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Luciole Press Blog: Monthly Archives for August 2009

Photo: a girl wearing face paint smiles at the Bhaktivedanta Manor Krishna Temple, dressed to celebrate 'Janmashtami' - the birth of Lord Krishna

As hybrid cars gobble rare metals, shortage looms

Wildfire makes menacing advance near Los Angeles

Looks like an astronaut.... photo: an ice sculpture carved in the image of a child, made from water taken from the Yellow and Yangtze rivers, in China

Photo: a horse runs from flames, as fire burns around it during the Station Fire in the Big Tujunga area of Los Angeles

Nepal villagers on climate change frontline

Colon Cancer Stopped in Its Tracks in Swiss Study

The story of Violette Szabó, Special Operations agent during WWII

Visiting the Maginot Line: Relic of World War II

TIME article: The Battle in Uganda Over Female Condoms

Photos: this heron swooped down to a koi pond and "grabbed lunch"

Lavish burial site discovered in the ancient seat of Macedonian kings in northern Greece is "heightening a 2,300-year-old mystery of murder and political intrigue"

France faces reality of toxic beaches after a horse and rider were sucked into noxious black sludge on a beach in Brittany (the horse died)

St Kilda: the edge of the world (the most remote island group in Britain has seen visitors like Samuel Johnson)

Art world casts doubt on authenticity of Picasso painting stolen from Kuwait and found in Iraq

Photo: tenor Bjoern Christian Kuhn in the role of Edgar Allan Poe on stage in Halle, Germany

"The Vale of York Viking Hoard" -- Viking silver treasure unearthed after 1,000 years

Photo: a rainbow appears behind grazing horses at the Avalon Therapeutic Equestrian Center in the town of Ixonia

Dutch courts delay 13-year-old sailor Laura Dekker's worldwide trip

Dog owner survives quicksand horror thanks to Matilda, her quick-thinking German pointer

Britain's rarest cat: Eddie the male tortoiseshell kitten

Suicidal planet seems on death spiral into star WASP-18

McCain speaks with angry crowd at Ariz. town hall: "one man pointed at him and asked the senator why he deserves a better health care plan (than the rest of us)"

Photo: lightning and storms in the night sky behind Space shuttle Discovery

Find Anne of Green Gables (and Lucy Maud Montgomery) on Prince Edward Island

China moves to cut use of executed inmates' organs

NYC's 'skinniest' house has fat price tag: $2.7M -- the house is 9 1/2 feet wide and 42 feet long

RIP. TIME article: "The Death of Ted Kennedy: The Brother Who Mattered Most" and second article, "'Heartbroken' Obama leads tributes to 'the greatest U.S senator of our time'"

Photo: Antelope Canyon... the Diné (Navajo) name for Upper Antelope Canyon is Tse' bighanilini, which means 'the place where water runs through rocks'

Poem: "Places and Men" by William Allingham, a colleague of Rossetti, Millais, Tennyson, and more

Kangaroos can be a deadly Aussie road menace

Photo: flames on the mount of Kitheronas west of Athens after wildfires tore across Greece

Obese People Have 'Severe Brain Degeneration'

Photo: a woman walks among sunflowers at an annual festival in Tokyo

Majority of Americans Believe Health Care Reform 'Myths'

Photo: a man feeds a seagull, who is silhouetted against the sunset near Kavala city, and Thassos island, Greece

Young Obama backers AWOL from health care fight: "(they) are young, feeling indestructible and not all that into what they see as an old folks issue" ... (let's hope that is not how everyone feels)

The Appendix: Useful and in Fact Promising

Exhausted Greek crews battle on against fires

Photo: a Reddish Egret, whose apparently erratic behaviour is designed to confuse fish

Poem: "Machine" by Michael Donaghy

Photo: people watch as water breaches a rock wall at Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia

"His Name Might Be Tommy" -- a message from NativeProgress.org. Please donate what you can for the children at the General Beadle Community School!

Just received David Smith's wonderful new book -- White Time -- for which I happily wrote a blurb. Available at Off Beat Pulp

Photo: Modern Monet. A woman takes pictures of red and yellow cosmos in the field at Hamarikyu Park in Tokyo

History: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "Declaration of Rights and Sentiments" at the Seneca Falls Convention

TIME article: Medvedev's War on Russians' Love for Alcohol -- "every man, woman and child consumes the equivalent of 4.8 gallons of pure rubbing alcohol per year"

Photo: a reveler holds a torch while participating in the "Correfoc" (Run with fire) party in Barcelona

Widely accepted argument against government medical plan is that it would quash competition — just what private insurers seem to be doing themselves in many parts of the U.S.

