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Single clicking with my external mouse works fine -- except for in one particular program. But it's not an issue with the program, because if I use the touchpad buttons, single click works fine. And it's not the mouse, because I've tried three different mice, all with the same result. Even when a Lenovo tech rep took over my computer and single clicked within that program, it didn't work until he clicked several times. I've talked to several other people (including tech support for the program), and no one else is having this issue. Has anyone else seen this? Thanks in advance....Read other answers
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Hi , We purchased 3 lenovo ideapad 110-15ISK Laptops (ideapad). in that i installed windows 7 professional os. i am trying to incre,decrease screen brightness(fn+f11,fn+f12). but brightness control buttons not working. how to control brighness part.Now brightness is very high. Because of this brightness i am getting eye pain. So Please provide me solution for brightness control. my mail id : [email protected] Thanks.Read other answers
I have an issue thats constantly happening, the 3.5mm socket doesn't work when i remove the headphones or the speakers and put it back again, until i restart the laptop then it comes back to life again until i remove it and its dead again.any help please ?Read other answers
When my laptop is plugged in, I have my power-saver setting set so that the display turns off in 15 minutes. When I return to my desk and hit any key, move the mouse, or whatever, it takes anywhere from 6 to 10 or 12 seconds for the display to turn on again. Is this normal? The display on my prior Lenovo (G580) would turn on instantaneously, so I was surprised that it's been taking so long on my new laptop. Thank you.Read other answers
Lenovo Ideapad 500-15ISK Laptop - Screws Exact Specification Pls someone could specify which exactb screws are used in this laptop.I have gomr through manual and it says everywhere M2.5 × 6 mm, Phillips-headM2 × 3 mm, Phillips-head,M2 × 6 mm, Phillips-head But when i try to find online on ebay I see that even phillips head are of many types like pan head, flat head, wafer head etc etcNow I am confused and dont want to order wrong product. Kindly could someone specify when it is said for example M2.5 × 6 mm, Phillips-headwhich specific model head is being referred?Thx in advanceRead other answers
Lenovo 500-15ISK Laptop (ideapad) wont wakeup after sleep I have a Lenovo 500-15ISK Laptop (ideapad) with Windows 7 64bit. I noticed a problem where the computer will not wake up after sleeping. The light turns on and I can hear the fan, but the screen remains dark. This is getting really annoying, as I have to reboot my laptop every time this happens. I have already updated a bunch of drivers to no avail. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Also why there is no updated BIOS; energy management driver for windows 7 but only for windows 10?Read other answers
How to uninstall '0XCN44WW' bios update? Because this update raises some errors so I want to uninstall that update.Please suggest me to uninstall '0XCN44WW' bios update.Read other answers
Hi, I wonder is there any way to turn fans off? Cpu temp is about 30 celsius and they still keep running. They don't stop even once. Do yo think this is a normal situation? Do your laptop's fans run without any pause? It gives me headaches.Agghh... Thanks,
There isn't a way to manualy turn off the fans. Keep your laptop well ventilated in a cool place, and choose a power plan different than "High Performance". If your laptop gets cool enough, it will stop the fansRead other 1 answers
Hi everyone, I bought this laptop few mounts ago and I couldnt solve network hosting problem. I'm using Windows 10 Pro (v1511 OS Build 10586.446) operating system and wanted to create local wireless netwok connection. When i open the command (cmd) window I typed 'netsh wlan show drivers' and the result is as following,I couldn't chance Hosted network supported : No to Yes. I have updated BIOS, i installed OneCare, I have deleted the Wireless Adapter drivers and installed the current one but it's still the same. I checked microsoft community forums, mailed lenovo mail support and got online support from the experts, almost tried everything but couldn't solve the problem. If there is a way to solve this problem, could you please inform me via comment or message.I can remove and install previous versions of network adapter driver but i dont know which version works with this pc appropriately. Any suggestion will be deeply appreciated,Thank you so much, AkifRead other answers
Hello, I purchased Lenovo 700-15ISK intel core i7-6700HQ processor Laptop on 18th Jan.It has 16gb RAM,1 TB+256 SSD Hard disk, with 4 GB Nvidia GeForce Graphics card.It is FULL HD Laptop with 15.6" FHD IPS AntiGlare (1920x1080) with integrated camera and 64 BIT windows 10 OS. Most of the application which I installed is working fine and its visibility are good.But there is some application which visibility is poor and seems fuzzy, blur.I updated intel integrated graphics card and seems no any effect.I have attached the image of the application how it looks.Even, when we go to device manager then its visibility is bluish, fuzzy. I have installed MySQL workbench and its visibility is same as device manager visibility.I have installed STS(Spring tool suite) and it looks good and there is no fuzzy, or bluish problem there.May I know why this blur, fuzzy looks in some of the application.I purchased this laptop so that I can run any program, database faster parallel and it is good in this case.But, I am tensed about blur and fuzzy looks.Please help me in this regard.Thank you.
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Hello, I purchased Lenovo 700-15ISK intel core i7-6700HQ processor Laptop on 18th Jan.It has 16gb RAM,1 TB+256 SSD Hard disk, with 4 GB Nvidia GeForce Graphics card.It is FULL HD Laptop with 15.6" FHD IPS AntiGlare (1920x1080) with integrated camera and 64 BIT windows 10 OS. Most of the application which I installed is working fine and its visibility are good.But there is some application which visibility is poor and seems fuzzy, blur.I updated intel integrated graphics card and seems no any effect.I have attached the image of the application how it looks.Even, when we go to device manager then its visibility is bluish, fuzzy. I have installed MySQL workbench and its visibility is same as device manager visibility.I have installed STS(Spring tool suite) and it looks good and there is no fuzzy, or bluish problem there.May I know why this blur, fuzzy looks in some of the application.I purchased this laptop so that I can run any program, database faster parallel and it is good in this case.But, I am tensed about blur and fuzzy looks.Please help me in this regard.Thank you.
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My Y700-15ISK sometimes click with the mouse by itself, what to do?Read other answers
hi.i was using my computer with battery conservation on a few days ago but next day i used the pc i couldn't use it. i losed that option and i really need it because i need to use my computer all day does anyone know what can i do?i already tried to reinstall the drivers and lenovo vantage too and nothing
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Good evening Lenovo users,i would like any help if it possible and thanks in advance.I have a lenovo ideapad 510-15isk with serial number PFOKFODM.I would like to upgrade my laptop with extra memory ram.My laptop has a ram which is on board and runs on 2133.But i want to upgrade my ram with a ram which has higher speed than 2133.I have talked with contact center of lenovo and they havent give me any clear info.They said me to check the documentation in support.lenovo page. The documentation refers how the maximum speed is 2400. But if i search in a memory manufacturer (for example crucial ) says how my laptop can support and a ram in 2600.And my basic question is if i buy any ram in 2600 will be recognizable from my machine and the speed will be satisfactory or not???i am very confused and i dont know wht to do. Every info would be useful.Read other answers
Is that possible?Read other 1 answers
Owners of this device, tell please, at you too the display shivers very strongly?I have already the second copy of this laptop and it very much enrages me. Feeling that in few months it generally will cease to keep on loops.Read other answers
lenovo settings stopped working.erro 0x803F8001 what do i do?Read other answers
I have a quick question regarding of the CPU in Lenovo Ideapad 510-15ISK, is it possible to upgrade it?Read other answers
Hi, I just bought the ideapad 300-15isk and I pushed the button to open it for the first time, but nothing happens, I am stucked with a black screen. Can someone help me with this issue? Thanks!
