My guess ... ENIG pad minus the gold.
Ed Hare
VP SEM Lab
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Steve Gregory wrote:
>Mornin' Everybody!
>
>Inge has sent us another mystery picture. Take a look at:
>http://stevezeva.homestead.com/files/Friday.jpg
>
>Again, not quite sure what this is. He says it's easier than the last
>one, but I don't know...
>
>I'm not feeling very well today, I'm suffering from a little
>Paraskevidekatriaphobia after reading this:
>
>-Steve-
>
>
>Friday the 13th Phobia Rooted in Ancient History
>John Roach for National Geographic News
>
>This Friday some people will be so paralyzed with fear they simply won't
>get out of bed. Others will steadfastly refuse to fly on an airplane,
>buy a house, or act on a hot stock tip. It's Friday the 13th, and
>they're freaked out.
>
>"It's been estimated that [U.S] $800 or $900 million is lost in business
>on this day because people will not fly or do business they would
>normally do," said Donald Dossey, founder of the Stress Management
>Center and Phobia Institute in Asheville, North Carolina.
>
>Among other services, Dossey's organization counsels clients on how to
>overcome fear of Friday the 13th, a phobia that he estimates afflicts 17
>to 21 million people in the United States.
>
>Symptoms range from mild anxiety to full-blown panic attacks. The latter
>may cause people to reshuffle schedules or miss an entire day's work.
>
>When it comes to bad luck of any kind, Richard Wiseman-a psychologist at
>the University of Hertfordshire in Hatfield, England-found that people
>who consider themselves unlucky are more likely to believe in
>superstitions associated with bad luck.
>
>"Their beliefs and behavior are likely to be part of a much bigger
>worldview," he said. "They will believe that luck is a magical force and
>that it can ruin their lives."
>
>Wiseman found that one quarter of the 2,068 people questioned in a 2003
>survey associate the number 13 with bad luck. People with such feelings,
>he found, are more likely to be anxious on days like Friday the 13th and
>thus more prone to have accidents. In other words, being afraid of
>Friday the 13th could be their undoing.
>
>So how did Friday the 13th become such an unlucky day?
>
>Dossey, also a folklore historian and author of Holiday Folklore,
>Phobias and Fun, said fear of Friday the 13th is rooted in ancient,
>separate bad-luck associations with the number 13 and the day Friday.
>The two unlucky entities ultimately combined to make one super unlucky
>day.
>
>Dossey traces the fear of 13 to a Norse myth about 12 gods having a
>dinner party at Valhalla, their heaven. In walked the uninvited 13th
>guest, the mischievous Loki. Once there, Loki arranged for Hoder, the
>blind god of darkness, to shoot Balder the Beautiful, the god of joy and
>gladness, with a mistletoe-tipped arrow.
>
>"Balder died and the whole Earth got dark. The whole Earth mourned. It
>was a bad, unlucky day," said Dossey. From that moment on, the number 13
>has been considered ominous and foreboding.
>
>There is also a biblical reference to the unlucky number 13. Judas, the
>apostle who betrayed Jesus, was the 13th guest to the Last Supper.
>
>Meanwhile, in ancient Rome, witches reportedly gathered in groups of 12.
>The 13th was believed to be the devil.
>
>Thomas Fernsler, an associate policy scientist in the Mathematics and
>Science Education Resource Center at the University of Delaware in
>Newark, said the number 13 suffers because of its position after 12.
>
>According to Fernsler, numerologists consider 12 a "complete" number.
>There are 12 months in a year, 12 signs of the zodiac, 12 gods of
>Olympus, 12 labors of Hercules, 12 tribes of Israel, and 12 apostles of
>Jesus.
>
>In exceeding 12 by 1, Fernsler said 13's association with bad luck "has
>to do with just being a little beyond completeness. The number becomes
>restless or squirmy."
>
>This fear of 13 is strong in today's world. According to Dossey, more
>than 80 percent of high-rises lack a 13th floor. Many airports skip the
>13th gate. Hospitals and hotels regularly have no room number 13.
>
>On streets in Florence, Italy, the house between number 12 and 14 is
>addressed as 12 and a half. In France socialites known as the
>quatorziens (fourteeners) once made themselves available as 14th guests
>to keep a dinner party from an unlucky fate.
>
>Many triskaidekaphobes, as those who fear the unlucky integer are known,
>point to the ill-fated mission to the moon, Apollo 13.
>
>As for Friday, it is well known among Christians as the day Jesus was
>crucified. Some biblical scholars believe Eve tempted Adam with the
>forbidden fruit on Friday. Perhaps most significant is a belief that
>Abel was slain by Cain on Friday the 13th.
>
>So, what are triskaidekaphobes to do?
>
>Dossey said "practical" cures are as simple as learning to refocus one's
>thoughts from negative feelings to positive. His mantra: "What you think
>about, you begin to feel. What you feel generates what you do. And what
>you do creates how you will become."
>
>In other words, those stricken with negative thoughts about Friday the
>13th need to learn how to focus on pleasant thoughts. Those, in turn,
>will create pleasant feelings that make one's fears less overwhelming,
>according to Dossey.
>
>"They haven't lost their mind. They've lost control of their mind,"
>Dossey said of triskaidekaphobes. "They are focused in the wrong
>direction. In their mind they have a big, large, looming picture of
>something horrible that could happen."
>
>Wiseman, the University of Hertfordshire psychologist, offers similar
>advice to those stricken with the fear of Friday the 13th.
>
>"They need to realize that they have the ability to create much of their
>own good and bad luck," he said. "And they should concentrate on being
>lucky by, for example, looking on the bright side of events in their
>lives, remembering the good things that have happened, and, most of all,
>be[ing] prepared to take control of their future."
>
>Folklore offers other remedies, however. One recommendation is to climb
>to the top of a mountain or skyscraper and burn all the socks you own
>that have holes in them. Another is to stand on your head and eat a
>piece of gristle.
>
>So if you fear the 13th, take your pick of remedies and let tomorrow
>bring its luck-good or bad.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ingemar Hernefjord
>(KC/EMW)
>Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 9:10 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: [TN] NTC: Friday question 3
>
>
>Well, gentlemen,
>Time for another mystery? This time much easier. For some of you, at
>least. Could be a burnt piece of bread, but it ain't, or....?
>Depends on Mr Yoda if this picture comes up.
>Inge
>
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