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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

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

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

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"

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

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

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

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"

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

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

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

Obama says health care changes must come this year

Video: Mor Karbasi, "El Pastor"

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pink dolphin a standout in La. shipping channel

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

Poem: Anne Sexton, "The Starry Night"

Video: "The Gates of Istanbul" by Loreena McKennitt

Strong Spring sales in Hong Kong bode well for Asian art

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

Sotomayor's Supreme Court bid in Senate's hands

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

Schwarzenegger details $5.5B more cuts to budget

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

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

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

TIME article: How Afghanistan's Little Tragedies Add Up

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

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

New Biography of Flannery O'Connor

Another poem by Margaret Atwood: "Night Poem"

Crisis spurs spike in 'suburban survivalists'

TIME article: New Report Reveals the Depth of German Poverty

Photographer James Ravilious

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

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

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

Obama salutes veterans this Memorial Day weekend

Facebook block ahead of Iran vote hampers youth

Komodo dragon attacks terrorize Indonesia villages

Afghanistan's reconstruction outpaces oversight

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

Powell Takes on Cheney, Limbaugh in Battle for Republican Party

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

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"

Pea-Sized Seahorse Makes 'Top 10 Species' List

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

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

Photos: displaced Pakistanis at the Jalozai refugee camp near Peshawar

Photo: two Lowland Tapirs at the Budapest Zoo

No such thing as "deleted" on the Internet

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")

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)

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)

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

Bush-era officials Ridge and Gates reject Cheney security stance

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

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

California faces its day of fiscal reckoning

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tasmanian devils listed as endangered in Australia

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

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

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

Quote from Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "Ulysses"

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

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

Shetland Islands stirred by giant Viking wind farm plan

Photo: a mockingbird in a tree

Scientists to probe Mexican town's flu mystery

Political Bites: It's Rush against the world

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

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

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")

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

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

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

Supreme Court rejects bid to outlaw medical marijuana

Study: Mockingbirds can tell people apart, react

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

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

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

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

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

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

Flourishing eagles feast on Maine's rare seabirds

Ambush at Afghan school in 'Valley of Death'

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

Exhibit explores world of weird mammals

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