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"melzer" Discussed on WTOP
"Nula come design dot com. This is WTO P news. It's 7 15. I'm Michelle bash. And I'm John Aaron. A man is now behind bars in Montgomery county after police say he robbed a group of girl scouts. The troop was selling samoas in the like outside of Safeway on shady grove road and Rockville on February 12th. That's when police say 24 year old Gerard Luke Harrison came up to them and he wasn't there to do Doe. Please say he stole their money 6 days later, just a few blocks away on false grove's drive. Police say the same suspect robbed a delivery driver at gunpoint. Harrison was arrested Friday and now faces armed robbery assault and numerous weapons charges, investigators say they found multiple items connected to the crimes in his home, it's not clear if that meant boxes of tag alongs or thin mints. Luke Luger WTO P news. A former soldier has been sentenced to 45 years in prison for plotting a jihadist attack on his army unit. 24 year old Ethan melzer of Louisville, Kentucky, pleaded guilty in June to try to murder fellas, fellow U.S. service members, providing material support for terrorists, and illegally transmitting national defense information. According to court documents, melzer planned an attack on his troop in the days leading up to his deployment to turkey. He also sent to tales about his unit's location, movements and security to a white supremacist pro jihadist group called the order of 9 angels. The Department of Veterans Affairs is taking a closer look at race and its connection to care. Federal news networks, jury heckman has more. The VA's equity task force will look into disparities in the rate at which the VA grants healthcare and benefits to black veterans, as well as minority and historically underserved veterans, a federal lawsuit filed last December, claims that for decades, the VA was more likely to reject the disability compensation claims of black veterans than white veterans. VA secretary does McDonald tells reporters the agency has been wrestling with disparities based on race in benefits decisions and military discharge status. Bottom line is this. We won't rest until every veteran gets the world class care and benefits that they have earned. Jewelry heckman, federal news network. To Ukrainian pilots are reportedly in the U.S. for an assessment of their skills in flying, fighter jets. It comes as Biden administration officials say there are no plans to send F-16s to Ukraine for now. The U.S. official tells Politico military experts are watching the pilots in simulators in order to determine how the U.S. can better advise the Ukrainian air force. Other officials say the aim is to evaluate how long it'll take Ukrainian pilots to learn to fly modern fighter aircraft, including F-16s. It's 7 18. Traffic and weather on the 8s here's Rita. If you're in Virginia on northbound 95, watch for your delays first in Stafford coming out of Fredericksburg off and on making your way toward 6 ten garrisonville road. Then from Dale City into woodbridge, watch for the wreck near the Prince William Parkway along the right side, one of the response vehicles kind of infringing on that right lane. So stay out of that right lane. And stick to those left side to get by. Lorton to newington is another delay then in Springfield tour edsel road, and again after The Pentagon headed across the 14th in the case headed toward the third street tunnel, the earlier problem on the inbound 14th street bridge has been cleared. Eastbound 66 those passing two 34 business getting into centerville and approaching and passing route 50 and the northbound George Washington Parkway has the delays trying to get past one 23. A single lane gets you by the work. Wax pool road at the loudoun county Parkway was a report of a wreck, Wellington road near ball's foot in Devlin road was a report of a crash. In Maryland, southbound two 70, heavy before urbana, headed toward one O 9 starting to slow passing one 24, then it looks good to the lane divide still, outer loop top side of the beltway delays from 95 around toward Georgia avenue. Keep an eye out for anything on university boulevard in the area of the beltway. It looks like there's a report of a crash. While the Baltimore Washington Parkway, southbound slows approaching one 75, then you find the volume inbound en route 50 coming from two O two on to New York avenue or on to D.C. two 95, which remains solid all the way past east capital street. I'm Rita Kessler, WTO traffic. Storm team fours Chad Merrill, we ended up with a pretty nice one yesterday. I got to spend some time outside and enjoy it. Do we get anything close to a repeat today? Well, the high
Northwest Newsradio
"melzer" Discussed on Northwest Newsradio
"But the British saw has a concert in Texas the day before, making it a tight turnaround to be back for the king's concert the next day. And the other big question overshadowing it all will Harry and Meghan attend the event, particularly given the recent news that King Charles asked them to move out of their UK home to make room for the disgraced Prince Andrew. The public feel very strongly about these things, but they're not really getting to see the work that the royal family are doing, and that puts the coronation very much at risk of also being overshadowed. For now, the palace is staying mom on who is on the guest list, as for the highly anticipated concert at Windsor Castle, many royal watchers point out that many of the big British acts are currently touring, so the big question of who will sing for the king? We'll have to stay tuned. A former U.S. Army private who plotted with a satanic neo Nazi group to kill his fellow soldiers, was sentenced today in New York to the maximum ABC's Aaron couture ski has more. Federal prosecutors called Ethan bells are the enemy within. He joined the army so he could infiltrate his unit on behalf of the white supremacist extremist group O 9 a and carry out what prosecutors called an appalling goal, the brutal murder of his own fellow U.S. service members. Nelson pleaded guilty to three counts that accused him of revealing sensitive details of his unit's deployment so they could be killed in an ambush. He apologized in court and sought no more than 15 years in prison, but federal prosecutors asked for and melzer received 45 years. Aaron Kutcher's ABC News New York. More clashes between protesters and Israeli forces in Palestinian territory in the occupied West Bank, ABC's and S de la catera says that's part of a series of protests in Israel and all over the region after Benjamin Netanyahu Netanyahu's ultra conservative government stepped into power. The fear is that that could unleash a kind of fundamentalism that would really affect every impact every aspect of Israeli society. And so that's why you're seeing so many people taking to the streets so many protesting these new proposed laws by this new government. It's people of all ages, people from all walks of life because they're concerned about the future of Israel and the future of democracy
The Jim Ross Report
"melzer" Discussed on The Jim Ross Report
