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The 0.01% Have Never Had It Better
Over the years, as the WSJ notes, the only way inequality has really mattered to professional investors is 'if the rich are getting richer, companies that cater to them have better prospects'. Lately, though, some big investors have worried increasing income and wealth gaps threaten the economy's ability to expand (discussed here and here most recently.) One reason U.S. corporate profit margins are at records is the share of revenue going to wages is so low. An economy where income and wealth disparities are smaller might be healthier; but it would also leave less money flowing to the bottom line, something that is increasingly grabbing fund managers' attention.
Over the years, the only way inequality has really mattered to investors has been as a factor when considering stocks. If the rich are getting richer, companies that cater to them have better prospects. Goldman Sachs Group, for example, recently conducted a survey that showed optimism among high-income consumers relative to low-income ones at a high and pointed investors toward companies like department-store operator Nordstrom and luxury-bag maker Tumi Holdings.
Lately, though, some big investors have worried increasing income and wealth gaps threaten the economy's ability to expand. They also fret that public anger over it
Former Morgan Stanley equity strategist Gerard Minack notes the U.S. Gini index, a gauge of income disparities that is also at a record, tracks with measures of political polarization. So he worries inequality could give rise to more political dysfunction that risks damaging the economy.
Another concern is that rising inequality creates financial instability. Raghuram Rajan, the economist now heading India's central bank, has posited that the credit bubble in the early part of the last decade was a consequence of inequality.
But if inequality has risen to a point in which investors need to be worried, any reversal might also hurt.
One reason U.S. corporate profit margins are at records is the share of revenue going to wages is so low. Another is companies are paying a smaller share of profits on taxes. An economy where income and wealth disparities are smaller might be healthier. It would also leave less money flowing to the bottom line, something that will grab fund managers' attention.
So the dilemma is - any "attempt" to 'narrow' the inequality gap will be necessarily restructive of the factors that are juicing stock prices and exaggerating the inequality gap BUT if stock prices take a hit, with ZIRP, firms will simply relever more, layoff (cut costs) more, and re-iterate dividend/buyback programs... A vicious circle with only one outcome - aptly described by Kynikos Associates founder James Chanos, who worried people have less incentive to participate in the economy if they have concluded "the game isn't fair."
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and the guillotines have never been sharper...
Go ahead, don't pass a farm bill and shut down that SNAP program...
Add capital gains to that data and it's even better for the 1%...
However, "money" and all that "wealth" will become irrelevant overnight when people start starving.
Tick tock motherfuckers...
Oh, believe me, they will do anything it takes to keep SNAP and the NFL/wings/beer complex fully funded and flowing to the unwashed masses. Even if this requires nationalizing the NFL (it won't; NFL has zero financial problems).
Funny thing is, most of the people that voted for Obama, did so under the belief that things would "change". Instead, he accelerated the money flow to the top. Meanwhile, the 50% that voted for him are happy as pigs in shit because they get a free Obamaphone. Baah. Baaaah. BAAAAAAAAAAAH!!
The guillotines should be used on the parasites that helped enable this shit too. Get rid of the .01% and you will still have the 50% of parasites around.
Get rid of the .01% and you will still have the 50% of parasites around.
If the .01% made reasonably less of their enormous profits, maybe the lower 50% would be less parasitic.
Scotty, it would not have mattered who was "voted" in. Bankers rule and your a sucker too for STILL being caught up the the left right BS.
At some point a person graduates from being a sucker to being downright FUCKING STUPID
Scotty proves as such, with a typical normalcy biased blame degree.
Ha ha - looks like an exponential curve! Could we be experiencing a bubble in 0.01%ers?
Peak concentration of wealth. I love it.
Ya right, Ok, Silverdog, because we all know if the .01% shared their wealth, the bottom 50% of takers would suddenly be at their job with a smiley face on. Sure. They'd still be sucking on whomever's tit they could get their mouth on. Talk about normalcy bias.....
Where in my post did I mention left/right? Fact is at least half of this country are in the parasite class. And they enable whoever happens to be in power, be it left right, up or down. Get it?
Speaking of the NFL.... Did you know it's a non profit organization?
The team fees paid to it are even tax deductible.
Plus you get massive tax abatement a for building Stadiums, all sorts activities at the ten thousand casinos now dotting our land scape and some quality time at the bar starting at 900AM. Are people even going to the games anymore? Most of these stadiums sit empty now. We'll see if popping the bubble this summer has the usual impact of "shoot"(higher) and "scoot"(sell into strength) or not. A lot of TRUE competitive pressures are starting to build in the economy...and if you think equities care one but about the massive debt loads created by this "jobless prosperity" I've got a bridge that needs unloading to someone with just a dollar in his pocket.
"However, "money" and all that "wealth" will become irrelevant overnight when people start starving.".
You don't think the top 0.01% have been preparing? You can buy a lot of nice weaponry, training, food, fortified shelter, and trained body guards with $100M. The people that do well in today's ponzi are smarter than the sheeple and will do just as well (if not better) when the system collapses into chaos.
All that money will allow them to survive, but these fuckers want more than wealth. They want power, and when things start collapsing, they'll lose a lot of the power that was tied to people buying into the system.
The regular people that are smart enough to prepare for the collapse, will be the ones providing the resistance as the system resets.
Don't kid yourself.
They'll have the power, too.
Because in addition to the gold and the guns, they'll have the productive farmland, too.
You know how the Middle Ages worked? See the short list in the above sentence.
They still require people to give their consent. A lot do, and still will, no matter what.
But a determined person can do a lot. The more people that wake up before the reset, the better. Are the odds stacked? Yes.
I just refuse to give in to despair. My life was far worse growing up and I survived that.
Interesting times. Really strong strains.
The very rich definitely arent smarter, just bigger assholes.
Yep, these mega-rich fuckers won't even be touched. They'll find somewhere in our country to another country surrounded by that country's paid-off military and drug lords and no one will get near them. Look, these guys' wives are the most devious, power-driven cunts in the world, and if their boys begin to falter, they will whip them into all sorts of criminal activity to maintain their positions. It's all easily justifiable, too. They tried to help us with government assistance and we simply turned our backs. "Fuckin' low-brows" they'll say. And 2 billion rounds will get spent and then some. Don't count on our cops and military to be on our sides, those people are highly trained to take orders even in the face of death. Reason won't even enter the picture when they're dropped into a domestic war zone.
And yet the wealthy had it much better during the times of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance than in the Middle Ages, even though wealth was much more evenly spread in the epochs before and after the Middle Ages than during it.
Not only that but those who were wealthy before the Middle Ages mostly lost everything with the coming of the Middle Ages.
Translating it in modern terms: the collapse of the system will hurt the wealthy as much or more than the poor, and even though a new elite will arrise with far more power over everybody else, they will still have it nowhere near as good as they would in a more equal society were people are fairly treated and allocated to doing what they do best independently of their parentage.
When a society is producing closer to it's ideal output, there is much more wealth to go around, so even a much smaller slice of the pie of a well balanced, productive society is far more that the entire pie in a time like the Dark Ages.
An interesting aside to this theme is the probabilty that the Third Reich would have been better off (in terms of total volume of goods) engaged in a normal free trade arrangement with the Ukraine rather than by enslaving and murdering everyone in the Reichskommisariat Ukraine (which was hugely damaging to output). Germany was able to get everything it needed from Stalinist Soviet Union; coal, oil, grain, etc. in normal trade agreements. But Hitler wanted all of Europe to the Ural mountains for settlement, not just for trade.
At the end of the day, I agree completely that the wealthy will be hurt almost as badly as the poor. For one thing, they have far further to fall, and for another, they don't have any more of a clue as to how to negotiate the radically changed landscape we're likely to inhabit as anyone else. No one is prepared for what is coming. But if collapse can be managed slowly enough, the wealthy will be the ones best equipped to make some sort of transition and maintain their positions of privilege. I think this is the plan; the collaboration between government and the elites; manage contraction to the benefit of the few.
I agree with that assessment. It fits what is taking place better than the typical inter-generational conspiracy theories being thrown around.
The Nazis were ideologues who hated communists and humans of lesser breeding. It was insane, and thus insane policies were the outcome. Lebensraum was that desire for a German empire re-settling surrounding lands with like-minded people in order to create a buffer zone that could protect the 1000 year reich.
