 I believe that our work to identify a methodology that could be followed by national programs and by many others around the world to look at and understand how core pieces of technology in the farming system interrelated one with another and how it complemented other farm activities. It's a little bit different than looking at whole farm farming systems. There are many programs like that, but we always took rice technology as the core piece of technology that we wanted to understand. I believe the contribution of that, there were a couple of things that were very striking in the early days. One of them was that we discovered and were able eventually to persuade our colleagues throughout the institute that not always did rice technology considered alone turn out to be the best approach. That was we were able to show that many times, eerie technology as developed on the farm might not be successful in farms because of the many other conditions that impinged on rice farming. For example, the real value of an early rice variety 1529, which was an early maturing rice variety that was followed then later by IR 36, was not that it was higher yielding globally as a high yielding rice, but the fact that it matured early. So there was a sacrifice of yield for timeliness, and that made rice fit much better into an entire farming system and enabled other crops to be grown in other seasons. Dr. Brady did recruit what we would have to call the Young Turks of the Institute of the Time. We were a relatively large multinational community of young scientists who didn't expect to stay at Erie forever. In fact, I think most of us thought that we were coming there for maybe two years, five years at the most. We most persisted for at least 10 years, and that particular generation happened to have worked at Erie during a period when funding was on the rise. So there was a tremendous esprit de corps, a tremendous spirit of accomplishment. The flip side of it is that we were full of ourselves and we're often up to tricks. There was hardly a week passed that some gimmick or some trick, some mischievous act didn't take place on the compound of the young scientists playing tricks on one another. Like for example, walling up the doors to one's house with river stones so that they couldn't leave their house the next morning, removing scaffolding from a building project to scaffold in another home overnight. Sometimes names to the houses were, if at first the posts that had the names of persons houses were just stuck into the ground, well that was too easy to move. So those every morning people would wake up to find they were living in the wrong house or they had the wrong name in front of their house. Then they started setting them in concrete, but even those sometimes got somehow out of the ground and one ended up in the swimming pool. So there were antics galore among those scientists, but I would still, it was probably one of the very best working environments one would ever want to be in terms of collegiality, wherewithal to do research, support for our research was tremendous.