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Luciole Press Blog: Monthly Archives for April 2009

Photo: displaced women, some due to the Pakistan military offensive against the Taliban, hold their infants at a repatriation centre in the western city of Peshawar

Posted by kluciole at 4/30/2009 2:31 PM | Add Comment

Sent in by Luciole Press' artiste extraordinaire, Diana Bonebrake: article, "Terry Nichols's Gut-Wrenching Pain"... domestic terrorist unhappy with his prison diet

Posted by kluciole at 4/30/2009 2:26 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Montbéliard, France

Posted by kluciole at 4/30/2009 11:52 AM | Add Comment

8-year-old Saudi girl divorces 50-year-old husband

Posted by kluciole at 4/30/2009 11:43 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

WHO to stop using term 'swine flu' to protect pigs; policy shift comes a day after Egypt began slaughtering thousands of pigs in a misguided effort to prevent swine flu

Posted by kluciole at 4/30/2009 11:39 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Kentucky Derby hopeful Nowhere To Hide shakes off water during his bath

Posted by kluciole at 4/29/2009 4:47 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Unique Roman glass dish found at London grave site

Posted by kluciole at 4/29/2009 4:42 PM | Add Comment

Studies: Drug shows promise against hepatitis C

Posted by kluciole at 4/29/2009 4:38 PM | Add Comment

Politico: 10 decisions for Obama's next 100 days

Posted by kluciole at 4/29/2009 4:30 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a duck passes under a bridge in Lazienki park in Warsaw, Poland

Posted by kluciole at 4/29/2009 5:37 AM | Add Comment

US does about-face on Camp Lejeune's tap water

Posted by kluciole at 4/29/2009 5:30 AM | Add Comment

Photo: the gaseous outer layers of a Sun-like star glow in space after being expelled as the star reaches the end of its life

Posted by kluciole at 4/28/2009 11:49 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Photos: unable to have a guide dog, Mona Ramouni has a guide horse named Cali (who stands 30 inches in height)

Posted by kluciole at 4/28/2009 11:45 PM | Add Comment

Sixty percent of Americans live in areas with unhealthy air pollution levels; health effects from pollution "include changes in lung function, coughing, heart attacks, lung cancer and premature death"

Posted by kluciole at 4/28/2009 11:44 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Meant to post this yesterday: (Article) The four-year-old Mexican boy living near 'ground zero' pig farm who may hold the key to swine flu outbreak

Posted by kluciole at 4/28/2009 11:39 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

From the ongoing series sent in by Luciole Press friend/contributor Kurt Kamm: FIREFIGHTER’S WORDS -92- FIRST EMT EXPERIENCE

Posted by kluciole at 4/28/2009 11:34 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Scott Wannberg, Luciole Press friend/contributor, just alerted me to the information that his new book will be available in June: "strange movie full of death"

Posted by kluciole at 4/28/2009 7:58 AM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

Please listen to the music of Emily A. Saaen, a very good friend of Luciole Press. She hails from the Azov sea coast and now lives in Ural, Russia

Posted by kluciole at 4/28/2009 3:25 AM | Add Comment

Obama administration seeks reversal of rule that allows mountaintop mining waste to be dumped near streams

Posted by kluciole at 4/27/2009 11:27 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Chihuahua blown away by 70-mph wind gust reunited with owners

Posted by kluciole at 4/27/2009 11:21 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Photo: Mengala, Budapest Zoo's 13 year-old orangutan, eating an apple

Posted by kluciole at 4/27/2009 11:19 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a field of yellow tulips near Egmond aan den Hoef in northwestern Netherlands

Posted by kluciole at 4/27/2009 2:05 PM | Add Comment

Fox network turns down Obama's request to show prime-time conference marking his 100th day in office

Posted by kluciole at 4/27/2009 2:01 PM | Add Comment

Two more articles: with 40 confirmed cases, "U.S. responding as if swine flu will be pandemic" and "What you need to know about swine flu" (updated version)

Posted by kluciole at 4/27/2009 1:55 PM | Add Comment

World Health Organization to raise its pandemic alert level as flu death numbers jump in Mexico

Posted by kluciole at 4/27/2009 1:46 PM | Add Comment

Photo: The Eagle Nebula (M16)

