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Nuclear Express- A Book Review for Our Time



The James Boys- A Novel Account of Four Desperate Brothers

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June 22, 2009 - Pete Sumaruck's will begin production of his Zero-Amp Tech Power Production System at his factory in Waco, Texas.
Listen to Pete interviewed by James Robey of the Water Fuel Museum

Energy is Uppermost in Everyone's Mind



View Article  Peter Sumaruck Tells Us How He Does It... in this Review of Volume 2 of a radio interview, of inventor Pete Sumaruck, by James Robey of the Kentucky Water Fuel Museum - Review by Charlotte Wilson, worldviewopinion.com
Secrets of Mr. Sumaruck's power production system and some untold history of how he came to be.   View Full Article and Comments . . . »
View Article  Peter Sumaruck Displays Closed Loop, Overunity Power Production System - Disproving Physics Ohm's Law and the Laws of Thermodynamics
Peter Sumaruck Displays His Closed Loop, Overunity Power Production System -
Disproving Physics’ Ohm’s Law and the Laws of Thermodynamics...   View Full Article and Comments . . . »
View Article  Naysayers Have the Problem - Peter Sumaruck and Zero-Amp Tech. Inc.
Pete Sumaruck and the Naysayer - They have a problem. Pete's invention works   View Full Article and Comments . . . »
View Article  The Science of Torture - NSA Agent Officer Experiences Experimental Water Torture
The Science of Torture - NSA agent officer experiences experimental water torture   View Full Article and Comments . . . »
View Article  The Sumaruck Electricity Power Production System Compared to Nuclear Plant Power Production
The Sumaruck Electricity Power Production System Compared to Nuclear Power Plant Production.   View Full Article and Comments . . . »
View Article  Peter Paul Sumaruck - The Bio
What makes Peter run? Why is Pete Sumaruck determinded to make his invention succeed? What keeps driving him. pushing him...why he'll never give up.   View Full Article and Comments . . . »
View Article  Contract of Cooperation Between Peter Sumaruck and Advanced Energy Research Organization (known as AERO)
Plus humorous news update of June 20, 2009 - where are they now?   View Full Article and Comments . . . »
View Article  Zero-Amp Tech and the inventor, Peter Sumaruck Announce New Prototype
Zero-Amp Tech and the inventor, Peter Sumaruck announces the completion of the newest prototype of his power producing systems.   View Full Article and Comments . . . »
View Article  Make Note of Todays Date - February 22, 2009

The Breakthrough Technology of Peter Sumaruck is

"Online - closed-looped - and operational"

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View Article  The Book and the Bomb - Reading into "The Nuclear Express"

The Book and the Bomb - Reading Into “The Nuclear Express”

“Since the birth of the nuclear age, no nation ...   View Full Article and Comments . . . »

View Article  Igor Sutyagin - Russian Physicist, Arms Control Expert and Political Prisoner

Russian Arms Control Expert and Political Prisoner, Igor Sutyagin - Information Briefing

On October 27, 1999, Igor Sutyagin bravely opened ...   View Full Article and Comments . . . »

View Article  Philip Agee, Dead and Gone
…but here to celebrate the Cuban Revolution, just the same   View Full Article and Comments . . . »
View Article  Events - What We Do With Them
Recognized or not, everything we do is an event.   View Full Article and Comments . . . »
View Article  WHAT GEORGIA NEEDS - the answers to this conundrum are surprisingly simple...cut Abkhazia in half, or...
Everyone reports on Georgia, but few have any answers - what to do?   View Full Article and Comments . . . »
View Article  WHAT RUSSIA WANTS...or, Shevardnadze's Notebook
Plain and simple, Russia wants Georgia.   View Full Article and Comments . . . »
View Article  NEW ENGINE FOR TRUCKS - No Oil, No Diesel, No Natural Gas, No Ethanol, No Emission, No Pollution - How Can That Be
What does power this engine? Electricity, but no lithium ion battery, so no recharging. The inventor, Peter Sumaruck, says his Zero-Amp Tech system can run AC motors for almost free.   View Full Article and Comments . . . »
View Article  The Secret Life of Energy - You Always Get More Out Than You Put In

