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Fuels and Fuel Additives
Submitting Reports
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Central Data Exchange (CDX)
EPA allows regulated parties to submit and certify required reports electronically via EPA's data portal, Central Data Exchange (CDX). CDX enables fast, efficient and more accurate environmental data submissions from state and local governments, industry and tribes to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and regulated parties.
EPA's fuels programs use the CDX to provide the regulated community a highly secure online submission and signature system for parties that must report. CDX can be used to submit any electronic (spreadsheet, CSV, text file) version of EPA's part 80 fuels reports (Reformulated Gasoline, Diesel Sulfur, Gasoline Sulfur, and Renewable Fuel Standard) at the same time and on the same spreadsheet, CSV or text file.
Particularly for Fuels Programs, CDX is utilized for five data flows. The five data flows are:
- OTAQReg: Fuels Programs Registration - This application is used for registration under 40 CFR Part 80.
- OTAQEMTS: EPA Moderated Transaction System - This application is used for Renewable Identification Number (RIN) transactions.
- OTAQDCFUEL: OTAQ DC FUEL Application: DCFuel - This application is used for the certification and submission of required reports for 40 CFR Part 79 and Part 80
- Office of Transportation and Air Quality (OTAQ) DCFUEL Registration Quick Start Guide (PDF) (21 pp, 1.6MB, EPA-420-B-14-086, September 2014)
- Office of Transportation and Air Quality (OTAQ) DCFUEL Submission Quick Start Guide (PDF) (19 pp, 1.4MB, EPA-420-B-14-087, September 2014)
- Office of Transportation and Air Quality (OTAQ) DCFUEL User Guide (PDF) (53 pp, 5.3MB, EPA-420-B-14-080, September 2014)
- OTAQWaiverCredits: Cellulosic Biofuel Waiver Credits Pay.gov Application - This application allows obligated parties to purchase Cellulosic Biofuel Waiver Credits for the RFS2 program (per 40 CFR 80.1456).
- EnviroFlash - This application allows EPA to communicate with those interested in receiving EPA Fuels Programs alerts.
Confidential Business Information:
In accordance with 40 CFR 2.301(h), EPA has determined that it is necessary to provide access to certain information submitted to us under Title II of the Clean Air Act to specific contractors, subcontractors, and grantees (collectively referred to as "contractors"). This information may be claimed as confidential business information (CBI). We have issued a Federal Register notice that describes this access.
Getting an Account:
EPA does not charge users or companies for access to any of the five OTAQ CDX data flows.
To access one or all of the first four flows above (EnviroFlash is one-time subscription and does not require a CDX account), users must set up a CDX account and follow specific registration procedures found on the reporting registration page. In addition, EPA requires specific delegation letters and responsibility letters based on the type of user and association. For more information, please visit the registration letters web page.
The use of CDX is open to any company that must submit reports to the EPA's fuels programs. Each CDX account is tied to an individual user who may submit for multiple companies, including joint ventures, if properly delegated.
Note: Users may not share accounts. CDX accounts are for individual persons not companies. Submitting information to the EPA under another person's account or name is a violation of the CDX policy and may be considered a crime.
OTAQDCFuels is the only fuels application that requires an electronic signature for encryption purposes. The fuels programs will cover CDX costs for up to five users from each company. The other flows do not require an electronic signature.
OTAQDCFUEL: OTAQ DC FUEL Application for Submitting Reports to EPA
The OTAQ DCFuel application for submitting reports to EPA utilizes Electronic Signature Agreements (ESAs) to streamline the processes for registration, data submission, and copy of record retrieval. Please note, the OTAQ DCFuel application is not a substitute for the title 40 CFR Part 80 recordkeeping requirements. Companies are still required to maintain copies of reports and other documents per the regulations.
EPA suggests that you keep your Java Runtime up-to-date. Please note, that while EPA has thoroughly tested the DCFuel application, certain corporate IT configurations may prohibit users from accessing this application and therefore may impact a user's ability to use the updated system. If you encounter any technical issues, please contact the CDX helpdesk (888-890-1995). Any non-technical, fuels program related issues should continue to be submitted to the fuels programs support line (202-343-9755 or email@example.com).
Interactive tutorial for OTAQ DCFuel application for submitting reports to EPA
User guides for OTAQ DCFuel application for submitting reports to EPA
- Office of Transportation and Air Quality (OTAQ) DCFUEL Registration Quick Start Guide (PDF) (21 pp, 1.6MB, EPA-420-B-14-086, September 2014)
- Office of Transportation and Air Quality (OTAQ) DCFUEL Submission Quick Start Guide (PDF) (19 pp, 1.4MB, EPA-420-B-14-087, September 2014)
- Office of Transportation and Air Quality (OTAQ) DCFUEL User Guide (PDF) (53 pp, 5.3MB, EPA-420-B-14-080, September 2014)
Company Delegate Report Submissions:
Responsible corporate officers or RCOs (as defined by the fuels programs) may, in addition to personally signing up and submitting online, delegate the ability to submit reports to EPA's fuels programs to another person in the organization. This delegation does not delegate responsibility, just the ability to submit the company's reports. This type of delegation is only allowed through the DCFuels application and not the alternative filing submission.
Note: An RCO delegation is only allowed through the DCFuels application and not the alternative filing submission.
Third Party Report Submissions:
RCOs may delegate the ability to submit reports to a third party.
RCOs can delegate this ability for third party agents by first sending the responsible corporate officer agent delegation letter during registration and then the responsible corporate officer agent report submission letter on company letter head to the EPA after each report submission the third party makes for the RCO. For more information on the delegation and responsibility letter, please visit the registration letters web page.
Consultants and agents who would like to sign up to submit reports through CDX on behalf of their clients must first contact EPA Fuels Programs Support by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Each agent must follow the appropriate instructions on the reporting registration page, and submit the agent responsibility letter. After the agent has been processed, he or she must download and follow theOffice of Transportation and Air Quality (OTAQ) DCFUEL User Guide (PDF) (53 pp, 5.3MB, EPA-420-B-14-080, September 2014)
If you have questions or request information, please contact the appropriate support or help line found on the Support & Help page.
Please visit EPA's Transportation and Air Quality web-based repository of mobile source documents, Document Index System (DIS). This searchable repository contains regulations, Federal Register notices, policy letters, and guidance documents.
Please visit our Related Links page for other fuel related information within EPA, other U.S. Agencies, and other fuel related websites.


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I Heart These - Storage Boxes
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Wow - those are GREAT! So naturally, no, I do not have an IKEA near me. lol. Summer trip?ReplyDelete
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Ooo these are great! I've never been to Ikea, but there IS one nearby!ReplyDelete
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I don't have an IKEA and am SOOOO jealous of those who do!ReplyDelete
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IKEA isn't one within 4 hours from me...so sad. I would be one of their best customers :)ReplyDelete
Awesome!! Just one more reason to go to IKEA!!! (Like I need another reason) :)ReplyDelete
How do I love IKEA let me count the ways...LOL....Mine is two hours away....but life has gotten in the way so no trips lately...but when I have it has been big time two rooms full of furniture! When life calms down a bunch of us from work plan on going ....off to pin this idea to my IKEA board....thanks for enabling...LOLReplyDelete
I do like so many Ikea items but I don't have one near me. :( Love the boxes.ReplyDelete
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These boxes are like the ones I use. I thought it was archive storage boxes until I read it and saw that these was cool cardboard boxes.ReplyDelete
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For most people, having a colonoscopy holds only slightly more appeal than, say, having their teeth gouged out one at a time with a rusty chisel.
So I was rather bemused when AmSurg, a for-profit ambulatory surgery company, emailed me a link last week to a new YouTube video, praising the colonoscopy experience as "not that bad."
Cheesy soul singer and a trio of women in silver miniskirts – what's not to like? Oh, wait. Colonoscopy.
