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Prescription For Success
This story appears in the June 1998 issue of . Subscribe »
If you've seen a doctor recently, you know health-care providers are among the most time-pressured professionals. Many are so busy seeing patients, they don't have time to manage the finances of their medical practices.
"In a doctor's office, everything is either urgent or important or both. Billing is merely important, not urgent," says Merlin Coslick, executive director of Electronic Medical Billing Network of America Inc., a trade association in Watchung, New Jersey. "The staff tend to not attend to the billing as efficiently as the doctor would like, and doctors come to realize that by outsourcing billing to a dedicated billing service, it will be done in a timely fashion."
Given these realities and the financial pressures of managed health care, it's no wonder medical billing services are a fast-growing industry for entrepreneurs.
Medical billing businesses offer a wide variety of services. Billers enter claims data into a computer, electronically transmit claims through a clearinghouse to insurers, prepare paper claims, generate management reports, mail patients' statements, post payments, send notices to patients who haven't paid and suggest ways to improve billing procedures. Some billers also sell medical billing software or offer consulting services to health-care providers who want to improve their billing systems.
All types of health-care providers are potential clients for medical billing services, including surgeons, mental-health practitioners, optometrists, dentists, physical therapists, home health-care services, medical equipment stores and ambulance companies. And, because the field is relatively new, the market hasn't been saturated in many areas.
"Although you may occasionally cross paths with another biller," says Coslick, "competition is not a major consideration [in this market]."
Marcie Geffner is a Los Angeles freelance writer who reports on small business and real estate.
A Booming Business
Bonnie Nentl, owner of Rapid Return Medical Billing in Brainerd, Minnesota, says entrepreneurs need three skills to succeed: computer know-how, marketing savvy and medical billing expertise. Nentl, 33, worked in a hospital billing department for 10 years before she started her company in November 1994. A lack of computer and marketing experience didn't stop her from turning a homebased start-up into a six-figure company with more than 70 clients, its own offices and five employees. Her business became so successful that her husband, Tim, 36, came on board full time in January 1996.
The Nentls' employees enter claims data into computers, post payments and answer patients' and doctors' questions. Tim, an accountant, handles the company's financial records and payroll, while Bonnie concentrates on marketing. "We could have kept the business small and homebased," she says, "but my husband wanted to quit his job, so we made a conscious decision to expand."
Bonnie started by purchasing a business opportunity from National Claims Service in El Dorado Hills, California, for $8,000. She received medical-practice management and claims-downloading software, marketing materials, video computer training, ongoing technical support, medical code books and attended a marketing seminar. She also spent $1,200 for a computer, $200 for a printer and $150 for used office furniture, bringing total start-up costs to about $10,000.
Second Time Around
Robert O'Kelly, 59, decided to start his own business when he was laid off from a computer systems programming job at a large insurance company. After extensive research, he chose medical billing because he had some familiarity with insurance claims and the start-up costs were manageable. He launched his homebased company, Accelerated Medical Billing, in Las Vegas in July 1994. With just eight clients, he brought in revenues of approximately $45,000 in 1996.
O'Kelly's start-up costs also totaled less than $10,000. He spent $3,500 for a computer with a tape backup system, $1,400 for office furniture and fixtures, $980 for a laser printer, $850 for a copier and $200 for medical books. He paid $500 for a software program and an additional $300 for a two-day training program offered by the software vendor.
Investing time as well as money before launching the business was important to O'Kelly's success. "I took a coding class [to learn codes used in the insurance industry]. I took a [medical] terminology class at an adult school. I went to California State University, Dominguez Hills, for a medical-insurance computer billing class. I took another billing class at a community college, and I took an entrepreneurship course at the University of Southern California," he says.
Billing software is essential for start-ups in this field. "There are dozens of software programs available. The rule of thumb is, the more you spend, the more unhappy you'll be," says Coslick. "The people who spend less are the ones who've done careful research and found you really need to spend only $500 to $1,000 on software."
Part-Time Profits
The flexibility of working at home part time was one factor that attracted Diedre Mikkelson, owner of AccuTrac Medical Billing in Poway, California, to medical billing. Mikkelson, 35, left a prosperous mortgage-banking career to stay home and start both a family and her company in April 1996. "I didn't want a high-stress job, and I wanted to be able to stay at home with my child. I wanted the best of both worlds," she says.
Today, Mikkelson has four clients and revenues of $2,200 to $2,500 per month, working just 15 hours per week. Her typical monthly business expenses are about $300.
Medical billing services generally charge a per-claim fee of $2 to $3 or 5 percent to 8 percent of the receivables collected. How much each client is charged depends on the services provided and the type of practice. "If you're billing for a neurosurgeon who does maybe 10 surgeries a month at $40,000 a surgery," Mikkelson says, "you're not going to charge as [high a percentage] as you charge a psychiatrist who sees 20 patients a day, four days a week."
Catching Clients
Newcomers to the billing business often think choosing the right software guarantees success. Not so, Coslick says: Equal emphasis should be placed on strong marketing efforts. "Buying software doesn't make you a billing service," he says. "The marketing side is far more important. If you can't market, you don't have a business."
Referrals from existing clients count considerably in signing up new clients, because health-care providers tend to trust one another in making business decisions. Getting your first client when you don't have any referrals can be daunting.
