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SOURCE: GeckoSystems Intl. Corp.
May 06, 2011 00:05 ET
CONYERS, GA--(Marketwire - May 6, 2011) - GeckoSystems Intl. Corp, a dynamic leader in the emerging mobile robotics industry revolutionizing their development and usage with "Mobile Robot Solutions for Safety, Security and Service™," (PINKSHEETS: GOSY) (http://www.geckosystems.com/) -- announced today that they expect receipt in late May of the first wheelchairs from Imasen Engineering Corporation, Japan's oldest wheelchair manufacturer. This order to upgrade was secured by GeckoSystems' long time Japanese business development representative, Mr. Hajime Yasumatsu (Chairman of Yasu, Inc.) and a recently signed representative, Mr. Tsunenuri Kato (President/CEO of ifoo Co., Ltd.). They jointly secured GeckoSystems' first Japanese order.
Due to the recent Japanese catastrophic earthquake and consequent tsunami, the shipment was initially delayed.
"We have worked diligently for more than ten years to secure a foothold in the world's fourth largest economy, Japan. Because of these many years of failures and our numerous sales attempts, I am very pleased to announce this shipment for the initial order for our 'collision proof' wheelchair upgrade kits," stated Martin Spencer, President/CEO, GeckoSystems. "We give full credit to Mr. Yasumatsu's and Kato's tenacity and hard work in achieving this noteworthy milestone. We expect receipt of one of the first two of Imasen's state of the art wheelchairs for our 'collision proof' upgrading at our R&D lab late this month since they are being shipped by economical marine freight due to their weight."
GeckoSystems recently announced that GeckoImager™ enables this new product development. This invention uses sensor fusion incorporating structured light machine vision and sonar range finding to compliment GeckoOrient's™ solid-state compass, accelerometer and odometry sensor fusion. This provides its automatic, self-navigation artificial intelligence (AI) software, GeckoNav™, with sufficient and timely data to achieve actionable situation awareness while providing a very safe, loose crowd level of autonomy to be "collision proof."
The upgrade kit (GWK001) leverages core technologies GeckoSystems has developed for its flagship product, the CareBot™, combined with recent advances in sensor technology, to create a cost effective upgrade kit for wheelchair obstacle avoidance. The recent creation of GeckoImager and its ability to fuse multiple stationary sensors to achieve the level of situational awareness required for navigation has allowed GeckoSystems to pursue this new application.
The GWK001 recently sold to Imasen, may be added to most joystick operated electric wheelchairs. The wheelchair occupant would simply move the joystick in the direction they wish to go. Then GeckoNav -- in concert with multiple GeckoSavants™ managed by the GeckoSuper™ -- would automatically seek the desired direction while avoiding any and all stationary or moving obstacles. The cost to the end user, completely installed, is only a few thousand dollars for this heightened level of safety for not only the occupant of the wheelchair, but also those persons around them.
"I am very pleased to have been able to provide GeckoSystems with this initial order from Imasen. It is an honor for me to work with companies that focus on safety first, Imasen in Japan, and GeckoSystems in the U.S. I am working very hard to secure other meaningful relationships in Japan for GeckoSystems," concluded Mr. Kato.
"For more than a year now, I have engaged in many attempts to establish collaboration with GeckoSystems and good partners in Japan. I am happy and pleased that Mr. Kato has joined us. This first order from Imasen is a very important first step in demonstrating to other Japanese robot companies and enterprises the value of GeckoSystems' mobile robot solutions," reflected Mr. Yasumatsu.
"I am very excited about the opportunity to apply our extensive knowledge of autonomous navigation of mobile platforms to this new product. The benefits to the safety and peace-of-mind of both the occupant and those around them make this a very rewarding project to be a part of," stated Kevin O'Connor, Sr. EE Roboticist, GeckoSystems.
GeckoSystems has multiple sources available in the U.S. and Pacific Rim other than Microsoft for the PrimeSense depth camera solution, presently the Kinect. Since the upgraded wheelchair is more safe, not less, with the incorporation of the multiple sensor systems and AI software, product liability is expected to be less than that of an unmodified wheelchair. Since mobile service robots are not presently regulated in Japan or the U.S., no regulatory approvals such as the FDA, UL, etc. are expected. (This underscores the mobile robot safety summit meeting's importance last December of GeckoSystems' CEO and two senior Japanese government representatives. This is why they requested the meeting: to learn what safety standards were needed and how to achieve them with appropriate regulations.)
GeckoSystems' management believes that due to the increased costs of the logistics of shipping computer hardware and subsystems from halfway around the world and back again that these initial sales should evolve into a technology licensing agreement with Imasen to eliminate these redundant and unnecessary shipping costs.
"Imasen is ideally positioned in the Japanese marketplace due to its wheelchair manufacturing capability and existing distribution into the home medical equipment (HME) and durable medical equipment (DME) markets. Further, since the mechanicals and locomotion system are the primary cost drivers for the manufacture of mobile service robots, we are very encouraged by several ongoing conversations with Imasen and other notable Japanese manufacturers by Mr. Kato and Mr. Yasumatsu," opined Mr. Spencer.
Mr. Spencer concluded: "Of course due to the delicacy and sensitivity of those discussions, it would be inappropriate to reveal them at this time. However, given the demonstrable performance by Mr. Kato and Mr. Yasumatsu, I believe there is reason for continued optimism and additional successes. This important first step positions us on the cusp between being a Development Stage company and an Emerging Growth company. This reality augurs well for our nearly 1,400 stockholders and a satisfying ROI for them."
About Yasu, Inc.:
Yasu is a U.S. corporation domiciled in Missouri that provides professional services including business development support, networking events, extensive market intelligence, access to bilingual Japanese businesses, and English to Japanese translation of sales and technical information.
About Imasen Engineering Corporation:
Imasen electric wheelchairs are dedicated to the pursuit of safety and comfort, designed to be an indispensable and supportive component of one's life. They have been developed not only to be comfortable for the rider, but also easy for caretakers to operate, easy on the environment, and pleasant to look at with an attractive design.
About the CareBot:
GeckoSystems has focused on mobile robot safety for over thirteen years. Their first product, a family care robot, has multiple layers of safety precautions. These safeguards are enabled three ways: mechanical, electronic, and using AI computer software.
First, the robot is very stable and difficult to tip over since nearly seventy percent of its weight is less than eight inches above the floor and sits low between large, ten-inch diameter wheels. The wheels are wide and soft enough such that if the robot did go over a child's arm, for example, it would not break the skin or any bones.
Second, multiple layers of sensors are fused to provide a safety umbrella to enable actionable situational awareness. Going outward from the center of the CareBot is the GeckoTactileShroud™, which detects where on its shroud it has been bumped by people or animals. The GeckoImager™ detects virtually everything in the front and to the sides of this fully autonomous mobile robot up to sixty inches. Obstacles more distant are detected by twin ultrasonic rangefinders.
Third, the advanced AI navigation software, GeckoNav™, takes in the hundreds of sensor readings per second and using its high level situational awareness, consistently avoids unforeseen static and/or dynamic obstacles for safe movements.
