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`Apollo beats
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`fifth-ranked team in
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`Roofer Paul Neumann, Sauk Rapids, puts the felt down on the roof of a new home Friday afternoon in Benton Con
`ty, at the corner of Stone Ridge Road and Field Stone Road. Benton County has the fourth-lowest percentage
`owner-occupied homes in the state, but many say that is changing as more residential developments are built.
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`Households occupied by owners
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`Benton County’s homeowner:
`may soon outnumber renters
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`By Kirsti Marohn
`Times staff “Titer
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`Real estate broker Stacy
`Olson sold just one new
`home in Benton County
`last year for Goulet Homes,
`far fewer than across the
`river in Steams County.
`Aside from East St Cloud,
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`8,590
`8,638
`11,816
`21,581
`47,604
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`7,018
`6,916
`9,672
`18,151
`35,124
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`mains rural. But that could
`change, Olson said.
`“People want to be where
`there’s malls and activity,”
`she said. “There’s a lot of
`farmland in Benton Coun-
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`percentage of owner—occu—
`pied homes in Minnesota.
`Of the county’s 13,065
`households, 8,795 or 67
`percent were occupied by
`their owners, rather than
`had lower owner-occupied County is the 12th-highest
`in the state at 84 percent.
`rates than Benton County.
`by renters.
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`will take some commercial
`Steams County is at 74« per—
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`Device increases amputees’ comfort
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`TEC creates pieces
`to make artificial
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`limbs easier to use
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`By Sue Halena
`Times staffwritcr
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`WAITE PARK — Carl
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`Caspers has seen the tears
`of joy when a client first
`used the device he designed
`to make artificial legs fit
`better.
`He also has seen initial
`sales of the device soar sev-
`en times higher than the
`projected level, putting his
`Waite Park business on sol—
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`id ground for growth next
`year.
`Caspers is chief executive
`officer of TEC Interface
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`Systems, which for 12 years
`has designed, manufac—
`tured and marketed acces-
`sories that make artificial
`limbs easier to use. TEC’s
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`Times photo by Jason Wachter
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`TEC Interface Systems CEO Carl Caspers (left) and President Scott Schneider hold
`some the products that have made them a worldwide distributor of prosthetic devices.
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`cal vacuum pump in the ar-
`tificial limb that tightens
`latest product —— the Har—
`the flesh—area seal by re—
`mony Socket Enhancement
`moving air. The better seal
`System — is by far its most
`keeps realistic pressure on
`significant, said Caspers,
`the tissues that otherwise
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`mony system is a mechani—
`himself an amputee.
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`“I’ve never been able to
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`affect people’s lives in the
`manner this enables me to,”
`Caspers said.
`The essence of the Har-
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`react by shrinking — and
`fitting the prosthesis more
`poorly — through the
`course of a day.
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`Holidays
`stress pets
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`Snow sweeps quickly through St. Cloud area
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`Times staff report
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`The predicted weekend
`snowstorm blew through
`Central Minnesota faster
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`For road conditions:
`I In the St. Cloud area,
`call 255-4265
`I Statewide, call (800)
`542-0220
`I On the Web:
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`www.tripusa.com/min-
`nesota/wintercond.htm|
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`Here’s the holiday week—
`end forecast:
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`. Today: The high will
`be in the mid-teens with
`northwest winds from 20
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`to 30 mph blowing the new
`snow around. Chance of
`additional light snow is 60
`percent. The wind and flur-
`ries will continue tonight
`with a low near zero.
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`cloudy with some flurries
`and the high temperature
`Will be near 10 degrees. The
`low Monday night is expect—
`ed to be 5 degrees below
`zero.
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`I Tuesday: Clouds and
`flurries continue with a high
`around 10 degrees expected.
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`I 1 dies in snow-related
`car crash/lB
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`than predicted and dumped
`about half as much snow as
`forecast on the region.
`But behind the snow, cold
`Disney
`winds are blowing in and the
`fun, ente
`will push around the 2.8
`temperature may drop be-
`inches of snow that fell Sat—
`low zero for the first time
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`About TEC Interface Systems
`Product: Prosthetic and or-
`distributors and 12 abroad.
`thotic devices made for more
`Awards: 1995 runner-up for
`National Small Business of the
`than 250 amputees per week.
`Employees: 49
`Year, awarded after winning
`similar awards at state and lo-
`Projected 2002 sales: Up 47
`cal levels.
`percent to $8.5 million
`Scope: About one-fourth of
`Patents: Have 16; 15 pending.
`sales are made in 29 countries
`Web site:
`other than the United States.
`www.tecinterface.com
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`“Usually thefirst hour of the
`day, for an amputee, is the best
`hour that they get,” Caspers said.
`One good hour isn’t enough for
`the bikers, golfers, mountain
`climbers and runners who are
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`among TEC clients. A marathon
`runner who once adjusted his
`prosthesis five or six times during
`one race now runs without stop-
`ping.
`Five years of research led to
`TEC’s innovation, and within the
`next two years the product could
`be the first external prosthesis to
`be approved by the Food and
`Drug Administration as an aid to
`post—surgical healing. The pump
`creates an environment that in-
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`done by next fall.
`St Cloud State researchers an
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`the university’s human perform—
`ance lab also gave scientific guid-
`ance to the vacuum pump ideas
`that Caspers tested first on him—
`self and then on two groups of 10
`amputees.
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`Surprising sales
`Last summer, a training event
`for distributors of the Harmony
`device showed TEC where it was
`headed. Executives estimated
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`from $4.2 million to $6.2 mil—
`lion. Sales prior to that had hov—
`ered at about $4 million for each
`ofthe previous four years, though
`profits had improved through .
`cost reductions.
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`The vacuum pump is used to-
`gether with established TEC
`limb-fitting products, and sales of
`those goods are expected to rise
`30 percent because of the Har—
`mony system, Schneider said. The
`entire system sells for $4,000.
`Caspers wants to apply the
`vacuum pump technology to am—
`putations on the arm, shoulder,
`pelvis and hip.
`“Now instead of working
`against it, we’re actually working
`in concert with how the human
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`creases blood supply to a wound
`or sore, shortening the healing
`sales through that event would
`time, Caspers said.
`total $200,000 at best, said Scott
`Carl Caspers, TEC Interface Sys-
`A St. Cloud State University re-
`Schneider, TEC president and
`tems CEO. wears the Harmony
`search team contracted with TEC
`Caspers’ son—in—law.
`PRS system which creates a
`vacuum in the socket as he
`Instead, orders reached $1.4
`to verify capillary blood flow im-
`provements related to the Har-
`million that week, boosting the
`walks to hold the socket snug to
`the limb.
`mony device. That study will be
`body works,” he said.
`company’s 2001 sales forecast
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