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What's sexier than a chicken spread eagle? "Not much!" says that naughty foodie deep down inside of you.
From "dripping" thighs to bacon-bound wings, the new cookbook Fifty Shades of Chicken is full of naughty vignettes and, well, chicken recipes. A parody of the bestselling Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy, the book, by FL Fowler (get it?), takes a similar approach, following the relationship between an inexperienced chicken and Mr. Blades, a dominating chef. Their torrid affair is captured in 50 vignettes and recipes titled "Mustard-Spanked Chicken" and "Pound Me Tender." Let's just say the chicken takes quite a beating.
Not convinced? Enjoy a special sneak-peak (and recipe!) in the excerpt below:
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Vanilla's all right once or twice, but we can't keep that up," he says.
My subconscious hides her eyes. He's way out of my league. A man like him could never get excited about chicken. How could I think I might ever be what he craves? What does a man like him crave?
He fixes me suddenly with a predatory stare. "We're going to remedy this situation right now."
"What situation?" I ask, alarmed.
"Your situation. You're utterly unseasoned. I'm contemplating haute cuisine with you, when you've never been paired with anything, it seems." He cocks his head to the side.
Paired? My inner goddess pulls her head from under her wing.
"I'm going to make dinner with you right now. We'll begin with something sweet, soft, and juicy."
Holy sh*t.
"I thought you didn't make dinner," I say, my heart pounding. "I thought you just cooked, um, hard."
I hear his stomach growl deeply, the effects of which travel all the way to my tail at the base of my cavity—down there.
"Don't think I'm getting all hearts and flowers. This is a step in a process. A process that I think will make a superb finish. I hope you'll think so, too."
I cluck low with anticipation.
His stomach growls again. "Chicken, will you please stop clucking? It's very ... distracting."
He lays me face down and starts to drizzle my back and thighs with oil.
"Are you sure you want to do this?" he says gently.
"Yes," I beg. "Oh, yes."
"I'm going to cook you now, Miss Hen," he mutters as he opens the door of the oven. He slides me into the oven.
Beneath me is a bed of wet, dark, pitted cherries. The dry heat takes me into a sudden embrace, and my juices flow freely over the torn fruit.
I never thought it would feel like this. I never imagined it could be this good.
Roasted Chicken with Cherries and Herbs
Serves 4
1 (3 1/2 - to 4-pound) chicken, patted dry with paper towels
1 3/4 teaspoons coarse kosher salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1 small bunch thyme, rosemary, or sage
1 pound pitted sweet cherries
3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
Lemon wedges, for serving
1.Gently rub the naked chicken all over with 1½ teaspoons of the salt and the pepper, paying attention to the bird's cavity and every crevice. Press the herb sprigs all over the flesh, including the cavity. Place in a bowl, cover, and let marinate expectantly in the fridge for at least 1 hour or up to overnight.
2.When the mood is right, preheat the oven to 400F. Put the cherries in the bottom of a roasting pan and toss with a tablespoon of the olive oil and the remaining ¼ teaspoon salt.
3.Put a rack on top of the cherries and lay the chicken, breast down, on the rack (remove herbs on the outside of the bird before roasting; you can leave the herbs in the cavity where they are). Drizzle the back and thighs of the chicken with a tablespoon of oil. Roast for 40 minutes, then thrust a wooden spoon into the chicken's nether parts and flip the bird so the breasts are up. Stir the cherries. Drizzle the breasts with the remaining tablespoon of oil and continue to roast until the chicken is juicy and golden and completely done, about 40 to 50 minutes longer. Let rest for 10 minutes. Serve with lemon wedges.
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It was time to take the girls away from the books and connect them to women who are striving for a better life. There were faces of mixed description – some with looks of curiosity, not knowing what to expect while others were excited for this once in a lifetime opportunity to travel to town. Once we arrived, the reception we received was fascinating, making our girls feel at home. This was a trip organized by Join My Village as a way to encourage high performance among the scholarship girls. The girls were from different secondary schools that work with Join My Village. "This trip is historical not only to me but even my family, I really wish my parents could know that there are women out here who have gone this far," said Triza from Khola Secondary school.Echoing what Triza said was Mavuto who will be sitting for her form four examinations in a couple of weeks. "To get educated, one needs not only to be in class, adventures help to expose us to new things and helps to make one more knowledgeable," she says.During the day visit the girls met with students and teacher from Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR) formerly Bunda College of Agriculture and Kamuzu College of Nursing in the capital city of Malawi, Lilongwe. The curiosity kept the girls going and they walked around the two campuses tirelessly. When it was all said and done, they went back to their respective schools with lots of stories. They giggled all the way feeling different from the rest of the students having witnessed what could be their future."My highlight of the day is the meeting with the vice chancellor of the LUANAR, Professor Phiri, which is something I never dreamed I would do. In fact, I didn't know that this professor comes from Kasungu and as he shared things that he has developed and the plans he has for his home area, I feel proud of him," said Alinafe who was also among the girls that made the trip.While there is hope that some girls will make it to the University, many could not make a final choice of which University they may prefer studying. "Despite both Colleges having good structures, to me LUANAR is good because it is away from town giving students enough time to concentrate, but I can't rule out the possibility of Kamuzu College of Nursing as I have seen young women, almost my age, taking us into different places, having laptops where they can surf the internet and learn about anything that crosses their minds. I also loved their uniforms because they look unique," disclosed one of the students from Chilanga secondary school. When it was time to go back home the girls are no longer singing on the buses, instead they were all sharing what they like most about the trip; some said they love the environment of the classes, the rooms and the library while others appreciated the laboratories and other experimental places like the food science lab. The one thing that they did agree on was how grateful they were for Join My Village giving them the opportunity of a lifetime!


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Big James & the Chicago Playboys at Sinnissippi July 25
Big James Montgomery got his first taste of the blues when, as a young teen-ager, he would stand outside of a club on the South Side of Chicago and listen to B.B. Big Voice
Odum sing with Billy Branch and the Sons of Blues. Eventually, he was allowed to sit in with the band, and as the old saying goes, The rest is history.
The Playboys feature tenor saxophonist Charlie Kimble, guitarist Mike Wheeler, bassist Larry Williams, drummer Cleo Cole and keyboardist Joe Blocker. Led by Big James
on trombone and lead vocals, the Playboys are performing at many of the well-known blues clubs in the Chicago area with a more polished, but no less soulful, sound that lends a gospel elegance to its hard-booting groove.
This performance is co-sponsored by the Rockford Park District and 89.5 FM WNIJ. Charlotte's Web thanks the Park District, the Illinois Arts Council and WNIJ-FM for making the Charlotte's Web Summer Series possible. Thanks to these organizations, the concerts are free at the Music Shell. Rain site for the July 25 concert is Mendelssohn PAC, 415 N. Church St. Call (815) 987-8800 after 2:30 p.m. the day of the concert for rain site info. All concerts begin at 7:30 p.m. Picnic baskets are welcome, but no alcohol.
The Rockford Park District welcomes the opportunity to assist guests with special needs. The Music Shell is wheelchair accessible. An assistive listening system is available for those who are hard of hearing. For special assistance, call (815) 987-1600 (voice/TTY) at least 48 hours in advance.
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The Long Island Marathon Weekend will be held May 3-5. The event has grown to include a full and half marathon, 10K, 5K, 1-mile run, and Kids Fun Run. The festivities begin on Friday, May 3 at 3: p.m. with a vendor expo at Mitchel Athletic Complex, followed by the Main Event "Carbohydration" Pasta Party at 6:30 p.m. courtesy of the Main Event Restaurant and Sports Bar. The races begin on Saturday, May 4, with the 1-mile run starting at 8 a.m. Shortly thereafter, the 5K will commence at 8:30 a.m. Both the 1-mile and the 5K races start on Charles Lindbergh Blvd. and finish at Mitchel Athletic Complex. The last race of the day, The Kids Fun Run, will begin at 10:30 a.m. on the Mitchel track. On Sunday, May 5th, the marathon, half marathon and 10K will take place. All participants will assemble at the starting line on Charles Lindbergh Blvd. for an 8 a.m. start.
Advanced registration is available by mail until April 15 or online until April 28. Costs are as follows: Full Marathon $67; Half Marathon $57; 10K $37; 5K $32; 1-mile $19. Late registration will be accepted on May 3 and 4 during the Marathon Expo for an additional fee. For any additional information or to register, visit www.thelimarathon.com, or call 986-5537.
Friday, 21 November 2014 00:00
The smell of pine, wood and scented candles greet customers with a sense of home as they cross the wooden threshold to the Amish Craft Barn in Seaford. There they will find dolls, birdhouses, quilts, ceramic turkeys, hand-painted Christmas trees, oak furniture and other seasonal and holiday tchotchkes.
Massapequa natives Frank and Pam Hoerauf started The Amish Craft Barn & Gift Shoppe 20 years ago after an inspiring visit to Pennsylvania.
Thursday, 20 November 2014 00:00
While parking around LIRR train stations is typically a challenge, even on a regular work day, the holidays create more of a struggle for commuters in search of parking spots. LIRR spokesman Salvatore Arena said that ridership between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day increases by at least 10 percent; last year it was by 12 percent. Though the MTA is adding more trains to the schedule, that doesn't ease the parking situation, which is operated not by the LIRR, but by individual municipalities in each town.
"Every station is different," Arena said. "A good part of our parking is in the hands of the locality. They set the rules essentially."
Thursday, 20 November 2014 00:00
The Island Trees Cross Country teams continue their improvement in 2014. This year the girls' team has a record of 8-2 and with their victories over Clarke and Wheatley High Schools, they clinched the Division Championship for the first time in Island Trees High School history.
The girls are led by senior Captain Angela Brocco who has been rewriting the girl's record boards. Brocco set the school record for the Warwick Valley 5000 meter course on Sept. 20.
Thursday, 20 November 2014 00:00
This season the Girls' Varsity Soccer Team at Division Avenue has the rare ability to fill every position on the field with a member of the senior class. All 11 seniors have made contributions to the success of this year's squad.
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Said Nasruddin, "Every night I have a dream, a horrible dream. The dream is that I am on an island with twelve beautiful women."
The psychiatrist said, "I don't see the problem. What is horrible about it? Twelve beautiful women, and you are on your own with them! What is horrible about that?"
Nasruddin said, "Have you ever tried loving twelve women, alone, on an island?"
But you are loving twelve thousand women. Every desire is a woman. And your whole life has become a nightmare - so many desires, so many horizons, so many things to be reached before life is lost. That's why you are in such a hurry - you cannot be anywhere. You go on running and running and running until you simply fall into the arms of death; that is the end of your whole effort.
Remember, the first thing is that needs are beautiful.
And this is the difference between other sages, so-called sages, and Chuang Tzu - needs are beautiful, desires are ugly. The distinction is: need comes from the body and desire is created by the mind. Happier are animals, the birds, the trees, because they have got no mind to desire; they are happy wherever they are. They live and they die, but they are never in anguish; the tension is not there.
This is the first thing to be remembered - the distinction, the clear-cut distinction between desire and needs. And accept needs, nothing is wrong with them, but drop desires - everything is wrong with them, because they don't allow you to be here and now. And that is the only existence possible. There is no other existence. Bloom like lilies in the field, sing like birds in the trees, be wild like wild animals.
And don't listen to the poisoners. Enjoy simple bodily needs. How many needs have you got? One needs food, one needs water, one needs shade, one needs a loving heart - that's all. And if there were not so many desires, the whole world would become a Garden of Eden this very moment. Because of desires we cannot pay attention to simple needs. And look.even animals can fulfill their needs, but man cannot fulfill his needs. Why is man poor? Not because the earth is poor but because man is mad; he puts more energy into desires. Reaching the moon seems to be more important than feeding the poor. What is the use of reaching the moon? What will you do?
But this is the whole trend of the mind. With the money America has wasted in reaching the moon, the whole of Asia could have been fed, all the backward countries could have been developed. And what have you gained by reaching the moon? The American flag is now on the moon - this is the gain. And there is nobody to even see it! And now other planets are the target. The moon has been conquered - now other planets have to be conquered. Why this moon madness? Why this lunatic craziness?


