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Luciole Press Blog: Monthly Archives for May 2009

Photo: an elderly man strolls on a beach with the backdrop of monsoon clouds in the southern Indian city of Kochi

Posted by kluciole at 5/31/2009 1:50 AM | Add Comment

Article: "The great carbon credit con" (how one factory is poisoning villagers around it, but able to pretend it is "green")

Posted by kluciole at 5/31/2009 1:41 AM | Add Comment

Photos: a Siberian wolf cub at Servion Zoo near Lausanne, Switzerland

Posted by kluciole at 5/31/2009 1:31 AM | Add Comment

Breast cancer survivors have higher risk of cancer returning if they are on certain antidepressants -- "using these interfering drugs (like Prozac, Paxil or Zoloft) can wipe out the benefit tamoxifen provides"

Posted by kluciole at 5/31/2009 1:25 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Rare twin foals Leo and Corby beat 10,000 to 1 odds to be born

Posted by kluciole at 5/29/2009 7:59 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

From previously featured poet Gabriela Mistral: poem, "Pine Forest"

Posted by kluciole at 5/29/2009 7:44 PM | Add Comment

Rescued black labrador retriever goes on to save another, older and arthritic dog

Posted by kluciole at 5/29/2009 7:35 PM | Add Comment

TIME article: How to Make Terrorists Talk -- "All it took to soften up Abu Jandal, closer to bin Laden than any other terrorist ever captured, was a handful of sugar-free cookies"

Posted by kluciole at 5/29/2009 7:25 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Mother mistle thrush (bird) uses her body to dam up water to prevent her chicks from being washed away

Posted by kluciole at 5/28/2009 11:28 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Poem: Delmira Agustini, "I Live, I Die, I Burn, I Drown"

Posted by kluciole at 5/28/2009 11:19 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Volcano in China may have caused mass extinction 260 million years ago

Posted by kluciole at 5/28/2009 10:51 PM | Add Comment

Obama says health care changes must come this year

Posted by kluciole at 5/28/2009 10:48 PM | Add Comment

Video: Mor Karbasi, "El Pastor"

Posted by kluciole at 5/28/2009 10:06 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a Russian girl stands on a pedestrian bridge in downtown Moscow as a full moon is seen in the background

Posted by kluciole at 5/28/2009 10:00 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

From the ongoing series sent in by author and Luciole Press contributor Kurt Kamm: FIREFIGHTER’S WORDS -105- ON THE ROAD

Posted by kluciole at 5/28/2009 9:57 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a gentoo penguin eats a fish snack in its enclosure at the Melbourne Aquarium

Posted by kluciole at 5/27/2009 6:59 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Animal experts in China baffled by cat who grows "wing-shaped appendages on either side of his spine"

Posted by kluciole at 5/27/2009 6:54 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Economic Development Must Not Be At Expense Of Indigenous Rights – UN Forum Chief

Posted by kluciole at 5/27/2009 6:35 PM | Add Comment

$2M for kin of Esmin Green, woman who died on NY hospital floor "struggling to get up while staffers ignored her"

Posted by kluciole at 5/27/2009 6:32 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Pink dolphin a standout in La. shipping channel

Posted by kluciole at 5/27/2009 6:30 PM | Add Comment

Happy news to report for my mother.... many thanks to everyone!

Posted by kluciole at 5/27/2009 3:03 AM | View Comments (23) | Add Comment

Poem: Anne Sexton, "The Starry Night"

Posted by kluciole at 5/27/2009 1:42 AM | Add Comment

Video: "The Gates of Istanbul" by Loreena McKennitt

Posted by kluciole at 5/27/2009 1:25 AM | Add Comment

Strong Spring sales in Hong Kong bode well for Asian art

Posted by kluciole at 5/27/2009 1:16 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a pedestrian walks past "Rainbow," a light work by Mark Hammer and Andre Kecskes (Sydney, Australia)

