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Eight things Apple could do to prove it actually cares about App Store users
September 3, 2021 by editorialteam
When you spend money in Apple's App Store, the company generally takes a 30 percent cut — one that adds up to an estimated $19 billion per year. Apple's currently in the fight of its life to prove to judges, government regulators, and its own developers that it deserves those dollars, but not everyone's buying it anymore.
Over the past seven days alone, South Korea declared its disbelief on the global stage, passing a landmark bill that could keep Apple and Google from directly collecting their 30 percent cut, and may inspire other governments to do the same. Developers also expressed their rage at an Apple press release, where the company spun its agreement to settle a lawsuit for $100 million as a $100 million fund for developers — while quietly promising 30 million of those dollars to the lawyers and enacting no truly significant changes. The CEO of Hopscotch shared her story of how Apple's App Store review team repeatedly gaslit her, insisting there was an issue with the well-liked kids coding app that didn't actually exist.
What does Apple's 30 percent buy you?
On Wednesday, Apple made a slightly more significant concession for (big) developers, and as Nick Heer writes, the company seems to have momentarily dropped its smug tone. But we don't need to get into complex developer negotiations to point out the head-bangingly obvious ways Apple is falling down on the job.
While the company claims the App Store is "curated by experts," that it is "a safe and trusted place to discover and download apps," and that it holds apps to "the highest standards for privacy, security, and content," the company's own emails paint a different picture. They show that Apple knew for years about the exact kind of egregious scams that bilk iPhone users out of millions of dollars, long before our report, and yet they keep failing to stop them from invading the App Store.
It bears repeating: Apple is the most valuable and profitable company in the world. The company currently makes $10,000 every second on average, $3,600 of which is profit, a large portion of which comes from the App Store itself. (The App Store alone has been a bigger business than the Mac or iPad since 2016, see #10 here.)
If Apple wanted to change this system, it could. But I expect Apple will only be dragged kicking and screaming into a world with a more functional App Store, because it seems incapable of taking the blindingly obvious steps that might better protect its users — again, despite being the most valuable and profitable company in the world.
Here are eight to start.
1. Hire an App Review team big enough to actually do the job
Apple has 500 app reviewers. Just 500 against the entire world; 500 human beings expected to process 100,000 apps per week with some help from automated tools.
Even if you were to give Apple the benefit of the doubt and assume that every one of them is a skilled, savvy surveyor sussing out scams in a snap, the math barely makes sense. Even though App Store reviewers typically work 10-hour days (#68), the sheer volume of apps means each reviewer would only get 15 minutes to evaluate each app — and only then if they worked without taking any breaks. (Documents also suggest they may work quite a bit of overtime.)
"a wetware rate limiting service and nothing more"
Emails from the Epic v. Apple trial suggest App Review isn't necessarily that savvy either, with Apple head of fraud Eric Friedman calling the department "a wetware rate limiting service and nothing more" (#60), and suggesting its goal is simply to get apps through the pipe. Other documents from the trial seem to back up that idea, repeatedly showing how the App Review team continually pushed for a faster "SLA" (service level agreement, a guarantee that it would review apps in a certain period of time) and sometimes made mistakes when they were working too quickly (#65), letting bad apps into the store.
How big should Apple's App Review team actually be? Hard to say, but Facebook says it has upwards of 15,000 content moderators, Google tells us it has over 20,000 reviewers across its many services, and even Twitter has 2,200 checkers, the company tells The Verge.
These other platforms admittedly have far more messages than Apple to review — but then again, none of them claim to offer "the highest standards for privacy, security and content" while testing entire programs that run on a pocket computer. Apple could likely do a better job with more reviewers.
And again, Apple is the most valuable and profitable company in the world, unlike, say, Twitter. It's pretty easy to argue that the number of moderators should be higher.
2. Police its most profitable apps for fraud
This isn't rocket science. Anyone can do it. I did it. You can too. Just look for the apps on the App Store that are making the most money, find ones with suspicious user reviews, and inspect them for stupidly high subscription prices — say, $9.99 every single week for a wallpaper app that just repackages wallpapers you can download for free online. Congrats, you've found a scam!
The head of Apple's App Review program wrote in January 2018 that "We need to think about how to stop this from happening," referencing an entire 32-page presentation about how to trick users into paying for recurring subscriptions using apps that harvest wallpaper, horoscopes, and ringtones off the internet for free. (#64) Yet we saw those same exact scams still running three years later. When I asked Apple whether it ever goes back to check its top grossing apps for fraud, the company wouldn't give me a straight answer.
3. Automatic scam refunds
A dark thought crossed my mind while reporting on App Store scams: maybe Apple doesn't stop them because it's more profitable to look the other way. There's no evidence of that, but you know what Apple could do to eliminate that ugly idea entirely? Universal automatic scam refunds.
When Apple retroactively removes scammy apps from the App Store — as it sometimes does when journalists and developers call them out — it should automatically give people back their money, and warn them to stop using those apps.
That clearly isn't what Apple does today. The company told me it has to review fraud on a case-by-case basis (read: not automatically) even when I specifically pointed out that Apple VP Kyle Andreer told Congress under oath that it makes scammed customers whole again. Customers have the option to ask for refunds, but how would they even know to do that, or even stop getting scammed, if Apple doesn't tell them about the fraud?
4. Stop auto-renewing subscriptions by default
People hate pop-up messages. You know what kind of pop-up messages I wouldn't hate? Ones that ask me if I'd genuinely like to keep subscribing to an app or service before I get charged for another month. Every single time, I'd know the App Store was looking out for me, instead of looking out for the company that's secretly hoping I'm the kind of customer who never bothers to check my credit card bill.
I don't expect Apple to actually do this, because I expect it would be losing out on an immense amount of profit, and might drive some of the most lucrative developers away from the platform — the kind that were leaving because they thought Apple already made it too easy to quit their service. But it would immediately fix the problems of so many people who, when they realized they'd been scammed, went to the reviews section of the App Store to complain that they didn't know how to cancel their subscription.
If Apple truly cared, they'd take the same stance with people's money as they do with privacy:
"Ask them. Ask them every time. Make them tell you to stop asking them if they get tired of your asking them."
Don't auto-renew subscriptions by default.https://t.co/DVOViWOtzu
— Kosta Eleftheriou (@keleftheriou) April 14, 2021
I think scam hunter Kosta Eleftheriou has it exactly right: "If Apple truly cared, they'd take the same stance with people's money as they do with privacy," the same stance that Apple CEO Steve Jobs himself articulated so clearly in 2010. "Ask them every time. Make them tell you to stop asking them if they get tired of your asking them," Jobs said about privacy.
5. Stop selling ads atop App Store search results
While it's hard for me to be entirely sympathetic with Epic Games' fight to secure more Fortnite profits, I believe CEO Tim Sweeney got one thing very right years before he sued. It is ridiculous that the top App Store search result is almost never what you're searching for — because another developer can pay Apple to take it away from you.
Really, how did we get to this state? The store prioritizes ad revenue above user intent, so now developers buy ads in front of each others' products so that exactly nobody's search results lead to the actual thing they typed. Who in this cycle isn't crazy?
— Tim Sweeney (@TimSweeneyEpic) July 19, 2018
It seems some developers have gotten wise to this, and by "wise" I mean given into Apple's greed: Walmart and PUBG Mobile appear to be paying for the ad slots above their own apps, so searching for them hilariously gives you the same exact app twice in a row. Can you believe Apple's original plan to give 15 percent back to small developers (#11) was to give them store credit for these search ads? "We'll let you have a portion of the advantage we give to richer companies who pay us" doesn't sound that generous to me.
These search ads are plainly user-hostile, even if other search providers do it too — and Apple could make a serious statement about its commitment to users by eliminating them from the App Store.
6. Lock underage users out of adult apps
In April, we wrote how Apple had unwittingly invited secret gambling dens into the App Store that masqueraded as games for kids. Bait-and-switch apps aren't an easy thing for Apple to protect against, so I can't call that an egregious failure — though maybe they'd catch more of them if they had more reviewers, yeah?
Anyway, the Tech Transparency Project recently discovered that minors don't even have to stumble upon a secret gambling den to access illicit content — the App Store will serve up blatantly adult apps even if Apple already knows that a user is underage. Creating an Apple ID for a simulated 14-year-old, the Project found 37 adult apps that allowed them to sign up, including dating apps that showed explicit adult content and a casino game, and saw advertisements pop up for additional casino apps that were rated for the 17+ age group.
According to trial documents, Apple's head of fraud mentioned in February 2020 that the App Store had a problem with child predators, calling it an "under-resourced challenge" and also an "active threat." (#71). Stopping minors from accessing certain apps wouldn't be a silver bullet, but it feels like an obvious patch for an embarrassing hole: otherwise, why does Apple bother to collect our ages at all?
7. Bring back the "Report a problem" button
And while we're on the topic of people who actually identify scammy apps in the App Store and leave their unanswered pleas for help there: did you know the App Store used to have an actual "Report a problem" button on every single app?
When I asked Apple about this, the company told me it still exists, but it feels like a joke by comparison. Here's why:
The only way to naturally discover the new link is for users to scroll all the way down to the bottom of the Apps or Games tab. You can't even access it from your purchases tab.
It doesn't actually open in the App Store itself; it launches a web browser, where you need to log in again.
If you pick "Report suspicious activity," the site redirects you to contact Apple Support instead of actually submitting a report.
If you pick "Report a quality issue," free-to-download apps are greyed out, with no way to click on them. Apple won't let you report a scam unless you've already fallen for it.
The only other options are "Request a refund" and "Find my content."
If you pick "Request a refund," none of the drop-down options allow you to report a scam.
It's possible, even likely, that if Apple allowed just anyone to report scams it would be inundated by false reports from rival developers. But Apple already fosters an environment where bad actors can game the system: buying up hundreds or thousands of fake star scores.
8. Kill off star ratings
Star scores make platforms look good. They allow people who like a product to quickly and easily give it a good "review" with a minimum of effort — unlike traditional reviews where many people only bother to write something when they're frustrated and angry. Star scores can theoretically even out the bias towards negative reviews, making every product on a storefront look better than it would otherwise seem.
Stars let scams flourish
But they also allow bad actors to destroy the integrity of the system, because it's impossible for most people to tell whether an actual user, a robot, or a paid stooge added that 5-star rating. There's no name to check, no language requirement, no meaningful accountability. So it's no surprise that some of the most egregious App Store scams we described in April had seemingly thousands of fake 5-star reviews propping them up — to the point that an app with a 4.5-star rating in the App Store would have actually been rated a 1.7 if you looked at the written reviews.
So far, Apple's solution has been to purge fake ratings, and seemingly after the fact. But it could also just purge star scores to begin with, and find a better way — like, say, only allowing positive reviews from people who've used an app for a certain length of time. Other platforms like Amazon and Google have similar star score problems; this is an opportunity for Apple to lead.
In May, Apple reported that it stopped $1.5 billion in potentially fraudulent transactions before they went through, permanently banned a million accounts, terminated hundreds of thousands of developer accounts, and rejected nearly a million risky apps in 2020 alone. It clarified to The Verge that that $1.5 billion was directly attributable to Apple, too, not just payment processors automatically doing their job. They sound like impressive numbers for a single year on the job.
But the App Store still contains obvious issues that anyone can see. If the company wants to justify a 30 percent cut in the name of keeping customers safe, it should embrace some obvious solutions too; ones that vividly show Apple puts people ahead of profits, instead of the other way around.
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Brett Snyder checks out the business class cabin on Lufthansa's 747-8. The carrier is the only airline to operate the plane, a stretched-out version of a normal 747.
Lufthansa inaugurated 747-8 service to Los Angeles on Monday, and the airport welcomed the new aircraft with a water cannon salute. Lufthansa is the only passenger airline to operate this airplane, a stretched and upgraded version of the 747.
The most radical change for Lufthansa passengers is in the business class cabin where the old angled seats have been replaced by brand new flat beds. They are in a 2-2-2 configuration on the main deck and 2-2 on the upper deck. Seats are at a slight angle toward the person next to you.
The seat backs in front have individual screens, a small pocket for magazines, and a little storage area at the bottom.
The slight seat angle means that your feet end up being very close to those of the person next to you. Reports from people who have flown say it hasn't been an issue. The extra space around the head and shoulders, meanwhile, makes a big difference.
The large screen tilts out sideways so that it lines up with the traveler's viewing angle.
After takeoff, seats can be moved around. This position is one of the presets and is meant for relaxing.
The seat does go fully flat. Despite my tortured look, it was actually comfortable. The head is protected in a private cocoon so you don't see anyone else, even though your feet end up being so close to the person next door.
Without me in the seat, you can see that the left armrest goes down, providing enough width on the bed to be comfortable—otherwise, this would be pretty claustrophobic.


