Many ancient sites found all over the world can no longer be explained away with currently attested academic opinion, who they say built them, why, or when they were created. The most popular of these anomalies are the ancient monuments that can be found upon the Giza Plateau. Currently explained as having been built by our copper-tool-wielding ancestors a mere 4,000 years ago, somehow successfully creating some of the most precisely built and indeed enormous ancient structures found on Earth, decidedly choosing to use granite blocks many tons in weight as their building material of choice. Ironically, although these sites are somehow exclaimed as having been built by the ancient Egyptians, any actual literal explanation of how this was actually done has never been provided. Not only is academic opinion severely lacking any logical understandings as to the construction of these sites, they seemingly attempt to ignore, and in some cases conceal, additional controversial anomalies they simply cannot understand. Enormous stone megaliths are hidden all over Giza and especially around the base of the Great Pyramids, and not only were these buildings adorned with incredibly hard granite, but also basalt, a similarly tough stone, and another which would be near impossible to have hewn with mere copper implements. Known as Giza's basalt floor, it is what many people now see as the smoking gun for evidence of advanced engineering having once been responsible for the construction of the site. Amongst the remaining fragments of the basalt floor is overwhelming evidence of ancient machinery, telltale precision signatures left on many stones, suggesting high technology was responsible for the shaping of Giza's enormous stones. Cut marks that could only have been left by high-speed disc cutting, striations, precise ridges, and countless other curious features have been thankfully left upon these stones, and these surviving tool marks could one day be used to actually identify the technology once used to build the site. We now feel that the evidence to suggest that the modern attested and massed published theories regarding the origins of the Giza Plateau, its age, and indeed its creators past capabilities, is currently incorrect and is now overwhelming, and that it is only a matter of time before a revival of this past knowledge and indeed its understandings again begins to flourish. An announcement that seemingly slipped us by was made recently within Egypt. This announcement pertaining to an amazing discovery made within an area of the Giza Plateau that for a number of decades has been conveniently shut off from the public. Although the location is claimed to be a military training base, archaeologists have apparently been secretly beavering away within this remote slice of antiquity. Announced by the Supreme Council of Egyptian Antiquities, Egyptian authorities have apparently found the mysterious traces of the legendary fourth lost pyramid of the Plateau. This provocative announcement stirred up a gale of protest among many Egyptologists, and the reason for this may be because the discovery might turn out to be highly controversial. Although the pyramid is in a very bad state, and this may be due to its immense age, with only a few rows of blocks remain, and these surviving blocks clearly displaying evidence to indicate that the missing blocks have simply eroded away over the aeons, this ruin may not be the most important find in the area, or indeed, the purpose for the video. Along with these pyramidal remains at the site is another amazing anomaly. In the middle of this mysterious desert, an enormous staircase has been found, plunging into the desert floor, seemingly excavated before this announcement and left for those who were fortunate enough to get access to the area to rediscover and photograph. This enormous staircase plunges straight through a limestone basin many meters in depth. This surgical slice has revealed an astonishing implication. It has revealed that the Giza Plateau does indeed extend this far. Not only that, but it demonstrates the sheer, unimaginable cubic size of this area of stone, a block of stone that was apparently man-made. Where this staircase actually leads to is as yet unknown, although it is thought to drop far below that which is currently visible, and preliminary scans of the area are suggesting that it plunges through the plateau deep into an ocean of groundwater below. By examining the pictures of the discovery, it appears that the site has indeed been excavated from the sand, having most likely been submerged from view beforehand. The question is, who did these excavations? Who built this unbelievable structure, or indeed, the mind-bogglingly enormous Giza Plateau? Who built the pyramids and Sphinx upon it? Where did such an enormous stone plateau come from? How did they shape and carve such mysterious structures with such blocks? Or perhaps, most importantly of all, where does this staircase lead? Did whoever undertake this excavation task manage to discover where it led? More research and exploration will undoubtedly be undertaken over the next few years. We will, of course, keep you posted. We recently covered the impressive ancient dwellings known as dolmens, which can be found littering most of the European countryside. Enormous ancient structures, which we feel were left by a surviving, less capable branch of an earlier civilization, still possessing advanced knowledge allowing them to build with such stones. Being remnants of the group, we also believe were responsible for the masterfully constructed ancient ruins, which can be found upon the same continents. Additionally, this era within human history was the inspiration for an animated TV show, namely The Flintstones. Curiously, the Flintstones, dubbed the Modern Stone Age Family, could easily be mistaken for a lost advanced civilization. Did the makers of the Flintstones know something we are currently unraveling regarding the builders of the Flintstones' homes, namely the dolmens? Or is it all a mere coincidence? Some of these dolmens still possess as yet unexplained evidence which flies in the face of academics worldwide. Sites such as the Dolmen of Menga, found near Malaga in Spain. This massive dolmen, one of the largest megalithic sites in Europe, is a prime example of the unexplained features which defy current explanation. The dolmen is 902 feet long, 20 feet wide, and 115 feet in height. It was built with 32 megaliths, the largest of which weighing over 200 tons. Nearby is another impressive dolmen, known as De Vira, discovered between 1903 and 1905 by brothers Antonio and José Vira of Antequera. This site also possesses some of the most impressive megaliths to be found in any dolmens anywhere in Europe. Who built these incredible structures? How did they build them? La Rocha Fille, in the French department of Villeville, in the Brittany region, was named after a legend claiming that the stones were brought by fairies. This clearly inspired by their inexplicable nature. A name of fairy rock was given to many French dolmens or covered walkways. Regardless of whether our own theory is correct, the still surviving features of many of these ancient dolmens is clearly indirect contradiction with attested theory. Another alternative study is desperately needed of structures we find highly compelling. Throughout the ages, countless reports of unexplained and baffling discoveries have been reportedly made deep within the mines of Earth. Regardless of the type of mine or indeed its depth, it seems that these peculiar stories continue to surface, and usually only by word of mouth. Often attached to these fascinating tales, you will find stories of these artifacts being seized, destroyed or simply reburied. We are often confronted with an apparent cover-up, vast resources and manpower being harnessed to hide these facts from the world. The motives for choosing to conceal such artifacts from the world could indeed be endless. Though regardless of motive, we feel it is imperative that we continue to expose these stories to the Earth. If we have compelling witnesses and unmistakable evidence of a cover-up. Deep beneath the city of Donetsk, within the Rostov region of Russia, a large foundation of sandstone can be found, something known as Rock Shield of Carboniferous Age. It is about 300 to 360 million years old and is lined with distributions of coking culls that are also of around the same age. Astonishingly, Mr. Kosatskin has discovered, upon the roof of this shaft of cull, an imprint of a chariot wheel, an imprint undoubtedly made before the rock had formed around it. He also discovered another imprint, a small distance further along the shaft. It must be noted that these imprints have remained buried deep within these seams of rock for many millions of years. If a scientific analysis could have been undertaken upon this artifact, it could have shaken our understandings of world history, just like so many other artifacts we have been made aware of. All but a few now stolen from the public domain. Upon realizing the implications of his discovery, Mr. Kosatskin, an extremely experienced foreman in ventilation and safety engineering, specializing in seismic prognosis, thankfully took several photographs of his miraculous and now concealed discovery before officially reporting it and requesting a scientific evaluation. When his boss notified the owners of the mine in the hopes of getting an analysis of the artifact with an attempt to preserve it, to his boss' surprise, they demanded he continued the work through the shaft so that it could be subsequently flooded, which is unfortunately what has occurred, making further exploration of the sites impossible. He stated that he's investigated further regarding the western mine's history with the fellow miners there and was able to confirm the existence of the other print within that mine. It had been damaged by blast hole driving and was little mentioned, though it was indeed there. He was sometimes in this cut, he said, and got to take a good look at it. He says that he was surprised, but also somewhat afraid to admit that these objects are of artificial origin. We, on the other hand, are excited by such a premise and will keep you posted on any further developments regarding the mine. Heckeburg, meaning fortress of Hecke, is an ancient, once fortified ruin found within the Gurpenar district of the Van province in Turkey's eastern Anatolia region. It was used by Yorashian kings as a fortress during the 8th century BC. According to academia and Armenian folklore, the fortress was built by Hecke, the legendary founder of the Armenian nation. It was situated close to the site where he slew the invading Babylonian king Bel, who, according to said legends, was in fact an ancient giant. Hecke and his people had migrated south toward the warmer lands. There they discovered a wicked giant known as Bel. Bel tried to impose his tyranny upon Hecke's people, but Hecke refused to submit. Hecke eventually rose up and defeated Bel in what has become known as the Battle of Giants. However, what is intriguing regarding this story is the fact that the sites mentioned are actually ruins left by the same highly advanced and thus highly capable lost civilization, responsible for many of the exquisitely stone-built sites which dot the many continents of Earth. Additionally, the fact that ancient giants are again mentioned surrounding such ruins could be seen as a compelling lead. Easter Island, Guatemala, the Amazon, Peru, South America, the list goes on, all with their own intriguing tales of ancient giants, either once inhabiting said sites, or in some cases, noted as being responsible for their construction. Much of the ancient site is now extremely eroded, yet in many areas such as Kavustepi, a number of remarkably refined stone blocks are still to be found. Presumably once foundation stones, these blocks still retaining their extraordinary machined-like appearance. These blocks were so perfectly carved, we can only replicate such levels of accuracy using modern-day technologies. The question is, how did a civilization so far back within known history create so many stones cast to the same degree of precision? What's more, these masterfully and mysteriously created stones are seemingly placed upon an even older site, one clearly of an even greater antiquity. Were these newer stone blocks actually robbed stonework from another area of the structure? These blocks then used by a later civilization to build upon these ruins? Are we actually looking upon two lost ancient civilizations work in ascending order? Rather like what we have postulated, later covered the enormous skeletal blocks of the Great Pyramid. Were these sites actually the work of a lost civilization of ancient giants? Or are all these separate accounts of the same beings found all over the world a mere coincidence? With so many sites and legends attached thereof telling the same thing, it is only a matter of time before the truth is proven beyond doubt.


