There's two types of people. I know a lot of people say there's many other types of people. I'm gonna keep it very simple, black and white for this video. There's two types of people. There's winners and losers.  Now what's the difference between winners and losers? It's quite fundamental, and it's a massive difference. It doesn't matter the money. It doesn't matter how you look. None of that matters. It's the mindset that matters, because the mindset can dictate everything else. The winner's mindset is not what happened to me, it's what happened for me. The loser mindset is what happened to me, victimhood. Oh, I can't do anything. Oh, it's everyone else's fault. Oh, shuck my thumb.  Oh, don't get me started.  I can't stand people bitching, moaning, complaining, don't do nothing about it.  Most of society's like that. Look around society. There's a really good test you can do, and the test is when people are giving you advice, I'm like, how's that really working out for you? People's like, well, I think you should do this. All right, buds, how's that really working out for you? Well, I think you should do this in a relationship.  How's that working out for you? Well, I think you should invest.   They want to grab you down. They want the tall poppy syndrome, the crabs in the bucket. They don't want you to succeed because if you succeed, then they question themselves. It's shattering their ego. And as Jocko Wilkins talks about, it is about extreme ownership. Winners are ruthless.  Life's about falling down and getting back up. The word fail, first attempt in learning. It's failure is only failure when you give up. But if you take it as a teacher, where it's like, what did I learn from this? If you audit the experience that you've gone through, there's many lessons that you can gain from this.  Winner views life as a game. It views as at how can I level myself up?   And so the winner focuses on, these are the things happening for me. How do I use this to my advantage? What do I learn from this? How do I make myself better? And then how do I keep on going? Like a fucking, how do I level up? How do I get more points? How do I achieve this? How do I get that? By loser is, well, this happened and I can't do nothing about it.  And it's a plague right now, massive plague. 95% of society's victimhood mindset. So I keep on suggesting, read a book, Victor Frankel, Man's Search for Meaning, he talks about this. The only thing that you can control in life is your response to the external stimulus, the little buffer he talks about.   Everyone's asking for handouts. There's people right now that rather get paid $2,000 a month than work. That tells you everything. That tells you everything. Substitute the money for just food on the table and shelter over your head. That tells you the mindset that people are in. They don't wanna better themselves. They don't wanna learn new skills. They don't wanna do anything.  They are literally a commodity, a number that's useless. And I know since you're watching this video, you're not like that.  What are the lessons can I learn from this? Like example today, with the recession that we're in, with the COVID virus, the coronavirus or the Surveysal virus, what can I learn from this?  You may be struggling in your business like many businesses are. And everyone's going through turmoil right now.  We've gone through way worse. World War II, World War I, Korean War. Like fuck, man.    Cause everybody has time.  Every, the whole world's on quarantine. You have time. So I'm giving this time. What can I do with my time? This is that silver lining, right? This is what happened for me. This is what happened to me. What can I gain from this? Well, how do I better myself? What's the opportunities in front of me? Life is about adaptability. It's not about being smart. It's not about being strong. Like I said, those do matter.  You're gonna learn the local language. You're gonna learn the lingual. You're gonna learn the hustle. You're gonna learn the counter-market. You're gonna learn everything.  And that's the big difference between winners and losers. It doesn't matter how older you are. It doesn't matter your race. It doesn't matter your gender. It doesn't matter how rich you are. What really does matter is how you are reprogramming your mind. And it's up to you to figure out how you're gonna reprogram your mind. There's many different ways you can reprogram your mind but it's up to you to figure out how you're gonna do it. Whether that is through psychedelics, whether that's through psychotherapy, whether that is through reading, whether that's through experience. I'm a big believer in experience. The best things in life can't be taught. I don't know who said that but it's a great saying. And so you just have to do more things in life.   Scarcity. Oh, what are they gonna think of me?     You're gonna worry about what your friends and family think? Come on, man. Literally you're gonna blink.  Next thing I know I'm gonna be 45. I'm like, do I wanna have regrets?   And so you gotta figure out how you can reprogram your mind. There's so many modalities out there. But you gotta do it. You gotta do it. Time is so short. Time is so short. It's the only natural resource that's non-renewable and people give it out, especially now in the quarantine. Oh my God, I hear people talking on board.   I should come through this screen and slap you. You're bored. Bored? Bored? Oh my God. Bored. I hate that word bored.  Don't get me wrong, you know? Relaxing and taking time off is very healthy for the mind.  That means you have no ambition. That means you have no hobbies.  They do the nine to five and that's the rest of your life as long as you live. Bored. Bored is mediocrity.  No. Don't even get me started on board.  Two different mindsets, two different trajectories. You need to be really cognitive of where you are when this camp and how you are in taking information and how you're responding, right? I said the word respond, not react. React is automatic, response is thinking, using logic. Understanding what you're reading, understanding what you're feeling, understanding the emotions. And hopefully, hopefully, you learn from, we're all students, man.  And it's normal to feel, you know, depression. It's normal to feel like you're lost. But what it's not normal, what it's not part of the human condition is to hide. You know, we're homo sapiens, man. Oh my God, the things that we've gone through in our past from hunting and gathering and facing the most insane turmoil possible. Like we're, you know, we should give ourselves a round of applause. Like we're survivors. But we've been, how do you call it? We've been domesticated by modern luxuries, by the government. And everybody right now is like a little child.  Look it up from Carl Jung. And that's the major difference is this, my friends. Has this happened for me, the winners, versus has this happened to me? And I'll leave it at that. If you guys have any questions, leave a comment below this video. Hit the subscribe button and I'll talk to you guys soon. Peace out.


People continued to bring flowers and light candles in memory of Wagner PMC founders Yevgeny Prigazin and Dmitry Utkin at a makeshift floral tribute near the Kremlin in Moscow on August 29th. Two people at the memorial, who did not give their names, told Reuters they believed Prigazin was a patriot and fighter for truth and justice. The private emperor legacy 600 private jet on which Prigazin was traveling to St. Petersburg from Moscow crashed in the region north of Moscow on August 23rd with the loss of all 10 people on board including two other top leaders of Wagner and four men reported to be Prigazin's bodyguards. The crash came two months to the day after Prigazin and his mercenaries staged a mutiny against Putin's top military commanders in which they took control of the southern city of Rostov and advanced towards Moscow before turning back 200 kilometers from the capital.


I'm going to do a little demonstration called the self-carving pumpkin, but you made history as the first female crew member. My goal was to be the first female crew chief in NASCAR. I think this is an adequate replacement. What would you want your next giant leap to be? Going and accomplishing the next thing or bringing those boots back to the moon or maybe putting new ones on Mars is definitely something I'd love to be a part of. What would you say your next giant leap is? Being a trustee. I figured that was the answer. Being a trustee, it really is. You just have to think about all your time at Purdue. Every day is an experiment. Every day is a new collection of experience and a collection of relationships. Subscribe to This Is Purdue wherever you get your podcasts.


