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Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater – European Extreme Boss FAQ
PlayStation 2
European Extreme Boss FAQ by SolidSemtec
Version: 1.10 | Updated: 04/05/05
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake eater - European Extreme boss guide
Playstation 2
Version 1.10
Last version - 5/4/05
1)Boss Guide
0.1 - Ocelot Unit
0.2 - Ocelot
0.3 - The Pain
0.4 - The Fear
0.5 - The End
0.6 - The Fury
0.7 - The Sorrow
0.8 - General Volgin
0.9 - Shagohod
0.95 - Shagohod: part 2
0.10 - The Boss
This guide is a straight forward boss guide for metal gear solid 3
European mode. To me, this is how I killed the bosses with ease and
usually without healing. I hope my hints will help you fight the
bosses. Since this guide does not include the general walkthrough,
you are free to contact me by email and ask how to get past a
certain area. This guide isn't about stamina killing but about using
weapons just to get past the enemy. Keep note that the only enemy
that can be "alerted" which will cause a game-over is the Ocelot
In the future I plan to include:
- Tweeks concerning boss fights. (more details).
- An FAQ.
This guide is copyrighted by SolidSemtec, 2005.
0.1 - Ocelot Unit
Difficulty: 1/5
Most useful weapons: Any silenced pistol, stun grenade.
Most useful camouflage: Tiger.
Your main objective should be eliminating them without alerting
them. Keep note, you can put them to sleep; you can stun them;
and you can kill them. Start off by crawling under the bed, face
towards the door. When some of the ocelot unit charge inside,
throw a stun grenade behind the door- this will take out a couple
of them. Throw another stun grenade, but aim at the wall at the far
end behind the broken down door. If it all goes well, you should of
taken down about 5~ ocelot units, if not throw the last stun grenade
at the same spot. Open the locker to find some thermal goggles, now
walk outside the door. If you failed to stun 5 ocelot units, there
will be either a guy on the roof (likely) or some walking around the
room - PROCEED WITH CAUTION. Shoot them down with the silenced
pistol at the head if, however if there stunned then just loot there
corpses and walk slowly outside. Now the remaining ocelot units will
be walking all over the field, it's best to find the crawling space
which leads to the basement. (The same area which EVA ran into).
This will be just outside on the left of the building, behind some
bushes. It's now best to find all the shafts which lead to the
fields, and look around. If you see any ocelot units, wait
into there head is turned then crawl using the D-pad and aim them
at the head with the silenced pistol. When the area outside the
factory is secure, leave the basement and crawl to the grassy
areas. The ocelot unit are more or less like the normal soldiers,
concerning their eyesight and hearing. So now your objective is
to crawl to the grassy areas (keep note you should have around
80% camouflage just by laying on the grass). Well anyway, crawl
to the grassy areas and watch the ocelot units pattern carefully:
aim your silenced gun at their heads, just repeat this pattern
into the "easy" battle is over.
0.2 - Ocelot
Difficulty: 3/5
Most useful weapons: Any gun, grenade.
Most useful camouflage: N/A.
The first real boss is surprisingly hard! A direct shot will
take about 20% of Snakes health so try to keep cover and
only shoot if your confident you can shoot him head on.
Start the battle by running to the rock on the left, take
cover. Ocelot will fire a few shots and hopefully miss.
Now the rest of the covering is in your hands: when ocelot
runs in the east direction, head that direction yourself and
use the rocks to cover, when he heads west, head that
direction yourself and use the rocks to cover. Near the start
of the battle, Ocelot will stand still near the left and say
"I won't let you get away!", this is a good opportunity to
shoot him. When you shoot Ocelot for the first time, his
unit will try to defend Ocelot by shooting you - No don't
run around like a madman, stand still and shoot Ocelot
again. Ocelot will take cover and start shooting again,
you should also take cover. If your interested, I would
shoot the hornets nest on the top of the tree - this
will make the hornets attack Ocelot as long as he isn't
reloading his gun, it should give you a couple of good
opportunities to shoot him. Keep note though, this will
make Ocelot shoot the hornets nest on your side and it
isn't really worth it. When Ocelot is reloading his
revolver, throw a grenade wherever he is reloading, this
will deal OK damage and piss him off. (hehe ^^). Also
Ocelot will stand still in open area when he is reloading
his revolver for the first time, this will give a great
opportunity to shoot him. Shoot Ocelot when you see him
reloading his revolver (doesn't happen always).
When Ocelot has around 3/4 - 1/2 of his health left,
he will start shooting around the place.
(E.g. he shoots a tree, it hits the floor and bounces
into you). The best way to do this is to run around and roll
to avoid it, when he starts shooting normal again - take
cover. Don't think hiding in the grass will fool him, as
he will eventually find you. Follow the tactics above into
he eventually loses.
Make sure the only weapon you use throughout this battle is a
MK22. Defeating Ocelot this way will win you his animal
camouflage which can be found near the starting position of
the crevice.
0.3 - The Pain
Difficulty: 2/5
Most useful weapons: AK-47, Grenade.
Most useful camouflage: Tiger, Black.
This guy is a pushover, seriously. Start the battle by
blasting some AK-47 rounds into The Pains soft flesh, if
all goes well - he will fall to the ground and say
"Your quite good!". Dive into the water and swim to the
bottom, this should give you 95% camouflage, swim to the
other end into you see some sort of platform. Climb onto the
platform from behind, he will most likely spot you now.
Blast some AK-47 rounds into The Pain like you did before.
Sometimes, The Pain will use his hornets to cover his whole
body, he will also make a clone of himself. Simply throw a
grenade and he will receive massive damage. (There must be
a clone of himself for this to successfully happen). Don't
worry as you can never run out of grenades, some grenades
spawn at the other end, under the platform deep in the water.
If you ever need food, throw a couple of grenades in the water
to kill a load of GOOD fish. The Pain will mainly attack with
his hornets and use his "Tommy gun" to fight this round, you'll
be notified of his attacks as he'll say things such as
"Tommy gun!". Repeat the above tactics into The Pain has about
half his health left, then their will be a cut scene.
{KEEP NOTE - The Pain will now often throw grenades at you,
he will also fire hornets out of his mouth - massive damage}.
The Pain takes off his mask, now he is more deadly than before!
Your main tactic should now be using the grenade tactic. When this
round starts, dive under water to the other end, go to the surface,
repeat this into The Pain stops talking. (Like a cocky son ofabitch).
Lift yourself onto the platform, if you look straight ahead you
will see The Pain covered in hornets and his clone. Throw a grenade
(don't use first person view as it make's it harder to aim) roughly
in the middle. If it goes well, he should get blown up and lose much
health. You can take risks of going on the platform and firing
the AK-47 into him when he has no hornets covering him, but
during the second round; he has the pleasure of often throwing
grenades at you. If you see a grenade, get out of there! If
your in the water and hear "Grenade!", swim the opposite direction
and you should be able to avoid the grenades. When he fires hornets
out of his mouth, just simply dive in the water to avoid it.
Repeat the above tactics into you kill him, rather easy fight eh?
You will need your MK22 and a smoke grenade or some sort. Basically
try not to cause severe damage on him with a grenade, so it's useful
to use a smoke grenade. Not only is the range bigger but it also
breaks down the hornets making him visible for attacking. It is
advised you go for headshots throughout the fight, try and shoot
while your in the water as you'll have a more clear view of his
head. Beating him will win you his camouflage, to get it, run up
the ledge on the right hand side of the exit and roll down the ledge
onto the place The Pain was standing.
0.4 - The Fear
Difficulty: 2.5/5
Most useful weapons: AK-47, M13.
Most useful camouflage: N/A.
The reason this guy isn't 2/5 is because he does so much damn damage
every time he attacks. Start the battle by equipping your thermal
goggles and your AK-47, you should see him up ahead in the tree; blast
him into he retreats. NOW go into the survival viewer and cure your
wounds, make sure you got full stamina and get back to the battle. The
Fear will start by jumping from tree to tree, make sure you have your
M13 equipped and while he is jumping - shoot him. He will soon stand in
a spot some place in a tree around you, don't stand around to much
otherwise he will attack you with flame bolts, poison bolts or general
bolts! Use the thermal goggles to find him and blast him with the M13,
this should do good damage on him. If you're having trouble finding
him, wait into he fires a few bolts and look in the direction he is in
and shoot him. It's best to try and avoid the bolts which aren't a huge
problem, just run in circles and use the trees as a barrier to avoid
his bolts. Occasionally he will shoot at mines and fire grenades; these
will more or less almost kill you; so try and avoid them at all costs.
He will also jump off the trees and run towards you and hit you melee
for puny damage, don't use first person view to shoot him, just look in
his direction and shoot him with the gun shooting button. Your thermal
goggles are essential in this battle, so make sure to use the Russian
greencap mushrooms to recharge the batteries. Your M13 does reasonably
high damage on him and if you aim every shot great, he should be dead
in no time. However when he has low health he will be a bit harder to
find, that's because he is usually HIGHER in the trees, if you can't
find him; wait into he tries to melee you then blast him with the M13
to finally kill the freak. If you thermal goggles run out of power,
don't worry as you can still briefly see The Fear.
I hope you have a nice collection of rotten food eh? Great! Throw the
food around your start position. You don't have any rotten food? Doh!