"Let's talk about why we're here. It's not the main event believe it or not. It's the Royal Rumble. It's match 5. And Steve Austin is going to win what they've described as a 27 man Royal Rumble. It goes 55 minutes and 24 seconds. He's going to last eliminate. Well, who else, rocky mavia? It's so amazing to me before either one of these guys won a world title, their feuding over the intercontinental title, they're the last two in the Royal Rumble. So fun all evolved. Of course, it opens with cactus Jack against chainsaw Charlie. And the announcers here are actually referring to chainsaw, Charlie S Terry funk. And this is because during the middle of the match, we even see Terry funk raise up the pantyhose just to show, hey, in case you weren't sure, it's me, Terry. Rock comes out third, which means the intercontinental champ is looking for a world title shot, which I like. And melzer would say it's kind of a funny moment, 8 ball is one of the Harris brothers comes out and the crowd pops. Because at first glance, I guess they thought it was Steve Austin. Ball head, here you go. Yeah, here we go. Bradshaw is highlighted here as well. Of course, we've seen him as part of the new black jacks and all that. And you're going to point out on commentary that he just signed a four year extension, which is obviously a big deal. Owen's going to come out, but he's jumped by Jeff Jarrett and Jim cornette. God damn it, we got him. Think about that. Ellen Hart instead of working with Shawn Michaels, has now cut off by Jeff Jarrett, who just got emasculated by Steve Austin. I hope this year. Yes, correct. Shamrock's in next so they create an Austin storyline as Jerry Lawler is claiming that he's got info that shamrock has beaten up Austin and Austin won't be able to come out. Cactus Jack gets eliminated. And we see goldust come out. I can't believe this is real. He's going to throw man condyle. I want to repeat that. Cactus Jack got eliminated, so now mankind comes out. And of course, eventually we know dude love's going to come out. The three faces of foley, this is a great piece of creative business. One of my all time classic rumble moments who deserves the credit for that, do you think? Is that a Russo thing, probably? Might be. Yeah. It might be a Mick thing, too. Yeah. Let's not forget. You got a very creative guy that's written bestselling books and all that stuff. No doubt. Good stuff. He's creative as hell. So I wouldn't shortchange Mick on his contributions to the three faces of foley. Frankly, he may have been the guy that created it. I don't know that. I'm not taking anything away from Russo. I just don't remember exactly, but to think Mick wasn't in the think tank equation, but probably erroneous. I want to bring up Ahmed Johnson because he comes out and melts would say, stunk up the joint, he says, although no worst Mark Henry who followed since Henry at this point was working with Johnson, who may have gotten out of the doghouse with his attitude and camp, but he seems to have somehow actually gotten worse in the ring, their stuff was hideous. I bring this up because I'm in Johnson, is coming back after you guys have, he's had an injury, he had him work in some of the dojos and working the camps and Meltzer was reporting great progress, he gets this moment to shine. It doesn't go well, and his last pay per view or his last appearance with the company is next month. No way out 1998, and this is a guy who, man, a couple years prior, people thought, well, he's on a trajectory to be one of our top guys, was this sort of, all right, fool me twice. He ain't ready. Right. We tried. Yeah. How many trials you need to get? And he did have all the intangibles. He had the look. He had the facial expression. You know, he was a fairly athletic. But he just, he had, he seemed to be on this insatiable journey of doing it his way. And his way wasn't the right way. Right. He thought selling was a weakness, which is really shows how far off basic person is. Selling is one of the greatest attributes that a pro wrestler a great pro wrestler has. They know how when and where to sell. Selling is so huge. But you have this, you have a handful of people that believe that, well, I'll look weak. Oh, look weak. I can't look weak. So you're saying you don't really know how to work. Right. So why are we using you? If you don't understand the concept and the artisan shift that goes into selling, it's that important to me. So Ahmed is Ahmed looked at like everybody's out to get him sometimes. And you know, I don't know his background and maybe that's all well, maybe that's all documented and maybe it's well understood. He didn't have the easiest of upbringing. I don't know for sure. I think that maybe I have a play in it. But yeah, he was just, we tried. We tried. Even from the days when cowboy Bill wanted to name him buck Johnson. Right. That's not black. But Johnson. Pork chop cash, all these white promoters. Bobo. PP. Oh, goodness. It's crazy.
AI Today Podcast: Artificial Intelligence Insights, Experts, and Opinion
"melzer" Discussed on AI Today Podcast: Artificial Intelligence Insights, Experts, and Opinion
"Hello and welcome to the AI today podcast. I'm your host, Kathleen mulch. And I'm your host Walsh melzer and thanks again for joining us on our AI today podcast. As you know, top rated in the AI category mainly because many of you have really loved our content, especially our educational content, and we've been in this AI glossary series that we've been doing. We have this big AI glossary on our website with something like 260 70 I don't know. It's like a lot of terms, almost 300 terms really up there. And rather than just put it up on a website, we thought, hey, let's just go through those terms, mainly because some people may not necessarily understand what these terms are. And kind of maybe misunderstanding misapplication. So let's go through them. Of course, knowing what the terms are is very different than applying them. So we'll talk a little bit later about our CPM AI and the intro to CPM AI course, which we have for free. Our insurance CPI, which is the cognitive project management for AI methodology. But we have a lot of terms to go over in this podcast. So we'll get right into it. Exactly. So on today's podcast, at a high level, we want to go over natural language processing, natural language understanding, natural language generation, speech to text, text to speech, and also automated speech recognition. And as you can imagine, these terms are all highly related to each other. And they're all related in this general idea, this natural language processing idea, which is a field of computer science. It's a whole area that really focuses on giving machines the ability to understand and communicate using the language of humans. And of course, we're going to be applying machine learning and artificial intelligence to that general challenge. But NLP natural language processing is a general, it's an umbrella term that covers a bunch of things. And the two main sub themes within natural language processing is natural language generation, which is machines that can communicate back to the humans in a language that humans can understand, right? And then, of course, there's natural language understanding. So NLG for generation NLU for understanding. And natural language understanding is all about machines that can understand what humans are saying, whether they speak it, type it or whatever it. That's the whole goal. So let's dig a little bit deeper into those two subcategories of NLP. Exactly. So natural language generation is the use of AI systems to create written or spoken text in a language that humans can understand, which is important because machines don't necessarily speak that. And NLG, it's also called natural language generation can also be abbreviated NLG. It's considered a subset of natural language processing.
