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CHAPTER 3 COST-VOLUME-PROFIT ANALYSIS TRUE/FALSE 1.To perform cost-volume-profit analysis, a company must be able to separate costs into fixed and variable components. Answer : True/False 2. It is assumed in CVP analysis that the unit selling price, unit variable costs, and unit fixed costs are known and constant. Answer : True/False 3. In CVP analysis, variable costs include direct variable costs, but do not include indirect variable costs. Answer : True/False 4. In CVP analysis, an assumption is made that the total revenues are linear with respect to output units, but that total costs are non-linear with respect to output units. Answer : True/False 5. If the selling price per unit is $20 and the contribution margin percentage is 30%, then the variable cost per unit must be $6. Answer : True/False 6.The selling price per unit is $30, variable cost per unit $20, and fixed cost per unit is $3. When this company operates above the breakeven point, the sale of one more unit will increase net income by $7. Answer : True/False 7. If the selling price per unit of a product is $50, variable costs per unit are $40, and total fixed costs are $50,000, a company must sell 6,000 units to make a target operating income of $10,000. Answer : True/False 3-1
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8. An increase in the tax rate will increase the breakeven point. Answer : True/False 9. If variable costs per unit increase, then the breakeven point will decrease. Answer : True/False 10. If a company increases fixed costs, then the breakeven point will be lower. Answer : True/False 11. Companies that are substituting fixed costs for variable costs receive a greater per unit return above the breakeven point. Answer : True/False 12. A company with a high degree of operating leverage is at lesser risk during downturns in the economy. Answer : True/False 13. If a company has a degree of operating leverage of 2.0, that means a 20% increase in sales will result in a 40% increase in variable costs. Answer : True/False 14. In multiproduct situations when sales mix shifts toward the product with the lowest contribution margin, the breakeven quantity will decrease. Answer : True/False 15. If a company's sales mix is 2 units of product A for every 3 units of product B, and the company sells 1,000 units in total of both products, only 200 units of product A will be sold. Answer : True/False 16. There is no unique breakeven point when there are multiple cost drivers. Answer : True/False 3-2
17. When there are multiple cost drivers the simple CVP formula of Q = (FC + OI)/ CMU can still be used. Answer : True/False 18. Service sector companies will never report gross margin on an income statement. Answer : True/False 19. For merchandising firms, contribution margin will always be a lesser amount than gross margin. Answer : True/False 20. If Johnson's Manufacturing presented a Financial Accounting Income Statement emphasizing gross margin showing operating income of $18,000, a Contribution Income Statement emphasizing contribution margin would show a different operating income.
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Clearing Is Key to LME Sale Bids
It's widely known in the metals community that both IntercontinentalExchange Inc. and Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing are the final candidates in the running to buy the London Metal Exchange.
How a potential bidder proposes to run the LME's clearing process is likely to be one of several deciding factors in terms of who clinches the deal, according to people familiar with the matter.
Intriguingly, The Source has learned it was ICE that first approached the LME, ostensibly just to develop a clearing business. But insiders say ICE hoped that if this was up for grabs, then perhaps the world's largest metals trading exchange was too.
The LME has never commented on who it was that approached it and kick-started the sale process and ICE has remained tight-lipped.
Clearing is when corporations act as counterparties to every trade and extend guarantees that trades will be settled as originally intended. It's a critical part of settling trades and will be one of the central themes that members, who are also the LME's shareholders, will consider when making a decision about whether or not to sell their shares.
LME trades are currently cleared through London- and Paris-based LCH.Clearnet, itself in the process of being taken over by the London Stock Exchange Group. But it's pushing ahead with a project to build LMEclear, as its new clearing house would be known, and will move a team working on the project into dedicated offices close to the main premises of the exchange in London's financial district in the third quarter.
By then, the outcome of the sale process could already be known. Bids are already in excess of the £1 billion threshold the exchange was seeking, people familiar with the matter say, and with both ICE and Hong Kong Exchanges promising to retain the LME's existing business model, price and future growth will be at the forefront of voting members' minds.
The two final bidders are likely to offer very different approaches to clearing: ICE would offer a ready-made European platform that the LME could integrate itself into, while Hong Kong Exchanges would opt to start from scratch and help the LME to create a platform specific to the metals exchange's business, people familiar with the matter say.
ICE can arguably claim the crown in the clearing stakes–for the moment at least. The exchange launched its own London-based clearing house in 2008, the first new clearing house in the U.K. for about 100 years, and migrated some 30 million contracts and $16 billion in margin from LCH.Clearnet to ICE Clear Europe.
Growth was rapid: ICE Clear Europe now offers over 700 over-the-counter-cleared energy contracts, as well as credit default swap clearing. It has around $22.1 billion in original margin, according to its latest SEC filing, and is the biggest commodities clearer in Europe. Energy, both derivatives and OTC trades, have been a huge part of this clearing success story.
Although he hasn't commented on the ICE's potential interest in the LME itself, Jeff Sprecher, ICE chairman and chief executive, has in the past said he believes the sale process to be the result of the exchange figuring out its future needs.
"I believe that [the LME] could use a much better clearing infrastructure that would allow them to roll out more products more quickly," Mr.Sprecher said in February. "I believe they will come to the conclusion that they have tremendous growth that's coming globally and to the extent they can get more global distribution…It would be a good thing for them," he noted.
It's a slightly different story for Hong Kong Exchanges which, although experienced in running clearing through three different platforms in Asia, doesn't have a European clearing operation and doesn't have experience in commodities clearing. These are obviously issues its bid will have to address.
That doesn't mean Hong Kong Exchanges couldn't set up and efficiently run a clearing house in London. And there are, of course, advantages to not having a clearing house up and running in the region: the LME would be able to influence the development of a future Hong Kong Exchanges-backed Europe-based platform.
