Advanced statistical analysis has been taking over the sports world for years now. Golf always seems to be a little bit behind the times, but has caught up very quickly as of late. Mark Broadie arguably took the first major step for golf when he invented his strokes-gained statistic, and wrote Every Shot Counts. While it was a fascinating read, it left golfers wondering what to do with all of the information he had figured out. Well someone did. His name is Scott Fawcett, and his course-management system DECADE has been sweeping through the competitive golf world over the last few years.
I got a chance to go through DECADE, and I spoke with Scott several times on the phone to find out more. While I don't want to give away too much, this article will give you my thoughts on the potential benefits for golfers.
Simply put, DECADE is not just a course strategy system. It is a masterclass on golf expectation management and psychology.
Scott Fawcett has a very unique story. He holds three math degrees, used to play professional golf, and also dabbled in playing poker for a living. They are all part of the fabric of DECADE's story.
He initially came up with the idea for a course-strategy system to use for his own playing career back in 2014. He poured over the data collected by Mark Broadie, Shotlink statistics from the PGA Tour, and his own swing tendencies captured on Trackman. His intention was to optimize every single target he chose during tournaments. He wanted to approach competitive golf with the same numbers-based strategy that many professional poker players use. Due to injuries, he was unable to continue his playing career at that time, so he decided to try it out with a local amateur golfer in Dallas.
This young man was not prominent in the amateur world when Scott started working with him. He was ranked just outside of 3,000th in the world, and did not have any major wins to his credit. In the first tournament Scott caddied for him using his system, he won the Texas Amateur. He then proceeded to win the Trans-Miss Championship and the U.S. Junior National title. Within three months he was #3 in the world.
College programs got a whiff of what was going on, and he started giving seminars to teams. Bryson DeChambeau was one of his first attendees. He quickly became the #1 ranked amateur in the world by winning the U.S. Amateur and NCAA individual title. Bryson has publicly credited Scott's system as being part of the recipe to his success.
Shortly afterwards, the NCAA banned Scott from giving seminars to teams, calling it "an unfair competitive advantage." Slightly comical, but probably the best endorsement he could have ever received.
Scott is currently in high demand by many PGA Tour players and almost every top 25 collegiate program is using his app (which is legal).
In its simplest form, DECADE is a course-management system. It gives you optimal targets based on your distances, trouble surrounding the hole, and a few other factors. I don't believe it is terribly difficult to learn, and taking it out on the course is not complicated either. It is almost like Aimpoint, but for everything outside of putting.
If you want a great introduction from Scott himself, then listen to this podcast with Mark Immelman. He also has a great introductory video on his website here.
After studying it for a while, and using it during my rounds, I believe DECADE is much more than just a strategic system.
Strategy in golf is deeply linked to psychology. Your mental state before each shot can have a huge influence on the quality of your decisions. Many golfers struggle with this part of the game because of the tumultuous nature of every round of golf. As such, the majority of players end up making bad decisions because they can't control their emotions.
This is exactly why I believe golfers who have adopted DECADE are starting to outperform their competition. They have completely bought into a system that makes smart decisions for them. I believe the main benefit is having a psychological advantage on the golf course.
One of the main questions I had before going through DECADE was understanding what kind of player it is specifically designed to help. After reviewing all of the material I believe it is best suited for the elite amateur player or professional golfers. This is exactly why college programs and pro golfers have recently been beating down Scott Fawcett's door. They all want an edge over each other.
Since this website is geared more towards recreational golfers, I would only recommend this system to players who are in the very low single-digit handicap range, and are trying to compete in tournaments. That rings true for myself, which is why I wanted to learn more.
Scott is launching DECADE Lite, which will be geared towards amateurs with higher handicaps. It is going to be available shortly.
If you go through the DECADE seminar, or watch the material inside the app, you will have a complete understanding of why you will pick certain spots with your shot selection.
Additionally, your expectations are properly managed. Scott Fawcett has done a tremendous job at communicating just how hard golf truly is. He uses PGA Tour statistics to give perspective to each situation. It truly frames how you can gain strokes on your competition by making smarter decisions. Personally I haven't seen many people talk about golf the way he does, and I believe his communication skills are the true cornerstone of what makes DECADE so effective and unique.
One of Scott's most important statements is that golfers are not out there with a sniper rifle, but rather a shotgun. It is their job to manage the dispersion of that shotgun as best as they can.
Something interesting happens when you show up to the golf course, and you know that your decisions are already made. You start to play with freedom because you understand that you have done your best to choose the optimal targets. More importantly, it makes it easier to live with the results. That is where the expectation management comes in.
If I were to draw a comparison to team sports, it is similar to the way some of the great professional sports organizations operate. Teams like the San Antonio Spurs and New England Patriots have enjoyed longstanding success because every player in those organizations has to buy into their philosophy. They often talk about "the system" as a faceless entity that no player is above. Certain players excel in these situations once they completely buy in because it removes doubt, fear, and more importantly teaches them how to play smarter.
Essentially what Scott Fawcett has done is upload his brain and coaching philosophy into this course. It is not a complete surprise to me that the golfers who have completely bought in are starting to thrive. It's simply good coaching, which I believe is in short supply in the golf world.
Scott Fawcett would be the first person to admit that nothing he says in his course is ground breaking. It is actually remarkably simple. Golfers have known for years that good strategy means taking into account your abilities as a golfer, and choosing smart targets based on the architecture of the golf course. Personally I have written about it in great detail myself on this site.
That's really not the point though. What separates any great piece of information is how it is presented to the end user.
Take books for example. I have read a number of great non-fiction titles over the years that are deeply fascinating. They take complex topics and simplify them by researching multiple sources and using superior communication skills to tell a story. Malcom Gladwell is a perfect example of this. Anyone with the proper motivation can get access to the multiple studies, books, and academic materials that he researches. However, he has taken the time to study them all and provide great analysis in the form of a book. That's why people are more than happy to pay for it. He did the work for us.
That is what Scott Fawcett has done with DECADE. He has poured through millions of shots on the PGA Tour. He has taken his math degrees, knowledge of poker, and experience as a professional golfer and created a system that has great value. The end result is advice that is fairly simple to digest. But make no mistake, it was not so easy to collect all of it and put it together.
You are probably excited at this point about DECADE. You should be because it's great information that I believe high-level golfers will benefit from.
While the information is easy to understand, it is much harder to put it into practice. If you are playing in tournaments you'll have to do a bit of homework on the course beforehand, using Google Maps. Additionally, you are going to have to take time to enter your stats after every round which means keeping detailed accounts on the course.
That's actually not the hard part in my opinion. The true test is actually sticking with the system during the heat of the battle. Many of you reading this know what it's like going through the trials and tribulations of a tournament round. You can have a great plan in place, but what happens when you make a double bogey early in your round? You'll start feeling the pressure to abandon everything and play more aggressively.
Additionally, you might not see results immediately because improving your strategy is not going to magically fix your golf game. It is more about eliminating mistakes over time that could be costing you anywhere from 1-4 shots per round.
Scott mentioned that many of the players who initially went through the seminar became a little lax with their discipline, and had to re-dedicate themselves after several months. It is not a surprise that the players he works with directly, or has caddied for, have tremendous results because he is there to remind them to stick with the plan. When you've learned something and you go out on your own, it is much harder to stay motivated and disciplined. That's where great coaching comes in.
