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Her sister was murdered in 1980. New DNA methods could crack the case, but NY will not allow it.
November 9, 2019 US 0 6
"It might break this case" There, things stood in late 2018, when Wilkowitz & # 39; son asked if she had heard the story of the Golden State Murderer. She did not have that, so he said How early this year the authorities indicted a former police officer for a series of rapes and murders in California between 1974 and …
NASA's InSight probe is still struggling to crack the surface of Mars
October 28, 2019 Science 0 4
In March of this year, part of the drill known as "the mole" remained stuck in the hard ground, making it impossible to move. To clear it, the drill package was removed from the lander as far as possible, and the drill with the lander's robotic arm was pushed against the ground in a movement called "sticking." That seemed to …
Unused resource or greenhouse gas threat, found below the crack axis off the coast of Okinawa
September 22, 2019 Science 0 3
Kyushu University researchers have located a large gas reservoir below the rifting axis, using an automated method to derive the velocity of seismic pressure waves from the seismic Reflection is based on data. The reservoir is seen as a dark blue low speed area within higher speed green areas in this two dimensional seismic velocity mapping, which extends over a …
Le & # Veon Bell undergoes an MRI on the shoulder. The results show no major crack for jets returning before week 2
September 12, 2019 Sports 0 2
The New York Jets, who ran away from Le Veon Bell, underwent MRI on Thursday for continuing pain in the shoulder. As a result, he missed training on Thursday as the team prepared to play Cleveland Browns on Monday night of the week. 2 is opener at home. The results of the MRI are now available and all Jets fans …
Attack leaves Wall Streets legendary bulls with a crack on the horn
September 9, 2019 Entertainment 0 4
The weapon was made of sharp-edged metal and resembled, according to the police, a makeshift banjo. It left behind the cut about a dozen deep scratches. Witnesses said the bull had been beaten dozens of times, and the sound of the blows was deafening. Some people dispersed. Others seemed to think it was a performance. "While he was beating the …
Hackers use SIM exchange to crack Twitter accounts
September 1, 2019 Business 0 1
Twitter founder and CEO Twitter account Jack Dorsey was hacked on August 30 and shocked his followers as his account spit out racial insults, anti-Semitic tweets, and offensive content before all tweets and retweets were removed. According to a first Twitter statement a "security oversight" of the provider allowed the hackers to gain control. Twitter's communications team later made it …
US leaders and telecom companies are ready to crack down on robocalls
August 22, 2019 Business 0 3
WASHINGTON: 50 US and District of Columbia lawyers will announce Thursday that they are joining forces with major telecoms providers including AT & T, Verizon Communications, Comcast, Sprint, and T-Mobile, according to a Reuters-viewed document they go against unwanted robocalls. The state-owned companies and companies disclose non-binding "anti-robocall principles". Steps to Reduce Unwanted Calls and Collaborate with Attorney Generals on …
Yanks beat the 49th HR vs. O's to crack the MLB mark
August 8, 2019 Sports 0 2
BALTIMORE – The Bronx bombers bomb the best in Baltimore. In the same city in which Francis Scott Key famously wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner", the New York Yankees struck their 49th home game against the Baltimore Orioles this season, breaking the record for most Homer from a team against one single opponent in a season. The record breaker landed in …
SpaceX has restored its first missile disguise. Let's crack the numbers!
July 2, 2019 Science 0 5
When a rocket launches with a payload (like a satellite), it needs a fairing. The fairing, essentially the nose cone of the rocket, is the payload cover that aerodynamically makes the spacecraft fly through the earth's atmosphere. But as soon as the rocket has left most of the air behind it, it no longer needs a fairing – it becomes …
Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau plans to crack down on pence over state abortion restrictions
May 30, 2019 World 0 1
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he would confront Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday over the recent spate of laws against abortion, which Trudeau called the "relapse of women's rights". Several US states have done so to legislate restrictions on abortion – especially in Georgia, where the "Heartbeat Bill" bans the trial after six weeks, and in Alabama, where …


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Telenet is the largest provider of broadband cable services in Belgium. Its business comprises the provision of analogue and digital cable television, high-speed Internet and fixed & mobile telephone services.
At the launch of Yelo, an application bringing digital TV to mobile devices and (portable) computers, users were invited to provide feedback on social media. 100 participants were recruited from the open community to join a 3-week pre-launch Consumer Consulting Board (also known as online research community), allowing an intensive collaboration and improvement discussions. Based on the output, Telenet's development roadmap was structured and prioritized.
Community members' feedback resulted in a selection of 45 user-generated improvements, 30 of which are added to the roadmap: ranging from bugs and interface changes to content features. The third update of the app included more than 50% of user-generated changes. The project approach resulted in highly satisfied users (83%): turning users into real brand ambassadors.
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How Much Caffeine Would It Take To Kill You?
April 30, 2020 Scott
Katie O/ asks: How much caffeine would someone have to drink to be fatal?
There have been numerous deaths attributed to excessive caffeine ingestion. So if you happen to be a person who loves coffee and energy drinks, you might want to know approximately what amount you should avoid drinking on a given day. So how much caffeine would it take to kill you?
Well, there are several factors that make this a tricky question to answer. For example, not everyone reacts the same way to caffeine. People also become tolerant to it and so the effects can be different from person to person. Lastly, there would be no respectable researcher who would dare perform a study on humans if the goal of that study is death to the person. Thus, as you might expect, we couldn't find any studies that show what amount of caffeine would definitively kill your average human. But that's not very interesting, so let's dig a little deeper, shall we?
First, we went ahead and gathered 100 volunteers who were tired of living, along with some who we just found on the streets and figured they should have been staying quarantined, so what would happen next in our study is really on them…
But more seriously, it turns out there are less ethically questionable studies that have allowed doctors to understand what's going on inside the body in caffeine overdoses and approximately what dose would prove fatal for the average person. So while the exact dose is almost impossible to answer for a given individual, we can say for sure a few things, like that the highest caffeine dose ever known to be ingested by someone who survived was around 100 grams.
Although that might not sound like that much, in terms of raw amount of caffeine, it should be noted that that's the amount of caffeine in about 1,200 cups of coffee!
Lesser doses that are generally thought to put an adult at high risk of death typically range from about 5-10 grams ingested in a short period, which is still an awful lot of energy drinks and/or coffee, though there are certain diet pills that can easily get you over that amount in just a handful of pills.
Of course, people ingesting significantly lesser doses have had death attributed to caffeine overdose. That said, others survive where you'd think they wouldn't, such as one medical report looking at the case of an unnamed one year old girl who ingested some of her mother's diet pills. The total dose of caffeine to the one year old was approximately 3 grams.
