Luciole Press Blog: Monthly Archives for August 2008

Simon Rattle conducts violinist Vadim Repin and the Berliner Philharmoniker in the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory: Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 BPO Repin Adagio (2/3)

Posted by kluciole at 8/19/2008 12:03 AM | Add Comment

Sloshing Inside Earth Changes Protective Magnetic Field

Posted by kluciole at 8/18/2008 11:54 PM | Add Comment

The Cambridge science graduate who gave up lab work for belly-dancing; Emma Chapman has a thriving business and no regrets

Posted by kluciole at 8/18/2008 10:48 PM | Add Comment

Confused sea turtle hatchlings march into restaurant

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Survey reveals widespread belief that divine intervention can revive dying patients

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Essay from Luciole Press contributor Noelle Mileski about her son, Adrian, and dealing with his autism on an individual and family basis: "Life on the Spectrum"

Posted by kluciole at 8/18/2008 12:19 PM | Add Comment

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf resigns

Posted by kluciole at 8/18/2008 4:07 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a long exposure shot shows stars over the columns in the ancient city of Stobi near Stip, Macedonia

Posted by kluciole at 8/17/2008 10:21 PM | Add Comment

Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (cancer) patients have seen their tumors blasted into submission by a new drug which harnesses the power of their own immune cells

Posted by kluciole at 8/17/2008 10:16 PM | Add Comment

From an ongoing series: Words from firefighters, by Kurt Kamm

Posted by kluciole at 8/17/2008 10:10 PM | Add Comment

Pakistani female victims of arson and acid attacks, for turning down marriage proposals or not having enough dowry, make careers as beauticians with the help of the Depilex salons

Posted by kluciole at 8/17/2008 9:44 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Study shows antibodies from survivors of the 1918 flu pandemic, the worst in human memory, still protect against the highly deadly virus

Posted by kluciole at 8/17/2008 9:40 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Olympic competitors swim in the Ming Tomb reservoir in northern Beijing at the start of the women's triathlon

Posted by kluciole at 8/17/2008 9:17 PM | Add Comment

Golden boy Michael Phelps eager for his own bed, says he will be back for London's Olympics in 2012

Posted by kluciole at 8/17/2008 9:06 PM | Add Comment

Benjamin Britten’s "Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra" and artwork by Maggi Hambling, "The Scallop"

Posted by kluciole at 8/17/2008 7:56 AM | Add Comment

Bulgarian archeologist Georgi Kitov and his team discover 2,500-year-old golden jewelry from ancient Thracian kingdom

Posted by kluciole at 8/17/2008 7:42 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Sweet photos of a mother tiger loving her cub: Siberian tiger 'Shakyra' and her little baby at Hamm Zoo

Posted by kluciole at 8/16/2008 10:09 PM | Add Comment

Photo: an early morning monsoon storm moves north up the coast near Malibu, Calif. on Friday, Aug. 15

Posted by kluciole at 8/16/2008 9:49 PM | Add Comment

Kim Soo-im: South Korean woman hailed as vile international spy, "The Korean Seductress Who Betrayed America," and hastily shot by the South Koreans, emerges in records vindicated of accusations. Her executed lover, Lee Gang-kook, was an American agent

Posted by kluciole at 8/16/2008 9:44 PM | Add Comment

NPR commentator, 'My Cancer' blogger Leroy Sievers dies at 53

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Luciole Press friend and featured artist S.A. Griffin has a poetry reading tonight in Santa Monica; please see the flyer he has created

Posted by kluciole at 8/16/2008 12:47 PM | Add Comment

"Mockingbirds" by poet Mary Oliver

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Photo: lions gaze at each other at Taronga zoo in Sydney

Posted by kluciole at 8/16/2008 1:21 AM | Add Comment

Update from earlier blog entry on sweet cat CHARLIE of Belleglen Sanctuary; he has now had his cancerous leg amputated and needs help with medical expenses

Posted by kluciole at 8/16/2008 1:19 AM | Add Comment

Massacre of the giants: Once hunted to near extinction, Africa's elephants slowly pulled back from the brink only to be subject to savage new bloodbath as ban on ivory repealed (backed by Britain)

Posted by kluciole at 8/15/2008 10:44 PM | Add Comment

Canada to search for Arctic explorer's ships; British explorer Sir John Franklin and his men have remained locked in the frozen Arctic, but warming temperatures are threatening to change that

Posted by kluciole at 8/15/2008 7:48 PM | Add Comment

Part of the story of creation in the Mayan Popol Vuh, recounting attempts of the creator, Heart of Sky, to make humans

Posted by kluciole at 8/15/2008 12:06 PM | Add Comment

Portal to mythical Mayan underworld of Xibalba found in Mexico; terrifying descriptions of the underworld were found in the ancient scripture the Popol Vuh