If it preferred, the LME could also slot into Hong Kong Exchange's existing Asian infrastructure. Hong Kong Exchanges would also offer LME members clearing in Chinese yuan, something the LME has been contemplating itself and a move its members widely support given China's position as the world's largest metals consumer.
As the two shortlisted bidders step up their efforts to convince the LME board to go with their individual bid, the debate over which exchange offers the best proposal for metals clearing will continue. But the ultimate decision lies with LME shareholders, who–once a preferred bidder is picked–will soon vote on the exchange's fate.

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"Having a basic framework for diagnosing food allergies will help us better interpret studies evaluating diagnosis and treatment," she says.
According to the review, between 1% and 10% of people in the U.S. have food allergies.
While individual studies suggest an increase in allergic food reactions, this could not be confirmed.
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- The safety and effectiveness of immunotherapy for desensitizing patients to food allergies remains unknown. The treatment involves a challenge with minute amounts of the allergen.
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"Children who come to see me often leave with fewer food allergies than they came in with," pediatric food allergy specialist Todd David Green, MD, of Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh tells WebMD.
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BLOOMFIELD -- Jimmie Roach, 74, died Jan. 26, 2012, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau.
Born Sept. 29, 1937, in Hornersville, son of the late Bob and Sadie Fleeman Roach, he had lived in Bloomfield for 45 years. He worked as a supervisor at Purolator in Dexter, was a U.S. Army veteran and a member of the White Oak General Baptist Church near Bernie.
On Jan. 26, 1965, in Nashville, he married Margie Sue Hester who survives of the home.
Also surviving are: one son and daughter-in-law, Mike and July Roach of Bloomfield; one sister, Jane Broadway of Kennett; and one grandchild, Chris Roach.
He was preceded in death by three sisters and two brothers.
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DARTMOUTH — Dartmouth Public Schools Athletic Director Jeff Caron recently presented a year-end report on school athletic programs to the Dartmouth School Committee indicating that 46 percent of the DHS student body participated in sports programs this year.
The athletic director also reported that nearly 12,000 tickets were purchased by DHS fans attending games for seven different sports teams.
Caron noted that girls lacrosse, girls soccer, boys and girls basketball, and boys winter teams were champions of their leagues this year. The Indians baseball team was the most successful in post-season tournament play, making it to the Division 2 South championship game, where the squad lost to Westwood, 2-1.
- 905 DHS students participated in athletic programs
- 85 athletes played one sport, and 295 played two sports, and 129 played all three seasons
- DHS athletes competed against 51 schools in 24 sports
- Athletic programs employ 23 head coaches and 35 assistant coaches
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When's the last time you saw a kid climbing a neighbor's tree or playing a rowdy game of softball in a vacant lot? Things that came natural to our previous generation are no longer acceptable behavior today, and with good reason.
In today's world, a child climbing a neighbors tree or playing on private property would make any owner cringe with fear of a lawsuit. Kids' natural instinct to exercise is snuffed out before they can even get a foothold on a tree branch before someone chases them off ... or play in a vacant lot, if they could find one.
Today, kids aren't allowed to climb a stranger's tree. They can no longer experience that wonderful feeling of stretching their arms and leg muscles to the max while they pull, stretch and tug their way up the smooth bark of a walnut tree or dig their heels into the rough exterior of a pepper tree. Few houses even have climbable trees in their yards.
Back in the "boomer days," every neighborhood had a vacant lot where we would play softball, and every kid knew the thrill of sliding into home plate over a field made up of dirt clods. As a kid who grew up in Willow Glen in the 1950s, I can tell you that just about every neighborhood had a corner vacant lot.
It was a place for neighborhood kids to hold meetings, to have marble contests, to fly kites, to play impromptu ball games, search for bugs and butterflies or just hang out with the gang. It was the place where we invented and played an array of countless games--games that encouraged running, hiding, screeching, jumping, kneeling, squatting, etc.
By the time we got home from a day of play, our clothes were brown with dirt; our play shoes (canvas Keds) were covered in dust and dotted with foxtails. The knees on our play jeans were patched or worn through and our hair covered with wild thistles, but we were a happy, healthy, bunch of kids. We slept well at night and burned up a bounty of energy and calories all day at play.
Things were different back then in that old boomer generation. We played physical games on our neighbors' private property, depending which of the kids lived there--games like hide-and-seek, three flies up or Simon Says--and if we skinned our knees or scraped our elbows, we ran quickly home to Mom. She bathed our bruises, swabbed them in red iodine or bright pink Mercurochrome and topped it all off with a kiss. We proudly returned to the game, happily displaying a brightly painted patch of skin like a badge of courage.
If we were hurt more seriously, we were taken to our local doctor, who treated us and sent us home. No lawsuit, no requests for the owner to pay the bill. Most times we didn't even know who owned the property; we were just so pleased they would let us play there.
I know today that kids play organized soccer and softball and that they have uniforms and coaches, and all of that is great. But I still wouldn't trade the way it was in my childhood days and the way playtime in our neighborhood was not scheduled. No uniforms, no coaches. If a kid had a football, we played football; if they had a ball and glove, we played baseball.
If we weren't climbing trees, then we were picking the walnuts that were shaken from backyard trees. We had to pick buckets and buckets of walnuts to fill the burlap sacks so our families could sell them to the local nut companies. So, in addition to giving us somewhere to play, those dear old walnut trees helped our family pay the bills.
So, today, when I read in the news that children are putting on weight and getting out of condition, I can't help but reflect on the way it was. Today, kids sit in front of a computer or TV set and stare at a screen when they should be looking into a playmate's eyes. Kids are no longer exposed to nature's natural exercisers--tree climbing , corner lot baseball and outdoor childhood games--all of which are pretty much gone now.