A few months before the United Nations General Assembly special session on drugs, which aims to shape global drug policies, the UN Agency on Drugs and Crime prepared a position paper in support of the decriminalization of drug use. The paper was supposed to be published here at the International Harm Reduction Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, but in the last moment the agency withdrew it, stating that the paper does not reflect its position and it was only for dissemination and discussion. For those of you who have been following the news the last couple of days, you perhaps followed the news of a paper that has come out of UNODC that has been distributed through several media outlets and which was now distributed at the door. Since this paper was intended for dissemination and discussion at this conference, I would like to move on behalf of Harm Reduction International that we commend UNODC for this position, and I would like us to urge UNODC to publish this paper. And anyone in favor of the motion, I would ask that you hold up your hand or hold up the paper as a show of support. Please keep your papers up. Keep them up for a second. Recently that was a paper leaked out from the UNODC supporting decriminalization, but then it was suppressed. Do you have any comments on that? Decriminalization is not rocket science. There are multiple examples throughout the world, particularly in Western Europe on how it might happen. We've been talking about Portugal, Portuguese model for many, many years. So it's good that UNODC noticed and that actually tried to articulate its own position. Obviously it's disappointing that it did not get properly rolled out. I think it's a real shame and very devastating that somehow UNODC has succumbed to political pressure and that must be what it is to backtrack and now say that the statement is simply a draft, that it wasn't supposed to be released, that it wasn't agreed that it would be released. We know that it was supposed to be released on Sunday at the opening session of this conference. Do you have any guess, like what's behind, who was the government that suppressed the document? Well, we don't know, but let me say this. Reporters called governments for comment and I don't think that the reporters who got the report early, like the BBC or the New York Times, would know how to call the Russian government. So my money would be on the US government, though we have no independent confirmation of that yet. What does it mean to us? So it means two things. It means that the drug control consensus is cracked and that UNODC has joined the ranks of UN agencies that see that criminalization is at the root cause of many, many bad effects and many problems in the war on drugs. But it also means that this is an unstable and uncertain transition. Well, the truth generally comes out and the truth is that criminalization is an obstacle for public health and for human rights and one day or the other, the UNODC will be brave enough to tell it to the member states of the convention. Would you like to comment on this leaked UNODC paper on the criminalization? You know, as a member of the Global Commission on Drug Policy, we have been advocating for decriminalization from day one and this is to us one of the key priorities, hoping that UNGAS will not sort of endorse it. I can't see because I can't see a consensus on this, but the language coming out of UNGAS will clearly give the signal of a shift and then that more and more countries will actually move.


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So what we're doing here over the next two weeks is the operations forces are coming in and then underneath it all of these support and logistics folks are going to be there to make sure that the most critical thing fuel for the airplanes and then they're also going to take care of the human beings right? You've got to have a place to sleep, you got to have food to eat, you've got to have facilities to utilize right? And each one of these airplanes to give you an example the C-17 that's sitting out here pushing fuel into that fuel bladder right now it takes approximately 10 maintenance hours for every hour the airplane flies so the logistics piece behind that is in very substantial and that's what we're practicing right now that like I said the operators that C-17 flies around the world probably once a month and it does it on a very regular basis but it goes into areas that are built up regular Air Force bases it goes into Navy facilities big airports with lots of infrastructure what they're going to be practicing over the next two weeks is to bring that that airplane to places like here a key field which we call contingency locations where they have to practice setting up all that support for all of the logistics personnel that are going to support that airframe now we also brought two helicopters in here last night two HH-60 helicopters that do combat search and rescue and personnel recovery and we're going to have an HC-130J that is going to roll in here today to do that as well and then again the footprint that goes along with that's about 125 people to make sure that that mission set can get done right the maintainers and the support folks that go behind it so that's our main focus for this exercise is in the Indo-Pacific region so long distances contingency locations bare bases and then being agile and moving at a rapid rate so that we can't be targeted by our adversary so basically at Gulfport we have what we call a forward operating site right so it's a more robust more support facilities more infrastructure that's built into it and it's close enough both to the water right so the combat search and rescue forces inside of the Indo-Pacific it's 80% water right not a whole bunch of landmasses there they need to practice their skill sets out over the water they need to be threatened over the water right be able to react to threats that they think that they'll get inside of that area of responsibility and so southern strike provides us the opportunity to go to multiple contingency locations because you have a lot of small airfields around here that will be very illustrative of what we'll find inside of the South Pacific for example right and you actually have the water here as well so we can get our forces out there and the other piece of it is it's a it's a cohesively joint environment so right now you'll see the Marine Corps over here down the runway you've got Belgians as well right when we go into the Indo-Pacific one of our our cornerstone pieces is that we're going to have to work in a coalition environment we can't provide everything we need so we're gonna have the countries that we have solid relationships help us get to where we need to go and help us support the forces so we can generate the combat power that we need to generate so this will be the third time that we've that we've gone to the what we call ace right agile combat employment so we started out three years ago and we took our organization up in Alaska out to King Salmon which is what we would call kind of a warm basin concept right it's 80 percent of the forces are not there on a day-to-day basis but the 20% are there and so when you need to go basically you make that phone call and they expand that out and so we did very similar to what we're doing here not any over water operations but we did basically over land we used six different contingency locations and we use King Salmon as the forward operating site and we do a readiness exercise inside of the 176 wing every year because the bottom line is we have to be ready to go every time we get called and we have to be able to respond in a matter of hours not a matter of days weeks or months right last year basically we did what we call a main operating base out of joint base Elmendorf Richardson and then we pushed the forces out to multiple locations and in that situation it was more about contested environment austere communication so what we've done recently is so I'm a Brigadier General I'm at the 07 level relatively senior level in our organization commanding the organization here is a junior field grade officer so a major and then when we push them out to contingency locations we're going to turn it over to a company great officer which is the captain and we're going to turn it over to a junior non-commissioned officer which is a staff sergeant and so those are the concepts that we've been building on so it was the same thing we had a major that was out of King Salmon and then we had a captain and a major last year that we're kind of running the operations as we pushed them out okay so we're developing right so go back to the previous question so when we were at King Salmon we had our fuels folks POL right they get out there they put fuel in the airplane and they kind of had some margin right they had some extra time in their hands so they went over and they talked to the security forces that were doing perimeter security for the base and they said hey you know what you guys are qualified with the M4 you're qualified with the M9 you guys are going to help us do perimeter security and we're going to do the same thing here as the multi capable airmen so basically it's airming that are doing jobs that are not in their specific specialty code things like marshaling airplanes helping to fuel airplanes providing perimeter security in the communications realm right they might ingest data analyze it and push it back out I just like to thank the staff from southern strike thank the Air National Guard Bureau for providing us with the resources and funding and then of course the folks here key field have been awesome in letting us come in here and test these concepts right so all these things are kind of new things this special fuel download that we're doing on the C17 into the bladder that's going to help us build to the next level which is actually leaving the C17 running and parking a fifth generation fighter like an F-35 or an F-22 right next to it while it's running and taking fuel from that airplane so that we can do a rapid combat turn and again get outside our adversaries capability to target us so I think it was Billy Mitchell it said hey whoever owns Alaska is going to dominate the globe right so up in at J-Bear in a C17 we can take everything that we have within nine hours all anywhere in the northern hemisphere right so this is kind of our power projection so as we power projected from J-Bear to Gulfport so Gulfport is our forward operating site and then as we come to the contingency location meridian being one of two all we're doing is the same distances that we would be expected to execute inside of the pacific because huge distances thousands of miles in the pacific right so that was our walk phase was king salmon that's only hundreds of miles away from us right and then we expanded that out to western Alaska last year and so this year it was time to kind of get up and get more to that jog phase which was power project farther away from home station


So, you wake up one day and you notice an oddly shaped hump on your hand, or maybe an oddly shaped mole, and you start asking yourself, is that cancer? So you show up to your doctor and he looks at it with his inquisitive eye, and then he takes out the scalpel, he cuts a little sample off, and then he sends it to the lab. Now not only do you have to have a cut in your hand, but you also need to wait, and when it comes to important questions like, do I have cancer, nobody wants to wait. So is there a better way to do this? It turns out your skin is quite squishy, and it's a bit like an anti-stress ball, which you might have lying around. The tumor, on the other hand, is much stiffer, a bit like a tennis ball when comparing those two. So when you compress them, you can see where healthy tissue is, based on how much it squishes. In fact, I have a sponge model of our skin tissue as the medical term is. Here on the left one, a healthy one, and here on the right one, one which contains a simulation of a tumor. And I'm going to need your help to be able to tell which one is the healthy one, and which one is going to need an operation. Let's go to the squisher. Okay, so we're at the squishing machine, so let's get these sponges started. And there we go. Let's pause the video. Can you tell which sponge has a wooden block in it? So, coming back from our squisher, we see that when we compress the sponge, we can gain information about its elasticity. Watch. And just like this, we see that the sponge is less elastic in the center. And just as expected, we can pull out the wooden block inside. There we go. Inside actual human skin, things are a little more complicated. For starters, we don't have these big blue squares, which help us to see how much each part compressed. Instead, everything looks roughly the same, a bit like this other side of the sponge. So in order to see inside, we use a laser-like or coherent bright light. Just like I would use this lamp to shine inside the sponge. So while I'm compressing, I'm shining inside to see the structure. You can try something similar at home. But to take a very bright light and try to throw your hand, you can see the vessels inside. I always find this very fascinating. The machine which does all this is called an optical coherence elastograph. It's not yet ready for use in the hospital, but given a couple more years of research and testing, you might as well come across one the next time you need to get your skin checked. In the meanwhile, stay squishy!


