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Driver killed in Merton crash named as police appeal for witnesses
Morden Road: Driver killed in Merton crash named as police appeal for witnesses
Pictures by Dave Charnley/@charnley_dave
Detectives are appealing for any information or witnesses who may have seen a collision that occurred in the early hours of this morning.
According to police reports officers attended the scene at around 4:35am on Morden Road at the junction with Jubilee Way in Merton where they discovered that a road traffic collision had taken place which involved a lorry and a car.
The London Air Ambulance were also in attendance but sadly the driver of the car was pronounced dead at the scene.
The driver has been named as 35-year-old Lukasz Wiergolinski and his next of kin have been informed.
The lorry driver however, was not arrested and Detectives from the Met's Serious Collision Investigation Unit (SCIU) are currently investigating.
They would like to speak to witnesses or anyone with dash cam, mobile phone or anyone who may have CCTV footage of the collision.
Anyone with information is asked to call the witness appeal line on 020 8543 5157.
Alternatively, they can contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

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Jazz 966 is a senior center by day, but, on Friday nights, it transforms into a swinging jazz club catering to seniors who love to hear live music.
Jazz Night accompanied two of the club's regulars, Ted Harvin, 81, and Delrosa Marshall, 74, through a typical evening. The duo has been frequenting the club for almost a decade now, and it's become a pivotal place for them to socialize, especially as Ted's mobility has decreased. Despite the additional challenges they face, including reckoning with aging, the joy that music and dance bring them prevails. "I think my outlook on life hasn't changed since I was 20," Ted says, "I know that she says, 'Well, why are we here?' We're here to enjoy life, and that's the only thing we can do: Just enjoy it."
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Moments before bursting in a dazzling fireball over southwestern Wisconsin, a likely meteor appears as a bright dot in the Wednesday night sky. This image was captured around 10:07 p.m., April 14 by a camera mounted on the northwest corner of the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
A flash of light lit up the night sky when what was believedto be a space rock burst across southwestern Wisconsin on Wednesday, accordingto news reports.
An image captured by a camera mounted on the northwestcorner of the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Building on the University ofWisconsin-Madison campus shows the meteor as a bright dot moments beforebursting into a spectacular fireball.
The photos were taken at around 10:07 p.m. on April 14.According to news reports, the burst illuminated clouds and the contrails ofairplanes, which is the visible concentration of water droplets from theatmosphere that occur in the wake of an aircraft under select conditions.
The fireball was seen moving west to east, and was visibleacross northern Missouri, Illinois and Indiana, in addition to southernWisconsin, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration(NOAA).
NOAA also received several reports of a prolonged sonicboom from areas north of Highway 20, along with shaking homes, trees andvarious other objects. The fireball reportedly broke up into smaller pieces andwas lost from sight well before it reached the horizon, and it is unknownwhether any pieces of the object actually hit the ground.
It does not take a large object to create a fireball in thenight sky. Most regular "shooting stars" are created by bits of cometdebris no larger than a sand grain. A space rock the size of a softball orbasketball can create a fireball.
Objects as big as washing machines fall into Earth'satmosphere on a monthly basis, but most burn up before reaching the ground.Many of the resulting fireballs are not seen because they occur over remoteareas or over the ocean. Earth is more than two-thirdsocean.


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Quentin Tarantino's It Follows Criticisms Ticked Off The Director Of It Follows
Brent McKnight
With an almost encyclopedic knowledge of film, and a passion for the medium that runs just as deep, Quentin Tarantino has never been particularly shy about sharing his opinion on movies. His latest rant included various ways that he would have made indie horror hit It Follows a better film. Turns out that ruffled more than a few feathers, including those of the director of It Follows.
Hey QT, why don't we get together over a beer and talk about these notes. I have a few of my own for you.
— DavidRobertMitchell (@DRobMitchell) August 26, 2015
Director David Robert Mitchell, who also helmed 2010's The Myth of the American Sleepover, took to Twitter to express his displeasure with Quentin Tarantino's assessment of his latest film. It Follows has largely been heralded as one of the more original, intriguing, and generally best horror films of the last few years (and though there are certainly issues and lingering question, I, for one, tend to agree), but the Pulp Fiction and The Hateful Eight director took exception with a number of elements of the film.
That doesn't mean he doesn't like, just that it's not as good as it could have been. As he told Vulture, It Follows is:
[O]ne of those movies that's so good that you start getting mad at it for not being great.
He took issue with how It Follows breaks its own internal mythology, especially with the villains, who are pretty easy to spot in a crowd if you've seen the movie. He also cites a few other ways where the movie apparently crosses its own self-imposed boundaries, and points out how the geeky outcast guy is actually a total babe, even if everyone apparently ignores this fact. For what it's worth, some folks seem to agree with Tarantino's appraisal, while others think he is being overly nitpicky, case in point, Mitchell.
The director's social media response isn't the first reply to Quentin Tarantino's remarks. In the world of It Follows, if you sleep with the wrong person, you essentially contract a sexually transmitted ghost, or monster or whatever you want to call the entity, that stalks you across any distance and will ultimately kill you. The only way to get rid of it is to pass it on to someone you sleep with. The way information is imparted is via a character who has figured some of this out on his own. To get rid of his own curse, he sleeps with heroine Jay (Maika Monroe), and then gives a quick lesson about what's in store for her.
The way Mitchell sees it, the so-called "rules" of the film are just one character's interpretation of what he has experienced. That's how we understand what the creature is, but the conclusions he has jumped to, based on whatever he has seen, may not tell the whole story or include all of the possible information. What we know is based on what he knows, and as such, is likely incomplete.
If you want to check out It Follows for yourself and see which side of this argument you fall on, it is now available on DVD, Blu-ray, streaming, and however else you consume your media these days. And it's definitely one that's worth watching, flawed or not, especially for horror fans.
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Brookwood was hired by the Special Committee to the Board of Directors to advise the Committee regarding strategic alternatives.
The Task – Brookwood rendered a fairness opinion and provided valuable advise to the Special Committee of CEM, supplying the committee with negotiating leverage and allowing it to make a more informed decision.
Brookwood's Role – Brookwood advised the Special Committee regarding CEM's value, marketed CEM to a targeted list of prospective buyers, received multiple offers that validated engagement team's advice to the Special Committee, participated in negotiations and issued a fairness opinion that was included in the proxy materials.
The Result – CEM entered into a cash merger agreement with its CEO, who was backed by a financial partner 14 weeks after Brookwood's engagement. CEM was ultimately sold at a 94% premium to the Company's pre-announcement stock price and a 32% premium to management's initial offer.


