They're radioactive cats Dave and classified.  Of COURSE a foo foo
organization like CFA has no listing.  Sheesh.

*Douglas Pauls *| Principal Materials and Process Engr | Advanced
Operations Engineering

*COLLINS AEROSPACE*

400 Collins Road NE, MS 108-101, Cedar Rapids, IA  52498  USA

*Tel:* +1 319 295 2109 | *Mobile: *+1 319 431 3773

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On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 1:18 PM David Hillman <
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> The Question:
>
> This is one of the few radioactive elements we intentionally bring into our
> households. This element is closely tied to the Manhattan project. Traces
> of this element can be found today at Chernobyl, the Enewetak atoll,
> Alamogordo and near the Thule Air base in Greenland. This element has found
> commercial use for indirect analysis of materials in radiography and X-ray
> fluorescence spectroscopy.  What element is being described?
>
>
> The Answer:
>
> The element is Americium (Am)! Americium is used in the most common type of
> household smoke detector, which uses Am-241 in the form of americium
> dioxide as its source of ionizing radiation. This isotope is preferred over
> Ra-266 because it emits 5 times more alpha particles and relatively little
> harmful gamma radiation. Existing americium is concentrated in the areas
> used for the atmospheric nuclear weapons tests conducted between 1945 and
> 1980, as well as at the sites of nuclear incidents such as Chernobyl or the
> crash site of a US Boeing B-52 bomber aircraft, which carried four hydrogen
> bombs, in 1968 in Greenland.
>
>
> The winner of the quiz is Tom Brendlinger and he will get the services
> of Clumpy
> & Kloumpios for the week.  Tom just beat John Maxwell in submiting the
> correct element.
>
> EQAB did review Doug's submission of "Catmium" but unfortunately his
> response was deemed incorrect. An inquiry to the CFA (Cat Fancier's
> Association) found no record of the cats Doug listed as either recognized
> or non-recognized cat breeds.
>
> So far Clumpy and Kloumpios have done the following:
>
> Past Quiz winners/tasks:
> Week 1 Ravinder Ajmani, Western Digital
> Week 1 Ron Feyereisen, SigmaTron Intl.
> Week 2 Louis Hart, Compunetics
> Week 3 Mark Kostinovsky, Schlumberger Ltd.
> Week 3 John Burke
> Week 4 Drew Meyer, Benchmark Electronics
> Week 5 No Winner - no correct responses!
> Week 6 Bhanu Sood, NASA
> Week 7 Keith Calhoun, Sopark Corp
> Week 7 Ian Fox, Rolls Royce
> Week 8 Leland Woodall
> Week 8 David Bealer, SMT
> Week 9 Tom Carroll, Boeing
> Week 10 Louis Hart, Compunetics
> Week 11 Tom Carroll, Boeing
> Week 11 Scott Decker, UTAS
> Week 12 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly
> Week 13 No Quiz,
> Week 14 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly
> Week 15 Bhanu Sood, NASA
> Week 16 John Maxwell
> Week 17 Leland Woodall
> Week 18 Leland Woodall
> Week 19 Tom Carroll, Boeing
> Week 20 Robert Kondner
> Week 21 Tom Brendlinger, ClearMotion Inc.
> Week 22 Carl Van Wormer, Cipher Engineering LCC
> Week 23 Juliano Ribeiro, DATACOM
> Week 24 Gerry Gagnon, FLIR Commercial Systems
> Week 25 Graham Collins, Sunsel Systems
> Week 26 Joyce Koo, IPC International
> Week 26 Todd MacFadden, Bose
> Week 27 Bhanu Sood, NASA
> Week 28 Leland Woodall
> Week 29 Mordechai Kirshenbaum
> Week 30 Leland Woodall
> Week 31 Leland Woodall
> Week 32 Steve Gregory
> Week 33 Leland Woodall
> Week 34 Jerry Dengler, Pergamon Corp
> Week 35 Frank Kimmey, VeriFone Inc
> Week 36 Graham Collins, Sunsel Systems
> Week 37 Richard "Dean" Stadem
> Week 38 Leland Woodall
> Week 38 Tom Carroll
> Week 39 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly
> Week 40 Leland Woodall
> Week 41 Tom Carroll
> Week 42 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly
> Week 43 Joyce Koo
> Week 44 Russell Kido, Practical Components
> Week 45 Leland Woodall
> Week 45 Frank Kimmey, VeriFone Inc
> Week 46 Ian Fox, Rolls-Royce Control Systems
> Week 47 Fred Cox, Bluering Stencils
> Week 48 Tom Carroll, Boeing
> Week 49 Todd MacFadden, Bose
> Week 49 Leland Woodall
> Week 50 Russell Kido, Practical Components
> Week 51 Ravinder Ajmani, Western Digital
> Week 52 Leland Woodall
> Week 53 Scott Decker, UTAS
> Week 54 Leland Woodall
> Week 55 Tom Carroll, Boeing
> Week 56 Mordechai Kirshenbaum
> Week 57 Steve Herring, Pennatronics Corp
> Week 58 Leland Woodall
> Week 59 Drew Meyer, Benchmark
> Week 60 Leland Woodall
> Week 61 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly
> Week 62 Leland Woodall!
> Week 63 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly
> Week 63 Tom Carroll, Boeing
> Week 63 Tom Granat
> Week 64 George Wenger
> Week 65  Frank Kimmey, VeriFone Inc.
> Week 66  Jerry Dengler, Pergamon Corp
> Week 66  Leland Woodall
> Week 67  Eray Canli,  ANDAR Electromechanical Systems
> Week 68  James Head
> Week 69  Mordechai Kirshenbaum
> Week 70 Doug Pauls, Rockwell Collins
> Week 71  Eray Canli,  ANDAR Electromechanical Systems
> Week 72  Russell Kido, Practical Components
> Week 73 Denny Friz
> Week 74 Drew Meyer, Benchmark Electronics
> Week 74 Leland Woodall
> Week 75 Mordechai Kirshenbaum
> Week 76 Tom Carroll, Boeing
> Week 76 Eray Canli,  ANDAR Electromechanical Systems
> Week 77 Drew Meyer, Benchmark Electronics
> Week 78 David Bealer, WatchFire Signs
> Week 79 Torsten Hagge, Kristronics
> Week 80 Russell Kido, Practical Components
>
> Week 83 Russell Kido, Practical Components
>
> Week 84 Tom Granat
>
> Week 85 Leland Woodall
>
> Week 85 Ron Feyereisen, SigmaTron Intl.
>
> Week 86 Ron Feyereisen, SigmaTron Intl.
>
> Week 87 Steven Herring, Pennatronics Corp
>
>
> Week 88 Leland Woodall
>
> - The guys arrived just in time to assist me with the completing my monthly
> reports.  Those are now done, so I'm sending them off to the coast.  Maybe
> they can catch and bring me back some fish before they fly off to their
> next adventure.
>
>
> Week 89 Tom Carroll, Boeing
>
> - In an effort to squash the conspiracy theories out there, I will be
> willing to split the services of Clumpy & Kloumpios for the week. I will
> take them for the first part of the week so they can help me review the
> quality management system of a distributor. I would like to use them to get
> into the small back rooms and find out what really happens. Then on Tuesday
> I will send them to Leland for the remainder of the week.
>
>
> Week 90 Tom Brendlinger
>
> -assisted with ????
>
>
> I hope everyone has a awesome week!
> Dave Hillman
> Collins Aerospace
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