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Your Brexit questions, answered
We answer your most common questions about Brexit, how it could affect your business and how we can support you.
No Deal Brexit
The UK is scheduled to leave the EU on 31 October 2019.* However, until a Withdrawal Agreement is passed by UK parliament, the legal default position for the UK remains to exit the EU without a deal. It is therefore essential that businesses prepare for all possible outcomes, including a possible No Deal Brexit.
The UK Government has advised as part of the No Deal planning notices that if a formal withdrawal treaty has not been signed by the leave date, the UK's membership of the EU Single Market and the EU Customs Union will cease. Details on what to expect and how to prepare in the event of a No Deal can be found here (UK Government technical papers on preparing for a No Deal Brexit) or here (European Commission preparedness notices).
*Correct at time of publishing.
The UK & EU Authorities have advised in their planning notices that, in the result of a No Deal, UK trade with the EU will be on WTO (World Trade Organisation) terms. Free circulation of goods between the UK and EU would end, so businesses would have to apply the same customs and excise rules as to countries outside the EU.
Details on this can be found in the planning notices from the UK Government here and the EU here, which state that businesses would need to provide import or export declarations, revise their International Terms and Conditions of Service to reflect that they are an importer or exporter, and provide an import or export licence for controlled goods.
Customs checks may be carried out and VAT import duty and any other duties would be payable. FedEx and TNT, as carrier of the goods, would have to make entry or exit safety and security declarations.
Whilst the current exit date and time for the UK leaving the EU is 31 October 2019, the exact details on how the changeover period for goods that are in transit to/from the UK has not been confirmed by either the UK or EU authorities.
Therefore our working assumptions for customers are as follows:
In principle, shipments created and sent on 31 October will be in free circulation when they start their journey so will be treated as such when they reach their end delivery point.
However, we know that both Express and Economy shipments from 31 October will arrive in the UK/destination EU country after 31 October, therefore we are actively seeking clarity on how they will be treated so we can be prepared and inform our customers. This is not just specific to ourselves or our industry but applies to many other goods that are moved and will be in transit to/from the UK on 31 October.
What this does therefore mean is that the last day for next day express or priority shipping that will not be in transit on 31 October would be 30 October. This would remove any possibility of customs clearance challenges based on the fact that the rules have yet to be confirmed by either the UK or the EU.
For Economy it will at least be the day earlier so 29 October, but we recommend all customers check their current transit times to/from the UK to understand the potential last day where shipments are unlikely to see any clearance issues, as they will have reached the UK/EU destination country by the 31 October.
If there is a No Deal then, based on the 31 October date, shipments sent from Friday 1 November between the UK & EU will require customs clearance and the appropriate paperwork, data and processes.
There are things that your business can be doing now to help you prepare for Brexit. Please review our online Brexit checklist which gives more detail but as a starter you should:
1. Define how your Brexit plan will affect your supply chain and discuss this with your FedEx/TNT Account Manager. It's important that we understand your plans so we can determine how best to support you.
2. Ensure you have an EORI number. If the UK leaves the EU with no agreement in place, traders will need an EORI number to import or export from the UK to the EU.
EORI numbers are given to importers and exporters by EU country authorities for free. In the future, to trade between the EU and UK, the shipper and receiver will each need to be registered for an EORI in their respective country.
UK EORI numbers will not be recognised in the EU. EU EORI numbers will not be accepted in the UK. We recommend that customers register for an EORI in their country as soon as possible. It only takes 10 minutes to apply and applications can be made through your country's government website.
3. Ensure accurate classification of your Goods, Description, Value & Origin. This information will be vital for the Commercial Invoice.
4. Agree Incoterms with your customers and make these clear on your Commercial Invoice.
5. Understand how to prepare & provide Commercial Invoices. See here for FedEx or here for TNT.
If you are a FedEx customer we recommend that you register for ETD (Electronic Trade Documents) so you can submit commercial invoices electronically at the point of preparing shipments. This will aid in avoiding customs delays, speed up delivery and reduce paperwork.
6. Check your products for any additional certificates, licences, quotas etc.
7. Align with your importers on what No Deal means to them and whether they are prepared.
If you are a regular importer or if you need to provide some advice to your customers then we would also recommend the following:
• Have you confirmed your clearance method, are we doing the clearance, do you use a broker or are you clearing goods yourself?
• If we are doing the clearance then have you provided the required authorisation and instructions?
• Have you considered a deferment account to cater for VAT & Duty payments?
In a No Deal scenario the current rules for imports from non-EU countries will also apply to imports from the EU with some additional changes.
To ensure that we will continue to provide customers with the best possible service after Brexit, FedEx and TNT have set up a cross-functional working group to monitor developments, assess any agreements and to enable us to adapt to any changes in a timely manner.
Whilst no one can predict with certainty what will change, we have planned for all eventualities and will continue to conduct impact assessments across all areas of our business to ensure we can give our customers the very best service no matter where they are shipping from or to.
Customer preparations
Businesses are finding Brexit scenario planning a difficult exercise as so much remains unknown. We believe that it is important that we work with our customers to understand the impact on their business, especially in terms of changes to shipping volumes or flows.
Our recommendations for the steps businesses can take now can be split into 4 main areas:
1. Preparation before shipping
• If not already done so, register and obtain an EORI number in the UK and EU countries you trade with
• Ensure you understand the requirements for classifying your goods by visiting the Government site
• Ensure you understand the requirements for a commercial invoice with FedEx guide or TNT guide
• Discuss and agree the Incoterms with your customers. Find out more on the FedEx website or TNT website
• FedEx customers should register for ETD or PSDU to submit your commercial invoices electronically. See our webpage, visit our YouTube channel or register for FedEx Global Trade Manager
2. Understand what is required at the point of Shipping & Exporting
• See our guide on how to ship across borders on the FedEx website or TNT website
3. Ensure a smooth import process
• Agree and define your importing preferences and operating model (self-clear or 3rd party)
• Ensure local clearance instructions have been shared with your provider
• Please see our webpage for more details - FedEx or TNT
4. Consider receivers
• Understand the implications of Customs Duty on the goods received
• Understand the implications of Incoterms
• Understand the VAT required on the goods and the UK government's proposal for postponed accounting for VAT
• Understand the charges and mechanisms for paying the duty & VAT
• Set up required authorisations for international trade
Our FedEx Global Trade Manager offers a comprehensive resource for simplifying international shipping for customers of all sizes and levels of experience. As a web based service it is available 24 hours a day to help you complete your international paperwork requirements. With the free Find International Documents tool, you can locate and print import and export documentation for more than 220 countries. This tool will help facilitate the customs clearance process. The Estimate Duties and Taxes tool lets you enter shipment-specific information and calculate the estimated duties, taxes and other fees that may be levied against your international shipment.
TNT has easy-to-use automated shipping tools that help save time on paperwork, eliminate manual errors and help you stay in control of your shipping. You can send and track shipments with complete visibility in just a few clicks.
Our tools include:
myTNT: The quickest and easiest option to send regular TNT shipments. Access your own secure area of the website to handle everything in one place.
Express Connect: Our portfolio of web integration solutions lets you integrate TNT's shipping services into your website and internal business applications.
Express Manager: For high-volume shippers, Express Manager integrates with your own system. Consolidate shipments and save time.
Express Import: Arrange hassle-free imports with this online system. Get billing in your own currency and language for simple comparisons.
In terms of our Brexit preparations, we originally established a UK-focused Brexit team in the September after the referendum. We lifted that up to European level in November 2017 due to the size and scale of our operations and how our country networks, in the air and on the road, are all connected together across Europe.
