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Rosenberg, Stanley D; Drake, Robert E; Brunette, Mary F; Wolford, George L; Marsh, Bryan J
Dartmouth Medical School and Dartmouth College, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA.
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Objectives: The 5–7% of adults in the United States with severe mental illness (SMI), especially the 50% who are 'dually diagnosed' with co-occurring substance use disorders (SUD), are at an elevated risk of HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV). However, little is known about HIV/HCV co-infection in this population. This paper examines the prevalence and correlates of HIV, hepatitis C, and HIV/HCV co-infection in a large, multisite sample of SMI clients.
Design: We conducted a re-analysis of data on prevalence and correlates of blood-borne infections in a multisite sample of SMI clients.
Methods: In 1997–1998, 755 SMI clients were tested for HIV, hepatitis B virus and HCV, and assessed for demographic, illness-related and other behavioral risk factors for blood-borne infections. The prevalence and correlates of co-infection were examined, as well as the knowledge, attitudes and risk behaviors of individuals with HCV mono-infection.
Results: Of the 755 participants, 623 (82.5%) were negative for both HIV and HCV, 23 (3.0%) were positive for HIV, 109 (14.4%) were positive for HCV, and 13 (1.7%) were co-infected with HIV and HCV. Overall, 2.5% of dually diagnosed participants were co-infected, whereas only 0.6% of SMI participants without a comorbid SUD diagnosis were co-infected. Co-infection was associated with psychiatric illness severity, ongoing drug abuse, poverty, homelessness, incarceration, urban residence and minority status. HCV-mono-infected clients continued to engage in high levels of risk behavior for HIV.
Conclusion: In addition to efforts to identify and treat SMI patients with HIV/HCV co-infection, HCV-mono-infected clients should be targeted for prevention interventions.
Between 5 and 7% of adults in the United States suffer from severe mental illness (SMI) [1]. SMI is defined by a diagnosis of a major mental illness, disability in important life spheres (e.g. school, work or family function), and persistence of illness and disability. The major diagnostic groups making up the SMI population include schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder. These psychiatric disorders are also associated with a heightened risk of substance use disorders (SUD), and individuals with both SMI and SUD, sometimes called 'dually diagnosed', are at a highly elevated risk of both HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection [2–8]. Current estimates of HIV infection for the SMI population range from 3.1 to 8%, and infection prevalence for dually diagnosed clients is generally estimated at more than twice these rates [9]. However, before 2001, there were no published data on HCV co-infection [8] in the SMI population, and there are still virtually no available data on how co-infected clients differ from uninfected and HIV-mono-infected clients.
Co-infection in this group is of concern not only because it is associated with increased morbidity and mortality [10–12], but also because dually diagnosed, co-infected clients pose unique issues and challenges to providers in relation to detection, assessment and treatment.
Individuals with SMI are at high risk of HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C for a variety of reasons: injection drug use, multiple high-risk sexual partners, infrequent condom use, trading sex for material gain, and engaging in sex while using psychoactive substances [13–16]. Elevated rates of infectious hepatitis in psychiatric patients in other countries have been reported [17,18], but there has been a dearth of published information on HCV or HIV/HCV co-infection among individuals with SMI in the United States.
A recent, multisite study, which included urban, small metropolitan and rural sites, found that HIV/HCV co-infection was common in this group [7]. The site-weighted HIV prevalence was 3.1% and HCV prevalence was 19.6%. The metropolitan prevalence of HCV was 25.4%, whereas the non-metropolitan prevalence was 10.6%. Approximately half of the dually diagnosed clients were seropositive for at least one of these infections. Of those clients who acknowledged injecting drugs even once in their lifetimes, closer to two-thirds tested positive for HCV. Two additional recent studies reported the prevalence of HCV among dually diagnosed clients in the range of 30–38% [19,20]. It is thus becoming more evident that many dually diagnosed clients living in high seroprevalence communities, especially injection drug users (IDU), already have chronic HCV infection (prevalence > 60%) [21].
Given the elevation in risk for both HIV and HCV associated with SUD, it is important to understand this phenomenon better in the SMI population. The Epidemiologic Catchment Area (ECA) study reported a lifetime prevalence of 47% for SUD in individuals with schizophrenia, 56% in individuals with bipolar disorder, and 27% in individuals with major depression [22]. Although alcohol is the most commonly abused substance in patients with SMI [23–25], high-risk drug-related behaviors are frequent. For example, Osher et al. [26] reported that more than 20% of a large SMI sample reported lifetime intravenous drug use, 14% reported needle sharing, and 57% acknowledged sniffing or snorting cocaine.
SUD complicate the course of illness and treatment of patients with SMI [27], and are associated with treatment non-adherence, suicidality, hospitalization, homelessness, victimization, violence, jail or prison time, increased risk behaviors for HIV, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C infection, and lower functioning in general [23,28–34]. Moreover, co-occurring SUD are often underdetected and undertreated in mental health settings [35,36], so that clients at risk of blood-borne infection are not generally counseled regarding risk reduction, testing or medical evaluation. This problem is particularly relevant for the high percentage of dually diagnosed clients with chronic HCV, who seem largely unaware of their infection, and who are not receiving regular medical care [8,37].
We re-analysed data from a recently completed risk and seroprevalence study of a large, multisite sample of SMI clients [14,21,26,37,38]. The analyses reported here focused on the subset of participants in the larger study for whom serological testing was available for three blood-borne infections: HIV, hepatitis B virus (HBV), and HCV. This criterion excluded a subset of participants included in reports of the parent study: those receiving non-Department of Veterans Affairs outpatient services in North Carolina. For the present analyses, we also included some subjects for whom data were not yet available at the time of the original reports. The current analysis does not weight data by site, but rather reports absolute frequencies. The data therefore probably underestimate overall infection rates for the target population, because the rural sites had low base rates of HIV and HCV and, compared with national census data, were overrepresented in the sample.
Between June 1997 and December 1998, 777 patients with SMI in Connecticut, Maryland, New Hampshire, and North Carolina were recruited to participate in a risk and seroprevalence study of HIV, HBV and HCV. Participants were between the ages of 18 and 60 years, were fluent in English, and met common criteria for SMI. All participants were recipients of inpatient or outpatient treatment through the public mental health systems of Connecticut (158), Maryland (133), New Hampshire (288), or the Durham, NC, Department of Veterans Affairs (185).
The Connecticut and Maryland samples were drawn from large metropolitan areas known to have a high prevalence of HIV/AIDS and HCV, whereas the New Hampshire and North Carolina participants were drawn from rural and small metropolitan areas, which had much lower estimated population rates of these infections. In North Carolina, subjects were residents of the Piedmont area, where the population was primarily African-American; in New Hampshire, the state population and study participants were more than 95% Caucasian.
Sample demographics and diagnoses (Table 1) are typical of other samples of adults with SMI.
Following informed consent, subjects responded to standardized interviews regarding sociodemographic characteristics, substance use, risk behavior for HIV, HBV and HCV, knowledge and attitudes regarding HIV, history of infectious diseases, healthcare and other illness-related variables. Subjects also received pre-test counseling for HIV/AIDS, and provided blood specimens. The following serological tests were performed by a common laboratory (accredited by the College of American Pathologists): enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays, confirmed by Western blot, for HIV; Abbott Corzyme test (Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, IL, USA) for HBV core and Abbott HCV 2 enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays for HCV antibodies, confirmed by recombinant immunoblot assay (RIBA) on a random subset of reactives. Details regarding laboratory analyses of bloods can be found in Rosenberg et al. [39]. All subjects were paid a participation fee of US$35, and were provided with test results and post-test counseling. All subjects with positive serology screens were referred for follow-up testing and treatment with appropriate providers. These procedures were approved by the relevant internal review boards at each participating site.
