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I have moved some of your dcu stuff to List of alumni of Dublin City University. Djegan 17:55, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Albert College
You have placed a considerable amount of material (written and visual) regarding Albert College in the Dublin City University article - it might be worth considering creating a Albert College (Dublin) article to place this material in as Albert College has a history of its own and is certainly a deserving case considering its diverse history as farm, college and university?

Djegan 14:37, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

There's alot less information on the web about Albert College than on DCU. It'll involve looking up old archives from Albert College in the DCU library. This may take a while.

Dublin City University/various
I have created a to do list at Talk:Dublin City University - may prove useful as an aid to moving forward, fill it out as you wish. I also created the category Category:Dublin City University, please feel free to add relevent articles. Djegan 15:48, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

Images
Hi Beta, regarding the images you uploaded it would be a good idea provide source and copyright info and tag them if neccessary, for instance on their image description page. This is because wikipedia has policies regarding uploaded files and has got stricter recently, resulting in more deletions of images without this info. If you need help just leave a message on my page. Djegan 22:01, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Hi Beta, me again. I hope you read the above, leave a message on my talk page if any questions as the images you have uploaded are good and it would be a shame if they were deleted because of no info. Djegan 21:19, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Read your reply, you can find out what images you uploaded at . If your not sure on tags just supply information on where the image came from or why you think it should be included (fair use, publicy available or own image). A lot of good images have being deleted in the last few months because of no info. Djegan 21:35, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Image Tagging Image:Ballymun road entrance.JPG
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Image copyright problem with Image:Ryan_Academy_Lecture_Theatres.jpg
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Image Tagging Image:Mahony.jpg
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Image Tagging Image:Collins avenue entrance.JPG
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Image copyright problem with Image:University sports club.JPG
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Please signify the copyright information on any other images you have uploaded or will upload. Remember that images without this important information can be deleted by an administrator. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. Thank you. Dethomas 01:22, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Ballymun road entrance.JPG
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Regards, Dethomas 01:32, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Image Tagging for Image:The_Helix.jpg
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Image Tagging Image:Dcu library.jpg
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The image is not used in any wikipedia entry and is a waste of space, please delete it. Beta

Formatting articles
A word of advice when creating articles. Wiki formatting really hates lines that start with a space, especially on long lines, and ends up formatting them like this: * Vision in the Curriculum:An evaluation ofthe Fis Project in Primary schools in Ireland, Fis Project/Dept of Education and Science, 2005. Instead, always start at the left margin. To indent, add colons to the left.
 * Vision in the Curriculum:An evaluation ofthe Fis Project in Primary schools in Ireland, Fis Project/Dept of Education and Science, 2005.
 * Vision in the Curriculum:An evaluation ofthe Fis Project in Primary schools in Ireland, Fis Project/Dept of Education and Science, 2005.
 * Vision in the Curriculum:An evaluation ofthe Fis Project in Primary schools in Ireland, Fis Project/Dept of Education and Science, 2005.

Hope this helps. Fan1967 20:36, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Dublin City University professors
You are adding a lot of articles about Dublin City University professors, and I'm not seeing any notability. You need to assert notability or they may be deleted. I'll be listing them at Articles for Deletion shortly to get a consensus from other editors. Aplomado talk 20:51, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

The Irish academics category was very small, I thought I'd do my bit to flesh it out a bit. Beta

 * Well, just because there is a category for Irish academics doesn't mean that all Irish academics are notable enough for an article. WP:BIO might give you some guidance there. Cheers. Aplomado  talk 21:04, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

You probably have more of an objective view on it than I do, Which ones were you planning on removing?

Humanities academics seem to publish more often than Science/Engineering/Business academics and thus become more well known. Because of this, the list is destined to become a bit lopsided in favour of the arts I suppose. Beta

 * I listed all of them for discussion since none of them assert any real notability as per WP:BIO. Sorry to do this if you spent a lot of time with it, but I feel like these would be listed at Articles for Deletion eventually. The sooner we get a consensus on it the better before you spend more time on it.

 * I hope you continue to contribute, though. Aplomado  talk 21:18, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Many of the academics on the first part of the notable academics list here are well known in Ireland and have been on debating programmes and other political discussion programmes on television over here.Beta

 * OK, I'll make a note of that at Articles for deletion/Gillian McMahon. Aplomado  talk 21:30, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

RE:Professors AfD
If you think some of those articles on professors should be deleted and you are thee main contributor, tag them with db-author and they will be speedied. These are the ones I am talking about (from your own list): Any questions, feel free to contact me. Viridae Talk 05:13, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Gillian McMahon
 * Tia Keyes
 * Richard O'Kennedy
 * Eugene O'Riordan
 * Tamas Szecsi
 * Xiaojun Wang
 * Mark Roantree
 * Brian Trench

AfD nomination of Caoilfhionn Nic Pháidín
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Clonalis House
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Image:Ryan Academy Lecture Theatres.jpg
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Image:Seatingplan - The MahonyUpperFloor.gif
Thanks for uploading Image:Seatingplan - The MahonyUpperFloor.gif. I notice the 'image' page specifies that the image is being used under fair use, but its use in Wikipedia articles fails our first fair use criterion in that it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed image could reasonably be found or created that provides substantially the same information. If you believe this image is not replaceable, please:

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 * I believe this also applies to Image:Seatingplan - The Theatre.gif, Image:Seatingplan - The MahonyGroundFloor.gif, Image:Space.jpg, Image:The theatre.jpg, Image:Mahony.jpg, Image:Helix night.jpg and Image:The Helix.jpg. --Sherool (talk) 11:30, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Repost of Image:The Helix.jpg
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Image:TheHelixPlaza.jpg
You uploaded this image from Flickr tagging it as GFDL licensed, however acording to the image page on Flickr the image is in fact licensed as Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0, this is not a free license and as such I have deleted the image per speeedy deletion criterea #3 for images. --Sherool (talk) 14:57, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Copyright problems with Image:TheHelixPlaza.jpg
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 * I deleted it (again) as explained above, the image is licensed under a incompatable license, User "Crypto" on Flickr have licensed the image under a non-commercial, non-derivatives only license (wich is not allowed on Wikipedia) and you can not simply take his photo, upload it here and change the license as you see fit. Try contacting this Flickr user instead and ask him to change the license on the photo to something that can be used on Wikipedia rater than uploading it over and over again. Thanks --Sherool (talk) 18:30, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Removal of replaceable fair use tag
Hello!

You removed the Replaceable fair use notice from Image:Ryan Academy Lecture Theatres.jpg (diff). Apparent bad faith removal of the tag without addressing the issue raised can be considered a form of vandalism (avoidant vandalism).

Sincerely, --Oden 18:34, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

DCU Template
You know you could of just changed the existing template rather than a new one. Djegan 18:02, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Mobile Phone Flash Sticker
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 * (The above is just boilerplate from a template.)

 * The text from the article might make a decent section of the mobile phone article, and otherwise seems a long, long way from deserving an article of its own. You might want to merge it there.

 * There are no sources cited; if you worked hard, you might be able to find publications in IEEE journals or the like that better describe how the stickers work and whatnot. The information there would also help you flesh out the article.  Cheers, Lunch 17:21, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Xiaojun Wang
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Yes, and while you're at it please also delete the following:

 * Tia Keyes
 * Richard O'Kennedy
 * Eugene O'Riordan
 * Tamas Szecsi
 * Xiaojun Wang
 * Mark Roantree
 * Brian Trench

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Chris Stevenson (academic)
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Dermot Diamond
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David Tomkin
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Patrick Brereton
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Roderick Flynn
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Derek Molloy
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Paul F. Whelan
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advice
If you want to rescue these articles, you need to considerably expand them. You need in particular some real evidence that what they did was important. This can be book reviews if they've published books, or citation records,if they've published papers, or prizes, with references to the, or articles about public service. If they've been of TV or whatever, find some references to this. I am sorry I do not have timeto help these articles individually myself ; if you need help find reviews or others sources, try a college library. You are within your rights in removing the prods, but unless there is more, they do not have very much chance at AfD. My advice is that any who have been a full professor are much more likely to be defensible.DGG (talk) 23:38, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Tia Keyes
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I see you are around. Could you please take some responsibility for the articles you've written, and supply enough information for us to keep them in WP. If you have any interest in the faculty of DCU, surely you dont just want to write articles about them, but reasonably good article.s I've been trying to fix up some of them,but it really should be you doing it. If you need help finding materials, any librarian can help you find all their publications--and even their cvs alone list some of it, as does google Scholar.DGG (talk) 14:08, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

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2005 United States gubernatorial elections

United States gubernatorial elections were held on November 8, 2005, in the states of New Jersey and Virginia as well as in the U.S. commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Shortly before election day, U.S. President George W. Bush returned from a trip to Latin America to provide last-minute campaigning for Virginian gubernatorial candidate Jerry W. Kilgore. After the defeat of Kilgore and Doug Forrester in New Jersey, Democrats ascribed these victories to the President's decreasing popularity. Republicans then tried to downplay these Democratic triumphs as victories exclusive to those states and their candidates. Some speculate that these two elections were harbingers of the positive momentum around the Democratic Party, and it could be said that they had some positive effect on the landmark victories in the 2006 midterm elections and the 2008 presidential election for the party. Republicans, however, maintain that the Democrats' advantage in 2005 was due simply to the fact that they were the incumbent party.

This was the first election since 1987 that no seats switched parties in a gubernatorial election and the first time this occurred in this cycle of governorships since 1985.

Election predictions
Several sites and individuals publish predictions of competitive seats. These predictions look at factors such as the strength of the incumbent (if the incumbent is running for re-election), the strength of the candidates, and the partisan leanings of the state (reflected in part by the state's Cook Partisan Voting Index rating). The predictions assign ratings to each state, with the rating indicating the predicted advantage that a party has in winning that seat.

