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In September of 2011, the Occupy Wall Street protests began in New York and quickly spread across the globe. Its "We are the 99 percent" slogan encapsulated popular angst over income inequality that had been rising steadily over the years. Today, inequality in the United States, measured by the standard Gini coefficient, is substantially higher than almost any other developed nation, and even some developing countries such as Russia and India.
While income inequality can be summarized in a few words, its multiple potential causes are more complex. Globalization and technological change have simultaneously led to greater competition for lower-skilled workers--many of whom have also lost union membership--while giving well-educated, higher-skilled workers increased leverage. Changes to tax rates, including favorable treatment for capital gains, may also play a role.
Rising U.S. Income Inequality
Income inequality in the United States has been rising for decades, with the top echelon of earners rapidly outpacing the rest of the population. According to the Congressional Budget Office (PDF), the average real after-tax household income of the top 1 percent rose 275 percent from 1979 to 2007. Meanwhile, income for the remainder of the top quintile (81stto 99th percentile) grew 65 percent. Income for the majority of the population in the middle of the scale (21st through 80th percentiles) grew just 37 percent for the same period. And the bottom quintile experienced the least growth income at just 18 percent.
Furthermore, in 1965, a typical corporate CEO earned more than twenty times a typical worker; by 2011, the ratio was 383:1, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
While many of the suspected drivers of rising income inequality—globalization, technological change and the rising value of education—affect other nations as well, few have seen as stark a rise in inequality. From 1968 to 2010, the share of national income earned by the top 20 percent rose from 42.6 to 50.2 percent, with gains concentrated at the very top. Meanwhile, the "middle class," the middle 60 percent, saw its share decline from 53.2 to 46.5 percent. This increasing income inequality is captured by the steady rise in the U.S. Gini coefficient, from 0.316 in the mid-1970s to 0.378 in the late 2000s. Today, the U.S. income distribution is one of the most uneven among major developed nations (PDF).
Income Inequality in OECD countries
Source: OECD Map: Hagit Bachrach
Globalization and De-Unionization
Economic forces underlie the growth of income inequality. Highly skilled workers have greatly benefited from worldwide opportunities, from the star actor whose movies reach a global audience to the entrepreneur who can quickly and cheaply bring a new product to market through Chinese contract manufacturing (Forbes).
Meanwhile, globalization has brought tough competition to other American workers who have seen jobs move overseas, wages stagnate, and unions decline. The median union member earns roughly a quarter more than a non-union counterpart. Forty years ago, a quarter of private sector workers were represented by unions, but today it is only 6.9 percent. Despite a workforce one-fifth of the size, the public sector has more union members (PDF).
Immigration likely pays a role in stagnant wages, especially among workers without a high school degree, of which immigrants make up about half. One study found that a 10 percent increase in the local immigrant population correlated with a 1.3 percent decline in the price of labor-intensive services, but it is difficult to disentangle this competitive effect from others on the labor market (PDF).
A noted free trade advocate, Alan Blinder, said that while beneficial for the United States as a whole, the increased labor competition from globalization will be painful for many Americans. He advocated for helping displaced workers through a stronger safety net, reforming education, and encouraging innovation and entrepreneurship (WashPost). Fellow Princeton economist Paul Krugman believes that "we need to restore the bargaining power that labor has lost over the last thirty years, so that ordinary workers as well as superstars have the power to bargain for good wages" (NYT).
Education and Technological Change
Most high wages come from high-skill jobs that require a commensurate level of education. After decades of gradually narrowing, the college wage premium has grown dramatically since 1980, as the annual growth in the college educated workforce (2 percent) failed to keep pace with rising demand (3.27 to 3.66 percent) driven by technological change. In 2011, the median earnings of a worker with a bachelor's degree were 65 percent higher than a high school graduate's; holders of professional degrees (MD, JD, MBA) enjoyed a 161 percent premium. Higher educational attainment correlates both with higher earnings and lower unemployment.
