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"Delight yourself in the Lord, and He shall give you the desires of your heart." (Psalm 37:4) God plants the desires in our hearts and you know it's His will for you if you feel a strong burning desire for it.
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After 7 years that God has been laying out paths to define His purpose for me, it's only now that I understand what I have been praying for to be His instrument of love. My life purpose is not to fulfill my own desire, but to be an instrument of God to be His disciple, and in my own way touch people's hearts with overflowing love that only comes from God's grace. I myself have witnessed God's abundant love embrace me through other people He has placed in my life during my lowest points, and who rejoice with me with every little triumph.
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Episode 78 | 8 Things You Should Give Up
Podcast mention on Code My Own Road
[00:00] Mike: This is Startups For The Rest Of Us: Episode 78.
[00:03] [Music]
[00:12] Mike: Welcome to Startups For The Rest Of Us, podcast to help developers, designers and entrepreneurs be awesome at launching the Start-ups whether you built your first one or you're just thinking about it. I'm Mike.
[00:21] Mike: And we're here to share our experiences to help you avoid the same mistakes we've made. How are you doing this week?
[00:25] Rob: I'm doing all right. Yeah, I got a lot of stuff going on where we got about twelve days to MicroConf and I just wrapping everything up. I realized we talked about that every episode but it really is still a big thing on the list.
[00:35] Mike: It's an all time consuming affairs with this. [Laughter]
[00:39] Rob: It feel likes it, doesn't it? But I want to tell you I am cashing out to I —
[00:43] Mike: Avoid —
[00:44] Rob: I'm selling everything I have $33 per free user. That's the going rate right now for apps.
[00:50] Mike: Really?
[00:51] Rob: Know — know where that's from? Facebook's acquisition of Instagram.
[00:54] Mike: Oh, that's right.
[00:55] Rob: 33 million free users, it's a free iPhone app. 33 million people have downloaded it or using it. I'm not sure which and they got a billion bucks. So how many free users you think we have at podcast? Don't know.
[01:06] Mike: Oh, I don't know. But they got to be worth more because I actually listen to it.
[01:10] Rob: Yeah, so I know we get somewhere between 15 and 18,000 downloads per month. I just checked. We had about 600 gigs of mp3's get downloaded last month. So we're looking at — I mean that's — that's quite a bit of money. Even at like 2500 listeners, that's like 80 something K and if you go up to 10, 10 grand we could be — we could be approaching half, half a million bucks here. What do you think? Would you sell the podcast for that?
[01:33] Mike: I think your Math is off but — [Laughter]
[01:36] Rob: That 10,000 users would be $330,000 and I'm saying we might have more than that.
[01:42] Mike: Oh, okay. It'd be a hard call I think. Anyhow, half a million would be nice but it still got to ways to go I think. [Laughter]
[01:48] Rob: Yeah, I agree.
[01:50] Mike: I did read an interesting article that said that it could be Zuckerberg's last hurrah though which is where he gets to actually do something completely out of the ordinary and crazy like spend a billion dollars on a weekend just kind of on a whim because once he gets a board and the company goes public, there's no way he's ever going to be able to do that again. [Laughter]
[02:08] Rob: All right. Well, I heard he did — I think they have a board now. He did without board approval but —
[02:11] Mike: Right.
[02:11] Rob: … I think once they're public, yeah, there's more accountability. Anyways, what's — what's going on with you?
[02:16] Mike: Last week as everyone knows I was in Calgary in Canada and I actually said that I have a dinner with the podcast listener up there. So we went out and had dinner and had a couple of beers and just sat down and chatted about a bunch of different things. So, it was a good time.
[02:31] Rob: Cool. I want to give a shout out to Josh at codemyownroad.com and he did a nice write up of our Episode 76: Why It's Easy To Be Great But Hard To Be Consistent. Yeah, so thanks for the shout out, Josh. Really appreciate it.
[02:44] And the other thing I wanted to mention is Episode 77 in the comments. Mark Stephens replied and he said because you and I said in 77 about how — well, I had at least said I felt forums were a bit old fashion that they're kind of go down on the style at this point and he said, "I was interested in your comments on forums as being a bit 'old-fashioned' and being replaced by social media. Do you think if you can keep the question levels up, they are still a good source of SEO and also a way to differentiate your site? Do you really want to lose that to Facebook?" What do you think?
[03:17] Mike: Well, I think that what we had said was that forums are a little bit old fashioned in terms of offer and support not necessarily switching over to Facebook or something like that but more of the using e-mail and direct, some of the more direct communications is a little bit better than a forum for those types of things because I've even seen this with forums that are publicly available and you have a lot of activity there. What happen is that people will type in a question and they leave a comment there and you know, they expect an answer from whatever you're wanting for support and they will never actually go back and start searching for old answers to see if the answers to their questions are there unless you're like this large company that just doesn't really get back to people.
[03:59] Rob: Right. Yeah. In my experience, I have forums on a couple of apps and they turned out to be more trouble than a worth or they have been for us. One of the like crazy things is that, as an example, phpBB which is one of the most used forums offer packages. It can't be set up to e-mail and admin whenever a new post is posted. There's just no setting to do that. So you have to go and hack the code if you want to do that. And you can search online and see people complaining about this but as a result, you either have to visit the forum everyday to see who's doing what, monitor RSS, you know. There's really no easy way to monitor. And so what you find is that you either have this additional added task that isn't adding that much value to your business or you have this forum posted are not being answered because you're not watching the forum and then people start complaining.
[04:42] I've also found that people, you know, if someone gets to disgruntle to something, they want to come back and they want to, you know, post something to the forums about, "Oh the support is this or the support is that." We haven't had much trouble with that but I think once or twice in five years someone has done that and it's just like it's not that helpful like this person was actually what I would call a toxic customer, you know. They were demanding a lot more. They paid, you know, 90 bucks for a $300 product. But that would be so much better just to handle, handle via e-mail frankly. I found very little SEO value comes from forums as well. I think if you have some massive user-based tens of thousands of people, that's fine. But if you have a 500 or a thousand customers who bought from you over several years, the odds of you having more than just a trickle of two to three forum post per month are very low.
[05:25] And so, you can go ahead and set it up. But in my estimation, you're going to need a lot more value out of having a blog or even having a Facebook page if all you want to do is generate, you know, some traffic and interest in your — in your app —
[05:38] Mike: Yeah, I don't think that you'll get any SEO benefits at all from having a forum. The point is you bring up about using Facebook to get some SEO benefit as great, the comments that we had made were really about using forums as a support mechanism, thus, I want to reiterate that point is that that's what we were talking about not necessarily that using forum is a bad idea. It's just using them for support, kind of goes away and I think the social media in general is probably better than forums.
[06:04] Rob: That's in and that's a good point it's that we were really, we're talking about support. The one forum package that I have seen work was the forums that were attached to HitTail and they had tens of thousands of free customers at point and that actually had enough volume that it was ranking in Google and did bring in some traffic. So there was an SEO benefit at some point but I've shut the forums then I've now I was going to say if you go back and look. But as I went back and looked, it was a lot of involvement from the previous owner in order to get that, you know, that stream going. And in my opinion, it's just there — there are more valuable ways to spend time if you're going to look at and view it as a marketing channel and then back to what you've said it. It really, yeah, as support channel, there are just better ways to do it now. So what else? What have you been up to?
[06:45] Mike: I've been doing some link building for a couple of different products and I just got a couple of reports back from the company that I'm having doing a link building and I haven't gone through everything yet but more of the sites, I've talked about it a few weeks ago that I've just kind of accidentally launched because I was playing with some software, the Altiristraining.com is on the first page of Google already.
[07:03] Rob: Nice.
[07:04] Mike: So — yeah, it's — it depends on what data center you hit. So in Canada, I was ranks number 11, I think and I've seen various places where I ranked, you know, 13 or 10. I think that you said that you saw it ranked 7. I see it ranked 7 on my machine. So, I don't know. It's doing well and I've been kind of tracking the Google Analytics and start to gain a little bit of traffic and the sites up and running and I've still have some work to do on it but, you know, things are looking good so far.
[07:32] Rob: Yeah, I've been running in to an interesting SEO I'll say it's a snafu with HitTail. There was a completely White-hat SEO approach that used to work really well and now it's being penalized and what it is, is back a especially like 2005-2006, people used to give out badges to websites and so they would say install this widget on your blog or on your website and you know, every page wiggling back to, you know, your tool basically. And so HitTail had this badge they gave out and it's on literally hundreds of blogs and a lot of those blogs have literally hundreds of pages because I have a bunch of posts.
[08:08] Well as of six weeks ago, having a lot of links from a smaller amount of blogs, so having 20,000 link from only 500 different domains is now viewed as over optimization. Even though it's totally like back in the day, you know, this was a totally White-hat thing that everybody was doing. So it's now resulting a negative rankings. I'm actually dropping in ranking. Haven't built links, haven't done stuff but it's just kind of crazy to see how this was changing. So I'm doing some evasive maneuvers to undo some of that, some of those links.
[08:39] Mike: Right. I wish they were a little bit more. I guess I'll say open about the — the way that they do those things, how they figure out whether or not you're the type of company that's been, you know, doing things that you shouldn't be or just the ones that, you know, using this a legitimate tactic.
[08:54] Rob: Yeah, I mean it's all algorithmic, right? And I think not even a technique that spammers use but it's a technique that has a similar link profile to what spammers might do. You know, a spammer might set up fifty or a hundred spam blogs and then just put a bunch of links on those blogs so they have a high ratio of links to unique domains. And so doing this badge thingy, it's pretty obvious that's the new algorithm is not looking kindly at that. So …
[09:21] Mike: Yeah, I wonder how that factors in with products that you sell that are web-based which link back to your site like in the footer.
[09:28] Rob: I know.
[09:29] Mike: So —
[09:29] Rob: I — I would say that that's, yeah that's a problem. I mean because even with HitTail, it has a ton of authority lengths from big size like TechCrunch, Inc. and New York Times and all that. So, this is actually outweighing those at this point.
[09:41] Mike: Wow.
[09:42] Rob: You know. Yeah, which is pretty crazy. But it absolutely started six weeks ago when the Panda 3.3 Update came out. So we know it has something to do with an algorithm change. And you know, these are the best guesses of the folks that I — that I know who are knowledgeable.
[09:55.] Mike: Well, good luck in getting those badges moves.
[09:57] Rob: Thank you. I'm going to need it.
[09:59] Mike: [Laughter] [0:10:00]
[10:01] Rob: So hey, the last thing before we dive in to the main segment is a few episodes back, I said that I was boorish on mobile apps because I said, you know, as long as more phones are being sold, people are going to buy new iPhone and Android apps but there's no recurring revenue model. And I have finally understand how apps are going to continue to sell stuff. Why that there actually is "kind of recurring revenue stream" for the stuff and it's In App Purchases. This is totally obvious but it finally occurred to me that people are going to start making — once you get a big install-based that those In App Purchases whether they have them now or they introduce them later or whatever, that's going to be the gold mine in the years to come. It's being on the phones from day one and then maybe — it'd maybe over the course of several years, they'll sell them. You know, it's like PowerApps. It's new weapons. It's new fonts if you're selling, you know, or processing things.
[10:51] So that's going to be it, man. And it suddenly hit me and I realized like, okay, I can actually see this now as a sustainable business. So I want to amend my boorish comment on mobile apps and I do actually feel a little boorish about them.
[11:07] Rob: So today we're going to talk about Eight Things You Should Give Up. And this might be kind of sub texted as Eight Things You Should Give up To Be Happy as an Entrepreneur. This is based on a blog post that went pretty heavily viral. I think it got 5,000 tweets and several thousand likes and all these kind of stuff but it's at Purposefairy.com and we'll link it up in Show Notes. The post was called 15 Things You Should Give Up To Be Happy. And it's, you know, not the most actionable thing. I mean they're pretty — it's kind of like, you know, give up the past, give up excuses, give up these kinds of things. But as I read it, I totally fell like, huh, there are a lot of these items, these give ups that apply to becoming an entrepreneur, right? And to making this work as a business owner.
[11:48] So, the purpose here, this is another one of the kind of the mental aspects. We found that our podcast episodes that cover mental and psychological aspects actually resound quite a bit with people because I know for [0:12:00] me, it's always a challenge like every month or two I hit some kind of mental hurdle that I have to overcome whether it's a new challenge or whether it's something that I dealt with a year ago and it's now resurfacing. In my life, I have done every one of these things we're going to talk about. And in the past, I was looking at it and in the past week, I've done about 50% of these things.
[12:20] So, the first one we're going to cover is "Give up your need for control". The reason that I like this one is it relates back to what you and I talked about in terms of outsourcing and of giving up the need to control everything about your product. Especially as software developers, we really want to have every I dot and every T cross and we want the code to just be magical and pristine mint and have our finger prints all over it. But the bottom line is by giving up some control to someone else and whether this is code or whether it's copywriting or whether it's marketing or whether it's, you know, some aspect of your business, you are very likely going to be able to move faster and achieve your goals quicker.
[12:59] Mike: I don't think it's just about being able to move faster and quicker. It's also about getting a different perspective on things because I'll do things or I'll have an idea about something and I'll hand it off to someone else to do and a lot of times when I get back is, "Hey, have you thought about this?" or "Have you consider doing this, this other thing over here instead?" By collaborating a little bit more, you get another perspective that, you know, enhances your vision. It doesn't necessarily squash it.
[13:26] Rob: The next one we're going to talk about is "Give up yourself-defeating self-talk". Basically, it's having that self doubt. It's having the voice inside your head that says you can't do this, you won't do this, you weren't good enough to do this. There is a phenomenal blog post by Jason Cohen and it's called Why I feel Like a Fraud. And after selling, I think it was after selling his third company [Laughter] and you know, having more than enough money to live on for the rest of his life and take care of his family, he wrote this post. And he said, "I still basically question whether or not I'm actually good at this or whether it's been luck." [0:14:00] And even within the past six weeks, I — this exact phrase has ran through my head. On going struggles day to day are going to tend to bring this kind of negative self-talk in to your head. Some people I think are more prone to it than others but if you are prone to it, it is perhaps the most important one on this list to get over and to learn to deal with and learn to kind of quiet that internal voice.
[14:23] Mike: Yeah, I think that sometimes listening to that internal voices are just so incredibly toxic because you'll essentially talk yourself out of doing something because you say, "Oh well, I can't do this or this is too hard or this is going to take too long" and you kind of give up. And if you just kind of pressed on, then things likely would have straightened themselves out. It's just that if you don't kind of push through that, then it's just not going to happen. I hear a lot of people doing this type of thing. They talk themselves out of continuing. And it's they — they want validation from other people because they basically want an excuse to just quit and to give up and go home. And you know, a lot of times they'll get that from people which is I'll say unfortunate but, you know, it's just the way things go. But if you don't let that stuff gets you, then you can at least push yourself through that and hopefully, get to the other side.
[15:12] Rob: Yeah, there's this phrase that I've heard. The phrase is "If someone else has done it, so can I. If no one has done it, I will be the first." And that — it really resonate with some people and if it resonates with you, I encourage you to write it on a note pad and stick it on your monitor and read everyday. This is something I have a quote written in my notebook and as I flip through it, I really — it kind of makes me realized that there's a lot — there's a big mental aspect to what we do, right? It's like the mental part just like in baseball or in golf, like it can crush you. Once you lose your mental focus, you can seriously run a business in to the ground even before it gets started just by having this kind of this negative self-talk that keeps you from being productive.
[15:51] There's a school of thought — there's been some research done that in order to change a habit, you need to do it 21 days in a row. I think the idea with these give ups we're talking about [0:16:00] is probably pick one or two of the most critical ones, that ones you feel like your most guilty of and 21 days in a row, set aside two or three minutes either every morning or every morning to just look at what you did that day that was, you know, maybe defeating self to being self-talk and to then turn it around and say what is the — basically the opposite of that like I am capable of doing this like other people have done it, so I can do it as well. And if they haven't done it, I'll be the first.
[16:29] Mike: And you're not advocating that we look in the mirror and say I'm good enough —
[16:32] Rob: I know —
[16:33] Mike: … I'm smart enough and dug on and people like me. [Laughter]
[16:36] Rob: I know. We're right on that border. I mean hundreds of entrepreneurs that I've talked to, these things are prevalent and damn near everyone, you know. Everyone who've I talked to who's trying to serve businesses feels these things at one time or another. There's actually another good post. It was written in the past couple of weeks. And it was by Erica Douglass who has Whoosh Traffic and she was actually talking about Jason Cohen working with him and how it made her feel like a fraud, basically, or her feel like she wasn't that great. That's upon her blog.