There are no guarantees on productivity, regardless of how evenly distributed the benefits therefrom may be... Further, productivity is not caused by a perfectly distributed profit system. What we've been evolving toward is a system that keeps pushing the boundaries to which the common man will accept government intrusion into his life and confiscation of the spoils of his labor. We're pinpointing exactly the minimum amount of standards and things that will keep a revolt from happening. The formula isn't far from being perfected.
The only things that stop this process are unforseen and external. Thankfully, there is a reset every so often and we begin the process again. However, each successive cycle, we're inching towards something.
Well said Macho. They are testing, tweaking and recalibrating daily.
The thing is, given my Physics and Electronics training and having observed how time-delayed reaction is typical of human beings (in physics terms it would be called hysteresis), I very much doubt that there is a static stable state for human societies: at best what we can have is a stable ciclical system.
Sadly most of the Economic and Political theories out there focus on static societal and economic states to solve humanity's problems, when by our very own nature we're always changing in response to our environment and past inputs, hence the great thinkers keep coming up with solutions that don't work.
Well said Acet, although I disagree that the reset will result in a Middle Ages. It's possible, but not probable.
We are actuallly in the modern "dark ages" now. Central Planning has squelched initiative. The reset will release that energy and a reordering of relative values will commence. The transition period will be unpleasant, but it will last months / years, not decades / centuries.
Many more people are awake than we think. More and more all the time.
Like the song said, "We're going to Serf City"!
Interesting that you mention the Middle Ages, referring of course to feudalism. Under feudalism, one guy owned the land and let people live on his land, and extract wealth from it, under certain circumstances. The usual arrangements involved something roughly equivalent to local taxation and an obligation to defend the lord's property. Under feudalism, land was the key to wealth and power. Fast forward: today, instead of land, it's capital, but the system is roughly the same, as are its social effects.
I agree yrbmegr, see my post above. However, a ponzi / fraud / central planning / tax scheme is not capital. It is theft of labor.
Capital is tools we use to make things. Debt is not capital.
In all honesty, I do not believe an armed revolution is necessary. It is, however, probably what they are looking to provoke.
History has shown that the 99% are disposable and, even better, the 99% will gladly dispose of itself without the 1% needing to get their hands dirty. What an amazing deal?
I'm not advocating lieing down in the feutal position and allowing life to pass by, howeve, I am saying that the system is so manipulated right now, that there are very few outcomes that will be genuinely in our favour (whichever tax farm you were delivered in).
What is required is not "more of the same", what we need is a new paradigm. The word "tribe" and "tribal affiliations" need to be reviewed.
I'm more than happy to sit down and prepare for history to repeat itself. At the pace things are going, that is exactly what is going to happen.
Unfortunately, that won't work forever unless they have their own oil fields. Sorry, they will eventually have to feed on each other. Basically, the future of the world is a return to tribal cultures, just like Afghanistan (who'd a thunk it?). I don't know if I would consider that "winning".
I agree. Furthermore... What is going and and what you describe reminds one of the era of the Robber Knights and their fortresses they created along the trading routes and nodes.
Mark my words: We have a new era of Feudalism breathing down our necks...
With the exception of a update in the actors' titles and names, and a change in the stage setting, the PLOT, the GAME, the OBJECTIVE remains the same: TRANS-GENERATIONAL RIGHT TO RULE by the Few over the Many. The same shit we had for over a thousand years, aka Feudalism by the Aristocracy.
Of course they have been preparing.
If I had the funds I'd have a bug out shelter well-stocked too.
BUT, feel assured, most of the 0.1% have NO capability of taking care of their own needs. Hell, most of the bottom 20% can't either.
So, whom will be working for them? Cooking for them? Cleaning? Manning the walls and protecting the gardens? Do you think the neighbors won't notice that their workers' kids are fed and that you are working for the man?
If I remember what I learned (long, long, ago) about the French Revolution, it was that the servants of the rich either helped overthrow their masters or were killed along with them by the starving hordes.
Why would this time be any different?
All Hail the "Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion" (and a few friends)
[que the song]..."That ain't working. That's the way you do it. Money for nothing, and Shiksas for free." We are in dire straights indeed.
Whatever label of convenience you apply, if I had to use modern models of System Analysis, I'd conclude that they are using a "Series of nested, leveraged controls", where the few control the many. For example...
A few like-minded people (clan or tribe members) work in tandem*. They 'position' themselves to gain dominance, then effective control of a company. They work together, to promote their kind/members up the corporate ladder. It's about Positioning and Leverage, repeated over and over. This type of corporate leverage by its executives is "strategic operational leverage". Likewise, when some wealthy individuals buy controlling shares in a public company, they have "strategic ownership leverage" of a company. When this (operational and ownership leverage) happens in a number of companies in an industry (where a few control both its operations and ownership), you have leveraged control of an entire industry.
When you repeat this process in a number of key industries (finance, media, the MIC), you end up attaining leveraged control over a country's structure of power and influence. With it, you attain control over its Judiciary. The Judiciary can enforce and interpret laws to its liking/agenda, and it lasts far longer than most politicians-of-convenience (useful fools and tools).
When you've repeated these strategic processes internationally, by starting out with the most powerful countries that allow your Leverage Games to get established and grow, you can eventually subjugate the weaker countries. You thus gain control of the entire world, or most of it. This all happens via this "nested hierarchy of leveraged control".
And since such an Agenda for World Domination takes several generations and must occur on a global scale, it can only be carried out if the ahderents/followers of such a Plan are bound together in an iron-clad fashion by the multiple bonds of genetic/tribal, cultural and religious kinship. You have to see yourself not only as 'Seperate' entities in a larger organism, but as superior (or even 'divinely chosen') group of people. It's all part of the Jedi Mind-trick of being told endlessly that "You are special. You are chosen." Eventually, this belief becomes hard-wired and then becomes self-fulfilling.
* It is said that 3 above-average people working as "one" can outperform and outmaneuver almost all of the "best" individuals. The secret is not so much in being "THE Best", but in (a) becoming very good, and (b) "The Very Good working as One".
Christians have an inbred handicap -- given that their religion is By, Of and For the WEAK. They are raised to be Sheep, not Wolves. Any foreign invasive species (in a political or religious sense) can take advantage of the Christians' built-in weaknesses (of passive acceptance of misfortune or abuse). /Thanks, Jesus**! And thanks Church of Rome and Church of England! / sarc.
** Jesus of Nazareth (or his indirect followers who actually wrote the Scripture decades later), screwed up BIG time. Let's not have any of this "the meek shall inherit the earth" or "turn the other cheek" bullshit! Instead, they should have built it on... Reciprocity. EQUITABLE RECIPROCITY. Get it straight, JC, it's "Quid pro Quo". Sure the Golden Rule is great to live by, but the minute 'they' do not, all bets are off and Equitable Reciprocity (aye for an aye, or an eye for an eye) applies.
In today's context... Ok, so you want to build a religious building (of foreign faith) in our Christian country. No problem... We get to build a nice Christian Church in yours. Oh, you want to build 100? No Problem... We build a 100 in yours.
Quid Pro Quo, baby, this for that, value for value exchange in kind. No "freebies out of the goodness of our sheep/Christian hearts.
Oh, you want to have people of your faith be in positions of corporate and political leadership in our company, legislature or judiciary? No problem... We'll just have our Christian executives and politicians appointed to positions of power and influence in your companies, judiciary and legislature.
If you're about to panic because of The Constitution, you need to think about it deep and hard... This still does not contradict the "separation of Church & State". For one, none of these foreign faiths are "Churches". They go by other labels: Mosque, Synagogue, Temple, etc...
Interesting way of describing the situation. I will agree that the Christian mind set can lead to being taken advantage of in the short term. Long term is a different story. People who value the principles of living and working together freely always come out on top in the end.
We the people create the world we live in with every choice we make.
The developed countries are aligned against the 3 billion poor who live on $2/day. Because of automation labor is becoming cheaper and entitlements must increase to maintain social order in the developed countries, therefore all developed countries engage in competitive devaluation which hurt the 3 billion poor. Only the .01% gain from this worldwide program. The population in the developed world will continue to live comparatively well. The 3 billion poor will suffer. The developed countries will arm the 3 billion with small arms so they can kill each other but keep the real nasty stuff to protect their interest.
