet moments lead to a shattering conclusion.

The powerful urban drama "Fruitvale Station," which won the Grand Jury Prize at this year?s Sundance Film Festival, starts with a flashpoint moment in America?s apparently endless struggle with race.

Here are the facts: On New Year?s morning 2009, in a tense encounter with police, 22-year-old Oscar Julius Grant III was shot in the back by a Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer at a BART station in Oakland, Calif. He later died in the hospital. Passengers on the BART train recorded the shooting on their cellphones, and the video was seen widely ? prompting protests and riots around the Bay Area against police mistreatment of African Americans.

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A moving portrait of an African-American shooting victim that focuses on the man?s life, not the newspaper headlines.

Where ? Broadway Centre Cinemas.

When ? Opens Friday, July 26.

Rating ? R for some violence, language throughout and some drug use.

Running time ? 90 minutes.

Filmmaker Ryan Coogler, a Bay Area native, begins with those facts as he weaves an engaging, emotional and human-scaled story that imagines the last 24 hours of Oscar Grant?s life.

Starting with a chilling cellphone-shot re-enactment of the shooting, Coogler flashes back to the beginning of that tragic day. He finds Grant (played by Michael B. Jordan) at home in Hayward, Calif., at a crossroads in his life. He?s trying to make right with his girlfriend, Sophina (Melonie Diaz), who caught him cheating. He?s trying to get back his job at a nearby supermarket. And he?s trying to do right by his mom (Octavia Spencer), who?s celebrating her birthday on the last day of the year.

Coogler and cinematographer Rachel Morrison capture, in documentary style, moments of Grant?s day. He helps a supermarket customer (Ahna O?Reilly) figure out how to do a fish fry. He rescues a pit bull that is run over in the street. He drops his daughter, Tatiana (Ariana Neal), off at daycare. He contemplates whether to sell a bag of marijuana in his possession and thinks back to the sadness in his mother?s eyes a year earlier when she visited him in prison.

Because we know how this story ends, normally mundane moments take on an air of tragic foreshadowing. Sophina pleads with Grant to come clean, to get his life together and think about his future. When Grant and Sophina make plans to travel to San Francisco to watch the New Year?s fireworks, it?s Mom who suggests that to avoid traffic they should take the train.

There is room for a debate about the dramatic license Coogler takes with Grant?s life, truncating or possibly inventing episodes of his life and cramming them into a single day. But Coogler?s take quietly serves to show Grant as a human being, with his flaws and redeeming qualities, and not just as a face in a newspaper obituary.

Coogler provides Jordan a golden acting opportunity, and the young actor does not disappoint. Jordan (who co-starred in the UFO thriller "Chronicle" and played the quarterback for two seasons on "Friday Night Lights") channels Grant?s frustration with his life as an unemployed parolee, but also his determination to do right by Sophina and Tatiana.

Jordan is well-matched by his female co-stars. Diaz, an indie darling ("Hamlet 2," "A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints"), effuses both love for Grant and hard-earned skepticism that he can correct his past mistakes. And Spencer, fairly fresh off her Oscar for "The Help," serves as the gentle moral anchor for Grant and the wider community.

"Fruitvale Station" arrives in theaters just as another case of a young African-American shooting victim, Trayvon Martin, dominates the headlines. It?s difficult to compare Grant?s death to Martin?s in terms of specifics (Martin wasn?t shot by a cop, and there was no cellphone footage to clarify how he was killed), but the movie may help by focusing attention on the person, not the profile.

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"Serve it to Cancer" volleyball tournament raises money for breast cancer

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Ex-UNO football coach arrested in prostitution case

Former University of Nebraska at Omaha football coach Pat Behrns was arrested Tuesday in connection with a prostitution case in Council Bluffs.

Behrns, 63, was arrested Tuesday afternoon in the Bluffs on suspicion of solicitation of prostitution, officials said.

A Bluffs police department lieutenant said Wednesday that Behrns and 12 others were arrested as part of a periodic prostitution sting operation in which initial contacts are made over Internet websites.

Authorities said they wouldn?t release additional specifics about the arrests or the sting because the operation is recurring.

The lieutenant said he did not know if Behrns was still being held or whether the ex-coach?s first appearance in court had been scheduled.

Behrns was head coach of the Mavericks from 1994 through the program?s dismantling in March 2011 as UNO prepared to join the NCAA?s Division I ranks.

He was also the head coach of the University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux football team from 1980 to 1985.

Behrns is a 1972 graduate of Dakota State University.

Contact the writer: Jay Withrow

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Jay covers crime, weather, breaking news and other stories for Omaha.com.

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Samsung?s new Exynos 5 Octa (5420) processor unveiled. Twitter giveaway lets you win a Galaxy S4 Zoom, Tab 3 8.0, or Chromebook

Samsung?s new and improved Exynos 5 Octa mobile processor that was teased last week is now official.

The new SoC (model number Exynos 5420) comes with four ARM Cortex-A15 cores (1.8GHz) and other four Cortex-A7 cores (1.3 GHz), enhancing the overall CPU processing capability by 20 percent over the previous chipset.

The 5420 is the world?s first applications processor that uses a six-core ARM Mali-T628 GPU. Reportedly, this boosts 3D graphics capabilities by at least two times when compared to older architectures.

?ARM welcomes the latest addition to the successful Exynos Octa 5 series, which uses ARM?s Mali GPU solution to dramatically improve graphics performance. ARM big.LITTLE and ARM Artisan Physical IP technologies continue to be at the heart of the Octa series and now complement the new functionality brought by ARM GPU Compute. This combination enables unprecedented capabilities in areas such as facial detection and gesture control, and brings desktop-quality editing of images and video to mobile devices,? said Pete Hutton, executive vice president & general manager, Media Processing Division, ARM.

Samsung says that mass production for the Exynos 5 Octa 5420 will start in August. This means that the upcoming Galaxy Note III (expected to be officially announced in early September) can use the new CPU.

Meanwhile, to celebrate the introduction of the 5420, Samsung has kicked-off a Twitter giveaway (available only in the US, Canada, and the UK).

All you have to do to enter is tweet with the #ExynosEvolved hashtag. There will be weekly prizes (until October), including 12 Exynos-powered devices, like the Galaxy S4 Zoom, Galaxy Tab 3 8.0, and Chromebook. For more details, including official rules, go here.

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Florence Welch gatecrashes gig during London night out

The Florence + The Machine star was enjoying an evening out with pals at the South London Pacific bar in Kennington when resident group Sourberry kicked off a set with Daft Punk's huge hit Get Lucky.

Welch couldn't resist joining in, so she jumped on stage and grabbed the microphone, thrilling the crowd with her own rendition of the track. She then downed a tequila shot handed to her by a reveller before blasting out her version of Gossip's Standing in the Way of Control.

A post on Sourberry's website reads, "It was the annual Sourberry summer party and Florence Welch of Florence + the Machine was in attendance. She hopped up on stage during our sound check and rocked out a couple of numbers with us while we warmed up. Get Lucky - Daft Punk and Standing in the Way of Control - The Gossip. So let's raise the bar, and our tequila shot to the stars."

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