Good morning, what a wonderful morning to have you my dear audience to this show Why in the morning? My name is Grace Mainghi standing in for Valentine and of course this is your daily show that's coming up at Y254 and today we have a show lined up for you and I'm excited about this show in particular because we are going to be talking about matters safety road safety and with me in studio I have a doctor Duncan Kapokong who is the deputy director road safety programs and public education thank you so much doctorie for making time for us. Karee Boussana to the studio. Just just just to start off the show I will ask you to kindly introduce yourself to our audience right of course touch on what's the mandate of NTSC in terms of road safety. Thank you so much. Thank you so much Grace Mainghi for inviting me to this show. My name is Duncan Kapokong. Dr. Duncan Kapokong works with the National Transport and Safety Authority as the deputy director in church of road safety programs and education and I think NTSC is fairly a well-known name in this country for one reason or the other one but just for your viewers to get to know about this is that NTSC is a government agency and it's a government agency established through an act of parliament sometimes back around 2012-2013 and we've been basically in existence since then after having been established by that act of parliament. Our role really is if I put it broadly is that we are the lead agency on matters road safety. Lead agency means that we bring so many other stakeholders onto the board and working towards improving matters road safety and road transport in this in this country, Kenya. Now just briefly part of the work we do so that Kenyans get to know is that we register motor vehicles in this country because we are basically the registrar of motor vehicles keeping the list and the registry of motor vehicles in this country so we provide those number plates we get to know many vehicles in the country that kind of thing. We check also the issues with motor vehicle inspection ensuring that vehicles in the country are inspected especially in currently working with what you call the PSV those are the Matatus and the AV commercial vehicles those are the lorries and the pickups and the rest and then three is that we do a lot on matters road safety of course I've talked about the motor vehicle inspection being part of it but we advise the national government on matters touching on road transport and road safety from a policy perspective so that they come up with the right policies for that matter informed because we are the experts on that. We work on matters road safety strategies including this public education including such a program. We also work part and parcel of our work is that all the matters touching on the driver and here you are talking about having the curriculum for driver training testing and licensing is something we spearhead together it takes all that so that we have a standardized best curriculum for this country for training you and me and many other Kenyans and indeed even not Kenyans to ensure that they are better drivers then we of course oversee the whole aspect around driver training testing and licensing and we license the driving schools and coordinate so many aspects on matters road safety so when you talk about one of our roles is to coordinate actors on road safety including the media houses like yourselves including the PSV sector and NGOs the development partners basically is whole matters touching on road safety so that's our role as NTSA and NTSA works with many partners and the overall objective and part and parcel of our mission is to ensure that over time we do have improved road safety in this Republic of Kenyans. Thank you so much for bringing that light to what NTSA does because a lot of people out there when they hear NTSA they just hear NTSA and then you hear KUSHIKOA you know the common one inch from the perspective of the common one inch is that when our common one inch hears NTSA so you use the layman's language which is KNTSA those are the things that NTSA is particularly associated with but today's focus of this discussion I would want us to talk about to Salama Barabarani why do you think that death tolls are increasing every day on our roads particularly before you answer me particularly we have a rising number in the country of death tolls pertaining to road accidents and all that but it's prone to their counties that are very notorious that is Nairobi Nakuru, Kisumu, Kericho why do we have those rising death tolls? Yes Grace now matters when you talk about crashes indeed road traffic it is we've noted the numbers are high and the distribution are as per what you've said we do have some other counties with high number of road traffic deaths and injuries and crashes as compared to others you also do have some sudden roads which have more deaths than others so the reason being that a crash does not happen in where there is no vehicle or where so for example if you do not have a vehicle as a matter of fact there'll be no road fatality for that case if there'll be no road there's no so three things usually have to interact for a crash to happen and that is a vehicle has to be there a road user human being me and you and the road so when those things conflict in a particular way then the road usually is usually the one who is more vulnerable among is the two among is the three so in the long run they suffer an injury and if the injury is severe that's when a dead fatality fatality happens so those those three parameters you call them a triad have to happen so that a crash happens so what is happening in bigger areas so rather that the particular counties you mentioned is that we have high number of vehicles for example in the city of Nairobi or the Nairobi city county we do have many roads and we have also high number of population that is the road users so those conflict one with the other on the roads and the numbers are high but we are not saying that is the right thing to happen road traffic crashes are preventable and indeed we do have other parts of this country and indeed even parts of the world whereby they may have similar number of vehicles and number of cars a number of vehicles and number of roads or even population but they still have low so we do have some Nairobi for example Nakuru and we have major highways on some of those roads and that's why we have those number of fatalities then I would also say that why we've also not the increasing number of that is because there has been an increase on number of vehicles especially the border borders if increased and that has been and I can say an emerging challenge an emerging challenge meaning that you've noted that border borders have a special challenge like the riders are not trained they have not majority of them up to six seventy percent and this is what you are working with many people and partners to push this particular group to go to driving soon to be trained riding soon to know how to ride and become better road users so that's what's happening and that informed the all aspect about the EU Salama program which is currently running and supported by the European Union and the government of Kenya and we want to drive the agenda of road safety with the expectation in the long run is that we reduce this number of fatalities and currently we're working with some of those counties which we mentioned about six and pilot areas but that doesn't mean that you're not doing anything elsewhere we are doing a lot across the country as a matter of fact even this program you're having currently spills over into the youth across the country and so that we become better road users so I'm grace to bring a point home is that indeed the numbers are going and we always say one life loss is one too many it's unacceptable I could attack you don't go to quenna quenna liner if you view your class this that's every day a panel and the truth of the matter is your viewership are the ones who are affected by this problem I'm told that your viewership is of the younger generations and this is where the catch is and from a global perspective 15 to 29 year old the number one killer is road traffic injury in the world beating more than HIV beating more than coffee than many others so this is something you'd want us to address and I'm happy to be here to talk day in and out around this problem all throughout the week so that we have better you audience than you'd be addressing you're sure tomorrow the same audience we talked to today still there tomorrow thank you if I can pick something from what you've said yes you said that you are doing usalama Barabarani as an initiative yes will do you be kind enough to expound more on what exactly yes yes so it touches a number of areas one I'll start with what you're currently doing for example what you're doing is to increase the level of awareness and education levels among us road users in this country whereby we want road users to understand matters road safety and not just understand but shift their behavior from just not having the knowledge but having a behavioral change to have better road use and that is number one number two is that we are working together with the county governments of those particular counties to see how we can work on what you call count transfer and safety committee for purposes of improving road safety remember road safety is not a government functions alone neither is it an NTSA functional on it is everyone's responsibility including county government national government and I always say this is an area everyone has to play a role for purposes of sustainability so that is one of the areas supporting the county government we work also to improve on matters touching on on on on and save roads in terms of the so-called black spots by the engineering aspect remember there are times I've been identified to know so we want to identify all these black spots and what are the treatments we call it from a road safety treatment what are the mitigation measures what are we going to do to make a road which has classically been unsafe to become safe from engineering point of view and then the all aspect of course of campus building areas within NTSA and many areas so that we have better understanding and better ways of managing this emerging problem yes who can we say yes yes I well I'll put it this way the people if I'll start from a statistical point of view that if you check our statistics last year the number of road users who get killed more have pedestrians rather our motorcycle motorcycles both the billion passenger the billion passenger is the passenger of a motorcycle and the rider like last year we talking about up to 40% of the deaths are caused by a motorcycle then closely followed by a pedestrian which around 34% so we are talking about 70 plus percent being the so-called the vulnerable users that is the motorcycle and the motorcycle rider plus is or a passenger and the pedestrians so those are the people who have killed more does not mean that the word notorious is that because they are caused by other vehicles as well we've noted that increase border border because of the increasing number of border border in this country and and and and coupled with a number of issues non-training they're bad behavior in the road not putting on a helmet while riding both the passenger overloading at times you see up to six seven you know human beings on that two three meter type of vehicle that is the motorcycle and in case a crash a present you have massive remember when you're always on a border border the point of contact or impact in case of a crash is your body unlike for a vehicle because the other one is more protective but nonetheless those are the the areas which you've noted that they have high number of fatalities and then and also the private vehicles we've seen me and you have increasingly becoming more careless on the road in terms of speeding bring driving tailgating overtaking dangerously driving for so long as so that you get fatigued and those are some of the challenges you're talking about so but nevertheless we'll be working and I rally everyone would want all of us to rally on this particular course so that we work to what's included matters I would really want to ask you what NTSA is doing to have the border border the rise of border border cases yes but let me push your focus to something that I saw happening just the other day I saw border border riders registering they were being told to give a hundred buck to register the border borders and the stage they work they work at like you know if I work at let's say I am