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|Publication number
|Publication type
|Application number
|Publication date
|Apr 1, 2008
|Filing date
|Dec 17, 2003
|Priority date
|Dec 17, 2003
|Fee status
|Publication number
|William C. Batten, Bruce W. Kyles
|Original Assignee
|Clearline Systems, Inc.
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (49), Non-Patent Citations (2), Referenced by (11), Classifications (24), Legal Events (4)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
The invention relates to an apparatus for the conversion of kitchen waste grease and oil to a landfill acceptable solid material. A grease collection cartridge has an inlet for receiving kitchen waste grease, a mixing baffle within the cartridge and a package within the cartridge containing a reactant to solidify the grease and oil into soap.
Oil/grease and solid waste containment removal or recovery systems are well known in the prior art. Over the past 30 years there has been a steady move toward requiring facilities for servicing kitchen grease-bearing water flows. Sewer system lines can be clogged from the oil/grease materials put into the sewer systems from food handling facilities.
This has led more and more sewer authorities to require programs to control handling and storage of fats, oils and grease waste materials. These programs regulate food handling facilities and the manner in which they process oil/grease and solid waste material. The object of many of these programs is to ensure food handling facilities remove as much of the oil and grease as possible from the effluent flow, thereby releasing only grey water and solids into the sewer system.
There are many and very different kinds of oil/grease separators known in the art. Once the grease and oil have been removed from the effluent water, and the grey water has been directed to the sewer, storage and handling of the removed oil and grease is a costly and complicated process. The oil and grease removed from the effluent water must be stored in a separate system that cannot empty into the sewer system lines. Consequently, underground storage containment units have been utilized, as well as aboveground storage containment units. These storage units require servicing and periodic maintenance.
Servicing typically consists of having a maintenance contractor pump the oil/grease from the storage container and haul it to an approved facility. These storage systems may have sensors and elaborate computer generated signals to the maintenance facilities in order to ensure the grease and oil are removed before the storage unit overflows. In the absence of sensors that automatically sense when the storage unit needs servicing, humans must check the storage container periodically. The job of checking the grease level in the storage container may be a distasteful job, and in some cases the task may be ignored. The appropriate storage and removal to an acceptable waste receiving facility is as important in the process as the initial separation of the oil and grease from the effluent water of commercial kitchen sinks.
Landfills limit the kinds of waste material that can be stored in landfills and have stringent rules defining acceptable storage items. Oils that are liquid at room temperature and the residual water content of the commercial kitchen sink waste make the removed products quite liquid. As a result, grease and oil waste products removed from commercial kitchen effluent flows are typically not permitted to be disposed of in landfills because they remain so liquid as to fail what is known as the "paint filter" test.
Consequently, there is a need in the art for the conversion of the oil/grease waste material into a substance that does not require special handling or storage in a special removal facility, but rather that can be placed within sanitary landfills just like other ordinary garbage.
The present invention fulfills one or more of these needs by providing an apparatus that converts the oil/grease waste from commercial kitchens into a landfill acceptable solid, does not require costly storage systems and is easy to maintain.
An apparatus for conversion of kitchen waste grease to a landfill acceptable solid includes a grease collection cartridge having an inlet for receiving kitchen waste grease, a mixing baffle within the cartridge and a package within the cartridge containing a reactant to solidify the oil/grease waste. The collection cartridge may include a plastic lid with a handle and a bearing surface. A motor rotates the mixing baffle within the collection cartridge by engaging the driveshaft of the mixing baffle. The baffle acts as a paddle to mix the contents of the cartridge. The plastic lid further includes a safety micro switch actuator that prevents operation of the motor when the collection cartridge is not in place.
The collection cartridge typically has a cylindrical, plastic composite body with a plastic base. The plastic base may have a key on the exterior of the base. The key prevents rotation of the collection cartridge when it is in place in a notch within a cartridge holder assembly. The mixing baffle may be made of plastic and include a main shaft that has a "z" shaped cross section. The plastic base of the collection cartridge has a plastic bearing for the "z" shaped main shaft. The "z" shaped main shaft includes an interlock to a slot of the gear drive of the motor driving the mixing baffle. The mixing baffle may have openings and louvers located at the lower edges of the openings. The mixing baffle typically extends to two sides of the main shaft, and the louvers face opposite each other on the main shaft. The mixing baffle may include an attachment arm that is made of plastic and attached to the "z" shaped main shaft of the mixing baffle.
The attachment arm includes an attachment means to attach a package containing a reactant on the arm. The package is made of water-soluble material and contains a sufficient amount of a reactant (such as sodium hydroxide (lye)) selected to react with the grease in the cartridge to form a solid, like soap.
Once the grease placed in the cartridge is turned into a solid, the cartridge and its contents are disposable. In one embodiment, the cartridge has a sidewall that is made of spiral wound paper tube, and the tube has a water impervious plastic lining.
The invention also provides a cartridge holder assembly, which may be constructed of rotomolded plastic. The cartridge holder assembly is hollow and may also serve as a grease storage tank, to store liquids prior to transfer to the grease collection cartridge. The cartridge holder assembly may include an inlet valve that is connected to an oil/grease separation unit. When the inlet valve is opened, grease may be transferred from the oil/grease separator unit into the cartridge holder assembly. The cartridge holder assembly further typically includes a cartridge locating keyway notch. This cartridge-locating notch may be in the bottom of the cartridge holder assembly and prevents rotation of the grease collection cartridge when the key of the cartridge is placed within the cartridge holder assembly's notch.
