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UK's youngest female terrorist jailed over London bomb plot after judge rejects claims she is 'no longer a Muslim' – The Sun
BRITAIN'S youngest female terror plotter has today been caged for life over a plot to bomb London after a judge rejected her claims she has been de-radicalised.
Safaa Boular, 18, was branded the "Mad Hatter" after she used coded language with an Alice in Wonderland tea party theme to discuss the murderous scheme.
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The UK's youngest convicted female terrorist came up with the plan after her passport was seized to stop her joining her ISIS fighter husband Naweed Hussain, 32, in Raqqa, Syria
She even went on a "reconnaissance journey" around major landmarks in Westminster – taking a chilling selfie outside M16 headquarters.
Boular has now been caged for life with a minimum of 13 years at the Old Bailey after being found guilty of preparing acts of terrorism abroad and in the UK.
She is the youngest female to be charged with planning an IS attack in the UK.
He lawyers told the court the teenager had been "groomed" into Islamist ideas and is now "no longer a Muslim".
But Judge Mark Dennis QC rejected that, saying: "In my view there's insufficient evidence to say at this stage this defendant is a truly transformed individual. Her views were deeply entrenched."
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Rizlaine Boular, top with her sister Safaa, front, left and mum Mina Dich
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On the 'reconnaissance journey' around the major landmarks in Westminster including MI6, she snapped this selfie
He added: "However much she may have been influenced and drawn into extremism, it appeared she knew what she was doing and acted with open eyes.".
Boular first began planning a grenade and gun attack on the British Museum when she was thwarted from joining her ISIS husband in Syria.
She then passed the baton to her sister Rizlaine, 22, after she was arrested and remanded in custody for trying to travel to the war zone.
Her fellow plotters admitted their roles before the trial and were sentenced in June.
Rizlaine received life imprisonment with a minimum of 16 years and Dich was jailed for an extended sentence of 11 years and nine months – six years and nine months in prison and five years on licence.
Judge Dennis said: "It would appear that by 2012, 2013, a new theme had emerged in the family, namely Mina Dich's increasing move towards a conservative and ultimately more extreme version of the Islamic faith."This affected not only her mindset and approach to daily life.. but also that of her daughters."
CCTV footage shows Mina Dich and Rizlaine Boular purchasing knives at a supermarket amid ISIS inspired terror plot on London with Safaa Boular
Speaking after the trial in June, Boular's 52-year-old dad said: "It started in the house.
"If my children lived among other kids, free like everybody else's, then none of this would've happened.
"Whatever they have done is to please the mother.
"If the mother is happy, they're happy. If they went against her will, then they would see a huge punishment. Social services failed to do their job."
The women were snared in a "proactive" investigation involving surveillance by counter-terrorism police and MI5 agents posing online as IS operatives.
Counter-terrorism chief Dean Haydon, of Scotland Yard, said the case demonstrated a worrying rise in youngsters being arrested for terrorism.
The court heard how Boular was just 16 when she was wooed online by Coventry-born IS fighter Naweed Hussain, 32.
The couple got married in an online ceremony and talked of donning his-and-hers suicide belts to achieve martyrdom together.
She was filmed lurking outside the MI6 headquarters in central London
Police uncovered Boular's plans to join him following an airport stop in August 2016 and confiscated her passport.
While on bail, Boular turned her attention to an attack on the British Museum, encouraged by Hussain in "lovey-dovey" messages.
Burka-wearing Boular also scoped out the MI6 headquarters near her home, and took a selfie in front of the building, the court heard.
Hussain was lured into revealing his murderous intentions to British secret service agents posing as IS supporters online before he was killed in a drone strike.
When an agent pretending to be his commander informed Boular of his death on April 4 last year, she was wracked by grief and resolved to join him.
Chilling footage shows Britain's youngest female terrorist outside MI6 headquarters where she posed for a selfie
She revealed to the undercover officer that Hussain had talked about attacking the British Museum with a "tokarev" Russian-made pistol and "pineapples" – code for grenades.
On being remanded in custody over her attempt to travel to Syria, Boular persuaded fellow IS supporter Rizlaine Boular to take up the baton.
In coded telephone calls involving their mother Mina Dich, 44, the sisters discussed a traditional English tea party with an Alice in Wonderland theme.
Rizlaine Boular said she knew "a few recipes for some amazing cakes" for a "proper like English tea party kind of thing".
Safaa and her mum were filmed on CCTV buying a pack of Sainsbury's kitchen knives, including one with a six-inch blade, and a rucksack
Safaa Boular suggested a "Alice in Wonderland theme" telling her sister: "You can be the Mad Hatter 'cause your hair's crazy."
Mother-of-four Dich responded: "That will be fun."
Rizlaine Boular then set about reconnaissance around the Palace of Westminster, and bought knives and a rucksack from Sainsbury's.
She was accompanied by Dich, unaware that they were under surveillance by counter-terrorism police.
Rizlaine Boular shared her plans with her friend Khawla Barghouthi, 21, and even practised a knife attack at her home in Willesden, north west London.
She was shot when armed police moved in to arrest the gang but went on to make a full recovery.
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Safaa Boular is seen in court
Picture shows the inside of Safaa Boular's London flat where she plotted the Alice in Wonderland-themed terror attack
She wanted to get married and live peacefully in Raqqa, where women were not called "umbrella" or "post box" for wearing Islamic dress, she said.
Three times, she said Hussain urged her to attack the UK – over Christmas 2016, Valentine's Day and around her birthday in March last year – but she rebuffed him.
Boular, who viewed gory beheadings and chatted about killing US President Barack Obama, told jurors: "Nothing online is real."