[17:04] Mike: Yeah, I think the part of the problem is that people, you know, especially when you start reading blogs and you're paying attention to I guess that's scene, what you find is that there's people talking about, you know, how hard they worked on something and you know, they all the night — long nights and long days that they put in to something and you know, you look at that sort of stuff and you say, "Oh, well. All I need to do is suck it up and put in all this time and effort and then I'll be successful." And then a lot of people will put in a time and effort and it doesn't happen and thoughts of self doubt start creeping in like, "Well, what am I doing wrong? Is it me?"
[17:38] Rob: Our next one is "Give up complaining". I know that I totally fall back to this, right? It's easy to complain [Laughter], it's hard to sit there and suck it up and to make a change, right? I have this phrase that's in my head I've never said but it's employee's complain entrepreneur shut up and get it done. And that's it. Like that to me is the biggest difference between the employee mentality [0:18:00] and the entrepreneur mentality is every business I was — I ever worked at, there was always somebody bitching and typically several people bitching in a group about the low pay, the long hours, what management was doing wrong. Everybody had complaints. And the whole time I was thinking what are you doing? Like put that energy in to anything else whether it's the business you're working for, whether it's a business you want to start, whether it's to go home and put that energy in to hanging out with your kids or to painting or playing a guitar, like that is negative energy, turn in to something that is actually productive because you're basically wasting your life complaining. Literally, it does nothing. Like it doesn't help you and it doesn't help anyone around you.
[18:37] Mike: Yeah, I couldn't possibly agree more. Complaining about stuff just doesn't solve anything. I mean you just have to buckle down and whatever the problems are, figure out how to fix them —
[18:47] Rob: And I see —
[18:47] Mike: That's come to bottom line.
[18:48] Rob: Yeah and I think it becomes even more apparent once you're in charge. When once you start your own business, you realized the complaining is totally not helpful.
[18:58] Next one is "Give up the luxury of criticism". And what the author meant by this is giving a lot of criticism like non-helpful, non-constructive criticism, this is — I guess this is like complaining, right? It's easy to criticize from the stands. I find that people who are good, people who do a lot of things, people who are successful, they don't tend to criticize others nearly as much as the people who are sitting on the sidelines, you know, working 9 to 5, bitching about it, on hacker news. You know, just kind of not — not actually being actionable but they're wasting their time criticizing others. It's actually really easy to do.
[19:34] Mike: Yeah, it's a lot easier to criticize someone for, you know, trying something than it is to actually get out there and give it a try yourself.
[19:41] Rob: Right. And I find these people who are actually giving it a try tend to understand than how hard it actually is and don't tend to criticize others. And it's not — it's not that you can't give constructive criticism or constructive feedback and say, "Hey, this is — this is bad. Improve it by doing this." But it's the people who just sit there and say, oh, they make a big, you know, funny joke on some online forum.
[20:01] The next one is "Give up on your fears". And we've covered this two or three episodes past.
[20:07] Mike: I think — I think we had a whole podcast episode on.
[20:08] Rob: Yup. I think fear is possibly the number thing that keeps you from actually moving forward with starting businesses. Next one is "Give up your excuses".
[20:18] Mike: It's funny. I mean some people might take this the wrong way but I remember back in my fraternity days where the scene was an excuses an admittance of failure. And basically as soon as you start making excuses, it means that you failed because you're going to spend all your energy explaining why you couldn't do something or how you couldn't get something done because of all these other things and you know, you were going basically point fingers everywhere except where the blame for that resides. I mean it's typically with yourself. I mean there's something that you didn't do. There's, you know, you see the procrastination or you just didn't work hard enough or you didn't place enough importance on it. As soon as you make excuses, you're sunk. I mean those excuses, you just have to draw the line and say, look, these things are not real and you have to point where the problem lies.
[21:05] Rob: And the last one we're looking at today is "Give up living your life to other people's expectations". There's a really good book written by Chris Guillebeau and it's called The Art of Non-Conformity. And if you're interested in kind of checking out what — perhaps how we've been brainwashed in to believing that a number of things that believing that the 9 to 5 and that one and a half kids and the picket fence is the way for us even that a four-year education, getting a PhD and teaching an Academia, any of these things how we've been kind of brainwashed in to thinking that these are what we need rather than just things that everyone else does. If you're interested in kind of looking more at that, this book is really, really interesting.
[21:49] Chris Guillebeau has travelled the world and his goal is to travel to every country in the world. I think he's been to a hundred and fifty of them by now but he has some very unique thoughts on it and it's a pre-practical book is what I like about it. He talks about kind of looking for your legacy and finding something that is not only interesting to you but that's important to others and that it can be kind of something that you can work on perhaps for the rest of your life and something that, you know, that you are passionate about and that brings you a lot of life because frankly, I found that other people's expectations often involve things like you should take the job that makes you the most money.
[22:22.] And I found over and over is that entrepreneurs who leave their jobs and make less money, but they do something they really enjoy, are way, way happier than the guy who stays and makes two or three times with that entrepreneur now makes. And it's like who's expectations are you going to live by?
[22:40] Mike: Yeah, it's very much a I call a Steve Jobs as point of view. You can't live the life that somebody wants you to live. The quote from him is "Remember that you're going to die as the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose".
[22:54] Rob: So in the past week or two, the ones that really stood out to me as the things that I've been doing are the "Give up you self-defeating self-talk". I need to focus on that and "Give up on your fears and give up on your excuses". I think the negative self-talk and fears and excuses are probably the three most recurring things that I've seen in my life because I've, you know, been building businesses for the past 12 or 13 years.
[23:17] Mike: I think for mine, I'll have to say giving up the need for control and then fears and excuses. So definitely, you know, [Laughter] two thirds we're —
[23:24] Rob: Yup —
[23:25] Mike: … overlapped two thirds on that one. But —
[23:26] Rob: Yup. I think —
[23:27] Mike: I know —
[23:27] Rob: … that's pretty common.
[23:28] Mike: Yeah for me on the giving up on control, I mean I think I had mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I started outsourcing some stuff for AuditShark and that was — that was a huge step for me to be honest.
[23:40] Mike: We do have a couple of listener questions. The first one says, "Hi, Rob and Mike. Love the show as always. Rob has mentioned a couple of times how it was nice to get someone else in to help with tier one customer support. My question is do you just give Gmail access to that other person or pay for something more expensive like ZenDesk? My own situation is that I have several Gmail identities and domains all arriving in to one normal Gmail inbox. Right now it's just me replying to any e-mails. Regards, Owen."
[24:05] Rob: All right. I wish there was one simple answer to this but I approached three different ways [Laughter] and it depends how many support e-mails are coming through. But I've taken three approaches. One is I will set up a separate Gmail account just, you know, whatever probably the business gmail.com, I will give access to a VA so they can log in to that and then I will use the SMTP capabilities of Gmail to go out to the support inbox and you know, it pulls e-mail as every minute or five minutes or whatever and they check it once a day and they respond to it. And if anything happens and they forward me the e-mails, you know, if they need help. That is the simplest, it's free but it gets cloogy pretty quickly if you have a lot of support coming in. So it's not scalable basically.
[24:51] The other way I've had it done Gmail now allows you to allow others to log in to your Gmail account and reply as you but they can't do any of your settings, they're like not an admin, like they don't have access to everything. I've never use this but that would be probably a very quick and dirty way to do it if you are going to just go on vacation for a week or something. You could, you know, have a VA that you trust obviously but you give them access to your Gmail account, again, they can't do stuff like change your password and change your settings but they can reply to anything so they can at least keep an eye on it. I wouldn't recommend that as an ongoing long term thing but that's another option.
[25:27] The — the most in-depth option kind of what I wind up doing when there's a live e-mails coming in is I use FogBugz and that allows us to handle — it's basically a group inbox, right? So as new support e-mails come in, FogBugz does an ST — SMTP check, pulls them in and then it categorizes. I'm going to assign them to VA. If the VA has any issues, he can type it up and assign in to me and then I get an e-mail and I can log in and we can then track stuff. If you have somebody incoming support issues will wind up having 10, 15 back and forth responses between all three of us, he can reply, I can reply. We can kind of do it whatever we want and it's all in a very — it's a well-organized flow that you can see with the whole history is and then you can, of course, search that later easily and you'll have access to it. So but that is — I do host FogBugz and it's 25 bucks per log in although there is a — I think it's a two log in free account if you have two log ins, you know, you don't have to pay for it. So that might be something to use for getting started.
[26:23] How about you, Mike? Do you use any different approaches?
[26:26] Mike: Not really. I mean, there's one other one that I use where I'll create a mailbox that FogBugz goes and looks into but you basically have to set up your domain with that support e-mail address first and typically when I first start out, I'll just have it forwarded directly to my Gmail account. And that way everything comes in to my Gmail account, I don't have a dedicated Gmail account for it, so I'll use my own personal one and I'll just create a support add whateverdomain.com have it forward it to me and then I can reply as that just by going out through that SMTP server and then when it scales a little bit too much and I need to do something else with it because that mailbox already exist, I basically just change the settings to no longer forward to me and then just have FogBugz or something else going and retrieve the e-mails.
[27:14] Rob: The e-mail —
[27:14] Mike: So that way, everything is still going to the same place. I don't need to change anything else, I don't need to wait for DNS to propagate or anything weird like that and I don't have to depend on some Gmail account that I may or may not remember to log in to.
[27:26] Rob: Right. Yeah. So that's actually how I do it as well. That's how I do, did it with HitTail and that's how originally did it with DotNetInvoice. First went to Gmail then went to FogBugz. There's only a couple of very minor smaller apps that I have that still have a separate Gmail account that someone else monitors.
[27:42] Mike: Do you actually have to go directly to a Gmail account versus —
[27:45] Rob: No.
[27:46] Mike: Okay.
[27:47] Rob: No, I have it forwarding to that —
[27:49] Rob: Gmail account.
[27:50] Mike: And just know for the listeners, if you're going to do this, then make sure that you set up your account's settings so that it actually sends e-mail that is outbound for that through the SMTP server. You have to go over to the account setting and basically what that does is it removes the —
[28:07] Rob: It says on behalf of.
[28:08] Mike: So you have to go into your account settings and change the SMTP server. It's all documented in their docs which are actually pretty good of walking you through it and you just set that up and it will remove the sent on behalf of whatever your Gmail account is, so that way people don't actually see that it's coming from a Gmail account.
[28:26] Rob: All right. And our second question of the day is audio questions. Someone called it into our voicemail at 888-801-9690.
[28:34] Jack Colletti: Hey guys, Jack Colletti calling from Pittsburg, founder and CEO of Qula, qula.me. Just got finished listening to Episode 6 and my question is, is there any particular blogging platform that gives you a little bit more juice Google wise than others. Curious to know if there's anything about the technology or there's a way that the blogging platforms are set up, that might be a little bit more favorable for search engine writing. Bye.
[28:59] Mike: So Jack, I think that the primary question behind that is what blogging platform should you go for to get the best SEO bank for your book and to be perfectly honest, I don't think it matters. I think what matters is the actual content and that's going to matter a lot more than the platform because most of the platforms are going to be fairly similar in the terms of the types of things that they offer. They're going to allow you to change h1 tags, they're going to allow you to put n special URLs for the new post or the new pages that you add up there so that you can make sure that you've got whatever keywords you're targeting in both the URL and an h1 tag and various sort of things.
[29:36] The one thing you do have to be a little careful of is performance and one of the things that Google will penalize you for is for having a website that doesn't perform very well. So, if it is slower than, I don't know, 90% of the blogs out there or loads and 15 or 20 seconds or something like that then you're probably going to have problems and a lot of those problems tend to come from either bad webhost or from misconfigurations and whatever the platform that you're using is, whether it's Joomla or WordPress or what have you. Raw HTML is probably served up a lot quicker than most other things but at the end of the day, if the speed is reasonable, I don't know if Google's going to penalize you at all.
[30:15] The other side of the corner is more of the, I don't want to call the technical side but the time and effort that you have to put in to it and I think that that matters quite a bit. I mean, you can certainly do Raw HTML and pin code everything but I don't think that it's worth the time and 95% of the cases.
[30:33] Rob: Yup. And it doesn't matter which platform you use but what I have seen is that some platforms are surprisingly inflexible and so if you can't modify the h1 tag, if you can't modify how the actual URL appears like how the file name looks in the address bar, that should have basically the same keywords that are in your title or you should be able to set those. Some, say message do not let you to do that and so you want to bail on those. It's typically older ones.
[31:01] Also definitely, stay away from things that aren't on your own domain, right? So, like a TypePad.com, blog or, you know, Blogger.com, Blogspot.com, you don't want to do that because you want to own the domain and you want that that SEO just to be flung back to, you know, to a website that you own. In addition, you don't want to use a subdomain, so if you have, you know, yourcompany.com, you don't want it to be blog.yourcompany.com because then it splits all the linkers between two domains essentially all the linkers goes to your, your blog.company.com and then kind of the new content parsing by Google, you know, it comes to your website and spiders your site and you wanted to do the whole site frequently. You don't just wanted to go to the subdomains. So you want it to be more like yourcompany.com/blog or you want to install it.
[31:48] And so well, it doesn't matter. I mean, you could just do flat HTML like Mike said. WordPress does tend to have – they have a really good ecosystem of not only SEO articles of how to do really easy SEO with WordPress but there's some awesome [00:32:00] plugins and the best one that I've seen recently — I used to use all in one SEO but I think that Yoast WordPress SEO plugin is actually beating that out now. Just in terms of the features and configure ability and kind of the ease of use. So, just search for WordPress SEO by Yoast, you'll get to that page and I mean that's the ideal set up. If you have infinite choice and you know you have a Linux Box with MySQL on it, then I would do the WordPress install with WordPress SEO by Yoast. If that doesn't work out for you, it doesn't matter that much as long as you can do all of the basic on page factors and get, you know, the decent URLs and a subdirectory like I said earlier.
[32:41] Rob: If you have a question or comment, call it in to our voicemail number. 888-801-9690 or e-mail it to us at questions@startupsfortherestofus.com. Our theme music is an excerpt from "We're Outta Control" by MoOt, used under Creative Commons. You can subscribe to this podcast in iTunes by searching for Startups or via RSS at StartupsfortheRestofUs.com where you'll also find a full transcript of each episode. Thanks for listening. We'll see you next time.
Jeff Schoolcraft
The badge thing you're getting hit for is probably considered a private link network in the update. I'm fairly certain a lot of people got smacked with that in the Panda update.
The other thing about In App Purchases (IAP) that makes it even more of a gold mine, is fake currencies.
Look at Draw Something, you can pay money to buy coins (or play the game and earn coins). Then you use those coins to buy everything else in the game.
Thanks guys for answering my forums questions.
One thing I would add to your list of things to give-up (especially for startups) is to give up the need for everything to be perfect. Some things just need to be okay and you can then focus your efforts for perfection where it matters. Geoffrey Moore did a brilliant talk on this a few years ago at BOS.
Great episode guys! Really enjoyed this one. Came here to find those share buttons. What the heck is Digg!?!?! 😉
Dan, it's right at the top of the Sharebar! 🙂
Dan was mocking the share bar 🙂 He wasn't asking where Digg is, but WHAT it is…
Ronald Su
Dan's post at TropicalMBA sent me here.
I totally agree with giving up the "self doubt". I feel like a lot of my failures in life were caused by my self-doubt.
There are many projects I thought would be successful… as I worked on them and slowly I lost the confidence because of my self defeating talk in my mind.
It causes me to quit before ever seeing any result… 🙁
Any news on Audit Shark???
No learning going on here…
Hey guys another great show. I'm finding some of this Google stuff pretty scary. There are a few things that I thought Google would never do.
1. Allow people to easily hurt their competitors by sending dodgy links to them (which they now are)
2. Hurt legitimate link practices like the one Rob describes with the buttons. The reason this is close to my heart is because I'm a web designer and I have links on thousands of website footers going back to my site (like all web designers do). I know they probably don't count for a lot but to actually penalise this is kind of scary.
Anyway loving the show keep it up.
Duncan - Vetter
I'm suprised you guys didn't break out the 8 in a neat list. For my own reference, I broker it out, I'll save this list as a note on my phone:
"Give up your need for control"
"Give up yourself-defeating self-talk"
"Give up complaining"
"Give up the luxury of criticism"
"Give up on your fears"
"Give up your excuses"
"Give up living your life to other people's expectations"
"Give up you self-defeating self-talk"
Ivo Tripunovic
Great podcast and thank you Duncan for creating that neat list so I can look at it more often 🙂

