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One of the largest foreign-invested agricultural projects in Russia is owned by Chinese businessman Li Deminwas. It began with a struggling pig farm in Russia's Far East 14 years ago. This is just one of several agricultural operations in Russia controlled by Chinese firms.
Currently Li's agricultural operation stretches over 40,000 hectares and is expected to expand further, Li's farm near Ussuriysk raises 30,000 pigs a year and grows soybeans and corn that are sold in local markets or shipped back to China.
Li asked for land to take on the project of buying and saving the pig farm. Li is chairman of the Dongning Huaxin Group, a private trading firm based in Heilongjiangprovince, China, asked for 500 hectares of land to be thrown into the deal. In the end, the local government offered to lease Li more land than for which he originally asked.
Russia's Far East Federal District, a region two-thirds the size of the United States, has a population of just 6.3 million and wide swathes of unfarmed fertile land.
China is next door; its 1.4 billion people have an insatiable appetite for crops and produce, and its companies have gone as far as Australia, South America and the Pacific island of Vanuatuto to lease farmland, as reported by David Stanway for Reuters, who wrote about the agricultural arrangement between Russia and China.
Unlike most other parts of the world, the local population, cut off from Russia's western-facing economy, mostly welcomes Chinese investment, which has provided a lifeline following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Chinese firms already lease or control at least 600,000 hectares of land in the Far East, which is equivalent to the size of a small U.S. state like Delaware.
The investments could surge if the political masters in Moscow were more accommodating, Stanway suggested.
"When the Soviet Union collapsed, the local people didn't really know what to do, so they started encouraging us to take over the land at very cheap prices," Li said. "They would pay us to clear the forests they gave us a lot of support."
Pavel Maslovsky, who represents the Amur region near the Chinese border in Russia's upper house, the Federation Council, said the region needs investment and fears of an influx of Chinese is misplaced.
"To fear that investors would come to the wrong sector and in a manner which we do not like is like selling a bear's skin before you have caught the bear," he said.
But there remains considerable ambivalence in Moscow about the region's growing dependence on China. Relations between the two nations have been improving since a border war in 1969, but some tensions remain.
"It is no longer necessarily the fears that the Russians are going to be swamped by gazillions of Chinese," said Bobo Lo, associate fellow at Chatham House and an expert in Sino-Russian relations.
"Now it is slightly different, and more that the Chinese are a rising economic power, that part of Russia is struggling and China will inexorably take over."
Russian fears of Chinese encroachment in its under-populated Far East have eased since the 1990s, but while Russia has vowed to rejuvenate the impoverished region, it is still reluctant to rely entirely on China. Unfortunately for Moscow, the Chinese remain the only ones willing to invest.
"There is already a feeling (from the Russians) in the bilateral relationship that they are being outmatched, and this makes them anxious," said Lo.
"It is bad enough being a resource appendage to the West and it is worse if you are a resource appendage to a country to which you have felt superior for the last 300 years."
The Far East received $9.9 billion of foreign investment in 2011, according to Russia's Federal Statistics Service, accounting for just 5 percent of the amount received by Russia as a whole. More than three quarters of the total was spent on the development of oil and gas in Sakhalin, a resource-rich island off the Far East coast, north of Japan.
Ussuriysk, about 100 km (62 miles) north of Vladivostok and 60 km (37 miles) east of the Chinese border, was once controlled by a succession of Chinese dynasties and built over the last century from the proceeds of logging and food production.
One of the first areas in Russia to open up to Chinese business in the 1980s, it has also benefited from the establishment of a free trade zone that has brought investment from 26 Chinese firms since its foundation in 2006.
Widespread fears about the region being flooded by Chinese migrants have not come to pass. Dongning Huaxin's Li said his company has been doing its utmost to ease the concerns and ensure that local labor is used on farms. He said local Russian farmers now make up around 60 percent of a total workforce of 600.
But the problem is that the local population has dwindled, and those left behind are mostly unwilling to do agricultural work, Li said. "This is how I see it: if Chinese labor left the Russian Far East, the region would grind to a halt," he said. "Take our pig farm: Russians don't like pigs and we can't find people to work on it and we can only hire Chinese to do it."

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JPMorgan Chase & Co Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon, who came through the financial crisis relatively unscathed, is suddenly looking a little less secure.
The top U.S. bank by assets reported tepid first-quarter results on Friday. Income in its biggest businesses - investment banking and consumer lending - fell, excluding accounting adjustments. Outstanding loans grew by just 1 percent, and profit margins on lending narrowed. Stock and bond trading revenue fell.
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Every bank chief executive suffers from similar headwinds, but Dimon is also facing a shareholder vote next month at JPMorgan's annual meeting that could push the board to strip him of his chairman's role. A group of investors behind the proposal says the bank needs to separate the roles of chairman and CEO so that the board can provide more oversight of management.
That follows a similar proposal in 2012 and comes after the bank posted $6.2 billion of derivatives losses last year that came to be known as the "London whale" trades. The losses were recorded by an investment office whose head reported to Dimon.
JPMorgan's stock has lost some of the premium valuation it used to enjoy over the shares of other big banks.
Worse still for Dimon, the bank's relationship with regulators has deteriorated in recent years, and JPMorgan's board blames that in part on the CEO, two sources familiar with the matter said.
"If the board wants to send a message that they want to restore regulatory confidence in the company, it will name an independent chairman," said Michael Garland, who oversees corporate governance for New York City Comptroller John Liu, one of the pension fund investors backing the shareholder proposal.
Garland said the trading loss showed that Dimon needed better oversight from his board of directors.
Dimon was not available for comment.
While Dimon's reputation as one of the best risk managers in the business may have taken a hit, and his pay was cut in half for 2012, he still has strong support from investors and the bank's directors. JPMorgan's board, for example, said last month that it "strongly endorses" keeping Dimon as both CEO and chairman.
"I think he's safe," said Alan Villalon, a senior research analyst at Nuveen Asset Management, which has $120 billion of assets and owns JPMorgan shares.
Dimon has been working to repair his relationship with regulators as well. In his annual letter to shareholders this week, he said, "I feel terrible that we let our regulators down." Getting control of the company's compliance systems is the firm's top priority, he said.
Still, Dimon has signaled that the loss of his chairmanship may make him feel far from comfortable. He told analysts in February he would not have agreed to become CEO of Bank One, which was later bought by JPMorgan, if he could not have been chairman too.
"Troubled company, big turnaround, divided board. Not me. Life is too short," Dimon said at the time.
To Dimon's supporters, the London whale episode underscores his abilities as a manager. In spite of losing more than $6 billion on the trades, the bank posted record profits last year.
"I would hope, as a shareholder, that we see him running the institution as long as I hold the shares," said Kevin O'Keefe, financial services analyst at Brown Advisory, which manages $33 billion of institutional and high net worth assets.