In the year since she had been in custody, she said she had changed and now opts to wear Western clothes rather than a burka.
Rizlaine Boular, and Dich, from Vauxhall, south London, pleaded guilty to preparing acts of terrorism and Barghouthi admitted failing to alert authorities.
April 27 2017: Cops in Willesden battle to treat Rizlaine Boular – first female terror suspect shot in UK history
Boular encouraged her sister Rizlaine Boular, 21, to carry out a knife attack at the Houses of Parliament
Mr Haydon, Senior National Coordinator for Counter Terrorism, said: "This was without doubt a major investigation, a proactive investigation. This involved a family with murderous intent, the first all-female terrorist plot in the UK connected to Daesh.
"It's difficult to say if we will see more females. We have seen young children involved in martyrdom attacks. We have seen Daesh using young children.
Boular, 18, decided on a grenade and gun ambush at the British Museum after her ISIS fiance Naweed Hussain was killed before she could join him
Police photos of firearms were shown to jurors at the Old Bailey
Mina Dich, 44, has pleaded guilty to assisting daughter Rizlaine Boular
Safaa Boular was 'planning to wear a suicide belt'
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"Here in the UK, we have seen an increase in young people, teenagers, getting involved.
"Arrests of youngsters have increased over the last 12 months and clearly that is a concern for us."
He described Safaa Boular as a "confident, articulate, intelligent and a relatively mature 18-year-old" who had been "quite devious" in the way she hid her plans
He added: "As a family unit they are pretty dysfunctional. On the evidence we can see they had access to a vast amount of extremist material."
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Melissa St Vil – Refocused And Ready To Rumble
Stepping into the Joe Hand Boxing Gym on North 3rd Street in Philadelphia, on Saturday, the week before her co-main event fight at Kings Theater in Brooklyn, I knew I had arrived at the right place when I heard boxer Melissa St Vil exclaim, "heeeeyyyyyyyy" in her beautiful high-pitched voice.
She gave me a warm hug and then lit up with a smile that could melt the hardest of hearts. Dressed in lime green workout clothes, and sporting pink compression knee highs, she quickly turned back to the heavy bag and began circling with a succession of jabs and straight right combinations, high and low jabs, and heavy-handed body shots that landed with thudding precision.
Her manager and trainer, Brian Cohen stood by, with pads at the ready, as he called out, "Thirty seconds, Mel."
Turning around from the bag to face him, St Vil threw punches in combination in response to his calls focusing on upper cuts and hooks to the imagined body of her opponent. Attacking each task with focus and force, St Vil, executed Cohen's commands: "Power, Mel, power," he said, before switching it up to "speed, speed." St Vil, every bit the champion, continued to respond with precision as if she was on a seek-and-destroy mission.
At 35, Melissa St Vil (10-3-4), is Haiti's first female boxing champion—along with being one of a rarefied group of Brooklyn's professional female boxing champions sorority, a group that includes Alicia Ashley, Heather Hardy, Ronica Jeffrey, Amanda Serrano, and Alicia Napoleon. She's also been a road warrior, fighting and winning in such places as Auckland, New Zealand, where she became the WBC Silver Female Super Featherweight champion, and Chengdu, China, where she not only retained her WBC title, but also added the International Boxing Union, World Super Featherweight Title over Katy Wilson (18-1 at the time of the battle).
Most recently she traveled to Kulttuuritalo, Helsinki, where she fought Eva Walhstrom for the WBC World Female Super Featherweight title. While she lost the fight 95-95, 97-93, 96-94, she was able to put her opponent on the deck (though ruled a slip by the referee), and otherwise showed grit and a fearsome barrage of fighting power against the long odds of battling a champion in her hometown.
In the current calculus of rankings, St Vil is ranked number one and according to her, Walhstrom has to be willing to fight her, "or they're going to strip her."
St Vil is no stranger to adversity or challenges. With a professional boxing career that began in 2007, she has not only fought against opponents in the ring, but against the changes in momentum and fortune that have beset female boxers in this era. She has also had to fight against her own demons of abuse and hardship, not to mention the notoriety of her experiences fighting and living in Las Vegas when she came into the orbit of the Mayweather family.
Her recent loss to Walhstrom also brought about some deep soul-searching, which has resulted in a renewed commitment to her boxing. As part of that process, she decided to take a break from her long time trainer, Leon "Cat" Taylor.
While still very close with Taylor, St Vil, sought out her former manager, Brian Cohen, to help refocus her career and bring her to the next level. That change has already brought about results with a new promotion deal with DiBella Entertainment—beginning this coming Saturday, September 29, 2018—not to mention her boxing debut in her hometown of Brooklyn, New York.
According to Brian Cohen, she has "done really well in ticket sales," which, he feels will make Lou DiBella very happy.
"This is the first time she's fighting in Brooklyn, the first time she's selling tickets … so this is a big deal for her, and she's such a road warrior, this is what she deserves and this is what she needs. And, I'm proud of her, she put in a tough camp … and I'm very happy to be back with her."
Brian Cohen went on to speak about her upcoming bout saying, "What I hope to achieve, is the recognition and the respect she deserves. She's been fighting her whole life and hasn't gotten the breaks she so well deserves … what people are really going to see is what Melissa St Vil brings to the table."
Cohen also brought out the fact the St Vil is rated number one for the WBC and is the mandatory for the IBF as well, which should mean a chance for even greater opportunities. "That, along with having the "horsepower" behind her of a promoter like Lou DiBella, something St Vil has not had in her career, should help propel her towards a title opportunity in the near future."