Stefani Bardin explores the influences of corporate culture and industrial food production on our food system and the environment. She works with neuroscientists, biologists and gastroenterologists to ground her research in the scientific world. These investigations take the form of single and multi-channel videos, immersive and interactive installations as well as tools for measuring and/or mediating these influences. In January 2015 she began a residency at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU where she also teaches classes in Food + Technology + Science + Design. In Spring/Summer 2014 she did a Process Space Residency with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council on Governor's Island and was an artist in residence at Eyebeam Art + Technology Center from 2010-2012. She is based in New York and teaches at Parsons The New School For Design, and in the Graduate Food Studies Program at NYU. At the IPK she organizes the Food and the City working group.


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Q: Word for brands that mass produce cheap goods too? I can't remember where I read this term/word. It's a name given to those brands that also produce goods that are cheap along with expensive ones, therefore still allowing people to hold on to the 'brand name'. Does anyone know this?

A: According to MoneyCrashers…

• Capsule Collections. Capsule collections are made up of a few staple pieces that best showcase a designer's work or a certain brand collaboration. Because there are only a few staple pieces, the brand can mass manufacture the same jackets, pants, dresses, and skirts over and over again, driving down prices so they're more affordable. You'll still get the name and similar quality, but you'll spend less. Capsule collections are also typically a limited run – once they're gone, they're gone.

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Emirates is adding Edinburgh to its list of European destinations as of October 1.
The airline has also introduced My Travel to complement its loyalty programme, Emirates Skywards. This allows family members to pool Skywards Miles for faster redemption of rewards.


* 1. A tractor at full load is ________ decibels.
* 2. Any noise over _______ decibels can cause hearing loss over a prolonged period.
* 3. True or False: The most severe type of hearing loss occurs when decibels reach 160 and the eardrum ruptures.
* 4. True or False: If you are in a noisy location and have to raise your voice above normal speaking to be heard, the volume is probably still within a safe range.
* 5. True or False: Pigs squealing are equivalent to 100 decibels.