Few people would argue that the colonoscopy isn't a valuable screening and diagnostic tool. Indeed, a brand-new study published a couple of weeks ago in the New England Journal of Medicine confirmed this: It concluded that when colonoscopies are performed and precancerous polyps in the colon are detected and removed, the death rate from colorectal cancer is reduced significantly.
In view of this compelling evidence, it's unfortunate that colonoscopy is lumbered with so much negative baggage.
Many of the people who posted at Medicine.net about their colonoscopy were ambivalent or found the experience downright miserable. "The most painful experience I have ever had and would not go back," wrote one person. "Painful" and "degrading" was someone else's assessment. Another commenter found it assaultive and reported waking up from the anesthesia several times during the procedure. "I hate that I will have to get this again eventually, and I will only consent because I want to keep myself as healthy as possible to be around for my kids, but I dread it and wish I didn't have to," she concluded.
The medical community acknowledges there are plenty of barriers to discourage people from undergoing a colonoscopy, especially routine screening colonoscopies in those who are otherwise healthy. When a group of Australian researchers reviewed a collection of more than 50 previous studies on patient attitudes toward colonoscopy, they found the laxative bowel preparation was "the most burdensome part" for most people. Anxiety, embarrassment, worries about pain, and fear of finding cancer also were reported as significant issues. The findings were published last month in the Patient Education and Counseling Journal.
Other studies have noted practical concerns as well. One of them is lack of health insurance. Scheduling and logistics also can be a problem; the anesthesia requires not only taking a day off work for the working-age population but also someone to accompany them and drive them home after the procedure.
Add it all up and it's not particularly surprising that adherence to colonoscopy screening guidelines in the U.S. – recommended for adults between the ages of 50 and 75 – is less than ideal. According to recent figures from the Minnesota division of the American Cancer Society, one in three Minnesotans who are 50 and older have never been screened. Nationally, about four out of 10 adults aren't up to date on the screening.
Is there a way to improve this? Maybe getting rid of some of the myths surrounding the procedure would help, suggest the folks at Providence Cancer Center of Oregon and Washington. The prep is short-lived, the procedure is done under anesthesia and most people only need to take a couple of days off work, they explain. Their advice: "Get over it, please – and get screened."
It should be pointed out that colonoscopy does carry some risk of complications. Bleeding and perforation can occur, and some people may become ill from the prep. Serious complications don't appear to be common, however; one study put the incidence at about 5 per 1,000 procedures.
For what it's worth, many people who undergo the procedure discover it wasn't as bad as they thought it would be. Still, it's not hard to see why the colonoscopy is heartily disliked or why patients would balk at having one. There's ongoing research on alternative, less invasive screening methods such as virtual colonoscopy, but to date none of them have been shown to be as reliable or effective as the standard colonoscopy. Until we can come up with something better, the dreaded colonoscopy is the best we have.


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Thank you Matt - I didn't think about that confusion. You are correct!
Just as a reminder, this contest ends tonight.
For all those that haven't entered yet... I really don't know why.
$10 to enter this contest.
So far, only SIX people have entered!
So, let's say you enter and PayPal $10. Even if you can't go to this game, let's say you win. You can SELL these tickets and make at least $240. Each ticket has a face value of $45.
Let's say you sell these tickets for $40. $40 * 6 tickets comes to $240.
As said, this contest ends at 11:59 pm.
Come on people... if anything else, help out FinHeaven!
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I kept refreashing the page all this morning, I forgot it didnt end until midnight tonight. Really hope I win because I have never gone to a Dolphins game before but have been a fan for as long as I can remember. Hopefully the number stays at 6 people.
payment is sent.
if i won, i'd be the happiest person ever.
i may cry too.
Has the winner been announced?
Congratulations to Paul Walker of Tampa, FL as he is the winner of this contest. While not an avid poster on the forums, he has been registered on the forums for over one year.
Attached is the screen shot using the random function in Excel. I used random between to say to grab any names between 1 and the number in E5... 34, which is the total entries in the contest.
I apologize for the short notice of this contest. I promise to give more notice next time....
Why isnt my name on the list?
Congrats on the win tho, wish I gotten it.
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lol dude look at the list it only shows 4 - the guy who won. your probably 1, 2, or 3 especally if you were one of the first 3 to send it in.
oh i thought it was a raffle for each game so there would be 3 different winners... damn
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Today we have the third guest post from Eric Patterson, Excel Program Manager. Eric is writing about compatibility in Excel 2007.
Conditional Formatting is one of the areas where we have made a lot of improvements in for Excel 2007. Dave has already described in previous posts what we have done; here is a recap of our investments:
- Three new visualizations – "data barsâ€, "color scalesâ€, and "icon setsâ€
- New UI for adding, removing, and managing conditional formats
- New conditional formatting "rulesâ€
- Increased "limits†and other customer requests
- Some PivotTable-specific functionality
- Some Table-specific functionality
I want to describe in more detail what to expect using these features in Excel 2007 when sharing workbooks with others using previous versions of Excel.
Formatting Retained
In general all of the conditional formatting is retained when saved to the Excel 97-2003 file format. Even though previous versions of Excel don't have the same functionality, we do save the conditional formatting to the file and the file can be opened and saved in previous versions of Excel without losing conditional formatting.
What does it look like?
Previous versions of Excel cannot display the new data visualizations that we have added. In the example below I have added 3 different types of visualizations and saved to the Excel 97-2003 file format. The pictures show what you will see in Excel 2007 and previous versions.
Can I edit the file?
Files that have new conditional formatting stored in them can be edited in previous versions. You can change values in cells, sort ranges, add formatting and do a number of other tasks without disturbing the conditional formatting. In general if you don't make changes directly to the conditional formatting on a range, it will safely round-trip back to Excel 2007.
For example, using the same file, I opened it in Excel 2003, cleared a few cells, applied bold formatting, changed number formats and sorted a range. I saved the file and then opened it in Excel 2007. Here is the result:
Designing formats for use in multiple versions
If you want to create workbooks in Excel 2007 with conditional formatting that looks the same in previous versions, you can do so by avoiding the new visualizations and new rules. Specifically, here is a list of new conditional formatting features that affect the result in previous versions:
- More than 3 conditions used for formatting – Previous versions of Excel limited the conditions to 3 per cell. You can use more than 3 and they will be retained, but only the first three conditions will be displayed in earlier versions of Excel.
- Conditional Formatting that overlaps – Excel 2007 let's you define overlapping conditional formatting and previous versions of Excel will not evaluate all of the rules, so these cells may show different formatting.
- New visualizations – As discussed above data bars, color scales and icon sets cannot be displayed in earlier versions.
- "Stop if True†– Excel 2007 has a new conditional formatting option to process additional formatting rules even when a previous condition is true. Earlier versions of Excel do not recognize this option and will stop after the first true condition.
- 'Top 10′ or 'Compare to Average' – Earlier versions of Excel do not have this ability and will calculate the condition across all values.
- Non-contiguous Formatting – Excel 2007 supports additional conditional formatting on ranges that are not adjacent to each other. This conditional formatting type is not supported in earlier versions of Excel."
- Conditional formatting of PivotTables – There are new types of formatting in Excel 2007. I will cover this in more detail in an upcoming post about the compatibility of PivotTables.
Finding Incompatibilities
As you are using conditional formatting the Compatibility Checker is designed to help you to identify and find the above issues in your workbook. Use the Compatibility Checker to make decisions about whether you need to change conditional formatting to ensure greater visual compatibility with previous versions of Excel.
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The Seventh Ray: Revealer of the New Age
To aid men and women endeavouring to prepare themselves for group service during this transitional era, the Tibetan Master Djwhal Khul suggested the study of all that he had written on the seventh Ray of Ceremonial Order. The Seventh Ray: Revealer of the New Age is a compilation of those statements found throughout the books Djwhal Khul wrote with Alice Bailey.