Details of the measures, including reliability and validity data, have previously been reported [39,40]. To recapitulate briefly, interviewers used standardized questionnaires to elicit information on background characteristics, including sex, age, race, marital status, poverty level, employment status, recent homelessness, and psychiatric/substance abuse diagnoses. We defined 'homelessness' as having no regular residence, or living in a shelter or on the street at some point in the past 6 months. To determine the poverty status, we used the 1999 poverty guidelines of the Department of Health and Human Services (based on the 1998 census; Federal Register, 1999) [41], which take into account income, marital status, and number of children.
Lifetime alcohol and drug use disorders were assessed through the use of the Structured Clinical Interview for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, version IV [42], or through chart diagnosis. Current alcohol and drug use disorders were identified using the Dartmouth Assessment of Lifestyle Instrument [43], an 18-item screening tool for SUD (abuse or dependence) specifically developed and validated for patients with SMI. The Dartmouth Assessment of Lifestyle Instrument has high classification accuracy for current SUD of alcohol, cannabis and cocaine in this population.
To assess risk behaviors associated with HIV, HBV and HCV, we used the AIDS Risk Inventory (ARI), a structured interview for assessing risk behaviors associated with acquiring and transmitting these infections [44,45]. The ARI measures risky sexual practices such as unprotected sex (nine items) and risky drug practices (15 items) such as needle sharing. The total risk score is the combined number of risk items endorsed, so that scores can range from 0 to 23 (one item is shared by the sex and drug risk subscales). The ARI also includes items on knowledge and misconceptions regarding HIV/AIDS (eight items), and concerns about the respondent's own risk of infection and intentions to reduce risk (four items).
Clinical, health, and service utilization variables were obtained from The Short Form-12 Health Survey (SF-12) [46,47] and from the Piedmont Health Survey used in the Epidemiologic Catchment Area Survey [22]. The SF-12 assesses two components of health-related quality of life: a mental component summary score and a physical component summary score. The SF-12 is reliable and valid among individuals with SMI [48]. Clinical and physical health indices on the Piedmont Health Survey included the self-reported number of psychiatric hospitalizations in the past year, age of first psychiatric hospitalization, chronic health problems, doctor visits for physical health problems, and days hospitalized for physical health.
We examined rates, risk factors and correlates of HIV and HCV infection and co-infection. These included poverty, homelessness, urban residence, minority status, psychiatric illness-related variables (e.g. diagnosis), specific sexual and drug-related risk behaviors, knowledge of and attitudes towards HIV risk, SUD, healthcare utilization and incarceration [14,26]. As the initial reports from this dataset focused primarily on the rates and correlates of mono-infection, the focus of the analyses reported here is on characterizing the co-infected clients compared with the uninfected, and with the HIV and HCV-mono-infected participants. In addition, because those with chronic HCV infection are at continuing risk of developing superinfection if they contract HBV, potentially leading to fulminant liver failure or an accelerated rate of progression to liver disease, we report on HBV infection. Because the numbers are small and the cell sizes skewed, we report frequencies and descriptive data, but do not test group differences for statistical significance. We estimate that a sample of at least two to five times larger (depending on the specific variable) than the current dataset would be required for adequate power for hypothesis testing. Given the small number of co-infected individuals in this study, the results serve as a basis for preliminary description and hypothesis generation rather than a source of conclusions on the problem of co-infection in individuals with SMI and dual disorders.
From the total sample of 777 participants, 22 records had one or more missing laboratory result for HIV, HCV or both. We thus had complete serostatus data on 755 individuals for analyses. Approximately 87% of patients approached consented to participate in the assessments. The prevalence results were as follows: neither HIV nor HCV infection: 623 (82.5%); HIV infection: 23 (3%); HCV infection only: 109 (14%); co-infection of HIV and HCV: 13 (1.7%); HBV infection: 141 (19%); co-infection of HBV and HCV: 56 (7.4%).
Of those with HIV infection, 13 (57%) were also co-infected with HCV, and 10 of these co-infected participants also tested positive for HBV. This compares with an estimated rate of HCV co-infection of 25% for all HIV-positive individuals living in the United States, and an estimated rate of 70–90% of HIV-positive IDU.
Key demographic, diagnostic, substance abuse and other risk variables are shown in Table 1.
Table 1 shows that the HIV/HCV co-infected group appear to be characterized, compared with the sample as a whole, by female gender, urban residence, and minority status. Ten of the 13 co-infected participants were recruited from the two largest cities in the sample, even though these sites provided less than one third of the participants. In addition, the co-infected have many characteristics indicative of psychiatric illness severity and chronicity, including: a higher percentage had schizophrenia diagnoses (the most severe and disorganizing of psychiatric disorders); a young average age of onset; a higher number of previous hospitalizations; by far the lowest reported income of any subgroup; higher reported rates of homelessness; more limited average educational level; higher rates of incarceration; the higher rates of current and lifetime drug use disorders; and more ongoing drug risk behaviors. Again, we did not test these differences for statistical significance.
An alternative way of looking at the relationship between substance abuse and co-infection is as follows: 2.5% of the dually diagnosed participants (n = 448) were co-infected with HIV and HCV, whereas among the SMI participants with no SUD (n = 329), only 0.6% were co-infected. The co-infected participants reported the poorest physical health of any group, and appeared to be less likely to have a regular doctor or source of medical care than HIV-mono-infected participants. Somewhat surprisingly, co-infected individuals were similar to the other subgroups in their use of medical inpatient services during the previous 6 months. Finally, the co-infected clients had the worst scores regarding knowledge about HIV of any sub-group, and the most misconceptions about the infection.
The HIV-mono-infected clients contrasted with the co-infected in a number of ways. This group is more male dominated, younger, and less urban. Like the co-infected they tended to be of ethnic minority status (70%) in comparison with the sample as a whole (47.7%). In terms of psychiatric illness indicators, they are characterized by less severe diagnoses, the highest age of onset, the lowest number of previous hospitalizations, much higher income than the co-infected (close to the sample average), by far the lowest rates of homelessness, better educational backgrounds, much lower rates of current and lifetime drug use disorders, and lower current drug risk behaviors. In most respects, they seem to have the least psychiatric morbidity of any subgroup.
The HCV-infection-only group is of interest because they are by far the largest infection group, and the group at highest risk of developing co-infection. As shown in Table 1, clients with HCV mono-infection share many characteristics with currently co-infected clients and contrast sharply in a number of ways with the HIV mono-infected. They are the oldest subgroup, are predominantly urban, but (in contrast with the currently co-infected) are largely a male-dominated group. HCV mono-infected clients have relatively high rates of schizophrenia diagnoses, multiple previous psychiatric hospitalizations, high rates of homelessness and incarceration (over 90% lifetime), as well as current and lifetime drug use disorders. Despite the health risks inherent in such behavior, they also have high rates of current alcohol use disorder. Perhaps equally critical, they have relatively low levels of AIDS concern, and show the highest overall level of risky behaviors for HIV.