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Freezing drizzle Friday morning will change to light rain as we head into the afternoon.
Temperatures will finally warm up as we head into the weekend.
Cold temperatures combined with a gusty breeze out of the northwest will create a frigid Monday afternoon.
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Light snow will move into Mid-Missouri Saturday morning through afternoon.
Snow moves in early in the day Saturday with accumulation likely.
Temperatures will remain well below average this week, as highs only reach the low to mid-30s each day, and lows fall into the upper teens and lower 20s. There is a slight chance for some afternoon wintry precipitation Saturday into early Sunday.
Temperatures will feel more like early January this week.
A cold front will bring a dreary start to our Veterans Day.
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Another cold front will move through early Saturday keeping it cool this weekend.
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November brings many to changes to Mid-Missouri including shorter days and cooler temperatures.
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By Sarah Story, Citizen Events Editor 03/15/12
Crossroads Art Center, 2016 Staples Mill Rd.; will host an open house and artist reception from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Visitors will learn from the artists what inspires them to create their works of art as they stroll through the 20,000 square foot facility. Quiet Steps Ensemble will provide entertainment and the cash bar benefits Network of Enterprising Women (NEW). Admission is free. For details, call 278-8950 or visit http://www.crossroadsartcenter.com .
College improv teams from across Virginia and beyond will gather in Henrico for two nights of competitive improvisational comedy, March 16-17 at ComedySportz Improv Theatre, 8906-H W. Broad St. Eight teams were chosen for the inaugural competition: George Mason University (Mason Improv Association), J. Sargeant Reynolds (The JSR Not-Quite-Ready-For-A-Four-Year-Institution Players), Old Dominion University (DaMinions), University of Maryland-College Park (Erasable Inc.), University of Miami (Miami Boot Squad), University of North Carolina (Improv-A-Nation), University of Richmond (Subject to Change) and Virginia Commonwealth University (Rambling Ramblers). March 16 will feature all of the Elite Eight colleges battling it out over the course of two shows – 8 p.m. and 10:15 p.m. The winners of Friday's matches will move on to the Final Four competition March 17 at 7 p.m. and then the victors of those matches will meet in the championship round immediately following at 9:30 p.m. The champion will walk away with the very first ever Humorous Cup. Tickets for all shows are $10 in advance and $12 at the door. Reservations are suggested. For details, call 266-9377 or visit http://www.comedysportzrichmond.com/madness.php .
The work of artists and craftsmen with disabilities from across Virginia will be showcased at the 9th annual Arts & Crafts Show and Sale from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. March 16 and from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 17 at Resources for Independent Living (RIL), 4009 Fitzhugh Ave. Works on display will include paintings, jewelry, pottery, weavings, drawings, woodcarvings, candles and more. RIL serves people in central Virginia, including Henrico County. Admission is free. For details, call 353-6503.
The Latin Ballet invites all ages to experience "Le Petite Prince" at 7:30 p.m. March 16-17 and at 3 p.m. March 17-18 at The Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen, 2880 Mountain Rd. The performance is an interpretation of the poetic and philosophic story by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Tickets are $20 for adults and $15 for children, students and seniors. For details, call 379-2555 or visit http://www.latinballet.com .
The Sacred Harp Shape Note Singers will perform from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Meadow Farm Museum, 3400 Mountain Rd. Shape note singing is worship music sung without accompaniment. Admission is free. For details, call 501-2130 or visit http://www.henricorecandparks.com .
Preschoolers ages 4-5 are invited to a St. Patrick's Day parade from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. at Walkerton Tavern, 2892 Mountain Rd. Create masks, hats and musical instruments to use in the parade. Cost is $6. For details, call 261-6898 or visit http://www.henricorecandparks.com .
One Voice Chorus will celebrate its 10th anniversary with a performance of "Handel's Messiah" at 7 p.m. at River Road Church Baptist, 8000 River Rd. The chorus consists of more than 100 singers, a full orchestra and professional soloists. Bill Cooper, vice president for diversity and inclusion at the Federal Bank of Richmond, will give a pre-concert conversation titled "Harmony in Living Black and White" at 6 p.m. Admission is $15 for adults; children 12 and younger are free. For details, call 231-0324 or visit http://www.onevoicechorus.org .
The 10th annual St. Patrick's Day Celebration at Capital Ale House in Innsbrook will begin at noon. A new Irish menu for 2012 will be available, as well as over 10 different Irish and Scottish Ales on tap and at least 10 more in the bottle. The celebration will take place in the restaurant and in the Innsbrook Shoppes Courtyard within a 3,500 square feet heated tent. Entertainment will be provided by Uisce Beatha, The Havers, The Atkinsons and St. Andrews Legion Pipe & Drums. For details, visit http://www.capitalalehouse.com .
MADD to host candlelight vigil Dec. 2 at UR
Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) will host a candlelight vigil of remembrance and hope Tuesday, Dec. 2 at 7 p.m. at the University of Richmond, outside the Cannon Chapel. The public is invited to attend and join MADD to honor victims of impaired driving crashes, while helping to remind the community to be safe during the holidays. > Read more.
Tournament supports adoption efforts
Among participants at the Seventh Annual Coordinators2Inc Golf Tournament and awards luncheon Oct. 3 were (from left) Rebecca Ricardo, C2 Inc executive director; Kevin Derr, member of the winning foursome; Sharon Richardson, C2 Inc founder; and Frank Ridgway and Jon King, members of the winning foursome.
Held at The Crossings Golf Club, the tournament will benefit placement of children from Virginia's foster care system into permanent families through Coordinators2. > Read more.
A.C. Moore to host winter craft day for kids
Event will help kick of Marine Corps' 'Toys for Tots' campaign
All 140 A.C. Moore locations will serve as drop-off centers this year for the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation, and all toys collected will stay in the local communities served by the stores in which they are donated.
On Saturday, Nov. 15, the Willow Lawn location will kick off the month-long program by hosting a "Make & Take" craft event for kids. Children ages six and older will be able to make a craft and take it home with them. Representatives from the Marines will be in-store to teach customers about the Toys for Tots program. A.C. Moore team members will be on site to help with the crafts. > Read more.
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The Dominion GardenFest of Lights Grand Illumination takes place tonight at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden! This year's theme is "A Legacy in Lights: 120 Years from Bicycle Club to Botanical Garden," which celebrates the Garden's history. You can also celebrate Thanksgiving again – tomorrow at Henricus Historical Park. More great events – Lavender Fields Herb Farm and Wilton House Museum will both host their holiday open house events this weekend. For all our top picks this weekend, click here! > Read more.
A hero is born
Disney's 'Big Hero 6,' lovable robot Baymax delight
It may be time for Olaf to step down as our nation's reigning cartoon character. Big Hero 6, the latest animated feature from Disney, contains a challenger to the throne: Baymax (Scott Adsit), another lovably chubby white wonder, who will bring joy to children's hearts and invade every home in America inside a six-foot pile of Disney merchandise.
Big Hero 6 (based ever so slightly on a Marvel comic of the same name) is the story of Baymax – and also his closest companion Hiro Hamada (Ryan Potter). And then also their four friends, all of whom join together to form the titular superhero team.
At first, though, it's only Hiro, a young boy and an engineering prodigy, who'd rather spend his time in underground robot fight clubs than do something productive with his gifts. > Read more.
Authentically Italian
Bella's feels – and tastes – like Italy should
Short Pump is known for its share of chain restaurants and strip malls, but diners looking for something more distinct can certainly find it without heading downtown or to nearby Charlottesville.
In fact, local husband-and-wife restaurateurs Valeria Bisenti and Doug Muir brought a taste of Charlottesville (and Italy) to Short Pump when they took a chance and opened Bella's second location in the same shopping strip as Wal-Mart and Peter Chang China Cafe. (Bella's original location is on Main Street in downtown Charlottesville.)
For a local Italian restaurant, Bella's is as "Mom and Pop" as its gets. Valeria is Mom, and Doug is Pop. Since its opening about six months ago, diners have been eating rich comfort foods and drinking Italian wines. > Read more.
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17906069941455230572014-11-13T09:14:50.895-06:00bar none grouppoetry, art, music and literature...but mostly poetry!Mark Butkushttps://email@example.com://feedburner.google.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1790606994145523057.post-38649518569806498112014-11-13T08:56:00.000-06:002014-11-13T08:56:32.631-06:00Quaint Sayings of Uncle Jeff: On Regret

