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Luciole Press Blog: Monthly Archives for October 2009

Study shows the summer Arctic ice cap to disappear in 20-30 years: "In about 10 years, the Arctic ice will be considered as open sea"

Posted by kluciole at 10/14/2009 10:00 PM | Add Comment

Photo: children throw snowballs on Fichtelberg mountain in Oberwiesenthal

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Quote from Anne Sexton

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Posting for Luciole's Puma Perl: Reading this November 5th, featuring many fine writers, including Luciole's David Smith, Scott Wannberg, and Puma in NYC

Posted by kluciole at 10/14/2009 4:07 AM | Add Comment

Photos: wild konik stallions sparring for territory

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Green tea may curb risk of blood and lymph system cancers

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Experts warn glaciers in Indian Kashmir are melting

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Court rules against Stalin's grandson in libel suit

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Photo: wooden Chinese characters around an artifical salt lake at the Frankfurt Book Fair

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Hey, we know this -- "How a chunk of chocolate can melt away your pain"

Posted by kluciole at 10/13/2009 10:11 PM | Add Comment

Stunning pictures that herald the arrival of Autumn

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Archaeology: "A 4,000 year old Leper’s Tale." Following the Vedic tradition, lepers were buried alive in some parts of India

Posted by kluciole at 10/13/2009 1:15 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a woman carries her son and cat as they flee landslides in Tuba town, northern Philippines

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Sidewalks, parks, farm markets cut diabetes risk

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First woman wins Nobel Economics Prize. Elinor Ostrom: "I won't be the last"

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Photo: Mist rises on the River Avon below trees that are begining to change colour in Bath, England

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Why Voice Problems Shouldn't be Ignored: 5 Tips for Dealing With Hoarseness

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Photo: Chinese performers covered in black paint attract passersby into a teahouse along a street in Hefei, in eastern China

Posted by kluciole at 10/13/2009 12:42 AM | Add Comment

Saved from the sea, the secret Tudor hoard of the Mary Rose on display for the first time

Posted by kluciole at 10/11/2009 11:45 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Historic tombstone tours: Check out these famous cemeteries

Posted by kluciole at 10/11/2009 11:33 PM | Add Comment

World's Strangest Monuments

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Tea partiers turn on GOP leadership

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Big Bang scientist working at the Large Hadron Collider "admits plotting Al Qaeda atrocity"

Posted by kluciole at 10/11/2009 11:13 PM | Add Comment

Another posted reminder: If you are in Los Angeles, please see Luciole friends David Smith, Ellyn Maybe, S.A. Griffin, and Scott Wannberg at Beyond Baroque today!

Posted by kluciole at 10/11/2009 2:04 AM | Add Comment

Luciole Press contributor Ellyn Maybe has a new poetry/music CD: Rodeo for the Sheepish. Congrats Ellyn :)

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Video: "The Lark Ascending" -- composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. Inspired by a poem by the English poet George Meredith (1828-1909)

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2012 isn't the end of the world, Mayans insist

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Rhesus macaque monkey mothers "go gooey" over newborns just like humans

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Photo: a wall torn down by high winds leaves a precarious view from the third floor of a house in Tsuchiura, north of Tokyo

Posted by kluciole at 10/11/2009 1:29 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a vet checks a large hawk at the wildlife rehab, rescue and breeding centre 'Green Balkans' in the Bulgarian town of Stara Zagora

Posted by kluciole at 10/10/2009 12:15 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Wish I could be there David, Scott and S.A.! Reminder, their reading (and book signing for David and Scott) will be today, Oct. 10th, at Skylight Books

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

Poem: "The Man's Last Wish" by Anna Maria Lenngren (1754-1817) -- Swedish writer, poet, feminist and salonist

Posted by kluciole at 10/9/2009 11:40 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Study links virus to chronic fatigue syndrome

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TIME article -- Why Obama Deserves the Prize: Wangari Maathai and Muhammad Yunus

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Photo: a replica of the world's best preserved woolly mammoth - a 40,000 year old baby named Lyuba who was discovered in Siberia in 2007

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Photo: a man sits on a bench in front of the Hudson River in Jersey City with the New York skyline in the distance

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Thanks so much to Luciole contributor Christine McClintock for sending me this lovely video!

Posted by kluciole at 10/9/2009 12:13 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Stalin's grandson sues newspaper for libel; claims the Novaya Gazeta "falsely claimed he was a mass murderer"

Posted by kluciole at 10/9/2009 12:04 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a man shouts for help to rescue a woman from floods following heavy rains in Brazil

Posted by kluciole at 10/9/2009 12:01 AM | Add Comment

Nobel Peace Prize may return to activist roots. UPDATE: In a surprise, Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize

Posted by kluciole at 10/8/2009 11:55 PM | Add Comment

ND woman's 7-foot-long dog Boomer could be record holder

Posted by kluciole at 10/8/2009 11:49 PM | Add Comment

This photo from somewhere in the universe did not come with a caption, but it is gorgeous

Posted by kluciole at 10/8/2009 3:46 AM | Add Comment

Happy National Poetry Day in the UK! Received this in my inbox from the Poetry Society

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Israeli foreign minister: "No chance for peace deal anytime soon"

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Herta Mueller wins 2009 Nobel literature prize

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Photo: Artist Xavier de Richemont's light installation for a visual art projection at the Salinenwall in Bad Rothenfelde, Germany

