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Manifesting in 3D and 5D
Manifesting in 5D is all about Cooperation and Collaboration and Receiving. In 3D it's more about Effort and Persistence and "Winning." Here's an example…
We've spoken of the Sidhe, the True "Fairies" of Irish folklore (https://astrobuss.wordpress.com/category/sidhe/) already, as I was introduced to them in a Fairy Study Circle created by Michael Polarski, of Fairy and Human Relations Congress Fame – which we've also spoken of (see https://astrobuss.wordpress.com/2018/08/06/quantum-jump-27-the-real-thing-vii/). So I jumped at the chance when Jeremy Berg, a major Sidhe collaborator…
…came to a nearby town to present a workshop. I was a little surprised at the time by how quickly I Responded, since the town was far enough away that I would normally have had to work fairly hard to convince myself to make the trip.
In a completely unconnected process, the week before Jeremy's workshop, one of my clients asked me to attend an all-day meeting being held the day before the workshop. My client's meeting was to occur in another town only a few miles from the workshop, and they offered to provide lodging before and after the meeting.
Tremendous stroke of luck, as it meant that I didn't have to get up before dawn to travel to either! As my client was making these arrangements, they suggested I bring my wife and have a "second honeymoon." Well, unbeknownst to my client, it turned out that the meeting was happening in the same hotel that our wedding reception had been held in years before! Another remarkable coincidence – or remarkable Intuition on the part of my client.
So, we went to the meeting and the workshop, and assisting Jeremy in the workshop, unbeknownst to me when I signed up, was a friend, remarkable person, and fabulous Irish Harpist, Peter Berry (https://manufacturing.dustystrings.com/blog/dusty-harp-001-interview-peter-berry). Well, Peter, with his Harp and his incredible Bardic Genius for Story, was the officiant who married us!
Not knowing these remarkable "coincidences," Jeremy sketched out the Sidhe way of relating to their Reality, which sounded a lot like what we might Call 5D Manifesting, where we're in Cooperation and Collaboration with the Energies and Forces around us. That's one of the fundamental purposes for this blog, hoping to help us understand the Forces swirling around us at any given time, so we can more Easily Cooperate and Collaborate.
I don't normally get this personal in this blog, but the Story is too "coincidental" to resist telling. Back in 2012, when the World As We Know It was Ending, we spoke a lot about how a New Energy Manifests at the Beginning of a Cycle between two planets, when a faster planet passes a slower one, and the slower (more Powerful) planet Initiates the faster one, or provides Shaktipat so that the faster planet can serve to Implement the Program of the slower one.
After the Initiation – when the New Energy is Prominent, the New Energy moves underground, as the Masters of the Old Obsolete Energy work to save their Investments by Forcing the Old Energy to appear to still be Working. If we understand these Cycles, and know where we are in which Cycles, we can ignore the Old-Energy-serving headlines, we can "no longer lend our Strength to that which we wish to be Free From" (as Jewel puts it), and put our Efforts into helping the New Energy take hold.
The New Energy comes into its own when the faster planet is three Signs ahead of ("Waxing Square to") the slower planet. In 2012 Uranus Waxed Square to Pluto, finally bringing the Energy of the 1960s (when Pluto Initiated Uranus) out into the mainstream. We Intuit the nature of a Cycle first by the nature of the planets involved, then by the Sabian Symbol of the Degree in which the Initiation occurred, and third by the Birth chart of the Initiation.
One meaning for Pluto is Transformation, or Trance Re-Formation, and another is Compulsion. The interpretation we use for Uranus is the Individual Soul. So the 150-year-long Uranus-Pluto Cycle is about a Compulsion to Transform our Lives so that our Ego Identifies more with our Soul or Mission. You'll notice that we talk about that quite a bit, especially now that Uranus is Edging into Taurus (Soul Merging with Flesh), which it does again in about six weeks.
The Sabian Symbol for the Pluto-Uranus Initiation was "A Ouija Board" – Opening up to the Mysterious. The chart of the Initiation is quite remarkable (https://astrobuss.wordpress.com/2016/05/29/yintegrity-in-public/).
So I was thinking last week about how I should be giving examples of the Waxing Square stage of Cycles, where the New Energy is coming out of the Closet, and see if we can Relate that to the Initiation, which we more often write about. So this evening I looked to see which Cycles were at the Waxing Square, that we could write about, and lo, Mars was Waxing Square to Saturn just last week, on 21 January.
So, when was the Initiation, and what did we write about it? I'm not trying to make this a test or testament about these methods, as I didn't invent them – blame Dane Rudhyar for that – because, after having seen these methods work over the last half-century, I know that if I don't understand, it's because there's New Information coming into my Consciousness, and it'd Behoove me to Pay Attention!
We Interpret Saturn as "The Most Important Thing" or the First Priority, and Mars as Action. So the Mars-Saturn Cycle would be about how well we Prioritize our Actions, and whether they Further our Goals. We have the admitted Bias that we Believe our Goals (at least while Uranus is as Lit Up as it has been) should be devoted to Opening our Ego to Adapt to Knowing and Surrendering to our Soul.
So if we go back to 2 April 2018 to find the Saturn-Mars Initiation, we find this (https://astrobuss.wordpress.com/2018/04/01/surviving-2/)…
"If we were examining Projects we're beginning now (this Rebirth, for example), and hence using larger Sensitivities, we'd see that the Saturn-Mars Initiation is also Merged with the Quaoar and Pholus Stations.
"This means that The Most Important Thing (Saturn) is to Act (Mars) to Be Responsive to our Survival Instincts, and by extension to our Hidden Genius. The Saturn-Mars Initiation occurs on 2 April (9am PDT) at 9 Capricorn, 'An Angel carrying a harp.' This begins a two-year Cycle where this Angel will facilitate our Actions when they Align with Being Responsive to our Survival and that of our Unique Genius."
"An Angel carrying a harp!" And of course, the stated Reason that the Sidhe are Approaching our Dimension now is because they sense that we're about to Commit Cultural and Environmental Suicide, and they'd like to help us Choose to Avoid such a "Fate," partly because they Live in a Parallel Dimension on the same Planet, and our Suicide will impact them as well. Continuing with our April quote…
"So 'you who philosophize Disgrace and criticize all Fears, take the rag away from your face, cuz now ain't the Time for your Tears,' as Bobby D put it. God/Goddess is on our side after all. It's been a tough week, but the prognosis is good.
"You also got cheated out of a readable chart of the Healing Abuse Full Moon (see penultimate post) with its Decisions-about-Abuse-and-Privilege Paradox School, in the heavy lines…
"The light lines show that the impending Saturn-Mars Initiation T-Squares the Full Moon, but Trine-Bridges the Decisions-about-Abuse-and-Privilege central axis of the Yin Gate. Which is to say that if we Act to Be Responsive to our Survival Instincts, and by extension to our Hidden Genius, it will Heal our Abuse Histories Paradoxically.
"Which is good, because it's going to be a lot easier to Act-to-Be-Responsive-to-our-Survival-Instincts than it would be to Act-to-Heal-our-Abuse-Histories, for the reasons we explained in the penultimate Healing Abuse Full Moon post. Penultimate means the post before the previous one. It usually means next-to-the-last, but in this case, same diff, as the last post is the one before this one."
We didn't discuss, at least in that post, the Yin Gate with its emphasis on the Orcus-Nessus Opposition as the Primary Paradox governing the Cycle. Orcus symbolizes the Oaths, Promises, and Commitments that are Forgotten and become Obsolete Habits, aka Karma, and Nessus symbolizes Abuse and it's flip side, Privilege. One very common sort of Paradox is the Healing Crisis, where an Affliction gets worse after a Healing before it gets better, and may continue to get worse if we Distrust the Medicine, because our Afflictions are continuing Mirrors for our Attitudes.
Here in the USofA we're in the role of the Battered Woman, where our Oaths to Support Nation and Authority, and to curry favor from Wealth, are being tested by the fact that Authority and Wealth have been Abusing their Privilege and in the process Abusing Us – and we're Noticing! The two diagonals of the Yin Gate (the blue Rectangle) are the Journey from Karma to Mission, including the "fact" that our Karma hides the tools we need to Reach our Mission (the Nodal Axis), and Noticing that we need to Trust our Instincts about Ending Obsolete TimeLines (Sun-Mercury Opposite Moon-Eurydike-Atropos).
My own Obsolete TimeLine that's being Ended is my Programmed Resistance to Accepting the HardCopy Reality of the Subtle Realms and Other Dimensions, where the Energies we need to Cooperate and Collaborate and Conspire with are Swirling, in and out of our own Dimension. Even though I'm Passionate about Reanimating the World and All of its Beings, Sentient and Otherwise (if there is such a thing as an Other-than-Sentient Entity), how much do I Allow it to interpenetrate my Life, Moment-to-Moment?
Earlier in https://astrobuss.wordpress.com/2018/04/01/surviving-2/, we point out that the Saturn-Mars Initiation is also Merged with (Conjoins) the Belief-Responsibility-Survival (Vesta-Pholus-Quaoar) Stellium, telling us that in order to Act to Support the Most Important Thing, Respond to our Survival Instincts, and Allow the Angel's Harp to Enchant us into Collaboration and Cooperation with the Energies Swirling around us, we need to Allow our Beliefs to Shift.
