Do Clumpy and Kloumpios do Christmas shopping?  Just kidding.

Good to win this week as they can help me finish my overview of uses of NMP
and methylene chloride for IPC Government Relations to send on to EPA
Toxics Risk Evaluation.  Before they leave Cedar Rapids, you might have
them review your assembly area to see if NMP is a minor ingredient in any
of your cleaners.  The last one I am chasing is a possible inclusion as a
minor ingredient in solder paste.  EPA knows about that use, already.  I
cannot find any methylene chloride used in circuit board fabrication or
assembly anywhere.
Finally, have them bring an ax, i am not sure I have enough firewood put
away for a colder than average Indiana winter.  I am sure they can use a
chain saw.   Great to have them next week.

On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 2:24 PM David Hillman <
[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hi folks - here is the Quiz:
>
> The Question:
> A pure sample of this element was first produced in 1953. The element is
> one of four elements deriving its name from a specific town in Sweden.
> This element is responsible for the current atomic clock stability
> records. This
> element finds use as a dopant to help improve the grain refinement,
> strength, and other mechanical properties of stainless steel. What element
> is being described?
>
> The Answer:
> The element is Ytterbium (Yb)! The first pure sample was produced in 1953
> by using ion-exchange processes. The village of  Ytterby in Sweden is the
> source for the names of ytterbium,  yttrium, terbium and erbium. Ytterbium
> clocks hold the record for stability with ticks stable to within less than
> two parts in 1 quintillion. The clocks developed at the National Institute
> of Standards and Technology (NIST) rely on about 10,000 rare-earth atoms
> cooled to 10 microkelvin (10 millionths of a degree above absolute zero)
> and trapped in an optical lattice—a series of pancake-shaped wells made of
> laser light.
>
>
> The winner(s) of the quiz  is Denny Fritz and he will get the services
> of Clumpy
> & Kloumpios for the week.
>
> The Elements Quiz Arbitration Board (EQAB) did review Doug's response of
> "Clocknium" as a  possible valid answer but unfortunately their ruling was
> the answer was incorrect. The EQAB did confirm that the current atomic
> clock utilizes Yb and not the element cesium.
>
> 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
>
> Week 89 Tom Carroll, Boeing
>
> Week 90 Tom Brendlinger
>
> Week 91 Leland Woodall
>
> Week 90 David Bealer
>
> Week 91 Leland Woodall
>
> Week 92 David Bealer
>
> Week 93 Leland Woodall
>
> Week 94 Eray Canli, Nurol BAE Systems
>
> Week 95 Ravinder Ajmani, Western Digital
>
> Week 96 Bev Christian
>
> Week 96 Torsten Hagge, Kristronics
>
> Week 97 Russell Kido, Practical Components
>
> Week 98 Bhanu Sood, NASA
>
> Week 99 Robert Wolfe
>
> Week 100 Steve Gregory
>
> Week 101  Dean Vinke, Blue Canyon Technologies
>
> Week 102  Steve Herring, Pennatronics Corp
>
>
> Week 103 Raye Rivera
>
> - I'm looking forward to having the guys out here in sunny Southern
> California, where it happens to be pouring rain at the moment. But it is
> nothing the John Deere can't handle. They can help me sort out some
> mechanical tolerance issues that are holding up production. And if they
> didn't get enough skiing in at Arapahoe Basin, our local area, Big Bear, is
> supposed to open on Friday.
>
>
> Week 104 Carl Van Wormer
>
> - I'll ask them to spend the first 12.7 seconds trying to find my lost atom
> of darmstadtium-281, and then I'll have them spot me at the I-Fly vertical
> wind tunnel.  After that, we'll head over to the electric go-carts at K-1
> Speed, with the 2 losers assigned to assemble the next batch of
> ShortSniffers.  They are pretty good at assembly work as long as they are
> supplied with pepperoni pizza, dark-German root beer and loud rock-n-roll
> from the 60s and 70s.
>
>
> Week 105 Denny Fritz
>
> - assisted with ????
>
>
> I hope everyone has an awesome week!
> Dave Hillman
> Collins Aerospace
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>


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