While said baby did have significant complications, including heart issues and seizures in the immediate aftermath, she survived the incident and did not seem to suffer from any long term issues. Noteworthy here is that due to her tiny size, the caffeine concentration in her system ended up being the second highest every documented in someone who survived the event.
Yet another research paper we looked at documented the case of a 16 year old boy who ingested around 6-8 grams of caffeine and also managed to survive, despite a number of immediate medical complications as a result of the caffeine.
So basically, there are a myriad of factors at play here, but as for a definitive dose that would kill most people, it turns out when talking cups of coffee or energy drinks, it's a huge amount in most people, with some exceptions where individuals with certain heart conditions and the like might want to avoid significantly smaller doses.
As for the average Joe, most physicians and medical bodies tend to recommend avoiding ingesting more than around 500-600 mg of caffeine per day, not necessarily because you might die per se, but more because it's likely not going to be good for you for a variety of reasons, especially if done regularly.
For reference, the average cup of coffee has in the range of 40-150mg of caffeine. For example, a Starbucks 2x Caffeine K-cup will get you a dose of around 260 mg, compared to the normally caffeinated k-cup from the same brand which has around 130 mg. Obviously if following the recommendations, you'll want to avoid more than 2 of the 2x caffeine k-cups per day.
For other references, 12 ounces of Jolt cola has approximately 100mg (16 oz at about 160 mg), Monster Energy at about 160 mg, 12 oz of Mountain Dew has 55mg, and Dr. Pepper has 61 mg.
So this all might have you wondering how caffeine actually manages to kill?
Caffeine is one of several naturally occurring substances known as Xanthines. Xanthines are among other things, central nervous system (CNS) stimulants. Caffeine, specifically, is in over 60 known plant species. It's the most widely consumed psychoactive substance in the world. Depending on which study you read, approximately 80-90% of the US population consumes at least 200mg per day. In low doses, it has many benefits that can help with things like pain management, water retention, alertness, and a general feeling of wellbeing, to name a few.
As with most CNS stimulants, the higher the dose, the more profound the reaction. As you consume more caffeine, the risks begin to outweigh the benefits. A person can become jittery, anxious, begin having high blood pressure, chest pain, headaches, dehydration, and unfortunately, dependence that causes withdrawals if you don't continue consuming it. In toxic doses, caffeine can cause extremely low blood pressures, seizures, cardiac rhythm problems, and lactic acidosis.
While there appears to be some dissension among researchers as to exactly how xanthines, like caffeine, cause the reactions they do. What is known is that they antagonize what are known as adenosine-receptors within almost every cell in the body.
Adenosine is a chemical present in every human cell. It combines with other chemicals like phosphate to create numerous compounds that help cells work properly. Those compounds need to attach to their receptors to affect cells. There are 4 main groups of adensonine receptors within the body and their effects can fall into four categories. Generally speaking, adenosine compounds help in increasing the oxygen available to cells, protect against the damage caused by a lack of oxygen, help in initiating the body's natural anti-inflammatory responses, and help in the creation of blood vessels.
Caffeine is similar to adenosine in chemical composition, and as such, can attach to adenosine receptors not allowing adenosine compounds to perform normally. The result is CNS and cardiac stimulation, relaxation of the smooth muscles, and a diuretic action on the kidneys that can lead to dehydration.
Thus, in high levels, caffeine can be very toxic. It will bind to adenosine receptor sites known as subtypes A1 and A2. The result is seizures. In high doses, it will also inhibit an enzyme known as phosphodiesterase, while stimulating the release of neurotransmitters involved in your fight or flight nervous system. The result is extremely fast heart rates, dilation of your blood vessels causing low blood pressures, low potassium levels that can cause lethal heart rhythms, the breakdown of sugars in your liver, and an increase in your white blood cells.
If all that doesn't seem like it's deadly enough, those side effects will cause their own problems. Specifically, lactic acidosis will be caused by your body's tissues not getting enough oxygen because your blood pressure is too low. The result of your seizures, low oxygen levels within your cells, and an inevitable calcium release from an area of your cells called your endoplasmic reticulum will give you what is known as rhabdomyolysis- this is a breakdown of your muscles causing a release of your muscle fibers into your bloodstream (brown pee and clogged kidneys anyone!).
If you're thinking "I'm never drinking that nectar from Satan again", don't worry, those toxic reactions won't happen at normal consumption levels. Just, again, when you start getting in excess of 500-600 mg per day for a typical adult, you're going to start to have a bad time in many cases. And even less for the littles.
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Speaking of Satan, prior to being baptized in the 16th century by Pope Clement VIII, coffee had been thought by many Catholic leaders in Europe to be Satan's drink. Whether because of its characteristic dark color and bitter taste (both of which were the antithesis of sweet wine, which was associated with the Eucharist and Christ), its physical effects, or its roots in the Muslim world, or all three, many Catholic clerics were solidly against the beverage.
As to who first brewed the first cup of Joe isn't known, but that hasn't stopped many a fictitious origin story from popping up, such as the commonly repeated legend that coffee was first "discovered" in the 9th century by an Ethiopian herdsman, Kaldi who noticed that one of his goats appeared to be particularly frolicsome after consuming some red coffee berries. Giving it a go himself, he soon felt more upbeat. Energized, he relayed his discovery to his neighbors and coffee consumption was born.
However it really came to be discovered as a stimulant, over time, coffee became popular throughout Ethiopia, where it was said that warriors of the Galla tribe mixed it with butter and ate it before going into battle. Eventually, by the 12th century Arab traders returning to what is now Yemen from Ethiopia brought coffee with them and learned to cultivate the plant. By this point, the beans were being transformed into a drink (qahwa or kahwah) by means of boiling.
In the 15th century, Ottoman Turks brought coffee with them when they conquered Constantinople (Kostantiniyye or al-Qustantiniyah). At this same time, the Mufti of Aden, who had been suffering with an unidentified illness and was cured after drinking coffee for the first time, touted its beneficial qualities, which contributed to its popularity throughout the Muslim world.
Also in the 15th century, the first coffee houses (Kaveh Kanes) began appearing in Mecca and Constantinople, and like today, they were used for not only drinking coffee, but socializing as well.
By the end of the 16th century, coffee was found in Venice, and by the turn of the 17th century, Catholic Church leaders were becoming suspicious of coffee and the effect it had on the local populace. Deciding it must be Satan's drink, many local clergy beseeched the pope, asking him to prohibit its consumption.
Trying it for himself, Pope Clement VIII (1536-1605) found it agreeable, and demonstrating a gift for diplomacy, declared in 1600:
"Why, this Satan's drink is so delicious that it would be a pity to let the infidels have exclusive use of it. We shall cheat Satan by baptizing it."
With the pope's blessing and its natural addictive qualities, coffee soon spread across Europe.