The FedEx and TNT cross-functional working party is led by Trevor Hoyle, our Senior Vice President of Operations for Northern Europe. Our initial risk and opportunity analysis identified five key areas or prisms that we have taken forward in our planning.
They are:
• Network & Clearance which covers our Ground, Road & Air Networks along with our customs capability.
• A Customer workstream which is focused on what we need to support and help you, our customers.
• Data & Solutions which has looked at the impact on internal and external systems.
• People. We are a large employer in the UK with nearly 13,000 employees and 50,000 in Europe so we need to ensure they are supported through the change.
• Finance, where the team have been focused on the impact to our import VAT & Duty invoicing and deferment account.
The Brexit working group is supported by our regulatory and public affairs team who have kept the business up to date on all official publications. They are part of our industry trade associations who have been engaging with UK and EU departments.
Our data and solutions workstream has focused on validating and checking our systems can cater for a No Deal. Based on the principles that we expect goods between the UK & EU to require export and import clearance, we have confidence in our systems as they cater for this capability today. We have tested the end to end flows to validate our assumptions and to enable us to plan for the changes that could be required. The team has also identified the configuration changes needed to ensure our customer facing technology is ready for the change. On our .com shipping platforms, this is very much in our control, however if you use one of our deployed or integrated solutions then we will be in contact regarding some small changes that we will need you to make.
Network capacity, routes and modes of transport
For the road network that facilitates our Economy products, there has been speculation in the media about potential delays on the road, and at ports, should the UK leave the EU without a deal. Much of the speculation has been around the Eurotunnel and Dover – Calais crossings and the length of any delay.
As part of our preparations we have engaged with Eurotunnel, including visiting to review its plans; we have also analysed many ports in both the UK & EU working with the different ferry operators to understand the various options that are available. Our plans are to mitigate any potential risk or impact for the Economy/road shipments by spreading our truck movements across multiple crossing points.
Our multi-hub network in Europe enables us to have flexibility in the crossings we choose and be agile in our decision-making as the reality of Brexit happens. Unfortunately, any potential congestion at the ports is very much out of our hands as we rely on multiple government or third party agencies to ensure our trucks, along with everybody else, can move through the ports.
We acknowledge that the expectation is there will be some delays, with at least an additional 24 hours of transit time expected, but we will not speculate on how long the delay could be or how long it could last.
FedEx and TNT operate a comprehensive and global network which includes 55,000 road trips and more than 700 flights in Europe every week. We continue to plan to operate our network post-Brexit whatever the outcome and will continue to assess the network and our ability to meet transit times.
Today we have thousands of clearance staff around the globe that enable shipments to move across often complex borders and regulatory regimes on a daily basis. With 15 million parcels sent daily on 670 aircraft, 425,000 team members and expert local knowledge on every continent, we have got the scale and infrastructure to handle all of your import and export requirements now and in the future.
For both the air and road networks, we are confident in our plans and preparations. But our capabilities do rely on a number of third parties, such as clearance authorities and border force at both the ports and airports, to ensure everything continues to flow in a timely manner.
Our combined network and routing options provide added capabilities including air, with flexible capacity to suit demand. We are assessing how best to optimise our routing options against the likely outcomes.
FedEx and TNT use multiple airports and ports in the UK and Europe, and this will continue to be the case post-Brexit to ensure we can provide the services required by our customers. These can differ from day to day according to the product or service chosen by the customer and they are different based on pickup and delivery address.
Current flight points into/out of the UK are Stansted, East Midlands, Birmingham, Heathrow, Newcastle, Belfast, Edinburgh & Glasgow.
Our road depots and hubs are strategically placed throughout the UK to ensure we meet transit times and service levels for all regions. We operate out of 54 depots in the UK and have hubs in Atherstone, Kingsbury, Lount, Dartford, Preston, Stoke, Milton Keynes and Swindon.
FedEx & TNT already handle and transport Dangerous Goods through our network in accordance with the relevant ADR and IATA rules and regulations. These are international rules and not solely bonded to the EU, therefore they will stay applicable to the UK after Brexit.
In terms of our air networks that support our Priority and Express services that many of our customers rely on, our team has worked with our US Airline and EU & UK operators to ensure our current flight schedule will very much operate as it does today. We have also seen the recent US-UK Open skies agreement, which is a positive outcome that protects our twice daily flights to/from the US into Stansted. Therefore we can continue to provide the next day connectivity that many of our customers use.
This is still being negotiated between the UK and the EU. If a formal withdrawal treaty is not signed, the UK's membership of the EU Single Market and the EU Customs Union will cease. This outcome has become known as No Deal.
In this scenario, the free movement of goods across borders between the UK and EU would end. A proposed transition period from October 2019 to December 2020, designed to give businesses additional time to respond to the changes, would not apply. Goods traded between the UK and the EU would be subject to the same requirements as third country goods under the World Trade Organisation rules, including the payment of duty and tax.
Like all businesses we await further updates and details from the UK Government and EU authorities. As Brexit negotiations continue, FedEx and TNT will be Brexit ready. Our dedicated cross-functional Brexit working group continues to assess potential impacts and build plans to ensure we can steer your business through whatever changes might be in store.
For the details on what to expect for a No Deal and what it would mean, please see here (UK Government technical papers on preparing for a No Deal Brexit) or here (European Commission preparedness notices).
An Economic Operator Registration and Identification number (EORI) is a European Union registration and identification number for businesses which undertake the import or export of goods into or out of the EU. Businesses which have previously only traded within the EU will need an EORI number to trade outside the EU and if the UK leaves the EU with no agreement in place.
Applications can be made through your country government website. FedEx and TNT will need your UK EORI number when making customs declarations on your behalf.
We are aware that HMRC has begun phasing in the new Customs Declaration Service (CDS) to replace the existing Customs Handling of Import and Export Freight (CHIEF) system. We are fully engaged with the CDS team as a key stakeholder and will be ready to migrate to CDS on an agreed timetable. We will keep our customers informed of any changes that may affect them, and in the interim we will continue to support and make declarations to CHIEF.
This very much depends on what is agreed between the UK and EU authorities and could be different depending on the outcome of a transition deal, future trade agreement or a No Deal. For the details on what to expect for a No Deal and what it would mean, please see here (UK Government technical papers on preparing for a No Deal Brexit) or here (European Commission preparedness notices).
FedEx and TNT currently have bonded warehouse facilities in numerous locations. Any potential changes Brexit may require are still unknown at this stage and we continue to plan to be Brexit ready.
In a No Deal situation where the UK reverts to WTO trade standards, FedEx and TNT will incur additional costs for clearance, transport and handling both on exports and imports for shipments between the UK and EU. We are still learning more from the UK Government and EU Authorities on the terms we will have to adhere to post-Brexit and what the new reality will be in the event of a No Deal. If it becomes necessary to make any changes to our existing charges, we will advise customers and provide appropriate details in advance.
There are currently prohibited goods to and from most countries, generally published on the relevant country government websites. In addition there may be some restrictions depending on the types of goods, quantities, and country, along with specific restrictions for FedEx and TNT. Always check on fedex.com or tnt.com for further information.
FedEx and TNT both operate under a similar scheme in the UK called CFSP. This enables the goods to move away from the port (sea/road or air) to be cleared inland.
This is already in place and we get the benefit of our vehicles moving away from the port. TSP is beneficial where the receiver has no current clearance process in place and needs the goods to move. We already have this so TSP is not applicable.
Our Global Clearance function has prepared for the additional workload that is expected for import and export processing for the UK and EU member state countries. The success of this capability very much relies on the accurate and complete data and paperwork that you, our customers, provide. We enable your goods to move and facilitate your business and this continues to be our aim, but it all works more efficiently when we receive all of the appropriate data and paperwork in a timely and complete nature.
