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Sunday, 23 March 2014
Houdini cat: Meet Chamallow, the feline escape artist
a read morevet has renamed one animal in his care ‘the king of escape’, in a nod to the feline’s ability to break free from any cage in the practice.
Saturday, 22 March 2014
COSMIC DISCOVERY HAILED.
Has the evidence to support a big bang theory for origin of universe been found.SCIENTISTS BELIEVE A SIGNAL LEFT IN THE SKY BY THE SUPER RAPID EXPANSION OF SPACE THAT MUST HAVE OCCURRED JUST FRACTIONS OF A SECOND AFTER EVERYTHING CAME INTO BEING.this
WAS DONE WITH TELESCOPES AND TAKES A DISTINCE TWIST IN THE OLDEST LIGHT DETECTABLE.IF PROVED THIS WELL BE A POSSIBLE NOBEL PRIZE AND SOME THEORYS OF HOW THE THE UNIVERSE CAME ABOUT NO LONGER VALID.
WAS DONE WITH TELESCOPES AND TAKES A DISTINCE TWIST IN THE OLDEST LIGHT DETECTABLE.IF PROVED THIS WELL BE A POSSIBLE NOBEL PRIZE AND SOME THEORYS OF HOW THE THE UNIVERSE CAME ABOUT NO LONGER VALID.
Shaun Histed-Todd Photographer at Photographer, Illustrator at Freelance Illustrator and Manager at www.wickedspinsradio.org-INTERVIEWED BY MARK ANTONY RAINES
Hi Mark
Sorry its taken me so long to get this back to you. I have too many chores and not enough time :P
ok here's my answers hope they are ok. Cheers
What inspires me ?
A: I find inspiration from many sources, Music - Nature - History - Politics - the supernatural. I'm always searching for something new.
What are my Aims ?
A: I always aim to be successful at what i'm doing or at least give it my best shot. With Wicked Spins Radio my aim are to make it the best online radio station for alternative music, catering for as many alternative genres we can bring in. With my art and photography i'm always aiming for a challenge.
What plans do I have for the future ?
A: I plan to enjoy life to the full - put on more live events for the radio station - meet plenty of interesting people - visit ancient sites especially places like Puma Punka in Peru. Erm save the world from the corruption and war mongering of the elite ( Ok that last bit is fantasy lol)
Sorry its taken me so long to get this back to you. I have too many chores and not enough time :P
ok here's my answers hope they are ok. Cheers
What inspires me ?
A: I find inspiration from many sources, Music - Nature - History - Politics - the supernatural. I'm always searching for something new.
What are my Aims ?
A: I always aim to be successful at what i'm doing or at least give it my best shot. With Wicked Spins Radio my aim are to make it the best online radio station for alternative music, catering for as many alternative genres we can bring in. With my art and photography i'm always aiming for a challenge.
What plans do I have for the future ?
A: I plan to enjoy life to the full - put on more live events for the radio station - meet plenty of interesting people - visit ancient sites especially places like Puma Punka in Peru. Erm save the world from the corruption and war mongering of the elite ( Ok that last bit is fantasy lol)
HULK LIKE RAGE NOT GREEN AND NOT NORMAL ME.
I sometimes get like a pressure pot, tension builds up and my brain goes into overdrive. This comes out in 2 ways -I get manic and will go over the top I send over 10 emails to the same person, the other is i get in a rage like the Hulk, but don, t turns green or gain muscle. Just start slamming doors, feel like hitting walls, no I have never hit a person but have pushed a person into railings with spikes on and throw an axe at someone.This scares my wife and anyone else as i think most of the time i am laid back and glad to say does not happen a lot so i can say is sorry,mark.
BOTTLENOSED DOLPHIN IN MAD FLATS DIES.
A rare BOTTLENOSED DOLPHIN was seen at MILLBROOK LAKE NEAR TORPOINT.CAMELS HEAD SPECIALIST RESCUE TEAM and firefighters from Greenbank and trained BRITISH DIVERS MARINE RESCUE all tried to rescue the dolphin from mud flats using mud mats, but despite all their efforts the dolphin died.This decision was taken after a vet thought it was more humane.A sad event, only 8 to 12 BOTTLENOSED DOLPHIN are thought to be living off the south west coast.