However, college degrees do not guarantee good jobs. Falling communication and computer costs are leading to the offshoring and automation of some jobs that were once the purview of well-paid professionals, from scientists in pharmaceutical labs to finance and accounting jobs (Businessweek). There is a widening wage premium between those with advanced degrees and those with a bachelor's degree only. Since the 2000s, the wage premium for those with only a four-year degree has remained flat, while for those with advanced degrees it has continued to grow.
Gary S. Becker and Kevin M. Murphy of the University of Chicago see education as the major driver of rising income inequality. "In the United States, the rise in inequality accompanied a rise in the payoff to education and other skills. We believe that the rise in returns on investments in human capital is beneficial and desirable, and policies designed to deal with inequality must take account of its cause" (TheAmerican). To address income inequality, they argue for policies that would increase the percentages of American youth who complete high school and college, and against making the tax code more progressive.
In a recent survey, 80 percent of economic experts agreed that a leading reason for rising U.S. income inequality was that technological change has affected workers with some skill sets differently than others, but not all prominent economists agree. James K. Galbraith believes that "the skills bias argument--the notion that inequality is being driven by technological change and education and the supply of skills--is comprehensively rebutted by the evidence." He argues instead that the credit cycle has concentrated income in specific sectors, such as finance, tech and real estate (WashPost).
Income Tax Rates
One tool for addressing income inequality is a more progressive tax code (PDF). While some argue that shifting some money from the rich to the poor means that money can be used to create more social utility—the economic concept of declining marginal utility—other see this shift as unfair and unwise because it reduces the ability of more productive citizens to re-invest in the skills and businesses responsible for their higher relative income, thus retarding overall growth. While economic models and theories can attempt to quantify the relationship between inequality and growth, the optimum balance cannot be empirically determined.
The United States has generally cut top income tax rates over the past half century. When John F. Kennedy entered the White House in 1961, the top ordinary income tax bracket--applied to wages and savings interest--was more than 90 percent. Ronald Reagan slashed the top rate from 70 percent in 1981 to 28 percent after 1986. Tax increases under the first President Bush and President Clinton brought the top rate to 39.6 percent, but tax cuts signed by President George W. Bush and reauthorized by President Obama set it to 35 percent.
Tax rates on investment income in the form of capital gains taxes and dividends have also declined, with the current rate of 15 percent the lowest since 1933. Investment income ultimately is derived from the after-tax profits of corporations, whose tax rate has also declined since the Eisenhower-era, from more than 50 percent to today's marginal rate of 35 percent. Corporate income tax has declined steadily as a share both of corporate profits and as a percentage of GDP over the past half century.
The Social Security payroll tax, which funds both old age pensions and Medicare, is regressive because it is a flat rate that only applies to the first $110,100 of wages, in 2012. On the other hand, roughly half of U.S. taxpayers pay no additional federal income tax.
A Tax Policy Center analysis of all federal taxes found overall progressive taxation, with each quartile paying a successively higher rate and the top 0.1 percent paying an effective rate of 30.4 percent. While higher than the 14.1 percent borne by the middle quartile, 30.4 percent is lower than the historical rates paid by this small group, which is earning its largest share of national income since the Great Depression.
Social Program Support
The poverty rate tends to generally follow the economic cycle (PDF). As the economy reached new heights in 2000, the poverty rate fell to 11.1 percent--a rate not seen since 1973—but in 2010 the poverty rate had jumped back up to 15.1 percent.
Under President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, most assistance was in the form of cash benefits to needy families. Through the 1970s and 1980s, non-cash benefit programs were created or accelerated, including college grants, food stamps, and housing assistance. The 1990s ushered in welfare reform, replacing federal cash assistance with TANF block grant to states (PDF), with work requirements and time limits. The refundable earned income tax credit, (created in 1975) was greatly expanded at this time, providing extra cash to workers in an effort to "make work pay."