Mikkelson jumped this hurdle by marketing her services door-to-door in medical buildings. "Getting your first client is the most difficult step," she says. "You're asking someone to turn over the collection of the income that supports their office and their family to you, and they don't know you. You don't have to be brash or a stereotypical salesperson; you just have to feel confident in your ability and let that confidence show."
Bonnie Nentl landed her first account in just two weeks by consistently visiting five doctors' offices every day. After a marketing hiatus during which she set up her new office and trained her employees, she has resumed this strategy. "Once you make yourself do it, it's not as hard as you may think," she says.
O'Kelly, who has tried a variety of marketing strategies, has found the most successful ones are following through on referrals and taking quick action in contacting brand-new medical providers. "I joined the Chamber of Commerce, which prints a new members list [regularly]," he explains. "It showed one [durable medical equipment] company that had opened its doors only about a month before I saw the listing. I went over there and got the account."
Medical billing is an attractive opportunity for entrepreneurs who are willing to take the time to acquire some technical know-how and market persistently. "Be serious about your business, be tenacious in your quest for clients and have confidence in your abilities," says Mikkelson. If you've got those qualities, this business just may fit the bill.
- Directory of Medical Management Software (Resource Books, $39.95, 408-295-4102) takes some of the guesswork out of selecting software for medical billing services. The 158-page directory describes national and local clearinghouses, software companies for billing centers and health-care providers, other useful software programs and industry associations.
- Medical Claims Processing--A Business Report (Resource Books, $29.95, 408-295-4102) is a 58-page report that explains medical claims processing and describes the benefits of electronic claims submission for health-care providers. Ten specific examples of medical billing business opportunities are outlined.
- Resource Books also publishes a bimonthly newsletter, AQC Resource Newsletter, for the medical billing industry. A one-year subscription (six issues) costs $59. For more information about Resource Books products, call (800) 995-8702 or (408) 295-4102; e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com; or write to Resource Books, 175 N. Buena Vista Ave., Ste. B, San Jose, CA 95126.
- Entrepreneur Media Inc.'s Business Start-Up Guide #1345, Medical Claims Processing ($59), is a 264-page guide full of advice on office facilities and equipment, personnel, legal requirements, record-keeping and taxes, advertising and promotion, start-up costs and more. Call (800) 421-2300 to order.
- Medical billers who have been in business at least two years and have at least two clients can join the International Billing Association (IBA) for $450 to $950 annually. Nonmembers can attend the IBA's educational seminars and conferences. For information, call (301) 961-8680; write the IBA at 7315 Wisconsin Ave., #424E, Bethesda, MD 20814; or visit http://www.biller.com
- The Electronic Medical Billing Network (EMBN) offers start-up information for new billing services, monthly meetings in the New Jersey area, three hours per month of business telephone consultation, vendor referrals, publications and a monthly newsletter. Membership costs $110. For information, call (908) 757-1211; write to EMBN at P.O. Box 7162, Watchung, NJ 07060; visit http://www.webcircle.com/embn or e-mail email@example.com.
- The National Electronic Biller's Alliance (NEBA) offers members a newsletter and discounts on a few medical billing software programs. NEBA also sells a self-study course on medical billing procedures and terminology. Annual membership costs $129. For information, call (650) 577-1190; write to NEBA, 2226-A Westborough Blvd., #504, South San Francisco, CA 94080; or visit http://www.nebazone.com
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Grace Episcopal Church has named Penelope Wong of Vineyard Haven as the interim director of Grace Preschool, effective Sept. 1. The staff change was necessitated by the resignation of Deborah Jernegan as the Grace Preschool director.
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KAMLOOPS — There are moments in life that are keepsakes, and a podium finisher for Andrew Harris might have been the day he scored a touchdown in the 2011 Grey Cup with his father watching at B.C. Place Stadium.
There wasn't eye contact, mind you, because at that point Harris had never met his dad. And sitting in the end zone, Ron Graham didn't know the soft-spoken starting tailback for the B.C. Lions was indeed family, nor did either of his two sons, who like their father also live in the Lower Mainland
Call it blind luck or the blessings of social media, but if anyone has reason to think he has undergone a rebirth as the CFL team began anew with the opening of training camp Sunday, it's the only Lions player who has undergone one rather amazing trifecta recently. New job. New dad. New life.
The first meeting between Harris and Graham took place, poignantly enough, on Mother's Day, as it was the tailback's mom, Carlene Boivin, who confirmed his father's identity through a photograph. Harris had been working Google and Facebook for two years looking for Graham. A decision in January to open an account of a business networking platform, LinkedIn, provided the means to make the ultimate family connection.
The first meeting, Harris said, was nothing short of stunning, made even more unbelievable by the fact father and son discovered they live four blocks from each other in Yaletown. And when they did meet, there were no regrets.
"He had never met his father either," Harris said. "Just to be standing across from someone you'd always wanted to meet … I was so scared to finally make the jump to go meet him."
To that point, Harris already had his share of life lessons. He was no angel growing up in Winnipeg, by his own admission. His surrogate fathers were Hadi Abassi and Matt (Snoop) Blokker, owner and ex-coach respectively of the junior Vancouver Island Raiders.