Uncle Jeff ruminated on thoughts and themes from sorrow to happiness at the turn of the last century. His niece Iva noted nine such sayings. As a young woman of 26 in 1929, Iva was determined to collect and write down the quaint sayings of her Uncle Jeff for posterity's sake. She wrote down his homespun adages within the pages of her second-hand copy of Three Centuries of American Poetry and Prose.

Uncle Jeff had this to say about regret...

On Regret

There's a thing we all must learn,
 friend,
As over the road we go
It's the sorriest kind of folly,
 friend,
To shiver at last year's snow.

— Iva B. Core

A child of the heartland, Iva Beatrice Core (1903-1987) grew up and lived most of her life in Richland Center, Wisconsin. We will visit Iva and Uncle Jeff from time to time and remember a simpler time.

To date, we have read Uncle Jeff's ruminations on: sorrow; benevolence and; friends.

Mark Butkushttps://email@example.com://www.barnonegroup.com/2014/11/quaint-sayings-of-uncle-jeff-on-regret.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1790606994145523057.post-37757905937902011402014-11-11T07:35:00.001-06:002014-11-11T07:35:53.389-06:00The Chapbook — We Trooped into the Countryside

We trooped into countryside,
walking behind tanks like children
trailing parents to a scene of petty
wrong. I was more exhausted
than I can say; I was tired of shots
and the substitute of guns for
the soundings of the sky and handsome
forks of gold like those back home
where storms are welcome to the eye.
This was a naked place, powdered
everywhere with dust and ash. It lay
on trees and covered men I shot
like birds and who dropped a little
distance away. At home,
the cathedral of the night
catches in its hands
our talk sometimes and you hear
the flight of the unseen
to firesides they crave.

— Charles Bane, Jr.

On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month peace rang out across Europe as the Great War ended in 1918. Today, we remember Veterans Day and the men and women who pay the ultimate sacrifice to ensure our continued liberties and freedoms with a poem by Charles Bane Jr.

We Trooped into the Countryside marks the sixth installment in the serialization of Charles' 2011 volume of poetry The Chapbook (Curbside Splendor). Join us on this year-long journey as we share and explore Charles' passion — his poetry — with you, our readers, on alternate Tuesdays.

Charles is also the author of Love Poems (Kelsay Books, 2014). His work has been described in the Huffington Post as "not only standing on the shoulders of giants, but shrinking them." He created the Meaning of Poetry series for The Gutenberg Project and is a current nominee as Poet Laureate of Florida. A new collection of poetry, The Ends Of The Earth is currently taking shape.

We thank Charles for his continuing contributions.

Mark Butkushttps://email@example.com://www.barnonegroup.com/2014/11/the-chapbook-we-trooped-into-countryside.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1790606994145523057.post-57898742867656701782014-11-10T13:17:00.001-06:002014-11-10T13:17:16.646-06:00Prayer for a Friend

Remembering Charles Longstreet (1947-2013) on the day of his birth.

Prayer For A Friend,
A Father
Oh Great Universe,
Our Creator,
Now,
We return your gift to us,
Our brother, our father,
our friend,
And thank you
For his presence
among us,
The love
and the life
that flowed through him.
Please protect him
On his journey
Along the road
He has yet to travel,
As we ask you
To protect us and nurture us
And help us
To see our way
On our journeys
Through this troubled life.
Help us to remember
That all our paths
Lead to the same place
And we are all
Together again
In love,
In you,
The eternal soul of all.
Amen.

— Russell Rosander

This prayer poem, written by Russell Rosander, and orated at sea by the author as the ashes of Bar None Group co-founder Charles Longstreet (1947-2013) were scattered off the coast of his beloved Barra de Navidad, Jalisco, Mexico on August 8, 2014.

On Charles' birthday, we remember Russell's poem and reflect fondly on Charles' life and times. Toasts will be made, tales will be told and tears are certainly to flow throughout the day on November 10.

An artist and poet living in the Costalegre of Mexico, Russell Rosander is not only a co-founder of the Bar None Group he was Chuck's best friend for more than 40 years. Russell, like Chuck before him, calls Barra de Navidad home and he hosts weekly readings and discussions on poetry, art, music and literature...but mostly poetry at Chynna's Backstage Bar.

You can find more of Russell's writing at Russell Rosander Short Stories. You can find a selection of Charles poems on this site by entering Charles Longstreet in the search field at the top right of this page. You will also find poems written about Chuck by a few of his many friends, friends from Canada, Mexico and these United States.

Mark Butkushttps://firstname.lastname@example.com://www.barnonegroup.com/2014/11/prayer-for-friend.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1790606994145523057.post-59868826862986610892014-11-08T02:00:00.000-06:002014-11-08T02:00:09.608-06:00The Poem that inspired the title "Gone With the Wind"

A Roman poem written before the birth of Christ, inspired the title of a 19th century English poem that contained a line that was the inspiration for the title of an American classic novel of the 20th century.

The poem that inspired the title to Margaret Mitchell's 1936 classic Civil War romance novel Gone With the Wind comes from a line in a poem written by the tragic poet Ernest Dowson.

Mitchell's title comes from the first line of the third stanza of Dowson's 1894 poem, Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae. When translated from Latin into English the poem's title reads, "I am not as I was under the reign of the kind Cynara." Dowson's title itself is borrowed from a line of the Roman lyric poet Horace's Odes, Book 4, 1.

Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae

Last night, ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine
There fell thy shadow, Cynara! Thy breath was shed
Upon my soul between the kisses and the wine;
And I was desolate and sick of an old passion,
 Yea, I was desolate and bowed my head:
I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.

All night upon mine heart I felt her warm heart beat,
Night-long within mine arms in love and sleep she lay;
Surely the kisses of her bought red mouth were sweet;
But I was desolate and sick of an old passion,
 When I awoke and found the dawn was grey:
I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.

I have forgot much, Cynara! Gone with the wind,
Flung roses, roses riotously with the throng,
Dancing, to put thy pale, lost lilies out of mind;
But I was desolate and sick of an old passion,
 Yea, all the time, because the dance was long:
I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.

I cried for madder music and for stronger wine,
But when the feast is finished and the lamps expire,
Then falls thy shadow, Cynara! The night is thine;
And I am desolate and sick of an old passion,
 Yea, hungry for the lips of my desire:
I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.

— Ernest Dowson

Ernest Dowson (1867-1900) died of alcoholism at the age of 32. His downward spiral began at age 23 when he fell for an 11 year old girl who would spurn him at 14 when he proposed marriage. The following year, in 1894 his father died from an overdose. Dowson's mother hanged herself within a year of her husband's death.

Soon after this dual tragedy Dowson left for France before returning back to England in 1897. Curiously he lived with the family of his unrequited love. Penniless, heartbroken and filling the empty voids in his life with alcohol, Dowson would spend the last six weeks of his life in the cottage of the Oscar Wilde biographer Robert Sherard who had found him drunk in a bar.

Speaking of Oscar Wilde, he wrote after Dowson's death of a,"Poor wounded wonderful fellow that he was, a tragic reproduction of all tragic poetry, like a symbol, or a scene. I hope bay leaves will be laid on his tomb and rue and myrtle too for he knew what love was."

As for Margaret Mitchell — who was eerily born, this day, in the year of Dowson's death — she would succumb to injuries from a hit-and-run accident in Atlanta, Georgia at the age of 49. Gone With the Wind would be the only novel that she wrote and published in her lifetime.