We are packing for tomorrow's flight. One bag each, and that means $25 each because UAL has a baggage fee. I really dislike the extra fees. Wonder what they charge for a bag of peanuts?
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Change won't come in time for the November presidential election, when record numbers of voters are expected to decide between Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama. For soldiers, the stakes couldn't be higher. The winner may well decide how long they stay in battle, and how soon they come home.
No one knows why some 70 percent of overseas military ballots weren't recorded in 2006. No one keeps centralized records on military ballots or voter turnout. But anecdotal evidence collected from local voting districts, which number more than 7,000, points to ballots that arrived late, ballots not properly filled out and ballots mailed to the wrong location — most of which get discarded. Then there are the ballots of troops who, for whatever reason, never mailed them back at all.
Contributing to the confusion are states and local election districts with competing and sometimes confounding rules governing overseas ballots. And the mail-in process can take up to 60 days from start to finish, even though many absentee ballots weren't available until this month.
Because she would like to see the Iraq war end, Army Capt. Holly Landes, a 29-year-old veterinarian from Augusta, Ga., wants her vote to count. ''I do know that this war is taking a toll on the country, and I would be happy to see it shortened,'' she said at Camp Speicher, a military installation near Tikrit in northern Iraq where she cares for bomb- and drug-sniffing dogs.
But Landes, an athletic soldier who wore camouflage and a handgun strapped to her thigh as she negotiated a spitting sandstorm, wasn't sure her first-time vote from abroad would arrive in her home county on time, based on complaints from fellow soldiers. ''Some of them have expressed concerns that they haven't gotten the ballots until the day before elections,'' she said.
Her concerns are mild in comparison to comments from reservists far from active duty, who can comment publicly without fear of reprimand.
''Why are we imposing on military personnel a system that is more onerous than the ones civilians use?'' asked Bob Carey, a senior fellow at the National Defense Committee, a private advocacy group. Carey, a 23-year Navy reservist who participated in Desert Storm, blames politicians and Pentagon bureaucracy with failing to find a process that works.
This is how military overseas voting works: A registered voter must request, in writing, an absentee ballot from the local election district where he or she last lived. That can take up to 30 days. The soldier waits to receive a paper absentee ballot, then fills it out and mails it back. That can take another 30 days.
There is a long list of things that can wrong with that process — starting with mail getting lost in the U.S. Postal Service or in the Military Postal Service Agency, which ships correspondence by military channels. Mail can sit undelivered if heavy fighting stops supply convoys, or if limited space requires something more important be delivered — ammunition, for example. And because the military is often on the move, ballots can arrive on bases where soldiers are no longer assigned.
Carey favors Internet voting — something the Pentagon championed in 2004 only to abandon after spending $25 million and meeting critics who said online ballots were vulnerable to fraud.
But in military camps in Afghanistan and Iraq, Internet access is often more prevalent than indoor toilets and phone service.
Carey is working with The Pew Center on the States to craft a nationwide military voting law that would eliminate conflicting local regulations about such issues as whether ballots can be faxed or sent as an attachment via e-mail.
Seventeen states and territories allow some type of e-mail service to soldiers, but the rules greatly vary.
Most allow voting by fax, but again under different regulations. Ohio, for example, allows absentee ballots to be faxed — but only during a period that begins 35 days before the election. Alabama, New York and Wyoming, on the other hand, don't allow faxed ballots at all.
The Defense Department's Federal Voting Assistance Program provides online help for service members trying to vote from overseas. But Pentagon inspector general reports conducted since 2000 have shown that less than 50 percent of surveyed soldiers knew who provided voting assistance in their units. A 2006 audit showed that only about 25 percent of respondents were aware of the government's military voting site.
There is a final option for military voters. The Federal Voting Assistance Program and others provide online access to the Federal Write-In Absentee Ballot, which can be downloaded, filled in and mailed by service members. But it is limited to federal races, and can only be used by registered voters who've already requested an absentee ballot from their local election official, but haven't received it.
Wright also considers online ballots the best solution to an antiquated system.
Not everyone hates the system for casting an absentee ballot. To many soldiers, it's just another form in the military's never-ending stack of papers to be filled out. ''At least here we have the ability to go right to the (base) post office and get them stamped,'' said Lt. Col. Theresa Vancort of Schenectady, N.Y., a National Guard member stationed at Camp Phoenix in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Nonetheless, with interest so high in this presidential election, even the top brass are sending signals about soldiers taking part.
''I got an e-mail from the chief of staff for the Army reminding me that part of my job is to make sure U.S. citizens have the right to vote,'' said Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Schloesser, commander of U.S. forces in eastern Afghanistan.