in town CBD and my station or my stage is in a trip you register you pay a hundred shillings is that an initiative one of the initiatives that no no no the initiative we actually conducting the registration but ours is that we don't do that by payment as you talked about because we believe that is not the type the right approach I I love to get details around that but likely those are the the so-called the border border stations or otherwise circles which they operate differently for their own but what you're doing is a government and this one you are working with the Ministry of Interior the Ngao structures right from a national level all the way to the to the assistant chief in every sub-location is that we are registering these people and we put a platform where but there is the registration why we are being it is because one we need get to know how many border borders do you have in this country because some are fallen aside some are coming into the game and so that you understand the the the in terms of quantities number two is to know where exactly they are number three is you are trying to work towards having these groups put into what you call circles and companies of a minimum of hundred the whole idea here is to ensure that we work towards self-regulation in this sector self-regulation means that it cannot be and it will never happen whereby government will be a police in this sector 24-7 we want to establish a mechanism among us each of these groups knowing that they exist in buddhalangi for example or in mandera how many they are and then we establish also the level of their license ship or put it the other way around whether they have been trained and licensed so much so that if we get to know that in in machakos county for example we have 35 000 motorcycle riders and 32 say 20 000 have not been trained then we work towards putting them into a training regime because we have a program we're working with ny's and other stakeholders and other drivers so that we train them to become better riders but whatever was happening you mentioned is that's what ours is going on is it's actually an ongoing exercise we've registered a number of them and now working towards analyzing those statistics for purposes of understanding those the issues I talked about where they are the distribution the locations where they are whether they've been trained what can we do to what's working them and then further in understanding that we can even go and capacity build them you know that you are dealing with y24 circle in in in kitui county with a membership of 50 000 riders and that provides a platform whereby we can engage formally uh and and capacity build them on several areas including talking to them like we are talking now so that's the initiative which is ongoing and we believe and we think that is how we're going to move forward as we talk even to them through such platforms like the ones you provided today in the morning so it is safe to say we still have some way to go when it comes to buddha buddha yes yes we do have a way forward indeed there was an action plan around the same so there's a whole way forward we are quite cognizant of the fact that this is an area which has been handled it cannot be the issue is that for a very long time nothing much has been done but we have action on the same and it's not just on safety issues by the way if you if you hear that um in this country um if you read anything criminal or crime for that matter you realize that the investigative agencies will tell you that a buddha buddha plays one role rather than whether it's carrying an arm whether it's carrying illicit alcohol whether it is you know anything some whatever it is so there's some um attendance of this sector that's why government we are quite clear that we need to have this sector not uh uh at our chests so to speak so that we work towards improving their life it's not about chasing them and whatever it is about embracing and letting them improve on their their capacities right from how they behave on the road how they build their their circles their entrepreneurial skills and working towards a safe sector in a regulated manner um let's just shift our area of focus a bit to this this vulnerable i'm calling them vulnerable yes a category of people uh the school school buses and schools transportation we have seen crashes involving school buses and issues around it what is what is ntsc doing we know you you you put in place this uh yellow buses and all that is that enough what are you doing correct yes um yeah now that is an issue which i know and just to bring that point home for your viewers is that for some of us who are parents at this particular time schools are closing for a short term period uh about four five days and you'll be seeing a lot of movements within the country and it's our hope and prayer that um the safety on our roads has to move along yes indeed school children are classified as as rather children for that matter are classified as vulnerable the vulnerability is because of some of the areas we call them shortcomes not really shortcomes but because of of of their nature issues to do that their their attention is quite poor uh not enough the judgment of speed or distances is a bit low their heights basically from anatomically or the way they are is that they cannot see i mean they are they cannot they may not be seen that's why at times you see parents even reversing on their children because even if they check the side mirrors they can't see but the child is right behind you've seen this unfortunate case happen among his others so we recon and recognize and and and that this team or this cohort is special and vulnerable and being special and vulnerable one of the places we target as uh as in their safety is the schools uh the the majority of children in this country spend in excess about eight to about about eight hours or so in schools depending on which level of grade you are in or class you are in so uh school safety is very important very paramount and school safety around two areas which we're going to talk about briefly one is that we reckon that their children who walk to school come out for lunch at in the afternoon they go back and they come back in the evening so making four trips to school and and and and and and competing with the traffic as they go and back in school uh is a potential area of conflict and that conflict they are of conflicted vehicles but the border included then there's an likelihood of the injury of the vulnerable organism what does that mean it means that we need to improve our transportation of children from and to schools whether you're walking or you're using a school bus majority of kenyans of course do work to schools uh in excess of 90 but you've also noted an increase of vehicles going to schools uh schools providing vehicles now a programs which you are currently working on and would encourage even kbc to do this and many other stations and many other kenyans for that matter is the very simple um non-expensive inexpensive intervention we call it helping children cross the road and you see children uh the school is on the other side there's a road here of even if it is a single lane or double or at times even multi-lane like some of them highways in the country we need just kenyans to stop let the children cross when you see a mush we call them a traffic marshal or a guard for that matter to help the children by raising stop sign you come to stop let the children take their very short time actually not running it hardly takes less than five minutes to help children cross not even one minute for that matter and these children be safe when they are going to school and back and you can be sure they're going to go back it's quite unfortunate that at times and then two is the school transport which you mentioned about we've done the pain and we're working towards having even the issues because we've seen in the recent past school children are crammed into a space of um if it's a space of 14 we've been able in the past able to count in excess of 45 out of that what does that mean that is cramped it's actually even a child abuse so to speak so those are some of the things we are working around but as you said road safety is not a government agenda alone it's everyone and that's why we are imploring upon the school communities working with the minister of education and other stakeholders to drive the agenda and we have the Tuvuke Salama project we are currently working with one of our partners Vivo Energy and bringing other stakeholders for purposes of improving road safety for children when they're going to and coming out of schools and considering that they are vulnerable Kenyans we have seen NTSA do a partnership with police enforcement programs and all that yes how would you explain your relationship with the police how do you do police national Kenya national police service is the enforcement arm of government as per the constitution of Kenya and anything law witness enforcement is the national police services do part and parcel of our work as the regulator in this field is to provide support to the national police service information or otherwise or data or otherwise so that as they enforce they ensure that it's data driven and research driven or other evidence based so what does that mean we work with the national police service there are partners and we work at times and most of the time we have what you call joint operations whereby you want to check a vehicle in terms of the regulatory requirements including whether vehicle has a license whether the drivers have valid license whether the vehicle has a certificate of inspection motor vehicle inspection certificate whether they're operating the right to some more so we do have those joint operations and we work with them very closely and they do quite a number of work around the same it's just that Kenyans at times we need to appreciate that you don't need to be chased around by the police we need to be more responsible and police will will will you want them even to be out of the roads for that matter in terms of because we have we have better behaviors on the road so yes so in the past yes yes Grace that you have seen you know there is a way that someone is used to doing things even at home at your house there's a way you used to do it something and there's a way you prepare for event ceremonies and one of the particular things that we have taken note of particularly is that NTSA does a lot of campaigning during festivities during Christmas Easter and all that but lately we are seeing a lot of campaigning going around and it's it's a no festive season is it a change of strategy yes yes yes yes you're right I'm I'm Grace this is the all direction we are moving into and and and we look forward to partnering with every other part including the the fourth state um we have to have this as uh in a sustainable manner done throughout uh and not just on those festivities why we are doing that time is because those are the high risk seasons remember December naturally rather not traditionally have been associated with all number of crashes on have been elevated and many other holidays because of this increased movement but this activity going to do is going to be um all throughout the phases of the year and we are not going to we are going to work with everyone so yes so that is the direction you're moving into um let me ask a particular question that I've been wanting to ask we have this class of people we call pedestrians sometimes they're just walking by the road and fatalities happen and they're taken by the road how can they protect themselves because you know someone is walking they're just taking the stroll or someone was just walking to their work they weren't particularly inside the road or you know in common one one-inches language but they happen to be um they happen to get into an accident how can they protect themselves yes I'll I'll I'll put it this way that um the sustainability of that pedestrian is from number of areas I'll start first from a behavioral aspect and not just for the pedestrian because a pedestrian another pedestrian cannot kill another pedestrian that's one thing you need to do even if you knock yourself one moving in the opposite direction that naturally nothing happens a pedestrian is killed by a vehicle moving at speed or a motorcycle and whether and could be killed when they are crossing the road or at times away from the road you're buying your sugarcane and eating then a vehicle comes by so the sustainability of pedestrian safety is on number of areas one is behavioral on both the pedestrian