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Hachinan tte, Sore wa Nai Deshou!
Madan no Ou to Vanadis
Shika no Ou
Tale of the Mismarca Kingdom
D-Genesis
Dungeon Battle Royale
Hakai no Miko
Nidoume no Jinsei wo Isekai de
Novel Illustrations
The Spearmaster and the Black Cat
Summoned Slaughterer
I work as Healer in Another World's Labyrinth City
Imperial wars and my stratagems
Kakei Senki wo Kakageyo!
Maou no Utsuwa
Chapter 1 – Story 62: Decisive Battle 2 – Archers (Beginning)
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"Listen, Eladia. Devote yourself to your brothers and sisters. That's the duty imposed upon us."
Those were the last words Eladia's father left behind for her when she was still young.
Her father, who gently caressed the head of the sobbing Eladia, took along the few surviving warriors, and ran towards the other side of the brightly burning forest.
They did this despite a great number of soldiers from a place called the Empire awaiting them there.
And Eladia never saw her father again after that.
It's a tale from when the Empire still spent all its time on warring to win the hegemony of the continent's centre.
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An elven woman is a living treasure.
This is by no means a figurative expression.
Even in reality, elven woman are treated as prized possessions. It's not rare to give an elven woman instead of riches as gift to a business partner, as a reward to a military commander that achieved meritorious deeds, or as a present for powerful people.
This treatment was largely influenced by the traits of the elven race.
Among the seven races inhabiting this Seldeas Continent, elves are considered to be the race closest to humans. In the myths it's said that the Human God even used the elves as a reference when he created the humans.
It's not entirely certain whether that part of the myths is true or not, but it's a fact that the appearance of elves and humans resembled each other very closely. If you exclude the long, pointed ears which is a typical characteristic of the elven race, it becomes difficult to distinguish elves and humans just going by their outward appearance.
Also, the resemblances aren't just limited to their outward appearance.
Normally mixed parentage between different races is considered as impossible. However, it was said that a mixed parentage between humans and elves, and humans and mermen was possible. But, in contrast to the mixed parentage between humans and mermen that doesn't leave the area of rumors, it's an undeniable fact that half elves, the kind of mixed parentage where there is viable offspring, are born between humans and elves.
This fact that children can be made between them made it easier to overcome the mental barrier that raping a different race was taboo.
And, yet another typical elven trait changed the situation into the worst possible tragedy for the elves.
In the eyes of the humans, elves have in general extremely well-featured appearances as a racial trait.
Even though there's a difference in preference between people, almost all humans would probably answer that elves are beautiful if they were asked about it. The beauty of the elves excels to such an extent that there's no way to express it as anything but them being an entirely different species.
Due to their good looks, the elves fell prey to the carnal lust of the humans.
Moreover, the superstitions that are whispered between the influential humans spur that on.
Thanks to the elven trait where aging is hardly visible from their outward appearance, elves were considered to have perpetual youth and longevity between the humans.
However, in reality even elves have a lifespan.
The elves' lifespan is roughly around 300 years. Although one can't possibly say that they are immortal, it's only understandable that it's misunderstood as such by the humans with their short lives.
Because of that misunderstanding, the superstition that one will stay young if they have sex with an immortal, young elven girl was born.
What those in power and those possessing huge riches desire the most in all ages and countries is to live eternally. Wielding their obtained authorities and wealth, they pursued pleasure with elven women. In many countries, beginning with the Empire, elf hunts are carried out frequently. Because virgin girls were especially highly valued, countless numbers of elven women had their virginity stolen and were forced into becoming sex slaves.
And the ones who were present in the city of Bolnis were the victims of exactly that.
It's not like those women were happy at the time when Souma, who captured Bolnis, loudly announced the emancipation of slaves in his "Proclamation of Iron."
As a matter of fact, when Souma made his "Proclamation of Iron," they were still enslaved as sex slaves.
If one were to ask why their release came that late, simply look to the dwarves.
Elves and dwarves are, since the time of legends, bitter enemies. When the dwarves began to rebel, they didn't go as far as causing harm to the elven women, their arch enemies, but neither did they take the initiative to rescue them.
Because of that Souma only learned of their existence after finishing the "Proclamation of Iron" and checking the state of Bolnis for the sake of ambushing the impending punitive force.
Souma, who learned of the elven woman being kept as sex slaves, immediately freed them. And then he made them live in the rooms of the feudal lord's official residence, where it was difficult for them to be exposed to public notice, and asked the female zoan warriors to look after them.
This handling of Souma was naturally something he decided upon after carefully considering their circumstances until now.
However, the elven women didn't consider it like that.
They didn't think of it as anything but them being gathered as loot in that house by their new human master who was accompanied by their archenemies, the dwarves.
However, no matter how long they waited, their new master never visited them. And not only that, there was no sign of any of their sisters being summoned to his bedroom. They could sense that even the female zoan, whom they believed at first to be surveillance, were quite worried about them.
As one and then two weeks passed in such state, the elven woman gradually started to feel anxious.
Something's odd.
Originally it was a situation that should be delightful for them, but the eleven women, who had a pessimistic outlook because of their circumstances, hallucinated that they fell into some kind of unimaginable, frightening trap.
This misunderstanding was also owed to Souma's carelessness.
Originally he should have explained the "Proclamation of Iron" to them at the time when he released them. Also, he received reports from the female zoan about the condition of the elven woman being weird and about them still secluding themselves in their rooms. He had as much time as he wanted to take measures.
However, Souma left them alone and didn't make any kind of moves either.
Yet, that was only reasonable.
That's because Souma never experienced befriending women so far. Not just that, even at school he only talked with male friends, and if you exclude regular greetings, he wouldn't be able to bring up any other name but that of his mother if he were to be asked about a member of the opposite sex with whom he had a normal conversation.
It was probably only natural for Souma, who was so inexperienced with women, to be timid about meeting with the elven women who thoroughly experienced the hardship of falling prey to the human male's lust.
Even though Souma also believed that to be wrong, he ended up delaying and delaying to deal with the elven women, using the approaching punitive force as excuse.
At the time when the anxiousness between the elven woman gradually became worse while such a pending state continued, a single woman finally started to do something about it.
Her name was Eladia, a high-class elven prostitute who was sold here from distant imperial soil.
In a place that was slightly more south than the imperial capital located in the continent's centre where the emperor lives.
A dense, ancient forest that no human approached.
However, that's a story from the past. Nowadays you will only find there a huge arsenal. It was single handedly responsible for producing the arms of the imperial army during the warring periods, when the Empire had just founded its nation. The ground, which was covered by lichens like a carpet in the past, has become a barren red soil, which had been dug up in order to collect ores, and the big trees, which spread their branches and leaves towards the sky, have been felled without leaving a single one standing. The whole area had been reduced to a ruined plot of land. No traces of the old days are to be found there anymore.
That long lost ancient forest is the birthplace where Eladia spent her life until she became a young girl.
On that day, when the imperial army attacked the forest in their desire to eradicate a sub-race and to expand their domain, her life made a huge turn.
Not only was her birthplace reduced to ashes and her father killed, but Eladia, who was captured by the imperial army, was put into an iron cage together with her sisters in the same circumstances, and taken to the stone capital called imperial capital.
And there Eladia was put up for sale at an auction.
The one who won the bid for her was an old man with a body that was withered like that of a dead tree. He was an elder close to death with the god of death's fingers wrapped around his neck, but she remembers that only his eyes were glaringly shining with greasy lust.
The night of the day she was sold at the auction, Eladia had her virginity stolen by the old man.
Even after that she was raped every night. If she had just a little bit of a defiant or opposing attitude, the old man relentlessly hit her with his cane. Those days were as if she were watching an unending nightmare.
Before long, within such hell, Eladia noticed that she had split herself into two.
One was her own body which was getting raped as usual, embraced and entangled with the old man on top of his bed.
And the other was her other self that dispassionately looked down upon that scenery from above.
It was a mysterious sensation where she lost any link to reality, as if she was appreciating the terrible events of the hateful tragedy with the protagonist being a doll that looked exactly like her.
That was likely a defensive action Eladia took in an attempt to protect her heart by pushing the wretched, painful experiences onto her flesh and disconnecting her own consciousness from that.
It's not clear whether that was a good or bad idea, but at least Eladia stopped crying.
A short time after that the old man ended up dying quickly. It's an irony that the death of the old man, who was somewhat delusional, was caused by him shortening his life by drowning in Eladia's body.
Eladia, who was once again put up for sale in an auction, was purchased by another man and raped by him as well. As that repeated itself many times, Eladia learned the techniques to entice men and make them enjoy sex with her.
All of it was for the sake of honoring her father's last words.
She couldn't save all elves. In that case she at least had to save her own sisters whom she could catch sight of. For that sake she had to at least suitably affect the disgusting human males who deeply desired her.
Maybe you could call it fortunate, but Eladia had grown into an outstanding beauty, even among the elves.
Her long blonde hair that had grown down to around her hips while waving slightly, giving one the impression of a golden wheat field rustling in the wind. Her skin, white like freshly squeezed milk, that softly sticks to a finger like the thread of a spider upon touch. Her slender eyebrows that look as if a straight line was drawn with a writing brush, and her neatly shaped nose bridge. Her lips with their slight thickness are sensual and along with her deep, emerald eyes, she is able to melt the heart of any man.
A poet with a reasonably renowned name in the empire formerly expressed her beauty in such a way.
Eladia continued to enslave countless men with her beauty as weapon.
And then, while she was owned by the king of a certain large country affiliated with the Empire, she made use of her beauty and her completely mastered wiles just as usual, and tried to appeal for the livelihood of her sisters to be improved, even if only for a bit.
However, an unexpected hindrance came into play.
It was the queen who flew into a jealous rage.
The king, who seemed to surround himself with sub-race prostitute beauties, almost completely neglected the conjugal relationship. The empress being the empress, she sometimes made out with male slaves.
As a matter of fact, that empress possessed a number of lovers and male slaves that surpassed the number of fingers on both her hands, but even so she apparently couldn't stand her husband, the king, being infatuated with other women.
Choosing a time when the king was absent from the county on official business, the empress immediately summoned the imperial household's slave dealer and sold Eladia off. For the empress to sell Eladia to the slave dealer instead of killing her off wasn't out of compassion.
In this era the imperial citizens perceived the central area of the continent, where the Empire lies, as the centre of the world and they labelled the western region of the continent, where Holmea is located at, as uncivilized, savage lands. The empress wasn't content with just killing Eladia, she tried to turn her into a plaything of barbarians.
"I will have that loose body being toyed with to the utmost by ugly barbarians."
Even the verbal abuse by the empress filled with all scorn she had to offer at the time she was handed over to the slave dealer didn't cause Eladia to feel the slightest bit of humiliation. Not only that, she even admired how ugly a human could become due to being twisted by hatred, albeit the beauty of the empress was extolled as that of a blooming rose.
From Eladia's point of view, who had as usual detached her consciousness from her body, this also was no more than a part of the hateful tragic events appreciated by her as bystander.
The boat trip from the empire to the western region wasn't bad by any means. The treatment of elves, who are high-priced merchandise, was worlds apart from that of the other slaves. Especially the treatment of Eladia, who was a high-class prostitute that kept even royalty company, was exceptional.
Once Eladia, who finally arrived in a country called Jeboa after passing several months on ship, was introduced in an advertisement calling her "The elven beauty that came from the Empire" by the slave dealer, she garnered wide-spread rumors in a flash.
However, the selling price attached to her was a staggering amount of money even for a beautiful, elven high-class prostitute. If you consider her beauty and personal history, it was a valid pricing, but as might be expected the wealthy merchants and high-ranking nobles hesitated, causing even the slave dealer in question to believe that she wouldn't be sold immediately.
And yet a buyer immediately came forward.
It was the slave dealer of Holmea's royal family.
He searched for a slave that would become the centerpiece of the birthday festival of Holmea's king, Warius Sadoma Holmeanis, which would be held in around one month. For this slave dealer, Eladia was truly the ideal slave. The slave dealer, who was satisfied with this unexpected harvest, decided to depart Jeboa earlier than scheduled in order to deliver Eladia to the king as fast as possible.
And then, in Bolnis, the city of Holmea Eladia visited first, she met with Souma.
Author's Notes:
Finally the entry of elves. I'm afraid to say, but they are muscular (T/N: Lies Mr. Author! Read your own fuckin' chapter, filled with hundred of words depicting how that blonde bimbo is an outrageous beauty!!)
After I write about the meeting between Eladia and Souma in the latter part, we will once again return to the battlefield.
Also, the reason why Darius wasn't able to notice the existence of the elves is a result of various coincidences overlapping with each other.
Souma 「Proclamation of Iron!」
The zoan dwarves and dinosaurians 「Give us iron!」
Tutu's spy 「The three brawny races caused a rebellion!」
The elves 「(´・ω・`) in slave room」
Darius 「Advance towards Bolnis!」
A citizen who escaped the city 「There were around 1000 people of nothing but the three muscular races!」
The elves 「(´・ω・`) in feudal lord mansion」
The elves 「We are going to fight for the sake of Souma-sama! (`・ω・´) *shakin* in encampment」
Darius 「F-From where did the elves pop out?!」
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import itertools

