Everyone needs to image the very loud thump of me passing out from
amazement.

The boys will be glad to be home and see the wives and family for a long
weekend.  They can help me with an 86000 lines of data statistical
analysis, but then they get the weekend off.

Doug Pauls
Principal Materials and Process Engineer
Rockwell Collins


On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 1:02 PM David Hillman <
[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>  The Question:
> This element is the 5th most abundant in the earth's crust but is never
> found as a free element. This element is essential for human life.
> Compounds of this element were well known to the Egyptians, Romans and as
> early as 7000 BC. The largest commercial use of this element is in making
> steel and it can be used to store hydrogen gas. The Cardiff Giant hoax is
> related to this element. What element is being described?
>
> The Answer:
> The element is Calcium (Ca)! Calcium compounds were well known and used by
> many ancient cultures -  from the plaster in the tomb of Tutankhamen to the
> Romans making lime mortars created by heating limestone. Calcium
> derives its name from the Latin word calx  meaning "lime". Calcium
> compounds are used to remove oxides and sulfides during the steel making
> process. Calcium can be used to store hydrogen gas, as it reacts with
> hydrogen to form solid calcium hydride, from which the hydrogen can easily
> be re-extracted. The Cardiff Giant was cut from a block of gypsum from Fort
> Dodge, Iowa, shipped to New York and "discovered" while digging a well.
>
>
> The winner of the quiz is Doug Pauls, Rockwell Collins and 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
> 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
> Week 60 Leland Woodall
> Week 61 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly
> Week 62 Leland Woodall!
> Week 63 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly
> Week 63 Tom Carroll, Boeing
> Week 63 Tom Granat
> Week 64 George Wenger
> Week 65  Frank Kimmey, VeriFone Inc.
> Week 66  Jerry Dengler, Pergamon Corp
> Week 66 Leland Woodall
>
> Week 67  Eray Canli,  ANDAR Electromechanical Systems
> - While I am on leave, guys can spend whole week trying to tidy my
> desktop...hope they can finish before I'm back!
>
> Week 68  James Head
> - It appears that Clumpy and Kloumpios brought the rain with them after
> we've had several weeks of dry and hot weather. I've been keeping them busy
> all week with some Orcad layout work with a brief excursion to take my two
> year old daughter to Mini Professors to learn about friction whilst
> constructing a hover craft out of an old CD, balloon and the top of a
> washing up liquid bottle. I caught them trying to violate the second law of
> thermodynamics but managed to stop them in time before they could give
> Louise bad ideas.
>
> Week 69  Mordechai Kirshenbaum
> - but I don't want the brothers to travel so far away (they already had
> been in Israel several months ago)...so they get the week off!
>
> Week 70 Doug Pauls, Rockwell Collins
> - assisted with ????
>
>
>
> I hope everyone has a awesome week!
> Dave Hillman
> Rockwell Collins
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