President Joe Biden tripped and fell after handing out the last diploma at a graduation ceremony at the U.S. Air Force Academy on June 1. The 80-year-old U.S. president quickly got up on one knee, helped by three people and walked back to his seat unassisted. As Biden was helped up, he pointed behind him, seeming to indicate what he tripped over. White House communications director Ben LeBolt said on Twitter that Biden was fine. There was a sandbag on stage while he was shaking hands, he explained. The fall came after Biden delivered a commencement address to a flag-waving audience where he warned graduates they will enter service in an increasingly unstable world, citing challenges from Russia and China.


Chapter 27 of 80 Years and More, Reminiscences 1815 through 1897 This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Wendy Almeida 80 Years and More, Reminiscences 1815 through 1897 By Elizabeth Cady Stanton Chapter 27 60th Anniversary of the Class of 1832 The Woman's Bible I returned from Geneva to New York City In time to celebrate my 76th birthday with my children, I had travelled about constantly for the last 20 years in France, England, and my own country, and had so many friends and correspondents and pressing invitations to speak in clubs and conventions that now I decided to turn over a new leaf and rest in an easy chair. But so complete a change in one's life could not be easily accomplished. In spite of my resolution to abide in seclusion, my daughter and I were induced to join the Butter Club, which was to meet once a month alternately at the residences of Mrs. Moncure De Conway and Mrs. Abbey Sage Richardson. Though composed of ladies and gentlemen, it proved dull and unprofitable. As the subject for discussion was not announced until each meeting, no one was prepared with any well-digested train of thought. It was also decided to avoid all questions about which there might be grave differences of opinion. This negative position reminded me of a book on etiquette which I read in my young days in which gentlemen were warned, in the presence of ladies, discuss neither politics, religion, nor social duties, but confine yourself to art, poetry, and abstract questions which women cannot understand, the less they know of a subject, the more respectfully they will listen. This club was named in honor of Mrs. Bata, formerly Miss Anne Lynch, whose drawing room for many years was the social center of the Literati of New York. On January 16th, 1892, we held the annual Suffrage Convention in Washington and, as usual, had a hearing before the Congressional Committee. My speech on the solitude of self was well received and was published in the Congressional Record. The woman's tribune struck off many hundreds of copies, and it was extensively circulated. Notwithstanding my determination to rest, I spoke to many clubs, wrote articles for papers and magazines, and two important leaflets, one on street cleaning, another on opening the Chicago Exposition on Sunday. As Sunday was the only day the masses could visit that magnificent scene with its great lake, extensive park, artificial canals, and beautiful buildings, I strongly advocated its being open on that day. One hundred thousand religious bigots petitioned Congress to make no appropriation for this magnificent exposition unless the managers pledged themselves to close the gates on Sunday and hide this vision of beauty from the common people. Fortunately, this time a sense of justice outweighed religious bigotry. I sent my leaflets to every member of Congress and of the state legislatures and to the managers of the Exposition and made it a topic of conversation at every opportunity. The park and parts of the Exposition were kept open on Sunday, but some of the machinery was stopped as a concession to narrow Christian sects. In June 1892, at the earnest solicitation of Mrs. Russell Sage, I attended the dedication of the Gurley Memorial Building, presented to the Emma Willard Seminary at Troy, New York, and made the following address. Mrs. President, members of the alumni, it is just sixty years since the class of 32, to which I belonged, celebrated a commencement in this same room. This was the great event of the season to many families throughout this state. Parents came from all quarters, the elite of Troy and Albany, assembled here, principals from other schools, distinguished legislators, and clergymen all came to hear girls scan Latin verse, solve problems in Euclid, and read their own compositions in a promiscuous assemblage. A long line of teachers anxiously waited the calling of their classes, and overall our queenly Madam Willard presided with royal grace and dignity. Two hundred girls in gala attire, white dresses, bright sashes, coral ornaments, with their curly hair, rosy cheeks, and sparkling eyes, flitted to and fro, some rejoicing that they had passed through their ordeal, some still on the tiptoe of expectation, some laughing, some in tears, altogether a most beautiful and interesting picture. Conservatives then, as now, thought the result of the higher education of girls would be to destroy their delicacy and refinement. But as the graduates of the Troy Seminary were never distinguished in afterlife for the lack of these feminine virtues, the most timid even gradually accepted the situation and trusted their daughters with Mrs. Willard. But that noble woman endured for a long period the same ridicule and persecution that women now do who take an onward step in the march of progress. I see around me none of the familiar faces that greeted my coming or said farewell in parting. I do not know that one of my classmates still lives. Friendship with those I knew and loved best lasted but a few years, then our ways in life parted. I should not know where to find one now, and if I did, probably our ideas would differ on every subject, as I have wandered in latitudes beyond the prescribed sphere of women. I suppose it is much the same with many of you. The familiar faces are all gone, gone to the land of shadows and I hope of sunshine too, where we in turn will soon follow. And yet, though we who are left are strangers to one another, we have the same memories of the past, of the same type of mischievous girls and stayed teachers, though with different names. The same long bare halls and stairs, the recitation rooms with the same old blackboards, and lumps of chalk taken for generation after generation, I suppose, from the same pit. The dining room with its pillars inconveniently near some of the tables, with its thick white crockery and black handled knives, and vines that never suited us, because for sooth we had boxes of delicacies from home, or we had been out to the bakers or confectioners and bought pies and coconut cakes, candy and chewing gum, all forbidden, but that added to the relish. There too with the music rooms, with their old second-hand pianos, some with rattling keys and tinny sound, on which we were supposed to play our scales and exercises for an hour, though we often slyly indulged in the Russian march, Napoleon crossing the Rhine, or our national airs, when, as slyly Mr. Powell, our music teacher, a bumpious Englishman, would softly open the door and say in a stern voice, Please, practice the lesson I just gave you. Our chief delight was to break the rules, but we did not like to be caught at it. As we were forbidden to talk with our neighbours in study hours, I frequently climbed on top of my bureau to talk through a pipe-hole with a daughter of Judge Howell of Canandaigua. We often met afterward, laughed and talked over the old days, and kept our friendship bright until the day of her death. Once, while rooming with Harriet Hudson, a sister of Mrs. John Willard, I was moved to a very erratic performance. Mr. Theresa Lee had run the bell for retiring, and had taken her rounds, as usual, to see that the lights were out, and all was still. When I peeped out of my door, and seeing the bell at the head of the stairs nearby, I gave it one kick, and away it went rolling and ringing to the bottom. The halls were instantly filled with teachers and scholars, all in white robes, asking what was the matter. Harriet and I ran around, questioning the rest. And what a frolic we had! Helter, skelter, up and downstairs, in each other's rooms, pulling the beds to pieces, changing girls' clothes from one room to another, et cetera, et cetera. The hall lamps, dimly burning, gave us just light enough for all manner of depredations without our being recognized, hence the unbounded latitude we all felt for mischief. In our whole seminary course, and I was there nearly three years, we never had such a frolic as that night. It took all the teachers to restore order and quiet us down again for the night. No suspicion of any irregularities were ever attached to Harriet and myself. Our standing for scholarship was good, hence we were supposed to reflect all the moralities. Those strangers, we have a bond of union in all these memories of our bright companions, our good teachers who took us through the pitfalls of logic, rhetoric, philosophy, and the sciences, and of the noble woman who founded the institution and whose unselfish devotion and the cause of education we are here to celebrate. The name of Emma Willard is dear to all of us. To know her was to love and venerate her. She was not only good and gifted, but she was a beautiful woman. She had a finely developed figure, well shaped head, classic features, most genial manners, and a profound self-respect, a rare quality in woman that gave her a dignity truly royal in every position. Travelling in the old world, she was noticed everywhere as a distinguished personage, and all these gifts she dedicated to the earnest purpose of her life, the higher education of women. In opening this seminary, she could not find young women capable of teaching the higher branches. Hence, her first necessity was to train herself. Amos B. Eaton, who was the principal of the Rensselaer Polytechnic School for Boys here in Troy, told me Mrs. Willard studied with him every branch he was capable of teaching, and trained a core of teachers and regular scholars at the same time. She took lessons of the professor every evening when he had leisure, and studied half the night the branches she was to teach the next day, thus keeping ahead of her classes. Her intense earnestness and mental grasp, the readiness with which she turned from one subject to another, and her attentive memory of every rule and fact he gave her was a constant surprise to the professor. All her vacations she devoted to training teachers. She was the first to suggest the normal school system. Remembering her deep interest in the education of women, we can honor her in no more worthy manner than to carry on her special life work. As we look around at all the educated women assembled here today, and try to estimate what each has done in her own sphere of action the schools founded, the teachers sent forth, the inspiration given to girls in general through the long chain of influences started by our alma mater, we can form some light estimate of the momentous and far-reaching consequences of Emma Willard's life. We have not her difficulties to overcome, her trials to endure, but the imperative duty is laid on each of us to finish the work she so successfully began. Schools and colleges of a high order are now everywhere open to women. Public sentiment welcomes them to whatever career they may desire. And our work is to help worthy girls struggling for a higher education by founding scholarships in desirable institutions in every state in the union. The most fitting tribute we can pay to Emma Willard is to aid in the production of a generation