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Luciole Press Blog: Monthly Archives for October 2008

Photos of a lighthouse taken as waves and winds of 50 mph and gusts up to 70 mph rocked the shore of Lake Michigan

Posted by kluciole at 10/31/2008 11:26 PM | Add Comment

Soup kitchen exclusively for dogs opens its doors in Berlin, providing pets of the homeless and unemployed with a free meal

Posted by kluciole at 10/31/2008 11:20 PM | Add Comment

Pakistan quake relief efforts focus on bitter winter

Posted by kluciole at 10/31/2008 11:12 PM | Add Comment

From the ongoing series sent in by author and Luciole Press contributor Kurt Kamm: Words of Firefighters - 26

Posted by kluciole at 10/31/2008 11:07 PM | Add Comment

Twilight's Happy Halloween; Fandango reports that 51 percent of all daily ticket sales are for Twilight, which opens November 21st. *PLUS* read a review of the Twilight series from LUCIOLE PRESS Contributor Annabelle Bonebrake

Posted by kluciole at 10/31/2008 3:09 PM | Add Comment

German doctor Bernhard Moeller says he will fight Australia's rejection of permanent residency because his son has Down syndrome. He has been in rural Victoria two years to help with a doctor shortage

Posted by kluciole at 10/31/2008 3:00 PM | Add Comment

Weary refugees try to reach home in eastern Congo "as the UN's top human rights official slammed government forces for lootings, killings and rapes"

Posted by kluciole at 10/31/2008 2:52 PM | Add Comment

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Studs Terkel dies at 96

Posted by kluciole at 10/31/2008 2:49 PM | Add Comment

Happy Halloween: Holiday page from Luciole Press featuring photographs and poems by Jeaneth P. Skauvgold, Deborah Patino, Karen Bowles, Diana and Annabelle Bonebrake, Roxanne Hoffman, Dena Rash Guzman, Martyn Clayton, Janie, and Jane Crown

Posted by kluciole at 10/31/2008 2:01 AM | Add Comment

"World’s worst soccer team" happy to win first point. East Timor's coach, Pedro Almeida, said: “We have no resources to keep this team together and we barely have grass to play on.. (but now) we’re all very proud”

Posted by kluciole at 10/31/2008 1:51 AM | Add Comment

Rare, prehistoric-age reptile found nesting in NZ

Posted by kluciole at 10/30/2008 11:35 PM | Add Comment

I don't quite get this photo; it must be two images together. The caption says it is a surfer watching a wave during Chile's World Tow-in Surfing Circuit; but the wave shown at the top and all around would be a tsunami that would inundate everything

Posted by kluciole at 10/30/2008 11:21 PM | Add Comment

NASA regains contact with Mars spacecraft

Posted by kluciole at 10/30/2008 11:17 PM | Add Comment

Delightful photo of Menderu, a six-month-old Malayan tiger cub, looking at a jack-o-lantern at the San Diego Zoo

Posted by kluciole at 10/30/2008 7:41 PM | Add Comment

Four Australians charged over vicious attack on 75-year-old blind flamingo; the oldest flamingo in the world, he is in critical condition. Zoo officials now worry for the wellbeing of his companion of 50 years

Posted by kluciole at 10/30/2008 2:30 PM | Add Comment

New Zealand surgeons cut giant tumor from baby; 14-month-old Alex Gonzaga's tumor was almost one-third his total body weight. He comes from East Timor, where a doctor on a medical ship interceded on his behalf

Posted by kluciole at 10/30/2008 2:20 PM | Add Comment

Iran feels economic pain as oil prices fall; political recriminations are growing, largely directed at President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as officials and ordinary Iranians realize the Islamic republic faces a severe economic crisis of its own

Posted by kluciole at 10/30/2008 2:12 PM | Add Comment

Photos of fireworks over the Bosphorus in Istanbul during Republic Day, the 85th anniversary of the Turkish Republic

Posted by kluciole at 10/30/2008 2:00 PM | Add Comment

Ancient iceman Otzi probably has no modern descendants

Posted by kluciole at 10/30/2008 1:57 PM | Add Comment

Luciole Press wishes you a Haunting Halloween, featuring Baby the Greatest (photo by Karen Bowles)

Posted by kluciole at 10/29/2008 9:06 PM | Add Comment

Sent in from the Chumash Indian Museum: "In recognition of Native American month, we will be holding special themed nature hikes throughout November"

Posted by kluciole at 10/29/2008 8:46 PM | Add Comment

Joe the Plumber may get a record deal; already is signing autographs. Could "come out with country album as early as Inauguration Day... (he'll) shift out of the plumbing trade into stage and studio performances"

