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Ten months after former Utah lawmaker Mark Walker pleaded guilty to an elections-code misdemeanor in the 2008 state treasurer's primary, the door has not yet shut on the case.
Prosecutors this week denied open-records requests from The Salt Lake Tribune , saying there is still an ongoing investigation in the politically charged matter. Salt Lake City Prosecutor Sim Gill and Davis County Attorney Troy Rawlings declined to elaborate on their written responses.
But one elected official, Salt Lake County District Attorney Lohra Miller, revealed that another agency was scrutinizing the case.
"I had arranged to meet with Troy [Rawlings]" -- next week, Miller said Thursday, "but he told me the case had gone to the feds for further investigation."
Late Thursday, Gill and Rawlings remained mum about any federal involvement in the case.
"At this time, I don't feel it would be appropriate for me to comment publicly on private, confidential communications between my office and Lohra Miller's," Rawlings said.
Gill concurred.
"Any such speculations would compromise any investigative efforts, if they were happening," Gill said, "and fundamentally that would be a dereliction in duty of any prosecutor."
FBI Spokeswoman Debbie Dujanovic declined comment on that agency's involvement in the case.
"We cannot confirm or deny an investigation," Dujanovic said Thursday evening.
In May 2008, allegations exploded during the Republican state treasurer's primary when Ellis -- then chief deputy state treasurer -- filed an elections complaint charging that Walker, then a state representative, had offered him a raise to drop out of the GOP run-off.
Ellis went on to win that primary, and then Lt. Gov. Gary Herbert forwarded the complaint to Attorney General Mark Shurtleff's office shortly after the polls closed.
Shurtleff, who had openly backed Walker in the race, subsequently tapped Rawlings, along with Weber County Attorney Mark DeCaria, as an independent team to investigate the matter.
"Mark Shurtleff had endorsed Mark Walker and had given him campaign money, so at that point we felt the conflict was pretty clear," said Chief Deputy Attorney General Kirk Torgensen. "That was why we asked a couple of neutral county attorneys to take a look."
However, state statute fell short of giving Rawlings and DeCaria any prosecutorial authority, Torgensen said.
In October, the pair sought a grand jury investigation on the matter. Then, in late November, Miller cross-deputized DeCaria and Rawlings so they could prosecute the matter in 3rd District Court.
But that never happened.
DeCaria told her the case focused on a misdemeanor charge, Miller said, so she directed them to take it to the Salt Lake City prosecutor, who deals with those matters.
Gill moved the case along and Walker entered a plea in abeyance in January -- pleading guilty to offering "an inducement not to become a candidate" in exchange for sworn testimony he provided a few months later.
Jim Bradshaw, Walker's attorney, said Thursday that all issues involving his client have been put to bed.
"There is no outstanding investigation or matter that involves Mark Walker," Bradshaw said.
Miller said she personally had no legal conflicts of interest with the politically-charged case, but acknowledged concerns about public perception and partisan politics.
Rawlings, however, voiced frustration about the hot-potato investigation.
"It troubles me greatly that it languished for months while Mark DeCaria and I and our investigators labored without actual prosecutorial authority, resources and funding," Rawlings said, "because our AG was conflicted out and our Salt Lake DA opted to be 'percepted' out for reasons of concern about public opinion."


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Apparently it's easier to agree on remaking the nation's health care system than on President Obama's leadership.
A bipartisan group of former Senate leaders announced agreement today on a 10-year, $1.2 trillion health-care plan that includes most of the topics causing so much disagreement along Pennsylvania Avenue. Even on the touchy topic of a "public plan" to compete with private insurers, they simply kicked it to the states, who would set up 50 of them.
But when the attention turned to Obama's role, former Republican leader Robert Dole of Kansas (above center) parted company with his two ex-colleagues, Republican Howard Baker (above right) and Democrat Tom Daschle (above left).
"The only thing that puzzles me a little bit is the president doesn't have a bill," Dole said. Baker said that's a good thing for Republicans; Daschle said it's good for the whole process, since President Bill Clinton's highly complicated plan in 1994 was the main reason nothing got passed.
Dole was having none of it. "I always thought that leaders lead," he said. Then, perhaps sensing that he sounded too partisan for an announcement sponsored by the Bipartisan Policy Center, he got warm and fuzzy.
"I get along fine with Obama," said Dole, a wounded World War II veteran. "He took me to Normandy last week, and he brought me back."
(Posted by Richard Wolf; Photo montage by Kate Patterson/USA TODAY)
David's journalism career spans three decades, including coverage of five presidential elections, the Oklahoma City bombing, the 2000 Florida presidential recount and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He has covered the White House for USA TODAY since 2005. His interests include history, politics, books, movies and college football -- not necessarily in that order. More about David
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Everyone has heard of the terrible twos, but I seem to have a very challenging two year old boy! He is a wonderful, funny, loving child and very active and curious, but he refuses to follow simple orders and runs away at every opportunity. He is at preschool for a few hours a couple of mornings a week and we are well-known by the teachers and other mothers, because I am always chasing him (including in the car park which is terrifying for me). I try not to feel embarrassed but I know people are thinking I can't control my own child.
Can you suggest a loving approach to convincing him to obey at least some basic requests? I often lose my patience and shout at him, and then feel terrible about it later. My husband and I have never smacked him and I know that wouldn't be a solution. I couldn't bear to anyway! Any advice would be much appreciated! Thank you so much! :)


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We're a strong team of professionals who have ink in our veins and a passion for quality and creativity. Your company and projects become ours and our first priority is giving you exactly what you need and want. We strive daily to live up to our name by finding innovative products and services to grow your business and meet your challenges. Our continued growth is fueled by the relationships we build with our clients and determining their individual needs.


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Lesley Toth writes for the Mille Lacs County Times. She lives in Princeton with her husband, Joe, stepchildren, Corbin, 13, and Echora, 11, and a puggle named Ellsworth. As a Milaca native, Lesley enjoys covering stories on the local schools, businesses and community. In her leisure time, she likes playing disc golf, watching cheesy science fiction shows and reading. Lesley usually prefers baking over cooking, but has significantly improved her culinary skills during the past several years thanks to her extremely patient and knowledgeable husband.
This dip has become an all-time favorite appetizer among her family and friends. It's easy, quick and kid-friendly. It tastes just as great when re-heated (that is, if you manage to have any leftovers).
Okee Dokee Artichokee … Dip
1 jar (12-14 oz.) artichoke hearts in water
1/2 cup light mayo
1/2 cup light sour cream
12 oz. of shredded Parmesan cheese
12 oz. of shredded Romano cheese
1 tsp. onion salt
1/2 tsp. garlic salt
1-2 tbsp. dried marjoram (add to taste)
1 loaf French bread
Preheat oven to 375.
Drain artichokes and peel apart the hearts in a medium, oven-safe bowl. Add dressings, herbs and about 6 oz. of each cheese, setting aside the remainder. Mix well.
Bake for about 15-20 minutes or until mixture is melted.
While the dip is baking, cut the French bread into slices. Place slices on cookie sheet.
Remove dip from oven. Spread remaining cheese over the top and sprinkle with paprika. Return to oven for about 5 minutes or until the top layer of cheese turns golden.
Place French bread in oven with the dip to toast. You can lightly butter the bread, but I generally toast it dry.
You can also use "full-strength" mayo and sour cream, but I have found that the low-fat versions make a creamier and more subtle dip, allowing the artichoke flavor to be the star.


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Navistar Offers New MRAP Ambulance Vehicle Variant
"Our warfighters are challenged to complete a variety of missions and survivability continues to be key," said Archie Massicotte, president, Navistar Defense. "After fielding nearly 8,000 MaxxPro vehicles, we are proud to make the Dash ambulance available to help support the ongoing critical need for MRAP vehicles."
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The Dash Ambulance includes an easy-to-use litter assist system as well as a protected work space benefitting medics and patients. This solution, paired with the company's DXM(tm) independent suspension, helps medical aid navigate rough terrain to get where it is needed.
In addition to new vehicles, Navistar offers a MaxxPro ambulance kit, which can be installed into existing MaxxPro vehicles including the MaxxPro Base, Plus and Dash variants.
As one of the leading providers of MRAP vehicles, Navistar is committed to expanding its family of vehicles to serve multiple mission types. The company also continually develops vehicle enhancements. One of these enhancements, the DXM independent suspension, is currently being retrofitted onto existing MaxxPro vehicles.