Hello and welcome to the video lecture on accessing the array elements in a 2D array. At the end of this video lecture, students will be able to demonstrate how to access array elements in a 2D array. The following topics will be discussed in this video lecture, that is, reading the array elements and displaying the array elements. Now we will be discussing about how to read input elements into a 2D array. The for loop causes the process of asking for and receiving student's marks from the user to be repeated four times. It means marks of 0, 0, marks of 0, 1, marks of 1, 0, marks of 1, 1. The first iteration through the loop i and j have a value 0. So the scanf function will cause the value type to be stored in the array element marks of 0, 0, the first element of the array. The process will be repeated until i and j both become equal to 1, as there is no array element like marks of 2, 2. In scanf function, we have used the address of operator on the element marks of i, j of the array. We have used it earlier on the other variables. In so doing, we are passing the address of this particular array elements to the scanf function rather than its value. In this, whatever you see on the screen that is 2686708, 268671, 22686716, 2686720 are the address locations of the different array elements of the 2D array. Displaying the array elements. Now moving through the display of array elements, the for loop is the same. Now the body of the loop causes each marks to be displayed until i and j both become equal to 1. It means if I put an input value like 41, 63, 45 and 67 into marks of 0, 0, marks of 0, 1, marks of 1, 0 and marks of 1, 1, this will be displayed using the printf. So the final value will be 41, 63, 45, 67 with a space inside as I have used the slash t symbol. So 2686708, 268671, 2686716, 2686720 these are the address locations of the array elements. Now we will be discussing how to write a program for displaying the largest element in a 2D array which is of size 3, 3. Now I will be discussing how to write a program for displaying the largest element in a 2D array using code block software. So I will be declaring it as int at 3, 3, i, g. Now for this I have to get the input elements for all the array elements that is 3 x 3. So for i equal to 0, i is less than 3, 0 i is less than 3, i plus plus bracket, then for j equal to 0, j is less than 3, j plus plus bracket, printf slash and enter the elements of the array. Slash n ending with a semicolon scanf percentage g, scanf percentage g comma and aar of i, j bracket semicolon then. Now I am using a printf statement to find the procedure. Printf largest is, I will use the slash n symbol, then again for i equal to 0, i is less than 3, i plus plus bracket, j equal to 0, j is less than 3, j plus plus bracket, the largest element. If aar of 0, 0 is less than aar of i, j, then aar of 0, 0 is equal to aar of i ending with a semicolon, bracket, bracket. So I will print the largest element printf, the largest percentage g comma aar of 0 ending with a semicolon. Now I will go for build, I will go for compile, I will go for run. So it's asking me to enter the elements of the array, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. So the largest element is 9. Now we will see how is it working actually, how is the program working, how is it displaying the largest element is 9. So this is the table created, i, j, aar of 0, 0, aar of i, j, aar of 0, 0 less than aar of i, j and largest element is something. So in your first row, first column that is 0 through 0 column element has a value equal to 1. So that is comparing again i and j will be 0, 0. So 1 is less than 1, it's a false value. So it will display the largest element as 1. Now again after this, j will be incremented to 1 and i will be near 0, it means first row, second column. So the aar of 0, 0 last largest element was 1, then aar of i, j is 2. So 1 is less than 2, yes it's true. So that's why the largest element is 2. Now again j plus plus, so the value of this, whatever the j plus plus 2, it means first row, third column element. The last largest value was 2 and the next is now 3. So 2 is less than 3, it's a true, then the largest element is 3. Now again this, after j plus plus, so it will be 2 plus plus is 3. So 3 again will be in a false condition. So it will come out of the loop and it will go for i plus plus, that is i equal to 1. Then j will be 0, it means second row, first column element. So the last largest element was 3, which was stored in aar of 0, 0. Now aar of 1, 0 is nothing but 4. So 3 is less than 4, it's a true condition, so 4. Now again the j plus plus, 0 plus plus is 1, it means first row, sorry it means second row, second column element, that is 5. Last largest element was 4, 4 is less than 5, yes it is true, so 5 will be displayed. Now again j will be uncommitted again, so it will be 2, so it means second row, third column element. It will have value called 6, last aar of 0, 0 was having a value called 5. So 5 is less than 6, yes it is a true, so it will display me the 6 value. Now j plus plus again it is a 3, so it comes, the condition is j is equal to 0, j is less than 3. So 3 doesn't fall, it is a false condition, so it will go for the next row. That is i will be incremented to 2 and it will start with j equal to 0, it means third row, first column element. Third row, first column element will have a value equal to 7. The last largest, last aar of 0, 0 value was 6, so 6 is less than 7, yes it is a true, so the largest element is 7. Now again j will be incremented to 1, it means third row, second column element. So it has a value called 8 and last aar of 0 was 7, 7 is less than 8, yes it is true, so the largest element is 8. Now again go for the other condition, next this one will be incremented to 2, it means third row, third column element. So it has a value called 9 and last aar of 0, 0 was 8, 8 is less than 9, yes it is a true, so the largest element is 9. This is how your program works for finding the largest element in the array. Now pause this video for a few seconds and try to write answer to the following question. What is the output of the following piece of code? Aint main, int aar, 1, 5 equal to initialized 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Now printf slash n, %d aar of 0, 3, aar of 0, 4, written 0. Ok, ending with the prices that is curly brackets. So with respect to this when I say aar 1, 5 it means it will have aar 1, 5 is nothing but it is i is equal to starting index value is 0. Ok, array size minus 1 and here 5 minus 1, 4. So it will be 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 2, 0, 3, 0, 4. So when I execute it, it will be 0, 3 value will be having a value called 4 and the 0, 4 will be having a value called 5. So these are the output, this is the output of the following. So it will be 4 and 5 will be the output for your following piece of code. These are the following reference. Thank you.