I have not been Working to Shift my Beliefs; I've been Reading and Learning and Watching them Shift on their own. If we look at the second chart in https://astrobuss.wordpress.com/2018/04/01/surviving-2/, we see that the Belief-Responsibility-Survival-Action Challenge (the red triangle or T-Square) is Self-Resolving (the blue cat's cradle across from it the Diamond Star created by Varuna and Pallas), and that the Belief-Responsibility-Survival-Action Challenge itself is actually between our Ability to Manifest (Makemake) and our Victimhood or Attitudinal Adeptness (Chiron).
Now, while all that well describes the Roots of the Cycle, we want to Recognize that it's Evolving. If we look at the chart of the Waxing Square itself, which is almost identical to the Sappho-Station (Self-Love) and Grand Octile (Epiphanies) Total-Lunar-Eclipse (Erasing our Karma and Enhancing our Vitality) charts in the Self-Judgment and Self-Love series (the previous posts), we see that our Understanding of the Most Important Actions for us to take (the Mars-Saturn T-Square) is being Transmogrified (Bee-Zed) by our New Commitment to Self-Sovereignty (Hylonome) and our Learning that we overcome our "Fate" by simply Choosing an Alternative (asteroid Moira).
All of which leads us to https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs__j4Zgw8v/.
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Another Busy Weekend
We have dedicated our Lives to suppressing certain Emotions and Memories and even Thoughts, and for good reason. They would Overwhelm us, and we have More Important things to do. Till now.
Thing is, those Emotions and Memories and Thoughts are the doorways to Healing our Limiting Beliefs, making it Safe to Remove our remaining Masks, eliminating Self-Sabotage, uncorking our Forbidden Genius, and to painlessly achieving the Yintegrity and Self-Sovereignty that we so crave, but which we hold back from because we fear it would so Disrupt our Lives and the Lives of those we Love and Depend upon. That sentence was not approved by the FDA, but I believe it's True. And it may even positively impact our Physical Health.
The Universe will bring these Emotions and Memories and Thoughts to us in early June, and the Universe has been, and continues to, give us Opportunities to get a head start. And every early Opportunity we take advantage of will make June less painful. If we're still in Resistance to these Emotions and Memories and Thoughts in June, the process could well be painful. The Universe is our friend, if we Learn to listen to Her.
As you probably know by now, Eris (Truthtelling) Initiates Uranus (Our Connection to Our Individual Soul) in early June. We expect this to do a pretty good job of finishing up the Yintegrity work we've been doing since 2012. Well, let's put it this way – late May and early June will be the Can-Opener phase of this Initiation. The Initiation occurs at 24 Aries, "Blown inward by the wind, the curtains of an open window take the shape of a cornucopia: Openness to the influx of spiritual energies."
When an Angle between two planets repeats, as is usually the case with outer planets, the first event always catches us off guard. The last time this event occurred was in 1926, so very few of us have Experienced it in our current Lifetime. If you know someone in their 90s who's freaking out, this is probably why. The less Experience we have with an Energy, the more likely it is to catch us off guard. Forewarned is forearmed, however, so even if we're off guard, knowing in general what the Energy is about can help us make sense out of what's happening, and can help us step out of the Victim Modality we'd otherwise be in.
Let's take what we hope will be an extreme example – suppose we were sexually abused as a child. We don't remember it, we only notice that in some situations we feel Unsafe or Angry or Scared, or maybe we're uncomfortable with Intimacy. If those Memories pop up in late May or early June, we're going to Regress to the age when the abuse occurred, and to the Skillset and Boundaries that we had – or more accurately didn't have – at that age. Victim Modality is a foregone conclusion, most especially if those Memories arise as a result of some similar-feeling Unsafety in the then-Present Moment.
If we are somehow reminded that there is likely to be a "100-year" Regression (a Regression on such a scale that it occurs only once in a century) going on, we're still going to be caught off guard, but we're likely to be able to Recover our Present-Moment Skillsets much sooner than if we didn't get the memo, or as the case may be, the blog post.
We've talked before about "Sensitivity" – how Sensitive we are to an astrological event, something astrologers can "Orb," and I sometimes call "Slop." When an event is pending, most folks can certainly begin feeling it when it comes within one Degree of being exact. Of course the Muggles will be in Denial, finding all manner of excuses, thinking it's Heartburn. The more Sensitive among us will begin feeling an event when it comes within three Degrees. The most Sensitive of us will feel it sooner than that.
The Eris-Uranus Initiation reaches one Degree of Sensitivity in Mid-May. It reached three Degrees of Sensitivity in late March. Most folks who read this are likely to be at least three-Degrees Sensitive, so most of us are already Feeling it. We Feel it through pressure to stop hiding or covering up parts of ourself that we've thought were less attractive or less Skillful. Through Vulnerability. Through Epiphanies about where we've been seeing through a glass darkly. Through old Identities and Ego-Masks and Archetypes that we're outgrowing. Through a Desire to stop "Playing Games."
An Initiation is a Conjunction. When Angles repeat three times, as the Uranus-Eris Conjunction does, the first occurrence is a Can-Opener. It opens a "Can of Worms" that we didn't know was waiting for us. The second and third occurrences are also Conjunctions, but they aren't Initiations – only the first event is an Initiation. We're almost always in Victim Mode during a Can-Opener.
The second occurrence is an Exposition – the same Energy recurs front and center, but this time it seems to occur in slow motion (Retrograde), so we have a far better chance of understanding what's happening "to us," and consequently a far better chance of moving from Victim Mode to Master Mode. In Victim Mode things happen to us, we have no Control over them. In Master Mode, even if things happen to us, we have Skills to deal with them adequately.
If we Master an Energy during the Exposition, then the third occurrence is a Confidence-Builder. The Energy and Process recurs, but this time we're ready and able to deal with it using our now-Present-Moment Skillsets, including those we learned in the previous two events, and we sail through it, feeling great about our new Expertise. If we didn't Master the Energy during the Exposition, then the third occurrence becomes another Opportunity, another Exposition.
The Uranus-Pluto Square recurred six times after the Can-Opener, giving us an indication of how Important the Universe thought it was for us to Recover our Yintegrity. As if Pluto didn't already symbolize what is Mandatory (Adaptable but not Avoidable). The Can-Opener (June 2012) was followed by five Expositions (October 2012, May and November 2013, May and December 2014) before the Confidence-Builder (March 2015).
The Uranus-Eris Exposition peaks in late September, while the Confidence-Builder occurs at the Ides of March next year.
In other words, as Uranus approaches Eris, that section of the Zodiac (now 21-23 Aries) gets very Hot. The Sun (our Essence) crossed that section last weekend (April 9-11), while Varuna (Cellular Wisdom) and Chariklo (Beauty and Charm) were Stationary. Venus (our Values) crosses that section two weekends hence, April 22-24. In between, this coming weekend (April 16-17), Mars (Action) and Pluto (Inevitability) are Stationary (Strong).
There's a joke about two Olde-Boy psychologists trading stories about "Freudian slips." One says his attention was drawn to the bosom of a ticket-seller on a recent trip to Pittsburgh, and he accidentally asked for a picket to his destination instead of a ticket. The other says, "That's nothing. The other day I was having dinner with my mother and when I meant to ask her to pass the butter, what came out instead was 'Mother, you've ruined my Life and I hate you!' "
It would be really appropriate to Mars-Pluto – and fortuitous – if such Freudian slips came out this weekend, because they would constitute bright flashing lights pointing us toward clues about what hasn't come to the surface of Consciousness yet. Let your tongue be your Guide this weekend. Same with "slip-ups" of any sort. Make a wrong turn on the way to the store? Where did you end up? Drop a jar of Honey on a hard floor? What do you suppose that might mean? PIAVA the question. Run into someone you haven't seen in a long time? A stranger strikes up an interesting conversation? Pay Attention this weekend.
In particular, in addition to the Retrograde Stations of Pluto (5am PDT 17 April at 18 Capricorn) and Mars (1am PDT 18 April at 9 Sagittarius), Vesta (Unconscious Beliefs) Initiates Mercury (Communication) at 3pm PDT 16 April, in 17 Taurus, "A symbolic battle between 'swords' and 'torches'." Fascinating Symbol, as Swords symbolize mentality, as does Mercury. That leaves Vesta standing in for Torches, indicating that…
Our Unconscious Limiting Beliefs are Burning their way out of Denial now, and will be for the next fifteen months, while this Mercury-Vesta Cycle moves through. Just long enough to cover the Eris-Uranus Confidence-Builder.
We'll talk more about the Vesta-Mercury Initiation – with its two Tricolors and Grand Trine – in the next installment, but note that while it's occurring, the Sun is crossing the asteroid Mnemosyne – Memory. What a jokester, this Universe!
Posted in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, April 2016, Beliefs, Can-Opener, Confidence-Builder, Conjunction, Control, Discernment, Dreams, Emotions, Exposition, Healing, Initiation, June 2016, March 2016, March 2017, May 2016, Mercury-Vesta, Mnemosyne, Self-Sabotage, Sensitivity (Orb), September 2016, Uranus-Eris, Uranus-Pluto (2012-2015), Victim/Responsibility, Yintegrity | 1 Comment »
Portal 13-14.6 – Scorpio and Virgo