Posted by kluciole at 10/29/2008 8:38 PM | Add Comment

Palin suggests she's now GOP political fixture

Posted by kluciole at 10/29/2008 8:31 PM | Add Comment

Just Released!!! New CD from the DJ Bonebrake Trio: "The Other Outside" ... cover artwork by Diana Bonebrake

Posted by kluciole at 10/29/2008 8:13 PM | Add Comment

Help is needed for a kitty named Siam at the Belleglen Sanctuary; funds need to be raised so he can have an infected leg amputated

Posted by kluciole at 10/29/2008 8:07 PM | Add Comment

Video: Loreena McKennitt's song "Kecharitomene," off the "An Ancient Muse" album. The song was inspired by the ancient Byzantine princess and historian Anna Comnena; read about her story both on the video screen and below (plus, The Alexiad)

Posted by kluciole at 10/29/2008 8:07 AM | Add Comment

Obama takes his case to the country with infomercial

Posted by kluciole at 10/29/2008 8:01 AM | Add Comment

Photo evidence shows that squirrels love a good sale too, as one raids a produce stand in Davis, California

Posted by kluciole at 10/29/2008 4:29 AM | Add Comment

"Joe the Plumber" said he hated the media attention, that it gave him a "Britney Spears" headache. So why is he even on the campaign trail now? Why does he have a bus tour? Is he getting paid for this?

Posted by kluciole at 10/29/2008 4:04 AM | Add Comment

AP Poll: Obama leads or tied in 8 crucial states

Posted by kluciole at 10/29/2008 4:00 AM | Add Comment

The British health care system needs re-tooling; people are dying for lack of proper care. Here, 25-year-old Katie Brickell's story of being turned down for tests because she was 'too young;' now she is terminally ill with cervical cancer

Posted by kluciole at 10/29/2008 3:59 AM | Add Comment

Travel photos from Wales; includes the Dylan Thomas Boathouse in Laugharne and Tintern Abbey on the River Wye in Monmouthshire

Posted by kluciole at 10/29/2008 1:19 AM | Add Comment

Iceland's prime minister says recovery cost is $6 Billion

Posted by kluciole at 10/29/2008 1:13 AM | Add Comment

Britain proposes to ban entry of 230 extremists

Posted by kluciole at 10/29/2008 1:09 AM | Add Comment

WWF says reckless consumption threatens the planet

Posted by kluciole at 10/29/2008 1:01 AM | Add Comment

Strong quake hits Pakistan, at least 100 killed; death toll expected to rise a great deal

Posted by kluciole at 10/28/2008 10:06 PM | Add Comment

Authors, publishers settle copyright suit against Google

Posted by kluciole at 10/28/2008 10:03 PM | Add Comment

New deal to rescue Borneo orangutans in Malaysia

Posted by kluciole at 10/28/2008 4:55 PM | Add Comment

Doorknobs and TV remotes are germ hotbeds

Posted by kluciole at 10/28/2008 4:52 PM | Add Comment

Berlin memorial for thousands of WWII Germans who helped Jews: "The Silent Heroes" opens today, a project of the German Resistance Memorial Center Foundation

Posted by kluciole at 10/28/2008 3:20 AM | Add Comment

Women falling from executive ranks, Australian study shows

Posted by kluciole at 10/28/2008 3:17 AM | Add Comment

Dalai Lama calls special meeting of Tibetan exiles; says in regards to dealing with China through talks, "As far as I'm concerned I have given up"

Posted by kluciole at 10/28/2008 3:10 AM | Add Comment

Photo: two 28-year-old female Atlantic bottlenose dolphins perform tricks for treats of fresh herring at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo

Posted by kluciole at 10/28/2008 12:52 AM | Add Comment

Sexual trauma afflicts 15 percent of U.S. veterans, both male and female, from harassment to rape

Posted by kluciole at 10/28/2008 12:46 AM | Add Comment

Solar system like ours found; it is five times younger, and like a "time machine." Epsilon Eridani is close enough to be seen by the naked eye

Posted by kluciole at 10/27/2008 10:57 PM | Add Comment

GOP 'mavericks' concerned with McCain

Posted by kluciole at 10/27/2008 10:53 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a staff member of Christie's displays a pair of rare gold pocket watches in Hong Kong

Posted by kluciole at 10/27/2008 7:01 PM | Add Comment

Catherine Zeta-Jones Tunes Up for Cleopatra; will star in a "rock-musical extravaganza" directed by Steven Soderbergh

Posted by kluciole at 10/27/2008 5:17 PM | Add Comment

Important news for everyone to consider: newborn baby died in Britain due to herpes simplex virus-1; Charlotte Raveney had a cold sore when she kissed her new daughter Mira, and her daughter died within 10 days