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Amazon plunge drags down eBay, Etsy and Wayfair
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Wayfair IPO on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
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E-commerce stocks sank Friday after Amazon, the largest U.S. e-retailer, reported disappointing results and gave a weaker-than-expected outlook for the third quarter.
Wayfair and Etsy dropped almost 8%, while eBay fell 7%. Amazon had its worst day on the market in more than a year, falling 7.6% and wiping out about $75 billion in market value.
Amazon said revenue growth slowed in the second quarter to 27% from 41% a year earlier, when the company got a boost from stay-at-home orders during the pandemic. Brian Olsavsky, Amazon's finance chief, told analysts on the earnings call that more vacations and social gatherings are on the horizon, and there will "be things that probably people shied away from last year and that's all good."
While Facebook and Apple offered similar warnings in their outlooks this week, Amazon was alone among the five-most valuable U.S. tech companies in missing analysts' revenue estimates for the past quarter. Earnings beat expectations, but investors are typically more focused on Amazon's growth trajectory than its profitability.
During the pandemic, e-commerce companies across the board picked up business, benefiting their growth rates and lifting their stock prices. But after a year of outsized expansion, investors have been gearing up for a slowdown in the second half of 2021.
Amazon's latest report only heightened those concerns.
Etsy, a marketplace for independent sellers and second-hand goods, is scheduled to report earnings next week. Revenue growth has topped 100% for each of the past four quarters as consumers turned to the site for face masks as well as other items for their home. Growth is expected to slow to 23% in the quarter that ended in June, according to StreetAccount.
Even after Friday's drop, Etsy shares are still up 64% in the past year, topping the other big e-commerce companies, including Amazon, which is up 9%.
Furniture seller Wayfair is also scheduled to announce quarterly results next week. Following four quarters of growth above 40%, revenue is expected to drop 8.4% for the second period, according to StreetAccount. Analysts at Wedbush said in a note this week that the company, which also benefited from surging demand during the pandemic, is getting hit by a combination of a return to in-store shopping, higher online advertising costs and supply chain constraints.
While the Wedbush analysts still have the equivalent of a buy rating on the stock, they said they expect to see revenue fall by 10% "as demand slows from peak levels."
Ebay's results are slated to hit Aug. 11. Its business didn't see as much of a pop over the past few quarters as did other online retailers, in large part because it's been losing market share to rival sites. Growth in the second quarter is expected to slow to about 5% from 6.6% a year earlier and 27% in the first quarter of this year, according to StreetAccount.
Ebay has also been shedding assets of late, selling StubHub for over $4 billion in 2019 and agreeing to sell its classifieds business last year in a deal that would bring in $2.5 billion in cash. Last month, eBay said it was selling the majority of its South Korean operations for about $3 billion.
JMP analysts, who have the equivalent of a hold rating on the stock, wrote in a report that the various deals should help eBay focus on retaining customers and attracting sellers.
"We believe these transactions create incremental strategic optionality for eBay as it invests and builds out newer experiences around its core marketplace while maintaining its capital return strategy," they wrote.
Ebay shares are up 25% this year.
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Fairfield teacher accused of making racist remark breaks silence
Gil Voigt says allegations against him are false
Updated: 8:10 PM EDT Mar 13, 2014
Karin Johnson
A Fairfield science teacher accused of making a racist remark about President Obama told his side of the story Thursday. Fairfield science teacher Gil Voigt said the allegations a student brought against him are false. This incident was not the first time Voigt has been in trouble for making racist comments.
A Fairfield science teacher accused of making a racist remark toward a student is telling his side of the story for the first time.In an exclusive interview with WLWT, freshman school science teacher Gil Voigt said the allegations a student brought against him are false.Watch this story"You were quoted as saying, 'The country doesn't need another black president,' is that what you said?" WLWT's Karin Johnson asked."Absolutely not," Voigt answered. "I said, as the individuals were leaving the class, and I heard one of the individuals talk about wanting to be president, I said, 'Let's hope we don't need another president like Obama, whether he's black or white. We need somebody in the White House who can lead us in a different direction.'"Voigt said the exchange happened after the last bell as students were putting chairs on top of desks and others were leaving.He admitted teachers are discouraged from giving opinions on controversial issues but believes that what he said didn't cross the line."It was after school. It was unstructured. It's after the school day. It's nothing more than if I was walking down the hall with somebody and we were talking about a certain issue," he said.Voigt said he doesn't know why the student would accuse him of making a racist comment, an accusation that got him suspended without pay. He's also lost other jobs because of it."It's caused me to lose my head golf position at Badin High School. It's caused me to lose basketball games and a couple of conferences in which I refereed," he said. "I'm in a financially awful situation right now. My unemployment has been taken away from me because of the reason Fairfield is sending to Job and Family Services. I would like my back pay back. I would like my job back."Voigt is fighting his suspension.This week, during a closed-door hearing, Voigt said more than two dozen people testified on his behalf."This young lady testified and said, 'Mr. Voigt did not say this comment. Mr. Voigt said, 'We do not need another president like Obama whether he's black or white,'" Voigt said.The former teacher and coach of the year admitted that other students testified he did make a racially inappropriate comment.Voigt has taught at Fairfield for 14 years and has been accused of making inappropriate comments in the past. He said one had to do with a student who had his eyes closed in class."I tried to wake him a couple of times and he didn't wake up. I use a laser pointer on my power point presentations in class. I put the laser pointer on his nose for about one second and the student that was sitting next to him said, 'Oh he looks like an African-American Rudolph,' and I said, 'Yeah, he does look like an African-American Rudolph.' He wakes up all of a sudden; he had been bluffing. He tells his mother, brings her into class and I get a verbal warning for it," Voigt explained.The second warning came during Spirit Week last year."This one student comes into class with colored hair and different colored shirts and trousers and so forth and as he walked by I said, 'Man you're looking weird today.' He went home and told his aunt that I called him gay. There was no reference made toward that," Voigt said.Voigt has five years left before he retires. If the outcome of this week's hearing isn't in his favor, he said he'll take his case to court."I didn't attack anybody individually. It was an opinionated statement. I didn't make any racial jokes. I didn't curse," he said. "I'm fighting for clearance of my name."
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"You were quoted as saying, 'The country doesn't need another black president,' is that what you said?" WLWT's Karin Johnson asked.
"Absolutely not," Voigt answered. "I said, as the individuals were leaving the class, and I heard one of the individuals talk about wanting to be president, I said, 'Let's hope we don't need another president like Obama, whether he's black or white. We need somebody in the White House who can lead us in a different direction.'"
Voigt said the exchange happened after the last bell as students were putting chairs on top of desks and others were leaving.
He admitted teachers are discouraged from giving opinions on controversial issues but believes that what he said didn't cross the line.
"It was after school. It was unstructured. It's after the school day. It's nothing more than if I was walking down the hall with somebody and we were talking about a certain issue," he said.
Voigt said he doesn't know why the student would accuse him of making a racist comment, an accusation that got him suspended without pay. He's also lost other jobs because of it.
"It's caused me to lose my head golf position at Badin High School. It's caused me to lose basketball games and a couple of conferences in which I refereed," he said. "I'm in a financially awful situation right now. My unemployment has been taken away from me because of the reason Fairfield is sending to Job and Family Services. I would like my back pay back. I would like my job back."
Voigt is fighting his suspension.
This week, during a closed-door hearing, Voigt said more than two dozen people testified on his behalf.
"This young lady testified and said, 'Mr. Voigt did not say this comment. Mr. Voigt said, 'We do not need another president like Obama whether he's black or white,'" Voigt said.
The former teacher and coach of the year admitted that other students testified he did make a racially inappropriate comment.
Voigt has taught at Fairfield for 14 years and has been accused of making inappropriate comments in the past. He said one had to do with a student who had his eyes closed in class.
"I tried to wake him a couple of times and he didn't wake up. I use a laser pointer on my power point presentations in class. I put the laser pointer on his nose for about one second and the student that was sitting next to him said, 'Oh he looks like an African-American Rudolph,' and I said, 'Yeah, he does look like an African-American Rudolph.' He wakes up all of a sudden; he had been bluffing. He tells his mother, brings her into class and I get a verbal warning for it," Voigt explained.
The second warning came during Spirit Week last year.
"This one student comes into class with colored hair and different colored shirts and trousers and so forth and as he walked by I said, 'Man you're looking weird today.' He went home and told his aunt that I called him gay. There was no reference made toward that," Voigt said.
Voigt has five years left before he retires. If the outcome of this week's hearing isn't in his favor, he said he'll take his case to court.
"I didn't attack anybody individually. It was an opinionated statement. I didn't make any racial jokes. I didn't curse," he said. "I'm fighting for clearance of my name."


