My Legend of Zelda, Breath of the Wild Notes.

I have been saving these notes on my laptop, but it occured to me if I save them "to the cloud," (here on my blog) others will be able to Google up some answers.

I hope you find them helpful.

Hearty Fried Wild Greens Full recovery +15
Hearty Steamed Mushrooms Full recovery +9
Hearty Mushroom Skewer FR +5
Energizing Honey Apple 4 hearts and half wheel of stamina
New Sledgehammer at Your New House in Hateno
New Sledgehammer respawns behind tree down alley under shrine in Kakariko
Woodcutter’s ax at neat end of great Zora bridge
Old man’s Cabin for Stamella Shrooms chilis, Hy shrooms bird Ax
Silver broadsword respawn behind shine in Zora domain
Iron Sledgehammer behind southern right pillar under Zora domain
Bed on top of Zora dam to the east.

Knight’s Claymore in Keo Rung Shrine Korok Village
You will need to do the puzzle again:
Column 1, row 5
Column 2, row 3
Column 3, row 1
Column 4, row 2
and
Column 1, row 4
Column 2, row 2
Column 3, row 2
Column 4, row 1

“Souped up”? Traveller’s sword left in Shai Utoh, Ubata point, in the far south, west of Lake Floria

NW of gerudo tower is a smaller cliff face with a cave you can force open with stasis or move the smaller stones by pushing and get the largest boulder with a Octo Balloon. Inside there are 3 chests. But just lying on the ground next to them: radiant shield 35 Gerudo spear 16 Golden bow 14 Edge of duality 50 And a moonlight scimitar 25. Everything respawns each Blood moon except the chests.

Chests had an opal x5 bomb arrows and 300 rupees

One Knight's Broadsword spawns stuck in the ground in front of the fountain in the Central Square of Hyrule Castle Town Ruins next to a Knight's Shield, however Link must be careful as several Guardian Stalkers patrol the area.

Torches: One Hateno lab, two at Akkala lab, one at Dueling peaks Stables, One at inn in Zora domain, one at cooking pots just to left of chieftain's palace in Gerudo.

Zora Spear under throne room in the water to the left side of the pool.

Silver shield and single handed silver sword on northern bridge out of Zora's Domain heading up to Veiled Falls.

Edge of Duality and shock arrows in chests under water under Bridge of Hylia… Video is pinned -not collected yet-

Great flame blade spawns in ancient tree stump directly west of central tower. Warp to Kaam Ya’Tak "Trial of Power" Shrine. Climb up cliffs to the west of it, follow them north, paraglide down to platform. Kill a Moblin and a Bokoblin, or just grab the sword and warp away-not collected yet.

Check out glow on Satori mountain and take photo of Lord of the Mountain. Blupee central. You can mount the Lord of the Mountain if you have beau coup stamina, or you can shoot up all the blupees. (Will be useful with the Spring of Wisdom quest on the top of Mount Lanayru? Didn’t see that.)

Travelers Sword and Shield on westernmost shore of Lanayru bay.


Great Thunderblade respawn, just northwest of Tabantha Tower (double check) Fight some Lizalfos sword is stuck in the ground in a small valley on the mountain top.

Creep around Lynel for shock arrows for Zora's Vah Ruta quest? You can't beat him at that point, he's too tough. Sneak only. OR... Buy shock arrows in Lurelin, Korok Forest Village, Gerudo town.

To get into Gerudo, talk to the guy lingering near shrine. He will start a quest. The guy who has the ladies clothes you need is at the Kara Kara Bazaar.

“On the north side of Kolami Bridge in Tabantha Frontier there are two Lizalfos waiting to ambush you wielding Rito weapons, the Feathered Edge and Feathered Spear, on the south end of the same bridge there's a treehouse enemy camp where two of the Lizalfos have those same weapons. I can't find the Kite Shield that goes with them, though.”

Lizafols near tiny island near Chaas Qeta Shrine where Korok hovers has knight’s halberd.

