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AUBURN, Ala. � Conner Kendrick and Terrance Dedrick combined on a five-hit shutout as Auburn defeated No. 13 Arkansas, 3-0, in the series opener on Thursday night.
Arkansas drops to 34-18 overall and 17-10 in Southeastern Conference play, while Auburn is now 32-21 and 12-16 in league play.
Brian Anderson led the Razorbacks at the plate in the loss, going 3-for-4. Tyler Spoon and Jake Wise each managed one hit.
Mitchell Self was a perfect 3-for-3 at the plate and scored twice, while Garrett Cooper drove in two runs for the Tigers and went 1-for-2 at the plate. Jordan Ebert and Hunter Kelley each added two hits in the victory.
Kendrick (5-3) earned the win for Auburn, striking out eight and giving up four hits in 7.1 innings. Dedrick picked up his ninth save of the season, allowing a hit in 1.2 innings.
Barrett Astin (4-4) suffered the loss. Astin gave up three unearned runs on nine hits and struck out seven in 6.1 innings.
Brandon Moore and Michael Gunn combined to work 1.2 scoreless innings out of the bullpen.
Auburn struck first with two runs in the bottom of the third on a two-out, two-RBI single to left field by Cooper to put the Tigers on top 2-0.
The Tigers added on to their lead with a run in the home half of the seventh. After a leadoff single to center by Self, Kelley doubled down the left field line, advancing Self to third. Dominic Ficociello, who was at third, tried to throw Kelley out at second, but his throw went into right field, allowing Self to score on the E5.
Arkansas was unable to get anything going offensively. The Razorbacks had their best scoring chance in the top of the ninth as Spoon walked and Wise singled with one out. However, Dedrick was able to finish the game as he got Jordan Farris to ground into a 4-6-3 double play to end the ball game.
Arkansas and Auburn continue the three-game series on Friday with first pitch scheduled for 6 p.m. The Razorbacks will start junior righty Ryne Stanek (7-2, 1.70), while the Tigers are scheduled to throw junior left hander Michael O�Neal (8-3, 2.85).


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Why I put my kids to bed at 7:00 … it is a hot topic, that's for sure! Yes, our kids are in bed around 7:00 every night and asleep by around 7:30 every night.
Our older kids are in bed later (around 8:00 or 8:30, because they need less sleep, but that didn't start until they turned nine years old. If they are younger than 9, they go to bed between 7 & 7:30.)
Before I begin- remember that this works for us, not for everyone. ♥
Last week, a fellow blogger shared my post about what to do when your 2 year old is still waking at night. In the post I talked about our early bedtime and gave some life-changing advice for our toddler that was waking up. That post led someone to leave the comment "Who puts their kid to bed at 7:00 pm?"
Yes, We have always gotten a lot of negative feedback on this, but it works for us. I know that 7:00 is early. I know that it cuts into their day, but I can tell you that I would rather have happy kids for 12 hours a day than tired or grumpy kids for 13 hours a day. (Our older kids wake up at 7:00 no matter what time they go to sleep. Really!)
Our four YOUNG kids play hard during the day. They run around a lot and they spend a lot of time outside with us.
This means that at the end of the day… they are TIRED. They DO NOT nap anymore and they are just plain worn out by 7:00, even if they don't want to admit it (and they never do! haha!) We have tried to push this back when we are on vacation, but they just aren't as relaxed and easy-going the next day. They are a little more on edge, just like we are (as adults) when we don't get the rest that we need. I put them to bed early because I want them to be smiling & ready to take on the day. 🙂
Plus- the are usually asleep in 5-15 minutes, so I know they are tired.
Do they ever stay up late?
YES! Once a month they each stay up late for Their Special Night. Plus, every night, our oldest son gets to have Read-Alone time in his room before bed, too. Or they can read their spelling words while they fall asleep with this little hack.
If that have football or wrestling, they are up even later, but we AIM for an early bedtime! Our younger children have a really hard time waking up for school at 7:00 am when he doesn't get his full 12 hours of sleep, so I do try to get him to bed as early as possible. I want him to be able to focus at school, be energetic in play and at his sports and be happy at home! This little chart can help you to know how much sleep they truly need…
Kidshealth.org says:
"Most kids between 5 and 12 get about 9.5 hours a night, but experts agree that most need more. When your body doesn't have enough hours to rest, you may feel tired or cranky, or you may be unable to think clearly. You might have a hard time following directions, or you might have an argument with a friend over something really silly. A school assignment that's normally easy may feel impossible, or you may feel clumsy playing your favorite sport or instrument.
One more reason to get enough sleep: If you don't, you may not grow as well. That's right, researchers believe too little sleep can affect growth and your immune system — which keeps you from getting sick." All in all- sleep is important! Your kids need it, even if they don't WANT it."
I am not saying that this is right for you. My husband and I both work from home, so this works for us. Two of our kids are home with us during the day and our other two kids are home from school by 3:30 every day, so we have plenty of time with them.
Before he worked from home, I used to have the kids showered and in their pajamas before he got home, to give us more time together. Remember that it is quality over quantity.
This does not happen every night, but it's our goal. Most nights, one of our kids will be at practice until 8:00, so of course bedtime is later on that night. (A few years ago, when my youngest kids were 3 & 5, they would fall asleep in the car at 6:00 on our way to drop the older kids off at practice… and I just take them up to bed and they sleep ALL NIGHT LONG. They never wake up during the transition to bed. I know it's crazy, but when I try to wake them, they are NOT happy, so on those nights, I just let it go).
Oh- and one last thing… it is good for your marriage. My husband and I see each other all day long while we work from home or while we are spending time with the kids, but at night we have time to watch a show, play a board game, etc… Now, I am not saying that this is why we put them to bed early or that it is why we started, because it's not, but we do enjoy that time together. Did you know that the #1 fear of preteens and teenagers is divorce among their parents? Quality time together, with your spouse, reduces this risk greatly.
Remember- our bedtime certainly isn't for everyone, but it works for us. It is healthy for our kids to get that amount of sleep and it helps them overall. Quality sleep + healthy foods make a huge difference in our kids.
On the other hand, for those of you that have a late bedtime, my very dear, long-time friend, Julia, keeps her kids up well past 10:00 and it works for them. I know that I need to wait until 11:00 or later to talk to her on the phone.
Do what works best for your family.
I hope this helped to shed a little light on families with early bedtimes. Sleep well… no matter the time!♥
If you would like access to my free sleep course, via e-mail, sign up here. I will also send you a sleep schedule to get you started.
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MONTREAL - The Los Angeles Times recently made foodie headlines by announcing that its newly appointed restaurant reviewer, Jonathan Gold, would no longer be adding stars to the paper's reviews.
