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Luciole Press Blog: Monthly Archives for April 2009

At summit, Obama gets friendly with Chavez and signals he is "ready to accept Cuban President Raul Castro's proposal of talks on issues once off-limits for Cuba"

Posted by kluciole at 4/18/2009 6:59 AM | Add Comment

Iran convicts US journalist Roxana Saberi of spying, sentencing her to 8 years in prison

Posted by kluciole at 4/18/2009 6:49 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Andrew Payne fixes his windscreen wipers in during a snowstorm that blanketed Wyoming

Posted by kluciole at 4/17/2009 1:55 PM | Add Comment

Photo: two donated Pygmy-owls, Bruno and Braulio, at the National Zoo of Managua in Nicaragua

Posted by kluciole at 4/17/2009 1:47 PM | Add Comment

Susan Boyle hype revitalizes 10-Year-old cover, "Cry Me A River"... as she says, "I wouldn't want to change myself too much because that would really make things a bit false"

Posted by kluciole at 4/17/2009 1:36 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Photo: a model for drawing classes, held by Nawashi Murakawa. Held at the Resistance Gallery

Posted by kluciole at 4/16/2009 8:49 PM | Add Comment

Poem: "A Glass of Wine" by Andrew Motion

Posted by kluciole at 4/16/2009 8:13 PM | Add Comment

The artist Thomas Moran (American, 1837-1926)

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Democrats: Texas gov should disavow secession talk

Posted by kluciole at 4/16/2009 7:51 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a Dream Ecological Light (DELED) is displayed in a fish tank at an exhibition in Tokyo

Posted by kluciole at 4/16/2009 12:07 AM | Add Comment

Poem: Kalidasa, "Look to this Day"

Posted by kluciole at 4/15/2009 11:59 PM | Add Comment

Video: Phil Thornton & Hossam Ramzy, "The Land of the Pharaohs"

Posted by kluciole at 4/15/2009 11:56 PM | Add Comment

Radar reveals possible sites of Cleopatra's tomb

Posted by kluciole at 4/15/2009 11:53 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a whitethroat warbler. Scientists warn migrating birds returning to the UK could be forced to fly up to 250 miles further as a result of climate change

Posted by kluciole at 4/15/2009 11:45 PM | Add Comment

Photos: Sophia, 27-year-old orangutan, and her unnamed 6-month-old daughter enjoy the day at the Brookfield Zoo

Posted by kluciole at 4/15/2009 11:39 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Thank you to everyone....

Posted by kluciole at 4/15/2009 11:34 PM | Add Comment

What happens if a doctor tells you that you have lung cancer, then washes their hands of you? A note for my mother... and a poem that Scott Wannberg wrote for my mom

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Photo: Tibetan Buddhist monks are seen through prayer flags at Bodhnath Buddhist Stupa, in Kathmandu, Nepal

Posted by kluciole at 4/14/2009 5:23 PM | Add Comment

Poem: "Fern Hill" by Dylan Thomas

Posted by kluciole at 4/14/2009 5:16 PM | Add Comment

From the ongoing series sent in by Luciole Press Contributor/friend and author Kurt Kamm: FIREFIGHTER'S WORDS -85- GOOD PRACTICES

Posted by kluciole at 4/14/2009 5:11 PM | Add Comment

When Goering was a pin-up: The German women's magazines that mixed fashion with Fascism

Posted by kluciole at 4/14/2009 5:05 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a Japanese man holds a giant firework as an offering to the Gods during a ceremony in Matsudaira village

Posted by kluciole at 4/14/2009 5:01 PM | Add Comment

Op-Ed piece in the NYT from Luciole friend Seth Shostak: "Boldly Going Nowhere"

Posted by kluciole at 4/13/2009 10:55 PM | Add Comment

Lincoln was assassinated 144 years ago this week; now, medical expert wants to test remaining DNA matter to determine if Lincoln was already dying from a rare genetic cancer

