Director: Carlos Brooks.
Writers: Christine Coyle Johnson (screenplay), Julie Prendiville Roux (screenplay).
Starring: Briana Evigan, Charlie Tahan and Garret Dillahunt.
Duration: 86 minutes.
Tiger, tiger burning bright…
In the forests of the night.
What immortal hand or eye…
Could frame your fearful symmetry?
The above is the first stanza to the poem by William Blake (The Tyger 1794) and presumably where the film Burning Bright (2010) lends its name, but for a moment forget about forests and forget about Blake because the film Burning Bright isn’t about a damn Romantic poet gushing and getting damn wet and excited about the joy of being alive and neither is about a flowery wordsmith who goes insane and kills his victims whilst babbling on about England’s green and pleasant land.
The film Burning Bright is definitely a thriller though.
A thriller about a boarded up house in a small American town.
A thriller with a hurricane on its way.
A thriller about two trapped kids and a damn tiger burning bright in the front room.
The essential plot is that a twisted step-father locks and boards up his unwanted step kids in aforementioned house during a hurricane… oh along with the orange and black tiger that hasn’t eaten for weeks. That is the film in a nutshell or more to the point a boarded up house with a tiger in it. The two kids (one hardworking honest and one autistic and vulnerable) are locked in the house with the killer tiger whilst the evil unscrupulous step-father is drinking at a local all day bar.
I mean it all may sound a bit farfetched, but the initial premise of the tiger being there in the first place is explained well enough and is therefore possible if not entirely plausible. Also it’s thankfully a short enough and well paced film with some genuinely tension filled thrilling moments and there’s the odd nice shot of the tiger growling as the girl frantically escapes up a laundry chute or where later she and her brother are hiding in a wardrobe.
Of course the wardrobe scene has obvious echoes of John Carpenter’s Halloween because that’s what Burning Bright is… a slasher stalk type deal replacing a psycho in a mask (knifing wardrobes) with a tiger burning bright on the chaise- lounge and dining table and chasing a scantily dressed (Briana Evigan) about a house.
Anyway, back to Blake because like the poet’s poem this film isn’t really about a tiger at all, but this film is more a metaphor for evil and the greed and stupidity of an American man or more to the point Americans in general and maybe even the world at large. It’s a film about a country and world that is increasingly selling its soul at the altar of materialism and greed for money and self-absorbed narratives and a world where the supposed strong, but ultimately stupid look to manipulate and overcome and kill the honest and virtuous or vulnerable and weak by locking them in houses with damn tigers or maybe even cutting benefits and jobs and undermining damn worker’s rights and the damn economy. Grrrr.
Ultimately lacks bite, but there’s a certain novelty to this film… worth a watch.
Review by Tom Siggins
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Eye Surgery has come to be a mainstream method of vision adjustment, and also this article will certainly clarify the advantages and drawbacks of three various techniques being provided to the clinical customer.
Lasik Eye Surgical procedure
LASIK is the acronym for Laser-Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis and also is an eye medical system which completely deals with vision by removing a slim layer of the cornea. This treatment functions best on people with moderate to high levels of nearsightedness (nearsightedness), low to modest degrees of hyperopia (farsightedness) as well as astigmatism connected with myopia, and also that have thick corneas. It is the most widely known surgical vision adjustment approach.
People with normal eye sight see items plainly since photos are brought right into an appropriate prime focus by the cornea as well as lens of the eye. Ideally, the cornea's curvature is uniformly matched to its size in a regular eye. Individuals with astigmatism, nearsightedness or hyperopia have irregularly formed corneas, so the items seen are not focused correctly. LASIK changes corneal form by exact removal of corneal tissue, and also by doing so fixes the eyes' focusing power.
There are, nonetheless, dangers to LASIK eye surgical treatment.
There is a remote opportunity of full loss of vision. If this takes place, it is generally due to the fact that the patient had a pre-existing problem which needs to have prevented the surgical treatment in the first place, such as pregnancy, cataracts, joint inflammation, diabetes mellitus, glaucoma, or lupus. Individuals with huge pupils are also inadequate candidates for LASIK. Dry eye syndrome will be aggravated by this treatment.
A few patients grumble that they permanently see "ghost" pictures, have blurred vision, lessened comparison and negative night vision. When LASIK wased initially introduced, 5% of clients had post-operative grievances; however, improvements in the procedure have actually created this price to drop to less than 1% if LASIK is executed by skilled professionals as well as individuals are correctly evaluated prior to surgical treatment. If issues do happen, they can frequently be resoved by a retreatment.
FDA has actually accepted LASIK laser eye surgical treatment because 1998. While there are a lot of satisfied people, there are nevertheless no long term research studies regarding its results. Recognize the restrictions as well as the threats of LASIK eye surgical procedure before you sigh for the procedure.
Though much less well known, these small implants can enhance vision in patients with light to modest myopia without the threat of long-term eye damages fundamental in the tissue elimination strategy of LASIK. Intacs are semi-circular disks implanted in the cornea which stretch it to assume a flatter shape. Though a little less exact than LASIK, they are removeable and also changeable, so if the client has an unforeseen over- or under-correction, the implant can be gotten rid of and another of a different size placed to acquire the desired improvement. The implants are located beside the cornea, so the central visual location is completely undamaged and also undamaged, as well as the toughness of the cornea is undiminished, making it a better choice for pilots and also those that engage in contact sports where eye injury is an opportunity.
Intacs disagree for extreme nearsightedness and greater than minor astigmatism (1.00 diopters), as the cornea can only be stretched until now. If the Intacs are removed, vision go back to its preoperative degree. Aside from vision correction, Intacs are likewise made use of to deal with keratoconus.
Intacs are FDA approved as well as Ten Years researches have revealed no significant troubles with Intacs as well as few patient complaints; nonetheless, due to the fact that the treatment takes much more training compared to LASIK, there are fewer eye surgical procedure clinics offering it. Nonetheless, the Intacs site gives a listing of professionals in each state, too a couple of in Canada, Europe and Mexico.
Because many people do not intend to take the chance of LASIK and Intacs could not aid those with extreme vision problems, intraocular lens implants (IOL) are a brand-new option approved by the FDA in 2004 to remedy moderate to serious nearsightedness. The Artisan lens, made by Ophtec, is similar to the type of lens dental implant utilized to bring back vision complying with cataract eye surgical procedure.
The new IOL, called the Craftsmen, is intended for only people who have 2.5 diopters or much less of astigmatism.
The man-made lens does not change the all-natural lens, yet is placed in front of it. The major problem found with the dental implant was the steady loss of endothelial cells in the corneas of individuals who obtained the implants. The endothelium is a layer of cells that line the undersurface of the cornea and also are important in keeping the cornea clear. A three-year research showed a constant steady loss of endothelial cells of 1.8 percent a year. Now, no one can anticipate whether this loss will certainly continue at the exact same price forever, or even its impact on corneal feature.
To lessen long-lasting results of the click for source tool on the corneal endothelium, the FDA is requiring that the new lenses be identified to specify that they should only be dental my explanation implanted in clients whose corneal endothelial cells are thick sufficient to stand up to small cell loss.
Extra major difficulties were few: retinal detachment (0.6%), cataract growth (0.6%), as well as corneal swelling (0.4%). The FDA is calling for Ophtec to carry out a five-year follow-up survey of its dental implant people to much better evaluate the post-surgical occurrence of cataract advancement, retinal detachment and also various other ophthalmic illness.
The Artisan lens is intended to be an irreversible implant.Though it can be eliminated operatively, vision might not constantly return to what it was before getting the lens. Due to the fact that it does not affect astigmatism, clients with this problem may still need glasses.