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O'Conner named to MLB diversity group
Task force will address issues that influence talent pipeline
By Major League Baseball | April 10, 2013 11:10 AM ET
Baseball Commissioner Allan H. (Bud) Selig today announced the creation of an On-Field Diversity Task Force to address the talent pipeline that impacts the representation and development of diverse players and on-field personnel in Major League Baseball, particularly African-Americans.
The wide-ranging group, which includes representatives from club ownership, club front offices, MLB's central office, Minor League Baseball, former players, the Major League Baseball Players Association, the MLB Scouting Bureau, and collegiate baseball, will focus on the myriad of issues influencing on-field diversity at all levels of baseball.
"As a social institution, Major League Baseball has an enormous social responsibility to provide equal opportunities for all people, both on and off the field," said Baseball Commissioner Allan H. (Bud) Selig. "I am proud of the work we have done thus far with the RBI program and the MLB Urban Youth Academies, but there is more that we must accomplish. We have seen a number of successful efforts with existing MLB task forces, and I believe we have selected the right people to effectively address the many factors associated with diversity in baseball."
Members of the Commissioner's On-Field Diversity Task Force:
* Stuart Sternberg -- Principal owner, Tampa Bay Rays; MLB Diversity Oversight Committee Chairman
* Dave Dombrowski -- President, chief executive officer & general manager, Detroit Tigers; On-Field Diversity Task Force Chairman
* Tom Brasuell -- MLB vice president of community affairs (representing Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities)
* Roger Cador -- Baseball head coach, Southern University (Historically Black College & University)
* Tony Clark -- Director of player services, Major League Baseball Players Association
* Larry Dolan -- Cleveland Indians; MLB Diversity Oversight Committee advisor
* Dennis Gilbert -- Special assistant to Chicago White Sox chairman Jerry Reinsdorf
* Derrick Hall -- President & chief executive officer, Arizona Diamondbacks
* Wendy Lewis -- MLB senior vice president of diversity & strategic alliances
* Jerry Manuel -- MLB network analyst; Major League manager (1998-2003; 2008-2010); 2000 A.L. Manager of the Year
* Frank Marcos -- Senior director, MLB Scouting Bureau
* Jonathan Mariner -- MLB executive vice president and chief financial officer
* Darrell Miller -- MLB vice president of youth & facility development (representing MLB Urban Youth Academy)
* Bernard Muir -- Athletic director, Stanford University
* Kim Ng -- MLB senior vice president of baseball operations
* Pat O'Conner -- President & chief executive officer, Minor League Baseball
* Frank Robinson -- Hall of Famer; MLB executive vice president of baseball development
* Ken Williams -- Executive vice president, Chicago White Sox
According to the Player Diversity Report (released on 11/13/12), the diversity of the Player Profile on 40-Man Major League rosters was 62 percent Caucasian, 28 percent Hispanic, 8 percent African-American, 1 percent Asian, and 0.2 percent Native American. And according to MLB records, which is a collection of data compiled by the clubs, the percentage of players on 2013 Opening Day, 25-man Major League rosters who identified themselves as African-American or black was approximately 8.5 percent, which is in a consistent range with the past few years. The first round of the 2012 First-Year Player Draft featured the selections of seven African-American players, the most by total and percentage (7-of-31, 22.6 percent) since 1992.
Major League Baseball operates two youth initiatives designed specifically to address on-field diversity:
The Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities (RBI) program and its Jr. RBI playing divisions provide opportunities for young people (ages 5 to 18) from underserved communities to play baseball and softball. RBI has served more than 1 million young people since 1989, and in 2012 had more than 210,000 participants around the country, in Canada and in Latin America. MLB Clubs have drafted more than 200 RBI participants, including 14 players in the 2012 First-Year Player Draft.
MLB Urban Youth Academies provide free, year-round and intensive baseball and softball instruction and educational programs for young people from underserved and urban communities. Seven MLB Urban Youth Academies are either operational or in development around the country and in Puerto Rico (Operational: Compton, Calif.; Houston, Texas; New Orleans, La.; and Gurabo, Puerto Rico; In development: Cincinnati, Ohio; Hialeah, Fla.; Philadelphia, Pa). MLB Urban Youth Academies have served more than 10,000 young people, with more than 90 percent of participants in the United States reflecting a diverse segment of the respective local communities. Since 2006, nearly 200 Academy student-athletes have been selected in the First-Year Player Draft, including 17 in the 2012 First-Year Player Draft.
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Networked Hard Drives Get Media Friendly
A number of the 11 network-attached storage (NAS) drives that we tested for this month's chart retain business-friendly features such as multiple RAID options and easy-access bays for swapping out drives. Several new models, however, target home users, with built-in media servers and software dedicated to organizing music, photos, and movies.
Our top performer and Best Buy, Infrant Technologies' ReadyNAS NV, combines fast read and write speeds and a feature set including a print server and compatibility with UPnP media-streaming devices. This model supports RAID 0 (for striping your data across drives quickly), RAID 1 (for mirroring your data on two drives so you don't lose it), RAID 5 (for striping your data across multiple drives while reserving some space for fault tolerance), and proprietary X-RAID technology (for expanding the RAID's capacity on the fly when you buy and install individual hard drives). Data redundancy does cut down on the hardware's usable storage, though: X-RAID lets you use only 660GB of the ReadyNAS NV's 1-terabyte capacity.
Maxtor's Shared Storage II ranked second both overall and in performance. It has a one-touch backup button and a slick software interface for creating and managing user accounts and folders. By default, the device sets up nine folders designated for backup, music, documents, photos, and movies, among others.
HP's first NAS for consumers, the Media Vault mv2020, took third place. It offers an empty drive bay, has consumer-friendly print and media-server capabilities, and can automatically set up file, backup, and media folders.
Maxtor's speedy consumer NAS offering, Fusion, placed fourth. Its media-oriented software guides you in importing and sharing multimedia.
In fifth, the low-cost Ximeta NetDisk NDU10-500 was reasonably fast, but it and Plextor's PX-EH40L were the only drives we tested that lacked gigabit ethernet networking.
Among chart missers, Buffalo Technology's TeraStation Pro and TeraStation Home Server shipped with RAID 5 default settings, sacrificing speed to protect data. Likely for the same reason, Iomega's StorCenter Wireless Network Storage 1TB was slow, too; but it came with a print server, a media server, and Wi-Fi access, and let us automatically download pictures directly from a USB-equipped camera.
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KTown Cowboys: The Movie
Angry Asian Man on Wednesday, Jun. 1st
"The last time I was on TV, I played a fat, mute, Thai critic. So the next time I'm on TV, I'd much rather play a fat, mute, American critic."
It's the return of Ktown Cowboys. Well, not quite yet. But if you're a fan of last year's runaway hit web series, which follows a group of guys having one epic night in Koreatown, you'll be happy to hear that the gang is working on turning it into a full-fledged feature film: KTOWN COWBOYS THE MOVIE. Check the video:
The movie is a comedy with the same characters set a year before the events of the web series. They've got a script, and they've secured money to make the movie, but they've just launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise money to cover the cost of marketing. Read on for details:
As of now we have locked down most of the money which will be used for the actual shooting of the film. However, we would like to raise more money to properly market the film. Our goal is to premiere the film at a film festival such as South by Southwest, and then go on a nationwide tour to screen the film at various cities and meet as many of our fans as possible. The money we raise on Kickstarter will go toward all necessary materials and fees needed to market our film correctly. This means printing out posters, merchandise, flyers, ad space, etc.
I know the original web series generated a lot of fans. So they're trying to put something together that will exceed expectations and be even more entertaining and epic than the first outing.
For more about the movie, check Angry Asian Man.
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Anderson Cooper Follows Up with 'Bully' Victims on New CNN Special
by Ethan Anderton
February 28, 2013
Source: CNN
If you haven't taken the time to watch the documentary Bully, you're missing out on a compelling probe into the world of adolescents, the sad, unnecessarily dangerous lives of those who are bullied, and the effect is has on their families. The documentary from Lee Hirsch followed five kids and their families over the course of a school year and highlighting a variety of stages each is enduring in the face of and in the wake of bullying that has gone too far. It's heartbreaking and inspiring, and every parent, child, teacher and student should see it. Now journalist Anderson Cooper is following up with some of the subjects for a CNN special called The Bully Effect, and thankfully, it shows the progress of some of these bullied kids. Watch!
