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ROAAOMS Executive Committee
The legislative and administrative body of the ROAAOMS shall be the Executive Committee. The officers of the ROAAOMS who also serve on the Executive Committee are President, Vice President, and Immediate Past President. Additionally, the Executive Committee shall include six District Representatives elected by vote of the membership of each district at the annual meeting of the ROAAOMS. In addition to the elected officers, the Executive Committee shall include three (3) committee liaison positions with elected approval of the executive committee one (1) staff liaison who will serve as the executive committee director. Vice President and President shall succeed to their respective offices by virtue of prior election.
ROAAOMS Strategic Plan
ROAAOMS continues to follow its vision, purpose and mission and developed a strategic plan which includes four major goals: (1) Improve and enhance communication among its members and its affiliates; (2) Educate residents concerning the specialty of oral and maxillofacial surgery and issues facing the specialty; (3) Assist in the recruitment and retention of highly qualified professionals in oral and maxillofacial surgery and (4) Demonstrate the value of oral and maxillofacial surgery to OMS residents, dental students, public, professional and pre-dental audiences. You can view the complete strategic plan online.
ROAAOMS Program Liaisons
ROAAOMS has developed a network of residents entitled, "ROAAOMS Program Liaisons" (one resident per residency training program) to assist the executive committee in communicating important information and upcoming events to all residents. In addition, ROAAOMS continues its efforts in increasing resident awareness and encouraging them to take ownership of and become involved in their specialty.
A future goal for ROAAOMS is to convene a meeting for program liaisons to provide an orientation to ROAAOMS/AAOMS's purpose, governance and activities, the meaning and value of organized dentistry and the importance of continuing membership in AAOMS post residency training. This meeting would provide opportunities to exchange ideas among OMS residents and learn from others in the specialty in a collegial and enjoyable environment.
If you are interested in serving as your program liaison, please contact Laurie Oddo at 800-822-6637 ext. 4330.
OMS Reference Guide for Residents, 4th Edition
ROAAOMS has developed a reference guide for residents to provide essential information on basic patient care by.
The OMS Reference Guide, 4th Edition, provides a valuable tool to quickly obtain answers to questions that arise during treatment, as well as an organized resource for review of the material essential for practice in OMS and board certification. In addition, the guide provides information that residents can use early in their training and OMS career and explains how AAOMS can assist them.
Annual Meeting
Admission fees for the AAOMS Annual Meeting are waived for oral and maxillofacial surgery residents enrolled in an ADA accredited training program in the United States, its territories or in Canada. Residents may also attend ticketed clinics at the annual meeting free of charge on a space available basis only (15 minutes prior to start of course). To ensure a seat at ticketed clinics, residents may buy a ticket at full price during pre-registration. To check space availability of clinics, please stop by the on-site registration area. Meeting topics and sites vary annually. Annual Meetings are held in the fall.
Resident Organization Educational Program
Residents are encouraged to attend and participate in this interactive program filled with leading surgeons who present on surgical complications in variety of clinical areas. Become involved in the organization that works for you and learn about how you can play an important role.
Residents Reception
Residents are welcome to join their fellow residents, AAOMS members, and corporate sponsors for an evening of camaraderie and entertainment FREE of charge. This event is held in conjunction with the AAOMS annual meeting each year.
Dental Implant Conference
The AAOMS Dental Implant Conference focuses on building communication and cooperation among patients, oral and maxillofacial surgeons and general dentists, and on practical methods for delivering sophisticated implant care in the private practice setting. This unique continuing education experience is designed for oral and maxillofacial surgeons, other dental specialties and general dentists with a strong interest in the field of dental implants. Resident may attend this event but must pay the general registration fee.
Publications and References
A key benefit the Association offers to its fellows and members is the ability to gather and share knowledge about the specialty.
Resident E-News
One of the main purposes of the Resident Organization of the AAOMS (ROAAOMS) is to improve and enhance communication among its members and educate residents about OMS and issues facing the specialty. In order to increase communication at a decreased cost, ROAAOMS replaced the printed quarterly newsletter, Resident Reach, with a quarterly email to all residents entitled, Resident E-News. The e-newsletter is disseminated on the third Friday of every month and serves as the main communication tool among residents.
AAOMS Website
The AAOMS website serves as an important communication tool to enhance the role of residents in the association. Included in the site are member news, a meeting calendar, career opportunities, residency resources, patient information, provider referral resources for new patients and links to related sites of interest for oral and maxillofacial surgeons. Also included is a section exclusive to AAOMS fellows and members. ROAAOMS continues to review and update the content of the resident section on the AAOMS website and welcomes any ideas, suggestions and/or comments from residents.
AAOMS Today
Published six times a year, AAOMS Today serves as an important information resource for fellows and members on all activity occurring within the Association. Update articles keep fellows and members abreast of Association activities, while articles on practice management, coding and reimbursement, advocacy and others are designed to help fellows and members personally in their day-to-day practices. The classified advertisements are also a resource for fellows and members seeking positions or selling a practice.
AAOMS Membership Directory
The searchable AAOMS Member Directories are provided online as a member service. The Member Directory contains current detailed information for fellows, members, candidates and residents in the United States and internationally. The Allied Staff Directory provides basic information for AAOMS allied staff members.
The Resident Organization sends annual verification letters to all resident members to assist staff in maintaining accurate and complete membership records for all resident members. As the scope of practice continues to evolve and technological innovations present new opportunities to better serve patients, residents involvement in AAOMS strengthens the specialty. ROAAOMS encourages all residents to use the Directory as a reference and encourages residents to remain active in AAOMS throughout their careers.
Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (JOMS)
The Journal services as the premier peer-reviewed resource for scientific and clinical information. Published monthly, the Journal contains clinical articles, scientific articles, case reports, special contributions and a section for continuing education (CE) credit. AAOMS resident members receive an annual complimentary subscription for the Journal.
For more information regarding AAOMS Products and Publications or the JOMS, contact the Membership Information Line at 800-822-6637.
AAOMS Practice Management Resources and Courses
AAOMS offers OMSs and their staff a variety of resources to assist you in running a smooth and efficient practice.
AAOMS Coding and Reimbursement Resources and Courses
Keeping current on correct coding guidelines and Medicare and other insurers' payment policies can mean the difference between getting paid or getting charged for fraud and abuse. AAOMS offers an abundance of resources to navigate the maze of coding and third party reimbursement issues.
Expanded Career Opportunities
Clearinghouse Opportunities to Aid Resident, Faculty and Dental Student Connections
The AAOMS clearinghouse for faculty, residents and dental students who seek new opportunities in oral and maxillofacial surgery is available through the AAOMS Career Line.
The posting of available faculty, resident, externship, internship and fellowship openings have been added to the Career Line to give you direct access to career opportunities 24-hours a day, seven days a week. You can respond to posted jobs by generating a confidential mini-CV for AAOMS Career Line advertisers to view, sending an e-mail, or asking prospective employers to contact you directly, whatever your preference.
Visit the Career Line today to begin exploring your possibilities!
Related Organizations
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Foundation Membership (OMSF)
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery residents are automatically OMS Foundation Annual Associate Members. As an Annual Associate Member, you will receive the following:
- The ability to meet with members of the OMS Foundation Committee on Research and the Committee on Fellowships at the AAOMS Annual Meeting, by appointment, to answer questions and discuss applications for research awards and fellowships.
- The e-Torch newsletter to keep you updated on the OMS Foundation's important work.
For more information on memberships, please contact the OMS Foundation.
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Political Action Committee (OMSPAC)
OMSPAC Protects the Specialty by supporting those candidates for federal and state legislative office who will work toward the principles of quality oral and maxillofacial surgery care. OMSPAC's contributions to candidates' election campaigns are made possible by the membership contributions of individual oral and maxillofacial surgeons.
OMSPAC is not affiliated with any political party. OMSPAC is your primary means of influencing legislators and ensuring the specialty's position is heard. Your contribution to OMSPAC enables oral and maxillofacial surgery to speak with unity to candidates in the Congress and state legislatures on issues of concern to the specialty.
For more information, please contact a member of the Advocacy and Governmental Affairs department at 800-822-6637.
American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (ABOMS)
The objectives and purpose of the Board are to elevate the standards of oral and maxillofacial surgery and to advance the cause of oral and maxillofacial surgery in its efforts to provide optimum health care. To fulfill these objectives, the Board shall establish qualifications of candidates of fitness and competence whereby a candidate may be evaluated, and shall examine qualified candidates accordingly.
For more information regarding the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, please contact: ABOMS, 625 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, 60611; phone: 312-642-0070; fax: 312-642-8584; website: www.aboms.org.
AAOMS Services, Inc. (ASI)
The mission of ASI is to provide AAOMS members with high quality services and products at competitive prices, which increase the value of AAOMS membership and provides a source of non-dues income that will help fund AAOMS programs. For more information visit ASI online at www.aaomsservices.org.


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I've been experiencing a behavior that is undesirable and it seems like a bug that causes a high amount of wasted work. I have a CF where all columns have a TTL, are generally all inserted in a very short period of time (less than a second) and are never over-written or explicitly deleted. Eventually one node will run a compaction and remove rows containing only tombstones greater than gc_grace_seconds old which is expected. The problem comes up when a repair is run. During the repair the other nodes that haven't run a compaction and still have the tombstoned rows "fix" the inconsistency and stream the rows (which contain only a tombstone which is more than gc_grace_seconds old) back to the node which had compacted that row away. This ends up occurring over and over and uses a lot of time, storage, and bandwidth to keep repairing rows that are intentionally missing. I think the issue stems from the behavior of compaction of TTL rows and repair. The compaction of TTL rows is a node-local event which will eventually cause tombstoned rows to disappear from the one node doing the compaction and then get "repaired" from replicas later. I guess this could happen for rows which are explicitly deleted as well. Is this a feature or a bug? How can I avoid repair of rows that were correctly removed via compaction from one node but not from replicas just because compactions run independently on each node? Every repair ends up streaming tens of gigabytes of "missing" rows to and from replicas. Cassandra 1.1.5 with size tiered compaction strategy and RF=3 -Bryan
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USGS Exhibits
USGS Data Traces Trail of Lewis and Clark
As part of the 200th anniversary of Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery, USGS scientists at Sioux Falls, SD, have designed an exhibit based on satellite and elevation data that traces the journey of Lewis and Clark from St. Louis, Missouri to the Pacific Coast. Titled "The Voyage of Discovery Continues: Another View of the Journey of Lewis and Clark," the exhibit features Landsat 7 satellite images of key points of special historical interest along the Lewis and Clark route, such as Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Ft. Clatsop, Oregon. The exhibit also uses elevation data from The National Map to depict the topographic relief along the entire route of Lewis and Clark, graphically illustrating the rugged extremes of the terrain traversed by the explorers. The exhibit carries a further educational message. Because USGS scientists study many other satellite images similar to those in the exhibit every day to learn more about changes taking place on the landscapes of America and the world, their work can be seen as a contemporary parallel to the explorations of Lewis and Clark 200 years ago. Celebrating 125 years of science for America this year, the USGS makes use of the most modern surveying technologies combined with a bold vision of science to continue the legacy of exploring our natural resources that began with Lewis and Clark.