All of these things were an intricate part of my generation's exercise tools, and because of them we experienced those unforgettable, wonderful , summer days of play that we hoped would go on forever.
Cookie Curci is a longtime Willow Glen resident. She can be contacted at email@example.com.


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BATON ROUGE — Gov. Bobby Jindal has put to rest months of water-cooler speculation about his interest in this fall's U.S. Senate race. The governor says definitively that he will not run for the Senate.
The governor told The Times-Picayune that the answer is "absolutely no. No caveats, no loopholes." Jindal says his only political plans are to seek re-election in 2011.
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It's time for championship football! The Pop Warner Super Bowl matchups are set, with teams represented from all over the country. Here is the schedule for the next two days.
Division II championships
Junior Peewee – Stanley Blue Devils (NC) vs. Wall Knights (NJ)
Peewee – Far West Jets (AZ) vs. Lee's Summit Titans (MO)
Junior Midget Tomlin – New Jersey Giants (NJ) vs. West Lynn Rams (MA)
Junior Midget Warner – Port St. Lucie Gold Pirates (FL) vs. North Long Beach Panthers (CA)
Midget Tomlin – Goulds Rams (FL) vs. Ft. Worth Colts (TX)
Midget Warner – Detroit Dolphins (MI) vs. North Long Beach Panthers (CA)
Division I championships
Junior Peewee -- Shaker Fire (OH) vs. Liberty City Warriors (FL)
Peewee – Florida City Razorbacks (FL) vs. Watkins Hornets (DC)
Junior Midget – White Oak Warriors (MD) vs. Saddleback Valley Wolverines (CA)
Midget – Oak Ridge Colts (NC) vs. Richmond Perrine Giants (FL)
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Issue No.07 - July (2013 vol.25)
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Shasha Li , National University of Defense Technology, Beijing
Chin-Yew Lin , Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing
Young-In Song , Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing
Zhoujun Li , Beihang University, Beijing
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TKDE.2011.210
Comparing one thing with another is a typical part of human decision making process. However, it is not always easy to know what to compare and what are the alternatives. In this paper, we present a novel way to automatically mine comparable entities from comparative questions that users posted online to address this difficulty. To ensure high precision and high recall, we develop a weakly supervised bootstrapping approach for comparative question identification and comparable entity extraction by leveraging a large collection of online question archive. The experimental results show our method achieves F1-measure of 82.5 percent in comparative question identification and 83.3 percent in comparable entity extraction. Both significantly outperform an existing state-of-the-art method. Additionally, our ranking results show highly relevance to user's comparison intents in web.
Reliability, Portable media players, Data mining, Equations, Algorithm design and analysis, Cities and towns, Pattern matching, comparable entity mining, Information extraction, bootstrapping, sequential pattern mining
Shasha Li, Chin-Yew Lin, Young-In Song, Zhoujun Li, "Comparable Entity Mining from Comparative Questions", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge & Data Engineering, vol.25, no. 7, pp. 1498-1509, July 2013, doi:10.1109/TKDE.2011.210


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I collected them all, found every boneexcept I couldn't find my hand, my handmy mother had ither calloused hard hitting hands have held megripped my spiritshe seized my hand at sixstripped it of innocense and graceshe severed my hand at sevenI found it again in a dry riverbed pointing Norththis hand that has the most number of bonesfragments of bones, joints and articulationI can't open itI have my hand nowI can prayI can pray againI turn to the Goddess, pray for forgivenessShe says, "there is no forgiveness because there are no sins"She places God on the tips of my fingerson the tips of my toesand tells me that everyone has to learn how to prayin their own wayin their own way with everything, everywhereI collected them all, found every splintered boneevery piece of myselfnow I dance flinging by bones to the floorlike the I Chinglike the I Ching each time I hit the floorI'm different
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The much-anticipated Prom episode of Glee aired tonight (and yes, all the spoiler rumors were true!), and we found out the other week that they would be covering Rebecca Black's viral hit/disaster 'Friday'. I bet you guys thought you finally had gotten rid of that song, huh?!
I know it was kind of a shock for me when I heard that they would be using that song during the Prom episode, in which Kurt is unexpectedly crowned queen. That song is SO two months ago. But since Glee seems hell bent on making it relevant again, let's discuss.
Not that it is particularly difficult to be better than the original, but they did a good job covering it. It is a catchy song, and what made it so terribly wonderful in the first place wasn't that it was necessarily a bad song (plenty of songs these days could have been written by a 12 year old and make little to no sense yet still sell millions of copies), it was the performance and weirdness of the video make it such a joke. Funny how when good singers actually perform it how it almost seems like a different song all together.
In this case, Puck, Artie, and Sam put a rock-and-roll spin on the song and performed it at McKinley High School's Junior Prom (which took place on a Saturday…?). Anyway, they knocked it out of the park and have officially managed to have everyone singing it again for at least the rest of the week.
Does anyone else think it's weird that most of the popular covers of 'Friday' have been sung by guys? Stephen Colbert, Meatloaf, and now the guys of Glee have all lent their chops to this song and turned it into a half-way decent tune when all is said and done.
Did you guys see the Prom episode of Glee tonight? What did you think of the show's cover of 'Friday' and the episode in general? In case you missed it, we have the song below (with video from tonight's episode on the way!), so be sure to check it out and leave us some comments below!
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MADRID, Spain (WOMENSENEWS)--It's almost 10 p.m. and at the Zarlenga family home in suburban Madrid, 2-year-old Malena is being impossible.
"Let's read a story," her father, Rafa, says, in a futile effort to get the bedtime ritual started. The little girl shrieks: "No, I don't want to go to bed!"