Posted by kluciole at 8/15/2008 12:00 PM | Add Comment

Luciole Press Contributor Martyn Clayton has a wonderful photo essay of the Scottish Highlands on his page

Posted by kluciole at 8/15/2008 9:57 AM | Add Comment

Sir Nils Olav the Penguin: honorary colonel-in-chief of the elite Norwegian King's Guard receives Norwegian knighthood

Posted by kluciole at 8/15/2008 8:14 AM | Add Comment

Gymnast Nastia Liukin edges Shawn Johnson for all-around gold

Posted by kluciole at 8/15/2008 7:54 AM | Add Comment

Russian Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn warns that Poland risks attack, "possibly by nuclear weapons," because of agreement to build US missile interceptor base

Posted by kluciole at 8/15/2008 7:48 AM | Add Comment

Currently thinking of Autumn, wishing to be around trees and fresh air. Photos from California, New York, Massachusetts, Alaska, and North Carolina

Posted by kluciole at 8/14/2008 9:40 PM | Add Comment

John Trudell and Irene Bedard will headline Native American Blues Festival at Chumash Indian Museum during the Indigenous Music for Environmental Justice festival

Posted by kluciole at 8/14/2008 9:06 PM | Add Comment

Study says octopuses have six "arms" and two "legs"... photo of "Octi" opening a bottle with its tentacles to get food inside a bottle, in New Zealand

Posted by kluciole at 8/14/2008 4:23 PM | Add Comment

5,000-year-old skeletons of a woman and two children laid on bed of flowers found in Sahara - proving desert was once green and lush. Two tribes' remains found; the Kiffians from 10,000 to 8,000 years ago; and the Tenerians, from 7,000 to 4,500 years ago

Posted by kluciole at 8/14/2008 4:05 PM | Add Comment

Scientists "listen" to plants to find water pollution by shining a laser beam on the tiny pieces of algae floating in the water and listening to reflections

Posted by kluciole at 8/14/2008 3:59 PM | Add Comment

Please help Charlie, a sweet cat at Belleglen Sanctuary who needs medical help

Posted by kluciole at 8/14/2008 8:08 AM | Add Comment

From Luciole Press: contributor William, aged 8, has autism. He was asked to draw a flag for his class, and his contains hearts and a peace sign. His mother sent in his drawing.

Posted by kluciole at 8/14/2008 12:12 AM | Add Comment

Neb. town of Hickman wants Peter Rabbit, the aging horse, banished from his pasture. Horse owner 76-year-old Harley Scott says he would be lost without the 32-year-old horse

Posted by kluciole at 8/14/2008 12:04 AM | View Comments (19) | Add Comment

Venomous lionfish prowls fragile Caribbean waters, swallowing native species, stinging divers, and generally wreaking havoc on an ecologically delicate region

Posted by kluciole at 8/13/2008 11:52 PM | Add Comment

We've got our wires crossed: stories of people whose brains have rewired themselves after strokes or brain hemorrhages, giving them new accents or artistic abilities

Posted by kluciole at 8/13/2008 11:40 PM | Add Comment

Unbelievably adorable video sent in by Carson: Tiger Cubs at St. Louis Zoo

Posted by kluciole at 8/13/2008 7:37 PM | Add Comment

Sent in by Luciole friend and art editor, Diana Bonebrake: Shakespeare's sonnet # 55

Posted by kluciole at 8/13/2008 9:15 AM | Add Comment

Two articles about the controversy surrounding the Spanish Olympic basketball team photo of them using their fingers to slant their eyes, then denying it's racist and accusing everyone of trying to "smear Spain's good name"

Posted by kluciole at 8/13/2008 8:49 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Luciole Press Art Editor Diana Bonebrake's interview of Luciole friend and Carma Bum S.A. Griffin, and stunning examples of their collaborations of poetry and paint

Posted by kluciole at 8/13/2008 4:43 AM | Add Comment

From an earlier blog entry: Please don't forget to check out Luciole Press contributor Dena's photo essay from Shanghai!

Posted by kluciole at 8/13/2008 4:13 AM | Add Comment

Photos from space. The Hubble Space Telescope is completing its 100,000th orbit around the Earth in its 18th year of exploration and discovery

Posted by kluciole at 8/13/2008 1:28 AM | Add Comment

Woman infected 10 years ago with HIV by her husband has never shown signs of the disease; she is a a so-called "elite suppressor," and studies of her immune cells may lead to a vaccine

Posted by kluciole at 8/13/2008 1:21 AM | Add Comment

U.S. stumbles, falls to silver as Chinese team wins gold in Women's Gymnastics

Posted by kluciole at 8/13/2008 1:04 AM | Add Comment

Erie Zoo's Amur tiger Nikki a shy guy, won't explore exhibit and refuses to come out of his den; the tiger gal, Anna, "regularly prowls"