The cartridge holder assembly typically includes a motor and a pump driven by that motor. The pump/motor draws water and grease from the cartridge holder assembly into the grease collection cartridge. The motor also rotates the mixing baffle in the grease collection cartridge. The rotation of the mixing baffle mixes water and reactant within the grease collection cartridge to form a liquid reactant that reacts with grease to form a solid such as soap. In one embodiment, the pump/motor is pivotally mounted to the top of the cartridge holder assembly so the motor drive shaft can be rotated down into position engaging the shaft of the baffle.
The cartridge holder assembly typically includes a water inlet to allow water into the cartridge holder assembly. The water inlet may include a solenoid valve that controls the flow of water into the cartridge holder assembly. The cartridge holder assembly may also have a heater, to provide sufficient heat to keep the grease in flowable form. The heater may be an immersion type heater or an external, wrap-style heater.
The cartridge holder assembly may include sensors. The sensors include a "grease full" sensor which signals when the cartridge holder assembly contains a quantity of grease appropriate to be transferred into the grease collection cartridge. The cartridge holder assembly may include a "water full" sensor that signals when the cartridge holder assembly contains a desired amount of water. The cartridge holder assembly has an air vent near its top.
The cartridge holder assembly may include an oil and grease inlet that is connected to an oil/grease separator. The oil/grease separator receives effluent water from a commercial kitchen sink or other grease source. The oil/grease separator separates oil and grease from the effluent water. The separated oil and grease are then transferred from the oil/grease separator through the oil and grease inlet into the cartridge holder assembly for storage until there is a sufficient amount of oil and grease to be transferred into the grease collection cartridge to be processed.
These and other aspects of the present invention will become apparent to those skilled in the art after reading the following description of the preferred embodiments when considered with the drawings.
In the following description, like reference characters designate like or corresponding parts throughout the several figures. It should be understood that the illustrations are for the purpose of describing preferred embodiments of the invention and are not intended to limit the invention thereto.
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A motor assembly includes a frame 93 pivotally mounted at 95 to the top of the assembly 52. As seen in
Adjacent the shaft 37 is the termination of the transfer tube 99 that delivers water, then oil/grease from the assembly 52 to the cartridge, entering through the opening bounded by the bearing surface 36. The frame 93 includes a safety micro switch 42 that prevents operation of the motor 39 when a grease collection cartridge 12 is not in place within the cartridge holder assembly. The safety micro switch 42 closes the electrical circuit when the plunger 96 of the lid engages it. When a cartridge 12 is put in place within the cartridge holder assembly 52 and the frame 93 is lowered, the switch 42 is pushed closed, engaging the electrical circuit of the motor 39 to the closed position to permit the motor to operate. The cartridge holder assembly 52 also includes a cartridge locating keyway notch 56. The cartridge-locating notch 56 is located in the bottom of the cartridge holder assembly 52 and prevents rotation of the grease collection cartridge 12 by engaging the key 48 when the cartridge is placed within the cartridge holder assembly 52 and the motor is actuated.
The frame 93 includes a pump 38 driven by the motor 39. A suction line 65 extends from a lower portion of the tank 52 to the pump 38. Due to the stratification of grease above the water in the tank 52 and the low position of the intake to the line 65, the pump initially pumps water from the tank into the grease collection cartridge 12, followed by grease. The water dissolves the package 32, releasing the reactant, which dissolves in the water under the agitation of the rotating baffle. When the grease is delivered to the cartridge 12, it is mixed with the reactant by the rotating baffle. As the pumping proceeds, the motor 39 rotates the mixing baffle 14 in the grease collection cartridge 12. The rotation of the mixing baffle 14 mixes grease, water and sodium hydroxide (lye) within the grease collection cartridge 12. The sodium hydroxide becomes a liquid reactant that combines chemically with the grease and oil to turn the mixture into soap. The dissolution of sodium hydroxide is strongly exothermic, so once the process starts, the continued pumping of water and grease and their mixing preferably proceeds promptly to prevent excess temperatures by providing a large heat sink of water, grease and then soap.
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The tank 52 includes sensors to indicate when certain conditions are met. A "grease full" sensor 66 signals when the cartridge holder assembly 52 contains a quantity of grease appropriate to be transferred into the grease collection cartridge 12. A "water full" sensor 67 signals when the cartridge holder assembly 52 contains the desired quantity of water. These signals are sent to a control system 61 such as a programmable logic controller which controls the engagement of the electrical components as discussed below. The control system may also be provided by a series of relays or "and gates." Similar features are included in the embodiment of
The various structures disclosed herein for receiving the cartridge are generally "receivers."
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The motor 39 is activated to pump the water and grease into the grease collection cartridge 12, and simultaneously the motor 39 rotates the mixing baffle 14. The water dissolves the reactant package 32, permitting the sodium hydroxide (lye) to mix with the water and then the grease. The mixing baffle 14 is rotated for a sufficient amount of time until the mixture of water, oil and sodium hydroxide (lye) turn into soap. As the soap solid forms, the viscosity of the mixture increases, ultimately to the point that the baffle meets so much resistance that it no longer turns. The drive shaft of the motor will then rise above the shaft of the baffle, causing the switch 42 to open, and deactivating the motor. Alternatively, the motor may be provided with a slip clutch and/or a timer or a current sensor that senses a rise in the current to the motor caused by the physical resistance, and cuts off the power supply. The grease collection cartridge 12 containing the soap can then be removed from the assembly and thrown into a container to be transported to a landfill for disposal.
