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IN THIS ISSUE... ...Word from the
Associate Director - Extension and Applied Research WORD FROM THE
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR - EXTENSION AND APPLIED RESEARCH Following is from Dr. Susan Peterson, K-State Director of Governmental Relations: CONTACT WITH LEGISLATORS/LEGISLATIVE
COMMITTEES Dear Campus Community, Kansas Legislature The Kansas Board of Regents policy
states: I have been designated by President
Wefald to notify the Board of Regents on his behalf. Kansas Federal Delegation Thanks for your continued support. Dr. Susan Peterson
NOTE FROM DR. CHOLICK
TECHBYTES
TECHNOLOGY SERIES: TAKING YOUR DIGITAL PHOTOS FROM THE CAMERA TO THE WEB
TOTAL COMPENSATION SUMMARY STATEMENTS
AVAILABLE The 2006 Total Compensation Summary Statement shows wages paid in 2006 (paycheck issue dates January 13, 2006 - December 29, 2006). The statement does not replace W-2 forms or other income tax related information and is not intended for use in tax preparation. For additional information regarding HRIS Employee Self Service, see http://www.ksu.edu/hr/selfserv.htm .--Division of Human Resources
FREE PRE-RETIREMENT SEMINARS KPERS has developed a complete listing of
seminar dates and locations at their web site - All seminars begin at 6 p.m.
Pre-registration is required. You may pre-register by one of the
following means: When registering for a seminar, KPERS
will need the following information: Questions should be addressed to the KSU Division of Human Resources at 785-532-6277. --Joe Younger
CONGRATULATIONS TO JILL MILLER AND
GERRY SNYDER Congratulations to these two outstanding members of IET, and the Department of Communication, for being honored as among the best IT professionals at K-State! --Larry Jackson ljackson@ksu.edu
RETIREMENT CELEBRATION FOR GARY
KILGORE
KANSAS AG STATISTICS WEEKLY CROP
WEATHER REPORTING An individual within each county/district office should be assigned the responsibility to provide this report. Your individual reports are the backbone for the crop weather reports from KASS. I encourage you to be faithful in completing the weekly reports on a timely basis. Some offices identify a person to be responsible for the report, plus a calendar check person to assure the reports are submitted on time. If you have any technical questions about the process, please contact KASS at 1-800-258-4564. --Pat Murphy jmurphy@ksu.edu
KANSAS 4-H
CURRICULUM TASK FORCE - APPLICATIONS NEEDED BEFORE MARCH 1ST!! KEAA 4-H committee identified 4-H curriculum as one of three priority areas----now we need applications for this important task. We need older 4-H members or college students, adult volunteers and agents to apply by March 1st. Look for an application under "What's Hot" on the Kansas 4-H website at www.Kansas4-H.org . --Jim Adams jadams@oznet.ksu.edu
KANSAS 4-H MEMBERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
INITIATIVE Those three groups include the Membership Opportunities Ad Hoc Committee, Cloverbuds Task Force and Communication Task Force. Position descriptions for each group has been posted at www.Kansas4-H.org under "What's Hot." Applications are due March 1 in the State 4-H Office. The selection committee will be comprised of Shawna Mitchell, Chair of State 4-H Advisory Committee; Rick Miller, Chair of the Membership Opportunities Ad Hoc Committee; Stacey Warner, Operations Leader; Pam Van Horn, Chair of Cloverbuds Task Force; Justin Wiebers, Chair of Communication Task Force; and Pat McNally, State 4-H Leader. Upon approval by Fred Cholick, Dean and Director; and Daryl Buchholz, Associate Director; the composition of these groups will