I was interested to note that an acquaintance of yours living in Nottingham, frequently visits my Sister's pub. If you will let me know the name of your friend, I shall mention it to my sister in my next letter. She used to be in the dramatic business, never played the Halls. She & her husband run a little pub in a place called Bollesford (Notta), they have been there several years now.
For people having troubles, I agree with you that Chaplin doesn't have any - financially, but nevertheless, he is a very unhappy man, & mentally troubled, you can rest assured, success & Worldly goods do'nt insure happiness & content, & there are many others in the same situation.
I deeply appreciate your kind sentiments Ed regarding Mr Hardy & myself, I feel very gratified that we finished up in such high esteem with the public & our many countless friends. Your kind thoughts are greatly valued.
Note you don't get out much due to not having the energy - its the same with me Ed, I get terribly tired when I walk a short distance, & its all I can do to get back home. If its necessary for me to go somewhere - like the Dr. etc. Mrs L drives me in the car, & even that tires me very much & makes me very nervous. I don't drive myself anymore, being in my condition, I'm afraid to take any chances, especially as there is a great deal of heavy traffic here & so many bad accidents.
Well not much to tell you Ed, so all for now.
Mrs L. joins in every good wish to you & yours.
Pleased to note you enjoyed seeing "Fra Diavalo", its strange, it has'nt been shown out here for some reason, I would like to see it again, especially sans commercials.
Glad you & your friends got a kick out of the tape recording I sent you, I often wish that sketch had been filmed so you could have seen the action of it.
I shall be pleased to send you another Tape, but it may be quite a while before I can get one re-recorded for you, as I need another machine to do this & my friend is not in Town anymore, so will wait till I can borrow another outfit.
Bye for now Elmer, it was nice to hear from you again.
We had the same doubles for years. They didn't look like us facially, but their build was approximate—one fat and one thin. In make-up there was great resemblance at a distance, and they acquired our mannerisms, which made them pretty convincing in the long shots.
Thanks your welcome letter 1st.inst.
Pleased to note my letters afford you so much pleasure & interest, I can assure you I too get a great deal of pleasure & enjoyment out ot my correspondence with you & look forward to your letters, so I guess its a mutual situation.
I got a kick out of the'Expense Memo' - very funny, it certainly clearly tells the story this sounds like an accounting of Dave Beck, (The Teamsters Boss). Mrs Laurel too got a bang out of it & enjoyed reading it - wonder 'Nho thinks up these things, they have a great sense of humor.
Yes, George Raft has quite a background, have met him several times, last time was in Paris, France in '50. I appeared on the same radio show with him which was broadcast throughout Europe - I doubt if they understood my lousey attempt to speak French. Babe was'nt with me as I had gone over ahead of him a few weeks to make preparations on the picture - story etc. so I was requested to appear alone for some publicity purpose.
Am afraid I can't share the excitement with you on the world series, I have'nt the slightest interest in baseball, have never even seen a game played, so do'nt know what its all about, for some reason it had no appeal to me, theres a great deal of fuss here about the Brooklyn Dodgers coming to L.A. that seems to be the most important news in the papers here.
It was certainly interesting to hear about that college kid recording the news from the radio during the time he was in school, its really amazing the many uses you can get out of a tape recorder, they sure are a wonderful machine to have.
Note you have'nt a TV set. I sold my old one when I rented the house, & bought a G.E. portable (14 inch) its a swell little outfit & gives a very clear picture - surprising at the price - a hundred & thirty Dollars I paid for it. However, our reception in this location is'nt too good on account of the mountains surrounding this area, so we only get three stations which are relayed from San Diego & a lot of times we get a great deal of interference which makes it very bad for us, otherwise the picture is beautiful & clear as a bell. Thats the only objection to living here,am afraid we shall have to move again after the lease is up next June, as Tv 1s a necessity to me, & I feel lost without it.
The stack of hay you mention in 'The Bullfighters' was a prop, a frame was built on rockers & covered with hay, our doubles worked on it in the long shots & we made the close-ups. Regarding the stand-ins, doubles & stunt men, it is a demand from the insurance Co's that all important players are to be protected from getting hurt, to avoid holding up production, in which case the insurance Co would have to bear the cost of the delay, so they wo'nt permit any chances. We had the same doubles for years, they did'nt look like us facially, but their build was approximate, one fat & one thin, & in make-up there was great resemblance at a distance & of course they acquired our mannerisms which made them pretty convincing in the long shots. During times they were'nt working with us (between pictures) they would pick up extra work in other films & return to us whenever we were ready to start a new film.
Note you found out where Dianna Durbin was, I had an idea she had married & retired, do'nt know if she is living in France on account of the Dollar exchange if she is in Paris its very expensive indeed, living is very high, especially for an American.
I fully understand re the local people being tight with their money, its funny how their attitude changes when you want to buy something from them, they sure put great value on their posessions.
Yes, I finally got caught up, all that mail was sure a job, glad its over with. Enclosed is a little cartoon, sent me from Canada, thought it was cute.
Looks like 'Cindy' is getting to be a handfull & keeping you busy. Glad to know she is well & happy.
Well think thats the lot for now Earl. Mrs L joins in kindest regards & every good wish to you all.
I just recd. a letter from Billy Barron, giving me the sad news that his Dad Bennie had recently passed on.
Thought I'd let you know in case by chance you had'nt heard about it. I have dropped a line to Jack Graham expressing my sumpathy. Poor Bennie, he was a sweet fellow, I was terribly sorry to hear about it, but I imagine the end was to be expected at his age. God Bless him.
Well, another link out of the chain of friendships gone - 'Time Marches On'.
Hows everything with you Trixie? trust alls well & happy.
Eda joins in love & kind thoughts, take good care of yourself dear.
My love to Dolly when you see her.
Have just received a copy of your wonderful eulogy to my dear late partner Olly, which Leonard Jones so kindly sent to me.
It is difficult for me Charlie to express my deep appreciation for your kind and sweet thought, in creating this beautiful tribute, but I want you to know I feel very grateful to you for the lovely sentiment. My sincere thanks Charlie. Am having it framed. Trust all's well and happy with you, wish you continued success.
Charlie Chester was named "Poet Laureate" of the "Grand Order of Water Rats" in 1953. Part of his responsibilities included writing a tribute for members when they passed away. The tributes were then ceremonially read aloud behind a vacant chair at the Lodge.
I have to agree with you re Chaplin being mean and cheap. To my mind, he is still the greatest artiste in his field, but unfortunately his ideals have run amuck.
I have to agree with you re Chaplin being mean & cheap, he never to my knowledge ever had any consideration to anybody - financially or otherwise, he never had any time for any of his close friends who worked with him in the early days, regardless of whether they needed his help or not, so you can imagine his feelings & actions toward utter strangers, including his beloved Kensingtonites.
I was closely associated with Charlie for 2 or 3 years, I was his understudy & shared rooms with him on many occasions, so am fully aware of his idiosyncrasies, he was a very eccentric character, composed of many moods, at times signs of insanity, which I think developed further when he gained Fame & Fortune. I frankly believe Ed, that this was hereditary, I understand both of his parents died in the asylum - at least I know definitely his Mother did, shortly after he brought her to this Country & placed her in a sanitarium. I really think he is to be pitied more than censored - to my mind, he is still the greatest artiste in his field, but unfortunately his ideals have run amuck & he has lost all sense of propriety.
I realise the great dislike you have for him Ed, but I do'nt think you should get yourself all worked up, & upset over it, its not good for your health, besides, who cares or gives a dam about him - am sure I do'nt, whatever he thinks, says or does, is water on a duck's back to me - with all his millions we are happier than he is I'll guarantee, & one thing for sure, he go out the same way he came in, with nothing & without friends too, there'll be no tears shed.