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Wells Fargo Files Patent for Tokenization System to Protect Sensitive Data
San-Francisco-based bank Wells Fargo has outlined a patent for a tokenization system that would protect data, according to a filing published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) July 17.
The newly published application details a system in which any type of data element — whether a document, graphic, or database value — could be located, accessed, and protected by means of tokenization.
Tokenization, as the patent filing outlines, uses encryption methods to process an originally unrestricted data element into a corresponding restricted token that can subsequently only be retrieved — or 'detokenized' — by a specified user. The system harnesses cryptography to bind specific values to data under an authenticated digital signature.
The tokenized system can thus be used to both control access and confidentiality, authenticate data origins, and maintain data integrity by detecting any undue modifications to an element.
Wells Fargo explains that tokenization can be used to protect data "even when it is stored in a publically accessible environment, such as the cloud, within a blockchain…in a flexible way that is file and data element neutral":
"Unlike the limited, anonymous signatures supported by existing systems, this tokenization manifest supports single signers, multiple signers, or co-signers to store information publicly without loss of confidentiality of any sensitive content."
The proposed system would furthermore flexibly allow content owners or managers to select a desired output for tokenization — which can be used for any file in part or in its entirety — and select how it will be manifest for restricted users, e.g. through blurring, randomized text, or blacking out.
Just last month, Jeremy Allaire, Co-Founder & CEO of payments company Circle spoke at MoneyConf Dublin of an unprecedented "crypto-revolution," suggesting that global society is "at the beginning of a tokenization of everything" that will extend to "every form of value storage and public record."
While evidently embracing the technology that underlies cryptocurrencies for its own purposes, Wells Fargo has recently moved to prohibit its customers from purchasing crypto using credit cards issued by the bank due to perceived investment risks.
The bank was nonetheless an early pioneer of the first-of-its-kind international freight shipment to China back in 2016, in what was the world's first reported interbank trade using a blockchain system.
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▸About Us
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We enjoy helping families because family is such a big part of our lives – and our business
In 1877, our great-grandfather, Henry A. Mason, set up the family's first monument business in German Village, near Columbus, Ohio. From the start, Henry approached his work differently than most monument makers. He believed that monuments should be erected – not because a man had died – but because a man had lived.
Five generations later, our branch of the family tree calls Northwest, Ohio home. As Henry Mason's great-grandsons, we – Bill, Mike, John, and Aaron Faehnle still operate according to the same philosophy. And that's why you can trust us to create – not simply a marker – but a tribute to a life.
The American Institute of Commemorative Art (AICA) is an association of retail monument companies and consultants who specialize in memorials with exceptionally creative design. Located throughout the United States and Canada. AICA members are devoted to the highest standards of memorial design and business ethics in the monument industry.
Ohio Monuments is a Charter Member and proud recipient of many "Memorial Design Winners".
Five Generations of Memorial Designers and Craftsmen.
Mike Faehnle
Maumee Valley Memorials
Mike has worked in the monument business for 45 years, and is a 4th generation memorialist. He's a member of the American Institute of Commemorative art (by invitation only) and Monument builders of North America. He and his wife, Connie, have 5 children together and 11 grandchildren - all wonderful blessings. They attend Cedar Creek Church and enjoy their time relaxing on their porch and motoring down the highway in their RV. Mike loves outdoor activities and playing guitar and singing on Friday nights at Sebastiano's Italian restaurant on Heatherdowns. In no particular order, Mike is a Buckeye fan, Detroit fan, Cleveland fan, all Toledo sports fan and then some... he truly loves the opportunity to help family's through the emotional process of selecting a monument that tells their story in stone.
John Faehnle
John is the 4th generation to work in the family business. He and his wife, Jane, keep busy with their 4 children and constant renovations on their home. They are members of St. Rosechurch in Perrysburg. John enjoys gardening, cooking, working out, and is a passionate Ohio State football fan. The greatest part of his job is when he helps a family create a design that tells their story and knowing it will last for generations to come.
Aaron Faehnle
Design Memorial Stone
Aaron is a 5th generation memorialist in the family business. He is happily married to his wife, Robin, and they have three wonderful children: Ethan, Libbey and Eliza. When not at work, he likes to spend time with his family, hunt, fish, bicycle, boat, camp and play music. He is a Scout leader in Scouts BSA and belongs to Monument Builders of North America and the American Institute of Commemorative Art. He and his family attends Cedar Creek Church and are die hard Ohio State Buckeyes Fans. What he like most about his job is working and helping families design a tribute to their loved ones that future generations will be able to see.
Trisha Warman
Trisha has been the office manager at Maumee Valley Memorials since 2015. She is a dedicated wife, mother of three girls, and a grandmother of one. She enjoys boating, fishing, gardening, and being with her family. Her duties with the company are mostly behind the scenes, seeing that each memorial is ordered and placed in a timely manner. Her compassion for family is the driving force that makes this happen.
Jerry Spence
Jerry has been with Ohio Monuments for 15 years. He's a father of 3 and a grandfather of 3. He really enjoys outdoor activities and is a member of Immanuel Lutheran church of Deshler, Ohio. Jerry is an Ohio State and Cincinnati Reds fan. His favorite part of the job is assisting families in creating loving and lasting memorials for their loved ones.
Kris Romes
Kris was born and raised in Ayersville who's ancestors were the first to settle the area. She and her husband, John, have four children who keep them busy in many activities including band, swimming, wrestling, football, cross country and baseball. They faithfully attend and support First Church of God in Defiance. Kris love antiques of all kinds, including historic homes, and she roots for the Wolverines. She has been at Defiance Memorials for the past 6 years. Kris is also a licensed social worker, but finds it deeply rewarding as she empathizes with, listens to and captures the needs of families as they uphold the memory and bring honor to their loved ones.
Stuart Roberts
Toledo Monuments
Stu has spent the majority of his life living and working in the Toledo area. With his wife Susan, he has three children, two stepchildren and seven grandchildren - so there is always something to keep him busy. He enjoys distance running, golfing, following the Detroit Tigers and Chicago Bears, and he and his wife love volunteering at Cedar Creek Church. He really enjoys making his part of the memorial process easy for families.
Gary Hartzler
Gary has been in the funeral business since 2001, helping families with both pre-planning and aftercare. Gary finds helping people at one of the worst times of their life to be very fulfilling. As part of the aftercare, he enjoys meeting families to help design a monument to honor their family member. Gary enjoys playing golf and taking care of gardening around their home with his partner, Bonnie, along with following Bowling Green State and The Ohio State athletics. He hopes to one day see the Cleveland Browns play for a Super Bowl title. He has three sons: Bryan, Paul and Todd, along with seven grandchildren, who keep him busy.
Janice Jones
Janice has been with Ohio Monuments since 2007. She has two children, three grandchildren and two dogs, and she and her family attend Cedar Creek Church. What she likes most about her job is designing the memorial from scratch and seeing the completed end product.
Jeff Blair
Jeff has been with the company 13 years. He has two lovely children and a dog. When not at work, you can find him playing softball, hunting, fishing, and doing all sorts of outdoor activities. Jeff is an Ohio State Fan (Go BUCKS!). What he enjoys most about his job is constructing monuments for families and the new challenges all the different shapes and sizes present.
Lance Sidel
Lance has been with the Ohio Monuments for nine years. He and his wife, Karen, have three children, and when he's not at work he enjoys geocaching, martial arts, and enjoying time with his family. What he likes best about his job is helping families place memorials into a final resting place.
Tristan Crowe
Tristan has been with Ohio Monuments since 2013. After graduating from the University of Toledo with a bachelors in arts, he found work in newspapers as a news writer, an on-air broadcaster in various radio stations, and fitness coaching at several Toledo YMCA locations. The most rewarding part of Tristan's job is listening to families express their ideas or stories, then translate those facts into a memorial. When he is not at work, Tristan find solace in exercising at the gym or reading novels.
Born a simple country boy in Southern Ohio, Ryan grew up around animals and has had a love of pets his whole life. He currently has a dog named Scout, a cat named Dean, and a rabbit named Sam. He moved to Whitehouse, Ohio in high school, and went on to attend the University of Toledo where he majored in Mathematics. He started working for Design Memorial in 2017, and found the work to be more rewarding than he could've imagined. "I love meeting new people and hearing their stories. Every person who comes through our doors has a story to tell, and we get to help them capture part of that story in a memorial stone. There's something satisfying about the work we do, and the closure we can help provide families, giving them a unique and personalized way to remember their loved ones for generations to come."
Nancy Odom
Nancy has been with the company for about 8 years. She's a member of Holy Rosary Cathedral Church, has a very close and loving family, enjoys movies, cooking and volunteering. She's dedicated years of volunteering to places such as at St. Vincents Hospital, St. Anthony's Villa, the crisis hot-line for Lucas & Monroe counties and assisting the criminal bailiff in Lucas County Common Please Courthouse. Nancy works mostly with families who are planning ahead to create a memorial of how they'd like to be remembered or reaching out to families who have lost a loved one. This allows her to assist in creating a memorial stone to preserve the memory of those being honored. A tribute of their life in a beautiful during way to created an everlasting monument for the family.
Jonathan Brinkman
Jonathan has been with the company since 2007. He is married, has three sons, four grandchildren and attends First Alliance Church where he's active in helping with the youth and greeting families. Jonathan enjoys camping and is a member of the Maumee Valley Wheelman Bicycle Racing club, enjoys racing every week and riding his bike to work daily. He enjoys helping families by adding final inscriptions on their memorial stones as well as custom carvings and verses.


