Member tools to combat human trafficking

What is human trafficking?

Human trafficking is the acquisition of people by improper means such as force, fraud or deception, with the aim of exploiting them.

Smuggling of migrants involves the procurement for financial or other material benefit of illegal entry of a person into a State of which that person is not a national or resident. Virtually every country in the world is affected by these crimes. The challenge for all countries, rich and poor, is to target the criminals who exploit desperate people and to protect and assist victims of trafficking and smuggled migrants, many of whom endure unimaginable hardships in their bid for a better life.

Source: United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime

Raising awareness

Air transport is a commonly used mode of transport for traffickers. Airports are ideally positioned to assist, both through the training of their own staff in recognizing and dealing with trafficking situations and by providing information to the public to raise awareness. ACI’s member airports play a critical role in the fight to suppress human trafficking activity through education, vigilance and a strong reporting culture. This can be accomplished by promoting awareness and training to the entire airport community.

The aim of this page is to provide ACI members and the broader aviation community with various tools that have been developed by international organizations government agencies to increase awareness. To this end, ACI global membership has passed a resolution and will continue to update the resources section:

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Slick roads made for a treacherous commute Wednesday morning, resulting in a number of collisions on Nova Scotia’s Highway 102.

The RCMP say seven vehicles left the highway and ended up in the ditch or the median near the Halifax Stanfield International Airport during a short period of time, causing traffic to slow to a crawl.

"It was really, really, really bad," said motorist Paul Ruggles. "The RCMP were out in force and several vehicles off the road. I hope nobody was hurt or, you know, suffered any physical injury, but it was pretty scary with the rush hour."

There are no reports of any serious injuries as a result of the collisions.

The Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal said Wednesday morning that crews were out salting and plowing.

The RCMP were warning motorists about slippery roads and asking them to slow down.

The Halifax Stanfield International Airport was also warning travellers about traffic delays near the airport, and advised them to allow for extra time.


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Hello, my name is Izabela I am a French expat living in Istanbul, Turkey. I am a mother of 3, founder and the designer behind bebemoss. I am what people could call an accidental social entrepreneur.

We are proudly providing sustainable jobs with fair pay to stay at home mothers.  Most of those women live in the outskirts of Istanbul and in most cases, they have no other chance to make money. Many of our Moms are refugees from Syria, working hard to provide necessities for their families while they rebuild their lives in a new country.

We empower a mom community to produce toys. We created a safe, happy and kids friendly environment, for those Moms to work in. Our warm workshop welcomes the Moms and their little ones who have a dedicated play area. Knitters work flexible hours depending on their needs and they can even work from home, this enables them to better balance their other chores and family life.

 Working with refugee and underprivileged mothers is a life-changing experience, it got me right out of my comfortable and privileged expat life bubble into the harsh reality. It helped me understand the challenges faced by those families. As a parent, I firmly believe that each kid should have enough food, the opportunity to learn and an environment to thrive. This is why I created bebemoss where conscious shoppers like yourself enable us to empower mothers and therefore directly help children thrive.

Helping Mothers support their kids = helping children thrive

"Imagine being in a new country without resources to provide for your family. Imagine wondering how you will afford to provide food for your children. While these are the stories of many women, we can help them together."

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Ustad Narinder Singh Sandhu, affectionately called Ustad-ji, is a masterful teacher of raag, a style of classical Indian music. Ragis [the singers of raag] bring the sacred Sikh shabads, or hymns, to life. Ustad-ji’s velvety singing voice and his expansive love for God and all God’s creations makes studying with him a unique experience.  He has taught many of the professional Kirtan artists in the west today with his unique style, one-half singing scales and one-half divine transmission.

The following interview took place over several conversations during the spring of 2010 in Amritsar, India…

RK: “What is the shabad guru?”

Ustad-ji: “The shabad guru is a way to get to God.  You do not have to use this way. You can call it God or Allah or Ram or Buddha or whatever you want and get to him.  But the shabad guru is a powerful way to get to God.  It is an energy in a sacred song, a very sacred energy.”

RK: “What is the difference between the Guru and God?”

Ustad-ji: “There is no difference.  Guru is God.  God is guru.  There is no difference between God and anything, and if you meditate you experience thatEk ong kar. God and everything are one thing.”

RK: “What is raag?”

Ustad-ji: “How can I answer that question?  Maybe I say it is a series of notes used to make a melody, each having different emotions.  But that is not what it is.  A raag must be experienced.  It cannot be talked about.”

RK: “You have worked with many of the great singers in the west that Spirit Voyage readers might be familiar with.  Do you have any favorites?”

Ustad-ji: “I have worked with so many students from the west.  Hari Bhajan Kaur, Ram Dass Singh, Snatam Kaur, Nirinjan Kaur, Chardi Kalaa Jatha…  Everyone. But every student is my favorite student.  Some study for a short time, some for a long time.  But God is in every heart.  Sometimes a student does not have such a musical voice, but they work patiently and have the desire within them to sing and then suddenly a beautiful sound comes out and the words open up all their senses.  Very beautiful.”

RK: “You talk about the students who don’t have such musical voices.  Have you ever had a student come to you with a “bad” voice who wasn’t able to learn to sing?”

Ustad-ji: “No student fails at singing, it has never happened.  A student can fail themselves, can get impatient or not do the work.  But if a student practices and is patient, they always succeed in singing well.  It is science.  God is in you.  You are an instrument.  You have to learn how to play you, but in the end, you are the instrument and God is making the music.  That is why everyone can sing in the end.  God has many notes to play and many different instruments.”

RK: “How can someone improve their voice for singing?”

Ustad-ji: “The voice has three ranges, low, middle and high.  To practice the low range is very important.  Here is where all the sweetness comes into the voice.  If you want a voice with beautiful sweetness, then you must practice the low notes.  But if you over practice and push too much, you can ruin your voice here too.  Be moderate.  Practice just enough.  Do not think oh, so and so practices three hours a day.  No.  You will ruin your voice.  Start with 20 minutes, for 5 days.  Then go to 30 minutes.  After a few weeks, go up to 45 then after a bit up to an hour.  Slowly, slowly. And do not sing each note so hard like the western scale, Da Da Da!  No.  Slide up and down the notes.  Gently slide.  That will bring more control.  But this is just one part of the work.  The real job, your real job, if you want to be a singer is to clean your inside.  Clean your body, clean your mind, clean your heart.  Clean, clean, clean.  Fear is toxic.  Anger is toxic.  Bad behavior is toxic.  Purify your thoughts and your body. You must meditate, there is no other way, and clean yourself.  Then you will be able to sing.”

RK: “So often in your classes, we learn to play musical instruments.  There are those of us playing harmonium, tabla, tampura, dilruba, and others.  What is the role of an instrument in raag?”

Ustad-ji: “Playing an instrument is a way to remember God.  You can say God’s name 100,000 times and still not remember him.  He is within.  Through meditation we open our sense so we can feel him again.  The stages of anand [joy] work through them! That is why we sing God’s name; that is why we play instruments.  We hope that one day God’s name pierces our insides and we remember him, we feel him.  The shabads are diamonds.  If you play them, diamonds are in your hands.  If you sing them, diamonds are in your mouth.  Playing an instrument for God is like putting a diamond in your heart.”

RK: “Are there any recordings of classical raag that you recommend for someone to have an experience of the shabad guru?”

Ustad-ji: “Ragis — inside we have so many different colors.  You cannot fully capture us on a recording.  It depends on what color we are using, whether we are feeling red or green.  Every raag has its own emotion, then there is the emotion of the crowd listening, there is the emotion of what I am feeling that day and the emotion that I am trying to convey.  Each has its own color and when you put it together then you have a painting.  But you cannot record all those colors in a studio.  So much is lost.  The shabad guru is in the colors, in the painting, not in the print.”

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MEXICO: Following the 2017 killing of journalist Javier Valdez, his friends and colleagues were targeted with government-linked spyware according to a Citizen Lab report released on Tuesday. At least 24 individuals close to Valdez received text messages containing a link to spyware bought by the Mexican government from NSO Group, an Israeli company. The spyware, known as Pegasus, infiltrates individuals’ electronics and is able to freely gather information without detection.

