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BCP/Matricaria recutita

Matricaria recutita

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BCP/Matricaria recutita/Logs

2007 Logs

 * --Juan Pisek 17:43, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

2008 Logs

 * --SB_Johnny | talk 09:00, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
 * --Juan Pisek 17:08, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
 * --SB_Johnny | talk 09:16, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
 * --SB_Johnny | talk 11:19, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
 * --SB_Johnny talk 10:32, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
 * --SB_Johnny talk 09:18, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Recent Logs

 * Anna reg 12:25, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

license: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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BCP/Thalictrum kiusianum

Thalictrum kiusianum

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BCP/Thalictrum kiusianum/Logs

This page contains recent bloom logs for the plant Thalictrum kiusianum (Kyosho Meadow Rue).

Recent Logs

 * SB Johnny-LM 10:46, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
 * SB Johnny-LM 10:46, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

=====Archived Logs===== (If there are more than 5 signatures under the recent logs heading, move the oldest logs to under this heading (generally leave the 3 most recent).
 * (no archived logs yet)

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BCP/Spiraea alba

Spiraea alba

title: BCP/Spiraea alba


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BCP/Spiraea alba/Logs

2007 Logs

 * Jomegat 3 Aug 2007

2008 Logs

 * Jomegat 00:40, 2 August 2008 (UTC) (This was also in bloom in July, but I forgot to log it).
 * Jomegat 20:29, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

2009 Logs

 * (no archived logs yet)

Recent Logs

 * Jomegat 27 July 2009 (from photos)
 * Jomegat 03:58, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

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BCP/Silene dioica × S. latifolia

Silene dioica × S. latifolia

title: BCP/Silene dioica × S. latifolia


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BCP/Silene dioica × S. latifolia/Logs

This page contains recent bloom logs for the plant Silene dioica × S. latifolia (Hybrid Campion).

Recent Logs

 * --Jomegat 16:14, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

=====Archived Logs===== (If there are more than 5 signatures under the recent logs heading, move the oldest logs to under this heading (generally leave the 3 most recent).
 * (no archived logs yet)

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BCP/Salvia involucrata

Salvia involucrata

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BCP/Salvia involucrata/Logs

2008 Logs

 * (no archived logs yet)

Recent Logs

 * SB Johnny-LM 18:28, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
 * --SB_Johnny talk 10:12, 31 August 2008 (UTC) (about 2 weeks blooming)
 * --SB_Johnny talk 10:48, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
 * --SB_Johnny talk 11:41, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

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Obstetrics and Gynecology/Female Urinary Incontinence

Female Urinary Incontinence is the involuntary loss of urine in the female. There are three types of urinary incontinence in women:

 * Genuine stress incontinence - increase in abdominal pressure
 * Urge incontinence - overwhelming desire to urinate
 * Overflow incontinence - frequent urinating in small volumes
 * True incontinence - no control over flow

Epidemiology
Incontinence is a very common problem in women. The prevalence of urinary incontinence in women differs depending on age:

 * Young adult women - 20%
 * Middle-aged women - 30%
 * Elderly women - 40%

Etiology
Genuine Stress incontinence:

 * Post-delivery
 * Post-menopause
 * Poor control of sphincter

Urge incontinence:

 * Detrusor instability
 * Bladder infection
 * Calculi

Overflow incontinence:

 * Hypotonic Bladder
 * Bladder Outlet Obstruction
 * Pelvic surgery

True incontinence:

 * Vesiculo-vaginal fistula
 * Uretero-vaginal fistula
 * Ectopic ureter
 * Bladder exstrophy

Presenting Complaint
Urinary Incontinence

History of Presenting Complaint

 * 1) Onset - "When did it begin?"
 * 2) Periodicity - "Is it there every time you go or is it intermittent?"
 * 3) Duration - If episodic - "How long does each episode last?"
 * 4) Severity - "How much urine?"
 * 5) Aggravating factors
 * 6) Relieving factors
 * 7) Associated symptoms
 * Urgency?
 * Frequency?
 * Nocturia?
 * Hesitancy?
 * Quality of flow?

Menstrual History

 * 1) Menarche and menopause
 * 2) 1st day of last menstrual period
 * 3) Length of bleeding (days)
 * 4) Frequency
 * 5) Regularity
 * 6) Bleeding between periods
 * 7) Bleeding after intercourse
 * 8) Nature of periods
 * Heavy?
 * Clots?
 * Flooding?

Obstetric History

 * 1) Number of pregnancies
 * 2) Dates of deliveries
 * 3) Induced or spontaneous labor?
 * 4) Mode of delivery
 * 5) Size and sex of the children
 * 6) Complications

Gynecological History

 * 1) Gynecological symptoms
 * 2) Gynecological diagnoses
 * 3) Gynecological surgery
 * 4) Abnormal smears

Past Medical History

 * 1) Current or past illnesses
 * 2) Hospital admissions
 * 3) Past surgeries

Drug History

 * 1) Prescribed medications
 * 2) Non-prescribed medications/herbal remedies
 * 3) Recreational drugs

Family History

 * 1) Medical conditions
 * 2) Gynecological conditions
 * 3) Malignancies

Social History

 * 1) Occupation
 * 2) Support network
 * 3) Smoking
 * 4) Alcohol

Examination
Neurological examination
 * Sacral reflexes
 * Lower limb reflexes
 * Assess cognitive awareness

Abdominal Examination

General Examination

Pelvic examination
 * Pelvic floor muscles

Investigations
Urinary Dipstick Uinalysis Urinarydynamics


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User:Rolandomunoz

Rolando de Jesús Muñoz Rodríguez

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User talk:My birds

hey my name is sydney

Welcome
Hello My birds, and welcome to Wikiversity! If you need help, feel free to visit my talk page, or contact us and ask questions. After you leave a comment on a talk page, remember to sign and date; for it helps everyone follow the threads of the discussion. The signature icon in the edit window makes it simple. To get started, you may
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Breton

{| cellpadding="10" cellspacing="5" style="width:99%; background-color:inherit; margin:auto;" Introduction to Breton Brezhoneg Breton, Brezhoneg is a Celtic language close to Welsh and Cornish.
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Brittany (Breton: Breizh) is one of the six Celtic nations. Located in France, it is split into two French regions. It is located in Western Europe at the Northwestern corner of France.

Breton is traditionally spoken in the westernmost part of Brittany (Breizh Izel), but today many people in Roazhon/Rennes and Naoned/Nantes - as well as in Paris - know or learn Breton.

This is why it has now a unified spelling (peurunvan) which allows for different pronunciations and therefore respects as far as possible the different dialects.

The lessons in this method are in peurunvan spelling. Some texts will give information upon dialectal pronunciations, with the adapted spelling for that context.
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Topics

 * Kentel gentañ / First lesson :  About Breton / A-zivout ar brezhoneg
 * Eilvet kentel / Second lesson : Pronunciation  / Distagadur
 * Teirvet kentel / Third lesson : Breton bases / Diazezoù e brezhoneg
 * Pedervet kentel / Fourth lesson : Breton dialects / Rannyezhoù ar brezhoneg
 * Pempvet kentel / Fifth lesson : Getting help / Kaout skoazell
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User:KickAssClown~enwikiversity

Hi, this is filler until I get around to actually editing this in a meaningful way.

For memory: I am part of Wikipedia, Editor Hypography, Memeber IGDA, Memeber Myspace YouTube The Forge

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Topic talk:Particle physics/Hello

Hello, My name is Mike. I am new to this forum. Just saying helo.

title: Topic talk:Particle physics/Hello


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Lunar Boom Town/GLOP Processor patterns, templates, details

Overall process diagram -- playing around with indexes trying to devise encoding that can be used to flip quickly to proper area of interest.

1. Household recycling -- Most households throw away packing materials that are very useful for modeling and prototyping on a budget. For example: Diagrams to be scanned for use at Wikiversity can be drawn on the back of waste paper such as computer printouts or envevelopes. Spacecraft models can be created from from plastic containers and painted appropriately such that action sequences can be videotaped for splicing into computer generated graphics using packages such as GIMP, Art of Illusion, Blender, 3DSMax, etc.

2. Organics -->GLOP stream Can be used to create methane (CH4), fertilizers, bio diesal, and even explosives. Different feedstocks and chemical processes are needed to achieve specific results.

3. household combustables -- Can be used to generate heat, energy, and carbon dioxide. These can be used to regulate temperature, as generic energy, and even to create rocket feuls.

