Dear students, I welcome you in the course of leadership, emotional intelligence and the CN making. This is module number 117. And the title of the module is very interesting, Engage Your Demons. When we talk about emotional intelligence, there are different perspectives in which we have to engage ourselves. We have to control, we have to be self aware, we have to have empathy, and likewise these are all the things which are going to create our emotional intelligence. In case of emotional intelligence, remember one thing that the leader's role is very important. And when we talk about the leader's role, remember that the leader must try to control his or her own passion before he or she claims to control the passion of the other people. So, first of all, we have to learn to control ourselves, then we have to think in terms of controlling others. Now remember that when we are there to establish emotional intelligence, there are certain things that we need to understand. And those expressions are to be discussed in detail one by one. The first thing is that when we are talking about emotional intelligence, it says that emotional intelligence develops when we struggle to overcome our selfishness and obviously our aggression. One is the aggression and the other is the selfishness. The second important thing is that emotional intelligence develops when we struggle to achieve our self-memory. When we understand what is going on in our mind, when we understand what is going on in our mind, they are going to affect our emotional intelligence. Another important thing is that when we overcome our anger and anger, which is what we are discussing with an important expression, which is melancholia, and we can display our emotions with warm and brave continents, we can overcome our anger and anger, that is the time when we can develop emotional intelligence. Always remember another important thing, that emotional intelligence is going to develop when we struggle to overcome our descending attitudes. When we underestimate ourselves, when we underestimate ourselves and when we try to create a balance in our conduct, in our attitude, in our cognition and in our relationships. Another important thing is that emotional intelligence is all about self-awareness and self-control. So these are two of the most important things that will remain incomplete without emotional intelligence discussion. So dear students, remember that in the context of emotional intelligence, no one's life is smooth, no one's life progress is of a linear curve, ups and downs, the aspects which are not in a favorable situation in one's life are all associated with each other. No doubt that every person's statement, every person's demands will be different from the rest. But we must try to overcome the negative aspects of our life, that are positivity, we can control our anger and anger, so that we can bring our right concern with our followers, with our familiar people, with our followers, with our stakeholders and with our associations. Therefore, always remember that emotional intelligence is just like that you have to put all your your effort to make your relationships better, stronger, and more trustworthy. Dear students, if we conclude all this, then remember that a leader's effectiveness depends on his emotional intelligence, that all his relationships and matters, how he can understand the emotions and feelings of the people, and then use them in any perspective in which he is working, how he can reach the goal.


Good morning, I'm Mary Ellen and today I'm going to share with you some of my favorites. I'm going to talk about lifestyle favorites, favorites in the home. I think I have one beauty item, some personal safety information, and then I'm going to circle back around and talk about what I've been enjoying on television. So I'm going to go ahead and get started. The first thing I wanted to share with you is there's two things I did. I I don't know if you guys shop on Amazon every once in a while there'll be something like get $10 to reload your e-gift card. Well, I had for Mother's Day, I had gotten a gift card and I you know put it in my Amazon account and when that popped up, I did it and I because I reloaded $100. So I made $10 just like that. I don't know how often they offer that, but I thought that was good to know. The other thing is, not sure if you're aware of this, but on Rakuten that's the one that you can get cash back on that I've been a member of since 2013 and I think it's fabulous. They also have e-gift cards. So if you buy somebody a $100 e-gift card and they have 5% cash back, in reality that $100 gift card is going to cost $95 because you will get the $5 back and I think the most I've ever seen is 6%, but you know, I mean I'll take if I buy somebody a $50 e-gift card, I'm glad to pocket $2.50. So that's just another way to save and I'm really good about knowing what I want ahead of time and waiting until that cash back on Rakuten is higher. If you haven't ever signed up for Rakuten, I'll have a link below. If you make a purchase within 30 days, you will get a bonus and I will get a bonus. So just wanted to share that with you. Now this really excited me and it may not excite you, but we had for the first time, and I don't know how long, we had ants in early part of May and I tried little tiny, tiny ants all around in the kitchen sink and I tried all of the DIYs. I tried it all and I just couldn't get them. So I looked up and found that these, these are by Tarot and they're liquid ant baits and I'll show you what they look like.  So I hope I don't need this whole box, but I will share it with my friends and family if they have ants. But it really did work. In Southern Illinois, it gets very hot, very humid and and there's a high dew point most of the time, which just makes the air really thick and even though we have central air conditioning every summer when, when the humidity gets really high, I get out my dehumidifier and I'll put a picture in here and I have been so appreciative of having that. I have it on in the kitchen. I think it's supposed to dehumidify up to 2,000 square feet. Well, all I care about is just the downstairs and I tell you what, sometimes I have to empty that twice a day, always once a day and it shuts off when it's full. Last year I bought a package of 25 five gallon ziplock bags. They're reusable ziplock bags. Jim likes to cook things and he does. He gets in the freezer and my system wasn't working. I used to have tote bags and you zipped them. I knew where everything is, but a lot of times he will just go in there and get out chicken legs or pork chops or something that's individually packaged and it's a mess when I get back in. I didn't really think I was gonna like these but they held up for a year and they're still going strong. I put several packages of food in here, meat, different things and then I put a clip, like a binder clip on it and I stick it in my freezer and it's just so easy to pick this up and he can see what's in there and I really do like them. I've given some to my sister, some to my daughter and they're really working out very well. There's a lot of uses for it and since they held up so well, I don't feel bad about using them. I would imagine the last several years. I also bought these last year. These are two gallon. They're excellent for putting like fruit or bags of things in but I like that better for meat, but these