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Rare Wildfires Burning in Greenland Seen from Space
By Sarah B. Puschmann published 9 August 17
These fires, first detected by instruments aboard satellites on July 31, blaze in western Greenland. (Image credit: NASA Earth Observatory)
Trees are scarce in Greenland, which makes the island an unexpected site for the wildfires currently burning near the island's west coast.
First observed on July 31 by instruments aboard NASA satellites, wildfires continue to blaze in western Greenland, 85 miles (137 kilometers) from Greenland's second-largest city, Sisimiut. This image, published on Aug. 3 by NASA's Earth Observatory, depicts the billowing smoke over the island Nassuttooq.
"These fires appear to be peatland fires," said Jessica McCarty, an assistant professor of geography at Miami University, according to Wildfire Today, referring to a kind of wetland covered in a layer of decomposed plant matter. McCarty made this assessment based on the landscape — grasses, shrubs and rocks. In the Wildfire Today comments section, she noted that the slow advancement of the fires further supports this hypothesis. [In Photos: Greenland's Ancient Landscape]
As of Aug. 4, the blaze was estimated to have covered an area that is up to 5.8 square miles (15 square km), according to the Greenlandic Broadcasting Corporation KNR.
Unfortunately, not much is known about Greenland's history of wildfires.
"[T]here does not appear to be a reliable long-term record of observed wildfires in Greenland," according to a tweet by Polar Portal, a collection of three Danish research institutions that includes the Danish Meteorological Institute.
The record — composed of satellite images— only stretches back to 2000. What's more, many of these wildfires are characterized as low-confidence fires, which means there's a good chance that a hotspot or fire pixels on a satellite image, which is interpreted as a fire, might not actually be one.
What sparked the current fire remains unknown. While wildfires can be caused by lightning, in this case, lightning is an unlikely cause, according to McCarty, because the phenomenon is rare near the poles.
Original article on Live Science.
Sarah B. Puschmann
Sarah Puschmann is a staff writer for Live Science. She particularly enjoys writing about ecology and evolution and has degrees in creative writing and physics. Before joining Live Science, she taught English in Korea, Costa Rica, Argentina, Sweden, and Germany. Follow her on Twitter.


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Lee Daniels is facing some legal issues as Damon Dash has reportedly sued the filmmaker for $5 million for allegedly breaching a contract.
The media mogul said the "Empire" creator reneged on a 2015 agreement to list him as an executive producer of the upcoming Richard Pryor biopic, according to TMZ. He also said he was promised 5 percent of Daniels' back-end profits for the project.
He also added a lengthy caption, tagging the filmmaker and several media outlets.
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The Kurgans Sons stadium the Arena of Bones inside Maws Tooth Mountain got it's name when 1,000,000 snotlings were released on baloons during the half time entertainment to celebrate the birth of The Kurgans 100th son.
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The Arkham Sanitarium players are all suffering from various degrees of insanity and a whole host of psychological problems. Some of the worst cases barely function off the pitch.
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VICTORVILLE, Calif. (VVNG.com) — A woman critically injured in a Thursday morning crash in old town Victorville was airlifted to a trauma center.
The crash involving a silver Volkswagen sedan and a Chevy Suburban was reported at 6:53 am, on June 10, 2021, at the intersection of D and Sixth Streets.
Victorville City firefighters responded to the crash and located two vehicles with major damage blocking the westbound lanes. The female driver of the sedan was critically injured and transported to Victor Valley Global Medical Center where she was subsequently airlifted to Arrowhead Regional Medical Center.
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Home » Regional Cinema » But WHY did Kattapa kill Baahubali? SS Rajamouli adds to the suspense
But WHY did Kattapa kill Baahubali? SS Rajamouli adds to the suspense
Speed News Desk | Updated on: 14 February 2017, 5:36 IST
Director, S S Rajamouli, who is done and dusted with over 50 percent of the mammoth film Baahubali: The Conclusion's shooting, in an interview with Rajeev Masand, revealed that it won't be possible for him to explain in one line as to why Kattapa killed Baahubali.
"The answer for the most asked question will be there in Baahubali: The Conclusion. People around me are asking the same question again and again. All I can say is -- it is not a one line answer."
Also Read: You may have to wait longer to see Prabhas and Rana Daggubati in Baahubali: The Conclusion
The director further explained that the one of the major sub-plots in the second part is spent explaining the politics behind this very question.
"Obviously, if someone like Kattapa has killed Baahubali, there is a huge build up around the same. It is not that one day Kattapa woke up and decided to kill Baahubali. Why did he kill Baahubali is one of the major sub-plots of the film," said Rajamouli.
Also Read: Baahubali: The Conclusion will not disappoint, swears Rajamouli. But wait, why did Kattappa kill the guy?
