22 Sept 2008 On this day in 1789, the United States Post Office opened. In recent years, many people have begun to use email. Do you think there will ever.

22 Sept 2008On this day in 1789, the United States Post Office

opened. In recent years, many people have begun to use email. Do you think there will ever be a time in the future that the only items actually “mailed” by the Post Office are packages? And all letters and

magazines will be sent via email?

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22 Sept 2008Happy Days

Reality Star

Chachi

Scott Baio1961-





Scott Baio• In 1976, Baio played the title character Bugsy Malone in the cult kiddie gangster musical directed

by Alan Parker, which also co-starred Jodie Foster. Baio and Foster later worked together again in the 1980 teen girl drama Foxes helmed by Adrian Lyne. When he was 16, Scott was then cast as The Fonz's cousin, Chachi Arcola, on Happy Days. During his Happy Days run, Baio earned two Emmy Award nominations for his lead performances in the TV movies Stoned (1981) and All The Kids Do It (1985). He also won two Young Artists Awards during the Third Annual Youth in Film Awards (1980-1981) as Best Young Actor in a Television Special for Stoned and Best Young Comedian in Television or Motion Pictures for Happy Days. He also starred in the made-for-television youth drama specials The Boy Who Drank Too Much with Lance Kerwin and Senior Trip with Mickey Rooney.

• In 1982, Baio starred in a spin-off of Happy Days entitled Joanie Loves Chachi with Erin Moran, which lasted one season. That same year, he appeared opposite Willie Aames in the film Zapped!, and recorded an album for RCA. In 1984, Baio starred as a male nanny on the syndicated comedy series Charles in Charge until 1990. In 1985 he was part of an ensemble cast for Alice in Wonderland, where he portrayed Pat the Pig. From 1987 through 1991, he was a director of Out of This World

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Celebrating the deal that brought prosperity to the Puyallups

• The claims sounded so preposterous, many people thought at first they must be some kind of joke.

• The tiny Puyallup Tribe of Indians, impoverished and long marginalized, claimed in the 1980s that it owned the land under much of downtown Tacoma, the Port of Tacoma, Fife and Puyallup.

• Its potential claims even extended to the land under the home of Tacoma’s mayor at the time, Doug Sutherland.

• It was no joke.

• In 1983, a federal appeals court had ruled in the tribe’s favor, handing over 12.5 acres of the Port of Tacoma to the tribe. The tribe’s further claims to thousands more acres seemed equally plausible.

• “I just didn’t believe it,” said Karl Anderson, whose Concrete Technology company on the Tacoma Tideflats was included in the claims.

• “This was the 20th century. Things weren’t supposed to work this way,” he said. “We bought this property, paid good money for it and built our factory. I didn’t see how they could all of a sudden say we didn’t own it.”



• In 1988, after four years of intense negotiations, Puyallup tribal members voted 319-162 to accept a $162 million package of land, cash and social programs to relinquish their claims.

• Tonight, 20 years after that vote, many of the aging warriors in the battle, including past heads of the Tribal Council Henry John, Frank Wright and Bill Sterud, and U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Belfair, will gather at Tacoma’s Hotel Murano, where they will sip cocktails, munch steak and salmon and reminisce about the long campaign.

• The celebration will continue Monday morning with a larger gathering at the Murano, this one including U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye of Hawaii and Gov. Chris Gregoire.

• Twenty years after the fact, the Puyallup Land Claims Settlement is being regarded as a historical turning point not only for the Puyallup Tribe but also for the port, Pierce County and the cities of Tacoma and Fife.

• “I think it’s one of the most significant things we’ve accomplished,” Dicks said earlier this month from his Washington, D.C., office. “If it had gone the other way, it would have been a disaster.”

• All parties have profited greatly since the agreement. The port, once hamstrung by the tribe’s claims, has expanded heavily into container traffic since the agreement. The settlement paid for removing the Blair Bridge, relocating Highway 509 and unlocking more of the development potential of the upper Blair Waterway. Those changes, the port says, provided 43,000 jobs in Pierce County.



Fla. Judge Rules Saggy Pants Law Unconstitutional

• RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. -- A judge has decided a law banning sagging pants in this town is unconstitutional after a teenager spent a night in jail on accusations he exposed too much underwear.

