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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>TMN submittal: <a href="http://cals.arizona.edu/extension/tuesday/form/submittal_form.html">http://cals.arizona.edu/extension/tuesday/form/submittal_form.html</a><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Tuesday Morning Notes <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>November 12,</span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> 2013<span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>FROM THE DIRECTOR - Smith Lever Centennial Program Plans:<span style='color:red'><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Last week we conducted some Cooperative Extension (CE) update meetings and briefings with all CALS unit leaders (county and center directors, department heads and school directors). During this time we developed some of the preliminary plans for celebrating the Smith Lever Act Centennial in 2014.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>We have decided to conduct four regional programs over the course of 2014 for the north, central, southwest, and southeast regions of the state. The counties associated with each region include: 1) north – Apache, Coconino, Gila, Mohave, Navajo, and Yavapai; 2) central – Maricopa and Pinal; 3) southwest – La Paz and Yuma; and 4) southeast – Cochise, Graham, Greenlee, Pima and Santa Cruz.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The county directors in each region will serve on the planning committees along with any center directors that reside within the regions and additional school directors/department heads. These unit leaders will then invite additional CE faculty and staff to serve along with stakeholders and members of the communities to develop the program. Thus, we formed four committees at this session last week just to give you an idea of what kind of intense administration was going on! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The intention is to have CE participation across all types of CALS units and also local stakeholder participation in each program that will provide a distinct regional flavor. Transportation and lodging arrangements will be developed to accommodate travel for faculty and staff from the UA campus to the various sites. As these committees go to work we will learn more about the details associated with each regional program as it develops. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>FOCUS ON PROGRAMS:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Arizona Project WET (APW) announced the launch of its <a href="https://arizonawet.arizona.edu/">new website</a> yesterday. The new site highlights the many different programs and services APW offers, and focuses on its mission of developing water stewardship and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) literacy in three ways: 1) providing teacher professional development focused on 21st century skills, 2) offering direct student outreach that delivers or extends classroom learning, and 3) directly engaging the community in K-12 education. “We hope this new resource will help people understand the programs and opportunities available to them through Arizona Project WET,” said Kerry Schwartz, APW Director. “Our new website is informative and easy to navigate, and clarifies the many programs that we deliver to meet our mission.” The new website features APW's individual programs, including the Arizona Water Festival Program, APW Teacher Academies, the Water Investigations Program, the School Water Audit Program, and the Water Scene Investigations Program. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>PROFESSIONAL SSOCIATION FEES:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>A reminder that Extension faculty are responsible for personal payment of their professional association membership and/or related fees according to the Policy & Procedural Manual, <a href="http://extension.arizona.edu/acebooks/content/60505-professional-association-feesconference-travel">Section 6.05.05</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>EXTENSION IN THE MEDIA:</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://azstarnet.com/news/local/facing-your-fears-feet-off-the-ground/article_35f17845-b98b-5e1b-8cc5-89c2a247f0aa.html">Facing Your Fears - 40 Feet Off the Ground</a></span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> featuring Elizabeth Sparks and the Pima County</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> 4-H High Ropes Course (AZ Daily Star, November 7). There is also a <a href="http://azstarnet.com/gallery/news/local/photos-pima-county--h-high-ropes-course/collection_6c5de5af-e2cf-5746-ba79-16c9c67c4868.html#0">slide slow presentation</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://westernfarmpress.com/forward/emailref?path=node/143011">Arizona Veg IPM Update: Aphid ID, Lettuce Wilt Diseases, Soil-applied Herbicides</a> </span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>featuring John Palumbo & Yuma Ag Center (Western Farm Press, November 4)<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>NEW PUBLICATION:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://cals.arizona.edu/pubs/crops/az1265.pdf">Wheat and Barley Varieties for Arizona 2013</a> by Michael Ottman (pub #az1265) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>UPCOMING EVENTS:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>November 13, 3:30-5:00pm</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>, UA Center for Creative Photography (Auditorium) - Dr. Alon Tal (Ben-Gurion University, Israel) will give the presentation, <a href="http://wrrc.arizona.edu/node/12456">"Triumph or Tragedy? A Brief History of Water Management in Israel,"</a> as part of the Water Sustainability Program's (WSP) Distinguished Speaker Series, in conjunction with the Sally & Ralph Duchin Campus Lectureship Series of the Arizona Center for Judaic Studies.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>November 16, 10:00am-2:00pm </span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- Tucson Village Farm 4th Annual Harvest Festival (4210 N. Campbell Avenue - just south of the Rillito wash). This FREE family-friendly event will feature games and activities for kids of all ages, live cooking demonstrations and samples, farm fresh produce, plant starts and local honey for sale, furry and feathery farm friends, “Ask a Master Gardener Plant Clinic,” make your own wood fired pretzels and more! Tucson Village Farm is a program of UA CALS and Pima County Cooperative Extension. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Jeffrey C. Silvertooth<br>Associate Dean<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Director for Extension & Economic Development <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>College of Agriculture and Life Sciences<br>PO Box 210036<br>Tucson, AZ 85721-0036<br>520.621.7205<br>520.621.1314 (fax)<i> <o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>To submit tips, suggestions, ideas for changes and anything that could help us be more effective, use the “<a href="http://extension.arizona.edu/state/directors-suggestion-box">Director’s Suggestion Box</a>” – all submissions are anonymous. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>