Like an automobile, the CareBot is made from steel, aluminum, plastic, and electronics, but with ten to twenty times the amount of software running. It has an aluminum frame, plastic shroud, two independently driven wheels, multiple sensor systems, microprocessors and several onboard computers connected by a local area network (LAN). The microprocessors directly interact with the sensor systems and transmit data to the onboard computers. The onboard computers each run independent, highly specialized cooperative/subsumptive artificial intelligence (AI) software programs, GeckoSavants, which interact to complete tasks in a timely, intelligent and common sense manner. GeckoSuper, GeckoNav, GeckoChat, GeckoScheduler and GeckoTrak are primary, high level GeckoSavants. GeckoNav is responsible for maneuvering, avoiding dynamic and/or static obstacles, seeking waypoints and patrolling. GeckoChat is responsible for interaction with the care-receiver such as answering questions, assisting with daily routines and reminders, and responding to other verbal commands. GeckoTrak, which is mostly transparent to the user, enables the CareBot to maintain proximity to the care-receiver using sensor fusion. The CareBot is a new type of Internet appliance, a personal assistant life support robot, which is accessible for remote video/audio monitoring and telepresence.
About the Company:
Since 1997, GeckoSystems has developed a comprehensive, coherent, and sufficient suite of hardware and software inventions to enable a new type of home appliance (a personal companion robot) the CareBot™, to be created for the mass consumer marketplace. The suite of primary inventions includes: GeckoNav™, GeckoChat™ and GeckoTrak™.
The primary market for this product is the family for use in eldercare, care for the chronically ill, and childcare. The primary distribution channel for this new home appliance is the thousands of independent personal computer retailers in the U.S. The manufacturing infrastructure for this new product category of mobile service robots is essentially the same as the personal computer industry. Several outside contract manufacturers have been identified and qualified their ability to produce up to 1,000 CareBots per month within four to six months.
The Company is market driven. At the time of founding, nearly 14 years ago, the Company did extensive primary market research to determine the demographic profile of the early adopters of the then proposed product line. Subsequent to, and based on that original market research, they have assembled numerous focus groups to evaluate the fit of the CareBot personal robot into the participant's lives and their expected usage. The Company has also frequently employed the Delphi market research methodology by contacting and interviewing senior executives, practitioners, and researchers knowledgeable in the area of elder care. Using this factual basis of internally performed primary and secondary market research, and third party research is the statistical substance for the Company's sales forecasts.
Not surprisingly the scientific statistical analyses applied revealed that elderly over sixty-five living alone in metropolitan areas with broadband Internet available and sufficient household incomes to support the increased costs were identified as those most likely to adopt initially. Due to the high cost of assisted living, nursing homes, etc. the payback for a CareBot is expected to be only six to eight months while keeping elderly care receivers independent, in their own long time homes, and living longer due to the comfort and safety of more frequent attention from their loved ones.
The Company's "mobile robot solutions for safety, security and service™" are appropriate not only for the consumer, but also professional healthcare, commercial security and defense markets. Professional healthcare require cost effective, timely errand running, portable telemedicine, etc. Homeland Security requires cost effective mobile robots to patrol and monitor public venues for weapons and WMD detection. Military users desire the elimination of the "man in the loop" to enable unmanned ground and air vehicles to not require constant human control and/or intervention.
The Company's business model is very much like that of an automobile manufacturer. Due to the final assembly, test, and shipping being done based on geographic and logistic realities; strategic business-to-business relationships can range from private labeling to joint manufacturing and distribution to licensing only.
Several dozen patent opportunities exist for the Company due to the many innovative and cost effective breakthroughs embodied not only in GeckoNav, GeckoChat, and GeckoTrak, but also in additional, secondary systems that include: GeckoOrient™, GeckoMotorController™, the GeckoTactileShroud™, the GeckoImager™, and the GeckoSPIO™.
What Does a CareBot Do for the Care Giver?
The short answer is that it decreases the difficulty and stress for the caregiver that needs to watch over Grandma, Mom, or other family members most, if not much, of the time day in and day out due to concerns about their well being, safety, and security.
But, first let's look at some other labor saving, automatic home appliances most of us use routinely. For example, needing to do two or more necessary chores and/or activities at the same time, like laundering clothes and preparing supper.
The automatic washing machine needs no human intervention after the dirty clothes are placed in the washer, the laundry powder poured in, and the desired wash cycle set. Then, this labor saving appliance runs automatically until the washed clothes are ready to be placed in another labor saving home appliance, the automatic clothes dryer. While the clothes are being washed and/or dried, the caregiver prepares supper using several time saving home appliances like the microwave oven, "crock" pot, blender, and conventional stove, with possible convection oven capabilities.
After supper, the dirty pots, pans, and dishes are placed in the automatic dishwasher to be washed and dried while the family retires to the den to watch TV, and/or the kids to do homework. Later, perhaps after the kids have gone to bed, the caregiver may then have the time to fold, sort, and put up the now freshly laundered clothes.
So what does a CareBot do for the caregiver? It is a new type of labor saving, time management automatic home appliance.
For example, the care giver frequently feels time stress when they need to go shopping for 2 or 3 hours, and are uncomfortable when they have to be away for more than an hour or so. Time stress is much worse for the caregiver with a frail elderly parent that must be reminded to take medications at certain times of the day. How can the caregiver be away for 3-4 hours when Grandma must take her prescribed medication every 2 or 3 hours? If the caregiver is trapped in traffic for an hour or two beyond the 2 or 3 they expected to be gone, this "time stress" can be very difficult for the caregiver to moderate.
Not infrequently, the primary caregiver has a 24 hour, 7 days a week responsibility. After weeks and weeks of this sometimes tedious, if not onerous routine, how does the caregiver get a "day off?" To bring in an outsider is expensive (easily $75-125 per day for just 8 hours) and there is the concern that medication will be missed or the care receiver have an accident requiring immediate assistance by the caregiver, or someone they must designate. And the care receiver may be very resistant to a "stranger" coming in to her home and "running things."
So what is it worth for a care receiver to have an automatic system to help take care of Grandma? Just 3 or 4 days a month "off" on a daylong shopping trip, a visit with friends, or just take in a movie would cost $225-500 per month. And that scenario assumes that Grandma is willing to be taken care of by a "stranger" during those needed and appropriate days off.
So perhaps, an automatic caregiver, a CareBot, might be pretty handy, and potentially very cost effective from the primary caregiver's perspective.
What Does a CareBot Do for the Care Receiver?
It's a new kind of companion that always stays close to them enabling family and friends to care for them from afar. It tells them jokes, retells family anecdotes, reminds them to take medication, reminds them that family is coming over soon (or not at all), recites Bible verses, plays favorite songs and/or other music. It alerts them when unexpected visitors, or intruders are present. It notifies designated caregivers when a potentially harmful event has occurred, such as a fall, fire in the home, or simply been not found by the CareBot for too long. It responds to calls for help and notifies those that the caregiver determined should be immediately notified when any predetermined adverse event occurs.
The family can customize the personality of the CareBot. The voice's cadence can be fast or slow. The intonation can be breathy, or abrupt. The voice's volume can range from very loud to very soft. The response phrases from the CareBot for recognized words and phrases can be colloquial and/or unique to the family's own heritage. The personality can range from brassy to timid depending on how the care giver, and others appropriate, chooses it to be.