of thoroughly educated women. There are two kinds of scholarships equally desirable, a permanent one where the interest of a fund from year to year will support a succession of students and a temporary one to help some worthy individual as she may require. Someone has suggested that this association should help young girls in their primary education. But as our public schools possess all the advantages for a thorough education in the rudiments of learning and are free to all, our scholarships should be bestowed on those whose ability and earnestness in the primary department have been proved, and whose capacity for a higher education is fully shown. This is the best work women of wealth can do, and I hope in the future they will endow scholarships for their own sex instead of giving millions of dollars to institutions for boys as they have done in the past. After all the bequests women have made to Harvard, see how niggardly that institution in its annex treats their daughters. I once asked a wealthy lady to give a few thousands of dollars to start a medical college and hospital for women in New York. She said before making bequests she always consulted her minister and her Bible. He told her there was nothing said in the Bible about colleges for women. I said, tell him he is mistaken. If he will turn to Second Chronicles 3422, he will find that when Josiah the king sent the wise men to consult Holda the prophetess about the book of laws discovered in the temple, they found Holda in the college in Jerusalem thoroughly well informed on questions of state, while Shalom, her husband, was keeper of the robes. I suppose his business was to sew on the royal buttons. But in spite of this scriptural authority the rich lady gave thirty thousand dollars to Princeton and never one cent for the education of her own sex. Of all the voices to which these walls have echoed for over half a century how few remain to tell the story of the early days and when we part how few of us will ever meet again. But I know we shall carry with us some new inspiration for the work that still remains for us to do. Though many of us are old in years we may still be young in heart. Women trained to concentrate all their thoughts on family life are apt to think when their children are grown up, their loved ones gone, they are trained to keep the domestic machinery in motion that their work and life is done that no one needs now their thought and care. Quite forgetting that the heyday of women's life is on the shady side of fifty when the vital forces here to forexpended in other ways are garnered in the brain when their thoughts and sentiments flow out in broader channels. Philanthropy takes the place of family selfishness and when from the depths of poverty and suffering the wail of humanity grows as pathetic to their ears as once was the cry of their own children or perhaps the pressing cares of family life ended the woman may awake to some slumbering genius in herself for art, science or literature and with which to gild the sunset of her life. Longfellow's beautiful poem moratory salutamus written for a similar occasion to this is full of hope and promise for all of us he says something remains for us to do or dare even the oldest tree some fruit may bear Cato learned Greek at eighty Sophocles wrote his grand Oedipus and Simonides bore off the prize of verse from his compiers when each had numbered more than four score years and Theophrastus at three score and ten had but begun his characters of men Chaucer at Woodstock with the Nightingales at sixty wrote the Canterbury tales Goethe at Weimar toiling to the last completed Faust when eighty years were passed these are indeed exceptions but they show how far the gulf stream of our youth may flow into the arctic regions of our lives where little else than life itself survives for age is opportunity no less than youth itself though in another dress and as the evening twilight fades away the sky is filled with stars invisible by day on December twenty first eighteen ninety two we celebrated for the first time for Mother's Day men had celebrated for Father's Day for many years but as women were never invited to join in their festivities Mrs. Devereaux Blake introduced the custom of women having a dinner and celebration of that day Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker spent two days with me and together we attended the feast and made speeches this custom is now annually observed and gentlemen sit in the gallery just as ladies had done on similar occasions my son Theodore arrived from France in April eighteen ninety three to attend the Chicago Exposition and spent most of the summer with me at Glen Cove, Long Island where my son Garrett and his wife were domiciled here we read Captain Charles King's stories of life at military posts Sanborn's biography of Bronson Alcott and Leckie's history of rationalism here I visited Charles A. Dana the nester of journalism and his charming family he lived on a beautiful island near Glen Cove his refined artistic taste shown in his city residence in paintings of statuary and rare bric-a-brac collected in his frequent travels in the old world displayed itself in his island home in the arrangement of an endless variety of trees shrubs and flowers through which you caught glimpses of the sound and distant shores one seldom meets so gifted a man as the late editor of the sun he was a scholar speaking several languages an able writer and orator and a most genial companion in the social circle his wife and daughter are cultivated women the name of this daughter, Zoe Dana Underhill often appears in our popular magazines as the author of short stories remarkable for their vivid descriptions I met Mr. Dana for the first time at the Brook Farm community in 1843 in that brilliant circle of Boston transcendentalists who hoped in a few years to transform our selfish competitive civilization into a paradise where all the altruistic virtues might make cooperation possible but alas the material at hand was not sufficiently plastic for that higher ideal in due time the community dissolved and the members returned to their ancestral spheres Margaret Fuller who was a frequent visitor there we took herself to matrimony in sunny Italy William Henry Channing to the church Bronson Alcott to the education of the young Frank Cabot to the world of work and Mrs. Ripley to literature and Charles A. Dana to the press Mr. Dana was very fortunate in his family relations his wife Miss Eunice McDaniel and her relatives sympathized with him in all his most liberal opinions during the summer at Glen Cove I had the pleasure of several long conversations with Miss Frances L. McDaniel and her brother Osborne whose wife is the sister of Mr. Dana and who is now assisting Miss Prestona Mann in trying an experiment similar to the one at Brook Farm in the Adirondacks Miss Anthony spent a week with us in Glen Cove she came to stir me up to write papers for every congress at the exposition which I did and she read them in the different congresses adding her own strong words at the close Mrs. Russell Sage also came and spent a day with us to urge me to write a paper to be read at Chicago at the Emma Willard reunion which I did a few days afterward Theodore and I returned her visit we enjoyed a few hours conversation with Mr. Sage who had made a very generous gift of a building to the Emma Willard Seminary at Troy this school was one of the first established 1820 for girls in our state and received an appropriation from the New York Legislature on the recommendation of the Governor DeWitt Clinton Mr. Sage gave us a description that night of the time his office was blown up with dynamite thrown by a crank and of his narrow escape we found the great financier and his wife in an unpretending cottage with a fine outlook on the sea though possessed of great wealth they set a good example of simplicity and economy which many extravagant people would do well to follow having visited the world's exposition at Chicago and attended a course of lectures at Chautauqua my daughter Mrs. Stanton Lawrence returned to the city and as soon as our apartment was in order I joined her she had recently been appointed Director of Physical Training at the Teachers College in New York City I attended several of her exhibitions and lectures which were very interesting she is doing her best to develop with proper exercises and sanitary dress a new type of womanhood my time passed pleasantly these days with a drive in the park and an hour in the land of Nod also in reading Henry George's Progress and Poverty William Morris on Industrial Questions Stevenson's novels The Heavenly Twins and Marcella and a twilight when I could not see to read and write in playing and singing the old tunes and songs I loved in my youth in the evening we play drafts and chess I am fond of all games also of music and novels hence the days fly swiftly by I am never lonely life is ever very sweet to me and full of interest the winter of 1893 through 94 was full of excitement as the citizens of New York were to hold a constitutional convention Dr. Mary Putnam Jacoby endeavored to rouse a new class of men and women to action in favor of an amendment granting to women the right to vote Appeals were sent throughout the state gatherings were held in parlors and enthusiastic meetings in Cooper Institute and at the Savoy Hotel my daughter Mrs. Stanton Blatch who was visiting this country took an active part in the canvas and made an eloquent speech in Cooper Institute strange to say some of the leading ladies formed a strong party against the proposed amendment and their own enfranchisement they were called the aunties this opposing organization adopted the same plan for the campaign as those in favor of the amendment they issued appeals circulated petitions and had hearings before the convention Mrs. Russell Sage, Mrs. Henry M. Sanders, Mrs. Edward Lauderbach, Mrs. Runkel and some liberal clergymen did their uttermost to secure the insertion of the amendment in the proposed new constitution but the committee on suffrage of the constitutional convention refused even to submit the proposed amendment to a vote of the people though half a million of our most intelligent and respectable citizens had signed the petition requesting them to do so Joseph H. Chote and Elihu Root did their uttermost to defeat the amendment and succeeded I spent the summer of 1894 with my son Garrett in his home at Thomaston Long Island Balsach's novels and the life of Thomas Payne by Montcure D. Conway with the monthly magazines and daily papers were my mental pabulum my daughter Mrs. Stanton Lawrence returned from England in September 1894 having had a pleasant visit with her sister in Basingstoke in December Miss Anthony came and we wrote the woman suffrage article for the new edition of Johnson's Cyclopedia on March 3rd 1895 Lady Somerset and Miss Francis Willard on the eve of their departure for England called to see me we discussed my project of a woman's Bible they consented to join a revising committee but before the committee was organized they withdrew their names fearing the work would be too radical I especially desired to have the opinions of women from all sects but those belonging to the Orthodox churches declined to join the committee or express their views perhaps they feared their faith might be disturbed by the strong light of investigation some half dozen members of the revising committee began with me to write comments on the Pentateuch the chief thought revolving in my mind during the years of 1894 and 1895 had been the woman's Bible in talking with friends I began to feel that I might realize my long cherished plan accordingly