The Equitable Life Assurance Society presents this is your FBI This is your FBI the official broadcast from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation presented transcribed as a public service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and the Equitable Society representative in your community Midway in tonight's program in place of the usual commercial We will bring you a special message on inflation from Thomas I. Parkinson President of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States Tonight the subject of our FBI file hijacking its title Captain Larson E Tonight's case from the files of your FBI brings out a significant fact Despite the introduction of hundreds of scientific aids of improved detection equipment and of faster The most important factor in crime investigation is still brain power There is no substitute for human intelligence That is why the qualifications for a special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation have been made exceedingly exacting Only picked men those who measure up to the highest mental physical and character standards are chosen to serve in your FBI Tonight's file opens in a waterfront saloon as the bartender serves a customer a drink Fetch me a handful of rye whiskey Georgie boy, right? Well, don't distill the whiskey son just pour it coming up to the sea First one in the morning always tickles another shot cap at first. We better have a few words Maybe inside this box. I have a camera a movie camera. I'm sorry cap I can't handle any more stuff. No, but mate when I brought you that silk last week. I know I know I asked for some cameras I can't use them now the guy was selling and interested. Well, look all I want for a drink. I bought 10 Give me a thank on you. Yeah. Yeah, you might if I buy one for a cap Do you want the camera? No, no, no, I just hate drinking alone. Well, that's my sweetie you boy. We think you may think I'll take one too, huh? Okay? To your kind friends and to the voyage home Good whiskey and good friends What should we do with the drunken sailor? What should we do with Say you play that thing, huh? We ought to do fine together not at the bar You can't you're gonna sing take your drinks in the back. Okay. Come on cap. Oh, but then I bring a bottle back to the table, huh? All right cap. Let's go. Oh Nobody's got clear in that far corner You've got a couple of more trucks coming in today Scotty, I told you to stay out of here get that big piece broken up Charlie. Ah, but Jane I want to tell you I'm busy, but I got a deal for you. I wouldn't touch a deal of yours if I had a guarantee Come on back to work Joe. This is a junkyard not a flop house. Hey Jane Will you stand still and listen for a minute?  He tried to sell a bartender camera See so I bought the bum a drink He thinks he's a captain on a boat so I played the harmonica while he sang some songs about sailors He's time. He took a belt. I asked him if he had any silk or radios or the other stuff. I remembered whitey and Louis grabbing He's got them all where that's what we got to find out. We I bought him a bottle left him in a joint He's waiting for us. Oh, what do you say you want to see him? Okay Later that morning at the local FBI field office special agent Taylor returns to his desk to find police detective Doug Mitchell Oh Doug you waiting for me. Yes, Jim. I'll grab a chair. Thanks. I saw your agent in charge and he said to work with you Oh, and what you weren't in the office last year. Were you know? I came from Salt Lake City in January Well just about a year ago two thieves named whitey Jackson and Louis Adams burglarized shipping piers up and down the river How long to get away with it till we got a description of their boat that night the Harbor Patrol spotted them and they Tried to shoot their way out. That's pretty tough order both of them were killed When the boat was examined it was empty. Maybe they were looking for a job to do one. No There'd been another burglary an hour before well Doug could they've gotten back to home base and dropped off the loo Yes, but from papers in their pockets. We located their drop. Hmm. That was empty, too While the sudden activity on the case now Doug none of the loot had ever turned up till last night Oh found a couple of pieces when we raided a wholesale dry good store in the north side They were from an interstate shipment. Well, that gives us jurisdiction. All right. Yeah, I have interviewed the shopkeeper He says he bought these particular items from a bartender who works on the waterfront. No name. No, but he did give us a description Well, Doug, there's quite a few saloons down there My office is trying to check all of them now Jim. I'm fine. They get a lead contact, right? Oh Customers at the bar or beef and it was that was that Customers of even when you tell those bar beef and customers that it's Captain Crawford doing these sea shatties You tell him about me with it Tell him about me being the old skipper of the greatest ship. They don't care and I'll tell you something neither do I? Oh, is that so?  Well, all right. Go ahead.  Hey before you two sit down. Keep him quiet or get him out. Yeah, sure sure. He'll be okay Oh cap, I'd like you to meet a friend of mine. I am. Oh, hello friend. Welcome. Welcome aboard friend Sit down. Come on sit down.  Yeah. Yeah, but first my friend here wants to talk to you Oh about the time we were three days out of Memphis. No, no, no, no No, I was mean about something else captain. I hear you know, or I can locate some silk Oh silk If I wanted to I could show you so much silk. You think I was a silkworm You know in those days in Memphis cap cap is let's stay with the silk. Yeah, where is it? It's on my ship. You got a ship. What what do you mean? What wait? Why don't you believe me? No? Well, what do you think it say wait wait wait now hold on I've got it There's only one way to prove it. Well, I'll show it to you. I'll prove it. Certainly. I'll show it Oh, I'll show if somebody will just walk through to kindly help me so I can get up Now I'll have you both piped aboard. What'll it be men you George Webster? That's right I'm a special agent the FBI here my credentials That's a detective Mitchell the police. Hello Webster. Yeah, you're the guy that pinched me two years ago This is a business call again. Oh wait a minute. Go look me up I've been working here since I got out you can't pin a wrap nobody's trying to pin anything on your web See then why'd you come here? I'll be with you in a minute. Go ahead. I'll answer if I can it's fine A man who owns a wholesale dry good store on the north side has been arrested We found some a whitey Jackson. I know he Adams loot his back room Well, what's that got to do with me? He claims you sold it to me. You know wait a minute Doug went some Home movie camera stolen by this Jackson and Adams three great seven Webster me I see that box, please which one on the shelf there behind the bar sure Here you are. Well, I get the list of stolen property. Hey look. I only work here Serial number is zero nine five three zero nine five three here it is. That's part of the loot Well, Webster that doesn't look very good for you doesn't hang out I know it was hot a guy come in and asked me to give him a couple of drinks for the camera Am I supposed to fingerprint everybody you say you got this from a customer? Yeah, an old guy named cap What's the rest of his name? So I know he says he's a captain on the ship Comes in a couple of times a week with a camera a little radio or something else I give him a few bucks and he drinks it up in here In a minute, can you describe this captain?  You know where he lives But he just left here a little while ago with two guys who are they I don't know I'm not putting out a description on the captain. All right, Doug And we'll talk to you Webster headquarters. Hey this old bomb has taken us no place Well, he said his boat was at the end of this dock.  Oh One of them would make enough scrap to fill your job. Yeah, Scotty you can't hide stuff freighter. Why not? Nobody around captain. Come on. Let's follow. What can we lose? Here's where we wind up getting nailed for trespassing Sorry that none of my crew we hear the pipes that's distinguished visitors aboard my ship. They all desert your captain No, no, I gave them all shore leave then you're alone here. Yeah, that's right. Come on Let's go in my cabin. Come on champ. Let's see what he's got Come on boys, join me inside this thing will probably sink before we get off of gentlemen after you after you may be Okay Now just make yourself ship shape Jane look over there by the wall bolts of cell cameras.  Hey cap Yeah, you got any more that stuff over there on the boat Did you say boat? Young fella ship never say boat you understand ship. Okay. Okay. I won't look you got any more to silk around on those cameras Here's the camera filming it too. Come on take it. Oh, we want to know if you got more stuff someplace else Oh Lots of it lots of it the holes full up with silk and cameras.  Let's have a tune As I was walking down back to the yard pick up a truck. Okay. Oh Come on. Come on play me some music A pretty young maid. We do about him. That's easy That's for the loot and that's as a music lover in local newspapers through america beginning next sunday There will appear an advertisement of the equitable life assurance society which carries a special message on inflation It is signed by thomas i pockinson president of the equitable life assurance society This message is both timely and important You'll undoubtedly want to read it in full next week in the meantime. Here are the most significant passages The total insurance in force with the equitable society Represents money held for future delivery When do you every dollar of that sum will be paid? but As a responsible institution of thrift with more than 6 million people who look to us for economic security We are concerned with the purchasing power of those dollars when they become due For mounting inflation man-made threatens not only the worth of the dollar But the very existence of our national enterprise Indeed this threat is as real and deadly as the red menace against which we are arming But the plain fact is that in the fight against inflation We as a nation are hiding under the bed When we freeze wages or prices We are merely doctoring the symptoms of the inflation disease Rather than the disease itself If we are to stop the inflationary trend The makers of our public policies must deal with the monetary causes of the inflation They must control the expansion of bank deposits and the constantly increasing money supply There's nothing mysterious about this inflation More and more people are beginning to realize That the stories they read on the financial pages of their newspapers Have a direct relationship to the prices of food furniture and other living essentials In the same newspapers a week later Inflation is everybody's concern From the Wall Street banker to the Missouri housewife In the fight against it the American people you and your neighbors Must learn to look beyond the local grosses bill and the meat prices in the butcher shop You must look to washington the seat of our government where the monetary policy is made More than that you must make your own voice heard among the lawmakers Congress should be interested in your views on inflation And your congressman is as close as your nearest mailbox or telegraph office Let me repeat If we are to stop this inflationary trend The makers of our public policies must deal with the monetary causes of the inflation They must control the expansion of