Mark Butkushttps://firstname.lastname@example.com://www.barnonegroup.com/2014/11/the-poem-that-inspired-title-gone-with.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1790606994145523057.post-84277741717585287272014-11-07T09:47:00.000-06:002014-11-07T09:47:22.231-06:00Mediatization

Good lord, grief. I've forgotten
to do my calthestics again.

My aesthetics are bundled,
bridled by the bunch, by the wing

of a wren. Take me down a peg.
Cut off my peg leg. I've got two

left. My left side wobbles crumbs.
I cake my own face with cum.

How does it feel, bitch?
I've never had any money

shots. I don't see the point.
Why cover the above? Why break

skin to prove a topography
of misguided, unaimed love?

I misunderstand fortune, tell
my people that death will not come

from above, but sideways, slantways
disguised as braziers and doves.

— Peter Burzynski

Peter Burzynski is a second-year PhD student in Creative Writing-Poetry at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He holds a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a M.F.A. in Poetry from The New School University, and a M.A. in Polish Literature from Columbia University.

In between his studies, Peter has worked as a Sous-Chef in New York City and Milwaukee. His poetry has appeared in The Best American Poetry Blog, Yes Poetry, Thrush Poetry Review, Your Impossible Voice, The Unrorean, BORT Quarterly, Hobo Pancakes, The Great Lakes Review, Kritya, Bar None Group, Zombie Logic Review, Souvenir Lit Journal, White Stag Journal, and Fuck Poems Anthology. He has poems forthcoming from RHINO, Prick of the Spindle, The Mackinac, The Portland Review, and Forklift Ohio.

Mediatization is the first of four never-before-published Peter Burzynski poems that the Bar None Group will feature over the next four months. These original and inventive poems touch on Christmas, winter and, in the eyes of this reader, the debauchery that is Mardi Gras in New Orleans. We first met Peter at the 2011 Academy of American Poets Awards Ceremony in New York City where he shared with us his poem, The Cemetery.

Mark Butkushttps://email@example.com://www.barnonegroup.com/2014/11/mediatization.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1790606994145523057.post-26873726290023866532014-11-05T11:20:00.000-06:002014-11-05T11:20:59.843-06:00Poetry in Motion Pictures: Dylan Thomas in Interstellar

Poetry has been making appearances in movies since the advent of motion pictures. Sometimes as a cameo (Yeats in No Country for Old Men), other times as a central plot point (Whitman in Dead Poets Society) and poems inspire titles of films (Dowson in Days of Wine and Roses).

A much talked about film in the waning weeks of 2014 that uses poetry to add textures and layers to a film is Christopher Nolan's blockbuster Interstellar.

The movie, set in a bleak near future, makes use of Dylan Thomas' Do not go gentle into that good night. Sections of the poem are recited throughout the three-hour film by Professor Brand, portrayed by Michael Caine.

Do not go gentle into that good night

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rage at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

— Dylan Thomas

Do not go gentle into that good night was first published in the journal Botteghe Oscure in 1951. In the poem Thomas addresses his dying father's diminishing health and urges him to fight on.

The poem has previously been featured on screen in Rodney Dangerfield' Back to School and the forgettable sequel, My Girl 2 and paraphrased in another science-fiction blockbuster, Independence Day.

You can hear Michael Caine recite a portion of Do not go gentle into that good night at 1:46 in the following movie trailer for Interstellar.

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Mark Butkushttps://email@example.com://www.barnonegroup.com/2014/11/poetry-in-motion-pictures-dylan-thomas.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1790606994145523057.post-42947570224509853912014-11-02T08:02:00.000-06:002014-11-02T08:02:42.163-06:00Mictecacihuatl

'Meek-teka-see-wahdl' or 'Meek-teka-kee-wadl', in Aztec mythology she guards over the bones of the dead.

She brews fruit on open flame,
calling souls of vanished loved ones;
gurgling marigolds and cockscomb
fill a dark room's altar,
copal incense burning sweet
and thick encasing the air.

Lady of the dead with her jaw gaping,
swallows the stars of day,
leaving flickering carved out eyes.

She thumps across the sidewalk,
a bottle of magic tucked beneath her robes,
promising green meadows for respite,
and days of tempered sunshine.

From a roof's gutter
an owl watches, twitching,
caught by her presence.

La Catrina rests
bloody, crooked hands on aged
bones in endless sleep

— Pamela Sayers

An artist by profession, Pamela Sayers poetry is in part inspired by Mexico. Now living in Puebla, the former New Yorker teaches English while absorbing the local culture. Mictecacihuatl — a poem that celebrates Mexico's Día de los Muertos — first appeared on wordsandthoughtspjs in a slightly different format.

One of Pamela's previous contributions to the Bar None site, Water, Wings and Alliterated Wishes is atop our Hall of Fame as the most read submission within the Bar None Group pages.

Congratulations Pamela and continued thanks for allowing us to share your poetry!

Mark Butkushttps://firstname.lastname@example.com://www.barnonegroup.com/2014/11/mictecacihuatl.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1790606994145523057.post-56599743941371733372014-11-01T11:15:00.000-05:002014-11-01T11:18:54.817-05:00Life and Death

Ofrenda por la niña Marisol Nola.

On the road to El Aguacate
the dead sleep
next to their abuelos and primos.
A baby gone too soon,
A life lived a century ago,
watched over by Guadalupe,
under a palm tree,
next to a mountain of stone and sand
to warm them in their graves.

I've not been here for Día de los Muertos
but in Michoacán and Chiapas
music, food and cempasúchil flowers decorate the graves.
"There's a room for rent here. Cheap!"
a caretaker told us.
We laughed, nervously.
A space for me and you?
Maybe, someday,
after we've walked down more roads together.

— Teresa Puente

Día de los Muertos...Mexico's Day of the Dead is not just one day, it is two days. November 1 — All Saints' Day — is set aside for honoring the passing of children. The following day, departed adults are recalled.

Today, we remember the children through this poem by Teresa Puente and los niños brief time on Earth and in the womb.

Teresa Puente is a Professor of Journalism at Columbia College in Chicago and writes about Hispanic issues at Chicanisima. Ms. Puente also encourages Latina women to write and publish their own stories in Latina Voices.

Life and Death originally appeared in Take Two: Another Anthology of English Writing from the Costalegre and appears here with the author's permission.

Mark Butkushttps://email@example.com://www.barnonegroup.com/2014/11/life-and-death.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1790606994145523057.post-6327577645651034722014-10-29T16:35:00.000-05:002014-10-29T16:35:01.279-05:00Galway Kinnell's Little Sleep's-Head Sprouting Hair in the Moonlight

"To me, poetry is somebody standing up, so to speak, and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for him or her to be on earth at this moment." — Galway Kinnell (1927-2014)

 You scream, waking from a nightmare.

 When I sleepwalk
 into your room, and pick you up,
 and hold you up in the moonlight, you cling to me
 hard,
 as if clinging could save us. I think
 you think
 I will never die, I think I exude
 to you the permanence of smoke or stars,
 even as
 my broken arms heal themselves around you.

 2

 I have heard you tell
 the sun, don't go down, I have stood by
 as you told the flower, don't grow old,
 don't die. Little Maud,

 I would blow the flame out of your silver cup,
 I would suck the rot from your fingernail,
 I would brush your sprouting hair of the dying light,
 I would scrape the rust off your ivory bones,
 I would help death escape through the little ribs of your body,
 I would alchemize the ashes of your cradle back into wood,
 I would let nothing of you go, ever,

 until washerwomen
 feel the clothes fall asleep in their hands,
 and hens scratch their spell across hatchet blades,
 and rats walk away from the cultures of the plague,
 and iron twists weapons toward the true north,
 and grease refuses to slide in the machinery of progress,
 and men feel as free on earth as fleas on the bodies of men,
 and lovers no longer whisper to the presence beside them in the
 dark, O corpse-to-be ...

 And yet perhaps this is the reason you cry,
 this the nightmare you wake screaming from:
 being forever
 in the pre-trembling of a house that falls.

 3

 In a restaurant once, everyone
 quietly eating, you clambered up
 on my lap: to all
 the mouthfuls rising toward
 all the mouths, at the top of your voice
 you cried
 your one word, caca! caca! caca!
 and each spoonful
 stopped, a moment, in midair, in its withering
 steam.

 Yes,
 you cling because
 I, like you, only sooner
 than you, will go down
 the path of vanished alphabets,
 the roadlessness
 to the other side of the darkness,

 your arms
 like the shoes left behind,
 like the adjectives in the halting speech
 of old men,
 which once could call up the lost nouns.

 4

 And you yourself,
 some impossible Tuesday
 in the year Two Thousand and Nine, will walk out
 among the black stones
 of the field, in the rain,

 and the stones saying
 over their one word, ci-gît, ci-gît, ci-gît,

 and the raindrops
 hitting you on the fontanel
 over and over, and you standing there
 unable to let them in.

 5

 If one day it happens
 you find yourself with someone you love
 in a café at one end
 of the Pont Mirabeau, at the zinc bar
 where white wine stands in upward opening glasses,

 and if you commit then, as we did, the error
 of thinking,
 one day all this will only be memory,

 learn,
 as you stand
 at this end of the bridge which arcs,
 from love, you think, into enduring love,
 learn to reach deeper
 into the sorrows
 to come – to touch
 the almost imaginary bones
 under the face, to hear under the laughter
 the wind crying across the black stones. Kiss
 the mouth
 which tells you, here,
 here is the world. This mouth. This laughter. These temple bones.