Here's the trailer for The Bully Effect, premiering tonight on CNN at 10pm EST:
The Bully Effect reveals how individuals are making a difference in their communities and all over the country after bullying has become an overwhelming epidemic. CNN says, "In the time since Bully was released, a number of kids and parents profiled in the documentary, and the filmmaker himself, have been on life-changing journeys, and in some instances have experienced remarkable transformations." A special looking at the lives of Alex Libby, Kelby Johnson and Kirk Smalley is airing tonight at 10/9c on CNN and will repeat several times on the network to spread the word of The Bully Project and make a difference.
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None of us are immune from correction ... Otherwise we wouldn't be sons and daughters of God ... I would like to apologise to those whom I might have offended in my writing ... Especially those who look after Bibleforums ... My endeavour is to seek after ... That which ... The Holy Spirit has to say failing that it's my blog ... To be truthful I hardly read what anyone else has to say .. So as .. What I say isn't influenced by what others have to say ... Having said all that .. For being so nice
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That Dreadful Day
According to John's prophecy
There will be an apostasy
When godlessness will reign supreme
And peace will not be what it seems.
Christians will be persecuted;
Many will be executed,
For the children of the Lord
Will be hated by the world.
And men will know the end's begun
When they see wars and blackened sun;
When they see stars fall in a flood;
The moon turning
Called to Serve
We've been called by God to serve
Whether or not we have the nerve;
For He promised to be there
To help us if we do our share.
Protected by the Lord Above
And filled with zeal and holy love,
We need to be obedient; trust
To do what we feel sure we must.
Enabled by the Holy Ghost;
Surrounded by angelic host -
God has supplied our every need
So that we might excel;
This topic undoubtedly has been extensively debated. In Daniel's vision of the End Times Dan 7:27, Daniel's 70th Week the scriptures confirmed that the Antichrist will 'confirm or sign a 7 year peace treaty with Israel'.
As politicians and all well meaning pacifists struggle daily to find a lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians and indeed the rest of the Arab world - we sense an underlying tension that highlights the fragility of peace in this region, even with the few
Updated Jun 4th 2014 at 02:26 PM by Trivalee
I think we all agree that Jesus' Bible was the Old Testament--the Law, Prophets, and Psalms and so on.
And the Temple of Herod was the Center of the Life of the Hebrew people for centuries.
So, for Jesus to say that Herod's Temple was determined for destruction had to be based on what He read in the Old Testament.
But then, none of this was enough for the disciples--they had questions, yes?
And so, Jesus took it one
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The third annual Aiken Arts Alive is scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 23, at the Aiken Center for the Arts.
"This will open up the arts center to everyone," said Kristin Brown, the executive director, who expects between 500 and 600 people to come through the doors between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. that day.
The event will feature live performances and other arts activities.
Aiken Arts Alive has a Beach Bash theme. The Magical Fires of Polynesia will bring the sights and sounds of the Pacific islands, and Lo Down Brown, an Aiken band, will play beach music. The Carolina Strings, Aiken Singers and Aiken Civic Ballet also will entertain.
Other activities will include creating a beach mural, silly surfing photography, face painting and caricatures.
"This is our outreach to the community," Ms. Brown said. "We will also provide information on the upcoming classes that are available."
Aiken Arts Alive will serve as the opening reception for the Ron Krenta exhibition, the South Carolina Watermedia traveling exhibition and Aiken Center for the Arts' summer camps.
Guests include Calhoun Raccoon, from the South Carolina Natural Heritage Corridor, and Big Cheese and Sandi the Balloon Lady, who will make balloon figures.
Representatives from Aiken's Department of Public Safety will present a drug dog demonstration.
Aiken Arts Alive is free.
For more information, call (803) 641-9094.


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Building a PC, or buying one ready-made, and further conundrums
Hey all, I've got a conundrum. I've recently returned to PC Gaming after playing consoles for a while, and am certainly very glad that I've come back. However, my laptop is no where near good enough to play new games on. I can play recent games ok, like L4D 2 and TF2, but not games like Dragon Age, New Vegas, or Mass Effect 2.
However, should I buy a ready-made PC, or build my own? I've built and maintained PCs in the past, and like to think I have quite a good knowledge of PCs and their internals. However, I think the cost of building a good gaming PC, with specs such as an i7 Processor, a 2GB Graphics card and 8GB of RAM would cost around 1000 pounds, obviously including things such as the case, mobo, and a 750W PSU. However, I've recently found myself drawn to the Yoyotech Fi7epower 4.8, which costs 1,199 pounds including VAT. A link to this can be found here. The stats of this PC are astonishing, with an overclocked i7, overclocked to 4.8GHz processor, 8GB RAM and a 2 gig graphics card. However, would the saving be dramatic if I built my own? Also, another option is to buy a machine like the Palicomp Phoenix i5 Destiny, with a 4.5GHz i5 processor, 1GB Graphics, and 4GB RAM, and upgrading some of the components.
Which option is best, do you think? Building a machine from scratch, upgrading a lesser machine, or just buying a futureproof gaming PC?"It's not just a fact, it's cold, hard speculation."
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Generally I'd go with building your own PC, as you can make sure all the components (and I mean all) are good quality and to your personal requirements. However, it's always worth doing a price comparison - it could be that system builders, enjoying the economies of scale can do a cheaper job that you.
Also, the specs you suggest there are really beyond any reason. See this thread and this thread. You'd do much better spending £500-750 and using the saved money to buy a better graphics card, maybe some more ram in 18-36 months time. Sensible future-proofing is about making sure your system can be improved sensibly - not about spending a fortune now, for a machine that will be not noticeably any different in 2 years time to one bought for half the price at the same time.
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Yeah my suggestion would be to look at building a computer from scratch yourself, Its much easier to get the components you want and if you don't want to build it yourself you could go to a computer shop and I'm sure that they would happily build it for you at a price of £20-30 which isn't to bad if they go a good job with cable management.Official RPS Thread argument catalyst.
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Shouldn't cost a grand for a machine like that, doesn't need a 750W PSU either unless you want to overclock or run SLI. Maybe if you also throw in a monitor and an SSD you might start to approach that number. But the base components (RAM, GFX, CPU, MOBO) shouldn't set you back more than around £600 at most, unless you get into silly territory.
I'm going to play devils advocate here and suggest you buy ready made.
I have built my last three PCs from scratch (cobbling together bits of old and new) and each time swore it would be my last. After my last experience I am finally convinced I will never build my own from scratch again. The main reason for my turnaround is simply the agony I went through trying to troubleshoot a failed PC. If your assembled machine does not boot, or as happened to me, dies every 3-4 minutes, you then have to go through what can be a very long and tiresome troubleshooting exercise. My last PC took me 3 days and several trips to Novatech to get sorted.
If you do go down the route of building your own, I would reccomend buying all your components from one vendor, and ideally making sure you have reserves for EVERY SINGLE ONE so you can easily swap bits out one by one to try to find what is not working in the case of a faulty machine. Also, if you can buy locally it may be more expensive initially but saves a lot of hassle if you have to return something, plus you can go and shout at somone and not get frustrated on useless customer services phone lines.
This exact scenario happened to me on the last two PCs I built - one had a faulty motherboard, the other a faulty PSU. Returning the motherboard to Overclockers was an utter nightmare, they said they tested it ok and sent it straight back, only after I reassembled the PC and tested again faulty, sent it back a second time did they send me a brand new one. For my next PC I bought from Scan who were much better, but I had purchased their optional component insurance damage protection scheme. I still ended up buying replacement parts from the local Novatech rather than wait for shipping on new parts.
So in short, build at your own risk. If everything goes well, it's a wonderful feeling, but if you have problems it can turn into a nightmare.
I think I'll try and build my own, unless one of the PC manufacturers has a big sale and I can buy the same rig ready-made for the same price, or unless the price edges too close to 959 pounds, which could buy me a Palicomp Phoenix i5 Sniper. I'm looking at being able to play games like Modern Warfare 3, Battlefield 3, Dragon Age 2, and Skyrim at high graphics quality, and at a good res. I'll probably be building this machine around October-November, when I've managed to scrimp and save enough to afford all the components.
I gather that the best processor would be an i5 2500k, but what Graphics Card would you recommend for the above? I think 8GB of RAM would be good, but is that overkill? Also, what case would you recommend? I'll also be needing a monitor, I'd like a 22 inch widescreen one, if I could afford it.
I'm building entirely from scratch, as my current system is a laptop, and I'll still be needing that, so can't salvage any of the components.
The Specs that are the best for me are:
An i5 2500k
A Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB HDD
Nvidia Geforce GTX 570 (1.25GB VRAM, 732MHZ)?
