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Vol. 14, No. 21
April 8, 2008 IN THIS ISSUE... ...Word from the
Associate Director - Extension and Applied Research WORD FROM THE
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR - EXTENSION AND APPLIED RESEARCH You can find information on this and future opportunities for award nominations through the Employee Resources website. At this website, simply click on nominations for awards in the center section of the web page. Kansas needs at least one nomination for this prestigious award. If you have someone in mind you would like to see nominated, please contact me, dbuchhol@ksu.edu , and we can work together to organize the nomination. Deadline for nominations is June 2, 2008. The competition for this award is strong, and a creative nomination that truly captures the outstanding contributions of the nominee is needed to be competitive. If you'd like to post additional award nomination opportunities on this website, send your information to Martha Monihen, mmonihen@ksu.edu , in our office. --Daryl Buchholz dbuchhol@ksu.edu
CSREES CIVIL
RIGHTS REVIEW The following offices and departments will be visited by the review team: Riley County, Sedgwick County, Research Center at Hays, the School of Family Studies and Human Services and the Departments of Agricultural Economics, Animal Sciences and Industry, Human Nutrition, and Agronomy. In addition, the review team will be visiting with K-State Research and Extension administrators and their staff and directors of the K-State Affirmative Action and Human Resources Offices. The findings of the review will be shared with the K-State Research and Extension system when they are available. --Fred Cholick fcholick@ksu.edu HOW DO WE GROW 4-H? Wednesday, April 23 Highland Hotel and Convention Center 3017 W. 10th Great Bend, Kansas 9:30 a.m. Gathering 10:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. Extension Professionals who have a passion about the future of 4-H are encouraged to attend this open spaces/brain-storming meeting facilitated by Daryl Buchholz, Associate Director, Extension and Applied Research. The discussion will be driven by the question, “How Do We Grow 4-H?" All thoughts are welcomed as it will be your thoughts from the Extension Professionals that will guide the day’s process. Interested Extension Professionals are encouraged to register at www.kansas4h.org for the one day session at the Highland Hotel and Convention Center, Great Bend. In preparation for the one-day open spaces session, Extension Professionals are challenged to review their Extension Unit’s membership trends plus check the 2006-07 Kansas membership statistics available on the Kansas 4-H web page. This one-of-a-kind meeting is determined by the participants. Your attendance and participation is valued! “How Do We Grow 4-H” is sponsored by K-State Research and Extension, 4-H, and the Kansas 4-H Foundation. On-line registration is open until April 15. Cost is $10. Call Highland Hotel and Convention Center for reservations: 620-792-2431 or 866-212-7122. A block of rooms for April 22nd will be held until April 1st . $60 per room (no matter the number of occupants). --Pamela I. Van Horn pvanhorn@ksu.edu
WIND ENERGY SEMINARS Half-day seminars are set for the Garden City Wheatlands Hotel on May 13, Holiday Inn in Hays on May 14, Bicentennial Center in Salina on May 15, and Wichita Hyatt Regency on May 16. Speakers will represent the Kansas Corporation Commission and Kansas Electric Cooperatives. Topics include legal implications, leasor/leasee relationships, and case law addressing wind energy issues. The half-day programs will help professionals be better prepared to work with landowners considering long-term contracts with wind farm developers. The target audience for these meetings includes Extension staff, legal and accounting professionals. Registration begins at 8 a.m. and the program ends at 12:30 p.m. The seminar fee is $149 for non-members of the Kansas Bar Association. Sponsors, in addition to K-State Research and Extension, include the KSU Foundation, Kansas Corporation Commission, Kansas Farm Bureau Legal Foundation for Agriculture and the Kansas Bar Association. Registration is coordinated by the Kansas Bar Association. A pfd registration form is available at www.found.ksu.edu . --Gordon Dowell gordond@found.ksu.edu
CONGRATULATIONS AND THANK YOU Martha's last day in the office was March 28. We want to Thank her for her long committed service to Crawford County and K-State Research and Extension. We will host a retirement reception on Sunday April 20, 2008, from 2-4 p.m. at the Extension office, 120 E. Buffalo, in Girard. Please come by and wish Martha well in retirement and thank her for her years of service. Cards and letters may be sent to the Extension office or to Martha's home address at 504 N Osage, Girard, Kansas 66743. --Jim Mengarelli jmengare@oznet.ksu.edu ANNOUNCING MIKE BRADSHAW RETIREMENT RECEPTION ON MAY 1 After 37 years of service at K-State, Mike Bradshaw is retiring and moving to Wyoming. Come and celebrate his many accomplishments and his many adventures still to come! The May 1 (Thursday; 4 - 6 p.m.) reception will be held in Hoffman Lounge, Justin Hall, at Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS. A brief program begins at 4:45 p.m. Letters and cards may be mailed to Mike Bradshaw, 343 Justin Hall, Manhattan, KS 66506, to be included in his memory album. If you have questions about the reception, events, parking availability, etc., please contact: Elaine Johannes, ejohanne@ksu.edu ; or Linda Lamb, heiens@ksu.edu . --Elaine Johannes
RETIREMENT
RECEPTION FOR PHIL SELL Cards and letters for a scrapbook can be sent to: Shawnee County Extension office, 1740 SW Western, Topeka, KS 66604. For more information, contact Alice Brooks at 785 232-0062 or abrooks@ksu.edu . --Laurie Chandler lchandle@ksu.edu
THANK YOU
FROM KAREN BLAKESLEE
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM Remember to use ad\ before your Eid when signing in to the system. --Margaret Phillips margaret@ksu.edu
DIGITAL TELEVISION (DTV) TRANSITION NATIONAL 4-H SERVICE PROJECT OPPORTUNITY - CORRECTED ARTICLE
As you may
already know, starting February 17, 2009, televisions will switch from
analog reception to
digital - meaning televisions that currently receive signals through
antenna, or "rabbit
ears," will no longer work. There are many counties in Kansas where
folks still receive
their TV signal through an antenna or rabbit ears.