bank deposits and the constantly increasing money supply And now back to the fbi file captain larceny The opportunity to commit crime in one form or another is actually part of the daily lives of every one of us Indeed criminals are distinguished from good citizens not by any greater opportunity for crime But mainly by the criminals failure to resist temptation Admittedly resisting is sometimes difficult as it must have been in the case of the sea captain in tonight's story Yet had he done what he should have And he notified the police when he found the loot on the freighter He would have saved himself from physical assault It is no excuse that he took only a little of the loot he came across Or it isn't possible to draw a line and say I will steal this much and no more Or if tonight's case teaches any single lesson it is this Crime prevention begins at the tips of our own fingers And crime prevention is not only a moral matter But also a matter of self-preservation Tonight's file continues at police headquarters where special agent taylor is interviewing the suspected bartender Webster, how about going over those pictures again? All right, it's no use You gave us a description on the captain so i'm inclined to believe that he's an actual person He is But those other two men You can't find the pictures you can't tell us the names and you don't even remember what they look like It's true. I seen him around but uh, oh, hello, dr Anything in on that alarm? Not a word. How you doing here? Well, he either can't or won't give us any more help I'm inclined to think Wait a minute I don't know whether this will help or not But about a week ago cap came in and showed me a tattoo on his arm No It was a picture of a ship He have any special reason for showing it to you? Yeah, he said it was new Did he say where he had it done? Some place on main street Oh, that might give us a lead Come on, Doug. Let's cover every tattoo parlor down there Old day, Scotty Yeah, but this stuff is heavy Throw it on. Let's get this truck out of here Now that's the load. Grab that other door Okay Come on Oh, wait. Well, I'll be right back Where are you going? Oh, my harmonic. It's still in the captain's captain Leave it there That thing cost me 40 clams All right. Do what you want. I'm going All right. Forget it Get in on this side All right And what you think we've got In both loads, about 10 Gs worth What's funny? You not making any deal with me Huh? That's why you'll always be a minor leaguer, Scotty What are you talking about? If you held out before we got to the boat You could have made me give you half the profit This way you get 20% Oh, wait a minute. Gene, that ain't right I'll talk about it. I'll cut it down Oh, Gene, the whole thing was my idea What? Now stop beefing or I'll charge you for the ride Come in on the captain, Doug Not yet, Jim You may find him anyway. I had some luck Captain went to a tattoo parlor at Maine and Broadway Told the operator there his name was Crawford And part of the tattoo was the name of his ship, the SS Peter Simon Oh, you checked the ship's registry? Yeah, the SS Peter Simon's freighter That's been mothball since 1946 And nobody named Crawford was ever the captain on it Where's the boat now? Registry's checking that I questioned Webster again when I got back No? You remember anything else? Not much. One of the men who left with the captain Played a harmonica Oh, pardon me, Jim Sure Take the Mitchell Yes, yes, that's right It is? Oh, fine, fine, thanks for calling The SS Peter Simon's tied up at Cliff Point I'll ask the 20th precinct to send a couple of men over to the pier Fine, let's get up there ourselves Find anything, Jim? Yeah, Doug If this ship was used to store all the loot Somebody's made off with most of it The men from the 20th are going over the pier for us Oh, good Hey, look Scroll on that door there Please knock before entering Captain PJ Crawford Stand back, Doug Nobody home There's a harmonic on the table there Yeah, you know Webster might have been telling the truth with that Maybe we can get some prints off it Hey, look there Yeah, what? Staying here on the floor? This looks like blood Still wet There's another one over there Where? In the closet door I'll get it Let's get him out on the couch Come on Grab his leg, all right Bad scalp Easy laying down there All right, here we are Examining will you, Doug? Okay I'll get out of the car and radio for an ambulance I'm a special agent of the FBI This is Detective Mitchell Welcome, welcome, my boy You know why we're here?  Well, I never kept the figures in my log All about how much? Oh, 20, maybe $25 worth? At all Yeah Did you know a Whitey Jackson and Louis Adams? No Well, how about that pair you met in the saloons before she'd tell us about them? Well, they're crooks I never should have taken them on board my ship Can you give us their names, Captain? Names, no, let me see now There's a tall one and he's, uh, he's, uh, Jean Jean what? No, I'm afraid that's all I know Well, how about the other one? Well, the short one Now let me see his name, let me see He'll come Scottie Scottie, that's it, that's it, Scottie Uh-huh What did they look like? Well, I guess I was pretty drunk when I met the tall I don't remember much what he looked like Well, can you give us a description of this Scottie? Yeah, let me see now, Scottie He was kind of dark, wears little mustache Dressed real seedy Any scars or marks on him? Scars Yeah, yeah, he had a little one on his chin Captain, do you think you'd recognize their pictures? Don't know that I would Now, if I was to hear that short one just play that mouth organ Then I'd be sure Scottie is the harmonica player Oh, plays it sweet too Well, thank you, Captain Come on, Doug Where to? Let's find a phone Now, let's stuff there, Charlie Sure, James Hello, Jean Hi, Scottie Put that under the shed I waited for you last night I got tied up here at the yard You hear me? You got my dough? Come on in the shack You'll really hate to pay You know anybody who likes it?  That's it You said 20% I changed my mind It's like any business, Scottie Sometimes the price goes down overnight Jean, are you on a market for some pictures? Pictures? Yeah, that little camera the Captain had on the boat Works real good Yeah, take a look Nice to one of you coming out of the hall with the silk, huh? What else you got?  Fine home in an hour, she takes it to the cops How much for the set, Jean? Suppose we set the price Huh? Who are you? Special agent of the FBI Keep him covered, Doug Right Now, let's take them in Jean Fulton and Larry Scott were turned over to state authorities And prosecuted for assault with intent to kill Each received a 10-year sentence When Special Agent Taylor learned the man called Scottie Was the one who played the harmonica And that he dressed in seedy clothes It seemed reasonable that anyone owning an expensive instrument Might pawn it when he found himself short A series of phone calls to the city's pawn shops Revealed a man answering Scottie's description Was a regular customer The pawn shop supplied his address And at the rooming house, Agent Taylor And Detective Mitchell learned from his landlady Where Scottie had gone Almost all the stolen property was thus recovered And later returned to the rightful owners Returned as a kind of dividend of law enforcement It is true that vigorous police investigation Always pays dividends to the people But one thing is even more profitable Crime prevention Practice it and see The incidents used in tonight's equitable life For children's societies broadcast Are adapted from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation However, all names used are fictitious And any similarity thereof to the names of persons Living or dead is accidental Tonight the music was composed and conducted by Frederick Steiner The author was Jerry D. Lewis Your narrator was William Woodson And Special Agent Taylor was played by Stacy Harris Others in the cast were Jim Backers, Anthony Barrett, Ed Begley, Walter Catlett, and John Mitchell This is your FBI is a Jerry Divine production This is Larry Keating speaking for the Equitable Life Assurance Society Of the United States And the Equitable Society's representative in your community And inviting you to tune in again next week at this same time When the Equitable Life Assurance Society Will bring you another thrilling transcribe story From the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation The Hollywood Shakedown on This Is Your FBI Stay tuned for the adventures of Ozzie and Harriet There's fun for the whole family When Ozzie and Harriet come your way next This program came to you from Hollywood


Hello everyone, I'm Takashi from Entity and Kyo University. This is a short abstract video for our work, Quantum Commitments and Signatures Without One-Wing Functions. This is a joint work with Tomoyuki Morimai. Quantum information is awesome. One of the most surprising applications of quantum information in the context of cryptography is the quantum key distribution proposed by Bennett and Brassard in 1984. This is the information theory theory Secure Key Exchange Protocol using quantum communication. Information theory theory Secure Key Exchange is impossible in the classical world, so this changes the landscape of cryptography. After the invention of quantum key distribution, people expected that quantum communication can also be used to achieve information theoretical security for other cryptographic primitives. Unfortunately, however, it turns out that information theoretical security is impossible even with quantum communication for many cryptographic primitives, including symmetric and public key encryption, digital signatures, and commitments, etc. If information theoretical security is impossible, then the next natural question is what is the minimal assumption for these cryptographic primitives with quantum communication? In the classical world, it is known that the existence of one-way functions is the minimal assumption for essentially any non-trivial cryptographic functionality. So we would like to ask if this is the same in quantum cryptography. That is, are one-way functions necessary for these primitives with quantum communication? In this work, we show that one-way functions may not be needed for constructing commitments and one-time signatures with quantum communication. It is known that commitments imply general multi-party computations in the quantum setting, so this means that multi-party computations may also be constructed without one-way functions. To show this, we construct commitments and one-time signatures based on the primitive called pseudo-random quantum states, which are roughly a quantum analog of pseudo-random generators. Recently, Kretschmer showed that an evidence that pseudo-random quantum states do not imply the existence of one-way functions. More precisely, he showed an oracle relative to which pseudo-random quantum states exist, but BQP is equal to QMA, which in particular imply that no-way functions exist. Combining our constructions of commitments and one-time signatures from pseudo-random quantum states with the result of Kretschmer, we conclude that there is an oracle relative to which commitment and one-time signatures exist, but no-way functions exist. To take our message of this work is the following. One-way functions are not the minimal assumptions for quantum crypto. It is a fascinating future work to identify what is the minimal assumption for quantum crypto. For more details of our work, please check our paper or attend my talk at the first day of the conference. Thank you for watching.