Rajamouli confirmed that there will be an attempt to release the film by the end of 2016, however if the same does not happen, the sequel will be a very early 2017 release.
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First published: 7 February 2016, 2:08 IST
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Lab Shuttle
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Some students arrive at Cornell with an intense passion for birding. Others become interested in birds after they arrive. We have a rich local birding community to match your birding interests at your level of experience.
Cornell Birding Club
With around 150 student members, the Cornell Birding Club gives students a chance to meet other students interested in birds, connect with local birding opportunities, and go on occasional club birding trips. Join their listserv by sending an email to "birding-club-at-cornell-l-request@cornell.edu" with the word "join" in the subject and nothing in the body of the message. You can also connect with their Facebook page. By Cornell rules this official student club is restricted to Cornell students.
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Cayuga Bird Club
The Cayuga Bird Club hosts the most extensive local birding website. Open to all members of the community, many Cornell students join this club and/or participate in its many activities, which include field trips, seminars, and social events.
The Redheads
The Redheads, a Cornell student birding team, consistently fields multiple teams in the World Series of Birding, a daylong competition held in New Jersey in May. The event is also a fundraiser, and pledges directed towards the Redheads help to support student research and conservation activities, including small grants for independent research projects and travel support for students attending scientific conferences.
Cornell Outdoor Education
Cornell Outdoor Education, or COE, is a nexus for the University's thriving community of outdoor enthusiasts. Students can take classes such as rock climbing, canoeing, tree climbing, hiking, trail running, and outdoor photography.
Related Student Clubs
Other student clubs include the Cornell Herpetological Society and the Wildlife Society Cornell Student Chapter.
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Once a month on Mondays at 7:30 during the academic year. The Lab of Ornithology Monday Night Seminar has been a tradition for decades and is open to the general public. Speakers from Cornell and around the world give presentations on a great variety of topics related to birds and conservation. Find the schedule in the Visit section of the Lab's website. Seminars are also live streamed.
Ornithology Seminar
Tuesdays at 5:30 during the academic year. Held in the Morrison Room in Corson-Mudd Hall, followed by free pizza and social or networking time in the adjacent atrium. If you are a participating undergrad or grad student, please register for BioEE7800 or NTRES7800. Contact professor Irby Lovette if you are not a student and would like to be added to the seminar email list. Everyone interested in avian biology is very welcome, including undergrads, graduate students, postdocs, faculty, and staff.
Other Cornell University seminar series:
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology seminars. Mondays at 12:20 on campus.
Neurobiology and Behavior seminars. Thursdays at 12:30 on campus.
Natural Resources seminars. Tuesdays at 3:30 on campus.
Montezuma Muckrace
The Montezuma Muckrace is a popular local Big Day competition, usually held in September, that raises funds for the conservation of wetlands near the Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge at the north end of Cayuga Lake. Cornell student teams annually participate.
World Series of Birding
The World Series of Birding is a daylong competition and fundraiser that has been held in New Jersey in May for more than 30 years. Cornell's student birding team, the Redheads, traditionally competes, typically placing well.
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Best Films Of 2012
Posted by Jemima Bucknell in 2012, 2013, David Cronenberg, Film, Paul Thomas Anderson, top 10, Woody Allen
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Here is Film Fervour's top 10 films of 2012 released theatrically or to DVD in Australia. I'd like to honourably mention Woody Allen's To Rome With Love, Whit Stillman's Damsels In Distress, Sam Mendes' Skyfall, Steve McQueen's Shame and David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method as they could all be moved into and off this list at a whim.
Look forward to the 2013 theatrical releases (hopefully) of many festival films I had the pleasure of previewing: Like Someone In Love, Modest Reception, A Simple Life and Alps, to name a few.
The year's worst film was a tie between Ted and Les Misérables.
1. COSMOPOLIS
Cosmopolis, which I write about here, is a culmination of a life of work examining human desire and its destructive/reproductive relationship with technology. This sterile, bleak and darkly funny film odyssey is like a sequel to Crash, showing us that we are so bonded to this greater, unseen machine, that all stimulation is mechanism, all feeling is programmed, all experience fabricated. From Stereo to Cosmopolis, Cronenberg has succeeded in paving an existential passage through cinema that can be mapped like no other auteur's.
2. HAIL
Hail, which I review here, revisits a class of Australian citizen with whom we have sympathised through legend, comic archetype and sorrowful moral tale. With a collage narrative, Courtin-Wilson delivers a radical portrait of human struggle with non-actors, and an artful rendering of sadness, love and rage, paying homage to some of film's great humanist artists and experimental pioneers. There is nothing like it.