No more stars?
As food editor Russ Parsons explained: "There are a couple of reasons for this. First, star ratings are increasingly difficult to align with the reality of dining in Southern California – where your dinner choices might include a food truck, a neighbourhood ethnic restaurant, a one-time-only pop-up run by a famous chef, and a palace of fine dining. Clearly, you can't fairly assess all these using the same rating system. Furthermore, the stars have never been popular with critics because they reduce a thoughtful and nuanced critique to a simple score. In its place, we'll offer a short summary of the review."
In these pages, I have always attributed stars to restaurants in my reviews. We divide the reviews into two categories – fine dining and casual – so we are never reviewing a neighbourhood ethnic restaurant with the same criteria applied to a more gastronomic restaurant. As for food trucks, we don't have any besides the solo act of Grumman 78. And as for pop-up restaurants, why review a restaurant whose life span is limited to a matter of hours or days?
As for star ratings not being popular with critics, I must respectfully disagree. Following the L.A. Times announcement, the star debate sprang up in newspapers including the New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle, regarding whether they should follow suit. Both decided their star ratings would stick.
On the New York Times Dining Out blog, restaurant critic Pete Wells wrote in the stars' defence: "If you understand that the stars accompany a review of at least 1,000 words, I hope you'll believe that they do have meaning. The reviews have to cover a lot of ground. They tell you what kind of restaurant is being reviewed, how it looks and feels, how customers are treated, how some of the dishes taste and often whether it's worth the price. A star ranking from zero to four can't do any of those things in any meaningful way, but it can try to serve as shorthand for how strongly the reviewer is recommending the restaurant."
As for reducing "a thoughtful and nuanced critique to a simple score," well, I see no problem there. After years of reviewing restaurants, I appreciate a good star rating because it tells you exactly where the critic places the restaurant in the hierarchy of the scene.
I have read restaurant reviews with no star ratings, and after the ups and downs of the critic's assessment, I'm not always certain where he or she stands on said establishment. That star rating makes it clear. Ultimately, we are not writing an article about a restaurant, but a review. Therefore, a rating – in the form of stars, forks, diamonds or whatever – is merited.
And how do we go about determining that star rating? For that, there are no rules. Not even the late Craig Claiborne, the New York Times food writer credited with inventing the modern, starred restaurant review, left any guidelines for his successors.
My first boss, the late Ashok Chandwani, told me that a star rating was something you could sense. He was right. That so-called feeling breaks down into three key factors: the type of restaurant, its ambitions and its success in reaching its goal.
When I say type of restaurant, I refer to the cuisine being served – i.e. French, Italian, Chinese, fusion, sushi and so on. When reviewing, say, an Italian restaurant, I compare it to the city's other Italian restaurants to determine where it fits in the category. For example, a restaurant like Graziella would be in the same category as Hostaria, and on the steak house front, Gibbys would be in the same box as Rib 'n Reef.
As for ambitions, it's clear some restaurants merely aim to serve dinner while others work hard at creating a unique experience, such as seeking out special ingredients (like Toqué! or Milos) or even growing and smoking them themselves (Joe Beef). Price comes into the equation, too, because expense necessitates added features, such as a seasoned staff (including a sommelier), a well-thought-out decor and top-notch ingredients used in imaginative ways.
Once a reviewer has established the ambitions of a restaurant, the goal is to figure out whether it is fulfilling its potential or falling short. Restaurants gunning for the four-star rating must exploit the finer points – the extremes – of the gourmet experience. We reviewers keep that extra star in our back pockets for restaurants that go out on a limb and succeed. Some will peak at a three-star level, while others are shooting for the moon.
If none of this makes sense yet, allow me to introduce an explanation offered by former New York Times restaurant critic William Grimes in one of his columns in 2004: "Perfection at one culinary level," Grimes said, "does not compare with perfection at a higher level. Olympic diving might offer the best analogy. A perfect reverse somersault with one turn cannot earn as high a score as a perfect reverse somersault with 2½ turns. By the same token, the perfect three-minute pop song cannot grip the imagination and hold it the way a three-minute polonaise by Chopin can. Subtlety, finesse and refinement deserve a higher score. Art trumps craft."
I agree with that argument. And that's why even the best bistro in the city will never match an establishment like Le Club Chasse et Pêche.
If all these explanations still seem a bit vague, don't forget the simple star guidelines you can find with my reviews:
One star: Fair
Two stars: Good
Three stars: Very good
Four stars: Excellent
And considering the vast terrain between each of those ratings, thank heavens for those half-stars!


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CARPINTERIA, Calif. – Aug. 7, 2007 – CKE Restaurants, Inc. (NYSE: CKR) announced today that Carl's Jr.®, one of its subsidiary hamburger chains, has opened its first flagship restaurant in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The franchise restaurant opened on Monday, July 23 and is the fifth of 25 that will be opened over the next six years as per an agreement with Singapore-based franchisee Aspac F&B SDN. BHD. Aspac has been operating Carl's Jr. restaurants in Singapore since 2005, and is excited to enter the Malaysia market.
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Global franchise development for CKE Restaurants, Inc. subsidiary chains Carl's Jr. and Hardee's® is a focus for the company, and international restaurant presence currently exceeds 255 restaurants in 14 countries. There are approximately 3,022 franchise- and company-owned restaurants between the two chains system wide.
"Our goal is to take a leadership position in the quick casual dining segment by offering premium burgers that emphasize quality, hospitable service with excellent ambience," said Mason Tan, chief executive officer of Aspac F&B SDN. BHD. "After a successful launch of the Carl's Jr. brand in Singapore in 2005, it became clear that Carl's Jr.'s unique market and branding positioning combined with its focus on product innovation make it stand out from the rest of the F&B players in Malaysia. We are certain customers will enjoy our value proposition centered around great tasting, premium products that are built for taste. We look forward to many more restaurant openings and success in the future."
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A brief bit of background: Lexie Murray is a California transplant, currently living in the greater Charlotte area. A NASCAR fan from the time she was knee high to a grasshopper, she would eventually move from the Golden State to attend school at North Carolina at Charlotte to pursue a degree in mechanical engineering with their motorsport program. Her excellent understanding of her field landed her an internship with BMW, where she fell in love with the process of manufacturing. She graduated in 2016 and went straight to work with Freightliner as a design engineer on the front-engine bus platforms. She has been with the SCCA since 2015 and is one of three ladies to receive the Wendi Allen Scholarship Fund this year. The Wendi Allen Scholarship Fund was named and established by the family of Wendi Allen, a multi-time National Solo Champion who was extremely involved with the SCCA Solo community. The fund is designed to help young women who show a passion for the sport and community by waiving the entry fees to National events, as well as the SCCA Tire Rack National Championship, along with $1500 to assist with travel and other expenses.
