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Vol. 9, No. 6 December 17, 2002
IN THIS ISSUE...
...Retirement
Incentive Program
...OzNet Holiday Schedule
...Time to Change Your eID
...Make Your Power of Youth Pledges Now!
...Please Take Survey to Help Us Track Conversations
Activity
...Miami County Hosting Horse Quiz Bowl Contest
...Ag Labor Management Conference
..."Local Food for Local People"
...Children's Advocacy Day
...Spring KAE4-HA Meeting
...Publications/Production Services Update
...Master Schedule
...Tuesday
Letter Archives
RETIREMENT INCENTIVE PROGRAM
In preparation for budget reductions next year, K-State Research and
Extension is offering a retirement incentive program for full-time, ranked
faculty with at least a 50 percent appointment in K-State Research and
Extension on state and federal appropriated funds. Individuals must be
eligible for full, regular retirement by June 30, 2003, to participate.
The incentive amount is one year's salary spread over two fiscal years
(not including benefits), in exchange for an agreement to fully retire by
the end of this fiscal year. Eligible individuals will receive details of
the program by mail in the next few days. --Marc Johnson mjohnson@oznet.ksu.edu
OZNET HOLIDAY SCHEDULE
A reduced holiday work schedule (December 24, 2002, through January 1,
2003) is in effect for most people on campus. OzNet services, including
e-mail and web functions, will be available but operating in
"unattended" mode during this time. This means that should there
be any interruption in service, IET staff may not be readily available. If
these services are interrupted, please contact IET staff by first calling
785-532-6270. Otherwise, call us in the following order should you need
assistance: Larry Havenstein, 785-537-0131; Will Baldwin, 785-537-4346;
Roger Terry, 785-537-2245; Richard Wear, 785-456-7192. No one will be
available on December 25, 2002 or January 1, 2003. Technical support staff
(students) will not be available from December 24 through January 1.
Normal operations will resume January 2, 2003. --Roger Terry rterry@oznet.ksu.edu
TIME TO CHANGE YOU eID
The January 6th no-charge period for changing eIDs for faculty and staff
is coming soon. However, before a person can change their eID, they need
to know their current eID and the password associated with it. If you do
not know the password for your current eID or haven't changed your
password for your eID since September, you will need to re-activate your
eID by going to http://www.ksu.edu/activateid/
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For more details on this process, please see http://accounts.oznet.ksu.edu/keas/
. --Kathryn Burton kburton@oznet.ksu.edu
MAKE YOUR POWER OF YOUTH PLEDGES NOW!
With twenty-two days to go until the end of the year, 4-H is still shy of
its goal of five million hours pledged for the Power of YOUth Pledge
campaign. The community service campaign has logged 4,033,600 pledge hours
so far. It is not too late to pledge hours for 2002 to the campaign at www.4hcentennial.org/powerofyouth/pledge/page1.asp
. If you have already pledged your hours and fulfilled your pledge, please
make sure that you have marked your pledges off as complete! If you don't
update your pledge when you have fulfilled it, you won't appear on your
county pledge list so that you can receive the recognition you deserve!
To update your pledge, log in at www.4hcentennial.org/powerofyouth/uppledge/login.asp
, using your e-mail address and the ID that was e-mailed to you when you
pledged. If you have any questions or have trouble logging in, please
contact Steven Graf at sgraf@fourhcouncil.edu
.
The Power of YOUth Pledge Campaign will accept pledge hours and fulfilled
pledges for 2002 until January 15, 2003. After that date, the 4-H
Centennial Web site will be frozen as a capsule of the centennial year,
and no more 2002 Power of YOUth Pledges or fulfillment updates will be
taken. If you have been collecting hours for large groups, and you need
help logging them into the Power of YOUth Pledge database or updating the
pledges you've already logged, call Steven Graf at 301-961-2993 or e-mail
him at sgraf@fourhcouncil.edu
. A new 4-H community service pledge site will debut in early January
2003. --Ann Domsch adomsch@oznet.ksu.edu
PLEASE TAKE
SURVEY TO HELP US TRACK CONVERSATIONS ACTIVITY
A few weeks ago, we e-mailed through Clover Corner News a survey
requesting information about any activity surrounding the local, state,
and national conversations that has been occurring in your counties
since the first phase of the conversation process culminated in the
National Conversation on Youth Development in the 21st Century. We are
asking you to take a moment and answer a few questions . Please visit http://survey.n4h.org/Survey.asp?s=01033240194179
to take the survey. It is important that we track these
experiences, so that we can report our progress to local, state and
national leaders. --Ann Domsch adomsch@oznet.ksu.edu
MIAMI COUNTY
HOSTING HORSE QUIZ BOWL CONTEST
Miami County is hosting a Horse Quiz Bowl
Contest on Saturday, January 18, at the Paola Middle School in Paola,
Kansas. Registration begins at 9:30 and the contest is at 10 a.m. Ten
questions should be sent by December 30, for groups attending. For more
information, e-mail Ccoffman@oznet.ksu.edu
. --Crystal Coffman
AG LABOR MANAGEMENT
CONFERENCE
K-State will be hosting the third installment of the Employee Management
for Production Agriculture Conference on January 23-24, 2003 at the
Kansas City Airport Embassy Suites.
