Hi Denny - the boys can do just about anything given their vast skill sets, they won't tell me what level of clearance they has since I "don't have a need to know" and I think I now understand why they hooked their John Deere "swamp" equipment trailer on their tractors before jumping on Interstate 80 heading for your place. I would recommend keeping them busy as they tend to get into mischief if they are not getting their hands dirty. I know Clumpy must have done some rain research because he mumbled that your fields were " ..... too thick to fish and too thin to plow.......". Dave From: Dennis Fritz <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Date: 07/03/2013 03:25 PM Subject: Re: [TN] NTC Friday Element Quiz Answer Sent by: TechNet <[log in to unmask]> Thank my lucky stars - just happened to be on line when you posted the question. My first thought for Clumpy and Kloumpios was to ask if they knew how to drain swamps. It has rained here in Indiana almost every day for 10 days, and is forcast to thunderstorm for almost ten more. Any chance Kloumpios has any biblical roots and is related to Noah of Ark fame?? At the very least, please have Graham Naisbitt ship some wellies (Wellington boots) here to Indiana for the coming week. Only slightly more seriously, what do Clumpy and Kloumpios know about counterfeit components? Any day, I expect to be thrown into that messy topic to support the Department of Defense. And, what clearance do the guys have - confidential, secret, top secret, or keep-from-telling-Doug?. Can either run an XRF or SEM? I presume they have eagle eyes, so they can observe components through our optical microscopes. Finally, is either carrying a small spare lead-acid battery? Our UPS unit protecting the instruments from the too frequent lightning surges crapped out last week. Let me know if they will be arriving at Gary, Indiana International airport, or coming in by float plane to one of the flooded corn or soyben fields. Denny -----Original Message----- From: David D. Hillman <[log in to unmask]> To: TechNet <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wed, Jul 3, 2013 2:23 pm Subject: [TN] NTC Friday Element Quiz Answer Hi folks - Here is the Friday Element Quiz Answer: The Question: nly one clue - the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. What is the element? The Answer: he element is Seaborgium (Sg). Seaborgium was named in honor of nuclear hemist Glen T. Seaborg. There are 16 known isotopes of Sg with half lives anging from 2.9 milliseconds to 22 seconds. All of the isotopes are rtificially produced. he winner of the weekly element quiz is Denny Fritz and he will get the ervices of Clumpy and loumpios after they spend their US July 4th holiday in Cedar Rapids. The riday Element Quiz Arbitration Board (FEQAB) has tabled Doug's response f McMillianium since he is technically correct that Edwin McMillian did lso receive the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. FEQAB has requested larification from the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry IUPAC) located in Oxford England since it is IUPAC that officially pproves the naming of the elements. The IUPAC assured the FEQAB that they ould give the request serious consideration but considering it took 12 ears to resolve the elemental names for 104-107, Doug may be waiting while. o far Clumpy and Kloumpios have done the following: Past Quiz winners/tasks: eek 1 Dick Krug, Spartan Complex Systems eek 2 Laura Turbini, IRC eek 3 James Head, Crowcon Detection Instruments Limited eek 3 Pat Goodyear, PGE eek 4 Joe Russeau, Precision Analysts Laboratory eek 5 Tom Carroll, Boeing Defense, Space and Security eek 6 Steve Gregory eek 7 Phil Kinner, PVA eek 8 Brian Ellis eek 9 James Head, Crowcon Detection Instruments Limited eek 10 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc. eek 11 Keith Calhoun, Sopark Corp eek 12 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld-Elektronik eek 13 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc. eek 14 Brian Ellis Week 15 Tom Carroll, Boeing Defense, Space and Security Tell the boys to be prepared for helping do FOD walks at one of my uppliers. I bet when the employees at this supplier see these 2 guys on he FOD walk it will get their attention and help raise awareness of the mportance of preventing FOD. Week 16 Steve Gregory I need them to help me start-up a new (used) Vitronics/Soltec wave achine we recently got here. It's gonna' be fun (if that's what you want o call it), we have to fill the Vitronics with a tin wash so we can get he wave formers and nozzles out, clean everything up, and then empty the ot. Then we've got to empty the pot in the old Electrovert machine that e have and have that solder ready for the Vitronics. Then we'll play usical wave machines by moving the Electrovert and placing the Vitronics here it was sitting, then we'll fill the Vitronics again. Week 17 Phil Kinner, PVA assisted with ???? Week 18 Ian Braddock, MBDA Systems assisted with ???? Week 19 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc. Now I have two guys to assist with four screen printer moves this week. hey're gonna love helping me perform our quality verifications, and they et to try their hand with cross section work again. Week 20 Denny Fritz assisted with ???? veryone have a safe week! Dave Hillman ockwell Collins _____________________________________________________________________ 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. 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