The New York Times reported last year that the spyware was used to surveys international investigators involved with the case of the 43 students. Among those targeted were journalists from Río Doce, a new site co-founded by Valdez. The organization is one of few independent news outlets covering the nexus of crime and corruption in Mexico.

MEXICO: The Peña Nieto administration will end its tenure with poor elementary education numbers. According to a study released on Tuesday, six out of 10 sixth graders are only able to do basic math operations and five out of 10 sixth graders struggle with sentence construction. Last year, the Public Education Ministry spent more money on communication matters, including advertising, than it did on training teachers.

HAITI: The body of a customs agents was found yesterday in Lake Azuei, which makes it seven the people that died during a riot at the border last Tuesday. The riot began after an agent allegedly shot a person who tried to cross the border with the Dominican Republic without stopping. The agents were burned to death by a group of citizens, according to media reports.

GUATEMALA: The Constitutional Court ruled that President Jimmy Morales can’t stop Iván Velásquez, the UN-backed anti-corruption prosecutor, from reentering the country. As part of the ruling, the Ministries of Government and Foreign Affairs will have to send a report to the Court to explain the reasons they haven’t allowed the prosecutor back to the country.

The Belizean Cabinet reported that Prime Minister Dean Barrow won’t resign from his position. Six months ago, Barrow announced he would retire before his five-year term was completed on 2020. The Prime Minister will remain in office due to the urging of the Cabinet.

BRAZIL: Brazil will no longer host next year’s special United Nations climate conference, the Foreign Ministry announced yesterday. The conference, scheduled for November, was intended to finalize details of the Paris climate accord. The ministry cited costs as its rationale for canceling the event, but there is already speculation that the reversal is due to the presidential election of Jair Bolsonaro, a far-right climate change skeptic.

CHILE: Center-right President Sebastián Piñera signed a bill into law yesterday that will allow young people above the age of 14 to change the names and genders on their government identification. The bill took five years to pass in Congress due to intense religious opposition and was celebrated by LGBT advocates as a possible turning point for the traditionally conservative country.

ARGENTINA: Just days before the G20 summit kicks off in Buenos Aires, a federal judge reportedly accepted a crimes against humanity writ against Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman yesterday. The suit, brought by Human Rights Watch under a universal jurisdiction clause in the Argentine constitution, relates to bin Salman’s bombing campaign in Yemen and alleged torture of Saudi citizens. The federal judge will now have to determine whether bin Salman is covered by diplomatic immunity and whether other, similar cases are already being pursued elsewhere.

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Speckled Kingsnake

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Other Common Name
Speckled King Snake; Salt-and-Pepper Snake

A medium to large, shiny black snake covered with small yellow spots. The ground color is generally black or dark brown. A white or yellow spot in the center of most of the scales makes it look speckled. The belly is yellowish with some irregular or rectangular black markings. In young individuals, the light spots form crossbars along the back. Like the rest of our kingsnakes, this species vibrates its tail when alarmed. When captured, they may try to bite and will smear a foul-smelling musk onto  your hands, but they quickly calm down and can be easily handled.

Similar species: The eastern black kingsnake (L. nigra) was recently discovered in our state; in Missouri, it is known only from a few counties along the Mississippi River in southeastern Missouri. Its speckled pattern is very faint or incomplete, with white or yellow dots; in some individuals, the pattern can be a faint chainlike marking along the side.

Length: 36 to 48 inches.

Video of a speckled kingsnake in the wild.

Speckled Kingsnake

Close-up of speckled kingsnake. Its head is off the ground and its tongue extended.
Speckled Kingsnake, St. Elizabeth, MO

Speckled Kingsnake

Snake looped in a hole. Its black scales with yellow dots in the middle make it appear speckled.
Speckled Kingsnake, Gerald, MO
Habitat and conservation

The speckled kingsnake lives in a wide variety of habitats: prairies, brushy areas, forest edges, rocky, wooded hillsides, and along the edges of swamps or marshes. Commonly encountered on rocky, wooded hillsides or near farm buildings. It is rather secretive and takes shelter under rocks, logs, rotted stumps, boards, and in small mammal burrows.

Foods include small rodents, lizards, and other snakes, including venomous species such as copperheads, cottonmouths, and rattlesnakes. It is immune to the venom of the various pit vipers in Missouri. The speckled kingsnake kills its prey by constriction.

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Distribution in Missouri

Life cycle

Speckled kingsnakes are active between April and October. In spring, early summer, and autumn, they are active during daylight. In summer, they avoid hot temperatures by becoming active at night. Winter dormancy is apparently spent underground in small mammal burrows or in caves. Courtship and mating occur in late April or May. Females lay usually 6–14 eggs during the summer, and the young hatch in late summer.

Human connections

Snakes have always captured the imaginations of humans. In myth, religion, and story, snakes perform the role of seducer, sneak, guardian, healer, killer, and transformer. On a more practical level, snakes help humans by consuming many rodents that are injurious to our interests.

Ecosystem connections

As a predator, this snake helps keep populations of other animals in check. And although it can defend itself by biting, by vibrating its tail ominously, and by smearing a stinky musk on attackers, this snake can be eaten by other predators. The eggs and young are especially vulnerable.


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Due to the continuing involvement of the translation industry there are now certain terms used to define specialist translations that do not fall under a general category. This brief guide offers an explanation of some of the more common translation terms used.
The translation of administrative texts. Although administrative has a very broad meaning, in terms of translation it refers to common texts used within businesses and organisations that are used in day to day management. It can also be stretched to cover texts with similar functions in government. For more information on our administrative translation, see our translation services page or contact one of our team to discuss.
Financial translation is the translation of texts of a financial nature. Anything from banking to asset management to stocks and bonds could be covered under our financial translation service.
Legal translations are one of the trickiest translations known. At its simplest level it means the translation of legal documents such as statutes, contracts and treaties. al translation will always need specialist attention. This is because law is culture-dependent and requires a translator with an excellent understanding of both the source and target cultures. Most translation agencies would only ever use professional legal to undertake such work. This is because there is no real margin for error; the mistranslation of a passage in a contract could, for example, have disastrous consequences. When translating a text within the field of law, the translator should keep the following in mind. The legal system of the source text is structured in a way that suits that culture and this is reflected in the legal language; similarly, the target text is to be read by someone who is familiar with another legal system and its language.

Statements of Truth, Translations and witnesses in other languages

The requirements of the CPR that deal with the signing of statements of truth when the witness is unable to read the document are clear and easy to follow, but it can be easy to fail in order to get it right; this is often problematic and it can be something to be relied upon in a successful application to strike-out a claim.

1. CPR 22 3A.1 states:

“Where a document containing a statement of truth is to be signed by a person who is unable to read or sign the document, it must contain a certificate made by an authorised person.”

An authorised person is specified by CPR 22 3A.2 to be a person able to administer oaths and take affidavits, but they do not need to be independent of the parties or their representatives.

2. CPR 22 3A.4 directs that the form of the certificate which must be used appears in Annex 1 to the Practice Direction:

“I certify that I [name and address of authorised person] have read over the contents of this document and the declaration of truth to the person signing the document [if there are exhibits, add ‘and explained the nature and effect of the exhibits referred to in it’] who appeared to understand (a) the document and approved its content as accurate and (b) the declaration of truth and the consequences of making a false declaration, and made his mark in my presence.”

3. The consequences of failing to verify a document with a statement of truth are set out at CPR 22 4. A statement of case remains effective, unless it is struck out, but a party may not rely on the contents of a statement of case as evidence until it has been verified by a statement of truth. 4.2 states that any party can apply to the court for an unless order specifying that the statement of case must be verified by the service of a statement of truth, failing which the statement of case will be struck out. 4.3 specifies that the usual order for the costs of an application for an unless order will be that the party who failed to verify will pay the costs.

4. Many practitioners draft witness evidence in English and, if the witness requires the assistance of a translator, add a certificate in the form of Annex 1 to CPR 22 to the witness statement. However, CPR 32.4(1) specifies that “a witness statement is a written statement signed by a person which contains the evidence which that person would be allowed to give orally.” When a witness will not give their evidence orally in English, the statement should be in the language the witness will use; that statement should then be translated into English.


