SendGrid for SMTP Relay

hello again as you know I am Eli the computer guy and today we're going to be talking about SMTP relay with SendGrid a simple mail transfer protocol so basically what we're gonna be talking about today is actually sending emails out from your servers or from your web applications now when you're a newbie right when you are brand-new in the tech field one of the first things that everybody wants to do is they want to go out there and they want to build their own email servers right I have no idea what it is all of us do is like yes that will make us real tech professionals if we build our own email servers and well you realize after you've been doing this stuff for 3 4 or 5 10 20 years is that email servers suck email servers are a complete pain in the ass and frankly if I can pay somebody else to deal with them I will email servers they're paying in the ass to set up but beyond being a pain in the ass to setup the problem isn't with how email gets sent nowadays it's very difficult to make sure that when you send an email from your server it will actually get to the recipient there are so many black lists out there there are so many spam filters there's so much stuff out there to try to get spam from dropping into email boxes that unfortunately it blocks a lot of the stuff out that you're trying to send so if you build your own email server to send out emails to whoever the chances are even even if even if you're lucky and you configure the email server correctly there's a good cancer emails are just gonna go into the to the trash can of eternity just because of how all of the spam blockers and all that are set up right there you send an email from your server from your web application whatever else and then it goes into span and the spam and that's just how it works and one of the problem that we run into though is with especially a lot of the the hosting services that are out there that they allow you to use the mail function in PHP or the other programming languages and so a lot of people think that they don't need things like an SMTP relay service because they say I'm already pairing paying for a shared hosting plan I can call the mail function if I develop if I develop a web app that needs to send out emails I can call the the PHP mail function and be able to send out emails but again the problem is is your web app sends the email out from that email server on the email service on the server and then it goes into the spam bin and so that's why most of us if we're professionals what you decide to do is you want to go out there and you want to use something called an SMTP relay service we talked about this in another video but basically what an SMTP relay service does is instead of your web application or your server sending out the email directly your server sends the message to an SMTP relay server and then that SMTP relay server sends it off to the endpoint so you can use a lot of different services out there for smtp relay if you have a GoDaddy account you can actually use GoDaddy for smtp relay and I have used Google Apps there so Gmail you can use Gmail as an SMTP real ID so a lot of the email services out there even the free ones will allow you to do use them for smtp relay the problem is if you use these services for smtp realized is that they generally limit you they either limit you to the total number of emails you can send at one time or they limit you to how many you can send per day i know if you do like GoDaddy they limit you to 250 SMTP relays emails per day if you use other services it's down to a hundred and fifty or a hundred or less so one of the questions for me since I'm running geek brain dump comm right now is how can I send out the email notifications for you guys so it is a WordPress site with all these social networking functionalities so it has to be able to send out emails when you create an account it needs to send out an email when you get a notification from a friend it needs to send out an email basically I need the system to be able to send out emails and not have to worry about blocks not having to worry about problems not having to worry about limits just basically being able to hammer the hell out of an SMTP server a relay server and not have to worry about so I went out there I did a little bit of research and that's where I found the company called SendGrid and that's personally what I have decided to go with the reason that I like SendGrid is because this is basically what SendGrid does so SendGrid acts as an SMTP relay that's what it does I don't have to worry about it being one of these companies it kind of mt p relay on the side but you this is what SendGrid does beyond that I like that it scales and it actually has a decent price point so with SendGrid if you do like 200 messages you can do it for free up to 40,000 messages per month is only ten dollars a month and then I think can go up to like a hundred thousand for something like ninety so let's go over to the computer and can kind of show you send grid's website and then show you how I'm using send grid and I think it like I say I I think a send grid is a pretty cool thing and if you if you really need smtp relay service i think it's something you should look at so basically all you have to do is you just go to send grid calm and it'll go here and you canyou can take a look at all the different stuff so they have a free send grid account so send up to 200 emails a day no credit card needed no expiration so you can do up to 200 today so if you have your own WordPress site the other thing that I like with SendGrid is basically when you do SMTP relay service it can be done in one of two ways basically through the SMTP protocol the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol or through an API so if you're actually building your own web app and you want it to be able to send out email and you don't want to have to worry about the SMTP and all that it can actually send SendGrid has its own API that you can build off of to make that happen so one of the things that I like about SendGrid is because it can grow with you so you start