The boys are great at grilling. They make a mean marinated reindeer. Doug Pauls Principal Materials and Process Engineer Rockwell Collins On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 2:56 PM, Leland Woodall <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I still have vinyl and a turntable, though 78s were a bit before my time. > > The guys get here just in time for our summer plant shutdown, so their > workload will be minimal. We all deserve a break, right? > > Happy 4th of July, everyone! > > Leland > > -----Original Message----- > From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David Hillman > Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2018 3:45 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [TN] Element Quiz Answer > > The Question: > This element is a by-product from nickel and copper mining. When this > element is exposed to air it forms an extremely toxic and objectionable > fume/odor. This element is the least abundant stable element in Earth's > crust, with an average mass fraction of 50 parts per trillion in the > continental crust. An alloy that includes this element was used for the > tips of phonograph styli during the late 78 rpm and early "LP" record days. > Which element is being described? > > The Answer: > The element is Osmium (Os)! Osmium's +8 oxidation state is notable for > being the highest attained by any chemical element aside from iridium's +9 > oxidation state. Osmium derives its name from the Greek word "osme" meaning > "a smell", because of the ashy and smoky smell of the volatile osmium > tetroxide. Osmium-alloy record needle tips wore out far more rapidly than > competing, and costlier, sapphire and diamond tips, so they were > discontinued. The most notable application of Os isotopes is in geology in > conjunction with the abundance of iridium, to characterize the layer of > shocked quartz along the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary that marks the > extinction of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. > > > The winner of the quiz is Leland Woodall and will get the services of > Clumpy and Kloumpios for the week. Lots of correct responses, Leland was > first and beat Scott Decker by only one minute per the firewall clock time > stamp. > Apparently many folks still remember what LP records are! > > > 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 > - Wow! Simply amazing timing. Our leader will be gone next week so we > will be two people doing the work of three. The boys will be greatly > appreciated. The good news for them is that we finally have some decent > weather here. Will have to get them some time outside to enjoy it! > > Week 60 Leland Woodall > - Just in time for Memorial Day! I can see the guys mowing, trimming > bushes, cleaning cars, and exercising their grilling skills. I might mix > in a little work at the plant next week, just for good measure. > > Week 61 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly > - Really great! The boys can help me moving many boxes with old technical > journals in a cellar, assist me with learning Altium, they can rescue the > frogs which my black tomcat catches nightly as toy and last not least they > help me putting antibiotic pills into our red tomcat twice a day (now this > is really a quite hard task). > > Week 62 Leland Woodall > - assisted with ???? > > > I hope everyone has a awesome week! > Dave Hillman > Rockwell Collins > [log in to unmask] > > ________________________________ > > “Confidentiality Notice: > This transmission (including any attachments) may contain confidential > information belonging to the sender and is intended only for the use of the > party or entity to which it is addressed. If you are not the intended > recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, > distribution, retention or the taking of action in reliance on the contents > of this transmission is strictly prohibited. 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