Amazon Kindle is a wireless e-book reader for reading electronic books that was launched by Amazon.com in November, 2007. Amazon’s Wireless Reading Device used electronic pager for content downloaded from the Amazon Whispernet. Amazon debuted in November, 2007, with the release of 88,000 digital titles and the first available batch of Kindles sold out in 4 ½ hours.¹ Now, just 14 months later, Amazon offers greater than 230,000 books, newspapers, magazine and blogs.² While Kindle only works in the United States, Amazon plans to launch its product in the United Kingdom other countries in Europe soon as technical details are worked out.

The Virtual library has become a world force since the launch of the World Wide Web in 1991 by the pan European organization, CERN, later replaced in popularity by Mosaic in 1993. ³ Web sites full of information quickly grew into the millions and the subsequent development of viable Search Engines allowed for search queries across multiple web sites in an instant. This turned the Internet to a viable resource to which many turned as a more powerful alternative to conventional libraries and book stores. The virtual library that transcend the physical limitations of printed media has steadily grown with the ascent of the 528 year Intellectual Cycle which has recent broken into Intellectual High.

The So-called Holy Wars reached new levels with the attacks on the USA on September 11, 2001. When two planes were flown into the World Trade Center buildings and another plane was flown in the Pentagon Building in Washington, D.C., is was the organized result of the religious fanatic group, Al Qaeda. The object of Al Qaeda is to bring about an Islamic Jihad, jihad is Arabic for holy war. While the concept of "holy wars" is not new, the unprecedented attack on North America and the wars that have resulted from the attack reflect the agitated state of world affairs at this time. A shift from war as a means for territorial expansion or acquisition of wealth to a expression of religious ideology coincides with the Emotional crisis that is due with an Upward Emotional Crossover that is occurring now. We can expect more surprises before this 12-year period of crisis is over.¹

Hybrid Vehicles continue to the forefront. At the 67th annual Washington Auto Show took place in D.C. on February 3, 2009, automakers discussed hardwiring America’s streets and parking lots to recharge a fleet of electric cars that they hope to produce. Electric mileage currently proves to be much cheaper than gasoline as the electricity to charge the Cheverolet Volt’s battery to drive 40 miles costs only 80 cents. GM plans to offer plug-in hybrids rather than pure battery electrics and Ford, Chrysler, Nissan, Mini, Smart and others have announced plans to sell electric vehicles within a few years. Toyota has reportedly accelerated its plans to deliver of 500 plug-in Prius later this year and the trend is growing.¹

Hybrid Vehicles developed as an alternative to over-powered automobiles and wasteful, polluting transportation vehicles of various types. This marked one of the early moves away from oil, which is the blood line of the former machine age. In the first year that the our Physical Low began, U.S. Congress enacted Public Law 94-413, the Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Research, Development, and Demonstration Act of 1976. General Motors spent more than $20 million on research and development from 1977 – 1979, Dave Arthurs of Springdale, Arkansas converted an Opal GT into a hybrid car that got 75 miles to a gallon, and Briggs and Stratton developed a twin cylinder four stroke hybrid car in 1980. Advancements in production continued from Audi, the United States Advanced Battery Consortium, Toyota. The Clinton administration launched the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles (PNGV) in 1993 which spent a billion dollars over several years and produced three hybrid prototypes of 80mpg cars. The first hybrid care available in the United States, the Toyota Plus, appeared in 2000 and the Honda Civic Hybrid appeared in 2002. Now hybrid cars, two wheeled vehicles, power trains are in production and Delta Airlines will be turning their Boeing 737NGs into hybrids in 2010. As soon as a Cycles enter a Low, it goes into a period of 3rd Quarter Reform: http://kalarhythms.com/cycles/universal.htm#3rd.

A look at last year's 2008 Olympics in Beijing and the ascent of women leading up to the games: The record breaking participation of women in the 2008 Olympic Games was the product of more than a century of progress of women in sports. When Barron Pierre de Coubertin of France proposed a revival of the Olympic Games in the 1890s the world Physical Cycle was near its Peak and the world Emotional Cycle influencing women's issues was near the bottom. Both Pierre du Coubertin and tthe International Olympic Committee (IOC) opposed the participation of women. Although women were excluded from the 1896 Olympics, nineteen women became the first female participants in the 1900 Games in Paris. The number of women in subsequent Olympic Games steadily increased and women took Gold Medals in various events. Title IX of the USA Education Act of 1972 helped decrease discrimination to an extent, ruling that “No person…shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any educational programs or activities receiving federal financial assistance.” In 1991, IOC members decided that sport introduced for the Olympic program had to include both men’s and women’s events. The Olympic Charter received a new rule in 1994 that ordered the IOC to promote women in sports at all levels and act with “strict application of the principle of equality of men and women.” In 1995 IOC created a “Women and Sport” group to advise them how to promote this equality. The 2000 Sydney Olympic Games had almost two female athletes for every three male athletes, which was a record ratio, and 44% of the events were open to women.¹

The 2008 Olympics had more than 42 per cent of participants made up by women in the 2008 Games in Beijing. Out of 11,196 total athletes, 4,746 were women’s sports, a record breaking ratio for the event.² Data provided by Mr. Winter and Alan Wurtzel, president for research at NBC Universal, showed that a record 49 percent of the viewers of the NBC coverage of the 2008 Summer Olympics were women ages 18 and older, followed by men ages 18 and older, at 41 percent. (The rest are viewers in other demographic groups.)³

The rise in women’s participation in Olympic games traces the ascent of the 432 Emotional Cycle from its bottom in 1892 through its break into the High half in 2000. Throughout the rise of the Cycle women’s participation rose in sports. Now that we have recently entered the and Emotional High in a world Cycles that will continue to rise throughout this century, we have attained equality and nearly equal participation for women in the world arena of sports. The Emotional Cycle historically had coincided with the ascent and decline of feminine energy and the status of women in the world.