AP News
"melzer" Discussed on AP News
"President Vladimir Putin is promising neighboring Belarus, which also borders Ukraine that Moscow will provide it with the new missile system. I'm Ben Thomas with details. At a meeting in St. Petersburg, the president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko complained about the confrontational policies of Poland and Lithuania, U.S. and NATO training flights and nuclear training and asked Putin to consider mirroring those efforts. Putin demurred, but told Lukashenko Russia would deliver a skander M short-range missile systems in the coming months. They can fire either ballistic or cruise missiles and carry nuclear as well as conventional warheads. I'm Ben Thomas. A 24 year old army, private charged with plotting to kill members of his unit was planning an Internet fantasy defense before he ultimately pled guilty Friday in Manhattan federal court. Prosecutors say Ethan melzer from Kentucky plotted online to arrange an attack on his army unit in 2020. Court papers reveal his lawyers were building a defense, claiming he was merely indulging in fantasy chats similar to a former New York City police officer who several years ago was charged with plotting to rape kill and eat women in a case dubbed the cannibal cop. Melser thought he was communicating with the order of 9 angels or O 9 a, a radical group, but instead it was really government informants, authorities say he joined the military to infiltrate its ranks on behalf of the group that embraces neo Nazi anti semitic and satanic beliefs. Julie Walker, New York. The Supreme Court ruling overturning roe V wade on Friday is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the U.S. states with some already taking effect. Missouri became the first state to ban all abortions except in cases of medical emergencies, the 12 other states with trigger laws that would effectively ban all our most abortions, Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming. The laws are nuanced depending on the states such as the case in Alabama, Arizona, and West Virginia, all Republican run all sorting through various halts to abortion. The court's decision sets up the potential for legal fights between states banning abortion and those not over whether providers and those who help women obtain abortions can be sued or prosecuted. I'm Julie Walker. Another day of protests around the country after Friday's Supreme Court ruling ends nearly 50 years of constitutional protection for abortion. You're outside the Supreme Court where barricades are up in police stand guard, protesters continue to gather. Sarah Bentley says abortion is healthcare. If the Supreme Court is
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U.S. Army private admits plotting attack on military unit
"A 24 year old army private charged with plotting to kill members of his unit was planning an Internet fantasy defense before he ultimately pled guilty Friday in Manhattan federal court Prosecutors say Ethan melzer from Kentucky plotted online to arrange an attack on his army unit in 2020 Court papers reveal his lawyers were building a defense claiming he was merely indulging in fantasy chats similar to a former New York City police officer who several years ago was charged with plotting to rape kill and eat women in a case dubbed the cannibal cop Melser thought he was communicating with the order of 9 angels or O 9 a a radical group but instead it was really government informants authorities say he joined the military to infiltrate its ranks on behalf of the group that embraces neo Nazi anti semitic and satanic beliefs Julie Walker New York
WTOP
"melzer" Discussed on WTOP
"2 o'clock. This is CBS News on the hour, sponsored by facet wealth. I'm Allison keyes in Washington. People are marching from Texas to Philadelphia to Washington D.C. over the Supreme Court ruling overturning the 1973 world V wade decision legalizing abortion. What's next for states? CBS's Christina ruffini explains. 8 of the trigger law states do not have exceptions for rape or incest. Alexis McGill Johnson is the head of Planned Parenthood. For many patients, it means that they will be forced into pregnancy because they won't be able to have the resources or the ability to get out of state. Theresa Brennan is president of the right to life leak. I believe these are people and they have rights too. We have to find a way to honor women, but also protect the fundamental rights of these children. CBS jam Crawford says there may be more abortion related rulings from the court. There are other issues that the court could take up that are related to abortion access. Like whether states can ban access to abortion pills or whether states can prosecute people for going across state lines to get an abortion, not on whether or not states can ban or greatly restrict it. That's done. The Supreme Court also ruled on a concealed carry law, striking down New York State's tight restrictions. This as President Biden signs of $13 billion gun reform package. Well, this bill doesn't do everything I want. It does include actions I've long call for that are going to save lives. It funds crisis intervention, including red flag laws. It keeps guns out of the hands of people who are a danger to themselves and to others. In Norway, the security service is calling a shooting outside of a popular gay bar and Islamist terror attack. CBS Jeff gloer has more. At least two people were killed and nearly two dozen others hurt when a gunman opened fire before a pride parade today in Oslo Norway. Police say the shooting happened outside a gay bar in the downtown area of the Norwegian capital. The suspect was known to police is in custody and facing murder and terrorism charges an army private admits he plotted to kill members of his unit. Ethan phelan melzer of Louisville, Kentucky has pleaded guilty to trying to murder U.S. Military service members, attempting to provide support to terrorists and illegally transmitting national defense information. Authorities say the 24 year old was already a member of a radical group before joining the army in 2018. He could face up to 45 years in prison when sentenced in January. Jennifer Kuiper CBS News. In Chicago a 5 month old girl sitting in the back of a car is fatally shot. Police say Cecilia Thomas was shot in the head last night when gunfire erupted from another vehicle, the little girl died later at a hospital. She would have been 6 months old and four days. This is CBS News. Facet wealth is an SEC registered investment adviser. They offer customized financial planning for you, not just your assets. Learn more at facet wealth dot com slash Jill. Two O three on this Saturday, June 25th, 2022, 87° in the district. Good afternoon, I'm Jenny glick, thanks for listening in. The top local story, we are following at this hour. There appears to be no led up today as Americans angered by the Supreme Court's overturning of roe V wade, hit the streets for a second day of protests. From Washington, D.C., where the conservatives on the court Friday swept aside a half century of precedent to do away with the law all the way to the West Coast. There have been angry protests against the ruling that is likely to make abortions illegal in up to half of the country. Those protests were at times met with counter protests by elated anti abortion activists. Today outside the Supreme Court building a small but growing group of protesters are chatting, women's rights are human rights, WTO will have a reporter there soon. We will bring you the latest when we get it. Well, the decision from the high court comes as the country is dealing with a growing threat of domestic terrorism. And now the Department of Homeland Security is warning that threats against the country's national security could intensify. Here's WTO's national security correspondent, JJ green. We need to remember that foreign adversaries. And this is something that comes straight from DHS foreign adversaries, including terrorist organizations, and nation state adversaries want to leverage this kind of activity. They want to leverage the chaos that could come about. Things that happened around the January 6th date. Any kind of situation where there is violence or any kind of protest. These adversaries want to leverage those events and this is certainly something that they will probably try to use social media to fan the flames of tonight and moving forward. That's WTF national security correspondent JJ green. Knew this hour a dramatic one man protest against yesterday's Supreme Court decision has just ended in the nation's capital. A man who climbed the Frederick Douglass bridge prompting it to close in both directions has just come down. Please first responded they were there. Since 10 a.m. yesterday, he refused to move, but officials were able to convince him to come down. He's now receiving medical attention, and a spokesperson of D.C. tells us he is in custody. And they do plan to charge him, although the specific charges are unclear. Again, this is the same man who used a chain and bike lock to attach himself to the unscalable fence outside the Supreme Court earlier this month in a tweet he said he could not sit by while his daughter's rights are stripped away. Dash cam video has been released of a prince George's county police chase followed by a deadly crash earlier this month. The dash cam video shows an officer trying to stop two cars which were later determined to be stolen. It was June 8th in the area of Harry Truman drive and up from all borough. With sirens blaring and lights flashing, the officer pursued the cars on White House road when one of them crossed the double yellow line and smashed head on into the car driven by 66 year old Johnny Mars killing him. The driver of the striking car 22 year old Lorenzo day, who had non life threatening injuries, has not yet been charged. Police are still looking for the other driver, particularly on WTO opinions. The man who shot a mother and her young son and D.C.'s Logan circle neighborhood after an argument over a scooter has learned his sentence, it started according to prosecutors when Anthony bedni of D.C. left his rented scooter in a bike lane on tenth street northwest, a woman who lives nearby told him he couldn't leave it there, things escalated and bettany pulled out a gun and fired at the woman and her family. The woman and her 5 year old son were hit, both survived, but the boy still has a bullet stuck in his back. Bed need now 27 pleaded guilty to charges including assault with intent to kill with a dangerous weapon. He's been sentenced to 20 years in prison. Michelle bash
AI Today Podcast: Artificial Intelligence Insights, Experts, and Opinion
"melzer" Discussed on AI Today Podcast: Artificial Intelligence Insights, Experts, and Opinion
"The AI today podcast produced by cognitive cuts through the hype and noise to identify what is really happening now in the world of artificial intelligence. Learn about emerging AI trends, technologies, and use cases from cognitive analysts and guest experts. Hello and welcome to the AI today podcast. I'm your host Kathleen Walsh. And I'm your host Ronald melzer. And again, I want to really thank our audience you guys have been fantastic in reaching on to us. As a matter of fact, so many of you are reaching out to us that we may actually be a little delayed in getting back to some of you who have provided some feedback and comments on the things you've liked about our AI today podcast and some suggestions for us and maybe some of you we've taken a few days to respond. But we have your emails and we are responding to them and thank you very much. We actually are also seeing a nice group of folks who have registered for our training and for our webinars and for our CPM AI certification that have come from our AI today podcast and that's a really good sign for us. That means that we're giving you relevant stuff. We don't want to give you irrelevant stuff. And it is very tempting. I have to say, as a podcast host, Kathleen and I have been doing this now for 5 years and 250 plus episodes..