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Caffeine Overdose in an Adolescent Male
How Much Caffeine Would It Take To Kill You
Caffeine's Effect On The Brain
Haemodialysis In Massive Caffeine Intoxication
Caffeine And Your Body
Caffeine Withdrawal
Xanthine Derivatives
Adenosine Receptors
Beware of Caffeine in Ice Cream and Frozen Yogurt
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Hands up, masks on: High school students face whole new year
Year seven pupils Henry Holness, left, and Eddie Favell in class during their first day at Kingsdale Foundation School in London, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020. Schools in England are starting to reopen with special measures in place to deal with Coronavirus. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
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Sept. 3, 2020 9:29 AM PT
LONDON —
Henry Holness said he had to sleep on it.
Having found out just two days ago that he had secured a place at his first choice of high school, the 11-year-old and his parents clearly had a big decision to make.
A day later, he decided to accept the offer from Kingsdale Foundation School in southeast London, joining about 400 other seventh-grade children embarking on the next — and perhaps most crucial — period in their learning, as many schools in England on Thursday restarted in-class lessons.
"It was really a lot of fun, and it was really great to see so many people again," said the soccer-mad Holness.
Like countless others, he has been hungry for more human contact over the past few months during the coronavirus lockdown.
"Though COVID has clearly added complications to starting back at school, it's important for Henry and all the other kids to get back into a normal routine," said his mother, Liz Holness.
The coronavirus pandemic requires a lot from schools, which were closed in March as part of the lockdown imposed by the British government and are slowly reopening through next week.
One-way travel systems, hand sanitizing stations, temperature checks and the donning of face masks in communal areas such as corridors and stairwells are just some of the changes. Like all schools, Kingsdale has had to re-imagine how it safely delivers education in the coronavirus era.
No easy task, especially since Britain's Conservative government has offered meandering or contradictory advice about how best to tame the pandemic that has killed at least 41,600 people in the country, the worst virus death toll in Europe.
Kingsdale, a turnaround school that is now consistently rated as outstanding and considered one of the British capital's best, is welcoming back students in stages over the coming days, starting with the Year 7 students on Thursday. It won't be until the middle of next week that the school will be bouncing to the rhythm of its 2,000 or so students.
It will be a very different school experience though, with students kept to their own year bubbles in order to limit interactions. Start times and lunch breaks will also be staggered.
"Necessity is indeed the mother of invention," said Christine Matheson, the deputy headteacher at Kingsdale. "We believe we will be even better than we were before, despite having to overcome the logistical complexities of implementing a completely new timetable structure, social distancing, accelerated programmes of study for recovery and much-needed structured well-being packages."
Many students were taking the changes in stride and have opted to wear masks in the classroom even though they're not required.
"It felt fine going back to school, I didn't really think about corona," said Eddie Favell, also 11, after his first day at Kingsdale. "We have been wearing masks for so long now it is starting to feel normal."
After six months being stuck at home, the reopening of all schools is clearly the single most important easing of the country's lockdown and one that can trigger other changes, such as encouraging more parents back into the office.
For parents and children, just being able to disconnect from each other for a few hours is a reward in itself.
"I think both children and parents really need it," said Sophie Favell, Eddie's mum. "I am sure there will be issues and maybe local lockdowns along the way, but the schools all want the best for the pupils and as parents we have to do our best to support them."
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Directory of Tennessee Resources
Home > Society > Death > Death Care > Funeral Services > North America > United States > Tennessee
Suppliers of Monuments
Ailor Mortuary
http://www.legacy.com/Obituaries.asp?Page=FHDirections&FHIndex=6422
Maynardville funeral home. Location and online obituaries.
Anderson - Upper Cumberland Funeral Home
http://www.ucfuneral.com/
Locally operated, in Gainesboro (Jackson County). Features photos of facilities and staff, information about services and merchandise offered, and online obituaries.
Atchley Funeral Home
http://www.atchleyfuneralhome.com/
Locally-owned provider of funeral services in Sevier County. List of locations, descriptions of facilities and services, and online obituaries.
Berry Funeral Home
http://www.dignitymemorial.com/berry-funeral-home/en-us/index.page
Includes history of the family-owned business, description of services offered, and locations and photos of funeral homes and cemeteries in Knoxville and Alcoa.
Click Funeral Home
http://www.clickfuneralhome.com/
Family-owned funeral homes providing services in Lenoir City and Farragut. Includes current obituaries, cemetery lists, service pricing, history of the business, and other information.
Cremation Options, Inc.
http://www.cremationoptionsinc.com/
Knoxville funeral establishment offering all services related to cremation. Includes extensive information about this option.
Dillow-Taylor Funeral Home & Cremation Services
http://www.dillow-taylor.com/
Funeral and cremation services in Jonesborough. Includes a schedule of services, memorial suggestions and driving directions.
Farrar Funeral Home
http://www.farrarfuneralhome.com/
Locally owned provider of funeral services with several chapels in Jefferson County. Staff qualifications, business history, locations, services offered, and online obituaries.
Foston Funeral Home
http://www.fostonfuneralhome.com/
Offering funeral services, planning, cremations, and counseling referral in Clarksville.
Four Oaks Funeral Homes
http://www.fouroaksfuneralhome.com/
Family owned and operated, with locations in Oneida and Huntsville in Scott County. Descriptions of services, virtual tours of the facilities, online obituaries, and other topics.
Gallant Funeral Home
http://www.gallantfuneralhome.com/
Funeral facility and cemetery in Fayetteville. Includes location information, FAQs and obituaries.
Grant Funeral Services
http://www.grantfuneralservices.net/
Estill Springs. History, services offered, obituaries, and other resources.
Harpeth Family Funeral Services
http://www.harpethhills.com/
Family owned and operated funeral homes and cemeteries offering cemetery, funeral and cremation services at several locations in Nashville and Middle Tennessee.
High Funeral Home
http://www.highfuneralhome.com/
McMinnville. Locally owned; in the same location since 1925. Business history, services offered, online obituaries, and other details.
Hood Funeral Home
http://www.hoodfuneralhome.com/
Crossville. Photos of the facilities, obituaries, and information on services offered and prearrangements.
Jarnigan & Son Mortuary
http://www.jarnigansmortuary.com/
Family-owned funeral services provider in Knoxville. Includes business history, services offered, advice, calendar of services, and directory of other local African American resources.
Jennings Funeral Homes
http://www.jenningsfh.com/
Fentress County funeral services provider with locations in Jamestown and Clarkrange. Includes business history, photos and details of facilities, and obituary archive.
Jerry Smith Funeral Home
http://www.jerrysmithfuneralhome.com/
Athens; family-owned. Describes history, lists staff, describes services offered, and provides advice on preplanning.
