David,
Picked Clumpy and Kloumpios at Dulles with the usual grousing about long flights. Because this is their second visit I reminded them of their first visit when the exhausted my collection of single malt scotch and found the keys for my lawn mower. The neighbors had not forgotten them terrifying neighborhood dogs and making unusual patterns in their lawns. 

The lads understood and went to work clean up my documents and standards. We had snow on Tuesday and they pitched in with the neighbors clearing drives and side walks. On Wed I took them to the Manassas Bull Run civil war battle field so they could understand our civil war and our history better. Thursday when work was done we visited a couple of cider vineyards and wineries. They enjoyed the Jefferson style hard cider very much. After we were done on Friday off to a distillery for a tasting and lunch. Then off to the airport for their next adventure. Perfect gentlemen and they seemed to enjoy the side trips.

John

> On Mar 10, 2017, at 2:29 PM, David Hillman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> Here is the Element Quiz Question:
> 
> The Question:
> This element has been called the "most essential element on earth". It has
> 3 allotrophic forms. Electrical discharges produce one of the element's
> allotropes which has a distinctive pungent odor. This element is not
> flammable but it does cause other materials to burn rapidly. This element
> can share electrons to form covalent bonds or accept electrons to form
> ionic bonds. Which element is being described?
> 
> The Answer:
> The element is Oxygen (O). Oxygen is required to support all plant and
> animal life on Earth. It is the 3rd most abundant element in the universe
> and makes up nearly half of the Earth's crust. Ozone (O3) is produced
> during an electrical discharge. At one point in history, air was believe to
> be an elemental substance but Lenardo da Vinci was one of the first
> scientists to believe air was comprised of at least two gases.
> 
> 
> The winner of the quiz is John Maxwell and he will get the services of
> Clumpy and Kloumpios for the week. Lots of correct answers this week but
> John was the fastest response. Also, no Element Quiz next week as the boys
> are going to playing sherpa for me at the Missouri Whitewater Championship
> competition for me.
> 
> 
> 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
> - The boys can help me to compare a reverse-engineered old multilayer layout
> against the x-rays from the original (no data, no schematics, no gerbers at
> all available, but the urgent need for some spare units....), can coil some
> dozens RF toroids and last, but not least (if they aren't allergic against
> cats) can entertain our tomcats* (who are not amused at the ugly wet wet
> thaw here...). I've heard Clumpy and Kloumpios can meanwhile apparate and
> disapparate like
> Harry Potter, thus there is no need to pick them up from the next airport
> (would be MUC)?
> 
> Week 13 No Quiz, the boys were helping Doug Pauls, Rockwell Collins, with
> his IPC Hall of Fame Award
> 
> Week 14 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly
> - the boys arrived last Friday, spent the weekend at some carnival events
> here around (quite cold and rainy at Tuesday, but with the help of some
> bavarian beer and a lot of mulled wine, they came back in a very good
> mood........) Later the boys finished the RF toroids from last week,
> delivered the stuff to my assembly house, where they were really surprised
> about the *poof* apparition in their backyard....., and maybe they will
> tomorrow go snowboarding with my big daughter and some friends in Tyrol..
> Here in Bavaria we have currently one week school holidays.
> 
> Week 15 Bhanu Sood, NASA
> - Clumpy and Kloumpios arrived safely from EU…swearing never to fly discount
> airlines again, repeatedly citing experiences that are so eloquently described
> in this youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6pj3Fdbwng
> Soon after landing at Dulles, Clumpy and Kloumpios drove to Goddard
> Space Flight
> Center where they toured the NASA campus including an up close viewing of
> the James Webb Space Telescope which just completed multi dof vibration
> testing. Although a clean tent currently covers JWST, Clumpy managed a
> selfie before it gets moved into the Goddard acoustics chamber where it
> will be exposed to the noise levels that arise from an Ariane 5 launch.
> Both Clumpy and Kloumpios totally want to experience what 150 decibel
> racket would feel like. The boys are enjoying a warm week here in the DC
> area, with the cherry blossoms almost a month ahead of schedule, nobody’s
> complaining!
> 
> Week 16 John Maxwell
> - ????
> 
> 
> I hope everyone has a awesome week!
> 
> Dave Hillman
> Rockwell Collins
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