Certain modifications and improvements will occur to those skilled in the art upon reading the foregoing description. For example, the cartridge and its baffle can be made of any suitable material that is water impermeable and low enough in cost so as to be disposable. The baffle can take various shapes and be made of various materials. In fact, if desired, the baffle and its associated drive motor can be dispensed with if another mixing arrangement is substituted, such as a shaker for the cartridge. In another embodiment, the grease may be directed into a flaccid bag that is kneaded to mix the grease and reactant. Other agitation means can be a bubbler to introduce air into a lower portion of the cartridge to rise as bubbles through the liquids. Another option is the use of ultrasonics. The liquids may be introduced other than through the top of the cartridge.
In some cases it may be preferably to mechanically emulsify the oil/grease and water before pumping than into the reactant-containing cartridge. The options for mixing the fluids as disclosed herein are means to agitate.
As noted, the tank that discharges the oil/grease into the cartridge can be part of the housing for the cartridge, or separate. The pump may be eliminated if other means to deliver oil/grease and water are substituted, such as gravity feed or a suitably arranged siphon. Also, the oil/grease and water supplies into the tank may take various forms, including the delivery of some water with the oil/grease, eliminating the need for a separate water supply. The heater may be run continually, under timer control, or be turned on in response to a sensed grease presence. A delay circuit may be included to start the pump/motor a few seconds or minutes after the cartridge is in place and the tank 52 is appropriately full of grease and water.
It should be understood that such modifications and improvements have been omitted for the sake of conciseness and readability, but are properly within the scope of the following claims.
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Owner name: CLEARLINE SYSTEMS, INC., NORTH CAROLINA
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Effective date: 20031216
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Effective date: 20120401


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Hidalgo Medical Services, a federally-qualified health center with 20 years of experience as a frontier and rural training hub, has launched the first Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education (THCGME) program in New Mexico as New Mexico's first Teaching Health Center.
Program Description
Nestled in the heart of the Gila Wilderness, the HMS Family Medicine Residency Program is specifically designed in the "1+2" format to offer top quality training in the urban setting at Memorial Medical Center in Las Cruces, NM during the intern year, followed by a two-year robust, rural, community training experience in Silver City, NM. Decentralizing resident education adds value to the education experience by ensuring that each resident has more community-relevant experiences and training that models the generalist-specialist relationship. At a time when the United States finds itself with an inadequate supply of physicians, the distribution of healthcare and access remains problematic. HMS has developed the HMS Family Medicine Residency Program in response to the primary care needs of our state and nation. With 20 years of experience hosting rural training rotations, HMS has been recognized by HRSA as the first Teaching Health Center in New Mexico and welcomes two residents per academic year as a 2/2/2 program.
Program Highlights
- Focus on Rural Training with assistance from other specialties at UNM and telemedicine programs like Project ECHO.
- Protected Education Time – One day of didactics and scholarly activity per week, focusing on robust lecture topics and activities.
- Modern Training Facility – Brand new 30,000 Square-Foot facility.
- Intimate Continuity Clinic Environment – Because the program only accept two residents per academic year, each resident is supported by the entire medical team and guaranteed a well-rounded, full spectrum experience with exposure to diverse and unusual cases.
- 1.3 Residents to One Faculty Ratio.
- Unopposed Training with no competition for procedures and full access to Attending Physicians.
- Richness of Culture – Southwest New Mexico boasts a very diverse population and residents will develop an ability to understand, communicate with and effectively interact with patients across many cultures.
- Cardiology
- Critical Care Unit
- Dermatology
- Emergency Department
- Endocrinology
- Family Medicine Inpatient Service
- Family Medicine Outpatient Service
- Gastroenterology
- Nephrology
- Newborn Nursery
- Obstetrics Inpatient Service
- Pediatric Inpatient Service
- Surgery
This ACGME-accredited program has been specifically tailored to provide unsurpassed expertise in rural family medicine in Silver City.
- Behavioral Health
- Community Health Orientation
- Dermatology
- Emergency Department
- Electives
- Evidence-Based Medicine
- Family Medicine Inpatient Service
- Family Medicine Outpatient Services
- Geriatrics
- Gynecology Outpatient / Women's Health
- Newborn Nursery
- Obstetrics Inpatient Service
- Ophthalmology
- Orthopedics
- Otolaryngology
- Pediatric Inpatient Service
- Pediatric Outpatient Service
- Podiatry
- Practice Management
- Pulmonology, Critical Care Unit
- Radiology
- Sports Medicine
- Surgery
About our Director
Originally from a small mining town in Arizona and a U.S. Army Veteran, Dr. Darrick Nelson obtained his medical degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Texas at Dallas with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology. Prior to joining HMS, Dr. Nelson was a professor and a core faculty member at Texas A&M University Health Science Center, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Corpus Christi Family Medicine Residency Program where he was responsible for the teaching and supervision of residents in outpatient clinics, inpatient hospital, intensive care unit, newborn nursery, labor and delivery, including C-sections, high risk obstetrics, and indigent care. Dr. Nelson is a Fellow in Medical Informatics and was physician liaison for implementation of electronic clinical documentation system with CHRISTUS Spohn Shoreline Hospital.