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Comments about Shimano Deore XT CS-M770 9-Speed Cassette:
Well, it's Shimano...enough said. The XT line is just another diamond in the gold crown of Shimano cycling products to my way of thinking. I've been a cyclist for a very long time. Everything from casual commuting to hard core racing. I've used drive train products from 1963 to present and seen bike parts companies come and go. Shimano has steadfastly progressed to be (in my mind) the premier working man's bike component producer. That said, this XT cassette is the bomb for any heavily used mountain bike. It's lightweight, smooth shifting and extremely durable. If my mother came to me for cassette advice, I'd tell her to buy the Shimano Deore XT.
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I expect it to last longer than the SRAM it replaced
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New chain and cassette does wonders for the mind and body. My last m770 09 spd cassette lasted exactly one year of regular, hard mountain riding, including through the Oregon winter. I should have replaced the HG93 chain sooner and maybe what happened would not have. A mis-shift in a tricky spot caused the chain to slip between cassette and spokes and bend the cassette's tallest two cogs. Rode it like that until the new set came in. New one works like a dream!
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Early look at Office 2016 Public Preview for Windows—on the desktop and phone
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Over the last 12 months, we've transformed Office from a suite of desktop applications to a complete, cross-platform, cross-device solution for getting work done. In January, we delivered the Office apps for Android tablets—and we're really proud of our 4+ rating in the Google Play store! Today I'm pleased to announce the preview for Word, Excel and PowerPoint for Android phones.
Power Map for Excel–May update for Office 365
In the May 2015 update of Office 365 we are proud to introduce a new core feature to Power Map: Custom Regions. The Custom Regions feature allows data to be mapped to the regions that matter most to you, even if they are not the traditional zip code, county, state or country regions. Custom regions are useful for plotting data on sales districts, school districts, congressional districts, land lot development,…
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Today we're expanding the Office 2016 Preview, making it available to Office users everywhere in preparation for general availability in Fall 2015. Office 2016 previewers will get an early look at the next release of Office on Windows desktop, but more importantly they'll help to shape and improve the future of Office. Visit the Office 2016 Preview site to learn more about the Preview program and if it's right for…
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On August 31, 1987, Michael Jackson released his now-iconic Bad album. This Friday marks the 25th anniversary of the King of Pop's historic record, which includes classics like "Smooth Criminal," "The Way You Make Me Feel," "Man in the Mirror" and, of course, the album's title track, "Bad."
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The Garage Guy's Guide to Welding: Welding Safely in the Home Shop
Every guy who's spent a decent amount of time in the garage knows that you don't take shortcuts with two things: the quality of your customization and your own personal safety when getting up and running with welding. The last thing you want is a hot spark or glob of molten metal to ruin your day and make your wife or girlfriend say, "I told you so." We'll take a quick look at what you need to stay safe and out of the emergency room while welding in the shop or garage.
It's really easy to become a victim of our own laziness during a quick tack weld, or go without proper protection because it's hot in the shop. Did you know that The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) claims that every day an estimated 1,000 eye injuries occur in American workplaces, and of that, mechanics (experienced and novice alike) share in the majority of risk. For metal fabricators, eye protection is just a start.
|There are no good excuses when it comes to using proper safety gear in the shop. We'll take a look a few new items that will keep you covered(and comfortable.
Proper Set-Up
Ensure your welder is on a flat surface away from any water or flammable materials including paper, cloth rags, oil and gasoline. Avoid working in wet conditions since water conducts electricity.
Verify proper grounding. A metal-on-metal connection is best(unimpeded by paint or other foreign material. Never use chains, wire rope etc. as grounding connectors.
When using gas cylinders, chain them securely to a stationary, upright support or cart at all times. When moving or storing a cylinder, fasten the threaded protector cap to the top of the cylinder. Only use gas hoses designed for welding.
Keep your work area free from clutter. This promotes safety and helps increase efficiency by making necessary equipment and tools easy to find. Cables and hoses can create a trip-hazard. Organize the workspace to minimize the number of cables underfoot. Coil up excess hose when finished to prevent kinks and tangles.
Examine hoses regularly for leaks, wear and loose connections. A quick spray with a soap and water mixture will create bubbles indicating a leak or loose connection. Immediately replace any faulty gas hoses with new hoses: resist the duck-tape (don't do it.)
Proper Tools
Even with heavy-duty gloves, picking up a piece of hot metal poses a burn risk. Pick up hot metal with a pair of pliers. Use appropriate tools for chipping and brushing off slag, grinding, sanding, etc.
|Find a good pair of high-impact safety glasses, and as much as possible get accustomed to putting them on in the shop, especially while grinding and cutting.
Proper Ventilation
Welding fumes can be hazardous, so ensure your workspace is properly ventilated. In smaller workshops like a home garage, it's a good idea to leave a door or window open and run a box fan as an exhaust, sucking fumes away from your breathing area.
|Because sparks fly when welding, try to keep your workspace clear of any flammable materials including paper, cloth rags, oil and gasoline. Open a window or door and use a box fan to exhaust harmful fumes away from your breathing area.
Proper coverage of exposed skin is key to protecting yourself while welding. This illustration shows the simple items that will keep you safe and out of the hospital.
Proper Attire
Although the following sounds obvious, a common fault among guys in the garage is not wearing the right safety equipment while welding. Some of the more credible welding equipment manufacturers have taken a responsible approach by developing their own lines of protective safety gear that meets OSHA regulations and better yet—is actually comfortable to wear.
Arc welding produces sparks and spatter and emits intense visible and invisible rays that pose several hazards to unprotected skin and eyes. Shorts, short sleeves and open collars all leave you vulnerable to burns from both flying sparks and the arc rays. Wear only flame-resistant clothing, and button your cuffs and pockets to prevent them from catching sparks. Pants cuffs, too, can catch sparks and should be avoided.
This patent pending design allows for added coverage across the chest and thighs depending on the welding applications. Hidden snaps protect materials from scratches and damage. Simply snap the apron off when not needed.
With respect to footwear, high top leather shoes offer the best protection. Tennis shoes and other cloth shoes are inadequate; they can catch a spark and smolder unnoticed, and their components can melt and stick to your skin.
Always wear proper gloves when welding or handling recently welded material to protect yourself from sparks, arc burns and the heat from the work piece. Mechanic-style gloves are not recommended for welding, as they are not flame resistant. Remember, even a quick tack weld requires the use of a welding helmet and appropriate apparel.
Leather gloves are essential to a welder. There are a variety on the market now but beware, some have a "one-size fits-all" design that will feel clunky, boxy and uncomfortable. Miller just introduced a new line of form-fitted gloves, jackets and accessories called Arc Armor. This stuff is designed by welders for welders.
Even a brief exposure to the arc's radiation may cause symptoms such as a burning sensation or eye irritation commonly referred to as "Arc Flash." Repeated exposure can lead to permanent injury. Always wear proper face and eye protection, including safety glasses underneath the welding helmet, when welding or when exposed to a welding arc. Get accustomed to putting safety glasses on each time you enter the shop.
Auto-darkening helmets offer the best solution if your welding needs require different processes-MIG, Stick, TIG-materials or parameters. All auto-darkening helmets must comply with the safety and protection requirements of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).
Auto-darkening helmets vary greatly in their response times to the light of the arc, generally between 1/2,000 to 1/20,000 of a second. Helmets also differ in the level of lens shade, with some remaining a fixed shade #10 and others adjustable between shade #9 and shade #13. Newer helmets offer convenient features such as auto-on and grind-modes.
The nice thing about auto-darkening helmets compared to fixed shade is that you can get setup and maintain the right position without having to flip up your helmet. This is also nice while welding in a tight area where flipping a helmet isn't possible.
|Auto-darkening technology found in modern welding helmets protects the welder from sparks and harmful UV rays with the added benefit of repositioning hands and work material without the need to flip the helmet up. Different models have multiple arc sensors that help when welding out of position. It's also a good idea to keep the cables on your welder coiled up when not in use. This keeps them from getting beat-up or becoming a trip hazard.
