CCFAP. Your show for the month of March, we're still in March, right? And in the final days, and we're excited to have you join us. We are going to focus most of the show tonight on our new early learning initiative and the two different elements of that. There's a capacity grant element and a new element, which is we call the First Step Scholarships Program. And I have Rebecca Reese from CEDO here to help me with this conversation. And we also, of course, as usual, want to hear from you. So the number's there on the screen, 862-3966. Call us to talk about high-quality childcare about the main topic of the show, but we're also happy to talk about anything else that's on your mind that has to do with the city of Burlington as we head into spring here. It is feeling spring-like today, finally, huh? Absolutely, it's gorgeous out there today. It is a beautiful day. We actually got down on the bike path for a few minutes and saw the new park that we're gonna be opening up this summer there. And we're gonna be calling, I think, Water Works Park on the west side of the water plant, and that's gonna be an exciting part of the summer. So we have to talk about that as well, or other parks if people don't wanna talk about City Hall Park, which has been in the news again, we can do that. But first let me tee off the conversation about high-quality childcare and Burlington's early learning initiative. I'm really excited about this. This is something that I have wanted to do really since being elected. Somehow, I read one book during the long campaign when I first was running for this job, which was Paul Tufts, Whatever It Takes, which is a great book about the Harlem Children's Zone and what they have done to really turn around that part of New York City. And one of the big things that they did was to have a big push on early learning and a whole series of programs there, baby college, but when I came away from that and other things over the last, other kind of early conversations I was part of in my first couple of years as mayor was a sense that high-quality childcare may be the most important neglected area of public investment in America. We actually spend, if you think about it, very little public money on our youngest kids, ages zero to three. Once kids get into the kindergarten system, we then start spending a lot of public money. And now, even with pre-K, we spend some public dollars on four and five-year-olds that are not yet in the kindergarten. But we are unique among kind of industrialized nations, if you will, for how little we spend in those earliest years. And that is ironic and unfortunate in that that is probably where government spending could have the biggest impact on social problems, on the lives of those kids. So much happens in terms of brain development and in terms of just sort of setting the behaviors and the the adverse child events in these first thousand days. Basically, these first thousand days of life are critical. We know that investing in kids in those years results in paybacks in terms of public. There's this idea of a public return on investment, which has been calculated in Vermont, I think be at least three to one for every dollar we spend in those early years. And yet we don't do very much of that. And so Burlington, fundamentally, we've been for years trying to think, is there a way for us to do something here in Burlington? There's a handful of cities around the country that have stood up some kind of program, but not very many. This is one of the many areas where Burlington is sort of on the cutting edge. And for the last couple of years now, we have had some progress on this. So let me, I'll take a breath here and turn it over for you, Rebecca. Why don't we dive right into the exciting news? We can come back to the capacity room, why don't we start with what we're in the middle of right now, in case there's anyone watching out there. Now we're on the kind of replay of this show. There's actually a very exciting opportunity for that is open to people right now, and will be open until April 5th. It's been, we're calling it the first steps scholarship program. Why don't you describe it, Rebecca? Yeah, absolutely. So the Early Learning Initiative has been one of Mayor Weinberger's biggest projects and efforts in the last few years. Again, the capacity grants we can come back to. But this is the first year for the first steps scholarship program, and it's just so exciting. We are taking funds and putting them directly into scholarships for the most vulnerable families and the most vulnerable residents of Burlington. We're looking at some of our youngest citizens, residents in the city. These are children, ages, infants, just up to two years old. The application opened just this month. And again, just like you said, it closes April 5th. So go to the city website to look for the application and fill it out. We're gonna be leveraging two sets of funds through this program. The city is also putting in money, but we're also leveraging the state childcare financial money that's out there. It's the state subsidy funds. And to help with this process, we've actually hired somebody through the Let's Grow Kids nonprofit to help with the applications. We don't wanna be able to, or we don't wanna be creating any other additional barriers to getting people to access these funds and these programs. So literally if someone wants to fill out an application, they can get some help with that. There's some complexity to the application, especially if maybe English is in your first language. And this person would actually help with the completion of the application. Absolutely. So like I said, the application is on the city website. You can fill it out there and send us in your stuff, or you can contact directly. Her name is Paula Bonnie, and she is just wonderful. Her number, I'll give it a few times throughout this, is<PHONE_NUMBER>. So she's helping throughout the process to help fill out the application and also to pull the documentation together. So the folks that are actually eligible for the program, you have to make 65% or less of the area median income. This varies depending on family size. So right on the application, those numbers are there, so you can kinda check that out and see. So you'll have to prove how much money you make, whether it's through information from your employer, your W-2, paystubs, anything like that.  Because this money can be used for childcare outside of Burlington, but it has to be used for Burlington families. So you have to prove your residency. And then once you get through the application program with Paula, we'll work with you to also find a spot. We are accepting 20 children in this first year. It's our pilot year, so we wanna make sure that we can get it right with these first 20 children. So we have slots held around the area, both in Burlington and a couple surrounding towns as well. In high quality childcare centers. Yeah, that's a key point. Let's talk about that a little bit in this idea of high quality childcare. I think, to some, it's not intuitive what that means necessarily. And, but it turns out it's really critical. It's the difference between a child in this first thousand days of life having a high quality experience where they're really being, getting a lot of individualized attention, where they're being stimulated and engaged consistently. The difference in outcomes for kids that have that kind of high quality experience versus something less where they're put in front of the television set or just not putting a corner to kind of play on their own or to be kind of extreme about it has a huge impact on whether or not this is actually a positive experience and helps with that child's future development or not. So that is a key part of this, right there. And the money that we're making available is for scholarships for Burlington kids ages zero to three ultimately, but they have to be two when they apply, I think is the point, right? Absolutely. But it's to help kids from zero to three years of age. However, the other, and you can use these scholarships anywhere if it's helpful for that family's life because there's a job at a Milton or a Williston or something like that. You can take the scholarship as portable, you can go there, but it has to be invested in a high quality program defined as a program that I believe is getting four or five stars from the state's grading system. Is that right? Yeah, absolutely. So registered childcare centers all over the state including in Burlington are rated on this star system. And so high quality actually constitutes four and five stars. So this funding has to go to children that are enrolled in high quality childcare centers. So four and five stars. But like I mentioned earlier, we actually have 20 held slots around the area. So we're happy to work with those families that are awarded a scholarship to either use one of those spots or we can, if they have a spot somewhere else, they can use the funds there. Great. Yeah, absolutely. That is one of the hopes that, what is the kind of theory of change here? What is this program gonna do? Well, first of all, it should really help kids that otherwise, we know there's a big gap. We know there's something like 300 or so kids born into Burlington families every year. So call it 900 in ages zero to three, excuse me. And we know that the number of high quality slots, childcare slots in Burlington at least serving that population is around 100 or something like that, right? Yeah, absolutely. It definitely does not keep pace with all the children that are being born in the city and in the area. It's really difficult to find childcare around here. And it's one of the issues that this whole program is really trying to address, both with now the scholarships, getting families directly into these slots and also trying to create new ones through the capacity grants that have been going on for a couple years now. Yeah, exactly. So we'll talk about the capacity grants in a second. My hope too is that the, if we get this new program really stood up and stable and it's clear it's gonna be there for a while and it should be. The funding source for this is a structural part of the budget. We have these essentially restricted funds that per our charter are supposed to be used. We're originally money that was flowing to the schools, frankly, but then the state financing said that that was not legal. And so we are redirect, I think consistent with the spirit of that initial charter amendment that creates this funding source. We are doing something that certainly benefits the schools and that investing in kids zero to three will downstream when we talk about these public returns and investment. All the studies suggest that if you get this right, the need for special education later on is less the need for all sorts of negative public spending. To address problems goes down, whether it's corrections or drug treatment or what happens to kids in those early years and has a big impact on those downstream events is the belief. And so I guess my point I'm trying to make is I think if we create this program, it's clear it's gonna be around and we can even grow it and we're already looking at ways without going to taxpayers to try to grow this program over time. And there should be ways to fund this over time that if it really does save us in other areas we should be able to redirect some funds whether it's healthcare dollars or perhaps some day other public sources into growing this program. The existence of these scholarships could lead other programs to say, you know, we really should think about upgrading so we become a four or five star program or maybe the existing four and five star programs when they see that there are gonna be more of these kids coming through with these funding sources they may expand the number of slots. And so I think the scholarship program, hopefully if it works the way it did in Minnesota which is our model for a lot of this program should actually expand the number of high quality slots that exist in the area on its own. In addition to that, we have this grant program. So why don't you talk about that? Oh yeah, absolutely. So the grant program has been going on for a couple of years now. The first year was last year we had several applications and awardees come in and we actually created and will be coming online 62 new spots in town. Several of these are at the YMCA which will come on next year. And even more of them are at the Sarah Holbrook Community Center which should be coming on in 2021 which is just incredibly exciting to be able to pull all those new spots right here into our city. Other spots were created in various other centers as well. So that has been a huge help to the city and to try and really address this issue. Yeah, and then the scholarships will just continue to pull in funds both from the city and again from the state childcare subsidy program as well because the scholarship is set up to leverage both of those funds for each family. Yeah, yeah. So the Y program is very exciting. If anyone's been down College Street recently you've probably seen it. This is the old Ethan Allen Club that is now under it's a massive construction site and they're moving right along, their steel is up, they're starting to close the building in and it's really, I believe that will probably be the largest expansion of the childcare system. I think in the zero to three area that we've seen in a long time, right? It's very long time. Absolutely. 