Good Morning to all

The brothers arrived yesterday.

This is the last August week.

More than 50% of Israelis are out of work, so the brothers are going to enjoy 
a pleasant vacation on Tel Avis shore.



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On Fri, 8/24/18, David Hillman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

 Subject: [TN] Element Quiz Answer
 To: [log in to unmask]
 Date: Friday, August 24, 2018, 9:15 PM
 
  The Question:
 This element is one of the Rare Earth
 Elements (REEs) so like most of the
 rare earths, it forms trivalent ions
 with fluorescent properties and is
 used as phosphors in various
 applications. Researchers at Iowa State
 University/Ames Laboratory are using
 compounds containing this
 element investigating its giant
 magnetocaloric effect for magnetic
 refrigeration near room temperature,
 which could provide significant
 efficiency and environmental advantages
 over conventional refrigeration
 methods. This element is also used in
 nuclear marine propulsion systems as
 a burnable poison. What element is
 being described?
 
 The Answer:
 The element is Gadolinium (Gd)! The
 isotope gadolinium-157 has the highest
 thermal-neutron capture cross-section
 among any stable nuclide: about
 259,000 barns.The main mining areas are
 in China, the USA, Brazil, Sri
 Lanka, India, and Australia with
 reserves expected to exceed one million
 tonnes. World production of pure
 gadolinium is about 400 tonnes per
 year. Gadolinium can serve as an
 electrolyte in solid oxide fuel cells.
 
 
 
 The winner of the quiz is 
 Mordechai Kirshenbaum 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
 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
 -  Since the boys are probably
 tired from all the work George made them do,
 they can join me for the week at Sunset
 Beach on the Monterrey Bay. Pure
 relaxation on vacation. Maybe they can
 convince the local raccoons to stay
 out of my camp. We’ll have some great
 games of Cards Against Humanity with
 them.
 
 Week 66  Jerry Dengler, Pergamon
 Corp
 - Good timing.  We just purchased
 another oven and I can use the help
 getting ready to take delivery
 
 Week 66 Leland Woodall
 - assisted with ????
 
 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!
 
 
 
 I hope everyone has a awesome week!
 Dave Hillman
 Rockwell Collins
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