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The Donna Reed Show (1958–1966)
Episode List
Season 8
16 Sep. 1965Pop Goes Theresa
23 Sep. 1965With This Ring
30 Sep. 1965Boy Meets Girl Machine
7 Oct. 1965Think Mink
14 Oct. 1965Four on the Floor
21 Oct. 1965Charge
28 Oct. 1965Do Me a Favor, Don't Do Me Any Favors
4 Nov. 1965Author, Author
11 Nov. 1965Trees
18 Nov. 1965The Big League Shock
25 Nov. 1965The Gladiators
2 Dec. 1965Rally Round the Girls, Boys
9 Dec. 1965Slipped Disc
Jeff's rock band plays at a local party, and a cute girl asks them if they've ever thought about making a record. They decide they should, and set out to get enough money to buy recording equipment. They decide to sell shares of stock in their "record company" to all the kids at school. Howevever, things don't turn out exactly as planned.
16 Dec. 1965Uncle Jeff Needs You
23 Dec. 1965Never Look a Gift House in the Mouth
30 Dec. 1965How to Handle a Woman
6 Jan. 1966My Son, the Councilman
15 Jan. 1966Do It Yourself Donna
22 Jan. 1966When I Was Your Age
29 Jan. 1966Calling Willie Mays
5 Feb. 1966All This and Voltaire Too?
12 Feb. 1966The Return of Mark
19 Feb. 1966Is There a Small Hotel?
26 Feb. 1966No More Parties - Almost
5 Mar. 1966So You Really Think You're Young at Heart?
12 Mar. 1966What Price Home?
19 Mar. 1966By-Line--Jeff Stone
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Justice League Western - BATMAN 2 by DenisM79Watch
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here is a new version of the Batman wild west re-design
maybe more close to the original character's attitude than the first one :
maybe more close to the original character's attitude than the first one :
Very Cool!
Very nice. I really like the improvements and the angle on this one. This really fleshes out how the duster coat looks like too.
I don't even like batman and I find this awesome! Nicely done!
He look like the Lone Ranger!
Very nicely done, love your take on the character
I hope you don't mind if i cosplay something like this?
excellent take on the dark knight
Dig the improvements.
The Time concept things you keep coming up with are just totally AWESOME!
one of my favorite episodes
I think I like the overall design of the first one, but I like the pose of this one and that he has his gloves and batarangs!
While I like the ruggedness if the first, I agree that this captures the 'Dark Knight' vibe perfectly. Well done, as always!
I like this one even more
Nice! The last one was cool but this is actually more awesome

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The House of the Scorpionby Nancy Farmer
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This modern classic takes on an iron-fisted drug lord, clones bred for their organs, and what it means to be human. Winner of the National Book Award as well as Newbery and Printz Honors.
Matteo Alacrán was not born; he was harvested. His DNA came from El Patrón, lord of a country called Opium—a strip of poppy fields lying between the United
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This modern classic takes on an iron-fisted drug lord, clones bred for their organs, and what it means to be human. Winner of the National Book Award as well as Newbery and Printz Honors.
Matteo Alacrán was not born; he was harvested. His DNA came from El Patrón, lord of a country called Opium—a strip of poppy fields lying between the United States and what was once called Mexico. Matt's first cell split and divided inside a petri dish. Then he was placed in the womb of a cow, where he continued the miraculous journey from embryo to fetus to baby. He is a boy now, but most consider him a monster—except for El Patrón. El Patrón loves Matt as he loves himself, because Matt is himself.
As Matt struggles to understand his existence, he is threatened by a sinister cast of characters, including El Patrón's power-hungry family, and he is surrounded by a dangerous army of bodyguards. Escape is the only chance Matt has to survive. But escape from the Alacrán Estate is no guarantee of freedom, because Matt is marked by his difference in ways he doesn't even suspect.
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A 2003 Newbery Honor Book
A 2003 Michael L. Printz Honor Book
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Newbery Honor author Nancy Farmer wows us with this riveting sci-fi thriller about a young clone struggling for acceptance in his tumultuous, sheltered world.
Matt's last name is Alacrán, which means that he belongs to a powerful family that controls the drug Farms between the U.S. and the former Mexico. But Matt's different; he's a clone in a world filled with dangers for his kind. His only protection from the brutal surroundings are El Patron, the elderly patriarch/drug lord kingpin from which he was made, his caretaker Celia, and a bodyguard who has been assigned to him. Things fall apart when Matt learns the real reason for his creation and he makes a harrowing escape to a promising -- yet frighteningly insecure -- world.
With all the makings of a modern classic, The House of the Scorpion is both shocking and intense, particularly because it looks toward an all-too-possible future. Matt is a courageous, sympathetic character, but his strong-willed fits of anger, which mirror El Patron's, leave a bittersweet taste amid his good intentions. Another impressive book from Farmer, this novel is true science fiction genius. Matt Warner
An inspiring tale of friendship, survivial, hope, and transcendence
Paula Rohrlick; KLIATT
* "An inspiring tale of friendship, survival, hope, and transcendence."
* "This is a powerful, ultimately hopeful story that builds on today's sociopolitical, ethical, and scientific issues and prognosticates a compelling picture of what the future could bring. All of these serious issues are held together by a remarkable coming-of-age story."
"Mind-expanding fiction."
"Strong, rough, exciting reading."
"A story rich in twists and tangles, heroes and heroines, villages and dupes, and often dazzlingly beautiful descriptive prose."
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- Publication date:
- 04/27/2004
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- 400
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- 5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.10(d)
- Lexile:
- 660L (what's this?)
- Age Range:
- 12 - 17 Years
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Chapter 3: Property of the Alacrán Estate
Celia left in the morning, and Matt spent the entire day waiting for the children. He had given up hope when, just before sunset, he heard voices approaching through the poppy fields.
He planted himself in front of the window and waited.
"There he is! See, María, I told you I wasn't lying," cried Emilia. Her hand rested on the shoulder of a much smaller girl. "He won't talk to us, but you're about his age. Maybe he won't be afraid of you." Emilia pushed the girl ahead of her and fell back to wait with Steven.
María wasn't at all shy about coming up to the window. "Hey, boy!" she yelled, rapping the glass with her fist. "What's your name? Do you want to play?"
With one blow, she stole Matt's carefully prepared speech. He stared at her, unable to think of another opening.
"Well, is it yes or no?" María turned toward the others. "Make him unlock the door."
"That's up to him," said Steven.
Matt wanted to say he didn't have the key, but he was unable to get the words out.
"At least he isn't hiding today," remarked Emilia.
"If you can't unlock the door, open the window," María said.
Matt tried, knowing it wouldn't work. Celia had nailed the window shut. He threw up his hands.
"He understands what we say," said Steven.
"Hey, boy! If you don't do something quick, we're going away," María shouted.
Matt thought desperately. He needed something to interest them. He held up his finger, as Celia did when she wanted him to wait. He nodded his head to show that he agreed with María's demand and was about to do something.
"What does that mean?" said Emilia.
"Beats me. Maybe he's a mute and can't talk," Steven guessed.
Matt raced to his bedroom. He ripped the picture of the man with the bullfrog sandwich from the wall. It made Celia laugh. Maybe it would make these children laugh. He ran back and pressed the newspaper against the window. The three children came close to study it.
"What's it say?" asked María.
"'Ribbit on Rye,'" read Steven. "Do you get it? It's a bullfrog going ribbit, ribbit, ribbit, and it's between two slices of rye bread. That's pretty funny."
Emilia giggled, but María looked uncertain. "People don't eat bullfrogs," she said. "I mean, not when they're alive."