A Power of Attorney is not required in the UK. However the Clearance Department would need to contact the importer for instruction and acceptance that FedEx or TNT can clear on their behalf, and to determine how they want to pay duty/tax. If the receiver is a regular customer an email with their instructions can be sent in advance and we can put this on to our clearance system.
FedEx Express and TNT have AEO status. This is an internationally recognised quality mark that covers every aspect of international movement of goods and the company who operates the supply chain – from customs compliance and compliance with taxation rules, to record keeping, financial solvency, proven standards of competence and compliance as well as safety and security.
Companies who hold AEO status may benefit from consignments being fast-tracked through customs controls, and when customs select AEO consignments for examination or inspection, they receive priority over non-AEOs, making the whole shipping process run more smoothly and efficiently.
Anyone involved in the international supply chain that carries out customs related activities in the EU can apply for AEO status, regardless of the size of their business. AEO is being actively supported and encouraged by the World Trade Organisation and is recognised in many countries outside the EU including China, Japan and USA.
After Brexit, Northern Ireland, as part of the United Kingdom, will no longer be in the European Union. The Irish Republic will continue to be a member of the EU. The UK and the EU continue to talk about the future trading relationship between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic, including the so-called backstop arrangements.
However the outcome is still unknown at present. Whatever the outcome of these talks, FedEx and TNT will continue to support customers with their delivery and logistics needs in the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, Irish Republic and beyond.
Goods moved by road from Europe to Ireland are routed through the UK. Post-Brexit in a No Deal scenario, the UK will sign up to the Common Transit Convention (CTC). This will cover goods transiting through the UK to/from EU countries, so there will be no change to current process.
For air shipments, the current system Remain on Board (ROB) will be used, so there will be no change to current process.
There is no requirement for you to complete or do anything different in respect of transhipping goods.
To avoid the potential delay at the Eurotunnel we have the option of a direct crossing from France to Ireland. We have long-established working relationships with both the ferry operators on this route, and this continues to be an option we are planning to implement.
Unfortunately, any potential congestion at the ports is very much out of our hands as we rely on multiple government or third party agencies to ensure our trucks, along with everybody else, can move through the ports.
We acknowledge that the expectation is there will be some delays, with at least an additional 24 hours of transit time expected, but we will not speculate on how long the delay could be or how long it could last.
If the UK leaves the EU without an agreement, the UK Government have advised in their no deal planning notices that they will introduce postponed accounting for import VAT on goods brought into the UK. This means that UK VAT registered businesses importing goods to the UK will be able to account for import VAT on their VAT return, rather than paying import VAT on or soon after the time that the goods arrive at the UK border. This will apply both to imports from the EU and non-EU countries. For the details on what to expect on VAT for businesses if there's no Brexit deal, please see here
The UK Government have advised that if the UK leaves the EU without an agreement, VAT registered UK businesses will continue to be able to zero-rate sales of goods to EU businesses but will not be required to complete EC (European Commission) sales lists.
As UK VAT registered businesses will not be required to complete an EC sales list, there will be changes as to how these sales are recorded. Those UK businesses exporting goods to EU businesses will need to retain evidence to prove that goods have left the UK, to support the zero-rating of the supply. Most businesses already maintain this type of evidence as part of current processes for exports to non-EU countries. Further changes will be communicated in due course by the UK Government.
If the UK leaves the EU without an agreement, then UK businesses will continue to be able to claim refunds of VAT from EU member states but in the future they will need to use the existing processes for non-EU businesses.
UK business will no longer have access to the EU VAT refund system. Reclaiming VAT processes vary across the EU and therefore UK businesses will need to make themselves aware of the processes in the individual countries where they incur costs and want to claim a refund.
*Correct at time of publishing but subject to change.


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HONISTER Pass was today chosen as the iconic setting to unveil the Tour of Britain's first visit to the heart of the Lake District.
Organisers gathered on the 356m-high route to reveal the path which 100 of the world's top cyclists will tackle during stage two of the race.
The pass, which features gradients of up to 25 per cent, will provide competitors with their sternest test yet as they head from Carlisle to Kendal on Monday, September 16.
Setting off from the city centre at 11am, racers will snake down the county via Wigton, followed by a Yodel Sprint starting from outside St Kentigerns Church in Aspatria.
Moving next onto Cockermouth, another Yodel Sprint will follow at Dearham, near Maryport, before a third starting outside Whitehaven School.
They will then take on SKODA King of the Mountains climbs at Mockerkin, near Cockermouth, and Chestnut Hill, Keswick, in what is billed as one of the toughest stages of the entire 2013 tour.
After passing through Grasmere, Ambleside, Windermere and Crook, riders on the 186.6km route will have to summon the strength to climb Beast Banks, Kendal, which featured in the 2007 race.
Competitors face more than 3,000 metres of climbing during the stage with the first racers expected to cross the line at around 3.13pm.
North West professionals Matt Cronshaw, of Team IG Sigma Sport, and British Hill Climb Champion Jack Pullar, of Madison Genesis, joined Tour of Britain organisers and officials from across Cumbria to reveal details of the route.
The tour is returning to Cumbria after last year's stage start in Carlisle, which attracted thousands of spectators.
It is estimated the event will generate up to £4 million for Cumbria's economy.
David Southward, Cumbria County Council's cabinet member for economic development, said: "The Cumbrian stage will be a high point – in all senses – of this year's tour.
"The excitement is building and Cumbrian schools and communities are already showing a great deal of interest.
"As the event gathers momentum, the benefits for the economy, the environment and people's health all snowball as people show an interest in cycling."
Lake District National Park Authority chief executive Richard Leafe said: "Hosting the most challenging mountain stage of the Tour of Britain in one of the UK's most dramatic landscapes will provide a fantastic opportunity to position the Lake District as an exciting and awe inspiring place.
"It is also an excellent opportunity to encourage more people to take up cycling as a greener form of transport, whether they are a visitor or local, while enjoying the beauty and splendour that the Lake District National Park has to offer."
And Richard Greenwood, Cumbria Tourism's head of policy and research, added: "Hosting a full leg of the Tour Of Britain in Cumbria provides us with an excellent opportunity to showcase our beautiful county – the UK's Adventure Capital – both within the UK and internationally.
"As a cycling destination Cumbria has so much to offer, with country lanes, quiet back roads and lots of National Cycle Network routes to explore, as well as more challenging off road routes over high fells and mountains.
"To have international cycling stars in our county for a full stage is a massive coup and will benefit the area in so many ways as well as showing the world what a beautiful place Cumbria is to explore on two wheels."
Stage Two of the race is being organised in partnership with the Lake District National Park Authority, Cumbria County Council, Carlisle City Council, South Lakeland District Council and Cumbria Tourism.
The Tour of Britain, the UK's biggest professional cycle race and largest free-to-watch sporting event, starts in Peebles in the Scottish Borders on September 15.
Attracting Olympic, World Champion and Tour de France stage winners, it runs until September 22.

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Taylor Swift Surprises Superfan At Home With Gifts: See The Adorable Photos
By Chris Malone, Billboard
October 12, 2017
Taylor Swift has been known to surprise fans with gifts and even visits. Last week, a young English superfan by the name of Lara got a surprise of her own -- delivered by the artist herself.
Lara, who goes by the Instagram name "laraheartstaylor," was hosting an Instagram Live last week when Swift joined and began watching her stream. Her friend recorded her reaction, which included her tearily saying "I have to say thank you for everything, you've actually made my life so much better." Swift proceeded to comment with a heart-eyed cat emoji, while continuing to watch the live stream.