from heat.common import exception
from heat.engine import attributes
from heat.engine import status

class StackDefinition(object):
    """Class representing the definition of a Stack, but not its current state.

    This is the interface through which template functions will access data
    about the stack definition, including the template and current values of
    resource reference IDs and attributes.

    This API can be considered stable by third-party Template or Function
    plugins, and no part of it should be changed or removed without an
    appropriate deprecation process.
    """

    def __init__(self, context, template, stack_identifier, resource_data,
                 parent_info=None):
        self._context = context
        self._template = template
        self._resource_data = {} if resource_data is None else resource_data
        self._parent_info = parent_info
        self._zones = None
        self.parameters = template.parameters(stack_identifier,
                                              template.env.params,
                                              template.env.param_defaults)
        self._resource_defns = None
        self._resources = {}
        self._output_defns = None

    def clone_with_new_template(self, new_template, stack_identifier,
                                clear_resource_data=False):
        """Create a new StackDefinition with a different template."""
        res_data = {} if clear_resource_data else dict(self._resource_data)
        return type(self)(self._context, new_template, stack_identifier,
                          res_data, self._parent_info)

    @property
    def t(self):
        """The stack's template."""
        return self._template

    @property
    def env(self):
        """The stack's environment."""
        return self._template.env

    def _load_rsrc_defns(self):
        self._resource_defns = self._template.resource_definitions(self)

    def resource_definition(self, resource_name):
        """Return the definition of the given resource."""
        if self._resource_defns is None:
            self._load_rsrc_defns()
        return self._resource_defns[resource_name]

    def enabled_rsrc_names(self):
        """Return the set of names of all enabled resources in the template."""
        if self._resource_defns is None:
            self._load_rsrc_defns()
        return set(self._resource_defns)

    def _load_output_defns(self):
        self._output_defns = self._template.outputs(self)

    def output_definition(self, output_name):
        """Return the definition of the given output."""
        if self._output_defns is None:
            self._load_output_defns()
        return self._output_defns[output_name]

    def enabled_output_names(self):
        """Return the set of names of all enabled outputs in the template."""
        if self._output_defns is None:
            self._load_output_defns()
        return set(self._output_defns)

    def all_rsrc_names(self):
        """Return the set of names of all resources in the template.

        This includes resources that are disabled due to false conditionals.
        """
        if hasattr(self._template, 'RESOURCES'):
            return set(self._template.get(self._template.RESOURCES,
                                          self._resource_defns or []))
        else:
            return self.enabled_rsrc_names()

    def all_resource_types(self):
        """Return the set of types of all resources in the template."""
        if self._resource_defns is None:
            self._load_rsrc_defns()
        return set(self._resource_defns[res].resource_type
                   for res in self._resource_defns)

    def get_availability_zones(self):
        """Return the list of Nova availability zones."""
        if self._zones is None:
            nova = self._context.clients.client('nova')
            zones = nova.availability_zones.list(detailed=False)
            self._zones = [zone.zoneName for zone in zones]
        return self._zones

    def __contains__(self, resource_name):
        """Return True if the given resource name is present and enabled."""
        if self._resource_defns is not None:
            return resource_name in self._resource_defns
        else:
            # In Cfn templates, we need to know whether Ref refers to a
            # resource or a parameter in order to parse the resource
            # definitions
            return resource_name in self._template[self._template.RESOURCES]

    def __getitem__(self, resource_name):
        """Return a proxy for the given resource."""
        if resource_name not in self._resources:
            res_proxy = ResourceProxy(resource_name,
                                      self.resource_definition(resource_name),
                                      self._resource_data.get(resource_name))
            self._resources[resource_name] = res_proxy
        return self._resources[resource_name]

    @property
    def parent_resource(self):
        """Return a proxy for the parent resource.

