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Hi Brian! Wow, that is serious, significant damage. I'll text the guys and 
we'll reroute them to Richard Stadem's facility in Minnesota. The 
Minnesota State Legislature shut down the state for several days due to 
the lack of passing a state government budget bill. I am sure that Richard 
can put the guys to work. Good Luck with the inconsistent flow of 
electricity.

Dave



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Re: [TN] NTC Friday Element Quiz - the Answer






Dave

If only... It's estimated it'll take at least 6 months before we can get 
power back to normal. This is really an island-wide catastrophe: 2000 
tonnes of explosives went up. We were lucky in a way, only 13 dead and 
62 injured. Could have been far worse. Who would have dreamt of storing 
98 transport containers of munitions in a 3-high solid block next door 
to such a strategically important place as the island's biggest power 
station? ?2 billion estimated damage. In the meanwhile, it's rolling 
blackouts, requests for maximum economy, no desalination of water 
(another shortage), no air conditioning with expected 45°C temps within 
2 weeks. All this because our political class are a set of bungling 
fools, because they did nothing in two years, despite warnings from the 
military. A couple of heads have rolled but there is clamour for the 
President's - he was aware of the danger and did nothing.

Sorry for the off-topic rant, but we are still so furious about the 
incompetence even one week after the explosion.

Have a look at http://robotpig.net/extras/cyprus_zygi/ for a 
before/after view. Apart from the 200 m wide 60 m deep in solid rock 
crater and the burnt areas, look carefully in the grounds of the power 
plant at all the small bits of debris. There was damage from the blast 
(windows) and from falling debris over a 3-4 km radius.

Please tell Kloumpios that all his family are safe.