I began to read the commentators on the Bible and was surprised to see how little they had to say about the greatest factor in civilization the mother of the race and that little by no means complimentary the more I read the more keenly I felt the importance of convincing women that the Hebrew mythology had no special claim to a higher origin than that of the Greeks being far less attractive in style and less refined in sentiment its objectionable features would long ago have been apparent had they not been glossed over with a faith in their divine inspiration for several months I devoted all my time to biblical criticism and ecclesiastical history and found no explanation for the degraded status of women under all religions and in all the so-called holy books when part one of the woman's Bible was finally published in November 1895 it created a great sensation some of the New York City papers gave a page to its review with pictures of the commentators of its critics and even of the book itself the clergy denounced it as the work of Satan though it really was the work of Ellen Betel Dietrich, Lily Devereux Blake, Reverend Phoebe A. Hannaford, Clara Bowick Colby, Ursula N. Guestfeld, Louisa Southworth, Francis Ellen Burr, and myself extracts from it and criticisms of the commentators were printed in the newspapers throughout America, Great Britain and Europe a third edition was found necessary and finally an edition was published in England the revising committee was enlarged and it now consists of over 30 of the leading women of America and Europe the month of August 1895 we spent in Peterborough on the grand hills of Madison County 900 feet above the valley Garrett Smith's fine old mansion still stands surrounded with magnificent trees where I had played in childhood chasing squirrels over lawn and gardens and waiting in a modest stream that still creeps slowly round the grounds I recalled as I sat on the piazza how one time when Frederick Douglass came to spend a few days at Peterborough some southern visitors wrote a note to Mr. Smith asking if Mr. Douglass was to sit in the parlor and at the dining table if so during his visit they would remain in their own apartments Mr. Smith replied that his visitors were always treated by his family as equals and such would be the case with Mr. Douglass who was considered one of the ablest men reared under the southern institution so these ladies had their meals in their own apartments where they stayed most of the time and as Mr. Douglass prolonged his visit they no doubt wished in their hearts that they had never taken that silly position the rest of us walked about with him arm in arm played games and sang songs together he playing the accompaniment on the guitar I suppose if our prejudiced country women had been introduced to Dumas in a French salon they would at once have donned their bonnets and ran away sitting alone under the trees I recalled the different generations that had passed away all known to me here I had met the grandfather Peter Sken Smith partner of John Jacob Astor in their bargains with the Indians they acquired immense tracts of land in the northern part of the state of New York which were the nucleus of their large fortunes and have often heard cousin Garrett complain of the time he lost managing the estate his son Green was an enthusiast in the natural sciences and took up little interest in property matters later his grandson Garrett Smith Miller assumed the burden of managing the estate and in addition devoted himself to agriculture he imported a fine breed of Holstein cattle which have taken the first prize at several fairs his son bearing the same name is devoted to the natural sciences like his Uncle Green whose fine collection of birds was presented by his widow to Harvard College the only daughter of Garrett Smith Elizabeth Smith Miller is a remarkable woman addressing many of the traits of her noble father she has rare executive ability as shown in the dispatch of her extensive correspondence and in the perfect order of her house and grounds she has done much in the way of education especially for the colored race in helping to establish schools and in distributing literature she thrives for many of the best books, periodicals and papers for friends not able to purchase for themselves we cannot estimate the good she has done in this way every mail brings her letters from all classes from charitable institutions, prisons, southern plantations army posts and the far off prairies to all these pleas for help she gives a listening ear her charities are varied and boundless and her hospitalities to the poor as well as the rich, courteous and generous the refinement and artistic taste of the southern mother and the heroic virtues of the father are happily blended in their daughter in her beautiful home on Seneca Lake one is always sure to meet some of the most charming representatives of the progressive thought of our times representatives of all these generations now rest in the cemetery at Peterborough and as in review they passed before me they seemed to say, why linger you here alone so long my son Theodore arrived from Paris in September 1895 and rendered most important service during the preparations for my birthday celebration in answering letters, talking with reporters and making valuable suggestions to the managers as to many details in the arrangements and encouraging me to go through the ordeal with my usual heroism I never felt so nervous in my life and so unfitted for the part I was in duty bound to perform from much speaking through many years my voice was hoarse from a severe fall I was quite lame and as standing and distinct speaking are important to graceful oratory I felt like the king's daughter in Shakespeare's play of Titus Andronicus when rude men who had cut her hands off and her tongue out told her to call for water and wash her hands however I lived through the ordeal as the reader will see in the next chapter after my birthday celebration the next occasion of deep interest to me was the Chicago Convention of 1896 the platform there adopted and the nomination and brilliant campaign of William J. Bryan I have long been revolving in my mind questions relating to the tariff and finance and in the demands of liberal Democrats populists, socialists and the laboring men and women I heard the clarion notes of the coming revolution during the winter of 1895 through 96 I was busy writing alternately on this autobiography and the women's Bible and articles for magazines and journals on every possible subject from Venezuela and Cuba to the bicycle on the latter subject many timid souls were greatly distressed should women ride? what should they wear? what are God's intentions concerning them? should they ride on Sunday? these questions were asked with all seriousness we had a symposium on these points in one of the daily papers to me the answer to all these questions was simple if women could ride it was evidently God's intention that she be permitted to do so as to what she should wear she must decide what is best adapted to her comfort and convenience those who prefer a spin of a few hours on a good road in the open air to a close church and a dull sermon surely have the right to choose whether with trees and flowers and singing birds to worship in that temple not made with hands eternal in the heavens or within four walls to sleep during the intonation of that melancholy service that relegates us all without distinction of sex or color to the ranks of miserable sinners let each one do what Seameth write in her own eyes provided she does not encroach on the rights of others in May 1896 I again went to Geneva and found the bicycle craze had reached there with all its most pronounced symptoms old and young professors, clergymen and ladies of fashion were all spinning merrily around on business errands social calls and excursions to distant towns driving down the avenue one day we counted 80 bicycles before reaching the post office the ancient band box so detested by our sires and sons has given place to this new machine which our daughters take with them wherever they go boxing and unboxing and readjusting for each journey it has been a great blessing to our girls in compelling them to cultivate their self-reliance and their mechanical ingenuity as they are often compelled to mend the wheel in case of accident among the visitors at Geneva were Mr. Douglas and his daughter from the island of Cuba they gave us very sad accounts of the desolate state of the island and the impoverished condition of the people I had long felt that the United States should interfere in some way to end that cruel warfare for Spain has proved that she is incompetent to restore order and peace End of Chapter 27 Chapter 28 of 80 Years and More Reminescences 1815-1897 This is a LibriVox recording All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain For more information or to volunteer please visit LibriVox.org Recording by Lynette Geisel 80 Years and More Reminescences 1815-1897 By Elizabeth Cady Stanton Chapter 28 My 80th Birthday Without my knowledge or consent my lifelong friend, Susan B. Anthony who always seems to appreciate homage tender to me more highly than even to herself made arrangements for the celebration of my 80th birthday on the 12th day of November 1895 She preferred that the celebration should be conducted by the National Council of Women composed of a large number of organizations representing every department of women's labor Though, as the enfranchisement of women had been my special life work it would have been more appropriate if the celebration had been under the auspices of the National Women's Suffrage Association Mrs. Mary Lowe Dickinson President of the National Council of Women assumed the financial responsibility and the extensive correspondence involved and with rare tact, perseverance and executive ability made the celebration a complete success In describing this occasion I cannot do better than to reproduce in part Mrs. Dickinson's account published in the arena In the month of June 1895 the National Council of Women issued the following invitation believing that the progress made by women in the last half century may be promoted by a more general notice of their achievements we propose to hold in New York City a convention for this purpose As an appropriate time for such celebration the 80th birthday of Elizabeth Cady Stanton has been chosen Her half-century of pioneer work for the rights of women makes her name an inspiration for such an occasion and her life a fitting object for the homage of all women This National Council is composed of twenty organizations These and all other societies interested are invited to cooperate in grateful recognition of the debt the present generation owes to the pioneers of the past From their interest in the enfranchisement of women the influence of Mrs. Stanton and her co-ajutor, Miss Anthony has permeated all departments of progress and made them a common center round which all interested in women's higher development may gather To this invitation came responses from the old world and the new expressing sympathy with the proposed celebration which was intended to emphasize a great principle by showing the loftiness of character that had resulted from its embodiment in a unique personality The world naturally thinks of the personality before it thinks of the principal it has at least so much unconscious courtesy left as to honor a noble woman even when failing to rightly apprehend a noble cause To afford this feeling its proper expression to render more tangible all vague sympathy to crystallize the growing sentiment in favor of human freedom to give youth