Jones Mortuary LLC
http://jonesmortuaryllc.com/
Clinton. Offers funerals, cremation, and memorial services. Photos of facilities, advice on keeping death care affordable, and other information.
London Funeral Home and Cornersville Funeral Home
http://www.londonfuneralhomes.com/
In Lewisburg and Cornersville, two facilities with long histories of service in Marshall County. Backgrounds of the funeral directors, locations, descriptions of services, and online obituaries.
McCammon-Ammons-Click Funeral Home
http://www.mccammonammonsclick.com/
Family owned and operated in Maryville, TN and serving families of all faiths. Includes general information, services, preplanning, aftercare and obituaries.
McDonald Funeral Homes of Perry County
http://www.mcdonaldfuneralhomestn.com/
Offers funeral services in Linden and Lobelville. Includes business history, description of services, photos, recent obituaries, and driving directions.
Miller Funeral Home
http://www.millerfuneralhome.org/
Maryville; locally owned. Location, business history, services offered, online obituaries, and advice for clients.
Mynatt Funeral Home
http://www.mynattfh.com/
Family-owned mortuary in the Fountain City area of Knoxville. Lists staff; describes company history, capabilities, products, and services; provides directory of area cemeteries and current obituaries.
Neal-Tarpley-Parchman Funeral Home
http://www.nealtarpleyparchman.com/
Clarksville. Information about business history, facilities, services, and staff.
Phillips-Robinson Funeral Home
http://www.phillipsrobinson.com/
Family owned firm operating in Nashville and Old Hickory. Locations, services offered, business history, and advice on arrangements and pre-planning.
Reece Funeral Home
http://www.reecefh.com/
Harrogate. Family owned. Includes business history, online obituaries, and descriptions and photos of facilities and services.
Rogers Funeral Homes
http://www.rogersfuneralhome.com/
Offers comprehensive funeral services in Marion County, with funeral homes in Jasper and South Pittsburg. Describes the business and its services.
Rose Mortuary
http://rosemortuary.com/
Knoxville. Operates two funeral chapels. Information about services offered, current obituaries, and driving directions.
Sanderson Funeral Homes
http://sandersonfuneralhomes.com/
Offers funeral services in Carthage and Kempville in Smith County.
Shackelford Funeral Directors
http://www.shackelfordfuneraldirectors.com/
Owns and operates funeral homes in West and Middle Tennessee, including Savannah, Selmer, Waynesboro, Bolivar, Henderson, and Collinwood. Business history, services offered, details of area cemeteries, and current obituaries.
Sharp Funeral Home
http://www.sharpfh.com/
Locally owned and operated funeral service provider in Oliver Springs. Includes business history, obituaries, photo tour of the facilities, and description of services offered.
Smith Funeral & Cremation Service
http://www.smithfuneralandcremation.com/
Family-owned; in Maryville. Provides obituaries and information about staff, the Grandview Cemetery and other facilities, services, merchandise, driving directions, and other topics.
Speck Funeral Home
http://www.speckfuneral.com/
About the business; facilities and services available at locations in Livingston and Rickman, Tennessee; Overton County Memorial Gardens; online obituaries; and information on funeral pre-planning.
Stephenson-Shaw Funeral Home
http://stephenson-shaw.com/
Serves West Tennessee, with locations in Jackson, Henderson, Humboldt, and Lexington. Business history, online obituaries, driving directions, and extensive information about services offered, burial options, and related topics.
Stevens Mortuary, Inc.
http://www.stevensmortuaryinc.com/
Family-owned and operated funeral home in Knoxville. Driving directions, photos, online obituaries, and information about facilities and services.
Taylor Funeral Home, Inc.
http://www.taylorsince1909.com/
Dickson. Family owned mortuary business. Information about facilities, services, business history, and cemeteries in the county.
Tetrick Funeral Home
http://www.tetrickfuneralhome.com/
Locations in Elizabethton, Johnson City, Roan Mountain, and Bluff City. Includes services, facilities, staff, obituaries, and online condolences and preplanning.
Valley Funeral Home
http://www.valleyfuneralhome.net/
Locally owned funeral provider in Erwin. Describes facilities, services, and business history; includes online obituaries.
Weatherford Mortuary
http://www.weatherfordmortuary.com/
Family-operated funeral home in Oak Ridge. Business history, information about services offered, online obituaries, and pre-arrangement advice.
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Articles > Market Commentary > Vivus (VVUS) Plunges After Another CEO Resigns
Vivus (VVUS) Plunges After Another CEO Resigns
Shares of Vivus (VVUS) plunged last week, after the company's new CEO, Anthony Zook, resigned only after a month on the job. Zook was appointed after activist shareholder First Manhattan won a battle proxy battle to take control of the company. First Manhattan believed Zook to be a good fit for the company, due to his prior industry experience. Zook's departure was reportedly due to recurring issues from a previously diagnosed medical condition.
In Zook's place, Vivus has appointed Seth Fischer, a former executive from Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) as the new CEO. Fischer is also on the board of Trius Therapeutics and BioSig Technologies, and has worked in the pharmaceuticals industry for three decades. Fischer is Vivus' third CEO in less than two months. Daily Chart
Vivus investors have already been concerned about an increasing amount of executive departures with "golden parachute" deals, exacerbated by weak sales of its anti-obesity drug Qsymia. The weight control medication market is getting increasingly crowded, with competitors such as Arena (ARNA) and Orexigen (OREX) also entering the market. Arena's Belviq had a moderately more successful launch than Qsymia, but neither drug came anywhere near the "blockbuster" levels that investors had hoped for. Orexigen's Contrave, which is still pending FDA approval, targets the brain to suppress the appetite, and could become another major competitor in a crowded market. Zook had previously intended to boost sales of Qsymia by finding a major pharma partner to sell the drug and pursue market approval in Europe, where it had previously been rejected. Unfortunately, Orexigen's Contrave is currently closer to approval in the European market. Weight loss medications have been under the microscope over the past decade, after the previous generation of treatments, most notably fenfluramine, seriously damaged heart valves. Fenfluramine, which was combined with phentermine in the popular drug combination fen-phen, was banned in 1997. Meanwhile, Qsymia sales have dwindled to a mere 10,000 per week. Those are anemic sales considering that the company announced that Qsymia was available at approximately 10,000 retail locations nationwide -- including leading retailers Walgreens, Costco, and Duane Reade. Other critics claim that cheaper generic appetite suppressants are equally effective as Qsymia. Shares of Vivus have fallen nearly 50% over the past twelve months, and the company is currently unprofitable. The company has $358 million in cash and equivalents, but reported a negative operating cash flow of $205 million last quarter. Other News About VVUS Vivus CEO Steps Down Citing Health Reasons Vivus CEO leaves after only a month on the job. Vivus Gets 3 CEOs in Less Than 2 Months Will this CEO finally hold on to the top spot? Other Stocks in the News Should You Invest in This Designer's Footsteps? Is Yves Behar a designer worth investing in? These Networking Companies Are Modernizing U.S. Hospitals Will these networking comapnies benefit from rising demand for better Wi-Fi connections? Copyright 2013 by InvestorGuide.com, Inc. InvestorGuide has no control over the sites we link to, is not affiliated with these sites, and cannot take responsibility for their quality or suitability. The news, analysis, commentary and profile information is not meant to be comprehensive, and the data provided is not guaranteed to be accurate. WebFinance Inc., the publisher of this newsletter, is not a registered investment advisor or a broker/dealer. This is not a stock recommendation newsletter but rather a source for investment ideas, and we encourage you to fully research any company before considering investing. The opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of nor are they endorsed by WebFinance Inc. No employee of WebFinance has owned or currently owns any shares in the company described above. The above is neither an offer nor solicitation to buy or sell any securities. The trading of securities may not be suitable for all potential readers of this newsletter, and the purchase of stocks mentioned in this newsletter may result in the loss of some or all of any investment made. We recommend that you consult a stockbroker or financial advisor before buying or selling securities or making investment decisions. We are not responsible for claims made by advertisers and sponsors. Anyone who makes decisions based on what they read here does so at their own risk and cannot hold WebFinance Inc. (DBA InvestorGuide.com, Inc.) or its employees responsible.
