Thanks for staying with us. Representatives from United Nations have met with stakeholders of different sectors in Nigeria. They met to chat ways of helping countries like Nigeria, address national priorities towards meeting sustainable development goals, SDGs. The SDGs were adopted by the United Nations in 2015 as a universal call to action and to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that by 2030 all people enjoy peace and prosperity. The fifth United Nations Sustainable Development Corporation framework, UNSCDF, is for the period of 2023 to 2027. The now-recrecent United Nations Sustainable and Development Corporation framework for 2023 to 2027 is the fifth framework of the union. The objective and expectation of this meeting were to address core programming principles of the five-piece 2030 agenda. There are people, planet, prosperity, peace, and partnerships. The framework will ensure that no one is left behind. The focus of the cooperation framework is to be able to come up with a plan for the time horizon that was mentioned before that will address the development, humanitarian, and peace needs of Nigeria. So we already have a draft theory of change that we have done within our cycle in the UN. And we are taking this theory of change across the six different zones of Nigeria to strengthen the relationship and partnership of the United Nations, UN agencies, and the different stakeholders involved in sustainable development of the country. A senior lecturer in the University of Abaddon, Professor Lanry Olanio, in his presentation explained what is in the cooperation framework. It's a commitment of the UN system to the people of Nigeria, particularly the most marginalized and vulnerable. And it is available for supporting economic transformation, as well as supporting peaceful societies through sustainable development strategies, specific to diverse, complete contexts. Participants spoke on how important the UN and the federal government collaboration is. What we can do at the UN to bring people around the table to leverage those capacities to help Nigeria achieve the goals that it set out for itself over this next period, you know, the different national and sectorial development plans that have been put in place, which also sit under a larger international framework. We're looking at all this new partnership, the continuous partnership will help to improve the lives of women and girls, even everyone in the Nigerian economy, because we know that without the support of these international agencies, to some extent, we are actually lagging behind. We are talking about zero tolerance to any form of abuse, we are not yet there. The UN SDCF 2023-2027 is expected to reflect Nigeria's economic, social and environmental conditions. It will provide a strategic framework to address the nation's developmental and humanitarian challenges. Moving on, we will transport workers' union and now to pay 800 nair as a consolidated levy to the Lagos state government. The agreement between the state and the transport union is a move to harmonize deals collected by the government from commercial motorists at parks and garages across the state. This is according to the Commissioner for Finance, Rabiu Oluwo, Love Kukuo Yedokun, has details in this report. The official launch of the consolidated informal transport sector levy has no doubt opened a new visa in the transportation business in Lagos state. Every commercial driver in the state will now pay 800 nair to be shared among government agencies and local governments. The Commissioner for Finance, Rabiu Oluwo says the harmonized levy will help reduce multiple taxes, deals and levies to all agents of state. It's to organize the collection process, to make it more structured so that those collecting deals will not be running after vehicles because I cannot do not run after me, MBA do not run after lawyers. So we have come together to say that we want to put in a structure of the collection process so that we can improve the look and feel of our transport sector. Want to reduce the multiplicity of taxes and people have complained a lot, you know, we pay parking fees, we pay motor fees, we pay this and all sort of taxes, deals and levies either due to government or association. This consolidated informal transport sector levy would consolidate all taxes, all deals, all levies due to government and association bodies. In addition to this, we have seen some people, they are not local government staff, they are not national agents, they are not road, they are called or no agents, you see them flagging their stick, they collect the money, all receipts. So if anybody say I pay 3,000, I pay 3,000, they might not be lying. We have not sat down, how do we do? And I say okay, if you are taking off from Badaigri, just collect this 800 naira. If you like, go to Ikorodu 20 times, once you flash that drone never, nobody in Ikorodu will have to pay another government levy again. The chairman of the state's chapter of road transport workers, Musulu Akinsoya, popularly known as MC Oluwomo, seems to disagree with the arrangement. The process is built to take effect in February 2020. From Lagos, Labikuku Uye Dukum reporting for Plus TV, Africa. A professor of education management, Steve Uye Badaig has faltered the federal government's plan to increase basic education funding to 3% under 2022 saying it is inadequate. Professor Uye Badaig said this at a training of education secretaries in Lagos, organized by the Human Development Initiatives. The state of Nigeria's education system still leaves much to be desired. Over the years, analysts have lamented the growth on the funding of the sector, as well as the rate of out-of-school children, which has increased as a result of insecurity. These issues took center stage at this training workshop. Those funding you are looking at on papers don't get to the child in the classroom. How much of education funding gets to the child in the classroom is marvelous. The child in the classroom is not touched, it's not even there. Nigeria has the largest population of out-of-school children. So what are they doing on the streets? So who is supposed to be in charge? So is education really funded? If at national level we have not gone beyond 7% of national budgets, voted for education for the last 40 years, things are really wrong. What we can do to keep our children in school, first you mentioned it, security to be in place, because the way it is now, some of the hindering factors for students not to be in school, then governments to put in more money, more funds into education, in terms, I know they call state in strife, but they still have to do more. They also prefer solutions to other issues affecting basic education in Nigeria. Much as we have advocated for improved security, I think the time has come for citizens to begin to take personal measures, particularly state governments. I believe that the state governments can do a lot around equipping their state apparatus. Apart from supporting the police and all the other paraphernalias, they can also create security watch groups that would help to assist to secure, at least for now, government owned schools in each state. The executive secretaries who were engaged in health, management and strategic planning share their optimism. Even the little I've had, I've started thinking of how to imbibe it into, even in my edu, I'm in the secretariat with my staff, early morning exercise, light ones that will help everyone of us. The Minister of Education Ademo Ademo had said the Buhari's administration was committed to ensure that these interventions have long-lasting dividends towards the empowerment and enlightenment of the Nigerian child. However, these experts beg to differ. For Plus TV Africa, Gozika, Ohio to see. Opinions have it that the problem with Nigeria's education sector goes beyond lack of money but simply a case of lack of interest in the sector by the political elite. But while blames have been apportioned, let's not forget the whopping number of out of school children. The 38 Commandant of the Nigerian Armed Forces Resettlement Center, Osho De Lagos, a vice marshal Idi Gamso Lumbu, has called for a better welfare for retired military personnel. Lumbu emphasized on the need to help them integrate with ease into the civil world. Plus TV Africa's correspondent Destiny Momo in this report takes a look at the deliverables of the center. This neatly maintained skill acquisition center, housing 42 workshops, is open for retirees to choose to be trained in. These skills range from agricultural, water production, fashion design, information technology, jewelry upgrading, livestock farming to various other profitable skills for the benefits of retirees. During the three months training, retirees can decide to choose two kinds of skill acquisition to learn from. The 38 Commandant of the Center, Vice Marshal Idi Gamso Lumbu, speaks on the journey so far in his tenure. Anyone can aspire or desire to be proud of and it involves sacrifice of not just the body and self or sometimes our lives, you know, we might have to pay the screen price is a very painful, you know, experience for you to see your colleagues that you just saw now going airborne and not coming back or an officer that you have tax to embark on an operation and not return. This is the concern of a military commander, but because of the nature of what we do, that is the call to duty is a sacrifice for Fatherland and I joined all families that are brave of their brave winners in the course of the conflicts that we are faced with within the country and outside the country, where we have our soldiers serving to share with them the pain of having to lose a father or a brother, but I tell you that it is service that has been instituted by God and from creation, it has been so. Their sacrifice is not in vain. I believe that the military hierarchy has in place, you know, aspects of wealthier schemes to cater for the needs of wives and children in the absence of loved ones and for those of us that have retired, I think there is some certain level of improvement in our you know, entitlements as we are living the service and this came during this regime of the present government under the watchful eyes of President Muhammad Ibrahim and we are grateful to the CNC. One of the trainers takes us through the processes of training and the skills and the value it brings to the retirees. The water factory is one of the workshops in Nafriq that is, Nafriq is immediately a skilled acquisition centre that is designed to train the men of the emphasis that has served their fatherland for 35 years. So after the service, we try to give them skills that they can use to empower themselves. It's a kind of empowerment program. So this is one of the workshops where we take you through the skills, acquisition, we train you on production of water, how to sell the water, how to market the water and it takes just about three months to to acquire the skills because we make you go through the process and some process of repairing of your machine and you go on marketing also.  The challenges you come about, what your workers are going to do to you because you see what the workers are, how they try to manoeuvre, how they try to work.  And this trainee is learning how to produce sachet and bottled water in large quantities. She is excited about the near immediate benefits once she rounds up the program. I've gained a lot coming to North Africa as an inexperienced, somebody that have no knowledge about water factory, only drinking it at home or on the streets. Coming to this place, we are made to know the quality of a good water. Then we will train how to manage, to start the business, to manage the business. After retirement, you can always get something to fall back on and how to market it, to get a good market, all what it entails like the nooks and the crannies of the business, the rudiments of the business were being taught here.  This is the last phase of the regimented lives, acquiring these skills is equal to ease into civil lives. Destiny Momo for Plus TV Africa. And that's all on this edition of Plus Report, but before we go, let's remind you to please follow us at Plus TV Africa on Facebook, Instagram and now of course Twitter and also do subscribe to our YouTube channel at Plus TV Africa. I'm Jacinta Obuco, thanks for watching.