are good and and I haven't had any problems with them. I kind of like to get back to you on a few things that I talk about. Almost six years ago, I bought two sets of these. They're the silicone spatulas, they have a wire in here. They're wonderful. I use them all of the time and I've always been on the hunt for this brand in particular and I'll put a picture here. Could not find them. I know when I bought them, they were not inexpensive. I think they were like $20 for four of them but they're they're wonderful. I've purchased so many spatulas that break that that just aren't clean. These are all one piece. Well, I still couldn't find them. When I searched on Amazon, another set came up and these were like $9.99. I bought them. There's four of them. They're different sizes and this kind of has like a little spoon in it. I really liked them. I like I liked them so much that I've already ordered two sets. What I do at Christmas, I just start buying things as I see it and my son and my son-in-law both like to cook and I like to get them different kinds of things to put in a basket. I've already started on my Christmas and those are excellent. Dishwashers say they're heat resistant up to 600 degrees. They're just, they're nice and they have the steel in them. There's not a seam. I anticipate that they're going to be every bit as good as this. In my last favorites video, I asked you all if you had any good, I mean well of course I would want good. I wanted some suggestions for high protein low carb bars and pajama mama gave me a suggestion and I actually went in all these to buy them and they are the Elevation Advanced Protein Bars and they only had one brand and it was the chocolate peanut butter. It has 18 grams of protein, four net carbs, a total of two sugars and it's 240 calories and they were excellent. I saved one so I could show it to you. This is the size of the bar and they're very, very good. So thank you for the suggestion. I would recommend them. What I judge in a protein bar is I don't want it to make me crave something else sweet and this doesn't and I have to really kind of be careful about what it is sweetened with and whatever this is sweetened with doesn't bother my stomach but some of those sweeteners just make my stomach growl and I want to stay close to the bathroom if you know what I'm talking about. But I think these are wonderful and I'll definitely buy them again. I haven't gotten anything, any new flavors from Belch. Nothing has come out that I've been like interested in. I'm kind of hoping they bring the puffs back. I still have my favorites and I will reorder but I have two boxes in the freezer and one in the refrigerator and I always store them in the refrigerator in the summer. I mentioned that I had ordered another cologne and this was the person who made me want to buy this is Kathy from Kathy's Beauty Care Chats and she talks about Gershaw Lyra and it's a very expensive scent, a very expensive brand that for me I wouldn't buy it. That's just we all have our you know what we'll spend money on and I'm about to talk about something in a little bit. But anyway I ordered this and it's from the company DUA came in a nice box. I will tell you I love this. It's caramel delight and it just smells wonderful. I've used quite a bit of it. I have it on today.  I like it and Jim likes it. So thank you Kathy for the recommendation and I think I'm done buying scents for a while. I still have I have quite a few to work through. The only other new beauty product I've tried is the Purito Cleansing BB Cream and one of my viewers and her name is Zuley Z-U-L-Y. She recommended this so I ordered it's one ounce and I ordered it from Amazon. I think it has a 37 or a 38 SPF and I just really wanted to try something lighter. I put it on using this brush that I bought from BK Beauty and I'm going to tell you right now if you're still here later on I'm going to do a giveaway with two brush scents but I love this brush. It's the 101 love the way it's angled. I never put foundation. I have a ton of brushes and I never put foundation on with a brush. I put a well kind of a small amount.  I love the way I've used I've used this quite a few times because it's different than anything I've ever used. It's been a good combination. This doesn't have very many shades. I don't know if they're working on that but I appreciate Zuley recommending this to me and I've got it on today. Okay what I'm going to talk about next is personal safety and Jim had I have Jim's permission to share something with you and he said I could talk about it but he didn't want me talking about it in the comment section. Anyway Jim has severe spinal stenosis. He was diagnosed three years ago and it has gotten worse. We're due to see the doctor but he's using a walker all the time. I mean he's really really struggling so you know his safety is like number one with me. This house is big if you're in one end of the house and I mean you can't hear anybody. You can't you can't hear anything so I got my thinking cap on and I thought what could I do and he won't keep his phone next to him. He will not learn how to use an echo dot. He's kind of hard headed but I wanted something that I could feel that if he needed me if he felt that I would hear him or you know he gets up at night and anyway I did some research and I ordered an Apple Watch and I'm wearing the Apple Watch right now. I knew that I would have to buy it. I'd have to wear it before he would even consider trying it but for right now he won't wear it. I'll see what I can do about it but I want to tell you a little bit about it and why I am so impressed. The downside to it is you have to have an iPhone. You have to and I have no idea if Android or any other brands make anything like this but I'll tell you what sold me on this. I had I set it up put the app on my phone and in the phone I have like SOS like people that are supposed to be contacted in case of emergency so that was already in my phone. I had just really had this on for a couple of days. Well to get to my dressing room you have to go through two rooms go through a hallway come in here turn so I mean it's kind of like isolated but I was putting up a few things at the top of my closet and my closet is my brother-in-law built it for me and I have like double racks and then I have a really high real deep shelf so I had my two step step ladder that has a place to hold on to I was being very safe and it was that that furry blanket that I ordered from Nordstrom it's kind of a weighted blanket well I had washed it and let it dry some time ago and it was thoroughly dry and I put it in a in a 13 gallon trash bag anyway I was up there and I kind of was hoisting it when I hoisted it I went flying new to protect my head but it kind of it just stunned me so as I was lying there I felt this buzzing on my arm it was like and I looked down and it said call 911 or SOS or I fell but I'm okay so of course I touched I fell but I'm okay I had no idea that it would do that I've tried every which way to move my arm to do whatever I can for that to come up again and it won't but I was so impressed with that so like if I would have fallen and I would have been knocked out it would have automatically called 911 I'm glad and then also sent alerts to my the people that are supposed to be alerted if something goes wrong with me I was so impressed by that I just thought of all the situations that would