Sagittarius and Scorpio. Believe it or not, the Sagittarian Wisps are actually Crystals, of Natrolite, sitting on a more recognizable Crystal, Scorpionic Apophyllite. Nevertheless, things are still not what they seem to be. The recognizable Crystal is actually a Mica, Apophyllite, even though it looks nothing like a Mica. And the Wisps are actually a Zeolite, even though they look nothing like any we'd recognize. A Zeolite is a complex Mineral with pockets. You wouldn't think there'd be room in those Wisps for a pocket, let along a complex Mineral. If you get the right Zeolite, you can dump it into a toxic mess, and the Zeolite will pocket the toxins and bring them out! I know, She is truly amazing, especially when we forget She's a Living Entity with many orders of magnitude more cleverness than we'll ever dream of mustering!
Apophyllite (Potassium Calcium Fluoride Mica) is about Opening our Third Eye, appropriate for Getting to the Bottom of Things. Green Apophyllite brings Compassion into our Intuition. As we like to say, Apophyllite was used for Divining by the twelve Apophylls. Natrolite (Sodium Aluminum Zeolite) is about Opening the Crown Chakra, appropriate for Letting Go of what Limits us. Like much of the loveliest Apophyllite, this one comes from near Pune, India, a center for many different flavors of Spiritual pursuit.
Friday the 13th falls on a Saturday this month, as Pogo used to say. Whatever you're Grieving, Trust that it was not planning to be part of the next phase of this Gaia-Pi Adventure. We're in the process now of Co-Creating what we need for the next phase.
Makemake (Manifestation) is Stationary Direct (Strong)
Saturn backs into Scorpio (Did we leave any Emotional Stones unturned?)
The Moon Occults Mercury (Beginner's Mind) at 5 Gemini ("A revolutionary magazine asking for action")
Mercury and the Balsamic Moon rise ahead of the Sun, so they should make a lovely couple just before Sunrise, whether you're in the right spot (east central Asia) to see the Moon cover Mercury or not. The Balsamic Moon is about Letting Go, echoing our other themes.
Saturn points us to The Most Important Thing, and informs us that all of the other priorities will be just fine playing quietly by themselves while we put all of our Attention on The Most Important Thing. Scorpio is about Getting to the Bottom of Things, so when…
The Most Important Thing Is Getting to the Bottom of Things,
we can – appropriately – be pretty obsessive. Another useful key phrase about Scorpio, left over from the Recovery Movement in the 1980s (when Pluto was in Scorpio) is The Way Out Is Through. Saturn has been in Sagittarius since Christmas 2014, and in Sagittarius The Way Out Is Letting Go. So we've Lightened Up quite a bit since Christmas. But there are still some bits of Egg clinging to the pan, so we need to go back and scrub a little more.
Till last Christmas, Saturn had been in Scorpio since October 2012 – in other words, The Most Important Thing has been Getting to the Bottom of Things since Time ended and Pi took over. For the last two and a half years The Most Important Thing has been locating anything and everything that has stood between us and taking Full Responsibility for Everything in our Lives. Though Pi gave us that first nine months of Grand Trines to ease our Rebirth into the New Era, of course that would feel like being poked with spears and knives by everyone and everything around us, as we were educated about where we weren't taking Responsibility.
Soooo, what did we not quite finish up? Responsibility means being able and willing to Respond. It looks to improve the Future, not assign causality and Blame for anything from the Past. Anyplace in your Life where you're still feeling like a Victim, or where you want to Blame someone else for anything? Those are the bits of Egg we need to work with; keep your eye out for them between now and mid-September, especially toward the end of July, as Saturn turns Direct on August 1. After mid-September, we're in the Let-It-Go Stage "for good" – well, for two and a half years anyway.
The Station of Makemake in 29 Virgo ("A seeker after occult knowledge is reading an ancient scroll which illumines her mind") suggests that…
We should be on the lookout for What We Need to Survive in this New Era. We first experimented with meeting our new Next-Phase Tribe (Makemake in Libra) from mid-October 2013 to mid-March 2014. Then last September we renewed this quest. In mid-July we get serious about it. In between – March-August of 2014 and mid-May through mid-July of this year, we review our own Blocks to receiving our new Community. Virgo is about breaking down the Ego so we're ready to meet Other without prejudice – without Judgment. Ego is a force for good; it's primary Mission is to keep us alive. The only problem with Ego is that it's "sticky."
Sure, Narcissism can feel like a pain if we're stuck with having to deal with someone else's Narcissism, but that's just about our own unwillingness or inability to set working Boundaries. Our own Narcissism? Not to worry; it's its own best frenemy.
A caution for Virgo, though. Since Ego-Recycling and Virgo are so poorly understood in Ego-dominated Western culture, Virgo ends up being seen as nit-picky and critical, and Virgo grows up with a programmed self-hate from introjecting this criticality. So anyone with strong Virgo will likely worry about their own Narcissism. But Virgo is the Opposite of Narcissistic. What's the Coin? Self-Love. Self-Transformation (Virgo) is about Self-Love, for sure. Transformation isn't about hating what's being Transformed, it's about Transcending what's being Transformed.
A functioning Ego is flexible enough to Celebrate our own unique Skills fully – without having to compete them with the unique Skills of Others, and to Recognize when and where it would serve our Community better to delegate to the superior unique Skills of Another. A "normal" Ego, more concerned with how many strokes we get, gets stuck on the last hurt or triumph, and loses track of the Present Moment.
This is what Virgo is about. Pisces is about making a break from a Community that we've outgrown, with all of the Grief and unfulfilled Wishes and lack of Recognition and unexpressed Angers and Fear of Abandonment that's involved in Letting Go of a Community without the assurance that we'll be accepted into a new one. Neptune and Chiron are working us through all that Drama and Trauma. Virgo is about making a break from a sticky Ego that we've outgrown, with all of the Grief and unfulfilled Wishes and lack of Recognition and unexpressed Angers and Fear of Abandonment that's involved in Letting Go of an Identity without the assurance that a new one will function any better than the old one. Or, in a word, Ego Death. Makemake is helping us through this wicket, and it's an excellent Guide to have, as its focus is always on Co-Creating the new tools we'll need to Survive in a new Era.
So as we go back into Getting to the Bottom of Things, we're also back in Ego Death. With Saturn, we're just re-entering our last review period (ie, just tiptoeing back into Scorpio and hoping she doesn't wake up). With Makemake, we've already finished our review (ie, already backtracked into Virgo, and now we're turning to exit for the final time), so we're in better shape there. Between now and mid-July we'll be making the adjustments that will "fix" the Responsibility shortcomings that we've already encountered.
So while there may be a few Surprises awaiting us on the Emotional front, on the Ego front we've probably seen that last of them. Is it any easier to step aside and Witness an Emotion that threatens to overwhelm us, than it is to step aside and Witness an Identity that's sabotaging us? You bet. It's when the Emotion and the Identity are intertwined, that the greatest difficulties arise. And as we encounter the last few Emotions that Separate us from Joy and Light, we should already have some degree of Ego Detachment.
Cuspal Saturn and Stationary Makemake are Sextile to one another, sharing the quality of Magnetism.
Sextiles connect two Signs that have either Magnetism or Dynamism in common, so on this basic level they aren't competing with one another. It's the Sixth Harmonic, so the basic Energy is about Partnership – Win-Win.
It's a Waxing Sextile, several years into the Saturn-Makemake Cycle that began in September 2009 at 26 Virgo, "A boy with a censer serves the priest near the altar." In terms of current events, we could trip into a number of directions on that one, about boy-priest relationships or about "making things smell better."
In our tradition of focusing on what's being Healed, we'll do just that, and propose that the current 33-year Saturn-Makemake Cycle is about Healing the lost art of Apprenticeship. In pre-Industrial society, as children we "played" at learning the "work" our elders were doing, automatically learning Survival Skills in the process. Since that link was broken by the various forms of Industrial Slavery (schools that removed children from parents so they could be propagandized into one paradigm, work that separated the workplace from the family so compassion could be removed from working conditions, etc), child-adult relationships have been strained and forced into unfamiliar forms.
A Saturn-Makemake Cycle would be about Building the Structures that Support Survival in the next Paradigm. So we could see the current Cycle as Restructuring Apprenticeship to reintegrate Spirituality and Survival ("Work") and Everyday Life. Industrial and Religious Culture rigidly divided these into separate days of the week. Remember that what we're going here (2000-2020) in the Jupiter-Saturn Cycles is, on the Cultural level, deciding what parts of the Industrial Age we want to take with us into the Digital Age. The Sextile represents Grace after we take the first step. The Cultural level is assembled from accumulation of Personal levels. So an appropriate question to ask ourselves might be…
Are there concrete steps I can take right now, to integrate my Spiritual Life with my Everyday Life and What I Do to Survive? Have I already taken any steps like this? Can I start to build them into Patterns that can become the infrastructure of Life in the Next Phase?
Posted in 2012, Blame and Responsibility, Cause and Effect, Community, Consciousness, December 2012, December 2014, Discernment, Ego Death, Emotions, Healing, Identity, July 2015, June 2105, Makemake, March 2014, May 2015, October 2013, Pi, Pisces, Sagittarius, Saturn, Saturn-Makemake, Scorpio, September 2015, Sixth Harmonic (Sextile), Victim/Responsibility, Virgo | 3 Comments »