4 ... know what? need to look up legal definitions in environmental regulation -- reduce workload later.


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User talk:KickAssClown~enwikiversity

{welcome}

Humor Seepage Desirable
Network games always need some humorous breakpoints to ease tension when players need hours to dominate their teams of antagonics and opportunistic allies. My percpetion anyway. The manual for Lunar Boom Town was just initiated yesterday so you have plenty of time to wreak some easter eggs or do other preparations to help the clowns keep the crowd in proper mood while they enjoy the thrilling blood lust show. Hopefully you know some good visible effects to distract our patrons while you morph your bouncing balls into adequate target seeking bouncers. Sometimes rather than negotiation the answer is to thinly distribute the burning coals so they cannot mutually irradiate each other until all feul is gone. Then the embers can be recycled in crowds as nececess to drive drive the melt and tempering processes. Mirwin 00:18, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

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Lunar Boom Town/Humorous scenarios

Cartoon Physics

dumpster diver saving environment arrested by eco sheriff claiming not what he meant} on tip from environmental regulator rat finks who are doublecrossed by law abiding glop processor. Corrupt players pushed somehow into the glop

fairy tale ending

Grim Reality

Middle school students dumpster diving at a business or school (which have not installed very expensive maximum security steel bars and locks on trash dumpsters) are hauled off and recycled (killed indadvertently ) by a dump truck.

Potential Learning Objectives

 * safety signs must be obeyed
 * effective safety procedures bias odds towards survival
 * legal but dangerous
 * illegal but appears safe -->no we demonstrate maybe you not understand full chaotic system interfaces

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Lunar Boom Town/Bubbler air particle reducer

waste streams
 * 1) contaminated household air with suspended particulates such as dust, allergens, smoke,noxious gases

process air out is hopefully lower in particulate but probably definately higher in humdity. start with semi manual switch because I am interested in

proposed component process - use fan to blow waste stream into water tank under diffusion layer such as sand or weave fabric etc.  recycle air if testing shows it helps at some cost threshold of particle removed per expense of pumping air around feedback loop rather that staight one pass through

possible advantages over existing units
 * 1) disect existing units --> first glop opportunity if can acquire broken or waste unit cheaper than just purchasing for testing
 * 2) identify precise target benefit in some process

How to measure in reasonable range ?? time for some googling One possible use is

commercially available airprocessers

 * Air Ion Technologies Range of Air Processors http://www.air-ionizers.co.uk/index.html --> seems aimed at everyday dust. Household air in negative ion high air screened to particles under .1 micron out.  Need air quality standards. back to google

 * given requirements on air out to atmosphere
 * goolge(industrial,waste,gas,emissions)


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Talk:Biographies/Projects/The Crafting Freedom Project

Interface Consumption Pattern
An proposed delivery mechanism for Key Instructional Strategies fed automatically to the users on demand as they play/test/design Lunar Boom Town educational simulation. A little history selected as an optional setting for the game play process.

or maybe pattern of how to feed instructional chunks to requesting/participating students/game players and engineering team members.

{time warp inside Lunar Boom Town engineering simulation play/work [[occasionally -- frequently depending on findings of carpal tunnel research ---> sends lunar cargo softlander back to small town rural american where a still (protrait, synopis of contribution linked until reach impact on modern localized heroes like Burt Rutan or men who gave lives pursuing freedom of flight compare contract to sacrifices made to achieve rising trend in benefits accrued in form of increased opportunity ask child for quick short response reaction for feedback then eject via plausible

Key Instructional Strategy {time warp inside Lunar Boom Town engineering simulation play/work Mirwin 01:52, 27 November 2007 (UTC)


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User talk:Sistersun01

Welcome
Hello Sistersun01, and welcome to Wikiversity! If you need help, feel free to visit my talk page, or contact us and ask questions. After you leave a comment on a talk page, remember to sign and date; for it helps everyone follow the threads of the discussion. The signature icon in the edit window makes it simple. To get started, you may
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Talk:Obstetrics and Gynecology

Department Structure
'''Is the current structure of the department good enough? What changes would you like to see? Should the curriculum be displayed on the main page or should it be sited elsewhere?'''

Learning Outcomes
'''Is the Core curriculum extensive enough? Is it practical to divide it between knowledge and skills or should it be divided according to other criteria?'''

Clinical Cases
'''Do the clinical cases meet the standard of a medical school? Should they be presented using a different format?'''

Case 1
Good start with case #1. Look forward to more, I might steal your idea to use over in our department. Watch for it. Keep up the good work.

thanks very much, it's not completely finished. What department are you in? DónalMcK 11:28, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

The Department of Military Medicine. I also wrote the outline to the intro course in the Department of Palliative Care Medicine. Only wish I had more time.

Oh, I'm glad someone is taking care of those. They are actually the two fields that I, as a med student, don't learn in my course. I am in my obs and gynae rotation and I will "finish" my contribution to the department of obs and gynae over christmas. My next rotation is in paediatrics so i'll get started there next. I'd love to see more people coming into the school to add content but it seems very slow so far. DónalMcK 15:54, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Departmental Debates
'''What debates could be started in this department? Should they be argued through posted messages, posted essays or both?'''

Figures in Obstetrics and Gynecology
Should there be a section on the main page dedicated to obstetricians and gynecologists of the past?

Other Comments
 Do you have any other comments to make regarding the department of obstetrics and gynecology?

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Lunar Boom Town/stragywiki.org

Initial Contact
Dear strategists, game players and space technology enthusiasts:

I will learn as quickly as I can about your site (http://strategywiki.org/wiki/StrategyWiki:Guide/Scope) so I can improve your perception of the applicability of your valuable resources to accomplishing overlapping specific goals. Bear with me a bit please while I get orientated adequately to communicate effectively.

Regarding specific points

Criteria for inclusion 1. The game play is mixed up in chunks of fun usable play suitable for very inhomogenous skillsets if the play is self managed or coordinated effectively. For example, one could start by playing the Virtual Airport game that will be available for free from a linear queue as soon as allocated resources become available to exercise each task necessary to send the CD out. This is indeed a very nice if a bit buggy dunfunct product. It was created by a pressional consulting firm, mine, but was never put into shipping because I could not approve such a buggy market for young minds easily crippled from being cheated by frauds claiming to have a fun game worth hundreds of dollars of play time only to deliver some worth pennies in the aggregate. However, used carefully supervised by knowledgeable engineers and developer like myself and others it can be fun, free, and useful in responsibly managed playsession. So we are deconstructing the game into it constituent pieces so we can put safety interlocks between play activities to guarantee an upper bound on how backly someone can hurt themselves other others with our product. I can afford to send your evaluation board or agent a copy of the Virtal Airport so you can verify things are as I have stated. So that is one game. Now get into the role playing by assigning people missions and tasks within the concept of an engineering simlation trying to determine best way to do something in a parallel safety interlocked fashion so nobody can easily cheat anyone else of anything of much value before breakers blow and stop the uncompensated for value being delivered to the cheaters or simply careless or otherwise incompent or incapable of meeting agreed responsibilities ... after anyone can get hit by a (bus, lightning, or asteroid) at almost any time. Please provide a mailing address and I will eagerly get the VAP disk (playable without installation on hard drive if that is your preference, some remaining bugs sometimes prevent proper execution if incorrect win95/dos executable is attempted), at this worst case the individual animation files which can be used for same purpose by picking the best clip of the approximately ... 100 available to meet assigned task responsiblys. If is then of course up to the game master or dungeon master to adquately find compromises to salvage the value of the situation appropriately. There are several other game components and documented activities online to make this a rich tool for many who will not otherwise have access to any of these capabilities because they can never get started and thus eventually earn enough cash or admiration that they can buy the excellent expensive tools available or find a sponser willing to donate their cause.

2. Excellent! Irwin Consulting was registered and operated in the State of Oregon as a sole proprietorship owned and operated by me. We were a successful consulting firm providing various engineering and computer services on both a signed and verbalized contract or agreement basis for approximately a decade. Aproximate range of operations {1992 startup to 2002 bankruptcy}, you understand this is a draft and I am working from memory. Most of the records have been destroyed now since typically many tax records are routine flushed after three years. We held ours until just shortly, maybe a year ago and now their are only fragmentary example kept for myself to help me remember what I learned so I can better next time and prosper. If necessary we can come up with adequate verfication of dates, licenses, registration, etc. For example: Oregon Secretary of State's office should have records confirmed registration of the business and authority to conduct business under name "Irwin Consulting". Likewise the state should be able to confirm that I had my engineer-in-training license. This should provide credibility such that it is believable when I testify that specific game development and play tasks and related necessary research and technolgy development was taking place for approximately 3x5x(50%) ... at least 7.5 effort years or fifteen thousand manhours were expended to create best play experience we could. The other game component we import under various license restrictions I can only evaluate just as any player until I have modded with them a bit, and then lookout!

