Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. Mu'assalad wa-salaam wa-alaa Sayyidina wa-nabiyina Muhammadin. Sultana Allah wa-Alaikum wa-salaam. Ya Rabbana, lakal hamdu kama yambagi l-jalal wa-wajhika wa-a'zini sultanik. Allahumma ftahalayna ftuhal a'rifin. Allahumma a'limna ma'yumfauna wa-mfa'na bimaa'alamtanaya. Ar-Rahmanir Raheemin. Today, insha'Allah, we will be giving some headlights about Hadith number 37. 37, 38 and 39. So, let's start. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. Ibn Abbas, may Allah be pleased with him, said, Allah has written all good deeds and bad deeds, and then He has made them clear. So, who cares about good deeds, he has not done them. Allah has written all good deeds for him. And if he cares about them, he has done them. Allah has written ten good deeds for him, up to seventy-one, many, many times. And if he cares about bad deeds, he has not done them. Allah has written all good deeds for him, and if he cares about bad deeds, he has done them. So, this Habith is about the generosity of Allah, Subhanahu wa Ta'ala. Ibn Abbas, may Allah be pleased with him, reported, Sayyidina Muhammad, may Allah be pleased with him, said, God rewards the good deeds and the evil deeds. He punishes the evil deeds. If anyone intends to do a good deed, but does not do it, God enters it for him in his record as a complete good deed. And if he intends to do a good deed and does it, then God enters it for him in his record as ten to seven hundred and many more times as much.  But if he intends to do it and he does it, God records it for him as one evil deed. Subhanallah, this Habith reminds us here of the first Habith about intentions. So we mentioned earlier that all our deeds are linked to our intentions and are rewarded according to our intentions. So this is actually an amazing Hadith that shows Allah's blessings and mercy to His creation. Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala has multiplied the rewards, but he did not multiply the punishment. This is the mercy of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala. And this proves that he, that we say, so this way that he treats us is a proof that he is the most generous. Subhanallah. And in fact, people are in this dunya of four types. So when it comes to good deeds and when it comes to sins, people are categorized into four types. The first type is someone who thought about doing a good deed, but for some reason he did not do it. So he thought of doing good deed, but he did not do it. The second group is someone who thought about doing a good deed and he did it. Now, the third type is someone who thought about doing a sin, but again for some reason he did not do it. And the last type is someone who thought about doing a sin and he did it. So let's talk about these four categories now. In the first case, we said that someone thought about doing a good deed. So the first case has the verb همه in Arabic. And this verb means to intend to do the action and take initial steps in doing so. Though it might be with some hesitation. And about this group, Prophet Muhammad says, فَمَنْهَمَّ بِحَسَنَةٍ فَلَمْ يَعْمَلْهَا كَتَبَهَا اللَّهُ عِندَهُ حَسَنَةً كَامِلَا So if anyone intends to do a good deed but does not do it, then Allah will record it as a complete good deed. Now, فَإِنْهَمَّ بِهَا فَعَمِلَهَا كَتَبَهَا اللَّهُ عِندَهُ عَشْرَحَسَنَاتٍ إِلَهَا سَبْعِمِئَة يضعفٍ إِلَا أضعاقٍ كَتِيرًا So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will record it if he plans it and then he does it. Allah will record it for him as 10 to 700 and many more times as much. Any deed we do is automatically multiplied by 10. This is the generosity of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And it depends on factors for further multiplications. For example, during Arafa, during Ramadan, these are blessed nights, these are the nights, these are nights in time when the rewards are highly multiplied. And this is why Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said There are blessed times in your lifetime. So try to get as much good deeds in these blessed times as you can. So this shows this multiplication of Hassanat, of good deeds, shows Allah's immense ability to do what he wants. No one can question Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. He's the most generous, he can do whatever he wants. So he multiplies the reward as much as he wants. In another hadith, Abu Huraira says, the Muslim of Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says So Allah says, and we said at the beginning, we said earlier that this type of hadith, when it starts with Allah says it's called Hadith Qudzi and we do not consider it Quran. We cannot pray with it in our prayer. We cannot say it in the prayer. But it's not the actions of Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam or the words of him or anything that defines the hadith itself. It is Hadith Qudzi that the idea is from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala but the words are of Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. So in the other hadith that I just mentioned that Allah says if my slave intends to do a bad deed, then all angels do not write it until he does it. Look at the mercy of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And if he does it, then write it as it is. But if he refrains from doing it for my sake, then write it as a good deed. So if I want my slave to do a bad deed, then don't write it until he does it. So if he does the bad deed, write it as one bad deed. And if he leaves it only for my sake, he refrains from doing it only for my sake, then write it as a good deed. So it will not be considered a bad deed, but it will be considered a good deed because he did not do it for Allah's sake. On the other hand, if he intends to do a good deed but does not do it, then write it as a good deed. Write it in his record as a good deed. And if he does it, then write it for him in his record as 10 good deeds up to 700 times. Ultimate generosity. Okay, we go back to our Hadith.  So he did not do it just for the sake of Allah, just for the sake of Allah, nothing else. So he intended to do the action, but then he remembered that Allah was recorded for him as a sin. So he stopped, he refrained from doing it. And he stopped only for the sake of Allah. So this person will be rewarded by Allah for complying to his orders. But the one who is forced not to do it, not to do the sin, if someone forced someone else who intended to do the bad sin, so he is forced by someone not to do it, and abstained from doing it for the sake of people, he will not be rewarded with good deeds, but also will not have any sins recorded for him. Ibn Rajab, R.A., who said, if he intends to do a sin, and he did not do it out of fear of the people or out of showing off in front of them, then he is punished for leaving it for this intention. This is because prioritizing the fear of the creation over the fear of Allah is haram.  And when it is connected to leaving a sin for their sake, then he is punished also for leaving that sin. Subhanallah. Everything is related to intentions. So we have to know that going back to the first hadith, So all our actions are connected with the intention. So what is our intention with me too, when we do something? This is how Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala would look at our actions. So if he intends to do it and he does it, then Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala will record it for him as one evil deed. Always remember not to say, oh, this is a small sin. It's okay to do it. Then I will do istaghfar and I will pray, I will pay sadaka. No, don't do that. Don't say this is a small sin or this is a big sin or this is a major sin. Do not belittle any sin. You know why? Do not belittle the sin, but look at whom you disobeyed and look at whom you obeyed.  You followed his words. So always remember that Shaytan has promised Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala to keep deviating his creation, the creation of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala until the day of judgment. That was his promise when he was kicked out of Jannah. So do not be his prey. Do not listen to him. Do not obey him and disobey Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. Remember always that Shaytan will not whisper to the doomed and to the bad people because he already knows that they are in hellfire. He wants to whisper to the good ones to make them go astray. So the important lesson of this hadith is that we have to be observant of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. He's watching over us. All of our deeds, our words, our looks, our way that we go through, everything is recorded and we will be held accountable on the day of judgment. So we have to train ourselves to always think about our deeds and we have to intend to do good all the time. We always have to remember that Allah is with us that we want to worship Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. We want to obey Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala because we want to be of those whom Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala said about him on the day after. He is pleased with them and they are pleased with him. So those are the group of winners. And those are the people of Allah who are the winners on the day of judgment. Now moving to the next hadith. Arabic Arabic So Abuh Ray, he reported that the Messenger of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala said, and this is a game, hadith, Qudsi, because the Messenger of Allah said, Allah has exalted, has said, Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala has said, I will declare war against him who shows hostility to a pious worshipper of mine, to a friend of mine. And the most beloved thing with which my slave comes near to me is what I have enjoyed upon him. And my slave keeps on coming close to me performing Nawafil. And Nawafil means prayer, praying or doing extra deeds besides what is obligatory. So he would do that until I love him. And when I love him, I become his hearing with which he hears, his seeing with which he sees, his hand with which he strikes, and his leg with which he walks. And if he asks something from me, I give him. And if he asks my protection, I protect him. A very interesting, very, very generous hadith, Subhanallah. The friends of Allah, who are they? Are the ones who follow the orders of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala? They are the ones whom Allah loves. And this hadith describes the protection that Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala has given to the friends of Allah, to his friends. Allah says in Surat Yunus, in ayahs 62 to 64, Allah has no fear of them, nor do they grieve. Those who believe and fear Allah, they will be blessed in this life, and in the hereafter. Do not change the words of Allah. That is the great achievement. Unquestionably for the friends of Allah, there will be no fear concerning them, nor will they grieve. Those are the ones who believed and feared Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. For them are good tidings. There is the good news in the worldly life, and in the hereafter. No change. There is no change. Is there to the words of Allah? That is what's the great accomplishment. So these are the friends of Allah that he mentioned in the Qur'an. They fear Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. They believe in Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. So all their