"It's a joke, dum-dum."
"I'm not a dum-dum! It's mean and nasty to eat bullfrogs! I don't think it's funny at all."
"Save me from eejits," said Steven, rolling his eyes.
"I'm not an eejit, either!"
"Oh, lighten up, María," Emilia said.
"You brought me out here to see a boy, and it was miles and miles across the fields, and I'm tired and the boy won't talk. I hate you!"
Matt stared at the scene with consternation. That wasn't the result he wanted at all. María was crying, Emilia looked angry, and Steven had turned his back on both of them. Matt rapped on the window. When María looked up, he waved the picture and then wadded it into a ball. He threw it with all his force across the room.
"See, he agrees with me," cried María through her tears.
"This is getting weirder by the minute," said Steven. "I knew we shouldn't have brought the eejit."
"I thought the boy would talk to a kid his own size," Emilia said. "Come on, María. We have to get back before dark."
"I'm not walking anywhere!" The little girl flopped down on the ground.
"Well, I won't carry you, fatso."
"Just leave her," said Steven. He started walking off, and after a moment Emilia followed him.
Matt was appalled. If the big kids went away, María would be all alone. It was going to be dark soon, and Celia wouldn't return for hours. María would be alone with nothing but the empty poppy fields and the...
The chupacabras, who came out after dark and sucked your juices and left you to dry like an old cantaloupe skin!
Suddenly Matt knew what he had to do. María had walked a few steps away from the window before sitting down again. She was shouting insults at the vanished Steven and Emilia. Matt grabbed the big iron cooking pot Celia used to make menudo and swung it before he could worry much about her reaction. She would be furious! But he was saving María's life. He smashed out the glass in the window. It fell in a tinkling, jangling mass to the ground. María jumped to her feet. Steven and Emilia rose up instantly from the poppy field, where they'd been hiding.
"Holy frijoles!" said Steven. All three stood openmouthed, staring at the empty hole where the window had been.
"My name is Matt. I live here. Do you want to play?" said Matt because he couldn't think of another thing to say.
"He can talk," said Emilia after the first shock had died away.
"Is that how you usually open a window, kid?" Steven said. "Stay back, María. There's glass all over." He stepped carefully to the opening and knocked out the remaining shards with a stick. Then he leaned inside to look around. Matt had to hold on to himself to keep from bolting to the other room. "This is creepy! The window's nailed shut. What are you, some kind of prisoner?"
"I live here," Matt said.
"You told us that already."
"Do you want to play?"
"Maybe he's like a parrot and only knows a few words," suggested Emilia.
"I want to play," said María. Matt looked at her with approval. The girl was struggling in Emilia's arms, obviously trying to get to him. Steven shook his head and moved away. He looked like he was really going to leave this time.
Matt came to a decision. It was frightening, but he'd never had an opportunity like this before and he might never have
it again. He shoved a chair to the opening, scrambled up, and jumped.
"No!" shouted Steven, running forward to catch him. He was too late.
A terrible pain lanced through Matt's feet. He fell forward, and his hands and knees landed on the shards of glass.
"He wasn't wearing shoes! Oh, man! Oh, man! What're we going to do!" Steven pulled Matt up and swung him onto a clear patch of ground.
Matt stared with amazement at the blood dripping from his feet and hands. His knees sprouted rivulets of red.
"Pull out the glass!" cried Emilia in a high, scared voice. "María, stay away!"
"I want to see!" yelled the little girl. Matt heard a slap and María's shriek of outrage. His head was swimming. He wanted to throw up, but before he could, everything went black.
He woke to the sensation of being carried. He was sick to his stomach, but worse than that his body was trembling in a frightening way. He screamed as loud as he could.
"Great!" panted Steven, who supported Matt's shoulders. Emilia had his legs. Her shirt and pants were soaked with blood, his blood. Matt screamed again.
"Be quiet!" Steven shouted. "We're running as fast as we can!"
The poppies, now blue in the long shadows of the hills, stretched away in all directions. Steven and Emilia were jogging along a dirt path. Matt's breath caught with sobs. He could hardly get air.
"Stop!" cried Emilia. "We have to let María catch up." The two children squatted down and let Matt's weight rest on the ground. Presently, Matt heard the patter of smaller feet.
"I want to rest too," demanded María. "It's miles and miles. I'm going to tell Dada you slapped me."
"Be my guest," said Emilia.
"Everyone be quiet," Steven ordered. "You've stopped bleeding, kid, so I guess you're not in too much danger. What's your name again?"
"Matt," María answered for him.
"We aren't far from the house, Matt, and you're in luck. The doctor's spending the night. Do you hurt a lot?"
"I don't know," said Matt.
"Yes, you do. You screamed," María said.
"I don't know what a lot is," Matt explained. "I haven't hurt like this before."
"Well, you've lost blood -- but not too much," Steven added as Matt began to tremble again.
"It sure looks like a lot," said María.
"Shut up, eejit."
The older children rose, carrying Matt between them. María followed, complaining loudly about the distance and at being called an eejit.
A kind of heavy sleepiness fell over Matt as he was swayed along. The pain had died down, and Steven said he hadn't lost too much blood. He was too dazed to worry about what Celia would say when she saw the broken window.
They reached the edge of the poppy fields as the last streaks of sunlight slid behind the hills. The dirt path gave way to a wide lawn. It was a shimmering green, growing deeper with the blue light of evening. Matt had never seen so much green in his life.
It's a meadow, he thought, drowsily. And it smells like rain.
They started up a flight of wide, marble steps that shone softly in the darkening air. On either side were orange trees, and all at once lamps went on among the leaves. Lights outlined the white walls of a vast house above, with pillars and statues and doorways going who knew where. In the center of an arch was the carved outline of a scorpion.
"Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!" came a flurry of women's voices as they swept down the stairs to lift Matt from Steven's and Emilia's arms.
"Who is he?" asked the maids. They were wearing black dresses with white aprons and starched, white caps. One of them, a severe-looking female with deep creases down either side of her mouth, carried Matt as the others went ahead to open doors.
"I found him in a house in the poppy fields," replied Steven.
"That's Celia's place," a maid said. "She's too stuck-up to live with the rest of us."
"If she's hiding a child, I'm not surprised. Who's your father, kid?" said the woman who was carrying Matt. Her apron smelled like sunlight, the way Celia's did when it came straight from the clothesline. Matt stared at a pin fastened to the woman's collar, a silver scorpion with its tail curved up. Beneath the scorpion was a name tag that said ROSA. Matt didn't feel well enough to talk, and what did it matter who his father was, anyhow? He didn't know the answer, either.
"He doesn't talk much," said Emilia.
"Where's the doctor?" Steven said.
"We'll have to wait. He's treating your grandfather. At least we can clean the kid up," said Rosa.
The maids opened a door to reveal the most beautiful room Matt had ever seen. It had carved wooden beams on the ceiling and wallpaper decorated with hundreds of birds. To Matt's reeling eyes, they seemed to be moving. He saw a couch upholstered with flowers that shaded from lavender to rose like the feathers on a dove's wings. It was to this couch that Rosa was carrying him.
"I'm too dirty," Matt murmured. He had been yelled at before for climbing on Celia's bed with muddy feet.
"You can say that again," snapped Rosa. The other women opened a crisp, white sheet and laid it over the wonderful couch before Matt was laid down. He thought he could get into just as much trouble for getting blood on that sheet.
Rosa fetched a pair of tweezers and began pulling out fragments of glass from his hands and feet. "Ay!" she murmured as she dropped the bits into a cup. "You're brave not to cry."
