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Public Opinion, Volume 1
WIT OF THE WEEK.
CLIPPINGS FROM CONTEMPORARIES. WORKING OVER TIME.—A Florida hen having laid two eggs in one day, it is understood she will be boycotted by the Knights of Labor for over-production.Robert J. Burdette.
MATERIALIZING MEDIUM: " This is the spirit of Harry Hardup. Does any one recognize him?"
Voice: "Ach, yah."
Medium: "He does not seem to know you."
" Sufferin' Isaacs, nein. He was owing me $10.79. Holt 'em vhile I put some attachment dose angel vings of his on."— Boston Post.
THE forthcoming marriage of President Cleveland having been publicly announced, the marriageable young ladies of Washington are expected to boycott him. Anyway, a "tie-up" in the White House is threatened. — Norristown Herald.
UNCLE GEORGE: "And so you go to school now, Johnny? What part of the exercises do you like best?"
Johnny.-" The exercise we get at recess."—Pretzels National Weekly. · FATHER," said Rollo, "what is meant by intoxication of wealth ?"
"Means that money is tight," replied Rollo's father, who had been shinning around all the afternoon with a piece of paper looking for an autograph.Burdette,
"I HAVE loved you and love you still," he said to the girl he had been courting for several months, but there has come recently into my affairs a new order of things, and I fear that we can never be more than friends. I cannot marry
you."
American Historical Association holds its third meeting this week in Washington. Mr. Geo. Bancroft, president, has presented an interesting communication from Leopold von Ramke. -Two common-place books of Burns brought £325 and £284 at a recent sale in Edinburgh. Washington, the Expander of England," is the title of a new essay by E. A. Freeman, the historian- -Walt. Whitman is lecturing on the Death of Lincoln. He announces his intention of doing so at the anniversary of Lincoln's death until he too shall join the majority. -Mrs. Frances Brooks has just presented to the Boston Kindergarten $200, her share of the profits on the sale of the last edition of " Heidi." Ludwick Schick, of Chicago, will republish German fiction. Most of the issues are short and very attractive in both form and matter. -Canon Farrar thinks Mr. Browning obscure only in the sense that his thoughts are profound. -Bancroft's " History of Alaska" does not escape adverse criticism.
-First class works on architectural subjects are increasing. -Mrs. Van Renssalaer will commence her papers on "American Country Dwellings" in the May Century. -The Political Science Quarterly proposes to discuss politics from the historical and scientific rather than the party point of view.Count Tolster has published "Scenes from the Seige of Sebastapol" from the Russian side.
-Mr. Stevenson sends to " The Academy" (London) a letter on "American Rights and Wrongs," in which he says that American authors should be careful to understand the bargains into which they enter with English publishers, and either strictly reserve their American rights, or see that they receive an equivalent. Mr. Stevenson adds" that he has known English publishers dispose of advance sheets without accounting, when the book was burdened with a royalty, to the author." -Cassel & Co. and Messrs. Routledge are in a quarrel over the right to first steal an American work and publish it abroad.-President Porter has completed his work on Kant's Ethics. It is now in type, and will appear early in April, as the fifth volume in the series of Grigg's German Philosophical Classics. - Frank Moore's Songs and Ballads of the Southern People are in press.Gen. Logan's book, " The Great Conspiracy," will be out between the first and tenth of May.----Mr. W. H. Bishop begins a new serial story, " The Golden Justice," in the May number of the Atlantic. -The short story that recently appeared anonymously in the Atlantic, entitled "A Brother to Dragon," was written by Miss Amélie Rives, of Richmond, Va.—"Anna Karenina," by Count Leo Tolstor; "Ameil's Journal," by Henri Frederic Amiel; and Andrew Carnegie's * Triumphant Democracy" are receiving much attention from the reviewers. Hittle's History of California is said to be a thorough history of the Gold State. The editor of the Literary World thinks that English novelists, when they touch on politics, go to pieces artistically. - There is to be a Thackeray carnival in Boston -Miss Susan B. Anthony is writing the last chapter of " The History of Woman's Suffrage." -A Southern poet says, "I would rather be remembered by one poem, though I had written millions, than by millions. It seems to me that, with the exception of Shakespeare, the best loved poets are those of whose verses we really read only two or three."
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"Well, whoever said you could?" she answered, with a snap that jerked him backward out of the front door and shattered even the hope of friendship. — Washington Critic.
JOTTINGS FROM JUDGE. Mr. T. of a prominent banking-house reached home at 3 o'clock one morning of this week. " William, is that you ?" asked his wife.
W-w-why!" said William, with profound surprise, "w-who else d-d-did y-you expect ? "
COUNTRYMAN (who thinks of living in the city)—"What rent do you charge for one of them fats ?"
Landlady (snappishly): "A thousand dollars a year."
Countryman (petrified): " How much for the rent, I mean ?-we'll furnish our own meals."
THE question of trousers or no trousers is being agitated. We know not what others may think, but as for us trousers or give us a warmer climate.
LAWYER (joysully): " How do you feel now ?"
Condemned murderer (who has just been reprieved) : " As playful as a child, my boy."
Lawyer (slapping him on the back) : " Ah, I see; you have just skipped a rope." MRS. GRADY (through the hole in the back fence) :
« An' how's yer son, Moike, ez wint wist fur his health, gettin' along at-all at-all ?"
Mrs. O'Brien (taking the clothes-pin out of her mouth) : " Splindirl, me dear; splindid. He must be gittin' sthrong ez an ox, fur he's jist sint me a litter in which he sez he's been alter holding up a stage in the Rucky mountains, an' aul be hisself too, moind ye."
A LARGE crack has been discovered in the Washington monument. It has taken so long to complete the monument that we half suspect it is the crack of doom.
PICKINGS FROM PUCK. In answer to Joe Cook's question, " Is life worth living ?" we reply that it all depends on the liver.
I UNDERSTAND you haf vailed in peesness, Mr. Levi ?"
Yes, I vas unvordunate in a brivate sbeculation. Dot vas not the vorst. I vas deceised."
« How so?"
" In my assignee. IIe vas a scoundrel. He vormed his vay into my convidence, unt made me bay ninety-six ber cent. Did you effer hear of such an oud.
rage ?"
The fact is that when the entire congregation down in Georgia is chewing and spitting, it doesn't seem - sociable-like" for Sam to stand up there without the customary bulge in his cheek.-- Kansas City Journal.
The great study of politicians now-a-days is how not to make a record.—N. Y.
LAUGHTER FROM LIFE,
FIRST CITIZEN (excitedly): "What has happened to the officer ?"
Second citizen: "There was a riot here just now, and he has fainted."
First C.: " Why, how was that po
Second C.: " He got here before it was over."
A CLOTHES shave—a ballet girl's costume.
OVERHEARD at midnight on a Cunarder.-Small boy: "Ma! Mar! My dinner won't stay swallered!"
TIFFANY asks $85 for a scent bottle. And there are 100 cents to a dollar.
Tribnue,
measure.
nessee.
BULLETS.
FOREIGN.-Lord Sherburne attacks the Irish proposals. The Greek question is still unsettled. King Louis, of Bavaria, has been declared bankrupt, and it is
anticipated that a regency will be declared. An attempt was made in Madrid to The situation in the Democratic party at the present time seems to be that Frank
blow up a church. Hurd has been voted out; that Joseph Pulitzer has resigned; that Henry Watter
SATURDAY, APRIL 24. son is going to Europe, and that a Republican woman has been appointed postmaster of the Louisville Courier-Journal.—Chicago News.
DOMESTIC.-Ex-President Arthur's condition is reported very critical, with pros.
pect of early demise. The corner-stone of the new College of Physicians and IF 500,000 are embraced, as Mr. Powderly says, in the organization of the Surgeons was laid in New York. A letter on labor troubles by Jefferson Davis Knights of Labor, while 18,000,000 wage-earners in this country have preferred was made public. He favors arbitration. There is an unusual pressure of businot to join that or any other organization, government for the people will not take ness in the Chicago divorce court. There is no change in the situation on the the part of the few against the many.-N. Y. Tribnue.
Gould lines. Funds continue to pour into the treasury of the Knights. The rail
road companies declare that their roads are in no way hampered and that business The Knights of Labor declare that moral worth, not wealth, should be the
has been fully resumed. The cotton manufacturers of New England are said to standard of individual and national greatness. Corporate monopoly declares that
have combined to oppose strikes. Six Italian laborers were burned to death in a gold, or its equivalent, based on selfishness, shall be the standard of greatness.
shanty near Mount Alton, Pennsylvania. "Arbor Day" was inaugurated in MassaWhich is to be most commended ?- The Craftsman.
chusetts by the governor and the mayor of Boston formally planting an elm tree Tue statement that the Democratic majority on the Pan-Electric Committee has
each, resolved to whitewash Garland, Harris, Casey Young, and the rest, if correct, would seem to show that the party is prepared to resort to any expedient to defeat CONGRESSIONAL.- The House in session, but nothing of general interest ocCleveland in 1888.–N. Y. Tribune.
curred. Sir CHARLES DILKE is going to emerge from his obscurity for the purpose of seeking a denser shade. In his efforts to find it, Sir Charles will have the hearty
FOREIGN.—A fight occurred between Orange and Catholic societies in Glasgow. assistance of every morality-loving person in both hemispheres.— Philadelphia
There were 128 victims of the Stry fire. Greece is expected to disarm. Times.
SUNDAY, APRIL 25. ClergyMEN, as a rule, make the worst husbands in the world. Editors rank
DOMESTIC. — The building contractors in Boston formally oppose the eight-hour The reasons are, that while editors are away day and night, clergymen are