15 spots, yeah. It's gonna be incredible and it's just gonna bring such an amazing resource to the city. It's really gonna be incredible, yeah. Yeah, and we're quite excited about that. The city is just a small part of why they were able to do this but we were happy to be able to be one of the funders to contribute to get that off the ground. This is our whole Brook Projects not quite at the groundbreaking stage yet. I actually haven't heard an update on that for a little while. What's their goal now? Yes, absolutely. I believe that the slots should be, the goal is to come on 2021 and I think they're gonna be breaking ground really soon. I think that's coming along. Great, well, that's exciting. It is very exciting. And how many spots there? What's the expansion they're gonna be? Eight. Eight there, yeah, absolutely. But that's a totally new program for them which is just really great. They're going into the infant and toddler care. Awesome. Yeah. We also had Ohavi Zedek open up a new facility. A new facility for sure. That was kind of a cool example where it was a pretty small amount of money that the city invested, but it really kind of helped unlock. It basically helped pay for a bathroom renovation, I believe, right? Yeah, absolutely. So that they could get through the state regulations and make sure they meet all of this, yeah. For a couple other grants, what we've done has been more at the planning stage. A couple of planning stages and also we worked with a couple centers in town to just help stand them up and make them stronger footing, financial footing, be able to purchase their building, things of that nature. So it was really great. In the process, we've also been working with the family room really closely as well. We helped them get through opening registered preschool classroom and getting CC, the state subsidy funding through that to have that new revenue. And we're also now working with them. Have they actually done that? They've actually started that and it's working now? Yeah, I believe so, absolutely. And now we're also working with them in connection with the scholarship to help find families, really connect with those that they know could really benefit from this program. And again, Paula Bonney, the social worker that's working to get people through the application process is actually meeting families at the family room as well, just like meeting them where they're at, where they're comfortable, where they know and it's really helping get through that process. So it's great. Excellent. Yeah. All right, 862-3966 is the number. If you're interested in calling and talking about this or anything else, let's hit that big headline again. So we are, at the time that we're doing this show, it is, what is it? It is March 27th. 27th, yeah. The application process is open for another, at least another eight days. Like that first deadline at least is April 5th, right? There's a possibility, I guess, if we don't install all the slots immediately that people could apply later, but if this is appealing to you or someone you know, now is the time to act on it. You have until, you gotta get it in by a week from Friday, by April 5th. The way to get an application is you can go to the city website or as you said, you can go to the family room. You can go really to any of the high-quality childcare centers, I think in Burlington are all well-versed in this and they can, so if you already have a kid in one of these systems, you're just walking by the Y, you can stop in and they're probably gonna be able to help you. And you can get on the phone with Paula and talk through all the details. Yeah, exactly. And the application is on the city website, so it's easy to find, it's right there on the home page. Paula Bonney, again, her number is 802-448-433. 07, accepting applications until April 5th. After that, we can still accept them. You'll just potentially go into the waiting list and we'll pull from there at a later time. The family room knows about it and again, just like you said, all the high-quality childcare centers in the area know. One cool thing that you guys have done is, I've seen it on the handout, I think it's on the website as well, is the kind of critical information for getting the ball rolling at least is translated into six or seven different languages, I believe, right? So we're really hoping this is something in the various new American communities within Burlington consider and take advantage of if it's helped them. Yeah, absolutely. And again, especially with the family room connection, they have folks there that can help. We have Paula that can connect you to translation services if that's necessary. And the flyer, which is on the website, but also can be found at the family room and the other centers, has a translation right on the back of it. You know, something, it's interesting, just as we've been standing this up, the state is having a big, there's a big bill in the state that could get action this year. The state is considering adding some additional funding to the pre-K years. And so that's something we're watching and following as well. If that works, that could make it possible for us to reach even more kids, potentially. We think there's a, all the studies have suggested there's a really large gap between where we are today and where we would be if you had a system that was really, that had high quality slots for as many kids as needed in the region. So, but it's been, it's interesting. I think it's one of the few issues where it feels like there really is alignment at all levels of government, at the local state, and even the federal government has been, well, certainly in a President Obama, there was action under this area. I'm not sure that the current administration has been as supportive. But there's a lot, but there is actually a lot of bipartisan appeal to this as well. And this is, and you see a lot of businesses being very supportive of new investments in this area, in that it's one of the things that certainly in Vermont impacts our workforce, that there isn't enough high quality childcare opportunities. I think it slows the pace that some women who wanna get back into the workforce after pregnancy, they stay out of the workforce for longer because of the lack of quality here. And I think it has other kind of negative impacts on the ability of businesses in the area to grow. So it's always been interesting to me about this issue is how broad the appeal is and how many people come to it from different directions. And that's one of the things that I think has given it some momentum right now. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, and even beyond the bill that's in the state house right now, the state has raised the financial assistance numbers twice just over the last year or so. So it's really already bringing more money into the system and really trying to get some more revenue and some more support in there because it's just so needed, yeah. Well, great. Yeah, absolutely. Rebecca, it looks like we have a little bit of time. You wanna talk about it, you have a role and really another opportunity for a lot of Berlin-tonians that we don't, I think that I think is underappreciated as well, not as many people in the community take advantage of it as they should, which is Burlington's long-standing lead program. Absolutely. Do you speak a little bit about that and how people pursue that? Yeah, for sure. And it's also, it's really connected to this work as well. I mean, the whole program is trying to create healthy and safe homes for all Berlin-tonians in our city. It's really working to make lead safe homes. So what we do is we work with landlords and tenants to be able to come into your home, do testing, find out where all the lead-based paint is, determine where the hazards are, and really directly deal with those hazards. Lead poisoning affects the youngest children, so similar to what the scholarship program is working on. What happens is, oftentimes what happens is components, friction surfaces, windows, doors that are painted with lead-based paint create dust when you open and close them, whenever you close your door, things like that.  And so our program goes in, does the testing, and throughout the process, we often replace windows in places, we do exterior painting, we strip doors, and we create lead-safe homes for people to live in. It's extremely important, and we've been doing it for a long time. I think we've done over 600 units in the city, which is really exciting, but there's a lot more out there to do. And so yeah, it's a great program. We have $2.9 million to spend over just the next few years. It's an entirely federally funded program. Yeah, absolutely. It's a fully federally funded program. We pay for the testing. We pay for me to go in and do the risk assessment reports. You come away with reports of where all the lead-based paint is, what work is going to be completed to address those hazards, and then how to continually keep your home and properties safe for the future. I think what some people may not realize about, that's probably a lot of things that people don't fully realize about this program, but one, I think important message is that it is available to any Burlington resident can at least that first step, the part where it's you who shows up, is the assessment is free to any Burlington resident, I believe, isn't that right? It is, absolutely, so. We actually did it in my home early on while I was mayor, and it was a great. We own an old home. We certainly were aware this could be a potential risk, but really didn't have a whole lot of way, even as someone who had, I knew about friction services. I'd been in construction. I had some awareness of the threat, but I didn't really have a great sense of how easy it was to address some of the bigger risks. And so, yeah, the program came in and did find that we had a lot of these, on all of the windows, we, in the kind of window wells, we would have chips building up over time and we came out of that and did come. We made a pretty simple change where we have this, I think it's basically a piece of thin metal that we put down at the bottom, on the sill, at the bottom of it. Yeah, right in that window well. And it makes it much easier to clean and much clearer when there's something there that you should try to get out of there whenever we take down the storm windows or put them up, I try to go in there and if I'm really ambitious, I try to, I don't know if I've ever actually managed, but you see who actually has these vacuum cleaners that have these special filters that you can use. Yeah, we have four HEPA vacuum filters, so that's the best way to clean up anything around your house. People, how often do those get used? Are they while you don't? Regularly, people come and get them fairly, like very often, especially whenever the weather turns, I mean, they're out all the time. It's really great. Yeah, they're free to use. You can just give us a call. You sign them out and you keep them for about a week or so and bring them back. It really, it works well and it's definitely the safest way to be able to clean up around your home, especially around your windows and things like that whenever the weather turns. So pretty much any house that was built before what, like 1973 or? 1978. 1978. Yeah, 1978. Any house before 1978 is eligible for a site visit. I can come out and tell you, give you some information about it and then. That's a key year because after that, paint no longer. Yeah, lead-based paint was outlawed at that point. Right. There are times where people found the old can of paint in the basement or anything, but from 1978 on it was outlawed. So our program works with folks that are 80% or less of the area median income. And, but the. For the next stage. For the next stage. But the risk assessment can happen for anybody. Right. Yeah. But then, if you do income qualify and there's a real hazard in your home, it's really quite remarkable, the level of help that CEDA can provide. You want to describe it. Yeah, it's pretty incredible intervention. So we do all the testing. We test every painted surface in your home. We, typical interventions that we do, replacing windows with brand new wooden sash kits. They match, look the same, but they're brand new windows. We strip doors. We do full painting exterior paint jobs, which is huge, you know. And that's all, it's all kind of. It could be a whole building. The whole building, absolutely. Yeah. And if you, even if you have a garage or anything that tests positive. And, and this program is available to multi-family property owners. Yeah, and the property owner applies. They have to, they have to be income qualified tenants of some sort. The tenants do, yeah. The property owner applies to our program and then we work with the tenants to get their applications. They also have to apply and give us some information about their income to make sure that they qualify, but we work with them throughout the whole process. Interesting. Absolutely. Well, great. We have just a couple of minutes left. Let's recap the main event again. For anyone watching out there again, there's an opportunity for the next couple of weeks. If you or someone you know has an infant or a toddler and you need help getting that toddler or infant into high quality childcare, the city is offering a scholarship that, and I'm not sure we've said, it can be up to about the, well, how will that part of it work again, Rebecca? How much per child, it's about a $6,000 per child. It can be up to $6,000 per child, but we're also working with the state subsidy program and we will help you apply for those funds and get you through that process as well. So both of the city scholarship and the state funding comes together to potentially pay for your entire childcare tuition. Okay, so if you're interested in this, you have until a week from Friday to apply April 5th and go straight to the city website. Right there on the homepage is more information. You can also go into the family room or any of the other high quality childcare providers in town, or we'll say one last time that Paula's. Yeah, give Paula Bonnie a call. Her number is<PHONE_NUMBER>. Thanks for tuning in. We'll see you in a month.