Most election predictors use:
 * " tossup ": no advantage
 * " tilt " (used by some predictors): advantage that is not quite as strong as "lean"
 * " lean ": slight advantage
 * " likely ": significant, but surmountable, advantage
 * " safe " or " solid ": near-certain chance of victory

Closest races
States where the margin of victory was under 1%:
 * 1)  Northern Mariana Islands, 0.6%

States where the margin of victory was under 10%:
 * 1)  Virginia, 5.7%

Virginia
The 2005 Virginia gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 2005 to elect the Governor of Virginia. The Democratic nominee, Lieutenant Governor Tim Kaine, the son-in-law to Linwood Holton, won the election. Virginia is the only state in the United States to prohibit governors from serving successive terms, meaning that the popular incumbent, Mark Warner, could not run for reelection.

While the previous Democratic Governor, Mark Warner, was credited with doing especially well for a Democrat in rural areas of the commonwealth, Kaine's win featured surprising triumphs in traditionally Republican areas such as Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, and the Northern Virginia suburbs of Prince William County and Loudoun County, as well as impressive showings in Democratic strongholds such as Richmond and Norfolk. This is the most recent election in which a Virginia governor and lieutenant governor of opposite parties were elected.

New Jersey
The 2005 New Jersey gubernatorial election was a race to determine the Governor of New Jersey. It was held on November 8, 2005. Democratic Governor Richard Codey, who replaced Governor Jim McGreevey in 2004 after his resignation, did not run for election for a full term of office.

The primary election was held on June 7, 2005. U.S. Senator Jon Corzine won the Democratic nomination without serious opposition. Former West Windsor Mayor Doug Forrester received the Republican nomination with a plurality of 36%. Corzine defeated Forrester in the general election. New Jersey is reliably Democratic at the federal level, but this was the first time since 1977 in which Democrats won more than one consecutive gubernatorial election in the state. This was the first time since 1965 that a Democrat won a gubernatorial race without Ocean County, and the first since 1961 that they did so without Monmouth County.

The 2005 general election also saw a public referendum question on the ballot for the voters to decide whether to create a position of lieutenant governor, alter the state's order of succession, and whether the state's first lieutenant governor would be chosen in the subsequent gubernatorial election held in 2009. The question passed by a tally of 836,134 votes (56.1%) to 655,333 (43.9%). As of 2022, this is the most recent time that Salem County voted for the Democratic candidate in a gubernatorial race.

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Kušuḫ

Kušuḫ, also known under the name Umbu, was the god of the moon in Hurrian pantheon. He is attested in cuneiform texts from many sites, from Hattusa in modern Turkey, through Ugarit, Alalakh, Mari and other locations in Syria, to Nuzi, located near modern Kirkuk in Iraq, but known sources do not indicate that he was associated with a single city. His name might be derived from the toponym Kuzina, possibly the Hurrian name of Harran, a city in Upper Mesopotamia, but both this etymology and identification of this sparsely attested place name remain uncertain. He was a popular, commonly worshiped god, and many theophoric names invoking him are known. In addition to serving as a divine representation of the moon, he was also associated with oaths, oracles and pregnancy. Some aspects of his character were likely influenced by his Mesopotamian counterpart Sin, while he in turn was an influence on the Ugaritic god Yarikh and Luwian Arma.

In Hurrian mythology, Kušuḫ appears as one of the allies of the weather god Teššub in his struggle against Kumarbi, but known compositions do not provide much information about his individual characteristics. It has also been proposed that the Ugaritic composition Marriage of Nikkal and Yarikh was based on a Hurrian myth about Kušuḫ, well attested as the husband of this goddess.

Name
Kušuḫ, usually written dKu-uš-uḫ in cuneiform, was the primary name of the Hurrian moon god. There is no agreement if transcriptions of Hurrian words should reflect theories about the possible presence of voiced and unvoiced consonants in them; conventional spelling of Kušuḫ's name in modern publications reflects the view that leaving the disputed ones unvoiced is preferable. The alternate spelling Kušaḫ is attested in Alalakh and uncommonly in texts from Hattusa. According to Manfred Krebernik the form Ušu is also known, though he does not list the location where sources it occurs in were found. Two separate writings of Kušuḫ's name in the Ugaritic alphabetic script are attested, kḏġ and kzġ, vocalized as Kuḏuġ and Kuzuġ, respectively.

In addition to these spellings, the name could be also represented by the logograms d30 (the numeral associated with the moon) and dEN.ZU, like that of the Mesopotamian moon god Sin. For example, according to Gary Beckman Kušuḫ might be among the deities designated by the former logogram in texts from Emar. Forms combining logographic and phonetic versions, d30-uḫ and dEN.ZU-uḫ, are also known.

It has been proposed that Kušuḫ's name is an adjective derived from the toponym Kuzina, possibly the Hurrian name of Harran. However, in the treaty between Šuppiluliuma I and Šattiwaza, Kušuḫ and the moon god of Harran appear as two separate deities. It has also been noted that Kuzina is only known from a single attestation in the so-called Tale of Appu, whose Hurrian origin is disputed, and researchers such as Itamar Singer consider it to have Hittite roots instead, though this view is not universally accepted either. This text does mention that a moon god was believed to reside in Kuzina, though according to Volkert Haas Arma might be the deity meant. At the same time, he does find the theory that Kuzina was the Hurrian name of Harran plausible.

Umbu
In addition to Kušuḫ, a secondary name of the moon god in Hurrian sources was Umbu, also spelled Umpu, Umpa and Umpi. It might have been originally in use somewhere in Syria or southern Anatolia as a part of a distinct local tradition, which would mean it only came to be adopted by the Hurrians at some point in their history. However, it is also possible that it has Hurrian origin, as a root umb- (meaning presently unknown), is attested in the Hurrian language. It has been proposed that Umbu functioned as the name of a specific manifestation of Kušuḫ, perhaps representing the full moon, though this remains speculative.

Mauro Giorgieri notes that attestations of Umbu as a fully independent deity are uncommon, and that he almost always appears alongside Nikkal. In early scholarship it was assumed that Umbu was an appellative referring to Nikkal, analogous to the second element in the full Ugaritic form of her name, Nikkal-wa-Ib, but according to Giorgieri this is not plausible in the light of more recent research. The latter epithet is most likely a cognate of either Akkadian inbu, "fruit," or ebbu, "bright" or "pure," rather than Umbu's name.

Character and iconography
Kušuḫ was functioned as the good of the moon in the Hurrian pantheon. It is possible that his character was at least in part influenced by that of his Mesopotamian counterpart, Sin. Like him, he was associated with pregnancy, and could be invoked in birth incantations. However, a well attested role of Kušuḫ which according to Gernot Wilhelm sets him apart from his Mesopotamian counterpart was that of a protector of oaths, otherwise commonly associated with underworld deities in Hurrian culture. Ugaritic texts refer to him as the "king of the (oracular) decisions" as well, marking him as a deity associated with oracles.

A depiction of Kušuḫ is known from the reliefs showing a procession of deities in the Yazılıkaya sanctuary, with the figure representing him being assigned the number 35 in scholarly treatments of this site. He is depicted as winged, and his pointed cap is adorned with a lunar crescent. A possible artistic portrayal of Kušuḫ has also been identified on the golden bowl of Hasanlu, sometimes assumed to be a late example of art inspired by motifs from Hurrian mythology, on which a moon god is shown traveling in a chariot drawn by mules.

Family and court
Kušuḫ 's wife was Nikkal, derived from the Mesopotamian goddess Ningal. Umbu, either an alternate name of Kušuḫ or a separate deity assimilated with him, appears alongside Nikkal in Hurrian texts too. In Ugarit, she was recognized as the wife of both Kušuḫ and the local god Yarikh, but since she is best attested in texts written in Hurrian rather than in Ugaritic, Gabriele Theuer concludes that she was most likely only introduced to the city by the Hurrians. She also reached the Hittite pantheon through Hurrian mediation. Kušuḫ was also associated with Ishara due to their shared role as divine protectors of oaths. Piotr Taracha points out that it might be significant that she was already linked with another lunar god, Saggar, in the third millennium BCE in Ma-NEki, as attested in texts from Ebla.

A passage labeling Teššub as a son of Kušuḫ is known, but as it is entirely isolated and no further known documents refer to such a connection between these two gods, Daniel Schwmer remarks that it is difficult to evaluate its significance. In a tradition most likely influenced by Mesopotamian views on divine genealogy, Šauška, usually the sister of Teššub, was regarded as the daughter of the moon god too.

It has been proposed by Meindert Dijkstra that the god Tapšuwari was regarded as the sukkal (attendant deity) of Kušuḫ, though he has also been interpreted as one of the members of the circle of Kumarbi. Attestations of Tapšuwari are limited to a single fragment of the Hurrian version of the myth Song of Ullikummi, and a single other literary passage, both of which also mention Kušuḫ.

Other lunar gods
Kušuḫ was regarded as the Hurrian counterpart of Mesopotamian Sin. In Ugarit, he was additionally regarded as analogous to Yarikh. However, in the ritual KTU3 1.111 the two moon gods, accompanied by Nikkal, appear together and receive separate offerings, with instructions pertaining to Kušuḫ (and Nikkal) written in Hurrian, and these instead referring to Yarikh - in Ugaritic, possibly reflecting the bilingualism of the scribe.

Especially in Kizzuwatna, the character of the Luwian moon god Arma were heavily influenced by Kušuḫ's. He also came to be portrayed identically to his Hurrian counterpart, in a pointed cap with a crescent symbol and with wings on his shoulders.

Kušuḫ s name is sometimes linked by researchers with that of the Hattian moon god, conventionally assumed to bear the name Kašku, which might point at early contact between speakers of Hurrian and Hattic. However, Daniel Schwemer notes that it is possible the Hattian god was instead named Kab, as suggested in a recent alternate reading of the same passage on which the older assumption about his name relies.

Worship
Kušuḫ was a high-ranking, commonly worshiped god, and he is regarded by researchers as one of the "pan-Hurrian" deities, present in the pantheons of all areas where the Hurrian language was in use, from Kizzuwatna in modern Turkey to the Zagros Mountains, similar to Teššub, Šauška, Kumarbi or Nabarbi. He appears in theophoric names from both eastern and western Hurrian cities. Examples include Eḫlip-Kušuḫ ("Kušuḫ saves"), attested in Mari (Tell Hariri) and Tigunani, Arip-Kušuḫ ("Kušuḫ gave"), known from the former of these sites, and Ḫazip-Kušuḫ ("Kušuḫ heard"), with a wide distribution, including attestations from Mari, Chagar Bazar, Shekhna/Shubat-Enlil (Tell Leilan), and Tigunani. Names with Umbu as a theophoric element are known too, examples include Mut-Umpi from Mari and Arip-Umpi from Nuzi.

According to Gernot Wilhelm, there is no indication that Kušuḫ was particularly strongly associated with any specific city. A double temple dedicated to him and Teššub existed in Šuriniwe in the eastern Hurrian kingdom of Arrapha. He was one of the principal deities in the state pantheon of Mitanni as well, and in the treaty between Šuppiluliuma I and Šattiwaza appears right behind Teššub, the head of the pantheon. In offering lists from western Hurrian centers, he appears as a member of the circle of deities (kaluti) of the same god.

Ugaritic reception
The worship of Kušuḫ is well attested in Hurrian documents from Ugarit. In offering lists, he appears between Kumarbi and Iya (Hayya). Once he instead occurs between the latter deity and Dadmiš. A single ritual text indicates that he could be worshiped side by side with local moon god Yarikh, which is one of the examples of the well attested phenomenon involving combining Ugaritic and Hurrian elements in the religious practice of this city. Kušuḫ is also attested in theophoric names from Ugarit, with a total of six individuals bearing them presently known, though one of them was apparently not an inhabitant of the city. The name Eḫli-Kušuḫ occurs the most commonly.

Hittite reception
Kušuḫ was incorporated into the Hittite pantheon alongside other Hurrian deities. He is among the members of the Hurrian pantheon depicted in the Yazılıkaya sanctuary, where he is placed between Šauška's handmaidens Ninatta and Kulitta and the sun god Šimige in the procession of deities following Teššub. Hurrian deities, such as Kušuḫ, commonly appear in theophoric names of rulers in areas under Hittite influence. For example, Hittite prince Piyaššili after being appointed the king of Carchemish by his father Šuppiluliuma I took the regnal name Šarri-Kušuḫ, "Kušuḫ is (my) king."

The name Umbu is attested in Hurro-Hittite context too: examples include oath formulas, where he paired with Šarruma, and texts pertaining the išuwa festival. As a pair, Umbu and Nikkal appear in the entourage of Ḫepat in offering lists.

Mythology
While Kušuḫ does appear in Hurrian myths, according to Gernot Wilhelm they do not provide much information about his individual character. In a cycle of myths focused on the conflict between Kumarbi and Teššub, the so-called Kumarbi Cycle, he belongs to the group of allies of the weather god. He is mentioned in the Song of Silver, presumed to be a part of the aforementioned cycle. The eponymous antagonist, Silver, a son of Kumarbi and a mortal woman, who seemingly temporarily becomes the ruler of the god, at one point brings Kušuḫ and the sun god Šimige down from heaven, and apparently intends to kill them. They bow down to him and ask to be released, arguing that otherwise Silver will have to rule in complete darkness. The conclusion of the composition is not preserved. Kušuḫ is also mentioned briefly in another myth dealing with the same conflict, the Song of Ullikummi, where Kumarbi states that he has to hide the eponymous stone monster somewhere where the allies of, including the moon god, will not be able to find him while he continues to grow. Additionally, he plays a role in the tale of Kešši (CTH 361).

It is sometimes assumed that the Ugaritic myth about the marriage of the local moon god Yarikh and Nikkal (KTU 1.24) had Hurrian origin, and according to Nicolas Wyatt it is possible that in a hitherto unknown earlier version the protagonist was Kušuḫ instead. Researchers do not agree if the Ugaritic text was a direct translation, as assumed for example by Aicha Rahmouni, an adaptation of motifs from Hurrian mythology, and also if the proposed Hurrian version was in turn based on an unknown Mesopotamian myth, or if the Ugaritic text was additionally independently influenced by Mesopotamian tradition.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Popular Counter-Strike hacks

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was DELETE. Postdlf 01:55, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

Popular Counter-Strike hacks
Delete. Unencyclopedic (see Votes for deletion/DOOM cheats), name is NPOV (popular according to who?). If info is worth keeping, it belongs on Counter-Strike page. -- 8^D gab 17:57, 2005 Apr 21 (UTC)
 * Delete Wikipedia is not GameFAQs. This article is merely linkspam. We already have Cheating in Counter-Strike, anyway (which is also a bit excessive IMHO). --InShaneee 18:41, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Game hacks may deserve a mention in the main article, but not an article of their own, unless they've achieved special fame aside from the game itself (like the Konami Code). Not only that, but this article is poorly written and unencyclopedic in tone and form. "WORD OF WARNING! Many of these hacks will contain malware, steal your cd keys, passwords, credit card information, abuse your webcam and destroy your computer! Anti-virus software cannot protect you from this! Additionally, getting caught cheating usually means being banned from the entire Steam network! Absolutely only use these links at your own risk!" Just what we need. Firebug 19:22, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep I am well aware of this. The problem is that an article like Cheating in Counter-Strike tends to attract kiddies. The article is merely there to channel the urges of the kiddies into something productive, instead of vandalizing the main article with links. Leave it, eventually it'll become something better looking than this current, ugly linkspam. I don't like it either but I prefer this over having people (kiddies) lay waste on the main article. Dabljuh 19:40, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * While I understand what you're saying, I'm not sure that is a valid reason for keeping this article. It seems to me a bit too much like capitulating to vandals. Firebug 21:31, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I agree with Firebug (predictably, I'm sure, since I nominated). Fear of vandalism on the main article is a poor justification for keeping a non-notable offshoot written in a wholly unencyclopedic manner. We can protect the main article itself well enough. -- 8^D gab 21:45, 2005 Apr 21 (UTC)
 * Concur with that. Delete and protect the cheating article when/if necessary. Radiant_* 10:10, Apr 22, 2005 (UTC)
 * I understand that the article isn't a nice sight, but I'm pretty sure it can be made to look more encyclopedic and professional if I / someone else finds time to update it. Originally someone updated the main article with this content, and I didn't want to erase it since somebody told me he found it valuable. On the other hand, it already has been vandalized, which probably took off some destructive energy from the main article? The section vandalized is interesting: Most cheaters don't realize the most common reason public cheats are released are to get passwords. Dabljuh 20:39, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Wikipedia is not GameFAQs, and not a place to post cheats and hacks. Zzyzx11 | Talk 01:51, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Destroy all gamecruft. Wile E. Heresiarch 05:04, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I appreciate the fact that Dabljuh explained his/her motivation. I don't think that makes enough reason to compromise our mission or standards.  Delete and let the regular anti-vandalism processes work.  Rossami (talk) 05:25, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Wikipedia is not GameFAQs. --Carnildo 22:35, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete -- Who needs to cheat anyway? - Longhair | Talk 16:46, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete trivia/howto CDC   (talk)  23:33, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.


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I copied the content of this page to the full case name, which was a page we were waiting for. I also fixed the incoming links so that all pages link to the new page rather than this one. What I don't know is how to kill this one off...

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Clover Park High School

Clover Park High School (CPHS), located in Lakewood, Washington, is one of two secondary schools within the Clover Park School District.

History
The high school was established in 1938 due to the rapid expansion of nearby military posts at Fort Lewis.

The cornerstone of the first Clover Park High School was laid June 28, 1938. According to the 1981 Clover Park yearbook, Klahowya, on February 23 of that year a fire destroyed the gym (where the fire had been started), the music center and the business department. Junior Alfred Shropshire was arrested and convicted for starting the fire. One wing of the original school is now used for the school district's Student Services Center.

The class of 1963 was the leading edge of the Baby Boom and was the largest graduating class of CPHS. The class of 1964 was actually larger, but in 1963, the class of 1964 split in half and formed the rival school Lakes High School.

Approximately 1100 students are enrolled each year. Their school mascot are the Timberwolves (formerly Warriors) and the colors are kelly green, gold, and white. During the 2014/2015 school year the current principal, Tim Stults, took the reins from the former principal, John Seaton.

In 2006, CPHS was listed in the OSPI (Washington State Office of Public Instruction) document The High Schools We Need: Improving an American Institution. The OSPI document states, "Clover Park is committed to maintaining high expectations for rigorous performance from students."

In November 2021, Clover Park High School announced that it's in the process of changing its mascot (Warriors) to comply with a new state law prohibiting the inappropriate use of Native American names, symbols and imagery in public school names, mascots, logos or team names. In January 2022, the school would announce that the new mascot change are the "Timberwolves."

According to OSPI the evidence of effectiveness: (1) Between 2002 and 2010, WASL scores increased by 30.4 percent in reading, 4.4 percent in math, 43.7 percent in writing, and 6.9 percent in science.

(2) Over the past seven years, student achievement increased and the gaps narrowed between the racial, ethnic, gender, cultural, and economic class groups within the school.

(3) The annual dropout rate declined from 14.1 percent to 5.5 percent between 2001 and 2010.

(4) The school successfully made adequate yearly progress in all areas in 2005 and was not mandated to do a plan for improvement.

(5) The college retention rate of students who received the Bill and Melinda Gates Scholarship as high school juniors averaged more than 75 percent in each year 2002-2004.

(6) Retention of highly qualified faculty has increased over the last five years.

Students

Out of the approximate 1100 student body, 68 percent are minorities, and 69 percent receive a free or reduced lunch. 10.2% of the student population is transitional bilingual. 69% of the teachers hold master's degrees and 100% are considered "highly qualified" according to No Child Left Behind Guidelines.

Smaller Learning Communities Program
In August 2003, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation promised $540,000 over five years to the school to "support personalized learning environments where all students achieve." The school is thus sometimes referred to as a "Gates Grant school," in reference to the donation.

The highly diverse school used the grant to engage in major restructuring as part of the "Smaller Learning Communities Program" (SLCP) which is intended to help large schools create smaller and safer communities within themselves. The program has received criticism, as parents complained that dividing the school into separate "houses" limited the selection of courses, and that attempts to "Raise the Bar" for all students had the effect of "dummying down" the challenges available to more able students.,

CPHS is now recognized as a leader in high school reform by the School Redesign Network at Stanford University and OSPI for the improvements in student learning and for narrowing the achievement gap. (SRN case study/ OSPI High Schools We Need).

Daffodil Festival
Every year, Clover Park participates in the Pierce County Daffodil Festival. A competition is held in house to select the Clover Park Princess, who goes on to compete against other regional schools, for the Daffodil Festival Queen title. The Queen title is considered the highest honor of the regional festival. The Clover Park band accompanies the float of Clover Park's princesses every year in the parade, held annually in April. Jaymee Marty is the only princess from Clover Park to become queen, in 1985.

Notable alumni and staff
Notable Clover Park High School alumni and staff members include:
 * Sandi Gordon, soccer player for the United States women's national team
 * John Greek and Rich Dangel, guitarists with The Wailers, who wrote "Tall Cool One" while at the school;
 * Jackie Kellogg (1989 grad), MLB draft pick of the Kansas City Royals and CFL Grey Cup Champion with the Calgary Stampeders
 * John Kelly, Chairman and CEO of Alaska Airlines from 1995-2003.
 * Bryan Monroe (1983 grad), former president of the National Association of Black Journalists, former vice president and editorial director of Ebony and Jet magazines, and editor of CNNPolitics.com.
 * Cap Peterson Major League baseball outfielder (1960 graduate)
 * Ropati Pitoitua (2003 grad), New York Jets Defensive End
 * William (Bill) Priedhorsky Los Alamos scientist (1969 graduate)
 * Tavita Pritchard (2005 grad), former starting QB for Stanford University.
 * Mike Reed, NFL player

Fight song
The CPHS fight song is performed to the music of the Washington State University fight song.

Additional references

 * http://reportcard.ospi.k12.wa.us/summary.aspx?schoolId=2199&OrgType=4&reportLevel=School&year=2001-02
 * Daffodil Festival Queens
 * Taylor, Jayme. Clover Park School District Community Relations.  (253) 583-5042.
 * Aden, Carlin B. A Schoolhouse That Grew Wings.
 * The Sounding Board. Volume 12, Number 3, January, 1981.  Published by Clover Park School District No. 400.
 * Odyssey. 1981 Clover Park High School Yearbook.

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Melville

Melville may refer to:

Antarctica

 * Cape Melville (South Shetland Islands)
 * Melville Peak, King George Island
 * Melville Glacier, Graham Land
 * Melville Highlands, Laurie Island
 * Melville Point, Marie Byrd Land

Australia

 * Cape Melville, Queensland
 * City of Melville, Western Australia, the local government authority
 * Electoral district of Melville, Western Australia
 * Melville Bay, Northern Territory
 * Melville Island, Northern Territory
 * Melville, Western Australia, a suburb of Perth

Canada

 * Melville, Saskatchewan, a city
 * Melville (electoral district), Saskatchewan, a federal electoral district
 * Melville (provincial electoral district), Saskatchewan
 * Melville, a community within the town of Caledon, Ontario
 * Melville Peninsula, Nunavut
 * Melville Sound, Nunavut
 * Melville Island (Northwest Territories and Nunavut)
 * Melville Island (Nova Scotia), in Halifax Harbour
 * Melville Cove, Halifax, in Halifax Harbour
 * Melville Island, a small island in the Discovery Islands, British Columbia
 * Melville Island, a small island near Dundas Island, British Columbia
 * Melville Island, on Saint-Maurice River, in Shawinigan, Mauricie, Quebec
 * Lake Melville, Labrador

Greenland

 * Cape Melville (Greenland) (Nallortup Nuua)
 * Melville Bay, Greenland
 * Melville Glacier (Greenland)
 * Melville Land, Greenland
 * Melville Monument (Greenland) (Usuussarsuaq)

South Africa

 * Melville, Gauteng, a suburb of Johannesburg
 * Melville, KwaZulu-Natal, a seaside village on the South Coast of KwaZulu-Natal

United States

 * Melville, Louisiana, a town
 * Melville Township, Renville County, Minnesota
 * Melville, Montana, an unincorporated community
 * Melville, New York, a hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Huntington
 * Melville, North Dakota, an unincorporated community
 * Melville, Oregon, an unincorporated community
 * Melville, Rhode Island, a village
 * Melville (Surry, Virginia), a historic house
 * Melville, West Virginia, an unincorporated community

Elsewhere

 * Melville, New Zealand, a suburb of Hamilton
 * Melville (crater), on the planet Mercury

People

 * Melville (name), including lists of people with the surname, given name or pen name

Ships

 * HMS Melville, three ships of the Royal Navy
 * USS Melville, two ships named in honor of George W. Melville
 * HMAS Melville, a ship and a shore establishment of the Royal Australian Navy
 * R/V Melville, an oceanographic research vessel

Titles

 * Earl of Melville, in the Peerage of Scotland
 * Viscount Melville, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Other uses

 * Melville (album), 1991 album by the Rheostatics
 * Melville Corporation, a defunct American retail holding corporation
 * Melville Shoe Corporation, a defunct American corporation
 * The Melville, a skyscraper in Vancouver, Canada
 * Melville Bridge Club, Edinburgh, Scotland
 * Melville AFC, a former New Zealand football team, now part of Melville United AFC

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Pope Anastasius of Alexandria

Pope Anastasius of Alexandria, 36th Pope of Alexandria & Patriarch of the See of St. Mark. During his reign, despite being barred from the city of Alexandria, he met with the Patriarch of Antioch as they worked to arrange the unification of their two churches.