A BenQ G2222HDL (22 Inch, 1000:1 contrast) for 100 pounds, seems a bargain, but is it good enough?
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Specs look good. Unless you would be needing multithreading for a particular application (main video encoding software) an i5 2500k is perfect for gaming and overclocks brilliantly if you want to go that route.
One thing to make absolutely sure is your motherboard is a 1155 B3 revision as there were some problem with the earlier modes and the sata sockets that have now been fixed. Most of the socket 1155 P67 boards are fine but you'll want to think if you'll be overclocking your cpu or if you would want to go SLI in the future. Asus and MSI do some great motherboards at around £150.
I've got to two F3's in Raid 0 and they're bloody quick, though you might want to consider an SSD for your boot drive and key applications (though not as pricey as they once were, still might be extra cost).
You cant go wrong with a GTX 570 at the moment as they give the best bang for buck (2 months ago it would have been a GTX 480 but for some reason they have shot up in price by about £150 making them almost as much as a GTX 580).
Ram wise it really depends on what you'll be using. I have not seen a modern game that has used much over 2 gig of ram as of yet (although Crysis 2 and a certain alpha trail of a certain game state you need 4gb minimum works fine for me at 2gb).
Hope the above has helped in some way.
Thanks for everyone's advice. I priced up how much it would cost me to build, and including monitor and speakers, it was close to 920 pounds. I think that in consideration, I've decided to go for the Palicomp Phoenix i5 Sniper.
This comes with a 2GB Graphics, and a good 24 inch monitor. Plus an overclocked i5, to 4.8GHz, only problem is, it only has 4GB RAM, but I could upgrade that, if necessary."It's not just a fact, it's cold, hard speculation."
Get the SSD upgrade, honestly in the last 5 years the upgrade which has made the most difference for me has been going from hard disk to SSD. The boot up times and overall responsiveness is just astonishing.
Check out what Alec had to say
Okay, I'm undecided, mainly since when adding peripherals and water cooling to that PC, it's up to 1,199 pounds, so I'm looking at building my own again.
Amazon are doing a good deal, an Intel Sandybridge i5-2500k + 8GB Corsair 1600MHz DDR3 RAM + Arctic Silver thermal paste for 214 pounds.
Would it be better to run 2 Radeon HD 6850s (1GB, 1000MHz) in crossfire or 1 GeForce GTX 570 (1.25GB, 3800MHz)? What makes the most difference in a card, speed or memory? And thanks corbain, I'll buy an SSD for the boot drive, since I can get this one for 90 pounds. Seems worth it.
EDIT: Wow, seems I can make a cracking system, with an i5 2500k, 8GB Corsair RAM, 2 Radeons in crossfire (or one GTX 570), an ASUS Motherboard and a 750W PSU for 850 pounds. Awesome.
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Okay a quick few questions to help the advice here. Is this going to be used for anything other than gaming? And what is your budget, is it £1200? Just helps us work out where you'd be best spending your money for what you want.
On to your questions. Sadly graphics cards are very hard to compare based on specs as its not just the processor speed and memory but also things like ROPs, shaders etc. It gets even worse when you try an compare AMD and nVidia as they use very different architectures so the numbers are not comparable. Help is at hand however. Tom's Hardware has a handy ranking of a load of GPUs which lets you better understand what is comparable.
Another great tool is AnandTech's bench feature which will let you compare the framerates you'll be getting with a bunch of cards. Here's the comparison of 2x6850s and a 570. As you can see the 6850s will be faster however to remember that CF can be a right pain the backside. You will almost inevitably have more driver issues in particular when games come out.
Finally, given how cool Sandybridge runs I'm not sure water cooling should be a huge priority. You'll only get a mildly better overclock versus a good air cooler and you'll need a much bigger case. I'd have thought getting a bigger SSD so you could get all your games on it might prove better bang for buck.
Hope some of that helps.
EDIT: Oh forgot to mention, if you're planning on gaming at 1920x1080 anything over 1gb of memory won't help you a huge amount at the minute. More may be useful in the future.
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Thanks for your advice. My budget is around 1000 pounds, give or take 100 pounds.
I'm not so sure about getting an SSD, since I've heard that they don't last as long as a standard HDD, due to the fact that flash memory can only be re-written a limited number of times, they're pretty pricey too. Thanks for the advice on the cooling, should I stick with the stock heatsink, or buy a better one? I've never ran two graphics cards before, so I have no idea about the drivers, etc. I'll have to read about that, does anyone on here run SLI or Crossfire?
The full specs for the cards are *Deep Breath*:
The Radeon HD 6850: 40NM DIE, 960 Stream Processors, 775MHZ Core Clock, 1.7 Billion transistors, 1GB 1,000MHz GDDR5 RAM, 256-bit Memory Bus.
Geforce GTX 570: 40NM DIE, 480 Stream Processors, 732MHZ Core Clock, 3 Billion Transistors, 1.25GB 3,800MHz GDDR5 RAM, 320-bit Memory Bus."It's not just a fact, it's cold, hard speculation."
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I have a 16:10 24" monitor and I run a 460 GTX 1 GB and that will give me full screen 1900x1200 on most games with only a few sliders turned off (the witcher 2 is about the most demanding recent title I can think of at the moment, and that still looks amazing). You might be going overkill a bit on that side of things going straight into Sli/crossfire. I'd say get one card and see how you go and then if you think you definitely need another then buy it in later on. However saying that though, the big problem with having SLI/crossfire is that it's going to ramp up your power consumption and your cooling. You're almost better off just buying a better GPU everytime rather than going SLI with lesser cards in terms of energy consumption (and heat generation). I always buy an SLI capable Mobo, but I've never yet felt the necessity to go SLI tbh, Vs just buying a better GPU.
Also your 750w PSU might be a tad overkill: Try using the site at the link to determine your systems energy needs. You might find you only need something like a 650w instead. Make sure you get a good make of PSU though. I bought a Corsair HX 650w recently which has great cable management and more importantly a 7 year warranty. Once you've decided on components it might be worth listing them here for people to give you advice on them.
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this excellent AnandTech article shows that with a good modern ssd controller there is little issue both theoretically and in reality. Their heaviest user used up around 10 of his 3000 cycles in 8 months which if my maths holds up gives a life expectancy of 200 years for the Nand. So essentially other parts of the drive will fail long before the storage does.
As for coolers don't stick with stock simply because they're noisy and ineffective. Have a read of a few reviews and get the one that matches what you want in terms of noise and performance. Some good one to look at are the Gelid Tranquillo, Titan Fenrir and the Thermaltake Frio.[URL="http://steamcommunity.com/id/comradepenguin"]Steam[/URL]
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It is worth keeping an eye on the Dell Outlet.
Some of the Alienware or Studio XPS desktops there might be suitable for your needs, and whilst the list prices of them are obscene compared to building your own, they are sometimes heavily discounted in the outlet section.
For £1,303.45 there is:
Alienware Aurora R3
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium (64 BIT)
Processor : Intel Core I7-2600 (3.4GHz, 8MB)
256 GB Solid State Drive Ultra Performance
6GB (2x2GB + 2x1GB) 1333MHz Dual Channel Memory
8x Blu-ray Disc
Nvidia GeForce GTX580
That comes with water cooling and other such nice things.
Of course, their stock turnover is pretty fast, and they have a wide mix of systems in there. That one is a little higher than you said your budget is, but if you check back there regularly, you might find one that is more suitable.
The downside of the outlet section is that you can't change any of the components at all, but the prices are pretty great.
Edit: The prices on their stock listing don't include VAT or delivery.
