Thanks Dave. Leland, keep Get Clumpy and Kloumpios for an extra day or two for helping with the answer, as I am commited to power washing my sister's townhouse this weekend. You think Clumpy and Kloumpios can drive a Cub Cadet riding mower? (Sorry, John Deere has no local dealer in my town). I am behind mowing my own grass at home, and they seem well qualified. Finally, I need help with the IPC 2013 roadmap, and they will be on a couple conference calls with me this week. Sorry, the tin whisker counting is on hold until the DoD finds some money, or sequestration kills all us DoD sub-contractors. Denny Fritz. -----Original Message----- From: David D. Hillman <[log in to unmask]> To: TechNet <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Fri, Jun 15, 2012 12:11 pm Subject: [TN] NTC Friday Element Quiz - the Answer Hi folks - Here is the Friday Element Quiz Answer: The Question: The existence of this element was kept secret until the end of WWII. There are 14 known isotopes of this element with one having a half life of 16 illion years. An isotope of this element is used as a power source for acemakers, navigational buoys and spacecraft. What element is being escribed? The Answer: The element is Curium (Cm)! Curium was discovered by Glenn Seaborg and the erkeley team in the summer of 1944 when they bombarded a newly discovered lement, plutonium, with helium nuclei. The element curium was separated rom the irradiated plutonium sample by the University of Chicago with onsiderable difficulty. Seaborg accidentally revealed the curium iscovery while appearing as a guest scientist on Quiz Kids, a children's adio show, in November 1945. A total of 30 micrograms was produced in 947 and was visible to the naked eye. Curium has been utilized as a power ource as it produces 3 watts of heat energy per gram of metal and being n alpha omitter, can be easily shielded. he winner of the weekly element quiz is Denny Fritz (although he owes eland some of the credit). Lots of guesses for plutonium which has some imilar clue characteristics to plutonium (the isotope information was the ifferentiator). Clumpy and Kloumpios will visit Denny for the week. So far Clumpy and Kloumpios have: Week 1 Lamar Young, SCS Coatings accomplished nothing (drank lots of coffee) Week 2 Bev Christian, RIM conducted REACH material testing Week 3 Drew Meyer, Benchmark Electronics Inc. Solderability testing and mowed the lawn Week 4 Ian Fox, Goodrich had an epic journey of travel Week 4 Gary Ferrari, Garrick Global unknown Week 5 Fredrick Miller, Astrolab unknown Week 6 David Nelson, Raytheon Were tackling dummys for Dallas Cowboys Week 7 Graham Collins, L3 Communications Cleaned gutters and painted window trim Week 8 Bill Noel, ITT Geospatial Systems Division unknown Week 9 Steve Gregory of RD Circuits unknown Week 10 David Bealer of Watchfire Signs descaled the in-line wash machine! Ouch! Week 11 Dick Krug of Sparton Corporation assisted with AS9100 quality management systems requirements audit Week 12 Steve Creswick of Balanced Enterprise Solutions Acted as Steve's "go fer" due to a broken leg! Week 13 Gebhard Neifer, Delphi conducted a plasma pre treatment Taguchi DOE for a sealing process Week 14 Bev Christian, RIM assisted with a tin pest investigation/test Week 15 Bev Christian, RIM assisted Bev shoveling snow Week 16 David Bealer of Watchfire Signs assisted with reflow profiling Week 17 Brian Ellis, rumored to be retired assisted with rewiring the house, had a tractor accident and found his ousin Kloumpios Week 18 Denny Fritz, SAIC assisted with tin whisker inspection/examinations Week 19 Graham Collins, L3 Communications assisted with scraping barnacles, boat paint and boat engine maintenance Week 20 Mark Woolley, PTRL Laboratory Avaya assisted with weather observations (70F to snow) and resolving lectrochemical migration failures Week 20 Tom Carroll, Boeing Defense, Space and Security assisted with commercial aircraft galley inspection Week 21 Brian Ellis, supposedly retired, and Tom Carroll, Boeing Defense, pace and Security assisted with root cause corrective action tasks assisted with nothing but catching up with the family Week 22 Drew Meyer, Benchmark Electronics Inc. assisted with metallographic cross-sections and Dye & Pry testing Week 23 Bev Christian, RIM assisted with a creep corrosion project and the setting up of an oxygen omb Week 24 Steve Gregory, RD Circuits unknown Week 25 Ahne Oosterhof, A-Laser assisted with stencil aperture data analysis and split/stacked firewood Week 26 Scott Post, Delphi assisted/participated in the Kokomo Airshow Race Event Week 27 Brian Ellis, supposedly retired assisted with tedious website work and family home cooking Week 28 Nigel Burtt abandoned Nigel and were rumored to be involved in UK News Corps/News nternational cellphone/journalism/politics scandal Week 29 Richard Stadem,GD-AIS unknown Week 30 Robert Wolfe, Kimchuk Inc and Graham Naisbitt, Gen3 assisted with a hot tub refurbishment for post work day de-stressing assisted with SIR and Cleanliness testing Week 31 Bev Christian, RIM Inc, and Denny Fritz, SAIC assisted with lab testing assisted with tin whisker investigations Week 32 Steve Mikell, supposedly retired attempted to provide both US Congress and EU lawmakers "engineered" olutions Week 33 Mark Woolley, PTRL Laboratory Avaya unknown Week 34 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc. assisted with new model qualifications,updating supporting ocumentation, strain gaging, performing cross sections, verifying a new elective soldering