Listened to a new song by Matt Kearney today called Closer to love.
One line stuck in my brain.
"I guess we are all one phone call away from our knees."
I know its not the context of what is a great song but this statement bothered me. Asking myself why it rankled? I came up with the reluctant answer: Sometimes the only time we get on our knees is when we get that phone call.
We sometimes use the phrase "Driven to my knees" suggesting it is something that we have been forced into involuntary. I have to pray rather than I get to talk to God. Yes thats right I GET to talk to God.
Why does it take a crisis to call me closer to love when it is always there?


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When Twitter went public in 2013, shares were sold for eye-watering sums, with the company reaching $24 billion on the first day after issuing an IPO. Problems began when Twitter stopped meeting shareholders' expectations, cause the price to nosedive. The situation worsened when Twitter published its quarterly mixed report, revealing a disappointing loss in revenue and value of shares respectively, despite analysts' and Wall Street predictions of slightly better results.
A state of turbulence in the company has been caused by a number of factors, but among the main ones is the continuous decline in demand for advertising and poor user growth. At this point, it doesn't seem like Twitter is capable of handling such problems alone. There have subsequently been reports - now confirmed - that the company is open for an M&A deal, and there is already a small queue considering the deal, including Salesforce, Disney, and Google (Alphabet). Whether it's a Twitter's last resort or a tactical move - the deal is likely to be a bargain for buyers, with analysts predicting the purchase price to be balancing nowhere near the peak times Twitter had in the past.
As recently as April 2015, Twitter was trading at $50 per share - way above the initial share price of $26 when it went public. However, recently, most of the time the trade has been below the initial value, averaging around $20 per share, and even reaching a dreadful $18.63 last Thursday. Analysts have already started accepting bets, and some think Twitter would still be able to be acquired with the price based on at least $27 per share. The formal proceedings are likely to kick off in the next couple of weeks, with Twitter having the last chance to boost their shares' performance.
Considering that no one among the global media companies expressed an interest in the deal so far, why would Salesforce, Disney, and Google be interested in Twitter?
As Vala Afshar, Salesforce's Chief Digital Evangelist explained in his tweet: 'Why Twitter? 1) Personal learning network, 2) the best real-time, context-rich news, 3) democratize intelligence, 4) a great place to promote other.' The answer also lies at the core of the Salesforce's purpose - effective management of customer service and marketing campaigns - two elements Twitter already knows how to deal with. Also, among the interests of all three current bidders is an enormous store of Twitter's data and opportunities it creates. Unlike bigger size companies, if Salesforce and Twitter proceed, the deal will be more of a merger than an acquisition, and Salesforce would be taking a risk with testing the patience of its shareholders.
Google (Alphabet)
Unlike Salesforce, Google has a significant amount of reserved funds and the company has never hesitated to be adventuristic with its projects. The only sector Google couldn't crack so far is social media - achieving success elsewhere with search engines, maps, mail service, smartphones, and even driverless vehicles. Twitter can be that missing element to catch up with other social media giants and continue growing influence. However, considering that one of the main issues Twitter is currently struggling with is poor user growth, and Google has never been famous for social media skills - the collaboration has every chance to turn out dreadful too.
Disney has emerged as the most surprising candidate to buy Twitter - seemingly having little to nothing in common with the blue bird. What we need to bear in mind, though, is that aside from being an animation company, Disney also acts as a powerful media source, already owning ABC television network and ESPN. Moreover, Twitter's CEO Jack Dorsey already is a board member at Disney and has close ties with the company's executives. It was specifically after Disney entered the race that Twitter's shares significantly rose in price, causing even more confusion in the business world. Whilst everyone's still guessing what the Disney's agenda with Twitter is, Disney has already sent an advisor to evaluate a possible bid.
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CEO Slashes Salary, Gives Workers a Raise
April 15, 2015 Staff
Dan Price is the CEO of Seattle-based Gravity Payments and he just slashed his salary by nearly one million dollars.
While a CEO cutting their salary so significantly is abborational by itself, what he did with that money is even more rare and commendable. After taking a pay cut of $930,000, Dan directed those funds towards increasing the salaries of every member of his workforce. The company raised the minimum salary of their 120 employees to $70,000, previously the average pay was $48,000 per year. This increase affected more than half of the staff and a quarter saw their salaries double.
Dan Price explained his rationale to the Huffington Post in a recent interview, stating, "There's greater inequality today than there's been since the Great Recession. I'd been thinking about this stuff and just thought, 'It's time. I can't go another day without doing something about this.'"
The Patriotic Millionaires applaud Dan Price for taking this step towards better compensating his workforce. Not only will this result in a happier, more productive, and more profitable company in the long run, it also will positively contribute to the broader economy. When workers are compensated at better rates, they have more money in their pocket. They will then put this money back into the economy by buying products and paying for services they otherwise wouldn't on lower incomes. More companies should follow suit and the federal government should act to increase the minimum wage so hardworking Americans across the country also receive a much needed raise.
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Dr. Maria Magdalena Llabre is Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Psychology at the University of Miami. She is also Director of Biobehavioral Statistics at the Behavioral Medicine Research Center. She teaches graduate statistics and is lead faculty in the Applied Quantitative LaB. Her research uses latent variable models to understand change processes in cardiovascular behavioral medicine. She is an investigator in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL). One of her current projects explores the role of the Spanish language in the Hispanic Paradox.
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The overarching theme of my research is the link between stress and health. My interests include applications of latent variable models to problems in measurement, mechanisms, and change processes in cardiovascular behavioral medicine. I am also interested in the psychological and health consequences of war-trauma in children, and have worked on projects in Kuwait and Lebanon. More recent work has focused on sociocultural factors and chronic diseases in Hispanics as part of the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL). Other current projects include the Que Pasa U? study on the influence of the Spanish language on cardiovascular reactivity to emotional stress, the UQuest study that uses training in questioning to increase interest and participation in science in low-income inner city youth, and the UCope study examining individual and community risk factors associated with the experience of a hurricane.
Llabre, M.M., Schneiderman, N.,Gallo, L.C., et al. (2017). Childhood Trauma and Adult Risk Factors and Disease in Hispanics/Latinos in the US: Results from the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL) Sociocultural Ancillary Study. Psychosomatic Medicine. 79, 172-180. PMID:27606797
Perera, M.J., Reina, S.A., Elfassy, T., Potter, J.E., Alvarez, D.S., Simon, M.A., Isasi, C.R., Stuebe, A.M., Schneiderman, N., & Llabre, M.M. (2018). Gestational diabetes and cardiovascular risk factors and disease in U.S. Hispanics/Latinas in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL). Women Health. 24:1-15. doi: 10.1080/03630242
Llabre MM, Arguelles W, Schneiderman N, Gallo LC, Daviglus ML, et al. Do all components of the metabolic syndrome cluster together in U.S. Hispanics/Latinos? Results from the Hispanic Community Health study/Study of Latinos. Annals of Epidemiology. 2015; 25(7):480-5. PMID: 25818844, PMCID: PMC4457574
Llabre, M.M., Hadi, F., La Greca, A.M., Lai, B.S. (2015). Psychological distress in young adults exposed to war-related trauma in childhood. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology. 44, 169-180. DOI:10.1080/15374416.
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Twenty-six-year-old Dayo Olorunniyi (26) had been involved in several armed robbery cases in Ibadan, Oyo State but was always smart enough to evade the long arm of the law even as his other gang members are languishing in prisons. His place of refuge was Lagos State where he would hibernate until the heat eased. But his last attempt on March 15, 2014 blew up in his face as he was caught before he could make another escape. Reports had it that the suspect and two others – Ademola Olagoke and Bamidele Kayode – went to rob one Mrs Muyibat (surname withheld), a food vendor, at Oluyoro area of the city at about 10p.m. in her shop. Dayo was said to have entered the shop with a locally-made double-barrel pistol, accompanied by Ademola, while Kayode waited outside on standby with the bike used for the operation. As the woman was being attacked, her husband, who was around, summoned courage, gripped Dayo and disarmed him. In trying to rescue his colleague, Ademola was reported to have injured the food vendor's husband, who raised the alarm to alert people around. To avoid arrest, Kayode and Ademola escaped, leaving Dayo behind. Crime Reports gathered that one live cartridge was recovered from the scene while a gun and another live cartridge were recovered on March 22 when the two other suspects were arrested by operatives of Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Ibadan. In an interview with Crime Reports, Dayo confessed to the crime, saying that he was introduced to robbery by one Isiaka who is currently in Agodi prison.
During Dayo's revelation, he said: "I am an okada rider at Molete area of Ibadan but I live at Oja Igbo area. I am from Ijebu-Igbo, Ogun State. I stopped going to school in 2002 and joined bad friends in playing about. I followed my friends to Ibadan when we ran away from home in 2003. We stayed with a friend's brother at Oke Ado area and started picking aluminium scraps.
"My parents attempted to take me back to Ijebu-Igbo but I ran away so they did not see me until they returned home. I left aluminium scrap work and started riding okada. A girl had two children for me but we have gone our separate ways. I went to Lagos in 2006 and worked as a bus conductor. I met one Isiaka Ibrahim who is popularly called Saidi so that people would not know his real name. He gave me an okada to ply Oyingbo to Idumota.
"We both returned to Ibadan with his motorcycle. He connected me with one of his friends in 2012 who told me to join his robbery gang. I was the one riding okada to robbery operations. Other members are Isiaka Ibrahim and Azeez Jando.
"I have gone with them on three robbery operations. We went to Elewure junction at Elebu, Ibadan and robbed a man who parked by the roadside waiting for someone; I was given N5,000. We also went to Anfani Street where the gang collected some money from a woman caught in a traffic jam. The third was at Felele area where we visited a shop to collect money.
"Isiaka had two guns that we used to take to robbery operations. He would give one to Jando. The two of them were arrested in 2012 and 2013 respectively and they are in Agodi prison. I usually escaped arrest because I used to stay with the motorcycle and whenever I heard shouts of thief! thief!!, I would just zoom off with the okada and return to Lagos. When the dust had settled, I would come back to Ibadan.
"I joined another gang but was arrested at the first operation we would do together. We went to a shop at Oluyoro area at about 10p.m. and pretended as if we wanted to buy food in a restaurant. I drew out a gun but the woman's husband came in at that moment and held my neck. I struggled with him, just as Ademola tried to loosen the man's grip on me.