Making Safe Welds
Just as important to your safety is performing high-quality, structurally sound welds. Failing to fully grind out a crack or using insufficient current could leave you with a weld that appears sound, but in reality could fail under the demanding conditions common on the road.
Like operating the welder safely, strong welds begin with reading the owner's manual. It'll help you select the proper wire or electrode for your metal type and thickness and will provide guidelines for setting the correct current parameters to ensure adequate penetration. Don't have your manual anymore? Welding equipment manufacturers such as Miller Electric Mfg. Co. offer user manual's online for free download.
Once you have the wire/electrode and settings right, be sure to grind away the paint, rust and other surface material from the area to be welded. Stick and flux cored welding are more forgiving of these types of contaminants than MIG welding, but the metal should be cleaned as much as possible regardless.
One of the most overlooked steps in making strong welds is fully grinding out the cracks and holes that form in the equipment. Oftentimes, when a crack forms, the operator will simply get out their welder and start welding over the crack, ignoring the fact that the crack goes all the way through the metal. A "Band-aid" approach such as this creates an unsafe situation in which a small amount of weld material is being required to bear the same amount of weight and force that caused the crack in a much thicker piece of metal. To avoid this possibly hazardous situation, grind out the crack from both the front and back of the metal to make sure that the crack doesn't reform and continue spreading.
Making multiple passes is another step toward creating sounds welds. Operators often go too slowly, mistakenly thinking that the extra metal they are depositing will result in stronger welds. Rather, weld at a recommended pace and go back and make multiple passes as necessary.
Your Quick Welding Safety Checklist
Save a trip to the hospital and post this bad-boy on or near your welder!!!
Around the Shop
__Clean, dry workspace away from any flammable liquids or solvents
__Metal-on-Metal Ground
__Secured Gas Cylinder
Welding Tools
__Needle-Nose / Snips
__Chipping hammer
__Wire brush
__Grinder discs
__Cut-off wheels
__Open a window or door
__Exhaust fan if needed
Safety Clothing
__Safety Glasses
__Welding Helmet - auto-darkening or flip-shade with current ANSI certification
__Flame-resistant clothing with cuffs & pockets buttoned
__Gloves - Heavy duty leathers for welding
__Leather shoes - high-tops (steel-toes are a bonus)
Safe Welds
__Correct wire or electrode for material thickness
__Joint prep - grind off any surface material and paint
__Repairing cracks - fully grind out cracks and holes on both sides of the metal
__Make multiple passes at the recommended travel speed - Slower is not better


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- Activités d'apprentissage
- Activités d'aventures et de plein air - Activités aériennes
- Activités d'aventures et de plein air - Activités aquatiques
- Activités d'aventures et de plein air - Activités terrestres
- Bateau et croisières
- Centres thermaux et de bien-être
- Ecotourisme / Voyages nature
- Exploration culturelle
- Golf
- Mariages & voyages de noces
- Méditation
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Khao Sok Discovery
Tour Overview :
Situated in Khao Sok National Park in Southern Thailand, Tree Tops Jungle Safaris offers a range of exciting back-to-nature tours as well as room-only stays.
Our jungle tours include accommodation, food and a range of fun activities. We'll take you trekking, tubing, kayaking and elephant riding, but also give you plenty of free time to sit back and soak up the beauty of nature out here in the jungles of Khao Sok.
Staying in tree houses high up in the rainforest canopy and raft houses on Chiew Larn Lake, we'll make sure you get a real feel for jungle living.
Whatever you're looking for – whether it's adventure or relaxation – we can promise you a back-to-nature experience you won't soon forget. Come and explore with us at Tree Tops Jungle Safaris!
mettre en évidence : Tree House, Raft House, Wild Animal, Birds watching, Elephant riding
Departure Date : Daily
Tour Inclusion : Price Includes: All activities; transfers provided by Tree Tops as per itinerary; accommodation and meals.
-INCLUSIVE Transfer by join-in open Tree Tops bus from Surat Thani train station connecting with the night train from Bangkok.
Tour Exclusion : **EXCLUSIVE Transfer by combination taxi/public bus from Phuket hotel (Kata-, Karon- or Patong Beach):+500 THB pp. Other beaches +250 THB surcharge per person.
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Day by Day Itinerary :
Date 1 : Surat Thani - Khao Sok
Travel to Khao Sok from Phuket Bus Station **by the 7:30am air-conditioned public bus. Tree Tops staff will meet you on arrival at the public bus station at Khao Sok and transfer you to Tree Tops, where you'll arrive around 11:30am; or they'll pick you up at Oum Restaurant, opposite of the train station of Suratthani, for transfer by songthaew or minibus*; we'll leave at 8:00am, and arrive at Tree Tops at about 10:30am. Lunch is served at noon.
After lunch, we'll tube down the Klong Sok in inner tubes, or go canoeing. We'll visit a beautiful viewpoint, a small waterfall and the local temple where we can feed monkeys. Dinner and overnight stay in your tree house room.
Date 2 :
After breakfast you will be transferred to a local elephant camp for a 2 hour trek through the jungle. We return to Tree Tops for lunch. After lunch we'll do a 3-hour trekking through Khao Sok National Park. When we return at Tree Tops you can relax a little before dinner. Overnight stay in your tree house room.
Date 3 : Khao Sok - Raft House
After breakfast you'll be transferred to Rajaprabha boat dock. The boat departs at 10:30am and stops on its way at the local Takhun Market. The boat journey to the raft houses wil take about 1 hour. We'll have lunch there and afterwards visit a local fishing village, swim in a bat cave and walk to a waterfall. Back at the raft houses there's time to relax before dinner; to conclude the day, we'll do a short night safari to observe the nocturnal life of the rainforest. Sleep overnight in your raft house.
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Before breakfast we'll have an early morning canoe trip. In the late morning, there's a 3-hour trek to a highland viewpoint. After lunch, you're free to relax or do whatever you want around the raft houses. Dinner and overnight stay in your raft house.
Date 5 : Raft House - Surat Thani
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A KosherEye Signature Recipe
Made with Daiya parve alternative kosher mozzarella.
6 boneless chicken breasts, pounded or split *
Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Pound chicken breasts, or split chicken breasts in half with knife. (Each breast should be about 1/3 -inch thick)
Season each chicken breast with salt, pepper and garlic powder.
Create a breading station with two separate plates (we use glass pie plates).
Place bread crumbs in one and beaten eggs in second plate. With tongs, coat chicken with eggs and then with breadcrumbs. Set aside. Heat olive oil in a large non–stick pan. Place the chicken in the pan and pan fry, turning once, until both sides of chicken are browned. Remove the chicken; let drain on a paper towel.
Spread a thin layer of Marinara sauce in a 9 x 13–inch baking dish. Place the chicken in the sauce and bake in a pre–heated 425-degree oven for about 15 minutes or until almost done. Remove chicken from oven and ladle some sauce over each piece of chicken. Top each piece with Daiya kosher parve Mozzarella shreds. Return chicken to hot oven and heat until cheese is melted – about 5 minutes.
Prepare pasta per directions on package, and drain well. In a saucepan, warm additional Marinara sauce. Place hot pasta on a plate. Top with chicken and then with a generous serving of additional heated sauce. Enjoy with a lovely glass of red wine!
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St. Mary's sheriff's deputies shot and wounded a man during their response Monday morning to a domestic violence call in Lexington Park's Southampton community, the county sheriff said, and additional people at the residence also were injured.
The shot man was flown by a Maryland State Police helicopter crew to the Prince George's Hospital Center to be treated for non-life-threatening wounds, according to the sheriff's office. None of the officers at the scene were hurt, during their response to the 6:30 a.m. call that the assailant in the assault was armed with a knife.