The SNAP program is about corporate welfare, not about feeding poor people. People are just the conduit of the wealth transfer in that case.
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"people have less incentive to participate in the economy if they have concluded "the game isn't fair.""
It is not just the economy, it is the financial system, the tax system, the "meritocracy system", etc.
people have less incentive to participating if they have concluded "the game isn't fair."
there, fixed it for you.
Bingo, I remain long black markets and sharecropping as less than half of the people on earth have any capital invested in any publicly traded "market". They don't give a shit, a can of fucking beans or a laying hen has far more value than paper script printed out of thin air.
... This Canadian's Remembrance/Veterans Day Thoughts ...Help End all Wars and Pursue Human Rights through one's own Calling and Art. ...The U.S.A. has become a Country of "Bread and Circuses" As Canadians, Be Careful What and Who You support South of the Border. ...Our four Western Provinces. own a plethora of Natural Resources with only 12.5 million Citizens. We Westerners are but an "Annex/Manifest Destiny" moment away from our Canadian Freedoms. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses
I did read that Canadians have the highest savings rate by far in the Western Hemisphere. If Europe is any guide "that is cause for concern."
As a 0.02%er I am upset that I am missing out on all the fun!!!
You must be in the bottom 0.02%.
All the more proof that democarts support theft and fraud for the 1% more than republicans.... who are universally thought of as "the bastards that wont tax the rich".
Lets put it this way,
Its easier to pay off a democratic politician, than it is to pay of a republican politician, because the very idea of being conservative means that you are more stubborn about your values and have a higher level of conviction even if your ideaology is a little flawed.
Rich people will never pay higher taxes, because they already pay the bulk of them and its cheaper for them to bribe a politician or government official to get out of more taxes than it is to pay the taxes.
And ontop of it, taxing rich people wont make poor people any richer anyway.
The 1% love Obama.
The 99%? not soo much, but they are woo'd by his blackiness and bling.
Most mega rich people in the U.S. right now got that way by actions that would of been considered illegal 30 years ago.
Most of the mega rich people in the U.S. right now probably broke numerous laws to get there even today.
You don't get rich without stepping on someone or breaking the law someway somehow.
What the mega rich fail to appreciate is that as the disparity grows, they eventually shoot themselves in the head. Consumers with no disposable income cannot buy the mega rich's products and services. They can only cut costs so much and then the bottom lines begins to fall along with the top line. It is all very short sighted. Better to be less greedy now so they continue to earn significant income over the long term.
Singelguy, this is the argument I have been stating for years now against the outsourcing of manufacturing and majority of jobs. In a consumer based economy, no consumers means no economy, plain and simple.
Singelguy, this is the argument I have been stating for years now against the outsourcing of manufacturing and majority of jobs. In a consumer based economy, no consumers means no economy, plain and simple.
Thats why we have welfare, social security, EBT Snaps.
The government is paying people to consume.
Since people can't go out and find work, the government just borrows money and gives it to people to spend.
Without government, consumption would drop by 65% right now because the government through horrible policy has destroyed the economy to the point where it no longer functions without communist policies.
When the governments ability to borrow disapears, atleast 20% of the population will starve to death.
Its very sad, because the people who do work and contribute get less and less in return for their labor , while those that don't contribute get more and more from those who do.
The rich don't care, because they already own everything, all inflation means to them is that they can charge more rent.
Its the middle class vs the poor right now, the rich are sitting back laughing all the way to their private bank located on their private yacht thats floating in their private pool aboard their private jet while middle class americans are wondering how the fuck they are going to survive the onslaught of welfare zombies when this shit finally collapses.
My view is that the "war aim" from the bad guys is our debt but we'll see. Turning a drilling rig company into a REIT? Really? I thought those were called "workers" not "stay-cationers." The point of the tax reform act of 1986 was not as I recall to have the folks doing all the hiring to declare themselves tax free. These are publicly traded companies domiciled in the USA and extracting our resources with the protection of our Armed Forces. Say what again?
Only problem Singleguy is they'll just pack up and go somewhere else. You're thinking is ethnocentric. They could give a shit about Americans and our way of life. They'll just go to where the consumer has money.
Basically, we are tragically fucked. Time to leave.
They might be shooting themselves in the foot, but not in the head as you suggest. The mega rich are not relying on the rest of us buying their products.
Risk aversion has dictated that they take the profits now rather than later... Further, the concept of slowly milking economies is a bit naive, given economics can have massive shifts of all sorts that could cause a disruption to the profit stream. To say that they ought to be less greedy is nonsensical. It's no different than the self interest that demands each of our actions on a daily basis... the fact that they get to do it on a larger scale doesn't make outsourcing any more or less moral.
Singleguy, its not about the people who are "mega rich" . They acquired their wealth in a variety of ways and have a variety of purposes. It's about those whose purpose is power over other people. Those people want control; they are not trying to earn an honest living; they don't care about a "sustainable" process. Some of them would enjoy a bit of chaos and destruction.
Most people care. Some do not.
So democrats are like soft shit and republicans are like hard shit?
For Christ's sake, take Ronald Reagon's dick out of your mouth.
?I don't think my comment was even pro-republican.
All I said is democrats are more corrupt than republicans.... I didn't say republicans aren't corrupt..... I struggle to see where my post was even pro-republican.
Comparing republicans and democrats is like comparing shit and vomit and asking which one smells worst, it is of my opinion that the shit smells worst than the vomit.
Can we finally stop this meme of Obama the communist? The man is a fascist through and through.
The different names of slavery are somewhat irrelevant. The scenery along the road may be different, but the destination is the same.
"The game isn't fair"? Who's the fucking nihilist around here? ;-)
Over the years, as the WSJ notes, the only way inequality has really mattered to professional investors is 'if the rich are getting richer, companies that cater to them have better prospects'.
Indeed - witness the WSJ's new 'MANSION' section which more or less reflects this reality. Not even delightfully trashy, it's just plain trashy.
Have America's megarich ever been so vulgar, crass and inelegant?
Unfortunately, you can't redistribute good taste.
I went semi-Galt years ago. Why should I work harder than I need to to survive when other people are stealing all the benefits of my labor?
I did that too. Purposely under-employed. To Hell with this kleptocracy! Soon I will be full-Galt. :)
there are thousands of people out there going full Galt out there. Newsflash your not that talented. Get back to running script, shoveling hay, or whatever it is you do.
Going Galt is the Libertarian excuse for being a lazy ass. There is plenty of work to do for yourself and your family.
Going Galt is not about not producing. It is about producing as little as possible, in ways which elude government enumeration, thus taxation. Gardening vs. shopping at Walmart, or RalphBertVonsway is a good example. Taking it a step further, one might learn to gather seeds (capital) instead of repeatedly buying them at LowesDespot.
I'm heading in this direction. I'm a 1%-er (about a 0.5%er) and have only seen declines in my income since '08, meanwhile watching my neighbors (I live in a middle class, blue-ish collar neighborhood) struggle, lose houses, and go bankrupt, even though my real effective tax rate is 32-35% (and higher this year.) I've gifted more money to friends/family in trouble this year than I've spent on myself.
Then I'll go to the grocery store and see the pretend poor roll up in a new caddilac and pay with a SNAP card. WTF?!?
I have zero motivation to grow my business or work at retaining income -- since I can see the collapse coming, I know it will be plunging, perhaps to zero, regardless of height it starts at, and in the meantime the more I make, the better funded the ass-grabbers with blue gloves are and ironically the lower the inflation, since they don't have to print as much if I pay more in taxes. So yeah, Galt is the way to go until we get to the post-reformation US.
"my real effective tax rate is 32-35% (and higher this year.)"
Seek, I always enjoy your enlightened posts here on ZH. I'd venture to guess your real effective tax rate is much higher than that though, when you factor in all the taxes and fees you pay. Its probably more like 60% and maybe even more. And you pay twice the social security everyone else does because you own a business too. So you are working at least 6 out of every 10 days for .gov, and probably more like 7 out of ten days. And of those 3 or 4 remaining days of your labor that you get to keep, they will take half of that again when you die, if you don't protect it properly. If you end up in a nursing home for an extended stay, they might even take it all.