I didn't hear anything about Mack Sennett being in hospital - thats news to me. Interesting to note you are collecting cut-outs from old films, I remember very well when Billy Reeves made some comedies for Lubin Co. they were made in Florida, I think severeal of the old Karno boys were in them too. Am not surprised to hear re Fred Karno Jr. being in trouble - he always has been! through all the years I've known him, he sure threw away some wonderful opportunities when his father was alive, if he had behaved himself he would have acquired all those shows, but he was too fond of the four-ale bar dept. Incidently, I met his Landlady wife in '54. she seemned a very pleasant person. Thanks for your kind remarks re my Sister, am pleased she is so well thought of. Am writing her today & will mention the names of your friends Syd & David.
Yes, I understand TV is doing a lot of damage to the theatre business, especially the Provinces, its certainly a shocking situation for all those Variety artistes who are thrown out of work - its really serious.
Well, all for now Ed. Mrs L. joins in kindest regards & every good wish for health & hapiness. Take care of yourself.
Hannah Chaplin (1865-1928) was was the mother of Charlie Chaplin and his two half-brothers, actor Sydney Chaplin and the film director Wheeler Dryden. When Charlie was 14, his mother was committed to a mental asylum. In 1921, she was relocated by Charlie to California, where she was cared for in a house in the San Fernando Valley until her death.
Charles Chaplin Sr. (1863-1901) was an alcoholic who died at 38 years old, from cirrhosis of the liver.
Mack Sennett (1880-1960) was a director and actor known as an innovator of slapstick comedy in film. He was hospitalized on June 14, 1957 and underwent an operation on his prostate.
Ex-Karno comedian Billy Reeves (1864-1943), who perfected a Charlie Chaplin imitation, joined the Lubin Company in 1915. Lubin films showcased the first film appearance of Oliver Hardy, who started working at Lubin's Jacksonville, Florida studio in 1913.
Thanks dear yours of the 14th.inst.
I wrote you a few days ago in regard to Bennie Barron - guess our letters crossed.
I was pleased to know that Bennie passed on peacefully without suffering — God bless him, but I can imagine it was a great shock to his daughter, being so unexpected.
I was going to drop a line to Jackie Harrison to let him know the sad news, but am not sure if Jackie knew Graham & Barron or not.
We are having a flu epidemic here too, in some parts of the Country its pretty serious, quite a few deaths, the government has requested everybody to take shots to avoid it spreading, hope you are taking precaution against it.
Note re the high cost of living - the prices here for food are really shocking, terribly expensive, its really getting out of control, I don't know how people with families manage, there's only two of us & it costs over £10. a week for groceries alone & we are not big eaters.
Was surprised the Empire is still open - so many of the theatres in the Provinces have closed up - a lot of the artistes I know have had to quit the business, they can't exist on the small amount of work there is left, & what they do get doesn't pay them enough to make ends meet its a sad situation.
Think thats all for now dear. Eda joins in love & fond thoughts - take good care of yourself Trixie.
Yes, George Raft has quite a background, have met him several times, last time was in Paris, France in '50. I appeared on the same radio show with him which broadcast throughout Europe - I doubt if they understood my lousey attempt to speak French. Babe was'nt with me as I had gone ahead of him a few weeks to make preparations on the picture - story, etc. so I was requested to appear alone for some publicity purpose.
Yes, I recd. your cards & letters OL. my delay in answering them was unavoidable, due to the fact that I have been very busy acknowledging condolence letters & messages from all over the World regarding the loss of Mr Hardy - had very little time for personal correspondence - trust you will understand.
Note you have taken snapshots of the club, I shall be very interested to see them when you have them finished.
Regarding a L&H Correspondence Club, I have no objection Gary, but I think it would be better to call it the "GARY ARNOLD MAIL CLUB" & keep it seperate from the L&H Club which you already have. However, its just a suggestion.
No, I have'nt any snapshot of myself taken recently - shall be pleased to send you one next time I have one made.
My address has'nt changed, I do'nt just bother with the 1/2 number as the postman now knows where I live - the whole building is 25406, the added numbers are the different apts.
We too have been having a little rain & slightly cool, I like it for a change.
All for now Gary. Take care of yourself.
"...the postman now knows where I live." The actual address of Stan's apartment was 25406-1/2. The building on Malibu Road housed four apartments numbered 25406, 25406-1/2, 25408 and 25408-1/2. Stan stopped used the "1/2" in his correspondence midway through 1957. The apartment still retains that odd numbering above its entryway.
Pleased to know Bob Is so much better & back on the job again - congratulations.
Note you expect to be down here in May. Our lease expires next June 25th. so you would be just in time to see the place before we move.
Am afraid we shall have to find another place on account of this TV situation, the reception in this location is really bad, its a shame this had to happen as we like the apt so much. Anyway we hope to find some other place by the sea where the reception is better, around Oceanside is very nice, we are going to look around there sometime next month for a few days, we have some friends who live in La Jolla, so can visit them at the same time.
That was nice that you & Bob were able to celebrate both birthdays together, glad you had a lovely time, I wish you both, a belated Many Happy Returns. Interesting to note you were born in Stanford, its a beautiful spot. Is Burlingame near there? some friends of mine live there, they are free from Scotland.
Well, all for now. Mrs L. joins in kindest regards to you both. Enjoyed hearing from you again.
Thanks yours 23rd.inst. regarding the L&H stickers, I doubt if I could let you have very many Gary, am getting low on these, & when finished I won't be ordering anymore. How many do you think you will need? There are no prices on them as they were made for private use, mainly autograph books.
Interesting to hear about your newspaper idea, that will mean a lot of work for you, if you have a spare one, I would very much like to have a copy.
Bye Gary. Lots of good luck.
Sorry my long delay in writing you, intended doing so many times, but circumstances prevented me, so many things happened these last few months, its been quite a strain on me & caused a great deal of neglect on my part - trust you will fully understand.
I am indeed very interested in your new venture, I think its a wonderful idea Buck & should prove very profitable in that location. There is a little theatre here in Hollywood which runs on the same lines, excepting there is no display of Antique collection items you mention, which enhances the whole idea & gives it greater interest. This theatre runs early silents in their original lengths, also early sound films, I understand its very popular & does excellent business. I will try & get one of their mailing programs & send it on to you.
"Hollywood of Yesterday" sounds very good, should be most attractive to the tourists. Approximately, where is Fort Meyers, is it near a key City? (have never been to Florida except an overnight stay in Miami).
I certainly wish you lots or success with the project, it has great possibilities, especially with your knowledge & experience in the handling of it.
I just had a letter from my friend Ed Kobus in Webster, N.Y. said he had been in touch with you. He sent me a set of Color slides & viewer to show me his little theatre & projection room which he has just finished, he did a wonderful job on it, perfect in every detail, its not of course compared to yours but he deserves a lot of credit for his idea of construction.
We expect to move again next June on account of the TV situation here, the reception in this location is really bad, due to mountain interference etc. unfortunately nothing can be done about it.
All for now Buck. Mrs L. joins in kindest regards to self & Family, trust alls well & happy.
PS. shall look forward to further news re Florida.
Our TV situation is just the same—really awful. We shall definitely leave here when the lease is up next June. I would get out now if it were possible.
Sorry to hear the Flu has been so active in your parts, I understand we are getting a good share of it put here too, so far we have been fortunate in escaping it, of course we do'nt come in contact with many people & I think the sea air probably blows the germs away around this section. You are lucky you did'nt get it, being so much among the public every day, I imagine you got a shot of vaccine to avoid getting caught.
I got a kick out of Cindy's picture, she sure is cute, the pram is a good idea in helping her to walk.
Re the guys fighting in open touring cars, thats made effective by the speed of the camera, the cars are actually going slow & many time are attached to the camera truck or some other vehicle when they make side view shots - also done by placing the cars in front of a screen, which in back, a picture of the moving Countryside or Street is projected & the whole thing is photographed from the front. Of course in the old comedy days a lot of this was actually done, & quite risky at times.
Andy Clyde is still around, but not doing a great deal, I've known Andy for many years - his Dad was a well known Scottish actor & was a very close friend of my Dad, John Clyde for several years used to play a Scottish season at my Dad's theatre, the Metropole in Glasgow, his first week's show was generally "Rob Roy", he was really wonderful in that part, he was tall & heavy set - looked the character perfectly.
