My wife, Jeanie, is hard to buy for. To be fair so am I. We live modestly and don't have real expensive tastes, so essentially when we want something we go buy it (unless it's something like a car). She loves jewelry, but to me that's kind of a personal taste so I really never like buying jewelry. So I just happened to be checking out some sites online for some ideas and I came across the Amazon Kindle.
I have known about this for a while but hadn't really thought about it as a gift. I had an e-book reader many years ago. It was bulky and the batteries didn't last long. Plus the site that you downloaded material went out of business and the reader company never gave us an alternative site to find material.
Well, Jeanie has been going to school, and the college text books are heavy and expensive. So I thought maybe she might be able to get some of her text books on the Kindle, as well as some other books that she could use for reports. So I ordered it.
It came and I started playing with it and charging the batteries. After playing with it for a couple hours and downloading some material i was so excited that I couldn't wait until Xmas to give it to her. This thing is really awesome. So much so that I went and ordered another for my son, Andrew. (and maybe I'll get myself one after Xmas)
For those who aren't familiar with it, the Kindle is an iPod for books. It holds 1500 digital books in an electronic enclosure thinner than a DVD case. And the books are generally cheaper than they would be in a store. Which just makes sense, since like an iTunes download there is no packaging involved.
So besides the obvious benefits of being able to carry you whole book collection with you and the ability to search through all the texts, the Kindle is green (environmentally friendly). There' some plastic and some silicon and a battery that will need to get disposed of, but think of all the trees it will save in the long run. It also takes away the hassle of having to go to the book store, since Amazon has stated that they want to digitize every book every printed you'll be able to find even out of print material.
And one of the biggest benefits is that there is actually a lot of FREE material for download. Classic books like Pride and Prejudice, Moby Dick, and Charles Dicken's A Christmas Carol are in the public domain. If you wanted to buy these in the store you'd have to pay for the printing and binding, but not on The Kindle.
So if you haven't bought that special someone a gift yet, consider The Kindle.
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Our planet is home to millions of species of animal and plants with their own habitat, and each plays a unique role in the perfect design of nature. Unfortunately many species of plants and animals are victim of uncontrolled human development. Cannabis, one of the most ancient plants known to man, used in every civilization all over the world for medicinal and recreational purposes, is facing a very real threath of extinction. Besides the threath posed by human development, one of the goals of the United Nations, published years ago in official reports, was to wipe out the cannabis plant from the face of the earth by the year 2010. In reality this is far from being achieved, because man keeps using the cannabis plant for religious, medicinal and recreational purposes no matter what the law says. Most cultures cannot comprehend how a plant can be made illegal. In most people's perception, plants and animals stand above a status of legality or illegality, they just exist in a higher design of nature that goes beyond human laws and regulations. Nevertheless most governments of cannabis-producing countries are implementing drastic measures to destroy crops. Dangerous chemicals are sprayed over fields and over the farmers themselves in most of the third world countries, and the poorest people of the planet are the ones paying the highest price for cultivating a plant that does not kill. But in the economy of scale, where demand dictates supply, the poorest people of the planet have no choice but to cultivate cannabis as a cash crop to feed their children and send them to school. Communities that are isolated in remotes areas in the poorest regions of the planet are often the keepers of very special landraces.
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These strains, isolated for decades and sometimes for centuries, costantly inbreeding, are at the origin of all the thousands of variations that we know today in the cannabis industry. In these landraces there are hundreds, maybe thousands of unique cannabinoid profiles that have never been evaluated by the pharmaceutical industry; nevertheless they could be of enormous help in the future, when the knowledge about the medicinal properties of the cannabis plant will advance further. One of these cannabinoid profiles could be hiding the next miracle drug for the treatment of very serious diseases. The concept of strain hunters stems from the need to preserve nature's gifts to man, in a quest for a better future.
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