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Caprica (TV series)
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Caprica is an American science fiction drama television series. A spin-off prequel of the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica taking place 58 years before the cataclysmic destruction of the twelve colonies of Kobol, Caprica shows how humanity first created the robotic Cylons who would later turn against their human masters. Among Caprica's main characters are the father and uncle of William Adama, the man who becomes the senior surviving military leader of the fleet which represents the remnants of the Twelve Colonies in Battlestar Galactica.
Overview
Although a critical success, Galactica had a predominantly male audience, and both Moore and the network felt the "war in space" backdrop was a major deterrent to female viewers. With these considerations, and Caprica's storyline already focused on events taking place prior to the two Cylon Wars, the series has a different tone, content, and style. While Caprica contains references to elements of the Battlestar universe, the series was intended to be accessible to new fans.
Outline
Whereas the dark, post-apocalyptic reimagined Battlestar Galactica series revolved around a final struggle for survival, Caprica is concerned with a world intoxicated by success. Ronald D. Moore states: "It's about a society that's running out of control with a wild-eyed glint in its eye." The Twelve Colonies are at their peak: self-involved, oblivious, and mesmerized by the seemingly unlimited promise of technology. Framed by the conflict between the Adamas and the Graystones over the resurrection of loved ones lost in an act of terrorism, the series was meant to explore ethical implications of advances in artificial intelligence and robotics.
Details
Joseph Adama is the father of future Battlestar commander Bill Adama. In the act of terrorism that sets the story in motion, Joseph loses his wife and daughter. His family – his son, Willie, his brother, Sam, and his mother-in-law – deal with aftermath of their loss.
Ethnicity is a recurring theme in Caprica. The series takes place before the Twelve Colonies are unified under one government. Relations between the diverse worlds are contentious and discrimination is pervasive. Tauron's native language is represented by Ancient Greek, and given an emphasis on vengeance and organized crime. After Joseph's sense of propriety is energized in the pilot's third act, he confesses to his son that he changed his last name to hide his background. Introduced as Adams, Joseph then reclaims his surname, Adama. He is also referred to as "Yusif" by fellow Taurons in private conversations, and Joseph is a "Capricanized" rendition of his original Tauron name. More Tauron personal names mentioned, like "Khalil," emphasize the Other-ness of Tauron culture on a Caprican world.
One of the show's main driving points is religious belief. Colonial culture is influenced by mainstream Polytheism, the religious belief in multiple gods which is characteristic of the ancient Greek and Roman traditions.
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The 13th Colony
Tamara Adams, What Are You?
February 27, 2010
The following is a review of Caprica, episode 5, “There is Another Sky” and therefore contains spoilers.
Caprica cranked it up a notch this week, showing us a whole new world, and surprising depth to a character who should have very little. Hold on to your fedoras, more after the chop.
The Adama family is falling apart. Joseph sleeps the day away, unaware his son hasn’t been to school for several days. Indulging in nostalgia, he takes his son on the lamest excuse for a fishing trip, ever. If there is a reason both his son and Romo Lampkin come to fear and despise him in the future, we cannot see it here. Joseph is floundering and weak and it is up to his brother to convince him to do what’s right for himself and his son.
Willy Adama is struggling to figure out who he wants to be, trying out his pugilistic skills against some older kids who called him a dirt eater and doing his best to provoke his father.
And then, there’s Tamara. The avatar of Joseph’s dead daughter is still stuck in the V-World, unaware of what she is. She wants to “wake up” and seeks the help of brutal gamer Vesta (Camille Mitchell). The price for her help is Tamara’s participation in a game, helping Vesta and her cronies rob an avatar named Chiron. With Tamara’s unusual regenerative abilities, they are able to get just want they want, but of course, they can’t help her and they finally tell her so after she’s been shot three times in one episode. What they don’t count on is Tamara (Genevieve Buechner) taking matters into her own hands. She is an Adama after all, even is she doesn’t know it. Tamara suddenly becomes an interesting character. Fascinating. Whether or not the game she was playing has any relevance to the overall story arc, other than to introduce us to the way cool New Cap City, doesn’t matter as much as what the game helped her learn about herself. She is awake. And clearly she is trouble with a capital T.