It's a scene that's repeated almost nightly. Malena's mother, Veronica Kleinburd, normally comes home from work between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m., though on this day her boss did something he often does; he decided to hold an office meeting as she was on her way out.
"It's almost impossible to get Malena to bed early, because she spends so little time with us," says the young mother, whose husband rarely gets home from his job before 9:30 p.m.
Kleinburd, who sells office copying machines, gave up a job with better career prospects that would have required her to come home even later. In her current job, most of her salary goes to paying a nanny who takes care of her daughter after day care. Kleinburd says she can't help but feel guilty for not being a better parent. "I'm doing the best I can, but I can't say it's something that sits well with me," she says.
For Kleinburd, and countless other working women here, she has no alternative to the impossibly late hours that she must keep for work. The culprit in all this: Spain's traditional siesta.
Source of Country's Easygoing Fame
The siesta--or afternoon nap--may have once been a pleasant way to break up the workday. And it helped give Spain the famed image of an easygoing place.
But that was when Spain was an agrarian society. Times have changed. Office jobs have multiplied; careers have become more competitive and commuting distances have increased. Few people can go home during the day to nap.
Nonetheless, the siesta custom hangs on, and many people take two to three-hour restaurant lunches, or stay at their desks during the midday break. Most shops also close, making midday errands often impossible.
This period of enforced but often unproductive idleness means that work days stretch to more than 12 hours. Many workers, like the Zarlengas, don't get home until 8 or 9 p.m., or even later.
The government has decided to do something about it. It passed a law, effective Jan.2, with the stated aim to make it easier for government employees to reconcile work and family life. The law establishes a standard workday of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. from Monday to Thursday, and finishing on Friday at 2:30 p.m. Although extra hours can be worked, the law says it's a right for public employees "to finish their workday before 6 p.m."
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Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero made history after his election in 2004 by appointing women to half of his Cabinet posts. Since then, his Socialist Workers' Party government has given priority to gender equality and quality-of-life issues.
A recent survey by Que, a daily newspaper, found that more than 9 of 10 Spaniards dislike their long workday, but many bosses cling to their extended lunch hours and keep employees in the office into evening hours as a result.
The government's ability to change a deeply ingrained national habit is limited, however. Only about half a million people work for the national administration in a nation of 42 million inhabitants.
Anti-siesta campaigners say what's needed is a feminist-led revolution.
"Spain's working hours are male chauvinist working hours," says Ignacio Buqueras y Bach, director of Fundacion Independiente, or Independent Foundation, a civil society think tank in Madrid that has been leading the campaign to turn the country away from the siesta and draw media attention to the issue.
"Women are the most disadvantaged by these hours. No one should have to say, 'I can't be with my children because I have to make sacrifices for my career,'" he says.
Buqueras y Bach says the siesta made sense when the Spanish economy was based on farming: men spent much of the day outside the home, while women worked within. But now the long workday is in effect a "glass ceiling" that prevents women from reaching top management jobs.
Spain--along with Belgium, Poland, Greece and Italy--was among the European nations where women had a labor participation rate under 55 percent in 2003, according to a report last year from the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly.
Family Pressures at Work
Rafa Zarlenga, the father of the cranky Malena, says he sees firsthand at the company where he works--a computer consulting firm--how female workers lose professional standing by deciding to start a family.
"When they get pregnant with their first child, they immediately fall outside of the company's growth structure," he says. "It's clear that having children harms them in the job market." They are passed up on promotions and don't get assigned to the most important jobs and tasks.
Lola Liceras, the employment secretary for the Madrid-based Comisiones Obreras, one of Spain's largest labor unions, says that's why Spain's birthrate of 1.3 children per family is one of the lowest in Western Europe.
"It's clear that this is one of the consequences," she says, adding that a shortage of day-care facilities and the relatively high rate of temporary employment on the Spanish job market also forces women to choose between children and career. In Spain, around 4 million people, or about one-third of the work force, have short-term employment contracts. That's twice the average for the European Union as a whole.
"If the only way that a woman can stay in the workplace is to comply with masculine practices, then the result is logical, not to have a family," Liceras says.
Liceras says the siesta is part of a larger problem. She says the long workday in Spain is rooted in a widely shared belief that it's more important to be at work, than to actually be doing something. She says that as a result some people resort to tricks.
"There are people who leave their coat hanging when they leave, so that it looks like they haven't left the office," she says. "It becomes a game, so that in the end it looks like people are dedicating many hours to their jobs, but the productivity is low. It's bad for both companies and employees."
Jerome Socolovsky is a journalist based in Madrid.


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From 71 stories above downtown Dallas, a terrifying look at how window washers deal with a jammed lift
The photo Downtown Dallas Inc.'s marketing coordinator Megan Spooner posted to Facebook moments ago is not an homage to the immortal 1932 picture known as Lunch on a Skyscraper, though it is every bit as terrifying as that long-ago look at construction workers high over the Manhattan skyline.
It was taken about an hour ago, as window washers outside Bank of America Plaza found themselves stuck 71 stories over downtown Dallas. Spooner and her colleagues had a front-row view of the harrowing ordeal, which took place right outside the window of Downtown Dallas Inc.'s director of cityscape and urban design Dustin Bullard.
"The guys had been on the lift all day, like they normally are," Bullard says. "But as they were running it up, the right side of the lift came all the way up. Those poor guys, they messed with it. They tried to let the cable down to get it back even."
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The towering skyscraper actually has two balconies on the 72nd floor that are off-limits to the general public. That's where the window-washing equipment sits.