A daughter, Hazel, came along in 2008, just before Harris was about to turn the page toward eventually becoming a Lions mainstay. Harris had to do plenty of growing up on his own. It wasn't always easy.
"I saw my friends with their dads and obviously I always wanted to have that kind of relationship; just the little things, like learning how to shave. I never really had that," Harris said. "But at the same time, I didn't know what I was missing."
When he saw Graham for the first time, there finally were more answers than questions. Not because of the 27-year gap in their relationship, but the realization that some of who Harris is as a person is a result of the person in front of him.
"I was just staring at him. It was really quiet at first, then we just started talking," Harris said. "Just seeing his mannerisms and attitude, there's similarities. Even my feet, they look the same. Our smiles. Everything.
"It was cool to get answers, just to find out where I come from. I'm a lot more like my dad, and when you get that feeling, you feel more understood."
The first meeting with his half-brothers has yet to come, same for the first between grandpa and granddaughter. So much has happened since Harris concluded his most tumultuous season of his four-year CFL career that may still need time to digest.
He went from being ignored in the offence at the start of last season to forming a tandem with Stefan Logan that averaged 202 yards rushing in the final three games and becoming the engine that will drive the Lions if they are to succeed this year.
He signed a new Lions contract, and made the difficult decision to move away from his daughter in Winnipeg, recently taking a sales job with Xylarr Eco Distribution, a Vancouver firm.
He's dealt with moments of political incorrectness with last year's dissing of returning teammate Khalif Mitchell ("We've talked; we're teammates now," Harris said). He had to backtrack after a recent radio interview in which he appeared not to stand with his union brothers in the current labour dispute ("I kind of got off track. We have to be as one.")
But Harris has been given the ultimate fresh start, and the change is unmistakable.
"The amount of growth he's undergone in the last year has been unbelievable," coach Mike Benevides said.
There is no regret in Harris's voice when asked whether he wants to make up for lost time in a discovered relationship, nor are there wounds to heal.
"He's really a great guy. He's really open to me," said Harris, who discovered his father has a sporting pedigree as a former cricket player in Barbados. "I'm not looking for anyone to be a father to me. I'm a grown man now; there are no expectations. It's more about the relationship. It's more like a buddy and friend."
If the relationship with his team is only half as good as the one he has found with his family additions, this could be quite the year, Harris reckons.
"To grow up thinking I'm an only child to find there's another side of my life, moving, getting my contract… it's been a great start," he said. If he happens to get into the end zone of the Grey Cup game with a ball in his hands this year at B.C. Place Stadium, chances are he'll know exactly where to look in the stands this time.
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Retired: DT Jermaine Reid, OL Jason Slowey
Signed: OL Rico Forbes, OL Cody Husband
Placed on medical deferred list: Husband (knee), ST Tim Cronk (wrist)
Released: RB Nathan Lund (Langley Rams), DB Paul Stephens, QB Chris Hart
Suspended: OL Stephon Heyer
Exempt status: OL Anthony Daley (Langley Rams), WR Derek Yachison (Kamloops Broncos)
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The Nura family is a typical example of a large, patriarchal family in rural Kosovo.
The household of seventy-year old Nure Nura is today the largest in Lubishte with 32 family members. Six adult sons with their six wives, one unmarried daughter, and 17 grand-children all live together in two shared houses. With only 3 hectares of land for 32 members of the family, migration was the only option to survive. Two of the adult sons, Nefali and Faruk, left Lubishte in 1986, when they were in their twenties. They found work in Austria.
The cash income of the family now comes from these two brothers working abroad. The four brothers in the village are unemployed and work the land to produce food for the family. The wives of the two brothers, who are abroad, also stay in Lubishte with their children. During the absence of their husbands the two wives have to respect the decisions of the eldest brother in Lubishte.
Naile Nura, 82, belongs to a different household within the extended Nura clan. She is a widow and has five sons. She lives in one house together with her son Adem, 56, and his wife, their three grown-up boys and two young and unmarried daughters.
Naile's other son Muharem lives with his wife and three children in Switzerland. He emigrated in 1976 and his wife followed later. Naile's third son Tefik also went to Switzerland in 1980. He married in 1987 and also brought his wife to Switzerland. Her two youngest sons Rrahim and Muhamet sons have stayed at home.
The five brothers divided the land among themselves after the father's death. Alongside the house of their father the brothers built four additional houses for each of their families. By building separate houses, the household split and the obligation to share the money coming from abroad has been reduced.
Adem Nura
Adem Nura explains how the death of their father affected the cohesion of the family, how it fell apart, and how they are now dependent on the goodwill of their brothers:
"Yes, things are changing. We do receive support from the brother sometimes, as we are only working for our food here, even not enough to survive.
When we were still together with them abroad (in Switzerland), all the money was pooled to buy land. All of us worked. Now we are divided, the other two have their children and families abroad, and only when they want, they send us money. If they do not want, they don`t. We don't have anything else.
Now everyone decides for himself. Every brother takes his own decisions. When we were still together with our father, he decided. After he became ill, I decided. Now [after the death of his father] everyone decides for himself. Everyone does, whatever he wants, goes whereever he wants, builds whatever he wants. He can even sell his land, go abroad, all this is normal now.