deeds are connected to there being fearful of Allah, and to their love to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala, to their faith in Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. So Allah is saying be beware of harming my slaves. Beware of harming my friends. Now in fact, we have to be aware of harming Allah's slaves in general, because we don't know who his friends are. While some of them are no, but most of Allah's friends are hidden. So you don't want to fall into the category of those against whom Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala has declared war. Because anyone who harms Allah's friends, Allah declares war against him. So for this, we have to increase in purifying our hearts. We have to increase incurring out many righteous actions so that we may be of the friends of Allah. So we will be away from those who harm the friends of Allah, and inshaAllah we will be of the friends of Allah. In fact, the hadith gives us the methodology of how to become one of the friends of Allah. And it also gives us the consequences of being from the friends of Allah. So the rest of the hadith gives us this methodology and talks about these consequences. So Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala mentions two levels of his friends in this hadith. So the first one, وَمَا تَقَرَّبَ إِلَيَّ عَبْدِيْ بِشَيْنْ إِنْ أَحَبَّ إِلَيَّ مِنْ مَفْطَرَطُ وَالَيْ. And the most beloved thing with which my slave comes nearer to me is what I have enjoyed upon him. So someone comes closer to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala by following the obligations. So those who draw closer to him by fulfilling the obligatory actions, this is who this group is. So by performing the prayers, by fasting, giving zakat, giving sadaqa, going to hajj. So this is the first group fulfilling the obligatory actions. Now the second group is وَمَا يَزَالُ عَبْدِيَّ تَقْرَّبُ إِلَيَّ بِالْنَوَافِ لِحْتَا وَحِبْبُهُ. So the second level, the second group includes those who draw closer to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala by carrying out recommended actions, extra actions. By doing extra good deeds besides the obligatory ones. This group includes the ones who are foremost in doing good deeds. So to be all the friends of Allah, we have to strive to attain the love of Allah by fulfilling the obligations and by increasing in the recommended actions. So if we ask ourselves, what are the benefits of doing the recommended actions? So why don't we just stop at the obligations? Why do we do sunnahs? Why do we do the extras? In fact, the recommended actions are but means of safeguarding the obligations. For example, fasting the six days of shawwal, so six days after Ramadan when we fast them. This is an example of doing recommended actions. Also doing the recommended actions before the obligatory ones help us prepare ourselves for the obligatory actions. How is this happening? So for example, when we pray the sunnah before we pray forad, then we are preparing ourselves to be present while we are preparing, where we are praying the forad. So the first one was to do the, to safeguard the obligation to safeguard the forad. The second one is to prepare ourselves for the forad. Now, one more thing, doing recommended actions after the obligatory ones help in making up for the shortcomings in the obligatory action. For example, when we pray, when we pay sadaqat al-fitr after fasting, why do we do all this? Why do we pay sadaqa before A'id after the month of Ramadan? This amends any small mistakes that happened during fasting that we didn't pay attention to or that we did not know of. Now the, if we want to go to the last section of this hadith, so the end section here is the consequence, talks about the consequence of drawing closer with both the obligations and the recommended actions. Now, if we want to look at the interpretation of these words, of the words that Allah SWT says, I become, he is hearing And if he asked me, I will give And if he asked refuge in me, then I will protect him. What does this mean? This means that Allah SWT would guide us in everything we do, everything we hear, everything we look at. So we hear, we do only the righteous things, we hear only the halal things, we look at the halal, we don't look at anything that Allah doesn't want us to look at. We don't go to any places that Allah doesn't want us to go to. So if we ask Allah SWT, he will give us and if we make Dua, then he will answer our Dua. And if we seek refuge in him, he will protect us. There is one point here that we have to pay attention to. It's the unanswered Dua. Sometimes we make Dua, a lot of Dua, and our Dua might not be answered. So this does not mean that Allah SWT does not love us. No. Unanswered Dua has several meanings. The first one is that Allah SWT has prevented a bad thing from happening to us because of the Dua that we make. And then the unanswered Dua that we think it is unanswered, it was saved for us to the day after. And the reward will be immense on the day after. So another thing is that, which is very interesting that Allah SWT, when someone calls Allah SWT, if Allah loves that person, then he will say to the angels, don't give him what he is asking for. I love to keep hearing the voice of this person. But if someone who is not loved by Allah SWT and he asks for anything, then Allah would say, give it to him. I don't want to hear his voice. And this happens actually, especially for the non-believers, that we see that most of the non-believers live in, live a very happy life to their thinking. So everything they want, they have, whatever they want, they have. But this is their dunya. So this is their reward in the dunya, but they will be punished in the day after. So we have to understand what Allah SWT is saying. We have to understand what Allah SWT is keeping for us. So Allah will be the protector of our hearing. He will be the protector of our singing, of our path, of everything that we do. So everything we hear, we see, et cetera, will be connected to Allah SWT. So our heart will be rejecting anything bad, because it's already connected to Allah SWT. And when you are connected to Allah SWT, you will be able to differentiate between what is right and what is wrong. You will be able to know which path to follow.  So with this, doing this, when Allah SWT will protect our hearing, our singing, our path, our everything, then we will reach the state of ihsan. We know that Allah is with us. Even if we don't see him, but Allah is with us. He is the one who is protecting us. Now moving to the last Hadith of today, Ibn Abbas, may Allah be pleased with him, that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah be pleased with him and peace be upon him, said, Allah is the protector of my nation, the wrong and the wrong, and Ibn Abbas, may Allah be pleased with him and peace be upon him. So this Hadith talks about overlooked matters. On the authority of Ibn Abbas, may Allah be pleased with him, that the Messenger of Allah SWT said, Verily, Allah has pardoned or Allah has been lenient with my ummah for me. So he's been lenient with their mistakes, their forgetfulness, and anything which they have been forced to do under pressure or under force. Again, this is the mercy of Allah SWT. So this Hadith establishes the principle that the religion came to remove harm and establishes the special virtues given to this nation. Because the previous nations were held accountable for everything that they do. Allah SWT is capable of treating us like he treated the previous nations. But because of his love for his beloved Messenger, Sayyidina Muhammad SAW, because of his love for him, he shows mercy for us. We, the nation of Sayyidina Muhammad SAW, that on the day of judgment, everyone wishes even the prophets wish that they are of the nation of Sayyidina Muhammad SAW. So mistakes, which are the first things that they are overlooked, mistakes are divided into several categories. Those towards Allah SWT, and those towards others, and those towards ourselves. So there is a Hadith that, there is a dua actually that Sayyidina Muhammad SAW told us that ya Allah, we want you to forgive us for everything that we did towards you, for all the mistakes that we did towards you. And we want you to take over the mistakes that we did towards others, that which we did not know about, and which we did not pay back, which we did not ask for forgiveness from people. So these are the overlooked mistakes that we want Allah SWT to cover for us. Now what is forgetfulness and misyan? Forgetfulness is when you know the ruling, but you forget at the time of carrying out the action. Again when it comes to the rights of the community and individuals, even if you forget, you are still held accountable by them, if they do not forgive you. And that's why we ask Allah SWT always on and on and on that ya Allah, ya Allah forgive us for the things that we know and things that we don't know that we have done, or the things that we forgot that we have done. And the last thing that Allah SWT, that Sayyidina Muhammad SAW mentions in this Hadith is وَمَسْتُكْرِهُ عَلَيْهِ The person is being forced to do the action. So this is وَمَسْتُكْرِهُ عَلَيْهِ So the person did not do it intentionally, but he was forced to do this action. And for the person who is being forced to do an action, must not be content with the action. And he was lacked the capability of repelling the person forcing him. So he is oppressed. And the first example from the first examples in Islam was the story of Sayyidina Muhammad SAW when Quraysh started to torture the Muslims. Sayyidina Muhammad SAW was tortured to the point that he said the word of kufr, that he mentioned the idols in a good way. And he was very sorry for that. And he couldn't face Sayyidina Muhammad SAW for that. But Sayyidina Muhammad SAW comforted him that Ya'amar did not do that while you are content with this. You couldn't do anything. They kept torturing you until they said it. So Allah will forgive you. So we have to praise Allah SWT for overlooking mistakes, forgetfulness, and things that are actions that are carried out be out by force which we are not content with. This is done to the nation of Sayyidina Muhammad SAW. So imagine how much Sayyidina Muhammad SAW loves us. So always seek forgiveness from individuals when you wrong them. Even if it is unintentional because they might not forgive you and they might go after you on the day of judgment. So be careful. And remember, if you are forced to do something ensure always you are discontent with that action. Your heart does not accept it. So this is the way that Allah shows mercy for the ummah of Sayyidina Muhammad SAW. We saw in previous hadith how Allah SWT shows his mercy by protecting us. And if we get closer to him then he will be the protector. Then he will protect us with whatever we look at, whatever we see, whatever we do, wherever we go he will protect us. And in the hadith before we show the mercy of Allah SWT by his rewarding of the good deeds to 10 folds up to 700 folds and more. Ya Rabbana ala kal hamlu wa shukru wa ni'mata wa ridah. Ya Allah, make us content with the way that you are handling our affairs. Always. Make us understand how this life goes. Make us understand that whatever you decree is the best. We thank you for your mercy, Ya Allah. And until we meet again next week, insha'Allah which will be the final week of this series I would leave you now by sending your salam and my salam our salawat to Sayyidina Muhammad SAW wa rahmatullah wa barakatuh.