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The Week's Best iPad Apps
Jackass: Tens Years of Stupid: Jackass: Ten Years of Stupid for iPad is a behind the scenes look of the biggest Jackasses we know: Knoxville, Steve-O, Pontius, Wee-Man, etc. There's video clips, gross photos, and essays on the entire history of Jackass. It's awesome to re-watch some of the epic skits, look back on the history and see the creative-yeah, I said creative-process behind the show. There's also two super simple games to waste your time on too. $5
Hound: Hound is a voice recognition app that's essentially a really, really good music-specific search engine. You speak an artist's name or song title into the app and it'll pop out all the stuff you want to know. The voice recognition part of Hound is great-it's the future!-but the results page of Hound is what will keep it on your phone. Like SoundHound, Hound will spit out a ton of information for you. If you're searching for a song you'll get lyrics, YouTube clips, an iTunes link, a Pandora station link, ringtones, similar artists and sharing options. If you're looking for an artist you'll be loaded with their bio, concert dates, a full discography and more. Free
Merriam-Webster Dictionary: Merriam-Webster has been iPad-ized and it looks beautiful. Hold your iPad in portrait orientation, and it's kind of a ho-hum app that lets you search for words. Turn it landscape, however, and it acquires a scrollbar that lets you smoothly browse through every word of the dictionary. Free.
Opera Mini 6: Opera Mini, the fast-ish browser previously available for the iPhone, has finally made its way to the iPad. The speed dial, 'tabbed browsing' and trademark zippiness of Opera Mini is all there. Sure there are a ton of capable web browsers for the iPad, but Opera Mini is a little better at compressing data than the others (that's important in these 3G data crunching days!).
WatchESPN: With the right cable provider, you can watch ESPN channels on your iPad now. It's effing awesome and a must download for any sports fan. Free.
Aelios Weather: It's an impressive weather app that's meant to show you what the weather is like across the world. Imagine having a globe where when you pin point a city, you immediately get the current temperature, 24-hour forecast, 7-day forecast, sunrise/sunset time and current time of that city. $3
Watchlaterapp: Watchlaterapp is like Instapaper, but specifically made for videos. It's a two step process. You either install a bookmarklet to your browser or email a link to your special Watchlaterapp email account, and it'll pop up in the iPad app for your viewing pleasure later. You can even save videos to watch offline, as Watchlaterapp gives you a free 300 minutes of video storage.
Leafsnap: Leafsnap is the smartphone user's secret weapon to a more meaningful relationship with trees. It's incredibly simple and strangely addictive: find a tree, grab a leaf, snap a picture. The app scans its outline-parsing criteria like smooth or jagged edges, single- or many-lobed-and tells you what tree it thinks it came from. It's similar to the "whoa! this is the future" feeling you get when you deposit a check via smartphone.
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Mostly lame. The leaf app is pretty cool though especially when you desperately need to know if you're looking at poison ivy and poison oak. Most of these apps just appear to be more ways for the authors to do the same thing. IMHO, the best apps are ones that give you functionality you can't get on a laptop or desktop computer.