- PlayColorado, 4.9.20 – Sports Betting Boom Could Take Place In Late Summer, Early Fall
- It is always a fun debate among sports fans and bettors – what is the best time of the sports calendar?
- Legal Sports Report, 4.9.20 – Gentlemen, Start Your Consoles: NASCAR iRacing Betting Legal In Nevada, New Jersey
- Both Nevada and New Jersey gambling regulators recently approved betting on NASCAR iRacing.
- SBC Americas, 4.9.20 – US Online Poker Skyrockets According To Global Poker Report
- Research conducted by US online social poker room Global Poker has revealed that the use of online poker sites in the United States has increased by 43% following the implementation of the COVID-19 imposed social distancing and lockdown measures.
- US Bets, 4.10.20 – How Many Millions Will Legal US Sportsbooks Miss Out On Without Baseball This April?
- There was no March Madness this year, sadly, and as SportsHandle calculated, that might have cost legal U.S. sportsbooks nearly $1 billion in betting handle and almost $70 million in revenue.
- Gambling Insider, 4.9.20 – Leading CEOs To Shape Post-Pandemic Future For Betting Industry At SBC Digital Summit
- The opening day of the SBC Digital Summit will see many of the industry’s highest-profile CEOs share their vision of how sports betting operators can survive the downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and bounce back stronger than ever.
- NJ Online Gambling, 4.9.20 – New Jersey Horsemen, Leagues Cross Swords In $150M Court Filings Duel
- The two-year-old war of words between attorneys for the New Jersey Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association (NJTHA) shows no signs of cooling down – not with up to $150 million at stake.
- US Bets, 4.8.20 – ‘Ridiculous’ And ‘Senseless’ – Lawmakers, Casino Industry Urge Trump To Step In For Workers
- The American Gaming Association has urged President Donald Trump, a former Atlantic City casino owner, to step in to help address what it says is a flaw in the rules implementing a portion of the CARES Act.
- SBC Americas, 4.9.20 – AGA’s Miller Requests Immediate White House ‘Intervention’
- Building on the release of his recent statement, American Gaming Association (AGA) President and CEO Bill Miller has now sent a letter to President Trump regarding the Paycheck Protection Program’s (PPP) Interim Final Rules released by the Small Business Administration (SBA).
- PlayNJ, 4.9.20 – NJ Gaming News: Online Poker Dominates The Weekend, DGE Says No Election Betting
- Since the state went on lockdown, it looks like a lot of gamblers are returning to their roots: poker. Online poker in NJ has been quite busy and it is good to see so much activity on the virtual felt.
- Penn Bets, 4.10.20 – Snooker? There’s Big Money In Old British Ball-And-Cue Game, Available For Betting In PA
- At least three Pennsylvania mobile sportsbooks allow betting on snooker, along with a host of other relatively unknown sports.
- US Bets, 4.9.20 – Connecticut Governor Says ‘No’ To Tribal Requests For Immediate iGaming
- Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont and tribal leaders in the state have long been at odds over an expansion of gaming that includes adding retail and mobile sports betting to the list of offerings at the Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods Casinos.
- Legal Sports Report, 4.9.20 – Weekly WV Sports Betting Results Show Coronavirus Impact In Real-Time
- The impact on sportsbooks from the coronavirus’ sports shutdown can be seen from the weekly results from WV sports betting in March.
- TUNF, 4.10.20 – Michigan’s Revenues From Sports Betting Hit $105,548 During Launch Month
- Michigan’s commercial casino managed to hit the $105548 mark in revenues accruing from retail sports betting in their first few weeks of legal betting, before the Coronavirus pandemic halted operations.
- PlayIA, 4.9.20 – No Changes On The Horizon As Iowa Lottery Renews Contract With Scientific Games
- While multi-state lotteries have announced changes to popular games like Mega Millions and Powerball, the status quo should mostly remain in place for the games the Iowa Lottery offers. That’s because the lottery is sticking with Scientific Games for its systems management.
- PlayIndiana, 4.9.20 – Sports Betting Handle Plummets From $185M In February To $74M In March
- February brought in a record-setting $187 million in wagers for Indiana. March ended up with less than half of that total, landing at $74 million.
- Gambling.Com, 4.9.20 – Indiana Sports Betting Handle Plummets Minus March Madness
- In basketball-centric Indiana no month is bigger than March — unless sports and casinos have been shut down. Indiana reported $74,818,802 in monthly sports betting handle for March, less than half of February’s record total.
- TN Bets, 4.9.20 – Sources: Controversial Tennessee Sports Betting Payout Cap Still Unsettled
- While the COVID-19 health crisis has frozen the sports and sports betting worlds, in Tennessee there remains a tug-of-war over one key, controversial provision in the yet-to-be-finalized legal sports betting regulations.
- WSN, 4.10.20 – eSports Betting Approved In Nevada
- The Nevada Gaming Control Board took a bold step on Wednesday as it granted approval to bet on Counter-Strike – ESL Pro League Season 11: North America.


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One of my forever favourite prints would be stripes which is why I’m such in luck that it’s currently on trend! 😀 Since my last post wasn’t really summery in colour (Check it HERE), I decided to get a bit lost with the season that I love most.
Did you ever think that a dress and jeans would look good when paired together? Well, I certainly never ever thought it would work! But a girl just has to experiment sometimes, fashion is all about experimenting and making things work! 🙂
Another Spring fashion trend this 2013 (though my part of the world is currently in Autumn) is stripes! 🙂 So, here I am combining two trends: stripes and black-and-white and having the nonsensical “Zebra Question” in my mind 😀 Ahaha!

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Wonderful portrait of father and son. Well done.
Terrific lighting and a super pose, welcome to EPZ
It's a wonderful concept, even if the execution needs a little seeing to.
The good bits: I love the composition and the skin tones. The image speaks of protection, raw grittiness, tenderness and love.
The bits I think need work:
1: The crop is a little too tight. You clipped the elbow which I find quite distracting, and the top of the frame encroaches on the guy's head. I also think you've lost a lot by cropping out the baby's bum, and the guys arm cradling it.
2: The nappy and part of the baby's forearm are precariously close to being hotspots. The nappy is already blown out because of it's colour, and really needs some texture in it. I find my eyes drawn to the bright white, instead of to the man's eyes, which are, in my humble opinion, the focal point of this shot.
3: If the guy had just lowered the baby a touch, or if you'd got higher above them, you wouldn't have that left ear encroaching on the guy's face - almost into his right eye.
These are all very very minor details, but they make the difference between a good shot, and a great one.
Welcome to EPZ. A great start to your PF.
Thank you all so much for your feedback, really enjoying being part of EZ and already reaping the benefits. Thank you for your thoroughness Dannyjames you have some excellent points there. more pics to come soon!
This is a beautiful portrait - has a wonderful feel to it, well done! Love, Mandi
I must admit I never seem to really notice problems until someone else points them out (usually on my work!).
This is a beautiful portrait, and a lovely tattoo too!
It is a nice concept, - I think it would be a lot stronger if the adult had been looking into the camera. Im drawn to his eyes, and find Im wondering what hes looking at.
I agree with the bulk of whats been stated above, - and I have loaded a severely cropped mod that might be an idea worth pursuing.
Thank you very much for the mod and the advice very much appreciated indeed
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This easy scrapbook layout was designed on the Cricut Design Space using images from Close To My Heart's Artbooking Cartridge. You can make this scrapbook page in a variety of sizes using plain colored card stock.
Cricut Cartridge: Close To My Heart Artbooking
Materials Used: White Daisy, Honey, Barn Red, Bamboo and Pacifica colored card stock
Tools: Tape Runner, 3-D Foam Tape, Bonding Memories Glue Pen and Cricut Machine
- Base - Honey Card Stock
- Layer 1 - Cut Pacifica Card Stock 1/4" smaller than Honey Card Stock (example: 12X12 Honey Card stock = 11 3/4 X 11 3/4 Pacifica Card Stock)
- Overlay - Use White Daisy card stock to cut the image (Using the Cricut Design Space and Cricut Explore, I was able to weld the "First Day" title on the Photo Mat, I also eliminated 2 of the frame cuts by using the contour feature) on your Cricut Machine.
- Accent Frame - Barn Red Card Stock "ABC" accent frame cut on Cricut Machine.
- Frame Mat -This is the "ABC" frame mat, I used Bamboo Card Stock and created a base layer on my Cricut by removing the cuts using the contour feature.
- I recommend using CTMH Liquid Glass or Bonding Memories glue pen to adhere the layers and 3-D Foam tape to give the accent frame dimensions. Feel free to add your own touch to this quick and easy scrapbook layout.
If you have any questions regarding the products and directions used on this layout, please feel free to email me at email@example.com.

