Luciole Press Blog: Monthly Archives for December 2008

Where'd the bailout money go? Shhhh, it's a secret: "after receiving billions in aid from U.S. taxpayers, the nation's largest banks say they can't track exactly how they're spending the money or they simply refuse to discuss it"

Posted by kluciole at 12/22/2008 3:40 AM | Add Comment

Video: Fitness for Cats -- who needs a treadmill? (quite humorous)

Posted by kluciole at 12/21/2008 11:29 PM | Add Comment

The next issue of Luciole Press will be delayed slightly (please read)

Posted by kluciole at 12/21/2008 9:52 PM | Add Comment

U.S. scientists have created the first human model for studying devastating nerve disease (in this case, spinal muscular atrophy)

Posted by kluciole at 12/21/2008 9:45 PM | Add Comment

Gamekeepers "are killing off hen harriers," which are now on the brink of extinction because of "human persecution"

Posted by kluciole at 12/21/2008 7:15 PM | Add Comment

The ongoing series sent in by author and Luciole Press contributor Kurt Kamm: FIREFIGHTER'S WORDS - 44 - THE COWBOY AND THE FIRE TRUCK

Posted by kluciole at 12/21/2008 7:09 PM | Add Comment

Amsterdam's Christmas celebration for its gay community features Mary in drag; church organizations denounce "Pink Christmas" nativity scene as an affront to traditional values

Posted by kluciole at 12/21/2008 7:03 PM | Add Comment

Photo: NASA picture shows Jupiter's moon Ganymede playing a game of 'peek-a-boo.' The moon was shot by the Hubble Space Telescope just before it ducked behind the giant planet

Posted by kluciole at 12/21/2008 6:55 PM | Add Comment

Pete the purple squirrel leaves animal lovers baffled; he has apparently been chewing on purple ink cartridges, then grooming ink into his fur

Posted by kluciole at 12/21/2008 6:49 PM | Add Comment

Desert winds blow toxic mine waste, causing health risks in California; for instance, dust sample tests reveal 460,000 times the level of arsenic deemed safe

Posted by kluciole at 12/21/2008 6:44 PM | Add Comment

Photos: a wildfire-damaged tree is seen in front of snowy mountains in Corona, California; two pictures of horses frolicking in the snow in Carmel Valley, California

Posted by kluciole at 12/21/2008 2:06 AM | Add Comment

Photo: this apparently extremely good-tempered cat named Tom was bathed and dressed as Santa Claus at a pet shop in Lima, Peru

Posted by kluciole at 12/21/2008 2:02 AM | Add Comment

Photographer Rolf Hicker, whose photos of the Northern Lights were featured here at Luciole Press Blog, has left a comment with his website address. Great photos!

Posted by kluciole at 12/20/2008 9:24 PM | Add Comment

Hope for children with leukemia, as scientists find way to "buy time" for bone marrow transplants by shedding new light on how healthy blood cells are disabled (and how to stop it from happening)

Posted by kluciole at 12/20/2008 9:17 PM | Add Comment

Poinsettias in orange, peach, pink, deep purple, orange-pink and 'leopard-style' spotted red-and-white plants

Posted by kluciole at 12/20/2008 9:12 PM | Add Comment

'Forgotten' Lake Hartwell highlights South's stubborn drought

Posted by kluciole at 12/20/2008 9:09 PM | Add Comment

Photos: a Husky on a farm in Rovaniemi, in Finland's Lapland, and Jätkänkynttilä bridge (also in Rovaniemi)

Posted by kluciole at 12/20/2008 9:00 AM | Add Comment

Photos: The breathtaking dancing beams of the Northern Lights

Posted by kluciole at 12/20/2008 8:52 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Two incredible articles: "Swiss glaciers 'in full retreat'" and "Alpine melt reveals ancient life "

Posted by kluciole at 12/20/2008 8:46 AM | Add Comment

Photo: the green-blooded and turquoise-boned Samkos bush frog of Cambodia

Posted by kluciole at 12/20/2008 8:43 AM | Add Comment

Olga Lepeshinskaya, a Soviet-era prima ballerina who danced with the Bolshoi Ballet for decades, has died at the age of 92

Posted by kluciole at 12/20/2008 8:36 AM | Add Comment

Photos: glassblowing company Joska (in Bodenmais, Germany) produces the world's biggest glass Christmas tree decorations

Posted by kluciole at 12/20/2008 8:31 AM | Add Comment

Photo: fur coats of ermines (also called stoats) turning white much earlier than usual.