In a second post, Lara revealed that she'd received a DM from Taylor Nation saying she'd be sending her a package. What Lara didn't expect was for Swift herself to deliver it.
The package contained a number of T-shirts and sweatshirts from her Reputation line. Lara also shared photos of them together.
Lara undoubtedly will enjoy sharing the experience on the upcoming "Swift Life" app, due out by the end of the year. The Swift Life is a multipurpose social networking app that allows Swift fans to connect with each other, share photos and videos, and receive updates from Taylor herself. If she's lucky, Lana may receive some love from Taylor again on the app.
reputation will be released on November 10.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study suggests men with advanced prostate cancer may live longer in the "PSA era" than they did before the screening test began to gain a foothold in the early 1990s.
The findings - which a leading cancer expert said were problematic - stoke the heated debate over prostate cancer screening using the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test. Many researchers now fear routine testing may lead to aggressive treatments that do more harm than good.
For the new study, published in the Journal of Urology, researchers tapped into data from three clinical trials involving more than 3,000 men who got hormone treatment for prostate cancer that had spread to the bones and other body parts.
The average patient survived 30 months after starting treatment in 1985 to 1987. By 1989 to 1994, survival was three months longer and by 1995 to 2009, well into the "PSA era," it had reached 49 months.
"It's a remarkable difference," said Dr. Ian Thompson, who heads the Cancer Therapy and Research Center at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and led the study.
"The translation of this is, might it very well be that for advanced prostate cancer finding it earlier may allow the earlier initiation of therapy that may then reduce the death rates from the disease?" he told Reuters Health.
But the chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society, who was not involved in the work, said the study has a number of serious shortcomings.
For instance, other trials done by the same research group but involving non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a group of blood cancers, also show patients live longer over time, according to Dr. Otis Brawley.
And that's despite the facts that doctors don't screen for the disease and that patients got the same treatment for their disease.
"There is a cohort effect that we have seen numerous times in medicine," said Brawley, who has collaborated with Thompson on earlier research.
He added that the reasons for the improved survival over time are unclear, but could be related to advances in medical care and infection control.
It is also possible that men today are more aware of symptoms that would have been ignored a quarter-century ago, such as trouble urinating, Brawley said.
"Awareness of the disease increases the chances that you are going to be diagnosed with it and that you will do better," said Brawley.
That, along with better healthcare, may also help explain why the survival gap between black and white men narrowed over time in the new study, he added.
Finding a tumor due to symptoms is different from finding it through screening, which per definition is done in symptom-free people.
When people have symptoms, their disease is typically more serious, and so people diagnosed with cancer as a result of screening automatically live longer with their disease than those diagnosed based on symptoms - whether or not they get treatment.
This phenomenon, known as lead-time bias, is another limitation of the new study, which Thompson acknowledged.
He said that even after accounting for factors that are tied to earlier death in prostate cancer - such as extensive disease, bone pain and high Gleason scores (a grading system) - men in the later trial still survived longer.
"You cannot say that PSA testing is the cause for this improvement, but when you eliminate all the other potential explanations there is something else there that is playing a role," he said.
But eliminating those other differences through statistics - in other words, trying to cancel out the differences in cancer risk and stage among the men - would also wash out any potential effect of screening. That's because the point of screening is to catch the cancer as early as possible.
Acknowledging that, Thompson said, "I guess I have a difficult time explaining the difference" in survival.
SOURCE: http://bit.ly/P93DAQ Journal of Urology, online August 23, 2012.


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The Via Sacra "Sacred Road" runs along roughly 550 km of centuries-old pilgrimage and trade routes in the border triangle region of Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic. The route links some of Europe's most important religious sites and art treasures and is a relatively new tourist route through a region of great European cultural importance.
is a relatively new tourist route through a region of great European cultural importance. Taking in religious architecture and treasures, abbeys, art, legends, milestones and notable figures from European history, it is a popular route for tourists and pilgrims and for cultural encounters.
The name of the route tells you everything you need to know
Travel through time and the heart of Europe on the Via Sacra Route. Breathe in the cultural and religious history of Upper Lusatia, Lower Silesia and Northern Bohemia and allow ancient masterpieces to cast their spell on you. The route can be explored along two circular routes (one through Saxony and one through Silesia and Bohemia) or from one central point in a star formation without having to change hotel.
Reconnect with yourself and your environment
The route comprises almost 20 contemplative sites and forms; a unique link between these sacred treasures. The Lent cloth in Zittau dating from the Late Middle Ages is one such treasure and others include imposing churches and old abbeys still in use today such as the village church in Cunewalde. With over 2,632 seats, it is the largest evangelical church in Germany. Chapels and other religious sites will take you further into this pious world.
Discovery, wonder and contemplation
The Via Sacra Route promises a subtle adventure full of amazing surprises, emotional experiences and moments of tranquil reflection. Go on a journey where time has no meaning. Some places seem to have a special spirit all of their own – a genius loci. Walking along the Via Sacra, pilgrims will find out that Germany – and indeed Europe – continues well past Dresden.
Length: approximately 550 km (German side)
Theme: borderless travel, sacred art, culture
Bautzen: cathedral, castle
Cunewalde: village church
Görlitz: the Holy Grave (Heiliges Grab)
Ostritz: St. Marienthal Cistercian Abbey (Zisterzienserinnenkloster Marienthal)
Oybin: abbey, Oybin Castle Open-air Museum
Panschwitz-Kuckau: St. Marienstern Cistercian Abbey (Zisterzienserabtei Marienstern)
St. Peter and Paul Church (Kirche St. Peter und Paul)
Zittau: Lent cloths, Fleischerbastei fortress
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Unless in the minds of Whites like Scott Beason, and Black American politicians, Native Americans are inferior to both, in the USA's "racial hierarchy." Or perhaps Australian Aborigines are? But late Native American scholar Jack Forbes (an extremely distant cousin of mine) theorized that most historic USA Blacks have Indian ancestry, and proposed research into the 'Red Roots' of much of Black culture. Even before I read him, I'd heard that 40 percent of Black Americans know of Indian ancestors … which suggested to me that a majority at least had them.
It's also curious to me that Beason seems to allow that people who aren't identified as "Indians" here can still be "Aborigines." That's almost a Canadian (Horrors!) usage of the word: They use "Aboriginal" as an umbrella term for Indians, Inuit (aka Eskimos), and Metis. What a concept!


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From: Dan Nelson <dprimary@x??????xxxxx.xxxx
Date: Fri Dec 3, 1999 4:20 am
Subject: Drawing formats was Odd Room Calculations
Can ACAD 14 export directly to a gif? I've been exporting from ACAD as dxf and
then opening the dxf into freehand to convert into a gif
I think gifs might be the best since everyone can view them and they could
probably do mark-ups in a paint program or photoshop. I would be willing to post
dxf file in addition to the gifs for the people who have access to cad programs.
The another option is, finding some freeware or shareware cad programs for PC's
MAC, Linux I could post for download.
Dan Nelson


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"Two centuries ago, in the early years of the Romantic movement, there was a hope expressed in some quarters that religion, having died as a dogma, might be reborn as art. In a notebook of about 1804 William Blake has left a vivid—if unpolished—example of this idea. He writes as one for whom the poetic imagination is a numinous world-building power that can never be supplanted or dethroned, either by the mockery of rationalist critics or by scientific theories:
Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau!
Mock on, mock on— 'Tis all in vain!
You throw the sand against the wind,
And the wind blows it back again
And every sand becomes a gem
Reflected in the beams divine;
Blown back they blind the mocking eye,
But still in Israel's paths they shine.