HI IAM MERCURY AND I AM SHRINKING.
After a study over 3 years by N.A.S.A messenger spacecraft, scientists have found the planet MERCURY is shrinking as it cools.4 miles in diameter over 4 billion years the discovery was made by mapping the faults and ridges which showed tell-tell signs of contraction.MERCURY has only 1 plate compared to EARTHS several.
Sunday, 16 March 2014
Saturday, 15 March 2014
TABITCA-LINDSAY-COPE INTERVIEWED BY MARK ANTONY RAINES
Hi mark.
I think mine might be a bit boring but you are
welcome to use it if you want.
tabitca aka lindsay xx
what inspired you?
My father bought me a book about Loch Ness after
seeing something in the newspaper. Then I went to Loch Ness in the late sixties
and early seventies as a teenager. After that I was hooked. I went regularly to
the Loch met the likes of Tim Dinsdale, Robert Rines and Frank Searle. I
once gave up my job and lived up there for 2 years . I had two sightings in 40
years but what they were ,whether they were a real animal or an illusion caused
by the place itself I couldn’t say. I also went to Canada hunting the
Sasquatch (bigfoot) and various other places over the years looking for
cryptids. My last visit to Loch Ness was in 2005 before I got ill. I am inspired
by being a seeker for the truth and by the persistent of sightings, and
the courage of other cryptozoologists ,who keep going in the face of opinion and
being derided for their beliefs. I think most academics, even retired ones, like
to research and something unusual is exciting
what are your aims?
Unfortunately I am now house bound due to ill health but
I have a website :http://cryptozoo-oscity.blogspot.co.uk/
where I post news and discoveries and sometimes write posts about different
cryptids hoping to that it helps a younger generation get an interest. I also
write novels about cryptids and a bit of magic and mystery and horror
thrown in. CFZ have published the first two. Dark Ness and Dark Wear. Again I
hope it may spark interest and people may want to research and go look for
themselves. If I get one person interested enough to spend the next 30 or
40 years looking for cryptids I would die a happy woman.
what plans do you have for the
future?
I keep writing more novels and posting on the blog
.It gets harder as my health deteriorates. I did manage to get a bit of
research done on the Galloway Puma and got someone to give me the photo
they had of a large footprint that got posted on CFZ blog . I would like to try
and do a non fiction book about cryptozoology as I have amassed quite a bit of
information over the years. If something I write or post inspires someone else
to start looking,then the future of cryptozoology is secure and that is all I
wish for as I slide towards the grave. I will probably haunt all those who
derided cryptozoology so you have been warned
I AM A VIKING
1 in 33 britsh men are relaed to scandinavian warriors the Vikings due to a y chromosomes of 3,500 u.k men with norsemen d.n.a patt erns to find scientists researched thier bloodlines.Shetland Islandrs 25.2% can cliam viking bloodlines,southwest-1.6%-wales a lowly 1%.
CFZ - Centre for Fortean Zoology
Yes sounds like a cult but is a group set up by Jonathan Downes for the interest of cryptozoology,no not all long haired with big beards ex-hippies listrening to prog rock,drinking and smoking a certain relaxing herb.Its a set of people with various beliefs and inerests in subjects normally poopooed by normal media and science.It aims to help people through helping them to learn and encourage to find out more,i admit a bit of a promo as i am a researcher/helper/bloger and in fuure learning how to edit and use a film camera for c.f.z.We all need a sense of belonging and taht what if gives me-big promo time
Tickets for the 2013 event are now on sale at a special discount price of £20 if you buy in advance. Don't be square, be there.
http://forteanzoology.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-publicity-juggernaut-for-next-years.html-buy now as tickets go fast.
http://forteanzoology.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-publicity-juggernaut-for-next-years.html-buy now as tickets go fast.