the opportunity to reverence the glory of age to give hearts their utterances in word and song was perhaps the most popular purpose of the reunion In other words it gave an opportunity for those who revered Mrs. Stanton as a queen among women to show their reverence and to recognize the work her life had wrought and to see in it an epitome of the progress of a century The celebration was also an illustration of the distinctive idea of the National Council of Women which aims to give recognition to all human effort without demanding uniformity of opinion as a basis of cooperation It claims to act upon a unity of service notwithstanding differences of creed and methods the things that separate shrink back into the shadows where they belong and all hearts brave enough to think and tender enough to feel found it easy to unite an homage to a life which had known a half century of struggle to lift humanity from bondage and womanhood from shame This reunion was the first general recognition of the debt the present owes to the past It was the first effort to show the extent to which later development has been inspired and made possible by the freedom to think and work Claimed in that earlier time by women like Lucretia Mott, Lucy Stone, Mrs. Stanton and many others whose names stand as synonyms of noble service for the race To those who look at the reunion from this point of view it could not fail of inspiration For the followers in lines of philanthropic work to look in the faces and hear the voices of women like Clara Barton and Mary Livermore For the multitude enlisted in the crowded ranks of literature to feel and living presence What literature owes to women like Julia Ward Howe For the white ribbon army to turn from its one great leader of today whose light spreading to the horizon does not obscure or dim the glory of the crusade leaders of the past For art lovers and art students call to mind sculptors like Harriet Hosmer and Anna Whitney and remember the days when art was a sealed book to women For the followers of the truly divine art of healing to honor the Blackwell sisters in the memory of Madam Wazel Clements-Losiar for the mercy of surgery to reveal itself in the face of Dr. Cusher who has proven for us that heart of pity and the hand of skill never need be divorced For women lifting their eyes to meet the face of Phoebe Ann Hannaford and Anna Shaw and other women who today in the pulpit as well as out of it may use a woman's right to minister to needy souls For the off-time sufferers from unrighteous law to welcome women lawyers For the throng of working women to read backward through the story of 400 industries to their beginning in the fore and remember that each new door had opened because some woman toiled and strove For all these the exercises were a part of a great thanksgiving peyote Each phase of progress striking its own chord and finding each its echo in the hearts that held it dear As a student of history, or to him who can read the signs of the times there was such a profound significance in this occasion as makes one shrink from dwelling too much upon the external details Yet as a pageant only, it was the most inspiring sight and one truly worthy of a queen Indeed, as we run the mind back over the pages of history what queen came to a more triumphant thrown at the hands of a greatful people What women ever before set silver crowned cannabied with flowers surrounded not by serval followers but by men and women who brought to her court the grandest service they had wrought Their best thought crystallized in speech and song Greater than any triumphal procession that ever marked a royal passage through a kingdom was it to know that in a score or more of cities in many a village church on that same night festive fires were lighted and the throng kept holiday bringing for tribute not golden gems but noblest aspirations truest gratitude and the highest ideals for the nation and the race The great meeting was but one link in a chain yet with its thousands of welcoming faces with its eloquence of words with its offering of sweetest song from the children of a race that once was bound but now is free with its pictured glimpses of the old time and the new flashing out upon the night with the home voices offering welcome and gratitude and love with numberless greetings from the great true brave souls of many lands it was indeed a wonderful tribute worthy of the great warm heart of a nation that offered it and worthy of the woman so revered It seemed fitting that Madame Waselle Antoinette Sterling who, twenty years ago took her wonderful voice away to England where it won for her a unique place in the hearts of the nation should, on returning to her country give her first service to the womanhood of her native land I am coming a week earlier so she had written that my first work in my own beloved America may be done for women I am coming as a woman and not as an artist and because I so glory in that which the women of my country have achieved So when she sang out in her heart a rest in the Lord wait patiently for him no marvel that it seemed to lift all listening hearts to a recognition of the divine secret and source of power for all work One charming feature of the entertainment was a series of pictures called then and now each illustrating the change in women's condition during the last fifty years and after this upon the dimness they're shown out one after another the names of noble women like Mary Lyon Maria Mitchell Emma Wallard and many others who have passed away upon the shadows and the silence broke Mademoiselle Sterling's voice in Tennyson's Crossing the Bar and when this was over as with one voice the whole audience sang Old Lang Syne and last but not least should be mentioned the greetings that poured in a shower of telegrams and letters from every section of the country and many from over the sea These expressions not only of personal congratulation for Mrs. Stanton but utterances of gladness for the progress in women's life and thought for the conditions already so much better than in the past and for the hope for the future would make of themselves a most interesting and wonderful chapter Among them may be mentioned letters from Lord and Lady Aberdeen from Lady Henry Somerset and Frances E. Willard from Cannon Wilberforce and many others including an address from thirteen members of the family of John Bright headed by his brother the right honourable Jacob Bright a beautifully engrossed address on parchment from the National Women's Suffrage Society of Scotland an address from the London Women's Franchise League and a cablegram from the Bristol Women's Liberation Association a letter from the Women's Rights Society of Finland signed by its president Baroness Grippenburg of Helsingfords telegrams from the California Suffrage Pioneers and others from the Chicago Women's Club from the Toledo and Ohio Women's Suffrage Society from the son of the Reverend Doctor William Ellery Channing and a telegram and letter from Citizens and Societies of Seneca Falls, New York accompanied with flowers and many handsome pieces of silver from the different societies there were also letters from Honourable Oscar S. Strauss Ex-Minister to Turkey Miss Ellen Terry an address was received from the Women's Association of Utah accompanied by a beautiful onyx and silver ballot box and from the shaker women of Mount Lebanon came an ode a solid silver loving cup from the New York City Suffrage League presented on the platform with a few appropriate words by its president Mrs. Devereux Blake hundreds of organizations and societies both in this country and abroad wished to have their names placed on record as in sympathy with the movement many organizations were present in a body and one was reminded by the variety and beauty of the decorations of their boxes of the Venetian Carnival as the occupants gazed down from amid the silken banners and the flowers upon the throng below the whole occasion was indeed a unique festival unique in its presentation as well as in its purpose, plan character and spirit no woman present could fail to be impressed with what we owe to the women of the past and especially to this one woman who was the honored guest of the occasion and no young woman could desire to forget the picture of this aged form as leaning upon her staff Mrs. Stanton spoke to the great audience of over 6,000 as she spoke hundreds of times before in legislative halls and whenever her word could influence the popular sentiment in favor of justice for all mankind my birthday celebration with all the testimonials of love and friendship I received was an occasion of such serious thought deep feeling as I have never before experienced having been accustomed for half a century to blame rather than praise I was surprised with such a manifestation of approval I could endure any amount of severe criticism with complacency but such an outpouring of homage and affection stirred me profoundly to calm myself during that week of excitement I thought many times of Nicolette's wise motto let the wheel and woe of humanity be everything to you their praise and blame of no effect be not puffed up with the one nor cast down with the other naturally at such a time I reviewed my life its march and battle on the highways of experience and counted its defeats I remembered when a few women called the first convention to discuss their disabilities that our conservative friends said you have made a great mistake you will be laughed at from Maine to Texas and beyond the sea God has set the bounds of women's fear and she should be satisfied with her position their prophecy was more than realized we were unsparingly ridiculed by the press and pulpit both in England and America but now many conventions are held each year in both countries to discuss the same ideas social customs have changed laws have been modified municipal suffrage has been granted to women in England and some of our colonies school suffrage has been granted to women in half of our states municipal suffrage in Kansas and full suffrage in four states of the union thus the principal scouted in 1848 was accepted in England in 1870 and since then year by year it has slowly progressed in America until the fourth star shown out on our flag in 1896 and Idaho enfranchised her women that first convention considered a grave mistake in 1848 is now referred to as a grand step in progress my next mistake was when as president of the New York state women's temperance association I demanded the passage of a statue allowing wives an absolute divorce for the brutality and intemperance of their husbands I addressed the legislature of New York a few years later when a similar bill was pending and also large audiences in several of our chief cities and for this I was severely denounced today fugitives from such unholy ties can secure freedom in many of the western states and enlightened public sentiment sustains mothers in refusing to hand down the genocide fraught with so many evil consequences this also called a mistake in 1860 was regarded as a step in progress a few years later again I urged my co-ogitors by speeches, letters and resolutions as a means of widespread agitation to make the same demands of the church that we had already made of the state they objected, saying that is too revolutionary an attack on the church would injure the suffrage movement but I steadily made the demand an opportunity offered that women be ordained to preach the gospel and to fill the offices as elders, deacons and trustees a few years later some of these suggestions were accepted some churches did ordain women as pastors over congregations of their own other selected women deaconesses and