I am a journalist so I will give you some facts or you can make your own deductions based on those facts. There is a Supreme Court judge, a very senior judge at that right now who was appointed as a judge in the Vajpayera. And there was an adverse IB report against him and that IB report said corrupt person. I have that IB report in my mobile. Sometime back that judge has written a six or seven page note against a senior high court judge saying, and annexing a complaint basically against that judge. Nowhere does that complaint say or quote the judge as being corrupt. It's just an annexation and he's trying to stall the elevation of that judge as high court Chief Justice. So you have this instance of a guy who should not have been appointed a judge in the first place, but he was appointed and I have all the documents I will give you only facts. Who was appointed only because the then law minister of this country went and personally met the then president, briefed him and got this guy appointed. And today this person is sitting in the Supreme Court and issuing notes trying to stall a senior judge's appointment as High Court Chief Justice. We are all aware what is happening in the case of Indu Malhotra and Chief Justice of Uttarakhand Justice Joseph. Let me also give you another interesting fact on 10th of January when the meeting of the Collegium was held. So I have written about it. So there were some names that were floated by the Chief Justice of India, Justice Deepak Mishra. The other members of the Collegium told Justice Mishra and since I am sure this is getting recorded somewhere. So I know what I am talking about. They told him we will send just one name. And the reason they had decided to recommend just one name was because they were aware or possibly aware of what the reaction of this government would be to Justice Joseph's name. In the end the Chief Justice of India brought out one more name just Miss Indu Malhotra's name and these people said as long as she is not a judge we have no issues. And the Supreme Court needs a woman judge and she is a good lawyer. So we are okay with that. After some time this government also tried because they didn't want to clear this name of the Uttarakhand Chief Justice because of a judgment that is given against this government to segregate the two names. And again they were stalled because there is an old letter written by a previous Chief Justice of India, Justice Loda in the matter of appointment of Justice of Mr. Gopal Subramaniam was there in which he had told the government you cannot proceed with the appointment of the other judges, other names without the Supreme Court Collegium telling you to do so. And we all are aware what happened in the case of Mr. Subramaniam. He withdrew his consent and as things stand now and we are all aware Miss Malhotra has started practicing her games. So there is a very fair chance that she may also withdraw her consent. IB report. This is one weapon that this government or the previous government also let me assure all of you I have nothing against this government in a previous newspaper that I worked in the next phase. I was instrumental or my reporting was instrumental in the resignation of the then law minister of this country in the Colgate scam. So I am neither for Congress nor against the BJP. And I say this very often that judges are like journalists because by definition they are supposed to be anti-establishment. IB report. There is a recently appointed judge in the Delhi High Court in whose case the IB report was negative. It reached the government. Possibly somebody forgot to tell the IB guys that his report needs to be sent properly and they sent a negative report. And after that report reached the government it was sent back. The IB amended its report and in a matter of few days that person became a judge and that person is a judge right now. So IB reports can also be managed. Now an IB report is a very interesting phenomena that it can be used, misused by any government. And we are all aware how the IB functions. So if the government does not want to appoint a person as a judge it simply has to pick up the phone, call up the IB chief. I have met a number of them in my lifetime. And they are unable to pull in pressures. They are okay with the government telling them because many of them are looking for post retirement jobs. So the government simply has to pick up the phone and tell the IB chief his report is wrong. And the kind of collegium systems that we have right now, judges who are from in the collegium. There is an unwritten rule now. If the IB report says and again this is a fact, if the IB report says this person the integrity is doubtful. The collegium will not clear that name. But if the IB report says this person's lawyer's performance is not up to the mark then the judges will take a call accordingly. But in several cases it has happened that the government has actually picked up the phone and told the IB guys to send an adverse report and that has been happening. Collegium system, you know, I sometimes I am the only person in a TV studio defending the collegium system and I will give you a very fair example. The reason why I support the collegium system. It's not a fair system. I have no doubt about that. It needs a lot of changes. It needs more transparency. I've been writing about that. But it is a better system than the previous one as will be a new system if and when that happens. But the final decision should and must rest with the judges. The prime minister of this country often talks about 2002. And we all know there was and I believe this. Again, this is a fact. There were attempts at certain levels to fix him. I don't think there is, you know, possibly he was involved in those rights. Possibly he was not. But there was no proof that is the job of the investigators. But he's right when he says there was an attempt by the previous government to fix me. The same judges appointed by the collegium system protected this prime minister. And what does this prime minister do? The moment he becomes the prime minister. He tries and brings a new system where collegium will no longer have primacy. Judges will no longer have primacy. There will be outsiders who will come and decide and dictate who will become judges. The day independence of judiciary finished, in my opinion. You know, several years ago there used to be a chief election commissioner. Many of you would be aware of him, Mr. Gill. The day he decided he became a congressman after the meeting office, became a minister in the UPA government. I thought that was the day the independence of our election regulator went out of the window. The day you had a former Chief Justice of India, who as Chief Justice was going from one minister to another, seeking a government job. And I wrote about it before he demated office and I got a call from him. I'll take his name also. I have always done my journalism based on facts. So I got a call from him after I wrote that he's going to be the next NHRC chief. So he said, Mr. Chibber, what is this? Why have you written this? I'm not interested. I said, sir, I'll gladly publish an apology and I'll gladly publish whatever you say. You just have to say you're not going to accept it. So he did not. He went on to become the NHRC chief and then very soon I wrote another small item saying that this judge, former Chief Justice of India, who has handled some of the most important crucial cases in this country and is now NHRC chief, wants to go as governor of a state. Again I got a call from him and I also got a call from the NHRC information officer who's a friend. So my response to that was, if you're angry, then what do I have to do? But this judge is now a governor. And three days before he accepted the job of the governor, he was attending the marriage of the BJP president's son. You know how this government works? Or any government? I'm not quite this government or the previous government. Every government, all politicians want to control the judges and they have several ways of doing this. But in the case of this government, it's a very interesting phenomenon that I'm observing. These people, they addressed four judges, addressed a press conference. Before that, I was aware of the name of the son of just one judge. Three days later, via WhatsApp, I became aware of the names of the sons, their wives, their girlfriends, if they have their daughters, husbands, and even the judges' wives. And a whisper campaign started. This judge's son was active. This judge's son was active. This judge's father was first in Congress. This judge's father was the judge. Suddenly in this age of WhatsApp, you must read, we have published it today. Mr. Karan Thapar, yesterday he was given an award in the memory of a big journalist, former journalist, Mr. Reddy. And in that speech, Mr. Karan Thapar, many of you would be aware, has been for several years a TV journalist. He writes an occasional column also, but he is mainly a TV journalist. In that speech, if you go to the print website, I'm sure it is there. He says that there are some newspapers whose credibility I can vouch for, but there is not even a single TV channel whose credibility I can talk about. And he is, mind you, a TV journalist. So in this age of WhatsApp forwards and, you know, Facebook and, you know, what not, where every rumor becomes news, sometimes my dear friend Sudhir Chaudhary in the Zee, he actually did a program with those arc in note with chip. So