Today, record numbers receive food stamps, though one in five Americans struggle to afford food (Stateline). The number of Social Security Disability Insurance recipients has surged by more than 22 percent since the recession began, as that program effectively acts as a long-term unemployment benefit for some (Bloomberg).
From Medicaid to unemployment benefits, many social support programs are driven by decisions at the state level. States have less flexibility to run deficits and many have cut programs to needy citizens. Pennsylvania recently joined other states in eliminating its general assistance program (Stateline). One caseworker observed: "My clients have lost an important source of funds for life's necessities, while they face longer waitlists for job training programs."
Bred for Success?
A longer-term source of income disparity is strengthening: It is increasingly difficult to reach a higher economic status than your parents. Many Americans take pride in the belief that everyone has a chance to "make it big" and rags-to-riches stories are almost legends. But today, more than 40 percent of those born into the lowest income quintile will stay there, and less than 30 percent will make an above-average income.
Among developed countries, only the United Kingdom has less class mobility; in 2006, the Brookings Institution found that 47 percent of U.S. parents' income advantages are passed to their children, greater than in France (41 percent), Germany (32 percent) or Sweden (27 percent). The countries with the highest mobility were Canada, Norway, Finland and Denmark, where less than 20 percent of economic advantages are passed to children (PDF).
Political Impact
The growing gap between the rich and poor may exacerbate political disunity. Economist Joseph E. Stiglitz of Columbia University examined this in his recent book, The Price of Inequality, and argued that no one has an interest in stark inequality. "The rich do not exist in a vacuum. They need a functioning society around them to sustain their position. Widely unequal societies do not function efficiently and their economies are neither stable nor sustainable" (Vanity Fair).
The Pew Research Center found increasing anxiety among America's middle class, with 85 percent expressing greater difficulty in maintaining their standard of living. While a majority of Americans see income inequality as a big problem (TheHill), polls also show more desire for economic growth and greater equality of opportunity (Gallup).
During the debate in late 2010 over whether to extend the Bush-era tax rates, influential behavioral economist Richard H. Thaler asked "whether we want a society in which the rich take an ever-increasing share of the pie, or prefer to return to conditions that allow all classes to anticipate an increasing standard of living" (NYT). The former chairman of Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, N. Gregory Mankiw, argued that raising his marginal tax rate would lead him--and many others--to work less (NYT). This tension between equality and growth is likely to remain unresolved for the foreseeable future.
Finally, an August 2012 paper by the Hoover Institution of Stanford argued that income inequality is not rising. Their analysis considered after tax income and added in non-cash benefits from employers and government programs, and calculated a decline in the U.S. Gini coefficient from 1993 to 2009. The authors argued that reducing income inequality would not improve economic well-being, and policymakers should instead target opportunity inequality.


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Hurricane Isaac caused Escambia and Santa Rosa counties to close schools, causing Navarre and Washington to tentatively reschedule the game for Saturday. But because the worst effects of the storm passed through the area on Tuesday, Walls got permission from the Santa Rosa County Schools' administration to practice Wednesday.
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The candid Barack Obama – and he's a Skype user too
Alongside their respective political campaigns, the past few months gave the world a fascinating insight into the personal lives of two prominent US senators and their running mates.
The Obama campaign made widespread use of blogs and social networks, and one of the highlights for me was the set of photos posted on Flickr from election night. Showing Obama in his hotel rooms in Chicago, they offer a glimpse of just how tense it must have been.
That's about as tense we were most of the evening. I am blown away that we have a President that tweets, does iPhone apps and uses Flickr. I just can't get over that. — tokenygaard
Also reported (and I'm sure you saw this coming) was the fact that Barack Obama is an avid Skype user. We heard the news first from Italian magazine Panorama, which reports that he read the Harry Potter books to his daughters using Skype every evening during his campaign.