3. Vap reached the point of flea market sales along with Urquan Masters. I do not have precise records but I would estimate that I sold from prices ranging from a quarter to a dollar about 4 of each, they seemed to split the market appeal to the kids and peoples who window shopped or stood there and played them about 50/50 which give me a warm feeling of satisfaction considering the smashing success Star Control was before the owners recycled the faded past gold disk into the commons via a very successful port. However, this is only anecdotal as I was not priveleged to watch the customers wear out their interest only that briefest play experience of a few minutes to hours as the individuals each struggled in their own way to experimentally learn enough to have fun playing the game and wish to take it home.

4. VAP is not rated, I am unaware of ratings of other potential components. I would assume that Star Control was rated at some point if the systems were in place while it was at its peak. Lunar Boom Town is a very recent startup activity which is transparent and online as much as possible, obviously it is impossible to document entire development process because people do so much thinking and prototyping in an effective synergizing sets of group teams and activities that it is clearly impossible to document everything online. Inevitably there is information hiding in distributed team due to the shear fog of massive quaunties of creative analog variants being passed around through a digital medium. The permutations are a bit boggling when I really stop to think about the challenges groups of disparate sizes face when attempting to cooperate in sharing tools and techniques. Perhaps your people can help us acquire some insight into ways to meet this criteria or find ways to meet the implied requirement to the satisfaction of your group. Maybe best thing is to simply start the process of getting reviewed and if we can get rated or certifed even though as a development activity we have a chaotic flux of change. Perhap the rating organizations would have ideas that would be helpful in meeting their desires and concerns that the risks can be managed effectively.

5. Likewise I can write some letters and send some messages to see if anyone is interested in looking us over. Lunar Boom Town is getting some attention in a couple of google sci.space.* groups. Perhaps if related groups exist for game development I can seek some attention there and generate the data you require.

6. Since Lunar Boom Town by defintion has a larger installed base than star control (here I assume urquan masters1 < urquan masters2 & urquan masters0=star control retired and frozen no longer growing proven registered base  therefore by definition as a superset including urquan masters and others Lunar Boom Town easily meets this inclusion criteria.

Regarding the criteria not applicable to consideration, if I understand properly I should proceed to http://strategywiki.org/wiki/StrategyWiki_talk:Community_Portal and initiate a conversation or discussion.

I will post this draft at Lunar Boom Town portal and link to it and post in the applicable sci.space.policy groups as well as post similar content to my personal blogs and soon to be started engineering notebook to begin facilitating the public dialogues.

Thank you all for your time and consideration regarding the Lunar Boom Town Web Portal.

sincerely, Michael R. Irwin mirwin@[advogato.org, wikipedia.org, wikiversity.org]

intended distribution includes but is not limited to: sci.space.* Wikiversity strategywiki.org

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Lunar Boom Town/strategywiki.org

Initial Contact
Dear strategists, game players and space technology enthusiasts:

I will learn as quickly as I can about your site (http://strategywiki.org/wiki/StrategyWiki:Guide/Scope) so I can improve your perception of the applicability of your valuable resources to accomplishing overlapping specific goals. Bear with me a bit please while I get orientated adequately to communicate effectively.

Regarding specific points

Criteria for inclusion 1. The game play is mixed up in chunks of fun usable play suitable for very inhomogenous skillsets if the play is self managed or coordinated effectively. For example, one could start by playing the Virtual Airport game that will be available for free from a linear queue as soon as allocated resources become available to exercise each task necessary to send the CD out. This is indeed a very nice if a bit buggy dunfunct product. It was created by a pressional consulting firm, mine, but was never put into shipping because I could not approve such a buggy market for young minds easily crippled from being cheated by frauds claiming to have a fun game worth hundreds of dollars of play time only to deliver some worth pennies in the aggregate. However, used carefully supervised by knowledgeable engineers and developer like myself and others it can be fun, free, and useful in responsibly managed playsession. So we are deconstructing the game into it constituent pieces so we can put safety interlocks between play activities to guarantee an upper bound on how backly someone can hurt themselves other others with our product. I can afford to send your evaluation board or agent a copy of the Virtal Airport so you can verify things are as I have stated. So that is one game. Now get into the role playing by assigning people missions and tasks within the concept of an engineering simlation trying to determine best way to do something in a parallel safety interlocked fashion so nobody can easily cheat anyone else of anything of much value before breakers blow and stop the uncompensated for value being delivered to the cheaters or simply careless or otherwise incompent or incapable of meeting agreed responsibilities ... after anyone can get hit by a (bus, lightning, or asteroid) at almost any time. Please provide a mailing address and I will eagerly get the VAP disk (playable without installation on hard drive if that is your preference, some remaining bugs sometimes prevent proper execution if incorrect win95/dos executable is attempted), at this worst case the individual animation files which can be used for same purpose by picking the best clip of the approximately ... 100 available to meet assigned task responsiblys. If is then of course up to the game master or dungeon master to adquately find compromises to salvage the value of the situation appropriately. There are several other game components and documented activities online to make this a rich tool for many who will not otherwise have access to any of these capabilities because they can never get started and thus eventually earn enough cash or admiration that they can buy the excellent expensive tools available or find a sponser willing to donate their cause.

2. Excellent! Irwin Consulting was registered and operated in the State of Oregon as a sole proprietorship owned and operated by me. We were a successful consulting firm providing various engineering and computer services on both a signed and verbalized contract or agreement basis for approximately a decade. Aproximate range of operations {1992 startup to 2002 bankruptcy}, you understand this is a draft and I am working from memory. Most of the records have been destroyed now since typically many tax records are routine flushed after three years. We held ours until just shortly, maybe a year ago and now their are only fragmentary example kept for myself to help me remember what I learned so I can better next time and prosper. If necessary we can come up with adequate verfication of dates, licenses, registration, etc. For example: Oregon Secretary of State's office should have records confirmed registration of the business and authority to conduct business under name "Irwin Consulting". Likewise the state should be able to confirm that I had my engineer-in-training license. This should provide credibility such that it is believable when I testify that specific game development and play tasks and related necessary research and technolgy development was taking place for approximately 3x5x(50%) ... at least 7.5 effort years or fifteen thousand manhours were expended to create best play experience we could. The other game component we import under various license restrictions I can only evaluate just as any player until I have modded with them a bit, and then lookout!

3. Vap reached the point of flea market sales along with Urquan Masters. I do not have precise records but I would estimate that I sold from prices ranging from a quarter to a dollar about 4 of each, they seemed to split the market appeal to the kids and peoples who window shopped or stood there and played them about 50/50 which give me a warm feeling of satisfaction considering the smashing success Star Control was before the owners recycled the faded past gold disk into the commons via a very successful port. However, this is only anecdotal as I was not priveleged to watch the customers wear out their interest only that briefest play experience of a few minutes to hours as the individuals each struggled in their own way to experimentally learn enough to have fun playing the game and wish to take it home.

4. VAP is not rated, I am unaware of ratings of other potential components. I would assume that Star Control was rated at some point if the systems were in place while it was at its peak. Lunar Boom Town is a very recent startup activity which is transparent and online as much as possible, obviously it is impossible to document entire development process because people do so much thinking and prototyping in an effective synergizing sets of group teams and activities that it is clearly impossible to document everything online. Inevitably there is information hiding in distributed team due to the shear fog of massive quaunties of creative analog variants being passed around through a digital medium. The permutations are a bit boggling when I really stop to think about the challenges groups of disparate sizes face when attempting to cooperate in sharing tools and techniques. Perhaps your people can help us acquire some insight into ways to meet this criteria or find ways to meet the implied requirement to the satisfaction of your group. Maybe best thing is to simply start the process of getting reviewed and if we can get rated or certifed even though as a development activity we have a chaotic flux of change. Perhap the rating organizations would have ideas that would be helpful in meeting their desires and concerns that the risks can be managed effectively.

5. Likewise I can write some letters and send some messages to see if anyone is interested in looking us over. Lunar Boom Town is getting some attention in a couple of google sci.space.* groups. Perhaps if related groups exist for game development I can seek some attention there and generate the data you require.