 The still undanced cadence of vanishing.

 6

 In the light the moon
 sends back, I can see in your eyes

 the hand that waved once
 in my father's eyes, a tiny kite
 wobbling far up in the twilight of his last look:

 and the angel
 of all mortal things lets go the string.

 7

 Back you go, into your crib.

 The last blackbird lights up his gold wings: farewell.
 Your eyes close inside your head,
 in sleep. Already
 in your dreams the hours begin to sing.

 Little sleep's-head sprouting hair in the moonlight,
 when I come back
 we will go out together,
 we will walk out together among
 the ten thousand things,
 each scratched too late with such knowledge, the wages
 of dying is love.

— Galway Kinnell

Galway Kinnell burst onto the scene in 1960 with The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ Into the New World. The poem is an epic study of Avenue C in New York City's Lower East Side in 14 parts. Critics compared him to Walt Whitman and the poem to T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land.

Little Sleep's-Head Sprouting Hair in the Moonlight is from his 1971 collection, The Book of Nightmares. The toll in writing The Book of Nightmares affected Kinnell profoundly. He would not published another volume of poetry for another decade.

In 1982, his Selected Poems won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He was also the recipient of the Frost Medal by the Poetry Society of America in 2002.

Galway Kinnell died on Tuesday October 28, 2014 at his home in Sheffield, Vermont. He was 87.

Mark Butkushttps://email@example.com://www.barnonegroup.com/2014/10/galway-kinnells-little-sleeps-head.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1790606994145523057.post-35199112760089535442014-10-28T12:20:00.000-05:002014-10-28T12:20:13.124-05:00Seeker of Truth Mural in Chicago Remembers James Foley

Life is often forgotten beyond the headlines. A nation recoiled in horror with the murder of journalist James Foley on August 19, 2014 and introduced a new word into our collective vocabulary — ISIS.

James' friends in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago sought to remind us and console each other that James was more than a statistic. More than a journalist.

James Foley was a poet, a drummer, a hip-hop performer, an educator and ironically enough an anti-war activist. He may have been born in Evanston and raised in New Hampshire but James Foley had called Pilsen home.

Not only does he live in the hearts and memories of his family and friends, James Foley is now remembered on a wall in Pilsen as a mural across the street from his favorite hangout — the Café Jumping Bean. The wall was donated by his landlord Paul Guizar.

Painted by a group of ten of James' friends who worked in shifts around the clock, the two-story mural is entitled, in Arabic, Seeker of Truth. It is based on one of the last known photographs of Foley in Aleppo, Syria taken two weeks before his capture and captivity on November 5, 2012 by Nicole Tung.

Inscribed on the mural is the poem Bani Adam by Persian poet Saadi Shirazi (1210-1292).

The poem is featured in Arabic, English and Spanish. The three languages of the three cultures that helped to inform and shape the life and times of James Wright Foley.

In English, the poem reads...

All men are limbs of the same body
Created from one essence
If fate brings suffering to one limb
The other limbs cannot remain at peace
You who remain indifferent
 to the burden of pain of others
Do not deserve to be called human

...en español

Todos sone miembros
 del mismo cuerpo
Creados por la misma esencia
Si el destino trae sufrimiento
 a uno de los miembros
Los otros no pueden vivir en paz
Tu que permaneces indiferente
 al dolor agobiante de los de mas
No mereces ser llamado humano

The mural was completed by October 18, 2014 the date that would have been James' 41st birthday.

His friends will gather again at the corner of W. 18th Street and S. Bishop Street in the spring of 2015 and put the finishing touches to the mural. To them, his friends and family, James Foley will always be more than a fading headline.

Mark Butkushttps://email@example.com://www.barnonegroup.com/2014/10/seeker-of-truth-mural-in-chicago.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1790606994145523057.post-12697551976741850352014-10-25T01:00:00.000-05:002014-10-25T01:00:01.201-05:00The Chapbook — Picasso's Guitar

Picasso's Guitar

Picasso's Guitar is disassembled
and rebuilt on canvas
when figs are sugared and
clustered in the heavens
and the studio is silent;
he makes short work of it,
and in the morning
gives it only a passing glance
as it lays under a window and a dovecot.
He reaches instead
to paint horses yellow and blue
that are streaming up a hillside like smoke,
and when he stops to look past the guitar
and through the window
the fruit and birds are one.

— Charles Bane, Jr.

We commemorate the birth of Pablo Picasso, born on this day in 1881, with an appropriate poem by Charles Bane Jr.

Picasso's Guitar marks the fifth installment in the serialization of Charles' 2011 volume of poetry The Chapbook (Curbside Splendor). Join us on this year-long journey as we share and explore Charles' passion — his poetry — with you, our readers, on alternate Tuesdays...or in this instance on Picasso's birthday!

Charles is also the author of Love Poems (Kelsay Books, 2014). His work has been described in the Huffington Post as "not only standing on the shoulders of giants, but shrinking them." He created the Meaning of Poetry series for The Gutenberg Project and is a current nominee as Poet Laureate of Florida. A new collection of poetry, The Ends Of The Earth is currently taking shape.

We thank Charles for his continuing contributions.

Mark Butkushttps://email@example.com://www.barnonegroup.com/2014/10/the-chapbook-picassos-guitar.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1790606994145523057.post-48391796949769346012014-10-24T08:04:00.000-05:002014-10-24T08:04:44.464-05:00A Woman Alone with Her Soul

A woman
is sitting alone
in a house.

She knows she is alone
in the whole world:
every other living thing
is dead.

The doorbell
rings.

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907) was the author of seven volumes of poetry and four collected editions. The poem, A Woman Alone with Her Soul, began life as a short story...some would say the shortest short story. It was first published posthumously in Aldrich's, Works, Vol. 9 in 1912.

It was included in the Spanish fantasy anthology Antología de la Literatura Fantástica in 1940. Edited by Jorge Luis Borges among others, the Argentine publication includes more than 80 short stories, fragments, excerpts, and poems. The anthology was first translated into English as The Book of Fantasy in 1971 where Aldrich's A Woman Alone with Her Soul came back to life!

Mark Butkushttps://firstname.lastname@example.com://www.barnonegroup.com/2014/10/a-woman-alone-with-her-soul.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1790606994145523057.post-45215996333924472502014-10-21T14:45:00.000-05:002014-10-21T14:45:13.596-05:00Soledad Mexicana

Y soy un extraño sin felicidad
caminando las calles de México
recordando.
Mis amigos, se me han muerto,
mis amantes desaparecieron,
mis putas fueron proscriptas,
mi cama apedreada y sacudida
por los terremotos y no tengo
hierba santa para volarme a la luz
de las velas
y soñar humo de autobuses
solo eso, tormentas de polvo, y las mucamas
que me espían furtivamente a través de un agujero
en la puerta, taladrado secretamente para observar
las almohadas con que hacen el amor los masturbadores.
Yo soy la gárgola
de Nuestra Señora
soñando en el espacio
sueños grises brumosos
mi rostro apunta hacia Napoleón
no tengo forma.
La libreta en la que anota las direcciones postales
está plagada de «Que en paz descanse»
No creo en el valor del vacío,
me siento cómodo sin honor
mi único amigo es un viejo marica
que no posee una máquina de escribir
que, si fuera mi amigo,
intentaría sodomizarme.
queda algo de mayonesa,
una no deseada botella de aceite,
campesinos lavando el tragaluz,
un loco con quien comparto el mismo cielorraso
hace gárgaras en el baño contiguo
unas cien veces por día.
Si me emborracho tengo sed
si camino mi pie se rompe
si sonrió mi máscara es una farsa
si lloro sólo soy un niño
si recuerdo miento
si escribo, ya todo fue escrito
si muero, la muerte llega a su fin
si vivo, la muerte recién comienza
si espero, la espera es más prolongada
si parto, la partida ya no existe
si me duermo la dicha suprema es pesada
la dicha pesa sobre mis párpados
si voy a cines baratos me comen las chinches.
No tengo dinero para cines lujosos
si no hago nada
nada lo hace

— Jack Kerouac

A mediados de la década de los cincuenta envía desde México una carta en la que expresa que él se considera un poeta y que, a diferencia «de otros poetas que escriben pequeñas líneas cortas», él escribe «líneas párrafos de muchas y muchas más páginas». En 1959 se publico México City Blues, un conjunto de textos que escribió en agosto de 1955 en la ciudad de México. — Buda y otros poemas (2005)

Mark Butkushttps://firstname.lastname@example.com://www.barnonegroup.com/2014/10/soledad-mexicana.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1790606994145523057.post-81900566334117957672014-10-20T09:51:00.001-05:002014-10-20T09:51:32.407-05:00Openness — Love

Free flowing, like a clear mountain stream,
tumbling down unobstructed.
Open wide, like the arms of a tree,
to the heavens above.
Like the radiance of a flower,
unfolding for all to see,
thus,
is the open mind, the open heart
in it´s natural state
of giving and receiving,
called love.

Love is openness
as fear is closed-ness.
It is not a commodity,
but a quality, a condition,
through which
all things come and go.

