LISA: TIME NOW TO ANSWER SOME OF
YOUR PLANT QUESTIONS.
JOINING ME THIS AFTERNOON IS
SCOTT CARBONE FROM VALLEY VIEW
FARMS.
HEY SCOTT.
>> HOW ARE YOU?
LISA: WHO IS THIS?
>> THIS IS A PENCIL CACTUS.
IT IS A SUCCULENT.
IT HAS A COOL CHARACTER TO IT,
OUTSIDE IN THE SUMMER AND YOU
CAN BRING IT INSIDE IN THE
WINTER AND DOES NOT NEED A LOT
OF WATER.
LISA: IT'S A GUY PLANT, NO
FRILLS.
>> IT'S DIFFERENT AND DOES NOT
NEED MUCH CARE.
LISA: WHAT CAN WE PRUNE NOW FOR
BETTER GROWTH THIS SPRING?
>> A LOT OF STUFF CAN BE PRUNED
THAT IS DORMANT.
ROSES, ANYTHING THAT IS NOT
FULLY ACTIVE.
THEY WILL BUSH OUT NICER IF YOU
PRUNE IT NOW.
LISA: WHICH SHRUBS WOULD MAKE A
NICE EVERGREEN HEDGE?
>> IT DEPENDS ON HOW HIGH YOU
WANTED TO BE.
BOX WOODS ARE NICE.
YOU HAVE SKIPPED LAURELS WHICH
WOULD BE TALLER FOR PRIVACY.
IT MAKE YOUR NEIGHBORS
DISAPPEAR.
LISA: YOU PLANT THEM WHEN?
>> I WOULD SAY MARCH-OCTOBER.
YOU WANT THE GROUND TO BE THAWED
LISA:.
LISA: WHAT ARE SOME SMALL
FLOWERING TREES TO PLANT IN MY
SMALLER FRONT YARD?
>> THOSE WILL BE THE ONES THAT
TAKE FULL SOME LIKE CREPE
MYRTLE'S, CHERRIES, RED BUDS ARE
NICE.
EVEN SHRUBS WITH HYDRANGEAS
WOULD BE GOOD.
LISA: YOU SAID YOU CAN DO
PRUNING ON YOUR ROSES?
IS VERY TECHNIQUE?
>> DO THEM WERE RIGHT WHERE THE
LEAF COMES OUT.
ANYTHING THAT IS DISEASED, YOU
CUT THAT OUT.
CLIMBERS DON'T LIKE TO BE PRUNED
BUT YOUR SHRUB ROSES, THEY LIKE
TO BE PRUNED EACH YEAR.
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Interview with Joe Reilly, Administrator, National Agricultural Statistics Service - Duration: 34:25.
Today is Thursday May 26, 2016.
I'm interviewing Joe Reilly,
the Administrator for the National Agricultural
Statistics Service or NASS.
I am Susan Fugate, I'm head of Special
Collections at USDA's National Agricultural
Library and have been an employee of the U.S.
Department of Agriculture for over 39 years.
We're in the studios of USDA's Creative Media and
Broadcast Center in Washington D.C.
Joe, would you state your name and spell your first
and last name please?
Yes, thank you, my name is Joe Reilly.
That's J-O-E-R-E-I-L-L-Y.
Good, I'd like you to start with giving us a
brief biographical sketch of your life and your work.
Okay, well, originally I'm from Pennsylvania.
I grew up on a very small farm up in the
northeastern part of Pennsylvania, up around
Tamaqua, if anybody knows where that is.
I attended Penn State University and from
graduation from Penn State University, started off my
career, I worked in Florida for a year or so
for a large banking financial system down
there and then began my federal career back in
1975 with the United State Bureau of the Census.
I've worked with the Bureau of the Census for
22 years and was heading up the Census of
Agriculture Program at the Bureau of the Census at
the time of its transition from the Department of
Commerce Bureau of the Census over to USDA to the
National Agricultural Statistics Service.
And I've worked in various positions of leadership at
NASS during that time.
I was over field operations for several
years, served as the Associate Administrator of
NASS for several years and for the last two years
have served as the Administrator.
Thank you.
Please tell us how you came to be appointed as
the Administrator of NASS?
Well, when you look back some of it is good old
fashioned hard work and some of it is being in the
right place at the right time.
I really credit a lot of my preparation of being
able to be selected as the Administrator of having to
deal with the Census of Agriculture.
I was heading up that program over at the
Department of Commerce Bureau of the Census.
As you know, the Census is the largest data
collection program involving agricultural
statistics in our nation and back in 1996 heading
up that program came up with a proposal to change
the definition of what a farm was.
And the current definition of a farm is any place
that produces or sells $1,000
of agricultural products during the course
of the given year.
And initiated a Federal Register Notice that
talked about changing that definition from $1,000
to $10,000 and at that time that would
have eliminated about half of the farms in our
country.
And so that started the political process and work
of looking at the impact of that and it was kind of
an interesting part of looking at where certain
programs should be and how they best serve their
clients but it really had a direct impact to
agriculture of maintaining the current definition of
a farm.
And at that time, Senator Byrd was very active and
did not want to look at eliminating 85% of the
farms in the state of West Virginia and was very
influential on appropriations committee
and in about a month's time, the program was
transferred out of the Department of Commerce
Bureau of the Census over to USDA NASS and that was
back in 1996, 1997.
And I think of heading that program and sort of
integrating it into NASS and seeing how
fundamentally it became the core of developing the
list of farm business operations across the
country and seeing how it's used to develop all
of the sampling frames that are used to do
whatever survey that NASS does, put me in a great
position to understand the statistical side and I was
able to bring in sort of an experience from another
statistical agency to make sure that it was properly
integrated into the programs here at USDA.
And I think sort of being at the right place at the
right time and having a leadership role in that
enabled me to get the right skills and abilities
so that when the previous Administrator Dr. Cynthia
Clark left, you know, two years ago I was in a key
position to move up because I have been in
various leadership positions for the last 20 years.
Share with us some of the challenging issues you
faced as Administrator and other leadership roles in
NASS and talk about some of your strategies for
moving NASS forward.
Well I think over the last,
starting back in about 2008,
one of the things that NASS, as many other federal
agencies had to deal with, was sort of constricting
or flat budgets.
Just recently, last week we got our 2017 fiscal
mark from the Senate and if I look at that dollar amount
for the expected appropriations for the
Agency, we are about at the same dollar level that we
were back in 2008.
So now you have the task of figuring out how to
deliver the same programs, the same statistical data
that the country relies on at the same budget for
about the last eight years.
So we had to do a very detailed respective search
of how could we find efficiencies?
And I think the biggest thing that we looked at is
that NASS at that time, basically,
had an office and a staff in each one of the 50
states across the country and looking at the
infrastructure of supporting that and then
looking at how we could integrate new technologies
that did not exist before to see if we could change
that fundamental structure.
So we started back in 2010 on the endeavor of, okay,
we have to make the tough call.
We have to move from basically 50 offices and
we're going to a regional approach.
And so we had to look at which offices we were
going to, and I'll use the word "close" because,
you know, you could say whatever it is but we were
closing offices and moving staff and we had to
identify which offices and what the regional
configuration was going to be.
