24 sept 2008 autumn begins. what is your favorite season? explain why you enjoy that particular...

24 Sept 2008

• Autumn begins. What is your favorite season? Explain why you enjoy that particular season

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Jim Henson1936- 16 May 1990





Jim Henson• James Maury "Jim" Henson (September 24, 1936 – May 16, 1990), was the most widely known

puppeteer in American television history. He was the creator of The Muppets and the leading force behind their long run in the television series Sesame Street and The Muppet Show and films such as The Muppet Movie (1979) and The Dark Crystal (1982). He was also an Oscar-nominated film director, Emmy Award-winning television producer, and the founder of The Jim Henson Company, the Jim Henson Foundation, and Jim Henson's Creature Shop.

• When Henson died on May 16, 1990, his sudden death resulted in an outpouring of public and professional affection. There have since been numerous tributes and dedications in his memory. Henson’s companies, which are now run by his children, continue to produce films and television shows.

• On September 26, 1992, Mr. Henson was posthumously awarded the Courage of Conscience Award for being a "Humanitarian, muppeteer, producer and director of films for children that encourage tolerance, interracial values, equality and fair play."

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Chrysler charges into electric car race

• AUBURN HILLS, MICH -- . -- Firing a surprise shot across the bows of industry rivals, Chrysler revealed three functioning battery-powered vehicles today and thrust itself to the forefront of the race to build mass-market electric cars.

• In unveiling a minivan, a Jeep Wrangler and a sports car, Chrysler's executives spelled out plans for a future where most, if not all, automobiles would use electric motors for propulsion -- essentially sounding the death knell for the internal combustion engine.

• Chrysler declined to say how much the vehicles would cost and would not discuss which would be released first. But the third-largest U.S. automaker said that it would put hundreds of electric cars in test fleets next year and would bring one of the models to market by late 2010, with more electric cars to follow soon thereafter.

• "We're not talking about a single electric car," said Robert Nardelli, chief executive of Chrysler. "We're talking about a full line of cars that . . . allows us to be energy independent going forward."



• That such news came from Chrysler, the industry's downtrodden underdog -- and the carmaker with the heaviest reliance on large pickup trucks and SUVs -- was almost astonishing. The smallest of the Big Three has seen its sales slip 24% so far this year, has been forced to end its once-lucrative leasing program, and has all but ceded production of small cars to other automakers.

• "I didn't think they were a player," said Jim Hossack, vice president at industry consultancy AutoPacific. "I'm impressed. This suggests a lot of bravado."

• While other automakers, from Toyota Motor Corp. to Renault, have made increasingly loud noises in the recent months about producing electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles, Chrysler has been almost invisible, doing little more than presenting a trio of electric concept cars in January.

• As a result, Tuesday's unveiling blindsided much of the industry. Just a week ago, General Motors Corp. unveiled its production prototype of the much-hyped Chevy Volt. But unlike Chrysler's offerings, the Volt was not operational.

• Some observers remarked on the timing of Chrysler's announcement. In recent weeks, Chrysler, GM and Ford Motor Co. have been arguing that Congress should fund $25 billion worth of loan guarantees written into last year's energy act. Those loans were designed to help automakers and suppliers pay for the costs of retooling factories to build vehicles that will comply with new, stricter federal fuel economy standards. But the loans were never funded.

• By showing off new technology like electric cars, critics say, Chrysler and others are attempting to curry favor with legislators.



PETA Urges Ben & Jerry's To Use Human Milk• VERMONT -- People for the Ethical

Treatment of Animals sent a letter to Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, cofounders of Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc., urging them to replace cow's milk they use in their ice cream products with human breast milk, according to a statement recently released by a PETA spokeswoman.

• "PETA's request comes in the wake of news reports that a Swiss restaurant owner will begin purchasing breast milk from nursing mothers and substituting breast milk for 75 percent of the cow's milk in the food he serves," the statement says.

• PETA officials say a move to human breast milk would lessen the suffering of dairy cows and their babies on factory farms and benefit human health.

• "The fact that human adults consume huge quantities of dairy products made from milk that was meant for a baby cow just doesn't make sense," says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. "Everyone knows that 'the breast is best,' so Ben & Jerry's could do consumers and cows a big favor by making the switch to breast milk."

• Ben and Jerry's released a statement, "We applaud PETA's novel approach to bringing attention to an issue, but we believe a mother's milk is best used for her child."



Pond Scum As Fuel? Researchers Studying

Algae Could Be Future Fuel Source

• ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Someday, you could be driving on pond scum.

• Researchers are studying algae as a future fuel source. Florida-based PetroAlgae is working on a demonstration 20-acre algae farm.

• Company V.P. Fred Tennant said the research is promising, but they're not quite at the point of being able to produce competitively-priced biofuel.

• Tennant said algae's potential isn't confined to producing oil. He told the St. Petersburg Times algae can also eat greenhouses gases in the process.



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Would you eat ice cream made from human milk? Why or why not?

Would you eat ice cream made from human milk? Why or why not?

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Name two native Americans that helped the colonist.

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Massachusetts Bay Colony Church and State in NE

John Winthrop

• John Winthrop wrote to his wife that he feared that England no longer welcomed Puritans in their country.

• He felt all Puritans will have to seek a new home to be “preserved from the common sins of this evil world.”



King Charles I

• Around 1620, Charles the 1st becomes king, England’s economy falls and people begin to lose their jobs in record numbers.

• Charles made things worse by raising taxes, he was a very unpopular king.

• People, known as dissenters, disagreed with the king. Many were Puritans.



Great Migration

• Between 1630-1640 tens of thousands of people leave England.

• Due to the economic, political, and religious problems in England we get the Great Migration.

• More than 40,000 English emigrants move to colonies in the Caribbean and New England.



Massachusetts Bay Company

• King Charles I grants a group of puritans and merchants to establish a colony in the area known as New England.

• They form the Massachusetts Bay Company.



John Winthrop

• 1630 a fleet of ships carrying Puritan colonists leave England for Massachusetts.

• John Winthrop and his group of Puritans hoped they could practice their religion freely.



A Better Colony

• When the Puritans arrived they were well prepared to start their colony.

• They brought large numbers of tools and livestock.

• Trade with the colony of Plymouth helped them too.



A Nice Place to Live

• The Puritans faced little resistance from the Native Americans.

• Unlike coastal Virginia, they had a healthy climate and very few colonists died from sickness.

• These factors helped the colony do well.

• By the end of the 1630s more Puritans came over and helped establish the towns of Salem, Mystic, Watertown, and Dorchester.



Church and State in New England

• According to their charter, Mass. was subject to English laws.

• The colonists however, created their own courts to help run the colony. It became a type of self-government that tried to represent the needs of the people.

• Each town sent 2 or 3 delegates to the Court.



Early Mass. Government

• In 1644 the General Court became a two-house legislature.

• This meant that the lawmaking body had 2 groups, and all the decisions required a majority in each house.



Government

• Politics and religion were closely tied in Puritan New England. Government leaders were also church members.

• Male members were the only one’s that could vote.

• You had to take tests to prove your worthiness.



Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• In 1636 minister Thomas Hooker and his followers decided to leave Mass. to help found Connecticut, another NE colony.

• He and his followers helped create the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, a set of principles that made Connecticut’s government more democratic.

• It would allow non-church members to vote.

• It also outlined the powers of the general courts.

Father of American Democracy?



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