Life
He was one of the great noblemen of Alexandria. Before he became a Pope, he was an overseer of the patriarchal court, then he became a priest for the church of Alexandria. Shortly afterward, he was unanimously selected by the bishops and clergy of the Coptic Church to succeed Pope Damian of Alexandria as Patriarch. His biography was written by Severus Ibn al-Muqaffa in his History of the Patriarchs of Alexandria. His name does not appear in the standard biographical dictionaries of the Christian church. One possible reason for this omission is the fact that, as indicated in the History, the influence of the Council of Chalcedon's decisions was very strong at the time, both in Alexandria and in the court of Constantinople.

Not only were Coptic bishops of this time not officially recognized, they were also forbidden to enter Alexandria. The Coptic church in Alexandria was understandably troubled by this arrangement, which was instituted under the reign of Tiberius II Constantine, and his local adjutant named Belisarius. This persecution continued after the death of Tiberius under his son, Maurice. After the murder of Maurice by Phocas, who had overthrown him earlier, the situation deteriorated still further. A citizen of Alexandria who adhered to the Council of Chalcedon's edicts, Eulogius of Alexandria, wrote a defamatory letter to Photas regarding Anastasius. Photas responded by issuing an order to his prefect in Alexandria that the important church of Cosmas and Damian, and all its dependent churches, be turned over to Eulogius, who became the recognized Patriarch of Alexandria. Anastasius, deeply saddened by this, left for a nearby monastery.

With the increasing difficulties his church was facing domestically, Anastasius turned more of his attention toward improving relations with other churches. This led to closer contacts with the Church of Antioch. Athanasius I Gammolo, the new Patriarch of Antioch, did not share the support of the edicts of Chalcedon that his predecessor had. When Anastasius learned of Athanasius's succession there, he wrote him a letter commending him on his wisdom in retracting his predecessor's errors, and urged him to help establish closer relations, and perhaps even unity, between the churches of Alexandria and Antioch. Upon receiving the letter, Athanasius convened a council of his bishops regarding the proposal, and they decided to send a delegation to Alexandria to see if it would be possible to unite the two churches. Athanasius, with five of his bishops, set sail for Alexandria. The delegation arrived, and met with Anastasius, presumably outside of the city, as Anastasius was still barred from entering the city, possibly in the monastery in which Anastasius was staying.

On the arrival of the delegation, Anastasius summoned all of his bishops and clergy. The leaders of the two churches embraced each other with a kiss of peace, and declared their two churches to be united in doctrine. The two patriarchs remained in the monastery for a month thereafter, discussing a wide variety of topics, including implementing their newfound unity. At the end of the month, Athanasius returned to Antioch.

Anastasius spent the remaining years of his patriarchate attending to the affairs of his church, including its now closer relationship with Antioch. He also wrote prolifically on matters of theology. He is said to have written enough to have one book put out every year of his reign, presumably twelve books for the twelve years of his reign. Over the years, however, many of these writings have been lost.

Veneration
Anastasius is considered a saint by the Coptic Church. His feast day is celebrated on 18 December.

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Betaine

A betaine in chemistry is any neutral chemical compound with a positively charged cationic functional group that bears no hydrogen atom, such as a quaternary ammonium or phosphonium cation (generally: onium ions), and with a negatively charged functional group, such as a carboxylate group that may not be adjacent to the cationic site. Historically, the term was reserved for trimethylglycine (TMG), which is involved in methylation reactions and detoxification of homocysteine. This is a modified amino acid consisting of glycine with three methyl groups serving as methyl donor for various metabolic pathways.

Pronunciation
The pronunciation of the compound reflects its origin and first isolation from sugar beets (Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris), and does not derive from the Greek letter beta (β). It is commonly pronounced beta-INE or BEE-tayn.

Glycine betaine

The original betaine, N,N,N-trimethylglycine, was named after its discovery in sugar beet (Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris) in the nineteenth century. It is a small N-trimethylated amino acid. It is a zwitterion, which cannot isomerize because there is no labile hydrogen atom attached to the nitrogen atom. This substance may be called glycine betaine to distinguish it from other betaines.

Biochemistry
Phosphonium betaines are intermediates in the Wittig reaction. The addition of betaine to polymerase chain reactions improves the amplification of DNA by reducing the formation of secondary structure in GC-rich regions. The addition of betaine may enhance the specificity of the polymerase chain reaction by eliminating the base pair composition dependence of DNA melting.

Food additive
In 2017, the European Food Safety Authority concluded that betaine was safe "as a novel food to be used at a maximum intake level of 6 mg/kg body weight per day in addition to the intake from the background diet."

Approved drug
A prescription drug (Cystadane) containing betaine has limited use for oral treatment of genetic homocystinuria to lower levels of homocysteine in circulating blood.

Dietary supplement
Trimethylglycine, a betaine, is used as a dietary supplement, although there is no evidence that it is effective or safe. Common side effects of taking oral betaine include nausea and stomach upset.

Safety
Many betaines are irritants of the eyes and skin.

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