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Устали носить тяжелые книги? Время электронных книг от Амазон Киндл ридер!

Amazon Kindle (Амазон Киндл ридер) cделан для исключительного вида чтения  электронных книг. Благодаря “электронной бумаге”, революционно новая технология отображения делает экран Kindle столь же четким и естественным, как чтение на бумаге и никаких  деформацийи и бликов от экрана компьютера. Kindle также удобен для  пальцев. Устройство никогда не нагреется и сделано,  как для  “левшей” , так и для  “правшей”. Чтени будет комфортным  под  любым углом в течение длительного  периодоа времени. Kindle задуман быть полностью мобильным без наличия проводов и простым в использовании для каждого.  Ненужен компьютер и нет необходимости синхронизации. Используя ту же сеть 3G как передовые мобильные телефоны, Amazon доставляет содержание с помощью своей собственной беспроводной системой доставки Amazon Whispernet. В отличие от WiFi, вам никогда не придется искать хот-спота. Никакихсомнительных  планов обслуживания, годовых контрактов  или ежемесячно онлайн взносов – Амазон берет на себя неприятности так что вы можете только читать.

С  Whispernet, вы можете достать любую книгу с полки: подумали о каком-то произведении и получили  в одну минуту.  Содержимое автоматически придет к вам, где бы Вы не были. Подписка газет доставляется  каждое утро. Большинство журналов попадут к Вам в руки быстрее, чем в газетные киоски. Еще не прочитали книгу к завтрешнему уроку? Получите ее в течение минуты. Уже прочли вашу книгу в аэропорту? Скачайте продолжение  при посадке в самолет. Находитесь ли вы в настроении для серьезного или чего-то веселенького, устройство для чтения электронных книг Kindle позволяет делать поиск электронных книг. И потому, что Амазон знает, что вы не можете судить о книге по ее обложке, Kindle позволяет загрузить и прочитать начало книги бесплатно. Таким образом, вы можете попробовать,  если вам нравится, просто купить и скачать электронные книги с 1-Click, прямо с вашего Kindle, и продолжить чтение.

Размер Kindle с расширяемой памятью позволяют путешествовать налегке с вашей библиотекой. Со свободой скачать то, что вы хотите, когда вы хотите, Amazon надеется, что вы никогда не будете снова скучать без любимой книжки. (Лучший способ заказать Киндл Ридер – здесь, на сайте Amazon.com. ) Теперь, доставка и по России!

В 2010 году исполняется 150 лет со дня рождения великого русского прозаика, драматурга Антона Павловича Чехова  ( 29 января 1860, Таганрог — 15 июля 1904, Баденвейлер, Германия).  В честь этого события Амазон Киндл ридер предлагает 10 культовых произведений А.П. Чехова:

Три сестры

Чайка

Вишневый сад

Дядя Ваня

Дама с собачкой

Налим

Палата №6

Каштанка

Дом с мезонином

Человек в футляре

так же доступны на Амазоне следующие книги:

Котлован Андрея Платонова

Петербург Андрея Белого
Мы Евгения Замятина
Жизнь и судьба Василия Гроссмана
Защита Лужина Владимира Набокова
Мастер и Маргарита Михаила Булгакова
Доктор Живаго Бориса Пастернака
Ангелы на кончике иглы Юрия Дружникова
В круге первом Александра Солженицына
Зияющие высоты Александра Зиновьева

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Sci-Fi Geek/Farmer/UFO/Herb nut?? Own a Home Smack Dab in the Center of Cow Mutilation Country and Increase Your Chances of Alien Abduction by 5,386%

Time to Mooooooove!

Are you a organic farmer looking for a freaky place to live (or, an alien in need of stockpiling cow parts for the imminent return of your mother ship, which you haven’t done yet because you’ve been too busy chasing Earth biker-chicks from Albuquerque?)

Well, pack your crystals and camera gear and drive your tractor on down to New Mexico! Just in time for the 2010 Paranormal Symposium at Angel Fire (which is logically being touted as “The Year of Contact”), we present to you this choice piece of property with an incredible backyard view of soon to be gobbled up cows (OK – It’s a horse….but if you look at horses and cows from above…they all look the same…and I’m sure aliens probably will come down just to check.) Click here to see the MLS listing



On this choice property, you can:

  1. Take over an established organic herb farm and do farmers markets throughout the state. (Um – coincidentally in a town considered by many to be the source of the highest grade marijuana in the country* – even the Town of Taos and the Chamber of Commerce promotes the town with the catchphrase “Life at a Higher Level”)
  2. *NOTE: Marijuana has NEVER been grown on this farm by the current owner…BUT – The New Mexico Department of Health is actively seeking to license carefully scrutinized growers for medicinal marijuana…much like California has.

