Luciole Press Blog: Monthly Archives for November 2008

Hillary might reject State offer, “torn” between the possibility of serving in Obama’s cabinet and remaining in the Senate to “help pass health care and work on a broad range of domestic issues"

Posted by kluciole at 11/18/2008 4:54 PM | Add Comment

Obama offers Eric Holder attorney general post, who says the United States must reverse "the disastrous course" set by the Bush administration

Posted by kluciole at 11/18/2008 4:44 PM | Add Comment

Big 3 carmakers beg for $25B, warn of catastrophe

Posted by kluciole at 11/18/2008 4:27 PM | Add Comment

Dramatic rescue for doomed horses: Animal-rights groups celebrate as billionaire's wife (Madeleine Pickens) plans to adopt 30,000 horses and burros (Thank you Madeleine!)

Posted by kluciole at 11/18/2008 10:57 AM | Add Comment

Photo of Megaleledone setebos, a shallow-water octopus

Posted by kluciole at 11/18/2008 12:31 AM | Add Comment

Group of surfing photos from around the world: Hawaii, Peru, Chile, Australia, Bali, and the United States

Posted by kluciole at 11/18/2008 12:19 AM | Add Comment

Hawaii island bans genetically modified coffee

Posted by kluciole at 11/18/2008 12:14 AM | Add Comment

From LiveScience: Which Came First? Eggs Before Chickens, Scientists Now Say

Posted by kluciole at 11/18/2008 12:06 AM | Add Comment

Rare blood transfusion in an attempt to save a 7-month-old wild tiger cub that had been attacked and beaten by angry villagers in central India

Posted by kluciole at 11/17/2008 11:59 PM | Add Comment

Kangaroo genes close to humans

Posted by kluciole at 11/17/2008 11:48 PM | Add Comment

Lawrence Lebo in concert at the Coffee Gallery Backstage Friday, December 5, 2008 at 8:00 pm

Posted by kluciole at 11/17/2008 11:31 PM | Add Comment

Famed Lincoln letter turns up in Dallas; could be an authentic government copy of Abraham Lincoln's eloquent Bixby Letter, consoling a mother thought to have lost five sons in the Civil War

Posted by kluciole at 11/17/2008 7:27 AM | Add Comment

Photos of Kashmiri women voters; Indian Kashmiris voted for better roads and civic amenities in election held today

Posted by kluciole at 11/17/2008 7:23 AM | Add Comment

Obama says he will do "whatever it takes" to revive the economy, which means "we shouldn't worry about the deficit next year or even the year after"

Posted by kluciole at 11/17/2008 7:16 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Kazaam, a Los Angeles Search Dog, rests after examining the destruction at the Oakridge Mobile Home Park in the Sylmar area

Posted by kluciole at 11/17/2008 2:25 AM | Add Comment

Australia will invest millions of dollars in non-lethal whale research "to show Japan that the animals do not need to be killed in order to be studied"

Posted by kluciole at 11/17/2008 2:18 AM | Add Comment

Eri Yoshida, a 16-year-old schoolgirl with a mean knuckleball, has been drafted as the first woman to play alongside men in Japanese professional baseball

Posted by kluciole at 11/17/2008 2:12 AM | Add Comment

Apathetic expression 'Meh' enters dictionary

Posted by kluciole at 11/17/2008 2:06 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a visitor reflected through a creation by Argentine artist Rogelio Polesello

Posted by kluciole at 11/16/2008 11:05 PM | Add Comment

Australia pins high hopes on its movie epic, the forthcoming "Australia" (billed as a cross between "Out Of Africa" and "Gone With The Wind") to attract tourists and overseas investors to revive the local film industry

Posted by kluciole at 11/16/2008 10:57 PM | Add Comment

Violent storm leaves trail of debris in Australia

Posted by kluciole at 11/16/2008 10:53 PM | Add Comment

Even as winds calm, more Californians flee fires

Posted by kluciole at 11/16/2008 10:47 PM | Add Comment

Love this cat: photo of a hairless Canadian sphynx cat during an International Feline Beauty contest in Sofia, Bulgaria

Posted by kluciole at 11/16/2008 4:33 PM | Add Comment

Luciole Press Contributor Annabelle Bonebrake covered the Twilight series for us: check out her essay, plus another article about the upcoming movie: "`Twilight' time: Vamp tale seeks blockbuster bite"

Posted by kluciole at 11/16/2008 3:07 PM | Add Comment

Video and lyrics: Loreena McKennitt - Penelope's song

Posted by kluciole at 11/16/2008 3:23 AM | Add Comment

Darwin's mockingbirds featured in London exhibit; they have never been on public display and "stimulated the thinking that led to the theory of evolution"

Posted by kluciole at 11/16/2008 3:16 AM | Add Comment

Interim Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip is 'shattered'.