Dr. Nelson serves as the Chief Medical Officer at HMS and the founding Program Director of the HMS Family Medicine Residency Program. Dr. Nelson directs the delivery of patient-centered primary care services for HMS as well as leadership and innovation on projects and programs to improve clinical and overall health outcomes for the residents of Southwest New Mexico. Dr. Nelson is one of the founders of the FORWARD NM – Pathways to Health Careers workforce program at HMS. This 5-stage program reaches students from secondary education throughout graduate degrees and includes the accreditation of the HMS Family Medicine Residency Program, the first Teaching Health Center designation in New Mexico.
In 2012, Dr. Nelson was named the New Mexico Primary Care Association's "Community Health Center Medical Provider for the Year." Dr. Nelson is a Fellow of the National Institute for Program Director Development. In addition, Dr. Nelson serves the Board of Directors for The National Rural Training Track Campus Collaborative ("The RTT Collaborative" or "RTTCC"), a newly established 501(c)(3) organized to sustain medical education in rural places.
Meet our Associate Program Director
Dr. Kristan Diaz-Rios is a family medicine physician who graduated from Brown University's Warren Alpert School of Medicine and completed her Family Medicine Residency and Obstetrics Fellowship at Christus Spohn Memorial Hospital in Corpus Christi, TX. While she has a special interest in Women's Health and Adolescent Medicine, she also enjoys the full spectrum of patient care that Family Medicine has to offer. Dr. Diaz-Rios and her husband Rick Rios, D.C. live in Silver City with their son. They enjoy golfing, running and exploring New Mexico.
Meet our Associate Program Director
Dr. Hernandez is a native of California. Born in Fresno and raised in the small rural farming community of Reedley, she is the second youngest of seven children. Dr. Hernandez is very proud to have become the first Physician in her family.
During her formative years, Dr. Hernandez worked as a farm laborer; during her breaks from school, she picked oranges during the winter and picked grapes in the hot, summer sun.
Dr. Hernandez attended Reedley High school and graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles, (UCLA) with a degree in Psycho-Biology. She attended St. Matthews University School of Medicine in the Caribbean, and completed clerkships in both Chicago, Illinois and Brooklyn, New York. Dr. Hernandez began her Family Medicine residency at the University of Illinois in Springfield.
After completing her Family Medicine residency in 2012, Dr. Hernandez practiced with an urgent care center and walk-in clinic, until she accepted a locum tenens position with the Indian Health Service (IHS), San Carlos Apache Indian Hospital, located in Arizona. She accepted this position in the fall of 2013, and later served as a Medical Officer, with the IHS' Northern Navajo Medical Center in Shiprock, New Mexico.
Throughout her medical career, Dr. Hernandez has always wanted to provide services to patients in medically underserved communities. Her own childhood and family experiences, which included a lack of access to care and language barriers, instilled in her the desire to become a Family Physician in a rural community.
As a Family Physician, it is Dr. Hernandez's mission to successfully assist in the retention and training of physicians who serve rural communities, while continuing to promote legislative changes in the State of New Mexico to finally resolve physician shortages.
Meet our Program Coordinator
Ms. Zamora serves the HMS Family Medicine Residency Program as Program Coordinator. She is a native of Silver City and is committed to serving her community. Ms. Zamora received her Bachelors in Fine Art from New Mexico State University and a Masters in Business Administration from Western New Mexico University. Ms. Zamora works daily with Drs. Nelson, Diaz-Rios and Troxler to ensure quality graduate medical education at HMS.
Meet Our Residents
Class of 2016
Dr. Alan Schumacher
University of Arizona College of Medicine
Dr. Alan Schumacher is excited to be part of Hidalgo Medical Services (HMS) in Silver City, New Mexico, as a resident physician. Alan began pursuing his passion for medicine in 1986. After obtaining a Bachelors Degree in Biology, with a Minor in Philosophy, he immediately matriculated to the University of Louisville School of Medicine. Due to unforeseeable circumstances at the end of one year, he and his family moved to Tucson, Arizona where his focus shifted to a career in the insurance and financial industry. He obtained Masters-level certification in Property and Casualty and Life insurance. As an insurance agent and financial asset manager, Alan continued to consider how he might be of greater service in his community. He enrolled in graduate school at the University of Arizona and worked toward his PhD in Physiology. His research focused on macular degeneration and congestive heart failure. During this time he had the opportunity to return to medical school. He graduated from the University of Arizona College of Medicine with a Doctorate in Allopathic Medicine in 2012 at the age of 50. Alan is a family man. He has four grown children, two by adoption, with a total of six grandchildren. He remarried in 2010 and he and his wife have two daughters, a 2 year old and a 4 year old. Alan enjoys tennis, poker, hunting, martial arts and almost any outdoor recreation.
Dr. Rachel Seltzer
Oregon Health & Science University
Dr. Seltzer is proud to join the HMS family, and very much at home in Silver City. She graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut with a Bachelor of Arts in Neuroscience & Behavior and also obtained her Master Of Arts In Medical Science from Loyola University Chicago. Dr. Seltzer received her Medical Doctorate degree from Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), is board-certified in Preventive Medicine (Preventive Medicine Residency, OHSU), along with a Master of Public Health degree at Portland State University. Her professional interests center on health and wellness in rural communities, population health, regional health systems, and a broad scope of care in the inpatient and outpatient settings. In her spare time, her avocational interests include running, yoga, doing laundry, studying, knitting, self-improvement, enjoying good food, and exploring, especially places within driving distance.