Fine, shoot down all the fruits you see on the tree's and hunt for
"poison dart frogs". Throw them around the middle of the map. Now for a
bit of "lizard hunting", equip your MK22 and your thermal goggles and
start searching for him using the same tactic as above. When The Fear's
stamina gets low he will start to hunt for food, he will go after the
food you threw on the floor and start to vomit to death! If that fails,
shoot him with the MK22 for a stamina kill.
I basically explained it above; no worrys as I will explain it again.
Before the fight begins, hunt in the area for "poison dart frogs",
make sure you have like 5 at least in your food collection. Otherwise
you could bring some "rotten food" to the battle, in extreme difficulty
your food rots much faster than easier difficultys. Ok now in the fight,
cure your wounds and now "equip" your rotten food or poison dart frogs
and throw it directly north of you. Make sure you throw ALL the bad
food in your collection as this will increase the chance of a victory.
Now equip your MK22 and your thermal goggles and start shooting him
with the MK22, because he is naturally decreasing in stamina and you
are shooting him; he will lose stamina VERY fast. When he has about
1/2 of his stamina left, he will start searching for food. He will
almost certainly go for your prepared food rather than a live snake
for example. After eating some of your food, he will start vomiting
and losing stamina; to ensure his defeat, shoot him with the MK22.
His spider camouflage can be found a little bit north from your
current position.
0.5 - The End
Difficulty: 3/5
Most useful weapons: SVD.
Most useful camouflage: Leaf.
Camouflage is essential in this battle. If you don't have an SVD rifle,
then read other guides on how to get the rifle. Now it's a game of cat
and mouse, the reason this guy is 3/5 isn't because he is some kind of
uber strong human (actually that's the opposite of what he is) it's
because it take's so long to find and hunt him down. After you picked
up the SVD, immediately look at your map to locate where he is. Equip
your Thermal Goggles and aim your SVD at him; zoom in with L1 and blast
him in the head. If you're lucky you can get in a few shots before he
runs away. Now you're the hunted, in fact let him show off his sniper
skills, when he has blown his cover, sneak to his position using
camouflage to get there (remember you can see his position marked red
with the map in survival viewer). Hide in the long grasses to well
camouflage yourself, use your thermal goggles and your MIC to locate
him. Then blast him again, if you're going for a stealth kill; it might
be good to sneak up behind him and hold him up "FREEZE!" 3 times to get
his useful camouflage armour, taking him down using the MK22 will win
you his rifle! When you found his position and he starts to retreat,
you can now follow his footsteps using the thermal goggles to try and
locate him much easier. The battle will be around 3 major maps, if you
use your camouflage wisely with your thermal goggles and MIC, you
should be able to take him down without a problem. There is a LOT of
food to find in these battle areas, so if you're running low on food
then you should never have a problem of recovering your stamina. If you
take to long to kill/MK22 him then he will recover his health/stamina
so try and not to take your time. One other thing to say is, it might
be useful holding up The End three times just for his MOSS camaoflage;
it infact is very useful for the battle.
Some time during the battle, save your game. If you're to load the game
in about 2-3+ days, The End will find you and take you to jail, meaning
you have to escape. However if you set your PS2 clock a week later, The
End would of died of old age waiting for you; cool eh? ;)You could of
avoided the battle altogether by taking him down at the warehouse using
the SVD if you was lucky to find it, but this is just a boss guide so
we won't go into detail of that.
I really enjoyed doing this method. The End will almost certainly be
north on the cliff from you, start by letting him know where you are
and he will shoot; this will reveal his location on the map. Now try
and go to the other map as fast as possible, go AROUND the cliff. Use
the MiC so you can hear his heavy breathing and use the D-pad for
gental movement. You can now hold him up 3 times for his useful MOSS
camouflage or keep shooting him from behind. Let's say you want to hold
him up 3 times, get behind him and aim your gun using the first person
view: "FREEZE!", he will lay on the grass, aim at his head into he refuses.
As he get's up, make sure to shoot him a few times, he will now throw
a stun grenade (also he does this if your to close and you attack him),
you now need to use your thermal goggles to track him down by following
his footprints. If The End's footprints lead to a mountain, go around
the mountain, if it leads to a new map, follow it to the new map.
However, when you hold him up for the third time, he will refuse at first
but he will give in and finally retreat. The moss camouflage, not
only does it give you 100% camouflage in certain areas but it heals
your stamina in natural light. If your still going for a stamina kill,
repeat the above method into he dies. He will drop his mosin nagant
which will be north-west of your current location. The End might ask
the forest to recover him during this battle, if he does don't worry
as he can only do it once.
0.6 - The Fury
Difficulty: 3/5
Most useful weapons: Combat Knife.
Most useful camouflage: ALL.
This may seem like a whole joke but the Combat Knife is actually the
most deadly weapon in this battle - as it rips his suit apart and does
huge damage. When the battle starts, he will fly straight past you with
a load of flames, don't panic as these flames will NOT harm you. I read
in many other guides that if you go far north and lay down with the
black suit in the shadows it helps, but when I tried this method it
wasn't very effective as weapons are very weak against him and the
flames fly up the ledge on to you, so DON'T do that. The good thing
about The Fury is that you can hide from him long enough to try and
heal your health but don't stay in the same position for to long or he
will find you. What you should do for the first time is put your back
against the wall, wait into The Fury starts walking down your
direction; when he finally walks past you, slash him with the knife; a
good combo will take huge damage. He will almost certainly blast you
with his flame thrower, to avoid curing yourself, just change into a
different camouflage EVERYTIME you get burnt. If you do need to cure,
just do so (ointment + bandage). If your lucky The Fury will stand
still making himself more open to attacks, if he does stand still then
you know what to do? Slash him! Keep note that he will probably burn
you to a crisp, if you're very lucky like what happened to me, he will
stay still throughout the whole battle into he dies. If that does
happen then just cure your flames, change the camouflage when needed
etc. If you're unlucky then The Fury will fly away, this doesn't mean
much, it just means that you have to hunt him down again and knife him
into he dies. His flame thrower does not do so much damage on you, just
make sure you cure the flames otherwise the "past will catch up on
you". If you repeat the above methods, he'll be dead easy! Knife >
Of course if you want to waste time and do it the "safe way" then just
equip your favourite fire arm, such as a M13 or AK47 or maybe the SVD.
Keep your distance and shoot The Fury, but since you don't deal much
damage on him, this could take forever. (When I first fought him, my
Rocket Launcher didn't even do 10% of his health).
*Hang on the ledge - This means the flames will miss you, if
you're feeling confident then shimmy over to The Fury and jump up
and attack.
*Run around the pillars - When The Fury is firing in your
direction, it's quite obvious; run around the pillars and his
flames will miss you.
*Roll + Crawl - When I tried it, The Fury missed me because I
crawled: can anyone confirm this?
It will help a lot to have the mosin nagant in this battle, otherwise
your going to have to get close with the MK22 and shoot him; not easy.
However if you have a mosin nagant, my only advise is to stay at a
distance from him and shoot him when he is in sight (laying down on the
ledge so he can't see you helps a lot but retreat after he finds you).
He should go down reasonbly fast with the mosin nagant and very slow
with the MK22. One last thing for the MK22, if your finding it hard to
sneak up on him; stealth yourself maybe on the ledge or near the pillars
and when he gets close: shoot him. When The Fury has fallen, his
camouflage can be found near your new starting position.
0.7 - The Sorrow
Difficulty: 1/5
Most useful weapons: Err nothing.
Most useful camouflage: N/A.
This isn't even a battle but it's of course the easiest one to do. The
length of the river is dependant on how many people you have killed
during the game, if you played it safe and didn't kill many people then
you won't have very far to travel but if you killed people like crazy
then the length of the river will be very long. Start by walking
towards the sorrow, soon after all the people you killed will start
coming after you; these are just ghosts, try to avoid them by walking
around them (if you get touched then you will get zapped, nothing bad).
This is pretty straight forward and nothing much can be written, just
when you get to the end of the river, touch the body and you'll die! -
Nah it's really a fake death, so during the 'continue' screen hit L2
and use the revival pill. This will also win you The Sorrows
camouflage. Guns won't work on The Sorrow, but as you see... you
strangely have them in your backpack, but don't bother with them. I
find out that on extreme difficulty, it tends to be a little harder to
dodge the ghosts - my only advice is try and walk straight forward in a
line past the ghosts rather than a curve. The Sorrow also fires a beam,
just walk around it to avoid it.
Fine, drown yourself then hit L2 and use the revival pill.
I read somewhere that if you call your commander 3 times then
save your game and reload it, you wake up. Try it out.
0.8 - Volgin
Difficulty: 3/5
Most useful weapons: M13.
Most useful camouflage: Sneaking suit.
This guy is a lot weaker than he actually looks. You will have Ocelot
on the top supplying you with ammo and cheering you on, but since
theirs a 5 minute deadline, just ignore him but take the ammo he gives.
Start the battle by putting on the sneaking suit and equipping the M13
then press R2 to un- equip it, also try to not waste ANY life meds
during this battle, it's actually easy as long as you know how to dodge
him. Run around General Volgin, he should try to punch you. Press R2 to
equip your weapon and blast him, press R2 again. The reason you have to
press R2 after shooting is because, Volgin will fire an electrical wave
and the clips inside your gun will usually attract the electrical wave.
Whenever Volgin puts his two arms in the air, run around him and shoot
him once, he will now start firing a like machine gun at you; simply
run away to avoid it. Repeat the above tactics into the first part of
the battle is over.