Posted by kluciole at 11/16/2008 3:09 AM | Add Comment

Despite billions poured into the NHS (National Heath Service) in Britain, they have fallen in the ranks of health care and score near the bottom in cancer survival rates, waiting times, MRSA infections and the speed of access to new drugs

Posted by kluciole at 11/16/2008 3:00 AM | Add Comment

Photo: snow in Spitzingsee, southern Germany

Posted by kluciole at 11/15/2008 10:45 PM | Add Comment

Incoming New Zealand government will have Maori ministers

Posted by kluciole at 11/15/2008 10:38 PM | Add Comment

Here is a graphic that shows where telescopes on land have caught the first real visual images of multiple planets orbiting another star

Posted by kluciole at 11/15/2008 10:33 PM | Add Comment

Brazilian boy makes rare recovery from rabies after receiving a procedure called the Milwaukee protocol: a combination of antiviral drugs, sedatives and injectable anesthetics

Posted by kluciole at 11/15/2008 10:27 PM | Add Comment

Obama election spurs race crimes around country: Cross burnings. Schoolchildren chanting "Assassinate Obama." Black figures hung from nooses. Racial epithets scrawled on homes and cars

Posted by kluciole at 11/15/2008 10:17 PM | Add Comment

From Kurt Kamm, author and Luciole Press Contributor; an essay: SoCal on Fire

Posted by kluciole at 11/15/2008 8:11 PM | Add Comment

Wildfires in LA reduce hundreds of homes to ash

Posted by kluciole at 11/15/2008 8:01 PM | Add Comment

Photos from the launch of space shuttle Endeavour, which is on a mission to upgrade the International Space Station

Posted by kluciole at 11/14/2008 11:57 PM | Add Comment

Thais stage elaborate funeral for king's sister Princess Galyani Vadhana; conch shells wailed and cannons thundered as crimson-clad soldiers pulled a gilded chariot containing her body to a seven-story pyre where she will be cremated

Posted by kluciole at 11/14/2008 11:51 PM | Add Comment

Sri Lanka asks 'friends' to buy more tea to help the island weather the global financial crisis

Posted by kluciole at 11/14/2008 11:48 PM | Add Comment

Rwanda's Rose Kabuye in French custody, arrested due to suspected involvement in the assassination of Rwanda's former president, Juvenal Habyarimana, which set off the genocide in 1994

Posted by kluciole at 11/14/2008 11:43 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

The Clinton band is back together: "a swift merger of the Clinton Wing of the Democratic Party with the Illinois Senator's... The merger began, during the campaign, in the policy apparatus, which is now rapidly becoming the governing apparatus"

Posted by kluciole at 11/14/2008 11:37 PM | Add Comment

Are fat cats ignoring mice?

Posted by kluciole at 11/14/2008 5:17 PM | Add Comment

SC priest: No communion for Obama supporters because the "president-elect supports abortion rights, and supporting him constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil"

Posted by kluciole at 11/14/2008 5:10 PM | Add Comment

Obama has more threats than other presidents-elect; a Maine convenience store's sign solicited $1 entries into "The Osama Obama Shotgun Pool." The sign further stated "Let's hope we have a winner"

Posted by kluciole at 11/14/2008 4:39 PM | Add Comment

Video: El Condor Pasa - CantoAndino

Posted by kluciole at 11/14/2008 4:53 AM | Add Comment

Fire destroys 80 homes, injures 4 in Montecito

Posted by kluciole at 11/14/2008 4:35 AM | Add Comment

Restoration work in London: statues from the Annunciatory Angel, made between 1440s and 1470s; a statue of St. Bartholomew made in the workshop of Andrea della Robbia in Tuscany, Italy between 1475-1525

Posted by kluciole at 11/14/2008 12:51 AM | Add Comment

Acid attacks keep Afghan girls away from classes; at Mirwais Mena girls' school in Kandahar, men on motorcycles attacked 15 girls and teachers with acid

Posted by kluciole at 11/14/2008 12:41 AM | Add Comment

Ancient Celtic coin cache found in the Netherlands; the trove of 39 gold and 70 silver coins was minted in the middle of the first century B.C.E. as Julius Caesar led a campaign against Celtic tribes in the area

Posted by kluciole at 11/14/2008 12:35 AM | Add Comment

Crowd of 1 million could attend Obama inauguration

Posted by kluciole at 11/14/2008 12:28 AM | Add Comment

First fuzzy photos of planets outside solar system

Posted by kluciole at 11/14/2008 12:16 AM | Add Comment

UN: Clouds of pollution threaten glaciers, health, and more on a global scale. Dirty brown haze sometimes more than a mile thick darkens skies over vast areas of Asia, the Middle East, southern Africa and the Amazon Basin

Posted by kluciole at 11/14/2008 12:10 AM | Add Comment

China's ethnic Mongolians hang on to identity by a thread

Posted by kluciole at 11/13/2008 10:49 PM | Add Comment

The Mayan calendar, along with many other cultures' calendars, ends on the Winter Solstice of 2012 (December 21st). What could happen? Now we have an epic disaster film to fill in the blanks of worldwide destruction: Watch the really cool video!