3. THE MASTER
The Master, which I have written about here, is a film that explores several dualities of human conflict through a character that lives all and none of it simultaneously. It considers the confines of a class-conscious society and uses class as a means by which we attribute self-worth. Dodd and his team going down in an elevator, all heads inclined toward the upmarket New York apartment from which they were excused is an excellent metaphor of prescribed understanding and social confinement. Where Clarice Starling – who shared a similar frame in an elevator with recruits that towered over her in The Silence Of The Lambs – wishes to ascend the ranks as a woman in a man's vocation, Dodd (Hoffman) wishes to set the social agenda by reworking history. Freddie Quell (Phoenix), on the other hand, aspires to nothing, and is free to do anything. The possibilities for viewers are endless.
4. HOLY MOTORS
Monsieur Oscar, a performer, laments the dwindling appreciation for the individual artist in a digital age. Through a series of startling vignettes, director Leos Carax and long-time collaborator Denis Lavant have unlocked a new dimension in cinematic art that shows us precisely what magic can be still be woven in a medium largely stuck in a kind of creative drought. This is a film lover's golden ticket.
5. THE DEEP BLUE SEA
With what is possibly the great female performance of the 21st century, The Deep Blue Sea captures a sorely romantic and sensuous love affair between the wife of a Royal court judge and a dashing Royal Air Force pilot. Centred on just one day and night, Hester (Rachel Weisz) and Freddie (Tom Hiddleston), bearing unspeakable symptoms of post-war depression, are caught between their own destructive natures and carrying on their immoral situation. With a stirring wartime soundtrack provided by drunks in pubs and passengers in train stations, the film is a beautiful portrait of British disillusionment, female desire, and the heart's betrayal in its reworking of memory and how it shapes our experience of love. The best final scene of any film in 2012, and the best love scene.
6. MARGARET
Delayed in Australian cinemas for a number of years, we finally received the magnificent Margaret in 2012. When Lisa (Anna Paquin), is involved in a fatal bus accident, her own guilt leads her to alienate all those around her in a knee-jerk effort to correct the damage she feels responsible for. Highly intelligent and self-aware, Lisa finds little solace human exchange as she makes efforts to experience adolescence while suppressing/rebelling against her own maturity. Though her suffering is contending the greater sorrows of New York City, she and her mother are ultimately delivered by the redemptive influence of art. It is larger than life.
7. MARGIN CALL
Set largely over one night in an investment bank in the early stages of the GFC, Margin Call's drama is written on its characters' faces, and lies between their discourse like a gaping, incalculable void. When two young employees learn that a miscalculation could destroy their firm, the board is summoned together to discuss a strategy that will keep them afloat, no matter what the cost to its investors or the public. J.C. Chandor's understated bureaucratic process, carried out by a group of despicably wealthy men, never plays up its sense of urgency, or emergency. It is as still as the warm New York night, completely removed from the bustle and noise of the city and yet tempered with an overwhelming sense of impending doom. Paul Bettany and Simon Baker are excellent.
8. ELENA
Elena is a dutiful wife to a wealthy, ageing Vladimir. She prepares his meals, cleans for him, and is a warm and abiding companion. Both she and Vladimir have children from previous marriages. Elena's son, Sergei, has a family of his own that Elena supports with her pension payments. Vladimir has a daughter with a history of sex and drug addiction who wants nothing to do with him. As a film with little more than a single tremor in the plot, this superbly Russian moral drama opens up to unknown dangers, treating them with refreshing frankness and some inexpressible cosmic influence. In what is the best written scene of 2012, Vladimir's daughter visits him in hospital and a casual, and tremendously abundant exchange occurs between them.
9. MAGIC MIKE
Magic Mike suffers nothing but a sketchy/conservative understanding of it being a film about male strippers. Which it is. Soderbergh's metallic-gold Floridian-American dream follows Mike, a stripper, who aspires to start his own custom-design furniture business. He takes the young Adam (Alex Pettyfer) under his wing, getting him work as part of Dallas' (Matthew McConaughey) stage ensemble, while working hard at several jobs to get the deposit ready for his business loan. Adam takes to stripping, and the party life, like a fish to water and despite the apprehensions of his protective, hard-working sister (Cody Horn), the boys party very hard. Soderbergh has made a new instrument of Tatum, while capturing a very natural, fumbling romance in a beautifully false paradise. The hottest film of the year.
10. DARK HORSE
This film is Todd Solondz' most satirical, cartoonish assault on Western civilisation since he began his career in 1984. Abe (Jordan Gelber) and Miranda (Selma Blair) meet at a wedding and start dating. Miranda is severely depressed and concedes to the over-eager Abe, the "dark horse" of his family and also the most despicable bi-product of the capitalist experiment that could be conjured on-screen. Abe is incapable of anything, and desires everything. His deluded self-image manifests in a splendid cinematic cyclone as the cold facts of his pointless existence slowly start to dawn on him. It is Solondz' most anxious and hilariously unsympathetic film and hits like a brick to the face.