6. Since Lunar Boom Town by defintion has a larger installed base than star control (here I assume urquan masters1 < urquan masters2 & urquan masters0=star control retired and frozen no longer growing proven registered base  therefore by definition as a superset including urquan masters and others Lunar Boom Town easily meets this inclusion criteria.

Regarding the criteria not applicable to consideration, if I understand properly I should proceed to http://strategywiki.org/wiki/StrategyWiki_talk:Community_Portal and initiate a conversation or discussion.

I will post this draft at Lunar Boom Town portal and link to it and post in the applicable sci.space.policy groups as well as post similar content to my personal blogs and soon to be started engineering notebook to begin facilitating the public dialogues.

Thank you all for your time and consideration regarding the Lunar Boom Town Web Portal.

sincerely, Michael R. Irwin mirwin@[advogato.org, wikipedia.org, wikiversity.org]

intended distribution includes but is not limited to: sci.space.* Wikiversity strategywiki.org

Mirwin 06:54, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

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Lunar Boom Town/Data Mining

Data Mining

/How

/When

/Where

/Why

Data mining can be done cost effectively on the moon because anyone living there is only a second or two delay away from the main Terran databases on Earth. Local duplication and caching should keep bandwidth and access costs reasonable for the ever increasing volumes of data publicly available via the internet.

Given near 100% efficiency in recycling expendables, this type of human intensive effort could eventually help finance grow of imports of elements missing from the moon that are critical to expanding our lunar local ecosystems and habitats.

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Lunar Boom Town/Data Mining/How

Internet/Grid Access

Dumpster Diving

Optical Disk

Old Engineering Sketch Books
 * /[[Peachie Folder Covers]]
 * data file

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User:Mirwin/Peachie

When I went to Coquille H.S. |till 1979 from minus four| one of the typical starting points for class notes was a folder with inside sleave pockets half way from outer edge. Slip notes in by starting edge between the midpoint vertical pocket and then slide into pocket under lip towards the outer edge. Maximum size was standard eight and half by eleven. After that previous action chunk was completed properly the peachie was folded in half trapping the note paper in place until needed next.

These peachie sleave files were stacked together neatly in hall locker. In between classes (5 min)one could race to locker and shuffle files between on person and temporary storage locker.

For example: Headed downstairs to metal shop period before lunch might take only shop peachie and bag lunch. Stand in line to get tray and milk. Peachie is stacked under lunch tray at selected table (location controls interaction patterns in lunch room, who is sitting with who, who moved where cause embarassed caught passing secret notes, lunch is consumed, glop is sorted as directed, take only remaining shop peachie back upstairs to locker.

Peachie covers picked up a lot of day dream sketchs during course of year. This was called? What? There was a word. Anyway, if I had scans of some of those the plans, schemes, secrets, theories, etc. could all be extracted mixed with my personal experience and resulting plans organized categories summarized in linked lists such that one could cursor or slide controllers up and down to size component categories to match suspected parameter sets. Smart component selected this was could provide diagnostics for suspected problems and time frames so human behavior could be modified or system settings changed to modulate system performance characteric to differently achieve solution.

Example:complex energy flow weave specified energy flow from point a to point b selected by discrete settings or localized temperatures or whatever can imagine.

flow rate setting

energy flow control zone no

energy flow system

insert control surface and complex system sketch here

model objects

 * liquid hydrocarbon routes
 * propane tank farm propane truck house delivery -- receiving propane tank
 * oil truck house delivery -- receiving oil tank
 * gasoline freeway tractor trailer & pup trailer - eugene tank farm-- pipeline

 * natural gas pipeline

use gimp on VAP disk archive stills and load routine repetive task creating sprite to represent real world object first run a search stuff may allready be online somewhere accessible to links but we can add information engineerinng tags!!! etc. to the icon description becomes clickon specification like in industrial planning suite at CH2M intel/Microstation ...

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Obstetrics and Gynecology/Dyspareunia in Females

Dyspareunia is pelvic pain during intercourse.


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Obstetrics and Gynecology/Menorrhagia

Menorrhagia is defined by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists as "a history of heavy cyclical menstrual blood loss over several consecutive cycles without any intermenstrual or postcoital bleeding".

Etiology
The etiology of menorrhagia can be divided into its gynecological and systemic causes:

Gynecological Causes:

 * Polyps
 * Fibroids
 * Endometrial carcinoma
 * Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
 * Dysfunctional uterine bleeding

Systemic causes

 * Coagulopathies
 * Hypothyroidism

Diagnosis
The diagnosis of menorrhagia is made using the following clinical skills:

 * Gynecological History Taking
 * Gynecological Examination
 * Gynecological Investigations

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Obstetrics and Gynecology/Post-Menopausal Bleeding

Post-menopausal Bleeding is vaginal bleeding occurring after the menopause

Differential Diagnosis
The differential diagnosis of post-menopausal bleeding is classified according the organ involved:

Uterine disorders:
 * Endometrial carcinoma
 * Endometrial Atrophy

Cervical disorders
 * Cervical carcinoma
 * Cervical polyp

Vaginal disorders
 * Vaginal carcinoma
 * Vaginal atrophy

Vulval disorders
 * Vulval atrophy
 * Vulval carcinoma

Other
 * Hormone replacement therapy

Diagnosis
The diagnosis of post-menopausal bleeding is made using the following clinical skills:

 * Gynecological History Taking
 * Gynecological Examination
 * Gynecological Investigations


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Lunar Boom Town/Creative information artist

Getting Started
We need a pallette of free (no cost GPL'ed and/or cc'ed) sprite/icon/objects/ to use in process diagrams. Lunar located artists can use this free information to create economically valuable data for sale back to non Lunar economic entities. This will help our initial trade imbalance and allow continued import of nitrogen and carbon via specialty foods for sale to tourists.

 * We might check on FDL'ed tile sets for various free/open source games such as freeciv, xpilot, or The Urquan Masters.  Perhaps there is existing graphics available we can reuse in accordance with their licensing requirements.   Or we can sketch and scan or model and photograph.

upload jpg source from Virtual Modeler: Airport Operations (VAP) thumbnails should be available from Director. Should be able to program a conversion utility to shift data objects and groups from Director Caste to other groupings. Right now I just want sprite to represent realtime physical object and planned or optional possibilities. Later can build electronic engineering models so objects on screen can be controlled by reporting sensors - bam! A virtual 3D replica of scope defined by a frame or zone specification which is simple 2d geometry. (Gimp,?); (Blender,?) (ArtOfIllusion,java), (3DMax,C+?), (Autocad14, Lisp) and (Macromedia Director, object oriented scripting language unique to Macromedia) can all be programmed, all have various internal programmable objects and can put out unique programmagle objects.

basic planning cycle
 * model what exists as function of time within defined scope of specified activity
 * propose,design,guess solutions
 * analysis to see if can improve or what known and unknown results are likely
 * pick specific items to test which improve understanding of problem domain and possible solution sets
 * revise per specified milestones (performance, budget, schedle, etc.)
 * progress payments and binding agreements each task has little set of requirements for both sides with specified remedies, actions, consequences, etc. with specific triggering criteria.

task (identification, implementation,

related resources

 * http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Chemical_engineering

Material from Duplicate page to be merged above
http://www.associatedcontent.com/join/promo_article

apparently we now need warning on the GLOP or separate flow streams.
 * private
 * public

Nobody should be able to make money by submitting my GPL/FDL materials to the above ... or should they? I GLOPed some to help think about since I am not yet a totally professional writer.