JH: First off, congratulations on being chosen as one of the recipients of the Wendi Allen Scholarship fund. I imagine that was extremely exciting news to get. Where were you when you first heard, and what was your initial reaction?
LM: I learned about the nomination at the Ft. Myers Pro. We were paddocked near Rick Cone, and while we were getting all settled in, he walked over and handed me a piece of paper with the nomination he written on it. I was super honored just to be nominated. I found out I was one of the recipients while working a road race at Road Atlanta. We were packing the car up, and I got a call. I couldn't answer it, so they left a voicemail. While we were driving to go get something to eat, I checked the voicemail and it was from Howard Duncan, asking me to call him back. That's when I got super nervous. AJ, my co-driver/crew chief/roommate, was jumping up and down in his seat, saying "this is it!" I was so nervous to call Howard back. Once we got to the restaurant, I told everyone I would be a minute, and I waited outside to make the call. That is when he informed me I had been selected, and he gave me more background about the scholarship and its history. I couldn't be more honored to be chosen.
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JH: I see that you are an engineer. Is tinkering with/developing the car part of the enjoyment of the sport for you, or just an ends to a means to having a faster car?
LM: Apart from the social aspect of the sport, working on the car is actually my favorite part. I love being able to practically apply the theory I learned through my education to the car. I love testing and looking at the data, seeing the impact the changes had. I've actually been scolded by veteran drivers for changing things too much, and not focusing on the driving itself! It's been really fun, doing all the hands-on stuff you don't learn, or get to do, in school.
JH: With the Wendi Allen Scholarship Fund being for young or new women in our sport, and the new Women on Track initiative really taking on traction, talk to me about being a woman in your field and our sport, as both have primarily been pretty male-centric historically.
LM: Growing up and in school, you had to really work to be taken seriously. Going into school the prevailing thought was, and still kinda is, that women don't get engineering degrees. When I came out to Charlotte to start school, my parents were told, "Don't be surprised when she drops out," which fueled me to work even harder. I think both men and women bring important things to the table, and I think you get a much better product through that diversity. In both motorsports and the workplace, there is no reason a woman can't compete head to head with a man. It's about the driver and talent. From drivers to crew to engineers to everything within the sport, there is no reason a woman can't be successful.
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We just went shopping for winter clothes for my son. I think I WANT him to stop growing, its all going by so quickly.
This weeks question is:
What part of your life do you want to slow down?
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EDIT: I'm pretty sure I just figured this out but I still have so many questions!!
I have 3 classes, the input reader class code was given to me, so I don't think I'm suppose to change that.
This is what my lab says to
InvalidInputException is a custom checked exception that you will write.
NumberReader has a single field, of type InputReader. It has a method that repeatedly prompts the user to type a non-zero whole number. The user will type a zero to stop the loop. After the loop has finished, the sum of the input numbers will be displayed on the screen. This method must have a try catch block to catch a thrown InvalidInputException and display an error message if the user types something that is not an integer.
I'm not asking you to do my homework, I want to know what you are doing and why.
I have a lot of questions about this too (these aren't textbook questions, they are MY questions):
1) Like why is the throw statement in the catch block? Shouldn't it be in the try block so when the program fails it catches itself and fixes the issue?
2) When you throw InvalidInputException how does it know what you typed in? There isn't a line that is sending 'number' to that Class.
3) Same with InputMismatchException, how does that know what you typed?
4) my lab says 'this method must have a try catch block', does that mean I need a try catch in NumberReader????
5) Arrgh!
/** * This class reads the number you have inputted * * @author (Lindsay LaPlante) * @version (Nov 24th / 2011) */ public class NumberReader { // instance variables - replace the example below with your own InputReader inputReader; /** * Constructor for objects of class NumberReader */ public NumberReader() { // initialise instance variables inputReader = new InputReader(); } /** * prompts user to type a non zero whole number */ public void promptUser() throws InvalidInputException { int sumOfAllNumbersTyped = 0; int numberTyped; do{ System.out.println("Input a non zero whole number: "); numberTyped = inputReader.getNumber(); sumOfAllNumbersTyped += numberTyped; }while(numberTyped != 0); System.out.println("The sum of all numbers typed: " + sumOfAllNumbersTyped); } }
import java.util.Scanner; /** * This class gets the number you have inputted * * @author (Lindsay LaPlante) * @version (Nov 24th / 2011) */ public class InputReader { private Scanner scanner; public InputReader() { scanner = new Scanner(System.in); } /** This method returns the number typed by the user. If the number is not an integer it throws a custom checked exception that will be caught by the calling method. @throws InputMismatchException, InvalidInputException */ public int getNumber() throws InvalidInputException { int number = 0; try { number = scanner.nextInt(); } // catch any non-integer input catch(java.util.InputMismatchException exc) { scanner.nextLine(); // clear the buffer throw new InvalidInputException("not a valid number!"); } return number; } }
/** * This class says what is a valid number and what isn't. * * @author (Lindsay LaPlante) * @version (Nov 24th / 2011) */ public class InvalidInputException extends Exception { // instance variables - replace the example below with your own private String message; /** * Constructor for objects of class InvalidInputException */ public InvalidInputException(String message) { // initialise instance variables this.message = message; } /** * Getter method for message * @return message */ public String getMessage() { return message; } /** * Overridden toString method * @return getMessage() */ public String toString() { return getMessage(); } }


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Lightning Sign 2010 Pick Radko Gudas to Entry Level Deal
TAMPA BAY – The Tampa Bay Lightning have signed defenseman and 2010 draft pick Radko Gudas to a three-year, entry level contract today, Vice President and General Manager Steve Yzerman announced. Gudas most recently participated in the Lightning's 2010 Development Camp, held in Tampa July 10-14.
Gudas, 6-foot, 202 pounds, played in 65 games with the Everett Silvertips of the Western Hockey League last season, recording seven goals and 37 points with a plus-45 rating. He led the team in plus/minus and penalty minutes with 151. Gudas also led all Everett defensemen in points and assists. He also skated in three playoff games with the Silvertips, recording two assists.
A native of Kladno, Czech Republic, Gudas began his career in his native country, including the 2007-08 and 2008-09 seasons with Kladno of the Czech Elite League and a regular roster spot with Beroun of the second tier league. In 2008-09 he made his Elite League regular season debut, playing in seven games and recording one assist. Between the 2007-08 and 2008-09 seasons he accumulated seven points in 56 games with Beroun.