HiI'm also ideapad 30015isk user and I think that we can have similar problem (https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Lenovo-IdeaPad-100-305-500-Edge/New-ideapad-300-15isk/m-p/3417305/highl...) try to plug in ac adaptor write us what hapened.Good luckRead other 1 answers
Hello Sir,
I would like to know the part number of my motherboard (Lenovo ideapad 310-15isk) without opening the entire machine.
I hope anyone can help me with that.
Moderator note: serial number removed to prevent abuse. Associated MT-M is 80SM00FSAX.
Go to Solution.
Hello and welcome,
Go to SUPPORT above, enter your S/N (DO NOT post it here) then Parts & Accessories, Parts Lookup, enter your S/N again.
hello i bought this laptop lenovo ideapad 700 and it is very good laptop for alot of things i am using it for games now like battlefield and fifa and alot of other games this games need the laptop to be plug in with charger always and the battry is built in so i can't remove it from the laptop when i am playing and i am afraid of losing the battrey because of games i spend alot of time playing can you help me to know how to save the battry , please ?
In Lenovo vantage you can turn on "Conservation mode". See below. It talks about Lenovo settings. BUT same feature is in Vantage. It will keep battery at 55-60%. SO for example if currently its at 90% it will not charge.
https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/forumkb/[email protected]!!2190610
If you dont have vantage installed see below.
I have laptop lenovo ideapad 510The problem is there is alot of fps drop when I play any gameAnd the gpu (940mx) when reach 61*C the drop started Can I know what the solution for this problam ??Read other answers
Hello, I have and I need help with my laptop, since I bought it does not find drivers, and I can not use him, that when I enter a game or something moves as if an intel core duo, and it does not seem normal, that I do not want to have a computer (that's and i7) to my move so bad, that you can give me and thousand drivers, or even a site with all the drivers that I need themRead other answers
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I am currently having issues with my son'scomputer. It started with a black screen and times going to the lenovo logo. It would go no futher then thus. It tired to do a system restore but was unable to do. I then tried to do a product recovery using my computer and website uses flash drive to download. Currently is in my sons computer doing a product recovery. It states that all image files found, clean up the hard drive successfully. The system is being installed which may take a few hours. Then it keeps stating there is an image install error. Error when re covering, and repeat. I can get no futher. I just want to get my son's computer up and running again, Soeone please help me, thank you.Read other answers
Hello Guys and hello Lenovo , When will coming BIOS update ? , or How I Disable GPU temperature limit ? Problem is this = Nvidia GPU throttling at 61 degress and We have FPS drops in all games. GPU Frequency drop 1006 mhz to 405 mhzRead other answers
Hi all!I want to ask a question about additional RAM to my laptop Lenovo IdeaPad 320-15ISK (80XH00YARA)Would this RAM suit it? Kingston SODIMM DDR4-2133 4096MB PC4-17000 (KVR21S15S8/4)Read other answers
So i have this laptop, its great and all really, but my only problem is that sometimes the hinge gets stuck and i have to use a bit more force to close it after use and it makes a cracking sound, does anyone have the same problem ?Read other answers
Hello, I just purchased a Lenovo IdeaPad 110-15ISK and the volume is very low. I have done the following:- Install the audio drivers.- Augmented the volume to 100% by holding FN+F3.- Augmented the volume to 100% in the Windows audio settings.- Disabled the audio enhancements. If I can't do anything else, this is very disappointing. My phone's speakers play louder than this laptop, this is ridiculous. So please, tell me there are solutions and that these speakers can actually play louder than what it is right now for me. Because right now I am about to return this laptop and go with another company. I know this is a cheap laptop, but I would still expect better because a speaker from the dollar store plays louder than this laptop. The sound is especially low on Netflix, and this is one of the reason this laptop was bought. It is a bit better on YouTube, but it's still disappointing. I tried running the Windows 10 Netflix app or running Netflix from a browser, either way, the audio is low.Read other answers
Hello, my name is Andrew, I have a problem, my laptop moves very hard but do not know why I installed all the drivers and nothing I have two video cards, and that integrated features 1 GB(Intel Graphics 520) and that dedicated had 2 GB (nvidia geforce 920MX) and i want to set this thing on that dedicated you tell me how? I think that id I do laptop to move only on a video card that is that dedicated a moving better so I think I can instead tell me how? Thank YouRead other answers
Hi all I want to replace my current HDD which has a capacity of 1TB with an SSD, preferably of the same capacity as I'm hoping I can just clone the drive before swapping it into my laptop. Which SSD's are compatible with the laptop?Are there any restrictions when it comes to the capacity of the SSD? ThanksRead other answers
So I bought Lenovo Ideapad 700-15isk with GTX 950M 2GB DDR3 a couple weeks ago and whenever I try to play a game (any game, even from year 2009), my GPU starts overheating and when it reaches ~83C, it automatically downclocks itself to 405mhz. I tried to install drivers from scratch, both from OM and from Nvidia, and that didn't help me. I've also gone through a clean installation of Win 10, that didn't help either.Any help would be greatly appreciated.Read other answers
I just got my Lenovo Ideapad 700-15isk on the mail today, bought it with freedos (I already have a retail w10 license I want to transfer to it). Last night I prepared my bootable w10 usb and tested it on my old laptop to verify it works. No problem. I can't get it to work on the Lenovo, no matter what Bios settings I choose. I don't really mind if it's UEFI or Legacy at this point, I'm reinstalling next week when I get my new ssd disk, I just want to be able to get windows in for now. My usb stick is formatted as fat32, with windows 10 64-bit, I got the ISO using the media creation tool from Microsoft, and put it into the usb with rufus. At first, I was getting a winload.efi error (with either uefi, legacy, legacy first, uefi first and all variations you can think of). I redid the usb, this time just mounting the ISO file and copying the files manually. Now I'm getting winload.exe file might be damaged or missing. The mystifying thing is that the installer boots just fine on my old asus laptop. It's been years since the last time I did this, so I'm probably missing something obvious. Can anybody guide me on how to get the windows install screen to come up on this machine? Thank you in advance.Read other answers
My 7 Mo's old lenovo just stopped booting up all of a sudden yesterday. My IT guy ran 15 hours of diagnostics and still can't tell if it is hardware or software related. He says to send it to lenovo for service. I really want my hard drive data now. Has anyone had this problem saying "recovery. Your PLC needs to be repaired" And the machine won't boot up so no way to access anything in machine or on Internet. Any suggestions? I am never going to buy lenovo again. Bill
I bought a corsair memory CMSO8GX31A1333C9 and I wonder if it works in this notebook?Read other answers
HI there Can anyone tell me to dissamble and take the casing off this laptop? I can't find any instructions anywhere and have been looking to get at the cmos. Any help you have is greatly appreciatedRead other answers