• Julius Hart, 17, was charged last week after an officer said he spotted the teenager riding his bicycle with 4 to 5 inches of blue-and-black boxer shorts revealed.

• Hart's public defender, Carol Bickerstaff, urged a judge Monday to strike down the sagging pants law, telling him: "Your honor, we now have the fashion police."

• Circuit Judge Paul Moyle ruled that the law was unconstitutional based on "the limited facts" of the case. Technically, however, the charge hasn't been dropped yet: a new arraignment awaits Hart on Oct. 5.

• Voters in Riviera Beach approved the law in March. A first offense for sagging pants carries a $150 fine or community service, and habitual offenders face the possibility of jail time.

• Bickerstaff said she wants the city to drop the law -- regardless of whether anyone dislikes low-riding pants.

• "The first time I saw this particular fashion, I disliked it," she told the judge. "And then I realized I'm getting old."





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Should courts be able to decide how you should wear your clothes? Why or why not?

Should courts be able to decide how you should wear your clothes? Why or why not?

Give me one difference between the Jamestown and Plymouth colonies.?

Give me one difference between the Jamestown and Plymouth colonies.?

Jamestown was madue up with all menPlymouth was made up of families


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Pilgrims and American Indians Pilgrim Community

Pilgrims and American Indians

• European fisherman had visited the Plymouth area before the Pilgrims.

• The fishermen brought new diseases to the region. Local tribes like the Patuxet were killed off.



Samoset

• In March of 1621 an American Indian named Samoset walked into the Pilgrim settlement and spoke to them in broken English. He told them about the area and the various tribes.

• Later he introduced them to Squanto.



Squanto

• Squanto had lived in Europe and was a great help to the settlers.

• He showed them how to fertilize the soil with fish and introduced them to the local Wampanoag Indians.

• With his teachings, conditions in the colony improved.



1st Thanksgiving

• The Pilgrims invited Chief Massasoit and 90 other Wampanoag guests celebrating the harvest.

• It became known as Thanksgiving.

• For the event, the Pilgrims killed wild turkeys. For three days the two groups feasted with each other. This event marked the survival of the Pilgrims in the new colony.




Pilgrim Community

• Although the Pilgrims overcame many problems, their small settlement still struggled.

• Most tried to farm but the land near their settlement was poor.

• They had hoped to prosper by trading furs and by fishing.

• Unfortunately, fishing and hunting conditions were not good in their area.



Community

• The colony grew stronger in the mid-1620s after new settlers arrived and, as in Jamestown, colonist began to have more rights to farm their own land.



Mass/VA Differences

• The Pilgrim settlement was different from Virginia in that families were common there.

• Most people hoped to have many children, who were needed to help with work.

• If parents died families were quick to adopt children left behind. They were raised as if they were their own.



Pilgrim Family

• Pilgrims taught their children to read and offered some education to their indentured servants.

• The family served as the center of religious life, health care, and community well-being.

• All family members worked together to survive during the early years of the colony.



Women in Pilgrim Society

• Women generally cooked, spun and wove wool, and sewed clothing.

• They made soap and butter, carried water, dried fruit, and cared for livestock.



Men in Pilgrim Society

• Men spent most of their time repairing tools and working in the fields.

• They also chopped wood and built shelters.



Women’s Rights

• In Plymouth, women had more legal rights than they did in England.

• In England women were not allowed to make contracts, to sue, or own property.

• In America, Pilgrim women had the right to sign contracts and to bring certain cases before local courts.



Rights

• Widows could also own property.

• A widow often received one third of her husband’s land and belongings.

• In addition, married and widowed women could get licenses to run inns and sell liquor.



Naomi Silvester

• Local courts recognized the ways women helped the business community.

• Widow Naomi Silvester received a large share of her husband’s estate.

• The court called her frugal and laborious woman in the providing of the said estate.



Elizabeth Warren

• Widow Elizabeth Warren’s business ability convinced the colonial leaders to make her a purchaser for the colony.

• She took the place of her late husband.

• The hard work of such women helped the Plymouth colony to survive.



22 Sept 2008 On this day in 1789, the United States Post Office opened. In recent years, many people have begun to use email. Do you think there will ever.

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