a few churches allowed women as delegates to sit in their conferences thus this demand was in a measure honored at another step in progress taken in 1882 I tried to organize a committee to consider the status of women in the bible and the claim that the Hebrew writings were of divine inspiration it was thought very presumptuous for women not learned in languages and ecclesiastical history to undertake such work but as we merely proposed to comment on what was said of women in plain English and found these texts composed only one tenth of the Old and New Testaments it did not seem to me a difficult or dangerous undertaking however part one of the women's bible was published again there was a general disapproval by press and pulpit and even by women themselves expressed in resolutions and suffrage and temperance conventions like other mistakes this too in due time will be regarded as a step in progress such experiences have given me confidence in my judgment the opposition of my co-odjuters with whom on so many points I disagree it requires no courage now to demand the right of suffrage temperance legislation liberal divorce laws or for women to fill church offices these battles have been fought and won and the principal governing these demands conceded but it still requires courage to question the divine inspiration of the Hebrew writings as to the position of women why should the myths, fables and allegories of the Hebrews be held more sacred than those of the Assyrians and Egyptians for whose literature most of them were derived seeing that the religious superstitions of women perpetrate their bondage more than all other adverse influences I feel impelled to re-enterate my demands for justice liberty and equality in the church as well as in the state my birthday celebration was to me more than a beautiful pageant more than a personal tribute it was the dawn of a new day for the mothers of the race the harmonious cooperation of so many different organizations with diverse interests and opinions in one grand jubilee was indeed a heavenly vision of peace and hope a prophecy that with the exultation of womanhood would come new life light and liberty to all mankind End of chapter 28 End of 80 years and more Reminisances 1815 to 1897 by Elizabeth Caddy Stanton


We always say that health is wealth and to be a country of wealth, we have to look to the health of our people. How much of this health are we having? What kind of path do we need to take to attend this universal health care coverage in Nigeria? A lot of people say that sector has been bastardized. A lot of people say that sector is dying. We just saw some headlines a few days ago that so many wards in the Lagos State University teaching hospital have been closed because there are no doctors, there are no medical personnel to man those wards in the hospital, a hospital as big as Luth in Lagos State. And so we are getting worried. So there is a conference coming up on Tuesday on the universal health care coverage in Nigeria and we are glad to have someone with an insight into that conference that is coming up who will be telling us what will happen then and then the kind of things that we need to do to attend this universal health care coverage in Nigeria. I am talking about Dr Adedayo Adedibigwe, a consultant. Dr Adedibigwe, good morning and welcome to the show. Good morning and thank you for having me on your show. Thank you. We understand like I said that there is going to be a conference on Tuesday. Tell us more about this conference and what we will be looking out for at this conference. All right. So good morning everyone. The conference is in Bayania Scientific Conference and that will be hosted by the Association of Public Health Physicians of Nigeria, the Lagos State Chapter. Once every two years, the Association of Physicians of Nigeria, Lagos Chapter, which is an umbrella body that comprises of all public officials in Lagos State. We come together and we look at issues that are bedeviling the health sector in Nigeria and Lagos State in particular. And we try to look for solutions. We brainstorm, we discuss, we profess solutions and then we engage appropriate government authorities and that are responsible for solving some of those challenges. And that is what we're going to be doing again on Tuesday, the 5th of December. And so the theme of this year's conference is universal health coverage and we are present, you know, the journey so far and with regards to the Lagos State experience. And so we'll come together on that day and discuss some of the issues. And we hope that at the end of the day our community will be able to profess some solutions to so many challenges that are facing the health sector. And just like you said, we have so, so, so many challenges in the health sector. Okay, so how does this universal health care work for an average person in Nigeria? What do they need to know about this? All right. Thank you. But the concept of universal health coverage is, you know, everybody having access to quality health care services, when they need it, wherever they need it. And at a cost that does not cost them to break the bank. That is just what universal health coverage means. You need to assess health care services. You don't need to travel from maybe a remote area in Ibejuleki down to Ikechia to assess health care services. You don't need to break the bank to do that. And whatever health care services you are assessing must be affordable. You don't need to go and sell off your property. You don't need to, you know, you don't need to use money meant for other purposes to do that. And that is what universal health coverage means. And so this is generally what every single country tries to achieve, right? Ensuring that their citizens have access to quality health care services, you know, without having to, you know, run into financial hardship. Okay, so what are the benefits? And I know that in Nigeria, most times some of these health care providers are usually like in the private sector. So does this also cover like government hospitals and stuff like that? What are the benefits that we can actually get from this universal health care coverage? Alright, so universal health care coverage is more like a policy. And that encompasses whether you are a public or private sector health player. It's just policies that ensure that if you are a patient or you are somebody that needs a particular health service, whether you're going to the public hospital or you're going to the private hospital, whichever one you choose, whichever one is closest to you, the same conditions apply. Yeah, the private sector is a major player in the health industry, but government is still the major player in the health care industry. And most of the affordable services as they provide have been covered. Some of the private hospital services are usually out of reach for the ordinary Nigerians. And that is what universal health care coverage tries to bridge. Such that how do we come to a consensus where people do not need to look into the depth of their pockets to determine whether to go for health care services or where exactly to assess those services. And so universal health care coverage is a policy. And at the conference, you know, we'll be engaging all senior government officials, top legal state government officials at the conference, and we'll sit down in a roundtable to look at those issues and provide solutions. I'm sure that every day we look at the news, we are always inundated with stories about medical workers living in the country, one of two services not being provided. Just as you said, a report came out a few days ago that a ward was being shut down in the Lagos University in hospital. And so many other stories across the country that were here every day. And these are what we're trying to look at. These are conversations that happen every single day in Nigeria. But universal health care coverage is a policy. It's not like looking at what are those factors that, you know, mitigate against some of these challenges we face. And how do we solve them? Looking at particular ways are true. This is not English. This is just, these are our challenges. How do we face it? And what do we need to do? Yeah, but like she was asking what the advantages are in the first place. Why are we even talking about this policy? It seems as if it's not working. Because you've been talking about it. This is every two years you talk about it. Now people are still living what's being closed in hospitals and all that. The cost of medication and getting any kind of health care is rising up. Are you saying that discussions like these conferences, like these roundtable discussions like these, are not having the impact that you wanted to have? Or are you telling us that it has impacted so much on the health sector that you can beat your chest and say we're proud of this? What is missing? Well, my opinion is that, you know, it is still a political way. Which is more important. These conversations happen every day. Our session is a session of public health physicians. If you go to conferences organized by the Nigerian Medical Association, the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, and so many other medical associations in the country, these are conversations that happen on a year-to-year basis. And then, but the one thing that is missing is the political way from those responsible to actually act on some of these things. And that is the missing link. Government needs to prioritize the health sector. I was just yesterday, I was looking at the budget presentation by the end of the February public of Nigeria. And I was surprised to see that health was not taking so much part of the budget. There's a recommendation that 15% of the country's budget should go to the health sector. Nigeria has never achieved this for once. And if we take health serious, we will dedicate more of our resources to the health sector. And that is what we're not doing as a country. We are focusing so much on other things such that we neglect the health sector. And these are conversations that we want to continue to have. It's not getting any better, and that is the truth. These are not getting better as we expect them to be, especially in the health sector. So we want to bring it to the consciousness of every single person that matters. And we hope that the media will help us cover these events and look at these conversations, practical conversations that are going to be discussed so that you can bring it to the attention of all the stakeholders. We're meeting in a political way, and that is the missing link. Yeah, but you've said you're advocating privatization of the health sector. What do you mean by that? Because there are some people with a different school of thought. They don't feel that health should be something, health and education should be something that you privatize. So when you say privatization, what's the limit to which this has to be privatized? What do you really actually mean? Well, maybe you didn't get what I said. I'm not an advocate of the privatization per se of the health sector because once you privatize the health sector, it becomes out of reach of ordinary Nigerians. What I mean is we cannot ignore what the private sector contributes to the health sector. And this is why we encourage that government needs to bring the private sector together to have conversations. And I'll give you a practical example. Everybody knows what the cost of diesel today is in Nigeria. How would you feel if you walk into a private hospital and you don't have light? How would you feel if you need to have a surgery and there's no light in the hospital? The medical directors of these private hospitals are not getting a couple from government. Diesel is not being subsidized for them. They don't have any tax relief from government. They still pay their taxes. Yet they have to buy diesel to ensure that you have 24 hours in the hospital. These are costs of ever increasing that they have to deal with. And what we are asking is that government should come in, sit down with these people, look at ways by which they can mitigate some of these problems, they can help them, you know, offer these services to Nigerians. Okay. I'm just wondering. When the leaps collapsed and killed someone, a doctor, it was a government hospital. This means there to even, I don't have any funding. I don't know how they are going to give the funding. But like you said, maybe there could be policies that will make things really easy for the private sector to go on. I'd like to know what are your three main objectives, especially with this conference.  