K-State faculty, staff, and grad students
can register for the conference at a reduced rate of $100 per person
which includes all meals and materials. For more information about the
conference (sessions, speakers, hotel and registration information)
please visit www.oznet.ksu.edu/employee
or call Sarah Fogleman at 620-431-1530. --Sarah L. Fogleman sfoglema@oznet.ksu.edu
"LOCAL
FOOD FOR LOCAL PEOPLE"
The FNP-EFNEP-FNHS Conference, "Local Food for Local People,"
will be February 11-13, at the K-State Alumni Center. The agenda and
registration information is on-line at www.oznet.ksu.edu/fnp
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Food, Nutrition, Health and Safety
faculty are invited to attend the conference this year. The first day
and a half is designed for FNP and EFNEP agents and their nutrition and
program assistants. The last half of the conference (1:30 on the 12th
through the last morning) is designed to include FNHS faculty whether or
not they are involved in FNP-EFNEP. Nutrition and program assistants in
FNP/EFNEP may choose to leave after lunch on the 12th or stay through
the whole conference. The registration fee is based on days attended.
For more information, contact Kathy
Walsten at 785-532-1676 or walsten@humec.ksu.edu
. --Kathy Walsten
CHILDREN'S
ADVOCACY DAY
Children's Advocacy Day, sponsored by Kansas Action for Children, is
Tuesday, February 18, 2003, at the Kansas Expocentre, Topeka.
Information and registration form are available at www.kac.org
. --Cathy Musick cmusick@oznet.ksu.edu
SPRING KAE4-HA
MEETING
The Kansas 4-H Agents' Spring Business Meeting and Idea Share will be
March 5, 10 a.m., at the Crosswind Conference Center, Hesston, KS. For a
detailed agenda, read the Prairie Professional or contact Cathy Musick
at cmusick@oznet.ksu.edu .
--Cathy Musick
PUBLICATIONS/PRODUCTION
SERVICES UPDATE
Campus Closed; Offices Take Inventory
The Kansas State University campus buildings will be closed December 25,
2002, through January 1, 2003. Campus offices -- including
Publications, the Duplicating Center, and the Distribution Center --
will reopen January 2, 2003. However, the Production Services offices
will conduct annual inventory January 2 through 8. Although clients may
place orders for printing or publications during that period, invoicing
and order fulfillment may be delayed. If your office has immediate
needs, please contact Greg LeValley for duplicating requests at glevalle@oznet.ksu.edu
, or 785-532-1158; or the Distribution Center for publications at orderpub@lists.oznet.ksu.edu
, or 785-532-5830. Please advise us of needs by December 19.
Deadfiled
The following publications have been deadfiled as printed materials. No
electronic files are available:
GT-329 Benefits of Conservation Tree and Shrub Plantings;
LG GT-329B Benefits of Conservation Tree and Shrub Plantings Poster.
Farm Management Guide Order Change
Six Farm Management Guides were not updated as indicated on the 2002
order form. These guides were:
MF-2359 Labor Standards for Nontraditional Kansas Crops;
MF-802 Crop Livestock Labor Standards by Size of Operation;
MF-670 Labor Standards for Forward Planning;
MF-489 Interpretation and Use of the Amortization Table;
MF-275a (Worksheet) Cashflow Projection for Operating Loan
Determination; and
MF-940 Livestock Building and Equipment Requirements.
If your office ordered any of the guides, they will not be sent
automatically with the rest of the order. To receive the latest copy of
each, please contact the Distribution Center by e-mail, orderpub@lists.oznet.ksu.edu
, telephone at 785-532-5830, or fax at 785-532-7938. Indicate which
guides are needed. We apologize for any inconvenience. --Nancy Zimmerli nancyz@oznet.ksu.edu
VIEW
THE MASTER SCHEDULE OR ADD NEW ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS .
Submit corrections to previously submitted items to jzarger@oznet.ksu.edu
.
Nothing scheduled for the week of
December 25, through December 31, 2002.
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