OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

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Today is Abbotsbury Garland Day, let’s hope a good time is had by all.

And now the news:

• "WOMAN IN BLACK" DIRECTOR SEEKS OUT NESSIE


• CREWKERNE: Mystery as lost cats reappear


• Regenerative Medicine: Could the Ways Animals Rege...


• Mozambique’s wildlife resource wasted by illegal h...


• Mural Found On Walls a First for a Maya Dwelling; ...


• Gray Whale Population Up to 5 Times Larger Before ...


• What Do Marine Snails and Insulin Have in Common? ...


• Turkey dolphins finally released into the wild


• Like Humans, Chimps Have Culture, Too


• Five-Limbed Brittle Stars Move Bilaterally, Like P...


• Long-Lived Rodents Have High Levels of Brain-Prote...


• Video: Twowits twowoos of rare baby owls

The excitement of the Garland Day captured in full:

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

THE DEEP ONES ARE REAL

Video shot by underwater drillers of a jellyfish near their well at 5000+ feet.
Some people who viewed the video were puzzled by the floating creature, with suggestions that it may be a deep sea monster or a more mundane plastic bag.
Speculation was also rife that it may have been whale placenta or even the mythical creature Cthulhu.

Experts have however confirmed that it is in fact a Deepstaria enigmatica, a jellyfish from the Ulmaridae family first discovered in 1967 by F.S. Russel. The invertebrae is usually found in the South Atlantic ocean.

The San Clemente Sea Creature sightings

Some years ago Lindsay S wrote about the San Clemente sea monster. Now a reader called Greg May writes:

"The late Ken Norris, a former curator of Marineland of the Pacific and one of the world's most respected oceanographers may have posthumously solved the mystery of the San Clemente Sea Monster. In his book, 'The Porpoise Watcher' Norris described the hectic pre-opening days of Marineland in 1954 when they were catching specimens in Catalina Channel off the Southern California coast.

Norris described how he and his staff would observe whales 'spyhopping' - a natural behavior where a whale takes a vertical position in the water with its head out of water to take a look at its' surroundings. Gray whales do this during their annual migration from the Bering Sea to Mexico. When viewed from a certain angle, the spyhopping whale takes on a different appearance.

Norris described how the superstitious fishermen called the spyhopping pilot whale 'monaco' - a Sicilian term meaning a priest wearing black robes. This is what the whales looked like to them when viewed from a certain angle. So the Sea Monster is actually spyhopping whales".

STRONSAY BEAST SOAP - sponsoring the Weird Weekend

These nice people are one of the sponsors for this year's Weird Weekend:

The Stronsay beast was the carcass of a huge marine creature washed ashore on Stronsay in 1808. This sketch of it was made by Sir Alexander Gibson as he saw it. Zoologists at the time concluded it must be some unknown sea serpent. Scientists today have challenged this and concluded that it could have been the remains of an extremely large basking shark. Who knows...... To this day the story and the mystery live on in island folklore. We decided it would be fun to make the beast in the bath soap, with its monster bubbles and beast stamped into each one. We enriched it with Sweet Almond Oil and packed it with French clay to make it really smooth.

Ingredients: Coconut Oil (Cocos nucifera), Sunflower Seed Oil (Helianthus annus), Palm Oil (Sodium palmate), Water (Aqua), Clay (Kaolin), Sweet Almond Oil (Prunus dulcis), Benzoin (Benzoin resinoid), Patchouli (Pogostemon patchouli), Sweet Orange (Citrus dulcis) essential oils, Parfum. You may notice a fine white coating on some soaps. It is perfectly harmless and will disappear as soon as you use your soap. It is a natural part of the soap-making process.


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DOUG SHOOP: Tortoise dude

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/05/11/152350238/120-giants-found-living-with-86-year-old-man

I don't know what kind of nerve, ferocity and stubbornness got 86-year-old
Brendon Grimshaw to buy an island in the Indian Ocean, replant it with
16,000 trees, grasses and then lure a bunch of giant tortoises - big
galumphing ones and itty-bitty ones - to live with him (one gets born in his
bedroom). But he did it, and when he takes reporter Simon Reeve on a tour,
he seems so shy and gentle. But I bet he's not. My guess is Brendon is next
to impossible to live with, unless you're too big, too slow and too
reptilian to care. Take a look.

http://youtube/vdqTmBGcg3M

HAUNTED SKIES: Daily Mirror 16.8.67.

http://hauntedskies.blogspot.com/2012/05/daily-mirror-16867.html

I'M THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN

It is a glorious sunny day, the birds are singing, Graham is outside filming a female Harvest mouse, I am eagerly awaiting the new album by PiL, and I have a sneaking suspicion that my lovely wife is going to make an apple cake later. God is in his heaven and all is right with the world.

Today on Gonzo Daily, we have all sorts of nice things.

First of all we have a real exclusive - part one of an interview with Galahad:
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/05/exclusive-interview-with-galahd-part.html
And for those of you not in the know about this outstanding band, here is some information about their new album:
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/05/galahad-battle-scars.html

Auburn have recently finished a short tour. We have an interview with Liz Lenten any day now, but in the meantime some smashing film of one of the soundchecks:
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/05/auburn-soundcheck.html

Chris Thompson (ex-Manfred Mann's Earth Band) has a new live album and DVD package:
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/05/manfred-manns-earthband-vocal-legend.html

We have a link to a smashing review of Mimi Page's album:
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/05/mimi-page-smashing-review.html

A link to an equally smashing review of 'Orfeas' by Judge Smith:
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/05/link-smashing.html

A link to a video of Rick Wakeman explaining about Musicality:
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/05/link-rick-talks-about-musicality-and.html

News on one of my favourite trippy prog artists - Comus have a new album out after nearly four decades:
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/05/comus-are-back.html

And a review of an absolutely cracking DVD documentary about The Beatles' Apple Records from those jolly nice people at Chrome Dreams/Sexy Intellectual:
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/05/sweet-apple-tracks.html

See you tomorrow..