The extent of the dysfunction between JPMorgan and regulators was revealed in a report last month by a U.S. Senate subcommittee, which was probing the trading losses. According to the report, JPMorgan browbeat one of its main regulators, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
In one episode outlined in the report, Dimon declined to provide a daily trading statement to the OCC because he feared the regulator was leaking some of the data.
When Doug Braunstein, the bank's chief financial officer at the time, resumed giving the information to regulators, Dimon shouted at him, according to the report.
A JPMorgan spokeswoman said at the time, "While we have repeatedly acknowledged mistakes, our senior management acted in good faith and never had any intent to mislead anyone."
Last month, the Federal Reserve also told JPMorgan to fix flaws in the way it determines how much capital the bank can return to shareholders. In its stress testing of major banks, the Fed said JPMorgan could increase its quarterly dividend to 38 cents a share from 30 cents, and buy back $6 billion of its shares.
Meanwhile, the opposition to Dimon's dual roles at the bank has grown.
The proposal to split the chairman and CEO roles last year received 40.1 percent of votes cast.
Since that vote, which happened only five days after the company first acknowledged losing billions of dollars on the trades, shareholders have learned much more about the company's failed risk controls and the trouble it has had with regulators. More investors have joined the call for the splitting of the roles.
Last year, the only sponsor of the proxy measure calling for Dimon to lose his chairman's position was a public union pension plan, the American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees.
This year, New York City and state of Connecticut employee retirement plans and Hermes Fund Managers from the United Kingdom have joined in.
The additional sponsors increase the chances the measure will pass, said Lisa Lindsley, AFSCME's director of capital strategies. The annual meeting is set for May 21 in Tampa, Florida.
The bank's earnings on Friday could lend further support to those dissenting voices.
JPMorgan posted $6.53 billion of net income for the first quarter, a 33 percent jump from the same quarter last year, but much of that gain came from accounting judgments rather than increased customer demand.
The bank recorded essentially no litigation expenses in the first quarter, compared with about $2.5 billion for the same period last year. It put aside less money to cover credit losses and drew down on reserves to cover bad loans - all of which boosted profits in the quarter but led some analysts to question the sustainability of earnings growth.
Another reason for better profit this quarter: the London Whale losses from the bank's big trades in credit derivatives markets are largely over.
"The London Whale was the stupidest and most embarrassing situation I have ever been a part of," Dimon said in his annual letter.
(Reporting by David Henry and Dan Wilchins; Additional reporting by Lauren Tara LaCapra in New York; Editing by Paritosh Bansal and Peter Cooney)


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Donald Lee Varner, Sr., of Towanda, Kansas died Saturday, February 1, 2014 at his home in his recliner with his television remote by his side.
Don was born August 14, 1939 in El Dorado, the youngest of six children born to Grant and Eunice (Pierce) Varner. He grew up in Towanda and graduated from Towanda High School in 1958. He served his country in the U.S. Army and was stationed in Germany. After his tour of duty, he returned to Towanda where he met, fell in love and was united in marriage to Lynda Faulkner on September 16, 1962. This union was blessed with two children; Tammy and Donny.
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Surviving family include his wife of 51 years, Lynda of the home; daughter Tammy Reichenberger and husband Greg of Wichita, Kansas; son Donny Varner, Jr. and wife Audrey of Russell, Kansas; grandchildren, Andrea Varner of Wichita, Kansas, Donald Trey Varner III of Russell, Kansas and Scotney Reichenberger of Wichita, Kansas; and great granddaughter Raylie Varner. He is also survived by brothers Ray Varner (Mary) and Delbert Varner (Pat) of Towanda, Kansas; and sister Wilma Lill of El Dorado, Kansas. He was preceded in death by his parents, brother Millburn Varner and sister Lela Henry.
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Breakfast with Mugabe. Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre at Pershing Square Signature Center (see Off Broadway). By Fraser Grace. Directed by David Shookhoff. With ensemble cast. Running time: 1hr 35mins. No intermission.
Breakfast with Mugabe: in brief
Fraser Grace's 2005 thriller imagines a tense encounter between Zimbabwean strongman Robert Mugabe and a white psychiatrist he consults for his depression. David Shookhoff directs the NYC premiere, which uses the same cast as his well-received 2010 staging in New Jersey.
Breakfast with Mugabe: theater review by David Cote
"Madness in great ones must not unwatched go," Claudius notes regarding his erratic stepson, a maxim that has inspired playwrights from Shakespeare's day to Alan Bennett's. Now comes Fraser Grace's taut meditation on guilt and power, Breakfast with Mugabe, in which white psychiatrist Andrew Peric (Ezra Barnes) is summoned to the presidential palace to treat Robert Mugabe (Michael Rogers), still the current head of Zimbabwe. Although the dictator is the one who's sick, it's the doctor's health we should worry about.
Mugabe has lately been troubled by the ngozi, or ghost, of a dead comrade from the 1970s wars of liberation against white minority rule. These episodes have made him paranoid—more than usual, we must assume. His chic and imperious wife, Grace (Rosalyn Coleman), has begun fretting about her own safety. Rounding out the excellent cast is Che Ayende as inscrutable and intimidating bodyguard Gabriel (also, interestingly, Mugabe's middle name). Balancing professional pride with a sensible concern for himself, Peric tries to tease out the mystery of Mugabe's terror.
If you think the answer is simply a tyrant's bad conscience over spilt blood, it's not that simple. Grace's play—directed with forceful simplicity by David Shookhoff—is tough-minded and unsentimental, gazing squarely at the postcolonial puzzle of modern-day Africa. It would take more than a degree in Freudian analysis to untangle all the neuroses and delusions of that disordered mind.—Theater review by David Cote
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Valentino Rossi was back in the saddle today, testing his shoulder at the Italian Misano track ahead of the official MotoGP test scheduled at Sepang next month. Barred from turning a wheel on the Ducati Desmosedici GP11 because of the MotoGP winter testing ban, Rossi had to make do with a WSBK-spec 2011 Ducati Superbike 1198 SP to test his fitness levels.
Rossi's fitness for the upcoming season is a large variable for Ducati, as the race team will need Rossi's input at Sepang to not only further setup the GP11 for the nine-time World Champion, but his input is likely to find its way into all the Desmosedici's on the MotoGP grid (Hector Barbera was just recently quoted as saying as much).
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Scheduled for the weekend following the fourth of July celebration by the city, July 6-8, 2007, the Wilmington riverfront will be a bevy of activity as tugboats, the workhorses of the maritime industry, line the Christina River from the Kalmar Nyckel Foundation...
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Hotspot Event - Dover Delaware: June 1 - 3rd
Well for anyone living in Delaware, you know what this date brings. The run at the Monster Mile
This is a sporting event, obviously the lower to the track the better the action would be. It's very hard to get pit tickets, but if...