Journalists and politicians of all persuasions have told us again and again that we must give up our addiction to foreign oil.   View Full Article and Comments . . . »

View Article  Blue Group - The Movie
Give up a promising career in music? Defense Department recruiters asked Frederic to become a spy...   View Full Article and Comments . . . »
View Article  The James Boys - A Novel Account of Four Desperate Brothers

The James Boys - a Novel Account of Four desperate Brothers, by Richard Liebmann-Smith, Random House

I'm not accustomed ...   View Full Article and Comments . . . »

View Article  Something About Burma, No One Talks About…

The disaster drags on in Burma - one day moves into the next. One death after another, now from exposure, ...   View Full Article and Comments . . . »

View Article  Ambition

Ambition

 

Take me away, I want to go…

Past those who are here and those to come.

 

Rapid ...   View Full Article and Comments . . . »

View Article  Why Go To Sochi
Picture beachgoers running up and down the beach in silk or rayon pajamas, usually in stripes. Is this the new Miami Beach or Hawaii fashion? No, but in years past, it was the fashion of Soviet Sochi, a beach resort on the Black Sea. ...   View Full Article and Comments . . . »
View Article  The Aerial Theater of the Wide Blue Yonder

Wide Blue Yonder – that's what it is swinging out into air, toward the audience, in, out, sidewise through the air, moving in choreographed wonder in intricate formations, never hitting the other, up, down rope climbing cables, swinging shadows cast on the wall behind.

How is this performance different from other troops with people swinging from ropes, their legs stretched out with swaging, volumes of scarves.  That would be "pretty" with its swirling stripes of color – see one swirl and you have seen them all.  But this is theater – three actual plays, short but complete unto themselves.  The flying is used as an extension of theater, a way to go further into the drama.  The play would be less without flying. "Up" offers a more compelling, liberated reality. "We create works of art that temporarily alter the physical sense of reality."

As a teenager, Lisa Christensen, wanted to join the circus; she wanted to fly – early ambitions that jumped-started and bumped on their road to fruition. Fly into the present, she has been creating this style of aerial theater for the past 4 years as actor, dancer and choreographer.

Andrew Purchin has been improvising dance for 7 years.  All his talents as an artist – painter, dancer, choreographer and psychotherapist – work together in his performance of flying theater. As a therapist, his sensitivity to human needs, play into his dancing and connect to his painting. He says, this work requires him to be internally and externally aware; for him it is a deep meditation. Lisa and Andrew say creating the program starts with improvisation. They find certain movements that "work" as they relate to what they want to say.

Their troop of 15 or so move beautifully and powerfully together, never infringing on the other's space while always moving the story line ahead – there are no muddy movements. For all their improvisation, the drama progresses with the rhythm they have created. The actors have lines to speak and there is occasional narration as well as some appropriate music. This is not a silent show.

Their current performance in Santa Cruz, California, is a collection of three short plays. The first is called "What Made Us This Way?", depicting a homeless encampment. Lisa says she's always on the lookout for locations to attach her rope/cables.  She found a perfect place under a bridge in a nearby town.  It turned out to be also a homeless encampment.  She attached her cables and started swinging. The people came out to watch – they were very curious, not critical.  They accepted her being there, and she observed them, their life style and how they related to each another – thus was born the play, "What Made Us This Way?".

Andrew often brings his artist materials to rehearsal.  Note his charcoal and oil painting in colors of pale orange to salmon to merlot. I think of these colors as coming from the dimmed lights playing on the darks shapes of the fliers. To me, some of the figures resemble bats, hanging in a cave, or "under a bridge." Those shapes are pieces of black canvas the dancers slide into, like a sleeping bag or a tent, swaying in and out, conveying their community connections.