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Marni Manko had perfect breasts. Whether sheathed in a turtleneck or swelling from a bikini, as a pair of C-cups adorning a 5-foot-3-inch body, they unfailingly attracted notice. "I thought they were my best feature," Manko admits, giggling. "They looked good!" A vivacious 34-year-old with green eyes that widen as she speaks, Manko is the picture of health. And yet a little more than two years ago, after testing positive for BRCA2—one of the so-called breast cancer genes—Manko voluntarily underwent a surgery few healthy women get: She had her breasts removed. She plans to do away with her healthy ovaries, too.
"It made perfect sense to me," Manko insists, curled up on the couch of her suburban Philadelphia home. Under her black sweater is a new pair of silicone breasts. Over the years, she has seen three family members, including her mother, diagnosed with breast cancer before they turned 45. "I wasn't gonna sit around and wait for cancer to get me," she says in a loud, cheerful voice. "The whole experience was empowering."
Her first cousin, 41-year-old Danielle Sevier, sees things very differently: Although she suspects she also has the breast cancer gene, she has vowed never to get tested.
"What's the point of knowing? So you can have the daylights scared out of you?" Sevier gently asks over lunch in New York City, where she lives. Because having the gene doesn't mean you'll definitely get breast cancer—one in five women with the gene is spared the disease—Sevier thinks the test would bring her nothing but unnecessary worry. And she has a word for her cousin's double mastectomy: mutilation.
"Listen, if you have cancer, and you're trying to save your life, it's a different story," Sevier says, flicking her long, honey-colored hair over one shoulder. "But to do it without being sick, and in your 30s?" She chews her salad a moment. "Marni made her decision. And it's what's right for her, and I understand that."
Back in Pennsylvania, Manko is not nearly as diplomatic about her cousin's decision. "Danielle's crazy," she exclaims, laughing. "She thinks I'm nuts, and I think she's nuts!"
How much information is too much? With a vial of your blood, genetic testing can now reveal your likelihood of inheriting conditions such as schizophrenia, gastrointestinal cancer and Huntington's, the fatal degenerative brain disease. Alzheimer's and Parkinson's genes recently were discovered, and studies are honing in on genes for heart disease, autism and osteoporosis. Someday, this furious gene mapping may lead to cures. But for now, the diseases can't necessarily be prevented. What's more, testing can often only predict that you might get a disease—not that you will get it. Which means that patients who test positive for genetic mutations are sometimes left with more questions than answers, says Mary Daly, M.D., director of the Family Risk Assessment Program at the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia. "It can change your whole attitude about your life, your future," says Dr. Daly, whose facility has counseled thousands of families. "Once you know that information, you can never go back to not knowing." The psychological jolt of such knowledge is enormous; a 1997 study at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City found that upon being told they carried the breast cancer gene, women were as stressed as people in another study who learned they actually had cancer.
Paradoxically, though, discovering you have a defective gene might provide peace of mind in the long term, says Andrew Baum, Ph.D., a researcher at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute who recently studied the reactions of women considering BRCA (commonly pronounced "braca") testing. "By the end of one year, the only people whose distress level didn't go down significantly were the people who decided not to get tested at all," Baum says. "Whether the results are positive or negative, testing can reduce the uncertainty, and that reduces stress."
Genetic testing for breast cancer presents a particularly sticky dilemma. The two known genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2, account for only 5 to 10 percent of all breast cancers, which means that a negative result has little bearing on whether you'll someday get the disease. For that reason, the test is recommended solely for women who are most likely to be BRCA-positive. Despite the test's limitations, 1,500 women take it each week, according to its manufacturer, Myriad Genetic Laboratories in Salt Lake City, up from 700 tests per week in 2005.
A positive result packs a punch: It means you have as much as an 80 percent chance of getting breast cancer in your lifetime—most likely before menopause—and up to a 50 percent chance of ovarian cancer, with the BRCA1 gene carrying the higher risk. (Compare that with the average woman's lifetime risk of 11 to 12 percent for breast cancer and 1.4 percent for ovarian.) Those stats are scary enough to have created a whole new class of high-risk patient: the "previvor."
"It means 'survivor of a predisposition,'" explains Sue Friedman, founder of Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered in Tampa, Florida, a national support and advocacy group for people with hereditary risk. More than half of new visitors to FacingOurRisk.org, which gets 1.5 million hits monthly, are women under 45. The group is hoping "previvor" catches on, as the current term for a healthy person who tests positive for a genetic ailment is "unaffected carrier." Says Friedman: "Try telling a woman who's had her breasts removed that she's unaffected. Try telling that to someone who is going through menopause at 35 because she had her ovaries removed."
Manko recalls smiling as she walked into the genetic counselor's office one February day four years ago. "Just tell me I've got the gene," she urged. She'd given her blood two months earlier and was back at Fox Chase Cancer Center for the results. She was impatient for her gut feeling to be confirmed; she imagined it would be a relief.
The counselor nodded. "You do."
Manko bit her lip. "I knew it," she murmured, as her fianc?, Glenn, squeezed her hand. She'd been preparing for this moment, it seemed, her entire life. So she surprised herself when she immediately burst into tears.
Manko was in the eighth grade when her mother, Maxine, was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 43. Despite Maxine's double mastectomy, the cancer reappeared every few years, only to be beaten back by chemo or radiation. "My family lived in denial, in the sense that my mother didn't accept that she had cancer, so neither did we," says Manko, editor of the regional magazines Bucks and Mainline. That changed in 1998 when Maxine, a divorc?e, called her 27-year-old daughter to report that the cancer had spread to her lungs. For the next four years, Manko saw her mother through her grueling decline, as the cancer spread to her liver and finally her brain. When Maxine died in 2002 at age 60, her daughter was at her bedside.
Manko resolved then and there to do everything in her power to avoid her mother's fate. She signed up for gene testing without hesitation. "I know my mother wouldn't have approved. That's not the way she lived," she says. "But I'm a control freak. I needed to know."