From you to me
and from me to you,
soft as the whisper of a breeze,
sweet as a song,
strong as a mighty river.
We open to each other
and the universe
opens within us.

— Russell Rosander

An artist and poet living in the Costalegre of Mexico, Russell Rosander is also a co-founder of the Bar None Group. Russell hosts weekly readings and discussions on poetry, art, music and literature...but mostly poetry at Chynna's Backstage Bar in Barra de Navidad, Mexico. You can find more of Russell's writing at Russell Rosander Short Stories where Openness — Love first appeared.

Mark Butkushttps://firstname.lastname@example.com://www.barnonegroup.com/2014/10/openness-love.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1790606994145523057.post-22174035341494642272014-10-19T02:00:00.000-05:002014-10-19T02:00:05.909-05:00Rain Dance

It's nice to enjoy
What you are doing for a chance,
My very own new rain dance.

Bright lightning night.
Rolling thunder now.
Knowing my own answers, somehow.

Take pride in your ride
With your failing might,
Sharp reality strikes to acknowledge your plight
Knowing that you're right.

Watch the lightning
Through our smoke
Then scream out loud
 (on the) inside

— Jessica Godwin

Jessica Godwin is an emerging talent. Hailing from Washington state, she shares a journey of self-discovery with the written word. Rain Dance first appeared in Take Two: Another Anthology of English Writing from the Costalegre.

Mark Butkushttps://email@example.com://www.barnonegroup.com/2014/10/rain-dance.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1790606994145523057.post-22044418767009418262014-10-17T11:06:00.000-05:002014-10-17T11:06:25.128-05:00Be not Defeated by the Rain

Be not defeated by the rain, Nor let the wind prove your better.
Succumb not to the snows of winter. Nor be bested by the heat of summer.

Be strong in body. Unfettered by desire. Not enticed to anger. Cultivate a quiet joy.
Count yourself last in everything. Put others before you.
Watch well and listen closely. Hold the learned lessons dear.

A thatch-roof house, in a meadow, nestled in a pine grove's shade.

A handful of rice, some miso, and a few vegetables to suffice for the day.

If, to the East, a child lies sick: Go forth and nurse him to health.
If, to the West, an old lady stands exhausted: Go forth, and relieve her of burden.
If, to the South, a man lies dying: Go forth with words of courage to dispel his fear.
If, to the North, an argument or fight ensues:
Go forth and beg them stop such a waste of effort and of spirit.

In times of drought, shed tears of sympathy.
In summers cold, walk in concern and empathy.

Stand aloof of the unknowing masses:
Better dismissed as useless than flattered as a "Great Man".

This is my goal, the person I strive to become.

— Kenji Miyazawa

Ame ni mo Makezu, the best known poem of the best known poet from Iwate, Japan was discovered hidden in the lid of a trunk after Kenji Miyazawa's death in 1933. The poem was found in a black notebook that contained Miyazawa's last poems amidst the repetitious writing of the Buddhist chant, "namu myoho renge kyo."

Thought to be written in 1931 while Miyazawa was bedridden, Be not Defeated by the Rain has the author reflecting on life and a desire for a better world. The version presented here was translated by David Sulz. The poet Gary Snyder was the first to translate a substantial portion of Miyazawa's poetic oeuvre into English.

Mark Butkushttps://email@example.com://www.barnonegroup.com/2014/10/be-not-defeated-by-rain.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1790606994145523057.post-58382142523523072502014-10-15T12:52:00.000-05:002014-10-15T12:52:10.867-05:002014 National Book Award Poetry Finalists Announced

The shortlists for the National Book Awards were announced today and the finalists for the poetry award are: Louise Glück; Fanny Howe; Maureen N. McLane; Fred Moten and; Claudia Rankine. Robert Polito, President of the Poetry Foundation, heads a panel of five judges who will decide this year's honoree.

Nominated for the fourth time, Louise Glück is a former Poet Laureate of the United States and Pulitzer Prize winner. Faithful and Virtuous Night (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) "tells a single story, but the parts are mutable and the great sweep of its narrative mysterious and fateful, heartbreaking, and charged with wonder."

The author of more than twenty books of poetry and prose, Fanny Howe received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation for lifetime achievement in 2009. In Second Childhood, (Graywolf Press) "the observing poet is an impersonal figure who accompanies Howe in her encounters with chance and mystery. She is not one age or the other, in one time or another."

Maureen N. McLane was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography for My Poets — an experimental hybrid of memoir and criticism. This year, she is nominated for her third poetry collection, This Blue (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). This Blue is comprised of, "songs for and of a new century, poems both archaic and wholly now."

In 2009, Fred Moten was recognized as one of ten "New American Poets" by the Poetry Society of America. The co-founder and co-publisher of a small literary press called Three Count Pour is being celebrated for The Feel Trio (Letter Machine Editions). Moten's poetry, "sits upright in the spit sizzling off yesterday's breakfast bacon, sputtering and growling as it engages readers in an across-the-board wake up call" wrote Patrick James Dunagan in reviewing The Feel Trio for The Rumpus.

With four collections of poetry and a turn as a judge for the National Book Award for Poetry in 2006 behind her, Claudia Rankine is being honored with her latest effort — Citizen: An American Lyric (Graywolf Press). "In essay, image, and poetry, Citizen is a powerful testament to the individual and collective effects of racism in our contemporary, often named 'post-race' society."

Since 1950 the National Book Awards has become one of the nation's most prestigious literary prizes. It's first recipient in poetry was William Carlos Williams.

To be eligible for a 2014 National Book Award, a book must have been written by a US citizen and published in the United States between December 1, 2013 and November 30, 2014. Publishers submitted a total of 219 books for the 2014 National Book Award in Poetry.

The winners will be announced on November 19 at a ceremony in New York City.

Mark Butkushttps://email@example.com://www.barnonegroup.com/2014/10/2014-national-book-award-poetry.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1790606994145523057.post-62192085616358365822014-10-15T11:11:00.000-05:002014-10-15T11:11:48.154-05:00Library Walk: The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail

"Writing your name can lead to writing sentences. And the next thing you'll be doing is writing paragraphs, and then books. And then you'll be in as much trouble as I am." So speaks the titular character in Robert Edwin Lee and Jerome Lawrence's The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail.

The two-act play debuted at their alma mater during the height of the Viet Nam War in 1969 and was one of the most popular college productions of the time appearing on campuses coast-to-coast.

The play is based on the events that led to the arrest of Henry David Thoreau and a night spent in the Concord jail. Thoreau's crime — or act of civil disobedience? He had refused to pay a poll tax on the grounds that the money could fund the Mexican-American War, a war which Thoreau was against.

The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail is in the same vein of many of Lawrence and Lee's plays in that they draw on historical events to address the issues of the day. In all, Robert Edwin Lee and Jerome Lawrence collaborated on 39 original works over their illustrious partnership including another play that draws on history and current events — Inherit the Wind.

In 1996, the New York Public Library, the Grand Central Partnership and the New Yorker Magazine convened a panel of esteemed lovers of the written word and came up with a collection of quotations from the never-ending oeuvre of literature.

These quotes were cast in bronze by New York sculptor Gregg LeFevre and then laid out as sidewalk plaques on E 41st Street in 1998. In 2003, the stretch of E 41st Street from the New York Public Library entrance on Fifth Avenue to Park Avenue was renamed Library Way.

Whether it be a birth day, anniversary or publication date of a seminal work, the Bar None Group will revisit these 40+ quotations from time to time — quotations that inspire one to write, read, explore and embrace literature. We last visited poet William Carlos Williams.

Mark Butkushttps://firstname.lastname@example.com://www.barnonegroup.com/2014/10/library-walk-night-thoreau-spent-in-jail.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1790606994145523057.post-63408049508219534312014-10-14T09:15:00.000-05:002014-10-14T09:15:17.392-05:00The Chapbook — Pangea

We, in bed,
are an early Earth;
the Africa of me
is fitted to
the Americas of you.

Your hair
flows unerring
through the crook of my arm
and the river of it parts,
as was meant,
at my fingers.

Nutmeg wafts
not across a dividing sea,
but fresh from lips
to waiting mouth.

Just below your eyebrows,
two lights guide my mariner soul,
that aglow,
travels back
to your same sky.

We match only we,
and your face
will not look distantly for mine
nor lose my hand's geography.

— Charles Bane, Jr.

Pangea, like the lovers connected in Charles poem, refers to a time more than 100 million years ago when all continents were connected into a super-continent that has come to be known as Pangea. This marks the fourth installment of the serialization of Charles Bane Jr.'s 2011 volume of poetry The Chapbook (Curbside Splendor). Join us on this year-long journey as we share and explore Charles' passion — his poetry — with you, our readers, on alternate Tuesdays.

Charles is also the author of Love Poems (Kelsay Books, 2014). His work has been described in the Huffington Post as "not only standing on the shoulders of giants, but shrinking them." He created the Meaning of Poetry series for The Gutenberg Project and is a current nominee as Poet Laureate of Florida. A new collection of poetry, The Ends Of The Earth is currently taking shape.

We thank Charles for his continuing contributions.

IMAGE CREDIT: Original artwork "Planet 11" ©Christopher Rodrigues. Artwork is available for purchase by contacting the artist through his website.