"There are also victims who were taken to [MedStar] St. Mary's Hospital with non-life threatening injuries," Sheriff Tim Cameron (R) said later Monday at his agency's headquarters in Leonardtown. "I don't know what [the injuries are], ... if they are a result of an assault by the accused, or if they were injured by gunfire."
Sheriff's detectives and internal-affairs officers continued their investigation at midday Monday.


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text: UAH General Computer Use Policy Policy Last Revised: 03/11/2003 The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) is committed to providing a wide range of high-quality computing services to students, faculty, and staff, in support of the mission of the University as set out by the Board of Trustees. However, access to those services is a privilege, not a right, and all users must act honestly and responsibly. The following policy is established to ensure the security and integrity of the University's computer resources and the fair and equitable access to those resources by all the members of the University community. This policy applies to all University computing systems and all hardware, software, data, and telecommunications devices associated with these systems. Failure to abide by this policy or the implementing policies of the various University units may result in the loss or suspension of computing privileges, claims for reimbursement of damages, disciplinary action, and/or referral to appropriate state/federal law enforcement authorities. You will: Be accountable for using university facilities in an ethical and lawful manner. Use only those facilities for which you have been authorized, whether facilities are at UAH or at any other location accessible through a network. You are required to adhere to the policies established by the administrator of local computing facilities at UAH and the University's Internet provider AREN (Alabama Research and Education Network). Click here to view the latest version of the AREN Acceptable Use Policy. Take all reasonable steps to protect the integrity and privacy of the UAH computing facilities including software and data. In particular, you will not share with others the access codes, account numbers, passwords, or other authorization assigned to you. Not use university facilities to access, download, print, store, forward, transmit or distribute obscene material. Adhere to the copyright laws regarding software, data, and authored files. Respect the privacy of others by refraining from any and all unauthorized access to e-mail, files, data, and transmissions. Not use the UAH computing facilities for unauthorized commercial activities. Not use the UAH computing facilities for any illegal purposes. Such acts include but are not limited to: accessing, destruction of, or alteration of data owned by others; modification of computer system configuration; installation of unauthorized software; interference with access to computing facilities or harassment of users of such facilities at UAH or harassment of users of such facilities elsewhere; unauthorized disruption of UAH computing facilities; attempts to discover or alter passwords or to subvert security systems in any computing or network facility. Properly identify yourself in any electronic correspondence and provide valid, traceable identification if required by applications or servers within the UAH computing facilities or in establishing connections from the UAH computing facilities. Connection of a computer to the UAH network requires the registration of that computer with Computer & Network Services. Connection of any device other than a computer must be approved by and registered with Computer & Network Services. Each individual user is responsible for adhering to these policies. The responsibility for ensuring compliance with these policies will reside within Computer & Network Services, the Colleges, Research Centers and Departments. Any violation of this Policy or the implementing policies of the various University units may result in disciplinary action in accordance with campus regulations and State, and Federal laws.


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Fall Foliage Photo Contest open
Fall color normally peaks in northern Indiana during the first week of October. But the summer drought and recent rains make this season anything but normal.
And if we get a hard frost or two and some wind and rain, it could be a really short season for fall foliage.
So get your camera ready and plan to get out and capture fall beauty when and where you find it.
Then enter your photos in our Fall Foliage Photo Contest for a chance to win a $50 Jefferson Pointe mall gift card.
Our staff judges will select a winner based on the best photo of fall foliage taken this year. We'll look at image clarity, composition, lighting and overall visual appeal.
Limit of one photo per person.
No altered photos please.
You must be a resident of northeast Indiana to enter. Deadline is noon Oct. 29.
We plan to publish the best photos in the paper and at www.news-sentinel.com in early November.
Here's how to enter your photos:
•Web: Go to www.news-sentinel.com. In the navigation bar, click on Living and then scroll down to the "Submit a Photo" icon. Click on the icon and follow the instructions on the photo submission page. In the caption, please write "Fall Foliage Photo Contest."
•Mail: Send to Fall Foliage Photo Contest, C/O Features, The News-Sentinel, 600 W. Main St., Fort Wayne, IN 46802. Include your name, daytime phone number, what the photo shows and the location where it was taken. Include a self-addressed, stamped envelope if you want the photo returned.
Questions? Call 461-8347.
Brantley to speak on domestic abuse
Indiana Tech will host Terra Brantley, WANE-TV news anchor, as the next guest speaker in its University Forum series at 6 p.m. Thursday in Andorfer Commons, Magee-O'Connor Theater, 1600 E. Washington Blvd.
Admission is free to the lecture, "Terra Brantley: News Anchor, Domestic Abuse Survivor."
Brantley joined the news team at WANE-TV in 1993 and now anchors the morning and noon news. She also is a motivational speaker, discussing the obstacles she has overcome and how she escaped the hardships of domestic violence.
Brantley is an active community volunteer. She currently serves on the YWCA's Circle of Women committee. She's a member of the National Association of Black Journalists, and her honors include the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) Indiana Chapter Community Impact Award, the YWCA's Women of Achievement Award and the Fort Wayne Chapter of the Indiana Black Expo's Torch Bearer Award.
NIPR fund drive
Northeast Indiana Public Radio will hold a fall fund drive Saturday through Oct. 21 in hopes of raising $120,000, which accounts for 40 percent of its annual budget.
Listeners may make contributions at www.nipr.fm or by calling 452-1185 6 a.m.-10 p.m. weekdays and 8 a.m.-9 p.m. weekends. The toll-free number is 1-800-471-9264.


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Rhinoplasty (Nose reshaping)
Aesthetic/cosmetic surgery of the breast, body and face
Lymphedema Surgery including VLNT, LVA, specialized lmyphatic liposuction
Microsurgical breast reconstruction with DIEP, GAP and SIEA flaps
About Jay W. Granzow, M.D., M.P.H.:
Dr. Granzow is double Board Certified by both the American Board of Plastic Surgery and the American Board of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery. He specializes in microvascular surgery, breast reconstruction, rhinoplasty, and aesthetic/cosmetic surgery of the breast, body and face.
Born in Santa Monica and raised in a medical family, Dr. Granzow is native to the Los Angeles area.
He attended college at Princeton, where he majored in chemical engineering and graduated with honors and a certificate in engineering biology. During that time, he also completed independent work in the Programs in Robotics and Intelligent Systems and independent work in vaccine production at Merck Pharmaceuticals.
After college, Dr. Granzow attended Tulane Medical School and soon developed an interest both in surgery and microsurgery. These interests continued throughout both of his residencies; first in Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery at USC in Los Angeles followed by Plastic Surgery at the University of Miami in Florida. He graduated medical school in 1997 in the top 10% of his class and was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society.
Dr. Granzow also holds a Master of Public Health (M.P.H.) degree with a focus in Health Systems Management. He completed this during his time in medical school at Tulane.
After finishing his formal training in Plastic Surgery, Dr. Granzow traveled throughout the United States and internationally for almost 18 months, spending significant amounts of time working closely with many of the world's top surgeons in advanced microsurgery and aesthetic surgery. This included fellowships both in microsurgery and perforator flap breast reconstruction with Dr. Robert Allen in New Orleans, Louisiana and in advanced aesthetic surgery with Dr. Bryan Mendelson in Melbourne, Australia. Among the other physicians with whom he worked were Dr. Fu-Chan Wei in Taiwan, Dr. Isao Koshima in Japan, Dr. Philip Blondeel in Belgium and Dr. Hakan Brorson in Sweden.
Dr. Granzow has presented on various plastic surgery topics, including rhinoplasty, lymphedema surgery, and perforator flap breast reconstruction, at leading scientific and health meetings and has authored numerous articles in recent and upcoming issues of the major, peer reviewed, plastic surgery journals. He has also helped to perform a perforator flap breast reconstruction as part of a live surgical demonstration at the most recent international meeting on perforator flaps last held in Barcelona, Spain.
