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The West African Ebola outbreak that began in 2014 has afflicted about 27,000 people so far and has claimed the lives of more than 11,000 of its victims. The disease is ebbing, but for survivors, the battle is far from over.
As the number of new Ebola cases dwindles, healthcare centers in West Africa are transitioning to survivor clinics to assist the people who beat the odds but now have to live with the aftermath.
Nearly half of Ebola survivors are plagued with what doctors have dubbed post-Ebola syndrome, a lingering condition of declining health with a multitude of symptoms. The most common health issues are body aches, weakness, joint pain, general fatigue, hearing loss, rash, and an inflammation of the eye—uveitis—that can lead to blindness if not treated promptly.


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Q: DBT age validation using conditional statement Hello I would like to ask for your assistance I'm planning to validate my age field on database however I'm not sure how to make it work on DBT. Your response is highly appreciated. Thank you
  - name: age
    tests:
      - not_null
  #     - dbt_expectations.expect_column_values_to_match_regex:
  #         regex: "[1-9]\\d{3,}"
  #     - dbt_utils.not_empty_string
  #     - dbt_utils.not_constant
      - dbt_utils.expression_is_true:
        expression: "age"
        config:
              where: "age > '110'"

I tried to use this syntax below however its not working and the complied statement showed.
  - name: age
    tests:
      - not_null
  #     - dbt_expectations.expect_column_values_to_match_regex:
  #         regex: "[1-9]\\d{3,}"
  #     - dbt_utils.not_empty_string
  #     - dbt_utils.not_constant
      - dbt_utils.expression_is_true:
          expression: '>= 110'

Result:

A: You're really close!  In dbt tests, you write what you want to pass the test and (for this test) then it puts not(<expression>) to find the rows that fail the test.
Because of that, this should do it:
  - name: age
    tests:
      - dbt_utils.expression_is_true:
          expression: '< 110'

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Award strengthens commitment
Receiving the Gender Equality Award from the Ministry of Education and Research has generated enthusiasm, more room for action and increased focus on gender equality efforts, according to last year's two prize winners. This year's call for nominations is now underway.
A golden opportunity
National action plans to implement the European Research Area (ERA) are now being drawn up. Hans M. Borchgrevink of the Research Council of Norway believes this is the chance to put gender equality on the EU's agenda, but quick action is required.
New interest in networks
"We are finding that we fill a gap," says Laila Bokhari, who is coordinator of Women and Security, one of the 15 new and existing networks gaining new impetus this spring with funding from the Committee for Mainstreaming – Women in Science.
New white paper on research policy
In April 2009 the Norwegian Government presented a new white paper on research policy. In the report the Government confirms its commitment to gender equality in research, but critics say progress is too slow.
Listen to the science girls
The majority of young girls reject science studies, but not everyone. What makes girls choose these male-dominated subjects? That is what Marianne Løken wants to find out.
Excellent – but not equal
More men than women receive funding when the Research Council of Norway grants money for outstanding research. Susanne Moen Stephansen has looked at how the attempts to bring more gender equality into these schemes have worked.
No earmarking of posts
In November last year Tora Aasland promised to implement earmarking of temporary posts for women. Now the Efta Surveillance Authority (ESA) has put a stop to these plans.
Different research practices amongst women and men
A recent report from the Norwegian research institute NIFU STEP shows that men outnumber women within commercial and business-oriented research and that female researchers are less involved in international collaboration and peer review than their male colleagues.
Bergen leads the field in gender equality efforts
The capital of western Norway came out on top when the Gender Equality Award for 2008 was presented jointly to the University of Bergen and the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (MHH).
Will guide women to the top
Hierarchies and lack of management prevent women from climbing to the top in academia, says Curt Rice, the new Pro-Rector at the University of Tromsø. He calls for more management and different work methods at the university.
Bigger gender gaps in rich countries
There is little difference in how Ghanaian girls and boys view science education and technology. In Norway, Sweden, Finland and England, on the other hand, the gender gap regarding what the pupils are interested in is huge.
Wants to change EU regulations
The government won't stop at earmarking posts for female scientists. Now Tora Aasland states that the goal is to change the EU regulations concerning this issue.
Promises more science students
The corporate world needs more scientists, but few young people choose a career in science. Will we finally break the science code?
May promote gender equality
The work on standardising the workday of European scientists may further gender equality in the research sector, if a gender perspective is employed, says the Committee for Mainstreaming – Women in Science in Norway.
Ready for challenges in Northern Norway
"We have to be prepared to take on the great challenges and possibilities that exist for technologists in the High North," says Kirsti Hienn. She is the project manager of the Moment network for female technologists.
Few professorships in female-dominated study programmes
The female-dominated study programmes at public university colleges have far fewer professorships than the male-dominated ones. Those professorships that do exist are mainly held by men. This is revealed in a recent survey from the Norwegian Social Science Data Services. The figures are collected on behalf of the Committee for Mainstreaming – Women in Science.
Earmarking proposed in the National budget
In its proposition for the National budget, which was presented in the beginning of October, the Government states that it wants to focus on earmarking of academic posts for women.
What mechanisms lie behind who gets a career in physics and who leaves academia for other kinds of employment? What role does the workplace culture play in this? These and similar issues are being studied in an ongoing EU-project.
Aasland promises earmarking in 2009
Minister of Education and Research Tora Aasland promises to reintroduce earmarking of posts for women in academia in 2009.
An advocate of gender equality
For almost five years Norway has had a national committee for gender equality in science. It has placed women in science on the agenda both with the authorities and the research sector.
Visitors address:
Kifinfo is hosted by Kilden genderresearch.no on behalf of the Committee for Gender Balance and Diversity in Research. Secretariat: The Norwegian Association of Higher Education Institutions.
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When might a COVID-19 vaccine be authorized? FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn answers common questions
Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY
A COVID-19 vaccine could come within weeks – at least a limited supply to front-line medical workers. Drug companies Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca have the leading vaccine candidates. Several others remain in development.
The Food and Drug Administration is responsible for authorizing and approving all vaccines in the USA. Widespread vaccine use once one is given the green light could provide a way to end the coronavirus pandemic. USA TODAY interviewed FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn about how the approval process works, how quickly it could go, and how the agency will encourage Americans to take the vaccine.
What is the ACIP? For a COVID-19 vaccine to get cleared by the FDA, these 15 experts will vouch for its safety
How a COVID-19 vaccine will be authorized
Question: How will a COVID-19 vaccine get clearance for use?