Posted by kluciole at 12/19/2008 3:13 PM | Add Comment

Herculaneum, ignored by many a Pompeii-bound tourist as that other city the volcano Vesuvius "froze" in ancient time, is showing off its glories in a new exhibit

Posted by kluciole at 12/19/2008 2:54 PM | Add Comment

Ex-Colombian hostage Ingrid Betancourt says she plans to drop out of the limelight to write a book on her life

Posted by kluciole at 12/19/2008 2:45 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a Turkish man holds a giant paper shoe as he marches in protest outside the U. S. embassy in Ankara; plus, TIME article: "Punishment for the Shoe Thrower Puts al-Maliki in a Spot"

Posted by kluciole at 12/18/2008 11:53 PM | Add Comment

Orbiting spacecraft discovers key mineral in bedrock on the surface of Mars that forms in the presence of water, suggesting the planet had an environment hospitable to life at some point

Posted by kluciole at 12/18/2008 11:48 PM | Add Comment

Photo: The robin is under threat from Sparrowhawks, says a British Trust for Ornithology report

Posted by kluciole at 12/18/2008 11:41 PM | Add Comment

Curator at the Louvre Museum in Paris stumbles upon unknown drawings on the back of the painting "The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne," by Leonardo da Vinci

Posted by kluciole at 12/18/2008 11:40 PM | Add Comment

Pet lovers protest cats on the menu in China; cats are both stolen off the streets (strays and pets) and raised on farms

Posted by kluciole at 12/18/2008 11:31 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Wintry Photo: a reservoir is seen in Caldas de Luna, Leon, France

Posted by kluciole at 12/18/2008 9:05 PM | Add Comment

Internet game sensation gives players a chance to throw a shoe at Bush. Called "Sock and Awe," the virtual President Bush has been struck in the face by 21 million shoes

Posted by kluciole at 12/18/2008 8:58 PM | Add Comment

New exhibit in Stuttgart: 'The Rommel Myth' debunks historical ideas about the Desert Fox -- "Rommel was a fabrication of Nazi propaganda."

Posted by kluciole at 12/18/2008 8:57 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Egypt as envisioned by Las Vegas, now blanketed with snow

Posted by kluciole at 12/18/2008 6:59 AM | Add Comment

New Zealand turning its possum population ("harvesting" 1.8 million in the last year alone) into "merino-and-possum-blend knitwear and accessories, socks, scarves, bed throws, possum leather gloves and g-strings" in the hopes of killing all the possums

Posted by kluciole at 12/18/2008 6:47 AM | Add Comment

Iraqi journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi, who hurled his shoes at Bush, "apologized to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki for embarrassing him before the watching world," the prime minister's office says

Posted by kluciole at 12/18/2008 6:42 AM | Add Comment

Photo: an Aurora Borealis spins above the Talkeetna Range and a hay field on Farm Loop Road near Palmer, Alaska

Posted by kluciole at 12/18/2008 4:14 AM | Add Comment

Australia to cut pollution 5 to 15 percent by 2020 (plus, photo of a sculpture entitled 'carbon trader' by artist Stephen King overlooking Tamarama beach near Sydney)

Posted by kluciole at 12/18/2008 4:05 AM | Add Comment

Horses recognize each other by their whinnies (this should be no surprise, but now there is a new study out about it)

Posted by kluciole at 12/18/2008 3:53 AM | Add Comment

NorCal Equine Rescue program is doing important work: they take in many horses whose owners can no longer care for them (especially in this economy) and euthanise those who are in pain or not adoptable, so they are not sent to slaughterhouses