Funnily enough I've just had a bit of a break for a few years from PC gaming myself, having gone over to gaming on my 360 after my previous PC became too much of an old dog. Just this week though I have now been able to afford to order the parts for a new games PC, although my budget of £500 is quite a bit smaller than the OP's, however I still feel I have been able to cobble together quite a decent rig for that price. The total cost for mine including a copy of Win7 64Bit and all inc VAT and P&P came to about £533, so only a little bit over budget. For that I got all this:
Intel Core i5 2400 3.1GHz - £140 http://www.scan.co.uk/products/intel...che-95w-retail
8GB RAM - £48 http://www.ebuyer.com/264750-g-skill...2800cl9d-8gbxl
Gigabyte GA-Z68A-D3-B3 Motherboard - £72 http://www.scan.co.uk/products/gigab...6gb-s-raid-atx
Case with 500w PSU - £57 http://www.ebuyer.com/220863-coolerm...rc-330-kkpl-gp
1TB SATA3 HDD - £42 http://www.scan.co.uk/products/1tb-w...ache-8ms-quiet
DVD Writer - £13 http://www.ebuyer.com/251743-liteon-...oem-ihas122-18
Geforce GTX 460 OC graphics card £110 http://www.scan.co.uk/products/1gb-m...-x-dl-dvi-hdmi
Copy of Win7 £40 http://www.software4students.co.uk/M...n-details.aspx
So an i5 PC with 8Gb DDR3 ram and a 1TB SATA3 drive and what not for £500 squids, can't complain at that. All the pre-built systems for that kind of money were generally dual core Athlons with 2gb ram 500gb SATA2 HDD's etc. OK I know it's not top of the range but it's more than enough to handle anything the current crop of PC games can throw at it. Maybe need a vid card upgrade in a couple of years time, but for now it should be pretty rock solid. To be honest I'm not sure what good throwing another £250-300 would do for it anyway. A better video card and slightly faster processor perhaps but probably not anything that would make too much of an appreciable difference, unless you like staring at bench mark figures.
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I'd suggest you take a poke at Dell Outlet too, if you'd like to look at a decent priced prebuild, Dell Outlet has this one:
Studio XPS 7100
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium (64 BIT)
Processor : AMD Phenom II X6 1045T(2.70GHz,512kx6)
1 TB SATA Hard Drive (7200 RPM)
8 GB DDR3 SDRAM 1333MHz (4 DIMMs)
16X DVD +/- RW Drive
1024MB ATI Radeon HD 5770 GDDR5 Graphics card
For £461.56
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I think that will run pretty much anything you throw at it, as long as you're not at a really high resolution, and are willing to turn down some of the settings on more intensive games.
It's a 6 core I believe, I'm not too hot on AMD cpus these days.
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Easiest Barbecued Ribs
Most southerners go to their favorite barbecue joint to eat 'cue, but these garlic-smothered, oven-roasted ribs are hard to beat. (Of course, you can cook them, covered, on a wood, charcoal or gas grill.) They take practically no time or effort, and John Martin Taylor has never met a soul who didn't love them.
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How to make this recipe
Preheat the oven to 350°. Place 3 heads of garlic on each of 2 large baking sheets and roast for 25 minutes. Season the ribs all over with salt, black pepper and cayenne. Place the ribs, meaty side up, on the baking sheets with the garlic and roast for 1 hour and 15 minutes, turning them every 25 minutes. The ribs are done when they're nicely browned and the garlic is very soft. Remove the ribs and garlic to a cutting board.
Slice the root ends off the garlic heads and squeeze out the roasted garlic; spread in a thin layer all over the ribs. Season with salt. Cut the ribs apart, pile them on a platter and serve.
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A gutsy red is the way to go herepick a California Zinfandel, such as the Ridge Sonoma Station or the Chateau Montelena.


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Discussion in 'Fantasy Sports Zone' started by CATCH17, Aug 28, 2012.
Who you got?
How deep do you like your sleepers?
Mikeal Leshoure
Taiwan Jones
Bilal Powell
Titus Young
Alshon Jeffery
Brandon LaFell
Randall Cobb
Rod Streater
Cole Beasley
Pierre Garcon and Robert Meachem (sp)
Kendall Wright
Josh Gordon
Robert Turbin
Ryan Williams
Mikell LeShoure
Who is going to be the Steelers starting RB?
What is that situation like?
I'd stay far away from that entire mess.
I personally think Helu is gonna have a big year for the Skins and can be had in the 8-10 round range. I also think Fred Davis is a sleeper pick at TE.
Jacob Tamme in Denver with Manning.
Benjarvis Green-Ellis will have a solid year in Cincy.
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Schools on lockdown while fugitive sought
Post staff reports
Three schools were on lockdown for only minutes Tuesday morning as Lebanon Police captured and arrested a man wanted on a probation violation out of Trousdale County.
The schools affected were Walter J. Baird Middle School, Coles Ferry Elementary and Castle Heights Elementary School, said Lebanon Special School District Director Scott Benson.
Lebanon Police Chief Scott Bowen said that a lockdown was requested as a precaution during the search for the suspect, identified as Michael Grant, 34, of Lebanon.
Bowen said officers tried to serve a warrant on Grant this past Thursday at Webster Mobile Home Community on North Cumberland Street. Ashley Sprague, 22, of Lebanon, would not allow officers inside her home to look for Grant after they received information that he was living there with her.
Officers on Tuesday, however, observed a man matching Grant's description walk inside the home. "They attempted to make contact with Grant, and he ran to Northwood Park apartments, where he entered an apartment with an unlocked door. Fortunately, no one was home at the time," Bowen said.
Grant attempted to climb out of a rear window when officers made contact and placed him under arrest. He was charged with the Violation of Probation warrant from Trousdale County, and evading arrest and aggravated criminal trespass in Wilson County.
Benson said he was in meetings in Nashville when he received a call from Bowen telling him there was "something going on" and that schools in the area needed to be on lockdown.
The LSSD director said he contacted officials at the schools which were already on lockdown. Benson said he called Bowen back and learned that police had found and arrested the suspect.
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Penguins 5, Islanders 0: Pascal Dupuis scored twice and Marc-Andre Fleury rebounded after struggling in last year's playoffs to turn aside 26 shots as host Pittsburgh breezed to victory in Game 1 of its Eastern Conference first-round series with eighth-seeded New York.
Rookie Beau Bennett and defenseman Kris Letang each scored a power-play goal, Tanner Glass also tallied and Jarome Iginla notched a pair of assists while playing in his first postseason game since 2009. The top-seeded Penguins didn't miss a beat without captain Sidney Crosby, who did not receive medical clearance prior to the contest - and is questionable for Friday's Game 2 in Pittsburgh.
Staked to an offensive explosion, Fleury coasted in his first playoff appearance since being torched for 26 goals in six games during last year's first-round loss to Philadelphia. He tied Tom Barrasso's franchise record with his sixth postseason shutout.
Bennett opened the scoring at 3:30 of the first period after his sharp-angle shot from the lower edge of the right faceoff circle sailed under the crossbar. Dupuis tallied nearly 10 minutes later after cleaning up a failed bid by Iginla in the high slot before depositing the puck past Evgeni Nabokov (11 saves).
Letang scored from the left circle at 1:19 of the second and Nabokov was replaced by Kevin Poulin (10 saves) 32 seconds later after Dupuis netted his 14th career postseason goal with a backhander in the slot.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Nabokov received a rude awakening three minutes into the contest after taking a slap shot off his mask from Iginla. The veteran goaltender slumped to the ice for a few moments, but stayed in the game. ... Crosby has been sidelined since March 30 after a deflected shot resulted in a broken jaw. ... Penguins LW James Neal exited the contest with an undisclosed injury after taking a pair of shifts in the second period. He did not return. ... Eleven of New York's 18 skaters were playing in their first playoff contest. ... The Islanders were making their first postseason appearance since 2007.


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Disturbing numbers in the news
It's a day of numbers as I'm writing this.
First, there's the news that from Jan. 1 through mid-March, 22 U.S. veterans daily, on average, committed suicide.
Second, at least 13 people have been killed in car crashes blamed on defective GM ignition switches that the company failed to fix or acknowledge for over a decade.
Third, a curious headline at The Huffington Post seems designed to further paint "the rich" as malevolent and undeserving: "One Percenter Convicted of Raping Child Dodges Jail Because He 'Will Not Fare Well.'"
Fourth, taking a victory lap in the Rose Garden, President Obama, running low in the latest Quinnipiac poll (50 percent disapproval), announced that 7.1 million Americans had signed up for ObamaCare, a number slightly higher than what the Congressional Budget Office says is necessary for the law to work.
Regarding the veterans, 1,892 small American flags were planted at the National Mall on March 27 to commemorate those who have taken their own lives since Jan 1.
Unfortunately, the 22 count underestimates the problem. The figure is based on the Department of Veterans Affairs' internal data reported from 21 states, thus excluding the majority of states, including the large population states of California, Texas and Illinois.
On April 1, the Pentagon announced there were no U.S. military deaths in Afghanistan in March 2014 among the 33,000 American troops remaining in that country — the first zero-fatality month for U.S. troops in Afghanistan since January 2007. Instead, the deaths are at home.
Sen. John Walsh, D-Mont., one of two combat veterans in the U.S. Senate, has announced legislation that would provide funds to repay school loans for psychiatrists who sign on for long-term service with the Department of Veterans Affairs.