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Hot on the heels of NO-EYELID-MAN comes BONE-BOY. A new X-E Comic Strip that
you can't read anywhere else. I've shopped it around to various comic strip syndicators, but keep getting semi-discouraging rejection comments like, "What the
fuck is this?" and "Good lord, I've read Fred Basset strips funnier than this crap!" But I keep plugging away, hoping that some day, someone will discover
my comic stripping talents and bring this wonderful character, Bone-Boy, to an even larger audience.
If you can keep your sides from splitting long enough to send me an email what you think about it, I'd appreciate it. By the way, to that prankster out there that sent me 300 different negative emails from different names and addresses throughout the world, I'm on to your hoax!

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As a parent of a budding teenager, I find unchecked internet use among children to be scary. There are so many potential dangers online, and it can be difficult to keep track of what my child is doing and seeing and who he is talking to. On top of that they demand their “privacy”.
The dangers of unchecked Internet use
Here are just a few of the dangers of unchecked internet use among children:
Cyberbullying: Cyberbullying is when someone uses electronic communication to bully another person. It can take many forms, such as sending mean or threatening messages, posting embarrassing photos or videos of someone online, or spreading rumors about someone. Cyberbullying can have a devastating impact on a child’s self-esteem and mental health and may even lead to suicide.
Online predators: Online predators are adults who use the internet to prey on children. They may pose as someone else, such as a teenager or another child, in order to gain the child’s trust. Once they have the child’s trust, they may try to scam through the child or lure the child to meet up in person or engage in sexual activity online.
Inappropriate content: There is a lot of inappropriate content on the internet, including pornography, violence, and hate speech. Children may be exposed to this content accidentally, or they may seek it out intentionally. Exposure to inappropriate content can have a negative impact on a child’s development and mental health.In fact some of these activities might even be illegal.
Internet addiction: Children who are addicted to the internet may spend hours online each day, neglecting their schoolwork, relationships, and other activities. Internet addiction can lead to problems such as depression, anxiety, and sleep deprivation.The addiction can even lead to stealing or other inappropriate behaviour as you will find in the next point below.
- Reckless spending – A child can misuse payment gateways information stored online to indulge in reckless spending and even worse to buy inappropriate or harmful things for example the instance of this Hyderabadi woman.
Why unchecked internet use is especially scary for parents of budding teenagers
Budding teenagers are going through a lot of changes, both physically and emotionally. They are also starting to become more independent and explore the world around them. This can make them more vulnerable to the dangers of the internet.
For example, budding teenagers are more likely to engage in risky online behavior, like talking to strangers online or sharing personal information.Since cyber crime is difficult to report and get reprieve from, prevention is a better approach.
What parents can do to keep their children safe online
There are a number of things that parents can do to keep their children safe online. Here are a few tips:
- Talk to your children about the dangers of the internet. Make sure they understand that there are bad people online and that they should never share personal information with strangers.
- Set rules for internet use. Establish limits on how much time your child can spend online each day and what websites and apps they can use.
- Monitor your child’s internet use. Use parental controls like Happinetz to block inappropriate content and track your child’s online activity.
- Communicate with your child about their online life. Ask them what they are doing online and who they are talking to.
It is also important to remember that you cannot control everything your child does online. However, by talking to them about the dangers of the internet and setting rules for internet use, you can help to keep them safe.
Additional tips for parents of budding teenagers:
- Be a good role model. Show your child how to use the internet responsibly.
- Teach your child about digital citizenship. Help your child to understand the importance of being respectful and responsible online.
- Encourage your child to come to you if they see something that makes them uncomfortable or afraid online.
- Be patient and understanding. It takes time for children to learn how to use the internet safely.
In addition to the above, here are some other things that parents of budding teenagers can do to mitigate the dangers of unchecked internet use:
- Educate yourself about the latest trends in the online world. This will help you to stay ahead of the curve and be aware of the potential dangers that your child may face.
- Talk to your child’s friends’ parents. It’s important to be on the same page as other parents when it comes to setting rules for internet use and monitoring your children’s online activity.Talk to your child’s school counselor or pediatrician or find more information online.
- Encourage your child to have a healthy balance between online and offline activities. Make sure that they are spending time with their friends and family in person, and that they are participating in activities that they enjoy.
By following these tips, parents like me can keep their budding teenagers safe online without becoming the villain in their life 😉

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Jago Temple is located in Jago Hamlet of Tumpang Village,
Tumpang Subdistrict, Malang Regency, or 22 km to the east of
Malang. Because it is located in Tumpang village, the temple
is also called Tumpang Temple. Local villagers call the
According to Negarakertagama and Pararaton, the original
name of this temple is Jajaghu. Verse 41 phrase 4 of
Negarakertagama describes that King Wisnuwardhana who ruled
Singasari was a Buddhist Shiva, a religious sect that
combines the teachings of Hindu and Buddhist. The teaching
flourished during the ruling of Singasari Kingdom, a kingdom
located 20 km from Jago Temple. Jajaghu, which means
'greatness', is a term used for referring a shrine.
Still according to Negara kertagama and Pararaton, Jago
Temple was built between 1268 and 1280 AD, as a tribute to
the 4th King of Singasari Sri Jaya Wisnuwardhana. Although
the temple built during the ruling of Singasari Kingdom, the
two books mentioned that in 1359 AD Jago Temple was one of
the places most frequently visited by King Hayam Wuruk of
the Majapahit Empire. The connection between Jago Temple and
Singasari Kingdom can also be traced from lotus carvings,
which ramble upwards from their stems and decorate the
statues’ pedestals. Such lotus motif was highly popular
during Singasari Kingdom.
Important to note from temple history is the habit of
past kings to restore temples erected by their predecessors.
Jago Temple had probably been restored in 1343 AD as ordered
by King Adityawarman of Melayu, who had blood relation to
King Hayam Wuruk.
Today Jago Temple is still in ruined condition and yet to
restore. The whole structure of the temple is a square, 23 m
x 14 m in dimension. Its roof has gone, so it is not
possible to find out the exact height of the temple. It is
estimated that the temple stood 15 m high.
Facing west, the temple sits on a 1-meter high base and
three-terraced feet. Going upward, the temple feet are
getting smaller, providing a walkway on the first and second
floor where people can walk around the temple. Graba ghra
(main room) is shifted slightly to the back.
This temple is pyramidal in structure with walkways and
shifted rearward, a common shape of building found during
megalithic age, which is called punden berundak (pyramidal
shrines). The shape was generally applied in the
construction of a shrine to worship ancestral spirits. The
shape indicates that Jago Temple was built as a shrine to
worship ancestral spirits as well. However, further research
and study are still required to prove the truth of it.
Important to consider is that during the ruling of kingdoms
in East Java, there are many variations in shape and
function of building. This can be related to the deviation
in religious practices which, by itself, affects the arts in
holy shrines, including temple.

