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Hi Everyone! I'm Steve with Steve's POV.

It's Saturday morning.

Today is the 13th annual Japanese Classic Car Show (JCCS) in LA.

I have 3 cars I am bringing this year!

The first car is leading the way in front of us!

My Hakosuka!

The other 2 cars are not being driven.

But if you look behind me....

The Toyota Crown is on board!!

One more car is hiding behind the Crown on a trailer.

Can you see it from the side mirror?

The Toyota Starlet!

3 awesome cars on their way to JCCS!!!

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While You Laugh [Prod. ONi] - Duration: 3:29.

I Keep Celebrating

Celebrating

My Reality With Death By My Side

While You Laugh

While You Laugh

But I

Keep Celebrating

Celebrating

With Tears By What You Provoked

While You Laugh

While You Laugh

I Don't Understand

What is Happening

Nothing Is Right

Everything Is Being Destroyed

You Lied To Me Once

Then 43

Turns Into Thousands

Nobody Believes In You Now

It's Like Smiling

Smiling At Death

It's Like Smiling

Smiling At Death

My Reality Entertains You

When My Daughter Wasn't Born

My Sister Never Appeared

My Mom Never Said Goodbye

Part Of Me Died

But I

Keep Celebrating

Celebrating

My Reality With Death By My Side

While You Laugh

While You Laugh

But I

Keep Celebrating

Celebrating

With Tears By What You Provoked

While You Laugh

While You Laugh

Far From Being Recognized

Recognized As A Living Being

I'm Only Another Product

Another Product Of Your World

Because In Your World I'm Not Important

Your Put A Price On Me And Treat Me Like An Idiot

While You

While You

While You Laugh

It's Like Living

Living With Death

It's Like Living

Living With Death

I'm Only Alive Because Of My Luck

When My Daughter Wasn't Born

My Sister Never Appeared

My Mom Didn't Say Goodbye

Part Of Me Died

But I

Keep Celebrating

Celebrating

My Reality With Death By My Side

While You Laugh

While You Laugh

But I

Keep Celebrating

Celebrating

With Tears By What You Provoked

While You Laugh

I'm Filled With Tears

While You Laugh

Iveth Isabel

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INSTAGRAM,COME AUMENTARE VELOCEMENTE I FOLLOWERS-TESTATO 28/10/2017-HD - Duration: 5:11.

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HOW YOU'LL BENEFIT FROM THE $15 MINIMUM WAGE! #ONTARIO - Duration: 8:11.

Hello my friends, welcome to the YouTube platform of Blabla Canada!

Today, we will be talking about the minimum wage raise and how...

Oh my god, did you see what happened?!

The Government of Ontario has decided to increase its minimum wage.

Can you just imagine, one second, one second,

how this is going to hurt the majority of small businesses and the economy?

Okay, calm down, calm down, my friend,

just sit down and I will explain to you why this is just a preconceived idea.

What?!

What "what" ?

What "what" ?

What "what" ?

As you said, Ontario has recently decided to increase its minimum wage from

its current level of $ 11.60 today to $ 14 an hour in 2018 to $ 15 an hour in 2019.

And that is way too much! This is a huge burden for small companies!

Okay, okay, okay, I can see that you have the typical argument that business groups have

when it comes to the minimum wage raise.

However, it's a stereotype.

Recent empirical analysis has found that potential job losses remain very, very

small when it comes to the minimum wage raise.

For example, in British Columbia, the CCAP have calculated that a $ 15 minimum wage raise

would only result in less than 1 per cent reduction in the provincial employment rate,

which means that less than 1 percent of the jobs in this province will be gone.

Which means that no, just a tiny minority of small businesses will be forced to fire some people, but not a

great majority of small businesses, as you said.

Oh my God, I did not know that.

It's fine, it's fine, don't worry.

I mean, just get that stereotype out of your mind.

Now, let's come back to the initial topic of this video.

This video seeks to identify who would benefit the most from this change of social progress.

Who would get a raise?

So, looking at the broader picture, it is important to say that this raise will benefit 23% of Ontarians

who are currently working under $ 15 an hour.

To be more accurate, 27% of women and 19% of men will get a raise.

But wait, why is there a greater rate for women?

Because women are more likely to work part-time, they are more likely to take care of their children and their

grandparents or their parents, and then they are more likely to work in low-wage industries.

OOOOOOHHHHHHHH….

Younger Canadians are also being positively affected by this minimum wage.

But what, why?

They have less education, less experience and they are more likely to work part-time while in school.

In fact, 90% of those aged 15 to 19 and 54% aged 20 to 24 will get a raise.

It is a phenomenal policy for young Canadians, why?

Because it will partially solve some issues that they already have, such as the excessively high

housing prices and as well the university and college fees that are so high.

But be careful with these numbers because young teenagers, young Canadians, represent a relatively small

proportion of the people who will get a raise.

In fact, if you see your wage increase due to this raise, you are about as likely

to be a baby boomer as you are to be a teenager.

But, what about the immigrants? Are they benefiting from this raise?

Mhmmm, let me think...

Yes absolutely, a $ 15 minimum wage will have an incredible impact on recent immigrants

who have been here for less than 10 years.

Indeed, over a third would benefit from this new policy.

Some research suggests that Indigenous and racialized workers are also more likely to be working in

low wage industries, which means that they are more likely to get this raise.

Now, let's focus on the types of jobs that Ontarians have and how this can maybe have an impact on

whether or not they will receive a minimum wage raise.

What?

Just listen and you will see.

The majority of Ontarians have a permanent job, but this does not mean that they are full-time jobs.

12% of Ontarians work in non-permanent jobs.

But, there is something very, very interesting when we look at part-time work.

45% of those who are working part-time did not have any choice to work part-time.

They work part-time because they must.

They may need a full-time job, but they simply cannot find any.

Ohhhhh, so I guess this raise will greatly improve the lives of thousands of people who are trying to find

a full-time job and who are experiencing precarious living and working conditions. I guess?

Yes exactly!

But now, let's focus on the three industries that represent 57% of Ontarians who will get a raise.

We have the retail industry, we have the business buildings and other supports

and food and accommodation services.

And I am sure that you have heard from some people that small businesses

represent the greatest proportion of the food and accommodations industries.

And this is again fake news.

Corporate lobbyists have worked so hard to portray these top two industries

for low-wage work as mostly small businesses.

Wait what?!? I am wrong again!

When we look closer at the statistics from the Labour Force Survey for Ontario,

we actually realize that it is big corporations and chain restaurants that represent these top

two industries, and not the local eatery at the corner of your street

or the small mom-and-pop corner stores that you go to for your groceries.

I will give you two numbers.

59% of the workers who would get a raise in these top two industries, so we have retail and food services,

are currently working in companies with more than 500 employees.

