Yeah!

A virtual, though shared, assistant is just what I need right now! 

Allowing a day off on Sunday, means that I can have the boys for 2 days and help me virtually complete my garden restoration project. This takes “social distancing” to an entirely new level!

The weather here has been spectacular these past few weeks, wall-to-wall clear blue sky with no contrail’s. It's 24ºC today and for the rest of the week.

Linda and I have been in lockdown isolation since 17th March, so their help will be appreciated whilst avoiding isolation themselves. I’ll try to set-up a Zoom meeting with them…

Stay safe everyone, and keep smiling

KBO - Graham

> On 14 Apr 2020, at 23:08, David Hillman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> Hi folks - here is the Quiz! Since Clumpy and Kloumpios are adhering to
> their good social distancing practices and are spending this week being
> isolated after helping Carl Van Wormer, we are going to have a slight twist
> to the Quiz. You are allowed to use any resource you want to answer the
> following questions. First person to get all the questions correct is our
> winner:
> 
> The Question: Many of the elements had names proposed for them that were
> not chosen.  Provide the name of the element for the proposed names that
> did not get selected:
> 
> a) Panchromium = Vanadium
> When vanadium was discovered, the metal salts it produced formed a wide
> variety of colors, so the proposed name was named "panchromium" translated
> from the Greek word for "all colors".
> 
> b) Columbium = Niobium
> The naming controversy raged for over 100 years on who discovered element
> 41. It was said you could tell if a metallurgist was European or an
> American by the name they used for element 41.
> 
> e) Austrium = Magnesium
> Anton Rupprecht produced an impure form of magnesium and proposed the name
> "austrium" after his native Austria. However, the first pure sample was
> produced by Sir Humphrey Davy who proposed the name "magnium" as he felt
> that magnesium was too similar to "manganese". Element 12 was ultimately
> named for the magnesium mineral that came from Magnesia, Greece.
> 
> 
> So this is going to get really weird! Nobody actually got it right,
> primarily due to the fact that Wikipedia isn't right!  For some reason,
> Wiki does not acknowledge the history of Anton Rupprecht's involvement in
> the discovery of magnesium and instead points readers to gallium. So Clumpy
> & Kloumpios are going to "virtually assist" Bhanu, Ravinder and Graham this
> 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
> Week 68  James Head
> Week 69  Mordechai Kirshenbaum
> Week 70 Doug Pauls, Rockwell Collins
> Week 71  Eray Canli,  ANDAR Electromechanical Systems
> Week 72  Russell Kido, Practical Components
> Week 73 Denny Friz
> Week 74 Drew Meyer, Benchmark Electronics
> Week 74 Leland Woodall
> Week 75 Mordechai Kirshenbaum
> Week 76 Tom Carroll, Boeing
> Week 76 Eray Canli,  ANDAR Electromechanical Systems
> Week 77 Drew Meyer, Benchmark Electronics
> Week 78 David Bealer, WatchFire Signs
> Week 79 Torsten Hagge, Kristronics
> Week 80 Russell Kido, Practical Components
> 
> Week 83 Russell Kido, Practical Components
> 
> Week 84 Tom Granat
> 
> Week 85 Leland Woodall
> 
> Week 85 Ron Feyereisen, SigmaTron Intl.
> 
> Week 86 Ron Feyereisen, SigmaTron Intl.
> 
> Week 87 Steven Herring, Pennatronics Corp
> 
> Week 88 Leland Woodall
> 
> Week 89 Tom Carroll, Boeing
> 
> Week 90 Tom Brendlinger
> 
> Week 91 Leland Woodall
> 
> Week 90 David Bealer
> 
> Week 91 Leland Woodall
> 
> Week 92 David Bealer
> 
> Week 93 Leland Woodall
> 
> Week 94 Eray Canli, Nurol BAE Systems
> 
> Week 95 Ravinder Ajmani, Western Digital
> 
> Week 96 Bev Christian
> 
> Week 96 Torsten Hagge, Kristronics
> 
> Week 97 Russell Kido, Practical Components
> 
> Week 98 Bhanu Sood, NASA
> 
> Week 99 Robert Wolfe
> 
> Week 100 Steve Gregory
> 
> Week 101  Dean Vinke, Blue Canyon Technologies
> 
> Week 102  Steve Herring, Pennatronics Corp
> 
> Week 103 Raye Rivera
> 
> Week 104 Carl Van Wormer
> 
> Week 105 Denny Fritz
> 
> Week 106  Russell Kido, Practical Components
> 
> Week 107  Bhanu Sood, NASA
> 
> Week 107  Dean Vinke, Blue Canyon Tech
> 
> Week 108  Ron Feyereisen
> 
> Week 109  Murray Campbell
> 
> Week 110 Bev Christian
> 
> Week 111 Ron Feyereisen
> 
> Week 112 Bhanu Sood, NASA
> 
> 
> Week 113 Carl Van Wormer
> 
> - After Clumpy & Kloumpios go through the 2-week quarantine process, I'll
> have them disinfect the factory, and then finish up the ShortSniffer final
> testing and decontamination process.  This may make them unavailable for
> the next two Element Quiz events, but we all have to make sacrifices for
> the greater good . . .
> 
> 
> Week 114 Bhanu Sood, NASA
> 
> - assisted with ????
> 
> 
> Week 114 Ravinder Ajmani, Western Digital
> 
> - assisted with ????
> 
> 
> Week 114 Graham Naisbitt, Gen3
> 
> - assisted with ????
> 
> 
> I hope everyone has an awesome week!
> Dave Hillman
> Collins Aerospace
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