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District 622 receives state funding to send more children to pre-k for free
Submitted by admin on Mon, 08/14/2017 - 10:17am
Aundrea Kinney
School District 622 is one of 59 districts to receive state funding for voluntary school-based pre-kindergarten programs for 4-year-olds. These districts were announced by Governor Mark Dayton Aug. 4.
Christine Osorio, superintendent of the district, which encompasses North St. Paul, Maplewood and Oakdale, explained that pre-k programs are important because they help children get acclimated to the school environment and school rituals. She added that they help build a number of skills including pre-literacy, pre-math, motor skills, social and emotional skills and vocabulary.
"There's a huge vocabulary gap right away coming to school for students who have not had a lot of exposure to schooling environments or to high-quality pre-k programs," Osorio said. "And so it really gives students a leg up when they're starting kindergarten."
According to Osorio, the Achievement Gap begins when students are young.
"But when they're young the gap is still small — like you can close it ... But if you wait until students are older it's harder to close that gap," she added.
District 622 offers programs for 4-year-olds at seven locations throughout the area. Several of these pre-k programs are located at elementary schools, including Carver Elementary in Maplewood, Castle Elementary and Oakdale Elementary in Oakdale, and Richardson Elementary and Webster Elementary in North St. Paul.
While these programs are available to children who live near the schools, pre-k programs are also offered at two early learning centers in the district. Programs at Beaver Lake Education Center and Gladstone Community Center are open to any child in the district.
Program to grow
Last year, the Minnesota Department of Education provided District 622 with about $350,000 in recurring funding to allow some 4-year-olds to attend the pre-k program at Richardson and Webster elementary schools for free.
This year the Legislature added nearly $800,000 so that an additional 144 students can attend pre-k programs for free for the next two school years. The district recently revealed that the funded locations include Castle, Oakdale and Carver elementary schools and Gladstone Education Center, which serves students from Weaver Elementary.
Because the funding is coming in so close to the Sept. 11 first day of pre-k, Osorio said the slots will be filled on a first come first serve basis, but she added that the district is working on a different system to award these free slots for next year.
"One of the goals with this new voluntary pre-k money is that it can be attached as much as possible to schools," Osorio explained, noting that this stipulation is likely to help transition pre-k into the school system as an official grade, making the standard school system run from pre-k through 12th grade.
Community Education Director Terri Johnson explained that this stipulation aligns well with the district's goal to increase the connections between pre-k and kindergarten, which is easier to do when they are located in the same building.
Osorio said that although the curriculum is different in a pre-k classroom, some of the rituals and routines will be the same to help students feel more comfortable when they enter kindergarten.
Despite growth, classes remain small
The last-minute funding doesn't necessarily mean large class sizes.
"We've been trying to expand our programming each year as we're able with space and with funding," Johnson said. "We've been trying to plan out to have these spaces — to expand with intention, even though we didn't know yet about the funding."
As a result, the new free pre-k slots will not negatively impact the student/teacher ratio in classrooms — the classes will have no more than 20 students with two teachers to maintain the 10:1 pre-k ratio, Johnson explained.
Current pre-k programs are two and a half hours a day and vary between two and five days a week with some bussing available at all sites. Programming at the early learning centers also is available for 3-year-olds, though the state funding targets programs for 4-year-olds that run four and five days per week.
A five day program costs about $285 per month without any financial assistance; however, there is an option for sliding scale fees and scholarships, if children are unable to get into the programs offering free enrollment.
District 622 is still enrolling students, but some of the pre-k programs already have a waiting list.
"There's always going to be a need that's greater [than the funding]," Osorio said, then added, "A lot of districts did not get any funding, so we were very, very fortunate that we did."
For more information and to check on availability, call 651-702-8411.
Aundrea Kinney can be reached at 651-748-7822 or akinney@lillienews.com


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This file contains the following information:
- How to build the AWS SDK and the samples for the following devices:
    - TI CC3200 Launchpad
- How to run the samples.

## Table of Contents
- [Required Hardware](#RequiredHW)
- [TI Software Installation](#TI-SW)
- [Build Environment Set Up](#Enviro-Setup)
- [AWS IoT Installation And Set Up](#AWS-Install)
- [Obtain The Certificate Files](#Obtain-CERTS)
- [Building The Certificate Flasher Tool](#Build-TOOL)
- [Building The Sample Applications](#Build-SAMPLE)
- [Setting Up Code Composer Studio Before Running The Samples](#Setup-CCS)
- [Running The Certificate Flasher Tool](#Run-TOOL)
- [Running A Sample](#Run-SAMPLE)

## Required Hardware
The following device is required for this SDK:
- [CC3200 Launchpad](http://www.ti.com/tool/cc3200-launchxl)

Please ensure that your device has been updated with the latest firmware and or service pack.

## TI Software Installation
The following TI software products must be installed in order to build and run the sample applications. While not strictly required, we recommend that you install these products into a common directory and that you use directory names without any whitespace. This documentation assumes that you haved installed everything in a directory named `C:/ti`.

- Install [Code Composer Studio v6.1.2](http://www.ti.com/tool/ccstudio?keyMatch=code%20composer%20studio) or higher.

- Install [TI-RTOS for CC32xx 2.16.00.08](http://downloads.ti.com/dsps/dsps_public_sw/sdo_sb/targetcontent/tirtos/index.html) or higher.

## Build Environment Set Up
### Updating Paths To Product Dependencies
1. Edit the `products.mak` file in `<AWS_INSTALL_DIR>/` using your favorite text editor.
2. Update the variables `XDC_INSTALL_DIR and TIRTOS_INSTALL_DIR to point to the locations where you installed these products.
3. The variable `TI_ARM_CODEGEN_INSTALL_DIR` should point to the installation location of the TI ARM compiler in your CCS installation.
4. After modification, these variable definitions should look similar to the following if you are working in Windows. (Windows users: note the use of "/" in the path).
    ```
    XDC_INSTALL_DIR = C:/ti/xdctools_3_32_00_06_core
    TIRTOS_INSTALL_DIR = C:/ti/tirtos_cc32xx_2_16_00_08
    TI_ARM_CODEGEN_INSTALL_DIR = C:/ti/ccsv6/tools/compiler/ti-cgt-arm_5.2.5
    ```

### Notes On The gmake Utiltity
When building an application for the first time, the TI ARM compiler first builds the C runtime library, which requires that ```gmake``` is on the environment path. It is therefore recommended that the ```gmake``` tool be installed on your machine and added to the environment path.

Alternatively, the XDCtools product (```C:/ti/xdctools_3_32_00_06_core```) contains ```gmake```, which can be utilized by adding the install location of XDCtools to the environment path. But note, it is recommended that the XDCtools is removed from the path after the inital step of building the C runtime libraries is complete. This is to avoid conflicts when you use newer versions of XDCtools.

For detailed information about building TI ARM C runtime library, please read the [Mklib wiki](http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Mklib).

## AWS IoT Installation And Set Up
### AWS IoT SDK Installation
This procedure assumes you have already installed the AWS SDK on your development machine. These instructions refer to the folder that contains the AWS SDK on your local machine as `<AWS_INSTALL_DIR>`.

### AWS IoT Developer Set Up
In order to run the sample applications, it is necessary to complete the steps of the [AWS IoT Developer Guide](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/iot/latest/developerguide/iot-gs.html).  In particular, the following steps of the guide must be completed:
1. [Installing the AWS Command Line Interface](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/installing.html)
2. [Configuring the AWS Command Line Interface](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-getting-started.html)
3. [Sign in to the AWS IoT Console](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/iot/latest/developerguide/iot-console-signin.html)
4. [Create a Device in the Thing Registry](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/iot/latest/developerguide/create-device.html)
5. [Create and Activate a Device Certificate](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/iot/latest/developerguide/create-device-certificate.html)
    - Make sure you choose to download the certificate files, as these will be needed in the [Building The Certificate Flasher Tool](#Build-TOOL) steps.
    - Note: you will also need a root CA certificate.  You can download the root CA from [here](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/iot/latest/developerguide/identity-in-iot.html).  Just search for the link titled "VeriSign root CA certificate"
6. [Create an AWS IoT Policy](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/iot/latest/developerguide/create-iot-policy.html)
7. [Attach an AWS IoT Policy to a Device Certificate](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/iot/latest/developerguide/attach-policy-to-certificate.html)
8. [Attach a Thing to a Certificate](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/iot/latest/developerguide/attach-cert-thing.html)

Note that Amazon has recently tailored the [AWS IoT Developer Guide](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/iot/latest/developerguide/iot-gs.html) instructions specifically for the "AWS IoT Button."  You can ignore the mentions of the button as your TI embedded device will be used in place of this.  For more details on AWS IoT, please refer to the [What Is AWS IoT](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/iot/latest/developerguide/what-is-aws-iot.html) page.