So if people are wondering, "well, why wouldn't every golfer just learn this, and automatically get better?" – I believe that's the answer to your question.
I have not had the chance to attend a DECADE seminar in person. Scott has made all of that information available through his app, which you can download to your phone. It features a collection of videos and tutorials that introduce you to the system, train you how to use it, and educate you on various strategic disciplines.
The videos are absolutely fantastic, and are some of the best I've seen. Outside of teaching you how to use DECADE to pick your targets, there is great wisdom packed into each video. Scott has a unique way of talking about tee shots, putting, getting out of trouble, and plenty of other scenarios.
For example, his video on what your strategy should be in recovery situations will have you looking at a seemingly bad circumstance through a completely different viewpoint. Instead of making it a negative situation, he shows how you can actually gain strokes on the field by taking an alternative strategy.
The second part of the app is data entry. Each player has the ability to enter detailed statistics on their rounds. Then it starts making recommendations on where you can improve based on algorithms Scott Fawcett has created. It will take some time getting used to it. However, I found the process to be fairly easy once you get the hang of it. You can expect to take about 10 minutes entering your data. From what I understand it has been received as a bit more intuitive than other applications that college and professional players are currently using.
I have only had the opportunity to use this part of the app sparingly, and I will update this article when I have more specific recommendations on my game later in the year. Scott mentioned that in order to reap the full rewards of the app you should take the time to enter your stats. Additional content will appear that it tailored to your game.
If you are a competitive golfer I strongly advise you to consider taking a look at DECADE. At the minimum you will learn strategic information that can change your perspective on the game. If you completely buy into everything Scott Fawcett is preaching, then I believe you are giving yourself a much better chance at success. Make no mistake, it will require a lot of work and discipline on your part.
If you haven't heard of Scott Fawcett yet, I think you are going to start hearing his name more in the coming years. The cat is somewhat out of the bag at this point. Advanced data has become a part of competitive golf. If you are not playing this style of golf (there are certainly other people offering these services) – then you are likely going to be behind the curve.
To find out more about DECADE, and to purchase the app you can visit Scott's website here.
Dammit….well I was going to try and be productive today, but that's not happening now that this has been dropped on my plate. Great stuff, thanks for bringing this to my attention!
When and where is you Kansas City seminar? Why do you make it so hard to find?


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Yesterday was Lux Interior's birthday, which seems fitting that the frontman of The Cramps would be born within October. It's shame he's no longer around but the legend of both him and the band lives on. Had I known it, this post would have gone up yesterday.
The thing with The Cramps is that they do a lot of covers. A lot. Like, on every album. There's at least one if not THREE different renditions of classic rock and roll songs. That's one of the better aspects of the Cramps – they were rock and roll advocates, celebrating forgotten or disregarded rock classics. The series
Lux and Ivy of the Cramps were rock historians and archivists, devouring music and sometimes repurposing it for their own use. When I first hear "Strollin' After Dark" by the Shades, I have to admit – it was a sock to the gut because it's clearly the rift to "I Was A Teenage Werewolf" by the Cramps. And I LOVE "I Was A Teenage Werewolf." I think it's one of the best guitar rifts in music and it was kind of deflating to find out it wasn't wholly original.
But, after considering this, I see how this may have been part of Lux+Ivy's mission statement. In the early years of Surf Music (and to some extent, still today) surf bands did other people's songs like it was nothing to it, mainly because there weren't that many songs around. But it gave an open-source, universal aspect of the new sound and I think Lux+Ivy wanted Rock and Roll to be that universal beat. They wanted this sound to be ubiquitous to everyday life and they championed it so.
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I'm used to weather changing my plans, but this is the first time I've had to cut short a trip because of a common cold! On Tuesday I had one of the best journeys ever up to North Wales with no hold ups whatsoever. I was feeling good. I wandered over to Maeneira to pitch my tent, contemplating an excellent few days. However, I woke up with a scratchy throat. It'll pass, I thought.
My plan was an easy walk round to Ffynnon Llugwy via Llyn Cowlyd. By the time I reached the end of Llyn Cowlyd, it was obvious that I was indeed going down with a cold. The climb up to Llugwy was a bit more tiring than it should have been. After pitching the tent, I was serenaded for nearly an hour by a helicopter buzzing around doing some kind of training exercise.
A disturbed night's sleep confirmed that I would have to reconsider my plans. Despite having a Pipedream 600 sleeping bag and the air temperature not dropping below 6c, I felt a bit cool just before dawn, a clear sign that things were not right. My original plan had been to climb Carnedd Llewelyn and then head down Cwm Eigiau, but instead I just reversed the previous day's route, on the basis that there was very little ascent.
I had a lovely lunch above Llyn Cowlyd. All the while I was think about the next couple of days. I had arranged to meet Dave (Backpackbrewer) and Sean of OookWorks fame together with his partner Jo for some walking. The route that I had planned seemed unfeasible given my worsening cold. I exchanged a number of texts with them to explain what had happened.
We met as arranged at the car park and headed to Maeneira to camp. I swapped the Scarp for the Duomid as Sean had brought the new inner that he had made for me. I was excited to see Sean's handiwork, more of that in another post. We had a very convivial evening, apart from my increasing snuffling. It became clear to me overnight that my best course of action was to head home the next day. Even doing a couple of day walks would be too much and I didn't want to spoil the enjoyment for the others.
The warmth of the sun in the morning led to a relatively leisurely breakfast. It seemed a shame to leave, especially as the promised good weather seemed to have arrived. At the car park we said our farewells. I drove home leaving the others to a fine day's walk. On the positive side, I'd had three night camping and a couple of reasonable walks in one of my favourite areas. It was a real shame not to be able to do the walks I'd planned with Dave, Sean and Jo, but there's not much I could do about it. It was a real pleasure to meet them and hopefully we'll meet up again.
Thanks, Ian. Hope you have recovered.
Sorry to hear of your cold and curtailed walk. may I be cheeky as together with my brother in law we may have three days spare at the beginning of April and the area you just described is an option. Would you be willing to share the proposed route you had planned with the others?
I was going to do the Cwm Eigiau ridge east to west to Carnedd Llewelyn, then walk the ridge north to Drum. I've done most of this route before, mostly with a day pack. The Cwm Eigiau ridge is a fine walk and surprisingly tough. Hope you have a good time.
Robin, what a shame. Typical, all that planning and anticipation and a cold comes along to ruin it. Better luck next time !
Such a shame Robin, we wait, plan, pack, drive and then this happens. So sorry mate, hope you get over it soon and do it again.
Don't go screwing yourself up prior to the big one – Remember Darren was quite ill before his first Challenge – and it knocked him for six.
Cheers. That was my thought exactly and one reason why I decided to come home. Flogging yourself when you are unwell is not a good idea and I knew that the Cwm Eigiau ridge is a tough one. I'm sure I'll be ok.
Everywhere I go there are sick people.
You may be better off just staying in the hills!
Everywhere I go there are sick people conspiring to pass on some horrid mutated virus to me.
You are probably better off just staying in the clean air of the hills.
Since I retired, this is only my second cold, which I put down to not travelling on the tube. The occasional cold is actually good for you as it boosts the immune system, but it's not much fun!