Well, yes, it is better to live separately, as 30, 40 people are just too many and nobody listens to each other. This way it is easier with 4-5 or 8 persons, to decide. Easier, since the head is just more calm. As the older ones are telling us, when the beehive is filling up, then you have to divide the bees, as they cannot live together anymore."
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Dr. Bettina Bernstein, D.O. is currently an assistant professor of psychiatry at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and a clinical faculty member at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. She combines her clinical child and adolescent psychiatry practice with an ongoing interest in school consultation. She has served as chairperson for the Regional Council of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Schools Committee.
Dr. Bettina Bernstein is a Board Certified Psychiatrist in Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychiatry. She is a graduate of Trinity College with a B.S. in Biochemistry. She is a graduate of the University of Osteopathic Medicine and Health Sciences, Des Moines, Iowa with a D.O. degree (Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine). She served with distinction as Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Public Health Service.
Dr. Bettina Bernstein completed her internship, residency and fellowship training in adult, child and adolescent psychiatry at Hahnemann University Hospital (Drexel College of Medicine) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was selected by the U.S. Public Health Service to receive additional training in urban and social medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City.
In college, Dr. Bernstein was a teaching assistant in the Department of Child Psychology. During medical school, she provided services to the Des Moines Ballet Company and taught medical students as a teaching assistant in the Department of Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine. During fellowship, she was a lecturer in the Psychopathology Course for medical students and supervised graduate students in the Division of Creative Art Therapy. While serving with the U.S. Public Health Service, she lectured on suicide prevention, adolescent substance abuse, fetal alcohol syndrome and family psychiatry throughout the Pacific Northwest. In 1995, she received the "Outstanding Resident Teacher of the Year" award. She has been active with the Disaster Mental Health component of the American Red Cross since 2002.
Dr. Bernstein's special interests include creative arts therapy, selective mutism, fetal alcohol syndrome, learning disabilities, autistic spectrum disorder, developmental trauma disorder, pediatric bipolar disorder and alternative/complementary therapeutic approaches.


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Mealtime - Interwar years in Travnik
One of the most detailed studies of peasant life in Yugoslavia between the wars was made by an English woman named Olive Lodge. She spent large amounts of time in the country between the two world wars and her book appeared at precisely the moment that much of the world she described was about to vanish forever – in 1941. Unfortunately her book is mostly forgotten and has long been out of print, although it is easy to find an original edition on the internet. Lodge paid particular attention to the lives of women, right down to a detailed account of the different types of contraception used at the time. This excerpt forms part of her description of mealtime, and includes a particular reference to Travnik. At that time many peasants still lived in zadrugas, or family compounds in which work and land were shared. The domaćin was the head-man of the zadruga and a sofra a low round table for eating off:
Before and after meals a girl goes round, pouring water from a pitcher over the hands of all, and presenting the drying towel, beginning with the domaćin. Moslem men and women usually eat separately. In many parts of Bosnia (Travnik district), among Christian peasants, the men have their meals at one sofra, the women at another, and the children at a third, sometimes in the same room, though the women and children often eat by themselves, as do sometimes the young unmarried men. They have to wait until the men have finished before they can eat up the remnants. Their table is seldom as well supplied as that of the men.
In the zadruga the mesarija was the woman in charge of the duties and chores:
At the end of meal the mesarija removes the sofra, and stacks the dishes ready for washing up in the morning. Cows have been milked as soon as they came home, after dusk, either by the mesarija or by one of the other stay-at-homes. Soon after supper each mother puts her children to sleep on rugs on the floor of her own room; and their elders do not stay up late. The peasants sleep very soundly; and seem not to need long hours of slumber. In autumn and winter the evenings are longer; and they may even be snowbound for days. The accumulated repairs and odd jobs are done; new carts and ploughs are fashioned; and they often gather round the great hearth or stove, singing songs and telling traditional tales of saints and heroes.
Peasant Life in Jugoslavia. Olive Lodge. 1941.
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Vince Young has landed a one-year deal with the Buffalo Bills, a source with knowledge of the situation told NFL.com's Steve Wyche on Friday.
The Bills later confirmed the deal, which ESPN reported is for $2 million with $1 million in incentives.
Young, who backed up Michael Vick last season for the Philadelphia Eagles, worked out for the Bills last week and threw to four receivers, including David Nelson, who said the six-year veteran "looked good."
"We think adding Vince to our roster will create more competition for the backup quarterback position," Bills general manager Buddy Nix said in the team's announcement of the deal. "He brings with him some unique physical abilities that most are aware of and that will make the competition interesting. It's all about improving our team."
Young went on Twitter to discuss his new team.
Thanks to Buddy Nix and Coach Gailey for giving me the opportunity to come in and play and compete.
- Vince Young (@VinceYoung) May 11, 2012
Young also tweeted: "I am looking forward to playing with the guys and helping where I am needed. I have always respected the Bills organization and am looking forward to being a part of the team."
Young will compete for the backup quarterback spot with Tyler Thigpen behind starter Ryan Fitzpatrick.
Young wasn't re-signed by the Eagles after completing his one-year contract. He started three games for Philadelphia last season, throwing for 866 yards and four touchdowns with nine interceptions.