I know Billy Bevan too, he's an Australian. Bill has been in retirement for a long time, I believe he has a very profitable avacado ranch somewhere near San Diego. I think he works in films occasionally whenever they need him.
Roddy McDowell I understand is directing or co-producing some shorts for TV, have never seen any of them, so do'nt know too much about it.
I certainly got a bang out of your description of the Lady that owns the restaurant - I think she's got Jack Benny topped for thrift - what a character, its amazing. She sure had a lot of gall regarding the roll of film.
Your thought of moving to Arizona sounds very interesting.
I was in Pheonix one time, liked it very much, its a lovely State passing through on the train, frankly do'nt know much about it as far as being in business is concerned.
Phoenix seemed to be a prosperous place & lots of activity - are you thinking of moving to Arizona permanently?.
If I owned the place here I might go for it, but only renting, it would be foolish.
I started to read 'Something of Value', but the print is rather small & hard on my eyes, so will have to take time on it.
On account of the TV being so lousey, I have to listen to the Boxing on the radio, so do'nt get much excitement with it, they have sounded pretty dull of late.
Mrs Hardy dropped in to see us about a month ago, she was going to live with her sister in Palm Springs till she gets herself straightened out, then expects to return to her former work again (Stenographer) She did'nt look too good, but am sure a good rest will do her good & put her back in shape.
Bye Earl, Mrs L. joins in all the best to self & family.
Dear Marie and Claude [Cingalee]: thank you so much for your sweet letter and, believe me, I especially appreciate your taking the time to write -- you of all people when you have your own sadness and worry. We were both so very upset and sorry to hear of Claude's illness when you wrote us quite some time back but I was so upset over Babe at the time that I was afraid I would only upset you more by sounding gloomy and worried myself. That is why I sent your letter to Stan and asked him to write and try to cheer you both up and give you our love. Still, I felt very guilty not answering myself, but, as I am sure you now understand, I just couldn't compose myself enough to be able to sit down and write.
My poor darling Babe suffered for such a long time. He was never well from the time we returned home from our last trip over there and he was in and out of the hospital so many times, but we kept out of the papers, up until the time of his stroke, because he didn't want anyone to know he was ill and, two, there was a big TV deal pending. After returning home in the summer of '54, he was in the hospital in October with a kidney infection. The following April '55 he had his first heart attack and following that, several bouts with pneumonia, a gall bladder attack, and a series of heart attacks and the last year, his stroke.
I really lost my Sweetheart that morning in September last year - because poor Babe was never Babe after that. It was a thrombosis in the left frontal lobe, which left him completely paralyzed on the right side, unable to speak, completely helpless with a great deal of brain damage, requiring constant care of nurses 24 hours a day. All of the doctors and specialists told me from the start, that is after the stroke, that there was no hope. There were so many other complications too - gall bladder, liver, kidneys, partial paralysis of the digestive tract. They were all amazed that he lasted as long as he did -- that seemingly endless eleven months' long nightmare. If it were only just that -- a nightmare!
I was just numb for a while afterwards. But still I knew then, and I know now, that it was for the best and I give thanks each day to a Merciful God -- thanking Him for making my Darling Babe whole and well again in Heaven - since he couldn't get well here on earth. When I find myself depressed and dwelling on things, Iremind myself of these things. Too, I know that I have something very precious - something that a lot of people in this world have never known or experienced - my wonderful memories of the beautiful, love-filled, happy years we had together. That is something I will always have and nothing can ever take from me. And truly My Darling is really closer to me now then he ever was during those last eleven months.
I am visiting here with my Sister, her husband and their nine-year-old Ricky for a while. They are so wonderful and make me feel so much like I belong and I am starting to feel much calmer and more relaxed. Babe and I used to enjoy coming here to visit with them and I know he is happy that I am here with them now. So I'm just going to stay here for a while with them - rseting, swimming and sunbathing - until my thinking gets straightened out, before I decide what I'm going to do.
Thank you again, my Dears, for your thoughtfulness and kindness....Also your many, many kindnesses to us when we were over there. Dear Babe and I used to talk so often of the wonderful times we used to have together and relive those happy moments over and over again.
I can't tell you how much I admire the courage and stamina of both of you during what I know must be a truly trying time for you....And I think it is absolutely wonderful that you work from time to time....That's what it takes -- the will and fortitude to carry on. It's so very important. So, chin up, My Dears, and you'll lick this thing and conquer all.
Do drop me a line when you have the time and I do hope by then things will be improving and "looking up". Give my love to the rest of the family. And always know that you have my very best wishes for your health and happiness.
Thank you so very much for your sweet letter and, believe me, I especially appreciate your taking the time to write -- you of all people when you have your own sadness and worry. We were both so very upset and sorry to hear of Claude's illness when you wrote us quite some time back but I was so upset over Babe at the time that I was afraid I would only upset you more by sounding gloomy and worried myself. That is why I sent your letter to Stan and asked him to write and try to cheer you both up and give you our love. Still, I felt very guilty not answering myself, but as I am sure you now understand, I just couldn't compose myself enough to be able to sit down and write.
My poor Darling Babe suffered for such a long time. He was never well from the time we returned home from our last trip over there and he was in and out of hospital so many times, but we kept it out of the papers, up until the time of his stroke, because he didn't want anyone to know he was ill and, too, there was a big TV deal pending. After returning home in the summer of '54, he was in the hospital in October with a kidney infection. The following April '55 he had his first heart attack and following that, several bouts with pneumonia, a gall bladder attack, and a series of heart attacks and the last year, his stroke.
I really lost my Sweetheart there that morning in September last year - because poor Dear Babe was never Babe after that. It was a thrombosis of the left frontal lobe which left him completely paralysed on the right side, unable to speak, completely helpless and with a great deal of brain damage, requiring constant care of nurses 24 hours a day. All of the doctors and specialists told me from the start, that is after the stroke, that there was no hope. There were so many other complications too - gall bladder, liver, kidneys & partial paralysis of the digestive tract. They were all amazed that he lasted as long as he did -- that seemingly endless eleven months' long nightmare. If it were only just that -- a nightmare!
I was just numb for a while afterwards. But still I knew then, and I know now, that it was for the best and I give Thanks each day to a Merciful God -- thanking Him for making My Darling Babe whole and well again in Heaven - since he couldn't get well here on earth. When I find myself getting low and depressed and dwelling on things, I remind myself of these things. Too, I know that I have something very precious - something that a lot of people in this world have never known or experienced - my wonderful memories of the beautiful, love-filled, happy years we had together. That is something I will always have and nothing can ever take away from me. And truly My Darting is really closer to me now than he ever was during those last eleven months.
I am visiting here with my Sister, her husband and their nine-year-old Ricky for a while. They are so wonderful and make me feel so much like I "belong" and I am starting to feel much calmer and more relaxed. Babe and I used to enjoy coming here to visit with them and I know he is happy that I am here with them now. So I'm going to stay here for a while with them - resting, swimming and sunbathing - until my thinking gets straightened out, before I decide what I'm going to do.
I can't tell you how much I admire the courage and stamina of both of you during what I know must be a very trying time for you....And I think it is absolutely wonderful that you work from time to time....That's what it takes -- the will and fortitude to carry on. It's so very important. So, chin up. My Dears, and you'll lick the thing and conquer all.
Drop me a line when you have the time and I do hope by then things will be improving and "looking up". Give my love to the rest of the family. And always know that you have my very best wishes for your health and happiness.