And guess what?

Only 17% of those who will see a raise are working in small business.

And guess what again?

Franchises, which represent a common corporate structure for chain restaurants

and fast food establishments, are considered today as small businesses.

Let's put everything into perspective.

Today, a retail, food and accommodation worker who will get a raise will be

3.5 times more likely to be working for a big company rather than a family store.

As we just saw it, it is especially low wage workers who will benefit the most from this minimum wage raise.

When lower households incomes see a sustained rise in their incomes, they will

virtually spend all of it because they were in desperate lack of money.

Most goes to the food, a better healthcare or more education and sometimes, it goes to the rent as well.

But, almost all of this spending stays in the local economy and this is what we call the multiplier effect.

When you boost the minimum wage, you actually boost the economy from the bottom up.

What you need to understand is that the Ontarians who are struggling right now financially will

see a sustained rise in their incomes, will see a few more dollars in

their pockets and will see their living conditions improve.

We are in the 21st century and I think it is very important today to value the hard work of all Ontarians.

Oh, maybe you almost convinced me concerning the minimum wage raise

but I still think that there are negative impacts.

I mean just look at how businesses are replacing their workers with automation,

I mean that is partially due to the minimum wage raise.

Oh yes, but this issue is much more profound than that and actually this is what we call the

robotization of the job market and this is maybe a topic that we will be talking about in the next videos.

If you really like what I blabla about and you think that more people should discover this channel and this video,

please hit that like button and as well share this video on any social media that you want.

That was Blabla Canada, the alternative media by and for the common mortals,

and I will see you in two weeks!

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The tale of three unconventional pitching... - Duration: 13:16.

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Style Mistakes That Totally Age You - Duration: 4:55.

You want a wardrobe that ages just as gracefully as you!

But how do you choose the most flattering pieces?

Experts weigh in on what to avoid, so you'll always look as young as you feel!

Off-balance

Balance is important when it comes to a stylish look.

Wearing oversized clothing disrupts that delicate equilibrium and can really age you.

Orly Schwartz, stylist and wardrobe consultant at Zahavi & Schwartz says, "Many women wear

clothing that hides their shape or fits oversized in a way that just looks like they rolled

out of bed and into a drapey dress...Covering up can look dated and uncomfortable."

Schwartz recommends, "If going with a voluminous or roomy sweater on top, make sure to balance

it with a tailored or slim-fit bottom...For a wide bottom, [balance] it with a fitted

or tailored top."

Personal stylist Susan Padron says, "I think that once women reach a certain age, or their

bodies change after children, they no longer want to wear fitted clothing, so they go to

the opposite extreme.

Wearing a potato sack actually makes you look larger than you are.

[Adding] a cropped jacket gives a visual point to your waist."

Glitter

Padron also says clothing with glitter is akin to an arts and crafts project, and is

ultimately associated with children.

There really is no such thing as grown up glitter when it comes to apparel, so it's

best to accept that fact and avoid glittery tops, bottoms, and everything else!

She says, "If you are an adult, you should not be wearing clothes with glitter...If you

need some sparkle, go with anything with metallic thread in it."

Large prints

Large prints, especially on tight-fitting items like leggings, are an absolute "no way."

They're just too loud and don't help you look your best.

Padron explains, "If you want to wear leggings, because your legs get cold when you're wearing

that adorable sweater dress with boots in the winter...Go with a neutral color like

black, and you'll look just fine."

Those loud, bright leggings are best reserved for the millennial set.

Dating yourself

Unless it's a Halloween costume, wearing an outfit comprised entirely of vintage pieces

or too many accessories from another era can make you look older than you think.

Max Robinson of A. Hume Country Clothing says, "Wearing items of clothing which are typically

designed for older generations is popular among the youth, but the key in looking stylish

is in the pairing of their clothes.

Never pair two items of clothing usually associated with older generations.

This is why pairings like a tweed jacket with skinny jeans is quite popular."

Diane Pollack, wardrobe consultant and personal stylist in New York City, says, "I don't believe

that everyone wants to be the trendiest person around.

But when a piece of clothing looks like a relic, the person wearing it will, too."

Pearl fail

While ladylike pearls are enjoying a Renaissance, there is a wrong way to wear them.

Leon Rbibo, president of Los Angeles-based The Pearl Source, says that while celebs like

"Rihanna, Taylor Swift, Kim Kardashian, Sarah Jessica Parker, and even Kate Middleton are

sparking a renewed interest in the classic gemstone," you can't just throw on a strand

of pearls to complete a look like you do with many other accessories.

Rbibo says, "If you want to pull off the Rihanna look, layer long strands of pearls of smaller

size for a chic yet edgy look."

He also says dressing pearls down is also a major style "no", advising fashionistas

to "Pair casual styles with casual pearls.

Consider pearls strung on leather or twine for a much more laid back look that's going

to work well in casual settings."

Outdated denim

The wrong jeans can reveal quite a bit about your age.

Dina Scherer, owner of Modnitsa Styling in NYC, says, "I always recommend investing in

classic styles like skinny and bootcut in darker washes as they are elegant and ageless,

and will never go out of style.

Wearing styles that are outdated, such as certain washes like boiled denim, or too hip,

like cropped flare, or wide leg, can age you."

So skip the trends and opt for timeless styles.

Teen brand logos

Celebrity stylist and fashion expert Ali Levine warns against going with store brands and

bold logos that are favored by teens — and largely associated with them, too.

She says, "There are brands...like PacSun, Hollister, [and] Abercrombie that hold a younger

audience.

I see people all the time who are older who dress like they're still in high school or

college!

You don't have to show your age, per say, but wear clothing that is appropriate for

you!

You look sexier that way and ageless."

With these tips, you're armed with the tools to not only look your best, but to rock your

most chic and confident self.

Ladies, let that style fly!

