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Updated Date: Feb 17 2016 5:28PM
Apart from a rare depiction of harsh realities of suffering of people in a militarized Kashmir in a mainstream Bollywood flick, Vishal Bhardwaj's Haider shed some light on the issue of enforced disappearances by security forces in Kashmir.
But far away from the mesmerizing landscape of Kashmir in Bhardawaj's Haidar and unknown to the beautiful traditional Kashmiri dresses of the reel half widow, Gazala, played by Tabu, Kashmir's real half widows live difficult, unglamorous and lonely lives. Unlike the half widow on the silver screen who comes to know of her disappeared husband's grave in the film's second half, these women have been stopped from even building an in-absentia memorial graveyard for their missing husbands. In fact, there isn't any half widow whose life story resembles the Gazala of Haider.
The families of the missing persons have even formed an organization Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) and every month the relatives of the missing persons assemble inside Municipal Park in Srinagar city to highlight the issue of disappeared persons.
J&K Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS), a civil society and human rights group too has been at the forefront of the fight for justice for the families of disappeared persons. Their survey across the state has put the number of missing persons at more than eight thousand.
The government too has put out its statistics. On February 25, 2003 the then Minister of State for Home during Mufti Mohammed Sayed's government Abdul Rehman Veeri put the number of missing persons at 3744 since 2000-2002; 1553 in 2000; 1586 in 2001 and 605 in 2003. In July 2003; then deputy chief minister Muzuffar Hussain Baig put the number of missing persons as 3941.
Parveena Ahangar: Face of the disappeared in Kashmir.
Fifty five year old Parveena Ahangar is the face of the struggle against the enforced disappearances in the Valley, heads APDP. A housewife, she went out into streets, police stations; interrogation centers; and various jails after her son Javid Ahmad, a class XI student in 1990 was subjected to custodial disappearance. Over the years, Ahangar has not only looked for her own son but gathered around her hundreds of other families who are looking for their missing loved ones.
Nominated for different awards, Ahangar has come to represent the struggle of the mothers of Kashmir's disappeared persons. But since past 24 years she has not been able to locate her missing son.
Mother looking for her son
"My son was picked by NSG men from Dhobi Mollah Batamaloo from his uncle's house where he had gone to study along with his cousin. At the midnight, NSG raided the locality as they were looking for some JKLF commanders. My son was beaten up and then taken to unknown destination. Since then there is no word about him,'' said Parveena, while sitting inside the office of APDP located in uptown Hyderpora..
Every morning she visits her office and meets relatives of missing persons, she even takes care of wives and children of the disappeared persons who come to meet her from far off places.
She still remembers names of the officers who according to her were involved in custodial disappearance of her son. "My son was picked up by NSG personnel headed by Captain Katoch, Captain Dhunush and Major Gupta,'' she said, adding that soon after her son's disappearance, her long search for justice began and is still continuing. "I left no stone unturned to trace my missing son. I have met security officials, politicians and human rights groups but was not able to trace my son as the security forces were not cooperating,'' she said, adding that few days after her son was picked up, the police informed her that her son had suffered injury in the custody and is being treated at BB Cantonment hospital. "I went to BB Cant hospital but couldn't find him."
After losing the faith on the government officials and army in 1992, Parveena filed a habeas corpus petition in the High Court. "On court instructions, the army informers were interrogated and they revealed that officials had told them they have released my son. Later army officials were also summoned by the court. The case is still awaiting sanction from the centre government for prosecution of the officials."
She said that during court trial she was offered money by the army for closing the case. "I refused and wanted whereabouts of my missing son.''
While searching her missing son, Parveena formed APDP, an organization of relatives of missing persons in 1994. She has travelled several foreign countries to highlight the plight of missing persons in Valley. Despite facing hardships and personnel tragedy Parveena is also helping half widows by sponsoring the education of their children and in recognition of her services, her organization has started receiving funds from the United Nations also.
"I know the pain of separation and hardships that I had to face," she said adding that like family members of other disappeared persons she too has hopes that one day his son will return. "There are many secret jails in India and I think my son along with other missing persons of the Valley has been kept there."
Parveena said that she would continue her fight till the end of her life. "Since the formation of APDP not a single missing person has been traced; but due to our struggle, army police and other security agencies think many times before subjecting any person to custodial disappearance."
Father looking for his two sons
A resident of Maharaj Gunj in the old city; seventy year old Abdul Ahad Rah lives along with his family. The family is running their own business in Srinagar. Abdul Ahad Rah is still searching for his two sons – Mohammed Shafi (35) and Mushtaq Ahmad (30) who left Srinagar in 1995 to run a leather business in Katmandu Nepal. Both brothers were not married and in August 2000 the local police of Nepal arrested both of them. Since then the family has not seen them and even as more than one decade has passed the father is still searching for his sons.
The Kathmandu Police had arrested 27 people in some cases and the two brothers were among them. Though Rah doesn't know the real reason why his sons were arrested but he only knows that a newspaper published the news mentioning the names of Mushtaq and Shafi – arrested by the police following a hijacking of an Indian airliner.
The father, who now usually remains unwell, said that he searched in all the jails of India and even travelled to Nepal to find his sons, but all in vain. Some Kashmiri people who were working in Nepal informed the family in Kashmir about the arrest.
"Soon after I came to know about the arrest I along with my elder son went to Nepal and the police there informed us that they have been handed over to the Indian Police," Rah said. He said that Nepal police only told him that both the brothers have been handed over to Indian police and in India they came to know that his sons are in Jodhpur jail.
"In year 2000 I went to Delhi and then to Jodhpur Jail where the jailer informed me to get the documents from the court in case I want to meet my sons." Even after getting the court documents from Srinagar, the jailer didn't let him to meet them.
"We were threatened by the CBI and they asked us to leave Jodhpur immediately," he said while displaying the travel bills.
Rah said that he is sure his sons are safe. "I am a Muslim and my religion doesn't allow me to lose hope," he said. "I am sure they are safe and one day I will meet both of them".
Rah said that the family even paid money to a television channel to broadcast report about his missing sons on the television. "We have paid 15000 to a news channel in Delhi so that we could get justice," he said. "I travelled almost all the jails in the India and even the state to find my sons."
From Supreme Court to Jantar Mantar in New Delhi to the doors of all the bureaucrats and ministers, the family has tried everything to search their loves ones but failed. Now the family is ready to give the property and even the house to get one glimpse of their two sons. "If anyone in India would promise us a glimpse of my two sons, I am ready to give everything that I have with me," Rah said
Brother looking for a brother
Shabir Hussain, then 17 years, was picked up by Indian Army in April 1996 from his shop in the outskirts of Srinagar. Initially after his arrest it was his grandmother and then his father who were searching for Shabir in the jails in the state and across the country. And after they passed away, it's the unemployed brother Shafiq Ahmad who is now looking for his disappeared brother.
Ahmad, left his education halfway when he was studying in eight standard due to financial problems. He was earlier into leather business, but after he failed to earn enough, he changed his profession and started working as a painter. Since last few months he is jobless.
Ahmad said that Rashtriya Rifles personnel led by Major Raman Thakur picked his brother from Bemina on 27 April 1996. At 5.00 Pm when they came to know about Shabir's arrest, whole family went to Sharifabad Army Camp but the army men denied that Shabir was arrested by the battalion.
It was Shabir's friend who was along with him who informed the family about the arrest. Ahmad says that his family still doesn't know why the army picked Shabir.
"We have spent a lot of money searching for our brother," said Ahmad adding that once a surrendered militant asked to a get us a costly Shahtoos Shawl for the Army Major to get information about my brother, but we couldn't afford that.
"Last time government said that they will go for DNA profiling, but if they are serious to trace my brother, they can easily do so because we know the details of the army officer who picked him," he said.
Though High Court has informed the family recently that Shabir has died but Ahmad has yet to reveal this to her mother. "I can't believe that he has died. He is alive for us and I am sure that one day he will come back," Ahmad said.
Ahmad said that his father passed away in January after he failed to locate his son." During the last moments of his life, he remembered Shabir and his disappearance was the only cause for his heart disease," he said.
Ahmad said along with his mother Raja Bibi, he travelled everywhere to search for his son. "It was very difficult for me. I knew that the entry in the jail is not possible, so I would wait for any relative who would go inside to meet their loved ones and request them to take me along," he said.
Although entry was possible for everyone, but since the family had no information about Shabir, they were denied entry into the jail by the officials.
Ahmad now is planning to reopen his brother's case. "I don't have money to reopen my case in the court. But I will not stop and will do something to reopen the case to keep the search on for my brother," he said.
Children looking for their father
On January 20 in 2002, Jana and her four children were shattered when her husband Manzoor Ahmad who owned a chemist shop was dragged by the army from their house in Rawalpora and never returned. Ahmad was taken by the army and no charges were framed against him. The family lodged an FIR against the army in the Sadder police station.
Jana and her two children still remember the night when army came to their house after scaling the walls. "We were having tea when Army entered our house and picked our father, for the reasons not known till date,'' said 21 year old Ajaz, Ahmad's younger son.
Manzoor's wife Jana, then 35, searched every nook and corner of the state, but couldn't trace her husband and now she is a half widow. After Jana's health started deteriorating with hypertension, thyroid and cardiac ailments her two children took on the struggle to look for their missing father.
"We have been suffering since past 12 years," says Ajaz. "I looked for my father everywhere. I even pleaded before the army men to return him to us even he if has been paralyzed due to torture. But they did not listen to our requests."
Ajaz, 24, who runs a chemist shop, says his father had a dream of seeing him become a doctor. "My mother says that my father would often call me Doctor Sahib. I was studying medical till my class XII, but couldn't realize dream of my father as the pre-medical examination books would cost more than our income," said Ajaz who was sitting besides her sister Bilquees and mother.
Jana lives in the single storey house in Rawalpora and in the same compound her three brothers-in-law live in palatial houses. "See all these houses,'' she says "they are my brother-in-laws. They have grown up and their houses too have grown beautiful with time. Mine is the same and even more empty".
The family could not forget the hard days when they used to search their father with the financial assistance of their relatives. "Army men used to come and harass us. They used to shout and abuse at our gate," said Bilquees who is married now.
She said that along with their mother, they knocked all possible doors and even filed a case against army officer responsible for disappearance of her father.
Wife looking for husband
Naseema Akthar is playing with her 11-year-old daughter Shazia in her rented two-room house at Fateh Kadal. It is calm inside and the silence of the house is broken by the occasional laughter of Shazia. For the past over a decade, she has been searching for her missing husband Syed Anwar Shah, an auto driver who went missing from Lal Chowk in 2002. Soon after Shah's disappearance, she became the mother.
Recalling her life with her husband she said Syed had migrated to Srinagar looking for a job.
After Akthar and Syed got married they started living a peaceful life and rented a space in a locality in old city, but the peaceful life lasted for three years only.
"My husband didn't return one day from his work." She said. "Along with relatives I searched for him everywhere but couldn't find him,'' After three days, she informed the police at a local police post.
Akthar said that she had also filed a case in the court but does not know what happened to it.
"My life is full of hardships and after my husband went missing I had to face hostile conditions," she said. "But I bear every hardship for my only daughter who is studying at a private school, I want to give her good education. That is my only dream now."