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(Huntrdfk)- Wow, have to think about this one. I have been married to my wonderful wife Heather for 10 1/2 years, we have two children, Hunter, age 9, and Avery, age 7. Both Heather and I grew up right here in Somersworth, New Hampshire, with me being the oldest of six children, and she being the youngest of six in her family. Both of our parents still live less than a mile from our house. Funny thing is that we grew up about a quarter mile away from each other in a relatively small town, and I never knew her until I was 35. Go figure. I owe an awful lot to my parents and my grandparents for the way I've turned out, they've done a wonderful job with all of us, if I can do that with Hunter and Avery I think they'll be ok. I have been pretty athletic my entire life, and gravitated to baseball and golf when I was young. Then, when I was 12, one of my uncles asked if I wanted to go bowhunting with him. He had no idea what he was doing, and I less, but I was hooked on hunting from the get go. He never killed a deer in his life, and is the only person in my family besides me that hunted. He hunted with me, bow and gun, until I went in the military when I was 20. I owe him for that, and will never forget it. In the Air Force, I took a break from hunting for a few years, and then found myself in the Alaskan Interior for my last year. It was unbelieveable, and I haven't stopped hunting since. I started to bowhunt again in 1981, but fell into the craze of the compound. In 1993, back in New Hampshire, I was working at an archery shop when a co-worker convinced me to buy a recurve. It was a PSE Raven made by Jeffrey(?) and while I enjoyed shooting it I continued to hunt with my compound until 1999, when I finally made the switch and have not looked back. It's funny, I had lost touch with that coworker, and opened the current issue of PBS to find him looking back at me behind a bear in Quebec. I was able to track him down and finally thank him for nudging me into traditional archery. His name is Michael Kissel, if you happen to see this Mike, here is a public thanks! The first couple of years I hunted with a recurve, then moved to a longbow for a year, and in the fall of 2004 I jumped in with both feet and started to make selfbows. So, now I pretty much shoot, make bows, and coach my son in baseball and golf. I consider myself lucky right now in that both Avery and Hunter like to shoot, and Hunter wants to hunt with me next year. I hope that they both continue in this vein, but I those are choices that they will have to make, not me. Overall I consider myself pretty lucky, I have a great family, a job I like and have met some wonderful friends right here on this site.
(Huntrdfk)- I am a Captain in my hometown police department in charge of the Detective Division.
I've been on the job for 23 years, so can retire anytime I want, but why would I do that when I still like what I do?
(Huntrdfk)- Exclusively for six years.
(Huntrdfk)- In life, my grandfather without question, both as a hero and a role model. In traditional archery, not so much hero's as role models, most of them right here on this site. I have not met anyone here I would not want to hunt with again or shoot with again.
(Huntrdfk)- Right eye is dominant, and evrything I do is right handed.
(Huntrdfk)- I shoot right handed.
(Huntrdfk)- Well, as I said earlier, the seed was planted by my uncle, and it just grew. I've hunted with nothing but a bow since 1990, and wouldn't have it any other way.
(Huntrdfk)- I do, and will never forget it. It's a unique story, and each fall is still mentioned at my brother's workplace. He is a morning DJ on radio talkshow, it broadcasts all over NH, and parts of Maine, Vermont and Mass. He's also a big Nascar fan, and convinced me to go to a race with him in 2001. I am not a fan. Well, we went, we got in the garage area, met crew chiefs and drivers and so forth. We watched the entire race, and when we were done I told him he was going to sit in a stand with me that fall. (While he supports hunting, he is not a hunter or outdoorsman) Well, he got the idea that we would play this up on his show, and we'd talk about hunting in a positive way. I did the scouting, and got this group of bucks on video, including a decent 11 pointer with a injured shoulder. We did a number of spots on the show, it was very positive and got a great response. The afternoon we hunted we didn't see any deer until dusk, and we had to stay in the stands until after legal shooting, but had a group of five bucks come by at ten yards, including that eleven pointer. He and another deer sparred right in front of us, it was awesome. Greg did a great job in the stand, and we left without disturbing the deer after they moved on by. We did another piece on the radio the next morning, and that night I went back and shot the 11 point at 17 yards. I'll never forget it, that buck is now on my wall, and like I said, they still talk about that piece each fall on their show.
(Huntrdfk)- I shoot with a Damascus glove.
Mike Huston (4nolz) sends that bow out like he does to be hunted. Amazing.
(Huntrdfk)- Right now it is an osage selfbow I made this spring, it is 54lbs@29", 64"ntn. From that I shoot birch shafts with either Magnus broadheads or Wensel Woodsmans. I just finished another osage selfbow that I plan to use on turkeys this spring.
(Huntrdfk)- I guess it would be to find a mentor to take you under his wing. It took me a long time on my own before I began to become successful, but once I sought out and found bowhunters with the same values as I that knew what they were doing, my success rate skyrocketed. Then be persistent and patient.
(Huntrdfk)- I mainly hunt from treestands, though in the last two years I have hunted from the ground a little more. Those close encounters on the ground are a rush!
(Huntrdfk)- Both of my kids like to fish, and Hunter wants to hunt next year, but that is it.
(Huntrdfk)- I make my own arrows, and for about a year now have been making selfbows. My first five blew up, but I've been pretty lucky since then. I never would have got to that point if not for the great selfbowyers here, they got me to where I am, (still a novice), and for that I thank them.
(Huntrdfk)- I want to go back to Alaska, also Iowa for big whitetails.
(Huntrdfk)- Mostly private, but here in NH, unless it is posted or you are asked not to hunt there by a landowner, private land is open to hunting.
(Huntrdfk)- With the right morning spot, I prefer mornings, but find myself hunting evenings more.
(Huntrdfk)- A few times this year I hunted like Mickey, wearing a plaid flannel shirt and jeans, and that was fun. I do wear camo most of the time, and most of my camo is Predator.
I use a scent eliminator spray, and never go into the woods without a grunt call.
(Huntrdfk)- I do, for squirrels and rabbits, and if I am up north any grouse that try to get in my way.
(TG)- You can invite 3 tradgang members to share a campfire, who are they and why did you choose them?
you know you would love to share a camp with. I've hunted with Jeff Holchin, (moose), Shawn Leonard and Curt Cabrera, (deer), then all the guys on Shawn's bunny hunt, and would hunt with any one of those guys at the drop of a hat again, and at some point will. I can honestly say that there is not one person that I've met here from TradGang that I would not share a campfire with, and that is the God's honest truth.
(TG)- You mentioned that newcomers should find a mentor, do you have one? If so, who is it?
(Huntrdfk)- No, I don't have one. The reason that I think that it is important is because I know how long it took me to get where I am now. I see what having mentor's do to the new guys that come on my job, and know that having the right mentor for a new bowhunter would ease growing pains greatly for them. It's so much easier to learn hands on from someone that knows what he is doing than from books, and I think it would also lessen the chances that a new bowhunter will leave archery prematurely.
(TG)- How does it feel to be part of history killing an animal with the LDB?
(Huntrdfk)- I don't know that I can adequately describe how I felt. After I shot the turkey I just sat there trembling at what I had done. I was alone when I shot her, and even after I found her I just sat there for awhile looking at the bird and the bow, knowing that what I had done was pretty special. I still look at the photos of that hunt often, and it brings a smile to my face to reread the story or look at the tail and beard display that Curt made for me. I can tell you that it ranks near the top of all the hunts that I have ever been on, and I will never forget it.
(TG)- What is one thing I haven't asked that you would like for people to know about you?
(Huntrdfk)- That's a tough question. I guess it would be that I would like all of you to know that while I am not the near the best bowyer out there, nor the best hunter out there, is that if there is ever anything I can do to help anyone please feel free to ask. If you are ever in New Hampshire, call me, my home is always open to all of you. Lastly, one of the mantras of this site is respect, "expect to be respected". If we all went through life with this simple rule, just think of what kind of world this would be. My golden rule to my kids and the people that work for me is, treat people the way you would like to be treated, it works wonders.
That's my bud!!! He's even nicer in person!
Good to have these back and a perfect candidate for the the new year.
and Thanks for bringing back the interview section. I enjoy learning more about the others on this site. We all have a lot in common.
Good to have these interviews back! Nice to get to know you, David. Good luck with that selfbow.
Good interview, I too look forward to learning more about fellow Tradgangers.
I met David through a simple thread on the Bowsite when I drew my NH moose tag, asking "would it be stupid to hunt with my recurve only, since this may be my only moose tag ever?". Eveybody said it would indeed be stupid and recommended using my rifle......except one guy - David! Not only did David encourage me to bowhunt moose, he went to my unit and scouted it for me, then joined me for several days of adventure. I knew from the moment we shook hands on that cold mountain, that this was a good man, and that someday I would repay him by helping on his great bowhunting adventure. I hope to do that soon.
Oh, I've been waiting for this one - I gotta come back when i have more time. However I have to say Dave, though we've become close on here, it really shocked me when I scanned past your pic (to get here), with your son. I had to go back, as I thought I had seen a pic of my oldest Brother, Everete, (I'm serious - take a look on my web site at pics of him and even Pop and my other (late) brother,"Dag" on my Gallery pages) in his younger days (he's 79 now and still in NH). I will be back to read this at my leisure.
Good one to pick back up with, Terry!
Thanks guys, I was suprised to see this at the top, I had forgotten all about it, and am humbled by the kind words.
Looking forward to seeing you again David.
I can't beleive you've only been making selfbows for a year. You've either got the gift, or you're one persistent sob.
We'll have to get out and swing the club together sometime. My next favorite sport after archery is golf.
Great interview Dave...I can personally tell you that you wont' meet a finer gentlemen in the Trad ranks. Whether its busting through briars at Shawns Bunny hunt or sharing a cold one afterwards...always a kind word and helping hand.
PS...And I'm not being nice just so we can Moose hunt togehter either!
"Neal...is this heaven?" "No Piute but we are dam close". Top of the Mtn in Medicine Bow Nat Forest.
WOW!!!!!!!!!! What can I say that has not already been said!!!!!
I met David a few years ago at Shawns Bunny Hunt and we hit it right off. Every year my family and I attend the White Mountain Traditional Bowhunters Rendezvous in New Hampshire and I asked David if he had ever attended this great weekend event. David said that he had not but we made plans to meet at the rendezvous that summer.
David and Hunter were there when we arrived and Hunter and my boys Kevin and Tyler instantly became inseparatable.I spent the weekend with David shooting and talking and it just felt like we had been friends for YEARS.By the end of the weekend we were all good friends and the White Mountain Rendezvous has become a yearly get-together ever since.
David is a Great Man,and I am Honored to have him as a friend.
May The Great Spirit Guide Your Arrows..... Happy Hunting!!!
Great to get to know more about you David. Really looking forward to meeting you at Shawn's bunny hunt. We really have to quit saying all these nice things about Jeff Holchin. He's going to get a big head and stop doing all the work at camp. So I'll start by saying something bad about him. He is a terrible salmon fisherman! I hope to get an article in PBS soon that will illustrate what I mean!
Great interview! That is a great picture of you and your son too. You have a good outlook on life, my friend.
Terry, thanks for starting the interviews again, I've missed them.
Nice to know more about you David. I already know your a gifted and giving man. My grandson will know who made his first bow for sure. Congrads on the interview.
It's good to see the interviews back and it couldn't have started with a better man!