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CHRISTMAS STAR - SKETCHING & BIBLE STORYTELLING: Wise Men Story (Matthew 2:1-12) - Duration: 4:37.

welcome to Wright ideas with Susan. today I'm going to share with you a very

simple little idea of sketching and telling a story at the same time. all I

do is I get the kids to open up their notebooks into a plain page or I give

them a piece of paper and I say today we're gonna draw something special while

I tell you a Bible story. So today I'm going to show you an example how I

do this using this story of the wise men and we're gonna draw a Bethlehem star

So if you want to join me go ahead and grab a piece of paper and a pencil

and copy me and listen to my story.

when Jesus was born God put a special star in the sky

and some wise men from the east saw the star they knew it was a sign from God

that a special King had been born. he's here! he's here! so they packed up their

bags and they went on a long journey it would have taken them weeks, months

possibly even a year or even two and then they arrived in the city of

Jerusalem and they began asking, where's the newborn King? where's the newborn King?

we saw his star and we've come to worship Him

well King Herod heard about this and he was worried so he calls his advisers and

he said where is the Messiah supposed to be born? and they told him the prophets

wrote that the Messiah is to be born in Bethlehem

so Herod called a meeting with the wise men

and he said to them go to Bethlehem search carefully for the child

and when you find it come back to me and tell me because I want to go and

worship him too. as the wise men went on their way guess what?

the star began shining again

and it led them to Bethlehem and stopped over a little house

they were so so happy they had found the child King.

so they went into the house

and they gave some special gifts to him. they worshiped him...

do you know what this gifts were? what was one of them? Gold.

what was another one? yes, frankincense and what was the other one?

yes , myrrh and so when they were getting ready

to go home an angel appeared to the wise men in a dream and said don't go back to Herod.

so the wise men went home a different way

so there you go. you've got your Bethlehem star.

the kids have been listening

they've been copying alone to the story and it just adds a little bit of

interest and then I give them time to color it and decorate it

now with the older kids I have a sheet that I have done and I've done it so

that they can actually do the star in the square here and on it I have

put five reasons why the wise men were really wise guys and what I'll do is

when I get a website going I'll put that in it on there for a download but I'm

still waiting on someone to help me do a website cuz I have no idea

so there's just a simple little idea of how you can sketch something simple like Bethlehem star

tell the story and the kids loved it and they loved him to listen along

and to copy as well. if you like this idea can you give it a thumbs up and let

me know? and if you'd like more Christmas lesson ideas

I've got a whole playlist of Christmas lesson ideas that may be helpful to you

when you're planning your Christmas lessons and if you like more simple

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up a new clip

thanks again for watching and may God bless you as you teach the

next generation about Jesus

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Ladybugs Coloring Pages for Kids - Drawing and Painting Ladybugs for Kids - How to Draw for Children - Duration: 2:36.

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2 x 6 Bowl Turning Project Day 6 Wood Turning Practice - Duration: 14:11.

Okay, I'm not sure if you can see this or not.

But like there........

and there.

The paper towel I was using, I kinda.....

It was my mistake. I should have changed the paper towel a lot sooner......

and it kinda disintegrated on me.

Fell apart.

And got stuck in the finish there, and it........

I'd have caused more damage trying to get it off than what I'm about to do and just....

sand everything back down.....

at least that top layer.

And get that off and go again.

This time.......

not using the paper towel to death.

That's what I'm sayin. Dat's what I'm sayin.

Let's get to dis.

Ok, this is a concoction I made up....

a little while back just to see what would happen.

It really didn't do much.

It's just a little bit of dark stain.................

mixed in with..............

OB shine juice.

I've spent as much time on this as I'm going to.

The finish isn't perfect.

But..... this was just a practice piece after all.

So.... Now I'm going to put the.... uhhhhh.......

live center back on the end, pad it a little bit so I don't damage the inside of it.

And start working on seperating this thing and finishing up the bottom.

Let's do it.

Now, to smooth up the bottom.

Here in the next couple weeks I'm going to be building a uhhh.......

Cole Chuck. (Cole Jaws)

The video I'm going to be using is from Moonpie Creations..... the way he built it.

But until then..........

What that's for is for doing the bottoms of bowls.

Without damaging the sides. Until I do that.

I'm going to have to do this by hand.

So, bare with me.

There's going to be some hand sanding.

OH BOY!!!

Oh gee wiz boy oh boy oh boy oh boy...

Ok now..........

I aint got no kind of plans to spend the amount of time on the bottom...

that I did on the outside.

For results that I'm still not happy with.

So.... I'm just going to put a sealer of...........

just plain shellac on the bottom.

And go fix some supper and let it dry.

Come back and decide something from there.

Well, there it is. Uhhh.............

It was a lot more work than I thought it was going to be as far as the finish goes.

One of the fellas on....................

one of the wood turning groups on Facebook...........

Happened to mention that a big part of the problem I was probably having......

was that it being pine, that friction polish......

causes the resin in the pine to come up to the surface.

And gives you a problem getting that OB shine juice to stick. Or friction polish.

To do what it's suppose to do. I got a finger print right there.

Oh well. It was just a practice piece.

But I learned.

I learned a couple things. I'm a little bit less nervous about turning something like this.

The bottom, I just finished it off with that shellac, and that's where I'm going to leave it at.

It's the bottom after all.

All in all...... even with all the work and stuff.......

I'm right happy with it. I'm right tickled at how it turned out.

Not the most perfect piece. But hey.........

It's all part of the learning process.

Is there anything else I was going to say about this?

Seems like there was........ oh yes.

With turning pine I found out one thing that people

that people were telling me about turning pine to be true.

Apparently because there's so much difference in the softness and hardness between the grains......

it does dull your chisels (gouges) right quick.

Quickly.

So uhhhh............

there is that.

But for learning and getting more comfortable with turning stuff this big,

I didn't want to put a piece of expensive hardwood up there

and messed it up. I'd have been terribly upset.

Now I'm a little bit more comfortable with it so.....

Hopefully soon I'll come across a decent wood to turn......

Or something, I'm not sure.

But there ya go.

A pine cup, vase, whatever you want to call it.

I call it something to do. Practice.

Something to learn from.

Please give me a thumbs up.

A thumbs down if you didn't like it. A thumbs up if you did like it......

Uhhhh let's see here......

Please subscribe during the last 20 seconds of this video.

There'll be a little round button with a picture of me in it.

Click on it and subscribe to my channel if you haven't already subscribed.

Or there's a way down below the video to subscribe, just look for subscribe.

Follow me on facebook, twitter, instagram.

Leave a comment and share my videos.

I believe that's about it.

Have a lovely day.

Have a lovely night.

Have a lovely whatever you're lovelyin'

Most of all, have a lovely life because life is short and it's meant to be enjoyed.

Peace!

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NASA Silicon Valley Podcast - Episode 65 - Bron Nelson and Dimitris Menemenlis - Duration: 38:07.

Host (Matthew Buffington): Welcome to the NASA In Silicon Valley Podcast, episode 65.

Joining me again today for the intro, we have Kimberly!

Kimberly Minafra: Hey!

Host: Kimberly, tell us about our guest, actually more like guests plural, for the podcast today.

Kimberly Minafra: No problem.

Basically, we have with us Bron Nelson and Dimitris Menemenlis, who join us from the

NASA Advance Supercomputing Facility here at Ames.

Host: Yeah, and this is a slightly different episode from what we normally do, through

the magic of fiber optic connections.

We had Bron here in the studio, but Dimitris was actually sitting over at JPL over in Pasadena.

Kimberly Minafra: Right.