Posted by kluciole at 5/27/2009 1:13 AM | Add Comment

Sotomayor's Supreme Court bid in Senate's hands

Posted by kluciole at 5/27/2009 1:08 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Photo: Baby and Bessi; a young tiger cub cuddles with a dachsund

Posted by kluciole at 5/27/2009 12:59 AM | Add Comment

Schwarzenegger details $5.5B more cuts to budget

Posted by kluciole at 5/27/2009 12:57 AM | Add Comment

From the ongoing series sent in by author and Luciole Press contributor Kurt Kamm: FIREFIGHTER’S WORDS -104- ON A WET HIGHWAY

Posted by kluciole at 5/27/2009 12:55 AM | Add Comment

Photos: a swan family's journey up a small waterfall

Posted by kluciole at 5/26/2009 7:29 AM | Add Comment

Photo: women stand at the entrance of their flooded house after heavy rain in the southern Indian city of Kochi

Posted by kluciole at 5/25/2009 11:21 PM | Add Comment

TIME article: How Afghanistan's Little Tragedies Add Up

Posted by kluciole at 5/25/2009 11:20 PM | Add Comment

Hard-line Israeli party proposes loyalty bill which would force Arabic community to swear allegiance to Jewish state

Posted by kluciole at 5/25/2009 11:15 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Photo: students, wearing Han dynasty style costumes, attend a coming-of-age ceremony in Hefei

Posted by kluciole at 5/25/2009 11:00 PM | Add Comment

New Biography of Flannery O'Connor

Posted by kluciole at 5/25/2009 5:38 PM | Add Comment

Another poem by Margaret Atwood: "Night Poem"

Posted by kluciole at 5/25/2009 5:22 PM | Add Comment

Crisis spurs spike in 'suburban survivalists'

Posted by kluciole at 5/25/2009 5:10 PM | Add Comment

TIME article: New Report Reveals the Depth of German Poverty

Posted by kluciole at 5/25/2009 5:07 PM | Add Comment

Photographer James Ravilious

Posted by kluciole at 5/25/2009 3:58 AM | Add Comment

GOP keeps filibuster card ready for Obama's Supreme Court pick

Posted by kluciole at 5/25/2009 3:53 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Roman mythology: the tale of Pyramus and Thisbe (an ancient version of Romeo and Juliet). Painting: "Thisbe" by John William Waterhouse

Posted by kluciole at 5/24/2009 10:51 PM | Add Comment

People have been listening to skylarks singing in Britain for 10,000 years. But now they, and many other much-loved species, are vanishing fast

Posted by kluciole at 5/24/2009 10:41 PM | Add Comment

Obama salutes veterans this Memorial Day weekend

Posted by kluciole at 5/24/2009 10:37 PM | Add Comment

Facebook block ahead of Iran vote hampers youth

Posted by kluciole at 5/24/2009 10:32 PM | Add Comment

Komodo dragon attacks terrorize Indonesia villages

Posted by kluciole at 5/24/2009 6:56 PM | Add Comment

Afghanistan's reconstruction outpaces oversight

Posted by kluciole at 5/24/2009 6:53 PM | Add Comment

From the ongoing series sent in by author and Luciole Press contributor Kurt Kamm: FIREFIGHTER'S WORDS -103- IN ABU DHABI

Posted by kluciole at 5/24/2009 6:50 PM | Add Comment

Powell Takes on Cheney, Limbaugh in Battle for Republican Party

Posted by kluciole at 5/24/2009 6:48 PM | Add Comment

Poem: Margaret Atwood, "Siren Song" (plus the painting "The Siren" by John William Waterhouse )

Posted by kluciole at 5/24/2009 5:38 AM | Add Comment

RNC's below-the-belt shot at Pelosi paints her as Bond villainess "Pussy Galore," with video "(implying) that Pelosi has used her feminine wiles to dodge the truth"

Posted by kluciole at 5/24/2009 5:30 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Pea-Sized Seahorse Makes 'Top 10 Species' List

Posted by kluciole at 5/24/2009 5:28 AM | Add Comment

Ruth Padel (Oxford's first female professor of poetry) defends herself over smear campaign claims

