2013 WEIRD WEEKEND: Provisional running order

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	Provisional Running Order (please note the word 'provisional' as there is still nearly six months to go)
	DAY Drinks at Myrtle Cottage 7 FRIDAY Intro 7 - 7.15 Oll Lewis: The Murder of the Elephant Man 7.15 - 7.45 Break 7.45 - 8.15 TBA 8.15 - 9.15 Book Launch Break 9.15 - 9.45 Lars Thomas: The Natural History of Trolls 9.45 - 10.45 Raffle 10.45-11.00 SATURDAY Intro to Cryptozoology 12.00 - 12.30 Nick Wadham: Fairies  12.30 - 1.15 Break 1.15 - 1.45 Tony Whitehead (RSPB): Starslime 1.45 - 2.45 Break 2.45 - 3.15 Quiz 3.15 - 3.30 Hayley Stevens: Scepticism 3.30 - 4.30 Break 4.30 - 5.00 Glen Vaudrey - Mystery animals of Staffordshire 5.00 - 6.00 Mystery animals of Staffordshire Book Launch Break 6.00 - 6.30 TBA 6.30 - 7.45 CFZ Awards 7.45 - 8.00 Break 8.00 - 8.30 Darren Naish: Adventures from the world of tetrapod zoology 8.30 - 9.30 9.30 - 10.00 Richard Freeman: TBA 10.00 - 11.00 Raffle 11 SUNDAY Sarah Boit: Orbs from a photographer's perspective 12.00 - 1.00 Break 1.30 - 2.00 London Cryptozoology club 2.00 - 3.00 Break 3.00 - 3.30 Shaun Histead-Todd: Pre Columbian civilisations in america 3.00 - 4.00 Break 4.00 - 4.30 Results of nature walk (Lars/Jon) 4.30 - 5.00 Ronan Coghlan: TBA 5.00 - 5.45 Jon Downes: Keynote Speech 5.45 - 6.00 Speaker's Dinner at the Community Centre

TODAY'S BIG CAT NEWS

The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper-column inches than any other cryptozoological subject. There are so many of them now that we feel that they should be archived by us in some way, so we should have a go at publishing a regular round-up of the stories as they come in. In September 2012 Emma Osborne decided that the Mystery Cat Study Group really deserved a blog of its own within the CFZ Blog Network.

WOOLSERY MYSTERY CAT SIGHTING?

RAC set to probe feral big cat sighting

CRYPTOLINK: Project Seeks To Bring Extinct Species Back

A word about cryptolinks: we are not responsible for the content of cryptolinks, which are merely links to outside articles that we think are interesting, usually posted up without any comment whatsoever from me.

March 22, 2013

Although the gastric brooding frog became extinct in the mid-1980s, the genome of that Australian amphibian species is alive again thanks to modern biotech techniques. Michael Archer, leader of the 'Lazarus Project,' describes early efforts to resurrect extinct species.

Animals

'Extinction Looms' For Forest Elephants Due To Poaching

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It's Called 'De-Extinction' — It's Like 'Jurassic Park,' Except It's Real

Although the gastric brooding frog became extinct in the mid-1980s, the genome of that Australian amphibian species is alive again thanks to modern biotech techniques. Michael Archer, leader of the 'Lazarus Project,' describes early efforts to resurrect extinct species.

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JOHN DANKOSKY, HOST:

This is SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm John Dankosky. It sounds like something from a science fiction movie, researchers using cutting-edge biotech methods to bring an extinct species back to life. As a matter of fact, I think I saw that one. It was called "Jurassic Park."

At a recent symposium in Washington, one team of researchers reported that they'd partial success resurrecting the genome of an extinct species of frog, last seen in Australia in the mid-1980s. Joining me now to talk about the frog effort, called the Lazarus Project, is the head of the team. Michael Archer is professor in the Evolution of Earth and Life Systems Research Group, part of the School of Biological Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He joins me by phone, where it's very early Saturday morning there. So welcome, and thanks for joining us on SCIENCE FRIDAY.

MICHAEL ARCHER: Good morning, John. I should say good afternoon to you.

Read on...