Gudas has made multiple appearances on the international stage, representing the Czech Republic. He played in six games at the 2009 World Junior Championships, recording two goals and three points with eight penalty minutes. He also played for the Czech Republic in Division 1, Group A of the 2008 U-18 World Junior Championships, recording a goal and two points in five games. The Czechs won the group and were promoted to the top division for 2009.
Tampa Bay selected Gudas in the third round, 66th overall, of the 2010 NHL Entry Draft.
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If you are a "dog person," chances are you understand dogs and their desire to get to ride in cars and hang their heads out of windows or up through the sun roof. My dogs have always loved getting to ride in the car.
They seem to enjoy the riding part, and when I come to a stop or slow down; they seem to get a little excited. The dogs are hoping for a new adventure, a new smell or a new patch of uncharted grass I suppose.
There are dog experts who like to discuss the various reasons they think dogs enjoy car rides so much. Some of these experts think that it is the "hunter" aspect and dogs associate the ride in the car with going on a hunt.
Other folks think that dogs enjoy the close confines of a car, the pack mentality or being "in charge" of protecting their territory – the car in this case.
Dogs love to sniff and also love the feel of the wind blowing in their face and up their nose. I suppose there are a lot of new smells a dog gets to experience while riding around.
Honestly, I think dogs just like looking out the car window at interesting things and taking naps. That makes sense to me. That's what I enjoy.
The other morning, I dropped my car off to be serviced. My car has over 200,000 miles, but it also has a lot of memories. These memories include baseball teams, muddy and snowy shoes and boots, and dogs riding happily in my car.
My car seems to be nearing the end of its life. It has served me well.
As I rode away from dropping off my car, I panicked.
I realized I had left my dog in the back of my car.
What would they think of me?
I don't know and honestly I didn't care.
You see, the dog I left in my car was my first dog. He was one heck of dog.
Yes, I know, it sounds strange, but then when you think about it, there is a good reason.
My first dog was a big black Standard Poodle – his name was "Baldwin." One of the original German rocket scientists helped me name him. Baldwin simply means "bold friend."
And that is exactly what he was…
Baldwin guarded the house, he guarded the children and he loved riding in the car. Honestly, I think he just loved being around people he knew and could protect.
Therefore, in the back of my worn out car is a box, with a bag in it. The sealed bag contains Baldwin's remains.
Folks put ashes on the mantle, in fancy boxes and bottles – I figured I would put him where he enjoyed being. In my opinion, it would be riding in the car with me.
I loved my dog and he loved me. I think I will just let him ride with me until it's my time to go and I'll take him with me.
On a happier note, I got a call from home the other afternoon. My family was yelling and screaming with joy.
"What on earth is going on?" I asked.
"You won't believe it!" they said.
It seems my current dog, who is walking on all fours, still getting into the trash and piling up on the sofa like a 16 year-old boy, had done something spectacular.
I asked them, "Well, what did he do?" They said it together, still sounding like they had just finished running around the house a few hundred times, "He raised his leg and wet on a bush."
I dropped the phone.
Then I picked it up.
I asked them, "Are you kidding me?"
They of course said, "No, he really did."
Now I was getting excited… I asked, "Did you take a picture?"
They did not take a picture, I guess they were too excited and not prepared for this yard-changing event.
You see, my current dog, "Doolittle," is also a black Standard Poodle. The veterinarian classifies him as a "Giant Standard Poodle" because of his size – he's very large and weighs close to 100 pounds. He's not really fat, he's just large.
As big as he is and as old as he is (6+ years), he had never raised his leg like this before.
I do not know why, some dogs are just late figuring things out I guess.
However, I am proud to say he has figured it out.
Perhaps we will ride around in the car and stop a lot of places to celebrate and take pictures.
Then again, maybe that is not such a great idea.
If you are a dog person, you understand why I continue to let my first dog ride in the car and you also understand my excitement about my current dog enjoying our yard a little more.
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I just activated my first travel bug:
New England Turtle Keychain Bug
To Explore Northern New England and discover great scenery and hiking Trails.
I want to release somewhere in northern maine preferably somewhere that involves some hiking. I have never been to northern maine (other than acadia) and would love some ideas on a good place to release my bug.
Also I posted a under Resources and Tools a place that sells custom printed goal tags. I didn't see it listed anywhere here thought others would find it useful. I haven't actually received mine yet but they look good on the site.


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All you need is a strong back and a weak mind."
— A stonemasons' saying
As Interstate 90 heads east out of Issaquah and winds up among the flanks of the ancient Issaquah Alps, plateauing just before it plunges down into the Raging River Valley, it passes the little town of Preston and offers motorists an exit there. Off to the left, on the outskirts of the town, there is what I can only call a rockyard. It's not a quarry, but almost for as long as I can remember I have remarked the presence there of massive boulders and huge pallets of stone. This is the Marenakos Rock Center.
Back in September I spent a wonderful day at this rock yard and on that day I lifted, by my conservative calculation, a ton and a half of stone, mostly Colorado sandstone, with my bare hands. I'm about to tell you how such a thing came about, so settle in.
Ever since I wrote that post about my great-grandfather's stonemasonry I haven't been able to get stone walls off my mind. I reread Cormac McCarthy's play The Stonemason, a book that has occupied a treasured spot on my shelf for years. In it the old character of the title passes down such pearls as "The keystone that locks the arch is pressed in place by the thumb of God" and "Stone ain't so heavy as the wrath of a fool", and "Nothing is ever finally arrived at. The journeyman becomes a master when he masters the journeyman's trade."
I kept thinking how stonework is so opposite to my own work as a technical writer and marketing copywriter, and how liberating it would be to be engaged in work that justifies itself, without any argument or explanation. In writing on behalf of a software company I mostly write things that we hope are true or that we wish were true or we want people to believe are true or at least to understand in a certain way. Not lies, certainly, but there is very little in what I do that has a truth unto itself, external to me or the company, and my work is riddled with the shame of the asterisk. Good stonework seems to be all about the truth, because it's all about gravity and gravity is a hard truth. All stones in a well-built wall are always falling straight down, each falling on the ones directly beneath it, forever. The desire of each stone to fall toward the center of the earth that hatched it is what makes it possible to build stone walls. Listen to this wonderful passage from McCarthy's play:
The reason the stonemason's trade remains esoteric above all others is that the foundation and the hearth are the soul of human society and it is that soul that the false mason threatens.
It's not the mortar that holds the work together. What holds the stone trues the wall as well and I've seen him check his fourfoot wooden level with a plumb bob and then break the level over the wall and call for a new one. Not in anger, but only to safeguard the true. To safeguard it everywhere. He says that to a man who's never laid a stone that there's nothing you can tell him. Even the truth would be wrong."