be announced to the system in early March. Mark Fowler, Director of Technical Services, International Grains Program, will serve as the Facilitator for the Ad Hoc Committee. Mark is a Lyon County 4-H Alumni and a 4-H Community Club Leader and 4-H parent in Riley County. He has had extensive facilitation experiences both nationally and internationally with a diversity of groups, programs and organizations. IMPORTANT: In consultation with Mark, there is a change in the date for the first meeting. The Ad Hoc Committee will now convene on Wednesday, March 28, 6 p.m. for supper and an informal team building session that evening at Rock Springs. The meeting will conclude with lunch on Friday, March 30. This change has been added to the information posted on the website. Please share this information with relevant individuals in your local Extension Unit. --Pat McNally pmcnally@ksu.edu
CECD TO HOST OPEN
HOUSE In addition, the Engagement Incentive Grant Project applications are due to the Center for Engagement and Community Development office by the end of the day, March 1, 2007. Proposal guidelines are available at www.ksu.edu/cecd/funding . All persons considering submitting an engagement incentive grant proposal are encouraged to contact Dr. David Procter or Dan Kahl at cecd@ksu.edu if they have questions or wish proposal guidance . --Dan Kahl cecd@ksu.edu
Publications Unit designers in the Department of Communications assisted with more than 500 projects last fiscal year. The projects ranged anywhere from simple scans and minor revisions to technical drawings or complete design and layout of notebooks or other publications that can total dozens or hundreds of pages. Design projects proceed more smoothly if we can "direct traffic" with project assignments. Because of the high demand and limited human resources, we ask that clients avoid contacting the designer directly until the project is assigned. For assistance with UNNUMBERED or local publications or other design projects, please contact publications coordinator Nancy Zimmerli-Cates, nancyz@ksu.edu , or 785-532-1148. Assignments are usually made by the next work day. While designer Bob Holcombe is away on sabbatical, Janie Dunstan will join designer Pat Hackenberg in assisting Department of Communications clients. Bob will return to the office July 1. Designs for publications intended to become part of the numbered K-State Research and Extension inventory system should continue to be handled through publications unit editors. --Nancy Zimmerli-Cates nancyz@ksu.edu
ATTENTION KAE4-HA MEMBERS! USDA PROGRAM OF DISTINCTION TRAINING SET FOR MARCH 5 USDA/CSREES and National 4-H Council will be conducting a Breeze webmeeting informational session for Extension professionals to learn more about how to submit a Program of Distinction and an application for an Annie E. Casey 4-H Families Count Family Strengthening Award. The information session will be held on March 5, 2007, from 12 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. CST. Registration is required as space is limited to 23 participants. To register for the session, please send an e-mail to Bianca Johnson, bjohnson@csrees.usda.gov . For questions about the content of the session, please contact Suzanne LeMenestrel, slemenestrel@CSREES.USDA.GOV . For more information about the Program of Distinction (POD) recognition process, please contact Elaine Johannes, ejohanne@ksu.edu , who is a national reviewer for POD. --Elaine Johannes
LIST OF CERTIFIED
LABORATORIES Although there may be other labs that can do a good job of testing
drinking water, without some third party certification or oversight,
that is difficult to document.
