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'Statistically, this is very unusual' | The same seven officers were involved in multiple shootings in Sacramento County
From data gathered through law enforcement, the DOJ and the DA, 11 of the 46 officer involved shootings that have occurred since 2014 involved the same officers.
Author: Andie Judson
Published: 8:08 PM PDT August 12, 2020
Updated: 4:33 PM PDT August 13, 2020
SACRAMENTO COUNTY, Calif. — According to the Sacramento County District Attorney's Office, between 2014 and 2019 there have been 46 officer-involved shootings in Sacramento County.
From data gathered through local law enforcement agencies, the Department of Justice and District Attorney Anne-Marie Schubert, ABC10 learned that 11 of those 46 shootings involved the same seven officers: one officer from the Sacramento Police Department, two deputies from the Sacramento County Sheriff's Officer and four officers from the Citrus Heights Police Department have been involved in more than one shooting.
That means that these same seven officers have been involved in over 20-percent of shootings that occurred in Sacramento County in the last six years.
Nine out of these 11 shootings were fatal. In six of the shootings, the suspect was armed. Five were unarmed.
All these shootings were deemed lawful by both internal investigations as well as the district attorney's external investigation. But it got us thinking, how common is it for an officer to be involved in more than one shooting during their career? And are these law enforcement agencies handling officers who are involved in more than one shooting differently than those with none?
FULL LIST: Here's the list of our findings on officer-involved shootings
To answer the first part of that question, we compared our findings from Sacramento County with other areas ABC10 covers.
Many district attorneys and law enforcement agencies don't make detailed information on past officer-involved shootings easily accessible, but police misconduct expert and Attorney Stewart Katz thinks they should.
"The truth is this information can lead to better results for the public and better results for the departments and more confidence in law enforcement," Katz said. "Most officers aren't involved in any shootings in their career. The overwhelming majority never shoot anybody and never get shot at. So statistically, [this is] very unusual."
ABC10's investigation found that the Stockton Police Department in San Joaquin County, Ceres Police Department in Stanislaus County, Vacaville and Vallejo Police Departments in Solano County and Yuba City Police in Sutter County all had one or more officers involved in multiple shootings between 2014 and 2019.
After these comparisons, we noticed the Citrus Heights Police Department still had more officers involved in multiple shootings than any other of the law enforcement departments we looked at. However, three out of the four Citrus Heights officers were involved in the same shooting in 2015, showing how just one incident added to the officer's numbers of shootings.
For accuracy and fairness, ABC10 also gathered officer-involved shooting statistics from law enforcement agencies with a similar crime rate and population to that of Citrus Heights, like Merced and Tracy.
Note: Population calculations came from the U.S. Census Bureau. Crime rate information was gathered from Neighborhood Scout, a database of hyper-local real estate data.
Citrus Heights has a population of 88,000 and crime rate of 325/1000 residents. Merced has a population of 79,000 and a crime rate of 465/1000 residents. The Merced Police Department has had two officer-involved shootings between 2014 and 2019, neither of which involved the same officers.
Tracy has a population of 83,000 and a crime rate of 199/1000 residents. According to the San Joaquin County District Attorney, Tracy police have had no officer-involved shooting incidents between 2014 and 2019. Additionally, the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office has had two officer-involved shootings between that time, neither of which involved the same officers.
Vallejo was the closest to Citrus Heights with three repeat officers, but a larger crime rate of 943/1000 residents and 121,000 population.
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So, we reached out to the Citrus Heights Police Department to get their input.
"A study of officer-involved shootings is so complex – every community is different," Citrus Heights Police Chief Ronald A. Lawrence said. "Here in my department, we are a little less than 90,000 people population and we have about 90 sworn officers. So, the likelihood of somebody interacting with the same police officer more than once is more likely than a bigger department."
Lawrence said the role of officers is another reason why the same ones were involved in multiple shootings. He said six of the seven shooting incidents with repeat officers involved K-9 units.
"Our K-9 unit is a unique resource we deploy," Lawrence said. "They're inherently going to be involved in those critical incidents."
He also noted how rare using force is needed. In the past six years, the Citrus Heights Police Department said they've had just under 437,000 police incidents – including traffic stops and responding to 911 calls.
"[Use of force incidents] are completely unpredictable. There's no way to predict when a critical incident, or an officer involved shooting is going to occur," Lawrence said. "Of these incidents you're talking about with my agency, I'm telling you they almost all involve salience with weapons. People that were trying to do harm to our community."
Despite the rareness of use-of-force incidents, the Citrus Heights Police Department, as well as all law enforcement agencies, train extensively to be prepared to protect the public and themselves in the case of a violent encounter.
For more information on California's Peace Officer Standards and Training requirements, click here
But, by so heavily focusing training on being ready for use-of-force incidents that so rarely happen, Sociologist and Professor Michael Sierra-Arévalo says it's emphasizing violence in police work.
"Officers are being trained in every single one of [their training] scenarios to be prepared for the possibility that they could pull the gun," Sierra-Arévalo said.
It's what he calls the danger imperative, a focus – or what sociologists call a filter – on an expectation of violence in police work.
"In the context of policing, that filter is especially designed to emphasize the possibility of violence – whether or not statistically policing is safer today than it was 50 years ago, the filter is still going to emphasize violence no matter how rare it is," Sierra-Arévalo said.
He studied the concept of the danger imperative by spending over 1,000 hours with police in three different agencies across the United States.
"Doesn't matter if the probability is low, because if it does happen and [the officer is] not ready, you might die. So, the cost is so high that the probability is almost irrelevant," Sierra-Arévalo said. "You as an officer are going to take steps to ensure you survive every encounter that you enter."
Chief Lawrence said their training isn't about assuming there are constant threats, but being ready if there are.
"What we have to be prepared for is the unknown. The inevitable unknown, and it happens – you see it play out all the time," Lawrence said.
Both Chief Lawrence and Sierra-Arévalo noted that police work is about upholding the law.
"We're the only profession in the world that's there to protect people in regards to enforcing the rule of law," Lawrence said. "It's a challenging position because we're the face of government that upholds the law that people might not like, but that's not our choice or our job to write the laws – that's the politicians' job."
"It's not a story of monsters. It's not a story of bad apples. It's not even a story of bad barrels or trees… what I've written on previously is this is a story about the roots of policing," Sierra-Arévalo said. "This is about what the institution was designed to do. The institution was designed to put people empowered to use violence to enforce laws."
Sierra-Arévalo said policing is different than that of other professions, like a firefighter as their danger is the fire. For law enforcement, their danger is a person.
"You definitely cannot assign morality to flames or smoke. That's not the case in policing. In policing, what stands to hurt you, especially as you're trained to believe, is that people are going to hurt you," Sierra-Arévalo said.
In Sierra-Arévalo's research, he said the emphasis of confronting violence while on patrol continues when officers leave the academy and begin their on-the-job training with a field training officer.
"That training officer is going to get that trainee for a couple of weeks and it's going to be them two, and [the trainee] is going to be told how this officer views the world [and] how police work should be done," Sierra-Arévalo said.
One of the biggest takeaways Katz had when he reviewed our findings of repeat officers involved in shootings was about a deputy with the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office who went on to become a field training officer.
"You have Sacramento [County] Sheriff's Office with one officer with two shootings of someone who clearly didn't have a weapon in both instances within 90 days of each other," Katz said. "Then, that person is made a training officer."
With no additional training following multiple shootings, Katz's concern about this particular officer and his training new recruits grew. When ABC10 reached out to the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office asking if its two officers involved in multiple shootings had different or more extensive training, they said that each shooting carries its own set of facts and no two shootings are the same. They said that the "fact a particular officer is involved in more than one shooting does not mean that officer would be given different training or evaluation."
The Citrus Heights Police Department and the Sacramento Police Department also conduct year-round training, but the officers involved in multiple shootings were not given any additional training in response to these incidents, as all shootings were deemed lawful.
All these officers remain employed by the same law enforcement agency.
Do you know of an incident involving police you'd like ABC10 to investigate? Contact Andie at ajudson@abc10.com.
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ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Members of a volunteer group from the Kurdistan Region's province of Sulaimani scattered food outside on Friday in hopes of helping wild animals who might be having trouble finding sustenance as a result of recent extreme weather conditions.
"Our organization and a number of environmentalists in Pishdar District decided to place food and grain in the mountainous areas of Pishdar, especially in the region of Kele, which has seen much snowfall," Omed Rasoul, told Kurdistan 24 on Friday.
Rasoul's group is called Chatri Hamwan, Kurdish for "Everyone's Umbrella," and is made up of environmentalists who organize volunteer events and gatherings. Due to excessive snowfall and cold temperatures, they took up the task of trying to assist local wildlife in the unforgiving weather.
"The goal of this work is to preserve the environment and [its] natural beauty by protecting" the various mammals and birds dwelling therein, Rasoul explained.
In July, during the sweltering summer heat in Halabja, two Kurdish youths placed water and food in the branches of trees for birds roaming the city's skies who they felt might be facing difficulty finding hydration and nutrients.
"Wild deer and birds living in the Garmiyan region will go extinct because locals continue poaching the animals," Ibrahim Zarifi, head of the Garmiyan Environmental Protection Organization, told Kurdistan 24 early November.