I may need to suspend operations here briefly and convert Terran Water Tanker into a short play. There is a volunteer voice artist at cislunarfreight, been there months, but we have few scripts. Maybe I should offer him some choice on which manuscript we should do. Maybe talk to irc radio guys about doing a radio show for them. Lots of possibilies. Mirwin 04:41, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

have not found rates yet but associatedcontent.com cites text, video, audio, images

I have made promises regarding VAP data but nobody has taken me up on it yet. Possibly better ac that youtube. Maybe convert 3d models to Art of Illusion and Blender and FDL them since ac probably does not handle, sell existing to ac if their microresidual look fair and examination of their board and public record implies accurate ethical bookkeeping so fair shot of getting paid. Then get on with fun new stuff. I can still use everything because I own it. I should send an email to craig pointing this site out to him and let him know when I GPL/FDL or cc the 3d models. I do not know if he ever got the disks and message I asked his his dad to forward to him explaining the terms under which he was welcome to use his creation which I owned all rights to as his employee. Mirwin 04:51, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

nymia advogato master on marketing Mirwin 01:40, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Collaborative Compensatory Publishing Sites
Caution: The links in this section are provided in the hope that people will test them and report back on strengths and weakness from the various perspectives of the various organization factors and influences vested here via participation and mutual interaction. Mirwin 04:15, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

 * www.associatedcontent.com
 * Not instant published there is either a 2 or 10 day processing period depending upon payback program selected before submittal is available even to yourself. Mirwin 04:15, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

 * www.lifetips.com
 * www.howtodothings.com
 * www.constant-content.com


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Obstetrics and Gynecology/Vulval Itch

Differential Diagnosis
Local causes

 * Dystrophy
 * Allergy
 * Carcinoma
 * Infection

Systemic Causes

 * Diabetes mellitus
 * Psoriasis
 * Eczema

Diagnosis
The diagnosis of menorrhagia is made using the following clinical skills:

 * Gynecological History Taking
 * Gynecological Examination
 * Gynecological Investigations

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Portal:Klingon/qa

Questions and Answers
Please use this page to ask questions regarding the Klingon Language. Feel free to contact me regarding anything to do with the department or with the Klingon Language in general. At the time of writing, the department is under development, and I will be here reasonably frequently. Jonathan Webley 13:35, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

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User talk:Ap0c0lyps3

Welcome
Hello Ap0c0lyps3, and welcome to Wikiversity! If you need help, feel free to visit my talk page, or contact us and ask questions. After you leave a comment on a talk page, remember to sign and date; for it helps everyone follow the threads of the discussion. The signature icon in the edit window makes it simple. To get started, you may
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And don't forget to explore Wikiversity with the links to your left. Be bold, and see you around Wikiversity! --JWS 13:53, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

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Lunar Boom Town/Current Participant List

Current Participant List

Operating Instructions

 * 1) Register at Wikiversity
 * 2) Type four tilda'a (the squiqqle above apostrophe on many keyboards) after the blank bullet in place of ellipsis. See also: Signature
 * 3) Add a bullet for a helpful placemarker for the next person

Simply delete the line with your account handle on it should you choose to fadeaway for a while. Always welcome back later!

Participants

 * Mirwin 14:03, 27 November 2007 (UTC) (he died)
 * http://www.advogato.org simulated diagnostic processor mirbot Mirwin 11:31, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Sirstubby 06:17, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Super Quantum immortal 11:57, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Sorpaas (discuss • contribs) 08:56, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Trurle (discuss • contribs) 08:56, 19 February 2014 (UTC)


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Introduction to Networking

Definition of network
Providing an ability in a specified place and time, is called "Network". In better conditions, they provide an ability everywhere and at all times and its ideals:

provide " everything " in " everywhere " and " every time ".

The abilities of water networks, electric networks, road networks, communication networks and treatment networks respectively are "water", "electricity", "relocation", "sound", "drug" etc. In computer science this ability in computer networks is data. The locations access to the ability in network is called a "Node".Collection of devices so that the information can be exchanged efficiently.

What is a network?
The concept of a network is pretty simple. A couple of computers have some cables strung between them, and send data back and forth using electrical signaling over the cable. More or less the same as telephones do or, in a very rough sense, like two kids speaking into tin cans connected by a string.

But how does the data actually get from computer A to computer B? How does computer A find the physical location of computer B on the network? If they communicate with electrical signaling, so the data is traveling "at the speed of light", why does it take so long to send a big file across the network?

Gaining a scientific understanding of the answers to these questions may take years, but we shall endeavor to crack them open at the surface, and explore the definition of network in a way that makes as much sense as two kids speaking into tin cans connected by a string. In real life, networks are not simply two cans tied together by a single string, they are millions and millions of cans (technically called hosts) interconnected with many strings.

A host is an end system connected to a network

Servers and Clients
In networking there are always two computers in the connection. The server and the client. The server listens and waits for clients to connect to it and the client connects to the server. To use the above example the server is the computer that holds the web site and the client is your web browser. So when you type in http://www.google.com, your web browser connects to the server at http://www.google.com and they start communicating.

A client-server protocol is one in which an always-on host (the server) listens for connections from other hosts (clients). When a connection is established, data may be transferred between the client and the host.

Protocols
A protocol is the language that computers use to talk to each other. If two computers want to talk to each other they need to know the same language. If they don't know the same language they can't talk to each other. For example if someone who speaks Chinese and doesn't know a word of English it won't be all that easy to communicate with an English speaking person. It will be nearly impossible. The protocol used in Web Browsers and Web Servers is the HTTP protocol.

A protocol is an established set of rules that dictate the method of communication between 2 hosts. Examples include HTTP, FTP, TCP, PPP

Network of Networks
The internet is not one single being, it is a massive interconnection of hosts such as your computer, and another halfway across the world. We understand that our ISPs provide internet access to our host, but it may not necessarily provide service to the server that you are communicating with. In this case, how does information make its way from your host to the other host and vice versa?

The answer lies in the interconnection of many ISPs themselves. ISPs can be categorised into Tier 1,2 and 3 ISPs. Tier 1 ISPs are major internet service providers that usually sell access to smaller Tier 2 ISPs. Tier 2 ISPs may service entire countries or cities, but not the rest of the world. Tier 3 ISPs are also customers of Tier 2 ISPs, and usually service end users such as yourself. ISPs peer with each other to allow data from your host to reach the other host. From this, we understand that data passes through multiple ISPs in order to be delivered from one location to another.

Getting connected
Connecting to the internet is done via a modem. However, the speed at which you connect to the internet can be influenced by the type of modem you are using, as well as the media that is used to transfer data over. This section will give you a general overview of the technologies used to send data over the internet.

Dial Up Modem
 Transmission Media:Copper Maximum Theoretical Speed: 56 kb/s

A dial up modem uses a normal telephone line, and literally dials up a phone connection to the telephone providers office. Once a connection is established, credentials are exchanged and an internet connection is made available. The connection is not always on and the telephone line cannot make or receive calls while the connection is established.

Dial up modems were one of the earliest forms of access to the internet, and while it has been largely overtaken by more modern connection methods, dial-up modems are still essential in remote areas where DSL or Fiber has not been rolled out.

DSL
 Transmission Media:Copper Maximum Theoretical Speed: 24 Mb/s

DSL stands for Digital Subscriber Line. Similar to Dial-Up it uses existing telephony infrastructure, however, it allows for greater speeds and the ability to use both the internet and the telephone at the same time (after installing a line filter). In households, this form of internet is best known as ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line). The reason behind the use of "asymmetric" is because upload speeds are not the same as download speeds.

Over the years ADSL has grown into ADSL2 and ADSL2+, bringing greater and greater speeds to end users. Your actual download speed may be influenced by how close you are to the telephone exchange. ADSL can be considered to be a form of "always-on" internet, since you can leave your modem running all day and still use the phone.

Cable
 Transmission Media:Coaxial Cables Maximum Theoretical Speed: 50 Mb/s

This form of connectivity does not use existing copper telephone infrastructure, rather it uses cable TV infrastructure. Internet access is provided by reserving specific channels in the Coaxial Cable for delivering data. Cable internet is shared, meaning that all connections lead in a central router which then leads into the ISP.

Fiber to the Home
 Transmission Media:Fiber Maximum Theoretical Speed:1.6 Tb/s(tera bits/sec)[approx] can sometimes be even more than that.

Switching Methods
In order to transmit data from one end to another, a common standard must be adopted for the transmission of data frames. Here we will consider Packet Switching and Circuit Switching.

Circuit Switching
The concept of circuit switching works very much like common telephone networks today. To establish a data connection from point A to point Z, a person must work out a direct path over a number of connection routes to the destination. Once a route has been determined, the person needs to set aside resources on that line to establish his connection, after which he may start transmitting data. While resources have been allocated for that connection, no one else may use that line until the first user has disconnected his host. This raises some questions as to how people can share a circuit switched connection, 2 of methods of which are outlined below.

One of the cons of a Circuit Switched network is that it relies on a user reserving and allocating resources for himself in order to use the network. This adds to connection time and can form significant overhead in establishing connections. In the event the user decides to hop off and get a coffee without disconnecting, he will not have released the resources reserved for use by others.

Time Division
The circuit is divided into time slots, each of which are allocated to users wanting to use the network. In each time slot available to a user, the user has the full amount of bandwidth provided by the circuit. The more people using the circuit, the more time it takes for each frame to be passed from destination to receiver.