When any of these four critical conditions is missing, there is an increased risk of well contamination and unsafe water. If you have questions or comments to help improve private wells so the owners and users can have safe water, please let us know. --Morgan Powell well@ksu.edu
FNP/JUNIOR MASTER
GARDENER WORKSHOPS * Wednesday, March 7, in Lawrence at the Douglas County Extension Office, 2110 Harper * Thursday, March 8, in Chanute at the Southeast Area Extension Office, 308 W. 14th Street * Tuesday, March 13, in Garden City at the Southwest Area Extension Office, 4500 E. Mary * Wednesday, March 14, in Colby at the Northwest Area Extension Office, 105 Experiment Farm Road Workshops will begin with registration at 9:30 a.m., opening remarks at 10 a.m., and conclude at 3 p.m. The registration fee of $15 will cover lunch and materials. Register online at http://www.4-h.ksu.edu . Click on the green “Register for 4-H Events” button. Registration deadline for all the JMG workshops is March 5. For more information, contact Evelyn Neier, Kansas JMG Coordinator, at 316-722-0932 or eneier@ksu.edu . --Evelyn Neier
SCAM ARTISTS
WARNING FOR MEETING AND TRAVEL PLANNERS The following company, National Travel Planners (out of Las Vegas supposedly), is a fraudulent company and should be avoided. When you register for tradeshows, this company somehow gets a contact person within your company and tells them that they are the official hotel booking agent for that tradeshow. They sound very official and will take hotel reservations over the phone and bill you for the rooms, usually by credit card. When the tradeshow attendee(s) arrive at the hotel, there are no such reservations. Your tradeshow attendees will then have to relocate to another hotel, if the hotel is full, or pay upfront for a room(s) they supposedly had. This is a "pirate" organization and, so far, AIB has not been able to reclaim the charges put on the company credit card. If you or others in your department or office usually make hotel reservations for meetings or tradeshows and National Travel Planners calls, realize these are "scam artists" and hang up the phone. --Steven Graham sgraham@k-state.edu
MEETING WITH THE NOBEL LAUREATE FOR PEACE Our work on providing financial support to rural poor brought us together in meetings to share ideas, project progress, and field visits. I was working on establishing village cooperatives within the Ganges-Kobadak Irrigation and multipurpose project. The village based farmers cooperatives helped in digging field channels for water distribution to individual plots. These farmer institutions also helped to establish cooperative banking for financial support for purchase of inputs, storing, and marketing of farm products. These also encouraged thrift savings to meet sudden financial needs. Professor Muhammad Yunus took a non-governmental approach as an individual while teaching economics in the Chittagong University. His emphasis was to provide micro-credit to the poorest of the poor, especially women who are the most neglected in the society. Professor Yunus became the "Banker to the Poor." He established Grameen Bank and introduced the concept of micro-credit. He espouses the idea that availability of credit should be a basic human right. Grameen Bank provides micro-credit - loan without co-lateral to a member of a group that will collectively ensure repayment of loan by its member. Micro-credit became a successful approach around the world for financial solvency of the poor and disadvantaged. Poverty and economic disadvantage breeds mistrust and causes societal instability around the world. Professor Muhammad Yunus has embarked on removing poverty around the world. Recognition of a successful and practical implementation of an economic principle for poverty alleviation around the world has brought him many accolades and ultimately the Nobel Prize for Peace. One may read his book "Banker to the Poor." --Mahbub Alam malam@ksu.edu
MIGS...interested counties/districts are being recruited for the pilot
process to begin October 1, 2007. Interested counties/districts may
complete the application for an opportunity to be part of the pilot
process. Applications are due, March 1, 2007 to Pam Van Horn.
Applications may be located at
http://www.kansas4-h.org . To
learn more about MIGS, check out the website! --Pam Van Horn
pvanhorn@ksu.edu
VIEW THE MASTER SCHEDULE OR ADD NEW ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS Submit corrections to previously submitted items to jzarger@ksu.edu . DATES TAKEN FROM THE MASTER SCHEDULE FOR FEBRUARY 28, 2007, THROUGH MARCH 6, 2007: ADDITION: Sunday, February 25, through Sunday, March 4 Wednesday, February 28 Thursday, March 1 Thursday, March 1, through Friday, March 2 Friday, March 2 Friday, March 2, through Saturday, March 3 Saturday, March 3 .... Shawnee County Livestock Judging Clinic, Topeka (Kansas Expocentre), Statewide, 12:00 noon, Leroy Russell lrussell@oznet.ksu.edu .... Wichita Garden Show Horticulture Judging Contest, Wichita, KS, Statewide, Beth Hinshaw bhinshaw@oznet.ksu.edu .... Ellis 4-H Shooting Sports Match, Hays, Statewide, Gary Gerhard ggerhard@ksu.edu .... Pottawatomie/Riley 4-H Shooting Sports Match, Manhattan, Statewide, Gary Gerhard ggerhard@ksu.edu Tuesday, March 6
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