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What does scale mean in maps?
What is medium scale map?
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Why is it called a large scale small scale?
What are the two types of map scales?
What is a small scale reference map?
Map scale refers to the relationship (or ratio) between distance on a map and the corresponding distance on the ground. For example, on a 1:100000 scale map, 1cm on the map equals 1km on the ground.
What does a larger scale mean on a map?
A 'large' scale map is one in which a given part of the Earth is represented by a large area on the map. Large scale maps generally show more detail than small scale maps because at a large scale there is more space on the map in which to show features.
What is short scale map?
Small scale refers to world maps or maps of large regions such as continents or large nations. In other words, they show large areas of land on a small space. They are called small scale because the representative fraction is relatively small.
A map having a scale larger than 1:600,000 and smaller than 1:75,000. See also map. Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms.
What is a medium scale map?
A map having a scale larger than 1:600,000 and smaller than 1:75,000. See also map.
What are the types of scales on a map?
1. Types of Map Scales
Size of Scale
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Large Scale 1:25,000 or larger
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Large scale maps are typically used to show neighborhoods, a localize area, small towns, etc. Small scale maps show a larger geographic area with few details on them. The RF scale of a small scale map would have a much larger number to the right of the colon such as 1 : 1,000,000.
What are two types of scales?
There are two types of scales used in geography: map scales and relative scales. Each has a very different function, yet both also can work together.
They are called small scale because the representative fraction is relatively small. Large-scale maps show smaller areas in more detail, such as county maps or town plans might. Such maps are called large scale because the representative fraction is relatively large.
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What is the difference between a large-scale and small-scale map?
A large-scale map has a smaller ratio (1:10,000 or 1:25,000) and would have more details such as streets and building footprints. Whereas a small-scale map has a larger ratio (1:500,000 or 1:1,000,000) and illustrates an entire state, province, or country with just the larger cities or town s and major highway s.
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Tropical cyclone archives of the 2011 eastern and central Pacific hurricane season
Greg pulling away from Mexico
Greg is moving away from southwest Mexico with heavy rainbands near the coast. The circulation is organizing as rainbands form around the central dense overcast. It is likely that Greg will become a hurricane by later tonight. Outflow aloft looks favorable for significant additional strengthening.
As of 1 pm edt / 10 am pdt Greg was centered near 16.9 N / 105.3 W or about 160 miles southwest of Manzanillo, Mexico. Movement is west northwest at about 21 mph. Top sustained winds are estimated at 60 (NHC 50 mph earlier advisory). Pressure 998 mb.
Forecasts slowly pull Greg away from the southern coast of Mexico and out to sea south of Cabo San Lucas. The only significant threat will be higher than normal swell. Some heavy showers and storms will continue near the southwest coast of Mexico.
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AMA Jacksonville > Blog > News > May "Food for Thought" Speaker: Alejandro Barbero
June 11, 2019 by Faith Hershey
May "Food for Thought" Speaker: Alejandro Barbero
Photo: L. Chris Kennelly, Incoming AMA Jacksonville President for the upcoming 2019-20 fiscal year; R. Alejandro Barbero
Alejandro Barbero, Rayonier Director of Strategic Development and Communication is a bold thinker who knows how to get things done. Twenty years of global experience has afforded him many opportunities to simplify complex ideas, ensuring they are well-crafted and properly implemented.
Anyone who has ever undergone the rebranding of a company understands what a challenge a makeover can be. A true rebrand doesn't just entail changing colors and updating a logo. The process is much more detailed and taxing when considering the company's persona, positioning, and value proposition. Barbero and team not only updated Rayonier's look and feel, they also clarified the company's brand voice and strategy in engaging the community.
Where ecology is concerned, the goal of many in forestry is simply to avoid negative press. Alejandro and his team took the opposite approach. Transparency is risky when discussing the environment and how a company is interacting with it. However, using social media as well as engaging with customers in interesting and impactful ways, Rayonier is changing the way forestry companies communicate with the public.
Storytelling was another strategy Barbero actualized at Rayonier. Review the brand standards or visit the website today (www.rayonier.com), and you'll be met with clean, open graphics with a focus on the environment, responsibility, and community. The site and accompanying collateral speak with a voice that resonates with anyone who interacts with them. For Barbero, it wasn't just about changing company colors. It was about developing and strengthening a company culture.
When asked how he was able to get buy-in from senior leadership, Alejandro remarked that he used the exact same approach as he and his team use when considering how to engage investors, employees, and the community. Through transparency, storytelling, and top notch creative, he has been able to continuously build a level trust with executives that continue to move Rayonier forward.
To learn more about Rayonier, visit www.rayonier.com.
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For our June breakfast, we're pleased to welcome Acosta. Vilma Consuegra, Senior Vice President, Business Development & Corporate Marketing will present, "The Integration of Marketing and Sales and How it Brings a Brand to Life".
Ms. Consuegra will also be joined by April Kerlew, Director Internal Communications and Kirsten Barnhorst, Sr. Manager Corporate Marketing.
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Welcome To The 5 Bach Baddies
During my Bach training I noticed a common opinion of 5 remedies in particular, and their universal reputation as being 'the bad guys'.
Like a lot of people I started my Bach love affair with his emergency formula, more commonly known as 'Rescue Remedy', but it was a good 10 years later before I discovered this wonder tincture derived from a system of 38 plant based remedies. Wow, who knew!
I fell in love with the Bach remedies as soon as I took that first individual stock bottle, and I was desperate to know more. This deep rooted desire led me to complete a Bach centre approved qualification and in short succession, achieving my BFRP status and completing all 3 levels in only 10 months. During my level 3 training at the Bach Centre, which is the final qualification required to practice as a Bach Foundation Registered Practitioner (BFRP), I started to notice how difficult myself and my fellow students found it to approach these 5 in mock consultations. There was an apparent fear of upsetting or offending the client by suggesting they take one or more of these remedies, and almost a personal insult if it was suggested you need to take it too!
Later after qualifying, I met with a few BFRP's and self taught flower practitioners in and outside of my area, by way of wishing to witness and connect to the different ways in which people work with and love this natural system of healing. I remember meeting one therapist for a coffee and I ordered a water which was made by a company called 'Willow'. When I excitedly pointed out the synchronicity with Willow being one of the Bach remedies, she said 'no-one wants to be a Willow!' and that always stuck with me, as at the time I tended to agree. But this collective opinion doesn't help the undeserving stigma attached to these remedies.
I have been utilising Bach flower remedies personally, and now professionally, for some years. Learning with every new situation and experience, the many layered intricacies and subsequent positive reactions people have when releasing these conditioned ways and emotional traumas. Together with my Bach qualification as a strong foundation, this has taken me on a real journey of discovery, which never ceases to amaze me. Through meeting many wonderful clients and various holistic practitioners who use the remedies in their work, I have witnessed these same 5 remedies have a negative ripple in the wider community when my suggestion has been to take them. When my ego isn't in check and my own insecurities of 'impostor syndrome' raises its ugly head, then even I as a BFRP can still find it hard to suggest to clients that they need one of these 5. Especially as these remedies in particular might appear more through interactive behaviour, aura or body language in a consultation, rather than actual words spoken by the client, which doesn't give me an easy route in to suggesting they take it.