To keep track of Great Fairy upgrade items, take screen caps to the system album of each armor item. Toggle between game and album for quick reference.

Smotherwing: Beedle at East Akkala stable, Wetland stable… Next to Kaya Wan shrine which you don’t seem to have yet. It’s North of Riverside Stable, just west of Lanayru wetlands.

Tabantha Bridge Stable and Lakeside Stable for Thunderwing butterflies from Beedle.

Hold off completing the shrine quest on the Thundera Plateau in order to collect as many Thunderwings and Electric Darners as you can while the perma storm rages.

Soldier’s Spear and shield at Snowfield Stable.

Ze Kasho: Silverscale Spear is in chest, hard to get to, need lots of arrows.

Left Stone Smasher two handed weapon in Shae Mo’sah Shrine.

A respawning drill shaft can be found on the mountain between Goron Hot Springs and Daqa Koh Shrine, behind some breakable rocks. (Haven't found it yet.)

Knights Claymore in Qua Raym Shrine.

The enemy mook encampment (skull cave) by the Dako Tah Shrine in the Gerudo desert (between the Gerudo Canyon Stable and the Bazaar) has monsters with Royal Broadswords.

One Big Hearty Radish grows at the southwest foot of Nero Hill in Tabantha Frontier where it is being admired by a nearby Bokoblin. Hard to find!!

Left a Falcon bow quick shot in Bareeda Naag Shrine. Standing facing the cannon’s ladder in the first room, to your left, bomb the wall.

Flame blade left in Voo Lota Shrine: Instead of using the next air current to get back where you started, pass it. You'll be able to see a chest on the platform, but an air current will prevent you from landing on it. Look below you and use Stasis to stop the fan, allowing you to open the chest with a Flameblade inside.

Rota Ooh Shrine left behind a Feathered Edge 19 single handed (?)

Left a Gerudo spear in Joloo Nah Apparatus Shrine.

 There's  respawning Forest Dweller's Bow in a cave on Kincean Island, which is quite decent. (Bombable Cave in Lanayru Wetlands?) There is a FDB with a bonus (5 shot?) in Mogg Latan Shrine?

At Flight range fall through the updraft to the water below, there is a chest in the water with a knight’s broadsword inside.

Left an Edge of Duality in Kaam Ya’Tak Shrine of power behind two small guardians. Left Knight’s broadsword in following room.

Left Blizzard Rod in chest on SE ledge on Ankel Island. (Check ZD interactive map)

Left a Great Flame Blade in Shai Yota Shrine

Three big hearty Radishes at top of Davdi Island.

Left a Knight’s Bow in Zalta Wa Shrine. From mummy platform paraglide to the top of the room on your right that houses the 2nd orb receptacle.

Royal Claymore in To Quomo Shrine.

Endura Shroom on stumps at Serenne Stable (in SE of shrub enclosure.) Soldier’s shield and bow just north of path far east of enclosure.

Left a Frost Blade in Kuh Takkar Shrine. Big metal block is to the left side of shrine take long way around.

Left a Frost Blade in Mijah Rokee Shrine. You have to defeat a Guardian Scout with a 30 sword and 30 shield to get at it, I think.

Left a Flame Spear in Korsh O’hu (Seven Heroines) shrine.

Left a Moonlight Scimitar in Kema Zoos Shrine. Seven Swords women quest.

Left Moonlight Scimitar and a Radiant Shield in Dako Tah Shrine.

Feed a dog 3 or four times. Mere apples will do. The treasure doesn't spawn until you feed the dog enough.

What you get: There are two dogs in the paddock in Hateno on the hill next to Lake Sumac. ONLY the collie to the north will bring you to a chest with a Silver Rupee.

Grey dog in Lurelin will give you a star fragment.
Collie behind Dueling Peaks Stable: Silver Rupee.
South Akkala Stable Dog: Knight's Claymore.