have turned out better had something like this been available then I went ahead and got the cellular plan on mine which is $10 a month because I thought well if Jim is out driving the car he doesn't take his phone so I thought well we'll do the cellular if it's on your Wi-Fi network at home it'll do so many things as far as health I don't need it for my heart it will do heart rhythms it's a one-lead EKG but I already know that I have atrial fibrillation and I know when I have it it also does your blood oxygen well I have that little device that does blood oxygen and I forgot to bring it in here but I'll put a picture of it up here and it works perfectly and it does several your pulse well my Fitbit does all that but you can call you can make telephone calls you can just say hey and I'll write the word call so-and-so in it that's yeah S-I-R-I or you can just touch the side of the button there's a place you can touch it like if you're ever in a situation where you don't want to draw attention there's a little place you can press five times and that will initiate your SOS it's also on cell phones on this on Apple phone on the upper right side as you're looking at it if you just touch that five times it is supposed to initiate help and the reason I'm sharing this is 90% of the people who watch me are 45 years old or older so they either you might have parents you might have friends you might have you might be at the age where you need something that would help you in case of an emergency you know I buy my phones outright because I don't want to spend $17 a month for insurance and that's the way it used to be if you bought it and you paid for it every month you had to have the insurance well when I buy my new cell phones I do it about every two years and I keep my old ones and I keep them for a reason because they can be used as a computer they can be used as my camera which is my iPhone 8 right now is my camera they can you can do anything on them except for call and you can even use call 911 but the important thing is learning how to do it when you're young enough to do it if my mom could if this would have been available when my mom was 80 it would have it would have just been wonderful she wouldn't even have had to learn to use the cell phone all I would have had to do is show her how to use this watch and she could call she could she could get help you know she could I just think of so many situations that came into the emergency room that were so sad and or if you're in the car and you're driving and you have a wreck well it'll probably initiate 911 just because of the force but or if you run off this side of the road you don't your your phone may go flying but you'll still have your watch on I don't know I'm just thinking of all these safety things and just wanted to share those with you the downside it has to be charged every day I mean it'll go for a little longer than a day but I've got to be in a routine and what I do at night when I come in here I come in the bedroom I read I clean I you know I watch some TV so that's when I put it on to charge and it has like a little metal thing that goes behind here and it charges at 100 probably in about 45 minutes 30 to 45 minutes if it would be totally dead which it never has been I think it takes an hour and a half to charge so somebody would have to get into a routine but just for me the possibilities are out there and just wanted to share that with you you need to do a little bit of research to see I think the series four five and six Apple watches all have that fall detection and like I said I know it works and I think sometimes it's important for me to share things with you that could be helpful and I think I was supposed to fall so I would know I mean that I would know that it would do that I still love my Fitbit I've been wearing it because I've been comparing I look on the apps to see how I do very very close in sleep it'll tell you how well you sleep what type of sleep you're in if Fitbit had fall detection and the ability to make phone calls I wouldn't need an Apple watch but as of yet it doesn't but you know what it may be out there at some point my mother died 11 years ago and she was 89 years old the last 10 years of her life she did wear a safety alert pendant it worked really well but it didn't have the ability to alert to alert us if she fell and was unable to press the button what really impressed me so much about this watch is the ability to send alerts and being able to cancel if the help is not needed and I was really impressed with the feature to make phone calls just from the watch itself so often somebody does not need an ambulance they just need a hand so if you know of any similar devices please be sure and share it in the comment section below thank you now I'm going to talk about the BK beauty brushes and then I'm going to circle back and talk about what I've been enjoying and on TV and and that's about it I went ahead and open these because I wanted you to see them but I believe I always I've washed my brush before I ever use it I'm just going to show you what I do I don't know everybody has their own thing I take my brush run it underwater make sure I don't get it up in here I have a bar of soap that I have raised up on a little tray rinse wash it go around and around on the soap and it's just your preference I this is African black African soap go around here a few times run it underwater go back and then all since I do brushes often I'm I'm not one to wait until they're all dirty this is all I need for that then I'll take this and go around like that run it underwater do a quick thing and then they're done and then I just take it kind of shake it kind of press it and I just lie mind flat and I've done it I've never had a problem but I think it's a good practice to always wash your brushes before you use them and this was when I bought it's a 105 brush the first brush in the giveaway is a 101 and that is the foundation brush that I showed you that I used they're they're they're wonderful brushes they're cruelty free they're soft they wash up very well they're so well made and they fit really good in your hand that I have a few it cosmetic brushes I use as far as face brushes these have been my favorite this is a large powder brush I'm not going to touch it but I just want you to see how full it is this is the 103 the bronzer brush it's it's pinched here very very nice brush and the last brush in this set is a tapered powder brush and this would get really under your eye very well very very nice so this is my face set and these are the eye brushes and I'll go over them one I'll go through them with you the face brushes were called the essentials face brush and this set is designed for smaller or hooded eyes and here is a very first brush and it is the defined crease brush this is the 203 it's a shader brush and I bought the I had the larger versions of those I bought those this is a 204 it's the smudge brush this is a 207 it's a precision blending brush I think it is and this is the one that I have to uh it's a 208 and it is the I think it's a precision defining eye brush I use this one in my recent get ready with me it's it's just perfect the brushes the brush is just perfect she sent me her brushes I had already purchased two sets when she sent them to me when she found out that I had a YouTube channel it's really nice to be an older content creator and be remembered by