Thomas, we spent some time here at Fire and Spice, and you prepared this really, really delicious tender duck confit with a duck leg. Would you serve it like this, or would you do something else with it? I would probably shred it and put it in taco. With your audience. Mm-hmm.  You had ceviche on the food truck, how'd that go? Not great. It's a hard sell when somebody doesn't know what it is. How do you decide what's going to go on the menu? Well, that's where the food truck really came in handy because a lot of our menu items actually came from either a joke or putting it on as a special one, it really took off. And sometimes the jokes work? The biggest joke that we have here is the Russian roulette. One of the three tacos has fresh habaneros in it, and you don't know which one until you bite into it. Right, right. And that was a joke, and it's probably our number two seller out of everything here. Oh, very cool. You do carnitas here, right? We do. What do you call them? We call them full pork because we're in Alabama and we kind of have to. And they don't, they don't have them quite caught on to what carnitas they have? No, but it's, I mean, they're made the same way as regular carnitas would be made. Tell me the difference between Mexican food and Southwestern food. The biggest difference is it's a fusion of two foods. So you've got the Mexican spices that are meeting the Texas beef, really, or Texas meats in general, and the smoke from Texas with the spices in Mexico. What's one of the most unusual questions you've had asked? Whether our brisket is pork or beef, and I can tell you it's going to be beef every time.  What style do you have here? We do both. We keep a lot of fat on one side, and we make the other side lean, so we can do the slices and the chopped. And then it's cooked for over 13 hours with mesquite wood. And what sets us a little bit different from everybody else, a lot of people just do salt and pepper. We do a special rub on ours, which is Texas coffee is the base of it. So ours has that caramelized coffee taste to it. I like that. Right, right. Do you wrap your brisket? We don't. We do all the way without the wrap, and then we wrap it at the very end for maybe the last 30 minutes, but I try to keep it. I want that nice caramelized on top. Preference of wood? We only use mesquite in here. It's Texas, right? It's central and South Texas for sure, so we only use that. This is staring at me right here. It is. See ya.


My name is Carol Lee and I'm currently a master's student working with the NZAVS team and today I'll be talking about one of my research topics which is looking at New Zealanders attitudes towards youth and age The legalization of euthanasia has been a really controversial topic in many countries including New Zealand So some people suggest that people should be given the right to make decisions regarding their own death while others argue that euthanasia is no different to murder or that it has high potential for abuse So there has been a lot of diversity and people's opinion towards this issue So what we were really interested in doing in the NZAVS was looking at New Zealanders attitudes towards this issue So what we did was we included an item in our time six wave of our survey for 2014 and 15 I'm looking at people's attitudes towards euthanasia and we used a measure from the British social survey which was suppose a person has a painful incurable disease Do you think that a doctor should be allowed by law to end this patient's life upon their request? So we measured people's attitudes on a rating scale of one to seven where one indicated that they were definitely not supportive of euthanasia four was neutral or unsure and seven was strongly support and we categorized that these rating scales into three groups to gain percentages for those who are pro and those who are neutral and those who are anti euthanasia Ratings of one to two were considered as anti euthanasia, ratings of three to five were considered as being neutral or unsure whereas ratings of six to seven were considered as pro euthanasia We have a sample size of over 15,000 New Zealanders and I think we're really lucky that we have this because this is a real representative sample of New Zealanders so it's likely to reflect what all New Zealanders think about this issue So we found that around 66% of participants were supportive of euthanasia and 21.7% were neutral or unsure and 12.3% were strongly opposed Our findings suggest that the majority of New Zealanders are supportive of euthanasia when the question is framed in terms of a doctor being allowed to end the life of a patient who has a painful and incurable disease upon their request We also looked at demographic and psychological correlates that are associated with people's attitudes toward euthanasia and some of the key findings were that Pacific and Asian people tend to be less supportive of euthanasia whereas younger people tend to be more supportive of euthanasia So I suggest that perhaps because people from younger generations tend to have more permissive and liberal attitudes perhaps this is extending on to their views of euthanasia as well To conclude, as of 2015 it appears that most New Zealanders are supportive of euthanasia So looking at whether people's attitudes tend to change or stay consistent across time and since the NZVS is a longitudinal study it allows us to look at these changes and track people's attitudes across time which is a real advantage of our study And lastly I'd like to just thank all the participants who participate in our study because we really appreciate their contribution and if it wasn't for them then we wouldn't have access to such valuable data and findings


So I want to welcome everybody to the Amherst community chat for Thursday, March 11. Today we have planning director Chris Brestrup back again joining us as well as building commissioner, Rob Mora to discuss the upcoming zoning amendments and answer your questions about that or other topics. So, before we have our guests introduce themselves, I will give your town manager, Paul, welcome in a few moments to give any general town updates he might have. Thanks. Yeah, so I guess Chris's ratings from her last time on we're so high that we had to bring her back to keep our ratings up. That's great. Thanks for taking the time Chris. We're just talking about how these are 30 minutes session so they go pretty quickly, which, which is good. So, the, since we're on zoning and development and things like that, we were fortunate to have secretary Keneally from the secretary of housing and economic development in town for half a day yesterday. We were able to show him the Pomeroy village area that we have received a $1.5 million grant for and walk him through what the intention of the grant was and that was exciting. He came into the center of town he met with the chamber in the bid about all the work that they're doing downtown. And we were able to take him up to North Amherst as well to show him about some things up there so we're looking at. We threw a lot at him, and it went from South Amherst to center Amherst downtown to North Amherst. We talked about projects that are about to that are really close to being started to some ideas that are being generated to serve a long term infrastructure needs. So, you know, who knows what he's going to remember from this but at least, you know, we had our chance in the sun with him is one of his first times out of the office in Boston. So we're really privileged to have him stop here. We have a number of town counselors who were able to be present, along with our state representative as well. So, on all really good morning so I'm just leave it at that I think. Great. Thank you Paul. And just to give the folks in the room a little context we do have the project that Paul referenced the Pomeroy village intersection improvements up on our new engage Amherst site so if you want to go in there and learn a little bit more and start interacting with some of the content, the web addresses engage amherst.org slash Pomeroy. So, before I ask our guests to introduce themselves I just want to remind everybody that we highly encourage questions whether using the q amp a function in zoom or by raising your hand and zoom and you can ask your question live. So just a reminder to do that. I will ask both Rob and Chris to just introduce themselves for those who do not know them. Tell us your your title your role how long you've been with the town and what you do. I'll ask Rob first because Chris is frequent flyer. Hi, Rob more I'm building commissioner for the town of Amherst responsible for the day to day operations of the inspection services department with respect to zoning specifically. I am responsible for interpretation and applying the town of Amherst zoning bylaw. How long have you been with the town Rob. It'll be nine years in April. Wow. I'm going to test to Rob's encyclopedic knowledge of codes and zoning bylaws. It's, it's really impressive so we're lucky to have him here today. Chris, could you introduce yourself to the room please. Sure. I'm Chris Brestrup. I'm the planning director. I've been with the town for almost 18 years. My role is to manage the planning department the staff here, both in terms of the applications that we receive for the planning board and zoning board of appeals and other boards and committees but also to manage the projects that we get involved with. Great, well welcome back we are happy to have you both here. So, just for for those who might not know what we're talking about when we're referencing these zoning amendments and zoning changes could you give just a brief explanation as to what the, the processes and where we're at as a town right now with it. You want