Daily Tech News show is made possible by its listeners, thanks to all of you, including Tony Glass, Philip Less, and Daniel Dorado. Coming up on DTNS, Amazon's adding voice control to video games, but do any of you want that? Plus, cameras literally built to protect privacy, and what do we actually need fitness trackers for? This is the Daily Tech News for Wednesday, August 24th, 2022 in Los Angeles on Tom Merritt. And from Studio Redwood, I'm Sarah Lane. And in Salt Lake City, I'm Scott Johnson. And I'm the show's producer, Roger Jen. Oh, my friends, I'm very excited about the stories we have for you today, including that one about the camera. It's really interesting, but let's start with a few tech things you should know. Apple sent out invites for an event on Wednesday, September 7th at 1 p.m. eastern at its headquarters in Cupertino, California. The invite shows the Apple logo as a star field with the words, far out. What could it mean? Usually mean something. The company didn't mention the iPhone, but it's that time of year when it usually announces new iPhones. So why don't we just go ahead and expect new iPhones, maybe in space? Apple also confirmed it won't release a public build of iPadOS at the same time as iOS for the iPhone. Apple is expected to release iOS 16 soon after its September iPhone event, but says iPadOS will arrive sometime later this autumn with the release of iPadOS 16.1. So they're just skipping to .1. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported earlier this month delays in iPadOS 16 were to resolve issues with the new stage manager feature. The Ethereum Foundation confirmed that it will begin the switch to proof of stake over proof of work on September 6th. Now, proof of work is criticized for the amount of energy that it consumes as it requires computers to solve difficult math problems in order to help operate the network. Proof of stake is based on holdings and uses less energy. The merge will be split into two upgrades called Bellatrix and Paris. Bellatrix is time to occur at 11.34 am UTC on September 6th, and Paris will be triggered sometime between September 10th and September 20th. And sadly to clarify for Stoic Squirrel in the chat room, stake is spelled S-T-A-K-E, not S-T-E-A-K. But you can eat a steak while staking. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. It's a perfect way to celebrate. Yeah, you just kind of get creative. Stability AI publicly released its text to image engine stable diffusion available to all users through its Dream Studio interface. CEO Amod Mostak said a public API for stable diffusion will be available shortly. Users get 200 credits for free and you can get an additional 100 credits for one pound sterling. Acer expanded its eco-conscious Vero line with the 14-inch Chromebook Vero 514. Comes with a 99% recyclable chassis, uses a trackpad made of ocean-bound plastics, with keycaps made of 50% post-consumer plastic. It also uses standard screws for easier upgrades. Inside are 12th gen Intel processors with a 1080p screen and a 1080p webcam. Starts at $499.99 available in mid-October. I mean, I guess it's not ocean-bound anymore, right? Yeah, it's ocean. Now they're in this free post-ocean. Let's the laptop down some of the ocean, which I hope it doesn't. Alright, let's talk about that voice control stuff. Scott? Whoops, my microphone got muted. Amazon announced Alexa Game Control. Oh, sorry, I set everybody's thing off, including mine. Which lets gamers use voice commands to perform in-game actions in participating with games? You'll need an Amazon account, so that's number one. But not a prime membership, so that's good. It's basically free for you to use. You also need to say the wake word, so some gamers may want to use push-to-talk, especially if you're in a room with a bunch of people talking. You'll be able to perform some in-game actions, though, without having to use that wake word, like talking to a non-player character in NPC. You could just say, where is the nearest workbench? Or give me the quest. You could swap weapons. Just say, select my most powerful weapon and not have to search around and find it. You can even, they said, manipulate zombies by saying, hey zombie, which I just like the idea of, you know, instead of hey Google. Hey zombie. Hey zombie. Act right. Run that way. It can also do everything else on Amazon Echo can do, like control your smart home devices, set mood lighting, order from DoorDash, or whatever you got it set up to do. It'll launch on Dead Island 2, the video game, February 3rd. That's when the video game launches on Xbox and PC in English in North America. More games, platforms, languages, and regions are planned to come down the line, but that's where we're starting, Scott. Yeah, and Dead Island 2 seems as good a place to start as any. This is actually a game that was forever delayed and we finally got a release date. So I was excited on that front. I love the first game. Since we talked about this earlier on the morning stream, I've been thinking a lot about implementation. Like how can this be used in a way that won't either be seen as just too gimmicky by gamers or will really take advantage of the technology and make it so we have an expanded game experience, an enhanced one, if you will. And I thought of a few things, but the main one is that the stuff that's quicker to do with your voice, they should lean into that. And I'm not exactly sure what all those things are yet. Certainly not in this game, because I don't know what the mechanics are yet. But the things that are easier to do that way, I want to see how those work. And the things that are easier to do with one or two button presses on a controller, which is where most people are going to be on their Xbox, for example, or their PC even. I would like those to be, you know, leave those where they're best suited already. For example, let's say you got to reload a gun. Me yelling reload is actually more effort and uses more of my bodily systems than if I just hit the X button on the controller as an example. But me saying, where's the next quest to an NPC standing nearest? That is faster than going and clicking on him, going through a list of things that I can ask him, then having to exit, skip through dialogue, all of those things. Let me just say, point me to the nearest quest. And if this thing can say, if the NPC can say, oh, well, that's this direction points around the hill and says off you go. I think there's something to this and could be really, really cool. The nice thing is it'll be free for everybody to use. It won't be required. So if you're looking forward to playing Dead Island 2 or any game that will support this for the time being anyway, you're not going to be required to use it. So I think that's good and important. And the nice thing about this being sort of a strange little add on, it's not coming in the form of some special accessory you have to buy after the fact. For example, when people had to buy the Kinect with the 360 or the move controllers with the PlayStation or the enhanced Wii controllers, if you had a Wii and they had those better ones down the road, those kind of accessories, PS4 VR being maybe one of the exceptions, don't sell very well because they're not one-to-one with the hardware. This isn't one of those. This is a new functional thing that just is there in the air. And if you've already got an Echo or are in that ecosystem, you're set. You're done. You don't need to go buy one. So I think there's advantages to that versus other tech that gets inserted mid-generation. And I really want to see how it works out. You mentioned how if you wanted to trigger some sort of an action that this would be slightly less, I don't know, seamless than just doing it the way that gamers have already known to do this. But I also feel like it's not unlike me telling on my lights upstairs or my TV to turn on and off all the time.  I don't want to do that. I'm not particularly the Amazon ecosystem. I'm just not into talking to the air to have that possibly recorded and come back to me. That's one thing. But I've also had friends just be like, how is this easier for you, Sarah? Is it really easier? I'm like, it's just fun. It's good to have options. Some of it is fun. That's what I see this as. Yeah. And that's what I'm maybe most excited about. I didn't actually mention this. I'm glad you brought it up. I don't know that this is going to be the showcase for it on Dead Island 2 in particular. It's reactionary and very bloody and horror movie and all that. But what games come after that is what's interesting to me. Well, somebody make one that, for example, can be played traditionally with buttons and navigation and everything else. But maybe they'll come out with something that will really take advantage of this. But the conversation with the echo is everything to the experience or a lot of the experience. And what that is and how that flushes out, I don't know. But that's all a possibility as well. Really, the real trick is for you and I to tell our echo ecosystem to turn the lights on on the deck as an example like we do, that is saving me trouble. I don't have to get up. I don't have to walk to a switch. I don't have to flip it. I just say a thing and it happens. So whatever those equivalent things are in game worlds, and make that world more either more convenient or more responsive or whatever, that that is cool. And I hope that they figure out what that is. But we're going to have a little test period. I don't think Dead Island is the end of the story at all. I don't think it's meant to be. Yeah. No, it's not meant to be. Just where they're starting because Dead Island was willing to implement it. And just like with the original Amazon Echo, when it first came out, people will figure out like, oh, it's really handy to do this by voice in the game. That one we thought might have been good. But it turns out nobody uses it. So we'll focus elsewhere. It was funny. On the morning stream, the chat room reacted as if they had been insulted by Amazon introducing this. I was like, look, they're not charging you for it. You don't have to do anything. You don't even have to use it if you don't want to. It's just something that they're trying out. And it was as if the idea of voice control was a horrible idea. When I'm like, man, I grew up wondering like, I want to be able to just talk to the video game, right? Just like I talked to people in real life. So yeah, it might not work perfectly the very first instance. It's going to be a little on rails and all of that. But I think it's got potential. Somebody was mentioned in our chat room just now that Skyrim has some voice control stuff. It does, yeah. It's true. It's their own voice control, not Amazon. So I wonder if the fact that it's Amazon doing it gets people's back up a little bit. Maybe that's part of it. I mean, in their defense, not that they need defending, but I think part of this comes from a little bit of a jadedness we get from years of accessories that we were told we're going to change the world and end up being flops. And they just are. I just think they're more in the mode of like, OK, I'll believe it when I see it. They don't want to be too excited on the front end. And I think that's all you were seeing. And that's why I thought this was well done is like, don't need, don't need to pay for it. Don't need to use it. We made it so you don't even have to use a wake word. So it's seamless. You can do push to talk so that your friends can't troll you. Yeah, there's there's lots of good things that I think this will be useful for if not the little maybe the one that's most useful is when you're playing the game and the lights are on and it's got too much glare. You can just say turn off the lights to your game and your lights will go off like that kind of integration might be all you need or up the gamma or whatever it is. That's an interesting thing. Turn up the volume, turn down the volume. Pump up the volume. Dance could be something you want the zombies to do. Cameras do a lot of cool stuff. Dancing isn't really one of them. But if you pair them with an algorithm, a camera can tell you all kinds of things. For example, let's say you have an apple orchard. The camera could tell you when the apples are ripe and ready to harvest. It can scan license plates. There's a mall I go to where it just scans my license plate when I enter the parking garage. I don't need to take a ticket. But the increasing use of this kind of imaging raises privacy concerns. Is it worth recording the image of every worker and visitor to an orchard just to see if the apples are ripe?  