Wedding Ring Customs

• In France, Protestant and Catholics usually wear their wedding rings on the left hand, but Orthodox wear it on the right.
• In Orthodox countries, they usually wear it on the right hand.
• In the United States, Egypt, Switzerland, Romania, and Sweden, it is usually worn on the left hand.
• In Norway, Bulgaria, Austria, and Columbia, it is usually worn on the right hand.
• In Germany and for Protestants in the Netherlands, the left hand usually indicates engagement and the right marriage. Catholics in the Netherlands wear the wedding ring on the left hand.
• In the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium, the wedding ring on the ring finger of the left hand is traditional among Roman Catholics living in the provinces of West Flanders and East Flanders and in part of Limburg, but not elsewhere.
• In Sri Lanka, the groom usually wears it on the right hand and the bride on the left.
• Regardless of where the ring is placed in the wedding ceremony, Jewish couples generally transfer it to the ring finger of the left hand afterwards.

Graphene analogues

A duo of graphene mimics

Electron-electron interactions in artificial graphene

Creating, moving and merging Dirac points with a Fermi gas in a tunable honeycomb lattice.

Chiral Symmetry and Fermion Doubling in the Zero-mode Landau Levels of
Massless Dirac Fermions with Disorder

How to Empower your Quantum Gas

Dirac point engineering :
Evolution and merging of Dirac points in optical lattices

They say "staggered tunneling" is the key, but this is the only reference Google can find to it:

Interacting p-orbital fermions in optical lattices 
from Mott to topological insulator

Kensington Stone

There seem to be some obvious errors in the translation of the Kensington Stone. By obvious, I mean obvious to me. No one else apparently, ever considers that some words might be Gothic. The most important word of the first sentence is illegible, not blank. Eight Goths and Twenty-two Northmen at ???o.  The word, "ok", means the conjunction, "and". Therefore, "ōg" must mean "I fear" as in Gothic. I can't see why people would translate both as "and". Likewise, I don't see both "weþ" and "we" meaning "by".  I think  "weþ" means "with". Likewise, "from" could also be Gothic meaning "from" and "fro" could mean "fro" as in "to and fro".  Likewise,  Göter could mean Goths, but means Geats according to the Swedes.  I think þags is the genitive case and þagh means a day considered as a span of time, which derives from:

agh-

A day (considered as a span of time). Oldest form *ag̑h-, becoming *agh- in centum languages. day is from Old English dæg, day;

This is a transliteration of the stone:^[1]

“

8 : göter : ok : 22 : norrmen : po :  ???o : opþagelsefarþ : fro :  winlanþ : of : west : wi :  haþe : läger : weþ : 2 : skjar : en :  þags : rise : norr : fro : þeno : sten :  wi : war : ok : fiske : en : þagh :  äptir : wi : kom : hem : fan : 10 : man : röþe  af : bloþ : og : þeþ : AVM :  fräelse : af : illy :

”

The lateral (or side) text reads:^[1]

“

här : 10 : mans : we : hawet : at : se: äptir : wore : skip : 14 : þagh : rise : from : þeno : öh : ahr : 1362

”

Here is my translation:

Eight Goths and twenty-two Northmen in the midst of stream discovery-journey going from Vinland due west. We had camped with two shelters one daytime's travel north this stone. We went and fish one day (span of time). After we come home,  found ten red men out of blood.  Foul deed.  AVM.  Deliver out of evil. 

There are ten seamen from the sea to look after our ships,  fourteen days (span of time) travel by this stream. Year of our Lord 1362. 

There are many translations, but mine is unique in many ways. 

Göter = old norse corruption of Gutþiuda meaning Goths

Norr = north

men = men

ok = and

po = "in the midst of"

fro = "going from" as in "to and fro"

winlanþ = the Viking name for New Foundland. In Leif Erikson's time it was warm enough to grow grapes.

"of  west" = "due west" or westward

wi = we

haþe =had or the past plural tense of have

läger = lair or camp

weþ = with

skjar = shelters

en = one or "a"

þags = daytime's as opposed to þagh which is a 24 hour span of time

rise = race or travel

þeno = this

sten = stone

war : ok : fiske = past tense of "go and fish"

äptir = after

kom  = come

hem = "to home"

fan = (one) found

man : röþe = plural of redman or redmen

af = out of

bloþ = blood

ōg = (I) fear

 þeþ = deed

AVM = Hail Mary

"fräelse : af : illy" = quote from the Lord's Prayer

hawet = (of) the sea

 ōh = stream (as a means of travel)

ahr = abbreviation for "year of our Lord"


Everyone else seems to think that "ōg" means "and" and "ōh" means "island" while I hold to the very dubious view that "ōh" means "å" and "ōg" means "I fear".  It could be that "þeþ" means deed rather than death if it is Gothic. Then "ōg : þeþ" would mean "Foul Deed", the opposite of "Waila : þeþ". 

