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Luciole Press Blog: Monthly Archives for June 2009

Two articles: "Ahmadinejad defends vote as 'real and free'" and "Wave of arrests after clashes rock Tehran in protest over ‘rigged’ election (reform candidate Mousavi even lost in his home town)"

Posted by kluciole at 6/14/2009 6:00 AM | Add Comment

Peregrine falcon family drama is internet hit as millions watch them live on TV

Posted by kluciole at 6/14/2009 5:46 AM | Add Comment

From the ongoing series sent in by author/Luciole Press contributor Kurt Kamm: FIREFIGHTER'S WORDS -110- THE SKY IS FALLING. NO IT'S THE ROOF!

Posted by kluciole at 6/14/2009 5:43 AM | Add Comment

Photo: hot air balloons lift off from the main runway at Bristol International Airport in the early morning sun

Posted by kluciole at 6/13/2009 12:25 AM | Add Comment

Australian Aboriginal elder "cooked to death" in prison van with faulty air conditioning

Posted by kluciole at 6/13/2009 12:17 AM | Add Comment

Peru's indigenous groups protest against unpopular laws on farming, oil drilling and water rights in the Amazon rainforest

Posted by kluciole at 6/13/2009 12:06 AM | Add Comment

Photo: astronaut David Scott emerges from Apollo's command module as it docks with the lunar module, March 6, 1969

Posted by kluciole at 6/11/2009 8:39 PM | Add Comment

Radioactive wasp nests bug out cleanup workers at the nation's most contaminated nuclear site

Posted by kluciole at 6/11/2009 8:25 PM | Add Comment

Dozens of decapitated bodies found in mass Roman war grave unearthed on the route of Olympic Highway

Posted by kluciole at 6/11/2009 8:12 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Earth-Venus smash-up possible in 3.5 billion years

Posted by kluciole at 6/10/2009 11:17 PM | Add Comment

Great Smoky Mountains National Park marks 75th anniversary

Posted by kluciole at 6/10/2009 11:15 PM | Add Comment

My poem: "ME 1127"

Posted by kluciole at 6/10/2009 12:41 PM | View Comments (17) | Add Comment

Photo: a new born black panther cub seen in the grass at the Tierpark zoo (Update: found more photos and an article!)

Posted by kluciole at 6/9/2009 8:01 PM | Add Comment

Scientists: "Global warming has already changed oceans"

Posted by kluciole at 6/9/2009 7:57 PM | Add Comment

New poem from Luciole Press friend/contributor Scott Wannberg: "fire down below"

Posted by kluciole at 6/9/2009 7:45 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Photo: Scrooble the dog overcame cancer, and is seen here in a CT scanner at a new treatment center in Scotland

Posted by kluciole at 6/9/2009 2:00 PM | Add Comment

Please read the new issue of Pirene's Fountain (which kindly includes some of my poetry)

Posted by kluciole at 6/9/2009 1:56 PM | View Comments (9) | Add Comment

Photo: an ornate horned frog is camouflaged in its environment in the "Frogs: A Chorus of Many Colors" exhibit

Posted by kluciole at 6/9/2009 11:01 AM | Add Comment

francEyE, a gifted poet (she has a page at Luciole Press), has passed away... March 19, 1922 - June 2, 2009

Posted by kluciole at 6/9/2009 10:46 AM | Add Comment

Hawaii archives hold mystery Lincoln document

Posted by kluciole at 6/9/2009 10:34 AM | Add Comment

New music from previously featured Lhasa de Sela: Video, "Rising"

Posted by kluciole at 6/8/2009 10:26 AM | Add Comment

EPA sued over claims of air pollution in West

Posted by kluciole at 6/8/2009 10:10 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Saudi Arabia's first female minister, Norah al-Faiz, needs permission to appear on TV

Posted by kluciole at 6/8/2009 9:52 AM | Add Comment

Stephen Colbert shaves head for US troops in Iraq

Posted by kluciole at 6/8/2009 9:45 AM | Add Comment

Video: the trailer for the movie, "The Edge," with Anthony Hopkins (written by David Mamet)

Posted by kluciole at 6/8/2009 9:12 AM | Add Comment

Photo: extremely scary view of raging fire, as man near Santiago shouts for help (five houses below him are being rapidly consumed with flames)

Posted by kluciole at 6/8/2009 9:11 AM | Add Comment

Another important entry in the ongoing series sent in by author/Luciole Press contributor Kurt Kamm: FIREFIGHTER'S WORDS -108- POST TRAUMATIC STRESS

Posted by kluciole at 6/8/2009 9:10 AM | Add Comment

N. Korea sentences US reporters Laura Ling and Euna Lee to 12 years hard labor; the two were reporting about the trafficking of North Korean women at the time of their arrest