So Bron, a computer programmer here at the NASA Data Analysis and Visualization Group,

he specializes in most of the coding that happens with our supercomputers, whereas Dimitris,

he's a research scientist at JPL, where he actually studies and uses the supercomputing

capabilities to analyze global ocean circulation and its interaction with sea ice and all the

cool oceanography that happens to be displayed on the hyper wall here at Ames.

Host: This is the really cool thing over at NASA, you always think of space, but you know,

when it comes to supercomputing, everyone uses the supercomputers, no matter what they're

studying.

Kimberly Minafra: And it's great because the visualizations are very helpful in investigating

the data they come with, that comes apart from actually using the supercomputers.

Host: And I got a kick out of this one because typically, being NASA in Silicon Valley, we

talk about ourselves, but this was a situation with a different NASA center whose using the

information, and this is typically how this works.

You have other centers, other groups, all working together.

But before too much into the podcast, or into the episode, a little bit of housekeeping.

We would love for your comments and suggestions.

You can leave us a review on iTunes, Google Play Music, wherever you find the podcast.

If you want to participate, or just send us your thoughts, reviews, ideas, we're using

the hashtag #NASASiliconValley.

We have a phone number, that's (650) 604-1400.

Give us a call, we'd love to hear your thoughts, and we'll see how we can integrate that

into an episode.

But for today…

Kimberly Minafra: Here's Bron and Dimitris.

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Matthew Buffington: Welcome Dimitris, welcome Bron.

So for folks listening, this is a little bit different because I'm sitting here talking

with Bron in our studio, and we have Dimitris on the line, or through the magic of the interwebs,

from JPL coming and chatting with us.

We haven't done this way before, so this should be a fun time.

So, Dimitris and Bron, we always like to start the podcast with the same question, and it's,

how did you join NASA?

For Bron, I would say, how did you end up in Silicon Valley, but in this case, since

this is more NASA California, I'd say what brought you to the Golden State?

So Bron, go ahead, man.

Bron: I actually grew up in Livermore.

Host: Okay, local.

Bron: Just 30 or 40 miles east of here.

I was actually born in Kansas but my family moved out here when I was like two, so I'm

almost a native.

I was working for a variety of companies.

I'm a computer person and I've worked for a number of different companies.

I was working for a firm named Silicon Graphics and was assigned here onsite at NASA Ames

because they had bought a number of our computers.

Host: And they pulled you in.

Bron: Then after Silicon Graphics went bankrupt again, and cut my salary again, even I could

see the handwriting on the wall at that point.

So I jumped ship, as it were, and went native as they say in the biz, and started working

for the customer that I was previously supporting.

So that's how I ended up here at Ames.

Host: Nice.

So you were always into computers, not necessarily -- I mean, NASA people are always thinking

rockets and, you know, space probes and stuff.

But you were always into the computers, so that's how you came into this.

Bron: That's right.

Like I tell my kids, I am not a rocket scientist, but I work with rocket scientists.

I know almost nothing about the physics involved.

Dimitris here works on the ocean modeling.

I don't know anything about that, but I know a lot about computers so I'm often a member

of a team of people, and I help deal with the computer problems that come up.

Host: It is teamwork that makes the dream work.

Bron: What a horrible saying.

Host: I know.

I got that from your neck of the woods, Dimitris.

I think I heard it somewhere I was walking around in L.A. I don't know if I was visiting

Disney or DreamWorks or something.

Dimitris: What did you hear?

Host: Somebody said, teamwork makes the dream work.

Dimitris: Yes.

Well, okay, my story -- What I find really amazing, and I don't know if it happens to

everyone, but as you grow up, the dreams that you dreamed as a kid that get realized are

the ones that you really remember.

So, I'm sure I had tons of dreams when I was a kid, but there were three of them that I

remember and that have been realized, and that's pretty amazing.

When I was six, it was 1969, and we gathered around the neighborhood TV.

I grew up in Greece, so TVs back then did not exist.

Not every house had one.

My grandparents happened to have one.

So a lot of people gathered and we watched the first astronaut land on the moon, and

that was like a super big impression on me.

And of course, a lot of kids who watched that wanted to be astronauts.

I'm glad I didn't become one, because what I'm doing now I think is even cooler.

Host: Nice.

Dimitris: Two more things that, it was a dream, was MIT and Caltech.

Those two institutions were just -- So, NASA, MIT, Caltech.

Somehow, I don't know, randomly, or accidentally, or because these are the dreams that got realized

that I remember, I ended up going from MIT to Caltech NASA.

I was doing oceanography as a post-doc at MIT, and there was this opportunity to JPL

and work with this satellite that had been launched a few years earlier called TOPEX/Poseidon

that observed sea surface height from space.

Sea surface height is like a dynamical boundary condition for the ocean.

It's like knowing low pressures and high pressures in the atmosphere, and then you can tell the

winds that they're going to go around the low pressure and the high pressure.

Same thing for sea surface height.

If you know sea surface height, you can tell what the surface currents are.

The really cool thing that we do is, from space you can only see part of the ocean circulation.

You can't observe everything.

You can see surface variables, depth integrated variables, and of course there's the sampling

issue.

So in order to make a complete story you need to have numerical circulation models.

Those are the really fun models that Bron and others at NASA Ames help us to run on

the NASA supercomputer.

Host: I was going to say, that's probably the perfect transition almost, because I'm

sure for folks listening, they think, Bron and Dimitris?

You have one person working on a computer, one person looking at the Earth from space,

how does that match together?

Dimitris: Bron, do you want to have a go at it first?

Bron: I'll have a go at it, sure.

Host: What brought you guys together?

Bron: Well, NASA brought us together.

Dimitris was working with the people at MIT on this thing that's called MIT GC, the MIT

global circulation model.

It does modeling of the weather, if you will, the weather of the ocean as opposed to of

the air.

But it calculates a great number of things about --

Host: Is it like temperatures and currents and stuff?

Bron: Temperatures and speeds and more things than you could possibly imagine quite frankly.

Dimitris would be a much better source on exactly what it does.

But as he mentioned, you have this sampling problem.

You don't have sensors everywhere on the earth gathering data every minute, so you have to

essentially interpolate between observations.

You know it was this temperature on June 21st, you know it was this temperature on June 22nd,

what was it like in between?

You don't want to just draw a straight line.

That's hardly very accurate.

Host: That's hardly what we see in real life.

Bron: Certainly not.

And certainly not over the course of a full year, right?

You can't just draw a straight line between July and July and say that was the temperature

that it was.

Host: Yeah, exactly.

Bron: That is, of course, a drastic oversimplification.

But the MIT GCM essentially applies all the known laws of physics, of climatology, of

oceanography, of whatever you want to call it, whatever -ology you happen to like, to

try to decide how you got from this point that you know about because you measured it

to this other point that you know about because you measured it, and what was it like in between?