Easter observances were very general. Spring wheat presents a hopeful at home night and day."Kansas City Times.
outlook. The fishermen of Gloucester, Mass., are opposed to any treaty with AMONG the arrivals in Baltimore on Saturday was a jackass from England. The
Canada which shall affect any of their present rights. They are indignant at the commendable thing about this particular animal is that he will not take to the lec threat of the Dominion government to seize and confiscate their vessels if they enter ture platform.—Baltimore American.
any Canadian port, LABOR can only be really strong by being right. And the labor cause will break
FOREIGN.–Archbishop Croke delivered an eulogy on Mr. Gladstone at Thurles, down unless it studies the principles of human society and obeys them.--N. Y.
Ireland. Mr. Gladstone has addressed an autograph letter to a London morning Commercial. Advertiser.
journal in reference to home rule. Las Vegas, N. M., has been considerably damATTORNEY-GENERAL GARLAND has been vindicated in every respect except as aged by the overflowing of the Rio Gallonas from recent heavy rains. The posta poker player. It seems to be true that he plays poker very badly.—Cincinnati office building, railroad buildings, oil and lumber works have been destroyed. The I imes.
war feeling in Greece is intense. WHEN Rev. Beecher called the Democratic party a double-eared ass he doubt
MONDAY, APRIL 26. less forgot that he brayed with the drove in 1884.--Milwaukee Journal.
DOMESTIC.—A train was wrecked and several passengers killed on the Union A WASHINGTON promise of favor is like a lover's promise of devotion_easily Pacific railroad. Four moonshiners and a deputy marshal were killed in Tenmade, and broken with great facility.–St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The death of Mrs. Wendell Phillips is reported. The John Hopkins
University, at Baltimore, Md., celebrated its tenth anniversary. THE trouble seems to be that when Mr. Blaine retires from public lise he gener. ally takes public life along with him.-- Philadelphia Times.
CONGRESSIONAL.-Both houses in session. In the Senate Messrs, Stanford and Two years of tariff unrest and business prostration should finally dispose of a Van Wyck spoke on the Inter-State Commerce bill; Senator Whitthorne, of TenDemocratic Congress.--N. Y. Tribune.
nessee sworn in. In the House, Mr. Springer, of Illinois, introduced a bill to
create a Department of Labor. The President might take a trip to Detroit and conser with Senator Jones.-N. Y. Tribune.
FOREIGN.— The reply of Greece to the Powers is not satisfactory. Lord Hart
ington spoke in Lancashire against the Irish government bill. EVENTS OF THE WEEK.
TUESDAY, APRIL 27.
DOMESTIC.—George Bancrost delivered an address before the American HisTHURSDAY, APRIL 22.
torical Association in Washington. Twenty-four tailors were arrested in New DOMESTIC. — Faiher Ryan, the poet, died at Louisville, Ky. Four girls were
York for boycotting. The partisan troubles in the Ohio Senate are likely to be badly bitten by mad dogs at Lindenville, Ohio. Statistical reports show great in
resumed over the committee reports on the Cincinnati election frauds. Three lives
were lost on the Potomac river by the capsizing of a schooner. George E. Graham, dustrial growth in the South. The labor troubles continue at many points. An exiensive fire occurred in. Broadway, New York. A large surniture factory was
the evangelist and wise-murderer, was lynched by a mob of 400 armed men at burnel in Chicago. The business affairs of E. Remington & Sons, of Ilion, N. Y.,
Springfield, Mo. have been placed in the liands of receivers. The New York grand jury rendered
CONGRESSIONAL.-Both branches in session. The Senate discussed the Interindictments for conspiracy against seven men who bribed the Aldermen of 1884 to
State Commerce bill. The majority reports of the special committee of the Ohio grani a Broadway railroad franchise.
Legislature on the election of Senator Payne were laid before the Senate, and, on
motion of Mr. Payne, who addressed the Senate, were sent to the Committee on CONGRESSIONAL.—The Senate debated the Inter-State Commerce bill, and the
Privileges and Elections. The House continued debate on the River and Harbor I louse continued debate on the River and Harbor bill. Jay Gould testified in
bill. relation to labor troubles in the Southwest. FOREIGN.-A hostile meeting of Greeks and Turks is reported on the frontier
FOREIGN.—Representatives of foreign powers in Athens discussed the Greek
question. There is a serious uprising of the Galician peasantry.
of Thessaly. A large meeting was held in London in support of Gladstone's Irish
The Irish Land Purchase bill was made public.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28.
FRIDAY, APRIL 23.
DOMESTIC.-An important mass meeting was held in Washington to express sym
pathy with the Irish home rule movement. Jefferson Davis received an ovation in DOMESTIC.-- Boycotters were indicted for robbery in St. Louis. The Wheeling Montgomery, Ala., where he delivers an address. Senor Elmore, Peruvian Minand Lake Erie road was sold. An insane woman at Harmony, N. J., killed her ister, took official leave of the President. Secretary Whitney has written to the four children and herself. There was a more general observance of Good Friday officers in charge of the work on the new naval cruisers, calling attention to the than is usual throughout the country. An immense crevasse has occurred in the
delay in completing the Atlanta, and asking that she be put in condition for sea as Mississippi levee near Helena, Ark., and thousands of acres are flooded. The
soon as possible. execution of Robert Fowler for the murder of Miss Lydia Burneti took place at Louisville, Ky., in the presence of five thousand people. Mrs. Monroe Smith, the CONGRESSIONAL.-The Senate discussed the Post Office appropriation bill, after wife of a farmer near Keyport, attempted to murder her whole family, and suc Senator Mitchell had spoken on the Chinese question. The House continued ceeded in killing one chiki.
debate on the River and Harbor bill. CONGRESSIONAL.—The Senate was not in session. The President's special FOREIGN.—Greece denies that she has yielded to the powers. The situation is message on labor troubles was warmly discussed in the House.
still critical.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE PUBLIC OPINION COMPANY.
Vol. I.
WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, May 8, 1886.
No. 4.
POLITICAL.
JEFFERSON DAVIS AND THE LOST CAUSE.
The laying of a corner-stone of a monument to the Confederate dead, at Montgomery, Alabama, on the 29th ultimo, and the unveiling of a statue to ex-Senator Hill, at Atlanta, Georgia, on the ist instant, were the occasions which called Mr. Jefferson Davis to those ci:ies. His speeches and other incidents of the ceremonies have elicited the comments here collated.
Montgomery Advertiser (Dem.), April 29. THE great day has come and gone with its pomp and ceremony—the outward show of what the heart did feel. Mr. Davis has returned to the capital that saw him invested with a new-born nation's leadership. On that other time he was the great chieftain of a proud and confident people, who saw in him the star of their hopes and resolution. On this later day he comes after defeat has perched upon his banners and his people have trodden with him the valley of the shadow of death to the bright shore beyond of a new prosperity. Once he heard the wild huzzas of hope and pride. Now he hears the deep-toned voice of a love we never felt in the day of his power. There is something romantic, something that talks to the fancy in this gala welcome of Mr: Davis to the city where he was inaugurated president of the Confederacy. He is sheltered under the same roof that sheltered him then. He beholds the same scenes, walks the same streets, and hears the same shouts. As if in rebellion at a break in the eternal fitness of things, the heavens frowned. And in obedience to their frown, he went and stood upon the self-same spot where he stood and uttered the solemn oath of his high office. As he stood there and looked out upon the glad throng before him and back through the years that have fled, what a host of memories came crowding in his mind! What event in the course of time has had so much of thrilling interest, so much that appeals to the sentiment and the imagination of the heart! Since Mr. Davis has been in the city he has heard the enthusiastic plaudits that greet few save the conquerors of earth. A Roman general, with kings at his chariot wheels, saw the heavens rent with shouting, and might well have believed himself a god. Yet he knew in his heart these were fruits of victory, and defeat would hurl him to the dust of forgetfulness or disdain. Tlie same people who "threw high their ready caps in air" for him, would repeat the show in honor of his rival. To-day they weep fof Cæsar slain; to-morrow build a monument to Brutus." Not so with the people whom Davis led. They were with him in the hour of victory, in the hour of defeat, and are with him now, and will be to the last. Seeing and hearing what he has since leaving Beauvoir, Mr. Davis said: "It takes a great people to do this." Ay! a great people! Pomp and pageantry and all the ceremony which greets a popular idol are easy when he comes from a field of glory. All peoples in all times have done this. But how many have struck for independence, been beaten to allegiance, accepted results, gone back to the ways of industry, built up their desolated country, and through it all maintained their love and veneration for the man they looked to, and looked to in vain, for salvation from their enemies? « The price of defeat is the king's head" has been the rule as this world goes. Let the pageant of yesterday go down as proof how closer defeat drew around our illustrious chiestain the hearts and the homage of his people. But is it because we are the greater people or he the greater man? Something of both. No nation ever followed such a man to the grounding of their arms. No wonder on yesterday as his carriage passed up the streets and the thousands on thousands of his countrymen sent up the voice of gladness at the sight, his face beamed and a smile lit the worn features and he became as young again. He knew it all was sincere, the pure outpouring of the ple's faith in him and belief in him and love for him. There was no other reason in the heavens above, or the carth beneath, or the waters under the earth, that could prompt a plaudit or stimulate a cheer. On the long journey to Montgomery, of all the hundreds who have talked to him, not one has heard a bitter word or regretful allusion to the past escape him.
