Hi Russell - well, they are not very tall but they still can shoot a mean
game of hoops as they are really fast!  Doug said they are excellent for
the "good cop, bad cop" coercion game  - I didn't ask him how he knew that!

Dave

On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 4:08 PM, Russell Kido <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Thank you Dave.
>
> How good are they in basketball?
>
> Maybe they can help my 8-year old daughter in her practice and her game.
> We will be having some warm temperatures next week, in the 80F range so
> they can pack light.  They can assist me in visiting customers, might have
> to take them to the beach or Disneyland, finalize projects for year-end and
> keep my colleagues in line.
>
> Can I send them to my factory to assist in long lead-time delays on our
> products?
> (They can play the good guy, bad guy)
>
> Regards,
> Russell Kido
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David Hillman
> Sent: Friday, December 08, 2017 11:12 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [TN] Element Quiz Answer
>
> Here is the Element Quiz Question:
>
> The Question:
> This element is extremely radioactive and its most stable known isotope
> has a half life of about 8 seconds. The Dubna/LIvermore research team and
> the RIKEN research team both made claim to have first discovered this
> element.
> Only 450 days of irradiating bismuth with zinc was needed to produce ONE
> atom of this new element. There are no commercial applications for this
> element. Which element is being described?
>
> The Answer:
> The element is Nihonium (Nh)! Nihonium had the temporary name of Ununtrium
> until the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) and the
> International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) officially
> recognized the element. The RIKEN research team proposed the name
> "nihonium" to IUPAC, after its place of discovery and referencing Japanese
> chemist Masataka Ogawa's 1908 discovery of rhenium, which he named
> "nipponium".
>
>
> The winner of the quiz is Russell Kido, Practical Components and he will
> get the services of Clumpy and Kloumpios for the week.
>
>
> 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
> - Clumpy and Kloumpios can help with winter cleaning chores around the
> house. We just received our first blast of cold air today and it is
> expected to be colder tomorrow, so tell the boys to pack their winter
> suits. I need help removing air conditioners from windows and sealing up
> some drafts around windows and doors. After that the boys can relax and
> join me on a trip to Philadelphia to perform some FAA Conformities next
> week. Do they like soft pretzels? The ones I get in Philadelphia are great,
> especially when they are fresh out of the oven.
>
> Week 42 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly
> - assisted with ????
>
> Week 43 Joyce Koo
> - Great, the two chaps can help me to wrap my head around the newly
> discovered planet by NASA that not only earth like, but also just 11 light
> years away (like live just under our nose)... http://www.planetary.
> org/blogs/jason-davis/2017/20171115-ross-128b.html?utm_campa
> ign=planetarypost&utm_medium=email&utm_source=post1117
> may be prepare search the alien under the sea?  (avoid competition of
> search alien above the sea, like "expedition unknown" TV show).   - dave
> you might not get them back if both get lost in the darkness ;-).
>
> Week 44 Russell Kido, Practical Components
> - assisted with ????
>
>
> I hope everyone has a awesome week.
>
> Dave Hillman
> Rockwell Collins
> [log in to unmask]
>
>