once I had a fight with him, so I told him, boss, people are still looking for chips in note with chip. Tell me, where is it? So suddenly all this becomes news and all of the gossip, all of the rumor mongering, it becomes news, it becomes a fact. So if you want to assail a judge, a sitting high court or Supreme Court judges, credentials, if you want to raise questions over his integrity, all you have to start saying is say that his son is eating money in that case. And you don't need facts. In half a day, it becomes, just give me two minutes. And, you know, about, I think Mr. Bhattacharya spoke about the possibility of the next chief being superseded. I am from Jammu and one of the previous Chief Justice of India, Justice Thakur, is also from Jammu and I know him very well. He was my father's student and all that. So I met him a few weeks ago. And I said, sir, is there a possibility of Justice Gogoi being superseded? So he said, it shouldn't happen. I said, it can happen. So then he did not answer that, but he did tell me a small story, which is not actually a story. It's a fact. Again, as I said, I'm a journalist. It relates to, there's a case, Rajendra Singh Rana versus JNK, or vice-versa, state of JNK versus Rajendra Singh Rana. Rajendra Singh Rana, for those who might not know, was the father of the present minister of state in the prime minister's office, Jitinder Singh, who's a BJP MP from Katwa district, which is in Jammu. Rajendra Singh Rana was a chief engineer. So and now, I'll speak in Hindi because it's a lot of fun. So Rajendra Singh Rana was awarded an award for honesty and professionalism on the day of the 26th. Within a few weeks, the government falls and Mr. Jagmohan takes over as governor. So Mr. Jagmohan, when he takes over as governor of JNK, he decides that I have to do something big, give some message to people that the government has changed and the way of working for the government has also changed. So what better way of doing that, achieving that, sending that signal than to kick out some deadwood from your administration. There's a list on top of that list, Rajendra Singh Rana, which you have awarded six weeks ago. So then they decide and he is removed from his post as chief secretary. He is removed from government service because he is allegedly corrupt. Matter goes to court, JNK high court rules in favor of Rajendra Singh Rana. Who's the lawyer? Justice Thakur, who at that time and daily became a judge was Jammu's number one lawyer. After that the matter comes to Supreme Court and you'll have to do your, many of you are lawyers, you'll have to, this is an exercise you should do, take out the name of the lawyer who represented JNK government in the Supreme Court. So that lawyer said, Is there a complaint against him? He said, yes, these complaints are against the corrupt. I am sure, though I work for a private company, there must be a complaint against me. So there were complaints against him. And apparently there were 20 odd, 30 odd complaints. Nothing had been found in those complaints. But when the matter came to Supreme Court, the lawyer said, Sir, look at the complaints against him. Integrity is very doubtful. Supreme Court has upheld that, his ouster from government service. And that I think is the answer to our question. Can the government use anything against Justice Gogh going to stall his elevation as Chief Justice of India? As lawyers, you know, I am also a lawyer. I have never practiced that. I did my law in the times when you did law because you didn't want to do anything else. So when I did my law, so I'm sure all of you will understand that even if a corrupt judge decides to hang somebody for an offense, there are never questions that are asked. And that is the faith that people of this country have in judiciary. But the day our judges, our Chief Justices, start calling people, start attending parties, start inviting the Prime Minister and the ministers to their children's weddings. That is the day when judiciary will be in peril. And that is the day when you and I should start worrying. Thank you.


Today, I'm declaring a drought emergency in the state of California. It's important to awaken all Californians to the serious matter of drought and the lack of rain. I pointed to this chart over here because it indicates we are in an unprecedented, very serious situation and people should pause and reflect on how dependent we are on the rain, on nature, and one another. And I'm calling for a collaborative effort to restrain our water use. I'm also setting in motion easier water transfers. So this is an effort, it's a call to arms, but we have to recognize this is not a partisan adversary. This is mother nature and at some point we have to learn to live with nature. We have to get on nature's side and not abuse the resources that we have and that's the point of the declaration.


It's one of the deadliest medical emergencies if left untreated. Tonight Clayton Castle takes us through the signs and symptoms of having a stroke. It's a medical emergency that affects nearly 800,000 people in the United States every year, according to the American Stroke Association. It's also the fifth highest cause of death. Despite the statistics, many people are still unaware of the signs and symptoms of stroke. They can remember it in the acronym FAST or FAST. But in terms of FAST, we're looking for facial droop, armor leg weakness, speech difficulty, and that means it's time to call 911. Ascension Health St. Joseph's Medical Center in Brainerd has taken measures recently to educate and inform the community on the common medical episode. We provided stroke education to our community. We had various events throughout the community where we attended. We also had direct mailings so that there was a postcard and there was the flight area magnet attached to it with the FAST acronym.  Doctors here at Ascension Health St. Joseph's Medical Center know a thing or two about stroke because the hospital was recently designated as a primary stroke center. We're able to provide world class stroke care while still being able to keep patients here within our community. And for this patient population that's obviously a big deal that they're not having to travel down to the cities. They're in a more comfortable environment. Their family is able to be with them at bedside but they're still able to get that same level of care. The designation by the Minnesota Department of Health is common among hospitals in metropolitan areas, which makes the designation even more special for the Medical Center in Brainerd. Seeing the primary stroke center certification coming out into the broader community in Minnesota, Brainerd is just a light in the middle of the state for stroke. They've just done a fantastic job and caring for patients there, keeping patients close to home. St. Joseph's Medical Center in Brainerd will continue to hold events throughout the year to educate the general population on the deadly emergency of stroke. Reporting in Brainerd Clayton Castle, Lakeland News. Ways to lower your risk of having a stroke include increased exercise and of course a healthy diet. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


HiBoot has been a unique company from the very beginning. We started as a startup company from Tokyo Institute of Technology and the core people were coming from different countries, Italy, myself, Brazil and Japan. Among them, there is also Professor Hirose, who is a worldwide robotic pioneer with more than 40 years of experience in mobile robotics. Every single person is complimenting each other because we're coming from computer science, electronic engineering and mechanical engineering. And robotics is just about that. It's a multidisciplinary field. We all started in an academic environment, but from the beginning we had to face some really tough projects and that exposed us to the real world. We got a lot of field experience, sometimes against our will, and it just forced us to be creative and to come up with new ideas and concepts to solve problems that no one had addressed so far. So putting together the international background, the accumulated experience, the understanding of the academic and the international world together with the environment that pushes you to be creative, I think that makes HYBOT unique. An innovative company should have a multidisciplinary and a multi-cultural staff. This in order to create different ideas from different points of view. The environment is also very important. It needs to foster creative thinking. And most of all, I think the company should not be afraid of taking risks. It's a sort of that kind of blind desire to solve problems that would generate solutions and possibly new markets. Our motivation here at HYBOT is to make the world a better and a safer place with robotics. We're focusing mostly on robots for maintenance and inspection of infrastructure. And one of our goals is to have those robots assisting human operators in dangerous places like a nuclear power plant, for example, or in places where people cannot or should not go. We keep on improving the know-how that started a long time ago as research on biologically inspired robots. And we're using that to develop snake-like robots that are now being used in pipes of refineries and power plants. So if we use robots for inspection and preventive maintenance, we can cut costs, keep people away from dangerous places, avoid accidents and potentially save lives.