process, and finally assisted with the development of plant-wide countermeasure effectiveness auditing program (Wow, they had o work hard this week!) Week 35 Joe Russeau, Precision Analytical Laboratories assisted with new equipment preparations Week 36 Patrick Goodyear, PGE assisted with beach trash collection duty Week 37 Dave Elder, Tait Radio Communications assisted Dave Hillman with a geography lesson, watch USA vs Irland in orld Rugby Cup and went skiing. Week 38 Steve Mikell, supposedly retired took the week off, and went to see some Tampa Bay Rays games Week 39 Andy Giamis, Commscope assisted with metallographic cross-sectional analysis of die cast Mg and aught a group of Cub Scouts how to hotwire a tractor Week 40 Gebhard Neifer, Delphi assisted with a customer audit Week 41 Ian Fox, Aero Engine Controls assisted with pcb cross-section analysis Week 42 Andy Giamis, Commscope Andy gave them the week off (BBQ and English ale party) Week 43: 4 winners Bev Christian, RIM assisted with testing of phthalates Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc. assisted with installing a new fuel pump on the tractor, mowing my yard nd raking the leaves/pine needles. Patrick Goodyear, PGE assisted with relaxing on the beach following kelp removal efforts Richard Stadem,GD-AIS assisted with the qualification of a Radon-fueled Airvac PCBRM 5.2 with ts new 50,000 watt pre-heater and Radon emitting laser reflow head Week 44 Patrick Goodyear, PGE assisted with sifting sand at the beach looking for sand dollars Week 45 Dock Brown, Medtronic assisted with the synthesizing a postmodern fusion of Firesign's epartment of Redundancy Department with Sokol's boundary transgression uantum gravity paradigm shift Week 46 Dock Brown, Medtronic assisted with ??? Bev Christian, RIM assisted RIM co-ops with research projects Week 47 Graham Collins, L3 Communications assisted with counterfeit part inspection and snow plow duty Week 48 Mike Fenner, Indium assisted with automotive repairs and for holiday relaxation eek 49 Reuven Rokah assisted with patent investigations Week 50 Rex Waygood, Hansatech EMS assisted with: uesday after H&S induction: Solve the EU financial crisis. ednesday: Provide sufficient information to the TAC to get the EU to ermit Pb in solders. hursday: Win the lottery on my behalf using a single ticket. (I'm not reedy any win will do) riday until departure: Enjoy the south of England countryside, Week 51 Bev Christian, RIM assisted with a hearty meal which will include Canadian bacon and maple yrup played Settlers of Catan for a while. investigate a cure for head on pillow? create a halogen-free epoxy that isn't brittle? cure tin whiskers Perfect rework techniques for 0.50025s and 0.2 mm pitch 5000 pin BGAs. Week 52 Dock Brown, Medtronic assisted with ???? Week 53 Ian Fox, Aero Engine Controls assisted with failure analysis assistance and removal of snow Week 54 Steve Mikell, supposedly retired assisted with unknown Phil Anslow, MBDA Systems assisted with in preparation of 3-5year strategy and cooking of alentine's Day meal for my lovely wife - oh and me! Week 55 Brian Ellis, not retired and having lots of fun assisted with video editing of 100+ cassettes and eating wonderful food Week 56 Aleks Lozinsky, Technic Canada unknown Week 57 Tan Geok Ang, NA assisted with a tour of Singapore and fun at Clarke Quay Week 58 Gebhard Neifer, Delphi unknown Aleks Lozinsky, Technic Canada unknown Week 59 Rex Waygood, Hansatech EMS assisted with preparing for the arrival of a Europlacer Iineo II and ome sightseeing Week 60 Torsten Hagge, Kristronics assisted with car manufacturers EMC requirements, high voltage PTC eaters and helped paint Easter eggs Week 61 Joshua Muonio, Analog Technologies Corp. assisted with cutting out lead-free chocolate bunnies with our nitrogen nerted laser ystem Week 62 Dock Brown, Medtronics assisted with working on the TechNet Interstate Party Bus. So far I ave a collection of old soap box racers and go-cart engines so all the ecessary materials are in place. What's needed now is just vehicle esign and assembly. Once it's done, there will be no more begging anagement for conference travel funds Week 63 Torsten Hagge, Kristronics assisted with lithium ion cell balancing and fuel cell protection Week 64 James Head, Crowcon assisted with recce a trail I'm planning for Oxford Hash House Harriers Hillman note - if you don't know the word "recce", you should look it up) Week 65 Tom Carroll, Boeing Defense, Space and Security assisted with golf ball retreval duty at Bethpage State Park (The Black olf Course) and relaxing at the beach Week 66 Lamar Young, SCS Coatings assisted with tire crew duty at the Indy time trials, an awesome emorial day cookout and test results review support Week 67 Steve Creswick, Balanced Enterprise Solutions assisted with ???? Week 68 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc. assisted with a relaxing weekend of dabbling around the house, identify igher resolution cameras to outfit vision systems and working on treamlining Trial build process and strengthening Quality Audit system. Week 69 Denny Fritz, SAIC assisted with ???? veryone have a safe week! ave Hillman ockwell Collins [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ his email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. or more information please contact helpdesk at x2960 or [log in to unmask] _____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please contact helpdesk at x2960 or [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________