Updated: My Italian's not great, so it's possible that I mistranslated the original report. We don't know for sure whether or not Barack Obama used Skype to read Harry Potter. He's definitely a Skype user, though – I just wish we knew if he uses it for video calling
Lastly, there's the Obama family's dog dilemma: [via Malthe]
"We have two criteria that have to be reconciled. One is that Malia is allergic, so it has to be hypoallergenic. There are a number of breeds that are hypoallergenic. On the other hand, our preference would be to get a shelter dog, but, obviously, a lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me. So — so whether we're going to be able to balance those two things, I think, is a pressing issue on the Obama household."
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I'm wondering if Obama is forced to give up email, and his BlackBerry, if that means he will have to give up Skype as well? The Presidential Records Act puts all his correspondence into public record! NYTimes had an article last month: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/us/politics/16blackberry.html


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Grief and Depression: When Science and Terminology Get Confused
In his ongoing critique of the DSM-5 process, Dr Allen Frances started a brushfire recently in challenging the DSM-5 Mood Disorders Work Group proposal to remove the bereavement exclusion from the diagnostic criteria for a major depressive episode. Here's a summary of the debate.
Dr Frances led off with a New York Times op-ed piece arguing that the DSM-5 Work Group proposal to eliminate the bereavement exclusion for the diagnosis of major depressive disorder (MDD) would lead to the overdiagnosing and medicalizing of normal grief.1 Letters followed, including one by Kenneth Kendler, David Kupfer, and Carol Bernstein, who stated that that "scientific evidence shows that there are no systematic differences between individuals who develop major depression in response to bereavement and those who develop depression following other severe stressors..."2 In a Psychiatric Times blog post, Dr Frances retorted, in effect agreeing that normal grief may at be times indistinguishable from MDD, but that the two are nevertheless different.3
Dr Ronald Pies then responded to Dr Frances' blog with a multitude of points, but with a central argument for the safety of false negative MDD diagnoses over the risk of false positives.4 Finally, in another post, Dr Frances suggested a compromise with Dr Pies, agreeing that extending the length of time before diagnosing MDD from 2 to 4 weeks would reduce the number of false positives, but continuing to express less concern about the danger of false negatives.5
One very relevant study left out of this discussion was the 2008 study by Kendler, Myers, and Zisook: "Does bereavement-related major depression differ from major depression associated with other stressful life events?"6 From a scientific perspective, this study might be seen as definitive. MDD looks like MDD wherever you see it: following loss of a loved one, following a divorce, following loss of a job, following whatever stressful life event, or following none at all. The jury of empirical evidence is rendering its verdict on the side of removing the exclusion. Science prevails.
But here's in fact where things get more complicated and science seems to confuse us. The problems emerge in terminological distinctions that appear thoroughly clouded. The confusion begins with the DSMs. "Uncomplicated bereavement" in DSM-III, and "bereavement" in DSM-IV, may or may not reach the level of MDD. The instruction from DSM-IV is, in its contorted language, not to diagnose the bereaved person with major depression if the MDD symptoms are mild, even though meeting criteria of a major depressive episode, but to diagnose MDD if the symptoms are severe.
On top of this confusion generated by DSM-IV, researchers have introduced other terminology. In the Kendler and colleagues study just cited,6 the authors identify a "bereavement-related depression" group, of which 28% meet criteria for "uncomplicated bereavement" or "normal grief," in order to show that the bereavement-related depression does not differ from a control group of individuals with depression related to other stressful life events, of which 25% meet criteria for "normal grief." In this study "normal grief" means, following DSM-IV, not ordinary, non-pathological grief, but rather major depression of the milder sort. The individuals in both groups not meeting "normal grief criteria" (also similar in their symptom characteristics) fail to meet "normal grief criteria" because they are in fact worse, with more severe MDD symptoms. This study attempts to follow the contorted logic of DSM-IV but differs in that "uncomplicated bereavement" in DSM-III (and "bereavement" in DSM-IV) describe a population that may or may not meet criteria for major depression, while in the Kendler study the individuals meeting "normal grief criteria" presumably all meet criteria for MDD. At the end of the article, the authors describe bereaved people suffering from "normal sadness" who are presumably not part of their bereavement-related depression group.