Clients with HCV mono-infection reported the following high-risk sexual behaviors for HIV in the previous 6 months: 38.3% reported engaging in unprotected sex; 10.8% reported engaging in unprotected anal sex; 10.8% reported having two or more sexual partners; 5.6% reported unprotected sex with known IDU; and 3.8% reported trading sex for drugs without condom use. Risky drug practices, including acts that put others at risk of contracting HCV, were also fairly common in the previous 6 months. Of the HCV-mono-infected clients, 8.3% reported needle use, 4.6% reported sharing needles (including the use of dirty needles), and 49.3% reported engaging in two or more risky sex or drug behaviors.
The data presented in this paper must be interpreted with caution because of the nature of the sampling procedure (non-random, geographically limited) and the small number of participants in two key groups: the co-infected and the HIV mono-infected. The latter factor did not permit statistical analyses, and delimits confidence in the generalizability of our findings. Clearly, larger studies employing nationally representative, random sampling procedures with SMI and dually diagnosed participants will be needed to gain greater clarity.
These caveats notwithstanding, the HIV/HCV-co-infected individuals in this study were extremely disadvantaged, disorganized, and ill. They were impaired by the most severe psychiatric and drug problems, and were highly likely to be dually diagnosed with both schizophrenia and drug use disorders. Women may have been overrepresented in the co-infected group because drug-dependent women with SMI must often resort to sex trading for drugs and housing, and are at high risk of sexual victimization [49]. For both men and women with dual disorders, their low levels of education, income, psychosocial supports, and insight suggest that they will be difficult to engage and treat successfully [50–55].
Whereas there are almost no systematic published data on patients with both dual disorders (SMI plus substance abuse) and HIV/HCV co-infection, available findings suggest that dually disordered individuals with HCV infection are also less likely than those without HCV to receive regular medical care [56]. In general, patients with dual disorders do not adhere to treatment, or do not engage in care at all when both the mental illness and the SUD are not addressed together. Patient-related barriers to medical care include cognitive, social support, transportation access and social skills deficits, symptoms of disorganization, avoidance or paranoia [57,58], as well as minority status and residence in poor neighborhoods. In addition, medical providers often consider individuals with mental illness difficult to treat and poor risks for treatment [59]. An inability to pay for care as a result of unemployment, poverty, and poor insurance further reduces access to medical care [60]. The net result is that this group receives little or inadequate medical attention [59,61].
Integrated mental health and substance abuse treatment, developed in response to these barriers and disparities, involves treatment by the same team in the same location [62–64]. Integrated dual diagnosis treatment is recommended by numerous federal and professional organizations. More recently, systematic efforts to integrate physical healthcare with mental health and substance abuse treatment have also been tested. The approach that has demonstrated the greatest effectiveness for improving access to medical care for individuals with SMI involves integrating a primary medical care provider within the mental health agency [59], or alternatively, integrating a mental health specialist within the primary care setting [65]. In the integrated treatment model, the medical provider becomes part of the mental health team and handles screening, prevention, routine medical care, referral to specialists, and medical follow-up for all non-psychiatric medical conditions. The available evidence thus suggests that special programs of outreach, (including emphasis on tailoring outreach to minority communities), integrated mental health, substance abuse, and public health services; and perhaps special residential programs, will probably be needed for successful medical intervention with dually diagnosed co-infected patients.
The results presented here are congruent with the suggestion of Graham and Koziel [66] that being positive for both HIV and HCV is likely to be a marker for multiple problems and treatment barriers associated with injection drug use. The issues include poor access to medical care and a chaotic lifestyle, which may both delay access to care as well as affect the type of care received. Such problems are likely to be compounded in clients with pre-existing SMI and co-occurring substance abuse, and may have a significant impact on disease progression in co-infected patients. It has already been shown in the general population that injection drug use itself is a predictor of progression to an AIDS-defining illness [67]. Furthermore, in a study comparing disease progression in HIV-positive/HCV-positive individuals versus HIV-positive individuals [68], co-infected individuals initiated highly active antiretroviral therapy later and had lower CD4 cell counts at initiation than mono-infected patients. Although it is vital to treat these clients, they currently fail even to access a consistent source of medical care. Clearly, the first steps for these clients will include more effective education about blood-borne infections; enhanced risk-reduction interventions, including interventions to reduce secondary risks, interventions directed at alcohol and drug abuse, and motivational enhancement to participate in and adhere to medical care. In reality, the service delivery system in this country is not well prepared to manage and treat these clients, with few providers being optimistic or comfortable with combining treatments for HIV and HCV, particularly when such contraindications as current alcohol or drug use and persistent psychiatric symptoms are present. Medical providers also have difficulty accessing necessary psychiatric consultation and collaboration in managing these patients [69].
In general, issues of illness management, costs, and provider burden for co-infected SMI and dually diagnosed clients are currently unknowns. However, they represent potentially daunting barriers to care. For example, recent findings suggest that annual service costs for Medicaid recipients with SMI and HIV mono-infection (excluding pharmacy costs) are US$13 800, versus US$5800 for comparable, uninfected clients with SMI [70]. Changes in policy, funding, provider training and in the organization and coordination of services will be necessary to address the needs of these complex patients, and will require new models of disciplinary collaboration.
In terms of overall numbers and the potential to prevent co-infection and expensive treatments, the HCV infection group appears to be a critically important target. These individuals not only have multiple impairments and disadvantages, like the co-infected group, but they are also highly involved in behaviors that put them at risk of acquiring HIV co-infections. The results presented in this report are also consistent with findings from another recently completed study with similar participants (unpublished data). In that study, SMI respondents with HCV mono-infection reported the least concern of any sub-group about contracting HIV infection, and low intentions to increase personal safety. Despite their high-risk lifestyles, the majority reported never having been tested for HIV, having been tested only once, or not knowing if they had ever been tested. The data from this study suggest that dually diagnosed clients who are currently HCV mono-infected are at high risk of progressing to co-infection status, and that, in continuing their abuse of drugs and alcohol, they are also at risk of more rapid illness progression and liver deterioration. It thus appears important to provide these clients with integrated mental health, substance abuse, and public health treatments, residential supports, and HIV prevention interventions.
The authors acknowledge the contributions of the members of the 5 Site Health and Risk Study Research Committee. Connecticut: Susan M. Essock, Jerilynn Lamb-Pagone; Duke: Marvin Swartz, Jeffrey Swanson, Barbara J. Burns; Durham: Marian I. Butterfield, Keith G. Meador, Hayden B. Bosworth, Mary E. Becker, Richard Frothingham, Ronnie D. Homer, Lauren M. McIntyre, Patricia M. Spivey, Karen M. Stechuchak; Maryland: Fred C. Osher, Lisa A. Goodman, Lisa J. Miller, Jean S. Gearon, Richard W. Goldberg, John D. Herron, Raymond S. Hoffman, Corina L. Riismandel; New Hampshire: Patricia C. Auciello, Kim Mueser, Mark C. Iber, Ravindra Luckoor, Gemma R. Skillman, Rosemarie S. Wolfe, Robert M. Vidaver, Michelle P. Salyers.