One day shortly after Emilia was born when Mara needed to be outside and get some of her wiggles out, I asked her if she'd accompany me on a search for a wall I thought I'd seen up near Meridian Park. If she would indulge me long enough to sniff out the stonework I wanted to look at, then we could spend some time at the playground before heading back to the house for dinner.
I'm not sure we found the wall I remembered seeing several years ago, which I had thought faced west, but we found a south-facing house with a beautiful stone wall retaining the yard at the sidewalk. It was a mortared wall with artistically placed stones, some of them sticking out or recessed to form ledges or nooks for a gardener's coffee cup or a candle, some even forming comfy little benches near the stairs. Some of the stones in the wall were a light pastel green. We ascended to the porch, Mara and I, and we knocked. Over the barking of what turned out to be a friendly dog, the lady who answered the door told me that yes, she knew who had built the wall. His name was Michael Knapp, he was a great guy, he was a third-generation stonemason, and he had died last year.
A bolt of disappointment shot through me. In the back of my mind, I'd been fantasizing about approaching such a person and asking them to let me hang out and help, learn something of the trade. Not in a true apprenticeship — how could I afford to do that? — but just informally, maybe on weekends sometimes. The woman said Mr. Knapp was a character, that he would sometimes come to work in a Cat-in-the-Hat hat. She said he had helpers, but she didn't know if he had trained anyone. She was under the impression, and I didn't disabuse her of it, that I was looking for someone to build a wall for me. She remembered that Mr. Knapp's wife was very friendly but didn't have their contact info any more. While we talked, Mara petted the barking dog, whose name was Rusty, and a quieter, older one who had lived most of her life with only three legs. The woman was very happy about the greenish-blue stones in the wall, which she said were an uncommon stone called fuchsite. The woman told me where in the neighborhood I could find other walls built by Mr. Knapp, and in the next week Mara and I visited several of them. Each was a little different from the last and all were beautiful.
I still hoped to find a real — and living — stonemason, not just someone slopping stones or bricks together but someone who appreciated the work for the same reasons I did, even if they were not particularly articulate about it. I wanted to learn from a master, some hardbitten and grouchy old guy who would speak little and purposefully, and teach me how to lay up stone. I did a little scratching around online trying to discover other stonemasons in this area and eventually connected with a drystone apprentice up north in Bellingham who told me that if I really wanted to meet people working in stone I should not miss Stonefest 2010. Stonefest is an annual week-long gathering of people mad about stone. Building with it, shaping it, writing in it. It is as though the dwarves of Moria come together to the Marenakos Rock Center from all around the U.S. and even across the oceans to share their knowledge about methods and tools, their ideas for projects, and their passion for rock. Every year there is a large construction project that all attendees can participate in, overseen by experts.
I was not able to take a whole week off, but it was possible to register for just a day, so I signed up and paid $150 for the privelege of joining the effort of some forty or fifty other people in constructing a traditional Irish clochán. A clochán, accent on the second syllable, is a beehive structure built without mortar in what is called the drystone or drystack method, with barely enough space inside for one person to turn around in and three or four tiny slits to admit some light, and a door as small as an igloo's. Ascetic monks built them on isolated islands off the coast of Ireland in order to sit in them and contemplate the nature of God and subsist on berries, sips of rainwanter and the occasional lentil. The originals have stood for centuries because, as I said before, every stone is placed so that it is perpetually falling onto the stone directly below it, and if something is built of stone in this way, it will be there several thousand years later. Patrick McAfee and his son Brian, stonemasons from Ireland and authorities in ancient drystack methods, were to manage the project, which would be built onsite — by us — in the Marenakos yard.
The design for the clochán we would build was adapted for construction in five days by a mob of people who are more inclined to do stuff than to listen closely to instructions about how to do stuff, in other words, construction workers, landscapers, and stonemasons. There were one or two like me, people who were interested in stone as nonprofessionals, or who were branching out from construction or landscaping into masonry, and there were artists acquainting themselves with the engraver's craft and sculptors learning stone sculpture. But I thnk I was the only desk pilot, the only spanking tyro, the only person from another world who knew absolutely nothing about any of these lithic arts.
Wednesday morning when I arrived with my protective eyewear and my heavy gloves, the clochán was more than waist high. I had seen it Monday when I had dashed out to Preston after work to participate in the opening day orientation and slideshow. That evening it was not even supposed to be started, but the attendees couldn't help themselves; they had laid the first course of large granite (I think) stones in a circle, with an interruption for a doorway made of three large blocks — two on edge and one spanning their tops, like a dolmen — and now the courses of smaller, flat sandstone blocks were starting to slope inward in accordance with markings on a trammel, a central swinging wooden gauge used to make sure the structure had the correct shape and curve to it.
Pretty instantly I felt small and alone and out of place. Many of these men and women have known each other for years, it was clear. They knew stone — seemed, all, instinctively to know what to do. They scrambled purposefully around the beehive structure like the occupants of its namesake, buzzing with congenial conversation, "off-color" jokes, and periodic consultation about the next course of stones. The feelings I had were shockingly similar to those I felt on any given day of high school.
But I had been expecting those feelings. As the event approached I had begun to feel dread, like maybe I shouldn't attend. I wouldn't know anyone. I would be ignorant (again, so often in my life, a learner). I might get injured. I pushed through the feelings, reminding myself that this was something that I was really interested in and an opportunity I was paying for. It was immediately evident that the event was not going to be organized in a way that would ensure everyone's inclusion. The nature of the type of person chiefly drawn to this event prohibited any such coddling social structure. I could see that if I was going to get anything out of the day, I would have to take a swan dive into the midst of the action. And this became my strategy: start doing something; if it's wrong, someone will surely tell me, and then I will have learned a thing. And this is exactly what happened.
Every endeavor on earth that involves more than one person has what is usually referred to as a "shit-job", pardon my Gaelic; a job no one really wants to do, a job for beginners. I am as familiar with this role as anyone under the sun, I think, because of the number of times in my life I have started from scratch. In the case of drystack wallbuilding, the job that constantly needs doing is adding "hearting" — small stones or fragments of stones — to the spaces between the inner and outer courses as the wall goes up. Without hearting, the walls would be hollow and the longer stones would be unsupported, and the wall would eventually shift and the structure would fall. The hearting is really and truly the heart of the wall, and while everyone acknowledges this, most people would rather lay the courses, choose and set the stones, than scrape around the perimeter of the jobsite like squirrels, collecting shards of rock in a bucket to be used for hearting.
I gladly started on hearting duty. It got me busy right away, it reminded me to be humble, and in fact there was something satisfying about it. The chips and chunks that fall from the stones that the mason dresses with his hammer become the hearting that fills the wall, so that there is this elegant economy and waste is avoided. Ideally, rather than having a site littered with stone fragments at the end of the job, the area around the work is spotless. The wall has made a home in its heart for its own waste products.