Answer: Companies have the option of applying for either a license (called a Biologics License Application) or an Emergency Use Authorization. It's their choice.
Q: What is an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA)?
A: An Emergency Use Authorization is an authority that Congress gave to FDA after the 9/11 terrorist attacks to allow countermeasures, treatments or vaccines to be available earlier than would normally be done under the approval process.
Q: Has the FDA ever issued an Emergency Use Authorization for a vaccine?
A: Yes, for an anthrax vaccine (in 2005).
Stephen Hahn, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, promises transparency in the vaccine approval process.
How an Emergency Use Authorization differs from FDA approval
Q: What standards must companies meet to get Emergency Use Authorization?
A: The standard that's used for an EUA is that it must be effective in the treatment or prevention of COVID-19 and that the risk/benefit ratio is in favor of authorization.
For vaccines, that's especially important because unlike treatments, vaccines are given to people who are otherwise healthy. They don't have COVID-19, so when we look into the risk/benefit ratio ... we have to factor that into its safety and effectiveness. We have to be incredibly thoughtful about this.
How FDA evaluates the safety of a vaccine given emergency authorization
Q: What can you say to reassure people that a vaccine approved under an EUA is just as safe and effective as one approved under a BLA, even though there isn't as much long-term effectiveness data?
A: The standards we expect in safety and effectiveness in an EUA are very similar to what we expect in a BLA. Our career scientists have been doing this for years; this is their area of expertise. They will be judging the science and medicine.
Q: Will COVID-19 vaccines issued under an EUA continue in the licensing process and eventually be fully licensed using a Biologics License Application?
A: Yes. Our expectation is that the sponsors (the vaccine companies) will submit an application, and it's their call if it's an EUA or a BLA. Then they would submit, subsequently or in real time, a BLA. We will, of course, prioritize the application for an Emergency Use Authorization, but we will then go through the normal reviews.
How the FDA will encourage people to take the vaccine
Q: What more could be done to encourage people to take an authorized vaccine? Is there anything you can do as head of the FDA to encourage people to get vaccinated?
A: I was a doctor before I became FDA commissioner. If you explain something to a patient – if you share that in a transparent way and then you do what you say you're going to do – that builds trust. We will follow our process, look at the criteria – we'll be transparent about those.
Q: Will you get the vaccine yourself? Either in April or May when it may become available to the general public, or do you fit in one of the categories that are likely to have access sooner, such as front-line medical workers?
A: I've been clear, I would not allow the agency to authorize or approve a vaccine that I wouldn't want my own family to get. No one at FDA would want that to occur.
When it's appropriate for me to get the vaccine, from the guidelines' point of view, I will get that vaccine. I would strongly urge my family to get it. I have 100% confidence in the staff at FDA. If it would enhance confidence in the vaccine, I would get the vaccine as soon as it is authorized.
Q: An employer or school cannot require someone to get a vaccine issued under an EUA, right?
A: Institutions may require individuals to take an FDA-approved vaccine or apply for an exception. However, EUA products are still considered investigational.
It's possible that some employers or schools will have questions or concerns about an investigational product issued an Emergency Use Authorization, which is why we will be as transparent as possible about the data and information we use to make our decision. This should help those organizations determine what is most appropriate for them.
How long it will take for a vaccine to be authorized
There are several steps to the vaccine authorization process. First, a company must apply to the FDA. Then, the FDA must go through the application and send it to an outside review board called the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC). That committee meets on Dec. 10 and will send the FDA its comments and recommendations. Only then can the FDA make a final decision on a vaccine.
Q: How long should we expect FDA to deliberate after it hears from that committee?
A: We expect it to be days, but it's very dependent on the complexity of the data and the comments we get back from VRBPAC.
Q: So it could be longer?
A: We cannot prejudge our process; our scientists have to make the decision. We will take the time that's needed to make the right call on this.
We want to move quickly because this is a national emergency, but we will make sure that our scientists take the time they need to make an appropriate decision. It is our job to get this right and make the correct decision regarding vaccine safety and efficacy.
Q: How much paperwork does an EUA involve? In the old days, there was so much paperwork, it came in on wooden pallets. Can you give us a metric?
A: These applications are very complicated. This is thousands of pages of information that our scientists have to go through. ... FDA is one of the few, if not the only, regulatory agencies in the world that looks at the raw data in a clinical trial. We refer to it as the line data. We analyze the data, we have expertise in that, we've done that for years. This is why it takes us time because it's very complicated.
That's another issue that I believe should provide great comfort to the American people: These scientists will do the number crunching. We have biostatisticians, we have scientists. We don't just accept the conclusion of our sponsors – we will come to our own conclusion.
Q: How many people does the FDA have working on COVID-19 vaccines?
A: We have a review group that is set up and meets regularly. We have hundreds of people in the groups that look at biologicals and products, and for many of them, their time has been allocated to these (vaccine) applications. And we will bring to bear any staff that we need across the agency.
How the FDA will monitor vaccine safety
Q: Does the oversight end once a vaccine is authorized?
A: We will be setting up systems to follow an authorized vaccine's safety and effectiveness to ensure we have a very robust assessment of safety.
Q: How long will the FDA follow up on these vaccines to see how long they are effective?
A: At a minimum of two years and probably longer.
Q: How much will the public know about the decisions you make regarding vaccines?
A: It's something that is a lesson learned in the pandemic – increased transparency helps people trust the process. Our expectation is that we will have something written for everyone to see that we will post online. Our intention is to make this understandable and relatable to most Americans.
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: COVID-19 vaccine answers: What FDA Commissioner Hahn says on safety
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Russian conscript jailed for 24-1/2 years for killing eight people: TASS
A conscript was sentenced to 24-1/2 years in prison by a Russian court on Thursday for killing eight people at a military base in 2019, a crime he said was provoked by bullying, the TASS news agency reported. Ramil Shamsutdinov opened fire on servicemen at the base in the far eastern region of Zabaikalsk on Oct. 25 last year. The case is embarrassing for the military, which has been revamped in recent years at great cost and says it has stamped out the Soviet-era problem of hazing - the bullying of conscripts by older soldiers.
