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To Do
I whipped this up because I wanted to edit the page, but wasn't sure where to start. My experience here is mostly as an outsider - while I've lived my whole life in the South, those who cooked for me grew up mostly in California. So I'm not entirely familiar with the Southern pallet. Todo says the To Do list is "Not a place for experimental ideas (these should be discussed first to reach a consensus)", but I wanted to try it anyway. --Golbez 08:28, Oct 3, 2004 (UTC)

Livermush?
I've lived in the South my whole life and I have never ever heard of that. Mike H 08:34, Oct 3, 2004 (UTC)
 * Welcome to the horror that is North Carolina cuisine. ;) Livermush, chili and slaw on everything, and a vinegary red stuff they pour on shredded pork and call "BBQ". It truly offends my Texas sensibilities. Google seems to agree that it's NC-only. One link says, "2 years in North Carolina, never got a good answer as to what livermush really is. It kind of looks like shoe leather though... really old shoe leather."

The recipe seems to be: 1 fresh hog liver 1 1/2 lbs. fresh fat pork 2 c. cornmeal Red pepper Salt Black pepper Sage

Cook liver and fat pork until tender. Remove from broth the liver only and grind. Add corn meal, peppers, and sage to taste. Add enough of the broth to soften mixture. Cook in saucepan until meal has cooked, stirring constantly. Put in mold. Press down until cold. Slice and serve cold or broil.

Sounds absolutely horrid, doesn't it? ;) I've heard of it mostly being in cube form, and either spread on bread, or heated and eaten that way. --Golbez 09:33, Oct 3, 2004 (UTC)

 * I never heard of livermush before today, but Neese's Liver Pudding was one of my favorite sandwich fillings when I was a toddler living in North Carolina. Over forty years later, I can still remember exactly how good it tasted between a couple of slices of white sandwich bread slathered with mayonnaise. Unfortunately, it's not available in here Florida. :`( Metrowestjp (talk) 17:33, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

Carolinians use a light vinegar based sauce to emphasize the flavor of the higher quality pork used. Other areas, such as Texas, tend to use a thicker more dominating kethup based sauce to mask the flavor of lower quality meats ;) --Presnell 12:24, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)

 * Them's fightin' words. --Golbez 20:07, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)

 * Not as much as "the horror that is North Carolina cuisine" and "absolutely horrid", n'est-ce pas? Good day, sir. I said good day! --Metrowestjp (talk) 17:33, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

To be sure, livermush is horrible for you (Unless perhaps you make it yourself, and can control what goes in) but in the western part of North Carolina the preference for consumption seems to be sliced and fried crisp. I guess you could eat it cold, but it'd be like eating cold sausage as far as consistency is concerned. I also happen to concur with Golbez' analysis of NC barbecue sauces; too many places here serve something with thet consistency of Texas Pete (and all the charm) and soak the pork with it. Give me a sweet style sauce on the side any day. --MalkavianX 19:46, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

I've lived in central NC my entire life (since 1969) and have never heard of livermush. Apparently it is mostly popular in western NC. Joe P69 (talk) 13:53, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

I've lived in central and eastern NC my entire life. Livermush is very common in eastern NC. It's an acquired taste. As for the Texan, the BBQ you are describing is just one of a few variations found in NC. 98.24.10.0 (talk) 14:25, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Grits
Isn't grits known in the north as hominy? Or am I wrong? Should this be mentioned as a "Southern variant"? Mike H 00:21, Oct 4, 2004 (UTC)

Hrm, I am from Florida (central Florida, not the Panhandle, and we still have some Southerners despite what some people believe..) and grits is kinda like a ground up corn product, hominy is whole corn which has been dried and treated with something, I think lye, and rehydrated. Two different things. --Ameireaganach 06:10, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * In the north, grits isn't known, period. Occasionally you can buy instant grits in the grocery story; most northerners wouldn't know what to do with any other kind of grits. There is, as far as I know, no northern equivalent--unless you cound oatmeal, which is similarly yucky-looking breakfast food of the you-had-to-grow-up-on-it variety.
 * You can't get good fresh okra in Ohio, either. I don't know about everywhere else. [[User:Aranel|Aranel ("Sarah")]] 01:09, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)

history
i did some research on some of the histories, but I know it is not as detailed as i want it...i would welcome some help on this section! Kayellen 21:04, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * I think this is a very good start. I will help you later this evening. Mike H 21:09, Oct 4, 2004 (UTC)

Picture?
Hey y'all we need a really good pic of a good ol fried chicken dinner or something (you know with greens and beans and tea and the whole nine yards. I am no good with images, think we can find someone to fix us up? Kayellen 16:58, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * Someone bring a digital camera to Po'Folks! Mike H 17:01, Oct 5, 2004 (UTC)

 * MMMMMMMMM Po'Folks....I am jealous, they closed the one in Huntsville! Kayellen 17:29, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * There was one in Pensacola. I don't think there are any in Tampa. There are Bob Evans restaurants here, though. That should be mentioned in the article...the advent of "fast food" Southern cuisine, like Cracker Barrel, Po'Folks, and Bob Evans. Mike H 17:54, Oct 5, 2004 (UTC)

 * You read my mind! I was just at lunch thinking about how we needed to add that to the article.  I think alot of northern snowbirds get their first "taste" of southern food from places like those. Kayellen 19:22, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * Used to have Po'Folks at least as far west as Texas. The one here closed years ago though. -- Cyrius|✎ 21:29, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * I'll bring my camera to lunch this week. Maybe I'll get lucky and we'll have something really southern. (I missed the fried chicken and mashed potatoes, though.) [[User:Aranel|Aranel ("Sarah")]] 01:09, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)

food list
Wow things are starting to come together, huh! I was looking at the japanese cuisine article and they had a list of traditional dishes. I didn't like the list before but what about putting one in? I am going to add one in a minute, see what you think. Kayellen 21:02, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Bob Evans
"To a lesser extent, the Bob Evans chain of restaurants have extended across the Midwest and East. Surprisingly enough, the key Southern states of Alabama and Georgia do not have any Bob Evans locations. "

This is probably because Bob Evans is really an Ohio chain (although it actually originated right on the southern border by West Virginia). The food is somewhat reminiscent of "proper" Southern food, lacking some of the things that are most distinctive—okra, greens, sweet potatoes, sweet tea, black-eyed peas, etc. They may occasionally have some of these things, but they aren't staples. (Although they do have fried chicken, chicken and dumplings, country fried steak...)

I've lived in Ohio for most of my life (but I was raised on Southern food) and it only just now occured to me to think of Bob Evans as Southern. They call it "homestyle". Southern Ohio does have some Southern tendancies, but it's still Ohio. [[User:Aranel|Aranel ("Sarah")]] 01:24, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * Should it be reworded or just taken out? We can afford to take it out. Mike H 01:35, Oct 7, 2004 (UTC)
 * I would say just take it out unless there are more people who think it's worth mentioning, in which case it can be added back in. (It may be. I don't know what perceptions are of Bob Evans outside of Ohio.) [[User:Aranel|Aranel ("Sarah")]] 01:40, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Feel free to take it out...but if you can think of a better one, please add it in its place. I think we need another good example. Mike H 01:53, Oct 7, 2004 (UTC)

Photo
We need more photos than the Waffle House sign. The new COTW is on Sunday. The article looks pretty good, but we mos def need more pictures. Mike H 05:11, Oct 8, 2004 (UTC)

 * We need to slow down on the COTW. We have fewer people than the main COTW; maybe we should move it to every two weeks. --Golbez 16:46, Oct 8, 2004 (UTC)

 * I think two weeks is too long. Besides, then it stops being a Collaboration of the Week, doesn't it? :-/ Mike H 07:45, Oct 8, 2004 (UTC)

 * COTFortnight? :) --Golbez 16:46, Oct 8, 2004 (UTC)

Here's a Public Domain image of a woman preparing poke salad. I'm not sure where you would place it, but in my experience wiht featured articles having some sort of historic perspective helps. It would also help to have a picture of someone preparing a dish in additon to a picture of the finished staple dish like fried chicken. -JCarriker 16:58, Oct 8, 2004 (UTC)

 * FYI, it's poke salat, not poke salad.

Pie
I'm not a native, but I like pie. What is shoo fly pie? Maurreen 03:32, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * It is an old time pie that is made from Molases. They call it Shoo fly because when they used to set them out to cool someone had to sit with it to keep the flies away because it smelled so sweet.  (maybe you catch more flies with shoo fly pie than with vinegar :P ) Kayellen 14:21, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * I editted shoofly pie out of the article. As a person of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry with a deep interest in that culture, I feel that shoofly pie is out of place listed amung "traditionally southern pies"... Shoofly pie is of Pennsylvania Dutch origin, and nearly all of my Southern friends have never heard of shoofly pie before. PAdutch 05:36, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)

What about the English?
The page lists the most important influences on Southern cuisine... What about the English? The settlers of the South were English protestants, and up to the Civil War era immigration to the South was very minimal, meaning that the white population is or at least was predominantly Anglo-Saxon. Surely they, as the base population, must have had the largest influence of any group? PAdutch 06:08, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Famous Amos
The article mentions Famous Amos. Is there another Famous Amos aside from the cookie company (which is nationwide, LA-based, and not southern)? -- Kaszeta 21:47, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Famous Amos is also the name of a Southern restaurant chain. Apparently it only exists in northern Florida. I was born and raised on those things and I thought it was bigger than that. Mike H 23:31, Feb 25, 2005 (UTC)

New to Wikipedia
Hi there. I'm very new to Wikipedia and am looking for a place I can contribute. Since I've lived all my 50 years in the "Deep South" and have a great interest in the varied cuisines, I think I may be able to contribute to this article. I do question some of the statements in the third paragraph regarding the origins of deep fat frying and would like to research that some more. Also, food preservation methods play a large role in the development of regional Southern cuisines.

Could I have a go at further developing this topic? I'm unsure exactly how to begin and don't want to risk stepping on toes my first try. Thanks for any feedback. NanaLana 20:25, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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Yeah, I'm new myself so I don't know the proper place to post this. So here goes.

I believe that the article contains two errors: "Canning included green beans (half-runners, snaps) as well as shelly beans (green beans that were more mature and had ripe beans along with the green husks)"

1.) Half-runners are a variety of beans, but snaps are not. 2.) Shelly beans are not "green beans that are more mature and have ripe beans along with the green husks". Also, I have never heard anyone call them "shelly beans". They are called "shellies".

When green beans are harvested, some are shelled, and some are not. The less mature beans are broken ("snapped") into sections a little less than an inch long prior to cooking. They are not shelled.

The shells of the more mature beans are too tough to be palatable, so those beans are shelled (instead of being snapped). That's why they are called "shellies" -- because they are shelled. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.235.37.151 (talk) 05:53, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

Move
Okay, I hope someone is watching this page. I propose to move this to Cuisine of the U.S. Southern states, its proper name. The adjective form (Southern) shouldn't come first, and the convention is almost always to have it this way. Objections? --Dmcdevit 01:10, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
 * WikiProject U.S. regions is about to change its suggested article titles for regions. Under the new guidilines Cuisine of the Southern United States, would be more apropriate as the region will be moved to Southern United States under the proposed guidlines. -JCarriker 01:33, May 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh. In fact, I thought that was a better name, but only checked out the region article to see what the convention was, and saw the "US". I agree with Cuisine of the Southern United States. --Dmcdevit 01:43, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

Page Move
According to new policy approved by WikiProject U.S. regions this page should be moved to Cuisine of the Southern United States, its main article has already been moved to its new title. Thanks. -JCarriker 12:34, May 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Go ahead. Actually this was discussed before but no one got around to doing the change. --Dmcdevit 23:14, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

Soul Food?
I'm not sure I understand the motivations behind removing the blurb about soul food in this latest edit. I suppose I could see how it might offend a sensitive individual, but it definitely goes along with my observations growing up in rural North Carolina. --MalkavianX 19:41, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

 * I took out one sentence that was misplaced in a paragraph about regional differences. The topic is fully covered in its own subsection. I certainly did not remove anything to avoid offending someone.  However, this article is not of good quality overall, is poorly referenced, and full of opinion. -THB 21:35, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Boudin
Under section 2.1.1, "Cajun Cuisine", you should mention the 'boudin' sausage. When you cook gumbo you often take a cooked boudin (or 'boudain') and slice it into chunks into the stew, slicing on the bias (this exposes more meat surface area to the rich flavors of the gumbo).

Good hot gumbo, nice chunks of boudin, your Abita Amber on the side and foot-stompin' Zydeco music what more is there to life, n'est-ce pas?

In another Cajun dish called "red-beans-n-rice", sliced boudin is also added and you have a very nice spicy dish with a hearty meat base. I'm getting hungry just thinking about it!

The boudin is another import from New Brunswick's "Acadian" region. It is a sausage that goes back 200 years in the Canadian Maritimes. A variation involves adding cow's blood (like the British "blood pudding"), but that is not the true boudin.

Can anybody add a sentence or two on this? --Atikokan (talk) 05:31, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Correlation to Obesity?
Don't get me wrong I love Southern food and love to deep fry and use real butter (Margarine is blasphemy) but it almost goes without saying such food is generally pretty high in fat and cholesterol and so it might be nice to discuss the health implications of Southern food in a section. The south is usually associated with some of the highest obesity rates in the country so I believe it to relevant. Still we are all going to die sometime might as well enjoy some good food along the way. 24.56.37.14 (talk) 04:30, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

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I have never seen it happen. 84.23.155.84 (talk) 19:51, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

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Both races?
As of the May 30, 2017, the first sentence of the fourth paragraph of the section titled Traditional Southern Dishes reads as follows:
 * "Southern meals, especially among the poor of both races (and historically among slaves), sometimes consist only of vegetables, with a little meat (especially salt pork) used in cooking but with no meat dish served."

There is no previous mention of which two races the author is referring to, nor are there citations to support any of the assertions made in the sentence. If the author is implying that the population of the South consists of only two ethnic groups (presumably "black" and "white") and referring to the poor of both groups (i.e., all groups), then why mention race at all? Instead of saying "among the poor of both races", why not just say "among the poor"? Also, I think it's fair to assume that slaves were, by definition, already included amongst "the poor". I suggest the following edit:
 * "Southern meals, especially among the poor of both races (and historically among slaves), sometimes consist only of vegetables, with a little meat (especially salt pork) used in cooking but with no meat dish served."

Feedback?

Metrowestjp (talk) 16:22, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

 * After almost two months with no feedback, I'm going ahead and making the change. Metrowestjp (talk) 18:04, 23 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Notice the article is tagged that additional sources are needed for verification. An edit based on a string of suppositions is no reason mprovement—citations to WP:RS are required. I've edited to reduce the the unsupported assertions, and will try to do some rewriting, adding citations as necessary. Southern cuisine is inextricably bound up with slavery, yet the article hardly mentions its role. Neonorange (talk) 04:26, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

The edits I made were in the By Region section, I added some dishes that are popular in each of the Southern states. MauricioMauricio Perez Gonzalez (talk) 05:24, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

B-class article?
Cuisine of the Southern United States has a history of collecting WP:OR and bad citations (Google Books snippets and refs that fail to support the text—either ab initio or through textural changes made without checking that the refs are sill adequate). I've taken a quick look at three sections—1.1 Barbecue, 3.1 Louisiana Creole cuisine, and 3.2 Lowcountry cuisine. The barbecue section mentions only one type, mayonaise-based white sauce on smoked chicken in Alabama. The Creole cuisine section is unreffed. The Lowcountry section is OR. I tagged and modified the latter two sections, but the barbecue section is hopelessly sparse. A thorough cleanup is required. I am too hungry to do more tonight. — Neonorange (Phil) 04:56, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

Really though...
It's just bad food from other places with mayo slopped over it 94.193.249.13 (talk) 10:46, 15 August 2023 (UTC)


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Talk:International Simultaneous Policy Organization

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This page was previously the "Simultaneous Policy Organization" - I moved it to match both the organization's name and links on the Simultaneous policy page. --Cje 08:08, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)

The original article was strongly POV - a brief ISPO manifesto. In my rewrite I made some of the statements from the article quotations and attributed them to the ISPO. I think this is accurate as the the name John Bunzl with his title "Director International Simultaneous Policy Organisation (ISPO)" appeared at the bottom as a signature.I have not contacted Mr Bunzl to confirm that he wrote the article, but it certainly seems consistent with the ISPO's website.

Finally, I removed some material as it seemed to be unnecessary overlap with Simultaneous policy

--Cje 09:12, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Self-published sources
Nearly this entire article is based upon self-published sources. I believe its author User:Fountain Posters to be a paid editor.24.22.129.215 (talk) 04:09, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
 * [Sigh] Now I've heard everything. Sorry, so long that I've forgotten, lets see: Global Public Media, Guardian, TED are all referenced sources. Please be my guest to check to see the articles I have edited. From the top of my head I'd guess that 99.99% of subjects that I have edited over the years have little to no money. So I'll take your suggestion as a backhanded compliment. I must get a life and stop editing; so please, more suggestions like this - it really puts me off editing (and therefore may help me get one). Fountain Posters (talk) 04:51, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

Meaningless without linked page, which is now gone
This article is uninformative on its own because it never explains what Simultaneous Policy is. That was presumably fine when there was a separate Wikipedia article called "Simultaneous Policy" (as two links in this article imply), but unfortunately that article seems to have been deleted because now those links just redirect back to this page. Without such an explanation, this article is so circular as to be meaningless. Can someone restore the deleted article or add explanatory content to this one? 153.31.112.21 (talk) 12:58, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
 * You are right, so I copied text from old article  "Sim...Pol" to this one. They should not be separate articles at this time. (To access the old aricle and it's history, clink on the line that says "redirected from"... ) Some reduncy needs to be reduced, have at it. GangofOne (talk) 21:09, 14 July 2015 (UTC)

Election and voting-related organizations & Electoral reform groups
This page is listed under Election and voting-related organizations & Electoral reform groups, however nothing in the text supports that. --82.15.89.151 (talk) 12:13, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

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Michael Erush

Michael Erush (born January 24, 1983) is a former professional soccer player and current soccer coach. He is the Head Men's Soccer Coach at California State University-Los Angeles.

He was inducted into the Birmingham Community Charter High School Athletic Hall of Fame, and the Loyola Marymount University Athletics Hall of Fame. Erush won a silver medal with Team USA at the 2005 Maccabiah Games in Israel.

In Major League Soccer, he played for the Colorado Rapids (2004), Chivas USA (2005), and Miami FC (2006). Erush played internationally with Hapoel Ashkelon F.C. in Israel, Lombard-Papa TFC in Hungary, and Olimpia Bălţi in Moldova. He was formerly a coach of the Loyola Marymount Lions soccer team.

Early life and personal
Erush is the son of Russian immigrants; his father is Lazar Erush. He was born in North Hollywood, California, and raised in Van Nuys, California, and Sherman Oaks, California. He attended North Hollywood High School as well as Birmingham High School.

He earned a bachelor's degree from Loyola Marymount University, College of Business Administration (Business Management; '03), and an M.A. in Guidance and Counseling from Loyola Marymount University ('10).

On May 2, 2015, Erush proposed to Ally Siegel. The couple got married on July 16, 2016. They live in Studio City, California, with their two daughters.

Youth career
As a youth player, Erush played for the United States U-14, U-16, and U-18 National teams, and was team captain of the U-14 and U-16 teams from 1996 through 2000, and was part of the USMNT pool in 2001, but was never called up to the senior roster.

Erush was honored as the 1999 Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles Daily News All-Region Player of the Year, and was a 2000 NSCAA High School All-America selection from Birmingham Community Charter High School ('00). He was team captain as a junior and senior, three-time All-Northwest Conference, and two-time All-Valley and All-West Valley League, as well as All-America honorable mention as a senior. He was inducted into the Birmingham Community Charter Athletic Hall of Fame.

College
Erush was a Loyola Marymount University Lions men's soccer standout, a four-time All-West Coast Conference (WCC) selection (2000, 2001, 2002), was named First Team in 2003, and served as team captain during his junior and senior seasons. He was named First Team National Soccer Coaches Association of America All Far West Selection in 2002, and was named First Team All-America by the Jewish Sports Review in 2003. During his last three years, he helped the Lions advance to the NCAA Tournament, and in 2003 finished in a first-round bye and national seeding (#13) in the postseason. He was inducted into the Loyola Marymount Athletics Hall of Fame in 2017.

Professional
Erush played in Major League Soccer for the Colorado Rapids (2004), Chivas USA (2005), and Miami FC (2006). He played internationally for Hapoel Ashkelon F.C. in Israel, Lombard-Papa TFC in Hungary, and Olimpia Bălţi in Moldova.

International
In 2005 Erush competed on Team USA in the 2005 Maccabiah Games in Israel, where the team went on to win a silver medal.

Coaching
In January 2007 Erush was hired as an assistant coach to Paul Krumpe with the men's Loyola Marymount Lions soccer team at Loyola Marymount University. In 2014, he was promoted to associate head coach, and remained in that position through 2018.

Erush, having played with the amateur Hollywood United team in Los Angeles for several years, was hired as the first-ever head coach of the Hollywood United Hitmen in the USL Premier Development League in 2009. He moved to become head coach of the Orange County Blue Star in 2010. That year he also headed up the USA team that competed at the Maccabiah Australia International Games, winning the silver medal. From 2009 to 2014 Erush also coached the South Bay Force and the Fram Soccer Club.

From 2011 to 2015, Erush was a United States Soccer Federation Southern California Scout, and evaluated, developed, and scouted youth players for the U.S. national teams. In 2014, he joined the L.A. Galaxy Academy Youth Staff.

In December 2015, Erush served as the soccer Head Coach for the Maccabiah Pan Am games in Santiago, Chile. He served as Head Coach for soccer for Team USA for the 2017 Maccabiah Games in Israel.

Since 2018 Erush has been the Head Men's Soccer Coach of the Cal State Los Angeles Golden Eagles at California State University-Los Angeles. The coaching staff that he was part of was named the 2021 Coaching Staff of the Year by the United Soccer Coaches.

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Hungarian Actuarial Society

The Hungarian Actuarial Society was founded in 1991 to represent actuaries in Hungary. , it has about 140 members, 80 of which are qualified (full) members. It is a full member of the International Actuarial Association and the Groupe Consultatif.

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Luksusowa

Luksusowa Vodka (Wódka luksusowa) is a brand of vodka from Poland that is distilled from potatoes. The Polish word luksusowa means "luxury"; thus in English-language markets, it is also referred to as Luksusowa Luxury Vodka.

Luksusowa has been in continuous production since 1928,  making it one of the oldest Polish vodkas. When Poland's boundaries were moved westward after World War II, Luksusowa's production was moved to its current site in Zielona Góra. According to its producer, Luksusowa accounts for approximately 10% of Poland's vodka market.

In 2010, W.J. Deutsch & Sons, Ltd. became the exclusive United States importer for Luksusowa.

Luksusowa vodkas are currently available in these varieties:
 * Clear (traditional)
 * Black (50% alcohol by volume, compared to 40% in the other varieties)
 * Citrus (lemon-flavored)
 * Wild Berry ("blackberries, raspberries, blueberries, cranberries, and a touch of wild cherry")

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Actuarial Association of Europe

The Actuarial Association of Europe (AAE) was established in 1978 as Groupe Consultatif des Associations d'Actuaires des Pays des Communautés Européennes (GC), renamed to Groupe Consultatif Actuariel Européen in 2002, and given its present name on January 1, 2014.

Its purpose is to provide advice and opinions to the various organisations of the European Union – the Commission, the Council of Ministers, the European Parliament, EIOPA and their various committees – on actuarial issues in European legislation. The AAE currently has 37 member associations in 35 European countries, representing over 20,000 actuaries. Advice and comments provided by the AAE on behalf of the European actuarial profession are totally independent of industry interests.

Member associations
Full members:
 * Austrian Actuarial Society
 * Institute of Actuaries of Belgium
 * Bulgarian Actuarial Society
 * Channel Islands Actuarial Association
 * Croatian Actuarial Association
 * Cyprus Association of Actuaries
 * Czech Society of Actuaries
 * Danish Society of Actuaries
 * Estonian Actuarial Society
 * Actuarial Society of Finland
 * Institute of Actuaries of France
 * German Actuarial Society
 * Hellenic Actuarial Society (Greece)
 * Hungarian Actuarial Society
 * Society of Icelandic Actuaries
 * Society of Actuaries in Ireland
 * National Council of Actuaries (Italy)
 * Italian Institute of Actuaries
 * Latvian Actuarial Association
 * Lithuanian Actuarial Society
 * Luxembourg Actuarial Association
 * Royal Actuarial Society of the Netherlands
 * Norwegian Society of Actuaries
 * Polish Society of Actuaries
 * Portuguese Institute of Actuaries
 * Romanian Actuarial Association
 * Slovak Society of Actuaries
 * Slovenian Association of Actuaries
 * Spanish Institute of Actuaries
 * Catalan Actuarial Association (Spain - Catalunya)
 * Swedish Society of Actuaries
 * Swiss Association of Actuaries
 * Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (United Kingdom)

Observer members:
 * Malta Actuarial Society
 * Actuarial Society of Turkey
 * Serbian Actuarial Association
 * Society of Actuaries of Ukraine

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Basing House

Basing House was a Tudor palace and castle in the village of Old Basing in the English county of Hampshire. It once rivalled Hampton Court Palace in its size and opulence. Today only parts of the basement or lower ground floor, plus the foundations and earthworks, remain. The ruins are a Grade II listed building and a scheduled monument.

History
Basing House was built from 1531 as a new palace for William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester, treasurer to King Edward VI, Queen Mary I and Queen Elizabeth I. The nearby 'Great Barn' was completed in 1534, just before a visit from Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.

In its final form, Basing House comprised two linked houses. The "Old House" replaced the keep of an older ringwork castle, so was located within a defensive ring of earthworks and walls, whilst the slightly later "New House" was located outside the defences. A bridge and gateway linked the two across and through the defences, a link that was to prove fatal in the final battle for the fortress. The "New House" 'annex' in itself had approximately 360 rooms and was built primarily to accommodate the multitude of people that accompanied royalty when they visited.

Edward VI visited on 7 September 1552 and went on to Donnington Castle after three days. Elizabeth I came in August 1560 and so liked the house and entertainment that she said she would have married Lord Treasurer Paulet if he had been a younger man. She returned in August 1569. In September 1601 she entertained the French ambassador, the Duke de Biron, at the expense of the Marquess of Winchester. She hunted in the park with visiting French noblemen and killed 20 deer, and knighted 11 men. King James visited in August 1603. Anne of Denmark stayed in September 1603. There was dancing, and the elderly Earl of Nottingham was betrothed to the much younger Margaret Stewart.

On taking the title in February 1629, the 5th Marquess downsized, moved the family out and waited until returns from his extensive estates all over England allowed him to start restorations. For the first half of the 1630s, the house was closed and the windows boarded over after the family relocated to its other houses. The 4th Marquess's entertainments almost bankrupted the family, maintenance of the house fell behind, and the design of such a large brick-built (and somewhat experimental) complex after one hundred years had its problems with dry and wet rot, broken windows, leaking roofs, and keeping the various wings heated.

At the time of the outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642, the 5th Marquess. John Paulet, was a supporter of King Charles I. As a consequence, parliamentary forces invested Basing House on three occasions, with the Royalists breaking the first two sieges.

The final siege started in August 1645 when Colonel John Dalbier, with 800 troops, took up position around the walls. The garrison held out, despite further reinforcements to the attacking force, until Oliver Cromwell arrived with a heavy siege-train. By 14 October 1645, the New House had been taken and the defences of the Old House breached. The final storming took place across the link from the New House. Many valuable goods were carried off, and a fire destroyed the building, as well as killing several priests who had taken refuge in the cellar. From the first firing of the guns, the assault was over in forty-five minutes, with the fires raging for up to nine hours after the event.

To send a message to other Royalist supporters, Cromwell returned to London and there was a Parliamentary decree issued that anyone could take from the estate, and therefore local villagers were encouraged to remove bricks from Basing House, and these materials were reused in homes in the surrounding area. While the local populace would sometimes be used to dismantle buildings, it was unusual to encourage them to make use of the materials. There is archaeological evidence that the materials of the house were arranged into types for systematic reclaim, rather than a 'free-for-all'.

John Paulet had his estates confiscated and was sent to the Tower of London on a charge of high treason, which was later dropped, and the site of Basing House was returned to him by Charles II. His son Charles Paulet, 1st Duke of Bolton, became wealthy again as a consequence of his support for William of Orange during the Glorious Revolution. This wealth was used to demolish what was left of Basing House and to build nearby a new house at Hackwood. The prior history of the area on which this house stands is unclear.

Location
Basing House is located in the village of Old Basing, approximately one mile east of the centre of the town of Basingstoke, in the north of the English county of Hampshire. The house is situated close to the upper reaches of the River Loddon. Operated and funded by Hampshire Cultural Trust since 2014, the extensive ruins and gardens are open to the public. Parts of the basement or lower ground floor remain, including the wine cellar, brick doorways and archways, bread ovens, salt alcoves, side rooms with surviving vaulted roofs, a vaulted tunnel, and even some original plaster and mortar. Access is by a riverside walk from a car park several hundred yards away. A UK Heritage Lottery Fund scheme has supported significant upgrades and renovations in recent years. The former Basingstoke Canal (1788-1910) ran around Basing House and through other parts of Old Basing.

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Taylor Graham

Taylor Graham (born June 3, 1980) is a former American soccer player.

Youth and college
Graham attended Rio Americano High School and played five years of college soccer at Stanford University, registering as a walk-on his freshman year of 1998, and only appearing in two games in 1999. After appearing in 18 games his sophomore season, Graham started every possible game his final two, winning first team All-Pac-10 his senior year, as he led the Cardinal to an appearance in the NCAA College Cup.

Professional
After graduating from Stanford, Graham was drafted 33rd overall in the 2003 MLS SuperDraft by the Kansas City Wizards. Graham was signed to a developmental contract, making two appearances and playing a total of ten minutes. In his second season Graham was given significantly more playing time, playing as both a right back and central defender. After a season in the USL First Division when he played every minute for the Seattle Sounders, led his team to the title, and was named USL Defender of the Year, Graham was acquired by the MetroStars, now New York Red Bulls. He was released midway through the 2007 season and signed with his former club Seattle Sounders. He then signed with Seattle Sounders FC, a continuation of the Sounders in Major League Soccer. On May 26, 2010, he had his first appearance of the 2010 season in a friendly against Boca Juniors of Argentina, playing the full 90 minutes and putting up a solid performance.

Graham announced his retirement on December 2, 2011, after he was dropped from the roster by the Seattle Sounders.

International
Graham represented Puerto Rico in three international friendlies (including the team's first win in 14 years) during early 2008. The national team coach Colin Clarke had misunderstood the requirements to play for Puerto Rican national side following a change to the eligibility criteria.

Previously, all U.S. citizens were eligible for Puerto Rico national teams, but now the player pool is restricted to players who have lived on the island for at least five years, meaning that Graham is no longer eligible for the Puerto Rico national team per federation rules.

Kansas City Wizards

 * Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup (1): 2004
 * Major League Soccer Western Conference Championship (1): 2004

Seattle Sounders

 * USL First Division Championship (2): 2005, 2007
 * USL First Division Commissioner's Cup (1): 2007

Seattle Sounders FC

 * Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup (3): 2009, 2010, 2011

Television
Graham appeared on The Price Is Right on June 24, 2009. In the showcase he spoke on one of the prizes which was a vacation to Seattle, to go to any 2 home games of Seattle Sounders and watch them play.

Personal life
After retiring as a player, Taylor Graham became Director of Business Operations for his former club, Seattle Sounders FC.

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Wikiprojects?
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Protests
There is a disproportionate number of mentions of this song's association with the relatively minor 2011 protests. For such a classic piece of Chinese culture it is bizarre a supposedly neutral source would put such an emphasis on pro-US ideology. Constructive criticism, wikifriends. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.253.94.182 (talk) 15:37, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

Old discussion
For an October 2004 deletion debate over this page see Votes for deletion/Mo Li Hua

Could someone please translate the lyrics? I'm horrible at Chinese... =| --Andylkl 08:31, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * I could try a literal translation. Here goes:

好一朵美丽的茉莉花 Beautiful jasmine

好一朵美丽的茉莉花 Beautiful jasmine

芬芳美丽满枝桠 Fragrant, pretty, stems full of buds

又香又白人人夸 Sweet-smelling, white, everyone praises you

让我来将你摘下 Let me pluck you

送给别人家 And present you to someone [possibly "a friend"]

茉莉花呀茉莉花 Jasmine, oh jasmine

 * I'm not very sure what 桠 (third line) means, it's not in any of the dictionaries I've checked. In context it seems like shoots or buds.

 * Still, the translation needs a lot of work. Maycontainpeanuts 11:26, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * Um yeah, it's kinda odd to translate.
 * It sounds totally incoherent in english as Maycontainpeanuts would have pointed out - his translation is already quite accurate, however literal

Fiveless 11:39, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC)

 * All right, edited your translation a bit to this:

好一朵美丽的茉莉花 A beautiful jasmine flower

好一朵美丽的茉莉花 A beautiful jasmine flower

芬芳美丽满枝桠 Fragrant and pretty, stems full of buds

又香又白人人夸 Sweet-smelling and white, everyone praises

让我来将你摘下 Let me pluck you down

送给别人家 And present to someone

茉莉花呀茉莉花 Jasmine flower, oh jasmine flower

performance at the 2004 Athens Olympics
A misconception goes that this song was performed by the 12 girl band, rather this was not. The 14 girls who performed this song in Athens were Beijing University students, not the actual 12 girl band. --24.86.74.191 (talk) 22:07, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

 * Checked my dictionary, "桠" is indeed buds... If there's no objections, I think we'll be using this translations (however arkward it may seem), thanks for helping out! =) --Andylkl 18:13, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * Hold on a sec, found a better translation through a google search, suppose we can use it?

Jasmine, Jasmine, Oh so fair! Jasmine, Jasmine, Oh so fair! Blossoming and budding here and there, Pure and fregrant all declare. Let me pluck you with tender and care, Your loveliness with all to share. Jasmine, Jasmine, Oh so fair!

--Andylkl 18:33, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Lead
Since the content about recent importance and events have been removed from lead twice over the past half a year, let me state here the rationale for justification. WP:LEAD states that the article's content should be summarized in the lead, and the lead is not too bloated for a paragraph dedicated to summarizing this content, which accounts to close to a half of the article anyway. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 18:23, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
 * A summary should summarize the whole historical development of the song, which has been around since the 18th century. Instead the paragraph is about a few events of the last 10 years.  That is Recentism.  At most, even if all these events should be mentioned, it should be a maximum of one sentence for the lead.--Sevilledade (talk) 05:53, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Further, although they all share the same title, there are several different versions of this composition, with different melody and lyrics that has been developed throughout centuries. Can you actually specify which is used for the Summer Olympics, which is used during the Expo, and which is used during the Jasmine Revolution?--Sevilledade (talk) 08:08, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
 * We are not an encyclopedia of history only, recent events can be important - and the song gained fame for them. Feel free to expand on history, and the lead, but the recent use seems notable enough for a mention in the lead. And certainly, let's stress the existence of various versions. If you disagree, I'd suggest we seek a WP:3O on this. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 17:25, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I trimmed the lead, making it all one sentence. You still haven't addressed Recentism? The "song gained fame for them"?  As if it wasn't famous before?  You need to illustrate with evidence that the song only became well-known due to these current events.--Sevilledade (talk) 22:12, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

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Luke Vercollone

Luke Vercollone (born April 4, 1982) is an American former professional soccer player who played as a midfielder for Colorado Springs Switchbacks in the United Soccer League.

Youth and College
Born in Norwalk, Connecticut, Vercollone grew up in Pembroke, Massachusetts and attended Silver Lake Regional High School where he was a letterman in soccer and wrestling, and won All-Conference honors and All-State honors. He played college soccer for Seton Hall, where he was named to the All-Big East first team his senior season, finishing his career at with 11 goals and 24 assists.

Vercollone also played for the Cape Cod Crusaders of the USL Premier Development League, helping the team to consecutive PDL Championship titles in 2002 and 2003.

Professional
Vercollone was drafted 42nd overall in the 2004 MLS SuperDraft by the Columbus Crew, but was not offered a contract by the team. Instead, he was picked up by New England Revolution and signed to a developmental contract, but saw practically no time on the field his rookie season, playing a total of 2 minutes in two games. The Revolution released him to waivers following the 2005 season in which he played a total of 35 minutes in 3 games.

On April 10, 2006, Vercollone joined the Charleston Battery for the 2006 USL First Division season. In two seasons with the Battery, he made 66 appearances, scoring three goals and six assists for 12 points overall. In January 2008 Vercollone signed for the Richmond Kickers of the USL Second Division, and was part of the Kickers team which won the 2009 USL Second Division championship. On January 14, 2010, Richmond announced the re-signing of Vercollone for the 2010 season.

Vercollone re-signed for a fourth season with Richmond on November 10, 2010. The club signed him for the 2012 season on September 22, 2011.

Colorado Springs Switchbacks
On October 19, 2014, it was announced that Vercollone was the first ever signing for new United Soccer League club Colorado Springs Switchbacks. Vercollone was also announced as the team's first captain.

Vercollone ended his first season with the Colorado Springs Switchbacks with 14 goals and 9 assists.

On October 26, 2015, it was announced that Vercollone was in the United Soccer League All-League Team.

On December 4, 2015, it was announced that Vercollone would return to United Soccer League club Colorado Springs Switchbacks for the 2016 United Soccer League season. On March 6, 2016, Vercollone scored 2 goals in a 3–1 victory against Colorado State-Pueblo University in a preseason game. On March 12, 2016, Vercollone scored in a 3–2 preseason victory against UCCS. On March 15, 2016, Vercollone scored in a 4–0 preseason win against Ventura County Fusion.

On October 15, 2018, following the conclusion of his fourth season with the Colorado Springs Switchbacks, Vercollone announced his retirement from professional soccer in an exclusive interview with Last Word on Soccer's Mark Turner. Vercollone concluded his career in Colorado Springs being the first player to represent the club more than 100 times, and leading all-time assists and goal scoring (28 goals, all competitions).

Honors
Cape Cod Crusaders
 * USL Premier Development League: 2003

Richmond Kickers
 * USL Second Division: 2009

Colorado Springs Switchbacks
 * United Soccer League First Team All-League: 2015

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Midge

A midge is any small fly, including species in several families of non-mosquito nematoceran Diptera. Midges are found (seasonally or otherwise) on practically every land area outside permanently arid deserts and the frigid zones. Some midges, such as many Phlebotominae (sand fly) and Simuliidae (black fly), are vectors of various diseases. Many others play useful roles as prey for insectivores, such as various frogs and swallows. Others are important as detritivores, and form part of various nutrient cycles. The habits of midges vary greatly from species to species, though within any particular family, midges commonly have similar ecological roles.

Examples of families that include species of midges include:

 * Blephariceridae, net-winged midges
 * Cecidomyiidae, gall midges
 * Ceratopogonidae, biting midges (also known as no-see-ums or punkies in North America and sandflies in Australia)
 * Chaoboridae, phantom midges
 * Chironomidae, non-biting midges (also known as muckleheads, muffleheads or lake flies in the Great Lakes region of North America)
 * Deuterophlebiidae, mountain midges
 * Dixidae, meniscus midges
 * Scatopsidae, dung midges
 * Thaumaleidae, solitary midges

Examples
The Ceratopogonidae (biting midges) include serious blood-sucking pests, feeding both on humans and other mammals. Some of them spread the livestock diseases known as blue tongue and African horse sickness – other species though, are at least partly nectar feeders, and some even suck insect bodily fluids.

Many midges are known for having symbiotic relationships with many other organisms. These can be commensal, parasitic or mutualistic relationships. Many of the commensal relationships are found within the family Chironomidae.

Other ceratopogonid midges are major pollinators of Theobroma cacao (cocoa tree). Having natural pollinators has beneficial effects in both agricultural and biological products because it increases crop yield and also density of predators of the midges (still beneficial to all parties). The term "midge" is a vague term that refers to a large and diverse group of organisms. Although many are known as "bloodsuckers," there are many different roles that they play in their respective ecosystems. There is, for example, no objective basis for excluding the Psychodidae from the list, and some of them (or midge-like taxa commonly included in the family, such as Phlebotomus) are blood-sucking pests and disease vectors.

Most midges, apart from the gall midges (Cecidomyiidae), are aquatic during the larval stage. Some Cecidomyiidae (e.g., the Hessian fly) are considered significant pests of some plant species. The larvae of some Chironomidae contain hemoglobin and are sometimes referred to as bloodworms.

Non-biting midge flies are commonly considered a minor nuisance around artificially-created bodies of water.

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Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (album)

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid is the twelfth studio album and first soundtrack album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on July 13, 1973, by Columbia Records for the Sam Peckinpah film of the same name. Dylan himself appeared in the film as the character "Alias". The soundtrack consists mainly of instrumental music and was inspired by the movie itself. The album includes "Knockin' on Heaven's Door", which became a trans-Atlantic Top 20 hit.

Certified gold by RIAA, Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid reached  in the US and   in the UK.

Filming of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid scriptwriter Rudy Wurlitzer was a previous acquaintance of Dylan's, and asked him to provide a couple of songs for the movie. Dylan performed "Billy" for director Peckinpah, who found the performance very moving and offered Dylan an acting part on the spot. The role he ended up getting was a character named Alias. In November 1972, Dylan and his family moved to Durango, Mexico, where filming took place. Filming lasted from late 1972 to early 1973.

Recording
Dylan's first session for the Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid soundtrack was on January 20, 1973 at CBS Discos Studios in Mexico City. The only song from that day that was included on the album was "Billy 7"; also recorded were multiple other takes of "Billy", and the outtakes "Under Turkey", "Billy Surrenders", "And He's Killed Me Too", "Goodbye Holly" and "Pecos Blues". The following month, Dylan recorded two days at Burbank Studios in Burbank, California. The rest of the album's songs were recorded, as well as the outtakes "Sweet Amarillo" and "Rock Me Mama".

Outtakes
The Mexico City session produced three notable outtakes: "Peco's Blues", an instrumental based on the traditional "What Does The Deep Sea Say?", the song "Goodbye Holly" and "Billy Surrenders". All three tracks were rejected but eventually bootlegged and unofficially released as Peco's Blues Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid Outtakes in 1994. Of the 24 tracks written and performed by Bob Dylan on the bootleg album, only 10 were released on the final studio album. The remaining 14 songs have not been officially released.

Legacy
In February 1973, during the second of the Burbank sessions, Bob Dylan recorded 19 songs for the album. Among them were "Sweet Amarillo" and "Rock Me Mama," recorded twice as "Rock Me Mama (1)" and "Rock Me Mama (2)". According to Ketch Secor of the Nashville band Old Crow Medicine Show, Bob Dylan attributed the lyrics of "Rock Me Mama" to Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup who in turn attributed them to Big Bill Broonzy.

Both "Rock Me Mama" and "Sweet Amarillo" were eventually completed and recorded by the Nashville band Old Crow Medicine Show, who credited Bob Dylan as co-writer. "Wagon Wheel" was released in 2004 (and subsequently covered by many other artists, including Darius Rucker) and "Sweet Amarillo" was released in 2014.

Critical reception
Most critics at the time responded unfavorably. Robert Christgau graded it a "C" in Creem, described the album as "two middling Dylan songs, four good original Bobby voices, and a lot of Schmylan music". Jon Landau wrote in Rolling Stone that "it is every bit as inept, amateurish and embarrassing as Self Portrait. And it has all the earmarks of a deliberate courting of commercial disaster, a flirtation that is apparently part of an attempt to free himself from previously imposed obligations derived from his audience."

The album spawned a significant hit in "Knockin' on Heaven's Door", which would be covered by acts such as Eric Clapton and Guns N' Roses.

Legacy
After Peckinpah completed his own cut of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, MGM re-cut the film without his input, removing several significant scenes and re-shuffling most of Dylan's music in the process. Peckinpah's film was released to mixed reviews. Years later, critical re-evaluation of Peckinpah's film would lead many to regard it as one of his major works, a revisionist view aided by the restoration of Peckinpah's original cut in 1984.

After witnessing firsthand Peckinpah's battles with MGM, Dylan had his own problems with Columbia Records. After years of minimal activity, Dylan had lost Columbia's patience, and when negotiations for a renewed contract began in 1972, the label (except for Clive Davis) had little interest in being generous. "Early in 1973 I finally did conclude negotiations for a new contract with Bob," wrote Clive Davis in his autobiography. Davis had been a longtime supporter of Dylan's, but he had been the victim of a corporate coup. While finalizing the details of Dylan's contract, Davis was fired by CBS president Arthur Taylor on May 29. Dylan testified on Davis's behalf in a well-publicized civil trial held in July 1975. In the meantime, the incident soured Dylan's relationship with CBS, convincing him to sign with David Geffen's fledgling Los Angeles-based label Asylum Records.

Track listing
All tracks written by Bob Dylan.

Personnel

 * Bob Dylan – guitar, vocals, harmonica
 * Byron Berline – backing vocals, fiddle
 * Fred Katz, Ted Michel – cello
 * Gary Foster – recorder, flute
 * Carl Fortina – harmonium
 * Jolly Roger – banjo
 * Bruce Langhorne – acoustic guitar
 * Roger McGuinn – guitar
 * Carol Hunter – twelve-string guitar, backing vocals
 * Booker T. Jones – bass guitar
 * Terry Paul – bass guitar, backing vocals
 * Jim Keltner – drums
 * Russ Kunkel – tambourine, bongos
 * Priscilla Jones, Brenda Patterson, Donna Weiss – backing vocals

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Flash mob computing

Flash mob computing or flash mob computer is a temporary ad hoc computer cluster running specific software to coordinate the individual computers into one single supercomputer. A flash mob computer is distinct from other types of computer clusters in that it is set up and broken down on the same day or during a similar brief amount of time and involves many independent owners of computers coming together at a central physical location to work on a specific problem and/or social event.

Flash mob computer derives its name from the more general term flash mob which can mean any activity involving many people co-ordinated through virtual communities coming together for brief periods of time for a specific task or event. Flash mob computing is a more specific type of flash mob for the purpose of bringing people and their computers together to work on a single task or event.

History
The first flash mob computer was created on April 3, 2004 at the University of San Francisco using software written at USF called FlashMob (not to be confused with the more general term flash mob).

The event, called FlashMob I, was a success. There was a call for computers on the computer news website Slashdot. An article in The New York Times "Hey, Gang, Let’s Make Our Own Supercomputer" brought a lot of attention to the effort. More than 700 computers were brought to the gym at the University of San Francisco, and were wired to a network donated by Foundry Networks.

At FlashMob I the participants were able to run a benchmark on 256 of the computers, and achieved a peak rate of 180 Gflops (billions of calculations per second), though this computation stopped three quarters of the way due to a node failure.

The best, complete run used 150 computers and resulted in 77 Gflops. FlashMob I was run off a bootable CD-ROM that ran a copy of Morphix Linux, which was only available for the x86 platform.

Despite these efforts, the project was unable to achieve its original goal of running a cluster momentarily fast enough to enter the (November 2003) Top 500 list of supercomputers. The system would have had to provide at least 402.5 Gflops to match a Chinese cluster of 256 Intel Xeon nodes. For comparison, the fastest super computer at the time, Earth Simulator, provided 35,860 Gflops.

Creators of flash mob computing
Pat Miller was a research scientist at a national lab and adjunct professor at USF. His class on Do-It-Yourself Supercomputers evolved into FlashMob I from the original idea of every student bringing a commodity CPU or an Xbox to class to make an evanescent cluster at each meeting. Pat worked on all aspects of the FlashMob software.

Greg Benson, USF Associate Professor of Computer Science, invented the name "flash mob computing", and proposed the first idea of wireless flash mob computers. Greg worked on the core infrastructure of the FlashMob run time environment.

John Witchel (Stuyvesant High School '86) was a USF graduate student in computer science during the spring of 2004. After talking to Greg about the issues of networking a stadium of wireless computers and listening to Pat lecture on what it takes to break the Top 500, John asked the simple question: "Couldn't we just invite people off the street and get enough power to break the Top 500?" And flash mob supercomputing was born. FlashMob I and the FlashMob software was John's master's thesis.

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List of lakes, reservoirs, and dams in Kansas

This is a listing of lakes, reservoirs, and dams located in the State of Kansas. Swimming, fishing, and/or boating are permitted in some of these lakes, but not all.

Lakes and reservoirs by size
The shorelines of Kansas Lakes are mostly in government ownership and open to the public for hunting, fishing, camping, and hiking. Large areas of public land surround most of the lakes.

Sources: Army Corps of Engineers, Bureau of Reclamation, Kansas State Parks. Copan, Hulah, and Kaw lakes extend into Kansas but are mostly in Oklahoma.

Natural lakes

 * Cheyenne Bottoms 15,500 acre of wetland and marsh in 41,000 acre lowland
 * Lake Inman
 * Lake View Lake
 * Quivira National Wildlife Refuge 7,000 acre of wetland and marsh in 22,135 acre refuge

Lakes managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

 * Big Hill Lake
 * Clinton Lake
 * Council Grove Lake
 * El Dorado Lake
 * Elk City Lake
 * Fall River Lake
 * Hillsdale Lake
 * John Redmond Reservoir
 * Kanopolis Lake
 * Marion Reservoir
 * Melvern Lake
 * Milford Lake
 * Perry Lake
 * Pomona Lake
 * Toronto Lake
 * Tuttle Creek Lake
 * Wilson Lake
 * Wabaunsee Lake

Reservoirs managed by the Bureau of Reclamation

 * Cedar Bluff Reservoir
 * Cheney Reservoir
 * Keith Sebelius Lake
 * Kirwin Reservoir
 * Lovewell Reservoir
 * Waconda Lake
 * Webster Reservoir

Reservoirs managed by the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks

 * Farlington Lake
 * Jamestown Lake
 * Neosho State Fishing Lake aka Lake McKinley

Reservoirs managed by other group

 * Lake Jivaro
 * Lake Vaquero

Diversion dams

 * Almena Diversion Dam
 * Woodston Diversion Dam


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Hadda, Afghanistan

Haḍḍa (هډه) is a Greco-Buddhist archeological site located ten kilometers south of the city of Jalalabad, in the Nangarhar Province of eastern Afghanistan.

Hadda is said to have been almost entirely destroyed in the fighting during the civil war in Afghanistan.

Background
Some 23,000 Greco-Buddhist sculptures, both clay and plaster, were excavated in Hadda during the 1930s and the 1970s. The findings combine elements of Buddhism and Hellenism in an almost perfect Hellenistic style.

Although the style of the artifacts is typical of the late Hellenistic 2nd or 1st century BCE, the Hadda sculptures are usually dated (although with some uncertainty), to the 1st century CE or later (i.e. one or two centuries afterward). This discrepancy might be explained by a preservation of late Hellenistic styles for a few centuries in this part of the world. However it is possible that the artifacts actually were produced in the late Hellenistic period.

Given the antiquity of these sculptures and a technical refinement indicative of artists fully conversant with all the aspects of Greek sculpture, it has been suggested that Greek communities were directly involved in these realizations, and that "the area might be the cradle of incipient Buddhist sculpture in Indo-Greek style".

The style of many of the works at Hadda is highly Hellenistic, and can be compared to sculptures found at the Temple of Apollo in Bassae, Greece.

The toponym Hadda has its origins in Sanskrit haḍḍa n. m., "a bone", or, an unrecorded *haḍḍaka, adj., "(place) of bones". The former - if not a fossilized form - would have given rise to a Haḍḍ in the subsequent vernaculars of northern India (and in the Old Indic loans in modern Pashto). The latter would have given rise to the form Haḍḍa naturally and would well reflect the belief that Hadda housed a bone-relic of Buddha. The term haḍḍa is found as a loan in Pashto haḍḍ, n., id. and may reflect the linguistic influence of the original pre-Islamic population of the area.

Buddhist scriptures
It is believed the oldest surviving Buddhist manuscripts-indeed the oldest surviving Indian manuscripts of any kind-were recovered around Hadda. Probably dating from around the 1st century CE, they were written on bark in Gandhari using the Kharoṣṭhī script, and were unearthed in a clay pot bearing an inscription in the same language and script. They are part of the long-lost canon of the Sarvastivadin Sect that dominated Gandhara and was instrumental in Buddhism's spread into central and east Asia via the Silk Road. The manuscripts are now in the possession of the British Library.

Tapa Shotor monastery (2nd century CE)

Tapa Shotor was a large Sarvastivadin Buddhist monastery. According to archaeologist Raymond Allchin, the site of Tapa Shotor suggests that the Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara descended directly from the art of Hellenistic Bactria, as seen in Ai-Khanoum.

The earliest structures at Tapa Shotor (labelled "Tapa Shotor I" by archaeologists) date to the Indo-Scythian king Azes II (35-12 BCE).

A sculptural group excavated at the Hadda site of Tapa-i-Shotor represents Buddha surrounded by perfectly Hellenistic Herakles and Tyche holding a cornucopia. The only adaptation of the Greek iconography is that Herakles holds the thunderbolt of Vajrapani rather than his usual club.

According to Tarzi, Tapa Shotor, with clay sculptures dated to the 2nd century CE, represents the "missing link" between the Hellenistic art of Bactria, and the later stucco sculptures found at Hadda, usually dated to the 3rd-4th century CE. The scultptures of Tapa Shortor are also contemporary with many of the early Buddhist sculptures found in Gandhara.

Chakhil-i-Ghoundi monastery (2nd-3rd century CE)
The Chakhil-i-Ghoundi monastery is dated to the 4th-5th century CE. It is built around the Chakhil-i-Ghoundi Stupa, a small limestone stupa. Most of the remains of the stupa were gathered in 1928 by the archeological mission of Frenchman Jules Barthoux of the French Archaeological Delegation in Afghanistan, and have been preserved and reconstituted through a collaboration with the Tokyo National Museum. They are today on display at the Musée Guimet in Paris. It is usually dated to the 2nd-3rd century CE.

The decoration of the stupa provides an interesting case of Greco-Buddhist art, combining Hellenistic and Indian artistic elements. The reconstitution consists of several parts, the decorated stupa base, the canopy, and various decorative elements.

Tapa Kalan monastery (4th-5th century CE)
The Tapa Kalan monastery is dated to the 4th-5th century CE. It was excavated by Jules Barthoux.

One of its most famous artifact is an attendant to the Buddha who display manifest Hellenistic styles, the "Genie au Fleur", today in Paris at the Guimet Museum.

Bagh-Gai monastery (3rd-4th century CE)
The Bagh-Gai monastery is generally dated to the 3rd-4th century CE. Bagh-Gai has many small stupas with decorated niches.

Tapa-i Kafariha Monastery (3rd-4th century CE)
The Tapa-i Kafariha Monastery is generally dated to the 3rd-4th century CE. It was excavated in 1926–27 by an expedition led by Jules Barthoux as part of the French Archaeological Delegation to Afghanistan.

Tapa Tope Kalān monastery (5th century CE)
This large stupa is about 200 meters to the northeast of the modern city of Hadda. Masson called it "Tope Kalān" (Hadda 10), Barthoux "Borj-i Kafarihā", and it is now designated as "Tapa Tope Kalān".

The stupa at Tope Kalan contained deposits of over 200 mainly silver coins, dating to the 4th-5th century CE. The coins included Sasanian issues of Varhran IV (388–399 CE), Yazdagird II (438–457 CE) and Peroz I (457/9–84 CE). There were also five Roman gold solidi: Theodosius II (408–50 CE), Marcianus (450–457 CE) and Leo I (457–474 CE). Many coins were also Hunnic imitations of Sasanian coins with the addition of the Alkhon tamgha, and 14 Alkhon coins with rulers showing of their characteristic elongated skulls. All these coins point to a mid-late 5th century date for the stupa.

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Jordan Stone

Jordan Stone (born March 16, 1984), is a retired American soccer player and the senior pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church (McKinney).

Soccer career
Stone skipped college, signing a Project-40 contract with the league in 2002, and was thence drafted 15th overall in the 2002 MLS SuperDraft by his hometown Dallas Burn. Despite his reputation, Stone struggled to get playing time with the Burn. In his first season, Stone appeared in 4 games, playing only for 91 minutes; things seemed to be changing in 2003, however, as he played 1057 minutes while appearing in 16 games. However, the team changed direction under new coach Colin Clarke and the acquisition of Simo Valakari relegated Stone primarily to a substitute role. Stone announced his retirement from professional soccer on 25 October 2004, in order to pursue a college degree at Texas Tech University.

International soccer career
Stone saw significant playing time for the Youth council team in Africa U.S. national teams, playing in the 1999 FIFA U-17 World Championship, and playing an important role for the US Under-20 team, playing in the 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship.

Academics
Stone received an M.A.R. from Reformed Theological Seminary, and a Th.M. and Ph.D. from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Stone currently serves as the Assistant Professor of Pastoral Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary, Dallas.

Personal life
Stone is the son of Mark and Debi Stone, and brother of five sisters Mariah, Marin, Hannah, Tori, and Oksana. After his retirement Stone became the Student Pastor of FBC Prosper and joined the staff at Providence Church in Frisco, Texas in May 2008 as Associate Pastor. In 2013 he was the lead pastor at a church plant Imago Dei Church.

Since 2017 Stone has been the senior pastor at Redeemer Presbyterian Church (PCA) in McKinney, Texas.

Books

 * A Communion of Love: The Christ-Centered Spirituality of Robert Murray M'Cheyne (Wipf & Stock, 2019)
 * Love to Christ: The Piety of Robert Murray M'Cheyne (Reformation Heritage, 2020)
 * A Holy Minister (Christian Focus, 2021)

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