me to talk Rob. Sure. I'll talk first. So, we've been asked by the town council after the town council studied a number of many, many different possible zoning issues and the town council came up with a list of what they felt were the priorities for them to work on in the next six to 12 months, as far as zoning goes and many of those priorities had to do with finding ways to build more housing in Amherst because Amherst has a great record of conserving property in the outlying areas, both farmland and forest, etc. But it really hasn't built very much housing since the 1970s so recently we have built some housing but it was it was a long time coming. So the town council is interested in finding ways to improve our housing stock. And there are also recognized issues with our zoning bylaw. Rob and I have worked with it, you know, over the years and have found that there are problems with interpretation, lack of clarity. Just, you know, things aren't really spelled out in a very understandable way. So, one of the things that Rob is working on which he can talk about is recodification of the zoning bylaw so that's really taking the zoning bylaw reformatting it and trying to eliminate the lack of clarity and conflicts. But we're also working on specific zoning amendments where we're looking at different neighborhoods like the general residence district and limited business district to figure out how we can build more housing there but not overwhelm those communities. Rob, do you want to say anything. So, about the process itself. You know it can happen a couple of different ways but what we're working on right now actually began with some specific requests from the council to staff to work on a various set of bylaw amendments. The process could start with the planning board bringing forward suggestions and sometimes staff has their own suggestions which are also incorporated into this process. But from that point the the council would choose to move forward with any particular amendment and that would kick off a series of public hearings on the matter. We're nowhere near that point in the process that we're just starting now we're more in the beginning of the development stage of the bylaw and proposed bylaw amendments. But at some point in the future there could be a bylaw, a public hearing process that would begin. I would just like to add that over the last month, we've held multiple meetings with the planning board and also with the CRC about the zoning amendments that we're working on. So if people are interested they could go to the town website and find the recordings for those planning board meetings and CRC meetings. So the town zoning bylaws is really the sort of blueprint for what we want to see happen or what is happening in our town. It's an important document and that's how land use is regulated in a community. And it's a hard thing to change because it requires typically for most items a two thirds vote of the town of the legislative body which in our case is the town council so it's a very high it's the highest bar we have in terms of changing laws. The actual legislative body has to vote to change the laws of the zoning bylaw so it's an important process but it has impact on anybody who owns a piece of land typically. When was the last time that there were any significant changes or updates to the zoning bylaw and Amherst out of curiosity. Well the zoning bylaw has been amended over the years but I would say the last major overhaul of the zoning bylaw was probably in the 70s. When Amherst experienced a huge surge of growth as a result of the university growing from a land grant college to a major university, and developments started popping up all over and people felt that there was a need to kind of control the level of development. So, but certainly over the years there have been several or many amendments to the zoning bylaw. I just got to take a quick chance to remind a couple of the new attendees who just got into the room. Feel free to ask your questions q&a or raise your hand. It doesn't have to be related to zoning but we certainly welcome all questions. And I do see Hilda in the room so Hilda. Hilda could unmute and introduce yourself. I'm Hilda Greenbound 298 Montague Road. And I'd have to tell you I'm really disbanded this morning and what's happening to this town. I've known this town since 1958 when I came as a freshman to Mount Holyoke and of course no Mount Holyoke social life was rather limited we spent a lot of time on this side of the notch. It was a really cute little new England town with lots of nice little stores to go to, which continued I guess until mountain farms mobile but my biggest issue is not with the growth and the changes downtown, as much as will be aesthetics. There seems to be that every single building that Mr. Williams and Mr. Wilson proposed for this town is ugly it on the one before, and I would really be grateful to know what kind of control we have over the aesthetics of the architecture and that we get places that the small businesses can afford to rent. Now they're talking about a overlay district on the west side of the common, which would displace lots of little therapists who rent little office buildings where they're going to go. We lost all the businesses from the carriage shops lost all the building businesses from the, the tower pizza, they're all gone. What's going to be the reason to go downtown the bars are closed the restaurants are all Chinese take out. I'm really unhappy with the designs of the Jones library I think the thing looks like a cow barn. What can we do about it we have an article three that controls aesthetics of duplexes, they have to look like what's next door. How can we make the downtown look like what's no and I think this new thing that's been proposed and today's paper looks like an orange crate. It may be long and Northwest Arkansas but it ain't Amherst and I'm very upset about it. And, you know, it's in contrast to what's happening with the North Amherst library which is absolutely gorgeous and absolutely what belongs on a historic building. We have the design review board and the design review board will be taking a close look at the latest building that's been proposed, and they will be advising the planning board about what their recommendations will be as far as the exterior of the building, and the site, the proposed site work. So, we have the, as I said design review board then we have on the planning board I think we have three architects who are on the planning board and they certainly have a strong sense of aesthetics so I think there will be a very careful scrutiny of this new building. It hasn't happened in the past okay. Staff has already done it carefully. Yes, the track record is not good. Thank you for your comments Hilda we appreciate them and I'm sure Chris and Rob have are going to take those into advisement. So, I am going to recognize counselor Dorothy Pam who is in the room and has her hand raised if you could unmute and introduce yourself counselor. Hi, this is Dorothy Pam. Yes, we have a million questions and I will tell you if you haven't probably already guessed that my district is extraordinarily upset but I'm only going to focus on one little question today and this is the practical one of parking. I know the theoretical position that cars aren't needed, but I don't agree with it. I do think we could go bold and say, if you want to live in this building have an electric car, because the car makers are actually they've got the message, the cars are coming, and I think that, you know, people then make a choice. But I cannot see living in the real world as I do, how a new building, which I will not discuss the design. Okay, but a new building with all of those units will have 16 parking spaces. When real life comes back. We stopped with a Lincoln Avenue parking problem. It went away with the epidemic. But if you build more things downtown and don't require any parking, then, of course, all of the residential streets will be absolutely just, you know become parking lots, and people won't be able to pull out of their driveways. I think that, you know, ideology is has a place, but I think we have to be practical and understand the role of the car in today's life. And also, I think a fantasy that these buildings are not just dorms has got to be dealt with, because if they were for people regular people with families and jobs, they would need cars. And I think that Holyoke Community College if I took public transportation, it would take me back when we and we're going back to campus for some of the classes in the fall, it would take me almost two hours to get there, as opposed to 28 minutes driving.  