Well, sometime in 2019, ITU member states decided to host this World Telecom's ICT Policy Forum. And this was well before the COVID-19 pandemic made it clear how pivotal the telecommunications and ICT technologies and services are in people's lives. That's what has made it possible for us to have near normal communications and activities and social and economic activity. But from September 2019 right up to November 2021, a group of over 170 experts who represent ITU member states, sector members, and academia met on a regular basis to draft a set of non-prescriptive policy documents, which we call opinions, which will be discussed and approved by consensus at the forum. All the five opinions that they have worked on address how new and emerging technologies in telecommunications and ICT services such as artificial intelligence, Internet of Fames, 5G, big data over the top services, OTTs are enablers or can be enablers of our global transition to the digital economy. We've all realized how digitalization has become pivotal to everything you do. And so we need to consider how existing technologies, new emerging technologies can also facilitate that transition. In fact, one opinion deals specifically with the role played by these technologies and services in facilitating the use of telecommunications and ICTs for sustainable development. We still have a 2030 goal to work towards. So it's important to note that it is not one single technology, but rather a mix or convergence of technologies that will sustain this extraordinary technological advances at the center of this year's forum. So that's why technology is so pivotal. Absolutely. The emerging technologies we're discussing or will be discussing at the forum can help us tackle the world's most pressing challenges from ending hunger to reducing inequalities and poverty to combating climate change. Everything from education, healthcare, finance, mobility, agriculture, trade, energy, accessibility, and all the other areas related to the UN sustainable development goals can be facilitated and transformed through technology. Everything. But to succeed, we need also to fulfill the 2030 agenda for sustainable development by leaving no one behind. And new data from the ITU shows strong global growth in internet use. The number of internet users globally grew by more than 10% in the first day of the pandemic and is by far the largest single increase in a decade. However, almost 3 billion people have still never used the internet and are being left out. Many of these digitally excluded people face, in addition to that, other formidable challenges, including poverty, limited access to electricity, portable water, and a lack of digital skills and awareness. And so creating and using available, relevant content in local languages is essential to drive demand and close the usage gap. Government services are a prime example, particularly in this COVID era. It is also critical to extend connectivity to those in un-served and underserved areas. And it is important to recognize and address the particular challenges faced by developing countries, landlocked small island states, in mobilizing new and emerging technologies, telecommunications, ICT services and technologies for sustainable development. And that's part of the conversation that we're going to be having. Having one of the distinct features of the forum and its preparatory process is its inclusive nature. And it is one of its main strengths as well. It brought governments, academia, businesses, the industry, civil society, and all others together to think through the issues that currently confront us. All stakeholders need to stay seated at this table. No one can do it alone. It is impossible. And to meet the challenge of extending access to all, government has to work closely with industry, academia, and civil society. And the private sector, for example, has a huge role to play in investing in the innovative technologies that will help create a global transition to the digital economy. We can't do it without them. But realizing the potential of this economy also depends on several factors, including fostering an enabling policy environment, and that's where governments come in. That promotes investment and innovation through competition, capacity building, transparency, flexibility, and the active participation of all stakeholders. You need to create a forum where, as equal partners, we can all meet and discuss these issues and work towards implementing solutions together. And that's what this forum offers, an excellent platform for this multilateral, multi-sacred approach by consensus to dealing with the issues that we all recognize on front us all. And that's the beauty of the WTPF. Once agreed and finalized at the forum, the opinions will offer guidance to ITU member states. And it is important that the final opinions are fully representative and the result of multi-stakeholder discussions and consensus amongst ITU membership. There's no voting at the WTPF. We agree on every matter by consensus and all work towards implementing it together. The world stands united in harnessing emerging technologies to accelerate the achievement of the 2030 agenda for the Sustainable Development Goals and to solve some of our most pressing challenges, including this current pandemic and any others which may come about in the future. Without leaving anyone behind, inclusion of everybody regardless of economic status, geographic location, gender, ability is absolutely critical. And so WTPF provides an opportunity to create a shared vision for a more fair, sustainable, and inclusive digital future. And we absolutely need to make that happen.


After an extremely controversial election, marred by all sorts of irregularities, the president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Felix Shisakedi, has been declared the winner by the country's election commission. Now it has to be certified by the constitutional court. Meanwhile, opposition parties, opposition candidates have called the elections a sham. They have, you know, flagged the various kinds of irregularities that took place during, in the run-up to the elections and during the elections itself. The election process had to actually be extended by one day because of some of these issues. We have with us Kambale Musawali to talk more about this. Kambale, so the results being announced on Sunday, could you maybe take us to the past 10 to 15 days of what has happened in the DRC, the election process itself, and what happened in Safdemath? Well, December 20th, Komolis went to the poll to elect a leader. Not just the presidential, we had four elections taking place. The presidential elections legislative, provincial, and also local elections. In these four elections, the electoral commission came out on December 31st, letting us know that the winner of the election that declared him to be Felix Shisakedi, pretty much giving him another five-year term for him to remain there. But this is being contested mainly because of the process, the electoral process. What happened on December 20th? On December 20th, one-third of the polling stations were not open. And then on that day, according to our law, the electoral law, elections take place for one day only. But what took place is that they didn't just vote for one day or two days or three days. They extended the vote for seven days. That's very problematic because after the first day or so of elections, you don't get the electoral observers or the witnesses in these polling stations. One-third of the polling stations is quite a lot. So we have that challenge. But second, let's look at the process, not just on election day. The issue did not start on election day. It started when they decided to organize the election. That cost us $1.2 billion. And in the end, people feel that their voice has not been heard, that the process disenfranchised many people. So what took place? The electoral commissioner, Denis Kadima, who was pretty much imposed on the so-called independent electoral commission, was not the choice of the civil society groups. There was a coalition of eight institutions, mostly religious, who had to designate the leader of the electoral commission. Denis Kadima's name came up, and the choice is done by consensus. But they changed the process to be a vote. So we have actually an electoral commissioner who is a friend of the president pending the elections. So that's one issue. The second issue was the electoral role, the re-registration of voters. When we look at the process as well, we had the election in 2018, we had the election in 2011, we had the election in 2006. All you need to do is update the electoral role. What they decided to do was to re-register every single Congolese who needed to vote. The numbers they provided at the time is 44 million people registered to vote. As of December 31, the electoral commissioner stated that it's 41 million who are eligible to vote who are in the database. But what happened with that issue? When someone registered to vote and received an electoral card within a few weeks, literally two to three weeks, your face on the card will disappear and your name also will disappear. That's a problem.  