"Whether we are Christians or Muslims or nationalists or agnostics or atheists, we must first learn to forget our differences. If we have differences, let us differ in the closet; when we come out in front, let us not have anything to argue about until we get finished arguing with the man.
That's from a speech called The Ballot or the Bullet, given by Malcolm X in Cleveland in 1964. What Malcolm was essentially saying to those gathered, to those fighting for black rights, was this: present a united front. There can be internal debate, but let there be external solidarity when we face our enemy.
It's a solid strategy. Think about any notable company. Do you ever hear about the political strife, the in-fighting, the debates and the fallouts that occur behind the walls? No, of course not. Such events are kept away from prying eyes. Instead, they present a united, consistent front. Groups, communities and organisations hold a public position, but determine that position in private. And as individuals, we try to do that too.
One of the funniest things I've discovered from the interviews I've conducted is that, often, we say what we don't mean. In our quest to articulate our ideas, tell our stories and share our feelings, we mix up words and convey meanings we didn't intend. That's fine in regular conversation, but when you're on record, it doesn't look so good. See, we expect ourselves and others to be like organisations. We expect them to have one position and have all their actions and words align with it. But reality isn't that pretty.
Look at it another way. In our minds, from the things we've done and said, we create narratives. We manufacture stories about ourselves, others and the world which fit with our philosophies, expectations and perceived experiences. The quality that ties all these different narratives together is consistency. They all make sense. They have to. Else we wouldn't be able to interpret and process our lives. But our ability to create narratives, to create consistency, is both a gift and a curse.
It's a gift because it allows us to detect patterns, to learn, to grow, to evolve, to communicate. But it's a curse because it makes us think that our life must be consistent, that things must make sense, when a lot of the time, they don't. After all, what is a narrative of life except words and actions retroactively fitted to a particular theme?
It's this clash, this mismatch between reality and narrative, between the consistency and the inconsistency of our words and actions, that makes our existence interesting. Life is an irreconcilable conflict between what we do and what we intended to happen. Between what we say and what we mean.
I don't know what we're supposed to do with this realisation. We can't stamp out the inconsistencies. Then we wouldn't be human. But at the same time, we don't want to be known as a walking bundle of contradiction. Perhaps the best strategy is the one that Malcolm advocates. To the rest of the world, do your best to present a united front, to forget your differences. But when you're alone, inside your head, or when you're with friends, air those differences. Examine them. Question them. Test them.
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The Global Gender Gap Report, 2015
The 2015 Global Gender Gap Report is out. It's part of an annual series published by the World Economic Forum, focusing on how equal men and women appear to be globally in employment, education, health outcomes and political participation*.
The top ten countries (with the greatest gender equality measures overall) in 2015 are: Iceland (1), Norway (2), Finland (3), Sweden (4), Ireland (5), Rwanda (6), Philippines (7), Switzerland (8), Slovenia (9) and New Zealand (10).
Slovenia is a newcomer to that group. Note that because the reports focus on gaps between men and women, not overall levels of, say, political access, poorer nations can rise high in these rankings.
The bottom ten countries in 2015 are Egypt (136), Mali (137), Lebanon (138), Morocco (139), Jordan (140), Iran (141), Chad (142), Syria (143), Pakistan (144) and Yemen (145).
Yemen has stayed firmly at the bottom of these rankings for several years. I went back several years to check what might have happened to Syria's relative ranking, given the civil war that is raging there. Data on Syria was first included only in 2006 (some partial data), but it does look like Syria has slipped somewhat in the last few years. Still, with the exception of 2008, Syria's rankings were either in the bottom ten countries or just above that group.
You can look at the overall index and the four sub-indexes for all the included countries in Table 3 of the report. That will also give you some ideas about what is driving the above results. Note that it gives you no idea if any particular ranking in that table is that country's desired outcome. One might argue that gender equality is so high in the Nordic countries because it IS a desired outcome there.
The United States ranked 28th in the overall index this year. The report goes into much more detail about the reasons why individual countries, including the United States, moved up or down in the rankings.
* Somewhere I have a long post criticizing some of the methodological choices in that series, but, alas and alack, I cannot find it. This short post from 2009 must suffice instead.
Still, the gist of my criticism is partly to do with the way the four sub-indexes on gender equality are created and how they are aggregated. The actual data the reports use consist of a handful or two of easily available statistical indicators (the health index, as an example, uses only two measures). It's important to keep in mind that those statistics are the information in the reports; to end up with the various sub-indexes and the final overall index requires decisions about how to manipulate the initial statistics and how to aggregate them. These choices are by their very character somewhat arbitrary.
On the other hand, selecting a few widely available statistics and then following how countries do on them over years is not a bad starting point. It guarantees that the maximum number of countries can be included in the reports.
Guess how old this blog is in November 2015. Thanks for the years.
How To Defeat ISIS And Other Fables On Terrorism
Care to read a short story by a Townhall conservative columnist Kurt Schlichter? The blogs of Digby and No More Mister Nice review this imaginary masterpiece.
It's about what it would take to defeat ISIS, in the dreams of one conservative guy (as in "When I dream I'm a Viking"). The story has all the wish-fulfillment aspects of bubble-gum literature aimed at teenage boys (except for the tits and ass):
Macho men killing everything that moves (but for the good, of course), refusal to negotiate with any foreign power (stomp over them), the utter humiliation of liberals (enemies), Democrats (enemies) and anyone opposing easy access to guns in the US (individual citizens successfully kill terrorists in public places but only in Republican states), simplistic scenarios where the hero faces no real obstacles (because of extreme use of military power), unending cheering by the grateful American crowds (who love the rising dead body counts from Iraq and Syria). And a glorious victory at the end.
What struck me about the story was the glimpse into the id of the writer: The imaginary Republican tough-guy president in the story fires his wimpy CENTCOM commander and replaces him with a marine called Wildman (!), known for his aggressiveness. It is Wildman who then goes out to defeat ISIS.
Just think about that for a moment! Schlichter wants the barbaric hind-brain to take over, along the lines that it takes a barbarian to fight one. This short-cut bypasses all those parts of brain which take care of higher levels of thinking, ethics and so on.
But it works in the story! Of course it does. I always win in my daydreams, too.
Let's see how Wildman manages to destroy ISIS in the story:
The first wave of 12 B-52H's emptied their bays of 750-pound dumb bombs directly over the heart of Raqqa, followed by a second wave, then a third. Crack Air Force ground crews were waiting back at the base in Saudi Arabia, and rearmament took less than two hours. Then they headed north again. In 24 hours, Raqqa ceased to exist.
The jihadis initially attempted to dig in, believing the Americans would pause to root them out of the urban areas. Instead, the Americans leveled the towns, often using the napalm that had just been reintroduced into the American arsenal, and followed up with infantry. At first, the jihadis tried to hide behind the few remaining civilians but the Americans never hesitated, and ISIS quickly learned that to try to hold ground meant a swift death.
So. Raqqa has over 220,000 inhabitants. But in this story worrying about civilian casualties is "secondary." Will there be a second installment to this story, about the predictable response by most of the Middle East when people there learn that at least 220,000 civilians have died in these attacks?
Well, probably more than that number of collateral damage, because:
Covered from interference by Russian aircraft by a protective screen of F-22s, the B-52s worked their way from urban target to urban target, literally obliterating any ISIS-supporting town in Syria. This supported the Wildman's strategy of depriving ISIS of any of the vestiges of an actual nation state. The caliphate, to the extent it governed anything, would rule over rubble.
That's pretty cruel, given that ISIS wasn't exactly invited into the towns in Syria it now controls. It invaded them and killed lots of people. In this story those civilians still alive would also die. And of course all this carnage would sprout a thousand ISIS-type organizations.
Literary works don't have to worry about that, of course. As an aside, I'm not writing about Schlichter's short story because of its interest or relevance, but because my recent reading about terrorism suggests that imaginary stories also fuel many acts of terror.
Granted, those stories are filled with religious imagery, not patriotic imagery, but the assumption that extreme violence for "good" is necessary to combat the violence of "bad" is something these stories share. They also share the macho plot: The only proper revenge against any past collective humiliations (however distant in time) is violence. And they share that aggregation of everyone "on the other side" as irrelevant collateral damage.
Paris. First Thoughts.
Paris bleeds because it is part of a river of blood: The Russian plane dying in the skies over Egypt, the Hazaras of Afghanistan being relieved of their heads, the suicide bombings in a Shiite neighborhood of Beirut, Libanon.
Or so the propagandists of Daesh or ISIS or ISIL tell us. Some of those rivers of blood may be from old rivulets, sourced from old racial hatreds (the Hazara massacre), old religious schisms (the Shias vs. the Sunnis, the Muslims vs. the Christians). But the Daesh river of blood is real and has not yet been dammed.
And its sources are many. I read my Twitter feed and was told that everything the deranged god-soldiers of ISIS did was caused by American oil politics and Western colonialism, as if those neo-Salafist clerics who designed ISIS had no agency, no way of choosing another form of rebellion but an extreme life-denying religious one, as if the religion they had created for themselves* from what the Saudi Wahhabism supports and funds in this world** has played no role. Instead, millions and millions of westerners are equally to blame, for genetic or historical reasons or at least for not voting various politicians out of power.
I read my Twitter feed and was told that everything the deranged god-soldiers of ISIS did was caused by their religion, that every single of hundreds of millions of Muslims is just waiting to behead the first infidel they come across. Once again, as if those neo-Salafist clerics who designed ISIS had no agency, as if millions and millions of Muslims are equally to blame, just because ISIS calls its religion theirs.
And I read my Twitter feed and was told that everything the deranged god-soldiers of ISIS did was caused by western discrimination and racism or by old religious discrimination in various Middle Eastern countries, as if those neo-Salafist clerics who designed ISIS had no agency at all.
Puppets. ISIS consists of nothing but puppets. Who holds the strings depends on the tweeter's own prior beliefs, on whom he or she would wish to blame. There are even some who believe that US has created ISIS on purpose and funds it!
And what was tweeted on Friday night and later, truly reflected the hobby-horses of various tweeters. Frank Bruni writes and I concur:
Can't we wait until we've resolved the body count? Until the identities of all of the victims have been determined and their families informed? Until the sirens stop wailing? Until the blood is dry?
Or must we instantly bootstrap obliquely related agendas and utterly unconnected grievances to the carnage in Paris, responding to it with an unsavory opportunism instead of a respectful grief?
Is this the famous death of empathy possibly caused by staring at an inanimate screen while talking to real people? Is it the masks we wear in cyberspace which allow us to act as if we have mislaid our hearts altogether, as if all that matters is the well-being of whichever group or theory we hold most dearly? And in counterpoint, is empty sentimentalism or patriotism the answer we assume if then accused of heartlessness?
It's as if many in social media forgot about the ones who lost the most in those terrorist attacks, whose lives were prematurely discarded, whose pain served a political function, whose personalities were erased, whose families were left with bleeding wounds, perhaps never to close. In that they appear in agreement with the Daesh who also regarded the victims as less than nothing: a bit of filth to be sucked up by the divine vacuum cleaner.
The old customs about the immediate aftermath of death serve a function: Spend some time thinking about the deceased, give support to the family who is bereaved, sit in silence for a while, offer a cooked dish and offer help.
We don't really have a cyberspace version of that respect for the individual. But surely all the different commentators with their pet issues could wait a day or two before forgetting all about the actual human lives which were ended or permanently mutilated by the terrorists?
* Access to sex slaves from war booty is an ISIS-invented extra benefit, something current Wahhabism doesn't condone. The men and the older women can be killed in the ISIS religion. Older women couldn't be killed even in those far-distant times of the prophet, but ISIS adjusts its religion as it sees fit.
** The source of Daesh as a religious movement is firmly in the countries which fund the petro-dollar Islam, the most fanatic, the most extremist, the most unforgiving type of Islam. The flavor of religion comes with the clerics and the clerics come with the funding of the mosques everywhere, including in Europe.