Brian went back to working with St Vil as she completed her training circuit, and after lunch at a local diner, he drove us to his home in South Philly, a cozy split level with an outdoor space that looked out on an unobstructed view of the Phillies stadium. After a few minutes, Melissa St Vil and I went upstairs to talk in Brian Cohen's office—the afternoon light soft through the windows. After settling in she began by speaking about her journey in the sport.
"Boxing was my savior," she said, "I came up in an abusive household and when I found boxing, I knew, this is where I belong." Taking a moment, she reflected, "Being in the gym, it took me to a different place and I just felt good in the gym."
With eleven years of professional boxing behind her, St Vil is now looking forward to her next challenges. As she talked more I could see that she was not only feeling confident, but in heading to the relative quiet of Brian Cohen's home and her hours at the gym every day, she'd had the chance to revel and delight in her boxing, away from the realities of her life in Brooklyn. The training regimen had also brought her a new understanding of her boxing. "Coming here," she said, "being in a peaceful space, being around people with good energy, and staying focused has made a big difference."
Her time in Philly has also given her the chance to go back to basics and under Brian's careful tutelage; she's been refining her boxing skills. "He corrects my feet, tells me when my hands are low, tells me how to turn the jab, and he's even there when I hit the speed bag and when I do my sit ups," she said.
Having that attention has allowed her to focus more on her boxing, but more importantly, she feels that he is there to support her when she's in the ring.
"My sparring has been good work," she said. And in speaking about Brian's role she noted that he's been helping her understand how to really engage with her opponent. "I've just been discovering my eyes and what it means to sit down on my punches in the ring. I'm discovering my jab and what my jab can do."
St Vil has also been discovering how to relax in the ring. "Yes relax," she said, "relax, use that jab, and realizing that everything's coming." She can also hear Brian telling her "don't rush it … use that jab, sit down on your punches, and he's right there watching everything, from my feet, to my hips, to my head movement, to my eyes … and telling me, 'don't go out there and waste punches, pick your shots and box, you fight when you want to fight, everything doesn't have to be such a hard fight.'"
"My whole boxing journey was a bumpy road …" St Vil reflected, but now as she put it, "I'm fighting in Brooklyn for the first time, I have a promoter for the first time, so I feel like my time is now, and I'm ready."
When I asked her what she saw for herself in the future, St Vil's smile broadened and she said, "For right now I see myself going straight to the clouds, all the way up."
As she spoke she raised her arms above her head and with exuberance said, "Because now we have a plan, I'm not just going out there, with people saying, 'hey do you want to take a fight?' Okay … 'Who's your manager?' I don't have one … and so on."
After another moment she said, "I have always had faith in myself, because I know what I can do, if I have someone who can believe in me and show me and help me on the right path. I can do anything."
When asked what the secret to success in the sport is, St Vil put it this way. "You have to have a good team that knows their stuff."
The difference now, is that St Vil has a team.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged #girlswithguts, #hardwork, #womensboxing, Alicia "Slick" Ashley, Alicia Napoleon, Amanda Serrano, Brian Cohen, DiBella Entertainment, Eva Walhstrom, girlboxing, Heather Hardy, inspiration, inspirational, International Boxing Union, Joe Hand Boxing Gym, Katy Wilson, Kings Theater, Leon "Cat" Taylor, Lou DiBells, Melissa St. Vil, Ronica Jeffrey, WBC Silver Female Super Featherweight, WBC World Female Super Featherweight, women's boxing on September 28, 2018 by Girlboxing.
Tiara Brown is a boxer
Tiara Brown is a boxer.
Super featherweight Tiara Brown signed with DiBella Entertainment on May 21, 2018.
Since she first put on the gloves at the age of 13, there isn't a day that has gone by when she hasn't thought about the sport of boxing. Now, at the age of 29 and after nearly 17 years in the sport, the former amateur USA Boxing National Champion and AIBA World Champion has a 4-0 professional record with two KOs. She is also on the cusp of making another leap forward in her boxing career.
Today, that next level will begin with the announcement that she has signed with DiBella Entertainment, joining such female boxing stars as Heather Hardy, Raquel Miller, Alicia Napoleon, Amanda Serrano, and Shelito Vincent.
Lou DiBella made the announcement on Twitter today.
A police officer with the Washington DC police force where she works in community policing, Brown also has new representation with Preeminent PR and has begun training with DC-based trainer Buddy Harrison to complete her transformation from an elite amateur fighter to that of a fearsome professional.
As she works with her new team, her first challenge will be her upcoming main event performance in a six-round battle against boxer Carla Torres (5-5 1-KO). Not only is Brown going up in weight from featherweight where Boxrec ranks her 6th in the USA, but in fighting Torres, she will be stepping up her competition to that of a boxer who has fought such fighters as Ronica Jeffrey, Olivia Geruda, and Amanda Serrano.
Brown is well aware of the challenges and as she works with her trainer on making adjustments to her fighting style to include the basics of old school fundamentals and learning how to read her opponent in the ring, she says, "I am here and I deserve to be here."
And in stepping up in weight to super featherweight, she is also beginning an ascent that will eventuate in challenging fighters at lightweight.
More than anything, Brown is clear that a year from now she wants to say, "I am a 7-0 fighter with a title belt."
Anxious to make a statement in boxing, she looks to such female boxers as Ann Wolfe, Katie Taylor, and her former USA Boxing teammate Raquel Miller for inspiration. From Ann Wolfe, she is learning how to place her punches with precision and explosive power and from Katie Taylor, she is emulating her ability to use combinations and angles to cut off an opponent's ability to answer back. And from Raquel Miller, a true sister of the ring, she derives strength from watching Miller's poise, balance, and strength.