these young women it really is and you know there's a lot of people that want to send you things but they don't want you to give them away I knew that I was going to give these away when she wanted to send them to me and I asked her and she said that is perfect a lot of times they don't want you to give it away so I really appreciate that and I mean I really love her channel she's a professional makeup artist she was the trainer for matte cosmetics in Texas and and now she has her own brush line and makeup line and busy mom of two I'm just going to wrap up the giveaway and then I'm going to talk about what I've been liking on TV and I'm going to ask you all for your suggestions if you want to be entered all you have to do is in your comment section list which one you want first and I do want a sentence and list if you know this will be face and this will be eyes so if you say something about the eyes if you use that word first if and your name comes up you'll get your first choice or face so you kind of know how I do it and and I always close my giveaways in three days and I announce them on my next video and that's all you have to do if I'd appreciate it if you give me a thumbs up or subscribe but you don't have to do any of that well I subscribed to HBO max for one month and I really enjoyed it I wasn't going to I wanted to see the friends reunion because I used to watch that all the time so I I went in and I subscribed for one month I've got it written in my calendar when I need to cancel it but I thoroughly enjoyed the friends reunion I loved mayor of east town that's on HBO it was fast paced it was interesting it starred Kate Winslet and it just really was good I enjoyed it I usually watch about an hour of television every day every time when I come into the bedroom and I have not watched daytime TV since I've been home which will be eight years in December cannot believe that and I'm going to finish out this month I'm going to watch some of Lisa Ling's interviews I've watched a couple of them and they were really good and then I'll probably cancel and then I'll wait until something comes on that I really want to watch and do it again also I don't know if you know this or not but you can get Netflix in our area at least for $8 and 99 cents a month if you just use it when it on to watch one TV well I can watch it on any television in the house but two people can't watch Netflix at one time and Jim never watches Netflix so I some time ago I went down to $8.99 a month and there's no commercials so on Netflix I really enjoyed the Queen's Gambit it is a series I never thought I would enjoy anything about chess but it was just so well done and it it just brought you in from the beginning and I really enjoyed that I've been doing Ancestry.com I've been working on that some in the evening and I have been a member of Ancestry.com since 2002 and my children both know I mean it automatically comes out of my checking account every six months and they know my password I mean I'm like on one vein in my family I'm back to the 1300s I've worked on Jim's Ancestry and also on my children's father so there's just a wealth of information and I really do enjoy that and for the suggestion I'm going to ask you if any of you have any recommendations for very very very lightweight readers I am so tired of getting things on my nose right here and here and I don't usually like the ones that have the little tips unless you know some that are really light anyway it is all good thank you so much for watching and for giving me your time I appreciate it so much and I'll see you in my next video take care the first thing I want I mean I bought and if you haven't ever and if you're not the first thing is because I wanted to show them on


they know I'm coming. They do. I think they've gotten it by now. They are okay. Good morning everyone. Good morning. These are students from Bronxville. Come join us. We have this side too. Yes, you can. Amazing. Well, we knew today was going to be a party, but this is a real party. Good morning. Good morning to everyone. We're so excited to see everyone here today. My name is Maria Torres Springer. I'm the Deputy Mayor for Housing, Economic Development and Workforce, and we just got bigger, but we're all so happy to be here to celebrate an historic year at NYCHA. Now, New Yorkers, NYCHA residents, they've been waiting a very long time for a transformational moment at NYCHA. Yes. Yes, they have. It is because of the combined leadership of Mayor Adams, of NYCHA tenants, NYCHA resident leaders, and the NYCHA colleagues who are here with us today that we have finally arrived at that moment. And so I want to extend a warm welcome to all of the NYCHA residents and tenant leaders in particular for being here at City Hall with us today. I also want to recognize amazing partners across government. I will start with the first Deputy Mayor of New York City, first Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright. I also see somewhere Council Member Narcisse is here with us today. We also have the New York State Deputy Secretary for Housing, Kanya Decianaki. Thank you. Thank you for your partnership, and I think we'll be joined by many other partners over the course of this program. But before we get to all of that, I would like to introduce to all of you the person who is not just the biggest champion of NYCHA, but is also the 110th Mayor, the Get Stuff Done Mayor of New York City, Eric Adams. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks so much, D.M. Tourist Springer and the whole team.  There's this entire team. We started out in January 1st, 2022, indicating that NYCHA was going to be at the top of our agenda. We included it in our housing plan. Never has it been done before. NYCHA, for the most part, everyone stated, wait until next year, wait until next year, wait until next year. Listen, this is not some sports team. This is a place where people live. One out of every 17 New Yorkers live in public housing. And so to continue to say year after year after year, that okay, the Calvary is coming. Those bugles we were hearing, I say over and over again, it was not the Calvary, it was TAPS. NYCHA was dying. And it was dying because we didn't put it at the top of the agenda. We said in this administration that we were going to place it at the top of our agenda. It was part of our housing plan. Never has it been done before. And we did something very significant and important and very universal and revolutionary. We talked to the tenants. We said to the tenants, what do you need? How do we do this together? They rallied, went to Albany for this trust. Then we went on the ground. We spent days after days going to no-stream houses and really selling the plan, giving people hope again. And so we are really excited about what's happening to NYCHA. And today, we celebrate a year of victories for broken people of NYCHA with this broken people agenda. With the certification of voting results, residents at no-stream houses made history and voted to enter the Public Housing Preservation Trust. So significant. Ensuring that NYCHA residents get their fair share, the trust created by our administration and NYCHA signed into law by Governor Hoku unlocks billions of dollars to help repair long-agent infrastructure and utilities. Anyone who has walked through NYCHA the amount of time that I have spent in NYCHA and you look at the cabinets, you look at