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Гекончик панцирний (Alsophylax loricatus) — представник роду Гекончиків підродини Справжні гекони.

Опис
Загальна довжина сягає до 5 см. Колір спини жовтуватий, помаранчевий або сіруватого кольору. Шкіра на спині вкрита тригранними горбинками правильними довгастими та поперечними рядами та кшталт панцира.

Спосіб життя
Полюбляє кам'янисті місцини. Живе здебільшого у напівпустелях, передгір'ях. Вдень ховається та відпочиває серед каміння. Активний цей гекон вночі, коли полює на комах, безхребетних, павукоподібних. Як й інші гекони, панцирний гекон має здатність при небезпеці відкидати хвоста.

Це яйцекладні гекони. Зазвичай самиця гекончика відкладає до 2 яєць, кладок буває до 2 за один сезон.

Розповсюдження
Панцирний гекончик має невеликий ареал, який охоплює Таджикистан та деякі райони Узбекистану.

Примітки

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 Golubev, M. L., and T. Sattarov. 1979 On subspecies of Alsophylax loricatus Strauch, 1887 (Reptilia, Sauria, Gekkonidae) [in Russian]. Vestnik Zoologii, Kiev, (5):18-24.
 Біологія: Навч. посіб. / А. О. Слюсарєв, О. В. Самсонов, В.М.Мухін та ін.; За ред. та пер. з рос. В. О. Мотузного. — 3—є вид., випр. і допов. — К.: Вища шк., 2002. — 622 с.: іл.
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Joint Security Taskforce Assigned for Firearms and Unlicensed Vehicles Collection in West Darfur
Rapporteur of the high committee for firearms and unlicensed vehicles collection , Maj. Gen. Abdul Hadi Abdallah accompanied by the representative of the Rapid Support Forces, Brig. Alam Al-Huda reviewed in his meeting with the government of West Darfur State the final arrangements for firearms, unlicensed vehicles and motorcycles collection.
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For his part, governor of West Darfur State, Mohamed Abdallah Al-Douma announced the kick-off the campaign of firearms collection all over the state. He gave a comprehensive enlightenment on the general situations in the state which he described as good due to the joint efforts of the government and the security committee, calling on the citizens to cooperate with the joint security force to make the campaign of firearms and unlicensed vehicles collection a success.
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On the other hand, if you are just summing and multiplying numbers it may be simpler to choose a fixed number of threads, like 4, and have the first thread sum the numbers at  indexes 0,4,8,.. the second at indexes 1,5,9,... the third at 2,6,10,.. and so on

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Efter den kristna segern föll snabbt det almohadiska positionerna på den Iberiska halvön samman och 36 år efter slaget var Granada i Emiratet av Granada den enda muslimska staden på halvön (då Kastiliens vasallstat).

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Florence: Jacopo da Pontormo & Mannerism
Posted by Denise on Mar - 1 - 2015
It's those jaw-dropping moments we just happen upon as we drift through foreign places that make travel so exciting, and addictive. The heat was sizzling in Florence on the afternoon of 18 July 2007 when I flew through the door of the rather non-descript and gloomy Santa Felicità; it was 4.50pm, 10 minutes before closing. There it was to the right: Pontormo's altarpiece in the Capponi chapel: 'The Descent from the Cross'. I had to view it through black wrought-iron bars, but the dazzling colour, and tangle of restless bodies barely contained within the frame, was eye-popping. When I think of the Italian artist, Jacopo Carucci da Pontormo (1494-1557), I think of this mesmerising masterpiece, which he painted between 1526 and 1528 . . . and I think of Florence: Tuscany was Pontormo's birth-place, and the place of his revolutionary art.
I had been drifting around Florence that day . . . We will simply drift says Miss Lavish to Lucy Honeychurch in E.M. Forster's 'A Room with a View' (1908). Lucy joins Miss Lavish, an eccentric novelist, to find the church of Santa Croce in Florence. The two women soon become lost. Lucy tries to consult her Baedeker travel guide, but Miss Lavish will have none of it. She tells Lucy, "No, you are not, not to look at your Baedeker. We will simply drift." They eventually find Santa Croce, but Lucy lacks the confidence to make her own judgments about art; she longs for her Baedeker guide so that she can know "good art" from bad. Lucy wants to know which frescoes have been pronounced by the critics to be "truly beautiful".
I will reserve my thoughts on Lucy Honeychurch's assessment of the art of Santa Croce for another time, and my praise for Bronzino's evocative 'Christ in Limbo', which is situated in this important Florentine church (Bronzino was Pontormo's apprentice and adopted son) . . . so back to Santa Felicità and Pontormo . . . and his "truly beautiful" altarpiece. In 'The Descent from the Cross', also called The Deposition, Entombment, Pieta, Lamentation, Pontormo absorbed and transformed classical antecedents into something new.
Pontormo was often described as mean-spirited, melancholy and unattractive by those who knew him, but his art exploded with vibrant colour and invention that trumpeted the move from Michelangelo's High Renaissance to the establishment of Mannerism. Actually, many art historians suggest that Michelangelo led the way with his use of colour and exaggerated poses. Take for example Michelangelo's exquisite Libyan Sibyl (image below), which he painted in vivid colour on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel nearly twenty years before Pontormo painted The Deposition: the beauty and grace captured within the rhythms of the sibyl's powerfully rendered, twisted body as she holds up her book and looks down, conforms to the art-historical sense of maniera.
The notion that Mannerist art not only discarded the harmonious compositions of Renaissance classicism but intended to shock, especially in the interpretation of the subject matter, can perhaps be partially understood in terms of the social, political and scientific turmoil of the time. The Reformation in 1517 marked the beginning of a spiritual and religious crisis. After the death of Raphael in 1520, a so-called decadence crept into Italian art, particularly in Florence and Rome: this controversial art-historical period (approximately 1520-1600) was called Mannerism.
Unlike Michelangelo, who tempered his use of colour, Pontormo's sharply brilliant colour harmonies partner with the distortions and affected poses to create tension. In The Deposition, Pontormo's expressive use of clashing vibrant colours and varied poses, uniformly small heads and elongated limbs heighten the emotional drama. Overall, the skin colours are harmonious—except for the young man crouching and holding Jesus' legs: his flesh is a bright, unnatural pink (detail shown above).
The bodies more or less displace the space and crowd the composition, pushing into the viewer's space and blotting out the setting which may give clues as to the subject matter. The rotational movement creates a swooning effect, even for the viewer—it wasn't just the heat that affected me when I was looking at this painting. I found it difficult to work out what was going on: subject matter is overwhelmed by colour and tangled bodies. Pontormo was a leader in this new ornamental style, which emerged as a psychological simplification of the narrative, a rhythm, and a subdued beauty exuding exquisite spiritual grace.
The art historian who was instrumental in attempting to pin down the Mannerist style of the early sixteenth century was John Shearman. In his book, 'Mannerism' (first published in 1967) he describes the Mannerist style as strange and expressive with a sensuous grace, a highly charged sentiment, and compositional devices that are intended to draw the viewer into the action. Shearman called Mannerism the "stylish style", or maniera, for its emphasis on "self-conscious artifice over realistic depiction of the subject matter". This wilful, often perverse, yet mostly graceful artistic style challenged the traditional emphasis on the "truthful" depiction of the subject of the work.
Unique presentations of conventional themes, particularly religious images, surfaced. However, even though the subject of Mannerist art may be ambiguous, there are notable layers of symbolic and spiritual meaning. In fact, Shearman describes Pontormo's The Deposition as an unambiguous picture in that it makes a very direct reference to the "timeless mystery of Redemption, of Death and Resurrection".
Pontormo's contemporary biographer, Giorgio Vasari, was convinced that this painting "contains a Dead Christ deposed from the Cross who is being carried to the tomb …" For me, this is the moment in between, when Christ has been taken from Mary's lap following his removal from the Cross; she is swooning as she gestures towards her Son. One can only guess if the figure of Mary Magdalene is amongst the tangle of weightless figures expressing their grief. The bearded man wearing a hat at the right behind Mary's left elbow, and looking at, or even past, the viewer, is thought to be a self-portrait by the artist.
Most Italian cities and churches make me realise that for centuries art was primarily religious, and commissioned for churches, intended to convey Bible stories and events featuring the Passion of Christ. These 'stories' could be 'read' by the illiterate, allowing them to contemplate the messages, and in doing so, enrich their devotion. This art wasn't created for a museum context in which we now, probably for the most part, encounter it. It wasn't intended for the disinterested appraisal of the appreciator. So, stumbling upon a timeless work of art in the place where it was originally created, all on my own and without the use of a guide-book, is always exciting.
Painting details: Jacopo Da Pontormo, 'The Deposition', 1525-1528, oil on wood, 313 x 192 cm, Capponi Chapel, Santa Felicità, Florence.
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http://www.wga.hu/html_m/p/pontormo/4capponi/
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maria sweeney says:
thank you for sharing your experience, which was/is similar to mine. I am in Florence right now to appreciate Pontormo's painting without iron bars.