Posted by kluciole at 4/27/2009 1:15 AM | Add Comment

From the ongoing series sent in by Luciole press contributor/friend, author Kurt Kamm: FIREFIGHTER'S WORDS -90- INTO THE MUD

Posted by kluciole at 4/27/2009 1:10 AM | Add Comment

Rose of Sharon Press has published francEyE's new book, CALL ... cover artwork by Diana Bonebrake

Posted by kluciole at 4/27/2009 12:48 AM | Add Comment

Attorney General Holder tours historic torture site in London

Posted by kluciole at 4/27/2009 12:45 AM | Add Comment

Videos: previously featured Martine Lund Hoel of Norway... "Inn i Peer Gynts rike - Huldra lokker" and a promo video with the Hardingfiddlerband

Posted by kluciole at 4/26/2009 7:36 AM | Add Comment

Poem by previously featured poet Nizar Qabbani: "When I love"

Posted by kluciole at 4/26/2009 7:29 AM | Add Comment

Article: "why do we critically judge presidents on what they're able to accomplish in just their first 100 days?"

Posted by kluciole at 4/26/2009 7:23 AM | Add Comment

Italy's Mafia thrives in global financial meltdown

Posted by kluciole at 4/26/2009 4:42 AM | Add Comment

The artwork of Elihu Vedder, who illustrated The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Here are some of those illustrations, plus his pieces "The Pleiades" and a mosaic of Minerva

Posted by kluciole at 4/26/2009 4:19 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a swirling dust band around the nucleus of the 'Black Eye Galaxy' M64

Posted by kluciole at 4/25/2009 11:09 PM | Add Comment

Sophie Dahl is always a clever and entertaining writer; she has a new book coming out, "Voluptuous Delights"

Posted by kluciole at 4/25/2009 10:41 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a perfect dandelion

Posted by kluciole at 4/25/2009 10:38 PM | Add Comment

Poem by Luciole Press friend/contributor Scott Wannberg: "the raymond carver 2 step"

Posted by kluciole at 4/25/2009 10:20 PM | Add Comment

New York City is constantly being rebuilt, paved over and reinvented, so it's not easy to find remnants of the colony of New Amsterdam 400 years after Henry Hudson sailed up the river that bears his name

Posted by kluciole at 4/25/2009 10:11 PM | Add Comment

Mexico's president assumes emergency powers to isolate people infected with deadly swine flu strain; cases confirmed in the U.S. -- Article here, plus "swine flu questions and answers"

Posted by kluciole at 4/25/2009 9:49 PM | Add Comment

Roxana Saberi. the American journalist jailed in Iran, goes on hunger strike

Posted by kluciole at 4/25/2009 9:26 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a 'Light Echo' illuminates dust around the supergiant star V838 Monocerotis, which is 20,000 light years away

Posted by kluciole at 4/25/2009 12:11 AM | Add Comment

Poem: Hafiz, "The Days Of Spring"

Posted by kluciole at 4/25/2009 12:02 AM | Add Comment

Bluebells flower gloriously across Britain

Posted by kluciole at 4/24/2009 11:57 PM | Add Comment

Smile and pose! Photo: 8-year-old male sea lion Kanji with a visitor during a photo session at Kamogawa Sea World

Posted by kluciole at 4/24/2009 11:53 PM | Add Comment

Immune system researchers win $500,000 Albany Medical Center Prize

Posted by kluciole at 4/24/2009 11:49 PM | Add Comment

Bahrain pounces on trade in wild animals

Posted by kluciole at 4/24/2009 11:47 PM | Add Comment

Shark dumped on Australian newspaper's doorstep

Posted by kluciole at 4/24/2009 11:44 PM | Add Comment

Photo: blood-stained stretchers; victims of a suicide bombing were brought into the Kazimiyah hospital in Baghdad

Posted by kluciole at 4/24/2009 11:42 PM | Add Comment

Fear, anger and fatalism over swine flu in Mexico

Posted by kluciole at 4/24/2009 11:39 PM | Add Comment

Photo: cats sit in front of a pot in Vietnam's northern Hoa Binh province

Posted by kluciole at 4/24/2009 5:11 AM | Add Comment

Federal agency spurs people to adopt wild horses, offering stipends to help with expenses

