Felly, grafio'r cyflodau a myfyrdd ychydig yn ei gynlluniaeth, ac mae FFASMA yn fawr yn fawr yng nghylch o erbyn i gael y Cymru a'r hollidrwydd Cymru. Efallai y terfodol casfodd ymddangos a'r cwrwp o'r cwrwp o'r pwg gysylltiadau i'r cyflodau a'r ilynydd, ond mae'n gweithio i'r cwrwp o'r roastedigwetau, ond wrth unigair y cyfnodau'r cwestiynau. Rwy'n meddwl o'ch gynrych, rydw i ddilyn a wneud o'r cyfnodau sy'n cheiswydau. Rydw i ddilyn a'r cyfnodau a'r cyfnodau sydd sydd yn gallu gweld unigair yn gyfrifiadau y miestalu. Aelodau. Rwy'n meddwl i gael y newid ei wneud ar y gwbl yn y gwiradau Cymru, ac mae'r cyfrifiadau peron yn 65% aelodau i'r gwbl yn chi'n rhoi i'r ffordd y flag ffó Scotland o'r ffordd. The Scottish Brand, whether it is the saltire or Scottish label, is a key provenance mark and a signal of quality. It is no surprise that people in Scotland recognise it and are proudly enjoying our world-class produce. Through our local food strategy and the development of our sustainably Scottish brand, they will have even more opportunities to access food-produced locally and be confident that it is produced to rigorous environmental standards. I very much indeed for that answer and just to assuish any worries on behalf of some members of the parliament. That doesn't mean that it will be on the actual food, it will be on the label. In recent weeks, we have seen the UK Government moving closer to allowing gene edited crops. Does the Cabinet Secretary therefore share my view that identity of Scotland's world class produce must be protected from any action in this regard which threatened its brand reputation and provenance? I'm aware of the UK government's plans to change English regulations to enable the use of gene editing technologies and Scotland's policy on GMOs hasn't changed and we remain opposed to the use of GM in farming to protect the clean green brand of Scotland's £15 billion food and drink industry. I'm also aware that there is the current debate around novel genomic techniques and how those relate to existing GM legislation and in particular the on-going consideration of this at EU level. The Scottish Government's policy is to remain aligned with the EU. We're practicable and we're closely monitoring the EU's position on this issue and we'll continue to engage with the UK government, Wales and Northern Ireland to ensure that devolved competences are respected in charting our future direction. The Scottish Conservatives are proud to support the Scottish dairy industry. Embarrassingly, the Scottish Government's milk and snack scheme has been branded unlawful by Lord Bride. That is yet another example of the SNP letting down rural Scotland, with small Scottish dairies impacted because of childminders in receipt of funding through the scheme forced to source Scottish milk from larger suppliers. Cabinet Secretary, why is the SNP letting down small Scottish milk producers? Ms Hamilton, that was a very tenuous link to the original question. If there's anything, Cabinet Secretary, you wish to add then please do so. We're obviously committed to supporting our producers in Scotland and in relation to the specific issue that the member has raised. I'd be happy to contact her with further information. To ask the Scottish Government how it will support the fishing industry to grow to meet any increased capacity within the catching and processing sectors. The Scottish Government is supporting the seafood sector through the Marine Fund Scotland. Around £13 million has been awarded to date across a range of projects, including supporting young fishers to enter the sea fisheries industry, vessel refurbishment and new more sustainable fishing gear. That is in addition to the £40 million under European Maritime and Fisheries Fund that we provided to support an innovative and competitive sector which also helped to build capacity. Clearly we'd like to continue doing so but the UK Government has cut the available funding that Scotland gets now that we've left the EU and instead of the £62 million that we should be getting we're only receiving £14 million now which clearly limits our ability to provide as much support as we did in the past and we'd wish to in the future. Scotland is the biggest fishing nation in the UK yet five wealthy families control a third of Scottish fishing quotas and have minority investments in companies that hold a further 11 per cent. Almost half of the entire Scottish fishing quota is held by just five families. Does the minister agree that this concentration of private ownership over this natural common asset is completely unacceptable in the long run? In response to that we've undertaken an analysis of this and of quota distribution in Scotland and when we did that in 2016 it demonstrated that there was a diversity of ownership and that's in contrast to the situation in England where the separation of small scale and large scale vessels is more pronounced and the headline figures suggesting that access to fishing opportunities are very limited is misleading because the reality is that holders of pelagic quotas appear to own huge shares in terms of number of quota units but equally hold very little in terms of other species and this significantly distorts any representation of holdings across all fish stocks. I've got quite a few supplementaries here. Again a plea to be brief in the questions and the responses first. Finlay Carson. There's a huge potential in the fishing communities around the Scottish coast but sadly it needs joined up thinking. We need investment in neutral science and work within the environment which allows good management as well as permitting fishing businesses to plan development. Sadly last week two young Scottish skippers revealed that they are now re-evaluating a long-term career in the wake of the embarrassing boorock surrounding the Clyde Cod closure announcement. Can I ask the cabinet secretary what plans does she have to promote stability, co-management, capacity building and most importantly trust to deliver sustainability and investment in the fishing industry? In response to the point that the member raised there, I think that the course of action that we've taken since the closure was announced is the right one because we've listened to our stakeholders, we've got our scientists, our fishers and the environmental organisations together to try and chart a way forward and I think that that's the way that we should continue to work when we're dealing with issues such as this which of course is vital but I don't know if the member would have preferred that we didn't listen and take action on the back of the information that we'd received and on the back of the discussion that we've had with our stakeholders but I do believe that the position that we've taken now is the right one and of course we're keen to work with our stakeholders as we move forward and look to introduce measures such as highly protected marine areas. Okay, there's going to have to be a bit brief for Kenny Gibson. Thank you, Presiding Officer. Since this introduction, the annual closure of the Clyde spawning grounds has included exemptions to allow nephrops, trawls, creals and scallop dredgers to continue to fish. However, there'll be no exemptions with the imminent Clyde closure from 14 February to 30 April as exemptions didn't lead to fish stock recovery. Can the cabinet secretary advise what positive impact she anticipates will be on future fish stocks from the closure, albeit the temporary closure that has been? Well, the stock so far has shown very little signs of recovery under the previous measures and that's why the measures we announced to increase protection are required and the scientific evidence that we have shows that spawning cod can be disturbed by any fishing gear that operates within 10 metres of the seabed. As the fishing methods allowed under the previous exemptions such as trawling, dredging and crealing all operate within 10 metres of the seabed, removing those will significantly reduce the likelihood of the spawning cod being disturbed. Now, during the closure we're going to increase monitoring of the activity and catches to assess in particular whether and where cod are being caught outside the closure areas and whether they were mature enough to spawn. We intend to hold a meeting with stakeholders at the end of the 2022 closure to reflect on the effectiveness and practicality of the revised closed areas. The chief executive of Seafood Scotland recently stated that the UK Government's immigration policy post-Brexit is preventing new people coming into Scotland's seafood workforce and that, as a result, an average of 20 to 25 per cent of vacancies are left unfilled throughout the industry, particularly on fishing vessels and in processing facilities. Does the cabinet secretary therefore share my view that a Scottish visa is greatly needed to support the fishing and seafood sectors? I do, but the UK Government unfortunately has dismissed our proposals for a 24-month visa for all sectors to try to mitigate the acute labour shortage crisis, and it has ignored calls from businesses to create appropriate migration routes for vital workers to come to Scotland. Their short-sighted fixation on restrictive migration is devastating our businesses and communities. I'm beautiful with it. Several of my constituents have been denied support through the Marine Fund for new entrants because of arbitrary grant criteria. Those are young people looking to invest in the modern Shetland fleet and become the next generation of fishers. Will the minister commit to reviewing those criteria and considering those applications anew to help fishing capacity for the future and match the ambition of young fishers? This is the first year of the operation of the Marine Fund Scotland, so, of course, we will be monitoring and having a review of the fund as we look to establish the fund again in future years, and we'll consider the issues that the member has raised. To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on its position on the effectiveness in Scotland of the UK geographical indication scheme that replaced the EU protected geographical indication scheme. Scotland's GIs, including Scotch beef, Scotch lamb and Scotch whisky, are rightfully world-renowned for their quality and provenance, and they deserve protection from imitation. The UK scheme mirrors the EU scheme. All existing GIs from both the UK and EU were recorded on the UK register from January last year, and they continue to be recognised in the EU. New applicants can apply for protection through the UK scheme, and the Scottish Government continues to support our applicants and work with the UK Government to ensure that the scheme continues to benefit our producers. I agree with the cabinet secretary that Scotland's produce is internationally renowned, but figures show that the total food and drink exports to the EU in 