He is too great a man to weep above his broken idols, and to-day no man in all the South is nore - hopeful of the future, more earnest in his wish to see his people happy and prosperous in the way the God of destiny has willed it.
A WISH.—It is the earnest wish of the people of Montgomery that when Mr. Davis shall at last sink beneath the weight of years -and may the day be far distanthe will allow us reverently to bear to his first capital his sacred remains and lay them to rest in our own soil. This wish is uttered, not prematurely, but as the tenderest tribute our love can pay him. Will he think of it when he is back at his
quiet home by the seaside? It is an honor 100 great, almost, for hope, and yet one we fain would have.
The New Yorker Staats-Zeitung, April 30.
[Translated expressly for PUBLIC OPINION.] A Few Republican leaders in Albany, at which the not particularly renowned Gen. Barnum was at the head, could not reconcile to themselves the idea of a memorial festivity at Montgomery, and especially a speech from Mr. Davis; but the
press of the States, in general, has taken no umbrage at the ovation which was accorded him, nor his remarks upon the same occasion. This indicates the great revolution which has taken place in the Northern mind. Unquestionably a like demonstration at an earlier period would not have been met by the same indulgence that it now receives. To this is to be ascribed the clear conviction which has permeated the Northern mind that the South no longer dreams of reconstructing the lost cause, but, on the contrary, has become sincerely reconciled to the restored Union, and clearly understands that the abolition of its peculiar institution is not only irrevocable, but that it has proved itself a blessing to the South. After having reached this conviction, the North can estimate, without prejudice, the feeling in the South toward the victims of the struggle for the lost cause, and the few remaining leaders in that struggle. It does not enter into the minds of the immense majority of the Northern people to regard this feeling as a demonstration against the Union of to-day.
New York Tribune (Rep.), April 30. TWENTY-ONE years after he should have been hanged this unrepentant old villian and Union-hater gets up and whines about the "loss of liberty" and the
glories of the Lost Cause," the cause which was lost being that of human slavery and the opportunity to extend the shameful, undemocratic, abominable practice over the free Territories of the West. Instead of devoting his few remaining days to repentance for his black treason to the Republic and for the horrors of the war which he planned and precipitated upon this unhappy country in order to spread and perpetuate slavery, and to expressions of gratitude that the Union soldiers who captured him did not shoot him on the spot, as they certainly would have done had they not thought that he would be tried and hanged for his treason, he seebly sputters out his chronic disloyalty to his country when he took the oath to dù his best to destroy it, and with the flag waving above him to which he proved a recreant traitor. Had justice been done—the justice which never before in the world's history failed to overtake traitors—the country would have been spared this disgraceful spectacle. The ex-rebel soldier who followed him, Gen. Gordon, declared his devotion to the old flag, showing that he is again loyal; but Jeff Davis could do no more than show unrepentant disloyalty. The mistake in dealing with the rebellion was, that it was not disgraced with a rope around the neck of its chief. The only mistake made was that of unfortunate and unprecedented leniency, and that was the work of Andy Johnson and Horace Greeley.
Memphis Avalanche (Dem.), May 1. It is to be hoped that the patriotic numbskulls who met at Albany, in the State of New York, to sing, " We'll hang Jeff Davis on a sour apple tree," and to resolve that " treason is odious," contenplated their little crowd of two hundred, one half, doubtless, mere spectators, with a comparative view as to what numbers wouldi have attended such ineetings at any tiine from 1865 to 1876. The fool is sometimes the sincerest person in the world. Idiots are sometimes very positive and earnest in the little they do know and believe, and the most adhesive person in the world is the monomaniac. It is not necessary to doubt that these patriotic idiots contemplated their diminished numbers with a feeling that patriotisin had waned, and they were the last of the salt of the earth. We have no doubt that, by extraordinary drumming, an equal number could be found in the South who would sing, " We'll hang Abe Lincoln on a sour-apple tree," and resolve that the American Republic ended at Appomattox. Fortunately, a country lives and propagates and descends through its great common-sense masses of people of all classes, and not in its fools and idiots, sincere and earnest and, so far as intent and motive goes, patriotic, as these fools often are, when it is possible to separate the residuum of genuine sentiment from that love of a little cheap notoriety which is always a large moving force with such people.
Atlanta Special to Philadelphia Press, May 1. ANOTHER day of flowers, yells, crowds and excitement. It is all for Jeff Davis: " This Easter week is the most glorious occasion since the resurrection," shouted Henry Grady, of the Constitution, while speaking in front of the veiled statute of Senator Hill this morning. Mr. Davis sat on one side of him, and Gen. Longstreet, clad in his Consederate uniform, on the other as he spoke this sentence. The expression has no more significance in it than hundreds of the extravagant phrases one hears from Southern lips. It typifies the wild enthusiasın which the presence of the leader of the lost cause has awakened among his former followers down here in Dixie. These incidents may be taken as the one danger which it was feared would follow Mr. Davis' re-entrance into publicity: His people are overdoing it. For the first time since Mr. Davis left bis home in Mississippi, nearly a week ago, the people of the South are beginning to feel that it would have been much better to have let the aims and ideas which he represents be undisturbed in the grave in which they were buried a generation ago. The South has undoubtedly turned its face to the future and the men who are furnishing the energy and brains to make it a prosperous country are the ones who are taking little or no part in the present ceremonies.
St. Louis Republican (Denz.), May 2. LAYING the foundation of the Confederate States government and laying the corner stone of a monument to the Consederate dead are very different tasks, as
they lost.
Mr. Davis and the Alabama people have the best reasons for knowing; and yet, than the Declaration of Independence the very kernel and heart of Anglo-Saxon
the magnificent outburst of passion with which the one was done twenty-five years liberty and freedom. The time will never come when Southerners will be ashamed
ago, and the profound and pious affection with which the other was performed last of the soldiers of Lee and Johnston, or fail to honor the statesman whose only sin
week, equally reveal a valiant and heroic people, and disclose qualities which, is that he was their chosen chief and proved his title to their confidence by eager
combined with the more rugged and robust virtues of the North, supply the ma and most patriotic devotion to his duties.
terial for the future American people. Mr. Davis has outlived both the friends
and enemies of 1861. He saw the beginning and the ending of the Confederacy.
Albany Evening Journal (Rep.), April 29.
He saw it in its cradle, and he lives to stand over its grave.
He has seen the expe
No more pusil [?] and ridiculous spectacle ever has been presented to the riment of twenty-five years ago embalmed as a " lost cause" in elegies that make people of the United States than the resurrection of Jeff Davis, whose political the tears course on thousands of cheeks. He has seen the stars and bars turned ghost is now on exhibition at Montgomery, Alabama. The senile old rebel slobinto the conquered banner" and folded away forever. He is the disappointed,
bered over his venomous treason with a cracked and wheezy voice, glorying in the vanquished, and broken leader of a disappointed, vanquished, and broken people.
anniversary of his perjury amid the clamorous applause of brass bands and a blatAnd yet, even his enemies must yield him the credit of a high and patient intiep
ant and bragging crowd. The Confederate martyr, changed by unrepentant years idity in standing under the flag of a country which denies him the right of citizen into a mere Confederate scarecrow, gibbered and snarled yesterday over the defeat ship and performing the last pious offices in honor of the comrades who died in
of the bloody attempt to create a slaveholders' oligarchy on the ruins of a broken battle against it.
and divided republic. The hate that inspired Andersonville and Libby prisons
drizzled its poison through his rhetoric. A traitor still, powerless, bul yet with the New Orleans Times-Democrat (Dem.), April 29.
heart of a political assassin, he gesticulated before an admiring crowd, and also DEFEAT, with all its accompanying humiliations, the surrender to an over before a patient country whose mistaken magnanimity had years ago tossed back whelming power, the desolation and impoverishment of their homes, the heca to him as not worth taking his cheap and perjured life. No " bloody shirt" the tombs of victims of the sanguinary struggle, could not subdue the conscious pride North has ever aired to menace political murđer has equalled the clotted banner in the integrity and sincerity of all who participated in that contest, or extort a Jeff Davis waves. confession of the wrongfulness of the cause for which they fought and suffered.
Chicago Inter-Ocean (Rep.), April 29. With fortitude and patience they have met and endured the penalties of failure,