During the second part of the battle, Volgin will be a bit tougher than
he was before. He will start by saying "Time to die!" and will put his
arms in a certain position, whenever he puts his arms in this position;
lay on your stomach to avoid it (this does heavy damage). It is now a
game of shoot and run, just like before, when he tries to punch you;
avoid him and shoot him in the back/side. Volgin will do one other
attack, basically he will crouch on the floor and fire electricity on
the floor - I just ran left and when the electricity came I rolled to
the other end. Volgin also tends to supply his power much more often in
this battle, it's best to shoot him in FPV (first person view) when he
does that, he might recharge during the first part but during the
second he will do it more often. Volgin will also fire electricity more
often, press R2 to un-equip your weapon and try to stay in the middle
to avoid it. Repeat the above tactics into he gives up.
*Wear the Raikov mask, since he was Volgin's lover this will
confuse him and you can get a free shot at him.
*Shoot the water pipes, not the best damage but if you're bored
and want to try it out, go ahead.
*Throw the Russian greencap mushroom in the battle; this should
absorb some of the electric attacks.
You will have to use the MK22 when his back is turned. When he is
distracted, either fire at his head in FPV with the MK22 or use the
mosin nagant. It will be a frustrating fight, however head shots
are mose effective. Apparently you can CQC him so he falls to the
floor, then as his back is turned you can shoot him a few more times.
Since I never did this nor understand how, you'll have to fiqure it
out. When Volgin has lost, his "cold war camouflage" will pop out of
him, quickly grab it before the next cut scene.
0.9 - The Shagohod (part 1)
Difficulty: 1/5
Most useful weapons: RPG-7.
Most useful camouflage: Sneaking suit.
Yes 1/5, this guy is weak! As Eva is circling around the Shagohod, use
the RPG-7 and blast at the Shagohod's tracks, this will make the
Shagohod start to screw up and he can't move. As you circle around the
Shagohod, aim the RPG-7 and shoot him at the back. You have unlimited
ammo at this fight so don't worry, an idea is to press R2 for a fast
reload. Nothing much to say, repeat this tactic into part 2.
0.95 - The Shagohod (part 2)
Difficulty: 2/5
Most useful weapons: RPG-7, SVD.
Most useful camouflage: Sneaking suit.
Not much weaker than before however, now you must concentrate on Volgin
rather than the Shagohod. The battle will start with Volgin chasing
around Eva, keep shooting at the Shagohods tracks to make Volgin start
coming after you. When Volgin finally comes after you, walk towards the
Shagohod. If Volgin says "I will grind you" or something, lay on your
stomach to avoid it, however if he doesn't; run THROUGH the Shagohod,
you will avoid his attacks but also something cool can happen. You will
now have a clear view of Volgin's back, take out your SVD and shoot
him. The headshot is most effective but the body is still quite
effective, so don't worry about aiming him right on target. If you run
out of ammo, Eva will throw in some ammo to help you. If you keep
running through the Shagohod, you can avoid his main frontal attacks to
avoid major damage, when he actually runs you over; I found that the
Shagohod wasn't in fact taking close to any damage so I didn't need to
heal throughout the whole fight. Follow this tactic carefully and he
will be good as dead.
Instead of using the SVD, use the mosin nagant; that's all. You get
no camouflages to my knowledge for winning this fight.
0.10 - The Boss
Difficulty: 3.5/5
Most useful weapons: SVD, All machine guns.
Most useful camouflage: Snow.
A lot of people say that you only need to crouch down to avoid her, but
the truth is, all you need is to be at a distance and have around 40%~
camouflage (basically if you stand up and at a distance, you should be
safe). The battle will start with The Boss charging towards you, simply
counter her attack by pressing "o" just as she starts to attack you
(she will do this quite often). She will now be stood up and stunned,
this is your chance to get out a machinegun of any kind and blast her.
You can deal a reasonable amount of damage on her so do it into she
falls to the floor. She will now get up and fire her patriot, don't let
her hit you! Run away at a distance into you can hear no more gunfire.
It will now be your chance to snipe her, so equip thermal goggles and
look around in FPV for her. When you see her looking for you, equip the
SVD and blast her; it doesn't matter where you blast her as long as you
hit her. After you attack her with the SVD, she might know where you
are so just run out of there to a bigger distance and look for her
again. Don't waste your time crawling around as it is just wasting your
precious time to kill her. Just repeat the above tactics and she will
be dead quite easy, just remember to keep your distance and blast her
when you spot her with the thermal goggles and when she comes to kick
your ass in CQC, just counter and shoot her. I wouldn't keep the
thermal goggles on at all times in less you have a few Russian greencap
mushrooms; you only need them on when you're trying to snipe her down.
*The monkey mask confuses The Boss for one turn.
*The Boss will shout out the time left into the place gets nuked.
*The Boss bluffs quite often so keep your position unless she is
actually shooting at you.
*Remember you only need snow camouflage and to be stood still to
avoid her, just be at a distance and run around regularly and she
will find it hard to find you!
*It sometimes takes practice to get used to the counter-attack
CQC, but don't give in.
*There are three snakes; solid, solidus and liquid to be found.
They are kinda useless though since your stamina doesn't drop too
much during the fight, but they give full stamina incase you were
wondering. However, if you want one of the special items, they are
Basically as she charges towards you in CQC, counter it by pressing
the "o" button; when she is shocked, blast her in FPV with the MK22
preferably in the face. If your lucky, you can get in a few shots
before she fires off the patriot. Instead of using the SVD at a
distance, use the mosin nagant and aim mainly for headshots. After
she dies, her "snake camouflage" will pop out of her; grab it fast
otherwise you will lose the opportunity to wear it in the next
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quote:Originally posted by YumAhhh, Burry's Cookies. I remember them well! Does anyone else recall at Christmastime, Burry's would have special shortbread cookies in Christmas tree ornament shapes, decorated with sugar sprinkles? You could even hang them on your tree, but the ones in our house never got that far.
quote:Originally posted by michaeltrossBurry factory in Elizabeth was originally owned by Willys-Overland auto manufacturing plant, where the Dusenberg auto was produced, and it was purchased by William C. Durant to manufacture his autos there, June 11, 1922. He sold it in 1927. It later was the Big Bear super market and Burry began making cookies there in about 1938.
mrcoffee How sad that you could be HAPPY that people are out of a job because you had a bad experience. As a business owner I would think that you would realize what those jobs meant to the workers and their families. And by the way, the company did not crumble..... it changed hands over time and the last owner still has at least 2 factories in the US.......There is always one bad apple, and not every customer can be made happy no matter how good the company is..... I hate to say this but I am actually happy to see that the Burry cookie company is deceased. Long story, but it involved the Girl Scouts also. I owned a business and was looking to help out a Girl Scout as part of a community service. I used to be a Boy Scout and remember what it was like trying to sell all the stuff we had to sell to support the organization. So I figured I would buy a large amount of cookies to put some lucky Girl Scout well over the top to get the big prize and patches etc. I'm thinking this is really going to make some girls day. I didn't care who the girl was so I solicited nominations from my customers. I contacted the mother of the girl and introduced myself as I was a pretty well known businessman in the community and told her what I wanted to do for her daughter. All I got from the mother was a rude, are you kidding me....I bought 15 CASES of cookies anyway as I knew it wasn't the girls fault her mother was rude. A couple of weeks later expecting to at least meet the young lady to hear about her prize and maybe a thank you. All I got was her dad who wasn't a bit happy about having to deliver them to me, who I paid and he left with not even a thank you. Wait it gets better! Well since I could not even think of possibly eating 15 cases of cookies, I began giving them to any customer who wanted a box. Yes, I said giving away, as any other Girl Scout's parents employer does when her parents take their order sheets to their work and the employer buys cookies. It wasn't part of my business, I needed to get rid of the cookies as I had no place to store them. Now I get a call from the Girl Scout Council who now threatens to sue me as I am not licensed to distribute the cookies. You know...One would think they would have been happy to have sold the stupid things and made a little money. Guess not. So the next day I am trying to unload the rest of these battered and bruised baked biscuits of Burry's best and low and behold if I don't get a call from the legal department of the Burry Cookie Company in Chicago, who also threatens a lawsuit if I didn't immediately quit "distributing" the cookies without a license. Now I have rude Girl Scout parents, an ungreatful Girl Scout Council, and a Corporation who in all their enormousness wants to threaten someone who all they wanted to do is help out a little girl with getting something from a kind community member who cared. Well, so the Burry Cookie Company crumbled...How ironic!
Beverly K One more thing, Archway Cookies do not exist under that name anymore, at least around here. I was walking through the cookie aisle at the store, and did a double take. The name on all the packages is Josephine's. The design is exactly the same as the old Archway, but with this new name.
Beverly K I went to Giant tonight and thought to look in the cookie aisle. Josephine's Cookies are made by the Davis Co. in Rimersburg, PA. I'll have to try a package and see if they taste the same.

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From ForensicsWiki
Hashing is a method for reducing large inputs to a smaller fixed size output. When doing forensics, typically cryptographic hashing algorithms like MD5 and SHA-1 are used. These functions have a few properties useful to forensics. Other types of hashing, such as Context Triggered Piecewise Hashing can also be used.
There are literally hundreds of hashing programs out there, but a few related to forensics are:
- md5sum - Part of the GNU coreutils suite, this program is standard on many computers.
- md5deep - Computes hashes, recursively if desired, and can compare the results to known values.