He also spent five years with the Tennessee Titans, who selected him No. 3 overall in the 2006 NFL Draft.
Young has thrown for 8,964 yards and 46 touchdowns and rushed for 1,459 yards and 12 scores during his NFL career.


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What SUN-MAR Composting Toilets do
SUN-MAR composting toilets recycle waste on-site by evaporating the liquids, and converting the solids to a fertilizing soil which is perfect for uptake by plants. SUN-MAR composting toilets use naturally occurring aerobic bacteria to convert the carbon atoms in the waste to carbon dioxide, and the hydrogen atoms to water. In this way the waste is oxidized and reduced to its essential minerals. Since waste is some 95% moisture, after the liquid has been evaporated and the solid waste composted, the residual is only about 3% of the starting volume.
This recycling process avoids the need for sewers and central treatment plants. It also avoids invasive on-site treatment systems such as septic systems.
SUN-MAR composting toilets are recycling marvels that are odorless, leave no footprint, do not pollute in any way, and can be installed anywhere a toilet is needed. Indeed a SUN-MAR is so obviously good for the planet that at SUN-MAR we wonder why everyone is not using them!
The First Generation Waterless Composting Toilet
The founder of SUN-MAR, Hardy Sundberg, developed the first self contained composting toilet in 1971. This waterless toilet had a fan and heater at the top, blowing hot air onto the waste pile which was agitated by mechanical mixers. As the compost in the bottom was agitated it fell though a screen into a collection chamber.
While at the time this toilet represented a big step forward in the development of composting toilets, in hindsight it can be seen to suffer from a number of weaknesses. Firstly, this composting toilet design was what we now call a single chamber unit, which means that the operating conditions were the same throughout the whole toilet and not optimized for the different needs of composting, evaporation or finishing. Secondly, the fact that heat was being blown in from the top meant that the compost tended to get dried out, while the liquid in the bottom was not evaporated efficiently. Thirdly, the compost in the bottom was not isolated and was subject to contamination from fresh waste.
Even today, over 30 years later, some waterless composting toilets can still be found which feature a top mounted heater with all the attendant problems this brings. However, subsequent SUN-MAR composting toilet designs have been successful in solving the inherent problems evident in this first waterless toilet design.
The Second Generation
In 1977, the second generation composting toilet was born. Known as the Tropic, this waterless toilet featured one highly significant improvement; the heater was located in a sealed compartment in the base of the toilet. This base heater was able to evaporate the excess liquid in the base, while allowing the compost pile to remain moist, an improvement which dramatically increased composting speed and ease of operation.
This heater arrangement therefore overcame the big problem with top mounted heaters, namely that in evaporating liquid they also dry out the compost pile. Drying out the pile has two undesirable affects. Firstly, aerobic microbes are reduced to the point where composting slows to a halt, and secondly the waste cakes to a consistency somewhat like an adobe brick where it becomes impossible to agitate the pile.
The First Central Composting Toilet System was Marketed
In 1977 SUN-MAR extended the concept of domestic composting by offering a composting toilet system that was outside and several feet away from the bathroom, but connected to a 1 pint toilet in the bathroom. This allowed users to have a "normal" looking bathroom, while still having all the benefits of composting. The use of a low flush toilet meant that compost was much easier to keep moist. However because this toilet was not waterless, it was not always possible to evaporate all the liquid. Consequently, the small amount of excess liquid has to be handled by an old septic, recycling bed, or other approved system.
The Third Generation
In 1979, a further major improvement was launched. The difficulty of aerating and providing oxygen for the aerobic microbes was solved by replacing the pile and mechanical mixers by a Bio-drum. The Bio-drum had a door which when open allowed the waste into the Bio-drum, and when shut allowed the Bio-drum to stay sealed when rotated. This Bio-drum arrangement gave rise to a huge performance improvement because by rotating the drum compost could now be well mixed, and perfectly oxygenated, while also allowing the moisture to be evenly distributed throughout the compost.
This Bio-drum had a screen in the rear, which allowed any excess liquid to drain into the evaporating chamber in the base of the composting toilet, thus ensuring the waste did not get saturated. Saturated waste is undesirable in a composting toilet because it dramatically slows composting down by driving out the oxygen the aerobic microbes need to survive. A saturated compost provides good conditions for anaerobic microbes, which are slow and odorful.
Another major benefit to the Bio-drum arrangement was that by rotating the Bio-drum backwards, the Bio-drum door would remain open so that the compost would drop automatically into a finishing drawer. In the drawer, compost was isolated, no longer exposed to fresh waste, and was able to finish composting while gradually drying out. The drawer could be easily removed without exposing the user to liquid or fresh waste.
This was the first three chamber composting toilet, where composting was taking place in the Bio-drum, liquid was being evaporated in the evaporating chamber and compost was being finished in a finishing drawer. All these essential processes could now be optimized, a development which gave SUN-MAR the leadership position in the field of composting toilets- one which it has maintained to the present day.
The Advantages of a Three Chamber Composting Toilet
Some of the advantages have been described above. Hopefully repetition will do no harm!
1. The three different chambers allow for optimizing the three different requirements for composting, evaporating and finishing.
2. The Bio-drum allows compost to be properly and completely oxygenated, rather than the partial aeration achieved by composting toilets with fixed mechanical mixers.