Dr. Granzow joined the UCLA Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in 2005 where he is Associate Professor of Surgery. His primary responsibilities include Harbor UCLA Medical Center where he is the Assistant Chief of Plastic Surgery and his private practice in the South Bay.
To schedule an appointment with Dr. Granzow, please contact his office at (310) 882-6261.
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Hank said, "No, no, no" to rehab this week on Californication. That was until he got to know Faith, played by this season's brightest guest star to date, Maggie Grace. After a disappointing premi More »
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The Earth Science Department at Rice University is currently accepting applications for a faculty position in the area of Earth and Planetary Science.
The Earth Science Department at Rice University is launching a Wiess Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship competition in the broad fields of Earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences.
Current Earth Science Newsletter
(Fall 2014)
The Rice Earth Science Department has 18 professors on staff and a similar number of adjunct professors from the local energy industry and space science community. The department includes about a dozen post docs and staff scientists, about 55 thesis graduate students, 30 Professional Masters, 20 undergraduate majors, and 14 administrative and technical staff. We have strong connections to NASA, the Lunar Planetary Institute, and the Houston energy industry.
Department focus areas are the structure and evolution of the continental lithosphere (Earth Structure and Dynamics), the past and present evolution of the Earth's climate, surface, and environment (Earth System Science), and the physics and chemistry of fluid flow and rock-fluid interactions (Environment and Energy Resources). Research topics include the evolution of Venus, Mars and the Moon, the Earth's core, mantle, crust, hydrosphere, cryosphere, and atmosphere, climate change and paleoclimate, and the genesis and migration of, and exploration for hydrocarbons.
We have a creative and dynamic faculty pursuing fundamental questions about the Earth and our environment. The Earth Science Department is ranked 25th nationally by US News and World Report, with the Rice Geophysics and Seismology Program ranked 12th nationally. Moreover, in recent years Rice geochemists have been awarded a Donath Medal, two Kuno Awards, two Clarke Medals, and two Packard Grants.
The department has a modern, aesthetically pleasing building, state of the art labs, and owns and is partner in a range of High Performance Computing facilities.
Rice is now home to the NSF GeoPRISMS office.
The Center for Computational Geophysics is one of the principal partners in the new Rice DAVinCI Visualization Center.
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Earth Science Faculty Rajdeep Dasgupta bestowed AGU's James B. Macelwane Medal
It is the highest honor bestowed to a young scientist in the field of geophysical sciences broadly defined
The American Geophysical Union has honored Rice Earth Scientist Rajdeep Dasgupta with one of the James B. Macelwane Medals, awarded during the past AGU Fall Meeting to five scientists for significant contributions to the geophysical sciences by an outstanding early career scientist. As part of the award, Dasgupta was also conferred an AGU fellow. Dasgupta, who is a petrologist and a high-temperature geochemist, was chiefly recognized for his and his group's contributions in the field of deep carbon and sulfur cycle of Earth and Mars.
The James B. Macelwane Medal is given annually to three or up to five honorees in recognition for "significant contributions to the geophysical sciences by an outstanding early career scientist."
Established in 1961, the Macelwane Medal was renamed in 1986 in honor of former AGU president James B. Macelwane (1953-1956). Renowned for his contributions to geophysics, Macelwane was deeply interested in teaching and encouraging young scientists.
More information for the medal can be found at: http://honors.agu.org/medals-awards/james-b-macelwane/
Sixteen Earth Science Students Awarded Travel Grants
Chevron provides assistance for graduate students to attend professional meetings
The Earth Science Department would like to recognize Chevron's generosity in providing $500 Chevron Travel Grants to a number of the department's thesis graduate students. These awards will assist them in attending one of the professional meetings this fall and give them the opportunity to present findings from their current research.
Three students, Brandee Carlson, Stacy Dwyer, and Sarah Huff attended The Geological Society of America's Annual Meeting, held in Vancouver, BC in October 2014. These students are all part of Dr. Jeff Nittrouer's lab group.
The remaining grants were applied toward student travel to the American Geophysical Union's Annual Meeting in San Francisco in December 2014. The students benefitting from these awards were: Austin Blaser, Laura Carter, Shuo Ding, Tian Dong, Megan Duncan, Monica Erdman, Zuolin Liu, Ananya Mallik, Kaitlin Moran, Lacey Pyle, Matt Weller, Guangchi Xing, and Chenhao Yang.
AGU's Paul Silver Award bestowed on Earth Science professor Juli Morgan
Honor recognizes leadership and contribution to research
Dr. Juli Morgan is bring honored with the American Geophysical Union's (AGU) Paul G. Silver Award for Outstanding Scientific Service. This prize is given given annually to recognize a scientist who has made outstanding contributions to the fields of geodesy, seismology, or tectonophysics through mentoring of junior colleagues, leadership of community research initiatives, or other forms of unselfish collaboration in research. Dr. Morgan is being recognized for scientific leadership on many fronts including her work with MARGINS and GeoPRISMS.
The award will be formally announced at the Bowie Lecture at AGU and at the joint Seismology/Tectonophysics reception at AGU, held in San Francisco in December 2013.
AGU's description of this honor: http://www.agu.org/honorsprogram/section_fg/joint_award/.
Jeff Nittrouer honored for work in Earth and planetary surface processes
Professor to present capstone lecture for focus group at AGU
Dr. Jeff Nittrouer has been chosen to receive the American Geophysical Union's 2013 Luna B. Leopold Award. This honor was established in 2009 by AGU's Earth and Planetary Surface Processes focus group to recognize a young scientist for making a significant and outstanding contribution that advances the field of earth and planetary surface processes. This award is given to scientists within 5 years of their Ph.D (or equivalent) degree. The award is to honor Luna B. Leopold, who engaged and nurtured young scientists throughout his distinguished career in hydrology and fluvial geomorphology.
Also, as a result of winning the Leopold Award, Dr. Nittrouer has been chosen to deliver the Robert P. Sharp Lecture at the fall 2013 AGU meeting. This is the capstone lecture for the EPSP Focus Group.
More information about the Leopold Award and past recipients is found here: http://www.agu.org/honorsprogram/section_fg/epsp/.
Earth Science's Rajdeep Dasgupta bestowed prestigious NSF CAREER Award
Funding furthers research of deep-Earth chemistry
Rice University Earth scientist Rajdeep Dasgupta has won a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award to unearth new details about processes and chemistry happening deep underground. The five-year grant, which goes to young scientists expected to have significant impact on their fields of study, will support a comprehensive look into the chemical evolution of Earth's interior. Dasgupta and his team will focus on how processes in Earth's mantle affect surface rock that dips downward over millions of years and how that surface rock interacts with the dense, coarse igneous rock called peridotite that makes up the bulk of material there.
Mike Williams' article announcing Dr. Dasgupta's award can be read in its entirety here: http://news.rice.edu/2013/03/21/earth-scientist-dasgupta-lands-nsf-career-award/.
Wiess Visiting Scholar recognized as one of top geochemists in the world
Dr. Janne Blichert-Toft announced as a 2012 AGU Fellow
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) recently announced its 2012 class of Fellows and has included Earth Science visiting professor and researcher, Janne Blichert-Toft, in this elite group. This honor is given to individual AGU members who have made exceptional scientific contributions and attained acknowledged eminence in the fields of Earth and space sciences. Dr. Blichert-Toft has been cited "for being the world's leading geochemist in the application of hafnium isotopes to the evolution of the Earth and the early solar system".
In addition to becoming AGU Fellow, Dr. Blichert-Toft recently received the CNRS Silver Medal from The Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (National Center for Scientific Research), which is a public organization under the responsibility of the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research. The CNRS Silver Medal honors researchers who are only at the beginning of their rise to fame, but who are already recognized nationally and internationally for the originality, quality, and importance of their work.