The atoms of Democritus
And Newton's particles of light
Are sands upon the Red Sea shore,
Where Israel's tents do shine so bright.
—Don Cupitt, from After God (1997)
Jack Hirschman earned a controversial Round One win over Robert Penn Warren when rumors circulated that refs and judges tampered with results in a way that favored the Southern Agrarian/New Critic/Twice Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner in both Fiction and Poetry (the only one to do so). In the firestorm which followed, Warren dropped out, and Hirschman advanced to Round Two with "The Painting." Here are the opening lines:
So there it is:
a painting of the late black heroic
mayor of Chicago
in woman's underwear
in the name of artistic iconclasm
and free expression
In his poem, Hirschman argues the painting should be taken down:
We are partisan, Mr. Make-It Curator,
and you, Mr. Make-It-New-Artist,
we're at war
with art as privilege,
with the kitsching up of soul,
with the gooning of the truth
about those who help working people see
how beautiful the reality
of their imagination as a class
in motion actually is.
Do we acclaim the removal of the painting?
Emphatically, provacatively
Stephen Dobyns has clearly got the stuff to handle Hirschman's in-your-face play. Here's a passage from "Allegorical Matters:"
Gently she presses her breasts against your eyes
and forehead, moving them across your face.
You can't get over your good fortune. Eagerly,
You embrace her but then you learn the horror
because while her front is young and vital,
her back is rotting flesh which breaks away
in your fingers with a smell of decay. Here
we pause and invite in a trio of experts.
The first says, This is clearly a projection
of the author's sexual anxieties.
Before we relate how Hirschman, like a man possessed, put in 3 point shot after 3 point shot, and took a 51-32 half-time lead, we might ask: do these two poems reflect a vital speech-making, a 20th century leap into honesty and truth-seeking, or rather a road to hell, in which mere rant becomes the norm, due to Emerson's emphasis on "argument" as the crucial movement of the poem? If Hirschman believes the highest morality is the dignity and justice for the working class, should the poet—always paying attention to words—ask all sorts of questions of Hirschman: How do you define the 'working class?' Isn't free speech a friend of the working class? etc, thus exposing the shallow message and the bankrupt reasoning of the poem, in terms of the logic of its words and phrases (never doubting Hirschman's sincerity) or, should Hirschman's poem be allowed to stand as it is, an opinion welcomed for just that: its opinion? But if Hirschman's poem does not persuade us with its message, doesn't it fail? How can a poem like this be allowed 'to stand as it is?' Either we are won over by its argument, or not, and it stands or falls based on the logic, or success, of its argument.
On the other hand, why can't Hirschman's argument simply exist as drama—without its success as an argument having anything to do with its success as a poem?
And yet, Hirschman's poem explicitly denies another work of art, "The Painting" of the title, this consideration: "The Painting" of Harold Washington, the mayor of Chicago, is a bad argument, Hirschman claims, an attack on something which is more important than itself, and thus it needs to be censored.
Thus we defend the poem on a principle which the poem itself denies.
But on the other hand, if we do not defend Hirschfield's poem; if we reject the poem, we do so violating the very principle (freedom of speech) we are supposed to defend.
If the argument were in an essay, we'd be asked to accept the argument, or not. But because the argument is in a poem, we cannot accept or reject its argument as an argument alone: but does the poem itself argue that there is more to it than its argument? No, the poem seems to only be about its argument. But the argument of the poem rejects free speech in the name of art, so the argument of the poem as a poem is an argument of the poem against itself as a poem; it argues for itself as an argument, not as a poem. But if we reject its argument, does that mean we have to accept it as a poem?
Or can we accept it as a poem, but still reject it aesthetically? Accept its right to exist, but still reject it in terms of taste?
But what does it mean to 'accept-but-reject' something? Can we remove a painting if our taste rejects it? Or can we only remove a painting if we reject its argument? But why? Why can we remove a painting if its message offends—if it offends argumentatively, but not if it offends aesthetically?
What if "The Painting" (of Harold Washington, mayor) which the poem rejects pleases us, only because we get a secret thrill from "The Painting's" pure iconclasm, a rush purely because some line is being crossed, so that it is neither aesthetics, nor argument, which is at the heart of the matter, but merely an emotional thrill? In this case, we care not whether the poem aesthetically pleases us, or whether we agree with the argument of the poem (we may get a further thrill from disagreeing with the poem)—we enjoy it beyond all that, for reasons the poet (who believes in his message) never consciously suspected.
Can we conclude, then, that argument as the external key to any poem is extremely problematic? The very nature of an argument is that it never stands still; the artist is never really in control of an argument; it always slips out of his hands and runs away to the opposite wall; artistic control requires materials that do not slip away and run, and return and come back, and then run to the other side again.
In his poem, Stephen Dobyns seems to intuit this very theme of an argument slipping away:
But never mind, he says. Perhaps I'm mistaken;
let's forget I spoke. The author lowers his head.
He scratches under his arm and suppresses a belch.
He considers the difficulties of communication
and the ruthless necessities of art. Once again
he looks for the ant but it's gone. Lucky ant.
Next time he wouldn't let it escape so easily.
Will the counter-revolutionary Dobyns get the best of the revolutionary Hirschman?
If you had this feeling, your feeling was correct, dear reader.
Hirschman barely misses two three point shots at the start of the second half and doubt creeps in.
Dobyns gains confidence as Hirschman's first-half fury turns to second half fear. Momentum swings. Hirschman's big lead slowly dwindles, and finally, Dobyns prevails, 99-94.
You knew this would happen, didn't you?
You were certain that mystery– and doubt—would triumph at last.


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This is the third dispatch in a five part series which explores how Palestinian craft traditions have been impacted by Israel's occupation of the West Bank. Watch part 1 here.
"When you cut a tree, you kill the tree. But what I am doing is I am making it alive again," Shehada says as his hands turn over a new violin in his Ramallah workshop. "With the music, I make the wood alive." He is one of only a couple of luthiers in Palestine, and he also repairs local students' violins and cellos.
"I draw what I want, or sometimes I copy the model of any violin I like. This is an Antonio Stradivari model" Shehada says, pointing to an annotated drawing, "from that you build the instrument."
Shehada plays a scale on his violin. "I don't play. I spent all my time in the workshop, so I don't play the violin" But he has honed his ability to make the perfect instrument, "When the wood becomes old, and it's played a lot, it's better and the sound opens more."
Shehada, 25, handcrafts world class violins which take two months to create. They sell internationally for over $5000. Al-Kamandjati, the NGO with which Shehada works, provides instruments and teachers to children in Palestine's refugee camps. Before Shehada trained as a luthier in England, instrument repairers would come from abroad, but now Shehada is helping Palestine become musically self-sufficient.
Shehada explains the barriers to playing music in Palestine saying, "people are looking to buy bread instead of playing instruments. Because you are living under occupation, you have to make a future for your children."
He says, "It is important, but they think that to take care of your children is better than violin or music. People here want to live."
He adds that music can be a way to express ideas about Palestine and can also be a minor distraction from the occupation. "It helps," he says, "but it doesn't solve the problem."
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Fractination of SA into Cytosol., Cell Wall, Cytoplasmic
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June 4, 2007 at 2:39 pm #7763RuNkLiParticipant
i have to seperate protein fractions of cytosolic proteins, cell wall proteins and cytoplasmic proteins. the reason is, i want to find out where the antimicrobial peptide is located after incubation with S. aureus.
I just control with Western Blot.
The problem is, i can't find a protocol for isolation or digestion of these fractions. We have no ultracentrifuge!