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It is easy to be gloomy about the future of the planet – except, perhaps, for 1.55 million sq/km of water in the Southern Ocean. The Antarctic’s Ross Sea made fleeting headlines 10 days before the US presidential election when it became the world’s first marine “park” in international waters.
Amid fears that president-elect Donald Tump intends to sabotage the Paris climate agreement, the 35-year pact to protect the Ross Sea is beyond his reach, according to one of its chief negotiators, Mike Walker of the Antarctic Ocean Alliance.
The deep bay, which teems with krill and toothfish and sustains whales and penguins, has several close links with Ireland. When explorer Ernest Shackleton set out on his Imperial Trans-Antarctic expedition in 1914, the Ross Sea was his final destination after crossing the continent and reaching the South Pole.
Shackleton sent an advance party from Australia, charged with setting up a series of supply depots for the last quarter of the planned traverse, from the Ross Sea to the Beardmore glacier. Three members of the party died, and the experience was horrendous for those who survived. Sadly, their mission was in vain, as Shackleton's ship, Endurance was crushed in the Weddell Sea on the opposite Antarctic coast.
The location, named after British naval officer James Clark Ross, is particularly significant. It is regarded as the last “intact” marine ecosystem on the planet. The Southern Ocean itself is believed to produce about 75 per cent of nutrients sustaining life across the world’s oceans.
As Mike Walker explains, the marine park’s inception is borne out of a system devised to protect the Antarctic continent in 1959, at the height of the Cold War. “At that time, the Antarctic landmass was set aside for international protection in the interests of peace, science and humanity.”
The EU and 24 other countries, including the US, China and Russia, are members of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources, which set targets from 2009 for protection of habitats within southern seas.
It took five years of negotiations and two weeks of intensive talks in October to close a deal. Fishing is not banned outright in the Ross Sea, but restricts it in sensitive habitats close to the Antarctic continent.
Russia and China will be most affected by the agreement, which had been proposed as a permanent deal before the almost inevitable compromise. Their fleets catch large quantities of toothfish, which is a protein source for Orca whales. Several “research” zones will permit catches of krill and toothfish for this purpose only.
“The scientific advice was that protection should be long-term and permanent, as the view is that marine protection areas should be long-lived and large,” Walker says. “However, it is clearly very difficult to forge a consensus relating to the high seas, so this is an important milestone.”
Two additional proposals in east Antarctic waters and the Weddell Sea are now under discussion, he says, and the Antarctic Ocean Alliance has proposed areas covering some 40 per cent of the Southern Ocean for lasting protection.
The Ross Sea park will give a fillip to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity. This sets targets to increase the amount of well-managed protected areas of ocean to 10 per cent globally by 2020, according to Anthony Grehan, a senior research fellow in earth and ocean sciences at NUI Galway.
“Until recently, reaching this target was not looking promising, with only 4 per cent of areas protected,” Grehan says. “The Ross Sea designation, along with the creation of a number of other marine parks in remote areas – by the US, New Zealand, Chile, France and Britain, among others – is helping to address the deficit.”
Grehan has been active in conservation initiatives to protect deep-water coral in Irish waters, and has just begun working on an EU Horizon 2020 project. This addresses large-scale conservation issues at a time of growing interest in “blue growth” for economic gain in the north Atlantic.
“Large marine protected areas are useful, as they encompass more habitat, and in turn more species,” Grehan says. Effective restrictions relate not just to to fishing, but to extractive activities such as deep-sea mining at hydrothermal vent sites along mid-ocean ridges, he says. Satellite tracking of vessel activity at sea makes surveillance and protection of such areas far more feasible.
The EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive calls for member states to ensure healthy oceans and seas by 2021, and Ireland must produce a marine plan by this date. It has recently enacted the marine spatial planning directive into Irish law.
A recent article in the journal Marine Policy has raised questions about the whole approach. It argues that designating large marine protected areas could threaten to undermine the "very purpose and objective" of UN biodiversity targets by distracting attention from protection of smaller, more intensely used areas.
Grehan disagrees, pointing out that the involvement of fewer stakeholders in the larger and more remote marine parks in international waters makes for easier and, therefore, inspiring, “wins”.
“The situation becomes much more complex closer to land, where there are numerous competing claims to use marine space,” he says. “The recent emphasis on marine spatial planning is intended to provide a means to reconcile these competing needs while ensuring environmental sustainability.”
Such “competing needs” are multiplying, ranging from hydrocarbon and mineral extraction to fish farming to offshore renewable energy projects. Inshore fishing fleets, meanwhile, are finding it increasingly difficult to sustain an economic livelihood.
“I think no one questions the idea that the larger the marine area protected, the more effective it is,”says Peter Tyndall, scientist and spokesman for Galway Bay Inshore Fishermen’s Association. “However, there is also an assumption that inshore coastal areas should be managed for, rather than by, communities, and that is not the case.”
The association, for example, has reached its own consensus on shrimp stocks. Members have agreed to put back the shrimp season from August to October, when shrimp grow more rapidly and fetch more on the quay.
“The fishermen also reduced their gear and used graders to release small shrimp,” Tyndall says. “It shows that if they are trusted with management of a resource on which they depend, it can produce positive results.
“That kind of management is better than a blanket closure, but it also requires support from the State to ensure larger players can’t come into these grounds.”


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The bulb has to be in its socket. Your light can be wired to the receiver and don't require supply additional capacity to light as it can get power from receiver. In the event the brake lights aren't working, a police officer may block the vehicle and issue a warning to create the repair within a particular time limit. Even though you would still must power the relay with a power source or battery. Verify the power is off before trying to attach wires. In case it needs full capacity to begin, it won't operate in any way.
Replacing thermostat on your own without a Denver HVAC technician can be quite harrowing if you don't hook up the wiring correctly. After the plumbing was cut out, now you can get rid of the old pool pump. It's highly recommended to use a volt meter to make sure there is no voltage visiting the motor, sometimes breakers do not get the job done properly, also you might have turned off the incorrect breaker. Remote distance is left up to 500m. You may use a superior engine ground. The second, that's the most frequently encountered problem, is a weak ground in the computer system. Diagnosing an electrical short can be extremely tough and costly.