THERE was, of course, no call for Mr. Davis, on his own account, to come to the but not the shame of voluntary surrender of their conviction of the justice of
front. The occasion was deliberately planned and carefully prepared for by those their cause, and the consciousness of a patriotic duty discharged with a heroism
who, for some reason, determined to make the demonstration as striking and imand fidelity never surpassed in history. Honest and loyal as has been their sub
pressive as possible. That there are in the South so many thousands eager to enter mission to the victor in the defeat of the object and aim of their struggle, and im
into such a plan is a fact worth remembering. Jefferson Davis was not in accord plicit as will be the confidence of all right-thinking men in the pledges they have with the men who have made the new South. That the new South should care given of their renewed relations of brotherhood with their recent foes, and the
to stop in its progressive march and turn for one week to make a hero of the man resumption of their seats in the household which their fathers once filled, they
who represents the old South is a question to be considered and discussed, and will not and should not be so faithless to the memories of their martyred brethren
after it has been discussed the question of the effect of such a demonstration will as to repress the flow of patriotic and grateful sentiments on occasions when they remain unanswered. The answer is to come in the course of the next twenty may be appropriately expressed.
years, and the effect will be good or bad as the professions of the South in favor of Washington l'ost (Dem.), April 30.
the Union are stronger than their impulse to make much of the memories of what There is no reason why the people of the South should be otherwise than
N. Y. Herald (Ind.), April 30. manly and self-respecting. The logic of events and the stern arbitrament of war proved that they were mistaken in their views twenty-five years ago. But no
WHEN Mr. Davis, on Wednesday, revived the memories of the past, the flag of one questions the bravery—the heroism_with which against such odds they main
the Union floated from the masthead over the crowd, the flag of the Union hung tained the terrible struggle. No one at the North, except a bigot, doubts their
in drapery from the front of the capitol, the flag of the Union almost touched with honesty of purpose: The memories that reach down from the period of their de its protecting folds the head of the ex-president of the Confederacy, and we do not votion to duty and patriotism, as they conceived these virtues, will always affect the
use facts too lightly when we affirm that a patriotic love of that flag filled the Southern mind with enthusiasm and pride. It is the " lost " cause that every
hearts of the very men who cheered Mr. Davis' eulogy of the courage of the where embodies the sentimental and poetical elements, and makes the strongest
Southern army. Let the South build as many monuments as it will to its numberappeal to the sensibilities of the generous heart. The people of the South therefore less heroes. We have done and are doing the same for our noble dead: God would have shown themselves singularly lacking in those honorable and chivalrous
knows we fought each other grandly, but now the time has come to grandly forattributes with which they are credited if they had failed to receive with respect
get. We did our best to win the victory, and we won it; they did their best to the man who stood foremost in the movement in which he and they staked their
wrest it from our grasp.
We can both hereafter do our best to protect and purity all a quarter of a century ago.
a government which, with all its imperfections, is the last and noblest product of
centuries of political experience.
State Senator Coggeshall, at the Albany Indignation Meeting.
Newark Advertiser (Rep.), April 29.
I CAN NOT believe that the words which were at Montgomery uttered to or by
Jefferson Davis express or reflect the true sentiment of any considerable portion of
A few faded old men like Davis hang over the extinct fires and turn their menthe people of this land. In my humble judgınent the time is not yet, nor do I be tal vision backward; but the rest of the world is looking forward. And the Jieve it ever will be, when this great nation will so far condone treason as to honor
South, no longer the South, but the Union, is pressing on to repair the disasters of the man, living or dead, whose treachery caused it so much suffering and loss.
the old days with new and splendid moral and material achievements. It may be Rear and dedicate monuments, if you please, to the Confederate dead. Cover the
that the age of fantastic chivalry is gone. Let us hope that it is. But, as the emmounds where they sleep with floral offerings, but do not strew flowers in the
bodiment of an obsolete idea, Davis has a certain hold on the enthusiasm of his pathway of the man whose treason made possible their deaths, and who of all
fellow-citizens. He is a curiosity of the time, an archaic relic. It were cruel to others deserves the condemnation of every liberty-loving, law-abiding citizen of our dispel the old man's dream. And it were worse than useless to interrupt this fair land. Let no laurel wreaths be entwined about his brow; greet him not as a
passing show. The Union, strong and great, may look serenely on while a few "hero" or as "a type of manhood," either of the North, South, East, or West, but aged survivors fight the battles o'er again and futilely deplore the fate that made let him go forth an "Ishmaelite," with the brand of Cain upon him—a wanderer,
them free. an exile, and an outcast.
Providence Journal (Rep.), April 29.
Charleston News and Courier (Demo), May 1.
Is this mourning for the " lost cause?" It is not mourning, at all, but rather an
outburst of joy and thanksgiving such as the South has not had in a full score of THERE is nothing to regret, nothing to apologize for in his reception. The peo years. It is not sorrow for the past so much as pride and exultation in the presple of the South, who accord to President Lincoln, to Charles Sumner, lo William At the North there will be a difference of opinion as to the taste displayed Lloyd Garrison, and all the hosts of devoted Union men the praise and honor in selecting the occasion for this remarkable celebration, but the occasion is of which is their due for devotion to principle, the people who voted for Horace secondary importance. Under the old flag, with expressions of heartiest loyalty to Greeley for President, and who sincerely mourned the death of Gen. Grant, of the Union and the Government, the present greets the past with a significant hail McClellan, and Hancock, claim the poor right to honor the devoted patriot who and farewell. So we choose to regard the Alabama episode, and so regarding it presided over their destinies in the shock of war, and will honor him to the end. we fear nothing more serious than that the festivities of the week will reduce some There is no need to conceal this sentiment. It is deep and lasting, and will abide
of the newspaper organs to a pitiable state of uncertainty as to the exact date of for all time. In honoring him and honoring the Confederacy the South proves the close of hostilities between the States." its undying loyalty to its convictions of right and to the Government of its choice. Its allegiance has been transferred, by the will of heaven, to another power and
Newark Evening News (Rep.). another cause, and there is no safer rule than to judge its present faith by its faith No one who loves his country will say nay when the people of the South see fulness to the past.
fit to erect a monument to their sons who fell in the strife to disrupt the country Memphis Appeal (Dem.), April 30.
that nursed them, and to destroy the flag under whose proud folds they were born No man or body of men at the North can teach or tell the people of the South
and reared; but when the chief imp in the devillry rises up continuously after the anything about the Union. Every foot of the soil of Alabama is consecrated by the
blessing of peace has been secured to sew a new crop of traitorous notions, it is
high time to protest. blood of the soldiers who fought to win it for the Union under Jackson, the man who, above all others of his time, emphasized by his words and deeds his love and
Springfield, Mass., Republican, (Ind.), April 30. faith in the Union. Just such a love is treasured for it to-day everywhere in the How could we respect the Southern people if they did not believe in the thing South, in the confident belief that it is a beacon to a darkened world, and the best they undertook to do, if they were not attached to its memory, if they did not government ever devised by man. So believing, we can still turn to the graves of honor their leaders and their soldiers, nor exalt their services and their sacrifices? our dead and honor them with monuments for their devotion to a principle older They do well to cherish the sentiment that hallows their story. General Gordon
is right in suggesting that the valor of the South must be held as a possession of any State, and the most conspicuous representative of treason can freely proclaim the nation. Ten years ago the Republican looked forward to the time when the
that its cause was just, and give utterance to the other treasonable language used dead of both sides in that great war would be honored together, as illustrating by Mr. Jefferson Davis at Montgomery. So far as Mr. Davis is concerned it is American manhood when brought to the supreme test of courage, endurance and only by grace of the leniency of the loyal people of this country that he has been devotion. The time is at hand. Ours is one country; all that has been done in it permitted to draw breath during the last i wenty years. was a concession to to the credit of the American character is the heritage of the whole country, nol a sentiment of exaggerated magnanimity that spared the life of Mr. Davis, and it solely of one section.
was a grave political mistake. Kansas City Times (Ind.), May 1.,
The Gourrier des Etats-Unis, May 1. THERE are various ways of looking at things even among party organs. There
[Translated expressly for PUBLIC OPINION.) is the Chicago Inter-Ocean, which thinks that the celebration at Montgomery is "more a tribute to the bravery and heroism of the men and women who made