So, I just think we need a little realism about cars and who places are for. And I also want to put this other thought in your head. If we build buildings, which are like dorms. What is missing? Well, the residential advisor is missing any kind of supervision oversight services for the students that are in those buildings. They're not different from the ones who live in dorms who do need residential advisors. There's also no recreation space for them in their buildings, just beds. I don't think that we're, you know, serving the students well by what's going on. So I want to just ask people to really think about this and not in terms of ideological terms but in just practical realistic terms. Who's going to live there. What do they need. What is necessary to make life comfortable and happy. And is are these buildings flexible. Maybe it would be students today. Maybe it would be what the people we keep talking about the young families or seniors in the future is the building one that they would want to live into. So, I just want, you know, flexibility to be thought of as well. Thank you. Thank you counselor. Anyone want to address any of counselor Pam's comments before we, we've seemed to hit a hot topic because we've got a lot of hands in the room and some questions in the q amp a so I can say that we recognize the fact that there are issues with our parking section of our zoning bylaw. And we do mean to address those and we may need some consulting help to do that. But that is certainly one of the things that we recognize as needing to be dealt with. We also understand that the bid has been working on potential for building a parking garage and we don't know if that's actually going to come about but that's another possibility for dealing with the issue of parking. The fact is that the zoning by and this is the first time the town so counselor Pam is going to be a decision maker on what the zoning looks like. And so this is the first time the council is really looking at the rules zoning changes but the existing zoning bylaw that has been in effect. That's what it requires in terms of parking is that accurate Rob for this project. There's a there's a requirement for parking in all the different zoning districts. And in this particular district that's, you know the examples being discussed there isn't a parking requirement. So the bylaw says you don't have to provide parking at a minimum number per dwelling unit. However, the site plan review criteria does include traffic and parking, irrespective of what the bylaw count may or may not provide the planning but it still has the authority to review parking and traffic. So, instead of simply accepting a waiver request for a traffic study, the traffic study could be focused on the amount of parking need for the building, based on the reality or the current situation, and that could be taken into account by the planning board and applied to the project or influenced it to the to the design of the project, even though our bylaw says you don't necessarily need to have X number of parking spaces per dwelling unit. So that's, you know, that's the, the power of the planning board during the hearing process. So these concerns about parking for this particular project will be played out at the planning board level is that what you're saying. They should be because it's specifically part of the design review criteria in the site plan review process. I have a question that counselor Pam raised, which a lot of people are raising about parking requirements. That's something that would have to be adopted by the town council at some point to change what we what currently it is is an existence. Yes, and I have to say that the reason that we have a municipal parking district is because for a long time there was no development downtown. The municipal parking district was actually established I think in 1969 and it was an effort to encourage businesses to locate downtown that and not require them all to have on site parking. Then it was expanded and something like 2008 to include residential. But at that time there weren't any residential buildings being built downtown so now that we've changed that bylaw, we're seeing a flood of residential buildings so this is a topic that's worth revisiting. Great, thank you and I have. I'm going to go to the comment and take these in order. So I'm going to go to this question that was posted and then I see Ken Jennifer and iris hands will take those in that order. And I'm sorry. Yeah, I think I think maybe we try to hear from the folks because we only were killing the time already. This is a more of a comment and it's probably a quick answer on the design review board doesn't have much legal authority to begin with but isn't the site of the proposed 11 East pleasant outside of their zone. No, it's not. Okay. Great, so I'm going to invite Ken into the room if you could unmute and introduce yourself please Ken. Thank you. I'm Ken Rosenthal. I live on Sunset Avenue and I'm going to speak only about parking know I have some other ideas to Chris you're right. The reason that there is no parking requirement is because back in the 60s and early 70s we were thinking about commercial space in town, and nobody was assuming that anybody who came into town was going to keep a car here overnight. In fact what we really wanted were people to come in spend a couple of hours spend their money. We wanted to go to restaurants, go to the shops, and go home and have turnover and that's what we had, but we've been talking about the parking problem with residents ever since Kendrick place was put on the table. I spoke at a planning board meeting, and I said I support very much the proposed the ideas for Kendrick place but I don't support how they're proposing to realize those ideas. The parking has been needed for the residents in Kendrick place and one East Pleasant Street, Rob you can tell us probably how many of those residents have applied for permits to park in town and those are the ones who have applied for permits there are the others who cheat a little bit. Parking for that building by the same developers on Spring Street originally had 11 spaces after it was approved they came back and said oh sorry now we'd like to take the 11 spaces out and put residential spaces in. And we know that where those cars on Spring Street are going to go they're going to go into Amherst College parking lot Amherst College doesn't know it yet, but they're going to have those people there when that building is finished. So to say that we're going to look at this is a little bit late, and we need to look at it today, tonight, tomorrow, because we've been talking about the need for parking for those residential buildings, since they were planned, and the town has not responded. I'm sorry to sound so negative, but it's the planning department that's got a proposal so that the council can have something to vote on, and please do something about that now. Thank you. Alright, I'm going to go through so we can make sure we get everybody's hands on. So Jennifer, if you could unmute and introduce yourself please. I'm Jennifer Tau at 259 Lincoln Avenue, and I'm just reiterating I guess you hear this every time, you know, represents for our neighborhood speak, but I can't emphasize enough again with the new buildings that are very problematic for all the reasons that Hilda and Ken stated. That the number I moved here 10 years ago and I've counted at least 12 businesses that I and my solicited on a regular basis, Barthes Ice Cream, the lumberyard, Shea Aubert, the tailor at the carriage shops, Amherst Wine & Spirit, the music shop at the carriage shop, the yard shop, Kay's Antiques, there were two nail salons, one by the, I guess by Cousin's Market and another right where Clay's is downtown, the cross from town hall that it closed, the blue marble, which I went to regularly the loose goose. So that's like a dozen small businesses. And I don't know, you know, that certainly people in and around downtown solicited regularly and that's a real loss to the community and I firmly believe that even if you live, you know, a far from debt from town center in Amherst Woods. The more, why would anybody really aside from the schools now move to Amherst and pay our high taxes. If there's nothing downtown, but the student is getting to be student dorms and then like a mass mutual taking the entire commercial space at Kendrick Place. And there has to be some way I would hope we can require the buildings, the dorms archipelago buildings that are already there and anyone's that are going to come that maybe the commercial space on the first floor be made smaller so these small businesses can be there. But this is what makes a town and it's again I don't care where you live in Amherst. This is going to affect the resale value frankly and the quality of life of everybody here. I also added, we certainly, you know, I need, I guess a parking but we should be able to prove to when they say you can't compel the developers of these buildings to build parking I mean that's just a nonsensical zoning provision or bylaw that that should just have been, you know, not allowed the first archipelago buildings went up but that said, I guess we are going to need a parking structure but I'm concerned about it, going in like the CVS parking lot because again I'm no parking structure is attractive is that what we want to be the dominant building in our town. I mean, we sort of have the ugly application of a huge part of, you know, certainly the northern part of downtown I don't think a parking structure is going to, going to help that, and then the last question on the RGs and I know I sound like a broken record, but with footnote and in where you can already build six to nine dwellings in a backyard that's plenty, we don't need to increase that to nine to 14 there is absolutely no reason to tinker with footnote and the RGs already allowed for perfectly enough densification, thank you. Thank you Jennifer. Anybody want to respond to any of the comments from Jennifer. This moment. Okay. So I am going to go to Ira. If you could unmute and introduce yourself. Hi, I'm Ira Brick live on 255 Strong Street. And I just want to say times change. And I was just wondering this morning is Amherst center still called the CBD the central business district and I googled Amherst CBD and the first hit was rise cannabis so things do change. I just want to say, I have been watching a lot of town council and town planning board and all of that and it's been stated many times by the experts in the town that it's hard and the developers it's hard to attract stores and restaurants and residential seems to be much the better mouse trap that's going to attract paying customers. And so I can see why they are going for that easier business, but now it seems like