Success, Motivation & Inspiration
"melzer" Discussed on Success, Motivation & Inspiration
"I mean, Doctor John Maxwell, the guy who's a phenomenal author, one of the best leadership speakers in the world bar none. I mean, I put him up there with the Tommy Robin Zig Ziglar, such a phenomenal reputation. You know, David Meltzer, a lot of people don't know David, of course, ran one of the largest sports management companies in the country and the movie Jerry Maguire was actually modeled after his company. And so, you know, he'll be there. Ken Joss, that Anthony trumps. All just phenomenal speakers. And you want to get there, you want to learn, and then of course you want to get home and just pick a couple of those ideas that you hear while you're there, implement them and I guarantee you'll see major major changes in your life over the next 6 to 12 months. And one of the things about the conference this being a, you know, not a ten X sized conference with tens of thousands of people there. But just being a smaller conference, it's going to give you the opportunity to be have these one on one connections and really get in there down down dirty with the local. You have what 20 different speakers yourself on the actual and just incredible leaders who can share a lot and can teach a lot. But then also Venus more event, you've got the opportunity to connect to some of these people and have a chance to not only be listening like a interview, but also be able to be there right down the front. See this wood on your forehead is you're talking on. Absolutely, you know what I can tell you just in my personal business, you know, being on stage, going to these events, taking pictures of myself with Floyd Mayweather, you know, shark tanks, Kevin Harrington, Sheeran actor, the Tim stories, the Bobby castros, the Brandon Dawson's Bradley's. It's definitely elevated my career, tremendously because it gives you so much credibility. Imagine if you're an entrepreneur, your business owner, you want to be a speaker. And you come to this event and you're taking pictures of you alongside Jesse itzler, you alongside David melzer and then you post that on your social media. It's going to give you credibility. It's going to give you social influence. It's going to make you a person of interest. And so don't underestimate how you can use this to your advantage in your branding in your marketing. And so, you know, you definitely want to be there. I'll be there. And like I said, I stay for the whole event. I'm not one of these flying in fly out. You can sit down and have breakfast with me, pull me aside, get to know me, ask questions by my books. But really, you know, I go to these really to add value and help people. You know, I wake up every day blessed. I don't need to be doing what I do. I've got mailbox money. I've got assets. I do it to help change people's lives and get everybody that wants to connect with me to a better place. If you guys have not got your ticket, be sure to go to the gross stack drive dot com forward slash bread, get yourself a ticket..
Bear Grease
"melzer" Discussed on Bear Grease
"The question too would be, why wouldn't they kill? I mean, your people that are living is almost hand mouth. I mean, there is no, you're not storing up a 5 O one for ten years down the road. You are literally killing stuff that can notify one K 401k. Hopefully this does a lot of the findings. Yeah, I feel like she's probably gonna 401k is a nonprofit retirement account. Okay. Okay, sorry. The four O one K they don't have four-o-one-ks. They have one case. They don't have any case. And the only security for the future that they have is what they've killed today. And whatever the preservation techniques would have been, which could have been the ice and snow and them store in the meat in the snow through the winter or they made pemmican. There was a whole section about doctor melzer that talking to me about pemmican, which I just couldn't have been made then. Well, I mean, they would have used the meat to make pemmican. Oh yeah, they did they make it back then? They believe they did. But they would have been a mixture of meat and berries and other stuff. Try it out and flattened and it could have lasted months. Could they not also smoke the meat? I'm presuming, you know, I think there are hunter gatherer band societies today that will kill a giraffe. And you know, you've got 1500 pounds of meat. And there's 25 of them. And they'll smoke the meat to preserve it. To preserve it. You know, it's not rock solid preservation, but it's better than just letting it go bad. Yeah, for sure. So the question would just be, why wouldn't they kill as many as they possibly could? Because they would not have. I mean, it wouldn't have been even in the thought process for them to think. You know what? We're going to let a couple of these guys go. We presume there was not that thought process. If they're like. What do you think? Say for an hour, mentioned that they took the hides. And could it be possible that they didn't take all the mate that they took me they needed? Well, they left the to build shelters and teepees or whatever you incredible fall. Their huts were called. Was that brought out? Was that? That's a good that is a great answer to a potential potential answer to the question of why they killed that many if they weren't going to use all the meat. Presumably they used all the hives because there were no tailbones. Zero tailbones. In the tailbones were left in the hides when they carried him off. I think juju's beat all your experts. Yeah. What do you think happened, juju? I'm not sure, but I thought about leaving all those Folsom points how hard it was to make those Folsom points. How long it took to chisel out. But I guess it was deep in the animal and I couldn't pull it back out. But I thought, wow, if I could have taken those 20 points back with them, I would have saved a lot of classic mother. I would have come back from that hunt and Gigi would have been like, Callie baby, where's your Folsom point? And I've been like, I broke them, but she would have been like, clay. Didn't you? Daddy worked hard for those..