More terminological variation occurs in Zisook and Shear's, "Grief and Depression: What Psychiatrists Need to Know,"7 in which the authors strive to provide clear descriptions (and distinctions) of normal, uncomplicated grief, complicated grief, and grief-related major depression. Their study may be the best effort yet to map out the terrain of grief and depression, but it is difficult to match up their terminology with that described above. Since DSM-IV bereavement may meet criteria for major depression, some of DSM-IV bereavement would map onto "grief-related major depression" and some would map onto either of the other 2 categories. On the other hand, the bereavement-related depression group from the Kendler and colleagues study would all fall into Zisook and Shear's grief-related major depression group, because all of the bereavement-related depression individuals (by my understanding) met criteria for MDD—the "normal grief" group with milder symptoms, the rest with more severe symptoms.
What everyone agrees on (except the authors of DSM-III and DSM-IV), is that bereaved people meeting criteria of MDD should be diagnosed with MDD and treated accordingly. Where the confusion occurs is over how to sort out sub-MDD grief from grief with MDD—and how to deal with the former. Dr Frances is concerned that removing the bereavement exclusion will result in over-diagnosing and over-treating non-pathological grief by (presumably) labeling it MDD. His opponents respond that we are able to distinguish non-pathological grief, sub-threshold-MDD grief with depression, and grief meeting criteria of MDD. This debate is somewhat artificial in that it stems so much from the confusing terminology and categories of DSM-IV. If the manual had categories reflecting those of Zisook and Shear, the debate would go away.
We need a category for ordinary grief; one for grief that reaches a level of MDD; and a third, mid-range category for depressive reactions to the loss of a loved one that are more than ordinary grief and less than MDD. The current category of "Bereavement as a V code" would do fine for the first category—if the DSM-5 authors would not muddle it by throwing in major depressive episodes as a possible manifestation. We already have major depression to cover grief that becomes—major depression. So all we have left to cover is the mid-range, what Zisook and Shear call complicated grief—minor depression not reaching the level of MDD.
The DSMs have had trouble defining such a state. Depression NOS, adjustment disorder with depressive features, and dysthymia (with its emphasis on chronicity) are the current candidates—and none fit very well. If we worked this out, I don't think we would be having the debate over the bereavement exclusion, and what at first looked like a conflict over the science of grief and depression would turn out to be a muddle created by clumsy and confusing terminology.
1. Frances A. Good Grief.New York Times, August 14, 2010.
2. Kendler KS, Kupfer D, Bernstein CA. Letters to the Editor. New York Times, August 19, 2010.
3. Frances A. Good grief versus major depressive disorder. Psychiatric Times. http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/blog/dsm-5/content/article/10168/1645888. Accessed September 15, 2010.
4. Pies R. Response to Frances. Psychiatric Times. http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/blog/dsm-5/content/article/10168/1645888. Accessed September 15, 2010.
5. Frances A. A possible compromise on grief vs depression. Psychiatric Times. http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/display/article/10168/1656471. Accessed September 15, 2010.
6. Kendler KS, Myers J, Zisook S. Does bereavement-related major depression differ from major depression associated with other stressful life events? Am J Psychiatry. 2008;165:1449-1455.
7. Zisook S, Shear K. Grief and bereavement: what psychiatrists need to know. World Psychiatry. 2009;8:67-74.
I thank Jim Phillips for demonstrating what Ludwig Wittgenstein taught us many years ago: "Problems in philosophy begin when language goes on holiday."Dr. Phillips lays out all the terminological and linguistic snares that bedevil this discussion.
That said, Dr. Phillips affirms the core thesis that Dr. Zisook, I and others have been advancing: i.e., "The jury of empirical evidence is rendering its verdict on the side of removing the [bereavement] exclusion...bereaved people meeting criteria of MDD should be diagnosed with MDD and treated accordingly." To paraphrase the Talmud: all the rest is commentary.