Noble Catalog is a great way to search and find materials that are available at Jang's library. This video will teach you how to find print books, e-books, and other materials at Jang's. To begin searching for books or other materials in the Noble Catalog, go to the library homepage at www.gordon.edu.slashlibrary. In the search the library section, you can either enter a quick search in the box provided under the Noble Catalog tab, or click on the More Catalog search options to open the full catalog. You'll be directed to the basic search screen. You can type in any combination of keywords that you'd like in the search box that's provided. You can also filter your results by search type, so for example keyword, search by title, or by author. You can also filter by the kind of format that you would like to search for. And finally you can filter by location, for right now we want information that's only accessible at Gordon College. So let's run a search. Today we wanted to find information about mental health and well-being within college students. We can start by using the keywords mental health and college students. When entering your keywords in the search box, use the and billion search operated to connect your two terms together. This indicates to the catalog that you want books related to both of these concepts. Click search after you've entered your keywords. Review your list of results and select titles that are of interest to you. When you've found a title that's interesting, click on the green title link to access that book's record. Let's start with a print book. How do I know which books are print and which books are e-books? The icon below the title and the author tells me how. We'll look at result number three. Basic information about the book, such as the title, the author, year, and publication are contained at the top of the book's record. In the middle of the book's record contains location information for how you can actually find this at Janks. To find books at Janks you need two pieces of information, the location and the call number. The location tells you what stack level or floor level the book is located on. At Janks we've got five levels of stacks total and they're organized using the Library of Congress classification system. The second piece of information is the call number. The call number tells you the exact location on the shelf where the book is located within that stack level. When finding books at Janks you need all pieces of this call number, from the letters which tells you what subject area you're in to the year at the end. Once you've found a print book that you want to go and get from Janks Library, remember to write down the location and the call number, head to that section of the stacks, and then you can scan the shelf using your call number to find that book. Once you've found your book, check it out at the circulation desk using your student ID card. So let's go back to our initial search result, the one where we started with the keywords mental health and college students. Now let's look at an example of an e-book. To access this e-book, again click on the green title link. The information that you need for accessing this e-book is contained below the electronic resources header. You'll see a link that will say something like access for Gordon College via EBSCO host, or sometimes you might see access for Gordon College via overdrive. Those are the two platforms in which the e-book is hosted and you can click on this link to actually get the full contents of the e-book. Let's take a look at this example of the EBSCO host version. Notice when we click into the EBSCO host e-book we get the same kind of information on its books record. We have the title, the author, publication, description, and more. Scrolling down on this book record page we get to the table of contents. This connects you to all the different areas within this book that you can begin reading. So for example, if we wanted to start with chapter one, we can click right on that link and that section of the book will open for us. Thanks for watching and remember, if you need any help, you can always ask Jank.


proudly we hail from New York City where the American stage begins here is another program with a cast of outstanding players public service time has been made available by this station for your army and your Air Force to bring you this story as proudly we hail the United States Air Force story is entitled follow the leader this is the story of a combat leader in Korea Major Jeremy Partridge squadron commander of the 51st fighter interceptor squadron and all the officers and men who served under him our first act curtain will rise in just a moment but first how would you like to be a kingpin on the air crew of the United States Air Force plane that's the navigator he's an aircraft observer a commissioned officer and he gets there by enlisting in the aviation cadets it's a great life but only men young in spirit and years can fill this exacting job if you can qualify your advanced training by the Air Force will turn you into a first-class navigator then you'll be a kingpin on the aircraft team you'll be equipped with the finest navigation tools known to aerial science see what your chances are for joining the aviation cadets of the United States Air Force full details are available at your nearest recruiting station or Air Force base and now your army and your Air Force present the proudly we hail production follow the leader being a squadron commander especially in combat in Korea is like nothing else in the world though a squadron is the smallest component of the Air Force if you are the CEO you're responsible daily for the lives and welfare of close to 200 men 38 of them combat jet fighter pilots not to mention millions of dollars worth of material and equipment including 25 expensive and delicate saber jets hour by hour through the long day your decisions affect the lives of the men serving under you for nothing is more important than that those men will be happy and do the job expected of them your day starts pretty much as anyone's anywhere 6 30 a.m. just about the same time the stateside commuters are hitting the deck to catch trains to their offices maybe they hear birds outside their windows you here in Korea you hear another kind of burden your birds f86 saber jets being warmed up for their days flight north to me galley your day started this day will probably be no different than any other in your tour no better no worse but it's going to be a long one and you've got to be on the ball every minute but first you take a few minutes out to read a letter from home from your wife you were half asleep when you read it last night and you hardly know what it said my darling chair I was just awakened by little simpsons crying for a morning bottle you can set your watch by that dependable darling little red he's inhaling away madly now and I have one of the few chances in the day to write big news since he's about to walk she stands daggers a moment then falls with a resounding crash quite astonished at what she's been doing I must send you another picture of her soon she's growing into quite the little lady today will be a busy one for us here since he must go to the doctor for a checkup and Billy needs a haircut so it but you don't have time to finish the letter not now right now you've got your squadron to look after so you put the letter and your thoughts of home in your pocket grab chow and jeep down the flight line first thing you want to know about is the fragmentary order a daily order from Fifth Air Force 8th Army Joint Operations Center telling each squadron what its missions for the day will be it's 700 hours when you step into the operation shack to check with your right-hand man ops officer major Charles Fitzsimmons morning skipper I fits what's in the frag order for us today practically the same as last night just one change joc sent over a correction this morning affirmative there's so 900 mission here escort for fighter bombers eight of us to cover for them 86 is a hitting railroad bridge across a chinam pole between Sinan Jew and Andrew that shouldn't be too much sweat there now there's other missions patrol in the yellow makes today I hope so I'll be leading let's see I'll shift the flight commander and leave sims and Mandel in one element and then and T flying in your wing T one of the new boys you finished his combat training up a group already graduated clobber college yesterday this would be his first mission north good deal I picked the right flight then I could check these new boys out myself whenever I get a chance how's the pilot roster look pretty good too grounded by the surgeon nothing serious so that gives us 35 pilots minus four being rotated back until we get those four new boys out of training pilots okay but with planes we got a little problem now let's see your aircraft status report from here right here see same as when you checked it yesterday afternoon none put in commission since then no still only 16 and two of those you've assigned a group training squadron has ordered right that's right along with two of our instructor pilots to train the replacements so we got 14 planes for days missions can do with 14 planes but we ought to have more just in case engineering says they're doing the best they can and we all are but we can do better let's talk to the engineering officer and get the poop on all these down check aircraft he's a good man Rizio as course he is but maybe he's got a problem we can help him lick let's see him yo score on these out of commission planes well lack of parts mostly just look at my board a OCP a OCP a OCP written next to half the planes aircraft out of commission parts parts of tech supplies job lieutenant gaten says he can't get the parts I'll see Kate on that but say look at your board a flight six aircraft in a flight and only one in commission yeah I was on my way to tell you about that well then not all a OCP to a hundred hour checks routine maintenance what's holding them up the flight chief sergeant Bochak Bochak he's our best and CEO was family problems got him fouled up now why doesn't he talk to someone before he gets everyone fouled up he will major I talked him into seeing you he requests a personal interview for this afternoon okay tell Bochak I'll see him 1500 mile major I wouldn't be too rough on the guy something must really be eating him if something is eating him there's only one thing I want to do help him like this he's no good to anyone himself for squadron or the Air Force Kate and engineering says you tech supply people can't seem to come up with the parts to keep our aircraft in commission trying major but the parts we need a scarce how do they expect us to get these planes in the air if they won't give us the parts steady for those are jets out there not Jenny's can't patch him up with bailing wire and adhesive tape each of them is