when a fix will be up? tools https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/27150Read other answers
My battery seems to charge very slowly when connected to AC and when I unplug I lose power in less than 20 minutes and the diagnostic says battery is in "Fair" condition and only charging at 41.38% of its original full charge capacity. When I called customer service since I am still under warranty, they just said I could send in the laptop for repair which takes about 7 business days or go to a Best Buy for the GeekSquad to repair. I went to Best Buy, but the Geek Squad said they would have to send it off for 13 days so none of this was helpful as this is my only laptop and I need it daily so to send it off for 7 business days would be difficult. Are there any other options for repair that reduce the time significantly? I can't believe Lenovo doesn't offer overnight shipping to expedite the processRead other answers
Hi, Last week I bought Lenovo Ideapad 700-15ISK. Today I plugged in second monitor but Windows 10 does not detect it.I have upgraded all drivers. Moreover when I run laptop I see the logo "Lenovo" on both monitors and when I am in the bios setings I also have display on both monitors. I used DVI -> HDMI cable and my monitos is Samsung SyncMaster P2270 Do you have any idea how can I solve this problem?Read other answers
I did a crucial.com system scan and they said i can upgrade my ram to 20gb. is this really true? i figured the max is usualy 16 for a laptop like this but if it is really 20gb then that's cool. Can someone confrim? Edit: here is the link of my system scan =) http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/scanview/CF0526A131D926C3Read other answers
The battery is charged in full capacity for up to 1.5 hours , and fast draining.. maybe there is a big discharge rate - its about 15 000 mW, battery life os 1,5-2h , its normal for 5 month notebook ?Read other answers
Hello there,I do need help with my Lenovo ideapad 500-15isk windows 10? Core i7 with AMD RADEON GRAPHICS as it won't load pass the Lenovo logo. Interestingly, I just got it back from servicing using the last warranty on the device. Just night, as I was using the computer, it displayed an error message just like iys been doing without me paying attention to it. And the error messages are along the lines of "a problem has been found on your computer" and it went on restarting and restarting without success. I think I did try to reset it to factory mode and now, it only got worse as it can't go pass the Lenovo logo.What can I do as I am frustrated. ThanksAlexRead other answers


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Bluebonnet Nutrition Biotin 5000 mcg. - 60 Vcaps
- Dietary Supplement
- Vegetarian
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Bluebonnet's Biotin 5000 mcg Capsules provide yeast-free biotin in its purest crystalline form. Available in easy-to-swallow vegetable capsules for maximum assimilation and absorption.
Bluebonnet Nutrition's Biotin 5000 mcg Capsules provide yeast-free biotin in its purest crystalline form. Bluebonnet Nutrition's Biotin 5000 mcg. is available in easy-to-swallow vegetable capsules for maximum assimilation and absorption.
B Vitamins
The scientists who first discovered vitamin B believed that it was a single compound; however, with the advances in technology, it was soon discovered that it was a family of eight water-soluble compounds. Today, with the exception of B6 and B12, B vitamins are referred to by their names: thiamin (B1), riboflavin (B2), niacin (B3), pantothenic acid (B5), biotin and folate. Exceptional dietary sources of B vitamins include fortified cereals, ham, tuna, wheat germ, liver, milk, spinach, lentils and a wide variety of other foods.
B vitamins in the body function mainly as coenzymes or parts of coenzymes. Coenzymes are considered to be the keys that unlock the mechanism of action of enzymes that speed up reactions in the body. B vitamins are utilized in a wide variety of functions in the body, such as the metabolism of protein, carbohydrate and fat and the synthesis of neurotransmitters, betaine, RNA/DNA, red blood cells, amino acids involved in the reduction of homocysteine levels, and antioxidants such as glutathione.
Some B vitamin derivatives, also known as quasi-vitamins, function similarly to vitamins, but their human requirements are not yet known, even though they are associated with important biological activities in the body. Inositol, choline and para-aminobenzoic acid (PABA) are known to be part of the B-complex family, while taurine and carnitine, which are also derived from B vitamins, are usually listed in the amino acid family due to their shape. Although they are all known to play fundamental roles in the body, they have not yet been proven to be essential in the diet for humans since they can be synthesized in the body from B vitamins and other nutrients.
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Hope College staff members were recognized for service during the college's 28th annual service award celebration on Friday, Feb. 1.
Hope College staff members were recognized for service during the college's 28th annual service award celebration on Friday, Feb. 1.
Honored as retirees were Barry L. Werkman, business services office, 40 years of service; Betty J. Dolley, copy center, 30 years of service; Barb Helmus, health services, 28 years of service; Elaine VanWieren, campus safety, 22 years of service; and Ronald Evink, physical plant, 21 years of service.
Recognized for 40 years of service were Tom Renner, public relations, and Maria C. Tapia, computing and information technology.
Honored for 30 years were Rick Middlecamp, physical plant, and Cheryl McGill Schairer, social sciences.
Recognized for 25 years of service were James H. Bailey, physical plant; Elizabeth Colburn, Upward Bound; Pauline Rozeboom, computing and information technology; Paula J. Shaughnessy, Hope-Geneva Bookstore; and Edna M. Zeeff, physical plant.
Marking 20 years of service were Abraham Z. Anaya, computing and information technology; Merrie B. Bannink, registrar's office; Steven L. Bareman, computing and information technology; Karen Bos, public relations; Sharon K. Hoogendoorn, registrar's office; Judyth M. Thomas, theatre; Douglas L. VanDyken, business services office; James C. VanHeest, college advancement; Rick Wissink, physical plant; and Kristen A. Witkowski, computing and information technology.
Fifteen-year honorees were Norma Buursma, physical plant; Jamie L. Dewitt, kinesiology; Dianne DeYoung, college advancement; Janet Gibson, admissions; Sharon Grotenhuis, physical plant; Jeanne Marie Lindell, Academic Support Center; and Lynne M. Powe, public relations.
Honored for 10 years of service were Gayle Bleeker, physical plant; Lori Bouwman, campus ministries; James C. Brown, physical plant; Nancy Curnick, campus safety; Patricia M. Dalman, DeWitt Tennis Center; Darlene Dirkse, physical plant; Timothy S. Drost, physical plant; Melanie S. Mason, physical plant; Jil A. Ponstein, mathematics; Karen Schakel, Van Raalte Institute; Shelly J. VanLoo, transportation; Cynthia Vogelzang, student development; and Leigh Wendtland-O'Connor, counseling.
Marking five years of service were Anne Bakker, DeVos Fieldhouse; Carla A. Bender, financial aid; Patricia Ann Blankestyn, advancement services; James N. Boelkins, provost's office; Stephanie W. Brumels, dance; Brian L. Brunink, physical plant; Toni R. Bulthuis, health services; Kathryn S. Frillmann, college advancement; Carrie T. Hodson, music; Maria Cristina Ivey, provost's office; Jack A. Otten, physical plant; Moy Rasasak, physical plant; Kathryn W. Sundararajan, campus ministries; Larry D. VanderYacht, physical plant; Kristin L. VanHaitsma, art; and Rebecca Ellen Velthuis, physical plant.