Best regards,
Ron Pies MD
If beravement is a disease, laughter during the funeral would be a sign of perfect health.
Too many angels dancing on the head of a pin!
Whether grief-induced depression is amenable to CBT or Medication or both is IRRELEVANT.
Depression is depression, and if it renders my patients dysfunctional, I am willing to treat it using all the effective modalities available to me.
The BIGGER problem is that depression remains stigmatized and underdiagosed, both within the medical community and he outside world.
Depressive spectrum illnesses are serious and have major consequences. In the main, the treatments are effective and benign.
I take a pragmatic approach. The nosology of DSM more often confuses the issues than clarifies them. It may be useful to placate the insurance carriers, but it confers little advantage for patients and physicians.
I don't mean to bite the hand that feeds, but kindly get a handle on your mission, which is to serve patients and doctors.
Thank you.
Mark Gary Blumenthal, MD, MPH
Knoxville, TN
The inability of "major depression" to distinguish between a clinical illness and normal reactions to stressful events, including bereavement, simply reflects the lack of validity of this diagnosis. It is also the major reason for its failure to predict treatment response much better than chance. The invention of this diagnosis in DSM III has bedevilled the field for 30 years. William Andrews Sydney, Australia
While DSM-III was a nightmare publication, DSM - V is going to be worse unless it is based on openness and research and not the fantasys of a few political psychiatrists. Not being qualified to do honest research seems to be the hallmark of American Psychiatry. Not understanding the harmful profiles of side effects, dropping subjects from studies as you do not like the result is not research. Taking money and favors from "BIG PHARMA" is perhaps the worst mistake yet. Mike Baer, PhD
yes, exclusion of grief/bereavement from diagnostic criteria helps prevent overdiagnosing depression and reduces false positives, so i dont find any need to change this crieria.. thanks, dr ajay risal, md


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Last week, the U.S. Commerce Department imposed roughly 31% duties on dumped solar panels from China.
Predictably and immediately Beijing and its apologists cried foul.
But as Dr. Usha Haley explains in a new op-ed in the Financial Times, the Commerce Department decision is a sound response to the "overproduction" and dumping of product from China into the U.S. market. And professed worries about a trade war with China are "unnecessary" since Beijing knows that it urgently needs the U.S. market:
Historically, US-China trade disputes follow a different pattern. In fact, China – while complaining loudly – tends to comply with trade-case findings rather than to retaliate in response.
Why? Because Chinese trade-policy makers are rational political players. They make decisions based on political and economic interests, including jobs and growth. They rarely suffer self-inflicted wounds (or even self-inflicted paper cuts). A trade war with China would hurt the US, but would mortally wound China.
Haley says that China's attempt to dump its subsidized solar panels in the U.S. market is a logical extension of Beijing's manufacture-at-all-costs approach, with Chinese solar-panel manufacturing capacity being "32 times greater than domestic consumption." Haley says that, as a result, China exports 95 per cent of its production. The good news of the Commerce decision is that it may finally encourage "domestic consumption in China thereby reducing the growth in China's carbon footprint."
The burgeoning solar panel industry is important to U.S. manufacturing, and deserves federal support in the face of China's mercatilism. Haley points to China's growing market position, which has adversely affected U.S. producers:
American manufacturers suffered. Twelve American manufacturers have had significant lay-offs or have shuttered completely. These manufacturing jobs that the US is losing to China pay better and have three times greater ripple effects than installation jobs. Between 2010 and 2011, the US went from a $540m trade surplus with China in solar products to a $1.6bn deficit. Chinese solar panel exports rose nearly 1,000 per cent. Simultaneously, Chinese imports of US polysilicon dropped 20 per cent as China ramped up domestic production.
Understandably, U.S. solar manufacturers filed a trade case alleging that the Chinese manufacturers received World Trade Organization-illegal subsidies and have sold their cells and panels below cost.