In his own confession, Ademola Olagoke (27) from Ibadan, said: "I had no one to take care of me after my father's death. I went to learn tyre sales but had no money to start my own business. I went to Lagos State to hustle and came back to Ibadan to start selling Tokunbo (used) tyres.
Unfortunately, the state government demolished my shop which was said to be under high tension wire.
"I started riding okada but the owner later took it from me. My brother bought me one motorcycle with which I continued working until one Abass, also an okada rider, asked me to take him to Basorun to pick the okada he was riding, unknown to me that he wanted to go and steal the okada. When he saw someone coming, he ran away and asked me to move away quickly.
"We were pursued and when he saw that those in pursuit were getting closer, he jumped off the bike and ran away. In the process, I had an accident and was caught. I was still challenging the driver of the car which blocked me when they started calling me a thief. I was taken to a police station and transferred to SARS. The bike was not released to me. I had to go to Lagos to fend for myself when I had no means of survival.
Bamidele Kayode (25) also stated: "I am a motorcycle mechanic. I live in the same house with Ademola at Ojagbo. On the day of the incident, Dayo called me and said I should take him to his sister, a food vendor, at Oluyoro area.
"When I saw him pull out a gun, I left the place and returned home. I was very angry when Ademola came back home, telling him that I never knew what they wanted to do. I have never done such a thing in my life. I have a stable means of livelihood." Kayode admitted that he had been smoking hemp for the past three years.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Olabisi Okuwobi-Ilobanafor, confirmed the story when contacted, saying that the suspects would be charged to court after investigations.
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Our volunteers enrich life at Dorchester Abbey in so many different ways. Put simply, we could not run the Abbey without them. Over one hundred volunteers take on a huge variety of roles to support The Abbey and its mission.
Visitors are welcomed by our expert Abbey stewards and can take a guided tour. Their voluntary colleagues support Services, serve in the Tea Rooms and Museum, as well as helping out with our Education programme with local schools. Behind the scenes, volunteers help with everything from fundraising to gardening and dusting.
If you have a few hours a week to spare, we would love to hear from you. In return for donating their time and skills, our volunteers often receive training, experience (sometimes used for that all important CV!) and become part of a lively and supportive community – and have the satisfaction of knowing that they are helping to preserve this historic building for future generations.
Sings: Each Sunday 10.30 am apart from 3rd Sunday which is Choral Evensong (6pm).
Extra services Christmas, Easter, Weddings, Funerals etc.
New singers who can commit to regularly attending a good proportion of services and rehearsals very welcome.
The Abbey has a fine peal of eight bells which are rung for the main service on Sunday mornings, for Evensong once a month, for weddings and for funerals (tenor bell only).
The ringers practise on Tuesdays at 7.30pm. Visiting ringers are always welcome so long as they do not mind climbing the 46 steps of the spiral staircase to the ringing chamber! It is customary when visiting to wait until there is a gap in the ringing before entering the chamber (otherwise the ringers may lose concentration), and on no account should non-ringing visitors ascend the tower without being accompanied by a ringer.
We are happy to teach complete beginners and we all help each other to improve. It is a real team effort and great fun.
For young singers age 7 and above.
Rehearse Fridays in the Abbey 6pm until about 6-30 during school term time.
Sing at 10-30 Eucharist on the 2nd Sunday of each month (this may expand to two Sundays a month in the future). Also sing at other occasional services.
New youngsters who enjoy singing very welcome.
The Church Orchestra leads the hymns at the 10.30 Family service usually on the 3rd Sunday of the month, with a short rehearsal beforehand at 9.45am.
Music is issued the previous weekend for personal practice.
Players of orchestral instruments from intermediate (about grade 3ish) upwards very welcome.
Every Sunday a group of volunteers provide coffee after the morning service as a way of encouraging the congregation to meet and also to welcome any new visitors.
Most volunteers on the rota commit to a couple of Sundays a year.
Stewards are available in the Abbey on weekends from Easter to September to answer visitors' questions and provide a warm welcome.
Stewards only require some basic knowledge and enthusiasm about the building and new volunteers are always welcome!
Manage concerts and event hires in the Abbey.
This is an active, busy and rewarding role, mainly to liaise with the hirer about all aspects of using the Abbey on the day of the event itself and involves dealing confidently with both the performers and the audience. Reporting to and liaising with the Events Manager, the role involves training sessions and a commitment to volunteer at least 6 times per year (often involving evening events).
The unique benefit enjoyed by Concert and Event Managers is to experience for free many of the musical and other special events which happen in the Abbey and the Guest House.
The Museum, which contains artefacts, a village archive and a shop, is open every day between 2-5 from Easter Saturday until the 30th September with the help of a team of volunteers. Volunteers are there to welcome visitors and do one afternoon every 3 or 4 weeks.
Our tea room is open from 3pm-5pm Easter to the end of September, weekends, Bank Holidays and Wednesdays and Thursdays from the middle of May.
It is run entirely by volunteers from Dorchester and neighbouring villages, who give unstintingly of their time, whether it be as cake makers, teapot ladies, washers-up or servers.
Of the profits (nearly £15,000 in 2013) approximately 75% goes to charitable causes world-wide, and 25% to the maintenance of the Guest House and Abbey.
Every other May the Abbey hold a Festival over 10 days, during which we welcome around 3,000 people to enjoy events of all types.
It is entirely run by around 150 volunteers who do all sorts of work from running an event to simply pouring tea for an afternoon.
The Education department aims to provide stimulating educational visits to the Abbey, introducing visitors to the awe and wonder of the building, as well as providing contextualising background based on their theme(s) of interest.
Volunteers provide basic general support and/or help with specific workshops/groups about once a month April-July.
Our beautiful gardens are tended by a dedicated group of volunteer gardeners, who take responsibility for a specific area which they look after as needed.
Grass and trees are managed by contractors.
Flowers are arranged weekly for Abbey Services and for Weddings on request.
Volunteers do arrangements three times a year and as a group for special occasions such as Easter and Christmas. Flowers are provided.
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Your Natural Beauty Curran J Smith, WA & AK, M.D.
Breast Augmentation Seattle Washington Before and After Photos
Your Natural Beauty Curran J Smith, WA & AK
City: Seattle
Dr. Smith arrived in Seattle in 1973 when he joined the faculty of the University of Washington School of Medicine. He ultimately rose to the position of Chief of Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery) at Harborview Hospital, performing hundreds of procedures on patients with severe facial injuries and patients with head and neck cancer. Dr. Smith was extensively involved in the teaching of medical students and residents and developed a teaching module that has been used over the entire four-state WAMI (Washington, Alaska, Montana, Idaho) medical school teaching program.
As a result of his substantial experience in reconstructive surgery for cancer patients and a budding interest in cosmetic surgery Dr. Smith left the program in 1978 to pursue additional training in a plastic surgery residency program at Yale University, returning in 1980 to begin his private practice. Dr. Smith maintains an affiliation with the University of Washington with an appointment as an Associate Professor of Surgery in the Division of Plastic Surgery. His interest in teaching continues and he has written a number of scientific articles and presented numerous papers to various organizations earning the Best Short Paper award at the annual Washington Chapter of the American College Meeting for six years until the award was finally retired.
Dr. Smith has been active in numerous medical association activities over the years, serving on multiple committees including those of the King County Medical Society and the Washington State Medical Society, and was an alternate delegate to the American Medical Association. He has also been heavily involved in his specialty society activities and became the founding President of the Washington Society of Plastic Surgery and served in that position for five years. Dr. Smith also served as the representative from the Washington Chapter of the American College of Surgeons to the Washington State Medical Society for many years where he also represented the state's plastic surgeons. In similar fashion he has served as the representative from the regional Northwest Society of Plastic Surgeons to the national American Society of Plastic Surgeons, serving on committees for that organization in part as a contributor to the society's national In-service Training Examination module for plastic surgery residents and practitioners in practice.
Dr. Smith has served as a Trustee on the Board of the Washington State Medical Association. He has also served as a Trustee on the Board of the Peer Review Organization of Washington, a watchdog organization that oversees quality of care for Medicare patients in the state. Dr. Smith continues to serve as a plastic surgical consultant for that organization today.
At his primary hospital, Dr. Smith served as the chairman of the Swedish Hospital Medical Bylaws Committee for many years, as well as on their Continuing Education Committee More recently he completed his term as the Assistant Chief of Staff at the Swedish Hospital Medical Center/ Ballard.
Dr. Smith is the very proud father of four sons, three raised and the youngest about to enter college. He enjoys gardening, reading, photography, boating, and chasing fish around the Puget Sound which he calls fishing. He is fond of classical music and has become an amateur aficionado of opera (collecting over a hundred operas on video) and commonly performs his surgeries to Puccini, Verdi, Wagner, and other great composers. However, attempting to be somewhat open minded and eclectic in his tastes, Dr. Smith is also known to listen, with some reluctance, to his youngest son's music in the car (where he admittedly has no escape).
THE DOCTOR'S PHILOSOPHY
Dr. Smith takes great pride in his staff and the quality of care provided. Dr. Smith feels strongly that his primary obligation is to be your physician first, and then your plastic surgeon, always making your best interests paramount. He listens to the patient to understand what he/she wants, and then determines not only the best way to achieve that goal at the minimum risk, but also if to do so is in the patient's best interest. It is not uncommon for Dr. Smith to turn down a patient when he thinks the request is unlikely to meet a patient's unrealistic expectations or if he thinks the timing is not suitable, such as when a prospective patient is in the midst of a personal crisis.
Dr. Smith says, "The adage 'First of all, do no harm' should be especially true of plastic surgery. It is my goal to improve the patient's appearance by enhancing the natural beauty that is within each individual, not to try to totally change them (which is impossible anyway). The best result is the one that keeps the observer guessing but unable to tell that the patient has had plastic surgery.
We always seek to achieve the best possible result with the least possible risk. In other words, I consider the work I do and our commitment to the patient a solemn duty."
If you are seeking a cosmetic surgeon in the Seattle area for a facelift, breast augmentation, liposuction, rhinoplasty, eyelid surgery, tummy tuck or other cosmetic surgery procedures, contact Dr. Curran Smith, MD. Or schedule your no-fee consultation for your preferred cosmetic surgery procedure here.* However, because Dr. Smith sees you personally a no-show fee is charged. Directions to Cosmetic Surgery Associates of Seattle.