I would be very happy for helping…
Best regards
June 4, 2007 at 4:50 pm #73515blcr11Participant
So the peptide is labeled with something like P-32 and you're trying to see whether the label is retained with the membranes or is floating in the cytoplasm? I don't know how you're going to make sure the peptide stays bound to whatever it's bound to unless you cross-link it. That might work for something bound to the surface, but it shouldn't touch anything bound to something cytosolic. And then, if you're checking things out by Western, I guess you have an anti-peptide Ab with an appropriate Anti-Ab conjugate for detection, or something like that. But does the peptide stay bound under the conditions of SDS-PAGE? or do you care once the partition has been made? I don't know, maybe I'm just not thinking about this correctly, but it sounds tricky to me.
I can't see how you're going to do this without any centrifuge, but perhaps you don't need a full-blown ultracentrifuge. If you have access to either a benchtop Eppendorf centrifuge, which can spin a 1.5 ml tube up to 17,000xg, or an RC-5Plus or equivalent which can spin 15-30 ml corex tubes at something like 17-20,000xg, that should be enough.
Any standard extraction (freeze-thaw or french press or sonication) will get you a separation between soluble and probably cytoplasmic versus insoluble probably in inclusion bodies or membrane bound. You can also try something like BugBuster from Novagen (now EMD Biosciences) that doesn't require any additional disruption–but you do have to spin down at least twice–an RC-5 Plus is good enough for this. You can also fractionate soluble protein from insoluble protein by vacuum filtration–but I wonder if your peptide will be bound strongly enough to partition correctly in the presence of something like BugBuster reagent (essentially a cocktail of detergents).
Don't know if that helped or not. Good luck with it, anyway.
June 4, 2007 at 9:32 pm #73521RuNkLiParticipant
First thank you very much for your detailed answer.
In immune electronmicroscopy pictures we can see, that this peptide binds to surfacial proteins as well as cytoplasmic structures?. We want to confirm, make sure and find the mode of action by finding out these targets.
The point you mention is very correct. I am not sure if this binding of peptide to different structures is really strong enough that i can do this very dirty experiments.
We have just produced AB against this peptide. They are not radioactive labeled. I can only detect them by Western blot. Another way is may detect them by FACS because we have FITC labeled peptides. But I'm not sure if I can do this by this way 🙂
I will try freeze-thaw protocol, may this is the softer way for breaking the protoplasts.
I just want to try may I have luck. Who knows 🙂
July 4, 2007 at 6:23 pm #74354EwaParticipant
1. extracellular fraction – secretory proteins – spin down the culture, precipitate
2. cell wall fraction – wash the cells from (1) thoroughly, suspend in raffinose (or sucrose – it is even cheaper), lyse with lysostaphin, collect the supernatant after spinning down
3. cellular + membrane fraction – use a detergent/extensive pipetting/freeze-thaw or just osmotic shock, whichever you prefer
– spin down (at ultra speed) to collect rest of membranes, supernatant is soluble cytosolic fraction plus some membrane fraction contamination
my hint – DO use protease inhibitors throughout the procedure
my own small scale lab protocol for staph fractionation is as follows:
1. grow the strain in an appropriate medium (TSB or BHI) at 37C/200 rpm till stationary phase (overnight) and collect the culture samples
2. spin down the cells (5-6K rpm/ up to 30 min/4C)
3. collect the supernatant containing extracellular proteins, you may need to concentrate them (AmSO4/memebrane ultrafiltration: vivaspin, centricon, whatever else 10 K cut-off) and store at 4C
4. wash the cells thoroughly with fresh media /PBS/whatever you have (add 1-5 ml, resusupend cerafully and spin down). Repeat this step to be sure that you've removed all the reamainings of secretory proteins
5. resuspend the cells in 50 mM Tris-HCl pH 7.5, 20 mM MgCl2, 30% raffinose (Sigma, recommended, but ANY sucrose does the trick as well)
6. lyse the cells with lysostaphin [our stock solution is 5 mg/ml, working concentration 0.1 mg/ml]
7. incubate at 37C for 30 min, suspension should not become sticky, if it does it means the cells have lysed and the cell wall fraction will be contaminated with cytoplasmic proteins
8. remove the protoplasts by centrifugation (5-6K rpm/30 min/4C) and collect the supernatant containing the cell wall-associated proteins
9. do NOT freeze the wall fraction! Keep it at 4C. you can try to dialyse it if you're doing a larger scale preparation
10. keep the protoplasts on ice at all times, be careful with pipetting them as they are really fragile, cut the top of the gilson's tip off
11. wash the protoplasts twice with ice-cold 50 mM Tris-HCl pH 7.5, 20 mM MgCl2, 30% raffinose, spin down (4-5K rpm/15 min/4C) and discard the supernatant.
12. optional: add inhibitor mix
13. lyse on ice by adding in an ice-cold 50 mM Tris-HCl pH 7.5, 20 mM MgCl2 and by repeated vortexing and pipetting.
14. optional: add 0.5 – 1 ul of DNase if the sample is really sticky
15. centrifuge the lysate (max/30 min/4C), collect the supernatant
16. run the samples on SDS-PAGE gels, no need to load more than 1-5 ul of the cytoplasmic fracton as they are usually concentrated
LYSOSTAPHIN (Sigma cat no L-7386), a glycyl-glycine endopeptidase from Staph. staphylolyticus that cleaves pentaglycine bridges crosslinking the peptidoglycan in the cell wall – store at -20C.
DNase (Roche) 10 units/ul
Complete EDTA-free Protease Inhibitor Cocktail, (Roche, cat no 1 873 580), you can make one on your own using E-64, DIC and O-phenentroline
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Mormon Celebs! (They're just like us!!)
In a recent post, I mentioned a few Mormon celebrities, or at least, the few I recognized from the awesome I'm A Mormon campaign, like Brandon Flowers, who is arguably the most "real-world" famous person from that campaign. There are others, of course, who didn't get their own video at Mormon.org, but are celebrities in their own right, like Torah Bright, that Gold-Medal winning snowboarder.
Incidentally, that article I just linked to for Torah Bright underscores just how unusual our Latter-day Saint Christian values have become in this day and age. People are baffled by the sheer novelty and anachronism of it all. Look at the headline: "'I've never drunk or smoked,' says champion snowboarder Torah Bright." Subheading: "She also doesn't drink tea or coffee - and won't have sex until she's married. Think she's boring? Then let's see you do a Switch Backside!"
There are several lists online in various places that identify famous Mormons, like David Archuletta, Carmen Rasmusen, and Ken Jennings, (Wikipedia's list of notable Latter-day Saints looks like it's the most authoritative, comprehensive, and well-maintatined.)
(I remember being rather excited at the news that Gladys Knight had converted to Mormonism.)
But if reading through that list does anything, it demonstrates that Mormons are kind of everywhere. Think we didn't help co-create Yo Gabba Gabba? Think again! We've got our fingers in a surprising number of pies.
The most heartbreaking list is the one (also on Wikipedia) listing those famous people who were Mormon, but have since fallen away. Just think of the Public Relations coup if we'd been able to hang onto the likes of Amy Adams, Ryan Gosling, Katherine Heigl, Eliza Dushku, Aaron Eckhart, and Paul Walker. (Even Warren Zevon was a Mormon, apparently, once upon a time.)
Those Elder's Quorums in Los Angeles need to start home teaching and reactivating these celebrities quick, so that we can all relive the halcyon days of yesteryear, when The Osmonds were the bright stars in the Mormon firmament; our ambassadors to the world…


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Wednesday, December 31, 2008
The final numbers are in for 2008 music sales by The Nielsen Company.
2008 music sales were down 8.5% in total. Actual CD sales were down 20%. Digital sales were up 32%. Digital sales were over 1 billion for the first time.