Sponsorship: This research was supported by NIMH Grant R01-MH50094-03S2, Identifying Substance Abuse Disorders in the Mentally Ill (HIV supplement); NIMH Grant P50-MH43703, Center for Research on Services for Severe Mental Illness; NIMH Grant R01-MH48103-05, Effectiveness of Involuntary Outpatient Commitment; NIMH Grant P 50-MH51410-02, UNC-CHJ Duke Program on Services Research for People with Severe Mental Disorders; NIMH Grant R24-MH54446-05, CT DMH-Yale Medication Effectiveness Research Program; NIMH Grant R01-MH52872, Assertive Community Treatment for Dually Diagnosed Clients; and V A ERIC Grant EPP97-022 HIV Seroprevalence and Risks in Veterans with Severe Mental Illness.
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I'm not to sure if its official yet but I think its aroudn the $65-$70 mark
Have the Australian prices of the Wii games been released yet? More specifically the price of Zelda Twilight.
I'm not to sure if its official yet but I think its aroudn the $65-$70 mark
really? 65-70? Thats cheaper than GCN games! I thought it would be 90-100!
well i know there not that expensive
but the new GCN games are like 90-100, i havnt seen Super Mario Strikers for cheaper than $95
How much did the gamecube console, games and accesories cost initially for the Australian release?
I'm liking these prices!
'Boards don't fight back' - Bruce Lee
Money spend on Wii:
$50 Pre-ordered Wii console
$10 Pre-ordered Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
$100 Xbox console trade in
$339.95 extra paid off
$499.95 Total I'VE PAID IT OFF!
I've seen it for less than thatOriginally Posted by m7ticalm
Ok I've worked out all this stuff so just give me a minute to explain, all these figures are based on the game Twilight Princess.
In japan it'll cost you 6,800¥ and if convert that over to US dollars its about $57 and I think its going to cost about $60 in the US(corect me if I'm wrong) so that means if you convert 6,800¥ to aussie dollars it'll be $76 therefore meaning it'll be around about $75-$85
So to wrap it all up in a nice neat little bundle it'll cost you between $75-$85 to purchase LoZ:TP for the Wii on December 7th (or whenever) That's my theroy anyhoo
^^^^ plus dont forget tax
See I made it my own! RELIGION *whoosh* wow a 50 page thread bout how there beliefs are right and you are all wrong wow. Oh do want to be different rep! even if I don't help it seems to happen a lot here
Whilst I was at EB Games organising a preorder I had a look at the pricing for the games which were listed at $109 for each title, here's hoping that they're anticipating wrongly.

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Fashion Marketing and Management Jobs: Salary and Career Facts
Find out about the types of jobs you could pursue in fashion marketing and management. Read on to learn more about career options along with information about salary and key responsibilities. Schools offering Fashion Design & Merchandising degrees can also be found in these popular choices.
Career Information At a Glance
Fashion marketing and management includes a variety of fields such as a fashion purchasing, retail management, and visual merchandising. The following chart gives you an overview of what you need to know about entering this field.
|Fashion Buyer
|Retail Manager
|Visual merchandise manager
|Degree Required
|High school diploma (or equivalent)
|High school diploma (or equivalent)
|High school diploma (or equivalent)
|Key Responsibilities
| Negotiate prices with wholesaler
Monitor sales and fashion trends
| Oversee and train employees
Interact with customers
| Plan and arrange displays
Coordinate with sales team
|Job Outlook (2012-2022)
|Median Salary (2014)
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A wide variety of careers exist in the fashion merchandising field, from retail sales to advertising to fashion show production. If you have good planning and decision-making skills, then you may consider becoming a fashion buyer. As a fashion buyer you would decide what clothing, shoes, jewelry and accessories are to be sold on the retail sales floor. Looking at merchandise from a variety of vendors, you would take into consideration the latest trends in fashion with an eye for style and price points preferred by your company's customer base.
As a retail manager, you would be involved in hiring and training retail sales associates and motivating them to provide an enjoyable customer experience that will generate sales. You would also be responsible for handling a variety of day-to-day tasks, such as scheduling staff and overseeing inventory and payroll controls.
If you are looking to work on the creative side of the fashion industry, then you might consider becoming a visual merchandising manager. In this position, you would be responsible for how merchandise is displayed in store windows as well as on the sales floor. Your job as a visual merchandising manager is essential for promoting sales by showing customers how to wear fashion goods in a trendy, stylish manner. This work may require you to travel to different store locations and work with retail staff.
What Education or Training Would I Need?
Although experience in retail sales once led to management opportunities, in today's world you should consider obtaining an associate's or bachelor's degree. Depending on your area of interest, you could obtain a degree in marketing, merchandising or business management. These degree options are available with an emphasis on retail operations, and fashion merchandising as a major is available at some colleges. With a college degree you may then obtain employment as an entry-level assistant or manager trainee.
For a fashion buyer, on-the-job training in retail sales and merchandise inventory can provide a foundation for greater responsibilities. As you move forward in this profession, you may consider obtaining certification by attending professional development seminars. Your options include the Certified Professional in Supply Management (CPSM) from the Institute for Supply Management and the Certified Purchasing Professional (CPP) or Certified Professional Purchasing Manager (CPPM) from the American Purchasing Society. For retail store managers, the National Professional Certification in Retail Management is available through the National Retail Federation (NRF).
To become a visual merchandise manager, you may want to develop additional skills related to computer graphic software. Specifically, you might consider learning Adobe InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator, although Illustrator is of less importance. Certificates for learning these software programs are available from a variety of learning institutions.
What Income Could I Earn?
According to O*Net OnLine in 2014, the median salary for a retail buyer was $52,270. For a retail store manager, the median annual salary was $37,860. As a visual merchandise manager, you could have expected to earn $26,590, the 2014 median annual salary reported by O*Net OnLine.
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FCO stumbles on Hizbollah policy
There appeared to be confusion in the Foreign Office this week after Middle East minister Bill Rammell announced a 'new' policy regarding Hizbollah — despite the policy having been in place since July 2008.
Mr Rammell told the Foreign Affairs Select Committee that the government had "reconsidered" its position towards the Shia group.
"Our over-riding objective is to pressure Hizbollah to play a more constructive role and move away from violence," he told the committee on Wednesday.
His statement was described by the committee as "a significant new change of policy towards Hizbollah in Lebanon… whereby the UK is to have contacts with Hizbollah's political wing".
However, this policy was first announced in July 2008, following a policy review ordered by Foreign Secretary David Miliband.
After the internecine fighting in Beirut in May 2008, which resulted in the formation of a unity government incorporating Hizbollah, Britain decided to proscribe the whole of Hizbollah's military structure.
However, the FCO simultaneously chose to clarify its position towards the political wing and the role that the British ambassador to Lebanon, would continue to play. Mr Miliband called Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni at the time to inform her of this policy.
An FCO official said of Mr Rammell's statement to the committee: "This is a clarification, not a change, of policy.
"The government's main concern is to support the Lebanese national unity government.
"We will have measured, official contacts with individuals the ambassador considers it appropriate to meet. If she comes across a Hizbollah government member, she will not have to refuse to talk to him."


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States That Allow Same-Sex Marriage
Prior to the U.S. Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling, the state of same-sex marriage in America was always in flux. From its early beginnings, both proponents and opponents of same-sex marriage have asserted controversial arguments concerning the definition, application, and legality of marriage as it applies to men and women of the same sex.
Beginning in 2003, when Massachusetts became the first state to legalize same-sex marriage, legislatures in many states were called to answer the same call. Twelve years later, all states are now required to recognize the equal protection of marriage laws, regardless of sexual orientation.
Below is a summary of states that legalized same-sex marriage prior to the 2015 Supreme Court ruling that legalized it nationwide. Click on the state name to be directed to the actual text of the state law (however, many these statutes are subject to change as the ruling takes affect).