Shame but you'll heal. On a positive it looked rather good the bits you did do.


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Location of Cicero in Cook County, Illinois.
Cicero (originally known as Hawthorne) is a suburb of Chicago and an incorporated town in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 83,891 at the 2010 census. As of 2013, the town had a total population of 84,103, making it the 11th largest municipality in Illinois. The town of Cicero is named after Marcus Tullius Cicero, the Roman statesman and orator.
Originally, Cicero Township occupied six times its current territory. Weak political leadership and town services resulted in cities such as Oak Park and Berwyn voting to split off from Cicero, and other portions such as Austin were annexed into the city of Chicago.
By 1911, an aerodrome called the Cicero Flying Field had been established as the town's first aircraft facility of any type, located on a roughly square plot of land about 800 meters (1/2-mile) per side, on then-open ground at 41°51′19.03″N 87°44′56.5″W / 41.8552861°N 87.749028°W / 41.8552861; -87.749028 by the Aero Club of Illinois, founded on February 10, 1910. Famous pilots like Hans-Joachim Buddecke, Lincoln Beachey, Chance M. Vought and others flew from there at various times during the "pioneer era" of aviation in the United States shortly before the nation's involvement in World War I, before the field closed in mid-April 1916.
Al Capone built his criminal empire in Chicago before moving to Cicero to escape the reach of Chicago police.
Cicero was taken up and abandoned several times as site for a civil rights march in the mid-1960s. Cicero had a sundown town policy prohibiting African Americans from living in the city. The American Friends Service Committee, Martin Luther King, Jr., and many affiliated organizations, including churches, were conducting marches against housing and school de facto segregation and inequality in Chicago and several suburbs, but the leaders feared too violent a response in Chicago Lawn and Cicero. Eventually, a substantial march (met by catcalls, flying bottles and bricks) was conducted in Chicago Lawn, but only a splinter group, led by Jesse Jackson, marched in Cicero. The marches in the Chicago suburbs helped galvanize support for the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 in 1968, extending federal prohibitions against discrimination to private housing. The act also created the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development's Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, which enforces the law.
The 1980s and 1990s saw a heavy influx of Hispanic (mostly Mexican and Central American) residents to Cicero. Once considered mainly a Czech or Bohemian town, most of the European-style restaurants and shops on 22nd Street (now Cermak Road) have been replaced by Spanish-titled businesses. In addition, Cicero has a small black community.
Cicero has seen a revival in its commercial sector, with many new mini-malls and large retail stores. New condominiums are also being built in the city.
According to the 2010 census, Cicero has a total area of 5.86 square miles (15.18 km2), all land. Cicero formerly ran from Harlem Avenue to Western Avenue and Pershing Road to North Avenue; however, much of this area was annexed by Chicago.
St. Mary of Czestochowa, a Neo-Gothic church built in the Polish Cathedral style along with the sculpture of Christ the King by famed sculptor Professor Czesław Dźwigaj, who also cast the monumental bronze doors at St. Hyacinth's Basilica in Chicago. The church's other claim to fame is as the site of Al Capone's sister Mafalda's wedding in 1930.
J. Sterling Morton High School, East Campus, also known as Morton East High School, was built in 1894. The original school was destroyed by fire in 1924, and the current building was constructed. Located at 2423 S. Austin Blvd, Morton East serves residents of Cicero.
Chodl Auditorium, located inside Morton East High School, was built in 1924 (completed 1927) to replace the 1,200-seat auditorium which was destroyed by fire. The auditorium was originally a dual-purpose room, serving as a gymnasium for students, and was originally built for this purpose. In 1967 the school stopped using the auditorium as a gymnasium. Chodl Auditorium is among the largest non-commercial proscenium theatres in the Chicago Metropolitan Area and is listed with the National Register of Historic Places.
Hawthorne Works Tower, one of the original towers of the enormous Western Electric manufacturing plant that once stood east of Cicero Avenue, is still located behind the Hawthorne Works Shopping Center near the corner of Cermak Road (22nd Street) and Cicero Avenue.
Chicagoland Sports Hall of Fame.
On the south side of Cicero, there were two racetracks. Hawthorne Race Course, located in Cicero and Stickney, is a horse racing track still in operation. Just north of it was Chicago Motor Speedway at Sportsman's Park, which was formerly Sportsman's Park Racetrack (for horse racing) for many years. This Sportsman's Park facility is now closed, acquired by the Town of Cicero, and has since been demolished. Facilities of the Wirtz Beverage Group have been built on the west half and a Walmart built on the east half.
As of the 2010 census, 83,891 people, 22,101 households, and 17,752 families resided in the town. The population density was 14,315.9 people per square mile (5,527.4/km²). There were 24,329 housing units at an average density of 4,151.7 per square mile (1,600.6/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 51.9% White (9.2% Non-Hispanic white), 3.8% African American, 0.8% Native American, 0.6% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander American, 39.3% some other race, and 3.5% from two or more races. 89.6% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race, with 80.2% of Mexican descent.
There were 22,101 households, out of which 57.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 52.3% were headed by married couples living together, 17.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 19.7% were non-families. 15.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 5.5% were someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.79, and the average family size was 4.19.
The age distribution at the 2010 census was 33.8% under the age of 18, 11.6% from 18 to 24, 30.9% from 25 to 44, 17.7% from 45 to 64, and 5.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 27.8 years. For every 100 females, there were 103.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 103.9 males. Of the total population, 50.9% are male and 49.1% are female.
As of the 2011 American Community Survey, the median income for a household in the town was $39,557, and the median income for a family was $42,235. Male full-time workers had a median income of $31,603 versus $31,117 for females. The per capita income for the town was $14,339. About 15.6% of families and 18.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 22.9% of those under age 18 and 16.2% of those age 65 or over.
As of 2011, 52.5% of occupied housing units were owned properties, and 47.5% were rentals. There were 4,667 vacant housing units. The average age of home properties was greater than 66 years.
The top five non-Hispanic ancestries reported in Cicero as of the 2000 census were Polish (4.7%), Irish (3.7%), German (3.7%), Italian (3.0%) and Czech (2.3%).
Most of Cicero is in Illinois' 4th congressional district; the area south of the railroad at approximately 33rd Street is in the 3rd district.
The United States Postal Service operates the Cicero Post Office at 2440 South Laramie Avenue.
Cicero is served by Cicero Elementary School District 99 and comprises 17 schools, making it one of the largest public school districts outside of Chicago. Elementary students attend the following schools, depending on residency: Burnham (K-6), Cicero East (4-6), Cicero West (K-3), Columbus East (4-6), Columbus West (K-6), Drexel (K-6), Goodwin (K-6), Liberty (K-3), Lincoln (K-6), McKinley (K-3), Roosevelt (3-6), Sherlock (currently under construction) (K-3), Warren Park (K-3), Wilson (K-6), Woodbine (K-3), and Unity Junior High (7-8), which is separated into East/West sections. East side being held for eighth graders & seventh graders on the West side. Unity is the second largest middle school in the country. High school students entering their freshman year attend the Freshman Center and then continue high school at Morton East of the J. Sterling Morton High School District 201.
From 1927 until 1972, Cicero was the home of Timothy Christian School.
Cicero is also home to Morton College.