Posted by kluciole at 11/13/2008 7:12 AM | Add Comment

Gorgeous photos from the mountains near the ski resort of Les Arcs in Savoie, France

Posted by kluciole at 11/13/2008 6:56 AM | Add Comment

Study: California's dirty air kills more people than car crashes

Posted by kluciole at 11/13/2008 6:52 AM | Add Comment

Federal bank regulators reject request by banks and consumer advocates for a program to let lenders forgive huge portions of credit card debt

Posted by kluciole at 11/13/2008 1:56 AM | Add Comment

Russian stock markets suspended after sharp falls. Oil prices drive turmoil, as the government forecasted oil to average $95 for the 2009 budget but Urals blend crude, the primary kind of oil produced by Russia, was down to $49 Thursday morning

Posted by kluciole at 11/13/2008 1:51 AM | Add Comment

Photos: Diamonds being auctioned at Sotheby's previewed in Geneva -- a 160 carat necklace; a Fancy Deep Blue Diamond of 10.48 carats; and the Lesotho I, an emerald-cut diamond of 71.73 carats

Posted by kluciole at 11/12/2008 11:00 PM | Add Comment

TIME article: Rehearsing for California's Big Earthquake. "At exactly 10 a.m. tomorrow, about 5 million people in Southern California will drop to the ground, take cover... and hold on... (in) the biggest public emergency drill in U.S. history"

Posted by kluciole at 11/12/2008 10:54 PM | Add Comment

From author and Luciole Press Contributor Kurt Kamm: WORDS OF FIREFIGHTERS - 31..." I supported my husband for what he loved and gave him the ultimate of understanding"

Posted by kluciole at 11/12/2008 10:48 PM | Add Comment

Sudan's President Omar al-Beshir has called an immediate ceasefire in Darfur and a campaign to disarm feared militias in a speech dismissed by rebels as a propaganda stunt for the West

Posted by kluciole at 11/12/2008 10:38 PM | Add Comment

Israel's president Shimon Peres praises Saudi King Abdullah's initiative to end the Arab-Israeli conflict

Posted by kluciole at 11/12/2008 10:32 PM | Add Comment

New Zealand's Maori Party strikes a deal to support the new center-right government, but Prime Minister John Key refuses to say whether he will honor their demands that he safeguard indigenous rights

Posted by kluciole at 11/12/2008 10:23 PM | Add Comment

Doctors say an American man who suffered from AIDS appears to have been cured of the disease 20 months after receiving a targeted bone marrow transplant normally used to fight leukemia

Posted by kluciole at 11/12/2008 10:19 PM | Add Comment

Sleepytime: a dog takes a nap during a CACIB international dog show in the southern Israeli town of Arad

Posted by kluciole at 11/12/2008 10:15 PM | Add Comment

Photos: the Natufian archaeological excavation site in Israel where the 12,000-old skeleton of a female shaman was found

Posted by kluciole at 11/12/2008 3:17 AM | Add Comment

2008 Global Gender Gap report: women still lag far behind men in top political and decision-making roles, a waste of talent given that their access to education and healthcare is nearly equal

Posted by kluciole at 11/12/2008 3:09 AM | Add Comment

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough now guarded by a 7-second delay after using the f-word while discussing Rahm Emanuel, incoming White House chief of staff for Obama

Posted by kluciole at 11/12/2008 3:05 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a model wears a Medusa-like headdress of golden cobras, made of chocolate

Posted by kluciole at 11/11/2008 11:41 PM | Add Comment

Article from LiveScience: --Fast Food Loaded with Corn-- which has a tremendous impact on the health of the animals raised for consumption and the people who eat the fast food

Posted by kluciole at 11/11/2008 11:34 PM | Add Comment

Article from LiveScience: Climate scientist Ken Caldeira says world leaders need an emergency backup plan to stave off catastrophic climate change if cuts in greenhouse gas emissions don't work

Posted by kluciole at 11/11/2008 11:29 PM | Add Comment

Obama marks Veterans Day with wreath-laying, accompanied by Tammy Duckworth, an Iraq war veteran who lost her legs in combat

Posted by kluciole at 11/11/2008 11:19 PM | Add Comment

After years on the run from Shiite and Sunni militias and morality police, Iraqi musicians are slowly returning to the streets of Baghdad