Posted by Jemima Bucknell in 2012, Film, Paul Thomas Anderson
Amy Adams, Joaquin Phoenix, Navy, Paul Thomas Anderson, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Scientology, the cause, The Master, war veteran
Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix) a WWII veteran turned drifting vagrant, wakes up on the ocean-liner of Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a writer and self-proclaimed doctor/nuclear physicist/philosopher. The two men, enchanted by each other, form a bond that poses a threat to Dodd's spiritual organisation "the cause" which has accepted the troubled Freddie as its newest member.
Yes, Dodd (called "Master" by his publisher) is an incarnation that bears an irrefutable resemblance to Scientology founder and leader L. Ron Hubbard however the film never pertains to any biographical agenda. Freddie, on the other hand, is a being whose inclined shoulders, apish mannerisms, rutted jaw and furrowed gaze resembles no one. He is unlike anyone – a man with a vague history whose experience of war is denied to the viewer, with a haunted aversion to confinement (was he a prisoner of war?) and taste for torpedo fuel. While we learn several factors that may contribute to Freddie's current condition of trauma, it seems that it is love that he consciously accepts as his life's tragedy, and we are offered a defiled, disproportionate maiden, made of sand, as its corroding symbol.
The relationship that Dodd and Quell form has an indefinite quality. Dodd believes himself to have met Freddie before, and first looks upon him, charmed by this strong, familiar connection. We cannot be sure if Freddie shares this belief, or if Freddie believes in anything – and submission to Dodd requires him to consider that he is an eternal spiritual being – and this is something that perhaps we must attempt to consider also as Freddie does not fit any medical or scientific estimation of man.
Their first "processing" interview procedure reveals as much about Dodd as of Freddie's past. Dodd lingers on the word "envy" – and we know he feels envy, treading New York's upper-class, in attempt to captivate, and infiltrate them but envy is something that doesn't effect Freddie – he makes no attempts at the women of "the cause", submits himself to willingly to humiliating trials of spirit, but does not appear to accept any of his mentor's teachings – though he doesn't deny them – uninterested in eternity, uninfected by his mortality.
We now know there are scenes missing from this enigmatic film, and certain long tracking shots that we observed in teasers and trailers are omitted. What we do receive is a film of such grandiosity and human feeling – two performances that are so astounding in their most intimate, minute physical refinements – and a disarming, disambiguating propulsion from Jonny Greenwood's exquisite score.
The kaleidoscopic poster for Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master is a family portrait of Dodd, Quell and Dodd's wife (Amy Adams) cast in a blue and white hue in which the position of the two men is in a pattern of constant exchange. Our experience of Quell and Dodd is a timeless, endlessly changing, completely disputable knowledge. The photograph becomes unreliable, a manipulated historical document, memory's projection is disallowed, and perception – of man, of love, of family, of eternity – is defiled, and washed out to sea. Throw yourself into it, over and over again.
* a version of this post originally appeared at filmblerg.com
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US: 8-year-old killed, 3 injured in shooting at Alabama shopping mall
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An 8-year-old boy was killed Friday in a shooting at an Alabama shopping mall that left three other people injured, police said. Hoover Police Chief Nick Derzis said the child was killed in the afternoon shooting at the Riverchase Galleria.
The police chief said a girl and two adults were also hospitalized after the shooting. Authorities did not release the victims' names.
Police did not give a motive for the shooting. Derzis said police are working promising leads, but did not say if they had identified suspects.
"This is certainly a tragic situation when you have an innocent child who gets caught in the middle of an altercation between others," Derzis said.
Multiple shots were reported near the food court inside the mall, police said. "We don't know at this point what led to the shooting or how many gunmen were involved," Police Capt. Gregg Rector said in an earlier news release.
Hoover Mayor Frank Brocato said he visited with the boy's parents Friday evening.
"This was just a very senseless tragedy and of course they are devastated by this," Brocato said. He asked residents in the city to pray for the family.
The mall was evacuated after the shooting
Annalisa Pope, who works at Hollister in the mall, told WBMA-TV in a telephone interview that she heard six to seven shots fired.
"It wasn't just one or two," she said. "That's what got me off guard. They (the shots) just kept going."
She said the gunshots "sounded like they were coming from every direction."
Hoover police asked anyone was in the mall who witnessed the shooting to call authorities.
"It felt so close," she said. "It was so surreal. It doesn't even feel real right now. You wouldn't expect something like that to happen out of nowhere on a normal, Friday afternoon."
The mall in suburban Birmingham was the site of a 2018 police shooting where an officer fatally shot a Black man with a gun after mistaking him for the gunman in an earlier shooting at the mall.
The shooting of 21-year-old Emantic "EJ" Bradford Jr. prompted a series of protests at the mall. The Alabama attorney general's office cleared the officer, saying he acted "reasonably under the circumstances" in the encounter that spanned approximately five seconds.