Cicero is served by two major railroad lines, the BNSF Railway and the Belt Line Railroad. Public Transportation is provided by Metra BNSF Railway Line between Aurora and Chicago's Union Station with a stop near Cicero Avenue and 26th Street. Currently, this station is undergoing a much needed reconstruction and expansion by Metra. Also, the CTA Pink Line provides daily service from the 54th/Cermak Terminal to The Loop. Its Cicero station is also located in Cicero. Pace routes 302 Ogden/Stanley, 315 Austin Boulevard, 316 Laramie Avenue, and 322 Cermak Road/22nd Street, and CTA routes 12 Roosevelt, 18 16th/18th, 21 Cermak, 35 31st/35th, 54 Cicero, 54B South Cicero, and 60 Blue Island/26th make up Cicero's bus routes.
Cicero is served by the Cicero Fire Department (CFD), with a staff of 68 professional firefighters and 24 paramedics. The CFD operates out of three fire stations.
Cicero is mentioned as the hometown of Jimmy McGill/Saul Goodman in the Better Call Saul pilot episode "Uno".
JoBe Cerny, actor from Cicero, is the voice of the Pillsbury Doughboy.
The American Breed, a rock band known for its hit "Bend Me, Shape Me," originated in Cicero.
In the musical Chicago Velma Kelly mentions Cicero as the location of the hotel where she murdered her husband Charlie and sister Veronica.
In Walker Percy's novel Love in the Ruins, the schismatic American Catholic church establishes Cicero, Illinois as its "new Rome."
In Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Cicero is annexed by Chicago, as a satirical allegory for the Nazi annexation of Austria.
In Guys and Dolls, the Chicago-area gangster "Big Julie" claims to be from "East Cicero, Illinois" (and pronounces the final "s" on Illinois).
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^ "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places of 50,000 or More, Ranked by July 1, 2013 Population: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2013". U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division. May 2014. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
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^ Gray, Carroll (2005). "CICERO FLYING FIELD - Origin, Operation, Obscurity and Legacy - 1891 to 1916 - OPERATION, 1911 - THE ESTABLISHMENT OF CICERO FLYING FIELD". lincolnbeachey.com. Carroll F. Gray. Retrieved September 7, 2017. The second great aeronautical event of 1911 around Chicago was the establishment by the A.C.I. of a top-notch flying field named "Cicero Flying Field" (or simply "Cicero") within the township limits of Cicero (bounded by 16th St., 52nd Ave., 22nd St. and 48th Avenue..At some point during May, the A.C.I. was given a five year lease on the Cicero property by the Grant Land Association, Harold F. McCormick's property holding company. At the conclusion of the 1911 Aviation Meet, the hangars in Grant Park were moved to the southern edge of the 2-1/2 sq. mi. lot in Cicero.
^ Gray, Carroll (2005). "CICERO FLYING FIELD - Origin, Operation, Obscurity and Legacy - 1891 to 1916 - 1909 & 1910 - GLENN H. CURTISS & THE AERO CLUB OF ILLINOIS". lincolnbeachey.com. Carroll F. Gray. Retrieved September 7, 2017. The day before his two-day exhibition flights at the Hawthorne Race Track in Cicero, Illinois, on October 16 and 17, 1909, Glenn Curtiss spoke to the Chicago Automobile Club and suggested that an aero club be formed in Chicago. In response to his remarks, the Aero Club of Illinois ("A.C.I.") was incorporated on February 10, 1910, with Octave Chanute as its first president - a perfect choice, to be sure...The second great aeronautical event of 1911 around Chicago was the establishment by the A.C.I. of a top-notch flying field named "Cicero Flying Field" (or simply "Cicero") within the township limits of Cicero (bounded by [West] 16th St., 52nd Ave [S. Laramie Avenue]., 22nd St [West Cermak Road]. and 48th Ave.), conveniently located adjacent to interurban rail service - just a 15 min. 5¢ trip on the Douglas Park "L" from downtown Chicago, and also was served by two streetcar lines.
^ Gray, Carroll (2005). "CICERO FLYING FIELD - Origin, Operation, Obscurity and Legacy - 1891 to 1916 - 1916 - THE FINAL FLIGHT & A NEW FIELD". lincolnbeachey.com. Carroll F. Gray. Retrieved September 7, 2017. On April 16, 1916, when "Matty" Laird took off from Cicero Flying Field, at the controls of his self-designed and self-built Boneshaker biplane and flew to the new Partridge & Keller aviation field at 87th St. and Pulaski Road, in Chicago, Cicero Flying Field ceased to be. The next day, the Aero Club of Illinois (A.C.I.) officially opened its new 640 acre Ashburn Field on land purchased by A.C.I. President "Pop" Dickinson for the A.C.I.. Ashburn was located at 83rd St. and Cicero Avenue, about 7-1/2 miles almost due south of Cicero. All of the hangars and buildings at Cicero had been moved to Ashburn Field some months earlier.
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Most Americans, myself included, are profoundly proud to live in this country. Despite our pride for the country, we still tend to distance ourselves from the war. Whatever the reason, we don't seem to think about it in our day to day lives. We go about our comfortable lives in our self-made little bubbles. Not that we intentionally take on the mind set of forgetting about the war efforts and the truth of the matter is, we shouldn't. The war is not a matter to be swept under the rug, like it doesn't matter or it isn't happening. Whether or not you support the United States war efforts or choices isn't really the subject matter of today. The subject is our troops and the families they so often leave behind. Our soldiers are not robots. They are flesh and blood like you and I. They feel the burdens and the sadness of leaving their families behind. They face fears and deal with emotions on a heightened level. They believe in all the beautiful and good things America stands for and they are willing to do their part to ensure those liberties and dreams. We, the American people, have an obligation to these men and women of the armed forces along with their families to show our support. They have earned our standing ovations with a round of heart felt applause. I encourage you to break away from your bubbles. Remember that there is very much a war happening and those troops need our love! Lets remove ourselves from the mind set of forgetting and lets start remembering how important our troops, their families, and our veterans really are. May I recommend sending letters or care packages, sharing some words of affirmation to a military spouse, or simply hang a yellow ribbon. All in all honor of our women and men in our armed forces. After all the display of vast bravery and sacrifice our troops, past and present, is what makes this country what it is today.
Be sure to come back and visit my little corner of the blogging world more often this month. I have some excellent interviews planned with some of America's protectors and family members. I do so hope you will return to see what they have to say and show a little support to the efforts they are making. What can I say folks, thinking about what the Fourth of July really means sparked my patriotic side!!!
Here are some links on how you can help support our Troops!


Ferment is a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances. It is also used for a state of agitation or turbulent change. It is a noun.
The word ferment originated around 1350-1400 and was derived from the Latin word fermentum.
1. The process of fermentation.
2. Go sour or spoil.
3. Something that causes fermentation.
The word Ferment sounds like 'firm+end'. A ferment breaks something into simpler substances that are more stable than before and hence brings them to a firm end so it can easily be recalled used this method.
1. They ferment the grapes for a very long time to achieve high alcohol content.
2. Yeast is known to ferment the sugar in the juice.
3. After the opposing political party finally won the election, the town was in a state of ferment.


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Administrator Where the deceased did not leave a will, the will does not name executors, or where the executors are not able or willing to act, an Administrator is appointed to deal with an estate (see below).