the peeling paint, you look at the dilapidated floors, you look at these conditions and just say that it's not fair and it's not right and we need to get something done. $80 billion in capital improvement needs. We must be creative, bold, forthright, honest and engage the tenants. And that's what this administration has done and will continue to do. And we're going to ensure that NYCHA residents have a safe, quality home to live in. The vote was about the lives of broken people and for the first time gave NYCHA residents a voice in what happens to their homes. Too long public housing residents have been cast aside, not in this administration and they will never be cast aside again because we are setting the tone for all those who continue to improve the lives of NYCHA residents. They have been told to keep quiet and be grateful for what they are given and we know not anymore because you don't keep quiet. This time NYCHA residents have been seen at the table and have taken control of their future. Next the residents of Bronx River addition will cast their vote in this historic process. This voting process is significant because it will help shape the future of NYCHA and it builds on the transformational year public housing has had. Just think about this for a moment. When we look at the records we've set in NYCHA, I keep saying this over and over again. There's so many wins are coming out of this administration and here's one that we're proud of in NYCHA. Converting more than 5,000 units to the permanent affordability commitment together the PAC program in a single year. That's a new record. Close financing. Close financing for $1.8 billion for critical capital repairs at PAC Developments. A new record. They have allocated more than $1 billion in funding for capital projects in 2023. A new record. And the public housing community fund raised more than $8 million this year to help supplement NYCHA's needs and improvement quality of life for residents. And guess what? That's a new record. And we made historical investment. Historical investment in sustainability from clean heating to flood resiliency infrastructure that will usher in a new era of sustainability at NYCHA. These accomplishment are bigger than a list that could ever be listed in a press release. But it's a clear indication of how this administration is on the ground doing the work for working people when we continue to do so. And NYCHA is representative of that. Where you look at the population that live in NYCHA and have been denied and abandoned for so many years. We were the first to include it in our housing plan and we're going to continue to move forward in a real way. I want to thank Governor Hokel who has been a partner on what we're doing in NYCHA to city council members. And the voice that all of you are hearing at home that is Barbara McFadden. Who has been a leader and champion for NYCHA and really understands the needs of the resident. And NYCHA leadership, Elisa Bova Hyatt and Chair Jamie Rubin. And of course the administration leaders have really put this forthright where the bold vision we knew we could not have business as usual. Deputy Mayor Maria Torres Springer and First Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright and the whole team that got behind this initiative. We knew we had to get it done. We got it done. We had it passed. Now we're going to start to see a new day in NYCHA. Bold, aggressive, fearless moving forward. Because we're not doing it only for those who are there now. We're doing it for this population of young people who are around us because the future of NYCHA young people is crucial and is important. Thank you. Great job. Thank you Mayor. Thank you Mayor. Thank you so much Mayor for your leadership. You know we said from day one that we were going to be committed to the people of NYCHA. One in 17 New Yorkers, more than 500,000 New Yorkers. That is larger than Miami or Atlanta or Sacramento. So but the commitment couldn't just stop there. We had to deliver results and you'll see here the mayor just mentioned them. They're also on the poster boards in case people want to take notes. The records that were broken because of the extraordinary efforts of the people of this administration of the colleagues we have at NYCHA and of course residents and tenant leaders. And so the next person who I'd like to introduce is someone who's really been leading the charge in terms of this transformation and leading an incredible team that wakes up every morning, unclear however if they ever even sleep, but making sure that we're doing more, we're doing better, and we're doing that faster for NYCHA residents. Please join me in welcoming the CEO of NYCHA, Lisa Bovahayet. Hello everyone. It's so great to be here at City Hall and stand with all of our partners as we reflect on NYCHA's progress this past year. And we are incredibly pleased to announce that the vote at Nostrand Houses was certified by our third party voting administrator. Beyond the historic resident vote at NYCHA, it's been a year of progress and accomplishments at the authority thanks to all of you. I want to emphasize that what we've done could not have been done and happened without the vision, dedication, and hard work of our employees and our partners. So thank you to Governor Hockel, Mayor Adams, First Deputy Mayor Wright, Deputy Mayor Torres Springer, for your steadfast support of NYCHA. Together we are making a difference in the communities that we serve. Thank you to our NYCHA residents and resident leaders who are here today, including Nostrand Resident Association President Barbara McFadden, Fulton Houses Resident Association President Miguel Acevedo, Wyndon Houses TA President Carol Barnes, and our TA President from Bronx River Edition who unfortunately could not be here today, Norma Sanders. You are the reason we're here and we could not accomplish our mission without your input and your insight. I want to thank our board members, especially our board chair Jamie Rubin, our Chief Operating Officer Eva Trimble, as well as the other countless community advocates, elected officials, and other partners who stand with us as we strive to improve the quality of life for NYCHA residents. Transformation drives everything we do at NYCHA. That's why the certification of the first resident vote at Nostrand Houses is such a monumental milestone. It marks the first time that public housing residents have voted to decide their path forward for their homes. It also demonstrates the power of resident engagement to strengthen communities. Nostrand residents chose the trust, which will transform their development homes from top to bottom, revitalizing them, providing them the quality of life that they, other New Yorkers, and NYCHA residents deserve. We recently announced that residents of Bronx River Edition will be the next to vote on the future of their homes. We have begun 100 days of resident engagement there, which will be followed by a 30-day voting period just like at Nostrand Houses. Another major housing preservation effort, our PACT initiative, is bringing billions of dollars of investment to restore NYCHA buildings and residents' homes. A record $1.8 billion in financing for capital repairs was closed this year across all of our PACT deals, and a total of 20,000 apartments have been converted through PACT so far. In other PACT news, after five years of extensive resident engagement and