The role that Mr. Jefferson Davis has played in the ceremonies which took place such sacrifices in the cause which was ultimately lost; which no amount of hero
at Montgomery this week, attending the laying of the corner-stone of a monument ism could save." And here is the Kansas City Journal which writhes in the
consecrated to the memory of the Confederate dead in the war of Secession, has thought that "men don't realize that there are plotters against the peace and in
been criticised by certain pseudo-Puritans of the North as a new appeal to pastegrity of the nation, and that such occasions as this at Montgomery are used to
sions extinguished, and a provocation calculated to revive the recriminations of the poison the rising youth of the South and keep alive the spirit of hatred till the
bloody shirt." Wiser are those who look upon the ceremonies at Montgomery as favorable time comes to strike for lost empire and revenge." When such eminent
the official interment of the Southern Confederacy, and the address of Mr. Davis as
its funeral oration,
Republican organs disagree there would appear to be no reason for a vast exercise
of mental trouble.
Taggart's Sunday Times, Phila., (Rep.).
Atlanta Constitution (Dem.), May 1.
JEFF DAVIS was a traitor of the deepest dye, and if a man ever deserved hangATLANTA gave Mr. Davis the grandest reception on yesterday that she ever ing, he did. He was educated at West Point at the expense of the Government, tendered any public man. The demonstration was never surpassed in enthusiasm held high and important positions of honor and trust under that Government, in any city in this country. We doubt if it was ever equaled. Had Mr. Davis but after being thus honored he became false to the nation that had so honored been returning to this city after having concluded a triumphant peace, with the him and did his best to destroy it. In any other country he would have been exeterms of victory in his pocket, his welcome would not have been as overwhelming cuted more than twenty years ago, when he was captured, instead of being allowed as it is when he comes now, twenty one years after an overwhelming defeat. In to live, and at this late day to vent his spite upon the Union which he tried to dethis superb demonstration Atlanta honored herself more than she honored him, stroy. But the world is wide, and the people of the North can afford to laugh at and the good that comes to her from this lifting up of the hearts of her people and
his impotent ravings. the glorious revival of tender and pathetic memories will outweigh the good it can
N. Y. Sun (Dem.), May 3. bear to him,
It seems to us that there are braver and more magnanimous things to do than to Philadelphia Telegraph (Ind.), April 29.
wage war with a harmless old man, and nobler policies for a political party than to THE demonstration at Montgomery, Ala., yesterday, comes at too late a date in try and distort an interesting and not unworthy sentiment into a revival of hostility the century to occasion much excitement in this part of our dear native land. To to the Union. The South cannot with any self-respect forget how much was gloa considerable portion of the adult American population of to-day, the specta rious in a cause which was still well lost ; nor is she less true to the Union because cle of Jefferson Davis appearing, amid a flutter of Union flags, 10 deliver an ad
she nourishes the fading memories of futile aspirations stoutly struggled for. But dress in the first capital of the one-time Confederacy, awakens curious rather than the Republican party will never be satisfied, whatever the South does. Abuse and hostile emotions. He will represent to them a remoteness as far away from their distrust of the South are the principal remaining assets of that concern. personal experiences as would the ghost of some Revolutionary worthy or unwor
Indianapolis Journal (Rep.). thy, were he to revisit the glimpses of the moon for the purpose of whimpering about the merits, from his point of view, of the cause which he espoused.
The Democratic press would be glad to make it appear that the venomous old
traitor, Jeff Davis, stood alone; but the demonstrations in Montgomery and Chicago Tribune (Rep.), May 1.
throughout the South tell a different story. He is the mouthpiece of a very large THE Montgomery monument commemorates the regret of the slaveholders at element, if not the controlling element, of the Southern people. The presence of the loss of the system of human chattelhood. It represents no achievements ex the stars and stripes to grace the occasion when this superfluous veteran drooled cept those of treason. The shouting, yelling crowd welcomed Jeff. Davis as the
his treason to the applauding shouts of the assembled thousands, was a profanation representative and incarnation of disunion. They honored him for his treason, and which will mantle with a blush of indignation the bronzed faces of the veterans paraded their allegiance to him and his pro-slavery sentiment and his hatred of the who bore it to victory over the Southern rebellion. American Union. The astonishing magnanimity of the American people left him
New York Independent, May 6. unhanged, and the result is now apparent in this fresh outbreak of his venom and its laudation by the South; and yet these disunion howlers have the sublime
JEFFERSON Davis, the ex-president of the defunct confederacy, last week had
what he thought and what his friends doubtless thought to be a brilliant reception audacity to accuse Northern men of waving the bloody shirt, and of keeping alive sectional differences !
at Montgomery and Atlanta. The better way for the South, and equally for the Boston Post (Dem.), May 1.
North, is to leave Mr. Davis in the quietude of his retirement, and let him die there,
without parading him before the country as the representative of the "lost cause. PERHAPS it was indiscrete and unwise to hold the Montgomery celebration.
The less he says and the less said about him the better. It is not wise to make him But it commemorated a great chapter of history. It carried men in remembrance an occasion for the discussion of issues that are now practically obsolete. Let the back to scenes of valor, sacrifice and suffering. They were scenes similar to those
South bury him with flowers if they will. which come thronging at the call of recollection when our commemorative days are observed at the North. Could we keep silent under such circumstances ? Can
Chicago Herald (Ind.), May 3. we cxpect that ļhe men of the South will be like "dumb-driven cattle" when With the people the Confederacy is a bitter memory; wiih Mr. Davis it is a confronted again with the great deeds of their past? The men whom we fought fond regret. He would have things different; they would not change them now so hard, and at last so successfully, were soldiers to be proud of. We are proud of if they could. He has stood still sor twenty-five years, while all about him has them at the North. How much more may they be supposed to be so at the sprung up a generation which has new aims and aspirations. In his old age he South ?
touches their sentimentality, their local pride, their humanity; but he does not Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette (Rep.), May 1.
shake the conviction that long since seized every rational mind at the South, that We do not mind the celebration by the people of the South, of their heroes
secession was a blunder akin to a crime, and that its success would have entailed who died for the lost cause," or of the survivors of those who were in at " the sur consequences infinitely worse than its failure. render." The Southern soldiers were brave men, and those who sell, as a rule,
Der Baltimore Journal, April 30. had been nurtured on the provincialisms that were the personal folly and political
[Translated expressly for PUBLIC OPINION.) poison of their section. They were enthusiasts-narrow mnen-and strange as they may think it, fanatics. But we do not like to see the old rankling State
We have frequently heard it strongly objected against the Grand Army of the rights heresy, which was at the bottom of the mischief, revived and praised and
Republic that it tended to keep alive recollections of the civil war. But what
shall be said of the speech which Jeft Davis has just delivered in Montgomery, set up for sanctification. It has cost the country blood enough. The South should
Ala., in which he praises those who sacrificed their "blood and treasure for the not put itself in the way of sacrificing any more brave men on that line..
good cause of the South ?" It sounded like irony when Gen. Gordon afterward N. Y. World (Dem).
sang pæans to " Jeff" and his wise statesmanship. So far as Jefferson Davis' recent speeches in the South are concerned, nobody
Davenport, Iowa, Gazette (Rep.). cares for them in the least. He has said nothing that he has not been saying
The blood of thousands of brave Union soldiers stains Davis' worthless carcass, steadily for twenty years. The fact that Mr. Davis is " unreconstructed is well
and his death would be but a feeble atonement for it. Let it be hoped that a understood, and he is privileged to say pretty much what he pleases. But the vast crowds that have paid homage to him, the flowers that have been strewn in
patient and long-suffering people will never again be afflicted with his revolting
and clamnable political heresies at even an ordinary gathering in the South. His his pathway, the approving hurrahs that have ascended with his utterances, have given the enemies of the South another opportunity to declare that the spirit of speech has put the South back several years in its social and political relations with rebellion is abroad again, and to this extent it is to be deplored that Mr. Davis was
the North. One or two more such wild demonstrations of applause at the appearpersuaded into making another public appearance.
ance of Jeff Davis will enable an outraged public to bury the Democratic party out
of sight in 1888. Troy Press (Ind.), April 30.
Boston Advertiser (Ind.), April 29. There is something about this Government that needs reconstruction when a The extravagant tone of laudation of Mr. Davis adopted by the Southern press monument to treason against such Government can le erected within the limits of is not calculated to produce pleasant sensations on the part of the defenders of the