yourself and the road the vehicle the vehicle and I say the vehicle I'm in the rider so to start with on the pedestrian pedestrians you need to be careful remember that you are extremely very vulnerable being hit at as little as 30 40 kilometers per hour is a potential death so at times people think that it's the huge speeds of hundreds plus which kill pedestrians actually is that little because the impact on the body is you are actually directly on your flesh whether it's in your chest on your pelvis or your your head or your legs so that's why pedestrians remain extremely very vulnerable because of the openness now so the behavior is ensure you always um if they are pedestrian facilities to use use them here we're talking food bridges I've just come from another studio and to be told one of the viewers mentioned about some food breach in Bagadi which is not used people walk and yet these are very beautiful friendly modern food breach which has been set up by one of the road agencies but it's not used now so walk using the pedestrian facilities which are available whether it is the food bridge in some cases under bridge in some cases the pedestrian walkways in some cases even the the zebra crossing so that's when you use that number one two is that you be visible at times at night you will find people doing a joke and they are dark so all of a sudden and that's why at times there's that provision in some cases even a single belt of a reflective material would always save you at times and then three is that as much as possible don't cross the word jay walking you know carelessly five is that um there's a pedestrian you've seen pedestrians killed because they drink and walk and cross as a highway like thicker road so drinking of course impairs your performance on the road as a pedestrian so that is one but that's how the pedestrian needs to save themselves use those facilities two is for this other person speeding and and many others but as government also is that we want to work towards improving and increasing and enhancing the facilities of the pedestrian yes i have been told we're short of time but i would want to ask a question a pressing question that i would want you to answer in a very in a in a 90 seconds so then we wind up um i want to pick a question from one of the things you've said about pedestrians using foot bridges yes safety in those foot bridges has been one of the major issues why pedestrians have been reluctant to use that correct does that fall on your docket or on the police in just a short time in just a minute it falls on virtually everyone i'll say the fact that they are dirty they are people who are making it dirty or unsafe that is one aspect of the thieves the thieves of course that is something which you're working with the national police service to ensure that and also including the county governments who were like in aerobics to ensure that the safety there but also modern foot bridges if you see they are more open they are lit so that it discourages the same but we also need to get those reports of some of those areas so that you tell the police to improve the safety of those uh the security aspect around the same you had mentioned you had talked about um usalama barabadan correct what what is its implementation strategy and how is it going to be of benefit to the user the benefit the overall benefit of this is improvement of road safety that's what i can say simply speaking but one of the things of course is that we are working towards improving the behavior of the road user whether whichever road user you're talking about and and also improving the road infrastructure facilities in terms of treatment of the black spots which i had mentioned before so those are the potential benefits of this particular program but as i said this is a short term one year two years but we do have we need to have these things sustainable manner and the overall thing is that road safety is everybody's responsibility it's your responsibility grace and responsibility of everyone so let's play that role and and i'm not letting it that it's just a government agenda or a government where you know function as um as your parting shorts i would want you to tell us how can we all share in the responsibility of keeping our road safe how can the viewers how can the viewers help and to keep the road safe as you wind up yes um i'm now speaking to the viewers that as Kenyans uh at any one point you are a road user as a matter of fact every time you cut out of your bed you are a road user because you'll be working on the road as you go to school as you go to work so safety has to move from being a government function from being the other person's function to your function or to your responsibility push safety to become your responsibility and if all of us choose to become on the safe side then we do not need even NTSF of that matter we'll close shop why i'm saying so is that um if you work if you are a pedestrian do you do the right thing if you are a passenger you make sure that you report in case of a crash in case in case of a behavior which you find it not wanting speeding driving dangerously if you are a driver don't bring a driver many other things we've always talked about so it's important that all of us to abide by the laws and and with that case we'll have the reduced number of road traffic crashes in this country and and we'll be far safe and and and and that is my my my message to the viewers of Y-20 form especially you are special listeners and viewers of the youth population the future of this country this country depends on you let's not keep on killing ourselves on the road because of something which is totally and purely preventable actually don't use it's not an accident it is something which is purely preventable so that is my message to your viewers thank you so much for this time for us thank you for being here dear viewer you have heard it from Dr Duncan Kibogong as the deputy director safety programs and public education thank you so much for tuning in and listening as you have gotten it from him it is my mandate it is your mandate to keep our roads safe have a good evening i have a good day sorry and let's meet tomorrow here at same time god bless you


If I look tired it's because I am. Many of you probably know this. I'm a firefighter and I also live in Florida and we were just hit by a hurricane, Hurricane Ian. And so I just wanted to give an update about that. Luckily I didn't have to work the day of the storm but I went in the morning after yesterday and I worked my 24-hour shift and it was rough. I was up all night just running different things related to the storm. The funny thing about the storm is where I live, I live somewhat inland about a 20-30 minute drive from the coast and it was windy here but it wasn't even raining that much and I didn't think it was much of a storm. One of my biggest concerns was the tool shed I just built a couple months ago. I was worried that it was going to fly away in the storm. What I ended up doing was digging deep holes, putting these wood posts in them, filling them with cement and then putting multiple screws into the shed to hold them down. I did that like the day before the storm. It turns out I didn't need to do that because the one tree that fell on my lot fell on the shed holding it down. So I've lived in Florida for just over 32 years now and the first year I moved in we had Andrew which was a big storm, big hurricane. I was 11 at the time and just so when the storm was coming through I was actually chatting with one of my Patreons who lives over in India and I was saying to him, you know, this storm isn't that bad and he was wondering how often we get hit by storms and hurricanes come by Florida all the time but Florida is a big state and so unless you're getting hit directly by the storm a lot of the storms even though a hurricane comes by Florida doesn't mean that it's necessarily hitting me. A lot of times it's the other coast. In fact in the 30 years I've lived here Andrew was a big one and Irma five years ago was a very big one and then about 15 years ago we had Charlie and Francis kind of go by which hit some other places pretty good but you know wasn't too much just windy here by us you know knocking down trees. In fact when Irma came through back in was 2017 I actually did a video a few days after where that was a lot of rain and trees in my backyard were twisted and knocked down and I had two holes in my roof so here I am sitting here going this this storm isn't that bad. In fact I kept power this entire time a lot of my neighbors just down the street don't have power but I was able to keep power this time which is nice because last time in you know five years ago I went 14 days without power because the line to my house was knocked down so hurricanes come by Florida a lot but it's not like a yearly thing that something this bad comes by. In fact my sister-in-law lives in North Carolina in the last five years she's been hit by more hurricanes than I have but again I was telling people this storm isn't that bad but then I start getting texts from people with pictures where by the coast and I'll put some pictures here up on the screen they had over five feet of water and it wasn't from the rain it was from the storm pushing the the water from the Gulf of Mexico up into the city so there was a lot of flooding lots of people lost their homes supposedly 15 of the guys I work with I don't know exactly who yet I have completely lost their homes so for me little shed damage is nothing you know and I'm hoping that once I get that tree off there I can kind of pop that back in place and fix it but a lot of people completely lost everything so very blessed I wanted to give you guys an update in case you were you know if you're worrying because I've had a few viewers ask me how I was doing so I said I kept power I did lose internet during the storm so I don't know exactly when I'm going to post this video when I'm gonna get internet back but hopefully a couple days I'll post it so you guys will get this update sorry for the wobbly cam I'm super tired not but I want to film something I'm super tired and I should be sleeping but I tried laying there for two hours and even though I only got one hour of sleep last night it's just hard to sleep during the day my wife and kids they were nice they they left while I was trying to sleep and went to my in-laws so that I could rest but after two hours laying there I just got up and decided to come out and film this video so I'm good pray for the people who've lost their homes and yeah keep on watching I have plenty of videos like I said I film videos ahead in advance so even if my house was demolished I still have videos coming out over the next couple of weeks so I always think of you guys ahead of time so sorry again for the wobbly video I just wanted to get something recorded I hope that you have a great day and another thing again I'm tired so I don't even know how much sense I'm making but just just want to let you guys know what's going on yeah other things about the last storm five years ago the hurricane Irma was how bad the wind was my yard was completely covered with branches big branches and it took forever to clean and again I had no powers had no AC was so hot so hot and miserable luckily this time there aren't too many big branches a lot of palm fronds my wife and son cleaned up a bunch of them while I was at work yesterday and so the rest isn't too bad and the weather's been beautiful it's nice today yesterday the day after the storm was gorgeous and breezy and cool the nicest weather we've had in six months so that's a plus yeah you're naming the trees


The study examined land use changes in the Mula and Mother River catchments in Pune, India over a 20-year period from 1989 to 2009. During this time, urban areas increased from 5.1% to 10.1%, while croplands increased from 9.7% to 13.5%. These changes can be attributed to rapid socio-economic development in the region. The study also used the soil and water assessment tool, SWAT, to analyze the impacts of these changes on the water balance. It was found that urbanization had a positive effect on water yield, increasing it by up to 7.6%, while cropland had a negative effect, decreasing it by up to 5.9%. Overall, the study concluded that land use changes in the Mula and Mother River catchments have had a mixed effect on the water balance, with some areas benefiting from urbanization and others suffering from cropland expansion. This article was authored by P. D. Wagner, S. Kumar, and K. Schneider. We are article.tv, links in the description below.