I’ve been saying for a long time that Caprica could improve it’s ratings by having Esai Morales take his shirt off. He obliges the female fans just a bit here as Joseph undergoes a Tauron tattoo ritual as part of the funeral rites for his wife and daughter. (For more information about Tauron tattoos, check out Jane Espenson’s explanation here.) The farewell scene, very reminiscent of the Greek myth of Charon and the price of crossing the river Styx was very compelling. But still, with a twist at the end, the audience realizes that no one ritual is going to heal this broken man. Given the slightest encouragement, he is desperately eager to find his daughter in V-World.
Daniel Graystone’s path through this episode closely echoes Joseph’s, though his is more an intellectual than an emotional arc.
When Daniel confesses to his wife that he could be on the verge of losing his company, she walks him down memory lane, reminding him of the man who started with nothing and despite obstacles, triumphed when it counted. It’s a cliche and it only works because Paula Malcomson delivers the lines so earnestly. So the next day Daniel stands before his Board of Directors and confidently hands them a new vision of the future of Graystone Industries: The Cylon.
“Do you not understand the enormity of this creation? It’s more than a machine. This Cylon will become a tireless worker, who won’t need to be paid. It won’t retire, or get sick. It won’t have rights, or objections, or complaints. It will do anything and everything we ask of it, without question.”
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This Cylon will become a tireless worker who won't need to be paid.
It won't retire or get sick.
He won't have rights, or objections, or complaints.
It will do anything and everything we ask of it without question.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 7:22 PM Friday, February 26, 2010
"Caprica" - "There Is Another Sky" (2010)
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Caprica (New)
676 SYFYHD: Friday, February 26 6:00 PM
Science fiction, Drama
There Is Another Sky
Cast: Eric Stoltz, Esai Morales, Paula Malcomson, Alessandra Torresani, Magda Apanowicz, Polly Walker, Sasha Roiz
Original Air Date: Feb 26, 2010
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 26 February 2010 excerpt ends]
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tv.com
Caprica Season 1 Episode 5
There is Another Sky
QUOTES
Daniel: We either move into the future, or die trying to hold onto our past.
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Caprica Season 1 Episode 5
There is Another Sky
QUOTES
Vesta: What are you?
Tamara: I'm awake.
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This tunnel leads us to a different section of V-World.
It's a first player game.
Once we're there, we'll take out a big player.
Clean out his in-game bank account like a like a heist.
None of us can come close to pulling this off, 'cause this guy's got security.
That's not going to be a problem for you, okay? What are you talking about? You'll see.
Now get ready, here we go.
I'm outside.
Wait, is this Caprica? It's a virtual Caprica.
A digital recreation, but it's lawless.
Anything goes.
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From 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate Columbia South Carolina ) To 2/26/2010 is 6922 days
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Caprica Season 1 Episode 5
There is Another Sky
Aired Friday 10:00 PM Feb 26, 2010 on Syfy
Joseph Adama reaches out to his son, while his daughter Tamara finds a new side of the virtual world. Daniel suggests a product for Graystone Industries.
AIRED: 2/26/10
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s01e05
This Cylon will become a tireless worker who won't need to be paid.
It won't retire or get sick.
He won't have rights, or objections, or complaints.
It will do anything and everything we ask of it without question.
U-87 rip your arm off.
Go on.
Go on! Looked a little painful, didn't it? The desire to anthropomorphize, the need to connect- it's powerful.
And that is why this thing is going to sell.
We make them.
We own them.
They're real.
And the world's just changed.
So I believe you were going to take a vote? [Electronic whirring, beeping] Wait.
Take a powder.
I said blow.
[Door opens] [Door closes] This place is a bank?
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IMDb
Louis Armstrong
Biography
Date of Birth 4 August 1901, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Date of Death 6 July 1971, New York City, New York, USA (heart attack)
Birth Name Louis Daniel Armstrong
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Where did the security go? And where's the vault? The guards were pure code, not players.
They are the security.
They scanned the Chiron avatar, and it passed.