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It's a small state, no one will notice if you sneek over the boarder off of RT 896 to see the New Garden PA Airshow! :rolleyes:
Colonial Flying Corps Museum's 36th Annual Benefit Air Show
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The Barclays bank building in Wilmington (on the way to the shipyard shops). They are almost done with construction and It looks pretty nice. It's got some interesting angles too. Looks like there's another building going up...
The National Railroad Historical Society maintains a list of the remaining roundhouses ( roundhouse ) in the US at this url. It is organized by state with the address, condition, etc.
This is a big list of Round Barns in Delaware, organized by county, with directions to each.
This is a big list of covered bridges in Delaware, organized by county, with directions on how to get to them.
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One of the world's biggest casino operators has hired Los Angeles shopping center magnate Rick Caruso to develop a $550-million retail and entertainment district in the middle of the Las Vegas Strip crowned by an enormous Ferris wheel.
Caruso, who is weighing a run for mayor of Los Angeles, was tapped by Caesars Entertainment Corp. to oversee creation of the Linq, a new open-air attraction across Las Vegas Boulevard from Caesars Palace.
The outdoor venue would have more in common with Caruso's Grove shopping center in Los Angeles than it would with hermetically sealed casinos. City leaders hope the Linq with its bars, restaurants and stores will become a destination with special appeal to the gambling Saudi Arabia)" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/intl/saudi-arabia/mecca-%28saudi-arabia%29-PLGEO100100602011371.topic">mecca's growing Gen X and Gen Y clientele.
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With a series win over Georgia, Ole Miss remained in first place in the Southeastern Conference Western Division and can clinch the division with at least two wins at Texas A&M this weekend. However, for the second straight week, the Rebels dropped in this week's official RPI rankings, from No. 12 to No. 15.
Arkansas, which Ole Miss won two of three games against earlier this season, moved up four spots to No. 50, while Alabama, which swept the Rebels earlier this season moved more solidly into the RPI top 25 to No. 21.
Ole Miss finishes the regular season with a midweek contest at Arkansas State (No. 60), followed by a three-game series at Texas A&M (No. 35). UCF, which Ole Miss swept earlier this season, is another opponent to watch in the RPI rankings, as the Golden Knights dropped eight spots to No. 48.
Both Baseball America's Aaron Fitt and Perfect Game's Kendall Rogers had Ole Miss among their eight national seeds in last week's projections, and the Rebels remain in both the regional host and national seed discussion with one weekend left in the regular season.
Since I went through them on @ESPNU, my 8 national seeds this week are: @UVABaseball @Beaver_Baseball @GatorZoneBB @FSU_Baseball .... plus-- Kendall Rogers (@KendallRogersPG) May 13, 2014
.@IUBaseballNews @CajunsBaseball @CanesBaseball @OleMissBSB ... I let the cat out of the bag, so those are my 8 nationals. More Tuesday night.-- Kendall Rogers (@KendallRogersPG) May 13, 2014
Here are some Ole Miss-related questions and answers from Fitt's weekly chat on Monday:
Q: Is it a given that either Rice or TCU gets a national seed, and are they competing with each other for one? If so, how is that race shaping up? Is any other Lone Star program in the national seed conversation?
A: I'd hesitate to say it's a "given" that one of them will be a national seed, because there's still a lot of competition for those eight spots; there are three very strong ACC contenders and there will probably be three strong SEC contenders (Florida, Ole Miss, and the Vandy/South Carolina series winner), plus Oregon State and Louisiana-Lafayette and Indiana. Frogs and Owls must both continue to play at a high level; and I do believe they are probably both competing for one spot. Right now, I lean toward TCU because it plays in a better league and is 14-8 vs. the top 50, vs. Rice's 8-9. And no, I don't see another team from the state in the national seed mix. Houston has a great RPI, but being in third place in the AAC (three games back, too) really hurts.
Q: Hey Aaron, do you still see Ole Miss being a national seed if they win their series against A&M this week and is Florida still a national seed if they lose this week to Tennessee?
A: Yes on Ole Miss. Feel like Florida is probably safe even if it loses this weekend -- Gators had such a cushion to work with in the standings and in the RPI, and all those top 25 and top 50 wins are loud.
Here are some Ole Miss-related questions and answers from Rogers's weekly chat on Monday:
Q: Hey Kendall, big fan here. I was wondering who you think from the SEC will get a national seed draw. Do you think two could get one? Thanks.
A: I anticipate having Ole Miss and Florida still in as national seeds this week. I could see the SEC getting a third national seed, and right now, I would give that to Vanderbilt. I'd also keep an eye on South Carolina if the Gamecocks take that series from the Commodores this weekend. Right now I'd go with two national seeds, but three absolutely far from out of the question.
Q: Will a series win at Texas A&M secure at national seed spot for Ole Miss?
A: Would be pretty hard to deny at that point. Would mean OM finished the season exactly the way the committee would like to see it finish.
Q: What does Ole Miss have to do to host?
A: OM is hosting barring some 0-3 vs. A&M, and 0-2 in the SEC tournament type of deal ....
Here's a brief look at the NCAA Tournament resume and remaining schedule for Ole Miss, as well as the NCAA Tournament resumes for Alabama, Florida, LSU and South Carolina and Vanderbilt.
Ole Miss Rebels
37-15 Overall | 17-10 SEC (2nd)
Strength of Schedule (Warren Nolan): 23
Record against RPI top 25: 5-7
Record against RPI top 50: 14-11
Record against RPI top 100: 18-13
Road Record: 12-6
Remaining Schedule: at Arkansas State (No. 60), 3 at Texas A&M (No. 35)
Alabama Crimson TIde
32-19 Overall | 14-12 SEC (7th)
Strength of Schedule (Warren Nolan): 10
Record against RPI top 25: 8-9
Record against RPI top 50: 13-13
Record against RPI top 100: 19-17
Road Record: 10-10
Remaining Schedule: at Jacksonville State (No. 101), 3 vs. Mississippi State (No. 42)
Florida Gators
34-18 Overall | 19-8 SEC (1st)
Strength of Schedule (Warren Nolan): 1
Record against RPI top 25: 14-7
Record against RPI top 50: 23-12
Record against RPI top 100: 27-16
Road Record: 10-7
Remaining Schedule: South Florida (No. 143), 3 at Tennessee (No. 44)
LSU Tigers
36-14-1 Overall | 14-11-1 SEC (6th)
Strength of Schedule (Warren Nolan): 48
Record against RPI top 25: 4-8
Record against RPI top 50: 14-12-1
Record against RPI top 100: 15-12-1
Road Record: 7-9
Remaining Schedule: Northwestern State (No. 133), 3 at Auburn (No. 68)
South Carolina Gamecocks
39-13 Overall | 16-11 SEC (t-3rd)
Strength of Schedule (Warren Nolan): 34
Record against RPI top 25: 6-6
Record against RPI top 50: 14-10
Record against RPI top 100: 18-11
Road Record: 6-8
Remaining Schedule: The Citadel (No. 202), 3 at Vanderbilt (No. 7)
Vanderbilt Commodores
38-14 Overall | 16-11 SEC (t-3rd)
Strength of Schedule (Warren Nolan): 11
Record against RPI top 25: 7-4
Record against RPI top 50: 17-12
Record against RPI top 100: 22-14
Road Record: 13-7
Remaining Schedule: Southeast Missouri State (No. 75), 3 vs. South Carolina (No. 12)


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Arsenal FC - U18 Girls - The FINAL Season: WelcomeThursday, September 25
Welcome to the website for the Arsenal 90-91 (U18) Girls team. The team is one of several Arsenal teams based in the northern suburbs of Pittsburgh, PA and playing in the PA West Classic league.