The first step had been to sit down with a genetic counselor, who explained the test's shortcomings. Its accuracy is not a given; a study published in 2006 in The Journal of the American Medical Association found that 12 percent of breast cancer patients who had the BRCA1 or 2 gene nevertheless tested negative. Manko's counselor had also discussed the shock of testing positive, which can trigger depression or anxiety. The test's price tag is also considerable: $3,120, and insurance doesn't always cover it. (Manko's costs were low because she was tested as part of a study.) Lastly, her counselor had laid out Manko's cancer-prevention options.
Now, having tested positive for BRCA2, Manko needed to consider those alternatives seriously. The first option was to keep a close eye on her through frequent mammograms and magnetic resonance imaging—but that wasn't proactive enough to suit her. The second option was to take the drug tamoxifen, which may reduce breast cancer rates by nearly half in high-risk women (but which only 12 percent of American BRCA-positive women take preventatively, for fear of its side effects). Manko ruled that out, too, partly because she was hoping to get pregnant and the drug can harm a fetus. That left door number three: surgery.
It's an option many women are taking. A survey of 2,000 BRCA-positive women worldwide found that 33 percent of healthy American women chose preventive mastectomies and 71 percent had their ovaries taken out, says lead researcher Steven Narod, M.D., director of the Familial Breast Cancer Research Unit at the Center for Research on Women's Health in Toronto. Dr. Narod would like to see still more mastectomies. "If we're going to prevent cancer in BRCA carriers, we need to intervene and to do it early," he says. "In our program, we begin discussing prophylactic mastectomy at age 25. We recommend preventive oophorectomy fairly strongly at 35. By 40, it's often too late."
As it stood, Manko had an 80 percent chance of having breast cancer. A double mastectomy, which would remove her breast tissue, cut the risk to about 5 percent. "Drastic!" she says. "When I heard that, I was like, How can I not do this?"
Even so, Manko deliberated for months. Although Glenn was her biggest cheerleader—once volunteering "You'll need new nipples? You can have mine!"—she worried how he'd react. Finally, she went to the home of a family friend, a surgeon. "I'm going to talk to you as a friend, not as a doctor," he told her. "My mother died at 32 of breast cancer. I never got a chance to know her." He looked her in the eye. "Do it."
Manko was flooded with the relief she'd long been hoping for; finally, she felt ownership of her situation. But the plan would have to wait: Manko was pregnant. Even as she admired the shape of her swelling breasts, she was already disassociating herself from them. She avoided looking at herself naked and told Glenn, who was by now her husband, to keep away from her breasts in the bedroom. "I began to kind of hate them," she recalls. "I knew one day I was going to wake up and they were gonna be gone, and if I was emotionally attached, it would make it really hard." When in March 2004 Manko gave birth to her daughter Mackenzie—nicknamed Max, after Manko's mother—she found herself unable to breast-feed. "She wasn't latching on, but it was more me. I didn't want to get close to my boobs," she says. Having a child redoubled her urgency to have surgery. The idea of putting Max through what she had endured with her own mother was unthinkable.
So it was with great impatience that in December 2004, Manko stood in the pre-op room, stripped to the waist, as surgeons drew on her with green Magic Marker. She didn't look down to bid her breasts good-bye; she had written them off long ago. Good riddance.
"I've cried over Marni," her cousin Danielle Sevier says, stabbing unhappily at her salad. "I think it's absolutely horrendous. It makes me sick; it makes me sad." Whereas Manko had been sure she'd someday be stricken, "I've always believed I'm not going to get cancer," says the soft-spoken Sevier, a real estate agent. Her optimism comes despite a family history riddled with the stuff. Her mother—Maxine's sister—was diagnosed in her early 40s, when Sevier was only 21. As with Manko, the job of supervising treatment fell to Sevier. She drove from Connecticut to New Jersey every two weeks to sit with her mother through wrenching chemo sessions. "It was a hard, miserable year, and it definitely affected me in a strong way," she says. Fortunately, the cancer went into remission. Then Sevier's father died after a prolonged battle with colon cancer. In 1998, her sister, Randy, tested positive for BRCA1 and had a prophylactic oophorectomy; she was diagnosed with breast cancer two years later at age 37, eschewing a lumpectomy in favor of a double mastectomy. And of course, there was Aunt Maxine.
Given her history, Sevier thinks she may indeed have the breast cancer gene. But that doesn't mean she's about to find out. "I could have the gene and not get cancer. Or not have the gene and get cancer anyway," she reasons. "I don't see what good it serves. It just causes stress. And isn't stress bad for the body?"
Sevier knows her cousin did what she felt she had to after the loss of her mother. Still, she is shocked by the way Manko made such a dramatic decision based on what Sevier feels is inconclusive evidence; having BRCA2, she points out, doesn't definitively mean Manko would get cancer. Because breast-feeding for one year or more can reduce a person's risk for breast and ovarian cancers, Sevier, who nursed her own daughter, feels that when Manko denied herself the chance to breast-feed, she took a major weapon out of her cancer arsenal. Sevier wonders whether, because today's breast-reconstruction techniques are so good, women submit to surgery far more casually, deciding too quickly that their breasts aren't essential.
"My breasts are not ornamental," Sevier says heatedly. "My breasts give me a lot of pleasure: how I look in clothes, how I feel about myself. And I mean, my husband—not to get overly sexual here, but—they're very stimulating, and exciting and fun! And to take away something that should, if women allow it, give them pleasure, is just…" she breaks off, shaking her head. In her heart of hearts, Sevier suspects that this whole lop-off-your-healthy-breasts-and-ovaries movement is actually a form of oppression: It's male doctors and researchers, by and large, advising women to alter their sexuality "in ways they would never do themselves," she asserts. "If we didn't live in such a male-dominated society, there would be other options not involving mutilation."