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This exercise was a complete new technique for me. It felt like doing rubbings back at school. I experimented glueing different items and materials that I found around the house. I felt that it was important to find the materials of the same height so that when pressing on my paper all my items touch the paint and translate well on paper. My first attempts where a failure as I hadn’t put PVA glue on my collage print and the paint staid on my collage rather than on my piece of paper. making the collage plate takes planing as the PVA glue takes time to dry. I learnt that it is probably a good idea to do two or more plates at the same time so that when they dry I can do more variations and there for have more options. Planing is key when doing a collage print.
I experimented with gold paint as a first layer. After various attempts I learnt that it is good to mark the paper so that I have a guide for placement if I want to do more than one layer of paint. I used some poster paints which are thick and not that easy to spread but the end result is more tactile giving the mono-print the feeling of texture.
The second layer of paint that I chose was red as I thought it would contrast with the gold and be more effective. I learnt that it is when you apply a second layer that the mono-print becomes more interesting.
The sample as a whole isn’t wowing me but there are aspects that I enjoy. The felt circles have translated well which has surprised me as I thought the felt would of absorbed all the paint. Applying PVA glue on the felt has worked well. In future I could use felt to make a collage print as it is easy to cut and glue (this reminds me of fuzzy felt, remember that?). The sequins have created an interesting texture too as the paint has held on different parts of the sequin creating a 3D effect. The sequins hearts have not translated well. I should of known that as the paint slides of the shinny bigger surface. The metal ribbon has worked well as it has created a grid effect – I shall be using this in the future maybe for bricks in a building? The raffia zig zag ribbon has translated on a dotted series of lines (also very effective). The Rosmary has translated like a tree and the lines are very defined and clear in contrast my rose leaves are smudged and unclear. The orange cord worked out perfect for drawing lines that I want more defined. The lace didn’t work as well as I had hoped to, it hasn’t added any interest so I wont be wasting any lace for this method in the future.
On the second print collage the items that gave me an interesting mark and translated well were the coins, the safety pin, the cord and the lavender.
this exercise has been a successful tool for me to research what materials work better for creating the lines that I want to achieve. It helped me have a clearer understanding on how to create a range of marks on paper or fabric.

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A prohibition notice slapped on a factory at the centre of a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak remains in place a week after being imposed by health watchdogs.
Faltec Europe at Boldon Colliery was forced to close four cooling towers by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after significant levels of the potentially-lethal bacteria were found on site.
The Prohibition Notice is still in placeHealth and Safety Executive spokesman
Four workers at the Boldon Business park company and a resident whose home overlooks the factory have contracted the disease since October, with four of the cases occurring since April.
All required hospital treatment but have since been discharged.
As part of an investigation into the infection, the HSE served a prohibition notice on the firm.
Bosses at Faltec Europe are now using two chiller units on site to seal in cool water used in factory processes to prevent a risk of further infection.
They must satisfy experts at the HSE that there is no threat of further infection before the cooling towers can be brought back into use.
Sampling of the water systems has identified the presence of significant quantities of the legionella bacteria.
The company has locked off the cooling towers and carried out disinfection and control procedures.
The potentially-fatal lung condition does not spread from person to person, only via contaminated water droplets.
A HSE spokesperson said: “The prohibition notice is still in place.
“The company has brought onto site two chiller units which use a fully-enclosed system to cool water used in the factory processes.
“The operation of this system does not create an exposure risk to the outside environment.
“Should the company wish to revert to using the cooling towers, it will have to satisfy the HSE that they can be operated without creating a risk to employees or the public.
“If the company can demonstrate that the risk is adequately controlled, then it will have complied with the prohibition notice, and it will cease to have effect.”
Faltec says it is continuing to work with the HSE, as well as Public Health England and South Tyneside Council, and has acted on all recommendations made by the HSE.
The factory remains open as usual.
Dr Tricia Cresswell, of Public Health England’s North-East operation, said: “As a precaution staff, are advised to contact their GP if they develop a chest infection or other respiratory symptoms.”

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Vettel Wins F-1 Grand Prix in Malaysia Ahead of WebberDan Baynes
World champion Sebastian Vettel apologized to Red Bull teammate Mark Webber yesterday after defying team orders in winning the Malaysian Grand Prix.
Vettel, seeking a fourth straight drivers’ title, moved atop the Formula One standings after overtaking Webber to win the 56-lap race at Sepang International Circuit. Mercedes duo Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg were third and fourth.
Vettel’s 27th career win came after he went wheel-to-wheel to overhaul Webber with 13 laps to go, earning a rebuke from Team Principal Christian Horner over the Red Bull team radio. Webber said afterward that it was his understanding that Vettel wouldn’t challenge him for the lead in the latter stages.
“I messed up today. I can understand Mark’s frustration and the team not being happy with what I did,” Vettel said in a Red Bull release. “I owe an explanation to him and the whole team. I got the call and I ignored it. I put myself above a team decision, which was wrong. I didn’t mean to and I apologize. I’m not happy I’ve won, I made a mistake and if I could undo it I would.”
After Vettel took the checkered flag, finishing 4.2 seconds ahead of Webber, the Red Bull team relayed a radio message saying: “Good job, Seb. Looks like you wanted it bad enough. Still, you’ve got some explaining to do.”
Webber, whose last victory came at the 2012 British Grand Prix in July, had led for much of the race and came out of the pits after his final stop just ahead of his teammate. Vettel continued to attack after Red Bull asked its drivers to hold position, turn the engines down and look after the tires.
‘Not Handled Well’
“I think Sebastian has respect for me and I have respect for him, but the situation today was not handled well,” Webber said. “I tried to isolate what happened at the end and we got something out of it today, but of course I’m not satisfied with the result.”
Horner described the situation as “frustrating.”
“Formula One is both a team and an individual sport and sometimes there is a conflict between a driver’s desire and a team’s interest,” he said. “What happened today is something that shouldn’t have happened. It’s something that Sebastian has apologized for and it’s something that we will discuss internally as a team.”
There was similar controversy at Mercedes as Rosberg was told by Team Principal Ross Brawn over the radio not to challenge Hamilton -- who’d earlier mistakenly gone into the pit box of his former team McLaren -- for third place.
Hamilton said Rosberg deserved to finish on the podium instead of him.
Top of Standings
“The team made the call for us to hold positions and we both respected that,” Hamilton said in a Mercedes release. “I have to say big congratulations to Nico. He drove a smarter and more controlled race than me this afternoon and deserved to finish where I did.”
Rosberg still said it was a “great day” for the team.
“It was disappointing for me having to hold position but I understand the team’s decision to safeguard our positions and to make sure that both cars got to the end with a strong team finish,” he said.
Vettel’s victory, which came after he started from pole position, lifted the 25-year-old German to 40 points atop the standings, nine ahead of Kimi Raikkonen after two races.
Felipe Massa finished fifth for Ferrari, whose other driver, Fernando Alonso, went out on the second lap with a collapsed front wing. Romain Grosjean was sixth ahead of Lotus teammate Raikkonen, the winner of last week’s season-opener in Australia.
Sauber’s Nico Hulkenberg, Sergio Perez of McLaren and Toro Rosso’s Jean-Eric Vergne rounded out the points-scoring positions.
The next Grand Prix is scheduled for April 14 in Shanghai.