We currently are looking for a few more girls for this Spring season. If you'd like to join us, see the tryout story below for contact links!
Monday, May 25
After 7 years and 9 seasons, fielding a team in every year from U12 to U18, the Arsenal 90/91 Girls team comes to the end.
A great group of girls moves on to College after ending their Cup playing days. Julia and Alex head to Virginia Tech. Shayna is off to Allegheny. Jenna goes to Penn State, while Rachael starts at I-U-P. Gretchen is enrolling at Robert Morris, while Chrissy joins former teammate Cassie at Waynesburg. My daughter, Janna, heads north to Erie to study Archaeology at Mercyhurst College.
We wish them all the best. It's been a wonderful 7 years.
Tuesday, June 17
Father's Day saw us wrapping up a tournament in Columbus, OH (Jarosi-Willis) under sunny skies and warm weather. We once again played the eventual champion to a scoreless tie. While we scored just once, we created a lot of chances this weekend and gave up just 2 goals in 3 tightly-played games.
This followed four tie games at the Amherst Invitational over Memorial Day (tying the champions 0-0 and three 1-1 games). Seven games and SIX ties! But not a drop of rain fell on us at either tournament, everyone played great and went home happy and injury-free.
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SendGrid and matchist Deliver Seamless Event API IntegrationErika Berkland
The following is a guest post from Bill Reader, Corporate Marketing Director at NTH Consultants, Ltd. Bill is a SendGrid customer who utilized matchist to help him hire a freelance developer to implement SendGrid's Event API. Matchist is a valued SendGrid partner that focuses on matching entrepreneurs to the right freelance developers to complete projects like API integrations.
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NTH Consultants, Ltd. is a consulting company based in Detroit specializing in geotechnical, environmental, and facilities engineering. Over the past two years, I've been putting together technical webinars for our company to help demonstrate our staff's expertise and industry knowledge. I usually engage two of our engineers to present their best material, and we're very cognizant not to do a "hard sell" of our services. I began recruiting for these events using one of the popular email marketing web-based services, but was quickly disappointed at the low number of people registering for our events. Figuring our clients and prospects might be tired of seeing professionally designed HTML e-blasts filling their email inboxes, I went in the other direction and built an email delivery system that made our emails look more personal—as if our professional staff were sending them out themselves. It worked. Now instead of 10-15 client registrations we're getting a couple hundred for each event.
How We Use SendGrid and matchist
SendGrid has an easy way for me to download all emails that have bounced, blocked, opted-out, spam reported, and have invalid formats. However, they do not offer the ability for me to easily download a record of every email that has been delivered, opened, or clicked. SendGrid informed me that I could access this data using their Event API. Since I'm not a programmer, I struggled for about two weeks trying to understand APIs and just couldn't get it working. Not even close.
SendGrid's online chat support folks detected my frustration in trying to work with their Event API, and suggested I contact matchist. I was as weary of soliciting developer services over the web as I am taking my car to the shop for repairs. However, working through matchist to find Tallosoft, LLC, was surprisingly simple. Tallosoft responded extremely fast to my initial requests and spent time listening to my needs. I didn't want to build the space shuttle, and they understood that. Before I knew it, Jacquie and Jc had the API done. If you ever get a chance to work with Jacquie and Jc at Tallosoft, LLC, do it. And tell them I said "hi."
How SendGrid's event API is benefitting me now
Now, since the Event API is working so well, I've built this cool online database that allows each of our professional staff to access their own email marketing database to see which of their clients are responding to "their" emails. They've become really engaged in the whole process and are even adding new records on their own.
Many thanks to Bill for sharing his experience. For more information on how you can use matchist to integrate SendGrid's APIs, click here.


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Lancome are known for making some of the best mascaras in the world. Naturally I wanted to try it out some of their mascaras. Since I am obsessed with curl, their new release, Virtuose seemed like a natural choice:
The website blurb reads: Incredible 12 hour curve and longer looking lashes.
Stunning lash curler effect with the unique KeepCurl™ brush.
Extraordinary wear that's virtually smudge-proof and tear-proof. Easily removable.
If the can trademark the brush, it has to be good right?!
The tube:
The trademarked brush:
I had high, high hopes for this product as it is marketing specifically as a lash curling product. Unfortunately, it did lengthen but didn't do much else for me.
(Picture says L'extreme, but I did actually mean Virtuose):
Now to be fair, every mascara I test will be used on its own on clean lashes, curled, with no base. I will only use one coat.
Lengthening – 8/10. Gives a long lash effect, but makes lashes feel dry.
Volumising – 6/10. Not bad but this is more of a lengthening mascara.
Brush – 7/10. Pretty much a standard curved, thick brush to me. Was ok to to apply with.
Staying Power – 8/10. No flaking, or running.
Smell – No scent.
Clump or no Clump? – No clumping.
Price – 6/10 – £18.00
Packaging – 7/10 – simple, chic packaging.
Ease Of Removal – 7/10 – Nothing eye make remover can't handle.
Curl Factor – 1/10. Sorry, but this product did not hold my curl, or enhance it in anyway. Within a few minutes my lashes had flopped into oblivion, and are still poker straight, and for some reason, my lashes were a bit sticky all day.
Verdict – For me, this product was good for lengthening, and kept lashes nicely separated with no clumping but it did absultulety nothing for curl. Nada. Infact, it pulled down my lashes and made them look straighter than usual. With a primer it could work better, but on it's own, it does nothing for women who have very striahgt lashes. The texture was ok, the brush was ok, the packaging was ok. Ok does not equal a £18 mascara! I should get my money back!
Meanwhile, there's a cool little quiz on Lancome.com where you can decide on what mascara is best for you – although the questions don't make that much sense. Are you lashes long enough? Yes / No. Are they thick enough? Yes / No. Are they curly enough? Yes / No. Presumably most people will answer no to most of the questions other wise you would have been born with bionic lashes and have no need for mascara. Still if you are bored go to try.