And just a quick reminder, if you don't want to be recorded, you can always turn off your video. So welcome everybody and thank you for joining us today. This is the first of five listening sessions and it's made possible through a collaboration with the Amherst Planning Department and Senior Services and the Pioneer Value Planning Commission. And of course, with this topic, the Amherst Housing Trust. So today we're going to talk about housing, as you all know, will be covering topics like transportation, social participation, public safety in upcoming sessions. All of which will happen on the fourth Monday of each month running from May through September to 30 and we'll end at about four o'clock today. So just want to also make a note that we're hoping to do the remaining sessions in person at the bank center. But if we do end up needing to change gears because of COVID, we'll update the Engage Amherst page on the town website. So thank you and take it away Becky. Okay. So welcome everyone. As Haley said, this is the first listening session for Agent Dementia Friendly Amherst. So today we're going to, we've asked you to put your name in the chat and if you're affiliated with any organization or just a resident of Amherst, then I'm going to do a quick poll. And then a presentation, which will be a project overview with a focus on housing for older adults and aging in place. And a little bit on what's currently in place for older adults and amherst both in terms of housing for older adults and what the zoning allows and Nate's going to help me out there with this presentation. And then we're going to, then we want to hear from you. So we're going to break into smaller groups. We'll talk from everyone and have a larger discussion. And then we will present some of the results that we've gotten from the Agent Dementia Friendly Amherst survey around housing needs. And then we'll have time for a little more discussion and talk about next steps. So I'm going to stop sharing for a minute and you will see a poll on your screen. So here's the first poll question. Just click on your age range. I'll leave it open for a couple minutes. Here's the results. Can you all see that. So we have a good representation from all age groups here, except for 90 plus. So that's great. And then I will launch the next poll. Here's the next one. So we might want a minute to think about this. What kind of housing do you think is most needed and amherst for older adults? And if you think, if you think we've got plenty of housing and Amherst, then you don't have to answer. That's not my problem. My problem is why do I have to pick one. Oh, yeah. You know, I mean, I could say something today and tomorrow I'd probably say something else. Yeah, that's fine. Well, that'll come out in our discussion groups. Here's what we have. So subsidized housing for older adults, mixed income mixed age rental units. So quite a mix. But that's good. I mean, generally you want to mix the housing. So you're absolutely right, Alyssa. I want to want more of a choice there. So, okay, and I'll go back to my slideshow. Okay, another we asked people also in the registration report. And so this is some of the answers we got there. So 20 people who registered live in single family nine condominium for and subsidized apartments and one in non subsidized apartment. Five said they were hoping to downsize in the next five to 10 years and 15 said maybe so that's quite a bit of the folks who signed up. And then are you or someone you know having difficulty finding support for aging in place and 15 people said yes. So that's, that's interesting. So this project is part of an agent dementia friendly pioneer valley project that the planning planning commission is doing through funding from the top health plan foundation now known as point 32 health. We're helping a number of communities become age and dementia friendly through community engagement processes and developing community assessments and action plans. The towns with the red hearts have already submitted reports for this work and the purple stars are dementia friendly communities, and the blue hearts are the communities that we have been working with on this project, or currently working with actually. So this forum is focused on housing for all of these. All the communities we're working with the community assessment is being organized around the domains of an agent dementia friendly community so this model was developed through the mass help the agent collaborative and it's a combination of the eight domains of the community that the World Health Organization developed and 10 to 10 sectors of a dementia friendly community so it combines all of those into considering agent dementia friendly work in all of these sectors. Just some data from the census and from the mass healthy agent collaborative community profiles. In 2025 years, five year estimates on say that 1010.7% of the population of Amherst is over 60 that's up from 10.1% that was just a few years ago in the mass healthy agent collaborative data. I believe their data was from 2016 so that's about, you know, four years or five years that it went up by a few percentages or by about point 6% from 7.3% from 7.3 to about for people over 65 so about 3300 people in Amherst river 65. And according to the census 25.7% of people over 65 live alone so that's down a little from what the mass healthy agent collaborative was, and a little less than in Massachusetts overall which is 30%. In total of 94, about 9500 households in Amherst, about one third of those have one or more people 60 and older in each house in those households, and 30% of total households, total householders live alone 9% or 65 or older. So about 853 households of 65 or older, who are living, who are living alone, and then some other data of interest 13% 13.4% of people over 65 or veterans and about 11.7% have been diagnosed with Alzheimer's or related dementias. So consider housing for an aging population we want housing that's affordable. So it could be smaller shared units accessory apartments, home sharing. You know any of the housing types that I mentioned before in the poll accessibility is important so first floor with a no step entry or elevator access and sometimes you might need wheelchair ramps to get into the house. assisted living and long term care options are are important as people start to need more help and and can't get help aging in place. Smart growth so housing that's located near close to retail services and parks and neighborhoods that are safe. So people can walk or roll where they need to go and so that they feel safe walking in their neighborhoods. Some considerations for aging in place. Home modification may be needed for accessibility and to bring false assistance with basic maintenance and repair is often important as as people find that they can do less. Assistance with other basic tasks such as yard work shoveling snow grocery shopping and transportation. Home care and home health care services when you start to need a little more help, even with cooking toileting medications, and then transportation services or the ability to walk or roll to stores or services. And as people need more help, possibly rides individual rides where people actually help help to get through the door of where you want to go. When we talk about people living with dementia. There's more mobility visual and hearing limitations. It's exacerbated by sensory loss. So again you want to make sure that there's barrier free design so no step entrances different counter heights first floor residences making sure that there's no trip hazards in the house. And even up to automatic timing on burners, you know, for stoves if people tend to leave the stove on clearing boundaries between the rooms.  In order to do this the town might want to consider building in incentives for homes that meet accessibility standards. Some of some housing assessment data from the census, the detached single family units in Amherst account for about 50% of the housing stock and 50% is multi family. And there's a little bit more renter occupied housing than owner occupied. And as of December 2020 12.6% of the housing is subset subsidized or meets their standards of the subsidized housing inventory by the state. It requires that all communities have at least 10% subsidized housing, or if they don't that means that developers can come in and with a little less control on the part of the town but but Amherst has enough housing stuff now. In terms of the subsidized housing inventory. There are some examples of housing authority properties that are mainly for older adults and Leyland apartments has 81 bedroom apartments for which our wheelchair accessible. This is located near the bank center and it has a community room and greenhouse. Chestnut court at 33 Kellogg have has 31 bedroom apartments and that's about a mile from the town center. They are also on the first, first floor they're not specifically for seniors, but the first floor is is a draw for older adults. And then the john gene elderhouse has three apartments for elderly or disabled and three others are rented out to social service agencies. The waiting list for housing authority properties is very long. This is from the housing authorities some numbers they gave me currently there's 13,000 people on the waiting list for Amherst housing authority properties. I should say this is a statewide waiting list so it's not. It's probably not all Amherst residents waiting. They choose their first, second and third choices so this is probably this this list is from a statewide application. So about 2700 are interested in elderly or handicapped housing. It's a lot so that's a very long, long wait, and just sort of emphasizes the need for more affordable housing in town. So in terms of independent assisted and long term care communities, Applewood at Amherst run by Linus communities has an independent living community greenlies has market rate independent living for older adults, both ownership and rental units. Arbor's is an assisted living community. And then there's the Center for extended care and rehabilitation, which is a nursing home and has a dementia care unit. So I'm going to turn it over to Nate to talk a little bit about what the zoning allows in Amherst. Thanks everyone. I'm Nate Malloy I'm a planner with the town. I help with some housing projects. You know so I think there is a few, you know zoning is a really powerful land use regulation tool that towns in Massachusetts municipalities can use. To allow different types of housing. You know we have a broad range, you know near from apartments to mix these buildings which can be multiple units, often their rental units in the town centers to single family homes and some other types of development and the outline residential areas. You know the issue there is zoning can tell you what to build but the market in terms of demand brings you know they're that force with it so right now we see a lot of development rental development for students or young professionals and not necessarily for other populations and so there's a lot of development development for single family homes for starter families for instance is not something that the market is is trending towards right now so we allow you know varying types of development in town it's just, you know we'd have to find ways to incentivize it if we see you know it becomes a priority if we see it as a priority. Accessory dwelling units ad use it's something that the town worked to change the bylaw last year and so you know those can be completely enclosed within a house it can be a whole separate apartment. It can be you know you can convert a garage you could build a new dwelling unit on the property and so these are intended to be smaller units. On one of the units the accessory dwelling unit or the single family home would have to be occupied by the owner, and one could be rented but it is something that you know we really worked on to make this process easier to get these accessory dwelling units permitted throughout town, so they are allowed in quite a few zoning districts in around town. Mornick is on this