2019 were worth around £2.6 billion to Scotland, but the first nine months of 2021, Scotland's exports to the EU were 12.1 per cent lower than 2019. In addition, the industry bodies have shared their concerns that the new UK GIs scheme provides inferior legal protection. Does the cabinet secretary share my view that Brexit has not provided a single benefit to rural communities? Can she outline what communication the Scottish Government has had with the UK Government and industry regarding the seemingly inferior UK GIs scheme? Yes, I do. We already know that there are going to be more barriers to our exporters and importers to come along the line. Only this week, the UK Government had extolled the benefits of Brexit in a publication, which curiously omitted the figures and the damning figures that Emma Harper has highlighted. We have supported our food and drink sector to the tune of £10 million over the course of the past couple of years in order to mitigate the effects that Brexit and Covid have had on the sector and the communities that they support. Meantime, of course, the UK Government continues to talk pie in the sky, rather than tackling the real issues that have been brought about by its calamitous Brexit policy. I encourage members to look at the questions that they are intending to pose and cut them back if they think that they are going to not fall into the bracket of brevity. I ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on how it is supporting new entrants into agriculture. Currently, we are supporting new entrants into agriculture through the farm advisory service, the Scottish landmatching service, the farming opportunities for new entrant group and direct payments. I am also exploring options to further develop support for new entrants in line with our manifesto commitment. I thank the cabinet secretary for that response. There is currently a serious issue in rural Scotland with soaring land prices, mainly driven by corporate entities buying up large tracts of property for planting of trees to help meet environmental obligations. Encouraging tree planting clearly is good for climate change, but that is the effect of taking marginal land that could be used for food production out of agricultural use and making it harder for new entrants to agriculture, either to purchase land or to expand holdings. Is the Scottish Government aware of the issue and do they have any concerns about what is currently going on? I thank the member for raising that important point. It has been an issue that has been raised directly with me by the NFUS. Both myself and the Environment Minister had a meeting with the president and vice-president of the NFUS to talk this over. I would also highlight to members that the Scottish Land Commission had been tasked with undertaking an urgent piece of work to examine the issue and to look into it in more detail. We are currently awaiting the outcome of that. The recently published Women in Agriculture Research report highlighted the unique challenges that key workers, women in agriculture, continue to face. Does the cabinet secretary agree with me that it is vital to the future of our rural communities that we support women who are new entrants in the agricultural sector in a way that addresses those challenges? Absolutely. I want to see more women like those in Bamshire and Buchan having the opportunity to develop their skills, talents and careers and supporting a new generation of women into agriculture will ensure its long-term sustainability. That is why, in addition to the new entrance support that is available through the Farm Advisory Service, we committed £300,000 this financial year and £400,000 next financial year to bring about some practical solutions to support women. That includes through the wider roll-out of Be Your Best Self, which is personal development training, pilot of agricultural business skills training and skillscedar, which is a skillsharing app to encourage greater participation in rural and land-based training. During the course of the Scottish Parliament, we will double women in agriculture funding up to £600,000. On Saturday, the NFU president referred to post-Brexit trade deals saying, my greatest fear was that we would be used as a pawn in trade deals and, effectively, that is what's happened. Does the cabinet secretary share my view that a more prudent question might be when will the UK Government stop discouraging new entrants into agriculture by undermining the industry with what Ms Batter has described as really bad trade deals for the UK? As proof of this possible, cabinet secretary. Yes, and just to say that I share the views that Manette Batter's had expressed, and I've repeatedly expressed my significant concerns with the UK Government on the impact of post-Brexit trade deals on Scotland's agricultural sector. Farmers and crofters are continuing to be undermined and undercut by the UK Government, who have shown little care for the future of the Scottish rural economy, and the UK Government's actions are damaging the attraction for new entrants to the sector. And while the Scottish Government hasn't been afforded a meaningful role in safe negotiations— I think that's enough, cabinet secretary. Question number five, Miles Price, please. Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. To ask the Scottish Government what support it will provide to help increase the numbers of allotments in community garden spaces across Edinburgh. Minister Mary McCall. Presiding Officer, allotments and their provision is the responsibility of local authorities that set out in the Community Empowerment Scotland Act 2015. However, since 2012, the Scottish Government has allocated over £1.4 million to directly support an increase of land available for community growing and more widely. Our £50 million vacant and derelict land investment programme supports a variety of community regeneration projects, and our Scottish land fund, with a budget of £10 million, supports communities to take ownership of land and buildings, which can include the provision of allotments. I thank the minister for that answer, but it's clearly not having the desired effect here in the capital. The average weight in Edinburgh for people to access an allotment is over eight years in East Lothian. That stands at over 15 years. There are currently 4,259 people here in the capital waiting for an allotment. Will the minister agree to my request to take forward a national allotment viability study with all government agencies looking at what potential land they could use to develop allotments and community growing spaces? I am aware of the concerns in Edinburgh. I know that there are 1,900 allotment plots and 69 community growing projects managed already by the City of Edinburgh Council. I am also aware that the pandemic had the effect of encouraging people to take up allotments but equally making it a very crowded landscape. However, as I said in my initial answer and for more specificity on the point raised, I would direct the member to Edinburgh Council, whose statutory responsibility allotments in Edinburgh are. To ask the Scottish Government what discussions the rural affairs secretary has had with ministerial colleagues regarding support for young farmers in the North East to support and promote good mental health and wellbeing. The Scottish Government takes mental health and wellbeing seriously, and that is why last year we launched the community's mental health and wellbeing fund. We will continue to support those who are supporting the mental health and wellbeing of all farmers throughout Scotland, including young farmers in the northeast. In this financial year, we gave a total of £450,000 to RSAPI, the national rural mental health forum and support in mind Scotland, specifically to support the mental health of our rural communities. Officials are actively engaging with the Scottish Association of Young Farmers Club Board and their chief executive to discuss potential projects, including mental health support for young farmers. Those initial discussions are on-going. Farming has the poorest safety record of any occupation in the UK and a higher than expected suicide rate. Last year, a farm safety foundation's research found that 92 per cent of Scotland's farmers under 40 say that mental health is one of the biggest hidden problems that they face. The RABI big farming survey revealed that over one third of farmers are probably or possibly depressed. Financial uncertainty around the replacement of funding for EU farm payments, powerful supermarkets dictating challenging prices and poor connectivity are just some contributing factors. What more can we do to ensure that we support farmers as part of strong, resilient and connected communities for our rural areas? There are quite a few points on that that I would like to address, but I think that first and foremost is to highlight the likes of organisations such as RSAPI and the important work that they do. If there are any concerns, there are people with concerns, I would urge them to contact RSAPI. Both myself and the Environment Minister had a meeting with them last week hearing about some of the cases that they have been involved in. We recognise that there is serious concern there, especially given the huge costs that everybody is facing at the moment, but we see that in terms of agriculture in relation to the increase in price of fertilisers, energy and all those other issues. We can only anticipate that some of the problems that we are seeing now will get worse. I am happy to write to the member to provide more details about the organisations that can provide this help and support, but also to highlight that we have tried to give as much certainty to farmers and our crofters as much as we possibly can through some of the payments that we have delivered and the commitments that we have made in terms of the rates of payments that we will be making over the term of this Parliament and also through schemes that we have announced recently such as the ELFAS support which has started. Thank you and on the theme of mental health test wide. Thank you, Presiding Officer. Cabinet Secretary, more than one farmer a week in the UK dies by suicide. While the suicide rate among vets is at least three times that of the general population, given the particular mental health challenges facing the agricultural-related professions, does the Scottish Government have any plans to explore more widely the under-reporting of mental health in rural areas? We of course want to get to grips with the issues as much as possible and understand the scale of the issues. The member also touched on an important point there about our vets too. I had recent meetings with the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons as well as with the BVA to discuss some of the issues that they are seeing and experiencing. Of course, we are