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1. Introduction
2. Design
3. Performances
4. Important design considerations
5. Other designs of blowers

1. Introduction

Blowers constitute the air movers in many pneumatic conveying systems running lean phase. They can be placed at the beginning of the line, delivering an overpressure, or at the end of the line to produce a vacuum. The most common type of blower used for this purpose is the Roots blower, a volumetric blower that can be operated either in pressure or vacuum without specific changes.

2. Design for rotary lobes blowers

Roots blowers are equipped with 2 rotors, by rotating and imbricating each other, the rotors are bringing a pocket of air from the suction pressure to the discharge pressure.

Considering the small clearances in between the housing and the rotor, the air handled must be particularly clean, it will not accept any dust would could lead to a damage of the blower. In order to avoid dust entering the blower, such blowers are equipped with a filter at the suction.

For hygienic applications, oil free systems must be specified.

3. Performances of rotary blowers in pneumatic conveying applications

Roots blowers can reach max 1 bar g in pressure and max -0.5 bar g in vacuum. Maximum operating pressures of pneumatic conveying blowers are therefore often set at 0.7-0.8 bar g in pressure and -0.4 bar g in vacuum.

4. Important design considerations

Roots blowers are volumetric, they will always take a volume of air and bring it to new conditions. Therefore when the system is used in pressure, it must be considered in the design that, if the discharge pressure is increasing, the volume delivered will decrease, leading to a lower air speed in the pipeline. Sufficient margin must be considered so that the air speed in pressure is still high enough to convey in lean phase (speed > saltation or choke speed for the product conveyed).

5. Other design considerations

The energy efficiency of the blower technology chosen is another criteria of choice. Hybrid or screw blowers can have a payback of around 2 years compared to classics roots blowers if they are used intensively.


In this article, we will learn how to create a Virtual Network VNet using Azure Management Portal.

As a Software engineer, within our organization, while working on a workstation, we need to be connected to multiple resources like Web Servers, Database servers, Printers, Active Directory servers, Centralized File Servers etc. In order to be connected to all those multiple resources, our work stations need to be connected to Networks (ex: LAN, WAN). In the similar way, our production environment, each Virtual Machine need to connect to multiple resources (like IP Address, other Virtual Machine, etc.). In order to connect to any other resource, the Virtual Machine should be first connected to a Virtual Network. Like how we work in our Local Area Network (LAN), we can also create network on Cloud called as Virtual Network (VNet). Think about VNet as a network of resources that could communicate each other. I hope you have now got a brief idea on why and what is a Virtual Network.

In this article, we will learn how to create a VNet using Azure Management Portal. We will also learn about the basic attributes of a VNet that are required while creating the same.

Create a Virtual Network

After logging into the Azure Management Portal, as shown in the below screen capture, select the Virtual Network to navigate to the blade to create a new VNet.

As shown in the above screen capture, we have chosen “Resource Manager” as the deployment model where everything (ex: VNet, Subnet, NSG, NIC, IPAddress) is treated as a separate component or entity.

After clicking on the “Create” button, you will be taken the following blade where you can provide all the VNet related attributes.

Let’s try to understand each of the attributes in detail.

  • Address Space – Range of the IPAddress that could be assigned to the devices (it’s actually NIC’s to which an IPAddress could be assigned) within the network.
  • CIDR Notation (Classless Inter Domain Routing) – The notation using which the IP Address is assigned.
  • Subnet – It’s nothing but a segmentation of a Virtual Network. You can have multiple Subnets in a given VNet. Below are examples on the considerations while creating your Cloud production environments.
    • You could create a Subnet ( for hosting all your Web Servers
    • You could create a Subnet ( for hosting all your Database servers

By default, a VNet must have a subnet to contain any devices within the VNet.

Once you provide all the mandatory fields, click on “Create” button to create the Virtual Network as shown below.

Other important points to remember

  • The smallest subnet that Azure support is a /29 and the largest is a /8 (using CIDR notation).
  • Azure reserves some IP addresses within each subnet. The first and last IP addresses of the subnets are reserved for protocol conformance, along with 3 more addresses (2nd, 3rd and 4th) used for Azure services. As shown below, the Azure management portal shows that we can create 128 addresses in a given subnet based on the address range.
  • 5_subnetaddressspace

However, when I navigate to the Subnet’s blade of the “demo-web-snet” I can see that we can just create 123 addresses.

Summary: In this article, we have learned what is VNet and Subnet and also few of the basics of Networking like CIDR notation.

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Colby Siegler won the 2019 Arkansas Non-commissioned Officer (NCO) Best Warrior Competition!

The week long competition selects the most outstanding NCO in the state to represent the Arkansas Army National Guard at the Regional level competition and eventually the National level competition.

The competitions consist of military boards, medical lanes, weapons qualification, mystery events, ruck marches, and physical fitness tests.

He has won the company, battalion, and brigade level competitions and will be headed to the Regionals! Way to go Colby!


The Coffee Directorate was formed following the repeal of the Coffee Act (Cap 333), following the commencement of the Crops Act, 2013 on 1st August 2014.

1.To regulate and develop the coffee industry in the consultation with the relevant bodies

2. Carry out registration and licensing of coffee nurseries, growers, pulping stations, millers, marketing agents, managemen.t agents, buyers, roasters, packers, warehousemen and auctioneers to ensure adherence to standards.

3. Provide advisory services related to coffee production and quality enhancement.

4. Collect, collate, analyse data, maintain a database on the coffee industry and document and monitor it through registration of any persons dealing with coffee.

5. Encourage environmentally friendly, ethical and hygienic coffee production, processing and marketing practices, in order to enhance quality of coffee and sustainability.

These changes have led to various industries and organisations being affected adversely. The coffee industry, including the CBK, has not been spared from these changes. Coffee was the leading export crop and foreign exchange earner in Kenya from 1963 up to 1988. Between 1975 and 1986, it contributed over 40% of the total Kenyan exports value.

Currently, it is estimated that 162,479 ha are under coffee of which 75.5% is in the co-operative sub sector and 24.5% in the estates. The highest production was achieved in 1987/88 when 128,926 metric tonnes of clean coffee were produced with co-operatives producing 65.5% and estates 34.5%.

Coffee production declined to 56,156 metric tonnes of clean coffee in 1997/98. In 1998/99, production increased to 68,163 metric tonnes out of which estates produced 58% and co-operatives produced 42%. From current statistical evidence, the process of coffee growing, production and marketing is on the decline and hence an urgent need for novel, creative and imaginative strategies to change the situation for the better.


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What is marriage?

The Catholic Church teaches that the covenant of marriage is a lifelong and exclusive partnership of a man and a woman. Marriage is a holy vocation or calling that by its very nature promotes the good of both spouses and is open to the procreation and education of children. Christ has raised marriage between two baptized persons to the level of a sacrament.

Marriage comes into being by the free and unimpeded act of giving marital consent by both spouses. Church law presumes all marriages valid and thus indissoluble as long as both parties remain alive. While many civil governments have created divorce as a means to end a legally contracted marriage, Catholics believe that the marriage bond, by its very nature, cannot be dissolved by any civil power. Thus the marriage bond remains in place until it can be established that valid marital consent was not exchanged.

The Tribunal of the Diocese of Cleveland

The Tribunal of the Diocese of Cleveland assists the Bishop of Cleveland in accord with church law in carrying out his responsibility as the shepherd of the local Catholic community. Overseeing the ministry of the tribunal is a priest appointed by the bishop to be his judicial vicar. Qualified lay persons and clerics trained in church law are appointed by the bishop to serve on the tribunal. Individuals with a degree in canon law serve as judges who decide each case after evaluating the merits of the petition for a declaration of invalidity, and defenders of the bond whose responsibility is to safeguard the presumed validity of each marriage examined. Various other court officials contribute to the process at appropriate times.

Status of Divorced People in the Catholic Church

Divorced Catholics who have not attempted remarriage outside of the Church are full members of the Church with the same rights and obligations as those of any other Catholic.