and you know send up to 200 emails a day no credit card anything like that but then as you grow all you have to do is upgrade your account that is one thing that I do have to remind you guys as professionals right every time you have to touch your system every time you have to do a migration every time you have to do work that takes time that takes energy that takes time from you doing something that could be making you more money so when you when you standardize on one system it makes life a lot easier so right now you go with a free version that's 200 bucks a month and then when you when you need let's say ten thousand email sent per month all you have to do is pay them an extra ten bucks there's nothing else you have to do and then 80 bucks and then so on and so forth you kind of get what I'm saying you can just go with them and you don't have to worry about it so that that's why I want a personal I'm paying their there a little $10 fee per month and it seems good you get 40,000 emails per month it does get a little expensive after a while 80 bucks for a hundred thousand emails two hundred bucks for three hundred thousand emails or four hundred dollars for seven hundred thousand emails but also do remember these are actual emails getting sent out this isn't pageviews right you know so a lot of times you have to think about what metric you're dealing with so you see like these numbers and you think about pageviews and then you go oh my god that's gonna be expensive this isn't pageviews this is actually the emails getting sent out so believe me if your website is in fact sending out 700,000 illegitimate emails per month that means you have an insane website I mean that is probably the equivalent of something like 30 to 50 million pageviews per month just to kind of give you an idea there so this is the price isn't basically so if you're interesting come here to send grid calm the cool thing with send grid is that it gives you its own stats so again send grid is an overall system this isn't like just a nice little add-on from a service send grid basically sending out emails is all it does so I have a plug-in in my wordpress site so geek brain dump com is a wordpress site I have a send to grid plug-in that I added to to geek brain dump comm and basically I connect that to to the SendGrid service and that's how emails get sent out so geek brain dump com sends out an email that goes through this the the the SendGrid plugin which goes up to the SendGrid service that thing goes out into the real world now the cool thing here though is we can go in and we can actually look at send grids statistics then so this is probably about the the best statistics you're gonna get for how your emails are actually being dealt with so I can go in here and I can see you know how many are being delivered so ninety three point nine percent of my emails are actually getting delivered I can see the requests so like the last day or so eighty two emails have been sent out I can see how many have been open I can see how many have been clicked and so at this one site right here I can get an idea of how the emails are in fact being used because this is a big thing right so if you look at geek brain dump com I use I use email for a number of different purposes right so when I use email on geek brain dump comm it's used for a couple purposes one purpose is for sending out the mass emails so so I send out an email blast to all my writers to say hey I have a new review product or something like that now that particular plugin gives me a lot of statistics so I can look at that and I can see who's open the things are the emails getting to who they're supposed to go to so on and so forth but there's a whole other side to WordPress where I don't get any statistics and that's when notifications are sent out when new accounts are created all of that kind of stuff emails are sent from the the WordPress site but I don't get any statistics there it all supposedly gets sent but I have no idea what happens afterwards the cool thing with using the send grid service is I actually then can see the metrics on that so all the emails that are going out I can see if they're open I can see if they're bouncing so on and so forth so that's a very very very useful useful thing and especially this is important because when you start running a real web business it is very important that you make sure that you seem like a legitimate web business right so if you start sending out a lot of emails that are bouncing that's a bad thing because then those spam filters are gonna think that you're a spam site so by looking at these statistics you can get a better idea of what's going on so this is all the stuff they show you and again they show you the different requests and the click rates and all kinds of other stuff they actually give you more statistics here but I can't show you those more statistics because it gives gives away some personal information and I don't want to deal with you hacker people so if you are interested in this again the free the free version 200 emails per day for free you can go in here can take a look at it but the geographical statistics so I can show you the gear like who what geographies are people opening up the email so this can be very very useful right if I have a website it's very easy for me to go into Google Analytics and see who's coming to my website from where from the United States from Colombia from Ecuador whatever if you're dealing with email you don't you don't necessarily get those statistics right you send the email out and who the hell knows where it goes one of the cool things here is with these geography stats you can see so if you were seeing out a 10000 P email message or news blast every week you can see where is it going is it all going to American people is it all going to Ecuadorian people that kind of thing because especially when you're going to sell sponsorships that's a number that kind of metric is very important we can see the email clients so what kind of email clients are people using the ISP stats browser stats all kinds of stuff and again this is very