Posted by kluciole at 8/12/2008 2:38 PM | Add Comment

Ancient big cat fossils found in South America; the scimitar cat was of the saber-toothed cat genus

Posted by kluciole at 8/12/2008 2:34 PM | Add Comment

News from Georgia, two articles: Are Russian, South Ossetian, and Georgian troops, carrying out "massacres" of both sides in ethnic cleansing? And cease-fire plan negotiated by French president Sarkozy has been agreed to by Georgian and Russian presidents

Posted by kluciole at 8/12/2008 2:20 PM | Add Comment

Olympic child singing star Lin Miaoke revealed to be lip-synching voice of 7-year-old Yang Peiyi, who was not deemed cute enough to be seen on TV; Lin Miaoke was considered "flawless in image, internal feelings, and expression"

Posted by kluciole at 8/12/2008 2:13 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

FBI seeks owners of stolen art after New York art collector William Kingsland dies. Kingsland's collection included works by Picasso, a minimalist still-life by Giorgio Morandi, and collages by Kurt Schwitters

Posted by kluciole at 8/12/2008 2:05 PM | Add Comment

Mystery Olympic torch guard known only as "Second Brother on the Right," who is considered representative of ancient values, becomes Chinese sex symbol

Posted by kluciole at 8/12/2008 1:57 PM | Add Comment

Lack of vitamin D linked to 26 percent higher death risk: study

Posted by kluciole at 8/12/2008 1:52 PM | Add Comment

Photo: White pelicans battle to catch a little fish thrown by a visitor at the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise aquarium at Yokohama city in Kanagawa prefecture, suburban Tokyo

Posted by kluciole at 8/12/2008 2:44 AM | Add Comment

Russian president Medvedev halts military action in Georgia

Posted by kluciole at 8/12/2008 2:33 AM | Add Comment

Study: Women rise in state government leadership

Posted by kluciole at 8/12/2008 12:26 AM | Add Comment

Photo: This summer marks the 20th anniversary of a series of wildfires that burned 36 percent of Yellowstone Park. Pictured = a control burn in 1983

Posted by kluciole at 8/12/2008 12:15 AM | Add Comment

Photo: view from under the water at Women's 100 meters butterfly final at the National Aquatics Center during the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games

Posted by kluciole at 8/11/2008 9:02 PM | Add Comment

Clinton aide Howard Wolfson claims Edwards' lie about extra-marital affair cost Clinton Democratic nomination: "Our voters and Edwards' voters were the same people"

Posted by kluciole at 8/11/2008 8:33 PM | Add Comment

Egypt's pyramids to lose the peddlers and be fenced in with a 12-mile chain-link fence featuring cameras, alarms and motion detectors

Posted by kluciole at 8/11/2008 8:21 PM | Add Comment

Submissions for the Autumn Issue of Luciole Press due by August 15th

Posted by kluciole at 8/11/2008 3:17 AM | Add Comment

"The Daily Show" correspondent Rob Riggle travels to China, filming segments on the Great Wall of China and within Tiananmen Square

Posted by kluciole at 8/11/2008 3:10 AM | Add Comment

Heavy use of antibiotics on factory farms is creating a range of superbugs, causing illness on a massive scale and numerous fatalities, a new study claims

Posted by kluciole at 8/11/2008 3:04 AM | Add Comment

Photo: the "after" photo of the collapsed Wall Arch (see earlier blog entry for the story behind the collapse)

Posted by kluciole at 8/11/2008 2:58 AM | Add Comment

Scientists closer to invisibility cloak for three-dimensional objects using artificially engineered materials that redirect light around the objects

Posted by kluciole at 8/11/2008 2:54 AM | Add Comment

Miracle gel made from seaweed 'could save thousands of people' who suffer heart attacks by acting as a plaster over damaged heart tissue, causing scar tissue to grow

Posted by kluciole at 8/11/2008 2:47 AM | Add Comment

Iconic stone arch collapses in southern Utah's Arches National Park

Posted by kluciole at 8/10/2008 1:27 PM | Add Comment

Lyubov Izmestieva and Marina Rikhvanova work to save Russia's Lake Baikal, world's deepest lake, as it grows "warmer, dirtier and more crowded"

Posted by kluciole at 8/10/2008 1:19 PM | Add Comment

Singer, songwriter Isaac Hayes dies at age 65 ... best wishes to his family

Posted by kluciole at 8/10/2008 1:12 PM | Add Comment

Photos and article about Living Legends, the Australian racehorse retirement home. Photos of NZ horse Brew, Doreimus, and Hong Kong's Silent Witness

Posted by kluciole at 8/9/2008 8:35 PM | Add Comment

Spoiler Alert! Olympic Swimming news: 1 down, 7 to go for Michael Phelps in Beijing; and Dara Torres and the women's team get a medal (read if you want to know)