Catholics who are divorced and have attempted remarriage without a declaration of invalidity of their previous marriage are not free to receive the sacraments but are encouraged to practice their faith to the extent that they are able. Although, because of their present situation, they cannot receive Holy Communion, they are not currently ‘excommunicated’ as that term is properly understood in canon law. Like all other Catholics, those who have attempted (re)marriage outside of the Church are still obliged to attend Mass on Sundays and other Holy Days of Obligation.

Marriages of non-Catholics

Some individuals whose marital status in the Church needs to be clarified may not be Catholics. The Catholic Church presumes the validity of all marriages celebrated according to the rites of all religions, Christian and non-Christian, or even celebrated only civilly. Thus those of another religion (or no religion at all) who are divorced from their spouse must submit a petition for a declaration of invalidity to a church tribunal and receive an affirmative decision if they wish to marry a Catholic in a Catholic Church. The Church respects the marriages of non-Catholics and Catholics equally. The validity of every marriage is presumed until the contrary has been established.

Definition of a Declaration of Invalidity by a Catholic Tribunal

A declaration of invalidity by a tribunal of the Catholic Church is a pronouncement based on church law and Catholic doctrine that the act of consent of a particular man and woman was lacking in qualities essential for a true and valid marriage to come into existence. To make such a pronouncement, church law is applied to the facts surrounding the marriage in question. After both parties are heard, witnesses have testified, and the defender of the bond has offered comments, the decision is made by a panel of three judges or in some cases a single judge. If the decision is reached that the act of consent in question was lacking or defective in some essential way, the tribunal acknowledges that fact by issuing a declaration of invalidity.

Effects of a Declaration of Invalidity by a Catholic Tribunal

A declaration of invalidity is a declaration that a true marriage (as understood by the Catholic Church) never existed between the two parties. A side-effect of this declaration is that both parties are therefore free to marry. In the United States, no civil effects are connected to a declaration of invalidity issued by a ecclesiastical tribunal. Children born of a marriage that is later declared invalid are legitimate. Civil matters regarding child custody, child support and alimony, as well as the divorce itself, must be resolved before the petition for invalidity is submitted to the church tribunal.

The Rights of Both Parties

Any person (petitioner) may submit a petition alleging the invalidity of his or her marriage to a church tribunal. The petition must contain the reason(s) why the marriage believed to be invalid. The other party (respondent) has a right to be notified of the petition and has a right to address the allegations made by the petitioner. Each of the parties has a right to name witnesses. The tribunal contacts the respondent as well as the witnesses submitted by each party. If a decision is given by the tribunal that is opposed by either or both parties, both the petitioner and the respondent have the right to appeal the decision to the usual appellate tribunal or to the Roman Rota.

Initiating the Petition for a Declaration of Invalidity

A petitioner may approach a parish priest, deacon, or pastoral minister to begin the process. The parish minister serves as the petitioner’s representative (procurator) and assists the petitioner in preparing the initial statement to the tribunal that includes information regarding biographical data of both individuals, a history of the relationship, and an explanation of the difficulties experienced. The petitioner is asked to include the names and addresses of several witnesses, individuals who are familiar with the difficulties present in the courtship and marriage. The testimony of credible witnesses is essential in resolving the issue of an alleged invalid marriage.

The Process of Judging a Petition

The completed statement of the petitioning spouse is submitted to the tribunal by the petitioner’s procurator. Correspondence will follow from the tribunal to the respondent in which he or she will be asked to answer a series of questions. Witnesses are contacted and asked to respond to questions sent to them in the form of a questionnaire. The petitioner and the respondent are informed of each phase of the case. Once the information needed has been gathered, the parties and their procurators have the right to review the materials at the tribunal office. The defender of the bond then studies the case and offers to the assigned judge(s) observations as to the merit of the case. The judge(s) must evaluate the case and pronounce the decision. Both parties and their procurators have the right to read the decision of the judge(s) at the tribunal office. All affirmative decisions are sent for mandatory review to the appellate tribunal.

Grounds of Invalidity

The validity of a marriage may be challenged if an individual questions whether a quality essential to marriage was absent from consent at the time of the wedding ceremony. Behavior during the courtship and, to a lesser extent, during the time of married life may give some indication that grounds of invalidity exist. Some forms of behavior such as physical abuse, alcohol and drug abuse, deviant sexual behavior, criminal activity, grave irresponsibility, mental illness, and persistent infidelity may indicate that valid marital consent was not exchanged by one or both parties. Beliefs about marriage contrary to Catholic doctrine may also indicate invalid consent. An intention to exclude children or contrary views of the permanence and fidelity inherent to marriage may also indicate that consent was not validly exchanged. Any infringement of a person’s free choice to marry, fraud, error regarding the identity of the spouse, or extreme internal or external pressure to marry may also indicate that consent was not exchanged validly.

Access to information gathered by a Church Tribunal

Testimony gathered by the church tribunal is available only to the tribunal officials assigned to the case, the petitioner, the respondent, and their procurators. All materials relative to the trial are treated with the solemnity required by church law.

Time Involved

Due to the variety of cases submitted and the requirements of canon law, it is not possible to indicate a precise time within which a petition will be decided. Most cases take more than a year for a final decision to be made. A parish or priest must not and cannot assign a date for a potential future wedding without notification that the parties are free to marry. Parties should not make any plans for a future wedding unless they are free to marry.

Case Fees

Effective May 30, 2014, Bishop Richard Lennon eliminated all fees for persons who are seeking a Declaration of Invalidity through the Diocese of Cleveland Tribunal.  There are no costs or fees to be charged in the Diocese of Cleveland.  This decision includes those cases where a petitioner may be referred to a court-appointed expert.

Persons who initially submit a case to the Diocese of Cleveland but who find their case must be heard by another diocese will fall under the billing policies of that tribunal which ultimately hears the case.

Additional Information

For additional information,  please consult a priest, deacon, or lay ecclesial minister at any Catholic parish in the Diocese of Cleveland.

You may also contact the Tribunal of the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland directly if necessary.

I gave my documents to my pastor weeks ago. Why haven’t I heard anything?

There are a few reasons why you might not have been contacted immediately by the Tribunal. Nevertheless, if you handed in your completed paperwork to your pastor (or other procurator) more than a month ago and have not received any communication from the Tribunal, please call us directly to check that your petition arrived safely.

What is the marriage nullity process and why does it exist?

Jesus taught that marriage is indissoluble. Once people get married, they are married until one of them dies, even if they someday separate, justifiably or otherwise. Since they remain married for life, if one of them goes on to live in the manner of husband and wife with someone else, then he or she is living in an ongoing state of adultery. A married person’s vocation is to lifelong fidelity to the marital covenant, even when (in cases of abandonment or necessary separation) that means living as though celibate. Christ knew our human nature and he knew that this was a hard teaching. He was already challenged and ridiculed for it in his own time, but he did not back down from it.

Understanding the above information, there are certain marriages that are invalid from the start. They have the outward appearance of a marriage and are usually entered into in good faith, but because of some impediment, some defect of consent, or some problem in the form of the marriage celebration, they are never really marriages at all. If there was really no marriage at all, and if that fact is publicly proven, then those two parties are free to marry someone else. The Church and society as a whole have the responsibility to uphold and support couples in their marriage vows even when (especially when) one or both of them no longer want to be married, which is why there has to be proof of nullity before a new marriage could be recognized.

The spouses themselves, let alone one of them, cannot simply decide privately that the marriage is invalid and that they are free to move on. The marriage nullity process is a judicial process developed over the centuries to allow people who believe that their marriage was invalid to attempt to prove that fact, all the while safeguarding the rights of both parties and upholding the dignity and indissolubility of marriage. A declaration of nullity does not and cannot dissolve an existing marriage; rather it is an official declaration by the Church that it has been proven beyond a reasonable doubt that a given marriage was invalid from the start. When a marriage is actually invalid, declaring the nullity of the marriage is a good and just thing.