the science of measuring and analyzing gases by means of a eudiometer.
We are without eudiometry machine technician since long.
52) Simon Schaffer, "Measuring Virtue: Eudiometry, Enlightenment and Pneumatic Medicine," in Andrew Cunningham and Roger French (eds.
Simon Schaffer, "Measuring Virtue: Eudiometry, Enlightenment, and Pneumatic Medicine," The Medical Enlightenment of the Eighteenth Century, eds.


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package com.ichorpowered.guilds.command;

import com.ichorpowered.guilds.util.ChatUtil;
import org.spongepowered.api.command.CommandResult;
import org.spongepowered.api.command.CommandSource;
import org.spongepowered.api.command.args.CommandElement;
import org.spongepowered.api.command.args.GenericArguments;
import org.spongepowered.api.command.spec.CommandSpec;
import org.spongepowered.api.service.pagination.PaginationList;
import org.spongepowered.api.text.Text;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

public abstract class HelpCommand extends Command {

    private static final CommandElement ALL_FLAG_ARGUMENT = GenericArguments
            .optionalWeak(GenericArguments.flags().permissionFlag("guilds.user.command.help.all").buildWith(GenericArguments.none()));
    private static final String HELP_TITLE = ".title";

    private final PaginationList defaultHelpPagination;
    private final List<Command> commandsToList;
    private final Text helpTitle;

    public HelpCommand(List<Command> commandsToList, String name, String permission, String... aliases) {
        super(name, permission, aliases);
        this.commandsToList = commandsToList;
        this.helpTitle = ChatUtil.getTextMessageWithFormat(COMMANDS + name + HELP_TITLE);
        this.defaultHelpPagination = generateDefaultHelpPagination();
    }

    @Override
    public CommandSpec createCommandSpec(Map<List<String>, CommandSpec> children) {
        return getBaseCommandSpecBuilder()
                .arguments(ALL_FLAG_ARGUMENT)
                .executor((src, args) -> {
                    if (args.hasAny("all") || args.hasAny("a")) {
                        this.defaultHelpPagination.sendTo(src);
                    } else {
                        getContextualHelpPagination(src).sendTo(src);
                    }

                    return CommandResult.success();
                })
                .build();
    }

    private PaginationList getContextualHelpPagination(CommandSource source) {
        // TODO: Generate the contextual pagination help
        return PaginationList.builder().build();
    }

    private PaginationList generateDefaultHelpPagination() {
        // TODO: Generate the pagination help