Generally, the care receiver is pleased at the prospect of family being able to drop in for a "virtual visit" using the onboard webcam and video monitor for at home "video conferencing." The care receiver may feel much more needed and appreciated when their far flung family and friends can "look in" on them anywhere in the world where they can get broadband internet access and simply chat for a bit.
Why is Grandma really interested in a CareBot? She wants to stay in her home, or her family's home, as long as she possibly can. What's that worth? Priceless. Or, an average nursing home is $5,000 per month for an environment that is too often the beginning of a spiral downward in the care receiver's health. That's probably $2-3K more per month for them to be placed where they really don't want to be. Financial payback on a CareBot? Less than a year- Emotional payback for the family to have this new automatic care giver? Nearly instantaneous-
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Kinect Enabled Personal Robot video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn93BS44Das
In this video one will observe static and dynamic obstacle avoidance into and back out of a cluttered and narrow "gauntlet alley." One may determine that the movements are smoother than what most people could do using a joystick, human controlled mobile platform. One will witness three low levels of obstacle avoidance: reactive, proactive, and contemplative. No prior mapping or path planning was performed before or during the demonstration run. GeckoNav, the AI savant doing the guiding, controls all mobile activities during this demo. You will witness subsumptive AI behaviors occurring as obstacle avoidance subsumes way point seek and vice versa with an emergent behavior expressed as errand running down a cluttered hallway and back without any human intervention.
Elder Care Robot Trial Video 2, Stationary View http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smUN
One CareBot™ One Familyhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxK46chfP6A&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
Mobile Robot Navigates Dining Room & Kitchenhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_jd9_0W9mE&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
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I am looking forward to seeing Gen-6 cars up close, and I get that chance next week at NASCAR's media tour in Charlotte. There are always surprises at this event, and in fact, NHMS has a pretty big announcement that will ensure racing excitement in Loudon for years to come. Watch the news, keep an eye on Twitter, stay connected to our website; our event is on Tuesday.
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If the raucous, unjustly maligned "Project X" recalled hollering in the center of a bonkers, you-had-to-be-there party, "21 and Over" feels like being a sober, irritated designated driver wondering how much longer you have to spend with jackasses you never liked much to begin with.
In many ways, the directorial debut from writers Jon Lucas and Scott Moore (who also wrote "The Hangover") is like "Nephew of The Hangover." A trio of Washington State college seniors engage in a crazy, intoxicated night with potentially disastrous consequences: The universe being a cruel jokester, wild card Jeff Chang (Justin Chon) has a huge medical school interview the morning after his 21st birthday celebration initiated by his old high school pals, the outgoing Miller (formerly promising Miles Teller of "Rabbit Hole" and "Footloose") and uptight Casey (Skylar Astin of "Pitch Perfect").
What results is juvenile in the worst way: Jeff urinates from the top of a bar into a crowd of people, slow-motion vomits from a mechanical bull and eats a tampon. Because Lucas and Moore can't go three minutes without a joke about someone's heritage, they constantly play racism for laughs (like Miller affectionately calling Jeff, "You tiny, yellow son of a bitch"). This also includes an accidental stop at a Latina sorority house, a scene descended from and inferior to the African-American fraternity encounter in "Road Trip," a Todd Phillips movie these writers didn't pen.
By the way: When one character in "21 and Over" offers the defense, "Just 'cause I look like this doesn't mean I don't have feelings," it's a white guy.
Occasionally the drunken stupidity takes on amusing, in-the-moment absurdity, whether Jeff dazedly mumbles a need for cereal or the search for Jeff's address—so Miller and Casey can get their passed out friend home—leads to an awesome-looking, multi-level drinking game. Yet there's no defense for Miller pulling out a gun to steal an enemy's phone and no denying the oppressive laziness of "21 and Over," both in its quintessential disinterest in female characters (Sarah Wright plays the mandatory hot girl with a jerky boyfriend) or reliance on the plotline of a kid pressured into a career by an overbearing parent.
Movies like "Superbad" prove that one wild night on the big screen can be freaking hilarious without turning its characters into stereotypical assfaces. "21 and Over" occasionally nods to the guys' shifting priorities and drifting friendships but prefers homophobia and cracks about sex with Casey's underage sister to any recognition that it's possible to both work hard and play hard.
Sadly, the film includes songs from both Frightened Rabbit and the Gaslight Anthem, fantastic bands likely to despise this dimwitted batch of cliches and crassness. Speaking of music: If Miller so enjoys Soundgarden and bands of that era, how does he spend hours wearing only a sock on his junk and not say anything about the Red Hot Chili Peppers?
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Juliano was the founder of the Freedom Theatre. He was an Israeli citizen, the son of a Jewish mother and therefore a Jew in the eyes of the Jewish state. But his father was a Palestinian from Nazareth, and Juliano was a passionate believer in the Palestinian cause. He would often say he was '100 per cent Palestinian and 100 per cent Jewish', but in Israel he was seldom allowed to forget he was the son of an Arab, and in Jenin he was seen as an Israeli, a Jew, no matter how much he did for the camp. Among the artists and intellectuals of Ramallah, however, he was admired for having left Israel to work in one of the toughest parts of the West Bank, and was accepted as an ally. Since its founding in 2006, the Freedom Theatre had been under constant fire: local conservatives saw it as a corrupting influence, even a Zionist conspiracy; the Palestinian Authority resented what Juliano said about its 'co-operation' with Israel; and Israel saw him as a troublemaker, if not a traitor.
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Our mantel has pretty much looked like this:
…for the last 4 years. Well, minus the addition of the Braden picture since he was born 3 years ago. ;)
Not awful. Not great. Just blah.
My inspiration for a mantle change up was sparked by a recent rug purchase. This is the rug we've had since we moved here:
Yes, I know this is ALSO an old pic of me and a gorilla…but it's the only picture I could find of the old rug. Gorillas are cute.
So, we got it from Target and it has served us well…through toddler drink spills and house training a puppy. The dark colors that covered most of the rug were great for hiding the crazy mess of our day to day life.
Now that the boys are relatively spill proof…er, not allowed to bring drinks all over the house, we recently bought this new rug from Target.
I loved how it instantly lightened the room up a ton and added a new color to our room…yellow! It also has a little of of the deep burgundy from our last rug, but much less of it.
After the rug, I redid the mantel-scape. Here's what it looks like today:
I kept the same family photos. I originally thought I wanted to change them out, but they truly are my favorites…our wedding day and each of the boys when they turned the Big "1". I'm a sentimental fool.
Next, I took out the old candles and added in two large glass hurricane candle holders. They were a recent find at Kohls, on clearance for $10 each AND I had a 20% off coupon!!! Awesome price for their size. They are selling a similar newer version there for $80 each..on sale!
I switched out my glass vase for a new green one that I found at Walmart and added lighter stems as well.
Lastly, I shopped the house and brought in my little birds, my previously disco-ish artichoke from this post and some books.
I had originally only painted the artichoke white, but later added some watered down craft paint to tone it down a little.