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Author Notes: I brought the capn' his tea. He liked French vanilla and he liked it served in the Revere silver brocaded tea pot he bought in Boston. I sat the silver service tray and bone China tea cups on his desk away from the maps he had unrolled. I noticed he ate every bit of his lunch but he was busy with the charts and figuring how to get us back on schedule so I left the dirties behind so as not to bother him. On my way back to the galley I noticed a new sailor on board. I stopped to chat it up a moment. "Bob the sea cook," I says. He says, "Call me Ishmael I am a vegan." I says, "So are those Jains over there," as I pointed to the Indians on the other side of the deck. "Damn good sailors too, I make em vegan vittles when I can. They like my coriander scented millet and mung bean pilaf, they say I make it just like their sahib always liked it. I learned to make it while we were running the opium in the sea of poppies for the Dutch East India Company. Me hard tack is vegan too." I reached in my vest pocket and handed him one. He looked at it from side to side and sniffed it. "I smell the blood of animals." he said and tossed it overboard. I reeled back and crushed his nose with all my force. Hit him so square it set him back on his buttocks with his legs sprawled out in a vee. He looked up at me in shock. Blood trickled down his lip and his eyes watered. "The only blood you smell is running down ye nose, ye arse face." I went to the galley kitchen. When I sat down and my heart slowed and me head stopped throbbing I noticed the swelling in me hand. I gave it a shake and rubbed it but I knew it was going to hurt and I knew it would hurt more when I was pounding stockfish for crew meal tonight. I was glad for the capn's oysters and I found comfort in me cupa pearls. —Bob the sea cook
Serves: 1
large oysters shucked and juice reserved
1 1/2
teaspoons fresh horseradish, grated on a ginger grater
teaspoons red wine vinegar
1 1/2
teaspoons shallot, finely minced
sea salt
lot of fresh ground black pepper
teaspoon dry red wine
- Combine the vinegar and horseradish and let it steep for at least an hour to overnight.
- Combine all the ingredients and the reserved oyster liquor in a tea cup. Serve with saltines.
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Recipe with Horseradish
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On Wednesday August 7th, 2013 Haiti's Council of Ministers announced the creation of the "Protected Area of Natural Resources Management of Port Salut/Aquin (Aire Protégée de Ressources Naturelles Gérées de Port Salut/Aquin)" located in southwestern Haiti. It is composed of five zoned sites enclosed within an area covering a total of close to 150,000 hectares (1,500 sq.km.) and includes mixed marine and terrestrial sites.
"We once again applaud the Haitian government's move to protect our natural resources. This designation is another critical step forward as Haiti renews its commitment to protect the environment, especially in light of President Martelly's designation of 2013 as The Year of the Environment for Haiti," stated Jean Wiener, Director of the Fondation pour la Protection de la Biodiversité Marine (FoProBiM) in Haiti. "However, the designation is the easy part, now comes the hard part. We must ensure an increased engagement of the local communities, national stakeholders, the government, and our international partners to actively participate in the protection and sustainable management of the resources within this important area. We are also looking towards the designation of Marine Protected Areas in the very near future."
FoProBiM undertook the outlining of the original park boundaries in 2000, the initial survey of coastal and marine resources within the area in 2008, and actively participated in the preparation of the legal framework and present park boundaries to help bring about this important designation.
Hopefully the Caracol/Ft. Liberté area will also soon be created. This area was surveyed by FoProBiM for an Inter-American Biodiversity Information Network (IABIN) project funded by the government of Chile through the Organization of the American States/Department of Sustainable Development (OAS/DSD) in 2009 in order to determine the value of ecosystem services in the area.
For further information please contact:
Jean Wiener ([email protected])
Fondation pour la Protection de la Biodiversité Marine (FoProBiM) (www.foprobim.org)
Founded in 1992 the Fondation pour la Protection de la Biodiversité Marine (FoProBiM) is Haiti's only coastal and marine environmental organization. It is an apolitical, non-governmental, non-profit organization founded and headquartered in Haiti and was officially recognized by the Haitian government in 1995 as a foundation working on environment issues in the areas of sustainable development, education, research, monitoring, and advocacy.
As one of Haiti's oldest environmental organizations, and one of the very few with a 100% full-time dedicated staff, FoProBiM's mission includes: (i) raising awareness concerning needed changes in regulations and attitudes concerning the environment; (ii) increasing knowledge and capabilities at the government, community and individual levels in order to make sustainable improvements in the environment and the lives of people, and; (iii) conducting educational programs as well as scientific research, including environmental monitoring, in order to promote improved management of the environment and the protection of biodiversity through a better understanding of the need to sustainably use environmental resources.
FoProBiM is Haiti's only IUCN member and the National Focal Point in Haïti for: IUCN – The World Conservation Union (World Commission on Protected Areas, Marine; Commission on Ecosystem Management); the International Coral Reefs Initiative (ICRI); WIDECAST; and the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN) among others.


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Annual to tree
Leaves basal or cauline, alternate to whorled, simple to compound
Inflorescence: 1° inflorescence a head, each resembling a flower, 1many, generally arrayed in cymes, generally subtended by ± calyx-like involucre; flowers 1many per head
Flowers bisexual, unisexual, or sterile, ± small, of several types; calyx 0 or modified into pappus of bristles, scales, or awns, which is generally persistent in fruit; corolla radial or bilateral (rarely 0), lobes generally (0)45; stamens 45, anthers generally fused into cylinder around style, often appendaged at tips, bases, or both, filaments generally free, generally attached to corolla near throat; pistil 1, ovary inferior, 1-chambered, 1-seeded, style 1, branches 2, generally hair-tufted at tip, stigmas 2, generally on inside of style branches
Fruit: achene, cylindric to ovoid, generally deciduous with pappus attached
Genera in family: ± 1300 genera, 21,000 species (largest family of dicots): worldwide. Largest family in CA. Also see tribal key to CA genera: Strother 1997 Madroño 44(1):128. See glossary p. 25 for illustrations of general family characteristics.
Biennial to subshrub from taproot or woody caudex, glabrous to tomentose or glandular-sticky
Leaves entire to pinnately lobed, generally clasping, gland-dotted
Inflorescence: heads generally radiate, 1many; involucres obconic to hemispheric, generally gummy; phyllaries in 410 series, bases generally tough, tips green; receptacle flat to convex, naked, ± pitted
Ray flowers 0many; ligules yellow
Disk flowers: corollas yellow; style appendages linear to lanceolate, generally = or > stigmatic portion
Fruit cylindric or swollen-obconic, shiny white to ± brown, glabrous, smooth to ridged; pappus of 16 awns ± < disk corollas, generally < 0.2 mm wide, generally U-shaped in X -section, generally entire, deciduous
Species in genus: ± 80 species: c&w North America, South America
Etymology: (D.H. Grindel, 17761836, Latvian botanist)
Hybrids common.