Frequency Division
The circuit is divided into a number of frequencies, each of which are allocated to a user. The user has full control of that connection, only to be limited by the bandwidth his frequency provides. Naturally the more people utilising the circuit, the less bandwidth each person has.

Packet Switching
This form of switching works on the concept of data being sent as discrete chunks of data known as packets. When a person has data to send, a stream of packets are sent into the network, and routers forward the packets to their destination. There is no notion of reserved bandwidth, and as a result if too many packets are sent into the network, the network may become congested and packet loss will occur. This leads to the problem of congestion control.

The main idea behind packet switching networks is that nobody is using all the bandwidth of a connection at any one time, and therefore cuts out the waste of bandwidth that usually accompanies Circuit Switched networks. This results in greater efficiency, and is the main reason why packet switched networks form the backbone of today's computer networks.

Delay
The transmission of information from one host to another is not instantaneous. The amount of time it takes for data to be transmitted from one end to another is dependent on a number of factors, namely

 * Nodal Processing
 * Queuing
 * Transmission Delay
 * Propagation Delay

Nodal Processing
When a packet arrives at a router (the box that routes traffic to and from your computer), it doesn't get sent immediately to its destination. Many things happen within a router, which you will study in greater detail in the network and link layers. Nodal Processing is the time it takes for a router to perform error checking, forwarding table lookups and output operations. All these incur a small time cost which can add overhead to the transmission of data.

Queuing
Once a packet has been processed, it needs to be queued and sent. Packets are sent depending on several factors, including the level of congestion in the network and flow control

Transmission Delay
Transmission delay is time it takes for a data packet to be sent, given its size and the bandwidth of the link over which it is being sent.

Propagation Delay
While negligible over very short distance, the physical propagation of data over cables can contribute to the overall delay in data transmission. For example the speed of transmission over a particular medium could be 2x108 m/s. While this appears to be a very fast speed, it is not instantaneous. Over very long distances (inter-continental), the effect of propagation delay can be seen. Note that we haven't considered the possibility of minor line faults or interference which may cause bottlenecks in the transmission medium.

Websites

 * Basic Networking Concepts on About.com
 * Networking guids on comptechdoc.org

Books
How Networks Work

Custodial note: Please help expand this list.

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User talk:Murban

Welcome
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propose new language
"really hard time getting in touch" <-- Sorry about that. I have been very busy lately. "Your email is not working" <-- Thanks for letting me know. I've been using that email account as a target for wiki email for nearly 5 years with no problem until now. I changed it to another email account that is working. "IRC does not send messages to you" <-- I have seen that you have tried to chat with me a few times during the past day or two...I just was not online when you were. "this talk page is constantly time-outing" <-- I've seen reports from some other wiki users from the past several days about similar problems. I'm glad you finally were able to get a message on my user talk page. "propose new language" and "set beta pages" thing <-- I guess you are talking about Slovenian. --JWSchmidt 16:55, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

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User:Karl1263

Hello, I'm Karl and I live in Paris.

I'm a sysop at fr.wikiversity since 23. August 2007.

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User talk:Doruk Yıldıztekin~enwikiversity

Welcome
Hello Doruk Yıldıztekin, and welcome to Wikiversity! If you need help, feel free to visit my talk page, or contact us and ask questions. After you leave a comment on a talk page, remember to sign and date; for it helps everyone follow the threads of the discussion. The signature icon in the edit window makes it simple. To get started, you may
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And don't forget to explore Wikiversity with the links to your left. Be bold, and see you around Wikiversity! Erkan Yilmaz ( Wikiversity:Chat, wiki blog ) 17:16, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Doruk Yıldıztekin. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Doruk Yıldıztekin~enwikiversity that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:34, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 06:06, 19 April 2015 (UTC)


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User talk:Karl1263

Salut Karl, ca va ? I think we know each other from IRC ? Below more info on en.WV Erkan Yilmaz ( Wikiversity:Chat, wiki blog ) 17:21, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Welcome
Hello Karl1263, and welcome to Wikiversity! If you need help, feel free to visit my talk page, or contact us and ask questions. After you leave a comment on a talk page, remember to sign and date; for it helps everyone follow the threads of the discussion. The signature icon in the edit window makes it simple. To get started, you may
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And don't forget to explore Wikiversity with the links to your left. Be bold, and see you around Wikiversity! Erkan Yilmaz ( Wikiversity:Chat, wiki blog ) 17:21, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

French Mentoring
Would you be willing to mentor Kei in French? The Jade Knight (d'viser) 06:58, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

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Passover/Pesach

Passover (in Hebrew: Pesach) is today perhaps the most important of the three agricultural festivals deliniated in the Torah (the other two being Shavuot and Sukkot). It is celebrated each year begininning on the 15th of Nissan, which may fall anytime from early to late spring. By astronomical measures, the 15th of Nissan is the first full moon after the spring solstice.

Observances associated with Pesach include the selling of chametz, eating of matzah (unleavened bread), and other ritual foods, and reading from the Haggadah.

Pesach commemorates the Exodus from Egypt.

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Pluripotent stem cells

Welcome to the Wikiversity learning project for pluripotent stem cells. This project provides learning resources that help participants learn about stem cells and efforts to produce useful stem cells for medical therapies. Participants should feel free to ask questions and explore related topics.

For many patients, donated organs and transplanted tissues are used as replacements for body parts that are damaged or not functioning correctly due to a disease. Pluripotent stem cells are the subject of on-going research as a potential source of replacement cells and tissues for medical treatments. The potential medical uses of pluripotent stem cells are largely a matter of speculation, but it has been suggested that stem cell research might eventually lead to treatments for neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's and allow for some recovery of neurological functions following spinal cord injury and stroke. Pluripotent stem cell methods might lead to improved treatments for tissues damaged by burns, heart disease, diabetes, osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.

Cells
Cells in the human body are fundamental functional and structural components. Most cells in your body are specialized for particular functions such as muscle cells that provide efficient contraction and allow for movement of your body.

Stem cells
In many tissues there are "adult stem cells" that have not yet fully specialized. Naturally existing "adult" stem cells provide a limited capacity for your body to replace old and damaged cells.

A goal of medical research is to learn how to control and make use of stem cells to allow for new and improved medical intervention to treat tissue damage. Stem cells are usually restricted in terms of their developmental potential. Left to themselves, most adult stem cells differentiate in one of a few related cell types. However, during embryonic development, there are some stem cells that have the capacity to differentiate into all cell types: they are "pluripotent".

Note: There is interest in the idea that it might be possible to isolate pluripotent stem cells from adults. For example, see: Bone-marrow-derived stem cells - our key to longevity?

Discussion
What happens to the number of adult stem cells in human tissues as we grow older?

Pluripotent cells
Pluripotent stem cells are normally very rare and naturally exist within early embryos as shown in Figure 1. Since 1981, methods have been available to isolate and grow embryonic stem cells in laboratories.

Similar methods have been available since the late 1990s for human embryo-derived pluripotent stem cells, but stem cell therapies cannot use just any stem cells. Stem cells should be derived from each patient in order to prevent rejection of the cells.

Reprogramming adult cells
In order to create pluripotent stem cells for patients that will not be immunologically rejected, nuclear transfer has been extensively studied. As shown in Figure 2, nuclei can be removed from differentiated cells of a patient and injected into oocytes. The cytoplasm of oocytes contains proteins that can reprogram nuclear DNA to an embryonic stem cell state.

Another approach to reprogramming of adult cells is to make use of proteins from cultured embryonic stem cells. Simple fusion of somatic cells and embryonic stem cells results in tetraploid cells in which the DNA from the somatic cells seems to be reprogrammed to a stem cell state.

The DNA of specific genes important for the embryonic stem cell state such as Oct4 have been shown to be reprogrammed following somatic cell-embryonic stem cell fusion. Such DNA reprogramming involves modifications such as methylation.

Discussion
Reading: Responsible Oversight of Human Stem Cell Research: The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine's Medical and Ethical Standards by Geoffrey P. Lomax, Zach W. Hall and Bernard Lo in PLoS Medicine (2007) 4(5): e114.

Q. Why do some governments restrict funding for stem cell research while others do not?

What makes a stem cell behave like a stem cell?
Each specialized cell type actively transcribes a subset of all the available genes. Key regulatory proteins that control which genes are active in any given cell type are DNA binding transcription control proteins.

The possibility exists that embryonic stem cells are normally created by making sure that oocytes contain the correct proteins and mRNAs needed to initiate the embryonic stem cell pattern of transcription. Potentially, all of the required proteins for specifying the embryonic stem cell fate might be DNA-binding transcription factors and associated regulatory proteins. Several transcription factors have been found to be particularly important for establishing and maintaining embryonic stem cells.

