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Title: Carole Lombard
Subject: Virtue (film), Clark Gable, Made for Each Other (1939 film), 1942, Cary Grant
Lombard in Nothing Sacred (1937)
Jane Alice Peters
(1908-10-06)October 6, 1908
Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.
January 16, 1942(1942-01-16) (aged 33)
Mount Potosi, Nevada, U.S.
William Powell (m. 1931; div. 1933)
Clark Gable (m. 1939–42)
(her death)
Carole Lombard (born Jane Alice Peters; October 6, 1908 – January 16, 1942) was an American film actress. She was particularly noted for her highly neurotic, energetic and often off-beat roles in the screwball comedies of the 1930s. She was the highest-paid star in Hollywood in the late 1930s.
Lombard was born into a wealthy family in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on October 6, 1908. She attended Virgil Junior High School, where she excelled in sports, and while playing baseball caught the attention of the film director Allan Dwan, which led to her screen debut in A Perfect Crime (1921). In October 1924, at the age of 16, she signed a contract with the Fox Film Corporation, and got her first break the following year opposite Edmund Lowe in the successful drama Marriage in Transit. She was dropped by Fox after a car accident that left a scar on her face. Lombard appeared in 15 short films of Pathé Exchange between September 1927 and March 1929, and then began appearing in feature films such as High Voltage and The Racketeer. After a successful one-off appearance opposite Warner Baxter in Fox's The Arizona Kid, she signed a contract with Paramount Pictures who cast her in the Buddy Rogers comedy Safety in Numbers (1930).
Lombard began appearing in comedies with Bolero (1934), where her dance skills were praised. After roles in successful films such as Twentieth Century (1934), Hands Across the Table (1935), which was the first of four comedies made with Fred MacMurray, The Princess Comes Across (1936), My Man Godfrey (1936), which won her an Academy Award nomination opposite Powell, Swing High, Swing Low (1937), and Nothing Sacred (1937), Lombard had become the highest-paid actress in Hollywood and one of its most popular stars. Eager to win an Oscar, by the end of the decade she began to move away from comedies towards more serious roles, appearing opposite James Stewart in the drama Made for Each Other (1939) and alongside Cary Grant in the romance In Name Only (1939). Her role as a nurse in Vigil in the Night was her most notable attempt to win an Oscar but didn't receive a nomination. Lombard returned to comedy in Alfred Hitchcock's Mr. & Mrs. Smith in 1941.
Lombard's career was cut short when she died at the age of 33 in an aircraft crash on Mount Potosi, Nevada while returning from a World War II War Bond tour. Her final film, Ernst Lubitsch's To Be or Not to Be (1942), a satire about Nazism and the war, was in post-production at the time of her death. Today she is remembered as one of the definitive actresses of the screwball comedy genre and American comedy, and ranks among the American Film Institute's greatest stars of all time. The World War II Liberty Ship SS Carole Lombard and the Carole Lombard Memorial Bridge over the St. Mary's River near Fort Wayne were named after her.
1 Early years
1.1 Childhood
1.2 Aspiring actress, Fox (1921–26)
2 Breakthrough
2.1 Sennett and Pathé (1927–29)
2.2 Paramount, Powell marriage (1930–33)
3 Hollywood star
3.1 Screwball beginnings (1934–35)
3.2 Continued success (1936–37)
3.3 Gable marriage, dramatic efforts (1938–40)
3.4 Final roles (1941–1942)
4 Death
4.1 Aftermath
5 Style and legacy
Lombard was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on October 6, 1908. Christened with the name Jane Alice Peters, she was the third child of Frederic Peters (1875–1935) and Elizabeth "Bessie" Knight Peters (1877–1942). Her older brothers were Frederic Jr. (born 1902) and Stuart (born 1906).[1] Lombard's parents both descended from wealthy families and her early years were lived in comfort, with the biographer Robert Matzen calling it her "silver spoon period".[2] The marriage between her parents was strained, however,[3] and in October 1914, her mother took the children and moved to Los Angeles.[4] Although the couple did not divorce, the separation was permanent.[3] Her father's continued financial support allowed the family to live without worry, if not with the same affluence they had enjoyed in Indiana, and they settled into an apartment near Venice Boulevard in Los Angeles.[5]
At age 12, Lombard had a small role in the film A Perfect Crime (1921)
Described by her biographer Wes Gehring as "a free-spirited tomboy", the young Lombard was passionately involved in sports and enjoyed watching movies.[6] At Virgil Junior High School, she participated in tennis, volleyball, and swimming, and won trophies for her achievements in athletics.[4] At the age of 12, this hobby unexpectedly landed Lombard her first screen role. While playing baseball with friends, she caught the attention of the film director Allan Dwan, who later recalled seeing "a cute-looking little tomboy ... out there knocking the hell out of the other kids, playing better baseball than they were. And I needed someone of her type for this picture."[7] With the encouragement of her mother, Lombard happily took a small role in the melodrama A Perfect Crime (1921). She was on set for two days,[7] playing the sister of Monte Blue.[8] Dwan later commented, "She ate it up".[9]
Aspiring actress, Fox (1921–26)
A Perfect Crime was not widely distributed, but the brief experience spurred Lombard and her mother to look for more film work. The teenager attended several auditions, but none were successful.[10] While appearing as the queen of Fairfax High School's May Day Carnival at the age of 15, she was scouted by an employee of Charlie Chaplin and offered a screen test to appear in his film The Gold Rush (1925). Lombard was not given the role, but it raised Hollywood's awareness of the aspirant-actress.[11] Her test was seen by the Vitagraph Film Company, who expressed an interest in signing her to a contract. Although this did not materialize, the condition that she adopt a new first name ("Jane" was considered too dull) lasted with Lombard throughout her career. She selected the name "Carol" after a girl she played tennis with in middle school.[12]
In October 1924, shortly after these disappointments, 16-year-old Lombard was signed to a contract with the Fox Film Corporation. How this came about is uncertain: in her lifetime, it was reported that a director for the studio scouted her at a dinner party, but more recent evidence suggests that Lombard's mother contacted Louella Parsons, the gossip columnist, who then got her a screen test.[13] According to the biographer Larry Swindell, it was Lombard's beauty that convinced Winfield Sheehan, head of the studio, to sign her to a $75-per-week contract.[14] The teenager abandoned her schooling to embark on this new career.[12] Fox were happy to use the name Carol, but unlike Vitagraph they disliked her surname. From this point she became "Carol Lombard", the new name taken from a family friend.[15]
The majority of Lombard's appearances with Fox were bit parts[12] in low-budget westerns and adventure films. She later commented on her dissatisfaction with these roles: "All I had to do was simper prettily at the hero and scream with terror when he battled with the villain."[15] She fully enjoyed the other aspects of film work, however, such as photo-shoots, costume fittings, and socializing with actors on the studio set. Lombard embraced the flapper lifestyle and became a regular at the Coconut Grove nightclub, where she won several Charleston dance competitions.[16]
In March 1925, Fox gave Lombard a leading role in the drama Marriage in Transit, opposite Edmund Lowe. Her performance was well-received, with a reviewer for Motion Picture News writing that she displayed, "good poise and considerable charm."[17] Despite this, the studio heads were unconvinced that Lombard was leading lady material, and her one-year contract was not renewed.[18] Gehring has suggested that a facial scar she obtained in an automobile accident was a factor in this decision. Fearing that the scar—which ran across her cheek—would ruin her career, the 17-year-old had an early plastic surgery procedure to make it less visible. For the remainder of her career, Lombard learned to hide the mark with make-up and careful lighting.[19][note 1]
Sennett and Pathé (1927–29)
Lombard in the comedy short Run, Girl, Run (1928), from her time as a "Mack Sennett girl"
After a year without work, Lombard obtained a screen test for the "King of Comedy" Mack Sennett. She was offered a contract, and although she initially had reservations about performing in slapstick comedies, the actress joined his company as one of the "Sennett Bathing Beauties".[21] She appeared in 15 short films between September 1927 and March 1929,[22] and greatly enjoyed her time at the studio.[23] It gave Lombard her first experiences in comedy and provided valuable training for her future work in the genre.[24] In 1940, she called her Sennett years "the turning point of [my] acting career."[25]
Sennett's productions were distributed by Pathé Exchange, and in 1928 the company began casting Lombard in feature films. She had prominent roles in Show Folks and Ned McCobb's Daughter,[26] where reviewers noted that she made a "good impression" and was "worth watching".[27] The following year, Pathé elevated Lombard from a supporting player to a leading lady.[28] Her success in Raoul Walsh's 1928 picture Me, Gangster, opposite June Collyer and Don Terry on his film debut, finally eased the pressure her family had been putting on her to succeed.[29] In Howard Higgin's High Voltage, her first talking picture, she played a sheriff's daughter stranded with a group during a snow storm.[30] Her next film, the comedy Big News, cast her opposite Robert Armstrong and was a critical and commercial success.[31] Lombard was reunited with Armstrong for the crime–drama The Racketeer, released in late 1929. The review in Film Daily wrote, "Carol Lombard proves a real surprise, and does her best work to date. In fact this is the first opportunity she has had to prove that she has the stuff to go over."[32]
Paramount, Powell marriage (1930–33)
Lombard (left) in Safety in Numbers (1930)