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NJPW president clarifies Will Ospreay's Wrestle Kingdom 16 status
Everything that is happening in the wrestling world.
Post by Big Red Machine » Nov 30th, '21, 16:49
https://www.f4wonline.com/new-japan-new ... tus-361161
By Ethan Renner | @EthanRenner | Nov 30, 2021 9:06 am
NJPW is still expecting Will Ospreay and other foreign talent to be allowed to enter Japan for Wrestle Kingdom 16.
In an interview with Tokyo Sports, NJPW president Takami Ohbari stated that new travel restrictions implemented in Japan due to the COVID-19 Omicron variant will not apply to talent that already have visas.
"Under the current rules... I've heard that (regular foreign wrestlers) have visas to work in Japan, so they will be treated as re-entry. This has been confirmed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs," Ohbari said (translation provided by Google Translate).
A ban on new, non-resident foreign nationals entering Japan went into effect today. Those who are permitted to enter the country will have to abide by the 14-day quarantine that has been in place for some time, as the plan to reduce the quarantine to three or ten days has been suspended, according to the United States Embassy Japan.
In response to Ohbari's statement, Ospreay tweeted:
"Shingo can't stop me.
Okada can't stop me.
Covid can't stop me.
January 5th 2022, I'll be there."
Ospreay is scheduled to face the winner of the January 4 IWGP World Heavyweight Championship match between title holder Shingo Takagi and challenger Kazuchika Okada on January 5. Ospreay vacated the IWGP World title due to injury in May, but never lost the title in the ring. He returned to NJPW in Los Angeles at Resurgence in August and has since been wrestling on NJPW Strong shows in the United States, as well as RevPro shows in the United Kingdom.
Wrestle Kingdom 16 will be a three-night event, with nights one and two taking place on January 4 and January 5 at the Tokyo Dome and airing on NJPW World. Night three will take place on January 8 at the Yokohama Arena and will feature NJPW vs. Pro Wrestling NOAH talent. That show will air on Abema pay-per-view.
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This article looks at what families headed to the waterpark really want.
Why "positive" is the operative word for the fun industry.
An interview with Bob Boyle, the co-owner of Kidz Street family entertainment center in China's Youhao Fashion Mall, Urumqi.
How facilities around the country are benefiting from Ride Development Company (RDC) bumper cars.
A look at trends in the trampoline and adrenaline park industry.
A look at business growth trends for bowling centers.
A feature on remodeling with Brunswick products.
Wilson's Lifestyle Centre is the first customer to receive a 220-degree Sky Rail™ zip line from Ropes Courses, Inc.
A look at how a former management consultant is finding success in the entertainment center industry.
Why Shaller continues to lead the go-kart market in innovation.
This article looks at how center management keeps staff members engaged and satisfied.
Leadership advice from three attraction managers.
A look at Gizmo's Fun Factory in Orland Park, Ill.
A look at the XD Dark Ride from Triotech at Andretti Indoor Karting & Games locations.
At zoos, amusement parks, and children's museums around the country, souvenir shoppers gravitate toward classic souvenirs.
Bonus Sidebar: It's All in the Name – What Is Your Best-Selling Name-Dropped Souvenir?
How coin-op companies are innovating and evolving with the times.
A look at games that drew players in 2017.
Which prize types are big hits at family fun centers and arcades.
Owners and managers discuss trends in FEC arcades.
A look at popular menu items at a selection of parks.
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How kitchen equipment and kitchen design features contribute to a park's success.
Zoos, aquariums and museums are eager to accommodate guests with special requirements.
Amusement rental company owners and managers discuss keeping the experience safe for customers.
Larry Cossio examines insuring the inflatable marketplace in this special feature.
Haunt managers and owners discuss keeping the spooky fun safe.


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He is one of the most dynamic and vivacious live performers of our time. Sandoval has been awarded 10 Grammy Awards, and nominated for 19; he has also received 6 Billboard Awards, an Emmy Award, and is the 2013 recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Son Who Inspired Mom And Dad To Finish College Posts Viral #ParentSelfie
December 13, 2016 December 12, 2016 by Andrew Krehbiel
In most instances, sons and daughters are inspired by their parents to achieve their goals. This time, however, the parents were inspired by their son. And their son couldn't have been prouder of them.
In a Twitter post that has now gone viral, Charles L. Cole congratulated his parents on their graduation from Sacramento Theological Seminary on Dec. 3.
My parents went back to college together and they graduated today. Together. #salute https://t.co/wq48VRHc1K pic.twitter.com/3aRb7EjKEy
? Charles Cole, III, Ed.D (@ccoleiii) December 4, 2016
But that's not the whole story. His parents' road to success had many obstacles standing in the way.
Cole's mom and dad, Renaté and Charles L. Cole, Jr., have been married for 38 years. During their marriage, they were both addicted to crack while trying to raise three children. Now, both have been sober for almost two decades and were inspired by their eldest son to finish college.
"Our son is a go-getter," the elder Charles Cole told ABC News. "By seeing his energy [and] his drive to just do it that kind of pushes us."
He and his wife thought, "Well, if he can do it, we can do it too."
Because of their former drug addiction, their education was put on hold. But after a few years of studying, they both graduated with bachelor of arts degrees in biblical studies.
Both believe their story unfolded the way that it did for a reason.
"It was our purpose in life to be educated in this way," Renaté said. "To just see the fruit [of your labor] that if you continue to work hard, if you continue to believe, if you continue to hold on, God will help you do whatever it is you're called to do."
They want to go even further with their education. At the moment, they're both on the ministerial staff at The Light Christian Church in Sacramento. In the future, they want to help homeless veterans and start their own church—after they earn they earn their doctorate degrees.
Like the younger Cole wrote in his Twitter post, we #salute those who never give up on their dreams.