The electoral commissioner, Denis Kadima stated that that's not going to be an issue. Easily they could pull up your data. What did we see on electoral day, on election day? On election day, we had people going to vote and found out that someone else already voted for them. Now, how do we determine that? The card was used, the data was used. How did this happen? So the issue of the electoral card is another. The third one, the publishing of the list of electors, which is a decision by the law that you must release the voter roll was not released. The logistical challenges across the country is another. So we rush into a process of election to create a sense that there was a process looking sort of fair where we know that in the end, the result will not favor the ordinary Congolese who want to see change in the Congo. For now, beyond the issues, let's look at the presidential election itself. We had 26 presidential candidates. And on December 31st, the results were released. And with the result release, what was fascinating is the voter turnout. The voter turnout is 40%. Out of the 41 million people, they're the same, right? That's quite problematic. When we look at the videos and they guess we're not a population, the people of the Congo turned that in mass. So that number is much lower than a previous election, which doesn't make sense why the number is this low. Secondly, out of the 18 million people, according to them, 18 million, 45,000, 348 Congolese voted. 73% of them, according to the electoral commission, voted for Chisakini. And then the rest voted for the other opposition leaders and presidential candidate. But when you hear that, you hear 26 candidates, you hear that there is a winner with overwhelming majority, but you don't look at the data, it appears fair. But looking at the data release, only four presidential candidates had more than 4% of the votes. The remaining had less than 1%. So pretty much the election was among four people, if we have to look at it this way, right? And are you pulling up names? For example, I'll pull up the name of the Nobel Peace Prize, Danny Mukwege, who according to the electoral commission, 39,728 Congolese voted for him. That's impossible for those numbers to happen. So that number is not realizing that we can go back to the data and say these numbers don't make sense. But from the international community, or even the African countries, because most people who have congratulated Chisakini's election are African countries, which is different from the past. You see that people have just completely ignored all the electoral issues. The issue is now who is declared the winner. The issue is the process. If the Congolese people don't feel that the process is transparent, the process is fair, they will check out all the democratic processes, of all the democratic processes, and find all the means to transform the country. And that can be also devastating for the country because there are many interests at stake. It's not as simple as who we are voting on December 20th, 2023. We also have to look at the Congo from a geopolitical and geo-strategic perspective about what is at stake in the Congo today as the world is moving toward renewable energy away from fossil fuel and Congo's importance. That is really what is at stake at this election as well. Red Kambale, Chisakini coming to power in 2018 after a similarly very controversial election, a lot of reports of backroom deals that were struck involving various regional players as well. So how do you see the current response to his coming back to power in this context, as well as the context of the local political forces with which he had struck deals? There is no major difference between 2018 and present, right? The former electoral commissioner Kone Nanga has come out in 2023, clearly stating that there were backroom deals for Chisakini to be declared the winner. So the person who actually ran the election has already told us that a 2018 election was rigged. Today, I don't see that other countries such as South Africa, Kenya or Egypt are going to take any other position. So Seru Ramaphosa of South Africa has already sent his congratulatory messages. There are some strange reasons. The only country that I see putting out a statement of concern around protesters and election issues is the United States. And I understand why, right? They always have to have these track record of supporting democracy and so on. But I'm pretty sure they are okay with the result. But our challenge in DRC revolves around people really understanding what is the local challenges of the Congolese and how can people on the outside support, put pressure on the negative forces, the external negative forces while we are fighting the local bourgeoisie. So I believe that the study score of 2018 and 2023 now, now going into 2024, is going to still be the same whereby they will recognize this rigged election for the interest of different hegemonic blacks across the African continent and also Western interests as tech in the DRC. But Kamali, among the challenges she's faced was of course the M23 rebellion, which is of course also backed by Rwanda. Is there likely to be any kind of change in his approach or do we see this situation continuing or worsening over time? It's becoming very interesting the situation with the M23. Particularly actions of the United States before the elections, right? On November 19, Director of National Intelligence, Avril Haynes, flew to Kigali to meet Paul Kagame or Rwanda. On November 20, she flew to Kinshasa and summoned the president of the Congo, Chisakedi, to meet her at the airport. Most Americans will not know who is Avril Haynes, right? Most Americans will say, will hear, they will say, State Department official. The Director of National Intelligence manages 17 intelligence agencies of the United States, including the CIA. She is the boss of the CIA director. Why did she fly into this country? Coming out of those two-day visit on November 19 and November 20, a statement came out of the White House saying that the U.S. has been able to broker a ceasefire deal not between Congo and the rebels, but between Congo and Rwanda. So the question now becomes, is Congo at war with Rwanda for a ceasefire deal to be signed? Congolese will tell you yes. For the past two decades, we have clearly stated to the world that Rwanda and Uganda have invaded the Congo twice in 1998 and up until today continue to support proxy rebel militias. This tells me that the United States is aware of what is happening. But the ceasefire deal had a very interesting component, right? They say that they will share information with the Congolese and the Rwanda and Rwanda intelligence information around movements in the region. That tells me again that the United States is clearly aware of what's happening. But this is coming up in the backdrop of something that I was not aware of. In December, the New York Times published an article that mostly focused on the Eastern Port of the U.S.C. about the situation there. But they quoted some military officials in the foreign military officials who stated that the U.S. response in November was precipitated by an action of the Congolese government. But what did the Congolese government do? They bought Chinese drones for the Congolese military. And these drones in November shot Rwandan soldiers on Congolese soil. Something that never happened before, right? And whenever Rwanda soldiers were shot on Congolese soil, the U.S. preempted a diplomatic issue by sending the director of national intelligence to Rwanda and Congo to ceasefire a deal. And this is very important to understand. In the contradiction of the local bourgeoisie oppressing the Congolese people, the pure local bourgeoisie, in my view, does not have a political ideology. But they are actually working with everyone. They are working with Turkish military, Russian military, China, even Israel, right? The Israeli Defense Force reservists, over 200 of them were in the Congo, and in October were recalled from the Congo to go kill Palestinians, to go fight in Palestine. So Israeli soldiers were also there. So that's been their policy. But what the U.S. is afraid is that they are going to, quote, unquote, lose the Congo to China. So they are engaging diplomatically to be on the right side of the Shisekidi regime. This is how you can see coming out of the so-called U.S. Africa summit, U.S. investing so much in diplomacy on the African continent, signing a memorandum of understanding for the exploitation of cobalts and copper in the Congo and Zambia, passing an infrastructure bill in the U.S. Congress, right, in terms of billions of dollars, where they e-mark funding for building a railroad that will go from DRC through Zambia and Angola through the port on Angola, what they call the Lobito corridor, taking Congo's cobalt, copper, Zambia's cobalt cap, taking it to the Atlantic Ocean out to the west. So seeing that, those are actions that the U.S. is taking to counter China. So we can't just look at the situation in the Congo from the election perspective. We have to look at what is also at stake. At stake is that we have a government mirroring the policies of Mobutu, the longtime dictator, who, when he was there in power for 32 years, literally spoke to everyone to maintain his power. The Chisekedi regime is using the same model while oppressing the people, while rigging elections, by the U.S. only looking for what they can gain in this new world where they need the lithium of the Congo for Manano. They need the cobalt of the Congo from thank you for moving our others, using its institutions, be it the Comadi, Comilitary, to rein in the Congolese government for U.S. interest. Thank you so much, Comali, for speaking to us. I think for taking us beyond the headlines into some of the geopolitical issues and some of the far-reaching issues of what is happening, our aspects and implications of what is happening in the Congo right now. Thank you so much. Thank you. That's all we have time for in this interview. We'll be back with future shows, future interviews, where we discuss some of these issues, so keep watching People's Dispatch.