        Returns None if the stack is not a provider stack for a
        TemplateResource.
        """
        return self._parent_info

class ResourceProxy(status.ResourceStatus):
    """A lightweight API for essential data about a resource.

    This is the interface through which template functions will access data
    about particular resources in the stack definition, such as the resource
    definition and current values of reference IDs and attributes.

    Resource proxies for some or all resources in the stack will potentially be
    loaded for every check resource operation, so it is essential that this API
    is implemented efficiently, using only the data received over RPC and
    without reference to the resource data stored in the database.

    This API can be considered stable by third-party Template or Function
    plugins, and no part of it should be changed or removed without an
    appropriate deprecation process.
    """

    __slots__ = ('name', '_definition', '_resource_data')

    def __init__(self, name, definition, resource_data):
        self.name = name
        self._definition = definition
        self._resource_data = resource_data

    @property
    def t(self):
        """The resource definition."""
        return self._definition

    def _res_data(self):
        assert self._resource_data is not None, "Resource data not available"
        return self._resource_data

    @property
    def attributes_schema(self):
        """A set of the valid top-level attribute names.

        This is provided for backwards-compatibility for functions that require
        a container with all of the valid attribute names in order to validate
        the template. Other operations on it are invalid because we don't
        actually have access to the attributes schema here; hence we return a
        set instead of a dict.
        """
        return set(self._res_data().attribute_names())

    @property
    def external_id(self):
        """The external ID of the resource."""
        return self._definition.external_id()

    @property
    def state(self):
        """The current state (action, status) of the resource."""
        return self.action, self.status

    @property
    def action(self):
        """The current action of the resource."""
        if self._resource_data is None:
            return self.INIT
        return self._resource_data.action

    @property
    def status(self):
        """The current status of the resource."""
        if self._resource_data is None:
            return self.COMPLETE
        return self._resource_data.status

    def FnGetRefId(self):
        """For the intrinsic function get_resource."""
        if self._resource_data is None:
            return self.name
        return self._resource_data.reference_id()

    def FnGetAtt(self, attr, *path):
        """For the intrinsic function get_attr."""
        if path:
            attr = (attr,) + path
        try:
            return self._res_data().attribute(attr)
        except KeyError:
            raise exception.InvalidTemplateAttribute(resource=self.name,
                                                     key=attr)

    def FnGetAtts(self):
        """For the intrinsic function get_attr when getting all attributes.

        :returns: a dict of all of the resource's attribute values, excluding
                  the "show" attribute.
        """
        all_attrs = self._res_data().attributes()
        return dict((k, v) for k, v in all_attrs.items()
                    if k != attributes.SHOW_ATTR)

def update_resource_data(stack_definition, resource_name, resource_data):
    """Store new resource state data for the specified resource.

    This function enables the legacy (non-convergence) path to store updated
    NodeData as resources are created/updated in a single StackDefinition
    that lasts for the entire lifetime of the stack operation.
    """
    stack_definition._resource_data[resource_name] = resource_data
    stack_definition._resources.pop(resource_name, None)

    # Clear the cached dep_attrs for any resource or output that directly
    # depends on the resource whose data we are updating. This ensures that if
    # any of the data we just updated is referenced in the path of a get_attr
    # function, future calls to dep_attrs() will reflect this new data.
    res_defns = stack_definition._resource_defns or {}
    op_defns = stack_definition._output_defns or {}

    all_defns = itertools.chain(res_defns.values(),
                                op_defns.values())
    for defn in all_defns:
        if resource_name in defn.required_resource_names():
            defn._all_dep_attrs = None

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Buchanan joined the Dentsu Aegis-owned agency in 2011 and was most recently its Group Head of Strategy.
He replaces Tom Cull, who has been promoted to Chief Operating Officer of iProspect UK and Ireland. Cull will remain part of the Dentsu Aegis North Board, with Buchanan joining the leadership team, led by Chief Executive Officer, Elliot Muscant.