Didn't take note of East Akkala, Wetland, Outskirt, or Gerudo dogs treasures, but they were things like elemental arrows and an opal(?) Maybe Wetland was bomb arrows? One was ice arrows. (Comment below if you know which dog gives what!)

Could not find a dog at Foothill Stable. Is there one? Comment below!

If you use it, they will come.

It's time to give Twitter a run for its money.

Facebook isn’t going anywhere, because most everyone you know is on it. What makes all the hipsters want to flee it, is exactly why you need to stay on it: Visibility. For now, at least. But because many people are sick of all the ads and object to being told stage names are not allowed on Facebook, nor any other type of pseudonym (drag queens simply make easy targets), many artists, performers, and activists are staking their claim in a new territory, a new social network that welcomes “secret identities” and promises not to advertise or sell your information: Ello.

It’s clean. It’s hip. It’s interface is simple. It takes the best of Facebook, the best of Twitter, and combines them with the Tumblr-ish-ness of gif support, even for your banner picture, which can be scrolled elegantly up or down like a roller window shade. Also hipper: Round profile pics. As an homage to the new look of social media I have been posting only round pictures to my ello page and crafting only round memes to share. (Follow me @bluelustreak)

So is Ello the savior of our privacy? Probably not. But does it give people a chance to break the monopolistic triumvirate of Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr? Yes. Competition is excellent for innovation, and Pirates despise monopoly.

Part of its current appeal may also be that it is invite only for now, and if you’ve requested an invite directly from Ello, you are probably still waiting. You have to *know* someone who is already in and willing to part with one of their 5 precious invitations for you. How precious? There’s a report of Ello invitations selling on Ebay.

So we have struck our claim in this new territory, and if you have too, or do so in the future, we invite you to follow us there.

Shake things up, make Zuckerberg and the rest *work* for it (always) and join us on this new, hip, and for now fairly quiet frontier known as Ello.

Cheers, mate!

Resist GMOs

(This is a repost from a blog I'm no longer affiliated with. It was written before the DARK Act passed, making the state level legislation it was referencing irrelevant. The points of "Why label?" remain as relevant as ever, though.)

We here at MPP would like to invite you all to join us at a public hearing this coming September 22 before the House Agriculture Committee about Massachusetts’ GMO labeling bill, H. 3242. Support GMO labelling? Great! Come on out!

But if you are one of the people who is on the fence about GMO regulation, or if you are outright pro-GMO, this article is directed toward you.

There is a lot of talk in the media of folks who are anti-GMO being anti-science. The commercial media, which remember, gets millions from Monsanto, DuPont, and Bayer, focuses on the issue of safety concerns as being “backward.” No debate. The scientists who question the safety of GMOs get little airtime, if any. The Pirate argument doesn’t even touch on the matter of food safety. So let’s set that matter aside for now. There are many reasons to label GMOs aside from a safety concern, if any.

Before we get into any points of why label, please remember the stink food producers made when the law required them to merely list ingredients. Remember the stink the meat packing industry made against laws regulating safety of meat production, demands that intensified greatly after the publishing of Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle”. Power cedes nothing without a demand. With this in mind:

We oppose the privatization of the commons

For the Pirates the issue of GMOs is about privatization. We oppose the privatization of the commons: The water that has been on this planet since before humans existed that falls from the sky, the seeds that invented themselves and therefore should not be able to be patented by any person, human or corporation. The usefulness of information that humans collect depends upon all that has been learned before for context and therefore needs to be free to be used by all humanity.

Fairness

What makes a seed useful? What is the essence of any seed? Food? Material? Poison? Weed? What makes a seed of use to humanity, THAT has already been produced, by nature. What percentage of an original genome is changed in a GMO? .0099%? Not bits that changes the seed’s essential usefulness, either, the reason we cultivate that seed to begin with, but a bit that ostensibly makes the seed “more useful.” For that infinitesimal change to what nature invented, a patent is granted. Patents are significant because they confer control. They allow companies to sue. People whose crops are contaminated by GMO pollen have two choices: Pay the licensing rights to the contaminator or go to court. Court costs money. Small farmers can’t afford to fight.

