Mothman Festival to Feature Eyewitness Among SpeakersThe ninth annual Mothman Festival is set to take over downtown Point Pleasant this weekend.
Aside from several activities, including a pageant, 5K run/walk, hayride and live music, this year’s festival will feature several guest speakers. Those speaking at this year’s festival primarily have ties to the paranormal world and the Mothman legend.
All guest speaker presentations will take place at the Historic State Theater, located on Main St. Chad Lambert, creator of the Mothman Comic and festival regular, will take the stage first at 10 a.m. Saturday. Following Lambert’s presentation several other guest speakers are lined up for the day, including: Joe Clark, founder of Commonwealth Paranormal, 11 a.m.; Alan Caviness, UFO investigator, “Caviness Report,” noon; Susan Shephard, author and ghost hunter, 1 p.m.; Rosemary Guiley, author, 2 p.m.; and Tom Ury, Mothman eyewitness, 1966, 3 p.m.
A special screening of the “Eyes of Mothman” movie also is set for Saturday. The screening will take place at 4 p.m. and will feature a question and answer session with Matt Pellowski. Sunday’s festival activities will feature more guest speakers as well, including: Christa Carr, West Virginia State Social Studies Fair project winner, “Mothman,” noon; Ericca Cordier, author of “Mothman Returns,” 1 p.m.; Kurt McCoy, author of “White Things,” 2 p.m.; and Andy Colvin, author and Mothman photographer, 3 p.m.
In addition to guest speakers, festival-goers will have an opportunity to meet with the original Mothman eyewitnesses on Saturday from 1-3 p.m.
For more information on the Mothman Festival or for a complete schedule of events, visit the Web site, www.mothmanfestival.com.
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Russian Scientist Claims Anti-Aging Drug Proven To Work
RT - A Russian scientist says he has beaten the problem of aging and in just a few years the medicine that stops it will go on sale.
Professor Vladimir Skulachev says he managed to find an anti-oxidant that stops the gradual deterioration of health caused by age.
It looks complicated and it certainly is. For Vladimir Skulachev it is almost a life's work. Two more years of testing and the doctor thinks he will have finally cracked the enigma of aging.
Apparently it's all about how oxygen reacts in the body.
“99% of the time oxygen turns into harmless water, but there's that one percent that turns into a super-oxide that later turns into very poisonous elements,” Vladimir Skulachev, Professor of Bioenergetics, reveals. “So the task was to find an anti-oxidant that stops that process.”
And hence, according to the professor, it would also stop people from getting old.
He has been working to prefect his treatment for more than 40 years. The difficult part of the process has been to try and prevent any side-effects, he notes.
Colleagues around the world think Dr Skulachev is on to something.
Nobel Prize winner Dr. Gunter Blobel, M.D., Ph.D. at Rockefeller University, believes Skulachev’s theories look very realistic.
“It has been shown that oxidative damage is huge. But we do not have an anti-oxidant of the type that Skulachev has developed. He coined the term bioenergetics. He is clearly the world’s best bio-chemist and bio-energetic scientist,” Blobel stated.
The compound has already undergone animal testing and the results appear promising.
Rats that have been given the drug are much more lively than those not treated.
“Finally, we hope that we will manage to convince people that a single pill treats many threats of aging. So, it must be doing something with the aging itself,” Maksim Skulachev Cand. Sc. (Biology) explains. “Then, if authorities will accept this logic, maybe we could somehow market it as anti-aging drug.”
After success with eye drops in animals, the inventor tried the medicine on his own cataract. Six months later, his physician told him his cataract was gone.
Thousands are queuing to take part in the clinical trials, which have just begun. But it will be a few years before Dr Skulachev's discovery reaches the shelves of an average pharmacy.
Some have already dubbed the drug a panacea. And if it lives up to its promise, the treatment should have an effect on the diseases of aging and bring with it the prospect of a longer and better quality of life.
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Male Genitals Sold Outside Bank
IOL - Kenyan police on Monday said they arrested a mortuary attendant and a hearse driver for trying to sell male genitals outside a bank in Nairobi.
Following a tip-off, police nabbed the unidentified pair while they were waiting for their client outside the bank.
"We received a tip-off and laid an ambush and that is when we arrested these two gentlemen just as they were trying to sell the male private parts," said Johana Cheboi, a police official, displaying the genitals wrapped in a green plastic bag.
Another police official said the men were cooperating.
"They have told us how it all started and have even agreed to take us to the mortuary to show us the body from where they chopped off these private parts," said the official who did not want to be named.
Selling of human body parts is rare in Kenya although belief in witchcraft is widespread.
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School Suspends Crying Son of Murdered Man Because His Eyes Were Red
A high school in the town of Trophy Club, TX suspended a 16-year-old boy because he came to school with bloodshot eyes. School administrators say that's enough to make the case he was using marijuana.
When the boy's mother called the school to explain that the boy had been crying because his father had been murdered, the school said the boy could return to school, provided the boy pass a drug test.
He took the test, and was allowed to return to school.
The boy's mother says she is trying to get the district to remove the suspension from his permanent record. Administrators told her she must go through the formal appeals process for that to happen.
And that's how it works in the happy hamlet of Trophy Club, TX.
NOTE: I can surely relate to this incident. One morning, during my son's junior year in high school, I get a call from the assistant principal. He tells me my son is 'under the influence of cocaine.' So, I rush to the school and led into a conference room where my son is sitting (and looking totally disgusted)...the vice principal follows me in. So I ask him where is his proof my son is using cocaine. His response was that his 'eyes are bloodshot.' I ask him if my son explained that he had been sick (and had a doctor's note) the last few days, even though he only missed one day of class. His response...'well, you'll need to clear it with the school nurse', then walked out and refused to answer anymore questions. BTW, the school nurse was also perturbed and told me that this wasn't the first time this happened. I filed complaints with the school board but didn't receive any satisfaction though, the vice principal was let go before the next school year...Lon
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Another UFO Shutdowns Chinese Airport
shanghaidaily - The appearance of an unidentified flying object had forced an airport in Baotou in Inner Mongolia to delay the landing of three planes by nearly an hour on Saturday night.
The UFO, the third reported in China so far this year, was seen hovering about four kilometers east of the Baotou airport at 8pm, the online news portal Dbw.cn reported today.
Airport officials immediately called off the landing of three flights from Shanghai and Beijing at 9:14pm out of safety concerns. Another two planes were ordered to land in neighboring Ordos Airport and Taiyuan Airport.
The airport operation went back to normal by 10pm, the report said. But officials gave no further details about the object.
Fortean / Oddball News - 9/14/2010