- ssdeep - Computes and matches Context Triggered Piecewise Hashes.
Hash Databases
- National Software Reference Library
- The largest hash database.
Online NSRL Lookup
- http://ionrift.ath.cx/nsrl/
- Allows searching of NSRL 2.17 by MD5 or SHA1. Reportedly the dataset contains 43,103,492 files.
MD5 Reverse Hash Services
There are several online services that allow you to enter a hash code and find out what the preimage might have been. One way to find these services is to google for 'd41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' (the MD5 of the null string).
Here are some services that we have been able to find:
- http://nz.md5.crysm.net/
- MD5 reverse lookup, operated by Stephen D Cope. As of December 2007 this database had 28 million MD5 hashes. The author states that the database is divided into 256 MySQL tables to make the problem more tractable. The database claims to include every two, three, and four digit combination, all dictionary words, and a pile of user-submitted data. But the author also states that they are attempting to calculate and index all possible MD5 indexes. Of course, this is an impossibility.
- http://us.md5.crysm.net/
- Similar to the NZ server, but with only 16 million MD5 hashes.
- http://md5.benramsey.com
- A nice forward and reverse demonstration system, with an XML and AJAX interface.
- http://www.hashcrack.com/
- Reverse hash lookup of MD5, SHA1, MySQL, NTLM, and Lanman hashes. Claims 75 million hashes of 13.2 million unique words.
- http://gdataonline.com/seekhash.php
- MD5 reverse lookup with approximately 1 million entries.
- http://hash.insidepro.com/
- Hash database from InsidePro (MD5, NTLM).
- http://www.xmd5.cn/index_en.htm
- http://www.xmd5.org/index_en.htm
- This site is another simple MD5 reverse lookup. It claims a database with "billions" of entries. Mostly for password cracking. (Who uses straight MD5s for passwords?)


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|This article is about the character. You may be looking for the actor with a similar name.
Jacob Ben Israel is a former recurring character on Glee. the school gossip source and a senior at William McKinley High School. He runs an active blog and interviews many of the school's biggest names. He first appears in Showmance as a member of the Celibacy Club. Since Season Two, he has been starting off the season interviewing the Glee kids from New Directions and to see what they've been doing over the summer, so he can update his blog. However, he didn't during the Season Five premiere as it was the first season to not start a new school year.
He is portrayed by Josh Sussman.
Jacob is first seen in a Celibacy Club meeting. He says that he has developed dangerous feelings after constantly being tempted with images of girls and sex around him, and shows shock when Rachel tells the club that girls want sex just as much as guys do. After New Directions finishes their performance of Push It, Jacob is the first one to start cheering. (Showmance)
He is shown interviewing Rachel. He suddenly stops and orders her to show him her bra in exchange for a good review. After she declines, Sandy Ryerson walks in ready for his interview. Jacob quickly packs up, not wanting to interview someone who is a proclaimed pedophile. He then again asks Rachel to remove her clothes, saying all the great actresses do it. Mr. Ryerson follows Jacob out of the room, telling him he has no problem with nudity and about his planned production of Equus. (The Rhodes Not Taken)
Jacob is shown flirting with Rachel, then threatens to post on his blog about her crush on Finn Hudson and Quinn Fabray's pregnancy. Rachel then bribes him with pair of her underwear, but he complains when she gives him panties with price tags on them. During a locker check, Sue discovers Rachel's underwear in his locker, and she questions his gender mockingly. He then admits the granny panties were a bribe and tells her about Quinn's pregnancy. She then makes him run the story. He is later shown apologizing to Rachel. (Throwdown)
He is shown watching the Cheerios perform and interviewing Sue, later getting his tape recorder taken away. Jacob is later shown wanting to try out for the Cheerios, only to be rejected by Sue before he could perform anything. (Wheels)
He becomes a temporary member of New Directions after Finn storms out of practice because he found out Quinn is actually pregnant with Puck's baby. Jacob is needed to fill the requirement of twelve members performing and is told not to sing and just sway in the back. Jacob attempted to massage Rachel's neck on the bus despite her pushing him away. He at first is shown enjoying the performances of And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going and Proud Mary by the Jane Addams Academy Choir, but Mike angrily elbows him and tells him to stop. After the performance, when Jacob finds out about the other teams cheating, Emma tells Will over the phone that she thinks Jacob wet himself. Once Finn comes back, Jacob states that he only came to Sectionals to get in Rachel's pants. He stays around for the club's performance and is especially keen when Rachel leant over Emma and sang directly to him during Don't Rain on My Parade and is shown with the club listening in on the judges. (Sectionals)
Jacob briefly appears, stalking Rachel as she raves on about winning Sectionals and ruling McKinley High. (Hell-O)
Jacob also cameos in The Power of Madonna, during the song 4 Minutes, attempting to touch and apparently interview Rachel, only to be pushed away by her, as she is already dating Jesse St. James. (The Power of Madonna)
In Laryngitis, he tells Puck that he has lost his bad boy image, and orders his friends to throw him into a dumpster. After Puck begins dating Mercedes, Jacob informs Puck that his 'cool-o-meter' is off the charts, and that he is popular again. Jacob offers him his lunch money, but Puck instead orders him to get an iced coffee for Mercedes. He is later seen being tossed into the dumpster. (Laryngitis)
Jacob is seen by his locker when a group of Twilight fans, among them Lauren Zizes, are behaving like Vampires, and to get Robert Pattinson's attention they attack Jacob, causing him to scream. (Theatricality)
After Will causes Sue to feel depressed, she gives up the Cheerios' chances to compete in nationals. This causes chaos amongst the Cheerios. Brittany is seen clinging on to Jacob as she tries to woo him. (Funk)
The episode Audition opens with Jacob interviewing Glee Club members, asking them random, inappropriate questions. These questions were also criticism that the show had taken (such as Matthew Morrison's rapping and the fact they are a "Glorified Karaoke Club"). We also find out that he has started running a new blog, dedicated to New Directions. He calls his first segment Glee's Big Gay Summer. (Audition)In Britney/Brittany, when Rachel appears at school wearing a revealing outfit, Jacob asks Finn what he wants in exchange for Rachel, offering to kill his parents and give him his house. He is later caught by Sue, while masturbating to Rachel's image in the library. He goes to her office and sits on a stool leaving a naked butt stain. While New Directions perform Toxic at a school event, Jacob gets very turned on along with Lauren and has an orgasm, and grabs a random guy's butt, only to get knocked out. When Sue pulls the fire alarm he is carried out by group of students, unconscious. (Britney/Brittany)
He is seen sitting with his friends at lunch when Puck and Artie perform One Love (People Get Ready). He gives money to them, along with the rest of the group including Lauren Zizes. (Never Been Kissed)
Jacob is part of Sue's "Heckling Club," along with Azimio and Becky. During the night of the benefit, they boo Tina off the stage with their heckling, only to have Quinn come out and give them taffy to keep them quiet. They do not heckle during Mike's dance. During intermission, Holly gives them a pep talk, which results in them leaving the concert. Before leaving, Jacob asks Holly to wait for him. (A Night of Neglect)
While he is not seen in Born This Way, his blog is mentioned, Lauren shows that Quinn Fabray's campaign is up 40% after her secret identity is revealed. (Born This Way)
After joining the Muckrakers Club, Azimio covered Jacob's face in toothpaste. After happily refusing to comment, Jacob asks if she would like to make a comment on the fact that he looked up the IP address of the person who posted that rumor, which turned out to be her. Santana states that her computer was stolen, and that her and Dave are going strong and are very excited about the prom king and queen campaign. Jacob finally asks is she in love with Dave, and are they "soulmates," so to speak, which she agrees to. (Rumors)
He interviews Puck about his campaign with Lauren. (Prom Queen)
Jacob (with a new look) interviews the members of the Glee Club, asking them what they are going to do when they graduate. While interviewing Rachel and Kurt, he keeps his microphone up for further response from Rachel while Kurt tries to do the same with Rachel. Also appears during Puck's flashback, when Lauren broke-up with him, he walks behind them, watching, and Lauren very quickly looks at him. He is also the person that officially starts the food fight and records it with his camcorder. (The Purple Piano Project)
He returns in I Kissed a Girl covering the senior class presidential action for his blog. He says that Brittany is winning in his online polls and that Kurt will definitely lose. (I Kissed a Girl)
In The New Rachel, Jacob interviews the New Directions after their recent Nationals win. This season, his Jewfro is noticeably shorter to the point of non-existence. He asks the New Directions about who would become the new star now that Rachel is gone. He talks to Sam, Tina, Blaine, Artie, and Brittany. During Tina's interview, it is revealed that she broke up with Mike because they couldn't handle a long distant relationship. When Tina admits it, Jacob places his hand over her shoulder, indicating he might have a mini-crush on Tina. (The New Rachel)
After Brittany attempts to shave her hair off, Jacob tries to interview her in the halls. Brittany eventually loses it and grabs an umbrella beating Jacob repeatedly with it in the halls. (Britney 2.0)
Jacob appears for the first time since Britney 2.0, although only in a dream sequence. He appears in Rachel's nightmare with Karofsky, Sue, Becky, Kurt, Santana, Tina, Blaine, Sam and Mercedes, which is just before her opening night of Funny Girl. He is sitting beside David Karofsky He watches her sing Lovefool. This is the last time we see Jacob Ben Israel on the show. (Opening Night)
Jacob is a stereotypical nerd and also the school gossip. He is highly obsessed with Rachel and the other girls of the glee club, doing almost anything to be with them. He has a blog that is read by many of the school's students and is believed to have several Twitter accounts. He may not be popular, but he knows his way around the social stratosphere.