In 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed a lower court's decision to overturn Proposition 8 (which banned same-sex marriage) by ruling that the appellants lacked standing to appeal the case. Soon after the Court's ruling, California courts began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. See Developments in Same-Sex Marriage Law for more details.
Connecticut legalized the marriage of same-sex couples on November 12, 2008. Connecticut became the third state (after California and Massachusetts) to authorize same-sex couples to marry. A noteworthy case out of the Supreme Court of Connecticut, Kerrigan v. Commissioner of Public Health, held that the Connecticut State Constitution does not permit the state to exclude same-sex couples from civil marriage.
When Gov. Jack Markell signing HB 75 into law on May 7, 2013, Delaware became the latest colonial state to allow same-sex marriage. Like Rhode Island, Delaware also made civil unions a thing of the past.
Same-sex couples in the Rainbow State became legally eligible for marriage with the 2013 passage of Senate Bill 1, signed into law by Governor Neil Abercrombie.
Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed Senate Bill 10 in 2013, legalizing same-sex marriage in the state. The law took effect on June 1, 2014.
After a flurry of court cases concerning same-sex marriage in the nation, Iowa was added to the list of states that allowed same-sex unions when the court in Varnum v. Brien ruled that the ban on same-sex marriage under the constitution was a form of unconstitutional sexual-orientation discrimination. The law took effect on April 3, 2009.
The Maine legislature passed a bill legalizing same-sex marriage in 2009, but it was repealed by popular vote later that year. But gay marriage was again made legal in 2012, this time in the general election. It passed by 53 percent, which is the same percentage of voters who rejected it in 2009.
A bill legalizing same-sex marriage was passed in 2012 and signed by the governor, with an enactment date of Jan. 1, 2013. But the law was put to a referendum on the 2012, known as Question 6 on the general election ballot, passing with the support of more than 52 percent of Maryland voters.
Massachusetts became the first state to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples beginning in 2004. The Supreme Court ruled in Goodrich v. Department of Public Heath that the state could not deny civil marriage to two members of the same sex who wished to marry, and that the same laws and procedures that govern traditional marriage also apply to same-sex marriage.
The Minnesota gay-marriage bill reframes all marriages as "civil marriages," removing gender from the state's definition of eligible partners to a marriage, and will allowing marriages on August 1, 2013. The Minnesota House voted 75-59 in favor of same-sex marriage on May 9, 2013, the state Senate voted 37-30 in favor of same-sex marriage on May 13, 2013, and Governor Mark Dayton signed the bill on May 14, 2013.
New Hampshire legalized same-sex marriage after Governor John Lynch became only the second Governor to sign a bill (HB 73) that allowed same-sex unions. The new law extending marriage rights to gay and lesbian couples took effect on January 1, 2010.
Same-sex couples in New Jersey became eligible for marriage licenses in 2013, following a judge's ruling that denying gay marriage violated New Jersey's constitution. The ruling, which Gov. Chris Christie had vowed to appeal, was in response to the U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).
New Mexico's Supreme Court ruled on Dec. 19, 2013, that the statutes prohibiting gays and lesbians from marrying violated both the state and federal constitutions. Since New Mexico's constitution does not expressly define marriage as between a man and a woman, the Court's opinion immediately legalized same-sex marriage in the state.
On June 24, 2011, New York officially enacted the Marriage Equality Act, becoming the sixth state in the United States to legalize same sex marriages. The legislation passed after several weeks of intense negotiations and fund raising and lobbying efforts on both sides of the issues.
Rhode Island became the sixth and final New England state to approve marriage equality -- and the 10th nationwide (at the time). The Rhode Island legislature passed a bill legalizing same-sex marriage on May 2, 2013; it went into effect on August 1, 2013.
In 1999, The Vermont Supreme Court ruled in Baker v. Vermont that same-sex couples are "entitled under Chapter I, Article 7, of the Vermont Constitution to the same benefits and protections afforded by Vermont law to married opposite-sex couples."
On February 8, 2012, the Washington State Senate passed a bill that legalized same-sex marriage. The Senate passed the bill 28-21, with four Republican Senators crossing party lines in the vote. The bill was signed into law by Governor Christin Gregoire, but challenged by a petition. The law was put to a referendum on the 2012 general election ballot as Referendum 74, where it passed with 51.8 percent of the vote.
The District of Columbia overwhelmingly passed legislation (by an 11-2 vote) in early December 2009 when it recognized same-sex marriages as a legal union. D.C. now has elected to ban any vote that attempts to ban same-sex marriage because it would be a violation of human rights.


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The effect of change in weight in later years on risk of osteoporotic fractures is uncertain. Prior studies have assessed the relationship between weight change and risk of hip fracture only and have not examined whether the association between weight loss and increased risk of hip fracture is because of voluntary or involuntary weight loss.
To determine the association between weight change in later years and the risk of fractures in elderly women and to assess the effect of weight loss intention on this relationship.
The association between weight change and fracture risk was assessed in 6754 ambulatory, non-black women aged 65 years or older enrolled in the Study of Osteoporotic Fractures who had measurements of weight performed at both the baseline and fourth examinations (mean, 5.7 years between examinations). These 6754 women were followed up for all incident nonspine fractures and frailty fractures (defined as fractures of the proximal femur, pelvis, and proximal humerus) occurring after the fourth examination (average follow-up, 19.5 months). All incident fractures were confirmed by radiographic report.
During an average of 19.5 months after the fourth examination, 264 women (4%) had at least 1 nonspine fracture, including 83 women who suffered frailty fractures. After adjustment for age, women who lost weight between the baseline and fourth examinations had an increased risk of subsequent nonspine fracture (relative risk [RR] per 10% decrease in weight, 1.32; 95% confidence interval [CI],1.11-1.55). This observed increase in the risk of nonspine fracture was entirely caused by an increase in the risk of frailty fracture (age-adjusted RR per 10% decrease in weight, 1.86; 95% CI, 1.42- 2.43). Weight change was not significantly related to other types of nonspine fractures (age-adjusted RR per 10% decrease in weight, 1.09; 95% CI, 0.90-1.33). Further adjustment for cigarette smoking, physical activity, estrogen use, medical conditions, health status, body weight, femoral neck bone mass, and rate of change in calcaneal bone mass did not substantially alter the association between weight change and frailty fracture (multivariate RR per 10% decrease in weight, 1.68; 95% CI, 1.17-2.41). Weight change was an even stronger predictor of risk of frailty fracture in those women who were not trying to lose weight (multivariate RR per 10% decrease in weight, 1.81; 95% CI, 1.26-2.61).
Involuntary weight loss in later years substantially increases the risk of frailty fracture including hip fracture in elderly women. Weight change is not related to risk of other nonspine fractures in older women.Arch Intern Med. 1997;157:857-863
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A wealthy industrial magnate in the 31st century, René Jacques Brande would have been killed in a vicious murder plot, had it not been for the intervention of three super-powered teens. In gratitude, Brande organized and funded the ever-growing Legion of Super-Heroes, the greatest organization of young heroes in the era. Brande is still a valued mentor of the Legion. For some time, he was also the President of the United Planets.
There have been speculations of Brande being a surviving denizen of the 20th century, like the Martian Manhunter or the Durlan from L.E.G.I.O.N. This theory has not been confirmed.