So that required us not only,
I had to go out and meet with each one of the
Directors, Secretaries or Commission of Agriculture
from each one of the states,
talk about what we were doing,
negotiate with them as to what we saw was our
proposed plan of doing this restructuring and we
completed that and it was kind of an interesting
thing because you could talk a nexus of a couple
things coming together at the same time like a
perfect storm but the time that we were to implement
the restructure and move all the people around was
October 1, 2013 which is at the same time we went
through this several week government shut down.
So we had people who were literally supposed to move
and be in their new location the beginning of
that fiscal year and at the same time the
government was shut down.
So it was kind of an interesting time of
working through the people part of it.
There was people that were on,
their household goods were on moving trucks,
they didn't know where they were supposed to
report, what to do, there was no communication here.
So even though, at that time we weren't supposed to, I
was very active at home on the cell phones with a lot
of people trying to get them through this process.
So we had to change our structure.
So we went from an agency of about 1,100 people.
We are currently down to around 930 and that has
enabled us to operate and deliver our same
statistical program more effectively.
Now we also had to incorporate some new
technology.
One thing is instead of doing things 50 different
ways, you know, and all the inefficiencies doing
that we're trying to standardize things.
I'd like to tell you that we're doing them one way,
but at least we're down to at least 12 different ways
so that added a lot of efficiencies to the process.
So when you develop a questionnaire you want to
do something you didn't have a separate procedure
for how you were measuring something in Indiana
versus Iowa, versus Texas, we're now doing things in
a more standard fashion.
And I think one of the biggest changes we were
able to make was the introduction of iPads, or,
you know, the small tablet devices into our data
collection activities.
So we have around 2,500 field enumerators that go
around to all the farmers and ranchers on an ongoing
basis and they used to come out with paper
questionnaires, ask you all kind of questions that
had to go back to a central site to be keyed
in and process that.
Well right now we are capturing all that
electronically using iPads at the point of interview.
So we've eliminated printing,
paper questionnaires, mailing paper
questionnaires, we've reduced the time for a lot
of the data collection, we've improved the quality
of the data and that probably,
efficiency has enabled us to continue to produce our
statistical data requirements even with the
reduction of staff.
So that was probably our biggest challenge of
trying to figure out how we were going to deal with
this sort of level budget.
Now these efficiencies only take you so far and I
look ahead in the future in trying to figure out
where we would go from here.
We've been able to keep up with things but,
and still, one point in time I will say that the
business of gathering information and gathering
data is getting more complex and more costly each year.
So something we'll have to look at changing in the
future if we are going to be able to fulfill our
mission with sort of equal or less resources than we
have right now.
Talk about a program or a project that taught you
something you did not expect and share some
details with us.
Okay, well it's kind of interesting in working
with agriculture and especially with the
National Agricultural Statistic Service.
I've been with the Agency now 20 years.
As you know, we provide key information on how much
corn is grown in the country, cattle,
everything that allows the economic system to work
properly and we're used a lot to determine whether
people can get crop insurance payments or
commodity risk coverage payments and things like
that but looking at how agriculture has changed
and I've used this story quite a bit over the last
couple of years is that everybody still thinks
that agriculture as corn, soybeans, cattle,
hogs and in growing up in our organization if you
wanted to get ahead you wanted to be the
statistician that focused on corn,
that focused on cattle or focused on soybeans.
Well interestingly enough over the last couple of
years, one of the major issues facing our country
is what is happening to the bees that are out
there needed for pollination and if you
start looking at things and you may think being
able to measure corn production or count cattle
or hogs is a difficult task and I say this,
you know, I laugh to myself most of the time.
Try counting bees, okay?
That is a task in itself.
We had to get new groups of people together.
It's interesting that bees and how they're used in
pollination, they move all around the country.
They are in convoys of tractor trailers that move
all around the country and trying to figure out how
to count them, measure them,
know where they are at a given time because without
bees we won't have food in the future.
And we started this program about two years
ago and I look back on my growing up on a farm in
Pennsylvania and all the time I've spent in dealing
with agriculture and it's like,
I'm now learning about bees and how they work.
It's something I never thought growing up on a
small farm that I'd ever deal with or how important
that they are, and why I bring that up as a story
is that agriculture continually changes.
Things that we are dealing with now are new,
they're interesting and they're important and
shows how complex our system is for producing
the food in agri, and fiber in this country is
and just working on this project for the last
couple of years I'm dealing with things now
that I never even knew about a couple years ago
and I find that very exhilarating and
challenging and our staff really likes getting
involved in new activities like that.
Now the next thing coming up is looking at microbes.
We have programs on antimicrobial resistance
and how they're going to measure and that will be a
challenge that we'll be looking at measuring in
the next couple years.
Great, Dr. Catherine Woteki, Under Secretary for
Research Education and Economics often explains
in her public statements that having a statistical
service with the U.S. Department of Agriculture
is an important element in making sound policy
decisions based on reliable data.
Will you tell us details of a specific time or two
that illustrates NASS's role in policy decisions?
Well I think every month I can illustrate the role.
We put out a monthly crop report that measures how
much corn, soybeans and that is being produced in
this country.
We do that under lock up conditions.
If you ever have the opportunity, our staff
comes in, in the middle of the night.
We literally lock them up, you know,
we close them in an office.
We seal the windows, we seal the doors,
we cut off the telephones, we cut off the computer
systems and we look at measuring what is going to
be available in the food supply for the coming
season or cycle and it directly impacts the market.
Everything is driven off of it.
It sets the price of corn and soybeans, cattle,
depending on what we're putting out at that time.
And what is exciting about many of our young
statisticians that come in for work is that they
realize almost right away the importance of what
their job is because if they don't do their job
correctly and accurately they see the direct impact
back to the farmer.
Looking at just a big change that has come to
our organization that has occurred just since the
2014 Farm Bill that was put in place which
introduced the Agricultural Risk Coverage
Program and the Price Loss Coverage Program.
These are two safety net programs that are out
there to farmers that in case of a catastrophic
event, it could be a flood, could be, you know,
drought, the opposite end of it, hurricane,
things like that, they lose their crop or for
that particular year.
How should they be compensated?
Also it helps them to protect themselves by
price loss or revenue loss because of market
fluctuations.
So this is looking at providing, this type of
coverage to all the farmers and ranchers out
there and we now at NASS, are looking at providing,
I'll call them County Level Estimates.
There's 3,100 counties roughly around the
country, there's about 30 different commodities that
are in this program and based on the work that we
do on an annual basis, we have to be able to measure
the production and yield for those commodities,
county by county, across the country so that if the
farmer wants to go and apply for some type of
relief or loss coverage payment, they have to
compare themselves to the data that is reflective of
the average of the production in that
particular county.
And so all of our staff now see directly of how this
impacts farmers and ranchers out there because
if they've had a drought and need to get some type
of relief or a payment, they have to use our data to
show how they were impacted.
So instead of having a system that was based on,
well, when you have an event, everything is a
disaster, everything is lost, we now have
scientific or sound statistical data to be
able to prove and to document what really the
farmer or rancher has lost in a particular situation
and all of our staff are very involved in that
program and it really illustrates the key work
that we do and how the cycle of collecting the
data from the farmer of what they report to us,
us using good sound methodology and bringing
it all together, producing these numbers for each
county so that at the end of the year if a farmer
needs to apply for some type of program, they have
the data to be able to document their loss.
In 1997, you were awarded the Department of
Commerce's highest honor for your work on the
Census of Agriculture.
The Census is a very important part of your
legacy in all of your positions at NASS.