3. The Bio-drum ensures there is no excess moisture, since any excess is automatically drained to the evaporating chamber.
4. By being separated from any direct heat, the material in the drum does not dry out as it would in composting toilet designs where heat is aimed directly at the pile.
5. The drum offers simplicity of operation. Tumbling the Bio-drum ensures mixing is easy and complete( like a cement mixer or clothes dryer).
6. Removing compost is merely a question of rotating the Bio-drum backwards. There is no concern with sealed bases, secured by screws and there is no exposure to liquids and flooding.
7. The Bio-drum offers the ideal environment for aerobic bacteria to prosper.
8. The evaporating chamber is heated by a heater below it. The advantage this gives is similar to the advantage gained by heating a saucepan with an element beneath, as opposed to heating with a hair dryer from above.
9. The heater is on when there is liquid to evaporate and off most of the time when there is no liquid.
10. The evaporating chamber offers the ideal environment for evaporation.


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Team Captain ... CWPA Southern Division All-Conference first team ... Named CWPA Southern Division Defensive Player of the Week April 11 ... COOP Student-Athlete of the Week May 2 ... Led the team with 76 goals and 81 steals while finishing fifth with 20 assists ... Received Harvard's Most Valuable Player award ... Scored five times and grabbed two steals against Iona, then tallied three goals, two assists and three takeaways against Villanova Feb. 5 ... Found the back of the net four times and picked up four steals against Siena in the Marist Tournament Feb. 19 ... Notched five scores, grabbed five steals and dished an assist at Marist in the Marist Tournament Feb. 20 ... Put in five goals, collected two takeaways and handed out one helper against Brown Feb. 23 ... Scored on three occassions and took the ball away three times against Brown, then marked up five goals, four steals and an assist against Iona in the ECAC Championship Feb. 26 ... Had a season-high seven steals and added two goals at Santa Clara March 13 ... Tallied five scores and five takeaways against Wagner March 27 ... Found the back of the net three times, grabbed four steals and had an assist at Bucknell April 9 ... Scored four times, picked up two takeaways and one helper against Michigan April 10 ... Put in four goals, two assists and two steals against Brown April 20 ... Contributed three goals and four takeaways against Bucknell in the CWPA Eastern Championship April 30.
ACWPC All_American Honorable Mention ... All-Northern Division first team ... Eastern Championship All-Tournament second team ... Lead the team with 67 goals on the season ... Harvard's Most Valuable Player Award recipient ... COOP Athlete of the Week (Feb. 8) … Tallied a hat trick in wins over Villanova (Feb. 6) and New York Athletic Club (Feb. 7) at Harvard Invitational … Scored four goals in win over Siena at Harvard Invitational (Feb. 6) … Turned in a five-goal performance n victory over Iona at Harvard Invitational (Feb. 7) ... Netted five goals against Iona at Princeton Invitational (Feb. 20) … Buried a goal and recorded 10 steals against Wagner at Princeton Invitational (Feb. 20) … Tallied a goal against No. 5 Michigan at Princeton Invitational (Feb. 21) … Notched a pair of goals against George Washington (Feb. 21) at Princeton Invitational ... Tallied four goals against Marist (Feb. 27) and Wagner (Feb. 27) at the ECAC Championships ... Recorded a hat-trick against Maryland at the Elite Eight (March 6) … Scored a goal against Princeton at the Elite Eight (March 6) … Buried six goals against Bucknell at the Elite Eight, including both of Harvard's overtime goals (March 7) … Named the CWPA Northern Division Player of the Week (March 8, March 22) ... Registered a hat-trick against Fresno Pacific and a goal against UC Davis (March 15) … Drew five ejections against San Jose State (March 17) ... Registered a hat trick in Harvard's win over No. 19 Cal State East Bay (March 19) … Scored three goals against No. 17 Pacific (March 20) … Tallied a goal against Cal State Monterey Bay (March 20) … Netted a goal against Marist (March 27) … Buried five goals and drew five kick outs against No. 11 Hartwick (April 10) … Potted a goal against Brown (April 14) … Notched a goal against No. 11 Hartwick (April 17) … Scored a pair of goals against Brown (April 18) ... Buried a marker against No. 7 Michigan at the Eastern Championship (April 30) ... Tallied a goal against Bucknell at the Eastern Championship (May 1) ... Netted a hat trick against Maryland at the Eastern Championship (May 2).