In 1930, Lombard returned to Fox for a one-off role in the western The Arizona Kid. It was a big release for the studio, starring the popular actor Warner Baxter, in which Lombard received third billing.[33] Following the success of the film, Paramount Pictures recruited Lombard and signed her to a $350-per-week contract (gradually increasing to $3,500-per-week by 1936).[34] They cast her in the Buddy Rogers comedy Safety in Numbers, and one critic observed of her work, "Lombard proves [to be] an ace comedienne."[35] For her second assignment, Fast and Loose with Miriam Hopkins, Paramount mistakenly credited the actress as "Carole Lombard". She decided she liked this spelling and it became her permanent screen name.[36][note 2]
Lombard appeared in five films throughout 1931, beginning with the Frank Tuttle comedy It Pays to Advertise. Her next two films, Man of the World and Ladies Man, both featured William Powell, Paramount's top male star.[40] Lombard had been a fan of the actor before they met, attracted to his good looks and debonair screen persona,[41] and they were soon in a relationship.[40] The differences between the pair have been noted by biographers: she was 22, carefree, and famously foul-mouthed, while he was 38, intellectual, and sophisticated.[42] Despite their disparate personalities, Lombard married Powell on June 6, 1931, at her Beverly Hills home.[43] Talking to the media, she argued for the benefits of "love between two people who are diametrically different", claiming that their relationship allowed for a "perfect see-saw love".[41]
With William Powell, her husband from June 1931 to August 1933
The marriage to Powell increased Lombard's fame,[43] while she continued to please critics with her work in Up Pops the Devil and I Take this Woman (both 1931).[44] In reviews for the latter film, which co-starred Gary Cooper, several critics predicted that Lombard was set to become a major star.[45] She went on to appear in five films throughout 1932. No One Man and Sinners in the Sun were not successful,[46] but Edward Buzzell's romantic picture Virtue was well received.[47] After featuring in the drama No More Orchids, Lombard was cast as the wife of a con-artist in No Man of Her Own.[47] Her co-star for the picture was Clark Gable, who was rapidly becoming one of Hollywood's top celebrities.[48] The film was a critical and commercial success, and Wes Gehring writes that it was "arguably Lombard's finest film appearance" to that point.[49] It was the only picture that Gable and Lombard, future husband and wife, made together. There was no romantic interest at this time however, as she recounted to Garson Kanin: "[we] did all kinds of hot love scenes ... and I never got any kind of tremble out of him at all."[50][note 3]
In August 1933, Lombard and Powell divorced after 26 months of marriage, although they remained very good friends until Lombard's death. At the time she blamed it on their careers,[52] but in a 1936 interview she admitted that this "had little to do with the divorce. We were just two completely incompatible people."[44] She appeared in five films that year, beginning with the drama From Hell to Heaven and continuing with Supernatural, her only horror vehicle. After a small role in The Eagle and the Hawk, a war film starring Fredric March and Cary Grant, she starred in two melodramas: Brief Moment, which critics enjoyed, and White Woman, where she was paired with Charles Laughton.[53]
Screwball beginnings (1934–35)
Lobby card for Twentieth Century (1934), considered a pioneering screwball comedy. The film that made Lombard a major star.
Lombard made four comedies with Fred MacMurray, beginning with Hands Across the Table (1935)
The year 1934 marked a high point in Lombard's career.[54] She began with Maurice Ravel's "Boléro".[55] Before filming began, she was offered the lead female role in It Happened One Night, but turned it down because of scheduling conflicts with this production.[56][note 4] Bolero was favorably received, while her next film, the musical comedy We're Not Dressing with Bing Crosby, was a box office hit.[54]
Lombard was then recruited by the director Howard Hawks, a second cousin,[58] to star in his successful comedy film Twentieth Century, a pioneering film in the screwball comedy genre, [59] which also proved a watershed in her career and made her a major star.[60] Hawks had seen the actress inebriated at a party, where he found her to be "hilarious and uninhibited and just what the part needed",[61] and she was cast opposite John Barrymore.[62] In Twentieth Century, Lombard played an actress who is pursued by her former mentor, a flamboyant Broadway impresario. Hawks and Barrymore were unimpressed with her work in rehearsals, finding that she was "acting" too hard and giving a stiff performance. The director encouraged Lombard to relax, be herself, and act on her instincts.[63][note 5] She responded well to this tutoring, and reviews for the film commented on her unexpectedly "fiery talent"—"a Lombard like no Lombard you've ever seen".[64] The Los Angeles Times' critic felt that she was "entirely different" from her formerly cool, "calculated" persona, adding, "she vibrates with life and passion, abandon and diablerie".[65]
The next films Lombard appeared in were Rumba (1935), Lombard was given the opportunity to repeat the screwball success of Twentieth Century.[67] In Mitchell Leisen's Hands Across the Table (1935), she portrayed a manicurist in search of a rich husband, played by Fred MacMurray. Critics praised the film, and Photoplay's reviewer stated that Lombard had reaffirmed her talent for the genre.[68] It is remembered as one of her best films,[67] and the pairing of Lombard and MacMurray proved so successful that they made three more pictures together.[69]
Continued success (1936–37)
Clip from My Man Godfrey (1936), which earned Lombard an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress
Lombard's first film of 1936 was [72] The film was directed by Gregory LaCava, who knew Lombard personally and advised that she draw on her "eccentric nature" for the role.[73] She worked hard on the performance, particularly with finding the appropriate facial expressions for Irene.[74] My Man Godfrey was released to great acclaim and was a box office hit. It received six nominations at the 9th Academy Awards, including Lombard for Best Actress.[note 6] Biographers cite it as her finest performance, and Frederick Ott says it "clearly established [her] as a comedienne of the first rank."[76]
By 1937, Lombard was one of Hollywood's most popular actresses,[77] and also the highest-paid star in Hollywood following the deal which Myron Selznick negotiated with Paramount that brought her $450,000, [78] more than five times the salary of the U.S. President.[79] As her salary was widely reported in the press, Lombard stated that 80 percent of her earnings went in taxes but that she was happy to help improve her country.[80] The comments earned her much positive publicity, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt sent her a personal letter of thanks.[81]
Her first release of the year was Leisen's Swing High, Swing Low, a third pairing with MacMurray. The film focused on a romance between two cabaret performers, and was a critical and commercial success.[82] It had been primarily a drama, with occasional moments of comedy,[83] but for her next project Lombard returned to the screwball genre.[84] The producer David O. Selznick was eager to make a comedy with the actress, impressed by her work in My Man Godfrey, and hired Ben Hecht to write an original screenplay for her.[85] Nothing Sacred, directed by William Wellman and co-starring Fredric March, satirized the journalism industry and "the gullible urban masses", with Lombard playing a small-town girl who pretends to be dying and finds her story exploited by a New York reporter.[86] Marking her only appearance in Technicolor, the film was highly praised and was one of Lombard's personal favorites.[87]
Lombard continued with screwball comedies, next starring in what Swindell calls one of her "wackiest" films, True Confession (1937).[88] She played a compulsive liar who wrongly confesses to murder. Lombard loved the script and was excited about the project, which reunited her with John Barrymore and was her final appearance with MacMurray. Her prediction that it "smacked of a surefire success" proved accurate, as critics responded positively and it was popular at the box office.[89]
Gable marriage, dramatic efforts (1938–40)
With Clark Gable after their honeymoon, 1939
True Confession was the last film Lombard made on her Paramount contract, and she remained an independent performer for the rest of her career.[90] Her next film was made at Warner Bros., where she played a famous actress in Mervyn LeRoy's Fools for Scandal (1938). The comedy met with scathing reviews and was a commercial failure, with Swindell calling it "one of the most horrendous flops of the thirties".[91]
Fools for Scandal was the only film Lombard made in 1938. By this time, she was devoted to a relationship with Clark Gable.[92] Four years after their teaming on No Man of Her Own, the pair had reunited at a Hollywood party and began a romance early in 1936.[93] The media took great interest in their partnership and frequently questioned if they would wed.[94] Gable was separated from his wife, Rhea Langham, but she did not want to grant him a divorce.[95] As his relationship with Lombard became serious, Langham eventually agreed to a settlement worth half a million dollars.[note 7] The divorce was finalized in March 1939, and Gable and Lombard eloped in Kingman, Arizona on 29 March.[98] The couple—both lovers of the outdoors—bought a 20-acre ranch in Encino, California, where they kept barnyard animals and enjoyed hunting trips.[99] Almost immediately, Lombard wanted to start a family, but her attempts failed: after two miscarriages and numerous trips to fertility specialists, she was unable to have children.[100]
Lombard with James Stewart in Made for Each Other (1939)
While continuing with a slower work-rate, Lombard decided to move away from comedies and return to dramatic roles.[101] In 1939 she appeared in a second David O. Selznick production, Made for Each Other, which paired her with James Stewart to play a couple facing domestic difficulties.[102] Reviews for the film were highly positive, and praised Lombard's dramatic effort; financially, it was a disappointment.[103] Lombard's next appearance came opposite Cary Grant in the John Cromwell romance In Name Only (1939), a credit she personally negotiated with RKO Radio Pictures upon hearing of the script and Grant's involvement.[104] The role mirrored her recent experiences, as she played a woman in love with a married man whose wife refuses to divorce. She was paid $150,000 for the film, continuing her status as one of Hollywood's highest-paid actresses, and it was a moderate success.[105]