What's going on everybody welcome back to a breaking news story and the French open has been postponed an extra week Which means that it's gonna clash with some of the leading tournaments to Wimbledon on the grass Let's go check at the schedule having a look at the schedule now We've got the French open starting on the 30th of May, which is a week later Then it was supposed to we're supposed to start on the 23rd of May and the final will be played on the 13th of June again a week later Then it was supposed to be played in that second week of the French open We have four tournaments being played on the grass court. We have the Nottingham Open, which is the WTA 250 event We have the Ross Marlin grass court championships, which is the WTA 250 and ATP 250 event and the Stuttgart open Which is an ATP 250 event So what does this mean for the tour? It means that the second week of the French open is gonna overlap with the grass court season and the players that do well in the French open to make the quarter finals onwards are gonna have less time to prepare for the grass court season and for Wimbledon in particular so the reason why they pushed it back an extra week is so they can allow for fans to be in the stands this year because last You remember in 2020 we had the fans. It was about a thousand of them this year They want to have more fans coming into the stadium Which means they have more time to prepare for the influx of fans coming in and obviously they have to do all the COVID protocols as well So that's why they're trying to allow for more fans so they're gonna have to push it back a week We're clashing with a lot of events. Let me know down in the comments below How do you feel about this? Do you think the French open should just stick where they were and maybe have no fans at a Consequence clashing with other tournaments and forcing them to lose money because players like Federer He plays the Stuttgart open every other year So he won't be able to play if he does well at the French open which means Stuttgart are gonna lose some money The French open it's been pushed an extra week and it now clashes with the start of the grass court season


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I think, if you think about Nokia, traditionally we've been a product company and we produce data as an exhaust. And now we're really turning it inside out where we create a lot of data, we gather a lot of data, all the sensors that are on the phones and in the world around us allow us to just gather up data and start to analyze the real world around us. So we are at- You can actually do a whole cube event around Nokia's data challenges. I mean, it's privacy, you've got geo data, you've got location, presence. Yeah, you hit the nail on the head. So a lot of folks think about it as, from the mobile phone perspective, but we really have two businesses that are coming together. We've got the mobile phone business and we are the world's largest mobile phone manufacturer. And as you say, we're in a world of challenge. The industry continues to change. We recently had some pretty great announcements. I was in London at our Nokia world a couple weeks ago where we showed some new Windows phones that are coming out in the next quarter or so and can't wait to get my hands on those because they're pretty cool. But also we have a very large location-based business. A lot of it's due to our acquisition of Navtech three years ago. So all of the location properties that you see in Yahoo, Yelp, Foursquare, all of the automobiles, BMW, Ford are based upon our maps. And we view the world as being in the third phase of mobility right now where the first phase was making your landline go mobile. And this, you know, with the mobile phone itself. Thank God, finally, killed the mobile. Yeah, absolutely. And the second phase was making your computer go mobile. So we have access to so much when we're on the go these days. And this third phase that, you know, we're having an awful lot of fun with is the convergence of the virtual and the physical world. So there's so much that we can do with data now. Augmented realities around the clouds.  You know, all those types of things. And that's all about data. It's the classic blurring of offline, online, IT, consumerization of IT meets consumer. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, it's really hot.  But it's more than that. You have interaction data from users. You have relationship data. So what are the data challenges you guys have?  You have API issues with Facebook and other things. Yep, yep. You know, it's not easy, right? I mean, Twitter is the easiest, right? I mean, that's easy. I think if you went down the list of challenges with respect to data, yeah, we've got them all. And we're picking them off one at a time. Obviously, the biggest one is always privacy. We have traditionally been a company that kind of leans towards a, you know, much higher on the privacy side. A lot of what we do is with anonymized data. We're a global company. You know, we sell devices and maps and location properties in 160 countries around the world, which is pretty much every country. And everyone has different regulations around privacy. So that is, you know, the biggest, biggest concern that we have.


Concerning safeguard implementation in Iran, the agency continues to verify the non-diversion of nuclear material declared by Iran under its safeguard agreement. However, the agency is not in a position to provide credible assurance about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran, therefore to conclude that all nuclear material in Iran is in peaceful activities. At their talks in Lausanne in April, Iran and the E3P3 countries took a step forward by announcing key parameters of a joint comprehensive plan of action. If requested, the IAEA is ready to undertake monitoring and verification of the nuclear-related measures to be agreed under the plan subject to the endorsement of the Board of Governors and the availability of resources. In order to help make the joint comprehensive plan of action technically sound, the agency has been engaging closely with both Iran and the E3P3 countries. Implementation of a joint comprehensive plan of action that includes implementation by Iran of the additional protocol will strengthen safeguard implementation in Iran and significantly increase the agency's ability to provide credible assurance about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in the country. Nuclear measures in the joint comprehensive plan of action are expected to provide additional assurance. I am confident that the clarification of issues with possible military dimensions is possible within a reasonable timeframe if Iran implements the measures envisaged in the Lausanne announcement. Once the agency has established an understanding of the whole picture concerning issues with possible military dimensions, I will report our assessment to the Board of Governors. I had talks with Foreign Minister Zarif and Deputy Foreign Minister Araguchi in which we discussed how the resolution of all outstanding issues related to Iran's nuclear program can be accelerated. The agency remains ready to accelerate the resolution of all outstanding issues under the framework for cooperation. This can be realized by increased cooperation by Iran and by the timely provision of access to all relevant information, documentation, sites, material, and personnel in Iran.


President of the United States and Secretary Bloch. It's a great honor to have the President with us here today to help celebrate this special event. It is a special day, as agriculture across this nation uses the opportunity to tell others about the great strides made in this industry. Agriculture has a lot to be proud of, the farms, in agribusiness, and here in the planning of some of the solutions. The President has helped make this possible. Never before in history has a President given more support to agriculture than the United States. Thank you very much. Well, Secretary Bloch and Deputy Secretary Ling, ladies and gentlemen here in the dais and all of you from the Department of Agriculture, honored guests who are here and those who are listening throughout the country, today we commemorate stocked cupboards, healthy children, the spirit of enterprise, railroad cars and trucks heavy with food, free men and women living and working on their own land, government workers researching and developing scientific farming techniques, fields overflowing with grain and cotton and corn and vegetables, orchards laden with fruits and nuts, pastures dotted with cattle and hogs. I had to get that last one in here, the Secretary wouldn't let me speak. But most importantly, we commemorate all the people who plant and harvest, transport, market and distribute America's food and fiber. Have I left anyone out? Yes, because I want you, the employees of the Department of Agriculture, to know that this day is your day too. You've been doing a tremendously professional job, and I'm grateful for your dedication. I know you've been putting your nose to the grindstone, implementing the 1981 Farm Bill. You started the PIC program from scratch and have done an admirable job. Believe me, I know how hard it is to get the word out sometimes. And our cheese operation went from zero to full steam ahead overnight. So whether you've been part of our efforts to increase exports, handling the very sensitive work over at the Farmer's Home Administration, or taking care of any of the other myriad of responsibilities of this department, thanks for all you're doing. Today we salute an endeavor that is vital to our well-being. But one Americans have been so successful at that it's often taken for granted, agriculture. All of us should be grateful to God for making American abundance possible, and grateful to the families and all the others involved in agriculture for taking over from there. I feel a story coming on. Forgive me if you heard it, but it's about an old fellow who had taken over some scraggly creek-bottom land, all covered with rocks and brush, and he went to work on it, clearing away the rocks and the scrub brush and all. He cultivated, and he fertilized, and finally he had a garden that was his pride and joy. And one morning after Sunday services, he asked the minister if he wouldn't like to come out and see just what he'd accomplished. Well, the Reverend arrived, and at first sight with the melons, and he said, I've never seen melons so big. He said, my, the Lord has certainly blessed this land. And the Reverend came to the corner and said, that's the tallest corn I've ever seen. He said, blessed be the Lord. And he went on that way about everything he saw. And finally he said, what you and the Lord have accomplished here is a miracle. Well, all the time this was going on, the old boy was getting pretty fidgety standing there. And finally he said, Reverend, I wish you could have seen this place when the Lord was doing it all by himself. Well, the Lord's help along with muscle and sweat and sophisticated technology and modern business methods are producing some miracles today. Farm output has jumped more than 89% since 1950, with agricultural productivity rising more than four times faster than industrial productivity per hour worked. One hour of labor on an American farm today produces 15 times as much as it did 60 years ago. American production of food and fiber, always admirable, now holds the rest of the world in awe.  