A big guy named Dan, who has his own construction and landscape business in Centralia, seemed to have taken charge of one section of the wall and started asking me to hand him this or that stone to try fitting, or asking me in particular if I could find one that was about four fingers thick and somewhat triangular. I left off collecting and fitting the hearting — which itself has a better way and a sloppy way of being done if you care to learn — and began hunting stones for Dan, and pretty soon he had shifted half his energy to helping the McAfees lift the window blocks into place, which left me in charge of Dan's section of wall. I asked a gregarious fellow named Chad how to read the trammel, and he was happy to explain it to me. Then at some point, I realized I had become part of the hive mind. I knew what to do. When the next window blocks were being laid, I was there to help shim them. I could foresee what stone was going to help the course and which stone might seem to answer a certain spot but would cause trouble later. I paid attention when Patrick or Brian came around and coached about the exterior angle of the stones, and I pulled down work I had done, or that others near me had done, and did it better. I called for hearting, or fetched a bucketful and fitted it myself. I made the comment that shouldn't there be another step here (a stone sticking out from the wall so that we could later stand on the steps and continue working on the higher parts of the structure), and darned if I wasn't right.
I was covered with a fine orange sandstone dust. At lunch, I sat next to Dan and it happened that Patrick and Brian McAfee both joined us across the table, so I was able to benefit from their conversation. Patrick was naturally quiet, reflective, and worried that with so many people working on the clochán it was impossible to keep it going the way it should. He feared that at the rate we were going we wouldn't finish by the time he had to fly back to Ireland on Sunday. If we finished, the quality would be low. He was okay with that, but you could tell that he had a deep love of doing things the right way.
Patrick was the kind of stonemason I would want to learn from. I gleaned what I could whenever he circled the structure to inspect and give tips, and I considered the day a personal success. I had worked right through an afternoon rainstorm that sent many scampering for their rain gear but which Dan and I and the others in our corner regarded as refreshing relief from the punishing sun that had beat on us at midday. We had raised the wall about three feet and installed four sets of windows. A few of us were still at it when someone came out from the store and said "It's beer o'clock guys. Call it a day."
I felt a deeply satisfying exhaustion in my bones as I went around shaking hands with and saying goodbyes to the people I'd worked with, thanking many for little tips they'd given me. I told Patrick that I would not be back the next day but that I'd enjoyed learning from him. It meant the world to me when he said in his lyrical accent, "Tanks for your efforts. You were quick on the uptake, I noticed."
Remember in the Roop's Mill post, when I wondered if anything I've ever done will outlast the collective memory? Well, there's a beehive-shaped structure up in the Issaquah Alps that I expect will still be there a couple thousand years from now, and I had a hand in that. Two hands, in fact. My own two hands.


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Due to a retirement, we have a job opening for a chief market conduct examiner in our Seattle office.
The person will supervise the market conduct team of examiners, who work directly with insurance companies to determine compliance with consumer protection laws and regulations.
For more details, salary info, and more about the agency, travel requirements, etc., please see the full job listing.
If you want to stay up to date on any future openings at the Insurance Commissioner's Office, here's our job opportunities page.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
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HOW-TO:Install XBMC Wizard
THIS IS A COMMUNITY ALERT PAGE, INTENDED TO ALERT THE COMMUNITY OF POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS CONFIGURATIONS, UTILITIES, SCAMS, AND VARIOUS "BAD IDEAS".Disclaimer
Various websites, youtube videos, and blogs have talked about and suggested installing various add-on or installation "wizards" or add-on installers. This is not a good idea, and doing so can cause more issues than it fixes. These tool likely started with good intentions, but many of the configurations it sets or changes will break or crash certain Kodi/XBMC setups.
Installing this so called 'wizard' may overwrite many configuration files without having an option to restore them.
Further reading
- kodi.tv - This Site is the Only Official Source of XBMC Software
- kodi.tv - Official software listing
- Kodi related projects and sites - A listing of Official Kodi sites can be found here.


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Apparently invoking the name of Percy Jackson with your Greek tragedy for teens can earn you a few extra zeros at the end of your contract! Harper Teen Pays Seven Figures for Debut YA Trilogy
And speaking of extra zeros, independent press Tu Publishing just got started at the end of last year and already they've attracted the attention of a bigger company. Lee & Low just announced that they've made the multicultural fantasy and sci-fi publisher one of their imprints.
Books published more than 100 years ago can still attract Hollywood. But like I said, don't expect them to stick to the story line! Alice grows up in Tim Burton's vision, but has she lost her sense of wonder?
This just makes me want the iPad more (in spite of the unfortunate name!) Penguin's Vision for Books on the iPad
And if you haven't entered your name for the chance to win an autographed copy of Ballad by Maggie Stiefvater, then follow this blog then follow this link to leave a comment. The drawing happens one week from today.
Friday I'll be back with another slush pile success story. I never get tired of those! They give me reason to believe :)


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Microformats.org recently celebrated its seventh anniversary.
In case you've been too busy snowboarding the Alps to keep up, Microformats are simple, but incredibly useful, little HTML extensions that give your website superpowers.
You might, for example, use Microformats to expand your basic HTML markup to denote events, blog posts, reviews or address book entries. The extra markup makes your site more meaningful to both humans and search-engine spiders.
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Due to my summer holidays off work starting today, I am activating Beast Mode and revamping my PixInsight tutorials on Light Vortex Astronomy. The revamp will address all the shortcomings in my older tutorials by replacing them with more consistent tutorials that teach from the basics all the way up to workflows, with various simple and complex techniques explained in the middle. They are also more up-to-date to both, PixInsight itself and my way of working with images.
I start off with my Basics tutorial on PixInsight, titled "Introduction to PixInsight and its Interface". This is meant to take someone from saying "What is this hellish program and how do even start using it?" to someone who is competent enough to know where stuff is and try stuff out, with the ins and outs of the different features.
This would be considered essential reading for anyone following my new tutorials as this will be assumed knowledge, thus optimising my writing to be more concise and to-the-point. Enjoy!
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) – A letter from Governor Rick Scott pitching a pay raise for teachers is being presented at the State Board of Education meeting being held at the Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts.
Gov. Rick Scott is trying to enlist support from the board for giving all Florida teachers a $2,500 pay raise.