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The boys and I were looking back at some of our past tutorials, and they were anxious to revisit the glue batik craft that we created last Summer. This time around we decided to use plain fabric squares instead of t-shirts because they wanted to turn their creations into pillows. We repurposed an old bed sheet and cut it into 14″ squares.
First, choose a design that you like and draw it on your fabric using Elmer's Gel Glue. It must be the blue gel glue as regular glue will not work! Sawyer wanted his pillow to depict our trampoline and shooting stars…sort of a long story, but essentially it reminds him that he's not scared of the dark anymore. Once you finish drawing your design, allow it to dry completely (overnight works well).
Sutton chose a Mario toadstool, naturally!
Cover your work surface and your clothing, and paint your fabric with slightly watered down acrylic paint. If you choose to use contrasting colors you'll want to allow it to dry (at least slightly) between colors to avoid a muddied look.
Hang up the fabric and allow it to dry completely.
Now the magic really happens! Submerge the fabric in warm water for about 10 minutes, and then scrub off the gel glue. An old toothbrush really comes in handy for this step. It takes a little elbow grease!
Hang it one more time to dry and then do what you wish with it! We chose to make pillows this time because the boys wanted some practice on the sewing machine, but we've also made t-shirts with this technique, and we're hoping to make a set of prayer flags for the garden too.
All stitched up and ready for bedtime!


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The Time to Change Wales pledge is a public declaration that an organisation wants to step up to tackle mental health stigma and discrimination. It isn't a quality mark, accreditation or endorsement. There is no test or application. You just have to commit to taking actions that are realistic and right for you that will lead to a reduction in discrimination within your organisation and the wider community.
More organisations stepping up to make the organisational pledge means more noise is being made – helping to break the silence around mental health. Imagine if every organisation in Wales made a public pledge to tackle stigma: employers big and small, councils, universities, football clubs, places of worship, charities… that would send a powerful message that mental health is something that can be talked about, and that stigma and discrimination are not welcome.
Stigma and discrimination affect people in all areas of life so we need organisations from all sectors of society to step up and play their part. Whether an organisation has already done lots, is just beginning to think about mental health, or has identified that it needs to make improvements, it's never too late to start.
What does pledging mean for an organisation?
Looking at policies and culture to make sure the workplace is supportive of people with mental health problems.
Running internal anti-stigma campaigns using our materials; inviting our educators to deliver anti-stigma training.
Promoting the messages externally to people who use your services and the wider community through your communications channels or by running a campaign.
The action plan should be realistic and manageable but there are no penalties if everything cannot be achieved – so we encourage you to aim high!
If you're a youth-focused organisation, or you employ young people, you could also sign our Young People's Organisational Pledge.
The YP pledge shows your commitment to changing how people think about young people's mental health and making sure any young people who might be experiencing mental health problems feel supported.
Decided to step up? This is our easy 'how to' guide to signing the pledge.
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Motley Fool Australia » Investing » Supermarket wars: Coles slashes prices – again
Supermarket wars: Coles slashes prices – again
Mike King | January 9, 2013
In some potentially good news for shoppers, Coles is slashing the prices on loads of its private label products. Included are an 8% reduction on bread, 13% on juices, 27% on meat pies and 32% on vegetable oil.
From today, the 'Down Down' campaign will be expanded by more than 100 products, with discounts guaranteed for six months – although several products added in July last year still remain at sale prices. More than 1,000 products are now part of the Down Down campaign.
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Coles – owned by Wesfarmers Limited (ASX: WES), is taking the fight further with its main rival and fierce competitor, Woolworths Limited (ASX: WOW), but the addition of new sale items is also designed to woo shoppers back to private label brands. Theses brands tend to be more profitable for the supermarkets than name-brand products, as the companies have more control over pricing, and therefore gain higher margins.
Market research group, Nielsen found last year that growth in private label sales has stalled and shoppers appear tired of home branded products, for the first time in five years. After private label's share of sales was forecast to reach 40% by 2015, they were now stuck at around 23.6%.
Both Coles and Woolworths have flooded their stores with private label brands and squeezed the margins of name-branded companies such as Heinz, Goodman Fielder (ASX: GFF) and even Coca Cola Amatil (ASX: CCL) has not been immune.
Now it seems that Coles' 'My5' promotion last year, where shoppers could nominate 5 products that they would receive 10% off, has pushed consumers back into name-brand products, and the company is finding it increasingly hard to get them back buying private label brands.
The Foolish bottom line
Coles and Woolies may find that consumers don't want their private label brands as much as the companies hope. The continued replacement of branded products with home brands may have hit a sour note with shoppers. Whether the new promotion works remains to be seen, but I wouldn't bet my bottom dollar on it.
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Passionate of music, with the luck to have grown up in Lausanne, he's part of the kids of The Dolce Vita and the Mad Club, radiated by the boom of the nightlife of Lausanne, the vaudoise capital and the growth of electronic music. He starts organizing parties from 2001 at D!Club through the association Attitude Nocturne which celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2015. Hired by Mad Club in 2003, the Mad Attitude adventure starts in 2004 and will last for nearly 10 years with a huge success that will push Mad Attitude to win the "Best Event Series" award consecutively in 2010 and 2011. From 2007, he works as club manager and develops a sharp line-up in the famous Parloir, renowned Le Purgatoire, for the record. From 2009, he created « 1er Août In The City » which welcomes the annual event "People In The City" in Lausanne which was also awarded by Swiss Nightlife as "Best Event" in 2013 and 2015. From 2011, he joins the Cadenza agency of Luciano. During a year while the agency has an office in Geneva. From 2013, the Attitude Nocturne team joins the D!Club in Lausanne and TT is hired by Headfun in Geneva. From event planner to managing multiple associations, he now is the community manager and responsible for partnership and promotion for both Electron festival and Présence Electroniques. On top of that, he manages events organized by Headfun at the Halle W under the name Martin Hall W. Also curator of the exhibition "Flashback" retracing the nightlife stories of Lausanne for the 2013 and 2014 edition of Electrosanne, he conducts a movie project narrating this unique and unpredictable story. Always curious of the unknown, his final goal is to share is love for music with others and give happiness to people.