  3. Set up your “Cow Mutilation/Abduction/Mating Emergency Response Team” headquarters which you have been secretly planning and jealously guarding for years and, despite the set back of Bruce Willis absolutely refusing to join your team – (according to the letter anyway which didn’t even have his signature so you are not even sure he ever heard about your group – yup you are are almost positive he never heard about it despite the request to stop sending letters and the “threat” of a restraining order – bah that would never stop serious alien hunters – so you might drive out to LA and find him in person just to make sure he got the letters cause you saw him host Letterman once and he seemed like a pretty reasonable guy and you just don’t understand how he could not want to join it after seeing all those movies he was in) – you have built a A Class group of first responders anyway and are about to finally realize your Nobel Prize worthy dream. (Yes – It happens in Taos (Read this article if you don’t believe us.)

  4. Bottle your own pure magical Taos spring water from your own natural spring – considered scarce in New Mexico – less than 2% of New Mexico’s water is privately owned. Clearly a choice landing spot for aliens, as they need water to lure the cows closer to their laser precision surgical tools….oddly similar to US Government technology.
  5. Arrive just in time to watch the filming of a UFO-Cattle Mutilation show being planned for The History Channel. Then, in a year from now you can call your European Alien abduction friends and tell them to watch the show and later be able to say “….I should be president of the club because I freakin LIVE in Taos – that’s why! Whens the last time YOU had a cow mutilation in YOUR freakin country. Huh???? HUH?????? That’s what I thought” – right before you slam the phone down for effect.
  6. Just run a totally legit herb farm and get away from the city

Potential Alien Spawning Ground


Potential Alien Spawning Quadrant – (Strategically located near bathroom)


As most UFO experts know, aliens prefer gas over electric cooking to properly prepare their choice cattle udder cuts*.

*For more information on this “universal” delicacy, check out this article from the Taos News – an award-winning local paper!


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Pacific Region Tsunami Warning

From the National Weather Service Pacific Tsunami Warning Center

TSUNAMI BULLETIN NUMBER 008
PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER/NOAA/NWS
ISSUED AT 1346Z 27 FEB 2010

THIS BULLETIN APPLIES TO AREAS WITHIN AND BORDERING THE PACIFIC
OCEAN AND ADJACENT SEAS…EXCEPT ALASKA…BRITISH COLUMBIA…
WASHINGTON…OREGON AND CALIFORNIA.

… A WIDESPREAD TSUNAMI WARNING IS IN EFFECT …

A TSUNAMI WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR

CHILE / PERU / ECUADOR / COLOMBIA / ANTARCTICA / PANAMA /
COSTA RICA / NICARAGUA / PITCAIRN / HONDURAS / EL SALVADOR /
GUATEMALA / FR. POLYNESIA / MEXICO / COOK ISLANDS / KIRIBATI /
KERMADEC IS / NIUE / NEW ZEALAND / TONGA / AMERICAN SAMOA /
SAMOA / JARVIS IS. / WALLIS-FUTUNA / TOKELAU / FIJI /
AUSTRALIA / HAWAII / PALMYRA IS. / TUVALU / VANUATU /
HOWLAND-BAKER / NEW CALEDONIA / JOHNSTON IS. / SOLOMON IS. /
NAURU / MARSHALL IS. / MIDWAY IS. / KOSRAE / PAPUA NEW GUINEA /
POHNPEI / WAKE IS. / CHUUK / RUSSIA / MARCUS IS. / INDONESIA /
N. MARIANAS / GUAM / YAP / BELAU / JAPAN / PHILIPPINES /
CHINESE TAIPEI

THIS BULLETIN IS ISSUED AS ADVICE TO GOVERNMENT AGENCIES. ONLY
NATIONAL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO MAKE
DECISIONS REGARDING THE OFFICIAL STATE OF ALERT IN THEIR AREA AND
ANY ACTIONS TO BE TAKEN IN RESPONSE.

AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH THESE PRELIMINARY PARAMETERS

ORIGIN TIME – 0634Z 27 FEB 2010
COORDINATES – 36.1 SOUTH 72.6 WEST
DEPTH – 55 KM
LOCATION – NEAR COAST OF CENTRAL CHILE
MAGNITUDE – 8.8

MEASUREMENTS OR REPORTS OF TSUNAMI WAVE ACTIVITY

GAUGE LOCATION LAT LON TIME AMPL PER
——————- —– —— —– ————— —–
EASTER CL 27.2S 109.5W 1205Z 0.35M / 1.1FT 52MIN
ANCUD CL 41.9S 73.8W 0838Z 0.62M / 2.0FT 84MIN
CALLAO LA-PUNTA PE 12.1S 77.2W 1029Z 0.36M / 1.2FT 30MIN
ARICA CL 18.5S 70.3W 1008Z 0.94M / 3.1FT 42MIN
IQUIQUE CL 20.2S 70.1W 0907Z 0.28M / 0.9FT 68MIN
ANTOFAGASTA CL 23.2S 70.4W 0941Z 0.49M / 1.6FT 52MIN
DART LIMA 32412 18.0S 86.4W 0941Z 0.24M / 0.8FT 36MIN
CALDERA CL 27.1S 70.8W 0843Z 0.45M / 1.5FT 20MIN
TALCAHUANO CL 36.7S 73.4W 0653Z 2.34M / 7.7FT 88MIN
COQUIMBO CL 30.0S 71.3W 0852Z 1.32M / 4.3FT 30MIN
CORRAL CL 39.9S 73.4W 0739Z 0.90M / 2.9FT 16MIN
SAN FELIX CL 26.3S 80.1W 0815Z 0.53M / 1.7FT 08MIN
VALPARAISO CL 33.0S 71.6W 0708Z 1.29M / 4.2FT 20MIN

LAT – LATITUDE (N-NORTH, S-SOUTH)
LON – LONGITUDE (E-EAST, W-WEST)
TIME – TIME OF THE MEASUREMENT (Z IS UTC IS GREENWICH TIME)
AMPL – TSUNAMI AMPLITUDE MEASURED RELATIVE TO NORMAL SEA LEVEL.
IT IS …NOT… CREST-TO-TROUGH WAVE HEIGHT.
VALUES ARE GIVEN IN BOTH METERS(M) AND FEET(FT).
PER – PERIOD OF TIME IN MINUTES(MIN) FROM ONE WAVE TO THE NEXT.

EVALUATION

SEA LEVEL READINGS CONFIRM THAT A TSUNAMI HAS BEEN GENERATED
WHICH COULD CAUSE WIDESPREAD DAMAGE. AUTHORITIES SHOULD TAKE
APPROPRIATE ACTION IN RESPONSE TO THIS THREAT. THIS CENTER WILL
CONTINUE TO MONITOR SEA LEVEL DATA TO DETERMINE THE EXTENT AND
SEVERITY OF THE THREAT.

A TSUNAMI IS A SERIES OF WAVES AND THE FIRST WAVE MAY NOT BE THE
LARGEST. TSUNAMI WAVE HEIGHTS CANNOT BE PREDICTED AND CAN VARY
SIGNIFICANTLY ALONG A COAST DUE TO LOCAL EFFECTS. THE TIME FROM
ONE TSUNAMI WAVE TO THE NEXT CAN BE FIVE MINUTES TO AN HOUR, AND
THE THREAT CAN CONTINUE FOR MANY HOURS AS MULTIPLE WAVES ARRIVE.

FOR ALL AREAS – WHEN NO MAJOR WAVES ARE OBSERVED FOR TWO HOURS
AFTER THE ESTIMATED TIME OF ARRIVAL OR DAMAGING WAVES HAVE NOT
OCCURRED FOR AT LEAST TWO HOURS THEN LOCAL AUTHORITIES CAN ASSUME
THE THREAT IS PASSED. DANGER TO BOATS AND COASTAL STRUCTURES CAN
CONTINUE FOR SEVERAL HOURS DUE TO RAPID CURRENTS. AS LOCAL
CONDITIONS CAN CAUSE A WIDE VARIATION IN TSUNAMI WAVE ACTION THE
ALL CLEAR DETERMINATION MUST BE MADE BY LOCAL AUTHORITIES.

BULLETINS WILL BE ISSUED HOURLY OR SOONER IF CONDITIONS WARRANT.
THE TSUNAMI WARNING WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.

THE WEST COAST/ALASKA TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER WILL ISSUE PRODUCTS
FOR ALASKA…BRITISH COLUMBIA…WASHINGTON…OREGON…CALIFORNIA.

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