As for the vault, we're standing on it.
Vesta decoded this sequence from a puzzle across town.
It was encoded on manhole covers.
Really tough to get, but we got it.
So I'll just name off the signs and you step on them as I go, okay? Okay, just hurry up.
All right, you ready? Yeah.
Picon.
Caprica.
Gemenon.
Picon.
Tauron.
[Rumbling] See how this registers as points? It's gotta mean something.
This has to be the point of the game.
[Alarm] Oh, frak.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=28252
The American Presidency Project
Lyndon B. Johnson
XXXVI President of the United States: 1963-1969
221 - Remarks to the Lawyers Conference on Crime Control.
May 13, 1967
Mr. Attorney General, Mr. Solicitor General, Mr. Marden, distinguished officials, ladies and gentlemen:
I am sure that before this speech is over a good many of you will wish it had been no longer than the introduction.
I have spent the first 5 days of this week surrounded by lawyers--and here I am voluntarily agreeing to make it 6.
Eight members of my Cabinet were trained as lawyers--notice I said trained. Two others--who are not lawyers themselves--have lawyers acting for them as under secretaries. So you have just about succeeded already in making an LL.B. necessary to work for LBJ.
But the problem of any President requires skills that good lawyers generally have in abundance; that is:
--the ability to analyze a problem objectively,
--the ability to solve it fairly and expeditiously. Yet for all their skills, lawyers in Government have not escaped criticism either. Some people say that the lawyer is trained to react to only problems--not to create the new instruments for progress that our people need. Some feel the lawyer is temperamentally unable to say how something can be accomplished--that he too frequently is known to say, "You just can't get there from here."
My experience with lawyers is otherwise. In dealing with civil rights problems, with transportation, with poverty, and with education, their legal insight and their foresight have been invaluable to me as President. Lawyers are today supplying a very important creative force to every sector of this Nation's policy. I will be glad to testify to that in open court.
Public safety is an area of particular concern to your profession.
Past and current presidents of the ABA have had a major part in improving the fairness of our courts and our correctional systems. Many among you contributed to bringing three really landmark programs into being during my first 3 years in the Presidency:
--First was the Criminal Justice Act providing lawyers to poor defendants in Federal courts, and giving them the right to competent, concerned counsel.
--Second, the legal services program, in the Office of Economic Opportunity. Through local bars you have provided the manpower and initiative for more than 200 community legal service agencies. They have helped the neediest among our people cope with wrongs that they just had to tolerate before.
--Finally, the Bail Reform Act, a reform that exists today because of the partnership of understanding between the private bar and the Federal Government. Now you are considering another urgent proposal. I do want you to consider it and consider doing something about it--putting your shoulder to the wheel and helping us while we have time, helping us before it is too late: the Safe Streets and Crime Control Act, that I have sent forward to Congress earlier this year.
We tried to design a flexible program that leaves ultimate responsibility where it belongs--in the local governments--but that also provides the means and the impulse for reform. It provides an incentive for greater efficiency and for greater fairness: in the police force, in the courtroom, in the jail, and in the reformatory.
In great part this program is based on the conclusions of the National Crime Commission-for which I am deeply in your debt because several of your most distinguished members took part in the deliberations of that Commission. I hope you will help to explain the need for it and the reasons behind it, in your own communities when you return.
I hope, too, that you will work to improve the criminal codes in your State--to make them more responsive to the real needs of criminal justice.
Reducing crime is a matter of great urgency for the people of this Nation, and for your State, your city, your community, and in your own block. We must find better ways to secure their safety--to prevent crime, as well as to punish it--to preserve public order without denying private rights.
Finding those ways will require cool heads and understanding hearts. For 200 years that description has fitted the best American lawyers. I believe it still does--I know it still does. I believe that the country will benefit greatly from the work you have done here.
I am very, very proud of my country and the contribution that the members of the bar have made to it during the period I have tried to lead it.
I was reading last night about some of the concerns the American people have. There are many concerns. There are many frustrations. There are many worries that we carry with us. Some have more than others.
But uppermost in everyone's mind is how we can have peace in the world. We Americans are not the only ones to make that decision. There are other people who participate in it, too. We are just a small group of 200 million out of 3 billion.
