OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

Yesterday’s News Today

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Happy Star Wars day to all practising Jedi reading the blog today. When I last posted about Star Wars day on the blog Jon gave me what can only be described as a withering look, but according to the 2001 UK census there are over 300,000 Jedi in England and Wales making it the 4^th largest religion in the UK (after Christianity, Islam and Hinduism) with more practitioners than Buddhism and Judaism. For Jedi's May the 4^th commemorates the rise, fall and redemption of Anakin Skywalker (whose midichrorians were off the scale) and coincides with a day of memorial for the Younglings slaughtered in the Jedi Temple a long, long, time ago in a galaxy far away.

And now the news:

• Polar Bears Swim Hundreds of Miles in One Go
• Marine Food Chain Becomes Clearer With New Revelat...
• Eye Size Determined by Maximum Running Speed in Ma...
• Bigger Male Gorillas Make Better Mates and Fathers...
• Boris – Time to stop playing the clown – Keep Lond...
• Jurassic Pain: Giant 'Flea-Like' Insects Plagued D...
• Ancient 'Rebel' Fish Had Shark-Like Personality
• Pandemic Potential? Bird Flu Becomes Airborne With...
• Two tigers caught in poachers' traps in India
• Yangtze Finless porpoise on the edge of extinction...
• Dolphins Help Fishermen Catch Fish

The sacred saga of the Jedi is told in six parts, nine if you include the apocrypha (the holiday special and the 2 ewok movies), the first part of which can be avoided if you watch the approved abridged version by Weird Al Yankovich:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEcjgJSqSRU&ob=av3e

CFZ NEW ZEALAND: Its that fly again!

It just goes to show even amateurs can still make scientific contributions.The other day I had just taken a break and on returning to my desk found a house fly sitting on my mouse as if still alive. The creature however did not seem alarmed by my reappearance so I became curious and examined it more intimately.It was most decidedly dead but the unusual thing was I had never seen a fly like it. The front end was that of a normal house fly, but the abdomen was entirely different it was striped black and white in a not unattractive manner. The wings also appeared shorter than the ordinary house fly.

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NEIL ARNOLD REVIEWS: The Beast of Boggy Creek

Thank goodness 'The Beast of Boggy Creek' has been written. For those of you in the know, 'The Legend Of Boggy Creek' was a '70s drive-in movie that not only terrified teenagers across the world, but also inspired many people to become monster hunters and cryptozoologists – it changed my life. The movie, directed by Charles B. Pierce tells the story, in docu-drama style, of the small town of Fouke, Arkansas, and the rumour of a hairy, bipedal creature ransacking farms and peering through cabin windows before slinking off into the darkness. The film became a cult classic. A film way ahead of its time.

Ever since the film hit small town theatres and VHS players, there has been much confusion and debate as to what actually happened in Fouke to inspire such a film. The name Bigfoot became a household name a few years previous when the famous Patterson-Gimlin film purported to show a real, upright walking man-beast. However, the facts behind the 'Fouke Monster', except with mention in a book by resident Smokey Crabtree, remained foggy, until now.

Lyle Blackburn has written a fascinating account of the 'Fouke Monster' scare. The author has taken the time to traipse through the backwoods and river bottoms of Arkansas in search of myths, legends, eye witnesses, newspaper reports and evidence, and not only does he shed new light on this forever intriguing story but goes a long way in proving that the film, 'The Legend Of...' was just the tip of a very strange iceberg.

Whether you believe in Bigfoot is not the question here, sceptics should find this riveting too, because Blackburn remains focused on the task at hand - that being to dig deeper into the archives and swamps, to strip away the layers of media frenzy, and cast aside the monster hunting mania, and presents a wondrous account of high strangeness. I could not put this book down, and believe that it is the only work to once and for all collate all information available - historical and modern - to present the Boggy Creek enigma as a case file.

The book is littered with impressive illustrations, photo's from old newspapers and archives, and actual photo's taken during Lyle's visits to the area. Lyle writes with incredible atmosphere, and so those who were not appreciative of the 'Boggy Creek' movie at the time will be able to lap up the scenery as if they've been transported back in a time warp. Some things are far stranger than the fiction of the media, and in 'The Beast Of Boggy Creek' we have a vital cryptozoological book that, like the eerie film, will stand the test of time. This is the sort of book I'd love to have written, and all praise must go to Lyle Blackburn for giving the mystery the exposure and respect it deserves. I recall back in the early ‘90s wondering why such a book had never been written, and so started a manuscript which ended up as a small article called ‘Behind The Legend of Boggy Creek’. I knew I couldn’t traipse back and forth between Kent, England and Arkansas, USA but Lyle’s work has been worth the wait. Snap your copy up NOW!
10/10

118 Tigers in Kaziranga

Camera traps spot 118 tigers in Kaziranga
Times of India
GUWAHATI: Kaziranga National Park, a World Heritage Site, has recorded a rise in the number of tigers, according to the latest camera-trap technique used to make estimates of big cat population in an area. According to Aaranyak, the NGO that carried ...

ANOTHER 'SASQUATCH' VIDEO

http://www.outdoorlife.com/blogs/strut-zone/2012/04/video-maryland-turkey-hunter-sees-bigfoot-season

"Saw a squatch turkey hunting today,” the comment made under this recent video post, seems just a little low-key to me. Yawn. If I were this guy, I’d have written something close to a stream-of-consciousness rant. Wouldn’t you?

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CFZ PUBLISHING GROUP REVIEWS IN 'MAGONIA'

DALE DRINNON: Frontiers of Anthropology/Benny's Blog

My Yahoo email account has been compromised and was closed to me earlier this morning: I suspect the Gmail has been compromised as well, I am only getting a very few messages in there. Currently I have access to both accounts but I cannot say how long it shall last. I have changed the passwords to both accounts, the second time in two weeks.

Currently at Frontiers of Anthropology I have commentary from an allied Blog Owner concerning the recent articles added on the blog concerning Human Giants:
http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.com/2012/05/added-commentary-on-recent-giant.html

http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.com/2012/05/ow-language-exchange-as-indicating.html

Benny's blog has a piece on Harpo Marx and the unique Classification he had of Actresses working on the movies in his time:
http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2012/05/harpo-speaks.html

Currently Blogger is not responding well to me and I shall be unable to finish any of the currently outstanding Blogs until the problems are resolved.

Please be aware that attempts to reach me by my regular email accounts could fail while the problem is on. I also recently detected hacker activity at my Facebook account and changed my password there. When I had that account fixed, the trouble on the other accounts took over.