Competition on Hawaii flights is getting hotter than the summer sun in Hawaii. That in advance of the next round of new Southwest Hawaii flights being announced, almost certain to occur this month. Hawaii's bellwether Hawaiian Airlines isn't taking the competition sitting down. Read on for more on the lead photo too.
Monday, Hawaiian Airlines started flying a new route between Sacramento and Maui. While seemingly not a big deal, it is in the sense that it is known that Southwest will also start flying that route shortly. Alaska Airlines flies that one too, which is seemingly far too much lift for Sacramento. So we'll have to see who stays and who goes in the next round of what is to be a multi-year battle for dominance in Hawaii air travel. In the interim, travelers on that route will be treated to some of the best fares ever seen.
Hawaiian also previewed their new premium seating on the Boeing Dreamliner 787 wide-body aircraft (pictured above), set to be delivered starting in 2021. We don't know yet what routes will enjoy the new plane, but those are likely to be both international and as well as the longest and most competitive mainland routes. Nonstop to London, here we come.
The company will receive 10 of the aircraft and has an option for an additional 10. Business seating will be by Adient Aerospace, a new joint venture between Boeing and car seat company Adient. Hawaiian is the launch customer for the new company.
The new business seats, or should we say suites, will be in the preferred 1-2-1 arrangement. As an aside, these seats are referred to as first class on domestic flights, and business class on international flights. The center seats are perfect for couples and, when two are travelling together, the privacy screen between suites can be lowered to convert them into a double bed. Hawaiian is still developing the precise suite configuration, which may also include doors before it is all done. We should see more images soon. The seats are being shown for the first time at the 2019 Aircraft Interiors Expo taking place this week in Hamburg, Germany.
The new Adient seats will replace the Optimares branded lie-flat first/business seats in the existing A330-200 fleet. There has been some controversy about those seats and their comfort, design and layout, as may be reflected in this change of manufacturer. Among other concerns, the current A330 seats do not all have direct aisle access and they are in a 2-2-2 configuration.
We have not yet flown on the lie flat A330 seats, but will be doing so later this year (which we did using a mileage upgrade from economy). A complete trip report will follow.
The reality of economy seating is in stark contrast to that of business/first. Main cabin seating on the new fleet of 10 787 aircraft will be from Collins Aerospace. The Aspire seats are among the industry's lightest and are designed to maximize seat space, shoulder and hip room, with ergonomically contoured back and arm rests. Hawaiian Air also uses Collins Aerospace economy seats on its Airbus A321neo aircraft. We have found those seats to be quite comfortable as far as economy goes.
I heard that ANA Airbus 380 is coming to Honolulu in May. Is the airport upgrades done to accommodate this huge plane?
Yes! Gates C4 & C9 have been retrofitted with a 3rd jetway. The 3rd floor waiting area for ANA's First/Business/Premium Economy class are in its final stages of completion. I just flew from Tokyo into HNL and saw the changes.
What's the best way to track the flight prices from Sacramento for Hawaiian vs. Southwest? 🙂 Thanks!
Southwest doesn't list fares on other websites, so you'll have to go to their website. Other airlines can be tracked on Google Flights among other tools.
Do you think Southwest or Hawaiian Airlines will be offering non stop from Denver to Hawaii anytime soon? It's still really expensive to fly to Hawaii from Colorado.
Yes almost without doubt there will be new non-stops between Hawaii and Denver soon. We'd bet on Southwest sooner than Hawaiian for that route.
I live in West palm Beach. In your experience, is it cheaper to book flight and hotel together, or separate. I am flying to Honolulu in July.
It most likely won't save money to book together, but you might find it more convenient. Airfare is going to be about $1,000 with a quick one-stop connection.
They're both 787s. The last digit usually refers to the variant, which are of different sizes, max takeoff weights, etc. The 787-800 would be the 788, the 787-900 would be the 789, and so on. If you'll Google the 737, for example, that version goes all the way from 737-100 (731) up to 737-900 (739), and that's before we add in the various MAX models. The A330s that Hawaiian flies are the A330-200 model, so they're called A332s for short. The somewhat larger but shorter ranged A330-300 is the A333, for short, and that range issue was a major reason that Hawaiian went for the A332.
Have you ever thought about including the rest of the featured story on the first web page, so we don't have to click on a link to get the story? I know it's a small thing, but I find it annoying.
Dreamliner 789? 787? What are the differences?
787 is the model of the plane, 789 is a different variation of the 787.
There are three different variations……787-8 (186.1 feet), 787-9 (206.1 feet), 787-10 (224 feet). The longer the plane, the more seats it has.
I would like to have information regarding best flights from LAX (or L. A. area airports), and if you know if Southwest will be flying to Kauai, please.
Everything is contained here: https://beatofhawaii.com/southwest-hawaii-airline-update/. If we missed anything, please just let us know.
Thanks for the update. I've flown First/Business on the A330 a few times (to the islands and Australia from Phoenix) and find them very comfortable. I sleep every time I'm in one. They are definitely an upgrade over the 767. Sounds like the 787 will be even better. Keep up the great travel tips for Hawaii and enjoy your upcoming First Class flight.


Recognizing the importance of fostering the next generation of the dairy industry, DeLaval presented a $10,000 donation to the National 4-H Council to support the National 4-H Dairy Conference during the conclusion of their 2018 event. This donation not only helps youth attend the annual Dairy Conference at World Dairy Expo, but also enhances programs and leadership opportunities for 4-H dairy youth throughout the year.
Delaval is celebrating 35 years of supporting future generations of dairy producers and professionals. 2018 is the third year that dairy producers across the United States have enhanced the sponsorship through their purchases of select milk quality solutions. "We can't thank our loyal customers enough for their involvement in this donation," Cuccioli says.
According to Cuccioli, the mission of DeLaval is to make sustainable food production possible. "It just makes sense that we would support the coming generations as a part of sustaining dairy production into the future," he says.
DeLaval is once again the highest-level sponsor of the National 4-H Dairy Conference. More than 180 youth from across North America attended the 2018 event, held September 30 through October 3. Seykora says the National 4-H Dairy Conference is the place where leading dairy youth from across North America can come to interact with one another and build industry bridges that will last well into the future.


