Hi team - a week of whitewater kayaking vacation then  a week of business
travel have put me behind but the EQAB had an emergency meeting and did
agree with Doug's action of declaring Brian the Element Quiz winner!

It has been a privilege to bounce questions/learn from Brian's knowledge
and contributions to both Technet and the industry.  Congratulations on
your retirement!

Dave

On Sat, Jun 2, 2018 at 2:07 PM, Douglas Pauls <
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> Well, since Dave is on vacation and so cannot convene the FEQAB to overrule
> me, I declare Brian the winner this week.  Will send the boys to Cyprus for
> a few crates of that jam.  Thank you Brian for all of your contributions
> over the years.
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> On Sat, Jun 2, 2018, 10:28 AM John Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> >                 Wishing you well Brian,
> > It’s been 31 years since we met last in Birmingham ‘nepcon
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> > All the best; as an observation on your email, if you call that “slowing
> > down” what hope for the rest of us?
> > Will miss your pithy sense of humor.
> > Kind regards,
> > John
> > John BurkeEngineering FellowMech TG Chair SDASanDisk |a Western Digital
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> >                 Sent from my iPad Pro
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> > On Sat, Jun 2, 2018 at 7:07 AM -0700, "Brian Ellis" <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
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> > Over the many years, I've made many friends (and probably foes!) in the
> > IPC, some by personal contact, some on this forum. I'm now 86 and,
> > honestly, am past it; enormous strides have been made in our technology
> > since I 'retired' 21 years ago, plus my brain is retiring faster than I
> > would like. I've therefore decided to close this account with the IPC at
> > the end of the month but not without a big thank you for many years of
> > information and enjoyment, hoping I haven't been totally useless, either!
> >
> > As a final tribute to the efforts of Doug and David, I'm announcing the
> > discovery of a new half-element, brianium. On the periodic table it is
> > half-way between barium and hafnium and its main characteristic is that
> > its electrons orbit at half the usual speed relative to the temperature.
> > It can be found native only on the surface of an outcrop of pillow lava
> > around the sleepy village of Mosfiloti, Cyprus (incidentally where the
> > cousins Clumpy and Kloumpios first met). This village is named after the
> > mosfilo, the berry of a white hawthorn, which makes a very sticky jam
> > and legend has it that the slow orbit rate of brianium may be due to the
> > viscosity of the jam. It is also possible that Kloumpios' embonpoint is
> > due to an over-consumption of mosfilo jam when he was a kid. The slow
> > electron orbit of the element results in the density of the element
> > being twice as great as may be expected, explaining why some of the
> > inhabitants of the village are also dense.
> >
> > Farewell,
> >
> > Brian
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