Can you, you described it to some level of detail
but can you describe the Census and how it has
changed and grown over the years and what you'd like
to see in the future?
Well, the Census of Agriculture, as I talked
about a little bit earlier, is the largest data
collection activity dealing with agriculture
that we do in this country.
Literally every five years,
those ending in 2 and 7, we try to measure and
document what's going on each farm and ranch across
the country of which there is about 2.1 million farms
now.
And why it's important and why I've enjoyed dealing
with it and it shows a little bit of the
evolution of our country and our statistical system
is that when I was back at the Department of Commerce
Bureau of the Census and I was dealing with the
Census of Agriculture, the Census
we were in with all the other areas of the economy.
So I was in a section, I was over Agriculture but
there was another division that was over
manufacturing, there was another division that was
over construction industries,
the service industries, things like that which
develop all of our GDP figures for the country.
Agriculture represents only about one and a half
or 2% of our GDP and you think, well geez,
in a generalize statistical agency, the
other 98% of the programs got a lot of the attention.
And when we looked at, as I told you before,
of looking at changing the farm definition from
the 1,000 level to the 10,000
level, it was in an effort of trying to sort
of save data collection costs but it didn't really
take into account how critical it was for
administering all of the programs that exist within
the Department of Agriculture.
So I actually think it was a fantastic move of moving
the Census of Agriculture out of the Bureau of the
Census into the Department of Agriculture.
90% of the work that I've been able to do over the
last 20 years is providing data that supports the
Farm Service Agency or the Risk Management Agency or
the Agricultural Marketing Service.
All the agencies and programs within USDA and
you work closer there to making sure that what data
is needed to support these things we can collect,
we can provide it in a timely fashion and the
Census allows us to have that framework so that if
the Secretary or we want to study something new
like, as I said before, what is happening to the
bees, it allows me from the Census of Agriculture to
know who are all the people who have bees in
the country which is a very small population.
So then we can focus our data collection and our
survey needs right to those individuals.
And since we moved the Census of Agriculture over
to Department of Agriculture, it has become
the foundation for what we do.
We do five year census, it becomes our benchmark of
accounting for all the land in the country.
We know what farmer or rancher is involved in what type
of production type activity so that if we
need to in any of the interim years go back and
study like oh, which farms are producing on-farm
energy like windmills or methane digesters, we know
which farms reported that in the census and can go
back just to those specific farms to gather
more detailed information and we use that census and
we use the foundation of that to be able to support
all the programs that USDA requires during that
interim five year timeframe.
And so I think it has been a fantastic move of
integrating the two programs together.
You shared a little bit with us about your
experience growing up on a small farm.
Can you talk about, a little more about that and
how that influenced your career and did anything in
particular tweak the young Joe Reilly's interest in
agricultural statistics?
Well, I tell this story all the time.
Growing up on the small farm, I learned very early
in my life that that's not what I wanted to do for
the rest of my life.
It did give me appreciation for what's
involved in agriculture but it's something that I
did not want to continue in but I always was
interested in it because that's where my family
came from and that's what, you know,
we always had roots in that area.
So that, and what I like about working for the
National Agricultural Statistic Service and the
name sort of tells it.
It is that first of all agriculture is very
prevalent in the name and it's before statistics.
Our first mission is to serve agriculture and
almost everybody in my agency right now, they all
grew up on farms, 90% of our staff,
that's where we all started.
Now we're not farmers now but we all have that
appreciation and love for what was involved in
dealing with agriculture.
And then you use your mathematical or
statistical skills in providing good quality
data back in the service of agriculture.
As I mentioned earlier, I started my career back at
the Bureau of the Census and during the course of
my career I worked on providing data on the
unemployment rate, on manufacturing statistics,
crime statistics, health statistics,
population statistics and all that is fine because I
used my mathematical and statistical skills that I
developed through college and all that but it wasn't
until the time that I was able to marry the two
together and really look at how I could use the
skills that I had developed statistically
and see how they actually provide some service back
to the agricultural community because that's
where I think myself and if you were to interview
many of the staff members that work in NASS I think
that's where, why all of us are so passionate about
what we do because we know directly how our data is
important to the farmers.
If you want to buy land, you have to have good
financial information to show the financial
profitability of your farm operation.
A lot of them will use data that we've provided
to show how they compare or contrast to other
typical entities that are in their same sort of
market niche.
You see how our information supports the
Crop Insurance Program which is critical to this country.
So if you didn't have the data to support a good
active crop insurance program what would happen
to people in times of disaster as I talked about before.
We keep a fair and open market in place.
Farmers now understand they're not just relying
like well, what should I sell a bushel of corn for?
By having a sound economic system in place, everybody
knows what the production is going to be and what
the price should be and it's fair and open to
everybody else.
And then we're starting to look at the trends.
I mean we study things now on conservation,
of how to keep things sustainable in the future
and farmers are using their information to see
what different practices are across the country.
As you know we were talking a little earlier
before we started this interview about the look
of certain practices such as with cover crops and
using no till and things like that and more and
more we're seeing that adoption rate of farmers
across the country.
And again, everybody looks for data to support that
whatever business decision or farming decision they
made it's practical and the more that they say
okay, here's how many farms are using this kind
of conservation practice and look at how
economically viable they are.
Why don't I look at the same thing and look at the
cost impacts that this has and that's where our data
really helps supporting agriculture.
So when you look at it in my career, it wasn't until
I could really blend the mathematical statistical
side to really seeing how it serviced agriculture
and I think, you know, I think within the
Department of Agriculture we're lucky in that
respect that we see the direct link of the data
that we produce and how farmers and the American
public really rely on it.
Well as we conclude this interview, are there any
other programs, decisions, experiences you'd like to
share with us?
Well, a couple of things and there are a couple of
issues that I'm dealing with now that are very
fundamental for the future of statistics in general
and especially agriculture statistics.
One is that we rely on the voluntary cooperation of
the farmers and ranchers out there to provide us data.
Our response rates and our cooperation continues to
decline.
I think it's part of society as a whole.
We're all busy, we're all busy doing a lot of things.
I think there is a tremendous veracious
appetite for data, people want more and more and yet
the number of farms continues to shrink a
little bit so we're putting a tremendous
burden back on the farmers out there to continue to
provide this data.
And I think that one of the challenges for NASS
and my agency is to look ahead in the future of how
can we, you know, satisfy that appetite for data
that is necessary and not over burden the farmers
and ranchers with the surveys that we're doing
out there?
We have to come up with new technologies,
new ways.
It's going to be exciting.
Just to give you one example.
You know one of our primary ways that we've
been able to collect data efficiently is that I
would call you up on the phone and ask you a few
questions.
Well how many people answer the phone now if
they don't recognize the name and number that
appears on the phone?
That didn't even exist a few years ago, you know?
So now we're faced with the difficulty of data
collection just dealing with this new mobile
government that and society that we have that
we have to figure out ways of looking at that.
So we're looking at new and exciting things.
We use satellite imagery quite extensively to see
if we can measure the production of crops
and things like that.
That helps for crops quite a bit.
It doesn't help as much for chickens that are in
a poultry house or things like that.
You still have to be able to get inside to figure
out how many are there.
So we have a challenge of figuring out how to
satisfy the data needs in the future without
burdening our farmers and ranchers and how to
provide quality data if we are experiencing some
diminishing response rates.