## Obtain The Certificate Files
Certificate files used by the samples need to be obtained from the AWS CLI tool and the AWS IoT website directly. If you have not already done so, follow the steps in the previous section to set up your thing, certificates and policy.

## Building The Certificate Flasher Tool

1. Open the file `certflasher.c` from the directory `<AWS_INSTALL_DIR>/samples/tirtos/certs/cc3200`.

2. Search for "USER STEP" and update the CA root certificate string, the client certificate string, and the client (private) key string. These should be extracted from certificate (.pem) files downloaded from AWS (remember to remove the newline '\n' characters in the JSON data). A typical string would be of this format:

    ```
    const char root_ca_pem[] =
    "JQQGEwJVUzEQMA4GA1UECAwHTW9udGFuYTEQMA4GA1UEBwwHQm96ZW1hbjERMA8G"
    "A1UECgwIU2F3dG9vdGgxEzARBgNVBAsMCkNvbnN1bHRpbmcxGDAWBlNVBAMMD3d3"
    "dy53b2xmc3NsLmNvbTEfMB0GCSqGSIb3DQEJARYQaW5mb0B3b2xmc3NsLmNvbTAe"
    "Fw0xNTA1MDcxODIxMDFaFw0xOGAxMzExODIxMDFaMIGUMQswCQYDVQQGEwJVUzEQ"
    "MA4GA1UECAwHTW9udGFuYTEQMA4GA1UEBwwHQm96ZW1hbjERMA8GA1UECgwIU2F3"
    "dG9vdGgxEzARBgNVBAsMCkNvbnN1bHRpbmcxGDAWBgNVBAMMD3d3dy53b2xmc3Ns"
    "LmNvbTEfMB0GCSqGSIb3DQEJARYQaW5mb0B3b2xmy3NsLmNvbTCCASIwDQYJKoZI"
    "hvcNAQEBBQADggEPADCCAQoCggEBAL8Myi0Ush6EQlvNOB9K8k11EPG2NZ/fyn0D"
    "mNOs3gNm7irx2LB9bgdUCxCYIU2AyxIg58xP3kV9yXJ3MurKkLtpUhADL6jzlcXx";
    ```
Note that certificate files must be name "ca.der", "cert.der" and "key.der", and written to the "/cert" directory (as shown in the certflasher application source file).  The ability to change these names and their location will be added in a future release.

On the command line, enter the following commands to build the application:

    cd <AWS_INSTALL_DIR>/samples/tirtos/certs/cc3200
    C:/ti/xdctools_3_32_00_06_core/gmake all

## Building The Sample Applications

Before building a specific application, complete the following steps (we are referring to the `subscribe_publish_sample` application here, but the same procedure applies to other samples as well):