So in the end they will get everything you worked for. 10 out of 10 days of work will be for .gov. SLAVERY BITCHES!!
When you add in everything, real effective tax rates are around 75% for most everybody, except the folks at the very top who pay next to nothing.
during the Eisenhower Kennedy days marginal tax on rich and corporates were much higher than today. But, we didn't have a crony capitalist financialista warmongering America. We had Marshall Plan and benign governance. Those years, the US entrepreneurs never bitched as they had come out of depression and war and thanked their stars to be alive and vibrant. Paying taxes was not their main problem. It was to maintain a trajectory that avoided the depression/war syndrome.
Today, people bitch about the Oligarchy super capitalist model, now 0.1%, those whose mentors OSTENSIBLY created this model all the while these deniers bitch about marginal tax rates which are lower than during the golden age.
Something wrong with that logic. Admittedly, the big difference with that age is the entitlement spiral since Great Society. But that does NOT explain the debasement of society created by warmongering MIC and financial neocon USA mantra.
You reap what you sow and you forget what your parents happiiy accepted as common bind to their fellow citizens; something life had taught them the hard way.
Well hard times are back with a vengeance. We relive the past.
High income tax rates for "the rich" were always superficial. The truly wealthy make little to no "income", it's all in capital gains.
and how was capital gains taxed under Eisenhower and Kennedy?
If my memory serves me right capital gains was no big deal in those days as WS was FLAT.
As for during the last thirty years, all those bonuses that CEOs and traders get paid are part of their salaries.
We do have a rich salaried class in the current financial age; all the while they get stock options on top of take home pay.
Just look at CEO of Yahoo as example or CEO of Apple, or CEO of GE.
The poor are fat. The master stroke that will stop all revolution. Genius.
And ignorant. They have a completely different set of education for dynastic families.
They are not only fat, they have heart disease, and diabetes, and chronic pulmonary obstruction, and high blood pressure, and artery disease, and so on and so on. You cannot build a revolution on people that could not walk two blocks without a coronary event. Being sedentary is fatal, where do you excercise if going outside means taking your life in your hands. How do you organize a revolution if most people would opt to watch it on TV? Its more diabolically genius than it appears at first glance.
If technology can give us the next push there will be no need for a revolution.
Our local Wal Mart is being sued for not providing enough motorized shopping carts/vehicles for fatties to peruse the aisles in comfort. I kid you not. A woman claimed she had to wait for forty five minutes before she could shop and this infringed on her rights as a consumer - she can't obviously walk because she has extremely poor circulation due to diabetes. She is 28 yrs old and has three kids. No dads in the picture. Two of her kids are already obese and they are under thirteen yrs old. Your youtube vid was perfect. I was listening to a discussion about the law suit on local radio and callers were told before making their comments that prejudice against fat people would not be tolerated. They eventually changed the topic because no one was calling in. Bizarro world we live in.
Good for that fattie. She's right to sue Walmart - they failed her in providing the basic needs of the morbidly obese.
These immobile whales are doing their part of the great consumption Walmart relies on to make their business model so glorious.
Walmart needs to increase the number of scooters per store -also bullish for consumption!
Let's not forget that inflation was 27.6% over the same time period.
We are watching the collapse of capitalism ... plain and simple. It, like communism, is an obviously flawed system. Both seem to have a similar half life ... about 2 or 3 generations.
I must have skipped a chapter in "Wealth of Nations' not once did i see bailouts, QE nor corporate welfare mentioned.
"We are watching the collapse of capitalism ... plain and simple"
Sure right, because we have had a capitalist system all along? We haven't had anything more than out and out crony capitalism for the last 40+ years and probably more like 100 years. Quit blaming free market capitalism, thats not the system we have today.
That's what they always say about communism. It's a great system but no one has done it right yet. What utter nonsense. Why should someone who works give to someone who doesn't. Both systems have this trait.
With a properly managed Medium of Exchange ... one that knows money is "a promise to complete a trade", you have truly free trade. Such a system requires no "state" control. Such a system requires no capital to function.
Under capitalism, you must first find someone with capital before you can make a trading promise. Under communism, someone else makes your trading promises for you. Both systems are cons.
Bla, bla, bla
But state sponsored theft on a broad and regular basis (a/k/a socialism which always means redistribution) will make it all better.
At least until Margaret Thatcher's famous quip comes into effect... and then? Just apply more force. People need to be forced into their happiness.
Exactly. The paradox of capitalism is that no rational actor will ever allow anyone to force him to compete to the point of normalization of his profits (or anywhere remotely near). The paradox of communism is that humans have finite ingenuity and central planners doubly so (aside from the fact there is no marginal incentive to produce). These flaws are completely fatal. Humans have yet to devise and implement a system that corrects these flaws. It may not even be possible.
The other issue is that it's a fool's errand to even debate the issue considering it is the market, through self interest, that dictates the economic system, not bureaucrats (although not at all times). We classify economic systems based upon how the market behaves, not on how we demand it to behave. Frankly, people act however the hell they want to and will go to any length to do so. Economics has yet to predict human behavior on the macro scale for any material period of time. Many of the governing structures we consider to be solid are merely the bed time stories we tell ourselves so we can sleep at night.
Anyone with two brain cells to rub together, has capital. Whether they use them or not, in a productive fashion, is another matter entirely.
Thank you Nanny Moose! ;)
There is one problem with this canard - everything is quoted in dollars, which is a fiat currency. A million dollars ain't what it used to be. You would get a better picture if this was expressed in barrels of oil, or gold. Bernanke is not an alchemist, and I don't think that he has worked out how to create a barrel of oil out of thin air.
One other point - you expect the ultra rich to do better as time goes on, just due to the increase in population - collect 15 cents from everyone in the world and you become a billionaire.
They control us because we empower them. Happy Victims Day.
The guaranteed annual income = the guaranteed annual consumer. As long as the government can print it and hand it out, it will wind up in the hands of the rich.
Lately large investors have become concerned... Lately lol I believe it would be almost impossible to quantify the impact this wealth concentration has had on the real economy. The real question is: Why is it so difficult to get this money re-invested into real world projects? We have real energy, water, agricultural, climate and social issues that require a new comprehensive form of investment. More yachts, diamonds, and extravagant lifestyles are not part of the solution.
Time to wake up.
Peeramid - Success from prior generations creates excess. You have generational dynamics as a general human problem. It is demographic imbalance, time takes care of that one.
I have seen fits and starts in small caps the last few years. As the boomers finish retiring you'll see shortage of labor and goods. Necessity is the mother of all invention. I look at 2021 as a year to begin rescaling investments and in particlar a new wave of innovation. Until then lots of kicking and screaming.
Seer - Invest some money into tax sheltering and avoidance. I learned the hard way. My 2012 revenue as a SOHO was $130k and earned income was $27k. Dont fight the tape as they say on this one.
RD - That is a far removed solution for some fairly pressing issues. It is the lack of investment that is allowing your described "phenomenon" to take place. I also find it a bit humourus that you believe that people will readily accept a new paradigm from the money gods should the world experience a Greek moment.
The world, IMO, is changing far faster then most wish to believe, and they may find that their dated ideas on money and control no longer apply in 2021.
Obama is undertaking one of the greatest wealth redistribution programs in US history. Only it is taking from the poor to give to the rich. All this outright theft and the progressive liberal left still love him.
Obama is actually taking from the Middle Class to give to the poor and the rich. His Party represents the poor and the rich. Duh!!
This article is plain stupid! First of all most companies have already cut back to "bare bones" employment levels. Suggesting deeper cuts just doesn't add up. Secondly, the past has clearly shown that a stronger middle class contributes to a more robust economy. The retard that wrote this piece needs to go crawl back under his rock in the Hamptons!
These blood suckers are like the AIDS virus, pre-AZT cocktail. The host is about dead.
The dumbass .01% live in the same toxic world they created. All the billions they have cant
-remove the radiation from the air, water and soil around them
-ensure the food they eat isnt GMO-laced
-remove chemicals from their environment
-turn off cancer causing EMF waves from the wireless equipment around them
The .01% are just winning at this round of Monopoly. When them game ends, they're finding they're in the same hell as everyone else-but that they are at higher risk of being accused of doing nothing.
No excuses for the .01%
I've had the very same thoughts.