Who goes lighter in their decor in the fall? I do. I'm pretty happy with my inexpensive and quickie mantel makeover though.
Alas, with the change in temps and seasons, I feel another change coming really soon. Now…where are those pumpkins??Pin It


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Peeing in public is a risky endeavor at the best of times and should really only be done in extreme circumstances. A man in France recently took it upon himself to pee in his own garden. Don't ask us why he was peeing in his own garden because we don't know, but pee in his own garden he did.
However, while he was doing the deed, unbeknown to him, a Google car taking photos for Street View passed by and snapped him in the act. Now what are the chances of that happening?
The next thing he knows, people in his village — a village reportedly so small that everyone knows everyone — are pointing and sniggering at him. And then he finds out why. There's a photo of him on Street View urinating.
The man has been so distressed by the humiliating consequences of his peeing performance that he has decided to take on the web giant in the courts, suing it for infringement of privacy and for having his photo published without his agreement. He is also asking for the photo to be withdrawn from the site.
Speaking to AFP about the episode, the man's lawyer, Jean-Noel Bouillaud, said that his client had discovered the existence of the embarrassing photo "after noticing that he had become an object of ridicule."
He added that the man was on his own property at the time of the incident. What isn't explained is why the man was peeing in his garden as opposed to using the toilet inside his house, but hey, it's his garden and he's free to choose which kind of liquid his flowers and plants get to live off.
According to AFP, the picture in question is "slightly blurred" but clearly shows a person peeing in a garden. The village is apparently in the west-central Maine-et-Loire region of France, though the man's lawyer requested for the name of it to remain secret in order to spare him further embarrassment.
Google lawyer Christophe Bigot called the lawsuit "implausible."
Google's Street View service launched in 2007 and uses nine-lens cameras mounted on cars to map cities and rural areas around the world. It offers stay-at-home adventurers the chance to explore a huge number of locations, explorations which occasionally turn up the unexpected.
The photo-mapping project has occasionally run into problems in some countries on the issue of privacy. Last year, for example, France's data privacy regulator fined Google $142,000 (€100,000) for unauthorized data collections carried out by Street View cars.
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PGYA Boys Baseball Teams Head to State
Congrats to the PG Red Sox, PG Horned Frogs and PG Reds, all three teams are District Champions and headed to their respective TTAB State Tournaments next week.
I am writing this as a dad, not as a reporter. I just wanted to extend my personal congratulations to Coach Mike Cobb and all of his assistants for all of their hard work in helping to create a great baseball team called the PG Horned Frogs.
The Frogs have had a remarkable regular season and district tournament bringing them to the 20-0 mark on their season so far. The next stop is Killeen, TX starting Monday, July 23 for the TTAB State Tournament for boys ages 10 and 11.
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- Braden Hlavinka
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- Marshall Oubre
- Logan Richardson
- Brayden Solida
- Tyler Standridge
- Jon Thomas
I also want to congratulate the other two PGYA District Champs;
The PG Red Sox, ages 8 and 9 head to their State Tournament in Chandler, TX next week.
And the PG Reds, ages 12 and 13 head to their State Tournament next week as well in Athens, TX.
If I knew all their names I would list them too.
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Corn technology benefited from a decade of concentrated trait research. The next decade will be devoted to developing products that are more complex genetically and to enhancing existing products. All major seed companies have substantial corn product pipelines to meeting growers' needs in the future.
Dow AgroSciences
Dow AgroSciences has "the most robust pipeline in our company's history," says Ben Kaehler, general manager for seed affiliates and traits licensing.
The Enlist Weed Control System, pending regulatory approval, should be available in 2013. It will provide tolerance to both a new 2,4-D product and FOP herbicides in corn. Kaehler says it will be stacked with Roundup Ready and SmartStax. "This system is very tangible and we are proving them in the field, not just the lab," he says.
The system offers growers additional herbicide tolerance for corn to help address weed problems in the field. "We see more and more weeds getting tougher to control with glyphosate," Kaehler says. "We have talked to growers, and they don't want to give up the convenience of glyphosate."
Drought tolerance is on the agenda at Dow AgroSciences. "For drought, we have some natural genetics that provide better performance under drought conditions," Kaehler says. "We also are working on transgenic drought tolerance [solutions] as well and do see some promising leads."
Nitrogen utilization also is getting attention. "We are working on nitrogen utilization efficiency to improve yields either with the same amount of nitrogen or possibly reduce some of the nitrogen use and maintain high yields," Kaehler says. "Nitrogen utilization efficiency project is not only in trait technology, but we have products today, like N-Serve and Instinct nitrogen stabilizer, to help manage nitrogen utilization.
"We will combine some things we have from the crop protection business with new products in nitrogen utilization in trait technology," he adds. "Again, it is something early in the development process. We have some pretty interesting leads but [products] won't be available for a number of years."
Genuity SmartStax RIB Complete (refuge-in-a-bag technology) is the most recent product out of the Monsanto corn pipeline. But more new products are on the way. Roy Fuchs, Monsanto oilseeds technology lead, says the company is providing more options with SmartStax to give growers a choice of different corn products.
Drought-tolerant corn is being co-developed with BASF and is in the later stages of development. A first-generation product is expected to help buffer the stress of water limitation that occurs in more droughty climates, such as the western Great Plains on dryland acres. The second-generation product is geared to the central Corn Belt and will offer yield stability for intermittent drought. The first-generation product is undergoing large-scale testing and is awaiting global regulatory approvals. On-farm trials are expected to begin in 2012, with the anticipated launch date for the first-generation product in the years that follow.
Dicamba- and glufosinate-tolerance hybrids are the horizon at Monsanto. The company is working on these herbicide-tolerant traits in corn to offer more control over herbicide-resistant weeds. Also being considered is a product tolerant to FOPs, a low-cost tankmix partner for postemerge control of grasses.
Nitrogen utilization is under development through a collaboration with BASF.
Corn borer III and CRW III products are also well into the research pipeline. Monsanto states that the two products will offer more control against corn borer and corn rootworm while being more durable and maintaining the reduced refuge options.
The Syngenta seed pipeline when fully released has peak potential sales of more than $2 billion. Here are some of the products in the pipeline.
This year Syngenta introduced Agrisure Artesian technology, its water optimized line, with one hybrid available in limited quantities. The company plans to increase that portfolio and stack it with other Syngenta traits.
"We are looking at up to 15% yield preservation under moderate to severe moisture stress," says Jill Wenzel, product lead, commercial traits. She reports that the Artesian hybrid planted in the western Corn Belt appears to be performing well where the early wet weather turned dry.
The Artesian technology relies on native traits developed through a very precise gene blueprinting process. Wenzel says it allows researchers to select versions of genes that help the plant handle moisture stress "throughout the growth stage from early season all through late season. These give the plant many protective tools all along the way.
"Growers are so excited about this," she adds. "The biggest questions are, When can I get it and how much can I have? Of course the follow-up question is, Do you have anything that can handle too much water?"
Next-generation rootworm hybrids are in the late development stage of the pipeline with introduction into the market in approximately 2014, pending regulatory approvals. The name of the new hybrid line will be announced soon.