Good evening. This is Crime Classics. I am Thomas Highland with another true story of crime. Listen. A man walking along a cobbled street in Whitechapel. It's an April evening and a pleasant one. A spring rain has just finished and the street lamp spread skins of light over the wetted pavements. Stroll. Nowhere in particular. Hanbury Street is as good as any other. But look there. The young woman waiting. Yes, won't you? If it ain't old saucy you as self. Pleasant night, ain't it? Walking where you?  I like April, don't you? The rain makes everything fresh and nice, don't it? Oh, now there's a pretty garden, ain't it? Flowers already... Tonight my report to you on... Good evening. My name is Jack the Ripper. Crime Classics. A series of true crime stories taken from the records and newspapers of every land from every time. Your host each week, Mr. Thomas Highland. Connoisseur of crime, student of violence and teller of murders. Now once again, Mr. Thomas Highland. Here was 1888 and the place was London. The first murder had taken place on April 3rd and was not reported in the London Times. The woman's name was Emma Elizabeth Smith and she had blonde hair. I have blonde hair, too. The second murder took place not far from the first near the groveyard buildings in Whitechapel. The woman's name was Martha Tabrum and the police noted that she died exactly the same way as Emma Elizabeth Smith. Horribly, by knife. To be noted, Martha had blonde hair, too, and her eyes were dark. My eyes are dark, too. Third murder, August 31st, Buck's Row, also in Whitechapel. Horribly, by knife died Anne Nichols. To be noted, Anne had blonde hair and her eyes were dark and there was a gaiety about her. Not dark eyes and my hair is blonde. My name is Mary Jane Kelly. And you want a room, dearie? Yes. Yes, I do. You come with me then. Pretty room for a pretty girl. Where are you from, dearie? Well, I was born in Limerick and 16 when I went to Wales. Now you've come to London. I've been to Paris. Now you've come to London. What for? I've been all over. And how many places the police looking for you, dearie? Whatever do you say? Pretty like you. A room like this. Oh, I don't mind. Is there a way to come through? Through the back. Oh, this will do nice. The neighborhood in which Mary Jane Kelly found a room may be best described as a slum. A rose of poor lodging houses dedicated to the proposition that it is more difficult to find a criminal in a swarm. Mary's room number, oddly enough, was 13. I never was a superstitious kind. Just to have fun. That's all I like. Live and have fun. The room itself was a straw mattress and a chair to fling one's clothes over. Now, at this instant, this precise time when Mary Jane Kelly entered her room three blocks away on Hanbury Street, you remember a man walking along a cobbled street April evening after rain, stroll, but look there. Yes, won't you? Said the young woman who was waiting, whose name was Annie Chapman. If it ain't always saucy, you yourself. Pleasant night, ain't it? Walk in, will you?  I like April, don't you? And the rain makes everything fresh and nice, don't it? Oh, now, there's a pretty garden, ain't it? Flowers already. I got a new roomer today. Oh, that's nice. A sailor boy. Oh, that's nice. With cheeks rosy from the sea. Oh, that's nice. And he asked me today, what's a sailor to do and what chapel for a little fun? What kind of fun, I asked. And he says, for a chap like me. And I gave him a wink and a push with my elbow. And he says, no, lady, no, that's not what I'm talking about. A good girl, a nice girl I'd like to meet. Oh.  And he comes from the West Indies, he says. And he comes to live here with a sea chest. I put him in room 12. Oh, that's just across the hall from me. Oh, yes. I peaked in a minute ago and the lads having a sleep. Not more than 17 years. Oh, rosy cheeks. A sea chest under his bed. The chest is locked.  Oh, my. Another. Another what? Murder. Who? Her name was Anne Chapman. The papers say it. Did you know her? No, she was in these parts for some time. I know her by whatever name. Read me more what it says. The throat was cut. Oh.  Oh, wait. It says here. What else? And her rings were torn from her fingers. Oh, but laid out real neat alongside her. All right. And it says here that man that did in Anne Chapman did in the other three. And it says here. What kind of man would do killings like that? That kind of man that did it. There's all kinds you should know. What else it say? It says they've named him. Oh. They've named him the Ripper. Robby's a nice name. I'm glad you like it. A sweet and innocent name. Thank you. Why are you laughing? Oh, here you sail the seven seas and look where we walk to, the Thames River. Well, I should imagine you're sailor and come home from a long voyage. You wouldn't want to come so near to water again. I'd walk with you wherever. Oh, now. I would too. Tell me a thing, Robby. Oh, I want to. Where you come from and what's your home? From Boston. Oh, such a lad to be so far away. I'm seventeen and all my life have been wanting to sail. Hey, let's sit here, Robby. Aye. It's truly remarkable. What is? A fair lady like you should be sitting next to me.  Robby? Yes. How did you come to Whitechapel? Oh, it's where the cheapy rooms are. Don't you have no money? Not what you'd call money. Don't understand you. Well, things I bought in the Indies with money. Oh. A pearl or two and some other stones and coral things. You ought to see I've got my sea chest filled with all. But I'd like to. You shouldn't say, Robby. You shouldn't trust nobody. But there's thieves and thieves and thieves. Come along fast as you would never think and take your key to your sea chest right from wherever. Oh, they wouldn't do that. There's thieves and thieves and thieves. But they couldn't rob my key from me because I got it right here. Oh, kiss me, Robby. What? Kiss me. Yes. Oh, Mary, you're so wonderful. As she was lifting his key from wherever. Now, at this instant, at this precise time, when Mary Jane Kelly was kissing an apprentice seaman and making a sailor out of him, up from the London docks and north a mile away, Whitechapel, this was happening at midnight on Burner Street. Where do you go, sweet lad, sweet lad, when you go away from me? Elizabeth Stride, blond hair, dark eyes, a melancholy kind of gaiety. You want to hear another verse, lovey? She said to the man she's met a little while ago, Do you go to Dover?  You are listening to Crime Classics and your host, Thomas Highland, a network already famous for reliable and frequent news coverage, CBS Radio, adds an even dozen new newscasts to its schedule starting this coming Saturday. Here, Alan Jackson with the news, three new roundups in your Saturday daytime schedule. Listen for Robert Trout with four new strategically spaced Sunday roundups. And listen Monday through Friday nights for reports by Robert Trout, too, on most of these same stations. 12 new broadcasts of news starting this Saturday. CBS Radio's already wide margin for top reporting first.  With regards to the murders in Whitechapel, the coroner had this to say, and I quote, I am afraid there will be more murders just like these four. These women were slain by a man who knows considerable about anatomy. In this case, a madman is probably at large. Unquote. If this sounds like a non sequitur to you, it sounds like one to me, too. My guess is that the coroner was shaky about the whole thing. Certainly all of London was. And the morning after the night of the knife and Elizabeth Stride, the conversations in Miller's court went something like this. Elizabeth Stride, I can't believe it. Did you know her? No. No. No, her, she asked me. How well? She worked for me. Worked for you? Well, you can call it that, if you ask. Do she helped me to pay for her lodgings? Moved away only last month, she did. What was she like? Blondie, she was. Yellow hair. I have yellow hair. Oh, not so yellow as yours. She had dark eyes.  Oh, less brown than yours hers was. Oh, she was a laughter she was. Why are you laughing? Look at the skin of my arm now. Chilled and for no reason. Martha. What, dearie? I'm silly to fright. Those four of them, blond hair and... You're silly to fright. None as pretty as you. Nor as young. Tell me. What? Was there truly a pearl in the sailor's sea chest? Martha was letters from his mother in Boston. Nothing helped. Oh, you've been fox-diddy. Sweet and innocent he was. And rosy cheeks, and now he's off to sea again. Good morning, ladies. I said good morning to you. I'm running respectable lodgings, officer, and there's no reason why you should be coming in here. No, Martha, Martha, love, keep your shirt on. Oh, who's this pretty one with you, Martha? Who's she? Pinch her cheek and get done with it, officer. Tell us what you're doing here. Pretty, pretty. What's your name? Mary, Mary Jane Kelly. Mary Jane Kelly. Ain't you afraid, Mary? Afraid of what? Why, Jack the Ripper. Oh, sir. Yes, Mary. Truly, is there such a one? As surely as I'm standing here. A monster of some sort. What do you mean, dear, so skedaddle?  Your officer thinks about pretty, that's me, so don't you fright. What do you want here? You ain't told us that. Questions? Of what? I'm told that the girl that met the Ripper last night, Elizabeth Stride, she was, I'm told she lived here. I'm told she worked here. And? I thought maybe you could answer me then if she had a man-friend. So special that is. Elizabeth? Betty? Men? Oh, no, not Elizabeth. Not Betty. Oh, no. You're sure now? I swear on my dear Aunt Anna's grave. Then what of you, pretty? Oh, I'm new to London, sir. Oh, now don't you let this Ripper fellow fright you? I know, sir. Not with you about. Ah, that's my girl. That's my girl, all right, ain't you? Ain't you? Yes, sir. Open up quick, Mary. Oh, Mary. Whatever's the matter? Come quick. Come with me quick. Where to? He's got his door open a little bit, and he's sitting there, and I want you to take a look at him. Who? Who are you talking about? The new rumor. He just arrived. Oh, no. Come take a look. Quiet now. We'll take a peek at him. Oh, handsome man as he sits there and reads his book. Quiet now. The boy gets up and sees us. Gets us away from here. Oh, he is handsome, isn't he? I suppose. You suppose? Handsomer than any about here? I suppose. Listen, you love somebody. Then they're handsomer than anything. Love somebody? Like I love Officer Thomas Thicke. Love him? With all my heart and soul. Well now. Well, well now. With all my heart and soul. Couldn't you go talk to my new rumor a bit? For all time's sake. Welcome him, so to speak. He seems like a lonely man. No. No? I'm to meet Officer Thicke in a sec. Truly? Truly. Wow. Meet Thomas Thicke. Now you've got the money.  Besides, I love you too.   Don't you be proud. Let me be proud of you. Come, I'll walk with you. What? Wait here. What is it, Thomas? What was it? That drunkard. She screamed. A trick. She playing a trick. Like the ripper was at her. She saw me walking with you and that drunkard. Oh, I don't say nothing too bad against her. Everybody lives here in these alleys. You forget what's funny and what's not funny.  