On the GM ignition problem and subsequent deaths, a swinging key chain or hitting a pothole or a driver's knee bumping the key chain could cause vehicle ignitions to shift to the accessory setting, thereby causing the engine to cut out and the air bags, power steering and power brakes to become disabled.
A 2005 GM memo, reports The Wall Street Journal, shows that "GM managers ruled out redesigning a flawed ignition switch because the fix would cost 90 cents a car and return only 10 to 15 cents in warranty cost savings."
Internal GM documents show the company knew of the ignition problem as early as 2001. GM now says the new switches will be available starting today, April 7, 2014 — 13 years late.
On The Huffington Post's "One Percenter" headline, would anyone publish a story headlined "Bottom Income Earner Kills Three"?
And what about ObamaCare's movement toward universal coverage and the 7.1 million new enrollees? Survey data from an unpublished RAND Corp. study, shared with the Los Angeles Times, show that only 23 percent of those new enrollees, or 1.6 million people, lacked insurance before signing up, reports David Martosko, U.S. political editor of London's Daily Mail.
Further, reports Martosko, the RAND study reports that only 53 percent of those 1.6 million people, or 848,000 enrollees, paid their first month's premiums — a long way from what's required to provide economic viability to the system or deliver comprehensive coverage.
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Ford Focus ST-R To Make Racing Debut At Daytona Grand Am Race
2012 is shaping up to be a spectacular year for the Ford Racing program. To start with, the 2012 Ford Mustang Boss 302 Laguna Seca Edition is receiving accolades left and right for its outstanding performance and handling. Ford also revealed the new look for its 2013 Fusion NASCAR Sprint Car competitor. And of course there is the $98,995 Focus ST-R, a race-prepped compact car that has even Tanner Foust fawning over it.
We've all been waiting to hear when the Focus ST-R would be making its debut, and now we have an answer. According to Carscoop, the Focus ST-R will make its racing debut this Friday at the Grand Am 200 at Daytona Raceway.
For the uninitiated the Focus ST-R ain't your momma's Focus. Boasting the same 247 horsepower 2.0 liter EcoBoost engine as the street-legal Focus ST, the similarities end there. The Focus ST-R has a racing suspension, roll cage, onboard diagnostic equipment, racing seats, and everything else you'd need to go from the showroom to the race track.
The Focus ST-R will compete in the Grand Am Series' Continental Tire Sport Car Challenge ST Class, where it will compete against the likes of Mini Coopers, Mazda MX-5's, and BMW Z4's among others. It won't be easy, but we have a lot of faith in Ford's new hot hatchback, and we have a whole new reason to tune into the Grand Am Series this weekend.


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> I think what Jon was referring to is a feature of Scala more like > Jay's 'scut' macro - you can implicitly create a function by inserting > an _. For example: > > _ + 1 in scala is the same as (lambda (x) (+ x 1)) It just seemed like fate that I was reading this thread, whilst simulatanesouly stumbling across this page on the Internet, [SOURCE: http://wcp.sdf-eu.org/software/index.html] [BEGIN QUOTE] Some syntactic sugar for Scsh (or Scheme48). One of the features in the wish list of Arc that I found cool was the square bracket sexp that expands to a single argument lambda expression. So that one can do things like: (map [/ _ 2] '(2 4 6 8 10)) (cond ((regexp-exec re str) => [match:substring _ 1]) ...) instead of (map (lambda (x) (/ x 2)) '(2 4 6 8 10)) (cond ((regexp-exec re str) => (lambda (m) (match:substring m 1))) ...) Disclaimer: I am not advocating Perl-ish syntactic crypticism. This has been written just as a funny exercise in Scsh hacking. Here is a less heretic approach for those using Emacs: (defun lisp-insert-lambda () "Insert lambda form at point asking for variables." (interactive) (insert "(lambda (" (read-string "Variables: ") ") ") (save-excursion (insert ")"))) (add-hook 'scheme-mode-hook '(lambda () (local-set-key "\C-cl" 'lisp-insert-lambda))) [END QUOTE] Horace.
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Resolved for 2015: Invest in Your Portable Capabilities
By Nathan Bennett
How quickly things can change. What was for years dubbed a "war for talent" fought between employers has now become a "war for jobs" fought by employees. As the recession has eased, as company prospects have improved, and as job growth has steadied, a pent up pool of employees anxious to change jobs is beginning to appear. These job hoppers join a still sizable number of unemployed or underemployed: the competition for opportunities is fierce. How does someone today best prepare for this sort of challenge? My work with job seekers suggests that now more than ever it is critical for people to invest in their portable capabilities. Doing so represents a great way to invest in your own career during 2015. (more…)


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Kim Jung-il, the ruler of North Korea, died last week, reportedly of a massive stroke. Other than a few deluded souls who might have been sincerely crying their eyes out on North Korean television, he will be missed by no one.
His death does, however, open up the possibility of changes
in that reclusive country's policies, both domestically and
internationally. In terms of politics
and policy, North Korea is probably the hardest country in the world to
reliably understand. We can observe the
final results of whatever process determines policy, but very few people
outside North Korea have any clue how that process actually proceeds. So it is entirely possible that nothing will
change in practical terms as a result of Kim Jung-il's death. Still, if you are a bit of a gambler, the
odds are higher now than they have been in a long time.
North Korea by almost any economic standard is a real basket case today. This wasn't always the case. Korea was occupied by Japan from 1910 until the end of World War II. By agreement of the allied powers at the Yalta conference the Russians occupied the peninsula north of the 38th parallel and the U.S. occupied the south. At that time the south was largely agrarian and what industry the Japanese had allowed to be built was mostly in the north, closer to natural resources from Manchuria, which Japan also occupied. Up until the 1970's, standards of living in North Korea were actually higher than those in South Korea.
The real slide in standards of living came with the fall of the U.S.S.R. Up until that time the North Koreans had skillfully played off of the antagonism between it and China. When the Soviet Union ceased to exist, both China and Russia felt less of a need to compete for North Korean loyalty and the subsidies virtually ceased.
For several years I have been working with my BYU colleague, Scott Bradford, to try and predict what would happen if economic policy in North Korea were to change. In a recently published paper with a former student, Dan Kim, now at Cambridge University, we examined what would happen if the government there were to open to market reforms, much like China did in the 1970's and 80's. We found that simply implementing a market pricing mechanism is insufficient to bring North Korea out of a downward spiral.
North Korea has two major economic problems that need to be corrected. First, it needs to more efficiently allocate the goods it produced across various industries. Second, it needs to use a much greater proportion of its GDP for investment in capital equipment. Partial reforms which are more likely to be enacted by a government intent on gradual change could solve the first problem, but leave the second in place. For example, suppose the government continued to mandate the amount of production at state-run firms, but let those firms compete in a market with each other to purchase materials and equipment. This would go a long way toward reducing inefficiency, but would still leave the country as a whole woefully short of capital.
Increasing investment in capital and infrastructure would correct the second problem, but is very difficult to do if North Korea is intent on remaining isolated from the rest of the world. If they do not open up to trade, then the only way to allocate more toward capital goods is to either lower government spending on the military (unlikely) or lower consumption by households (difficult given chronic problems with starvation).
The best solution would be to import capital from other countries. China, South Korea, Japan, and many other countries have capital available and firms that would be ecstatic to invest in North Korea under the right circumstances.
Meaningful reform in North Korea, if it happens, must involve changing the way they view outsiders. Right now South Koreans enjoy a standard of living that is well over ten times higher than their North Korean neighbors. This difference is due almost entirely to economic policy; the South is open to the world with free flows of capital, goods, and even workers. The North is closed to even its closest ally, China, and exports little (almost all of its imports are in the form of humanitarian aid).
North Korea has a long, long road ahead if it is ever to catch up with South Korea and the path looks daunting. However, remember that fifty years ago the same things were said about South Korea. It may take time, but recovery is possible.


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The Bible gives each student of God's Word an understanding of what the terminology "Biblical Israel" in our name conveys. As unto God, we support the nation of Israel as it exists today, and even more so in God's plan for Israel in the future. However, it must be noted that we do not necessarily agree with all political positions taken by the present or successive governments.
The Old Testament promises to God's chosen people are not diminished by New Testament teachings. On the contrary they are validated and attested. We find that Romans 11 is a good example of this. It also teaches that Christians should be grateful and obligated to God's chosen people for the benefits we have received from our Lord working through them. Was not our Savior and Lord a Jew? In the past two thousand years, God's grace has flowed primarily to the Gentiles due to God's dealing with Israel both in the past and present.