        return PaginationList.builder().build();
    }

}


What is known about the subject?
Inversion injury to the ankle and hamstring injuries are common problems in most sports. It is not known whether these injuries constitute a predisposing factor or a precursor of injury or re-injury of these anatomical locations. Therefore, we wished to test the hypothesis that a previous inversion ankle injury exerted a significant effect on the chance of an athlete suffering from a subsequent ipsilateral hamstring injury and vice versa.
In an observational cohort study over 17 years (1998–2015), 367 elite track and field athletes, were grouped according to their first traumatic isolated ankle or hamstring injury. Fifty athletes experienced both injuries. The Mann-Whitney U and Chi-square tests (p < 0.05) were performed to test possible associations of ankle and hamstring injury with age, gender, athletics discipline, grade, and type of antecedent injury.
Athletes with a preceding ankle injury had a statistically significantly higher chance of experiencing a subsequent hamstring injury compared with athletes who had experienced a hamstring injury as their first traumatic event (x2 = 4.245, p = 0.039). The proportion of both ankle and hamstring injury events was not statistically different between female (18%) and male (11%) athletes. Age and grade of injury did not influence the proportion of ankle and/or hamstring injury events.
There is a statistically significantly higher frequency of hamstring injuries in elite track and field athletes having experienced a previous ankle ligament injury.
To our knowledge, this is the first study that assessed the association between ankle and hamstring injuries and their predisposing role that each one of them has in a re-injury affecting the other location.
The present study opens the way to investigate the relationship between injuries occurring in different parts of the musculoskeletal system but in the same limb.
Athletes with a previous ankle injury face a higher risk of hamstring injury.
In clinical practice, there is a need for a holistic approach to musculoskeletal rehabilitation which should not be directed only to the region where a given injury occurred.
Ankle sprains and hamstring muscle injuries are among the most common sport injuries, and are a major cause of time lost from sport participation [1–5].
The main mechanisms of hamstring injury is eccentric contraction at high velocity and slow stretching at outer range of motion . A hamstring injury is a major risk factor for future hamstring injury [7–10]. Lateral ankle sprains are usually provoked by excessive foot inversion with the foot in plantar flexion . Certain somatometric factors such as higher longitudinal foot arch, wider foot, cavovarus deformities of the foot may be associated with this injury . Additionally, there is an association of the incidence of lateral ankle injuries with reduced cardiorespiratory endurance, decreased muscle strength and range of motion of ankle dosriflexors and decreased movement coordination .
There are several extrinsic risk factors for lower limb injuries such as level of competition, skill level, shoe type, ankle bracing and playing surface . Intrinsic risk factors include age, gender, limb dominance, limb flexibility, body size, foot morphology, anatomical alignment of the lower limb, muscle tightness, joint laxity, aerobic fitness, postural stability and inadequate rehabilitation after previous musculoskeletal injury .
In addition, a recent systematic review concluded that a single ankle sprain is the most common injury resulting in a secondary sprain of the ipsi- or contralateral ankle .
Furthermore, a growing body of evidence links proximal and distal contributors/risk factors to lower extremity injury . A pathomechanical model has been proposed, linking the biomechanics of the ankle joint with development of patellofemoral pain syndrome [17, 18], altered position and function of the hip and pelvis [19, 20] and the development of low back pain . According to this model, excessive foot pronation delays external rotation of the tibia and disrupts timing between knee extension and rearfoot supination [18, 22, 23].
A link has also been suggested in terms of the role of proximal structures in biomechanical function of the lower limb and the development of lower extremity injury [24–26].
The core muscles (lumbar-pelvic hip complex) are essential in controlling hip abduction, subsequent femoral internal rotation, and potentially more distal movement [17, 27, 28].
There is nevertheless a gap in the literature evaluating whether a prior injury in the lower limb could be a predisposing factor for an injury occurring in a different location in the same lower limb.
This study compared and evaluated the events of first time unilateral hamstring and ankle injuries in elite track & field athletes over a period of 17 years, and focused concurrently on both these injuries and their possible pathophysiological interdependence, while the majority of the studies reports on each of these injuries in isolation.
First-time traumatic ankle ligament injuries and hamstring muscle injuries in elite track & field athletes were assessed through medical records at the Sports Medicine Clinic of National Team Elite Track & Field Centre of Northern Greece in Thessaloniki. All injuries were recorded for a study period of 17 years (1998 to 2015) via a non-probability purposive sampling method. The Elite Track & Field Centre and Sports Medicine Clinic, where data were collected, was the only centre that National Team elite track and field athletes were attending in the case of an injury. Weekly meetings with the national team coaches allowed the identification and follow up of each injured athlete and therefore, it was very unlikely for the sports medicine team not to be informed of any injury. The study was approved by the National Track & Field Federation.
Finally, a total of 367 elite track & field athletes aged 16 to 30 years, having visited the Sports Medicine Clinic of the National Team Elite Track & Field Centre, were included. Relatively injured athletes were excluded if the injury was not related to ankle ligament or hamstrings, and if they participated in sports other than track and field (Fig. 1).
The athletes were grouped into four categories related to sport disciplines: sprinters (100 m, 200 m, 400 m, 110 m), throwers (hammer, javelin, discus, shotput), jumpers (pole vault, long, triple and high jumps) and combined events athletes (decathlon, heptathlon).
Ankle injuries were classified in four grades according to Malliaropoulos et al. [29, 30] (Table 1).The measurement of oedema was performed using a measuring tape so that the following landmarks were crossed in a figure-of-eight fashion (Fig. 2): a) navicular tuberosity, b) the distal tip of the lateral malleolus, c) the distal tip of the medial malleolus and d) the base of the fifth metatarsal. The measurement was compared with the uninjured ankle, and it was expressed as oedema difference. Stress radiographs [29, 30] were performed in patients with a grade II and III injury with the knee positioned at 45 degrees of flexion and the foot in neutral to 5 degrees of plantar flexion. A 5 kg (Kg) weight was hanging from the lower third of the tibia .
In the hamstring injuries' group of athletes, the inclusion and exclusion criteria are described in Table 2 .
Hamstring injuries were classified in four grades according to Malliaropoulos et al. [32, 33] (Table 3).
Clinical assessment was conducted by a single certified fully trained Sport and Exercise physician, and included a detailed medical history (symptoms related to their sport, mechanism of the injury), a thorough clinical examination (including observation of stance and gait, palpation, range of motion, muscle strength testing and special diagnostic tests). Additionally, if required according to Ottawa ankle rules, athletes underwent diagnostic ultrasound and ankle radiographs .
During the data collection period, 367 elite track and field athletes, 225 (61.3%) males and 142 (38.7%) females, visited the Clinic reporting acute traumatic ankle and/or hamstring injuries. The athletes' mean age at their first visit was 20 ± 3.2 years (range 13 to 34).
Not reported athletic disciplines in elite track and field athletes' medical records were treated as elite track and field athletes' with missing discipline. A total of 144 runners, 99 jumpers, 19 throwers, 25 combined events athletes and 80 elite track and field athletes with missing information on their event discipline, were included in the study (Table 4).
Initially, all track and field athletes included were grouped in two categories according to the first traumatic event occurring in one of the two sites under study (ankle injury or hamstring injury). The athletes were then grouped in two categories indicating the occurrence of a traumatic event in both sites or in one of the sites over the time of the study. Frequencies and proportions were calculated and correlated with age, gender, athletic discipline and grade of injury, in both cases and based on the total of the 367 athletes having been injured either in one or in both sites under study.
The risk of the elite track and field athletes under study to experience either a hamstring or an ankle injury was calculated as an incidence proportion. Consequently, the numerator includes only new cases of hamstring or ankle injuries, whereas the denominator is the number of elite track and field athletes having been recorded and followed up during the observation period.
Therefore, the incidence proportion was estimated as follows: .
[(Number of events per type of injury) / (total of athletes during a specified period and registration terrain)*100].
The Mann-Whitney U test was performed to assess possible associations between continuous and categorical data. The Chi-square test was performed to test possible associations between categorical variables. The Monte Carlo method was used in both cases to estimate the significance level. If there was a 2 × 2 table, exact results were provided instead of Monte Carlo. The basic assumption that 0 cells (0.0%) should have expected a count less than 5 was accepted. Statistical analysis was conducted with Stata 12.0 statistical software and confidence level was set at 0.05.
There was a higher incidence of hamstring injuries (16.3%, 245 incidents) compared with ankle injuries (8.1%,122 incidents). The proportion of athletes having experienced both injuries accounted for 3.3% (50 incidents out of 1500 athletes) of the total number of athletes with any type of injury.
Hamstring injuries experienced as first event accounted for 66.8% (245 athletes) and ankle injuries accounted for 33.2% (122 athletes), considering that there was no antecedent injury in these two areas. Most ankle injuries were clinical grade II (48.2%), followed by grade I (24%), and grade III (17.6%). Similarly, a grade II injury was recorded in 53.6% of the hamstring injuries, followed by grade I (28.3%) and grade III (15.1%) (Fig. 3).
Age was not statistically significantly different between ankle and hamstring injuries reported as first injury (U = 7674, p = 0.692). Additionally, gender was not statistically significantly associated with the type of first injury recorded (× 2 = 3.492, p = 0.324).
The athletic discipline was statistically significantly associated with the type of first injury (× 2 = 14.325, p = 0.002). Hamstring injuries were significantly more frequent than ankle injuries, especially in runners, jumpers, and combined sports events: 73.6% of the runners, 54.5% of the jumpers, and 72% of the combined events athletes experienced a hamstring injury as first injury (Fig. 4).
From a total of 367 elite track and field athletes who had experienced a first injury of the hamstring or of the ankle, 13.6% (50 athletes out of 367 athletes) experienced both injuries over the data collection period (Fig. 5). Athletes with a preceding ankle injury (23/122 = 19%) had a higher chance of experiencing a subsequent hamstring injury compared with athletes who had experienced a hamstring injury as the first traumatic event (27/245 = 11%; × 2 = 4.245, p = 0.039).
Athletic discipline (× 2 = 3.025, p = 0.388) and gender (× 2 = 3.120, p = 0.77) did not significantly affect the number of athletes experiencing both ankle and hamstring injuries. The proportion of athletes experiencing both ankle and hamstring injury events was 18% (25 of 142) in females and 11% (25 of 225) in male athletes. The clinical grade of ankle or hamstring injury did not influence the subsequent traumatic event to occur in the different area (× 2 = 7.633, p = 0.54).
To our knowledge, this is the first study that assessed the interdependence of acute traumatic ankle and hamstring injuries and their predisposing role in a re-injury affecting the other location. The most important finding of this study was the fact that athletes with a previous ankle injury had higher proportion of a subsequent first injury in the hamstrings compared with athletes with a previous hamstring injury and a subsequent ankle injury (p < 0.05). Also, athletes who first suffered from an ankle injury were at greater risk of further ankle injuries. This study does not answer the question, why a hamstring injury following ankle injury is more common than an ankle injury following hamstring injury. This interesting finding has to be investigated in further prospective research.
Generally, injury rates increase with the number of preceding injuries . Furthermore, psychosocial factors such as risk-taking behaviour, life event stress and trait anxiety may contribute to an increased risk of re-injury even in a different location [37, 38].
Lower extremity injuries are multifactorial , and depend on several intrinsic (athlete-related) and extrinsic (environmental) factors. In some instances, intrinsic factors have proven more predictive of muscle strain injury than extrinsic factors . In the present study, the frequency of both ankle and hamstring injury events was greater in female (18%) than in male (11%) athletes, although the difference was not statistically significantly. Interestingly, age did not influence the proportion of ankle and/or hamstring injury events.
Up to now, the literature has not associated directly ankle and hamstring injury, even though there is evidence to suggest that previous calf muscle injury is independently predictive of hamstring muscle injury. After injury, changes may occur in the functional biomechanics of the lower limb, predisposing the athletes to injury in different muscle groups. Accordingly, altered lower limb biomechanics have been reported in gait, unilateral stance and functional testing after ankle sprain injuries compared with controls .
A significant increase in ankle joint inversion and a reduction in joint plantar flexion during gait have been found in patients following lateral ankle sprain . Limited ankle dorsiflexion has also been proposed as a predictor for lateral ankle sprain . Kinetic and kinematic alterations were observed, and were attributed to an increased reliance on more proximal structures (knee and hip) to absorb impact forces . Patients with a 6 month history of first-time lateral ankle sprain displayed a greater hip-dominant coordination strategy for static unilateral stance  and greater hip extensor dominance during drop jumps . The observed flexor movement produced during the initial phase of the drop jumps may have led to a force attenuation strategy following initial contact . A plausible explanation could be given for the findings of the present study by the fact that 32–74% of individuals with a history of ankle sprain report residual and chronic symptoms and aberrancy of sensorimotor variables of neuromuscular control [45–47]. This situation alters lower limb biomechanics in the injured ankle and affects proximal muscle groups such as hamstrings . Previous injury in the lower extremity, especially when followed by inadequate rehabilitation, is a risk factor for further injuries to the ankle, knee, and to the ipsilateral lower extremity in general .
Regarding athletes with a prior history of acute ankle injury, neurophysiological changes have been reported in the ipsilateral posterior thigh muscles [49–51]. Additionally, mechanical instability of the ankle joint leads to an increased inversion, predisposing to further ankle sprain injury .
Evidence suggests at least an indirect biomechanical link between specific regions of the leg. Tight hamstring muscles have been associated with plantar fasciitis [45, 48, 53]. Increased hamstring tightness causes early contraction of the posterior leg muscles through the gait cycle, and decreases ankle dorsiflexion [54, 55] which in turn induces prolonged forefoot loading and the increased magnitude of tensile loading forces within the plantar fascia .
There is need for further studies on the interdependence of injuries in these specific anatomic sites. The outcome of the current study underlines the need for consequent rehabilitation of ankle and hamstring muscle injuries. Further research should address the interferences between hamstring and ankle injuries. In addition, it seems reasonable to elucidate, if the observed injury associations also occur in different sports (e.g. football). The question, if the demonstrated relations are also true for recreational athletes has also to be answered in future investigations. Probably, there is also an influence of a specific injury to induce a contralateral lesion.
The study population of elite track and field athletes showed a significantly higher frequency of hamstring injuries if an athlete had sustained a prior traumatic acute ankle injury compared with athletes who initially had posterior thigh muscle injury and secondarily suffered an ankle joint injury. Given the present findings, rehabilitation programmes should focus on improvement of proprioception and strength of the whole lower extremity after ankle injuries.
In addition, the association between injuries occurring in different parts of the musculoskeletal system needs to be investigated further.
One limitation of the study was the fact that 80 athletes did not report their sport discipline. However, their injuries were recorded in detail, and therefore it does not bear any consequence on the main study question.
Recall bias regarding correct reporting of first injury was also likely to be present during the follow up period. Also, the grading of severity of the two injuries is not homogeneous, so, for example, a grade II ankle injury is not comparable, in terms of severity and recovery time, to a grade II hamstring injury. Another potential confounder was the heterogeneity of the study population. Although all included subjects were elite track and field athletes, they were divided in different sport disciplines with different load demands to the lower extremities.
We thank the Greek Track and Field Federation for approving this study and we also thank all the subjects who gave their consent and understood the importance of this study.
There are no funding issues. This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors. relevant, registered) have been explained. Consent was not obtained but the presented data are anonymised and risk of identification is low.
There are no issues concerning this as strict confidentiality was observed and subjects were anonymised. The authors affirm that this manuscript is an honest, accurate, and transparent account of the study being reported; that no important aspects of the study have been omitted; and that any discrepancies from the study as planned (and, if relevant, registered) have been explained.
This was a collaborative study. All authors contributed to conception and design of the study, interpretation of the data, as well as drafting and writing the manuscript and final approval. NM planned the study, collect the data, contributed to manuscript writing, GB contributed to manuscript writing and statistical and Data analysis and MM performed the statistical analysis. VK contributed to manuscript writing and acquisition of the data, HL, XV and NP were involved in acquisition of the data. NM supervised the data collection, data analysis and manuscript writing. All authors agree to be accountable for all aspects of the work. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Ethical approval for this retrospective uncontrolled study was granted and approved by the Greek Track and Field Federation Review Board. ART No. 1998–11. All athletes provided written informed consent prior to participating in the study.
Participants and Greek Track and Field Federation were aware that findings will be disseminated at conferences and results will be published.