useful for people doing these mass email blasts because now you get to you get to see who is actually reading that stuff it gives you a level of statistics that you normally only get for website so that that's pretty cool here and again like I said it's one of the reasons I like Sun grid beyond that again if you are an app developer and one of the things that I like with this is so they have the SMTP API but they also have the Web API so it gives you all of the coding API stuff so if you want to create the next dog dating service you want to create the next Twitter the next Facebook and basically you don't want to have to deal with SMTP you just want to be able to build in the email services directly to your app you can do that here and then like I say you don't have to worry about building your own web servers or any kind and that kind of stuff I've been using SendGrid now for a little bit and I think I think it's a good option again I've used SMTP relay for years SMTP relay is one of those if you haven't played with SMTP relay play with us on TP relay because it just makes life a lot easier but the reason again like I said I went with SendGrid now is is running a website we send out a lot of emails now I want to make sure those emails just go out they go out they get received by the people that need to receive them so on and so forth and this this would just make that life a lot easier for me just so you guys know FCC compliant SendGrid isn't giving me a damn thing they haven't given me a single month off of my my subscription or anything I literally was looking for a solution for you direct geek brain dump com I had heard of SendGrid in the past I started 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this is a tool of the modern age remember when it wasn't that long ago that we all had like one device that needed to be charged with a USB connection and now we have a zillion right I personally myself I have an Android phone I have an iPad I have a Kindle I have my walk plus my wife has all of those things right and it's really interesting how things change in the technology world because it wasn't so long ago that you always had to plug your devices into computer systems so that they could do the whole synchronization routine right now with USB the reality is most of these that the devices get charged through some kind of USB connection but you don't actually need the USB connection itself you need the power to run through USB connection but you don't need the connectivity again my watch synchronizes wirelessly to my phone my phone synchronizes wirelessly with the cloud my iPad synchronizes wirelessly with the cloud my Kindle synchronizes wirelessly with a cloud nothing do I actually plug into any of my devices anymore but yet they still have that USB connection in order to power them and so one of the things that I've been trying to try to figure out is how to how to power all of my devices without it being an absolute mess right because you have to have a zillion adapter so not only do you have to have the USB cable but then you have to have the big old power adapter and that gets plugged into a surge protector and you just kind of got this mess right upstairs we have like six or seven or these different little power connectors so we can charge everything up so that's where this initech v port USB charger comes in and so this does not connect to your computer this is not connect to your computer this is not connect to your laptop this is not connect to your server right all this does is provide power for USB devices so that you don't have to have all of those additional power adapters and everything on the side you can just plug everything into this one thing it will charge your iPhone at which charger your galaxy phone or charge everything else and away you go so if we go over to my little demo table I can kind of show you what's going on with this thing and so I mean this is all it is and there's there's not really a whole lot to it is kind of I find this curious because it just shows you how technology has changed the point of USB charging in the past it used to be important to be able to synchronize your data to your computer and then the charging capability was just like a nice add-on now charging is what's important and the synchronization all happens wirelessly so you don't actually plug your device into the computers anymore but if you buy this little thing this is nice again you can see it's nice and small so instead of having to have you know five different power adapters I can have this one one device one charger plug in my USB plugs to any of these five ports and then plug the charge on my devices so I can have my my Kindle and my iPad and my phone and my watch and my glass if I want all five devices now the one thing that I will laugh about because I always laugh about this is this is the charging unit and then this is the power adapter so I do find that a little funny I find that a little hilarious just the fact that the power adapter is literally the size as a charging unit itself but you know what are you gonna do about it so you just plug this thing into the wall you then put this wherever it's gonna be your plug all your devices in and away you go I think it's a good idea it makes a whole lot of sense and is good and then in the modern age if you're interested in taking a look at this basically you can go over to in attack I in a Tec K dot-com go through the products and they have a lot of stuff so basically in a tech makes a lot of San Eric kind of stuff but again I I found I found this particular thing to be pretty useful so if you go over basically you you're looking for USB chargers and then they have the desktop charger this is the UC 5001 here if you click on here it'll give you all the additional information what I do like about is you can go over to amazon.com and frankly it's a very inexpensive device so it's it's it's $20 for this thing currently there's a sale I guess normally it's 40 bucks but definitely at $20 it's a good price that it makes a lot of sense so so I would I would give it a thumbs up it's a nice thing