Posted by kluciole at 12/18/2008 2:52 AM | Add Comment

German court rules too much time has passed to prove whether or not 105-year-old entertainer Johannes Heesters sang for Nazi guards at a concentration camp during World War II

Posted by kluciole at 12/18/2008 2:45 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Dried plants and trees covered with hoarfrost are seen in a forest near village Veragi, north of Minsk, Belarus

Posted by kluciole at 12/18/2008 2:42 AM | Add Comment

Scientists seek ways to ward off killer asteroids: "Once every hundred years there might be something to worry about, but it could happen tomorrow.''

Posted by kluciole at 12/18/2008 2:35 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Taronga Zoo's new Wedge-tailed Eagle 'Nonami' comes under attack from a native Australian Magpie during her first outside flight in Sydney, Australia

Posted by kluciole at 12/17/2008 11:34 AM | Add Comment

Crisis-hit Iceland sees its future in fish. One fisherman says, "Now everybody is saying 'We're in the same boat.' Well, I wasn't on the boat with the bankers. I wasn't invited to the birthday party with Elton John. I was in the North Atlantic ocean."

Posted by kluciole at 12/17/2008 11:23 AM | Add Comment

Artists' models in Paris stripped naked Monday, braving freezing temperatures to protest against a ban on tips and to demand better pay and recognition

Posted by kluciole at 12/17/2008 11:16 AM | Add Comment

Australian Aborigines won a court fight Wednesday against Anglo-Swiss mining giant Xstrata's plans to divert a river and expand one of the world's biggest zinc mines

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

New legislation backed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin would allow Russian authorities to label any government critic a traitor — a move that rights activists say is a chilling throwback to the times of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin

Posted by kluciole at 12/17/2008 11:06 AM | Add Comment

Previously featured photo: the sand formations inside Antelope Canyon on the Navajo/Dine Reservation in Page, Arizona

Posted by kluciole at 12/16/2008 9:44 PM | Add Comment

Strange dark energy acts as galactic diet enforcer

Posted by kluciole at 12/16/2008 9:41 PM | Add Comment

Photo: an Anjouan woman, her face covered with an earth-based mixture to protect her from the sun, walks through the Medina near the main port of Anjouan, Comoros

Posted by kluciole at 12/16/2008 9:36 PM | Add Comment

Scientists find hole in Earth's magnetic field

Posted by kluciole at 12/16/2008 9:33 PM | Add Comment

Self-taught artist Heath Rosselli's nude portrait of a friend recovering from breast cancer gets a place in the Louvre next to Rembrandt

Posted by kluciole at 12/16/2008 12:29 PM | Add Comment

White House Press Secretary Dana Perino reveals her black eye (calling it a shoe-venir)... while Iraqi journalist and 'shoe attacker' Muntadhar al-Zeidi nurses a broken arm and ribs. Demonstrators take to the streets waving their shoes

Posted by kluciole at 12/16/2008 12:19 PM | Add Comment

Saturn's largest moon, Titan, has 'active ice volcanoes'... plus, NASA's Cassini spacecraft also found evidence of a crust forming on moon Enceladus

Posted by kluciole at 12/16/2008 11:43 AM | Add Comment

Fed cuts target for key rate to record low, and pledged to use "all available tools" to combat a severe financial crisis and prolonged recession

Posted by kluciole at 12/16/2008 11:40 AM | Add Comment

More than 2 trillion tons of land ice in Greenland, Antarctica and Alaska have melted since 2003, according to new NASA satellite data

Posted by kluciole at 12/16/2008 11:25 AM | Add Comment

Information you need about food safety: The 5 Dirtiest Foods

Posted by kluciole at 12/16/2008 11:20 AM | Add Comment

Photo: this pedestrian, walking past a giant Christmas ornament on the street in Boston, looks like a walking umbrella with yellow boots