Any ideas on a more accurate translation would be appreciated.

Physics for Elementary School Students

The questions by the students at the end is the best part. It gives one hope for the future of the planet.

Comments on the E-Cat HT Tests

It is incredibly funny that some people still claim to believe that Rossi's E-Cat does not produce excess energy after all the tests.  Here are some comments by others about the tests:

E-Caat HT2 Test Apparatus

The cylinder length is 33 cm for both the outer and inner cylinder. The outer cylinder is 10 centimeters in diameter while the inner cylinder which holds the powder charge is only 33 millimeters in diameter and

placed along the center axis. A third ceramic cylinder fits between the outer and inner cylinder and holds 3 wire wound resistors equidistant from the center axis and each the full length of the cylinder such that "sequenced" power interruption of their 3 phase power source by their triac regulators should "roll" the peak thermal exposure around the surface of the inner cylinder they are designed to heat. Or am I just stating the obvious? We have always suspected this device requires a fine balance between draining away heat and initiating heating to prevent self destruction or stalling out, and the equidistant placement plus sequencing sure seems to reinforce that concern.

"Figs. 1-2. Two images from the test performed on Nov. 20th 2012.

Here, the activation of the charge (distributed laterally in the reactor)

is especially obvious.

The darker lines in the photograph are actually the shadows of the resistor coils, which yield only a minimal part of the total thermal power.

The performance of this device was such that the reactor was destroyed,

melting the internal steel cylinder and the surrounding ceramic layers.

The long term trials analyzed in the present report were purposely

performed at a lower temperatures for safety reasons."

"Fig. 3 shows a thermal video frame from the IR camera: the temperature of

859 °C refers to Area 2 (delimited by the “cross hairs”), whereas the

average temperature recorded for the body of the device, relevant to the

rectangle indicated as Area 1, is 793 °C."

E-Cat HT Test Setup

Agnetha Fältskog

Interview


Back On Your Radio ( from "A" )

BE THE ONE WHO LOVES YOU NOW ( from "A" )

Perfume in the breeze ( from "A" )

I Keep Them On The Floor Beside My Bed ( from "A" )

Dance Your Pain Away ( from "A" )

I Was A Flower ( from "A" )

Bubble ( from "A" )

I Should've Followed You Home ( duet with Gary Barlow from "A" )

Preview

Finally, one for old times sake!

LENR Links

Indication of anomalous heat energy production in a reactor device by Giuseppe Levi, Evelyn Foschi, Torbjörn Hartman, Bo Höistad, Roland Pettersson, Lars Tegnér, Hanno Essén

Roger Green Interview

2007 patent


TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS &
PERFORMANCE OF THE DEFKALION’S 
HYPERION PRE-INDUSTRIAL PRODUCT

A German Report

For Those Who Doubt

Is Commercial LENR the Real Deal? from tylervan

Göteborgslåten

Hear is my translation of the song. I'm not sure how correct it is, but it it a lot better than Google Translate.

My Translation of the Lyrics

Gothenburg, this wonderful place! Oh, oh. I can not get enough of your charm, your heart, your scent. This is the city that makes me smile. Majorna och Haga districts, Landala, Linné, Vaaaaaasastan, Guldheden, Johanneberg  and naturally Avenyn,  the harbor opera house, and a lovely tour of Liseberg. Gothenburg Gothenburg is an all cities' city. I'm in love. Meet me there. I never get enough, from the city by summer, heights of love...  Gothenburg, Gothenburg, you're urban, Rolls Royce, beautiful flicks, beautiful boys, I never get enough.  Oh la la, Oh la la from the City in my heart, it's, of course, Gothenburg! And hang out in the the new old Ullevi stadium, and take a tour on Paddan Boats, check out and chill out in Slottskogen Park. Then listen, enjoy the City's buzz, Mix Megapol Radio City (107.3 FM)... Gothenburg, Gothenburg, it's the city of my dreams, I'm in love. Meet me there. I get never enough. Oh la la, Oh la la, from the City by summer, heights of love...  Gothenburg, Gothenburg here, we are always in G(otheburg), beautiful flicks, beautiful boys, I never get enough. Oh la la, Oh la la  from the City in my heart, it's, of course, Gothenburg. Gothenburg, Gothenburg, it's an all Cities' city, I'm in love. Meet me there, I never get enough. Oh la la, Oh la la from the City of Summer, heights of love...Gothenburg, Gothenburg, you're urban, Rolls Royce, beautiful flicks, beautiful boys, I never get enough. Oh la la, Oh la la from the City in my heart, wonderful, beautiful Gothenburg! 