American Rivers
The USGS has prepared a panel for the traveling exhibit titled "Discovering the Rivers of Lewis and Clark". The panel tells the story of the historical connection and common scientific missions of the Lewis and Clark Expedition and the USGS as well as highlights some of the modern day activities of USGS scientists in mapping, biology, geology, and hydrology along the Lewis and Clark trail. Visitors can walk the Lewis & Clark Trail, from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean, learning as they go about the rich river life that the explorers encountered during their great expedition at the beginning of the nineteenth century. The exhibit is managed and cosponsored by American Rivers, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, The History Channel, and with content donated by National Geographic. You can see this outstanding exhibit at many locations during the Bicentennial. Click here to see when this exhibit will be in your part of the world.
Mobile Exhibits
The U.S. Geological Survey has prepared a mobile exhibit designed to be used at Lewis and Clark Bicentennial signature events, conventions, and gatherings around the country. The exhibit portrays the historical connection and common scientific missions of the Lewis and Clark Expedition and the USGS. Local USGS personnel will be available to staff the exhibit and explain regional aspects of USGS science in the disciplines of mapping, biology, geology, and hydrology. If you would like to have someone from the USGS participate in your Lewis and Clark event, contact your local USGS office or:
Jon Campbell
Gage House Kiosk
A kiosk installed at the USGS streamflow gage on the Missouri River at Ft. Benton, Montana describes the activities of the Corps of Discovery near Ft. Benton, displays an historic picture of the river, and describes the purpose and operation of the streamflow gage. This streamflow gage is one of over 7,000 across the nation that monitor river levels and flow volumes for the resource managers and the public (see this data in real time as well as historic data at http://water.usgs.gov/data.html ).
Kiosk at the Ft. Benton, Montana streamflow gage. Click picture to view larger image.
Kiosk and Missouri River at the Ft. Benton, Montana streamflow gage. Click picture to view larger image.
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WESTMINSTER, Md. (WJZ)– Flames engulf a historic landmark dedicated to helping those in need in Carroll County. More than 100 crews responded to the scene in Westminster.
Weijia Jiang has more on what they're doing now to rebuild.
The amount of debris is devastating. Now, an entire community is pulling together.
It only took a few hours for a fire to demolish a Carroll County landmark.
"The barn was engulfed in flames. It was a big fireball. As I walked closer, it was gut-wrenching," Pastor Dean Waddell of the Westminster Rescue Mission said.
That's because the century-old barn now reduced to rubble was also a vital piece of the present.
It housed donations for the Westminster Rescue Mission for Men and a thrift store that raised money to operate the shelter.
But the flames which broke out around 9:45 p.m. on Friday ripped through the building and caused the roof to collapse.
"The stuff that was falling into the foundation continued to burn. At that point, there's not a lot we can do to salvage," said Robin Stansbury of the Westminster Volunteer Fire Department.
Not only did the barn help the men at the mission but revenue collected went toward food boxes for families all over Carroll County, as well as vouchers for clothing and furniture.
"I got my walker, I got my canes from here. It's a shame," Ellen Earhart, a Westminster resident, said.
"We have a long list of people that have a lot of needs and it's all gone now," Mill Dixon of Westminster said.
Dixon and her husband live next door and worked at the thrift store.
"We put our heart and soul into it," Thomas Dixon said.
Now, it's heart that gives them hope. You see, the fire happened on Good Friday.
"The day we celebrate Christ's death," Pastor Waddell said.
Waddell, who runs the mission, is ready for a new day.
"We know Sunday's coming– his resurrection– and so we're looking forward to that to see what God's going to do to help us build," he said.
To that end, the mission's organizers are working with insurance adjusters to first remove all the debris, then work out a plan to rebuild. In the meantime, they are still accepting donations, which are more critical than ever.
The state fire marshal's office has not determined the cause of the fire.
Please send donations to:
Westminster Rescue Mission
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Statistics on crashes and scientific studies of the brain present conflicting data on whether younger or older drivers are more affected by distracted driving.
The worst offenders of distracted driving, according to the NHTSA, are also youngest and the least experienced: men and women under 20. The under-20 age group had the highest proportion of distracted drivers involved in fatal crashes (16 percent), followed by drivers 20 to 29 years old (12 percent).
But when it comes to cognition, older drivers are naturally more distractible. "Internal thoughts may be particularly hard for older adults to filter, starting in middle age but increasingly after age 65. We have some evidence that auditory stimuli are hard for them, too, to tune out during visual tasks," reports neuroscientist Dr. Cheryl Grady of the Rotman Research Institute in Toronto.
"I would advise any driver, but particularly an older one, to avoid distraction as much as possible–not using the cell phone, programming GPS systems, fiddling with the radio and CD player, and so on," she says.
But experience may already be helping older drivers understand that, since the younger, less experienced drivers have the highest crash rates. Teens and young adults are more likely to carry their mobile devices into the car, using MP3 players and texting – which means the temptation for distraction could be more prevalent.
The solution? Stay safe at any age and keep your eyes on the road and hands on the wheel.
Rachel Adelson writes about technology and the science of behavior from her office near Toronto. Within an hour of finishing this story, she found herself driving behind someone putting on mascara at the wheel.


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Last week was National Robot week, and I really meant to give you all something cool to read about robots. Luckily, I came home tonight to see a note from Sare Liz Gordy, letting me know a promo was about to start on a project we worked on several months ago.
In February, I took part in an anthology titled Sassy Singularity, about the strength of singledom. Most of the writers came from the romance genre; most of the stories reflect the conventions of that genre. All of the stories were written by women, and they cover multiple points of view and approaches to story.
My contribution to the anthology was a little…shall we say…quirky. Titled Sweetheart, and told from the perspective of a former Service Bot (I'll let you read between the lines as far as what type of service), it's about a future where a rogue hacker disrupts an artificial offshoot of the world's oldest profession.