Posted by kluciole at 12/15/2008 9:51 PM | Add Comment

Scientists have discovered more than 1,000 species in Southeast Asia's Greater Mekong region in the past decade, including a spider as big as a dinner plate and this gorgeous green pitviper snake

Posted by kluciole at 12/15/2008 8:51 PM | Add Comment

Sent in by Luciole Press Art Editor and amazing artist, Diana Bonebrake: Shakespeare's Sonnet #108 .. AND .. concert information -- Doug MacLeod in concert with special guest Lawrence Lebo

Posted by kluciole at 12/15/2008 7:55 PM | Add Comment

More photos of the two white lion cubs at Belgrade Zoo -- plus their mother Kiara, a female African lion, and their father Vambo, a white lion

Posted by kluciole at 12/15/2008 7:48 PM | Add Comment

Scientist says he has found oldest spider web: the 140-million-year-old webbing provides evidence that arachnids have been ensnaring their prey in silky nets since the dinosaur age

Posted by kluciole at 12/15/2008 7:42 PM | Add Comment

From author and Luciole Press contributor Kurt Kamm's ongoing series: FIREFIGHTER'S WORDS - 43 - WHY I DO THIS ..."Trust me... you are making a difference"

Posted by kluciole at 12/15/2008 7:36 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a horse breaks up the icy ground cover for food in Hillsborough, N.H

Posted by kluciole at 12/15/2008 4:56 AM | Add Comment

Thorough photo and video footage of the moment an Iraqi journalist threw his shoes at President Bush in Iraq. Bush joked about the incident, and thousands of Iraqis took to the streets to protest for the journalist's release from custody

Posted by kluciole at 12/15/2008 4:43 AM | Add Comment

Photo: A fisherman pushes a boat during sunset at the Razzaza Lake (Iraq)

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

Obama left with little time to curb global warming: "When Clinton took took office in 1993, global warming was a slow-moving environmental problem that was easy to ignore. Now it is a ticking time bomb that President-elect Barack Obama can't avoid"

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

Americans from all social classes are pawning their possessions to make ends meet

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

Photos and article: The Japanese snow monkeys who enjoy nothing more than a bath in volcanic hot springs

Posted by kluciole at 12/14/2008 9:13 PM | Add Comment

South Korea's president, Lee Myung-Bak, has donated his salary as president (and from his term as mayor of Seoul) to "encourage the underprivileged to overcome deepening economic difficulties." He plans to give away most of his wealth

Posted by kluciole at 12/14/2008 9:05 PM | Add Comment

Photos: breast cancer survivors model fashion creations by Rozi of Kraftangan Malaysia

Posted by kluciole at 12/14/2008 9:01 PM | Add Comment

New study firmly ties hormone use to breast cancer

Posted by kluciole at 12/14/2008 8:54 PM | Add Comment

Cervical cancer jab left my 12-year-old daughter Ashleigh paralysed, says UK mother Cheryl Cave

Posted by kluciole at 12/14/2008 8:53 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

An older photo: West Papuans demonstrate and celebrate as the movement 'International Parliamentarians for West Papua' found support from British members of parliament in London

Posted by kluciole at 12/14/2008 7:46 AM | Add Comment

US Senator Lindsey Graham serves military duty in Afghanistan; the only U.S. senator in the military's Guard or Reserves, he donned the Air Force's camouflaged uniform for five days last week to serve in Kabul

Posted by kluciole at 12/14/2008 7:41 AM | Add Comment

The governments of Canada and province of Ontario agree to provide aid to the struggling auto sector that could be worth C$3.5 billion ($2.8 billion) in effort to stave off massive loss of jobs at car plants, parts manufacturers

Posted by kluciole at 12/14/2008 7:36 AM | Add Comment

Gov. Palin's home church damaged by arson. No one was injured in the fire, which was intentionally set while people, including two children, were inside.