I know Valentine's Day is over and I'm sure everybody is ready to forget about it until next year but when I saw this, I knew it was too awesome not to post. Apparently some gamer girl decided to make this epic Valentine's Day card for her boyfriend and used the logos of various games to deliver her message. If this guy doesn't ask this girl to marry him, he might just be the biggest idiot on the planet! Any girl that will go to the effort of drawing video game logos into a Valentine's Day card is a keeper!
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For most people, electronics are part of their modern lives with cell phones, laptops, TVs and a growing number of gadgets. There is barely a corner of human activity that electronics have failed to penetrate, not only in the developed world but also increasingly in the many other parts of our planet where people aspire to ever-improving lifestyles. Every year they buy new, updated equipment, the demand for over 300 million computers and one billion cell phones to be produced every year.
The reuse, repair, refurbishment and eventually recycling of electrical and electronic equipment are not a new activities. Repairing electrical and electronic equipment were common activities for small businesses through most of the 20th century, though in the 1990ies and onwards manufacturers built in obsolescence, and the number of repair shops and the repairability of goods dropped. However, the public desire for longer-lasting quality products is leading a trend back to refurbishment and repair and as a result a better use of resources.
Whilst cookers, refrigerators, freezers and air-conditioning units can last many years, consumer electronics become obsolete or unwanted, often within 2-3 years of purchase. This global mountain of e-waste is expected to continue growing at some 8% per year.
Recyclers have always found value in the metals contained in electrical and electronic equipment. Over the last thirty years, non-metal elements such as the glass in cathode ray tubes from computers and televisions and certain plastics made recycling less economic. However, as product designers, under legislative and marketing pressures, design for the environment and design for recycling, recyclers are finding more economic possibilities in the plastic casings and in the flat screens of consumer electronics.
An increasing number of recycling companies have been entering the E-scrap business, and the number is still likely to grow. BIR's E-Scrap Committee reflects this trend by dedicating a forum to these companies in order to provide room for open debate and exchange on legislation, trade and regulatory matters affecting the recycling of electrical and electronic scrap. By bringing together experts in the field, the aim must be to ensure: that the realities of E-scrap are uncovered and highlighted; and that accurate messages are disseminated to policy-makers and the wider world.
Depollution: Before material recycling, certain countries require best practice depollution of scrap electrical and electronic equipment in order to remove hazardous components or materials to enable their environmentally sound management and so that they do not contaminate subsequent recycling processes or recycled materials.
Sorting: Commonly scrap electrical and electronic equipment is hand sorted and dismantled in order to separate out materials and components for reuse, repair or for material recovery. The aim is to obtain the most value from the equipment as a whole, or from its components, or from its materials.
Shredding: After required pre-treatment, large electrical appliances such as cookers and washing machines are commonly shredded in large hammer-mills together with other metal scrap and pre-treated end-of-life vehicles. After the required pre-treatment, small electrical goods may be shredded in smaller dedicated shredders using a variety of shredding methods. Depending on national laws, pre-treated refrigerators, freezers and cooling equipment may be shredded in dedicated enclosed shredders in order to capture gasses used in their manufacture and use.
Recyclers aim to find a secondary raw materials market for plastics, glass from inside refrigerators and other non-metallic materials separated from scrap electrical and electronic equipment.
Media separation: Further separation is achieved by using eddy-current separators, or high-pressure air flows or floatation systems using different density liquids. Other processes may be necessary to separate materials one from another, recycling them separately.
Melting: The recovered metals are melted in a furnace. The melting, refining and alloying process is determined by the standardised composition necessary for the future applications of the metal alloys. The molten metal is then poured into moulds or cast into shapes. Later on, they can be rolled into flat sheets that are used to manufacture new products.
The electronics recycling industry in the USA alone is worth more than US$ 20bn and processes over 4m tonnes each year, providing direct and indirect employment for 45,000-plus people.
One tonne of recycled aluminium saves up to 8,000 kilograms of bauxite, 14,000 kWh of energy, 40 barrels (6300 litres) of oil, 238 million Btu's of energy. Recycling 1 tonne of aluminium avoids the emission of about 9 tonnes of CO2 emissions as recycling aluminium uses 95% less energy than producing aluminium using raw materials.
Recycling one tonne of tin saves 99% of the energy required for the primary production of tin.


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Q: Largest set of consecutive prime numbers. This is related to Euclid's proof of the infinitude of primes.
For any finite set $S = \{p_1, \ldots, p_r \}$ of primes, consider the number $n = p_1 p_2 \ldots p_r + 1$. This $n$ has a prime divisor $p$. But $p$ is not one of the $p_i$ (where $1 \leq i \leq r$): otherwise $p$ would be a divisor of $n$ and of the product $p_1 p_2 \ldots p_r$, and thus also of the difference $n – p_1 p_2 \ldots p_r = 1, which is impossible.
So, $S$ cannot be the collection of all prime numbers. (Q.E.D.)
Suppose I modify this proof into an algorithm for generating primes, as follows:
Start with some initial set $S_0 = S$; at each step $i$, constructing $n$ as described in the proof, set $S_{i + 1} = S_i \cup \{p: p \textrm{ is a
prime divisor of } n\}$.
Clearly, this algorithm will produce a sequence of ever-larger sets of prime numbers, but the primes in these sets will not necessarily be consecutive. How can I find a starting set which leads to the largest set of consecutive prime numbers (each subsequently generated number should be next consecutive when added into the set)?
Ex. Initial set $S = \{ 2 \}$.
$n = 2 + 1 = 3$, $3$ has one prime factor only, i.e $3$, so the updated set is $S = \{2, 3 \}$.
$n = 2 \times 3 + 1 = 7$. $7$ has one prime factor only, i.e $7$, so $\{2, 3, 7 \}$.
But $5$ goes missing, hence starting with $2$ goes to maximum set size $2$.

A: 2 is the most possible. Suppose otherwise; start with $\{p_n,p_{n+1}\}$ and assume that $p_np_{n+1} + 1= p_{n+2}$ (or equivalently, $p_np_{n+1} = p_{n+2}-1$). By Bertrand's Postulate, we have that $p_{n+2} -1 < 2p_{n+1} - 3 < 2p_{n+1}$, giving us $p_n < 2$, a contradiction.