Lombard was eager to win an Academy Award, and selected her next project—from several possible scripts—with the expectation that it would bring her the trophy.[106] [107] Despite the realization that she was best suited to comedies,[108] Lombard completed one more drama: They Knew What They Wanted (1940), co-starring Charles Laughton, which was mildly successful.[109]
Final roles (1941–1942)
Accepting that "my name doesn't sell tickets to serious pictures",[110] Lombard returned to comedy for the first time in three years to film Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941), about a couple who learn that their marriage is invalid, with Robert Montgomery. Lombard was influential in bringing Alfred Hitchcock, whom she knew through David O. Selznick, to direct one of his most atypical films.[111] It was a commercial success, as audiences were happy with what Swindell calls "the belated happy news ... that Carole Lombard was a screwball once more."[112]
It was nearly a year before Lombard committed to another film, as she focused instead on her home and marriage.[113][note 8] Determined that her next film be "an unqualified smash hit", she was also careful in selecting a new project. Through her agent, Lombard heard of Ernst Lubitsch's upcoming film: To Be or Not to Be, a dark comedy that satirized the Nazi takeover of Poland.[115] The actress had long wanted to work with Lubitsch, her favorite comedy director, and felt that the material—although controversial—was a worthy subject.[116] Lombard accepted the role of actress Maria Tura, despite it being a smaller part than she was used to, and was given top-billing over the film's lead, Jack Benny. Filming took place in the fall of 1941, and was reportedly one of the happiest experiences of Lombard's career.[115]
Lombard in Indiana, January 1942, shortly before her death in a plane crash
When the U.S. entered World War II at the end of 1941, Lombard traveled to her home state of Indiana for a war bond rally with her mother, Bess Peters, and Clark Gable's press agent, Otto Winkler. Lombard was able to raise over $2 million in defense bonds in a single evening. Her party had initially been scheduled to return to Los Angeles by train, but Lombard was anxious to reach home more quickly and wanted to fly by a scheduled airline. Her mother and Winkler were both afraid of flying and insisted they follow their original travel plans. Lombard suggested they flip a coin; they agreed and Lombard won the toss.[117]
In the early morning hours of January 16, 1942, Lombard, her mother, and Winkler boarded a Transcontinental and Western Air Douglas DST aircraft to return to California.[note 9] After refueling in Las Vegas, TWA Flight 3 took off at 7:07 p.m. and approximately 13 minutes later, crashed into "Double Up Peak" near the 8,300-foot (2,500 m) level of Potosi Mountain, 32 statute miles (51 km) southwest of Las Vegas. All 22 aboard, Lombard and her mother included, plus 15 army servicemen, were killed instantly.[119]
Gable was flown to Las Vegas after learning of the tragedy to claim the bodies of his wife, mother-in-law, and Winkler, who aside from being his press agent had been a close friend. Lombard's funeral was held on January 21 at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. She was interred beside her mother under the name of Carole Lombard Gable.[120] Despite remarrying twice following her death, Gable chose to be interred beside Lombard when he died in 1960.[120]
Lombard's final film, To Be or Not to Be (1942), directed by Ernst Lubitsch and co-starring Jack Benny, a satire about Nazism and World War II, was in post-production at the time of her death. The film's producers decided to cut part of the film in which Lombard's character asks, "What can happen on a plane?" out of respect for the circumstances surrounding her death.[121] When the film was released, it received mixed reviews, particularly about its controversial content, but Lombard's performance was hailed as the perfect send-off to one of 1930s Hollywood's most important stars.
At the time of her death, Lombard had been scheduled to star in the film They All Kissed the Bride; when production started, her role was given to Joan Crawford.[122] Crawford donated all of her salary for the film to the Red Cross, which had helped extensively in the recovery of bodies from the air crash. Shortly after Lombard's death, Gable, who was inconsolable and devastated by his loss, joined the United States Army Air Forces. Lombard had asked him to do that numerous times after the United States had entered World War II. After officer training, Gable headed a six-man motion picture unit attached to a B-17 bomb group in England to film aerial gunners in combat, flying five missions himself. In December 1943, the United States Maritime Commission announced that a Liberty ship named after Carole Lombard would be launched.[123] Gable attended the launch of the SS Carole Lombard on January 15, 1944, the two-year anniversary of Lombard's record-breaking war bond drive. The ship was involved in rescuing hundreds of survivors from sunken ships in the Pacific and returning them to safety.
In 1962, Mrs. Jill Winkler Rath, widow of publicist Otto Winkler, filed an unsuccessful lawsuit for $100,000 against the $2,000,000 estate of Clark Gable in connection with Winkler's death in the plane crash with Carole Lombard. The suit was dismissed in Los Angeles Superior Court. Mrs. Rath, in her action, claimed Gable promised to provide financial aid for her if she would not bring suit against the airline involved. However, Mrs. Rath stated, she later learned that Gable settled his claim against the airline for $10. He did so because he did not want to repeat his grief in court and subsequently provided her no financial aid in his will.[124][125]
Style and legacy
Lombard on a magazine cover in 1940
Author Robert D. Matzen has cited Lombard as "among the most commercially successful and admired film personalities in Hollywood in the 1930s", [126] and feminist writer June Sochen believes that Lombard "demonstrated great knowledge of the mechanics of film making".[127] Author George Alec Effinger believes that Lombard and Gable became "one of the best-loved teams in movie history" who "made a whole series of wonderful comedies together".[128] George Raft, her co-star in Bolero was extremely fond of the actress, remarking "I truly loved Carole Lombard. She was the greatest girl that ever lived and we were the best of pals. Completely honest and outspoken, she was liked by everyone".[129]
Lombard's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Lombard was particularly noted for the zaniness of her performances,[130][131] described as a "natural prankster, a salty tongued straight-shooter, a feminist precursor and one of the few stars who was beloved by the technicians and studio functionaries who worked with her".[132] Life magazine noted that her film personality transcended to real life, "her conversation, often brilliant, is punctuated by screeches, laughs, growls, gesticulations and the expletives of a sailor's parrot".[133] Graham Greene praised the "heartbreaking and nostalgic melodies" of her faster-than-thought delivery. "Platinum blonde, with a heart-shaped face, delicate, impish features and a figure made to be swathed in silver lamé, Lombard wriggled expressively through such classics of hysteria as Twentieth Century and My Man Godfrey."[134]
In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Lombard 23rd on its list of the 50 greatest American female screen legends,[135] and she has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 6930 Hollywood Blvd. Lombard received one Academy Award for Best Actress nomination, for My Man Godfrey.[136] Actresses who have portrayed her in films include Jill Clayburgh in Gable and Lombard (1976),[137] Sharon Gless in Moviola: The Scarlett O'Hara War (1980), Denise Crosby in Malice in Wonderland (1985), Anastasia Hille in RKO 281 (1999) and Vanessa Gray in Lucy (2003).[138]
Lombard's Fort Wayne childhood home has been designated a historic landmark. The city named the nearby bridge over the St. Mary's River the Carole Lombard Memorial Bridge.[132]
1936 Academy Award for Best Actress (nominated) My Man Godfrey
^ The automobile accident happened in 1925; Lombard was in a car with a friend, stopped at a red light, when the car in front of them rolled backwards, hit their car, and caused the windscreen to shatter.[20]
^ In her lifetime, the media reported that Lombard added the extra "e" to Carol at the advice of a numerologist.[36] She denied this to Garson Kanin, saying, "That's a lot of bunk."[37] Some of the Mack Sennett shorts had already used the spelling "Carole", but this is thought to have been an accident.[36] Her name was not consistently billed and reported with this spelling until 1930.[38] She legally changed her name to "Carole Lombard" in 1936.[39]
^ At the time, Lombard was married to Powell (and told Kanin she was "on my ear about a different number at that time")[50] while Gable was married to Rhea Langham and having an affair with Joan Crawford.[51]
^ It Happened One Night went on to be a major success and won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actress for Claudette Colbert in the role that Lombard would have played.[57]
^ Hawks recalled, "She acted like a schoolgirl ... and she was stiff, she would try and imagine a character and then act according to her imaginings instead of being herself." When he felt that Lombard had overcome this in a scene, he said to Barrymore, "you've just seen a girl that's probably going to be big a star, and if we can just keep her from acting, we'll have a hell of a picture."[63]
^ At the Academy Awards ceremony, Lombard was announced as the nominee with the second-highest number of votes. The award went to Luise Rainer for The Great Ziegfeld.[75]
^ Gable had to give Langham $350,000 in cash plus additional property, leading to a total settlement worth more than half a million.[96] The expense of the divorce contributed to Gable's agreement to portray Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind.[97]
^ There were rumors at this time that Gable and Lombard were experiencing marital difficulties; in 1941 they put their home up for sale but soon took it off the market, which was taken as evidence that they had separated and then reconciled. Lombard was also eager to get pregnant, but had difficulty conceiving.[114]
^ The Douglas DST or Douglas Sleeper Transport was an airliner with either 24 passenger seats in daytime operation or fitted out with 16 sleeper bunks in the cabin.[118]
^ Gehring 2003, p. 19.
