Hello, Nadia,
You can still sign the petitions. There is no citizenship requirement (that I know of), and this is a global issue.
Dean
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Dean L. Olson, Ph.D.
Director, NMR Lab, 146 Roger Adams Lab
School of Chemical Sciences
U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
600 S. Mathews, Box 81-5, MC-712
Urbana, IL 61801 USA
Lab: 217-244-0564; Cell: 217-722-9432
dolson_at_illinois.edu<mailto:dolson_at_illinois.edu>
http://scs.illinois.edu/nmr
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From: nadia beepath [mailto:nadiabeepath_at_hotmail.com]
Sent: Friday, September 20, 2013 9:06 PM
To: Josh Kurutz; Olson, Dean
Cc: ammrl_at_ammrl.org
Subject: RE: AMMRL: Helium Crisis Petition to the White House
Hi everyone,
I am from the Caribbean and we reply on the US suppliers to get our shipment. This issue is also affecting us. Is there anything we can do to show our support?
All the best,
Nadia
Nadia Singh (PhD)
Development Engineer III
Chemistry Department
The University of the West Indies
St. Augustine, Trinidad
Tel: (868) 795 4844
Email: nadia.singh_at_sta.uwi.edu<mailto:nadia.singh_at_sta.uwi.edu> / nadiabeepath_at_hotmail.com<mailto:nadiabeepath_at_hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: AMMRL: Helium Crisis Petition to the White House
From: jkurutz_at_alumni.caltech.edu<mailto:jkurutz_at_alumni.caltech.edu>
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 13:19:52 -0500
CC: ammrl_at_ammrl.org<mailto:ammrl_at_ammrl.org>
To: dolson_at_illinois.edu<mailto:dolson_at_illinois.edu>
Dean and AMMRLers,
I just heard from a reliable source that the Senate may be voting on S 783, the Helium Stewardship Act of 2013, as early as THIS AFTERNOON! Please sign the petition, but also CALL YOUR SENATORS!
Each of you in the U.S. has two Senators, and you can find out which are yours and what ther phone numbers are here:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
Also, when writing to public officials about the issue, you may feel free to cite these two great articles from C&E News:
http://cen.acs.org/articles/91/i37/Helium-Headache.html
http://cen.acs.org/articles/91/i5/Coping-Helium-Shortage.html
I talked with Andrea Widener, author of the latest piece, and the ACS publisher has seen the intense level of public interest in this matter, and pulled them out from behind the paywall. If you give these links to public officials now, they'll be able to freely read the articles. BIG THANKS TO ANDREA AND C&E NEWS!
Thanks!
- Josh
Josh Kurutz, Ph.D.
jkurutz_at_alumni.caltech.edu<mailto:jkurutz_at_alumni.caltech.edu>
773-315-5732
www.joshkurutz.com<
http://www.joshkurutz.com>
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On Sep 19, 2013, at 9:49 AM, Olson, Dean wrote:
Dear Colleagues,
Here is a petition to the White House to help avert the impending helium crisis. Thankfully, it was initiated by Yoshitaka Ishii from the U. of Illinois at Chicago.
You must register to sign the petition, but it only takes about 2 minutes. PLEASE DO THIS!! It is vitally important NOW. I am guessing a Presidential Executive Order could solve this immediate problem as well as the US Congress. Feel free to forward this to anyone you know, including any NMR scientists, non-scientists, friends, relatives, etc.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/do-not-risk-our-jobs-health-and-science-diminishing-us-helium-supply-closure-federal-helium-reserve/444QRQw0
Also, please take the time to sign the ACS petition about the same issue if you have not yet done so:
https://secure3.convio.net/acs1/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=151
Your support here can really make a difference.
Sincere regards,
Dean
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Dean L. Olson, Ph.D.
Director, NMR Lab, 146 Roger Adams Lab
School of Chemical Sciences
U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
600 S. Mathews, Box 81-5, MC-712
Urbana, IL 61801 USA
Lab: 217-244-0564; Cell: 217-722-9432
dolson_at_illinois.edu<mailto:dolson_at_illinois.edu>
http://scs.illinois.edu/nmr
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Received on Sun Sep 22 2013 - 10:28:15 MST