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On Anderson Cooper 360 Wednesday, Amanda Gorman, the young poet who stole the hearts of Americans with the reading of her poem "The Hills We Climb" at President Joe Biden's inauguration earlier in the day, spoke about past struggles with a speech impediment and revealed how she beat it. Just a few years ago, Gorman, who at 22 is the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history, wouldn't have been able to give the performance she'd given that morning."For, I wanna say most of my life up until two or maybe three years ago, I couldn't say the letter R," Gorman said. "Even to this day sometimes I struggle with it. Which is difficult when you have a poem in which you say 'rise' like five times."Following the inauguration, Hamilton writer Lin-Manuel MIranda tweeted at Gorman, who replied by asking if he'd caught the Hamilton references in her poem. When asked about her exchange with Miranda, Gorman revealed that not only did she put Hamilton references in the poem, but she used a song from the play to help beat her impediment."It was as recent as college that I was still struggling to say the 'R' sound, so one thing I would try to do to train myself to say it, is I would listen to the song 'Aaron Burr Sir,' which is just packed with Rs," Gorman said. "And I would try to keep up with Leslie Odom Jr. as he's doing this amazing rap, and I'd say, 'If I can train myself to do this song, then I can train myself to say this letter.' So that's been a huge part of my own speech pathology. It's why I included it in the inaugural poem."
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The late-night host also gives the former president a musical sendoff.
Sabonis, Pacers square off against the Magic
Orlando Magic (7-8, ninth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Indiana Pacers (8-6, fourth in the Eastern Conference) Indianapolis; Friday, 7 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Domantas Sabonis and the Indiana Pacers host Nikola Vucevic and the Orlando Magic. The Pacers are 4-2 in Eastern Conference games. Indiana is 0-3 in games when losing the turnover battle and averages 13.5 turnovers. The Magic are 5-5 against conference opponents. Orlando ranks second in the Eastern Conference with 11.8 offensive rebounds per game led by Khem Birch averaging 2.7. The matchup Friday is the first meeting this season between the two teams. TOP PERFORMERS: Malcolm Brogdon leads the Pacers with 7.3 assists and scores 22.5 points per game. Doug McDermott is shooting 58.9% and averaging 13.7 points over the last 10 games for Indiana. Vucevic has shot 50.9% and is averaging 23.3 points for the Magic. Aaron Gordon is averaging 15 points and seven rebounds while shooting 40.4% over the last 10 games for Orlando. LAST 10 GAMES: Pacers: 5-5, averaging 111.5 points, 41.6 rebounds, 25.6 assists, 9.3 steals and 4.8 blocks per game while shooting 45.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 111.5 points on 47.5% shooting. Magic: 3-7, averaging 98.7 points, 46.4 rebounds, 20.7 assists, 6.8 steals and 4.2 blocks per game while shooting 41.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 108.3 points on 46.4% shooting. INJURIES: Pacers: Caris LeVert: out (kidney), TJ Warren: out (foot), Myles Turner: out (hand), JaKarr Sampson: day to day (back). Magic: Chuma Okeke: out (knee), Mohamed Bamba: out (health and safety protocols), Markelle Fultz: out for season (knee), Michael Carter-Williams: out (foot), Al-Farouq Aminu: out (knee), Jonathan Isaac: out for season (knee). ___ The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar. The Associated Press
Atlanta Hawks (7-7, seventh in the Eastern Conference) vs. Minnesota Timberwolves (3-10, 15th in the Western Conference) Minneapolis; Friday, 8 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Atlanta visits the Minnesota Timberwolves after Clint Capela's 27-point, 26-rebound performance in the Hawks' 123-115 overtime victory against the Pistons. The Timberwolves are 2-5 on their home court. Minnesota is 1-7 in games decided by 10 or more points. The Hawks are 3-4 on the road. Atlanta is the NBA leader with 12.1 offensive rebounds per game led by Capela averaging 4.3. The teams square off for the second time this season. The Hawks won the last matchup 108-97 on Jan. 18. De'Andre Hunter scored 25 points to help lead Atlanta to the win. TOP PERFORMERS: D'Angelo Russell leads the Timberwolves averaging 3.2 made 3-pointers, and is scoring 21.4 points per game while shooting 41% from beyond the arc. Malik Beasley is averaging 20.1 points over the last 10 games for Minnesota. Trae Young is averaging 24 points and 4.4 rebounds for the Hawks. Capela is averaging 14.9 rebounds and 15.7 points per game over the last 10 games for Atlanta. LAST 10 GAMES: Timberwolves: 1-9, averaging 107 points, 44.3 rebounds, 23.9 assists, 7.7 steals and 5.7 blocks per game while shooting 44.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 117.2 points on 47.9% shooting. Hawks: 4-6, averaging 105.3 points, 49.8 rebounds, 23.8 assists, 7.5 steals and 4.3 blocks per game while shooting 42.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 105.4 points on 43.3% shooting. INJURIES: Timberwolves: Karl-Anthony Towns: out (health and safety protocols), Juancho Hernangomez: out (health and safety protocols), Ricky Rubio: out (health and safety protocols). Hawks: De'Andre Hunter: out (knee), Kris Dunn: out (right ankle), Cameron Reddish: out (knee), Bogdan Bogdanovic: out (knee), Danilo Gallinari: out (ankle). ___ The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar. The Associated Press
Philadelphia hosts Boston after Embiid's 42-point game
Boston Celtics (8-5, third in the Eastern Conference) vs. Philadelphia 76ers (10-5, first in the Eastern Conference) Philadelphia; Friday, 7:30 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Philadelphia faces the Boston Celtics after Joel Embiid scored 42 points in the 76ers' 117-109 victory over the Celtics. The 76ers are 3-1 against Atlantic Division opponents. Philadelphia is 5-0 when it wins the turnover battle and averages 16.8 turnovers per game. The Celtics are 1-3 against the rest of the division. Boston is eighth in the Eastern Conference shooting 36.6% from downtown. Jayson Tatum leads the Celtics shooting 43.8% from 3-point range. The teams square off for the second game in a row. TOP PERFORMERS: Ben Simmons leads the 76ers with 8.0 assists and scores 12.2 points per game. Tyrese Maxey is shooting 49.0% and averaging 13.5 points over the last 10 games for Philadelphia. Jaylen Brown ranks second on the Celtics averaging 25.8 points while adding 5.8 rebounds and 3.8 assists per game. Daniel Theis is shooting 69.1% and averaging 9.6 points over the last 10 games for Boston. LAST 10 GAMES: 76ers: 6-4, averaging 117.5 points, 46.1 rebounds, 27 assists, 8.4 steals and 6.3 blocks per game while shooting 49.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 115.5 points on 45.2% shooting. Celtics: 7-3, averaging 111.4 points, 46.1 rebounds, 22.7 assists, 8.4 steals and 5.4 blocks per game while shooting 47.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 107.9 points on 44.7% shooting. INJURIES: 76ers: Vincent Poirier: out (health and safety protocols), Seth Curry: out (conditioning), Mike Scott: out (knee). Celtics: Romeo Langford: out (right wrist), Carsen Edwards: out (health and safety protocols), Jayson Tatum: out (health and safety protocols). ___ The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar. The Associated Press