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hi there, i have recently purchecd a new laptop from y520 suries with gtx 1050 gb.as i far as i knew when i bought this pc it met all the requerments i need in order to start VR expiriance by oculus rift.the problem started when i plugged the headset. after spending few days trying to configure why cant it recognize the headset it seems the hdmi port canot use the gpu system(gtx card) and it can only use the inner one that is built in and i cant use the headset this way.i need your help in order to configure it to work with the gtx card. please help my case its serius matter, this is why i bought this laptopt in the first place.Read other answers
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Lenovo Legion Legion Y520 running windows 10 I am connected to a Sony TV by HDMI. When I use the TV as the only display or as an extended display the image is downscaled to 720p. If I clone the display from my laptop it will render full 1080p. All of the settings I can find appear to be correct. The laptop says that it is displaying 1920x1080. I would like to get the TV to work as primary display. I know it is not the TV. It can display the cloned desktop and works properly for game consoles also using HDMI. I have tried using different HDMI ports on the TV.Read other answers
I have the Legion Y520 -15kbn Model name 80WK i7 16 gig ram and Nividia 1050ti 4gig gragjhics card. I bought to us VR headset my question is the HDMI port off the Intel grapghics or the Nividia 1050ti??? If its not off the Nividia GPU then it VR will not work. Before I am not able to return system and pull my hair out trying to get VR to work. I know its a very technical question not easy but need an ansewer. Thank you.Read other answers
Hello, I own a Lenovo Legion Y520 (the one with 2tb HDD) and I would like to add an SSD to it as well. From what I've read, if I want to keep my HDD and add an SSD, I will need an M.2 type SSD. Also, I have found an SSD that I think would be compatible with my Y520, but I wanted to ask here before buying it. The SSD I'm talking about it the SSD WD Black 256GB PCI Express 3.0 x4 M.2 2280. I will also attach a picture of it, so if anyone could tell me if it's compatible, I'll be very thankful.This is the oneRead other answers
Hi.My Lenovo have a 1tb hdd.I want to know if I can buy a ssd and the both disks.And if so what sdd can I buy MTM:80wk00mmpgRead other answers
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Everytime i charge my device to 100%The battery FULL CHARGE capacity seems to degrade a littleBtw, my laptop is only couple months oldThe battery report : https://drive.google.com/open?id=1XB2Xoj88xx1fXaV_vKE4J45g3Q0YUz8_Read other answers
Hello , i am having a rather curious problem with my laptop if anyone has noticed the same and/or found a solution will be appreciated.Every time i unplug and close the laptop, it loo oot sequence between the 2 ssd's i have installed. I have an nvme SSD 1tb as my boot drive and a Sata SSD as a 2nd and every time its closed and opens unplugged it moves the 2nd ssd as first boot priority. So every time i just restart and choose to boot from my nvme. Any comments/solutions?Read other answers
Hello all. I am about to buy the Legion Y520-15IKBN. It's the i7-7700HQ, GTX 1060 version. I have 2 questions though before I buy it. 1. I have a Seagate Barracuda 5TB 2,5" HDD, a Samsung 960 Evo NVMe 500GB and a HyperX Impact 16GB DDR4-2400 laptop RAM. Can I install them on this model or if I open it it will void the warranty? 2. The laptop comes with no OS. I have Windows 10 on my desktop PC. Since Windows are connected to the Outlook account (I think), will I be able to install and activate them on the laptop or I have to buy new? Thank you very much for any answersRead other answers
Hi, I've recently bought this laptop and I'm already getting an error message upon booting up.This one: I have ran sfc /scannow in cmd: However, the error upon booting up still persists. What should I do next?Read other answers
Hello, i have a Lenovo legion Y520IKBA notebook for 10 months, which runs integrated Intel HD630 Graphics and then AMD Radeon RX560 Graphic card.I had no problem for playing games on high settings with solid fps, usually i am playing World of Tanks on 70-90 fps, but today in the middle of battle, the screen freezed for 1sec, then it went quality down and fps dropped to 7-14, i guess that somehow notebook switched to use HD630 Graphics instead of RX560. I am running 19.5.2 Adrenalin 2019 drivers. It offers me upgrade from 19.5.2 to 19.9.1 but when i did it in past, the same thing happened so i am running older drivers because of that. GPU tempeature is about 38-43C°. Here is what i tried and nothing worked:- hard restart of notebook- using CCleaner and DDU for cleaning drivers and reinstalling- in device manager i uinstalled and installed new drivers- checking in BIOS if dedicated gpu is enabled Nothing of this worked, anybody else had this problem and solved it? I checked older topics, but none of it worked for me. I will be glad for any idead, thanks a lot.Read other answers
Dear Lenovo community,I am considering an ssd upgrade. I know that my laptop (Lenovo Legion Y520-15IKBN) supports m.2 NVMe gen 3.0 x4, but is it compatible with gen 3.0 x2? I found some good deals, they are actually about half the price of an x4 ssd ...Also, what length does it support? I found a link for the ssd that comes in it (in higher configurations), so is that the maximum length?Thanks in advance for your reply.Read other answers
Hi. I have 1050 version of Legion Y520. It is 15IKBN. What can i upgrade? If i can upgrade something where? If i can upgrade something can you give me links of items? Thank you.Read other answers
HelloI need to buy a new laptop and I found this one which people say it's suitable for games (and within my budget). Do you guys think it meets all the requirements for playing games, new games especially like assassin's creed odyssey? I'm no real expert when it comes to these kind of things . Will this configuration last long or it's going be old in a couple of years (in terms of gaming requirements I mean). And last but not least... is actually 16 the maximum ram supported?ThanksLENOVO Legion Y520-15IKBMProcessor: Intel Core i7Processor identification: - 7700HQ, Quad Core- GPU: Intel HD Graphics 630- Processor architecture: Kaby LakeClock speed (GHz): 2.8Max Turbo Frequency (GHz): 3.8Third level cache (MB): 6Chipset brand: IntelRam MemoryRAM: 16 GBType of RAM: DDR4Maximum Ram Supported: 16 GBTotal RAM slot number: 2Hard DiskHDD: 1000 GBHard Disk Type: HDDSSD: 128 GBGraphic cardGraphics: nVidia graphicsGraphic model: - GeForce GTX-1060Memory Graphics Card (MB): 6000Other features of the graphics card: - Dedicated- GDDR5Operating systemOperating system: Windows 10 Home (64bit)DisplayDisplay size: Display 15.6 ''Display ('): 15Convertible: NoHD: Full HDDisplay resolution: 1920x1080 pixelsScreen format: 16: 93D: NoAnti-reflective display: YesIPS display: YesOptical UnitOptical drive: NoAudio cardSound card: Audio by HarmanSpeakers: 2 x 2.0 WConnectivityEthernet: YesEthernet type: 10/100/1000Wi-Fi: YesBluetooth: 4.1InterfacesUSB 2.0: 1USB 3.0: 2Number of usb type 'C' ports... Read moreRead other answers