committed to tackling that as best we can. I am happy to get back to the member with further information. I want to ask the cabinet secretary about pig farmers in the northeast. They have had a particularly challenging time as it has affected their mental health. How has the Scottish Government's pig producers hardship support scheme been helping them? Last year, I was delighted to launch the pig producers hardship support scheme, which was worth £715,000, because, as the member rightly highlights, it was one of the sectors that had been most impacted. The scheme supported farmers who were affected by the temporary closure of the Abattoir and Breakin last year and the subsequent suspension of its China export licence. However, we have recently announced that we are going to be extending that scheme and recognising the support that pig producers need. We are providing additional financial support worth more than £680,000 to pig producers at a time when they need it most, and we are encouraging all those who are eligible for the funding to apply for it. To ask the Scottish Government what support the agricultural sector receives in Scotland and how that compares with the rest of the UK. The 2022-23 budget provides £680 million in on-going agricultural support, including direct payments, the Scottish rural development programme and agricultural transformation. Agriculture is devolved and it is for each part of the UK to develop policies for their own circumstances, unhindered by the very real threats that we face with the UK Internal Market Act, the subsidy control regime and the lack of replacement EU funding. An example is our commitment to support those farming and crofting in constrained areas. We commenced the ELFFAS 2021 payments last month and, by 31 January, over 9,000 businesses have been paid £46.8 million. If you ask, I welcome the ELFFAS funding that was announced this week and the support that it provides to farmers operating in some of the most challenging parts of the country. The Cabinet secretary was aware of the Tory's insistence that no other state or country in the world is doing it, including agricultural support in its subsidy control bill. How might that impact on Scotland's ability to support its farmers to meet our needs and interests? We have very serious concerns about the subsidy control bill, not least because it risks constraining our ability to develop future policies that are specifically tailored to meet the challenges that are faced by Scottish farmers and crofters. ELFAS is an excellent example of that, because it provides essential income support to farming businesses in remote and constrained rural areas, of which Scotland has significantly more than other parts of the UK. However, that support would not be compatible with the principles that have been set out in schedule 1 of the bill. Both myself and my officials are continually raising our concerns about the potential impacts of the bill in Scottish agriculture at every available opportunity. We are not suggesting for one minute that agricultural subsidies be completely exempt from any form of subsidy control, but, as the member highlighted, they are already subject to specific controls and requirements under the agreement on agriculture and will remain so to meet our WTO obligations. To ask the Scottish Government whether it will consider a complete ban on fox hunting. As we set out in our 2021 programme for government, we will introduce a bill during this parliamentary year to strengthen the law relating to the use of dogs to hunt foxes and other wild animals, as well as introducing other measures such as preventing trail hunting. I thank the minister for that answer. Of course, this is a bill that has been beset by multiple delays, so it is welcome to hear that there is a commitment again in this parliamentary session. Along with complaints in my own region, we have heard of a hunting council being reported to police where a dog was chasing down a fox. Will the minister consider the law, including a complete ban, without a licensing scheme for hunting packs of dogs that could act as a new loophole and has been raised as an issue of concern by campaign groups? I am obviously aware of the on-going investigation, which I will not comment on for obvious reasons.  I am seeking to close loopholes, which exist that allow that already illegal activity to persist. I aim to do that in a way that ensures the greatest possible animal welfare whilst facilitating legitimate control in very limited circumstances. I know that the Scottish Government takes seriously the animal welfare standards, both wild and domesticated, but it is also very clear that foxes can do real damage to livestock and livelihoods. Can I therefore ask the cabinet secretary whether she appreciates the need to maintain a balance that allows farmers, smallholders and rural businesses to retain the ability to control foxes when they are pests? I absolutely appreciate that need for farmers to retain the ability to control foxes. I am very aware that foxes can cause significant harm to livestock. It is important that land managers have access to control measures that are both efficient and humane. As we have previously set out, we are not seeking to implement a ban on predator control. We are looking to tighten the legislation to reduce the occasions when a pack of dogs can chase or kill foxes or other wild animals accidentally or otherwise. That concludes portfolio questions. I thank members and the ministerial team for their co-operation in getting you through a fair number of questions. We will have a brief pause before moving to the next item of business.


Daily Tech News show is made possible by its listeners, thanks to all of you including Paul Teeson, Ollie Sanjabi and Andrew Bradley. Coming up on DTNS, the Large Hadron Collider has switched back on and Dr. Nicky tells us about its new discoveries, plus opposition to Microsoft acquiring Activision and new standards for quantum proof encryption. This is the Daily Tech News for Wednesday, July 6th, 2022 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. And from Studio Redwood, I'm Sarah Lane. In Salt Lake City, I'm Scott Johnson. I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang. And joining us, of course, are science correspondent, Dr. Nicky Ackermans. From New York City. How's it going, Dr. Nicky? Roger put your line in the Introduce column, so I introduced you. I apologize. We should have just let you introduce yourself, huh? It's okay. People might forget about me. I'm not here every day. And we will never forget about you after today. We would never, never forget. Let's start with a few tech things you should know. Apple announced a new feature for iPhones called Lockdown Mode coming in the autumn. So when activated, it blocks attachments and link previews in messages, certain attackable web browsing features, and incoming FaceTime calls from unknown numbers. It also requires the device to be unlocked to accept accessory connections, like headphones and blocks installations of remote management software as well. The mode is only meant for users who feel they may be a target of a sophisticated attack, such as the Pegasus software from NSO Group that can infect phones with little or no action required with the target. A developer version is being tested now, and Apple plans to expand Lockdown Mode over time. According to a new report from Nikkei, Nintendo saw switch sales decline 33% from April through June on the year to around 840,000 units. Part of that appears to be supply chain related. They just can't make it off of them. A Nintendo spokesperson said, quote, the shortage of chip materials resulted in a 10% decline in switch production on the year during that quarter. Microsoft split its beta channel for Windows 11 as part of a transition period. One group will have majority of testers and include an enablement package of new features on by default. The others will have new features on off by default. This may result in some testers losing access to beta features. Testers can choose to install a Windows update to add the enablement package with new features. Amazon announced a partnership with Grubhub owner Justy Takeaway to offer a free Grubhub Plus membership for one year to US members of Amazon Prime. Grubhub Plus ordinarily costs you $10 a month and gets you free delivery. You don't have to pay the fee. Last year, Amazon offered Grubhub Plus for a year to Amazon Prime student members. Bloomberg sources say that the US proposed expanding its existing ban on sale of advanced chip making systems to China pressuring the Netherlands to ban the company ASML from selling its older deep ultraviolet lithography machines. The Dutch government would need to agree to the restrictions, which could cut ASML sales by 5 to 10%. The US already banned sales of more advanced extreme ultraviolet tools to China. US officials also reportedly pressured Japan to stop deep ultraviolet chipmints as well. Alright, let's talk quantum computers. Let's do it. Quantum computers could totally break all current encryption someday. Thankfully, we're getting prepared. Really, some people are. So quantum computers are not a 100% replacement for current so-called classical computers. Those are the computers that we probably have at home. But they're far superior at certain things. One of those things is math, and math is used to make sure encryption is secure. Here's a short lesson from Tom Merritt on encryption and apologies to those who already study encryption for some of our shortcuts here. Yeah, absolutely. I'm going to oversimplify. The product of two large prime numbers is really hard to figure out. The larger the number, the more difficult it is to figure out what primes were used to make it. And if you know the primes, you can decrypt your data easily because you know what went into it. Suffice it to say, that's the kind of really hard math that goes into encryption. Easy to do if you know the answer, hard to figure out if you don't. Another way to protect encryption is something called an integer discrete logarithm, also very hard math. Humans can't do it in lifetimes if it's sufficiently complex. Computers can, but it's really hard, and it takes a lot of resources. The largest key ever solved was a 795-bit RSA 240 key in 2019. The same team that broke that also computed a discrete logarithm from a key the same size. Both those efforts took the equivalent of 4,000 core years using Intel Xeon Gold 6130 CPUs. So if you only had one core, it would have taken you 4,000 years. Obviously they had more cores than that, but suffice to say, you need a lot of machines using a lot of power to spend a lot of time to crack that kind of encryption. It's pretty secure. However, a quantum computer theoretically can do it instantly. The math is there as long as you can make the quantum computer work. You could try making