The National
Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) in the
Department of Commerce,
(DOC), and the Federal Communications Commission, (FCC), are working together to
inform citizens of the switch from analog to digital and their
options, including how to get a
coupon for a converter box. The converter box will allow televisions
with rabbit ears to
receive the new digital signal without needing to purchase cable or a
new television. For those
people with antennas, additional steps will have to be taken for the
converter box to work.
National 4-H
Headquarters at the Cooperative State Research, Education and
Extension Service
(CSREES) is working with NTIA and the FCC to educate Americans through Extension.
As part of this process, National 4-H Headquarters has created a
Digital Television
Transition service project for 4-Hers. National 4-H Headquarters
announced this project with
a training on Wednesday, April 2, for delegates attending the
National 4-H Conference.
The project includes free FCC kits to be used at local county and
state fairs. The kits
will include fact sheets and giveaway items, providing 4-Hers with an
opportunity to interact
with the public and help educate them on the transition. For a brief
summary of the partnership
outlined between 4-H, NTIA and the FCC, visit
http://www.kansas4-h.org/Projects/4-HDTVSummary.408.pdf
.
For more
information regarding the Digital Television Transition , visit the
FCC Website at
http://www.dtv.gov/
.
To learn more about the converter box
coupon program, visit
https://www.dtv2009.gov/
.
Specific
Details to the Digital TV 4-H Service Project Opportunity
2) When requesting your FCC fair kits, please respond with the following information:
3) CSREES has requested that KSRE compile this information for Kansas before sending it on. Please do not send it to Cassie Copen at CSREES in Washington, D.C. as the first e-mail indicated. Please send your request to Nancy Zimmerli-Cates at K-State by the April 18th deadline: Nancy Zimmerli-Catesnancyz@ksu.edu 785-532-1148 4) Contents of the Fair Kit. The fair kit will contain the following items: fact sheets (if you request them), two big posters suitable to post in front of or behind a display table, promotional give away items proportioned based on how many fact sheets you requested, and two knowledge (handbooks with facts) books. The knowledge book is intended for 4-H members to use as a guide. 5) Non-County Fair Kits are also available. Non-County Fair Kits are intended for "routine" outreach events (malls, senior centers, etc.). They include information handouts - available from 0 to 25,000 copies (indicate how many copies are requested). Here is the link to the handout: http://www.dtv.gov/DTVOne-Pager.pdf . Also included in the kit are two big posters and one knowledge book. In your request, please include what sort of venue you're considering when requesting non- fair, "routine" event kits. If, for instance, you will be distributing them to seniors (such as at senior centers), they will automatically send information in big print format - which many seniors need to read easily. For more information about this article, contact Deryl Waldren, 785-462-6281, or e-mail dwaldren@ksu.edu . --Deryl Waldren
USDA RURAL
DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS ANNOUNCED Also, the Rural Development office Rural Housing Service is putting out its 2008 Notice of Availability of Funds for Multi-Family Housing and Single Family Housing. For more information, contact: --Steven M. Graham sgraham@k-state.edu
MARIE'S PICK OF THE WEEK Strong People Stay Young was an 8-week strength-training program. The sessions involved twice-weekly weight-lifting classes of one hour each offered in the evening at the Garden City Senior Center. An instructor from the Senior Center staff and a volunteer led the classes. Ages of the 21 women and men who participated ranged from 46 to 82 with and average age of 63. The evaluation survey completed upon conclusion of the program asked about perceived benefits from participation in the weight training. Some of the results reported were - 87.5% feeling physically stronger - 87.5% having better balance - 85% more energy - 80% increased flexibility and ability to bend or reach - 60% better sleep. Linda also included an intended long-term impact. According to the Centers for Disease Control, national health care costs associated with physical inactivity are more than $76 billion. Introducing adults to exercise programs like Strong People Stay Young can have a significant impact on their long-term health and financial status. --Marie Blythe mblythe@ksu.edu