Solutions to this usually involve blurring out items after the image has been captured to preserve privacy or encrypting the images so only a certain kind of person can access them. But even in those cases, the underlying image has still been captured, leaving a maybe small but existent privacy risk. What if you could actually stop the camera from capturing anything but exactly what you want? What if the orchard camera could only see apples? What if the parking garage camera could only see license plate numbers? I love this. I know. I know the possibilities are endless. A paper published in the journal E-Lite presents a smart camera design from scientists at UCLA that only images desired objects instantly erasing other objects. So in the apple orchard example that Tom described everybody would be kind of out of there except those ripe apples that are ready to be picked all without any digital processing which is important. It's done in the structure of the camera itself. The scientists have built cameras with multiple transmissive surfaces, each with tens of thousands of features that diffract light at wavelength scale. So as it reflects light along through the lens it also changes the wavelengths. Some are past as is, some are altered. The structure of the surface is designed by a deep learning algorithm to modulate the phases of light so that only desired objects are the ones that get imaged. If you're having a hard time wrapping your head around this let's put it this way. You use the algorithm, the deep learning algorithm to figure out what structure will work to only capture the thing you want to capture. Let's say it's an apple. The algorithm then gets trained to know what an apple looks like. That's pretty easy stuff for an algorithm to do these days. We see plenty of examples of that. And then the algorithm can design the layers of the camera so that only wavelengths associated with what an apple looks like get passed through unaltered. Everything else gets diffused, diffracted, modified so that it's noise. You make those layers with a 3D printer put them together into a camera and then when you use that camera only apples are going to show up clearly in any kind of quality. Other objects are just going to be noise. Now you might say, okay, well in theory this sounds great. It's not just theoretical. The UCLA team trained an algorithm to recognize a handwritten number two. Number two. Written by anybody. Doesn't matter. That's the number. Then they 3D printed diffractive layers based on the algorithm. The camera would not show any other digits. Just two. So if you wrote 22.01 the image would just show 22 because it only knows that two and then that other two. For their next trick they created a lens that only showed pairs of pants. Like pantalones. Possible useful for a clothing store inventory system that wanted to protect privacy of workers. Definitely shoppers. Now both cameras worked even when they changed up the lighting which is important, you know, because you're going to have lots of different situations where this might be used indoor, outdoor, you know, otherwise. And finally they built encryption into the structure and so no processing was needed to then deliver an encrypted image. That's the one that blew my mind. Where it's like, oh, the encryption happens in the reflection of the light waves. Yeah. Now you can't change that encryption because it's built in physically, but it's interesting. One of the biggest advantages of this camera is power efficiency because the camera itself is passive. It doesn't require energy to perform those computations. They are physically built into the structure of the camera. And because it's just reflecting light really works at the speed of light. The only power you need is for lighting and then whatever device you're using to record the images it sends. The scientists in the study used monochrome cameras for the proof of concept, but they believe the diffraction design could be scaled down enough to handle visual spectrum as well. So this could be put into practice and I don't know. I think this is a great single-purpose right? It's not a multi-purpose camera, so it's not going to be cost-efficient for everybody. And maybe in Orchard, it's a bad example, right? Orchard's not going to want to spend the money on that. But maybe the license plate scanner, maybe that is worth it because really all you need it to ever do is the license plate. That might be worth it to protect privacy. When you mentioned the license plate example, anybody who crosses bridges that have tools and maybe you live in the Bay Area otherwise.  You don't have to have six to eight dollars in your pocket in cash to give to somebody who's working the gate. But in those cases, which I actually went through this recently because I realized my little scanner thing was the battery's dead, but they're going to scan my license plate. They're going to look me up and they're going to see, oh, she has an account and we'll just draw that, you know, whatever she owes out of the account. In those cases, if I were to be evading the tool, you would kind of want more information about me, right? So this wouldn't be a good example of that. This is more of that parking garage thing that you were explaining to Tom where no one's really trying to catch you doing anything. It's just a seamless way to get in and out.  So theoretically, it could be good for that too and just be like, you know what? You just need to track my license plate. You don't need to track my type of car, et cetera. Maybe they want to. What I was wearing. Yeah, yeah, exactly. My look of dismay when I realized my little thing isn't working. The Ray-86 wondered if you could train it to ignore you and just show everything else. You could, I assume, it's a little complicated for a deep learning algorithm to do a particular person. I don't know if it could totally do that or not, but let's say you could. You'd have to build a bunch of cameras that do that and then get people to use them. I don't know how practical that it would be to be able to escape detection. Because it's not a software thing, right? You have to build the camera and then the camera does whatever you built it to do. It's a physical device. That'd be a really interesting version of some, you know, ring security camera type thing. The whole point of security cameras is to, you know, see what's going on, right? Something weird happens outside. You have as much information as possible. You're not actually trying to blur the lines. But would there be situations where just in kind of daily life, this would just be a better privacy solution for everybody? Yeah, again, only in cases where you just need to detect a single thing and be able to tell what that is. It's not going to be good for security because in security you want to detect all the things. You know, like what happened, right? This is more for like, I have a legitimate use for a sensor to do something non-controversial, but it might capture other stuff and then Nair Duels might get at that data and use it for bad things. So I want to make sure it's only getting the apples. I don't care about anybody else. Or clothing inventory, like you said, with the clothing. Like it's only telling me how many pants are on the shelf. Not counting how many shoppers went there and what they're wearing and who they are. It's not doing any, can't do any facial recognition because it can only see pants. Yeah. I mean, in theory, if you've got a government that's super into closed caption, or not closed, closed circuit. I don't know why it's a closed caption.  It might go a long way if the government could say, by the way, we're employing these cameras that only see your license plate or they only see this or they only see that. Yeah, yeah. That might actually help in that front as well. Yeah. Well, folks, we love getting ideas for stories like this from you as well. One way to let us know about good stories is in our subreddit, submit stories and vote on them at DailyTechNewsShow.Reddit.com. Google-owned Fitbit announced new wearables. Yeah, that's right. The $299.95 since two and the 229.95 versus four are both thinner and lighter than their predecessors. And in typical Fitbit fashion, they have some bells and whistles. Some of the other trackers just don't have. Yeah. Fitbit has always been at the forefront of a lot of the technology that even other trackers have caught up with in certain senses, but the sense to includes a continuous electro-dermal activity sensor to continuously track stress. Sounds perfect for me. It can also continuously monitor for something like AFib in your heart, something it could only do in the first sense when you were asleep. The Versa 2 adds a physical button as well, and both double the number of exercise modes. So now around 40. In a few months, they'll both get Google Maps and Google Wallet as well. The $99.95 ascent, Inspire 3, also adds a color OLED display and blood oxygen monitoring during your sleep while retaining a 10-day battery life. Oh, 10 days. That sounds so good. All are available for pre-order now. So Versa 4 gets a physical button. Sense 2 gets a couple other ways to track things over what the original sense did. Inspire 3 gets a blood oxygen monitor without losing any battery life. My color display is nice. Yeah, OLED display. Okay, that's fair. These are very incremental. It certainly shows Fitbit trackers moving more towards being watches, especially getting thinner and lighter and all of that. But I'm wondering, do we even need all of this stuff? I mean, I guess AFib monitoring is important if you're at risk. But yeah, it depends on who you are. And continuous monitoring is great on the Sense 2, which means I don't have to check it. It's just going to tell me, like, hey, we just noticed something is up. You might want to call your doctor. But, you know, that is a subsection. Well, not about the stress. I mean, about the AFib. I mean, I would get stressed if I had AFib for sure. Well, yeah. But yeah, the stress tracker, it's like, usually I know, like I'm not sure. I guess it's because it's telling you, like, hey, here are some meditations and stuff that could be helpful. I'm not seeing the