Brian



On 18/07/2011 16:26, David D. Hillman wrote:
> Hi Brian - I just received a text message via Kloumpios's Blackberry
> (hummm, looks like Bev gave the boys some pretty fancy cellphones at 
some
> point) that they have decided to go "assist" with getting the power 
plant
> back on-line. I had no clue that they had such broad skill sets. Let us
> know if they succeed in bringing the blackouts to an end. Clumpy's had
> suggested they may use the John Deere's as satellite power generators 
for
> some of the critical electrical needs.
>
> Dave
>
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> Brian Ellis<[log in to unmask]>
> 07/18/2011 08:06 AM
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> Re: [TN] NTC Friday Element Quiz - the Answer
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> Hi! Clumpy and Kloumpios would be better staying in Iowa. It's almost as
> hot here (today, heat index of 40?C (104?F)) but no aircon because some
> clever bugger blew up our largest power plant, supplying 55% of
> electricity. The power is OFF blackout!!! 34.9?C in my rewired office!
> Call them back and send them to a deserving person.
>
> Brian
>
> On 18/07/2011 15:47, David D. Hillman wrote:
>> Hi folks - Here is the Friday Element Quiz Answer:
>>
>> The Question:
>>
>> This element plays a key role as a constituent of steel. This element 
is
>> an oxidizing agent in processes to make artificial dyes and fragrances.
>> The average human takes in about 0.3 milligrams of this element per 
day.
>> This element was not cast as a molten metal until 1959 due to its
>> properties. What element is being described?
>>
>> The Answer:
>>
>> The element is Molybdenum (Mo)! Mo has a very high melting point so a
>> special crucible had to be developed before it could be cast as a 
molten
>> metal. The majority of the time Molybdenum is formed by compressing Mo
>> powder at high pressures (HIP processing). A simple test (an oxidation
>> process) to identify Mo was developed in 1781 by Karl Scheele which
>> resulted in very intense blue solution in the presence of a reducing
>> agent. The test has been used for 200 years but no one could figure out
>> the physical reaction for the blue color. In 1996 a group of German
>> chemists at the University of Bielefeld demonstrated that the blue 
color
>> was the result of a cyclical cluster comprised of 154 Mo atoms
> interlinked
>> with oxygen atoms. Mo was first used by the British in WWI for steel
> tank
>> armor. The addition of Mo made the steel stronger and allowed for
> reduced
>> plate thickness giving the tanks improved agility. This "discovery" had
>> actually been made 20 years earlier by the French company Schneider& 
Co.
>>
>>
>> The quiz winner this week is Brian Ellis and will get the services of
>> Clumpy and Kloumpios again. The guys loaded up their John Deere's and
> left
>> Iowa very early as we have a heat index of 112 for the next few days -
>> they figured it would be better in Cyprus.
>>
>> So far Clumpy and Kloumpios have:
>>
>> Week 1 Lamar Young, SCS Coatings
>> - accomplished nothing (drank lots of coffee)
>>
>> Week 2 Bev Christian, RIM
>> - conducted REACH material testing
>>
>> Week 3 Drew Meyer, Benchmark Electronics Inc.
>> - Solderability testing and mowed the lawn
>>
>> Week 4 Ian Fox, Goodrich
>> - had an epic journey of travel
>>
>> Week 4 Gary Ferrari, Garrick Global
>> - unknown
>>
>> Week 5 Fredrick Miller, Astrolab
>> - unknown
>>
>> Week 6 David Nelson, Raytheon
>> - Were tackling dummys for Dallas Cowboys
>>
>> Week 7 Graham Collins, L3 Communications
>> - Cleaned gutters and painted window trim
>>
>> Week 8 Bill Noel, ITT Geospatial Systems Division
>> - unknown
>>
>> Week 9 Steve Gregory of RD Circuits
>> - unknown
>>
>> Week 10 David Bealer of Watchfire Signs
>> - descaled the in-line wash machine! Ouch!
>>
>> Week 11 Dick Krug of Sparton Corporation
>> - assisted with AS9100 quality management systems requirements audit
>>
>> Week 12 Steve Creswick of Balanced Enterprise Solutions
>> - Acted as Steve's "go fer" due to a broken leg!
>>
>> Week 13 Gebhard Neifer, Delphi
>> - conducted a plasma pre treatment Taguchi DOE for a sealing process
>>
>> Week 14 Bev Christian, RIM
>> - assisted with a tin pest investigation/test
>>
>> Week 15 Bev Christian, RIM
>>    - assisted Bev shoveling snow
>>
>> Week 16 David Bealer of Watchfire Signs
>>    - assisted with reflow profiling
>>
>> Week 17 Brian Ellis, rumored to be retired
>>    - assisted with rewiring the house, had a tractor accident and found
> his
>> cousin Kloumpios
>>
>> Week 18 Denny Fritz, SAIC
>>    - assisted with tin whisker inspection/examinations
>>
>> Week 19 Graham Collins, L3 Communications
>> - assisted with scraping barnacles, boat paint and boat engine
> maintenance
>>
>> Week 20 Mark Woolley, PTRL Laboratory Avaya
>> - assisted with weather observations (70F to snow) and resolving
>> electrochemical migration failures
>>
>> Week 20 Tom Carroll, Boeing Defense, Space and Security
>> - assisted with commercial aircraft galley inspection
>>
>> Week 21 Brian Ellis, supposedly retired, and Tom Carroll, Boeing
> Defense,
>> Space and Security
>> - assisted with root cause corrective action tasks
>> - assisted with nothing but catching up with the family
>>
>> Week 22 Drew Meyer, Benchmark Electronics Inc.
>> - assisted with metallographic cross-sections and Dye&   Pry testing
>>
>> Week 23 Bev Christian, RIM
>> - assisted with a creep corrosion project and the setting up of an
> oxygen
>> bomb
>>
>> Week 24 Steve Gregory, RD Circuits
>> - unknown
>>
>> Week 25 Ahne Oosterhof, A-Laser
>> - assisted with stencil aperture data analysis and split/stacked
> firewood
>>
>> Week 26 Scott Post, Delphi
>> - assisted/participated in the Kokomo Airshow Race Event
>>
>> Week 27 Brian Ellis, supposedly retired
>> - assisted with tedious website work and family home cooking
>>
>> Week 28 Nigel Burtt
>> - abandoned Nigel and were rumored to be involved in UK News Corps/News
>> International cellphone/journalism/politics scandal
>>
>> Week 29 Brian Ellis, supposedly retired
>> - assisted with ???
>>
>>
>> Hope everyone had a great weekend.
>>
>> Dave Hillman
>> Rockwell Collins
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