Excellent! I've got plenty of things for the boys to do here in lovely Mohnton, PA, on the outskirts or Reading. We'll likely stop over at the famous Reading Vanitfy Fair outlets for their holiday sale, maybe the boys can find some new clothes for he winter that will fit them. Our Teradyne decided to give up the ghost today, I'm going to need some help with getting it back up and running. At home, I need to replace the grill, so I'll get the boys busy assembling the new one. And my 17 year old son keeps hounding me about getting my old 66 Mustang running again, if they have some time after everything else I'll get them to tackle that job. 

For my fellow US counterparts, have a great holiday weekend, thankfully we get an extra day of rest here. Hopefully the rest of the world can enjoy their regular length weekend. 

Blair

On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 13:01:16 -0500, David D. Hillman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Hi folks - Here is the Friday Element Quiz Answer - so much for me
>thinking this was going to be hard:
>
>The Question:
>
>This element has no biological role and is a cumulative poison. The
>following people are associated with a certain aspect of this element:
>Benjamin Franklin, British Prime Minister William Pit, Lord Tennyson,
>Charles Darwin, John Wesley (founder of Methodism) and Andrew Jackson (7th
>
>US President). This element has a minimum of three natural isotopes. What
>element is being described?
>
>
>The Answer:
>
>The element is Lead (Pb)! The array of famous people all suffered from
>gout which has been linked to lead from drinking wine/port which in the
>18th and 19th centuries contained lead acetate to 'improve' the taste and
>also from the lead crystal decanters themselves.  In May 1845 John
>Franklin went searching for the North-West Passage around Canada. He and
>his crew were never found except for crew members John Torrington, John
>Hartnell, and William Brain whose graves were discovered on Beechey
>Island. An examination of their bodies revealed high levels of lead due to
>each canned food in which the lid seal was made using a solder process.
>The combination of lead poisoning and scurvy most likely caused their
>deaths.
>
>The winner of the weekly element quiz was Blair Hogg, GAI-Tronics, and
>will get the services of Clumpy and Kloumpios for the week. Blair, let me
>know where your facility is located and the boys will leave Richard
>Stadem's shop in Minnesota right away for your place.
>