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I checked for SEOURLMappersource class, and it is there in SEO-BaseComponentLogic.jar, which is already present in my wc.ear and other relevent classes to SEO are present in SEO-BaseComponentLogic-FEP.jar.
Please guide me for the error.

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A: I ran into the same problem described by this WC stack exception. I found out that on our system the owner/group for the related jar files was not set for the wc user but for the root user. Thus even though the class/jar present, it was not read due to permissions. This initialization exception went away after chown/chgrp and a restart.


I have worked in special education for ten years and in that time I have known two sets of parents who have not only never visited the special school their child attended, they didn't even know where it was. Reflect on how astounding that is for a minute. I shall return to it later, but consider how it is possible for that to happen.
Much time and effort, rightly, is made of the transition from primary to secondary school for children. It has been a focus for a good number of years now and many schools are very skilled in ensuring a smooth transfer from one type of school to another. How much of this time and effort is given over to the emotional demands that this transition places on parents?
Time spent as a parent with my daughter in the care of some health professionals has seen me ruminating on how we as school leaders fare in that regard.
I recently spent a day at Moorfields Eye Hospital, as I do a couple of times a year, so that my daughter could undergo the regular series of tests and check-ups that her congenital condition demand. Whilst in the waiting room I saw a few parents of babies who are on the beginning of a journey we've been on as a family for a few years now. Two mothers were sat next to me; one with a baby with one eye and one with a baby with no eyes at all. A number of other children present had obvious learning difficulties.
I'm a good listener but the consultant who was informing us of our daughter's diagnosis all those years ago must have thought me very rude as I constantly interrupted him with questions. The first one, "Does this condition have any learning difficulties associated with it?" left my mouth almost before he had started talking.
Mr Moore was exceptional: sensitive, a clear communicator and a good listener. He advised us brilliantly. "It's your choice. In five minutes you'll meet with the surgeon. He is going to persuade you to operate. Surgeons love to operate, but the decision is yours. You've heard all the facts so make your own mind up and stick to it." He remains the model to which I aspire when I meet with prospective parents at my school.
Parents typically visit our school when their child is in Year 5. Sometimes they arrive a year earlier if they feel there are a lot of schools to visit or that there will be a fight with the local authority so they need time to gather evidence for a possible tribunal. Sometimes they visit when their child is in Year 6 and they are in a tight corner as they have been turned away by a string of secondary schools. In all cases I regard this meeting as the beginning of the transition process.
We don't do group tours. All parents receive individual tours as they need the space and privacy to discuss their child. I make it clear to parents that I'm not a salesman. I obviously want to show our school in its best light, but I've never met their child so have no idea if we will fit the bill.
Parents are naturally inquisitive, but my students make a far better impression than I. Parents are always struck by their social confidence and their articulate nature. If your child is not developing in line with normal milestones it can be tough to imagine what your child may be like in five to ten years' time. This chance to talk to students a few years down the track in some depth is vital. As is seeing a peer group, children their son or daughter can be friends with, work they can succeed at, a curriculum that focuses on maximising their chances of success as adults.
Some parents need to walk out after the visit knowing that we can keep their child alive whilst they are in our care. The reassurance required here is impossible to underestimate. We are not health professionals, yet they must be confident that we can manage epilepsy, a tracheostomy, tube-feeding or insulin pumps. Failure to manage these health needs properly could result in the death of their child, so this concern overrides all others.
Given our hard work on admission processes, how is it possible then for those parents mentioned above to be unaware of where their child goes to school?
It can be difficult for some parents to accept that their child goes to a special school. In these cases I find that they haven't visited prior to admission, don't attend parents' evening, annual reviews or any other opportunities to visit. They are attempting to retain an image in their mind of where their child goes to school and I suspect that that image looks like a mainstream secondary school. Far better, surely, to maintain that image than shatter the illusion by seeing the school for real, runs the logic. The fact that transport is normally provided and the distance to school can be significant makes this gulf harder to bridge.
When I took up this headship I was warned about two parents who, the story went, would make my life hell. Labelled as "pushy" I braced myself for a battle with them. No need. I found them engaging, intelligent and committed. They'd had to fight for their children's basic entitlement and had a reputation for being prepared to advocate strongly for their child.
This is my kind of parent. I can use this kind of emotional energy and these two parents are now Vice-Chairs of our governing body and two of our best advocates. One said recently that she felt our school was unique. I asked her to expand on this with the staff and she explained that we are open-minded, honest with parents and very welcoming. This obviously pleases us greatly but whilst there are parents out there who don't even know where their child's school is, we have much more to do.
In the field of education it is obvious that the only figure we can use to define ALL children is 100%. Unfortunately politicians develop policies that exclude a certain percentage of students and leave them exposed to the symptoms of the metaphorical policy virus. In some cases policies have been enacted that politicians are perfectly aware disadvantage a percentage of the population. In other cases the realisation has been retrospective. I shall provide examples of each.
"We will expect every pupil by the age of 11 to know their times tables off by heart, to perform long division and complex multiplication and to be able to read a novel. They should be able to write a short story with accurate punctuation, spelling and grammar," she said. In this case I suspect that Mrs Morgan simply didn't realise, despite her position, that some children have profound and multiple learning difficulties and that, aged 11, may well be at the 12 months level of development, for example.
So, in this case, all doesn't really mean all. By extension, though, she demeans the achievements of a small, but complex, percentage of the population. Their achievements count for nought as the above target becomes the sole definition of success. It also makes it significantly harder for schools to be more inclusive as there will always be some students that will not achieve this at the age of 11.
The scrapping of National Curriculum levels in September 2014 was another example of a complete failure to consider 100% of children when formulating policy. National Curriculum levels no longer exist, but P-Scales do. My suspicion is that policy makers were oblivious to the existence of P-Scales until it was too late. An announcement was made and then someone like me asked the awkward question, "What about P-Scales?" Cue nervous scrabbling around before a swift decision to keep them. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it's worse. Maybe they were aware and that suggests a clear lack of understanding of how those children develop and progress.
For three years I was fortunate to have the Secretary of State for Education as my local MP. Michael Gove used to meet with local Headteachers termly and this provided us with an ideal opportunity to bend his ear about policy. I was able to do so when the Year 1 phonics check was launched. Research findings suggest that phonological awareness in children with Down syndrome is only weakly associated with learning to read2. They tend to be more successful with a logographic approach and I brought this to his attention. I explained that this check could artificially label some children as poor readers/failures. His response was to say that he was fully aware of this, but that a measure was required and that this was the best option. In this case the policy was created in the full knowledge that the progress in reading of some students would be excluded, but this was considered acceptable.
In January 2012 Michael Gove cut the value in school league tables of over 3,000 vocational qualifications in an attempt to stop "inflated league table rankings"3. There may well have been large-scale gaming in order to influence league table positions (the incentives that drove the behaviour of schools is an article in itself; however the academic good/vocational bad message was a clear one.
I am fortunate to have a very intelligent parent population and they are utterly convinced of the critical role of vocational education for children with learning difficulties. With only 10% of adults with learning difficulties in work4, and the majority of them part-time, only a fool would exclude this from their curriculum. The message from the centre, though, was clear. These are poor, second-class qualifications compared to academic equivalents.
I was very hopeful in the early stages of this parliament. We had a Prime Minister with a son who attended a special school, a Secretary of State for Education whose sister had been to a special school and a former special school Headteacher as Chief Executive of the National College of Teaching and Leadership. We couldn't have been better placed for all to truly mean all, for education policy to be truly inclusive. And yet, on the eve of a general election with virtually no serious debate on education policy, we still have our most vulnerable children excluded from the herd.
Jarlath O'Brien is Headteacher of Carwarden House Community School, an 11-19 special academy in Surrey, and a NET Leading Thinker.
As part of a panel at the London Festival of Education I had the opportunity to discuss the nature of transition beyond special schools for young people with special educational needs and disabilities. This addressed not just the pragmatics of a person with complex and highly individualised needs moving from one education setting to another, but also the broader issues around the opportunities available beyond education.
A statistic which I mentioned as part of the discussion was that, according to the Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities (2011), 65% of those with a learning disability would like to be employed and yet only 6.8% (Department of Health 2014) are. It made me think about how much effort and financial support is being given to addressing social mobility for those from challenging economic backgrounds, through organisations such as the Sutton Trust and the Education Endowment Foundation, and yet how little is given to those with a learning disability. Neither group chooses to face the challenges that they do, yet as a society we seem to have only committed to support some. Hardly an example of equality of opportunity.
However there are things which can be done to try and ensure that those with a learning disability have a better chance to realise the potential that they build within themselves through their education. There are things which can be done to challenge the perceptions of a society which sees the potential in the poor more easily than it does in the disabled.
One area in particular which may have a profound effect is the extent to which Special schools feel compelled to reflect a mainstream paradigm when it comes to communicating our young people's capability to those beyond the school. We continue to focus on the accreditation of skills and knowledge through certification, which may have limited currency within the wider communities in which we exist. I suspect many employers would find it difficult to understand the difference between Entry Level 1, 2 and 3, or potentially to know which order they go in in terms of complexity. How many employers are familiar with the successes contained within a personal progress qualification?
One area in which we can take greater responsibility within education is to critically evaluate the quality of the accreditation we use and the extent to which it is understood by those beyond school. We need to ensure that accreditation accurately captures and articulates what has been learned and achieved, rather than just determining what is to be taught. Our young people are inherently unique and that must be reflected in whatever certification they leave us with. It makes me wonder whether schools might serve their students better by creating bespoke approaches to achieving this, rather than relying on commercially available tools.
We also need to ensure that what we teach within the school setting is transferable to environments beyond the school and the supportive structures which we put in place to scaffold success. The completion of targets may provide a professional feel good factor and lead to the creation of OfSTED friendly data sets, but the acid test of what we teach is the extent to which it can be applied elsewhere. A failure to do this is to create false expectations on paper which cannot be realised beyond school and is an abdication of our professional responsibility to prepare those we work with as best we can for a rich and varied life.
A further area for consideration is the extent to which additional information is communicated to other agencies and organisations. The emergent EHCP provides a potential opportunity for the successful integration of services within the administrative processes which surround the young people we work with, but this has yet to be realised. Until those lines of communication are better constructed we need to ensure that what we know is shared in a way that is unequivocal.
This may go some way towards challenging the culture of low expectations, which can at times exist, amongst those less familiar with the capacity to astound that young people with a learning disability possess. There is a relatively new technological tool which can be used to do this utilising multimedia, demonstrated below in 'Shane's Wiki' https://vimeo.com/80887952, that leaves no doubt as to the unique characteristics and capability of the young person. Making effective use of tools such as this may work to better ensure that the momentum a young person builds through their education is not lost in transition.
Sharing Shane's Wiki from Rix Research and Media on Vimeo.
We also need to challenge the extent to which special schools and those who attend them are absent from the broader education discourse.
Whilst significant amounts of money and intellectual energy have been expended revising the legislative and administrative systems which govern special education, little has been spent on the provision itself. It seems that the young people we serve are marginalised by consecutive Secretaries of State for Education failing to speak on their behalf, when we have Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools failing to analyse the inspection outcomes of special schools, when we conflate education and social care by having the Minister responsible for special educational needs entitled 'Children and Families Minister'. We need to ensure that people with a learning disability are politically visible.
Finally we need to challenge the preconceptions of a society which is fearful of difference and ensure that we as schools do everything we can to be active participants within our communities, bringing them into us as much as us going out into them. After all it's not just schools which have a duty to be inclusive.