Rachel Berry
- Main article: Jacob-Rachel Relationship (Racob)
Jacob has intense sexual feelings for Rachel, and has referred to her as "the hottest girl in the school." It is obvious that Rachel does not feel anything back – she is clearly disgusted with his inappropriate behaviour, but that doesn't stop him from trying to win her approval. He joined New Directions to fill the twelfth member requirement during Sectionals but tells Finn that it was only to get Rachel to like him and get in her pants.
Holly Holliday
His former crush was Holly Holliday. In A Night of Neglect he asked her to wait for him when he turned 18.
Santana Lopez
In Audition he was seen videotaping Santana's breasts after questioning her about her surgery over the summer.
Brittany Pierce
In The Purple Piano Project he was caught videotaping Brittany up her skirt while she danced on the table.
Tina Cohen-Chang
In The New Rachel, he interviews Tina about the new Rachel of the club and her break-up with Mike. When Tina speaks about being single and her tattoo, Jacob places his hand on her shoulder as Tina shakes it off with a disgusted face, indicating that Jacob might have had a mini-crush on Tina or imply it as a joke.
Lauren Zizes
Lauren looks like she is the only friend he has. In Theatricality, she and "Team Edward," with whom victimze Jacob. In Britney/Brittany, he and Lauren are a little horny during the performance of Toxic. In Never Been Kissed both are sitting together during One Love (People Get Ready). In Prom Queen, days before prom, he interviews Puck about his campaign with Lauren to be prom queen and king.
- His only known friend is Lauren Zizes.
- As stated by Sue in A Night of Neglect, Jacob is licensed and has a car with a license plate that reads "JEWFRO."
- He used to have a gossip blog online in which he writes about the students, with an emphasis on the glee club. This is where the pregnancy news about Quinn Fabray spread.
- He is often referred to as "JBI."
- He suffers from severe public event anxiety. (Sectionals)
- Since Season Two, he started off the season premiere episode with an interview with the Glee kids. However, he didn't during the Season Five premiere, since it was the first season to not start a new school year.
- He cut part of his "Jewfro" off, as seen in the beginning of Season Four.
- He shares the same name with another character on the show, Jake Puckerman.
- Jacob Ben Israel seems to be a caricature of Internet reviewers.
- Even though he wasn't supposed to appear in Season Five, he made an appearance in Opening Night.
- Season Six is the only season he didn't appear in.
- Main article: Jacob's Quotations


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HOUSTON - A manager was shot during a robbery at a southeast Houston pawn shop that turned into a carjacking Tuesday.
Houston police said a robbery was reported at the Cash America Pawn Shop, 3818 Broadway, at 9:40 a.m.
The manager handed over the cash and jewelry the robber demanded, detectives said.
Police said a customer walked in during the robbery and was threatened by the gunman.
"I was in the corner when the manager told me, 'Don't do anything wrong. Don't do anything wrong. He's got a gun,'" Norberto Silba said. "The guy said, 'Get down, get down or I'm going to shoot you.'"
As the robber was leaving, he shot the manager in the ankle, police said. The manager was rushed to Memorial Hermann Hospital for treatment.
The robber carjacked a couple in the parking lot during his getaway, but he ditched that car about two blocks away, investigators said.
A description of the robber has not been released. Police said a witness told them that the the robber wore a mask and gloves.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS.
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Stores the specified CObject to the archive.
void WriteObject(
const CObject* pOb
- pOb
A constant pointer to the object being stored.
This function is normally called by the CArchive insertion (<<) operator overloaded for CObject. WriteObject, in turn, calls the Serialize function of the archived class.
You must use the IMPLEMENT_SERIAL macro to enable archiving. WriteObject writes the ASCII class name to the archive. This class name is validated later during the load process. A special encoding scheme prevents unnecessary duplication of the class name for multiple objects of the class. This scheme also prevents redundant storage of objects that are targets of more than one pointer.
The exact object encoding method (including the presence of the ASCII class name) is an implementation detail and could change in future versions of the library.
Finish creating, deleting, and updating all your objects before you begin to archive them. Your archive will be corrupted if you mix archiving with object modification.
For a definition of the class CAge, see the example for CObList::CObList.
CFile myFile(_T("My__test__file.dat"),
CFile::modeCreate | CFile::modeReadWrite);
CAge age(21), *pAge;
// Create a storing archive.
CArchive arStore(&myFile, CArchive::store);
// Write the object to the archive
// Close the storing archive
// Create a loading archive.
CArchive arLoad(&myFile, CArchive::load);
// Verify the object is in the archive.
pAge = (CAge*) arLoad.ReadObject(RUNTIME_CLASS(CAge));
ASSERT(age == *pAge);
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Let Me Soar
Young Women Selected Songs: A Song of the Heart
1. Let me soar.
Let me do the things that help me learn and grow.
Let me soar.
Let me listen with a heart that yearns to know.
Trust in me to follow wisely in the way of truth.
Trust in me to serve my brother while upon this earth.
2. Let me soar.
Let me reach out for the one who needs my hand.
Let me soar.
Let me cease to want and selfishly demand.
Trust in me to lead the way for those who fall behind.
Trust in me to take the hands of those whose lives are blind.
Reach our for the one who needs your love.
Reach our for those whisp'rings from above.
Reach our for in reaching we all find
those precious feelings shared by all mankind.
Let me he will draw me near.
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Music: Newell Dayley


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Assists: 2, multiple times
Digs: 17 at Hawai'i, 2/8/07
An MPSF Academic All-Conference selection as a junior...Played in 28 matches and 85 games at libero...Totaled a team high 178 digs...Posted a .942 reception percentage with 28 errors in 486 attempts...Led the Gauchos in digs in 14 matches...Had double-digit dig totals seven times...Set a new career high with 17 digs at Hawai'i (2/8)...The 17 digs vs. the Warriors tied Tyson Norton and Evan Patak for the most in a single 2007 match...Had 15 digs vs. Penn State (3/12) and again vs. UCLA in an MPSF Tournament quarterfinal (4/21)...Finished 10th in the MPSF with 1.98 digs per game in league matches...Gauchos were third in the MPSF with 9.12 digs per game in conference tilts...Tied his career high with two assists on four occasions. 2006
Played in eight matches and 20 total games...Posted a career high with 10 digs at UC Irvine (4/15)...Had a seven dig, two assist performance vs. UCLA (4/12)...Recorded four digs at UCLA (4/19)...Finished the season with five assists and 23 scoops...Had 74 reception attempts and three errors.
Did not play.
High School
A 2003 graduate of Clairemont High School in San Diego...Played setter and outside for coach Jerry Knuppel...A two-time Harbor League Player of the Year (2002, 2003)...Also a two-time First Team All-CIF selection (2002, 2003)...A first team all-section performer as a senior...A three-time MVP for the Chieftains...Selected to Volleyball Magazine's Fab 50 in 2003...Guided Clairemont to Harbor League titles in 2000, 2002, and 2003...Chieftains were the CIF Division IV runner-up in 2003...Played four years of varsity soccer and captained the 2003 squad...Graduated among the top ten in his class.
Played six years of club ball for Seaside and coach Fred Featherstone...Captained the 2001 team...Garnered all-American status at the 2001 Junior Olympics...Team placed fifth at the 2000 and 2001 JOs.
Benjamin Joel Brockman was born Nov. 15, 1984 in San Diego...Parents are Dan and Debby Brockman...Has an older brother, Nick, and a younger sister, Amber...Majoring in physics at UCSB...Cheers for the San Diego Chargers and star running back LaDainian Tomlinson...Likes to watch reruns of "Seinfeld"...Led Zeppelin's "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" is his favorite tune...Most memorable sporting moment was winning a AAA beach event with Gaucho teammate Theo Brunner...When asked why he chose UCSB, he simply responds "look at it".


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May 4, 2011 – Next Tuesday, May 10, at 9:30 a.m. the Louisiana Shrimp Task Force will meet in Baton Rouge at the Capitol Park Welcome Center in Baton Rouge, located at 702 N River Road.
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- Approval of Minutes from 4.21.11
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In the state Senate, the focus last week was predictably on the two-year budget, with that chamber considering what changes it will make to the House version approved earlier this month. The Senate is scheduled to vote on a proposal early this week, setting the stage for legislative leaders to come up with a compromise by the end of the month.
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I'm excited to share this passage with you, because my favorite book takes it's title from it. Hind's Feet on High Places by Hannah Hurnard. This passage is saying that though the prophet might have nothing at all, no food, nothing, still He will praise the God of his salvation! Hallelujah!
17 "Though the fig tree should not blossom
And there be no fruit on the vines,
Though the yield of the olive should fail
And the fields produce no food,
Though the flock should be cut off from the fold
And there be no cattle in the stalls,
18 Yet I will exult in the LORD,
I will rejoice in the God of my salvation.
19 The Lord GOD is my strength,
And He has made my feet like hinds' feet,
And makes me walk on my high places." Habakkuk 3:17-19
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On October 18, 2011 the City of Berkeley began "booting" vehicles that have 5 or more outstanding parking citations. This program is a substitute to a past practice of towing an eligible car and then impounding those vehicles. Nearly seven months into the operation, the program is running quite smoothly.