^ Matzen 1988, p. 1; Gehring 2003, p. 19.
^ a b Gehring 2003, p. 23.
^ a b Ott 1972, p. 16.
^ a b Gehring 2003, pp. 27–28.
^ Ott 1972, p. 17.
^ Matzen 1988, p. 5.
^ Gehring 2003, pp. 39–41.
^ a b c Matzen 1988, p. 6.
^ Swindell 1975, p. 40.
^ Ott 1972, pp. 18; 49.
^ Matzen 1988, p. 6; Ott 1972, p. 19.
^ Ott 1972, pp. 55–60.
^ Ott 1972, p. 20; Gehring 2003, p. 53.
^ Gehring 2003, pp. 57–58; Ott 1972, p. 20.
^ "Carole Gets Her Own Way". Silver Screen. May–October 1934. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
^ Gehring 2003, p. 65; Ott 1972, p. 22.
^ a b c Gehring 2003, pp. 78–79.
^ Kanin 1974, p. 59.
^ Swindell 1975, p. 205.
^ Gehring 2003, p. 83; Matzen 1988, p. 11.
^ Swindell 1975, p. 197; Gehring 2003, p. 98.
^ Gehring 2003, pp. 97–100; 102 (for quote).
^ a b Kanin 1974, p. 61.
^ Gehring 2003, p. 101.
^ Gehring 2003, pp. 102; 105.
^ a b Gehring 2003, p. 110.
^ MacBride 2000, p. 303.
^ Hawks 2005, p. 147.
^ Ott 1972, p. 26; Gehring 2003, p. 111.
^ Gehring 2003, pp. 121, 123; Ott 1972, p. 28.
^ Bogdanovich 2012, p. 466.
^ Ott 1972, pp. 120–121.
^ Gehring 2003, pp. 122–123.
^ Ott 1972, p. 133; Gehring 2003, p. 127.
^ Gehring 2003, p. 136–137.
^ Gehring 2003, pp. 132, 93–95.
^ Gehring 2003, pp. 133, 137, 139.
^ Ott 1972, p. 29; Gehring 2003, pp. 140–142.
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Ford, Peter (12 May 2011). Glenn Ford: A Life. Univ of Wisconsin Press.
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Hawks, Howard (2005). Howard Hawks: Interviews. Univ. Press of Mississippi.
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MacBride, Joseph. (2000). Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success. New York: St. Martin's Griffin.
Mitchell, Deborah C. (26 July 2001). Diane Keaton: Artist and Icon. McFarland.
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COMSTOCK PARK, Mich. – A West Michigan woman celebrated her 100th birthday last week, by going bowling.
Marie Dennie still bowls every week. She did take the sport up a little late in life though, after she was 70.
Marie competes with a league at Westgate Bowl every Wednesday. She averages 120.
Marie's son, Jerry, also bowls on the team. He joined when another member of the team died seven years ago.
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Positions and Letters
Social Dialogue
Safety Handbook for Fishermen
European Council for Skills and Employment
Social Clause
ASSOCIATION OF NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS OF FISHING ENTERPRISES IN THE EUROPEAN UNION
Industry welcomes French government call for more socially sustainable fisheries policies
Yesterday, 28 February 2017, during a seminar organised by the European Transport Workers' Federation (ETF) in the framework of the European Shipping Week, Thierry Coquil, Director for Maritime Affairs in the French administration, delivered a message of the French Secretary of State for Transport Alain Vidalies, which also included concerns on fisheries.
ETF and Europêche, social partners in the Sectoral Social Dialogue Committee for Fisheries (SSDC-F), warmly welcomed the approach taken by Mr Vidalies and his team.
'We have been very pleased to hear the words of Mr Vidalies today', declared Flemming Smidt, vice-chair of the SSDC-F and workers spokesperson. 'His speech echoed some of the elements that we, as social partners in the fisheries sector, are advocating already for many years.
First and foremost, the full inclusion of the fisheries sector in the scope of the Integrated Maritime Policy (IMP). The IMP is not living up to the plans that had been made when it was first launched. This is especially true for fisheries. The European Commission needs to rethink the way the IMP is being implemented.
We totally agree with what Mr Vidalies declared today when he said that 'the challenges to the maritime sectors are not only economic, environmental and related to security, but also social'.
Ment van der Zwan, Europêche's spokesperson in the SSDC-F added 'France is one of the few EU countries that has ratified the ILO Work in Fishing Convention (C188) and we are aware that it is also looking very closely at the ratification of the IMO STCW-F Convention.
These are two of the key tools we have available to make fisheries, in the EU and globally, more socially sustainable.
We support the French holistic and integrative approach, which aims at fully transposing the ILO C188 into community law in a way that it applies to all fishermen regardless of their employment status: both employees and self-employed.
We encourage France to take the lead in advocating this approach in the EU. We find it discriminating that EU fishermen do not benefit from the standards and values provided by the STCW-F, since a similar instrument applicable to the merchant fleet, the STCW, has been implemented into EU law.'
After having negotiated the transposition of C188 into EU law, ETF and Europêche are now promoting the ratification of the Convention by EU member states as well as to raise awareness on what is yet to be done before the Convention enters into force later this year.
At the same time, social partners are urging the European Commission to take the initiative to transpose the STCW-F Convention into EU law.
Livia SPERA, ETF Political Secretary (+32.470.93.05.89 or spera@etf-europe.org)
Daniel VOCES, Europêche Acting Managing Director (+32.2.230.48.48 or voces@europeche.org)
* The European Transport Workers' Federation (ETF) represents more than 3.5 million transport workers from more than 230 transport unions and 41 European countries, in the following sectors: railways, road transport and logistics, maritime transport, inland waterways, civil aviation, ports & docks, tourism and fisheries.
Europêche represents the catching sector in Europe. In the context of the Social Dialogue, the Association comprises 15 national organisations of fishing enterprises from Iceland and the following 10 EU Member States: DE, DK, ES, FR, IT, MT, NL, LV, PL and UK.
Sources: Europeche
EP20 ETF Europêche support French position
Tags: Social Dialogue, fisheries, social standards, STCW-F, C188, ILO, Work in Fishing, Convention, SSDC-F, IMP, safety at sea
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Youth Development & Education
In 1895, Dr. John Lovejoy Elliott, a young man inspired by the growing settlement house movement, moved to the tough, working-class neighborhood of Chelsea. There, he met and encouraged a group of young, rowdy boys to take their fighting off the streets and organize into a boxing club called the "Hurly Burlies." Over the next few years, Dr. Elliott established numerous programs for boys and girls, working women, and families. These groups merged in 1897 to become Hudson Guild, which provided a platform for neighbors to organize and improve living conditions.