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PA Pigeon Shoots: Pest Control?!? Do they imprison, starve, and shoot roaches, too?
Please read the following news brief and background of pigeon shoots and call and/or write to Berks County DA John Adams and tell him, respectfully, your feelings. You may use the Sample Letter as a guide, but please modify, shorten, and personalize, thank you.
Perry Township, PA – A local university group and an animal rights group are protested a pigeon shoot in Berks County this weekend.
The Kutztown University Vegetarian Education Group and Showing Animals Respect and Kindness, or SHARK, were outside the Wing Pointe hunting resort Sunday.
The groups were protesting a day-long live pigeon shoot held at the resort.
"We hope to just spread awareness not only for our group as far as our campus, but for this cause. It's something that, you know, celebrities from all over the U.S. are against and it's particular to our state," said Letecia Garcia, a member of the Vegetarian Education Group at K.U.
Pigeon shoot organizers said it's form of pest control.
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Pigeon shoots are competitions wherein hundreds to thousands of live birds are shot at to win prizes. A typical 3-day shoot contest can kill and injure up to 15,000 birds.
70% of the birds are injured when shot and either left to suffer slow deaths or collected and killed by pigeon shoot "trapper boys" or "wringers", traditionally children, who break their necks, step on them, tear off wings, suffocate them, or cut off their heads with garden shears, among other abuses.
I am greatly disturbed to learn that Berks County Pennsylvania continues to host the savage slaughter of thousands of pigeons for entertainment. Indeed, I have even witnessed footage of severely injured and dying birds thrown in piles, casually ignored, in obvious states of agony, following such a primitive and reckless game of juvenile glee and participation. It is my understanding that this type of "sport" is illegal yet is repeatedly sanctioned due to certain alleged relationships; indeed, the District Attorney in nearby Dauphin County allowed a humane officer to level 100 charges against those involved in a similar event, and there has not been another shoot there since. This exploitation of animals is an unacceptable practice, and I therefore respectfully request you uphold the law and subsequently cease these events immediately.
Please allow me this opportunity to elaborate. Our society considers other beings disposable, to be used as commodities and discarded in accordance with egotistical human-focused goals and benefits. It is within this rigid definition of human acceptability absent accountability that humans embrace speciesism, the prejudicial regard of other species as undeserving of either rights or freedom from exploitation. Speciesism is immoral and dangerous, a precept built upon a foundation of arrogance, greed, and inequality, promoted with solicitous validations meant to foster approval. However, regardless of euphemistic descriptions meant to disguise exploitation, this practice is indeed unethical, the animals being intentionally subjected to suffering and pain and then killed. Although you may find the lives of these birds as immaterial and therefore expendable, you should understand they value their own lives and possess the capacity to experience trauma, fear, and suffering.
This reckless destruction is unnecessary, unjustified, and unprincipled, its only function to egotistically benefit those who exploit animals. Animals have rights to live free from pain and suffering regardless of objections to acknowledge such, and as long as Berks County profits on the torture of animals, complicit in their abuse and death, I will discontinue visiting as a tourist. It is important to accept that, what is indeed valuable, is the life itself and the capability to experience emotion and suffering. Please observe this basic moral principle and act with justice rather than react with cruelty.
If, as the shooters claim, the shoots are a form of "pest" control, then why are they buying and importing these "pests" from the pigeon netters in New York?
Oh, exactly, excellent observation, Bob, thank you.