Tradition

The seed companies demand that seeds not be reused. This is a waste. Farmers abhor this practice and will avoid the GMOs for this reason alone. But instead of leaving farmers to choose to use what seeds they want the biotech companies to send “emissaries” out to the farmland to strong arm and threaten the people there with financial ruin, even physical violence.

Known toxins

There is little debate about whether glyphosate is dangerous for human consumption. And it is used in conjunction with GMOs 100% of the time.

Effects on the Environment

Monoculture, a practice employed by many GMO farmers, depletes the soil. Weeds will evolve resistance to Glyphosate when it is used often, necessitating the use of even stronger, more toxic herbicides. The herbicides also wind up in our watersheds, which plenty of people object to, and do not want to support by buying GMO products.

Democracy

For people who are nodding their heads and looking to avoid GMOs just on these few principles of fair business dealing and environmental protection: The people haven’t the power to ban GMOs outright. Congress is too corrupt, gets too much money from big biotech. We are often told, though, that we always have the right to vote with our pocketbook. We have a right to know if a product we are looking to buy was produced with what we consider unfair business practices. But without consumer labelling we don’t even have this.

This is the Pirate argument: Safe or not to eat is beside our point. It’s a Massachusetts tradition to resist empire, to resist unfair taxes, mark ups, labor practices. The Tea Party tea was perfectly safe to drink yet into the harbor it went. ON PRINCIPLE. On principle we have a right to make a choice to buy locally made pop or Coca Cola, to shop at Market Basket or Walmart, to support politically resistant farmers or corporate compliant farmers. This is reason enough for us to need labels: To make informed choices.

But are GMOs safe to consume?

If they aren’t safe to consume, good luck getting any commercial media to report such findings. The media’s stated goal is profits and not the public interest. We used to have laws enforced about airwave use and public interest, but most of our news comes to us through cables now. And even regarding the airwaves, in the 90’s a Florida Fox affiliate shut down a story on Monsanto, a TRUE story about cancer risk and rBGH, and fired the reporters for refusing to drop the matter. The appeals court sided with the Fox affiliate, and this is where that famous edict “Fox won the right to lie to you, in court!”came from: From Monsanto silencing a news studio. How many news editors and reporters do you think want to risk their livelihoods investigating a company who has already succeeded in shutting down a negative story, costing a Fox affiliate hefty legal fees and two reporters their jobs? Consider that.

Once you do consider the role of the media in these matters, you may consider employing the Precautionary Principle when you shop, which is your right to do. But how difficult is this to do if foods are not labeled? This point touches on the strongly held Pirate belief of a right to transparency for the people from large operators, like governments and corporations.

These are the Pirate Party’s points for being pro-labelling: We oppose GMOs because we oppose patents and the privatization of the commons. We support transparency for governments AND corporations. There is good reason to suspect the press is biased in favor of business over the public interest, and therefore safety has NOT been conclusively established.

But safe or not to eat, you have the right as a concerned consumer to know in what manner your food was produced. And this is why your Massachusetts legislators should vote for labelling. And you need to let them know you want this, because armies of lobbyists have already descended upon the bay state to quash this bill dead. This is why we want to see YOU at this hearing

For more information visit MA Right to Know GMOs.

Lucia Fiero is the former Secretary of the Massachusetts Pirate Party and the former Secretary of the United States Pirate Party. She was forced to resign the party over her feminist views. Tweet her at @Bananaluloop

I dare you to try!

Try to post this link to Facebook, in a status or in a comment:

https://www.amazon.com/Hillary-Vince-story-death-cover-up/dp/0692744878

Mark Crispin Miller, professor of media studies at New York University, pointed out that on Facebook, he could not post directly to this book on Amazon. I Googled the titled and found I had the same problem.

Maybe the problem in the whole Amazon site? I checked. I had no trouble posting a link to this "uncontroversial" book:

https://www.amazon.com/Cake-Pops-Tricks-Recipes-Irresistible/dp/0811876373/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

or this one:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PURYL5S?psc=1

Go ahead and try it yourself, I'll wait.