We cannot control the other fellow's conduct as we have found so many times in our history. But we are trying to lead and by precept and example to do what we can to hasten the day when there will be peace throughout the world.
If any of you lawyers or any of you thinkers or any of you with logical brains can contribute to it, we will welcome it. We need any suggestion and any help that you can give.
Next to peace, I guess the thing that is troubling our people more than anything else now is crime. I didn't originate it. I am not responsible for it. I didn't start it.
There is not a great deal I can do about it. But I am doing everything I know to do. And I want to do more.
If you have any ideas where the President can, with propriety, act where he hasn't, I welcome those suggestions.
I am very proud that some of the best legal minds in this Nation spent a lot of their vacation time voluntarily working for their country--some of them in the rice paddies of Vietnam, some of them in the slums of our cities, and some of them in the National Capital.
You haven't been slackers. You haven't dodged your President's requests. And you have always responded. I don't have a great deal of difficulty finding men to become Federal judges or appellate judges.
I suppose in due time I can even find one for the Supreme Court.
It is not because there is more money in those hills, but it is because the great pride in your profession--the great opportunity you have to serve it and to help bring justice to the world.
You don't have to wait until you are tapped for a lifetime job at a low salary that has overwork. You can take all of that money you are making now--with good income-and serve your country, too:
--serve it by helping us find a way to peace in the world,
--serve it by leading your community,
--serve it by giving people the judgment, the balance, and the freedom from hysteria that they do need in times like this, and
--serve it by setting an example--providing the leadership and initiative to help us solve this problem which has crept up on us and which is so monopolizing our attention these days--the problem of crime.
There is no one who can do more about those things than the lawyers of this Nation. There is no association which, I believe, has become or is becoming more socially conscious and more understanding of their obligations than the members of the bar.
That is why I came over here today on a rather busy day--to tell you that your President is proud of you and that your Nation is better because of you.
Thank you very much.
Note: The President spoke at 1:40 p.m. in the Colonial Room at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington. In his opening words he referred to Attorney General Ramsey Clark, Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall, and Orison Marden, president of the American Bar Association.
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What just happened? Where did he go? He de-rezzed.
He's gone.
- Gone where? - Wherever.
Home.
Home I want to play.
You're the girl who can't get out.
People have been talking about you.
Look, I need to get outside.
I need to go home.
Can you please help me? - Take off your band, baby.
- I can't!
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Hmm, what do we have here? She got shot, but she's not de-rezzing.
Shh Shh, it's gonna be all right.
You and I are gonna help each other.
Shh.
The pain should zap you out of the program, and you have to re-launch your avatar, but you - Can't.
- Don't have to.
She's a sleeper.
It's supposed to be a myth.
Someone who fell asleep with their holoband on and can't wake up.
Somebody would have woken me up by now.
Well, maybe you're unconscious, in a coma, and there must be something wrong with your band because it should have timed out, but we can hack it, do a manual disconnect.
There's some kind of price, isn't there? What do you want me to do? Play a little game.
That's all.
A game? Yeah.
Help me settle an old score.
You play the game, I get you home.
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United States Department of the Interior
National Register of Historic Places Registration Form
page 13
The I. J. Fox Corporation opened branches in Cleveland in 1940 and Philadelphia in 1945, followed by Paris and London in later decades. The fur company was soon considered "America's Largest Furrier," spending more than $1 million each year in advertisements. On December. 7, 1930, Boston's W1XAV broadcast what is considered the first television commercial during a video portion of the Fox radio orchestra program "The Fox Trappers."
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W1WX
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
W1WX is Boston's second television station (the first being W1XAY). This station started up in April 1929, and was owned by Shortwave and Television Laboratory, Inc., (which was founded on December 5, 1928 by A.M. "Vic" Morgan, Hollis Baird, and Butler Perry).
The station started off broadcasting on 2120 kHz, alternating between 48 and 60 vertical lines and 15 frames per second. In 1930, it moved over to 2.1-2.2 kHz and broadcast at 48 lines only, still at 15 frames per second.