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Bad Piggies full review
Bad Piggies is the latest hit mobile game from Rovio, developer of the hugely successful Angry Birds franchise. It's not a carbon copy of Rovio's original blueprint, but we expect it to be every bit as successful. Here's our Bad Piggies for Android review, also available for iOS, PC, Mac and, soon, Windows 8 and Windows Phone.
First released for iOS in December 2009, Angry Birds remains one of the most popular mobile games of all time, with millions of downloads from Apple's App Store and Google Play. Rovio has been milking its cash cow ever since, with Seasons, Rio and Space sequels, and an online store that offers a range of merchandise from plush toys, clothing and iPhone and iPad cases to bedding, books and stationery. See Best Android Apps.
We've all bought into Rovio's loveable characters. There's Yellow Bird the dive-bomber, Black Bird who explodes on impact, Big Brother Bird who demolishes everything in his way, and White Bird who drops bombs, for example. And then there are the macaws, bulldogs, toucans, parrots, marmosets and more, introduced in later episodes. But arguably the most important character is the one who features in every level: the egg-stealing Bad Piggy, without whom the Angry Birds would have no purpose; they'd be weapons with no target. It's high time the evil green swines swapped stealing eggs for their own spin-off series.
Unlike Angry Birds, in which you must fire avian missiles to take out Bad Piggies, there is no such violence in this sequel. A cute showreel of the type we've come to expect from Rovio aids your understanding of this new mission. It appears that having found a map telling them exactly where to find the Angry Birds' eggs, the Bad Piggies have managed to lose said map in Piggy Island. King Pig has ordered his minions to recover the map, and you will collect a single scrap of this vital information with each level you complete.
Bad Piggies is more of a cross with Rovio's Amazing Alex than it is a carbon copy of Angry Birds. In the former, you must interact with various toys and other items to create a chain reaction that allows a football to land in a basket, or pop a balloon let off in the direction of a pair of scissors. In Bad Piggies, a hand-made contraption comprised of propellant devices, wheels, springs, TNT, balloons, umbrellas, engines, sand bags, fizzy pop and more enables you to manoeuvre obstacles, getting your Bad Piggy to the finishing line and a step closer to victory in Rovio's mobile war.
Bad Piggies operates on the same three-star rating system that's become synonymous with Angry Birds, and which has since been incorporated into a plethora of games by developers hoping to build on Rovio's success (read our Bunny Shooter for Android review for an example of just one). There is no baffling scoring system here, though; zoom out of a level to see exactly what is required of you to achieve full-marks, whether that's to complete a level within a certain amount of time, collect all the stars, build a contraption without using a specific part or get to the finishing line unscathed.
You can choose to play in either Ground Hog Day or When Pigs Fly chapters, both of which include 36 free levels, plus nine bonus levels. You'll need to complete a level to move on to the next, and a bonus level is accessible only after you score a given number of stars in the four levels preceding it. Extremely challenging but very fun Sandbox levels can also be unlocked, in essence the equivalent of boss levels, in which you can select any of the tools available throughout the chapter to build a vehicle capable of enduring one mega-challenge. A fourth chapter is simply labelled Coming Soon, welcome evidence of Rovio's promise to continually add free updates.
There is no single right way to build your cart: several combinations might get you to the end of a level, although not all will allow you to do so with no damage and within a certain amount of time. The game is made more difficult in the sense that you need not only create a winning vehicle, but you must monitor it throughout the level, toggling on and off the engine, opening an umbrella or popping a balloon with precise timing. Even with the correct combination of parts, it can take several goes to win all three stars.
A hint book can be useful in helping you to build a workable contraption for each level, without you needing to visit YouTube for a walkthrough (of which there are many). Alternatively, if you're stuck, you can hire a mechanic to build your vehicle. You get three free mechanic tokens for liking the game on Facebook; thereafter, it costs $1.99 for 10, $5.99 for 35 and $9.99 for 65.
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- Android 2.2 or later
- 34MB storage Also available for iOS/PC/Mac and soon Windows 8 and Windows Phone
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For nearly a decade, Hudson Institute's Center for Global Prosperity (CGP) has been the leading source on remittances from developed to developing countries, including new and creative ways that remittances are used to grow economies and reduce poverty. CGP Research Fellow Yulya Spantchak presented the latest available numbers from our just-released 2011 Index of Global Philanthropy and Remittances, showing that in 2009, U.S. remittances to developing countries were remarkably recession-resilient, in fact, larger than government aid, philanthropy, and even private capital investment.
Western Union, one of the world's leaders in money transfer services, has developed an innovative program to leverage remittances as a force for socioeconomic development. Barb Span, Vice President of Public Affairs at Western Union, discussed the impact of remittances and in particular the evaluation of Western Union's successful 4 + 1 programs.
Further Reading
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Wenger looks to improve fragile defence
Manager Arsene Wenger accepts Arsenal must learn how to close out games again after witnessing another "fragile" defensive display in the Barclays Premier League 3-3 draw against Fulham.
For the second time in a week, the Gunners blew a 2-0 advantage, this time allowing the Cottagers to recover and then lead after early goals from Olivier Giroud and Lukas Podolski had put the hosts in command. Mikel Arteta then saw his stoppage-time penalty saved by Fulham goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer.
Wenger knows such costly lapses in concentration at the back must be eradicated if his side are to keep within striking distance of the top four. "We were defensively fragile, were not cautious enough at 2-0 and we let them back into the game because we lacked urgency," the Arsenal manager said.
"We showed magnificent spirit in the second half, but the team has to learn to deal better with this kind of situation. There are good ingredients in this team, a good spirit, but we need a bit more defensively when we are leading the game."
Wenger added: "At the moment, we do not get the points we want. Of course, we now do not have to waste any more time, but I still feel there is good potential in our side."
Arsenal will have little time to attempt to rectify their defensive shortcomings ahead of next weekend's north London derby at home to Tottenham as nearly all of the first-team squad will be away on international duty.
One positive for Arsenal in the past few weeks has been the development of Giroud.
The France forward, signed from Montpellier in a £13million deal over the summer, now has four goals in as many appearances for the Gunners.
Wenger said: "Giroud had presence and won the long balls. He is dangerous and starts to have belief in what he is doing."


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Railroad Generalship: Foundations of Civil War Strategy
I ran across an excellent monograph yesterday by Dr. Christopher R. Gabel titled "Railroad Generalship: Foundations of Civil War Strategy." It is available in its entirety on the Command and General Staff College's Combined Arms Research Library here. It includes maps and illustrations.
The following is the foreward by Jerry D. Morelock , Colonel, Field Artillery and Director of the Combat Studies Institute.
"According to an old saying, "amateurs study tactics; professionals study logistics." any serious student of the military profession will know that logistics constantly shape military affairs and sometimes even dictate strategy and tactics. This excellent monograph by Dr. Christopher Gable shows that the appearance of the steam-powered railroad had enormous implications for military logistics, and thus for strategy, in the American Civil War. Not surprisingly, the side that proved superior in "railroad generalship," or the utilization of the railroads for military purposes, was also the side that won the war."