Perennial 625 dm, ± erect, ± glabrous
Stems appearing white-varnished
Leaves: cauline 23 cm, lanceolate to ovate, entire to serrate, stiff, light yellow- to gray-green
Inflorescence: head 1; involucre 1725 mm diam, hemispheric; phyllaries 67 series, acuminate, strongly reflexed to coiled 360°, glabrous
Ray flowers (0)2539; ligules 811 mm
Disk flowers many; corolla throat ± narrow
Fruit 25 mm, generally 23-angled, white to golden-brown; tops generally flanged; pappus awns 26
Chromosomes: 2n=24
Ecology: Sandy or saline bottomlands, fields, roadsides
Elevation: < 1400 m.
Bioregional distribution: Inner North Coast Ranges, Great Central Valley, San Francisco Bay Area, Outer South Coast Ranges, Southwestern California
Distribution outside California: Baja California


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Das Mueller Haus
Das Mueller Haus is a recent renovation located just minutes away from downtown. This 1940's vintage cottage is typical of Fredericksburg's homes built in that period. The overall decor is antique with contemporary pieces sprinkled about for comfort. The guesthouse features all hardwood floors and a big back yard. There a two major bedrooms - one bedroom has a queen-size bed and the other has a full-size bed. In addition, there is a twin bed in a third small bedroom. There is a full bath with tub and shower. The kitchen is spacious and has a stove, oven and large refrigerator. There is also a microwave, and coffee maker furnished for your use. An ideal retreat for a family, a group of friends, or a couple.
- From the Heart of Fredericksburg - less than 1 mile North West
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Stay Up With Me (Kobo eBook)
The stories in Tom Barbash's wondrous and evocative collection explore the myriad ways we try to connect with one another and with the sometimes cruel world around us. The newly single mother in "The Break" interferes in her son's love life over his Christmas vacation from college. The anxious young man in "Balloon Night" persists in hosting his and his wife's annual watch-the-Macy's-Thanksgiving-Day-Parade-floats-be-inflated party while trying to keep the myth of his marriage equally afloat. "Somebody's Son" tells the story of a young man guiltily conning an elderly couple out of their home in the Adirondacks, and the narrator in "The Women" watches his widowed father become the toast of Manhattan's midlife dating scene, as he struggles to find his own footing in life.
The characters in Stay Up with Me find new truths when the old ones have given out or shifted course. In the tradition of classic story writers like John Cheever and Tobias Wolff, Barbash laces his narratives with sharp humor, psychological acuity, and pathos, creating deeply resonant and engaging stories that pierce the heart and linger in the imagination.


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Tough Weekend for Boys' Hoops; Girls Win Laugher
It began at 7 p.m. on Friday night and mercifully ended at noon the following day. It was 17 hours the Haldane boys' basketball would like to, and will have to, forget.
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Welcome to the Holiday Inn Express and Suites in Elgin, Texas, one of the closest all non smoking, pet friendly hotels outside of Austin, Bastrop, Hutto, Taylor and Giddings! Located only minutes from Austin, home to the annual South by Southwest (SXSW) Film and Music Festival. The Holiday Inn Express and Suites is the premier hotel of choice for visitors desiring quick accessibility to the city, while avoiding the high prices and traffic. Ideally situated directly off of Highway 290, we are located between Houston, Waco, Dallas and San Antonio. We make the perfect place to stay if you are attending events in Austin, Circuit of the Americas, Formula 1, MotoGP, XGames, Austin Rodeo, Austin City Limits, Texas Longhorns Football games, Sherwood Forest and FIA World Endurance Championship just to name a few. Traveling on business, our hotel is ideally located close to three major brick manufacturers namely the Luminant Power Plant, Austin Community College and a proud supporter of our Military and our own Camp Swift Neighbors. Sites you might not be aware of World renowned Elgin Veterinary Hospital, award winning Meyers Sausage Company and Southside Market and BBQ. We have a charming little Ghost Town just a few miles away and every Saturday join us at the Farmers Market down town. Stroll around town and take in the shops and dining, do not miss the opportunity to see our Award winning neighbor "The Owl" Best Downtown Business, population under 50,000 in all of Texas.
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Sloe gin has been made all over the British Isles for centuries and has acquired a bit of mystery around the ways of making it. Sloes are the small, bitter fruits of the blackthorn bush (Prunus Spinosa) and are gathered in the autumn mostly for adding to gin, and sometimes vodka and other spirits.
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For whatever reason, 1999 was the best year for American film in at least three decades. With competition like "The Matrix," "South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut," "The Sixth Sense" and "Toy Story 2," it was hard to pick a No. 1. And yet I'll still stand by my choice of "Being John Malkovich" — a movie that managed to be vastly entertaining, funny, and moving, even while being indescribably far off all paths, beaten or unbeaten.
The original 2000 DVD was OK, but the new Criterion version is packed with a terrific bunch of extras that are true to the spirit of director Spike Jonze and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman. That is, it's hard to determine how much of the material is real and how much an imaginary construct — what we usually call "a put-on."
The included pamphlet is dominated by an interview of Jonze, conducted by culture critic Perkus Tooth ... except Tooth is, in fact, a fictional character created by Jonathan Lethem. In a 15-minute short, Jonze celebrates the film's "30th anniversary" by showing us his on-set photography.
There is a director's commentary — except the director on the track isn't Jonze, but rather his friend Michel Gondry ("Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"). Gondry's accent is so thick as to be nearly incomprehensible, and the track only accompanies roughly an hour's worth of scenes. Gondry seems slightly baffled by why he's there, so thankfully, halfway through, he calls Jonze and puts him on speakerphone for the remainder. Their discussion keeps returning to Gondry's jealousy and resentment over Jonze's greater success, which seems to take Jonze by surprise.
Spontaneous? Pre-planned? Who knows?
There are also some more conventional supplements: A half-hour "making of"; a recent interview with Malkovich by John Hodgman; plus trailers and ads. Like the film itself, Criterion's release is amusingly confounding and ambiguous.
"Being John Malkovich" (Criterion, Blu-ray, $39.95; DVD, two discs, $29.95)
ANDY KLEIN is the film critic for Marquee. He can also be heard on "FilmWeek" on KPCC-FM (89.3).


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This topic introduces Apigee Edge Analytics Services.
Video: Watch a short video for an overview of Apigee Edge Analytics Services.
First things first: How to generate complete analytics data
Getting complete analytics for your API program requires a few prerequisite steps. What do we mean by complete analytics? You could, for example, create an API proxy that anyone in the world could call, and Apigee will generate metrics about that API proxy. But what about metrics for the developer or app that called the API proxy? If Apigee doesn't know who made an API call (developer and app), it obviously can't generate those metrics.
A few steps are therefore needed to let Apigee figure out which developers and which developer apps are calling your API proxies.
The following tutorials quickly guide you through the necessary steps that let you see analytics for developers and apps: Secure an API by requiring API keys and Secure an API with OAuth.
For quick reference, here's a list of those steps with links to more detailed information:
Create one or more API products, which function as security gatekeepers for API calls. See Create API products.
Register developers with Apigee. See Managing app developers.