**The best way to resolve your citations (besides self release) is through the City of Berkeley Finance Department.It is timely and a more efficient method.
The numbers of vehicles in the City of Berkeley that have been the subject of a boot has tapered since the start of the program, which was expected. In the month of November 2011 as an example, there were 177 vehicles booted, 23 towed with a self release percentage of 81%. That is to say, 81 % of the time, the vehicle owner resolved the outstanding citations, and was able to release the boot from their tire. In December 2011, 99 vehicles were booted, 18 towed with a 94% self release percentage.
Under the previous system, drivers or owners of impounded cars would have to go to the City of Berkeley Customer Service Center and the City of Berkeley Police Department (BPD) before being able to retrieve their cars from the impound lot.Under the Smart Boot Program, motorists can call the Paylock 24-hour Help Center and pay their citations over the phone.They can then release the boot from the car and return it at their convenience.
Frequently Asked Questions
When does the program start?This program started October 18, 2011.
How do I get the boot off of my car? You can call the Paylock Boot Release Line to make a payment over the phone.The phone number is 877-205-5566. Once you make payment, you will be able to remove the device yourself.
What do I do with the boot?Paylock SmartBoots may be returned to:Avenue Towing1429 San Pablo AveBerkeley, CA 94702M-F (8am - 5pm) Call 510-524-2400 for drop off outside of office hours*No payments will be accepted at this location
I want to pay in person. Where can I pay?Berkeley Finance Department1947 Center StreetBerkeley, CA 94704M-Th (8:30am - 4pm)Closed Fri, Sat, Sun and Holidays
How long do I have until my vehicle is towed?If the vehicle is parked legally, a 48 hour grace period will be given from the time the vehicle is booted until the vehicle is towed.
What makes my vehicle boot eligible?A vehicle becomes boot eligible when it has 5 or more unpaid (outstanding) parking citations that are 30 days or older.
If a driver calls 311, who can they be referred to?311 Customer Service Operators will direct all booted motorists to the 877-205-5566 number for the Boot Release Line.
There is a strange vehicle in my neighborhood with cameras on it, why?The vehicle you see is the Berkeley booting vehicle. The cameras scan license plates to identify vehicles with outstanding parking citations and to determine if they are boot eligible.
I do not want to be booted, how should I pay for my tickets?Go to the "Online Payment" section of http://www.cityofberkeley.info/onlineservicecenter/


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See Lupita Nyong'o on the cover of Vogue!
It's been one heck of a year for Lupita Nyong'o, and aside from her swift ascent to Hollywood A-list status for her award-winning performance in "12 Years a Slave," she's been wholeheartedly embraced by the fashion world.
She (and her stylist, Michaela Erlanger) ruled the red carpet during awards season, wowing critics and fans alike with her elegant choices by Prada, Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein and more. Nyong'o has already earned herself many a "best dressed" title, a Miu Miu campaign and a Lancôme contract, and now she's landed her very first Vogue cover.
For the July 2014 issue of the glossy, the 31-year-old actress was shot by Mikael Jansson in Marrakech, wearing pieces by Vera Wang, Rodarte, Proenza Schouler and Givenchy. She opens up to Hamish Bowles about her upbringing, her whirlwind year in Hollywood and, of course, her approach to fashion.
According to Erlanger, the actress showed up to their first meeting armed with a Pinterest board full of inspiration, and, though fittings were daunting, Nyong'o had fun with the process. "Especially for the bigger awards, the dress let me know it was going to be worn," Nyong'o says. "It's quite scary when you fall in love with a dress, because it's nothing to do with your brain. It's like a gut reaction."
Read the full story and see all of the gorgeous photos from the spread over at Vogue.com.
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Steve Douglas
Steve Douglas was the saxophonist everyone wanted to work with.
Douglas was a member of Spector's legendary Wrecking Crew. He played with such icons as the Ronettes, Ike and Tina Turner, the Righteous Brothers and the Beach Boys.
The unmistakable sound of Steve Douglas' honking saxophone can be heard on countless recordings by the Beach Boys, Jan and Dean, Duane Eddy and others.
Among the most in-demand West Coast sessionmen, Douglas was a key player in producer Phil Spector's "Wrecking Crew," the collective of sidemen that Spector used on virtually all his sessions. Douglas played sax and percussion on most of Spector's early-1960s productions, including all of the Ronettes' and Crystals' recordings and such epic singles as Ike and Tina Turner's "River Deep—Mountain High" and the Righteous Brothers' "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'." He played on every Beach Boys album from Surfin' U.S.A. (1963) through Pet Sounds (1966), as well as later recordings. He can be heard blowing tenor and baritone sax on many of Jan and Dean's 1960s hits, including "Surf City" and "Dead Man's Curve." His hornwork also adorned recordings by such artists as Bobby Darin, Aretha Franklin, B.B. King and Elvis Presley.
Born Steven Kreisman, Douglas got caught up in the rhythm & blues scene around Los Angeles as a teenager in the early 1950s. He took up tenor sax after hearing Chuck Higgins' "Pachuco Hop." In addition to Higgins, his influences included such R&B hornmen as Big Jay McNeely, Sam "The Man" Taylor and Joe Houston. Douglas' background served him well when emerging rock and roll figures like Duane Eddy wanted to add some horn-fueled R&B grit to their music. After a year-long stint with Eddy, Douglas formed his own "Vegas-style group," which included Phil Spector on guitar and vocals. When Spector subsequently began to establish himself as a producer in New York, he called Douglas to overdub sax on some early Crystals records. After Spector returned to L.A., Douglas played on and even contracted musicians for his sessions. In addition to tenor and baritone sax, he contributed flute and percussion. He remained a member of Spector's "Wrecking Crew" till the producer's semi-retirement in 1966. In the Seventies, Douglas would play on Spector-produced projects by Cher, Leonard Cohen and the Ramones.
Douglas' work with Spector led to calls from Brian Wilson (of the Beach Boys) and Jan Berry (of Jan and Dean), as they and the entire West Coast pop scene began to take off. Douglas played on such instrumental hits as the Routers' "Let's Go (Pony)." Douglas was offered all the work he could handle and recalls once doing eighteen sessions in a single week. In the mid-1960s, he spent two years as an A&R man at Capitol Records, where he produced Bobby Darin and others.
Health problems in the early 1970s forced Douglas to adopt a lower profile. During that decade, in addition to session work, he began releasing albums under his own name. He recorded one of his more notable projects, The Music of Cheops (1988), inside the King's Chamber at the Great Pyramid at Giza in Egypt. In 1978 Douglas joined Bob Dylan's touring band and can be heard on Bob Dylan at Budokan (1979). He played on Mink DeVille's first two albums and produced the third, Le Chat Bleu, in 1981. Douglas' Hot Sax album, released in 1982, includes his remake of "Peter Gunn," which he originally recorded with Duane Eddy two decades earlier.
Douglas died in 1993 of heart failure.
Inductee: Steve Douglas (born September 24, 1938, died April 18, 1993)


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Idea development is just one of the six writing traits. In Nevada, it is one of the four traits that is assessed on the fifth grade state writing test. Idea development is a complex trait that should be discussed, explored, and further developed every year that students learn to write in school; both kindergartners and high school seniors can be taught to think about developmentally appropriate skills that are associated with idea development. This page contains idea development lessons and resources that we consider appropriate for sharing with third graders and up. If you are working with primary writers and the six traits, be sure to visit WritingFix's 6 Traits and Primary Writing Homepage.
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Like the foundation of a house, idea development serves as the solid base on which a good piece of writing rests. If you start with a solid idea, your writing can grow as big as you want.
WritingFix offers a free template of Idea Development Post-It sized notes. These can either be printed on green colored paper and cut out and stapled to students' drafts, or you can--if you dare--attempt to print them on real 3 x 3 Post-it® Note-sized templates.
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Idea development "mentor texts" that are focused on during the NNWP's annual
6-Trait Inservice Classes for Teachers:
(Visit our 6-Trait Homepage to learn more about our inservice class.)
Each year, the NNWP sponsors a variety of inservice classes and workshops that focus on helping teachers make 6 traits the language of their classrooms during writing instruction. A variety of presenters share K-12 classroom ideas with each workshop's audience, and--as teachers are wont to do--the participants madly write down the names of mentor texts shared by the presenters.
Here are two mentor texts shared by our presenters that our participants are always happy they have written down the titles for:
Shared during our Narrative and Memoir Inservice, this book shows the power of using photos for inspiring idea development.
Shared during our Writing Across the Curriculum Inservice, this book provides techniques for helping students put researched ideas into their own words.
Have a favorite book not mentioned on this page for teaching idea development? Send us the title at email@example.com.
More idea development "mentor texts" cited in the NNWP's
Going Deep with 6 Trait Language Guide:
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Lesson title:
Using 90th Street's Advice
inspired by
Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street
by Roni Schotter
Lesson title:
Top-Secret Rule Reasons
inspired by
The Secret Knowledge of Grown-Ups
by David Wisnieski
Lesson title:
What Your Room Says about You!
inspired by
Boy's Life
by Robert McCammon
Lesson title:
Borrowing Mr. Fletcher's Skills
inspired by
Marshfield Dreams
by Ralph Fletcher
Mallory Love, a Texas teacher, shared this idea with us. We sent her an NNWP Secondary Writing Guide as our thanks for her taking the time to share back with the WritingFix website. Shared ideas can be directed to: email@example.com.