leader of Twitch. So this is an example, probability question I'm trying to solve. The chance of having a girl baby is 49% and that of a boy baby is 51%. What's the chance that a family of three children is made up of two girls and one boy? Here, check this out. Let's do this. We ended this one. We'll leave that up because this is just a tree diagram. Supreme leader of Twitch. How would I go about solving such a probability set? You do it like this. So child number one, number one. Let's write it out so we understand it. Child, child number one. So child number one, girl or a boy, right? The probability for a girl is 0.15. The probability of a boy is 0.4. Is that true? Girl, yeah. Oh no, the other way around. Oops. So girl baby is 49%. My boy is 51%. So this would be boy. This would be girl. Okay. I'm gonna kill this guy. Gang, for this one, you would just break it down and you can't divide by two anymore because this is a one. So you would have to find an odd number that goes into this because two is the, two is the only and this one would be two and five, right? And then two is the only even prime number and you're gonna look for other primes that go into this. So you do the prime and you're gonna do it with the calculator, right? Let's do this. So the next one, you can have a boy, you can have a girl, you can have a boy, you can have a girl, right? Again, the boy is 0.51, the girl is 0.49, the boy is 0.51 and the girl is 0.49, right? I can actually do this question officially back. Oh my god. I got to go have a good rest of stream while you two melzy. And then the next baby, next kid, is boy and a girl again, right? 0.51, 0.49, boy, girl, 0.51, 0.49, boy, girl, 0.51, 0.49, boy, girl, 0.51, 0.49. And by the way, you could do this by laying it out in this, what do you call it, the power stuff you can use. And then your question is this, right? So I'm gonna read the question again, right? From Supreme Leader of Twitch, answer this question. The chance of having a girl baby is 49% and that of a boy baby is 51%. What's the chance that a family of three children, so we got three children, one event, oh sorry, one event? So that's your first kid. This is a child number one. This is parents. Parents, right? So this is child number one is here. Child number two is here. Child number three is this column, right? So what's the chance that a family of three children is made up of two girls and one boy, right? So I'm gonna do this in red, pen. So two girls and one boy. So let's assume you go down this road first. You get your boy first, right? Here, let's do it this way. So you see, you have your boy first. And then the next two kids have to be girls because you want two girls, right?   So this would be 0.51 times 0.49 squared. Let me write this down better. So this one, the outcome is 0.51 times 0.49 squared. That's not that much better, but it is sort of, right? Now your next avenue you can go. Your first kid can be a girl, right?  So over here the probability is 0.49 times 0.49 times 0.51. So 0.49 squared times 0.51, right? Now here's another avenue you can take.  You don't care which one it is, but your third kid has to be a girl because you're looking for two girls and a boy. So then you go down this one. So over here you got 0.49 times 0.49 times 0.51. So 0.49 squared times 0.51, okay? So what we have right now is there's three different paths for this family, these parents, to have two girls and one boy. And these are the paths that you have and what you do, you add those up. So you have the total probability and this is where you add them, right? And if you're adding them, all three of them are the same. It's 0.49 squared times 0.15, right? So all you would do, you would go 0.49 squared times 0.51, add it together three times or just multiply this by three and that would be your answer. Okay, is that clear? That's the way you would do this problem. And the problem is the chance of having a girl baby is 49% and that of a boy baby is 51%. What's the chance that a family of three children is made up of two girls and one boy? The tree diagram works for this. Is that clear? Swagboy Felix, MC Mike, thanks. I enjoy these streams because everyone here is trying to either learn or solidify their knowledge on some form of math. Yeah, me too. That's why I like them too. MC Mike, Swagboy, Swagboy, you're welcome. I know what you mean. I started watching Chichou when I was upgrading my math to get into university. A couple of years went by and he was one of the people to inspire me to go further in mathematics. Ah, dude, serious, really, Mike. Awesome. I love the live streams for the same reason. Happy to help when I can. Awesome, MC Mike. That makes me happy, man. Awesome, awesome, awesome. Awesome. The tears to Chichou's eyes. Another mathematician into the wild. Fantastic, fantastic, powerful. Hey, Mike. Supreme Leader of Twitch. Oh, wow. That's a very nice and clear visual explanation. The teacher never explained in this visual way, but now I feel like I actually understand this. So basically I just made the mistake of only considering a single path. Yeah, basically. Very interesting. My pleasure, Supreme Leader of Twitch. And by the way, I'm pretty sure this is correct, but if I'm wrong, please let me know anyone. Okay. And there is this level of mathematics. You can do it with the tree diagram, but if you have a lot of path, then you got to sort of apply this.  And you can come up with equations to do more complicated stuff.


Investigate everything and then Richard will give you a report where this leak is originated. We're not going to enter anybody's dwelling. It is a common area. Do they store stuff? Do people store? Do people legally store stuff? Is there a storage area that's long gone? There's a storage area and one end of the commons and they have a storage area in the back. Okay. Are they locked up? The storage area? Yes. For a tune in or whatever? Yes.  The buildings are not private. Right. Because we don't lock the front door. Okay. They're public. The only thing private on that property... Is the entrance to the... Is the driveway because we maintain the truck. The town doesn't plow it. The town doesn't resurface it. We do. Okay. It is also public because it's a state of Vermont. We have to answer to them once a month for septic and water. So once again I'm asking the board is could you please give Richard the okay to come with me and go into the process unless I can answer any other questions. I'm just not sure why you need our permission. Because he told me. I guess there was something that happened. Not with me or the commons. That he feels much better. Okay. Someone cover his back. I get it. And once again that's the only thing. I'm not going to ask you to get the constable involved. I'm not going to ask you to render the place uninhabitable like we have to do with Dale's unit. And thank you guys help us there. We can render it uninhabitable to our docs and our bylaws. So the only thing once again, and I hate parking on it, is to speak Richard the okay. So we can complete this. Would you want that today or can we decide on the next meeting? I'll make a motion that Dick Valencinetti is allowed to go into the and I'll tell you what, Sasha, I won't take this chair home. We have to hold for a second. All in favor say hi. Hi. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. No, we appreciate your time in the office. Always a pleasure. And the meatballs, we won't consider those a bribe at all. Yeah. I'm good. How are you? I'm good. I was up there the other day. I'll be there for the next three, I sell red-bearing Tommy's super chateaubourg pizza.  Hey. Michelle, you have her? I am. Okay. So, Morfest is this Saturday. I'm here to see if anyone would like to be a judge in the cookie bake off. And for an answer, it's a little different this year. There's six categories. There's one judge per category. So you wouldn't have to taste all cookies, just cookies in your category. Although you could, if you wanted. There's extra, I'm sure. You could, you could, you could taste whatever cookies look good. And then so the judging would just be from six to six thirty. And then each judge picks a winner of that category. And then Sarah Osier from Boothchase Cake Design will choose an overall winner from the six winners. So, how many cookies in each group do you think? I don't know. Yeah. So the categories are classic cookies, distinctive flavors, decorated delights, bar cookie lists, nutty twists and fall favorites. Besides me. What category would you like? Oh, I have to choose a category. Read them again. Classic cookies, distinctive flavors, which is like anything other than classic cookies, decorated delights, like bar cookies, things with nuts in them, and then fall favorites. We'll try and make the categories as even as possible. Yeah. Fall favorites. Anything but bars. You can choose anything else. Can you throw me any one? Okay. Um, distinctive flavors. Sounds wonderful. I can't do it. I'm sorry. Okay. No worries. I'll stick to them. Any classic cookies? Um, Toldy in them? What? Balan Toldy in them? He already, he already agreed to do it. Um, when it was case. Six to six thirty, right? Yeah. Am I allowed to sleep on it and let you know tomorrow? Absolutely. Okay. What's the first one, classics or something? Classics, which I put on it. I like to take not, he's not here. He's not here. I could take him right up. I might go for the plastics. Let me make sure I have someone cover my tables that I would fall. And the other thing too, since it's just one judge per person, if you want to bring a friend in to help you, because it's just you making the decision. You're free. So like I could get leads to help me or something. You could, yes. If you want to split up, if you want to, but you're the person picking. Yeah, yeah, I understand. So then I'll put Tom in for our cookies. So you still need three more? Two more. I'm gluten-free, so I don't need it. Oh, there. Is it Dr. Mike? I'll reach out to him. I was like to ask the slip word first. Yeah. And then go branch out to other town. Right. So that'd be fun. Six to six thirty. It shouldn't take long because all cookies will get put into different categories.  