Produce 65% of the world's soybeans, 48% of the corn, 32% of the sorghum, 25% of the oranges, 31% of the poultry, 26% of the beef, and the list goes on and on. As I walked into the Department of Agriculture this morning, I noticed the words of George Washington inscribed in the front of this beautiful building. He said, with reference either to individual or national welfare, agriculture is of primary importance. Well, this was never more true than today, with stores and markets overflowing our citizens, each consume 1,408 pounds of food annually. Their relative health, creativity, and high energy level can, to a large degree, be traced to a diet that is the envy of the world. And yet we spend less than 17% of our disposable income on that food. That's the lowest rate of any people anywhere in the world. The health of our economy is also tied to agriculture. American agriculture, taken as a whole, is an industry so vast that it stretches the imagination, with assets exceeding $1 trillion, employing 23 million people, 22% of America's workforce. And we aren't just feeding ourselves. Today, wheat harvested in the Great Plains is eaten as pasta in Italy. Our soybeans are part of the soy sauce used in the Orient. Our cotton seed is pressed into oil and shipped to Venezuela. Our grain is consumed in Russia. And African children are fed by the tillers of Nebraska soil. In 1982, our agricultural export revenue was five times what it was in 1970, helping to offset the increased cost of energy imports over this period. Today, two of every five agricultural acres are devoted to export. And over one fourth of all farm income comes from sales overseas. Our agricultural exports use rural elevators, grain terminals, railroads, canals, seaports, ships, barges and warehouses. It's a vast network, incredibly efficient and providing income for tens of millions of people and feeding many millions more. In the United States, we're proud of what our free people, the profit motive and private property have produced. And that is especially true of agriculture. Our agricultural system is a national treasure, and this administration is unflinching in its commitment to maintain and strengthen agriculture's role in the American economy. Yet as proud as we are of American agriculture, all of us should be aware of, and I know you were present in this hall, are, and sensitive to the weight borne by the American farmer in recent years. A decade of overspending and overtaxing, shot interest rates sky high and unleashed devastating inflation on all of us. Nowhere was it felt more than down on the farm. They were the greatest victims of the cost price squeeze. A farmer once won a sweepstake, thousands and thousands of dollars in sweepstake, and someone asked him what he planned to do with all the money. And he said, I'll just keep on farming until it's all gone. Surviving has been a job in itself, but I think it's fair to say that although the winter has been harsh, it's going to be a beautiful spring. We've planted the right seeds, and now economic recovery is popping up all over the country, and America's farmers aren't going to be left out. The first time in years we've got inflation, which was public enemy number one when we came here, under control. In the two years, 79 and 80, farm production costs rose 30%. By last year, they were only going up 2%, and in 1983 it's expected to be the same or less. The prime interest rate is down to 10.5%. It was 21.5% just before we came here. And I told these people here on the platform and would tell all of you that along with spring this morning came an announcement from the Department of Commerce that the growth in gross national product for the first quarter of 83 was 4%. The last quarter of 82, it was going down 1.1%. In our own estimates, we only predicted it was going to be going up 1.5% in this first quarter. So, well, the get back to the interest rates and so forth and what they mean for every farmer, for every 1% drop in the average interest rate on outstanding farm debt, net farm income goes up $2 billion. You remember when we decontrolled the price of oil and some so-called experts howl that it would add to inflation, predicted that price of gas would go above $2 a gallon? Well, decontrol unleashed a stampede of exploration, contributed to the oil glut and brought oil prices down from, or gas prices down from about $1.27 a gallon when we started to blow a dollar now in most of the country. The decline is the price of diesel has been a godsend to the American farmer. Bringing down interest rates and reducing fuel costs will help, but increasing farm income is better. With the cooperation of Secretary Block, Trade Representative Brock and all relevant agencies and departments, that's exactly what we're trying to do. Not by increasing subsidies on our federal controls, but instead by opening markets and introducing alternatives in order to overcome excessive surpluses. We believe in free trade, but we're no longer going to play patsy for those who would use this commitment as leverage against us. Free trade means access for those trading with us, and it also means access for Americans to their markets, those foreign markets. Our trade representative must do everything it takes to tear down trade barriers and end unfair trade practices. In the meantime, we've sent trade teams around the world, and they included your secretary, to Europe, to Africa, to Latin America, the Middle East and the Far East. All the intent was to seek new markets, and these efforts are paying off. We expect to ship more grain to Iraq and Morocco, to have sizable grain sales to India, and of course we have a deal with Egypt that represents one-sixth of the world's wheat flower trade. Another plus for farmers is a program that we've started with the full cooperation of Congress, which puts surplus commodities, now sitting idle in bins and warehouses, to work helping the American farmer. It's called the PEC, and you know that's payment and kind program. And under this crop swap agreement, farmers are a concept. Farmers are given a certain amount of grain or cotton rather than money in payment for not planting. The self-held nature of PEC makes farmers themselves, not government, the solution. It leaves them with much more personal freedom, and it has the potential of whittling down a surplus problem that's been a serious drag on the entire farming community. The final tally on farmer participation won't be known until three o'clock tomorrow afternoon, but from the reports that I've been getting from Secretary Block, the programs being received with open arms. Although our large surplus remains a problem, we can be grateful that even in economic downturns, America has an abundance of food. This bittersweet situation afforded us the opportunity early last year to initiate a program to help those hard hit by the recession by giving away surplus cheese and other dairy products. Your department has given away over 250 million pounds of cheese and dairy products, valued at nearly 400 million dollars to 10 million needy people during these past 14 months. Those of you who work here at the Department of Agriculture are aware of other surplus commodities held by the federal government. I personally believe that we shouldn't keep agricultural commodities locked up in storage that needy people require and can't afford to buy. So I'm asking the Secretary to explore ways some of the other commodities in government warehouses can be distributed to the needy to alleviate unusual hardship without disrupting our farmers' markets. The Secretary informs me he's already taken the first steps to make milled rice and cornmeal available. These have been difficult times, and while we're encouraged that recovery is underway and that it looks like it'll be long and strong, we haven't ignored those who, through no fault of their own, are suffering. Emotional and often politically motivated attacks notwithstanding, overall nutrition assistance provided to the unemployed and the needy of this country is at a higher level now than ever before. This assistance takes the form of food stamps, school lunches, child and nutrition activities and donated commodities. Comprehending the pain and the deprivation resulting from this recession should bolster us in our resolve, never to be lured back into the irresponsible policies of tax and spend and inflate that caused this suffering in the first place. The ultimate solution to these heart-rending problems remains a healthy economy. Yet while heading toward that goal, we have not, as some would like you to believe, permitted people to go hungry. In times like these, we must use our heads to make things get better, but we must never forget our hearts, either. Consistent with this, our efforts, getting control of farming costs, opening markets and coming to grips with the surplus problem will reap long-lasting benefits for farmers. I grew up in farming country during the dark days of the Great Depression, and in the last few months there have been stories reminiscent of those days, farmers losing their land, foreclosures and tears. Obviously, we've been unable to rescue all of them. The farmers' home administration has been operating under instructions to work with farmers on a case-by-case basis, taking every responsible measure to help individual farmers get back on their feet. There is a federal role in agriculture. Consistent with this, we've increased money for agricultural research and expanded the federal crop insurance program. We strengthened the Department of Agriculture's market development program, implemented the blended credit program to finance U.S. agricultural exports, increased the level of agricultural export credit guarantees to the highest level in history, $4.8 billion. By the end of this year, we will have cut income taxes by 25 percent across the board, and beginning in 1985, indexing will prevent people from being pushed into higher and higher tax brackets by inflation. In 1987, the estate tax, which has been the most potent enemy of the family farm since the Dust Bowl, will be entirely eliminated for a surviving spouse, and the exemption will be increased by then to about $600,000, making it easier for family farms to be passed on to their children. We also, as you've been told, ended the Soviet grain embargo and have pledged never again to single out agriculture from the rest of the economy for use as an economic weapon. In addition, I signed into law legislation that assures the sanctity of agricultural export sales contracts. Throughout history, farming has been recognized as irreplaceable to the vitality of any society. The nobility of those who grow food is not escape notice. In ancient Rome, Cicero said, Of all occupations from which gain is secured, there is none better than agriculture. Nothing more productive, nothing sweeter, nothing more worthy of a free man. Well, here in the United States, where new dimensions have been added to the word liberty, the Jeffersonian vision of free men working their own land is still rooted in our consciousness. So in many ways, we look to agriculture not just for sustenance of the body, but also to prove to ourselves that our ideals are still alive. Recently, farmers in states across the nation, in spite of their troubles, donated thousands of bushels of wheat to help feed the unemployed in hard-hit urban and industrial areas. In North Dakota, the goal was set at 2,600 bushels, and on the first day of the project, 6,000 bushels were donated. The wheat was ground at a state-owned mill and pressed into macaroni. That North Dakota project alone provided enough food for more than 1,700,000 meals. Every aspect of the project was a product of voluntary contribution. The wheat, baking, the bags and boxes as well as the trucks and fuel. All of this done at a time when the wheat farmers, as I said before, are themselves in a bind. I once learned never getting a scene with a kid or an animal, but similar events to this charity thing have happened in Minnesota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota and Washington. This isn't just the story of good farmers. This is the story of good people and good Americans. No matter how industrialized we become, America's heart, her soul or sense of justice and decency will remain strong as long as the American farmer continues to be an integral part of our national life. As a young boy growing up in that small town on the plains of Illinois, I remember those farming families. They were proud church-going people. They were independent and yet always ready to lend a hand to a neighbor. We can all be grateful that these folks and their ideals are still with us today. Today, agricultural day, we express our appreciation to them for the bounty of food and fiber they provide and for the strength they give us. And now, God bless all of you and them and thank you.