Bear Grease
"melzer" Discussed on Bear Grease
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From the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed free fly has me covered. They sent me a package of their new fall gear and I've pretty much been living in their bamboo crossover hoodie. It's my go to item to throw on. Whether you're on the river trail or simply lounging around the house, there's nothing better to have on than free fly. This stuff is a game changer, but the best part is they've got something for everyone special in your life, this holiday season, your wife, your kids, your buddy, your parents, literally anyone would like this stuff. Right now you can knock out your entire holiday shopping list and get 20% off when you visit free fly, apparel dot com slash bear. Again, that's free fly apparel dot com slash bear for 20% off your holiday gifts. I want to dive into some serious science. My whole life I've heard the term carbon dating thrown around and it seems like we base a lot of what we know about ancient time frames on it. In the scientific world, it's believed to be rock solid science. But I've heard a few murmurs of the validity of carbon dating and I want to end the personal drama. Here's what I asked doctor melzer. And hey, stick around if you get bored on this part. At the end, we're going to talk about the Bible and the age of the earth and it's going to get wild. Man, what a booby trap. Okay, I'm going to take your word a 100% for this and I'm going to base the rest of my life off of this answer. No pressure. How certain are we that carbon dating? It's like rock hard science. And that's a dumb question, because I think I know what you're going to say. But in 50 years, are my kids going to be like, man, they used to radio carbon date stuff, boy they were way off. Oh no, it's good. It's solid. And it's been proven over and over again for the last what are we up to now 1950 to 2020, right? We've had so many independent checks on this. Okay. That every time time and again, we've been able to use and demonstrate that radiocarbon is both reliable, which is to say, if you do it again, are you going to get the same answer? And valid, which is to say, is it the right answer? And mind you, when the technique was first developed, what they did was they took things of known historic age, and they said, okay, here's some wood from an Egyptian tomb that we know from hieroglyphic records and the Rosetta stone and all that stuff is basically 4000 years old. You get a radiocarbon date. It says it's 3900 years old, plus or minus a hundred. So yeah, so it's just been test. This is gravity. This is like, this is something that we know is pretty solid. Okay, so doctor melter and the scientific community believe this is rock hard indisputable science, and I can get behind that. But what is it? Let's ask the Doc. I think it's important for us to have an understanding of radiocarbon dating. It's just stuff, a brother should know. Talk to me about carbon dating. So the way we know how old things are is through radiocarbon dating. This is a process that was invented in the very late 1940s earned a Nobel Prize to its inventor in 1960, Willard Libby, and what Willard Libby figured out is that we know of course that there's garden variety carbon. And that's carbon 12. Libby's insight was that there are other isotopes of carbon. That was known. And isotopes are basically unstable forms of these elements. Carbon 14 is radiocarbon. So what Libby realized was that, in addition to all the carbon that's floating around in the upper atmosphere, you've got nitrogen and you've got cosmic radiation that produces these neutrons. They hit the nitrogen, drives off a proton and a chemically becomes carbon. It's got the same chemical structure as carbon, but it weighs more. Carbon 14, because it's got the atomic mass of nitrogen. So you've now got carbon 12, which is the garden variety carbon forming with oxygen, form CO2, and you've now got this isotope this slightly heavier form of carbon carbon 14, joining together with oxygen to form CO2. What do plants use for photosynthesis? They use CO2. They're ingesting CO2 as part of the photosynthesis process. Animals, including us, eat plants. And so we're absorbing both the standard amount of carbon 12 that's out there, but a tiny, tiny fraction. I mean, you're not radioactive. You've got radiocarbon in you, but you're not going to glow at night or anything like that. You've got this form of carbon 14 in an organism. When the organism dies, the carbon 14 is no longer being replenished. And it starts to decay back to carbon 12. Gives off a little beta mission, changes the structure and suddenly you've got plain old carbon. That process of decay has what's known as a half life, which means that every 5730 years, half of the radiocarbon that was in a piece of wood an animal bone, any kind of organic thing is now gone. Another 5730 years,.
Bear Grease
"melzer" Discussed on Bear Grease
"And the other thing that's kind of shocking to me, at least from what I gleaned from your podcast was they found the bison remains. They found some Folsom points, but there really wasn't any other artifacts that were found. Nothing other that suggests that they made camp there for a while while they dealt with these bison or that they were in the area for any significant period of time. Right. So like that was going to shelter. So probably on part three, you'll hear David melzer talk more about that because part three asked him, I said, who were these people? What do we know about these people? I mean, these were these were humans. They were like us. They had emotions. They had feelings. They were just like us, but they used Flint rocks to clack together to make fire and they made stone points out of church that they were a little grittier than us. So I asked him, you know, who are these people? And that's when he began to talk about how we do not know where they camped. And that's his biggest frustration. He told me, as he said, we were there, we know so much about this site. He said, we can not for the life of us find where they can't. Because they had to camp close. And there could have been remnants of a camp there, but over that long, what's going to be left is the stone and not the other things that they might have had. And I said this to doctor Meltzer and I'm not sure if it was an offensive question to ask an archeologist, but I was like, I'm standing at the Folsom site and you would have walked past it and it looked like every other place. You wouldn't have thought something special happened here. Yeah. Look like every other place in banal. You know, the second excavation by melter was done and it was over 20 years ago, so this is look like a drainage, you know? Yeah. And I'm standing there and I ask the guys I'm with. I'm like, how do we know there's not something incredible 12 feet under the ground right there? Yeah. Nobody ever dug there. We don't. They literally dug up a spot about this living room wall that probably the kitchen door. That whole box canyon hasn't been excavated. No. What? My measurements might be wrong, but I'm telling you, you could have shot a recurve bow. Any side of that to the other one, it could have fallen something this important, they would have went way beyond the bounds. Back home would have been in there. Well, no, you gotta be careful because every time you destroy, okay, and this is when you learn about archeology, which I'm doing now, you realize how much it's like surgery. I mean, it's like saying, there's something wrong with the sky. Why don't you just go in and fix it? Well, it's not like I mean, these guys are like taking months and months to excavate like a small area. I mean, they're like removing. I mean, so it's just an excavator like back in George's time. Shave off the bison skull to fit in the box. Yeah, yeah, exactly. You got a catalog. All kind of data points too before you can even remove the item. Right. You said that the paleontologists got there first and was concerned with the bones. That's right. Then later the archeologists came and they said that a lot of what the original excavation did took no regard to humans. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. They were worried about the bones. And so they weren't that concerned about anything else..
Bear Grease
"melzer" Discussed on Bear Grease
"Data point. A moment frozen time that shows us what men were doing during a couple days stretch over 10,000 years ago. As rudimentary as this info may seem. This data point anchors part of our identity as humans. It reminds us of a more simple definition of humanity. This was a group of people connected together by a common cause. These hunters were undoubtedly a family group trying to make a living and survive in a hostile place. The complexity of modern life can be bewildering, but I don't think it has to be. There are a lot of mysterious questions about these people that I'm very interested in. Like where the heck did they come from? And what was the construct of their spiritual belief system, which they undoubtedly had? Atheism seems to be a pretty new phenomena in our species. These are questions that stone points and bones can't answer, but it's all we have to go off of. But isn't this the cool thing about being human? This rare cognition and this awareness that we possess is a gift. In our curiosity about past humans on this planet is also a gift. I can't thank you enough for listening to bear grease. On part three of this podcast will continue in our conversation with Steve brunella and doctor melzer. We've got several interesting topics yet to explore one of them being how the Folsom side up ended many people's understanding of the Bible's teaching on the age of man and the earth. I've got a few thoughts on that. Leave us a review on iTunes and tell some of your friends about this podcast. And tune in next week when myself along with a whole new render crew discuss the false site. Sorry, old render.
