{"id":2826,"date":"2023-04-05T11:37:12","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T18:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chemwp\/chemwpnmr\/?p=2826"},"modified":"2023-04-05T11:37:12","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T18:37:12","slug":"again-an-appeal-on-behalf-of-myself-this-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chemwp\/chemwpnmr\/2023\/04\/again-an-appeal-on-behalf-of-myself-this-time\/","title":{"rendered":"(AGAIN) AN APPEAL !  &#8211;  ON BEHALF OF MYSELF THIS TIME.."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Dear Users<\/h2>\n<h3>After all these years, I don&#8217;t know if the prevailing opinion of my presence in the NMR lab is one of the following :<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>harbinger of a broken instrument\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>a Canary in the coal mine about damaged NMR Instruments<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>a bad Omen about NMRs that are about to fail.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>But, my presence in the NMR lab doesn&#8217;t have to mean <strong>any <\/strong>of these.<\/h2>\n<h3>As part of a renewed and refreshed approach to make the NMR facility deliver more for your precious time here, <strong>you can expect to see my face more at the facility, just in the spirit of &#8220;How can I help ?&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>My presence doesn&#8217;t mean that something is broken. I emphasize this because, it is becoming a cliche that users ask me &#8220;<em>is something broken ?<\/em> &#8220;, the moment they see me in Bagley 37.<\/h3>\n<h2>So, I appeal to you :<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h4><strong>If\u00a0 you suspect an instrument is ailing\/broken\/compromised, etc. believe that ONLY after one of the following : <\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3>Look for announcement via a medium like this<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Be informed by one of the facility staff when you talk to them<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Look for a Log Book Entry by a fellow user in a given instrument&#8217;s log book page<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>If in doubt, please reach out and talk to us.<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4><strong>Please refrain from spreading impressions\/rumors by word of mouth about an instrument.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3>Enter your observation in a Log Book.<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Try to contact one of us the moment you see something is amiss.<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Send an Email with the details.<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>As Always, thank you for your kind co-operation.<\/h2>\n<h2>Rajan K Paranji<\/h2>\n<h2>NMR Facility Manager<\/h2>\n<h2>4\/5\/2023<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Users After all these years, I don&#8217;t know if the prevailing opinion of my presence in the NMR lab is one of the following : harbinger of a broken instrument\u00a0 a Canary in the coal mine about damaged NMR Instruments a bad Omen about NMRs that are about to fail. But, my presence in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nmr-facility-usage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chemwp\/chemwpnmr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chemwp\/chemwpnmr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chemwp\/chemwpnmr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chemwp\/chemwpnmr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chemwp\/chemwpnmr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2826"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chemwp\/chemwpnmr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2830,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chemwp\/chemwpnmr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826\/revisions\/2830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chemwp\/chemwpnmr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chemwp\/chemwpnmr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chemwp\/chemwpnmr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}