meeting he's the chair of the housing trust of Amherst housing trust has been around for a number of years now. And we're working to build a portfolio of projects and you know, facilitate projects, looking at town owned land and private land and so you know there are some opportunities in the near future to see if there's a chance for you know housing that the market isn't building right so if we're not providing housing for 55 and older or for you know smaller homes for families or you know just affordable rentals that something the housing trust can can work toward. There are grant programs, as we see on the slide, PVPC, you know, Becky works for the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission and Community Action offer grants. The town, sometimes if we do require, acquire certain grant funding we can participate in programs that allow it. For applications. We can always help people put people in touch with programs so you know although we may not offer it we can be a resource in town hall. And then there's Amherst neighbors so there are, you know, nonprofits are just, you know, coalitions in town are groups that can help people also find resources and put them in touch with services or people so Amherst neighbors is not affiliated with the town of Amherst but they're doing a great resource for people. They have an online presence in a website so that's you know, we try to have different mechanisms for people to reach out if they need assistance and I will say that the town is you know if people have questions you can always call the planning department, and we're willing to take down your name and number and also do some research for you and get back to you if you have any questions. Yeah, Amherst neighbors, I put down there is really a resource to help people aging in place, because they can help some of the volunteers can help with basic tasks. And it's also a great opportunity to volunteer for this organization for anyone who's looking to help people out who are who are aging in place. And also the Community Action Pioneer Valley has a grant home modification grant program. And I don't have information right here but definitely look on the Community Action Pioneer Valley or Pathfinder websites. They do provide grants for home modification. So, at this point we are going to go into breakout rooms. I'll show in my screen for a minute. So, let's see we have 24 people. So, I think we could do four breakout rooms. Yeah, so Haley, Maureen, John and Nate, I will break people into rooms. So let me just delete this one. Yeah. And so you'll see, let's see, this is just going to take me a minute. Does anyone have any questions right off on moving people into rooms? Feel free to unmute or raise your hand. How much time for the breakout rooms Becky? So the breakout rooms will be 20 minutes. So we'll come out at about 315. Becky, are there specific questions you want us to address? Yeah, so the facilitators will go around and ask each of you to list an asset and a challenge in terms of housing for older people in Amherst. And then you'll, in the last five minutes you'll talk about what you think are the biggest priorities. Sorry, this is just going to take me a little bit. So you should see. Hi, Claudia. Norma, did you see a room come up? You should be able to, you should see something that says join room and then you can click on it. You're muted. I'm Terry. Okay, Phyllis, do you see a room come up on your screen? You should see a button saying join room on the screen. And if not, you can unmute and I can try to help you. You know, Terry, do you see a room come up? Don, you froze for a minute there. You might want to just repeat your last couple of points. I think what I said was that our two biggest issues is the lack of places for people to move good options to move. They do want to move out of their single family house homes or wherever else they are, and the problem of affordability affordability and remaining where they are, and affordability and finding a place to move. So I think that summarizes a lot of the discussion we had without getting back into the detail. And Nate, I think that was the last group. Thanks. You know, John, John's challenge is really, you know, we have the same top two affordability and then limited choice. And I think the nuance with availability of housing is not just, you know, one type of housing but also having like a graduated facility. So you could have independent living to, you know, assist a living to full time care within one, you know, one institution right so right now maybe that you have to move out of Amherst could be an hour away it could be further away to find a place and then you know that becomes a challenge. And then, as John mentioned the affordability both of staying in town or then finding a place right so to move into a place that has care is really expensive. And so, you know, it, it may be that it really does. It becomes a really big financial burden. You know, you know, although that being said a lot of people said that, you know, they moved to Amherst because, you know, to to kind of equally weighted assets were the area in terms of both cultural and you know and cultural amenities and institutions right so there's lifetime learning there's events there's things to do it's an active small town so it's not, it's not too crowded like a city but it offers great amenities. It's also the surrounding area right so it's close to nature there's outdoor parks, state parks, and that was seen as an asset. That being said there is some you know limited options for accessible trails or if you really do need more accessible amenities.  I will say Haley you did mention public transportation but our group mentioned that that's also based, we actually saw it as a challenge. It's a tough bus service in terms of you know dedicated bus routes and stops and so it is difficult to get around without a vehicle in town. And so you know although there is kind of reduced fare public transportation it is limited in service and scope so it's something that was mentioned as you know could be improved but stop there. Thank you. And segue there will be a forum on transportation coming up this summer and we hope to have it in person so we hope everyone will be able to come to that as well. So I'm just going to move on. And we're going to present some of what the survey showed we had a really good responses survey. We had 875 responses which is amazing. So, and 85, almost 85% are 60 or older so that represents about 17.3% of the over 60 population of Amher so that's a really good, good turnout for the survey. Most people had lived in Amherst for more than 15 years so almost 77% of people who responded to the survey have lived in Amherst quite a while. In terms of race and ethnicity, the housing trust and senior center did a really good job and engage Amherst of really trying to engage all sectors of the population and get a good representation of people from people of color. So the race ethnicity of people over 65 or 91.9% white. So, in fact, we got a little more representation from people of color in the survey so 4.2% black and American 2.7% Hispanic Latinx 2.8% Asian and 0.9% American Indian or Pacific Islander so that was really good representation. In terms of who people live with, 28% of survey respondents said they lived alone, almost 63% live with a spouse or partner, and then a number with adult children or other children or family members. Some of them have been in a nursing home. One person or at least one person said a shelter, and several people put they live with their cats and dogs and that's that's an important consideration because they know a lot of people want to keep their pets when they move out so it's important for for new places to allow pets. So some of the main focus areas we asked people, you know, what were the top three focus areas that the town should focus on in the next five years to make the town better place for people as they age. In most picked housing is their first choice 29% 20% 20% said housing was the second highest priority. Health and community services came in second so that also plays into, you know, services that are needed for people who are aging in place, and even a lot of places that do provide assisted living. Sometimes you need more services than those those facilities will provide. So having available health services or people like Amherst neighbors is a really great resource for people to help with community services to help people age in place. And then 15% said transportation was the highest priority so those are the top three, and we see that in a lot of communities. So most people said that they want to stay in Amherst as they get older so almost 71% said it was either extremely important or very important to be able to remain in Amherst. So that's, that's a big one. I asked if people, if there are times when people don't feel safe, and so almost 18% said they don't feel safe at times in community. I just picked out there are 71 responses to that question. I picked a few out related to housing. But there were a lot of comments about sidewalks and being able to walk on the street. And one person said they live in a shelter so that that's, you know, a lot of stress, and especially for older people there just aren't the supports available in shelters if you don't have a home.  So that gets to the idea of a dementia friendly community which is really educating all sectors of the community including student population, you know, how to how to recognize people with dementia, and how to, you know, just be kind and supportive of people. So they, their home was broken into someone said they fear police stops and traffic stops and, and, you know, unfortunately, that's probably a person of color I didn't look at that survey, but some people are afraid of police. And then one person said I think to stay in Amherst I'll neither need to use all my retirement on housing or be homeless. It's a frightening. It's a really frightening situation for people. So, we asked if people do you want to stay in their homes, and most said it's either extremely important or very important so 83%. Again, as someone mentioned early on, you know, you might change it might, you know, you might need more supports where you can't stay in your home anymore and that's where it gets to the point of, you know, you might have to move. So this chart is, it's a little complicated but it's. So this was comparing where people that live now to preferred residents in five years. So currently 578 people said they lived in single family homes in five years only 314 said they wanted to live in a single family home. So again, the, you know, a lot of different options here apartments or condos senior independent living facilities assisted living group home or co housing, subsidized housing and a lot of people said a location close to services. So, john's going to talk a little bit about more about these numbers in the next slide so I'll turn it over to you john. I just going to focus on a piece of what Becky just reported. And what I want to focus on our people living in a single family home. As Becky said, a high proportion of people in our survey are currently living in a single family come and a pretty high proportion, close to 50% expect to move elsewhere in five years. And where do they expect to move again that was touched on by Becky, the most popular answer is see your independent living. People also said apartment building there's probably a lot of overlap between those two categories. Third important categories is assisted living and other people spoke about hoping for an accessory or in law unit. And again, as Becky mentioned, and again, this is going to overlap is many people want a location that's accessible to stores etc. So, a lot of people who live in single family homes now see themselves moving to live with or closer to others, then they might be in a single family house. So what are the implications of this oops sorry. Okay. I made took an initial stab at generalizing from the survey results to population needs I will tell you I need to do some more work on this, but at least this is a rough