Gabel provides some astonishing statistics which illustrate why railroads challenged traditional strategic direction during the Civil War. He contends that the net effect of "the advent of the steam-powered railroad" was a boost in logistical output by at least a factor of ten. The impact on strategy in the Civil War was staggering. "Most notably, the railroad increased enormously the geographical scale of military operations." Armies got larger. Sherman's offensive campaign used 100,000 men and 35,000 animals. His supply line consisted of a single-track railroad extending 473 miles from Atlanta to his main supply base at Louisville. Sherman estimated that this rail line did the work of 36,800 wagons and 220,800 mules!"
For those of you really into military strategy, Gabel provides a simple yet effective illustration of "interior lines" and "exterior lines" and why railroads sometimes helped and other times hindered Civil War strategists who tried to use Jomini/Napoleonic concentration on "interior lines" strategy.
Regular followers of Wig Wags will know that I've posted on this fascinating topic before. See the page, Civil War Railroads here.
Highly recommend.
Christopher R. Gabel, "Railroad Generalship: Foundations of Civil War Strategy." http://www-cgsc.army.mil/carl/resources/csi/gabel4/gabel4.asp#org, Accessed: May 24, 2009.
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Enjoyed your website. Saw the picture of the "interior railroad" (boxcars and wagons) here: https://wigwags.wordpress.com/2009/05/25/railroad-generalship-foundations-of-civil-war-strategy/#comments
Wondering if you know the original source of this photo. It fits a project I'm working on abuut the Battle of Carthage, MO. Union troops took the train from St. Louis to Rolla, MO, and then transferred to wagons for the overland trip to southwest Missouri.
Hope to hear from you.
Ken Burchett
University of Central Arkansas


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Famous Passengers Booked for the Ship's Next Voyage
The Titanic's return trip to England was scheduled to begin on April 20. Among the more famous names who had apparently booked passage:
• Henry Adams, descendant of two presidents and author of "The Education of Henry Adams."
• John Alden Dix, then governor of New York.(above)
• J. Bruce Ismay, managing director of the White Star Line. A survivor of the Titanic disaster, Ismay was portrayed as a villain in many accounts in part for the ship's shortage of lifeboats and for getting himself safely into one.
• Guglielmo Marconi. Having skipped the maiden voyage, Marconi had apparently made arrangements to take the second.
• Frank Seiberling, founder of Goodyear Tire and Rubber.
Other would-be passengers had booked even further ahead. For example, J.C. Penney, founder of the department store chain that still bears his name, was set to sail on the Titanic's next crossing from England to the United States.


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Uniting for Freedom
Catholic Americans Gear Up for Second Annual Event in Support of Religious Liberty
MINNEAPOLIS — It's been a rough period for Church leaders in Minnesota, where voters approved the legalization of same-sex "marriage" in the state, despite a two-year Church-led campaign of education and prayer.
But Archbishop John Nienstedt of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis and other Minnesota bishops have not retreated from public engagement on the intertwined issues of life, marriage and religious freedom.
If anything, their sense of urgency has only intensified, with Catholic nonprofits facing an Aug. 1 deadline for compliance with the federal contraception mandate and the U.S. Supreme Court about to issue rulings on two landmark marriage cases that could directly impact the free exercise of Catholic institutions across the country.
As U.S. dioceses prepared for the 2013 "Fortnight for Freedom," June 21-July 4, the Minnesota Catholic Conference held a June 2-3 "First Freedom Academy" to educate and train priests on religious-liberty concerns and discussion points. And during the two-week fortnight, the archdiocese will host "First Freedom," an educational forum, Mass and Holy Hour led by Archbishop Nienstedt, and conduct a June 29-30 "Project Life and Liberty Postcard Campaign."
Jason Adkins, the executive director of the Minnesota Catholic Conference, told the Register that Church leaders in the region "believe that religious liberty will be the principal issue in the public square."
"We need to raise awareness, and the best way to do that is through our priests," said Adkins. "Every bishop tapped two priests to come to the event and go back to their diocese and be a leader on this. We brought in national experts to help them understand the state of this issue, from constitutional questions to the ecclesiastical context."
National Effort
Across the nation, Catholics and other Americans concerned about emerging threats to religious liberty will participate in a variety of spiritual, educational and advocacy programs.
Experts will review the reasons why Catholic colleges and hospitals refuse to comply with the federal contraception mandate and have filed suit against the federal government. The faithful will learn why for-profit business owners have filed their own lawsuits, and they will receive updates on state efforts to protect conscience rights.
Of equal importance, Catholics can expect presentations on two cases before the U.S. Supreme Court that could have dire consequences for religious nonprofits.
By the end of June, the high court is expected to issue its rulings on the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage, for the purposes of federal law, as a union of one man and one woman, and Proposition 8, the California voter initiative that effectively barred same-sex "marriage" in the Golden State.
"We have religious-liberty concerns in the area of marriage. We are trying to educate people in the pews about the closing of foster care and adoption services in Illinois, Boston, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., because of the erosion of marriage," Hillary Byrnes, the staff attorney for the U.S. bishops' Ad Hoc Committee on Religious Liberty, told the Register.
The fortnight will begin at the national level with a Mass June 21, the eve of the feast day of religious-freedom martyrs Sts. Thomas More and John Fisher. The Mass will be celebrated by Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore at the city's historic Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. On July 4, the end of the two-week event will conclude with Mass celebrated by Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in our nation's capital.
Political Action
The bishops' conference has encouraged dioceses to use the fortnight as an opportunity to refocus attention on the need to defend First Amendment rights amid increasingly aggressive efforts to push religious practice to the margins of society. Thus, while prayer and education are key elements of the fortnight, political action will also be addressed.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and state Catholic conferences have encouraged the establishment of religious-liberty caucuses across the nation. During the fortnight, legislators who have joined the caucuses will participate in educational forums and rallies at state capitols.
Jenny Kraska, the executive director of the Colorado Catholic Conference, has coordinated with local dioceses to use the fortnight as an opportunity to raise awareness among legislators and their constituents about the need to get "religious liberty and conscience exemptions into law."
Last year, said Kraska, the Colorado Catholic Conference failed once again to secure the passage of a religious-liberty protection bill similar to the 1993 federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which requires a high standard for the government to override religious-liberty concerns, and then only in the least burdensome manner.
During the fortnight, Kraska will be speaking at Colorado parishes, and Archbishop Samuel Aquila of Denver will headline a "Prayer in the Square" rally at the Colorado State Capitol, where the faithful will gather to pray for religious freedom, and Catholic legislators will address the crowd.
Kraska said that the ongoing legal challenges to the HHS mandate have helped to focus Catholics' attention, but she will also remind her audiences that there have been other attempts to force Catholic institutions to violate central moral precepts of Church teaching on life issues.
"Catholic hospitals in the state were pressured to perform abortion services and direct sterilization — or risk losing their licenses," she told the Register, while noting that the challenge had been successfully resisted.
In Kansas, fortnight activities will focus on prayer, Holy Hours and Masses dedicated to religious freedom.
Kansas Victory
Church leaders and activists in Kansas are still celebrating the passage of the Kansas Preservation of Religious Freedom Act this spring.
But Michael Schuttloffel, executive director of the Kansas Catholic Conference, told the Register that the legislative victory has not made him complaisant, and he hopes that Catholics will use the "Fortnight for Freedom" as an opportunity for prayer and reflection, building their appreciation for the gift of religious liberty and committing themselves to fight for the "first freedom" in the years ahead.