When she isn't fulfilling her duties as a police officer or her many extracurricular activities mentoring teens, Brown is in the gym, working alone or with a trainer. Back at home, she watches fights on YouTube or wherever she can find them, whether it's figuring out how to adapt Lomachenko's mastery of angles and footwork, or checking in on the competition as she looks to climb her way up to winning championship belts.
As she says, "I am a fighter," and given her talent, her drive, and her spirit, she will meet the challenges ahead with fortitude and perseverance.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged #girlpower, #womensboxing, AIBA, Alicia Napoleon, Amanda Serrano, Ann Wolfe, Boxrec, Buddy Harrison, Carla Torres, DiBella Entertainment, girlboxing, Heather Hardy, Katie Taylor, Lou DiBella, Olivia Geruda, Preeminent PR, Raquel Miller, Ronica Jeffrey, Shelito Vincent, Tiara Brown, USA Boxing, USA Boxing National Championships, women's boxing, YouTube on May 21, 2018 by Girlboxing.
Melissa St. Vil – Ready to Rumble
Boxer Melissa St. Vill by the "wall" at Brooklyn's world famous Gleason's Gym. Photo credit: Malissa Smith
Melissa St. Vil is a boxer with plans.
Her first plan is to win the UBF World Female Super Featherweight title on November 12th at Martin's Valley Mansion in Cockeysville, MD. With her 6-1-3 record, she'll be fighting the more experienced Jennifer Salinas (17-3-0, 4-KOs), in her backyard, but that doesn't seem to worry St. Vil. With just seven fights to her credit, she defeated Sarah Kuhn to win the International Women's Boxing Federation (IWBF) World Welterweight title in August of 2013. And while St. Vil has only had two fights since them (in 2014), she feels confident that she has what it takes to win.
The Royal Six boxers, Ronica Jeffrey (l) and Melissa St. Vil at the recent Breast Cancer event at Gleason's Gym. Photo Credit: Malissa Smith
As a member of The Royal Six, a group of New York based female boxing champions (Alicia Ashley, Ronica Jeffrey, Sonya Lamonakis, Keisher "Fire" Mcleod, and Alicia Napoleon), she is actively engaged in promoting the sport, raising money for charity and helping to put together an all female boxing card in the spring.
Winning world championships and promoting female boxing arent's her only plans. She also wants to give back. To make a place of safety and sanctuary for girls and women to overcome violence and to find a place for themselves in the world. With her infectious laugh, it is hard to imagine that St. Vil would have ever known pain or violence–but she did. As with many of us the world over, it's the fighting back to take possession of one's own life that is the biggest challenge.
Melissa was kind enough to take time from her training with Leon "Cat" Taylor and Juan Guzman to speak with Girlboxing readers about her upcoming fight. We didn't touch upon the dark stuff at all–just talked about boxing, moving on in life and her passion for the sport.
Here's what she had to say:
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Usually I install programs into custom directory located on other partition than system one.
I noticed, that SA updater installs the newer version into default its directory (c:\Program Files (x86)\SQL Assistant 7\) instead of the one chosen for previous installations. IMO installer should re-use the path.
I believe it actually does, or at least it's supposed to do that, but if the program has been installed in multiple places, it picks the first one it finds in the registry. To update an instance in a customized location, please download the setup from the web site and run it manually not using check for updates function.
I've checked registry settings, make sure they point properly to current installation location (in my case D:\_programs\SQL Assistant 7\". Unfortunately the updater is still trying to install SA into "Program files (x86)\SQL Assistant 7\" dir.
Even installer itself suggests program files directory, while there is SA already installed so it should know its location.
Hello. I'm going to log this as an issue in our support system. It requires further investigation.
Still, installer run in update mode (spawned by SA itself) silently installs into "Program Files (x86)" directory, while previous build was in another location.
When starting installer in install mode, it shows "Program Files (x86)" directory as default path.
After year of waiting, it's starts to be a bit annoying.
I'm so sorry for the inconvenience. This ticket isn't yet handled. It's still in the queue.
Actually, I have missed some notes in the related ticket. there were some related changes in 9.0.176, which if I understand them correctly, may resolve the issue at hand. would you please give it a try and upgrade to the latest build?
If something has been improved, it didn't show up while updating to this version.
I can confirm, the issue has been fixed in build 9.0.185.
I've checked update as well as installation process.


What if every person got a chance to go back in time just once and change something they said or did? Each person would be able to do this just once. They can use it at any point in their lifetime. They would only get to use this once and that would be it. I'd definitely use this. I would go back to 2 years ago. I guess I really should go back to 2 and a half years ago to take back something mean I said to someone that I was just getting to know... Something I definitely wish I had never said about writing stuff online (and here I am writing it online... life is ironic I suppose... ). I know if I never would have said that mean thing I could have possibly had something great at this very moment. But because of something stupid I said... here I am... regretting that online convo that I still remember clear as day like it was yesterday.
That's what I would go back to. I would change that and have never said that mean thing and... just have said what was really on my heart! Which was... I like you a lot. Buuuuut I didn't say that... I said something stupid instead. And then I spent years trying to figure out a way to fix things... and then I just said even more stupid things and did even more stupid things to mess it up even more instead of fixing it.
I guess that's why we always seek forgiveness?
It really just has me thinking about how sometimes our own actions can cause not only pain in our own lives but the lives of those we interact with. I think that's kind of what the show is mostly about... he is all about trying to find out why it's happening TO him... but he is learning that it's also the result of his own actions that things happen TO others... and then in return back to him.