idea about where we are and it's pretty significant. There are over 6000 adults over the age of 55 on the Amherst street list as of November 2021. If we try to generalize from the survey results. Or well from the street list about 63% live in single family homes which is consistent with what we had from the survey data. And then generalizing if we assume about 50% of those that is the ones who currently living in a single family home, expect to move in the next five years. What does that mean for new housing and Amherst. It means that we need about 2000 new housing units for older adults. That's a huge number for a town of this size. It has currently less than 10,000 housing units in total. So if we were to try to add 2000 new housing units for older adults, that would be a huge change. It may well be an overestimate and I said I'll do some work to try to refine it, but even if we can serve to reduce it by half. That's still with we leave us with a projected need of 1000 new units. And it's not clear where we would get those. If you see all of those people moving out of their single family homes. Okay going on to the next slide. What are the barriers to people remaining where there are the the biggest one is affordability it appears by itself on this side, and then it appears again on the next slide, basically 84% or about 15% say their housing is not affordable. That's the biggest barrier to staying where you are. Other barriers here listed from top to bottom include concerns about paying for home repairs concerns about paying for home modifications to make it more age friendly or disability friendly concerns about paying for basic home maintenance. These things are things that would force people potentially out of their current homes. Those are things that I listed as major challenges. Then we have another slide with minor challenges.  These are basic tasks or errands is the largest category. Next is going upward, do not have a friend or neighbor relative within 10 minutes, who could give you assistance with a minor task or an errand issues with finding various services including yard work or snow shoveling. And then the financing comes up bill paying assistance, fuel assistance, and just getting housing application assistance for a very small number of people. But the biggest stuff is basic tasks or errands and the senior center and Amherst neighbors are both trying to position themselves to address those kinds of needs. I should have said earlier, but I'll just mention it now that I relied on Nicole Orient, who is an intern with Pioneer Reality Planning Commission to do this analysis and I am appreciative of the work that Nicole did. Yes. Thank you, Nicole. Nicole's right next to you on my screen here. She has done a huge amount of work on this project and for the other communities we're working with and has done a lot of the graphics as well as the survey analysis so we're really appreciate all Nicole's help. So at this point we have about 15 minutes for. So we have longer so we have time for more discussion so anything, any initial reaction that folks have to the survey results or the discussions you had in your breakout rooms. Dorothy, you have to unmute. I thought of another asset, which makes this even more important. I think it would be tired to Norfolk Connecticut and absolutely beautiful place in Northwest Connecticut. But if you want to go to a doctor that will take most of your day, just driving back and forth. After I found out moved to Amherst I realized I can't leave this town, even if I wanted to, because I can just on University Drive. I can go to four or five or six different medical needs just it's so convenient here. I think it's probably more convenient in Amherst than in many other towns and that's a big, big plus, because we could find our week with the eye doctor the skin doctor then the GP and then getting your shot. You can spend a lot of time doing medical things when you're a healthy adult in order to stay healthy so I just think that we that Amherst is really a good town to grow old in and we don't have the housing as John just was pointing out with it. And we need it at particularly at affordable levels. That's it. Lisa. Yeah, related to the affordability thing. I understand the points john was making about people who live in houses that they can no longer afford or can't afford to maintain. But I think I know I would not be able to find any place that would cost me less than where I live now. And even for people in single family houses who feel they can't afford to maintain them would probably find pretty much the same thing that that they can't, you know, can't afford to move either, given the given the shortage of housing etc. So affordable affordability and availability. Anyone else Dorothy your hands still up, but I assume you're all. Christine, Chris. Yeah, I just wanted to mention the fact that most housing in Amherst is built by the private sector.  And so they tend to build apartments that are kind of expensive and they build large single family houses so if we are serious about, you know, providing housing providing more housing. That's affordable we're going to have to think of some other mechanism and a few mechanisms have been used. I've got one thing going on that John is very familiar with which is the new housing on Belcher Town Road and the East Street School. So the town, you know, purchased the Belcher Town Road property, and they own the East Street School property and they were able to put out the need to attract developers to build mixed income housing there predominantly affordable, but the town had to invest in the property on Belcher Town Road in order to make that happen. I also encouraged Valley CDC to consider building a housing for very low income people, and that's currently under construction on North Hampton Road but that took a long time to get it going I think it was from the first time we had a housing forum which was in 2016.  So these things I guess what I'm getting to is it takes time, and it takes, you know, public investment, public willing money to make these things happen and it also takes effort to work with private developers who are willing to build affordable housing and, and they're kind of scarce. So it's going to take, it's going to take a big community effort to make this happen. Just wanted to mention those things. Thank you. Ricky. Ricky, I see your hand up. I'm going to zoom so I don't know how to use the chat. How do you, when we're asked to say our name and if you're, you know, representing group or anything how do you do the chat. I typed it in but I didn't know what to do after that. Just close it. Yeah. If you see the little talk bubble, do you see the chat window. No, I'm off of it. Okay, I. And I just hit return and that's all. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And the other thing was that future that it was mentioned that future meetings might be held in public for the public. I was wondering if it could also be held on zoom for those of us who can't get to the meeting. We talked about that. It's, yeah, we, we can look into it. It's, it's going to be difficult to get, you know, have people participate in person and on zoom, but we can certainly look into it. What do you think more. So we, we have reached out to Amherst media, and they will be recording the in person listening sessions. So while they, the recording will be live. They will be recorded and then broadcast on their channel, their cable channel and then on their website. A few days later, and we can certainly will certainly post those videos on the project page on on engage Amherst. So that that is a one way that you can, you can participate or view the, the meetings. So we hope that you find that helpful. Yeah, and stay tuned because we're still, you know, we're hoping to meet in person. You know, we'll continue to discuss to see how it goes if it turns out more people are able to participate on zoom, you know, maybe we do that for one of another future meeting. I will say the fifth meeting we're hoping to be all in Spanish, and that will cover all the topics so Maureen and Haley are working hard on finding someone to help facilitate the Spanish speaking meeting. Linda, you're muted. I'm sorry. In response to the issue that was just raised. The technology exists to have meetings be bimodal and run properly. The clock is not going to wind back from the pandemic on that having to work from home, just got the whole country to the point where they understand the upsides of that as well as the downsides. And Emerson cannot afford to get left behind. It's a very modest investment to get meeting rooms equipped with adequate sound pickup so that the people who are remote can hear to get one big screen in the front so that the people in the room can actually see at manageable size the people that are online. It should be a high priority. You know we're talking a few thousand dollars that get at least one room set up that way. And then every meeting room graduate should be set up that way. It's just not acceptable to not be able to handle remote as well as in person participation as well as in person participation. And particularly if we're talking about issues that affect older people who don't necessarily feel comfortable going out at night anymore, for example, whereas the younger people had day jobs and meetings have to be at night. You have to be prepared to support both. But what I really put my hand up for before was just responding to the three projects. Chris, you reported as in progress and having taken a lot of time, having common that town invested in the land or was left the land and or already had the land from another purpose and speaking from my experience in land trust as an approach to affordability, whether the land is held in trust by a private or communal venture or whether it belongs to the town. The absolute key feature to having things be affordable and still have developers be able to make a living on the contribution they make is for there to be common ownership of the land either by the town or by a nonprofit, or by the big enough development it can be held in common by the people in the development themselves. That's a great point. Yeah, that's another model that we should definitely include in there. And in terms of the hybrid meeting I will say we have been, we discussed it, there is that capability and the select board chamber. It just, there wouldn't be room there for breakout rooms and that kind of thing so we'll keep talking about it and hopefully we can come up with a solution that works well for everyone but I appreciate the fact that all of you do participate on zoom and that is easier for some people than with a plane, you know, take that into consideration to the breakout. The breakout problem is easily solved in one aspect, not so easily in another. If you break people up by topic. So everybody who wants to talk about X goes to one room and everybody who wants to talk about why goes to one room. That's trickier to manage if you're doing a bimodal meeting. But if you're breaking people up randomly you just create some zoom breakout rooms. You know, so the people who are in person go, you know, divide up however you want to divide them up, and you create a couple of zoom breakout rooms. That's easy to solve. Okay. Thanks. Okay, I have, I have two questions. First of all, how does Amherst's planning particularly around housing how does it interact with the planning in other towns, if there's going to be a future need for 1000 new units is Sunderland going to build 1000 new units plus some for Sunderland residents is there any kind of regional thinking about this I assume that there is. And several people somewhere in our breakout group and some other people have brought up the question of downtown businesses and how practical they really are for example if you need groceries or hardware shoes or something like that. One solution to that that I've known about a little bit in low income neighborhoods is actually to subsidize those kinds of businesses because grocery stores for example need a certain for the size of the constituency when they determine