"Part of the problem is that the threats to religious freedom are not obvious to most people of faith because nobody is getting arrested for going to church," he said.
"But religious freedom is much more than the right to worship in a private setting; it's the right to live one's faith as a full participant in society — the right of Catholic Charities to run its ministry according to Catholic principles."
Noting the rapid and effective response of the National Rifle Association to perceived threats to gun rights, he said, "We don't have an NRA for religious freedom yet. There is no infrastructure that allows us to 'activate' a large number of people."
Tim Schultz, the state legislative policy director for the American Religious Freedom Program at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a Washington-based think tank, aims to address that problem by promoting the establishment of more state religious caucuses and challenging misconceptions about the need for stronger First Amendment protections.
Activists also seek to counter efforts to characterize the movement supporting religious liberty as "narrowly sectarian" or "partisan," said Schultz.
Mandate Fight
At the same time, Catholics will use the fortnight to come together for Mass, prayer and Eucharistic adoration, seeking a last-minute reprieve from the government that will allow broad exemptions for religious plaintiffs in HHS mandate challenges.
Said the USCCB's Hillary Byrnes, "The administration is expected to issue a final rule some time before Aug. 1, and it is still possible that it could decide to change the proposed rule in some respect."
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Harry Styles + Kendall Jenner Still Dating + Spotted Leaving New York City Hotel
Harry Styles of One Direction and Kendall Jenner were spotted leaving a New York City hotel together. PR stunt or not, they're still on!
The Latin Post reports that the couple dined together for lunch recently, sharing two dishes and that Hazza seemed pretty into the "Satellite Kardashian." "They leaned in to talk to each other," a spy said. "[Harry Styles] was really animated with Kendall. They definitely plan to hang out more."
And they have been, angry Directioners be damned.
Jenner and Styles were spotted leaving the Gansevoort Hotel together for breakfast this morning (Dec. 7). Styles had his hair back in a bandanna, keeping the Big Apple cold away with a peacoat. Jenner, likely more used to the heat of Los Angeles and Miami, wore jeans, a white belly shirt and a green jacket. She seemed alarmed by the mob of fans waiting for the boy bander, whose security detail escorted him out. See the pics here -- whether you like them or not!


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The entanglement spectrum denotes the eigenvalues of the reduced density matrix of a region in the ground state of a many-body system. Given these eigenvalues, one can compute the entanglement entropy of the region, but the full spectrum contains much more information. I will review geometric methods to extract this spectrum for special subregions in lorentz and conformally invariant field theories (and any theory whose universal low energy physics is captured by such a field theory). Using this technology, I give a new proof that the entanglement spectrum in quantum hall states is the same as that of a physical edge. I will discuss a number of other applications of the formalism, including, if there is time, a more complicated calculation of universal terms in the entanglement entropy at certain deconfined quantum critical points. The ultimate messages are that geometry is intimately bound up with entanglement and that the entanglement cut should be viewed as a physical cut.


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John Roach: Good Cop, Bad Cop
By John Roach
Did a bad cop take a bad shot and kill a drunk, unarmed Madison citizen in front of his own home?
Or was he a good cop doing a tough job?
Those are the questions.
But like all questions in Madison, it comes wrapped in what is now our town's greatest contribution to the nation's economy. Madison once prided itself on producing hot dogs, machine parts and batteries. Now, more than anything, we produce process. Between the state, legislature, unions, contracts, county boards, city councils, the UW and its schools, hospitals and departments, Madison's greatest output is now meetings, interpretations, bureaucratic haggling, memos, contract interpretations, delays and, of course, more meetings, studies and, ultimately, vast amounts of process.
We have process to the point where we forget the actual issue at hand. What begins as a simple question becomes incomprehensibly complex, sometimes by the design of those who control procedure and are protected by it.
In times of crisis, a bureaucracy, like all organisms, will resort to its most primal reflex: self-preservation. Like an ant, dog or human, bureaucracy seeks first to protect itself, so it can propagate further.
But in the case of the shooting of Paul Heenan by officer Stephen Heimsness, process can run amok and actually damage the host, just as cancer cells destroy healthy cells.
Bad process creates confusion and hides truth.
When this happens, a bureaucracy loses its way and, most importantly, the fundamental notion of why it exists in the first place. The organism loses balance. Sometimes, in the worst cases, unhealthy process will kill its host. Just as Stephen Heimsness killed Paul Heenan.
The Heenan death seemed wrong from the beginning. Along with the fatal shots to Mr. Heenan, there was another casualty that night … common sense.
Since when did Madison police start shooting unarmed bartime drunks three times? Why didn't a supposed drunken gun grab get a quick baton swat?
Sure, Heenan wandered into the wrong home. Sure, he was responsible for his drunken or drugged condition. Sure Madison cops are put in tough positions. But if the solution for the Heenan incident was three bullets, everyone on State Street after midnight is fair game.
Months after Paul Heenan's death, Madison Police Chief Noble Wray moved to dismiss Stephen Heimsness, ostensibly for a trail of unsavory activity unbecoming of a Madison police officer that included a collection of complaints of unnecessary force and inappropriate language. Wray wanted to fire Heimsness for violating standard procedure, not for killing Paul Heenan. Heimsness instead resigned.
Noble Wray was in the unenviable position of finally doing the right thing for the wrong reason. Not his finest moment. This is made even worse by a Heimsness file that indicates that what happened to Paul Heenan in the early morning hours last fall was not an isolated incident. It was preceded by a behavioral drum roll that was a predictor of bad news. Heimsness's resignation should not stem further investigation on all fronts.
There are antidotes to bad process.
The first one is citizens. The folks most affected by Paul Heenan's death have refused to be quiet. They have continued to press for justice. Good for them.
There are also lawyers and our civil justice system, who have yet to be heard on Heenan's death. They will surely lay bare, in a more objective manner, what exactly happened that night.
But there is another way for a bureaucracy to stay true to itself.
Leaders have the power to seize the moment and say, "This is wrong. It will not stand. We are better than this."
This has not been the finest hour for Madison's peace officers.
They deserve better.
So do the people of Madison.
So did Paul Heenan.


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Found this great article.
So now, just so you know, marijuana CAN impact your thinking process. In case you hadn't figured that out already.
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A Blog detailing the insanity of my medical practice and the stupidity of everyday life.
How do you feel about it , for cancer patients. Just wondering.
signed, mm
Was this, like, the docs involved were under pressure and needed something to publish in a journal, so they decided to submit this? And it was peer reviewed and subsequently published? For real? Or is this like a joke journal or something?
Okay, so 3 things:
1. Love the specific title, it totally gives them the option of a follow up with chocolate brownies and peanut butter cookies. Because they need the double dissociation, right?
2. This was from 2006? They missed relevancy by about 30 years.
3. "Accidental ingestion"? Uh huh...sure.
It's a real journal. CNS Spectrums.
I suspect one of those things where someone is under pressure to publish something.
lol, I distinctly remember stopping to visit my neighbor Shirley on the way to class back in 1972. We ate brownies, I ended up in El Centro, missed the turn to San Diego State. Also missed Epistemology, no great loss...