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Welcome to our first preview show of 2019. We hope you all had a wonderful new year and are all looking forward to what's to come over the next 12 months. Today I'm joined by Matchday commentator Chris Temple and we'll be talking very much about the here and now. So let's take a look at what's coming up. We'll be looking back at the Watford game and the 3-3 draw here at Vitality Stadium. We'll also be turning our attention to the January transfer window and then the incoming's all-out goings that could be happening. And finally we'll be looking ahead to Brighton in the FA Cup here at Vitality Stadium tomorrow. But first there's just one place to start and that is with that thrilling 3-3 draw against Watford here at Vitality Stadium. Let's take a look at the short highlights. At the hands of Troy Dini or rather the head of Troy Dini, 1-0. Four formation, Gosling's ball is presently straight to Dele Feu. And now Watford on the counter attack, Dele Feu up against Acay. Dini's with him, he's got support to the right as well. Dele Feu challenged by Cook and Dini puts it in and is 2-0 to Watford. In the village of Lerr as I'm afraid coming back to haunt the cherries again. Gosling on the halfway line gave it straight away and Watford ruthless with their punishment. Cherries-nil Watford 2. I think it was Kingi, sorry, Cookie who got back and actually got a great tackle in, but the ball just bobbled up and spilled off a really black shirt, not sure, but Troy Dini just took advantage of it by side putting it home. Brighton 2-0, it's Fraser and points on towards Steve Cook. The head of back in, Gosling! Still up time, Watford 1, Watford 2. It looked like a set play, Cookie peeled off to the far post, headed the ball back across, and Keefer made an amazing save, but Acay was there just to nog it home for that second goal, actually saying two games. It's going to be Charlie Daniels, now it's going to be Ryan Fraser, who whips the free kick in. Wilson 2-0! Into the cherries with his right goal, and it is 4-2 Watford 2. Well, you have to say what the head of that one is, a well-worked free kick, and I'm not sure about the keeper of this. At one stage, I thought he was getting to that. Over Watford since 1963, Acay jumps with the header on the edge of his own penalty. The shot goes, it's 3-2 to Watford! Irogerys didn't deal with it on the edge of the penalty area, and Sema swung the left boot, and swung the hornets back into the advantage, 3-2. Oh, what a game on that from here. Acay jumps for the original header. Cherry's right, and the cherries pile forward again. Early ball into Wilson, he lets it run for King, who steps over for Fraser! I think there were three dummies along the way before it had actually got to Fraser, gets his head hard and low, 3-3 as you say.  Oh, there we go, four goals in six minutes, saw the points shared earlier in the week. Four extended highlights are available on AFCB TV 4-3. Well, Chris, what a game it was. Where do we even start with that? Unbelievable, I mean, let's start with the fact that everybody that came on Wednesday night, it was pretty cold, but they got their money's worth, that is for sure. Yeah, amazing, amazing first half. A few people at halftime were predicting there'd be no more goals, and they were right. But yeah, just ridiculous, I mean, I tweeted my thoughts after the game to say it was a cocktail of attacking quality and chaotic defending, which it was really, because both teams lost the plot defensively. But I think the biggest positive to come out of it, first and foremost was obviously a point, but secondly was a bit more of the attacking flair that's been missing. It's been there in snatches in recent matches, but we started to see that sort of wave after wave, particularly in the second half, the pressure. Again, just the final ball, you know, Jefferson Lerma, we're still searching for a couple of his shots that were heading towards the carpark. But yeah, the Joshua Kings, the Callen Wilson, the Ryan Fraser, the David Brooks streaming forward, even the likes of Dan Gosling, I know he made a mistake, but I thought he had an all-action game as you would expect from him on his first return back. He had, I think, one training session. So he turned in a performance like that, and a game like that, full credit to him for that. But yeah, ultimately Bournemouth probably should have won the game, but everyone comes out afterwards going just like, what a game that was, and some great goals. I think it was at least two dummies for the third goal, maybe even three. And two-nil down as well, it shows that great character once again. We saw it so much last season, but it was back again. Yeah, I mean really on the canvas with the recent results and performances and then two-nil down after 25 minutes, having started the game quite well, mentally that you've got to be digging really deep there. Thankfully it didn't stay two-nil for long, that was the key. Nathan Ackay popping up again, as you've seen him do prowling for those bits and bobs in the six-yard box. So yeah, the fact that they reduced those arrears pretty quickly, because the longer it goes two-nil, the crowd start to get a bit aggy, everybody gets a bit frustrated, you can start trying too hard. So that was the key, I think, and then once Nathan Ackay goal goes in, then all hell breaks loose, and I started to lose count of what was happening to be honest with you. And two-nil down, most fans probably would have taken a draw at that point, but as you say, Bournemouth could have gone on and won it. Yeah, and probably should have. Again, if you're being harsh, you'd probably say that there were certainly enough chances in the second half, Watford has got to the last 15 or 20, they were certainly seemingly looking happier with a point. I think a couple of, well, certainly one very naughty tackle in the game, which decorates amazing when you see the referee's view, how he's decided it's a yellow card, looking right at it on the far side as well. So just an amazing decision that that wasn't a red card. You know, there was talk about Dan Gosling's as well. For me, that was firm but fair. I think yellow was probably right. Officials are looking out for follow-throughs and things these days. You know, we saw a Vincent Company for Manchester City get away with what looked a red card tackle as well. So I'm not sure what's happening in a minute with some of the decisions, but ultimately, yeah, a point's good, three goals is good, conceding three in the first half for the third game in a row, not so good. And you say three goals there, but three different scores as well. Yeah, Nathan Ackay, of course, as we say. You know, you need to send halves to chip in. We see Steve Cook probably more often than Nathan Ackay, but three goals for Nathan Ackay now. He's probably, what is he, fourth top scorer with that, I reckon? Maybe fifth. Obviously, you know, to see Callan Wilson back on the score sheet as well. Now in his record Premier League goals tally for a season of nine. He's got 11 if you include his cup goal and his England goal as well. So yeah, from that point of view, and Ryan Fraser, of course, with that great finish for the third one. And he's already missed a great chance as well. So for him, that was important to put that away. And everyone's seen his interview after the game, that face that's doing the rounds on social media over the last couple of days with Troy Dini. So, yeah, that was a memorable moment for him as well. And of course, it's been such a tough run of fixture, so it's so important to get a point on the board, isn't it? Yeah, definitely. Like, you know, look at the pressure games of the past few weeks of Brighton here in the league, Huddersfield here. They were the pressure games that had to get something from. Probably need to win actually both of those. Some would have said, you know, would have said running up to the Watford game, probably need to win that one as well. But it was just such a mad game that that's what everyone ends up talking about. If it had been a dull 1-1, I think everyone would probably be saying, oh, well, do you know what, points are not very good. But actually, you know, the way the game panned out, the performance in the game, albeit defensively still porous, but I think that's, you know, it's given everybody a bit of hope. And now we look forward to the FA Cup this weekend. And with those festive fixtures pretty much out the way now, how do you assess that period? That's a tough one, but there's been some important points along the way. Yeah, there has been a few important points. November and December hasn't been a good period for Bournemouth in the Premier League. They seem to get dealt the hard fixtures in those few months. I don't know if you'd rather have them then than right at the start of the season when you're still trying to find your feet in the season. I think you'd rather probably have a chance to get up and running with a few games that you'd be expecting to get something from. But you definitely don't want them all back-to-back, the big teams. So, yeah, they'll be absolutely delighted to see the back end of December rather. Wasn't a great month. But then we're still talking about a record breaking start to the season. So it's not like we want to write off 2018. We just want to write off the last month of it or so. But in that month, you know, brightening just before Christmas, hopefully that result will give them some confidence to take into this weekend. And despite those tough fixtures, they're still in a very respectable position in the league 12th on the table with all those fixtures out the way now.  