The other thing that is a major concern for us in
the future is being able to provide the data
security and integrity of protecting the data once
we collect it.
We're all dealing with cybersecurity threats,
things like that but yet we have a pledge to
maintain the privacy and confidentiality of the
farmers and ranchers of who provides us the data.
We have one issue now that we're dealing with that is
of great concern to me as I leave my career here at
NASS and that is that in the Appropriations Bill
last year, they passed the Cybersecurity Enhancement
Act of 2015 which now, for the first time,
allows the Department of Homeland Security to have
access to some of the confidential data that
NASS has collected from its farmers and ranchers.
All in the interest of national security and
being able to protect yourself from
cybersecurity threats but the perception of how the
American farmer and rancher are going to think
I've given you a pledge for the last 100 years
since the Department has been formed in 1862 that
no one else can see this data or have access to it
and now another department has access to it and just,
I know it's all in the interest of security and
the country but explaining that to farmers and
ranchers and making sure they're aware because
there is a concern over there of maintaining the
privacy and maintaining the confidentiality yet
addressing the new world that we're living in that
you have to guard against these cyber security
threats and that how to blend those two together
and still get the American public's cooperation is
something that I think not only NASS, as a statistical
agency but statistical agencies in general, are
going to have to address in the future.
Good, well thank you very much for sharing your
history and your legacy.
Thank you, thank you.
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The Center for Community Engaged Learning - Duration: 2:24.
The Center for Community Engaged Learning is the University of Wisconsin-Superior's
one-stop-shop for community engagement.
It's a hub.
A place where real world learning experiences for students connect with the region's needs
and priorities.
We do this through win-win partnerships that leverage our university's expertise
to achieve the greater good for both the student body and the community at large.
The Center isn't replacing any UW-Superior programs.
Its purpose is to enhance and build upon the many strong programs and mutually beneficial
partnerships already in place.
Its primary focus is getting students involved in the community through academic service-learning,
internships, applied research, volunteering, creative activities, and other unique partnerships.
This type of engagement challenges students and helps them to actualize their potential.
Center staff will also work with local leaders, citizens and university personnel to identify
the area's priorities and most pressing needs, seeking ways to connect these to curricular
and co-curricular activities to make meaningful change within our community and region.
Aligning and amplifying our efforts to make a real impact, both scholastically and socially.
Students will see that they are a part of something bigger, and that their part matters.
Additionally, the Center serves as a clearinghouse of information for all campus outreach activities
and the point of contact for all community engaged learning questions from the community,
students, faculty, and staff.
Simply put, the Center for Community Engaged learning will bridge us, from our various
disciplines, industries, and areas of expertise, in coming together to solve real issues that
make a real difference in peoples lives.
It fits our institutional and academic vision.
It's a win-win.
So whether you're faculty, staff or a student looking to connect with the community, or a community member
with a possible p artnership, connect with the Center for Community Engaged Learning
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This Just In: Updates for the Winter Style Rut - Duration: 2:06.
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5 Outfits for Travel - How to Dress for an Airplane - Duration: 11:38.
these are brought out this for airplane
travel that are either going to inspire
you to shop your closet or shop the
links below that i have i want you to
think of three things when you're
watching this youtube video one
why would I wear this piece of clothing
for me i know i'm going to over eat on
vacation so I walk pants that are not
constricting I want flowy tops or
address that i can wear and be
comfortable in comfort might be your one
thing you're one priority number two is
this a multitasker or a unit ask her
piece of clothing can you only wear it
once then you might not want to take it
on your vacation because it's going to
take up space in your suitcase
unnecessarily and number three what can
i do on vacation with these pieces of
clothing
can I walk around all day for miles and
mouth
can I go to nice restaurants every night
can I be with the kids cannot bend over
and those on and show
can I shop till I drop cannot carry
everything that i need peace but those
are things are going to be thinking
about while you're watching my youtube
video my name is Lori and I make youtube
videos about fashion ideas and beauty
idea that popped into my head travel
ideas that popped into my head home
ideas that popped into my head so thanks
for popping over
ok so i started off with a swim cover
this is my rock seat and you can see
that it does not have a back so there is
no way I would never wish this around
town just by itself without a Cardian
but for travel i thought the perfect
length it goes 3 inches past my fingers
but when a whole arms down again three
inches past messing your hips and that
is great for wearing a tunic with or a
dress with leggings let me see how we
dresses i just love it
it hangs right it's made of 100-percent
this goes i will link it below that you
can see that this has like a burgundy
pink in a show episodes where my dark
brown color
holden and that way you don't have to
pack them ok ok you know if you are
never going to wear those blue leggings
on your trip
why take them where something that
you're going to actually we're at your
destination like these skinny jeans
I'm gonna wear this sweater another day
on vacation I might wear it over white
top and graphic t-shirt or migrate Iraq
under which is what I'm gonna showcase
you for the next outfit
hey then I next outfit is this extender
it's my easel and i will link it below
you can find it on amazon so that's the
best part you can wear this extender so
many ways i love the length of it look
how far it is past my fingertips so i
can wear it alone with just leggings i
can wear it with a little t-shirt on top
i can also wear it with like a long
tunics like this that is not quite long
enough to be worn with just letting
because look the front of it comes right
there to the ruffle they have all
different colors so cute little car
bonus to make it come together you're
traveling in a car or go into a
restaurant you can put the little scarf
around your arm if you're cold but i
love it was this a lot of this lipgloss
you can wear this with some comfrey
leggings underneath or long leggings
underneath and you can wear with any
shoes anyway so I like that got the
great to begin with because it goes with
mustard because with white it goes with
denim denim jacket looks really good on
it
I this is how scrunchie this material is
see how crunchy and is and it hangs
right it doesn't clean when you move is
going to move its when you've been over
its ok you do want to have leggings
under
me that I think well I'm 58 so this is
how long and come on me being I love
these leggings they are so fitted
because they call so hot baby
consecutive job of sucking you in
while compressing your face like when
I'm trying to decide my legs I cannot
even make an indention so tight is
scaring and I don't have a problem is
precise everyone almost every day anyway
it's something crazy before especially
for long-haul flight i'm going to have
compression leggings compression socks
or something that you can wear under a
work outfit or under jeans even what i'm
gonna do is i'm wearing jeans I love
these compression socks because you can
change the pattern they have some funky
pattern that nobody's ever going to see
you
so we've got the leggings we got the
capri leggings and we got the
compression socks so I am stuff for a
long half-life but I can't do anything
last 11 hours because i would go crazy
right through these pants from target
you've gotta check these out this is a
size medium and there is something about
material they are so light weight
perfect for travel and the best part is
they have the elastic waist and that you
can toppings you can tucking him the
best part is you can wear plain t-shirts
that are going to cover just the
waistband a little bit or hang down and
you looked totally fun where these three
days in a week long trip with a
different colored shirt and boom you
save so let's face in your suitcase you
can front up the little legging part
down here they're called joggers okay
and they're so expensive in so many
stores when we were in Italy about five
years ago I thought oh my word to bring
him back parachute pants and I said I
will never wear a parachute pants but
these are going on vacation with me this
summer i've often