But Matt didn't feel brave at all. He didn't feel anything. His body seemed far away, and he watched Rosa as though she were an image on a TV screen.
"He sure screamed earlier," observed María. She was dancing around, trying to see everything that happened.
"Don't act so superior. You yell your head off if you get an itty-bitty splinter in your finger," Emilia said.
"Do not!"
"Do so!"
"I hate you!"
"Ask me if I care," said Emilia. Both she and Steven watched in fascination as blood began to well out of Matt's cuts again. "I'm going to be a doctor when I grow up," announced Emilia. "This is very good experience for me."
The other maids had brought a bucket of water and towels, but they didn't attempt to clean Matt up until Rosa gave them permission.
"Be careful. The right foot is badly cut," said Rosa.
The air hummed in Matt's ears. He felt the warm water and suddenly the pain returned. It stabbed from his foot all the way to the top of his head. He opened his mouth to scream, but nothing came out. His throat had closed with shock.
"Oh, God! There must be glass left inside," cried Rosa. She grabbed Matt's shoulders and ordered him not to be afraid. She seemed almost angry.
The fogginess that had surrounded Matt had vanished. His feet, his hands, his knees throbbed with more pain than he had known existed.
"I told you he was crying earlier," said María.
"Be quiet!" said Emilia.
"Look! There's writing on his foot," the little girl cried. She tried to get close, but Emilia thrust her back.
"I'm the one who's going to be a doctor. Rats! I can't read it. There's too much blood." She snatched a washcloth and wiped Matt's foot.
The pain wasn't as bad this time, but he couldn't help moaning.
"You're hurting him, you bully!" shrieked María.
"Wait! I can just make it out...'Property of' -- the writing is so tiny! -- 'Property of the Alacrán Estate.'"
"'Property of the Alacrán Estate'? That's us. It doesn't make any sense," said Steven.
"What's going on?" came a voice Matt hadn't heard before. A large, fierce-looking man burst into the room. Steven immediately straightened up. Emilia and even María looked alarmed.
"We found a kid in the poppy fields, Father," said Steven. "He hurt himself, and I thought the doctor...the doctor -- "
"You idiot! You need a vet for this little beast!" the man roared. "How dare you defile this house?"
"He was bleeding -- " began Steven.
"Yes! All over the sheet! We'll have to burn it. Take the creature outside now."
Rosa hesitated, obviously bewildered.
The man leaned forward and whispered into her ear.
A look of horror crossed Rosa's face. She instantly scooped up Matt and ran. Steven dashed ahead to open the doors. His face had turned white. "How dare he talk to me like that," he hissed.
"He didn't mean it," said Emilia, who was dragging María along behind.
"Oh, yes he did. He hates me," Steven said.
Rosa hurried down the steps and dumped Matt roughly onto the lawn. Without a word, she turned and fled back to the house.
Copyright © 2002 by Nancy Farmer
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* "An inspiring tale of friendship, survival, hope, and transcendence."Kirkus, starred review
* "This is a powerful, ultimately hopeful story that builds on today's sociopolitical, ethical, and scientific issues and prognosticates a compelling picture of what the future could bring. All of these serious issues are held together by a remarkable coming-of-age story." Booklist, starred review
"Mind-expanding fiction."—USA Today
Meet the Author
Nancy Farmer has written three Newbery Honor books: The Ear, the Eye and the Arm; A Girl Named Disaster; and The House of the Scorpion, which, in 2002, also won the National Book Award and the Printz Honor. Other books include The Lord of Opium, The Sea of Trolls, The Land of the Silver Apples, The Islands of the Blessed, Do You Know Me, The Warm Place, and three picture books for young children. She grew up on the Arizona-Mexico border and now lives with her family in the Chiricahua Mountains of Arizona.
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I am a 14 year old Peruvian who now comprehends the meaning of endurance. Matteo Alacrán, a clone, must embrace death, torture, hatred and treachery to prove he's not a brainless clone like others. This book takes you in Matteo or Matt's life starting when he's a young boy; you'll see the pain he undergoes and a bit of romance. The scenery takes place in future Mexico called Aztlán governed by El Patrón, a drug lord. I highly recommend this book to sci-fi lovers because this book is a real page turner.
This a great book! It has action and adventure, little romance, and it'll keep you guessing. Nancy Farmer did it again. Oh, and there might be sequel, so look oit for that!
The House of the Scorpion has almost NOTHING TO DO WITH SCORPIANS!!! This book was simply amazing. A very suck-into kind of book. It's full of suspensful moments. The tables turn every-so-often but it was very clear. I would reccomend it to everyone.
House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer was definitely one of the best books I have ever read. This book will lure in even the most inactive of readers. All of the characters engross you with their stories and tug at your emotions, keeping you turning pages to find out what happens to them. For those who visualize when they read, there are many descriptive passages that pull you right in the settings. The entire novel is filled with symbolism and themes that pull at the heart strings. With an extremely unexpected ending, House of the Scorpion is sure to have something for every reader.
it is great. it is not for only young people either. for all ages.
The house of the scorpion by Nancy Farmer is the best book ever. It is filled of action and emotion which makes it impossible to put down. The house of the scorpion has lots of action but is not so fast passed that you cannot keep up with it. It also has some slow moving sad parts that make a difference so it does not get boring. If you have a fast moving action book that all it has is action than it will not be that go because there is nothing to look forward to. The house of the scorpion also is a little bit of a mystery. I love mysteries so that's a big plus. For people who do not like mysteries it is not a problem because it is just a side plot and does not take up much of the book. A character I really like is Tam Lin. He is a big tough guy but he is really understanding and can be really nice. SJ
The book I'm about to talk about is a three time honor award winner by Nancy Farmer. That's right I'm talking about "The House of the Scorpion". This book is one of the best books I have ever read (I'm not just saying that either). Matt (the main character of the book; also the clone) has to go through horrible torture throughout the book. He goes from hidden to hated to loved and back to hated. Celia (Matt's best friend whom he calls his mom) is the only person that cares at all about Matt. That is until he meets Maria. Maria (Matt's girlfriend) is a young, beautiful girl, without a care in the world until she meets Matt and she falls in "love" with him. Then there's Tam-Lin (Matt's "body guard") who is one of Matt's best friends. Last, but not least, El Patròn (the ruler of the opium empire) he is also known as the "villain" of the book. El Patròn is the real Matteo alacràn. He "lent" Matt to Celia who raised him up for 7 years. Then some kids discover him and they take him to their house after he jumps on some glass and cuts up his feet. They discover that Matt is a clone and then everyone starts mistreating him except Celia and Maria. This is where the roller coaster starts all aboard. They lock Matt up in a room and they torture him for about 4 months. Then El Patròn finds him and fires the slave that was mistreating him and torturing him, and makes her into an ejite (an ejite is someone or something that has a chip implanted in their brain so they do what they're told and only when they're told to do it). Matt, from then on, is treated like a prince. Matt gets anything he wants when he wants it. Everyone is forced to be nice to him (they're still not nice unless El Patròn is around) and he gets his own personal body guard. Matt discovers that El Patròn only made him to sacrifice him for his organs. Then Matt runs away and makes it to the next country over. El Patròn dies because he doesn't have the organs that he needs. Matt gets caught by the boarder guard and gets put in an orphanage. They make him eat food that's usually fed to animals. They make him work all day. If he disobeys, they punish him by beating him until he bleeds; sometimes putting him in the nurse's office. He escapes and makes it to a hospital ran by Maria's mom and he gets fed right until he's healed up. He then finds Maria once again. Maria and her mom ask Matt for a favor that risks his life. He does it and makes it past the life risking part. He discovers that Tam-Lin died. Then he becomes the ruler of the opium and shuts down/destroys the opium empire, just like Maria's mom asked. If you want to read the full story, I suggest reading the book. There is a lot more that I haven't told you about. This is one of the best books I have ever read in my enire life. If you wait another day to read this book you will regret it for a long time. Once you read this book you will thank yourself for the rest of your life!