Like some people like crunchy, some people like chewy. There's no criteria. It's just what you like. Sarah as like the professional baker, she'll choose the, you know, she'll be the top. So the category winners get a wooden spoon that's burnt.  And then the overall winner gets a more fast baker's battle apron and a hot pot that's staple stitchery designed and gets you to get to goose chase cake design and some other little goodies. Nice. So if you're not a judge or feel free to enter. If you are a judge, feel free to enter a different category. That's all I had. The other thing we wanted to check. You know what? I'm sure it will be unbelievable. Very good. Making a judge. Making a judge. You should. We were meeting yesterday and we talked about weather. So we're not expecting. It's beautiful week. There is some weather forecasted for Saturday. We're not expecting it to be terrible. But you know, based on the summer that we've had, did you have any thoughts about at what point we should call it? If it gets concerning. He's getting a weather report from the National Weather Service on Wednesday. Yeah, right now it's saying 50% of the chance. Yeah. I'm sure it's going to be fine. Just in case. We thought we should have some sort of plan. Lightning or like torrential rain or sort of flooding. Of course, it's hard to know what thunderstorms are. But if you get like a huge downpour for five minutes and then it's done. Yeah. Right. I mean definitely like thunder lightning. Now they've moved it to 60%. If the National Weather Service report looks concerning, we'll forward it to Sasha who's been forwarded. She's like he gets a, like he can request an official one. So we'll see what that means. Oh, okay. So we'll see what's that. What would you say? Probably by noon you'd have to get it out there? No, you'd have to put it out there. So, you know, the radio and all of our. So front porch form doesn't come out until the afternoon, right? Yeah, it's sporadic. Yeah. Yeah. Wonder how you do it. I'm happy to use our library social media. Oh, good. Okay. Yeah, we're not expecting that to happen, but just in case. Yeah, no, it's good to have a plan. And then the very last thing is we're going to write up some, because our fist has gotten bigger every year this year after the event, we're going to write up some policies and whatnot, and then we'll run them by you just so we have a guideline to the way. Okay. Good. Yeah. And that's it. Unless you have any questions for me. No, I think this, no, there are a lot of people excited about it. That's great. Yeah. The friends of the library are selling mac and cheese this year. Yeah. The pig roast. There's Padina Lay will be there. All the vendors from last year. If I can volunteer, I'll let Sasha know. Awesome. I'll be there anyway.  To be a judge, yeah. Or a general. Yeah. Yeah. No pressure, though.  Yeah. You can do it on it, actually. That sounds good. All right. Thank you. Excellent. Thanks for showing up. Thanks for doing so. Thanks for doing so. Yeah. For me. Okay. Okay. Cory. I'm here for old business. Yeah. She's here. Oh, okay. You get to, I don't know, old business or communications. Sounds good. I think it was going to be a quick night. So that's why she's good. See how early. Okay. Animal control ordinance. Yeah. Wasn't the latest change was that if you don't have your dog, then you're probably going to need down the road. Yeah. The one change was taking out the lengthy thing about what is large or whatever it was. It's the same as whatever the definition was at the beginning. It's the same as whatever the definition was at the before. If it's not on your personal property or public property, even it's roaming at large. But that was just making the working sense. And that was the attorney thing. Everything else I think is fine. You know, so I don't know if we move that it goes. I guess to count both or is this just up to us to decide. It's up to us. Well, then I make a motion that we approve the new animal control ordinance as written. Second. Any more discussion? All in favor say aye. Roof. Aye. Yeah. Do you want me to sign? It's not from the road. That's the other name. It's stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Stuff. Yeah. No, no, no. I have since I met him, I've been saying stuff. I don't want to step it. I probably didn't pronounce it step on. Yeah, no, it's fine. But he's totally used to it, you know. Yeah. Yeah. He's like me. I don't respond to anything but Katie Lee. Okay. Okay. Okay, let's go on to reports and communications. Announcements. Sasha. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So let's see. Northfield savings bank. Can offer 10, 12 or 15 year fixed rate of 5.35%. And community bank. We've ended up coming with. Most other things. 15 years. At 4.93%. And that's. Yeah. Yeah. And that's sure. So I'll, I'll, I'll move that. We approve. Alone from community bank. 394,900 dollars. 15 years. At a rate of 4.93%. Second most. Any more discussion on that. Well, if they would say aye. Aye. Aye. They're still on a target to be delivered. Yeah. Yeah, this fall. I haven't heard any different. I just want them without any production. Yeah. That's great. 15 years. Right. Yeah. That's over approval. So. Yes. Yes. I guess. So I guess we. Yeah. So I'll, I'll make a motion that. We go ahead with snapping turtles. Revised dead. Of taking the tree down for $2,500. And. Is it just leaving as is. I believe he'll. Move the logs. Yes. Leaving. They came back when it's 25. This was 3,000 to 3,000. Yeah. Yeah, that's about it. Yeah. Second. Any more discussion. You didn't have any. No, I called my friend. He was. Yeah. So. So. So all in favor of the motion for snapping turtle. Doing the treat for 2,500. Yeah. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. How's it going? I'm dying man. Oh. Very easy. Yeah. Better just write behind. That was great. Yeah, you need to think she has to come. I don't know if your... Just aren't going to the meetings and stuff. Welcome. That's a point, I'll say we turn it on to the recreation. Second. Any more discussion on it? Do you want to paper say aye? Aye. Okay. A couple warrants, a couple liquor licenses, and that fire protection from the water area that I emailed to you guys. That's all I have. Okay. What's that? What are you doing? Oh, you want me to go into the next? No, of course you need me. Oh, okay. Well, it's kind of... Well, it's a little... it's all for you, isn't it? Yeah. Okay, so we're... We're communication, and that's why Corey's here as well. We met with Sam Lash from Central Vermont Regional Planning, who was one of the people heading up the whole thing about the market. And we, you know, it was very informative, and we learned a lot about the big upcoming grant of $500,000 that we're going to be applying for. It's going to be sometime in October and November. January. But also in the meantime, we've filled up... We've filled up the paperwork, or the, you know, online, for the three buildings on three buildings to be... have an energy survey, the courage they're going to do. But we also, as you might have heard or understand, we did get a grant for $4,000, that we're now half. So we're talking about that with Sam Lash and working with Dar, who's, you know, our energy pool. Yeah. We are... So one piece of that is using some of those funds, and Corey would jump in and help me if I'm, you know, not getting all the details, using some of those funds in conjunction with an event that we wanted to do at the Town Hall, which would be like an energy... the user, basically, fear, that would show not only what we're talking about for energy upgrades in the Town Hall, but also would have information and an educational piece with people, what they can do in their home. And we would combine that with also showing people about what's going on at the Town Hall and working on having, you know, local folks, you know, in our community who would do food and maybe a wine tasting, you know, some local, more town musicians just sort of an evening, not an evening, it would be from four to seven.  Yeah, just, you know, like, hey, here's what we've been working on for the last three years. Mm-hmm. We can also, from talking with Sam, would use the grant monies, and this is the other piece of, you know, what we reviewed with her and what we thought we could do, is we need to do a topographical survey of the Town Hall, you know, in order to finalize, you know, the design, you know, some designs. We didn't include that in our, you know, and are going into this design-development phase. We've only approved just that next phase of the architects' work. Correct. So, I've got some proposals from three different survey companies. Well, only two. The third one I haven't heard back from yet, but from two. And one of them is the Gilson Land Survey. They're in Waterbury.  