Register applications and generate API keys for those developers. See Register apps and manage API keys.
Add security policies to your API proxies that verify API keys and/or security tokens. See the following topics: Verify API Key policy, OAuthV2 policy, and Verify JWT policy (Beta version).
If you're using Edge Microgateway, make sure that you've enabled the analytics plugin (which is enabled by default). If the analytics plugin is disabled, Edge Microgateway won't send analytics data to Edge analytics.
After you complete these steps, you can use the Apigee dashboards, the Developer engagement dashboard, or generate custom analytics reports that show metrics for developers and apps.
Improve your API through analytics
Apigee Edge Analytics Services collects and analyzes a wealth of information that flows through APIs. This information is gathered, analyzed, and provided to you immediately, in real time. How is your API traffic trending over time? Who are your top developers? When is API response time fastest? Slowest? Are you attracting more developers? Geographically where do you see the most API traffic?
The answers to questions like these help you improve your APIs, attract the right app developers, troubleshoot problems, and, ultimately, make better business decisions related to your API program.
Insight that leads to action
Let's say your API has gained wide adoption. It's popular. You have attracted a number of talented, creative app developers and people are downloading and installing their apps. Obviously, the API team is very interested in how the API is performing, how it's being used, and how to plan for improvements.
To plan those improvements, the API team needs to know as much as they can about how the API is used in the real world. How is it performing? Who is using it? What are the traffic patterns? They need insight. They need to know:
- What's changed? Knowing when and where something about an API changed helps you to take corrective action.
- What are our top apps? You need to know who/which apps are using your API.
- Who are our best app developers? Your best users and developers might be operating with you across multiple apps and devices, such as website, mobile apps, video game consoles, and tablets.
- Which API methods are most popular? Your API is a product; you want to understand its usage to help pivot your business and make future investment decisions.
- How much API capacity will be needed next year? Capacity planning is difficult. What if your API goes viral and you have millions of users? You need trending usage data to help make these decisions. In this context, you want to see indicators in the trend charts like the number of requests (the load hitting the backend systems), volume of data (especially for API responses), and so on.
- Why is the API down? There's probably not one thing to tell you why an API is down, but the shape of your graphs can help. Do your charts show catastrophic failure or a slow lead-in to failure?
Through a continual process of collecting, analyzing, and visualizing API metrics, Analytics Services helps your API team act to improve their APIs. Out-of-the-box, Analytics Services supports and encourages this pattern of collect, analyze, visualize, and act.
What kind of data is collected and analyzed?
Analytics Services collects and analyzes a broad spectrum of data that flows across APIs. For example, while your API is deployed, the analytics system is constantly counting and analyzing metrics like the number of messages received, number of developers, response times, errors, number of apps in use, request size, and many others. For a good introduction to metrics and how you can use them, see Use the metrics APIs to measure API program performance. For a complete listing of metrics, see Analytics metrics, dimensions, and filters reference.
You can also create custom metrics by wiring together features of Analytics Services and API Services. For example, you can create a policy designed to extract certain information from an API (from request headers, for instance). Once extracted, you can use the analytics API to analyze and return the data. For example, you might ask: When does the highest response time usually occur for a specific API? The answer to a question like this might help your Ops team plan for anticipated network loads. See Analyze API message content using custom analytics for a nice end-to-end example demonstrating this technique.
A new breed of data
You've stored and collected metrics on system performance, you've collected error logs, you've collected user data, and you've collected many other kinds of data related to your business systems and the applications that run on them. Often this data is collected and stored in data warehouses where it is organized and possibly analyzed in predictable ways according to traditional models like ETL (extract, transform, load).
With the rapid adoption of APIs and a mobile apps economy, understanding what to measure is less predictable than it once was. Third-party app developers have access to your APIs. Users are on the go. They have smart phones, tablets, and other mobile devices. Some may never use a browser. In this rapidly shifting environment, you need to know exactly how, when, and where they are interacting with your APIs. You need to know how your APIs are performing right now, in real time.
Video: For more about this perspective, check out this short video. It explains how API data is a new breed of data, that exists at the edge of your enterprise, and that is critical to the success of your API program.
Put analytics up front (a best practice)
Apigee encourages API teams to put analytics up front. Think of analytics as your API's peer, as an integral part of your API program from the beginning, not as something you consider or decide to add later in your API program.
Analytics can provide key information at the beginning of your API program to help you improve your API and the experience of app developers who use it. As your API program matures, analytics lends insight that can inform key business decisions.
Your API at a glance
Analytics Services provides several visualization tools, including the Dashboard, custom reports, GeoMap, and tools that visualize trends in API proxy performance. For now, let's take a quick look at three of these tools: the Dashboard, proxy resource performance view, and custom reports.
The Dashboard
The analytics Dashboard gives an overall view of your entire API program. You can toggle the dashboard between the API program view, which gives you a sense of overall API performance, and API top performer view, which tells you about your top performing APIs, apps, developers, and API products. You can select a time interval (hour, day, week, month) over which the data is plotted or specify a custom timespan. You can also mouse over any point on a plot to see in greater detail what was happening at that point.
Proxy resource performance view
You also can track performance metrics for individual URIs (resources) for a specific API proxy on the Performance tab for any API proxy in the proxy editor.
Custom reports
The custom report feature lets you select, combine, filter, and drill down into specific API metrics. You can generate reports that contain the exact data that you want to see. Reports can be viewed in the UI, exported to CSV, PDF, or PNG files. In addition, you can create your own analytics dashboard and populate it with custom reports that you select.
For more information about the visualization tools provided by Analytics Services, see Analytics dashboards. For more information on custom reports, see Create custom reports.
Fetch analytics data with the REST API
Using the Analytics Services API, you can access a wide variety of operational and business data that flows across your APIs. For example, using REST calls, you can determine which APIs are performing well or poorly, which developers are delivering the highest value traffic, and which apps are causing the most issues for your backend services.
You can use the REST API when you need to automate certain analytics functions, such as retrieving metrics periodically using an automation client or script. You can also use the API to build your own visualizations in the form of custom widgets that you can embed in portals or custom apps. The API can also be used to provide custom analytics to certain app developers or communities of app developers.
Here's an example analytics REST API call:
$ curl https://api.enterprise.apigee.com/v1/o/{org_name}/environments/test/stats/apiproxy?"select=sum(message_count)&timeRange=6/24/2017%2000:00~6/24/2017%2023:59&timeUnit=hour" \ -u email:password
This call tells you how many request messages were received on an hourly basis, grouped by all API proxies, on 6/24/2017 (00:00 to 23:59 UTC time). (%20 is a URL-encoded space.)
To read all about the REST API for analytics, see Use the metrics APIs to measure API program performance.
Share data with app developers
When you think of app developers as your customers, you'll want to make sure they have the tools and information available to them to make the best use of your API. Ultimately, you want the people who use their apps (and your products and services) to be happy.