In 1934, the station switched back to 60 vertical lines only, running at 20 frames per second until it shut down.
Timeline
December 7, 1930: W1XAV Boston broadcasts a video portion of a CBS Radio program, The Fox Trappers orchestra program, sponsored by I. J. Fox Furriers. Included was what is sometimes called the first television commercial, which was prohibited by FRC regulations, however, other experimental television stations such as W1XAY may have done so before W1XAV signed on the air. Regardless, the FRC advised against this, since there was no agreement on whether experimental stations could air commercials, or sponsored network programming.
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JKR
December 10, 2014
Where did the first TV advertisement air in the United States? Much like the first radio advertisement, it’s really up for debate. Many people say the first television commercial aired on July 1, 1941, and advertised Bulova watches. This particular spot was 10 seconds long and cost $9 to air, during a day and age when there were very few TV sets to be found.
Others believe the first-ever TV commercial aired much earlier, on December 7, 1930; during which video was telecast from a CBS radio orchestra show called The Fox Trappers. This was more than a decade before the Bulova watch commercial, and it featured the I. J. Fox Furrier Company of Boston sponsoring a program on W1XAV. At the time, the station broadcast on 2.1-2.2 mHz, with 500 watts of power; and 60 lines and 20 frames per second.
FIRST TV ADVERTISEMENT DEBATE
It could be simply a matter of semantics, meaning some consider a sponsorship to be an actual TV advertisement, while others just consider it a sponsorship. It could also be that the 1930 Fox Furrier commercial is not recognized as the first TV advertisement because it was an “illegal” ad (simply because it was a spot for the fur industry) and therefore was subject to a fine after it aired.
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I've never seen anyone heal before.
Not in V-World.
Clean her up.
Get her some new clothes.
You're going now.
[Phone ringing] [Chatter on TV]
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Yes, hi, this is Joseph Adama.
This is Principal Andrews calling to check on Willie.
What? Well, he's been out sick.
No, no, no.
He's been at school.
Well, he's missed several days in a row now.
You've got to be How long? Since the middle of last week.
Oh, my gods.
I get that.
That's simple, it's so-- [Chatter on radio, distant pool balls clacking] Put the tray down, take the apron off, and come with me.
Why don't we go out back, Joseph? It's quieter there.
We could talk.
Oh, we've got nothing to talk about! You frakking bee-known blahx! That's nice.
A little Tauron comes in useful once in a while doesn't it? Let's go.
Here's a little Tauron saying for you, brother.
[Speaking Tauron language] I did not lose my son.
Oh, really? Then what are you doing here? Where are you taking me? This tunnel leads us to a different section of V-World.
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[Automatic weapons fire] What is this place? Welcome to New Cap City.
So this whole city is like a game? Yeah.
It's kind of like a different version of Caprica city.
They update it so it matches.
Even the place where the Maglev train blew up is here.
A Maglev train blew up? How long have you been sleeping? I don't know.
Okay, what's the object of the game? It's a mystery.
It's almost like figuring out the object of the game is the object of the game.
But we think it's about getting things that convert into points, like money, or weapons-- So no one's ever finished it? Or won it? Not yet.
There's thisthing.
When you die in the game, you're out, and you can't ever come back.
But with you, I might actually have a shot.
Okay, so our target is Chiron.
He's a fat cat.
Likes to hang in this club on the lower east side.
Back booth.
Don't look, just glance.
It's Chiron.
The horse.
Best gamer in the city.
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The Adventures of Champion Season 1 Episode 1
The Saddle Tramp
Aired Friday 7:30 PM Sep 23, 1955 on CBS
AIRED: 9/23/55
http://www.orbital.com/SpaceLaunch/Pegasus/pegasus_history.shtml
Orbital
Pegasus
Pegasus Mission History
Flight #: 6
Launch Date: June 27, 1994
Vehicle: Pegasus XL
Payload: STEP-1
Result: Failure
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Kenji Urada
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Kenji Urada (c. 1944 – July 4, 1981) was a Japanese engineer who was killed by a robot. Urada is often said to be the first person killed by a robot, however Robert Williams, a worker at a Ford Motor Company factory in Michigan, was killed by a robot two years earlier on January 25, 1979.
