Potassium K On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 3:32 AM, David D. Hillman wrote: > Hi folks - Here is the Friday Element Quiz Question (coming from sunny > Melbourne Australia): > > The Question: > This element will float on water. This element looks like aluminum but > can be cut with a butter knife. This element is heated to a liquid > phase, poured into rail tank cars where it then solidifies for > transport. Once the tank car arrives at its destination, heaters > re-liquify this element for removal. Countries have gone to war over > this element. The pure form of this element is not found in nature. > This element is essential for humans. What element is being described? > > The winner of the weekly element quiz is will get the services of > Clumpy and Kloumpios for the week. > > > So far Clumpy and Kloumpios have done the following: > > Past Quiz winners/tasks: > Week 1 Dick Krug, Spartan Complex Systems Week 2 Laura Turbini, IRC > Week 3 James Head, Crowcon Detection Instruments Limited Week 3 Pat > Goodyear, PGE Week 4 Joe Russeau, Precision Analysts Laboratory Week 5 > Tom Carroll, Boeing Defense, Space and Security > Week 6 Steve Gregory > Week 7 Phil Kinner > Week 8 Brian Ellis > Week 9 James Head, Crowcon Detection Instruments Limited > Week 10 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc. > Week 11 Keith Calhoun, Sopark Corp > Week 12 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld-Elektronik > Week 13 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc. > Week 14 Brian Ellis > Week 15 Tom Carroll, Boeing Defense, Space and Security > Week 16 Steve Gregory > Week 17 Phil Kinner > Week 18 Ian Braddock, MBDA Systems > Week 19 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc. > Week 20 Denny Fritz > Week 21 Amol Kane > Week 21 Dewey Whittaker, Honeywell > Week 21 David Bealer, Watch Fire Signs > Week 22 Phil Kinner > Week 23 Guy Ramsey, RD Circuits > > Week 24 Mark Kostinovsky, Schlumberger > - The boys have been working hard and surely deserve some break. I'm > fixin' to be nice to the boys and just let them sit on my porch, have > a Texas drink, relax and enjoy our weather. This summer's been kinda > cold around here: has not even hit 40C (104F) yet. > > Week 25 Keith Calhoun, Sopark Corp > - The guys arrived safely, and I sent them to the Erie County Fair. > They > loved the antique tractor/ live steam exhibit, and are now figuring > out > what class their John Deere's can run in the Truck and Tractor pull. > They are also having a ball in the beer garden. I'm not sure I will > get > anything constructive out of them this week but they sure are having > fun! > > Week 26 Paul Reid, PWB Interconnect Solutions Inc > - Well it's time for Clumpy and Kloumpios to join me for some Canadian > wilderness camping in Algonquin Park, Ontario. What we'll do is put > the > canoe on the van, load up our camping gear, and then we'll head the > North East area of Algonquin Park. We'll put in on the Barron River > and > canoe up to the river to a portage point where Clumpy and Kloumpios > will > be asked to portage the canoe and gear for about half a kilometer, > past > some falls, until we put back into the river. What we'll do then is > canoe about a mile up stream and setup camp on a beautiful point of > land > that over looks the Barron Cliffs and has a pine tree every much like > The Jack Pine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jackpine.jpeg that was > painted by Tom Thomson in 1916. I'll start fishing; they will do the > cooking and cleaning. We will relax for a few days then we'll head > back > to Ottawa (given the mosquitoes don't carry us away). Dave - Maybe we > can meet you on the Ottawa River some time next week. > > Week 27 Greg Munie, IPC > - Since it's getting close to time for the Abbey's grape harvest/wine > making I'll get the monks to put them up at the Abbey guest house. > From there it's just a short walk to the vineyard. Of course the food > at the Abbey may be a little, ah, Spartan, for their tastes. But I can > give them enough pruning, weeding and cleanup to do to keep them busy > all week. (Maybe I can even get them to do the water run for the > vegetable garden! They'd probably like driving the old tractor.) And > for a special perk they can have the honor of the company of Benny, > the Abbey Golden Retriever! > > Week 28 ???? > - assisted with ???? > > Everyone have a safe week! > > Dave Hillman > Rockwell Collins > [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] > ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 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] ______________________________________________________________________