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On Monday, three Oregon medical organizations suggested Republican gubernatorial nominee Knute Buehler walk back a statement he made during a televised debate, about vaccines, “As a physician I certainly believe in the benefits of vaccination, but I certainly believe that parents should have the right to opt out.” 1)

Almost immediately, leaders from the Oregon Academy of Family Physicians, Oregon Pediatric Society, and the Oregon Chapter of the American College of Physicians called on the nominee to reverse his position because the AMA and other medical organizations “accept the scientific consensus”2 about the current vaccine schedule. (Then they cited some garbage about herd immunity.)

However, that same day, Buehler responded by standing by his statement.

It should be noted that for those living in Oregon, incumbent Gov. Kate Brown believes the opposite and even commented that parents probably have “too much leeway” with regards to vaccine exemptions.

Heads up when you go to the polls; given the current climate about vaccines where politicians are concerned, I’d be voting for the person who didn’t want to take my freedom away. (Under current Oregon law, parents can exempt their children from any or all vaccines if they watch a video online about vaccine benefits or to a medical provider.)

This is an election we will be watching closely.

Sources and References

  1. Oregon Live, October 15, 2018.
  2. Oregon Live, October 15, 2018.


Who is Bhagwan Bahubali and what's his Ayodhya connection?

All you need to know about Lord Gomateshwar, also known as Bhagwan Bahubali, the Mahamastakabhisheka Mahotsav and Gomateshwar's connection with Ayodhya.

Giant statue of Lord Gomateshwar, also known as Bhagwan Bahubali
Giant statue of Lord Gomateshwar, also known as Bhagwan Bahubali. Photo: Associated Press

President Ramnath Kovind inaugurated this year's Mahamastakabhisheka Mahotsav, a festival that is held once every 12 years, on February 7.

The Mahamastakabhishekam or the Mahamastakabhisheka Mahotsav is a Jain festival during which the gigantic statue of Lord Gomateshwar in Karnataka's Sravanabelagola is bathed in milk, ghee, honey, saffron, turmeric, sandalwood powder among other expensive things, and gold coins are offered.

The buyer of the first Kalasha (holy vessel) that is filled with milk, honey, herbs, saffron, turmeric, sandalwood powder and coconut water gets the privilege of offering the inaugural bath to the statue. This year, Rajasthani businessman Ashok Patni bought the first Kalasha for Rs 11.6 crore and performed, along with his family, the first Mahamastakabhisheka ritual at 2:32 PM on Saturday.

This year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi took part in the 88th Mahamastakabhisheka Mahotsav of Bhagawan Bahubali, and inaugurated the newly-carved 630 steps on Vindhyagiri hill by which disciples can go to the top for the 'darshan' of the 58-feet-tall monolithic statue of Lord Gomateshwar, also known as Bhagwan Bahubali.

Lord Bahubali, the ruler of Paudanapura, was the son of the first Jain thirthankara Lord Adinatha. When Adinatha embarked on his spiritual quest, Bahubali's brother Bharata, who ruled Ayodhya, wanted to become the emperor. Bahubali did not like the idea of surrendering and opposed his brother.

A war could not have been avoided, then.

However, to keep away from violence and bloodshed, disarmament was proclaimed and an alternative to war was devised. Bahubali and Bharat agreed to the alternate idea - three forms of duel between the brothers.

Bahubali defeated Bharata in all three forms of duel -- drishti yudha, where contestants stare at each other without closing their eyelids, jala yudha, where contestants splash water on each other till one turns his face away, and malla yudha, actual duel.

Bharata, furious, ended up using his chakra, the divine wheel like that of Vishnu, to attack Bahubali, but it circled Bahubali thrice and did not harm him. The legend is that at this moment, Bahubali was ashamed of his choices about going to war with his brother, and renounced his kingdom and other materialistic pleasures to take up sanyasa.

Bahubali meditated in the Kayotsarga posture (standing) for a year without food and water, unperturbed by the ant hills growing by his side, serpents making it home and creepers growing till his shoulder.

It is said that he attained 'kevaljnan' -- complete knowledge about the universe.

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A couple of years ago I did a 3-day silent retreat contemplating the topic of this article (and here’s the list I came up with at the time). How can we engage with technology in ways that nurture without being drawn into the real danger of addiction? Unlike earlier technologies such as books, for example, most of us need access to computers and the Internet in order to earn a living. Here are some pointers that may be helpful.

Our relationships with technology are similar: Each of us relates to technology in a unique, highly personal way. We lose or cede control, stability, and fulfillment in a million different ways. As Leo Tolstoy wrote in the novel Anna Karenina, “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

The refrain we commonly hear is that we need to unplug and disconnect. Conceptually, this recommendation may feel good as a way to take back total control and to put technology back in its place as a subservient, optional tool. But using technology is no longer a matter of choice.

If you were to apply for a white-collar job of any kind and inform the hiring manager that you refuse to use e-mail, you’d get a swift rejection. Our friends share pictures digitally; no longer are printed photographs of the soccer team or birthday party mailed to us. Restaurants that use the OpenTable online reservation system often will not take phone calls for reservations. Even the most basic services, such as health care and checking in for a flight, are in line for mandatory digitalization. Yes, we can opt out of those services and businesses, but if we do, we lose out.

With these negative influences in mind, we can propose a simple set of questions to ask ourselves in deciding how to create a more mindful and conscious engagement with our technology. Does our interaction or use of the technology make us happy or unhappy? There are many derivatives of this question: Does it make us tense or relaxed? Does it make us anxious or calm? The answer may be “both,” and that is OK, but we should consider whether, on balance, an interaction leaves us with good or bad feelings.


Tau Ceti: The next Earth? Probably not

Wednesday, May 27, 2015
by Nikki Cassis

Tau Ceti is a star that's close to Earth. It also a little bit like our star, The Sun. Tau Ceti has often been seen as a place where extra-terrestrial life might be found. The science fiction series Star Trek portrayed Tau Ceti as an alien home world. It also shows up in the Halo: First Strike novel.

The star has become even more popular since December 2012. That’s when scientists found possible evidence of five planets orbiting Tau Ceti. Tau Ceti e and Tau Ceti f were two of those planets. Scientists think life might be able to evolve on e and f. Regions like this are called “habitable zones.”

Researchers from Arizona State University study Tau Ceti e and f. They wanted to know if e and f really were in habitable zones.

“Planet e is in the habitable zone only if we make very generous assumptions,” says ASU researcher Michael Pagano. At first, planet f looked more promising to be habitable. But Pagano says that computer models of the evolution of the star show it has only moved into the habitable zone recently. And Tau Ceti has gotten more luminous over the course of its life, says Pagano. He is an astrophysicist who led the research team.

The team found that planet f has likely been in the habitable zone less than 1 billion years. “Less than 1 billion” still sounds like a long time for humans. But it is a very short time for stars and planets. It took about 2 billion years for the Earth’s atmosphere to change enough that scientists could detect signs of life. Scientists might not be able to detect these signs on a planet that has been in the habitable zone for only a few hundred million years. So even if Tau Ceti f could support life, scientists might not be able to find signs of it.

Pagano says his team didn’t pick Tau Ceti “hoping, wanting or thinking” it would have life. They picked it because they thought the planets around the star might be “alien” new worlds. In other words, Tau Ceti e and f might have life that’s very different from life on Earth.

Planets e and f might have very different life, or none at all. That’s because the star Tau Ceti is made differently from our star, The Sun. Tau Ceti has different minerals in it. These minerals could make the planets orbiting Tau Ceti have different environments from our Earth.

The researchers think that Tau Ceti’s planets might have different amounts of volcanic and tectonic activity. Volcanic activity is how volcanoes behave. A planet with a lot of volcanic activity has a lot of volcanoes that can explode or emit lava. Tectonic activity is one of the causes of volcanic activity. It is how the surface of a planet moves or changes. Earthquakes are another example of tectonic activity.

Volcanoes and tectonic activity have a big impact on the Earth’s ability to support life, or its habitability. Scientists believe they could also have a big impact on life on other planets like Tau Ceti f.

Tau Ceti has been a popular destination for science-fiction writers, Pagano says. In everyone's imagination, it could possibly have life. But life around Tau Ceti may be unlikely. However, it should not be seen as a letdown. It should inspire our minds to consider what exotic planets likely orbit the star, Pagano says. There are new and unusual planets that may exist in this vast universe.