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Charleen McCrory Bio, Wiki, Age, Alien Vows, Husband , Net worth, Salary
Charleen McCrory is an American actress best known for her role as Dusty Hill's wife in Alien Vows in 1996.
Charleen McCrory Biography
Charleen McCrory is an American actress who is best known for her role as Dusty Hill's wife in Alien Vows in 1996. She is also well known for being the wife of Dusty Hill who is an American musician and songwriter.
She is also well known as Charleen 'Chuck' McCrory. Before she settled on her personal life, she did make one final film appearance where she was an anchor. In addition, she is also well known for the 1996, Alien Vows. However, she is very private about her professional life as she has withheld information about her career as she likes to keep her life away from the limelight as she prefers to concentrate of her personal life.
Charleen McCrory Net Worth
McCrory has an estimated net worth of about $10 Million – $ 20Million which he has earned through his career as an actress
Charleen McCrory Salary
McCrory earns a salary of about $500,000-$1M,000.
Charleen McCrory Age
McCrory is 66 years old as of 2022. She was born on May 29, 1956, in the United States. She celebrates her birthday on the 29th of May every year.
Charleen McCrory Height and Weight
McCrory stands at a height of 5 feet 5 inches tall. However, information about her weight will be updated when available.
Charleen McCrory and Dust Hill
Charleen McCrory Family
McCrory likes to keep her personal life private hence she has neither disclosed the names of her parent nor those of her siblings. However, this information will be updated when available.
Charleen McCrory Husband and children
McCrory has been married to Dusty Hill since March 23, 2002, and the couple has been married for over nineteen years. Together, the couple are parents to a son and daughter who are known as Corey and Lindsey who are from Dusty Hill's previous marriage.