Dr. John Lovejoy Elliott rented a room in Chelsea— then a tough, working-class neighborhood—and began his lifelong experiment with "neighborliness."
In the next few years, Dr. Elliott established numerous clubs and programs for boys and girls, working women, and families.
New York City's first kindergarten, vocational training, athletics, and a library were established by a growing staff of volunteers.
These disparate programs merged in 1897 to become Hudson Guild.
He encouraged a small group of rowdy local boys to form a boxing club, titled the "Hurly Burlies," under his leadership.
The popularity of Hudson Guild programs prompted the settlement to move several times in its first decade. Eventually a permanent Hudson Guild building was erected at 436 West 27th Street. Its five stories housed a library, print shop, club rooms, and baths.
Our fundamental purpose is to help people help each other and themselves
John Lovejoy Elliott.
We are a multi-service community agency serving those who live, work, or go to school in Chelsea and the west side, with a focus on those in need.
All donations to Hudson Guild, a 501(c)3 non-profit, are tax-deductible.
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Report sheds light on Aqueduct fatalities
Posted by noonante on October 8, 2012
Posted in: Horse Racing, Political/Social commentary, Politics.	Tagged: New York racing, NYRA, NYSRWB, Report on injured horses.	1 Comment
The Task Force commissioned to study the increase in equine fatalities at Aqueduct early this year released its report ten days ago. This is a serious issue deserving of a sober and fact-based analysis devoid of political considerations. The Task Force did its job in producing a lengthy, well-reasoned and well-written report that is a service to the entire racing community. Unfortunately, the Cuomo Administration could not resist an opportunity to take another cheap – and inaccurate – shot at the New York Racing Association. We will save a discussion of the political implications for a later post.
Between November 30, 2011 and March 18, 2012, 21 horses died or were euthanized after racing at Aqueduct. This was twice the number of each of the preceding two years and about twice the national average. The New York State Racing and Wagering Board (NYSRWB), based upon the recommendation of NYRA, appointed the Task Force of four experts to study, analyze and report their conclusions. Two members were veterinarians from outside the state, one was Alan Foreman from Maryland and the fourth was retired jockey Jerry Bailey. The panel interviewed 75 persons within the industry, reviewed literature in the field of veterinary medicine, and retained outside experts. The result was a 100-page report, with another 100 pages of exhibits that are available here.
The report served to dispel myths and assumptions relating to the cause of the increase in fatal breakdowns:
Not only is two-year old racing not harmful to the racehorse, but appears to be essential in promoting bone growth, lessening the risk of later problems.
Of the 7,106 blood and urine samples tested by an independent laboratory during the review period, there were no illegal or performance enhancing drugs, or drugs associated with doping, detected. There were five positives for enhanced levels of legal substances, but none among the fatally-injured horses.
Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, such as phenylbutazone or "bute," are not, "as has been suggested by others, appropriately characterized as 'powerful painkillers.'" There was no statistically significant difference between the injured horses receiving bute and the non-injured horses.
Similarly, there was no statistical significance between the injured horses receiving Lasix when compared to the non-injured horses. As the Task Force concluded, "in terms of relative risk factors, it is intuitive that the magnitude of the contribution of [Lasix] to catastrophic injury cannot be very large because nearly all horses are treated with [Lasix] and because catastrophic injury, statistically and comparatively speaking, is such a rare event."
The Task Force found "no reason to believe that any of the fatally injured horses was administered an illicit or non-therapeutic drug." Nonetheless, the Task Force noted that urine and blood samples from the injured horses were either non-existent or inadequate.
The central conclusion of the Report, and the one driving many of its recommendations, is stated succinctly: "The most significant factor for fatal musculoskeletal injury in the racehorse is the presence of pre-existing injury." (Of the 21 fatalities, 19 were related to musculoskeletal injuries.) This is where the administration of drugs – albeit legal and permissible – plays a critical role, because drugs can have the effect of masking the underlying injury and its manifestations.
Singled out for particular opprobrium were systemic and intra-articular (IA) corticosteroids. According to the Report, corticosteroids "are potent anti-inflammatory agents that are used to treat a broad range of medical conditions in horses." Intra-articular administration refers to the injection of the medication into the joint space of the horse. (For the record, I am getting all of this information from the Report. Prior to reading it, I had no idea to what "intra-articular" referred.) While observing that there are three commonly used corticosteroids, one of which has been demonstrated to protect and promote cartilage health, the Report singles out one particularly troublesome one:
Methylprednisolone acetate (DepoMedrol), however, has been demonstrated to have degradative effects on articular cartilage…. [t]he repetitive use of intra-articular corticosteroids, particularly methylprednisolone, may cause significant damage to the cartilage in the joint. Additionally, the intra-articular use of corticosteroids can mask the inflammatory changes ordinarily associated with joint disease, and can confound the pre-race clinical examination.
The Task Force identified 11 of the 21 fatalities as presenting "missed opportunities" to prevent the death. Of the 11 identified, 4 had IA corticosteroids, 1 had "repeated" corticosteroids and another 4 had trained on medications. While acknowledging that "[a]ll the medications reportedly administered to the fatally injured horses are recognized and accepted therapeutic medications," the Task Force stated that training on medications can mask injuries that might warrant further scrutiny. Of particular concern were the IA corticosteroids that, when administered within a week of the race, prevented an opportunity to evaluate the results of the treatment prior to racing. In three instances of "missed opportunities," the Report stated that jockeys failed to report concerns about the horse's health.
The regulations of the New York State Racing and Wagering Board require a trainer to report to the stewards any IA administration of a steroid before the horse is entered to race. This appears to be the only situation in which administration of medication must be reported. In the four instances in which fatally injured horses had such treatment, no reports were made. The Task Force concluded that the regulation is neither "observed nor enforced," and the NYSRWB's failure to monitor compliance "is a serious deficiency that must be promptly addressed."
The Veterinary Department within NYRA also came in for significant criticism. The five-member staff is managed by the Chief Examining Veterinarian who, according to the Report, failed to train or monitor adequately the veterinarians, and did not provide written protocols for examinations that would help ensure the consistent application of standards to protect the health and safety of the horse. In addition, the Department used an antiquated record-keeping system instead of a contemporary tablet-based system with Internet connectivity that would have enabled each vet to see the horse's race and workout history, as well as the results of prior exams, and permit the contemporary updating of records during an examination.
The Task Force was further concerned that the Veterinary Department reported to the Racing Department, and not to the stewards or a separate regulatory agency. This, according to the Report, "establishes a potentially critical conflict of interest." The Racing Department seeks to have the largest field size possible because more entries mean a larger handle. The Veterinary Department is charged with protecting the health and safety of the horse. Scratching a horse from a race, therefore, could affect the amount bet on a race. Even more troubling are concerns that pressure – even when only implicit – might interfere with the professional judgment of the veterinarians. In one instance, a trainer convinced the Racing Department to no longer assign a particular vet to examine the trainer's horses.
The Task Force examined and analyzed a wide variety of factors ranging from inflated claiming purses to the weather. The former resulted from the infusion of money from the Aqueduct VLT's and led the Task Force to conclude it was inappropriate for the purse structure to induce trainers to enter horses for purses far in excess of the horse's value. The Task Force recommended a number of common-sense solutions to address many of the issues they identified.
At the same time, the group recognized they benefitted from "the clarity of a retrospective review." While declining to find fault or assess blame, it is clear there is plenty to go around to all players in the industry, from owners to trainers to jockeys to state officials.
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One comment on "Report sheds light on Aqueduct fatalities"
thomas mcdermott on October 11, 2012 at 12:06 pm said:
A gaping whole in the findings was that it idid not answer the question of why these horses died during this timeframe. The practices employed from November to March did not change prior or subsequent to the timeframe under consideration, with the exception of purse structures. No conclusions were offered on an individual basis for the 21 (11) as to the effect of purse structures in determining when and where these horses ran.
An overall examination of the industry is useful and welcome. The critisms are warrented and correction actions must be taken. However, this review did not address the assigned issue:why did Aqueduct exceed the national average and its own experience base in the 21 deaths during this timeframe? If it was the dry track because of weather conditions then recommend watering. Practices employed then are the same practices employed now industry wide yet the rate of fatalities do not meet the rate experienced Nov. to March 2012.