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Q: MySQL query to retrive records when the server was down last time Here is my MySQL table.
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| server_check_id | server_service_id | time | error_id | created             |
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|           57532 |                 1 |  226 |        1 | 2011-06-18 16:08:44 |
|           57489 |                 1 |  236 |        1 | 2011-06-18 16:03:29 |
|           57446 |                 1 |  229 |        1 | 2011-06-18 15:58:15 |
|           57403 |                 1 |  377 |        1 | 2011-06-18 15:52:57 |
|           57360 |                 1 |  232 |        1 | 2011-06-18 15:47:42 |
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Now, I want to get how long my service was not working last time. To further explain, I want to get duration between most recent record which has error_id 1 with its previous record has error_id 2 following all records with error_id 2 until the one whose previous one has error_id 1. Hope it make sense.
Considering above data, I want to get duration between record with server_check_id  56930 to 57016
I can do it with several for loops in PHP but I want to know if its possible with 1 or 2 simple MySQL queries.
Please advise.

A: pseudo-code:
1) $last_err_id =  SELECT `server_check_id` FROM `table` WHERE `error_id` = '2' ORDER BY `created` DESC LIMIT 0,1

2) $prev_work_id = SELECT `server_check_id` FROM `table` WHERE `error_id` = '1' AND `server_check_id` < $last_err_id ORDER BY `created` DESC LIMIT 0,1