Class of 2017
Dr. Magda Ramirez
Universidad de San Carlos Facultad de Ciencias Medicas, Guatemala
Dr. Ramirez grew up and graduating from medical school at the University of San Carlos de Guatemala during a 30-year civil war. She volunteered as doctor in the war-torn Mayan community and opened her own clinic in a rural community where there were no doctors. She made the most important and difficult decision of her life – She gave up her rural practice to get married and move to the U.S. In the U.S., she has developed health education programs and provided individual counseling for diverse populations living with diabetes and hypertension at the Rural Health Care Center on Martha's Vineyard and had clinical experiences in low-income underserved communities in both Chicago and Arizona. She has advanced degrees in Strategic Analysis and Policy in Public Health, Human Development and Multi-ethnic Relations and Gender, as well as Certificates in Women's Health Cares and Child and Adolescent Development. She is thrilled to be part the unique, rural experience the HMS Family Medicine Residency Program has to offer where she will be trained and become part of a dynamic and culturally diverse team. Dr. Ramirez loves knitting, cooking, dancing, running, and biking with her husband and dog.
Dr. Lynda Labranche
Ohio State University College of Medicine
Dr. Labranche is a graduate of The Ohio State University College of Medicine in Columbus, OH where she received her medical degree in 2014 and is currently working on her Master's in Public Health. Dr. Labranche is joining us from Summa Barberton Hospital in Akron, Ohio where she completed her internship year in Family Medicine.
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Dr. Brandon Ferguson grew up in Orem, Utah. As a teenager, Brandon spent as much time as possible outdoors hiking, biking, climbing, fishing and snowboarding. After receiving his Bachelor's Degree from BYU-Hawaii on the beautiful island of Oahu, Brandon spent two years on the island of Grenada and two more years in Brooklyn, New York completing his medical degree, which he received from St. George's University.
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Dr. Neel Patel comes from the east-coast state of North Carolina and is excited to call New Mexico his home now. Neel obtained his Bachelor's degree in Biology from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. He found out the medical profession was for him while working as an EMT for intramural sports on campus. Excited about his future profession, Neel further went on to participate in international medical work in Chennai, India. It was here that Neel discovered his passion for rural care and helping the underserved. He went on to attend Ross University School of Medicine where he graduated with an MD in 2014. Following graduation, Neel participated in biomedical research at Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona where he had the privilege of studying new therapeutics for Glioblastoma Multiform, the most common adult brain tumor. He has come to appreciate both clinical medicine and the dedicated research it takes for advance patient care. Neel is looking forward to his intern year at the University of New Mexico hospital, and towards coming back to Silver City, where he can start developing meaningful relationships with patients.
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Dr. Susan Bauer is thrilled to be a part of Hidalgo Medical Services Family Medicine Residency for her training as a resident physician, in Silver City, NM. Susan's desire to pursue a career in medicine started when she received EMT training from the National Ski Patrol in 1992 and volunteered for the National Ski Patrol for 15 years. She received her Bachelor's Degree in Biomedical Sciences from St. Cloud State University in St. Cloud, MN in 1999. Susan worked in biotechnology for over 10 years prior to attending medical school at Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Parker, CO. Susan chose the HMS program because she would like to practice full-scope family medicine in a rural or semi-rural location, and felt that Silver City was a great fit for her and her husband. Susan is married to her husband Adam, they have a dog, and love riding motorcycles, dirt biking, hiking, skiing, and many other outdoor activities. She is looking forward to becoming part of the Silver City community in 2017.
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I find helping kids memorize math facts, sight words (we call them tricky words), or even the basic phonics sounds in English is a long boring journey. I have lots of games to help them practice and I invent stories to give a context but at the end of the day it often becomes a drill and kill flashcard run either at home or school. I couldn't really accept this so I went on the hunt for more whole class time filler games.
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Microsoft (MSFT): Mom always said "if you can't say something nice about someone don't say anything at all." Or at least someone's mom supposedly said it, but it wasn't mine. Garrity likes Microsoft, offering that the company's alliance with Nokia (NOK) and the Facebook/ Skype relationship show a company "fighting to maintain its relevance." Microsoft has lost that fight.
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Intel (INTC): See "Microsoft"
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There are even SASS plugins for Visual Studio, Wordpress & Grails you can use for an easy setup.
Syntax & Nested rules
SASS uses two different syntaxes - SASS and SCSS. There are some differences in the way you write, but both have the same super powers.
We'll start of with a simple example that will show you what's the differece between the two syntaxes, and how nesting of selectors work. Let's say you have a simple site navigation you want to style:

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Having plain HTML doesn't cut it, so you write some CSS to make it pretty:
#main-nav {
background: #EEE;
#main-nav a {
color: #4598e2;
display: block;
padding: 5px 10px;
text-decoration: none;
#main-nav a:hover, #main-nav a:focus {
color: #5739a3;
Simple CSS, easy to wite and understand, right? It could be much better with SASS or SCSS.
The SASS syntax was the original language, hence the name of the preprocessor. It practiced minimalism with strict indentation and no semicolumn or curly brackets.
Now let's go back to our example and see how it looks like in SASS:
background: #EEE
color: #4598e2
display: block
padding: 5px 10px
text-decoration: none
&:hover, &:focus
color: #5739a3
You will immediately notice that the curly brackets and the semi-columns are gone, and indentation plays a big role in defining parets and children. Just by nesting the anchor under the navigation ID you extend the path.
SASS' rigid writing rules however prove to be problematic for some people, so SCSS came into play, or as some like to call it: CSS on steroids. It contained the same power under the hood as SASS, but practiced the same syntax as CSS. This means you could just copy/paste a chunk of CSS into it and it would work without complaints. On the other hand with the SASS syntax, first you need to convert the CSS to avoid breaking the compiled code.