Everybody loves tasty food. There are many products given to our humanity as a gift of nature. We should appreciate and support its existence. Today we are discussing one of the most widespread product ever – potato. If you like having a tasty meal then this one is for you. Let's find out when is National Potato Day in 2018?
So, the global observance is held yearly on 19th of August. The main purpose of the festival is to honor and be grateful for this invention. The author is still unknown but it is indifferent in our case.
Murphy (as the Irish call it) is a generous and invaluable gift of nature to humanity. This product is called a botanical masterpiece through the prism of science. It is one of the most useful plants on Earth, a unique food product that can be consumed for a long time without adding anything else to the diet. The biological nutritional value of the tubers' protein is also high. If the value of chicken protein is taken as 100%, then the value of the wheat protein will be 64%, and the protein of the potato – 85%. 3 kg of murphy contains 2500 calories is about a daily human's norm. The life of the Belarusian seems unthinkable without praties, it has become so firmly entrenched in our everyday life, although it has appeared on the territory of Belarus recently. What goes further? Let's check it up to understand what a day World Potato Day in 2018 is.
The homeland of murphy is South America. Praties were grown on a vast area of the central plateau in the Andes, from the ancient city of Cusco to Lake Titicaca. According to the American botanist D. Jujent, for the first time, the indigenous people of Peru started cultivating murphy 12 thousand years ago. To such conclusions, the scientist came on the basis of studying the remains of praties discovered during excavations by archaeologists of ancient settlements of the Peruvian Indians.
In Europe, potatoes became household around 1565 and it remains unknown who was the first inventor. It is most likely it was brought to Europe the Spanish conquistadors. Along with the plunder of the New World, they brought out strange animals and plants. There is another version based on the documents: Francis Drake, the infamous "Queen Elizabeth pirate" was the first who brought potatoes to Europe. Drake was not only an unsurpassed master of sea robbery but also made important geographical discoveries.
Potatoes were not popular in the beginning. The peasants flatly refused to grow it. Rumors persisted murphy is the source of tuberculosis, rickets, leprosy.
What does National Potato Day mean? Firstly, it's hard to imagine murphy festivals and fairs but it is a breathtakingly beautiful action for real. Millions of people gathering around each other and celebrating one of the most significant holidays of the year. Thousands of tons are prepared to quench the thirst of everyone so you will not remain left. Secondly, turn back to the beginning of the article to refresh your knowledge when is International Potato Day 2018. The best recommendation is to take part in this grandiose festival. Grab your friends and relatives to capture the moments and make some memories for the future. Last year, approximately 500.000 people gathered to celebrate N.P.D. 2017 held in Las Vegas. Tons of potatoes, paint, emotions, energy and a great mood were offered to everyone wishing to be a member of this day.
There are at least 3 thousand different varieties of this root crop in the USA. In Washington, the International Potato Center has been opened, in which a unique fund containing more than 4,000 praties samples is stored. The N.P.D. is an occasion to give praise to the main breadwinner and to cook something delicious. Throughout the country, there are mass festivities, concerts, performances, fairs, competitions and, of course, countless tastings of praties dishes. Understanding what is the date of National Potato Day 2018, let's get to a story.
By the way, there is an interesting fact of one crop variety. George Kram was the chef of an American restaurant, with the main dish – french fries. In 1853, an angry visitor returned a portion of murphy to the cook, saying it had been thinly sliced. George also came to anger and cut the potatoes as thinly as he could, and then roasted, turning out to be our famous modern chips. They became the specialty of this restaurant.
The concert program of the festival includes performances by vocal, dance, and instrumental groups from all states of America. The main course of the holiday in Las Vegas will be a demonstrative performance of Rihanna, 50 Cent, John Lennon, Rammstein etc.
Handicraft fair with master classes, folk games, and contests for children and adults, exhibitions of books and photographs, crafts made of potatoes and other materials – all this creates a unique color of the regional holiday. N.P.D. is gaining momentum, awakens the imagination and generates creative success with the organizers. Also, it gives a wonderful mood and festive expectations to all residents and guests of the city.
A whole potato tree grows in the tropics. It is evergreen and has a height of 15 meters. Of course, the tubers of this tree degenerated into roots. The bark is brown and nap. The leaves are green, up to 10 cm in length. Flowers are 10 times larger than usual, they smell pleasantly with ozone. The berries look like black and blue tomatoes, and, unfortunately, are poisonous.
Interestingly, murphy's appearance in North America was earlier than in Europe. This happened in 1621 when Nantinel Butler, the governor of Bermuda, sent a gift of potatoes to Francis Wyatta, the governor of Virginia.
Potatoes can be considered a poisonous plant since its berries are very toxic to humans: it's enough to eat 1-2 pieces to get poisoned. Actually, you need to eat about a kilogram of uncooked tubers of green potatoes in order to get poisoned from the solanine that murphy accumulates.
Celebrations dedicated to potato are arranged all around the world. In Europe, the oldest holiday – it has been held for almost 60 years – is the festival of murphy harvest in Lombardy, Italy. Competitions on the collection of potatoes, fight in vats with mashed potatoes, parades, processions, humorous competitions are held on this day. Crafts and food fairs are organized as well.
In the USA in Maine, a festival of murphy blossom has been held for 60 years which hosts musical and sports competitions, exhibitions of ancient tractors, as well as a show where the Queen of blossoming potatoes is chosen. Similar festivities are taking place in other cities in the US and Canada.
There are many monuments, as well as several museums devoted to potatoes in different countries of the world.
Poems, songs, ballads, stories, novels and even serious musical works of the classics were dedicated to murphy.
In conclusion, don't pass by any holiday and opportunity to get tuned. Also, keep in touch when is Potato Day in 2018, with the calendar.


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if the argument n_estimators are over more than 10 or 100,
what is the sense of plotting one of them?

A: xgb.plot_tree() plots only a single tree from the n number of trees created.
e.g. xgb.plot_tree(model, num_trees=2) will plot the tree at index 2.
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A: If you're interested in looking at you're predictions at a very granular level (e.g. for specific individuals or whatever it is you're predicting on). It can be useful to find the trees that contribute most to the overall model score and then plot these. I've found this process quite useful in the past.


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La PPG Industries è un'azienda statunitense attiva prevalentemente nel settore chimico e vetrario.

Venne fondata a Pittsburgh nel 1883, con il nome di Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, da John Baptiste Ford e John Pitcairn. Attualmente, con il nome di PPG Industries Inc., mantiene il proprio quartier generale a Pittsburgh ed opera a livello mondiale con impianti produttivi presenti nei cinque continenti.

Storia
La Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. nacque come produttore di vetro in lastre e vanta di essere la prima azienda di successo nel settore. Fin dai primi tempi il ritmo di crescita dell'azienda fu sostenuto, grazie alla realizzazione di nuovi impianti e ad acquisizioni di altre aziende presenti sul mercato.

L'attività venne in seguito diversificata, realizzando un impianto per la realizzazione in proprio delle materie prime destinate alla lavorazione ed entrando nel mercato delle vernici e dei rivestimenti, comparto in rapida espansione in ragione dell'altrettanto rapido sviluppo delle industrie automobilistiche ed aeronautiche.

Nei primi anni quaranta la PPG entrò nel settore dei prodotti ottici con la realizzazione del CR39, materiale plastico destinato alla produzione di lenti per occhiali; al decennio successivo risale l'ingresso nel settore del fiberglass.

Nel 1968 l'azienda acquisì la sua attuale denominazione nell'obiettivo di enfatizzare l'innovazione perseguita nei diversi settori merceologici presidiati.

Organizzazione

Le aree di business
Le informazioni relative all'organizzazione aziendale sono aggiornate al dicembre 2011.