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MAGONIA REVIEW
MIB ENCOUNTERS
MEET MAGONIA
PETER ROGERSON
BREAKING OUT OF THE FRAME
Jack Brewer. The Greys Have Been Framed: Exploitation in the UFO Community. CreateSpace (The Author), 2016.
It's been a long time coming, but at last we have the definitive deconstruction of the UFO abduction industry. Brewer begins with a brief outline on the dangers involved in attempted hypnotic recall of memories, citing examples where hypnotic regression of memories could be more accurately described as hypnotic manipulation of memories, and of perception.
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Many of these examples relate to military and intelligence operations, a topic covered more fully later in the book.
Moving on to discussing hypnotism in a ufological context, Brewer rightly praises the work of Jenny Randles and others in persuading BUFORA (British UFO Research Association) to abandon the use of such techniques in their investigations. He contrasts this with America, where hypnotic 'retrieval' and 'enhanced memory' techniques became standard practice for abduction researchers up to the present day. This has led to organisations like MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) losing credibility as serious research organisations.
Brewer examines the results of this uncritical acceptance of hypnotic regression, and the wider problem of 'therapeutic ufology' with a detailed discussion of one particular case involving the leading abduction promoter David Jacobs.
Jacobs got to learn about a woman known by the pseudonym 'Emma Woods', who had undergone a number of experiences thought to be suggestive of 'alien abduction'. Between 2002 and 2007 Jacobs conducted a series of so-called hypnotic session with her by international telephone calls (Woods lived in "a nation in the Pacific region"), before Woods broke off the communication.
The content of these conversations is very disturbing. Jacobs tries to get Woods to accept the suggestion that she is suffering from multiple-personality disorder. He explains this by saying that ET's can read Wood's mind while they are abusing her, so by suggesting she has MPD they will believe that is the reason for Jacobs hypnotizing her, not to investigate her abduction experiences, because if the aliens realised that Jacobs was on the verge of revealing their evil world-domination plan they would have to kill him.
As Brewer puts it: "A man employed at the time as a Temple University history professor would have us believe that he literally considered himself in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with ET-human hybrids wishing to kill him, and the mental health and community status of Emma Woods were apparently expendable …"
DAVID JACOBS
"Just send me your underpants"
Among the suggestions that Jacobs made to Woods was that to avoid abuse by the hybrids she should wear a chastity belt, adding helpfully, "They have these sex shops ya know, and I went into one that specialised in bondage, dominance, a place that I frequented quite often". In a later session Jacobs asks Woods to send him her used knickers: "just put 'em in a plastic bag, put 'em in an envelope and send 'em off to me … Just do it automatically, Do not even think about it, no fuss, no muss, and don't think about it afterwards either". Reading the further details of Jacobs' communications with Emma it is hard to see these as the products of a rational mind.
Eventually Emma Woods realised the nature of what was happening to her and broke away from Jacobs, later making a complaint against his to Temple University, claiming that her treatment broke guidelines on research on human subjects. Amazingly, Temple rejected her complaint, saying that Jacobs' activities involved collecting 'oral history' rather than undertaking scientific research.
Brewer suggests that "the day the music stopped" for the abduction bandwagon was when Carol Rainey began to publish her account of life in the Budd Hopkins' abduction factory.
Rainey was a film-maker who first met Hopkins on the beach at Cape Cod in 1994. A year later she moved to New York with Hopkins, and in 1996 they were married. At this time Rainey began a film project recording the abduction experiences of Hopkins' subjects. However this close-up view of Hopkins' methods began to trouble her and she started to think that many of the 'experiences' she recorded were completely fictitious and grew out of Hopkins own working practices. The couple separated, and eventually divorced.
In an article published in Paratopia magazine in 2011, exposing the problems in Hopkins' methods: 'The priests of High Strangeness: Co-creation of the Alien Abduction Phenomenon'. People like Hopkins and Jacobs, she claimed, were simply using the abduction experience to reflect their own views back to them, and any aspect that didn't do that would be ignored or changed.
One instance highlighted by Rainey was the experience of a woman known as 'Dora', who thought that she had been abused and raped by an alien hybrid. Rainey discovered a letter sent to Hopkins which revealed that 'Dora' was a very troubled individual. She had been repeatedly physically and sexually abused by both her father and her husband, and had spent some time in a women's refuge.
Hopkins ignored recommendations that 'Dora' should receive therapy to cope with her problems, and continued to treat her as a victim of alien rape. Eventually, Dora's stories, with Hopkins active encouragement, expanded into a huge conspiracy theory with government and military involvement, and dragging in the names of high-profile public figures such as Colin Powell and Ralph Nader.