whether it's profitable to build a store and sometimes it isn't profitable to them to build it where you want it. So subsidy is sometimes the only solution is that something that's possible for the business community or the town. So those are my two questions thank you. Chris do you want to just Chris or Nate do you want to talk about regional or regional planning? Yeah, I mean it's a good question I think you know, Pioneer Valley planning has been sponsoring regional housing meetings and there is a regional housing plan. That being said a lot of the implementation comes down to you know town by town municipality to municipality so you know I think john and the housing trust has also done a good job of trying to have some more regional conversations I think it could be strengthened. I think there's I think that's a challenge actually is you know housing is a regional need but it often comes down to each municipality and how it's zoned or how it's permitted or how you know what kind of support or subsidy there is for it and so I think that's a really good point you know we often say whether it's for student housing or for other types of housing, you know, Amherst can't really build its way out of it if it's you know if other towns are not also increasing housing supply just you know the demand is so great in the area. So I think that is a good point. You know something to consider to I think maybe that's a takeaway as well from you know from from this process as you know another point of regional collaboration. That's something I've been thinking about to there's there's statewide studies on housing, you know, supported housing but as a region. I think it does make sense to kind of look at it regionally because a lot of, you know, a lot of the smaller towns don't have the infrastructure to build, you know, multiple multi unit housing. They finders out of Springfield they're a nonprofit developer and they do other things partnered with the Donahue Institute at UMass and they published two studies in the last year about housing in the, in the pioneer valley looking at countywide information, Hampton, Hampshire and Franklin County they didn't go too detailed into town specifics or demographics but it is interesting that they you know use that as you know a county as the study, to kind of get to the extent but you know then it's you know there was a meeting about how do you implement it and it's really then, you know, like I said town by town so studies can show that there's a regional need and then it's really difficult to coordinate kind of an approach and a regional approach to that. I hope you're muted. John you're muted. I got it. Keith Ferry who's the president and CEO of Wayfinders is trying to concede convene a regional group to address the issues that were identified in the study that Nate identified, and we'll see where it goes we've had one meeting and they'll be trying to schedule it. But as Nate noted the biggest barrier is the fact that these decisions are really made town by town. And I'll use that to segue into another point I want to make at least half the people on this call are aware of the fact that the town is now purchased Hickory Ridge. There are a variety of very important purposes for which the town made that purchase. There is a small part of that property that is probably buildable on West Pomeroy Lane. And as I have suggested on a number of public and private occasions, I would like to see that buildable area go for housing. It could be exclusively housing for people who are older older adults, or it could be mixed housing. But if we can squeeze out five to nine buildable acres there. We could do a nice job of adding to the units that we need in town. Thank you. We have a couple. So this question has to is kind of technical. Dorothy froze for a second. Linda, do you want to ask? It's just a quick. Okay, Dorothy, you're frozen. Okay, so it's the lack of housing senior housing for moderate income people, people who make the am I, for example, I was saying Sunderland just built some affordable senior housing. And we're building some affordable housing which is not senior housing but is housing for whatever. There's no problem in terms of getting grants and funding or even using town land. If you're building senior housing, which would include, which would be available to seniors of moderate average middle class income. Because people want to build stuff for the high end that's very expensive. But that's I don't think where the big need is. That's just a question for, for John really. And you needed. Nate can answer it as well. It depends on the source of funding. But yes, we can include housing for modest people. That's actually included in the Belcher town road. East street school site. We have a small number of units that are available for people with 200% I'm sorry 100% of area median income, which gets to a moderate level or modest level of income. It's not all for a low income. And those units could go to older adults. But as far as I know we have no mechanism for setting aside units for older adults. Yeah, I think the john's point typically a developer will create a 55 and older development because you can, you know, if it's categorizes that then there's certain subsidies or restrictions you can have in place but if it's just a general affordable development. Oftentimes, you know, it's, it's more difficult to then have, you know, a set aside a certain percentage of units for a certain age group or something so, you know, some of it might be that at conception of a project it might be that, you know, some, so many units should be set aside for say 55 plus whether it's home ownership or rental. Believe it or not I think you know developers specialize in that so, you know, we like I said we in our breakout group we did reach out to some it's really interesting it's become, you know, everything so specialized now in terms of what a developer who really wants to do senior living does it, and it might be different than someone who does this general affordable housing so I think it's something that, you know that we could like john mentioned on hickory ridge if that's what we want we put it in there as a parameter, and we see what kind of interest we get Linda and it is four o'clock I want to respect people's time if anyone asked to leave but I'm also, I think we're open to staying a few more minutes. This is by way of a response to the point that I think Patricia made about subsidizing businesses. There's a business model for groceries particularly that I've encountered in a couple of places in England, when I was there on sabbatical in Oxford particularly, which is very similar at Amherst in terms of the demographic the age demographic of the population that it serves and also a very desirable location to live, and, and much of it is walkable. The big supermarket chain, which has an enormous center that you have to take your car and drive to the very edge of Oxford to get to has a location in central Oxford that you can walk to from everywhere in central Oxford. And the square footage is tiny. There are a lot of shops in Amherst that have similar square footage, and they run most of their inventory through it, they must have a little bus that goes back and forth between that and the main section so you can walk into the downtown chain, Sainsbury's and get all the same produce, the fresh baked goods, all the stuff in the big store, minus some of the household stuff but simple cleaning stuff is there. And, and the line moves through it really fast. They're obviously making money on it. I don't think anybody subsidizing on but even if it took a subsidy. It would be interesting to see if, if stop and shop or, or pick why particularly which is a regional corporation may have a stake in being public spirited would operate a walkable location in central Amherst. Thank you. Yeah, I'd be surprised if Sainsbury was making money on it, but who knows maybe the situation is different there, but public service of public spirit and operation. Organization. Yeah, that's a really interesting idea I had. There are a lot of places that could use something like that. And is crystal on. Yeah, have you guys heard of anything like that or, you know, business subsidies, anything like that. I haven't people have talked about it. I think, you know, we would have to probably figure out how town council might feel about doing something like that. You know, every time you consider something where the town is spending money. You have to figure out, well, okay, we're going to spend more money here. So what do we not spend so much money on so it's kind of balancing act but it's certainly a conversation that we could have. I've also thought, you know, if, if you are looking for areas with new for new housing developments could you incorporate, you know, commercials, a little bit of commercial space for like a mom and pop type market or a small small grocery market. I guess it would depend on the zoning for that area, but something to consider. Again, I think it would be necessary to figure out some way of subsidizing it. There's quite a bit of commercial space downtown in Amherst that's not occupied. And I only imagine that it's because the rents are too high. So, you know, how do you make those places affordable to a mom and pop store. That's a question that I would have. There was a little food store in downtown Amherst. You know, in the, in the row of shops that are near what used to be Louis foods but which, you know, I don't know what the name of that row of shops is but between the CVS and the St. Bridgets, and it went out of business. Now, I don't know what all the issues were, but anytime I went in there the produce was pretty clearly old that they weren't getting enough customers it's hard to park. And they, you know, they tried and went out of business and there certainly are people in Amherst trying to get a food co-op going in Amherst and they keep talking about downtown but I'm sure they face all the same difficulties. You know, it's not easy when you can't park near the store. You have to have enough customers to go there. I don't, I'd be curious somebody could maybe do a survey is to where people in Clark House and Ann Whalen and Chestnut Court get their food now. You know, the people who do live downtown might give us some information. Yeah. That's a good point. Okay. So we're a little past four. Just in terms of next steps. There is the next forum. I'm just going to share the screen here. The next forum is on social participation and inclusion, communication and technology and civic engagement and we're planning to have that on June 27. Also at 230. And our plan was to have it at the bank center. Stay tuned. You know, we'll talk to talk about the hybrid option. If that's, if that's what we want to do it might not be able to be at the bank center. So we'll keep information posted on engage Amherst on the age friendly community. Facebook or website on engage Amherst. Is that right? Maureen, I just want to make sure. It's on the project page of the on engage Amherst. Okay. So, let your friends know about these forums. The next one will be on transportation in July and then health and community services and public safety in August. And then a Spanish speaking forum in September. And then once we have all this, all the feedback from folks and from all the public forums, we will be developing a community assessment and action plan, which we can submit to ARP and dimension friendly Massachusetts. And then the action plan will name, you know, different organizations in the community that that could implement these, the recommendations. And then the town may also want to consider appointing a committee or having an ad hoc committee to sort of oversee this, this work going forward. So appreciate you all for coming. Last minute thoughts or questions. Okay. Well, seeing none will. We'll post the slides on engage Amherst, and we will have a recording, except for the small section that I missed. But I did take notes, so we'll also have the notes available. And we'll incorporate those into the action plan. So, thank you everyone. Thank you. Bye bye.