On Wednesday, 4/18, Sassy Singularity will be on an Amazon Kindle Select promo for one day. If you're interested in reading Sweetheart, it's not currently available anywhere else, and you'll get a handful of other romance stories along with it.
So if you have a Kindle and you feel like taking advantage of one of SASSY SINGULARITY's free promo days by downloading a copy of the book…do it.
(And if you enjoy Sassy, check out my other Kindle work, including recent release Hot Mess: speculative fiction about climate change, too!)


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Back when I was a kid space exploration was flying high, astronauts were on the Moon, there were big plans for orbital cities and an astronomer had just announced the discovery of a system of planets orbiting a nearby star. It didn't take much for my imagination to leap forward to my eventual trip into space. I was even sure that things would progress to the point where we would eventually be sending missions to explore the planets in orbit around Barnard's Star. Alas, just about all of that has evaporated, even the planets.
Barnard's Star is red dwarf star located just six light years from our solar system. Its small size and close proximity make it a great target to hunt for exoplanets. Back in the late 1960s astronomer Peter van de Kamp announced (see The Myserious Companions of Barnard's Star from Time Magazine's April 25, 1969 issue) the discovery of two planets in orbit about Barnard's Star. B1, was slightly more massive than Jupiter and had an orbital period of 26 years and B2 was slightly less massive than Jupiter and had an orbital period of 12 years. All of this was pretty reasonable compared to our own solar system and life was good.
Peter Van de Kamp used a technique known as astrometry. The idea is to take very precise images of the star's exact position relative to any background stars. As a planet orbits about the star its gravity will slightly pull the star toward the planet, making a change in its position. If all goes well a repeatable wobble, directly related to the orbital period of the planet will be detected.
van de Kamp knew that Barnard's star was small, which was good because that makes it easier for a planet to deflect its position. He also knew that it was close, which was also good because it makes the tiny wobble easier to find. Unfortuately, what he didn't know was that his technique was flawed. No other survey technique has been able to confirm his observations. Barnard's Star apparently has no planets.
Planet hunters have not given up and new techniques have arisen. The number of known exoplanets now stands at almost 350. But what of van de Kamp's method of astrometry? It was all but dead for many years, but two JPL astronomers resurrected it. For a little over a decade Steven Pravdo and Stuart Shaklan have been coming to Palomar to use their instrument called STEPS (STellar Planet Survey).
STEPS, seen above, is a large-format CCD camera that gets occasionally mounted at the Hale Telescope's Cassegrain focus. The CCD has 4096 x 4096 pixels. The payoff of years of observing, an exoplanet discovery, is a difficult one to make. The elusive wobble that Peter van de Kamp thought he had found is small, just 1 milli-arcsecond in size -- that is the angle subtended by a human hair (about 50 microns wide) as seen from a distance of 30 miles!
I am happy to tell you that Pravdo and Shaklan have indeed found an exoplanet using this technique!
The tiny star known as VB 10 is located 20 light years away in the constellation Aquila and is now the smallest star known to have an exoplanet. The planet, VB 10b, is six times more massive than Jupiter, but just about the same size as Jupiter. Notice in the artwork above that the two are pretty close to being the same size.
VB 10b has a nine month orbital period and is just 30 million miles from its star, that puts it a little closer to its star than Mercury is to ours. See below for the comparison.
This is not Palomar's first exoplanet, but congratulations still go out to Steven Pravdo and Stuart Shaklan on their discovery and for mastering the astrometric method of planet hunting.
You can read more about their find from JPL (it even has a movie) here, or here from Bad Astronomy or even here from space.com.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
A New Exoplanet from an Old Technique
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Through the process of sorting for a recent garage sale I have been able to narrow down the collections that I really enjoy having. On my list are ironstone pieces and old canning jars. Among other things : ) Luckily a bonus of purging is that now we have more storage room for the items I love.
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UNITED NATIONS (CBCDC) – The use of unmanned aerial vehicles in warfare has been increasing, as have the number of civilian casualties, according to a report from the U.N.
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We are thrilled to announce that Doyali Islam is the winner of the League of Canadian Poets' inaugural National Broadsheet Contest! Her winning poem "cat and door" was selected by judge Sharon Thesen for its "sweet formalities of elegiac thought." Islam was the winner of Arc's 2016 Poem of the Year contest and CV2's 2015 Young Buck Poetry Prize, as well as the recipient of a 2015 Chalmers Arts Fellowship.
In addition to being crafted into an artisan broadsheet by Briar Craig, "cat and door" will be published in the 2017 booklet for Poem in Your Pocket Day on April 27, as well as featured here on our website!
"Visually striking, this poem's design elements, as well as its sweet formalities of elegiac thought, beautifully mirrors the dilemma of the cat—whose wild nature remains separated and closed off from its domestic and protected life," says Thesen. "The poem wonders whether the cat is being kept in (for safety) or kept out (from its own nature). Its compression is an ironic counterpart to the circumscribed life it describes."
Thesen also selected two honourable mention poems: "Sheila's Brush" by Maggie Burton, which she calls a "lively poem of protest and revenge," and "Trilobite" by Joanna Lilley for its effective and poignant presentation of form and content.