Urada was maintenance engineer at a Kawasaki Heavy Industries plant. While working on a broken robot, he failed to turn it off completely, resulting in the robot pushing him into a grinding machine with its hydraulic arm. He died as a result. The circumstances of his death were not made public until December 8, after an investigation by the labor standards bureau was completed.
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The Deseret News - Dec 8, 1981
The officials at the labor bureau said the accident took place July 4 as Urada was trying to check the malfunctioning machine
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Best gamer in the city.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=39243
The American Presidency Project
Ronald Reagan
XL President of the United States: 1981 - 1989
Statement on Signing the Central Intelligence Agency Information Act
October 15, 1984
I am pleased to sign into law H.R. 5164, the Central Intelligence Agency Information Act. It represents an initial effort toward needed reform of Freedom of Information Act requirements. Under its provisions, the Central Intelligence Agency will avoid time-consuming review of certain operational files, which must in any case remain classified to protect intelligence sources and methods, and will devote its resources to expedited review of other information requests. Moreover, this law assures the public of continued access to information that is releasable.
This represents a small but important first step, accomplished in large part because of bipartisan cooperation in both houses. We are especially indebted to the leadership of Senators Goldwater and Moynihan and Representatives Boland and Robinson. I anticipate that in the future such relief will be expanded in scope. And I expect that it will become available to other agencies involved in intelligence, who also must protect their sources and methods and who likewise wish to avoid unnecessary and expensive paperwork.
Note: As enacted, H.R. 5164 is Public Law 98-477, approved October 15.
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Anything that's pure code can be manipulated.
Now we can get into his bank vault, lift his virtual cash, and convert it into points in the game.
[Electronic whirring, beeping] So we pull that off, and Vesta helps you.
Look I know this must seem really random to you, but this game, it really does mean something to me.
It actually allows me to be something.
Maybe if you weren't in here playing this game you could be something out there too.
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Ronald Reagan
XL President of the United States: 1981 - 1989
Question-and-Answer Session With Students at Greenville Technical College in Greenville, South Carolina
October 15, 1984
The President. Now, you've been informing me, and I understand that now—I don't know whether I can do as well in informing you—but they tell me that you have some questions.
Dr. Grastie. Yes, sir. Thank you, Mr. President. The students decided to draw numbers, and Todd Ingle has the first question for you.
Q. Hello, Mr. President. My name is Todd Ingle, and I'm a student here at Greenville Technical College. And my question is: What part do you think computer-age design and computer-integrated manufacturing plays in industry today, and what part do you think it will play in the near future?
The President. Oh, I think it's all important. I think what we're seeing here is the same type of thing that earlier in our time made us the great industrial power we were. We gave our workers the advantage of tools, and with their ability and the tools, we became the great industrial power and outcompeted most of the world.
Well, the world has moved on. And I think it's this—just what we've seen here-that, well, I will say again, as in my remarks out there: You give Americans the tools they need and the opportunity of this kind, and they'll outcompete anyone in the world. And I think we're going to see that. Q. Thank you, Mr. President.
Q. Mr. President, my name is Tim Donald, and I would like to know why Congress cut $36.7 million from the appropriations bill you submitted for the Veterans Administration for the fiscal year of 1985?
The President. Well, all I can tell you is that they see things one way, and we see them another. They have certain targets that they think it's all right to cut and reduce, and yet they will turn right around and add to the spending that we have not asked for, because we believe that it wasn't as—or isn't as important. And this is about all that I can tell you.
Q. Thank you, sir.
Q. Mr. President, my name's John Sightler, and I was wondering what you thought the input of this high technology would be on the American industry on the world marketplace?
The President. Well, just what I've been seeing here, and what I've seen in some other plants—not schools, but plants where some of this is actually—or things of this kind are in operation—is, it's going to put us back in competition. When I see something here doing what it's doing, and I'm told how many times faster that is, and more accurate than the previous operation under older tools, and not computerized tools, then that—the per' unit cost of the item—is going to put us back there in the marketplace and, as I say, outcompeting the others. And I have been in a few plants recently to see examples of what this is.