Posted by kluciole at 10/27/2008 5:07 PM | Add Comment

Mine from time of King Solomon found

Posted by kluciole at 10/27/2008 3:53 PM | Add Comment

From LiveScience: Scientists Grow Bigger, Better Diamonds

Posted by kluciole at 10/27/2008 3:48 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Photo of carved pumpkins lit from within and displayed at the Bayside Exposition in Boston, at Hallowscream Park

Posted by kluciole at 10/27/2008 5:21 AM | Add Comment

From LiveScience: Stress Can Make You Itch

Posted by kluciole at 10/27/2008 5:16 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a worker stands under a billboard that says "The World Totally For Obama" on the airport road in Abuja, Nigeria

Posted by kluciole at 10/27/2008 5:11 AM | Add Comment

Reluctant Japanese groom sets hotel on fire; had gone along with wedding plans despite already having a wife

Posted by kluciole at 10/27/2008 1:14 AM | Add Comment

Casting information from Moses Brings Plenty: Need talent for film "The Lost Warrior" from Four Directions Talent ... check it out....

Posted by kluciole at 10/27/2008 1:12 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Photo: Japanese surfer Akiko Kiyonaga performs in the inaugural Asian Beach Games woman's surfing competition in Kuta on the resort island of Bali

Posted by kluciole at 10/26/2008 10:00 PM | Add Comment

Acclaimed author Tony Hillerman dies at 83; wrote the 'Navajo Tribal Police' mystery novels. "I want Americans to stop thinking of Navajos as primitive persons, to understand that they are sophisticated and complicated," he said

Posted by kluciole at 10/26/2008 9:43 PM | Add Comment

New study: Humans made fire 790,000 years ago

Posted by kluciole at 10/26/2008 9:36 PM | Add Comment

Nun 'attacked and gang-raped by 40 men' during anti-Christian attacks in India; slams police for shielding attackers

Posted by kluciole at 10/26/2008 5:55 PM | Add Comment

A stunning autumnal tree in Montana, from Luciole Press Contributor Shelley Bluejay Pierce

Posted by kluciole at 10/26/2008 4:48 PM | Add Comment

Christians feud over Church of Holy Sepulcher: "two rival monks are posted at all times in a rooftop courtyard at the site of Jesus' crucifixion, studiously ignoring each other as they fight over the same sliver of sacred space"

Posted by kluciole at 10/26/2008 4:41 PM | Add Comment

The Anchorage Daily News, Alaska's largest newspaper, endorses Democratic Obama after declaring Gov. Palin "too risky" to be one step away from the Oval Office

Posted by kluciole at 10/26/2008 4:34 PM | Add Comment

Leo the terrier cross is a HERO after he would not leave a litter of kittens in a burning house. Leo had to be revived with oxygen and heart massage, but he did save all four kittens. Plus, VIDEO

Posted by kluciole at 10/26/2008 4:26 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Free WILLIAM BLAKE event @ 2pm TODAY in LONDON! Presented by The William Blake Congregation: "All that we See is Vision"

Posted by kluciole at 10/26/2008 3:14 AM | Add Comment

Casting information from Moses Brings Plenty: Need talent for film "The Lost Warrior" from Four Directions Talent ... check it out....

Posted by kluciole at 10/26/2008 2:01 AM | Add Comment

The secret intellectual life of bees: Australian scientists say bees can count to four

Posted by kluciole at 10/25/2008 10:36 PM | Add Comment

Video: Sigur Ros - Glósól

Posted by kluciole at 10/25/2008 10:23 PM | Add Comment

From SPACE.com: The Mysterious Zodiacal Light, "a ghostly column of light extending upward into the sky"

Posted by kluciole at 10/25/2008 6:10 PM | Add Comment

Historic building Villa in Hampton Court, which belonged to Shakespearean actor David Garrick (born in 1717), is severely damaged by fire

Posted by kluciole at 10/25/2008 4:19 PM | Add Comment

Zara Phillips breaks her collarbone as horrific fall kills her favorite horse, Tsunami II

Posted by kluciole at 10/25/2008 3:50 PM | Add Comment

Researchers say 7 orcas missing from Puget Sound and presumed dead in what could be the biggest decline among the sound's orcas in nearly a decade

Posted by kluciole at 10/25/2008 3:44 PM | Add Comment

Photo provided by the Chicago Zoological Society shows a newborn female Bornean orangutan curled up with her mother, Sophia, 27, at the Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield, Illinois

Posted by kluciole at 10/25/2008 1:59 PM | Add Comment

Republicans close to Sarah Palin say she's begun to "go rogue" in public appearances, as campaign tension rises and Palin "disregards the advice of the former Bush aides tasked to handle her"

Posted by kluciole at 10/25/2008 1:48 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Video of the song Stand By Me performed by many artists in different countries. From Bill Moyers Journal on PBS. Thanks to Luciole Press contributor Shelley Bluejay Pierce for sending this in!