the keys even bigger, but that won't help. Quantum computing uses the superposition of bits to essentially try a lot of possible solutions all at once rather than cranking through the attempts. So you could make it bigger. It still should solve it instantly. Thankfully though, quantum computers are still in the experimental stage and so they can't practically do that yet. We do have some things that should go to the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology which on Tuesday announced the first four candidates for Post-Quantum Cryptography or PQC. Those are algorithms that can't easily be broken by quantum or classical computers at all. Four more will be announced at a later date. So let's walk you through these candidates now. Yeah, you're going to love these names, folks. The first one is Crystal's Kyber, like Star Wars Kyber crystals. Crystal's Kyber is used to establish digital keys for two computers that have never interacted before to be able to encrypt their communications. So that'll be the one that'll get used the most. Crystal's Dilithium, so Star Trek gets a little love, is for digital signatures and identity verification. So like what's used in email encryption, it's the companion to Crystal's Kyber. Both are considered to be strong enough and have excellent performance for most uses. So really they could have rested there and said Crystal's Kyber, Crystal's Dilithium. There you go. You got your digital signature. You got your regular encryption. And Dilithium is also the easiest of the digital signature algorithms to implement. However, they implemented two others. I'm sorry, they offered two others for consideration as a standard. Falcon is harder to implement and it might not even work on all devices, but it's included for use where Crystal's Dilithium signatures are a little too large. So you're talking about sensors, Internet of Things devices, things that have a small amount of space. And then Sphinx Plus, but it's spelled S-P-H-I-N-C-S-Plus, is larger and slower than these other algorithms, but it's based on different math, which is good to have as a backup in case someday somebody discovers a weakness in the lattice approach they used on the other three algorithms. So Sphinx Plus uses a hash function instead of structured lattices. It's just good policy to have a diverse number of ways to encrypt. To that point, NIST has four other algorithms under consideration that don't use lattices or hash functions. They'll announce one or two of those as additional candidate standards within the next year, so they say. But this is a huge step for multiple reasons. One is that while companies can use whatever they want, NIST is seen as a guidepost around the world and a lot of companies want to know their choices before they hop on board. The second point is that while quantum computers can't break current encryption just yet, malicious actors are capturing encrypted data and then holding that data for the day where they can decrypt it using quantum computers. So the faster new encryption goes into place, the better protected data is for the future. Still, NIST devices organizations not to make these into their systems quite yet as they may change slightly before the standards are finalized, which is expected to happen by 2024. Yeah. When I first saw the story, I was like, oh, good, we're getting ahead of the game. And it's kind of true, but we're also kind of behind the game because there's data out there that's still useful that's encrypted that a quantum computer could eventually break. So the hope is we get this in place fast enough and it takes long enough for quantum computers to get practical that that data becomes useless because the older it gets, the less useful it is. And take it from somebody who knows precious little about how quantum computing actually works to hear that they're at least eyeing standards because that's really what this comes down to is, you know, let's all decide on some good practices now ahead of time before, you know, we're faced with issues. We learned a lot from the last big wave of what we did with computing. Now, as we enter this new phase, let's be a little more prepared for what's to come. And I see that as only positive, even if it's not finalized. Yeah. And these look at finalized pretty soon, to be honest. Yeah. So, yeah. So it just seems like it's better. I just imagine the malicious computer has like the same, but the LEDs are red. There you go. If only it were that easy, right? Hold on. My computer's been hacked. All the lights turned red. Well, away from quantum computers and into the realm of humans, the UK's Competition and Markets Authority, the CMA said it will consider whether Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard will harm competition. Is it going to raise prices? Is it going to reduce quality? Is it going to reduce choice? That's the kind of stuff they're going to look at. The CMA said a September 1st deadline for its decision. They could do it anytime before them, but they say they'll have it done by September 1st, and they'll be taking feedback for the next few weeks from interested parties up until July 20th. Microsoft announced this deal back in January. They'll say they expect it to close by June 30th, 2023. They're not surprised that they're reaching these regulatory headwinds. They say they expected that. The U.S. and Australia also reviewing this acquisition for antitrust considerations. Activision Blizzard would add games from Call of Duty to Candy Crush to Warcraft to Microsoft Stable, which already includes Zenimax Bethesda and the 15 studios under the Xbox Game Studios division. Scott, you've covered Blizzard for decades now. A half year in from this announcement, how are you feeling about Activision Blizzard possibly becoming part of Microsoft? Are you cheering for the antitrust or for the Microsoft? I am cheering for the Microsoft acquisition, mainly because they built a lot of goodwill around their current trajectory. It doesn't mean, though, that they shouldn't have scrutiny that this is probably absolutely the right direction for any number of governments and regions to look at this and have scrutiny regarding it. Certainly Microsoft's no stranger to how Europe and the UK and others react to certain antitrust allegations. I feel like this is par for the course, but also a good thing. It's good vetting. What Microsoft's counting on here is being able to make a successful argument that they're not talking about making Xbox a closed system where now I can only get my Blizzard games or my Microsoft, or excuse me, Activision games via the Xbox, or even via Xbox on PC, PC games that are Xbox games. What they're saying is the platform is an open one. It's called the Internet and it'll be everywhere. You'll have TVs that can just play it. And also we're going to put this on services like Steam and Epic and other distribution platforms, including our competing console manufacturers like Sony and Nintendo. We're happy to put not all of these games, but a bunch of these games on their platforms. For example, they are no mood to say, well, guess what, sorry everybody, but Overwatch and World of Warcraft and sadly Diablo 4, they're all going to be exclusive on the Xbox and nowhere else. There's no way they would do it. It'd be ridiculous for them to do that. I think they can make a pretty successful argument that they're coming in to turn things around on some levels at Activision whether the European Union cares about that. I don't know, but that's one aspect of this. And then the other aspect is we're going to inject it with a ton of money and we're going to grow this business and we're going to do it in a way that's platform agnostic. And I think they can make a successful argument about it, giving Cloud and a few other things that they couldn't have made say 10 years ago. So I'm more optimistic than not, but I'm not 100% sure this gets past the muster over there because they already are, you know, they're already kind of gun shy with Microsoft. Yeah, I'm curious to because I think they'll be tempted to make the argument that Microsoft owns the platform Xbox consoles and therefore that that is an antitrust consideration. And I agree with you that the console is not the platform that they own, but Xbox Game Pass is the platform. They are Xbox cloud gaming is the platform they own. You could still make an antitrust argument that they'll have too many of the games and they could, even though they say they won't, they could lock them down. So maybe make them promise not to lock games to their platforms for a certain amount of time or something like that might be expected. But I kind of think these will get approved because I think even with Bethesda, Microsoft still can make a good argument that there's plenty of other game makers out there that they don't control. Yeah, absolutely. And they may have eyes on other acquisitions later. This one really needs to go through before they do any of that, I think. But but yeah, there if there are concessions like you need to guarantee to the European Union or whatever powers it be that you're going to put Diablo for as one example. I'm just using this as a basic example, but you need to say to us, yeah, that'll be on PlayStation. That'll be on PC. That'll be on, you know, handhelds where possible. Like you're going to not just say Game Pass is the only place and our platform is the only place. If they can get assurances like that out of Microsoft, which I think they already want that. Microsoft really is not that interested in being just the Xbox. They want to be all over the place and in every hand possible. They'd put Game Pass on Switch. They want their app everywhere when they're possible. They want their app everywhere. You're absolutely right. Do they want their games on every app? That is correct. But they'll put it. They've already shown they'll put it. They put it all back on steam that was off there for a long time. Now you can get every Halo game, including Halo Infinite on steam. You can get it in all those major platforms. Can you get it on PlayStation right now? No, but I think that there's some wiggle room there. The reason they're doing that is it's in their best interests. The question will be if they get Activision Blizzard, will that change the math to where they'll control enough of the games that they'll have more leverage and they'll be able to force people into worse agreements and that sort of thing. Yeah, it'll be interesting to watch this whole thing play out. Well, folks, if you have a thought on this or anything else we talk about on the show, email us.  