basically I'm creating my own little charge I swear to you I'm create a nice little charging station in my bedroom so I can plug in all my devices and this thing is going to be going there right after this video so yeah so there you go so it's the initech desktop USB charging unit or whatever again one of the reasons I do these reviews is I know they're not gonna like it but but take out the initech name for a second like don't even think about it being in a tech name just think about it being this is a pretty nifty device again the ability to be deep to be charging up to five of your USB devices on your desk at one time that that is just a very useful thing again as more and more of us have all of these different devices so even if you don't care about initech even if you don't care about initech just the device itself and the concept is something I think you should take a look at so this question comes from a Fed yeah right you said that the Android OS can only be installed on ARM processors is there another way to fool the system using VMware or other software so basically what this guy wants to do is he wants to try to run Android on an Intel based computer and the question is you can you can you fool can you somehow fool the operating system to make it work on an Intel except and the thing that you have to understand is this when we say that Android can't run on an Intel processor this isn't some weird little licensing thing right a lot of times when we are unable to run software on a particular device or particular system it's it's it's it's more of a legal issue they they have some kind of little checkbox in there and it says if you see this don't allow the the operating system to run this is not the case when we talk about the Android operating system so the Android operating system was specifically written to run on ARM processors so we have ARM processors and we have Intel x86 processors these are entirely different processors and therefore the operating systems the software everything else have to be written specifically for those different processors so you if you have an ARM processor you write an operating system that specifically runs on arm and if you have an Intel processor you write an operating system that specifically runs on Intel so this is kind of like the whole mess with Windows and Windows RT and and all of that kind of stuff so generally generally generally the answer is no you can't run generally the answer is you can't run Android on Intel op Jets just because it won't work you can't you just can't do it right there is one one piece of software that I have seen that may allow this to happen now I have not played with this yet so it's it's up to you to figure it out so if you go over there's a company called BlueStacks so if you go to bluestacks.com apparently they have a players so so this isn't like the operating system this is more like a VMware I guess virtualized instance from what I can figure out but they have a player 4 for Windows apparently they have a player for Mac so that you can basically use Android on a Mac or on a PC and you just like just like you normally would I have no idea how well this works I've read some of the reviews for it and apparently it's a little quirky so if you really want to run Android the Android operating system on a Windows computer not an Intel computer a Windows computer take a look at BlueStacks overall though I would say probably stay away from it but you know you're a geek so if you want to waste some time and play with it check out BlueStacks otherwise you have basically what you would have to look for if you're researching this in the in the future is find Android that has been ported port2 Intel Google search that and see what comes up again it's kind of like wine it's kind of like a lot of these olynyk's projects I'm not saying it doesn't exist I'm just not saying it's worth the time to bother with so I did a video on IP blacklisting a few days ago and this this question kind of pertains to that so this is this is from Mike let's say you blacklist an IP and then that person just changes the IP address so you see this a lot from hackers we're basically what you do is you try to block a single IP address but what they do is they start bouncing through a network of proxy servers so that even if you block one IP address they hit another IP a date they go through another proxy another proxy another proxy another proxy another proxy and therefore you can't really block them because they keep coming from different IP addresses how do you detect that device I would like to know if it is possible to identify a computer by some specific ID method that is commonly used or maybe not so commonly used I think MAC address specifics a specific network device what other parts of the computer can be checked so the question is is ok when we do things like IP blacklisting we know the IP address of the person is coming from and so we try to blacklist that but if they just keep bouncing around is there another way to define who this person is again the MAC address the media access control address that is a that is a specific number that's imprinted into all networking devices the CPU numbers something like that is there anything like that out there and the long and short of it as far as hackers are concerned there's not really anything out there that you can do now if you're dealing with normal weird if you're dealing with normal users want to be hacker script kitties and all that kind of stuff there are ways to to define a user beyond their specific IP address so it's things like what browser they use what resolution they use what operating system they use what Flash version they eat version they use that it's it's what is it called it's like they've been talking about a lot recently canvas you can use different elements that the HTML can it can pick up in order to define who a person is so if they're a normal person hopping through proxy servers you could use all basically what you do is you tie a whole bunch of different variables together to define who this person is again the operating system along