Posted by kluciole at 4/13/2009 10:36 PM | Add Comment

Egypt discovers dozens of well-preserved mummies in 4,000-year-old necropolis in Fayoum

Posted by kluciole at 4/13/2009 10:30 PM | Add Comment

Love your veggies! Meet Dante, a "vegetarian cat who refuses to eat meat or fish"

Posted by kluciole at 4/13/2009 10:26 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Photo: a hat made out of marshmallow Peeps

Posted by kluciole at 4/13/2009 10:23 PM | Add Comment

Hats off to Quito: Built on treasure stolen from the last Inca chief, Ecuador's capital has given itself a facelift while safeguarding its past for future generations

Posted by kluciole at 4/13/2009 12:53 PM | Add Comment

Any opinions on this article? "Critics shouldn't befriend artists: Unless you're possessed of perfect objectivity, making new friends with actors and playwrights – yes, even on Facebook – just leads to trouble"

Posted by kluciole at 4/13/2009 12:40 PM | Add Comment

Poem: Excerpt from "Lullaby of the Onion" by Miguel Hernández

Posted by kluciole at 4/13/2009 12:35 PM | Add Comment

Quote from Mircea Eliade, and photo of Antelope Canyon in Arizona

Posted by kluciole at 4/12/2009 2:41 PM | Add Comment

Doctors 'failing to spot Asperger's in girls'

Posted by kluciole at 4/12/2009 2:37 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Bo, the Obama family's new Portugese water dog

Posted by kluciole at 4/12/2009 2:31 PM | Add Comment

Sent in by author and Luciole Press Contributor/friend Kurt Kamm: One firefighter starts work on "a story/biography of how the fire service can affect one's life"

Posted by kluciole at 4/12/2009 2:25 PM | Add Comment

Video: Dvořák - Czech Suite, Op. 39 - I. Preludium - Part 1/5

Posted by kluciole at 4/11/2009 10:45 PM | Add Comment

Play: War Horse (New London Theatre)... WWI viewed through the eyes of a Devonshire horse

Posted by kluciole at 4/11/2009 10:39 PM | Add Comment

From Luciole Press Contributor/friend Melanie Dorsey, some of her photos

Posted by kluciole at 4/11/2009 7:05 PM | Add Comment

Poem: St. Francis of Asissi, "The Tree of Love"

Posted by kluciole at 4/11/2009 6:54 PM | Add Comment

Fragile beauty: drilled Easter eggs, by Slovenian artist Franc Grom

Posted by kluciole at 4/11/2009 6:48 PM | Add Comment

No strength in numbers for America's uninsured

Posted by kluciole at 4/11/2009 12:21 PM | Add Comment

One woman's struggle with OCD: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. "History is rich with our number: Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Dickens... sharing my illness with such illustrious company was no comfort. I just wanted to stop winking at signposts"

Posted by kluciole at 4/11/2009 12:05 PM | Add Comment

Does switching the lights on and off use more energy than leaving them on?

Posted by kluciole at 4/11/2009 11:59 AM | Add Comment

Venice to use algae for 50% of its electricity

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

Photo: a shooting star/meteorite

Posted by kluciole at 4/10/2009 10:53 PM | Add Comment

NASA to announce module name on 'Colbert Report'

Posted by kluciole at 4/10/2009 10:49 PM | Add Comment

Rumi: excerpt from "If A Tree Could Wander"

Posted by kluciole at 4/10/2009 10:42 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a hummingbird in flight

Posted by kluciole at 4/10/2009 10:57 AM | Add Comment

Stick It, Flanders! Simpsons’ Stamps Unveiled

Posted by kluciole at 4/10/2009 10:50 AM | Add Comment

Poem: William Blake, "Earth's Answer"

Posted by kluciole at 4/10/2009 10:45 AM | Add Comment

Painting: William Blake's "Christ Appearing to the Apostles after the Resurrection"