In this chapter there is a metaphor about a good olive tree and a wild olive tree. The good olive tree is representing the nation of Israel and the wild olive tree is representing the Gentiles of the whole world. It teaches that branches were broken off the good olive tree because of unbelief and replaced with grafted branches (believing gentiles) that were cut out of the wild olive tree. For the sake of brevity, the point that needs to be made about the metaphor at this time is that the grafted branches which are "contrary to nature" are not to boast since "God is able to graft them (the natural branches) in again." How much more then will the natural branches be readily received by the good olive tree when they are grafted in again (vs. 26)? It is clearly taught in scripture that Christians are grafted into the good olive tree simply because we have accepted Israel's Messiah.
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The oracles of God (His word and will in truth and in revelation) were committed to the Jew - Romans 3:1-2.
God gave the land to the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob - Exodus 32:13, Deuteronomy 34:4.
Israel is to be a light to the Gentiles: Isaiah 42:6, Isaiah 49:6, Isaiah 60:3, Luke 2:32, Acts 13:47, Acts 26:23.
Under the Law of Moses, the promise was conditional. The Bible teaches that Israel failed God's standard. The people are sent into exile by God.
In the books of the prophets, the land is again to be restored to Israel and the Jewish people. We are in the beginning of seeing these prophecies fulfilled. Israel is returning, and in the future Jesus, their Messiah, will come again and set up His Kingdom on earth. But until that time, Christians (all who believe the Gospel and accept Jesus as their Savior) are to let their light shine in order to point others to God and our Savior, the Messiah of Israel and the Jewish people.
With these in mind, God will restore Israel to her original purpose of showing forth His Glory and Praise to the world! There are many prophecies in the Bible that foretell of this coming to pass.
We see then that the light was originally to be from Israel to point the Gentiles to God. Jesus said to let your light shine and taught how they (Israel) were to do so. This meant for them to live in such a way that people would see God and Messiah in their everyday lives. The Bible teaches that Israel will do as God first commanded them to do during the reign of their Messiah. But until that time Christians are to be the light to the World.
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While prepping for an episode about the workings of the adolescent mind, 'Anderson' producers allegedly asked a teenaged guest who was to appear on the show to "film the crazy stuff you do." The kid then taped himself doing a skateboard stunt during which he fell and suffered severe head trauma, leaving him in a coma.
I do like Anderson Cooper, as I have said before in this forum, Anderson was true to his word in supporting the Gulf Coast after hurricane Katrina, he never forgot. He also takes a lot of grief for his wardrobe choices.
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A five-year-old boy was wounded in an apparent gang related shooting Tuesday night at the Laurel Place apartments at Southeast 125th and Powell Boulevard.
The suspect fired several rounds into the apartments. Windows were broken and rounds hit walls inside of apartments.
The boy was hit in the leg and is expected to recover.
The Portland Police Gang Team and the Gun Task Force are investigating this and other gang and gun cases.
They are asking the public's assistance in these ongoing cases. Investigators hope that additional witnesses will come forward and provide information on this incident and other recent gang-related crimes.
Portland Mayor Charlie Hales issued the following statement about the shooting:
While I am relieved to learn that the child's injuries are non-life threatening, I'm horrified and outraged by the act of violence itself. Gun violence on the streets of our city is a public safety and a public health crisis. Everyone in our community must rise and face this issue. My thoughts and prayers go out to the family victimized by this terrible event. And I ask everyone in our community to take a stand on the issues of gang violence prevention and illegal gun violence by coming forward to provide information on the shooters. If community members will cooperate, we can get these dangerous, reckless criminals off the streets.
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The Heroic Sacrifice of Our Everyday Duty
It is inescapable.
If you care for other people you cannot avoid putting yourself out for the sake of another.
We call it "making a sacrifice" and it cuts a deep swath into our preferred modus operandi of self-centeredness.
And it's just what we need, really.
It's one thing to witness and applaud the extraordinary sacrifices of our esteemed heroes and heroines, thanking them for their determined and dedicated service, especially when we consider the tragedies of 9/11, or any other epic disaster you can name.
But it's another to remember that sacrifice, for a Christian, is not for emergencies only. It is a way of life, a path to life-giving love. Every day.
The call to holiness is not for wimps. They don't remember a martyr as having "heroic virtue" for nothing. Indeed, the call to sainthood—sanctity—summons the baptized first to prayer and then to action. Often simultaneously.
This month, the feasts within the Catholic Church's liturgical calendar lend perspective to depths of sacrifice. The Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, on September 14, readily comes to mind as we contemplate the salvation won for us by Jesus on Calvary. On September 15, the Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows is recalled. September 20 commemorates the 19th-century Korean martyrs of Sts. Andrew Kim Taegon (Korea's first priest), Paul Chong Hasang, and companions. Finally, September 24 reminds us of the forty-nine Martyrs of Chalcedon who perished under Diocletian's reign in the 4th century.
You cannot get better role models embodying sacrificial love than Jesus and Mary, and the faithful martyrs of the Church who sought to imitate them.
We see in Mary the woman whose fiat at the Annunciation brought a surrender of her own will to the will of the Father. Her "yes" led to the Incarnation and the immense joy of God's Son come to earth. It also required, in part, a life that suffered what the Church traditionally labels as the Seven Sorrows of Mary. Each exacted various sacrifices in Mary's life; including her suffering what theologians call a white martyrdom at Calvary, the bloodless martyrdom that is a true offering of oneself. Still, we can envision her life as a series of many steps of faith leading up to that moment.
We can imagine the young Mother Mary, with tenderness, teaching her young son Jesus the ways of obedience. Demonstrating by her own fortitude that while giving one's "yes" may be costly, it is often it is the only response required.
Fast-forward, and we can see Jesus as a young rabbi, facing his own imminent death as he prays in Gethsemane. Sweating blood, the soon-to-be-Savior has a very human moment of struggle and anguish as he submits his flesh to the "yes" to do the Father's will.
Pat Gohn is a Catholic writer, speaker, and the host of the Among Women Podcast and blog. Her book Blessed, Beautiful and Bodacious: Celebrating the Gift of Catholic Womanhood is published by Ave Maria Press. Subscribe to "A Word in Season" via email or RSS.


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Located on Gessner and Blalock in Koreatown, Nam Gang is the place to go for Korean barbecue. You can order plates of beef short ribs (galbi), pork belly (samgyeopsal) and thinly sliced cuts of meats (bulgogi) — all of which you cook yourself on a griddle in the middle of the table. The mini complimentary side dishes taste fresh and consist of pickled vegetables, tofu, seaweed, fish cakes and more; these banchan are spread across the table to be eaten as accompaniments to the main dishes. Other à la carte items include panjeon, a scallion pancake, and a stir-fried-vegetable-and-glass-noodle dish called jap chae, in which the noodles are made of sweet potato starch. Pressing the button at your table will signal the attention of the wait staff. Korean barbecue is interactive, but if you prefer not to reek of grilled meats afterward, your meats can be cooked in the kitchen upon request.
Los Dos Amigos holds court with other old souls Wabash Feed Store, Guadalajara Bakery and Laredo Taqueria as reminders of Washington Avenue's not-so-distant past, and it's held on this long for good reason: The food, especially the enchiladas, seems to get better the longer Los Dos sticks around. And the gooey, surprisingly greaseless cheese enchiladas with a fried egg on top are the best dish here, available on the dinner menu even though most people order them for breakfast. Kicked up with a shot of the vinegar-based red sauce on each table, these enchiladas are truly the breakfast of champions.
The tequila selection alone at Hugo's — more than 40 choices, counting its bottles of mezcal — should indicate that you're in for a serious cocktail at this Mexican favorite. Sommelier Sean Beck dreams up exciting twists on the classic cocktail, like El Sueño Profundo with smoky mezcal, but it's the standard Hugorita for $7.50 that we like best. Created with Sauza Silver, Hiram Walker Triple Sec, simple syrup and fresh lime juice, it's mixed tableside. We also love the Y Porque No margarita for only $5 during its weekday happy hours.
One could argue that the real people-watching goes down in the valet drive that's shared by Philippe and its next door neighbor, RDG + Bar Annie. But the younger set always makes its way up Philippe's grand staircase, and that's where the pretty young thing-watching commences. Celebrities both local and national — think Robert Kardashian and Carolyn Farb — love this little slice of glitz and glamour in Houston, and especially love being seen with its handsome chef, the eponymous Philippe Schmit. But even regular schmoes like us can enjoy Philippe, too; the French-Texan menu is surprisingly affordable, as is its excellent wine list.