So, without any further ado it probably makes sense at this point to share what the famous five are!
They are Beech, Chicory, Heather, Vine and Willow.
Now, it's important to mention that this is my opinion and that it is stated nowhere in any publication or learning tool that these 5 remedies are the bad boys of Bach. It's merely a collective observation, together with my own preconceived opinions at the time of learning, which made me realise just how many ways resistance to the Bach system and in turn our own healing can occur.
The reason I think these remedies are so difficult to broach is because they all relate to the ego and have an element of self-centredness, which lets face it, no-one wants to admit is out of balance! When we tend to be in any one of these states, or have them as a 'type' remedy, we like the sound of our own voice in many ways. Our connections with others become limited due to our overwhelming need to be heard, validated or the most important person in the room. Our feelings, opinions and emotions take hierarchy over others whilst in the negative aspect of these remedies, and we often can't see this before taking them.
But what I have learnt through going on my own personal journey with these remedies, and in turn seeing my clients taking these remedies at the appropriate point of presenting; is that the only way to gain the healing you seek is to address every aspect of your wholeness, and that includes the ego and the shadows. There is no negative connotation to these remedies, its a myth.
Beech's in the positive will be strong people who are able to see the beauty in every situation. They will be tolerant and considerate types, who are able to value the individuality of each person and learn from any differences.
Chicory's in the positive will be loving, open hearted, mindful and selfless. They will be willing to constantly check in with their ego and to take self acceptance for when it's out of balance, correcting it with compassion and independence.
Heather's in the positive will be those who are caring and close to hand. They will be able to communicate well, striking up conversations across a broad scale and on all levels. They will be great at 'reading a room' and a situation, knowing when it's appropriate to share and when it's right to hold back and allow others the floor.
Vine's, we all need Vines. Some of the strongest leaders and advocates will be Vine's. In the positive, Vine's are powerful types who can really lead from the front, whilst being flexible in that approach. They will understand the need to see plans through, but not to exclude or dominate others in doing so. A positive Vine is one that softens and climbs whilst encouraging others without agenda.
Willow's, contrary to what was said before, everyone want's to be a Willow! For a positive Willow will be forgiving, generous, accepting and adaptive. They will be able to support others and relish in their successes, even when they have their own troubles, and are able to see the lessons in all situations, even the bad ones!
Now you have heard all of that, how can any of those remedies be negative eh?
To explain the remedies we often need to look at the negative in order to identify why we might need them, and perhaps that's where we have gone wrong. We all grow up learning 'good and bad emotions', and the 5 aforementioned remedies feed into what is perceived to be the 'bad' ones. But when you go on a healing journey you begin to understand that there is no such thing as good and bad emotions. To be whole, we must embrace every emotion. We must learn to balance them and find a point of equilibrium, which puts us no more in the positive than it does the negative. We find harmony in every characteristic and every unique trait, discovering new ways to bring the best versions of ourselves to the table.
So, next time a BFRP suggests one of these 5, or you see traits of yourself in any of these remedies, then step aside from the ego and think of the positive aspect of each remedy and just what it can bring to your life. Don't see this as a character flaw or a slight on your part, for we will all be every single one of those 38 remedies at multiple times on our personal journey.
The best thing you can do for yourself when working with the remedies is to take the ones you don't want to. As when taken at the right point in your journey, they can bring the biggest breakthroughs!
Yours in love and light,
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BACH FLOWER SERIES: Willow
Bach Flower Remedies, Bach Flower Series
Perhaps the origins of this Bach remedy need no introduction, for it is taken from the infamous Willow tree.
There are around 400 species of this deciduous tree and shrub and they thrive in moist soils, wetlands and cool climates. The tree will search deeply in its widespread roots for water to feed from, which is unsurprising when we compare that a Willow state will find ways to root deeper in its surroundings to feed from its own problem.
Although the Bach remedy isn't taken from the species of 'Weeping Willow', I find it easier to remember its purpose when we look at it from this point of reference. For Willows do weep. Whether physically through crying, or through their self-obsessed behaviours, they have a tendency to see the sadness in life's lessons and difficulties. They are self-pitying, self-denying and all consumed, often with a sulky, sullen or miserable disposition. There's an air of pessimism about a Willow, though unlike Gorse they often haven't even tried for a period before losing hope, as they're more likely to have given up at the first hurdle. Perhaps as soon as they have been given a diagnosis they have surrendered to the sadness or unfairness of that. Or perhaps when life just feels too tough they have become all consumed by it and internalised that pain to the point where it's difficult to escape. Willows will feel that they have been dealt a tough hand in life, that life is unfair in many ways and they don't deserve their fate. They are resigned to their luck, or rather lack of, and often won't try and make changes to steer their thoughts or paths into a more positive direction as a result.
Willow's are not only the hosts of a self-administered pity party, but often the only one invited!
Don't get me wrong, like every Bach remedy, the feelings presenting may well be justified. Especially in the case of chronic illness, where I believe you have every right to feel sorry for yourself and to not see a way out. Battling a daily disability of any kind makes life even harder to manoeuvre, and therefore it's easy to subconsciously slip into a Willow state of mind. There is a feeling of unfairness, 'poor me' or injustice. But when unbalanced, these feelings grow roots, and they become deep resentment and bitterness, which only feeds into illness and gives it permission to sprout deeper problems and additional metaphorical trees that become harder to chop down!
Living in a Willow state can be based on an unrealistic view of the world around you, almost as if you are working from everyone else's 'show reels' rather than their very unenviable reality. As listed in Healing Herbs, "Bach inferred that Willow people are concerned by their success in the material world." We see ourselves as the victim in a wallowing Willow mindset and it can be a very dark and sad place to be. Feeling as if everyone else is enjoying life whilst we battle health, demons, addictions or troubles of any kind, magnified if we do not feel that others deserve their good fortune. Willow is a place of resentment, of bitterness, of darkness and more importantly it's a place of ego and self-centredness. Perhaps without meaning to be, a Willow can't see how their attitude when left unaddressed for too long, can become a bit of an energy hoover to be around or someone who people wish to avoid due to their inability to pull themselves out of it. It's not a sympathetic depression, and more of an inability to take personal responsibility, for the Willow is often the one sabotaging their own success, and keeping themselves imprisoned in darkness.
Willows are consumed by their state of mind and can be sulky in nature. I find its a remedy of self-sabotage and sometimes can come from a fear of success, so we keep ourselves small and consumed by our pain. Whether that be resentment, bitterness or sadness. They will be feeding into every negative emotion and nourishing and giving their illness (or potential illness) more and more fuel to take over their lives. It's lonely and it's difficult to admit when we're in a Willow state, as it's one of the remedies that often gets given bad press (blog to follow about this!) But it's deeply restorative when taken.