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May this year is going to be a good month for Sarah McLachlan fans as the songstress is revealing her new album, Shine On. Released on Verve Records, this album is McLachlan's first studio album in four years; the last one being Laws of Illusion in 2010. But while fans wait for that, there is something even more amazing planned for them by the amazing crooner – a live tour. That's right! The Grammy winning artist is returning on stages around the U.S. to promote her new album. The trek will also bring Sarah to Berkeley loyal followers will be waiting impatiently with Sarah McLachlan Berkeley tickets in hand.
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The distinctive mezzo-soprano vocals, some 40 million albums sold worldwide, two Grammy Awards and four Juno Awards – that is what Sarah McLachlan is known for. This brilliant artist is now coming to Berkeley, Calif. at the Greek Theatre as a part of her latest tour. The tour, which is in promotion of her upcoming release Shine On, will have McLachlan perform a collection of her heart-touching ballads. The multi-platinum, Grammy winning singer/songwriter will be starting off the 29-city tour in June. Fans from Woodinville, Wash. all the way to Dallas, Texas will get to enjoy her soothing vocals and mesmerizing melodies.
Sarah McLachlan showed interest in music from the beginning. At 17, she was the front-man of a rock band named The October Game. Producers and recording labels recognized her talents and soon enough she was off signing her first deal with a record label from Vancouver named Nettwerk. A successful music career ensued, which saw McLachlan releasing one hit after another, gaining praises from all over.
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The Wealth Trap
Thornton Parker
Updated June 28, 2004 12:01 am ET / Original July 16, 2019 8:24 pm ET
WHO SELLS THE STOCKS that retirement plans buy? If stocks are as good as baby boomers are told they are, why does anyone sell them? Boomers have been taught to save for their retirements and use the money to buy stocks. Doing that, they are told, provides capital that companies need to grow, so their stocks will grow and eventually pay the boomers' retirement incomes. The advice is neat, understandable and wrong.
Serious investors can learn why the advice is wrong by analyzing Table F.213 of the Federal Reserve Board quarterly Z.1 Flow of Funds Report, which shows the net issues and purchases of stocks by major issuing and holding groups, and Table L.213 which shows the market value of stocks held by these major groups. The tables are on the Fed's Web site, and go back for decades. Data for this article are in then-current dollars from the March 6, 2003, report. Dividends are not considered.
Adding the net stock-issue numbers for the years 1982 through 2002 shows that during the period companies retired $178 billion more stock than they issued. This means that little of the money that flowed into pension plans, mutual funds, and direct stock purchases during the bull market went to companies as a whole. Of course, capital was moved around, but $178 billion went out of stocks.
In spite of the retirements, the total market value of stocks increased from $1.38 trillion to $11.74 trillion. Market action produced this gain -- a compound annual-growth rate of 9.7% over the 21 years.
While net issues and retirements largely offset each other, there was a clear pattern of changing ownership, with one group of stockholders being net buyers and another group being net sellers. The net buyers were mutual funds, life insurance companies, foreign investors, state and local pension plans, and others, in that order. The buyers were largely retirement-related. They started out with $249 billion worth of stocks, bought $3.51 trillion worth, and ended up with $5.82 trillion worth. Their growth due to market action was just under 6% per year.
The net sellers were households, company pension plans, and bank trusts and estates. They started out with $1.13 trillion worth of stock, sold $3.69 trillion and ended up with $5.92 trillion worth. Their growth due to market action was 13.7% per year. Households, the largest selling group, started out with $780 billion worth of stock, sold $2.98 trillion, and ended up with $4.19 trillion worth. Their growth was 15.1% per year.
To put those growth rates in context, a dollar invested at the buyers' rate of just under 6% compounded annually would grow to $3.37 in 21 years, while a dollar at the householders' rate would grow to $19.27.
How was this possible?
There are at least two sources of clues, and both point to corporate insiders. The annual Forbes articles on the world's and America's richest people are the first source. Bill Gates headed the list in March 2003 with a fortune of $46 billion, based largely on his Microsoft stock. He is reported to have sold about 2 billion shares (adjusted for splits) and still owns 1.2 billion. When Microsoft had its initial public offering, he retained 45% of the shares, and he still has enough to continue selling 20 million shares a quarter for 15 years. His cost was probably less than a million bucks, $0.001 per share, so virtually all of his receipts and the value of the shares he still owns are profit.
Gates is the extreme example, but he and the other 243 Americans identified in Forbes had total fortunes, based largely on stocks, of $700 billion, or a sixth of all the stocks held by American households at the end of 2002. In addition, there are the corporate insiders, including employees who received stock directly from companies as grants or through options. There were an estimated 10,000 "Microsoft millionaires" before the bull market collapsed.
The second source is the weekly table of Insider Transactions published in each issue of Barron's. The tables show the huge amount of money that insiders take out of stocks in relation to the amount they put in. For example, the Feb. 23, 2004, table showed the largest reported sale was 32 times greater than the largest purchase, while the reported sale at the bottom of the table was more than 100 times greater than the corresponding purchase. The amounts vary, but the basic pattern has been consistent for years.
Taken together, the Fed data, the Forbes lists and Barron's tables show that the households of corporate insiders must have been the primary sellers of the stocks that were bought by mutual funds and other retirement-related portfolios. The extreme gains that households received as a group may well have been driven by the insiders' low acquisition costs.
The hard conclusion must be that retirement-related portfolios absorb the large blocks of stocks that corporate insiders acquire directly from companies at low cost. The portfolios buy many of the shares the insiders sell and help price the stock they retain. Many insiders probably understand this, but most retirement savers are outsiders who do not. The role of insiders has not yet become a national issue, but is important for several reasons.
Insiders who have the lowest costs get the largest profits. When later buyers acquire insiders' stocks on secondary markets, most of the profits the stocks will ever produce have already been made. As a group, retirement savers who buy on secondary markets will always earn less than the insiders.
It is getting harder to make money by buying stocks on secondary markets with the passage of time. Insurance companies illustrate this. Among the net buyers, they came to the game late, bought most of their stocks during the go-go years of the 1990s, and managed to lose money during the full twenty-one year period.
There has been a symbiosis of retirement plans and insiders since 1981. The plans needed stocks and insiders wanted their money. Anyone who looks ahead can see that when boomers' retirement plans need cash to pay retirement incomes, they will have to sell stocks, and most of the domestic buyers will have to be the relatively smaller number of younger workers. That has been known for years.
But few understand that when the plans need to switch from buying to selling in order to pay benefits, the symbiosis will end. The plans will switch from supporting insiders to competing with them for the purchasing power of younger workers. A prolonged bear market is likely, and many of the insiders will be able to make money at prices that will destroy the retirement plans.
The wealth gap between America's middle class and its richest people is growing, and has become a political issue. So far, the way that retirement plans literally transfer money from middle-class workers to corporate insiders and inflate the value of the insider's portfolios has not been recognized. But unless this analysis is wrong, it is only a matter of time until that happens.
THORNTON PARKER is the author of What If Boomers Can't Retire? How to Build Real Security, Not Phantom Wealth, published in 2001 by Berrett-Koehler and also available in paperback. His e-mail address is Tipparker@aol.com.
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Moving In With Your Boyfriend Can Kill Your Sex Drive, Study Finds
By Lizette Borreli On 9/14/17 at 1:46 PM EDT
Women who live with their significant other or have been in a relationship for over a year have a lower sex drive. Andrew Welch/Unsplash
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Updated | A relationship changes when a couple moves in together. Some changes are good (i.e., cooking dinner together) while some of them aren't so great for one or the other partner (i.e., toilet seat up). Now, there's a new factor to consider: A team of researchers at the University of Southampton in the U.K. suggests living together and relationship duration can influence sexual desire in couples.
The study, published in the British Medical Journal Open, found both men and women lose interest in sex with time. For both sexes, poor physical and mental health, poor communication and a lack of emotional connection during sex can cause sexual desire to dwindle. Interestingly, women were twice as likely as men to lose interest in sex when living with their partner or while in a relationship lasting more than a year.
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This finding confirms what most people already know: Women are more likely to lose interest in sex over time than men, but cohabitation and relationship duration are strong predictors of sexual desire among women. Similarly, a 2012 study in the Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy found the length of a relationship influenced a woman's sex drive more than sexual satisfaction and satisfaction with the relationship. The researchers theorize this decrease occurs because, over time, the relationship moves from passionate love to compassionate love.
In the new study, the U.K. researchers noted that many of the women's sexual turnoffs were linked to having children under 5 years old, and to giving birth in the last year.
"This may be due to fatigue associated with a primary caring role, the fact that daily stress appears to affect sexual functioning in women more than men or possibly a shift in focus of attention attendant on bringing up small children," the authors wrote in the study.
Related: The secret to good communication? Alan Alda shares his wisdom on relationships and science
The researchers found that among those surveyed—4,839 British men and 6,669 women aged 16 to 74—34 percent of the women surveyed reported a loss of interest in sex, compared to just 15 percent of men. For women, the lack of interest in sex was most common between the ages of 55 and 64, whereas for men it was between 35 and 44. Moreover, two in five older women were unsatisfied with their sex lives, which researchers believe is linked to stress, pressures of family life and work.
"Our findings show us the importance of the relational context in understanding low sexual interest in both men and women. For women in particular, the quality and length of relationship and communication with their partners are important in their experience of sexual interest," Cynthia Graham, lead author of the study and a professor at the Centre for Sexual Health Research at the University of Southampton, said in a statement.
Graham also explained that the study highlights the need to assess and, if necessary, treat sexual interest problems in relationships in a holistic, gender-specific way that goes beyond drugs. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently approved flibanserin, the first ever drug treatment for hypoactive sexual disorder in premenopausal women to boost the female libido. However, if the problem is more about open communication and emotional closeness, talking to your partner may help more than taking a drug.
This article has been updated to add further clarity.


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W. Kandinsky: "There are no 'musts' in art." T.S. Eliot: "There is no freedom in art." Dostoievski character, after the ancient Middle East epigram: "Everything is permitted." (R-rated weblog. Since one has been advised there is no Literature anymore, or even literature, only writing, one proceeds on the premise that this weblog qualifies as not-meaningless, since it is, or appears to be, a form of "writing." Image: Banksy.)
Death in the Afternoon / E.H.
Too, too funny--discovered last night, in this dithyramb to violent death, the Spanish for a bullfighter's cape is--capote.
In this work, the first non-fiction book by a major novelist one believes one has ever read, Hemingway carries his let's-keep-it-simple aesthetic to the point aesthetics are thrown out the window entirely and our peripatetic author plunges into the world of fact and fact alone, his journalistic tendency having overruled his artistic, and it is fascinating, the art/sport of bullfighting one of the craziest, cruelest, most surreal activities, with moments of overpowering beauty, in which humanity has ever become engaged--imagine an NFL game where the captain of the losing team changes into a tuxedo and is executed by a sword-thrust to the heart to end the day.
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Slaughterhouse Five
Read this in the '70s and all I can remember, other than "So it goes," is Billy Pilgrim's red boots, the sardonic atmosphere, and the chapter-ending taunt, "Go take a flying f*ck at a rolling donut. Go take a flying f*ck at the moon." I understand this work and Catcher were among the few contemporary novels Beckett read, saying he liked both, according to one or the other of his biographers. As to late Beckett, a lament by J. Simon is not without merit: "What happened to the humor?" I noticed a couple weeks ago a collection of his poetry has been published, but don't feel inclined to take it on.
The Unnamable / Beckett
The supreme example of the plotless, make it up as you go along novel, a wild flight away from Ulysses, a radical effort by S.B. to escape the anguish of influence.
Springer's Progress / D. Markson
Don't like having the details of a stranger's sex life shoved in my face--at all.
First read this more than fifty years ago, forgot almost all of it and this time around enjoyed very much Jake scoffing at Robert Cohn's ivy league boxing title, only to be knocked out by him in a barroom brawl toward the end of the story, and I absolutely did not foresee amour-crazed Brett having an actual romantic liaison with pretty boy bullfighter Pedro Romero, which set up keen suspense when as a result of the infatuation he gets beaten up by Cohn the night before the final bull fight of the Pamplona fiesta--judicious of E.H. not to have him killed or injured because one is really tense thinking he will be, as the price for his dalliance. But the cast are a bunch of borderline alcoholics, who cares what happens to them. Interesting that H. doesn't describe the physical appearance of any of the characters, other than saying Mike is "tanned" and Brett has short hair. Th. Bernhard tends to go that way. But everything seems authentic; H. says he wrote the first draft in six weeks, making one think of Faulkner's claim that he wrote the first draft of As I Lay Dying in two weeks.
Couple of interesting facts from Hotchner's Papa Hemingway: he never kept a journal or diary, and admitted to, on at least one occasion, crying over a rejection slip--Hemingway! An effective way to avoid the irritation of dealing with editorial cretins--give oneself a few years off from the process.
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A collision between two commuter trains in Chicago occurred during the cloudy morning rush hour on October 30, 1972, and was the worst such crash in Chicago's history. Illinois Central Gulf Train 416, made up of newly purchased Highliners, overshot the 27th Street station on what is now the Metra Electric Line, and the engineer asked and received permission from the train's conductor to back the train to the platform. This move was then made without the flag protection required by the railroad's rules. The train's crew had not used a flagman before, and while it was a prescribed practice, it had fallen out of use. Instead, the conductor and the engineer worked in concert to back up the train, with the curve in the track partially blocking the view.