The winner of Arc's 2016 Poem of the Year Contest and CV2's 2015 Young Buck Poetry Prize, Doyali Islam's poems have appeared in KROnline, Grain, and The Fiddlehead. Islam is the recipient of a 2015 Chalmers Arts Fellowship as well as grants from Canada Council for the Arts (Grants for Professional Writers, 2013), Ontario Arts Council (Writers' Reserve, 2014), and Barbara Deming Memorial Fund (Money for Women, 2014). From March 2013 to April 2015, Islam curated and hosted Conspiracy of 3 Reading Series. In 2011, she won CV2's 35th Anniversary Contest, and her first poetry book – Yusuf and the Lotus Flower – was published by BuschekBooks. For a window onto her life and work as of February 27th 2016, read her "12 or 20 questions" responses on rob mclennan's website. She lives in Toronto. Her current poetry manuscript, from which the poem "cat and door" comes, is heft and sing.


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Like her predecessor, Timarete, Anaxandra learned the art of painting from her father and also worked as his assistant, crushing dyes to mix his paints.
We know that Anaxandra's father, Nealkes, painted scenes from mythology and that his daughter learned his trade – but apart from these few snatches of information, we know nothing.
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What separates successful leaders from the rest of the pack? Networking - "a tissue of personal contacts to provide the support, feedback and resources needed to get things done," according to a widely read 2007 study by Herminia Ibarra and Mark Hunter in the Harvard Business Review. The most efficient technique for getting things done in your own practice may well involve joining a study group.
One financial industry veteran, Charles Haines Jr., a CFP who is CEO and president of Kinsight in Birmingham, Ala., defines study groups as "the formalization of the networking process with colleagues in whom you have a lot of trust and respect." Haines, a member of the prestigious study groups Alpha and 20/20, believes it is no accident that, when conferences are evaluated, participants tend to rate networking among the top benefits. "Study groups are very important to our business at Kinsight," he notes.
Marilyn Capelli Dimitroff, CFP, president of Capelli Financial Services in Bloomfield, Mich., goes one step further. "I can't imagine running a practice without a study group," she says. "I would not be where I am today without being part of the Capstone Group." Capstone acquired its name from the Conference of Advanced Planners, a subgroup of the International Association for Financial Planners, one of the associations that merged to form the FPA.
Capstone was formed over a dinner involving members of the Conference of Advanced Planners and Financial Planning columnist Bob Veres at an IAFP conference in 1996. Except for Veres, the group has been together ever since. Currently, the 12 members of Capstone represent more than 1,200 clients in 10 states with more than $2 billion of investment assets and untold personal net worth.
The 800-pound gorilla in the study group world may be the aptly named Alpha Group. Founded in 1990, its 19 members form a veritable who's who of industry leaders and represent more than 5,000 clients with $10 billion of investment assets. Alpha includes prominent nonfinancial advisors like Don Phillips, president of fund research for Morningstar; Mark Tibergien, CEO of Pershing Advisor Solutions; and Mark Hurley, chairman and CEO of Fiduciary Network. Haines quips, "These three members give us practitioner members an objective perspective on ourselves."
If study groups are the formalization of the networking process, NAPFA has formalized the study group process itself. In 2006, NAPFA began encouraging and supporting study groups at the request of its members, a high percentage of whom are solo practitioners. Well aware of the existing peer support groups in the financial community, Nancy Hradsky, a former TV producer who is now manager of membership and business development for NAPFA, separated study groups into two categories.
The first category tends to involve informal local gatherings where ideas are exchanged among members who compete in the same market. There are about 50 such groups registered with Hradsky's office.
The second category, management information exchange (or MIX) groups, consists of geographically diverse members who are more willing to share intimate details of their own practices. There are 25 MIX groups, and assembling them can be a challenge. "It feels like putting together arranged marriages," Hradsky jokes. She helps prospective members find the right balance of similarity and diversity by collecting data on an array of criteria, such as:
* The firm's practice model (solo practitioner, an ensemble firm of a few advisors, or a larger practice).
* The experience of the advisors (one to five years in the industry, five to 10 years, more than 10 years).
* Geography (distance can help to alleviate concerns about sharing information with competitors).
* Fee model (assets under management, retainer, hourly, by project).
* Target client investable assets (less than $1 million, $1 million to $5Ã?â,?â?°million, more than $5 million).
Recalling Groucho Marx's famous quip - "I never want to be a member of a club that would have me for a member" - Hradsky discovered that prospective members often want to be in a group whose other members have higher AUM amounts than their own.
Some groups are serious entities. The Capstone Group has formed a limited liability company with articles of incorporation and published criteria for new members. Capstone meets three times a year and usually brings in two outside speakers per meeting.
The last meeting featured a presentation on the federal health care law. At each meeting, three members present their current business plans for critique and feedback from the group.
CFP Faye Doria of Financial Guidance Associates in Dover, N.H., a member of the Garrett Planning Network, belongs to a group comprised primarily of hourly fee planners, none of whom have any assets under management. Aside from this commonality, the group strives for diversity in gender, age and experience. Members of the group, named MIX 13, range in experience from five years to 30 years and in age from 30-year-olds to 60-year-olds.
In 2007, MIX 13 members got to know one another by critiquing fellow members' websites and marketing materials. They have now moved on to sharing internal financial statements. While MIX 13 has met in conjunction with NAPFA conferences, its primary practice is to hold monthly conference calls with assigned topics; there are rotating presentations on a subject and members take turns in chairing the calls.
Prominent groups like Capstone often attract sponsors to underwrite the cost of their meetings. Outside speakers are often happy to make pro bono presentations in order to find out what industry leaders are thinking and to have a sounding board for product ideas.
Sharing ideas is only part of the usefulness of study groups. According to Haines, the 20/20 group has become part of his firm's succession planning process.
As Haines quips, "If I die, can you help me keep Humpty Dumpty together?" The answer is yes. Group members have agreed to help out if one of them dies prematurely. The group has even formalized a process to help each firm develop its own next generation of leadership.