as delicate as a Swiss watch and these just as delicate parts keep running but the parts where are they don't you realize the supply problem from the factory in the States all the way over here each of those parts has to go some 10,000 miles by train boat and plane to get to the particular aircraft that needs it see what you mean that's another thing sure we could send half those planes up right now that we've got safety standards we value the pilot's life we want the plane to take him to his job and bring him back thinking about parts I'd forgotten all in all it looks like an insurmountable problem impossible but how does that saying go the difficult we do it once the impossible takes a little longer that's it now about tracking down the parts I'll try group again and some of the other squadron I'll tell you what for some of the other groups in the area if you have any more trouble I'll be at my office sergeant ask captain Quimby to come into my office captain Quimby is your adjutant as your administrative assistant and personnel officer he helps you keep the squadron running smoothly while you wait for him you take a few minutes out to read that letter from your wife and the beautiful television set you gave me before you went overseas is quite worthless at the moment the new apartment has only DC current and since the set only works on AC electrical terms are the TV man all sorts of extra parts are needed converter inverter I've forgotten which aerial and so forth I'm shop around and find some that aren't too expensive but they're so hard to want to be major huh oh yes a couple of things to go over sure I'll be back at 1430 there's some things you can take care of while I'm in briefing and in the air sergeant Bocek flight chief of a flight will be here to see me at 1500 if I'm still in debriefing hold him here for me what's Bocek's problem and I'll find out this afternoon he requested a personal interview I got another personal problem for you airman Smith oh yes his allotment to his wife it seems Smith's wife is gonna have a baby so she can't work anymore she needs more money so Smith increased his allotment last month so you got a letter from her she hasn't gotten the extra money yet oh for crying out loud it hasn't really had time to go through yet I know I know but Smith is worried well I don't blame him all right let's get on us give the finance clerk all the dope tell him to send a tracer immediately to finance division then well do and about tomorrow's monthly briefing of airmen on last month's squadron activities yes arranged to get used to the briefing room for tomorrow afternoon right what will you cover in the meeting I got a list here on my desk someplace here it is these will have to be prepared number of enemy aircraft destroyed by squadron number of trucks tanks troops and locomotives without a commission battle damage suffered by our pilots you know the usual give the boys an idea what they and their squadron are doing right now when you work as hard as they do you want to know how it all adds up and I want them to know they're in the best squadron and Far East Air Force number one think they know that already major seeing you reminds them every day oh well yes be sure to note that Captain Dawson got his fifth MIG last month that makes him a jet ace I'll take care of it it's 1100 now so you grab an early child check again about those down the aircraft and then go to be brief for the mission patrol along the yellow means you'll be MIG hunting and MIGs will be hunting you when it's over you see Lieutenant Tigg the new boy who's going to fly your wing today Lieutenant Lieutenant Tigg won me major all set for the mission as soon as we leap off the better real tiger and I've been waiting for this since I was 10 and you've got the spirit kid but don't be over eager it can cost you I understand sir you got the best jet fighter training in the world now you're gonna use it just stay close on my wing do what you're told and keep your eyes open we'll do see okay let's go upstairs you are listening to the proudly we hail production follow the leader we'll return in just a moment for the second act how many of you young fellows go down to your nearest city airport on a Sunday afternoon and watch the planes come in and take off when you see the planes gliding down under their landing strips do you marvel at the skill of the pilots who fly them and when you see the planes take off and disappear into the horizon do you watch them out of sight wishing you were there at the controls there's no more need for any of that wishful thinking if you've got what it takes to be an aviation cadet in the United States Air Force you too can fly the big silver birds you have to be young enough and smart enough and well enough if you want to qualify as an aviation cadet only the best are accepted your local recruiting station or nearest Air Force base can give you all the information you are listening to proudly we hail and now we present the second act of follow the leader some 20 minutes later you're upstairs the four plane V of your flight and lancing through enemy skies at more than 500 miles an hour racing through the heart of a pale blue staked out battleground seven miles up your head swiveling constantly in the cockpit your eyes searching each quadrant of the sky desperately for this is may galley you check with your flight first calling your young wingman take Cocoa to stay in there close in my wing now settle down Roger Cocoa leader keep looking at me but keep flicking your eyes past me to the sky high on my port got it Cocoa to affirmative Cocoa leader well do got it Cocoa flight keep the sky covered Roger Cocoa leader Red Radar has probably picked us up by now so keep your eyes peeled they'll try to bounce us from above Roger Cocoa leader right telly ho bandits nine o'clock very high I see them eat them Cocoa Roger I have them in sight haven't spotted us yet they will Cocoa to hold tight where you are I'll give the call for us to break into them Roger Cocoa leader Cocoa three move your element out a little so we can maneuver Roger Cocoa leader Cocoa flight going to 96 for a climb we'll make the interception at angels 40 and starting their run okay men hold tight till I give the word then break sharp left and up into them steady now now break like a well-drilled team your flight breaks sharply up and into the down slanting minks as they're glowing cannon shells curve harmlessly to where you were and then another screaming turn and half roll brings a lone meek floating fat in your sights and you let go of your clippings negative Cocoa leader you blasted this rudder he's starting to smoke as your chance kit finish him off Cocoa for let's join up on Cocoa leader dive after him Cocoa to don't lose him I'm right behind you makes chickened out Cocoa for don't take these hot new savers Cocoa to watch him he's breaking away but now takes traces of pouring in on target and suddenly they make flames and ugly red staggers in midair like a hit bird then comets earthwood you sure did boy nice shooting Cocoa leader this is Cocoa 3 joining up on you low on fuel Roger Cocoa 3 time we return to pigeon and pancake Cocoa 3 Cocoa 2 got myself a big haha what do you know gotta call the kid eager to with something I just got that save it Cocoa to we got to get home first on the ground you clamor out of your plane and hurry from the flight line past young Teague with an excited ground crew clustered about him as he demonstrates with his hands how he got his first mate into intelligence for debriefing change from your flight gear and then into your office the pilot's day is virtually done you're just half through yours the time almost 1500 you've got couple of minutes to read that letter I spent a wonderful weekend with mother let the children with Mary Colonel Mac Davis wife and flew up to Washington the plane trip was a dream whenever I fly I feel somehow that I'm closer to you but I understand better a part of you I rarely see otherwise of course I know the flying you do is quite different that's a major well no yes Quimby Sergeant Bocek is here oh 1500 yeah he's prompt anyway let's see why he's not so prompt with his aircraft sentiment right thank you sir master Sergeant Bocek a flight reporting is instructed sir at ease sergeant come over here sit down thank you sir cigarette Bocek yeah thanks sir you are light up a smoke may help that worried look you've got thanks major but it'll take more than that Lieutenant Caten tells me something's bothering you lately so much you can't do your work yeah guess so major now we all have some kind of worries thing is sometimes they get too big to handle alone guess that's me major minor king size right now I suppose you tell me about it all right well major it's sort of a well your head spill it and when I help you if I can you know that I know major you you helped plenty guys in the squadron so well it's my wife oh yeah she's sick real sick she doesn't tell me how sick in her letters but I know she's hurting real bad I might just as well be on another planet to help I can be to her where I am now you sure she's sick Bocek not just no no no major it's nothing like that see my mother's whether she she sort of hit something's wrong with mother they all sort of hit nothing you can put your finger on but I know some mother needs me all right now take it easy son I tell you major sometimes I just think I'm going to flip I keep thinking about taking off trying to get state side somehow I don't know how but somehow I Bocek don't hit the panic button there's always a way out you and I will figure it if you only could major there's a way we can find out about your wife well how's that we'll have the base red cross representatives and the wire right away to your hometown red cross we'll have the ungarbled word for you before breakfast is that a deal it's a deal major I I don't know how to thank you forget it and really forget it get your system to take over a flight for you and hit the sack major the replacement pilots are here here I thought they weren't due to tomorrow maybe but they're waiting to meet you in the briefing room now all right let's get on the stick then see what kind of material we drew this time and hut all right at ease men he seated smoke if you wish a gentleman a major partner at your co they call me the old man just like every other squadron commander but I'm still not old enough to like it and first welcome to the 51st fighter interceptor squadron we're glad to see you especially the pilots who you'll be replacing so they can be rotated home after their hundred missions now make it brief for you first I'm sure you want to know how soon you'll climb into a saber jet the answer is a few days second you want to know how soon you'll tangle with migs well that won't be until you've gone through training squadron here I know I know some of you've been in training 18 months or more already but you've still