Because for the ones that have been in the previous editions of Big Things, it was not Big Things. It was Big Data Spain. So we will explain why we have changed the name. So to explain why, we should go to the proper slides so don't get messed up about these transitions. So welcome to Big Things. Why Big Things, Carmen? So the first big announcement that we would like to make is that we are no longer Big Data Spain. Big Data Spain was born in 2012 with the aim of raising awareness of Big Data among the business community. After seven editions, the event has evolved as much as technology has. And today, we are not just a meeting point to talk about Big Data, but about every technology that could be the next big thing. At this event, we will talk about technologies in the innovation or in the early adopters' stage. Those technologies will be the ones that will change the society in the future. So welcome to Big Things. We are going to talk about technology. Big Things is about the speakers, but it's mostly about you.  Or if not, you are not in the right place. So one of the intentions of Big Things is to talk about technology to share and why it's so important technology. There are a lot of sectors, industries, but there is only one sector that changes all sectors. And this one is technology. Technology is changing all industries, the world, and society. So if there is an event, this is the event. This is the eight year that Paradigma organized Big Data Spain. And the growth is still spectacular. Our big numbers are 2,000 attendees, 92 talks, 35 sponsors, and 120 speakers. As you can see, we have growth a lot. This is something like 25%. So this is because of you. So thanks for everybody to be here. And thanks for the sponsor. We will talk about them now. But 26% is quite a lot. And we are really proud. We are more than 2,000 attendees. And this is like a big, big number. I was in some events yesterday in Germany, in UK. None of those events were more than 1,000. We are 2,000 here, 30% of the people that is here comes from Europe, from worldwide. So in reality, we are really proud to create this and to participate in this. And we will thank you 1,000 times to be here because without you, this event would not be possible. And all of this has been possible thanks to our sponsors without their contributions. This amazing event wouldn't be at the level that you are going to enjoy these days. So we're heartfelt thanks to all of them. This year, we have a Fidelity sponsor, Estratio, and a Platinum sponsor, Minsight. Sponsors are really important. You will see a lot of booths outside. So please visit them. They are making a big effort to try to explain what they are doing, how they are changing technology, how they are helping your companies with their products and their technology. So please visit them, talk to them, because they have made a big effort. And also this event, we have to thank them. Without them, it would not be possible. And big things wants to take a step towards dignity, solidarity, prosperity for all the people and for the planet. Because what bigger thing is there than improving our world? We want to join forces to promote the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Our small changes in pursuit of big results includes a clear commitment to those talks with a social, economical, or environmental impact. DGR, look for the SDG icon in the agenda to find these talks. And at the event, this year, all the bottles of water will promote the Awara Project. This project provides drinking water in developing countries. And of course, all the disposal material from the catering will be eco-friendly. Because everything matters. And it's no up to all of us to work together to build a better future. I don't know if you remember this summer. I was on holidays. But normally, I don't see the TV or the news. But it was like a disaster this summer. The glaciers were melting. The microplastics were in all the seas. Amazonas was on fire. And not because of a rock feisty, but it was really on fire. It was burning. And I was thinking, my goodness, this is going to end a lot faster than I thought. So when I was thinking about this, I was thinking, okay, who's guilty? And sometimes a lot of people think technology. Technology is going too fast. Well, we think the industry is going too fast.  But we are very positive people. So we think technology should make a change. Technology is something positive. Always that technology is for good. And this is one of the models of this edition. Technology for good. Technology should be something that we can try to make a change. And this is one of the things that you will find all in this edition. Technology for good. So technology for good is one of the things that we want to emphasize. But this edition, big things is about technology. Here we are seeing some of the history of technology. You have seen Tesla and a telecom engineer. He was the real one. Nikola Tesla. Here you see the iPhone announcement. These were like historical moments. They changed IT. They created the IT sector. And some of the people, for example, in the announcement of the iPhone, I am sure most of you have seen some pictures or the video in which Steve Jobs was announcing the iPhone. Well, you know that it was empty. It was not working. So he was a genius. Marketing genius. But I am sure that everybody that was there watching the iPhone announcement will remember that for their whole life, because it was a historical event. Well, this is the idea for big things. Big things is one of the most important technology events in Europe. What we want for big things is that you see innovation, disruption, game changers. Things that really are going to change technology. Therefore, they are going to change the society and the world. And maybe in one of the editions of big things, you will see some product that will change technology in the world. And you could say, in 10 years, 20 years, I was there. When this was announced, I was there. I was a witness of that. So that is the future of big things. That is the vision. That is the goal, to become one of the best and biggest technology events in the world. And to be witness of some of the game changers that we will see in technology for the next years. This year, big things comes packed full of new things. We have a whole new track. We've gone from four to five. About half of the talks will be related to business. And this year, we have a few talks in Spanish based on the feedback from previous years and in order to improve their presentation. For this talk, we will have some channel translation into English. This year, we have a special contest, DeepRacer. In this context, it consists in programming a physical car. We will be repeating the experience of Ask the Expert, a corner where you will be able to ask the speakers those questions you didn't dare to ask previously. And we recommend you to download the big things up where you will find the agenda. You will be able to give feedback on the talks, to interact with other people, and much more. So I think that most of you, you have a mobile. Do you have a mobile? Please, can you hold it? I know it is early in the morning.  But please, download the mobile app, please, and use it. We want for this event to improve. But to improve, we need to know what were the talks that were better, what were the events, the things we are doing that you really like. And the way to do it is use the mobile app. So please, download the mobile app. And after any talk, say, OK, this guy was awful, or was the best one, or whatever. But please, use it. And thank you very much to our speakers who came to the event with the objective of sharing their knowledge and being a source of inspiration for all of us, especially those who travel many hours to attend the event. And this year, we will have a closing speech by Cema Lonso. And as James said before, we will have a party after this closing speech here in Kinepolis. We hope to see you all there. So tomorrow, we will finish the event. I think it is something like 6.30. And normally, after two days talking about technology, yes, we like it, but we are a little bit tired. But please, if you go to the talk with Cema, there is a party. This party is to take beers. And when you take beers, you can talk even more about technology. So please go to this party. And these are some of the technologies we are going to talk during the event. There are a lot of talks. As Carmen explained, there are five tracks. Five tracks is a lot. So check what are the technologies you really like more. We are going to talk about blockchain, cloud, big data, of course, AI. And because there are five tracks, maybe I like blockchains. I'm going, but if there is a track that is empty, go to that one. I was joking. But we will see that in five tracks, there is technologies that attract more people, or there are ones that not. The idea also is to improve about that. So use the application. Say what you like. And next year, we will focus in the technologies and things that really get the attraction or are going to change your companies, society, and the world. We hope that big things will see your expectation. Thank you for coming. And enjoy the event. Thank you.


In this study, we analyzed breast milk samples from 148 women to assess the presence of multiple mycotoxins, aflatoxins B1, B2, G1, G2, NM1, alpha and beta-zero-lenol, deoxynivalenol, fumonicins B1, B2, B3, and hydrolyzed B1, nivalenol, octratoxin A, octratoxin alpha, and xeralenone, and the levels of total fumonicins. Fumonicin B2 and B3 were detected in 15% and 9% of the samples respectively, while no traces of fumonicin B1 or nivalenol were found. Additionally, no correlation was observed between total fumonicins and pre-slash post-harvests and dietary practices. This suggests that the presence of mycotoxins in breast milk may not be related to the farming practices or the diets of the mothers. This article was authored by Odyssele Mesfan, Karl Lachit, Sifu Hegaz-Jabraesis and others.