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Trump Says Jim Mattis Will Leave By Jan. 1, Announces Acting Defense Secretary
By Francesca Paris
Published December 23, 2018 at 12:06 PM CST
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis announced his resignation on Thursday, following a decision by President Trump to withdraw American troops from Syria. He'll be replaced by Deputy Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan starting in January.
A replacement for Defense Secretary Jim Mattis will step in two months earlier than anticipated, President Trump announced Sunday.
Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan will take over as acting Pentagon chief starting Jan. 1.
"Patrick has a long list of accomplishments while serving as Deputy, & previously Boeing. He will be great!" wrote Trump on Twitter.
Trump had previously announced that Mattis would retire at the end of February. Mattis resigned Thursday over objections to the president's policies, following Trump's decision to withdraw American troops from Syria.
"Because you have the right to have a secretary of defense whose views are better aligned with yours ... I believe it is right for me to step down from my position," Mattis wrote in his letter of resignation.
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Deputy Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan, pictured here with President Trump, will take over as Defense Secretary in January.
Shanahan was confirmed by Congress as deputy secretary of defense in July 2017.
He has essentially served as chief operating officer for the Pentagon, as NPR reported in May.
The former Boeing executive told NPR's Steve Inskeep that new technology will shape the future of war.
"The investment in weapons systems is long term," Shanahan says. "So when we watch, whether it's the Chinese or the Russians or what extreme terrorist organizations are doing, we have to put an eye towards what are those capabilities where we want to extend our advantage."
He told Defense News in October that his job was to implement systemic change in the Department of Defense and focus the department on "output and outcomes." He said he would concentrate on "rewiring the organization to increase our performance on lethality, alliances, and reform."
According to Defense News, he has pushed the department to update its internal technology and measurably increase its efficiency.
Prior to this role, Shanahan served as Boeing senior vice president for supply chain and operations, according to the Department of Defense.
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Circadian rhythms, which occur spontaneously with a period of about 24 h in a variety of organisms, allow their adaptation to the periodic variations of the environment. These rhythms are generated by a genetic regulatory network involving a negative feedback loop on transcription. Mathematical models based on the negative autoregulation of gene expression by the protein product of a clock gene account for the occurrence of self-sustained circadian oscillations. These models differ by their degree of complexity and, hence, by the number of variables considered. Some of these models can be considered as minimal because they contain a reduced number of biochemical processes and variables capable of producing sustained oscillations. In three of these minimal models, the period of the oscillations significantly changes with the rate of degradation of the clock protein. However, depending on the model considered, the period increases, decreases or passes through a maximum as a function of the protein degradation rate. We clarify the bases for these markedly different results by bringing to light the roles of (i) protein phosphorylation, which is required for protein degradation, and (ii) the velocity and degree of saturation of mRNA and protein degradation. Changes in the parameter values of the more complex of the minimal models can produce the period profiles observed in the other two models. The analysis allows us to reconcile the contradictory predictions for the dependence of the period on the clock protein degradation rate in three minimal models used to describe circadian rhythms.


New Pet of the Month & Instagram!
Meet our brave new pet of the month – Yogi. Yogi's picture is also our first post on our new Instagram pages!
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WWF-Hungary
WWF Hungary was founded in 1991 in order to meet the most urgent challenges and threats on nature in Hungary on a national level while aligning its work to international nature conservation efforts. WWF Hungary was already associated closely with the former WWF Danube-Carpathian Programme and is now member of WWF-CEE since its foundation in 2020.
WWF Hungary's nature conservation priorities in order to contribute to WWF-CEE' mission are the protection of wetlands and natural forests, ensuring sustainable and environmentally friendly agriculture and rural development, reduction of climate change impacts, improving human coexistence with large carnivores, raising environmental awareness in the public and preservation of the protected and endangered habitats and species.
To achieve this, a skilled team of experts works closely together with national parks, nature conservation and state authorities, educational institutions and business partners, as well as with local people and on a regional level with the WWF network and international non-governmental Organizations.
Conservation facts:
Hungary is a basin surrounded by the Carpathians with several endemic species and habitat types. This region is recognized by the EU as the Pannonian biogeographic region. Due to the low elevation, human landuse is significant in all habitats.
The Danube runs through and drains all of Hungary.
"Europe's Amazon" - the Drava River - is part of the five-country Mura-Drava-Danube Biosphere Reserve.
The Tisza River and its wetland system is shared with Romania, Ukraine and Serbia.
Hungary's landscapes include high-value lowland forest types and deciduous mountain forests.
Hungary enjoys the return of large carnivores, such as lynx and wolf and bear.
There is a huge potential for sustainable biomass use and climate-friendly integrated landuse. WWF is working on climate-adaptation projects such as water retention under the MICACC project.
Hungary plays an important role in regional policy frameworks, including the ICPDR and EU Strategy for the Danube Region.
Impactful projectS:
2021: the first wildlife crime prevention project SWIPE was recently launched.
2020: WWF-Hungary started a campaign to communicate the importance of national park zoning systems. The installation of Hungary's first such system in Hortobágy National park was celebrated.
2020: One of WWF Hungary's biggest campaigns led to the successful protection of Hajógyári Island – a natural floodplain forest at the bank of Danube.
2020: WWF Hungary launched the New Deal for Nature and People campaign. Due to the Covid crisis, an online-round table called WWF Corner in partnership with HVG, one of Hungary's major news sites, was organized.
https://wwf.hu/
The new core zone at Hortobágy National Park ensures that a part of the world-famous forest-steppe can again become a true wilderness area
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Alluvial forest on Hajógyári Island
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WWF-Hungary's New Norm campaign: One family with nature
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Waste picking from the Tisza River during PET Cup
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Posted 07 Dec 2021
WWF-Hungary: International Project Coordinator, Merlin
INTERNATIONAL PROJECT COORDINATOR (4-year, full-time, based in Budapest) WWF is the world's largest conservation organization, founded in 1961. We're active in over 100 countries and have over 7700 employees. WWF Central and Eastern Europe is responsible for leading and to a significant extent implementing WWF's efforts to preserve, restore and sustainably manage the natural values of the Danube-Carpathian ecoregion, which we also call the Green Heart of Europe. With a team of 160 highly specialised professionals, we are working across political borders through an ecoregional approach based on model projects, influencing policy, networking, capacity building, communication and crisis response.
WWF 60th Anniversary - "Together We Can" Campaign in CEE
The 'Together We Can' campaign is a part of the 60th anniversary engagement actions of WWF around the globe. It highlights some of the major achievements our WWF community has accomplished over the last 60 years globally and also what we have achieved regionally here, during the last 30 years in Central and Eastern Europe. This was only possible thanks to the support of and cooperation with local communities, civil society organisations, scientists and experts, relevant authorities and businesses as well as the support of very many individual people, volunteers and donors. We are committed to continuing our quest to achieve harmony between nature and people, also here in the Green Heart of Europe. We will continue our work with your support, for the benefit of people and nature. Let us invite you to learn more about what we have already achieved together, and about some of the challenges and opportunities still facing us. Enjoy the journey!
Wildlife Crimes are Wild Crimes against Life
The SWiPE LIFE project started a campaign to draw social and political attention and raise awareness of the true impact of wildlife crimes in Europe.
The MNB becomes carbon neutral with WWF Hungary
The MNB plans to neutralize its ecological footprint in close cooperation with WWF Hungary. Last year, the Bank successfully started compensating carbon-dioxide emissions at its international green conferences, by providing funds for forest restoration at Pápateszér. The MNB expects to fully neutralize the carbon-dioxide emission arising from its operation from 2021 by a large-scale afforestation near Geszt, Hungary.
Two Huge Wins for Hungarian Forests and Nature Conservation
Constitutional Court Decides in Favour of Natural Values & New Zoning in Hortobágy National Park Protects Core Areas
Restocking of 1500 Endangered Sturgeon into the Danube in Baja, Hungary
The fragmentation of rivers by structures like hydropower dams pose a threat to natural fish populations if they are no longer able to migrate.
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Sightings of Large Carnivores in Hungary are Becoming More and More Common
HUNGARY - More large areas would be taken away from the Danube because of new large investments
The exact documentation of the new investments planned on the Hajógyári Island has been recently published, which aims at the establishment of a kayak-canoe centre and the investment for flood protection of the whole island. According to WWF Hungary, the investment is not only harmful due to the construction of a valuable urban green space, but the further reduction of the heavily narrowed floodplain of the Danube is not a wise decision considering the effects of climate change.


Ubisoft has released a trailer showing off the upcoming Jungle Storm content update for Ghost Recon Wildlands Ghost War PvP. This is the second major free update for Wildlands and will be available on all platforms on December 14th, 2017.