More on Dr. Janne Blichert-Toft: http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/janne.blichert-toft/index.htm
Earth Science undergrad receives HGS award
Houston Geological Society Undergraduate Scholarship Foundation has chosen Frasier Liljestrand to receive the Foundation's Maby scholarship for the 2012-2013 academic year. This scholarship is given to the highest ranked applicant among all of the universities participating in the program.
More information on this award can be found on the Society's website: http://www.hgs.org/education_scholarships
Professor Alan Levander, the Carey Croneis Professor of Earth Science and director of Rice's data analysis and visualization cyber infrastructure (DAVinCI, has been named as a committee member of Rice's new Energy and Environment Initiative (E2I), a sweeping plan to support interdisciplinary research that will draw experts from every corner of the university to work with Houston's energy industry to overcome barriers to the sustainable development and use of current and alternative forms of energy. Levander said E2I will allow Rice to initiate new lines of computationally based energy-related research from seismic imaging to modeling fluid flow in oil reservoirs. It will also allow Rice to expand programs like the Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology's Rice Oil and Gas HPC Workshop, which has doubled in attendance in less than five years. http://news.rice.edu/2012/09/20/rice-launches-sweeping-energy-and-environment-initiative-2/
Rice Earth Science doctoral students, Jianxiong Chen and Xin (Jonathan) Zhao have been named the recipients of the BP Scholarship Award in Geoscience for 2012-13. The award is given based on the student's outstanding academic record and personal interview. Rob Kelly, BP Executive Sponsor for Rice University and BP Global Projects Organization Vice President of Technical Functions, and Josue Villesca, BP Campus Champion for Rice University, will honor the recipients at a special dinner to held on Wednesday, September 19th. Congratulations to the Rice recipients.
The Department is proud to announce that Bonnie L. Hoffman, Senior Technical Support Specialist/Web Coordinator, is being honored as one of 100 Rice employees chosen for the Centennial Star Award. Centennial Stars are employees who represent the best of Rice culture. Each week during Rice's centennial year, nominated staff members are recognized for their contributions to excellence, and Bonnie has been recognized for inclusion in this elite group. Congratulations Bonnie! http://news.rice.edu/2012/08/24/meet-this-weeks-centennial-stars-19/
Earth Science professor recognized as outstanding researcher by AGU
Assistant Professor Dr. Rajdeep Dasgupta was recently chosen to receive the American Geophysical Union's Hisashi Kuno Award, an award bestowed by the Volcanology, Geochemisty, and Petrology (VGP) Section of AGU for outstanding contributions to the fields of Volcanology, Geochemistry, or Petrology. This accolade, created in honor of Dr. Kuno, the late petrologist who was a renowned professor at the University of Tokyo, is based on the quality of publications arising from work performed up to seven years past the receipt of the AGU member's Ph.D.
Outstanding Student Paper recognition bestowed upon seismology PhD. student
Kaijian Liu recognized by the AGU for presentation at Fall Meeting
The Seismology Section of the American Geophysical Union recently selected Kaijian Liu to receive an Outstanding Student Paper Award for his presentation at the 2011 Fall Meeting in San Francisco, California. Kaijian is a student of Dr. Alan Levander and will receive his PhD. at the May 2012 Commencement.
This recognition acknowledges Kaijian's presentation, "3-D Teleseismic Imaging of Scattered Wavefields Using Both Kirchhoff and Born Approximations," as among the best of a strong group of student presenters, setting an example for other students and the entire AGU membership.
Earth Science students receive Chevron fellowship awards
Scholarships benefit students in their first year of graduate study
For the fall of 2011, Rice graduate students, Jennifer Hero and Rachel Margolis were the recipients of fellowships funded by the Chevron Corporation. Additionally, Rice Earth Science student, Kate Ziegelgruber, will receive funding through an awarded fellowship for the Spring 2012 semester. Earth Science graduate student, David Mathews, is the beneficiary of Chevron fellowship funding for both the fall and spring semesters.
These students, all in their first year of studies, were selected on the basis of their academic records (grades, test scores, letters of recommendation etc.). The department is proud to recognize these students and is grateful to Chevron for its continued support of the department's educational mission.
Rice Earth Science professor refuses publication of report with systematic deletions
Texas state environmental agency accused of censorship relating to climate change findings
Dr. John Anderson, Rice University's W. Maurice Ewing Professor of Oceanography, charges that The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has systematically omitted all references to climate change and sea-level rise from an article he wrote about changes in Galveston Bay.
The deletions by the Texas agency are ideological and political, said Dr. Anderson. "I don't think there is any question but that their motive is to tone this thing down as it relates to global change," Anderson said. "...It's not about the science. It's all politics."
"Anderson said the TCEQ won't allow the article—written for a report by the TCEQ's Galveston Bay Estuary Program—to be published without the deletions. That, and Anderson's refusal to accept the changes, are holding up publication of The State of the Bay, a periodic report published by the program."
The rest of the Houston Chronicle article is here: http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Professor-says-state-agency-censored-article-2211691.php
Additional media coverage on this issue:
UPI.com - Scientists Revolt over Texas Censorship: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/10/14/Scientists-revolt-over-Texas-censorship/UPI-60611318617220/
The Guardian (UK) - Rick Perry officials spark revolt after doctoring environment report: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/oct/14/rick-perry-texas-censorship-environment-report?newsfeed=true
New Scientist - Texas officials censored climate change report: http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2011/10/texas-officials-censored-clima.html
Houston Press' "Best of 2011" Scientific Breakthrough Award
Dr. Alan Levander and Team recognized for Colorado Plateau research
The annual Houston Press "Best of" awards are out, and Rice's Dr. Alan Levander has been recognized in the Scientific Breakthrough category.
From the Press: "The asthenosphere and lithosphere don't usually concern us, but thankfully a brainiac team over at Rice University led by Alan Levander has them on their radar. There's a huge section of land known as the Colorado Plateau; it has a "rising while it's sinking" quality that's had scientists scratching their heads for a while. Seems the bottom layers (that's the asthenosphere) are pushing up, while the top layers (the lithosphere) are sinking down..."
More details on the "Best of 2011" award: http://www.houstonpress.com/bestof/2011/award/best-scientific-and-10-breakthrough-2674712/
Rice Earth Science Student Awarded BP High Performance Computing Graduate Fellowship
Kaijian Liu receives highly sought-after award from the Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology
The Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology has awarded one of this year's BP High Performance Computing Graduate Fellowships to Kaijian Liu, a graduate student in Earth Science studying under professor Alan Levander. Kaijian's research in computational seismology focuses on teleseismic imaging/inversion of the geological structure beneath the western United States.
"BP has been engaged with the Ken Kennedy Institute at Rice in a number of ways, including development of HPC education and training material, providing equipment to computer labs and co-hosting workshops focused on high performance computing in the industry," said Jan Odegard, executive director of the K2I at Rice. "The fellowships not only help our students but are instrumental in highlighting the HPC career opportunities in the industry."
A listing of this year's recipients can be viewed here: http://k2i.rice.edu/Content.aspx?id=514
Department of Earth Science welcomes new chair
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Richard G. Gordon, W. M. Keck Foundation Professor in Geophysics, as the new Department of Earth Science Chair, effective July 1, 2011.
Fossilized pollen reveals climate history of northern Antarctica
Analysis of direct climate record shows Antarctic tundra persisted until 12 million years ago
A painstaking examination of the first direct and detailed climate record from the continental shelves surrounding Antarctica reveals that the last remnant of Antarctic vegetation existed in a tundra landscape on the continent's northern peninsula about 12 million years ago. The research, which was led by researchers at Rice University and Louisiana State University, is featured on the cover of the July 12 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The rapid decline of glaciers along the Antarctic Peninsula has led to widespread speculation about how the rest of the continent's ice sheets will react to rising global temperatures.