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The Psychedelic Emotional Push of Accomplishment
Author: Simon707
Psychedelic Rock is perhaps the most important category in Stone history. Bred from the 1960's counterculture predicated on getting psychedelic medications to be able to experience a heightened sense of reality through distortions, vibrations, vibrant colorizations and lucid thinking, the culture tried to replicate LSD outcomes through vibrant images and sounds.
Psychedelic Stone is known by seriously affected instrumentation. Reverb echoes incessantly, tremolo requires the place of standard cause guitar lines, while distortion buzzes throughout. Words attempted to relay ideas and emotions produced during these cosmic internal journeys.
The sound was pioneered by The Beatles, and taken on by such groups as The Yardbirds, Treatment, Red Floyd and The Jimi Hendrix Experience. The group largely attributed to inventing the term Psychedelic Steel may be the Austin, TX based The 13th Floor Elevators.
The action strike their peak with The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Depressed Bears Membership Band, The Running Stones' Their Satanic Majesties Demand, Pink Floyd's The Piper at the Gates of Start, all ultimately climaxing in 1969 at Woodstock, wherever psychedelic acts such as Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Santana played.
A number of activities led to the decline in popularity of Psychedelic Rock. LSD have been stated illegal, the link between Sharon Tate's murder by Charles Manson and The Beatles' "Helter Skelter" led to a "hippie backlash" ;."P casualties", or people adversely afflicted with hallucinogens and medications in general, became cards for avoiding psychedelic activities: Syd Barrett's insanity, the deaths of John Morrison, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin resulted in a far more organic "back once again to basics" development in Rock.
Nevertheless, because of the appeal of Psychedelic Rock, new genres were being shaped, including Gradual Rock and Large Metal. Musicians who spent my youth listening to Psychedelia however desired to get aspects from the ibogaine buy , and involved their favorite factors within their respective sounds.
In the late 1970's, rings largely in the Post-Punk scene strived to revive Psychedelia, mixing the distortions, reverb and phaser (et al) with the hopeful dance beats of New Wave. Artists such as Siouxsie and the Banshees, Replicate and the Bunnymen, The Soft Children, and The Church used the 60's subtleties to full 80's effect.Hence, Neo-Psychedelia stumbled on be.
The acceptance of the groups bled to the 90's, with the Shoegaze of My Soft Valentine and The Jesus of Jane Cycle carrying around from the 80's, the emergence of The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Dandy Warhols, and the Electrical 6 Combined including The Apples in Stereo, of Montreal, and Neutral Milk Hotel. Neo-Psychedelia may ostensibly be summed up as any form of audio incorporating Psychedelic aspects within their songs.
Correct Psychedelic Rock is untouchable, having ended with the fall of the counterculture. If one were to publish original tracks in the Psychedelic Steel fashion those songs could be Neo-Psychedelic.
Psychedelic Music was therefore powerful in its record, generally through its assurance of encountering heightened art, so it continues to take control our musical styles to the day. And I'michael prepared to bet that it won't fizzle out entirely.
If you're planning to search more into the modern Psychedelic experience, take a look at my personal Top lists of the finest artists in Neo-Psychedelic Rock:


Founded in 1989 Cafe Rouge has quickly grown in popularity with over 100 restaurants bringing a taste of France. For breakfast, lunch, dinner or just a leisurely latte, Café Rouge is your local French escape right here in the UK. Indulge in Parisian-inspired pastries, croques, and baguettes, plus popular favourites like Steak Frites and Duck Confit. French inspired dining experience - no plane ticket required.


A change in policy can have a dramatic effect on outcome. One of the most notable policy changes in the last two decades involved our military's understanding of its assets. In the ten years that constituted the Vietnam War some sixty-thousand American lives were lost.
This was the era when soldiers rode into the battlefield in open jeeps.
A policy change which acknowledged that men and not machines were our most important asset brought about armoured motorised transport and as a result six-thousand lives lost in our current ten-year campaign, one tenth the number in the era of the open jeep.
If we accept that the injection of massive amounts of money to save failing financial institutions was a good idea, that does not explain why there has been a lack of activities on an equal scale to revive the economy with measures that create jobs.
The bailout policy permitted covering the debt to private investors in Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street banks, and is still being used for speculation in the 'Dollar Carry Trade' market. Speculative trading which over the last two years has slowly but steadily eroded the European banking system.
We are in the midst of a worldwide food crises.
In America where a farmer can grow whatever one wants, fashioning an agricultural policy is rather difficult. Two years ago the rice blight in the South, the inability of farmers in the Mid-west to get in a winter wheat crop, soybean and corn shortages, these facts tell the story of American agriculture today.
Corn diverted to ethanol as a means of lessening our dependence on foreign oil makes sense in a buoyant economy, however the balance sheet test in austere times is rather less compelling.
One cannot open a newspaper without being presented with one country after another reacting to the sharp increase in food prices in general and bread in particular. Russia, Canada, and Australia each suffered massive crop failures recently and as a result the price of cereal grains have soared.
The American press missed the fact that food and not politics was behind the crises in North Africa, it was food that Palin wanted air lifted to Haiti. Food shortages triggered the unrest there and not the elections which hungry people largely ignored.
Food aid is the most potent diplomatic, in fact, tactical and strategic weapon the United States can employ to quell the spreading unrest.
That will make the need for an agricultural policy in the United States even more self-evident.


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Have been trying sync csv, that feels good, but as I usually have to perform transformations before importing, I don't know how to leverage from that feature until now.
For me is very important to clearly differentiate when to UPDATE or ADD a new record.
I spend a lot of time figuring unique keys, from different pieces of data.
When one of the clist is the Key record of the table #Record Id, in this case.
This setting should perform an update, but I don't now why it does not.
2.- I import the data to the shadow Table.. In this importation I generate the unique export ID.
3.- I purge the records of the Shadow table o keep it clean for next operation.
It Works nicely but something I could do with just one promise I use 3.
If you always return a promise from your code you can chain them together with then() methods and avoid the "pyramid of doom" or "Christmas tree" indentation.
Well I have an even better technique in the works called submitmeAllTheForms() which offers a complete automation of any QuickBase feature. I just need to get it down to a dozen lines of code and play with the parameterization.


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Q: Camera crashes due to crop code one line, how to crop in standard way My app crashes due to camera.putExtra("crop", "true"); Im assuming this is due to some stupid inconsistent vendor camera drivers or something... joys of fragmented market i guess.
How can i crop if this doesn't work? preferably have crop square on screen to guide user. Is there a standard ~99% proof method?

A: There is no crop intent in Android !!
From https://commonsware.com/blog/2013/01/23/no-android-does-not-have-crop-intent.html

Many developers are calling startActivity() on an Intent with an action of com.android.camera.action.CROP. They are doing this to crop an image.
This is a really bad idea.
In this specific case, this Intent action is supported by the AOSP Camera app. That app does not exist on all devices. Devices lacking this app will not respond to this undocumented Intent action, and your app will crash.

Further reads: Explanation of Android Code Camera Intent + Croping Images
In essence, the above intent will crash on some devices.
I bet if commonsware's Author see this post , he could explain it even better.

A: Give a look at the below mentioned link.
Android intent with multiple option i.e , Pick image from gallary and capture image using front camera
if you won't go to intent use crop library
https://github.com/jdamcd/android-crop

A:
Im assuming this is due to some stupid inconsistent vendor camera drivers or something... joys of fragmented market i guess.

