Thanks Dave!!







They can help me this week prepare for Valentine's Day.  I'm sure they are great cooks!!  They can also babysit my daughter. (Should I trust them? ☺)







I can also use some assistance with my Apex preparations and meetings as well as for wafer and substrate packing for the show.  Too bad I couldn’t have them for setting up our booth in a couple of weeks.







Blessings,



Russell











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Subject: [TN] Element Quiz Answer







Here is the Element Quiz Question (hint: read the clues very carefully this



week):







The Question:



This element's primary commercial use is in the automobile industry. It also finds use in the optics industry due to its high reflectance characteristics. It is insoluble in nitric acid dissolves slightly in aqua regia. The primary source of this element is the countries of South Africa and Russia. This element is one of the rarest elements in the Earth's crust, comprising an estimated 0.0002 parts per million. This element does not normally form an oxide, even when heated as oxygen is absorbed from the atmosphere only at the melting point. Which element is being described?







The Answer:



The element is Rhodium (Rh)! After the discovery of rhodium, it had minor commercial uses, mostly as  rhodium-containing thermocouples used to measure temperatures up to 1800 °C and highly reflective optical applications. However, the introduction of the three-way catalytic converter by Volvo in 1976 increased the demand for rhodium. The previous catalytic converters used platinum or palladium, while the three-way catalytic converter used rhodium to reduce the amount of NOx in the exhaust.











The winner of the quiz is Russell Kido, Practical Components and he will get the services of Clumpy and Kloumpios for the week.











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



- The boys will help with an early spring cleaning of the house. I'm getting to old to bend and clean all the molding and radiators around ‎the floors. I figure the boys are short enough to easily reach and clean these surfaces. After they are done with that they can help me approve some Corrective Action Responses from some suppliers and then help make nachos and salsa for the Pro Bowl this weekend.







Week 49 Todd MacFadden, Bose



- Leland, do you mind if I take them the first half of the week? I could use some help finalizing a test vehicle for a stacked microvia reliability evaluation, and I anticipate I may be a little groggy Monday from all the celebrating we'll be doing after the Super Bowl victory Sunday.







Week 49 Leland Woodall



- That'll work, Todd.  When the boys get here during the second half, I'm going to have them to assist with making my APEX travel arrangements.



After that, they're free to roam, and perhaps they can run down to the coast and bring me back some fresh sea trout!







Week 50 Russell Kido, Practical Components



- assisted with ????











I hope everyone has a awesome week.







Dave Hillman



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