1. If you are using Windows, open a Windows command prompt. If you are using Linux, open a terminal window.
2. Use the following AWS CLI command to to retrieve your AWS account-specific AWS IoT endpoint:
```aws iot describe-endpoint```
3. Open the `aws_iot_config.h` file from the directory `<AWS_INSTALL_DIR>/samples/tirtos/subscribe_publish_sample/cc3200` in a text editor
4. Update the value of the macro "AWS_IOT_MQTT_HOST" with string output from this command (for example, it will have a format similar to the following: `<random-string>.iot.us-east-1.amazonaws.com`)
5. Update the value of the macro "AWS_IOT_MQTT_CLIENT_ID" to a unique name for your device
6. Update the value of the macro "AWS_IOT_MY_THING_NAME" with the name of the thing you created during the steps on the [Create a Device in the Thing Registry](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/iot/latest/developerguide/create-device.html) web page

7. The certificate file variables "AWS_IOT_ROOT_CA_FILENAME", "AWS_IOT_CERTIFICATE_FILENAME", and "AWS_IOT_PRIVATE_KEY_FILENAME" are not used in this release and should be left as is here.  Certificate file placement is handled by the certificate flasher tool in the next section.

8. Open the file `wificonfig.h` from the directory `<AWS_INSTALL_DIR>/samples/tirtos/subscribe_publish_sample/cc3200`. Search for "USER STEP" and update the WIFI SSID and SECURITY_KEY macros.

On the command line, enter the following commands to build the application:

    cd <AWS_INSTALL_DIR>/samples/tirtos/subscribe_publish_sample/cc3200
    C:/ti/xdctools_3_32_00_06_core/gmake all

## Setting Up Code Composer Studio Before Running The Samples
1. Plug the CC3200 Launchpad into a USB port on your PC

2. Open a serial session to the appropriate COM port with the following settings:

    ```
    Baudrate:     9600
    Data bits:       8
    Stop bits:       1
    Parity:       None
    Flow Control: None
    ```

3. Open Code Composer Studio.

4. In Code Composer Studio, open the CCS Debug Perspective - Windows menu -> Open Perspective -> CCS Debug

5. Open the Target Configurations View - Windows menu -> Show View -> Target Configurations

6. Right-click on User Defined. Select New Target Configuration.

7. Use `CC3200.ccxml` as "File name". Hit Finish.

8. In the Basic window, select "Stellaris In-Circuit Debug Interface" as the "Connection", and check the box next to "CC3200" in "Board or Device". Hit Save.

9. Right-click "CC3200.ccxml" in the Target Configurations View. Hit Launch Selected Configuration.

10. Under the Debug View, right-click on "Stellaris In-Circuit Debug Interface_0/Cortex_M4_0". Select "Connect Target".

## Running The Certificate Flasher Tool
All samples rely on a set of certificates from AWS. As a result, the certificates need to be stored once into flash memory prior to running the samples. To flash the certificates, simply run the flasher tool you have previously [built](#Build-TOOL) using this procedure:

1. Select Run menu -> Load -> Load Program..., and browse to the file `certflasher.out` in `<AWS_INSTALL_DIR>/samples/tirtos/certs/cc3200`. Hit OK. This will load the program onto the board.

2. Run the application by pressing F8. The output in the CCS Console looks as follows:

    ```
    Flashing ca certificate file ...
    Flashing client certificate file ...
    Flashing client key file ...
    done.
    ```

3. Hit Alt-F8 (Suspend) to halt the CPU.

## Running A Sample
1. Disconnect and reconnect the CC3200's USB cable to power cycle the hardware, and then reconnect in CCS.  For best results, it is recommended to do this before loading and running an application every time, in order to reset the CC3200's network processor.

2. Select Run menu -> Load -> Load Program..., and browse to the file `subscribe_publish_sample.out` in `<AWS_INSTALL_DIR>/samples/tirtos/subscribe_publish_sample/cc3200`. Hit OK. This will load the program onto the board. (The same procedure applies to other samples by substituting `subscribe_publish_sample`)

3. Run the application by pressing F8. The output will appear in your serial terminal session:

    ```
    CC3200 has connected to AP and acquired an IP address.
    IP Address: 192.168.1.130

    AWS IoT SDK Version 2.1.0-

    Connecting...
    Subscribing...
    -->sleep
    Subscribe callback
    sdkTest/sub     hello from SDK QOS0 : 0
    Subscribe callback
    sdkTest/sub     hello from SDK QOS1 : 1
    -->sleep
    ```

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Hunter on Kovalev: Can't Drink Vodka Every Year and Beat Ward!
By Carlos Boogs
Published Wed Apr 12, 2017, 01:53 PM EDT
Virgil Hunter, trainer of Andre "SOG" Ward (31-0, 15 KOs), has advised Sergey "Krusher" Kovalev (30-1-1, 26 KOs) to stop drinking vodka on a regular basis if he plans to have any chance of beating the Olympic gold medal winner in their upcoming rematch.
Last November in Las Vegas, Ward was knocked down in the second round, but recovered to win a twelve round unanimous decision to capture Kovalev's WBA, WBO, IBF light heavyweight titles at the T-Mobile Arena.
There were a rematch clause, which Kovalev exercised, and the second fight now takes place on Saturday, June 17 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. The championship event will be produced and distributed live by HBO Pay-Per-View® beginning at 9:00 p.m. ET/6:00 p.m. PT.
In several interviews, Ward and his handlers have touched on what they state are industry rumors that Kovalev likes to hit the bottle on a regular basis and his drink of choice is vodka.
Hunter believes that Kovalev's excessive drinking of vodka is what caused his fatigue issues in the second half of the first fight.
"You can't drink year in and year out and expect at some point for it not to catch up to you and I would bet money that if we could go internally and see inside that that's one of the causes that's causing him to get fatigued now. It's not the overtraining, it's not this and it's not that. It's just guys are standing up and going 12 rounds now. But you can't drink vodka year in and year out and expect on fight night to fight somebody like Andre," Hunter said.
Hunter says they are training very hard for the second fight and in no way are they underestimating the challenge that Kovalev presents in the ring.
"I'm looking for a real good fight. Sergey Kovalev is definitely not underestimated. I don't have a problem saying that before we fought I was a fan of his. I'm still a fan of his. I just won't be a fan of his on June 17. This is not me blowing smoke. I admire his skill. I always knew that if we came across each other that it was going to be a tough fight, difficult fight, and a fight of attrition. And I expect the same thing June 17," Hunter said.
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Department store pricing has always bothered me.
The other day, I faced a dilemma when assessing whether it was worth buying a green shirt. The shirt was $50 dollars, but 30 percent off for that day's sale, an additional 20 percent off for using a particular credit card, and 10 percent off because the item is green.
I had no trouble figuring out the final price -- I'm pretty good at math. In fact, I often enjoy the challenge of figuring out department store prices. It just bothers me that retail stores try to hide the price from customers. Ultimately, people will find out what the shirt really costs (the money leaves their possession at some point), so why put them through three flaming hoops of grade school math?
Honestly, I don't know of any good reason to torture the mathematically-challenged and that's what bothers me. But, in this post, I want to show why 30 percent off + 20 percent off + 10 percent off does not equal 60 percent off.
Now, that's a lot of mental exercise if you don't know how to use your cell phone calculator. But, notice one sleezy thing about this pricing. The final price ($25.20) is only 49.6 percent off of the original price ($50). It is not 60 percent off as the store would want you to believe.
Why is this? As we saw above, the right calculation is at each step to multiply by the percentage paid, not add the percentage off. Therefore, no matter what the original price is, the percentage paid equals (0.7*0.8*0.9)*100=50.4 percent. That's 49.6 percent off!
This is not addition like the word "additional" suggests, so there's no reason to believe that adding percentages off will get the right answer. That's how a store can take 75 percent off and then an additional 40 percent off AND still take some of your money.
Surprisingly, the percentage off does not depend on the order in which the discounts are taken. To see this, rewrite the final price of my green shirt as 0.9*[0.8*(0.7*50)]. This is mathematically equivalent to taking 30 percent, then 20 percent, then 10 percent off of that. But, we could have just as well taken 20, then 30, then 10 and we would have gotten the same result because 0.9*0.8*0.7=0.8*0.9*0.7 (multiplication commutes).
So, the next time you are in a department store, remember your grade school math, and you'll easily know what you pay at the register.


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Quote: "The Environment Agency has already reissued guidance urging waste site operators to step up fire prevention measures following the series of fires at recycling and waste storage depots in recent months."
Quote: "The recent spate of large-scale incidents at recycling plants and sites across the UK has emphasized the need for all operations involved in this kind of work to urgently reassess their fire safety procedures and take a more proactive approach."
Quote: "In the same neighborhood about a year ago, several cars caught on fire after a series of manhole explosions below ground, according to CBS New York."
Quote: "Fireman quote: 'If I wasn't gettin' paid, I wouldn't be standin' here right now. Could blow any second.'"
Quote: "A Beaver County nuclear power plant remains offline today as workers with FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Co. check damage from an explosion and electrical wiring fire that broke out Tuesday evening."
