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- Recumbent Tricycles - Trispeeder (Angletech Cycles)
Describes the products, but not very fully. Has a higher and more upright seat than most lowriders and a pivoting center handle bar for easy exit and entry. Awesome Library does not endorse these products, but only provides them as examples. Includes a "quadcycle" that uses both hand and foot power. 2-04
- Recumbent Bicycles - Pictures (AFCHAP)
Provides a wide variety of two, three, and four wheel cycles, as well as unicycles. 6-01
- Recumbent Tricycles (National Bicycle Greenway)
Provides dozens of models of recumbent or reclining bicycles. Also called "bent" cycles. Awesome Library does not endorse these products, but only provides them as examples. Sometimes called three-wheel bicycles. 6-01
- New Clock - World's Most Accurate (BBC News)
Describes a new clock that is accurate within one second every 15 billion years. Also provides the definition of a second - "Atomic clock technology enabled scientists in 1967 to define the second as the period equal to 9,192,631,770 cycles of the radiation that corresponds to the transition between two energy levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom." 7-01
- Freedman, Milton (Hoover Institution)
Provides a biography of the economist. "He is widely regarded as the leader of the Chicago School of monetary economics, which stresses the importance of the quantity of money as an instrument of government policy and as a determinant of business cycles and inflation." 4-02
- Exit Poll "Errors" Start When Electronic Voting Starts? (CommonDreams.com)
"Maybe George W. and Jeb Bush, Alabama's new Republican governor Bob Riley, and a small but congressionally decisive handful of other long-shot Republican candidates around the country really did win those states where conventional wisdom and straw polls showed them losing in the last few election cycles, but computer controlled voting or ballot-reading machines showed them winning."
"Perhaps, after a half-century of fine-tuning exit polling to such a science that it's now used to verify if elections are clean in Third World countries, it really did suddenly become inaccurate in the United States in the past few years and just won't work here anymore. Perhaps it's just a coincidence that the sudden rise of inaccurate exit polls happened around the same time corporate-programmed, computer-controlled, modem-capable voting machines began recording and tabulating ballots." 'Throughout election night, the national exit poll showed the Massachusetts senator leading President Bush by 51 percent to 48 percent. But when all the votes were counted, it was Bush who won by slightly less than three percentage points.' 3-05
- September 11th Families for Peace (PeacefulTomorrows.org)
"Peaceful Tomorrows is an organization founded by family members of those killed on September 11th who have united to turn our grief into action for peace. By developing and advocating nonviolent options and actions in the pursuit of justice, we hope to break the cycles of violence engendered by war and terrorism. Acknowledging our common experience with all people affected by violence throughout the world, we work to create a safer and more peaceful world for everyone." 09-08
- Dhanvantari (Avatara.org)
"The origins of the ancient healing science known as Ayurveda are lost in cosmic antiquity. According to the ancient text Caraka-samhita, this 'Science of Life and Longevity' is eternal and is revealed in each universe in each of its infinite cycles of creation and destruction. This healing science is generally revealed by great sages or demigods. Occasionally, the Supreme Lord Himself descends as the avatara (incarnation) Dhanvantari and re-inaugurates the tradition of Ayurveda. This extremely rare appearance of God is recorded in the Vedic literature of ancient India." 12-05
- -Editorial: The Theft of Your Vote Is Just a Chip Away (Scoop Independent News - Thom Hartmann)
"Maybe George W. and Jeb Bush, Alabama's new Republican governor Bob Riley, and a small but congressionally decisive handful of other long-shot Republican candidates around the country really did win those states where conventional wisdom and straw polls showed them losing in the last few election cycles, but computer controlled voting or ballot-reading machines showed them winning."