3) $start_err_time = SELECT `created` FROM `table` WHERE `error_id` = '2' AND `server_check_id` > $prev_work_id ORDER BY `created` DESC LIMIT 0,1

4) $start_work_time = SELECT `created` FROM `table` WHERE `error_id` = '1' AND `server_check_id` > $last_err_id ORDER BY `created` DESC LIMIT 0,1

Result will be between $start_work_time and $start_err_time.

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"Interno Verde": Ferrara gardens open to everyone!
Spring is, par excellence, the season of "rebirth". After the long winter rest, nature reawakens, flowers blow, the naked trees cover with leaves… Would you like to enjoy this evocative show discovering the secret gardens guarded by the old town of Ferrara, furthermore without worrying about accessibility? If your answer is "yes", "Interno Verde" is the event for you!
Thanks to this event, organized by Il Turco association, on May 12th and 13th more than 60 secret gardens of Ferrara will be open to the public, who will have the chance to enjoy those secret islands, rich in suggestions and memories, through which you can read the story, the changes and the events lived by the city.
The "Interno Verde" festival, that this year reaches its third edition, pays a lot of attention to the needs of visitors with motoric limitations. On the map delivered to who registers to the event, a symbol placed next to every address will specify the accessibility degree for people with motoric issues, specifying if the location is fully accessible autonomously or you'll need a companion to help you. However, the event staff will always be at the attendees disposal to ease their entry and visit. Furthermore, the detailed report of the spaces involved in the 2018 edition is almost completed: it will include pictures and descriptions of the festival locations, plus the nearest parking lots. Don't you use the car and, for you, public transport is tricky? You can count on the "Muoversi" and "Giuseppina" services, provided by the Municipality of Ferrara and addressed to people with a disability aged between 18 and 65 and over-75 elderly people, respectively. For more information about how to use them and their costs, you can refer to this page.
how to register to "interno verde"?
You can register to "Interno Verde" going to the "Il Turco" association offices or at the festival infopoint or at another of the points distributed all over the city (their complete list is available here). If you live outside Ferrara, you can register online, on the festival website. All the registered people will receive a kit including: the bracelet that works also as entry pass, the map of the open gardens and the book with historycal, architectonical and botanical info about the gardens, plus unpublished photos, illustrations, ancient maps and more.
how much does it cost registering to "interno verde"?
The amount requested to register to "Interno Verde" is 10 € per person (the cost is slightly higher for online registrations, based on the amount of reserved entries), 5 € for disabled people, while their companions and children up to 13 benefit from free entry. Groups of at least 25 people can benefit a reduced cost entry at 8 € per person, that can be reserved sending an e-mail to info@internoverde.it.
We often talk about accessible tourisms, a trend which is (luckily) increasingly establishing, witnessing a higher awareness towards everyone's licit need and will to travel, discovering new countries and different cultures. By the way, several initiatives (even in Italy) demonstrate that paying attention to the tourists with "special needs" isn't just a generous act, but also a forward-looking and profitable strategy: as a matter of fact, taking into account that, limiting our talk to people with any disability, we're talking about a quarter of the world population, not thinking about ways to adequately welcome them too means renouncing to a not exactly unimportant market share.
But, there's often an issue on the table: transmitting correctly the message about the importance of accessible tourisms and help all the existing services, structures and initiatives be known through mass media. From this need arises an initiative promoted by the non-profit organization Diritti Diretti: the Premio Turismi Accessibili (Accessible Tourisms Prize), precisely aiming to award journalists, advertisers and communications specialists who succeed in "overtaking the barriers", describing though radio-TV services, advertising campaigns, videos or communications campaigns entities which succeeded producing social and economic development, combining attractiveness, innovation, appearance and/or sustainability and accessibility culture.
The Accessible Tourisms Prize, which has reached its third edition, is addressed to the existing accessibility, in the various categories of tourism: culture, food & wine, sports, conventions, sea, mountains, thermal baths, education, religion. The goal is to demonstrate, through concrete examples, to entrepreneurs and institutions that serious investments in accessibility can improve a territory and its touristic and cultural offer, resulting in an advantage both for tourists and residents and- what's not a secondary issue- with important economic effects for the enterprises operating to this end.
how to participate in the accessible tourisms prize?
To participate, you must register, filling, by May 5th 2018, the form that's available on the Accessible Tourisms Prize website. Among all the participants, two winners will be selected: the project which will receive more votes by the users will gain 1000 €, while the project selected by the experts' panel will receive a plaque. For more details about the contest, please check its announcement.
PS. Move@bility runs for the award as well, with its article about "B&B Like Your Home". You can vote for it following this link !
"User experience" is increasingly important for who works in development and design, at all levels. It is confirmed by the 2017 edition of the World Usability Day, the event that will take place, for the fourth year in a row, in Rome on November 8th and 9th, gathering Italian and international experts in workshops and talks. The World Usability Day was established in 2005 by the Usability Professionals 'Association (UXPA). Since then, every year, on the second Thursday of November, all around the world there are events aiming to boost awareness towards the importance of thinking and designing taking into account, first, the main character: the user who what you're working on is addressed to.
The subject of this edition of the World Usability Day is user experience as an inclusion promoter. The goal of design professionals, as a matter of fact, must be contributing to shape a better future, taking into consideration the specific needs of all the people, seen in their own uniqueness. In a world that changes quickly, also under a political and demographic perspective, we can't keep on designing keeping in mind just a part of population, forgetting about the remainders.
How to reach this ambitious goal? The speakers who will alternate on the World Usability Day stage will present different perspectives and food for thought: design thinking to create technologies and products for all, services accessibility and usability, empathy as a starting point for a designing process focused on the individual.
This initiative underlines, once again, the increasing awareness towards the unavoidable need to think according to the "Design for All" logics, developing products and services suitable for the specific abilities, attitudes and needs of the users. As the insiders say, designers are often reluctant towards change. Then, it's important to help them approaching their job using something we all, as human beings, have: empathy, that is the ability to "put ourselves in somebody else's shoes", feeling his needs, spirit and life as ours.
There's an increasing number of initiatives aiming to ease the daily life of people with disability. We already talked about some of them and several apps helping to improve the quality of life of who lives with any disability. Today, I'll talk about MAKEtoCARE, an initiative promoted by Sanofi Genzyme companioning with Maker Faire Rome, the event that, every year, recalls to our Capital city the most creative minds in Italy and abroad.
MAKEtoCARE aims to discover and support healthcare and wellness projects to improve the life of people with a disability, changing the present and contributing to create a better future.
how to participate in maketocare?
Should you have projects or inventions aligned to the event goal, by September 15th, you can candidate them (here, following the guidelines available on MAKEtoCARE website) to participate in the second edition (the first one took place in 2016) of the contest, which will end on November 29th in Rome. Participating in the contest is free and open both to individuals and businesses, associations, institutions, both Italian and foreign.
The projects must be innovative and original, able to answer still not satisfied needs, having a tangible impact on the quality of life of disabled people and being scalable and, potentially, applicable also to different areas.
An evaluation panel, headed by the dean of Rome "Tor Vergata" University, will review the projects which will have been received by the middle of September and will choose the finalist ones. The two winning projects will be awarded on November 29th. However, all the finalist projects will have the opportunity to participate in the Maker Faire Rome (December 1st-3rd), next to Sanofi Genzyme, and, just for the winners, a super-award: a journey to Silicon Valley, where they will have the chance to visit fast prototyping and 3D printing companies, start-up businesses working in healthcare and wellness, web giants, fab labs, incubators and co-working spaces.
Do you have a ready prototype that, in your opinion, could really make a difference in the disabled people life? Don't hesitate: apply now and good luck!
Do you know what a hackathon is? It's an event (which can last for one or more days), where several experts in information technology use their skills to develop ideas and projects, often with a social utility. This is the case of Connected Ability, the hackathon organized by Microsoft Italia which, on June 27th and 28th, will mobilize, at the Microsoft House in Milan, developers and programmers with the goal to develop apps that can be useful to people with visual disabilities.
who can participate in connected ability?
Realized companioning with the UgiDotNet, DotNetToscana and DevMarche communities and with the patronage by the Unione Italiana Ciechi (Italian Blind People Union), Connected Ability is open, first, to who has programming skills with a language supported by Visual Studio and/or Xamarin. But also who hasn't those technical skills can register to participate in the hackathon, if has experience to available to the work teams.
how to partecipate in connected ability?
To participate in Connected Ability, you must register filling this form. You can also enrol a work team, if you have one already, and work to an existing project or, as an alternative, develop a new one using the cues that will be shared during the days of the event. Who wants or needs it, will also have the opportunity to stay overnight at the Microsoft House, in the dedicated spaces. You'll have the chance to work side by side with Microsoft Italia's evangelists, sharing ideas and experience. At the end of the second day, the most valuable projects will be awarded.
Sometimes, it doesn't take much so that a device or a software are really suitable for all, including who has a visual disability: you only have to think about it, possibly together!
Connected Ability is an important initiative, which, once again, stresses the fundamental role of technology as a facilitator for daily life of people with a disability (in this case, visual, but not just it).
Benefits, under a physical, psychological and relational perspective, of playing sports even for people with a disability have been known since a long time. We've talked many times about how also who has a severe disability can play sport, even at competitive level, as the outcomes of Paralympic athletes show. That's the scenario where the new initiative by Fondazione Vodafone Italia inserts itself, aiming to promote the meeting among sports and disability.
The Foundation has just launched a "call for ideas" with the goal, as we can read on its official website, to identify ideas and projects which promote a cultural shift and concretely and effectively support the spread of sports among people with physical, sensory and cognitive-relational disabilities in Italy.
designing and producing innovative aids to promote sports practice from disabled people.
The call about sports and disability is addressed to non-profit institutions and associations, operating all over Italy, preferably with a background in activities of inclusion and Paralympic sports. The proponents must have their legal or operational residence in Italy and the project must impact on the national territory.
400 thousand € in total to co-fund Local Projects, provided that each of them collects at least 50% of its financial needs through crowdfunding, carried out under the supervision and with the support, the tools and the brokerage of technological companions made available for free by Fondazione Vodafone.
On December 3rd, we'll celebrate the World Disability Day 2016, established by the UN in 1992 to keep the focus on the rights and requests by people with a disability, who, today, represent over one fifth of the world population. This year' edition, by the way, coincides with the 10th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, so it will be the chance to take stock of the situation: how has the disabled people condition changed, under a social, civil, educational, work, medical and political perspective?
Ambitious, but fundamental goals, for everyone and, particularly, for people who, due to diseases or age, live with any disability and still, too often, are, as a matter of fact, excluded from the community, even in countries that would, in theory, be more advanced under this perspective, victims of bias and multiple barriers.
For the World Disabled People Day, all over the world, including Italy, there will be many scheduled events, workshops, conferences, other initiatives to remind everyone that disability is an essential part of the world we live in and, therefore, who has it must be protected and "included".
Sometimes, a few expedients can make easier people life. It is particularly valid for who lives with a strongly disabling conditions, such as, for instance, that deriving from chorea of Huntington, a genetic neuro-degenerative disease impacting on muscular coordination and leading to a slow cognitive decline. Right with this in mind, AICH Onlus Milano, the association that, since 1979, has been collecting the families of people affected by the Huntington disease, has promoted "…ma così è la vita!", the Design For All project in cooperation with Milan Politecnico and design celebrities.
The goal is, precisely, using creativity and innovation to design objects that can be used in daily life, to make it easier, both for people with Huntington and for their families and, therefore, for everyone. Among the initiatives included in "…ma così è la vita!", Junior Design Contest Under 35, addressed to under 35 designers and architects called to design a particular toilet tablet: an object that can seem insignificant to who doesn't live with this disease, but, if it would be made answering the patients' needs, it can really make a difference.
The contest, presented in June, will end with the award ceremony on December 3rd, the World Disability Day.
The contest of "…ma così è la vita!" project is addressed to under 35 designers (born after November 2nd), who can send their projects, presenting them the way they prefer, by November 3rd 2016, following the guidelines.
The works will be examined by a prestigious panel, including design experts, representative of associations and institutions active in the fight against neurological diseases and barriers, who will choose the best ones.
All the selected materials will be part of an exhibition, scheduled for 2017, and included in the catalogue created on this occasion. The exhibition will also collect all the Design For All objects created by some famous designers (called "big pencils") to represent the Huntington disease.
Moreover, AICH association will present the best projects to companies it companions with, to evaluate their feasibility. The incomes deriving from the sale of the products which will be considered suitable for industrial production will be equally split between the designer and AICH Milan Onlus (that commits to use the funds for projects supporting people with Huntington and their families). All the projects will be launched on the market with the label "… ma così è la vita!".


I'm sure most are familiar with free writing but for those of you who are not, free writing is simply sitting down and writing (or typing) whatever pops into your head. The rules are that you must keep writing for a set amount of time and you must write the first thing that pops into your head. With free writing there is no editing as you go or changing anything once it's written. Ideally you would write as fast as you could to prevent any errant thoughts from creeping in and disrupting the flow. And flow is what you're aiming for.
The idea behind free writing is that it gets you out of a self-conscious state and into your writing groove where the thoughts can flow naturally and without filter.
I like free writing, but I've found that a bit more direction helps my free writing sessions become more productive. Free writing in its purest form often produces an abundance of incoherent ramblings with a hidden gem or two. Here are two methods I use to make my free writing session more productive and fun.
This exercise is free writing in its purest form except you get into your character's head instead of your own. First visualize your character, how they talk, walk, smile, frown, etc. Think about all their physical and emotional characteristic. Now let your character talk. Maybe you imagine your character walking down the street, what do they see? How do they interact with the world around them? I like this exercise because it accomplishes two things, it gets me writing and I get to know my character.
Sometimes I have a great idea for a story but I just can't get the beginning right. I hate every first sentence I create so I end up not typing anything. But I will have a great idea for some other scene in the story. If you find yourself stuck in the beginning of the story (or the middle or even the end) start writing any scene that pops into your head. Don't worry about where it will fit in the story just focus on getting those words on paper. Maybe the scene you write will never make it into your final story or maybe it will. Maybe it will reveal something about your character you didn't know or reveal an underlying theme you hadn't considered.
Sometimes when I'm feeling especially uninspired, I search for writing contests. For the purpose of beating writer's block I search for flash fiction contests. I find writing contests help me beat writer's block in a few ways.
Changes up the writing routine.
Contests often have specific word counts, themes, etc. By adhering to these specific guidelines and having to meet a deadline it changes the way I approach the project.
Sets an attainable and specific goal.
Completing a piece specifically for a contest achieves a goal. Even if you don't submit the piece or don't win, you finished a project! There's nothing more satisfying than finishing a piece.
For me, contests are fun. All writing is supposed to be fun…right? But sometimes I put too much pressure on the projects that mean the most to me and are closest to my heart. A contest piece however, can be viewed as an exercise in writing. I tend to put less pressure on myself and so the words come easily. Maybe the contest piece turns out great, maybe it doesn't, but it gives your brain a writing workout.
Writing contests, like writing prompts, add a little fun and motivation when your existing projects might feel overwhelming.
I have started compiling a List of Free Writing Contests and I would invite you to check it out. There might just be something that spurs an idea or sounds like a lot of fun.