Our email address is feedback at dailytechnewshow.com. On Tuesday, July 5th, CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research and Geneva, Switzerland, successfully restarted a third run of the large Hadron Collider particle accelerator. Dr. Nicky, I must know what this means. Well, this is exciting for nerds all around the world because this run has come after three years of upgrades and maintenance and the LHC is now going to run for four years at the record energy of 13.6 trillion electric volts, which is just a lot. They have increased many things during these upgrades, including particle collision rates, collision energy, upgraded the computing infrastructure and the detector systems. And all of this goes towards increasing precision and discovery potential for things like the origin of the matter, antimatter, asymmetry in the universe. Intense. So the Higgs boson particle was discovered at CERN ten years ago, bringing with it new understanding of the composition of our very universe. So what is the new discovery? Yeah, so they had a really exciting week at CERN. They celebrated the 10-year anniversary of Higgs boson and they also announced some new findings. So they announced the discovery of three new particles from the pentacorque and tetracorque family of Hadron particles. So there's one new kind of pentacorque and the first ever pair of tetracorques. And this is starting to sound complicated, but they're basically different flavors of elementary particles that are called quarks. Quarks can group together in twos and threes and form Hadrons. And the most common Hadrons are the protons and neutrons that make up the nucleus of an atom, which like you can imagine in your brain, I think. In rare instances, they'll combine into four or five quark particles which are called tetracorques and pentacorques. So if you're still following me, all kinds of Hadrons were predicted by physicists and theorists about 60 years ago that we would eventually discover them. And actually in the past 20 years, the Large Hadron Collider has actually started to find these by doing experiments. And I just have to mention that these particles contain things like a charm quark and a strange quark and just objectively physicists are great at naming stuff. And a quote from the LHC physics coordinator, Niels Turing, he says that we're witnessing a period of discovery similar to the 1950s, which they called a particle zoo of Hadrons that started being discovered and ultimately led to the quark model of conventional Hadrons in the 1960s. But now we're creating the particle zoo 2.0. So overall, all of these quarks and any quarks and all that, they help their discovery that help researchers better understand how Hadrons work. And because of that, we can better understand the theory of our entire universe. Yeah, I think that is the key here is if people didn't catch it, the announcement of these new tetracorques and pentacorques was made at the same time they turned on the LHC, not because they turned on the LHC. Well, they were just having a party. It takes a while to comb through the data, right? Like they turn on the LHC, they collect data, and then they have to look at that data sometimes for quite a while, do some analysis before they can find the signals that they can clearly say, OK, for sure we're seeing a tetracorque. It's not like they're just looking at a screen and they see a tetracorque fly by and go, there it is, yeah. Oh, we predicted this for 60 years. It's right there. No. Yeah, absolutely. This is data that they've analyzed and that they sort of had this week of events and they announced it just recently. But it's really exciting. CERN, I've actually been to CERN. You can visit the museum. It's really cool. And it's a big deal for people who are interested in physics. And if you're not interested, it does somehow impact your life because we better understand things like gravity and how the universe works because of these discoveries. Yeah. I mean, you without the work of these physicists over the decades, you don't have smartphones. You don't have computers. You don't have processors because insight into how subatomic particles behave is what gave us the insight to be able to manipulate subatomic particles. One of the things that I was hearing them talk about on the Economist podcast about this was the idea of the leptochork. So I know we're really deep in the particle zoo now on the show. But the hadrons that you were talking about are the most common ones are protons and neutrons, right? And the other part of an atom that you learn about in high school is the electron. The electron is what's called a lepton. It's not made of quarks. Protons and neutrons are made of quarks. Electrons are not. But there's the theory that there's something called the leptochork, which bridges the gap. And they think that if they can find evidence of a leptochork that they might then be able to unify gravity into the standard model, which would make a simpler equation to describe all the physics, which has been what, you know, physics, white whale has been for decades, right? Yeah, the physicist Moby Dick. I really love that this is stuff that people were working on 60 years ago, and they calculated that we would probably figure it out eventually when we had the right technology. And we did. Like, I just think, can you imagine being that person that's like, that's, yeah, that's a leptochork. We did it. I'm like, so excited. Yeah. A lot of those folks aren't around anymore, but it'd be great if they were. It'd be great to see some of the fruition of that. It also just hit me that that was 10 years ago with the discovery of the. Yeah, I could not believe that that's been 10 years. Like that. Yeah. And CRISPR was also 10 years ago. There's another anniversary recently. So yeah, we're getting old. I'll be honest. I'm a bit of a physics stan. Yeah, we can tell. When I hear them say, when I hear them say that we are reaching the particle zoo levels that we had in the 50s, that makes me really excited because up into the 50s, I remember talking to my dad about this. He's like, yeah, the electron. He's like, I, I was still learning from textbooks that said the atom was not divisible. Right. When he was a kid. And then the electron was the big discovery. And in the 50s, they started to suspect all of these quarks and things and gluons and muons. And we've been living with that for decades now. The idea that we would be discovering all kinds of other particles that would shed light on dark matter and dark energy and unifying gravity. That's, that's incredibly exciting. And it's the extra power of the LHC that makes that something you can even contemplate. Yeah. And once they analyze this data, who knows what they're going to find? It's in four years. We'll be having this conversation again. Yeah, let's do it. Make an appointment July 6th, 2026. Well, speaking of appointments, Kotaku reports about an update to a project that it reported about back in 2020 that was seeking to find every Super Nintendo manual in existence, then scan those manuals, then upload those manuals to the internet for all to enjoy. Okay, fast forward a couple of years. The team, including Arachnus, Buffalo Joe, Timber, SNE Essential, Grant Kirkhart, and led by Streamer and R. Kravitz-Pleebs, Peebs, rather, has since completed a pretty significant milestone. They have a little bit left to do, but they've done a lot. They have a manual for every single Super Nintendo game ever released in English officially. So this could mean a North American version, or a PAL, which would be a European or Australian version, or both, if there were differences outside of cover artwork, maybe some different spelling, maybe the mail addresses on the back were a little bit different. For example, and I just learned this today, Contra 3 was called Super Probo Tector in PAL regions. The team, still on the case, looking for an original scan of the German language version of days before Christmas, days with a Z. And there's a Super Famicom manual section yet to archive.  Yeah, there's a real push toward archives, or archiving the internet, or excuse me, video game information, and manuals are a huge part of this. But also, you kind of hinted at it there. There are so many weird differences in that era when it came to regions. Super Famicom in Japan in North America was called the Super Nintendo. Everywhere else but here, the Genesis was called the Mega Drive. It's weird, and a lot of the games had different names as well, again, as you alluded to. So getting this kind of preservation and archival stuff going on right now is such a cool thing. I'm absolutely in love with it happening, and I suspect this will happen across platforms and sort of build its way up to wherever we're sort of, you know, what we consider to be modern and still kind of ongoing projects and games and systems. It'd be great to have just a better path, a better archival, you know, archive for lack of a better term for all these old systems in these old games. I am so for this, I can barely keep myself straight. Love it. Yeah. History, man. Good stuff. Yeah, archives are good. Yeah. I'll hail the archivists. Blessed we forget Super Nintendo manuals. Let's check out the mailbag. Tuesday, we mentioned that Chinese car maker BYD had passed Tesla as the world's largest electric vehicle maker. James and Andrew both wrote in to point out that Tesla doesn't make plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, and BYD does. So Tesla still makes more battery-only electric vehicles. Side note, in June, BYD executive vice president, Lian Yu Bo, told the press that his company was going to supply Tesla with batteries to help erase material shortages. So that could help Tesla boost their output. BYD makes a little money on top of that, too. So I don't feel like these two are deadly enemies or anything like that. And meanwhile, Toyota is entering the chat, selling its 200,000th plug-in EV in the US, which makes it the third electric vehicle maker after Tesla and GM to pass that mark, which phases out their tax credits. So over the next 18 months, Toyota's tax credits would phase out because they passed the 200,000 sales mark of EVs. And most of Toyota's EVs are plug-in EVs as well. We also got a good mailbag from Comey, Comey noting that the mailbag response from Ross, which was in our show yesterday, mentioned Equinor, being a Norwegian company. Comey says, yeah, it's partially state-owned energy company. It used to be called State Oil until 2018. And as you know, Norway became rich with oil, but it's amazing how the whole country is going toward renewable energy now. Comey says, when we visited Norway, we went to see their Oslo building with unique architecture. I had just learned about Equinor and the building because it was featured in the Norwegian TV series called Occupied as the fictional government offices. In Occupied, when Norway tries to fully convert from oil to thorium-based nuclear power, Russia invades the country and occupies it. There's no warfare in the show, but the theme is timely now. Yeah. Oh, that's cool, Comey. Thanks for sharing those insights. Yeah, I kind of want to watch the show now. I know, me too. Well, thanks to everybody for being on the show with us. What fun. Scott, we'll start with you. Where can people keep up with what you're up to lately? Best place is frogpants.com. It's got links to every show that I host, everything that I make. If you're looking for games or more games discussion, then definitely go there. Frogpants.com has a number of games podcasts that will look at some of these issues we talked about here and more. So check it out frogpants.com for everything. And if you're trying to tackle me on Twitter, you can find me over there at Scott Johnson. I like the idea of somebody talking to you. Yeah. Twitter tackle. We will not tackle you, Dr. Dr. Nicky Ackerman's, but do let us know where we can keep up with the rest of your work. Yeah. I mean, if people want to chat about muons and strange quarks, I'm also on Twitter at Ackerman's Nicole. And then my website is Nicole Ackerman. So either or if you want to find out what I'm up to. Very cool. 