Come, I'll walk you home. You best leave me here, Thomas. I can walk the half of the block. Besides... Besides what? Oh, they laugh at me. The other ones at Martha's that I'm walking with an officer. They say that's awful funny. Well, I'll not let you walk alone. Not these times with Jack and his knife about. He ain't done that thing he does for weeks now. So don't you worry. Here, give us a kiss, Thomas, and look for me tomorrow. I wish you'd let me walk with you. Oh, just give us a kiss. Now, look for me tomorrow. Sorry, sir. I didn't see you. Rumor, ain't you? There at Martha's, ain't you? I think so, because I'm happy. And when I'm happy, I'm a girl to know. Oh, I don't know you, sir, but you fear to me a gentleman of uncommon worth. So if I say to you, let's find a pub. Murder. Murder most foul. The sixth, Catherine Eddowes, found in a footpath in Mitre Square, lying on her back, head inclined to the left side. Her throat had been cut. Other lacerations indicated great anatomical skill by the killer. Jack the Ripper had slain his sixth victim, and London was washed again against the heights of terror. A hysteria took hold. Fingers were pointed, and Jack the Ripper shouted, and innocent men would be stoned. And Whitechapel was caught up in an orgy of self-guilt.  And Judge McDays goes down on us. I can't find him. And the night of witches and beasties is nigh. Maybe even this very night. I've looked all over, and I can't find him. What are you babbling? Why are you standing there babbling? Thomas Stik isn't no longer in Whitechapel. What do you mean? He was seen going about with me, and they took him from Whitechapel to another place, and I can't find him. Oh, dearie. Oh, dearie. That's not so bad, is it? But I loved him. And gave him your money. What of it? And he took it. Mary. What? The new rumour.  Now, there's one for you. See how he stands outside there on the stoop. The way he smokes a cigar. A true gentleman. Oh, what of it? He's lovely. What of it? Can't you tell he's lonely? Why should I care? And you're lonely, too. Yes, I am. Then go to him. Talk to him. He's looked at you. I know he is. Just handsome one. And he's looked at you. Oh, has he now? I swear on my aunt Anna's grave. Has he now? Does my hair look all right? Softly gold. Truly, truly. And your eyes so dance and dance. Enjoy, Diddy. Hello. Isn't it a lovely night? It's so warm for November. Spring, really. I love walking. Oh, not so quickly, please. You take such long steps. Oh, I'm chilly. It's not warm at all. Let's go back to my room. I'll fetch a coat or whatever. I must tell you, Martha said a thing. You know, Martha. She said you were looking at me. Oh, no, no. If we go down the alley here, we can go in the back way. Well, I'll tell you. I've been looking at you. Right down there. I've put some pictures up on my wall. How do you like them? I know. Ah, right in here. Thank you. I'll just light the lamp. Would you like... The seventh, the last, the greatest unsolved crime in history. The year was 1888, and it's generally considered that Jack the Ripper was a very young man, and it's thought that he ran away to America. So that spry old gentleman over there carving so deftly the roast, spooning out the kidney pie, or that one there whittling, or the one there silver hair to find surgeon by day. Well, I'm just pointing out the possibility. That's all. In just a moment, Thomas Highland. Jack the Ripper, tonight's crime classic, was adapted from the original newspaper accounts by Morton Fine and David Friedkin. The music was composed and conducted by Bernard Herman, and the program is produced and directed by Elliott Lewis. Thomas Highland is portrayed on radio by Lou Merrill. In tonight's story, Betty Harford was heard as Mary and DJ Thompson as Martha. Featured in the cast were Irene Tedrow, Ben Wright, Paula Winslow, James McCallion, and Richard Peele, Roy Rowan speaking. And here again is Thomas Highland. Ladies and gentlemen, on Tuesday next, I begin a world cruise, during which time I will reestablish my friendships with antiquarians, historians, and police officers throughout the world. This commitment makes it necessary for me to conclude this present series of crime classics, effective with this broadcast. I hope to return in time to resume the series in the fall. Thank you and good night. Everybody has at least one day in a lifetime like, well, like you're going to hear about tomorrow night when CBS Radio presents Kathy and Elliott Lewis on stage. 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The future is here. We're building robots today. Awesome. Really awesome. So we have Robert here to take us through and how it's all done. So he's from makespace in Cambridge. He's come specially from the UK to join us today. And I'm very excited to be my first combat robot. So please show me how it's done. Thank you. Please, Robert. Hello. Right. So the talks are titled Building Your First Combat Robot. But it's a bit more about designing your first combat robot. So I've been interested in robot wars and the like since about 1998 when it first came out on BBC TV. So it's back in the day. First robots.  Yeah. So that's my Twitter and my website. So this covers my experiences when I've kind of started building a robot properly. So, I mean, I've been interested in since 1998. I kind of tried to run a robot club at secondary school. So teenage years on building little combat robots that never quite worked. So this talk is covering kind of what I've seen, what I've observed, what I've kind of my mental model of how it works and what you want to do in order to build a robot that will be effective and not suck. So when you're building your robots, the first thing to do is decide what weight category you're going into. The two big popular ones at the moment are the heavy weights, which are 100 kilos. These are the big heavy robots. They're the ones that you would see on, say, battle bots, the American TV series that just restarted up last month and did six episodes. And they cost maybe 2,000 pounds. That's several thousand euros, dollars, what have you. So they're big, they're expensive. And because they're big, you can put an awful lot of high-powered weaponry on there and they generally don't... They can do a lot of damage to themselves and others. Not something to get started in. Further weight combat robots, on the other hand, they're about 30 and a half kilos or 30 pounds if you're American. And they're a lot cheaper. They're more in the 800 mark. So you can feasibly build one or two of these robots. And they're smaller, but you can still pack quite a bit of heavy, high-powered weaponry in them. So it's a bit more friendly for learning the ropes and figuring out what works, what you prefer weapons-wise. Oh, go too fast. Right, so... Well, I mentioned the money in relation to how much weight class is. It's weight is your currency. You can always find more money to spend on it. But you are limited by how many kilos you can spend on it. And you've got to spend it on your chassis, so they're kind of the skeleton of your robot. You've got to spend it on the arm or the skin to protect your robot. You've got to spend it on the wheels and the motors to make it move, the motion generating stuff. And of course, the most important, you have to spend it on the weapon.  But you can't spend it all on motion because then you don't have much armour and don't have much weapon. So you have to find the right balance that works for you. So the chassis. So the chassis of the robot is pretty much what everything bolts into. Like I said, it's a bit of a skeleton. One thing to keep in mind is because everything's bolted to it, everything will translate through it. So every time someone drives into you, the shock of that will translate through your chassis. So you have to, you want to make it light and rigid. So it doesn't flex too much and it doesn't kind of break apart. And I mean, some of the battle bots, robots tried to go with a slightly lighter and a bit more flexible chassis and that didn't work out too well for them. Generally you find rigid chassis work well. Flexible one's not so much. So the other thing is there are some weapons out there that will launch you up into the air. So when you come back down again, thanks to gravity, you get to get forces from slightly weird angles from that. So you need to also be able to resist them or at least deal with them. You can cheat slightly. So what you can do is you can say I'm actually going to make my armor the chassis and then you bolt everything into the armor. You end up putting a bit more weight into the armor to do that, to kind of put mounting points in.  So there are advantages, there are disadvantages to cheating and making it your armor. So this is the robot I'm building. It's a featherweight and this is its chassis. It's about 400 millimetres by 450 millimetres. So it's 450 vertically, 400 horizontally. It's using drill motors for the motion and the weapon. I think I've over-engineered this chassis quite a bit. It's far too rigid and far too strong and not light enough. So the silver bits are aluminium C-section in 1 eighth inch or 3.125 mil thick and then it's got blanking plates welded on the ends of them to keep them solid and then I've drilled and tapped them. It breaks down quite nicely but I think it's far too strong, which means I've had to lose out on other parts. So the other one is armor.  You can dodge some of them by being fast and nippy and practicing your driving but there will be a point where you accidentally end up in a corner and they'll ram into you or they'll get a lucky hit on you. So for featherweight robots, most armor in the UK seems to be a type of steel called wear plate so these are steels that have been specifically heat treated and have made up of special alloys and they've got similar properties to say titanium but they don't cost anywhere near as much. It's also quite easy to work them. Titanium likes welding itself to drill bits quite easily and that ruins the drill bit and the titanium. Titanium is expensive so it gets painful. With steel wear plate, it's basically just steel. Another cheaper alternative often used for first time robots is thick plastic. So chopping boards are made out of plastic called HDPE and you can buy that in quite thick sheets maybe 20 mils thick or so that's just under an inch.  It's quite easy to work with because it's plastic so you can cut it up and you can build armor out of it because it's very cheap. You can build lots of bits of armor for it so you can swap them out as they get damaged and that works out quite well. One thing to do when you're building your armor is you've got to think a bit about the geometries of it, the shape. For some weapons for say spinners they have bars that spin around and if you have sharp corners the bar will hit that sharp corner and it'll catch, it'll grip on and it will then rip your armor off which is bad. So you want to try and have everything sloped in slightly just so it's more likely the glancing blows will then bounce off and redirect the force rather than just trying to resist it. So I've then gone and broken all these so I've got straight sides on mine I'm using steel wear plate so I've got sharp corners and I've got straight sides the two things I said not to do so I'm a terrible person. It'll be interesting. So mine's wrapped up in 4mm hard ox which is a steel wear plate that's around the outside the orange thing in the middle is the lifter arm that's made out of 3.8mm wear plate that's been made up and welded and then the top and bottom armor for me is 5mm polycarbonate I just wanted to see what I wanted to be able to see the insides of the robot if I was slightly more paranoid say for overhead axe weapons you'd probably want to move on to more steel wear plate or thick plastic thicker polycarbonate I mean polycarbonate is quite a nice plastic but it's a bit pricey and it's HTTP is a bit more easy to work with so motion's quite important basically as I've got it lets you control the arena it lets you be everywhere where your opponent's weapon is not you can line up and you get yourself into a position where your weapon