UMass is saying that they're going to start building a lot more stores on campus and so, you know, kind of reminds me of the man who's feet smell and whose nose runs he's built upside down and seems like that is part of being built upside down. The presentation the other day by the planning department included a comment that you can't legislate what commercial use you can say this space needs to be a restaurant or a store, but also Christine who I respect a lot said we should build things that will entice new businesses here. How do we entice the developers to build things that will entice new businesses here and what else do we need we no longer have an economic development director, I understand the bid is hiring a firm that looks substantial but that's more about building from COVID. I would love to see somebody come up with plans in the town that a developer we know who they are says yes I can make money building that stores and restaurants in the first floor with the setback like really get even more specific and I know that the building department has been getting very specific and 3D. It's really starting to evolve into something that is more realistic and less objectionable. It also preserves character which is part of the master plan that's kind of being not only ignored but disparaged master plan has 15 separate mentions of why if you don't protect and preserve the character of the neighborhood. It doesn't matter what you build it's going to be bad. I just want to say, I think we need to think about how to attract in those residences, the families retirees workforce, along with student housing that is affordable for them. That is not, you know, as expensive as these new buildings seem to be. So, you've heard you hear from me regularly I'm sure you could have written the speech yourself but I just want to say it again. Thank you. I had not heard that the, you know, feet spell and nose runs that I appreciate that one a lot. I wanted to say a couple of things and one is that one of the things that has been bothering people about the new buildings that have been built to date is that they tend to have the same size unit. Particularly the one on spring street has big studios and one bedrooms. So, the new building that's being proposed that everybody saw the newspaper this morning. That building actually has a mixture of units, studios ones twos threes and even some four bedroom apartment so there is a possibility that there's more of a possibility that families might choose to live there. I also wanted to make a mention of something that came up back in the 2000s when we were really experiencing a lot of financial difficulties in the town and there was a decision made to make it a little bit more easy for new buildings to come into town and in order to boost the tax revenues that are so, you know, desperately needed by the town to pay for schools to pay for teachers to pay for fire and police, etc. You know, I understand that people may not appreciate the aesthetics of some of these buildings but they do produce a lot of revenue in the hundreds of thousands of dollars per year that helps the town to keep running and since we have proposition two and a half. It's hard to raise taxes, but one of the ways we can raise revenue is by having what we call new growth. So that's kind of a silver lining if you will, you know, it's something to consider anyway about this new development. Thank you Chris for making that point and we said earlier before we started that 30 minutes goes by really quick and we are now at 1231 we're kind of at the end of our time here so I would like to invite our special guests and or Paul to leave the attendees with any final thoughts or statements and if your question did not get addressed or not fully addressed feel free to email us at info at Amherst MA.gov and I will make sure it gets to the right person. Chris, Rob, Paul, any, any final words. I'll jump in first I think this is a really important conversation I appreciate the people in Amherst really educate themselves about the bylaws and things that are in on the table and these informed comments are really important for the town staff to support the town decision makers which ultimately the council in the planning board in their decision so I really appreciate that. All right, Chris or Rob anything. I would just like to say that people should continue to pay attention to the planning board meetings and the CRC meetings and town council meetings to know what's going on and have an influence over what kinds of things might be adopted. Great. All right, thank you and Rob. Oh, yeah, thanks. And just that you know there are very specific discussions in the meetings and often not time to talk about other items so always feel free to email us. Questions or comments regarding the bylaw we are working on other parts of the bylaw we don't know if they'll ever come into the public discussion but you know it's good to know if there are any suggestions along the way thanks. Great. Thank you, Rob and Chris for joining us we really appreciate it. I know that the planning staff is working on some sort of web page to kind of house some of these changes or proposed changes so stay tuned for that where you can hopefully follow along learn more and share your pointed feedbacks as that process goes along. So thank you all for joining us and we'll see you next week. Thank you everybody. Thank you.


Professor Richard Kinston, talking about NERC's Digital Solutions Club. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. So this is a double act. So yourself, Nuran, Dave Topping was here yesterday. He's not feeling too well, so he's headed back to Manchester. Well, so those of you at the digital gathering, I think it was a cold out last year, in Birmingham, you'll have heard me speak maybe about what the NERC Digital Solutions Program is all about. And we're kind of a year on now from that, and we've made quite a lot of progress. What we've been doing over the last 12 months, since that last meeting, is going around the country talking to users. And just as a reminder, the focus of the NERC Digital Solutions Program is to make all of that 40 plus petabytes of NERC data more usable, findable, discoverable, accessible by non-academic communities. So it's quite different to a lot of other things that have gone in in the past, because our primary focus is on those non-academic communities, people in local government, central government, regional government, Quangos, environmental charities. And what we've done for the last, well, overall last winter, working with a community interest company called Open Data Manchester, I think some of you attended those workshops, is basically ask that community, what problems do they have in using data, and in particular environmental data? A lot of them had no idea who NERC were, so we weren't sort of saying, have you ever used NERC data? So they didn't know who NERC was. I'm not going to go through all of this. But the primary focus there was to sit them down in a room, in tables, and we use a very manual, paper-based method to collect information from them and understand what their problems were with using data. How could they, what were the challenges with integrating environmental data with other forms of data, social, economic, health data? And what were the kind of challenges in terms of using tools? What sort of tools were they using? So one of the most surprising facts from me that came out of that was people in certain organisations who had laptops so locked down they couldn't install the latest versions of a piece of software. They were using their own personal laptops at home to do the work that was part of their job. They were using four-year-old laptops. So one of the key things that came out of this is this digital solutions hub that we are building, it has to be some kind of web-based portal. So what we're doing is building this thing which is not just a big data portal, it will be sitting on Jasmine and have that power of Jasmine. So this again is something that these potential users of the digital solution. So it's not the kind of computational power they've had in the past. So there's a lot of modelling on all of this data integrating their data with others. Now what I'm going to do now is pass over to Nora because the program folks listen to talk. So Nora's going to take you through those kind of findings from all of those workshops and then I'll just finish off at the end with where we're heading next. Thank you, Richard. Okay, so the first thing that I'm going to do is just reiterate on what Richard mentioned and what we call the user needs strategy. So basically it was a multi-phase strategy. So we went through a scoping phase like 18 months ago we started that and then going forward to the online workshops where we actually asked users about nerds. So that was the higher level scope. And then we went through the data collection that Richard mentioned with the workshops. So those were 12 workshops across the country. We did speak to a lot of people and it was very, very detailed inquiry. And then we took that into sort of more detailed personas and scenarios identification phase. So that's the analysis phase sort of. And we got a lot of information out of that really. So it was surprising how much information we can gather from all of the sheets that were literally written on paper on the workshops. And then we are currently at a stage where we are taking all this analysis and putting it as requirements and citation for the hub. So basically taking all the information from the qualitative side of it towards the not so small box over there which is software development. So it's a huge process to take all this input as requirements and citation. And