Hey Abbott what time is it? It's time for the Abbott and Costello show. We're on the air for ABC here in Hollywood Well, what are we waiting for? Let's go with the Abbott and Costello show The Abbott and Costello show produced and transcribed in Hollywood But you're listening in laughing pleasure with chuckles with a carload and music by Matty Malek So hold on to your chairs folks for here. They are but Abbott and Lou Costello Being in here singing. I'm gonna sing on a program tonight. What do you know about music? He wouldn't always from a soprano. Is that so you wouldn't see me sliding in a second soprano And besides the new girl wants me to sing on the program. You've got a new girl Yes, every night she knocks on my door throws her arms around me hugs and kisses me and calls me Gregory Peck She called you Gregory Peck Gregory Peck. Why don't you tell her you're not Gregory Peck silly boy What does this girl do Lou? She's a striptease dancer at the Berla show. I wait for her every night outside the stage door Does she meet you? No, but she waves to me from the patrol wagon as it goes by I used to change girls like you and I never got anywhere and one day I decided Life wasn't worth living. I try to shoot myself And somebody stopped me. I try to hang myself and somebody stopped me too bad I try to drown myself and somebody stopped me. Some people never know when the minor owned business Well, I have to say to you Costello is adios Adios. Yes, that's goodbye and spending well Los Angeles traffic, Los Angeles traffic. That's goodbye in any language Hey, wait a minute boys. Here's a serious looking fellow trying to get a word in edgewise Let's see what he has to say the man at distinction by the Boy Scouts of America And my picture is going to be in all the magazines want picture. There it is It's a picture of me leaning up against my scalp master drinking a glass of buttermilk You must be pretty popular with your boy scout true. Yes, sir. I'm the only boy scout in California That's got a hot rod.  Oh, yes I do a hot rod is a gelop it.  Can't figure it out Abbot. I sleep good at night I sleep good in the morning, but during the day. I just seem to twist and turn I want to nobody was associated with you. You haven't got a friend in the world. How can you say that? I'm the most popular guy in my hometown Every one of the 300,000 people in Paterson, New Jersey. Love me. Wait a minute castella 300,000 Paterson only has 140,000 people. When were you there last two years ago? Well people have children, you know Please talk sense. What's that roll of paper you've got in your pocket? That's my Christmas shopping list and you're right on the top. Oh say that's that's wonderful What are you going to get me Lou? I'll get you a handful of nickels and dimes and put them in your mouth What do you want to give me a handful of nickels and dimes to put my mouth? I'd like to hear some change in your conversation Never mind who else is on your list? Well, if my uncle Mike, I don't know what to get him last year I got him a smoking jacket. Did he like it? Oh, sure. Christmas morning. He stuffed it into his pipe Didn't it burn? Yeah, but not as good as tobacco I think I'll get my Aunt May one of those old man river girdles. What's an old man river girdle? It helps you tote that barge and lift that veil I'll either get that or I'll get a book of volume by old Henry. Oh volume?  Well, what is uncle Mike going to get Aunt May Lou? I don't know last year He gave her a fur piece. He shot it under the house Had a white stripe down its back. That was a skunk. Huh? That was a skunk. Why did uncle Mike shoot it? Every shot of he asked himself the same question Wait a minute now after all skunk is pretty expensive your uncle Mike had to buy it He would have to sell his house to pay for it. After he shot it.  Let's tell her this is that's ridiculous. My wife is one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood Every time I look at her she reminds me of Jane Russell. Me too. Really? What makes her remind you of Jane Russell? She's got leagues like Bob Waterfield My wife puts on an evening gown. She looks like she was poured in it. You're right Abbott she looks like she was poured in it and forgot to say when Is that so? My wife is a picture star a few years ago, you know Her last picture was the great forest fire. She was the siren. I saw that picture.  You've got romantic ability Slightly when I put my arms around a girl and kiss her her eyes closed and she faints that away Abbott I used to be able to do the same thing on a lately garlic doesn't agree with me I tell me castella, how's your romance coming with that rich girl from Pasadena? Ah, she wasn't serious Abbott. I found out it was nothing but puppy love on her part When did she break the engagement? When she found out I wasn't a puppy All right, you should you should have you should have hung on to her castella her family were very wealthy Their home has 20 bathrooms Their home has 20 bathrooms. That's right. No wonder they call them the filthy rich You know, she was a nice girl Abbott, but there was only one thing wrong with her She had a million dollar smile. Well, what's wrong with that? She'd only smile at guys that had a million dollars Well, now that you've broken off with her, why don't you make a play for my younger sister babe Your sister babe don't tell me she's out here in california now sure She's always wanted to come out here to to the west where men are men and women are women Yes, out here in the west where men are men and women are women and now your sister babe has to come out here and confuse the whole thing Castella my sister babe may be fat, but remember she's a slick chick She's slick.  I wouldn't say that Abbott She's got one of those new sunny tough hairdos sunny tough hairdos. Yeah, it's sunny down the middle and there's a tough funny side Stella now it's Abbott's nephew folks now. What do you want Norman? Well, I'm on the committee for the Rose Bowl parade and we want you to ride on one of those big rose covered floats on New Year's Day Oh, that's wonderful. Yeah, but I've got to tell you something There's one restriction. You can't tell any of the jokes you're telling radio while you're riding on the float And why not we want the people to smell the roses That did it I can't stand this any longer every week the same thing now wait a minute and he gets money for it. What are you going to do? Huh, what are you gonna do? What am I gonna do? Norman this studio wasn't big enough for the two of us now here You take this gun and I'll take this gun and we'll shoot at each other until one of us is dead Okay, you want to bet a quarter I win better court what for I just thought you might want to make it exciting Why don't you go over to the Raleigh cigarette program and have your head moisturized Now get out of here Yeah, how did you get that guy a job to keep him out of here? He just comes in here for laughs. He's got a job. He's a salesman. Are you kidding? That guy couldn't sell anything right now. He's working the drugstore and they're having a one-cent sale. What you selling pennies pennies Oh Kokomonga 32 Pomona 31 San Fernando above 32 Riverside 28 Wait a minute. Costella. What are you doing? I figured as long as they ain't getting any less I just might as well read the frost warnings Ah, that's not that's not it didn't take After all Costella, this is Christmas time. Don't you feel the spirit of Christmas? Yes, I guess you're right. But I feel like helping everybody I've got nothing but good in my heart See that old man over there the one with the beard and the patches on his pants. I'll show you I got the spirit of Christmas. I'm going over there and help that old man out. That's the spirit Costella. Hi, buddy Could I talk you for a minute? Oh? Well, I I I don't want to be forward and this being Christmas, you know, I'm lucas tell the actor I thought that maybe you did Sort of well, here's a dime get lost That's the paul of 32 ventura 29 Hello, boys. Hey, look Costella is our secretary. Villavan All right, I called you last night villa and you weren't home No, I was over at Costella's house practicing love scenes with him You were practicing love scenes with Costella. Uh-huh. He's so he's so short He doesn't even come up to your shoulders. How can he how can you make love to you? Well, I stand him on a box put my arms around him tight Kick the box out from under him and I've gone in track Oh, hi 29 La hala 31 Well, I'll leave you to cheerio so long pip pip and heli lamar Pip pip Yeah, that's three pips Where you going Costella? I gotta go home now. I'll take care of my brother pat You know, he's in that awkward age, you know awkward age He's too young to leave home alone and too old to trust with babysitters Oh, why waste your time with your brother pat? Why don't you take Viola to the movie? Oh, no, I'm not going to go to the movies with Costello after what happened the last time What happened?  You were tripping people Yeah, she was sitting across the aisle from me Uh, now do you see why I won't go to the movies with him? You don't have to go with me Viola. I can get plenty of girls only tonight coming down here and Sharon says hi Lou When did you ever meet and Sharon? I've seen her so many times on a screen. She thinks she knows me Are you kidding? You don't you don't know anybody in pictures. I don't know. Here comes Alan Ladd. I'll show you who my pals are Hi, Alan. Hi, Mac Mac Mac I thought it was your pal. Ah, he's why didn't call you Mac. He's a little nearsighted. He thought I was Fred McMurray Costello and remember if you want to you can come over to my house tonight Oh, yeah, Costello. That was nice of Viola to invite you over for dinner Yes, but I ain't gonna go to her house anymore for dinner. She's too wishy-washy wishy-washy Yes, every time we get through with dinner. She always says I wishy you'd watchy that this is It's time to change the subject for just about 60 seconds Gentlemen, here's our new singer. Howe winters. Let's give howe a nice big hand. Nice big hand for howe winters I think of you And darling, I think of you Day in and day off. I needn't tell you how my day begins When I awake I awaken with a tangle one possibility and you That possibility of me I meet you and to me the day is far Ocean's wrong somebody drink water now before I eat and I don't like it Why not I've been drinking for 20 minutes if I take another swallow up bust My cousin my cousin. He's a doctor. Dr. Vincent Varelo Is he a good doctor? Good. He's the greatest doctor in cuckamonga the most skillful doctor in cuckamonga There's no better doctor in cuckamonga. What makes you so sure. He's the only doctor in cuckamonga Yeah, I mean, why do you go all the way to cuckamonga? There's a doctor right in your block Yeah, but he's a baby doctor. I ain't got no confidence in him. Why not very few babies make good doctors Forget about it.  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They served it to the jacks Coco brings you the further adventures of sam shovel private detective. Yes. I'm sam shovel sam shovel private detective I've had a tough day. I'm sitting here in my little office dosing. I'm sleepy Suddenly I see a dunhill a k woody a corn cob a briar I'm having pipe dreams The telephone company was here this morning and put in a phone. I look at my new phone number elephant 6 6 8 8 Hmm must be on a trunk line I just finished listening to my favorite radio giveaway show It's the only real giveaway show in the air If you guessed the answer they give away the show I see the mailman shadow on the window in my office door. He's bringing my mail He delivers the mail the hard way The hard way he crawls through the mail slot and drags the mail in after him I noticed my new map has arrived in the mail It's got the boundaries of all the states marked on it. I studied the map There's the ohio state line. There's the indiana line There's you all That must be the mason dixon line I love the south I'll never forget how I trail shot gun jake through the south He thought he was a smart guy, but I fixed his wagon I grabbed him in a land and fixed his wagon and chattanooga. I fixed his wagon in birmingham. I fixed his wagon I made a lot of money on a case He gave me five dollars every time I fixed his wagon Here's a letter from a crook in switzerland Asian prison at the yodel yodel That's swiss for sing-sing I decided to read the rest of my mail Here's a letter.  