can attack his sides and his rear and he can't attack you and you can get away from him trying to attack you you can try and get him into a corner so he can't maneuver much so that's what you want to do I mean I see a lot of these fights end up on YouTube and you can watch through them and say it's research or just enjoy the fact that robots are getting destroyed and one thing that I see coming up quite often is a lot of people don't do too much practice with their robot so they're not too good at controlling it around the arena it's not easy especially when it's driving towards you because you've then got to flip the left right so you have to move the stick right and then it steers left that kind of messes with your brain a bit but if you do a fair bit of practice with it you should be able to get it so you can avoid you can actually get it doing what you want it to do nice and quickly the other thing I see quite a bit of on the YouTube things is people just basically going straight from standing still to full speed that's not really controlled that's just kind of bumping off everything you want to avoid that you want to try and kind of be the right speed for the position so you know go slow to try and accurately position yourself correctly you want to keep an eye on the steering slow down before you hit stuff driving full speed into the arena sidewalls is just as bad as your opponent driving full speed into you it's not something you want to kind of happen if you can help it so for further weights, common drill for common things to move your robot around are cordless drills the price for those has come down greatly in recent years so you get an 18 volt cordless drill you rip off all the plastic you mod the... it's got a little torque control clutch to stop it from stripping the gearbox great for drills, terrible for robots so you jam that somehow and that gets you a fairly cheap, powerful drive motor and then to control the motor you generally use cheap Chinese brushless motor controllers that have been re... or they have the firmware hacked and modified you just program them up and it then looks like a brushed motor controller the Chinese RC kind of market has been great for combat robotics because it's just dropped the price out for a lot of the internal electronics you can now buy very cheap brushless motors which are great for spinning weapons you can buy cheap speed controllers which for both are brushed and brushless and you can get cheap RC equipment so the remote controls that let you control the robot that's dropped in price massively and also gone up in functionality as well you can get some really amazing control setups that's come out of drones and the rest of it so that's my setup you can see the aluminium seat section there at the bottom so I've got two 73mm diameter wheels I've got a belt drive linking the two and then the motor and the speed controller are mounted at the back and then the speed control is on a bit of isolation so try not to translate shock through to it it goes quite fast I haven't done the maths and figured out exactly how fast my one travels but I generally joke that it goes faster than you can run so keep your eye on it, watch your ankles so another big one is the weapon so you've got an idea of now of the chassis shape you want to have, the armour and the wheels next the most important fun one is the weapon so there's lots of different weapon types out there that you've got the two that I like are I think the most effective and or destructive are flippers and spinners spinners, I mean there's other ones out there you've got the piercing weapons which basically put holes in the other guy and you've got flails which are just things on chains or rope that you kind of whip into them they look nice but they don't really cause much game ending damage spinners can do some amazing amount of damage I don't know if anyone's watched Battle Bots in the US but there's something called Last Rites which has this big metal bar that spins around maybe five centimetres off the ground and then that wangs into the other robots and it was very effective and it ripped a couple of robots completely to bits there's also Ice Wave that was the other one that had a horizontal spinner in addition to horizontal spinners you also get vertical spinners so you get drums since they'll have a drum with teeth on it and now that'll spin spinners look very effective but they have this downside because there's a lot of kinetic rotational momentum energy they can actually damage themselves as well they can do just as much damage to themselves as they can and an opponent just because if they hit them right then they can fall on and the weapon will hit the ground and the shock will translate into the chassis and kind of shake it to pieces and it's rare for spinners to I mean everyone likes spinners because they do the they can destroy an opponent but that doesn't happen too often most of the time it you end up just knocking stuff around flippers on the hand are a lot more singularly effective because you can flip someone entirely out of the arena which is an instant win you don't have to chase them around for the rest of the match and then win to a judge's decision you just flip them straight out that's it, one so yeah, no, those are my two favoured don't think that you can put two weapons on that never works out well you need a certain amount of weight given over to securing the weapon in place so if you've got two weapons you have to have twice that weight and that subtracts so much better just have one big powerful weapon your course again, as with turning your armour into the chassis you can cheat and you can make the robot the weapon so you can build what's called a ram bot so you just build this brick that's got my strong rigid chassis and armour and then you drive it into everyone else at high speed 13 kilos running around at 20 miles an hour it's quite a lot of force quite a lot of momentum and that can do quite a bit of damage so this is my robot and that's a bit of railway rail so you have to have lights on it to show that it's working so I've just got a lifter it's a bit like a flipper but it's a lot easier to make I'm using a linear actuator which is basically a drill driving a threaded rod and a trapped nut so it just extends and shortens it's easier to make, it's less likely to cause any hurt me pneumatics which is normally what's used for flippers is quite dangerous to play with unless you know exactly what you're doing with but yeah so I'm just talking about balance there is no perfect kind of balance setup yet every robot has a slightly different kind of ratio of how everything goes together and what works really well in one season of in one set of robot fights won't necessarily work so well the next time round because people keep perfecting and updating their designs so it's good because it means you have to constantly evolve your robots which is great fun because you're constantly trying to pick yourself against you other people so yeah that's pretty much it these are the resources I use so fightingrobots.co.uk is a big UK website where a lot of people talk about combat robots spark.tools which is probably the best URL I've seen to date is an predominantly American website it's trying to cover a lot of the smaller scales smaller weight classes Robot Wars is the Australian forums they've very much gone into the Australians really have gone into robot combat in a big way and it's where the hacked brushless motors came out of brushless motors to be controllers and each of the I-pi plus one is an American guy called Charles Guarn from MIT who posts very good informative blogs about building robots and silly vehicles he was on the latest version of BattleBots with TeamJSAAB which has got Overdrive which is a very nice robot it was quite nice didn't do too well though so yeah thanks for listening Any questions? Please take a seat for questions or to the microphones Jesus Christ So we have microphones set up on the left and right please head to a microphone if you'd like to ask some dangerous design questions please In the original UK Robot Wars it tended to be as the competition went on it became less accessible to people with less money so people with more money tended to win all the fights at the end do you think there's any way you can keep these accessible to newbies people without much money? Not sure really I mean so you can do stuff like so in America they've got the sportsman subclass so it's the 30 pound combat robots but then they have weapon limits which then means you can enter with a slightly less armored less fancy robot and still win I mean it's kind of it's the weapons if you've got more money you can spend on fancier armors and more powerful weapons so if you limit them weapons then that makes them that kind of sets a maximum on the cost there and then it means you don't have to spend too much on your armor and you end up getting slightly more interesting robot designs and say just spinning a metal bar at several thousand RPM and driving into your opponent as fast as possible okay thank you just technical details the arm is not electrically moved which is compressed air or things like that the arm how does the arm move uh huh so it's on a four bar linkage so then your actuator is just a motor that turns goes through a bunch of gearbox turns a threaded rod and then there's a trap nut that can't rotate so it just moves back and forth and that drives a piston basically that moves the linkages which gets the arm to move up and down could you perhaps Robert tell us a little bit about some of the other things you're doing while you're here at the camp say again sorry could you perhaps tell us a few things about what else you're doing while you're at the camp will you be around to field questions for instance I'll be around for questions afterwards sure and where can people find you if they're looking to discuss I'm living out of the EMF camp over up towards the extra shortest path is there is there own little CC camp robot war going on here today or so there's the HeboCon competition I believe which is the Japanese shitty robot competition where you try and build robots that aren't so great and fight them I believe that's happening today and there's a contest tomorrow for that yeah so we can try our silly robots before we get excited with the combat are there any more questions design questions, series questions is that one coming up now we've got a really small person about to ask you no okay not yet into combat okay thank you very much warm applause that was fantastic


The first description of a disease resembling dengue fever, DF, was in the 15th century slave trade era by Spanish sailors visiting the Tanzania coast. This disease, which was believed to be caused by evil spirits, is now known to be caused by four serotypes of dengue virus, DENV1-4, that are transmitted by 80s mosquitoes. Kenya has experienced multiple outbreaks, mostly associated with DENV2. In this study, plasma samples obtained from 37 February patients during a DF outbreak at Kenya's south coast in March 2019 were screened for DENV. Total RNA was extracted and screened for the alpha and flaviviruses by real-time polymerase chain reaction QPCR. DENV3 was the only virus detected. Shotgun metagenomics and targeted sequencing were used to obtain DENV whole genomes and the complete envelope genes, e-gene, respectively. Sequences were used to infer phylogenies and timescale genealogies. Following maximum likelihood and Bayesian phylogenetic analysis, this article was authored by Eric M. Muffenge, Gaffiai Kimida, Josfit Naitaya, and others.