Bear Grease
"melzer" Discussed on Bear Grease
"Drugs, some of them to butcher would have been right, right. And so, but when you're butchering, you got your hand on the stone knife. You've got your hand on the scraper. So you're not going to lose that, right? Understood. So, but that's the stuff that you're going to very carefully curate and take with you onto the next place. Because that's part of your toolkit. So that explains why your team wouldn't have found any points because you guys were, I think where the main excavations had taken place in the 1920s, pretty much removed the principal kill area. We were excavating. And we know this partly by looking at the bones. What we were finding were discard piles, where carcass parts that were not nobody's going to transport a bison skull. They had no use for it. It's too heavy. There's no use for it. And once you chop the tongue out and we know they did that at the spot, you don't need the jaws either. So they're just throw that off to the side. So we were excavating where they were just pushing off the stuff to the side that they were not going to transport. I had some more questions about the kill. Here's Steve. How many people do you think would have been there to have done that? I think no one knows. It couldn't have been not a hundred. No. I think it was a probably a major kill, man. It's interesting that they were able to do that. Because one of the things about return when we were talking about just the very low population density of people. And the isolation of it. And the fact that they seem to wander a lot. These guys in false New Mexico are carrying tool stone from the Texas Panhandle. You could say, oh, they had this trade route and traded it. Or they went there and got it. And he wandered around. And they kept down the move and they hunted animals that experience no hunting pressure. That they were disperse and moved and they'd find animals in that group of animals. There's no experience with humans. Is that we know that means a lot in terms of the ability for a human to kill an animal for them to not have figured out what was going on. It might have been just that these are just animals very little exposure to humans and perhaps very easily manipulated by humans. You can get real close to them. You can kind of make a half around and nudge them along. They're not immediate like, you see one of those things on two legs. I don't care what you're doing. You got there. Perhaps they're responding to the human predators, no differently than they'd respond, then how we see the same species respond to wolves, which is a bunch of. Maybe when approached by a bunch of bipedal predators, these bipedal predators could just mimic the activity of wolves, kind of get roughly around them, they sort of bunch up and then you kind of like gently nudge them along and nudge them into this thing and then nudge them up this canyon and when they can't get away start killing them. Maybe like a walk in the park. But here's your thing. Maybe that day because there's not tons of these sites. It's like it's hard nothing lasts that long. Or it's 20 feet under sand and gravel. Whoever there's not a lot of these sites to compare it to. Or as far as we know, those people talked about that day for the rest of their lives. As the weirdest day that ever happened. Wow. They're like, no, man, I'm telling you, dude. Do you remember that one time? They just were up in there. I don't know what they were doing. I never seen anything like it. My dad never saw anything like it, or it was just another day, you know. When you get in any kind of like some sort of statistical thing, if you only find one thing, you have to assume that you're looking at something special happen. At the other point that let's say that at some point in time, someone was going to freeze an American household. Here's an American household frozen in place. What are the odds that volume the American household that 11 p.m. that you would have frozen place a murder in progress? Or would it have more likely have been some people in their living room watching TV? It's like, it's just more likely that you would have catch just this randomized American household at 11 p.m. that you'd catch some sort of thing that seemed normal. The rather than like, oh my God. This one's spectacular. He's murdering each other at 11 at night because he captured the spectacular event in isolation. So you look at like this one thing. We don't have many of them. There's one thing. You have to go like, I don't know, man. There's these people out there, they're killings of all time. Here's this pretty well preserved scenario where they killed stuff. I'm just gonna have to go on the assumption that this is like indicative of what these people did. And not that it was a weird day. We've talked about these stone points, but we haven't talked about how they were used to kill the bison. At the time in North America, there were two options for throwing sticks with sharp rocks on the end. Bows and adults here's what doctor melzer had to say. Were these hand projected spears or these ad ladders? Well, so that's something I can not answer. You need a lot of force. Think about a bison, the side of a bison is basically a picket fence of ribs. And they're fairly wide. You've got hair, you've got hide. You've got bone, you've got fat. All that stuff has to get penetrated. The thinking is the suspicion is. And this gets to another one of those things that, well, we just have to infer this because we don't really know that these were either thrust or thrown at high velocity, and we know that in fact, there was some velocity involved because we have what are known as impact fractures. Basically, when bone meat stone at high velocity, the front end, you get some serious front end damage. So the points that they found though were not diagnostic in terms of Atlanta or hand thrusted spear. No, because whether it was thrust or thrown, it's the same size point. You don't regardless of how it happened. It would have had to have been some pretty bad to the bone people to have killed 32 bison. It was a cow calf herd, and the kill took place in the fall. Which is how do we know that? Dental eruption patterns. So bison tend to calve between about mid April and mid may. And their teeth, their molars grow at a fairly regular rate. And these molars are these premolars have already busted over and are on the surface now. You can say, okay, well, it's probably been about four months. So if you go mid April age of the calves that it's the age of the counter that they would have been born in the spring and you've got a bunch of four month old calves that tells you you've got a kill that took place September plus or minus. We're going to halt the conversation right here. It's so interesting to ponder our ancient history as humans. You have to wait for part three to hear the rest of the story. We live in such a weird concoction called time that binds us so tightly to the present it's hard to imagine any other form of life beyond what we experience with their own life. That is. Unless we strain our brains to think back. But maybe it's not a cognitive exercise as much as it is a spiritual one to try to understand ancient man. But a bigger question is why do we care or even want to understand them? And I can not fully answer that. But I am convinced that the lives of these people that left these stone points are still relevant in 2021, regardless of the barrier of time that separates us. We're in the process as a culture of redefining modern humanity, who we are. Why we're here. Why are we so clearly different than the other beasts of this planet? And now the heck did we go from slinging stone tipped spears and bison to driving teslas? Why is there such turmoil in the earth? These are just some of the questions that we have. The Folsom site gives us an indisputable.