Posted by kluciole at 12/14/2008 6:55 AM | Add Comment

Photo: an owl at the Entabeni reserve in Limpopo, in South Africa's northern province

Posted by kluciole at 12/14/2008 6:51 AM | Add Comment

David Dzidzikashvili left a very informative comment about the economic crisis on Luciole Press Blog. Learn more about him in this article about the MBA student from the nation of Georgia: "Fighter persevered despite growing up amid chaos"

Posted by kluciole at 12/14/2008 12:07 AM | Add Comment

More photos of the previously featured ceiling painting created by Spanish artist Miquel Barcelo, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland

Posted by kluciole at 12/13/2008 11:50 PM | Add Comment

Frankie the feline exposed as the cat burglar stealing toys from his neighbors' homes

Posted by kluciole at 12/13/2008 11:37 PM | Add Comment

Queen Elizabeth II reins in extravagance as credit crunch grips

Posted by kluciole at 12/13/2008 11:33 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Lake Michigan at North Ave. Beach during a light snowfall in Chicago

Posted by kluciole at 12/13/2008 11:23 PM | Add Comment

Norway announces sharply lower whaling quota for 2009

Posted by kluciole at 12/13/2008 11:16 PM | Add Comment

Places to See Before They Disappear: Consider visiting these rare cultural, historic, and natural sites before they are irrevocably altered or gone forever (like the Taj Mahal, which may soon be closed to tourists)

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

Photo: The aurora borealis (the northern lights) are seen in the sky above the town of Narvik in north-eastern Norway.

Posted by kluciole at 12/13/2008 7:04 PM | Add Comment

Pair of white lion cubs make their wobbly world debut at Belgrade Zoo

Posted by kluciole at 12/13/2008 7:03 PM | Add Comment

Nearly frozen sea turtle heading to rehab: "His name is Herb, and he was very, very cold when he was found on a Cape Cod beach"

Posted by kluciole at 12/13/2008 6:56 PM | Add Comment

Travel: German Christmas markets sparkle in season

Posted by kluciole at 12/13/2008 6:33 PM | Add Comment

Mexican schools close as children are threatened; anonymous note demanded teachers hand over their year-end bonuses — or students would be kidnapped

Posted by kluciole at 12/13/2008 6:15 PM | Add Comment

Obama's true colors: Black, white ... or neither? The saga of the racial category and its modern evolution

Posted by kluciole at 12/13/2008 6:01 PM | Add Comment

From author and Luciole Press contributor Kurt Kamm: WORDS OF FIREFIGHTERS -42- REMOVING THE RESPIRATOR

Posted by kluciole at 12/13/2008 5:54 PM | Add Comment

Quotes from Rumi and Thoreau from an article, "Selfless Gratitude" from Yoga Journal: "However you find life to be—cruel or kind, sorrowful or joyous, bland or stimulating, indifferent or filled with love—you get the privilege of knowing it firsthand"

Posted by kluciole at 12/13/2008 4:01 AM | Add Comment

Photo: an untitled piece by Australian artist Tim Maguire, featured in the forthcoming Modern and Contemporary Australian and South African Art Auction

Posted by kluciole at 12/13/2008 12:49 AM | Add Comment

Photos: Russian President Medvedev and Argentine President Cristina Kirchner seal an array of cooperation deals, including in nuclear energy, and vow to work together to promote a "multipolar world"

Posted by kluciole at 12/13/2008 12:42 AM | Add Comment

Medvedev heckled at Kremlin whilst giving a speech to scientists and bureaucrats marking Constitution Day (15th anniversary of the adoption of Russia's post-Soviet constitution)

Posted by kluciole at 12/13/2008 12:32 AM | Add Comment

Photo: resplendent French 'Japonisant' cabinet, which dates from 1895 (sold for $3,049,563)

Posted by kluciole at 12/13/2008 12:26 AM | Add Comment

Two articles: "Major Sumatran quake, tsunami likely in decades: study" and "Ancient coral predicts another devastating tsunami within 20 years"

Posted by kluciole at 12/13/2008 12:20 AM | Add Comment

The BBC will not televise Britain's biggest dog show for the first time in more than 40 years after controversy about canine inbreeding

Posted by kluciole at 12/13/2008 12:16 AM | Add Comment

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