Tuesday Morning Notes

November 15, 2005


We would like to get feedback from Extension agents, specialists and staff regarding what kinds of technologies are or could be useful in performing your work. Please take some time to answer the technology survey, at http://cals.arizona.edu/exact/tech/. Ideally, we will be able to create a "wish list" for future planning, as well as get an idea of what is being used currently. Please respond to this survey by Monday, December 5, 2005.

A reminder for those making parking reservations on campus--these need to be reserved on-line, using your NetID. For same day reservations, you must call them in to 520-621-3710. The url for advance reservations is: https://pts2.pts.arizona.edu/garage_reservation/customer/.

Upcoming Events:

On Tuesday, November 22 at 2:00 p.m. at Pima County Cooperative Extension, 4210 N. Campbell Avenue, Dr. Celia Hayhoe, Ph.D., CFP, and Family Financial Management Specialist with Virginia Cooperative Extension at Virginia Tech will present a special workshop on the financial decisions involved with becoming a caregiver. Information provided will include strategies for decision making and resources available through Virginia Cooperative Extension. A limited supply of materials for purchase will be available including a binder and video ($20.50), CD and Video ($7.00) and Binder/CD/Video ($24.00). Grant funding for material development was provided by the National Endowment for Financial Education (Nefe). More information is available at www.ahrm.vt.edu/familycaregivers.htm. For more information and to register for the program, contact Linda Block (520-626-5161 / lblock@ag.arizona.edu).

The Colorado River Forage and Risk Management Workshop will take place on Thursday, December 1 at the Arizona Western College, 601 11th Street in Parker from 8:00am (check in and registration) to 12:00 noon. Agenda items will cover forage market analysis, optimizing a forage mix for your operation amidst resource and risk constraints, whole farm insurance options and estate planning decisions, and utilizing the Arizona Crop Information website. For questions or more information, contact Eric Norton(928-669-9843).

ECAT will be giving three back-to-back sessions on Nov 18 in Forbes 124 aimed at more experienced users of Dreamweaver. The first session is on creating and using templates to facilitate management of a site. The second session deals with using style sheets to separate formatting from content. The last session will demonstrate how to use styles to create text that looks like buttons and how to keep parts of the web page from printing (like a navigation area). More details and links to a registration form are at http://cals.arizona.edu/ecat/classes/. The three back-to-back sessions run from 8:30 to 12:30 on Nov 18th. You may attend one, two or all three sessions, depending on your experience.





James A. Christenson, Ph.D.
(jimc@cals.arizona.edu)
Associate Dean and Director
Arizona Cooperative Extension
Forbes, Room 301
Tucson, Arizona 85721
520/621-7205
520/621-1314 FAX