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Culture, Development and Social Theory places culture back at the centre of debates in development studies. It introduces new ways of conceptualizing culture in relation to development by linking development studies to cultural studies, studies of social movements, religion and the notion of 'social suffering'. The author expertly argues that in the current world crises it is necessary to recover a more holistic vision of development that creates a vocabulary linking more technical (and predominantly economic) aspects of development with more humanistic and ecological goals. Any conception of post-capitalist society, he argues, requires cultural, as well as economic and political, dimensions.
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"At the moment this actually became physical was that Trayvon Martin -- I will use my words -- that Trayvon Martin decided to confront George Zimmerman," West said. "That instead of going home. He had plenty of time. This is, what, 60 or 70 yards. Plenty of time. He could of gone back and forth four or five times."
West quoted a witness named John Good who described the fight. "He called it a 'ground and pound' by Martin, who he said was on top of Zimmerman, beating him."
"He saw enough that this was serious," West said. Zimmerman cried out for help, looked at Good and said, "help me." But the beating continued while Good went inside his home to call 911, West said.
There was a shot. Shortly afterward, according to West, Zimmerman said Martin "was beating me up, and I shot him."
West also disputed the prosecution's claim that Martin was unarmed.
"Travyon Martin armed himself with the concrete sidewalk and used it to smash George Zimmerman's head," said West. "No different than if he picked up a brick or smashed his head against a wall. That is a deadly weapon."
West showed jurors photos taken of Zimmerman after the fight. "What you can really see in these pictures that you will have in evidence are the lumps," West said. "The big knots on each side of his head. Consistent with having his head slammed into concrete."
Among the first prosecution witnessed called was the 911 dispatcher who took Zimmerman's call before the shooting. Seat Noffke testified that he was trained to give general commands instead of direct orders to people.
When Zimmerman said he was following Martin, Noffke told him, "Okay we don't need you to do that." Noffke told the prosecutor he's liable for any direct orders he gives someone.
On cross-examination, defense attorney O'Mara pointed out that Noffke asked Zimmerman, "Which way is he running?"
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Shortly before court got under way, Martin's mother, Sybrina Fulton, spoke to reporters, asking people to "pray for me and my family because I don't want any other mother to experience what I'm going through now."
Martin was black, and Zimmerman identifies himself as Hispanic.
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Considering this is a mixtape...I'm guessing the "original" songs will be remixed. Cause on the track list it says Krizz is on Come Gangsta...when he wasn't on the original.
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or maybe they realized that they will be doing shit with there families lol
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Michael Jones, Riverfront Investment Group CIO, on the current bond market and why he is switching back to stocks.
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Those stocks are still on the value joining us now Michael Jones riverfront investment group chairman and CI.
Oh Michael thank you for -- joining -- reading your notes you say that -- To you bombs are a mystery at this point you've -- long maturity investment grade bonds and about -- emerging market debt -- all -- -- portfolios.
So is the big rush just into equities at this point.
Well I think the rush is just beginning.
-- if you go back of that mystery in bonds offering I understood why rates crashed down into what I call the panic -- below 2% on the ten year treasury back in 2011.
You know we've been spending about three years between one and -- happen for -- is to between two and a half and four thanks to zero interest rates and QE.
And then when the ECB backed off funds and supporting Spain when we had our near default based on the debt ceiling fiasco okay it makes sense to go into panic zone dropped down to one and a half to 2% on the ten year.
Fast forward eighteen months we've resolved the debt ceiling issues and the fiscal cliff to boot.
The ECB he's done -- 180 on supporting Spain.
They equity markets have more than fully recovered and yet bonds are still mired down at one and a half to 2%.
I think this is a year people wake up and say those rates are too low for the conditions but do you still believe these stocks markets are undervalued so many we hear a -- -- -- 52 week high some all time -- for you still think there's value.
Yeah we look at long term 140.
Year trends in the equity markets and based on that analysis we're still about fifteen to 20% undervalued.
On the large cap stock markets -- people get obsessed with numbers like 1550 on the essence because -- remember that that was where we peaked back in 992000.