Doncic, Dallas set for matchup with San Antonio
Dallas Mavericks (7-7, ninth in the Western Conference) vs. San Antonio Spurs (8-7, eighth in the Western Conference) San Antonio; Friday, 8:30 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Luka Doncic leads Dallas into a matchup with San Antonio. He's 10th in the league scoring 26.1 points per game. The Spurs are 2-2 in division games. San Antonio ranks ninth in the Western Conference with 44.9 points per game in the paint led by DeMar DeRozan averaging 9.1. The Mavericks are 1-0 against the rest of their division. Dallas ranks sixth in the NBA allowing only 107.2 points while holding opponents to 44.9% shooting. The matchup Friday is the first meeting this season for the two teams. TOP PERFORMERS: DeRozan is scoring 20.2 points per game and averaging 5.5 rebounds for the Spurs. Dejounte Murray is averaging 7.2 rebounds and 15.1 points per game over the last 10 games for San Antonio. Doncic is averaging 26.1 points and 10.1 rebounds for the Mavericks. Tim Hardaway Jr. is averaging 3.4 made 3-pointers and scoring 16.7 points over the last 10 games for Dallas. LAST 10 GAMES: Spurs: 6-4, averaging 110 points, 45.8 rebounds, 23.8 assists, 7.9 steals and 4.2 blocks per game while shooting 43.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 109.7 points on 47.0% shooting. Mavericks: 6-4, averaging 108.1 points, 46.8 rebounds, 23.2 assists, 6.6 steals and 5.5 blocks per game while shooting 45.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 106.6 points on 43.7% shooting. INJURIES: Spurs: Keita Bates-Diop: out (upper respiratory infection), Drew Eubanks: out (health and safety protocols), Luka Samanic: out (illness), Quinndary Weatherspoon: out (knee), Derrick White: out (toe). Mavericks: Maxi Kleber: out (health and safety protocols), Dorian Finney-Smith: out (health and safety protocols), Dwight Powell: out (health and safety protocols), Josh Richardson: out (health and safety protocols). ___ The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar. The Associated Press


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Dec. 13, 2010 Updated: June 17, 2016 3:45 p.m.
Three questions in the warming debate
There are three aspects of the "global warming" debate. First, is the Earth warming? Second, is man responsible for the warming if there is any? Third, will warming lead to catastrophe?
The position of the global warmers is that the answer to each of these questions is yes, and that the warming is caused by CO2 emissions from human activities. We are told by advocates like Scott Kimmich about the "long-term trend," but shouldn't such a trend match CO2 levels? If so, how is it that the Earth cooled from the 1930s to the 1970s, all the while with CO2 levels rising? Why has there been no statistically significant warming during the last 15 years, again as CO2 rises? Any honest person has to admit that these facts are real problems for the global warming theory. But not Scott Kimmich.
Is man responsible for the Earth's warming? Well, we know that the Earth has been considerably warmer many, many times in its history than it is now, and that none of those warmings had anything to do with man. We know that the Earth has been warming since the end of the last Ice Age, and from the "Little Ice Age" that ended in the 19th century. How do we know the current warming, if real, isn't simple a natural fluctuation of the Earth's climate? "From computer climate models," the warmers tell us. But these computer models cannot accurately reproduce the climate over the last century; cannot predict large scale climate phenomena like El Ninos, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, or the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation; in fact, the computer models can't even predict the weather more than a few days in advance. Yet we're supposed to believe that these models can accurately tell us what the world's climate will be like in 100 years?
Is warming a bad thing? Most of the horror story predictions of global warming disasters are just that -- horror stories. One of the global warmers' repeated claims is that the slight warming this century (about 1 degree) has led to a great increase in hurricane activity. Yet one peer-reviewed study after another has shown no increase in hurricane activity over the last century. By contrast, many scientists claim that the effects of warming would be largely benign, with CO2-driven increases in plant growth and agricultural output.
Mr. Kimmich "takes pains" to present data that supports his position, that's true. But he refuses to consider any evidence that doesn't support his position, always and invariably dismissing it as paid for by energy companies, which is simply a lie. Many reputable (and non-industry funded) climate scientists support every position I have taken in this letter, including Willie Soon, Ph.D., Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Freeman Dyson, Ph.D., Vincent Gray, Ph.D., Anthony R. Lupo, Ph.D., Harrison Schmitt, Ph.D., Sallie Baliunas, Ph.D., David R. Legates, Ph.D., John Maunder, Ph.D., Tim Patterson, Ph.D., Nathan Paldor, Ph.D., Marcel Leroux, Ph.D., Horst Malberg, Ph.D., Fred Michel, Ph.D., S. Fred Singer, Ph.D., Roy W. Spencer, Ph.D. and John Coleman, founder of The Weather Channel, among others. They could all be wrong, I suppose, but I find their arguments a lot more convincing than those of Mr. Kimmich, who represents the unharnessed socialist mind, bent on using "global warming" as an excuse for growing government power over our lives at all costs.
Michael W. Lyons
A joyous 50th annual holiday concert
On behalf of the entire Norwalk Community Chorale, I wish to thank all of your readers who joined us for our 50th annual holiday concert on Dec. 4. This free concert, which was attended by more than 500 people, would not have been possible without the kindness and generosity of the Parks and Recreation Department of Norwalk and the Mayor's office.
Our appreciation goes to Signs by Anthony who once again provided the banner that graces City Hall before each concert and Technical Reproductions who printed the program.
For several years, Camillo's here in Norwalk has graciously provided complimentary formalwear for our conductor, Brian Muller. Mr. Camillo and his amazing staff take wonderful care of their customers and provide quality service and the quintessential product. We sincerely appreciate Camillo's longtime support of the Norwalk Community Chorale.
We would especially like to thank the American Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Christopher Hisey for joining us in this very special concert. Donations for this nonprofit performing group can be made at www.americanchamberorchestra.org
With the cost of music at an all-time high, were it not for these people and businesses providing discounted or free services to our community group, we would certainly incur hundreds of dollars of extra expenses to our already strained budget. Thank you so very much!