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Measuring LEDs and Lasers for Near-IR Sensing Applications
Near-infrared light has provided a new invisible interface for our devices. Most remote sensing systems in consumer electronics apply near-IR light for illumination, time of flight (TOF), and pattern analysis, enabling operations like facial recognition, gesture control, proximity sensing, and object mapping. Near-IR sources and cameras are being rapidly integrated into new products, particularly for sensing within the human visual field, which has elevated the importance of light source characterization during design and manufacture.
To ensure the performance and eye safety of light beyond the human visible spectrum, manufacturers must measure the intensity of beams and patterns produced by near-IR LEDs and lasers. However, traditional light source measurement methods cannot keep up with the high-volume production demands of devices like smartphones and extended reality (XR) headsets. The challenge calls for a measurement solution that is fast, easy to deploy, and practical for in-line testing.
In this Laser Focus World webinar, Mike Caputo from Radiant Vision Systems presents measurement methods for near-IR light sources and demonstrates the capabilities of Radiant’s NIR Intensity Lens solution for measuring sources faster and easier than ever before.
Near-IR sensing trends for smart devices, AR glasses, and VR headsets
Considerations for ensuring performance and safety of near-IR LEDs and lasers (VCSELs)
The fastest method for direct angular measurement of intensity, beams, and patterns
Capabilities of the NIR Intensity Lens and TT-NIRI™ Software solution from Radiant Vision Systems
An audience Q&A with the presenter follows the presentation.


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George Jones Dead at 81: Country Stars React
Country music artists and fans are reeling from the news that George Jones, arguably one of the greatest country singers of all time, died on Friday April 26. Born September 12, 1931, Jones is considered one of the most important and influential singers in the history of American popular music, and Nashville's biggest stars are taking the news hard.
Country stars like Alan Jackson, Brad Paisley, Keith Urban and Faith Hill expressed their condolences to the entire Jones family, but especially to Nancy, his wife of 30 years. Although everyone has their own memories about Jones and his iconic list of hits, several country stars expressed their feelings that Jones was the greatest country music singer of all time.
Jones' left behind five decades worth of classic country hits, including ‘She Thinks I Still Care,’ ‘The Grand Tour,’ ‘Walk Through This World With Me,’ ‘Tender Years’ and ‘He Stopped Loving Her Today.’
Leave your favorite George Jones memory in the comments section below, or email to firstname.lastname@example.org.
Heaven better get ready for George Jones. He will always be the greatest singer of real country music – there’ll never be another.
— Alan Jackson (@OfficialJackson) April 26, 2013
My friend,the greatest singer of all time,has passed.To those who knew him,our lives were full. To those of you who don't: discover him now. — Brad Paisley (@BradPaisley) April 26, 2013
If I'm blessed enough to make it there, I look forward to you giving me the grand tour. Rest in peace George Jones!!!!! -KU — Keith Urban (@KeithUrban) April 26, 2013
Gone ...... George Jones .....man he was country music
— Tim McGraw (@TheTimMcGraw) April 26, 2013
We lost one of the best voices God created this morning. Our hearts are saddened to hear that George Jones has passed away...
— Faith Hill (@FaithHill) April 26, 2013
So sad to hear about George Jones . His voice and music will be with us forever. Thoughts go out to all his family, friends and fans. — Martina McBride (@martinamcbride) April 26, 2013
George Jones was my friend, and I loved him. Trace Adkins — TraceAdkins (@TraceAdkins) April 26, 2013
I'll never forget the first time I heard the story in "He Stopped Loving Her Today". RIP George Jones. Country Legend. U will be missed.
— Jennifer Nettles (@JenniferNettles) April 26, 2013
— Carrie Underwood (@carrieunderwood) April 26, 2013
George. You will be deeply missed.Thanks for the beautiful memories. — Luke Bryan (@LukeBryanOnline) April 26, 2013
It's sad to think most of what's considered the "country music world" today has no idea of the real talent we just lost. RIP George Jones — Josh Thompson (@TheJoshThompson) April 26, 2013
Country music and the world lost a true legend today… Mr. Jones, you will be greatly missed.
— The Band Perry (@thebandperry) April 26, 2013


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Twenty-Seven Years Deep
We planted bermuda one year.
Every day you pressed your face
to the earth
trying to spy some verdant body
“It’ll never grow,”
Crows and sparrows plucking hope
straight up from your labor.
The desert sun drying up
the mulch you laid
to give those tiny seeds a fighting chance.
Unseasonal heat stealing water from sprinklers
you spaced evenly
while the seed
Hope deferred makes the heart numb when
you’ve been longing for something green
to break through
another dry year.
“Remember the grass?” I asked.
One year we laid down to wonder
at the stars together
when it seemed we were over,
and to chase the kids with water balloons
in the heat of summer.
I’m buried twenty-seven years and two sons deep
I’ll stop pressing you
a seed falls to the ground
you have no power to produce.
Cover photo by Francesco Gallarotti

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MacBook, MacBook Pro
If the computer is on, turn it off.
Disconnect the AC Adapter and remove the computer's battery.
Press and hold down the power button for 5 seconds and then release the button.
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Press the Power button to restart the computer.
BOOT TO STARTUP MANAGER
try booting to the install disk from startup manager.
if you cannot boot to startup manager after resetting smu and pram that you are KO'ed
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How Might Gossip Influence Coaching Effectiveness?
"I found an interesting article from NPR last week that confirms what many of us have known for a long time - that gossip is not just about dishing on people to entertain ourselves (if, of course, we were to allow ourselves to do such a thing! :-). Gossip influences not just what we think about people and expect about people - but now research says it influences how we actually see people. And I mean ""see"" in terms of the biological function of vision. According to the article - and the biology of the species - human beings evolved to use gossip as a way to help manage interactions. What we could find out about each other prior to an interaction would help us know who is likely to be our friend and who is likely to be an enemy. Check it out: http://n.pr/l4cEGr Now, I do have a point here. If our perceptions of people influence, literally, how we see them - it follows that there will be some affect on how we interact with them. Our behaviors are often influenced by how other people react or interact with us. Given that, how might gossip influence a coaching process - either in the way a client sees his or her coach, or a coach sees his or her client? Can you use this research to help your coaching clients understand why they perceive certain things about people, even though evidence might not exist? Is this a greater issue in the workplace than it might be in an independent coaching practice? Doreen"


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Facebook's Skewing My Sense of Real Friendship
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I'm a supportive, loyal, and giving friend. My friends do not treat me the same way.
posted by iLoveTheRain to Human Relations (45 answers total) 28 users marked this as a favorite
With the advent of Facebook and other social media avenues, the ways in which people portray themselves to other people has obviously changed. One thing that I've noticed over the past few years (okay, maybe the last decade even) is that everybody else seems to have more supportive friends than I do. They have friends who throw them birthday parties unasked, cheer for them at performances and graduations unasked, and friends who actively seem to miss them in ways my friends never have. I am, in short, jealous as hell and feel very sad because I am that kind of friend to other people, but I don't seem to have anyone in my life that reciprocates.
What's the deal here? Are other people actually that supportive of each other or is this sort of a constructed reality that people can now design for themselves with a few tweaks to their profile page? I feel so lonely and unappreciated, and I'd like to change that by seeking out people who will be as much of a friend to me as I will be to them, but I don't know that this is something that is actually achievable.