From Mallory: "Many of my students have difficultly understanding how important details are for the reader to truly understand the story. To better help them understand this concept, I have them do the following activity. This activity is really great for your hands-on learners. I love you website by the way- it is one of the most useful ones I have found on teaching writing."
Supplies needed -- Legos, plastic bags, file folders (for dividers), camera (and photos), paper, and pen
Preparation -- I first create two separate structures using Legos. I then take a picture of each structure. I make enough colored copies of the pictures so that there are one of each for every two students in the class. Then I put the Legos needed for each structure into different baggies (again enough of each for every two students). Then I arrange the desks so that every two desks are facing each other. I put the file folders up and tape them to the desk (to prevent falling) as dividers between the desks so that when the students sit down they can't see each other.
The Activity --When the students are seated with their paper and pens out on their desks, I give each student on the left side of the divider one of the pictures and one of baggies of legos that go with that picture. I then give the students on the right side of the divider the picture of the other Lego structure and a baggies with the needed supplies. I do this in such a way so that the students don't see the picture the other person across the divider has. I explain to the students beforehand that they are not to talk or share anything I give them. I then explain that they will have twenty five to thirty minutes to write directions explaining how to put the structure together. They can only use words in their directions, no pictures. At the end of the time frame, I discreetly take up the pictures and have the students switch places leaving the Lego baggies and their directions on the desk. I then tell the students that they have twenty minutes to use the supplies and directions in front of them to build the structure in the picture they did not see. At the end of the time frame, we look at who complete the structures closest to the original picture in the shortest amount of time.
Reflection --The next class we discuss what was hard about the activity and why. We look at some of the directions that worked for the students who did well and pick out what words or phrases were most helpful. We then relate the directions to the pictures as details to the main idea/theme of our writing and how when we don't use enough detail or the right detail, the reader will miss the big "picture" of our writing.
Lesson Title: One Minute in Time
Inspired by: The Cure's song, 10:15 on a Saturday Night.
Overview: The Cure's song 10:15 on a Saturday Night explains what happens in one slowed-down minute as the singer is waiting for an important phone call. When you slow down time to write about it, students can think about details in interesting new ways. Click here to access the entire lesson on-line. This lesson was created during the NNWP's iPods Across the Curriculum Workshop.
Prompt Title: The Top-Three Game
Overview: Students click the "magic button" until they find a prompt or topic they feel they have something to write about. Before writing, they should brainstorm as many specific reasons as possible that pertain to the topic they've selected. Teachers can then talk about how interesting reasons can become details in writing. Students choose the top three reasons (details) from their brainstorms and write them out as a story or personal essay. If your students write a particularly good "essay" inspired by the prompt they build, you are invited to send it to us at firstname.lastname@example.com so that we may consider publishing it for other students to be inspired by. See this prompt's student samples page for details.
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Each of the writing traits--idea development included--can be broken down into multiple smaller writing skills that--when working together--make-up the bigger trait. Below, find some of our webmaster's favorite resources and lessons that focus specifically on one idea development sub-skill: balancing showing and telling. A great writing teacher finds the time to explore as many of each trait's subskills as possible, helping students understand that each trait is built from multiple skills.
Lesson title:
Showing Nice without Saying Nice
inspired by
Show; Don't Tell: Secrets of Writing
by Josephine Nobisso
Lesson title:
Four-Metaphor Poetry
inspired by
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge
by Mem Fox
Lesson title:
Showing a Giant Roll
inspired by
James and the Giant Peach
by Roald Dahl
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Showing Actions
inspired by
Walk Two Moons
by Sharon Creech
Betty Cranston, a Pennsylvania teacher, shared this idea with us. We sent her the NNWP's Going Deep with 6 Trait Language Guide as our thanks for her being so willing to give back to our site. Shared ideas can be directed to: email@example.com.
From Betty: "Your wonderful website inspired me to take one of my favorite wordless books-- Window by Jeannie Baker--and create a poetry assignment focused on idea development and word choice. This picture book shows how the world changes outside the same window over time. A young boy grows up, and the book is made up of all the different scenes that might be seen form his bedroom window. Progress, of course, happens outside the window, and their lovely country home is encroached upon by neighborhoods and eventually commercial properties. In the last scene, the boy--now grown with his own child--has moved, and he is showing his infant the scene outside the baby's new window.
"My students created showing poems about looking out the same window over time; most chose their own bedroom windows, but some chose my classroom window. Some poems were about a single year, focusing on the changing seasons, but many--like the picture book--were about growing up over many years and how the scenery outside changed.
"The challenge to the students was to create stanzas that contained well-described and showing details inspired by great word choice. The students did a fantastic job with these showing poems."
Lesson: Let me Show You Nature
Inspired by: Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan.
Overview: In this lesson, writer will create a descriptive paragraph that describes an object or a place in nature, using carefully chosen adjectives, especially color and texture words. Writers will then read their writings aloud to partners, and partners will attempt to draw the objects or places based on the author's carefully chosen words. Click here to access the entire lesson on-line. This lesson was created during the NNWP's Chapter Book Excerpts as Mentor Texts Workshop.
Prompt: The Memory Game
Overview: With this prompt, students click the "magic button" until they find a prompt that triggers a memory they would want to write about. Before writing, they should brainstorm all the sensory details and images they can as they think back. Teachers can then talk about how great showing often comes from attention to sensory details. Students write their memories out as stories, carefully selecting the best sensory images from their brainstorms. If your students write a particularly good memory inspired by the prompt they build, you are invited to send it to us at email@example.com so that we may consider publishing it for other students to be inspired by. See this prompt's student samples page for details.
Lesson title:
Original Schemes
inspired by
Enemy Pie
by Derek Munson
Lesson title:
Unique Imaginary Friends
inspired by
by Tony DiTerlizzi
Lesson title:
Original Time Travels
inspired by
The Time Machine
by H. G. Wells
Lesson title:
Creative Parallel Universes
inspired by
The Subtle Knife
by Philip Pullman
Jane Wilson, an Oregon teacher and instructional coach, shared this idea with us. We sent her the NNWP's Elementary Writing Guide as our thanks for her being so willing to give back to our site. Shared ideas can be directed to: email@example.com.
"This idea is the result of a lesson I collaboratively taught with two third grade teachers. We kicked off a fictional narrative genre study by modeling story writing for our students. The three of us decided to use The Tales of Harris Burdick, by Chris Van Allsburg, as the source for the idea behind our story writing modeling. We each selected the same prompt, Lost in Venice, but did not discuss any ideas for creating our stories.
Start collecting interesting photos of people, places, and things. These can come from magazines, greeting cards, or from your own collection of photos that never were mounted in an album. Keep a box of these photographs in your classroom. When students are stuck for an idea to write about, have them choose a photo and tell an original tale about what's going on in the photo. Try it with the photo below (click on photo to see it a bit larger):
If you write an original story about this photograph, you can post it for others to read by clicking here.
In 2009, WritingFix sponsored its first digital photo contest for student photographers. The contest's theme was "Photographs that would inspire an original story from a writer's pen." K-12 students and their teachers submitted their photographs to the WritingFix website, and we chose four winners and posted their pictures on a new page here at WritingFix: Digital Photo Prompts for Writers.
When you are prompted by an interesting photograph, many students find it easy to write an original story about the picture, especially if the writer doesn't know the photographer or the person, place, or thing in the photograph. Visit the page cited above to see the winning photographs. If your students are inspired to write, we have established a blog for them to share their original stories.
We will be hosting our digital photography contest annually from now on. It's never too early to challenge your students to take candid or staged photographs that would inspire other students to write original stories.
Lesson title:
Unlikely Diary Keepers
inspired by
Diary of a Worm
by Doreen Cronin
Lesson title:
Rolling with the Animals
inspired by
Duck on a Bike
by David Shannon
Lesson title:
Adventurous Magic
inspired by
Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher
by Bruce Coville
Lesson title:
A Magical Animal Encounter
inspired by
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
by J. K. Rowling
Amy Maniscalco, a Northern Nevada middle school teacher, allowed us to visit her classroom and photograph the ways she uses The Important Book with her students when assigning classroom writing that leads to class-created books. We sent Amy the NNWP's Going Deep with Compare & Contrast Thinking Guide as our thanks for her being so willing to give back to our site. Shared ideas can be directed to: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Click on the images above to see them in a larger format.
Lesson Title: Creating a School Survival Guide
Inspired by: Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lubar.
Overview: Scott Hudson decides to write a high school survival guide for his yet-to-be-born sibling. As your students follow Scott's journey and read his "survival guide for freshmen," they will create their own survival guide, modeling the large variety of genres and styles found in the novel. Click here to access the entire lesson on-line. This lesson was created during the NNWP's Chapter Book Excerpts as Mentor Texts Workshop.
Lesson Title: Antonyms & Comma Splices
Inspired by: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.
Overview: In the opening to Tale of Two Cities, Dickens uses a series of comma splices for stylistic effect. Student writers often overuse comma splices in reckless ways, with little knowledge of the conjunctions that can be put between two independent ideas. For this assignment, students create their own Dickens-like paragraph, but they are required to find (and punctuate for properly) appropriate conjunctions to sit between their opposites. Click here to access the entire lesson on-line. This lesson was created during the NNWP's Literature Excerpts as Mentor Texts Workshop.