A: Indeed $2$ gives you the greatest possible set of consecutive primes when starting from a set consisting of a single prime.
Except for $2$, all positive primes are odd. So if $S = \{ p \}$, where $p$ is some arbitrary odd prime, clearly the next prime to add to $S$ is $2$, because $p + 1$ is even. How are you handling things when $n$ has more than one distinct prime factor?
As Mr. Eitzen suggested in a comment he posted as I was writing this, you could just start with a set of more than one consecutive prime, e.g., $\{ 2, 3, 5 \}$. But then by Bertrand's postulate (mentioned by S. Ong), we're guaranteed to have at least one prime between $p_2 \ldots p_r$ and $2 p_2 \ldots p_r$ (let's say we always do $p_1 = 2$).
Our best hope at this point is for $2 p_2 \ldots p_r + 1$ to be composite. But what are the odds that this number would be divisible by precisely those primes between $p_r$ and $2 p_2 \ldots p_r + 1$?
In the $\{ 2, 3, 5 \}$ example, we'd get $31$ as our next prime, skipping over $7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29$. Let's then try $\{ 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13 \}$, which if I recall correctly will give us a composite number. Ah, yes, $30031 = 59 \times 509$. But that skips over $17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 61, 67, 71, 73, 79, \ldots$
I leave it to someone else to work out by the prime number theorem a rough estimate of how many primes there are between $p_r$ and $2 p_2 \ldots p_r + 1$, and how unlikely it is by the latter number to be divisible by all those primes.

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1. Does anyone use Insightly?
While my full-time professional job is in fundraising, I'm also on the board of directors for a non-profit, housing cooperative association, with approximately 5,000 members. The org currently uses Excel spreadsheets (LE GASP) to manage data; part of the strategic plan is to move to a database to manage files and relationships.
Our Executive Director is quite keen on Insightly. I'm wondering if anyone uses this program, and would be open to an email chat or phone call about their experiences with it?
2. RE: Does anyone use Insightly?
Bumping this back up... Anybody have any experience with Insightly? Or have other recommendations that would be good for associations of this size/type?
Subject: Does anyone use Insightly?
3. RE: Does anyone use Insightly?
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4. RE: Does anyone use Insightly?
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이 가을이 다 가기 전에 이미 벌써 겨울이 와 버렸네요.
우리레오님 가슴에도 겨울이 찾아온거 같아요.
부디 얼른 봄이 왔으면 합니다.
오랜만에 짬을 내서 답글 달고 있어요.
따스한 멜로딥니다. 추위가 미안해 하겟어요.
오늘은 따뜻한 옷 입어야 해요.
곰 인형의 모습을 보니 따뜻하고 포근하더이다.
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선생님께서 안정을 찾으신듯 하여 안심이되고 기쁘네요.
이제 움직일 시간속에 쉼을 찿아 보내야 겠네요!!
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text:
# encoding: utf-8
# frozen_string_literal: true

require 'spec_helper'

describe RuboCop::ResultCache, :isolated_environment do
  include FileHelper

  subject(:cache) do
    described_class.new(file, options, config_store, cache_root)
  end
  let(:file) { 'example.rb' }
  let(:options) { {} }
  let(:config_store) { double('config_store') }
  let(:cache_root) { "#{Dir.pwd}/rubocop_cache" }
  let(:offenses) do
    [RuboCop::Cop::Offense.new(:warning, location, 'unused var',
                               'Lint/UselessAssignment')]
  end
  let(:location) do
    source_buffer = Parser::Source::Buffer.new(file)
    source_buffer.read
    Parser::Source::Range.new(source_buffer, 0, 2)
  end

  def abs(path)
    File.expand_path(path)
  end

  before do
    create_file('example.rb', ['# Hello',
                               'x = 1'])
    allow(config_store).to receive(:for).with('example.rb').and_return({})
  end

  describe 'cached result that was saved with no command line option' do
    shared_examples 'valid' do
      it 'is valid and can be loaded' do
        cache.save(offenses)
        cache2 = described_class.new(file, options2, config_store, cache_root)
        expect(cache2.valid?).to eq(true)
        saved_offenses = cache2.load
        expect(saved_offenses).to eq(offenses)
      end
    end

    context 'when no option is given' do
      let(:options2) { {} }
      include_examples 'valid'

      context 'when file contents have changed' do
        it 'is invalid' do
          cache.save(offenses)
          create_file('example.rb', ['x = 2'])
          cache2 = described_class.new(file, options, config_store, cache_root)
          expect(cache2.valid?).to eq(false)
        end
      end

      context 'when a symlink attack is made' do
        before(:each) do
          # Avoid getting "symlink() function is unimplemented on this
          # machine" on Windows.
          if RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /cygwin|mswin|mingw|bccwin|wince|emx/
            skip 'Symlinks not implemented on Windows'
          end

          cache.save(offenses)
          Find.find(cache_root) do |path|
            next unless File.basename(path) == '_'
            FileUtils.rm_rf(path)
            FileUtils.ln_s('/bin', path)
          end
          $stderr = StringIO.new
        end
        after(:each) { $stderr = STDERR }

        it 'is stopped' do
          cache2 = described_class.new(file, options, config_store, cache_root)
          cache2.save(offenses)
          # The cache file has not been created because there was a symlink in
          # its path.
          expect(cache2.valid?).to eq(false)
          expect($stderr.string)
            .to match(/Warning: .* is a symlink, which is not allowed.\n/)
        end
      end
    end

    context 'when --format is given' do
      let(:options2) { { format: 'simple' } }
      include_examples 'valid'
    end

    context 'when --only is given' do
      it 'is invalid' do
        cache.save(offenses)
        cache2 = described_class.new(file, { only: ['Metrics/LineLength'] },
                                     config_store, cache_root)
        expect(cache2.valid?).to eq(false)
      end
    end

    context 'when --display-cop-names is given' do
      it 'is invalid' do
        cache.save(offenses)
        cache2 = described_class.new(file, { display_cop_names: true },
                                     config_store, cache_root)
        expect(cache2.valid?).to eq(false)
      end
    end
  end

  describe '#save' do
    context 'when the default internal encoding is UTF-8' do
      let(:offenses) do
        [RuboCop::Cop::Offense.new(:warning, location, "unused var \xF0",
                                   'Lint/UselessAssignment')]
      end
      before(:each) { Encoding.default_internal = Encoding::UTF_8 }
      after(:each) { Encoding.default_internal = nil }

      it 'writes non UTF-8 encodable data to file with no exception' do
        cache.save(offenses)
      end
    end
  end

  describe '.cleanup' do
    before do
      cfg = { 'AllCops' => { 'MaxFilesInCache' => 1 } }
      allow(config_store).to receive(:for).with('.').and_return(cfg)
      allow(config_store).to receive(:for).with('other.rb').and_return(cfg)
      create_file('other.rb', ['x = 1'])
      $stdout = StringIO.new
    end

    after do
      $stdout = STDOUT
    end

    it 'removes the oldest files in the cache if needed' do
      cache.save(offenses)
      cache2 = described_class.new('other.rb', options, config_store,
                                   cache_root)
      expect(Dir["#{cache_root}/*/*/_/*"].size).to eq(1)
      cache.class.cleanup(config_store, :verbose, cache_root)
      expect($stdout.string).to eq('')

      cache2.save(offenses)
      underscore_dir = Dir["#{cache_root}/*/*/_"].first
      expect(Dir["#{underscore_dir}/*"].size).to eq(2)
      cache.class.cleanup(config_store, :verbose, cache_root)
      expect(File.exist?(underscore_dir)).to be_falsey
      expect($stdout.string)
        .to eq("Removing the 2 oldest files from #{cache_root}\n")
    end
  end
end

describe RuboCop::ResultCache, :isolated_environment do
  let(:config_store) { double('config_store') }
  let(:tmpdir) { File.realpath(Dir.tmpdir) }
  let(:puid) { Process.uid.to_s }

  describe 'the cache path when using a temp directory' do
    before do
      allow(config_store).to receive(:for).with('.').and_return(
        'AllCops' => { 'CacheRootDirectory' => '/tmp' }
      )
    end
    it 'contains the process uid' do
      cacheroot = RuboCop::ResultCache.cache_root(config_store)
      expect(cacheroot).to eq(File.join(tmpdir, puid, 'rubocop_cache'))
    end
  end
end