Assets Things someone owns, such as money, investments, property and possessions. When someone dies, the assets they leave are their 'estate'.
Attorney An individual who is given the power to take decisions on someone else's behalf under a lasting power of attorney.
Beneficiary This is a person (or organisation) who is entitled to a share in the deceased's estate, whether under the terms of the Will or in accordance with the laws of intestacy (see below).
Bequest A gift left to someone in a will.
Caveat A probate registry procedure you can use to ensure that you are informed if anyone applies to be the executor or administrator of an estate, giving you the chance to discuss your concerns or take court action.
Codicil A legal document that amends the terms of a will. If someone wants to change their will, drawing up a codicil is an alternative to preparing an entirely new will.
Coroner An official (usually a lawyer or a doctor) who is responsible for investigating an unexplained or suspicious death.
Court of Protection A specialist court that deals with applications for deputyships and other questions relating to people who may lack the capacity to make their own decisions.
Deputyship A deputy is a person appointed by the Court of Protection to manage the affairs of someone who lacks the mental capacity to manage their own affairs.
Donor In terms of a lasting power of attorney, the person who is giving the attorney the power to make decisions on their behalf.
Enduring power of attorney A type of power of attorney created prior to October 2007 when lasting powers of attorney were introduced. Existing enduring powers of attorney are still valid, but new ones cannot be drawn up.
Estate The assets (eg money, investments, property, personal possessions and so on) left by a deceased person.
Executor When someone dies, the Executor is responsible for sorting out the finances and then distributing what is left according to the Will of the deceased.
Exemption Certain gifts and transfers are exempt from inheritance tax (eg gifts to a spouse or to charities).
Grant of Probate The Executor applies for a Grant of Probate from a section of the court known as the Probate Registry. The Grant is a legal document which confirms that the Executor or Administrator has the authority to deal with the deceased person's assets. They can use it to show they have the right to access funds, sort out finances and collect and share out the deceased person's assets as set out in the Will.
Inheritance Tax Inheritance Tax is sometimes paid on an Estate when somebody dies. It is dependent upon the size of the estate. The Executor or personal representative pays it using funds from the deceased's estate. The current threshold can be found on the government website: https://www.gov.uk/inheritance-tax.
Intestacy When someone dies without a valid will, the deceased person is then intestate and the estate must be distributed according to set rules of intestacy.
Joint tenants How spouses or civil partners commonly own property. When one dies, the other automatically inherits the whole property. Neither of you can leave your home (or a share in it) to anyone else in your will.
Lasting power of attorney A legal document in which the donor gives the attorney the power to make decisions on their behalf, either in relation to property and financial affairs or health and welfare.
Legacy A gift left to someone in a will.
Letters of administration The official court documents that confirm the appointment of someone to act as the administrator for an estate.
Office of the Public Guardian Deals with the registration of lasting powers of attorney (and enduring powers of attorney) and the supervision of deputies.
Pecuniary bequest A gift in a will of a specific sum of money.
Personal representative A person responsible for administering an estate; this is a generic term that covers both the executor(s) and the administrator(s).
Probate This is a term commonly used when talking about applying for the right to deal with a deceased person's affairs.
Probate Registry The part of the HM Courts and Tribunals Service that deals with wills and estates.
Register Office When someone dies, their death must be registered with the Register Office, normally within five days.
Residue What is left of an estate after pecuniary and specific legacies, debts, inheritance tax and expenses.
Tenancy in common Where two or more people have ownership interests in a property. Each owner has the right to leave his (or her) share of the property to any beneficiary upon the owner's death.
Testator The person making a will.
Trust A trust allows you to pass assets to someone while you are still alive or under the terms of a will. Rather than being received outright, the assets are received with restrictions and so can only be used in the way you have prescribed (eg a sum of money does not pass to a child until their 21st birthday).
Will A properly witnessed written legal document setting out how a testator wishes his or her estate to be distributed on death.
Witness In terms of wills, someone who observes the signing of the will (and signs to confirm this). Witnesses (and their spouses or civil partners) cannot inherit anything from the will.


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Vladimir Putin warns world faces 'global catastrophe' over North Korea
Wednesday September 6, 2017
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that the escalating crisis over North Korea's weapons program risks developing into a "global catastrophe" with mass casualties.
But Putin, speaking in China on Tuesday, cautioned against "military hysteria" and said that the only way to resolve the crisis was through diplomacy.
He warned that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has calculated that the survival of his regime depends on its development of nuclear weapons. Kim had seen how western intervention in Iraq had ended in the overthrow of Saddam Hussein after which the country was ravaged by war, Putin warned, and Kim was determined not to suffer the same fate.
"Saddam Hussein rejected the production of weapons of mass destruction, but even under that pretense, he was destroyed and members of his family were killed," Putin said.
"The country was demolished and Saddam Hussein was hanged. Everyone knows that and everyone in North Korea knows that."
On Monday, US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said Kim was "begging for war" and urged the UN Security Council to adopt the strongest sanctions measures possible to stop Pyongyang's nuclear program.
But speaking at the closure of the BRICs summit in Beijing -- which hosted the leaders of Brazil, India, China and South Africa -- Putin said that while Russia condemned North Korea's latest actions, imposing any kind of sanctions would be "useless and ineffective." Kim would rather starve his people than see his regime overthrown, he said.
"They will eat grass but they will not turn away from the path that will provide for their security," he said.
The latest escalation of the crisis came on Sunday when Pyongyang announced it had conducted a sixth nuclear test, which it claimed was of a hydrogen bomb. The claim has not been independently verified, but seismological data indicated that the weapon was the most powerful ever to be detonated by Pyongyang.
North Korea claims it now has the capability of mounting a thermonuclear weapon on a long-range missile capable of striking the United States.
Weapons experts say it's almost impossible to verify if the warhead and missile could be successfully paired unless North Korea were to fire a nuclear-tipped ICBM.
North Korea has test-fired a number of missiles this summer, including two long-range ones in July and an intermediate-range one in August that overflew the Japanese island of Hokkaido. South Korea has claimed that the North is making preparations for another ICBM test.
Putin said it was clear that Pyongyang already had a nuclear capability -- and in any case, no missile defense system could offer adequate protection against conventional long-range artillery.
"We know that North Korea has nukes, we also know that North Korea has long-range artillery and it has other types of weapons and there are no weapons against long-range artillery -- and these weapons can be difficult to locate.
"So we think that this military hysteria will not lead to good results. It could lead to global catastrophe with lots of victims."
In response to the latest tests, the South Korean Navy announced Tuesday it conducted live-fire drills off the east coast of the Korean Peninsula to check its "immediate operational readiness" after the country's air force and army conducted their own joint drills. It had already mounted a huge show of military force on Monday.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in spoke with US President Donald Trump on Monday and agreed to lift current restrictions on the payload weight of South Korea's ballistic missiles, according to a South Korean presidential spokesman.