However, what are the three main objectives that you want people to know about, even the government that you're asking to come and help out? What are the three main objectives right now? All right. So one objective is to first look at what are the drivers and the challenges of, you know, refusal to ensure that we achieve universal health coverage, especially in legal states. There are so many factors. Right. And those are some things, some of the, one of our objectives is to bring all these conversations to the fore. We're going to be having topical discussions. We're having seasoned people coming to speak to us. But beyond that, we're going to be having panel discussions. We're going to be bringing the patients on board to come and discuss what are the specific patient challenges. This is not just going to be a conversation where doctors sit down and speak to themselves. We're going to be bringing the patients and have a Nigerian patient come and tell you what are those challenges you face. When you go to the hospital, what do you face? What are those things you see? What are those challenges when you want to buy your drugs? If you have potential for diabetic, for instance, are you having challenges for chasing your drugs as the cost of medication gone off? We're bringing private sector players into the conversations. We're bringing government officials into the conversations. We'll be talking about health insurance, the popular Ileira echo in legal states. How can people go in and enroll? How can they benefit from these services that are offered? We're going to be talking about health insurance. We're going to be talking about access to global medications in Nigeria. Recently, we see pharmaceutical companies existing in the country because of our favorable policies. And that has, of course, driven up the cost of medications in the country. So we're going to be bringing them to come and speak to us. What are those challenges? What are those factors that are causing their drugs to go off? What can we do? Because we need to do something. We can't just keep on saying that people are going to be fine. No, we need to have these conversations. And when we're having these conversations, the government officials will be seated. And we're all going to be seeing and offering solutions. And at the end of the day, we're going to be drafting a communique which we're going to send to the very best agencies of government. Itemized line by line to say, OK, these are the problems the young doctors are facing. How do you follow up on this communique that you sent to the various agencies of government that need to see these communiques? Over the years, when you have this conference and you discuss these things and you profile the solutions, what do you do as a follow-up? Thank you. So periodically, we pay advocacy visits to relevant government agencies. This year, we've tried to be in this state-of-the-art assembly. Frequently, when there's a change of comment or when there's a change in appointment of somebody holding a seat, we go there, we register our presence. And since there's a working document that has come together, we represent these things to them to say, these are things that we have agreed on a year ago, two years ago. Conversations that you need to remember, that we have actually done those discussions for you, have done the hard work. We are just saying, please, when you guys sit down at those places that matter, let these conversations keep on becoming. Because the only thing we can do as a body is to advocate. We don't have the political power. We don't have the executive power to make some of these decisions. If you talk to another Nigerian, to another young doctor, they'll say they want to leave the country. I do not have the power to stop it. But the government, on the other hand, know what the problems are. And we're going to be treating some of these challenges. And we're going to be presenting at their table. So we do frequent and periodic advocacy visits to relevant agents of government, and the executive or legislative hand so that they can always remember these conversations. And that is what we're going to continue to be doing. All right. I want to talk about digitalization. Because you had said, I think you mentioned health insurance sometime. And are you looking for ways to ensure that even people who are at home can also get healthcare, this universal healthcare coverage you're talking about? Well, the truth about the matter is digitalization of healthcare, which is from what we call telemetry, where you have access to consultation with a healthcare provider via the use of digital tools. It's something that is happening in so many places in Nigeria, especially in legal states as well. You know, telemetry is something that is a service that has come to stay and so many people are adopting it. But also, we need to also look at the fact that telemetry on its own has so many challenges on its own. You have the challenges of internet coverage. You have the internet challenge of so many ailments that cannot be discussed via digital tools. The medicine is a profession whereby you marry what the patient tells you with what you physically can see and examine on the patient. So there are some ailments that, yes, you can make a consultation over the phone and you can ask the person to get this done or get this particular medication and you offer those services via digital tools. But there are also some that cannot be done through telemetry. But yes, telemetry is something that has come to stay. It's still something that is evolving. And as anybody is trying to work around the challenges, it's something that will continue to adopt to ensure that people have access to medical care or using the digital tools that we have all over the country. Because for me, when we talk about universal healthcare coverage, I think everything should be in it. It's all encompassing. So that's the reason why I even asked about digitalisation. I know that obviously we need more data on this and even for people who are living in rural areas, they need to have the access to internet and for them to be able to do this telemedicine we're talking about. But if we're talking about universal healthcare, I believe that it should be everything, all encompassing. Anyways, thank you so much for joining us today. We've been speaking to Dr. Adey Daio, Adey Ribibi, he's a co-chairman in a public healthcare physician at Las Suiz Ikeja and the Secretary Association of Public Health Physicians, Lagos Chapter. Thank you so much for coming and just giving us insights on what the conference is about and how we can access this universal healthcare. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for having me. Thank you. All right. So we'll go on a quick break and when we return, we'll be looking at our second hot topic. You want to speak around for that.


OBJ was at the Dallas Mavericks game last night. They were at the game sitting courtside and obviously it had been reported that Odell Beckham Jr. had his visit with the Cowboys. How did it go? We don't know.


This 10th year of Daily Tech News show is made possible by its listeners. That's you, especially you, Tony Glass, Philip Less, Daniel Dorado and brand new patrons. It's now you too, Elena, Michael and Brian. Welcome on in on this episode of DTNS. Did Apple pull off its pivot to services? Arm faces its greatest risk and Google lets you edit yourself right out of search. This is the Daily Tech News for Friday, August 4th, 2023 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt and from Studio Puff and Fluff. I'm Sarah Lane and not too far from your nation's capital. Your boy Chris Ashley and I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang. So if they didn't drain the swamp, it would all just flood into your neighborhood is what you're saying. I'm far enough away. Let us drain the other direction. Yeah, yeah. Well, we have got some good stuff today. Whether you're an Apple fan, a not Apple fan or Apple ambivalent, there's something for you in today's show. Let us start with the quick hits. That's the wrong one. There we go. Thursday, India announced restrictions on imports of many electronics, including laptops and tablets and servers. Companies would need a license to import such devices. So Dell, Apple and Samsung complied with the order immediately by pausing all imports. So India's deputy IT minister said on Friday, well, hold on a second. Let's give companies a transition period of at least one month so they can obtain licenses to conduct imports. I feel like India's deputy IT minister never gets listened to at home and was like, wait, they actually actually followed the rule. Oh, man, we don't want them to pause. We just want them to, you know, get a license. Amazon really beat the street this time, earning 65 cents a share when analysts expected it to earn 35 cents a share. Revenue rose 11 percent, ad revenue rose 22 percent. CEO Andy Jassy said that that revenue growth should continue. Talked about the ramp up for Thursday night football on Prime Video this fall. Amazon sales rose 12 percent and AWS, the cloud part of Amazon. AWS sales rose 12 percent. But that's not as fast as it has been growing. In fact, it's the third straight quarter that AWS growth has been lower than the quarter before. But Jassy has a plan for that. He wants you to know the company is working on AI just like everybody else. Telling analysts on the Amazon earnings called that every one of our teams is working on building generative AI applications. Now, most of those will be built using other companies AI. But the key is they'll run on AWS and then they can sell them to other people to run on AWS and therefore make money on AWS. Speaking of AWS, Chief of Angeles, Jeff Barr announced in a blog post on February 1st, 2024, AWS will start charging for public IPv4 addresses, whether they're attached to a service or not. Barr noted that Amazon's cost to acquire an IPv4 address rose 300 percent over the past five years. That's just how rare IPv4 addresses are now. So he'd like y'all to adopt IPv6, if you please. A few bits of Microsoft news today. US Senator Ron Wyden sent a letter to the US Department of Justice asking it to hold Microsoft accountable for negligent, negligent cybersecurity practices. The company is being called out in the wake of a major breach targeting its Azure platform last month. It affected over two dozen organizations and resulted in unauthorized access of sensitive emails from US government officials. Microsoft also shared a registry tweak. Registry tweak. Those are fun to mitigate a bug and outlook that unexpectedly asked users to restore windows closed in a previous session. Confuse some folks. And finally, good