This is the same example from above with using SCSS:
#main-nav {
background: #EEE;
a {
color: #4598e2;
display: block;
padding: 5px 10px;
text-decoration: none;
&:hover, &:focus {
color: #5739a3;
It's the same thing like SASS, only including the curly brackets and semi-columns, and it can drop the indentation rules (but nesting is still crucial!).
Bottom line is that SCSS is forgiving to bad writing and works seamlessly with CSS, but SASS is cleaner, easier to maintain and keeps the curly brackets and semi-columns away.
You'll just end up using whatever is more comfortable for you and still get the same kick out of it.
One of the basic strenghts of Compass are defining variables. These can be used to reference things like HEX colors, font sizes, line-heights, etc. These are usually things that we tend to unify and reuse all around the site to achieve visual consistency across all pages.
In our example we use #4598e2 link color and #5739a3 when hovering. This will most likely be used on a lot of places and repeated many times. And what happens when we want to change that color? Mass replace the HEX in the entire project, something that can be harder than it sounds.
By using variables we can make this feel like a breeze. We simple take the two colors, and define them as variables. It looks something like this:
$link-color: #4598e2
$link-hover: #5739a3
and we can reference them in the SASS:
background: #EEE
color: $link-color
display: block
padding: 5px 10px
text-decoration: none
&:hover, &:focus
color: $link-hover
Now if we want to play with our colors, we can do it by tweaking the defined variables and the changes will be visible throughout the entire project.
Mixins are arguably the most powerful feature of SASS. They allow you to define custom selectors that reference a set of CSS properties.
To see how it works let's go back to our simple navigation example. Our next goal would be to improve the styling some more by adding CSS3 border-radius.
We need to add this CSS to the code:
#main-nav {
-moz-border-radius: 3px;
-webkit-border-radius: 3px;
-ms-border-radius: 3px;
border-radius: 3px;
Here come the annoying vendor-specific CSS properties that require a lot of attention to achieve cross-browser compatibility and bloat our code. By using SASS we could easily define a mixin to replace that ugly code:
-webkit-border-radius: $radius
-moz-border-radius: $radius
-ms-border-radius: $radius
border-radius: $radius
Or this if we use SCSS:
@mixin border-radius($radius) {
-webkit-border-radius: $radius;
-moz-border-radius: $radius;
-ms-border-radius: $radius;
border-radius: $radius;
#main-nav { @include border-radius(10px); }
This is what we call a mixin. It's a reference to a set of predefined CSS rules, using variables to define the parameters (px, em, etc).
This is a fairly new and very useful SASS feature, available since version 3. What it does is extends the CSS properties of an element by using already defined selector. It follows similar pattern as the mixins, in that it's useful for recyling code.
For example we need to define few different alert messages on our site:
font-size: 12px
padding: 5px
@extend .alert
color: $red
@extend .alert
color: $blue
Mathematical operations
In SASS you can do math. You can do additions, substractions, multiplications and divisions. For example we're building some layout, and we need to define content and sidebar sections.
width: 100%
width: 600px / 1000px * 100%
width: 400px / 1000px * 100%
This will be converted to:
.wrapper { width: 100% }
.main { width: 60%; }
.sidebar { width: 40%; }
You can do the same with fonts and colors to define typographic rhytms or get more different shades of some color.
Extra boost
You can boost your front-end experience and cut down development time even more by using SASS frameworks like Compass, Bourbon and Susy. Why write custom mixins for CSS3 properties, when you can choose from a huge library that contain all the best practices in writing cross-browser compatible CSS. Not to mention that you can easily get rid off those pesky presentational classes that give your code Divitis.
Other popular tools, extensions & resources include:
- The SASS Way
- Sass Style Guide
- Compass Recipes
- Sassaparilla
- FireSass (for Firebug)
- Forge
- Normalize.css
- Breakpoint
- Assembling Sass
- Zocial
- Bourbon Neat
- Susy
- Bootstrap Sass
- Sass Modular Scale
- Sassy Buttons
Give it a go, and you'll never come back to writing plain CSS again.


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Modern composition of alien fish species in the Kuybyshev reservoir and possible introduction of new representatives into its ecosystem
Shakirova F.M.,State Research Institute of Lake and River Fisheries Tatar Branch |
Severov Y.A.,State Research Institute of Lake and River Fisheries Tatar Branch |
Latypova V.Z.,Kazan Federal University
Russian Journal of Biological Invasions | Year: 2015
The alien fish species composition of the Kuybyshev reservoir is considered. The years of finding and vectors of introduction of such fish into the reservoir are provided. The possibilities of penetration of new representatives into the reservoir ecosystem are analyzed. © 2015, Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.


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Category: Psychology Cognition
Laughing at silly old record album covers.
Have you ever seen this collection of record album covers that are no longer cool … No longer hip … Or are they no longer funky, rakish, chic, ultracool or spiffy? You see, even the words for fashionable go out of fashion.
And as we chuckle at these album covers, there is something a bit uneasy about what we're doing. Yes, some of these covers were failures from Day One, but others have that high school yearbook thing going on–they look silly to us because they have elements of oldness to them that should remind us that no matter how fashion-tuned we are, some of the photos of us will someday be snidely chuckled at. If not our clothes, it will be our phone or our food or our method of transportation or the type of gadget we use for playing our music.
The only constant is that everything is social.