planning, residents of Fulton and Elliott-Chelsea Houses expressed via a survey their preference to entirely rebuild their campuses. This next step of this exciting journey will be an environmental review and a public common period. Both the trust and PACT are extremely impactful programs that enable comprehensive renovations of residents' homes by switching them to the more stable Section 8 funding stream. At the same time, they ensure that residents maintain all of their rights and protections, included permanently affordable rents, and they ensure that public housing remains public. As part of our comprehensive modernization programs at St. Nicholas Houses and Toad Hill, design build teams were recently selected to carry out $740 million worth of renovations at those developments. And we are on track to utilize $1 billion of funding for capital repairs this year, the most that NYCHA has ever spent in a single year. And it will address the areas that mean the most to residents, heat, elevators, waste management, plumbing systems, facades and roofs, safety and security, infrastructure, flood resiliency, as well as community centers and playgrounds. Considering the more than $78 billion in capital needs across the authority, all of these efforts are incredibly important and incredibly necessary. Transformation is happening in other significant ways across the authority as well. Our various sustainability initiatives are helping to address the climate crisis while improving residents' quality of life. Thanks to the advocacy with our partners, including many of you here today, residents are beginning to receive their fair share of ERAP funding from the state, providing critical COVID-related rental assistance to many families. And to supplement our day-to-day efforts, the Public Housing Community Fund raised a record $8 million plus to support the NYCHA community through economic opportunity programs and more. So thank you, Alex Oblacki. I know you couldn't be here today. We have made tremendous progress, but of course there's much more to do together in the year ahead. Thank you again, everyone, as we forge a better and more sustainable path for NYCHA and our residents, looking forward to the impact that we can continue to make through our incredible partnerships. Thank you so much, Lisa. We've talked a lot this morning about centering tenant voices, and so I'm really thrilled to be able to welcome, as our final speaker, one of those voices, the leader of the Tenants Association at Linden Houses in Brooklyn. Please join me in welcoming Ms. Carol Barnes. Thank you. I'm sorry. Good morning, everyone. Good morning. I'd like to thank the Honorable Mayor, Eric Adams, for bringing this together. I was a Linden Houses resident from my family moved in Linden Houses in 1967, so we are a long-standing family. I've been on the tenant board since 2015 because NYCHA was falling, and I wanted to make a difference. And year by year, it was just a sad thing to come home and your elevator's not working and just so many things. Then we were introduced to PAC-RAD, and we were scared because we didn't know what PAC-RAD was, and we were very scared because they were telling us, oh, you're being sold. What's the word? No, general gentrification. That's the word. Gentrification is coming. They're going to put all of y'all out. We didn't know what PAC-RAD was, so we sat down with Brian Honin, NYCHA, Deondra from NYCHA. There's plenty of others I could name, but we sat down day by day, and even when COVID hit, we talked through Zoom. And when it was time for our president, for the time for the election to run, and I won, and then we turned PAC-RAD, I said, oh, my God. Now, here I am, the first-time president under a new administration. What did I put myself into? Now, that was looking back. As of now, our apartments, we have new bathrooms, new kitchens, new sinks, new stoves, new refrigerators, new floors, new windows, new screens, new blinds.  We also have 2,000 cameras throughout the development, and Linden Houses is a large development. 19 buildings. We have security. We have a social service worker on the grounds, and I can honestly say that PAC-RAD has saved us from the fall that NYCHA was taking. And so, as of now, I feel very proud of being a TA president. We're in that office five days a week when the residents need us. We sit down every week with management and construction every week, and we go over everything that's going to be done and that will be done. So, it's not like we don't have a say, because we did. We had a say in every part of the way. We little bump heads, but we had a say, and I would like to thank y'all so much and tell you that PAC-RAD worked for Linden, and in the year 2023, we have had seen tremendous strides, and I'm looking forward to the future. Okay, that's just me. This is you. Okay. When I start to see... We anticipate the repairs. Thank you for being with us. Good luck. Get back to class. We expect the repairs to start in approximately one and a half to two years. In the meantime, the work that we're going to continue to do, and NYCHA is going to continue to do, with the residents of no-strength houses, includes the work to prepare the conversion from section nine to section eight, a release of an RFP for vendors to do the work, really finalizing, developing the scope, scoping for the project, and so all of that will start immediately, and by 2026, the repairs will start, and so we're really putting no-strength houses, the residents of no-strength houses, more than 2,000 residents on a path to seeing the critical quality of life improvements that they deserve. Similar to what we've done in our PACT program, we sit down, and starting at the beginning of the year, we will sit down with residents, we will understand what it is that they want done. Every development is different. If you look at the typology of our buildings, we have high-rise, we have low-rise, we have campuses, we have individual apartments, so we've had a great relationship at no-strength houses with Ms. McFadden and her TA leaders. We will sit down with them. Our trust president is also here, and it will be an iterative process, listening to what they need, looking at our PNA, and developing a scope of work. I just want to do a quick, the power outage that took place yesterday. Actually, I was finishing up a meeting when I saw the lights flicker. I thought nothing of it until I got a notification from the commissioner of NISM, Commissioner Iskell, who kept us informed. It was about 12, 40-something in the evening, and he kept us informed throughout tonight and his communication with Con Ed. This incident caused brief power drop city-wide and led to increased calls regarding elevator malfunctions and disruptions in MTA subway service. NISM, in coordination with Con Ed, NYPD, FDNY, MTA moved swiftly to address these issues. And for further details and updates, NISM Commissioner Iskell will provide more information at a public safety briefing, which will start in a few minutes. But it appears as though this brief outage impacted several boroughs. And thank God there was no loss of life that was connected to this. And Commissioner Iskell will update you exactly what we know currently on the topic. Gracie? I think the most important aspect of it, I saw the lights flicker while I was working, and it happened around 12 o'clock. It just goes to show you, I'm working all the time, man.