The Norwalk Community Chorale will be taking a brief holiday recess and then begin again on Tuesday, Jan. 11, at 7:30 p.m. in the McCarthy Room in Norwalk City Hall. All interested singers are welcomed to join us as we prepare for our free 50th annual spring concert, "A Golden Celebration" to be presented on Saturday, June 4, 2011. There are no auditions or residency requirements.
If you cannot join us but still wish to support the Norwalk Community Chorale, we gratefully accept donations of any denomination. Checks may be sent to The Norwalk Community Chorale, P.O. Box 135, Norwalk, CT 06852-1035.
Once again, we extend our sincerest appreciation to all of those who have supported the Norwalk Community Chorale thus far this season through their attendance, gifts and services.
Bill Van Camp
Norwalk Community Chorale


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Biografia
Giuseppe Fumagalli è stato bibliotecario presso numerose biblioteche fino al 1921 (Biblioteca Governativa di Lucca, Biblioteca Riccardiana di Firenze, Biblioteca Universitaria di Padova, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma, Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense di Milano, Biblioteca Universitaria Alessandrina di Roma, Biblioteca Universitaria di Napoli, Biblioteca Estense di Modena, Biblioteca Universitaria di Bologna).

Fu il fondatore (con Diomede Bonamici) nonché primo presidente della Società bibliografica italiana (1896-1897). Nel 1905 fu l'autore per Leo S. Olschki  del Lexicon Typographicum Italiae, un importante repertorio bibliografico italiano, che rappresenta la sua opera principale. Creò a Bologna la prima "Raccolta bibliografica della guerra". Fondò inoltre l'Almanacco italiano per l'editore Bemporad.

Tradusse in italiano dal tedesco, con il titolo di Manuale del bibliotecario, il Katechismus  der Bìbliothekslehre di Julius Petzholdt (1894).

Opere
Catalogo delle edizioni romane di Antonio Blado Asolano ed eredi (1516-1593) possedute dalla Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Vittorio Emanuele di Roma, con una introduzione storico-bibliografica, compilato da Giuseppe Fumagalli e Giacomo Belli, Roma, presso i principali librai, 1891.
Bibliografia etiopica: catalogo descrittivo e ragionato degli scritti pubblicati dalla invenzione della stampa fino a tutto il 1891 intorno alla Etiopia e regioni limitrofe, redatto da Giuseppe Fumagalli, opera compilata sotto gli auspici della Società Geografica Italiana e della Società d'Esplorazione Commerciale Africana, Milano, Ulrico Hoepli, 1893 (Rist. anastatica: Farnborough, Gregg International Publishers, 1971).
Julius Petzholdt, Manuale del bibliotecario, tradotto sulla terza edizione tedesca con un'appendice originale di note illustrative, di norme legislative e amministrative e con un elenco delle pubbliche biblioteche italiane e straniere per cura di Guido Biagi e Giuseppe Fumagalli, Milano, Ulrico Hoepli, 1894.
Bibliotheca bibliographica Italica: catalogo degli scritti di bibliologia, bibliografia e biblioteconomia pubblicati in Italia e di quelli riguardanti l'Italia pubblicati all'estero, compilato da Giuseppe Ottino bibliotecario della Nazionale di Roma e Giuseppe Fumagalli bibliotecario della Nazionale di Milano, 2 voll. + 4 suppl., Roma, Loreto Pasqualucci, poi Torino, C. Clausen, 1889-1902.
Lexicon Typographicum Italiae. Dictionnaire géographique d'Italie pour servir à l'histoire de l'imprimerie dans ce Pays, Firenze, Leo S. Olschki, 1905.
L'ape latina: dizionarietto di 2588 frasi, sentenze, proverbi, motti, divise, locuzioni latine, ecc. vive nell'uso moderno, spiegate e annotate, Milano, U. Hoepli, 1911; 2ª ed. corretta e accresciuta, 1936.
 La Bibliografia, Roma, Fondazione Leonardo per la cultura italiana, 1923.
Chi l'ha detto?: tesoro di citazioni italiane e straniere, di origine letteraria e storica, ordinate e annotate, Milano, U. Hoepli, 1934.
Vocabolario bibliografico, a cura di Giuseppe Boffito e di Giovanni De Bernard, Firenze, Leo S. Olschki, 1940.
Giornali dei soldati italiani nella guerra 1915-18, inedito (forse custodito dal Ministero della Difesa).

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How Many Children did Lady Macbeth Have in the Cabin in the Woods?
To the long list of reasons why I love my job, you can add this one: in a week I'm going to Sacramento CA to present a paper at the biennial Whedon Studies Conference. Yep, that's a thing. And as much as it might sound vaguely comic-con-ish, it's actually a serious academic conference that has been happening for twelve years. It should not be such a surprise, really, considering the fondness (and by "fondness," I mean "obsession") that a great many academics have for Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Joss Whedon's other creations.
My good friend Nikki Stafford, whom you may remember from such roles as my partner in crime in our Game of Thrones posts, has been bugging me to go for years. She has been to most, if not in fact all, of the conferences so far, at least one time as a keynote speaker. And given that I am on the cusp of my very first sabbatical (yet another reason to love my job), I thought what the hell … it's time.
And it's also in Sacramento, which is just down the road from San Francisco. So, double score.
I'm presenting a paper on The Cabin in the Woods, a film Joss wrote and Drew Goddard directed, which was filmed in 2009 but didn't get released unto 2012 because of distribution issues. If you haven't seen the film, go watch it right now. Or at least stop reading this blog post, because SPOILERS.
For those who haven't seen it but laugh in the face of spoilers, the premise of the film is that a group of five college co-eds go to a remote cabin, where they encounter in the basement a variety of creepy tchotchkes. As it turns out, each of them, handled in a certain way, will summon a specific monster (or cluster of monsters) that will kill them in succession. As it happens, Dana (Kristen Connolly) inadvertently summons the Buckner clan, a family of "zombified pain-worshipping backwoods idiots" by reading a Latin incantation out of the journal of Patience Buckner.
The conceit of the film, and what makes it a brilliant inversion of the horror genre, is that the five main characters are being manipulated by a clandestine group of technicians in a hi-tech facility underneath the cabin. The whole point of having the five oblivious co-eds play out a cliché horror movie narrative is to make them a sacrifice to the "Old Gods"—ancient, powerful beings who pre-existed humans and who demand ritual sacrifice, without which they will rise from their slumber and destroy the world. And so a sort of global conspiracy has arisen, with different countries performing their own sacrifices but all essentially working together as a fail-safe, so if one fails others will succeed and keep the stroppy Old Ones quiescent.