with the web browser along with the flash version along with the Java version along with the resolution along with the geography along with a few other things if you add all that together you get a surprisingly identifiable string right there but the issue is if you're dealing with hackers right with hackers they're gonna be using BOTS they're gonna be doing all kinds of wacky stuff so they will be able to get around that pretty easily so more or less if you have hackers that are bouncing through proxy servers you're kind of screwed the only thing you can really do to block the people if they're trying to bounce through proxy servers is you can in fact block proxy servers so if you use a service such as CloudFlare or some of the other like firewall services out there one of the things that you can configure is if somebody is coming through a proxy server they are blocked out right right so if you have a pretty normal website you have a pretty norm like just a normal blog you may want to do that so if you have let's say you have a blog and let's say a food blog let's say your foodie and so you have a food blog that targets American people right so basically all you all you really care about is American citizens and you don't really care if people come in from Iran or North Korea or China or any of that you don't really want to deal with those people what you can do is you can just simply block proxy servers because anybody in the United States should be able to get to your blog pretty easily regardless and anybody outside the United States you don't really care about right so that it that is generally what you have to do if you have people bouncing and through all these proxy servers what you do is you then you then block the proxy servers and go from there but there's no other real way to do that that unique identifier they trying to do it and I remember when they try to do it back in the 90s they were gonna come up with a cpu ID and stamp that not just stamp it into every CPU that was getting produced but that would that would be transmitted whenever you go on the internet all the privacy rights people lost their damn minds and therefore they got that crap canned so so yeah yeah there's no against hackers again again against normal users against normal users there's a zillion ways to track those those poor people but against hackers basically all the only way you can try to block them is just to block the proxy servers altogether so the final thoughts for today the final thoughts uh basically talking about what's going on in my real life one of the things that I really try to emphasize with you guys because a lot of people don't really seem to grasp this fact is that business leaders owners manage managers YouTube celebrities right have a real life outside of the business that you guys see and then that truly affects how the business runs you know a lot of people have this idea that with business people you have the personal life and you have the business life and another never the twain shall meet or something like that right when in reality the business life has a lot of effect on the personal life and the personal life has a lot of effect on the business life for a business creator and the reason is is because we are able to really change what we do again I I really don't have anybody I report to whatever I do in a given day is what I decide to do really I mean at all it all gets pulled out of my head so when things happen in the personal world that affects how I do business when things happen in the business world that affects the personal life again this is one of the things I really emphasize with you guys the difference between the employee and the owner mentality the employee comes in and works nine-to-five it doesn't matter if they feel good it doesn't matter if they feel happy it doesn't matter if they're sick it doesn't matter if their spouse is sick it doesn't matter anything you come in and you work nine to five and if you don't work nine to five you're fired and the owner it's it's not that way as long as we basically get keep the lights on we can basically do whatever we want and so that's one of the things that's come up now is holy crap my poor wife my poor wife apparently my wife now she started having some breathing problems last week and it looks like she may have an enlarged heart of all things so they have been scanning her for the past week and she's gonna go through a few more tests this week to figure out what's going on hopefully hopefully it looks like it's not as bad as they they work and I thought it may be but it's still a royal pain in the ass and so one of the things that this has made me do missus made me think about is what kind of life do I really want over all right you know so I talked about with this business so this business has been around for about four and a half years in the beginning for the first year made no money in the second you're basically threw it away and the third-years started making money fourth year start making real money in fifth year now it's now it's making very very impressive money and so one of the things that I've been doing is as the business has grown once I have proven that this thing could make money is I've been looking for more and more ways to make money if I can make $50,000 why not make $100,000 how you make $100,000 why might not make $150,000 for I make $150,000 why not make so on and so forth and so I've been going going going I've been dealing with sponsors I've been dealing with this basically with in with with in pretty wide boundaries I've been trying to figure out new ways to make money okay I'll travel here I'll be a booth babe I'll do this so do you either say I make more more and more more money to make money and it's been growing but one of the things kind of hit me this week and finding out that my wife may now have an enlarged heart whatever the hell that's actually gonna end up meaning at the end of the day is I think I have enough money I think I'm good and I know this probably sounds really weird to some of you guys may sound arrogant and egotistical and all that kind