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

Historian Antony Beevor says WWII D-Day bombing of Caen, France was "close to a war crime"

Posted by kluciole at 5/24/2009 5:21 AM | Add Comment

Photos: displaced Pakistanis at the Jalozai refugee camp near Peshawar

Posted by kluciole at 5/24/2009 4:39 AM | Add Comment

Photo: two Lowland Tapirs at the Budapest Zoo

Posted by kluciole at 5/24/2009 4:36 AM | Add Comment

No such thing as "deleted" on the Internet

Posted by kluciole at 5/24/2009 4:27 AM | Add Comment

Alaska cracks down on man who feeds wild bears (one friend says, "Even if Vandergaw ends up being killed by the bears he loves, that's the Alaska way")

Posted by kluciole at 5/23/2009 4:27 PM | Add Comment

Slayings shattered dreams of rural Iraqi family (14-year-old Abeer was raped and killed along with her parents and sister by convicted former Marine Pfc. Steven Dale Green)

Posted by kluciole at 5/23/2009 4:16 PM | Add Comment

Legend of English vampire laid to rest in Peruvian village: the history of Sarah Roberts, and how some have come to see her as a saint (or boost for tourism)

Posted by kluciole at 5/23/2009 5:21 AM | Add Comment

Brazil's Sao Paulo Fashion Week to push for racial inclusion

Posted by kluciole at 5/23/2009 5:11 AM | Add Comment

Bush-era officials Ridge and Gates reject Cheney security stance

Posted by kluciole at 5/23/2009 5:08 AM | Add Comment

Photo: newborn White Bengal Tigers Kamika, Kamala, and Khalid, at Olemse zoo in Olmen, Belgium

Posted by kluciole at 5/22/2009 6:48 PM | Add Comment

Rosalía de Castro's "Adios Rios, Adios Fontes" set to music by Amancio Prada, who recorded an album of her poetry called "Remembrances of Rosalía de Castro" in 1975

Posted by kluciole at 5/22/2009 6:28 PM | Add Comment

California faces its day of fiscal reckoning

Posted by kluciole at 5/22/2009 6:23 PM | Add Comment

Photo: "Shelter," by British artist Stephanie Imbeauis, is a sculpture formed of hundreds of discarded umbrellas

Posted by kluciole at 5/22/2009 6:15 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Scary, big ants... Colombian farmer Carlos Bayona tosses and cooks a big pot of giant Culonas ants, which are considered a delicacy

Posted by kluciole at 5/22/2009 6:09 PM | Add Comment

From the ongoing series sent in by Luciole Press contributor/friend and author Kurt Kamm: FIREFIGHTER'S WORDS -102- USING A SAWZALL

Posted by kluciole at 5/22/2009 6:05 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a wheelchair-bound acrobat balances two colleagues in the world's only disabled acrobatic troupe in Shenyang, China

Posted by kluciole at 5/22/2009 5:52 PM | Add Comment

Photo from Hubble: Florida's peninsula, plus the 'Tongue of the Ocean'

Posted by kluciole at 5/21/2009 9:44 PM | Add Comment

Photos: a "human exhibit" at the London Zoo. "Room with a Zoo" will teach visitors about the effect humans are having on the world around them

Posted by kluciole at 5/21/2009 9:41 PM | Add Comment

Tasmanian devils listed as endangered in Australia

Posted by kluciole at 5/21/2009 9:37 PM | Add Comment

Photos: Isobel Varley, born in 1937, is the "most senior senior tattooed woman in the world"

Posted by kluciole at 5/21/2009 9:32 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a gorgeted puffleg, a newly discovered type of hummingbird found in Colombia

Posted by kluciole at 5/21/2009 1:40 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Glad to report my mother is home from the hospital; thanks to everyone for all their kind words and good wishes

Posted by kluciole at 5/21/2009 1:07 AM | View Comments (15) | Add Comment

Quote from Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "Ulysses"

Posted by kluciole at 5/21/2009 12:51 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Photo: NASA image showing a slightly distorted gibbous moon intersecting Earth's atmosphere

