Dave,



Wow close race 2 minute margin!



Right between the holidays.  O.K. if I give the boys a week off?  A trip to Greece maybe?



Drew



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Here is the Element Quiz Question:



The Question:

The name for this element describes the Greek word for the most northerly habitable land in ancient Greek mythology. This element is a metal and can be cut easily with a knife. To produce 4 kilograms of this element, you have to process 500 tons of earth. Which element is being described?



The Answer:

The element is thulium (Tm). Thulium's name is derived from the Greek word "Thule" which was the most northerly habitable land in ancient Greek mythology. Tm is one of the most scarce elements on earth as it comprises about 0.007% of the 50% rare earth element content of monazite sand. It has very few commercial applications, the most common being a small portable X-ray source material (Thulium-170 isotope).





The winner of the quiz is Drew Meyer, Benchmark Electronics, will get the services of Clumpy and Kloumpios for the week. Drew only beat Leland Woodall by 2 minutes with the correct response.



FEQAB is currently reviewing Doug's half fractional element submission and will rule on it shortly.





So far Clumpy and Kloumpios have done the following:

Past Quiz winners/tasks:

Week 1 Ravinder Ajmani, Western Digital

-assisted with ???



Week 1 Ron Feyereisen, SigmaTron Intl.

-The boys can set a course through the wormhole to Elk Grove Village, Illinois. (aptly named since elk live in a forest preserve grove near here). They can give us a hand with our continuous improvement projects and hourly coffee making/testing.



Week 2 Louis Hart, Compunetics

- I can get the boys on Compunetics' turkey distribution list for Thanksgiving



Week 3 Mark Kostinovsky, Schlumberger Ltd.

-I got tons of unread e-mails in my Inbox. Therefore, I am going to ask Clumpy and Kloumpios to read them all and just debrief me, so I can take a few days off and spend some time consuming turkey with my family.



Week 3 John Burke

-I will be checking out their failure analysis skill set - onward to the laboratory! Update: FA skills are good! The boys had a great time in the lab although things heated up when they thought the laser cutter for cutting out the samples could be modified for laser tag.



Week 4 Drew Meyer, Benchmark Electronics

- assisted with ????





Everyone have a great weekend!



Dave Hillman

Rockwell Collins

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