Have you ever dreamt of what the future may be like? You may picture it as a glorious world full of wonderful new inventions that make life easier to cope with. Or you may think of the future as being a place completely inhospitable to all life forms. In this book, the author's idea of the future is somewhere between the two. At the beginning, Matt (the main character) is born (or rather "harvested", as the book puts it). He lives in a shack in the middle of a poppy field on a farm that produces opium, a major drug made out of poppies. This farm is in a small country called Opium that is in between Mexico and the United States. He lives in this shack until he winds up at "The Big House," the mansion that is located on the plantation. He is rejected by all people there, and it is then that he realizes that he is not human. He goes on to meet a girl named Maria, a bodyguard named Tam-Lin, and a drug-lord named El Patron. While living in the Big House, he learns that he is the clone of El Patron. He lives the good life until El Patron starts to get sick, and needs a new heart. Matt is then called upon to be the donor for the new heart. Matt has to escape the Big House. He escapes the Big House and Opium, but is then enslaved by people in a city called Atzlan, and is forced to work for "the greater good of the people." Can Matt escape this new enslavement? There are several characters in this story. Matt is the main protagonist. He is an ever changing character, as he gets older. As a young boy living in the shack in the poppy field, he is lonely, and wants friends to play with. Once he starts living in the Big House, he gets into trouble a lot. He meets several friends, one of them a girl named Maria, who visits the Big House on certain occasions. She is Matt's best friend, but later in the story, she becomes a little more than just a friend. She is easily upset by many things, and is very gullible. Most of all, though, she wants to protect Matt from El Patron. El Patron is a drug lord who controls all of Opium, and has lived over seven lifetimes. He is also the main antagonist of the story. He creates Matt as a clone of himself. At first, Matt thinks that El Patron created him just because he was a kind old man, but later, he learns that El Patron's reason is far more sinister than he could ever imagine. El Patron has two bodyguards: Daft Donald, and Tam-Lin. Matt is given Tam-Lin as his bodyguard. Tam-Lin is a Scottish man who was picked up by El Patron in Scotland while he and Daft Donald were "breaking heads outside a soccer field." El Patron realized they were tough, so he hired them. Tam-Lin is a kind, good-natured man, but he has a secret past, one that Matt is determined to find out. This book is a wonderfully exciting and original glimpse into the future. It never gets dull, and you won't want to put it down until you've finished it. I would recommend it to anyone who is interested in the future, and of course, clones. But this book isn't all about the future. There are many parts of the book that include action, drama, and even a bit of romance. I personally found this book very rewarding to read. Nancy Farmer has done a wonderful job of blending excitement, sadness, and mystery into one single piece of literature. So, just to summarize, this is a wonderful book for anyone who is interested in great literature, and who wants to find a book that will make them want to keep reading.
The house of the Scorpions was awesome! It was a book about full of mystery surprises and EXCITEMENT. Matt the clone of El Patron was born out of a cow. They story was located in the land of opium. Matt was treated bad because he was a clone, he had few friends but his friends were Tam Lin, Maria, Celia and of course of El patron. When it came time for Matt to be killed he ran and his in the mountains. El patron was 147 years old he lived off of different body parts from clones except for this time. He died of liver failure. We read this book over summer, at first I did not want to read this book because it was long and looked boring. But you know what they say don¿t judge a book by its cover and boy were they RIGHT! After one chapter I was hooked. This book is great full of so many challenged for each main character. In the end, we thought this book was SUPER, DUPER, UBER!!!!
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The House of the Scorpion, was able to move me in ways I never thought a book could. It took control over my life, and I could never find myself capable to put it down. It forces the reader to think, feel, and sympathize with the book¿s protagonist. This is a book that will change a child from a non-reader to a reader. The reader follows the life of young Matt Alacran, an orphan who lives with his foster mother, Celia. Although Matt is very nice, there is something wrong with him. Something unlike normal children. Matt is a clone. A genetic copy of the 142-year-old ¿El Patron¿. Throughout the book Matt meets many people, who treat him as an animal and as a mistake. In Matt¿s life he knows only three people who show him compassion: Celia, Tam Lin, Maria. Celia is Matt¿s foster mother who only wants the best for him, but is sometimes too defensive. Matt¿s body guard, Tam Lin, appears brutal and violent on the outside, but on the inside he is compassionate and understanding. And Maria, Matt¿s first crush. Although sometimes scornful, she builds a friendship with Matt and unlike the other children, she treats Matt like a person, not an animal. The only negative in the book was that it continued to get darker and more disturbing as the story progressed. And the author described the book so in depth, you would literally walk away from the book feeling upset and discouraged. In a way, the book was so good, it almost made the reader feel bad This book proves that Nancy Farmer is truly a Sci-Fi genius. I strongly recommend this book to all readers, both boys and girls. I have never read anything that can control a reader like this novel. The House of the Scorpion, will blow you away.
I started out reading this book because I had to for summer school; I wouldn't have chosen this book because I have a certain taste for books. Once I started this book I couldn't stop. I was on the edge of my seat the whole time. It speaks of friendship in a sea of hatred and danger. I would read this book over and over again if I could. It is worth it.
The House of the Scorpion has almost NOTHING TO DO WITH SCORPIANS!!! This book was simply amazing. A very suck-into kind of book. It's full of suspensful moments. The tables turn every-so-often but it was very clear. I would reccomend it to everyone.
The house of the scorpion is a lovely story about a clone. A clone by the name of Matteo Alacran. His DNA came from a strong leader called EL Patron. Matt has a difficult time getting the fact that he is a clone. Also everyone for some reason hates clones. so Matt has to go through alot to survive and act like a human boy. i highly reccomend it to people who like suprises and twist endings.
Very good book... I do Reccomend :)
I read this book already but ima get it again ! Very qood
This book is an award winner for a reason. Chillingly in depth and captivating, this story of a young clone with thrill any fiction reader of any age. Someone else gave this book a review saying it's bloody and gory, they're exaggerating the details quite a bit. The blood and violence in this book is very mild, the only intensity in the book are the situations young Matteo encounters and handle's. Please note that this book is sold in the "Young Readers" section so you should know for a fact that any and all violence is mild or it would otherwise be sold in a more adult category. However, I do recommend this book for Teens as well as Adults, it is just THAT well written! Enjoy!
this is an amazing book! i was enticed by how good this book was.it had great climax andut rells a great story Bout a young boy trying to find out who he is!,!
In the House of the Scorpion the main character has a lot of trouble figuring out who he really is and has to go though a lot of different obstacles. He finds out who is on his side and how evil people can really be, he runs into action, drama and a big adventure to find the only person who loves him for him. I though that this book had its ups and downs and was very interesting at the end!