compellingness here. And I'm wondering if our smartwatches and fitness trackers have sort of got to the limit of mass appealability. Like maybe they should be more narrow focused. Maybe they should be focused on, oh, you have Parkinson's. Oh, you have high blood pressure. Oh, you have this particular need. Here is a tracker for you versus trying to just throw all the sensors in the world at everybody all the time. Yeah. You know, this is kind of, and Scott, I know you've been a Fitbit person as well for some years. You know, I was wearing the Versa2 every day for years until I started wearing the Apple Watch for Live With It. But, you know, the Apple Watch is just, it's a real smartwatch. I mean, the Fitbit, my Versa2 now seems like, oh, you know what, it was so great for these very specific fitness or sleep activity things, which I, you know, and food tracking and, you know, calories and all that stuff that the Apple Watch can also do. What was nice about the Versa2, because when I would wear it, it looked so much like an Apple Watch unless you were really looking at the face closely and people would say, oh, you know, how do you like the Apple Watch? I say, oh, no, it's a Fitbit. Oh, what's Fitbit good for? It's more of kind of like a fitness thing, fitness with, you know, with other bells and whistles. And I feel like that's still what everything Fitbit is still very good for. But if you compare them side to side, and again, I'm just comparing with the Apple Watch, because that's just what I've been thinking about a lot lately. You know, there is no real Fitbit that can compete with this unless you like that paired down I kind of just want it to do certain things for me besides tell me the time, you know, and set an alarm here and there. And that's, that's great for some folks. What isn't super great is the fact that, you know, the Sens2 is going to cost you $300. I mean, that's at a high, that's at a higher end. The Versa4 at $2.30. I mean, these aren't, this is not like a, these aren't budget trackers. But the Sens2 is a smartwatch. The Sens2 can do all the things the Apple Watch can do. Yeah, pretty. It does text message notifications and all that stuff. It just works with Android, not iOS. Yeah. The big, I think you actually hit on my major problem, Sarah, with any of them. And it doesn't, you know, I'm brand agnostic with this point. And that is that the prices are just too high. I don't think the mainstream adoption really happens until all of those kinds of features are in a sub $100 watch. And that may seem impossible, but it feels like 99 bucks is a sweet spot. And at the rate people break their watches, crack them, scrap them, forget that theirs isn't water resistant, whatever their reasons are, it is not really feasible to have a $300, $400 watch on your wrist, break it and then go, well, I guess I'm off to the store to get another one. It's not that kind of purchase. So I think that's the holdup. It's not that these features aren't great because they are, it's going to be who can get the most features into the best functioning and also least expensive purchase. And I don't know who's going to do it, but it needs to be right around 100 bucks. And then these will fly off the shelves. That's the trick. Mark it down on your calendars today. You heard it for your first, everybody. Scott solved the problem for smartwatch. Thank you, Scott. Mark it down.  You know, we talked about pants in the show. Let's bring it on back to jeans. So originally, if you're thinking about good old fashioned blue jeans, clothing was dyed blue using indigo molecules from plants, but we started wearing a lot of blue denim and the plants couldn't keep up. So today's blue jeans are colored with synthetic dye made from fossil fuels from aldehyde and other chemicals. To get that blue color, more than 70,000 tons of indigo dye are made each year and the process generates a lot of pollutants. A Berkeley, California startup called HUE, that's H-U-U-E. Get it? Wants to reverse engineer indigo molecules using microbes and also sugar. So the process would use a lot less chemicals. The company is still in the R&D phase. They don't get too excited yet. With the next challenge, trying their creation at scale and even expanding to other kinds of dyes beyond indigo. The Verge spent some time in their lab to see how it all worked. And it's pretty cool. I hadn't, I honestly hadn't thought that much about where the blue and my blue jeans comes from, even though I like it very much. Yeah, I mean, we all work from home and stream from the way steps and none of us wear pants. But for people who do wear pants, this is probably a consideration. Yeah, I guess I always thought blue jeans were naturally blue somehow. Yeah, it's like, I don't know, because they're blue. I don't know why. I don't know why it never occurred to me. Of course they have to dye them. Like, how else are they going to get blue? There's nothing about denim. And you get different kinds of blue. But that blue, you know, Levi kind of blue jean type thing. It is a very specific color. And yeah, it makes sense that over time, because of mass scale, people had to use other avenues to get that color that we want. But sounds like it's kind of crappy for the environment. So I'm all for this. Sure. And by the way, I mean, I assume that if you did a pair of denim jeans without any dyeing, just whatever they come out naturally to look like, it's probably a nightmare, right?  Like what? Would they just look like straw? Yeah, they probably just look kind of brownish beige. Yeah. And they wouldn't be even either. You'd have a lot of discoloration and weird sort of stretchy mitt bits and all that. So it's good that we're finding alternative ways to color our jeans, because nobody wants to wear that. They're kind of whitish, actually. Are they kind of white? Yeah. I mean, they are cotton. So why not? They just look like kind of an off-white cotton. Not as bad as I thought. Well, if you have thoughts on jeans or anything that we talk about on the show, please do send those thoughts our way. We love your feedback. Feedback at DailyTechNewShow.com is where to send that email. Thank you in advance. Also, thank you to you, Scott Johnson, for being with us today. What's new since we saw you last? Well, this story about Amazon controlling or letting you control video games with voice as well as all the craziness of games.com happening in Cologne, Germany right now. We are going to sum that stuff up and do as best we can to help you understand what was announced and what's happening tomorrow night on Core. It's our video game podcast. C-O-R-E. You can find it anywhere that you find your podcast or you can watch it live. All the details are over there at frogpants.com. We also have a brand new boss to thank. And we're so excited to thank you, Derek. Derek. Derek. It's on Patreon. You are welcome, Derek. And we are so glad to have you. You know, you broke the streak of no new patrons for a few days. So yeah, we're back in biz. We made a plea on yesterday's show and Derek stepped up. So be like Derek. We need more Derek's in this world. Yeah, we sure do. We love you patrons. Speaking of patrons, stick around for the extended show. Good day. 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Well, I love about this is, you know, as well as the male interviewer is doing here, I think he runs out of runway a little bit and you see him turn to the female interviewer and he has that look of, can you go now? You take over now. She comes in with a question, gives him enough time just to regroup himself and he's back with an idea or maybe just a little more confidence around the idea that he had. So, I mean, look, even when you've got somebody who looks to be doing so well at this, I mean, he's so casual with him. He's so kind of calm, he's so engaged, so interested, curious about this, but you see him run out after a while. Great that he's got somewhere with him, easy handover, takes back over. Thought it was lovely to see that.


So a landscape approach is essentially managing complex landscapes in an integrated fashion and a holistic fashion, incorporating all of the different land uses within those landscapes into a single management process. The reason we need a landscape approach is because of the history of segregating functions within landscapes, whether it's a conservation concession, which will be a national park, community concession, which is a community forestry maybe, or logging concession. And even though they're all really interconnected socially and biophysically, they've been managed in isolation. And what we really need is a much more holistic approach to understand the interconnections between each of these different land uses, but also to capture the complexity of those land uses and make sure the management is integrated and simplified in a way that hasn't been done before. Although it's a very simple process in many respects, it's on the ground it's a very complicated thing to do. To get stakeholders in a room or in any forum who have very different views about what should happen in the landscape, to agree on a shared vision and a shared view of what should happen in that landscape is particularly challenging. I mean, just from our own perspective, building up our ten principles took eight years of consultation and many, many different institutions were involved and everybody's got a point of view, which is not often easy to be reconciled or shared. And so coming to consensus, and that's the real word about the landscape approach is achieving consensus in the landscape and achieving consensus between all the stakeholders. So in fact, win-win solutions in most tropical landscapes have proved to be somewhat elusive. And the real tenet, if you like, of integrated management of landscapes and the landscape approach is recognising for trade-offs and negotiating for trade-offs, so that all the stakeholders come to an agreement at which there are winners and losers, but that you win more and lose less, if you like, and that's really the fundamental behind the landscape approach. Things change daily, things change weekly, things change monthly, but you need to adapt to those changes and often projects are constrained by their project document, which says this is what we're going to do in a landscape and that's sort of followed, almost to rote, but you can't manage a complex landscape like that, you need to have that adaptability and the flexibility to change. The role of science, we inform, and we've come up with a whole series of principles and guidelines which enable the landscape approach to be implemented, it's only a framework. We can't take that forward, we've provided the research that's enabled that framework to be put in place, but it's now up to other institutions and other agencies to take those guidelines and principles forward, to implement the landscape approach for themselves. The places where things work on the ground, things are more effective, better outcomes are achieved, is where there are people talking to each other. Conservation organisations cannot work in a protected area alone without being cognisant of what's happening around them. The same for logging concessions for private sector, everybody needs to be talking to each other because everything interacts at the landscape scale and the take home message should be that only through partnerships can the landscape approach work.