Named CWPA Northern Division Rookie of the Year ... Tabbed to CWPA All-Northern Division First Team ... Honored as Rookie of the Tournament at Eastern Championship and selected to All-Tournament Team ... Selected Harvard's Rookie of the Year ... Tallied a game-high five goals and collected five streals in career debut against NYAC (Feb. 14); Netted a score later in the day against No. 8 Michigan ... Scored four goals the following day against Siena (Feb. 15) ... Named CWPA Northern Division Rookie of the Week (Feb. 16) ... Scored four times against Villanova and once against Princeton (Feb. 21) ... Tallied a hat trick against George Washington and Bucknell (Feb. 22) ... Scored four goals against Maryland and Bucknell (Feb. 28); drew five ejections against the Bison ... Had a goal and drew three ejections against Princeton (March 1) ... Scored in win at Sonoma State (March 22) ... Tallied team-high four goals at Pacific (March 24) ... Had eight goals in doubleheader against UC Santa Cruz and UC Davis, including six tallies against the Banana Slugs (March 26) ... Scored a career-high 10 goals against Cal State Monterey Bay (March 27); was named Northern Division Player of the Week and COOP Student-Athlete of the Week for effort ... Had five goals against Brown and a hat trick against Hartwick (April 4) ... Tallied a hat trick against Connecticut College and scored twice against Utica (April 5) ... Scored two goals and had three kickouts drawn against Brown (April 11) ... Netted three goals, had two kickouts drawn, handed out two assists and made two steals against Hartwick and tallied a goal against Brown at Northern Division Championship (April 18) ... Found the back of the net four times against Utica at Northern Division Championship (April 19) ... Scored against Hartwick at Eastern Championship (April 24) ... Had two goals, two ejections drawn and three steals against Indiana at Easterns (April 25) ... Tallied the game-winning goal against Bucknell at Eastern Championship (April 26).
High School:
Earned 12 varsity letters at Santa Catalina High, including four each in water polo, swimming and basketball ... Four-year starter in water polo ... Captained water polo and basketball squads ... All-American honorable mention in 2007 in water polo ... USA Water Polo Academic All-American as senior ... MTAL/CCS Most Valuable Player in 2005, 2006 and 2007 ... All-League first team on four occasions ... First team All-Section once and was selected to the second team twice ... CCS Scholar-Athlete of teh Year in 2008 ... Led water polo and basketball teams to league titles ... Cum Laude Society member ... Gold Chord recipient.
Sister, Sarah Kennifer '02, played water polo at Harvard ... Sister, Katherine Kennifer, was a water polo player at Notre Dame, graduating in 2005.


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If you want to understand the depth of the governing dysfunction in California, take a look at the statement from Assemblyman Mike Gatto, a Burbank Democrat.
Gatto, in a statement responding to Controller John Chiang's decision to stop paying legislators, calls his state "a Banana Republic." And he's not talking about the place where you shop.
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Gatto wrote in the statement: "Our state government right now reminds me of a troop of boys lost in the wilderness.
"The goal is to get back to civilization, but the Governor seems hell-bent on forcing four people to take his chosen path, while John Chiang just wants to sit there and beat up on the unpopular kids.
"It's always been an easy move to bash the disliked - but the truth is that such demagoguery is rapidly becoming cliché, and does nothing to move the state forward. ... I halted a fulfilling private sector career path to enter public service.
"I now have to explain to my wife and daughter that we won't be able to pay the bills because a politician chose to grandstand at our expense.
"California has officially degenerated into a Banana Republic, with one branch of government withholding the pay of another. I wonder if the Controller plans on withholding the pay of judges if he disagrees with one of their decisions."
Gatto makes several great points here. But the most important one may be his point about just how over-the-top legislature bashing has become.
Everyone does it, reflexively. Legislative bashing also has become a way to end any real debate or deflect criticism, if you're a governor or an interest group.
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Julius Peter Christian Petersen
Born: 16 June 1839 in Soro, Denmark
Died: 5 August 1910 in Copenhagen, Denmark
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Julius Petersen's father was Jens Petersen, who worked as a dyer, and his mother was Anna Cathrina Petersen who was born in Wiuff. From his early childhood Julius was friends with Hieronymous Georg Zeuthen who lived four houses away on the same street. Julius first attended a private school in Soro then, in 1849, he entered Soro Academy School. Most of the pupils at the school were boarders but the school also admitted some day pupils like Julius who lived in the town. His interest in mathematics began when he was at this high school. He was passionate about problem solving and spent a great deal of time trying to solve the classical problem of trisecting an angle with ruler and compass. He later wrote [9]:-
Mathematics had, from the time I started to learn it, taken my complete interest, and most of my work consisted in solving problems of my own and my friends, and in seeking the trisection of the angle; a problem that has had a great influence on my whole development.His family were poor and although they had tried their best to give Julius a good education, by 1854 he had to leave school since his parents could no longer afford to keep him there. Petersen had an uncle who worked in Kolding, Jutland, and he went there to work as a grocery apprentice to his uncle. After about a year his uncle died and left some money to Petersen. He returned to Soro, passed the school leaving examinations, and entered the College of Technology in Copenhagen in 1856. His first publication was two years later when he published an elementary text on logarithms. In 1860 he passed his civil engineering examinations and, in the same year, submitted an essay on the history and properties of the cycloid for a University prize. When the judges found that he was not a university student they ruled out his entry.
Although he had decided that he wanted to study mathematics at university long before graduating from the College of Technology, he had used up his inheritance by this time so had no way of funding himself through university. He therefore taught in a prestigious private school from 1859 to 1871 and also took other part-time teaching jobs to support himself.
In 1862 he passed the entrance examinations for the University of Copenhagen and began his mathematical studies there. In the same year he married Kirstine Bertelsen (who was two year older than he was); they had two sons and a daughter. Although he was now a student he still taught six to seven hours a day, six days a week, to support himself, his wife, and children. He was considered a good teacher of mathematics, but school teaching did present a great problem to Petersen for he seemed incapable of controlling the pupils. In 1866 he graduated from the university with the degree of Master of Mathematics but remained there to study for his doctorate. He was awarded the Gold Medal for his treatise on the equilibrium of floating bodies in 1867 but although the work was judged to be excellent, nevertheless he did fail to know of one of the most important works on the topic, namely that by Pierre Dupin in 1814.