2008 country music sales overall were down 14%, the second biggest loss by any genre. Classical music saw the most decline. Sales of digital downloads were up 27% in 2008 country music sales numbers.
Many more numbers I'm sure will be coming out in the next days and most certainly this will be talked about by many with very many opinions and thoughts.


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Apple is preparing a event in San Francisco on January 27th at 10 AM Pacific Time(GMT-8).
Last rumors talk about iPhone OS 4.0 and iLife 2010, but all are attending the "latest creation". Probably, this last creation will be iSlate, the long-rumored Tablet.
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History on Bangalore and BBMP Draft
History on Bengaluru
Bangalore is draped over the Deccan Plateau at an altitude of 949 meters (3113 ft.) above sea level, which gives it possibly the best climate among all the cities in India. Legend has it that Bangalore got its name from the words "BendhaKaaLu" (which means boiled beans in the local language Kannada). King VeeraBallala of the Vijayanagara kingdom was once lost in a forest and happened to stumble upon a lonely cottage. An old woman that lived there could offer the starving king only boiled beans "BendhakaaLu" and the place came to be known as "BendhakaaLuooru" (ooru in Kannada means a city). BendhakaaLooru later came to be known as BengaLooru in Kannada and Bangalore in English. However, historical evidence shows that "BengaLooru" was recorded much before King Ballala's time in a 9th century temple inscription in the village of Begur. Even today "BengaLooru" exists within the city limits in Kodigehalli area and is called as "HalebengaLooru" or "Old Bangalore."
The present day city was designed by Kempegowda in the year 1537. During one of his hunting bouts, which was his favorite past time, Kempegowda was surprised to see a hare chase his dog and thus named the place as "gandubhoomi" (heroic place). Kempegowda I, who was in charge of Yelahanka, built a mud fort in 1537 and with the help of King Achutaraya, built the little towns of Balepet, Cottonpet and Chickpet, all inside the fort. Today, these little areas serve as the major wholesale and commercial market places in the city. Kempegowda's son erected the four watch towers to mark the boundaries of Bangalore which are traceable even today and they stand almost in the heart of the present city.
In the year 1638, ShahajiraoBhonsle, father of Shivaji, captured the city. In 1687, Aurangzeb's army captured Bangalore and sold it to the Wodeyars for a paltry sum of Rs.300,000. The Wodeyars then built the famous LalBagh in 1759, one of Bangalore's most beautifully laid out gardens. In the same year, Hyder Ali received Bangalore as a jagir from KrishnarajaWodeyar II. He fortified the southern fort and made Bangalore an army town.
When Tipu Sultan died in the 4th Mysore war in 1799, the British gave the kingdom, including Bangalore, to KrishnarajaWodeyar III but the British resident stayed in Bangalore.
In the beginning of the 19th century, the General Post Office was opened and the Cantonment was established nine years later in 1809. In 1831, alleging misrule by KrishnarajaWodeyar III, the British took over the administration of the Mysore Kingdom.
Under the British influence, Bangalore bloomed with modern facilities like the railways, telegraph, postal and police departments. The first train was flagged out of the city in 1859 and five years later in 1864, the lovely Cubbon Park was built by Sankey. The end of the century saw the building of AttaraKacheri and the Bangalore Palace. The 20th century saw the arrival of the first motorcar in the city.
In 1881, the British returned the city to the Wodeyars. Dewans like Sir Mirza Ismail and Sir M Visveswaraya were the pioneers to help Bangalore attain its modern outlook.
From then on, the city has grown in magnitudes, emerging into what you see and know of today. Bangalore is India's fifth largest and the fastest growing city in Asia.
Bruhat Bengaluru MahanagaraPalike
The history of municipal governance of Bangalore dates back to March 27, 1862, when nine leading citizens of the city formed a Municipal Board under the Improvement of Towns Act of 1850. Later, a similar Municipal Board was also formed in the Cantonment area of the city. The two boards were legalized in 1881, and functioned as two independent bodies called the Bangalore City Municipality and the Bangalore Civil and Military Station Municipality. The following year, the concept of elected representatives come into being and also saw the introduction of property tax.
After Indian independence, the two Municipal Boards were merged to form the Corporation of the City of Bangalore in 1949, under the Bangalore City Corporation Act. The corporation then consisted of 70 elected representatives and 50 electoral divisions. The name of the council then changed — first to Bangalore City Corporation (BCC) and then to Bangalore MahanagaraPalike (BMP).
In January 2007, the Karnataka Government issued a notification to merge the areas under existing Bangalore MahanagaraPalike with seven City municipal council (CMC)'s, one Town municipal council (TMC) and 111 villages around the city to form a single administrative body, Bruhat Bangalore MahanagaraPalike. The process was completed by April 2007 and the body was renamed 'Bruhat Bengaluru MahanagaraPalike'.
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History on Bengaluru -> www.discoverbangalore.com
History on BBMP -> www.onlinebangalore.com
Bangalore Growth over Decades Map -> www.bbmprestructuring.org/wp/
Image credit: www.sahilonline.org (BBMP)
www.flickrhivemind.net (Kempegowda)


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CORRECTION- Farm article woes
In last week's cover story, "Hard row to hoe: Are luxury farms hurting real farmers," Connie Hicks was misquoted. She was turned down for a loan by Farm Credit & Mortgage, not by Virginia Farm Bureau, which is an organization that offers services to and lobbies on behalf of farmers and rural families across the state. In addition, Bundoran Farm was mentioned as a cattle-free estate when it is, in fact, home to more than 200 head of cattle. And in clarification, when former Jumping Branch farm owner Elizabeth Hamilton says of Hicks and her father, Conrad Hicks, "I cannot speak too highly of them," she is offering praise.


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WASHINGTON - Following U.S. President Barack Obama's relatively smooth path to a second term on Tuesday, the Republican party is at a crossroads, confronted with an evolving American electorate that is unceremoniously rejecting its vision for the country.
Obama handily won the votes of women, Hispanics, African-Americans and young Americans on Tuesday night. Mitt Romney, his Republican challenger, won aging white men —a dwindling voting bloc.
"To be frank, we're a Mad Men party in a Modern Family world," Chuck Warren, a Salt Lake City Republican strategist, said in an email to crestfallen clients on Wednesday.
For months, the party's moderates — including former Republican governors Jon Hunstman and Jeb Bush — have urged fellow Republicans to step to the centre of the political spectrum and get to work bringing women, young people and minorities into the fold.
"If I hear anybody say it was because Romney wasn't conservative enough, I'm going to go nuts," Lindsey Graham, a Republican senator from South Carolina, told Politico.com on the eve of election day.
"We're not losing 95 per cent of African-Americans and two-thirds of Hispanics and voters under 30 because we're not being hard-ass enough."
It wasn't the first time Graham had forcefully weighed in on the party's desperate need to broaden its base.
"The demographics race, we're losing badly. We're not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term," he said in August.
Did Tuesday night drive home Graham's point?
No less of an ego than Newt Gingrich, never one to easily admit mistakes, acknowledged Wednesday that the party erred when it assumed it could beat Obama on the economy alone.
"We were wrong," Gingrich said on "CBS This Morning," adding that he and others in the Republican brain trust "misunderstood what was happening in the country."
Party leaders must now figure out how to appeal to the voters who overwhelmingly cast their ballots for Obama — in particular Latinos, the fastest growing voting bloc in the country, he said.
"Unless we do that, we're going to be a minority party."
Brian Vargus, a political consultant and retired politics professor in Indianapolis, wonders why it's taken so long for the party to grapple with bitter divisions that are growing more pronounced every year.