What would you go back and change? Anything? Nothing? I guess maybe the other option that people could choose would be the option not to make any changes and accept how the past was. That's hard though. The hardest thing I think is having someone in the past that you just wish you could talk to sooooooooooo bad... but you know you can't. And maybe if you went back in time and changed that one thing... it would change things? But maybe it wouldn't... maybe it would still end up just the same?
But what if? There is always that what if. What if you could go back and change one thing in the past. What would it be? How would it change your life now? How would it change the lives of others?
I guess I need to think about those questions going forward. How are my actions going to affect others? I guess that's why we can't change the past... we just have to learn from that. And go forward with that memory and grow and change as a person. But I'll be honest... I REALLY wish I could go back and change that mean thing I said that was just stupid of me to say. And if I could I often wonder how different the last 2 and a half years of my life could be? And how different the last 2 and a half years of her life would be?
"I wish that I knew what I know now... when I was younger..."
Tonight I went to REI and took back two pair of pants that had things broken on them. Zippers were busted and one had a whole in the knee and some other things. They have a 100 percent satisfaction on all their products. Soooooo if things break... you can just bring it back and they will credit you and you can go get what you want! Soooo I got two new pair of pants... they were a little more... but that's the idea isn't it? Let you return the broken and then you spend even more money! And I'm a sucker for it.
It's cool because the new pants fit super perfect and I enjoy them just as much as the old ones. I think maybe even if not more than the old ones. Buuuuuut that's not my super awesome new purchase. My awesome new purchase in addition to the pants are these cool cups. Cups? Yea... what's so great about cups you ask? Well... my current cups are cheapy plastic walmart ones. They are starting to get all cloudy. Plastic always ends up getting cloudy on me. I don't get it. It starts out awesome and clear. Then after a while it gets all gross and non-see-thru. Glass doesn't have this problem. But every time I have glass ware it always seems to break. I'll just be lightly washing it and then accidentally nock it against the side of the sink and it's done for. I guess this wouldn't be a problem if I had a dish washer. But I don't have such luxuries.
I've come to realize that relationships/marriage/all that stuff is just never going to happen for me. There are so many better guys out there that any girl that might have any interest in me would just be better off with. I can't see a girl actually saying to herself I choose THIS guy as the ONE I want to be with. Seriously? Me? No. There are SOOOOO many other guys that are just soooooooo much better. I don't want a girl to have to settle for me. I don't want a girl to have to deal with me. I'm weird... I'm odd... I have a folding bike in my living room attached to a bike trainer that I use to work out with. I wear hiking pants almost every day... I sleep with night lights.
Seriously... I'm not a catch. I'm not anything. No girl will ever be happy with me. I've come to realize that marriage or even a relationship is just no longer in my future. It's just never going to happen for me because any girl I would possibly be with would just always want to change me... they would always wish I was someone more "normal" or better... they would always wish I was the guy out there that they SHOULD be with.
It's just how it is. I wish I could be a guy that a girl would actually want to call "her guy" but it's just never going to happen. I try sooooooo hard and I've tried with sooooo many girls... and eventually they just lose interest. Eventually they just decide we'll be better as friends... and then a few weeks or months or years later there is some other guy they find that works better. I'm never the one that works.
It's just how it has always been and how it will always be. I've come to realize I'm never going to be the "one" that any girl wants.
So every other weekend we're doing 3 day weekends. But that means the other every other is a 1 day weekend. Is it worth it? Oh yes. For sure. So last weekend I worked Saturday and was only off Sunday. This weekend I'm off Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I'm a fan. It's nice to have the overtime money but I think I prefer having the three day weekend over the money. I can make do with downsizing my budgeting. I'm kinda at home being at home. I'm able to work on all sorts of "To-Do" things and creative things.
It's weird how just that one day makes a difference either way. I mean the one day weekend is kinda tiring and it does leave me not completely recharged for the week. But since I know the next week I have an extra day coming up it sorta keeps me going. Then come Thursday it almost feels like a mini vacation. Then by the end of it on Sunday evening I'm about ready to get back to work and completely back in action.
The reason why we're doing Friday instead of Monday is because Friday is usually a little bit less going on. Monday is kind of an all hands on deck hit the ground running type of day. So that's where the idea came from to move the day off to the next weekend and make it a three day weekend. Anywho I feel like having three consecutive days off in a row really gets the ball rolling for creative juices because then I can really get into the zone. By that third day i'm so on it that I'm just way more productive than I could ever be with a regular weekend. The first day is usually wasted just kinda unwinding and getting things in order. Then the second day gets a few things done and by the third day I'm really on track. We'll see what this does for my creative productivity. Hopefully there will be more things on the way. As always I'll post them up as I finish them!
So... it's always good to have a strategy for things. Most especially when making a big purchase! So I definitely have made the decision to buy a new car. I think having a reliable safe economically friendly car is just the responsible thing to do. Now my current car is ok... but it's just sorta... well it's losing it's reliable feel. Every time I go to drive it I get antsy. I get nervous and don't feel confident driving it. It just doesn't feel like it used to even this time last year. It's becoming rather expensive to do repairs. My last couple repair bills for the last 6 months have just been pretty up there. I'd rather be putting that money into a new car that I can feel safe and sound riding around in.
I've done some research and come up with a few cars that I'm going to test drive. The first one I did was the Honda Fit. It's a pretty solid car. It drives really nice and it's very quiet inside! I enjoyed it a lot. But I have come up with a strategy that involves me test driving at least 2 other cars. Test drive 3 cars that I've found to be good candidates for my needs. Those two other cars are actually 3 the Chevy Spark or the Chevy Sonic. I'm going to consider those one car for now because I'll test drive both and then decide which one to include in the list. Then the last car is the Ford Fiesta. I also was considering the Mazda3. But I'm not sure if I will actually test drive that car. Basically I'm just looking for simple reliable cars that get great gas mileage and can possibly have an out the door price tag of under 15k.