Note: Much like all the 'electrical fires' hitting vehicles, but on a bigger scale, with greater effects. Hydrogen sulfide is reactive with copper, especially electrified copper. It's also a heavier-than-air gas and will tend to accumulate in low-lying areas when the wind isn't blowing it on. All nuclear plants require water for cooling, meaning they are all near a low-lying area; that's why the water is there - water is also obviously heavier than air. This nuclear plant is right next to the Ohio River. The huge new multi-billion-dollar NSA complex in Utah can't function now because electrical units outside the facility keep mysteriously exploding and burning, as mentioned in the 2013-10-08 update. An underground electrical fire just hit coastal Manhattan (New York), as mentioned in the 2013-11-04 update.
It's not hard to extrapolate out with this problem. If we could stop the atmospheric contamination problem, we would have done it before it had gathered such momentum. Since we didn't stop the problem when it was weaker, we certainly can't stop it NOW. So it will get worse and worse and worse, like an invisible tidal wave of doom rising around us. Complete electrical grid collapse? The US government is training for just that, this month, GridEx II, as mentioned in the 2013-10-18 update. Sounds like some prudent training to me.
Quote: "Ward 2 Councilman Ed Shadid said during Tuesday's city council meeting that he was in the Lower JFK neighborhood close to E Reno Avenue and the Derichebourg scrap yard on Monday and heard – and felt – a 'military-grade explosion.' He said smoke drifted into residential sections of the neighborhood, creating something akin to a metallic-tasting 'fog' in the air."
Quote: "Officials at Charlotte Secondary School have closed the school for the day due to an undetermined odor inside the school. Firefighters were called to the school Friday morning on the 8600 block of McAlpine Park Drive to investigate an odor, according to the Charlotte Fire Department. Investigators have not been able to determine what the cause of the odor is."
Quote: "Riverside County Fire Department spokesman Mark Annas said the hot air balloon landed safely, 'and then, there was an explosion.' Authorities were called about 7:45 a.m."
Quote: "A British Airways flight from London to New York has made an emergency landing at Shannon Airport, after smoke was detected in the cockpit."
Quote: "A fire at a scrap metal recycling facility near the Port of Redwood City was brought under control Sunday evening, but firefighters remained on scene trying to fully extinguish it, officials said."
Quote: "Residents in southern San Mateo County and northern Santa Clara County who can smell or see smoke were advised to stay indoors, close their windows and turn off any systems that circulate outside air, emergency officials said."
Note: First link, nice video, but mute the sound else risk your sanity. From the full hypothesis: "Metal-related businesses will be hit hard, including salvage yards and metal recycling centers."
Quote: "The death toll in other countries is just as ugly -- 115 so far this year in Guatemala, 280 in Costa Rica and an undisclosed number in Nicaragua. Another 200 died in late 2012 in Panama."
Quote: "A tanker fire near Echo Dam shut down all lanes on I-80 while crews extinguished the blaze Wednesday morning. At 6:09 a.m., the Utah Highway Patrol received a call of a tanker on fire near Echo Dam in Summit County. The fire began near the brakes on the first of two trailers the semi was towing..."
Quote: "A report came in about 9:15 p.m. that a tractor-trailer's tires were on fire. A few minutes later, authorities received reports that the trailer was on fire. Initial reports from the scene were that the rear brakes may have been burning."
Note: From the full hypothesis: "Massive vehicles such as big RVs, buses, tanker trucks, tractor trailers, dump trucks, and car-haulers will be destroyed by fire in escalating numbers after tires or brakes ignite."
Quote: "The stinky smell is not the problem anymore in Bridgeton. Now, there's concern the landfill is putting something else into the air that could pose a real danger to workers and residents nearby. It's a chemical compound called hydrogen sulfide and according to the health department report, half the days in the last four weeks, air monitors have showed levels that exceeded 'health-based guidelines.' In high concentrations, it can kill a person."
Note: This is the landfill that has an underground fire burning toward an adjacent landfill that houses illegally-dumped nuclear waste from the Manhattan Project. This hydrogen sulfide problem here is a microcosm of the planetary extinction event that is now underway. The oceans are becoming more 'landfill-like' as waters around the world heat up. (All the sh#t and trash we've dumped into the oceans probably hasn't helped matters any either, though this problem would likely have occurred regardless, as it has numerous times in the past.) The heat is also releasing methane stored in methane clathrate deposits, and the ancient anaerobic bacteria and archaea that emit hydrogen sulfide are eating that methane and turning it into hydrogen sulfide.
Quote: "Police say the boy was with his 51-year-old grandfather when the Chevy pickup they were traveling had a problem and they pulled over in the 10500 block of Mt. Evans Drive. The grandfather looked under the hood and that's when the car suddenly caught fire, police said."
Note: And the day prior, a 4-year-old girl burned to death when an RV burst into flame in the South Valley in Bernalillo County (New Mexico), plus two other people were found burned to death in or near burned-out vehicles, as mentioned in the 2013-11-15 update. From the full hypothesis: "Vehicles of all kinds will continue to burn, as they have been, and the number of vehicular fires will continue to escalate, inevitably resulting in a corresponding increase in the number of people being incinerated in their vehicles."
Quote: "The flight from Moscow's Domodedovo airport was making a second attempt to land and exploded when it hit the runway, killing all 44 passengers and six crew on board."
Quote: "Fire personnel had responded there to reports of an odor, when the explosions began."
Quote: "Crews were called to two underground transformer fires late Sunday..."
Quote: "We threw several thousand gallons of water and foam and dry chemical on this fire to no avail."
Quote: "Cypress Country has determined there is no viable way of extinguishing the blaze at this time. Nine homes in the immediate area are under mandatory evacuation."
Quote: "An electrical problem in a sub-basement mechanical room caused the thick smoke Thursday night that billowed through Swedish Medical Center-Edmonds."
Quote: "There were initial reports that an electrical transformer fire had spread to the surrounding grass..."
Quote: "Oakland firefighters also responded to a two-alarm fire at 54th Avenue and International Boulevard Thursday night. The fire broke out at a vacant building that used to house a supermarket."
Quote: "A blast ripped through an underground electrical vault beneath a vehicle stopped at an Irvine intersection today, jarring but not injuring the driver and knocking out power to nearly 3,000 utility customers..."
Quote: "The site is closed during the winter so no one was present..."
Quote: "People have lost caravans and possessions. Some people have lost caravans that are only a couple of weeks old. There are a lot of very upset people here."
Quote: "Battalion Chief Charles Patton said a 32-year-old man was pumping gas into his vehicle when a fire erupted, catching his pants on fire, as well as part of the vehicle. Eyewitnesses said the man initially panicked and ran. A couple of people grabbed portable fire extinguishers and extinguished the fire on the man and his vehicle."
Quote: "'I don't smoke, nor use my cell phones when pumping gas,' says Nikki May."
Quote: "What was that boom? What was that flash of light? And where were they coming from? Hudson, St-Lazare and towns farther afield were rocked briefly by the sound of an explosion and a flash of blue-green light in the night sky at around 8 p.m. Tuesday. But the source of the big boom remains a mystery."
Note: Lots of bodies of water around this area. These mysterious explosions - sometimes accompanied by a flash of light - are likely atmospheric hydrogen sulfide and/or methane plumes finding an ignition source and detonating. Methane burns blue and hydrogen sulfide burns green. The flash of light was blue-green. These mysterious explosions really started getting going a couple of years back, right around the time that methane releases around the world began accelerating and 'rotten egg' odors started being mentioned with some frequency. That's not a coincidence. Eventually these explosions may rival those generated by small nuclear bombs, like the fission explosion that destroyed Hiroshima, but minus the radiation. Poison gas, fires and explosions are the reasons governments around the world have been industriously constructing underground facilities; living on the surface of the Earth will be impossible. Don't tell me they've forgotten to mention that to you!?
Quote: "The sheriff's office confirmed the plane had pieces falling off of it when it went down Wednesday afternoon. Witnesses said they heard a large explosion just before the plane began to break apart."
Quote: "A raging fire on a Brooklyn subway track left hordes of hungry holiday straphangers stuck without Brooklyn-bound train service for hours Thursday..."
Quote: "A loud explosion at the back of the Daphne Joseph-Hackett theatre reportedly sparked a fire at a building housing a major transformer that powers Queens Park."
Quote: "Stonington police said they received more than 100 calls from people across the town who reported hearing at least four loud 'booms'. They got their first call at 9:11 a.m., police said."