for the tags off immediately y'all hain
right in the back you can sit you can
lay down you can get rained on and they
will drive so fast i highly recommend
these i will link them below they are
not on amazon but they are on target now
we'll leave them below and while you're
below thumbs-up me and the material of
the Tigers is 100-percent lyocell
supposed to wash it before you wear it
this is the Massimo brands from target i
love how these pants are drapey they are
flowy this grain can be green it can be
a neutral color for you and it will go
with so many different colors tops
another foundational piece for travel
outfit is colored jeans now I have these
black jeans and also have a pair of
olive green jeans from Los i will link
them both below you can see now I'm 58
and we're in Los and they do both
through the black ones you can wear the
graphic t have a cardigan always cold
I like these black jeans they are
definitely think that they are so
stretchy really i highly recommend them
I love the shiplap graphic t-shirt i
will link some of those below love
projecting that bottle people as you're
walking through the airport and you'd be
surprised at how many conversations come
up just for wearing this cute little
shirt black beans are a great place to
have they can go with several things on
your final destination they will not get
dirty
they don't show dust very much anyway
they're a great foundation piece for
wherever you're going on your
destination now you just have to buy a
vacation box okay for my number clown
outfit piece for travel
I have this top this is always be in
this room for this because it
is Navy it is not black and sometimes on
video or pictures it looks black
I love this it is three quarterly please
i want you to see how firm butt shake it
is i love this shirt
the front is like a stiffer material
that does not cling and hangs correctly
and the back is a knit ok that does not
clean this is a plea on the shirt and
you can find them at northshore but you
can also find them on amazon and i will
link that link to these types shirts
below
okay look how long it is and i bought
eight and look how long it is it almost
comes to the bottom of my fingers
it was great with countries it was great
with jeans you can tuck it in because it
hangs out right it looks great with
developing us if it's been that has
structure
ok those are great qualities for travel
outfit unlike 58 and I wear a medium in
this look how long it is and it can go
for spring summer fall or winter I think
you should definitely look into getting
this leone and i will link it below and
while you're going below click thumbs up
or click subscribe to get videos for my
lord pop channel another thing I like
about this shirt is that it is not
see-through ok you can still have been
shirt without a VNC through and a light
that the beat is not too deep and there
are no buttons to have to iron in
between that's another thing I like
about this shirt
ok we live in Texas and every floor is
usually at all for and my feet are
killing me so I have skechers wear
around the house
I don't particularly like wearing them
outside of the house i highly recommend
these wild beaver brand and if you see
these are black and gray they have an
off-white is and a tan color you always
below you can find these on Amazon yet
with almost everything else that posted
so i'll link that below but they have
some art support and some
padding so those are going with me they
look great with capris and they also
look good with jeans or shorts
I've shown you an extender that can be
worn as a dress you can wear it with
capris and long pants you can layer on
top of it or underneath it
I've shown you daughters from target i
have shown you color jeans that you can
pair with different colored top and
upgraded to look a little fancier if you
need a fancy option i have shown you
leggings that are so great for travel
compressions Z with a Z and those can be
found on amazon also and i'll show you
one of my favorite tops that can be worn
in all different ways for comfort for
structure for versatility you can wear
all these things in different ways and
be a rock star at packing for outfits
while you travel
thanks for problem number two my
lollipop channel ideas that pop on
youtube I appreciate you visiting and
please let me know if you find another
piece that you can add to these travel
outfits for the airplane and beyond
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Vernon - A Major Step Up in Lifestyle Quality - Duration: 2:07.
Ah, yeah, the pain and symptoms, ah,
congestion, headache, mostly frontal sinus type headache, um,
is very distracting, interferes with sleep, and
definitely seems to drain you of your energy in that, ah,
obviously, with the pain and congestion, you've got a chronic infection going on
which is, is a, a bit of a debilitating, to some extent, uh, um, process.
And, it definitely, uh, um, has an impact on,
on the success of your life, and, and what you get out of your life.
Which is why I'm here today.
I'd like to try and see that, that improve.
During the procedure they, when your sinuses are dilated, um,
you immediately feel some sense of relief in that the,
some of the symptoms that were, that I felt prior to the procedure was
sinus congestion, pressure, headaches, that sort of thing, and that,
that was gone for the first time since I can remember.
So, for me, the procedure, uh, I felt better from day one.
Having had the balloon dilation procedure,
my sinuses, my quality of life has improved significantly.
Um, the night time coughing is gone.
I don't have the, the, the sinus drainage that I had, uh, pretty extensively prior to the procedure, um.
As well as the, uh, just that heaviness, constant feeling of, of pressure in my sinuses, and
the inability to clear my sinuses no matter what, um, is gone.
My sinuses are clear.
Without question, yeah, wholeheartedly recommend this.
For, for the, the minor inconvenience of having the procedure done,
have a major step up in lifestyle quality, and I,
I highly recommend this to anybody.
In fact, I have already.
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The Final Chapter: The Price For The Past In 12 Seconds | Season 12 Ep. 4 | BONES - Duration: 0:28.
Oh, look at that.
The body was found in Rock Creek Park.
That's all Aldo Clements.
Aldo killed himself.
So he wouldn't have to give me up.
And whoever this is, they're not going to stop until--
Booth, that's a bomb!
What should we do?
Just be ready.
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Interview with Caren Wilcox, Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for REE - Duration: 35:55.
Today is Thursday, April 14, 2016.
I'm interviewing Caren Wilcox who recently
retired as a Senior Advisor to the
Under Secretary for Research Education and
Economics, Dr. Catherine Woteki.
I'm Susan Fugate, head of Special Collections at the
National Ag Library and an employee of the USDA for
over 39 years.
We are in the studios of the USDA's Creative Media
and Broadcast Center in Washington D.C.
Caren, please introduce yourself and provide us
with a brief biography?
Well I'm Karen Wilcox and, C-A-R-E-N-W-I-L-C-O-X and
I like to say I have a long and checkered career
but mostly it's been in the area of food and
agriculture for almost 40 years.
I began many years ago by happenstance going to work
for Nestle in Switzerland and that led me to a job
later in my life with Hershey Foods where I was
the Director of Government Relations for 18 years.
I knew that change should come in my life after 18 years.
I don't think anybody should have a job for
longer than that.
And I went in August 1992 to Little Rock, Arkansas
where I served in the Clinton Campaign as the
Deputy Director for Business Outreach.
I came back to Washington and served at the White
House for two and a half years and eventually
became Deputy Under Secretary for Food
Safety here at USDA during the Clinton
Administration.
That was a very exciting time for Food Safety
because as some know early in the Clinton
Administration, we had a very difficult incident on
the West Coast where Jack in the Box had a terrible
food safety accident and a number of children died
and there was a reform of the food safety system for
meat and poultry inside of USDA and we led the HACCP
implementation during that time.
After serving in the Clinton Administration, I
went to The Hill and I ran the Safety Caucus for
Representative DeLauro and when she was ranking
member of the ag approps and became the head of the
Organic Trade Association.
I've tried to retire a couple of times and after
the second try, Dr. Woteki came back to USDA and I
agreed to come in and help her so that's the long and
short of my career.
I enjoy living in Washington but I've lived
most of my life otherwise in Pennsylvania.
Describe the path that brought you to work for
REE and share why you made the decision to join REE?
Well the decision to come back was not very
difficult actually because I knew Dr. Woteki very well.
She and I had served in office before and had a
very, very good professional and personal
relationship.
So I don't think I would have,
I wouldn't have come back into government from
retirement to work for just anybody,
certainly not somebody I didn't know.
But I knew that I could help her by coming in and
handling a lot of projects and advisory work that I
could do for her and help her to be as effective as
she could be.