Maybe TPTB are aliens... or perhaps they have some special immunity/radiation antidotes we don't know about.
C'mon, we all know they're Reptilians, from Alpha Draconis.
..and yet the bottom 90% still line up to buy the new iPhone and max out their credit card in the hopes of making the minimum monthly payments. The bottom 90% are at the bottom for a simple reason, they're as greedy and insecure as the 0.01%, they just lack drive to educate themselves.
Some people will never learn that the economy is more healthy when everyone has the opportunity to do better. Right now it just benefits the poor and rich. Middle class is getting the shaft.
The -01er's money will allow them to run but they won't be able to hide. Soon the masss will awaken and then we will have REAL change you BETTER believe in.
Indeed there will be change, for the much worse.
Why do you expect the 'mass', undereducated and stupefied by our media, to come up with improved governance? That is even less likely than that the 0.01% would suddenly decide to reform.
Imho, we will get what we deserve, a military dictatorship, possibly following a civil war. Think a General Alexander equivalent with an active duty pedigree as the likely candidate.
Headed to hell in a handbasket, I say. Used to be that the 1.0% never had it so better.
too fatty
In addition, serious threats to the valueless dollar...
The game was never fair, never will be fair, and the end game will be the unfairest of all.
Enough talk
Time for action...
Who wants to go first..?


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Don't ask me why, I just had the urge to stick a pair of butterfly wings on a tiger cub. Plus, I thought it would make a cute t-shirt: [link] *cough*
Drawn and inked by hand. Colored in photoshop.
Drawn and inked by hand. Colored in photoshop.
Ooh, this is so adorable!!
It's adorable. =3
oh wow, those wings match so perfectly!!!
this is incredibly adorable and I love it~!!!
this is incredibly adorable and I love it~!!!
Very sweet.
China, that's so cute!
And the colors are vibrant!
And the colors are vibrant!
Yeah, I saved it as a PNG instead of a jpeg. Amazing what a difference it made on the image quality.
And thanks so much.
And thanks so much.
That's so cute!
That's so cute Good luck with those shirt sales, haha
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Installed on: blacklight.
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Blacklight Version
Improving Performance Using Hyperthreading
Your performance can be improved by using hyperthreading with NAMD. In hyperthreading, two threads are run on each core. We have seen significant improvements in some test cases, and recommend that you always use it.
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$PBS_NCPUS with
$PBS_HT_NCPUS in the
mpirun command. This will run two threads on a single core. The number of processess passed to
mpirun is double the number of cores requested in the
#PBS -l ncpus
Bug: Passing -np 32 to mpirun
If the value that you are passing to the
mpirun command with
-np is 32, your job will fail with no indication of what went wrong. There are two ways to pass
-np 32 to mpirun, and they both trigger this bug. They are
- Request 32 cores and do not use hyperthreading. We recommend that you always use hyperthreading. This eliminates this bug and will improve performance.
- Request 16 cores and use hyperthreading. To work around this bug, define the
MPI_MAPPED_STACK_SIZEvariable. You should define
MPI_MAPPED_STACK_SIZEin your job script before the
#PBS -l ncpus=16 . . export MPI_MAPPED_STACK_SIZE=64M ! for the bash shell setenv MPI_MAPPED_STACK_SIZE 64M ! for the C shell . . mpirun -np $PBS_HT_NCPUS...
If the value you are passing to
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The executable is named namd2.
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Currently, NAMD can be run only from the bash shell. We are working to make it available under all shells.
- Prepare a job script containing commands to:
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module avail namd module load namdloads the default version.
- Use an MPI command like:
mpirun -np $PBS_HT_NCPUS dplace -s1 namd2 prog.namd > prog.logNote that this example uses hyperthreading, which will run two threads on each core. We recommend that you always do this.
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Neil Lennon has battled with depression
Rebecca Gray, Crime Reporter / / News
CELTIC boss Neil Lennon has revealed he cannot remember playing in some Old Firm games as he battled depression.
The revelations came as he took part in a new film to highlight mental health.
The ex-player said: "I certainly played in Celtic-Rangers games where I've no recollection of the game.
"I remember winning 2-0 at Ibrox and the dressing room was euphoric.
"I'm just sitting in the corner relieved that it's over, wanting to go home and close the door, turn off the light and not speak to anybody."
PFA Scotland launched the specially-commissioned film yesterday with the Scottish Association For Mental Health.
The manager spoke publicly about his battle with depression.
Lennon said: "I was at the top of my career with Leicester, we'd just won the League Cup, I'd signed a new contract - I had everything I wanted in life.
"I had the money, the house, the lifestyle, playing Premier League football at 29, the peak of my career.
"But I woke up one morning and just felt: 'Something's not right here'. And it snowballed.
"What I found about depression was it wasn't just a mental illness, it affected me physically, as well, through lack of sleep, lack of appetite."
He added: "Eventually I got better through taking anti-depressants. The only time it recurred was when I stopped taking them.
"When you are going through something like that, you feel like you are in a void and you'll never get out of it.
"The best thing when you have depression is to talk to someone about it.
"They can explain that you are going through a bad period because of this illness - but you will get better."
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The Great American Lockdown
Next week the Republicans will occupy lower midtown Manhattan with a security force--they used to be called armies--around 20,000 strong that includes 10,000 New York City police and a host of federal agents and tactical units under the supervision of the Secret Service. National Guard units will be placed on alert for call-up. Advisers from the Pentagon will doubtless be on hand as well, though in a more sub rosa capacity since the Rumsfeld DoD's wish to participate in domestic police actions has not yet received official blessing. Malice and plausible deniability are in the air: The NYPD's 35-page manual "Legal Guidelines for the Republican National Convention" takes ominous care to warn that protesters may impersonate officers and beat down their comrades to create the false impression of police brutality.
A 13-block cordon will be set around Madison Square Garden for the duration of the pageant. Outside that perimeter, police will be free to do as they see fit with protesters lacking permits, which is to say nearly all of them. Inside, convention-goers have been presented with an exhaustive list of items they may not bring with them to the convention floor, which includes computers, video cameras, walking sticks, and spray bottles or cans. Jesus himself could not gain entry without first surrendering his crown of thorns, which, for all the screeners could ascertain, might have been dipped in deadly ricin for use in a terrorist attack. Congress made a special $50 million appropriation for Bush's Manhattan brigade, but the real cost will likely be in the range of $75 to $125 million. No traveling delegation of the American imperium has found itself in such foreign, hostile--and heavily fortified--environs since the evacuation of Saigon in 1975.
It's the terrorists they fear, of course. And, more pressingly, the people. The New York Times reported almost two weeks ago that agents of the FBI have been knocking on the doors of likely convention demonstrators to let them know the godly eye of Ashcroft is upon them. The president has seen the whole premise of holding the convention in New York City slip away from him: The teary and triumphal appearance at Ground Zero that Karl Rove envisioned from the start was quietly ruled out in late June for the simple reason that this president can go nowhere in public without having his photo ops ruined by those who loathe him. He is reduced to doing everything in controlled settings. This is no simple matter in a campaign season. It requires, for one thing, a costly and time-consuming process of vetting ticket requests for Bush appearances to ensure that few, if any, who are not supporters get in.
As all this was happening, John Kerry and a team of the Democrats' best minds were staying up late confabulating new ways to make The Candidate ever more indistinguishable from the widely hated president. Their latest coup: Kerry would still have authorized Bush to invade Iraq even in the known absence of any weapons of mass destruction.
Troops, forward!
The Silence of the Lambs
Here is Paul Waldman, the author of a book called Fraud: The Strategy Behind the Bush Lies, on the inner life of the modern working journalist:
"Many years ago, I had a conversation with a White House correspondent for a major newspaper, and I asked her about this question of covering the [political] strategy and not covering the policy details. And she said, 'Look, I'm not an expert on welfare policy. I'm not an expert on foreign policy. What I'm an expert on is politics, and that's what I'm going to write about.'
"The way that ends up manifesting itself is in theater criticism, and the irony is that reporters tend to be very, very cynical. They assume that the motives that candidates and politicians offer are always false, and they always are concealing some sort of vaguely sinister strategic motive. But the irony is that they reward good image-making and they punish bad image-making. So even though they're cynical, they're also playing right into the hands of somebody like Karl Rove, because he knows all too well that it's not a question of whether you are going to try to construct some kind of theater. You're going to be evaluated based on whether it came off well or not.