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Who is really in control in Mogadishu? - HuffPost
Radicalized Kenyans desperate to quit Al Shabaab, fear execution - Citizen
International community concerned over attempts to form new federal member state in Hiiraan region - HOL
WATCH: Filming a social experiment about Somalia - UNICEF
Refugees from conflict zones opt for war-torn Syria - AFP
Somali government breaks silence on Abdikarim rendition - HOL
'Shabaab' attackers behead 4 in Lamu - Daily Nation
Facebook takes the next step to monetize WhatsApp: WSJ - Reuters
Jama finally petitions his election loss - Thestar
Somalia: Chief justice suspends 18 judges - Middle East Monitor
Ethiopia's Internally Displaced Overlooked Amid Refugee Crises - IPS News
The humanity of the NFL, women's hoops in Somalia and FSU's academics - ESPN
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BlueNote – The Blockchain Powered Energy Efficiency Protocol
The world is trying to reach equality. But if your country is rich in resources, it is a source of jealousy. Jealousy of economics, jealous of religion. Wealth is often formed in the hands of clans and flows into the movement of wealth among states. But even the states need each other, which means that both of us and the people we have decided to make decisions for us are also needed!
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Buildings cause over 30% of the world's carbon emissions, making them the largest singular source of carbon emissions because they consume about 60% of global electricity. More than 70% of all buildings were built before the first energy crisis in the 1970s, which creates an enormous market for improving their energy efficiency.
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BNOW's Initial Exchange Offering
Bluenote has raised over $10 million among private investors and is now offering the general public the opportunity to support the project by purchasing its BNOW tokens. In the past year, many blockchain projects staged so-called public sales of tokens without a concurrent listing on a public exchange, increasing the likelihood of fraud and security problems.
In a new approach to blockchain financing, Bluenote has opted to conduct its public sale through an exchange to ensure proper KYC procedures, maximum scalability, and security. This public sale on an exchange is referred to as an Initial Exchange Offering (IEO) and will launch on a leading international cryptocurrency exchange in December.
The Bluenote project is making available a maximum of $10 million in BNOW tokens to the general public in the IEO. Of the total amount of tokens, 50% will be made available to the public and an additional 20% is earmarked to reward to real estate properties and software developers for their participation in building the global Bluenote network. The Bluenote team, the early investors and advisors have a 24 month vesting schedule of their tokens.
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'The Crossing' follows one such Tibetan refugee as they attempt this dangerous trek, and explores what drove them to make this life-altering decision.
My role included many different areas, such as writing, art direction, direction and also acting as the only animator. It was an intense experience but one that was hugely rewarding. The work Free Tibet do is incredible.


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Louis Kahn's Monument To The Six Million Jewish Martyrs
I recently came across this photo of Louis Kahn's "Monument To The Six Million Jewish Martyrs," which, I had no idea. And it was to be built in New York City, Battery Park, to be exact, and was perhaps the last best chance for an apparently serially disastrous effort to build a Holocaust memorial in the city. Ultimately, of course, the city did get the Jewish Memorial Museum in the 1990s, in Battery Park.
There is no doubt a story to tell about the tumultuous history of that process. And I'm sure someone has already written a decisive history of how people attempted to grapple with the Shoah and Holocaust as history, and how and when those concepts took hold. Because they're absent from the contemporary discussion of this memorial. But what really sticks with me is the story and particulars of Kahn's memorial design, and how resonant it seems with memorials followed it.
Kahn was recommended by an Art Advisory Committee [via Philip Johnson] that had been brought in in 1966 to help the Committee to Commemorate the Six Million Jewish Martyrs solve their seemingly impossible charge: creating a suitable memorial to genocide. The NY Times' architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable complained that the previous designs were full of "wrenching angst" in which "the agony and the art were almost too much to bear."
After the City Art Commission approved it, Kahn's 6-foot model was put on impromptu display in the lobby of the Museum of Modern Art for month, from Oct-Nov. 1968. Which is when Huxtable praised as architecture and sculpture "of the highest order":
In an age that has made a flat mockery of conventional memorial values and platitudes, Mr. Kahn's solution is a cool, abstract, poetic, powerful and absolute statement of the unspeakable tragedy. It could rank with the great works of commemorative art in which man has attempted to capture spirit, in symbol. for the ages.
And in case you needed any more reminder that memorials are as much an expression of the time they're created, not just the history they mark, here's Huxtable's final judgment:
The generation that lived through the time and events the monument proposes to commemorate will never forget them. We have that memorial seared in our souls.
The generations that are innocent of this kind of totalitarianism and ultimate tragedy will find no monument meaningful. That is one of the anachronisms of art and history in an age of violence.
This memorial could work, as art and as history, and as a lasting expression of the human spirit. In a nihilistic, value-destroying society, that is no mean artistic accomplishment.
Yow, no Summer of Love here.
Kahn's Monument was to consist of seven 10×10 squares, 11 feet high, made entirely of elongated, cast glass brick, and arranged 2-3-2 on a 66-ft square grey granite plinth. [His original design, presented to the Committee in 1967, called for nine 12x12x15 squares in a grid. I think the switch to 6+1 was a way to Judaize and particularlize the memorial's content.] The translucent bricks meant that the blocks would change with light, weather, and the presence and movement of people around the site. Only the center cube would be inscribed and accessible; as Kahn put it, "The one, the chapel, speaks; the other six are silent."
I think Kahn's 1967 proposal is at least one of the earliest, if not the first, deployments of Minimalism in a memorial context. Or maybe Post-Minimalism is more accurate, since Kahn's evocative forms and their deliberate emotional and experiential evocations were anathema to the objective Gestaltism of orthodox Minimalism as it was being argued out at the time.
If the history of using a Minimalist formal vocabulary for intractable memorials typically began with Maya Lin's Vietnam Memorial, then Kahn's Monument pushes it back 15 years–to the conflict-torn heart of the Vietnam era. And though it wasn't realized as he envisioned, Kahn's proposal was influential. It's the best explanation I can see for for the use of glass block in New York State's disappointing Vietnam Veterans Memorial on Water Street in lower Manhattan. [That memorial's plaza siting was probably also influenced by Huxtable's unequivocal condemnation of the Battery Park site for Kahn's memorial, an insurmountable criticism which probably doomed the design she praised so highly.] More directly, though, Kahn seems like a direct progenitor for the two most prominent Holocaust memorials built in Europe to date.
Kahn's formal references to the silenced, the room-scale, and the bookshelf-like bands of glass brick are all echoed in Rachel Whiteread's Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial, where a ghostly library of books the city's murdered Jews will never write stands on a plinth in a public square in Vienna. Whiteread's memorial has obvious precedents in her own sculptural practice, and I've never seen her mention Kahn as an inspiration, so it's entirely possible that these resonances are natural and widely held, and which the artist and architect arrived at separately.
Amazing shot of Peter Eisenman at the 2004 opening of his Berlin Memorial from Mark Godfrey's book, Abstraction and The Holocaust
I can't believe that's what went down, however, with Peter Eisenman and Richard Serra. From its central formal device–passages between impenetrable, figure-dwarfing blocks–to its title, Memorial to the Six MIllion Murdered Jews of Europe, Eisenman and Serra [who subsquently removed his name from the project] had to have been very familiar with Kahn's proposal, and with the politically fraught development process that spawned it.
