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TARGET ACQUIRED Startup creates robotic system that aims to improve shooting skills BY BARRY ROCHFORD brochford@kpcmedia.com
People are erratic. They make unexpected decisions. Their behavior, oftentimes, doesn’t conform to a pattern that can be predicted. In a situation n “When he was involving armed law-enforcement or telling me about military personnel who are responding this idea that he’d to a threat, that randomness can had for application have life or death of robotics to the consequences. A Fort Wayne target world, that startup, Targamite LLC, has developed actually lined up a robotic target very well with an system designed to mimic what interest we have in officers, agents and soldiers might robotics.” encounter in realRobert Kniskern life situations. The Adaptive Micro-Ware Inc. company expects to begin selling its Targabot system to customers in January. “The idea of this doing what it does is it builds confidence,” said Targamite’s founder, Gary Kaufman. “And when you build confidence in personnel, it builds competence. That’s where the sweet spot of this thing is. It’s mission is to build more prowess and competence out in the field so people are more effective in what they do
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Brian Bauer succeeds Joe Dorko at CEO of Lutheran Health Network.
Health network board makes Bauer new CEO He became interim LHN leader in June BARRY ROCHFORD
Gary Kaufman, left, founded Targamite LLC and developed the Targabot system, center, with assistance from Robert Kniskern and Adaptive Micro-Ware Inc.
— and are safer and come home.” As a child growing up in rural Northern California, Kaufman, was at one point paid $15 a head to shoot jackrabbits. That was a seemingly high price, but he quickly realized why: Jackrabbits don’t like being shot at, and trying to hit one as it zigged and zagged away from him sorely tested his marksmanship skills. “They’re almost impossible to shoot,” he said. People, too, zig and zag. Kaufman has
Brian Bauer, now officially the chief executive officer of Lutheran Health Network, has been known to drop in, unannounced, at one of the network’s hospitals just to visit with patients and staff. On one occasion, Bauer, the Lutheran Hospital CEO who acted as interim network CEO for four months, showed up on a weekend, dressed in shorts, and had a hard time persuading people he was who he said
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worked as an intellectual-property lawyer in San Francisco, combating Ralph Lauren knockoffs and Swiss watch company counterfeits. He later joined an entertainment law firm in Los Angeles and specialized in independent motion picture finance and distribution — the straight-to-VHS movies starring the likes of Chuck Norris, Charles Bronson or Jean Claude Van Damme that feature lots of action and explosions. They
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BY LINDA LIPP
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