Posted by kluciole at 4/24/2009 5:04 AM | Add Comment

Photo: legs sticking through a hole in concrete in the dry-dock area of San Francisco Bay

Posted by kluciole at 4/24/2009 12:46 AM | Add Comment

Poem: Maya Angelou, "Phenomenal Woman"

Posted by kluciole at 4/24/2009 12:38 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a great grey owl, Strix nebulosa, looks on from its enclosure at Skansen zoo in Stockholm

Posted by kluciole at 4/24/2009 12:31 AM | Add Comment

Attorney General Holder "won't selectively release terror memos"

Posted by kluciole at 4/24/2009 12:27 AM | Add Comment

Stephen Hawking to make 'full recovery' after being rushed to hospital with serious infection; in this article, he talks about his diagnosis with ALS in his early 20s

Posted by kluciole at 4/24/2009 12:21 AM | Add Comment

From the ongoing series sent in by Luciole Press contributor/friend and author Kurt Kamm: FIREFIGHTER'S WORDS -89- THE SINGING MEDIC

Posted by kluciole at 4/24/2009 12:11 AM | Add Comment

Photo: performers take part in an exhibition game of Maya Ball during an intercultural event in Guatemala City

Posted by kluciole at 4/24/2009 12:07 AM | Add Comment

Oldest known Sumatran tiger, Sekayu, dies at Zoo Atlanta

Posted by kluciole at 4/23/2009 11:56 PM | Add Comment

Photo: the "question mark" galaxy

Posted by kluciole at 4/22/2009 10:39 PM | Add Comment

Walking Boudica's Way; unraveling the myths of East Anglia's warrior queen

Posted by kluciole at 4/22/2009 10:35 PM | Add Comment

NASA recorded no sunspots on 266 days in 2008 - a level of inactivity not seen since 1913

Posted by kluciole at 4/22/2009 10:28 PM | Add Comment

Experts searching for alternative Maori names for New Zealand's two main islands were startled to find that their commonly used English names, North Island and South Island, were never made legal

Posted by kluciole at 4/22/2009 10:20 PM | Add Comment

Poet Linda Gregg wins third annual Jackson Poetry Prize (plus, bio and her poem "The Resurrection")

Posted by kluciole at 4/22/2009 10:02 PM | Add Comment

Photo: baby kangaroo Tijana gets fed from a bottle by a zoo keeper in Belgrade Zoo

Posted by kluciole at 4/22/2009 10:00 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Please read my article on new store "The Vintage Vulture," which was opened by Andrea Folmer in Orange, CA

Posted by kluciole at 4/21/2009 10:51 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Patrick Farrell's devastating photographs of the aftermath of last year's hurricanes in Haiti won him the Pulitzer prize this week

Posted by kluciole at 4/21/2009 10:43 PM | Add Comment

New poem from Luciole Press contributor/friend Scott Wannberg: "i'm just a..."

Posted by kluciole at 4/21/2009 10:39 PM | Add Comment

Video: Part of the movie, Two Mules for Sister Sara, starring Shirley MacLaine and Clint Eastwood...

Posted by kluciole at 4/21/2009 10:29 PM | Add Comment

Teenage girl dies in agony 'after hospital said she was just a drama queen'

Posted by kluciole at 4/21/2009 9:57 PM | Add Comment

Art: wind cones designed by French conceptual artist Daniel Buren (for the Beaufort 03 Contemporary Art by the Sea exhibition in Belgium)

Posted by kluciole at 4/21/2009 9:52 PM | Add Comment

Photos: Sweet pictures of the first meeting between two polar bears, Bill and Lara, at the Zoom Erlebniswelt zoo in Germany

Posted by kluciole at 4/21/2009 9:48 PM | Add Comment

Scientists discover a nearly Earth-sized planet

Posted by kluciole at 4/21/2009 9:44 PM | Add Comment

Photo: the spectacular jet of a young star in the constellation of Orion, where British astronomers have spotted a star factory

Posted by kluciole at 4/21/2009 12:25 AM | Add Comment

Poem: Wallace Stevens, "The Poem That Took The Place Of A Mountain"