When we feel down we tend to think of Gorse, Sweet Chestnut or Gentian (to name but a few) but don't underestimate what a sad and lonely place willow can be. When we've reached a place of Willow we're often all consumed by our own negatives, insecurities, demons, health complaints and outlooks. We are usually at the stage where our self talk is critical and the way we see the world is through a tinge of resentment and unfairness. We see others getting the opportunities we want and we see life in an unrealistic way, putting ourselves at the centre of that poverty. It feels like a place of giving up and giving in, as there is a loss of hope that I think can be as strong as the aforementioned remedies. Because we feel down, sorry for ourselves, fed up and like life has dealt us the crappiest of hands! What have we done to deserve this fate? Why are we here nursing our wounds when others seem to breeze through life unaffected and unscathed? Any question that usually has an undertone of 'why me' or 'poor me' indicates Willow! There's a sense of injustice and it's a bitter pill to swallow.
When you get to Willow I think it's because you have often ignored the warning signs to intervene in the flow, and to balance characteristics and emotions. You've given too much love for example and not nipped it in the bud with Chicory. You've not set clear boundaries or expectations and missed the call of Centaury. It's a domino effect and Willow passing moods can often be avoided with continuous, regular and appropriate remedy selection. Of course with every remedy there are deeper layers, and Willow can sit there for some time, especially when there have been big let downs, heartbreaks, ill health or trauma.
There's a real anger and frustration with Willow. But unlike Holly, it feels more of an internalised loathing that comes from the depths of unjust, and I believe it's often felt before a big energetic breakthrough. It's not outwardly angry at others and more of turning this in on oneself and clouding the way we see the rest of the world as a result.
I have picked Willow as the focus this month as I have seen it in a collective, including my own behaviour, perhaps on a much subtler scale than I have mentioned here. I have seen those who have missed remedies they should have taken and as a result perhaps haven't set clear boundaries for themselves or their businesses. Through missing these earlier indications they have slipped into resentment towards those who have unsurprisingly taken advantage of their good natures. I have seen those who haven't learnt lessons and therefore become bitter about situations, blaming others and not taking any personal responsibility. I have seen those consumed by their own limitations in illness and as a result falling into a dark place of injustice, not allowing them to see that those who seemingly do well around them are battling just as much as them…but perhaps aren't screaming about it quite so much. I have seen those who speak with venom and bitterness, because they haven't been able to forgive themselves or others as their past traumas resurface for healing. It's a subtle Willow that runs through the air at the moment, and it's unsurprising whilst we all realign and adjust to the many energetic changes and challenges we've had to deal with recently. Social media, politics and TV are becoming triggers for Willow and whilst we tend to think of Holly for jealousy, there can be a green streak in a Willow, but they will more come from the stance of 'it's not fair' and 'poor me'. Linked more to Chicory, Willow is a place of ego and self-centred behaviour as I mentioned before. It's all about the Willow state and they struggle to celebrate in others successes or to connect meaningfully with others as a result of being too lost in their own affairs. It's a real place of negativity breads negativity and bitterness attracts bitterness.
At this time we are being encouraged to forgive. To forgive ourselves and to forgive others. Forgiveness is a fundamental part of healing and Willow is the key. I link Willow to Holly and Chicory as I feel all three remedies are amazing for the heart chakra by encouraging forgiveness and to invite heartfelt connection to our lives.
Willow really shouldn't carry the bad press it does. A lot like the tree, Willow can bend, and it can adapt, finding the positives in its surroundings and own ability. We all find life too tough to deal with sometimes and we all struggle to move on from past traumas with pure forgiveness in our hearts. As a result we stay locked inside these triggers and prisons, even when we think we have moved on. Those battling disabilities need Willow even more, as my darlings life is that much harder for you, and Willow can be such a natural state as a result of your personal fights to survive and be heard. It's less about wallowing or weeping with Willow and more about replacing the darkness of that water with light, soaking that up into your roots and very being.
Forgiveness sets you free. Willow sets you free.
PLEASE NOTE: I would always recommend having a consultation with a qualified and registered Bach Foundation practitioner/BFRP, to ensure that you get the most from the Bach system. Dr Bach advised that blends be bespoke and BFRP's teach their clients how to use the system effectively. These monthly insights are offered as a guide to the remedies, but are by no means exhaustive. Guidance is always advised when using the remedies for the first time or without suitable qualification.
1st August 2018 /0 Comments/by Ami Smart
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3. has successfully completed the requirements of the board qualification examination.
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A. With the exception of individuals noted in section B, an annual re-registration fee (dues payment) is required of all active members, including Founders and Emeritus-Diplomates with 25 or more years of membership are subject to a 50% reduction of their annual re-registration fee. Diplomates granted Emeritus status prior to 2007 are exempt from re-registration fees.
shall not be required to pay re-registration fees but shall continue to be considered a Diplomate. A Diplomate must provide appropriate verification of retirement, inactivity, or disability, to the Board of Directors for their review and approval, following the rules of retirement or life membership qualification of the APMA. Diplomates who are disabled or inactive in podiatry must provide verification of such status to the board on an annual basis.
♦ What are the status' of members?
b. Atypical - A Diplomate whose career path is atypical (e.g. largely or exclusively administration, education, etc.) and does not meet the criteria for another status.
2. Disabled: Disabled as defined herein means that the member can adequately document a medical disability that precludes their ability to temporarily practice the profession of podiatry for a period not to exceed one year.
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As of 2007 self-assessment is required of active Diplomates, regardless of age, who hold lifetime certificates (certificates issued prior to 1994) and who are in the10th year of their re-credentialing cycle.
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♦ What are the areas ABPM tests in?
The following subject areas are tested to determine Board Qualified or Board Certified status, along with their approximate proportional representation in the qualification examination.
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Dignitaries and officials at the opening of the Kingdom of Geometry exhibition at Katara.
In co-operation with the Algerian embassy, Katara - the Cultural Village Foundation opened the unique "Kingdom of Geometry" exhibition for visitors on Thursday at building 19.
On behalf of Katara general manager Dr Khalid bin Ibhraim al-Sulaiti, the exhibition was inaugurated by human resources manager Said al-Dosari along with the Algerian ambassador Abdulaziz Sabaa.
The opening ceremony was attended by several diplomats and dignitaries including Indian ambassador P Kumaran, Iraq' embassy charge d'affaires Abdelsattar al-Janabi, and several artists and enthusiasts.
The exhibition includes around 24 artworks containing different Islamic geometric and architecture designs.
Talhaoui recalled he had travelled all around the Islamic and Arab world to collect and study the Islamic architecture and combine it with scientific methods.
He reveals the undiscovered beauty of the Islamic art decoration in a unique way displaying the ornamental language in his artworks. Talhaoui says that the objective of the exhibition is to share with the audience an amazing and unpublished discovery. "Here, before our eyes, through the geometrical ornamental art, the secrets of the universal laws are unfolded and expressed in a beautiful and perfect way", he explained.
Talhaoui was attracted to this patrimonial legacy when early in his life he saw the relationship between science and the geometrical decorative art. "We hope through, over the years and through a collective awareness to interpret the mysteries of this priceless legacy", he added.