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It's been a while since Selena Gomez has been seen out.
Her battle with lupus has resulted in panic attacks and anxiety, and it saw her cancel her remaining concerts for the year.
Her fans were disappointed, but more than anything, they wanted their hero to be okay.
She hasn't posted on her Instagram account for 13 weeks, and the fact that she was laying low and reportedly checked into rehab made us all feel okay.
However, when she stepped out at the American Music Awards, it took everyone by surprise. She then took out the award for Favourite Female Artist Pop/Rock and delivered a speech that moved everyone to tears.
She described how for a long time she told herself 'she was okay', even though she knew deep down she wasn't.
She also spoke about the fact that she thinks her fans are the most loyal she's ever seen, and that she doesn't know whats he did to deserve them.


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Q: Jquery map complex array from inputs I need to map an array of inputs to pass via an ajax call. Inputs look like this:
<input type="hidden" name="sizes[0][id]" value="0" class="sizes">
<input type="hidden" name="sizes[0][name]" value="Small" class="sizes">
<input type="hidden" name="sizes[1][id]" value="1" class="sizes">
<input type="hidden" name="sizes[1][name]" value="Medium" class="sizes">
<input type="hidden" name="sizes[2][id]" value="2" class="sizes">
<input type="hidden" name="sizes[2][name]" value="Large" class="sizes">

I'm trying to map it like the following, but it is not working as it doesn't grab the id or name field.
var sizes = $('input.sizes').map(function(){ return $(this).val(); }).get();

Maybe this needs to be recursive somehow?
Edit: The output needs to work with the following code:
$.ajax({
  type  : "POST",
  cache : false,
  data  : {
    sizes: sizes,
    ...
  },
  url   : 'http://what.does.the.fox/say',
  dataType : 'json',
  ...
});

Another update: This should create an array of objects that resemble the input name tag. ie:
var sizes = [
  { id: 0, name: 'Small' },
  { id: 1, name: 'Medium' },
  { id: 2, name: 'Large' }
];

A: I found code online that is able to do this as I want it. This also makes it completely dynamic so it doesn't matter what fields are named, or how many there are. Here is the code I found here in a comment:
(function(jQuery){

 jQuery.fn.MytoJson = function(options) {

    options = jQuery.extend({}, options);

    var self = this,
        json = {},
        push_counters = {},
        patterns = {
            "validate": /^[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_]*(?:\[(?:\d*|[a-zA-Z0-9_]+)\])*$/,
            "key":      /[a-zA-Z0-9_]+|(?=\[\])/g,
            "push":     /^$/,
            "fixed":    /^\d+$/,
            "named":    /^[a-zA-Z0-9_]+$/
        };

    this.build = function(base, key, value){
        base[key] = value;
        return base;
    };

    this.push_counter = function(key){
        if(push_counters[key] === undefined){
            push_counters[key] = 0;
        }
        return push_counters[key]++;
    };

    jQuery.each(jQuery(this).serializeArray(), function(){

        // skip invalid keys
        if(!patterns.validate.test(this.name)){
            return;
        }

        var k,
            keys = this.name.match(patterns.key),
            merge = this.value,
            reverse_key = this.name;

        while((k = keys.pop()) !== undefined){

            // adjust reverse_key
            reverse_key = reverse_key.replace(new RegExp("\\[" + k + "\\]$"), '');

            // push
            if(k.match(patterns.push)){
                merge = self.build([], self.push_counter(reverse_key), merge);
            }

            // fixed
            else if(k.match(patterns.fixed)){
                merge = self.build([], k, merge);
            }

            // named
            else if(k.match(patterns.named)){
                merge = self.build({}, k, merge);
            }
        }

        json = jQuery.extend(true, json, merge);
    });

    return json;
 }

})(jQuery);

A: EDITED: This is what you want - http://jsfiddle.net/jayblanchard/2F5vD/3/ (Now new and improved with proper quotes!)
var dataString = '';
dataString += '[';
var inputLength = $('input.sizes').length;
$('input.sizes').each(function(index) {
    if( $(this).is('[name$="[id]"]') ) {
        dataString += '\'' + $(this).val() + '\':';
        dataString += '{ id:' + $(this).val() + ',';
    } else if( $(this).is('[name$="[name]"]') && 0 != inputLength -1 ) {
        dataString += ' name:\'' + $(this).val() + '\'},';
    } else {
        dataString += ' name:\'' + $(this).val() + '\'}';
    }
    inputLength--;
});
dataString += ']';

It produces the following output (that will now pass JSLint)-
[{"0":{ "id":"0", "name":"Small"},"1":{ "id":"1", "name":"Medium"},"2":{ "id":"2", "name":"Large"}}]

This pretty much used brute force methodology to get a JSON string and there may be some much easier ways to do this. this can easily be ported to a function that can be called over and over. I hope that it helps.

A: DEMO
var sizes = $('input.sizes').map(function(){
    return { id   : this.id,
             name : this.name,
             val  : $(this).val()
            };
}).get();

Note for jQuery-o-philes: in this case this.id is the same as $(this).attr('id'), its just  that we don't need jQuery to get the id if we already have the element. Same thing with this.name.