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An election is about the future, not the past. But the PAP talks day in day out about the past 50 years as one past.
Actually, we have two pasts, the first 40 years and the last 10 years under the current PM.
The first 40 years were relatively good years.
But beginning from 2004 when Lee Hsien Loong took over, Singapore has been going down the drain.
First casinos, then one million foreign workers, riots, workers' strike and frequent breakdowns of trains. Do you still want this Government to mess up your lives for five more years?
PM claimed that PAP has delivered on all its promises. He has conveniently forgotten the 5 "Cs", career, car, condominium, cash and country club which they have not delivered.
They invested your CPF money, achieved average return of 6 per cent a year, but give you only 2.5 per cent and keep the excess return of 3.5 per cent.
This amounts to as much as $8.75 billion in 2014 alone.
This is your money that they have short-changed you. That's why more than half of Singaporeans do not have adequate savings for retirement.
PM said this election is about choosing the next leadership team.
The fact that he has asked Goh Chok Tong to stay shows that leadership succession has failed. Will the new candidates be any better? Are they just yes-men from the civil service and the military?
Have earlier batches shown that they could run key agencies in public transport and shipping? Or will they bring Singapore further down the road of decline?
PAP leaders talk unashamedly about honouring the late Mr Lee Kuan Yew. They are just opportunistic. They make use of his name for their own political ends.
In fact, they have betrayed his ideals on foreign workers, trust and meritocracy.
Today, Singapore has five times more foreign workers than what he implied Singapore could tolerate.
Secondly, trust in PAP is so low that in an international survey, only 26 per cent of Singaporeans trust their government leaders to tell the truth.
Thirdly, an international magazine has ranked Singapore as the top 5 country in the world where "politically connected businessmen are most likely to prosper". This is the opposite of meritocracy which allows people to succeed on the basis of capability, not connections.
So LKY's ideals have been betrayed under his son's watch as PM. If Singaporeans vote out of gratitude to the father, they will end in servitude to the son.
Fellow Singaporeans, do you want five more years of the unhappiness and misery of the past 10 years under PAP?
Or do you want to take back our country, our jobs, our space, our pride?
We ask you to vote Singaporeans First to restore our nation.
Vote for change. Vote SingFirst.


Met with paddy in his office and discussed updates so far.
Paddy wants to see something tangible by next week's update – i.e. a worked example of how vector clocks will work in terms of location.
Suggested storing temporal information (parallel vector clocks?) – e.g. a from to, so that we can say things like does this time overlap this one, is it contained withing etc. etc.
Also thought about how to define location – the bounding of the location gives an experimentation thing – change the grid size – whats the computation impact of the size of the grid – and what the relevance e.g. too big and it makes realistic.
Construct vector stamps – 5 separate path across these locations, two or three allow drop messages – run through and pick various vector clocks at various times, and show them. Then start generalising them.
From this we can draw general things about e.g.: decisions made, what information is stored, what we put in vector clocks, what operators we need.
Then run a simulation and see if generalisation works. Then we can see if some things fall down, and come back and change things.
Should stick with ideas about location, not proximity yet.
Using this it is then possible to write this concisely.
Had a meeting with Paddy for me to pitch my ideas.
Knowledge of proximity and location makes opportunistic routing more efficient than proximity alone.
Proximity and Mobility can be used independantly to achieve the same efficiency in oppotunistic networking.
Mobility or Proximity can be discounted when planning opportunistic networking algorithms.
Any given node will only need to communicate with with other nodes that they know (friends), or want to know (friends of friends).
Range – how many hops away – build a knowledge about the network using information in the vector clocks – how do you do that? This is a PhD part.
How do we determine the important nodes? – the Aaron Quigley effect.
Nodes in your ball of radius = sphere of interest = friends, +1 hop = friends of friends, +1 = everyone else.
Dig out reviews on DTN's – especially patterns – but paddy thinks that the notion of location and proximity have never been used, but the patterning structures e.g. highly important update nodes. So i need to look at ways of discovering special nodes. How do they determine that . Location thing seems to be different- find a review.
Mobility as opposed to location – gives your prediction element.
Limit the range of forward projection.
Email GW to see if he can get a public dataset. – sign over under NDA?
Email Barry Smith to see if he knows of any datasets we can use. – Vodaphone dataset?
Email Aaron Quigley – he will know if there is any publicly available – his masters student has access to a corporate travel dataset.
Also – see Simons Paper about location.
Email knox to see what datasets he might have.
Is it a novel implemenation mech. – i.e. am I going to use vector clocks in this thing.
I want to make a prototype. – paddy likes the idea – there are some hard questions – some novelty in there. This parts Understanding how to frame solid hypothesis. reading reviews. building exp structure, breaking out a few bits – vector clocks, heuristics about making decisions, how it all fits together.
We can turn the VC thing on its head, and make it useful for proximity and location.
Need to be careful not to spend too much time comparing to existing things if they are not really related.
Important thing is does it matter where you are when I pass you a message – as proximity and mobility are the same – do I pass it to you because i know you see that person, or because I know you will be in the same location as that person.
Nodes can predict their own positions – share this information with other nodes – paddy suggested sharing based on the types of people – e.g. friends get detailed info, FOAF get obfuscated location, others get much broader information.
Does a node do calculations about other nodes, or does it ask the other node – can you get this to this person?
A little but like Agent systems?