As Rainey continued her expose of Hopkins' methods, rather than supporting her and the vulnerable 'abductees' the US UFO 'community' with one or two honourable exceptions, turned against her, often in the most misogynistic manner, denouncing her as an embittered ex-wife, and refusing to answer her criticisms. It was this response which led to many ufologists distancing themselves from the US scene, and caused the eventual downfall of the UFO UpDates online discussion forum.
The dangers inherent in the use of hypnosis were also very apparent in the iconic Betty and Barney Hill case. Brewer demonstrates that the generally accepted time-line of the investigation of this incident hides some very real problems, not just about the details of the case itself, but also the manner in which it was investigated and reported.
The Hill case also brings into consideration the possible involvement of a number of US intelligence services in the UFO and abduction field. It is probable that as a mixed-race couple in the 1960s, both involved in liberal politics and campaigning, that some people in the intelligence community may already have been interested in their activities. Brewer asks the interesting question as to why the Hills decided, seemingly at very short notice, to make a hurried and not very relaxing trip to Montreal, and why Barney felt it necessary to take a gun with him across the US/Canadian border.
In the 1950s and afterwards, through projects like MKULTRA, elements in the US intelligence services became very interested in the possibilities of hypnosis and mind control, probably as a response to claims of Soviet 'brainwashing' in the Korean War and later. Brewer suggests that the Hill's hypnotist Benjamin Simon may have been at least marginally connected with intelligence operatives in Boston. It seems likely that figures from intelligence agencies may have also been interested in the data produced through hypnosis by some of the leading characters in abduction research and the ways in which memories of alleged events can be created, removed or 'enhanced'. Brewer notes with approval Mark Pilkington's work investigating this area.
UFO research organisations themselves have been involved in dubious dealings in this field, one example being MUFON's complicity in the selling of names and details of over a hundred individuals who have been investigated by MUFON affiliated ufologists to a research organisation with close military and intelligence links, as well as itself vigorously promoting the alien abduction scenario despite its claims to scientific objectivity.
This important book is a startling expose of a seamy side of UFO research, and it has a resonance beyond UFOs and abductions. Many of the criticisms made apply to a wide range of paranormal research by amateur and unqualified investigators. It is easy to forget, when surrounded by the paraphernalia of UFO research that the subjects being investigated are not vague lights in the sky, or indeed real aliens, but very real human beings and families, who are often in a fragile state. Although, as Brewer mentions, the major British UFO organisation at the time outlawed the use of hypnosis many years ago, there were, and are many investigators in this country who are straying into very dubious territory in their investigation, not only of UFO contact and abduction narratives, but also of poltergeists, 'haunted houses' and a wide range of other paranormal claims. -- John Rimmer
You can see an excerpt from Carol Rainey's film HERE, and read more about her work with Hopkins HERE. Other excerpts are available on YouTube HERE.
The Duke of Mendoza said...
Readers may be interested too in seeing Carol Rainey [not 'Railey']'s latest revelations about Budd Hopkins's relentlessly objective, scientific, but ever-caring and warm-hearted research here:
http://ufotrail.blogspot.com/
The tale comes in two parts. Be prepared to wince.
It would help if she actually proved her claims, instead of simply alleging them.
Alfred Lehmberg said...
The proof sought is in a durable record vis a vis both Hopkins and (imo) stealth psychopath David Jacobs. There are, truly, none so blind as those who _won't_ see! http://alienviewgroup.blogspot.com/2015/10/nine-points.html
purrlgurrl said...
I think Brewer's expose of the alien abduction research scam is extremely well done. I highly recommend the first part of the book to anyone interested in the now mostly defunct alien abduction craze that swept the US a decade or more ago, no matter what their position on UFOs or aliens. He deftly kills off the sacred cows of abduction "research", and has done some solid investigation of his own on the malleability and fallibility of memory and the use (or actually mis-use) of hypnosis for recovering memories.
Where the book got sketchy for me is when Brewer started trying to lay not only alien abductions, but by implication the UFO phenomenon, at the feet of the US intelligence community.
Though I believe from time to time there were intersections where the worlds of intelligence operations and Ufology collided (Paul Bennewitz and probably other accidental witnesses of classified R&D or clandestine operations), Brewer failed to make a case for me that the intelligence community, the US military, or the US government for that matter, had anything substantive to gain by torturing a sizable population of human guinea pigs into believing they were abducted by aliens.
Admittedly MK-ULTRA was despicable, and we'll never know its full extent. However, the US would have gone broke abducting and conducting mind control experiments on all the people who outright claimed or else suspected they were abducted in the 90s and 00s.
Brewer fails to consider the alien abduction phenomenon had all the earmarks of a fad prompted by the best-selling Communion, the first of a series of books about its author's abduction experiences, and the almost cultish popularity of The X-Files TV series. This fad was later sustained by the self-promoting activities of unethical abduction researchers. (Despite the popularity of Fuller's 1966 book on the Hill abduction, it didn't spark a wildfire of abduction claims. These came much later, after Strieber's 1987 Communion topped the New York Times bestseller list and the The X-Files debuted in 1993.)