As far as the packages or options or any of that stuff... just base models. Base model with nothing but the standard features and as well a regular silver color. Or just whatever they happen to have on the lot. And lastly stick shift. I currently drive a stick shift and rather enjoy it. It's also cheaper! The idea is that I just don't want any extra features. The more features the more there is to break. I just want something that will reliably get me from point A to point B and that's really it. And as well something that will do it and won't cost a lot at the gas pump. I'm really considering the Spark because it gets such great gas mileage and it's super duper less money than the others. But apparently the Fit has gotten great reviews consistently and has a really spectacular track record.
Once I pick out a car that I do like my "part 2" of my strategy is to then go get three prices from three different dealers. Then I will go for another round and tell each of the dealers the prices I got at the other dealer and if they want to sell me the car they have to give me the absolutely lowest price they can because if it's even a few dollars less at the other place... I'm going to buy it from them.
I'll let them fight amongst themselves for the sale. When I was at the Honda place last night I told them I was only there to look and test drive and get information... that I WOULDN'T be buying anytime soon as in at least a month or two out... his response was "what can I do to get you to take this car home tonight"... in my head I thought well you can just give it to me I suppose. Hahah... but I didn't say that. I said "I'd love to... but I just can't. I have a system and I have to compare a list of cars and all that. So just the information and an estimated price will be all I can do tonight." He then did that whole "go in the back" thing and came back out and wrote down a new price of 400 dollars less than the previous one. I told him I would be back to discuss at a later date. He seemed VERY eager to sell me a car!
And as much as I can't wait to be driving to and from work and the grocery store and such in a set of wheels that don't make my nerves go haywire with every bump I feel or noise I hear... I have to wait it out and take all my options into consideration to get the best bang for my buck.
If they are that eager to sell... they will be willing to work with me and be patient and take the time to sell me the car that will fit my needs at the pace that I am interested in. I think it would be really cool if someone created a car company where the car price was the price. There wasn't any "haggling" and that was that. And then they are required to show you the mark up and all the costs involved in how much you pay verses how much the dealer and the sales person gets. And then on top of that there would be like no pushy sales people because no one would get commissions. It would just be buy what you want when you want. And you just order the car online and then show up just to pick it up. And the cars on the lot aren't actually the ones for sale they are just for show. That'd be my kinda car buying situation. I'm not a big fan of the whole "game" thing. And also the prices would be even numbers. LIke 10 grand exactly. Or 12 grand. Or whatever. None of this 11,999.99 stuff. And that would include ALL the fees. So when the sticker says 12 grand. That's the actual price that you pay. There's no extra taxes, fees, or other random charges. Indeedy. But that's not the world we live in. The world we live in is crazy complicated and super chaotic. Soooooo thus my "strategy system" of comparing cars and then comparing dealers and then getting the dealers to fight with each other over my business.
The last thing I plan to do is get the extended warranty. I just want piece of mind and to not have to worry about any more costly repairs. I want to fix my costs so that they are the same no matter what each month and I don't have any more surprise months where I think I'm going to save X dollars and then end up spending way more than I even make that month. Soooooo that's my car purchasing strategy at the moment.
Lately I've been listening to some iTunes U content from a provider called "Academy of Achievement"
I guess they are called providers? I'm not entirely sure. I think that's the best way to describe the organizations that run the channels because they aren't always colleges or universities.
Well anyways the series I'm listening to is called "Authors and Poets". It's pretty great. Each person is a famous author or musician or journalist or playwrights or poet or what have you. And they each get 8 minutes to speak. There are several other series that I hope to get to eventually. They include scientists and nobel prize winners and political leaders and such.
Well most of these famous authors are people you would know that have written some pretty famous novels. A lot of them talk about before they were famous. Like when they wrote their first book. Some of them just talk about how they woke up one morning when they were 35 years old and just started to write out the blue! That's kinda what has happened to me with my books. I'm actually working on two books now. But mostly just the one book. The second is still an idea.
It's super inspiring because before any of these people made it they were just people! It's how most great notable people in the world start out. For the most part they are just regular people and they have regular jobs and they just kind of start with an idea and just keep working at it! I'm still focused on music but the writing thing is still going strong. I've now been working on this book for a good while. I've come up with a whole system for writing it. It's pretty cool. And it's a system I've adapted from songwriting. It seems to be something that can work as well for writing more books. I'm also using something similar to work on my youtube video ideas. I think the best thing to do is to come up with a system that works. Once that is in place things can just flow.
So watch and take in that video and feeling that song and video gives you.
OK then listen to that song... and sorta just take in the images they show... since I can't find a music video.
I guess that's a LOT of books. But that's sorta the idea. It's not really what the book is about. But again... its just... the mood and feeling of the book. Hopeless... to hopeful. Light to dark. Impossible to anything is possible.
As I've been writing the book I constantly watch those two videos for inspiration along with a whole playlist of dozens of other songs and videos.
And from listening to all these other famous authors that's how it started for them. They were too broke to leave their apartments. Or they had lost people to death or divorce or betrayal or lost friends to distance or time.
Or they had just lost hope in the world in general and decided to put the pen to paper and put it all there.
So that's what I'm doing... just combining my life experiences along with my imagination with other artists inspiration and putting it into a novel. Of complete hopelessness becoming a light and hope beyond about the world anything anyone can imagine.
Also it's pretty funny. There are a lot of one liners that just crack me up every time I read them back to myself.