"Initial work is very encouraging," Wenzel says. "We are seeing the highest level of control ever tested against corn rootworm with the technology. It has the spectrum of a rootworm trait with improved consistency and efficacy."
Nitrogen utilization work is further out in the pipeline, along with additional water optimization technology.
Pioneer Hi-Bred
Pioneer Hi-Bred's pipeline features products derived from both native and transgenic traits. John Pieper, U.S. corn product strategy, says this pipeline is enhanced compared to years ago and the enhancements will continue.
Optimum Aquamax products, Pioneer's first hybrids for water-limited environments, entered the market in a limited launch this year. "Early reports from growers in western Corn Belt where the launch took place say the hybrids are looking very good," Pieper says.
The company's next-generation drought-tolerance product will include a transgenic approach and should launch mid to late decade. These products "will combine native and transgenic traits to further enhance tolerance to drought stress during specific growth stages," Pieper adds. This approach of transgenic traits added to native traits in Optimum Aquamax will deliver robust drought tolerance.
Pioneer has expanded its locations for research on drought tolerance. Pieper says there is a great need to study the hybrids under different types of drought stress — from flowering to grain fill and beyond.
Nitrogen use efficiency research is in the early stages of development. Currently, Pioneer is setting up research locations in different environments to see how transgenic events utilize nitrogen in these locations.
"The main challenge is to find an event or gene that will effectively influence a corn plant's ability to maintain yield with less nitrogen or enhance yield with same nitrogen," Pieper says.
He expects that hybrids from this research will not be available until the end of the decade.
Lepidopteran/coleopteran molecular stack is "both above- and belowground stack, a molecular stack, that's coming down the pipeline and has no brand yet," Pieper says. The molecular stack allows Pioneer to efficiently and more rapidly "bring two insect traits into one event to enhance yield," Pieper explains.
The insect stack is targeted for launch in the middle of the decade.
Next-generation lepidopteran-resistant traits are in the pipeline. "We're looking to further enhance efficacy, broaden the spectrum and add new modes of action," Pieper says.
Next-generation coleopteran resistance is under research so rootworm traits "will have additional modes of actions and enhanced efficacy," he adds. These traits are a little further back in the pipeline.
Hybrids produced using Seed Production Technology (SPT) from Pioneer are ready to launch next year. The SPT process is a proprietary approach to seed production that will dramatically increase the efficiency of hybrid seed production. Production fields with this process will not need detasseling.
"The exciting thing about the technology is that it brings additional supply reliability by increasing yields 15 to 20% in seed production fields because the plants have not incurred the damage they do during detasseling," Pieper explains. "It won't end detasseling, but it will greatly reduce the number of fields that will be detasseled."
Regarding all the students who rely on detasseling for summer work, Pieper says, "There will still be plenty of season job opportunities detasseling, as well as continued expansion of research jobs."
Bayer CropScience
Bayer CropScience is working with Monsanto and Pioneer Hi-Bred to ensure that LibertyLink is part of each company's refuge-in-a-bag concept, according to Andy Hurst, product manager for herbicide-tolerant traits. "A key aspect is to assure a LibertyLink component is part of the non-Bt component of the package," he explains. "We're excited to see the commitment to ensure that growers will have flexibility to use both Ignite and glyphosate on these new products like SmartStax and Optimum AcreMax products."
Hurst adds that this will give growers a means to preserve the "utility of glyphosate" by rotation of nonselective modes of action (Ignite and glyphosate) as well as selective modes of action on crops to either manage weed resistance or to avoid it.
In other corn research, Bayer "will continue to look for ways to collaborate closely with the key germplasm originators in the corn market in regards to traits of interest," he says.


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Dr. Diane E. Meier is Director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC), a national organization devoted to increasing the number and quality of palliative care programs in the United States. Under her leadership the number of palliative care programs in U.S. hospitals has more than tripled in the last 10 years. She is Vice-Chair for Public Policy and Professor of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine; Catherine Gaisman Professor of Medical Ethics; and was the founder and Director of the Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute, 1997-2011, all at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.Dr. Meier was named one of 20 People Who Make Healthcare Better in the U.S. by HealthLeaders Media 2010. She received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in September of 2008 and an Honorary Doctorate of Science from Oberlin College in 2010. Other honors include the Open Society Institute Faculty Scholar's Award of the Project on Death in America, the Alexander Richman Commemorative Award for Humanism in Medicine, the Founders Award of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization 2007, AARP's 50th Anniversary Social Impact Award 2008, Gold Humanism Honor Society National Honoree 2008, Castle Connelly's Physician of the Year Award 2009, and the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Lifetime Achievement Award 2009. She is currently Principal Investigator of an NCI-funded five-year multisite study on the outcomes of hospital palliative care services in cancer patients. Dr. Meier served as one of Columbia University's Health and Aging Policy Fellows in Washington DC during the 2009-2010 academic year, working both on the Senate's HELP Committee and the Department of Health and Human Services.
Dr. Meier has over 100 peer reviewed publications in the medical literature. Her most recent book, Palliative Care: Transforming the Care of Serious Illness, was published by Jossey in 2010. She edited the first textbook on geriatric palliative care, as well as four editions of Geriatric Medicine. As one of the leading figures in the field of palliative medicine, Dr. Meier has appeared numerous times on television and in print, including ABC World News Tonight, Open Mind with Richard Hefner, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, the New Yorker, AARP, and Newsweek. She figured prominently in the Bill Moyers series On Our Own Terms, a four-part documentary aired on PBS.
Diane E. Meier received her BA from Oberlin College and her MD from Northwestern University Medical School. She completed her residency and fellowship training at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland. She has been on the faculty of the Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine and Department of Medicine at Mount Sinai since 1983.
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Manfredi PL, Morrison R, Morris J, Goldhirsch S, Carter J, Meier D. Palliative care consultations: how do they impact the care of hospitalized patients?. J Pain Symptom Manage 2000 Sep; 20(3): 166-73.
Carney MT, Meier DE. Palliative care and end-of-life issues. Anesthesiol Clin North America 2000 Mar; 18(1): 183-209.
Morrison R, Flanagan S, Fischberg D, Cintron A, Siu A. A novel interdisciplinary analgesic program reduces pain and improves function in older adults after orthopedic surgery. Journal of the American Geriatric Society 2009; 57: 1-10.
Kelley A, Morrison R, Wenger N, Ettner S, Sarkisian C. Determinants of treatment intensity for patients with serious illness: a new conceptual framework. Journal of Palliative Medicine 2010; 13(7): 807-813.
Nierman DM, Schechter CB, Cannon LM, Meier DE. Outcome prediction model for very elderly critically ill patients. Crit Care Med 2001 Oct; 29(10): 1853-1859.
Meier DE. Palliative care programs: what, why, and how?. Physician Exec 2001 Dec; 27(6): 43-47.
Meier DE. United States: Overview of cancer pain and palliative care. J Pain Symptom Manage 2002 Aug; 24(2): 265-269.
Gelfman L, Meier D, R. Does palliative care improve quality? A survey of bereaved family members. J Pain Symptom Management 2008; 26: 22-28.