My paper, which is still in the process of being written (hey, I started on it a week and a half before flying to the conference—this is me being on the ball) is a consideration of the Lovecraftian influences on Cabin, and the ways in which Whedon rewrites H.P. Lovecraft's "Old Ones" mythos. I'll post the text of the paper after I've presented it … for now, I'm just using this blog to ruminate over elements of the film, and speculations about it, that won't be making it into the paper itself.
Why won't they make it into the paper? Because some of the notes I was writing today were veering dangerously close to fan fiction. Cabin leaves a lot of unanswered questions, especially in terms of history, and I found myself today maundering over possible origin stories for the film's present-day military-industrial conspiratorial scheming. The implicit suggestion is that this ritual sacrifice has been going on for time out of mind—since the dawn of human civilization and before. And because I have one of those minds that can't help puzzling over such questions, I find myself wondering: how did people get by before the advent of such omniscient technology such as is on display in the film? The lead "technicians" Stitterson and Hadley (Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford, the latter essentially playing the role as if Josh Lyman had gone into covert ops rather than D.C. politics) nudge their five victims into classic stupid horror movie behavior by releasing chemicals and pheromones, changing the lighting and temperature, and just generally making use of the impressive technology at their fingertips to better facilitate the ritual slaughter. And yet they ultimately fail, as do all the other stations around the world (spoiler). So if this all-powerful technological juggernaut fails, how on earth did previous sacrifices succeed?
Nate Fischer Sr., Fred Burkle, and Josh Lyman.
Of course, once we move into speculation on such an issue, for which there is little or no exposition in the film, we're engaging in a version of what a former professor of mine called the Lady Macbeth's children question. Apparently (I'll have to take his word for it, as I've never encountered it myself), once upon a time Shakespeare enthusiasts speculated at length about how many children Lady Macbeth had. The only reference to her (possibly) having had children is when she coldly declares she would kill her own child to win Macbeth the throne: "I have given suck, and know / How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: / I would, while it was smiling in my face, / Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, / And dash'd the brains out." But from this utterance apparently sprang interpretations of the play based in whether she had actually had children, and how many. Or perhaps it just functions as an exemplar of the fatuity of speculating too far outside the text. Either way, I can't help doing it with The Cabin in the Woods—in part because I think I have a reasonable case to make. Not in front of a scholarly audience, mind you, but what use is a blog if I can't use it for dorky speculation?
So: how did humanity fare with the sacrifice before they could build elaborate underground complexes dedicated to carrying it out? One possibility, which I'll call the Lovecraft scenario, is that secret societies have existed since the dawn of civilization and before, who passed the secret of the Ancient Ones on down through the generations, and in premodern days it was easier to carry out human sacrifices without ruffling the sensibilities of the larger population. And perhaps there were even volunteers to do the ritual dying. Such a scenario is not, after all, too far from the mythology Whedon created for Buffy, in which the Slayer and the Watchers Council stretch in an unbroken line back to Neolithic times.
The other possibility, which I'll call the Gaiman scenario, suggests that the contemporary technological apparatus facilitating the sacrifice, and its concomitant conspiratorial secrecy—and the intricate process of the sacrifice itself—are products of modernity. Perhaps in ancient times the ritual did not need to be nearly so elaborate, as the larger portion of humanity engaged in worship and sacrifice, and the copia of blood offerings satiated the Ancient Ones. In the final moments of the film, as it slowly dawns on survivors Dana and Marty (Fran Kanz) that they are the subjects of ritual sacrifice, Marty plaintively wonders at the hoops they've been made to jump through: "A ritual sacrifice?" he asks. "Great. You tie someone to a stone, get a fancy dagger and a bunch of robes. It's not that complicated." In this bewildered comment, I'd argue, lies a key to the film as a whole. Why is this ritual so complicated? In the Gaiman scenario, the Ancient Ones were not necessarily secret but worshipped in various guises, from Marduk to Anubis to Quetzacoatl to Zeus to Mithras to Elohim; but as humanity emerged from its dark ages, worship became less primal and more formalized, and hence less satisfying to the gods. Here emerged the conspiratorial cabals dedicated to placating them, and as modernity took humanity away from not just primal worship but religion generally, the ritual sacrifice became necessarily more elaborate and sophisticated, to compensate for its infrequency.
All of which is fun to speculate on, but as I mentioned, it veers dangerously close to fan fiction. Yet I would argue that the Gaiman scenario is consonant with the film's broader themes, and in working it out in my head I think I've arrived at the core of my paper's argument. What is brilliant about Cabin is the way it stages a confrontation between Enlightenment rationality (manifested in the technicians' military-industrial technology) and what China Mieville has called H.P. Lovecraft's "bad numinous": Cabin is rooted in an identifiably Lovecraftian mythos, in which humanity inhabits a thin scrim of ignorance in time and space, insignificant grubs compared to the Old Gods. Lovecraft's vision is religious in nature, but without the meaningfulness humans glean from a relationship to the divine. The motifs of madness and unreason run throughout his work.
H.P. Lovecraft's old god Cthulhu: bad, bad numinous!
The conspiratorial nature of the technicians' ministrations is also key, for the film plays on classic, even cliché tropes of conspiracy and paranoia: the massive yet invisible omniscient organization (as Fredric Jameson notes, the "minimum basic components" of a conspiracy narrative are "a potentially infinite network [and] a plausible explanation of its invisibility"); the fetishization of the technology of surveillance and control; the one paranoid Cassandra (Marty) whose warnings are ignored as the rantings of a lunatic (or in Marty's case, chronic pothead); but most importantly, the way in which the conspiracy comes to function as a supplemental or substitute religion.
Seeing as how I wrote my dissertation on conspiracy and paranoia, I might as well quote myself making this very point:
[C]onspiracy sometimes seems to have something of the divine to it: "Conspiracy," writes Don DeLillo, "is the new faith." Scott Sanders similarly declares, "God is the original conspiracy theory," and goes on to say that the conspiratorial world is one "governed by shadowy figures whose powers approach omniscience and omnipotence." In Totem and Taboo, Sigmund Freud relates the character of the paranoiac to primitive societies ("savages") who ascribe to their god-king persecutory powers of weather and plague; he makes an identical argument in Psychopathology of Everyday Life. And sociologist Karl Popper suggests that "the conspiracy theory of society" is simply a form of perverse theism, of "a belief in gods whose whims and wills rule everything."