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What is a good estimate?
Some of my student asked me how good is an estimate and how do we measure it up.
So there are definitely more factors that attributes to a good estimate, unbiased is one. The next in line will be consistent. We question if the estimate is consistent, this means to consider if the estimate tends to the true value as n tends to infinity.
This is really intuitive as I explained in class just yesterday.Imagine you are capable of obtaining the weight of EVERY SINGLE person in Singapore, then you will definitely be able to find the TRUE mean weight (granted ladies do not underestimate their weight). Thus, the value found will be consistent with the true value.


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Since the announcement from Curve on 29th January 2019 there have been various messages from both Curve and American Express about the reasons why their latest efforts of American Express support only lasted from 36 hours. Below are unedited messages.
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More photos of Tali Sotto's awesome vacation in California, USA with her daddy Vic Sotto and her mommy Pauleen Luna were uploaded online.
KAMI learned that the photos show the celebrity family going to different locations in the US.
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Vic and Pauleen were very sweet with each other as they kissed in public while Tali just enjoyed the company of her parents.
KAMI already posted earlier photos and clips from the family's US vacation.


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Adelaide de la Thoreza: A Chequered Career
James Cameron, Adelaide de la Thoreza: A Chequered Career, (Sydney: Foster & Fairfax, 1878), 37 pp. Courtesy of National Library of Australia, nla.obj-39562056
Reverend Dr. James Cameron (1827–1905), Adelaide de la Thoreza: A Chequered Career, (Sydney: Foster and Fairfax, 1878). Courtesy of National Library of Australia, Call number: Np 994.402092 T489C / nla.obj-39562062.
"Adelaide de la Thoreza," frontispiece in Reverend Dr. James Cameron (1827–1905), Adelaide de la Thoreza: A Chequered Career, (Sydney: Foster and Fairfax, 1878). Courtesy of National Library of Australia, Call number: Np 994.402092 T489C / nla.obj-39562168.
Title Page, Reverend Dr. James Cameron (1827–1905), Adelaide de la Thoreza: A Chequered Career, (Sydney: Foster and Fairfax, 1878), p. 1. Courtesy of National Library of Australia, Call number: Np 994.402092 T489C / nla.obj-39562266
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"Chapter I: Early Days," in Reverend Dr. James Cameron (1827–1905), Adelaide de la Thoreza: A Chequered Career, (Sydney: Foster and Fairfax, 1878), p. 3. Courtesy of National Library of Australia, Call number: Np 994.402092 T489C / nla.obj-39562464
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Jon Stavis
Published: May 9th, 2021
Founder, eMoods
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Hi! My name is Jon Stavis and I'm the creator of eMoods, a simple but effective journaling and mood tracking application. eMoods helps people make sense of their mental health symptoms and live fuller lives. This company grew from a hobby project that I started to improve my own mental health and has since grown to reach over 50,000 active users.
eMoods is a free mobile app that allows people to quickly capture their highs and lows of each day for many symptoms related to mood and anxiety disorders such as Bipolar, PTSD, and Depression. Data relating to these symptoms, sleep, medications, and any other factors being tracked can be visualized in graph or printable format, and easily shared with a doctor, therapist, friend, or family member.
Using these visualizations and sharing with a caregiver can help spot unhealthy thought patterns and zero in on triggers and other factors that could lead people to a major mental health relapse or hospitalization. Spotting these patterns and being aware of their own mental states has also helped many app users:
Reduce their medications that often come with severe side-effects
Improve the efficiency of their short doctors' visits by having a concise summary of their symptoms
Empower them to communicate better with their doctors and reduce the frequency of these visits, saving money and insurance costs
Prevent hospitalizations by communicating with their doctors early when warning signs come up
The business model is freemium, or "patronage" based. The free app offers more than enough quality features to be effective in helping people suffering from these disorders, however, the voluntary upgrade does provide a lot of cool added features and extra customization. A portion of all profits is donated to mental health-related charities.
The major draws for using this app goes hand-in-hand with our mission as a company:
1) An obsession with privacy - eMoods stores data only on people's phones. There is no login and the app will work in airplane mode indefinitely if desired- no data is stored on any server or ever transmitted off someone's device without them explicitly asking for it to be.
We believe that every software product should come with this level of transparency, but for something having to do with mental health, not having this level of privacy is a nonstarter. The users of this product often feel uncomfortable sharing personal details about themselves, and people must know that their personal data is sacred and theirs and theirs only if that's what they want.
2) Ease of use and distraction-free - eMoods aims to not waste people's time. Your time is precious and being in and out of the app in seconds is the critical focus; people can open the app quickly when a symptom comes up, log it, and move on with the more important parts of their day.
3) Respect for users - this is the cornerstone of the brand of eMoods. Everything we do respects users before anyone else- before their doctors, their therapists, the government, partners, friends, family, etc. This is a marginalized community- even sometimes by the people ostensibly helping them- and in some cases, they don't get this priority of respect from anyone anywhere else.
We believe in neurodiversity and that these oftentimes stigmatized mental states should be celebrated and those with them often have the most gifted minds in the areas of spirituality, science, entrepreneurship, and empathy.
We believe that anyone can approach their mental health treatment in whatever way they choose, but the common thread between any treatment approach is self-awareness. And we believe that self-awareness can be practiced through diligent journaling and tracking of symptoms, medications, sleep, and other factors.
eMoods became profitable enough for me to leave my full-time job in 2019 to focus on this company while still supplementing with some side contracting work. Since then I have built a team of great people who equally care about this mission of helping this community and improving lives.
What's your backstory and how did you get into entrepreneurship?
I never really thought much about being an entrepreneur from a young age, but I always had a sense that large companies and their influence over how we live our lives was not something I wanted to invest my time and talents in. I couldn't see how it was possible for someone who worked at a company of hundreds or thousands of people to take a caring interest in the customer or community. I think this may be why most of my early jobs as a programmer were for startups or companies in the entrepreneurial space.
Under the surface most people are struggling with their own problems just like you. Take care of yourself and enjoy the journey while eyeing your goals.
Circling back to eMoods specifically, I was (and am!) one of the people that this app was set out to help. Being diagnosed with Bipolar 1 in my early 20's, I was very frustrated with the diagnosis and figuring out which medications worked for me- I tried upwards of 20 different medications, all with terrible side effects, before settling on those with the most bearable ones. But I felt that my mania and psychosis also came with a spiritual side and that I was being pathologized and forced by a western medical system, family, and societal obligations to be "normal". I believe we as a society talk more openly and with more acceptance about mental health issues these days (nearly 20 years later), and my views now align with the neurodivergent community, which celebrates neurodiversity in all its forms - this includes autism, ADHD, bipolar, schizophrenia, and other atypical neurodevelopmental states. At the core, I want users of this app to be in control of their health because I felt like I wasn't in control for a long time.
About 8 years or so into living this way I decided that I'd had enough of the big city I was living in, the lack of connection to nature, and my sense of obligation to maintain this "sane" veneer to the world that felt unnatural. I left my job as a programmer in New York City in 2009 and traveled to New Zealand to work on a series of small farms for 6 months and take stock of what to do next. I say this as an extremely privileged person who was fortunate enough to come from a stable family and have a well-paying job for several years that afforded me this opportunity. I am definitely aware of the irony that the very mental health treatment I was rejecting helped me to get to a place of relative comfort and allowed me to try to distance myself from it.