Readers beware: You will not be able to put this book down once you start it! Nancy Farmer¿s award winning novel The House of the Scorpion is an inspiring tale of friendship, survival, and hope. It is an excellent read, you will be up all night running through the pages. We are sucked into the book right from page one where the main character, Matt, is in a petri dish. We see him grow from a boy to a teenager, but most consider him as a monster - except for El Patron, the lord of Opium. El Patron loves Matt as he loves himself, because Matt is himself. The House of the Scorpion is a really powerful and hopeful story that guesses a pretty good picture of what the future could bring. Even if you are not a fantasy/science-fiction fan I think you will love this book. Farmer¿s great writing makes Matt so real. She lets the reader go totally inside Matt¿s life we feel his joy, his pain, his fears, his confusion, his longings. He's the kid in all of us trying to do his best and find his place in a world that often makes no sense. This novel is probably best for ages of 11 and up. You should be warned that it is a depressing and sad story and may not appeal to you if you are `weak-hearted`. Overall it was a great read, The House of the Scorpion has it all: science fiction based on good science, adventure, friendship, suspense, intrigue, mystery, murder and a hint of romance. Don¿t miss it!
This book was really good! It's science fiction, and it's incredibly deep. You find yourself wondering about some of the things in this book, and how creepy it would be if the world were like it...Like all books it had its rough spots (ending, meoderately slow start) but the plot really packed a lot (a new suprise almost every page flip). I would reccomend this book in a heartbeat!!!
I finished the whole book in two days & I was so impressed with the ending and it ma me cry at points. I loved it so much.
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Don't even consider it. Maynard doesn't want your sympathy.
The University of Georgia freshman simply itches to continue what he calls his "pursuit of normalcy," to wrestle, to play video games, to be 18.
Forget that Maynard was born with a rare disorder - congenital amputation - that left him with three major joints: a neck and two shoulders.
Consider what he does with those joints.
Like lifting more than three times his body weight of 123 pounds. Compiling a 35-16 record last year, wrestling for Collins Hill High School in Gwinnett County. And like discarding any tools of disability, save for the electric wheelchair he uses to scoot around UGA's campus.
But, Maynard will tell you, he's achieved nothing as an athlete.
Not until he makes the Olympics or becomes a bloodied warrior in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, a fight-until-the-other-guy-can't-fight-anymore match between two blokes you'd never want to offend.
"Sometimes I'll just sit here and watch these fights," Maynard said, relaxing last week in his Reed Hall dorm room. "I've always liked combat sports. And I've always competed against able-bodied athletes."
Just like other kids
Anita and Scott Maynard didn't learn of their only son's stunted limbs until he was born. Kyle was the most beautiful baby in the world, Anita Maynard remembered.
"He was just glowing when he was born," she said.
As a toddler, the Maynards outfitted their son well - "We always tried to dress him nice," Anita Maynard said. That included prosthetic arms and legs.
By age 2, Kyle was coloring with a crayon.
By kindergarten, the prosthetics were dispatched. They crippled his activity.
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Maynard rests between sets of chest flys at the Ramsey Center weight room Wednesday.
"We just decided to give him the most normal life possible," Anita Maynard said. "I think so many people fall into that trap. ... If you're treated disabled, you're going to act disabled."
When their son entered middle school, the Maynards moved from Fort Wayne, Ind., to suburban Atlanta. Kyle tried out for football.
For three years, he played on the offensive line - nose guard - crawling on all fours to his position.
Football worried Anita Maynard.
Wrestling doesn't.
"I'm more concerned about the other kid," she said. "Because they're going down."
Off to college
The offers were there - NCAA Division I wrestling scholarships - but Kyle Maynard opted for UGA, where wrestling is a club sport.
He did this because he wanted to compete.
"I knew that right now, I wouldn't be able to start at those other schools," he said. "Here, I'm able to start."
But college to Maynard is about more than arm bars and choke holds. It's about academics, independence, meeting girls.
Enrolled in four classes this fall - among them, philosophy and introduction to German - Maynard intends to major in business and finance. He wants to open his own franchise of fitness and wellness centers.
He spent the days leading up to last Thursday - the first day of classes - working out, learning the campus and introducing himself to students, many of the female variety.
"I'm kind of branching out. There's a lot of people to meet," he said.
Family and religion play parts in Maynard's life. He considers himself a Christian and prays every morning. Before wrestling matches. Before going to bed. For safety. For victory. For the strength to succeed.
Mom calls often to say hello. But Maynard is a busy guy.
"If she wants to sit on the phone and chit-chat, while I'm trying to mack on some girls, it's like, 'All right, Mom; I love you, bye,' " he said.
Beyond the routine
Kyle Maynard's dorm room is typical guy - "Fight Club" movie poster, roommate's guitar, UGA throw blanket - until you flip through the latest issue of Vanity Fair and come across page 148.
It's Maynard, in black and white, donning his wrestling headgear and singlet. Fresh out of high school. In Vanity Fair.
The celebrity doesn't end there.
Earlier this month, he was photographed for the winter catalog of Abercrombie & Fitch. Maynard is handsome. When working out, he favors muscle shirts for a reason.
A month earlier, he captured an ESPY award from ESPN for being the nation's best athlete with a disability.
Maynard's been featured on HBO Sports, a guest on the Howard Stern radio show and has visited the Playboy Mansion. He also travels the nation preaching his "no excuses" attitude for the Washington Speakers Bureau, the world's premiere lecture agency.
More than weight
It was Wednesday afternoon, and Kyle Maynard needed to lift. He downed a protein shake, after delicately pouring the mixture into a water bottle. Patience is a must.
Maynard's best friend since sixth grade, Joey Leonardo, was visiting.
The pair headed out of Reed Hall - Leonardo steering his buddy's non-motorized wheelchair. It's easier to fit in the car.
"You're so lucky, man," Leonardo said, taking note that Reed Hall sits adjacent to Sanford Stadium, where UGA football games are played.
Once at the Ramsey Center, UGA's mega-workout facility, Leonardo - a Piedmont College tennis player - gathered three 45-pound weights. He could barely lift them.
He rolled another three weights toward Maynard, and used a harness fashioned by Maynard's father to attach the rig - 135 pounds on each arm.
Maynard pounded his chest and lifted. Sweat dripped from his brow and he grunted. His clean-shaven face resembled the color of a plum.
He counted: 112 reps of 270 pounds.
Gym-goers watched in awe as Maynard did pushups on the weight bench, repeatedly thrusting his 2-foot-tall body in the air.
Then he did shoulder shrugs; 225 pounds of a bar that teetered on his collar bone.
"Are you Kyle Maynard? I was so excited when I heard you were coming to Georgia," one student said. "I'm so honored to meet you."
Maynard, in stride, fired out his right arm, the same arm he uses to type 50 words per minute, to shake the freshman's hand.
"It's cool," he said afterward of his fame. "But my preference is just getting into a small room and killing myself with weights."
Maynard hopped off the bench and headed toward the dumbbells.
Leonardo lifted a 75-pound weight off the rack and handed it to his friend. Maynard curled it to his chest as if gravity didn't exist.
He lifted it again. And again. And again.
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which was the new word? Twine is attested from the 13th century so it can't be that...
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Keep the utopians out of my fridge
Demon Currys iPad showered kids with HARD-CORE smut
These days? Facebook.
NASA's nuclear laser tank will hunt down any life on Mars
Have no fear, the landing will be perfectly executed. The subsequent dismantling by a Sorn and use of the bits as spears by the Hrossa may be a little embarrassing though...
What's that? Weston, you animal, bring back my trousers!
Man sues boss for 'condemning him to eternal damnation'
Aye, so much of the bible makes a lot more sense with even a little understanding of the cultural milieu it was written in.
The scripture in question prohibited mixing wool and linen, not any arbitrary fabrics, but *only* wool and linen. It's likely this is due to a ritual requirement that the priests of the day shouldn't wear clothes that make them sweat when they're doing their priestly things which, in a warm environment, would rule out wool in any form for ritual clothing.