Bear Grease
"melzer" Discussed on Bear Grease
"In the rib, Steve means the point was laying in between two ribs. It wasn't stuck in a rib, but it was just as conclusive. We heard briefly from doctor David melzer on part one. He's the national authority on the Folsom site and how would one know that? Well, he literally wrote a giant book called Folsom. It's basically a textbook on everything known about the place. Doctor Meltzer isn't just a Folsom expert, though. He's dedicated his academic career to the people of the pleistocene era, which is a block of time that began a couple million years ago and ended 10,000 years ago. The time period from then until now is called the holocene. We live in the holocene. If you know these two words, pleistocene and holocene, you're pretty much be in the loop for talking about the recent history of Planet Earth. Doctor melzer is the author of multiple books on the pleistocene, including first peoples in a new world. The great Paleolithic war and search for the first Americans. I went to the campus of SMU in Dallas, Texas, where he works. We'd hardly greeted each other when he asked me to follow him into his lab. It was full of bones and stone tools. Ancient stuff. A skull that's been turned upside down because when we got it in the ground, it was top of the head facing up, right? So we plastered it, and then we cut underneath it, lifted it out. And so now what you see is the plastic. It's resting on its plaster cast, and you can see the teeth in here. Wow, right? And there's the back of the skull, so that is a bison and tick with skull from the bullshit. Yep, and it's a big and it's pretty wild being in the same room with the skull of a bison antiques. If you want to see a cell phone video, the skull, you can check out my Instagram clay underscore newcombe. Doctor melzer is a unique guy when it comes to Folsom. The site was originally excavated between 1926 and 1928, but 70 years later there were unanswered questions that he knew our modern techniques and technology could now answer. Primarily carbon dating, which we'll talk about more in part three of this series. Like a dramatic movie sequel in 1997, doctor melzer and his team went back to Folsom. They dug up the place again with new questions about the site's geology, its antiquity, which is the site's age. The paleo topography, which is its former geography, and its depositional history, which basically means the layers that covered the site. Here's doctor melzer talking about the uniqueness of the Folsom site. For 50 years, there had been this very heated debate over how long people had been in the Americas and all manner of contenders were put forward. This is evidence that people have been here since the pleistocene. This is evidence that people have been here for 300,000 years. Here's evidence that people have been here for 350,000 years, but in each and every instance those sites failed to prove what they were claimed to prove, and they failed because of various reasons. The artifacts weren't actually artifacts. The artifacts were not in the geological deposits that were said to be that old. The artifacts had rolled downhill and ended up next to ancient animal remains, but they were not necessarily in what we call primary context. That is to say they didn't enter the deposit. At the same time, as those ancient animals enter the deposit. And so you had literally decades of people arguing back and forth over how long people had been in the Americas. When Folsom came along, it was just as advertised. What you had was a spot on the landscape where hunters had confronted and killed a herd of bison. We now know there were about 32 animals that were dispatched that day. And in the process, left behind their artifacts in ways that made it absolutely clear that those animals and those people had been on that very landscape at the same moment in time because we had spear points, what we now know is false and fluted points in direct association with the bones and what I mean by that is we had a projectile point in between ribs. It had sat there since that animal was killed, right? There was no question that that was some sort of adventitious association that somehow a projectile point had worked its way down into the dirt into the earth ten feet below the surface and ended up in between two bison ribs. Right. No, that animal was stabbed by a human, and because that animal was a now extinct form of bison, which went extinct at the end of the pleistocene. That was the first absolutely definitive proof that people had been in the Americas at the end of the pleistocene. The only question remaining after that was how much earlier might they have been? Right. But that's what made fulsome different. It was just as advertised. When you look back at the history of archeology itself as a study, there was an incredible amount of drama and ego involved in the discussion of human antiquity. It was highly competitive regarding who discovered what and where. So it's hard to overstate how important the find was because it was so indisputable. Here's another component of understanding Folsom and archeology that will help us. This is Steve describe into us what is called a type site. A lot of bygone cultures will have a thing called the type site. The type site is where they were identified. When we talk about Folsom hunters, the fulsome culture was identified at, wild horse Arroyo, your fulsome, New Mexico, was when it was first identified. The identifying feature of the Folsom culture. I was called Folsom hunters. And they took the name Folsom simply because that was the English name of the town. Sure, that was probably a brand new town. That has nothing to do as a descriptor of these people. Not at all. Just to keeping in the same state. It's the same point in the same state. When we talk about a Clovis hunter, it just so happens that the projectile points which stand for the hunters that made them were first identified near Clovis, New Mexico. They were there over 10,000 years before anyone even thought to name to make it to the place clothes. We happened to right now doing our conversation about Folsom near shattering Nebraska. Were you and I had to walk out and find holy cow. Look at this insane projectile point. Diagnostic, unfound point. And then we realized it was this whole culture of people and they made this point. They might wind up calling them the shattering hunters. I think they'd call it brunel newcombe. Okay. But if they were consistent with the days of yore, that's what they would wind up name them. Folsom hunters were identified near false New Mexico and so they the name, the nearby town name was applied to the culture. When we talk about a culture atom, like, what do you imagine? A culture of people. We know them when we see them based on the point. With our understanding right now, it's the point. The point has to be present. The projectile point that they like to make has to be present, meaning, if we know that the wholesome culture was active, 11,700 years ago. If you went down to South Florida and found a human campsite from 11,700 years ago that had a different projectile point, you wouldn't call it a Folsom site. Okay, so it's not two. Yeah, it's not when it's who and when. It describes a culture just like the culture of us to drive Chevrolet pickups. Sure, and there's another culture in France that drives some other kind of pickup. The Folsom culture is identified by the type of technology they use when making stone points, but this culture was also.
Bear Grease
"melzer" Discussed on Bear Grease
"There was so many questions about the site that were unanswered. That's why I went back 70 years later. On this episode of the bear grease podcast, we're going to the site of an ancient bison kill. The one found by George mcjunkin on part one of the series. After George's death, it would become known as the Folsom site. It was here that stone tools made by humans were found with a relic form of pleistocene bison and forever planted and indisputable data point into the debate of human antiquity in North America. We're going to talk with old Steve rinella of meat eater and the nation's leading expert on the fulsome site. Doctor David melzer, he literally wrote the book on Folsom after he went back there 70 years after its initial excavation and excavated it again to find more answers. So on this podcast, we're going back to fulsome. I really doubt you're going to want to miss this one. But first, I have an overarching question I'd like to present to you and it's this. What is the relevance of this knowledge about these ancient people in their lives? Why do we care? Is it merely entertainment to try to understand them or is there more? I'm in search of the answer. These things were herded, driven, into a box canyon, and then just rain down spears out of them and killed them. You can't make them go anywhere they don't want to go. We don't have to drive them in there. All we gotta do is wait till they go up in their own neuron. So I think it was an accident. My name is clay Newcomb and this is the bear grease podcast, where we'll explore things forgotten, but relevant. Search for inside and unlikely places and where we'll tell the story of Americans who live their lives close to the land. Presented by gear. American made purpose built hunting and fishing gear that's designed to be as rugged as the places we explore..