Some of the authors said it took them 5 years to write their first book. So hopefully this won't take me that long. But everyone will have to be very patient. It's going to take me quite some time to finish writing this thing. I would say it's pretty much all worked out. I just have to start connecting things together and fixing logical things that don't completely make sense. Writing a story is a bit like putting together a puzzle. You start with just a bunch of pieces that don't make much sense and then you start to put those together and the picture becomes ever so slightly that much clearer as each piece falls into place. And sometimes you have to take things apart you thought worked and rework them again.
But I am really enjoying the novel writing process! It's pretty neat.
I picked up a loaner car yesterday from the dealer when I dropped off my regular car. I have to get the instrument panel replaced since it's no longer telling me the mileage... it's speaking words to me. Or at least weird symbols and things.
I'd like to get at least 100k out of my car as far as miles go. I think that should be do-able. Then maybe after 100k miles I will consider looking at buying a new car. I'm trying to start saving now for a new one.
In addition to the problem with the instrument panel I also am having the wiper blade motor replaced on the drivers side because it's making noises of the cranking or grinding kind when I turn them on!
Since it's not a service that can be done quickly they allowed me to have a loaner-mobile. It's called the "stallion". Ha... although there isn't anything super special about it. It's just a regular four door sedan. It's nice though to drive something different. I'm guessing it's a 2010 or something like that. It definitely has more power and pep than my car. Also everything is automatic and automated... even the headlights come on and off by themselves! I'm not used to such a nice ride!
To me having all that automated stuff means more things to repair when they start to fail. So I'll stick with my basic rolly polly windows, my manual transmission and turning the lights on and off manually.
So yea hopefully it will be done soon. They actually have to pull the instrument odometer thing out and send it away back to detroit or wherever the Chevy headquarters are. Then they transfer the information from the broken one... to a new one. It's all top secret and done in some underground lab or something like that.
So right now the car is sitting without a display or instrument panel. Hopefully after this I won't have to fix that much as far as big repairs go. I've spent a lot this year in car repairs so I've decided to scale back my driving and just stay in because of it. I'm also considering moving across the street from work when my lease is up so that I won't have to put any miles on my car commuting to and from work. All I can say is cars are very expensive to maintain!


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The role of JCNAS (Joint Committee of the National Amenity Societies)
What is Heritage Help?
Heritage Help has been created by the JCNAS (Joint Committee of the National Amenity Societies), with the support of HistoricEngland, to offer information and advice on matters related to the management and protection of local historic environments.
What is the JCNAS?
The JCNAS (Joint Committee of the National Amenity Societies) brings together a group of national societies interested in the historic environment of England and Wales. Seven bodies form its core membership: the Ancient Monuments Society, Council for British Archaeology, Garden History Society, Georgian Group, Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB), Twentieth Century Society and Victorian Society. All are national, voluntary sector organisations. These societies are described in planning acts, government circulars and other guidance documents as 'The National Amenity Societies'. Together these societies represent many thousands of members who care about all aspects of the historic environment. Through this membership of enthusiasts, and the work of the professional staff in individual organisations, the JCNAS exists to promote understanding, appreciation and care of historic buildings, sites and landscapes.
The core membership of the JCNAS works closely with a range of other organisations that share a concern for the historic environment. These include public-sector bodies such as Cadw and Historic England, organisations representing professional memberships such as the Institute for Historic Building Conservation, private owner-organisations such as the Historic Houses Association, as well as voluntary sector bodies with specialist interests such as the Association of Small Historic Towns and Villages (ASHTAV) and Public Monuments and Sculpture Association (PMSA). Links to all JCNAS members and associated organisations can be found in the Heritage Help directory.
What does the JCNAS do?
The core member-organisations of the JCNAS have a statutory position in the planning process as advisers on certain types of application. Additionally, each organisation is involved with activities such as advice-giving, campaigning, education and training, as well as offering a range of activities and events for members. The societies come together as the JCNAS six times a year to pursue matters of collective interest. Chiefly this is to comment and advise on government policy. In recent times the JCNAS has offered views on matters including the National Planning Policy Framework and the Penfold Review of planning-related controls. The Committee also discusses and comments on a wide range of issues that are connected with current conservation law, finance and practice. In addition, it nominates candidates for various external bodies, including the Church of England's Diocesan Advisory committees.
JCNAS Chairman: John Sell CBE RIBA DIP CONS FRSA
JCNAS Secretary: Matthew Slocombe MA FSA IHBC secretary@jcnas.org.uk


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import org.apache.lucene.analysis.icu.ICUNormalizer2CharFilter;
import org.elasticsearch.common.settings.Settings;
import org.elasticsearch.env.Environment;
import org.elasticsearch.index.IndexSettings;

import java.io.Reader;

/**
 * Uses the {@link org.apache.lucene.analysis.icu.ICUNormalizer2CharFilter} to normalize character.
 *
The <tt>name</tt> can be used to provide the type of normalization to perform.

 *
The <tt>mode</tt> can be used to provide 'compose' or 'decompose'. Default is compose.

 *
The <tt>unicodeSetFilter</tt> attribute can be used to provide the UniCodeSet for filtering.