the idea is to have this as an agile process going through acceptance testing and then going back to the requirements and maybe eliciting more requirements and gathering more information with the users. So that's basically the approach that we're taking and it's gonna continue with us until the end of the project. And then once we have all the information from the workshops, we started asking ourselves very simple questions really. So who are the users that we want to target? What data and tools do they already use in order to capitalize on that? What sort of workflow do they already use including the pain points that Richard mentioned? And then how can the SH improve that workflow? In order to do that, we went through when the last thing actually is what we're working on right now which is the requirements and the citation and all those quest questions lead into the requirements at the end. In order to answer two of those questions, we have the report that Richard mentioned and it's gonna go out very, very soon. And it has different types of personas, different user journeys, seeing how different users use the data and what kind of workflows go into that and I'm gonna be speaking about that in a bit. The other thing that we did as well was a network analysis or a data ecosystem analysis where we started looking at who is using which tool and I'm gonna be talking more in detail about this in a bit as well. So basically all those inquiries together would lead into the design requirements for the hub. Those are some very key insights from the report but this is not everything in the report. It's actually basically only the gist of it. There is a lot of detail on what the users need included in that report. So basically the main outcome that came from everybody that attended the workshops is that there is a lot of data. It's on a lot of platforms already and it's quite hard for users to get the gist of all the platforms that are out there, all the data that is available and the user experience going through finding the data has been quite hard for almost everybody that we've spoken to. So basically going through multiple clicks, for example, in order to get to a certain dataset, but then once you get there, you find that it's licensed and you can't access it. So it's that kind of process that might need to be made better for the users and the idea of having to go through a lot of different websites and a lot of different platforms to get the data that you might need. That led us to key requirements. Again, this is only the gist of what is in the report. Much detail is included there. So basically if we say what do the users want generally to see on the hub, that would include accessing the data that they need in the easiest way possible really and taking a sample or seeing the sample of this information so that they would sort of know whether this information and this data is right for them or not. And then following that tracking the work was really important for them as well. So tracking the work and the resources that they've accessed maybe in the past so that they can reiterate on working on that. And one of the very important things that were mentioned they need to not duplicate the work and the effort that was done whether by themselves in the past or by others already in the field or in the same field. And the last thing is access to analytical tools whether and the idea of having consistent analytical tools and maybe support on computational power as well. And all of that would relate to combining their own data with already existing data. So a lot of the users had already access to a lot of data sets from their own organization's sensors and they wanted to combine this with a lot of other data sets but they needed to go around and find them before they can actually start cleaning them and so on. Which takes me to the next finding from the report which is basically everybody that we have talked to falls somewhere on this user journey. So this is a one user journey which takes the users from the idea of yet defining what they need to solve as a problem and then getting the data that will get them there and then analyzing that data and then showcasing that data. This could be to colleagues within the same organization or to policymakers for example for local authorities or central governments or maybe the public even but then there is a last part about managing the data. So managing iterations of the data managing additional information and analysis that they might want to add. And as this has been very common across everybody that we have spoken to some people would be less technical some people would be more technical but they would all fall on that line. So that as well helped us to start understanding another layer of what the users need and the other output was the personas or what we're calling the archetypes as well. So we started dividing sort of or well, some of the users would fall under multiple archetypes sort of but we started understanding sort of what are the different types of users. For example, the more technical users would fall under the analysts or the investigator where they are trying to solve a question or answer a certain question with the data. Some more managerial scales similar to the leader for example, where the positions in the organizations that want to make sure that the data is used properly within their organization. Some are more focused on the data quality. So that would be the users related to gathering and monitoring basically. So they're related to the data collection, GIS specialists as well and authors of the monitoring framework. So that will include policy offices at local authorities and similar positions. I'm not gonna go into much detail there but it's a lot of information again in the report that should be out and shared soon. So that's basically the user journey that we have seen types of archetypes of people that we have spoken to. And then the last question was trying to understand and dissect sort of what kind of data is used by which uses. So this is where the network analysis or data ecosystem came into play. So we started looking at users as nodes in a network and the data as the currency between them. So we started looking at what type of transformations that would happen to the data because usually users will get the data and then do some sort of analysis on it or cleaning on it. So there are processes that take place there and the idea was to start looking into opportunities and finding overlaps and doing so taking into consideration the archetypes and taking into consideration the types of organizations of each user. And the idea here is to get that part specifically would inform insights on the use cases. So that's basically delivering business values for the users. So on top of understanding how the users would go through the hub generally those would be specific services that we would provide. This is again a qualitative research. However, it's quite a robust dataset and it's interactive. We use it generally for the internal use of the team basically to start looking into use cases. So that's just a visual of the network that we have right now from the workshops. And when as it stands it's quite overwhelming but what we use it for is to basically filter out only for example data that was generated by central government organizations and then see who is using that data and then whether we can make that workflow better and easier specifically for those datasets. So that's where we're using that. And with that I'm going to leave you with Richard again for the next steps. Thanks. So we're at the point now where we were hoping we'd have had this report published. We do have a Word version but Open Data Manchester make a very shiny version of that. If you came to a workshop you'll get that in your inbox in the coming weeks but it will go on our website. So if you want to read 67 pages of that diagram and not understanding what are we potentially using using the data form or what they want to do with it you'll have access to that. So the next steps really we'll be following up with those 100 plus users going back and interviewing them asking them some more detailed questions. In the background our technical team we've got six RSEs and the systems architect and we've just today advertising for two infrastructure engineers. So if you've got any friends or infrastructure engineers send them my way that can come and work with us. We're building the hub that's going on in Kaulal in the background. So by autumn we hope that we'll have an early version of the actual digital solutions hub. We're building that on the Esri ArcGIS Enterprise System. There's a version that we're building a developed version in Manchester but the full working version will sit on Jasmine. So that gives you a GACC to a lot of those a lot of the data and the computation power. The other important if you came to the workshop you will have early access to the hub so you can start to try and break it and tell us what doesn't work. If you didn't come to a workshop but you would like to get the early access to that do get me a touch you can sign it through our website for our newsletter we'll add you to our contact database. So if any of you are keen to get your hands on this and the other thing I thought just to say was that a lot of you have presented what you're doing in the last couple of days into the new tools, new data that you're developing if that data you're creating is going into one of those five NERC data centers that data will come into the digital solutions hub. So I've spoke to a few of you over the last couple of days and if some of you have got other ideas about how you might want to collaborate with us so integrating the