Oct4
One of the key proteins involved in reprogramming adult cell nuclei to a stem cell state is the transcription factor Oct4. Working with mice as a convenient laboratory mammal, it was found in 1990 that Oct4 is stored inside oocytes and expressed at high levels in in embryonic stem cells. Daughter cells of the embryonic stem cells that begin to specialize and differentiate during mouse embyogenesis were reported to reduce their levels of Oct4 protein.

The functional roles of Oct4 inside embryonic stem cells has been intensively studied in mice. Figure 5 shows a summary of many known actions of Oct4 in mouse stem cells. In this set of experiments, 1155 gene transcripts were identified as being expressed in a similar pattern to that of Oct4; all but 69 of these transcripts were positively correlated with Oct4. Expression of Nanog and Sox2 (see below for more on these embryonic stem cell transcription factors) were correlated to Oct4 expression at 97% and 49% in these mouse experiments.

Sox2
Oct4 and Sox2 are thought to cooperate in binding to regulatory sequences of some developmentally important genes. 392 of the genes with expression correlated to Oct4 that were identified by Rudnicki et al were shown to have possible gene regulatory sequences for coordinately binding Oct4 and Sox2. Figure 4 shows Oct and Sox transcription factor proteins bound to DNA.

Nanog
Mouse embryonic stem cell growth in cell culture is generally dependent on a growth factor called leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF). In 2003, two research groups reported that Nanog is a transcription factor that allows mouse embryonic stem cells to grow in culture independent of LIF. The Nanog gene is positively regulated by Oct4 and Sox2. The Nanog protein is thought to be able to cooperate with Oct4 and Sox2 in maintaining the embryonic stem cell state.

Human stem cells
As discussed above, most research on embryonic stem cells has been performed with mice. Many similarities have been found in the behavior of human embryonic stem cells, but there are some differences from mice.

Human embryonic stem cells do not require LIF for growth in culture, but they express Nanog. Artificially reducing the level of Nanog protein in human embryonic stems cells by means of RNAi knockdown results in differentiation of the cells.

Much less is known about embryonic stem cell proteins such as Oct4 and how they function in humans than in mice, but human Oct4 is also expressed in human embryonic stem cells. In humans, Oct4 is expressed in several adult cell types, so it is not the case that cells with Oct4 are stem cells while non-stem cells fail to produce Oct4. That Oct4 functions to maintain human embryonic stem cells in an undifferentiated state is indicated by experiments in which RNA interference was used to inhibit Oct4 expression resulting in differentiation of human embryonic stem cells.

Gene transfer and stem cell induction
The results discussed above suggested the possibility that it might be possible to reprogram adult cells to take on the embryonic stem cell phenotype by forcing them to express a few key regulatory proteins such as Oct4 and Sox2.

Oct4, Sox2, Nanog and one additional protein, LIN28 (another embryonic stem cell-associated transcription factor ), have been used to transform somatic cells into human embryonic stem cells. Retroviral vectors were used to insert the Oct4, Sox2, Nanog and LIN28 genes into target cells. Oct4 and Sox2 were the key genes. Nanog, and to a lesser extent, LIN28, enhanced the recovery of embryonic stem cell-like clones. The embryonic stem cell-like clones were called "iPS" cells (Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells) and further investigations are needed to determine if adult somatic cells can be converted to iPS cells using Oct4 and Sox2 and if such cells can be efficiently induced to differentiate into the desired types of cells for medical uses.

Similar results were reported for Oct4, Sox2, Klf4, and c-Myc. A major problem with using the protoncogene c-Myc is that it can cause tumors. Both research groups, used retroviruses to insert the Oct4 and Sox2 genes into somatic cells. Other possible methods might be safer for medical uses. .

Control over fate of embryonic stem cells
Sox2 is one member of the Sox transcription factor family. There is interest in the idea that many cell fate changes during embryonic development involve switches in which Sox family transcription factors are expressed in differentiating cells. For example, Sox17 has been suggested to function in developing endoderm to produce a control signal for cardiac myogenesis in nearby primitive mesoderm. This suggests that there might be [[w:Growth factor|growth factors] that can be added to cultured embryonic stem cells that would cause them to differentiate into specific types of cells such as cardiomyocytes.

Based on results obtained by using mouse embryonic stem cells, it has been suggested that a mixture of growth factors (TGF-ß1, BMP-2 and BMP-4, activin-A, VEGF-A, IL-6, FGF-2 and -4, IGF-1 and -2, and EGF efficiently converts the stem cells to cardiac progenitor cells that can be engrafted into heart tissue . Similar results have been reported for human embryonic stem cells treated with activin-A and BMP-4 and the resulting cardiac mucle cells have been shown to have beneficial effects upon transfer to damaged rat hearts.

Additional reading

 * From the USA National Institutes of Health website: Frequentlt Asked Questions Page for stem cells.
 * Stem Cells and the Future of Regenerative Medicine (2002) Report from The National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine Committee on the Biological and Biomedical Applications of Stem Cell Research on the potential of stem cell research in the development of medical therapies and basic biological knowledge.

Additional resources

 * National Public Radio report (audio available): Scientists Create Embryonic Stem Cells from Skin by Joe Palca. November 20, 2007.

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Lunar Boom Town/Draft Game Concepts

Educational Free Games

 * Lunar Lander Basic For Top Guns - Allows player to develop intuitive understanding of the difficulties of airless flight in a variety of gravity fields.  Useful in various role playing activities. For example it is useful for culminating planning a cargo run to the moon.  After doing the planning to load a lunar lander a participant may be asked to land on the moon successfully before proceeding to the simulated setup of the business venture on the lunar surface.  Allows the player and associated team to understand why professional astronauts may be required and it may be better to contract out the landing rather than do it in-house.  Other free aviatian and space games available at Squadron Thirteen.

 * Virtual Airport - The lead of a Virtual Modeler product line which never reached market. Now available upon request from user:mirwin, subject to availability of funding for postage.  Eventually to be hosted for free download at a free file management service such as sourceforge along with the associated models, sets, and graphics files used in its creation.  This game was intended for younger audiences to provide a virtual model building experience easy for parents to quickly clean up by shutting down the application on the computer.  Could be used to allow younger team players to build critical components (such as hysters, aircraft, etc.) needed by other role players in assembling their spaceport layouts or mission plans.

 * Asteroids

 * Xpilot

 * JFreerails Java version operational and playable over web via javastart.  Need a spaceport to interface with cisLunarFreighter and Lunar Boom Town.  Meanwhiile can do so manually by specifying a town with intended spaceport and requiring team to transport a specified manifest of rail car loads to that town prior to launch of lunar boom town cargo flight or business venture.  Or assume spaceport has spacecraft manufacturing capability and specify requirements to support factory workers and spacecraft materials requirements as they fabricate your venture's recyclable cargo spacecraft for lunar delivery to lunar assembly teams.

 * The Urquan Masters - An open source port by permission of producers of the smash commercial hit "Star Control 2".  Although it is an interstellar game and thus appears far removed from present reality ... it has an excellent economic model.  Players must gather resources; buy and build technologies, ship components, and ships; while avoiding combative computer players or defeating them in subordinate first person shooter matches.  Easily adapted to role playing to illustrate the importance of preliminary planning prior to mission launch.  An example of use might be requirement for a teenager to get to a specific star system with specific technologies and ship configuration or component assets prior to beginning next phase of role playing scenario.

 * Breakout Theme Cargo Raiders V1.0. Might be useful to find out how much cargo pirates steal from cisLunarFreighter player while they are getting away from pirate base at Saturn.

Educational Simulations

 * Space Traffic Control A manual for how pilots and controllers should communicated in a role playing charade or operational scenario.  Based upon international flight standards could be useful in assembling inflight emergency procedures or carrying extended operational scenarios with greater realism than might otherwise be the case.