"We have created subgroups of our study group composed of the future leaders within each firm," Haines explains. "These groups meet twice a year and generally manage themselves with minimal guidance from the 20/20 group." At different times, these subgroups have included a financial planning-centered group, an investment-centered group and an operations-centered group.
Capstone has a less formal, but similar process. "Many of us have agreements with others in the group to act as advisors to their business and estate issues in the event that one of us dies unexpectedly," Dimitroff says,
She describes another practical benefit that grew out of the Capstone group. In 1999, her co-members were considering the idea of going paperless. As a group, they hired a consultant to help them interview software firms.
The group decided on Worldox, an electronic filing cabinet into which they could scan all of their client documents. The consultant helped them organize the structure of the electronic filing cabinet - an ordeal in itself, Dimitroff recalls. After this process succeeded, the firm applied the same methodology to the search for a common client relationship management system and settled on Goldmine; some members have continued to use that system, while some have not.
Zero Alpha Group, an international study group with nine members, represents more than 5,800 client accounts and $8 billion in assets under management for its eight domestic partners. The group pays a consultant, CFP Katie Cullen in Minneapolis, to be the executive director.
According to Cullen, the group has hired a human resources consulting firm to create a virtual workspace to include industry best practices and proprietary information around compensation, recruiting and retention, organizational development, performance management and leadership development. This online tool is designed to ensure consistency and collaboration across the group.
As a member of two study groups for many years, Haines has advice for planners who are thinking about forming a group, whether through NAPFA or independently. His ingredients for success include:
* Plan your face-to-face meetings separate from other professional conferences, if possible. Mixing the two usually drains energy from the study group.
* Schedule your meetings more than a year in advance and outline the agenda for the next meeting at the current meeting.
* While diversity is a plus, form your membership around advisors who are in the same stage of their careers.
* Work on candor and trust in the early stages of the group's development and hold the group time as sacred. That means no emails or calls during meetings.
* Assign homework for every meeting, including reading an outside speaker's book in advance.
* Have an active recruitment process to bring in new members.
* Hold the meeting in a city where a member is located and visit the firm and meet its key players.
* Park your egos at the door.
* Reassess your purpose and mission statements on a regular basis.
Other tips for successful study groups might be gleaned from Ray Sclafani's 12 Tips for a Successful Study Group in the July/August 2011 issue of the FPA's Practice Management Solutions.
Both Haines and Dimitroff remain curious about the exact number of financial advisor study groups in existence. "When I chaired the CFP board in 2009, numerous people asked me how to find and join a study group," Dimitroff says.
One thing is certain. Study group members tend to be loyal. "I feel like I have 11 business partners," Dimitroff enthuses. Doria adds: "As a solo practitioner, I see my co-members as my colleagues. I need someone to question my own assumptions. Even experienced planners need their assumptions questioned from time to time."
Jim Grote, a CFP in Lousiville, Ky., is a Financial Planning contributing writer.
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We have lived in Mexico ever since buying our ESV in July 2006. 95% of the gasoline burned has been PEMEX, Mexican gas. Almost of the service performed has been at a local Mexican garage. At 30,000 miles I started using "Mobile 1" for engine oil. The ESV has 128,000 miles. What a great vehicle. Most expensive repair was the replacing of the rear shocks. We not had any out of the ordinary repairs - shocks - brakes - tires. I would buy another in a heart beat.
2007 Cadillac Escalade ESV
By on 11/30/11 | Calais, ME
One daytime running light burnt out and I was amazed at how much work the GM mechanic had to do to access the light socket. He even had to remove the grill and the fender liner which needless to say takes a lot of time and costs a lot for a cheap standard issue filament bulb. Since then one daytime driving light will be out and people will tell me about it but strangely it may come back on in a few days and a few days later the same or the alternate one will be out. I am not going to spend close to $200 again to change a bulb.
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CELTIC'S Champions League reprieve earned them a clash with Slovenian champions Maribor in the final play-off round.
The Scottish league winners were beaten 6-1 on aggregate by Legia Warsaw in the previous round but the Poles were punished for fielding an ineligible player.
Bartosz Bereszynski, who came on as an 86th-minute substitute as Legia won the second leg 2-0 at Murrayfield on Wednesday night, was suspended following a red card for violent conduct in last season's Europa League.
Do Celtic deserve a second chance in the Champions League?
Hours before the draw for the next round was to be made, UEFA announced that Celtic had been awarded a 3-0 win in the second leg, and therefore qualified on away goals after a 4-4 aggregate result.
Celtic reached the group stages last season but failed to progress from an extremely tough pool that also included AC Milan, Barcelona and Ajax.
Arsenal will meet Turkish side Besiktas in the two-legged play-off.
Arsene Wenger's side, who finished fourth in the Premier League last season, will travel to Istanbul for the first match in the week beginning August 18, with the home leg taking place the following week.
Arsenal have never previously met Besiktas in any European competition.
Speaking about the reprieve, Celtic boss Ronny Deila said: "It is very strange, I have to say that.
"First of all I feel very sorry for Legia, and my friends from Norway there.
"It is tough to think of that and now we are in the Champions League.
"That is what UEFA said, we haven't been involved in anything.
"I am a football manager and I have to go with it and now we are preparing for Maribor."


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Update on Smithsonian/Wojnarowicz 02.03.11
Here's the latest on the Smithsonian's censorship of David Wojnarowicz's video "A Fire in My Belly".
Smithsonian Institution's Governing Board Seeks Changes After Video Flap at Portrait Gallery
Associated Press, 2/1/11
By: Brett Zongker
WASHINGTON (AP).- The Smithsonian Institution's governing board on Monday called for changes in how potentially objectionable exhibits are handled while also standing behind the head of the museum complex amid accusations of censorship.
SPACES will screen "A Fire in My Belly" through February 13th (the date through which it should have remained on view at the National Portrait Gallery) in The Vault.