Posted by kluciole at 11/11/2008 11:14 PM | Add Comment

Secular candidate Nir Barkat apparant winner in Jerusalem mayoral race, over ultra-Orthodox Jewish leader Meir Porush

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

Peru offers bald dog of Incas to Obamas; the Peruvian Hairless Dog was popular with Incan kings, and is said to be "perfect for kids who are sensitive to dogs"

Posted by kluciole at 11/11/2008 10:59 PM | Add Comment

Photo of a woman wearing the recently discovered 2,000-year-old pearl and emerald earring found in a parking lot next to the walls of Jerusalem's old city

Posted by kluciole at 11/11/2008 6:16 AM | Add Comment

World marks 90th anniversary of the Great War, WWI... Two articles about Armistice Day, including: "The last of the many: The only three surviving British WWI veterans remember the millions who fell" (aged 108, 110, and 112)

Posted by kluciole at 11/11/2008 6:01 AM | Add Comment

New Zealand enters new era of conservative rule

Posted by kluciole at 11/11/2008 3:29 AM | Add Comment

Moment of truth for Shiite party over pact that would keep U.S. troops in Iraq for three more years

Posted by kluciole at 11/11/2008 3:26 AM | Add Comment

Oil falls to $60 as China spending optimism wanes

Posted by kluciole at 11/11/2008 3:23 AM | Add Comment

Michelle Obama has her own transition to work out

Posted by kluciole at 11/11/2008 3:20 AM | Add Comment

Odi the bear enjoys splashing about for the first time after being freed from 10-year captivity in Romania; the brown bear was locked inside a rusty, cramped cage - hungry, confused and emaciated; now she is free and happy

Posted by kluciole at 11/10/2008 11:32 PM | Add Comment

Meet Luciole Press Contributor Scott Owens from North Carolina, and read his poem "13 Ways of Weather"

Posted by kluciole at 11/10/2008 11:25 PM | Add Comment

From author and Luciole Press Contributor Kurt Kamm: Words of Firefighters - 30 "When Will They Be Here?"

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

Bush, Obama all smiles during White House visit

Posted by kluciole at 11/10/2008 10:51 PM | Add Comment

Harvard seeking spending cuts amid economic crisis

Posted by kluciole at 11/10/2008 10:48 PM | Add Comment

Palin blames Bush policies for GOP defeat. In regards to future political pursuits, she said, "if there is an open door in '12 or four years later... I'll plow through that door"

Posted by kluciole at 11/10/2008 10:13 PM | Add Comment

DNC Chairman Howard Dean will not seek second term

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

Mystery of the screaming mummy: Dr. Zahi Hawass and his team believe they have identified the mummy as the son of Rameses III, Prince Pentewere, who tried to dethrone his father

Posted by kluciole at 11/10/2008 8:14 AM | Add Comment

Obama to get his first look at the Oval Office; will visit the White House today for a private meeting with President Bush

Posted by kluciole at 11/10/2008 7:49 AM | Add Comment

UPDATE to earlier post: 2,000-year-old gold earring found in Jerusalem; inlaid with pearls and emeralds, it was discovered beneath a parking lot next to Byzantine-era ruins

Posted by kluciole at 11/10/2008 6:53 AM | Add Comment

Photo of a tiger. A family in Mexico was shocked Thursday to find a tiger, newly escaped from a circus, lying on their patio

Posted by kluciole at 11/10/2008 4:05 AM | Add Comment

Obama planning US trials for Guantanamo detainees

Posted by kluciole at 11/10/2008 4:02 AM | Add Comment

European and Asian markets surge on China's $586 billion plan to stimulate its economy, a main driver of global growth

Posted by kluciole at 11/10/2008 3:59 AM | Add Comment

The Conscious Consumer: Safest plastics for food and beverages

Posted by kluciole at 11/10/2008 3:56 AM | Add Comment

Photo of a lioness picking one of her cubs up (at a zoo in Columbia)

Posted by kluciole at 11/10/2008 2:01 AM | Add Comment

South African singer Miriam Makeba, known as "Mama Africa," dies in Italy

Posted by kluciole at 11/10/2008 1:55 AM | Add Comment

Japan's Crown Princess Masako, who suffers from a stress-induced illness, joined an official welcome ceremony for the first time in five years to greet Spanish King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia

Posted by kluciole at 11/10/2008 1:38 AM | Add Comment

Facts and figures on New Zealand's elections

Posted by kluciole at 11/10/2008 1:34 AM | Add Comment

Armenian and Greek Orthodox monks brawl at Christian holy site, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, in Jerusalem

Posted by kluciole at 11/10/2008 1:19 AM | Add Comment

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