Another of the plays is called "Pearl Berry"  An elderly woman had been sitting in the audience near my friend and me.  I whispered, "She dresses just like my mother did."  My friend said, "I think she's part of the show," and she was.  The woman was younger and a terrific actress; on stage, she was of an elderly lady.  Center stage, was a ladderback chair with a cable running up. Sarah David, or Pearl as the octogenarian, climbs up the rope to a light fixture to change a bulb. She is trying to prove her independence, as she tells the audience her daughter want to put her in a "home."  She's nimble as she plays her part in the air, rather than on the ground, while always maintaining her older-person character.

In the third play, "Hold onto the Chair", Andrew is the therapist and Lisa is the client/patient.  A symbolic prop/motif is the ubiquitous Kleenex box, always available in a therapist's office, and something they pass back and forth to salve each of their needs. Andrew does a mime of pulling out tissues from his mouth and ear – symbolic as pulling out words and emotions. Lisa shows him her dog (stuffed), who gives her relief from her problems. By the end of the play, the dog heals Andrew as well.  

I asked about the physical necessities required to do this aerial work: does this take a lot of strength? "Upper arm strength develops along with core-belly strength."…"We do a lot of sit-ups, for maybe 20 minutes." One of the troop, Mike, did some yoga positions and breathing before he put on his harness. Why fly? Why not just combine dance with drama? Being off the ground a greater proportion of the time displays emotions no one has seen before – this is truly uncharted territory of human expression.

Wide Blue Yonder Dance Company will be performing in San Francisco on Friday, April 11, at 8:00 PM, and Saturday, April 12, 2008, at 8:00 PM, at CounterPULSE.  1310 Mission Street. Admission is $15, from www.brownpapertickets.com or at the door.

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View Article  The George Koval Mystery Unfolds

Espionage,
Journalism and managed news,
Myth-building,
Interpretation from the Right and by the Left,
Most of all, it’s about the ...   View Full Article and Comments . . . »
View Article  Death Comes to Ulrich Muhe, the star of the movie, "Lives of Others."
Announcement: The Gregorian Calendar is off by ten years – the millennium actually turned on November 9, 1989, when the ...   View Full Article and Comments . . . »
View Article  Entertainment as an Essential of Life

ENTERTAINMENT
AS AN ESSENTIAL OF LIFE

 Animals don’t just eat, sleep and procreate; they all exhibit, to a varying degree, some sense of whimsy - porpoises frolic and apes ape. All humans create amusement as a distraction from survival tactics, but what did early humans do for fun?

 With the discovery of fire, there must have been some idle hours, sitting around trying to keep warm. There were men, woman and children with the same kinds of dynamics as today, with even time for play. 

 Amusements?  They found out early on they had to kill each other…for territory or to claim a sexual partner. But fighting did not necessarily lead to death …you didn’t want to kill off all those in your pack; you needed them for protection. 

 With others watching, they could practice their techniques of defense, they could show off - they invented warfare and theater. And they fought animals for entertainment - it’s only been a hundred years since it was common practice for battles between man vs. bear as amusement. Someone would sell tickets while others stood around and cheered.

 And yes, in the town next to you (certainly not in your town), people go to watch one cock lunge and rip at another.

 Situations have changed since primal times…but humans haven’t.  We may have modified our behavior, learned from our mistakes - or not - but what remains is that people want to be amused.

 You feel exhilarated every time you walk past that amazing painting on the wall.  You may be entertained by watching YouTube, or by listening to music, watching a movie, you read a book or listen to an audio as you drive to work.

Notice how so much of our current entertainment is passive - we don’t actively participate.  We watch or listen to others doing something.  Even learning is a form of entertainment…actually, everything is a part of learning.

Why am I mixing Art with World Events?  Because entertainment is essential to living, and right here, we are going to look at what goes on in the world - how people relate to one another, or how they lunge and rip.

By Charlotte Wilson, painter and writer - author of Blue Group

View Article  Letter to the Editor - New York Times Sunday Magazine
The Green Scene of a Silicon Valley Venture-Capital Firm   View Full Article and Comments . . . »
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