Important message from Act-Ma for New England activists

"Act-MA is up to almost 950 subscribers, an increase of 200 since the election.

We have had some complaints that not enough people are listing their events on Act-MA. You can reach these people with your event announcement by simply sending an email to:

act-ma@act-ma.org

As an added bonus several local radio shows monitor Act-MA and broadcast a number of event announcements.

We would especially like to thank Linda Pinkow for regularly promoting Act-MA on her show on "What's Left Radio" Fridays from 6 to 7 PM on WMBR 88.1 FM

For information on her show and others check out.

http://www.act-ma.org/raadio.htm

We would also like to thank Dan "Bagelman" Kontoff for his extraordinary efforts to distribute Act-MA flyers at many recent demonstrations."

-Charlie Welch

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The reason you received this link is because there appears to be some disagreement between what I posted and what you believe to be true. And so, you bravely took it upon yourself to chastise the bad person on the internet for having an opinion different from yours. I expect your mother is most proud of such a laudable accomplishment. Tell her I said "Hi!"

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I do understand your desire is to have me reply directly to your comment, but I’m afraid I’m not the master of time management you are. As a result, I find I’m often behind in my work and cannot afford the specific care and attention such thoughtful prose deserves so that we may spend hours going back and forth in an ultimate quest to prove who is the greater master of the caps lock key.

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Picky, picky Lulu finally picks a smart watch

I have been wanting a rechargeable watch ever since I reached my 40s and the time that an average watch battery lasts started to fly past me. Well, no, what I really liked was the idea of changing the watch faces easily. Um... no I think I craved a way to know whether fishing my phone out of my purse was worth it to talk to the caller I was getting. I was also feeling the peer pressure to get a fitness tracker. (Peers like my mother. And my doctor.)

I have been *thinking* about getting a smart watch for a long time. And reading reviews. And being stingy.

I also wanted to see what Apple would finally offer.

Apple is so annoying. They steal your music. Their products are too pricey. And they are the last to offer an option. Still I waited because clearly there is something wrong with me.

I settled on a Pebble, which as you know was one of the earliest smart watch offerings. I use a 4s because my Samsung Galaxy failed me, and my son had moved on to a 5s, leaving his old phone up for grabs. Yeah, it only has 8 GB. I use very few apps, and I sync all my photos to Flickr, and all my contacts to Google. This works fine for me.

The Pebble Time (Round) is compatible with up to the 6 (s?) and as far back as the 4s. This gives me space to upgrade to a newer phone at some point. And Target had one on clearance this week for $99.99. I had found my smart watch at last!

It holds a charge. It doesn't have a touch screen but this is good for my fumbly, middle aged fingers. It's fairly intuitive and easy to navigate. It has lots of free faces. (Shiny!) It syncs with Apple Health on my iPhone. It's lightweight, and very sexy.

I like to change my faces often, and show off my faces to friends. There's a quick launch for that! I like to review my notifications! There's a quick launch for that, too! It doesn't make a noise, it only vibrates. This is all I want and need.

But my 50 year old eyes need a thing it doesn't do. In the daytime, in order to read it without getting out the reading glasses, I need the backlight intensity set to "blinding" (yes, this is what they call it!). At night, in the dark, I need it set to "medium". There is no quick way to do this. "Display" is low on the scrolling menu, that doesn't loop, and "Intensity" is low on *that* menu... that doesn't loop. Quick lunch cannot be set for Intensity.

I looked on Pebble Reddit and saw that, so far at least, there is no app that can compensate for this.

So, though I know 50-somethings are probably not your target demographic, know that this 50-something appreciates the simplicity of the Pebble Time Round, but could really use an app for intensity toggling to set a quick launch to.

FYI, the Pebble Time Round is currently available at Best Buy for $150. The $100. one I got at Target? I think I snagged the last one. :-D