I LIKE TO WEIGHTLIFT
My love for weightlifting started over 30 years ago ,i found a local gym in southend -on-sea,essex called Phyical City -no longer exists.When i first started training it was only doing curcuit training untill the owner-Peewee -yes his real name who was about 22 stone plus and well bulit said why not do weightlifting/bodybuilding.I went 4 times a week and started at the bottom and even entered a powerlifting contest-came last in 1987.Anyway to cut a long story short i left essex in 1988 and when i moved to bude in around 2012 after various places inbetween me and shane-my stepson found a local gym i thought i would see ifi could stiil do gym work dispite disabilities,i meet the owner of the gym who after a chat and a free half an hour said it was ok.And fof that short time i again started at the bottom and managed to get up to a deadlift of 245pouds times 2 which is not bad as in my younger days i got up to 330 pounds.Yes t still do some very basic weightlifting to keep my body going due to my disabilities.
AIKIDO,MARTIAL ARTS AND ME
My interest in martial arts was ingnited by 3 things -Bruce Lee -once saw all his films in a all night film night at local southend -on sea cinema,kung -fu the t.v series nade in the 70,s,the way of the warrior a t.v documentry in which a 80 year old man knocked a man to the ground using only one finger.What about Aikido it was a course on offer at woolsery community hall,woolsery,devon run by HUW COLLINGBOURNE.I wanted to learn a martial art so that how i tried this one out and learnt the mind is a powerful weapon,i enjoyed going for 2 months as it stopped due to the aikido club being offered to set up a dojo at Bucks Mills,Devon.I was unable to go to bucks mills due to no transportv and course started at 7.00pm and to shame the local woolsey villagers i was the only one that went down to the hall .
Wednesday, 12 March 2014
NICK REDFERN: Interviewed by Mark Antony Raines
As for
inspiration, much of it came from my dad. He was a radar mechanic in
the British Royal Air Force and was involved in a couple of radar-based
UFO incidents in September 1952, at an English RAF base called
Neatishead. The radar guys tracked a number of unknown targets over 3
days, none of which were ever identified. My dad told me the story when I was about 13 or 14 and that
is what got me interested and on the trail of the UFO mystery.
As for my aims, it's pretty much the same with everything I research, whether it's UFOs or my other big interest Cryptozoology. My aim is to try and uncover the truth about whatever I investigate, and I investigate it to the best of my ability. I'm not interested in upholding belief-systems. I have no interest in A-Z of everything to do with zombies, in movies, books, history, legend, folklore, television shows - and maybe in reality, too! upholding belief-systems. I have no interest in proving this theory or that theory. I just go where the data takes me.
As for the future, I have a new book out in June called "Close Encounters of the Fatal Kind," which is all about mysterious and suspicious deaths in the field of Ufology. Then in September, me and Brad Steiger will have a co-written book out titled "The Zombie Book." It's an A-Z of everything to do with zombies, in movies, books,
As for my aims, it's pretty much the same with everything I research, whether it's UFOs or my other big interest Cryptozoology. My aim is to try and uncover the truth about whatever I investigate, and I investigate it to the best of my ability. I'm not interested in upholding belief-systems. I have no interest in A-Z of everything to do with zombies, in movies, books, history, legend, folklore, television shows - and maybe in reality, too! upholding belief-systems. I have no interest in proving this theory or that theory. I just go where the data takes me.
As for the future, I have a new book out in June called "Close Encounters of the Fatal Kind," which is all about mysterious and suspicious deaths in the field of Ufology. Then in September, me and Brad Steiger will have a co-written book out titled "The Zombie Book." It's an A-Z of everything to do with zombies, in movies, books,
EMMA OSBORNE: Interviewed by Mark Antony Raines
I have always had a
keen interest in the paranormal, and the strange and mysterious, including
cryptozoology. My mum and I used to watch programmes on the TV and read
books etc., and loved talking about the subject. When I met Matt he
introduced me to Jon and things went from there. I asked if I could help, and hopefully I have been helping ever since. I am constantly learning
new things and I like the fact I am helping people.