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All of the above contributed to the depopulation of the city, which went from 1.9 million residents in 1950 to 700,000 now - a minority of whom earns enough to pay taxes.
Yet difficult as Detroit's economic issues were, bad governance made all of them worse.
For too long, too many people whose first concern was supposed to be serving citizens concentrated instead on feeding off whatever public resources Detroit had.
Even now, with municipal bankruptcy staring them in the face, some of Detroit's creditors are resisting Orr's plan to restructure the city's debt and devote $1.25 billion in savings over 10 years toward, well, saving the city - block by burned-out block.
At last check, the 54-year-old Orr was planning to take some bankers on a bus tour of devastated neighborhoods, an effort to raise what Stephen Henderson of the Detroit Free Press calls "empathy capital."
One can only hope for his success.
Certainly the Michigan law under which Gov. Rick Snyder, R, appointed Orr authorizes him to do what is necessary - from ripping up union contracts to blowing the whistle on alleged pension fund malfeasance. German chancellor Angela Merkel could only wish for such quasi-dictatorial power over her Greek clients.
Of course, Detroit should never have reached the point where it needed an enlightened dictator. Motor City residents, public employees, financiers and politicians should have practiced the shared sacrifice Orr is belatedly attempting to impose.
Yet they are hardly the only ones to fail. In California, the cities of Vallejo, San Bernardino and Stockton have declared municipal bankruptcy, from which only Vallejo has emerged; Harrisburg, Pa., is insolvent.
Last month Fitch Ratings warned that it might downgrade $8.7 billion of Chicago debt due to a growing unfunded-pension liability.
Maybe Americans have nothing to learn from Greece.
Detroit, though, is closer to home, and its lessons are not so easily ignored.
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Jo’s Garden Corner – January
There are jobs you can carry out at this time of year. It is fine to prune fruit trees in cold but not frosty weather. You can also prune hardy foliage plants now, too. Newly arrived bare root roses and fruit trees can be “heeled in” by covering the roots in compost in a container in a cool, frost-free place until the ground defrosts. Remove any snow-damaged branches from shrubs and small trees, cutting cleanly back to a healthy branch or the trunk. If in doubt of how to manage dead or damaged branches of larger trees, consult a qualified arboriculturalist or tree surgeon. If you haven’t yet got around to planting bulbs such as tulips, they can still be planted as long as they are firm and mould-free and the ground is not too hard.
Bear in mind that once plants in containers have frozen, it’s too late to bubble-wrap them for protection. Move them to a sheltered spot near the house or into a light shed or garage. Keep plants protected under fleece or in a frame until they can be liberated. Freeze and thaw together are lethal in combination, so the drier conditions of a frame will minimise damage. The books say to start forcing rhubarb in January, but you may wish to wait for a month and mulch it in readiness. It will need its reserves to provide you with that all important crumble filling. A white frost looks very pretty, but never walk across a lawn until it is thawed or you will leave blackened footprints where the grass bruises. Netting is a worthwhile precaution when birds’ wild food is scarce.
Pigeons can decimate winter greens, and even tits are known to strip the buds from primroses and polyanthus. If your pond freezes over do not worry that you need to break the ice as oxygen will still be available for wildlife and plants. Fish may benefit from extra oxygen, so keep the pump running if you have one to prevent freezing. Finally remember our little feathered friends and try to feed the birds during the cold wintry months. Finally sort out that potting shed. Start by setting aside tools that need sharpening. Cut down old canes and turn them into markers, and put the mower in for a service before the grass starts growing. Go through old seed, re-order, and any that is out of date can be scattered on an orphaned piece of ground. Sow anything that needs the winter action of frost to break seed dormancy. Greenhouses too should be cleaned. Throw away any dying plants to avoid spreading disease. Scrub staging and floors to banish overwintering pests and diseases.


