Dec. 2, 2013 The Whigs, the 19th century political party that disbanded
before the Civil War over the question of slavery, is trying making a comeback
as the voice of reason between embittered modern day Republicans and Democrats. In Philadelphia, the election of
Heshy Bucholz, a software engineer and first candidate to run and win as a Whig
in that city in 157 years, has brought national attention to the party and
spurred hundreds of new members to sign up.
A historical comparison between the old and Modern Whig Party is
difficult because the United States is dealing with a completely different set
of issues, said William Anthony Hay, an associate professor of history at
Mississippi State University, and author of a book on 19th century Whigs. "It is a rebellion against gridlock in
Washington," Hay said. But that
doesn't mean the party will resonate today.
While they date back to 17th century Scotland, the American Whig Party
was originally formed in 1833 to oppose what opponents saw as President Andrew
Jackson's imperialist presidency and government expansion. The party split just before the Civil War over
issues like state's rights and slavery. Lucy Westcott http://www.governing.com/news/headlines/In-Philadelphia-the-Whig-Party-is-Back.html Thanks, Julie.
PRODUCT PLACEMENT
Monk - Season 8, Episode
3 - Mr. Monk and the UFO, 2009
Sleep Inn signs are
overlarge, frequently shown with extra time fixed on the name. This was followed up with a Monk-Sleep Inn
collaboration with 10 episodes of Little Monk.
The first film to peddle products was the 1927 silent
movie, "Wings." See the "The
15 Most Shameless Movie Product Placements Of All Time" at http://www.businessinsider.com/15-worst-movie-product-placements-2013-5#the-first-film-to-unabashedly-to-peddle-products-was-the-1927-silent-movie-wings-a-hersheys-chocolate-bar-was-not-so-subtly-introduced-into-the-narrative-1
STEALTH MARKETING
A sockpuppet is an online
identity used for purposes of deception. The term—a reference to the manipulation of a
simple hand
puppet made from a sock—originally referred to a false identity assumed by
a member of an internet
community who spoke to, or about, himself while pretending to be another
person. The term now includes other
misleading uses of online identities, such as those created to praise, defend
or support a person or organization, or to circumvent a suspension or ban from
a website. A significant difference between
the use of a pseudonym and the creation of a sockpuppet is that the sockpuppet
poses as an independent third-party unaffiliated with the puppeteer. The term "sockpuppet" was used as
early as July 9, 1993, but did not become common in USENET groups until
1996. The first Oxford English Dictionary example of
the term, defined as "a person whose actions are controlled by another; a
minion," is taken from U.S. News and World Report, March
27, 2000. The history of reviewing one's
own work under another name predates the internet. Walt
Whitman and Anthony Burgess were both famous for having
reviewed their books under pseudonyms. Another famous example was Benjamin Franklin. Read about ballot
stuffing, strawman sockpuppets,
meatpuppets, business promotion, book and film
reviews, blog commentary and governmental sockpuppetry at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sockpuppet_(Internet)
An Internet search on sockpuppetry fake
reviews rings up about 57,200 results as of this writing.
One of the most famous speeches in American history, the Gettysburg Address, was only
9 sentences long, has fewer than 300 words and was delivered in less than 3
minutes. Three quarters of the words are
only one syllable and 92% of the words have no more than two syllables. http://blog.americanhistory.si.edu/osaycanyousee/2011/04/exploring-the-gettysburg-address-with-kids.html
Of the five known manuscript
copies
of the Gettysburg Address, the Library of Congress has two. President Lincoln gave one of these to each of
his two private secretaries, John Nicolay
and John Hay. The other three copies of the Address were
written by Lincoln for charitable purposes well after November 19. The copy for Edward Everett, the orator who spoke at Gettysburg for two hours prior to
Lincoln, is at the Illinois State Historical Library in Springfield; the Bancroft copy, requested by historian
George Bancroft, is at Cornell University in New York; the Bliss copy was made for Colonel Alexander Bliss, Bancroft's
stepson, and is now in the Lincoln Room of the White House. http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/gettysburg-address/?ex=1@d6db09e6-d424-4113-8bd2-c89bd42b1fad@1&asset=d6db09e6-d424-4113-8bd2-c89bd42b1fad:4ab8a6e6-eb9e-40f8-9144-6a417c034a17:13
EPONYMS
mentor for Mentor, Odysseus's loyal friend in Homer's The Odyssey
stentorian for Stentor, herald in Greek mythology http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/eponyms.htm Today's use:
mentor (experienced and trusted adviser)
stentorian (extremely loud)
Dec. 3, 2013 Stamp
collectors and history fans will
remember the faux pas the U.S. Postal Service committed in late 2010 when it
issued a “Forever” stamp depicting the Statue of Liberty and claimed it was the
original in New York Harbor. The Postal
Service conceded that it had used the wrong image and said it would “reexamine
our processes” to prevent the error from happening again. But a spokesman said the stamp design was so
popular that the agency “would have selected this photograph anyway.” He also said postal officials had wanted to
issue a Liberty stamp that was distinctive and different from numerous previous
versions bearing the image of the statue.
The statement could now come back to haunt the Postal Service. The Las Vegas sculptor who built the Western
Lady Liberty is now suing the agency in U.S. Federal Court for copyright
infringement. The Postal Service chose
the image from an online photography service, Getty Images. But it did not acquire the rights to duplicate
it from the artist, Robert S. Davidson, probably because postal officials
assumed they were issuing a stamp with a famous image [in New York] that
already was in the public domain. The
lawsuit claims that the Postal Service knowingly committed copyright
infringement: Once officials admitted
their error, they continued to print billions of stamps depicting the Las Vegas
replica without seeking the rights to print it.
“Defendants, through the USPS, determined that it was in their financial
best interest to continue to infringe upon Davidson’s rights, as the cost to
discontinue the infringing activity exceeded the marginal cost of royalties
that they knew or should have known were owing,” the lawsuit claimed. Davidson does not specify the damages he is
seeking. His case could be strengthened
by a federal court judgement in September, which awarded the sculptor
responsible for the design of the Korean War Memorial $685,000 in damages after
Postal Service used a photo of the memorial on a stamp without the sculptor’s
permission. The court found that the
artist was entitled to royalties of 10 percent on sales of stamps to collectors
and on sales of merchandise featuring the stamp design. Lisa Rein
See image at http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2013/12/03/sculptor-sues-u-s-postal-service-says-lady-liberty-stamp-of-his-statue-issued-without-his-permission/?hpid=z4
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