Hello everyone, I hope you're well. Ross here at Teacher Talk. Sorry, it's been some time since her last posted a live video. I've got something quite exciting to share with you. I've been working on this for quite some time. So you'll know that I've published a book on the brain and memory trying to unpick how we learn and how this makes me a better teacher. I'm not a cognitive scientist, but I am a teacher. I'm someone that's interested in cognitive science and cognitive neuropsychology. And thinking about how this will improve the way that we teach, how we learn is an important thing for all teachers to know, perhaps parents too. So drawing upon my website analytics of 17.5 million of you have read this website, Teacher Talkit, the average reading time is 72 seconds. So why not turn all the research of the book into bite-sized summaries? So very slim and to my mark, planned teach cartoons are published a number of years ago. So let me just show you these first of all. So all the schools I work with will get all these free for the teachers in our CPD resource back. Here's the one page summary of all the chapters inside the book. So let me just rewind to what those are. So the first chapter looks at the history of the brain, its evolution dated back to 1700 BC. How memories shaped anatomically? The question I oppose myself is, does this make me a better teacher? The types of memory, so short, long working, semantic, episodic, etc. What they all are, what they mean for teachers in the classroom, what can we do? How learning is emotional and what teachers can do to support or hinder this process? What's cognitive load theory? So buzzword here in the England. So what is the theory from Sweller in 1988? And what does it look like in practice? Pneumonics and mental models of learning. How do you remember the alphabet? What are the colors of the rainbow? How do you remember these things using some study skills? I've also looked at brain plasticity. So how we shape our neurons, our synapses, our connections. What happens when we have an accident or we develop disease? What's cognitive apprenticeship? Not many teachers know what that is. So I've been sharing this piece of research with teachers on my travels. Our links to exercise, diet, sleep, screen time, etc. And what we can do as educators and as teachers and then how to turn all this back into our teacher training settings. So just as a reminder, I'm going to show you all these 10 cartoons. You can download them on my site. So first of all, if I work with your teachers in your school, you're going to get all these for nothing newsletter. Subscribers will get all these tomorrow evening. And Joe Public or Joanne Public on the website will have to part with some hard cash. These are taken quite a number of days to produce. So this is chapter one, the overview of the brain. So this is a one page summary of the four or five thousand words and research I've unpicked in the brain. So look at the history, some myths, what's cognitive neuroscience, what's cognitive psychology, our limbic system. And a lot of this is useful reminders that might be new to you. So that's intrinsic extraneous load if you're familiar with cognitive load theory. What happens when we shape memory anatomically? What happens when two neurons connect? We have 86 to 100 billion in our adult brain and they can form one trillion synapses. So what happens when that happens when memory actually forms? So there's your one page summary, chapter three types of memory. So over here we've got explicit implicit types, the hippocampi inside what it is. And this methodology we can use in our curriculum plans and for the emotional side of learning. So when we get stressed or excited, so adrenaline and cortisol, etc. When we get a dopamine hit from the reward loops are well done Ross. I'm really pleased with your work today. What happens there in our classrooms when we give somebody a piece of praise cognitive load theory. So swelling 1988 what it is what it looks like, how we're helping students move from novice towards expertise. How we can manage intrinsic and extraneous loads of internal and external factors. Chapter six looks at mental models for learning. So this is all here telling stories, dual coding, such as I'm doing here, seven brain plasticity. So, you know, the central nervous system neurotransmitters what what are the physical changes in our brain through through healthy or unhealthy episodes cognitive apprenticeship. Apologies for the preview link on the I need to delete that the process of model scaffolds fade and coaches the traditional teachings. This is what we do every day. But how do we bring learning to life? How do we make it visible? Well, we need to identify, situate and diversify and make connections to the real world. So this is what great teaching looks like. And then we'll all be familiar with the screen time diet exercise and sleep. So Lincoln is this all to the peanut gland in the brain, the cacodian rhythm, how it helps us regulate our sleep. And then the final one is everything I've unpicked. How do you deliver this is productive and meaningful CPD for people back at your organization. So professional development. So the little one page summary there. So there's 11 sheets in total on this download at 60 second reads there. They are all there. I'm glad to have got these done. So the book was published in June 2020. And it's taken me this long to actually sit down and get them all done and get them all on the page. So there might be one or two. I'm just going to proofread it all again, but I'm confident it's 99% accurate. And when you download it and receive it, I hope it's of use just as a reminder or fact, I haven't remind you.  There's an audio introduction to the book if you need help get into sleep. And there is also a special discount code that you won't find anywhere else on the worldwide web. We can purchase the full book if the sketch notes wet your appetite. So I'm going to leave things there. Apologies for the silence, but things have been busy physically and remotely. And I hope to get back to small live streams soon. Other than that, I hope you're well. I hope you're safe and happy and thanks for watching. See you soon.


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Down there. Well now, down there is a long way off. Just where in particular? House. I see. But why don't you come in? Can I smell the flowers if I do? You sure can. Come on, there's no fence here. No, there was no fence around that wonderful garden up in the Santa Rosa Valley in California. No fence to hide the beauty and loveliness grown by the genius of a man who made more bountiful the country he loved. This man loved flowers and children. He was never too busy to take care of either one. And, wonderingly, the small boy who went into the garden that day in 1893 said... You got pretty flowers. Thank you. What's your name? Tad. Tad Wallace. Well, mine's Luther. Luther Burbank. I'm kind of flowers, Dad. Which one, Tad? The yellow one. Choreopsis. A what? Well, let's call it a fancy daisy and let it go with that. After all, big names for flowers is like... well, it's silly, isn't it? Sure.   How'd you like to walk around and see the flowers? I'd like it, Mr. Burbank. No, no, wait a minute. If you and I are going to be friends, there's one thing you'll have to remember. First name stuff, you know? You've got to call me Luther. All right, Luther. Good.  Sure. Cactus aren't good. They're too sticky. Well, I don't think there's anything on Earth that isn't some good, Tad. For example, you take this cactus. Why'd you break that off? Well, look close, Tad. You see the meat inside? Juicy? Rich? Succulent? What sucker? What's that? It means good to eat. Nobody eats cactus. Cows might if they didn't stick their tongues on the needles. Then cactus aren't good. Maybe not now. But someday, Tad, I'll grow a cactus with no spines, no needles. Now we walk over here and I'll show you the biggest blackberries you ever saw. Mr. Burbank alone. I'm sorry, Mr. Burbanky. All right. Well, every day now for three weeks, he's keeping you from your work. Please, I'd like to have him around. He asks questions, Mrs. Brenner, and the more he asks, the more I ask. Well, he's sure he's not bothering. Not at least. He's a big help to me. All right. But if he starts to pester you, Mr. Burbank, send him right home. I will, I will. Goodbye, Mrs. Brenner. Goodbye. Sure. Now, where were we? You told me about the new cataclysm. Oh, the cataclysm. Cataclysm. That's right. Now, you see, Ted, I don't want to keep all these things for myself. I want to give them to America. Why? Well, now look out of this way, Ted.  But between living and dying, he should work to help his country. Now, my new catalogue will advertise what I've done with plants. Other men can do the same. Slips and seeds, and they can raise these fine berries and flowers. Yes? Good evening, Mrs. Brenner. Oh, it's you. I just dropped by to see what's the matter with Ted. Nothing, Mr. Burbank. Ted's fine. Oh, well, I was expecting him to come over this evening when he didn't show up. Mr. Burbank, you needn't expect Ted to come to see you anymore. Ever. What? But, but... That's all. Well, Mrs. Brenner. Mrs. Brenner, what's the matter? What's happened, Mrs. Brenner? Luther, I thought I'd find you here. George, it's something wrong with Ted. Mrs. Brenner won't let me in. There's nothing wrong with Ted.  I don't know what you're talking about. It's your new catalogue. My catalogue? What's that got to do with all this? Come on home, I'll tell you there. Come on, Luther. No, not through the town. We'll go around the other way. It's better not to let anybody see you right now. But that can't be it, George. It just can't be it. It is, though. Look, Luther, it'd been all right if you just hadn't used the word creations in your new catalogue. But that's exactly what my plans are. I took them, crossed them, and bodied them, and helped them. Ah, George, this is foolish. Maybe so, but there it is. I expected skepticism from scientists and botanists, but that's healthy. I can prove my theories to them. Yes, I know. But the people here say you've denied God. I denied God. I denied God. Now, listen, Luther, you know how these things are. No, I don't. I did create new plans. But I did it with the help of nature. I took what God put on Earth and used my own God-given mind to improve. Don't you see? That's just it. You were tampering with something that's better left alone. Better left alone. Oh, by the same token, Galileo should have left the laws of mechanics undiscovered. And by the same standard, the judgment of Newton and Harvey and all the rest should have turned their faces from science, should have allowed knowledge to remain stagnant. Don't tell it to me. I'm your brother, Luther. I believe in you.  They blame you for that, Luther. What's that? Huh? Who is it? Who are you at this hour and in your night shirt? I wanted to see you. Oh, well, come on. Give me your hand. There you are. What's the matter now? I had to see you. And he wouldn't let me out of the house, so I snuck over. Oh, yes, he. Well, sit down, Ted. Now, what do you want to see me about? It ain't true, is it, Luther? Is what true?  Is that what they told you? I heard them. They were talking and... Ted, did you hear him say I was an atheist? I heard them, but what's that? A person who doesn't believe in a God. You mean you... you don't? You remember the day we planted that seeded tree in my front yard? Yes, Luther. Now, I suppose I left the little seedling out in the hot sun with no water. What would have happened to it? It would have died. But we planted it. We used the earth and we watered the roots and we tended it and it grew, didn't it? Mm-hmm. Yeah, well, I merely started it. God did the rest. God did the richness of the soil and the minerals in the earth and the rain. I didn't create that. I helped. I did the same with the other things I created. I helped. Oh. Now, you don't see, do you? No, Luther. Well, someday you will. Someday you will. But they said they're gonna run you out.  They said that, huh? Yes, Luther. Uh-huh. Don't let them run you away.  I like you an awful lot.  