Posted by kluciole at 6/8/2009 9:00 AM | Add Comment

Photo: lightning strikes over the sky above the Guangzhou International Finance Center during a spectacular rainstorm

Posted by kluciole at 6/6/2009 10:04 AM | Add Comment

Militant Hamas gets into matchmaking business: "Hamas is known here for its cradle-to-grave welfare programs for the poor, (creating) political support in Gaza where poverty is deepening" and women without husbands face dire futures

Posted by kluciole at 6/6/2009 9:45 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Photo: over 4,000 students gathered at Dockweiler State Beach (California) to create a message about protecting the ocean from litter and urban runoff

Posted by kluciole at 6/6/2009 9:42 AM | Add Comment

Across Middle East, a sense of possibility after Obama speech: "Today might be the 12th of September, 2001, because I think he closed that chapter of 9/11 and called for a new chapter in U.S. relations with the Muslim world"

Posted by kluciole at 6/6/2009 9:33 AM | Add Comment

Photo: art installation by Bulgarian artist Pavel Koichev - "Pasture on the water" - is displayed on the surface of a lake near the village of Osikovica

Posted by kluciole at 6/6/2009 9:26 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a police car sprays water to disperse demonstrators (creating a rainbow) during a teacher's protest in Santiago

Posted by kluciole at 6/6/2009 9:20 AM | Add Comment

Florida deep-sea explorers (who raised an estimated $500 million treasure from 200-year-old wreck of Spanish galleon Senora de las Mercedes y las Animas) may be ordered to "give loot" back to Spain

Posted by kluciole at 6/5/2009 2:25 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

"America is not - and never will be - at war with Islam" -- Obama

Posted by kluciole at 6/5/2009 2:15 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Photo: a hummingbird hovers over a patch of flowers as it collects nectar in Mexico City

Posted by kluciole at 6/4/2009 6:23 AM | Add Comment

Excellent new poem from Scott Wannberg: "the best man steps out for the evening"

Posted by kluciole at 6/4/2009 6:10 AM | Add Comment

Study shows Medical bills underlie 60 percent of U.S. bankruptcies ("Nationally, a quarter of firms cancel coverage immediately when an employee suffers a disabling illness; another quarter do so within a year")

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

Text of Obama's speech in Cairo

Posted by kluciole at 6/4/2009 6:07 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a huge yellow dragon contains what locals claim is the longest escalator in the world (in Longqing Valley, China)

Posted by kluciole at 6/2/2009 7:30 PM | Add Comment

Poem: Bliss Carman, "Earth Voices"

Posted by kluciole at 6/2/2009 7:19 PM | Add Comment

Lawsuits over wolf hunting filed in Montana and Wyoming

Posted by kluciole at 6/2/2009 7:15 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a man rides his bicycle on a highway in the outskirts of Havana, with a dog sitting behind him

Posted by kluciole at 6/2/2009 7:12 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a cat relaxes in the morning sun on a terrace near Kiel, northern Germany

Posted by kluciole at 6/2/2009 4:23 AM | Add Comment

Poem: Scott Wannberg, "the heart is a mad country"

Posted by kluciole at 6/2/2009 4:13 AM | Add Comment

Luciole Press publication will be on hiatus for June, blog will be updated still; please wish me luck :)

Posted by kluciole at 6/1/2009 12:05 PM | View Comments (24) | Add Comment

Meteorologists campaign to classify unique 'Asperatus' clouds seen across the world

Posted by kluciole at 6/1/2009 2:28 AM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Video: "La Cumparsita" -- dancers Gustavo Naveira and Giselle Anne (and TIME article from 1948 about this tango)

Posted by kluciole at 6/1/2009 1:56 AM | Add Comment

Tensions feared as a THIRD of world's remaining gas reserves found beneath the Arctic

Posted by kluciole at 6/1/2009 1:53 AM | Add Comment

Important entry from the ongoing series sent in by author and Luciole Press Contributor Kurt Kamm: FIREFIGHTER’S WORDS -106- NOT HOW MANY T-SHIRTS

Posted by kluciole at 6/1/2009 1:50 AM | Add Comment

As I have long argued with my doctors: Immune therapies finally working against cancer "using the body's natural defender, the immune system"

Posted by kluciole at 6/1/2009 1:44 AM | Add Comment

Blogger jailed in Anna Nicole Smith defamation suit: Lyndal Harrington says she is shocked she is being sued for comments posted on someone else's blog to pass the time

Posted by kluciole at 6/1/2009 1:39 AM | Add Comment

Manohara Odelia Pinot, 17 (a US-Indonesian model), "has escaped her abusive marriage to a Malaysian prince" (whose royal family no longer has immunity from criminal and civil charges)

Posted by kluciole at 6/1/2009 1:23 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment
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