Shaper 1000 here. Beside me I've got Monkey 1000. So we're gonna be trying this fire bowl ramen spicy beef flavor. I don't think I've done this one yet because I looked through my playlist and I didn't see it. So I don't think I did so we're gonna go ahead and open this up and we're gonna give it a shot. Okay so like I said we got the the it's from this company. I still don't know how to pronounce it right. Sorry about that. But anyway let's get this plastic off of here and I'll read to you that now this one unlike the other noodles you can just use water in it and that's what we're going to be doing. I'm gonna keep laughing at me over here.  Best Buy 9922. September 9th. Next year. Alright I'll show you the the nutrition facts in a minute. It is 3.49 ounces which is 99.2 grams. Here is the if you want to pause that and take a look at it that's your nutrition facts. Okay three minutes be sure to remove the lid completely when cooking with the microwave. We don't want to do that. But for those of you that do use the microwave I'll read this to you for the microwave cooking instructions. This is for a thousand watt microwave. Remove lid and the two packets inside. Open packet one and sprinkle dried garnish onto the noodles. Fill container to inside line with room temperature water. Microwave uncovered for three minutes on high. Leave in microwave for one minute to cool. Handle carefully afterwards. But it says three minutes. It says three minutes right there. But when you think about it after you let it cool for a minute it's now four minutes. Right. So somebody sew them. Alright then open packet two and pour soup flavoring powder into the container. Gently stir until evenly mixed and enjoy. Now the boiling water cooking directions that's what we're going to do. Open lid halfway and remove the two packets. Open packet one and sprinkle dried garnish into the noodles onto the noodles. Fill container with boiling water to the inside line. Close lid securely and let stand for three minutes. Handle carefully afterwards. Remove the lid. Open packet two and put it on there. Start up and eat. Okay so what we want to do. Let's just go ahead and open this up here real quick. It said halfway. Here's packet. Here's packet two. This is packet one here. This is the one we're going to be eating the garnish that we're going to be putting on beforehand because it's dried so it's got to you know kind of cook. Inside here there's a fill line just right above the noodles as always just about halfway up. Okay this is 450 calories per serving. Okay serving size one container so this 450 calories. You figure out. Okay so I got a mom's teapot over there. We're going to turn it on. I got some water in it and as soon as it starts boiling I'll bring you back and I got to clear my card because I got a card memory like card blinking. It lets me know when I got four minutes left. So I want to do that and we'll be back with you and we'll mix this up and then monkey's going to try it out. And so are you. Monkey's going to try it out. And so are you. Yeah I guess so am I. Mr. Brown. Stop. Certified chef. There's a story about that and we'll get to that here in a few minutes. So hang tight guys. Okay guys I got you zoomed back out made some room on my memory card. You're running in this is packet number one. You're recording in 4k really. I got a 64 gig card in there but I got several 64 gig cards so I mean I won't run out run out. So we're just going to put that in there like that. Now we've got the tea kettle here. We'll fill this up to that line. I hope it's not falling off the camera. Always got a little bit below but tell it to go to the line. Then what I do is I take my fork lay it across there. We'll see you guys what'll be three minutes for us but it'll be instantaneously for you. So sit tight. Okay guys so it's been three minutes. Let's take the lid off of here. This one's pretty good just with the garnish. I said it smells pretty good just with that. Now open up the season packet flavor packet. They call it packet two. Yeah I know now I'm sure I haven't done this one. This is not hot guys it's just supposed to be spicy so and yes there is a big big difference.  Yeah there's spices in that. Oh I just got the dust cut up in my nose. That's true. Excuse me thank you. So mix this up. So anyway the other night I'm mixing this up. Excuse me. The other afternoon actually we was outside out back.  I was like what? So I thought it was cute so all night long I kept on Mr. Brown. Mr. Brown I was really getting on her nerves bad. Yes. Like every little thing. Like she said you need to stop or I'm gonna put a sock in your mouth and I said so I started doing these commercial things.  Soccer removal expert. I was doing it all night right. So later that night she sounded asleep and said Bruno comes up jumps up on the bed comes over and puts his head on my chest he want to pet it. So I said hi Mr. Brown you're my best friend Mr. Brown. I said it real silently right. She must have heard it. She don't even remember but her leg kicked up and she said stop. So I've been doing it every day Mr. Brown. I meant to say Mr. Bruno and it brown came out. Okay so and now I've heard it all the time. All right so I got monkey fork over there too. So we're going to give this a shot. So we just want I just want to share that with you. Mr. Brown soda pop connoisseur. Offer void work prohibited by law. Stop. He loves it. Oh yeah he likes it. He doesn't have a dog smile. He thinks it's funny. All right so I got a noodle there. We'll try not to make munchin noise right mama. Yeah that's right babe. Sometimes she'll get eaten. She'll be like oh my god stop.  