So you can get a good model of the way the ocean works and what's going on at, potentially,

a very fine resolution.

But in order to do that, you have this very complicated computer program, that I did not

write, let me make that clear.

Other people wrote that.

But then you need to run it on a very large group of computers.

Host: I was going to say, I just can't put it on my PC at home.

It's not going to work.

Bron: No.

So we ran this model on typically 30 --

Dimitris: 70 thousand.

Bron: Yeah, we run it typically on 30 thousand, but the particular thing that we work with

Dimitris with was 70 thousand processors simultaneously.

We were trying to figure out both just how to get it to do that, and how to get it to

actually run faster as a result of doing that.

The part that I was particularly involved in was writing out the results.

So you calculate all these numbers, but then you want to save them so that later on you

can analyze them or, in our case in particular, we make movies out of them so you can see

this --

Host: Oh, like animations and stuff?

Bron: Yes, and very detailed ones.

We have a piece of equipment called the hyper wall, which is essentially a big array of

TV screens, and a single frame, a single moment in time, is about a quarter billion pixels

of imaging.

We have salt concentrations, and temperatures, and velocities, an enormous amount of data

that the model, MIT GCM, is producing.

Just storing it all and saving it all is a much bigger task than you might think off

hand.

So we needed to not only produce these numbers at some relatively fast rate, but then also

to store all those numbers at that same rate and not slow down the calculation.

This was a whole team of people.

I'm sitting here in this chair but there is of course a whole bunch of people that were

involved both in writing the code and getting it to work.

Then all the support people who made the computers themselves, and so on and so on and so on.

Host: Of course.

So, I was going to say, Dimitris, is this just a matter of, you give Bron, or the team,

some raw data, some stuff that you do know, and then he works on that model and sample?

Dimitris: Yeah, I'll answer that question, but first I want to go back to something that

Bron said earlier and I think is a fantastic segue into explaining a little better what

we do.

So, a line.

Bron said that our model is more complicated than the line that it is.

But a line is a model, it's a model with two parameters.

And let's say you have observations of that line and they're all over the place, they

have some noise.

And then you try to adjust these two parameters, the place where it crosses the zero axis and

its slope and you try to adjust these two parameters in order to fit these points as

well as you can because the observations have errors, right?

In a way, and a very efficient way of doing it, a very good way of doing it, is called

least squares.

You try to find the line that minimizes the distance between the observations and the

line in a least squares sense.

Host: Okay.

Dimitris: That is exactly what we do with satellite observations and with our model.

Now, it's a hugely more complicate problem because, as Bron said, the equations of the

model are non-linear as opposed to a line is linear.

There's a lot more observations, but the degrees of freedom of the model are hugely greater

than the number of observations.

So it's a so called under determined problem.

We're trying to fit a description of the large-scale ocean circulation that passes to within some

distance of the observations from space, and also there are instruments in the water, floats

that profile the temperature and salinity.

So, I like the fact that Bron mentioned a line and I was waiting to pick up on that.

Your second question was in terms of how we operate.

We have this numerical model which is called the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

it's actually a general circulation model, so MIT GCM.

Bron: Sorry.

Dimitris: No, that's alright.

Global is good because we do a lot of global things.

Bron: I was pretty close.

Dimitris: You were pretty close.

You know, we can actually run that thing on almost any platform.

We can run it on our laptop, we can run it on workstations.

However, to do really interesting problems where you -- The way that you run this model

is you break up the ocean into little boxes of water.

The more of these little boxes of water you have, the more realistic your model is.

You're capturing more and more of the physics of the ocean.

At some point you can't just do it on your laptop.

That's when you go to people like Bron and many, many, many others at NASA Ames -- the

magicians, we call them -- who show us how to scale up that problem.

That's the first thing that they help us with, which is just on its own is unbelievable.

But the second thing that happens is once you've run that thing, you have no idea what's

in it because there's so many numbers.

There we also need help in figuring out how to look at those numbers.

So the second thing that those magicians at NASA Ames do is help us to animate, cut, look

at the physics, look at processes.

You know, one of the things I have to admit that they do is find all the problems, all

the bugs, all the things that are wrong with the model.

When they look at it, hey what's this, hey what's this.

Things, we had no clue.

So it's really fun to work with them.

Bron: It's a very good point.

When you visualize something, when you make a movie out of the data and then your eyes

look at it.

Your eyes are really good at picking out things that are bad, whereas if you were looking

at pages and pages of numbers, it would be almost impossible to tell that something was

amiss.

Or that something was good, for that matter.

I work with the people that do the visualizations although I personally don't do the visualizations,

but I work very closely with those people.

Host: And I like to grab those visualizations, turn them into a GIF, and put them online.

Bron: Yes.

I will be happy to supply you with unending images I'm sure.

Host: So, I'd imagine, sometimes does it go both ways?

I think of, over at Ames, the aeronautics model where they have these theories of how,

and the models in the supercomputer, of how airflow works.

But then sometimes you put a plane in a wind tunnel to test it, kind of check the answers

in the back of the book.

Is there a similar thing going on with you guys where, yes, you're using the model to

find things that, for you Dimitris, that you didn't know before, but also I'm guessing

that there's some real data from the sensors in the ocean that then can help modify and

tweak that model as well?

Dimitris: Yeah, absolutely.

What I like to say when people come to me and they say, oh, you're a modeler.

I say no, and they say, oh, he's an observationalist.

You can't use a model without observations, and you cannot use observations without a

model.

Basically, the way science works at a very basic level is, you look at data, you look

at observations with your senses and your augmented senses.

You feel things around you and then you try to explain them.

And the way you explain them is you make models.

The models can be very simple.

They can be a line or they can be something conceptual or something back of the envelope,

or they can be very complicated.

They're never the last models.

So with the models what you want to be able to do is you want to be able to reproduce

the observations that you see.

That's the very first thing.

You adjust, you change, you tweak your model.

You change the equations, you change the boundary conditions until you can reproduce the observations

to the degree that you believe the observations.

Bron: As Dimitris said, the observations themselves may have errors too, so you've got to be a

little bit careful.

You don't want to necessarily reproduce it exactly.

Dimitris: Exactly.

And then, once you have that, now you can make predictions.

You can say well, given this, I expect such and such events to happen, or such and such

processes.

Then you can go and make focused observations to see if it's happening.

Or you can go and gather observations that you had thrown away and hadn't used and use

them to see if they support or if they disqualify, invalidate, your hypotheses.

So that's one way that models are used.

The other way, of course, is to try to better understand the physics just from a scientific

curiosity perspective.

Host: Giving another shout out to another NASA center on the other side of the country

over at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

I remember when I visited there, they also had a hyper wall and they had some visualizations

set up.