A whole bunch of stuff that's maybe a little more complicated than we need to get into right now. But we can use what I'd like to ask or propose and from what we understand, all of the above, part of this $4,000 grant to cover the costs of the survey because it's part of the redesign in the water mitigation to the building which is causing the problems that we're having in the basement and energy use and all of that. But that couple will also doing this program from what we understand will be, you know... Fits within the grant. Yes, fits within the grant. So, what was the RFP for the survey? Did you get that back? What was the cost of that? The cost of that, I'm going to send everybody the proposal when I get home from here. But that's $2,500. Okay, so you got $1,500 for your... So, you know, we're pretty confident that we could cover it yet. It's $25,000. She outlines her whole scope of work which was identified with the architect and the civil engineer of what the working is to do. We had another bid that was $4,000. And if the guy had to do another piece, he was going to be in the $5,000 range. Okay. So, that's my... That's the story on that. And it would be really... It'd be great to go ahead and know that we could go ahead with that because the sooner we can get the survey the sooner we can get some of these design decisions made and keep truckers that be ready for the late fall, early winter grants because we have the... And I always get this wrong. What's the library, the grant house? The library... I think it's called the Capital Grant Program but it's two different parts of one. One's art, one's housing, urban development or something like that. Yeah, but it's for live. When's the next meeting? What's the meeting? When's our next meeting? Are we looking for an answer on this tonight? I would love to get one tonight but if we're feeling that we can't... I mean, it's just... Until the survey work is completed we're kind of at a standstill and just to know if we can do it with one or two RFPs. Do we have to have a third or is that... Oh, three? No, you're saying three proposals. Three proposals, right? Well, we've sent... I actually sent it out to four people and two of them, one person came back and said he couldn't do it. The other person I haven't heard from who's also a water barrier engineer and then the other two, you know, I've gotten quotes from. Can we do them separate? Can we do them separate and just give you the 25 for the topographic survey right now? Oh, you're talking about the... The RFPs, yeah. Oh, we don't need to decide on that right now. Oh, I think we know, not really, but how we want to present... When we go to... As I understand it, when we go to apply for the grant for the standard grant we need to demonstrate what we're doing and how we're hitting what we're doing to that and spending that money on it. When Sam was talking to us about utilizing this capacity grant that we already have, she was just suggesting that the survey work fits within the parameters, but if we could combine it with some energy outreach like what Daryl is interested in doing, that would be... Kind of tied in with the energy piece as well. Yeah, okay, that makes sense. Okay. Then... Motion? Can I make a motion? Sure. Then I make motion. We take the $4,000 energy survey grant and use it for our topographic survey as well as an energy fair and the energy fair at the town hall. Maybe you want to call it an event, just because I don't know that. An energy event. Or yeah. Okay. At the town hall, how did that date to be determined? Well, we're trying to do that for 10-14. Actually, it's what we're trying to have this event. Then amended to say an energy event at the town hall on October 14, 2023. I'll second that. You need more discussion. All in favor say aye. All in favor say aye. All right. I'll follow up with the information about the survey. Yeah, great. We need that. Yeah, we need that. Thank you. You want me to keep going with another thing that I have? Sure. Thank you. Thank you. You want me to keep going with another term?  Yeah, road safety thing. Road safety committee. We now have four different names. I think we've settled on this. Yeah, I think road safety. And so with several of the folks on this committee made a lot of choice about how we should add our council. We wrote this letter based on a letter that comes to the select board and then we send it on to the public traffic. There was a lot of pages. There was the roof 2 part of slowing traffic down was the group 100 being through the village all the way to the city. And then the last page is a detail on how we plan to do it. How do we submit it to the state? And then the state holds a public hearing where they do a study and then they do a public hearing. So what I'd like to do is do the first step and maybe everything I don't know if you've had a chance to read it tonight or something. But what I was hoping to do and I think I could still do it if you is that we're going to have a table at Moorfest and with Tom Chinetti and some of the other members and trying to get some signatures this is going to be like a signature page of people to support that people in the town and especially on loop 2 or on 100B where the village can sign. So my hope is to be able to stop that process at Moorfest. Tom's daughter or 10 year old daughter is going to make a little poster on the table and John will be over there at some point when he finishes eating his cookies and a few of our other members will be chatting and we'll be chatting it up a bit and we're trying to get some signatures and also talking about some of the other things. Frontier town? Frontier town? So we'll be there and we're both talking about this and as well as some of the other stuff we've been working on or trying to work on one of the things on the agenda to work on and I know you like for instance by your opps you only want hours to go to 50. Perfect. Can't keep the bikers away. They can't be done. The bikers and the galleries. No. Anyways. So you're going to have both petitions right? Both ladders. At the animal offense. Okay. I mean to show people they can take a minute to read it there or they can say we can email it to them to read. Yeah. My hope was for the Route 2 one was descended to Jennifer Durin the head of the Gallagher Acres Association and the two women who came the families that came in here for the study for the sidewalk I got their emails they sent it to Sasha that sent it to me so I was going to reach out to them to get that neighborhood to be signing it you know it's going to be a little while before we submit it I think personally I don't have more legs if there's a lot of people I think it's good. So that's my feel on that. Okay. I noticed Yeah. Well I think if this is going to be at Morfest we should approve it. Right. But if anybody here gets a chance to review it tonight or tomorrow and you know please call me up or email me and say here's a sentence that's either wrong or you ought to change or whatever you know we've done that with a few people I mean on the committee Yeah. I think we can make a thought solution that it took me Yeah. I honestly didn't review that one. Okay. I certainly will review it. Yeah. And I'm willing to make a motion and you know on a general thing. Yeah. All right. So, group 100 feet north change the speed limit to 35 miles per hour before the intersection routes 100 and 100 feet and then drop the theory before it can't be far. Okay. I believe that should be on route 100. Oh. Should be group 100 north. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't change to 100 feet north. Right. Yeah. I see that. Because it says it down here but as a title right there it's not clear. Right. And then and that's good. Okay. So, group 100 feet north up you form north bends speed changes should mirror the south bound changes described above. So, these changes are north bend. Yeah. No. No. So, that's backwards. Okay. Good. Good. Good. Good. Yeah. I see that. Oh, okay. So, we're trying to say drop it to 35 before the intersection which is just past the far. It's just past the far. Can't want some view front. Right. That way somebody does run the stop sign. What? That way if somebody runs the stop sign they're 100 100 feet and they're only 135 technically. It is a tough area. Someday I don't know if any of us will be around to see it but I would think that someday they're going to put a road to be there. Right. Where do they change? They won't put a traffic. Where do they change to 40? By the camels? By no. If you were driving the way still from here you'd go 30 through the village and you'd come through over the bridge and you'd go through past the uphill road. And then you'd go up the hill and you'd go through the intersection. Yeah. So just with that change I think that sounds fine. Now, if you say we're just saying matching the other one. Okay. I mean you can't do that because from camels view farm it's already 30. Okay. And you can't go up to 35 important. No, no, no. It would be 30. It would be 30. That's not what it says here. It says 30. It's said to match the changes. Before the intersection and then drop it to 30 before camels view farm. The second one. From camels view farm. From camels view farm. Okay. So this should be clear. Okay. So we should say the 30 to the right. And I would all say if we're asking for 30 before camels view farm. Yeah. Okay. And I think that through the curves we should request even lower than 30. Yeah, I don't know. If we do that. We have to maintain the road. Yeah, that's the problem. If you go to 25 the state the town's responsibility we get to count just the curves the way we have it now. That's recommended. Can we get the state to chip in on the sides to say the state does recommendations make a recommended speed. So for the warm sign the warm sign. Yeah, the warning sign. Suggestive speed. 25 for the curve Yeah. It's tough going down with that. I'll tell you. That's great and it's a suggestion. Yeah. Perfect. There's a real reason we're telling you to slow down. It's dangerous. Right. Okay. Great. There are cemeteries. Because No, no. What is that? So can we make a general motion that we accept it to make more cost-effective changes proposed or do we have to wait? No, I can make those changes. Yeah. Yeah. What you have here is the committee presenting something to the slide board. Exactly. And so the bottom line is we have to approve it. Right. If you're going to display it on Saturday we have to break it right now. Right. Yeah, I was just reading. Requests from such a study need to come from time to time. So what should we stand to to ease the operations and the safety. Anyways, that's what we... Yeah, so I'd like to make a motion to approve these slowly traffic letters for group 200 and group 100B and state traffic operations and safety bureau. With the cemeteries. Oh yeah, with after signatures from residents of the town. Exactly. Any more discussion on that? If anybody sees anything glaring. Yeah, please. Yeah, I'll go back and read it today. Would you please call me up? Definitely. I'd better fly it up before Saturday. Yeah, yeah. Try to do it by Thursday. Try to do it by Thursday. Try to do it by Thursday. So I can make the changes. I'll do it tonight. Great, thank you. So all in favor say aye. Aye. Okay, my last thing. No. My last thing, everybody. I went. I finally have to biking by the gentleman at the end of the point at the beginning. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I did stop. I finally spotted someone there to talk to the gentleman. And he... I asked him, please come to a meeting with this. And he said he's spoken with the sheriff. The sheriff has come there and talked to him. And they went over where he parks occasionally. The sheriff told him, as long as you're this side of the mailbox, it's okay. I said, yeah, I hear you, but it's really tough for a lot of neighbors. He goes, no, I understand. And we're trying to work it out. We're just following the snow removal. And I was thinking about it after I saw him last night, actually. I was going back again and saying if he could somehow work in parks, if he could do some work on the land right there so that he could get more of this, you know, the roads down like that. They're kind of like right here, but he could get over this way anyway. They know about it, they're trying and I thought maybe it would come to tonight's meeting, but maybe it was too short. But I'm hoping it will come to the next meeting so that we can all chat with them. And they also want to talk to ask us about because when I said, yeah, you should definitely come to talk to the board because there's a streetlight right across from there right across from there and their land sits up and the streetlight there and it's like just I don't know when these folks will be in there, but they've said it's just giant, it's absolutely a variable because one it affects the stuff they grow because there's a light on and it affects the stuff that they grow on their light. You don't know. I don't know, that's what they said. Food, vegetables, whatever they grow I thought he meant streetlights and it also shines right into the house so at night it's really you know and I go, oh my gosh, I never really even notice the streetlights, you know I've never noticed them so maybe there is something we don't have streetlights where we live but I know but maybe there's some kind of path of streetlights that probably have some are they a state or a town? It would be state I think it's a state right I mean the state puts the streetlights in we didn't put it in that town pays for the electric right it's just I said if you don't ask then you don't know I'll bring it up, I don't know where we go from there but anyways they might come in they try to do their best they do go over with the sheriff and I said wow that we were worried, didn't we point out to them that that was not correct the sheriff has no jurisdiction there it's a town right of way they are clearly parking in a town right of way and I hope they do come in but bottom line it's just a matter of convenience for that is plenty room for four vehicles out there well I can see what they say they all leave for work at different times so they try to come over okay well at least first step is I talk to them and they are going to come in and I'll stop again because then I'll say okay yeah they seem nice they are being more fast like maybe you don't want to come you have a plan like this yeah and that's it that's it for you that's it basically okay so I don't know what we did last year when this happened but there has been a vehicle parked in the middle of for about a month like right in the road people are going around it it's not a local person we have no idea who it was they basically went up there it died and they left it there should have plates on it so I haven't seen it I've just heard from multiple people that it's up there people are going around it which is starting to make a road I'm really surprised people haven't smashed the windows out and stolen stuff and it's a diesel it's got a programmer in it so I'm really surprised no one's stolen anything out of it so I don't know what we did the last time that happened if we actually had something towed because there was a vehicle up there last year that sat for like three weeks but this is coming back Tom should have found out who it belongs to yeah yeah yeah yeah we can get the police we can get the writers well it's not the place that's a vehicle it's going to be registered somewhere yeah that's how it was I mean what's our legal what legal right do we have to tell do we have to post this in the right way in the right way by anybody right by the tractor or whatever well at least we can get it towed out of the right way I mean we're almost going to tow it out of the right way if they're coming out of it they're going to tow it out of the right way they're going to choke it and they're probably going to impact it yeah I would say but it is not a local person like nobody around knows who it is so I think we should look into it because I mean Steph has been up there so if Steph has been up there and had something identifying on it I'm sure he would have grabbed it so I have a feeling they swipe the plates on the door and it's locked it's locked I would say we make every effort to notify the owner to have an encounter well they have to pick a corner on it they have to pick a corner you just maybe get the snowplow they just plow it off the road I just have an encounter well just I mean at this point it's affecting the people going around it to use because they're walking the public right away and they're sitting on the road right out there and we have an encounter the next day so I think that's what we should do I'm reaching out to Tom and saying hey it's up here well that would be the first step that Tom would probably have to maybe call a sheriff or the state believes in it that's right whatever you need to do I'd be more than willing to help that's our side of the aisle if you really want to make a phone call and go beat somebody up there and say here's the car that's not a big thing for me I'd say don't why wait if it's been there a month I would drop them all on it Tom would be a good first thing because next thing you know it's going to be winter and then it's going to be stuck there all winter I don't want that how far up is it it's not up there okay I'll check it let me help I'm going to stress if we're talking we're talking about opening up the roads to ATVs and it's stuff like this from the people who don't live in the area right right and it's not even an ATV it's a vehicle it's a regular vehicle you haven't done it I don't think it's super old I don't think it's either a GMC or a Chevy because it's German but I'm really surprised nobody has stolen anything on it the windows aren't smashed out so which I'm really surprised especially for being in the middle so I'll reject it it's probably a near message that somebody does tow it out of there and before it does get destroyed because a common guy doesn't get a decent car at that point but he takes it up anything anything more Kelly on the camping route to? the only person that I found the contact for was sources and that was more just picking up trash it wasn't the camps themselves but I did finally notice the one right after the route yeah because I don't usually come that way we went by a couple things oh wow they really got a setup there they have like an open and closed sign it was like I said how do you give them massages hahahaha on your cup okay it's time to get the odd word back from Dara on that and say he will call again I tried to count them today I'd say maybe a total of five times yeah but not five more I didn't have enough in the last few days it was a good it was expanding into the part as opposed it was like one primary one right on the outskirts the big square one when they went back is there still someone in the beginning of River Road? yeah definitely so what were we going to do about that situation I was actually calling BSP with no help okay okay having us the room too we can't really do anything about it now it's safe okay Robin would you like no I don't have anything okay let's approve the minutes then okay I want to make a motion to approve 20 first any further discussion okay we'll approve those minutes say aye aye okay and the only thing I had was on the cemetery so this has nothing to do with the accident I think it's your own which is giving you that information because you said that the town isn't liable or doesn't own right I think the front porch came out that they found the driver oh they did okay oh okay what happened somebody drove to the cemetery the building's cemetery yeah yeah and it went actually into the cemetery and it's damaged some of the wind went and then they left the scene so they tracked them down so that that's what I heard we're assuming that this person's not paid for is that what that is that's what we're talking about what's in their accounts for the cemetery oh they were to repair them they decided that the town was liable and they needed to repair them but if we're not liable I would not responsibility at least these are funds that we have these again these are cemetery funds oh okay so the driver doesn't have insurance and we want to help the public right we want to help them anyway would that be something that the town's insurance would be able to cover though the town's insurance does not cover help some okay because okay so which is the which is the these are just these are the two CDs oh okay okay so they are liable that's funds that they have available we decided that we wanted so that's $72,000 how many documents were destroyed or we don't know so let's move on to old business and we have the easements to deal with um I see they were given Tom got that one to Hallowground and I heard back from Helen's attorney okay and then so the other one is still the other one I'm sure Helen came across