If you're already dead, please disregard this note That sounds like a threatening letter. I better make sure i'm on I open the drawer of my desk to check on my gun It's a colt Here's a postcard for my bookmaker. He wants me to send him a dollar for a football pool I don't think i'll do it It's a waste of time building a pool for a football It's about time for my pal lutz and an avid at the homicide squad to show up avid is a fine cop avid the chief wants to put him on the headquarter squad No wonder avid is the only cop on a force that's got a head the size of a quarter I've hung out with lieutenant avid so much. We've become known as sidekicks.  How about paying me to fight? I'll let you owe me April showers They come my way Every time I ask for money. He gives me a song and dance Have you been lieutenant avid? I just arrested a guy for changing a tire. You can't arrest a man for changing a tire from my car to his Lieutenant avid also changed it you from my punchline to his punchline Sam this office is filthy. Why don't you get some cleaning equipment clean up the dirt? I've got plenty of cleaning equipment. I got vacuum cleaners mops brooms and scrubbing brushes Why don't you use them? Can't find them. They're under the dirt We are at a space for the detective business What an office it's ankle deep in dirt Why don't you open the window? The only window in the place is in my kitchen. It well open it What let the sun come in and kill my mushroom bed? As I said this I heard a creepy sound in a hole outside. I turn and look Lieutenant avid nice and quick somebody's coming hide behind that marvel slob a slab. Sam Sam you were right There's someone at the door the door slowly opens Get it open while I'm still young enough to read the next line Standing in the doorway was the most gorgeous girl I've ever seen. She spoke Oh, Monsieur Sam Chauvel. I have here that you are a great detective, no? That I am. I look at this lovely creature. She was wearing a low cut evening gown Sam Chauvel, will you help me out? Lady, don't you think you're out far enough already? Sam Chauvel, who is your so charming friend? This is lieutenant avid of the homicide squad Ah, the famous brave lieutenant avid. Lieutenant, I am in great danger. You can help me, n'est-ce pas? May we, maemzelle? Oh, I don't think I could do that I couldn't do that I couldn't do that. What's she saying avid? Maybe I could Chauvel, you are so brave. The terrible Count Boris is after me. Tell me, what would you do if you were in my shoes? I'd probably fall flat on my push Countess, you shouldn't drag Sam Chauvel into this case. Here we go again. Count Boris is a vicious man. He might kill Sam besides you have no money to pay the fee Oh, it is true. I have no money, but Sam, I can pay you with kisses. Kisses are not legal tender They may not be legal, but I'll bet they're tender Sam, you are so wonderful. I'm going to give you a kiss that will melt your heart Sam Sam, say something Does anybody want to buy 10 cents worth of liquid hot? He's looking for me. He's always seeking me. For five years I've been hiding from him. Quick, Sam Where can I hide? Here, hide under the desk. I've been looking for her for five years. Jessica, come out, Countess Borden. I have found you and you know what that means What are you going to do to her Count Boris? Nothing, only now it's my turn to hide. She's got to find me Get him out of here, will you? That is usually, but before I go, we'd like you to ponder this I would like to say that the part of Sam Chauvel in tonight's show was played by Luke Costella And I, but Abbott, do not necessarily agree with anything he says Thank you, Abbott, and I want to say that the part of Lieutenant Abbott of the Homicide Squad is played by But Abbott, and if there was any resemblance between Abbott and any living person, there would be better off dead Thank you, and now let's give a bow to our orchestra leader, Maddie Malnick, and to our singer Hal Winters And I'd like to give credit to our writing staff, which is headed by the former with Paul Collins, Pat Costello, Martin Raghway, and Leonard Stern And let's not forget our capable producer, Charles Vander And let's not forget to say good night Good night, folks Good night to everybody in Tennessee, good night! Listen, it's Thursday night, and it's time for another great Abbott and Costello show, The Noose Transcribe in Hollywood Be sure to stay tuned for the outstanding entertainment which follows throughout the evening on this ABC station


My name is Deepak Phatak, I teach here, been teaching here for, I would say not close to but almost 40 years, long time. Like all of you, I have been a open source enthusiast, but as some of you would have heard me, I understand that the real world often works differently and in order to do useful things, you need to maintain a balance. So you have to tell the open source jihadis that occasionally they roll back and you have to tell the proprietary vendors that occasionally they should roll back. But as I maintain, both these extremes are important for the society because I think they are the ones who carry the society the larger extreme. I hope by now you have understood the way these activities will be conducted at your place. I had a demonstration of AVU software also, you have actually been using it. At your place, which one of you represents a remote center, which has not been a remote center in any earlier program, is there any one, two. So I would think that you would have assimilated enough information on how to run the remote center and so on. You are from Chennai and… IIT, Kolhapur. IIT, Kolhapur. We have a remote center in Ichal Karanjee which has run our program. So you are familiar with that. I need not add how important this activity is. First of all, the importance of trying to empower thousand teachers through this mechanism, something this country had never attempted earlier and thanks to visionaries in MHRD who agreed to provide funding support to this exciting idea, we have now been successfully conducting these programs. As I said, primarily this national mission project that we are doing is to address the deficiency of expertise in teaching core courses in engineering. But we deviated a bit when Professor Prabhu Ramchandran, Professor Madhu Belour suggested that this is an important activity and since half the students in the country study programming sometime or the other, sorry, do programming in the rest of their life and the remaining half study programming sometime or the other, it is important that teachers be empowered in this also. So I had taken some risk when I decided that this be considered a core course and when they agreed that we could run it on successive weekends, this was a novel idea. It did create a lot of problems by the way from the point of view of organization and from the point of view of funding support. You realize that we have a limited fund for conducting a workshop and when we conduct that workshop at one place for ten continuous days, we only spend money for people to come and stay and eat, but they travel both the hassle for the participant as well as cost are significantly reduced. Since this was not a classified core course anyway and since this was running on a different model, originally we had decided that we will not be able to fund this as much as we do fund other courses. That is the reason why you would have seen two of my colleague managers who run the project for me, Dr. Mukta Atre, your mentor and Jaya who is our finance minister. She basically controls the finances. They both were instructed to work out a schedule by which we could run this program at a limited funding way, but they have been telling me again and again and again that most of the coordinators they talked to, they pointed out that there may not be an extraordinary enthusiasm on part of the participants if they are told that they have to spend from their own pocket for coming, they have to spend from their own pocket for eating when they are there and so on. So we took a very strong decision I would say, strong in the sense that I do not think technically I have the authority to take that decision, but like many of you I am one who has never bothered to seek permissions. I have found that whenever you are trying to do something good seeking apologies later is much easier and people will accept if you are I say then I have never I have done that always in my life. So I had a long discussion with Professor Kannan, you would have heard a bit of my mind yesterday when I spoke saying that we are trying to elevate this to a regular course. We have now decided that this will be considered a regular course running with a different model. The model is that people will be coming to you and going back. So what we decided is we cannot extensively enhance the travel allowance that is to be paid to every participant. Since participants will have to come to you five times instead of once, technically they should be spending five times the money. As it is we have always stipulated that people should be coming from nearby places and we have kept an upper limit on the amount of money that could be paid for travel for people who come for participation. My coordinators have convinced me that that money alone will not be sufficient if people have to come five times. I however did not agree to increase it to five times because that will become too much amount. So we have decided that we will increase it to somewhere between two and half times to three times. What it means is that participants will break even if most of them are localite then their expenses actually will be local travel expenses. Somebody who is within 50 kilometers could catch a early morning bus or a train or something and come there and I think about two and half times of the current travel grant should sort of be reasonable. Do you agree with that? Everybody we have said that for five weekends when they come they may have to stay at your place at least for two nights. They may come on Friday night and go on Sunday night or they may come on Saturday morning go on Monday morning. So we have decided to include under variable cost a full ten days of stay and food as per our norms. So we will be including that. So I am thankful to my managers who made these valuable suggestions. Yes. You see I will also tell you the real reason why I agree. At the end of the day it is not about money. At the end of the day it is about trying to influence people. And if you believe that because of the funding restriction the number of people we could influence would drastically become less then you will agree that it is not in the interest of the nation. After all this is one area where we desperately need to increase the numbers. So in fact my only request to you would be go all out and try to really get not thousand but thousand five hundred people in this exciting. Tell them it is troublesome. Also tell them without missing words that the certification in the special program will not be based on attendance as it often happens. In other courses we insist that our faculty members should conduct quizzes and tests. Although so far an occasional failure in a test we have ignored while certifying their participation. But in this particular case tell people that they will not only have to give the test but they will also have to pass the test. Of course we will not steep so low to say so low to say that you will not be remember expenses unless you pass in the exam that will be unfair. We will only say that this certification will depend upon your successful completion of so many test of quizzes as happens in any class you know. I might fail in one quiz but I should pass in other quiz overall the idea is people should master the techniques that are being taught here and that is exactly. So this is the good news I wanted to give you I also wanted to share with you a larger program that we are planning it will not be for five weeks it will probably for two weekends or three weekends or it may run as a single one week program. This is a program on research methodology I will be soon writing and it will be put up that note will be put up there when Dr. Karmarkar of IIT Madras had given a course about couple of years ago here. Many of our research scholars benefited