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When do you sleep? Now this is a question I get asked a lot because the assumption from the person who asked this question is that in order to be successful and to farm out a lot of content you must have to work in the source and Particularly put your well-being at risk when in fact the opposite is true I love to sleep now when I was a school leader It was more of a challenge It was very easy to be working 80 to 100 hours per week during academic year The research backs this up and for classroom teachers that date is easily 40 to 60 hours It's a tough job and we'll know that as a result your productivity can decrease You behave your management those kind of things your well-being and your health can grow increasingly worse and your Relationships in class but also potentially at home can also suffer as well as your sleep So we know a lot about sleep and we've got a lot of kind of perceptions But actually it's taken me many years to learn that my greatest assets or my greatest successes Follow periods of productivity quite simply after a very good night's sleep So often say to new teachers 8 hours plus bottle of water and fruit on your desk And then at least get you off to a strong start in the classroom deadlines We know will come and go but our ability to fix them Can always be at risk or jeopardy if we don't prioritize Sleep so in a period of screens and mobile phones put in those devices away and having a good period of time to wind Down will increase your success. So take a look at the research by Microsoft labs Which suggests that regular breaks decrease our stress and anxiety and instead Increase our productivity the reason I have my audience is not just because my own teacher wisdom But because I get a good night's sleep


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Simple ways to get traffic to a new website even if you don't know where to begin now This is video one of two So you're gonna want to watch this video and in the description below I'll have a link to the second video, but what do you do? I mean you want traffic right you got this website and nobody's going there So maybe you started a new website You've got nobody going there or maybe you have a website and you've seen steady growth But now you're starting to plateau out or maybe you've got a website that's doing great But you want to increase it well this video is for you So watch it to the very end now to be successful online it pretty much all starts with traffic to your website You've got to have people coming to your website now The good news is whether it's the first person or the thousands person all of these things still work And they're all pretty much the same no matter what stage you're really at you got to do a checkup first though These some of these things are really crucial number one Do you have a good product? If you don't have a good product you will not see growth on your website So you may want to assess your products What do you have out there that is good for the market and since we're talking about market now Is there a big enough market for that product that you're selling now? The good news is if there's not a big enough market You can add more products to your website and that may be one of the solutions that you're looking for now Once you determine that you may want to look at things like is there a compelling story behind my product now? I own a company called survival cave food, and we sell canned meats and survival foods And there's a compelling story behind that and I know within the past year when we had the illness Everybody wanted survival food. They all needed survival food pretty compelling I actually even wrote a book about that you can find it on Amazon the great American food shortage and it talks about how these Illnesses these wars these civil unrest all these different things can cause food shortages So that's my compelling story behind it and the next thing you want to look at is there a low-cost way to reach your audience? That's always the key is low cost will it work on social media? Can you post on Twitter on Facebook on Instagram? Is there a way to get to your audience and provide them with good content and then sell them your product? So in this video in the next one I'm going to provide you with 20 awesome ways that you can drive Traffic to your site and this is simple things that anybody can do So we want to look at each one effort time cost and traffic potential Okay, how much effort are you going to have to put into each one of these you have to decide that? How much time is it going to take you to do these things? And if there's a cost associated how much cost is going to be associated with these different methods? And also the results how much results can you get out of each one of these methods? You're going to have to weigh all these things out as you make those decisions The first thing is Facebook ads Facebook ads is a short-term way to build traffic It doesn't require a whole lot of effort, but I will tell you there is a cost involved Okay, they can be very expensive, but if you want some quick results and get people to your website It's a great way to start there are 2.6 billion people that visit Facebook every single day Now with Facebook's dynamic advertising You can actually serve ads up to people who've already visited your website and Retarget these people and you'll get a whole lot better results by doing that. The next thing is Instagram ads Instagram ads also is low effort and It generally gets results pretty quickly within a matter of days. There is a cost involved Okay, so you have to look at that cost thing once again, but the results can be quite good It's also a great platform to build brand loyalty It's been found that 90% of the people on Instagram actually follow businesses So you can build an audience there and you can get traffic to your website next one number three is Pinterest ads Once again, it's going to get you result within probably days and it doesn't require a lot of effort But there is a cost involved now here's an interesting thing about Pinterest 72% of the people say that they look on Pinterest to make their next purchase They use that as a guide now if you've got a niche like home decor or DIY or anything that is really niched down for the home or individuals Hairstyling that type of thing makeup that type of thing. It's a great platform to post on Pinterest and to run ads on Number four is Google ads Google ads are awesome. They don't take much time to do. They don't take that much effort However, they're more on the expensive end But keep in mind the results from Google ads can be huge if done properly now when thinking about Google think about this It's been found that 35% of the people that searched a product on Google will buy it within three days Pretty interesting stuff. So if you're out there, you're advertising to those people searching for those products You'll probably get that business now. Let's look at number five number five is get friends and family to share your post Now this is going to take a little bit more effort to do and this is not going to happen in days This could be weeks or months to see the results out of it However, the cost is almost nothing just the effort that you have to put into it launching a business this way or getting traffic This way is certainly a lot more effort But I want you to think of all your resources think of your friends your family Maybe other groups you're a member of other types of social media you can post on There's a lot of different social medias there They can make you a lot of money if you put forth the effort and the cost is very low This is for somebody who has the time, but they don't necessarily have the money to invest Number six is proactively engage on twitter. So you can communicate with people on twitter, right? You can comment on their post. You can direct message people There's all kinds of things you can do on twitter and once again, it's going to take more effort However, it's a great way to build an audience if you build your audience in advance Let's say you're talking about cooking and you're going to open a cooking website And you can engage with all these people who are interested in cooking and recipes and that type of thing By the time you actually open your website, you're already going to have an audience Now I will tell you if you're trying to engage on twitter, what you want to do is search Words that have to do with your niche Find people out there that are looking for answers and help them out The best way you can build an audience is going out and actually helping people get what they need And twitter is a great place to do that. There are additional tools you can use to search on twitter And you can google those and find those tools too Number seven post your store to reddit This is a relatively inexpensive thing to do. Matter of fact, it's free And once you post it to reddit, you can get some pretty darn good results pretty fast Now you won't see the traffic growth you would see from running ads However, posting on reddit can really help you out You can get into forums and sub forums and actually drill down to what your audience is and build that audience for your website For example, the thread entrepreneur subreddit has about 739,000 subscribers and lots of interesting tips and discussions on starting a business So check it out. That's a great place to build your audience And what you need to do is create a nice headline and make sure you have a good headline in there Make sure you add value and be very concise in what you post in reddit And then all you got to do is add a photo and a link to your most popular products and you're off and running Now I will say you'll want to pay attention to the reddit guideline and make sure you're not violating any of their terms or service Or you