Is CAT 7 backward compatible? With ever-changing technology and cabling requirements, many businesses are looking to future-proof their cabling. However, they are not always ready to go to a full-on high-specification system. Rather, they want to be ready for when the technology requires it. Therefore, a common situation is installing the main data cabling in a high-grade cabling specification but maintaining a lesser grade of hardware and connection cabling. Thus a higher grade of cable is installed such as CAT 7. Can you be confident to answer the question is CAT 7 backward compatible? What is a CAT 7 cable? A Category 7 cable is generally called a CAT 7 or CAT 7A cable. It was first designed to be used for the cabling communications of 10 gigabit ethernet. However, theoretically, it can support 40 gigabits and 100 gigabits at shorter distances. A CAT 7 cable offers bandwidth up to 600 megahertz. Thus in simple terms is 6 times the capacity of CAT 5E and 2.5 times that of CAT 6. Simply put, a CAT 7 cable is what we recommend you use when wiring your smart home. The first consideration with CAT 7 is that over the standard structured cabling length of 90 meters it only has the capacity of 10 gigabit ethernet. Thus the same is CAT 6A. CAT 7 supports the theoretical capabilities of 40 gigabits per second and also 100 gigabits per second. Thus it is desirable but unfortunately, it can only achieve this at reduced distances. Independent testing has shown the capability of 40 gigabit in distances up to 50 meters and 100 gigabit up to 15 meters. However, this is dependent on bespoke hardware setup and isn't a ratified standard. Therefore this is why CAT 7 is more commonly seen in data centers or home installations where the installation runs are shorter. However, the frequencies that allow the CAT 7 cabling to reach such impressive speeds are currently not available on any home network. Thus it might be able to transmit at such increased speeds but the hardware in the market doesn't yet need this capacity. Thus the consideration is then installing CAT 7 for future usage when hardware improves and is a higher standard. This is more desirable than the disruption of recabling the building again. If I install CAT 7 cabling is CAT 7 backward compatible. The CAT 7 cable is compatible with the CAT 6, CAT 5 and CAT 5 cable categories. It offers 90 to 100 meters 4 connector channels using shielded cabling and is designed to transmit signals at frequencies up to 600 megahertz. CAT 7 cables require full shielding of twisted wires called screen shielded twisted pair, SSTP, or screened folded twisted pair, SSTP, wiring, which is further eliminates alien crosstalk while significantly improving noise resistance. This way it allows the user to get maximum speed even with long cables. The CAT 7 cable differs from previous Ethernet cable standards in that the CAT 5 and CAT 6 are available in several ways. However, the biggest advantage of the CAT 7 cable is its ability to protect twisted pairs, which can be noisy. This is achieved with increased and greater shielding. Thus this significantly improves signal loss and corruption. CAT 7 cabling is usually terminated onto GG45 connectors, which in addition to the standard 8 termination connectors they have 4 additional points of contact. In a CAT 5E, CAT 6, or CAT 6A connector there are just the standard 8 points of contact. However, the connector is still suitable for an RJ45 connector. Therefore a CAT 5E, CAT 6, or CAT 6A patch leads can be plugged into a CAT 7 connector. The reverse is true for using CAT 7 patch leads into a lower grade of permanent data cabling. Situations where CAT 7 is installed and used backward compatible. CAT 7 cabling is installed into the fabric of the building but CAT 6A termination modules are used. This is sometimes to reduce initial cost and other times due to manufacturer limitations on a CAT 7 or CAT 7A connector. A full CAT 7 structured cabling installation is undertaken including GG45 modules. However, CAT 6A patch leads are used. The limitation on longer runs is 10 gigabit and therefore CAT 6A patch leads are sufficient and a lot more cost effective. However, the cabling is in place for future technologies. A full CAT 7 cabling installation is put into a new building but the client brings over their existing hardware and patch leads and connects. This could be CAT 5E, CAT 6, or CAT 6A. Therefore the system runs at its old speeds but is in place for the future. This isn't very common but has been the case on past projects. Better shielding. The CAT 7 cables incorporate a better separation than the previous standards. In addition with its additional shielding, it has noise protection much stronger than other components, greatly reducing signal loss. Thus each pair of wires are secured in shielded sheets and an additional layer of shielding protection also over the entire cable. As a result, the cable undergoes a strict procedure to prevent signal loss at long distances. Furthermore, for the full shielding and performance benefits, the special connectors of GG45 should be used. In addition care should be taken to maintain the bend radius and installation guidelines to enjoy the full functionality of this cable. Conclusion. Is CAT 7 backward compatible? If you have smart home technology or are in a situation that requires shorter links, CAT 7 cables are the perfect match. Under 100 gigabit Ethernet, cables will reach 15 meters and up to 50 meters under 40 gigabit Ethernet. However as previously stated this is a non-ratified standard. 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our next guest, our good friend. He knows who Flip Wilson is, and he's the Hall of Famer, Joe Nameth, who had very interesting comments on social media yesterday. So we asked him if he'd come on, and he said he would. Joe, it's Michael and Don. Great to talk to you. How are you doing? Fellas, I'm doing well, and it's good to be with you, really. I'm looking forward to talking with you. All right, so let's obviously the big point of discussion today is about Zach. Let's start with a quasi-positive, Joe. Did you take anything positive out of his performance yesterday? You know, you're talking about Flip. You got me thinking about Geraldine. You know what? No, I didn't take anything positive out of it yesterday. It was awful. Why? Why? Were you watching? Is anyone watching? I mean, please, when did you ever see, well, whether it's Zach, we'll stay on Zach.  You sit down on the play. You go right down. What happens? I thought you're trying to win and make plays. You quit on a play. What is going on? It's disgusting. And you brought up the coaching. How can a coach make things better for Zach? How can a coach say the locker rooms together? How many teams have we been on? Are you telling me there aren't some cats on the defensive side saying, whoa, man, what's wrong with you? Yeah, there's not all harmony in the locker room. And if there is, they need to get ready to people. You got to get people in there that are competitors and want to fight to win. These guys don't have to be in love with each other. And if they're saying they're in love with each other, they're BSing you. And you got to get ready. Top to bottom. If somebody handed you Zach Wilson and said, OK, Joe, make him better, what would you do? Send them to Kansas City to back up against somebody like my home. Maybe it learned something. I wouldn't keep them. I've seen enough of Zach Wilson. All right? I've seen enough. That's quick feet and throw a little bit, but I don't believe what's going on up there. Yeah, that's the thing is that they're saying they believe in him. And if they're backing it up, Joe, by not bringing in a veteran quarterback. Well, what could be Joe Douglas's motivation at this point with the season teetering of not bringing in somebody that has played in this league before outside of Tim Boyle backing up Zach? He picked these people. Douglas picked these people. So he's going to double that? What's he going to do? I can get rid of everybody. What do you got to start over? Well, Mr. Johnson, hey, these guys aren't picking the right players. They're not doing a good job of coaching. It's evidence. I mean, you've got to look and see if you have an eye about football at all. You see things are haywire. It's too crazy. They need to fix it. And that's getting rid of a lot of people and bringing new ones in. All right, so Joe, let's look at it this way. Obviously, they planned the whole offseason of Aaron Rodgers. And Robert Sala was just on with the show and said they catered an offense around Aaron Rodgers. Now they've got to find one for Zach Wilson. Do you buy that? And is that a tough thing to transition into a different offense for Zach Wilson? How many months ago was that to learn the offense? How many months ago was that? Come on. Now, Aaron, he got hurt. OK, well, what do you think you have backups there for? They're ready to go. They're supposed to be ready to go. We're looking at an offense that just doesn't play well. Are you got an offensive coordinator that doesn't seem to be calling the right plays? I just think for a fan, for this fan, they need to make major changes from top to bottom. Change. Does that include the head coach? Yes. You think he's part of the problem with Zach? When he's telling me that locker rooms together, when he's telling me these guys love one another, yeah, well, thanks a lot. We can go back to whatever place you learn that stuff. But they're losing. Guys don't like to lose. They're not holding hands when they're losing. Well, here's a problem, Joe, that I wonder what you would do. Nobody's going anywhere unless Aaron Rodgers says so. Well, wait a minute. Aaron Rodgers is not coaching the team. He's not Woody Johnson. He's not Christopher Johnson. Come on. And what guarantees are there other than one that worked out? What guarantees are there that Aaron's going to be able to come back? What are you talking about? I'm not. You're right, Joe. But you know how organizations are. I mean, this guy wants to come back. And if he wants Robert Sol to be his coach, if he wants Zach Wilson to be his backup quarterback, they're not in any position to say no, because they want him to come back and play. Well, I don't know that they're not in any position to say no. I don't know the contracts and how they're structured. Maybe they are locked in. But I know one thing. If you're running that team as ownership, you don't lock yourself into that kind of a situation. Now, in watching him, Joe, him being Zach Wilson, it almost looks like it's not reacting. It's not like using his talents. He's overthinking things. And he's just not letting his talents take over. Are you saying the same thing as if maybe he's overcoached? I'm saying, I don't believe in him. I don't believe he has a future as a good player. And I think they made the wrong choice when they drafted him. I feel that way. He has some athletic ability, but you've got to have something up here that's going on whenever you're studying and reading, playing out there, sitting down, sitting down, throwing the ball. It's ridiculous. You've got the wrong people playing and taking them. It's incredible. But there is an arm. There are legs, but is it one of those? I hate to say it this way, but is this one of the classic, you know, million dollar arm, 10 cent head? Well, I've never met Zach. So I don't know what's going on between the ears. I only know what I see out there. And it's hard to tell what's going on between a guy's ears and the mind does play a major role on your team, in your team and every individual in your team, whatever position they're playing. They have a