Then we can say we of course can encrypt this information.
Paddy felt that vector clocks etc. that are used to encode e.g. double vecotr cocoks location mobility, is a solid piece of work, and if it gets into a good conference, then it is my PhD.
It will need a Order of computaion section with a complexity analysis i.e. is it N^N, Nlog(N), N^2, N^3 – dont go much beyond that – need to analyse the algorithms at the end. well travelled ground about what the complexity of vector clocks is.
I want to Nail down what these metrics in the system are, then implement CAR using these metrics as well as coming up with my own algorithm.
Need to convince Paddy what algorithms/datasets to compare with, there needs to be a good rationale be behind it.
Hypotheis section is good – but must refine and remove negative ones – it should keep the positive ones, and prove one thing true or false – pick the one we think is most likely.
Add another hypothesis that low complexity algorithms based on vecotr clocks (30:24) can be used.
Tighten up – look at knox Hyp section. – and write a halfpage hypothesis introduction and a one/two line hypothesis at the end.
Can we use Barabasi way to generate new dataset – almost reverse engineer their preditions, and try to get a dataset based on it?
e.g. Random graph of streets for dublin, randomly place nodes – simulator and start to make locations as the predictions.
Paddy said that if his EU grants get signed off, he will garauntee me another 1 year of funding from September, the only requirements will be a chunk of work which results in a ~30 page document – something to do with autonomous software patching.
Also spoke to him about the idea of Vector clocks and how we can use them for opportunisic networking – he wondered whether we could derive some utility for locations, perhaps based on duration spent at a location, number of nodes in that location etc. etc.
He said that perhaps a good paper would be on techniques for analysing locations for use with opportunistic networking.
Paddy said that he wants me to aim to submit to CfP on Social Based Routing in Mobile and Delay Tolerent Nets the deadline is in June, and split the time up until then into 6 week chunks, and for the first chunk, tell him what I will be doing – i.e. what problems I am solving, and for the whole time, what my goals are.
Also spoke about my idea for using the Dublin Bus network for research and profit – he mentioned a guy in trinity who has access to a load of transport data and also suggested I dig out an email address of someone important at Dublin bus, and send them a formal email about gettin information about the bus, and CC him (so it looks official).
He also mentioned the TextUS service based at DCU, (runs the Aircoach SMS payment service, and the SMS parking scheme) who we could collaborate with to provide a TFL type service for dublin.
Gave presentation to Paddy, Davide, Neil Cowzer and Fergal Reid (clique) about my quick and dirty analysis of the dataset that I have collected allready.
General concensus was that there was not really enough users, and so there were some suggestions about other datasets that might be found -persuade a mobile phone company to give data about user movements. Mine flickr/twitter for geo-tagged photo's/tweets, and try to determine groups of people based on similar locations.
Also suggested that the GMA is good for visualising data, not greatly interesting, PH is interesting as is SPD. BD is something that is useful as an application to gather data, but would need a very large engineering effort.
Paddy suggested that if we could make the data collection process very easy, then we could throw it out to the student population to start collecting data. Fergal said that in J2ME it would be very difficult, but by sticking to C++ it might work (for Nokia phones).
Also talked about getting ground truth for data, Fergal Suggested collecting accellorometer data too (so if someone asked – how did you verify GPS trace, one can say that we correlated it with the accelorometer data). I also suggested tagging locations.
Also planned to meet Paddy again next week to go over these things, and try to hammer out a better plan. Then meet with these people again in three weeks to show where I have go to.
Paddy said that in his mind, the long goal is to be able to forward plan using the knowledge of data that has passed (prediction).
Looking for structures in the data – what are they?
Speak to prag (network clique) to find techniques on how to extract patterns from these networks.
Email Simon, Aaron and Adrian, to see if they know about, or have dealt with any large datasets which include accurate location information.
In 6 weeks present to a group of people about initial findings, and ideas for further research. but beforehand, keep in sync with Paddy, and make sure I don't go off track. Keep a record in a wave about progress.
Burst Situations – emergency situations – however movement patterns are different in this case.
Focus in on simple pragmatics – I want to be able to send free messages.
Pick social everyday applications that justify it – (parasitic networking?).
Focus on movement patterns – what recurring patterns are in there – need to data mine it all.
How do we collect data, sufficiently large, and in constrained sets.
Padraig Cunningham group doing network analysis – We can use Paddy's Social network to get help with things like statistics etc.
Extracitng movement patterns from everyday life – augemtnting with context information.
do blind first – capture everything from individula, apply analysis just to movement informations plus simulation, then you take in to accoutn context information and see if it improves anything. Theres nothing to say that context is useful all the time. Perhaps we find it reduces the number of hops, this reduces failure rate.
Chapter 1 is the broad view – DTNs Human Movent – underlying model of data transmission. my hypothersis is that human moevemtn patterns will provide an underlying model for transmission of data on ad-hoc networks.
Think up and construct an experiment and do it – short term 3-4 week expt whewre we actually get somehting out of it – needs to be a small constrianed expriment, that takes into account movement and context.
Looking for structures in th data what are they?
Really nice to have 1 paragrah story line that we both agree tomorrow that we only change if the experiments tell us so, not just because something else comes along.
Need to be able to say – here's my definition, here's what it means, here's what im gonna experiment on in the next 3-4 months.
hows its different from the way others people view networks?
Forms the starting points of tomorrows meeting, that, we believe the first statement – that nobody has done this before.
Paddy will try to find some literature to find a few rocks to throw at me! so we can defend it.
If we can defend that – we can really question – we conjecture that we might be able to do the following.
If we can do opportunistic routing – what do we get out of it, why is it better than what we have at the moment?
I have taken on mentorship of an ODCSSS project which we have dubbed – CitySense. My student, John Paul Meaney, is currently working on plugging in movement models to TOSSIM and Tiny OS – and also implementing simple DTN protocols. We have chosen TinyOS and TOSSIM so that we are able to easily test this in the real world, to compare data with simulation data.


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The Hester Street Kids
By Armando Minutoli
Katie (Katherine Burdino) is an Italian-American nurse in New York's Little Italy . She meets Kevin Mandrell, a CIA agent and accomplished concert pianist with the Zurich Philharmonic, by chance, when Kevin finds himself wandering through the wrong neighborhood on the way to meet a CIA contact. Kevin is saved by a young boy, Billy, who has lost his parents. Billy takes Kevin to Katie's home for safety. Katie and Kevin develop an instant attraction.
Katie and Kevin fall in love, but their romance is complicated by the mafia ties in Katie's family. While growing up, Katie never knew that her father, an upstanding pharmacist, was behind so much illegal activity. However, after being taken into confidence by a concerned aunt, who grew up with her father, Katie comes to realize the unsettling depths of her father's underworld connections, which began with his childhood on Hester Street (hence, the novels's title -- The Hester Street Kids).