could lose your account pretty quickly Number eight is run a survey or a contest and we've done this in the past and it works really well Having people involved in a particular product trying to win the product that you're actually selling As they enter you can actually put them on your list and email them What we did is we would run a contest and somebody obviously would win the contest And then those people who didn't win the contest We would send them a coupon or a discount for that very same product that they were trying to win Hey, we know they're interested in number nine offer time sensitive discounts Now this is going to cost you some money because you're going to have to spend it on emailing or Advertising or whatever it may be But if you have a time sensitive Product um something that you know after three days, it's going to be gone This can really increase your chances of getting more people to your website They'll see the value because of the urgency of the product and the fact that it may run out or disappear altogether Now you could tie this Discount to a particular day Let's say father's day or mother's day or christmas or whatever it may be Or you can just set up your own time discount But having one of these time discounts really does help now I've given you nine ways to do this But I've got 11 more and I want to share all those with you in video two Below in the description, you're going to see a link to video two I highly suggest you go to video two and watch the other 11 ones I think the 19th one is really going to surprise you when you get to that one But you tell me in the comments below now Have you already done some of these things or Or some of these things something that you want to try put your comments below Do you have questions about starting running and growing your online business? 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The DuPont Cavalcade of America, starring John Hodeak. Tonight, the DuPont Company brings you the red stockings starring John Hodeak on The Cavalcade of America. Our star tonight appears by arrangement with Metro Golden Mayor, producers of Romance of Rosie Ridge starring Van Johnson. The red stockings starring John Hodeak as Al Spalding on The Cavalcade of America. All the shooting about Judge Hanna? Jonesy, did you have anything to do with this? In the newspaper, is it? Don, Connard, it's the most foolhardy thing anyone could have done. Downright asking for trouble. Maybe, maybe not. Mark my words, Jonesy. It's liable to make Rockford the laughing stock of the whole state. That was Rockford, Illinois, the year 1867. There was a game called Baseball. Not the baseball of turnstiles clicking to the entrance of millions. Not the baseball of high-telleried players. In fact, no one got paid for playing it. But that didn't keep Rockford, Illinois from being the hottest baseball town in the country. And the interest centered around one young man recently graduated from high school. Just now, we find him walking in on the argument between Judge Hanna and Mr. Jones. No, no, no, I was spalding. What do you say about that? I didn't have anything to do with it. Mr. Jones sent the challenge to the Washington National. It turned cute and I did. I figured it was time somebody took him into camp. The best team in the east. Why, why they've beaten all the big teams? Well, Goliath had their mighty fine record. Four little David, give them one where it counted. Judge, I think we've got a chance.  I'll best in these parts. But, well, playing against a big team like that, we can't get killed for trying. That's what I say. Can't get killed for trying. Oh, good morning, Miss Green. Morning, Mr. Jones, Judge. Morning, good morning. Five pounds of sugar, please. Right away, Miss Green. Now, look, Judge, I... Now, maybe we should have waited a while. We've got a pretty good little team here, but I don't... We'll never know how good until we play a really big team like the Washington's, Judge. But, Al, the Washington's... I like five pounds of sugar, Mr. Jones. All right, Miss Green. Judge, now, Al here can curve a baseball right there, too. That fella coming. I know Al's good. You don't have to tell me that. But Washington's got pitchers, too. Well, maybe we can hit him. Ross Barnes got a good eye. My sugar, please.  No sip? Listen.  Well, then how come you didn't think a challenge in the Washington's? Because I think maybe it's stepping out of our class. No, I don't think so. But I think it is. You want to get my sugar, don't I? Huh? Oh, yes, yes, yes. Al, get Miss Green five pounds of baseball. I mean... Never mind. By the time I get waited on in this store and the other place in town, I could grow my own sugar. Baseball, morning, noon, and night. What got into her? And why should she come in here if she didn't want to buy nothing? I'd like to look at some Nainsook, please. Uh, Nainsook? Yes, that's right. Nainsook. Well, well, what do you do with it? Eat it? No, you make petticoats out of it. It's material. That's it there, that bolt on the shelf right behind you. And I want enough to make a petticoat for myself. Oh, sure, sure. Yes, ma'am. Enough for a... Wait a minute. I'm not that large. Oh, I'm sorry. But you see, you're the first Nainsook. I mean, you're the first petticoat. Never mind. I'll take the material. Oh, wait a minute. Yes? Are you going to the game tomorrow? Well, I hadn't thought about it, Mr. Spaulding. Oh, you know me? Oh, yes, I can't help but know about you and baseball in this town. You're the pitcher for Rockford. Mm-hmm. You think you can beat the Washington Nationals? Well, we're going to try, Miss... Miss... Miss Keith. Sarah Josephine Keith. How do you do? Have you ever seen a baseball game, Miss Keith? No. In the first place, I don't understand the game. Oh, well, we can fix that. It's easy. I can explain it in ten minutes. Well, I haven't got time now. Well, maybe tonight I could call on you. Well, if you'd like to. Fine. I can explain the game in a couple of hours. You said ten minutes. Oh, well, it takes more time to explain the fine points. It's funny I never saw you before today. Well, I'm just visiting Rockford. Besides, no one in this town is aware of anything but baseball. Everybody's excited about the big game with the Washingtons. But it's so silly. It's just a game. Oh, no. It's more than that. How can it be? Wait a minute. Let's sit down here. Well, all right. Gee, you're up pretty night. Yes. It's wonderful. Know what a moon like that means? No. What's it mean now? Good weather for the game tomorrow. Game baseball. That's all you've talked about this evening. Oh, I'm sorry. Are you mad? No, but I'd just like to know why baseball is so wonderful. You'll see. It'll kind of get you. It's not just the excitement for the players, but for everybody. Well, it seems awfully silly to me. Oh, but it isn't. It's good. I wish I could tell you a story. Old Doc told me. You don't know Doc, but anyway, when he got back from Gettysburg, he told me this story. He said once a northern and southern regiment were camp near each other, the soldiers got joshing back and forth, and somebody yelled they could lick the other side at baseball. Really? Yeah, sure. Well, the officers acted like they didn't see, and the soldiers, northern and southern, went out to a field and played baseball. They forgot the war? Well, Doc said it was pretty hard to go on fighting after it. Oh, is that true, Al? Oh, sure. Doc wouldn't joke about anything like that. Doc taught me all he knew about the game. Because he said it was a game everybody could enjoy. Forget their troubles watching it. I see. Al. What? If you like baseball so much, why don't you play it all the time? Because I can't. It's a game. Nobody gets paid for playing it. I have to work. Oh, I see. I've got a mother and brother to support. That's why tomorrow's game is so important. It'll be my last. Oh. Al. What, Sarah Jo? I'll be at that game tomorrow. Oh, hello, Judge Hanna. How do you feel, boy? Oh, all right, I guess. Sure, sure. Remember, this is just another baseball game. No, it's not, Judge. I guess you're right, Al. You're gunning for big game today. And they are big. Oh, almost forgot. Miss Keith wanted me to tell you good luck. Oh, thanks, Judge. Hello, Judge. Hi, Ross. You better get warmed up, Al. I guess so. Oh, wait. Wait, here comes their captain. Hello. Uh, are you spoiling? Hello there. Hiya. Well, uh, here's our, uh, lineup. Any special rules for out here? No, I guess not. Oh, good enough.  Oh, maybe. Uh-huh. Well, good luck, spoiling. Same to you. Thanks. See you on the field. Ha-ha-ha. Ha-ha-ha. What's funny, Judge? Did you see his face? What about it? Looked as nervous as you two. Oh. Maybe they're not so sure of themselves, either. He asked you about your curve, didn't he? Hey, look at this lineup. They're lead-off, man. He hit three home runs in one game two weeks ago. Oh, did he? Yeah. That was two weeks ago, boys. Today might be different. Now get out there and make it different. Take your time now. Remember, this first guy's a heavy hitter. I'm ready. Grounder, you made him bite on one. He didn't like it. Yeah, Ross, I'm going to keep feeding them curves. They don't like them. Mr. Jones, Ross Barnes and the rest of the boys did some good work out on the field. Rockford's got the best darn team in the world. Mr. Jonesy, I got a few things I want to talk over with you. Huh? Oh. Oh, sure. But, uh, what do we talk about, Judge? We'll find something. We'll find something. Come on. Wonderful. And so was the game. You like baseball now, huh? I love it. I knew you would. I'll tell them all about it when I get back home. What?  Oh, I forgot to tell you. My vacation's over. I'm going back to Boston tomorrow. Well, do you have to go? I have to go back to school. Oh. Well, when do we see each other again? Maybe you'll come to Boston someday. Me? I don't think so. I've got to work now. The game's over. Well, I know, but maybe... Gee. It's funny, but winning that game today just doesn't seem important anymore. But it is important. Yes, but it's over now. I'm not a kid anymore. I stopped being one when the last play was called today. Maybe something will work out for you.  Mom, I got an offer of another job. Well, that's wonderful, Al. But where? And it pays $40 a week. $37 more than I'm getting now. Dear. For doing what? Working as a clerk in a warehouse. Warehouse? Mm-hmm. But there's none in Rockford that would pay that money. Al, what are you talking about? Well, today a man named Brown offered me that much to work in his warehouse in Chicago. But why did he come here? How did he pick you? He saw the game the other day. Oh. And he wants me to play on the Chicago team, too, besides working in the warehouse. Oh, I see. Then it'd really be playing baseball for money. But I'd be working in his warehouse. No, Al, you know that's not true. It's not paid for playing baseball. But it's the chance of a lifetime, Mom. But baseball was a game before. A game to be played in spare time, to enjoy. Playing it for money would take the fun out of it. Look, Mom, baseball's a game, yes. And there are thousands of fellas like me who want to play it but can't because they've got to earn a living. And there are thousands more who can't play but want to watch it. But, Al... And why shouldn't baseball become America's game? Played for money? If it has to be, yes. Well, $40 is a lot of money. I can send you some, save, and maybe later. Sarah Josephine? Yes. All right, Al. If it's what you want. It is, Mom. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm going to play baseball and I'm going to try to make it everybody's game. You are listening to the Red Stockings, starring John Hodiak as Al Spaulding on the Cavalcade of America sponsored by the DuPont Company. Maker of better things for better living through chemistry. Al Spaulding, pitcher for the Rockford, Illinois baseball team, pitches against and beats the Washington Nationals. He's offered a job in a warehouse in Chicago and the chance to play for the Chicago team. As the second part of our story opens, Al has been in Chicago for some time. It is a few minutes after a game. Al approaches one of the other players on the team. Hey, Nielsen. Sandy. Oh, wow. You got a minute? Well, I got something to do and... All right, what's on your mind? Well, when I threw Samuel's that curve, he hit it. So? It was an easy ball on the ground right into your hands. What are you getting at? Well, you dropped it. So? I made an error. Well, it lost the game for us. All right, we lost the game. What of it? Well, nothing much, Sandy, but it's just that... How about being a little more careful next time? Maybe you were overconfident about that ground. Look, Spalding, I haven't got time to stand here talking. I missed the ground ball. We lost the game. Ever see any player who didn't make an error? Well, don't get mad about it, Sandy. Who's getting mad? Just mind your own business. You pitch, I'll play third. That all right? Sure, sure it is. All right. If I make an error, forget it.  I'm mad around. Oh, hello, Harry. What did Sandy get so sore about? Oh, maybe he just doesn't like to be told about mistakes. But everybody else takes it good, naturally. Sure, sure. It's something awful funny. He dropped a ball yesterday, too. I wonder what's the matter? Well, come in. I'll sit down. You're, uh... Mr. Groly, huh? Yeah, yeah, that's right. The ball player's best friend. I got you a message that you wanted to see me. What about it? I, uh... I said it was important, didn't I? Yes. All right, it is. To you. But I don't even know you. Oh, we'll fix that up right now, huh? This, uh... This is going to mean a thousand dollars to you. What are you talking about? Listen, I got a friend. Why don't you go to Chicago to lose tomorrow? Well, that's too bad. We're going to win. Yeah? Well, uh, this friend will pay you a thousand dollars if you don't. Say that again. Now, look, all you have to do, Alice, forget the curves a couple of times, see? Go easy. Put them in a little slow. Now, wait a minute, Groly. Think about it, spoiling. What are you getting? Forty dollars a week? You got a mother and a brother figuring out getting married some day. Don't say the rest of it, Groly. What's the matter? Are you shocked? Now, look, kid, we're making a business out of this. People like to see the game. Some people even like to bet on them. Now, uh, my friends take bets. But sure ones.  Nielsen. Sandy Nielsen. That's why he left that easy grander, yes? It could be. Nielsen's smart. Why don't you be? Never mind. Now, look, we pay right after the game. Look at you going along on a forty dollar salary when you can make fifty times that much by throwing the right ball at the right time.  Don't be sore.  A few games lost. What's the difference to you? You'll be a few thousand to the good and you can forget baseball. Set yourself up in business. Get married. Are you dirty? Let go. What are you trying to do? Let go of me. All right. What's the matter with you? You're not worth a punch in the nose. But I'll tell you something, Groly. I'm going to do everything I can to put men like you out of business. Yeah? That's funny. Very funny. We're in solid. We'll see about that. I've got other ideas. Now, wait a minute. You've got to listen to me, Ross. Nothing doing, Al. I can't play ball for money. Listen, I've been offered 1,400 a year to play for the Boston Reds Talkings, and I'm taking it. Al, we had a lot of fun playing ball. Now you talk about getting money for it. Well, I told you why. I told you about Groly. Sure, sure. But he's only one man. No. There are a lot like him. I've seen him, Ross, walking around, collecting bets, making bets, right out in the open. And I've seen something else. What? I've seen people get up and leave a game because they knew something was wrong. That's what's happening, and they get disgusted with the game. Well, I... And if men were paid to play baseball, they wouldn't have to listen to men like Groly. Well, you think the public would like it if they knew the players were paid? They do. The Cincinnati team's been professional for some time now, and look at the crowds they draw. Ross, come with me to Boston. Play second base and get paid, honestly. There are other players who feel the same as I do. Well... All right, Al. If that's the way it is. It is. Go in this with me and we'll make baseball our national game. Balding, pitcher for the champion Boston Red Stockings. Uh-huh.  Oh, sure, but... But what? Sarah, Joe, remember the day back in Rockford you said maybe something would work out for me? Uh-huh. Well, something has. Yes, but... Well, look, someday I'm going to quit baseball. Quit? Well, you can't... Well, I've got an idea, honey. I want to go into business, make sporting goods, baseballs, bats, gloves.  Good equipment. Well, it's a wonderful idea, but... what are you leading up to? Well, I'm... trying to ask you to marry me. No, wait. Now, don't say anything. We'll wait until I get out of baseball, in business, then. Well, I wait out. Well, look, honey, you're your father. What about him? Well, maybe he wouldn't like a baseball player for a son-in-law. Let's ask him. He's in the other room. But, honey, this is so sudden. I'm supposed to say that. Yes, but... Come on, he's not so terrible. No, maybe we'd better wait a while. I could write him a letter. Father, may we come in? Yes, certainly do. Father, you know Mr. Spaulding. Oh, yes, yes, the, uh... the baseball fellow. Sarah Jones. Father, Al and I want to be married. What? What do you see, Mr. Keith? You play baseball for a living? Yes, sir. I do. There's nothing wrong with that, Father. I think I'll be the judge of that. And Mr. Spaulding, do you have any immediate prospects? Oh, well, I plan to go in a business someday and make sporting goods. But I... I should like some time to think this over. Oh, my baseball. Excuse me, Mr. Spaulding and Sarah Jones. I really have to think about this. I knew it. He doesn't like me. Or what I do for a living. Al, listen, leave it to me. He may be a little stunned right now. Stunned? He was practically unconscious. Oh, no, honey, it's just no good with him.  Go right in and talk to him. He went to the game today. He saw you pinched. What did he say? Well, you go in and find out. Yes, Sarah Jones and Mr. Spaulding. Yes, Father. Come on out. Good evening, Mr. Keith. Well, good evening, Mr. Spaulding. How did you like the game? Did you enjoy it? Yes, yes, I think I did. Of course, some points escaped me, but I think you can explain it. Well, yes, sir, but Sarah Jones and I... Tell me, when the gentleman standing with a large stick strikes at the ball and deflects it, what does that mean? Well, that's a foul ball. But, sir, Mr. Keith, Sarah and I... Foul ball? Well, that's good. Well, that's very good. Now, when the gentleman strikes the ball and it rolls along the ground... Father, Al wants to talk to you about something. Yes, well, you run along, my dear. I should like to talk to Al. But, Father... Al, when you deliver the ball to the catcher, I noticed a deflection in the trajectory. Can you tell me how that's done? Well, Mr. Keith, I'll write a book on baseball. You'll get the first copy. And now I'd like... And another thing, when the gentleman run around the bases, is it necessary for each one to place his foot on the base? You know, it seems a waste of time. Well, Mr. Keith, I... Never mind now. I think everything's going to be all right. Sarah, Joe, look. We're going to take the team around the world playing exhibition games. Baseball's catching on all over. It's a great thing, Ross. We're forming a league of teams. The National League. Baseball's spreading. The big cities are all forming teams. I can quit now, Sarah, Joe. Go into business. Quit? But you can. Yes, I can. Because baseball's where I wanted it to be. Now it's time I caught up with another dream. To go into business and make good baseball equipment so everyone can play. Thank you. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, a dinner given in a man's honor always places him at a disadvantage. Particularly tonight, when I followed DeWolf Hopper and Mark Twain in the lineup. But I would like to say one thing, and that is to correct a mistake. Mr. Twain said I gave you America's game. I didn't. You gave it to yourselves. It's your game. And you made it that because it's a game where there's no faking at the plate. There's no bluffing in the pitcher's box. There's no substitute for hard playing and clean sportsmanship. I won't make a long speech. I just want to thank those who had faith with me. My wife, Ross Barnes, and all the others. And let's hope the years to come see baseball continue to grow. Grow as its country has grown in fair play and sportsmanship. Dean Whitman speaking for DuPont. The DuPont Cavalcade will star Lee Bowman as Lieutenant Andrew Rowan who accepted one of the toughest assignments ever handed out by our military intelligence. Cavalcade's drama is the seldom-told real-life story of the 40-year-old lieutenant whose courageous exploit was immortalized in Albert Hubbard's celebrated editorial, The Message to Garcia. Be sure to listen next Monday night to Lee Bowman in Cavalcade's drama, Mission to Cuba. The music for the DuPont Cavalcade is composed and conducted by Robert Armbruster. Tonight's Cavalcade was written by Lucy Kennedy. Featured in the cast with John Haudiac were Mary Jane Croft as Sarah, Red Howard as Jones, Gail Gordon as the judge, Jane Morgan as the mother, Gerald Moore as Broly. This is Frank Bingman inviting you to listen next week to Mission to Cuba starring Lee Bowman on the Cavalcade of America brought to you by the DuPont Company of Wilmington, Delaware. The DuPont Cavalcade of America came to you from Hollywood. This is NBC, the National Broadcasting Company.