Posted by kluciole at 8/9/2008 8:21 PM | Add Comment

Just 150 feet from the platform on which President Abraham Lincoln delivered his most famous speech, one of the few remaining "witness trees" to the Battle of Gettysburg has been severely damaged by a storm

Posted by kluciole at 8/9/2008 8:17 PM | Add Comment

Very sad news; best wishes to his family: Actor and comedian Bernie Mac dies at age 50 from complications due to pneumonia

Posted by kluciole at 8/9/2008 6:16 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Spanish candy shop owner Jose Martinez finds counterfeit Euro with Homer Simpson's face instead of Spanish King Juan Carlos

Posted by kluciole at 8/9/2008 2:39 AM | Add Comment

Relative of a U.S. Olympic coach of men's volleyball team stabbed to death in Beijing at the 13th century Drum Tower just five miles from the main Olympics site; Chinese assailant then committed suicide

Posted by kluciole at 8/9/2008 2:30 AM | Add Comment

Two articles about the conflict in Georgia: 1) Daily Mail claims 1500 civilians are dead; 2) US has political, economic stake in farflung spat

Posted by kluciole at 8/9/2008 12:13 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Luciole friends and contributors Kurt Olson and Zack Graham at the Madison Street Fair Festival in Spokane, Washington

Posted by kluciole at 8/8/2008 10:28 PM | Add Comment

China opens its long-sought Olympics spectacularly with 91,000 people packed into the National Stadium

Posted by kluciole at 8/8/2008 1:28 PM | Add Comment

Former presidential candidate John Edwards admits to affair, denies fathering child

Posted by kluciole at 8/8/2008 1:22 PM | Add Comment

Russia sends tanks into Georgia in fight over control of South Ossetia; Georgia, "a staunch U.S. ally," wants to pull its troops out of Iraq to fight Russian troops

Posted by kluciole at 8/8/2008 1:20 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

As the Olympics begin, check out Luciole Press contributor Dena Rash Guzman’s photo essay of Shanghai

Posted by kluciole at 8/8/2008 12:00 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a three-month-old Amur tiger cub lounges in a chair at the Pittsburgh Zoo

Posted by kluciole at 8/7/2008 11:09 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

Photo from Salzburg, Austria: Performers are seen during a dress rehearsal of Bela Bartok's 'Herzog Blaubarts Burg' ('Bluebeard's Castle')

Posted by kluciole at 8/7/2008 11:02 PM | Add Comment

Austrians fete voluptuous, prehistoric Venus

Posted by kluciole at 8/7/2008 10:55 PM | Add Comment

10-year-old bullfighter Michelito, from Mexico, sparks debate in France

Posted by kluciole at 8/7/2008 10:51 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Love for mom... an Asian Lion cub cuddles with its mother Sita at the zoo in Mulhouse, eastern France

Posted by kluciole at 8/7/2008 4:10 PM | Add Comment

The ongoing series from author Kurt Kamm: Words from firefighhters on the loss of their comrades 8/6, and where to make a contribution to the Wildland Firefighter Foundation

Posted by kluciole at 8/7/2008 4:02 PM | Add Comment

Elvis' peacock jumpsuit sells for $300K

Posted by kluciole at 8/7/2008 2:32 PM | Add Comment

'Great Escape' veteran Eric Dowling dies at 92

Posted by kluciole at 8/7/2008 2:27 PM | Add Comment

Photos from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival: 'Enclosure 44-Humans' show at the Edinburgh Zoo, with performers from 'Janice Claxton Dance'

Posted by kluciole at 8/7/2008 1:03 AM | Add Comment

The ongoing series from author Kurt Kamm: Words from a Firefighter

Posted by kluciole at 8/7/2008 12:39 AM | Add Comment

Possible Shakespearean theater found in London

Posted by kluciole at 8/7/2008 12:35 AM | Add Comment

Egyptian scientists are doing DNA tests on stillborn children found in the tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun in the hope of identifying their mother and grandmother, who may be the powerful queen Nefertiti

Posted by kluciole at 8/7/2008 12:28 AM | Add Comment

Baby Manji Yamada, born to surrogate Indian mother, in legal limbo as biological Japanese parents divorce; her father wants to take her home, but is not allowed because he is a "single male"

Posted by kluciole at 8/7/2008 12:23 AM | Add Comment

Photos: tiger cubs. Firstly, a three-month-old Amur tiger cub (a.k.a. Siberian tigers) lounges in a chair at the Pittsburgh Zoo; secondly, a baby tiger named "Antares" looks out of his basket at the Tierpark (animal park) in Berlin

Posted by kluciole at 8/6/2008 12:39 PM | Add Comment

9 missing, feared dead in fire copter crash (carrying 11 firefighters and 2 crew members) in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest

Posted by kluciole at 8/6/2008 12:32 PM | Add Comment

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