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The U.S. Green Building Council released its ranking of the top 10 countries for LEED® outside of the United States, with Canada coming in at the top spot.
"The global community is increasingly recognizing the imperative for action as we combat the extraordinary challenge of worldwide climate change," said Rick Fedrizzi, president, CEO, and founding chair of USGBC. "LEED's success across a wide variety of cultures, climates, and communities represents not only a growing recognition of its demonstrated benefits for human health and operational cost savings, but also its unparalleled potential to be part of the solution to a warming planet and rising sea levels."
To date, projects teams in more than 140 countries and territories have implemented LEED in their building projects, according to USGBC. The ranking of the top 10 countries for LEED outside of the U.S. is based on cumulative gross square meters (GSM) of space certified to LEED in each nation as of April 2014.
Canada tops the list, with 17.74 million GSM of LEED space. Collectively, Canada boasts 4,068 total LEED-registered and -certified projects, representing 58.66 million total GSM of LEED space.
China and India, two of the world's fastest growing economies and rapid adopters of sustainable building practices, took second and third place on the list, respectively, boasting 14.30 million and 11.64 million GSM of LEED-certified space.
Other Asian nations in the top 10 include South Korea, at No. 4 with 3.84 million GSM of LEED-certified space; Taiwan, at No. 5 with 2.98 million GSM; and Singapore, at No. 8 with 2.16 million GSM.
In Europe, Germany and Finland secured spots six and 10, respectively — Germany with 2.90 million GSM of LEED-certified space and Finland with 1.45 million.
In South America, Brazil stood at No. 7 on the list, with 2.85 million GSM, while the United Arab Emirates represented green building success in the Middle East, at No. 9 with 1.82 million GSM of LEED-certified space.
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Il mobile radio è un tipo di apparecchio radiofonico rivestito da un mobile in legno.