night, sweet Prince Cortana. Microsoft is shutting down the digital assistant app this month in favor of Bing Chad and other AI powered productivity features across windows. Microsoft's been tinkering with lately and in the edge browser as well. Cortana will still be available in Outlook Mobile, Teams Mobile, Microsoft Teams Display, Microsoft Teams Rooms, at least for now. But the company has also laid out plans to bring Bing Chat to the enterprise. That would be probably where something like Microsoft 365 Copilot would replace Cortana in the places it still exists. Well, maybe they could use AWS. Maybe so. Just don't ask for IPv4 address. A new VR headset for Meta showed up in the US Federal Communications Commission database. Now, the filing doesn't call it the Quest 3, but it kind of looks like one. In fact, the FCC label is in the exact same place it is on the Quest 2. Also, Meta promised it was going to share more about the Quest 3 at its connect event, which happens September 27th. So we're getting close to needing more information about it. They said they're going to launch it in the autumn. So it's a fair bet that this filing is in fact the Quest 3. And if it is, well, now we know it would come with Wi-Fi 6E. The EU's Digital Services Act requires large social media platforms to let users choose whether or not to see content recommendations that are based on tracking and profiling of their activities. In compliance with those rules, TikTok Europe announced that users in Europe will soon be able to switch off the algorithmic for you feed that TikTok is so well known for. A spokesperson for the company confirmed to Reuters that the social network is also in early stage talks to obtain a payments license in Indonesia. TikTok says an Indonesian payments license would help local creators and also sellers be able to make money and get some more eyeballs on the platform. Google released a tool last year to help you request the removal of personal information from search. So phone number, home address, email. An update to that just rolled out. It's called the results about you tool. And it includes a dashboard that will alert you when such information shows up in search so you don't have to go find it at yourself. You'll be able to request removal right from the dashboard. If it's found something it thinks is is personal information, it'll list it. You can say, yes, please remove that right away. You can get to the tool from either the Google app. Just tap your profile photo and select results about you or go to goo.gle. I had no idea GLE was a top level domain. Goo.gle slash results about you. All one word. It's available in the US now with more countries to follow. So if you're not in the US, hang in there, it's supposed to come to you shortly. Google is also expanding its policy on removal of explicit image. Now, previously, you could request the removal of non consensual explicit images of yourself, but you can now request them to be removed even if they were consensual, even if you put it up yourself. This also might apply to content you had uploaded and later removed, but showed up on another site without your permission. Policy does not apply to content. You are commercializing yourself, though. And Google is going to start blurring explicit images by default now in Google search. You'll have to change the setting in the safe control settings. Parental controls are now searchable. You can just put in a query like Google parental controls or Google Family Link. And they'll show up right away. These all seem like pretty good tweaks, right? I mean, what's not to love, right? Yeah, I think this is absolutely awesome. And my deepest thought is why am I still nervous to search for myself on Google? I never do this, but I would hope that they bring this type of stuff more to the forefront to let people realize that this type of service is actually available to them, because I don't know how many people actually know that I'm sure everybody knows they can search for themselves, but I don't know how many people realize that they can make requests to have information removed. You know, did you go to Google Google slash results about you? No, you don't want to know. I don't want to know. How do you not search? Oh, my gosh, I can't. I don't know what it is. I just there are a lot of things I don't look at either, you know, like the scale on the bathroom. But oh, no, I immediately went and I was like, all right, let's let's see what we can remove. There really isn't anything that, you know, all the results for it. If I search for myself, right? It's a lot of it's me and a lot of it is a very well known ballerina named Sarah Lane, and she and I, you know, we have nothing we've never met or whatever, but she has crawled up in the Google search rankings over the years because she's, you know, really good at L.A. So some of it's me and some of it's her. And I actually just just out of curiosity, I clicked on the little hamburger menu that dots next to one of her results. It was like her Instagram account that, you know, is now like trending higher than mine. And, you know, it it was I you I could see because I was trying to think like, OK, let's think of nefarious ways that this could be abused.  You know, it's it's possible for me to go through it. But Google asks you a lot of questions. By the way, I did not do this to this woman. But but I was just I wanted to see how far I could get before you confirmed. Yeah, I mean, she could then, you know, dispute it. She could dispute it and then I would look pretty bad and Google would probably, you know, you know, that that would be on my record if I really had an issue in the future. However, the idea of getting sensitive information, you know, the company was already doing their best to help you. Yeah, I get stuff like, you know, is it my current phone number? I don't want that on the Internet. I don't want that, you know, in a Google search result, rather. That that's all that makes a lot of sense.  There are companies that will do this for a fee. I don't know any company that does this for free. Right. Reputation Defender is a company that gets promoted on certain podcasts. So I'm just throwing that name out. I've not used them, but I know someone who has. In fact, I know more than one person who's used more than one company for a fee to get certain things scrubbed from the Internet, because it was either misleading or embarrassing or something like that. Whatever their reason was, it cost money. And some of that stuff feels a little predatory to me because you've got a company saying you want that photo to go away forever. Well, if somebody found this photo of you. Yeah. And it doesn't sound like, I mean, Google's not promising to take something down that you just don't, you know, you don't, you're not happy about, you know, we're not going to rewrite history here, but it doesn't cost any money. So it's a good place to start. My only downside to this and it's a very minor thing is that I wish Google had included the dark web search as a one stop shop service of this as opposed to having a separate service because people should definitely get into habit. A lot of password managers give you this opportunity to search the dark web to see if your accounts are on there for any or your username or passwords are on there or any type of information that people should get in the habit of actually using these types of services to do this. I wish they would combine those two things together. Yeah, it feels like a good feature request. Like, yeah, just, just, you know, merge these interfaces together. That's a good idea. One last Google thing here. Kevin Toffols about Chromebooks spotted a new feature turned on by default for Chrome OS 116 and up. Lacrosse stands for Linux and Chrome OS and splits. Chrome OS is Linux operating system away from the Chrome browser. You may not have realized, but the browser and the operating system were one because the idea was the browser was the operating system interface. Google says now that they're splitting them apart, it lets it update each one independently, so you don't have to update everything at once. They can update the browser separately from the OS. Lacrosse has been in development for about two years and is designed to make updating Chrome OS easier and might even extend the lifetime of old Chrome OS devices. I was hoping it was pronounced lacrosse. Let's let's change. Yeah, lacrosse for now. Yeah, until someone says no, we're doing it. All right, we've talked about risk VRISCV before on the show. It's an open ship instruction set and it's provided royalty free. You can think of it as a competitor to what ARM does. ARM provides instruction sets and designs that companies pay to license, but risk VRISCV provides those for nothing. So it's interesting to see that Qualcomm, NXP, Nordic, Robert Bosch and Infineon have joined forces to create a company to promote the development of risk VRISCV. The group plans to start with a focus on automotive applications before expanding to mobile and internet of things devices. The as yet unnamed company will set up shop in Germany and lobby industry associations and also governments and provide reference architectures and established standards. They're kind of trying to do it all. This takes place, probably not coincidentally, as SoftBank is planning to launch ARM as a public company with the stock IPO rumored for next month. Yeah, I don't think it's a mystery why Qualcomm would like to have a royalty free version of ARM. Oh, wait, we're still seeing cream here. I always find it interesting and fun when I see these companies make these power moves to save a ton of loot, right? And but at the same time, if I love competition, especially in spaces like this, because inevitably, if it's done well, you get some great features on both sides and you can kind of choose which one suits your purposes better. So even though it's clearly about the money, I welcome these type of things happening all the time. Now, the interesting part about it is the fact that they are releasing it first on automotive because, you know, in the last couple of weeks, a lot of companies announced they're moving away from, you know, having iOS in the cars and stuff like that. So and, you know, might be developing their own. So it would be kind of interesting to see if these this has a faster uptake just because people are putting themselves in that position. Yeah, I think it's it's perfect. It's not even greedy to say, hey, it looks like Arm might raise licensing fees. They're about to IPO, which means they're going to have more pressure to show profits, which means there's more prefer pressure for them to raise licensing fees. So having a counterweight to that to keep the licensing fees from Skyrocket is just a good idea. And the fact that it's everybody, it's Qualcomm, it's NXP, it's Nordic, it's Infineon means that everybody understands we're all going to benefit from this. It's the kind of thing that if Arm is super smart, it might even join in the future at some point to kind of help perform it. I doubt that's going to happen. But there's a route where it could that could happen in the future. It's going to take a while, though. Like you say, they're starting with automotive chips because that is an area where they I guess they feel like they have a better chance of getting uptake. It's lower powered. It's not like servers or anything like that. So Arm is going to be fine for years. It's not like risk is going to just come in and take over immediately. But this is going to apply some pressure and slowly over the years, they will, just like Arm did, move from embedded systems and Internet of Things to mobile, to