Hence, conspiracy narratives frequently have something of the bad numinous at their center, manifesting symbolically as the suggestion of a continuity with a conspiratorial past—or more broadly, with the positing of history as conspiracy. Or to again quote Jameson, the symbolic force of conspiracy narrative "draws not on the advanced or futuristic technology of the contemporary media so much as from their endowment with an archaic past." He's speaking specifically here about The Crying of Lot 49, but the point holds for a surprising number of conspiracy narratives—as indeed, as it should be obvious, it does for The Cabin in the Woods.
Wait, I think I've seen this movie before … where's Ash when you need him?
Cabin's unique twist, however, is that while typical conspiracy narratives constitute a substitute theism and draw symbolic force from the suggestion of continuity with an archaic past, Cabin's conspiratorial apparatus is explicitly established as being in the service of an extant (albeit secret) theism; and while I can speculate on its continuity with an archaic past, as I did above, the film itself sets up the conspiratorial organization in symbolic opposition to that past as manifested in the Ancient Ones. And yes, I do mean in opposition, for while the technicians' conspiratorial network—which is ostensibly global—is in the service of the Ancient Ones, that service is explicitly a matter of abject submission. The climactic sequence when Marty and Dana release all of the monsters in the technicians' bestiary—which of course then proceed to horrifically kill all of the people in the underground lair—drives this point home with literal vengeance (and is, indeed, a characteristically Whedon gesture: the weaponization of the supernatural and its tendency to backfire feature highly in Buffy season four, in Firefly with River's "modifications," and in the Heroes-esque attempts to contain emergent superpowers in Agents of SHIELD).
Yup. It gets a bit messy when you unleash hundreds of bloodthirsty monsters all at once.
To return to why I think the Gaiman scenario holds water in all this: the contemporary moment of the film allegorizes the divorce of instrumental reason and the numinous (bad or otherwise), even as rationality in the form of technology not only submits to unreason (the Lovecraftian Ancient Ones) but produces it (the murder of innocents). If we consider the evolution of Cabin's ritual as the gradual distanciation of science and reason from the numinous, the film becomes a potent allegory for the ossification of science and religion into incommensurability, with neither providing a rational, humanist moral center.
At any rate, that seems to be where my paper's argument is going … now if I can just get there without having to ask how many children Lady Macbeth had in the cabin in the woods, it might just work.
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This was a great movie. MAN am I glad I avoided reading any spoilers beforehand, since it was ever so delightful.


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Ian Somerhalder Honored at Genesis Awards
By E. Mitchell on March 19, 2012 at 7:03 AM
It's a busy week for Carrie Ann Inaba who returns tonight for the 14th season of Dancing With the Stars and caps off the week hosting the 26th Genesis Awards for the Humane Society of the United States on Saturday March 24th at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. There will be a special performance by Colbie Caillat.
Every year the Genesis Awards honors members of the media and entertainment industries for raising public awareness about animal welfare issues. This year's recipient of the prestigious Wyler Award is Ian Somerhalder of the hit TV series the Vampire Diaries.
Ian is being recognized for his dedication to animal advocacy and spreading the word about such issues as shark finning, the Canadian seal hunt, fur in fashion, and endangered species. He is also the founder of the Ian Somerhalder Foundation, which aims to empower, educate and collaborate with people and projects to positively impact the planet and its creatures.
"The tireless efforts of The Humane Society of the United States to protect animals around the world has always been an inspiration to me and I'm honored to be recognized with this year's Wyler Award," says Somerhalder.
"Ian is the epitome of a new kind of advocate who leverages his fame and an array of media platforms to draw public attention to animal protection concerns and other issues that he cares deeply about," says Beverly Kaskey, senior director of The HSUS's Hollywood Outreach and executive producer of the annual Genesis Awards. "From addressing Congress to making TV appearances to regularly blogging to informing his million-plus followers on Twitter, Ian is a major voice and force for animals and a most deserving recipient of The Wyler Award."
Ian Somerhalder joins Wyler Award alumni Sir Paul McCartney, Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi, Hayden Panettiere,and Kristin Davis. The Wyler Award is named after former Broadway actress, animal advocate and founder of The Genesis Awards, Gretchen Wyler.
The 26th Genesis Awards is the only event of its kind honoring the news and entertainment media for spotlighting animal protection issues. The 26th Genesis Awards will air on Animal Planet in May. For a complete list of nominees and ticket information, visit humansociety.org/genesis. Follow The Genesis Awards on Twitter #genesisawards and @humanesociety and Ian Somerhalder @iansomerhalder
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Making Movies | 50 Westerns From The 50s.
Making Movies: Stagecoach To Fury (1956).
Margia Dean and Stagecoach To Fury (1956) came up on my other blog today, which reminded me of the Regalscope picture's coverage in the August 1956 issue of American Cinematographer.
It's one of my favorite of the Regalscope Westerns, with a great cast — Forrest Tucker, Marie Blanchard, Paul Fix, Wallace Ford, Margia Dead, Ellen Corby — and solid direction from William Claxton.
Here are Marie Blanchard and DP Walter Strenge, who shot the picture (and wrote the American Cinematographer article). This was the first CinemaScope movie shot using Eastman Plus-X negative film.
A good look at the relay station set. The location stuff was shot around Kanab, Utah, with more done closer to home at the Gene Autry ranch.
Wish this one would make its way to DVD and/or Blu-Ray in its proper 2.35:1 aspect ratio. It deserves to be seen the way Strenge shot it.
Here's the article as a PDF: Stagecoach To Fury Amer Cin Aug 1956. Enjoy.
Making Movies: Rio Bravo (1959).
Came across this in an old issue of American Cinematographer. John Wayne watches Dean Martin shoot one of his scenes in Rio Bravo (1959).
And another. This time, it's Wayne with Ward Bond.
All Points Bulletin: Looking For Desert Mesa (1935) And Half Way To Hell (1961).
There's a feature-length documentary in the works on producer/director Al Adamson. Adamson made a number of exploitation pictures in the 60s and 70s — Satan's Sadists (1969), Five Bloody Graves (1969), Horror Of The Blood Monsters (1970), Dracula Vs. Frankenstein (1971) and many more. His father was Victor Adamson, who made a slew of B Westerns in the 20s and 30s as an actor and director (sometimes under aliases like Denver Dixon). Many of his films are considered lost.
That's Al Adamson in the lower left.
As a boy, Al appeared in his dad's Desert Mesa (1935), and they worked together on another no-budget Western, Half Way To Hell in 1961. They made cheap genre movies a family business.