This work was supported by funding from the NASA Astrobiology Institute and NASA Nexus for Exoplanet System Science. The results of the research are appearing in a paper published in the Astrophysical Journal. The team also included ASU astrophysicists Patrick Young and Amanda Truitt. Mineral physicist Sang-Heon (Dan) Shim was another team member.


Hotel in Rome central among surprises and emotions for an extraordinary stay

The modern and functional hotel in Rome central Aphrodite” is an impeccable establishment set in the heart of the Capitoline reality, in Via Marsala, characterized by class, style and comfort.
The strategic location, within walking distance from symbols and monuments, with excellent connections to all parts of the territory, and close to the subway station, makes our 4-star hotel in Rome just perfect to learn about the area’s history, its legends, the most intriguing stories and hidden secrets in a world where the sacred and artistic are reaching the beginning of time.

Hotel in Rome central, knowledge and fun for your holidays

The hotel near Termini in Rome is ideal for enjoying a trip to the turn of the centuries, with culture and folk tales that eventually intertwine and create a fabric of memories and masterpieces that defines the soul of the place.
Like the one that we find among the immortal forms of the Flavian Amphitheatre, the legendary Colosseum, the Pantheon, the Trevi Fountain, the Baths of Caracalla, the Catacombs of San Callisto and the Imperial Forums.
Or among the silent glimpses of the Vatican, the many churches rich in works of art or in the charm of Piazza Navona.


Circle of Fifths

Circle of Fifths

Since major scales are constructed of two tetrachords linked by a whole-step (or 2 half-steps), each major scale has two parts - an upper tetrachord and a lower tetrachord. In the C major scale, for example, the upper tetrachord is C-D-E-F and the lower tetrachord is G-A-B-C. In the G major scale the upper tetrachord is G-A-B-C and the lower tetrachord is D-E-F#-G. Notice the lower tetrachord of the C major scale is identical to the upper tetrachord of the G major scale. Due to this upper/lower tetrachord matching, the major scales form an interlocking series known as the circle of fifths. The chart below shows this series starting from the F major scale and continuing through B major. If the chart continued on from B major in the same fashion it would loop (or circle) back to F major again.

Recall that a perfect fifth is two notes separated by seven. Therefore a perfect fifth above F is C, a perfect fifth above C is G, and so on. The tetrachord matching of major scales naturally falls on the fifth interval of each scale. Hence the name circle of fifths.

Key Signatures and the Circle of Fifths

The circle of fifths arranges the major scale key signatures in order according to the number of sharps or flats. See the diagram below.

Circle of Fifths

A common mnemonic for memorizing the circle of fifths is Fuzzy Cats Get Dirty After Every Bath.

The number of sharps or flats in a major scale can be easily calculated by going around the circle clockwise starting from C. For example, to find out how many sharps are in E major count: G-1, D-2, A-3, E-4. E major has 4 sharps. To find out how many flats Eb major has count from C in reverse order: F-1, Bb-2, Eb-3. Eb major has 3 flats.

Circle of Fourths

Reversing the order of the circle of fifths produces the circle of fourths. That is, by reading the circle counterclockwise. Recall a perfect fourth is two notes separated by five half-steps. Therefore a perfect fourth above G is C. A perfect fourth above C is F, and so on. Notice the pattern on the diagram above.

The circle of fifths demonstrate three important musical concepts:

  • the perfect fourth above a note,
  • the perfect fifth above a note,
  • the number of sharps or flats in a scale.

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Balkane; Chirae vampiria

Balkanes are bat-like Verpets who possess fully functional arms allowing them to carry food to their young back in the caves. Their long, muscular tails act as an emergency rudder, allowing them to quickly dart in a different direction to avoid danger.

Balkanes are curious and friendly Verpets, and will fly very close to exploring users to investigate them. They make loving pets and enjoy cuddling with owners and other pets they may have. Unfortunately it seems their loving nature arose so they would be close to another living creature should their thirst for blood need to be quenched.

Balkanes remain nestled in caves during the day, but as night falls they venture out in search of food. They prefer eating fruits and insects, but during months where they are scarce, Balkanes will prey on sleeping Verpets for blood.

Black - Blue - Brown

Green - Orange - Pink

Purple - Red - White

Yellow - Death - Divine

Teacup - Viral - Totem

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Cryptocurrency gain calculator

cryptocurrency gain calculator

original value of an asset, or essentially how much money you put in to acquire that asset. Coin-to-coin Trades, keep in mind that coin-to-coin trades are also taxable events.

 Boiled down, you incur capital gains whenever you sell property for more than you purchased it for. .  This kind of growth isnt hard for just the day-traders and blockchain evangelists to ignore, but for governments as well.  To calculate your gain you would do the following: 300 (99.50 * 2) 101.00, your cryptocurrency capital gains on the transaction would be 101.00, and you would owe a tax on that gain. There are generally 2 ways that you can calculate your crypto gains: Fiat Currency, this method entails valuing your gains or losses using your local currency, with the most common fiat currency being used are United States Dollars (USD South Korea Won (KRW Great Britain.

Figuring out an individuals activities on that ledger comes down to associating a benefits of euro currency market wallet address with a name. Please let me know if you have any question or suggestion to improve this template. Hence, Bitcoin is the base currency for all cryptocurrencies and the gateway to the crypto world. You can also set exchange commission for buy/sale in percentage in cells B1 and. As per the suggestion from a valuable customer, I have made provision for users to set buy/sale commission in percentage in the latest version-3. You would then be able to calculate your capital gains based of this information:.00 capital gain. That 100 currently buys about.01 Bitcoin. .

Get our exclusive e-book which will guide you through the step-by-step process to get started with making money via Cryptocurrency investments! Now lets say two months later you trade all of your.1 Bitcoin for.16 Ether. Cryptocurrency exchanges are getting busier and that means the Internal Revenue will want their piece of the action.  Other costs typically include things like transaction fees and brokerage commissions from the exchanges you purchase crypto from. For example, if you invested 500 in Litecoin back in November of 2017, that would have bought you about.1. If you want further customization, I will be happy to make changes as per you requirement for a reasonable fee.


John Aldridge

A rare chance to see a group of Aldridge’s work is on at the moment at the wonderful Fry Art Gallery in Saffron Walden.Lack of space means that there are not enough pictures to cover his long career, but because he rarely gets seen, this is a good opportunity.His basic subject matter was often landscape (or townscape) , sometimes around his Great Bardfield home in Essex and sometimes further afield.There are, for example, quite a few works painted in Italy.He also painted a lot on his visits to stay with the writer Robert Graves in Mallorca.


Khama Rhino Sanctuary

Khama Rhino Sanctuary is situated on the main road between Serowe and Orapa, approximately 25 km north of Serowe.
The sanctuary covers approximately 4300 hectares of Kalahari sandveld. It is centered around the Serwe Pan, a large, grass-covered depression with several natural water holes. The site was chosen due to its suitable habitat for rhino, its central location and its proximity to a Botswana Defence Force (BDF) base, which provides the sanctuary with 24-hour protection against poaching.

During the 1980's, due to indiscriminate poaching, rhinos were made almost extinct in Botswana. The idea of a wildlife reserve was conceived by several local residents in 1989, and Khama Rhino sanctuary Trust was officially established in 1992.
In February 1993, the first four rhinos were translocated from northern Botswana. Subsequently more rhinos were brought in from Pilanesberg, the Kruger national park and some parts of Botswana, many of which bred succesfully.

The sanctuary is home to other wild animals such as zebra, blue wildebeest, giraffe, eland, springbok, impala, gemsbok, kudu, steenbok, duiker, red hartebeest, leopard, ostrich, african wild cat, caracal, small-spotted genet, porcupine, black-backed jackal bat-eared fox and brown hyena.
The sanctuary had a population of 34 white and 2 black rhinos in March 2008.