TIME's Top Stories
"melzer" Discussed on TIME's Top Stories
"Assange's supporters claimed the move was motivated by probes by WikiLeaks into corruption by the Ecuadorian president Lenin Moreno. Moreno has denied the corruption accusations. He also said Assange's asylum was revoked because Assange's behavior was too disruptive. He claimed Assange smeared feces on embassy walls. An allegation the activists lawyers called outrageous. Within hours, police in London arrested Assange in the embassy on a U.S. extradition warrant for an indictment of conspiracy to hack a government computer. He was charged by British courts for breach of bail and in May 2019 was sentenced to 50 weeks in a high security London prison. That same month, the U.S. indicted Assange on 17 further charges under the espionage act, which carry a total maximum sentence of 170 years in prison. Assange has always denied that his actions constitute espionage. After visiting Assange in the British prison in May 2019, the UN special repertoire on torture nils melzer concluded that in addition to physical ailments, mister Assange showed all symptoms typical for prolonged exposure to psychological torture, including extreme stress, chronic anxiety and intense psychological trauma. The British government disagreed with some of those conclusions. The extradition process began in May 2019, but was delayed several times partly due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Persuaded by the defense team's arguments that the extradition of Assange would be oppressive due to his risk of suicide, a British judge ruled against the extradition on January 4th this year. The U.S. announced it would appeal the decision, but Assange was denied bail due to the risk he might abscond. What did the U.S. argue in the appeal hearing? On October 27th, the appeal hearing began in the British high court, Assange did not attend due to poor health. His legal team said. He later appeared via a video link from prison. Lawyers representing the U.S. argued that Assange's health issues were not as severe as Assange's legal team had claimed during the initial extradition hearing. James Lewis QC told the court that in the previous proceedings, Assange's psychiatrist had failed to disclose Assange's relationship with Stella Morris, a lawyer originally on his legal team, and the couple's two children who were conceived during Assange's stay in the embassy. Having the responsibility of children lowered Assange's likelihood of suicide. Lewis argued, the U.S. lawyers also pointed to the lower rate of suicides in prisons in the United States compared to the UK and argued that Assange's depression was moderate rather than severe. Lewis emphasized that the U.S. government had worked to mitigate the risks to Assange if extradited having issued four binding assurances concerning his proposed treatment in U.S. custody. These included an agreement to send Assange to his home country of Australia to serve the prison sentence and not incarcerate him in super maximum security prison ADX Florida. They also included an agreement not to subject him to a highly restrictive form of solitary confinement, provided he did not commit another offense. What was Assange's defense Assange's lawyers argued that his risk of suicide remained substantial and defended the psychiatrist's decision not to disclose a song shot a partner and two children..
The Mini-Break
"melzer" Discussed on The Mini-Break
"Three events against san jose concord 'romania between those three city. Open on those events alone. You get your twenty four seven. Fill of tennis this week. But of course have a couple of atp challengers as well only to this week which feels like scaled down from the three to six. We've seen every week over these past. It feels like eight weeks of the summer but you look to events one in italy. The other happening this week. In the czech republic will start with the event in the czech republic. Right now as. I'm recording this wednesday morning. Maliki zairy mark woman's both advancing to the quarterfinal round. You've also got boat. Venison scope advancing. He's going to take on now. Alex rashard who has probably the two wins of the week on the challenge level. He beats lur eurekahedge gotta after qualifying for the event in three sets and then he knocks out former wake forest rival born ago. Joe six three in the third set today big hitting between him and vanson scope headed for that quarterfinal matchup so excited for that. You talk about the quarterfinals. You're gonna see today. It's mattress for seth watt of recina versus malkan. Maczek verse That match guaranteed to be a grind. And then evan furnace verse your aw gerald melzer. That's what's going on in the czech republic over in italy serene dolo francisco. I should say not juan-manuel advancing to the quarterfinals. Where he's going to take on giulio superior also got a bunch of round of sixteen matches states slated for today. Some of the notable players. Talk about here frequently. You know marcello. Thomas maria vera who we saw compete at the olympics. Has one of the challenges superstars this year. He's an action mark on three. Whose lawyers in action fun matchup between kohl are one pablo verena's too young players challenge superstars again that match guaranteed to be a grind tomas. Martin etcheverry still alive tico toronto still alive as well so of course some of those young generations we talk about the young argentinians quite frequently here on the show. They're going to have a chance to shine this week at the challenger level. But that's all your action happening across. The professional tennis world city opened the big and the only atp level event this week. That's the five hundred and of course again. I will be here all week long covering that event in person hopefully going to get some one on ones. We'll be able to share with you on the crack interviews. Podcast just being on the lookout for all of that content and of course again throughout the week mini break podcast. Great shot podcast. Gonna try to talk with as many fellow journal says. I can on the grounds beyond the lookout for all of that content as well and as always. If.
UN News
News in Brief 31 May 2019
"This is the news in brief from the United Nations after visiting Julian Assange in a London prison, an independent UN human rights expert, expressed urgent concern on Friday for the Wiki leaks. Co-founders wellbeing accusing a group of democratic states of ganging up on the prisoner to isolate demonize and abuse him and warned against extraditing the controversial publisher to the United States Nils Melzer, the UN special reporter on torture said he was particularly alarmed the recent announcement that the US department of Justice had lodged, seventeen new charges against Mr Assange under the espionage act. This may well result in a life sentence without parole or possibly even the death penalty. If further charges were to be added in the future. He said, on Thursday. He was deemed too ill to appear via video link from a British prison in a hearing over an extradition. Request from the US the reporter said in twenty years of work with victims of war, violence, and political persecution. He'd never seen a group of democratic states ganging up to deliberately isolate demonize and abuse a single. Individual for such a long time. And with so little regard for human dignity. And the rule of law, wrapping up a key annual conference representing the more than four billion citizens of the Asia Pacific region. The head of the UN economic and social commission, there said that nine agreed resolutions provided a solid foundation for reaching these seventeen sustainable development goals, addressing the closing ceremony. S cap executive secretary or meter at Jonah said the decisions were firmly anchored in new twenty thirty agenda and provide solid foundations on which to build upon. She said that putting resolutions into practice was essential to achieving transformed and resilient society in Asia, and the Pacific seeing action at the subregional level was also key. I hope this will be a first step towards more systematically, identifying common priorities. She said and finally, more Somali refugees, leaving war-torn Yemen and choosing to return home amid rising safety fears, that's according to u n refugee agency UNHCR, which said on Friday that the latest boat carrying. Hundred and twenty-five refugees departed, the port city of Aden, this week, bringing men women and children back to Somalia, where insecurities also rife in time for the end of the fasting month. Ramadan, that's according to u n refugee agency, UNHCR would set on Friday that the latest boat carrying one hundred and twenty-five refugees departed, the port city of Aden. This week, bringing men women and children back to Somalia, where insecurities also rife in time for the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, a total of around four thousand three hundred of returned to the horn of Africa country since the rollout of a UNHCR facilitated assisted spontaneous return program in two thousand seventeen among those fleeing Yemen this week with Somalis bowl to refugee, parents, and others who had initially seen Yemen as safer place to live and work hoping to escape conflict and home, Matt wells, UN news.