data you've been generating the tools we can then bring those into the hub because that's the whole purpose of this. It's about making all of that NERC data more usable to wider communities and what's great for you about that is that then ticks that impact box because we'll have a way of saying organization X actually use that data that you generated in that project that was funded by NERC. So further down the line when you're doing your REF 3037 or whatever it will be called your impact case over the next coming decades you will be able to trace that back to the fact that someone in death row or someone in CPE or a natural resource to Wales actually used your data and your tools. So keep in touch, you can sign up for various things if you've probably seen our roller banner out there pick up a pen, get a flyer you can follow us through the website on Twitter and all that kind of things and if you get signed up onto our newsletter we'll keep you up to date and you can also as I say get early access to the hub that we're building and I'll finish there. Very much, very interesting. There's a few questions that have come up already. Have you looked at all at the possible changing uses in the future that you've tried to do? So part of what, so the idea is Simon sat here so it's that we hopefully become a national facility and that we would get then another five years of funding if we don't make a mess of all of this. And the idea is that this user engagement will not stop. We will keep doing user engagement because the users change and users come in new policy changes. So we want this hub to keep reacting to that. So I think you always do user engagement in some form. So adapting as you go. And Carl says it appears you've done lots of good user research.  Yes, to some extent. So what we didn't want to do in the workshops was go along with mockups because a lot of researchers that if you go along with a mockup to one of those workshops users then focus on the mockup and they sort of go away thinking, oh, it's all about this. And we didn't want them to be swayed by, oh, it's obviously just going to be a GIS to be honest. Maybe this had time savings in us. So we didn't present them with mockup. We gave them some flavor and some of you value it. But we didn't want to go down that route because that can steer the conversation and it pushes you down a particular direction. What we are doing though is developing the first version in the autumn. Those users will have access to it and play around it, break it, tell us what does it work. And so it looks like from the work so it's just a huge amount of information. Can you just say a little bit about how you filtered it to get to the important bits of the quantum digital? It was actually a lot of work done on that. A lot of that was done by ODIM as well. So I think it was done, she said. And the idea was to start with her and now different use cases for the workflows and then start gathering them together. So who is saying what? And then gathering everybody who said something similar and everybody who said similar barrier, for example. And then taking that through to, okay, so this is kind of an archetype and that's and that's where the journey came into play. But then what we're currently working on is adding sub-journeys sort of that would fit to specific archetypes and that would make sure that we're actually developing certain tools or use cases for that specific archetype. And that was, yeah, very interesting. Thank you very much. Thank you.


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Welcome folks, we have the Dow Industries right now down 37, Nasdaq's off 26, S&Ps are our five and a half gold contract of $5.20 trading at $13.36 an ounce. We have Silver up 10 cents, $14.75 an ounce, Light Sweet Crew, that's taking it on the chin to get down $2.18, trading $5109. You know when we take a look at that Light Sweet Crew contract, what you're going to see out here, yeah, it's going to break. Bottom line is that you're coming into the lower swing, you get 730,000 contracts traded, you're going into $9.43, now the kicker here folks is that what you have is that we hit $50.72, well the low that it's going after is $50.60. So it's not going to get it today and that is going to be a problem for the oil market. It's going to get some sleep, it's going to wake up in the morning, I expect it's going to basically go right after that number and this oil market wants this $44 down at the December 24th to 26th level. Notes and bonds, bottom line, higher price, you get the 10-year up to 6 ticks, $126.31, 30 years flat, $153.19 and $king dollar, $king dollar up to 336, trading $96.975. You get open, we take a look at king dollar, let's go take a look and see what kind of juice we had. A sideways move out here a little bit earlier with light volume, you get an up tick, you get 23,000 contracts, so you do have an up tick, so bottom line is that this thing wants a little bit higher price, this can get into this $97.01, we're pretty close to it right now, you're at $96.980. Gold contract and this is a divergence here, no doubt, the gold contract pushing higher, has 224,000 contracts, it's in the higher range, it's in good shape up here and if we go take a look at those bonds, those bonds continue higher price, lower yield and when we talk about higher price, lower yield, right now inside the 10-year, we are trading $2.12, so bottom line, what we have out here is that when you stop putting this together, what we do have out here on the sideways, the small pullback, you have light volume, so we'll see how this shakes out coming into the close out here. Dow, right now down 42, Nasdaq off 30, S&Ps off 6.5, stay right there folks, come right back. Thank you. Bye. Bye. Bye.


The Bukibukinomi is a pretty incredible fruit, allowing one to transform into all kinds of weapons from literal blades to projectiles and even explosives. However, its most profound weapon by far comes in the form of the subscribe button for the Grand Line Review, which will help you combat your boredom by granting you regular One Piece content uploaded straight into your YouTube feed. Hello and welcome to the Grand Line Review, your source for everything One Piece, and today for the Devil for Encyclopedia, we are having something of an arms race happening here as we will be examining the unparalleled weaponry fruit at work being the Bukibukinomi. The Bukibukinomi is a Paramecia-type fruit that allows the user to transform part of or even all of their body into what seems to be, quite literally, any weapon they so choose, whether that be a blade, a projectile or an explosive, or any combination of those. And there's an awful lot to consider with this one which was consumed in the series by the ever-charming Baby Five, whose name is actually spelled by using the numeral five rather than actual words, and this fruit was first showcased to us during the punk hazard arc. Now as one may be able to predict, this fruit takes its name directly from the Japanese word for weapon which is of course Buki. Very interestingly though, I'd like to note that in Japanese as well as in English I guess, the word weapon or Buki does not just mean a literal physical weapon, but it can also be used in other contexts. And another common reading of Buki is something to be used as a means of persuading or arguing, which in English we could say something similar like say having a secret weapon in a debate, something along those lines. However the reason why I take the time to highlight this is because its secondary meaning is very very well reflected in its user Baby Five albeit in a very ironic way, because as we all know she doesn't take an awful lot to persuade or convince in any form of discussion. So despite the fact that she embodies the physical meaning of the word Buki, she is the exact opposite of the secondary reading. And in fact she even gives you the ultimate feature to use against her in an argument, which is simply to state that she is needed. And that really seems to be more powerful than any weapon Baby Five is capable of conjuring. Moving to the English though, this one was probably a bit tricky to translate and it ended up being the arms arms fruit, which if you don't have weapons in mind would probably sound a bit off. However, given that there really aren't that many terms for general weaponry in English, that was probably the best possible result to remain in keeping with the snappy fruit names. Although to be perfectly honest, the weapon weapon fruit doesn't sound all that bad in my mind. Alright, as for details of how this maddening fruit works, I think this is certainly one of the most slept on fruits in the One Piece fan base, with people consistently underestimating its power, likely due to how easily manipulated its user is. But basically upon consuming the Buki Bukinomi, the user can turn any part of themselves into any weapon. Yes, any weapon, until then growing that for a moment, it's really difficult to determine what the limitations of the Buki Bukinomi are from that alone. And this is also one of those fruits that really makes you question how natural devil fruits could possibly be, because this gives the user access to clearly man-made and designed complex constructs. And it actually reminds me a fair bit of scratchmen of whose devil fruit, which allows him to do the exact same thing, except with instruments instead of weapons. And something I've been asking myself about these kinds of fruits is the possibility that they are limited purely by imagination and knowledge. So for example, can baby five only turn into weapons that she is aware of, or are all of her options innately programmed into her after consuming the fruit? Now the correct answer to a question