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN WANTS TO BUY A DORMOUSE

Lars Thomas and his two sons finally arrived here at sometime gone midnight after the journey from Hell! Poor guys. Their hire car broke down, and the promised replacement singularly failed to arrive. Add to that the problems of a lost passport, and unscheduled roadworks, and the fact that it is colder here than any March that I can remember, and their holiday in the UK hasn't got off to the best of starts. We are going to make sure that the rest of their stay is less problematical.

 

Today's Gonzo Track of the Day is from Leonard Cohen
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/gonzo-track-of-day-leonard-cohen-famous.html

 

Once again we repair to Austin for our daily audience with Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_27.html

 

Eric Burdon is working on his autobiography
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/eric-burdon-to-release-memoir-this-year.html

 

An interesting article about Robert Wyatt's film about animal rights
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/link-animals-film-robert-wyatt.html

 

An insightful Cris Roversi review
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/cris-roversi-review_26.html

 

A Belgian review of Judy Dyble
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/belgian-review-of-judy-dyble-translated.html

 

A review of the Chicago gig on the current Yes tour featuring an interview with drummer Alan White
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/link-alan-white-rocks-chicago.html

 

*  The Gonzo Daily is a two way process. If you have any news or want to write for us, please contact me at  jon@eclipse.co.uk. If you are an artist and want to showcase your work, or even just say hello please write to me at gonzo@cfz.org.uk. Please copy, paste and spread the word about this magazine as widely as possible. We need people to read us in order to grow, and as soon as it is viable we shall be invading more traditional magaziney areas. Join in the fun, spread the word, and maybe if we all chant loud enough we CAN stop it raining. See you tomorrow...

*  The Gonzo Daily is - as the name implies - a daily online magazine (mostly) about artists connected to the Gonzo Multimedia group of companies. But it also has other stuff as and when the editor feels like it. The same team also do a weekly newsletter called - imaginatively - The Gonzo Weekly. Find out about it at this link: http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit-to-print.html

 

* We should probably mention here, that some of our posts are links to things we have found on the internet that we think are of interest. We are not responsible for spelling or factual errors in other people's websites. Honest guv!

*  Jon Downes, the Editor of all these ventures (and several others) is an old hippy of 53 who - together with his orange cat (who is currently on sick leave in Staffordshire) and a not very small orange kitten (who isn't) puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon which he shares with various fish, and sometimes a small Indian frog. He is ably assisted by his lovely wife Corinna, his bulldog/boxer Prudence, his elderly mother-in-law, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention the orange cats?

DALE DRINNON: Bigfoot, Recent news in Zoology, Frontiers of Anthropology, Benny's Blogs

New at Frontiers of Zoology:

http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2013/03/paranormal-america-bigfoot.html

http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2013/03/recent-news-in-zoology.html

New at Frontiers of Anthropology:

http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-story-of-easter.html

New at Benny's Blog, the Ominous Octopus Omnibus:

http://bennypdrinnon.blogspot.com/2013/03/shazam-by-chip-kidd.html

Best Wishes, Dale D.

FORTEAN BIRD NEWS FROM THE WATCHER OF THE SKIES (C...

In an article for the first edition of Cryptozoology Bernard Heuvelmans wrote that cryptozoology is the study of 'unexpected animals' and following on from that perfectly reasonable assertion, it seems to us that whereas the study of out of place birds may not have the glamour of the hunt for bigfoot or lake monsters, it is still a perfectly valid area for the Fortean zoologist to be interested in. So after about six months of regular postings on the main bloggo Corinna has taken the plunge and started a 'Watcher of the Skies' blog of her own as part of the CFZ Bloggo Network.

UF fossil bird study on extinction patterns could ...

•     Critically Endangered Chinese Crested Tern conserv...
•     Falcons 'rapidly evolved' hunting skills
•     Webcam captures secrets of endangered birds

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

Yesterday’s News Today

http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/

On this day in 2004 the National Marine Aquarium sank the decommissioned frigate HMS Scylla off the Cornish coast to form Europe’s first artificial reef.

And now the news:

Drones may be used to target 'illegal hunting'

The First Spears

Meet a One-Eyed, Six-Legged, Flying Whale Chaser

How Does the Price of Cheese Influence Perceptions...

Some Alaskan Trout Use Flexible Guts for the Ultim...

Lemur Lookalikes Are Two New Species, DNA Says

Scientists Confirm First Two-Headed Bull Shark

Commission reaffirms support to transfer wolf mana...

Diving at the Scylla:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZBSImcqRrI