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Paul D. McDonald, MBA, DTM, and Labutnum of the Encyclopedia, (born July 19, 1968)*, is a speaker, writer, and consultant. Paul earned a Master of Business Administration from Keller Graduate School of Management in Chicago, Illinois and a Bachelor of Arts in Physics from Southwestern College. He also earned an Associate of Arts from Cloud County Community College as well as completed additonal coursework at Kansas State University, Missouri Western State University, and Harper College.
I became a Wikipedia:Administrator on May 6, 2013. You can read the escapades here.

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*When I'm dead, I wonder who is going to change this?

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Wikipedia main page screenshot, evening of December 23, 2015, Central time zone (US). Note featured article of William Wurtenburg in top left hand column.

The Wikipedia main page featured William Wurtenburg on December 24, 2015. This was an article I originally created on June 16, 2008. Thanks to all Wikipedia editors including @A Texas Historian:, @Jweiss11:, and others who also helped improve it. The article as it exists now looks so much better than what I made.

I created the original article on June 16, 2008 as a part of a campaign to complete articles for every head football coach for United States Naval Academy. Coach Wurtenburg was head coach for the 1894 season and led the team to a record of 4 wins, 1 loss, and 2 ties. Their only loss that year was to Pennsylvania who ended the season as undefeated national champions.

As you can tell by visiting the article page now, it has been greatly enhanced to include his coaching at Dartmouth and his time as a player at Yale where he was a part of the 1887 National Championship team, finishing with a record of 9 wins and 0 losses. After coaching, he became an official for college football.

Around 1904, Wurtenburg began pursuing a career as a physician. He set up a medical office near his house in New Haven, Connecticut, and became an ear, nose and throat specialist where he lived until his death in 1957.

It's truly rewarding to see an article that I started end up on the Wikipedia main page! Woo-hoo!!!

Media of the Day

Wikimedia MOTD September 17, 2015

A video I posted was declared Wikimedia's "Media of the Day" on September 17, 2015. Watch closely as the cheese monger at Whole Foods Market in Overland Park, Kansas cracks open a wheel of Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese on March 9, 2013 (part of a 2013 world record attempt by Whole Foods Market).

I recorded this video on March 9, 2013 and posted it the next day. It was a recording of one location where Whole Foods Market was attempting (and I believe succeeded) in setting a world record for the most number of Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese at the same time. They were attempting this feat by using multiple stores and locations across their service footprint.

The best part was that we all got to sample!

Current projects

Here's a list of my current active projects. Feel free to pitch in!

Football coaches

  • 2022 Kansas State Wildcats football team
  • List of Tabor Bluejays head football coaches
  • List of Friends Falcons head football coaches
  • List of College of Emporia Fighting Presbies head football coaches (check for correct name) source

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College Football

Homer Woodson "Bill" Hargiss (September 1, 1887–October 15, 1978) was an American college football, basketball, and track coach. He was an early innovator in football and was known to be one of the first coaches to use the forward pass and the huddle.

Hargiss's first coaching job came as the head coach of the College of Emporia (C of E) in Emporia, Kansas. The school had a well-developed rivalry with Kansas State Normal School, where Hargiss played quarterback the previous year, and would later coach.[1]

At C of E, Hargiss developed plays using talented quarterback Arthur Schabinger that most had never seen before, namely the forward pass and the option pass.

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May Louise Cowles (September 25, 1892-January 11, 1978)[2] was an economist, researcher, author, and advocate of Home Economics. She had many submissions published in the Journal of Home Economics, the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, and Rural Sociology. She also produced several widely-read pamphlets including Meeting Housing Needs of Older People in Rural Areas (1957) and spoke at a string of national seminars to encourage the addition of family economics to home economics instruction across the United States. Cowles "created some of the first family economics courses in the nation" at the collegiate level.[3]

She was born on September 25, 1892 in Sibley, Kansas and attended Kansas State Agricultural College where she earned a B.S. in home economics in 1912 and entered the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1915 to earn her master's degree in home economics. Kansas State University recognized her contributions to home economics and her participation in the field by awarding her the Distinguished Service Award for "outstanding achievement in home economics" in 1959.[4]

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Chocolate most commonly comes in dark, milk, and white varieties, with cocoa solids contributing to the brown coloration.
Chocolate (English pronunciation: /ˈtʃɒklɨt/ or /ˈtʃɒkəlɨt/) comprises a number of raw and processed foods produced from the seed of the tropical Theobroma cacao tree. Cacao has been cultivated for at least three millennia in Mexico, Central and South America, with its earliest documented use around 1100 BC. The majority of the Mesoamerican people made chocolate beverages, including the Aztecs, who made it into a beverage known as xocolātl (/ʃo.ko.laːtɬ/), a Nahuatl word meaning "bitter water". The seeds of the cacao tree have an intense bitter taste, and must be fermented to develop the flavor.

After fermentation, the beans are dried, then cleaned, and then roasted, and the shell is removed to produce cacao nibs. The nibs are then ground to cocoa mass, pure chocolate in rough form. Because this cocoa mass usually is liquefied then molded with or without other ingredients, it is called chocolate liquor. The liquor also may be processed into two components: cocoa solids and cocoa butter. Unsweetened baking chocolate (bitter chocolate) contains primarily cocoa solids and cocoa butter in varying proportions. Much of the chocolate consumed today is in the form of sweet chocolate, combining cocoa solids, cocoa butter or other fat, and sugar. Milk chocolate is sweet chocolate that additionally contains milk powder or condensed milk. White chocolate contains cocoa butter, sugar, and milk but no cocoa solids.

Cocoa solids contain alkaloids such as theobromine and phenethylamine, which have physiological effects on the body. It has been linked to serotonin levels in the brain. Some research found that chocolate, eaten in moderation, can lower blood pressure.[5] The presence of theobromine renders it toxic to some animals,[6] especially dogs and cats.

Chocolate has become one of the most popular food types and flavors in the world. Gifts of chocolate molded into different shapes have become traditional on certain holidays: chocolate bunnies and eggs are popular on Easter, chocolate coins on Hanukkah, Santa Claus and other holiday symbols on Christmas, and chocolate hearts or chocolate in heart-shaped boxes on Valentine's Day. Chocolate is also used in cold and hot beverages, to produce chocolate milk and hot chocolate.

Around three quarters of the world's cacao bean production takes place in West Africa.

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Holly Neher is an American athlete who is credited as the first female in the state of Florida to throw a touchdown in a high school game, a feat she accomplished on her first pass attempt and third play in 2017.[7] As a junior for Hollywood Hills High School, she threw a 42-yard touchdown pass to teammate Alexander Shelton late in the fourth quarter of a 21–7 loss to Hallandale High School.[8]

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Brigadier General Samuel J. Crawford, circa 1870.

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  1. University of Wisconsin "History-May Louise Cowels"
  2. University of Wisconsin-Madison May Louise Cowles-Professional activities
  3. Taubert, Dirk (4 July 2007). "Effects of Low Habitual Cocoa Intake on Blood Pressure and Bioactive Nitric Oxide". The Journal of the American Medical Association. 298 (1): 49–60. doi:10.1001/jama.298.1.49. PMID 17609490. Retrieved 12 January 2010. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  4. Codd, Carey (September 1, 2017). "Hollywood Hills QB Scores TD On Her First Pass". CBS Miami. Retrieved September 2, 2017.

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