Optical Design

Activities such as astronomy, nature studies and viewing sports must often be done from a distance. For various reasons we cannot get close enough to the subjects to view them in the detail that is needed. Our eyes are general purpose tools and their resolution is limited, their magnifying properties are minimal and they are limited in how much light that they can gather. We must use optical devices such as telescopes and binoculars to increase our visual range.
A telescope is an optical device which makes distant objects appear closer. It samples a small area of view, a field, and then magnifies it so that distant objects appear larger. Parallel light rays entering the telescope are focussed to a single point, called the focus or focal point. These focussed rays are then magnified with a very powerful lens, or more commonly a set of lenses, called an eyepiece, to give enlarged views of distant objects. The eyepiece acts in the reverse direction to the telescope lens, taking the focussed rays and sending them to the eye as parallel rays.

A mirror is made by coating the front surface of a concave piece of glass with a reflecting material. Light rays entering the telescope reflect off of the mirror and since they never pass through the glass no false colour is produced.

The surface of the mirror of a high focal ratio reflector can be shaped or figured to that of the surface of a sphere. This works for small reflectors and those with focal ratios of f9 or higher. However, with large reflectors and those with focal ratios of f8 or lower, these spherical mirrors do not bring all of the light rays to the same focal point. The rays from the mirror


Select a Chart Type

What information do you want to show? This is always the first question you must ask yourself when creating a chart. For example, if you want to show what percentage each salesperson contributes to the bottom line, try a pie chart, which is great for showing how parts relate to a whole. Or maybe you'd prefer to show how each salesperson's been doing over the course of the year. In that case, a line chart might work best. That way you could plot each person's sales numbers through time and see who's improving.

Quick Base offers the following chart types:

Tip App managers can enable 3D shading for all charts, instead of the default, flat presentation. To enable 3D shading, click Branding on the App Settings page and then select Display 3D shading on charts.

If you want to show proportions, use a pie chart. How many dentists recommend sugar-filled gum? One out of four, or 25%. Illustrate that figure with a pie chart. Or maybe you need to see what share each of your products represents to your total business. For example, if you own a music store, your pie chart might look like the one illustrated below, which shows the percentage each instrument type contributes to total sales.

Pie Chart

If you want to compare values, try a bar chart. Which month was the best for business? Compare them all with a bar chart. If you want, you can break down bar chart numbers even further. For example, in addition to comparing music store sales for each month, you can include details like sales for each instrument within each month.

Bar Chart

Bar Chart with Series

You can also add a goal line to a bar chart to measure performance against a goal, for example, sales of 70,000 per month.

Horizontal Bar

... is the same format as a bar chart, but turned on its side. If you prefer a report like the one below go horizontal.

Horizontal Bar Chart

Stacked Bar

This format combines the comparison features of a bar chart with the proportional illustration of a pie chart. For example, the image below shows monthly sales for the music store, just like the bar chart in above. But the stacked bar chart below breaks each bar down into percentages by instrument, just like a pie chart would. The percentages "stack" up to form the total bar.

Stacked Bar Chart

Horizontal Stacked Bar

Like the horizontal bar chart pictured above, this format just turns a regular stacked bar chart on its side.

This format helps you track changes through time. Have sales of various instruments been increasing or declining? A line chart can show you in a flash. The image below tracks each instrument's sales over the period of a few months. You can click a square to see the records that comprise that figure.

Line Chart

You can also display sets of values on the secondary (right-side) Y axis, in addition to any sets of values shown on the primary Y axis. The image below plots the daily volume of stock trading vs. close price from January to April 2015.

FAQ - Why are some portions of my lines dotted?

When Quick Base is connecting the dots on your line chart, some numbers may be missing. Whenever a line chart encounters a missing value, it tells you so with a dotted line. Quick Base treats it as a zero, but lets you know that it has no actual value for that x-axis point with a dotted line.

Line and bar

The Line and bar chart combines the features of both a bar and a line chart in one visual plot.

You can easily distinguish between line values and bar values, so this chart is a quick way to visually compare data sets that have different value ranges, like project cost in the millions and project hours in the thousands. It's also good for visualizing categorical data, like revenue by project type.

You might use a line and bar chart to:

  • see how projects stack up against an average

  • identify high value functioning teams or regions

  • visualize seasonality in your data

This line and bar chart shows profitability across an organization.

Learn how to create a line and bar chart.

Area charts offer the time-tracking qualities of a line chart and toss in a dash of pie chart proportion measurement. Should the music store continue to carry string instruments? What percentage of sales do string instruments represent and how have they performed over time? An area chart like the one below can help you see the numbers clearly.

Area Chart

Scatter chart

Use a scatter chart to show correlations and relationships within your data. Scatter charts make it easy to visualize how one data set (the x axis) affects the resulting data set (the y axis). For example, you could use a scatter chart to show how project cost affects return on investment (ROI).

You can also use a scatter chart to see trends and outliers at a glance.

For example, you might use a scatter chart to visualize how your team's actual ticket resolution times compare to their estimated resolution times.

Learn how to create a scatter chart and see examples.

Bubble chart

Use a bubble chart to visualize three dimensions of data on a single chart. Select a field that determines the size of the bubble. Bubbles vary in size according to the values in this field.

Similar to a scatter chart, you can use a bubble chart to show relationships among your data and convey a large amount of numeric information quickly— like prospective sales opportunities per week by dollar amount, probability of close, and stage in the sales cycle.

Learn how to create a bubble chart and see examples.

Gauge chart

Use a gauge chart to measure progress against a goal that you set, like the total annual sales.

Set the number that the gauge starts at, often 0, and the goal — the number that indicates the gauge has reached 100% and is full.

The gauge displays in a single color. The color is based the percentage of the goal reached and the ranges you define.

Learn how to create a gauge chart and see examples.

Funnel chart

Use a funnel chart to display progress through any process, for example, a project development cycle or a sales pipeline.

This funnel chart shows sales opportunities by stage, from prospecting to closed/won.

Learn how to create a funnel chart and see examples.

Waterfall chart

A waterfall chart can be useful to illustrate the cumulative effect of changing data, typically to show financial changes due to positive and negative values.

This sample waterfall chart shows a starting amount, gains, and losses resulting in a closing balance:

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Addressing Conflict

We asked people on our facebook page what topic they would like to us to do a blog or talk on. We’re going to be answering another one today and look forward to doing more as we go forward.

We really appreciate being in conversation versus having the blogs be a unilateral conversation, so if you have a question you’d like to ask Kyle or a topic you’d like to see him do a blog or talk on, please send us an email or a message on Facebook.

The question we are going to answer today is: “How do you create a happy workplace when employees are in conflict”?

You can listen to the recorded version here, or scroll down to read the blog.

The most challenging and, simultaneously, the most important thing is to actually address the conflict. In every conflict, there is a huge opportunity. And, this is where Inquiry Method comes in.

We often want to get into a mode of just telling people what to do or having people work it out, but the conflict is really an opportunity to bring something to the surface. This is true with every relationship, not just relationships at work.

The very best thing is to sit down with whoever is in conflict and start doing inquiry (I do this during a couple’s renewal or when I work with a team in an office).

Start with having each one of them talk to you. Ask them about the situation and have the desire to really understand it. Stay out of being a boss or pushing people around, and instead, just focus on really understanding. Try to really understand one person, while the other person listens. Then switch over to the other person and really try to understand them, while the other person listens.

If we keep in the process of understanding, we find we all want the same thing. Ultimately, we are all yearning for the same thing. Everybody wants to have a great business. Everybody wants to have fun at work. Everybody wants to get along. So, if we can talk to people and really understand them, especially in front of the person they are having the conflict with, it’s amazing how quickly people will come together.

In addition, any conflict is probably a reflection of something that is not functioning correctly in your business. So, it’s also really good information to get as the leader because the conflict may be about things you need to fix or repair in the business.

Let’s use these conflicts as opportunities.

I love this question. Thanks for asking it.

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Emptying Out

Read more about the talking stick exercise in this earlier blog

People Are Good

I am traveling today and I like to remember that people are good.  I notice that in general that I tend to resent the person in the seat next to me on the airplane as an imposition and nuisance, usually making some judgments about them in some way or another.  Without connection people are just objects in the field.  However, now I make a practice of just saying “hi.” I rarely engage in long conversations, but I say hi and lightly connect.  Inevitably this little connection humanizes them and I see the human behind the physical object. I can no longer resent them or make judgments about them because they are human beings now.  We can do this all day long, turn people into human beings.  It is amazing what a difference it can make.