Primarily, it is because that is not part of the Android SDK. There is no requirement for any camera app to support random Intent extras.

How can i crop if this doesn't work?

Use a library. Or write your own image cropping engine.

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Q: Why is the ruby `require` not more fine-grained? Illustrative example
In the file b.rb I have the following two classes: Dog and Cat.
In ruby, to use the class Dog defined in the file b.rb, I have to require b.rb:
require 'b'

puts Dog.new.bark

But even though I don't need to have Cat, it is defined because all the classes in the required files have been loaded.
The question
So my question is: Why isn't there in Ruby a way to require only parts of a file?
Is there a reason why it was not deemed necessary in Ruby, or is it included in some roadmap for the future of the language?
In python they have the from module import MyClass form, which lets the importing file choose what to import, and in the NodeJS world they have module.export, which lets the imported file choose what to export.
It would seem to me that Python and NodeJS are much more flexible in that aspect. What are the tradeoffs in ruby's choice?
Additional question: how is the python/nodeJS mechanism called (selective importing?)?

A: That's just how require works: require runs the file. That's it. It doesn't do anything more than that.
If you want to add a module system to Ruby, that would be a massive change to how Ruby works.
Just don't define unrelated classes in the same file.

A: In addition to Jörgs answer: You may take a loke on modules in ruby.
An example. Your b.rb looks like:
module Cats
  class Cat
    def meouw
      puts 'meouw'
    end
  end

end

module Dogs
  class Dog
    def bark
      puts 'wuff wuff'
    end
  end
end

Your script looks like:
require_relative 'b'

include Dogs
puts Dogs::Dog.new.bark #->wuff wuff
puts Dog.new.bark #->wuff wuff

puts Cats::Cat.new.meouw  #-> meouw
puts Cat.new.meouw  #-> Exception uninitialized constant Cat (NameError)

What happens in detail:
require_relative 'b'

You read the file. This executes everything in the file b.rb (it defines the classes).
include Dogs

No you load the Module Dogs into the actual scope. The class Dog is now available.
puts Dogs::Dog.new.bark #->wuff wuff
puts Dog.new.bark #->wuff wuff

You can use the class Dog in the scope of the module Dogs or you can use it direct.
puts Cats::Cat.new.meouw  #-> meouw

You also loaded the class Cats::Cat and you can use it.
puts Cat.new.meouw  #-> Exception uninitialized constant Cat (NameError)

The class Cat is not in the global scope (you never made a import Cats), so you get an exception.
And a last warning: The definition of b.rb is bad coding. Normally you create a dog.rb and a cat.rb. The you can require the classes independent.


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In what has become an April ritual, thousands of people from around the region -- and the country -- made a pilgrimage yesterday to Solomons Island, a tiny village of 40 families at the southernmost tip of Calvert County, to celebrate the seasonal reopening of the Tiki Bar. They came by boat, car, plane and by foot -- 4,000 men and women drawn to an open-air brown wooden shack that seats 94.
The people who clogged the only road onto the island yesterday, clustering in the street around the bar, its pier and in its two-acre parking lot, were a varied group. They included college students, couples, military personnel from the naval air station, out-of-town workers temporarily employed at the nearby Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Plant and the boaters -- those who moor their speedboats, fishing boats, cabin cruisers and even yachts around the island. They decorated the pier with pink flamingos and their motorcycles with balloons.
"It's a strange group of people," said Jim Gscheidle, who has been watching the phenomenon from his Lazy Moon Bookshop on the main road. "
Yikes!!! 4000 ppl on solomon's island?!!? Were you thinking of parking on the shore and swimming over?? :chuckles:
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Just recently (December 4th 2007) one of our team members caught a television show on PBS titled "Good Night with the Sleep Doctor Michael Breus, PhD".
It was a fascinating show in which Dr. Breus explained the major sleep problems facing American's today. It is estimated that 36 million American's have a problem getting through the day simply due to sleep deprivation and insomnia. That is a pretty large percentage of our population. Are you getting enough sleep?
Sometimes you are unaware of how something so simple like bed sheets can make such a huge difference in your sleep quality until you actually compare a great luxury sheet and a cheaper plain sheet set. There is a difference.
It really is true – The more comfortable you are, the more likely you are to fall asleep quicker and stay snoozing throughout the night. Great sheets of course are just one factor in many that can be combined to help you get a better nights rest.
The Dr. also points out that in 7 years, your mattress will double in weight due to sweat, dust mites and oil from your skin: The Bottom Line. That is incredible but very believable. After all, human perspiration itself averages 2 pints per day and it is estimated that 2 million dust mites thrive in an unprotected mattress.
It is the inhalation of dead dust mites and their droppings that can cause allergies, asthma and rhinitis which can make it difficult to fall asleep. We do offer a product (dust mite protection) which can help with this problem whether you have a new or older mattress.
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namespace Microsoft.VisualBasic.Tests
{
    public class HideModuleNameAttributeTests
    {
        [Fact]
        public void Ctor_Empty_Success()
        {
            new HideModuleNameAttribute();
        }
    }
}

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package org.jeecgframework.web.cgform.service.impl.config.util;

import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;

public class ColumnMeta {
	private String tableName;
	private String columnId;
	private  String columnName;
	private  int columnSize;
	private  String colunmType;
	private  String comment;//备注
	private  String fieldDefault;//默认值
	private  int decimalDigits;
	private  String isNullable; //Y 是 N 否
	private String pkType;//主键策略
	private String oldColumnName;//原来的字段名

	public boolean equals(Object obj) {
		 if (obj == this) {
	            return true;
	        }
	        if (!(obj instanceof ColumnMeta)) {
	            return false;
	        }
	        ColumnMeta meta = (ColumnMeta)obj;
	        //时间类型不比较长度
	          if (colunmType.contains("date") || colunmType.contains("blob") || colunmType.contains("text")) {
	        	  return columnName.equals(meta.getColumnName())
	  	        &&isNullable.equals(meta.isNullable)
	  	        &&isEquals(comment,meta.getComment())&&isEquals(fieldDefault,meta.getFieldDefault());
			}
	          /*else if (colunmType.contains("int")) {
				 return columnName.equals(meta.getColumnName())&& colunmType.equals(meta.getColunmType())
		        &&isNullable.equals(meta.isNullable);
			} */

	          else {
				 return colunmType.equals(meta.getColunmType())
			        &&isNullable.equals(meta.isNullable)&&columnSize==meta.getColumnSize()
			        &&isEquals(comment,meta.getComment())&&isEquals(fieldDefault,meta.getFieldDefault());
			}
	}

	public boolean equalsDefault(ColumnMeta meta){
		if (meta == this) {
			return true;
		}
		return isEquals(comment,meta.getComment());
	}

	public boolean equalsComment(ColumnMeta meta){
		if (meta == this) {
            return true;
        }
		return isEquals(comment,meta.getComment());
	}

	private boolean isEquals(String newS,String oldS){
		boolean booN = StringUtils.isNotEmpty(newS);
		boolean booO = StringUtils.isNotEmpty(oldS);
		if(booN!=booO){return false;}
		if(booN){return newS.equals(oldS);}
		return true;
	}

	public String getColumnName() {
		return columnName;
	}
	public int getColumnSize() {
		return columnSize;
	}
	public String getColunmType() {
		return colunmType;
	}
	public String getComment() {
		return comment;
	}
	public int getDecimalDigits() {
		return decimalDigits;
	}
	public String getIsNullable() {
		return isNullable;
	}
	public String getOldColumnName() {
		return oldColumnName;
	}

	    public int hashCode() {
	        return columnSize + colunmType.hashCode()*columnName.hashCode();
	    }
	public void setColumnName(String columnName) {
		this.columnName = columnName;
	}
	public void setColumnSize(int columnSize) {
		this.columnSize = columnSize;
	}

	 public void setColunmType(String colunmType) {
		this.colunmType = colunmType;
	}
	public void setComment(String comment) {
		this.comment = comment;
	}
	public void setDecimalDigits(int decimalDigits) {
		this.decimalDigits = decimalDigits;
	}
	public void setIsNullable(String isNullable) {
		this.isNullable = isNullable;
	}
	public void setOldColumnName(String oldColumnName) {
		this.oldColumnName = oldColumnName;
	}

	public String toString() {
		return columnName+","+colunmType+","+isNullable+","+columnSize;
	}
	public String getColumnId() {
		return columnId;
	}
	public void setColumnId(String columnId) {
		this.columnId = columnId;
	}
	public String getTableName() {
		return tableName;
	}
	public void setTableName(String tableName) {
		this.tableName = tableName;
	}
	public String getFieldDefault() {
		return fieldDefault;
	}
	public void setFieldDefault(String fieldDefault) {
		this.fieldDefault = fieldDefault;
	}

	public String getPkType() {
		return pkType;
	}

	public void setPkType(String pkType) {
		this.pkType = pkType;
	}

}


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Багатоствольні збройні системи — вогнепальна зброя будь-якого типу, яка має більше одного ствола, які зазвичай призначені для збільшення темпу стрільби/можливості ураження та для зменшення ерозії ствола/перегріву.