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It's been a foregone conclusion since Variety broke the story in February that the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences would remove at least seven of the 28 awards from the live Emmy telecast by prerecording them and showing only the acceptance speeches. The board voted on the matter back then, with the only question being which awards were going to be shifted — and which group of recipients disappointed.
The answer appears to be predominantly the longform community, with six of those categories — outstanding movie, miniseries, writing and directing for a movie or miniseries, and supporting actor/actress — to be time-shifted into (or depending on one's point of view, out of) the primary telecast.
Two additional categories for writing and directing will also be prerecorded.
So what's the big deal, and why is this happening? The goal is to give producer Don Mischer more time to put together an entertaining show, and remove categories that might not be as interesting to the audience. By cutting out the build-up, the "time-shifted" approach will probably give the producers another 15 minutes or so to play around with during the CBS broadcast.
It's a happy coincidence that most of those categories are likely to honor a cable network and have traditionally overlooked broadcasters in recent years. HBO has won best movie, for example, all but two times since 1993, and broadcasters have grown tired of seeing the awards become a three-hour commercial for the pay service, which set a record last year with 13 awards for the miniseries "John Adams."
Still, the TV academy knows that some people are not going to be happy about this. Longform producers and execs, led by Helen Verno at Sony Pictures Television, complained bitterly when the matter first arose.
The academy responded with this statement at the time:
"We have no intention to remove any of the TV movie, miniseries,
variety/music/comedy specials and series categories from the Primetime
Emmy Awards. There have been no such discussions with CBS."
One can sympathize with the academy about the pressure to remove (or at least diminish the exposure for) certain categories and streamline the awards. The Tonys and Grammys have employed a similar approach. Even the Oscars demonstrated a willingness to break with tradition by expanding best picture to 10 nominees.
The academy's leadership, however, should have been more honest with longform producers when the situation first became public, instead of (charitably) punting the problem down the road — including the question of whether the talent guilds representing writers, directors and actors will withdraw waivers for the use of clips if they are unhappy about the new configuration.
Honorees will still get their moment in the sun, even if it's slightly different and somewhat cloudier than in the past. That said, there are going to be some hurt feelings, and I suspect there might be a little extra irritation about the simple fact that the academy didn't engage in some straight talk about its plans from the get-go.
Update: Emmy producer Don Mischer confirmed that the changes are planned while stating that the actual configuration of the awards isn't officially locked. He also noted that the prerecorded awards will have to begin around 4:15 p.m. PT (45 minutes before the live telecast), so a long evening just got a bit longer.
Meanwhile, Academy Chairman John Shaffner has emailed members complaining about the information leaks out of the academy, which of course was promptly leaked. Fortunately, we're talking Emmy procedures here, not torture memos, but it's always nice to be talked (or emailed) about.
Mischer also noted one interesting point during the conference call: That with the increased commercial load in primetime, the Emmys have to present 28 awards in roughly 2 hours and 10 minutes, which left "very little time to do anything else." I doubt that will mollify those writers, producers, directors and actors who feel like they're being dissed, but when you ask "Why can't they hand out 28 awards in three hours?," it's a noteworthy statistic.


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Advances in Difference EquationsVolume 2009 (2009), Article ID 243245, 29 pagesdoi:10.1155/2009/243245
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Welcome to this month's edition of Leaders Connect.
What a busy month it has been here at LG Professionals, SA!
We have hosted the 2017 Emerging Leaders Program Retreat, the Local Government Module of the Professional Leaders Program, a Digital Strategies Workshop, Women's Network Forum on Resilience, Engaging Citizen's Master Class, Project Management Program, Change Management Program and Economic Development Forum.
We have also launched the Performance Excellence Program which you can read more about below. This is in addition to our numerous member network meetings!
We now approach membership renewal time and look forward to welcoming returning members to another eventful year and introducing new members to all that we do. We finish the year with a record number of members – 445! This represents over 30% growth on last year.
I hope all of your budget processes have gone well and that you take some time to reflect on your achievements in the financial year just ending.
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This month we speak with Emma Watkins, Senior Community Ranger - Community Safety, City of Onkaparinga.
Emma speaks about what motivates her to achieve in local government, her recent experience in the emerging Leaders Program and her thoughts on the recent national Congress.
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What's your current role, and what does it involve?
My current role is Senior Community Ranger - Community Safety at the City of Onkaparinga. I'm based at the Noarlunga office and am responsible for managing any escalated issues, creating and managing strategies, projects and procedures and ensuring our team can effectively meet the needs and expectations of our community.
Our team consists of 11 Community Rangers, two Seniors, a TL and Manager. Our Community Rangers number can increase to 17 throughout summer which is our peak season.
We're responsible for the effective administration of approximately 13 Acts with around 70 per cent of our work focused on dog management.
Day-to-day my troops are out on the road investigating reports, proactively attending to identified breaches and engaging with the community.
Our team handles approximately 2500 reports each year, spends 1000 hours proactively patrolling our foreshore throughout summer and manages 35,000 registered and 10,000 unregistered dogs, just to name a few!
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In Allen Toussaint's view, Dave Bartholomew deserves much more.
In the 1950s and '60s, Bartholomew produced and co-wrote most of Fats Domino's hits, making theirs the most fruitful creative partnership in New Orleans music history. Bartholomew largely shaped the New Orleans big beat, part of the alchemy that rendered rock 'n' roll out of rhythm & blues.
Toussaint modeled his own fertile career as a songwriter and producer on Bartholomew's. But despite Bartholomew's induction in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Songwriters' Hall of Fame, Toussaint believes he has not received his due.
