i gave it up... the answer comes early than the question... (timezone difference? - some times). congratulations... greece? visit Ellis village? get deep clean and get rid of ionics before shot of ouzo? On Dec 2, 2016, at 3:57 PM, Drew meyer wrote: > Dave, > > Wow close race 2 minute margin! > > Right between the holidays. O.K. if I give the boys a week off? A > trip to Greece maybe? > > Drew > > -----Original Message----- > From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David Hillman > Sent: Friday, December 02, 2016 1:46 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [TN] Element Quiz Answer > > Here is the Element Quiz Question: > > The Question: > The name for this element describes the Greek word for the most > northerly habitable land in ancient Greek mythology. This element > is a metal and can be cut easily with a knife. To produce 4 > kilograms of this element, you have to process 500 tons of earth. > Which element is being described? > > The Answer: > The element is thulium (Tm). Thulium's name is derived from the > Greek word "Thule" which was the most northerly habitable land in > ancient Greek mythology. Tm is one of the most scarce elements on > earth as it comprises about 0.007% of the 50% rare earth element > content of monazite sand. It has very few commercial applications, > the most common being a small portable X-ray source material > (Thulium-170 isotope). > > > The winner of the quiz is Drew Meyer, Benchmark Electronics, will > get the services of Clumpy and Kloumpios for the week. Drew only > beat Leland Woodall by 2 minutes with the correct response. > > FEQAB is currently reviewing Doug's half fractional element > submission and will rule on it shortly. > > > So far Clumpy and Kloumpios have done the following: > Past Quiz winners/tasks: > Week 1 Ravinder Ajmani, Western Digital > -assisted with ??? > > Week 1 Ron Feyereisen, SigmaTron Intl. > -The boys can set a course through the wormhole to Elk Grove > Village, Illinois. (aptly named since elk live in a forest preserve > grove near here). They can give us a hand with our continuous > improvement projects and hourly coffee making/testing. > > Week 2 Louis Hart, Compunetics > - I can get the boys on Compunetics' turkey distribution list for > Thanksgiving > > Week 3 Mark Kostinovsky, Schlumberger Ltd. > -I got tons of unread e-mails in my Inbox. Therefore, I am going to > ask Clumpy and Kloumpios to read them all and just debrief me, so I > can take a few days off and spend some time consuming turkey with > my family. > > Week 3 John Burke > -I will be checking out their failure analysis skill set - onward > to the laboratory! Update: FA skills are good! The boys had a great > time in the lab although things heated up when they thought the > laser cutter for cutting out the samples could be modified for > laser tag. > > Week 4 Drew Meyer, Benchmark Electronics > - assisted with ???? > > > Everyone have a great weekend! > > Dave Hillman > Rockwell Collins > [log in to unmask]