Morrison R, Meier DE, editors. Geriatric Palliative Care. New York, Oxford University Press; 2003.
Epstein AS, Goldberg GR, Meier DE. Palliative care and hematologic oncology: The promise of collaboration. Blood reviews 2012 Nov; 26(6).
Boockvar KS, Meier DE. Palliative care for frail older adults: . JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association 2006 Nov; 296(18).
Morrison RS, Penrod JD, Cassel JB, Caust-Ellenbogen M, Litke A, Spragens L, Meier DE. Cost savings associated with US hospital palliative care consultation programs. Archives of internal medicine 2008 Sep; 168(16).
Meier DE, Brawley OW. Palliative care and the quality of life. Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology 2011 Jul; 29(20).
Meier DE, Brawley OW. Palliative care and the quality of life. Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology 2011 Jul; 29(20).
Adler ED, Goldfinger JZ, Kalman J, Park ME, Meier DE. Palliative care in the treatment of advanced heart failure. Circulation 2009 Dec; 120(25).
Kelley AS, Meier DE. Palliative care--a shifting paradigm. The New England journal of medicine 2010 Aug; 363(8).
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Physicians and scientists on the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai often interact with pharmaceutical, device and biotechnology companies to improve patient care, develop new therapies and achieve scientific breakthroughs. In order to promote an ethical and transparent environment for conducting research, providing clinical care and teaching, Mount Sinai requires that salaried faculty inform the School of their relationships with such companies.
Dr. Meier has not yet completed reporting of Industry relationships.
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Intel rolls out P965/ICH8 chipset
Bye-bye, IDE
Computex 2006 Intel has officially launched its first 'Broadwater' chipset, the P965 Express, pitched at the upcoming Core 2 Duo dual-core processor - aka 'Conroe' operating on a 1066MHz frontside bus.
As expected, the P965 supports dual-channel 800MHz DDR 2 SDRAM with bandwidth-optimising Fast Memory Access (FMA) technology, which can re-order memory access commands to ensure the bus is used as efficiently as possible.
FMA is also intended to provide the integrated graphics core in the upcoming G965 Express chipset with a route to system memory, one of ways the the successor to the GMA 950 core will deliver improved performance. Intel has yet to launch the G965, so details of the new GPU remain scarce, though motherboard maker Gigabyte, for one, has suggested it will be dubbed the GMA X3000.
The P965 is designed to operate with Intel's ICH8-R or ICH8-DH South Bridge chips. The R variant supports the latest version of Intel's Matrix Storage Technology, which brings a pair of external 3Gbps eSATA ports to the table and ups the SATA port count from four to six. Both ICH8 parts also add Intel's Quiet System Technology (QST) automatic fan-speed control system. Intel didn't say so explicitly, but it's clear from the chipset architecture diagram, parallel ATA's not part of the story.
The Vista Capable chipset is Viiv-certified, Intel said, and supports HD audio, now with dual audio-stream support for multi-room sound. It can host up to ten USB ports, any or all of which can be disabled to improve data security in business systems based on the part. ®


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This issue is a variant of Godzilla: Kingdom of Monsters (IDW, 2011 series) #1 [Cover A]. There exist further variants.
Creative Consultant: Chris Mowry
There are four regular variant covers for this issue. Additional variant covers were made for comic book stores who purchased at least 500 copies of Godzilla #1. They show Godzilla smashing their store. The first issue shows the covers for 75 participating comic book stores. IDW arranged a second print of variant covers which included 23 more variant covers.
Stores were drawn by Matt Frank (about 30 of them solo), Cassandra Gibbs, Joana Lafuente, Gordon Purcell, Alan Robinson, Kris Carvajel and Jamie Snell. The covers were colored by Matt Frank, Liam Shalloo, John Paul Bove, Kote Carvajel and Josh Perez. [information from http://www.scifijapan.com/articles/2011/02/25/covering-godzilla/. Article appears to have been written before second printing covers were done, but presumably they were a similar team effort.]


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Strasburg, North Dakota- Family Issues
Germans from Russia Heritage Society
Cassette Tape Collection (Date Unknown)
Number One in a Series
Transcription by Joy Hass Stefan
Editing by Janel Wald and Linda Haag
The closeness of the family isn't like it was years ago, but I think we maintain it here as well as anyone else. And they all feel too… Catholics as well as we do, that some of this has been lost, but they do feel that the home is the center of everything. You lose the family life, the home life, and then you've really lost something. So I would say here that the family life is as good as you'll find it anywhere, I'm sure of that.
Strasburg, North Dakota. Population: 643. Our hometown. One in a series of programs exploring the values and, character of life in small towns. Produced by Minnesota Public Radio Station KCCM, with funds provided by the North Dakota Committee for the Humanities and Public Issues. On today's sound portrait, you'll hear attitudes about family, privacy, helpfulness. And Mayor Leo Mattern tells about the growth of the town. You'll also hear a portion of a council meeting, and look to the future of Strasburg. The interviewer is John Ydstie.
Now everybody is a good parent. You can't find one parent that isn't a good parent around here, and I think this is what they hold in high esteem, their family.
How would you describe a good parent?
You have to love your child, that's for sure. And you try
to give them the best education you know how. I don't think
you should be too harsh on your children, but you can't just
let them run loose whenever they want. That's an advantage
of a small town. Now my kids, I don't have to worry about
them when we are working. But they can go to the swimming pool,
they can ride out to the rodeo grounds; they've got horses
for them. I don't have to worry about them getting mugged
or raped. A kid gets into trouble for driving too fast, maybe, or
something like that, but that's the limit to it. That's
the advantage of a small town. See, if you're in a big city,
your kid leaves and you don't know where he's at.
Come on. Go!
I get to throw it. I get to throw it.
Wait, wait wait. They have to run around Nanna's house once, count up to 60…
Ready or not, here I come. [sounds of children running and playing]
From the time I came until now, a woman's lifestyle has changed, because there weren't too many women working other than teaching when I got here. But the nursing home opened and that employed a lot of women there, and some go in to Linton to go to work, so there are very few women who aren't working in the town right now.
Did you ever feel any ostracism, or did people look askance when you worked?
A couple have remarked about it. They don't think I should be working. I should be home, but I had worked all my life and I grew up in a different lifestyle too, so I just kept at my same pattern as I had before.
How about the women's movement… has that affected women in Strasburg?
Maybe, to a certain extent, because we do have a lady on our city
council now, so I imagine you'd classify that as the women's
movement. I'm sure ten years ago no woman would have wanted
to get out and run for a city office.
What did the people think when you decided to run for town council?
Well, I suppose they didn't think much, but the older people, middle age and otherwise, they… and some of the younger ones too. But they thought it was a real good idea. They put all their backing with us. But these old, old people thought the woman should stay at home. But most of them, like my petitions, they all signed it. I had no trouble signing them. They had a little huff, huff, huff, but they signed it anyway.
Do you think that a woman is free to be what she wants to be in a small town? Or are there certain limits about it?