I'm thinking this is along the same lines where it was like, they had the globe, they

had Earth, and then they would dive down into their visualization and it would get into

the ocean and it had all these arrows and different things.

And it was just showing the different currents and the different flows.

It's the same things.

Bron: Yeah, very similar sort of thing.

Exactly so.

Dimitris: Actually, some of the very nice Goddard visualizations are based on simulations

that we did at NASA Ames.

Host: I'd image that they're all shared back and forth and that all these teams --

Dimitris: Yeah, and one of the things we would really like to do, they have a very good atmospheric

model at Goddard.

And obviously I believe we have a very good oceanic model --

Host: With their powers combined.

Dimitris: It would be absolutely amazing to put the two together.

Because some of the most important things, actually the things that make, why are we

looking for oceans on other planets, on other moons?

Because one of the key things that makes life possible is the presence of liquid, of ocean,

to start with.

But in our case, since we don't live in the ocean, the interaction of the ocean with the

atmosphere.

The ocean allows climate to be moderate, meaning that it doesn't get super-hot and super-cold.

If you go to the desert, you'll realize at night it can freeze even though in the daytime

you can bake an egg, right?

The oceans kind of store heat when it's very hot, release it when it cold.

They have a moderating impact on climate.

At the same time, they do the same thing for chemical quantities like carbon dioxide.

Most of the carbon dioxide that we might burn through fossil fuels and put in the atmosphere

eventually will be absorbed by the ocean.

The ocean is helping the atmosphere from really exploding in greenhouse gasses, for example.

There's many other examples.

Therefore, what you really want to understand very well is the exchange of properties between

the atmosphere and the ocean.

Therefore, if we were able to put those two models together at very high resolution to

make them realistic, you would gain a better understanding of how things are transferred

from one fluid, the atmosphere, to the other, the ocean.

Host: My mind immediately goes into the practical application.

If I was talking to my family in Ohio, explaining, oh, this is so cool.

My brain first goes to weather patterns, like hurricanes.

Understanding the ocean flow, understanding the atmospheric flow, and computing this craziness

and to understand it.

Are there realistic applications in that way?

Bron: It's not quite the same thing as predicting where a hurricane is going to make landfall.

This is much more retrospective about, you take already existing data and try to munge

it and try to understand.

The application really is to gain deeper understanding of how these processes work.

Hopefully you'll be able to use that make predictions, but at the very least, to be

able to understand how and why things are occurring the way they are.

So, a lot of the data that we worked on was actually gathered several years ago.

Host: Oh, really?

Bron: It's not like last month, but we're trying to use that to gain an increased understanding

of the physics of the model.

To refine the model.

You know, a straight line is not so good, maybe a curve isn't so good, maybe it's got

to be really squiggly.

Whatever that model might be, how things behave, we want to refine the understanding of that.

So it's somewhat more theoretical than, you know, is it going to be raining tomorrow?

That's not really the kind of questions that we're trying to answer.

But it is sort of more fundamental science about how and why do these things work.

Dimitris: Bron is absolutely correct that our specific investigations are more theoretical.

They are nevertheless important for weather patterns, eventually, in the sense that if

you want to predict hurricanes and where they'll make landfall and whether they'll grow or

they won't grow, you need to have a good understanding of air/sea interaction, and of mixed layer

depth, for example.

The amount of warm water that's stored near the surface of the ocean.

One way that I think of our work is a model, a numerical model, is a reservoir of knowledge.

So, as you learn more and more about processes, you adjust things, change things in the model

to make it a better representation of reality.

Then these models in turn can be taken by more operational agencies, like NOAA for example,

and used for very practical applications.

I would say the most practical applications that we work on are not at the edge.

The kind of model we're developing now will be used for practical applications maybe in

10 to 15 years.

Right now really we're pushing the envelope, we're exploring what's possible.

We're learning.

Ten years ago, or even 25 years ago, we were also pushing the envelope, but with models

that now are really easy to run because of the increased computational power.

So the models that we're actually using in quasi-operational capacity as part of one

of the projects that I'm involved with are models that were cutting edge 15 or 20 years

ago.

So there is this progression where you improve the model and then you start using it for

more practical applications.

Bron: There are certainly plenty of analogies one could paint.

If you say the wind tunnels, if you're doing, shall we say, fundamental research in aerodynamics,

do you want to know about turbulence, do you want to know about streamlining?

That's not the same thing as designing a car that gets good gas mileage.

But eventually you hope that because you did all these experiments to gain increased understanding

of the fundamental principles behind it, eventually that knowledge will get incorporated into,

as you say, more practical, every day applications.

So, no you're not going to see the results of the stuff that we work on on your local

weather channel next week, but it is still a very important investigation.

Host: Talk a little bit about what you guys see in the future.

Looking five years, ten years from now, what are you guys going to be sitting around working

on?

What numbers are you going to be crunching?

Or where would you like to see things go I guess?

Bron: I'd like to be retired, myself.

Dimitris: We're not going to let you retire, Bron.

You're too good.

Bron: As soon as my kids graduate from college then I'll think about retiring.

Until my kids graduate and my mortgage is paid, I think I'm kind of stuck.

Dimitris: Come on, you like working with us.

Bron: Yes, you're right.

I do.

It gets me out of bed in the morning.

Or sometimes in the afternoon.

Right now I really see the thing that Dimitris mentioned, which is trying to couple this

to other pieces.

This is an ocean model and it's very large.

We're doing whole earth simulations, not just--

Host: Yeah, this isn't small scale.

We're doing the big things.

Bron: The big thing, yeah.

And as Dimitris said, you do this by essentially cutting the ocean up into little boxes and

studying the boxes.

Right now the boxes are about a kilometer on a side, which, when you're talking about

the whole Earth, that's a lot of boxes.

Host: I was going to say.

Bron: We just recently did a simulation where the boxes were 250 meters on a side.

Dimitris: And 25?

Bron: Oh, that's right, 25.

But that one didn't work for some reason, right?

Dimitris: No, it did.

It did.

Bron: But in any event, it's not over the whole Earth, just over a small portion.

So increasing the resolution, more processors, better resolving of all of these factors,

that's certainly a place.

That's sort of a quantitative difference rather than a qualitative one.

It's the coupling of it with atmospheric models, or with ice and so forth.

Dimitris is heavy into ice.

Dimitris: Ice is nice.

Bron: That, I think, is the direction that we want to -- the thing that will be new and

interesting, if you will.

So Dimitris, as long as I have you here on the phone, could explain to me what the difference

between coupling with a Goddard model and, say, the MM5 or six, or whatever their up

to now at NOAA is?

Because that's coupling with land, water, and everything.

Host: This is a good way to get him to answer that email you sent.

Bron: Yeah, it is.