Lesson title:
Same Theme, But Different Story
inspired by
Six-Dinner Sid
by Inga Moore
Lesson title:
Same Theme, But Different Story
inspired by
by Margaret Wild
Lesson title:
Same Theme, But as a Poem
inspired by
Bronx Masquerade
by Nikki Grimes
Pam Adamczyk , a New Jersey teacher, shared this idea with us. We sent her the NNWP's Going Deep with Compare and Contrast Thinking Guide as our thanks for her being so willing to give back to our site. Shared ideas can be directed to: email@example.com.
Dear NNWP, I just love your site.
Had to share this delightful book--Armadilly Chili by Helen Ketteman. Was in San Antonio for the NWP Conference and had to find something from Texas to bring back to my 7th graders. This is a fun read just for the word choices and the art work is adorable. Look at how all its words are related to the West/ cowboy/ or Texas, sticking to a word theme. I used it to introduce and review conflicts with my 7th graders. They loved it. The story conflict "seems" like Man Vs Nature at first, then It's Man vs Man, but ultimately it is Man vs Self. It was a great way to get these three types of conflicts across to all of my students and a good review on how to determine the conflict in a story by going to the main character and seeing how he/she solves a problem and changes.
Focus Trait is Idea Development: Theme and Conflict
Support Trait is Word Choice.
Lesson title:
Show How You Deal with Anger
inspired by
When Sophie Gets Angry
by Molly Bang
Lesson title:
Scary Somethings
inspired by
Harry and the Terrible Whatzit
by Dick Gackenbach
Lesson title:
Writing About Life's Lessons
inspired by
A Single Shard
by Linda Sue Park
Lesson title:
Rules & Things for a Funner Life
inspired by
Bud, Not Buddy
by Christopher Paul Curtis
Lisa Tisdel, a Michigan teacher, shared the idea below with us. We sent her the NNWP's Elementary Writing Guide as our thanks for her being so willing to give back to our site. Shared ideas can be directed to: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Lisa students often say they don't have anything to write about. Lisa says:
"Sometimes the most difficult part of writing workshop for our young writers is getting started, or coming up with a good idea in the first place. My favorite mentor text to help solve this problem is Taking a Bath with the Dog and Other Things that Make Me Happy by Scott Menchin. In this short, simple book, Sweet Pea asks a variety of people and animals, "What makes you happy?" while trying to discover what makes her happy. In the end, she finds more than 20 things that make her smile. This is a great text to use for writer's notebook... getting kids to think and write about what makes them happy. These ideas could later be developed into life stories, personal narratives, and poetry."
Lesson: The Next Thing on My List
Inspired by: If Today Was Your Last Day, sung by Nickelback, and Before I Die by Jenny Downham
Overview: Students create a polished list that details the things each student would like to experience in their lives.
Lesson: Oh, the Places You Can Go!
Inspired by: Days Like This, sung by Van Morrison, and I Hope You Dance, sung by Lee Ann Womack
Overview: Students write about wisdom about life they have discovered from experience and from the mentor texts.
Lesson: What Skin Are You In?
Inspired by: Video and I Am Not My Hair, both sung by India Aria, and The Skin I'm In, written by Sharon G. Flake
Overview: Students write an expository essay comparing who they are on the inside to who they are on the outside.
Prompt: The Idea Game
Overview: With this prompt, students click the "magic button" until they find a prompt that triggers a memory they can think back on and write a short narrative about. The prompt encourages the writers to self-reflect especially on the five senses as they prepare to write a short piece of writing. Ultimately, the writers are encouraged to include three of the five senses in their short narrative's final draft. If your students write a particularly good story idea inspired by the prompt they build, you are invited to send it to us at email@example.com so that we may consider publishing it for other students to be inspired by. See this prompt's student samples page for details.
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Books focused on it, blogs became dedicated to it, chefs advocated for it, and supporters even coined their own term -- "locavore," subsequently named the New Oxford American Dictionary Word of the Year in 2007.
Behind all the fuss, I learned, lies the fact that today's food travels an average of 1,500 miles to get from farm to table. By eating locally, we could cut our carbon footprint (no long-haul trucking or air travel required), potentially support sustainable growing practices, and help out our own farming community. On a more basic level, food simply tastes better freshly picked.
Of course, we knew that local producers may or may not use pesticides. But since the cost of organic certification remains a prohibitive challenge for many small farms, at least by shopping locally, we would be close enough to the source to ask the right questions in person.
Finally won over by the evidence, Dave agreed to ditch the Popsicles and give it a try. To keep things easy for our first attempt, I suggested we pick the month of August, since it's the most bountiful time of year for the region's fruits and vegetables. With that decided, I jumped on the local bandwagon -- and embarked on a mission to fully commit my Boston kitchen (and my husband) to a diet of foods grown or produced only in New England for a month.
The Game Plan
As it turned out, we were already off to a strong start. I shopped at farmers' markets regularly, and we're also members of a meat CSA, or farm share, which brings us 10 pounds of locally raised beef, pork, lamb, or poultry every month. (You can find similar programs at localharvest.org.) A quick Google search of locally sourced foods led us to a nearby family-run market that sells homegrown butter, salt, honey, and produce, as well as a free-range poultry farm 15 miles away.
But before we could even take a bite out of our first local tomato, we hit a stumbling block. How could we live without olive oil? Or coffee, for that matter? So we made a few exceptions to the rules, keeping oil, spices, and our morning brew in our repertoire. I'd look for coffee brands roasted in Massachusetts. We'd swap out sugar for local honey -- and for everything else, we'd either find it, figure out how to live without it (goodbye, lemons), or cut way back on it, as in the case of Dave's morning Dunkin' Donuts fixation and our restaurant outings (once a week for both).
To make up for the occasional bags of vending-machine potato chips I'm sure he snuck in at work, I planted a few cucumber and tomato plants in a container out back and basil, mint, and rosemary in pots indoors.
Our first forays into all-local shopping left me with a loaded fridge -- and a sense of frustration. We had made four stops and traveled 40 miles, whereas my big-box grocery store is less than five miles away. Plus, we'd spent 50 percent more on our weekly groceries than usual. After tallying up the numbers, though, I realized I could easily justify both: We'd canceled out thousands of food miles by sacrificing bananas from Costa Rica, and spent a chunk of that week's budget restocking pantry staples with ones that would last well beyond our designated month.
The realization did prompt us to shop smarter. To keep miles from adding up, I stopped by the farmers' market on my way home from business appointments. The strategy helped our budget, too. I only bought things I needed for the next few days, and, in a lot of cases, items from the farmers' market cost less than their grocery store counterparts.
As the month moved along, we discovered that eating local wasn't as hard as we thought it was going be. I found plenty of eggs, greens, root veggies, herbs, handmade cheeses, and fruit at the farmers' market. Each week, I'd stop by a few stalls and chat with the farmers, who would tell me about the squash they'd grown and offer serving suggestions for their homemade goat cheese. By my third visit, one of the farmers I had befriended set aside a couple of his best heirloom tomatoes just for me.
With September around the corner, we assessed our progress. Our grocery budget was in good shape, since we'd taken smaller, more frequent shopping trips and cut out boxes of unnecessary snack foods. Overall, we both felt healthier (I'd even lost a pound or two in the process). So the thought of stopping just because the month was up seemed silly -- at least, it did until we remembered that a Boston winter can last from November until June. Very little grows outside of greenhouses during that time of year, which left us facing only three local prospects: dairy, eggs, and meat.
We didn't completely give up, though. We spent a few days roasting and freezing a huge bag of tomatoes I picked up at the market. We bought a long stem of garlic, which would keep for a few months in a cool, dry storage space. Of course, my husband did go back to eating Popsicles and potato chips, and I occasionally caved in to the lure of blueberries in the middle of winter. But at least we had trained ourselves to think twice about our decisions. Now we'll always look for local, pesticide-free options before buying anything else.
Text by Erin Byers Murray


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M. I. Wright wrote:codeholic wrote:By the way, which of the four phases with 28 cells should be canonical? I guess, the first one?Code: Select all
x = 46, y = 13, rule = B3/S23
I agree with EE, it should be the third - both because of its bounding box and because, in my opinion, the first kinda looks like it's going to move backwards (thanks to the sloped shape at the bottom).
I think zdr should choose, though, whenever s/he happens to come back online.
This is insane, by the way! I definitely agree that it looks like something out of Morley or another Life-like rule. Congrats, zdr, and hopefully we'll be able to use your method to find more ships like this one (does "there may be bugs in gfind" mean you developed your own search program/tweaked gfind or something?)
I would also say the third, given not only the bounding box, but also the fact that that 28-cell phase is the most contiguous.
Also, congratulations to zdr!


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jloco11 wrote:benjiman0 wrote:Just out of curiosity, is your PC a Sony VAIO laptop by any chance? I've heard of this problem on VAIO's before (I previously owned one, greatest Windows PC ever).
Yep, that's exactly what I have. It's one of these 2 in 1 joints that is a tablet/laptop at the same time.
All the other products were more tablet than laptop (how the fuck do you not have a USB drive?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?). This one was more laptop with tablet features that had everything you expect in a laptop. So I got this one.
Ahhh fucking knew it, I've seen the same problem elsewhere,
What you need to do is go into your VAIO Control Center and turn off 'X-reality', that's what usually clashes with Windows Media Player,
However should that not work
Go to Device Manager --> Intel HD Graphics Family --> Properties --> Driver --> Roll Back then go to this link to stop the driver from updating temporarily until Sony, Intel and Microsoft make a fix for it!