Posted by kluciole at 4/21/2009 12:08 AM | Add Comment

Diplomats walk out of U.N. conference on racism during speech by Iranian President Ahmadinejad, in which he says Israel is "the most cruel and racist regime." Today is also Holocaust Remembrance Day

Posted by kluciole at 4/21/2009 12:03 AM | Add Comment

New research shows five times more people live with paralysis than doctors knew

Posted by kluciole at 4/20/2009 11:50 PM | Add Comment

Cuban prisoners don't want to be traded for spies

Posted by kluciole at 4/20/2009 11:47 PM | Add Comment

Stephen Hawking hospitalized, reported very ill

Posted by kluciole at 4/20/2009 11:44 PM | Add Comment

Photo: an Aqua Penguin robot at an industrial fair in Hanover

Posted by kluciole at 4/20/2009 11:38 PM | Add Comment

Video: Phil Thornton & Hossam Ramzy, "At the Gates of the Citadel"

Posted by kluciole at 4/20/2009 11:35 PM | Add Comment

Susan Boyle's audition set to become the most successful YouTube video ever

Posted by kluciole at 4/20/2009 11:32 PM | Add Comment

Mountaintop mining activist Maria Gunnoe wins global award

Posted by kluciole at 4/20/2009 1:59 AM | Add Comment

Quote from Benjamin Franklin

Posted by kluciole at 4/19/2009 1:42 PM | Add Comment

Jackie Chan's China comments prompt backlash: "(I am) not sure if a free society is a good thing for China...(I am) starting to think we Chinese need to be controlled"

Posted by kluciole at 4/19/2009 1:32 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

United Nations opens first global racism conference in eight years on Monday, with the U.S. and at least six other countries boycotting the event

Posted by kluciole at 4/19/2009 1:25 PM | Add Comment

AP IMPACT: Tons of released drugs taint US water

Posted by kluciole at 4/19/2009 1:22 PM | Add Comment

From the ongoing series sent in by Luciole Press Contributor/friend and author Kurt Kamm: FIREFIGHTER'S WORDS -87- THE FIREFIGHTER AND THE BEAR CUB

Posted by kluciole at 4/19/2009 1:19 PM | Add Comment

Diabetes: Some beat it, but are they cured?

Posted by kluciole at 4/19/2009 1:16 PM | Add Comment

Arthur Hugh Clough's long poem "Amours de Voyage" is about failure, misreading and cowardice in love

Posted by kluciole at 4/19/2009 12:45 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a gold frog at El Nispero Zoo in El Valle, Panama, where more than 32 species of endangered amphibians are being held to protect them against their polluted natural environment

Posted by kluciole at 4/18/2009 10:52 PM | Add Comment

Video: "Scarborough Fayre" - Mediaeval Baebes

Posted by kluciole at 4/18/2009 8:25 AM | Add Comment

Picked on by others because she was born with minor brain damage and learning difficulties ("They called me Susie Simple"), singer Susan Boyle is a profile in courage: "I wanted to make my mum proud, so I took the risk"

Posted by kluciole at 4/18/2009 8:08 AM | Add Comment

Oliver's murderous twist: The bloody killing of the real-life Nancy (Eliza Grimwood) that "obsessed" Charles Dickens

Posted by kluciole at 4/18/2009 8:00 AM | Add Comment

From Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales"..... "Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote"

Posted by kluciole at 4/18/2009 7:48 AM | Add Comment

Bill that requires hospitals to screen high-risk patients for drug-resistant infection MRSA one step closer to becoming law in Washington. It kills more patients in the US than AIDS. Below, extensive info about MRSA

Posted by kluciole at 4/18/2009 7:21 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a view of a mosque in Cairo during sunset April 14

Posted by kluciole at 4/18/2009 7:17 AM | Add Comment

Trio depart Beijing on epic horse ride to London for the 2012 Olympics

Posted by kluciole at 4/18/2009 7:11 AM | Add Comment

Solar energy clashes in the west, as water is needed as a cooling agent for the panels (the rarest resource in the desert, where the sunshine is most abundant. Who gets the water?)

Posted by kluciole at 4/18/2009 7:06 AM | Add Comment
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