Mark Butkushttps://firstname.lastname@example.com://www.barnonegroup.com/2014/10/the-chapbook-pangea.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1790606994145523057.post-23122185776216844592014-10-13T10:17:00.000-05:002014-10-13T10:17:19.099-05:00Harvest Time

Pillowed and hushed on the silent plain,
Wrapped in her mantle of golden grain,

Wearied of pleasuring weeks away,
Summer is lying asleep today —

Where winds come sweet from the wild-rose briers
And the smoke of the far-off prairie fires;

Yellow her hair as the goldenrod,
And brown her cheeks as the prairie sod;

Purple her eyes as the mists that dream
At the edge of some laggard sun-drowned stream;

But over their depths the lashes sweep,
For Summer is lying today asleep.

The north wind kisses her rosy mouth,
His rival frowns in the far-off south,

And comes caressing her sunburnt cheek,
And Summer awakes for one short week,—

Awakes and gathers her wealth of grain,
Then sleeps and dreams for a year again.

— Emily Pauline Johnson

A poet and performer of mixed blood born on the Six Nations Reserve in 1861 Emily Pauline Johnson would eventually adopt the name of her great-grandfather Tekahionwake. In touring England, Canada and America in the 1890s she would open her performance dressed in traditional Native apparel returning in an evening gown for her second and final act.

Four volumes of Johnson's poetry were published during her lifetime including, The White Wampum, which was simultaneously published in London, Toronto, and Boston in 1895. In failing health she managed to proofread an edition of her collected poems, Flint and Feather months before succumbing to breast cancer in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1913.

Mark Butkushttps://firstname.lastname@example.com://www.barnonegroup.com/2014/10/harvest-time.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1790606994145523057.post-552506670501219152014-10-11T02:00:00.000-05:002014-10-11T02:00:01.346-05:00A Poem That Speaks Your Name

There was a poem that spoke your name
I read it in another tongue
Reciting words before we fell into bed
laughing at my clumsy attempt
to be an overseas romantic
to be something more

There was a poem that spoke your name
I read it in another tongue
"Don't be sad, be horny"
Is what you thought I said
Is what you thought you heard

There was a poem that spoke your name
I read it in another tongue
it spoke of life and death
of not being born until lovers meet
of not dying until love is found

There was a poem that spoke your name
I read it in another tongue
I wrote down lines of what I saw
to words I thought I knew
Wanting nothing more than to make you smile
as you blow out candles on a cake

— Mark Butkus

Mark Butkushttps://firstname.lastname@example.com://www.barnonegroup.com/2014/10/a-poem-that-speaks-your-name.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1790606994145523057.post-63209887028554777022014-10-10T13:56:00.001-05:002014-10-15T14:40:51.968-05:00Poet Blanca Segura Reflects on Vibrancy of Peruvian Poetry

It has been said that to find the soul of a country you must seek out its poets. When the Bar None Group arrived in Peru we put out a call for the poets — the soul — of Peru. Blanca Segura of the Grupo Parasomnia — a collective of poets from Lima — answered our call.

Blanca's first volume of poetry, La Brutalidad de Los hechos was published in 2011. Her poetry also appears in the Grupo Parasomnia's 2013 anthology of poetry, Al otro lado del verso. She is also the creator of an online multimedia poetry experience called Mis hombres y yo.

We put Blanca behind the proverbial eight-ball and asked her to answer eight questions as to the vibrancy of Peruvian poetry yesterday, today and tomorrow and where her own poetic journey will take her.

Grupo Parasomnia recently had a birthday party, tell us about Grupo Parasomnia. When and why it was founded. It's influence on the Lima poetry scene...

Grupo Parasomnia started in 2011 with founders Alfredo Coello and Kimbler Esquivel. Later on, other members were added, such as: Luis Alberto Medina; Efraín Altamirano; Eduardo Cabezudo; Karla Romero; Richard Alejos and; myself. Currently, neither Eduardo nor Kimbler are part of Parasomnia but we still remain very good friends.

Grupo began due to the need for space and platforms for poetry to be heard. At the time there weren't many places to listen to poetry and only people who had been writing for a long time had access to them. We started working with Barranco's town hall, and later with other bars, restaurants and coffee places.

I believe that thanks to the exposure that poets were getting after three years of hard work that there are now other groups and people doing the same thing that we do — creating spaces for poetry.

The reach of the Grupo is extending throughout Latin America. What literary festivals have approached you? Do you see yourselves as ambassadors of Peruvian poetry?

We're very pleased with this, it proves that for poetry, there are no boundaries. A couple of years ago we were invited to go to Guayaquil, Ecuador for the International Book Festival but it's hard to make these kinds of trips when the money for it comes out of our own pockets. We were very sad that we couldn't go as we have a lot of good friends from Ecuador.

This year, we were invited to a Poetry Festival in Colombia, and we were determined to go. As for being ambassadors, I don't think that any of us feels that way. We're just trying to help people who write, trying to get their work heard, read and appreciated.

Grupo Parasomnia from photo shoot for "Al otro lado del verso."

Grupo Parasomnia has released one anthology to date, 2013's "Al otro lado del verso." How has the reception been for that? Is another anthology forthcoming or are the poets looking at publishing individual titles?

It was a long process actually. At that time we were a group of five and it was hard to agree on everything. Nevertheless, at the end, we pulled it off. The book sold great, we only have a couple of them remaining.

The idea for these kind of anthologies is to publish one every year, but after our first experience I think it will have to be one every two years!!! The goal is to also publish new writers for free. That's why in "Al otro lado del verso" we ran a contest in which two aspiring poets won and were included in the in published anthology.

Each of us pursues our own literary career. Alfredo is about to publish a limited version of poems inside a personalized crystal bottle. I recently published another book also. As for the rest...they have no plans for now to publish a book of their own, but they have been included in many other anthologies as well.

On a more personal level, speaking of Peruvian poetry, who is your favorite Peruvian poet from the past and why?

That's a very hard question, I'm a proud Peruvian and the list of breathtaking writers is endless. If I had to choose only one, I couldn't. But I'll give you four!

Blanca Varela because her poetry is not pretentious, she can write about deep emotions, using simple metaphors and words. Javier Heraud, he represents what every young spirit should be, his actions were consequent with his poetry and had an ideal that he stood for until the end of his young life. Emilio Adolfo Westphalen, he was a beautiful person, always helping people, believing in them, supporting art and culture as much as he could, and you can totally see that pure kindness in his writing. And César Vallejo, of course. He was my very first approach to poetry, my grandmother kept an old book of his poems with her own name written all over.

Who is your favorite modern Peruvian poet? The poet who inspires your craft?

A tough one again. I have no idea where I get my inspiration from...but there are many poets that I enjoy reading. There's Raúl Heraud, Indira Anampa, Zoila Capristán, Parix Cruzado, there are so many!!! And also, all of the poets of Parasomnia.

Other than yourself, what other Peruvian poets should the rest of the world keep an eye on?

All of the ones that I have already mentioned! As well, part of the promotion that goes into our events in Parasomnia, is to upload a picture of the featured poet that is going to read and include a poem by him or her. People can follow Parasomnia's page on Facebook and see if they find something that grabs their attention.

Poets reading at Grupo Parasomnia event in Barranco.

What is your favorite poem? The one that makes you laugh? The one that makes you cry?

My favorite poem? It would have to be one of Raquel Jodorowsky's.

The ones that makes me cry, it would have to be Nostalgia by José Santos Chocano and I recently read a moving poem by Javier Heraud called El viaje del descanso/El deseo and El poema.

How did your journey on the road to poetry begin?

I've always written. My mom has a long collection of my poems, from silly ones to my dog to poems for her or my dad. I feel lucky that I grew up in a family that taught me that the only way to be free is by reading.

I decided to publish a book when somebody else told me I had talent. I think this happens very often, as a young writer you don't believe in yourself until somebody else does. That's why I believe that what we do in Parasomnia is very important.

Gong back to your question, that somebody was an elderly lady called Raquel Jodorowsky, I had the chance not only to meet her, but also to become friends with her. She pushed me to publish my book — La Brutalidad de Los hechos — and to pursue writing, she changed my life and I'm incredibly grateful to her for that.

Where do you expect this journey to take you?

I want to explore new forms and interactions of writing, continue to work on my own poetry until I can find my own voice. I want to keep on feeling the same happiness when someone that has never read their poems out loud thanks you for giving them the opportunity to do so.

I'm not so much interested in the destination of this journey, but mostly in the experiences that I'll get along the road.

Peruvian poet Blanca Segura.

CREDITS: All images ©Grupo Parasomnia except lead image of Machu Picchu ©Mark Butkus.

Mark Butkushttps://email@example.com://www.barnonegroup.com/2014/10/poet-blanca-segura-reflects-on-vibrancy.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1790606994145523057.post-91753160024160884702014-10-08T08:24:00.000-05:002014-10-08T08:24:08.651-05:00Pictures of You

The first poem I wrote you
was just etched in my memory
depending on the circumstance
or wherever I was, thinking of you.

It was then transcribed
on the back of a napkin
where it changed some more.

From there,
it made its way
into a notebook
and changed a little bit more.

Some time later,
I'd bang out my thoughts on a laptop
and you'd change ever so much more

In time,
I would print out your poem
and edit anew
a remembrance of love.