One, recently, was a steel plant. They are building it; it isn't finished yet. The investment that they're risking is equal to about two-thirds of the total capital assets of the company. But they know that with this, timewise and costwise, they will be able to be competitive with that particular steel from any part of the world.
Q. Thank you.
Q. Hello, Mr. President. My name is Hobie Taylor. And I'd like to know how you view the future of high technology in technical institutes such as Greenville Tech?
The President. Well, I think that it is changing and reshaping our whole industrial pattern and our society, for that matter. I know right now that because of an educational institution like this, industries are being attracted to your area because your graduates will be there as an available skilled force. I've seen this also happen in one of the cities in Texas which has become quite a competitor with places like Silicon Valley in California and because of the educational institutions in the area that have guaranteed that skilled labor force.
Q. Thank you, sir.
Q. Hello again. I'm Perry Talley, Mr. President. I want to see how you see technical development in the South for the future?
The President. Well, in these recent years the Sunbelt has presented an attraction that has drawn people to where the Sunbelt is the fastest growing, population-wise, area in the United States. And this was certainly not true for a time. So then, when you add to the salubrious climate and the other advantages that have made people in the past decide they'd like to live—[laughing]-here, you add to that the opportunity for jobs and technical training and so forth down here, I think you're going to see further population shifts, and you're going to see maybe a change that—with all due respect to some of the other Southern attributes, King Cotton, and so forth—I think you might find yourself with another attraction that changes the whole nature of your work, your opportunities, and your industry here.
Q. Thank you, Mr. President.
Dr. Grastie. Mr. President, we have time for one more question. That will be from Mike Furillo.
Q. Mr. President, I work for Amco Lycoming Greer Division. And my question to you is, due to religious convictions and my responsibility to provide the best education possible, I've placed my children in a private Christian elementary school, and their tuition amounts to about 15 percent of my gross yearly income. And I'd like to know, will there be any legislation in the future that would give me a tax break on this tuition without it coming in the form of what the Federal Government would consider a subsidy, thereby giving the Government the right to regulate the school rules and school protocol?
The President. Well, you're looking at a representative of an administration that doesn't want the Federal Government being a senior partner. When, a little while ago in the briefing, we were talking about partnerships and participation, I almost wanted to add and say, "Yes, that's fine, we're very proud to be able to help in something of this kind; we don't want to be a senior partner." Now, that wasn't always true. There are other people who think government should be the senior partner.
But I have to say, with regard to what you were talking about and the tuition problem, I think the answer to that is very simple and it's very fair. We've tried to get it, and we've been unable to get it through the Congress, and that is that parents—education is compulsory in our country—and parents are entitled to have a choice of whether they want to utilize the public school system or do as you're doing and use an independent school system for their education.
But you have to pay your full share in taxes for the support of public education without you using or benefiting from that education at all. And then, in addition, you, for wanting to put them in another kind of school, you're penalized in having to pay the double expense.
I think that we should have a program of tuition tax credits in which fairness is reinstituted for parents who choose not to utilize the pubic schools. [See APP note below.] It isn't going to hurt the public schools any. It is going to aid the independent schools because they are now more competitive. And what's wrong with education being competitive? What's wrong with having school systems in which they have to shape up and turn out educated graduates or they're not going to get the support? So, we're going to continue fighting for tuition tax credits for the people like yourself.
Q. Thank you very much, Mr. President.
The President. All right.
Note: The question-and-answer session began at 5:30 p.m. at the Advanced Machine Tool Resource Center, where the President had earlier received a briefing and a tour of the building.
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Gods, what are you? Willie, do your homework.
Willie, stop that.
Stop it! [Knocking at door] What have you been teaching him, Sam? Same things we've been taught.
He's gonna be a man soon, Joseph.
You know on Tauron, at his age, he already would be.
He's gonna make choices.
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professor
a teacher of the highest academic rank in a college or university, who has been awarded the title Professor in a particular branch of learning; a full professor
the principal lecturer or teacher in a field of learning at a university or college; a holder of a university chair
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