"But if any of this is true, there's not much of a paper trail from the voters' hand to prove it." 06-06
- Altair Nanotechnologies Claims Breakthrough in Lithium-Ion Batteries (GreenCarCongress.com)
"Altairnano replaces graphite anodes with its nano-Titanate material, which provides a very high surface area and reduces hazards by removing the graphite. The NanoSafe batteries charge in less than 10 minutes, have a power density of 4 kW/kg, have 85% charge retention at 20,000 cycles, will not explode and have no thermal runaway, according to the company." 10-07
- Lithium Nanophoshate Batteries (A123Systems.com)
"A123’s Nanophosphate™ technology delivers exceptional calendar and cycle life. At low rates our ANR26650M1 cells can deliver thousands and thousands of cycles at 100% Depth-of-Discharge, a feat unmatched by commercial lithium ion cells. Even when cycled at 10C discharge rates, our cells deliver in excess of 1,000 full depth-of-discharge cycles."
"With 10+ year projected calendar and cycle life, our batteries are well suited for automotive applications including hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV). And at high rates with 100% DOD, they deliver unmatched life performance for cordless applications." 10-07
- A Vacuum Alternative to Pesticides (Science Daily)
"A physical chemist has developed a new technique for ridding harvested produce of insect pests and microorganisms without using pesticides such as methyl bromide. The technique, called Metabolic Stress Disinfection and Disinfestation, suffocates pests by exposing them to cycles of vacuum and pressurized carbon dioxide. Treatment chambers could be easy to develop on a large enough scale for farmers to use." 09-08
- -11-06-08 Editorial: Election Hard on the Republican Party (CBS News)
"Thumped convincingly in consecutive election cycles, the Republican Party now finds itself in its worse straits since the rise of the conservative coalition - a minority party without the White House, fewer seats in the House and Senate, only 21 governors and full control of just 14 state legislatures."
"Most ominously for Republicans, the GOP is increasingly becoming less grand than old - and outdated. As reflected in Tuesday’s results and exit polls, it’s a party that is overwhelmingly white, rural and aged in a country that is rapidly becoming racially mixed, suburban and dominated by a post-baby boomer generation with no memory of Vietnam or the familiar culture wars of the past." 11-08
- Tricycling (Awesome Library)
Provides sources of tricycles and quadcycles (four-wheels) for adults. These cycles can provide safe transportation and exercise, as well as haul items. Safer from falls, more comfortable, and more powerful than a bicycle. If a fuel cell is added for additional power on hills, these cycles might provide good general transportation that is very inexpensive. 6-01
- -03-22-05 Terri Shiavo: "Vegetative State" Defined by Neurologists (ABC News)
"Doctors have determined that Schiavo is in a persistently vegetative state. Bernat explains this is when 'you have wakefulness, your eyes are open, but you are unaware. It can appear as if you are aware, but it's a state of unconsciousness.' "
"How can a patient be awake but unaware? Bernat says extensive damage to key parts of the brain — namely, the cerebral cortex, the thalamus and/or connections between them — can strip a person of his or her sense of awareness, while an undamaged brain stem keeps automatic activities, such as breathing, sleep and wake cycles and eye movement, going."
"Ronald Cranford, a neurology professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School who has examined Schiavo, says there are a number of signs showing that her cerebral cortex has severe damage from the six-minute period in 1990 when her heart stopped and her brain was without oxygen. He said electroencephalograms, also known as EEGs or brain wave tests, of Schiavo's brain have revealed no activity. He has also reported that areas of her brain have shown shrinkage — a sign of irreversible damage."
"David Gibbs, the attorney for Schiavo's parents, who wish to keep her on life support, has argued that Schiavo may be in a semiconscious state known as a minimally conscious state. This state of consciousness was first defined in 1996 as a transitional state indicating either improvement in consciousness or deterioration in the level of consciousness."
"An estimated 100,000 to 300,000 Americans have been diagnosed with being in this transitional state and some patients have emerged from the condition to reach a fuller consciousness. But neurologists are quick to point out that there are important distinctions between those in a semiconscious state and those in a persistently vegetative state."
" 'The difference is between autonomic activity and episodic conscious activity,' said Fins. 'It's something that can be observed by a neurologist or detected on a brain scan. It's not a diagnosis that legislators can make after viewing videotapes.' " 03-05.
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