I, people have asked me what the job was and
sometimes I answer by saying my job is to watch
her back.
What were some of the challenges and issues
you've faced in your career with USDA in
particular with REE?
Well I think the biggest challenges especially when
you come in from a long career in the business and
the private sector is to learn about how the
government works from the inside and to learn to
work with the career staff who are really,
really professional but many people outside of
course don't understand that and sometimes don't
respect that.
So that was a big thing for me to learn.
The other thing I think I learned was to ask for
legal advice when I needed it and not all appointees
or senior career staff do that but it's very
important to understand what legal ground you're
on or not on.
To know how to read the regs and the law and then
to try to make that work and
so those were challenges.
There have been some other challenges of the
differences between the Administrations,
of the Obama Administration has
administered the government in a way very
different from the Clinton Administration and I,
when I came back, even though I was not a
political appointee, I had to learn the different
modes of operation and they're both very valid
but you have to figure them out.
What would you say were the most significant
turning points in your career?
Well I was thinking about that question and probably
the going to work for Nestle which was
happenstance was the most significant because it led
me into the food and agriculture arena and
before that I thought I was going to be in
international education and I had worked for an
international education organization in New York
before I went to Switzerland to work and
they had some people that had worked for Nestle and
that was why I went to Nestle.
So it was really serendipity but it did
lead me to begin to understand the food and ag area.
I grew up in the city although my uncle and
cousins and my great grandfather were all in
agriculture.
I wasn't directly raised in, on a farm or in ag.
How do you view your work at USDA and particularly
in REE?
Well I think acting as an advisor to the
Under Secretary has been valuable to her.
Sometimes she and I have learned that we,
she is an exceptional scientist,
a member of the National Academy of Sciences and I
am more of a political scientist and actually I
have a degree in international relations.
So we've learned that we see things in different
ways and bring, and I think I bring some other
value to what she is thinking about and because
I've worked a long, long time in food science and
the food science areas, were important in my work
at Hershey, I can grasp where she wants to go and
then try to figure out some of the policy modes
that we can use to get there.
So that's been important and trying to have a big
picture of how we can communicate about science
has been important and a big challenge so we can
get into that a little bit more but those have been
big challenges.
Did you position as Executive Director of the
Organic Trade Association help in your role as
Special Assistant of Policy and Program
Planning in REE?
I do think that being head of OTA was helpful when I
came back in the USDA.
I had in that job to come to really understand the
organic agricultural and production areas and to
lead them in some new directions but when I came
here we had the AC21 which is an advisory committee
on both biotech and organic and their roles
and I was active in that for a couple of years and
I helped with communicating with the
organic members of that committee to try to
explain where we were and how we could move forward
on some of these conflicting areas because
the Secretary wanted very much to find a middle
ground to have both elements of agriculture be
successful.
So yes, I do think it was helpful.
Serving as the first Deputy Under Secretary for
Food Safety must have given you insights into
the work with the REE leadership.
What was one project or maybe two you had as a
Deputy Under Secretary for Food Safety that had an
impact on your advisory work in REE?
Well we had when we were in Food Safety we had an
emphasis on what research we needed to have done to
enhance food safety.
So we were already working on a list of projects that
would be helpful that both ARS and the Land Grants
could do.
So I had some understanding of both ARS
and to a lesser extent the Land Grants activities
because of Food Safety.
I also did some consulting work for some of the Land
Grants after the Clinton Administration.
So I understood how some of them operated but I
think that it became important for me to
interact with the people in REE who were doing both
food safety and some of the risk work because we
had done a lot of risk assessment in food safety
and we had depended on ERS to help us with that work.
So those were all important things.
And I also, of course we also did a lot of work
with FDA and CDC when we were in Food Safety and
REE does a lot of coordinating work with FDA
and CDC and I was involved in quite a bit of that.
Is there one project or perhaps two in REE that
was particularly important to you?
Well over five years there were several so...
Share them all.
...I wouldn't say one or two.
Initially, of course I came to do the 150th
Anniversary of the Department and REE was
very aware that the anniversary was coming and
some other parts of the Department were not as
aware so we sort of had to lead the way towards that
anniversary celebration and of course one of the
things we did was to cooperate with the
Association, Public and Land Grant Universities to
create a bit segment of the Smithsonian Folk Life
Festival and lots of universities participated
in that, they brought in their accomplishments
and their histories.
USDA especially wanted to be sure that the
Historically Black Colleges and the Tribal
Colleges and the Hispanic speaking institutions
could, Hispanic serving institutions could
participate and so we provided Smithsonian with
some money to be sure that those institutions could
come with the 1860s which are the big predominant
Land Grants.
So that was really important.
It was a great experience.
I think we all learned a lot.
I learned about the Ag Explorers from you and
that's been a continuing interest of mine.
I hope it will be an interest for the future.
And so we got through that,
that took about a year and a half of my initial work
to pull that together but at the same time I was
working on communications and some special projects.
The end of my service certainly,
the last two and a half years I would say it was
taken up with a lot of work on anti-microbial
resistance which we did with the White House and
with USDA and with HHS and at that time I was working
with the Office of the Chief Scientist on how to
present One Health as a good concept in
agriculture and health and food and that was not
without its controversial aspects.
We had developed and started to develop a plan
for One Health and for AMR very early in Dr. Woteki's
Administration and we were a little ahead of the
White House and that's an important thing for
history to, since we're doing this interview,
to understand because politically if you get
ahead of where people are you have to let them catch
up especially in a bureaucracy.
So we had to sort of write our plan and have it ready
and then work like beavers with the White House to
have their plan and eventually we were able to
bring out our plan once theirs was well on its way
to public discussion.
Another project that was very important and I think
continues to be important was what we called the
Unified Message.
Pretty early in my coming back to USDA, we realized
that we had not been funded when we were not
being funded appropriately but we didn't quite
realize how bad it was compared to other
scientific agencies of the U.S. government and working
with the AAAS who did a survey of all the science
agencies and their funding,
we got a comparative chart and I asked for that chart
to be put into a graphic format also.
We called it the Swoop Chart because what it
showed was that agricultural research in
all its forms both for the Land Grants and
ARS and ERS and NASS was a little thin blue line at
the bottom and all of the other science agencies had
swooped up in the last 20 years.
Some of them receive triple or quadruple the
funding that ag research receives.
That led to some discussion in the ag
community and the industry about why we have not been
successful on The Hill and that's emerging as what's
called the Unified Message because what's happened in
the past is that each little group has gone to
The Hill and asked for their extra half million
or maybe a million but they didn't,
they tried to cut off other areas to get their
little million because they were always looking
at the pie as being stable and not growing, whereas
all the other science agencies of course had not
accepted that as realistic and had swooped up and so
we're now at a position where through the Unified
Message we're reaching some consensus about how
we can talk about the importance of ag research
and how it can be funded as a whole and
productively funded.
So that's been an important project and it's
still going on.
The group is still working on developing consensus
towards a Unified Message and Dr. Woteki and I were
very involved in that.
So I think those were a number of the projects
I've worked on.
I think you've covered some of this but talk
about your work to develop funding sources and
advisory boards for ag research and how you succeeded?
Well the Unified Message has been one of the things
we've worked at and we did come back from the very
bad sequestration cuts.
We were able to get some publicity about why we
should come back.
We also were able to get the foundation which I
forgot to say was a big accomplishment.