laptops, to servers, if all goes well. This is definitely something to watch, though. Yeah, for sure. Well, is there a world where Arm could join this alliance and also keep a separate, you know, specialty arm instruction set and design part of the company? Yeah, I don't see why not. Yeah, I mean, I don't I don't really know why it would. But yeah, I mean, if there was stuff like that, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I realize that that us saying, you know, Arm supporting risk sounds like in the year 2000 saying Microsoft would support Linux, but it does. Right. Yeah. Yeah. And, you know, I could definitely see them doing a branch, you know, for specialty things and then joining something like this to move forward or vice versa, using something like this for, you know, a low cost way to support things they don't really want to support anymore. It could go in either direction, actually. Yeah. And Arm is more than just its instruction set. It's the support. It's the design, you know, obviously companies like Apple don't need all that stuff. They just want to license the instruction set. But and, you know, that's a big chunk of change for Arm. Don't get me wrong. However, there's all kinds of things that Arm does that if they were supporting a risk instruction set, they have talent and they have ability to do that. I don't think they're going to do that anytime soon. Don't get me wrong. But yeah, maybe 10 years from now, we're like, man, remember when it sounded crazy to think of Arm supporting risk and and now it does. Or maybe both of them will flop and end up in a top five this week on Tom's top five. Roger wrote up the top five failed home video formats you don't know about. And I count them down for you. If you're like, oh, it's Laserdisc. No, Betabax, not on it. HD DVD. Now we have bigger failures than all of those. If you want to know what they are, check out the video. YouTube.com slash Daily Tech News Show. Depending on how you look at it, Apple's latest earnings report is either bad news or great news. It's bad news if you consider that it was the third straight quarter of falling revenue down 1.4 percent and that sales of iPhones, which still make almost half of Apple's revenue, were even lower than analysts expected, falling 2.4 percent. So declining and declining a little faster than we thought it would. Now, the earnings report is great news. If you consider that net income rose 2.3 percent on the year and that Apple services revenue reached an all time high of 21 billion, just a little more than 25 percent of Apple's revenue now comes from its one billion paid subscribers. That's three times or I'm sorry, that's two times as many subscribers as they had three years ago. Knowing the smartphone market would eventually saturate like laptops did. Apple's plan for years has been to grow services and pivot to services as its next big revenue generator. So, Chris, when you look at this, do you see good news or bad news for Apple? I see ridiculousness in the fact that this system exists in the first place. But aside from that, honestly, I think it's actually more good news to see that the company's still innovating and and finding ways to make money. And the phones aren't totally dead for them. So I don't know if the fact that they anticipated this and didn't sit there and say, who wants a phone with just a screen on it and then do nothing about it? Right. They saw what was coming and they started pivoting and making moves, much like other companies have done as well. You like to see that those type of things. My only question is, will this whole push to services switch up at some point and people are like, all right, I'm done with this. Just within the last two weeks, I canceled three services because it's just getting way out of hand. Yeah, it's not even just streaming anymore. It's everything, everything, everything. It's just getting way out of hand. And and I was just I just started reassessing. I was like, this is too much. And even now, even looking at canceling more and maybe going back to just getting a basic service from my internet provider, just because it's getting crazy. So I think that's something that'll be interesting to watch. But overall, I think this is good news for Apple. Yeah, I depends on how much you hate Apple. Some people like see Apple couldn't sustain it. It was although there was some dip in revenue. It was mostly in line with what analysts expected slightly lower, but it wasn't like some like crazy like shock and surprise. Jean Munster, who's an Apple analyst, had a really good breakdown. He's bullish on Apple, but he had a good breakdown about Apple's potential in India. You know, we talked earlier in the year about Apple opening a couple of stores. The company certainly hopes that its physical presence in India will be a lot more than that in time. Cook had noted on the earnings call that the opportunity in India was a big deal. Also, the company didn't break out India numbers, but Cook commented that India had hit a June quarter revenue record, grew strong double digits, also said the company open noted that the two new stores are beating expectations. So, you know, however, I don't know, none of us have been to either of those stores, if you have, let us know what you thought about it. But it sounds like there's a lot of interest there. And Munster also compared this to Apple revenue in China. It wasn't that long ago that China was an emerging market for Apple. And now it's a really big one. And India has a lot of people in the country. And if it goes into, you know, a double digit billion dollar revenue in quarters to come, then that's a bright light. Also, he mentioned, hey, we got the iPhone 15 coming next quarter, you know, and you got holiday sales and that sort of stuff. So, so yeah, I think that, along with the Vision Pro coming next year, makes this conversation a year from now really interesting. Yeah, we don't always talk about earnings reports on on DTNS. And if we do sometimes we just have them in the quick hits up at the top. But Apple is one of the biggest companies in the world, not just the biggest tech companies, and their bet on services has been something that is crucial to the survival of the company. So I thought it was worth paying attention to this earnings report, because it does seem like we are seeing the pivot. We are seeing the finally the slowing of even the iPhone. The iPhone outlasted most of the rest of the smartphone market. But even the iPhone is slowing down. But services is still rising. It's a record high, but it's been a record high every quarter, which is good. That's what Apple wants to see. So yeah, all of this has happened before and all of this will happen again. As Sarah just explained, it used to be like, well, sales are slowing down for Apple. But maybe China sales can pick it up. And well, guess what they did? So maybe India can do that. Past results are no guarantee of future results. But seems logical that that could happen. And we saw laptop sales slow down. And at a time people probably don't remember when the iPhone was still so young. A lot of people are like, well, Apple can't build its entire business on the iPhone. Can it turns out it could and it did. So that, I guess, is the bigger question. Can services be the next thing that comes half of Apple's revenue? Well, I think definitely. Obviously, they have to recognize their revenue differently. But in the end, not only does this serve to show that Apple made the pivot and looks like they're making the right decision, but we should probably be less surprised when other companies start to continue to make this pivot. I know just within the last couple of weeks, we were all pretty surprised about the announcement of some of the car companies kind of doing services so that you can get additional features in the vehicle.  I mean, I don't love that they're trying to turn heated seats into a service, but I get why they're trying to do it. Yeah. Heated seats are lovely, by the way. Are they worth a monthly subscription, though, when they're already in your car? Oh, that would make me so mad. I mean, I have heated seats in the front, not the whole car. But if I if I knew they were there, you know, that's what gets you out. That would be cool.  Free, true, yeah. Little green men, they power a lot. Mario, Mario of Super Mario Brothers, also a very powerful character. And that is why Pauli Gohan, employee and writer, Extina G.G. decided to live for a work week, five days in a row in the shoes of Mario. And you might say, what does that mean? Well, for five days, they live in New York City.  They noted they did not enjoy eating them, went go-karting at Coney Island, went mini golfing and also danced typical Mario stuff, you know, Extina Mario, as they call it themselves during this experiment, tried running five miles to work the first day instead of taking the subway because that's what Mario would do, right? But then admitted that was unsustainable. But then they got creative and decided that by riding Yoshi, which in real life was a green dinosaur head on a stick on the subway, that they could ride the subway and still feel authentic. I know, Extina admits being Mario for a week was not easy. But you know what, we're just going to go ahead and respect their commitment to research. Fair enough. That sounds like a fun thing to do.  This just this this took me back to a simpler time on the internet when like this kind of thing was all the rage on YouTube long before Tik Tok and everything else. I adore this. Yeah. I love that she's like a week, meaning five days because they don't pay me to be Mario on the weekends. Yeah, let's, you know, it's a, uh, yeah. I don't want to get to what I I love the idea, you know, so, OK, like first day was running five miles to work. OK, we're not doing that. So then, you know, second day is like, how do I ride the subway but still, you know, not just be sitting there and imagine like on Tuesday seeing somebody dressed up as Mario and you kind of go like, oh, well, whatever, New York City. Right. See them again. That was my exact thought. It was like nobody even paid one second up there. But like, what if, you know, because you're kind of going to, if you're commuting at the exact same time as somebody else, chances are you might recognize them again. Yeah.  You're just going to expect them to get off at Times Square in that outfit. Right. Yeah.  Oh my gosh, you're not wrong. And they all like had like a dance thing and then brought around a hat. That would have been amazing if they found another Mario and did a like head to head or Luigi, right? Anyway. Yeah. Let's get to the mailbag. Let's do it regarding our discussion of Warner Brothers Discovery Sports Strategy for Max, Rick and Texas wanted to add to the discussion that Warner has your sport channels Discovery Plus Sports and GCN Plus. Rick subscribes to GCN Plus for cycling coverage and he says, quote, I watch most days through though right now there's a lull for the because of the build up to the UCI World Championships in Glasgow. Your sport might be the ESPN for the rest of the world. Thank you, Rick. That was good, good info to add to the discussion. I always appreciate that. Indeed. We also appreciate you, Chris, Ashley, thanks for being with us today and let folks know what you've been up to. Oh, Rod and I are getting ready to start season five of barbecue and tech with some really cool food to talk about. And of course, you can always check us out on SMR podcast, me and your boy Rob Dunwood. I can't even call him my boy anymore. He's your boy now. Our, our. I wish he's the collective world. 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