got things to learn up to date things you didn't get at Nellis you've got to learn the area the latest mig tactics are tactics familiarize yourself thoroughly with the saber which is every bit as hot as you've heard and all that takes time and work before we can afford to send you north to me galley and make no mistake about it on the other side of the yellow red pilots just like you are going through the same thing but the training you've already got and will now get pays off better than theirs we've got a 15 to 1 edge over them and planes knocked down even though they outnumber us many times over and always outnumber us in the air I'll turn you over to your operations officer now major fit Simmons and he'll give you the straight poop first good luck it's 1600 hours now so you call the engineering officer into your office for probably the most important meeting of the day the aircraft status report how many planes will be in commission for tomorrow uh 13 the way I figure it major 13 didn't you get any planes in commission today yeah but battle damage knocked out several what kind of damage can it be fixed in a hurry with about 12 hours work maybe I'm positive tomorrow's frag order will require more aircraft than today maybe as many as 16 you've got to send those two planes again tomorrow up the group for the training squadron now that means we need at least 18 planes and we ought to have a couple of spares those artificial horizons will put two back in commission when we install them the battle damage planes could be repaired but I know I know your engineering people have been working 24 hour duty periods too much this month it's rough to ask them to work all night again so soon that's it sure is rough sergeant major get me captain quimby right here major oh you heard yes rizio's right those engineering joes are hurting for some rest yes we all are but it can't be helped we've got to get those planes in the air tomorrow understand with our commitments from higher headquarters there's no other way out engineering has got to work all night again tonight if rizio could pick some of his men who haven't drawn 24 hour duty and do there aren't many though even then they won't like it you think I like to ask him to do this I know you don't major I knock myself out to have a happy efficient squadron and all that gets clobbered when I turn around and I have to slave drive the boys I'll understand they know that's just the way the ball box for this squadron to perform its mission tomorrow so the group can perform its mission and wing can perform its mission those planes must be in commission 24 hour duty it's our only out I'll uh get on the right away and good quimby check with the mess hall tell them to make sure those engineering boys get a good hot meal at midnight another chance to read that letter from your wife my darling I hope you're getting these daily letters is mine and that they mean as much to you as to me but this is the only way I have of holding on to you and then the paperwork begins official letters to be read in written directives to be read in files orders to be written and posted to commanding general fifth air force through commanding officer 67 fighter interceptor group from commanding officer 51st fighter interceptor squadron subject requisition for airmen one regard the subject of letter this unit will rotate 32 airmen in the next 30 days the children miss you terribly too even little Cynthia who only knows about you from your picture Billy is a cub scout now and wants to go away to camp he was unhappy when I told him he had to stay home to be the man of the family but now he's quite brave and quite proud about it three day passes will be given to airmen who are doing meritorious service and finally the paperwork gets done and you're off to the nco club where the top three graded sergeants are having a little party you're dead tired but they expressly invited you and you can't let them down you shoot the breeze in a while and then you're off to chow well how do we do on the day's missions fits good score fighter bomber missions plastered the bridge across chinam poem miggs two tiggs and yours and jackson got one earlier all we do is well tomorrow we will if we get those aircraft in the commission's knife then to the officer's club hi major well my mig clobbering wingman we really nailed him didn't nice shooting boy you know he did break like you said it was a 30 degree deflection shot from the way you started you're gonna have a good tour teague but uh don't let it go to your head oh not me major and was just my first lesson so now what did you learn listen to the major and follow the leader stretched out on your cot really beat trying to keep your eyes open while you finish reading your wife's letter and so that's all for tonight darling all I love from the three who miss you terribly but especially your wife yes yes who is it oh yes yes come in sorry to wake you sir okay what's up a frag order from joc for tomorrow's missions just came in at 2200 oh all right let's have a look looks like it's going to be one of our biggest days all those missions yes so I see now engineering better deliver those planes tomorrow incidentally we've got a wire from usaf headquarters washington about sergeant bocek oh what's it say red cross and you say I recommend his immediate reassignment to base nearest home for compassionate reasons wife very ill now go over and tell bocek to pack his bags we'll get him on the first plane leaving tomorrow morning Roger sir oh seem to have dropped the letter on the floor when you fell asleep oh that's her never mind I can see it from here good night captain night major your wife Joanne well it took all day to read your letter Joanne I don't know when I'll be able to write learn to fly serve your country in the air be an aviation cadet you'll get the finest aviation training in the world from the united states air force if you're accepted to qualify you must be single be between 19 and 26 and a half years old and be otherwise qualified if you can meet the test join the world's best join the aviation cadets when you successfully complete your training you'll win your wings and become a commissioned officer for complete details visit your local recruiting station or your nearest air force base make flying your future this has been another program on proudly we hail presented transcribed in cooperation with this station proudly we hail is produced by the recruiting publicity center for the united states army and united states air force recruiting service this is kenneth banghardt speaking inviting you to tune in the same station next week for another interesting story on proudly we hail


Question is from Jazz Fitness. What are your opinions on touch and go versus dead stop for exercises such as dead lifts? Yeah, dead lifts. Well, I had this conversation with Courtney actually recently because she's getting into our programming and starting to go through dead lifts again. And I've been very cautious with her with dead lifts specifically because of back issues that she's experienced just from moving around patients and throwing her back out. And this is a very gradual thing that we're trying to build strength again and the proper bracing with it. So I started doing it with touch and go. And that was, I had to stop her immediately and I'm like, okay, no. Every single rep that you're gonna take, we have to have that proper brace first. And I want you to completely stop momentum and create that intention within every rep that you're gonna do. So I'm not a fan of touch and go either, but we have that in one of our programs. And I don't remember which one it is up top of my head. Do you know which one it is up top of your head? Anabolic. Yeah, anabolic towards the end. Oh, anabolic. Yeah, phase three. Well, of course it's in the one that we weren't a part of. So, yeah. Cause I'm not a fan of touch and go. But touch and go, okay. I'm not a fan of touch and go. You'll see me do touch and goes, okay? So I'm not a fan of it for the general pop because most people I wouldn't consider at a high enough level to be good at touch and go deadlifts because most people's form is off into Justin's point about taking their time between each rep. But does that mean that again, kind of back to the last question we just answered, is touch and go deadlifts a bad exercise or a dangerous exercise? Well, no, not if you can perform it safely. If you can keep your core tight and you can keep good form and you have a really good looking deadlift without touching goes, then touch and go is probably just fine. I just realized that someone listening might not even know the difference between touch and go deadlifts and deadstop. So, real quick, deadstop, you bring the barbell all the way to the floor, you let it sit on the floor for about one to three seconds. A long second. Yeah, reset and then do the deadlift again.  So you're just doing the reps. Now here's the challenge with touch and go deadlifts. Okay, it's not that the deadlifts don't stop. It's that you hit the ground. So if I did like a squat where I squat until the barbell hit safeties or if I did any other exercise where I'm bouncing off something. It's gonna bounce left to right. That's the problem. The challenge is the bounce is how you're touching the floor and coming up. Your QL is gonna get us top to you. If you're doing touch and go deadlifts and you're bouncing it off the ground, you're asking for trouble. Because if one side touches the floor, a split second before the other and you have a lot of load on there, that can cause a problem. Touch and go deadlift needs to be perfect.  That's why it's called touch and go. The reason why a lot of people hurt themselves is because of the bounce part. And when you get that bounce part, you get for a split second, you lose stability. But it's so common. I mean, if I'm gonna see somebody performing a deadlift in a gym, typically it's touch and go. And mainly because they look at it as a reps thing. I'm trying to get through the workout and get the reps in. And they're not taking that seriousness that especially is something like a deadlift that has a little bit higher risk, but has massive reward to it. But you really have to slow down and make sure the intention and all those mechanical things are correct. Yeah, and the reason why it's in MAPS Anabolic in phase three is first off, if you follow the program, phase three, you're between six to nine weeks into the program. It's not a program for complete beginners, but it is a general starter type program. It's also phase three. Phase three, the rest periods are short, meaning that you're not resting as long and the weight's not gonna be as heavy. You're not gonna do, don't do touch and goes with your heavy, heaviest deadlift weight. You wanna go in there light and if you're doing it to get reps and get a pump and that kind of stuff, that's when it becomes more appropriate.