Home fi8908w Foscam hardware ip camera Some branding at last!
Foscam is primarily a OEM producer and therefore always left their products open to custom re-branding.
Over time, they acquired some popularity (probably due to both their firmware evolution and their present customer support) but it was nearly impossible to distinguish their products from others if you wanted to buy from them.
This is about to change finally as, starting with the December production, their product range will now carry a distinctive "Foscam" label.
Another small change will be the presence of the "IR Night Vision ..." sticker on the focus rim but this is already common amongst the clones.
So, provided that eBay resellers update their pictures, it should now be easier to buy a Foscam camera when you want one.
Thanks for the update, and the valuable information provided in this forum.
Before finding this forum, I purchased 4 IPCAM02 , off ebay, look like the FI8908W.
I am somewhat pleased, given what I paid for them, and the fact they do work. The biggest drawback has been lack of documentation provided with the item, however this forum has been most helpful, in fact, some of the information found here, is nowhere in the documentation.
I am more than happy to take good pictures of the cam, as well as the boxes they came in, and the c-d that was provided, if it would be useful.
Given the information you have just provided (12-17-09), can I "assume" that the "unbranded" units which are on eBay are foscam unbranded? The reason for my question is the temptation to upgrade the firmware, which I have read about here.
Before trying the firmware updrade, it would be safe to contact Foscam directly with the Device ID appearing in the Device Status page. they will tell you for sure. The format of the firmware version (11.14.1.42, 11.14.1.43, 11.14.1.46,...) would give you a clue. If it's any different, then the fw may not be compatible. Be careful, it only takes 10" to brick it.
that camera lens in that pic is much different to mine!
They really started that in December 2009, so if your camera was manufactured before (you can see it on one of the sticker on the base), it may not have any printing on the lens ring and other label.
Eventually the only way to find out for sure is to contact Foscam with the deviceID.
I wanted to let you know that I have quite a few Foscam FI8908W and FI8904W available for sale from my locations in New York City and Houston Texas. We ship to the US and Canada only.
All our cameras are 100% authentic and we are listed as official USA distributors on the Manufacturer's website under the contact us page (http://foscam.com/ContactUs.asp). You can view the pictures of our cameras at our website under the products section. Also, you can Google us at "Foscam US"
We provide complete after-sales technical support. We have re-written the installation instructions in language that is clear and understandable. In addition, we have created a tutorial on how to setup your wireless router so that your Foscam is viewable over the internet.
Newer Foscams are now even easier to distinguish: they have the logo printed on the box and on the device itself (on the white device in black, on the black device in white).
Just got myself 4 of these babies directly in Hong Kong (company recommended by Foscam). At 63USD a pop I figured you really cannot go wrong.
Will be back for tips and tricks once the home installation starts..
Any idea if you can turn the IR LEDs off? If so, how? Thanks.
on this french forum (use Google Translate), they explain a method to connect the leds to the relay, which allows to turn them on/off from the WebUI (the links icons).
I didn't test it, but do it at your own risk. Otherwise just put tape on them.


Experience the vibrant cultures and ancient civilizations of Central and South America as you weave your way from Miami to Lima aboard the Oceania Cruises Regatta, an intimate ship offering outstanding amenities. Depart from Miami and cruise the Caribbean to the island of Grand Cayman, home to fascinating wildlife and lovely white sand beaches, then on to the Mexican island of Cozumel, renowned for its fabulous reefs. Explore ancient temples in Belize, witness intriguing Mayan ruins in Guatemala and enjoy breathtaking landscapes in Honduras.
Discover enchanting creatures in Costa Rica's tropical rainforests, cruise the famous Panama Canal and visit cosmopolitan Panama City. Sail the Pacific to Ecuador and explore Manta — or Quito, its Old Town a UNESCO cultural heritage site — and take in Guayaquil, home to a colorful colonial neighborhood. Continue to Peru and stop in Salaverry, gateway to archaeological treasures from the pre-Inca era, and Peru's capital, Lima, where you can meander its old colonial city or travel to mysterious Machu Picchu, the most spectacular archaeological Incan site in South America. From pristine beaches and tropical jungles to fascinating Mayan ruins and extraordinary Incan temples, delve into the natural wonders and ancient mysteries of the Americas.
Day 20: Depart Lima for U.S.
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The family planner is a week planner that offers space for 5 people. Does your family consist of 4 people? Use the 5th field for general appointments and notes that are important for the whole family, such as grandpa's birthday. Each week of the family planner starts on Monday and has a handy, writable layout! The photos are at the top of the columns on each page. Additionally, the family planner has a handy hole for hanging, for instance in the kitchen. This Doodles family planner gives you a great overview and also a super fun item for the wall!
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Q: What are the bone indexes in the SceneKit SCNGeometrySourceSemanticBoneIndices geometry source actually indexing? What indices are stored in the SCNGeometrySourceSemanticBoneIndices source?
The documentation is ambiguous:
Here is what the documentation has to say about SCNSkinner's boneIndices geometry source (what I'm parsing to generate the bone indexes below) https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/SceneKit/Reference/SCNSkinner_Class/#//apple_ref/occ/instp/SCNSkinner/boneIndices:
"Discussion
This geometry source's semantic property must be SCNGeometrySourceSemanticBoneIndices. Its data is an array of integer vectors, each of which corresponds to a weight vector in the boneWeights geometry source. Each component in a vector specifies the index of the node in the bones array for the corresponding bone weight component."
The documentation for SCNGeometrySourceSemanticBoneIndices has this to say https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/SceneKit/Reference/SceneKit_Constants/index.html#//apple_ref/c/data/SCNGeometrySourceSemanticBoneIndices:
"The semantic for bone index data, used for skeletal animation of skinned surfaces.
For a geometry source, this semantic identifies data containing skeletal animation data for each vertex in the geometry. SceneKit uses this information to determine which bone nodes in the skeleton affect the behavior of each vertex.
For a custom shader program, you use this semantic to bind SceneKit's bone index data to an input attribute of the shader."
In my case, the mesh's skinner's bones array has these 11 bones:

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*0: Optional("mouth_Head")

*1: Optional("Jaw")

*2: Optional("LipLowerL")

*3: Optional("LipLowerR")

*4: Optional("Nostrils")

*5: Optional("LipUpperL")

*6: Optional("LipUpperR")

*7: Optional("LipCornerR")

*8: Optional("LipCornerL")

*9: Optional("CheekL")

*10: Optional("CheekR")

When I read the SCNGeometrySourceSemanticBoneIndices source and make
a dictionary of all unique bone indices referenced, I see that there
are indeed 11 bones referenced by the mesh:

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*bone index 12: 69 refs

*bone index 18: 82 refs

*bone index 9: 165 refs

*bone index 21: 153 refs

*bone index 30: 69 refs

*bone index 6: 466 refs

*bone index 15: 88 refs

*bone index 27: 170 refs

*bone index 24: 179 refs

*bone index 0: 1267 refs

*bone index 3: 201 refs

You'll note that most of the indices are outside the 0 - 10 range, so
clearly they are not indexing into the skinner's bones array, as the
documentation would suggest.
I thought that perhaps the scene stored its nodes in a flat array
internally for performance, and the indices are indexing into that (the mesh's skinner's skeleton property is the scene's rootNode).
I've tried both a depth first and a breadth first ordering of all nodes
in the scene, starting at the rootNode, and still the bone indices
in the SCNGeometrySourceSemanticBoneIndices do not make any sense -- they
do not correspond to the bones in the skinner's bones array. Ditto for both orderings starting at the first joint node in the scene...


Storm saw a changed squad this week some players had hardly played together but they managed to bond well but a few mistakes forced them to trail by 4 in the first quarter.
The second quarter saw some changes in the line up for the attackers Stella & Iona in the shooting circle which didn't really favour them and the goals still struggled to get into the net.
The third quarter approached and Granny Banyard took the side line so the team knew no errors would be accepted. The team tried their best but the extremely blocky defence of Churchdown still managed to break down the shooting circle and the difference in score was still unchanged.