L'attività della PPG Industries spazia in diverse aree della chimica e dell'ottica (per altro senza rigide distinzioni):

Vernici e rivestimenti:
per l'industria aerospaziale;
per l'architettura per uso abitativo e grandi opere (ta le altre aziende fa parte del gruppo la italiana MaxMeyer);
per l'industria automobilistica;
per gli imballaggi industriali;
per l'industria nautica;
Ottica
monomeri e polimeri per la produzione di lenti;
Vetro e fibre di vetro;
fiber glass;
vetri per l'industria aeronautica;
vetri per l'architettura (uso abitativo e grandi opere);
materiali vetrosi per la produzione di energia solare;
Chimica
soda caustica;
cloro;
acido muriatico;
solventi clorurati;
cloruro di vinile;
ipoclorito di calcio;
derivati del fosgene: cloruri di acile ed esteri dell'acido cloroformico;
Materiali speciali
silici precipitate per usi industriali;
Teslin (materiale sintetico utilizzato per la produzione di documenti leggibili automaticamente secondo lo standard ISO/IEC 14443)

I siti produttivi
La PPG Industries realizza i propri prodotti tramite siti produttivi di proprietà o tramite aziende controllate e/o collegate. La struttura aziendale prevede una suddivisione organizzativa in quattro macroaree a livello mondiale:
Nord America: Canada, Messico, Stati Uniti d'America;
Sud America e Dipartimenti Francesi d'Oltremare: Argentina, Brasile, Cile, Dipartimenti Francesi d'Oltremare (Guyana francese, Guadalupa, Martinica, Reunion), Suriname, Uruguay.
Europa, Medio Oriente, Africa: Belgio, Francia, Germania, Irlanda, Italia, Paesi Bassi, Polonia, Portogallo, Regno Unito, Repubblica Ceca, Slovacchia, Spagna, Svizzera, Turchia, Ungheria; Camerun, Costa d'Avorio, Senegal, Sudafrica;
Asia e Pacifico: Cina, Corea del Sud, Filippine, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailandia, Taiwan, Singapore, Vietnam; Australia, Nuova Caledonia, Nuova Zelanda.

Note

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Aziende chimiche statunitensi

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Chaudhary Charan Singh, son of Smt. Netra Kaur and Chaudhary Meer Singh, was born on 23 December 1902 in Noorpur village in Meerut District of Uttar Pradesh. Chaudhary Charan Singh had his primary education in his native village school at Jani Khurd, and passed his matriculation from the Government High School, Meerut. He graduated in Science from Agra College in 1923, did his M.A. in History from Agra University, passed the L.L.B. examination in 1927 and got himself enrolled as an advocate in Ghaziabad.
In his youth, Chaudhary Charan Singh exhibited a strong social conscience, and the will to act in accordance with his moral compass. The ideas and teachings of Swami Dayanand Saraswati, the founder of Arya Samaj had a deep influence on him. Inspired by Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Patel, Chaudhary Charan Singh joined the freedom movement. In 1930, he was sentenced to six months in prison for contravening the salt law. He was sentenced to one year's imprisonment in 1940. Released in October 1941, Chaudhary Charan Singh was arrested again in 1942 under the Defence of India Rule.
Chaudhary Charan Singh was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the United Provinces from Chaprauli in Meerut District in 1937, and represented the constituency in 1946, 1952, 1962 and 1967. He became Parliamentary Secretary in Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant's Government in 1946 and worked in departments of Revenue, Medical and Public Health, Justice, Information etc. In June 1951, he was appointed Cabinet Minister in the State and given charge of the departments of Justice and Information, and later, Revenue and Agriculture departments in 1952. He was Minister for Home and Agriculture (1960), Minister for Agriculture and Forests (1962-63). He gave up the Department of Agriculture in 1965 and took charge of the Local Self-government department in 1966.
On 1 April 1967, Chaudhary Charan Singh quit the Congress, and on 3 April 1967, Chaudhary Charan Singh was elected as leader of the Samyukta Vidhayak Dal and as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. In February 1970, Chaudhary Charan Singh became the Chief Minister of the State for a second time. His tenures as Chief Minister have been described by many as golden chapters in the history of the state of U.P.
Chaudhary Charan Singh's vision for social equity, and his ability to create political consensus on issues, resulted in important pieces of legislation in the State Assembly. Some of the notable achievements were the Debt Redemption Bill, 1939, The Consolidation of Holdings Act of 1953, and the Uttar Pradesh Zamindari and land Reforms Act, 1952, which resulted in the abolition of the Zamindari system throughout the State. The land reforms in the state empowered the tillers, provided the landless with ownership of land and thus created the enabling environment for their social and economic upliftment. The Agricultural Produce Marketing Bill, which he introduced in the assembly in 1938, was passed in 1964, and helped improve the market linkages for the farmers. The consecutive years of drought in 1966-1967 led the Central government to consider procuring food grains directly from farmers at prices, which would have been highly unfavorable to them. Chaudhary Charan Singh modified the central government plan to the advantage of agriculturalists by offering them a much higher procurement price than the prevailing market rates. The infrastructure he put in place for this led in time to the Minimum Support Price mechanism, which has today become an integral part of government interventions to provide pricing stability to the agricultural producers.
Chaudhary Charan Singh was arrested on the night of 26th June 1975, with the imposition of emergency. He merged his Bhartiya Lok Dal with the Janata Party of which he was a founder member. Chaudhary Charan Singh was elected to the Lok Sabha for the first time in 1977 General Elections, and was Home Minister in the Janata party Government. In January 1979, he was appointed Finance Minister and subsequently elevated to the post of Deputy Prime Minister. He was sworn in as the Prime Minister on 28 July 1979.
In his first address to the nation after taking oath as Prime Minister on 28 July 1979, Chaudhary Charan Singh Said --.
"Our poverty has to be eliminated and the basic necessities of life made available to every single citizen. Political leadership of the country must remember that nothing mocks our values and our dreams more than the desperate struggle of our people for existence; nothing could therefore be more poignant than the look of despair in the eyes of a starving child. Nothing could therefore be a more patriotic objective for our political leaders than to ensure that no child will go to bed hungry, that no family will fear for its next day's bread and that the future and capacities of not a single Indian will be allowed to be stunted by mal-nutrition."
Chaudhary Charan Singh's terms in various capacities established his image as a fair, honest administrator. If he was strict in dealing with the 1953 'Patwari strike crisis' in the state of Uttar Pradesh, in 1979, he recognized the nation's rail workers contributions and awarded them with a bonus. Chaudhary Charan Singh's interventions to reduce tax burden on, and input costs for the farmers, rural electrification (he provided for the electrification of 25000 villages in his Budget presented as the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance in 1979) his role in the creation of institutions like the NABARD, the Rural Development Ministry highlighted his intent, and are remembered today.
Chaudhary Charan Singh, popularly known as Chaudhary Saheb, was a scholar of Indian economics. His books "India's Economic Policy - The Gandhian Blue-print" and "Economic Nightmare of India - Its Cause and Cure" are masterpieces on the subject. Some of his important publications include: Abolition of Zamindari, Co-operative Farming X-rayed, India's Poverty and its Solutions, Agrarian Revolution in Uttar Pradesh, and Land reforms in UP and the Kulaks. The wealth of statistics and information given in his writings show the depth of Chaudhary Charan Singh's knowledge and his aversion to slogan mongering.
He wrote a unique book on Indian etiquette in one of his incarcerations, which was published with the title "Shishtachar".
Chaudhary Charan Singh was a multi-faceted personality; a freedom fighter and patriot, an excellent administrator, a statesman, a thinker and scholar with a revolutionary vision, a man of character and integrity, and above all a champion of the interests of masses, especially the weak and the downtrodden in society. On 29 May 1987, Chaudhary Charan Singh breathed his last. His enduring struggle for truth and equality remains an inspiration to our countrymen.
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