Required by the regulation accompanying House Resolution 965 which establish the framework over the proceedings. First, i would ask all members on the webex platform to keep them so the muted when they [inaudible] this will minimize disturbances while members asking questions of our witnesses. Members on webex platform are responsible for muting and unmuting themselves. I suppose you just heard that. The staff is been instructed not to meet members except when a member is not being recognized and there is inadvertent background noise. Members on webex platform are reminded that they may only attend one remote viewing at a time. So if youre participating today, please remain with us during the hearing. Members should try to avoid coming in at out of the meeting particularly during the question treatment. If members wish to recognize the chair recommends members identify themselves. I would also ask members to be patient as the chair proceeds given the nature of the Online Platform of th
Actually a participating from 1903 that is depicting one such treaty conference that wept on on a frontier of the valley. You did a reading today that featured a fellow named William Johnson not a lot of contemporary students of history know much about. He was an irish immigrant who came to america, settled on the moha mohawk frontier in up state new york and became very friendly with mohawk indians who were his neighbors and ultimately gained a great deal of influence among them and ultimately was appointed by the British Crown to serve as its agent to the iroquois nations. Think about the reading you did for today, and this has kind of provided me with a mental image of that. It was at johnson hall which was this georgian mansion he built on the mohawk frontier that still stands today. If youre in up state new york traveling between albany and syracuse, new york, you can visit this site which tells a really interesting story about how europeans and nativeamericans came together on th
It is a good company should because, right now, it is the 100th anniversary of one of the most infamous scandals in baseball history, the black sox scandal, where members of the Chicago White sox were accused of throwing the world series to the cincinnati reds. It brought about many changes in baseball, including getting a commissioner and eight players on the white sox banned from baseball for life, but the story of that is not really a simple one. It is very complicated. So the title of tonights talk is called field of myths 100 years after baseballs 1919 black sox scandal, so it should be a fascinating talk. I am excited to welcome david pietrusza, our speaker tonight. David we are gathered here on the eve of this years world series, and 100 years ago, who knew if there were going to be another world series . Once that scandal was exposed, and trust in baseball was starting to evaporate very rapidly, and as david said, that is, you know, eight men out. That is the story we know. Tha
Says he is escaping persecution. Angela merkel calls for germans to be courageous and confident in confronting the challenges of a new decade. And her new year address, the chancellor also stresses the need to tackle climate change. Im phil gayle. Welcome to the program. The australian city of sydney has welcomed a new year and a new decade with a massive fireworks display. Despite this, many other parts of the country are not celebrating. There are growing fears for residents and tourists. People have sought shelter on the waterfront preparing for possible evacuation by sea. This is an unprecedented situation and the worst affected have been two of australias most populous states, victoria and New South Wales. In a town on the coast, around 4000 people have gathered on the beach to escape the flames. The blaze has also claimed two more lives, a father and son who were trying to protect their home. Several others still missing. Stranded by the seaside, thousands of tourists and locals
Just before the kincaid fire broke out. Susie is that the live news desk with those details. Still very early stages. Figuring out what happened. To start the kincaid fire. We do know a couple minutes ago pg e came forward to say it did have a problem last night. Chopper 5 was over the area with the fire was first reported. Near the geysers geothermal plans. Pg in the notify state regulars this afternoon it did not cut power the highvoltage transmission lines in that area. Last night around 9 20 pm utility reported trouble one of those lines. Only seven minutes later the first calls went out of a major fire. As we look at more live pictures from chopper 5. Pg e said it did not cut power to those transmission lines. That is even though these voltage distribution lines are part of the Public Safety power shutdown minutes ago. We heard from pg e ceo bill johnson as to why. Transmission line was not among the lines we deenergized in Sonoma County. Transmission lines in the area remained en