It's also possibly because wool tends to shrink in hot, humid environments, whilst linen doesn't, which would result in clothing that goes all squiffy.
Modern translations aside, again, the scripture only refers to wool and linen. And at one point it refers to garments rather than threads.
Cultural context is always necessary when studying these things.
In the original text it's not actually written as "666" but as something like νρων κσρ in greek or, in modern hebrew letters, נרון קשר.
This is because, in those days, there was no separate numerical system and both cultures used letters of the alphabet as numbers, adding up various letters until the required total is reached (which is part of the logic behind numerology-based mystery cults like Kabbalah and so forth). A modern equivalent might use A as 1, B as 2 all the way up to J as 9, then K as 10, L as 100, M as 1000 and so forth.
The smart amongst you may have already noticed that the letters above spell "nron ksr" and "nrwn qsr" respectively. When the book of Revelation was written, it was done so in greek, as any literate writer in Israel of the day would have known Greek as well as Aramaic and old Hebrew. The writer may have written in Greek, however he was still thinking in Aramaic and wrote the name "nero ceasar" (or neron kaiser as it would have been in literate circles there, as they all spoke Greek rather than Latin), transliterated from aramaic to greek, as the "number of the beast". Aramaic, like Hebrew and most other semitic languages has no vowels, so the result would be the equivalent of NRWN QSR. With the transition to hindu-arabic numerals the transliteration lost its meaning and the total number was rendered simply as "666".
In some translations from greek to latin a mistake was made by the translator, who assumed that the text should say NRW QSR, resulting in some later texts having the number add up to 616.
So, to end it all, the whole "number of the beast" thing is actually a bit of historical curiosity now rather than a fundamental element of identification of some future "antichrist" figure. It's worth remembering that there is no mention of a single man named "antichrist" in the entire book of revelation. The entire book refers to events that took place around 69 AD, when the romans laid seige to Jerusalem. The beast of the sea was Nero, the beast of the land was the Jewish religious hierarchy, the "harlot" was that same hierarchy, the weeping merchants were the Jewish people and foreigners who traded in Jerusalem as it stood on the crossroads between east and west and so on and so forth. Those "end times" referred to throughout the new testament were a reference to the eventual sack of Jerusalem and the annexation of Israel as part of the Roman Empire, something anyone with a bit of foresight and brain could have predicted if they paid attention to the political motions of the day.
Basically the entire book refers to events in the past. It's over. Finito. Finished. We're living after the end of the book.
Marvellous. :)
Apple iPhone owners are the most loyal smartphone buyers
Sony ericsson xperia mini pro. Just works. :)
Richard Branson plans submarine tours of dead whale corpse
Struck *with* a ship?
Forget the whale, I'm more worried about the creature lurking in the ocean that uses a ship as a club.
iPhone 4S is for failures who work in coffee shops - Samsung
Come out? You're anonymous! How is that coming out about anything?
Superhero oil-burping algae will save the world
Scientific consensus once had it that the moon couldn't affect the tides because there was no visible mechanism.
Galileo came up with that one...
Two things to learn from this: Consensus is meaningless in science, and even the greatest of great men can completely fuck up when they invoke it.
Coders are creatives too: Where's our love?...
"given the fundamentally autistic nature of the majority in this field."
You lost me there mate, which is a shame, as you were making some sense.
What did they decide in the end?
It doesn't help that many software devs have spent the last 30 years insisting that they're actually "software engineers", against all evidence to the contrary.
the thing is, it's really not an either/or outcome. Software devs have to have many of the more obsessive characteristics of the engineer and the flighty genious of the art diva combined. The urge to classify people as one or other is the real problem.
Rumoured iPhone 5 'will have 4in screen' against Jobs' wish
Apple does listen! It even nods from time to time and takes notes, before presenting you with a Professional Listening invoice, plus 30% tip.
Hypersonic missile successfully hits Ronald Reagan
Actually there goes GPS, hubble, most of our low-level communications arrays, weather and environmental satellites, the freaking ISS even.
Great plan!
Clegg orders fresh review of UK extradition treaty
There are very good reasons for the reluctance to send McKinnon to the US for trail, not least the extremely prejudicial nature of this particular aspect of US justice and the likelihood of an over-long and unjust sentence for what was a fairly low-level offence.
I'm saying this as someone who generally thinks the United States are a good place: McKinnon would not be treated justly there. He'd face a political show-trial, and his aspergers would probably be used against him in the process.
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The operative phrase was "doesn't burn well", which is true. Diesel is almost inert unless it's either atomised, or heated until it starts to evaporate, or heated and put under pressure.
Notice that diesel engines don't have sparkplugs? They don't work. You can get a petrol engine running with diesel by priming it with regular petrol and then relying on the pressure of the cylinders to ignite the diesel once it's running, but it'll get pretty annoyed at you in short order and probably won't work after you've stopped it, mostly because it's not mixing enough air and not operating at a high enough pressure to fully ignite the diesel fuel - which is also, incidentally, why putting diesel in a petrol engine produces lots and lots and lots of lovely smoke so everyone can see what a numpty you've been.
The reason is, the fractions we generally call Diesel aren't particularly volatile. You can toss a match in the stuff and it'll go out. You can do the same with a puddle of regular unleaded tool but it's a lot more risky because of all the vapours hovering above it. To get it to become volatile enough to burn you have to warm it up until it starts to evaporate. A diesel engine relies on compression effect to heat the diesel until it vapourises and explodes. That's were the bang comes from.
Which isn't surprising when you remember that the diesel engine was originally invented to burn brewery waste...
Think your CV is crap? Your interview skills are worse
Works for me.
And the answer is "Flashman on the March". Unrepentent lech rogering his way up and down Abyssinia in the name of the Queen's peace.
Oh dear, did I not get the job?
I don't generally remember the last book I read vecause I'm already on to the next one. Surely thats a more desireable trait in a go-getting trend-setting hip and desireable candidate for the meat mill?
Samsung v iPhone 4S French entrenchment: 'TOTAL WAR'
Apple have patented your ass?
Jim Westwood, home micro revolutionary
No, what shoved us down the crapper was the never-ending stream of golden yellow emanating from westminster palace and spraying far and wide.
Capitalism is simply the private ownership and use of capital - that is, money, resources and time, expended at the whim of the private owner of those things. Nothing more and nothing less.
What you're objecting to, without apparently realising it, isn't capitalism but essentially a form of fascism, where the state has merged its with monopoly corporate entities that it helped to create through regulation and control of the economy - said regulation being designed to prevent effective competition to the large corporate entities that have made themselves so willingly available to the piss-passers dangling themselves above hoi poloi.
That isn't capitalism. It's statism, which is the opposite of capitalism, and the end result isn't very pretty.
My home is bugged ... with temp sensors to save me cash
Then the only solution:
1. blazing row
2. make-up sex
4. You don't care any more (aka PROFIT!!!)
New claim: iPhone 5 was a goer until Jobs bottled it
That's never stopped apple patenting everything under the sun up to now.
Fusion boffins crack shreddy eddy plasma puzzle
Brudine, whilst the correlation is not absolute, the majority of countries with a high average of children born per woman are third world, generally african and central asian.
Next time, look before mouthing off.
Perhaps you could forgo forcing the entire wrld to pay for the inentive to vissit your neighbours now and then and just go outside, you lazy bum!
Mars, Moon, solar system could be littered with alien artifacts
We aren't. Stop asking.
Ten... high-end Android tablets
What are you talking about? It works great in portrait!