Plans for the future? To help Jon as much as I can regarding the CFZ and help others within the organisation to achieve things too. Jon won't be able to continue this forever, but I am hoping however that the CFZ and the Weird Weekend will be his legacy and people will still come to the event, making it bigger and better each year.
On a personal note, my grandmother inspired me; she was a lovely kind lady, who would help others even to the detriment of herself. She would always go that extra mile to be there for someone if they needed it and she never turned anyone away; if someone needed food she feed them etc. Many people tell me I am a lot like her and her mother, my great grandmother.
I have spoken to Jon about this many times. I see and feel things not of this world, apparently its seems it runs in the women's side of the family and after researching my family tree I have discovered I am Roma Gypsy. I have been able to see and feel this way ever since I can remember. I do not boast about this or tell many people but Jon was the first person outside my family who didn't think I was making it up.
Plans for the future? To help Jon as much as I can regarding the CFZ and help others within the organisation to achieve things too. Jon won't be able to continue this forever, but I am hoping however that the CFZ and the Weird Weekend will be his legacy and people will still come to the event, making it bigger and better each year.
On a personal note, my grandmother inspired me; she was a lovely kind lady, who would help others even to the detriment of herself. She would always go that extra mile to be there for someone if they needed it and she never turned anyone away; if someone needed food she feed them etc. Many people tell me I am a lot like her and her mother, my great grandmother.
I have spoken to Jon about this many times. I see and feel things not of this world, apparently its seems it runs in the women's side of the family and after researching my family tree I have discovered I am Roma Gypsy. I have been able to see and feel this way ever since I can remember. I do not boast about this or tell many people but Jon was the first person outside my family who didn't think I was making it up.
Sunday, 9 March 2014
GHOSTMAN RAINES INTERVIEWED BY HIMSELF
WHAT INSPIRED YOU?
Two events inspired me in my life the first being the death of my dad it made me think what have I done with my life.The second being meeting Jonathan Downes at the C.F.Z. Through helping him at the CFZ, I was inspired to write, draw and regain some of the light in my life.
WHAT ARE THE AIMS OF YOUR BLOGS?
My aims are simple. I like to research about various subjects for my blogs than write, post, find or make a video that at least one person will like.
WHAT PLANS DO YOU HAVE FOR THE FUTURE?
I am hoping to do a small talk at the annual C.F.Z event, The Weird Weekend in Woolsery, Devon between the 15the and 17th August 2014. To carry on doing my blogs, cartoons and at least hope I will inspire someone one day. Not bad for an ex-Essex lad; disabled, with mental health issues,overweight and yes a bit boring old fart.
Two events inspired me in my life the first being the death of my dad it made me think what have I done with my life.The second being meeting Jonathan Downes at the C.F.Z. Through helping him at the CFZ, I was inspired to write, draw and regain some of the light in my life.
WHAT ARE THE AIMS OF YOUR BLOGS?
My aims are simple. I like to research about various subjects for my blogs than write, post, find or make a video that at least one person will like.
WHAT PLANS DO YOU HAVE FOR THE FUTURE?
I am hoping to do a small talk at the annual C.F.Z event, The Weird Weekend in Woolsery, Devon between the 15the and 17th August 2014. To carry on doing my blogs, cartoons and at least hope I will inspire someone one day. Not bad for an ex-Essex lad; disabled, with mental health issues,overweight and yes a bit boring old fart.
RICHARD FREEMAN: interviewed by Mark Antony Raines
I was inspired by the 1970's Doctor
Who with Jon Pertwee. It was set on earth so the monsters were more
immediate and scary: super intelligent dinosaurs waking up from
hibernation in Derbyshire caves and under the sea, giant, toxic maggots
on Welsh slag heaps, disembodied aliens possessing plastic toys and
dummies.
My aims are to investigate cryptids, prove that they exist and get them legally protected. I also want to kick science out of the rut it is currently in and encourage a more Victorian ethos of exploration and discovery (without killing!). I'm hoping to return to:
Tasmania to continue the search for the Thylacine
Sumatra to search for the orang-pendek
Mongolia to search for the deathworm
Russia to search for the almasty
India to search for the yeti
And also to search for the Japanese wolf, the man-eating lake monsters of Siberia, and the lake monsters of China, Tibet and Japan.