Train 416 passed the automatic block signals, which cleared express Train 720, made up of more heavily constructed single level cars, to continue at full speed on the same track. The engineer of the express train did not see the bilevel train backing up until it was too late. When the trains collided, the front car of the express train telescoped the rear car of the bilevel train, killing 45 people and injuring 332. The death toll could have been higher, but the accident occurred near Michael Reese Hospital (which later moved) and Mercy Hospital.

Later investigations showed that Train 720 likely could have seen the red light for Train 416 and avoided a collision if it was traveling slower (30 mph). It is estimated that Train 720 hit Train 416 at about 44-50 mph.

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External links

 Collision of Illinois Central Gulf Railroad Commuter Trains: Investigation Summary and Recommendations
 List of crash dead identified - Clipping from Chicago Tribune - Newspapers.com

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Railway accidents in 1972
Railway accidents and incidents in Illinois
History of Chicago
Accidents and incidents involving Illinois Central Railroad
1972 in Illinois
October 1972 events in the United States

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Ebook Anxieties Increase as Publishing Revolution Rolls On
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It used to be that a book was published, and that was it. Permanent, physical, tangible, it could be referred to for as long as the copy survived. That's not the case any more. We live in a world where page numbers – if they exist at all – don't correlate from device to device, where digital text can be updated at the touch of a button, where the ebooks we own can vanish without our say-so. It's something which is becoming a real issue, particularly for academics.
"I think it is a very grave problem," says Robert Darnton, scholar, author and Harvard University librarian. "If you're citing a digital version of a book, often you can't cite the pages." He adds that that documents have always been slippery – "there's no definitive text of King Lear" – but the ease with which it is now possible to make changes to published ebooks means "you take a problem like that, multiply it by 1,000, and that is the world we are in."
The issue is compounded, he says, "by the fact a lot of digital texts suffer from faulty editing, not to mention the hands of the scanners [appearing on pages]". He promises that the Digital Public Library of America, which launched last week, will "redo a lot of digitisation and make it right", as well as build in the capacity to make precise references.
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Angus Phillips, director of the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies at Oxford Brookes, agrees. "They are starting to put page numbers in some ebooks, and you can do percentages, but it is a bit irritating when you want to reference the pages," he says. "When you're reading and you want to look back, yes, ebooks have got a great search function, but with a physical book, I can flick back. Put [a term] into a search function, you might get 30 different references."
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Yannis Adoniou: Learning By Doing
Yannis Adoniou Sacramento Ballet 2010.
How might one describe the creature that is Yannis Adoniou? I could try by speaking of a Mediterranean sun, glowing and glistening, nourishing and radiant. I might then suggest the world as a stage, upon which edges are publicly explored, surveyed, challenged, redefined. I'd probably conclude with theories of convergence; portals easily overlooked when viewed through apathetic eyes, a kaleidoscopic mixture of talent, intellect, beauty, power, simplicity, sensuality, curiosity and chance.
Born in Athens, Greece, on the fourth of May, to a vivacious tribe of aesthetically minded folk; Yanni's family tree includes an impressive lineage of nonprofessional artists. His great-great-grandfather was a performer, his uncle a traditional Greek musician, and his father a passionate social dancer. Yanni's one-year-older sister Louisa, is a talented art-hobbyist as well, painting, dancing and playing various musical instruments with remarkable skill. Much like her younger brother, Louisa is diversely talented.
Not particularly interested in academic study, Yanni's greatest lessons have been ascertained "outside of the books", through observation and doing. By the age of five, he was a dedicated painter, decorating his sister's school books with drawings and impeccably transcribed texts. Many were astonished by this, believing Adoniou to be some sort of intellectual genius wunderkind. In actuality, Yannis was merely reproducing examples of visual form, with virtually no understanding towards the meaning behind these words. At the age of thirteen, Yannis began going out to parities and clubs, surrounded by incredible music, food and dance. When Yannis was sixteen his parents divorced, his father remarried, and another daughter was born. Also at sixteen, Yannis dropped out of high school, enrolling as exceptional talent at KSOT, the Greek national school for dance in Athens.
Yannis studied at KSOT for eighteen months before auditioning for both the Rosella Hightower Centre de Danse Classique in Cannes, and the John Neumeier Ballet School in Hamburg. Yannis ultimately chose to study in Hamburg, where he lived for the following three years. "I'm the only one in my family who has followed the professional path of art making, taking responsibility through art to live my life on this Earth. While I feel like my relationship with family has involved exposing them to art, they all naturally have their own individual inner voices, and I really enjoy this. The first time my sister came to visit me in San Francisco, she asked me to teach her how to paint. She paints two dimensional, flat, and I said to her, I'm gong to show you how to create dimension, but your style is fantastic, I wouldn't change it. So my sister went back and started painting icons, and fantastic, it was really beautiful."
In ballet school, Yannis was a diamond in the rough, not so technically advanced in comparison to other classmates. He excelled naturally in requisite choreography classes, recognized early on as possessing exceptional directorial talent and imagination. This was a a discovery which would prove to alter the course of Yanni's life. "Choreography was a fantastic way for me to express myself, because when you're learning technique, its all about you adapting to the form, it's nothing about you personally. Like when I was in school, I had the books but I really learned by observing. Looking back it was the same system, choreography was what I learned outside of academia." While in Hamburg, Yannis also found his future artistic and romantic partner in a young Finnish dancer named Tomi Paasonen. Tomi and Yannis became inseparable, spending every possible moment in each other's company. After graduating from ballet school, Yannis went on to work with the State Theater of Osnabrück, at the time a burgeoning dance-theater, specializing in experimental performance. For this audition, Yannis prepared several ballet excerpts, though the moment which truly secured his place occurred upon the director's request, when Yannis sang an improvised Greek song while impersonating Marilyn Monroe. Adoniou stayed in Osnabrück for one year before moving to Bonn, where he returned to his classical pedigree as company member of the State Ballet. While living in Bonn, Yannis also created several original works, receiving critical praise. During this time, Tomi was dancing with the Hamburg Ballet; he and Yannis visited each other every weekend like clockwork.
Adoniou and Paasonen, Athens 1990. Photo credit: Holger Badekow.
During a visit to Frankfurt, Yannis met Alonzo King, director of San Francisco based Lines Contemporary Ballet. Alonzo invited Yannis to join Lines, and in 1992 he moved to San Francisco. "I think it was the perfect match because I'm a very intuitive person, this learning by doing, that was perfect for Alonzo. I never refused anything, it was always: Can you do this? Sure. It was a great partnership, I think I gave him quite a lot as he gave me quite a lot. I remember doing this work for the first time, I never thought that anything wrong could happen. That was fantastic, to actually be on stage feeling so happy, never nervous. The work allowed that, because I was the creator, the first hand." Yannis danced with Lines for seven seasons, performing many leading parts with dance parter Katy Warner. Warner, a principal and founding member of Lines, was already in her forties when she met twenty-two year old Adoniou. Katy challenged Yannis in ways none had before. "It was fantastic, having the trust of the best, most knowledgeable dancers, to be able to tap into work that's so beyond my technique, to dance more spiritually." In addition to performing with Lines, Yannis performed with the San Francisco Opera Ballet, and for eight years, taught dance at the Dominican University through Lines. "It was kind of an ironic thing, I became a professor of dance without having finished high school. That, I think describes a little bit my path and interest, definitely characteristic of learning by doing."
'Solo for Yannis', Colaboration with Tomi Paasonen and Alonzo King. San Francisco 2008. Photo credit: Keira Heu-Jwyn Chang.