There's one of the big six out of the way completely, for example. Chelsea not too far away in the fixture calendar as well. So they'll be out of the way as well. But, yeah, in terms of the table, I've said it many times, the middle portion of the table is so tight. You know, West Ham and Brighton drawing in midweek. Cherries and Watford obviously drawing, taking points off each other in that middle section of the table. A win or a couple of wins is going to be worth four or five places every time now. The key is just to make sure you stay in that middle section. Keep flirting with the seventh sort of eighth position rather than the 15th, 16th position. That would be the nicest thing, nice end of it to stay. And now moving on to January, we've obviously got the transfer window. Can we expect much business to be happening there? Eddie Howe's favourite time of the year. He particularly loves talking about it. That is for sure, not. Yeah, I mean, speaking to Eddie after the game at Manchester United, I sort of got the vibes that they weren't that hopeful of getting anything done particularly quickly. He just couldn't guarantee anything. It was more of a sort of a, we're going to try, but I can't say we're going to. So I don't know, I got a feeling then that they weren't that close to anything. I think the wheels probably are turning a bit faster in the background, whether that was Eddie playing his cards close to his chest or whether things have moved on quickly in the last couple of days. So, yeah, they certainly need a couple of bodies, I think, mentally as well to see some reinforcements come in. Dan Gosling's obviously back because that's a great option to have. Adam Smith, I think, is probably maybe two, three weeks away possibly from being back in first team contention. So there's a couple of bodies coming back, but this is saying they don't pick up any more problems. So I think definitely why you've got the opportunity to strengthen you need to. Right back will be one of the priority areas I'm sure with Simon Francis out because Adam Smith comes back and I've only got one right back. I don't know Eddie wants to have cover. So, yeah, and the outgoing, you know, the talk about Jermaine Defoe going to Rangers, it looks like that one's going to happen. No real surprise there because he hasn't had the minutes he would want here. And I'm sure that Bournemouth would have wanted to give him when they signed him and the amount of money they've been paying him as well. So from that point of view, probably a good move all round, I think, does make the squad one body lighter, but who's to say that some striking reinforcements won't come in? Who knows? And just in terms of Simon Francis there, Eddie Househead in his press conference this morning, that it was almost like losing a centre back and a right back. So it really goes to show how important he is and how much they kind of need to get someone into. Yeah. And when you look at this weekend, I was sort of trying to pick a sort of a ghost team in my head as to what Eddie might do this weekend. And you're looking at sort of central defence or the number of defenders available. And one of the centre halves regularly I think is going to have to play. Nathan Acker, he had a problem at Old Trafford, so I'd be amazed if he plays in the FA Cup. So I would guess, as we're standing here now, Steve Cook will probably have to play, because even if you play a back three, you still need Steve Cook, let's say Jack Simpson and Tyrone Mings, for example, come in as well, because you haven't got a right back to put in there unless they play Charlie Daniels or Diego Rico in a back three. But even then as you move forward, you're starting to feel the other holes and if Jermaine Defoe is heading off, he probably won't be involved. So up front you've got Lice Moussa, and we'll talk more about this later on, but in terms of options, so Simon Francis, to go back to your point, covers a couple of positions, can be shuffled around in when cup games come along. We have seen him play cup games. So yeah, the defensive options, particularly at the moment, are limited, yeah. And in terms of Dan Gosling, it's obviously great to have him back. We know Jefferson Lerner is only one card away from a two match suspension. Is that an area they should be looking to strengthen as well? Well, having Dan Gosling back is a bonus. Emerson Hyman, obviously, has come back from Hibernion at the end of his loan. I'm not sure whether he may go out on loan again. Possibly not back to Hibs, but possibly somewhere else. There's talk of that. He hasn't obviously had much of a chance in the Premier League. He's played the one game at the back end of last season against Burnley on the last day. He's been in Scotland. He's done pretty well in the Scotland Bowl accounts in both the spells he's been there. Of course, the SPL with the greatest respect isn't the Premier League. So I don't know if he is an option in terms of Premier League, really. So you've got Lerner, Sermon and Gosling. So they may be looking at a central midfield area. We've seen Brooks and Stanis last tried there and doing an admirable job filling in, but they're not central midfielders with the greatest respect to them, their strength or elsewhere. Junio Stanis has his strength is now right back, so it appears from the other night's performance. But yes, so central midfield could be an option they're looking at, I think. Certainly Gosling being back still needs to be careful with his return. Jefferson Lerner, as you say, on the brink of that ban. Probably worth just clarifying that ban as well, because we were talking about the FA Cup game. If Jefferson Lerner was to play against Brighton in the FA Cup, if he gets booked in that game, that's not his 10th booking. There's been a bit of confusion from supporters about the change of rules this year. So if he got booked against Brighton, that's one booking in the FA Cup. You need to get booked twice in the FA Cup to miss an FA Cup game. It's completely separate from the Premier League. So hence if he got booked against Watford in midweek, he wouldn't have been banned for the Brighton game. Any booking he would get if he does play, I'm not sure if he will, wouldn't count for the 10th booking. And just a word as well on Aaron Ramsdale, he's going on loan to Wimbledon. It would be great for him to get some minutes as well. He's in a difficult position there at Ramsdale because he obviously came down from Sheffield United and he's an England age group keeper and an under 20 goalkeeper. He's done well at the national level. There's a lot of talented English goalkeepers around and he's managed to keep himself in the national setup without playing any minutes. He's obviously had loan spells in the past. He went to Chesterfield didn't he? I think he got injured. So I think he's another one who could do with certainly benefiting from getting some games. He would appear to be down the pecking order a little bit here in terms of he's obviously got Begiritch and Borich and Mark Travers has been the sort of next cab off the rank if you like in terms of the goalkeepers Jordan Holmes as well. So yeah, I think important for him to go and get some games. Absolutely. Well next up for the Cherries is Brighton and I hope I'll be in here in the FA Cup. We faced Chris Huthinside just a few weeks ago so let's take a look at the highlights. Here's David Brooks. Nicely fed by Joshua King now. Brooks on to his left foot. Opportunity to shoot still. Brooks shoots! There it is! That's shooting once. Then opened up some more space and drove it beyond the despairing dive of Matt Ryan into the bottom right-hand corner. Brooks is back on the score sheet as are the Cherries after three blanks in a row. 21st minute. Won that up on Brighton. The way things stand at the moment. Everton could go back above them with a win over Newcastle. In fact they're not playing Newcastle tomorrow are they? Now towards Brooks for a second! Game intact on it and the ball loops agonising over Matt Ryan and dropped into the corner of the net and Bournemouth now at last do have some breathing space. Well there we go, a double from David Brooks securing the three points for the Cherries. Chris it's going to be a very different game tomorrow isn't it in the cup? I think so. It's a difficult game in the calendar for both teams. There's only two all Premier League ties in the third round of the competition by Bournemouth against Brighton and Wolves against Liverpool. I imagine it's going to be the same for both teams in that they've both had a heavy Christmas period of fixtures. They've probably got one or two knocks carrying in the squad. So both will make changes. Just doing a bit of early research on Brighton. A lot of their players that they're likely to change I've got to say haven't heard of them much about. There's a lot of sort of unknown foreign names in there as well. So yeah how much Eddie and his staff have been able to glean and having not seen a lot of them as well. Whereas a lot of the Bournemouth sort of next I guess the next best players if you like the ones who haven't played as much are much more recognisable names. So I imagine Brighton's preparation is probably a bit easier than Bournemouth for this game. But yeah two teams in the same area of the table main priority is to stay on the league. Brighton got to the quarter finals of the cup last year so they had a good run. FA Cup hasn't been good to the cherries out in the third round to lower division teams in each of the last two seasons. So you know I guess for one sense if you're playing a Premier League team who are in the same boat as you I guess at least you're matched in terms of your ambitions. Whereas when you're playing a lower league team they are clearly trying to knock out a Premier League team so it's probably a bigger game for them if you like. But Eddie said all the right things in the press are what you'd expect about obviously they want to win it of course they want to win it, they're professionals. The game sold out which is brilliant. A lot of fans who don't get a chance to come and see the team very often will be able to come in the cup which is also fantastic as well. So yeah from that point of view people always talk about the FA Cup being a good avenue for a team like Bournemouth to have some success but Eddie's hands are tied slightly because they have had so many injuries they've had such a busy period physically demanding games as well as the frequency of games that he just has to make changes and there will be players coming in who haven't played very much. But you know they've played in the league cup recently quite a lot of