Oh, look, Mark Godfrey's 2007 book Abstraction and the Holocaust has an entire chapter on Kahn's Monument. [amazon, google books]
Anthony Vidler wrote about Kahn's memorials [cooper.edu]
The Louis Kahn Collection at UPenn has drawings and a different model of the memorial. [upenn.edu]
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Prairie Center Methodist Episcopal Church and Pleasant Hill Cemetery is a historic church and cemetery in rural Lincoln Township, southeast of Yale, Iowa, United States. The Methodist Episcopal Church established a congregation in 1866, and services were held in area schoolhouses until a frame building was constructed for a church in 1880. It was dedicated in January 1881. A cemetery was located across the road. Some of the graves predate the church and were moved from other cemeteries. As the congregation expanded the building was remodeled and a tower with a new entrance on the southeast corner, and an alcove on the north side were added. The orientation of the interior was changed so that the congregation, who had faced east, now faced north. A basement was dug below the sanctuary in 1925 for space for Sunday School classes. The church and cemetery were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. Services continue to be held in the church once a month.

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After she had locked up the house, Joanna retired to a window of the first floor, whence she could follow the proceedings. The Barbican was alive with people, and heads were protruded from all the windows. The evening was fine, no rain fell, no fog hung over the water and wharf. Joanna was girl enough to enjoy a blaze; though old beyond her years in her views of life and of men, she had not lost childlike pleasure in what is beautiful and what is exciting.
Presently Joanna heard the bray of a horn, and the hubbub of voices mingled with jeers, laughter, and whoops. A moment after a crowd of boys, young men, and girls poured down the narrow street that debouches on the quay, carrying in their midst, supported on their shoulders, seated on a chair above their heads, the Guy Fawkes. Torches were borne and waved about the figure, and on its reaching the open space a Bengal light blazed up.
Joanna saw at a glance whom the effigy was designed to represent, and why the celebration had evoked so much interest on this occasion.
The figure was that of Mr. Lazarus. There could be no mistaking it. His peculiarities of costume and attitude had been hit off with real genius. A mask had been made or obtained with a sausage nose, like his, and a smirk on the thick lips, like his. His old fur cap, with flaps to cover the ears, which he wore in the shop, was faithfully reproduced; so also his long-tailed greatcoat; his black tie, which would turn with the knot under the ear, without a vestige of linen collar. The effigy was represented holding a ham-bone, which it was gnawing.
The crowd flowed from the street, and spread over the Barbican open space. The figure was planted in front of the Golden Balls, and three groans were given for Lazarus the Jew.


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Canning pumpkin seems like a lovely fall preserve, but it isn't advised. This post will explain exactly why not, and will explain the safest way to preserve this fall flavor.
This subject undoubtedly will bring about cries from readers who will say truthfully that their mother, grandmother, and great grandmother have been canning pumpkin puree for years and no one has ever gotten sick.
To them I will say that I am truly happy that they've never gotten botulism. That would be a real bummer to have diarrhea for a week, or worse, if you were elderly or had a compromised immune system.
One of my favorite college professors specialized in food, culture, and literature. She taught me a lot about how strongly people feel about their food and the love that goes into preparing it. I showed up to every single one of her classes at 8 am on Friday mornings in Taylor Hall of Chico State, even though Thursday nights were a very fun night indeed and I would have much rather slept in because she was such a great teacher. She shared example after example of how we eat what we eat, because of our mothers, because of our geography, and because of our husbands. It all made perfect sense to me, and her early morning lessons really ring true now that I'm blogging about canning.
I had a follower on social media recently reference the 1973 edition of the Better Homes and Gardens Canning Cookbook when she stated that she was following the directions therein to can pumpkin puree. I'm sure that book had great directions for doing so…44 years ago. I too love reading old cookbooks for inspiration and using recipes that my great grandma used- those old recipes make me feel genuinely connected to the women in my family and the recipes are usually dang good!
But here's the problem. Canning science has improved in the last 44 years, and the latest recommendations by the USDA are that you CANNOT safely engage in canning pumpkin puree.
I could not, in good conscience, suggest to any reader, that they preserve pumpkin puree based on that science.
Pumpkin is a low acid vegetable. It is also very dense. Even in a pressure canner, which gets over 220 degrees, it is too dense for the heat to reliably penetrate the puree to kill any potential botulism spores.
Don't worry, new canners; there are VERY FEW items that you cannot preserve in a home canning setup and this is one of them. Truly, very few. And, just like when you bake bread, you don't have to understand why or how the bread rises. You DO have to follow the directions in order for it to work. Canning is the same. You just have to follow the directions.
All foods have an acid value, which I explain in detail in this blog post at my sister site, The Domestic Wildflower, and I suggest you check it out to learn more!
Cubed is required because a trusted recipe TESTED the size of the cubes (1 inch by 1 inch) and measured the heat inside those little cubes to be sure that it was hot enough inside to kill the spoilers that would make you uncomfortably sick.
It is for this reason that you cannot ever can spaghetti squash at all- it won't hold a cube shape and becomes a mushy mass that the heat, again, can't reliably penetrate. And, doesn't that sound super unappetizing?
Cubed winter squash must be peeled first, which seems like a colossal chore to me personally, but it can be done.
So, what should you do if pumpkin is your favorite fall flavor and you want to preserve it?
It can be frozen, and I'd recommend these wide mouth pint jars for freezing.
You can check this page on the USDA site for more detailed, and tested by science specifics on exactly what you can and cannot do with pumpkin.
I have several easy, safe recipes that you should check out. Try the Strawberry Rhubarb Syrup, or the Ranch Style Salsa (very few ingredients- so easy!).
If this post was interesting to you, you'll learn this type of thing and more in my new book, Love Into Jars and I hope you'll sign up to the waitlist. That way, you'll get sneak peeks, exclusive content, and be the first to know when the book is available for pre-order!


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Google Inc (GOOG) Turns YouTube Into YouPayTube By The Summer
Published on May 9, 2013 at 6:07 pm by David Woodburn in News
Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) has already cultivated a strong revenue stream through its various properties, especially with its advertising on YouTube, which has about a billion visitors every month from around the world. Google has made a lot of money off YouTube, even as the nearly one billion monthly visitors watched content for free. And with thousands upon thousands of channels developed on the site, there is a definite feel of a cable provider going on here.
Maybe that is the inspiration for Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) in its new plan for YouTube, as it announced that it will begin offering 30 dedicated subscription-only channels on the video-streaming site beginning in June. Users may subscribe to each channel individually (like a la carte cable) for a monthly subscription as low as 99 cents per month. The average subscription rate, however, would be about $3 per month per channel.
Google indicated that it will start with 30 channels for now and likely may increase it in the future. The channels will range from Roger Corman-directed movies (yes, there is a dedicated channel) to Sesame Street and other children's programming are part of the initial list of subscription channels offered.
Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) said that YouTube may keep almost half of the revenue generated from the subscriptions, and individual channels can have their own incentives, like 2-minute snippets of videos for free before asking to subscribe, reduced rates for annual subscriptions and 14-day free trials.
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Dodie Cantrell-Bickley Named vice President and General Manager of WMAZ-TV
McLEAN, VA – Dodie Cantrell-Bickley today was named vice president and general manager of WMAZ-TV, the Gannett-owned CBS affiliate in Macon, GA. Cantrell-Bickley will assume the general manager duties from Don McGouirk who will remain as president of WMAZ-TV, until his retirement in December 2005.
"Dodie knows and loves this market. She has been a great contributor to the incredible results WMAZ has realized and she has been a very active voice in the community. I have every confidence in her ability to continue the wonderful tradition of service to the community and success that WMAZ has achieved under Don's leadership," said Craig Dubow, who has been named president and CEO of Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI) effective July 15.