Posted by kluciole at 5/21/2009 12:48 AM | Add Comment

From The Guardian -- "Poem of the week: The One Hundred Years of Solitude of Chinese Poetry by Zeng Di"

Posted by kluciole at 5/21/2009 12:42 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Shetland Islands stirred by giant Viking wind farm plan

Posted by kluciole at 5/21/2009 12:35 AM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

Photo: a mockingbird in a tree

Posted by kluciole at 5/21/2009 12:33 AM | Add Comment

Scientists to probe Mexican town's flu mystery

Posted by kluciole at 5/21/2009 12:20 AM | Add Comment

Political Bites: It's Rush against the world

Posted by kluciole at 5/20/2009 10:29 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Photo: art installation "Rack with Madonnas" by German artist Fritsch in the new Brandhorst modern art museum in Munich

Posted by kluciole at 5/20/2009 10:21 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Photo: triplet Jaguar cubs at the Tierpark Zoo, in Berlin (named Atiero, Jumanes and Valdivia)

Posted by kluciole at 5/19/2009 11:22 AM | Add Comment

Scientists find 'missing link': a 47million-year-old lemur that could revolutionize how we see human evolution ("rather than being a direct ancestorhe was more like an aunt than grandmother")

Posted by kluciole at 5/19/2009 11:10 AM | Add Comment

Photography from Luciole Press contributor in South Africa, Sabine Hoppe-Speer

Posted by kluciole at 5/18/2009 11:50 PM | Add Comment

Thinking of you Scott Wannberg, and wishing you health. Here is Scott's poem, "shine your everloving light"

Posted by kluciole at 5/18/2009 11:45 PM | Add Comment

Slave memorial dedicated at Andrew Jackson's home, The Hermitage

Posted by kluciole at 5/18/2009 10:53 PM | Add Comment

Supreme Court rejects bid to outlaw medical marijuana

Posted by kluciole at 5/18/2009 10:43 PM | Add Comment

Study: Mockingbirds can tell people apart, react

Posted by kluciole at 5/18/2009 10:39 PM | Add Comment

Photo: there are nearly two million Royal Penguins but they are deemed at risk because they only have one nesting site - Macquarie island.

Posted by kluciole at 5/18/2009 10:31 PM | Add Comment

From the ongoing series sent in by Luciole Press contributor/friend, author Kurt Kamm: FIREFIGHTER'S WORDS - 101 - MY DREAM

Posted by kluciole at 5/18/2009 10:30 PM | Add Comment

A Prayer Addressed To The Mountain Spirits (Apache). For my mom.

Posted by kluciole at 5/17/2009 2:06 PM | View Comments (15) | Add Comment

Photo: the Fiji Crested Iguana is gorgeous; there are less than 8,000 of them on their island sanctuary of Yadua Taba

Posted by kluciole at 5/16/2009 4:48 PM | Add Comment

Galerie Patrice Vuillard has put up a link to Luciole Press: featured artist Johan Wahlstrom

Posted by kluciole at 5/16/2009 4:28 PM | Add Comment

Go Fillies!! Beautiful Rachel Alexandra wins Preakness by 1 length

Posted by kluciole at 5/16/2009 4:17 PM | Add Comment

Flourishing eagles feast on Maine's rare seabirds

Posted by kluciole at 5/16/2009 4:10 PM | Add Comment

Ambush at Afghan school in 'Valley of Death'

Posted by kluciole at 5/16/2009 4:03 PM | Add Comment

Bizarre bird gets private beach in Indonesia; the Maleo can fly immediately after hatching

Posted by kluciole at 5/16/2009 12:15 AM | Add Comment

Exhibit explores world of weird mammals

Posted by kluciole at 5/16/2009 12:10 AM | Add Comment

The Maine Woods: Ktaadn, by Henry David Thoreau, which mentions my 4th great grandmother, Marm Howard

Posted by kluciole at 5/15/2009 11:15 PM | Add Comment
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