"If you have a good photo op, you're going to get praised. If you fall off the stage like Bob Dole did, then you're going to get criticized. Reporters believe when they're doing this stuff that they're kind of in the know, and their cynicism is holding politicians to account. But it really isn't. All it's doing is insisting that they put on good theater as opposed to bad theater."
The president poses a special challenge to the drama critics: what to do when the hero appears less than heroic, or even less than present. Bush's penchant for parting his lips and serving up word salad is legend among his detractors, but few actually realize how commonplace the gaffes are outside the confines of his major television appearances. Beyond garden-variety dyslexia, which by itself would not be particularly striking or memorable--witness his father--Bush's speaking troubles reflect a huge propensity to lose interest in the words coming out of his mouth, often in the middle of sentences. At such times he will utter a word that sounds vaguely like the one memorized for the occasion, or he'll elide a couple of different talking-point phrases so as to turn them inside out. "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we," he recently told a Washington audience. "They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."
And there are the abundant examples of anecdotes that end at blank walls, parables without point, long and rambling tautologies: in short, times when the president of the United States seems to go to his special place and leave his mouth to fend for itself. Reporters cannot say as much, since presidents do not act this way: They don't talk without thinking. They do not have to feign interest in their own words. Some presidents are found to be miscreants--it proves the system works!--but none is ever a fool. Members of the media keep to this script, except when they are laughing together over drinks.
Nor will the fourth estate brook any suggestion that the campaign game is fixed. On the day last week when he visited St. Paul, I listened to the MPR broadcast of Bush's talk that afternoon in Hudson, Wisconsin. Afterward, the handpicked Republican crowd was solicited for questions, lobbing softball after softball in W's direction.
The first: We're praying for you, Mr. President. Nothing more, really.
Bush fumbled it. Specifically, he could not stay engaged long enough to finish an earnest-seeming thanks. "This is an amazing country..." he intoned in conclusion, then faltered--"which..."--aw, fuck!, he's thinking--"prays for..."--sounding more mystified now, but nearly home--"me."
The tent-revival aspect of the gathering kept floating to the surface. Another concerned citizen for Bush, who identified himself as a "youth minister," asked after faith-based initiatives. But it was only an entrée to his real question, which concerned any plans the president might have for publicly exposing Satan and his works. Bush thanked the young man for his own works but let the devil off the hook entirely in his reply. Soon, mercifully, it was back on the bus and off to the city.
Every day now, this sort of painfully contrived sideshow is passed off as the president meeting the people on the grand road of democracy. The next morning the Star Tribune summarized his trip thus: "A wide embrace for Bush in St. Paul." It would have been nearly as accurate, and more apt, to make that "Bush in Wisconsin: Soft on Satan?" But the script forbids making fun of the president, even when he's making fun of the script.
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Parents need to know that Compton-raised Kendrick Lamar's Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City is a powerful and important reinterpretation of West Coast "gangsta" rap culture, using vibrant narrative structure in the form of hip-hop music to tell the story of his South Central. Although parents may be wary of the explicit language (including "f--k" and the "N" word), violence, sexuality, drugs, and mature themes, the overall message is positive and inspiring.
GOOD KID, M.A.A.D. CITY is the second studio album and major-label debut of South Los Angeles-based rapper Kendrick Lamar. Executive-produced by the legendary Dr. Dre, GKMC has been hailed as the return of the West Coast in the hip-hop mainstream, and Lamar has become the genre's shining star.
Kendrick Lamar is such a brilliant and intricate rapper that it takes a few listens to really hear what he's saying, but once you do, you realize that this is a man with a powerful perspective and an important message. The lyrics are clever and thoughtful throughout the record, the production is deep and haunting, and the imagery is vivid and palpable. The songs flow together perfectly, making the album a coherent masterpiece, a testament to the power of hip-hop to tell a true story. For mature teens and adults, there is plenty to consider and discuss.
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My avatar. Snow on a Nature.
Draw for fun. Brush and Canvas.
Corel Painter ver.8. Original size: 4500 x 4500 pix.
Draw for fun. Brush and Canvas.
Corel Painter ver.8. Original size: 4500 x 4500 pix.
That's nice
I finally found the source artist after all these years.
пончик...я бы съел.
<3 <3
loving this little critter. Came for the fluffiness, was not disappointed.
Ultimately cute >3<
It is very tender the colors are perfect
So adorable
Wonderfully !
Awwww how adorable!
How hasn't this gotten a DD yet??
that's so adorable
^-^ lov it!
Amazing ^___^
aww so precious :3
Lovely ^^
I love it!
I love it!
Какая прелесть! Так и хочется потискать <3
Very cute. I love not just your avatar, but the background too! The grass is nicely done, and the clouds look very fluffy and real. And good job on the tree texture too <3
Too cute!
this little fox i drew him along time ago why looking at another hoto of him with the butterfly on its nose it was so long ago and i lost the drawing i use to be pretty good at drawing and i just love this little thing i wish i could find the pic again i lost alot of drawing and such even a drawing of a fairiy a freind in art class made me
nice picnic
What is it about your part of the world that makes artists there so fantastic at creating art like this? WOW!
Why may things only be favorite once? This is fantastic.
She's such a little cutie!!!! *hugs her softly*
That is adorable! And very well to drawn. Beautiful work.
Oh,que fofo
Oh gosh it's so cute!!
Love the overall image by itself. What strikes me really great is the colours and rounded shapes you've managed to make. It all looks so soft and nice, cute in a way. A sweet avatar of yours.
Awww little butterfly land nose such cute are
It is the most cutest thing I've ever seen . . . O_O
so cute
нямочка!!!!!!! чудесная работа!
I like this animation
I LOVE THIS little Foxy guy you put in
So So So adorable!!! I wished you avatar existed for real!!
So cute ! How did you the grass, you used a specific brush ?
Adorable ♥
O_O OMG!!! soooooo beautyful!!!!!!!
Adorable! X3
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oh my godness! HTIS PEACE OF ART IS AMAZING!
the colors, the lighting, the pose the background.. simply EVERYTHING IS PERFECT!
the colors, the lighting, the pose the background.. simply EVERYTHING IS PERFECT!


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Definitions for Reliefrɪˈlif
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word Relief
Princeton's WordNet
relief, alleviation, assuagement(noun)
the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced
"as he heard the news he was suddenly flooded with relief"
relief, ease(noun)
the condition of being comfortable or relieved (especially after being relieved of distress)
"he enjoyed his relief from responsibility"; "getting it off his conscience gave him some ease"
(law) redress awarded by a court
"was the relief supposed to be protection from future harm or compensation for past injury?"
stand-in, substitute, relief, reliever, backup, backup man, fill-in(noun)
someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult)
"the star had a stand-in for dangerous scenes"; "we need extra employees for summer fill-ins"
relief, succor, succour, ministration(noun)
assistance in time of difficulty
"the contributions provided some relief for the victims"
respite, rest, relief, rest period(noun)
a pause for relaxation
"people actually accomplish more when they take time for short rests"
easing, moderation, relief(noun)
a change for the better
aid for the aged or indigent or handicapped
"he has been on relief for many years"
easing, easement, alleviation, relief(noun)
the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance)
"he asked the nurse for relief from the constant pain"
relief, relievo, rilievo, embossment, sculptural relief(noun)
sculpture consisting of shapes carved on a surface so as to stand out from the surrounding background
the act of freeing a city or town that has been besieged
"he asked for troops for the relief of Atlanta"
the removal of stress or discomfort.