duty. They have place to carry out. And they have to do them with regularity. And he's far from that. Well, since they don't seem like they're going to make any change and they seem like they're sticking by him. Joe, is there something they could do with him? Like just make him run the ball? Is there anything they could do to salvage a little bit of the season if they're committed to staying with him? Committed to staying with him. And I gather they are because they don't have a, I don't know how good the backup quarterback is. The one that they traded away would be a good starter. And it will be someday in white. But meantime, the players all collectively have to play better and they know that. And I guess you don't point your finger at any one guy, but as a fan, I sure do. The guy that handles that ball and has to make decisions, he's got to be right more times than not. And we've been watching him for a couple of years now and I don't have any confidence in him at all. Is the offensive line good enough even if the quarterback was good? Because look, Rodgers, it took four plays and he's out for the season. Do you not like what you see of the offensive line? The offensive line, only in the backyard that I ever played at position. To me, they have, I think the toughest job when it comes to execution against animals like those defensive fronts and linebackers that are coming. The offensive line needs to improve, that's for sure. All the players out there need to improve. But the offensive line... Do you like Gary Wilson from what you see of him? They've got to get better real fast or else it's, well, whatever else, it's going to be a long season no matter what. Now you're going to lose the room, Joe. And that's just going to happen, especially with the modern day athlete. They're not going to want to take a knee on the season, Joe. And Sala's going to lose the room. If you're a veteran in that room, what can you say to try to keep everybody together as the loss has started to pile up? I'm not going to say, if these guys are working for a living, you know, they're working for a living, they're professionals, they're getting paid, they're better playing their butts off because that one-eyed monster called that camera looking at them, valuating every single move they make out there. That one-eyed monster tells no lies. It doesn't describe it. It shows every team around the league are looking at these films or these tapes. They see what the individuals are doing. Now, mostly I count on him. I don't think he's going to quit. And I don't think there's a lot of guys out there that are going to quit on the defense, on the offense. I don't think they're guys going to quit because that's their living. They know they're being judged and evaluated on each play. They're going to try, they're going to try their best to play. They just don't have the talent up front. In my opinion, offensively, at this time they can develop and they certainly don't have the talent with the guy that handles the ball every play and has to make the decisions with the offense every single play. They don't have that. They got wide receivers that are outstanding, the defense is pretty darn good, the corner. Hey, there's good players on that team. You know, Joe, I've never heard you this angry. Is this the lowest point for you as a fan of this team? I think so. I think so.  We were on teams, I was on teams that lost. It stinks. These players don't like losing. They're trying. Meantime, the coaching, are they getting good coaching? I don't know. It doesn't appear like they are. I mean, calling good plays that I see running back that wants to run the ball more and, you know, getting in arguments on the sidelines with coaches, hey, something's up that the players aren't happy with the way they're getting coached. Yeah, it's so difficult to make a change during the course of the season. I was mentioning that this is part of the trouble with having a defensive-minded head coach.  Would things be better if you had an offensive guy as the head coach to at least be able to help the progression of this offense? I don't think that that's the major issue here. I think it is the personnel. Whether you're a defensive guy like Parcells who couldn't lead a team to championships or an offensive guy, no. It's the guys on the ETH that's the assistance and the head coach, even in college ball, oversees all of that and he should be able to recognize what his coaches are doing and convey that to the general manager and go on, you know. But I don't know whether they protect one another or what, but it's awful. It's awful and it's hurting. I had to smile though when the guy spit his teeth halfway out. I was not yesterday. And that's about how most of us felt watching him. 15 straight losses to the Patriots, Joe. I mean, of all teams too, to lose that many too. Do you ever remember in your career, whether it was Alabama or with the Jets, that you had a team that just had your number like that? No, no, no. I don't recall that. And I guess if we look around the league, are there any other teams that have lost 15 straight to an opponent, a comfort division opponent? I don't know. Yeah, well, certainly not to someone that seems to hate the Jets as much as Bill Belichick does. It just drives Jets fans crazy. We're talking to Joe Namath after another tough day for the Jets after they lose to the New England Patriots. I gotta ask you as an offensive guy, we brought it up earlier in the show. Miami puts up 70 points against Denver. They can line up for a field goal to break the record. They say, we don't wanna embarrass Sean Payton. We're not gonna kick it. But don't you think at 70 points, you're probably embarrassed already? Would you be tempted to break the record and do you get what Miami did there? I get why Miami didn't try to break the record. There is some respect for coaches and players and how much you wanna rub it in. You've scored 70 points on a team. You've got them. They know I like that the coach didn't go for the field goal. I used to put up that many points. Just to look at this division, Joe, right?  Miami looks like they're legit. It's gonna be so difficult, even if the Jets were good to be able to navigate through some of these good teams in the AFC and even in their own division. Well, if they were good, they'd make it enjoyable. We wanna, you know, but they're not good. They don't have the personnel for the most part. But they're supposed to be talented. I mean, they've got receivers. You really think it's a personnel problem? I think from the top to the bottom, from general manager to the head coach, down through the system, the way they're running it needs changed. God, it's so weird, Joe, because you're not wrong, but at the same time waiting in the wings, you hope is gonna be a healthy Aaron Rodgers next year. How much better do you think this team would be if Rodgers didn't get hurt? Or would they eventually get exposed for all the reasons you're talking? I have no idea. I just know it would have been better. How much better? I'm not sure, right? He's the kind of guy that can help out the offensive line and help out the defense just with his decision making where he's going with the ball, knowing what's happening. Yeah, you can't compare his leadership to anyone's on the Jets team. I mean, they definitely miss him. He was a major warrior to bring in, and we were counting on him, but Lady Luck darn it, you know what? Yeah, you know, man, that's the way it is in life. Life's not always fair and it's disappointing, and it's a good thing we're just talking about football. Well, I just wonder, they say sometimes you feel better when you got a chance to talk it out. Do you feel any better after this interview or worse? I feel honestly better.  I, yeah, yeah, and yeah, yeah, I feel better that I have at least got it off my chest and explained my feelings about what's going on. Well, we're here for you. If any time you want to vent about your Jets, you've got a place here on the Michael K Show, you know that, right? Well, Michael, all right, and I'm going to be watching the Jets. So I'm not quitting on them. I don't want you and I'm pulling for them, but boy, they need to make some changes and starting with on the field or on the sidelines or upstairs, man. They need to get better. Well, Joe, try to enjoy the rest of the season. We'll talk to you soon. Say healthy, man. All right, we win some games. We'll enjoy it. All right, that's the great Joe Namath. He wants scorched earth. He wants everybody gone. It's a personnel problem. It's a coaching problem. Listen, if he's right, then where are you going?


Hi everybody, Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com coming at you with 2019-2020 Panini Chronicles basketball fat pack number seven nine seven with seven noir spots being given away. In fact the next one that's in the store I think is almost sold out so noir will be coming up at some point a little bit later it'll be on the schedule check that so as always we're gonna do the break itself first and then we're gonna see who wins those spots big thanks everybody here and all the teams are in let's do names and teams randomized that eight times each two and a six eight one two and eighth and final time after eight we got Brian down to Hovsep all right two and a six eight times for the teams one two three and now it's sold out four so noir is coming up a little bit later six seven and eight let's see if anything sold out before that but it didn't that might be one of our very next breaks if you're watching live we got bulls and timber wolves and if you're watching the replay of this video many moons into the future I hope the future is doing well all right hopefully the future is bright there you go that's the list right there that's right I'm talking to you August 5th 2021 nice threads is I on a Williamson I think the score are exclusive to this set Anthony Davis Kobe white and got all sorts of good things here there's the Kobe white for the bulls that'll be for Brian there's the score Hashimura right the score insert right there this will ship to that PJ Washington that's the bronze parallel here's the interesting thing about Chronicles especially these these fat packs the value packs whenever you see a prism card that's pretty much an update card which I think is pretty cool if you think about it because the prison doesn't do update they should do it there was prism update right there's a prism early in the season and then an update later in the season once they know who all the hot rookies are and everything just load them up with that make it more expensive but knowing that you'll get I know I think that be pretty cool pelicans that is Andy with the Zion nice threads Zion there you go there's the final print now let's see oh in the lake where's my Lakers that's Brian Kauffman with my Lakers there you go Brian with the Anthony Davis get well soon 80 all right let's flip back to this list right here let's give everyone from Andronic down to Sean medic and let's use a different dice roll here from a previous break it's the same thing four to six ten times all right guess it really wanted to be ten it's gonna be top seven after after ten one two three four seven eight nine and tenth and final time so after ten from eight on down sad times my apologies but I appreciate you trying congrats to the top seven though you're in noir basketball Michael Mike John Nicholas Sean Melanie and Andy there you go congrats to the top seven right there and thanks for getting in I'm Joe for jasperjakesquakes.com I'll see you for noir a little bit later bye bye


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