Professor Sachin Patwar then head of our chemical engineering department is now bringing that kind of structure for orientation of all our research scholars year on year. I suddenly felt that a large number of teachers across the country independent of the discipline they work in could benefit from this because most of them would be attempting to do PhD master something of that and therefore my plan is to conduct a program for ten thousand teachers in next summer or in some weekends immediately following ten thousand teachers cannot be assembled at thirty centers they can be assembled at two hundred centers. And then we can really localize it we can say that get all teachers from all colleges around you no outsider not required of that program I cannot run with this kind of funding if I spend almost a crore rupees on one particular program a thousand teachers I have to spend ten crore rupees in just one program which is not feasible till such time that the government believes that such programs and such scales are important and they give me two hundred crores instead of twenty crores I will not be able to run the program by that fund there is also another aspect of it sooner or later we and our colleague teachers have to understand that in order to make myself better I should be ready to spend money from my pocket that the world is not a charity that if I have to advance I have to shell out something both my sweat my work my hard work my abilities and my money. Now this temperament God knows how long it will take for larger number of our colleagues to come across the country today it is not so as you sadly notice that many people will come only if the costs are made well that is also meaningful because after all they also have families they have problems and so on I will not go into those details but it is for this reason I had stipulated that that ten thousand teachers program will run with no cost to the project people who really want to learn something about research would come spent from their own pocket it would be like a fee spent to a remote center for their stay and other arrangements and we will be conducting the orientation program for coordinators for remote centers through AVU and the existing thirty forty remote centers will actually be helping us to conduct the coordinators program for those two hundred percent you agree so this is the next level of I hope you you appreciate what I am trying to say because we need to scale that way up we need to address ten thousand teachers and effective and that effectiveness will come only from you ultimately the great teachers who teach from here just as you would have noticed you do a fantastic job of teaching but ultimately the reception by the students depends upon how well you are teaching assistants or lab in charges or technical people help them in conducting proper labs proper tutorials and they understanding that is where the details flow in exactly the same way these great teachers would not be as effective unless you as great teachers help them to do that by taking the message to the participants who will assemble at your place. See they will talk to them and interact with them in the morning half but in the afternoon suppose I am a coordinator the thirty five forty people are assembled at my place are going to be directly my responsibility at that time they cannot ask a question to Ashokan or Madhu or anybody you will I will have to answer that question and I better be that confident that capable and that experience and that is the responsibility all of you share I hope you will be able to do justice to this big dream don't forget that each one of us benefits when we try to do something at this massive scale and I will tell you those thirty five forty teachers who come to your place will remember you for life time we have seen that in the past workshop that we have conducted I have got very passionate emails from several participants who said how this coordinator made a difference to our lives by quoting how even after the lab was over that fellow was available for discussion etcetera etcetera etcetera till late night now that means putting some trouble to your own family time but remember the kilos that you will get the appreciation that you will get will be a normal and you will be making a difference to that person's life hopefully that person will go back and make the same difference to this course this is the chain which we wanted to enunciate everybody is aware of lack of quality teachers in this country everybody is aware of how stemmed our syllabus is how stemmed our exam systems are and it is in that context also this course is very important this course has no written syllabus whatever they teach plus whatever as they don't teach is syllabus there is no set pattern for exam therefore whatever questions they ask is examined including whatever questions they don't ask but your participants will ask and finally additional question that you will ask is the exam I think for the first time in this entire national mission project the entire group of participants and teachers have got such a free hand it was never available early because we were required to address a set syllabus ultimately teachers have to go back and teach that syllabus here we want to open their minds and therefore don't feel constrained and therefore give your participants harder problems to solve the style that we follow in IIT is if I am teaching I am for example I am teaching the first year programming course so I would write hundreds of programs in summer and I would revise those programs from two angles one how best to teach that program so that the student understands because the same program can be written in 20 different ways and two how to offer hard problems to them so that their minds are kindled this is something which you don't see in the conventional examination system they have hard problems occasionally let me tell you an instance in my life worth repeating I have repeated it 10 times I think I mentioned it yesterday I mentioned about professor K. C. Mukherjee's I think that is that is worth noting we had a professor late professor K. C. Mukherjee a very renowned professor in electrical engineering I had just become a young teacher then and one of the students when I was a student he was with me on the institute testing so very close one of the students came to me after a mid semester exam waving professor Mukherjee's mid semester paper and he gave me that paper he says Deepak how do you solve this question 3 so I looked at that paper it was a paper on electrical fields I could not understand how to solve that problem frankly but I hotly told him look I am a computer science professor he says no your basic degree is electrical engineering so you should be able to solve it I struggled for another 10 minutes we could not get it he says nobody in the class got it since I was a teacher then I said alright let us go and meet professor Mukherjee we both went and when professor Mukherjee in his cabin saw us waving that paper he started smiling as we approached he says so question 3 huh father so I said yes sir he would not say anything so this fellow asked him sir what is the answer he says I do not know and he was completely aghast then Mukherjee turns to me and says father this is part of a problem the hard research problem which has been unsolved for last 10 years but you know this batch is so smart I thought somebody will solve it I gave the problem the story didn't end here because the college where I come from I I did my undergraduate in in lower JSITS in in lower if this kind of question paper we have come in a question paper there would have been an instant strike by students syllabus ka bar ka sabhal pucha phaila wo master ko suspend karo when you talk and something similar would happen everywhere because students will not take it kindly question is as outside the syllabus that evening many of these students who came from a particular hostel hostel 4 they were having a milkshake party in the hostel a milkshake party in those days would be given to celebrate something extraordinary that has happened to the hostel like the hostel has won an inter-hostel hockey tournament or somebody has won a debating trophy or something like that so since this group of 10 or 15 students were having a milkshake party the general secretary who happened to pass by he said what has happened I am the general secretary I don't know something greater than that and someone told him oh you don't know the great professor Mukherjee believes that we can solve unsolved research problems so we are celebrating now that is the ethos IIT is no different from other institutions it has infrastructure it has people like you it has students like you have students all human beings all capable ambitious human beings the difference is in these ethos that people here believe that attempting to solve hard problems even though you don't get an answer actually adds to your knowledge while solving 10 simple problems from a standard syllabus and exam pattern will give a lot of you know comfortable feeling but you will not add to your knowledge ordinarily you can't experiment with these things when you teach other subjects as per the syllabus this is one subject where there are no constraints I would like for example you as a group and subsequently these thousand people as a forum to come up with a discussion session or a forum on the web will be releasing our portal very shortly which says hard problems to crack and in which people contribute partial solutions and those solutions and those problems are seen by everybody are attempted by everybody can you imagine the amount of knowledge that will get generated the amount of thinking that will happen that is what I would like to do so please use this opportunity that this is a very special course there are no precedences we are setting up precedences you are all creating history if you are creating history create an history of which you will be proud the nation will be proud and people will benefit that's all I wanted to share with you there is a lot more that I can talk I can keep on talking I am basically a story teller by mistake they appointed me as a professor here but so once again thank you very much and I hope you appreciate that the decision that we have taken in so far as the funding support is concerned we spent almost last three days discussing with this but primarily I would compliment my managers who pointed out the difficulty and then when I translated that difficulty into the larger context I discussed it professor Kandan Mughalya who is actually the overall coordinator for all national mission projects at IIT and both of us said let's do it and if there are any consequences we will take responsibility we genuinely believe that when you are attempting to do good things and useful things will be at the constant only two things since we are going out of our way please try to genuinely limit the actual expenses to whatever extent you can because that will help if somebody is going to ask us questions would be able to at least tell them that look this is what we did because we believed it was right but our coordinators have attempted to save every penny and ensure that the money is utilized for a good cause so as long as you do that that would be nice and do tell the participants I think our specification should say that certainly normally says certification will depend upon your performance in the test scenario so that's all I wanted to share with you thank you so much I can now start the formal proceeding let me start the formal process and in order to do the honors I would request Professor Kannan Mavgalya to join me here Kannan Professor Kannan Mavgalya is a colleague for long years many decades although he is in the chemical engineering department his specialization is in what I may say digital control which happens to be my area erstwhile my area and like me is very passionate about trying to do something for the whole nation in fact I must tell you that while we did a lot of work in this distance education mode earlier and we did make our initial proposal to the government but once the proposal was made spearheading of all activities around it has been conducted by him that is how we are comfortably busy running the program rather than spending time in this so thank you