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Announcements CPA Ethics Course Sponsored by Petroleum Accountants Society of Houston Earn CPE credit and obtain the required ethics hours! Wed. February 25, 2009 8:00 A.M. – 12:00 P.M. The course is being offered at the Oxy offices located in the Plaza Conference Room, 5 Greenway Plaza, Houston, Texas by Dr. Ray Clay University of North Texas Cost is $75.00 per person Make Checks payable to PASH (no credit cards) Mail registrations and payments to Billy Moye at P.O. Box 27570 Houston, TX 77227-7570 Registration deadline is February 13, 2009. Attachment: CPA Ethics Course for PASH.doc Graves & Co Speaker Series Graves & Co. invites you to the third installment of our 2008 Speaker Series. Please join us for a cocktail reception presenting the Honorable John Culberson, Congressman of the 7th Texas Congressional District & Mr. Martin Gibson, Senior Counsel in the Dallas office of Patton Boggs LLP. John Culberson – See Bio Martin Gibson – See Bio Congressman Culberson and Mr. Gibson will discuss what the oil and gas industry can expect from the 111th Congress in 2009. Don’t miss this opportunity to get the experts’ opinion on upcoming oil and gas legislation! When: Thursday, October 9th, 2008 4pm – 7pm Where: Graves & Co. 1415 Louisiana, Suite 2100 Houston, TX 77002 RSVP: Donna Simons at 713-650-0811 or dsimons@graves-co.com (Limited to the first 100 Respondents) Update on the COPAS Website Modification from the Executive Director of COPAS We are currently working on the website. We have modified the "Member Directory" link. In order to access this new link, you must be logged into the website. Only members can view a member's profile. I believe you will agree the new member directory is a vast improvement over the prior link. We are planning to keep in place our current maintenance policy of the member directory, which is as follows; each society president or designee will initially authorize or set up new members, and then the COPAS office will supply new members with a login and password, and any subsequent updating of a member's profile will be the responsibility of the individual member. A member's profile will consist of his or her name, address, phone numbers, email addresses, company name, etc. The website developers are working on the maintenance section of the website, so we cannot do any maintenance at this time. Please advise your members accordingly of the updated member directory link and maintenance plan. Thank you all for your continued support. Cheers, Steve Irizarry Executive Director COPAS, Inc. 877-992-6727 Important Information on PASH Membership Dues: In light of delays and disruption as a result of Hurricane Ike, the PASH Board has approved extension of the PASH membership dues payment receipt date until October 15th.
Any dues received after OCTOBER 15TH will incur a $25.00 LATE FEE.Change in September 2008 Meeting Date: Due to the impact of Hurricane IKE the PASH Board has cancelled the September 18th meeting and has rescheduled the meeting to TUESDAY, September 30th (the only alternative date available at Houston City Club). Our decision was based on several factors not in any order of importance:
You are all in our thoughts and prayers and we hope that you and your family made it through the storm safely. Hope to see you on Tuesday, September 30th. Reservations/cancellations are due no later than Thursday, September 25th by 11:00 am. Thanks,
Your PASH Board The Louisiana Department of Natural Resources is having its third Louisiana oil and gas seminar entitled "Louisiana Oil & Gas: From SONRIS to Sunset" on September 22-23, 2008 in New Orleans at the Marriott at 555 Canal St. The discounted preregistration price of $360 is good through September 1, 2008 after which time the price increases to $410. For registration information, go to www.regonline.com/oilandgas2008 Many thanks for your support and sympathies in this difficult time. Some of you have expressed an interest in making donations to different entities within the cancer community: For those wishing to make donations, we ask that you consider the below option. We would like to prevent/limit donation funds from being used for new hospital beds, construction, etc. Rather, we would hope to channel that money towards grass roots cancer research. Below is an e-mail from Dr. Robert Newman for specific donation funds that are directly related to mesothelioma research. Unfortunately mesothelioma is rare and receives little attention in research, thus at this time no explicit research fund is available. Source: Dr. Robert Newman, MD Anderson Cancer Research, Professor of Cancer Medicine - I am attaching a general "Mail In" donation form that can be used. I strongly recommend also enclosing a letter to the MDACC Development Office indicating how you wish your donation to be used. I am also attaching "below" suggestions for phrasing of that letter. No matter how you wish the money is used, I thank you for thinking of MDACC and for your donations. I have spent the last 24 years trying to prevent and treat these diseases and I have seen real progress made over that time. Your donations will make a difference.- __________________________________________________________ .If you would like to make a donation to cancer research in memory of Dennis Martin Porath, please open the attachments below, which contain the donation election form & the mail-in donation form, and mail them to the address shown on the mail-in donation form. Thank you! Attachment: MD Anderson Cancer Center Mail-In donation form.pdf Attachment: Donation election form.doc
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