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From The Report: Saudi Arabia 2016
Historically the Kingdom has benefitted greatly from its ability to ship its hydrocarbons resources to consumers across the world, while its strong economic growth in recent decades has made it a significant importer of goods and services. Meanwhile, the country's transport links, large consumer market and a relatively high per capita income combine to make it an attractive destination for investment capital. However, recent years have revealed a range of challenges facing the future growth of trade and investment: levels of foreign direct investment declined for seven consecutive years until 2015, and the fall in oil prices that began in the second half of 2014 has all but erased its once-comfortable trade surplus. It is unsurprising, therefore, that trade and investment are treated as key priorities in the Vision 2030 strategy. With the government's eye on these important facets of economic life, the coming months and years are likely to bring some interesting developments with regards to the Kingdom's global connections.
This chapter contains interviews with Prince Saud bin Khalid Al Faisal, Acting Governor, Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority; and Abdulrahman Al Zamil, Chairman, Council of Saudi Chambers of Commerce and Industry.
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Germany Marks 75th Anniversary of Landmark Nuremberg Trials
BERLIN — Seventy-five years ago, the dock of Courtroom 600 of the Nuremberg Palace of Justice was packed with some of the most nefarious figures of the 20th Century: Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop and 18 other high-ranking Nazis.
They weren't yet known as war criminals — it was a charge that didn't exist until the Nuremberg trials began on Nov. 20, 1945, in what is now seen as the birthplace of a new era of international law.
The proceedings broke new ground in holding government leaders individually responsible for their aggression and slaughter of millions of innocents. In addition to establishing the offense of war crimes, it also produced the charges of crimes against peace, waging a war of aggression, and crimes against humanity, whose legacies live on in the International Criminal Court of today.
Nuremberg was the city where Adolf Hitler reviewed torchlight Nazi party rallies and promulgated the race laws of 1935 that paved the way for the Holocaust.
Filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl's famous propaganda movie "Triumph of the Will," with its sweeping aerial photography and other pioneering techniques, brought the 1934 Nuremberg Nazi Party Congress to the world, with footage of top officials speaking to massive crowds of followers at the Bavarian city's Luitpold Arena and the sweeping Zeppelin Field. The Congress Hall begun by the Nazis near the parade grounds was never finished, and today houses a documentation center about Nuremberg's history during the Nazi era.
The choice to use the city's Palace of Justice for the trials was less symbolic than pragmatic, as it was one of the few large buildings left undamaged by Allied bombing during the war.
One of the Last Surviving Witnesses to the Trial, Emilio DiPalma, Died Earlier This Year
The testimony of hundreds of witnesses was heard over 218 trial days. One of them was Rudolf Hoess, the Auschwitz death camp commandant, who "reacted to the order to slaughter human beings as he would have to an order to fell trees," wrote U.S. prosecutor Whitney R. Harris.
Chief U.S. prosecutor Robert Jackson and his colleagues also had the Nazis' own meticulous records to work from, quoting document after document in "laying bare the workings of the German conspiracy," Associated Press correspondent Daniel De Luce reported from the courtroom at the time.
On Oct. 1, 1946, Goering, Hitler's air force chief and right-hand man, was sentenced to death along with 11 others, including Martin Bormann, Hitler's deputy, who was tried in absentia. Bormann is now known to have died in Berlin in 1945 as he tried to flee the Soviets. Seven drew long prison sentences and three were acquitted.
Fifteen days later, the condemned men were hanged in the courthouse's adjacent prison. Goering committed suicide by swallowing a poison pill in his cell the night before.
One of the last surviving witnesses to the trial, Emilio DiPalma, died earlier this year after contracting the coronavirus in the care home where he lived in Massachusetts.
After fighting the Germans on the front lines during the war, DiPalma found himself at age 19 being tasked to serve as a guard in the courtroom, where he stood at the witness box with his arms clasped behind his back while Hitler's deputies were grilled about their atrocities.
"To this day, I can hardly believe that any human being could do such cruel things to another," DiPalma wrote in his memoirs.
The city of Nuremberg is marking the anniversary in Courtroom 600 with a ceremony Friday that will include German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier as the guest of honor. Due to coronavirus restrictions it will be closed to the public, but will be broadcast live on the internet including an English translation.
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