The Food and Agriculture Research Foundation was a
concept that Dr. Woteki wanted to have very early
in her stay back here.
FDA has their own foundation, CDC has
their own foundation, NIH has their own foundation and
we did not have any way to productively interact with
the private non-profit sector and the foundations
and kind of try to coordinate our research
and receive multiple sources of research money
and so in the Farm Bill, in the 2014 Farm Bill we
were able to get a foundation formed and
miraculously because we actually were not allowed
to lobby it, 200 million dollars was put in to that
foundation and then we worked really hard to get
it set up because we knew we had a very good work
group headed by Ven Narella
to set it up internally because USDA was required
to create the corporation that would operate the
foundation and we knew we had people on The Hill who
actually wanted to claw back the 200 million.
So we were in a great hurry and we made it and
two days after the organization was
incorporated, the money was transferred to its bank account.
So we were successful in holding on to it and
they're very active now and figuring out where
they're going to go with that money which must be
matched by the private sector in order to be
effective but they are now a private foundation
although we have four ex officio
members on the board of that foundation.
It's clear that your work in strategic advisory and
planning includes making the best appointments and
hires for critical positions.
Do you have some insights that you'd like to share
with us on what you look for in individuals and
maybe an example or two of how you made a very
successful choice?
Well I was involved in the preliminary work on a lot
of the hirings.
Of course I was not a hiring official so I
didn't make the final decisions on those things
but the first one I was involved in is that
unexpectedly the head of NIFA decided to resign and
we had to enter a new search for a new NIFA director.
Dr. Woteki has actually and she'll probably talk
about it when she does an interview,
hired now all four administrators or
directors of the REE agencies and that probably
a first.
And so I was involved sometimes in the review of
the initial or final look at some of these people.
I was more involved in the clearances for the NAREEE
Board and GRAC, which is the Genetic Resources
Advisory Council,
and, you know, some of the advisory boards, AC21,
where I was sometimes asked for suggested names
and we would see if they would want to serve
because they had to apply to serve but you can
encourage people to serve and so I was involved with that.
My basic theory about hiring has always been
that you should look for the best talent you can
get and integrity.
I think if you can get a sense of the person's
integrity you'll have a sense of how they're going
to serve long term and then when you have a group
of people or maybe three or,
two or three candidates, when we can only hire so
often in the federal government now I really
think it's important to choose the absolute best
person you can get.
It may be somebody that's been outside of USDA and I
don't think it's, I don't think it's wrong to want
experience.
In fact, one of the positions that I did share
the search for, we did choose the USDA person
because of experience but in another one where I was
on the committee looking at it, we had someone who
had a lot of experience but not inside USDA and we
had a person with USDA experience and it was
clear that it would be best to get the person
with the most sophisticated experience
and background and we did.
So you have to make the most of any hire you make.
You can't just say oh, you know, he's somebody,
he or she is somebody's friend and they'll do a
good job so bring them on because we don't have that
luxury.
If we ever did, we don't have it now.
Is there anything else you would like to share with
us or discuss at this point that you were not
asked during the interview?
Well if I can look at my little notes here maybe
I'll remember something.
Well one of the, one of the things that I also did
was to work with a lot of the outside groups and try
to do quite a bit of outreach and that's an
important aspect for us to try to bring in people who
have new knowledge for us to understand or represent
important constituencies.
Dr. Woteki always does a meeting after the budget
presentation with constituents,
stakeholders and that's not something that many
other people do.
We did it in Food Safety.
We had a big outreach in Food Safety.
We had to because it was so controversial and we
had two meetings, major meetings that happened
monthly probably.
One with the consumer groups to hear their
concerns and the other with the industry to hear
their concerns and sometimes we made them all
sit in the same room and talk to each other which
was important.
They didn't always like it but it was important to do that.
And so we've tried to continue that outreach and
held big public meetings to bring in comment,
did that on plant breeding for instance that was very
important.
Started to be important because the organic
community was so upset that they thought we
weren't doing any plant breeding for organic and
it developed into a big study and action plan for
plant breeding that covers organic,
conventional and biotech plant breeding and what
can be done about it.
So those kinds of things can develop from
constituents.
If you have an open mind and they bring you
important issues, you can learn from them and maybe
develop solutions.
Certainly that's what happened with AMR,
antimicrobial resistance because in the beginning,
certain parts of the industry were in total
denial about having to address antimicrobial
resistance and we had to figure out, with our
scientists ways, to have them understand that we
could help them by developing alternatives to
antimicrobials that would be effective and would
protect the public health of humans but also animals
because the animals can become resistant to
antimicrobial and then you can have a bunch of
sick animals.
And but that took a lot of work both internally in
USDA and externally with our constituencies and
stakeholders.
Another really exciting program that's just
starting but we really have welcomed them is that
the soil scientists have figured out their doing
what they call the microbiome research and it's
about all the things in the soil,
the living things in the soil that we don't know
anything about and how they can influence
the growth of plants and that's something we've
introduced into the Department.
We don't have funding to help them right now but
it's a part of the outreach.
They feel free to come in and explain it and then
Dr. Woteki is, understands how important it is but
that means then we can try to advocate for research
in those areas.
So REE is an exciting place.
Well I thank you for sharing your history
although I'm sure it's a very small part of your
story and I wish you the best in your next venture.
Well thank you Susan, thank you so much.
I've enjoyed working with you as you know.
We've, I hope we'll get to write a book about the Ag
Explorers that's one of the things on my next,
on my agenda and I think would could excite young
people because that's one thing we wanted to do is
to find a way to attract more young people into ag
and food.
We have about a 20,000 job gap every year that we're
not filling and we, if we're all going to eat in
the future or if my grandchildren are going to
eat in the future we have to explain how exciting it
can be and I think the Ag Explorers could help with that.
And I have a nephew who is sort of,
I don't know if I told you this,
who is sort of an Ag Explorer himself now
because he was in the Peace Corp in Paraguay in
an ag area and now he's in Brazil working with some
tribes on ag development and so I think we could
maybe get young people excited by the history and
the current things that people can do so...
I agree, looking forward to it.
Yes, it'd be fun.
-Okay, good. - Thank you.
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Pre-Spring Gardening Tips - Duration: 2:08.
SHY NOW ON WXII --
>>> NOW ON WXII12 NEWS THE
COLD WINTER MONTHS COULD HAVE
YOU DOING THINGS TO GET YOU
READY FOR THE WARMER DAYS
AHEAD.
I AM HERE WITH THE FORSYTH
COTY COOPERATIVE EXTENSION.
TELL ME ABOUT WHAT PEOPLE CAN
BE DOING NOW.
>> IT IS ACTUALLY A GREAT TIME
TO PRUNE YOUR TREES SO ONCE
THE LEAVES ALL FALL DOWN IT IS
A LOT EASIER TO SEE THE
BRANCHES.
ONE THING YOU CAN DO IS CUTOFF
THE THREE D'S, DEAD, DISEASED
OR DAMAGED YOU CAN CUT THAT
F.
THE OTHER THING YOU CAN DO IS
CONTROL THE SIZE OF YOUR
PLANTS.
>> AND HOW CAN YOU TELL IF IT
IS DEFINITELY DD?
>> USUALLY THE BRANCHES DON'T
HAVE BUDS AND THEY ARE DARKER
IN COL.