Advice for misfits
I just finished reading Susan Cain's excellent new book about and for introverts (I posted my review of her book in the comments here). In this post, I'd like to highlight simple yet powerful advice she offered in her book, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking. She provided this test in the context of introverts, but this test applies to everyone who feels like a misfit at work.
Ms. Cain was an attorney who struggled in the field of law, finding herself deprecating her own efforts and abilities because they didn't match up to the extroverts at the firm. Eventually, she started forcing herself to listen better; people were telling her that she was a actually a skilled negotiator, not inept. One reason for the compliments is that she invited lots of feedback from the participants. She started recognizing that her introversion gave her many advantages as a lawyer.
But she kept asking herself whether she was a good "fit" for her job, mainly due to her exhaustion trying to keep up with the social end of her job, including the constant pressure to hang out with co-workers after work, to "have a drink." Was she in the right career? If not, what was the right "fit"? Here are three questions that lead her to change her career:.
First, think back to what you loved to do when you were a child.
Second, pay attention to the work you gravitate to.
Third, pay attention to what you envy.
These strike me as excellent tests, and they make me wonder how many of us are well suited for our jobs?
On the concept of relevance
Whenever you engage in high level discussions, many of the points made by you and your opponents are founded on claims that some things are "relevant" to other things. Those who engage in arguments usually make it sounds like "relevance" is an objective concept, almost algorithmic. They often suggest that what is relevant can be clearly determined by necessary and sufficient conditions. They make it sound as though all reasonable people would come to the same conclusions about what is (and is not) relevant, if only they pondered long enough. It is my position there is no meaningful simple definition of "relevance" in any real world field (the concept works in math and logic).
This is how I used to think many years ago. Now, however, I am convinced that what is "relevant" is always a matter of the emotional tuning of the person claiming relevance. No, it's not a completely subjective measure, given that we all inhabit human bodies and thus have a shared basis for our observations. But neither is it an objective measure, applying to all people at all times.
What is relevant to morality? Tradition, upbringing, what the powers-that-be decree, logic, distribution of resources, the Bible, the Koran, whatever comes clear through personal meditation, patriotism, sustainability, or what respects personal liberties? We humans are tuned in a million different ways. Perhaps if we were all tuned the same, we could speak of some objective concept of relevance, but that is not the case. Also, add to the nuance of the word "relevant" that humans are incredibly symbolic, meaning that they have the power and imagination to make anything at all meaningful to anything else. We can even turn meaning upside down, in Orwellian fashion. What is "relevant"? What do you want to be relevant?
My views are quite sympathetic to notion (of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson) of experientialism: Namely, that the verbal expression of the facts of life is, at bottom, indeterminate despite our most persistent attempts to capture them with language (which often border on the heroic). Most people nevertheless have faith in "objectivity," (e.g., that "relevance" refers to necessary and sufficient conditions). People cling to objectivism because, perceiving no middle ground, they fear that the only alternative is a free fall to nihilism. They cling not to just any "objectivity," of course, but their own version of objectivity. Experientialism makes a strong case in showing the "objective" use of language to be a myth: there is no such thing as abstract and disembodied thought. Truly "objective" thought would require the impossible: a "logical propositional trajectory from principle to concrete application."
Under the cover of "objectivism," however, the widely-shared meanings of concepts have always been grounded in and constrained by our widely-shared biological, cognitive, social, and linguistic interactions. These interactions, which constitute our bodily existences, extend imaginatively and metaphorically to give what substance there is to high-level concepts. "Objectivity," as used in the context of legal decision-making (and elsewhere), can exist only to the extent that these interactions are widely shared. It must not be overlooked that such interactions are widely shared, enabling extensive meaningful communication, even among people of divergent languages and cultures. No radical deconstruction of language is being suggested.
I am always on high alert when someone makes an argument, indicating that something is "relevant," much less "highly relevant." Whenever such a claim occurs, it is time to puncture the bubble and force the participants to put their emotional baggage on the table, as best they can. There is no other way to have a meaningful conversation regarding contentious topics.
What You See is All There Is: Not-much information usually seems like enough.
Back in 1996, I wrote a paper I called "Decision Making, the Failure of Principles, and the Seduction of Attention," in which I claimed that most of our dramatic "moral lapses" are not the result people intentionally trying to hurt others. Rather, most of the harm humans inflict on other humans results from the manner in which we deploy attention. We are able to make any moral issue vanish simply by not paying attention to it. Quite often we develop habits of not paying attention to certain aspects of the world—a classic habit for Americans is not considering that on planet Earth, a child starves to death every 5 seconds. If you have habituated yourself to not-think about this horrible and undeniable fact, it is quite easy to blow a large sums of money on things like poodle-haircuts, vacation homes, and even a steady stream of fancy meals.
Near the beginning of my paper, I argued that human animals are more than happy to act out of ignorance because it never actually seems that we are acting out of ignorance. Instead, humans readily assume that they have sufficient information for making important decisions even when a smidgeon of self-critical conscious thought would instantly reveal that they are woefully under-informed. When it comes to making decisions, we are fearless in our ignorance.