By the time
that you read this poem
It will have grown and changed and matured
and should be as comfortable on you
as it has been in my heart.

There might come a time
after we've grown apart
When I'll remember these lines
And adjust and adjust and adjust anew
A comma here, a stricken word there.

Framing you now unlike before
as you still live in a heart
that shares these few words
with the closest of my very dear friends.

— Mark Butkus

Mark Butkushttps://firstname.lastname@example.com://www.barnonegroup.com/2014/10/pictures-of-you.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1790606994145523057.post-59829291531045444882014-10-07T08:10:00.000-05:002014-10-07T15:27:23.470-05:00An Excerpt of Roberto Bolaño's Prosa del otoño en Gerona

"This could be hell for me."
The kaleidoscope shifts
with the serenity and boredom of each day.
For her, in the end, there was no hell...
She simply avoided living here.
Simple solutions guide our acts.
Sentimental education has only one motto: don't suffer.
He who distances himself can be called a desert,
a rock with an appearance of man,
the tectonic thinker.

— Roberto Bolaño

The above Roberto Bolaño poem was translated by Tim Pilcher and originally intended to appear at La Universidad Desconocida. It is an excerpt from Prosa del otoño en Gerona from the 2000 poem collection Tres.

Please visit La Universidad Desconocida to learn more about Roberto Bolaño and to read Tim's translations of Bolaño's poetry. The original Spanish version of Bolaño's poem follows. Both versions of the excerpt have been reformatted.

"Esto podría ser el infierno para mí."
El caleidoscopio se mueve con la serenidad y el aburrimiento de los días.
Para ella, al final, no hubo infierno.
Simplemente evitó vivir aquí.
Las soluciones sencillas guían nuestros actos.
La educación sentimental sólo tiene una divisa: no sufrir.
Aquello que se aparta puede ser llamado desierto,
roca con apariencia de hombre,
el pensador tectónico.

— Roberto Bolaño

Mark Butkushttps://email@example.com://www.barnonegroup.com/2014/10/an-excerpt-of-roberto-bolanos-prosa-del.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1790606994145523057.post-22722848274981765942014-10-06T10:51:00.000-05:002014-10-06T10:51:59.989-05:00Another Tequila Sunrise

A yellow/orange tinge slowly stains
the hard edge of darkness
and dissolves into day.
18th St. awakens to a jumble
of color and sound.
Bi-lingual signs hawk tequila, menudo and a miracle or two.

Church bells ring their ragged welcome
to the sinner kneeling before his gods;
Chicanos/mejicanos, the Indian race.
Bohemians, Lithuanians
with an American face.
all stare in suspicion
on how it all came about,
confessing the confusion
that keeps them apart.

On the street men greet each other,
"Compadre, que tal?"

"Ando un poco crudo como siempre carnal."

La Jura, la Migra constantly seek.
Politicians, anthropologists prey on the meek.
Down the block the vato locos of Aztlan
search for warriors buried deep
in wood faces awaiting the next Sun.

— Salima Rivera

Born in Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico, Salima Rivera (1946-2004) was a poet and cultural activist in her adopted hometown of Chicago where she moved with her family as a child of three in 1949. Her first collection of poetry, It's Not About Dreams, was published in 2014.

Her influence in the Chicago Puerto Rican community is reflected in the fact that when the renamed National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture re-opened its doors in September, Rivera was honored with her own exhibit entitled, It's Not about Dreams: The Artist and Poet Salima Rivera.

Another Tequila Sunrise was written in 1976 and reflects on life on the main street of the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago and its changing demographics in the 20th century from Bohemian to Hispanic. It borrows its title from the 1973 song by the Eagles.

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5th Annual – Turkey Trail Trot November 27 & 28 2014
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Held at Stony Creek Metropark. All races will be on wide and single track mountain bike trails. The course is 100% DIRT trails, with lots of rocks, roots, and leaves. All distances will challenge you with rolling to steep hills that will allow you to burn some calories before/after your Thanksgiving meal!


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The netbook marketplace is getting more and more competitive and following hot on the heels of the recently released ASUS Eee PC 1000HE is Samsung's latest entry into the market, the N110 mini notebook. The N110 boasts many of the features of the 1000HE including a 10.1-inch screen, 160GB HDD, 1GB of RAM and claims of up to 9.5 hours of battery life in a unit that is slightly thinner and lighter than its ASUS competitor. Read More
Since its discovery in 2004 graphene has promised some truly astounding developments in the realm of computer technology. We've previously looked at how graphene could provide the means to keep pace with Moore's Law. Now engineers at Ohio State University are developing a technique for mass-producing computer chips made from graphene that meshes with standard chip-making practices. Read More
Samsung trims the fat for LCD videowall TVs
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One of the new releases attracting a lot of attention at CTIA is the Samsung SWD-M100 Mondi, a mobile WiMAX enabled handheld device that is designed for use with the Clear mobile WiMAX service from Clearwire. The touch screen Mondi includes a slide out lower lip QWERTY keypad and, according to Samsung, 'many of the powerful features and uses of a laptop computer or netbook,' in a unit that fits in your pocket. Read More
A new report by an international team of scientists has suggested that the largest mass extinction in the history of the earth may not have been caused by volcanic eruptions, methane hydrate or the impact of an asteroid as previously surmised. It may actually have been triggered by giant salt lakes, whose emissions of halogenated gases changed the atmospheric composition to such an extent that vegetation was irretrievably damaged. While this is a lot less dramatic than a volcanic eruption or an asteroid, the effect would be no less devastating and may have implications for us today with forecasts predicting an increase in the surface areas of deserts and salt lakes due to climate change that researchers expect will also lead to an increase in the effects of these halogenated gases. Read More
To meet the ever increasing graphical demands of modern games AMD has introduced the ATI Radeon HD 4890 graphics card that boasts a staggering 1.36 TeraFLOPs of compute power, GDDR5 memory, and engine clock speeds capable of nearly 1GHz. Read More
For anyone who has wanted to get away from it all without leaving the comforts of home Dutch design group N55 has just the thing – a walking house. Consisting of a basic module measuring 3.5m high by 3.5m wide and 3.72m long the walking house can cover a decidedly leisurely 60m an hour on its six insect like legs. Read More
The LG-GD900 mobile phone will feature not only a 3-inch full touchscreen, but also a transparent touchpad that supports finger-writing recognition and vibrational haptic feedback. The stylish looking phone features a slider form factor with the translucent rear slider containing a touchpad that allows users to navigate through the phones features and 3D user interface. Further enhancing the phone's style cred is the fact that the clear slider will be made from glass instead of plastic. Read More
NVIDIA has introduced the NVIDIA SLI Multi-OS, a technology that allows users and visualization applications, for the first time, to take full advantage of multiple NVIDIA Quadro GPUs from a single graphics workstation in a virtualized environment. NVIDIA claims their new technology provides application performance nearly identical to systems configured with a dedicated operating system and GPU while delivering cost savings, more efficient workflow and maximized productivity in markets such as digital content creation, sciences, manufacturing, and oil and gas. Read More
Is your sunscreen damaging the environment?
Your sunscreen might be preventing damage to your skin, but it may also be causing untold damage to the environment. A study carried out by scientists in Ohio has reported that nanoparticles now being added to cosmetics, sunscreens, and hundreds of other personal care products may be harmful to the environment by negatively affecting beneficial bacteria. Read More
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New Movies: '42,' 'Scary Movie 5′
New in theaters this week: a biography of a groundbreaking baseball player, and the latest installment in a popular, long-running horror-movie-parody series.
New in theaters this week: a biography of a groundbreaking baseball player, and the latest installment in a popular, long-running horror-movie-parody series.
Summertime will be here before you know it. One of the fun activities that the Hannibal Parks and Recreation Department has been sponsoring is a series of Movies in the Park. Once a month, from May to August, families are invited to come to Huckleberry Park and watch a family-friendly movie under the stars.
One of the icon's of television is gone. Annette Funicello has passed away.
If someone glanced at this weekend's box office, they could be forgiven for thinking they accidentally stepped into some kind of time portal. After all, films called 'Evil Dead' and 'Jurassic Park' were in the top five.
Looks like we're in for a thrilling weekend at the movies. The one new release is a remake of a 1980s horror classic, and we also get a 3-D-updated edition of a major '90s sci-fi blockbuster.
A new 'Vacation' film has been in the works, with Ed Helms taking the lead as Rusty Griswold, but he won't be going it alone: veteran stars Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo are in talks to reprise their roles in the latest installment of the series.
You may not be aware, but the Easter Bunny has been around for a long time. Easily one of the most recognizable symbols of the holiday, the loveable critter was first mentioned in an essay by German physician and botanist Georg Franck von Frankenau all the way back in 1682. Funny, we always figured he was just a Hallmark creation.
Today is your lucky day. You can now buy the outdoor movie theater you have always wanted.
You can't imagine two films more different than 'The Croods' and 'Olympus Has Fallen,' but right now the two of them sit on top of the box office chart, both temporarily linked by the fact that a bunch of people apparently wanted to see them this weekend. It's the first time in forever that two films have opened to over $30 million at the same time...but it wasn't golden for all of the new releases.
It's a busy weekend at the movies. Comedy, action, animated fare for the kids—a solid mix for a good range of audiences, those of you who aren't sitting in front of the TV watching March Madness, that is.