Opinion and Truth

There is a big difference between your opinion and the truth.

Opinions are imposed, truth is shared.

Opinions can be argued, truth cannot.

Opinions need defending, truth does not.

Opinions are thoughts, truth is self evident.

Opinions come from you, truth comes through you.

Opinions are arrogant, truth is humble.

Opinions are force, truth is love.

Opinions create separation, truth brings us together.

Opinions can be owned, the truth is for everyone.

Truth can be proved, opinions cannot.

Truth is found through inquiry, opinions are invented at whim.

You don’t get credit for the truth, only your capacity to hear it.

Truth told as an opinion loses its power.

We each have a choice which one to hold most dear, but they can never be equal.

~ Kyle Mercer

Inviting Others to the Mountain Experience

The Power of the Talking Stick

Following up on the last blog about the power of being real, I wanted to share an exercise that I give as an assignment to couples that I work with. You may have heard of it before. It’s called the talking stick exercise. The talking stick exercise is one of the most basic and fundamental and profound tools that we can use in relationships. And it goes like this: something comes up in our relationships, something we need to talk to about, and we tend to get into an argument or fight about. In other words, the situation usually tends to escalate in some way. Instead of allowing it to escalate, we should turn to the talking stick exercise. And this simply means that someone is going to be the speaker and someone is going to be the listener.

We give the speaker something to hold and this represents the fact that we are putting all of our attention on them and none on ourselves. In this exercise, whatever the subject is, we can fully hear someone out without formulating or generating our own response. And we can really understand what is going on in their insides; what they’re experiencing. So, we say to ourselves, “Alright, I’m ready to listen to this issue, whether it’s with money, with kids, whatever it is, I really want listen.” And then we have the speaker tell us anything they can possibly imagine about the issue and let them totally empty their tank about it. And then we pay close attention to what they are saying, without pushing back, without judging, without anything else, so that they get to fully get out whatever it is that is going on with them.

A great question the listener can ask at the end of the exercise is “Is there anything else you are feeling about this?” The listener can ask this multiple times to make sure the speaker has nothing left to say. Moreover, depending on our skill level, if we do not understand something, we can ask about it without pushing back. For example, this is like, “You mentioned this, and I don’t really understand what your concern is about it; can you help me understand what your concern is about that?” and go a little bit deeper. The idea is if we can allow somebody to be fully heard with no feedback, then solutions and answers and feelings of closeness and compassion will undoubtedly follow.

Once we are all completely done with this, once somebody feels like they have completely been heard and we feel like we completely understand them, we can either take a break and wait for an hour to let the conversation digest, or we might be ready to switch turns and hand the talking stick to the other person and essentially switch roles. Remember, this is not a solve-each-other’s-problems’ situation and it takes discipline to do this.

Finally, once both people have shared, it’s really helpful to give the issue some space. For instance, let the conversation sit until the next day and then continue with another talking stick conversation. You will be amazed at how the energy has shifted or at how differently you view the idea after hearing from your partner.

It’s very hard to listen to someone fully without completely understanding them. This is because we all have good will, we all have the best interest at heart, and want to ask questions. And it’s also very hard to not be moved after you yourself have been heard, because it can often be difficult to have to hear yourself out fully.

While it may be hard, once you have mastered the art of the using the talking stick, it is an incredibly profound, powerful, life-changing exercise.

The Power of Being Real

I have been aware lately, through listening to my clients and even just watching our culture, how we have been taught to protect and hide what is going on inside of us. There is this egoic aspect of ourselves that wants to project out a certain image, or face, to the world. We have been taught and think that doing this is going to give us the most control or power over life, but this is not entirely true. We end up relating to each other’s external shells, and because they do not match the inner situation, it ends up creating a lot of problems and miscommunications and misunderstandings.

I have watched a few TV shows lately, and I have just noticed how all of the problems, whether in a sitcom or a drama, do not come from people being bad or evil at heart; they come from miscommunication. Almost every show is about how things are miscommunicated and then go wrong. I have noticed this even in myself- I am very careful and precise about how I say things, but others may not be able to accurately hear and understand what I am trying to say due to their own personal filter’s and interpretations. And that’s why in Inquiry Method™ the focus is on paying particular attention to what somebody is saying—and even the energy behind it—and truly just listening to them. It is also even about getting curious about what is underneath the shell that we present to the outside world. This idea is about showing the inside on the outside.

I was just speaking with a client about her relationship with her daughter and with her mother, and every time we came back to my client’s desire to take care of one of her family members in some way, we realized her issue around this would be solved so much easier by her expressing her own inner struggle around it. So, this would be like instead of trying to fix her daughter’s problem, she could say “You know, as a mother, I am having a challenge right now because I would really like to support you right now and I do not know how, but do you have any ideas?” That is showing inner vulnerability, and it seems so simple and obvious, but it is not the thing that we say. Instead we give advice, and try to fix, and try to push our agenda on someone else, which usually just makes things more complicated.

It is just amazing how just the most obvious vulnerable thing that is going on inside of us can allows the situation to move forward. It is the same thing when I am working with couples; if we can just say the thing that is going on inside of ourselves—not so much the emotion, just whatever is happening—not only does that help someone else understand us better, but then we can also put our finger on our own problem too.

In a big-picture view, Inquiry Method™ seems so simple, yet at the same time ‘simple’ is so not what we do. Sometimes I feel bad about the fact that my work in and of itself seems so simple, yet the results are always extremely profound, which is how I know I am doing things right.

Essentially, to improve all of our relationships and interactions in life, the best thing we can do is to get our insides on the outside.

Fundamentals of Inquiry Method™, and Inquiry Management™

At its root, Inquiry Method™, and Inquiry Management™ by extension, are the capacity to come to any conversation, challenge, or interaction with open curiosity and inquisitiveness rather than with answers, assumptions, and directives. In our culture, we are taught to have all the answers and that our intelligence is based on knowledge. For most of our education, we are given answers and required to memorize and repeat them for tests and exams. Most of us have continued in this pattern in our professional and personal lives. The problem with having the answers is that everyone stops growing and learning.

This is particularly true in relationships both personal and professional. We make assumptions and project ourselves into other people. We judge, gossip, assert, tell, and correct, instead of asking and inquiring. The process of telling others what to do shuts down communication and leads our relationships into stuck and frustrating situations.

If you want to create dynamic, alive, and vital relationships where accountability, productivity, and creativity are authentically embraced, then you have to be wiling to not know, willing to put your ego aside and let curiosity lead the way.

Inquiry Method provides processes, practices and inquiry lenses that break through the obstacles to growth and mastery level living. It provides the bold shift in perspective and the set of tools that are needed to master our own level of participation so that we can become inspirational leaders in every aspect of our lives.

Learn more through our Inquiry Management eCourse by Kyle Mercer from Inquiry Method™.  Kyle Mercer’s interactive eCourse includes video lectures featuring Kyle Mercer, 9 interactive comprehensive units, and an individual, private workbook designed to guide you towards creating an environment of growth and accountability in your organization.

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Giving Self-Away

Levels of Participation

Levels of Participation is one of the principles that I discovered in my work developing Inquiry Method. In the years I have been teaching it, it has become a mainstay of what I call Inquiry Management. The Levels of Participation are a framework for understanding how people work together; they explain how people behave in relationships, the context that they participate in, and the leadership they receive. By understanding this framework we can have an impact on our own success and growth, we can influence the success and growth of our organization and we can learn to lead and be led to greater success, and ultimately satisfaction, engagement and happiness in our work.

Inquiry Method™ is the foundation on which I have built all that I have learned and discovered. I have found that it is also something that can be learned by others to have a profound impact on their ability to lead and mentor others. At the root Inquiry Method™ is simply the capacity to come to any conversation or inner challenge with openness, curiosity, and questions rather than answers. Though this may seem simple and easy, I have found that it is much more difficult that one might think. Particularly in business, but also elsewhere, we are taught to have the answers. In fact for most of our education we were given answers and required to memorize them and repeat them for tests and exams. Most of us have continued in this pattern in our professional and personal lives.

The problem is that in having the answers we stop learning and growing.

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