 * http://mars-sim.sourceforge.net/ One might wonder what interest the Lunar Boom Town residents have in a Mars simulation.   Several of the likely triggers for a rush to create lunar settlements involve acting as suppliers for a U.S.G. NASA Mars Mission, Aldrin Cyclers necessary to support mass tourism and settlement of Mars.   A lunar boom town will of necessity be interfaced with the rest of the Solar System's economy.  Also this simulation is open/free source and written in Java.  Might be some very useful components of code which can be reused in various Lunar Boom Town projects or activities.  Mirwin 19:18, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Role Playing or Imagineering
Use a tent or bunk bed space along with pillows, boxes, etc. to simulate packing one of your business venture's cargo run. Cargo run contracted from Lunar Boom Town/Cargo Imports.
 * I have undertaken a tourist rental cabin setup with my nephew. Some data scanned and available online soon as I decide what and where to put the data products. Site map at Hadley Rille.  Cargo manifest including location grid within cargo hold.  Yet to do is mass estimates and distribution.  Some discussion of fundamental chemical processes as we try to decide on expendable supplies and feul and structure composition of our expendable/recyclable cargo vehicle.Cargo_Imports Mirwin 20:39, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Incremental space colonization
A moon colonization game, that is not just a game. The first of successively more and more serious simulations. Start with a game, because its easier. Launchers are too expensive, the strategy is to first build incrementally a remotely controlled industrial outpost. Meaning, a few remotely controlled robots and machine tools will be send, they will build a little mining and manufacturing industry, to build everything else. When the outpost breaks even, it starts building facilities for future human colonists, they come at the very end in a one way ticket, never to return to earth. The whole point, is to minimize launching stuff from earth.

Software Libre Game Engines

 * Glest 3D real-time strategy game engine
 * Stratagus 2D real-time strategy game engine
 * Game Blender too low level

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What is a task request? 71.161.8.142 20:15, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

A task request is a committment to accomplish something specificaly agree upon between involved parties. Mirwin 20:17, 27 November 2007 (UTC)


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Breton/About Breton

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Brittany
The official Region of Brittany consists of the four departments of Finistère (Pen-ar-Bed), Morbihan (Mor-Bihan), Côtes d'Armor (Aodoù-an-Arvor), and Ille-et-Vilaine (Il-ha-Gwilun) with a total population of 3,306,529as of January 1, 2016. The administrative capital of Brittany is the eastern Breton city of Rennes (Roazhon). A more inclusive and traditional definition of Brittany also includes a fifth department, Loire-Atlantique (Liger-Atlantel) which contains the historic city of Nantes or Naoned in Breton. The population of the five departments of Brittany was 4,687,381 as of January 1, 2016.

For a thousand years the city of Nantes in Loire-Atlantique was one of the seats of the Breton parliament and de facto capitol of the independent Duchy of Brittany.

The Breton language
Breton is the only Celtic language still spoken on the European continent. It is not however a derivative of ancient Gaulish, the Celtic tongue of ancient France and much of central Europe. Breton is rather, as its name implies, an import from Britain having being brought to what is now Brittany by various waves of refugees and immigrants from Britain in the fifth and sixth centuries who were dislocated by the Anglo-Saxon conquest of Britain during this period. Breton remains closely related to Welsh and Cornish and more distantly related to Scottish-Gaelic, Irish and Manx.

During the Middle Ages, even when Brittany was entirely independent, much of the Breton nobility and clergy adopted French because of its greater currency in Europe at this time. From this period also, many of the towns became largely French in speech though not exclusively because Breton retained its hold on the agricultural hinterland, and urban merchants and tradesmen could not ignore this.

From about the year 1100 onwards, Breton slowly yielded ground to Gallo and retreated westwards. It is estimated that by 1881 about 2,000,000 people out of 3.2 million in Brittany spoke Breton. By 1914 it is estimated that out of 3.1 million inhabitants of Brittany at least 1,300,000 were still Breton speaking. In addition, several hundred thousand Breton speaking emigrants were to be found in Paris, northern France, Belgium, Canada and the United States so that the Breton speaking world at this time probably encompassed some two million souls, and it is clear that Breton was the most widely spoken Celtic language in 1900.

Few would have predicted in 1900 that the twentieth century would witness the most massive erosion ever experienced in the sixteen century long history of the language.

There are today probably about 400,000 Breton speakers in western Brittany with another 50,000 to 100,000 in eastern Brittany.

It must be remembered that a significant part of eastern Brittany has never been Breton speaking. In eastern Brittany (particularly in the two very important cities of Rennes/Roazhon and Nantes/Naoned) the Latin speech eventually evolved into Gallo, a language which should be regarded as a parallel development with French and not a dialect of French.
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Breton literature

 * Breton first appeared in writing in 590 AD in a manuscript entitled the Leyde manuscript, a botanical treatise in Breton and Latin 1.
 * Written by Jehan Lagadeuc in 1464, the Catholicon is the first trilingual dictionary in the world (Breton - French - Latin), it is also the first Breton dictionary and the first French dictionary 2.
 * The first printed text in Breton, a passion play, made its appearance in 1530.
 * In the 19th century there was a revival of Breton literature and it continues to flourish today.

 « Spilhennig », merk ar vrezhonegerien - A new sign for Breton speakers.

Keit ma vimp bev - And now ? Death or survival ?
Breton language activists have established a network of Breton medium schools across Brittany which are expanding rapidly. They have launched a Breton language television service. They have launched several Breton language radio stations. Numerous new periodicals and books in Breton are now being published to serve a clearly increasing market. A concerted effort to strengthen both youth and adult literacy in the language has been mounted. Municipality after municipality in Brittany has adopted a policy of Breton/French bilingualism. A region-wide agency, Ofis ar Brezhoneg/the Office of the Breton Language, has been established to carry out and monitor both status and corpus planning for the language in the future.

While it may not at once be apparent, eastern Brittany is in many ways just as important for the future of the Breton language as is western Brittany. Due to its greater urbanization in centres such as Nantes and Rennes, about 2.5 million of Brittany's 4.7 million people are now to be found in eastern Brittany as opposed to the 2.2 million inhabitants of western Brittany today. This is in contrast to the situation a century ago when about 60% of the population lived in the Breton-speaking west. In the long run, Breton must establish a foothold for itself in such places as Rennes and Nantes if Breton is really to put itself on an equal footing with French in the everyday life of Brittany.
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User:Wired4use~enwikiversity

I am a college student from Sioux Falls, South Dakota. I currently do not have a major, but I am leaning towards a Computer Science degree. Some things I want to eventually learn are how to create my own CGI animations and how to write programs on Mac computers.

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Breton/Breton dialects

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Example of Gwenedeg

 * Me zo ganet é kreiz er mor
 * Tèr lèu ér mez ;
 * Un tiig gwenn duhont em-es,
 * Er benal 'gresk étal en nor
 * Hag el lann e hol en anvez.
 * Me zo ganet é kreiz er mor,
 * E bro Arvor
 * E bro Arvor

Excerpt from Pédenn én Téoéldeed, in Ar en deulin from Yann-Ber "Bleimor" Calloc'h (1913)

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Example of Leoneg
Digeri a reas he divreh d'he muia-karet heb en em renta kont. Pokad a reent dibaouez an eil d'egile, o muzellou o tañva evid ar wech kenta mel dous ar garantez. Excerpt from Ar Vastardez from Yann-Vadezour Lagadeg (1993).

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Breton spellings
After several attempts at unifying the spelling, two main spellings exist : the peurunvan ("completely unified" spelling) and the skolveurieg ("university" spelling).

This course uses peurunvan as it is today the most commonly used.

Peurunvan accomodates for dialectal differences. Most notably, the notation "zh" - used in the name "Breizh" ("Brittany") - must be interpreted according to the dialect spoken.
 * In Leon, it will be most often interpreted as "z" (therefore Breizh is pronounced "Breiz").
 * In Gwened (and some part of Kerne), it will often be interpreted as "h" (therefore Breizh is pronounced "Breih").

The transcription of "c'h" is also subject to confusion or criticism as pronunciation may widely vary according to the regions.
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User:Cubitfox

Cubitfox is...
An Aspiring filmmaker (screenwriter, director, etc.), A kubrick junkie, An avid Invader Zim fan, The founder and author of his blog that writes film reviews/analysis at [filmic-cubitfox.blogspot.com]

Cubitfox's favorite films are...
Taxi Driver, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Brazil, Edward Scissorhands, Mean Streets, 28 Days Later, Reservoir dogs, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Fargo, Donnie Darko, Shaun of the Dead

Cubitfox's favorite bands/musicians are...
radiohead, Joy Division, Alice in Chains, Bauhaus, Kasabian, the strokes, the clash, tv on the radio, bloc party, pixies, MF Doom, Daft Punk, Fatboy slim, the cure, modest mouse, rage against the machine, my morning jacket, chemical brothers, STP, the roots, massive attack, smashing pumpkins, white stripes, beck, sonic youth, the rapture... etc.

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