In 1995, Tomi joined Yannis and Lines in San Francisco, for one season only before moving to Chicago. Two years later, after a tragic career-ending accident, Tomi returned to San Francisco, and moved back in with Yannis, who was still dancing with Lines. In 1998, Yannis and Tomi joined forces once again, and the dance-theater collective KUNST-STOFF was born. "We found most of our dancers first through the dance center where I was working. They were all kind of drop-outs themselves, rejects from other places, Noel was found on the street. Every person involved, the technical collaborators as well, they were all equally crazy. There were doors and windows, right and left that we could open to be in these exciting places and worlds. Like Camp KUNST-STOFF, Burning Man, performances all over the city. Bars, clubs, there were opportunities 24-7. Doing multi-media video works. The first piece I did, I projected a vintage 8-millimeter porn film that I found lying around the house. San Francisco was all about having fun and not being censored, the work was always presented in a very good quality."
Continuing, "I had started going to discos and clubs when I was thirteen. I'd already done that before I went to Hamburg. I partied, I went to drag shows, I'd seen things you know. So when I came to San Francisco it was exciting, but I had done even more exciting things by the time I was sixteen. For Tomi it was different. In his teens he was this perfect ballet boy, for him San Francisco was freedom. He really let go, and started finding life. I think as terrible as his injury was, at the same time that was what he needed in order to grasp who he really is." Timing also played a big part in KUNST-STOFF's explosive arrival. The Bay Area was a tech world epicenter in the late-nineties, and KUNST-STOFF was known for large scale multimedia productions. A considerable percentage of private funding came to KUNST-Stoff directly through tech industry donors.
KUNST-STOFF at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. San Francisco 2009. Photo credit: Keira Heu-Jwyn Chang
Tomi's visa expired, prompting a move to Berlin in 2000, which left a majority of everyday KUNST-STOFF duties under Yanni's supervision. "When you are different and when you don't have support its a liability, and I believe that to whomever I'm working with I have a responsibility. It was a miracle how I did it every year. I started narrowing down and transforming KUNST-STOFF into more of a conventional dance company. This is where I started thinking touring, residencies, all that stuff. I wanted to organize this thing, see what it is, and put a stamp on it. That was the work, to stabilize KUNST-STOFF as a dance company. A lot of the success of the early days was based on these fresh, abandoned and free-spirited ideas. When we started playing the big stages like the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, suddenly we became sophisticated, grown up, and the whole thing changed. Even some of our friends didn't like us anymore, they thought that we were too institutional. Success can change your picture in a community overnight. People saw me as a presenter, I became Mister Yannis, I hated it. People started sending me DVD's, I was like: No, if you want to work here just come and meet me in person. I'm not auditioning people, I'm not curating, I'm not telling you what to do. I didn't ask to be, I had to be the executive director. I think it's important in whatever you do to name it and take a responsibility, then you have to serve it, and I did. I have done for a lot of people, I have supported many careers."
While very much inspired by "mentors" such as Alonzo King and William Forsythe, Yannis remains cautious in receiving influence. "I grew up with no interest in public stars, I don't believe in fame overnight, I never placed star posters in my bedroom. I'm not jealous, I'm not competitive. I'm not interested in perform to perform. I'm interested in when I perform, how can I feel things on stage, to be on stage and feel every single moment, to be present, and learn from it. It doesn't come through ego, it comes through listening, service and acceptance. Mastering the elements of creation, and also the dialogue between performer and viewer – I think that this is what's beautiful about performing. To me the most moving performance I remember, I was crying, was Madama Butterfly at San Francisco Opera. It was not because the story is fantastic, the story is absolutely fantastic and tragic because you know already what's going to happen, but this woman had the opportunity to go through this for hours. I was crying for her because that human being takes the responsibility in that moment to sing for all of us, for all the Madama Butterflies, for all these women, for all these boys, for all these husbands, for that she was a heroic person. Her technique and all it employs was there to support that idea. That's what I'm interested in. When that can happen, I'm like absolutely hallelujah!"
Adoniou in rehearsal for L'Orfeo with Davinia Rodríguez. Seattle Opera 2012.
Yannis has choreographed productions for Seattle Opera, Opera Santa Barbara, West Bay Opera in Palo Alto, and West Edge Opera in Berkeley. He has worked on Baroque classics such as Orpheus and Eurydice, romantic era tour de forces such as Aida and Samson et Delilah, as well as the American premiere of Bounjour M. Gauguin, by Fabrizio Carlone. "When directing opera the music is the platform, the story is organized for you. With the music and the story in place, one can further layer the operatic spectacle. Both singing and dance are very physical art forms, and make for great partners. Voice and movement start from breath. When I work in opera, I support the singers by staging them with movements that tell their stories and also support the voice. For the dancers in opera, I ask them to be more like singers and use their ears to motivate and guide their movements."
November 2013 in San Francisco marked both the fifteenth consecutive home season for KUNST-STOFF, as well as the company's bittersweet farewell. Gone are the days of the Bay Area claiming KUNST-STOFF as it's own. Yannis has opted to take KUNST-STOFF permanently on the road, newly reinventing the company as KUNST-STOFF Productions. Now settling back into his native Athens, Yannis plans for the company to exist where ever the day takes him and his laptop. I had the good fortune of joining Yannis, Tomi, and company for the retrospective, three consecutive evenings of performances and revelry. Being with them was as it always is, inspiring beyond measure. A few days later I caught up with Yannis at KUNST-STOFF Arts. Seated on a beige couch in the asymmetrically shaped basement studio, located in San Francisco's Civic Center district, an unmistakeable aroma of Burger King french fries wafted through an adjacent hallway as we hashed through the history of his life and my participation in it. Much like Yanni's compositions, our discussion weaved itself into a tapestry of anecdotal, nostalgic, obscure yet heartfelt narrative. The following is what he left me with:
Yannis Adoniou, Daiane Lopes Da Silva and Bruno Augusto perform 'Les Sylphides'. San Francisco 2012. Photo credit: Dazzle Rowe.
"I've been living in the U.S. for 15 years, but I am Greek, that's what my characteristics are, and that's where the conversation is. I'll be going back through Hamburg to Athens, the way I came. I'm looking forward to being home. People who know me from Lines, know me as Yannis who was twenty-two years old and didn't speak much English. Its kind of crazy how much I've established out of knowing basically nothing. As I get older, I want to become more knowledgeable, I want to become more free. I don't see myself getting older and letting go, its the opposite, it's an internal logic. I think if you feel from the inside, it will manifest, it will shape. There's something about taking time that I want to experience. In those moments when we go out of the ordinary, where we're breaking the path, this is what we remember, this is what life is based on. When everything is on schedule, on time, there's nothing to remember, It doesn't leave an imprint. I think that choreography, or the creation or the timing is what moves you along. In between is you and the present and the moment that you're learning from, even when you're on stage. So the question was specifically, what's my mission? I think it's understanding still. I need to take time to understand what I've got before I move on. I think that's super important. I always feel like I have to die and come back to life. You now what I'm saying? You have to do that. I'm very excited to have KUNST-STOFF Productions, to be able to work on projects around the world. Even if I do two big projects a year, that's fantastic. The whole thing is problem solving. A brain can say well, I can't do that because of this and this and this and this and that, you have to identify it. If you don't deal with that you are fucked. So to identify where the problems or the conflicts are, its very important, step number one. Step number two is to be able to find solutions, step three is to do your dream. I think its like these three things, its a good one, you should write that. Its the three steps of life, its a code:
YA: Step 1 – identify the dream, destination.
Step 2 – Realize conflicts, logistics.
Step 3 – Find solution and execute, live your dream.
VS: Celebrate?
YA: Well, celebrate after you do what you have to.
VS: I'd like to think that the celebration is in the execution.
YA: Good for you.
VS: Thanks, Yannis.
YA: Thanks Veronika.
Yannis Adoniou in '98-13′ by Yannis Adoniou. KUNST-STOFF 15th anniversary season retrospective, San Francisco 2013. Photo Credit: Dazzle Rowe
*** Cover Photo: Yannis Adoniou, Salt Flats, Utah 2011. Photo Credit: CP Rowe
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[Catalyst 22 - 2015] Global Indigenous Wisdom