them, you think of the Jack Simpsons and people who've played well at Chelsea recently in the league cup so quite a few of them are coming off the back of a relatively recent good performance so hopefully from that point of view they're not too rusty if you like in terms of match action. Jack Simpsons and Lee Smith it's a great opportunity for them to go and get some minutes in front of a home crowd as well. Jack Simpsons has been a regular in the league cup for a couple of seasons now he was good at Chelsea, they kept Chelsea out for a long time it was only Azar that came on and changed the game in the league cup late on Lee Smith say we saw him putting a great performance in that game as well he's always been ahead of Jermaine Defoe in the pecking order to come off the bench for Premier League matches late on I think he needs a goal Lee because it'd be great to see him hitting the back of the net so I'm sure he will be the number 9 carrying the team's goal for scoring threat against Brighton in the cup so for those players great opportunities Jordan and I we've seen him in the Premier League recently it will be another chance for the likes of Rico you would think as well Andrew Sermon probably I would expect to play considering he didn't play in midweek Jefferson Lermer is an interesting one because he didn't play at Man United so he's had a game less than a lot of the other regulars there's a week to recover after this game but they probably wouldn't want to take a risk with him that's the only thing I can think of in terms of injury so from that point of view who knows so centrally Emerson Hyman's back he's available would he go straight in he's only just come back to the club as we were talking on Friday he's only just back at the club for the first time today so I don't know if it's a bit quick to suddenly be in the team tomorrow but yeah options ready to rotate but like everybody I'd love to see Bournemouth do well in the FA Cup but I think there are a lot of factors that make it difficult absolutely and we saw them have such a good run in the Carabelle Cup can they take anything from that going into the game? yeah any cup runs is good for confidence of course it is the thing is in this country the FA Cup has that much more prestige than the league cup so I think if you are supporters at the start of the season would you rather have a run in the league cup or the FA Cup everybody would probably say FA Cup I'm sorry if you prefer the league cup but everybody would say FA Cup I'm sure the final at Wembley in May it's one of the biggest occasions in world football to see who's rotating players and leaving players out for a team like Bournemouth who are top 10 material in the Premier League if the big guns are focusing on something else it's a great opportunity to go far the raw stats are that the big sticks have won 27 of the last 32 FA Cups so when you get to the latter stages suddenly the stronger players start coming out the top teams rotated squads are better than obviously by the natural evolution of the Premier League squads their next best players are better than Bournemouth's next best players so from that point of view it's a hard competition to go far in you need some luck in the draw Bournemouth have had no luck in the caribou cup when they've got to the quarterfinals they've always drawn a big 6 team so a home game against a team of similar level is not a bad draw so if they could come through it then get a bit of luck in the next couple of rounds they could go far, we're not writing it off for people to think I'm sounding a bit negative but it's difficult when you've got other priorities put it that way don't want to go somewhere too far away when they've got a big Premier League game coming up again next week that was the thing about Steve Cook's equaliser against Wigan in the last season's third round because it set up a replay away at Wigan which I'm not sure was anybody's ideal which the series of course went on and lost as well so yeah even if it went to a replay it's only a little triple on the coast thankfully it's just the extra game that is not necessary at this time of the season so yeah home draw and as I say that's one thing that a lot of fans who can't get into the ground for Premier League had three home cup draws in the league cup so a great chance for them to get in and watch the game and it's nice to be and it will be Saturday lunchtime it's a south coast clash, Brighton were here they're probably sicker coming to Bournemouth I'm sure because they came here twice in quick succession last year and have done the same again this year but their cars probably drive themselves here I imagine but yeah from that point of view it's a decent game here and just finally it's worth mentioning as well that we've got VAR here tomorrow yeah VAR we saw it at Chelsea of course where a penalty decision was quickly referred and sort of turned down if you like I mean the more decisions that go wrong in the Premier League it can't come soon enough there have been too many decisions recently yes of course it's a hard job we know absolutely it's a hard job but there have been so many that have been wrong recently that it cannot come soon enough VAR it's coming in next season so any game that has it has got to be a bonus they'll still be clang as I'm sure next season we'll still be talking about but you know I think it certainly eliminates the major errors I'm sure if we had VAR here on Wednesday then Dukuro would have been sent off guaranteed absolutely well that's all we've got time for today if you are coming to the game tomorrow here against Brighton we hope you have a great day and we'll be back next week to preview the game against Everton thanks for joining us


This budget reflects our commitment to work closely with all Queenslanders to create jobs and strengthen our economy and protect our environment and quality of life for present and future generations. My portfolio budget for this year will provide proper protection for the State's environment. These budget measures will ensure we meet key election promises to protect the Great Barrier Reef, tackle climate change and safeguard Queensland's wildlife and environment for future generations. We all share a duty as custodians of our natural heritage to protect the Great Barrier Reef. Its sheer size, beauty and biodiversity are awesome. Recently Deputy Premier Jackie Trad and I attended the World Heritage Committee's meeting in Bond. We were very pleased about the UNESCO decision not to put the reef on the in danger list. I believe this was recognition of the series of election commitments we made to boost the protection of the Great Barrier Reef. And in this budget we have delivered on these promises. We have committed an additional $100 million over five years for reef water quality initiatives, scientific research and tools to help business transition to better environmental practices. If we are going to protect the Great Barrier Reef we need to listen to the science. We need the best and brightest to help us and that's where the Great Barrier Reef Water Science Task Force comes in. The task force is on track to deliver an interim report to the government by the end of the year. Advising on the best investment strategies for the $100 million commitment to achieve our ambitious reef water quality targets. Climate change. It threatens the Great Barrier Reef and will cause irreversible damage to ecosystems, wildlife and coastal communities faced with rising sea levels. The Great Barrier Reef is a global attraction. Climate change is a global problem. Over the next three years we will spend $15 million managing the impacts of climate change and helping coastal communities prepare for rising sea levels, storm tide and erosion. This will help deliver the government's commitment to work with councils to address climate change and coastal hazards. We're partnering with the Local Government Association to deliver the Climate Change Adaptation Fund to support at-risk councils to address current and future coastal hazards. The remaining $3 million will go towards developing and implementing a climate adaptation strategy in collaboration with industry and local government. This budget will provide $5 million to continue the Nature Assist program to secure nature refuges and provide financial support for leasehold and freehold lands of value. This commitment will expand the protected area of state and be used to incentivise private landholders to undertake conservation management on their land. Indigenous rangers do such great work across our state and in this budget we have allocated money to provide further opportunities for Indigenous Queenslanders. We have committed $7.3 million over four years to provide continued employment of 15 Indigenous rangers on Cape York and the Gulf. They will work across the protected area of state to ensure that parks are well managed and maintained. This includes protection from the threats of fire, pest and weed infestation. We are also providing $7.4 million over four years to jointly manage with traditional owners more than 2.5 million hectares of park estate on Cape York Peninsula as part of Indigenous management agreements. There are some other points in this year's budget I'd like to mention too. We will provide additional funding of $1.8 million this year to continue to support a range of wildlife management and conservation activities. These include regulating the use and trading of native plants and animals, responding to situations where wildlife present a risk to the public, management of sick, injured and orphaned animals and the protection of koalas. And over four years we are providing $12.4 million to support the continuation of a joint management program with traditional owners on North Stradbroke Island. This program employs rangers and a joint management coordinator to deliver on commitments made in the Indigenous management agreement. I'm very passionate about my portfolio and I'm excited about the opportunities ahead of us to ensure that the necessary safeguards are in place to protect our state's environment and to make a positive mark on Queensland for generations to come.