Storia e descrizione
Si diffuse verso la fine degli anni venti dagli Stati Uniti, prendendo il posto dei piccoli sintonizzatori, ed il suo rivestimento esterno serviva per proteggere i circuiti presenti al suo interno. Successivamente il design subì maggiori ritocchi, e molto popolari erano le cosiddette "radio a cattedrale". Molti di questi mobili radio, peraltro molto ingombranti, erano costituiti anche da giradischi e magnetofoni.

Inizialmente fu un apparecchio acquistato perlopiù da famiglie benestanti che lo tenevano nei loro soggiorni, poi in seguito divenne uno strumento utilizzato dalle masse.

Maggiori produttori mondiali furono Blaupunkt, Philco, Philips, RCA e Telefunken. In Italia invece maggiori produttori nazionali furono Allocchio Bacchini, CGE, Ducati, LESA, Magnadyne, Phonola e RadioMarelli.

Negli anni cinquanta si diffuse un nuovo tipo di rivestimento del mobile, costituito da legno in tessuto plastificato. Con l'evoluzione dei circuiti radiofonici, del design, e soprattutto, con lo sviluppo della transistorizzazione delle radio avutasi verso gli anni sessanta, il modello mobile radio fu sempre più abbandonato dai produttori a favore di quelli portatili.

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Bibliografia
G. Bosoni, M. De Giorgi, V. Gregotti, A. Nulli - Il disegno del prodotto industriale: Italia 1860-1980 - Milano, Electa, 1986.
M. C. Tonelli Michail - Il design in Italia, 1925-1943 - Bari, Laterza, 1987.

Altri progetti

Storia della radio
Mobili

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Don't miss the third Veggie Buntch Supper Club at Azure. Four delicious vegan courses at the iconic 12 Apostles Hotel & Spa.
Our third Veggie Buntch Supper Club is scheduled for 15th August at the superb, award-winning Azure Restaurant at the iconic 12 Apostles Hotel and Spa. With stunning views across the Atlantic Ocean, this luxurious hotel is renowned for its excellent food.
Harvest of Baby Carrot, Asparagus, Smoked Potato and a variation of red root.
Price: R320 pp (including service charge). A welcome drink and glass of wine are included in the evening.
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This gang was founded about 1968 by Raymond Washington (8/15/53-8/9/79) and his crime partners from the East Side (of Interstate-110) in South Central Los Angeles. Washington originally started up a gang called the "Baby Avenues", but after he got into a beef with one of the older Aves., he decided to start his own gang called the "Crips". By 1971, Stanley "Tookie" Williams (12/29/53-12/13/05) from the West Side (of Interstate-110) who had been hanging out with another gang called the "Gladiators", joined Washington and the "Crips" started really expanding in the L.A. area. There are many different versions of how the name came to be about and none of them are documented for sure. The most likely reason for the gang's name was the way they walked which was a ditty-bop strut as if crippled. Today, there is even a dance called "Crip Walk" during which the letters C-R-I-P are spelt out with the feet.
Some people will state that founder Washington carried around a picture of a "baby crib", but decided to call the gang "Crips", how silly does that sound? Some will say it came from the comic book "Tales from the Crypt", but there is little evidence of this either. Some will state that it stood for "Common Revolution In Progress". This is not true, but may be BGF influence, a prison gang few Crips ever join. Another myth is that the Crips branched off from the Black Panthers and imitated them for their black leather jackets. This is not true either Black leather jackets were one of the most prized possessions for many Black youth al across America, not just in L.A. The Crips were common thugs, and could not care less about helping the community. They mostly preyed on other Blacks, something the Panthers were strongly against. What it is true that the Crips and other Black gangs filled the void for disillusioned Black youth after many of the Panthers were killed or locked up in the early 1970's.
Some of the biggest sets in Washington State are: Neighborhood Crips, Rollin' 60s, Rollin' 90s, Kitchen Crips, and Long Beach Crip Sets (LBC, R20s, ICG, etc), as well as Hill Top Crips out of Tacoma, WA. Many Crips do wear blue, but not all. Grape Street Crips may wear Purple and Santana Blocc may wear Black. Hoovers (named after a street in L.A.) may call themselves Crip or stress their independence and will often use "Criminals" instead of Crip and wear more orange than blue. Crips will often address each other as "Cuzz" slang for cousin. Some of the symbols they may use are "BK" for Blood Killer. Crips will fight and kill other Crips. They may use "AK" for Anybody Killer or "EK" for Everybody Killer. While in the Mid-West and East Coast they may align with Black Gangster Disciples, this is not always true either, in some cases Crips and BGD's will fight too.