Posted by kluciole at 10/7/2009 9:25 PM | Add Comment

REMINDER! Message from David Smith. Catch David, Scott Wannberg, and S.A. Griffin on the 10th at Skylight Books, and all 3 w/Ellyn Maybe at Beyond Baroque on Oct. 11th

Posted by kluciole at 10/7/2009 9:04 PM | Add Comment

Photographer Irving Penn dies

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Photo: a mama lioness with her cub at London Zoo

Posted by kluciole at 10/7/2009 8:55 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Ciara Fox wears a head piece entitled "The Race" by artist Michael Burton, at the WHAT IF... exhibition at the Science Gallery at Trinity College, Dublin

Posted by kluciole at 10/7/2009 8:48 PM | Add Comment

Many thanks to S.A. Griffin (Pa T) for sending me the best birthday cake ever. You had me laughing very loudly... :):)

Posted by kluciole at 10/6/2009 11:42 PM | Add Comment

Happy second birthday to Luciole Press! Thank you so much to everyone. Here are some lovely b-day tributes from Scott Wannberg, David Smith, and S.A. Griffin

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See Luciole Contributor Thomas Brorsen Smidt and his band The Esoteric Gender live in Reykjavík, Iceland! Wish I could be there Thomas :)

Posted by kluciole at 10/6/2009 3:14 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Typhoon Melor over the Pacific Ocean

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Congratulations to Luciole contributor Gill O'Halloran for her fine new book, "This Seven Year Old Walks into a Bar"

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Photo: a hiker along a famous track in Jotunheimen Park, Norway

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Iran closes three newspapers

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Photo: Polar bear Commander Sedov shakes off water in his pool at the Royev Ruchey zoo in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia

Posted by kluciole at 10/5/2009 3:04 PM | Add Comment

"Olympian dreams and favela realities collide in Rio de Janeiro -- the documentary Dancing With the Devil depicts what's at stake if the city fails to get its act together"

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Air Pollution May Cause Appendicitis

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Photo: colorful aspen trees stand straight into the blue sky during the autumn season change near Buena Vista, Colorado

Posted by kluciole at 10/4/2009 9:20 PM | Add Comment

Poem: "Nothing Stays Put" by Amy Clampitt

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TIME article: "How a 'Miracle' Biofuel Plant Ruined Kenyan Farmers"

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So very sorry about this. Article: "Amy Farris dies at 40; fiddler-singer was part of L.A. roots music scene"

Posted by kluciole at 10/4/2009 2:57 PM | Add Comment

Sent in by Amanda Oaks: Verve Bath Press SALE!

Posted by kluciole at 10/4/2009 1:27 PM | Add Comment

Luciole Press contributor Puma Perl will be on the Joe Milford Poetry Show on October 18th

Posted by kluciole at 10/4/2009 1:01 PM | Add Comment

90 years later, opera's back on Bourbon Street

Posted by kluciole at 10/4/2009 12:53 PM | Add Comment

Fires char wildland in Wrightwood, California, and in Arizona

Posted by kluciole at 10/4/2009 12:38 PM | Add Comment

A wonderful treat: more photos from the very talented Luciole Press columnist Esmaa Self, taken in the gorgeous Rocky Mountain National Park

Posted by kluciole at 10/3/2009 10:41 AM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

Congrats to Luciole friend and contributor S.A. Griffin, whose work is in the new anthology: "Mezcla: Art & Writing from the Tumblewords Project." He has an extensive reading schedule -- catch him live!

Posted by kluciole at 10/3/2009 9:56 AM | Add Comment

One of my favorite articles ever: Love between German and Pole survives Iron Curtain -- for five decades, Elvira Profe kept Fortunat Mackiewicz's picture in her wallet

Posted by kluciole at 10/3/2009 9:50 AM | Add Comment

Happy 140th birthday (belated) to Gandhi. Photo: school children dressed as Mahatma Gandhi take part in a cultural programme in Bhopal

Posted by kluciole at 10/3/2009 9:48 AM | Add Comment

Oil photo exhibit opens in D.C. -- "Edward Burtynsky: Oil" is at the Corcoran Gallery of Art

Posted by kluciole at 10/3/2009 9:41 AM | Add Comment

Tragedy of sun-loving air hostess who died from skin cancer aged just 25

Posted by kluciole at 10/3/2009 9:31 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a paraglider is seen over the Silberplattenchoepfe mountains in the Swiss Alps near Unterwasser, Switzerland

Posted by kluciole at 10/2/2009 3:30 AM | Add Comment

Luciole friends and contributors in a 2-day extravaganza of reading glory: David Smith and Scott Wannberg Oct. 10th at Skylight Books, and David, Scott, Ellyn Maybe and S.A. Griffin at Beyond Baroque on Oct. 11 (Los Angeles)

Posted by kluciole at 10/2/2009 3:01 AM | Add Comment

Press Release: Luciole's Dena Rash Guzman will be reading with Sister Spit this Sunday, October 4th, in Las Vegas. Rock on, Dena! ;)

Posted by kluciole at 10/2/2009 2:37 AM | Add Comment

Video: "Fantasia on Greensleeves" - Ralph Vaughan Williams

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Before Lucy came Ardi; new earliest hominid found: "Only 4ft tall and rather hairy... meet your 4.4million-year-old ancestor"

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Little girl at the window: Only known film of Anne Frank is posted on YouTube

Posted by kluciole at 10/2/2009 2:09 AM | Add Comment

Study shows gluten allergy boosts death risk

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Photo: people looking at an overflowing dam in Dindi, India

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