Text

MUSIK: The Moniker
Text: Mats Lilenberg

”Göteborg, denna underbara plats
ååh åhh. jag kan inte få nog av din charm, din puls, din doft.
du är staden som får mig att le, yeh yeh he he
Majorna och Haga , Landala, Linné, Vaaaaaa-

sastan, Guldheden, Johanneberg och självklart avenyn,

hamnen , operan, och en härlig tur på liseberg.
göteborg göteborg det är alla städers stad, jag är kär . möt mig där, jag får aldrig nog,
utav staden som av sommar,höjder av kärleken..
göteborg göteborg du gör städerna från sorg, vackra fix, sköna boys, jag får aldrig nog.
oh la la oh la la utav staden i mitt hjärta, det är ju göteborg!
och häng med på nya gammla ullevi, och ta en tur med paddan, ta och softa ner i slottskogen.
sen lyssna , njut av stadens såll, mixmegapol..
göteborg göteborg det är mina drömmars stad, jag är kär möt mig där, jag får aldrig nog.
oh la la oh la la utav staden som av sommar, höjder av kärleken..
göteborg göteborg här är vi alltid på g.. vackra fix, sköna boys, jag får aldrig nog.
oh la la oh la la utav staden i mitt hjärta, det är ju göteborg.

göteborg göteborg det är alla städers stad, jag är kär mör mig där, jag får aldrig nog.
oh la la oh la la utav staden som av sommar, höjder av kärleken..
göteborg göteborg du är städernas, Rolls Royce, Vackra flicks, sköna boys, jag får aldrig nog.
ohlalaohlala utav staden  i mitt hjärta, underbara, sköna Göteborg!

Chords

VERS 1

A                               E
Göteborg denna underbara plats, åååh

                                                D
Jag kan inte få nog utav din charm din puls din doft

                             A             E
Du är staden som får mig att le yeh yeh he he


A                                 E
Majorna och Haga, Landala, Linné, Vaaaaaa-

                                              D
sastan, Guldheden, Johanneberg och självklart Avenyn

                            A           E
Hamnen å Operan å en härlig tur, på Liseberg


REFRÄNG

A                                       E
Göteborg, Göteborg, det är alla städers stad

                                 E   E    D
Jag är kär, möt  mig där, JAG FÅ ALL-DRIG NOG

                                       Bm                 E
Oh la la, oh la la, utav staden som om sommarn, sjuder av kärleken

A                                        E
Göteborg, Göteborg, du är städernas Roll Royce

                                   E   E    D
Vackra flicks, sköna boys, JAG FÅR ALL-DRIG NOG

                                      Bm                E
Oh la la, Oh la la utav staden i mitt hjärta, det är ju Göteborg



VERS 2
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A                                  E
Kom, häng med på nya gamla Ullevi, åååh

                                              D
ta en ur med Paddan ta och softa ner i Slottsskogen

                                  A                E
sen lyssna på och njut av stadens sorl, å Mix Megapol




REFRÄNG

A                                       E
Göteborg, Göteborg, det är alla städers stad

                                 E   E    D
Jag är kär, möt  mig där, JAG FÅ ALL-DRIG NOG

                                       Bm                 E
Oh la la, oh la la, utav staden som om sommarn, sjuder av kärleken

A                                       E
Göteborg, Göteborg, här är vi alltid på G

                                   E   E    D
Vackra flicks, sköna boys, JAG FÅR ALL-DRIG NOG

                                      Bm                E
Oh la la, Oh la la utav staden i mitt hjärta, det är ju Göteborg



TRUM- OCH SÅNG SOLO


Göteborg, Göteborg, det är alla städers stad

                                 E   E    D
Jag är kär, möt  mig där, JAG FÅ ALL-DRIG NOG

                                       Bm                 E
Oh la la, oh la la, utav staden som om sommarn, sjuder av kärleken

A                                         E
Göteborg, Göteborg, du är städernas Rolls Royce

                                   E   E    D
Vackra flicks, sköna boys, JAG FÅR ALL-DRIG NOG

                                      Bm                 E               A
Oh la la, Oh la la utav staden i mitt hjärta, Underbara, sköna Göteborg