The Hester Street Kids is an enjoyable read about Italian American life in urban America in the 1950s. The author delves into the main characters' culture and religion and how it has affected their everyday life. Some of the characters are enjoyable, others disgusting, some pitiable. The interactions among these various individuals makes for a great story filled with intrigue and suspense.
I recommend this book for anyone who is interested in a fiction novel with historically accurate descriptions of the culture of Italian Americans in the United States in the mid-20th century.


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Mass Violence and Atrocities | Discussion Paper
VI. Regional Responses to the Crises in Latin America and the Caribbean: Recommendations for COVID-19
On May 28-29, 2020, the Stanley Center for Peace and Security and La Coordinadora Regional de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales (CRIES) co-organized the Sixth Workshop of Regional Responses to the Crises in Latin America and the Caribbean. In this virtual series of small-group thematic workshops, academics and representatives of civil society organizations developed and exchanged recommendations about crises in Latin America and the Caribbean viewed through the lens of the current global COVID-19 pandemic.
Participants discussed issues relating to Venezuelan human displacement, prospects for political transition in Venezuela, the developing crisis in Brazil, regional geopolitics, cooperation among multilateral organizations, and human displacement in the Caribbean. The discussions resulted in actionable recommendations to address both the hardships created by the COVID-19 pandemic and also the underlying challenge of building resilience against mass violence and atrocities across the region.
Throughout the strategic discussions, six expert authors each developed policy analysis on a thematic topic:
Brazil: Democratic Challenges Amid the COVID-19 Crisis
Translations: Spanish | Portuguese (cries.org)
Thiago Rodrigues
Amid the resource-straining impact of COVID-19, Brazil is navigating a political crisis interlinked with the management of the virus. Six steps can be taken to promote dialogue within the country that can result in a constructive compromise on national issues.
Venezuelan Migration in the Context of COVID-19
Claudia Vargas-Ribas
Venezuelan migrants face increased risk during COVID-19 due to the threat of infection and barriers to accessing services and assistance. Civil society, governments, and the general population of the region can take concrete and immediate action to stem the risks for this population.
Human Displacement in the Caribbean During COVID-19
Shiva S. Mohan
Caribbean governments have amplified the vulnerabilities of mobile populations during COVID-19 by closing borders and prioritizing nationals. A coordinated regional response is needed to provide asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants full access to health services and social support.
COVID-19 in Latin America: Perspectives from Multilateral Organizations and International Cooperation
Gino Pauselli
Multilateral organizations combat the effects of COVID-19 by providing information and reducing transaction costs between governments. A decade of divestment in multilateral spaces has weakened this capacity in Latin America, but steps can be taken to strengthen these institutions in a postpandemic world.
COVID-19 and Geopolitics in Latin America and the Caribbean
Ariel Gonzalez Levaggi
The COVID-19 crisis has accelerated regional and global geopolitical trends, including the regression of democratic norms in Brazil and the increasingly assertive diplomacy of China. Steps can be taken to bolster multilateral engagement, universal human rights, and collective leadership in the Latin American and Caribbean region.
COVID-19 and Possibilities for Transition in Venezuela
Maryhen Jiménez
COVID-19 has exacerbated the economic and humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, prioritizing efforts for pandemic management over pressure for a democratic transition. Even as the prospects for political change remain daunting, regional organizations and the international community can act to protect vulnerable populations and promote spaces for dialogue.
IV. Regional Responses to the Venezuelan Crisis: Displacement, Civil Society, and Extraregional Actors
Regional Responses to the Crises in Latin America and the Caribbean: Recommendations for COVID-19


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The Ghost and the Darkness. Dir. Stephen Hopkins. Constellation Entertainment. 1996.
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Film Poster for The Ghost and the Darkness
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This film is a retelling of The Man-Eaters of Tsavo – the published journal of John Henry Patterson. He was an Irish engineer and soldier (played by Val Kilmer), who is sent to Africa to help build the British railway from Mombasa to Uganda (572 miles) that was at times referred to as the "lunatic line" in 1898 (Brian 4). When Patterson arrives at Tsavo to oversee the construction of a bridge, the workmen are attacked by a pair of man-eating lions. Patterson is determined to kill the hunters, but often finds himself outwitted and outmatched. The workers, and even Patterson, begin to question if these are just lions and not evil spirits or devils that have taken a lion's form. These spirits are given the names "The Ghost" and "The Darkness" and this accounts for the title of the film. After many lives lost and great struggle Patterson succeeds in slaying both lions, saves the railway construction, and completes the bridge.
This film is a hybrid between two genres: the historical fiction/biographical film and the horror/stalker film. While all history is narrative in its form, historical fiction puts the emphasis on narrative over verifiable facts and evidence. Where a historical narrative needs to produce evidence for all of its claims, a historical fiction does not (Munslow 1-15, 67). In the case of The Ghost and the Darkness the major changes have been in characters and the ordering of events, but this has its purpose and more will be said on this later. The other genre is that of the horror/stalker film. Often these films allow the audience to experience some voyeurism through the eyes of the killer as they pursue and murder their victims, and this film does the same. (Dika 85-101). Voyeurism allows the audience to have the pleasure of seeing and experiencing that which they would not normally see, or should not see. This occurs when the audience is put in the place of watching a character undress, or watching two people engage in sex, take a shower, or in this genre be chased and killed. The audience gets thrill from engaging in the act of watching when it knows it shouldn't be. It can also be said that the killers in this film have racked up a body count of over a hundred victims, far more than the usual stalker film killer. While a convention of this genre is to have many of the victims chased and killed be female, there is only one who is attacked in this film; this attack is also part of a dream sequence so ultimately all of the deaths are of males – including the lions themselves.
Screen shot of lion from The Ghost and the Darkness
One of the most surprising elements about this film is that what seems the most outlandish elements of the narrative are true. The two lions did constantly outwit attempts to capture and kill them. In the film this is demonstrated in a number of scenes. Patterson creates a trap which will catch a lion in a cargo container with protective bars for hunters to sit behind and shoot the lion at point blank range, but the lion escapes it. This did happen in the history as well. Once Charles Remington enters the film, (played by Michael Douglas) an expert hunter, the lions show more of their cunning. Remington orders that the hospital for the railway workers be abandoned and a new one created. Patterson and Remington cover the old hospital in fresh animal blood and await the lions' arrival, but instead the lions attack the new hospital. This also occurred in the real history, but before the trap was created and foiled. Part of this is for the narrative of the film to demonstrate the lions' ability to outwit the experienced hunter after they have bested an engineer. Charles Remington's appearance in this film is a narrative addition not found in the history of the man eaters. Patterson was hunting alone, or with the aid of local police and soldiers. Famous game hunters showed up for a promised reward for the lions' death, but they never killed or successfully hunted the man eaters. It is likely this role was created for Michael Douglas as he was the film's executive producer, and neither Remington, nor any other famous hunter, was killed by the man-eaters, as occurs within the film.