But more than anything, Manko's surgery, and the BRCA test in general, goes against Sevier's instinct that it won't help in the long run; that when it's your time, it's your time, and there's no sense obsessing over what could be when you can simply appreciate the present. "Quality of life, to me, is way more important than quantity," she explains. "I'll enjoy myself while I'm here and not worry about things that aren't within my control." That she's married and has an 11-year-old daughter does little to change her mind. When it comes to prevention, Sevier simply tries to lead a low-stress life, exercises and takes herbal supplements that purport to bolster the immune system, such as cow colostrum capsules and maitake mushroom-extract drops. (In studies, both have shown some immune-boosting benefits; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City has a breast cancer study under way to put maitakes' cancer-fighting powers to the test.)
In October 2005, during Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Sevier's husband, Donald, made it clear that he wanted her to ratchet up her prevention efforts. He knew her well enough to take a lighthearted approach; each morning when they awoke, he'd smile and ask, "Do you know what month this is?" Once he had his wife chuckling—or at least rolling her eyes—Donald would go a step further: "I want you here. You have to take care of yourself." He left it at that. Sevier now sees a specialist every three months for a rotating schedule of mammograms, sonograms and MRIs—ironically, similar to monitoring she'd get if she tested positive for BRCA. "But I won't let it take over my life. Not like Marni," Sevier says. "It's a shame. She had beautiful breasts."
Two weeks after Manko was released from the hospital, her extended family converged on her aunt's house in Woodstock, New York, to spend some quality time together. Manko had awoken from surgery with a set of expanders embedded in her chest, half-moons of saline that would slowly and painfully stretch the muscles until they could accommodate her implants. Her chest was threaded with red scars, but she was so delighted to have surgery over with—and pleasantly fogged with Valium—that she couldn't stop herself: Sitting at the kitchen table, Manko lifted her shirt and flashed her cousin.
"What do you think?" Manko asked.
Sevier kept a straight face. "Looks good," she said, but Manko saw apprehension in her eyes. Not that it made a difference; she was, and is, satisfied with her choice. "I feel like, Screw you, cancer! You took my mom. You're not gonna take me," Manko says, her mouth curved in a smile but her eyes flashing. "And it feels great. I don't worry about it anymore. Because now I know I won't get it."
It took five months of expanders and multiple surgeries before Manko got her new breasts: a pair of C-cups a smidge larger and perkier than her original pair. "I figured I might as well have fun with it," she says with a laugh. She is pleased with the results and has proudly worn a bikini. Still, she sometimes feels a twinge when she sees herself naked or watches a nude scene and remembers what real breasts look like. Though realistic-looking beneath her clothes, hers are artificially spongy and round, numb to all feeling and capped with tattooed-on areolas.
Last July, Manko gave birth to her second child, a girl she and Glenn named Sydney. She is allowing herself only a temporary break from surgery; in a few years, she wants her ovaries removed. Her decision to get an oophorectomy has been a tough call, because she has no family history of ovarian cancer and BRCA2 women like her are less likely to get it than those with BRCA1. Plus, an oophorectomy brings instant menopause, with its heightened risks of osteoporosis and heart disease, to say nothing of hot flashes and low sex drive.
There are less dramatic alternatives to minimize the risk for ovarian cancer, such as having one's tubes tied, which research has found can reduce risk in BRCA1 women by about 60 percent. But for Manko, the oophorectomy numbers are too compelling to resist: Having surgery will cut her risk for ovarian cancer from a high of 30 percent down to 5 percent. (The risk is never zero because cancer can still develop in the cells that surrounded the ovaries.) An oophorectomy will also minimize Manko's already small threat of breast cancer, as having the ovaries out (thus shutting down most estrogen production) reduces breast cancer risk by half. "I don't ever want to look back and think, I could have done more," Manko says.
Although the cousins remain mystified by each other's actions, Manko wonders whether perhaps both women are equally defiant in the face of cancer but are simply acting in keeping with their personalities. Type A Manko is intent on beating cancer by outsmarting it, and holistic Sevier is just as audacious in standing her ground, not conceding an inch. "I think Danielle is like, Why am I gonna cut my breasts off? Because of cancer? No way!" Manko says. "It's a lifelong battle for both of us. It just manifests in different ways."


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On Friday, June 17, determined protesters took to the roads outside of the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Washington, DC to protest the country's ban on female drivers. Through the combined efforts of Nonviolence International and The Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia, along with friends from Code Pink and a great group of independent supporters, the protesters made Saudi officials and passers-by take notice of this group's determination to stand alongside Saudi women. The rally showed solidarity for Saudi women in their fight for the right to drive their own cars, and was one of many rallies taking place around the world.
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The (Road) Rally to Support Saudi Women's Right to Drive
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Newsarama just posted their list of 10-most-anticipated genre movies for 2013 and Man of Steel is #1. Their quote:
"And now begins the six month march for the most important film for Superman, DC Entertainment, DC's movie franchise, and Superman fans alike."
The 1978 film is, in retrospect, pretty important for a lot of reasons, but for right now that sentence is spot-on. Judgment will be passed on the alien, fictional creature: will he get 2+ more films and a new place in our collective minds? Or will he be locked away with Howdy Doody?
No coincidence that Superman is in CHAINS.


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December 2, 2009, 11:29 AM
You know Murphy's Law. If something can go wrong, it will go wrong.
Well, that's the way things were in Ireland over the past week. It seemed like everything and everybody -- man, nature and God -- was conspiring against us.
Man -- Irishmen -- has already ruined the Irish economy. Our prosperity is gone, unemployment is soaring and next week we face into the toughest budget in living memory to get the state finances under control, a budget which is going to lower our standard of living sharply and be extremely painful for everyone.