New York City, welcome to the Get Stuffed Done cast. Let's get to it. Wow, this is really exciting. This is Mayor Eric Adams, and I'm so excited to welcome you back to the 11th episode of the Get Stuffed Done cast. While I talk to New Yorkers who are getting stuff done in our city, a New York city isn't coming back, I like to say, New York is back. And our hotels are full, Broadway is thriving, and our business centers are booming again. But at the heart of it is really innovation. Innovators and tech entrepreneurs are tearing up their flight ticket to San Francisco. They're saying to heck with Miami, they want to be here in NYC. No small town blues here. You know, we're big thinkers and we have big thoughts as we move forward. I'm really excited today. One of our first hires was an amazing, amazing woman, Lindsay Green. She's now the president and CEO of Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation. And that is what we're going to be talking about here on episode 11. Lindsay, welcome. Thank you, Mayor Adams. Thank you for having me. This is exciting. It's my first podcast. Tell me on the road, how did you get here? Were you both in private and public? I was. How did you get here? How did you get to be the CEO of some place like the Navy Yard? So when I was growing up, I was an observer kid. I was a little bit of a latchkey kid. I was the only child of a single mother. So my mom was busy working in the hospital and I was just observing all the time. And I was growing up in DC and I was always looking around, trying to figure out what did it mean that my neighborhood wasn't as good as some of the other places we visit or neighborhoods where the hospital was or where I ended up going to prep school. And so I had this interest in urban development but I didn't know those words as a kid and didn't really know what it meant. And I just decided, okay, I want to learn as much as I can. I kind of was into math and science and then figured out maybe I should be in business. I didn't know what it meant. I just thought it meant- When did that thought come? That thought came when in high school. Elementary school. Elementary. I just, I don't know. I guess I watched enough TV, just help you with briefcases and navy suits and said, okay, I want to do that. I was like saying, maybe I play with marbles and you talk about maybe you be in business. You know, my, I was fortunate. My mother would always used to tell me that my grandfather was very good with money and she hoped that I would pick that up in a way she hadn't. And so it was kind of always this germ in my head of make money but be smart with it. Right, right. And what did your mom do? She, she started off as a lab technician in hospital labs and then got into information systems in hospitals mostly cause they were always breaking in the 80s. She went to grad school when I was in high school and got her master's. Love it, love it, love it. So I got to go to her graduate from before she went to mine which was fun. And that's what she still does today helping digitize our healthcare system. Your family roots- In DC. In DC. In Washington. In Washington DC. My son went to school in Washington. He went to American university. Yeah. Yeah, that was right near where I went to high school. Every time I called him he was on Howie campus. I said, you don't, you don't go to Howie. Go to American university. Hey, you know, we probably wanted to find the people of color. The food was a little more interesting down by Howard. So. Did you go to college in DC? No, I did not. I actually was fortunate enough to get a scholarship to go to Harvard. Oh, wow. Wow, love it, love it. And your studies there. I was studying economics. I was like, I don't know what business is, but it seems like I got to study economics first. And so that's what I did. And I, from there, figured out that I could get a job on Wall Street. And that would be a good way to get foundational business skills. Again, I didn't know what I wanted to do in business. And I got a really foundational training. And that was when I moved to New York and basically didn't leave. I fell in love with the city. Love it. What year are we talking about? 2003 was when I moved here. And a degree in economics normally takes you on what pathway? That's a very interesting question. It's not as practical a degree as you might think. It's a liberal arts education. Okay, okay. You know what I mean?  It doesn't prepare you for much directly beyond trying to be a professor. I think one of the underestimated degrees, I believe, is liberal arts. I wish I would have been a liberal arts. They give you a well-rounded education. It does. You know? It helps you figure out how to think and pick up things. Without a doubt. How did economics, the degree, help you first in private industry and then your transformation into public? Well, it gave me a comfort in very high performing spaces. And coming as a kid from DC and getting on the floor of an investment bank and seeing not the many people who look like me who weren't executive assistants, it could be really intimidating, but that was the demographics of my department in college. And it was, if I tried to go to the investment club meetings to prepare myself, that was the demographic of what I was walking into. So it gave me a comfort with numbers. It gave me a comfort with spreadsheets and just helped give me the confidence that I could do the subject matter, even if the sort of cultural social elements were a big adjustment. That's part of the game. Part of the game is confidence. It is. A huge part of the game is confidence. And so having that degree and then going into the private sector just prepared me for a lot of, I guess in many ways you can say showed me how the world works in the elite circles. And then when I was there, I started to see, well, it doesn't work the way for everybody. Right, right, right, right. Particularly people that look like me. And so how do I figure out, get back to that connectivity to figure out how I helped change that? I managed to get from investment banking over to real estate. And that was sort of my through line to get me into public service. I left investment banking, went to graduate school, got into food, actually. My favorite topic. I know. And because I got interested in trying to help figure out how people could eat better and do it more affordably. It's a similar journey you went on. When I was working on Wall Street, I was living a really unhealthy life. And I was trying to figure out how to change that. I got a trainer, I got a nutritionist and all this stuff. So I said, okay, why don't I try to work in this industry? There are people that know how to do healthy food. Well, like the whole foods of the world, the fresh directs of the world, but they don't know how to do that in a way that's accessible to everybody. That's still a journey we're on as an industry. Right, right, right. No, so true, so true. But from there, I needed a sort of a break from that crew. And I was like, I'm not getting to the affordability aspect. And I happened to have the chance to come work as a policy advisor and work on small business initiatives after my time in the food world. And that was 2015. And I think that was the service ever since. Policy advisor for who? For Deputy Mayor Lucia Glenn. Okay, okay. Yeah.  And I got the bug. There's so much that the city of New York does or makes possible for people that you don't appreciate as a regular citizen off the street. Right, right. And it was a real education and it gave me a sense of pride and responsibility, which is why I stick with it. And I'm grateful to you and Deputy Mayor Taurus Springer for giving me the chance to work at the Navy Yard. Yeah, no, Deputy Mayor Taurus Springer loves you. She was like, I got the right person, you know? She was very good to me when she and I were together in the last administration. So I'm proud to serve with her. So when you look at the Navy Yard, you know, a lot of people don't know the history of the Navy Yard. They do not. You know, give us like that 30 second history that people don't know about the Navy Yard. So it dates back to the 1800s, actually. And it was a place where the Navy built several ships. And really it was a home base of repair and innovation for the Navy for a long time. Some of the very first new technology ships were built at the Navy Yard. The Navy's first steam engine was put into service at the Navy Yard. The first diesel engine was put into service at the Navy Yard. Some of the first emergency, like if you have to evacuate a submarine and you need a waterproof mask or breathing device, they invented that and prototype it at the Navy Yard. And so that's a really nice continuity point for what we do now. It's a place where you're in a big setting, you're close to a lot of people and you try stuff out and it goes out and graduates and works in the rest of the world. And that cross-pollination of ideas, you know, really help people to work in like groups and these communities, you know? Is that something that you attempt to foster and encourage people to do? Absolutely. You know, one of the other continuity points from the history with the Navy is that it was, it used its vantage point at the peak of World War II, especially to employ a lot of women and a lot of black Americans working for the Navy at the time. And we did not do a good job of maintaining the diversity of that workforce in the decades since. But that's why the Navy Yard has always been so important as a center of employment because it was that at its peak when 70,000 people worked there when the Navy was running. 17,000? 70,000 people worked at the Navy Yard in the 1940s. It was that busy. So what happened? The war ended or there was a change? The war ended, we were piloting, the Navy was piloting some new wood frame construction and just there was an unfortunate fire and kind of gave the shipbuilding area a bad rap. But really what it was, it was two things. The Navy wanted to fully privatize shipbuilding and go to the shipyards principally around the Gulf which is where it still is today. And it wanted to, the size of the ships got too big to fit under the Brooklyn Bridge. This is a real issue. They built the first antenna that could basically like detach and like lean to the side to go under the bridge. But that just got too difficult to maintain. But even that challenge brought innovation. It did. It did.  I'm trying to go under the Brooklyn Bridge. But so they do commissioned it in the 60s and it didn't really get a lot of purpose until the late 70s when Edgecotch created the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation and it was decades of just at that point a lot of the buildings had been vacant for multiple decades and it's been a very long deliberate journey of putting city money into the buildings to bring it back to life. How many firms you have there now? We have over 550 firms there now. Wow, number of employees? They employ upwards of 11,000 people. Are you seeing a diversity sort of coming back? It is coming back. A lot of the people who work at the Navy Yard that is majority people of color. So we have made good on that commitment to the local community and it's a core part of our purpose and mission to connect our local communities to those jobs. We have an employment center on site we always have to connect people to jobs and we also are trying to train them for what manufacturing jobs of the future look like. And the piece we've started to focus on a lot since I've been there is really trying to recruit businesses owned by people of color and by women and persons with disabilities so that the diversity isn't just in the rank and file but it's in the people in charge as well. Now how do you do that? Because space could be expensive. How do you motivate people coming in, break up the space, creating these smaller space? How is that done? Is that on your radar? It is on our radar and that's part of what we use our city capital that you and the budget director help grant us to make some of those smaller spaces more affordable pre-build them to a degree so that particularly black and brown old firms can come in and basically just bring their equipment and not have to manage a construction project at the same time. And we make the rent more affordable for people that are really on mission. That's like, it's very basic but at the end of the day at our most basic incarnation we're a landlord and if we're gonna do things to support and advance our mission there's a range of what people pay.  