Assalamu alaikum and good morning to all. We would love to congratulate you on the birth of Imam Ali, alaihi assalam, as well as the birth of Hadrat Ali al-Azghar. Mashallah, it's a really great day today and I'm so happy because the birth of Imam Ali al-Azlam is a very joyous occasion and all of us must remember the special time. And we'd love to hear how you're celebrating today, so please do get in touch with us via our social media platforms. Yes, please do let us know what you are doing and how you are celebrating the suspicious occasion. I think it was narrated in Sunni and Shi'a sources that the Holy Prophet turned to Imam Ali al-Azlam and said, Ali, you are to me like Aaron is to Moses. It is the common knowledge that Aaron was in fact the successor of Prophet Moses, like Imam Ali was the successor of the Holy Prophet after his martyrdom. I love that he's very special and thank you for sharing that with us. It's also been narrated that after at Ghadirakum the Holy Prophet, peace be upon him, stated to thousands that Imam Ali al-Azlam was his successor.  And that's chapter 5 verse 3.


A joint investigation by the Pike County Sheriff's Office and the Pikeville Police Department resulted in two men, James Colby Johnson and Antoine Lamarcus Davis, being arrested this afternoon. The two South Carolina residents are suspected of trafficking in crack cocaine and other drugs. It's been an ongoing investigation for at least a couple weeks through the Sheriff's Department and with the help of the Papal City Police Department. From what we can gather, they've been here a while and evidently there's going to South Carolina getting it, bringing it back here and selling it in our community.  It's not local stuff. It's, you know, from out of status from South Carolina and, you know, like I said, it's been an ongoing investigation for a couple weeks and finally today, you know, we made the bust. A street level value we've estimated probably anywhere between $3 to $3,500 worth of street level. Sheriff Rodney Scott said he hopes the public will help local law enforcement agencies deter out of state drug dealers from targeting the area. We just want the public to know that, you know, anytime they see or suspect anything, people from out of state coming in like this, you know, we don't want people bringing drugs in from out of state into our communities and selling them here in Pike County. Johnson and Davis are each facing charges of first degree trafficking in a controlled substance and possession of a legend drug. They were lodged in the Pike County Detention Center reporting in Pikeville for EKB News. I'm Chris Anderson.


The national broadcasting company presents counter spy Encounters by calling Washington reports to the American people. I brought you each week at this time now the case of the captured contact Mr.. Harding mr. David Harding I am calling from Baltimore. I must speak to mr. Harding in person Did he not receive my letter? Who is this place? I I signed the letter only with the name Roland Mr.. Harding this is Roland you received my letter know full details I I cannot give over the telephone, but I give a name dr. Maximo Yes, I have been in your country lecturing on bacteriology My real purpose was something else and now I realize I have been making a terrible mistake for years Yeah, I can correct it only one way to tell everything to the United States counter spies Well, you're only 45 minutes by train from Washington. Oh, no, no, I dare not move from this hotel room my life What hotel the games borrow room 819? I beg you to come mr. Harding What I must tell you is of the first importance Mr.. Harden Young lady. This is mr. Jones in room 819 You have a I believe it is called a house detective mr. Blaine is his name I believe my life is in danger. Would you please ask him to come to my room at once? Made by our Paris at her shade during one of those fake peace congresses held by iron curtain followers in Paris Well, I'll play a bit of our phone conversation with dr. Maximo tonight. Yep I Signed a letter only with the name Roland. Yes, that's the same man. Don't you think so Peter? Sure. It's the same fellow Well, here's our file jacket on him Roland Maximo graduate of the University of Cretania in 1911 at the age of 22 makes him 62 now became full professor of medicine specializing in bacteriology in 1919 right after the First World War Secretly join the international revolutionary movement the following year and that's the man who's been in this country for months lecturing from coast to coast on bacteriology routine reports on his lectures here chief They say he'd end every lecture with a plea against bacteriological warfare in the same breath accusing us of planning to use it I'm amazed. He got away with it Dave. Yeah, this is all before the Cold War turned hot Well, Peters if this man is ready as he says to turn against his masters in Cretania, we'd better go see him Oh, we can still easily make Baltimore by midnight shift. Well, I had the Baltimore field office send over a man meanwhile, but let's hop You remind my asking mr. Jones and kind of danger your life's him. I I have been threatened Have you the time mr. Blaine? Oh, it's uh 10 past 11 I Oughtn to be sitting here in the room all night. I'm a house date my spots in the lobby keeping an eye out for bookies of Bookies a horse player and other kind of unwelcome riff-raff.  Blaine you might say I'm going to squeal and My pals want to knock me over What's that?  Blaine wait. I'll say this fire. I gotta go see you here. I'm all yelling mr. Blaine I bet you do not leave the room you wait. I'll be right back. Mr. Blaine I wanted you up in room 819 with dr. Maximo. I got here mr.  Come on room 819 come on Peter celery Call the house detective Peters. No Now use Three bullets. I'm harding dr. Maximo. Who did this? I did not see door opened. I don't know More important my confession you you must catch my contact Will lead you to everything your contact. Yes Name Yes, his name George George what where Never told last name or only George Small small man. Yes small man, but what city where? Left I left I what about it? left I They've silenced him for good mr. Harding Yes And we've got to find a man called George with something unusual about his left eye One man among a hundred and fifty million people And this is an adi and this is the rest of what mama writes. Yeah, and they came this afternoon special delivery Oh Next week your father has to be in Buffalo for a meeting of his paternal organization And if we could drive through Columbus we could spend the weekend with you and Edward the weekend Well, I can stand it if they can baby your old man's a pretty good kegler kegler Bollard's fancy word What kind of a day at the shop blue prints blueprints blueprints as usual What's for supper? I almost forgot you're gonna be on the road again next week No, but I've been talking with Sam about a good chance for a blueprint shop over in Cobb'sville Gonna be a big industrial town. I thought we ought to open up there get in on the ground floor Cobb'sville Gee we don't know anybody there Well, not definite yet anyway, and in any way what's for supper Southbury steak you mean hamburgers Maybe that's Claire seagull. I saw at the market. She said maybe she in here.  I'll do it nicely Hello, hello George. Oh, yeah, this is Hi, I have just had some good news from Baltimore Yeah, you won't have to move to Cobb'sville. You won't have to leave Columbus. You're quite safe here. Oh, fine I shall be in touch with you soon for further assignments. Okay, Arthur. Don't use my name Yeah, there's so long That wasn't Claire seagull was it a hmm? Oh No, it was a fellow I was in touch with on this Cobb'sville business, but he says forget it How soon is that Salisbury hamburger going to be ready? There are the lights of Washington chief Well, it's obvious Peter's Dr. Maximo's ex-comrades found out he intended to talk to us and pull that fake fire alarm as a cover for liquidating him Now the next most important man to get is this George with strange left eye How do we find George? Well as dr. Maximo traveled around lecturing posing as a Friendly scientist. He must have been reporting on the progress of American research and bacteriological warfare Then George must have been a contact who met him from time to time on his travel. Yeah, that's it Moment we get back to Washington tonight. We'll lay out on a map the exact itinerary dr. Maximo followed We've got the itinerary laid out chief quick work get any sleep last night after we get back about an hour Lucky you is the mapper and then Each pin on the map here represents a stopping place Now the dates of arrival and departure for each location are on the flags Landed New York August 29th. Mm-hmm, and here's the typed-up schedule of the modes of travel that dr. Maximo used Itinerary took him coast to coast and back stopped in in 2022 places all either universities