Two new classes available in all PvP modes.
Ranked play which will allow players and their squad to compete against others to reach the highest ranks.
New maps for the Elimination and Uplink modes, as well new weapons and gameplay updates for both PvP and PvE modes.
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The EPP will not participate in the EU mission in Venezuela to "not whitewash" the Maduro regime
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After the controversy that the decision of the EU High Representative for Foreign Policy has provoked, Josep Borrell, to send a mission of the European Parliament to observe the regional elections that will take place on November 21 in Venezuela, the European People's Party announced on Tuesday its decision to dissociate itself from said mission.
The EPP, which for the first time will not participate in a mission of this nature, argues its decision stating, in a statement, that said elections "will inevitably be used to validate the regime of Nicolás Maduro, which continues to systematically violate the human rights of the Venezuelan people. It is the first time that the PPE Group has not participated in such a mission.
"The EPP group does not want to contribute with its presence so that the EU mission could be interpreted as a whitewashing of the cruel regime that has seized power in Venezuela, and which has been condemned on numerous occasions by the European Parliament, which also does not recognize the bodies that have arisen from the fraudulent electoral processes held in Venezuela in recent years ", the president of the PPE Group assured. Manfred Weber, and the PP spokesperson in the European Parliament, Dolors Montserrat.
They emphasize, in turn, that these elections "will be neither free nor transparent", since they are held in a context in which there are numerous political prisoners, many of the possible candidates disqualified or exiled, in addition to five million Venezuelans who have been forced to leave their country "due to the authoritarian and dictatorial drift of the regime, and that they will also be deprived of their right to vote ". They also recall that in Venezuela there is no freedom of the press "but the exclusive monopoly of the media and the most absolute censorship by the ruling party, without respecting the minimum basic standards of the rule of law," as the report itself has underlined. of the EU technical mission.
In the statement, Weber and Montserrat also refer to the investigation recently opened by the International Criminal Court against the Maduro regime "as responsible for very serious crimes against humanity." Added to this is the suspension of the talks that the opposition and the delegation sent by Maduro had been holding in Mexico, in response to the extradition to the United States of Alex Saab, alleged front man of the Chavista leader.
Criticisms of Borrell
Likewise, in the text they criticize the High Representative, considering that the sending of an EU mission to these elections "contradicts the recommendation of the diplomatic service headed by Josep Borrell, which has ignored the conclusions of the report in this regard." «The only person responsible for deterioration of the image of the EU and the validation of the regime's behavior will be Mr. Borrell ", they point out, before recalling that Borrell has refused to appear in the European Parliament on this matter.
Weber and Montserrat conclude the statement by underlining that the PPE group has decided "not to be an accomplice" of the whitewashing that is intended to be carried out and that it will always position itself "alongside the Venezuelan people, who want to free themselves from that regime of terror and oppressor that has impoverished and impoverished them. forced a good part of Venezuelans to go into exile.
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What a Difference a Few Kilometers Can Make
As Israeli bulldozers accompanied by armed border police were destroying the small Palestinian village of Khan Al-Ahmar, Orly Noy, an Israeli journalist posted the following on her Facebook page: "These bulldozers that never came to their village to build roads or connect them to the water or electricity, are now paving the way for the destruction of the village." Somehow when Palestinian villages are concerned the area is always too remote for a road, too far for the electricity lines to reach and too distant so the water can never quite reach the residents. However, as soon as Israeli settlers show up and a settlement is built - good roads are paved and the water and electricity are supplied without any difficulty, for the exclusive benefit of the Jewish settlers.
This reality is evident today particularly in the desert communities in the southern part of Palestine, like the Naqab Desert and the South Hebron Hills. The Jewish settlements are well cultivated and fully developed even as the indigenous communities of Palestinians, which in the Naqab number in the hundreds of thousands, (for more on the Naqab, please see this) still have to walk for miles to buy water at inflated prices and are not connected to the electric grid.
In the South Hebron Hills too, small Palestinians communities exist without running water or electricity. As was the case in other parts of Palestine, Jewish settlers show up and violently take over large tracts of Palestinian land, they bring caravans and establish outposts, and before they are even fully recognized as official settlements by the government, they have a paved road, running water and electricity, as well as military protection.
Nabi Saleh is about forty to fifty kilometers from Jerusalem. I was sitting with Bassem and Naji Tamimi at Bassem's house recently and we talked about the past. The three of us are about the same age. I grew up in Jerusalem, and they not fifty kilometers away in the village of Nabi Saleh. However, listening to our childhood memories, the reality into which we were born, one would think that we grew up in two different countries, indeed two entirely different worlds.
Most of our lives Naji, Bassem and I lived within the boundaries of the same state, Israel, governed by the same governments, and we were seeing the same technological advances around us. The difference being that I grew up in a privileged, settler colonial sphere that was created for Jews only, and so I had access to the luxuries of running water and uninterrupted electricity. Naji, who is younger than I, was nineteen when the village finally received water supply and had electricity. In fact, even today, many Palestinian towns are still denied water and electric supply and ones that are connected experience water and electricity cut off daily. Bassem and Naji along with millions of Palestinians like them were denied all of that. They live under different laws and exist in an entirely different reality.
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Israel maintained and continues to maintain two separate realities within Palestine. One for privileged Jews whose lives are much like the privileged people of any developed country, and one for Palestinians, which is like that of people in developing countries. Naji laughed about the whole thing and described his life growing up in the village as idyllic. And while there are advantages to growing up in a more natural and rough environment, the lack of access to clean water and electricity means there are less means with which to fight infectious diseases and prevent outbreaks of epidemics like cholera which were not uncommon. While Jews were protected from these dangers, Palestinians had to face them because they were denied the conditions that were readily available but reserved for the benefit of Jews only.
In the Palestinian refugee camps a severe lack of nutrition caused problems that were even more acute. Dr. Hisham Ahmed was born in Deheishe refugee camp near Bethlehem in 1963, less than two years after I was born. He is blind because of a vitamin A deficiency that was prevalent at the time among babies born in the Palestinian refugee camps. According to a study published in the Journal of Refugee Studies, vitamin A deficiency, was a severe problem in the early years of the Palestinian exile. It is hard to believe that Hisham and I were born less than 20 kilometers apart. Because of access to basic services like water, nutrition and medical care, conditions like that of Hisham and other Palestinian children - would have been unheard of on the Jewish side of the divide.
Nader Elbanna, God rest his soul, who was a dear friend of mine told me once that the Nakba, the catastrophe that befell Palestinians in 1948 "is not just about losing a house or land." It goes far deeper than that. Families torn apart and horrific living conditions that were imposed on countless Palestinians. The world ignored the Palestinians who were thrown into camps and forced to live in conditions that were and still are unlivable. At the same time and on the same land a modern state with all the advancements of a developed country was built and made available to Jews who came to colonize Palestine. These very favorable conditions existed prior to the creation of the State of Israel. Still, within less than twenty years of the destruction of Palestine and the creation of the State of Israel, the conquest of the country by Zionist forces was complete and all of Palestine, from the River to the Sea had become Israel.
It is obvious that the technological and medical advancements that very early on were made available to the community of Jewish immigrants, was denied to the indigenous Palestinian people. Even though more often than not the distance between the communities of Jewish settlers and indigenous Palestinians is negligible. Yet the access to water and electricity, along with health care and other crucial services always stop along Arab-Jewish lines.
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Meghan Markle in hot water with the Palace again over this Shocking claim
By Vishnu Kaimal
May 30, 2019 16:36 +08
Meghan Markle needs to find a new approach while dealing with the Royal Palace. The Duchess of Sussex needs to stop antagonizing the Royal staff as well as other members of the Royal Family. Alienating Royal supporters might be far from what she wants but the way she is going about it might need some fine tuning.
Meghan Markle could become a "potentially divisive" figure within the Royal Family because of her ambition and outspokenness, historian Anna Whitelock claimed. Meghan Markle has made it clear that she does not intend to live in the shadows but rather carve her own path as a Royal. And her outspokenness and ambition has rubbed quite a few people the wrong way. Meghan needs to learn the ways of diplomacy, if she wants to achieve what she wants. She needs allies and supporters.
Speaking to Yahoo's The Royal Box, Ms. Whitelock said: "This is the sense that Meghan is this American outsider, a commoner, a mature woman of status, of ambition and, of course, who's articulate and has views."