Southwestern cuisine stopped being hip in Houston somewhere around Cafe Annie's millionth year in existence, long before its closure last year. So imagine our surprise when TQLA swooped in with Southwestern vet Tommy Birdwell at the helm and made it cool again. (Of course, having 167 different varieties of tequila, many of them on tap, doesn't hurt either.) The updated Southwestern cuisine here incorporates Tex-Mex influences as well as our own Gulf Coast cuisine, and the result is a fresh, lively menu that features excellent dishes such as crawfish corncakes with lime butter and blue corn-fried oysters with chorizo cream.
The best salad in town at a place best known as a palace to pork, a monument to meat? Yes. And that's because Stella Sola treats its vegetables with as much care and love as it does its many proteins. The Dal Giardino salad — which translates to "from the garden" in Italian — epitomizes this attitude toward showcasing fresh, local produce. Seasonal lettuce and other vegetables, like curling tendrils of watercress, mingle with pickled carrots in a Meyer lemon vinaigrette that sings brightly through the greens. Its crowning glory? A farm-fresh poached egg, whose orange yolk mixes with the vinaigrette to create a pitch-perfect dressing.


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The repatriation of Greek cultural artefacts is among Greece's demands for German reparations from World War II, according to the foreign ministry. The ministry is collecting data for all antiquities illegally removed from Greece during the German occupation.
The two ministries are working together on the formation of an international cooperation network through the signing of bilateral agreements for the protection of cultural goods and the prevention of artefact trafficking. Greece has already signed agreements with Switzerland, China, the USA, and Turkey, and negotiations are ongoing with several other countries for the signing of similar agreements.
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Thirty days hath September.
April, May, June, July, and August.
Not quite the catchy song you were taught as a kid to remember how many days are in each month.
For minor league baseball players, those 30 days of September mean everything. It can be validation for everything that happened in the five months before.
On Sept. 1, major league rosters expand from 25 to 40. It's the best chance some guys in the minors — especially in Triple-A, the highest level of minor league baseball — will get at making it to "the show".
Sean O'Sullivan, a Tucson Padres pitcher, got the call back in 2009 when he was with the Triple-A Salt Lake Bees in the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim's system.
The Bees were coming off a game with the Tacoma Rainiers when he got the call-up on the first of the month. He remembers taking a 45-minute shuttle from Tacoma, Wash., to Safeco Field in Seattle with four of his Bees teammates who also were called up, as the Angels were in the midst of a series with the Mariners.
O'Sullivan had already made his MLB debut in a few spot-start call-ups that season, but the Angels were in the playoff race, so for O'Sullivan to call-up was still a big moment for him.
"It's something that not many people get to experience, even if it's just that one month," said Tucson Padres pitcher Sean O'Sullivan, before the Padres beat Reno Aces 4-3 at Kino Stadium on Tuesday night.
"How many people get to say that? That you played in the big leagues?"
O'Sullivan probably won't get the call up this year — he was recently designated for assignment, taking him off the 40-man roster, and cleared waivers on his way back to Triple-A Tucson. But, there are a few other candidates for call-up on the Padres roster.
Here's a look at who they might be:
The pitchers
Who: Tommy Layne, Miles Mikolas, Brad Brach, Burch Smith
Age: Layne, 27; Mikolas, 25; Brach, 27; Smith, 23
MLB experience: Brach- 102 games, 98.1 innings; Layne- 9 games, 7.1 innings; Smith- 6 games, 12.2 innings; Mikolas- 2 games, 1.2 innings
The case: Brach has the experience; Mikolas, Tucson's closer, has the numbers (3.36 ERA, 24 saves for Tucson); Layne has a 2.45 ERA in 9 MLB appearances this year; and Smith, a starter, is 5-1 with a 3.83 ERA in Triple-A.
They said it: "I've been sent up and down a few times, and every time you get sent down it's a little something else to work on. It's all about getting better, grinding through it, and waiting for that call." — Mikolas
The batters
Who: Kyle Blanks, outfielder; Jaff Decker, outfielder; Chris Robinson, catcher
Age: Blanks, 26; Decker, 23; Robinson, 29
MLB Mileage: Blanks- 213 games, 644 at bats; Decker- 13 games, 26 at-bats; Robinson- N/A
The case: Blanks only in Tucson for rehab assignment, if his ankle gets healthy in time, he'll get the call-up; Decker spent last few weeks with San Diego, has a .293 batting average in Tucson; Robinson hitting .331 in 36 games in Tucson, solid backup catcher
They said it: ""If he has legs underneath him, he's playing well and he feels good physically, there's a chance that when we expand we bring him up." — SD Padres manager Bud Black, to the San Diego Union-Tribune, about Blanks
The non-40-men
Who: Dean Anna, infielder; Keyvius Sampson, pitcher
Age: Anna, 26; Sampson, 22
MLB mileage: None
The case: There's one spot available on San Diego's 40-man roster. Anna leads the PCL in batting average (.333); Sampson is ranked the No. 16 prospect in SD, according to MLB.com.
They said it: "I hope so, I think I've earned it. If they call me up, great, if not I'll keep working hard. I don't know what else to do." — Anna


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Hempfield players spike interest in volleyball
Players on Hempfield Area High School's girls volleyball team have been giving up their free time to help inspire others to love their sport.
Since Sept. 9, the high school players have turned out each Monday at the YMCA in Greensburg to teach children in grades three through six basic skills of setting, passing and hitting a volleyball.
"I really enjoy helping because I love working with young kids," senior Devin Linsenbigler said. "I never coached volleyball before. I'm enjoying doing it."
Coach Lindsay Turchetta and Tina Gummo of the YMCA started the clinic, which runs for 10 consecutive Mondays and concludes in mid-November.
Turchetta said she wanted her 22 varsity and junior varsity players to realize the importance of being involved in their community, having fun and learning about themselves by inspiring others.
"They actually come back on Tuesdays just delighted," she said. "They love the little kids — how cute they are and the fun they're having."
The clinic may spike the children's interest in volleyball and inspire them to participate when they get older, Turchetta said.
"We wanted to get them started at younger ages, before we lose them to different sports like basketball and soccer, which tend to start (programs) at a younger age," she said.
Junior Maddie Holmberg said she has enjoyed being with the children and hopes she has inspired a few future players.
"They're actually really coachable," Holmberg said. "They listen, and it's exciting to see that they're going to be making progress over the next few weeks."
The varsity and junior varsity players alternate Mondays, with some coaching more than once.
Junior Cecily Gummo — Tina Gummo's daughter — said she was concerned initially about whether she had enough patience to teach younger players. After she took part in her first clinic, her worries vanished, she said.
"It's not what I expected," Gummo said. "I enjoy it. They're good listeners and easy to work with."
Player Linsenbigler's sister, Peydon, is among the children taking part in the program.
Mother Triscia Linsenbigler said she loves the clinic because it helps increase the children's interest in volleyball.
"The younger kids really do look up to the older girls as role models, and they just listen to them and take direction so well," she added.
The clinic has other benefits, Turchetta said.
"It's helping the younger kids get involved, and they're (her players) learning (volleyball) strategies as well," the coach said.
Gianna Richardson, a Maxwell Elementary School student, and MeKayla Dedo, a West Hempfield Middle School student, said they have been inspired by the clinic.
"I really like it and enjoy it," Richardson said. "I like learning about volleyball."
"I think it's fun and energetic," Dedo added. "I like the setting, because I want to be a setter."
Bob Stiles is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at 724-836-6622 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Opinion: "Australia has inadequate funding for biofuels."
BusinessWeek.com: "Australia has "inadequate funding" for biofuels, with the government devoting just $15 million to the technology, Julian Segal, chief executive officer of Caltex, said in a speech in Sydney today…"The determination of countries like the United States and China to find sustainable solutions to liquid energy supply should not be underestimated," he said. Caltex plans to sell a new "high ethanol-content" fuel later this year, Segal said. Australia must have policies to encourage alternative fuels, he said."
Novozymes CEO Steen Riisgaard: "Brazil knows what it wants to do. In the United States, similarly, they have a renewable fuels standard — they know what they want to do. You go to China: the government knows what it wants to do. They have a plan. You come to Europe and there's not this kind of political direction. We don't know what we want to do."
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