In the paper I mentioned above, I described various ways that cognitive science has demonstrated that human attention is severely limited. Thanks to cognitive science (but not thanks to common sense) we know that we can only see eighteen characters of text per saccade while we read, which invites computer-assisted experimenters to continually, and in real-time, fill extra-foveal regions with garbage, unbeknownst to readers. See "A Critique of Pure Vision," P. Churchland, V. Ramachandran, & T. Sejnowski, p. 37-38. Using conversation shadowing, Broadbent and Treisman demonstrated that one's ability to absorb multiple simultaneous conversations is severely limited. Attention is bottlenecked at the site of working memory, as well as during perception. As George Miller pointed out long ago, "[T]he span of absolute judgment and the span of immediate memory impose severe limitations on the amount of information that we are able to receive, process and remember." George A. Miller, "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on our Capacity for Processing Information," The Psychological Review, Vol. 63, No. 2 (March, 1956). Given that humans have such tiny attentional windows, it is surprising the extent to which we take it for granted that we share the same world. The world is laughingly beyond our capacity to fathom without rampant simplification.
The roots of human difference and conflict
My prejudice has long been that most human conflicts can be traced to base-level differences, minor seeming micro-differences, until they clash at macro levels. I tried to describe this by reference to an incident in the movie "Apollo 13." Here's another way of expressing this same idea:
We proceed from the working hypothesis that inferential and judgmental errors arise primarily from nonmotivational—perceptual and cognitive—sources. Such errors, we contend, are almost inevitable products of human information-processing strategies. In ordinary social experience, people often look for the wrong data, often see the wrong data, often retain the wrong data, often weight the data improperly, often fail to ask the correct questions of the data, and often make the wrong inferences on the basis of their understanding of the data. With so many errors on the cognitive side, it is often redundant and unparsimonious to look also for motivational errors. We argue that many phenomena generally regarded as motivational (for example, self-serving perceptions and attributions, ethnocentric beliefs, and many types of human conflict), can be understood better as products of relatively passionless information-processing errors than of deep-seated motivational forces.
R. Nisbett and L. Ross Human Inference: Strategies and Shortcomings of Social Judgment, p. 12 (1980).
The solution to most social conflict, then, is not fighting wars or even yelling at each other. It is striving to be smart–working hard to identify those low-level differences. That is one of the main reasons why I find Jonathan Haidt's ideas so valuable. Rather than demonize (which we should avoid at all costs), we should work hard to determine why we disagree. Where is it that our world-views diverge?
Daniel Kahneman teaches how to think about thinking
At Edge.org, Daniel Kahneman offers a video course that parallels his excellent newest book: Thinking, Fast and Slow.
Why we kill and why THEY kill
Here's what Glenn Greenwald has to say about the way we characterize the motives of Americans who kill others versus others who kill Americans:
Here's a summary of the Western media discussion of what motivated U.S. Staff Sgt. Robert Bales to allegedly kill 16 Afghans, including 9 children: he was drunk, he was experiencing financial stress, he was passed over for a promotion, he had a traumatic brain injury, he had marital problems, he suffered from the stresses of four tours of duty, he "saw his buddy's leg blown off the day before the massacre," etc. Here's a summary of the Western media discussion of what motivates Muslims to kill Americans: they are primitive, fanatically religious, hateful Terrorists.
Although Greenwald doesn't analyze it in such terms, this is the classic ingroup-outgroup effect. For ingroup members, we make excuses. For members of outgroups, we pour on the venom. Most Americans are repulsed by the idea that we would actually try to understand the "terrorists'" actions by trying the see the world through their eyes. What is that viewpoint? Greenwald offers some ideas:
[T]hey're responding to American violence in their country; they are traumatized and angry at the continuous deaths of Muslim children and innocent adults; they've calculated that striking at Americans is the only way to deter further American aggression in their part of the world.
Make sure your children experience failure
Tom Hoerr is the is head of school at the New City School in St. Louis (a school both of my daughters have attended). In an article titled, "Got Grit?" at the website of Educational Leadership, Tom reminds us that it is critically important for children to experience failure:
As important as scholastic preparation is (and it is important), it is only part of what students need to succeed in life. Howard Gardner's personal intelligences, Daniel Goleman's emotional intelligence, and Carol Dweck's mindsets all reflect the fact that our attitudes are even more important than our skills . . .
As educators, part of our job is to ensure that every child finds success, and an important part of finding success is knowing how to respond to failure. As soccer star Mia Hamm said, "Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it." People who have not learned to respond well to frustration and failure are likely to choose paths without much risk or challenge and thus destine themselves to a life of predictability, safety, and mediocrity.
I've also been impress with the writings of Gardner, Goleman and Dweck, and I've commented on each of them at this site.
Susan Cain discusses the challenges and advantages of being an introvert
Susan Cain is an introvert in a world dominated by extroverts who insist that introverts should act like extroverts. She recently wrote a book titled, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking. I took special interest in Cain's talk because I am an off-the-charts introvert.
The world constantly dominated by extroverts is a great loss, Cain asserts, because introverts, who avoid great amounts of stimulation, often "feel their most alive, their most switched on and their most capable when they are in quieter, more low key, environments. Unfortunately, our most important institutions (schools and work places) "are designed for extroverts, and extroverts' need for lots of stimulation."
Society has a prejudice that creativity comes from gregarious gatherings. Schools and workplaces typically assemble students and workers into groups and ask them to work "together," even in activities such as writing. Kids that seek to work alone are seen as outliers and problems. Most teachers think of extroverts as superior students even though research shows that "introverts get better grades and are more knowledgeable." Introverts are often passed over for leadership positions, even though they tend to be careful and avoid unnecessary risks. Research shows that introverted leaders tend to let proactive workers run with their ideas, whereas extroverted leaders tend to interfere with the process (min 6:45). At min 8:00, Cain suggests that "ambiverts" probably have the best of both worlds.


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