HUMAN CAPITAL The economist, Gary Becker, has done much to advance knowledge in the theory of human capital. There is a good article in, The Journal of Political Economy, by Dr. Becker. He explained human capital as a combination of intrinsic and acquired attributes that help us raise earnings, improve health, and add to the general well-being of family, work environment, and community. Do you want some examples of human capital in action? Sherry Davis is the project coordinator with Kansas Pride. She offers this illustration. "When we asked the community of Melvern, Kansas to "brainstorm" ways to use their water quality project (developing a system of walking/hiking/biking/ trails along the Marais des Cygnes River), many ideas were generated by participants in the public forum." Several ideas belong in more than one capital area, but it is important to note that facilitation skills (human capital) were needed to help the community come together, generate ideas, and voice those ideas. To improve health of its residents, Melvern identified a "Get It-Do It Partnership for Healthier Kansans," exercise stations on the proposed trail, and an awarded grant to widen and surface one loop of the trail to increase access and make surface safer for wheeled access (wagons, possibly wheel chairs). Melvern citizens also are proposing education and training to further build human capital:
How are you nurturing or building your own human capital? --Debra Bolton dbolton@ksu.edu and Sherry Davis sbd@ksu.edu PUBLICATIONS/DISTRIBUTION UPDATE Photo Release/Reprint Permission Forms Available Electronically As you prepare for upcoming photography competitions or update your local website, remember to acquire permission to use the images. A permission form is needed whenever your office reprints an image from a nonstaff photographer OR uses an image of a nonstaff person in printed material or on the website. The forms should be kept on file in your office to respond to potential legal inquiries. Forms for both are available at http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/techweb/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=495 The Photo Consent and Release Form (sometimes called a model release form) should be completed before printing or posting the image of an individual who does not work for K-State Research and Extension. It should be used for recognizable photos of clients, class participants or others who might have attended a local or regional program. (Note that 4-H Youth Development membership forms already include a section for photo release that must be signed by a parent/guardian, as does this form if the subject is under age 18.)The Reprint Permission Form should be completed by photographers (Master Gardeners, for example) who want to contribute photos to be used on your website or in a newsletter. The photographer retains the copyright, but is granting K-State Research and Extension the right to use the photo in print or electronically. If the nonstaff photographer's photos include human subjects, a Photo Consent and Release Form from each subject pictured is also required. (See above.) --Nancy Zimmerli-Cates nancyz@ksu.edu
VIEW THE MASTER SCHEDULE OR ADD NEW ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS To view the complete Master Schedule online or as a pdf, go to http://129.130.72.154/MasterSchAdd/ Submit corrections to previously submitted items to cthomas@ksu.edu .DATES TAKEN FROM THE MASTER SCHEDULE FOR APRIL 17 THROUGH APRIL 23, 2008: ADDITION Wednesday, April 9, 2008, Iola, KS, - Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Crawford, Franklin, Linn, Miami, Neosho, Woodson Counties - Tractor Safety Training, detailed information at www.allen,ksu.edu Wednesday, April 16 through Friday, April 18, 2008, KSU, 317 Umberger, Communications Training, Nancy Zimmerli-Cates nancyz@ksu.edu Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 12:00 p.m. at K-State Ag Research Center in Hays, Roundup – Finishing, growing, grazing and reproduction of beef, Bob Gillen gillen@ksu.edu Thursday, April 17, 2008 beginning at 7:30 a.m. in Junction City, location unknown, Kansas Nutrition Council, Sharolyn Flaming Jackson sharolyn@ksu.edu Friday, April 18, 2008, at Rock Springs 4-H Center, Time unknown, NEA Office Professionals, Dale Fjell dfjell@oznet.ksu.edu Friday, April 18 through Saturday, April 19, 2008 at Rock Springs 4-H Center, Time unknown, HealthFest!, Elaine Johannes ejohanne@ksu.edu Saturday, April 19, 2008, All University Open House Saturday, April 19, 2008 beginning at 10:00 a.m. in Washington, location unknown, Washington County Spring Beef Show, Ross Mosteller rmostell@oznet.ksu.edu Monday, April 21 to Wednesday, April 23, 2008 starting at 12:30 p.m. at KSU, New Extension Agent Orientation, Stacey Warner swarner@oznet.ksu.edu Tuesday, April 22, 2008 starting at 9:30 a.m. in Scott City, location unknown, Strengthening 4-H Club Training, Rod Buchele rbuchele@oznet.ksu.edu Wednesday, April 23, 2008, 9:30 a.m. through 3:30 p.m. at the Highland Hotel, 3017 W. Tenth Street, Great Bend, Growing Kansas 4-H, Pat McNally pmcnally@ksu.edu
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