I currently own a Y520 for a year and a month now. An issue that recently rose from my laptop is that at rare occasions, although the F2 key is still working by itself (keyboard testing sites prove it), Fn+F2, which is supposed to lower the volume, won't work. Fn+other Fx keys still work though, excpet for F2. Restarting the laptop multiple times does not solve the problem. This happened once before and it just resolved itself, but now it's taking quite a while. The odd thing is that when I hold Fn+F2, and then let go of Fn while still pressing on F2, it actually does what Fn+F2 is supposed to do, and when I press Fn again, it stops working again, and letting go of Fn makes it work again. I am really confused, is this a software or a hardware issue? Are there any temporary or long term fixes?Read other answers
My lenovo legion Y520 touchpad isn't responding at all, it is working fine for the first 1-2 hours when i use it, then suddenly it stops working for no reason at all, it got fixed everytime i restart the laptop, but it's too troublesome when im doing some work, here's some weird thing :1. When i go to the setting, the touchpad didn't have any option available but the touchpad sensivity,2. On the device manager the ELAN pointing device is up and running3. On the mouse properties it also says that the smartpad is enabled, but it didn't respond, not even the left-click and the right-click4. Everything else is working normally, Fn+F6 shows that the touchpad is on or off but the touchpad isnt responding when it was turned onI tried googling but couldn't found any similar problems to mine, i hope some experts could help up, thanks in advance! Edit : Im currently using windows 10Read other answers
Hi all, sadly my legion has stopped working. When it happened : short story is, when I was gaming. My headphones died, wireless through usb. And in that same moment when they died. My laptop shut off without warning. Also had mouse and charger plugged in. Now, when I hit power button the power light on the side turns on. But no power to the screen or fans. (Edit: Forgot to mention my keyboard does not light up either. ) When i plug charger in the charging light works also. I don?t really know too much about this Subject sorry. My warranty expired back in May this year. So I wanted to see if anybody had similar problems, or even had a solution to this. Anythign helps. Thanks for taking the time to read and help.Read other answers
hi there , i am facing a real big issue with my lenovo y520 since i boot up the ubuntu distro i am having slow performance and
also the SSD driver is not working ,, does my laptop is uncompatible with linux or what ?
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It's a Sunday & my family are out. It should be a perfect time to set up my new Legion 520 laptop - but it's not. I've reached the screen headed "Create your NVIDIA Account", completed filling in the info, hit "REGISTER" and am completely stuck. It tells me that "you must agree to our Terms & Conditions" but there's no box or question to tick. What's worse it won't let me continue to sign into my Microsoft Account, load all the Apps I have & get on with it. Any thoughts please?
Forgot to check if I need to check any "please notify me of any reply - but can't find one!!Read other 1 answers
Hello, I'm an owner of Y520 that I bought less than a month ago and in the past few days, I have been experiencing a strange keyboard issue. At seemingly random times, several random keys will become completely unresponsive.The keys will work fine all day except for a few minutes here and there. For example, my 'e' 'g' 'h' '8' '9' and 'FN' keys just stopped working for about 3 minutes, now they are obviously working fine again. Sometimes it's for more than a few minutes and can be a nuisance.I've also noticed sometimes holding the key down for a while will fix it. I'm wondering if there's some sort of fix that I can try when this happens so that I don't have to take it to an authorized service center.Furthermore, I've noticed that there are more people having the same issue with the same keys as there are videos about it on Youtube. I bought my laptop in Europe but currently live in Canada so I am a bit worried if it is possible to find an authorized repair center. Thanks for any help.Read other answers
Where can I find information on the keyboard layout, specifically about the "highlighted" keys (w,a,s,d, and \ with red bar, 7 w circled Y)? I'm assuming they have special functions. I couldn't find anything in the manual or searching online. ThanksRead other answers
First of all I am sorry for my english but i don't know what to do.I've bought new lenovo legion y520 laptop month or two ago (with i5-7300HQ, GTX 1050 2 GB VRAM, 6 GB RAM, 1 TB HDD) and my gaming experience is pretty bad so far.I tried some games and my fps are the same like on my old desktop PC (more than 6 years old) with i3-2130, amd radeon HD7770 1 GB VRAM and 8 GB RAM. I've tested for example Assassin's creed black flag (same settings on both devices) and my fps were nearly the same on both (around 45 FPS).Then I've tried Battlefield 3, Subnautica and few other games but my biggest issue is with Star Wars Battlefront 2. I checked the minimal system requirements and I should be able to run it quite well atleast on low settings but the game is stuttering so terribly. It is unplayable. But my old PC that don' t enven have minimum requirements runs it better and pretty smooth with MSI afterburner keepin fps at 30-50.I didn' t expect any wonders from this laptop (smooth 40 fps is fine for me) but I've expected that I'll be able to play atleast some older games pretty well. The question is: Is it normal or something is not allright with my laptop?I tried installing all drivers from lenovo website (install them manually), reinstall windows 10, celan install windows 10, find newest Nvidia drivers, change graphic driver settings but nothing helped.I've also noticed that while playing star wars battlefornt 2 on old desktop my graphic card usage is quite stable but while playing o... Read moreRead other answers


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Oscar & Golden Globe winner Dean Pitchford gives Master Class to UH Manoa Academy for Creative MediaUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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Pitchford, born in Hawaiʻi and a St. Louis graduate, began his career as an actor on and off Broadway in such shows as Godspell and Pippin. He turned to songwriting and screenwriting, setting box office records with Fame and Footloose.
"Dean is a stellar example of the tremendous talent potential locally that the Academy for Creative Media is tapping," said Chris Lee, ACM founder and director. "Our students have a wealth of local stories, music, animation and video game ideas that will be the foundation for a Hawaiʻi digital media entertainment industry. Dean's experience and accomplishments in Hollywood, Broadway, and globally make him a true Hawaiʻi renaissance man. We're honored to have him share those experiences with our students and be a role model for them."
Pitchford will illustrate his career discussion with clips from his films from 2:30-4 p.m. in Crawford Hall Room 115. The campus community and public are invited, but because of limited seating should R.S.V.P. to Lily Ching at ACM at 956-7736, or e-mail email@example.com.
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Pitchford has been nominated for four Academy Awards, winning the Oscar, Golden Globe and Grammy for "Fame." He's been a two-time Tony Award nominee, TV director (HBO's Blood Brothers) and novelist (The Big One-Oh).
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The Academy for Creative Media is the university's primary place for the production and study of digital media in film, animation, computer game design, indigenous and critical studies. For more information, visit www.hawaii.edu/acm.