i gave it up... the answer comes early than the question... (timezone  
difference? - some times).  congratulations... greece?  visit Ellis  
village?  get deep clean and get rid of ionics before shot of ouzo?
On Dec 2, 2016, at 3:57 PM, Drew meyer wrote:

> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David Hillman
> Sent: Friday, December 02, 2016 1:46 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [TN] Element Quiz Answer
>
> 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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