'Puzzling structures on surface' of YU55 spaceball
Not so simple. It's stupendously rare for objects in space to meet at anything other than relatively enormous speeds, which is why the problem exists - at such speeds the objects in question would shatter regardless of their composition.
And, whatever idea is picked, it has to explain why there are so many of them here in our solar system. If it were just one or two it could be put down to fortuitous meetings and unusual circumstances, but the number of objects that display these characteristics has moved well beyond the realms of random chance into "good god that's scary". That's why there's a somewhat unacknowledged problem with the current models. They can't account for the number of these objects with craters so large that they should have been destroyed by the impact.
For asteroids there are proposals that many are actually loose conglomerations of material held together by microgravity, which works to a certain extend but can't explain Phobos and other solid objects with similar features.
So research is ongoing. :)
A fully-occupied stadium surrounding a football would have a particular, known mass that could be short-handed to "football field" in a pinch.
Putting on a serious face for a moment, I have to assume that the "puzzling structures" refers to the apparent, enormous crater that seems to be just about visible on the right, almost facing us as it rotates in to view. A lot of very small objects in the solar system appear to have these very large craters and they're quite a problem for current models, as the force required to make such a large crater would generally be enough to pulverise the object being impacted.
The most well known is Phobos, which has a crater on one end that almost can't be explained. Theories have been mooted as to how such a crater could be formed but none are really quite adequate. Research, as they say, is ongoing.
Is the electromagnetic constant a constant?
It's the subsequent bug-fixing that took millions of years. Certainly felt like it.
So the universe is written in perl? That... sort of makes a lot of sense.
Or it boosts it, by providing evidence that the entity in question crafted a cosmos with a high degree of variability within certain bounds that would provide both safe areas for life to thrive and other, interesting areas from which they could gain insight and knowledge and ultimately understanding of their role.
Or you could put the "lets poke fun at people who believe different things to me" snottiness aside and just enjoy an interesting and potentially very important scientific discovery.
Assuming it isn't instrumental problems, which it may be...
Apple faces Germany ban after court no-show
Friday? I'd suggest they were at the pub.
Greens threaten to sue over solar 'leccy cash slash
It's an odd definition of "middle class" that includes a place in the country and an acre of roof-space. Maybe it's just because I'm a dirty sooty northerner but, I've always assumed myself to be (just about) middle class and yet I live in a flat. My parents definitely are, and it's true that their house is quite large, but it also has eight people split across two families living in it.
The definition of middle class I see bandied about in the media seems very southern-centric. Up here, if you're so rich you can afford a country pile, you're a toff and possibly a banker, whereas it seems the home counties would consider you working class if your yacht is shorter than 110 feet and you only have one land rover.
Compact Disc death foretold for 2012
End of CDs? Hardly the end of the world, is it? Then again, perhaps it's what the Mayans were predicting...
German website offers custom cow killing
It doesn't? My entire world view has fallen apart!
<-- Hung beef?
Ginormous sunspot spews solar guts towards Earth
This spot is still a tiddler compared to some of the spots the sun had in the late 80s and early 90s. They were sort that were visible to the naked eye when the sun was setting and looked like rags of cloud or malformed birds floating in front of the sun.
And I had to walk uphill to see em. In the snow! At night!
Are we in the middle of a PATENT BUBBLE?
There are these things called contracts, perhaps you've heard of them? Apple and XYZ manufacturing develop a contract for the production of iGadgets, with punitive measures if either party breaks the contract. Manufacturing clones and selling them to all and sundry would break the contract so hard it makes an audible snapping noise and XYZ would face all sorts of legal wrangles from Apple.
Patents aren't particularly relevant to the manufacture of goods in east asia by American companies as they're often manufacturing goods that aren't protected by the local patenting regime; the distribution of those goods is protected by contract. Where the issue rises up is when a company in, say, China begs, buys or borrows a patented widget from Widgets R Us and begins manufacturing their own without permission, in order to undercut the patent-protected market, either foreign or domestic.
All that said, I agree that patents, as they were originally conceived, are a good thing. They were designed to encourage the sharing of new ideas whilst still providing the originator with income. Now, they're used to kill off competition by application to such generic ideas as buttons, business methods and wiggling fingers against glass. The problem started the moment the patent office dropped the requirement for a working model.
Bill Gates strangled Microsoft's 'tablet for creatives'
I would have bought one of these. I can't quite think of what I'd use it for, but I would have definitely bought one because it is *exactly* the sort of device I have been craving ever since I realised what a computer was. But no, Gates had to take it away before I could spend my money on it...
ASUS: 'We run out of hard disks at the end of the month'
I had one SSD drop dead on me in a week - catastrophic total failure. One minute it was working, next it wasn't and I couldn't get a single bit off it. The replacement - exactly the same make and model - performed flawlessly. Is this typical? Maybe. I can't completely rule out murphy's static finger but it seems that the consumer drives are still a bit of a crapshoot.
Which reminds me, I really should run a backup.
The transformer is very netbookish but, as a hybrid device, it's a little hard to really categorise it as "just" a netbook. From the perspective of netbooks it looks like an ultrabook, but from the perspective of ultrabooks it looks like a netbook. And it's a tablet.
Neither fish nor fowl.
Must be why I love mine. :)
CERN boffins re-running neutrino speed test
Neutrinos only interact very weakly with matter and wouldn't follow an optical fibre.
Dell bundles Ubuntu Linux on PCs in China
@AC They don't, they just sit in the middle of it and complain.
Stallman: Did I say Jobs was evil? I meant really evil
Actually they do have a monopoly. You can't run non-apple-approved software on an iOS device. They often simply ban software from iTunes if it competes with their own offerings. How is that not abusing a monopoly?
As iPhone 4S battery suckage spreads, fixes appear
All I can say to that is...
... I want sushi. At least that part of this fantasy is achievable.
Sony and Ericsson divorce
Why is it that these things always go kaput just as I buy into them? I seem to have a habit of getting started with something just as it's about to drop dead. It's really quite annoying.
Ooh, I know, I'll buy an iPhone. Apple will be out of the phone business a week later. Rejoice world, I have come to save you from their tyranny!
Corning launches can-stand-the-heat Lotus glass for phones
Jobs: 'I'll spend my dying breath destroying Android'
Your argument seems to be "Apple made a thing, then something similar came along to exploit a similar market, therefore they are ripping off apple". By that logic apple are ripping off... HTC, who released the Wallaby (aka O2 XDA, Qtec 1010 and others) a full four years before the iphone, with a full-featured touch-screen interface. Icons on a grid...
There was a trend towards touch-screens before Apple glot the iphone out. Android was following that trend. Apple was following that trend.
Sorry, you lose. Apple may have marketing success but they did not invent this interface, and they cannot claim they are being ripped off by something that is merely *similar*, yet different enough to be noticeably so, and which is simply following the prevailing paradigm.


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At the War in the Pacific National Park there are some old WWII era Japanese bunkers and a few rusting anti-aircraft guns. You can also have barbeques here and there is a lovely beach that seems pretty popular with the locals.
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Pesto Coated Chicken Skewers
Total Time
Prep 30 mins
Cook 10 mins
This is from SFI, so simple but yummy, gotta love pesto!!
Ingredients Nutrition
- 750 g chicken breast fillets, chopped
- 1⁄2 cup basil pesto
- 1⁄4 cup olive oil
- Thread chicken onto skewers.
- Place in a ceramic dish.
- Combine pesto and 1 1/2 tablespoons oil.
- Spoon over chicken. Turn to coat.
- Refrigerate for 30 minutes, if time permits.
- Preheat barbecue plate on medium heat.