The Shift Network is deeply committed to our Indigenous brothers and sisters. My dear friend Saniel Bonder said it well — America's spiritual destiny can likely never be fully realized without the healing of its relationship with its Indigenous Peoples.
The same is true for all nations of the world where Indigenous Peoples have suffered from colonisation and Western "progress." Globally we must heal our relationships with Indigenous Peoples; and, it is time for all of us to embrace and embody the deep wisdom from Indigenous traditions about our oneness, and how to be in right relationship, with Mother Earth, one another and all of life.
With this in mind, we are launching the second annual Global Indigenous Wisdom Summit (November 17–19, 2016) – click here to register free. This free online summit is "a unified gathering of Indigenous leaders from around Mother Earth who will share how we can co-create a new era together." The Global Indigenous Wisdom Summit includes an exciting "Festival of the Americas" Video Day, featuring interviews conducted at The Indigenous Summit of the Americas in Panama.
We are thankful to the many Shift Network community members around the world who responded to the emergency call to action earlier in the year to help make the Indigenous Summit of the Americas possible. Together, we helped co-create an historic Indigenous gathering in Panama and now we all can enjoy seeing video messages from our brothers and sisters who participated in it.
We are grateful for Chief Phil Lane, Jr.'s leadership at the Indigenous Summit of the Americas and with the Global Indigenous Wisdom Summit. We deeply appreciate and value our friendship and partnership with "Brother Phil."
I also want to thank our very own Alison Marks, Director of Summits, for stepping up to assist Brother Phil in Panama with translating, and conducting the video interviews. Alison also led the production of the Global Indigenous Wisdom Summit. These initiatives have been and are clearly a labor of love for Brother Phil, Alison, myself and many others.
In this edition of The Catalyst we have inspiring articles from Brother Phil, Audri Scott Williams and Steven Newcomb, all whom were at the Parliament of World's Religions and Audri spoke with us on the Healing our Hearts at Wounded Knee panel.
We also have emotionally powerful profiles from Jean Fleury and Dr. Stephanie Pratt, two sisters guided to assist the healing at Wounded Knee and around the world. We have joined Jean and Stephanie, Saniel Bonder and a number of Indigenous Peoples in creating a campaign to support healing ceremonies for the 125th Memorial of the Wounded Knee Massacre.
Our Shift Philanthropy continues to bring attention to the 125th Memorial of the Wounded Knee Massacre Campaign. We are slowly moving towards our goal of $50,000 and invite you to be part of this historic healing opportunity.
Our Featured Media highlights an incredible film: The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code. The film documents how the Catholic church helped create a legal framework for the genocide of Indigenous Peoples. It is vital that we look honestly at the roots of genocide so we can heal and co-create a positive future. We strongly encourage you to watch the trailer and the film.
Also, we are celebrating Canada's new Prime Minister Trudeau, who has made bold steps towards gender balance and social justice in the naming of his new Cabinet.
Brother Phil also provided an inspiring quote in the Featured Media about the importance of Sacred Ceremonies for all people at this time. And, finally, our Featured Artist is R. Carlos Nakai, we want to acknowledge and celebrate his lifetime achievement in bringing Native American flute music to the world.
Trailer: The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code
A film based on the book: Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery. It is a story of historical truth, spirituality, and resistance, told on behalf of the original nations and peoples of Great Turtle Island, and elsewhere on Mother Earth. To learn more about this film, click here.
Shared by Hereditary Chief Phil Lane, Jr.
"The Sacred Ceremonies do not belong to Indians alone, they can be done by all who have the right attitude and who are honest and sincere about their beliefs in Wakan Tanka (Great Spirit) and follow the rules. Survival of the World depends on sharing what we have and working together. If we don't the whole world will die, first the Planet and then the People." (Ceremonial Chief Frank Fools Crow, Teton Sioux 1890–1989)
Justin Trudeau's new cabinet 'looks like Canada'
Canada's new cabinet is not only gender balanced, it's the most diverse in history.
A New, Emerging World Civilization: An Indigenous Perspective
By Hereditary Chief Phil Lane, Jr.
Indigenous prophecies clearly foretell a "New World Civilization" that is inherently harmoniously interrelated, equitable, unified and just. This is not to be confused, even remotely, with the various New World Orders that are fearfully alluded to by various contending sources.
A New World Order where the extremely wealthy or a secret elite enslave most of humanity for their own selfish and greedy purposes
A New World Order where everyone is forced to look, act and think the same
A New World Order dominated by any one Nation State
A New World Order created by an Anti-Christ prior to an Armageddon
This "New World Civilization," firmly and unshakably rooted in the spiritual understanding and consciousness of the Oneness and Prior Unity of the Human Family and the understanding that the Hurt of One is the Hurt of All and the Honor of One is the Honor of All, was envisioned by Indigenous prophecies across the Americas, including . . . [read more]
The Great Return
By Audri Scott Williams
While preparing to write this article, I thought deeply about what perspective or insight I could bring to this Shift Network publication on Global Indigenous Wisdom. As I prayed for guidance, I did what my elders, from many traditions, have taught me, I sat in silence with Mother Earth. I journeyed down to the Gulf of Mexico and sat watching the waves and the vast body of water -- remembering the Creator, not just out there but in here, in my heart, as well. In other words, I became fully present to my relationship to all of life and the wonder of creation itself . . . [read more]
Toward a Paradigm Change for Mother Earth
By Steven Newcomb
A Speech given to some 8,000 people at the Parliament of the World's Religions, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 19, 2015.
Good Morning Everyone, I want to pay my respects to the Original Nations on whose territory this building now stands. I want to acknowledge the ancestors who have loved this land with prayerful and ceremonial conduct, based on their insight about the need for sacred relations with Mother Earth, with pristine Waters, and with Life in all its forms and manifestations. I want to acknowledge the original free and independent existence of our nations and peoples extending back to the beginning of time through our oral histories and our oral traditions . . . [read more]
Great Calling: Healing Hearts at Wounded Knee Ending War that the World May Heal
By Jean Fleury
Sacred companionship in following a great calling; this is what I am endeavoring to do. I share with you some pieces of the deepest and most profound experience of great calling in doing the work of "Wounded Knee."
First and foremost is anunciation. I choose this word especially to honor the mysterious, but unmistakeable way the "holy" made itself known in my small life. There assuredly cannot be any greater treasure nor gift than a direct knowing of mystery's personal and intimate love, radiance, omnipotence, and infinite power . . . [read more]
An Inspiring few days on the Crow Creek Dakota Sioux Reservation at Fort Thompson, South Dakota
By Dr. Stephanie Pratt
This summer in late May, I was hugely rewarded through my involvement in the re-establishment of the Horse Dance Ceremony and foundation of the first Grandmothers' (Kunsi/Unci) Society on the Crow Creek Dakota Reservation in Fort Thompson, South Dakota. From my arrival around the 25th May, things started evolving in significant and profoundly moving ways. People gathered, families were brought together, food was made and consumed, feelings were shown, even some strong words were spoken but overall a general welling up of goodness, hope and healing from trauma was starting to emerge . . . [read more]
Sign the Universal Declaration for the Rights of Mother Earth - We are nature. When nature thrives we thrive. Yet, existing legislation around the planet has failed miserably in so many ways, that in the last 40 years it allowed us to extinguish 50% of all species on Earth. Bolivia presented the Universal Declaration for the Rights of Mother Earth to the UN in 2010. This year we have a once in a lifetime opportunity, when heads of State will meet during the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris. Click here to sign the petition in support.
Friends Committee on National Legislation — Building A Pathway to Peace: Annual Meeting, Quaker Public Policy Institute & Lobby Day — November 12–15, 2015 — Washington, DC. This November, we'll be asking Congress to prevent violence before it starts. The US too often waits until war or atrocities begin, and then it only provides military solutions. But it doesn't have to be that way. We believe that by paying attention to warning signs, the international community can respond before deadly conflict erupts. Participants will learn how to lobby from FCNL's expert staff; hear from congressional staff and other speakers; connect with people from your state; practice lobbying skills; meet with your representative and senators and hear presentations on peacebuilding. To learn more, click here.