I sighed with relief when I found out that my daughter hadn't got lost, but was waiting for me at home.
the feeling associated with the removal of stress or discomfort
the person who takes over a shift for another
Officer Schmidt can finally go home because his relief has arrived.
aid or assistance offered in time of need
court-ordered compensation, aid, or protection, a redress
tax savings
a type of artwork in which shapes or figures protrude from a flat background
the difference made noticeable by a variation in light or color
the difference of elevations on a surface
The relief on that part of the earth's surface
Webster Dictionary
the act of relieving, or the state of being relieved; the removal, or partial removal, of any evil, or of anything oppressive or burdensome, by which some ease is obtained; succor; alleviation; comfort; ease; redress
release from a post, or from the performance of duty, by the intervention of others, by discharge, or by relay; as, a relief of a sentry
that which removes or lessens evil, pain, discomfort, uneasiness, etc.; that which gives succor, aid, or comfort; also, the person who relieves from performance of duty by taking the place of another; a relay
a fine or composition which the heir of a deceased tenant paid to the lord for the privilege of taking up the estate, which, on strict feudal principles, had lapsed or fallen to the lord on the death of the tenant
the projection of a figure above the ground or plane on which it is formed
the appearance of projection given by shading, shadow, etc., to any figure
the height to which works are raised above the bottom of the ditch
the elevations and surface undulations of a country
Relief, or relievo rilievo, is a sculptural technique. The term relief is from the Latin verb levo, to raise. To create a sculpture in relief is to give the impression that the sculpted material has been raised above the background plane. What is actually performed when a relief is cut in from a flat surface of stone or wood is a lowering of the field, leaving the unsculpted parts seemingly raised. The technique involves considerable chiselling away of the background, which is a time-consuming exercise with little artistic effect if the lowered background is left plain, as is often the case. On the other hand, a relief saves forming the rear of a subject, and is less fragile and more securely fixed than a sculpture in the round, especially one of a standing figure where the ankles are a potential weak point, especially in stone. In other materials such as metal, clay, plaster stucco, ceramics or papier-mache the form can be just added to or raised up from the background, and monumental bronze reliefs are made by casting. There are different degrees of relief depending on the degree of projection of the sculpted form from the field, for which the Italian appellations are still sometimes used. The full range includes high relief, where more than 50% of the depth is shown and there may be undercut areas, mid-relief, low-relief, and shallow-relief or rilievo schiacciato, where the plane is scarcely more than scratched in order to remove background material. There is also sunk relief, which was mainly restricted to Ancient Egypt. However the distinction between high relief and low relief is the clearest and most important, and these two are generally the only terms used to discuss most work. The definition of these terms is somewhat variable, and many works combine areas in more than one of them, sometimes sliding between them in a single figure; accordingly some writers prefer to avoid all distinctions. The opposite of relief sculpture is counter-relief, intaglio, or cavo-rilievo, where the form is cut into the field or background rather than rising from it; this is very rare in monumental sculpture.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
prominence of a sculpture from a plain surface; works in relief are of three kinds: alto-relievo, high relief; mezzo-relievo, medium relief; basso-relievo, low relief.
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
Inequalities of evaluation and the configuration of land features on the surface of the Earth which may be represented on maps or charts by contours, hypsometric tints, shading, or spot elevations.
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Rank popularity for the word 'Relief' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1745
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Sample Sentences & Example Usage
There was meaningful relief here.
Huge relief, we should get home OK.
For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
The world can now breathe a sigh of relief.
I felt so much relief. I just felt closure.
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From our Multilingual Translation Dictionary
- راحة, الإغاثةArabic
- consol, relleuCatalan, Valencian
- zástup, reliéf, (humanitární) pomoc, úlevaCzech
- Hilfe, Erleichterung, Relief, Entlastung, AblösungGerman
- ανάγλυφο, ανακούφισηGreek
- desahogo, relieve, relevo, ayuda humanitaria, alivio, asistencia, auxilioSpanish
- helpotus, reliefi, hyvitys, verohelpotus, syvyysvaikutelma, korvaus, pinnanmuodostus, korkeusero, korkokuva, vapauttaja, kohokuvaFinnish
- soulagement, relief, allégement, relèveFrench
- faoiseamh, rilífIrish
- faochadhScottish Gaelic
- הקלה, תבליטHebrew
- राहतHindi
- relief, domborműHungarian
- soccorso, sollievo, rilievo, aiuto, assistenza, sopraelevazione, sostituto, bassorilievo, sgravio, cambioItalian
- 救済, 浮彫的効果, 救援, 安心, 立体画法, 賠償, 減税, 法的救済, 安心感, 起伏, 交代者, 高低, 浮き彫りJapanese
- ចម្លាក់លៀន, ចម្លាក់ផុសKhmer
- 제고Korean
- چارKurdish
- solacium, auxiliumLatin
- reljefsLatvian
- āhua matawhenuaMāori
- opluchting, reliëfDutch
- relieffNorwegian
- ulga, reliefPolish
- auxílio, relevo, assistência humanitária, alívioPortuguese
- ajutor umanitar, relief, asistență umanitară, altorelief, ușurare, alinare, basoreliefRomanian
- облегчение, рельефRussian
- рељеф, reljefSerbo-Croatian
- lättnad, lindringSwedish
- farajaSwahili
- ఉపశమనంTelugu
- kabartmaTurkish
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Black music icons of the 1960s look the most different from how they do now. In the 1960s there was Motown, miniskirts, beehive wigs and sharp suits. Take a look at what some of the decade's biggest stars looked like then…and what they look like now:
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Research Article
A comparative study of surface-enhanced Raman scattering from silver-coated anodic aluminum oxide and porous silicon
Article first published online: 20 APR 2010
DOI: 10.1002/jrs.2661
Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Journal of Raman Spectroscopy
Volume 42, Issue 1, pages 12–20, January 2011
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How to Cite
Terekhov, S. N., Mojzes, P., Kachan, S. M., Mukhurov, N. I., Zhvavyi, S. P., Panarin, A. Yu., Khodasevich, I. A., Orlovich, V. A., Thorel, A., Grillon, F. and Turpin, P.-Y. (2011), A comparative study of surface-enhanced Raman scattering from silver-coated anodic aluminum oxide and porous silicon. J. Raman Spectrosc., 42: 12–20. doi: 10.1002/jrs.2661
Publication History
- Issue published online: 14 JAN 2011
- Article first published online: 20 APR 2010
- Manuscript Accepted: 28 FEB 2010
- Manuscript Received: 10 DEC 2009
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- anodic aluminum oxide;
- porous silicon;
- porphyrin
Three types of Ag-coated arrays from porous anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) were prepared and studied as substrates for surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS). They were compared with Ag-coated porous silicon (PSi) samples. AAO-based substrates were prepared by the vapor deposition of silver directly onto the surface of porous AAO with different morphologies of the pores, whereas SERS-active island films on the PSi were prepared by immersion plating. The resulting metallic nanostructures were characterized by UV-vis absorption spectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Thermal evaporation leads to the formation of granular arrays of Ag nanoparticles on the surface of AAO. SERS activity of the substrates was tested using water-soluble cationic Zn(II)-tetrakis (4-N-methylpyridyl) porphyrin (ZnTMPyP4) as a probe molecule. The results indicate that all AAO-based substrates studied here exhibit some degree of SERS activity. Noteworthy, for excitation at 532 nm, signals from AAO-based substrates were comparable with those from the PSi-based ones, whereas for 441.6 nm excitation they were about twice higher. The strongest SERS-enhancement at 441.6 nm excitationwas provided by the AAO substrates with silver deposited on the monolith (originally nonporous) side of AAO. Preferential SERS-enhancement of the bands ascribed to the vibrations of the N-methylpyridinium group of ZnTMPyP4 when going to blue excitation was found. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


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'Special' Rose looks very familiar in Bulls' win over Pacers
Pacers head coach Frank Vogel summed it up best: "Same old Derrick Rose I remember before the injury. He's special."
It was just a preseason game, but in the Bulls' 103-98 victory Friday night over the Pacers at the United Center, Rose put on a show, a vintage, MVP season-like performance. It wasn't just his 32 points, but the way he did it: 9-for-15 from the field, 4-for-7 from three-point range and 10-for-13 from the free-throw line, not to mention nine assists, in 31 minutes of play, the most action he's seen in the preseason thus far.
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But even those numbers don't convey the point guard's impact. With Vogel and Bulls head coach Tom Thibodeau both seemingly striking a tacit agreement to treat the second exhibition matchup between the two divisional opponents like a playoff series, Rose, along with other regulars from both squads, played down the stretch of the tight-knit contest.