Dimitris: No, there's no difference really.

I want to beg to differ on one point.

As you increase resolution, things change.

If you want to think of the ocean not in space time, but in frequency wave number, and those

are big words that -- Frequency has to do with wavelengths in time, and wavenumber is

wavelength in space.

You can draw bubbles, if you like.

Bubbles for different processes that occupy different lengths and timescales.

With one kilometer, what we're capturing very well is what's called geostrophic eddies.

They are motions that feel the rotation of the Earth.

In the atmosphere these would be the storm systems, if you like, which have thousand-kilometer

scale.

In the ocean, because the fluid has a different density, and also the stratification.

The fluid and also the stratification of the density from the surface to the bottom of

the ocean, the scales are much smaller.

They range from like ten to a hundred kilometers.

The scales that feel the rotation of the Earth, that it.

With a one kilometer grid we're capturing those incredibly well, which is very nice.

Because before that, we had to create Band-Aids because we could not really resolve these

in our models, we had these Band-Aids, they're called parametrizations that would try to

approximate how these things would work if there's a lot of them.

But these so-called parametrizations, they just don't do justice to the complexity of

the circulation of the ocean.

So now with one kilometer we're capturing these features, but then there's other bubbles

that we're not capturing.

There's something called sub-mesoscale processes.

There's something called internal waves.

We're starting to touch on those, we're starting to see them in the same way that ten years

ago, we could start to see eddies in our simulations, but we were not fully resolving them.

So we were kind of in this no man's land where, should we be representing them, or parameterizing

them, or should we trust these crude representations in the model are useful?

Now, there are a bunch of processes that we're not resolving and that we are still representing

in a crude way in the model.

So as you increase resolution, it's not just more of the same.

There's different processes that kick in.

So that's kind of really fun and instructive.

Bron: Where are you going to go from here?

I agree with you, I'm reminded of a maxim of computer science that a factor ten in quantity,

is a change in quality.

Dimitris: Exactly.

Bron: When something is ten times bigger, things are different in some sense.

Host: No judgement, but different.

Better, smaller, better worse.

Bron: When your computer is suddenly ten times faster than it used to be, it's not just that

you can do the old things ten times faster.

You can now suddenly do new things that you couldn't have done before.

So in the same way, I think Dimitris is saying, it's not just that you can see the same old

things better, but there are these new things that you didn't even know were there.

Or that you knew were there but couldn't see before, but now suddenly your magnifying glass

is ten times more powerful than it used to be, and you can actually see these processes.

So, that's a very good point, and thanks to Dimitris for correcting my off-hand comment.

Dimitris: Like I said earlier, a model makes predictions.

So one of the things we're super interested in is, we're going to make some predictions,

and NASA is actually launching a very nice satellite in 2020, or 2021, that's called

surface wave ocean topography.

We're going to make some predictions and that satellite is going to tell us whether our

predictions are correct, and also allow us to change the model in order to better represent

what the observations see.

In terms of quasi-practical applications, a couple of things that I'm really interested

in and I'm involved with is application of these simulations to study interaction of

the ocean with ice.

And when I say ice I mean both sea ice, which is ice that forms when the air is very cold,

which is formed from ocean water, and floats, and cracks, and it's actually really beautiful

both in the real world and also in the simulations.

That sea ice is important because, think of it as a piece of Styrofoam on top of the ocean.

Where that sea ice is, it inhibits exchange between the atmosphere and the ocean.

When you remove it, you start exchanging things, and that's important to know for many processes

that have to do, for example, with regulation of the weather patterns, and of how warm or

cold the atmosphere is.

But also in terms of biology.

As soon as you remove the sea ice, some biology that wasn't there can start to grow.

In terms of uptake of carbon, sea ice is important for that.

A second type of ice we're very interested in is land ice.

That is ice that is formed by accumulation from snow.

If you have a region where the amount of snow that falls every year is a little bit more

than the amount of snow that melts every year, you form what's called glaciers, or ice sheets,

and these ice sheets are covering, for example, Greenland and Antarctica, and they're on land.

If these were to melt and to return to the ocean, or if they were -- You know, we assume

that they're in some sort of steady state and the amount of snow that falls on them

every year is about the same as the amount of ice that melts at the edges.

That's good.

That means the sea level won't change.

If they start melting a little faster, well we care about that because it means sea level

will rise and we need to know about it so we can take action in terms of protective

coastal environments from erosion and other things.

So, I think that, and also the interaction of the ocean currents with biology, ecology,

and carbon cycle.

Those are some of the things that really interest me.

Host: So everybody should stay tuned for more to come, especially in 2020, as the work gets

further complicated, and Bron here is trying to kick his kids out of the house.

Bron: They're just going to come back.

Host: So for folks that are listening that want to get more information, we're on Twitter

@NASAAmes.

We use the hashtag #NASASiliconValley.

Until we change the podcast name to NASA California, that's what we're using in the meantime.

But thanks a lot Bron for coming on over.

And Dimitris, this has been awesome, thanks for calling in from beautiful Pasadena.

Dimitris: Thank you very much.

Host: All right, thanks a lot guys.

Bron: Sure thing.

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Welcome back everybody.

Our real estate expert, Monte Mohr, usually stops by but he sent one of his super ladies,

super mom, to fill in for him today.

Tiffini Lindsay is here.

She is a super mom and she is also a super realtor!

She is joining us right now.

This is Lenox.

Isn't he the cutest?

So how old is Lenox?

Lenox is 4 months old last Tuesday.

Oh my goodness!

And you are a full time real estate agent?

I am.

I just have to ask... how is this all working?

Having a baby is a full time job right there in itself, but then also being a very successful

real estate agent... how are you making all of that happen?

We were writing offers in the NICU, to be honest!

I've had 10 closings since he was born, I have 3 more in the works, and of course there's

still more time!

Oh my goodness!

What has it been like for you?

You've been super busy obviously.

But how has that balance worked out?

It's worked out well.

I needed the flexibility of real estate to help with my Grandparents.

My Grandmother has Alzheimer's.

When he came along I was like now I really need it!

He's been coming with me.

He's been great with showings and closings.

We've been calling him Lucky Little Lenox because it's been a blessing!

He's the good luck charm!

Yeah!

Everybody looks at him and they're like "awww, yeah ok I'll take the house!"

[laughter]

He's so sweet!

My clients love it.

I'm glad it's all working out for you.

How do you look at career differently?

Everything changes when you have a baby.

Everybody tells you that, but you don't understand it until it actually happens.

How does it look different to you now?

I didn't know what to expect.

He's my first child.

It's really made me more driven and passionate about the whole thing.

To show him that I can set my mind to this and really do this and do it well is something

that I really love that I can show him.

I feel like, for my clients, I offer something really special.