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Susan Blanchard-Frank est une actrice américaine, plus connue pour son rôle de Mary Kennicott Martin, R. N. #2 dans le soap opera La Force du destin de 1971 à 1975.

Elle se marie avec l'acteur Charles Frank, qui a joué son mari, le  Jeff Martin #2, dans La Force du destin. Elle travaille ensuite en 1978 sur la série télé The New Maverick avec James Garner et Jack Kelly puis sur la série de western Young Maverick, suite de la série originale de James Garner en 1957, Maverick.

Blanchard a aussi joué le rôle de l'infirmière Sandra Cooper dans M*A*S*H et apparaît dans la série de CBS Beacon Hill.

Filmographie

Cinéma
 Prince des ténèbres (1987)
 Russkies (1987)
 Invasion Los Angeles (1988)

Série télévisée
 La Force du destin ()
 Young Maverick
 M*A*S*H
 Beacon Hill

Liens externes

Actrice américaine de télévision
Naissance en décembre 1948


Strangely (and mostly, annoyingly), the second pump of the aquarium broke down before the weekend and I ordered two new ones. The aquarium has not improved without filtration of course. I will be traveling quite a bit over summer so I will not experiment much with it in the near future.
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¹ For the sake of perfect academic propriety and of respect for scratchy vinyl comedy, I tip my keys to the great Bill Cosby, and an early '70s routine questioning the motives of young men towards his daughters: I know what men are like! I used to be a man before I got married! Ba-da-boom.
The sporting sun, it was (perhaps) humblingly clear from here, does not rise and set on the tubby arse of North American interests! Now, I've been living in China for five years, so I knew this already, but on our annual escape southward – this year, Macau, Thailand and Cambodia – I welcomed the greater availability of some of the comforts of my Canadian home. This sometimes means good English bookstores (salute to Chiangmai, Thailand!), and it too often means affordable ice cream and choco-treats whenever I want them (sheepish salute to 7-11 stores, frequent beacons of tawdry hope and sugar lust in all three places). It has also meant limited access to the Winter Olympics; go figure, Thailand and Cambodia don't much care!
Other evidence of my lingering athletic biases came in a Bangkok waiting room, where, pulse quickening, I noticed an English-language newspaper, that very day's edition. Yum!
I love Gothic lettering. I love newspapers that have paper, though I'm reluctantly ready for their demise.
It was my second time running across The Bangkok Post, awakening my old jones for newsprint and crinkling pages folded just so.
The Lithuanians Are Coming! The Lithuanians Are Coming!
26 Sept. 2013: a different version of this piece (and its sequel) runs today at http://www.niubball.com/, a fine English-language site for all things to do with Chinese basketball. The name roughly means "hoops is cool". Check it out.
A hoops hotbed. I'd like to know why; many blame Sabonis.
it has one resource that is a prized export: astounding levels and amounts of basketball talent. Ignas isn't a pro-level talent, but he is young and Lithuanian and left-handed and a major upgrade in my middle-aged hoops adventures. He's too young for the job, but he's my new best friend and temptor.
Even if you don't follow basketball much, you may remember the Lithuania national side playing in the 1992 Olympics. Four of their stars, including the magnificent Arvydas Sabonis, had played for the Soviet Union when they won gold in '88 in Seoul, the last straw for the American habit of winning with a college all-star team. The U.S.A. "Dream Team" of NBA pros dominated in '92 in Barcelona, winning their preliminary games by an average of over 40 points. The Dreamers were a huge story (and marketing campaign), but even occasional basketball fans fell in love with Lithuania that summer.
I haven't been happier to be wrong than in this Olympic assessment: I was convinced that Canada's "Own the Podium" predictions were unrealistic. But now, hear this. Third place? Check. 25 medals? Are you nuts? Well, how 'bout 24? (And 16 of those from our women! If the guys in red can rise to the gold standard of Klassen, Hughes, Wickenheiser and her mates, Canada will rock the snowbound world.) Only one medal behind the Yanks, and there were an amazing number of top ten finishes by young Canadian athletes that you and I and everybody we know had never heard of. So when the Canadian Olympic Committee sets the Vancouver 2010 bar at nothing less than the top of the hill, well, they have my attention now. Shoot, maybe we'll even watch some skiing and skating between now and then.
Let me be the 7,758,901st to join the national hand wringing in Canada over the desperate fate of Canada's Olympic men's hockey team. Let's say, first, what it's NOT about.
It's not about Wayne Gretzky's choice of wives or assistant coaches. The possible existence of a betting ring involving an NHL coach (Rick Tocchet, not the Wayner) is a serious matter for the integrity of league play, but it has nothing to do with Canada's performance in Turin. And now for a few suggestions about what is going on.
If having the best team win is your object, the Olympic "lose and go home" system after the round robin is not a good system. The nature of the hockey beast – especially that dominating presence, the Hot (or horseshoes-up-his-hind-end) Goaltender – does not lend itself to one-game eliminations, although it does allow for vastly inferior teams to ice the occasional miracle, which makes for sappy but popular movies. (See: Lake Placid, men's hockey. The United States got to have its cake and eat it, too, being the sympathetic underdog and still getting the golden glory. Perfect! Sweden's defeat of the American women, despite being outshot by more than 2 to 1, is the karmic companion for the Americans. Sweden's turn to make the movie.) Hockey is best played in elimination series, but I'm flaying a dead giraffe. That's the Olympics. Deal with it.
It's too early to tell if the Gretzky Gang, though, have chosen the right players. Our two most mobile defenders are hurt, it's true. With four years between Olympics, we may have favoured experience too much; it downplays the experience gained by the youngsters in between Games, not to mention the eroding skills of vets who were on top in '02. It seems certain that we would have been loyal to Lemieux and Yzerman had they not had the grace to bow out. On that big surface, with all that youth and speed, Canada would have been hobbled by them, I'm sorry to have to say about such wonderful players. Like a lot of people, I wish that Staal and Crosby were there; watching the young Russians, with their furious speed and skill, is breathtaking when they're going well.
I repeat: it's too early to tell.
Well, now I'm compromised. I hate it when Canadians win at sports I don't respect much. (See: Sydney Olympics, synchronized diving. Sheesh.) The bobsled competition reminds me of what Larry Walker said when the Rockies outfielder wasn't Canada's top male athlete after a National League MVP season: "I got beat by a car." (The nominal winner was Jacques Villeneuve, whose career went south when he no longer drove that car.) It's not quite the same situation, except that when the equipment is as important as the athletes, I just can't get too excited. I'm irritated, too, when success looks far less interesting to the TV audience than failure does. (Take a memo, snowboard cross.) The morbid allure of catastrophe can't be a criterion for a good and worthy sports event.
Unless they're Canadians named Pierre Lueders and Lascelles Brown and they're winning a silver medal. (And refusing to talk, afterwards, and to their credit, about their suspicions on the mysterious but widely alleged modifications to the gold medal German sled. Digression complete. Well, except for noting the ironic timing of the similar grumbling after the Daytona 500 was won by a car – yes, I said a car, and not Rusty or Jimmy or whoever it was at the wheel – whose chief mechanic was suspended for illegal monkeying. But I digressed again.) Lueders is a tough and competitive guy. Brown seems a pleasant fellow, too, and his story of getting his Canuck citizenship in the nick so that he could compete was a sweet one. So was Lueders's reaction to it as he hearkened back to understand why his own immigrant parents had come to Canada and how lucky he felt as a result. Go, Canada! Go, Citizenship and Immigration Canada!
But come on. The sport is fast, it has deep roots, but when the brakeperson can make the Olympics a few months after their first run, as was the case with a couple of Canadian sleds and presumably some others, it's somewhat discredited in my mind. Find a not-quite-good-enough track athlete or football player, and teach him or her how to push a souped-up toboggan for 5 seconds, jump in and pray. Olympia! Sorry, Pierre, and you, too, Lascelles, but bobsled doesn't make the Howdy Olympics. If pressed to pick a sliding sport for the Big Owe, I'm surprised to be leaning toward skeleton, the crazy, X-games-ish, new kid on the adrenalin-rush block. Tradition isn't my only criterion, apparently.
First candidate for Howdy's Handy Olympic Hitlist: snowboard halfpipe. Reason One: see "made for TV" comments from a few days ago. Two: "Look. Another guy did a 720. Wow." They all look the same to me. Three: the athletes themselves don't even care that much. With all their rebel, streetcore, skateboard-north cool, the Olympics are no big deal, and they're determined to demonstrate it. Groovy. Go back to the X-games, then.
Jerk that I am, I'm on my couch doing psychological assessments of this gifted and dedicated athlete, one of the great skaters in the sport's history. This brings me perilously close to that most immature tendency of the sports fanatic: to resentfully criticize a homegrown athlete or my favourite team for their failure to make me feel better about myself. That can't be good.
Skaters and Skiers and Flair, Oh My!
Well, the Mighty Winter Olympics began yesterday with the usual herd of underemployed dancers getting their Big Gig in the Sun (along with 5000 of their closest colleagues), and despite my being not that into it, it was pretty and occasionally spectacular. I always get most jazzed, oddly enough, by the parade of the athletes. What a tremendous thing it was when the athletes from the two Koreas entered as one body in Sydney in 2000! Naturally, I loved to watch the Canadians enter, to hear the Italians get the roars of their people as they closed the deal. But I find it wonder FULL to see, for example, the lone Kenyan, a cross-country skier, enter to a warm and supportive cheer.
Canada may not "Own the Podium", but our girl Jennifer Heil bumped and shimmied and flipped her way to gold, straight off. 30 seconds to gold. Like a lot of the new sports, it seems too contrived, too made-for-television, and too brief. It was just a sight bite. All the same, I am a jockhead Canuck and I enjoyed the view. And what a smile on Ms. Heil!