Petersen was awarded his doctorate in 1871. The interest he had shown in ruler and compass constructions when he was at school had continued to influence his research topic and his doctoral thesis was entitled On equations which can be solved by square roots, with application to the solution of problems by ruler and compass. Petersen was unsure about a specific result which he used in his thesis, namely:
If the equation of degree 2n can be solved by square roots, one of the roots can be expressed by n such different square roots, where each can appear several times.Petersen corresponded with Sylow during 1870-71, mostly about this result. Details of the correspondence appear in [8].
After the award of his doctorate in 1871 he was appointed as a dozent at the College of Technology in Copenhagen. In 1877 he was appointed as professor of mathematics at the University of Copenhagen and continued to hold this post throughout his career. His friend and colleague at the University of Copenhagen was Zeuthen who was almost exactly the same age as Petersen. The two had been friends since childhood as we noted near the beginning of this article. Petersen also taught at the Officers School of the Army from 1881 to 1887.
He wrote a series of school and undergraduate texts which achieved international acclaim despite being too difficult for all but the ablest pupils. For example he published Plane and spherical trigonometry in 1863. First published three years later, his Methods and theories for the solution of problems of geometrical construction appeared in various editions and languages. This work aimed at making geometric problem solving systematic but the geometrical constructions he considered were always those of ruler and compass.
His research was on a wide variety of topics from algebra and number theory to geometry, analysis, differential equations and mechanics. He published The theory of algebraic equations in 1877 which was written in a concise style, treating as many topics as possible without using Galois theory. He wrote a series of textbooks based on courses he had given at the College of Technology: one on plane geometry in 1877; one on statics in 1881; one on kinematics in 1884; and one on dynamics in 1887.
He also wrote on mathematical physics, mathematical economics and a pamphlet on cryptography. His work on economics began in 1871 with the publication of a pamphlet investigating how goods could be redistributed to favour workers. Another work studied aspects of social policy. Petersen was enthusiastic about such matters and joined a committee to support Georg Brandes but this was short lived. Brandes was a Danish critic and scholar who set himself the task of liberating Denmark from its cultural isolation and provincialism with progressive ideas aimed at reforming society. Petersen joined the National Economic Society and translated an economics text by Henry Fawcett into Danish. He also developed his own ideas on economics beginning in 1872, publishing these ideas in 1874. Quite suddenly he changed from studying economics to studying cryptography. He published a pamphlet on this topic in 1875 which he funded privately. This was written in French, unlike all his previous works which were in Danish [9]:-
Petersen never returned to cryptography; this seems to be another instance of a problem that must have occupied him intensely for a period, until he found a satisfactory solution and moved on to something else.His most important work however was in geometry with innovative ideas on regular graphs. A paper which he wrote in 1891 Die Theorie der regulären Graphs marks the birth of graph theory. Sabidussi [13] writes that this is:-
... the first major graph-theoretical paper, not only in size but also in significance.Watkins writes about Petersen's paper in [16]:-
In 1891 Julius Petersen published a paper that contained his now famous theorem: any bridgeless cubic graph has a 1-factor. These days Petersen's theorem is always proven indirectly using major results such as Hall's theorem from 1935 and Tutte's theorem on 1-factors from 1947.Although the Petersen graph is usually the first time an undergraduate will today come across his name, this does not appear in this 1891 masterpiece. In fact this ten-vertex graph appears in a later paper published in 1898. It is reasonable to ask why Petersen began working in graph theory. In fact his aim was to discover results in invariant theory and he corresponded with Sylvester on this topic.
In [9] it is stated that:-
... the work of Petersen and Zeuthen is regarded as being responsible for the emergence of Danish mathematics on the international scene towards the end of the 19th century.In the last part of his career, from 1888 to 1909, Petersen worked on function theory, latin squares, and number theory.
Petersen contributed to many areas other than mathematics, some of which we have mentioned above. In addition to these he was a member of the "kontrolkomité" of the insurance company Hafnia. Petersen was also a founder member of the Danish Mathematical Society, which came into existence in 1873, and he remained a very active member of the Society. In 1887 he was appointed a member of the Commission of Education for the Learned Schools which was an education inspectorate under the Ministry of Education.
His obituary states:-
Among Danish mathematicians he was the embodiment of the best sense of humour and the most vigorous joy of life.Perhaps his own words sum up best his attitude to his life:-
When throughout life you have obtained honour and money for enjoying yourself, what more can you ask for!
Article by: J J O'Connor and E F Robertson
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List of References (17 books/articles)
A Poster of Julius Petersen
Mathematicians born in the same country
Additional Material in MacTutor
- The Petersen graph
Cross-references in MacTutor
- Danish Mathematical Society
Other Web sites
- Dictionary of Scientific Biography
- Theseus
- Odense Denmark (in Danish)
- MathSciNet Author profile
- zbMATH entry
- ERAM Jahrbuch entry