Well, I could say again if you let other people bother you, yes. Then your limits are set. I think you should just go out, and if you think its right, do it. If not, if you don't feel like going out working, because people won't say anything, but if you let it… they will, for awhile. Why does she have to work? Why doesn't she stay home with two kids? But after awhile, they kind of… you know, you almost have to work, the two of you. Around here, neatness is, like say your house isn't neat and you have an extra job or something, right away, yeah, her house is sloppy and there she goes out working. Why doesn't she stay home? That's one thing they look for, the neatness of the house, the way you keep it up, and like the yard itself. I think one thing is first a good housewife, and then secondary, this around here. First you're a good housewife and anything else comes second to that.
Does that bother you at all?
No. Because I keep up my work I figure. If he doesn't like
it, he's supposed to tell me, but I do my job. I get most
of my work done.
What's important to kids around here?
The only thing I think is important is what people think about
you. That's always what you're worried about…
what are they going to say?
I don't think you really worry about it, but you think about
it now and then. You're careful where you are at the right
What's important to you?
Around here? Getting to school and getting out. Getting away.
I think a lot more would come back, but the opportunities for employment
are so limited. I think they found out this confusion in the cities,
and just being a number, and I think the dullness. It looks glamorous
to them at first when they get to these new areas, but going to
work it seems to be a daily routine, just like in a smaller area,
and after the glamour has worn off, they're ready to settle
down in some area where there's more stability and so on.
Do you think any of your children will come back here and make a living here?
No, I don't think so, because with the doctor, he really tried so hard, and he would not come back. He's now in the service, but he would never come back to North Dakota.
Why not?
Because he just thinks the people are so much different. The people interfere so much with their life that he just wouldn't like it.
Not enough privacy?
Yes, not enough privacy, where in bigger cities they don't pay that much attention to people, where in smaller states, they know everything about everybody else. That's why he would never come back.
How do you feel about that?
I feel the same way about that part. I really do.
Does it bother you?
It really does, because everybody is interfering with everything you do. They interfere with whatever you're doing. That's one thing that's good about cities because they don't know each other that well, like they do in a little town like Strasburg. Everybody else knows everybody else, and they make a big issue about everything.
How about the concern and helpfulness? Don't you get that too, in a small town?
No, not very much. Not really, because everybody has to carry themselves,
and you don't get much help from anybody else.
I think we have these little petty things. This is one of those things I think you have to kind of overlook living in a small town. People seem to know what everybody else's business is. I think you would find it in larger cities too, but people don't know you there, but as soon as a person is probably successful to some extent, and people get a little envious and we have this petty stuff. I suppose if they had more to do they wouldn't be looking for some of these things. But this is one thing, I suppose, that you probably could get by with doing a lot less in some other areas than you do in a community such as this because you would get lost in the crowd, where in a smaller community, everybody seems to know what everybody else is doing. I feel sometimes they would be better off to mind their own business. This is part of any small community.
How about the notion that people are concerned about each other, and help each other?
Well, at one time I think it was much more so, but today it's
getting to be a dog eat dog world, even in small communities, as
we have in the large communities. I think there would still be more
concern for the simple reason that there are more families. You
go to New York City, you probably don't have any relatives
there, but if you live in a smaller community, at least within the
radius you probably have relatives and so on. So in that respect
they still help each other out. There are times when they show great
charitable ways by, for instance if some guy gets sick in the spring
of the year, they'll help put out his crop and so on. But
overall, I think we're pretty well getting to be like they
are in the larger cities. We're pretty well on our own, and
you fight for survival. I think this is one thing that we in education
sometimes fail to realize, to stem in to these kids. We want to
paint it as a Cinderella world and it isn't. And this business
of everything being fun when you get out in the world and you can
do what you want to, it doesn't work.
Have you ever thought about living anywhere else, than a small town?
I would never want to go to a big town. I like the little towns
much better. I can leave my doors open here, and I can come and
go as I feel. I trust people here, but the minute I get in Bismarck,
I lock my doors.
There are some notions about small towns that people have, I think. One of them would be that you don't have privacy. Someone always knows your affairs and knows what you're up to.
That may be true, and yet that's really, in a sense, not
altogether bad, either, in a sense. Sometimes it can be good too,
that we're intimate and know each other's business.
It might even help us a little bit to, um, talking about religion
again, to shape up and examine our own Christian life, well how
are we living? If other people see that in us, well maybe they're
right. So there might be a disadvantage and it can be an advantage,
I would say.
Well, yes, I don't think we need to be that private that
we shouldn't want other people to know what we're doing,
if we're doing those kind of things that we want to be off
somewhere so people can't tell what we're doing. Then
I think we're doing things we shouldn't be doing, because
we shouldn't care if anybody knows whether we're going
here or going there. One advantage of people knowing what you are
doing, is when you go to the hospital, everybody is there to come
and see you. That's one great advantage, where if you're
in a city and you get sick, you probably aren't going to have
too many visitors. When anybody hears that anybody is sick, you're
loaded with cards, you're visited, and perhaps when you come
home, they'll help take care of your family, and there's
just a great advantage to that.
Well, I think people in a small town probably do have a lifestyle that they pretty much live by. But it seems that, as I would see it in Strasburg here, they're pretty much all in agreement with, let's say, the same lifestyle.
Would they accept someone who came in who maybe wanted to live a different way?
Well, that's kind of hard to say. I really wouldn't
know what to say on that. I would rather think anyone coming in
with a new lifestyle, I think would fit in because I don't
think there would be that many complications, really, as I would
see it.
No, I think this party wouldn't want to be so different.
He'd naturally just form to their way and fall right into
You don't do anything the neighbors don't know about. The neighbor's children don't do anything your children don't know about. Sometimes it's not so good, but sometimes it is good, because I feel they stay within their boundaries and live up to marriage laws and church laws and the laws of the state and so on. Knowing that the neighbors know about it, they would probably go on and do a lot of things that, well, the neighbors know about it. We can't do this. It's a no-no.
How about helpfulness and concern? Are people more helpful in a small town like Strasburg than other places?
They are helpful to each other in a time of need around here. Like
I've had a lady friend who passed away of cancer and all the
different ladies in her homemakers club and in her church group
came in and helped the family with the washing and the house cleaning
and fixing food and taking it over for the family. Even now, I know
her husband is still alone with two children and he gets a lot of
help. Then again, too, I have another lady friend who's in
the hospital. She had surgery now and they were saying that as soon
as she's able to come home, we'll have to get together
and help her straighten up her house again and dust it and help
her along with the things until she's well enough. She's
alone. She lost her husband and her children are all gone. She's
a younger woman, but still is alone in the home and she's
had surgery that's quite serious, so already they made arrangements
for this.
At times of accidents and so on, I know in our homemakers club,
one of the ladies, they lost a little girl in a farm accident. All
our homemaker ladies pitched in and prepared food and helped her
along with getting things ready for the funeral, getting clothes
ready for the family to go to the funeral, because they have quite
a large family. And it was a strain on the mother to lose this little
girl, so suddenly and unexpectedly, and the homemakers club just
pitched in and brought food and hot dishes, and at the funeral,
lunch also. They had a lunch at the time of the funeral so when
a relation came in there was food prepared so it wasn't all
on the mother and the father. I think they do an awful lot to help
Where was this?
Where Ray's building.
Warren, Edgar Warren. He was just a cabinet builder.