- Place a piece of baking paper on barbecue plate.
- Barbecue skewers on paper for 4 minutes each side or until chicken is just cooked through.
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These were good! Great way to use the fresh pesto I made earlier in the week.
Great tasting chicken for very few ingredients. Surprised because of the low amount of ingredients. Very low cost and very good here. Liked how the pesto stuck to the chicken. Nice simple and a quick recipe. Made for Zaar Stars. :)
Really good! The pesto really sticks to the meat well....you can really taste it.


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I have a 5 button Microsoft mouse. I always press acidentally the navigation buttons, and I want to disable them without using the software that came with the mouse. Is it possible? (Without modifying the hardware?)
You could try using AutoHotKey, but 5 button mice aren't always consistent. If yours IS, try:
Which should disable both. You could give either functionality you actually find useful with the software, as well.
What options do you have when you go to Control Panel > Mouse?
I haven't got Windows 7 so I can't double check, but if it's recognising the extra buttons you should have options to disable them on the dialog.


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Ripley stabbing victim named as Mark Berney
- 5 August 2014
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A man found stabbed to death in a car in North Yorkshire has been named by police.
Mark Berney, 44, from Knaresborough, was found at Whipley Bank in Ripley, near Harrogate, at 21:30 BST on Sunday.
A 40-year-old man from Harrogate arrested on suspicion of murder remains in custody for questioning, North Yorkshire Police said.
Det Supt Dai Malyn said he was not looking for anyone else in connection with the investigation.
The B6165 at Whitpley Bank was cordoned off for 24 hours while forensic searches were carried out.
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Teriyaki Sauce and Marinade
Total Time
Prep 10 mins
Cook 20 mins
I love anything teriyaki, but some are too salty or have too much soy sauce. Found this on another sight and seems to be a good balance...
Ingredients Nutrition
- 2⁄3 cup mirin (Japanese sweet rice wine)
- 1 cup soy sauce
- 4 1⁄2 teaspoons rice vinegar
- 1 teaspoon sesame oil
- 1⁄3 cup sugar
- 7 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 tablespoon fresh ginger, minced
- 1 dash red pepper flakes
- black pepper
- Bring mirin to a boil in a saucepan over high heat.
- Reduce heat to medium-low, and simmer for 10 minutes.
- Pour in soy sauce, rice vinegar, sesame oil, and sugar.
- Season with garlic, ginger, pepper flakes, and black pepper; simmer an additional 5 minutes.
- Store in a tightly sealed container in the refrigerator.
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This was really easy to make and I had all ingredients on hand. I marinated some pork loin chops overnight and cooked them stove-top. Very nice flavor that we enjoyed. Thanks AZPARZYCH for a nice keeper that I will make again. Made for For Your Consideration Tag.
The sauce is so easy to do. I used it to marinate steak overnight. The taste was so good. And then another day, we cooked salmon on the bbq and DH basted them with this teriyaki sauce. It was also great. This is a sauce that I will do often and keep in the fridge for when I'm looking for a marinade and don't find one when needed, I'll use this one. Thanks Nikki :) Made for the Australian Recipe Swap for June 2012
Loved this wonderful recipe!!! I have been wanting a go to recipe for teriyaki sauce and this is it. Delicious flavor combination, very easy and quick to make. So much better than any sauce you can buy. Made for AZ/NZ swap.


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Apple (AAPL -4.2%) roundup: Tiger Global joined the unrelated Tiger Management in selling Apple shares in Q1, lowering its stake to 260K shares from a prior 1.05M (13F). 2) According to the iRumor mill's latest updates, the retina iPad Mini will have the same resolution (2048x1536) and processor (A6X) as the retina 4th-gen iPad; the iPhone 5S will replace the tradition home button with a touch-sensitive sapphire button (a positive for GTAT); and the iPhone 5S will have an improved camera to go with a fingerprint sensor. 3) The DOJ accuses Apple of being the ring-master in an e-book price-fixing scheme (previous); Apple calls the accusation "absurd." 4) Joe Weisenthal observes Apple's price movements have correlated some with gold's.
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In a field of hi tech companies a company cannot spend 6 to 9 months without releasing any new products, mentioning any new products are coming or create some positive buzz for your company. This management is not to be believed. Every story is seized upon as being negative.
Also Google's event today seemed to be positive which is not a good sign for aapl. Agreed with the time it takes for new products. Any other industry not a big deal but in tech you have to stagger your products better. Never been one to bash Cook but I am losing patience especially if we go to the fall before new products are announced. There silence is indeed frustrating. Cook said last year with his NBC interview that they had great things in the pipeline and again says it ever qrtly conference call but where is it? Starting to think the 5S needs to have more wow than what we are hearing or the launch will be perceived as another negative. Like it or not competition is catching up and surpassing aapl.
My theory...
furthermore report that david einhorn has increased his apple stake by over 80% this quarter...
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) takes places June 10-14 and should serve as a strong catalyst going up. Until then you can jump on the sell-bandwagon induced by the recycling-of-old-news (mostly negative, these guys actually want you to sell your aapl stake) from the likes of CNBC and many others.
Market Currents continue to take shots at Apple. Why?
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Tim and I were both a little under the weather this past week, something I always forget how much I hate until it happens. This was the first time we've ever had colds together, at least anything that didn't go away in a day, and whether it was holiday traveling, my weaker pregnant immune system or just a trickier virus that caused it, we've been using every natural remedy possible to knock it out fast. Case in point: this green-loaded, hearty, healing puréed soup. When Tim first told me everything that was going into it, I braced myself for the kind of soup I'd have to hold my nose to eat (kind of like this crazy powerful immunity booster that, yes, I also took sometime on Tuesday), so when I sipped the first bite and met instead ginger, cumin and a slight kick of heat, I was thrilled. We had it for dinner several nights in a row until the entire pot was gone, and then today we whipped up a fresh batch so I could share it with you. Hey, Hey, PS! If you're going to be in … [Read more...]
Arugula Dijon Salad with Figs and Pistachios
Every spring, when the ground brings new life and the trees turn every shade of green, I think of Julius. Julius and I met in grad school. He wore silver-rimmed spectacles, ironed business shirts and dress pants and a neatly trimmed reddish-brown beard that was quickly going gray. He came to class with his work I.D. still on his shirt pocket and a bag or briefcase carrying his books and papers in his hand. When he spoke, you'd hear an accent, betraying the Eastern European setting from which he'd come, but, he told me, he and his wife had lived in America quite a while. The first class we took together was a Travel Writing course. It was a workshop class, meaning we'd turn in copies of our assignments to each other and then discuss them, as a class, together. I'd write short, sweet pieces about places like the Wisconsin Northwoods; he'd write long, flowering tales about dining with locals in Morocco. One October, walking from the fluorescent lights and metal chairs of … [Read more...]
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In the time since we last spoke, I did not make black bean soup; Tim and I took a look at our remaining refrigerator loot on Friday and, supplemented by his work lunch and a homemade weekend dinner from friends, spent the next three days eating sumptuously from its contents instead. Sunday, we did not go grocery shopping with the masses; we decided we hate grocery shopping with the masses (so instead we went to Indian food and took advantage of a free museum deal and pushed our weekly shopping routine to Monday afternoons). But here's something we did do: Sunday night, lazy and happy and on a mission to clean out our refrigerator shelves before the next day's shop, we made this large, filling, easy, simple salad---we're calling it a Sunday salad, because it's the kind of salad you make at the end of a long week of good eating, merging together all the remnants of the seven days past. … [Read more...]


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