Posted by kluciole at 4/10/2009 10:37 AM | Add Comment

Pirates recapture US hostage, Capt. Richard Phillips, after his escape attempt

Posted by kluciole at 4/10/2009 10:31 AM | Add Comment

Edge of Space Found: scientists pinpoint the boundary between Earth's atmosphere and outer space

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

Poem: "Between Going And Coming" by Octavio Paz

Posted by kluciole at 4/9/2009 9:31 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Photo: the White House is seen at dusk as illuminated by lights from the North Lawn

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

Phot: a gaucho falls from his horse during a rodeo in Montevideo

Posted by kluciole at 4/9/2009 1:08 PM | Add Comment

Video: "Love Theme" from "The Dark Crystal" (with scenes from the film)

Posted by kluciole at 4/8/2009 10:39 PM | Add Comment

Another poem from Luciole Press Contributor/friend Scott Wannberg: "storyteller purgatory"

Posted by kluciole at 4/8/2009 10:28 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a Gyrfalcon, confiscated by Russian authorities during an attempted smuggling operation

Posted by kluciole at 4/8/2009 5:50 PM | Add Comment

Poem: "Sleeping In The Forest" by Mary Oliver

Posted by kluciole at 4/8/2009 5:39 PM | Add Comment

Free-access World Digital Library set to launch (in 7 languages): collections of rare books, maps, films, manuscripts and recordings online

Posted by kluciole at 4/8/2009 5:26 PM | Add Comment

Powerful sonar causes deafness in dolphins: study

Posted by kluciole at 4/8/2009 5:21 PM | Add Comment

Iran charges American journalist Roxana Saberi with espionage

Posted by kluciole at 4/8/2009 5:16 PM | Add Comment

British butterflies are "on the brink of extinction after wet summer"

Posted by kluciole at 4/8/2009 4:58 PM | Add Comment

More scientific research showing "oral sex does cause some throat cancers"

Posted by kluciole at 4/8/2009 4:50 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a two-month-old sea lion hides behind her protective mother Kira, during her media debut at Taronga Zoo in Sydney

Posted by kluciole at 4/7/2009 3:09 PM | Add Comment

Looking up pictures of the Sacramento River, I found this beautiful shot of "Henry's Fork, Idaho"

Posted by kluciole at 4/7/2009 3:05 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

California river system is nation's most endangered -- (Sacramento and San Joaquin)

Posted by kluciole at 4/7/2009 2:52 PM | Add Comment

Australian dog "Sophie Tucker" fell overboard and was presumed drowned, but found alive 4 months later

Posted by kluciole at 4/7/2009 2:46 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Photo: the maximum sea ice extent for 2008-09 is shown in this NASA image; this winter had the fifth lowest maximum ice extent on record

Posted by kluciole at 4/7/2009 2:34 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a new picture of polar bear Knut, at the Berlin Zoo

Posted by kluciole at 4/7/2009 10:11 AM | Add Comment

The Wilkins ice shelf has snapped for the first time (Antarctica)

Posted by kluciole at 4/7/2009 10:08 AM | Add Comment

From the ongoing series sent in by Luciole Press Contributor/friend and author Kurt Kamm: FIREFIGHTER’S WORDS -82- HUSBAND AND WIFE

Posted by kluciole at 4/7/2009 10:08 AM | Add Comment

Cosmic Hand Reaches for the Light: "tiny and dying but still-powerful stars called pulsars spin like crazy and light up their surroundings"... one creates an image rather like a hand

Posted by kluciole at 4/6/2009 11:54 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Christian nuns during the Palm Sunday procession from the Mount of Olives to Jerusalem's Old City

Posted by kluciole at 4/6/2009 11:40 AM | Add Comment

Quotes from Seneca (plus a bio and artwork depicting Seneca)

Posted by kluciole at 4/6/2009 11:22 AM | Add Comment

Quake in central Italian town of L'Aquila. Current estimations say 91 dead, 1,500 injured; monuments as far away as Rome experience damage

Posted by kluciole at 4/6/2009 11:14 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a rare blonde hedgehog, released back into the wild after being rescued last year...