 */
public class IcuNormalizerCharFilterFactory extends AbstractCharFilterFactory implements MultiTermAwareComponent {

    private final Normalizer2 normalizer;

    public IcuNormalizerCharFilterFactory(IndexSettings indexSettings, Environment environment, String name, Settings settings) {
        super(indexSettings, name);
        String method = settings.get("name", "nfkc_cf");
        String mode = settings.get("mode");
        if (!"compose".equals(mode) && !"decompose".equals(mode)) {
            mode = "compose";
        }
        Normalizer2 normalizer = Normalizer2.getInstance(
            null, method, "compose".equals(mode) ? Normalizer2.Mode.COMPOSE : Normalizer2.Mode.DECOMPOSE);
        this.normalizer = IcuNormalizerTokenFilterFactory.wrapWithUnicodeSetFilter(normalizer, settings);
    }

    @Override
    public Reader create(Reader reader) {
        return new ICUNormalizer2CharFilter(reader, normalizer);
    }

    @Override
    public Object getMultiTermComponent() {
        return this;
    }
}

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This Earth trojan asteroid has been recently discovered. Trojan objects typically orbit one of the stable Lagrange points, L4 and L5, and to a lesser degree L1, L2, L3. I posted a cool animation showing this for Jupiter previously. What's interesting about this find is that it seems this asteroid is in a weird oscillating orbit moving between L3 and L4. I've never heard of anything doing that before, but orbital mechanics gets very chaotic in actual space with lots of other planets and the moon around. The simple theory of the Lagrange points is all well and good, but this looks just weird.


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FTSE GDP Weighted Indexes
GDP-weighted indexes
From time to time the weighting of certain countries within capitalisation-weighted equity indexes may diverge significantly from those countries' share of global GDP.
An example of a dramatic divergence between a country's global equity market footprint and its economic importance comes from late-1980s Japan. In 1989, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Japan's share of world economic output, based upon a purchasing power parity (PPP) valuation of global currencies, was just under 10 percent.
But Japanese stocks reached a collective share of over 40 percent of the FTSE World Index during the same year, reflecting significantly higher stock company valuations at the time in Japan than in other global stock markets.
GDP-weighted equity indices break the link between country weightings and market size by setting country weightings in proportion to GDP, rather than the aggregate of individual companies' (and therefore countries') market capitalisations.
For example, FTSE's GDP Weighted indices use the IMF's five-year GDP forecasts, based upon PPP, as the basis for each country's share within a global or regional index. The FTSE All-World GDP Weighted Index includes developed and emerging segments.
Weighting differences
The difference between a GDP-weighted and a capitalisation-weighted approach can be seen in the bar chart below, which shows the top ten country weighting differences between the FTSE All-World GDP Weighted Index and the capitalisation-weighted FTSE All-World Index.
Significant changes result if the GDP-based weightings are applied to the starting set of countries within the FTSE All-World Index. The weightings of the US, UK, Switzerland and Japan fall by 27.58%, 5.17%, 2.86% and 2.68%, respectively, compared with the capitalisation-weighted versions.
The GDP-weighted approach allocates higher weightings to a number of emerging market countries, notably China (+17.83%), India (+7.53%), Russia (+3.00%) and Brazil (+2.20%).
Applying the GDP-weighted methodology only to the developed countries within the FTSE All-World Index (i.e., to the FTSE Developed Index) results in a reduction in weighting for the US, UK, Switzerland and Australia. Germany, Italy, Korea, Japan, Spain and France see their country weightings increase by a switch from a capitalisation-weighted to a GDP-weighted approach.
Stock markets vs. GDP
Differences in country weightings within a capitalisation-weighted equity index reflect differences in the aggregate sizes of individual countries' equity markets. Such differences reflect several factors: the extent to which a country's economic activity is represented by publicly listed (as opposed to privately owned) companies, the aggregate earnings of those companies and the valuation attached by the average investor to each unit of earnings.
Other things being equal, in countries where the equity market has traditionally played a significant role in providing a source of finance for economic activity, the ratio of the local market's capitalisation to GDP is likely to be higher than in a country where local companies have historically relied on other sources of finance: for example, bank loans or retained earnings.
The chart below, which uses data from the World Bank, reveals significant differences in the ratio of individual countries' equity market capitalisations to the size of their economies, measured via GDP.
Performance of GDP-weighted indexes
In the chart below we show the historical cumulative returns of the FTSE Developed and FTSE Emerging total return indexes, compared to their GDP-weighted equivalents.
Over the period since 16/3/2001, the start of the FTSE GDP Weighted indexes' history, the FTSE Developed GDP Weighted and Emerging GDP Weighted indexes both performed higher than their capitalisation-weighted counterparts.
The performance of the FTSE Emerging GDP Weighted index (relative to the capitalisation-weighted FTSE Emerging index) was significantly greater than the relative performance of the FTSE Developed GDP Weighted index.
An attribution analysis shows that the primary contributing factor to the outperformance of the FTSE Emerging GDP Weighted Index over the period was the GDP Weighted index's overweight position in China. To a lesser extent, the GDP Weighted index's relative overweight position in other emerging markets, such as India and Indonesia, also contributed to its performance.
Uses of GDP-weighted indexes
In the same way as equal-weighted indices, GDP-weighted indexes may be used by those interested in overcoming perceived concentration risks in capitalisation-weighted indices.
GDP-weighting also provides an intuitive link between a global or regional index's country allocations and the relative economic importance of the countries represented by the index.
However, by contrast with a capitalisation-weighted approach, where countries with larger index weightings have more sizeable and liquid equity markets, in a GDP-weighted index there is no automatic link between country weightings and individual equity markets' capacity and liquidity. An increased country allocation based on GDP-weighting may also not reflect the access challenges faced by global investors.
For example, on the basis of GDP-weighting, China achieves a much higher weighting in regional and global equity indexes than if market capitalisation is taken into account, whereas China's domestic equity market is open to non-resident investors only under a restrictive quota system (for further detail, see our FTSE Briefing on China and Global indexes).
Nevertheless, within the overall category of alternatively weighted indexes, GDP-weighted indexes are attracting increased interest from market participants.
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