I just don't remember his kids, but I remember this Edgar Warren.
Wasn't he married to a Diekert?
I think so.
I asked somebody, I forget who it was, and I said, "How the hell is Edgar Warren? I wonder if he ever gets to Strasburg." I mean, was he from here?
He was a school teacher. And they said he was married to a gal from out across there, and he thought it was a Diekert.
Then they moved the house to Westfield, somebody told me.
I couldn't say.
That was just… the house, I don't remember what happened to it.
I think it's right on this lot.
It had a nice shop. I wonder where that nice big shop went. .
I think it was on that lot.
You got to watch what you say. That all goes in the Record next
week. You're going to read all that stuff in the Record.
How would you assess Strasburg as a picture right now? Would you say it is a growing town, or static, dying?
No, I think it's very much growing. Since I've been here, eight years now, we've added some 20 new houses in town. In fact, just five went up this year in '74. And in the last Federal Census, we are the only town that increased in population, below 10,000. I'm quite sure we're not dying out. It is on the upswing, or at least holding its own.
Why is it different, why is it bucking the trend?
Well, it's a German community, and the Germans want to show off, I think. They like to show the next guy that they can do things. Thereby, there's always someone who tries to bring some business into town, just to show off to the other guy that he can do it.
What would you say are the needs of a town like this, and Strasburg in particular?
Industry. Definitely industry, to keep the younger people here. If you keep your younger generation here, your towns will survive. The older people, sooner or later, will have to die, and if they are not replaced, then pretty soon the town will be dead. Industry is definitely a big factor in the smaller towns.
Do you think Strasburg is going to be getting industry in the near future, any kind of industry?
Yes. I have one in the making right now. And by next spring, I
should be in full production. It's the concrete fence posts
that I will be manufacturing here in this town. Now, I have no idea
how big it will get or how many people it will employ. This is something
I'll have to wait and see. As the demand will go on, I hope
to have it up. I don't want to mention any figure, but I hope
to employ some people some day.
Have you ever wanted to live anywhere else?
Well, not necessarily, because I had the opportunity to move. In
my dreams, when I came back to this little town, bought this business
place, I thought this town could grow and could be twice the size
of our neighbor town, Linton, which is the county seat and courthouse.
I'm always telling them that don't mean anything, because
it's been proven fact. But then, the minute you get the ball
rolling, something turns up and the applecart turns. Like we had
a mayor… I was mayor eight years ago, then they put (297)
in this town, which was quite an improvement. We filled up all the
old basements. We were open in the 1930s yet. People packed up and
moved out, you know in the dry years. We backfilled that, put it
back in grass, condemned all the old buildings. You'd be surprised
if you'd seen that eight years ago, how ugly our town looked.
And today you seldom find an old building. Well, there are a few
more that have to be taken off. Then when we had (306) in, even
my dad worked again. He was so mad for spending the taxpayers'
money, which was the best move we made. Then they pushed me out,
me and the whole bar. Well, when they realized the last four years
nothing was done, which we should have had a well two years ago
already, and would have gotten Federal aid to help, in line of emergency,
they didn't build any, so they said, well I better run again.
I said, well they didn't want me in the first place, why should
I run now? Well, I did, and won by far. Well, we got our well done.
We made forward progress. We got to be a bicentennial city. We worked
hard with some of my board members' help, which if you noticed,
the board goes pretty well along with what I say. And we got our
all new stop signs now, up to date signs. Our pole has come. Then
we got the Jaycees come. They're going to put up the avenue
signs, which we went 50-50 matching dollar with them. So there are
four projects clicking. Now we're working on our flagpole
and our historical building, which is our next move now.
By the way, our flagpole is here. Where are we going to put that flagpole?
Out here.
Ervin thinks it doesn't work out there.
No, no, right out here in the middle of the street. Right out there.
Right there. Do you think so?
That's the place to put it. Right in the middle of the street.
Well, that manhole is there.
It wouldn't be a bad idea, in the middle of the street here. That may be the best place of all. If he puts that block on there, prairie stone blocks, build it up about two feet high. That's all it takes.
That would draw attention of everybody who drives by.
Put flowers in the middle. At least people would know it. It would be so much nicer than any other place. A block on each side. See, its right in the middle where it doesn't interfere with your lights or anything.
Well, it would be eye catching.
It would only be about five feet square, I mean in diameter.
We wouldn't have to make it square. We could make it round.
I say five feet in diameter.
You can make it round. It will look nicer than if it's square.
Or make it diamond shaped so that if they hit it they'd glance
There, you couldn't help but notice it, especially if you build it up with those prairie rocks, about two feet high around it.
I think we should put that in a motion and get this job started.
Okay, I'll make that a motion.
Put it in the intersection. Why should we get the feeling of the people? It's our duty. That's why we were nominated for the job.
Motion made by Willie, seconded by Allyn Wald. All in favor?
Ayes carry. It's projects that make your town grow.
I feel we're trying to make our town grow, and Strasburg
has increased its population from the 1960s to the 1970 census.
We've built a new nursing home here; we have a big cheese
plant. This bank in itself has grown tremendously since 1968, since
I've been here. I don't know, I think we've got
a clean town, and this is what we work for. I don't know if
you've noticed or not, but our main street, what we have,
I think is clean. This has probably helped us a lot. People take
a little bit of pride in their buildings and so forth. This is something
we all have to have an effort in. Otherwise, your town probably
backs up and you don't even know it. We've got a few
towns around here that have backed up. And the trend for people
leaving Strasburg, I don't think it's been as great
because there are people who want to come back here. North Dakota,
as a whole, has lost a lot of young people, which I think if there
were more of an opportunity… right now we're in a tight
money pinch, I know kids from around here who have left would like
to come back and just farm. The opportunity just isn't there
There's got to be a better life somewhere else. You find
something different; try something different. If you don't
like anything else, you never know where you're going to end
up. If I find a job that I like and country that I like, I'll
stay there. If you're happy, you're happy, and around
here, I think maybe the older people like it. It's a nice
little town to just retire in and listen to the gossip.
Where are you going to go?
I'm going to college. Grand Forks.
[ 410 – 418 – Strasburg high school cheerleaders]
Strasburg, North Dakota. Our hometown. One in a series of sound self-portraits illustrating the attitudes and character of life in small towns. Produced by Minnesota Public Radio Station KCCM, with funds provided by the North Dakota Committee for the Humanities and Public Issues. Producers of the series are John Ydstie,Dennis Hamilton and Bill Siemering. You may purchase a cassette copy of this program by contacting KCCM, Concordia College, and Moorhead, Minnesota 56560
That's the way it goes in Strasburg.
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John Mark Karr, who made what turned out to be bogus claims of killing JonBenet Ramsey, was jailed Saturday in a domestic argument at his father's house in suburban Atlanta.
Let me share the fun stuff with you.
Officers received a 911 call late Friday from the house about an argument between Karr, his girlfriend and his father.He has a girlfriend? What are you, chick, retarded?
Officers took Karr to a hospital after he complained of chest pains, and took him to jail late Saturday morning.Ah, good old Jail Pain. I see the MI crisis was diverted, as usual.