Footage from these films is needed for this documentary on Al Adamson. If you have anything — from a film print to a bootleg VHS, please let me know, and I'll put you in touch with the producers. Thanks a lot.
Making Movies: The Indian Fighter (1955).
With The Indian Fighter (1955) making its way to Blu-Ray from Kino Lorber, this seemed like a good time to share some more of the photos my wife's finding as she helps with the research for my commentary. (Photos don't do too well in an audio commentary.) I've been really wallowing in this movie the last couple weeks.
Here, they're shooting a scene with Hank Worden and Walter Matthau.
Elisha Cook rests between takes in Bend, Oregon, as Ira Eagleman (whose parents were working as extras) looks on. Cook, Worden, Matthau — what a cast!
A prop man fires flaming arrows at the fort.
Elsa Martinelli, an Italian fashion model, made her screen debut in The Indian Fighter. Douglas' wife Anne saw her in Vogue and recommended her for the part.
Here, they're shooting inside the stockade. I can't find director Andre de Toth in this photo, but this seems to be a scene with Douglas and Walter Abel. The Indian Fighter was the first picture from Douglas' Bryna Productions. It was also de Toth's first time chance to work with CinemaScope. He does a couple of really cool 360-degree pans that really use the Scope frame (and show off the distortion in those early Scope lenses).
Making Movies: William Witney On The Roy Rogers Movies.
Producer Eddie White, Roy Rogers, Director William Witney.
While doing some research on Sunset In The West (1950), I came upon an intro to Under California Stars (1948) that aired on Roy Rogers' Happy Trails Theater. William Witney was the guest, and he gave a bit of a rundown on how the Rogers pictures came together. Very interesting stuff, coming from a brilliant craftsman.
William Witney: "Our producer, the greatest guy, Eddie White… was from New York. He didn't know which end of a horse was which, but he had good taste. And they brought me along and put me with him. I'd been a horseman all my life. I'm a jumping horse rider, and I love horses. So, we made a very excellent team, the two of us. We became the best of friends.
Now we come up with a finished script. Eddie and I would go through it, check the dialogue, check it out, and give it to the production department. Now Jack Lacey was our unit man for years. He'd lay it out on the board for a budget, and we would put the budget down, and if that was what the studio would okay, now we had to find the locations. We knew every location locally. I knew every location we could afford to go to. We'd pick the location — Big Bear, someplace like the Iverson… So now we've got the locations, we've got the departments — wardrobe department, makeup department… These crews that we had were held together with a tight hand. They were our friends.
Here's a batch of behind-the scenes photos to help wrap up 2016.
Let's start with Maria Elena Marques and John Derek on the set of Fred F. Sears' Ambush At Tomahawk Gap (1953).
Next is Edith Head, Jeff Chandler and Melvin Frank going over costumes for The Jayhawkers! (1959).
Here's Satchel Page and Robert Rossen at work on The Wonderful Country (1959).
Then there's Virginia Mayo and Clint Walker shooting Fort Dobbs (1958).
Making Movies: Whistling Hills (1951).
Stephen Lodge is a very nice man who, as a kid, got to visit some Western movie and TV sets. (His aunt worked for Monogram.) One of those visits was to the Iverson Ranch while Johnny Mack Brown was shooting Whistling Hills (1951). I've "borrowed" the next few snapshots from his website, which I encourage you to check out.
First, Stephen and his brother meet Johnny Mack Brown.
Brown with his costar, Noel Neill.
Brown at the saloon on Iverson's Western street. There are plenty of other photos on Lodge's site, along with a great writeup of his time on the Iverson Ranch.
Whistling Hills is available on Warner Archive's Monogram Cowboy Collection Volume 7.


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Philippines says Chinese ships near Pag-asa Island 'illegal'
'Such actions when not repudiated by the Chinese government are deemed to have been adopted by it,' says the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs
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Published 2:45 PM, April 04, 2019
CHINESE SHIPS. The Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI) of the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) monitors dozens of Chinese vessels near Pag-asa Island (Thitu Island) after the Philippines begins constructing there. Photo courtesy of CSIS/AMTI/DigitalGlobe
MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines on Thursday, April 4, rejected as "illegal" the presence of Chinese vessels near the disputed Pag-asa Island in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea).
"Such actions when not repudiated by the Chinese government are deemed to have been adopted by it," said the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) in a statement on Thursday.
The DFA explained that Pag-asa Island belongs to the Kalayaan Island Group (KIG), "which is an integral part of the Philippines."
"Accordingly, the presence of Chinese vessels near and around Pag-asa and other maritime features in the KIG is illegal. Such actions are a clear violation of Philippine sovereignty, sovereign rights and jurisdiction, as defined under international law including the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)," said the DFA.
"Moreover, it has been observed that Chinese vessels have been present in large numbers and for sustained and recurring periods – what is commonly referred to as 'swarming' tactics – raising questions about their intent as well as concerns over their role in support of coercive objectives," the DFA added.
The Armed Forces of the Philippines has said more than 600 Chinese ships have circled Pag-asa Island since January, according to ABS-CBN News.
This corroborates an earlier report by the Washington-based Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative that China deployed Chinese militia to the vicinity of Pag-asa Island after the Philippines began constructing there.
The DFA said the presence of Chinese vessels within the Kalayaan Island Group, "whether military, fishing, or other vessels," will "continue to be the subject of appropriate action by the Philippines."
Philippine Foreign Secretary Teodoro "Teddyboy" Locsin Jr had said on Tuesday, April 2, that he "fired off a salvo of diplomatic notes against China" in reaction to the Chinese vessels. He declined to publicize details, other than that he sent these diplomatic notes before his official trip to China from March 18 to 21.
"For the record, the Philippines has consistently manifested its position on the Pag-asa Island and on the KIG, and its objections or concerns over illegal, tension-raising or coercive activities, through diplomatic actions, including notes verbales and in meetings with the Chinese side, including the Philippines-China Bilateral Consultation Mechanism (BCM)," said the DFA.
"We call on concerned parties to desist from any action and activity that contravenes the ASEAN-China Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea (DOC), as these generate tension, mistrust and uncertainty, and threatens regional peace and stability," it added.
The DFA added that while countries negotiate a Code of Conduct in the South China Sea, the Philippines "calls for the full and effective implementation of the DOC."
"We cannot emphasize enough the imperative to build and promote mutual trust and confidence; to exercise self-restraint in the conduct of activities; and to avoid actions that may further complicate the situation and undermine peace, security, and stability in the region," said the DFA. – Rappler.com
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