You gotta love those Brazilian cookies. I hope they keep them away from the Olympians.
Doc, I was sincerely hoping you were going to say it was a joke journal....
2 weeks?!?! Did they, like, eat the rest of the cookies and, like, totally space on discharging the patient?
I don't know who should feel more ashamed... the researchers who decided to play captain obvious or the publishers who printed their article. 2005 was not that long ago.
Love how 2 SEPARATE professors decided to slap their name on the paper too. Guess Dr. Aqua-Net thought he'd get in on the action and toss some of the patient's pee in the gas chromatography machine. I can only imagine what the conversation was like between those two professors.
Are we in a time warp? I still can't understand why grass is not legal...
haha two weeks! jeeze what was in that cookie? Maybe it was :
I tried to do this many times in undergrad, probably around the biochem year. I do not think it is possible.
That said, some psychodude is going to chime in with his opinion that pot can trigger schizophrenia blah blah blah.
I am with Classof65 and Halsted on this one.
psychodude here...actually pot CAN...
ummm...anybody got a Snickers bar? Or maybe some Doritos?
These studies drive me nuts...the time and money spent studying these things is stunning. I wanna know how much dough was spent on determining that potato chips are bad for you: "Chronic Intake of Potato Chips in Humans Increases the Production of Reactive Oxygen Radicals by Leukocytes and Increases Plasma C–Reactive Protein: A Pilot Study," The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, March 2009
Hmmm...there are families foreclosing on their homes, unable to get basic health care and someone thought this was a good way to spend money. ARRRRRGGGHHHH!!!
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Europe's Week Ahead: FOMC, Italian Politics
All eyes on U.S. congressional negotiations over the fiscal cliff as well as on the FOMC's next meeting. Andrea Tryphonides and Sara Sjolin ponder when an ECB rate cut will come, Greece's bailout and Silvio Berlusconi's bid to return to power in Italy. Photo: Reuters
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Understand that when I say "this creeps me the hell out," it's coming from somebody who is usually pretty okay with bees. Hell, I like bees. But this? This is just... well, see for yourself.
The insects you see pictured here belong to various families of bees native to Thailand that actually consume tears, both human and animal, as a form of sustenance. The photographs were taken by a group of entomologists who used their own eyes as bait while studying the saline-suckers. According to 80beats, the researchers also used meat, Ovaltine, cheese, and other foods to attract the bees, but these ravenous hellspawn found nothing as alluring as good ol' human tears.
In one of the most skin-crawling accounts I've ever seen in a journal article, the researchers describe the bees' unyielding tenacity in all tear-related pursuits:
On landing, automatic blinking with the eye often prevented the bee from getting a firm hold, causing it to fall off the eyelashes. If so, the bee persistently tried again and again until it was successful, or finally gave up and flew off. In a very few cases the approach was so gentle that the host (H.B.) did not realize he had a Lisotrigona attached to his lid, imbibing his tears. After landing and whilst sucking tears, H.B. often could barely feel the presence of a bee; indeed, checking by mirror was then required to make sure whether it was still there or had left.
However, when several bees were involved, the experience was rather unpleasant, causing strong tear flow. Once a bee had settled and more were approaching, these tended to settle near each other in a row. Closing the eye did not necessarily dislodge bees but some continued to suck at the slit.
Emphasis mine. Because that last sentence is nothing if not highly concentrated nightmare fuel, and I wasn't about to let any of you miss it.
The researchers hypothesize that these bees actually use tears as a protein source, though it's possible that their salt content plays a role, as well. That would gel with recent findings on sweat bees — bees which, like their name suggests, feed on human perspiration, using our skin like a salt lick. [Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society via 80 Beats]


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We are safer and MORE FREE, free of having to worry about what stupid or crazy or clumsy dumbass thing you idiots with guns will do next, when you DON'T carry around unnecessary firearms, either open or concealed carry.
You are all just more or less inept variations on this guy, with minor variations in the delusional fantasies you substitute for reality. This guy just gets his hands dirtier, and has better practical skills than most of you do.
Hey - maybe he's just part of an elusive social club, like those Michigan militia fanatics?
.From the Huff Po and the AP :
Cabin Burglar Troy Knapp Considered Armed And Dangerous: Utah CopsBy BRIAN SKOLOFF and PAUL FOY 02/22/12 03:37 AM ET Associated Press Troy Knapp is accused of burglarizing dozens of homes in the southern Utah wilderness. .
SALT LAKE CITY -- Troy James Knapp is a wanted man, a mountain recluse authorities say is responsible for more than two dozen cabin burglaries in the remote southern Utah wilderness. He's considered armed and dangerous, a ticking time bomb.
It took at least three years for authorities to identify him from fingerprints lifted from vacation homes near Zion National Park.
Now, they just have to catch him. Knapp remains somewhere in roughly 1,000 square miles of wilderness, a virtual ghost in the woods stocked with stolen gear, food and guns.
"This guy is probably about as true a survivalist as Davy Crockett," Supervisory Deputy U.S. Marshal Michael Wingert told The Associated Press.
Authorities have so far revealed little about the 44-year-old Knapp or how he ended up wandering the mountains of southern Utah. They identified him Tuesday and asked the public for help in finding him.
Knapp has family members in Moscow, Idaho, but phone messages left for them Tuesday evening were not returned.
Just last week, detectives in Iron County said investigators hadn't made a definite identification but were getting close. However, court records indicate charges were filed against Knapp in neighboring Kane County about three weeks ago as the key suspect in the serial burglaries.
According to the records filed Jan. 27, Knapp's fingerprints lifted from one cabin in 2009 were matched on Jan. 20 to records from a 2000 theft arrest in California. The records indicate only that he has been convicted previously on charges of assault with a dangerous weapon and burglaries.
Wingert said Knapp "dropped off everybody's radar in 2003 and nobody has heard from him since."
"He just dropped off the face of the earth," Wingert added, speculating that Knapp was "fed up with civilization."
He now faces multiple counts of burglary and a weapons charge.
In a statement Tuesday evening, the Iron County Sheriff's Office said tips from the public and forensic evidence linked Knapp to the crimes.
"This suspect is known to be armed and could be possibly dangerous if cornered," the statement read, adding that his identification was the result of "good old-fashioned investigative work, along with tips provided by the public."
"We believe Mr. Knapp is our guy," Wingert said.
Iron County Sheriff's Detective Jody Edwards said last week that investigators were still scouring for clues. He indicated authorities were getting close to solving the case after they got the first pictures of the suspect from a motion-triggered surveillance camera outside a cabin. The photos taken sometime in December showed a sandy-haired man in camouflage on snowshoes, a rifle slung over his shoulder.
However, Edwards would say only that "we're very close to making a positive ID on him."
"We just got to catch this guy," he said.
Edwards has been working the case since 2007. He didn't return a call seeking comment Tuesday evening.
Authorities say Knapp has eluded capture for more than five years, breaking into remote cabins in winter, living in luxury off hot food, alcohol and coffee before stealing provisions and vanishing into the woods with guns and supplies.
Investigators have chased dozens of leads, to no avail.
In recent weeks, it took detectives an entire day to reach a remote cabin after getting a report that lights had been seen on inside overnight. It turned out they were solar-powered lights on the porch, and the cabin was empty – another dead-end.