An awful lot. What? What are you gonna do? I don't know, Tad. A thing like this is hard to fight. But maybe I'll think of something. I'll encourage you something from a catalog put out by Luther Burbank. These new creations are not foundlings, but exemplifications of the knowledge that life forces of plants may be combined and guided to produce results not imagined by horticultures. I want to call your attention to that word creation. It is not right for any man on God's earth to set himself up equal to the Creator and anybody that does that is denying his maker. Yes. In what way, Mr. Williams? Perfect. What have you got coming in here? Right of every American to defend himself, Mr. Williams? Do you mind? We want no blasphemer in this town. First you gotta prove that I am one. You deny you said you created something? I admit it. I'm proud of it. That's what you came here to say, huh? No, no, no. I haven't finished. I wanted to hear the charge against me. Atheism, Burbank. Why? Because you said in this here catalog that you created new plants. Burbank, there ain't any man that can say that. It's God's province to create, to put things on earth. Has any one of you ever before seen one of the plants I described in my catalog? Huh? No. Because they are new creations. That ain't got a thing to do with it. You said created. Any man that says he creates is trying to take God's place. He's denying God. And you're denying the fact that these are new plants. Now, you get out of here, Burbank. There's nothing you can say that'll change things. We know what you are, a godless man. I demand the right to speak. To be heard. Get out of here before you get thrown out. Just a moment, folks. Just a moment. Judge Morton, you want to say something? Yes. Well, go right ahead, judge. The floor's yours. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, whether the charge against Luther Burbank is true or not is beside the point at the moment. How about, Judge Morton, you know that. The point now is will you condemn a man without hearing him first? He already condemned himself. In your mind, yes. I say, if you condemn him without hearing, then you violate your heritage as free men in a free country. If you want that charge against you, then send Luther Burbank from this room now. Go ahead, Mr. Burbank. Thank you, Judge Morton. I have nothing much to say. I can't defend myself against such a charge because it isn't invincible. What kind of an answer is that? What kind of an answer would you like, Mr. Williams? You can say what you believe in, if at all. All right, all right. I cannot say I believe in your God. Your God, Mr. Williams. Your personal self-conceived God who jealously guards his secret from man. Now, my God is one of kindness and justice. A God who gives and points the way to greater and more wonderful things for mankind. I believe in the immortality of influence. It's in our own keeping and possession. It's God given to us the greatest and most potent gift of all our benefits and possibilities.  It can make you ephemeral, inconsequential, or it can sing through the years. You are listening to Lionel Barrymore as Luther Burbank in The Man with Green Fingers on the Cavalcade of America sponsored by the DuPont Company, maker of better things for better living through chemistry. Luther Burbank accused of atheism because in a catalog of new plants he used the word creations has tried to defend himself at a town meeting. It is now the next day at the railroad station. Luther, Luther, what are you doing here? You're in a way, George. Now, listen, Luther, you can still work here. You don't have to pay any attention to what people say. They hate me. I saw that yesterday at the meeting. What I said, they didn't do any good.  It's just that, well, they can't understand. That's worse. If they understood what they hated, I could stay. I could fight that.  George, I want people to love you. George, I want people to like me as I like them. I couldn't work among them knowing how they felt. Think it over some more, Luther. No. But, Luther, you... Look, George, look, look. Here they are coming to see that I take the train. And you think I could stay? I'll take care of them. No, no, no, no, no. Don't say anything to them, Luther. Let me handle them. Why? It's me they want, not you. Well, I thought we'd catch up with you here, Luther. So did I, Mr. William. Nice of you to see me. Look, Luther, I'd like to talk to you. I think we said everything at the meeting, didn't we? No, not everything. I... Well, I guess you kind of took the breath out us with that catalog, but... Oh, doggone it, we want you to stay. Why, folks all up and down the valley are starting to grow the things you created. I'm not asking you for myself, but for them. Ah, you should have thought of that sooner. Help me with my bags, George. Oh, no, sir. Goodbye, Mr. Williams. You're really going, Luther. Yes, George, I am. I've worked hard here. I've tried to give people better fruits and fairer flowers. Doing that would have satisfied me. But in trying to do it, I ran up against the worst enemy progress ever had. Ignorance and misunderstanding. All right, let them have those things. Luther, Luther, wait a minute. They said you were going away, Luther, but you're not. You're not. Are you? I am, Dad. But you can't. I can't tin the garden myself.   I... You just can't leave, Luther. What about the garden? The tree we planted. They won't grow without you. Dad... Well, all right. Oh, come on, Luther. I'll give you a lift back in my ring. No thanks, no. Just take my bags. Dad and I will walk it. You go ahead, George. All right, Luther. We'll see you later. Yeah, sure. Thank you, Dad. You're welcome, Luther. Well, I'll tell you someday, Dad. But right now we've got a lot of work to catch up with. You and I? I'm sure. Right down the road. You can't miss it. No flowers in the world like the ones in his garden. Why, those are Burbank peaches. Richest, biggest, juiciest peaches ever grown. Luther Burbank has given the world the richness of his genius. He deserves the greatest of acclaim from every scientist and botanist in the world. Mr. Burbank? Mr. Luther Burbank, the plant wizard? Well, not a wizard, young man. Just helping nature. What can I do for you? Oh, I'd just like to see your gardens. People told me I mustn't leave the Santa Rosa Valley without seeing your flowers. Good, good, good. But, uh, you're busy. I can come back later. I sure say not. Come on in. There's no fence here. Never has been. Huh? Uh, what's that flower there? Choreopsis. Oh. What? A what? Choreo... Ted! Ted Wallace! Hello, Luther. Ted, where did you come from? Oh, every place, every place. I knew you'd come back to see me. Let me look at you. Same fine-looking boy. Oh, 41 now. 41? That's impossible. Why, that'd make me an old man of 77. And I'm not that old. No, no, you're not, Luther. Yes, sit down. Say, remember this tree? This isn't the same cedar we planted. 33 years ago. 33 years. Yep. Well, I've heard all about you, Ted. Big lawyer must be fine to be famous. Oh, you're talking about me being famous. I've been a lot of places, Luther.  Ah, let's just talk. I just put around till something happens. Like that spineless cactus? It took me a little while, but I finally convinced nature she was making a mistake. She was nice about it, though. Let me fool around till I got there. Luther, remember the day you were going to leave here? Yeah. Well, you thanked me that day. I didn't understand why, and you said you'd tell me someday. Yeah, I think you know now, Ted. Don't you? I'd rather hear it from you. Well, Ted, you reminded me of the garden that would die if I left it. Then I knew that it wasn't what people thought or said that mattered so much, Ted. It was what they left behind them. And if I can leave the world just a little more beautiful than I entered it, well, that's all I want. Luther! Luther! Good morning, Mr. Wallace. Oh, morning, Luther Ron. He's waiting for you under the cedar. Oh, thanks. You tell him it's almost time for lunch. I will, I will. Luther! Luther! Come on there, wake up. It's almost noon and... Luther. It's all right, Mr. Wallace. You can wake him up. He forgot to... Luther. He's facing his flowers. He always loved them best. Luther. No, no, don't cry. He wouldn't want it. He said if he could make the world a more beautiful place, he'd be contented. He's done that, hasn't he? Leave him here for a little while, Mrs. Maryland. Facing his flowers. The immortality of influence. It's in our own keeping and possession.  It can make you ephemeral, inconsequential, or it can sing through the years. And if I can give the world better fruits and fairer flowers, I'll be contented. If the gentle spirit of Luther Burbank returns now and then to visit the earth, you can be sure it would be at this time of year when the national flower shows are opening to bring a preview of spring to New York, to Philadelphia, and other cities and towns. As for mortals, like you and me, every home gardener who visits the flower shows envies the gorgeous perfection of the blooms shown by professional growers. How do they do it, he asks himself. They do it by approaching the problem of growing flowers, vegetables, or anything else for that matter, as a science. One of the things nearly all professional growers do is to make sure that seeds they plant have been treated to protect them against disease. Seed treatment is preventive medicine for plants. Scientists who have studied plant disease prevention have discovered a number of chemical compounds which are highly effective against many of the seed-borne soil-borne diseases which often harm and sometimes even destroy plants as they grow. One of the best of these chemical compounds for general use on home garden seeds is an organic mercury compound made by the DuPont company under the trademark SEMISAN. SEMISAN is a safeguard against disease carried on the seeds themselves and it keeps them from rotting in the ground. With the first hint of spring color, we're watching the willows along the brook. These are wonderful evenings to open the seed catalogs and garden magazines and look at the brightly colored pictures of zinnias as big as your head. They look that big anyhow. Hollyhocks and marigolds, nestertians and petunias. Looking at the pictures in the books, choosing the flowers you want and buying the packages of seed is fun. But if you want the bright promise of the colorful pictures to come true, make sure this year that you buy treated seeds. Ask your dealer for them or buy a small package of SEMISAN and treat the seeds yourself. When you treat your seeds, you protect them while they are underground and while your plants are growing, protect them from insects and diseases with DuPont's general purpose garden dust for use on flowers, vegetables, fruit trees and ornamentals. Both SEMISAN and garden dust are examples of the DuPont company's better things for better living through chemistry. Mr. Barrymore, may we all thank you for your performance tonight. Thank you, John. Thank you. I knew Luther Burbank personally and I admired him. I hope I did him justice. Well, you certainly did, Mr. Barrymore. I only wish I could do as much for his memory with my garden. But I guess I don't have green fingers. Well, some of the DuPont SEMISAN and garden dust will go a long way toward helping you. Why not try it? I will. I will, John. I will. Every time I hear that phrase, better things for better living through chemistry, I realize more than ever that in America, men are working to add to the knowledge that Luther Burbank and other great men bequeath them. In Burbank's field, these men are passing on their discoveries to you and me until today America is producing some of the finest horticultural products the world's ever seen. It's really a very wonderful thing. That it is, Mr. Barrymore. And so is your portrayal of Luther Burbank this evening. We hope you'll be with us again in the near future. Yeah. I hope so. And speaking of portrayals, what are you going to do? Next week on Cavalcade? Well, if you don't mind, before we get around to that, what's with you in the movies? Oh, I make one now and then. I'd like to mention one I'm not in. As a matter of fact, Metro Golden Man is the sea of grass. I was lucky enough to catch the preview. Well, we don't have any Cavalcade previews, but if you want to treat next Monday night, listen to The Man Who Stepped Aside, the story of William Henry Seward, Lincoln's secretary of state, starring Thomas Mitchell. Oh-ho. It's a fine story about a man who realized he had to step aside for greatness in another. Oh, good. I'll be listening. Thank you, Lionel Barrymore. In the last couple of weeks, have you heard the phrase the Red Cross carries on? I hope you have, because even though the war is over, the activities of the Red Cross are more extensive than ever. Just one phase of Red Cross activity is their service to veterans. 1,100,000 veterans were aided last year. To a veteran, the Red Cross is truly a necessity. So when you think of the veteran, think of the Red Cross, and make your contribution as generous as possible. The music for the Dupont Cavalcade is composed and conducted by Robert Armbruster. Tonight's Cavalcade was written by Russell S. Hughes. Featured in the cast with Lionel Barrymore tonight was Henry Blair as young Ted Wallace. This is John Easton inviting you to listen next week to Thomas Mitchell in The Man Who Stepped Aside, and in the coming weeks to Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews and other Hollywood stars on the Cavalcade of America brought to you by the Dupont Company of Wilmington, Delaware. Cavalcade of America, Dana Andrews from Hollywood. This is NBC, the National Broadcasting Company.