[Pre-Zero Hour, R.J. Brande was a Durlan frozen in human shape who made his fortune in the star-birthing business. He was the father of legionnaire Reep Dagle a.k.a. Chameleon Boy.]


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Big Breakfast Ideas for Big Results
National Nutrition Month
Big Breakfast Ideas for Big Results
Breakfast. It seems like forever since Mom told us breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but one study shows it's actually true! Sooo, she wasn't just nagging us. Breakfast is a key component of weight management: A study presented at the 90th annual meeting of the Endocrine Society showed that participants who consumed large breakfasts high in protein and carbohydrates followed by a low-carb, low calorie diet for the rest of the day lost almost five times as much weight as the participants who followed a low-carb, high-protein diet throughout the day. So what's the big deal about breakfast? And what is a big breakfast anyway? It doesn't seem like the lumberjack special at the local diner would do much to get the pounds off, so what should we be eating?
The study supported the idea that when we wake up in the morning, our bodies want food. You've burned through all the fuel from the previous day, and now your body's ready to burn anything—even muscle—to get a jump-start on the day. And if you skip breakfast, muscle is indeed what your body will burn. Later in the day, your brain is still in starvation mode from breakfast (or lack thereof), so your body will store all the calories you eat as adipose tissue, or fat, to save up for the next day when you try to starve it again. This study also found that levels of serotonin, the chemical responsible for controlling cravings, were much higher in the morning, which is why breakfast is the meal so many of us are willing to skip. But if our bodies are left unfed, our serotonin levels drop, and our bodies' craving for sweets begin to rise throughout the day.
But before you hit McDonald's for their 800-calorie Big Breakfast, or worse, their 1,150-calorie Deluxe Breakfast, or swing by Denny's for a 740-calorie Grand Slam or 950-calorie All-American Slam with hash browns, keep in mind, these weren't the breakfasts the study participants consumed. The big-breakfast group had a 610-calorie breakfast as part of a 1,240-calorie day. Breakfasts included milk, lean meat, cheese, whole grains, a serving of healthy fat, and one ounce of chocolate or candy to defray the craving for sweets. The other group's participants consumed 1,085 calories per day as part of a high-protein, low-carb diet; only 290 of their daily calories were consumed at breakfast. Both groups were on their respective diets for eight months. The high-protein group lost an average of nine pounds, but the big-breakfast group lost an average of 40 pounds. And, perhaps not surprisingly, the big-breakfast group complained less about cravings and hunger.
The big-breakfast group's breakfast consisted of 58 grams of carbs, 47 grams of protein, and 22 grams of fat. Study reviewers attribute some of the success of the big-breakfast group to the fact that the protein and healthy fats eaten kept the participants full and reduced cravings. They also said that nutritional requirements were well met and that there weren't empty calories consumed, because the breakfasts included lots of whole grains, fruits, lean proteins, and healthy unsaturated fats. So bad news for the lumberjack-special devotees—a big plate of greasy hash browns, bacon, and biscuits with gravy isn't going to get the job done, unless the job we're discussing is clogging your arteries. Here are some healthy big breakfasts, similar to the ones consumed by the study's participants.
Chicken and the Egg
2 large eggs, scrambled
2 slices whole wheat toast
1 boneless, skinless chicken breast, grilled
1 grapefruit
589 calories, 52 grams carbohydrates, 48 grams protein, 19 grams fat, 5.5 grams saturated fat, 12 grams fiber.
Oats 'n' Berries Breakfast
1 packet plain instant oatmeal, prepared, with 1 scoop Beachbody® Whey Protein Powder
1 cup fresh blueberries
3 oz. roasted turkey breast
1 large hard-boiled egg
1 oz. dark chocolate
631 calories, 62 grams carbohydrates, 47 grams protein, 21 grams fat. 8 grams saturated fat, 10 grams fiber.
Two Egg Sandwiches
2 whole wheat English muffins, toasted
2 large poached eggs
2 slices low-fat Swiss cheese
2 slices Canadian bacon, grilled
597 calories, 57 grams carbohydrates, 45 grams protein, 13 grams fat, 5 grams saturated fat, 8 grams fiber.
Vegetarian Breakfast
1 cup cottage cheese (2% milk fat)
1 cup sliced peaches, canned in juice, not syrup
1 slice whole wheat toast
1/2 avocado
2 vegetarian sausage links, cooked
621 calories, 62.5 grams carbohydrates, 47 grams protein, 26.5 grams fat, 4.5 grams saturated fat, 16.5 grams fiber.
Pescetarian Breakfast
1 6-oz. can light tuna, canned in water, drained
2 Tbsp. mayonnaise (preferably olive oil- or canola oil-based)
2 slices whole wheat toast
1 oz. dark chocolate
592 calories, 45 grams carbohydrates, 51 grams protein, 22 grams fat, 7 grams saturated fat, 10 grams fiber.
Eating a big breakfast is a great way to keep your hunger at bay for hours. But, if you're not a fan or big morning meals – or if cooking a big breakfast doesn't fit into your morning schedule – consider a glass of Shakeology. It's got plenty of protein and is packed with healthy ingredients that will keep you full and satisfied all morning. I don't go a day with out it!


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Jeremy Lin didn't hesitate with an honest answer when asked if he feels like an All-Star. "Uh, no," he said softly after another choppy performance Wednesday night as the Houston Rockets lost for a fifth consecutive time, unable to claw all the way back from 15 points down despite several chances late to go ahead.
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Floyd and Kit Scott of Panhandle are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary.
Scott married the former Elva "Kit'' Land on Dec. 22, 1950, at Saint John's Methodist Church in Lubbock. The couple previously resided in Lubbock, Wyoming and North Dakota. They have lived in Panhandle for 42 years.
The Scotts are graduates of Texas Tech University in Lubbock. Mr. Scott was a geophysicist involved in oil and gas exploration in many Texas counties, Wyoming and North Dakota. In 1958, the Scotts returned to the Panhandle to engage in irrigation farming with Mr. Scott's father, Ike Scott.
Daughters of the couple are Paula Siddens and Patti Maryan.
The couple have four grandchildren: James and John Siddens, both of Seattle, and Taren and Philip Maryan of Corpus Christi.
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Albert Breer of the NFL Network has changed from being generally insufferable to being awesome because he visited Falcons camp. Breer believes the new coordinators, Mike Nolan and Dirk Koetter, reflect the belief that Atlanta needs more of a "gun slinger mentality." Certainly there was need for change after Atlanta schemed to lose in the playoffs the last few years.
New Falcons with full swagger? Check.
Finding out about the new coordinators and badmouthing the old ones, after the jump.
"I don't think we'll be as vanilla," said defensive end John Abraham. "That's not knocking who we had before. It's just a little bit more diverse with more people coming in the D-ends and the linebackers." That sure sounds like a knock on the guy who was here before. He may as well have said people with mustaches cannot coordinate at this level.
Abraham dropped into coverage on zone blitzes more often than any defensive lineman in the entire league. That may sound crazy to anyone who has not watched the Brian VanGorder defense the past few years, but the Mustache was always happiest when dropping players into coverage and preventing anyone from nearing the opposing quarterback.
I'll just be happy when Jon Gruden cannot immediately dissect our defensive scheme on national television and call it too basic. I do not blame VanGorder for Atlanta's problems the past few years but I do blame Mike Mularkey. By all appearances Jason Kirk of SBN may despise Mularkey as much as myself and had a few choice words for the old coordinator.