Posted by kluciole at 10/25/2008 1:42 PM | Add Comment

From the ongoing series sent in by author and Luciole Press Contributor Kurt Kamm: Words of Firefighters - 25

Posted by kluciole at 10/25/2008 1:35 PM | Add Comment

The amazing artist Diana Bonebrake will have a show at Beyond Baroque TONIGHT, with music by The D.J. Bonebrake Trio, with poetry by Craig Danielson, John Dorsey, S.A. Griffin, Doug Knott, and David Smith. Diana is the Art Editor of Luciole Press

Posted by kluciole at 10/25/2008 1:33 PM | Add Comment

Photos show both tigers and meercats love to attack Halloween treats at San Francisco Zoo's 'Boo at the Zoo'

Posted by kluciole at 10/24/2008 11:22 PM | Add Comment

Photo: A Chacoan peccary, a species from the wild similar to a pig, and her four infant offspring share a pumpkin breakfast at the Los Angeles Zoo

Posted by kluciole at 10/24/2008 11:16 PM | Add Comment

400 reports of baby rashes prompt clothing warning about Carter's Inc. baby garments with tag-less labels

Posted by kluciole at 10/24/2008 11:11 PM | Add Comment

NASA launches probe called the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) to study edge of the solar system

Posted by kluciole at 10/24/2008 11:06 PM | Add Comment

Photo of a crazy-haired squirrel eating a nut in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Posted by kluciole at 10/24/2008 7:55 PM | Add Comment

Christian right intensifies attacks on Obama in "Letter from 2012 in Obama's America," which imagines everything from nuclear holocaust to the end of the Boy Scouts

Posted by kluciole at 10/24/2008 7:47 PM | Add Comment

Stephen Hawking to retire from prestigious post of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University next year, but intends to continue his exploration of time and space

Posted by kluciole at 10/24/2008 7:41 PM | Add Comment

Polar bears are dying out in the remote Russian Arctic region of Chukotka because of melting ice and increased killing by humans

Posted by kluciole at 10/24/2008 7:35 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Photos of autumn foliage on the ridges in the Glen Bowls, New York, taken October 20th

Posted by kluciole at 10/24/2008 10:39 AM | Add Comment

Warm hands lead to warm hearts, sneaky Yale study shows

Posted by kluciole at 10/24/2008 10:33 AM | Add Comment

Luciole Press friend and contributor Ellyn Maybe reads tonight at Beyond Baroque at 7:30 pm in the 40th Anniversary Series

Posted by kluciole at 10/24/2008 9:49 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Acrobats perform during a preview for the upcoming 8th Wuhan International Acrobatics Festival in Wuhan, Hubei province, China

Posted by kluciole at 10/24/2008 5:31 AM | Add Comment

Prominent Croatian journalist Ivo Pukanic and colleague killed in a car bomb, the latest in a series of violent incidents that have hit the European Union candidate country

Posted by kluciole at 10/24/2008 5:23 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Obama visits his grandmother, perhaps for last time

Posted by kluciole at 10/24/2008 2:18 AM | Add Comment

New Orleans Voodoo music festival hits decade mark

Posted by kluciole at 10/24/2008 2:14 AM | Add Comment

Will Ferrell's Bush meets Fey's Palin on `SNL'

Posted by kluciole at 10/24/2008 1:10 AM | Add Comment

Iran is holding American student Esha Momeni in prison. The CSU Northridge student was visiting family and researching women's rights when she was arrested; her computer and other materials related to the Iranian women's movement were taken

Posted by kluciole at 10/23/2008 9:59 PM | Add Comment

Palin denies accepting $150K in designer clothes, blaming gender bias for the controversy. She says the clothes bought were not worth that amount, and "most of the clothes have never left the campaign plane"

Posted by kluciole at 10/23/2008 9:53 PM | Add Comment

McCain might skip his own election-night party

Posted by kluciole at 10/23/2008 9:50 PM | Add Comment

Survey reveals half of US doctors use placebo treatments

Posted by kluciole at 10/23/2008 9:47 PM | Add Comment

Greek dig unearths undisturbed Neolithic household gear in a 6,000 year old rectangular farmhouse

Posted by kluciole at 10/23/2008 9:42 PM | Add Comment

Slovenia gives Queen Elizabeth II a prized Lipizzaner stallion; the 16-year-old horse, 085 Favory Canissa XXII, is so precious to the identity of the tiny nation of 2 million that the queen decided to leave him in Slovenia

Posted by kluciole at 10/23/2008 2:10 PM | Add Comment

Photo: An Indian Muslim bride adjusts her veil during a mass marriage ceremony in Hyderabad

Posted by kluciole at 10/23/2008 11:08 AM | Add Comment
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