They assume that it must be overvalued there because it was overvalued then.
On our price matters back and nine united 2000 that was a 100% overvalued.
And that's happened about four times in history every time that's happened you spend about twelve to fourteen years -- and sideways we're now getting to the end of that.
On that same -- 1550 type level we're now thinking it's about ten to 15%.
And why would that -- -- earnings have more than doubled in that thirteen year period.
So where I'm an investor I'm getting out of bonds I wanna slice of this action where -- -- put my money.
What -- we put good chunk of our incremental dollars is and developed international.
-- somewhat been left behind in the big rush to US equities.
And there's some reasons for that obviously Japan is as -- debt troubles for twenty years Europe has its unique debt crisis.
But we believe that some of those policies are rapidly changing importantly in Japan with the recent leadership change at the Bank of Japan.
Everybody in Japan is onboard for a weaker yen.
And that means a higher Nikkei.
If you going to Japan on a currency hedge basis we did that about three months ago after being underweight Japan for years it's been a great trade we think it has a long way to run.
Europe is one of the cheapest markets out there based on our price matters framework.
And you're starting to see real movement on labor market reform there.
Even -- -- who is the biggest committed.
You know socialist and did but -- some of the old labor policies.
He's losing in his in his confrontations with -- amid -- and with Peugeot.
Michael we've got about thirty seconds left you also like the high volatility US large cap equities what what what what are you talking about.
Well these are basically all the stocks that have an objective measure of just their high -- they're very risky distance to be financials it tends to be industrials materials and so forth.
These -- the names that in all the economic uncertainty have been unloved for the last three or four years in the rally while people been more focused on dividend oriented things like say utilities.
There are very undervalued on our analysis and if we're right about the economic environment starting to stabilize and that some of that under valuation -- close in the coming year.
Very get lots of information Michael Jones thanks so much for joining us we appreciate it.
My pleasure.
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Gone with the Wind is a film that continues to be relevant because of the time period portrayed, its social influences, and overall importance in the history of film. The release of Gone with the Wind on DVD is significant for a number of reasons. The enhancement of the actual film and the special features added make the DVD an important addition to any film library and just as significant as the film's initial release.
Included in the DVD's content is an in depth interview with Olivia de Hallivand, who plays Melanie. She was nominated for an Academy Award, however, she lost to Hattie McDaniel, who played Mammy. (There is speculation that the reason McDaniel won was as compensation for not being invited to the movie's Atlanta premiere.) In de Hallivand's interview, she reveals the chaos which occurred behind the scenes during the production of the film. For example, directors and writers came and went with alarming frequency.
The most impressive part of the DVD, which makes the DVD "vital and gorgeous", is the attempt to revert to the quality of the original Technicolor process in which the film was shot. The evolution of Technicolor is a significant facet of film history. Gone with the Wind was to be the test of the new Technicolor technology. The production of the film centered around brilliance and contrast of color as well as intricate scenery shots. Much of the original impact of the film lay in the quantity and quality of color schemes throughout the production. As the technology of film progressed, Technicolor was deemed old fashioned and new technology improved upon the once spectacular visions produced by the once unique color delivery system. The Gone with the Wind DVD has resurrected the original screen's Technicolor version of the film.
I feel that it is of great significance and interest for today's audience to see the film just as it was presented in its original form. The use of Technicolor had a significant impact on the audience of the time. Every aspect of a film contributes to the way in which an audience views, comprehends, and appreciates the film. With all the technology available today for production quality enhancement, it is important to have the ability to revert back to the original film version and screen it in its purest form. With every generation producing new audiences with interest in the film, the release of the DVD has made this important piece of film history readily accessible to an even wider audience. The attraction of the DVD lies in its special features. For film buffs and people who are knowledgeable about the history of film and production values, the remastering of Gone with the Wind in Technicolor is an important feature which, perhaps, trumps all of the other aspects of the DVD.
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