something today too that it might void the whole thing no no the wording that was on that business that was for water line these old water lines I mean that's what Nick responded with so in any rate I took a look at it it looks pretty good so these are the easements to the right for the church and for yes for Claire sorry I know this is a progress meeting of the stormwater committee on Thursday morning let's hope to see what what they have to do out there yeah was that Thursday sure they're working hard yeah Thursday morning sure they're working hard to get ready for more faster yeah no unfortunately they can't get too much out because of the easements I don't know but they don't care so I don't know more Thursday okay anybody else have any old business new business and we'll sign away how's Ray doing with all the FEMA guys anybody heard from Ray about people that's what I signed last week which one is that why I signed checks remember I can't just sign the other side sign the front page this one yeah that was last week yeah at least you don't look like me now to be so fucking sure early right now why I was bruised today yeah it's supposed to be that tomorrow and Thursday I don't know I was about to take like five hours I was dying I did that yesterday pushing that damn push my trailer broke my tractor my tractor I've seen it in a freaking long I signed I signed it last week yeah you decided last week oh yeah because I did that three days back yesterday oh shoot no one knew well I didn't want I did want I did not came back down did another one I didn't have another one because I must have been terrible and it was like so I got to stand in the door but I mean every around eight hours oh you guys hang right yeah every where you go I mean the people are just trying to get those fields caught it's been wet all summer get all hanged out I mean he doesn't have a big doubt barely any first time there's couples you know I think the first couple is to try to make the second kind of grow decent and calm some of these places don't they don't have enough hay I don't know what to like they want 50% what they want corn that's not true that's where they were crazy their own house was fine and gone they took it down chunk by chunk every freaking thing they had you have to be careful what's that you have to be careful when they get rid of everything oh yeah well they did a pretty good job well that's what helps me they separated all of them at all they have to be checked first best as soon as they go after your entire belongings just to watch the next video dressers and all so I signed catering permits for this farm and then here's the fire contract this time the air is just the worst one the samples aren't so bad everything is really wild really big golden brown this is incredible scientific oh she's got a turn oh she's got a turn second ok


Despite suspicion to the country, the Central Bank of Nigeria's IPEX back has said it followed the law in its plan to redesign the Naira. We'll look at the developments since the announcement of the plan and the Chief Justice of Nigeria has told politicians in the country to allow the judiciary to do its job as constitutionally expected as a 2023 elections approach. On the breakfast today we'll analyse and unpack more of what he has had to say recently. And in off the press we bring you in depth analysis of some of the headlines on today's newspapers or news about front pages that we have a guest joining us ahead on the programme. We're back with the breakfast and plus TV Africa. It's a beautiful Tuesday morning. My name is Kofi Bartels. And of course we bring you the breakfast interesting conversations throughout the programme from now till it's 9am or just about dynamic.  Of course you can do that with a cup of tea or coffee. Whatever it is that you drink and just enjoy the programme while it goes. My name is Kofi Bartels once again. As usual we start off with a look at what's been trending in the conversations on the social space which we usually bring on air. This morning we have three for you. The first one happens to be a situation on the roads of Nigeria's commercial nerve centre. The biggest city in Nigeria and what is also known as the biggest largest city in West Africa, most popular city certainly in West Africa. The commercial city of Lagos where commercial or let's say public transportation has been ground to a near halt following the strike. A seven day strike declared by or embarked on by commercial bus drivers in Lagos. These are buses popularly called Danfo by Lagosians. You can see the yellow buses there. Some of them are white, not exactly yellow. These buses are not on the streets as we speak because of a seven day strike declared by the drivers. We are not declaring this strike in response to or in complaints at some sort of agitation or sorry victimisation by certain persons. On scrupulous individuals, public or agbeiro, these are touts who stand by the roadside at motor parks, at bus stops and places where these buses load passengers to collect or for illegal levies from them and charges from them. They are saying they are tired, they are tired, they will not do it again. And they announced standing back on a seven day strike. Due to this strike, it could be seen that some passengers were stranded in parts of Lagos. I noticed some buses were moving but most places didn't have commercial buses. I saw people standing at different bus stops, reporters who also went to town. So people stranded at different bus stops. You can see some user generated content. Right there, one of the bus stops in Lagos state. Those who were able, lucky enough to find a bus to convey them to their destination especially work, had to pay more than the normal fare to do so. I wonder if, even without the strike, if they would have paid less than that. But there was partial compliance. What this was observed, that was partial compliance. I personally saw some buses on the road. I saw people taking in commercial transportation. But those partial complies that some drivers reported shunned the protest by this joint drivers welfare association. But what they did was they had to increase their fares, forcing many passengers to be stranded. So I think it was a Christmas is coming early for those who drivers refused to join the strike. Making a killing at this time. Some of the passengers spoke to the press. We'll take some reports. Let's take one from the Tribune online who quoted a certain Mrs. Abiyah as saying, quote, we don't know if they are on strike or they are increasing their fares. Before now she said Toge to Oshodi. That's a route in Lagos. It used to be 500 nair. But today they are calling 800 nair. That was just 300 nair. It's now 500 nair. What kind of strike is that? So only these persons will be able to tell whether the strike is... It's a strike where it's just an increase in fare. But I mean, for me, one from what I've seen in our reports and the videos and what we've seen online and even without the strike the fares will go up because the pump price of petrol has gone up to almost 200 nair as we speak because of the so-called fuel scarcity. I mean, petrol stations are selling but not all of them are selling and they're saying there's a certain scarcity of petrol and they're selling above the pump price. We have to drag the department, the former department of Petroleum Resources which is now called the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Agency. We need to call them to come in the program to tell us what is going on. Nigerians paying more at the pump. So transportation fares have increased from the commercial bus transportation services. These ones are on strike. Even without the strike, they would have increased their fares. You look at the taxis, they've increased their fares as well. And even the ride-hailing apps have also increased their fares as well. For those who drive, they're also paying more because of the increase in the pump price. So even without the strike, people would have to pay more. So the government is really practically saying nothing to Nigerians about the petrol situation. Practically saying nothing new. Nigerians are wondering what's going on. The government has promised them over the past few months at all. In December and November, all that end-of-month schedule will not be there. We have enough products to go around, blah blah blah. All has turned out to be plain and simple lies. And now we're seeing that there's no petrol. So last time we had an official from the Petroleum Marketers Association saying it's the debt owners who have increased their prices. So what exactly is going on? And the government needs to come clean on what is going on. One thing we're sure is that whatever they tell the people who most certainly not be the truth, there will be more to it behind the scene. Nigerians have not yet recovered from, some Nigerians have not yet recovered from the debt-to-petrol saga that destroyed their cars, their motorcycles, their generating sets, and they have to grapple with this now. So let's see now. The question on my mind as regards this bus driver strike is what will it lead to? Will there be sort of a spin-over effect of this? Will it lead to some sort of social unrest? Maybe a social upheaval as has happened in other parts of the world? Will it lead the government to say, okay, we ought to clamp down on these Agberos who collect all sorts of monies from people on the road? But I think that we must give some kudos to these bus drivers who in the past it seems have operated in fear of these touts and these what we call Agberos in Lagos state. They were operating in some sort of fear and it seemed nobody was bold enough to speak up or do something about it and they've taken the law into their hands to say we're going to do something about it. Maybe they got the inspiration from their colleagues at the Alaba market. It's a popular market in a part of Lagos state known as Ojo Local Government Area where the traders there also went on a