Their break came in January with the fingerprint match.
While there have been no violent confrontations, detectives have called him a time bomb. Over the years, he has left some cabins tidy and clean, while others he has practically destroyed, even defecating in a pan on the floor in one home.
Lately he has been leaving the cabins in disarray and riddled with bullets after defacing religious icons, and a recent note left behind in one cabin warned, "Get off my mountain."
In the Jan. 27 court filing, authorities said Knapp had left behind even more threatening notes aimed at law enforcement.
"Hey Sheriff ... Gonna put you in the ground!" read one note.
Cabin owners are panicked. Many said they were carrying their owns guns and had grown to wonder who might be sleeping in their beds during winter.
"He could stand in the trees and pop you off and no one would know who killed you," cabin owner Bruce Stucki said last week.
When alerted of the news Tuesday, a relieved Stucki simply said, "Wow."
"That's wonderful that they know him," he said. "Now they need to get him in custody."
From the beginning, the suspect's lore grew, leading to theories that he might have been two separate men on the FBI's Most Wanted List or possibly a castaway from the nearby compounds of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the polygamous sect run by jailed leader Warren Jeffs.
Early on, investigators thought his unattended summer camps they came across during their search were left behind by "doomsday" believers preparing for some sort of apocalypse because of the remote locations and supplies like dozens of guns, radios, batteries, dehydrated food and camping gear.
They now have a name, but the man remains in the mist.
"He's scaring the daylights out of cabin owners. Now everyone's packing guns," said Jud Hendrickson, a 62-year-old mortgage adviser from nearby St. George who keeps a trailer in the area. "We feel like we're being subject to terrorism by this guy."


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'Star Trek' convention gets new respect
Where few have gone before - shunning 'Trek' gibes
I successfully pitched a story about "Star Wars" fans to my editors several years ago. When I called the president of a local fan club to ask if I could shadow him for a day or two, the response I received was polite but succinct.
"Is this going to be another 'look at the dorks' article?"
It wasn't paranoia. There has been a long history of "look at the dorks" articles and TV reports when it comes to people with a passion for science fiction.
With the latest Creation Entertainment "Star Trek" convention arriving in town over the weekend, I decided to look at the past along with the present. Before setting foot in the Westin St. Francis Hotel to meet with fans on Friday, I spent three hours looking at photos and articles covering the "Star Trek" phenomenon in the Bay Area - dating back to the 1970s when fans started their successful movement to resurrect the canceled show.
The image that jumped out the most was a 1979 Chronicle photo of David Carlos, who wore pointy fake Vulcan ears while waiting in line for the first showing of "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" at the Regency I in San Francisco. He's beaming, clearly thrilled to be seeing the movie. Three other men are in the background, appearing to look in his direction as if he's from another dimension.
In the early years, after "Star Trek" went off the air in 1969, I'm guessing that fans didn't expect to be teased. The article about David Carlos and other superfans at the movie premiere wasn't horribly unkind, but it was framed in the typical mainstream media approach toward sci-fi fandom: like these people were escaped mental patients, not fans of a good TV show.
The Chronicle was better than most - reporter (and future "Creature Features" host) John Stanley wrote many thoughtful profiles and articles about science fiction. Columnist Herb Caen devoted more than half of a positive column to the first "Star Trek" convention, held at San Francisco's Lincoln High School in 1975.
But many more articles adopted the pattern that some print and broadcast outlets still follow.
1. Send your most comedically inclined reporter (usually not a sci-fi fan) to the convention.
2. Interview the people who look the most like outcasts.
3. Point out how much everything costs.
4. Add a few geek-bashing one-liners.
The themes of "Star Trek" and the nature of fantasy do attract an eccentric crowd. But I think non-fans attending a "Star Trek" convention would be surprised at how socially normal it is, especially in this era of so many mainstream video games and fantasy films - including new "Star Trek" prequels that play to wide audiences.
The 1970s conventions were looser, often featuring an eclectic cast that might include a couple of "Star Trek" stars, some NASA scientists and - in at least one case - psychedelic drug advocate Timothy Leary.
Most of the action at this weekend's convention flowed around a rotating group of speakers from the original "Star Trek" and its spin-offs. (George Takei, who played San Francisco native Sulu in the original series, was the keynote.) Series stars sold autographs in a separate room, with a larger area for vendors and actors with a smaller connection to the "Star Trek" universe.
Michael Aron, who played Jack London in a two-episode arc of "Star Trek: The Next Generation," grew up in San Francisco and now works as a designer and motorcycle gear retailer in Marin. His first-ever convention was earlier this year in Las Vegas.
"What I anticipated and what I got are two different things," Aron said. "It's true there's some geekiness, but I found everyone to be very endearing. There was much more love than I expected."
Two of the fans this weekend, Greek Orthodox priests in their early 30s, flew in from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Other than a couple of subtle "Star Trek"-theme T-shirts, they looked like any other tourists near Union Square.
"The stigma exists still," said Ted Paraskevopoulos. "But it was worse before."
"We just got a text from his wife saying we're the ultimate nerds," Kosta Tsiolas added.
Everyone in the group took it as a joke.
"People find out that I'm coming here because of Facebook, and it's amazing how many positive things I hear," Paraskevopoulos said. " 'That's so cool!' 'Good for you indulging in something that you love and you're passionate about.' I haven't heard anything negative.' "
Which is the happy ending to the "Star Trek" fan journey. Look around Silicon Valley - the geeks did pretty good for themselves. The "look at the dorks" stories may still exist, but they appear as antiquated as some of the computer equipment on the first Starship Enterprise.
"Star Trek: The Next Generation" co-star LeVar Burton, interviewing with The Chronicle on Friday for a future story about his new "Reading Rainbow" iPad app, says he's noticed the changes.
"There is a whole generation of 'Next Generation' fans who are watching the shows at home and bringing their kids to cons," Burton said. "They've loved the show their whole lives. They're passing it on to the next generation."
For more "Star Trek" history and photos, go to The Big Event blog at blog.sfgate.com/thebigevent.
Peter Hartlaub is The San Francisco Chronicle's pop culture critic. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Twitter: @PeterHartlaub.


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Thom Rainer on 11 mistakes I made as an author.
6 questions every leaders should ask.
Andy Stanley shares six questions every leader should ask and Michael Lukaszewski shares some application on them.
Time Magazine lists 9 terrible habits you need to stop doing immediately.
What makes Malcolm Gladwell so interesting.
If you believe that Gladwell's success is primarily driven by his writing, I think you've overlooked the most important factor. What makes him most interesting is not the narratives themselves, but rather the ideas behind them.
I am Ryland – the story of a male-identifying little girl who didn't transition.
It grieves me to think of what Ryland's parents may be robbing her of by choosing a gender for her at such a young age. I hope that, if/when she decides that she is a woman, that they will support her in this. That they won't force her into their agenda to save face. I am writing this to offer another perspective. Because I believe in freedom. I believe that people should be free to have interests that don't fit the social norm. That children should be allowed to be children. With all of their silly, fantastical play. They should be allowed to believe that they are a dog, a Superhero, a Mommy, or a rock.