In a communication from Brewer, he stated he felt the intelligence community's objective in engaging in alien abduction mind-control was to influence popular culture. But to what subversive end? That, he didn't say.
Terry the Censor said...
Very good comments by purrlgurrl.
I just have one comment.
> Despite the popularity of Fuller's 1966 book on the Hill abduction, it didn't spark a wildfire of abduction claims. These came much later
The Hill case was more influential than PG suggests. In his first book, Hopkins uses the Hills as an index case to diagnose his own subjects as alien abductees. Missing Time (1981) came out 15 years after Fuller, but Hopkins' first AA article was in 1976, shortly after the TV movie about the Hill case, The UFO Incident. After Hopkins' article, he began receiving letters from numerous people who suspected they'd met aliens. I think this indicates that a substantial stack of dry kindling had built up before the Whitley bonfire. All alien abduction lacked to qualify as a moral panic was a practitioner who would shape and polish disparate claims into a single, homogeneous phenomenon. Benjamin Simon didn't scour his patient files to create more Hill-like abductees; that attitude had to wait for Budd Hopkins.
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Can you boost your memory by walking backward?
A study shows that moving in reverse may help with short-term memory.
Published: April, 2019
Lost your car keys? Instead of retracing your steps, you might want to try walking backward to jog your memory.
A study published in the January issue of Cognition found that people who walked backward, imagined they were walking backward, or even watched a video simulating backward motion had better recall of past events than those who walked forward or sat still.
Why? That's still something of a mystery, says Dr. Daniel Schacter, the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. It's possible that people associate going backward with the past and this somehow triggers a memory response. "We know it can't have anything to do with how they've encoded the information," says Dr. Schacter. After all, people weren't walking backward when they stored the memories tested in this study. It may take future studies to shed additional light on the issue. "But I found the results intriguing," says Dr. Schacter.
Testing the effects of motion
Researchers decided to test the effect of backward movement on memory because numerous past studies have found links between motion and memory. They recruited 114 people to take part in six different memory experiments. In the experiments, they showed participants a video of a staged crime, a word list, or a group of images. They then asked the participants to walk forward, walk backward, sit still, watch a video that simulated forward or backward motion, or imagine walking forward or backward. The participants then answered questions related to the information they saw earlier.
In all cases, people who were moving backward, thought about moving backward, or saw a video depicting reverse motion were better able to recall the information they had been shown earlier, compared with those sitting still. In five of the six experiments, memory was better when people moved backward than when they moved forward. On average, the boost in memory lasted for 10 minutes after people stopped moving.
In the staged crime experiment, for example, participants watched a video of a woman, sitting in a park, who has her bag stolen. Researchers tested how well people could answer 20 questions about the simulated crime, depending on the direction they moved or if they sat still. They found that people who walked backward were significantly more likely to answer more questions correctly, regardless of how old they were or other factors.
The findings suggest that this motion strategy might be a means of helping people better recall past events.
Improving memory recall
Dr. Schacter says backward motion could one day be added to existing techniques already in use to boost memory. One such method is called a cognitive interview. The interviewing technique helps people to recall details of a recent event, for example, if they witnessed a crime. "What interviewers are trying to do is get as much accurate information as they can without inducing a false memory," says Dr. Schacter. They do this by metaphorically walking the person through the event forward and backward. It's possible that literally walking backward may do something similar in the brain, he says.
Using backward motion could potentially augment the cognitive interview or be used as a separate technique, he says. One key question that remains to be answered, however, is whether the technique would promote accurate recall of everyday events, says Dr. Schacter. "It's really too early to say whether there would be practical applications," he says.
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In the meantime, will walking backward help boost your short-term memory? "This study would suggest that there are some circumstances where this might be the case," says Dr. Schacter. "It may be worth trying."
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Silicon Valley Community Foundation Names Vice Presidents Of Corporate Responsibility, Donor Engagement
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Silicon Valley Community Foundation has named Stuart Burden as vice president of corporate responsibility, and Michael Chertok as vice president of donor experience and engagement, the organization announced today.
Burden is responsible for leading the strategic direction for SVCF's work with a growing list of more than 100 corporate clients, including advising them on corporate social responsibility strategies, goals and philanthropic programs. Burden will direct a staff of more than 15 professionals. He replaces Maeve Miccio in the role, who earlier this month became SVCF's vice president of strategic partnerships, eastern region.
Chertok is responsible for leading SVCF's team of philanthropy advisors, who work with more than 2,000 donors to help them achieve their charitable goals. In his role, he will oversee SVCF's initiatives to expand donors' opportunities to learn and grow as philanthropists. Chertok replaces Misti Sangani, who was promoted in 2016 to chief donor experience and engagement officer at SVCF.