So on Sunday night, Toussaint threw a private party in Bartholomew's honor. He booked the swanky Blue Room of the Roosevelt New Orleans hotel for four hours and invited 160 guests to eat, drink and celebrate Bartholomew's legacy.
Commemorative candles flickered on table tops amidst fresh-cut sugarcane. Testimonials were spoken, gifts bestowed. A crack band and A-list bandleaders lovingly recreated Bartholomew's music as the 89-year-old guest of honor sat, surrounded by friends and family, at a table just off the dance floor.
Toussaint footed the bill, the equivalent of a five-figure wedding reception. He also served as the evening's emcee, introducing "the man of the night, the man of the year, the man of the decade, the man of a lifetime ... Dave Bartholomew."
The party's timing was appropriate. Sixty years ago, in December 1949, Bartholomew produced his first million-selling singles: "3 x 7 = 21," by Jewel King, and "The Fat Man," Domino's first release.
A record's producer is comparable to a movie's director, shaping the sound of a recording by coaching performers and tinkering with arrangements. Bartholomew's role was even greater, as he brought to bear a single-minded determination and insistence on excellence and professionalism.
Bartholomew oversaw the first recording session that Mac "Dr. John" Rebennack attended as a young man.
"Dave played the final section with the horns and made it fatter," Rebennack recalled Sunday night. "He wasn't the guy who was a producer and sat on the other side."
Bartholomew also cleared the studio of anyone not directly involved in the work. "It's all about business," was the lesson Rebennack took away.
To Rebennack, Bartholomew richly deserved Sunday's soiree: "When somebody can get the cats their props before they're gone, it's rare. Too many people get their props after they've passed away."
The guest list for "Here's to You, Dave" was a who's who of New Orleans music: Rebennack, resplendent in a turquoise suit. John Boutte, with his mother as his date. Clarence "Frogman" Henry. Smokey Johnson, the legendary drummer. James Andrews. Bob French. Herb Hardesty, an anchor of the fabled Bartholomew studio band. Al "Carnival Time" Johnson. Wanda Rouzan. Keyboardist Davis Rogan, accompanied by "Treme" writer/producer David Simon. To no one's surprise, a guest card bearing Fats Domino's name went unused.
Pianist Ellis Marsalis and trumpeter Leroy Jones opened the show with "Stardust," one of Bartholomew's favorite songs. Frogman Henry revisited "I Hear You Knockin'," a hit Bartholomew produced for Smiley Lewis. Walter "Wolfman" Washington nailed "Blue Monday." Dr. John presided over "The Monkey Speaks His Mind," Bartholomew's ode to a council of primates who scoff at man's folly.
Deacon John Moore lit up "Some Day." Decades ago, he encountered Bartholomew's crack band, with their uniforms and monogrammed gear. "Man, that's who I want to be," Moore thought at the time.
"I was so blessed to have you as my mentor," he said to Bartholomew. "And I'm glad you lived long enough to see the first African-American president ... of our musicians' union," Moore continued, referring to himself.
Cosimo Matassa operated the recording studio where Bartholomew conducted most of his recording sessions. "All those years, Coz wore a T-shirt," Toussaint noted in his introduction. "Coz has a coat and tie on tonight. Nice."
Of Bartholomew, Matassa said, "From Day 1 when I met him, he's been a special person in my life for two reasons. He's a great musician, and a great man. If there are any youngsters out there who want to be musicians, they couldn't go wrong following in his steps."
Louisiana Music Hall of Fame executive director Mike Shepherd inducted Bartholomew. At the piano, Toussaint performed "Here's to You, Dave," written for the guest of honor. Partial lyric: "Would Fats be walking home if not for you, Dave?"
The New Birth Brass Band appeared at the back of the Blue Room and marched to the dance floor with "I'm Walkin." Bartholomew could not resist; he joined in on trumpet, and stayed for the subsequent "When the Saints Go Marching In." The guy working the Cajun-fried turkey carving station buck-jumped and danced.
"When we hear music like that," Toussaint noted, "we know all the links in the chain are intact."
Sitting in with the brass band was not enough for Bartholomew: "I don't want you to say, 'He didn't play a g----n thing.'"
With that, he directed Toussaint to the piano. The pair unspooled a lovely "At Last," Bartholomew muting his horn with a plunger.
Bartholomew recalled growing up without a father and how that instilled an unrelenting drive. During his tenure as the city's reigning hitmaker, "people said I was egotistical. It wasn't that. I wanted to be somebody."
On Sunday night, he certainly was.


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One of my children attends a special needs school. The nursery of the school would like to build a garden area where children can plant and grow flowers, vegetables, herbs. I thought I'd write some letters to local garden centres asking for donations of plants. Has anyone got any tips on the best way to approach this for the best results? Many thanks.
A brief paragraph that outlines the school's basic purpose should begin the letter, followed by a request for a specific donation. Add a date/time when you'd like to pick up the donation, and mention that there will be a follow up phone call to arrange that, if convenient.
If possible, an invitation to view the site of the proposed garden would be nice.
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A Huntington Station man who allegedly brandished kitchen knives at two police officers was tased and arrested at East 20th Street in Huntington Station Wednesday afternoon, Suffolk County police said.
The incident came after officers responded to a domestic incident at 4:20 p.m. June 17, police said in a news release.
When Second Precinct Officers Joseph Reilly and Michael Lavrovsky arrived, they were confronted by Kevin Jaime, 21, who police said was holding a kitchen knife in each hand.
Officials said that Jaime approached the officers "in a threatening manner" and ignored commands to drop the knives. Police then "tased" Jaime, who was taken to Huntington Hospital after the incident.
Jaime was charged with menacing a police officer and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon.
A police spokesperson said Thursday afternoon that Jaime remains in the hospital and will be arraigned at a later date.