While out in a more natural setting, surrounded by trees and under the stars every night, picking berries, feeding pigs, chopping wood, and carrying water, I saw some of the simple beauties of this world that so easily get overlooked in our modern lives. I honed my sense of self-observation and began keeping meticulous track in a simple paper notebook of every single symptom that I'd come to learn about over the last 8 years: my sleep and sleep quality, physical activity, diet, and of course medications. And over time, as I became more aware of my mind and body I started feeling a lot better.
During this process, and after doing my farm work each day, I started reading up on Android programming, which was pretty easy for me to pick up as a Java web developer at the time. I decided that I'd make a mobile app that could help me track all this stuff I'd been keeping track of in a paper journal, and began coding it up for fun.
When I returned to the United States in 2010 however, I found myself back in the same unfulfilling situation- out of nature, living in an expensive city, and needing to return to work as a programmer to afford living there. I started seeing a new doctor who explicitly requested me to fill out a paper mood journal. The app was almost finished, and the last touch was having it generate a report that I could send to him to print for my file.
Having the app made things a lot easier than keeping a notebook on me all day, and I enjoyed using it. I put the app in the Google app store later in 2010, and as time went by more and more people started using it- and liking it! Nothing much came of it as a business- I wanted to continue offering the app for free, and I didn't even understand at the time that there were other business models somewhere between free and paid. Not to mention, I was too afraid to even associate my name with this app for fear of being outed and stigmatized as having a severe mental illness. I don't think that most entrepreneurs are faced with being afraid to put their own name to their business, and this was tough for me to overcome.
Original Android hobby app from 2010
Fast forward about 6 more years to 2016. I was doing contract programming work for an online company that taught people how to start a Software-as-a-Service company. Starting my own company had become something I wanted to do, which was what gravitated me towards this contract role. I was surrounded by enthusiastic and inspirational entrepreneurs. One day I finally worked up the courage to start talking about this side project of mine, and how it had thousands of users and a great app store rating. It was as if the printing presses stopped and all at once these co-workers of mine admonished me for not having turned this into a real business yet.
As a result, I started by adding a donation button to the app. And to my surprise, people started donating because they liked the app so much. I used this validation to hire a designer friend of mine to give eMoods a tune-up. We made the app design look more attractive, worked on some additional features and a premium upgrade option, and began working on a new iPhone and Android version. I launched this new version in 2017 and people liked it even more than the previous version. Now, most marketing is through app store optimization and word-of-mouth from users to their doctors/therapists and doctors/therapists to their other patients and clients.
Take us through your entrepreneurial journey. How did you go from day 1 to today?
I had some exposure to entrepreneurship through my first few jobs and I knew that small businesses were a much more flexible container for doing work and contributing towards shaping a world that aligns with your own principles.
The idea for the eMoods app sprang from a personal need and I think that when you design something to scratch your own itch, so to speak, it often comes out being exactly what you need. And if it's genuine, you'll be surprised by how many other people like you have the same need in their own lives.
The app is pretty simple which made the initial coding straightforward- I just tried to keep in mind all the design principles that were important to me, namely privacy, ease of use, and respect for the user. I worked on it as a hobby and put it live in the app store just for fun. It wasn't until years later that this little hobby app was popular and I decided to try to make a business out of it. This decision came with some helpful nudges from other entrepreneurs I was working with as a contractor at the time. It also came after years of trying to keep my identity anonymous as the creator of this, for fear of stigmatization as I was quite secretive about my mental illness.
Some validation took place when we added a donation button to the app to see if people would be willing to spend money on it. It turns out they were, leading me to work with a designer friend to make the app look really nice, good user experience, and keep it free while adding some upgrade features. We relaunched in 2017 and the much-improved version caught on very well.
Even though many people loved the high level of privacy that the app provided, more and more users were requesting features like cross-device syncing, predictive analysis, and healthcare providers looking to view their patients' live data. None of this could happen easily with the app having only offline data storage, which led me to begin working on a new cloud-based version of eMoods in 2019, which will eventually become a HIPAA compliant enterprise platform for medical and therapy practices. I received two matching grants from the Maine Technology Institute for further developing this platform and beginning to build a team. The cloud app, called Insights, is now live, and the HIPAA compliant enterprise side of things should be live later this year.
When the pandemic hit we also launched a spinoff app called eMoods Wellness Tracker, which lets people track their daily wellness activities related to social distancing and quarantine. This app is slowly catching on but we haven't put a ton of marketing effort into it.
I'm now running a loosely connected team consisting of a handful of part-time contractors: programmers, customer support, content writers, marketers, designers, and bizdev/product management. We are aiming to make a first full-time hire of business development and product management team member later in 2021.
How are you doing today and what does the future look like?
eMoods has been profitable since making back the $25 Google Play Store developer fee that got things started. Things became profitable enough for me to leave my full-time developer job in 2019 and take on some part-time contracting while further growing this business. Expenses now mostly include contractors and various software tools.
Operations today include supporting existing users with obsessive customer service, feature development on the Classic iPhone and Android apps, but most development on the Insights platform and the upcoming HIPAA compliant Enterprise portal for doctors' and therapists' practices. There's been a lot of learning about the legal requirements of HIPAA and working towards a suitable hosting and DevOps setup. Supporting existing users is so important, and I don't know anyone running a free software tool that provides this level of direct customer support.
Working on Insights is the big push for growth to new audiences and regions. It's much more richly featured than the Apple/Google mobile apps and will eventually be a portal for medical practices. Insights pulls external data from various sources, including weather, temperature, daylight hours, and even moon phases if the user chooses. Many of these external factors have been studied and proven to affect different symptoms of these mood disorders. This allows users to correlate this data with their logged symptoms to get a sense of how these external factors can affect their mental health and wellbeing. Simple machine learning also is used to point out correlations that may not be visible to the naked eye. More sophisticated machine learning to be released in the future will provide statistical predictions for how likely it is that a user may log a certain severity of a certain symptom.
Insights cloud application and future HIPAA-compliant Enterprise Portal
Through starting the business, have you learned anything particularly helpful or advantageous?
The first thing that comes to mind here is that I've learned luck and privilege are paramount to starting a business and making it successful. I hear a lot of people saying that if you just work your ass off you can get ahead. Hard work is of course important but it's clear to me that most of the time hard work is not enough. My economic background, race, gender, and having a strong support system to bounce back from a debilitating mental illness put me into the unique position to create even a hobby business- most people aren't this fortunate and if you're any kind of entrepreneur, I believe that you shouldn't take this for granted.