My aims are to investigate cryptids, prove that they exist and get them legally protected. I also want to kick science out of the rut it is currently in and encourage a more Victorian ethos of exploration and discovery (without killing!). I'm hoping to return to:
Tasmania to continue the search for the Thylacine
Sumatra to search for the orang-pendek
Mongolia to search for the deathworm
Russia to search for the almasty
India to search for the yeti
And also to search for the Japanese wolf, the man-eating lake monsters of Siberia, and the lake monsters of China, Tibet and Japan.
HUW COLLINGBOURNE: Interviewed by Mark Antony Raines
What inspired you?
People who never give up inspire me. If you have an ambition, you should never give up until you've achieved it. And I am inspired by originality. If you do something original and fail, it's better than doing something that's just the same as everyone else and succeeding. I am a writer and aikido teacher. I am inspired by writers who are unique - whose works cannot be mistaken for someone else's. Favourite writers include: P G Wodehouse, Thomas Hardy, John Rechy and Philip K Dick. As an aikido teacher, I am inspired by people who slog away year after year, no matter how hard it seems or how slow their progress. The secret is to never give up.
What plans do you have for the future?
Later in the year I will be teaching a special seminar (with another teacher) to introduce more people to aikido. See my blog to keep up to date with the latest news: http://hartlandaikido.blogspot.co.uk/ Apart from that, my main plans are to do more fiction writing. I've spent most of my adult life writing for magazines . From now on, I want to write stories and novels.
What are your aims?
As a writer, I just keep on writing. I am currently working on a novel set in the Victorian period. This is something new for me. Researching the 19th Century is interesting and fun. As an aikido teacher, I want to teach more people the power, joy and elegance of this wonderful martial art: http://hartlandaikido.blogspot.co.uk/
People who never give up inspire me. If you have an ambition, you should never give up until you've achieved it. And I am inspired by originality. If you do something original and fail, it's better than doing something that's just the same as everyone else and succeeding. I am a writer and aikido teacher. I am inspired by writers who are unique - whose works cannot be mistaken for someone else's. Favourite writers include: P G Wodehouse, Thomas Hardy, John Rechy and Philip K Dick. As an aikido teacher, I am inspired by people who slog away year after year, no matter how hard it seems or how slow their progress. The secret is to never give up.
What plans do you have for the future?
Later in the year I will be teaching a special seminar (with another teacher) to introduce more people to aikido. See my blog to keep up to date with the latest news: http://hartlandaikido.blogspot.co.uk/ Apart from that, my main plans are to do more fiction writing. I've spent most of my adult life writing for magazines . From now on, I want to write stories and novels.
What are your aims?
As a writer, I just keep on writing. I am currently working on a novel set in the Victorian period. This is something new for me. Researching the 19th Century is interesting and fun. As an aikido teacher, I want to teach more people the power, joy and elegance of this wonderful martial art: http://hartlandaikido.blogspot.co.uk/
Planet X,’ The Mysterious Planet Beyond Pluto, Is Nowhere To Be Found In NASA’s WISE Survey
Those hoping to replace Pluto with a new planet may be
disappointed with news about the hypothetical “Planet X.” The gas giant
looming in the outer reaches of our solar system was nowhere to be found
as NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer observed millions of
objects but no sign of Planet X.
According to NASA, new analysis of the WISE data didn't turn up any evidence of Planet X. The research, published in the Astrophysical Journal,
was unable to observe a Saturn-size planet, or larger, 10,000
astronomical units away and no Jupiter-size planet, or larger, 26,000
au. An astronomical unit is the distance between the earth and the sun,
93 million miles.Planet X, or Tyche, is a hypothetical gas giant, up to four times larger than Jupiter, that could be found in the Oort Cloud and affecting the orbits of comets. Two University of Louisana at Lafayette physics professors, John Matese and Daniel Whitmire, are credited as the researchers behind the theoretical planet. When news of their research began getting plenty of mainstream attention in 2011, it was met with plenty of doubt.read more
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