Fires reach Athens suburbs, thousands evacuated

Photo: an actual human brain displayed inside a glass box in Brazil, part of an interactive exhibition entitled "Brain: a world inside your head"

Photo: a flying frog (Rhacophorus suffry) in Assam, India

Poem: Yevgeny Yevtushenko, "Memento"

Spain's Catholic Church has new advice for pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela: "For the sake of the H1N1 virus/swine flu, don't kiss the saint"

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and key members of his cabinet dine on seal ribs and liver in defense of seal hunting

Brice Marden's $3 million painting "Au Centre" destroyed in transit

Photos: Tamarin monkey twins Lara and Lucy at the Denver Zoo. They were orphaned at the age of 3 weeks, when their mother died of cancer

Mambo, a dog who was covered in gas, set on fire and left for dead, will face his torturers in court

Incredible images from the TV show "Big Cat Diary"

Poem: "Otherwise" by Jane Kenyon

Video: Acoustic version of Brandi Carlile's "The Story" at Mississippi Studios, Portland, Oregon

Scientists make "sugar bug" drug for bowel disease

Walk in circles? It's natural, says German study

Art: Monsters climbing through the floors, magic carpet rides through fantastical cities, and more from street painter Kurt Wenner

Kenyan police: Arrest in death of Scottish geologist Campbell Bridges, who was attacked "by men armed with arrows, spears and machetes, in an apparent dispute over mining rights"

Photo: satellite image shows Hurricane Bill, the first Atlantic storm of the season

Afghan media refuse to censor election reporting

Photo: a foal walks with his mother in the western Turkish town of Karacabey

Rep. Frank lashes out at protester holding poster depicting President Barack Obama with Hitler-style mustache: "On what planet do you spend most of your time?"

Any readers in England that can adopt some very lovely kitties? "Crisis at rescue centre as Britons turn their backs on cats"

Egypt warns pharaohs' tombs could disappear

Analysis: Liberals tired of endless health care compromise amidst "stunning and baseless attacks, such as '(their) plan determines when you're going to pull the plug on Grandma.'"

Photo: a donkey carrying election supplies to a rural polling station crosses a river in Afghanistan's mountainous Panjshir Province

Another poem by Jane Kenyon: "Happiness"

Absent-minded musician Hahn-Bin left his 18th century violin in the back of a New York taxi, but was soon reunited with it thanks to satellite technology

Photo: a simulated image of Saturn's rings with differing colors to represent ring particle sizes in different regions

Camp Milton, Florida: Little-known Civil War site

Strep throat may have killed Mozart

Photo: a newborn caretta-caretta sea turtle in the Gulf of Kyparissia, Greece. 50,000 turtles are born in this area every year, of which only 50 reaches adulthood

Photo: poster released by the Michigan Humane Society for 'Catfax' -- adopt "certified pre-owned cats"

Dinosaurs lie in wait at the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science in Durham

Amish newspaper succeeds the old-fashioned way

Traces of cocaine taint up to 90 percent of paper money in the United States

Photo: a cloud, known as DR22, bursting with new stars in the Cygnus region of the sky.

Photo: beautiful fake turtles made of cardboard on the beach in Scheveningen; animal welfare charity warns against buying souvenirs made of animals

White House appears ready to drop 'public option' -- "abandoning the idea of giving Americans the option of government-run insurance as part of a new U.S. health care system"

Daredevil photographer Clark Little captures monster wave just moments before it crashes over surfer

Afghanistan passes 'barbaric' law diminishing women's rights: Rehashed legislation allows husbands to deny wives food if they fail to obey sexual demands

Lower Klamath tribal effort to fix broken world hinges on condor

Time running short for new climate-change deal

Photo: a smiling sun balloon at the international hot air balloon festival in Baotou

From Scott Wannberg, poet and Luciole Press contributor: he will have two readings in Los Angeles - on October 10 at Skylight Books, and October 11th with Ellyn Maybe at Beyond Baroque

You're Bob Dylan? NJ police want to see some ID

Thai elephant Motola, who stepped on a land mine 10 years ago and endured painful operations, has gotten artificial leg

Wildfires spread as California declares emergency

Article- 'We were duped': Two British women tricked into becoming stars of campaign against Obama's healthcare reforms

Australia pledges $8 million to help save more than 100 indigenous languages that are in grave danger of dying out

Britons defend their health care from US criticism

Art: The light graffiti images brightening up Britain's landmarks, by Michael Bosanko

Poem: "Let Evening Come" by Jane Kenyon