Dirk Koetter is an absolute upgrade over Mike Mularkey in literally every way a human could be an upgrade over another human (mentally, artistically, spiritually, in the vertical and horizontal and hypothetical passing games, at video games, at football in general, at parenting, in all matters of physical fitness and grooming and hungedness, at using wide receivers, in his sense of humor and manners, at not calling the same goddamn goal line play four times in one game).
Hey, that sums it up for me! The new coordinators with their new schemes are bringing about change in Atlanta. According to Mr. Breer's article, Atlanta will finally use more spread principles with the offense. Yes, tell me exactly what I want to hear. Less bunch formations should spread out defenses and give the offense a bit more operational space while taking pressure off the offensive line. Including more screen passes should slow down the pass rush as well, potentially making Sam Baker look like less of a train wreck. Maybe a more applicable comparison would be Baker being only a Japanese level nuclear disaster as opposed to a full-fledged Chernobyl disaster. I tentatively expect Jacquizz Rodgers to improve on his one caught screen pass last year.
Breer believes Nolan is the most important addition to the Falcons this year, and his ability to bring in new ideas and get the most out of a talented roster will be the difference between getting that elusive playoff win. Atlanta had basically ran the same offensive and defensive scheme for four years but received diminishing returns on new talent. Nolan is one with a history of tailoring his defense to available talent. One similar defensive situation mentioned in Flowery Branch was the quick turn around Wade Phillips made with a historically poor Houston Texans defense.
The new coordinators, 2nd year wide receiver Julio Jones, and new defensive addition Asante Samuel have been improving Atlanta's "swagger." While this is something I support, do the kids still say swagger? I need to check my totally tubular Friendster account to stay on top of all the cool kid lingo. Terminology aside, the injection of some cahones is important after some have said our old coordinators had beat the swagger out of our players.
Maybe I am not the only one who believes the right coordinator can be the shot in the arm/kick in the butt needed to improve a team, and the Falcons have high hopes for Koetter and Nolan.


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HONOLULU (AP) - Nearly 400 families were not notified when memorial markers at Hawaii's Punchbowl cemetery were moved six years ago, the Department of Veteran Affairs said.
A section of memorial markers at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific was moved in 2006 to make room for more placements but families were not notified, said Brad Phillips, who oversees national cemeteries in the West. The section doesn't contain graves and is reserved for veterans whose remains were never recovered, buried at sea, cremated or donated for research.
The Punchbowl cemetery's director plans to call the families informing them of the move and apologizing for failing to notify them in 2006, Phillips said.
Kari Cowan of Clearwater, Fla., discovered during a visit to the cemetery in December that another marker was in her husband's spot and found his marker on the opposite side of the section. While cemetery staff initially told her she was mistaken, Phillips later acknowledged mishandling the move and apologized to Cowan.
Because of the ordeal, Cowan didn't want the marker for her husband to remain at Punchbowl. Last month, the department moved Aaron Cowan's marker to a national cemetery in New Mexico where the Army chief warrant officer 3 grew up.
The matter caught the attention of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs in the U.S. House of Representatives.
"Again, our families of the fallen are enduring more suffering as a result of this latest error to come to light at Punchbowl," U.S. Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., who heads the committee, said in a statement.
He said he's asked the department for an accounting of cemetery management and oversight.


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UPDATE: Titan Machinery Reports Surge In Q2 Earnings, Lifts Forecast
Courtesy of Benzinga.
Titan Machinery Inc (NASDAQ: TITN) reported a strong rise in its fiscal second-quarter earnings and raised its full-year earnings forecast.
Titan Machinery reported its quarterly profit at $6.29 million, or $0.30 per share, up from $2.71 million, or $0.15 per share, in the year-ago period. Its revenue surged 48% to $310.8 million. However, analysts were expecting earnings of $0.26 per share on revenue of $293 million. Titan Machinery lifted its full-year earnings outlook by $0.03 per share to a range of $1.56 to $1.66 per share. It also raised its revenue forecast by $20 million to a range of $1.33 billion to $1.405 billion.
Titan Machinery shares gained 0.73% to $27.56 in after-hours trading.
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Valley bankruptcies in April fell 27 percent from the same month in 2011, continuing what has become a two-year improvement trend.
The 1,999 filings for April reported by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Phoenix compared with 2,748 in April 2011. The latest figures also were down 4 percent from March.
So far this year, metro Phoenix bankruptcies have dropped 25 percent compared with the first four months of 2011. On a year-over-year basis, filings have declined for 15 consecutive months.
Scott Cohen, a bankruptcy attorney at Engelman Berger in Phoenix, said economic conditions seem to be improving around the state and more banks and other lenders appear to be extending loans. "There are some reasons for optimism, and there's additional liquidity that wasn't there last year," he said.
Chapter 7 filings, which allow consumers a fresh start after non-exempt assets are used to pay creditors, accounted for 87 percent of the metro Phoenix bankruptcy total last month.
For all of Arizona, April filings fell 25 percent from a year earlier and were 3 percent lower compared with March.
Nationally, bankruptcy filings in April fell 16 percent compared with a year earlier, according to data provided by Epiq Systems Inc. to the American Bankruptcy Institute. The April total of 108,865 also was down 11 percent from March.
"Families and business continue to cut costs to improve their financial stability," said the institute's executive director, Samuel Gerdano, in a statement. "As consumers and business remain committed to bolstering their balance sheets, bankruptcy filing rates will continue to decrease."
The downward filing trend comes against a mixed backdrop for consumer finances.
In a recent online, nonscientific survey by the National Foundation for Credit Counseling, 80 percent of the more than 1,400 respondents indicated their personal finances are in need of a major tune-up, though it's possible people visiting debtadvice.org tend to be more money stressed than most Americans.
By contrast, a comprehensive measure of consumer credit defaults by S&P Indices and Experian found a general decline in problem loans in March, the most recent month tracked. It was the third straight month of improvement. Bank credit cards were among the exceptions, with defaults rising slightly compared with February.
"The first quarter of 2012 was largely positive for the consumer," said David Blitzer, a managing director at S&P Indices.
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IRVING (AP) - The Colorado Rockies put together their second big trade within a week, agreeing Tuesday to a tentative deal that would send Larry Walker to Arizona in a five-player trade in which the Diamondbacks would give up Matt Williams.
Arizona would send first baseman Erubiel Durazo, outfielder David Dellucci and reliever Bret Prinz to Colorado for the 1997 National League MVP.
For the deal to be completed, Walker and Williams must waive no-trade clauses. Diamondbacks owner Jerry Colangelo said the teams were granted a 72-hour window Tuesday to complete the deal.
"I met with Matt this morning. I'm going to speak with Larry tonight," Colangelo said after arriving at the baseball owners' meetings. "Colorado is going to meet with Matt tomorrow in Phoenix."
The Rockies already have traded Mike Hampton and his big contract to Florida, with the Marlins subsequently dealing the left-hander to Atlanta.
Walker has said he is likely to waive his no-trade clause. Colangelo said he didn't know whether Williams, who lives in the Phoenix area, would waive his no-trade clause.
"We're very sensitive to Matt's desires," he said.
In the Hampton deal, the Rockies also sent outfielder Juan Pierre and $6.5 million to Florida for catcher Charles Johnson, outfielder Preston Wilson, left-hander Vic Darensbourg and second baseman Pablo Ozuna. The Marlins then dealt Hampton and $30 million to Atlanta for right-handers Tim Spooneybarger and Ryan Baker.