The Duchess of Sussex has not done herself any favours by shirking tradition and keeping the press in the dark during her pregnancy. These are factors that could make Meghan's life as a Royal difficult. But not everyone is convinced that Meghan is a divisive force. Andrew Morton, a biographer to Princess Diana, however, dismissed Ms. Whitelock's claim as he insisted the Duchess of Sussex has been subjected to the "same narrative" her late mother-in-law had to face when she married Prince Charles.
Mr. Morton pointed out Meghan had "reached over the UK media" and had allegedly enlisted the help of friends to put her case to the public without interference from Buckingham Palace. He said: "They've all been silent because that's the traditional way but it's the American friends, this cohort of George Clooney, Serena Williams and Oprah who have been outspoken."
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A Quick Introduction To Incremental/Idle Games
Over the past year or so idle games have grown in popularity, just check out the number of plays the games on Kongregate's idle page have. I've been playing a lot of Kittens Game recently and in the spring I was hooked on CivClicker. Thus, for September's one game a month I'm making an idle game (which is also why I'm posting this primer).
What is an idle game?
Put simply, an idle game is one that runs in real time in which the player advances by upgrading/building things. It's called idle because the browser-based games usually need to run in the background to work.
They are also known as incremental games. This is because the core game mechanic is literally incremental growth.
Most of these types of games that I've seen tend of an irreverent theme to them. Kittens Game is about creating a civilization of cats, unicorns, griffins, and so on. Cookie Clicker uses time machines to make more cookies. But why are making all these cookies?
Picture an old-school Facebook game but without having to invite your friends or paying for special currency. Also the art is quite minimal in many of these incremental games:
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How to make an idle game
As of writing this I have yet to find a guide to making idle games that doesn't involve hard coding. I'm sure there's a way to make games like this in blueprint or other visual scripting (but that would also be tedious).
Here's a good guide to get you started making a game in HTML, CSS and Javascript.
An easier approach is to use a template made by the Cookie Clicker maker. The Idle Game Maker takes the abstraction of coding in translates it into english. That way you can make an idle game using plain language.
You can get more support and show your game at the incremental games subreddit.
Here are some rough concepts to ensure you have a somewhat engaging game:
Ramp up quickly (let the player make tons of purchases and upgrades) then slow the pace down.
Start with the simple mechanics then add complexity has the game goes on.
The added complex systems should take stress off of creating the core resources.
Keep things fresh by adding surprising bonuses to the player.
Keep the player curious about what will come next and what new resources will be used for.
That's all there is for now, I'm sure in the future that someone will make it even easier to create an idle game. For now, you'll just have to wait.


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Link Reservations Inc/LinkResPet (LRSV) To Start Selling CBD Products on Amazon US
London, UK, June 8, 2021 – Link Reservations Inc. (OTC Pink: LRSV) (the "Company"), a provider of medicinal mushroom and cannabidiol (CBD) wellness products for both humans and pets, announces it intends to start selling its LinkResPet and DailyLifeCBD products on Amazon.com. The Company would stock its LinkResPet cat and dog CBD products, as well as its DailyLifeCBD mushroom-infused Immune product, on the online platform.
Rene Lauritsen, Link Reservations Inc CEO commented: "This is something we are very excited about as it will open up our retail avenues to include more sources of revenue. Amazon has become ever-present in our society, and a great first point of purchase for anyone looking for CBD, hemp or mushroom products. By selling on Amazon, we would be able to reach a larger audience looking for wellness solutions and so increase our revenue. Our intention is to initially stock our products on Amazon US but we hope to also operate on the UK based platform (amazon.co.uk) at a later date."
LinkResPet's products consist of CBD tinctures for dogs and cats. While DailyLifeCBD has a functional mushroom and CBD range of products including its DailyLifeCBD Immune tincture, as well as other CBD products in the pipeline. All products are made with the highest quality hemp oil and are lab tested, THC and GMO free. The hemp oil used in LRSV products comes from organically grown certified U.S. and European hemp. The Company ensures that its products undergo a rigorous process of quality control and testing using the latest scientific methods.
For more information about LinkResPet or to purchase CBD products for pets, please visit www.linkrespet.com or follow us on Twitter: @res_pet.
For more information about DailyLifeCBD, the Company's range of CBD and mushroom product for people, please visit to learn more or purchase: https://dailylifecbd.com/.
About Link Reservations Inc.
Link Reservations Inc is a CBD and wellness product provider dedicated to improving the health and life conditions of both people and pets worldwide. Its trades through its two brands; LinkResPet and DailyLifeCBD. LinkResPet develops and markets hemp-based CBD products for cats, dogs and horses. DailyLifeCBD provides everyday hemp based CBD wellness and mushroom products for people. The Company has operations in both the US and Europe.
Forward-Looking Statements & Disclaimers:
The information in this Press Release includes certain "forward-looking" statements within the meaning of the Safe Harbor provisions of Federal Securities Laws, as that term is defined in section 27a of the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and section 21e of the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Statements in this document, which are not purely historical, are forward-looking statements and include any statements regarding beliefs, plans, expectations or intentions regarding the future. Investors are cautioned that such statements are based upon assumptions that in the future may prove not to have been accurate and are subject to significant risks and uncertainties, including the future financial performance of the Company. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in its forward-looking statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance that such expectations or any of its forward-looking statements will prove to be correct. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements that speak only as of the date of this release, and the Company undertakes no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements to reflect new information, events, or circumstances after the date of this release except as required by law.
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Q: Why the WCF server's ip address discovered by WCF client can't be ping success? There are two roles in my software system, one is WCF server, another is WCF client. The WCF server is boradcasting the WCF server's ip address in the intranet. Launch the WCF client, the WCF client will discover all the WCF server in the intranet. The user can see all the WCF server ip addresses found by the WCF client. And the WCF client will connect to the WCF server which the user selected.
But I found a strange question. Sometimes the found WCF server ip address is different from the actual WCF server.
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The WCF server ip address is 192.168.1.66, and I can ping success as follow picture.
IP address is 192.168.1.66
But, the found ip address by WCF client is 192.168.66.1 as follow picutre.
Found ip address is 192.168.66.1

A: The IP address in your second screen shot is 192.186.66.1, not 192.168.66.1.
My guess is that the server is multi-homed and 192.186.66.1 is its preferred IP address but it still responds to ICMP pings (and other traffic) on 192.168.1.66.

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It was announced today that Scranton alternative radio station Alt 92.1 will present a concert by Boston alt rock trio Slothrust at Stage West in Scranton on Thursday, Feb. 7 at 7 p.m.
With a sound reminiscent of 1990s indie rock that has been likened to the music of Dinosaur Jr. and Pavement, the band released their fourth full-length album, "The Pact," last September to critical acclaim from the likes of Billboard Magazine and Alternative Press. The record was produced by Billy Bush, who is best known for his work with Garbage and Fiona Apple.
Tickets, which are $9.21 in advance, go on sale this Friday, Jan. 18 at 8 a.m. and can be purchased online via Eventbrite or at the door (301 N. Main Ave., Scranton). Local supporting acts will be announced in the coming weeks.
Slothrust – Leah Wellbaum (vocals, guitars), Kyle Bann (bass), and Will Gorin (drums) – first staked out their unique strain of jazz and blues-afflicted rock as students at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. The band's 2012 debut "Feels Your Pain" and its successor, 2014's "Of Course You Do," established the band as a breed apart, serving up deceptively clever epics that veer satisfyingly between incandescent riffing and pop hooks, winsome anxiety and powerful heft.
"People have always had trouble comparing us to other bands, but someone recently described us as Nirvana meets Wynton Marsalis, and I loved that," Wellbaum said. Even the band's name inspires a beat of thoughtful consideration as the eyes take in the letters and the brain makes its snap judgement: Slo Thrust? Slot Rust? Slo Trust? Sloth-Rust.
On their latest album, "The Pact," Slothrust constructs a luscious, ethereal cosmos perforated with wormy portals and magic wardrobes, demonstrating more clearly than ever the band's deft shaping of contrasting sonic elements to forge a muscular sound that's uniquely their own.
"The Haunting" is a sumptuous odyssey through the realm somewhere between sleeping and waking that is perhaps most indicative of "The Pact's" expanded sonic palette. A twangy, acoustic strum leads the way before the bass tumbles in to hug a simple, tangy melody, conjuring a sense of underwater vertigo not dissimilar from the band's influences like Smashing Pumpkins or the reflective wail of The Pixies. "Fever Doggs," "a song that feels like a photograph of an old house made of dark rotting wood," Wellbaum acknowledged, tips its hat to trailblazers like PJ Harvey as it spins toward the edge in shifting time signatures that dissolve into a furiously controlled riot.