Hey everyone, welcome back to Six Sister Stuff. I'm Kristen, and today I'm going to be cooking some of my favorite slow cooker recipes. Now I know what you're thinking. I usually only cook instant pot recipes, but sometimes there are recipes that won't work in the instant pot that work a lot better in the slow cooker. There is also one other reason that I use my instant pot a lot, and I've never shared this with you. It's cause it's a little different. It is my cat. My cat gets in to everything. He sneaks around whenever we're out of the room. The worst is when he gets into the pantry, he can literally pull the bread loafs off of the shelves and just go to town.  But with these recipes, we're gonna take a chance today. Gonna throw the cat outside and hopefully no one will let the cat in and we'll enjoy some cat hair free food. All right guys, let's jump into the recipe. All right, Harper is sleeping just for a minute. So we're kind of hurry. We wanna make sure that you have some corn tortillas. I like the white corn, that's my favorite. We have one can pinto beans, one can black beans, one can enchilada sauce. You just need one cup of salsa. You guys, I cheated cause yep, that's just how we're gonna roll today. So we just need about one onion chopped up. Then we have some taco seasoning, one green pepper that we're gonna chop up. Actually, it says just to use half of this. One yellow squash, it just says half of this. Some Colby Jack cheese and then one pound of ground turkey. I bought a bigger one because that's about all they had. So I'm just gonna use one pound of it right now. All right, so first we're gonna cut up the bell pepper. Now if you didn't know this trick, I highly suggest it. So what I like to do is just cut off all of the edges. It makes your life so much easier when it comes to the seeds. So this one you only need half. And we're just gonna cut these into like tiny, tiny pieces cause the kids don't really like the green pepper. So the tinier we can get them, the more likely they are to eat it. All right, so we're gonna start by putting like a pound of ground turkey. The recipe calls for beef, but beef is just kind of expensive, so we're gonna go ground turkey this week. Then I have my lovely chopped stir. Now we're just going to chop it all up. So now we're gonna add the squash and the pepper. Our meat's not quite done cooking yet, but that's okay. And then an onion. Okay, and we're just gonna cook all the vegetables while the rest of the meat finishes cooking. So this is all done cooking. The meat's all cooked through. The vegetables are pretty tender. So we're gonna add some more stuff. So we're gonna add our one can of black beans, one can of our pinto beans, about one cup of salsa. I'm just gonna eyeball here. You all know that. Just half the can of inch, a lot of zest, cause we're gonna use the other half in a minute here. Just trying to get half, there we go. Then just one packet of your taco seasoning. And I use low sodium here, but whatever floats your boat. Okay, and we're just gonna mix this all together and just let it simmer for a few minutes just to get all those flavors all together. All right, it's been simmering for a few minutes. You guys, I love all the colors in here. It's a little bit of a healthier like Mexican dish. So I love, I love the colors. So we're gonna take a third of our meat mixture and put it just right into the bottom.  So you wanna make sure you do that. Okay, then we're gonna add about a half cup of cheese. We want it to be a little bit of layers here. Now, if you had bigger corn tortillas, they said just to put two in there, but I'm actually gonna do it so I can kind of cover most of it. So we're gonna kind of spread them out a little bit. So at least there's some tortillas in some areas. Okay, then you just repeat it again. So we're gonna just do this two more times. Then just a little bit of cheese and then tortillas on top. Then the last of it, dump it on and spread it out. Then the cheese. And then just the rest of the enchilada sauce I'm gonna just try and distribute this as evenly as possible.  Let's just go three hours. All right, it's been a few hours. This is all done. Nice. All right, so I'm gonna serve this with just a little bit of sour cream. Maybe a little bit of cheese. Probably done the sour cream last. And then I like a little bit of lettuce with mine too. Okay, and Ansley's gonna try the enchilada one. Yep. All right, give it a try with your broken arm. That's really good. Okay? Yeah, I'll do it with a thumbs up. Thumbs up? And four out of five. Four out of five, awesome. So with this recipe, we're gonna use the other half of the ground turkey. Now it does call for beef, but again, just using ground turkey. Some diced onions. It calls for a bag of mixed vegetables, but in my grocery order, they gave me just the corn, so we're just gonna use the corn today. We have one can cream and chicken soup. We need some garlic powder, some onion powder, salt and pepper, some sour cream. Of course, this is cowicastrol. You need your taters. I love that it's called taters. And then we have our chopped cheddar cheese and a little bit of milk. All right, we're gonna put in our turkey and our onion and cook this up all together. The first thing that we're gonna add is the vegetables. Now this would usually be the corn, carrots and peas, but just corn today and that's okay. It'll still taste really good. And we're gonna add about a fourth cup of sour cream. One can of cream of mushrooms. That's the whole can. Then a half cup of milk. About a half cup of sharp cheddar cheese. A half teaspoon of garlic powder and onion powder. I'm out of onion powder, so we're just doing garlic powder today. Then we just have some salt and pepper to taste. All right, that is all of it. Then we're just going to make this all together. Okay, you wanna make sure that you spray the bottom of your slow cooker with some cooking spray. And we're just gonna put the whole entire mixture into the bottom of the slow cooker. And we're just gonna spread it all out. Okay, so you want about 20 ounces of the tater tots and pretty much you just want it to cover your slow cooker. It's okay if you have some layering, but you don't want a lot of it. And then we're just gonna add another half a cup of cheddar cheese that's just going right on top. Okay, you're gonna put the lid on and we're gonna cook it on low for about six hours.  It's okay if it goes a little bit longer than six hours. It will be still delicious. All right, time to check on cowboy casserole. Okay, we have Sarah and Maley for Tater Tot Casserole Taste Testers.  All right, so I need thumbs up for thumbs down. I like it. You like it? Mm-hmm. Okay, rate it one to five? Three. Three? Mm-hmm. All right, Sarah, what do you rate it? Five. Five? You like it that much? Yeah. Yes. I love it. Go. We'll get started.  And then in a bowl, I am going to mix two cups of sour cream and then to this, I am going to mix just one can of cream of chicken soup. So I will mix this together.  So now that I've spread it on top, we will add the delicious topping. So we love to use Ritz crackers for this chicken. That's the main Ritz chicken. But you could also do like any other type of buttery cracker would work great for this recipe. So I crushed these up just by hand. Just crushed them up.  But then I have melted a half cup of butter. So one stick of butter. And I am just going to add this to the graham crackers. Okay, the chicken is done. I'm going to just scoop out one of the chicken breasts just to kind of show you what it looks like. So it's very buttery and delicious and creamy and all those textures really come together so well.  Let's look it up a little bit. Get some Ritz cracker in there. That is like good home style cooking. Love it. If you are looking for some more home style, good, easy, simple, budget friendly recipes we have you covered. We have a free weekly meal plan that goes out every single week just to kind of get the ideas flowing. I know dinner can be so hard to think of like, oh, what am I going to feed my family this week that is affordable and simple and quick. But that is what basically all our recipes are. So we will send those out every Friday. I'll leave a link below where you can sign up, add your email. It's completely free. So if you are looking for some easy dinners that is a great option for you. All right guys, I hope you enjoyed those recipes. Now Harper wanted to say hi too. She's about five weeks old now. Now if you are new to the channel and you haven't subscribed yet, now would be a good time to do it. So you can subscribe here. And then also if you want more easy recipes I've got plenty right up there. All right guys, I'll see you next time. Bye.


Welcome to All Hands Update. Here's what's happening around your Navy today. Chief of Naval Operations Admiral John Richardson traveled to the Fifth Fleet Area of Operations to review Navy support of Operation Inherent Resolve and meet with sailors. Richardson praised the work being done by U.S. forces in the fight to eliminate the terror group ISIL and the threat it poses on a global spectrum. Chief of Naval Personnel Vice Admiral Bill Moran testified before the Senate Armed Services Military Personnel Subcommittee providing an overview of the Navy's personnel programs and policies. The Navy is working to put personnel policies in place that allow the service to prepare for economic changes or a lagging recruiting and retention market. USS Mount Whitney returned to the Victor-Linak Shipyard in Croatia for critical command and control, computers, communications, combat systems and intelligence repairs. U.S. Sixth Fleet conducts a full spectrum of joint and naval operations with Allied and inter-agency partners advancing U.S. national interest and security and stability in Europe and Africa. You can read more about what's happening around your Navy at Navy.mil.