Posted by kluciole at 4/6/2009 12:54 AM | Add Comment

WWI Poem by Marian Allen: "The Wind on the Downs"

Posted by kluciole at 4/6/2009 12:48 AM | Add Comment

After 18-year ban, media see return of US war dead

Posted by kluciole at 4/6/2009 12:38 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Muslim brides display hands painted with henna during a mass wedding ceremony in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad

Posted by kluciole at 4/6/2009 12:08 AM | Add Comment

Video: Sinéad Lohan, "To Ramona"

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British troops fear for fate of mascot Sandbag the dog, who could be killed when they leave Iraq. He has been protecting them from other stray dogs and follows them on patrols

Posted by kluciole at 4/5/2009 11:57 PM | Add Comment

Top Pakistan judge to probe woman's flogging; Samar Minallah, who works for a Pakistani human rights organisation, said "The entire village knows she is innocent"

Posted by kluciole at 4/5/2009 11:19 AM | Add Comment

The 61st Annual Conference on World Affairs will be this coming week, at the University of Colorado at Boulder

Posted by kluciole at 4/5/2009 7:59 AM | Add Comment

Book: "EVERY DAY IS A GOOD DAY -- Reflections by Contemporary Indigenous Women"

Posted by kluciole at 4/5/2009 7:33 AM | Add Comment

Profile: Wilma Mankiller, first woman Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation

Posted by kluciole at 4/5/2009 7:10 AM | Add Comment

Photo: the cairn-circle of Moel ty Uchaf in Gwynedd, North Wales

Posted by kluciole at 4/4/2009 7:51 PM | Add Comment

In search of Lithium: The battle for the 3rd element -- "A wonder metal... more than half of the world's lithium is beneath this Bolivian desert (Salar De Uyuni) ... and getting it is so dirty it inspired the latest Bond plot"

Posted by kluciole at 4/4/2009 7:37 PM | Add Comment

UPDATE on previously featured topic: Afghan president orders review of marital law

Posted by kluciole at 4/4/2009 7:32 PM | Add Comment

As West warms, some fear for tiny mountain dwellers: the American pika is a "short-legged, hamster-sized fur ball that huddles in high mountain slopes" of California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington and Wyoming

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

Photo: A pair of deer peers through a drive-in liquor store window in Medicine Bow, Wyoming

Posted by kluciole at 4/4/2009 5:07 AM | Add Comment

Photo: burning candles at Pilsudski Square in Warsaw mark fourth anniversary of Pope John Paul II's death

Posted by kluciole at 4/4/2009 5:05 AM | Add Comment

Naomi Ayala's book is "Wild Animals on the Moon."

Posted by kluciole at 4/4/2009 4:54 AM | Add Comment

From the ongoing series sent in by Luciole Press Contributor/friend and author Kurt Kamm: FIREFIGHTER'S WORDS -81- A RIDE ALONG

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

Photos: Sumatran tiger cubs and their mother at Paignton Zoo

Posted by kluciole at 4/3/2009 4:19 PM | Add Comment

Inside Obama's bank CEOs meeting: “My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks”

Posted by kluciole at 4/3/2009 4:05 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a Filipino diver with a school of fish at the Apo Reef, Occidental Mindoro, south of Manila

Posted by kluciole at 4/3/2009 4:24 AM | Add Comment

Introducing Luciole Press Contributor/friend Ami Kaye; her poem, "Of Gardens and Painted Things"

Posted by kluciole at 4/3/2009 4:20 AM | Add Comment

Another poem from Luciole Press Contributor/friend Scott Wannberg: "something big and ugly"

Posted by kluciole at 4/3/2009 4:16 AM | Add Comment

Photo: composite from NASA of the Cartwheel galaxy

Posted by kluciole at 4/3/2009 4:13 AM | Add Comment
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