Cantrell-Bickley was named News Director for WMAZ in 1992. Prior to that, she was executive producer for WMAZ and had a number of on-air roles including investigative and consumer reporter.
Cantrell – Bickley received her undergraduate degree from Mercer University and recently completed graduate studies at Georgia College and State University. She currently serves on the steering committee of the Mercer Executive Forum, and is on the board of The Museum of Arts and Sciences. She has served on numerous other charitable and consumer-related boards and committees.
McGouirk was named president of WMAZ in 1996. He has served as general manager since 1982. McGouirk began his broadcasting career in 1968 as an account executive at WCWB-TV in Macon and spent all but four years of his distinguished career in Macon. In 2004, he was inducted into the Georgia Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame.
McGouirk is active in community organizations including the Executive Board of NewTown Macon, the Board of Directors of The Center Georgia Cancer Coalition, the Board of Directors of the Grand Opera House and the Northeast Public High School Council. He is past president of the Georgia Association of Broadcasters, The Museum of Arts and Sciences, the Advertising Federation of Central Georgia, the Macon Downtown Council, and Campaign Chairman for the United Way of Central Georgia.
Other Gannett TV stations are: W*USA, Washington, DC; WXIA, Atlanta; WTSP, Tampa-St. Petersburg; KARE, Minneapolis; WKYC, Cleveland; KPNX, Phoenix, KNAZ, Flagstaff and KMOH, Kingman; K*USA, Denver; KXTV, Sacramento; KSDK, St. Louis; WZZM, Grand Rapids, MI; WGRZ, Buffalo, NY; WFMY, Greensboro, NC; WTLV and WJXX, Jacksonville, FL; KTHV, Little Rock; WBIR, Knoxville, TN; WCSH, Portland, ME; WLTX, Columbia, SC; and WLBZ, Bangor, ME.
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Assessment of Choline-Chloride based Ionic Liquids for Metal Deposition Seminar
Room 2003, Building 27 Chemistry University of Southampton Southampton So17 1BJ
For more information regarding this seminar, please email Dr Andrew Hector at A.L.Hector@soton.ac.uk .
Prof Sudipta Roy presents this seminar as part of the Electrochemistry seminar series.
Electrodeposition from ionic liquids have been heralded as the sustainable option to plating processes which require corrosive or toxic chemicals. At Newcastle we are testing the potential of ionic liquids (more precisely deep eutectic solvents, DES's) for their potential to replace aqueous based plating operations. We have used a typical DES to plate copper, tin, and copper-tin alloys. In this presentation we will show the results obtained for copper deposition, and use it as an example to determine the issues which require resolution for its industrial use.
Cu electroplating was carried out using a pure ethaline melt, a 1:2 ratio of choline chloride and ethylene glycol, at room temperature by potentiostatic and galvanostatic methods. Hydrated cupric chloride, which is usually used in industry, was added to the pure ethaline melt. Polarisation data for cupric ion reduction to copper was collected using an RDE to determine where metal deposition was feasible. XRD analysis of the deposit showed a polycrystalline face centered cubic structure with (111) texture. The crystalline size was 66±10 nm with some internal strain. EDX analysis showed the presence of carbon and chlorine with copper in the deposit, which was due to the break-down of the DES.
Several deposition processes were carried out from a single bath to examine bath stability. The bath was found to be stable when a soluble anode was employed, and became unstable when an insoluble anode was used due to other reactions proceeding at the cathode. Plating rates for copper deposition were compared against those for aqueous systems. In addition, the cost and availability of the DES was set against that of water-based electrolytes to determine if such processes could provide economical solution.
Prof Sudipta Roy, Newcastle University. Prof Sudipta Roy graduated from IITDelhi (1985) with a BEng in Chemical Engineering. She finished her PhD studies from Tulane University (1986-1991), USA in electrochemical deposition, and then moved to the materials department in EPFL, Lausanne. She arrived in the UK to take up her position as Lecturer (1994), then Reader, and finally as a Professor of Electrochemical Nanomaterials in 2005. Her research interests are mainly in electrochemical processing of novel materials and their characterisation. She has spun out Royenface (2011) which aims to commercialise some of her expertise and inventions related to surface innovation and microfabrication using electrochemical processes. She serves on the Electrochemical Engineering working group of EFCE, the SCI-Electrochemical Technology Group, and is a Fellow of both Inst. Chemical Engineers and Inst. Metal Finishing.


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'We can't grumble': Osborne Clarke looks to capitalise on double-digit growth streak
Posted on 8 June 2018 00:01am 7 June 2018 17:33pm | Hamish McNicol
Financial results 2017/18 Osborne Clarke
Osborne Clarke (OC)'s leadership duo had two reasons to party in Brussels overnight: it has been five years since the firm opened an office there, and the latest financial results confirmed a five-year average of double-digit revenue growth.
OC posted double-digit growth in both global and UK revenue for the 2017/18 financial year, up 14% to €273m and 15% to £139.3m respectively. Growth rates for both businesses are ahead of last year's 12% and 7% increases, although down on growth from the year before that.
UK net profit grew 17% to £61.2m, while profit per equity partner (PEP) jumped from £642,000 to £711,000. Its cash resources were steady at £23.1m.
OC UK managing partner Ray Berg told Legal Business the firm had seen consistent performance across all its practice groups and sectors in what he called strong market conditions.
The UK accounted for roughly 58% of the firm's revenue for the second year running, down slightly from the year before that. Berg said this was about the right split after a period of international expansion.
'We obviously want to continue to grow the business consistently across all of the offices but we've got to a position now where –yes – the UK is still the largest but you can see we've got a significant international business as well.
'We're beneficiaries of that in the UK, and not just from international workflows, but it also gives us a credence in the UK market with clients we didn't have before.'
OC has been adding global offices over the last five years, and in the past year opened in Sweden and Shanghai, the latter under the name Zhang Yu & Partners. Simon Beswick, the firm's international chief executive, told Legal Business attention would shift to growing the operations it had set up.
'The game for us now is all about adding strength and depth in all of those offices. It's not going to be about new office openings but what you should be hearing about is adding partners and adding people in those offices, as well as clients and work wins.'
The firm added 32 partners last year – including 15 in the UK – through lateral hires and internal promotions. In the UK it was appointed to the Department for Transport panel for the first time and was reappointed to panels for the Pension Protection Fund and Vodafone.
It also plans to invest in its OC Solutions business, which works on client-specific issues, to more jurisdictions. The team of about ten in the UK and a couple more in Germany has worked on about six projects – including developing a cloud-based platform for Vodafone's property legal work – and has about as many on the go at the moment.
The key question for OC, however, will be how it can maintain the momentum which has seen it be one of only three firms in the current UK top 100 to have more than doubled its revenue organically since 2012.
Speaking from that Brussels office, which has grown from seven lawyers to 25 since it opened, Berg agreed: 'That's the challenge. We've continued to set the bar very high for ourselves. The firm continues to grow and get bigger and it is really important we maintain our culture.'
Beswick added: 'Brexit will at some point change those market conditions but it's good all around our business at the moment. We can't grumble.'
hamish.mcnicol@legalbusiness.co.uk
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