Steph: Thanks for the support and empathy. Read AAPL President Jack Richards’ remarks in the Jan '12 Landman 2. Jack’s a UT/PLM classmate of mine and I share his position that it is the incumbent duty of all landmen of authority, whether in-house or out-house, to insist on their delegates be AAPL members. Myself, while a 20-year CPL, I’m critical of the Certified Professional Landman in its absence of exclusion of practice by non-CPL(AAPL) and that any number of academic/career workshops offer blitz classrooms on fundamentals of landmanship then issue a “certificate” of attendance (not competency!), then the person presents themself as “certified”? Oh, come on now!!! Nail technicians require more classroom/certification than a “landman.” As you might imagine, I’ve an advocate of the licensing issue … why not? You and I earn, demonstrate and sustain our skills and integrity and should our career be infiltrated by last night’s bullrider? Again, myself: in the early stages of Eagle Ford work in DeWitt County, Texas (where I resided with an office/infrastructure, known in the community, etc.) likely because of my insistence on a professionally earned day-rate, lost a placement to a broker to a person that I personally know was shampooing dogs at the vet clinic the prior week, then pranced around the community as a “landman” … of course, fit hit the shan when they got their 1099 at the end of the year and hadn’t been advised of the self-employment tax rate and the necessity of quarterly estimates being paid (Ooops, now how am I going to make payments on that new car, new boat, new ATV, etc?). Article in recent New York Times referred to the landmen canvassing the state/Marcellus as door-to-door salesmen … yep, AAPL, you’ve done a great job with our public image … erk, NOT!!! later, RA.