"The best way to predict future changes in the behavior of Antarctic ice sheets and their influence on climate is to understand their past," said Rice University marine geologist Dr. John Anderson, the study's lead author. The study paints the most detailed picture to date of how the Antarctic Peninsula first succumbed to ice during a prolonged period of global cooling.
Detailed article on these findings: http://www.media.rice.edu/media/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEW&ID=15913
Mystery of Grand Canyon's formation revealed
Rice University geologist leads team effort to solve mystery of the Colorado Plateau
The birth of the Grand Canyon and the Colorado Plateau through which it carved has been a geological mystery. Now a giant anomalous structure discovered on the underside of the plateau could shed light on how it was formed. Dr. Alan Levander, the Carey Croneis Professor of Earth Science, is quoted. Dr. Cin-Ty Lee, associate professor of Earth Science, and Rice Earth Science graduate student, Kaijian Liu, contributed to this research and co-authored the findings with Dr. Levander. A link to the Rice news release about this research was featured on the homepage of the National Science Foundation's Science360.gov. The full release can be viewed at http://www.media.rice.edu/media/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEW&ID=15703&SnID=839357408
More media coverage on these findings: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/27/how-the-grand-canyon-was-formed_n_854549.html
Rice Earth Science graduate students awarded Grants In Aid from AAPG
Brandon Harper and Karem Lopez are recipients of the 2011 David Worthington prize
Two Rice Earth Science graduate students, Karem Lopez and Brandon Harper, have been awarded the David Worthington Grants In Aid prize from the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) at their recent meeting in Houston. This is one of the monetary prizes granted to students through the AAPG Foundation, which embraces a primary goal of providing a source of funding for educational, charitable, and scientific objectives, which directly and indirectly benefit the geologic profession and the general public.
More about the award: http://foundation.aapg.org/gia/worthington_family.cfm
Listing of 2011 AAPG GIA recipients: http://foundation.aapg.org/gia/current.cfm.
Rice mathematician honored for geoscience research
Bill Symes honored by Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Rice University applied mathematician Bill Symes' longtime efforts to develop models and tools for oil and gas exploration have earned him a career achievement award from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
Symes, the Noah Harding Professor of Computational and Applied Mathematics, professor of Earth science and director of The Rice Inversion Project (TRIP), won the 2011 Career Award from the SIAM Activity Group on Geosciences. In announcing the award, the society said Symes was chosen for "seminal contributions to methods, analysis, algorithms and software for seismic inversion and wave propagation, for his exceptional influence as a teacher and mentor and for the fundamental impact that his work has had in the industrial community."
More on Dr. Symes' award: http://www.media.rice.edu/media/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEW&ID=15593
Full description of SIAM's Career Prize in Geosciences: http://www.siam.org/prizes/sponsored/gscareer.php.
Aftershocks Hamper Rescue Efforts In Japan
8.9-Magnitude Earthquake Shook Japan On Friday
Japan has experienced several strong aftershocks after an 8.9-magnitude earthquake hit on Friday, and more are expected. After the earthquake, a tsunami swept water several miles inland. Rescuers have had to deal with more than 20 big aftershocks, and experts said those will continue.
"These large magnitude aftershocks will certainly continue for the next few weeks, but they will diminish gradually," said Dale Sawyer, an Earth science professor at Rice University. "Even two or three years from now, we will be able to see very small aftershocks, but at that point they will not be damaging."
The full story: http://www.click2houston.com/news/27187461/detail.html
Less fertilizer is more for biofuel crops
Rice University scientists and their colleagues find that when growing corn crops for ethanol, more means less.
Caroline Masiello, assistant professor of Earth Science, and Morgan Gallagher, who recently earned her PhD in Earth Science, are quoted in findings that have implications for an industry that has grown dramatically in recent years to satisfy the country's need for energy while trying to cut its reliance on fossil fuels. Their research findings describe how corn grain, one source of ethanol, in contrast to a corn plant's stalks and leaves, the source of cellulosic ethanol, respond differently to nitrogen fertilization.
"The findings are an important next step in building a sustainable biofuel economy," says Carrie Masiello, assistant professor of Earth Science at Rice University. "Plants benefit from some nitrogen from fertilizer to produce the biomolecules they need to grow and function, but for many crops, a little is enough. We already know too much fertilizer is bad for the environment. Now we've shown that it's bad for biofuel crop quality too," Masiello says.
The full story: http://www.futurity.org/earth-environment/when-fertilizing-corn-less-means-more/
US NEWS & WORLD REPORT ranks Rice Earth Science #12 nationally in Geophysics and Seismology for 2010.
Read more: http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-schools/geophysics-seismology-rankings
Rajdeep Dasgupta is awarded the
F.W. Clarke Medal from the Geochemical Society
Dr. Rajdeep Dasgupta, an assistant professor of Earth Science at Rice, has been named this year's recipient of the F.W. Clarke Award. This award is made annually at the V. M. Goldschmidt Conference to an early-career scientist for a single outstanding contribution to geochemistry or cosmochemistry, published either as a single paper or a series of papers on a single topic
Read more: http://www.geochemsoc.org/awards/fwclarkeaward.htm
and here: http://www.media.rice.edu/media/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEW&ID=15449
Earth Science Student Steven Boswell awarded 2010-2011 Houston Geological Society Undergraduate Scholarship
The HGS established the Undergraduate Scholarship Fund in 1984, with the long-term objective of funding at least one junior/senior level scholarship per year to outstanding geoscience majors at six local universities.
These competitive awards are for full-time undergraduates carrying the normal academic load as a bonafide geology major with a 3.0 cumulative grade point average. Besides scholastic ability, the applicants must show evidence of high moral, ethical standards and conduct. Eligible students are selected from Rice University, the University of Houston, Lamar University, University of Texas, Texas A&M, Stephen F. Austin University, and Sam Houston State University. The application process includes completed forms, transcripts of all college work, and three letters of recommendation with at least one being from an instructor or academic advisor during the past year of study.
Read more: http://www.hgs.org/en/art/24/
Research Highlights
Rice hosts newly funded GeoPRISMS program
Program brings together offshore, onshore communities in geosciences
Rice's campus may be land-locked, but there's one place at the university where the ocean meets the sea. GeoPRISMS, which recently moved into new offices in George R. Brown Hall, aims to bring together terrestrial and marine researchers who study similar geological phenomena. The new, 10-year program is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
'We're always looking across the shoreline,' said program director Julia Morgan, professor of Earth Science. 'The goal is to create a dialogue between people who work onshore and people who work offshore. We want to bring those communities together and have them focus some of their attention on the shoreline to see how geological processes change as they cross the shoreline.'
Read More of Jade Boyd's article...
Photo credit: Jeff Fitlow
Graphene oxide goes green
Rice researchers show environmentally friendly ways to make it in bulk, break it down
A new paper from the lab of Rice chemist James Tour demonstrates an environmentally friendly way to make bulk quantities of graphene oxide (GO), an insulating version of single-atom-thick graphene expected to find use in all kinds of material and electronic applications.
A second paper from Tour and Andreas Lüttge, a Rice professor of Earth science and chemistry, shows how GO is broken down by common bacteria that leave behind only harmless, natural graphite.
Dr. Lüttge and Everett Salas, a postdoctoral researcher in his lab and primary author of the second paper, had already been studying the effects of bacteria on carbon, so it was simple to shift their attention to GO. They found bacteria from the genus Shewanella easily convert GO to harmless graphene. The graphene then stacks itself into graphite.
"That's a big plus for green nano, because these ubiquitous bacteria are quickly converting GO into an environmentally benign mineral," Dr. Tour said.
Photo credit: Everett Salas and Zhengzong Sun
Tectonics: Precision is hallmark of 20-year study
Richard Gordon, the W.M. Keck Foundation Chair in Geophysics, and collaborators Chuck DeMets of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Donald Argus of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., have just put the finishing touches on a 20-year labor of love, a precise description of the relative movements of the interlocking tectonic plates that account for about 97 percent of Earth's surface.


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