The hard truth is we live in an unbalanced world filled with mega biases, and starting a business, let alone a technology business, is often something that is just not available to most people. Figuring out how to honor this hard truth, have gratitude, and lift someone less fortunate than myself has been the hardest challenge as an entrepreneur. If this isn't my primary focus on my path to becoming a successful entrepreneur, I believe that I'm missing the target.
The second thing that comes to mind is learning how important it is to develop patience and positive communication skills. The people working with you, both partners and users, are their own individuals and they're going to do things their way a lot of the time, ie. not the way you expected or were magically hoping for. And that's ok! The key, I believe, is to communicate your vision and your moral compass, and clearly define tasks, get feedback, and be flexible if things don't turn out your way. Even big mistakes can be forgiven, and when you look at that huge mistake that a contractor made 6 months later, it doesn't mean squat anymore. That contractor/employee is still a great partner who contributes meaningfully to your mission.
Lastly, coders tend to overthink technology choices and architectures, myself included. I learned that it's ok to use what you like and what you're comfortable with. I'm kind of a coding dinosaur when it comes to the latest and greatest developer frameworks and hosting services- I like to go with what works well and gets me from point A to point B the fastest, and I learned to be ok with that. Insights was originally written on Google Firebase but that platform was hard to work with for my personal thought process, and DevOps was a challenge despite the promises of an easy-to-use serverless architecture. As a result, we recently ported Insights off of Firebase and onto a Laravel/MySQL architecture, and all I have to say is it's been a delight working on this new platform. Likewise, both the Apple and Google apps are native code (Swift and Java). Apple and Google have designed great platforms that are mostly straightforward and easy to use- I felt no need to use any additional coding abstractions or cross-platform frameworks. I repeat- Do Not Overthink Your Technology Choices and Go With What You Like Best!
What platform/tools do you use for your business?
The Apple and Google Play developer consoles have been great, but being able to run A/B store listing experiments on Google Play has been invaluable, and results seem to translate well to the Apple store too (this is a feature that Apple doesn't have).
Customer support is such a critical cornerstone to eMoods' mission and Helpscout has been a great tool for that. Helpscout has allowed a small team consisting of myself and two other customer support contractors to stay in sync and be on top of all email inquiries that come in. It also has a nice help documentation system that plugs right into the main eMoods marketing website.
The Laravel web framework and Laravel tools like Forge and Nova have helped tremendously with making development and DevOps a lot easier. Laravel was such a pivotal shift in web development for me back around 2012, allowing me to develop web applications in a fraction of the time and with fewer people than in the early 2000s (again, I did say I was a coding dinosaur!).
We use RevenueCat for in-app payments. They've developed a very nice abstraction on top of the Google and Apple in-app purchase system, as well as Stripe. This service makes the coding part of in-app payments a whole lot easier.
We recently switched from MailChimp to MailerLite and it has been fantastic for newsletters and drip campaign/marketing emails. The price is right compared to MailChimp, the interface is very simple and works well for several team members collaborating, and their customer support is great.
What have been the most influential books, podcasts, or other resources?
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World - This book separates all work into two categories: "Shallow Work", or work that is not important to your broader mission and "Deep Work", the work that is critical to furthering your long-term goals. It outlines inspiring reasons why being mindful of this distinction is important and gives actionable steps to maximize the time you get to spend on work that is important and meaningful for you.
Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability - This book has been by far the most life-changing thing I've read on User Experience and Design. All good design boils down to the notion of valuing people's time, to the point of not making them even have to think to figure out and get value from your software. This is more a design manual than an in-depth book, and it only takes a few hours to finish the whole thing.
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - I read this book right after my second son was born and it's been one of the most impactful things I have read in my life. This is a small planet and we as humans have made an incredible impact in a short period of time, for better or worse. Knowing where we came from and how we developed our civilization has helped me a lot to try to build understanding with others.
Lucky Man: A Memoir - One of Michael J. Fox's more noteworthy characters, Marty McFly, was a childhood idol to me. This is one of Fox's books humorously discussing his coming to terms with a debilitating chronic condition, how it reshaped his life and led towards his deep sense of gratitude, and how being vulnerable can be a healing medicine.
The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test - Because we're all a little crazy and life should be a good time. Besides recounting the psychedelic drug-filled travels of a hippy prankster group, this book offers some gems of wisdom about what life is really about, how we so often fail to live in the moment, and how we find ourselves doing things without having the slightest reason why.
Advice for other entrepreneurs who want to get started or are just starting?
Listen to your users! Respond to every single review or email that you get, within 48 hours (or sooner!), and respond as if you were catching up with a close friend. Listen, understand concerns, give a shit, and BE TRANSPARENT! Transparency is so important, even if you're telling someone something they don't want to hear. I can't emphasize how much I learned by trying to build trust and understanding with users. In fact, they are way more than users or customers. They are helping you learn about yourself and the similarities you have with them, and in turn how you can design the best product for everyone. And at the end of the day, perhaps you added a small spark of hope, joy, or compassion to someone's life.
Take it slow and go easy on yourself. As the saying goes, it's a marathon, not a sprint, and this is so true. You're going to encounter competitors and other entrepreneurs who seem more successful than you and in a quicker time period. Don't worry about them and keep your mind and body as healthy as you can to stay on target. Under the surface, most people are struggling with their own problems just like you. Take care of yourself and enjoy the journey while eyeing your goals.
Where can we go to learn more?
Go to the eMoods website to download the app or create an Insights account (you can track your moods even if not managing Bipolar-related symptoms!)
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A SPEECH by the Taoiseach, Charles Haughey in March 1989 on the need for "a more acceptable" Anglo-Irish Agreement alarmed British ministers.
The issue arose at a dinner hosted by the Irish officials servicing the Anglo-Irish Secretariat at Maryfield, Co Down for the NIO Security Minister, Dr Brian Mawhinney on March 13, 1989.
In a 'note for the record', R O Miles of the NIO noted that Mawhinney expressed the British government's "disappointment that Haughey said nothing in support of devolution and suggested that he (the Taoiseach) was out of line with the agreement".
"He asked what the Taoiseach had in mind in speaking of a `more acceptable' Anglo-Irish Agreement."
Responding, Sean O hUiginn (an Irish official in the Maryfield Secretariat) argued against taking "selective quotations from speeches", adding: "As for a more acceptable agreement, any agreement rejected by the majority in NI could not be regarded as perfect.
Mr Haughey had in mind the need to find something which would be less offensive to the majority, though he had no precise ideas on how to do it."
According to the note, on both education and the Irish language, Mr O hUiginn "was positively fulsome in his praise of Dr Mawhinney's policy".
The official said that he believed that "recent decisions might prove a historic turning point and that future Irish governments might find they had much to learn from Northern Irish policy".
The only area of disagreement, O hUiginn told the minister, was over a proposal for an Irish Language Trust.
However, Dr Mawhinney replied that the British government "did not want to establish something which might prove divisive".