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Q: HTTP connection parsing fails I am trying to call connect() function inside parse_ip() which would search for input IP through the webpage to find a match.
Connect function is called for each element of list THREAT.
Here is my code:
def connect(url):
    sessions = requests.Session()
    print "Connecting with", url
    try:
        r = sessions.get(url,
                        headers = create_basic_headers(),
                        proxies = {'http': HTTP_PROXY, 'https': HTTPS_PROXY})
        return r
    except:
        sys.stdout.write('[!] Could not connect to: %s\n' % url)

def parse(ip):
    counter = 0
    ioc_list = []
    for filename, source in THREAT.iteritems():
        c = connect(source)
        for line in c:
            if line.startswith("/") or line.startswith('\n') or line.startswith("#"):
                pass
            else:
                counter += 1
                d = 0
                while d < len(ip):
                    if ip[d] in line:
                        print ip[d], source

                    d +=1

On running the script, the parsing page fails to connect and atlast I get the following error:

[!] Could not connect to: http://...
      for line in c: TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable

Can anyone help me out in figuring what is going wrong in this.

A: requests is failing to establish a connection to the server. An exception is raised which is then handled in the bare except clause. No information about the exception is displayed, so it is hard to diagnose the actual connection problem.
After the exception connect() returns None to the caller, which then tries to iterate over it. This is what causes the TypeError.
Why don't you try printing the exception?
def connect(url):
    sessions = requests.Session()
    print "Connecting with", url
    try:
        r = sessions.get(url,
                        headers = create_basic_headers(),
                        proxies = {'http': HTTP_PROXY, 'https': HTTPS_PROXY})
        return r
    except requests.exceptions.ConnectionError as exc:
        sys.stdout.write('[!] Could not connect to: %s\n' % url)
        sys.stdout.write('Exception: %s' % exc)

Hopefully that will show you why the connection is failing.
Following that, you need to check the return value of connect() in parse(). Something like:
c = connect(source)
if c is not None:
    for line in c:
        ....

Alternatively you could re-raise the exception in connect() and let parse() deal with it.

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