Analytics Services provides a wealth of information that app developers can use to improve their apps. App developers are not only concerned about the quality of their apps, they are very interested in your API. How is it performing? Is it error prone? Is it sometimes unavailable? How does it respond to traffic spikes? Answers to these questions are crucial to the app developer who wants to deliver the best possible experience to their (your) customers!
First, the developer portal includes an optional App Performance page designed to give app developers access to important metrics for their apps. This page gives developers information about:
- Errors: Which API errors is my app seeing? What is the rate of errors? Where are they appearing in the code?
- Performance: Is the API slow right now? Which API methods are typically slow or slow at the moment?
- Availability: Is the API up or down right now? When will the API be back up? Why was the API down?
- Quota: Does your API have a quota? And as the app developer, how am I doing against the quota? Am I violating the quota?
You can also create custom reports and share them with your app developers. For more information, see Create custom reports.
Finally, organization administrators can use the analytics management API to capture data over a wider period of time to share with app developers offline. For more information, see Use the metrics APIs to measure API program performance.
Receive daily summary reports
Organization Administrators can opt in and out of being emailed daily analytics reports. In the management UI, select username > User Settings, and select or deselect the Receive daily analytics summary report option. You can also use the /stats/preferences/dailysummaryreport API to subscribe or unsubscribe from daily analytics emails. For example, to opt out, use:
Learn as you go (another best practice)
With the analytics tools provided by Apigee, you can collect and monitor a lot of data, which can be overwhelming. Apigee recommends that you start slowly by collecting and analyzing a few key metrics. Use what you learn to improve your APIs and the apps that use them. As you are successful, you can collect and analyze more data to make further improvements. Ultimately, API analytics can provide a powerful 360-degree view of your entire API ecosystem and help you improve your overall business.
Bottom line: API Analytics helps everyone improve
From the app developer to the business owner, API analytics help everyone improve.
- API Team - The API team is tapping into internal systems to create interesting APIs. The API team wants to know how the API program is doing overall, how individual APIs are doing, and how to improve their APIs.
- App Developers - By sharing analytics information with app developers, you get better apps. These developers are innovating with your API and building creative apps that help drive revenue to your enterprise. Analytics help app developers know how their apps are doing and how much they are contributing to the bottom line of your enterprise. App developers want to know how they can improve their apps. Ultimately, everyone wants happy end users.
- Ops Team - Equally, the operations team wants to understand traffic patterns and anticipate when to add backend resources or make other critical adjustments.
- Business Owner - The business owner wants to see how their API investment is paying off and where to invest API dollars in the future. Ultimately, the business owner wants to improve their business.


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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- If the week-long government shutdown stretches to a month, it would mean a $50 billion blow to the U.S. economy.
That estimate is actually $5 billion lower than the initial estimate of Mark Zandi, chief economist for Moody's Analytics. He lowered his forecast after the Defense Department recalled nearly half of 800,000 federal employees furloughed last week, and it appeared Congress would quickly approve a measure to pay furloughed workers retroactively.
So about $200 million a day in pay now seems likely to find its way to the pockets of the "non-essential" federal workers.
But that was only a fraction of the overall economic cost of the shutdown, said Zandi. The indirect impact on several key elements could be far greater, including:
Housing: "We've impacted mortgage origination; that starts to disrupt the housing market that's been very important to the recovery," Zandi said.
Tourism: "Travel and tourism are being affected, both by closures of national parks and the lack of visas being issued to foreign visitors," he said. "Leisure and hospitality has been a growth area."
Small business: "Small Business Administration lending has been cut off, meaning some small businesses aren't going to be able to hire the way they had planned," Zandi said .
Financial markets: "As stock prices fall due to worries about the shutdown, that means less wealth and that leads to less consumer spending," he said.
Zandi said the economic costs will compound the longer the shutdown lasts.
Other economists believe the indirect costs are overstated by Zandi's estimates. Doug Handler, chief US economist for IHS Global Insight, said much of the lost business activity Zandi detailed will eventually be made up.
"Someone who doesn't take a vacation to a national park might go somewhere else or take the trip in the future," he said.
But Handler agrees on one thing: the direct loss from the shutdown will be smaller than the indirect hit to the economy due to the current political uncertainty. He said the rising worries about gridlock on the question of raising the debt ceiling will be the largest drag.
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"But that will still cause some economic disruption," he said. "Both businesses and consumers will want to cut back or at least defer spending plans until things are settled."
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Intelligence Committee will delay voting to confirm John Brennan as CIA director as the panel's Democratic chairwoman demanded Wednesday that the White House turn over more details about lethal drone strikes on terror suspects and last September's attack in Benghazi, Libya, that left the U.S. ambassador there and three other Americans dead.
Intelligence Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein said the vote likely will be pushed off until late February.
In a statement, the California Democrat said senators need to see more classified legal opinions that justify using the unmanned spy planes to kill al-Qaida suspects overseas, including American citizens. The Obama administration last week released two of nine classified Justice Department memos outlining the legal reasoning to Feinstein's committee just hours before Brennan's confirmation hearing in front of the panel.
Feinstein said the memos are necessary "in order to fully evaluate the executive branch's legal reasoning, and to broaden access to the opinions to appropriate members of the committee staff."
The White House declined to comment Wednesday.
Feinstein and other lawmakers are considering creating a special court to review strikes against U.S. citizens. In 2011, drone strikes in Yemen killed three Americans: U.S. born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, his 16-year-old-son and al-Qaida propagandist Samir Khan.
Last week, Brennan defended the strikes in his confirmation testimony, but also said he welcomed more discussion on the controversial program.
"American citizens by definition are due much greater due process than anybody else by dint of their citizenship," Brennan told Feinstein's committee.
The Senate and House Judiciary committees also want to see the documents, and other lawmakers are pressing the White House for more for information on the Sept. 11 attack on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi the killed Ambassador Chris Stevens.
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|My nutty Daddy sometime in the early 1970s.
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Wordless Wednesday - Nutty Daddy
Posted by Heather Kuhn Roelker at 6:00 AM
4 comments:
- Kathryn said...
Thanks for the laugh! My Dad was always doing nutty stuff like that too. :)
- April 17, 2013 at 10:31 AM
- Heather Kuhn Roelker said...
You are very welcome, Kathryn! I couldn't help but laugh at this one, too. It is especially funny to me since my father NEVER wanted to camp with us saying he did it enough at work (he was in the National Guard). Now I wonder if maybe he just had a little too much fun one time too many. ;)
- April 17, 2013 at 11:21 AM
- Wendy said...
What a hoot! He looks like he would have been the perfect person to parade around in a hot dog suit to promote a restaurant.
- April 17, 2013 at 1:57 PM
- Heather Kuhn Roelker said...
Too funny, Wendy. I bet he would parade around in a hot dog costume to this day!
- April 17, 2013 at 4:27 PM
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