Last week nature added to our misery when the worst floods in a century hit places all over Ireland after weeks of heavy rainfall. Then when everyone was knee deep in freezing, filthy water, a huge storm with icy temperatures and gale force winds hit the country over the weekend to compound the suffering.
Even God -- represented by the Catholic Church -- seemed to be against us. The report of the judicial investigation into child sexual abuse by priests in the Dublin diocese was finally published last week and revealed that a succession of bishops over many decades had known what was going on but covered it up. This allowed even more children to be abused.
Some of the best-known bishops in the country over the past 50 years were implicated. It was shameful and deeply shocking.
It was indeed a black week in Ireland. All the news was bad. The despair and depression in the air were almost tangible.
The TV cameras followed Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Brian Cowen as he trudged through flooded streets in midland towns wearing his rubber boots and his raincoat, urging people not to be too downcast and miserable. The words pot, kettle and black came to mind.
Let's face it. There is no reason to smile at the moment. We're used to a drop of rain in Ireland, but this was rain on a Biblical scale. If Noah's Ark had come floating down the Shannon last week no one would have been surprised.
Of course, the widespread flooding could not all be blamed on Mother Nature. Yes, most of it was due to the very heavy rainfall that caused rivers to burst their banks and flood vast areas of farmland, particularly in the midlands and the west on both sides of the Shannon.
Parts of Cork City were awash, and low-lying areas in towns all over the country were swamped. Pictures of boats being rowed down streets and people being rescued from their houses filled the TV news and the papers.
But there was another factor at work that had made the bad situation even worse. During the construction boom of the Celtic Tiger years houses were built everywhere here, on river banks, in boggy fields, even on lands that were known to be flood plains close to lakes and rivers.
The more concrete was poured and the more roads were built, the less the surrounding ground was able to cope with heavy rainfall. And last week we paid the price for that greedy madness.
We also seem to have forgotten some uncomfortable facts. Like the fact that most towns and cities in Ireland are built on rivers, and most of them have some streets that are low-lying and therefore prone to flooding.
Usually this only happens every 20 or 30 years. The number of buildings swamped is usually small, people mop up and in between the floods people forget.
But what happened last week was on a different scale, as the spectacular TV pictures of the center of Cork City under water demonstrated. With global warming, we now have to accept that more severe and frequent flooding is going to be a part life here in the future.
There's no point in blaming the government, as many people here tried to do last week, saying flood defenses were inadequate and the government should have been better prepared to deal with flooding on a big scale. People were demanding that the government give millions to those affected by the floods and spend more millions to improve flood defenses.
But the reality is that people need to start taking responsibility themselves for where they live. There is also the fact that the widespread flooding of farmland in the midlands, on both sides of the Shannon, is nothing new, even if the scale this time was greater than normal.
Ireland is shaped like a big saucer that slopes very gently towards the center, through which the Shannon flows. When rainfall across the center of Ireland is heavy that's where the water goes, and the only place it can get out to the sea is through the mouth of the Shannon. The land around much of the Shannon is almost flat, so flooding is normal rather than highly unusual.
Local politicians have for decades been building political careers on promises to have the Shannon drained. More drainage works would probably help, but the truth is that a better drained center channel last week would have led to a faster flow downstream and caused even worse flooding in areas in the lower Shannon.
The answer to all this, of course, is proper planning and an end to the system that allowed people with political influence to build in unsuitable areas. That and an acceptance that in future some low lying streets may have to be turned into public parks, and some areas around the Shannon may have to be treated as summer grazing rather than all year farmland.


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Prithviraj teams up with Fazal
The film is scripted by Rafi Mecartin. Fazal was the associate to the duo directors and is up with his debut flick with their script. Mumbai Dosth will be produced by Howly Pottur in the banner of Dream Team Productions. It has its locations in Tamilnadu and Kerala. Shooting will go on floors very soon.


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The makers of Tomorrow You're Gone were definitely going for a specific something with the film. The question is — why?
The shoot-in-the-shadows, tough-guy noir thing has been done so often, and so badly, that you have to wonder what director David Jacobson and writer Matthew F. Jones had in mind. A revival? A re-imagining? A reawakening of the genre?
None of that comes to pass in this mundane story about a con named Charlie Rankin (a beaten-down-looking Stephen Dorff) who gets out of prison knowing he's supposed to kill a man at the behest of his jailhouse mentor, the Buddha (Willem Dafoe, around for a few scenes).
Charlie's taking a bus to his planned murder when he meets the beautiful Florence Jane (Michelle Monaghan), a party girl porn star. For reasons that are never clear, she invites this closed-mouth drifter back to her apartment for a bite to eat.
She tries to seduce him, but Charlie has business to take care of, so he goes off to an ugly encounter where he leaves a potential witness behind.
Charlie goes back to Florence's place, where he again fights off her attempts at seduction, then he buys her a car and they drive around for most of the movie talking about God and how Charlie has a stomachache.
Tomorrow You're Gone comes off as a grasping, immature, macho fantasy that, nevertheless, does make you want to meet Michelle Monaghan on a bus.
Tomorrow You're Gone
(D+) Directed by David Jacobson. Not rated. 93 mins. At the AMC Grapevine Mills.


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A former Vermont teacher and coach at Oxbow Union High School in Bradford has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a student more than a decade ago.
In a plea agreement, 44-year-old Brian H. Musty pleaded guilty on Friday to one count of sexual assault of a victim under 18 who was entrusted to his care.
He faces seven months in prison as part of the plea deal.
Musty, a physical education teacher who coached girls' basketball, lacrosse and soccer, was accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old female student over three years, starting in 1997.