Professor Kannan I would like to begin the brief validation program valid program by first offering bookcase to the people who made all of this possible the learning and and teaching so Professor Madhu Belut professor Ashok and I call him a professor because he has been professing yes oh I see a third man is not a formal teacher but he has been I think you will agree that he has been participating in this activity that is what you have seen but without you are seeing he has been doing a lot of things at the background and that is why we would like to honor him as a teacher super tonight now let me request the participants to come here to collect their participation certificates there are two certificates that we are giving one is given by our continuing education program under whose ages we conduct all these quadratus workshops the other is given by the project assigned by the quadratus and and me so let me call people here Mr. Bholanathri MNIT Bhopal Professor Hashmi Akbar from Hyderabad Benedict Jayaprakash Nicholas thank you oh PSG only the other day somebody was here Professor Meghla Armugam it's Mekhla right yes thank you for coming Professor Sunil KS all the way from Kottayam thank you he used Javeria Udaipur city of Lex good miss Suchitra Patil she is our neighbor and Somaya has been a very active remote center for us thank you so much for coming Rajesh Dharmik from Yashantra Chavan Thank you please Professor Deepu job so there are two centers in Kottayam or one center two people two centers so you will have two and a half participants each or how would you arrange I suppose you will collect a lot of people from Kerala oh I see wait Professor Ravindra Vaidya are you coordinating every workshop practically or only a few yes yes yes that's why you keep the he's from Pune Narayan Rappal Rathore you have that list here oh you are from Indore thank you thank you don't you have a list of places where they come from tell him next time that list should be there Rajshekhar Natarajan so you have to tell me where you are from oh well or good place thank you I see good good but but remain like that even when you become old that is how we all learn Amit Garb you are from which place Amit ah Jaipur wonderful so Jaipur Udaipur boy covering Rajasthan somebody joins us from Jaisalmer I think there is somebody from Kukkas he is from Kukkas Dr. Radhika and oh Amrata Coimbatore thank you so much thank you Digambar Padulkar he comes from Bharamati a small place but a great college thank you so much Manjusha Deshmukh oh till I college near us thank you so much thank you for coming this is Sameer Patel all the way from Ahmedabad thank you for coming this is N. Sairam Tanjahu thank you for coming I will always curse myself for not visiting both NIT and this university although I passed by Tricy and Tanjahu next time this is Samson Ebenezer you are from which place sir this is Siddharth Roy ah Gauhati which college in Gauhati Don Bosco engineering great so greet him he comes from the farthest distance away unless somebody is there from Jammu or Kashmir Kastrinagar there yes yes yes Professor Umair Khan God bless you you are doing a great job I must tell you the story it was a very moving story when we conducted the first workshop the OECC said that joined us at that point in time there was huge turmoil in Kashmir and it was not possible for people to easily move around Srinagar and any vehicle which moved would be stolen that the enthusiasm of the participants and the remote center coordinators was so high that the entire attendance was hundred percent on all the days and some people walked 10 kilometers 15 kilometers every day to attend that course and I believe a couple of people stayed back I I ladies stayed back I I I narrated this to honorable minister Kapil simple and I said that look this is something which we had never imagined as a possible impact but this program is bringing people across the country together as one to do something phenomenal and fantastic in academy so thank you so much please convey my regards to you Professor Subash Chandra Khakinada good thank you thank you for coming Professor Dinesh Patil you are from which place Dinesh? Jalgao okay okay please thank you Professor Tanaji Patil which place you come from? Kolhapur KIT Kolhapur please Professor Gaurishankar Reddy which place you come from? Thirupati S.V. Universe is it good good good thank you so thank you very much but I would only like to point out a sad feeling I get in my heart when I see that all my remote centers start somewhere in Rajasthan cover Gujarat cover part of Maharashtra cover Karnataka Andhra Pradesh Tamil Nadu and rest of the country Jannaganamana that is not good I I would request you to find out if you have friends somewhere in other colleges do write to them saying if you believe that we are all benefiting saying that look you could benefit why don't you come forward I have personally written two letters to all NIT directors some NITs are part of parcel of our activities some are not and my ambition would be to create 200 to 500 such remote centers across the country which would receive courses not from one hub like IIT Bombay but from at least 20 hubs across the country in different subjects because that is how the knowledge and capability built at some place would flow around and the AVU technology thankfully developed well by our people in friends in Amruta partners in Amruta is such that it does not require a captive satellite channel since it works on internet it should be possible for us to have teaching participation not limited to IITs alone after all each one of you would be master in some aspect of some subject and there is absolutely no reason why in some courses in future some of you cannot participate or some other great teachers in your college participate teaching may be a course teaching may be a two hours teaching some section collaborative learning nobody knows better than you how great it is because the open source is all about collaboration but since you are all teachers also I would like you to try and build this kind of collaborative network thank you so much things about the type of files to be uploaded on model over the next few tests unlike multiple choice questions which used to be held till now I would also like to take this opportunity to all the people who helped make this program a success we want we would like to thank Sushant Mr. Sajjan Mr. Krishna who is recording also the other people who helped us record the whole program I know names of Ranjit Jaya madam Mukta madam another madam who helped take care of all the administrative processes before while you are here and also after we should have a round of applause for everybody the course content itself was developed by various of our project Fossi project employees Shrikanth Patnaik here Puneet Chaganti, Madhusudan, Parth, Bhuch, Primal, Jovina and Prashandhavi so I would like to give a round of applause for them also thank you


Today, we are celebrating rebirth of a truly iconic building on Purdue campus, Grissom Hall. And today, we are celebrating another set of firsts for Grissom Hall. First in enabling President Daniels' vision of affordable excellence in providing world-class facilities to our students at a fraction of the cost while preserving our heritage and history. First in realizing Dean Jamison's vision for strategic growth of engineering. And also first in allowing us to rethink IE for the future generations so that we can make an impact on society. The new Grissom is just unbelievable. It's hard to believe this is the same building we went to school in, but the exterior is the same. And then you come inside the building and you say, oh my goodness, this is not the same place. The word I would use to describe the new Grissom is transformed. It's transformed in its environment. It's transformed in the kind of learning that's going to take form here. And it's transformed, I would say, in the impact the school is going to have at Purdue and around the world. I think it's a transformation not only physically for the building. It's, I think, symbolic too of the transformation that's going on at Purdue's industrial engineering department. So it's wonderful space, collaborative, open, light, high-tech feeling. So this is fantastic. It really is a testament to the roots of industrial engineering around people. And it's a really great place for people to collaborate, for students, faculty, and other partners to collaborate. The total redesign has collaboration, technology, innovation, and inspiration in mind. From the light-filled spaces anchored by the original windows to the flexible student labs and study spaces that support the way faculty and students teach, learn, and innovate. But we did ask, and I guess you'd say challenged, the folks, if we're going to do this, we're going to spend this money. Maybe it ought to look very, very different. Maybe it ought to be more creative in terms of fostering the interactions and the intellectual collisions that make both faculty and staff more productive in the end. Maybe it ought to use space in a more efficient way than the buildings of 50 years ago. And they grabbed that and ran and succeeded as far as I can tell beyond anyone's expectations. The New Grissom alone will rejuvenate, reinvigorate industrial engineering. I love the location of Grissom and what they've done here, and they've retained the heritage, and it's just going to be wonderful for future IE students. My reaction to the New Grissom is this is absolutely phenomenal. You know, it really is the marriage of a great educational institution and great educational infrastructure. This facility is going to provide the best opportunity to really get the most out of your educational experience. My impression of the New Grissom Hall is it's hard to recognize, which is actually fantastic. I think they've done a great job in putting this space together and making it very usable, giving a lot of interaction between students and faculty. And I think it is a great opportunity to take a look at the rethink IE and how we can really start to look at the future and how to use industrial engineering in the future. I love the things that were maintained. I love the windows and the bricks around them, and even that they're not all the same. The windows are different, and I especially love that the picture of Grissom is there when you walk in the door. And yet everything inside is different. I like the new aspects and that there's so much more space for collaboration. Superb facilities are critical to supporting the continuous innovation and collaboration of our faculty, our staff, our students, having the right kind of space, the right amount of space at the right time. And most importantly, having space that reflects how we teach and learn today, how we invent today. Space that inspires. It's key to the strategic growth of the College of Engineering. In addition to the new Grissom having state-of-the-art technology, it also provides very comfortable workspace for students, as well as faculty, but where the students can come here, they have the workspace to study on their own, to meet and work with their project groups. Today, and going forward, there's a need for a lot of learning, research and thought leadership, collaboration and so forth, outside of the classroom, outside of the faculty's office, and what we've got now is tremendous space of different types that helps bring people together, gives them a place to collaborate. I was here when it was Grissom Hall almost 50 years ago, and it's the transformation from a gray cubby hole classroom model to the open space, and the welcoming venue here is just amazing. I must say this is going to be a really good environment to learn in. When I think as a non-engineer, just as an outsider admiring what they do and what was done here, when I look at this project, I see, I hope you concur, interesting to me, it's a triumph in both ultimate product and in the process that got there of engineering genius. We are extremely grateful to all our donors and supporters who have made this dream for a new Grissom to be true, and thank you for joining us today on this glorious day and helping us celebrate this occasion, and we hope you stay engaged with the school and College of Engineering and Purdue for many, many years to come. Start us off.