That's when he showed that not only were his skills back, but his killer instinct and ability to close out games hadn't gone anywhere either. Rose scored 10 points in the final 3:44 of the contest
"It felt good being out there. I'm just happy [Thibodeau] gave me the opportunity and that we won the game. I would've been hurt if we would've lost this game tonight with us having to fight back," Rose explained. "That's the way I've been playing in practice. I'm not holding back, whatever shot you give me, I'm taking, no matter if I miss it three or four times. With our offense, you have to take the open shots that you get or we're going to be very stagnant. For me, I think I work hard. So the shots that I'm taking, I'm not going to miss them all game."
[WATCH -- Thibodeau: Rose's confidence is growing every game]
"That was the game plan. If they don't double-team me or get the ball out of my hand, it's going to be tough. But for me, it's really driving those last four minutes and trying to get to the line and slow the game down," he said of the Bulls' late-game strategy. "Really attack. I think they had Hibbert in the pick and roll, really attack his legs and pull people in. I think at that time, we had Tony, Murph, Lu and Taj out there and just trying to draw guys in so guys have a comfortable shot, where they're walking into their shots."
Vogel noted that compared to last season's feisty, yet undermanned bunch, the Bulls' end-of-game philosophy was like night and day.
"Dramatically different," the coach said. "He's got the ball in his hands every possession and he's special. You'll never find me shy of respect for Derrick Rose."
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Rose's outside jumper and playmaking ability, perhaps the only two aspects of his game that he hasn't fully demonstrated in the preseason yet, were also on full display against Indiana, one of the league's top defensive squads. Although Thibodeau wasn't happy with the Bulls' performance as a whole, he had to credit the way Rose played, especially in those areas.
"His confidence is just growing and growing with each game. You can see his timing is coming around. The explosion has been there from the start and we've seen it the entire training camp and practices, and in the games, each game you can see his timing is coming around," he explained. "He's got a good rhythm on his jump shot now. Attacking, taking contact. But he made some great passes, too. We're not making shots yet, but those are shots I'm confident we'll knock down."
Rose's teammates were even more enthusiastic about the former league MVP offering up a signature outing so early in his return. Taj Gibson believes that Rose's game has been furthered by the Bulls' intense practice sessions at the Berto Center during training camp.
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"It was great because you look at late in the game, the screen-and-roll tip, the bigs have to guard him, and he's so fast and versatile in the one-on-one, teams really have to lock in on him. But he was just on fire today. He's feeling better and better. I think he had an even better performance than the last game," explained the backup big man, who is also having an outstanding exhibition campaign. "He's healthy. He feels healthy. He's taking good looks. We challenge him in practice. Practice isn't a walk in the park. I'll tell you that right now. Practice, he understands that we go hard and we're throwing different bodies toward him every day in practice. You've got veterans like Mike James, you've got Marquis, you've got Kirk Hinrich. Everybody's challenging and he's making them better at the same time, so I'm not surprised at all."
All-Star small forward Luol Deng, the beneficiary of many of Rose's passes — he scored 22 points, including 3-for-4 on threes — chimed in: "It's great. Derrick works so hard.
"It's a lot of attention, but he does a good job of just working on his game and staying with his game. He knows what he can do. He came back slowly. A lot of guys would've come back and tried to show everything," he added. "He's just letting the game come to him. When you work so hard, you can't really go wrong. He's been setting a good example for everybody. He's coming in early and doing his job and when he's doing that, you have no choice but to do the same thing."
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And just as Vogel had the simplest, most accurate explanation for Rose's success, Rose himself described the reason why he's been able to approach his previous form so quickly in his comeback campaign in a succinct manner: "God is good.
"I've been working hard, super hard. I think I'm one of the hardest working guys in the league, if not the hardest," he elaborated, for those who aren't fans of him taking a religious tact when asked for explanations. "During the summer, I worked out three times a day and really concentrating on everything that I'm doing and taking care of my body. So, just trying to make the game easy and trying to do anything individually to help my team. "
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In the end, his modesty and matter-of-fact way of stating things after a jaw-dropping night of swash-buckling drives, long-range marksmanship and thread-the-needle passing after a year of not witnessing it in person bring only one thing to mind: same old Derrick Rose.


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Scarlett Johansson
Scarlett Johansson is an American actress, model and singer. Johansson made her film debut in "North" (1994) and was later nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead for her performance in "Manny & Lo" (1996). She rose to further prominence with her roles in "The Horse Whisperer" (1998) and "Ghost World" (2001). She shifted to adult roles with her performances in "Girl with a Pearl Earring" (2003) and Sofia Coppola's "Lost in Translation" (2003), for which she won a BAFTA award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Both films earned her Golden Globe Award nominations.
The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce honored Scarlett Johansson with the 2,470th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on May 2, 2012 in front of Madame Tussauds in Hollywood. Johansson is also considered as one of the modern female sex symbols in Hollywood and is often listed as one of the most attractive celebrities.
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In her interview, the "We Bought a Zoo" actress confessed, "It's an okay body. I wouldn't say it's particularly remarkable, though. I don't like my thighs, my midsection."
Starting off the week with a star-studded shindig, a host of famous folks showed up at Cipriani Wall Street for IFP's 24th Gotham Independent Film Awards in New York City last night (December 1).
Newly-married Scarlett Johansson was all smiles in her leggy black dress with lace sleeves as she took the stage to present an award.
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A New York Post source insists that the "We Bought A Zoo" babe (who has been spotted wearing a slim wedding band as of late) married her handsome journalist beau back in September following the birth of their daughter Rose.
She's been a busy lady over the past year given the birth of her daughter Rose and relocation to Paris, France, and Scarlett Johansson is looking forward to reconnecting with friends and family over the holiday season.
The "We Bought a Zoo" actress shared some helpful hints on getting all gussied up for yule tide gatherings in her new feature for Vogue and she certainly knows what she's talking about.
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The "We Bought a Zoo" actress underwent the "20 Questions" treatment and it sounds like she's actually quite normal, relatively speaking.
She always manages to look amazing and Scarlett Johansson has unveiled a few of her favorite makeup tricks in her December 2014 feature for ELLE magazine.
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10 Inspirational Tumblr Photography Blogs
If you love photography, a better place than Pinterest to look upon photography blogs right now is Tumblr. The social blogging site Tumblr is used for a lot of things: photography quotes, photography blogs, news, and reblogging the Daily What. And more photographers than ever are signing up to Tumblr blogs with its minimalist design and a plenty of free themes which allow you to show off your photos in an appealing way. While some focus on landscape photography or on personal photographers' projects, some are online scrapbooks and others are all about black and white. Herein we take a look at ten specific ones in random order that each have their own, unique collection. You will discover completely non-pretentious photos that Tumblr photography blogs have to offer.
Sabino is an inspirational blog curated by Sabino Aguad. The Tumblr blog features amauter and professional photographers that he spotted all over the internet. Photo above by Olivier Kervern.
If You Leave is a online collection of the works of over 600 different young contemporary photographers. The collective captures everyday life like portraits, subjects, and landscapes. Photo above by Nick D. Woods.
T Magazine is New York Times' culture magazine, and a daily blog that spans the universe of fashion, design, food and travel. The print magazine was launched in August 2004. The Tumblr blog is where they catalog their daily updates and inspirations. Photo above by Sarah Aubel.
Original Photographers has been created to promote and draw more focus towards the hard working creators of original photography on Tumblr by promoting their work. It is made for amauter and pro photographers alike. It's a great way to bring your works to light.
Kallwirsch is a new Tumblr photography blog from the amazing photographer Jonas Kamm.
Jessica Fletcher, a blog curated by Alexis Mastroyiannis. Photos that are almost as good as 'Murder, She Wrote'.
This is Tumblr blog by Matt Barnes, a Toronto based photographer. On this blog you'll find lots of inspiring photography, taken by Barnes with interesting stories behind them.
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A small group of independent PCPs from across Maine has been meeting over the last year. If you are not on this list, you may be missing important opportunities to exchange information and participate in efforts to strengthen the position of Maine's independent PCPs.
No single organization has a contact list of all independent PCPs in Maine. We would like to create that data base to work on common goals, reimbursement, and promote the awareness of and quality of independent practices. Please email, call or fax us and add yourself to the growing list. We invite you to become involved in furthering the influence of independent providers in the rapidly changing health care environment. Please send or call in your contact information to: Jean Antonucci MD 607 778 3313. Fax 778 3544. Email email@example.com.
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