So if you hear any munchin noises please excuse us we're not. This is really hot still. Yeah I know that's why I'm talking to you. That's why I got mine first. So are you cool off faster? No not faster just by the time you got yours mine'll be a little cooler than yours. Clink clunk or what is easy. Oh I forgot now. Dunky dink or dinky. Dinky dunk. Dinky dunk. All right there we go. Spicy. Oh yeah. Wow. Not hot it's very spicy. Spicy spicy. I like it. That's really spicy. And this is what? Wow. I can still feel it. Yeah. Oh my gosh. Spicy beef kind of reminds me of gumbo. Really? Yeah. I never had gumbo. I'm gonna try another bite guys. Safe monkey well. I will. I'm a good sport. Yeah tell me that when we do the I'm at the peanut. Procrastinating on that one. I know my daughter's getting antsy. We need to do the peanut thing dad. I know. Clinky clunk. Dinky dunk. Dinky dunk. Ready? Remember when you was blowing on a pickle. When she did the peck. Ain't that peck when she was like oh my it just came out of the fridge. All right I'm gonna have this one. All right I will cause I'm a good sport. Mm-hmm. It's spicy. Very spicy. If you like spice this is for you how much was this? A dollar. A dollar. You have to wait you get rid of the noodles and it's still in your mouth. It's like. You can feel it. Yeah. Yeah. I can feel it down. I like it down in here now. I can too. It's not hot. It's very very spicy. Mm-hmm. I mean there's heat in there but it's not like all hot because you can taste the peppers. There are peppers in here. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah there is. You see they got flames which you know it says fire bowl but it's more spicy than it is hot. I like it. It gets it two thumbs up and let's see out of five I will give it. I'm gonna give this four. Yeah. Yeah. What do you think? I give it a three. Because you don't like spicy. Well I like it but it's to the point where you got to run to get something to drink to cover it up so to me that's. Well she already had mine here. It just feasts the purpose. It feasts the purpose. Yeah well. It feasts the purpose. Alright. Defeats the purpose. Yeah. I have a post concussion so a lot of my words are coming out crazy. And you've had that we've been together five years next month so. I've been hit five times. About the first time when we first met. Our first date she was walking around. I'm Her tag was hanging out on her shirt and I kept putting them back in. I was like look I'm not hitting on the end. It just bothers me. But to this day when she wears that shirt that tag will flip out. Yeah. It won't stay in.  She's like no it's okay. And then it fell. So no that was. No that wasn't our first date. That was the first time I came here. It's my first came to stay with her. She made me stakes on the grill out there and she just put the stakes on thank goodness. And she was walking back here to come back in the back door and she tripped and that glass plate ceramic or whatever it is ceramic I think it is. Hit the hit the concrete out there and slid across the concrete did not break. Nope.  She just said this is laying there on her side. She's had this look she went. So I went and helped her up. More stories on that some other time. But anyway guys. Interesting. Yeah we got something coming up. Very soon. The week the week before. Is it the 25th? 24th. 24th so that's gonna be cool. We'll be gone for the evening. Yeah. We'll be gone every night. Yeah. So anyway very good to me. I like it. Like I said four stars. Two thumbs up. You give it two thumbs up. Yeah I give it two thumbs up because it is what it says. And three stars for her. But this is good stuff. This company here they make the top for all the wrong stuff. Very good stuff. But this is excellent if you like spicy. And yes you can taste some heat. I can feel some heat. But it's not hot like the other things were but it's a lot spicier than the other things were. Yeah I think this is the spiciest one. I feel all my lips too. Yeah I think it's the spiciest one. Yeah yeah so. And this is new one now. So Bambi you would like this so if Bambi if you next time you go to the store get picked us up. Yeah. Very good. That's my daughter by the way so she'll watch this. All right guys anything you want to add? First week I should have all the parts to get the boat back together. Boat motor. Oh we can go boating. I miss boating. We're not rebuilding it right now because she said well you know it's still more still we're still gonna have nice weather clearing to December. I'm like I said well you know I could just throw a new head and gasket on there. We can just run it like that for a while. She's like could we? Well I guess money coming in and so her money came in. She's like okay money's in hun. I said well that's good. No order my parts. So we got the thermostat today and I'm waiting on the head. The head should be in Monday. I'm not sure when the gasket's coming in so. Since all comes in we can go boating. Yeah yeah I miss boating I like to go go go. All right guys she barely met the man in the legend. We're gone for now. We're leaving. We're leaving them so they can go do their stuff. Okay. Well this Saturday night so tomorrow I should have a hard drive coming in for the for DVR system for home security. The cameras are working fine but it just quit recording. Well it would start recording and quit recording and it kept saying there wasn't enough space even I've got it on loop. So I would format the disc and it would work for half an hour and then quit recording and now it's just reading no disc. So we'll get into that later but I'll show you how to how I want to change that tomorrow. I got a two two terabyte. What is it or one terabyte? I thought you said two. Anyway so it should be good to go. So anyway thanks for watching guys stay safe and um keep on a spooky season so I can't wait for what where we're going. They already know we've already told them. Yeah and I can't wait to go. And we got a lead. I got in touch with some owners of a haunted jail. Yes and we can actually uh pay for the night for just me and her so. Huh? What are we gonna do? I don't know whenever. We could do it soon. They were having they were having a thing tonight. I know we should have went. Yeah we should have. Yeah we should have went. Yeah but anyway so that'll be cool. I'll let you know that's gonna be soon because it's 50 bucks a person but we're gonna be there all night so I think it's like 12 hours or something. You've never been all night. And it will have the whole jail to ourselves so. That will be yours. Yeah and I'll give you links and stuff for that for if you guys are planning on coming to Florida or if you're here in Florida and you want to go check it out. It's called the Gilcrest County Jail so it's supposed to be very haunted so that'll be cool. Mm-hmm. Yep. All right we'll see you guys soon. Stay safe. Monkey says she's out for now y'all. Bye. Bye guys.


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