of stuff yeah it's not being 14 but what I have realized and this is something just to think about in your everyday life is that I think I'm good enough right so every time I go after money every time I try to close a new sponsor every time I try to up my rates every time I have to do those business transactions right that's additional stress that's additional workload that's additional all of these things that I thought I put on myself so that I get more money at the end of the day and one of the questions that you have to think about is how much is enough you know I talked about it from the American Indians point of view and they said you know you know white man's disease is this idea that we always have to go after more and more and more gold or more and more and more money and that's one of the things like some so few of us ever do is we we so few of us ever actually look at how much we're bringing in and decide you know what I think that's good enough you know what literally making any more money doesn't significantly change my lifestyle or my life or make me any happier so why am I going to add stress why am I going to add workload to myself so that I can make more money that's not actually going to make my life any better does that make any sense so this is one of those things from the real world and the final thoughts and and it basically is just something for you guys to ponder and think about because I know so many business people again it's like more more more more MORE they make a lot more money than I do I mean they make five hundred thousand million dollars a year and yet they still want more it's like they make a million dollars a year but they want a million two hundred and you're like why I mean at what point does that actually make your life any better or are you just working more and more I was uh I was talking to somebody about that there's a local startup founder around here that literally literally is worth over five hundred million dollars and still works 14 hours a day it's like wow wow I guess it is proof literally it will never be enough money it's just one of those things to think about something think about you know this is something that I talk with with some of the other business people that I deal with and the question becomes what is your number and that's what a lot of the same business people we have in our heads is we have some number that we would be happy with I want to make $50,000 a year I want to make five hundred thousand dollars a year and then once you hit that number then you stop working so hard it's not that you stop working at something you go to beat for the rest of your life but you don't constantly claw after more and more and more if that makes any sense so yeah so that's my thought for you guys it's not gonna really matter at all to be honest with you basically is just for me I'm not really going after any new sponsors I'm jacking up my sponsor rates through the freaking roof so they don't have to deal with any new ones and that's that's one of the interesting things just guess you guys know how business works in the real world is the the the less people pay for something usually the more pain the ass they are as clients and so and my current sponsorship rates I have the sponsors I have are good but I get a lot of these kind of like pain-in-the-ass inquiries so what I'm going to do is actually jack up my sponsorship rights a little bit nosebleed just a little bit nosebleed and one of the points is that if they can't pay that amount of money then they're just not going to annoy me you know I'm saying like if you can pay that amount of money you probably know what you're doing and if you think that month the amount of money is too expensive I don't need to worry about you guys don't need this dress so something to think about something to think about yeah yeah just don't know business does not have to be absolutely everything an extra dollar does not have to be the most important thing in your life so the geek happy hour project is going at a nice right now so so we're about to have our third geek happy hour very exciting can you believe that only like a little over a month ago this geek happy hour thing was completely an idea I was pulling out of my ass and now it is real now we are on the 3rd geek happy hour so we're gonna be meeting down at ropewalk tavern down in Federal Hill and Baltimore Maryland so we've got 11 people signed up for that so that should be a fun time we have a hundred and twenty two people signed up for the meetup all together so we are growing at a nice clip one of the things that I will show you guys for any of you guys that are not in the Baltimore area is when I do go traveling now if I have time I am also setting up these geek happy hours so I got a media pass for Interop New York in October so I'm gonna do a geek happy hour - geek happy hours October 1st in October 2nd while I'm up there in New York so if you're in New York if you're gonna be going to Interop and if you're gonna be like me or you're kind of twiddling your thumbs afterwards well I'll come have a beer have a drink have some food and we can talk gig stuff we also have the Washington DC happy hour coming up for the VMware fusion thing that's actually an October 14th but anyway so geek happy hour keeps growing and growing and growing and I think it's a good thing once we do a little more of these I think once we do this for about another month I'm gonna try to figure out how to quote unquote franchise these things so you guys can do them in your own area but right here in the Baltimore area it seems pretty good and again you know getting eleven geeks together to talk for two hours over beer and food that doesn't seem like a lot of people you know when you hear about the Baltimore Tech breakfast that has a hundred or 200 people you know eleven people doesn't sound like a lot but realistically how many geeks do you need no I'm saying you get together you drink some beer you eat some good food and you get gout really I think it's a good deal

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Published: Tue Aug 05 2014