"It's not like anybody who hasn't analyzed the party dynamics hasn't realized there's a social and fiscal split in that party that's very deep and very ingrained," he said.
"Twelve years ago, I thought there was a good chance the party would split in two. I turned out to be wrong, but is it really even one party anymore? It consists of these disparate factions — the Tea Party, evangelicals, libertarians, big-business types — and not only do they disagree on almost everything, they don't even like each other."
Even in the aftermath of defeat on Tuesday, there was no consensus among Republicans.
Charles Krauthammer, a conservative political columnist at the Washington Post, minimized the significance of Romney's loss, dismissing the former Massachusetts governor as merely a "transitional figure."
"He's a northeastern liberal, and that's not where we're going," Krauthammer said on Fox News. "That's not where the future of the Republican party is."
Rush Limbaugh, meantime, heaped praise upon Romney, laying the blame on Obama's alleged handouts to apparently lazy Americans as he referred to the president as "Santa Claus."
"Small things beat big things yesterday," the conservative radio star said on his show on Wednesday.
"Conservatism ... did not lose last night. In a country of children where the option is Santa Claus or work, what wins?"
He also dismissed any suggestions that the party is too white and must start reaching out to minorities.
"We have plenty of highly achieved minorities in our party," he said.
But others in the party are citing the loss of two Senate seats due to controversial anti-abortion comments made by a pair of Republican hopefuls. Those seats were considered safe bets for Republicans earlier in the year.
In Missouri, Todd Akin went down to defeat after his summertime assertions that "legitimate rape" rarely results in pregnancy. Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock, meantime, also lost after claiming in a recent political debate that rape pregnancies are acts of God.
Those defeats suggest there's little appetite among most Americans to revisit the abortion debate — even in states that Romney handily won on Tuesday night.
Vargus said Mourdock lost even though Karl Rove's SuperPac, American Crossroads, was all but throwing cash at his flailing campaign in its dying days.
"In the past week, Karl Rove dumped $11 million for Mourdock here — and he still lost," said Vargus. "That's a pretty powerful message."
Apart from the grander arguments about the direction of the party in the wake of Obama's victory, there were pettier, more personal wounds being nursed among those on the right on Wednesday.
Many conservatives vilified New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie for his effusive praise last week of Obama's over his handling of superstorm Sandy.
On the conservative American Spectator website, editorialist Robert Stacy McCain spewed vitriol at the Republican governor, said to be eyeing a run for president in 2016.
"The list of fools who have brought this disaster upon us certainly also will include New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, the gelatinous clown who (a) hogged up a prime-time spot at the Republican convention to sing his own praises; (b) embraced Obama as the hero of hurricane Sandy; and (c) then refused to appear at campaign events in support of Romney's presidential campaign," he wrote.
"Good luck with the remainder of your political future, governor. It is unlikely Republicans shall soon forget your perfidious betrayal."


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|System: X360, PS3, Wii, PSP, DS
|Review Rating Legend
|1.0 - 1.9 = Avoid
|4.0 - 4.4 = Great
|Pub: SEGA
|2.0 - 2.4 = Poor
|4.5 - 4.9 = Must Buy
|Release: May 4, 2010
|2.5 - 2.9 = Average
|5.0 = The Best
|Players: 1
|3.0 - 3.4 = Fair
|ESRB Rating: Mature
|3.5 - 3.9 = Good
by Leon Hendrix III
Iron Man 2 (the video game) is the sequel to a game based on a movie based on a comic book character. By all rights any one of those levels of adaptation generally means you've got a clunker on your hands. Therefore, I issue the following qualified statement: Iron Man 2 is not terrible. Now before you list the myriad problems with the games presentation, gameplay, etc.-and they are very common-I have to say there are some silver linings to the game's very tarnished outer shell.
After a few hours of playing the game, I wonder if SEGA's newest action game wouldn't have benefitted from a bit of extra polish. As far as superhero's comics go, 'ol Shell Head has managed to make his way into the upper atmosphere of games, but that's not necessarily a huge achievement.
There are a bunch of problems with this game, but out of respect for Tony Stark's very solid, initial silver screen performance (and so-so sequel) I'll start with the good. Despite years warming the Marvel Comics bench, Iron Man made a huge splash with the titular film starring Robert Downey, Jr. in 2008. Fanboys and comic geeks alike were ecstatic to see the star-turn in theatres and responded to director Jon Favreau's adaptation to the tune of nearly six hundred million dollars worldwide. Unfortunately, a video game adaptation was sure to follow, and gamers were decidedly less enthusiastic when Iron Man the video game hit consoles. Critics, gamers, and Iron Fans held their noses, and the game even managed to garner recognition for its tedious gameplay and illogical control schemes.
Iron Man was a resounding misfire on consoles but SEGA went back to the plant, melted down the scraps from developers Secret Level and Artificial Mind and Movements' game, and created Iron Man 2. For anyone who played the first game (this will seem a bit ironic) Iron Man 2 is not too far removed in terms of gameplay. You'll fly around blowing up robots, tanks, and helicopters. You'll hover around blowing up robots, tanks, and helicopters. And you'll run around blowing up robots, tanks, and helicopters. It's just as repetitive as ever, but SEGA Studios manages to infuse just enough entertainment value into these gaming clichés to span the shallow half-life of the game's story.
Speaking of which, if you planned to purchase this one rather than rent it-I'd advise making it a Blockbuster night-you'll get an all-new tale to sink your teeth into penned by comic scribe Matt Fraction. The Eisner Award winning writer of several Marvel properties, Fraction was an advisor on the set of Iron Man 2 according to Wikipedia. The story (featuring some comic villains I won't name in order to keep the pre-teen boys who'll convince their parents to buy this happy) is not awful. The dialogue is goofy at points, which makes the exposition seem less crucial and the story seem less serious. I'm not sure exactly which words Fraction penned, but the narrative seems uneven when you hear the bad guys sneering insults like Dustin Hoffman in Hook. In any case, bringing in a comic writer was a good call by SEGA, but without the gameplay to support the story, there seems to be a missing piece. In short, this game would've worked a lot better as an episode of a Saturday morning cartoon show.
By the end of your first hour of gameplay, most of your adventures in Tony Stark's world are pretty familiar. Opening doors, shutting down force fields, and reprogramming weakened foes are all handled with a few taps of a button. Hovering is handled by pressing alternate face-buttons to ascend and to descend; movement is handled through the left thumbstick, while the camera and crosshairs are mapped to the right thumbstick. Double tapping the left shoulder button allows you to dodge or close on an enemy for melee attacks. Combat is pretty fast-paced, but the control scheme handles it fairly well. The right shoulder button is used to lock onto enemies, the left and right triggers fire your primary and secondary weapons, and the remaining face-button handles Iron Man's remedial melee options. The system isn't bad; it's familiar to anyone who has played a third-person action game before. Targets can be locked and cycled through with a flip of the thumbstick. An HUD radar allows you to keep track of your foes (though they always make themselves known). And you can change each of your weapons by using the left and right buttons on the control pad. It's nothing too enthralling, but it's not frustrating either.
The coolest thing about the game is the ability to customize your suit's weapon configurations. Each of the armors you can earn and play in the game can be outfitted to suit your combat preferences with lasers, rockets, missile launchers, and more. It adds some extra depth to the game's very basic and rote 'blow stuff away' philosophy. It's an addition that most people will probably ignore once they figure out a way to configure their weapons that they find effective. Why should you change ammo or weapons if you fight the same two or three types of enemies? Like many aspects of gameplay, it's an okay idea by itself, but the game is just not made to take advantage of it. Take, for instance, the messy matter of taking flight.


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