Another narrative alteration of the film is that both of the lions have large manes, and according to the historical record the two man-eaters were without manes. An iconic Hollywood image is the MGM lion, and as a result it was likely felt that manes on the lions were necessary as a visual cue to inform the audience that they were males. The manes would allow for more make-up effects to make the loins appear more bloodied and monstrous from past kills. As Jonathan Burt points out in regard to the lions of the film "different model heads were placed on lion bodies depending on the expression required; whilst in post-production the animals were digitally recoloured, enhanced, and is some cases replaced completely by animation" (Burt 159). All of this is done in an effort to make the lions more frightening, and to play on the idea that they are more than a normal lion. This point will be returned to in the conclusion. While there are other historical alterations, such as workers trying to kill Patterson because of his inability to stop the lions (There were murder attempts on Patterson, but it was related to working issues and policies, and not the man-eaters), they are not as directly linked to the lions, and will be skipped over for the purpose of this analysis. The workers did strike and abandon Tsavo after a number of killings by the lions, but returned and hailed Patterson as a hero once he had successfully killed them.
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Screen shot of lion attack in The Ghost and the Darkness
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A final historical inaccuracy that should be pointed out is the finding of the man-eaters' lair in the film by Remington and Patterson. The pair discovers it while out stalking the lions, and within find bones of hundreds of victims. According to historical records Patterson did find the lair, but after the lions had been killed. There were bones of a few human victims, but not hundreds. Historically it is stated that the lions killed twenty-eight Indian workers, and it is believed over a hundred Africans (Brian 28). These film alterations are done in part to help establish a greater depth of fear about the lions, but also plays with the genre convention of horror/stalker film by having the would- be victims stumble upon the killer's lair. This is added to the narrative to build the myth of the killer and trace how long and how successfully they have engaged in their bloody and sadistic deeds. One of the important differences in this stalker film is that the killer is eating their victims instead of just killing them, and this is often not the case, save for Hannibal Lectre. The eating of humans is seen as taboo in human culture, and therefore makes a man-eater seem more sinister, but there is nothing particularly unnatural about a carnivore eating another living animal – which humans are.
The stalker aspect of the film becomes very important because the audience is put in the vantage point of the killer, or in this case the lion. As a result the audience is stalking their own kind, but not to kill, but also to eat. What the lions are doing is hunting prey for sustenance; it just happens to be that the prey is human. At other points the viewer's perspective is shifted to that of Patterson as a stalker of the lions. Here we are a voyeur of a human hunter, and the hunter is positioned as a hero, but the audience is also occupying the visual space of seeing a fellow human as prey. This offers an odd contradiction of human views. For centuries, hunting lions was a noble act and a courageous act of sport, yet when the lions hunt humans for food it is seen as evil and unnatural. This view of hunting clearly positions a human viewpoint of only humans being allowed to kill for any purpose and reason, except for fellow humans – most of the time. However, animals can never take a human life and remain as anything but evil and unnatural, even if they take it to feed. The most interesting scenes are the ones where the human and lion are being stalked by each other, and the perspective keeps switching to demonstrate this. In this moment the audience is juxtaposed in the position of both hunter and hunted. They are stalking and being stalked. The voyeurism is one that is set up to be excited by watching death, but whether it will be a human or animal death is unknown, unless the viewer is familiar with the history of the events. This is a moment that allows the audience to collapse the human/animal binary through voyeurism.
The portrayal of the lions in this film is always shifting between a position as natural and unnatural. Part of this is literal because of filming techniques and post-production effects, and another part is based in the narrative and genre convention. Often stalker film killers are seen as more than human. In this film, and in the history, the lions were often viewed as such too. Patterson describes in his book that he could never explain how it took so many bullets to kill each lion (in one case six bullets at different times), how they kept easily making their way through all the thorny barriers that were constructed, or their lack of fear of fire (Patterson 34-42). These elements play to the horror genre convention, but there also seems something truly horrific to people about animals that kill humans. It is often displayed as something unnatural when animals hunt humans, and even more so when the animals have a talent for it. Perhaps it reminds humanity of its frailty and mortality, or it may be that it forces humans to recognize their place in the food chain, and as such their animality. As a result it is a common convention in such films to create the animal as being supernatural, or appearing to be in some ways. There may even be an idea that by consuming human lives they are gaining greater strength, intelligence, and super natural abilities. Making man eaters extraordinary allows humans to have a coping mechanism to explain their being dominated and consumed by a non-human. Examples of this can be found in Jaws, Orca, and The Edge. This results in the human audience being able to attribute such success of animal hunters to a unique specimen that is greater than the average of its kind. This helps to reinforce the narrative of dominance of humanity over the animal world that such films and accounts usually disrupt. The role of dominance would have been even more important with this event, and in this narrative given the imperial aspect of British empire building it was bound up with, and the loaded aspects of Patterson's success as a hunter meant to the British first, and to humanity second. It was important to the British to demonstrate the power of the empire and the expansion of white civilization on "the dark continent," and for humanity it was important to justify and reassert our domination of the non-human creatures of the planet.
Further Viewing/Reading
Brian, Denis. The Seven Lives of Colonel Patterson. New York: Syracuse University Press, 2008.
Bwana Devil. Dir. Arch Obeler. Gulu Productions. 1952.
The Edge. Dir. Lee Tamahori. Art Linson Productions. 1997.
Jaws. Dir. Steven Spielberg. Zanuck/Brown Productions. 1975.
Patterson, Bruce. The Lions of Tsavo: Exploring the Legacy of Africa's Notorious Man-Eaters. New York: McGraw Hill Publishers, 2004.
Patterson, John Henry. The Man-Eaters of Tsavo. New York: Createspace, 2011.
Orca. Dir. Michael Anderson. Dino de Laurentiis Cinematografica. 1977.
Burt, Jonathan. Animals in Film. London: Reaktion Books, 2002.
Dika, Vera. "The Stalker Film, 1978-81" American Horrors. Ed. Gregory A. Waller. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1987.
Munslow, Alun. Narrative and History. London: Palgrave Macmillian, 2007.
Patterson, John Henry. The Man-Eaters of Tsavo. NewYork: Createspace, 2011.
HAR: Animal Agency
HAR: Hunting/Trapping
HAR: Spectacle
Lion(s)
The Queen. Dir. Stephen Frears. Pathé Distribution. 2006.
Brave. Dir. Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman, and Steve Purcell. Disney-Pixar. 2012.


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