I can anticipate their needs.

I'm there to answer when they call.

I can be that mama bear when they need someone to really take care of the transaction and

make sure they have the best results.

That's most important.

I just love it!

You are so fierce.

It just makes me so excited for you!

Just to let everybody know, Monte and The Mohr Group are right there.

Give them a call at (615) 636-8244.

You can also find them online at www.TennesseeDreamHomes.com.

You can send Monte an email to MonteMohr@Yahoo.com.

Check them out!

Tiffini, thank you so much for coming in.

Absolutely, it was my pleasure.

You did such a good job Lenox!

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As I still had plenty of time before my bus back to Brisbane,

I rented a board from the hostel and went surfing.

The driver just said that there's not supposed to be water here,

and it's just grass, it's a field.

Look at that truck on the right, he's bogged!

Now my Barrier Reef tour got cancelled because of the wind.

So pretty much all the water activities got cancelled.

Tomorrow I'm going to the tour operator and...

to get a refund for everything that didn't happen

and figure out something else.

There's got to be something I could do!

I'm back in Brisbane!

I'm going to a hostel called "The Aussie Way".

I think I've slightly overestimated myself with the board.

I'm grazed by sand and also got sunburned,

because it was nice and shadowy... cloudy.

I still got sunburned!

And my shoulders are very not enjoying two backpacks and a bag on them.

"No me gusta caminar, No puedo montar a caballo, (I don't like to dance, I can't ride a horse)

Como se puede bailar? Es un escandolo!" (How can she dance? It's a scandal)

This is a place called "Love and Rockets".

And nearby

"Christ is coming to rein on Earth"...

"and improve your english classes this Wednesday".

I love the weirdness!

Ah, good!

Bat!

There's a bat! It's so cool!

I get easily distracted, don't I?

One more! They're so big!

There we go - "The Ausie Way"!

I'm really tired!

The hostel is a bit weird,

they've got a trainee...

trainee guy working.

Doesn't know what to do. So it was kinda slow.

Well, it's fine.

I discovered a new street, I've never been here!

I mean, look at that - doesn't even look like Brisbane, looks like some small town!

Here I see lots of bananas!

Well, as the Doctor said...

Always take a banana to a party, Rose! Bananas are good!

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Boston Marathon Bomber's Aunt Says FBI Set Up Her Nephew and She Has PROOF - Duration: 6:27.

Boston Marathon Bomber�s Aunt Says FBI Set Up Her Nephew and She Has PROOF

On April 15, 2013, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, alongside his brother Dzhokhar, would become the infamous

murderers in the Boston Marathon Bombings.

According to the official reports, the duo blew up two homemade pressure-cooker bombs

near the finish line at the marathon.

The attack killed and injured nearly 300 people.

The subsequent manhunt led authorities to the Tsarnaev brothers, who went on the run

after learning the authorities were on their trail.

Tamerlan was shot 9 times by police and then finished

off by his brother after he panicked and ran him over with his car.

Dzhokhar was later shot and captured while hiding inside a boat.

Now, in a bombshell revelation, the Russian aunt of Dzhokhar has filed a motion in his

death penalty appeal case that reveals new details on the meetings her nephew�s attorneys

had in Russia with his parents and makes a bizarre allegation that the FBI said the bomber

had a �heavy-laden black backpack,� not the white one he can be seen carrying in video

taken before the deadly blasts, according to Newsweek.

In the court filings, Maret Tsarnaeva, an attorney, and sister of the Tsarnaev family

asks to join the appeal defense team to plead with the courts to overturn the death penalty.

According to the report:

Tsarnaeva�s filing includes a still photograph of Dzhokhar taken from a 29-second clip recorded

by a Whiskey�s Steak House surveillance camera on Boylston Street.

Of it, she says that �the FBI and the indictment have together affirmed that the culprits who

detonated these explosions were carrying large, unusually heavy black backpacks concealing

pressure cooker bombs.� But her affidavit states, �Dzhokhar was carrying

a small-sized white backpack,� which she calls exculpatory evidence.

�The very evidence used by the FBI to identify the �Boston bombers� referenced in the

indictment excludes Dzhokhar as plainly as white is distinguished from black,� Tsarnaeva�s

filing states.

�What can be more compelling than the difference between black and white?�

Both the family and legal team expressed their concern that Dzhokhar�s legal team�who

was appointed by the state�was insufficient in defending Dzhokhar.

�As Dzhokhar�s family we expressed our concern that [the legal team] was untrustworthy,

and might not defend Dzhokhar properly since they were paid by the government of the United

States which was prosecuting him, as many believe, for political reasons,� Tsarnaeva

wrote in the motion.

As Newsweek reports:

Minnesota lawyer John Remington Graham filed Tsarnaeva�s affidavit in Tsarnaev�s federal

appeals case last week as part of a motion requesting that a judge allow her to work

with his current defense attorneys, a request denied this year by O�Toole and rebuffed

by his legal team.

�In my judgment, a trial court presiding over criminal prosecution should not receive

or consider volunteered submissions by non-parties,�

O�Toole wrote.

What makes this new revelation peculiar is the fact that early this year, as TFTP reported,

while the FBI admitted, at the time of the bombings, that it had interviewed Tamerlan,

it was only this year that it released the details of the interview.

On the 23rd day of April in 2011, Tamerlan Tsarnaev was interviewed by the FBI, at the

request of the Russians who said they were concerned about the young man�s ties to

Chechen Islamic Extremists.

The young man said he was approached by four well-dressed men, who spoke

without any accents and identified themselves as FBI agents.

They told him they wanted to talk with him and said they�d be back the following day

to speak with him but never returned.

They offered no business cards nor any contact information.

Nothing from the interview reportedly raised any red flags in the eyes of the FBI, but

something interesting to note, and what might be fodder for conspiracy theorists, was the

strangely peculiar encounter, not documented, with four men reportedly belonging to the

FBI.

As we�ve learned from subsequent FBI investigations, one even announced this week in which a man

was supported by the FBI, given a fake bomb and told to blow up a mall in Florida, the

bureau has an extensive network of informants and patsies ready to do their bidding in carrying

out staged terror attacks.

Once these fake attacks are carried out, the FBI then takes credit for preventing a terrorist

attack, thereby validating their anti-terrorist budget and activities.

Some critics of the FBI call those actions nothing less than entrapment.

And without the help of the FBI, those individuals would arguably be going about

their everyday activities, unconcerned with carrying out acts of terrorism.

The FBI�s anti-terrorism activities, some have said, actually create terrorists out

of regular citizens.

While it�s still unclear, from Tsarnaev�s interview and from the presentation of this

allegedly new evidence, whether or not the Boston bombings was one such sting operation

that went horribly wrong, the case is now taking a dramatic turn.

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