Yes, yes, I miss him. And it is but not at the Navy yard. I love it, love it. I was one of the first believers in some of that technology innovation, like New Lab. Yes. I love New Lab and the whole concept of people coming in and sharing this space, learning new ideas. Are there any new cutting edge innovations that are happening there that are not happening across the country? I think so. That's part of the science of the Navy yard and New Lab has been a great partner for us in helping raise awareness of the possibility of manufacturing and how different it looks now. Interesting. The Steam Center, another one of your great projects. The kids there see robotic arms being built that are going on the Mars rover and at the same time they know how to make a kombucha. That's not that funky. And they see everything in between. They see medical devices. They built their own video games and they're using the same equipment that you see inside places like New Lab. We have a company that has grown out of New Lab as many have that is literally trying to make hydrogen fuel cells accessible for heavy equipment. They're like mayors or some big maritime company says I cannot put this many batteries on a ship, on a container ship. I can't have an electric container ship with a whole bunch of batteries. I have to have room for containers and they're built with fuels. So we don't wanna transport this many thousands of liters of hydrogen. What else can we do? So this company called Amagi, they built a proprietary reactor that takes the hydrogen out of ammonia, which is less explosive and less dangerous and more efficient by volume. And that's who their customer base is. It's truckers. It's heavy farm equipment. We've got a tricked out tractor trailer and a tricked out actual John Deere tractor. And hopefully I'm gonna get them to bring the boat here when they finish converting it, but.  I actually, as the board president, we purchased a few of the farm shelves of growing apparatus and we brought it to a school, Democracy Academy. Yeah, Democracy Prep, amazing. We have a lot of that there. We have the rooftop farm, obviously. We have a lot of indoor farming technology companies. Pretty much anybody that makes anything, there's some version of it happening at the Navy Yard. And that's just a wonderful thing to know and capture. You know, the beauty is that I was just reading that we surpassed San Francisco in startups, early stage startups. And I know it has a lot to do with the energy that's over at the Navy Yard because especially Brooklyn, Brooklyn has become the startup capital. And we're seeing a lot of those locations go from a smaller space to a larger space. How are you able to accommodate those who scale up? Well, that's literally always, that's some of the Tetris that we do. We're always, one of the companies that was visiting today helped. They started off in new lab. They grew into one space and halfway through their design phase, they said, I think we need three times as much space. And so our leasing department went to the people who were gonna be next to them and said, how about we move you over here? You know, this space is also ready built out. And we just, we get to know everybody individually and that's part of why we're able to do what we do. And we always have some space vacant and we're gonna be building new eventually. Love it, love it. I'm really excited about the biotech stuff. Yes. With new lab. Can we go into that just a little? Yeah, absolutely. So what's great about the Center for Planetary Health and what will happen there is that it's really taking biotech and moving it out of just dealing with people's health in terms of producing pharmaceuticals and taking that into other spaces like devices and taking it into fashion and taking it into food. We have companies that I think I showed you one of the last times you were here that are making leather out of seashells. That was so cool. That was so cool, right? And somebody else making fabric out of sugar. And we have a dozen companies doing those different things. And a lot of the wearable health items that are coming out. Yes, absolutely. That's gonna be in one of the companies I was with today called 10X Beta where they're taking a device and connecting it to a personal device. Love it, love it. Do you do any events where you bring in VCs to look at some of the innovation with those who want to? We do a bit of, new lab does a bit of that with their membership. And we're gonna start doing that with the Navy Yard as a whole. That's one of the other things we start to do for our tenants is trying to build community among them so that they know who each other are and they know how to do business with each other, how they can help each other. That's a key part of the value we need to add along with our workforce efforts. I've been in the Navy Yards so many times, 300 acres, and every time I go in, I get lost. You see some different. Okay, we're fixing the signs. Later this year, we're gonna be fixing the signs. We have to work on lighting, but we'll get there. I get lost, you know, all the time. But you know that's on purpose because the Navy didn't want the numbers to make sense in case they got found out by other countries, militaries. They wanted you to get lost. We have finally gotten to the point where we know how to renumber the buildings and we're gonna do that this year. You gotta get some type of sequence, you know. And the people at the front gate, they're very kind, but they remind me of my uncle down south. Go there, turn right, look for the blue barn, you know. Turn right at this big tree. Yes, our security guards are very, very well trained in de-escalation and helping people not get lost, but we do not make their job easy. But listen, I am really excited. Some great things are happening. You know, you crashed the glass ceiling. Thank you. And I think that there's, you know, you're gonna bring that energy and that thoughtfulness to make sure that we use the Navy Yard to deal with the battles that we have in front of us around climate, health, innovation. Yes, that's our future. Right, it really is, really is. Trying to help solve the climate crisis. And anybody that's making a device, whether it's a window unit to put inside NYCHA or a bicycle like the one I own, you can come make it at the Navy Yard. We'll make room for you. I was inspired by something you said about with the steam center. We should encourage more and more children to come in and walk through and see the possibilities. Yeah, we do do that. We just started up our school tours again this spring. Nice, okay. The sweet spot is middle school. We're developing a program with a couple of learning tours this year for elementary students just to expose the kids so they can see what the future looks like. Love it, love it, love it. Really excited, you know, the president and CEO of Brooklyn Navy Yards, Sister Green, thank you for coming in. Thank you, sir. Pleasure. Thank you. Thank you. And this is the information I wanted to share today. I hope to see you for another episode of Get Stuffed, Done, Cash.


Does feminine energy really exist? Well, we're gonna explore this because ladies, there are a lot of female coaches out there selling you on the idea of feminine energy and how to change your life through this feminine energy. And I'm gonna lean into a deeper conversation that relates to human behavior differentiating between men and women. Now look, I know the title did grab you with the five feminine ways to keep a man's interest. And at the same time, this is actually going to be more about human behavior versus differentiating the differences between men and women. Now, there are some clear differences between men and women. And I wanna explore those first to really and first and foremost is understand why men act the way they do and how this relates to how they relate to you and relationship. So really quickly, we all know this is an example of differences between men and women. There's the instinctual differences between men and women. Men are the hunters, they're the providers and women are the nurturers. And that's our instinctual stuff from caveman days. Certainly there's biological differences between men and women. Men have a higher testosterone level. Men tend to have penises, women tend to have vaginas or let me reframe that. Males have penises, females have vaginas. Those are certainly differences and there's the hormonal differences, women produce more estrogen, men tend to produce more testosterone, as I said before. And I know you've heard a lot of narratives, how men need to be and go into their cave to replenish their testosterone. Well, that might be true. There's certainly socialization differences between how boys are raised and how girls are raised or young males versus young females. There's a socialization that happens. Men are oftentimes taught to be stoic and stuff their feelings and women are more apt to, or girls are more apt to be allowed to be more expressive. Now, sadly, women also tend to, or girls get tend to be objectified based on their looks and men tend to get objectified by their ability to be stoic, provide and protect, okay? So those are kind of the biological, natural differences between men and women. Here's where men and women actually find themselves to be more alike. So first off is imprinting, imprinting. Imprinting means the childhood wounds and traumas, including love attachment style that actually imprints how we show up as adult human beings. And how someone was raised by their parents, imprints upon us, and then becomes a reflection of how we show up as adults. And this isn't singular to a gender. This isn't masculine and this isn't feminine. This is how we were raised by our caretakers. And sadly, men and women combined have unique experiences that cannot be characterized into masculine and feminine energy. In addition, our age and our life experiences, men in their 20s, it's a lot different than a man in his 50s, 60s or 70s. A man that's in his 20s and 30s or is a reflection of the blueprint they might have had in childhood, just like a woman's blueprint might have had in childhood. But as they have life experiences, men and women alike can experience the traumas of marriage or excuse me, divorce, maybe health issues, maybe they've got physical issues. Maybe they have professional issues in their life. And this isn't singular to a gender. This isn't singular to male and female. Anybody can experience this, okay? Now I'm gonna keep going for a moment, but God, I'm yelling, so please forgive me. I'm gonna keep going. But why I'm so passionate about this is we can't characterize masculine and feminine for male and female in this ideology because we have to take into account beyond the biology and the instinct. We have to take into account what actually happened to this human being, whether male or female, to make them who they are today and how they show up in relationship today. Besides age and life experience, is there cultural or religious values? That isn't singular to a gender. How you are raised, now how you're raised does apply to your socialization, which I talked about earlier that tends to be gender-based, but how you show up as an adult could be as different based on each culture or what