The Hampton deal rid Colorado of a $72 million commitment to the pitcher over the next six seasons.
Diamondbacks general manager Joe Garagiola Jr. already has spoken with Walker's agent, Pat Rooney, according to Colangelo.
Walker who turns 36 on Dec. 1, and Williams, who turns 37 on Nov. 28, have been sidelined by injuries in recent years. Both are five-time All-Stars and both make big money.
Williams is owed $10 million next year, of which $5 million is deferred at 6 percent interest. Walker is owed $38.5 million - salaries of $12.5 million in each of the next three seasons, plus a $1 million buyout of a $15 million mutual option for 2006. Both $6 million of his 2003 salary and the buyout will be deferred at 5.14 percent interest.
Williams, who has missed 292 games the past three seasons because of injuries, hit .260 this year with 12 homers and 40 RBIs in 215 at-bats. He broke his left leg and dislocated the ankle on Feb. 25 and didn't return until July 11.
Craig Counsell, who is recovering from a beck injury, could become his replacement at third base.
Walker, a three-time NL batting champion, hit a team-high .338 this year with 26 homers and 104 RBIs in 477 at-bats, and he has averaged 30 homers, 90 RBIs and a .340 batting average in seven seasons with Colorado.
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A teenage girl has returned to her school in Philadelphia after being ridiculed by her teacher for supporting Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.
High school sophomore Samantha Pawlucy wore a pink Romney/Ryan T-shirt to "dress-down" day at Charles Carroll High School.
Pawlucy said that's when her geometry teacher, Lynette Gaymon, publicly mocked her, announcing it was a "Democratic" school and comparing her shirt to a "KKK" shirt.
For a week, the 16-year-old said she couldn't bear to return to school. She said she even received threats on Facebook and Twitter.
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"I knew people were going to be out here but not all this. I thought I was going to go to school... a normal day," the teen said.
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Pawlucy cried as supporters sang the National Anthem and read the First Amendment aloud.
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There is nothing easy about managing our natural resources. Fortunately for Vermonter's we have a number of experienced wildlife and fisheries biologists that are extremely dedicated to the task. One of the things that make these folks so special is that for most of them, their work is much more than just a job it's their passion.


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Term of racist abuse for a black person. Originates from the United States, a country where it is perfectly acceptable to be racist if you are black, but not if you are white.
White person speaking - "Nigger." This is racist in the US.
Black person speaking - "Cracker." This is not racist in the US, bizarrely.
Black person speaking - "Cracker." This is not racist in the US, bizarrely.
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A word that everyone else is afraid to define except in utter seriousness, for fear of being branded a rascist, in total ignorance of the colloquial usage of the word, its characterization in popular culture, and the populations of people it is used most by.
You shouldn't ever say the n-word, you rascist cracker asshole.
by Panocha007 October 20, 2003
a term that is racist, as long as the speaker of it is not black. Forbidden on most all of television and other forms of public entertainment, at times referenced to as the "n-word". However, "cracker", a term racist against whites, is a completely acceptable term used in any context of any national broadcast...hmm...
White man: I would like to know why "cracker" and, ahem, "nigger" are not equally forbidden *white man is put on trial for racist slander*
by Scooby King February 27, 2005
nigga, niggah etc. al.(noun)1.describes an ignorant, uneducated, foolish individual regardless of race, color, religion, sexual orientation, etc.
2. endearing term between two or more individual to describe a friendship or bond.
2. endearing term between two or more individual to describe a friendship or bond.
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by Matt March 15, 2005
Slang description for slaves who were brought mostly from West Africa by the Dutch, English, and Portuguese from what was then a huge "Nigerian Basin" which makes up part of the countries of Nigeria and Niger today.
Load the Nigger's on the ship, time for an auction in Kingston.
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Used as a disparaging term for a member of any dark-skinned people.
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nigger is to black person as redneck is to white person
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What an initiation into the red carpet club.
Patrick J. Adams, star of USA's drama Suits, woke up Wednesday morning to the surprise news that he was a Screen Actors Guild Award nominee for outstanding performance by a male actor in a drama series. It was his first-ever nomination – for anything!
"This is my first year for a lot of this stuff," Adams tells the Los Angeles Times's Show Tracker blog. "This is all brand new to me. ... I never, ever imagined it would get to this point."
Nor did Adams, 30, even know awards season was heating up.
"To be honest, I didn't even know this was happening today," he tells the Times, adding that he slept through the announcement and awoke to find many missed calls on his cell phone. "I thought something terrible had happened and picked up and found out quite the opposite."
"I'm just trying to wrap my head around it," he says.
The actor, who has never attended a red carpet awards show before, says he's rendered "speechless" by his fellow nominees, who include Steve Buscemi (Boardwalk Empire), Kyle Chandler (Friday Night Lights), Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) and Michael C. Hall (Dexter).
"I've watched how they work, week to week, and how they conduct themselves in their lives," he says. "These are just incredible men. ... It's such an insane honor to walk among them."
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Jennifer Aniston says Angelina Jolie has a lot to learn about being discreet.
In an interview in the December issue of Vogue, out Nov. 19, Aniston says that, though there's no love lost between her and the woman who ended up with ex-husband Brad Pitt, Jolie should have been much more circumspect about the romance, which blossomed while Pitt and Aniston were still married.
"There was stuff printed there that was definitely from a time when I was unaware that it was happening," Aniston, 39, says of comments Jolie had made to the same magazine a year earlier. "I felt those details were a little inappropriate to discuss. ... That stuff about how she couldn't wait to get to work every day? That was really uncool."
Aniston also opens about her own romantic life, post-Pitt, including a much-discussed on-again, off-again relationship with 31-year-old musician John Mayer, who she says has matured since they've been together.
Rumors that she is "clingy" or "needy" in love are off-base, she says.
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Kellan, Kellan, Kellan!
Kellan's in action with Harper at Corbin Fisher today, and it'd seem this young man is intent on making himself a candidate for Best Facial Expressions and/or Most Passionate CF Stud! For a guy that disappeared from CF for so long and took forever to decide he'd be wiling to give guy/guy action a shot, he's sure jumped in to things with gusto! Mind you, I'm not complaining! I was excited enough when he first agreed to do a scene with a guy, but now that I've seen him in a couple I'm ecstatic!
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Man charged with intoxication assault after crash severs passenger's arm
A DeSoto man has been charged with intoxication assault in a crash that severed his passenger's arm.
Francisco Trevino, 22, was arrested early Sunday after a two-vehicle crash in West Dallas. Police say Trevino's blood alcohol level was nearly three times the legal limit.
Trevino and his 23-year-old passenger were driving south on Interstate 35 near Market Center Boulevard around 5 a.m. when they hit another car, according to an arrest warrant affidavit. A witness told police that Trevino was driving 100 mph.
His car spun out, hit a sign and flipped several times.
Trevino's passenger, whose arm was amputated above the forearm, was taken to Parkland Memorial Hospital, police said. The man also suffered head injuries and was in critical condition.
Officials found Trevino passed out in his car, police said. He later told police he had smoked marijuana, had seven beers and then drank hard liquor, according to the affidavit.
After being treated at Parkland Memorial Hospital, Trevino was arrested, but has since bonded out of jail.
The driver and passenger of the other vehicle were not injured.


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