or industrial towns with important research labs I'll tell you what Peter's we'll prepare a directive to our field officers in these 22 localities We want the details on everything dr. Maximo did everybody saw in each place Maximo was a bacteriologist chief His information was technical Now it follows that the contact had to know something about bacteriology Maybe had to make copies Microfilm or blueprints right well list all bacteriologists in the country every research laboratory with employees present and past Even the clerical staffs, and we'll cross-check that list against the list we get of people dr. Maximo met Somewhere among all these people we've got to find George You are listening to the case of the captured contact on counterspy The chimes are your invitation to a bright Sunday evening lineup over most of these same NBC stations tonight To Lula MC is another gala broadcast of the big show the Phil Harris Alice facial brings you more delightful adventures And then Heather Hopper presents dramatized stories of the stars now back to counterspy Morning dr. Phillips. My name is Taylor United States counterspies We're making up a national directory of all personnel in bacteriology in case of a national emergency Now I wonder if you'd mind helping us out Professor thorned my name's Ellery sir United States counterspies. I've just arrived in Locust City I'd like to come out to the University lab Good afternoon, mr. Zachary Taylor counterspies you've got a large technical staff here in your company laboratories, and we're making up a directory Dr. Loomis now if I could see your past Much obliged for your cooperation professor marks Just one more thing about this man George racket to worked here as a laboratory technician three years ago Can we examine it to him a little more sir There's the whole list mr. Harding the names only well the facts about them on a card file out of my office That'll be punched for automatic sorting Well, if we got the dope on which of these were actually in the airing of dr. Maximo strip at the time they mean it Yes, chief. That's one of the classification symbols Now the cards will be ready for the machines by early tomorrow morning. I'd say all right. We'll run them off then I'm setting the machine now chief Well first anybody whose first middle or last name is George, right? And second who were in the area of dr. Maximo strip symbol seven Third Those with eye trouble the left eye especially Aren't you of course even at this speed chief? It'll take some time. There are thousands of cars All right now classify by areas and shoot them out of the agents in charge But Peters the trouble is George is most likely not a real name at all, but a code name. That's a cheery thought Morning, madam. My name's Taylor. I'm from the New Orleans City Directory checking on all inhabitants I understand you have a tenant here named George Perry works for the university laboratory Excuse me. Mrs. TJ George. I'm from the local civil defense organization. My name's Ellery We're looking for volunteer aircraft Very interesting chief adding up to nothing every one of those 78 have clean records Well, one fellow used to work at a lab in Kansas City He turned out to be a minor in bezler from Philadelphia another man was an escaped convict Two others were aliens who entered the country illegally 11 of the net or heard dr. Maximo, but not one has a single questionable association and all of these named George Who were in that area had some trouble with the left eye Well, it kind of washes out there Dave most of these people wear glasses and most in the left eye is weaker than the right One man's practically blind in his left eye, but he's 71 years old and stone death This eye business bothers me There's a chief identifying fact that came to dr. Maximo's mind Peters instead of looking for George by name and profession. Let's look for him through the eyes. Oh You mean through oculists Opticians eye doctors clinics. Well, if a man's left eye is so noticeable It's fair to suppose that he consults somebody about it. This job gets bigger and bigger chief incidentally include the manufacturers of artificial eyes on that checklist Okay, the eyes have it Baby Tough day six of one six of the other. How about a movie tonight? I'll get it. Okay do that Eddie Yeah, hello George Yeah, hiya an important job for you George in Washington, DC. Oh But it's necessary. I am leaving here tonight. You get a train tomorrow afternoon. Well, when does the Customer expect to see me Tuesday, but Tuesday. Well, then what's the point am I going tomorrow? I'll leave Monday You're supposed to take orders without question George. Well, you know, I've got this trouble with my eye I've got an appointment with an eye doctor Monday morning been trying for weeks to see him Well, I find you Hotel Finley so long on Washington next for me big deal Names Taylor counter spies. I understand you're the leading optician in Kansas City Yes, mr. Strauss, we're checking all oculists in this section in case of national emergency any man with medical understanding my Oh, by the way, have you any patrons with really serious trouble in the left eye? I Know you're a busy man, dr. Chote I just arrived in Columbus this morning and I understand you're the top eye man in the city For the years at a young fellow. Well, this is highly confidential dr. Chote But have you a man patient who is a bacteriologist bacteria? No, nothing like that Maybe a man who once worked in a research laboratory on bacteriology No, not as far as I know Nearest thing to a lab worker on my list is Edward Stringer. Huh? His left eye Well, it's really strange Muscles of the lid is so weak his left eyelids practically closed all the time. Only he's no bacteriologist Understands a lot about medicine for a layman mind you but he's a partner in the red arrow Duplicating company red arrow duplicating. Yes photo stats blueprints and so forth. Oh Thanks very much dr. Chote And this Edward Stringer has been married seven years mr. Harding no children Five-room two-story frame house on Hawthorne Road age 33 Wife Alice age 30 from Utah. It's wonderful I've had no chance to get a look at Stringer But dr. Chote says his left eyelid is is almost fully closed all the time Anybody would remember that yeah, we'll go on Taylor Well Stringer and a man named Samuel E carpenter together own a blueprint and photo stat shop number 16 Harper Street in business four years Stringer's traveled a good deal according to carpenter. Well, you didn't explain your interest. Oh, oh, no, sir No, I well what I did is I arranged with the airlines here to appear as their representative that way I could ask how much the partners traveled and where to and so on smart gag Taylor Well According to carpenter Stringer does the traveling for the pair handles good-sized orders outside the city Sam carpenter mentioned half a dozen cities and every one of them was on dr. Maximus itinerary to Stringer know anything about bacteriology. Well carpenter said that that was one of their business assets mr. Harding Stringer majored in bacteriology at Hillman College. He never graduated but kept up his interest See that makes their shop useful to firms with technical documents to be duplicated. That's a good job Taylor We're getting hot Peters one more visit to Sam carpenter He'll know where Edward Stringer is and we close in Now there's a new and very important assignment for you George right here in Washington. What'll it be Arthur? I am soon to go home. You are to take my place as chief of contacts Today and tomorrow as the others arrive in Washington. They will come here to you in one pose or another In there is only one matter. Yeah, that eye of yours. It is so easily remembered Guess so and it drives me nuts myself, but I got a doctor back in Columbus He says he can fix it take maybe six months. I exercises maybe even an operation Expect anyone George? Maybe it's a chambermaid. I'll tell her to come back later.  Hey just a second close the door Peter got it We're United States counterspice ringer. We'll have to ask who this other man is ringer. You have a right not to speak at all. I I know but Well, it's all over isn't it? Yes, it is George Okay, I Always expected to get caught This man has been my boss. He's called Arthur.  You've got it wrong Arthur. He's a trader to us not to you me a trader I've been working for peace what?  I've got something there, Peter It's a question whether a man like this belongs in a penitentiary or a hospital for the mentally ill Anyway, both of you you're now under arrest by the United States government You've just heard another counter spy report to the American people brought to you each week at the same time Next week's report the case of the double-crossing defender Tonight's counter spy program originated in New York was directed by Mark's below Grammatized by Paul R. 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