Визначення
Багатоствольна зброя з кількістю стволів більшою ніж один (зазвичай однакового калібру), для збільшення темпу вогню/можливості ураження і для зменшення зносу ствола/перегріву. Спочатку це була примітивна (а з появою кулемета Гатлінга успішна) спроба збільшення темпу вогню до появи стрічкового живлення/магазинів та автоматичної зброї. Проект SALVO довів, що будь-яка багатоствольна штурмова гвинтівка/кулемет з калібром більшим за 5.56×45mm NATO, окрім пістолетних/проміжних набоїв (наприклад: 9×19mm Parabellum, .30 Carbine, 7.62×39mm M43) не підходять для використання в піхоті.

Історія

Перші зразки багатоствольних систем належать до XIV століття, коли була створена органна гармата. Первісно то була примітивна спроба підвищення швидкості вогню задовго до винайдення автоматичної зброї зі стрічковим і магазинним живленням, але й сучасні багатоствольні системи (наприклад, M134 Minigun) показують свою високу ефективність.

Див. також
 Двоствольна гармата
 Двоствольна рушниця
 Зброя з комбінованими стволами
 Реактивна система залпового вогню
 Пеппербокс

Примітки

Принципи дії вогнепальної зброї

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Kelly Clarkson Debuts New Song "Invincible" At 2015 Billboard Music Awards & The Track Is Incredibly Empowering — VIDEO
By Tracy Dye
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If your first reaction to the news that Kelly Clarkson will perform at the 2015 Billboard Music Awards on Sunday, May 17, was a resounding "YASSS!" then congratulations — you and I already have something in common. It's been over a decade since Clarkson was crowned the first ever American Idol winner, and the pop powerhouse has been dispensing smash hits ever since. Clarkson's new album, Piece by Piece, was her third album to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 Chart. Impressing fans and critics with her powerful pipes and lyrical prowess is old hat for Clarkson, so it comes as no surprise that she was invited to perform at the 2015 Billboards.
The one question fans likely had on their minds after the news hit that Clarkson would be performing at the 2015 Billboards was this: what is our favorite songstress going to sing? "Heartbeat Song" — the leading single from Piece by Piece — would be a likely choice, but, as us die-hard Clarkson fans know, she has basically a Rolodex of hits to choose from, including several new tracks from Piece by Piece that have already gleaned plenty of accolades.
Clarkson debuted a new track during her performance at the Billboards, singing "Invincible." There's no surprise here: she absolutely killed it. Appearing on an illuminated platform, Clarkson's powerhouse vocals were as strong as ever as she belted out empowering lines like "having courage now" and "I was running from an empty threat that didn't exist... now I'm invincible and I'm a perfect storm." When the music came to a stop, we were able to truly hear Clarkson belt out the highest of high notes.
The pop star's performance was — in a word — amazing. Well done, Kelly Clarkson! I can't wait to see the music video for this inspirational ballad.


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Audi All4One claimed victory in their debut Copa del Rey after a nail-biting final day's racing at Palma, Mallorca on Saturday that resulted in a long awaited regatta win for their Olympic and America's Cup champion tactician Jordi Calafat.
Palma born Calafat, 44, said winning the Copa del Rey, the largest regatta in the Mediterranean, had been an ambition of his since he first competed about a quarter of a century ago in a one tonner.
We always like to win regattas no matter what, but I've been trying to win this for more than 20 years, I've always finished second," he said. "This is a regatta in my home-waters, so it is very special to me.
The six-day regatta came down to the wire with Audi Sailing Team powered by All4One and Audi Azzurra Sailing Team going into the final day's IRC1 racing tied on 18 points, with Azzurra holding the lead on count back.
Azzurra looked poised to claim victory after the opening race of the day when they finished third, two places clear of All4One, and edged to a two-point lead with one race remaining.
The pair matched each other tack-for-tack off the start line before their fates were sealed when they raced to opposing sides of the Palma Bay race-course.
A major wind shift favoured All4One and the team rounded the first windward mark in second place, while Azzurra struggled in an uncharacteristic ninth position.
With the overall regatta win on the line, All4One skipper Jochen Schüemann and his trusted tactician Calafat used the best of their combined Olympic and America's Cup winning knowledge to jump to the lead and claim a win.
The most important part of this success is it is for Jordi, we did him a great favour to win this after so many years
Schüemann said, just minutes after his crew showed him with celebratory beers on the dock at Real Club de Náutico.
This means a lot to our team, too. We sailed well this week, now we celebrate.
Azzurra gallantly fought back to fourth place, but it wasn't enough to protect the team's lead, leaving them in second overall with 25 points, to All4One's 24.
Tactician Vasco Vascotto said it was disappointing to lose the regatta given the strong position they were in going into the final race.
It is not bad, but it is not good.
We were leading after the first race, and we were leading in the start of the second race, but we had a misunderstanding on board.
We didn't follow All4One as we were supposed to, then we found our boat on the left and they were on the right. That cost us the regatta.
Vasco Vascotto
Gladiator rounded out the podium places, claiming their first podium finish in this their third Copa del Rey. The team cemented their achievement by claiming victory in the first race of the day.
Owner/skipper Tony Langley said scoring that win took the pressure off and allowed the team to continue to race with consistency.
It was a very tough fleet and a top competition.
We only had a two and a half point lead going into today, but we were able to sail our own race.
We won the first race, which took the pressure off, and we just took it from there. We've got to be happy with that.
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The 52s dominated the IRC 1 division, claiming the top six positions. PowerPlay finished fourth, 37.5, ahead of Paprec Recylage in fifth, 41, and Provezza 7 in sixth, 46.
About 119 yachts competed across seven divisions in the 31st Copa del Rey, with eight 52s competing in the 13-strong IRC 1 fleet.
Rán claimed a convincing victory in the IRC 0 division, finishing the regatta on 18 points, well clear of second placed Shockwave on 27, and third placed Stig on 31.
The 52 teams will now turn their focus back to the 52 Super Series, with the final regatta the Valencia Cup to start in Valencia on September 18. The Copa del Rey did not count towards the 52 Super Series.
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The bubbling rapper unpacks his hit song.
Aminé has a wild imagination. Ask him how his breakout single "Caroline" came about and he'll tell a story includes writing for Tupac at age 5, bagging a sugar mama 15 years later, and finally making a Himalayan dragon his muse. His thoughts on finding that prototypical mate are a bit more realistic, though.
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Jeremy Allen Mayfield (born May 27, 1969) is a former NASCAR driver who last competed in 2009 due to legal troubles and an indefinite suspension by NASCAR. Prior to 2009, Mayfield drove cars for the Sadler Brothers, T.W. Taylor, Cale Yarborough, Michael Kranefuss, Roger Penske, Ray Evernham, Bill Davis, and Gene Haas. He last drove for his own team, Mayfield Motorsports, before his suspension.
On May 9, 2009, Mayfield was suspended indefinitely as both owner and driver by NASCAR following what NASCAR said was a positive test for methamphetamine. A federal judge weighing the respective harms and evidence lifted the suspension temporarily on July 1, 2009. On July 15, 2009, it was revealed by NASCAR that Mayfield again tested positive for the second time of using methamphetamine. He allegedly failed a random drug test on July 6. On July 24, a federal appeals court overturned the previous injunction Mayfield had been awarded; leaving him suspended from the sport again.
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UPDATE 2:30 P.M. EST: KOMO has identified the two people killed in the crash: the helicopter's pilot, Gary Pfitzner, and a freelance photographer, Bill Strothman, who was also onboard.
UPDATE 11:45 A.M. EST: Apparently the helicopter had just begun to take off at about 7:40 a.m. local time, when it slid off the roof of the news station and landed on three cars below, exploding immediately upon impact.
A helicopter belonging to Seattle news station KOMO-4 crashed on Tuesday morning close to Fisher Plaza, near the famed Space Needle. Early reports indicate that two people were killed in the crash.
Firefighters now have the situation under control, but one person did suffer some burns when the chopper landed on a car, according to KOMO reporter Kelly Koopmans. The man, a 38-year-old, pulled himself out of his car, according to the Seattle Fire Department. He was taken straight to the hospital. Two other nearby cars were also hit. The helicopter itself is almost completely destroyed.
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