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Hi Gaviidae, awesome work with the radiography page. I dig it. Thanks for enhancing my earlier rewrite.

Philipcosson 19:40, 17 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Gaviidae[edit]

Yes. I agree that Home Power has been soccer mommed, so what. I don't mind. I have no problem reading a soccer mommed magazine, if that's what it takes to make energy conservation/generation popular. Statistically speaking it's the women who drag their men to church more than the other way around, because they are the more "caring" and more social of the two sexes, they care about community and parading the family before the community, so if it takes women to start caring about the environment and renewables, what's wrong soccer momming a magazine? It's better to have women hyped up about home power than aspiring to get the latest biggest Suburban SUV's to parade in or diet/anorexia. There is still enough juice in the magazine for the husband Joe Schmuckenburger's too - not that women don't love power tools and building something with their own hands - hands on issues, and some ads about startup kits you can buy, even if some of them are scams just by looking at the design. For instance, the beauty of windmill blades in a picture tells me so much about the rest of the whole kit. When you just see a metal stamped sheet with blades cut/folded out of it with a big flat face obstruction to the wind and small swept blade area, sitting on a tiny pole secured by wires, you can tell the seller is more into profit than love of his art, you can tell that the ad is a scam, no matter how low $99.99 or $199.99 or $999.99 a system is. But then again, there are very nice designs, and there is nothing like a startup kit to get you started. Sillybilly 03:22, 29 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  • Aspirin and cancer

Hi again Gaviidae, I've attempted to edit the Aspirin & CRC prevention, following your advices. I am not very happy with the style: would you be so kind to re-edit it, please? The double link to "Chemoprevention database" is heavy, but it does not refer to the same page, and, as you told me, people may have difficulties to specifically find the "aspirin" data in the database. Corpet 14:36, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

History of electrochemistry[edit]

Thanks for your message. I'll have a look later today. --Guinnog 18:02, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You're probably right that it should be written in UK English. I mainly changed it because aluminium is the accepted scientific spelling as agreed by IUPAC though. I will do more work on it when I have the chance. --Guinnog 18:34, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

David Ruben RfA[edit]

Gaviidae, thank you for your support and very kind comments in my RfA which passed on 13th December 2006 with a tally of 49/10/5. I am delighted by the result and a little daunted by the scope of the additional tools; I shall be cautious in my use of them. I am well aware that becoming an Admin is not just about a successful nomination, but a continuing process of gaining further experience; for this I shall welcome your feedback. Again, many thanks for supporting my RfA, feel free to contact me if you need any assistance. :-) David Ruben 02:08, 17 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Radiography[edit]

I'm coming at the article from a more general physics viewpoint. Both gamma rays and x-rays can be created from many sources. The original wording was as follows:

A photon is an X-ray when it is formed by an event involving an electron, while the photon is a gamma ray when it comes from the nucleus of an atom.

To me, this implied that x-rays are ALWAYS created via electrons and gamma rays ALWAYS from the nucleus. Since those are not true (all wavelengths can be created via blackbody radiation, and other methods for those two are listed on their pages), I changed the wording to what you saw:

Medical usage X-ray photons are more likely to be formed by an event involving an electron, while gamma ray photons are more likely to be formed from the nucleus of an atom.[citation needed]

I do not have a source for the original wording, so I stuck on the {{fact}} tag indicating a source is needed.

I do not know the radiography context as well, and you may be correct that the phrase "medical usage" is redundant, but can you suggest another wording that would not imply a universal way that x-rays and gamma rays are created, but that these are primarily how they're created for radiography purposes? --zandperl 01:58, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I was just passing through - I was looking up instances in which vets might need to sedate pet birds, and someone mentioned radiography, and I wasn't clear if that was different from x-rays. I'll keep an eye on the page, but probably won't contribute much b/c other than that one issue I don't know much about the subject. Good luck! --zandperl 13:50, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

response to your question[edit]

I'm sorry that I cannot help because I've never touched to high voltage system on the Prius. However, I'd suggest you contact Felix Kramer at http://www.calcars.org. He should know a lot since his company converts the Prius into plug-in hybrids. Kowloonese 22:54, 28 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

File:Overkantboek.jpg listed for deletion[edit]

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