"Stuart and Michael come to SVCF with a common commitment to expanding opportunities for individuals, families and companies to effect positive change in the world," said Emmett D. Carson, CEO and president of SVCF. "We are thrilled that these two experienced, highly regarded philanthropy professionals will be helping guide SVCF to even greater philanthropic impact as we head into our second decade." SVCF is celebrating its 10th anniversary throughout 2017.
Before joining SVCF, Stuart Burden was a philanthropy consultant focused on program design, organizational effectiveness and strategic communications. His clients included large not-for-profit organizations, such as Planned Parenthood of America, as well as numerous private foundations. Prior to his work as a consultant, Burden directed grantmaking for the Levi Strauss Foundation and Levi Strauss & Co.
He also spent 11 years at the MacArthur Foundation, where he managed grant portfolios focused on protecting reproductive health and rights in Brazil and Mexico and improving higher education in Africa. Burden also worked on special projects at the Ford Foundation, including the design and launch of Ford's initial HIV/AIDS grants program.
Originally from Colorado and now a San Francisco resident, Burden earned his bachelor's degree from Stanford University and his master's degree from The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.
Michael Chertok comes to SVCF from Digital Divide Data, which he co-founded and where he also has served as board chair and as chief development officer. DDD provides transitional employment in the tech sector for youth from poor families in Southeast Asia and East Africa, as well as for veterans and military spouses in the United States.
Previously, Chertok was a program officer for global development at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where he focused on bringing public Internet access to rural areas of Vietnam. He also co-founded Global Catalyst Foundation, the philanthropy vehicle of a Silicon Valley venture capital firm.
Chertok holds a bachelor's degree in Russian Studies from Yale University and an MBA and a Certificate in Public Management from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He currently serves as president of Sha'ar Zahav, a Jewish congregation in San Francisco.
Both executives began their new roles March 27.
About Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Silicon Valley Community Foundation advances innovative philanthropic solutions to challenging problems. As the largest community foundation in the world, we engage donors and corporations from Silicon Valley, across the country and around the globe to make our region and world better for all. Our passion for helping people and organizations achieve their philanthropic dreams has created a global philanthropic enterprise committed to the belief that possibilities start here. Learn more at siliconvalleycf.org.
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Five reasons why the play Mimi Fan is a classic
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In its relatively short, 50-year history, Singapore's English-language theatre has had its share of memorable plays. Life! picks the classics and tells you why they matter in this new monthly 15-part series, titled Classic Singapore Plays, that runs till August 2015.
The play Mimi Fan (1962) by the late Lim Chor Pee (1936-2006) kicks off the series. Here are five reasons why it is a classic:
1. Lim, a lawyer, is widely considered to be Singapore's first English-language playwright. Prior to the work of the late Lim and his contemporary, doctor and writer Goh Poh Seng, home-grown English drama reared its head very sporadically, written mostly by students and rarely published or performed.
Mimi Fan is set in the swinging 60s and is about Chan Fei-Loong, a Singaporean who returns home after his studies in Britain to find himself caught up in a tangle of relationships against the backdrop of a modernising Singapore. After this, Lim wrote one other play, A White Rose At Midnight (1964), a romance between an English-educated university graduate and a Chinese-educated former nightclub singer.
2. Mimi Fan broke away from a tradition of amateur expatriate theatre groups staging only Western classics in the theatre.
In the 1950s, Singapore English drama was primarily British drama - apart from British expatriate groups, the number of drama enthusiasts was limited, mostly because many Singaporeans were not fluent in the language, especially prior to self-government in 1959.
3. It was one of the first few forays into exploring the Singaporean identity on stage, as a young nation went through a turbulent era of sociopolitical change in the 1960s.
With the stirrings of a national identity and Singapore's birth pangs came a more concerted effort to establish a Singaporean voice on the stage. Lim himself wrote in a 1964 article for the Tumasek journal: "A national theatre cannot hope to survive if it keeps staging foreign plays."
4. It put the Experimental Theatre Club on the Singapore theatre map.
Lim co-founded the group, which was established in 1961 and pushed for experimental theatre with a Singapore lexicon over the conventional drawing-room drama. The group staged Mimi Fan to good reviews in 1962. Lim Teong Qwee, now a retired judicial commissioner and father of well-known actor Lim Yu-Beng, played the character of Fei-Loong. The Experimental Theatre Club was active until the 1980s.
5. It is a confident character study featuring two young women who chose their own paths in an era where women were still expected to find fulfillment through marriage.
The free-spirited Mimi Fan of the title decides to forsake the man who loves her, and her friend and foil Sheila Rani - intense, fiercely independent and whip smart - goes against the wishes of her family in pursuing an interracial romantic relationship.
The published script of Mimi Fan is available at Epigram Books at $13.90 (www.epigrambooks.sg)
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