Kia Miller and Tommy Rosen are so excited to announce the 2015 Recovery 2.0 Thanksgiving Retreat to Costa Rica from November 19–26, 2015. They will be back at Blue Spirit in Nosara for what is always a powerful and blissful Recovery 2.0 experience. The retreat always sells out. If this calls to you, apply today to secure your space.
Free Livestream — Naam Yoga Super Class — November 29, 2015 at 8:30 am (CST), the world will witness yet another historical event in the name of global healing. Led by Dr. Joseph Michael Levry, founder of Naam Yoga, this year our goal is to unite 100,000 people, both in person (Mexico City) and via Livestream from all over the world, to send healing vibrations of Love Peace Light to All people, everywhere. Our mission is to ease the suffering of the afflicted and to bring hope to humanity through the raising consciousness, uniting hearts and the infinite power of heartfelt prayer and meditation. To learn more and to sign up free, click here. To find us Facebook – click here.
Collective Coherence: Co-Creating a New World — December 2–6, 2015 — Tao Wellness Center, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico — HeartMath and Global Coherence Initiative Special Event: Come join us for a transformative experience in Collective Coherence: Co-Creating a New World, our fourth annual Mexico event. We will practice tools for Collective Coherence and learn how this accelerates our personal unfoldment into higher potentials. Energetic connectivity will be explored and why it is effective for co-creating a new world. Be sure to use code "Mexico1" when you register to receive the Early Registration discount rate. To learn more, click here.
Costa Rica Retreat — Light On Kundalini is delighted to invite you to our 2015 Costa Rica Retreat December 12 to 19, 2015 led by Karuna, an Academy Member of the Kundalini Research Institute. Experience a week of deep spiritual exploration in the serene and beautiful surrounds of the Blue Spirit Yoga and Meditation Retreat Center in Nosara, Costa Rica. Join us in Chanting, Dancing, Breath Walking, Meditation and Kundalini Yoga. All levels welcome. For more information and registration click here.
The Four Directions programs, inspired by the work of Angeles Arrien, are designed to support full engagement in your personal, work and community life. These tools that are cross-cultural and can be applied in any environment where leadership, wellbeing, creativity and wisdom are valued. We're excited to offer a 2016 Vision Quest experience during the third gathering of the four session program. We hope that you can join us for this exciting and transformational journey. Receive a discount if you register before December 1, 2015. To learn more, click here.
Iran! Splendors of the Persian Empire — April 3–16, 2016 — Tehran, Kerman, Yazd, Shiraz, Persepolis, Isfahan and Kashan. Join Cross Cultural Journeys on an odyssey to the Republic of Iran, commonly called Persia by the West. A multicultural nation with many ethnic and linguistic groups (mostly Shi'ites), this ancient country straddles Eurasia, Western Asia, the Caspian Sea and the Indian Ocean. Iran has played a vital role in the Islamic Golden Age, producing hundreds of influential scientists, scholars, artists, and thinkers. To learn more, click here.
Just released: Positive Peace Report 2015 — Positive Peace is a transformational approach to achieving development, resilience and peace. It offers an alternative perspective to identify and measure long-term investments that create an optimum environment for human potential to flourish. The Positive Peace Report 2015 analyses the factors that build sustainable peace, and includes a statistical analysis of Positive Peace in 162 countries, covering 99 per cent of the world's population. It is the first global, quantitative approach to defining and measuring Positive Peace and is based on the social factors that have the strongest statistically significant relationships with the absence of violence.To learn more, click here.
Awake: The Life of Yogananda — DVDs available with subtitles in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Dutch and Japanese. Plus there are new film showings in Australia and United States! You also can bring Awake to your yoga studio or community. To learn more, click here. (The filmmakers were interviewed in the Yoga Day Summit, the recording is available for free.)
New Book: Subtle Activism: The Inner Dimension of Social and Planetary Transformation — David Thomas Nicol introduces the concept of "subtle activism" to describe the use of consciousness-based practices like meditation and prayer to support collective transformation, such as global meditation directed toward peaceful resolution of a conflict. Subtle activism represents a bridge between the consciousness movement and the movements for peace, environmental sustainability, and social justice. It is not a substitute for physical action but rather a potentially crucial component of a more integrated approach to social change. To learn more and order a copy, click here.
2015 Catalyst: (#22, 11/8) (#21, 10/25) (#20, 10/11) (#19, 9/27) (#18, 9/12) (#17, 8/30) (#16, 8/16) (#15, 8/2) (#14, 7/19) (#13, 7/5) (#12, 6/20) (#11, 6/7) (#10, 5/24) (#9, 5/10) (#8, 4/26) (#7, 4/5) (#6, 3/21) (#5, 3/15) (#4, 2/22) (#3, 2/8) (#2, 1/25) (#1, 1/11)
2014 Catalyst: (#26, 12/28) (#25, 12/14) (#24, 11/30) (#23, 11/16) (#22, 11/1) (#21, 10/19) (#20, 10/5) (#19, 9/21) (#18, 9/14) (#17, 9/01) (#16, 8/17) (#15, 8/3) (#14, 7/20) (#13, 7/4) (#12, 6/15) (#11, 6/1) (#10, 5/18) (#9, 5/4) (#8, 4/20) (#7, 4/6) (#6, 3/23) (#5, 3/9) (#4, 2/22) (#3, 2/8) (#2, 1/26) (#1, 1/12)
2013 Catalyst: (#22, 12/14) (#21, 11/30) (#20, 11/16) (#19, 11/3) (#18, 10/20) (#17, 10/6) (#16, 9/21) (#15, 9/8) (#14, 8/25) (#13, 8/4) (#12, 7/21), (#11, 7/7), (#10, 6/16) (#9, 6/2) (#8, 5/12) (#7, 4/28) (#6, 4/14) (#5, 3/24) (#4, 2/24) (#3, 2/9) (#2, 1/26) (#1, 1/13)
Birth 2012 Catalyst: (#15, 12/9) (#14, 12/1) (#13, 11/22) (#12, 11/10) (#11, 11/3) (#10, 10/20) (#9, 10/6) (#8, 9/16) (#7, 9/8) (#6, 8/25) (#5, 8/16) (#4, 8/4) (#3, 7/28) (#2, 7/21) (#1, 7/14)
2015 Issue 22 • Nov 8
Begin planning how you will join the 125th Anniversary of Wounded Knee global healing ceremonies and prayers on December 29, 2015. To learn more, click here.
Are You Here to Co-create Heaven on Earth? 5 Tools to Empower Your Soul's Work — A Free Virtual Event With Bestselling Author, International Speaker & Consultant Martin Rutte. November 11, 2015 at 5:30pm Pacific
The Power of Embodied Shamanic Coaching Essential Practices for Integrating Ancient Wisdom into Your Life — A Free Virtual Event With Shamanic Coach, Author & Teacher Michael Stone. November 14, 2015 at 10:00am Pacific
Deeper Sound Healing Through Qigong Clearing Stress & Disease from Your Body, Emotions & Mind — With Qigong Master Mingtong Gu Learn in-depth practices to work effectively with energy and emotions to foster physical, emotional, mental and spiritual healing and well-being — especially during the winter season. New 12-Week Live Video and Audio Training Starts Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Living the Divine Human Embodying the Next Stage of Your Evolution — With Pioneering Contemporary Spiritual Teacher & Internationally Renowned Mystic Scholar-Activist Andrew Harvey. New 12 Week Program Starts Wednesday, November 11, 2015
Purposeful Marketing Growing Your Business in a Fulfilling, Impactful & Aligned Way — With Pioneering Teacher, Author & Internationally Renowned Change Agent Tim Kelley. Learn how to make your marketing magnetic, powerful and effective because it expresses exactly who you are and the precise way you can help your ideal audience. New 6-Month Training Live Training Starts Wednesday, November 11, 2015
• Global Indigenous Wisdom Summit
• Anodea Judith 7-week course
• Michael Stone 7-week course
• Robert Moss 12-week course
• George Kao 12-week course
• Martin Rutte 12-week course
• Wounded Knee Indigenous Healing Summit
• Sandra Ingerman 7-week course
• Chief Phil Lane, Jr. 7-week course
• Peace Ambassador Training 16-week course
• Sherri Lasilla & Susan Cannon course
• Winter of Wellness Summit
• Caroline Casey 7-week course
• Jean Shinoda Bolen 7-week course
• Miranda Macpherson 8-week course
• David Crow 12-week course
• Devaa Haley Mitchell 1-year program
125th Memorial of the Wounded Knee Massacre — 2015 marks the 125th anniversary of the Wounded Knee Massacre that took place on December 29, 1890. The Shift Network is committed to standing with our Indigenous brothers and sisters to create healing ceremonies on this historic occasion. We invite you to join us in unity and determination to end massacre. Let us use this unique opportunity to collectively begin a great and momentous turning. Come heal with us in spirit at Wounded Knee! Click here to learn more.
Healing Hearts at Wounded Knee — Inspired by the 125th Anniversary of the Wounded Knee Massacre, Healing Hearts at Wounded Knee is a focal point for leadership in healing ceremonies and modalities to heal essential and ancient wounds of humanity. is an initiative to support. To learn more, click here.
R. Carlos Nakai
R. Carlos Nakai is credited for helping spread Native American flute music around the world. His music is dear to my heart as it has an ability to transport me (and most listeners) into a timeless awareness of one's own essence and relationship with Spirit. Nakai is of Navajo-Ute heritage and "began his musical studies on the trumpet, but a car accident ruined his embouchure. His musical interests took a turn when he was given a traditional cedar flute as a gift and challenged to master it." Nakai has sold over 4 million albums and has received numerous Grammy nominations. To learn more about Nakai and his music, click here.