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A review of Mimesis and Science: Empirical Research on Imitation and the Mimetic Theory of Culture and Religion, ed. Scott Garrels, East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2011.
Over the past 50 years, the way we understand imitation and its centrality to human nature, culture, and religion has changed profoundly. In recent decades, scientists and social scientists from a diverse array of fields—including developmental psychology, neuroscience, and primatology—have begun to recognize the importance of imitation in human development, language acquisition, cultural transmission, and sociality.
Yet one of the most compelling theories of imitation emerged not from the sciences but from literary studies. In 1961, René Girard published “Deceit, Desire, and the Novel,” an essay on five major European novelists (Cervantes, Stendhal, Flaubert, Dostoevsky, and Proust). Here, Girard argues that great literature offers insights into human nature that surpass those of the social sciences. The novelists he explores understood intuitively that human desire is rooted neither in the objective world of things nor in the subjective world of inner thoughts and feelings. Instead, desire is a social phenomenon involving the imitation of a model (whom Girard calls “the mediator”) who dictates our desires to us, often without our being aware of it.
In combining desire and imitation, Girard brought together two areas of human inquiry that thinkers and scientists tended to keep separate. Plato discusses imitation, yet he limits the concept to the aesthetic field. Freud speaks of desire, yet for him, all desire stems fundamentally from biological drives that spring from within the human subject. Whenever we talk about imitation, we tend to forget about desire; and when we speak of desire, we refuse to recognize its link to imitation. Girard’s theory of imitation, known as the “mimetic theory,” provides a powerful explanation for the origin and function of religion based on the diverse and generative effects of mimetic desire, and it is now finding support in the experimental sciences.
The latest empirical research on primate and human imitation places increased emphasis on the imitation of goals and underlying intentions. Thus, the time was ripe to initiate a dialogue between scholars of Girard’s mimetic theory and researchers interested in goal-directed imitation and its role in social cognition, empathy, and learning. Mimesis and Science, a collection published in 2011 by Michigan State University Press, does just that.
The volume is edited by Scott Garrels, an adjunct professor of psychology at the Fuller Theological Seminary and a clinical psychologist in private practice with a background in both the humanities and the hard sciences. With chapters from some of the world’s leading scientists, anthropologists, and philosophers, the book is a rare example of true interdisciplinary inquiry, and instead of being a hodgepodge of academic articles, it reads like a coherent essay, the arguments unfolding chapter by chapter and flowing seamlessly into one another.
In the first chapter, “Human Imitation: Historical, Philosophical, and Scientific Perspectives,” Garrels sets the stage for the articles to come: “Far from being the simple and mindless act that we typically associate it with (‘monkey see, monkey do’), imitation is now understood as a complex, generative, and multidimensional phenomenon at the heart of what makes us human,” he writes on the first page, going on to argue that imitation is what makes it possible for us to learn, understand one another, form bonds, and—at the same time—compete with and behave violently toward one another.
This may sound like a bold claim. After all, as Garrels explains in a brief survey of imitation from antiquity to the present, throughout most of human history imitation has either been granted only a narrow sphere of legitimacy (in the arts, or in the spiritual life) or has been denigrated and dismissed as antithetical to the notion of the autonomous self greatly prized by modern philosophy. And by the end of the 19th century, he writes, “imitation as a central concept was substantially marginalized by the most influential psychological theories as they began to emerge in the twentieth century.” This was true not only of the theories of Freud, but also of Piaget, who believed that imitation was an ability acquired in the course of child development, not an innate faculty present from birth.
The contributors to Mimesis and Science argue that imitation is a fundamental aspect of human nature, perhaps even the defining human trait. At the same time, however, the authors emphasize that we cannot come to a full and accurate understanding of imitation, how it works, and the role it plays in human life, culture, and religion without taking into account its goal-directedness. By the same token, we cannot understand human desires, aims, and intentions without recognizing that they are fundamentally mimetic, borrowed from others and co-created in the process. Rather than possessing innate proclivities or desiring objects with inherently desirable qualities, human beings learn what to want from one another.
Indeed, it is because we share our desires that we so often end up quarreling and fighting. When two people desire the same object, their initial impulse is reinforced by the other’s desire. In this way, a flicker of interest can rapidly escalate into a frenzied drive to capture what, in the absence of the rival’s covetous gaze, might soon be regarded with utter indifference. This is why siblings in the nursery, surrounded by expensive toys, fight passionately over a dirty old stuffed animal; diehard sports fans pay astronomical sums on eBay for the sweaty sneakers worn by their favorite professional athlete in the big game; and an obscure tech start-up can suddenly see its shares soar in value.
In a world of nearly infinite (and sometimes paralyzing) choice, we often define the self as the sum of our preferences. Yet if these preferences prove to be derivative, this implies that our individual selves are actually steeped in otherness, our supposedly inviolable individuality sculpted by peer influence. Indeed, the notion of mimetic desire revolutionizes our understanding of the self, as French psychiatrist Jean-Michel Oughourlian argues in the chapter “From Universal Mimesis to the Self Formed by Desire.” He notes that most contemporary psychological approaches, even the ones that champion the notion of intersubjectivity, tend to assume that relationships happen between two or more already-constituted selves. In his view, the notion of intersubjectivity is a step in the right direction, but it does not go far enough. He asserts that imitation stands at the root of the self, which is formed entirely through interactions with others. “The self is a purely psychological entity, a structure in constant becoming at the heart of continuous exchanges with similar structures,” he writes. In other words, the self as such cannot be said to exist until it absorbs its attributes from the models around it. Deep inside us, there exists no solid core of selfhood, only layers of otherness folded into a combination that is unique without ceasing to be essentially derivative.
Oughourlian’s ideas about what he calls the “interdividual”—as opposed to the “individual”—self are borne out in the research of developmental psychologist Andrew Meltzoff, who authors a chapter on imitation, intention, and infant research. Meltzoff has been a leading figure in imitation research since the late 1970s, when his work on infant imitation began to overturn what he refers to as “the myth of the asocial infant.” Through now-famous experiments in which he elicited facial imitation from newborns, Meltzoff demonstrated that infants do not gradually become socialized, as many modern psychologists (such as Piaget, Freud, and Skinner) believed. Rather, they are open to others and capable of imitating and learning from the very beginning. Indeed, imitation is the mechanism of socialization, and it is operative from birth (in some experiments, Meltzoff was the first human being the newborn encountered, even before the mother!).
As Meltzoff explains, infants soon note that the mother’s gaze roves about, and they follow this trusted gaze, their eyes landing on objects in the world around them. In this way—through imitation—the mother initiates the child into the reality of objects outside the mother-child cocoon, and by naming those objects, establishes connections between the “verbal label” and the thing itself. For Meltzoff, intersubjectivity (what Oughourlian would call “interdividuality”) comes before language and facilitates learning. Not only that, but inter-imitation provides the basis for human kinship and feelings of identification: “preverbal human infants immediately register similarities between self and other,” he writes. Not only does imitation come into play before language acquisition, but imitation, he concludes, also picks up on “underlying goals, desires, and intentions.”
Vittorio Gallese’s contribution is also worth mentioning here. Gallese is a professor of neurophysiology at the University of Parma and it was there that he participated in the discovery of “mirror neurons” in macaque monkeys. Mirror neurons are brain cells that, in Gallese’s words, “fire both when the monkey performs goal-directed motor acts, like grasping objects with the hand and/or the mouth, and when it observes similar acts performed by others.” How Gallese handles the implications of this discovery is both sensitive and nuanced. He steers clear of the “mereological fallacy” (which consists of assigning personal-level properties and attributes to things like brain cells; “My mirror neurons made me do it” would be an example of this) and at the same time discards “undifferentiated” forms of holism that discount the complexity and multi-layers of human experience.
His conclusion is that what he calls the “Mirror Neuron System” is instrumental in enabling humans to engage in the imitation of simple movements and the learning of complex skills. More to the point, the MNS can explain many unconscious instances of imitation (this unconscious dimension of mimesis is an element that Garrels emphasizes in his introduction as well) and is, in sum, “a good candidate for the subpersonal instantiation of what enables appropriative mimesis.” In other words, mirror neurons could well be the most basic physiological building blocks of what Girard calls mimetic desire.
Gallese’s discussion of the sociality of emotions resonates with philosopher Paul Dumouchel’s notion that “a given emotional state (say, being angry at someone) is not an instrinsic psychological property of a subject, but the relational property of an individual with a given social context.” Dumouchel is another contributor to the compendium, and the way his findings are shown to be intertwined with Gallese’s is just one of many examples of the care and thoroughness the volume’s editor displays in assembling the articles and building bridges between them. To be fair, the interrelationship of the contributions stems in part from the fact that the book grew out of interdisciplinary work done at Stanford University and the École normale supérieure in Paris that brought together all of the volume’s authors for discussion and debate over the course of three years. However, it also speaks to the willingness of these scientists, philosophers, and anthropologists to reflect intelligently on one another’s work and to venture into methodological terrain that is sometimes unfamiliar.
Ann Cale Kruger’s article on “Imitation, Communion, and Culture” synthesizes the first part of the book before launching into a more anthropological and evolutionary discussion, which is the focus of the volume’s remaining chapters. Moving from child development to primate research, Kruger looks at the cognitive and social skills that separate humans from non-human primates. The articles that follow take a similarly anthropological approach, addressing the link between imitation and violence (Mark Anspach); the question of war (Melvin Konner); the neurobiology of desire and human freedom (William Hurlbut); and, finally, the question of how (and whether) Girard’s mimetic theory should engage with the empirical sciences (Jean-Pierre Dupuy). For Dupuy, the onus is on the hard sciences to account for humanity’s self-evidently mimetic propensities. As he writes:
All but the most die-hard reductionists would agree that the proposition “Man is a super-mimetic animal” is self-evidently true even if the biological mechanisms responsible for it remain unknown. …The truth of this proposition is beyond any reasonable doubt. It is therefore a challenge for the neurosciences and for cognitive science more generally, but not for MT [Mimetic Theory], to account for this fact. A would-be cognitive science that would prove incapable of it should simply be discarded.
Dupuy’s point is well taken, but readers of this volume will, I think, agree that the contributions of distinguished researchers from the experimental sciences, such as Meltzoff, Gallese, and Kruger, offer illuminating new ways of exploring human imitation and its relationship to our intentions and desires.
The book concludes with a long, in-depth interview with Girard himself, covering both his mimetic theory and its development, as well as his thoughts on the recent advances in imitation research from the developmental and cognitive sciences. Overall, Girard views the empirical research in a positive light. His main criticism of the human sciences is that they do not take seriously enough the problem of human violence—mimetic violence, in particular—in accounting for the origin and structure of human culture and religion. Indeed, scientists have shied away from dealing with the potentially violent consequences of goal-directed imitation, and they remain a bit reticent in this regard here.
In contrast, Girardian scholars are often criticized for focusing too much on mimetic violence and ignoring the positive aspects of imitation that are at the heart of overcoming the type of social and collective violence that Girard’s theory illuminates. However, in accepting the 2007 Templeton Prize, philosopher Charles Taylor pointed out that neither human violence nor our capacity to turn away from it are adequately understood:
We urgently need to understand what makes whole groups of people ready to be swept up into this kind of project [collective violence]. But in fact, we have only a very imperfect grasp on this. Some of our most insightful scholars, like René Girard, or Sudhir Kakar, have studied it. Great writers, like Dostoevsky, have cast great light on it, but it remains still mysterious. What is equally imperfectly understood is the way in which charismatic spiritual leadership, of a Gandhi, a Mandela, a Tutu, can bring people back from the brink.
Even if important aspects of human violence and nonviolence remain elusive, Mimesis and Science makes it abundantly clear that imitation is integral to both phenomena, and we now have new interdisciplinary tools for reevaluating these fundamental aspects of our nature.