Quote: "Police have stopped actively investigating explosive sounds that shook homes in Old Mystic Friday after being unable to find the source of the booms."
Quote: "The Feng Yu Covered Bridge, in Chongqing, China, is known throughout the Far East for its traditional beauty topped by a pagoda-style roof that stretched 303 metres across the region's Apeng River. But last night the five-metre-wide crossing, first built in 1591, collapsed into the waters as the blaze turned it to ashes."


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"I have never forgotten my comrades"
Hurricane pilot Sqn Ldr Tony Pickering will never forget those he flew alongside during the Battle of Britain.
Like many of 'The Few', Tony was just a teenager when he was tempted to join the RAF Volunteer Reserves and learn to fly. Enticed by the offer of two shillings an hour and the opportunity to head to the skies, Tony spent his weekends learning to fly the Tiger Moth.
When war broke out Tony was sent to become a fighter pilot, simply because of his height! Smaller pilots flew Spitfires and Hurricanes and taller recruits were sent to serve with bomber squadrons.
Tony said: "I have never forgotten my comrades. There were some really great people, very humble people. I flew both the Hurricane and the Spitfire afterwards. The Spitfire was an excellent fighter.
"It is a lovely sound, the sound of a Merlin engine. It brings back memories for me, memories I have never forgotten."
Tony was posted to 32 Squadron in August 1940, and joined the Battle of Britain. He was shot down in action over Caterham on 11 September the same year. He baled out, unhurt and landed in the Guards Depot. After a swift explanation to the guards who thought he was a German airman, Tony was returned to his station and back flying the very next day.
He said: "Because of the importance of the battle it's necessary for people to understand how very near we were to losing. It's important to remember – not only the pilots but the ground crew, the civilians, everybody who did their job.
"We were asked to do something and we did it."
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Taxation of this sector was loaded with multiple taxes including Value Added Tax (VAT), Service Tax, Stamp Duties etc. There is no uniformity in taxation, as real estate was being subject to tax by State Governments, tax rates of which varies state to state.
The burdensome compliance and denial of credit made it extremely difficult for builders and developers to comply with tax laws. AT that time it was thought that GST would a boon for the struggling industry.
Paragraph 5(b) of schedule II of CGST Act, 2017 states that: The following shall be treated as supply of services being "Construction of a complex, building, civil structure or a part thereof, including a complex or building intended for sale to a buyer, wholly or partly, except where the entire consideration has been received after issuance of completion certificate, where required, by the competent authority or after its first occupation, whichever is earlier".
Above reproduced paragraph in simple words says that "if entire sale consideration of a property is received after issuance of completion certificate or its first occupation" then it would be free from GST. However if any amount let's say even 1% of total consideration, is received before the completion certificate or occupation then GST will be levied on the entire consideration.
Currently residential properties sold before getting the completion certificate are liable to 18% rate of GST, however a one-third of 18% is given as abatement for the value towards land hence effective rate of GST is 12% on residential properties.commercial properties with the facility of input tax credit. Effective rate of GST on affordable housing is 8% with the facility of Input Tax credit.
Rationalization of tax rates one of the biggest expectation of this sector from day of GST implementation. Any reducation of tax rates in reality sector would not only boost the sales for the real estate sector but would also allow the benefits to reach the ultimate consumers. However any restriction on input tax credit would result in massive cascading effect of taxes and lowering the profits of the industry. In an interview to ANI, Hon'ble Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi said that his government wants to impose a 5 percent GST on all classes of residential properties, completed or under construction. If this is done then it will be game changer for the Real Estate Sector as it will have far-reaching impacts and it s expected by many experts that it may revive the stressed Real Estate Sector.
Home buyers and Developers were expecting few things first being cuts in applicable GST rates on properties and secondly comprehensive inclusion of Real Estate sector in GST regime, when the 32nd meeting of GST Council was scheduled to take place on January 10th-2019.
After the Meeting Finance Minister Mr. Arun Jaitley while briefing the media on the decisions taken at the meeting informed on the development for rate cuts in real estate sector that there were diverse opinions in council on the matter and a 7 members group of minister will be formed. And that GoM will give its recommendations on this matter which will be considered in next meeting.
Examine legality of inclusion/exclusion of land or any other ingredient, in Composition and suggest Valuation Mechanism.
This group would required to understand the needs of home-buyers, demands of builders and economic environment. It is expected that group would also acknowledge that many builders are not passing on the benefit of input tax credit to the consumers.
Primary advantage of GST, being full credit on taxes on all procurements of inputs by the builders hasn't fully reached the consumers. Anti-profiteering provisions under GST laws were not successful in checking the price enhancement by builder in the post-GST regime. This forced the government to contemplate a composition scheme without the facility to avail input tax credit, as it will ensure correct pricing policies by the sector as a whole. However, this step is expected to put to hole in the pocket of debt-ridden and financially struggling players.
In India, Real Estate sector has come a long way over the past few years, due to continuously growing income levels of middle class. However this sector still suffers with a lot of problems one of them being complexity of Taxation Structure. In recent times this sector has shown slowdown or shown extremely sluggish growth, due to unfavorable rates of taxes and high rates of interest on home loans. Industry and home buyers were expecting some rationalization of tax rates in new year, but that didn't happen in GST Council meeting. However as GoM is formed it can be expected that tax concessions for the Real Estate sector would be unveiled in next few months.


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Galilee Coal Basin: Newman's Fire-sale on the Climate
Submitted by Cam Walker on Thu, 07/11/2013 - 16:03
MEDIA RELEASE Thursday 7th of November, 2013
At today's Major Project Conference, Newman has announced a fire-sale on the climate and the Great Barrier Reef according to environment group Friends of the Earth Brisbane.
Campbell Newman announced at the Major Projects Conference in Brisbane this morning that the Government would negotiate discounted royalties with the first mining companies in the Galilee basin, effectively subsidising their costs.
The global coal industry is in decline, and with BHP pulling out of Abbot Point coal port this week, it's not clear why Newman is interfering in the market in this case.
"Newman is propping up an unethical and unsustainable industry" said spokesperson Bradley Smith. "He should be subsidising solar, not coal".
"He's doing everything the coal industry wants to get these projects up, but is recklessly jeopardising the climate and the reef," said spokesperson Bradley Smith.
"Digging up the Galilee Basin coal is the last thing our planet needs. The coal will be exported along with the profits, leaving Queensland with nothing but a big hole," said Bradley Smith.
Planned mines in the Galilee Coal Basin would extract a combined 302 million tonnes of coal pollution each year on Government numbers, a carbon dioxide contribution of about 700 million tonnes, far in excess of Australia's domestic emissions.
"The heat-waves, fires and floods are getting worse, and the Galilee basin coal would push the climate even further into dangerous territory."
For more information, visit www.sixdegrees.org.au
For interview and photo opportunities, please contact Bradley Smith, Media Spokesperson, ph: 0413 280 006, email: bradley.smith@archive.foe.org.au


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Land Grabbing Still A Major Challenge, Minister
Kabul (BNA) Minister of Justice Abdul Basir Anwar, during a press conference here yesterday at the Government Media and Information Center (GMIC) presented his ministry's three-year report of activities, saying land grabbing by powerful figures was still a major challenge before government.
The minister meanwhile said inroads into resolving land grabbing problems had been made by the ministry and so far more than 36 thousands of hectares of state-owned landswere prevented from being usurped and 69 million of USD were saved for government.
"During the three years of the National Unity Government, we have prevented powerful individuals from grabbing of 36 thousands hectares of state-owned land and we have defended numerous claims," the Minister told the press briefing on Saturday.
He went on saying that they have also saved land and property worth over $609 million USD, more than 2.4 billion Afs during this period.
According to the minister 65 political parties and 2940 social associations were also registered in the ministry in last three years.
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