like this is always going to be, stop thinking about it too deeply. It's just meant to be a fun thing for Oda to play with, but you know that doesn't really work for this kind of video. And the way I'd prefer it to go is that the weaponry available is entirely based on baby five's knowledge. So if she lived on an isolated island where people only had access to swords and bows, then baby five would only be able to transform into swords and bows because that's all she knows. Or likewise, if she grew up in a place like Karakuri Island, the homeland of Dr. Vagapunk, then perhaps she would be able to transform into a laser weaponry and all sorts of crazy vagapunk style innovations. That's just my personal preference though, that may not necessarily be the truth. But all of this comes under the provision of arms and it's really hard to know where to draw the line because the user of the Bukibukinumi can become super simple guns, however they can also transform into complex automatic weaponry like a gatling gun. Although the crowning feature that we've seen in the series is the ability to turn into explosives, which was demonstrated with the missile girl technique, which is exactly what it sounds like transforming into a missile and exploding upon impact with a target, which didn't have much effect on a technological marvel like Frankie Shogun, but this is a pretty maddening amount of damage to consider. And what's more interesting is that as part of becoming an explosive, the user's body becomes shattered and broken by said explosion, only to be capable of reforming itself afterwards. So in a very crazy abstract way, the Bukibukinumi comes with a bit of logia zest because this regeneration doesn't just apply to explosives either. If any weapon that the user turns their body into becomes broken, even if it's just a simple blade, then they are able to reform their body afterwards. So in theory, as long as one's whole body is a weapon, then this fruit does become an effect of logia in terms of that general sense of intangibility. Although obviously not intangibility, I would liken it more to Kuzan's Hiihiyonomi, which you can hit that you cannot hurt the user without Haki anyway. So with all of this in mind, let's now turn our attention to how exactly Baby Five makes use of the Bukibukinumi, which is primarily to act as the crew assassin of the Dofumiko Pirates. Because every pirate crew needs an assassin, it's one role that has yet to be filled on the straw hats, so Baby Five for Nakama, please. But as much as you may remember, otherwise Baby Five is actually an extraordinarily proficient user of the Bukibukinumi. She just happened to get very unlucky with her primary opponents in the series. However, Baby Five has an incredible mastery of how to use particular types of weapons to their greatest effect by instilling their properties into very specific body parts. And really if it wasn't for her glaring yet hilarious character flaw, Baby Five would probably be considered one of the more dangerous characters in the series, and we do actually have a surprisingly direct comparison to her to demonstrate that in the form of Dar's Bones, better known as Mr. One. Now Dar's Bones has a very similar fruit, the Supasupinumi, which allows him to transform his body into any blade, and quite notably the Bukibukinumi is officially recognized as the direct superior of the Supasupinumi. So Baby Five's fruit is more powerful in every way in its base form, however Dar's Bones unquestionably uses his ability to a far greater degree than Baby Five. And it's interesting because his primary profession was also that of an assassin. So it really does show how extremely deadly this fruit could be in more capable and maybe less comic reliefy hands. But once again, I do want to emphasize that Baby Five is a literal gun of a user, and I think that a lot of that can be attributed to being a member of the Don Quixote Pirates in most of her life because that would have given her a perfect opportunity to see and study an incredible array of weaponry that Dolphamingo would have been involved in trading and then adjusting and perfecting her own techniques as appropriate. But moving to the ever speculative Awakening section, the Bukibukinumi presents a particularly scary thought, especially if Awakening it allows the user to morph their environment into quite literally any weapon one can think of because that goes far beyond simply becoming missile yourself and you could effectively make infinite missiles, which in the long piece world is still a pretty unparalleled source of damage. But even more simple constructs like turning the entire battlefield into vicious gasling guns is a pretty absurdly powerful capability and one that would instantly elevate Baby Five into a highly infamous status within the one piece world, let alone the one man or one woman army that would be realized in the real world. That or maybe an Awakening just somehow results in more powerful weaponry being able to be produced, which sounds cool because I for one would love to see Baby Five literally become say a lightsaber or any variety of fictional weaponry, in fact while I stop at lightsabers. Let's have Baby Five become an entire death star, also does the infinity gauntlet count as a weapon or maybe even biological weapons, such as allowing the user to generate Caesar clown type existences of mass destruction. So look there are many options here. Some other miscellaneous things to consider when becoming a full body weapon human. One other interesting point to consider is whether or not consuming this fruit results in its user becoming immune to general weaponry, which often happens with double fruits. You know for example, Ace consumes a fire fruit and thus he is immune to most brands of fire. So can Baby Five be hurt by other weapons? And the answer is certainly yes. Yes she can because she did go on to be harmed by Frankie, but not only is the user vulnerable to other weapons, but apparently the user is also selectively vulnerable to their own weapons, which was implied when Baby Five was about to kill herself when directed to by Psy. So basically it would seem that the user's body can be damaged but not destroyed in weapon form, but if the base body is damaged then that can result in some very real death. Also for some more explosive talk though, while Baby Five demonstrated the ability to transform into a missile, it also brings up the idea that she could transform into a more pure brand of explosive like grenades, landmines or C4, something along those lines, which would imbue her fruit with abilities, similar to that of Gladius and Mr. Five, at least in terms of their destructive potential. And speaking of DP, destructive potential, at the moment despite the lack of knowledge argument, I'm really not seeing a good reason as to why the user of Bukibukinomi would not be able to transform into something truly terrifying like a nuclear bomb. I mean maybe you could think of it as an explanation like the potency of the weaponry is determined by the strength or will of the user, but this fruit is just so incredibly open-ended, much more so than most. And things can even turn into a philosophical discussion regarding what is and isn't a weapon. I mean is a weapon just something to be used to violently achieve a goal? Like if you were to drop a piano on someone, is that piano your weapon? And could the user therefore transform into a piano? Or maybe even piano wire because that's the thing I've seen on TV, which could give the user adult flamingo style string effect at their disposal. There is just literally endless potential. But also could the user turn into very specific weapons? Like can baby five become a meito grade blade? If she for example saw Zoro's Waluichi Monji or Mihawk's Yoru could she replicate this quality and begin her journey to become the world's greatest swordsman? The questions that this fruit brings up are pretty endless because weaponry is far more vague of a category than I initially suspected it would be. So in the end this is a pretty heftily amazing fruit to consider actually. When people discuss the best devil fruits in the series, this one is most certainly only ever given the briefest of thoughts and then probably dismissed entirely because of how baby five uses it rather than the Bukibukinomi itself. However given that this fruit seems to have no real defined limitations on its use and the fact that under the right circumstances it can even mimic the qualities of a logia, I find it very very difficult not to recommend this one. I just don't really see the downside of it. Even if you don't have a need for weaponry in your life, such things can still be useful and applied in a ton of daily situations. And of course it is the ultimate get out jail free card if you do find yourself in a particularly desperate situation. So look if I were to stumble upon this one I am most certainly eating it on the spot and I would suggest that you all very much did the same. And with that we are going to commit the Bukibukinomi to the devil fruit encyclopedia. Next time on the devil fruit encyclopedia we are going to continue making our way through the Don Quixote pirates specifically with Mr. Buffalo who has an intriguing paramecia that involves lots and lots and lots of rotation and thus flight with the Guru Guru No Mi. But what do you guys think? Please do leave your thoughts in the comments below or even join my discord server. And if you'd like to see more videos like this then please do go and check out some of my other content or even subscribe to the channel for more glorious one piece business uploaded straight into your YouTube feeds. But for now this has been the ground line review and I'll see you next time.