The boys are great at grilling. They make a mean marinated reindeer.
Doug Pauls
Principal Materials and Process Engineer
Rockwell Collins
On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 2:56 PM, Leland Woodall <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> I still have vinyl and a turntable, though 78s were a bit before my time.
>
> The guys get here just in time for our summer plant shutdown, so their
> workload will be minimal. We all deserve a break, right?
>
> Happy 4th of July, everyone!
>
> Leland
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David Hillman
> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2018 3:45 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [TN] Element Quiz Answer
>
> The Question:
> This element is a by-product from nickel and copper mining. When this
> element is exposed to air it forms an extremely toxic and objectionable
> fume/odor. This element is the least abundant stable element in Earth's
> crust, with an average mass fraction of 50 parts per trillion in the
> continental crust. An alloy that includes this element was used for the
> tips of phonograph styli during the late 78 rpm and early "LP" record days.
> Which element is being described?
>
> The Answer:
> The element is Osmium (Os)! Osmium's +8 oxidation state is notable for
> being the highest attained by any chemical element aside from iridium's +9
> oxidation state. Osmium derives its name from the Greek word "osme" meaning
> "a smell", because of the ashy and smoky smell of the volatile osmium
> tetroxide. Osmium-alloy record needle tips wore out far more rapidly than
> competing, and costlier, sapphire and diamond tips, so they were
> discontinued. The most notable application of Os isotopes is in geology in
> conjunction with the abundance of iridium, to characterize the layer of
> shocked quartz along the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary that marks the
> extinction of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.
>
>
> The winner of the quiz is Leland Woodall and will get the services of
> Clumpy and Kloumpios for the week. Lots of correct responses, Leland was
> first and beat Scott Decker by only one minute per the firewall clock time
> stamp.
> Apparently many folks still remember what LP records are!
>
>
> 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 Week 49 Todd MacFadden, Bose Week 49
> Leland Woodall Week 50 Russell Kido, Practical Components Week 51 Ravinder
> Ajmani, Western Digital Week 52 Leland Woodall Week 53 Scott Decker, UTAS
> Week 54 Leland Woodall Week 55 Tom Carroll, Boeing Week 56 Mordechai
> Kirshenbaum Week 57 Steve Herring, Pennatronics Corp Week 58 Leland Woodall
>
> Week 59 Drew Meyer, Benchmark
> - Wow! Simply amazing timing. Our leader will be gone next week so we
> will be two people doing the work of three. The boys will be greatly
> appreciated. The good news for them is that we finally have some decent
> weather here. Will have to get them some time outside to enjoy it!
>
> Week 60 Leland Woodall
> - Just in time for Memorial Day! I can see the guys mowing, trimming
> bushes, cleaning cars, and exercising their grilling skills. I might mix
> in a little work at the plant next week, just for good measure.
>
> Week 61 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly
> - Really great! The boys can help me moving many boxes with old technical
> journals in a cellar, assist me with learning Altium, they can rescue the
> frogs which my black tomcat catches nightly as toy and last not least they
> help me putting antibiotic pills into our red tomcat twice a day (now this
> is really a quite hard task).
>
> Week 62 Leland Woodall
> - assisted with ????
>
>
> I hope everyone has a awesome week!
> Dave Hillman
> Rockwell Collins
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