religion you might have been associated with as an adult, okay? So it's not a gender-based thing. In addition, your socioeconomic status, people with money operate different than people who don't have money. That's a fact, but that's not based on gender. That's not based on masculine and feminine. In addition, their physical health. Someone's physical health as an adult and their appearance and their fitness and whatnot isn't a gender-based conversation. And once again, this is why I have a beef with the feminine energy coaches that aren't necessarily giving you insight into the totality of what makes up a human being in it. The next is, are they an introspective person? Do they look inward from a place of emotional maturity? Because emotional attendance, emotional maturity, people that are more apt to look inward are gonna operate differently in relationship than those people that aren't introspective, that don't have a level of emotional maturity. Now, emotional maturity is, does this person's actions match their words? Do their person's actions match their words? Do they have a level of victor consciousness and not victim consciousness? This isn't singular to a gender. Do they know how to fight fair? What I mean is, do they have good listening skills? So listen, relationships are gonna have conflicts. They're gonna have conflicts. How you resolve conflict is not based on your gender. It's about your capacity to be emotionally mature enough and to listen to the other person's point of view, accept that person's point of view as being true for them and actually acknowledging the other person and being able to agree to disagree. Another important factor, again, this isn't gender-based, is whether or not they are empathetic. Empathy isn't just I can feel your feelings. Empathy is also in relationship, more importantly, is do I trust this person cares about my feelings as much as I care about my own feelings? Does this person have my best interest at hand? That's a real level of empathy and trust in a romantic relationship. And lastly, is there a level of transparency in our relationship? Is there a level of transparency? In other words, transparency means if it's material to the relationship, will I speak up about it? And this is where a lot of men fail, for example, and a lot of women fail is that they don't actively share their true feelings around a relationship even though it's material to the other person. That's what an emotional grown-up does. This is why when I work with clients, and I gotta tell you something, by the way, there's a link right here to schedule a discovery call with me to see if working with a coach is right for you, my whole area of expertise is to not to look at this from a gender perspective, although I work with women helping them with men, it's to decipher is this person mature enough to be in a relationship with me? Is this person capable? But more importantly, as a woman, are you really clear on understanding this and we go into a deeper dive when I work with clients? So again, if you need some help, get to the link in the description below to schedule a discovery call with me. All right, we're gonna talk about this game changer we're talking about, the way to keep a man's interest. But I hope you found value in that little narrative of understanding that masculine and feminine energy, masculine feminine is a construct that doesn't take into account true human behavior and more importantly, what has happened to this individual human being to determine how they're gonna show up in the dating, mating and relating process. Does that make sense? Please let me know. Please hit that like button right now. Please share this video if it does. Please subscribe to my channel if this makes sense. Please purchase the super thanks if you'd like to show your appreciation because what I'm about to share is neither masculine and feminine, even though the title is the five feminine ways to keep a man. This is the five empowered ways to keep a man.  And if you're not familiar with my book there's my name right there.  A journey of personal development, self-help and spiritual work. Again, there's a link below to get a copy of my book. I highly recommend this because what's gonna change your love life are the following five things. First off, it's important to have an easygoing personality. I gotta be candid with you. My sweetheart who's in the picture right there. What I admire about her most is she has such a chill, easygoing personality. Not everybody has that, man or woman alike, but quite frankly for a relationship to actually not just maintain it, but to make it thrive. Having an easygoing personality, whether you're man or woman is critically important if you wanna have a juicy, delicious, healthy, happy relationship. One where you're actually thriving together. And people who operate from a defensive place, they operate from a critical place, they operate from a place of contempt, or worse when they're stonewalling you. In other words, they're avoiding real issues in the relationship. They're not operating from an easygoing place. What I just shared is what John Gottman talks about is the four horsemen of the apocalypse. If you don't have that easygoing personality, you're gonna be rubbing each other the wrong way. And if you don't have really good communication skills, this is gonna be problematic. Number two, I just shared it, self-love. That's that self-respect, self-reliance, self-care. Being in that space of genuinely individual empowerment. Ladies, you tend to have a capacity to give your power away to men in relationship. Many of you operate on such a needy place that you need, it's almost as if I need you to love me so I can feel good about myself. So many of you operating from a dependency place, self-love is a self-empowerment place. If you're not familiar with the book, I don't love everything in this book, but the book is called Why Men Love Bitches and Bitch Stands for Babe in Total Control of Herself, ES. I recommend this book is because it's an empowerment book.   You're not giving your power away to a man. How do you know you're giving your power away to a man? It's because when you make your happiness dependent upon him loving you, that's giving your power away. When you make your happiness dependent upon someone else loving you, okay? Number three, she clearly knows what she wants. She knows her standards. I gotta tell you, I said this recently in video. I have clients coming to me all the time. Jonathan, I know what I want. I know what I want. I know what I want in a relationship.  I had no idea what I wanted. Yes, many of you know the surface level of what you want, but to go below the surface requires clarity. The reason why my job is to ferret that out of you is because when you have clarity on what you want, it's a game changer. And I gotta tell you, ladies who sign up to my, the minute they invest in the program, I get calls all the time. Jonathan, I met a great guy. Jonathan, I met a great guy. Jonathan, I met a great guy. And they know the difference. Folks, I'm here to establish a new or a different way to approach relationships. I call it the establishing the rules of engagement. That's also known as hardballing, but the rules of engagement starts with radical honesty. It starts with pre-qualifying this person before you actually ever meet them ahead of time.  That's selling you on the fantasy that men are actual emotional grownups. As I shared in the beginning of this broadcast is that men are riddled with wounds and flaws and adult flaws or excuse me, adult traumas, many women alike have. So to this expectation that all it is is about the divine masculine and they're just gonna claim you. What world are we living in? We are living in a world of dysfunctionality because most humans have weak emotional skills and terrible relationship skills. There I'm screaming again. I'm just so passionate about waking you up. That's why all the books I recommend is designed to build you up from the inside out. And number four is learning what boundaries are and the real value of a boundary. And I like the way Brené Brown talks about boundaries. A boundary is simply what's okay and what's not okay for me. And right from the beginning you establish agreements based on your standards. Look at, this is gonna turn off 90% of men. You gotta accept that. 90% of men most likely are not capable of diving into the deep kind of relationship you want because we have wounded human beings, yourself included. The weight, oh, by the way, my coffee's up, cup. I still have this one. I make the world go around. What do you do? Very narcissistic. This was a friend gave it to me. Agreements, that's a way to honor your standards. That's a way to say, look, this is what I clearly want in a relationship. Are you on the same page with me? Ladies, these days, hooking up is the primary, look it, with these devices, with these devices we can simply hook up with people. We don't have to, other than guys can simply say, you know what, I want a relationship. But if you don't know what that word means to them and what that actually looks like for them, I would simply say ladies, if you do nothing else from this video going forward, when a man says I want a relationship, ask him clearly, what does that look like for you? Now, he'll probably be a deer in the headlights. When I was, before I met my beloved, I was very clear what a relationship looked like for me and I'll share it with everyone. We spend three or four days and nights a week together doing shared activities, hobbies, mutual interests, spending time with family and friends, traveling together, teamwork, building skills, both in our personal and our professional life, intimacy, both physical and emotional, intimacy that leads to either moving in together or getting married. Met a woman, long distance.  We're living together, she and I, Marie. I was very clear on the standard of what a relationship looked like for me prior to meeting her. You might meet men who are dear in the headlights because now the fifth thing I'm gonna share today relates to why men are dear in the headlights. It relates to passionate sex, passionate sex, having desires sexually for one another. See, men operate, a lot of men are operating on the sex and they're hoping for everything else and I'm here to say establishing your clarity before that piece because when you, by the way, sex is part of the decision-making process today. It is part of the decision-making process. My suggestion is to pre-qualify the guy before you begin the sexual relationship to make sure you're on the same page because the worst thing you can do is invest in someone only to find out that they're incapable of actually leaning into a relationship. This is why vetting, screening, filtering, establishing radical honesty in the rules of engagement very early on is critically important because you can do all the feminine energy work in the planet but if you're talking to, if you're talking to some man who's emotionally immature, emotionally constipated, emotionally inept, his relationship skills are weak and but he looks good on paper, he all looks, he looks really good on paper. You could be setting yourself up for relationship success. Is this sinking in? Please post a comment below. I'd like to hear your thoughts on this, okay? And again, if you found value in this, check out in the description, the link to schedule a discovery call with me. Check out my group called Midlife Love Mastery. Follow me on Instagram, check out all the books I recommend. All right, I'm gonna wrap up this video as I always do.  I'm gonna reach into the camera and give you a hug of love if that's okay. I'm gonna ask you to turn to someone, a pet, a teddy bear pillow and give Iter them a hug of love because hugs are a great source of love and let's face it, we can all use more love in our lives. Thanks a bunch, bye-bye now, bye-bye.