YOU MIGHT GET NOTICED THAT
THERE ARE NO LEAVES ON IT WHEN
IT WAS ALIVE.
>> CAN YOU SHOW US HOW YOU
WOULD PRUNE SOMETHING LIKE
THIS?
>> YOU WANT TO GO TO A NODE
WHICH IS ANYWHERE THERE IS A
BUD THAT WILL BE A LEAF OR A
BRANCH COMING OFF.
EITHER YOU CAN CUT IT RIGHT TO
THAT NODE LIKE THIS -- SORRY.
>> WE GOT IT.
>> OR YOU CAN TAKE THE BRANCH
TO WHERE THERE IS ANOTHER
BRANCH COMING OUT.
YOU WANT TO CUT AS CLOSE AS
POSSIBLE.
>> YOU HAVE EVENTS GOING ON
TODAY AND YOU HAVE SOME GOING
THIS WEEKEND.
YOU HAVE A LOT GOING ON,
RIGHT?
>> WE HAVE AN INTEREST MEETING
FOR ANYONE INTERESTED IN BEING
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IT COVERS ALL KINDS OF THINGS
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SO FROM PRUNING IF YOU WANT TO
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CALL UST 336-703-2850.
>> THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.
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Stretches for your back - The Back Coach - Penn State Spine Center - Duration: 3:12.
[ Music ]
>> The exercises or stretches a person does to alleviate back or neck pain might be different
from person to person, so it's important to figure out which exercises alleviate your
pain.
This will take trial and error to discover the most effective exercises.
Most people with back or neck pain have what we call a directional preference.
A directional preference is when the back or neck responds well to stretches or exercises
done by repeatedly moving in the same direction.
We refer to these movements as flexion, which is bending forward, and extension, which is
bending backward.
To make it easier, I'll just say forward or backward.
As physical therapists, we take patients through repeated motions to see how they affect their
pain.
Our goal is to focus on moving in the direction that reduces and eventually eliminates pain,
while then minimizing motions in the opposite direction.
People typically spend much more time in their daily lives bending forward rather than backwards,
picking up objects, reaching for things, hunched posture, et cetera.
Given this, most people's directional preference will be bending backward in the opposite direction.
The possible exception to this rule involves elderly patients, who often respond better
to bending forward.
Prone press ups are an example of exercises for someone with a backwards directional preference.
To complete a prone press up, lie on your stomach with your hands under your shoulders.
Use your arm strength to lift your chest up into the air.
Keep your hips pressed to the table as you lift yourself up.
Hold this for one second.
Slowly lower back down.
Do these in sets of 10 repetitions.
As a general rule, you should feel better after a set or two of these exercises.
If you feel worse after prone press ups, then you may be moving in the wrong direction and
should try exercises in which you bend forward.
Once your directional preference is established, then you establish a set of exercises and
the frequency needed to reduce and eventually eliminate your pain.
Some people, though, especially the older patient, won't tolerate exercises in which
you bend backward, like prone press ups.
These patients may benefit from repeated motions in the opposite direction.
Typically, we'll ask this group to sit on the edge of a chair with their knees shoulder
width apart and bend forward between their knees.
Again, we'll start with 10 repetitions and then determine a frequency throughout the
day needed to eliminate your pain.
After you determine whether you benefit from exercises that focus on bending backward or
forward, it's important to establish a routine with these exercises.
For many people suffering from back pain, coupling directional exercises with hip stretching
is very beneficial.
Stretching combined with good posture and lifestyle changes, like losing excess weight
and quitting nicotine products can also improve your health and back or neck pain significantly.
Visit www.thebackcoach.org for more information about your back health.
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Eyes Need Time (Journey Out of the Cave Song) - Duration: 2:25.
Okie dokie!
I have like an itch on my foot which is weird.
Okay-blah-blah...
Get all those stumbles out before you start singing 'cause you do NOT want to mess up!
Okay!
[music]
In order to find my own way
I had to break free from the chains
Learn something about the flame of reality
Then follow the path to the cave opening
Now that the oppression is over
Gimme a second to just look around
Eyes need time to adjust to the light
Yeah, I need some time to regain the use of my sight
The sunny rays are blinding me
Eyes need time before they can see
[music]
I'm overwhelmed and can't get a grasp on
How all this fresh air and sunshine is feeling like divinity
I can breath, I can dream, I can be who I'm meant to be
But I'm still finding it difficult to see
But there's no rush
Blindness isn't grave
After all, I just spent 18 years in a cave
Eyes need time to adjust to the light
Yeah, I need some time to regain the use of my sight
The sunny rays are blinding me
Eyes need time before they can see
[music]
Yay!
Okay...um...bye!
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'I've been looking forward to it:' Morning snowfall not all bad for Butler County residents - Duration: 1:52.
SHOVELS.
DAVID KAPLAN WITH WHY SOME WERE
FINALLY GLAD TO SEE WINTER
DAVID
DAVID: THINGS ARE FLOWING
SMOOTHLY IN BUTLER COUNTY AND
THAT'S THE CASE FOR THE MORNING
COMMUTE.
PENNDOT SAYING THE WAY THE SNOW
FELL HELPED THEM OUT.
SOME BUTLER COUNTY RESIDENTS
SAY, HEY, IT ISN'T ALL BAD.
>> I WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO IT.
WE DIDN'T HAVE ANY FOR
CHRISTMAS SO THIS IS NICE.
I WON'T SAY THAT AFTER I SHOVEL
FOR WHILE.
>> TERRY JUMPS IN TO HELP.
>> JUMP IN TO HELP AND A COUPLE
OF THE FOLKS ARE OLDER FOLKS,
AND IT'S NICE TO HELP THEM OUT.
>>
DAVID: THEY'RE IMPRESSED WITH
THE CITY.
>> THEY'RE ON THE ROADWAYS
DAVID: CREWS GOT AN ASSIST WITH
MOTHER NATURE AND THERE WERE
LITTLE PROBLEMS BEFORE THE
MORNING COMMUTE.
A SNOWFALL ABOVE THE MORNING
RUSH ALLOWED HIS CREWS A
CHANCE.
>> IT GIVES OUR TRUCKS IS
CHANCE TO GET ON THE SECONDARY
ROADWAYS AND GET SOMETHING TO
EAT QUICK AND A LOT OF TIMES
THEY'RE OUT A STRAIGHT SHIFT OF
12 HOURS AND THEY DON'T HAVE
LUNCH
DAVID: THIS ROUND FALLING NOW
IS EXPECTED TO LET UP SOME, I
WHICH MEANS CREWS WORKING 12
HOURS GET AHEAD OF IT
DAVID: IT'S THROWING EVERYTHING
AT YOU.
>> YES, IT IS
DAVID: PENNDOT EXPECTS SOME
RAIN THIS AFTERNOON MIXED IN
WITH SNOW IN PARTS OF BUTLER
COUNTY, BUT EVEN STILL, THEY'RE
ENCOURAGING DRIVERS TO TAKE
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UCLA study IDs a promising new treatment for alcoholism - Duration: 1:25.
We want to know whether this medication
may actually reduce cravings for alcohol;
whether it might change how you feel when you
do drink alcohol. And to get those answers
we bring them into the laboratory,
we administer the medication for a period
of time and then present our patients
with alcohol and record how they respond to alcohol.
A lot of people drink to feel good while
medications that help people experience
less of the rewarding effects of alcohol
ultimately can help them quit.
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