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SubTopic Security Strategy
Privacy and Governance
Can the cloud cure IoT security problems?
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It is the Internet of Things, but with an enterprise angle. Take that to mean industry vertical applications, development ecosystems, product design, hardware, deployment and more.
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IoT is fuel for the fourth Industrial Revolution
IoT investment has to begin now
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Market Outlook: Software-Defined Wide-Area Network (SD-WAN), 2018-2023, ... –VMware Velocloud
The cloud has made deploying servers easy and taken much of the complexity out of application delivery. Now, it will face its next challenge: rescuing the internet of things from itself.
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By any measure, IoT is big business. Last year, global IoT spending reached $737 billion, according to IDC, and is expected to reach $1.29 trillion by 2020. The number of IoT devices was about 15.4 billion in 2015 and, according to IHS, will nearly double by 2020. Intel is even more aggressive in its projections, expecting the number of IoT devices to reach 200 billion by 2020.
But it's difficult to see how IoT will fulfill its promise without addressing the vulnerabilities in IoT devices and systems. And make no mistake, IoT threats are real. Late last year, attackers exploited a vulnerability in a brand of IoT cameras to launch a distributed denial-of-service attack on the website of journalist Brian Krebs. The following month, 100,000 IoT devices were manipulated by the Mirai botnet to launch an attack on DYN, the DNS provider. Since then, we've seen more sophisticated IoT threats that have worked cross-platform.
Best practices for securing IoT: Logical but unrealistic
While numerous government and industry IoT security regulations and initiatives are in progress, IT pros are still left implementing best practices around network security. Several pieces have been written about IoT security best practices. For example, in this piece on best practices, Derek Manky identifies four steps:
Buckle up on patch management. Advanced threats, such as WannaCry, underscore the importance of patching. WannaCry targeted a known vulnerability, largely impacting those who had not followed strong cyber-hygiene practices. Keeping patches current is important, but it is even more challenging with IoT, where patches may be unavailable for the billions of obscure IoT devices. This makes virtual patching using an intrusion protection system (IPS) essential, allowing IT to block IoT attacks on unpatched devices.
Secure data backups using redundancy segmentation. Redundancy segmentation is a backup strategy that calls for creating multiple copies of backup data and isolating them off-network from other enterprise services.
Improve the visibility into and control over internal traffic. Only protecting the perimeter is insufficient. Organizations need to understand what's happening within the network to stop attackers or malware after they breach the perimeter. Visibility and control are needed over all enterprise traffic.
Tighten up the time to defense. Tie together proactive solutions to reduce defense times. Reduce complexity by integrating different devices and providers and automating interoperability between them.
This is sage advice to follow which will undoubtedly help contain IoT threats. But it's also a list of tips that many companies will have difficulty implementing. Here's why.
What's behind the problem with IoT best practices
Many of the challenges around IoT security relate to how we've evolved our networks. For too long, we've thought of networking and security in separate silos: The networking team connected our locations; the security team protected them. The two worked together, but each had its own domain. Networking teams concerned themselves with MPLS services, routing and solving the rest of our connectivity challenges; security teams managed the firewalls, IPSes and the rest of the security stack.
As a result, our visibility and control have become fragmented across many appliances and services. Expecting enterprises to automate an MPLS service, mobile VPNs, WAN optimizers, next-generation firewalls and more is unrealistic. Just getting them to work together is challenging.
The mix of appliances has also complicated patch management. Companies need time to test patches, schedule updates for maintenance windows and then deploy those updates. Practically, IT resources are often outpaced by the sheer volume of vulnerabilities, leading to delays in distributing patches throughout the network. The result is precisely the critical gaps in security that can be exploited by IoT threats.
Implementing virtual patching through an IPS makes sense, but has also proven difficult for many organizations. For one, security appliances and IPSes are no exception — they constantly require new signatures and software patches. The result of which is not only a big time-sink for IT teams, but it also requires additional processing in already resource-constrained, edge appliances.
HTTPS growth only compounds the problem. SSL (or TLS) inspection is now essential for any IPS, but it is also a particularly resource-intensive process. The result? Enabling IPSes or other advanced security features, as well as increasing traffic loads, put IT in the tough position of choosing between paying for unplanned hardware upgrades or compromising on security.
Then, there's the issue of reach. An IPS is only effective at protecting devices on its network, and IoT devices often exist outside the tight confines of a standard office. Deploying an IPS into these environments is often impossible, making appliances additionally problematic.
A solution: Converge networking and security into the cloud
A better approach? Use the cloud. The cloud has already shown how it can simplify IT life. AWS redefined the way we think of our servers, storage and applications. It's time to bring the same thinking to our security and networking infrastructure.
Instead of discrete, purpose-built network and security appliances, enterprises should think about converged network and security cloud services. With the cloud, enterprises can use its unlimited resources to inspect all traffic and implement virtual patching without concerns around performance degradation. And with the cloud's ubiquity, connecting everything — offices, data centers, mobile users, cloud resources and more — together, regardless of location, becomes possible.
Already, there are signs that these trends are catching on in mainstream IT. Firewall-as-a-service (FWaaS) offerings replace security appliances with cloud-based security services. Locations send traffic to and receive traffic from a ubiquitous, cloud-based firewall that seamlessly scales for any traffic load, enforces unified policies and is maintained by a cloud provider.
At the same time, organizations are moving away from MPLS services as the basis of their WANs to more agile SD-WANs. Traditional SD-WANs still require heavy investment in appliances and have all of the problems inherent in appliance architectures. Secure, cloud-based SD-WANs avoid appliance limitations, and they combine FWaaS with SD-WAN across an affordable, SLA-backed network.
Cloud-based SD-WAN is more than just an appliance hosted in the cloud. It's ubiquitous, cloud-scale software designed to use the elasticity and scalability of the cloud.
Traffic is inspected as it enters the SD-WAN, whether from the internet, a location, a mobile user or the cloud. With a complete advanced security stack that includes a next-generation firewall, IPS and secure web gateway, the cloud-based SD-WAN enables security policies to be built that restrict WAN and internet traffic based on full L7 segmentation. IT gains control over internal as well as inbound traffic.
And moving to a service eliminates the patching process. Once the cloud-based SD-WAN provider updates its platform, the problem is addressed across all customers instantly. Enterprises might be uncomfortable relying on a cloud provider to keep their service current, but consider the lesson from the Cloudbleed threat earlier this year.
Last January, Project Zero researcher Tavis Ormandy discovered that corrupted webpages were being returned by Cloudflare, a content delivery network provider, when fulfilling some HTTP requests. CloudFlare fixed the so-called Cloudbleed problem in less than an hour by disabling the relevant features. By contrast, the Heartbleed bug (after which Cloudbleed was named), affected many web servers in 2014 and continued to be an issue three years later. Some 200,000 servers were still vulnerable to Heartbleed at the time of the Cloudbleed incident because customers failed to upgrade their servers.
Use a revolution to enable a revolution
IoT is a broad revolution that will change our society. It's an advancement that can have profound implications for many industries. But implementing security will be essential to realizing that potential. What better way to meet that challenge than with another revolution: the cloud-based, secure SD-WAN.
All IoT Agenda network contributors are responsible for the content and accuracy of their posts. Opinions are of the writers and do not necessarily convey the thoughts of IoT Agenda.


Women v Cancer Ride the Night!
Our very own Emily Angell is preparing for a gruelling 100km bike ride through central London to raise funds to fight Breast, Ovarian and Cervical cancer.
The event is a women only night cycle challenge to raise funds to fight breast, cervical and ovarian cancers. Thousands of women form across the UK will come together to Ride the Night on Saturday 31 May 2014. The challenge is to cycle 100km throughout the night on a circular route starting and finishing at the Royal Windsor Racecourse passing many famous landmarks including Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace and Trafalgar Square to name a few.
Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust - After breast cancer cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in women aged 35 and under. Their charity is the only one dedicated to women affected by cervical cancer and cervical abnormalities in the UK.
Ovarian Cancer Action - Ovarian cancer is the biggest gynaecological killer in women and Ovarian cancer action is dedicated to improving women's chances of survival by funding research, raising awareness of the disease and giving the ladies a voice who are affected by it.


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Бернгард Зартор (; 28 лютого 1913, Кобленц — 9 лютого 1975, Кобленц) — німецький льотчик-бомбардувальник, гауптман люфтваффе. Кавалер Лицарського хреста Залізного хреста.

Звання

 Єфрейтор (1 листопада 1937)
 Унтер-офіцер (1 червня 1940)
 Кандидат в офіцери (1 лютого 1941)
 Фельдфебель (1 липня 1941)
 Лейтенант (1 квітня 1942)
 Обер-лейтенант (1 листопада 1943)
 Гауптман (1 вересня 1944)

Нагороди

 Залізний хрест
 2-го класу (22 травня 1940) — як єфрейтор 4-ї ескадрильї 2-ї групи 51-ї бомбардувальної ескадри.
 1-го класу (25 січня 1941)
 Авіаційна планка бомбардувальника
 в бронзі (27 червня 1941)
 в сріблі (25 квітня 1942)
 в золоті (7 липня 1942)
 в золоті з планкою (15 січня 1944)
 Почесний Кубок Люфтваффе (1 серпня 1942)
 Медаль «За зимову кампанію на Сході 1941/42» (23 вересня 1942)
 Німецький хрест в золоті (2 грудня 1942)
 Кримський щит (15 березня 1943)
 Медаль «Хрестовий похід проти комунізму» (Румунія) (30 квітня 1943)
 Лицарський хрест Залізного хреста (20 липня 1944) — як обер-лейтенант і ад'ютант штабу 51-ї бомбардувальної ескадри.

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Література
 Fellgiebel W.P., Elite of the Third Reich, The recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939—1945: A Reference, Helion & Company Limited, Solihull, 2003, ISBN 1-874622-46-9
 Patzwall K., Scherzer V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941—1945, Geschichte und Inhaber Band II, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001, ISBN 3-931533-45-X

 Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002
 Patzwall K.D., Der Ehrenpokal für besondere Leistung im Luftkrieg, Studien zur Geschichte der Auszeichnungen, Band 6, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2008, ISBN 978-3-931533-08-3

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