protest march through the markets saying they're tired of paying us all sorts of illegal fees and levies to these touts called Agberos. They had a clash and I think a life was lost in that clash. I don't know if the Agberos have gone back to their caves and their shells or they're still collecting the money. But they may have, these drivers may have gotten some inspiration from that to say okay we're also tired as well of paying all sorts of money ranging from 500 Naira, 700 Naira, 1,000 Naira, 5,000 Naira, some pay 7,000 Naira and you wonder how on earth do these drivers, these commercial drivers, these taxi drivers make it and then if these Agberos are collecting the money I mean which amounts to millions if not billions of Naira, hundreds of millions if not billions of Naira every month who is accountable or accounting for this. And that's what has led some people to say well, Kofi Parthels who are you looking at this morning as filmously said that in Lagos state there are four tiers of government. You have the federal government, the state government, the local government and the fourth tier of government is Agberos government. What is the government of Lagos state saying? In times past they've been seen to perceive to be a hand in glove with these Agberos because they use them for elections to try and rig elections. That's the public perception. So it remains to be seen what the government will say. The drivers also are not in support of the setting of what you call the Lagos Parks and Garages Committee saying that committee is illegal. So we'll look at how this unfolds in a matter of days and months. But the drivers are showing the people where the power lies. They are showing the people where the power lies. And the power they see belongs to the people. Let's move on to our next trending segment. Nigerian journalist whom we had on this program some time ago, David O'Day is generated 4,450 retweets, 2,992 quoted tweets and 13,400 likes. I don't know if the likes count in this case. But let's just keep that 4,450 retweets over his idea. He put up a statement saying that he thinks it's time to scrap the national service for young people. It's called the national youth service core scheme. He says, quote, I think, to fix Nigerian education or to fix Nigerian education, the first thing that needs to be done is to scrap the NYSE scheme. That scheme has functioned as a technical subsidy for decades, allowing states to avoid investing in qualified educational staff instead of using corpus as cheap substitutes. Of course, most of these corpus are posted to schools. In fact, at some time there was a moratorium on deploying the corpus elsewhere outside the teaching, which some frowned on. So mostly they are sent to schools to go teach from the university. Anyway, he's saying that this has affected the education system in Nigeria because for some state governments, instead of training teachers, they would just simply sit down and wait for the youth corpus to be sent to the state and then they're posted to different schools. We've had conversations on different fora, different people on whether the NYSE scheme should be scrapped or not. It was an age-old conversation. But people had to look at this aspect of states training teachers rather than waiting for the NYSE to send teachers their way. So that's what the man is saying. It's quite an interesting take. And some other people have been also throwing their thoughts in on this particular idea shared by the gentleman David Hunie, an investigative journalist. Another young person, a junior, put up a reply. He said, don't scrap the NYSE. Reorient the NYSE. I don't know how that means because the NYSE is an institution. But reorient the NYSE. It's the largest database of graduates fresh out of the university that is a pool that the thinking head can put to good use, really find the objective of the commission from service to absorption into these schools at least make it an option. Interesting conversation there and some replies coming. I mean, you can check out David's page and use here the thought shared by persons out there who want to say something about this. But lots of other aspects to the NYSE conversation that we can look at and we won't finish a conversation this morning. So let's go to the next one that may affect me if it is true. You know, I looked at it, you know, twice when I saw it because I happened to be verified on Twitter for some years now. I have a blue tick maybe five years or so. And people would ask me, does Twitter pay you if you have a verification and blue tick? It should be a big deal now. I don't know if it's a big deal. But I've been verified for maybe five years if not more. Elon Musk concluded his purchase of Twitter last week and majestically walked into Twitter HQ and fired the CEO and fired some persons there. He walked in with a sink. The news today because Elon Musk has now become the chief tweet that's the unofficial name of the owner of Twitter. The news is that he is reportedly considering making verification of Twitter the blue feature that's a blue tick. Something you pay for, pay or subscription service. And the rumor there is that the man is considering charging a monthly fee of $20 for those who are users of Twitter to keep their blue tick verification back.   But that's all you get from that. You don't get any payment. We also think that you're paid for that. No, it simply allows people, you know, it's meant to distinguish you from other users so that no one confuses you, especially if a public figure, especially if you do something of note to the public and that, you know, people would like to look for you. It doesn't mean that you have so many followers, you know, some people may have a few, but they are public figures. And what they do is important to the public. Twitter doesn't want them to be confused with other people so they'll verify them, you know. So you don't get paid. It's just become a status thing on Twitter. For us to hear that Elon Musk, in I think the first official step he may take, you know, on Twitter, a publicly known step to charge, to charge those who have a verification, a tick, $20 a month. I wish him well. I mean, who told him to go pay $3 billion for Twitter? I mean, some would say maybe that was, maybe that was too much. I don't know what you think about this, but $20,000 for Twitter is a lot, sorry, $3 billion for Twitter is a lot of money. Lots of analysis coming our way regarding this particular move. Elon Musk's era Twitter kicked off last week.  And of course, it led to a spike in slurs, indicating significant changes coming for the company. You know, when this is a speculation, I must point out it has not been officially announced. And my suspicion may be that this will just be, they want to test and see the public reaction. But you can see Musk's reply right there to a tweet on this, saying the whole verification process is being revamped right now. I wonder what he is going to do. Personally, I feel that when, you know, Twitter has been run like a sort of open platform, a sort of public square, public space where, you know, the public is taken into account when decisions are made. In fact, the public almost has a say, almost has a say in decisions being made. It's run as sort of an open source platform, almost like an open source platform where people can engage and give ideas.  I think that, you know, when a billionaire who is used to giving orders, buys such a body, a business, an entity, you know, first of all, he's thinking of the bottom line. He invested $3 billion. He has to make his money back. He's going to make decisions with the business bottom line in view, which was not always the case in the Truda of the past. In fact, Truda for a long time did not operate making a lot of money. No, they didn't make so much money. And unlike Facebook and their Google cousins, they were not in a hurry to monetize, you know. They were not in a hurry to monetize. They've taken their time. A billionaire number one has invested a lot of money. That's $3 billion. Number two, he is the CEO and owner of several companies. He's used to having his way. He's used to hiring and firing. He's used to taking in lateral decisions, not listening so much to people where he's taking his decisions. And he cannot move slowly, you know, when you want to listen to several people in taking your decisions, you want to democratize. You might move slowly and slow. And some ideas, you know, fit into what you're thinking. So this is what we're going to see with Elon Musk. He's going to want to move fast. He's going to want to look at situations. And as a very intelligent person, as a genius, he's going to want to take decisions quickly as possible. He has his ideas. He's coming in with those ideas. He's a smart guy. I'm sure he's done his research and his calculations and he knows what he needs to do to get the organization moving. But will this, you know, make Twitter keep it, you know, as it was or will this mean begin the decline of Twitter? You know, he's going to be moving like a train and anybody who stands in his way will be swept aside. You can see the lady who took the decision, you know, to ban Donald Trump has been fired already. If Elon Musk wakes up tomorrow, like Roman Abramovich and feels that he just needs to start charging everyone, no one can stop him. He owns Twitter. Let's see how it goes. And let's see if this will lead to the demise of Twitter or to lead to Twitter becoming, continuing to be the open space for all that it has been and for free speech as it has been. All right, but I certainly will not be paying $20 for that boutique. And if Twitter wants to, you know, charge $20 per boutique, they can suddenly have their boutique back. Yeah. All right, we have to go. Thank you very much for your time. That's much we can take on the top trending segment. When we come back, we'll dive straight into the National Daily. Today's news reprises are packed with a lot of interesting headlines. So please, stay with us.