Congratulations to our 2005-2006 San Diego ASA Chapter Officers

President - Kim Ufford, AM
1st Vice President - Pamela Bensoussan, ASA
2nd Vice President - Jo Ellen Cole, Candidate
Treasurer - Georgie M. Stillman, ASA
Secretary - David Bowie, ASA

Kathi Jablonsky, Candidate

Kathi Jablonsky, ISA AM, was awarded a Certificate of Excellence at the ISA Annual Conference for outstanding contribution developing the online Educational Calendar for Antiques & Residential Contents.

Chapter Members

San Diego Chapter members participated in an ‘Heirloom Discovery’ clinic fund raiser for the Bonita Sunrise Rotary Club. Over 150 attended the “Hidden Treasures” event, with expert identification and information provided by Pamela Bensoussan, ASA, James Hill, Candidate and Georgie Stillman, ASA .

Jim Hill & Georgie Stillman at Bonita Sunrise Rotary Club	"Heirloom Discovery" Clinic

David Bowie, ASA with new Chapter
Member Teri Newman Brossmer

Teri Newman Brossmer, ASA
Joins San Diego Chapter & Opens New Office

To better serve the clients in her area, Teri has opened a new office at 1403 West Foothill #E in LaVerne. You can visit Teri's website at gem-appraisals.com.

Welcome to our Chapter, Teri!

for San Diego ASA Members at Annual Meeting of California Bar Association

• When: September 8th, 9th, & 10th
• Where: San Diego Convention Center, Booth #105 (near the entrance)
• Hours:
  September 8th – 5:45 PM – 8:00 PM
  September 9th – 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
  September 10th - 10:30 AM – 7:00 PM

The Cal Bar annual meeting is a terrific opportunity for you to meet attorneys and hand out information about the ASA San Diego Chapter & your own appraisal practice. (Details at California Bar website.)

The ASA booth will be open at the times noted above. We need members to staff the booth for 4 hour shifts.

Please give Georgie Stillman, ASA a call or email to sign up for your opportunity to promote ASA & your practice.

The Rewards of Leadership

Georgie presenting David Bowie
with his ASA Certificate

Another year has just flown by. Since the mid 1970’s I have been looking forward to the annual San Diego ASA summer meeting! It seems impossible that so much time has passed, so many things have happened. And through it all, I am still meeting regularly with the many friends I have made over the years in our Chapter.

The San Diego ASA has meant much more to me than just the source of much of my appraisal professional education – it has been the center of much of my life of friends and social events. Thank you all for having given me 30 wonderful years!

Daniel Vomhof, Ph.D. and Marion Vomhof, Esq.
June ASA Program Presentors

This year we have some very talented “new faces” taking leadership in the Chapter. This has been one of my greatest goals for the Chapter. It is important that new voices, new ideas, new leadership is developed in a professional organization – in fact, developing new leadership is one of the most important obligations of leadership in an organization. If the group fails to ‘grow’ new leadership, the energy of the organization withers, meetings get stale and dull, and worst of all, the ‘leaders’ appear cliquish and exclusionary. So this new vigor and leadership in the Chapter is something that pleases me enormously, and I wish all those going up the leadership ‘steps’ the greatest of success.

I ask all of you to get involved in the Chapter. We need and welcome your ideas for programs, educational seminars, field trips, joint meetings with other organizations. You will never regret taking on a leadership position with your San Diego ASA Chapter.

I look forward to seeing you, and hearing your ideas, in the coming year.

Georgie Stillman, ASA

If you are involved in a community activity, special event, interesting assignment, or know of courses being offered, please let us know. Contact Georgie Stillman, ASA 619-563-9000.

Personal Property Committee Plan Ireland Trip

"A Portrait of Ireland: Treasures of the Emerald Isle" is the title of this year's Personal Property annual conference, scheduled for Sept. 28–Oct. 10, 2005. The conference, held in conjunction with the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), will include travel to key areas important to Irish history, art and design.

Contact Janella Smyth, ASA, at (919) 468-5557 for additional information or click here for details of the trip and the registration form.

For a list of more courses, please visit our Education page.

I want to thank all of you for helping to make this year a very successful one for the San Diego Chapter of the ASA. A special thank you to all who participated in arranging for the monthly educational meetings which was a big success, especially: Pamela Bensoussan, ASA, 2004-5 Treasurer, gave an excellent program on Report Writing to the ASA & USPAP standard; Fran Preisman, ISA presented on Fine Art Authentication, David Bowie, ASA did a fine program on Enhancing Your Business, and a big thank you to Pamela for arranging last month’s program on Expert Depositions, which was a terrific. And I want to thank all of you for your loyal attendance to your local ASA chapter, because it is your participation and suggestions for programs, and your networking with fellow appraisers, that makes the chapter a true success.

I look forward to the coming year of monthly educational meetings starting up again on the 3rd Tuesday of September. We have a hard working Board, and you can count on another great year with their leadership.

Georgie Stillman , ASA

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What's a SSL & why do I care?

When making purchases over the internet, you want to feel secure in giving our personal data, not to mention credit card info. SSL is the technology that allows that to happen. Look for the "https:" indicator in the website address or the padlock on the lower right corner of your browser. (Some browsers do not show the padlock image.)

Short for Secure Sockets Layer, a protocol developed by Netscape for transmitting private documents via the Internet, SSL works by using a public key to encrypt data that's transferred over the SSL connection. Used by most commerce servers on the World Wide Web, this high-level security protocol protects the confidentiality and security of data while it is being transmitted through the internet.

The end of Spyware ?

Two bills focusing on spyware overwhelmingly passed the U.S. House of Representatives recently, including one that requires many software programs collecting personal information to get permission before doing so.

The Securely Protect Yourself Against Cyber Trespass Act, or Spy Act, also would outlaw the act of taking over a computer in order to send unauthorized information or code, and diverting a Web browser without the permission of the computer owner. The bill, which passed the House by a vote of 393-4, prohibits Web advertising that computer users cannot close "without undue effort" or without shutting down the computer, and it prohibits collecting personal information through keystroke logging.

A second bill, the Internet Spyware Prevention Act, or I-Spy Act, sets jail terms of up to five years for a person who uses spyware to access a computer without authorization and uses the computer to commit another federal crime. The I-Spy Act also would allow a jail term of up to two years for a person who uses spyware to obtain someone else's personal information or to defeat security protections on a computer with the intent of defrauding or injuring the computer owner.

Read the entire article.

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Newsletter Editor - Georgie Stillman, ASA

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