Because it is the oldest sport in the country. Itself saw just about every racehorse that ever lived. Not all of them, but most of them. The New York Times magazine said that the battles for saratoga were the most important battles ever fought in the entire world in the last 1000 years because they resulted in surrender. It was the First Time Ever in World History that a british army surrendered. Welcome to Saratoga Springs, on American History tv. Healing mineral waters, revolutionary war battles, and worldrenowned horseracing are all part of the citys history. It is located about four hours north of new york city, and has a population of about 27,000. With the help of our spectrum Cable Partners, for the next 75 minutes we will learn about the citys history, including its connection to civil war and american president ulysses s. Grant. We begin our special feature on the battlefield that changed the tide in the revolutionary war. The New York Times magazine said the battles for sarat
Address the commission about going to closed session, now would be the time. Seeing there is no members of the public, we will not have Public Comment. Will everyone please vacate the room that doesnt need to be here . Should we call the meeting to order . Is there a motion not to disclose . Is there a second . Great. Could we do that without objection . Ok, great. Item passes. First order of business is Public Comment. Are there any members of the public that would like to address the commission . My name is john stenson. Id like to give you four good reasons why you should divest from hedge funds. This is a highrisk, highcost, lowreturn and they dont give protection during a down market. I think all you members, including the Investment Consultant have been sold on the theory that hedge funds gives protection. Which is not true. Lets go back to 2008. That was our last down market. What happened to hedge funds in 2008. The average hedge fund lost between 18 and 20 . Im sure youre all
Someone was prepared to do. During the depression, the building of the Grand Coulee Dam works projects happening in the pacific northwest. Mid1930s, there began to be talk about creating a bridge over puget sound, which reached from tacoma to the peninsula. The bridge was opened on the 1940, after two years of construction. The tacoma narrows is also a bit of a wind tunnel. People working on the deck began to notice movement. An almost like airplane winds, lift in the bridge. Unlike just horizontal movement, began to feel a vertical lift in the bridge, especially in the center span. You know, there was no suspension bridge or anything like this anywhere and out to the world in the pacific northwest. There was an unfamiliarity with just how a big thing like this was supposed to behave. So people excited about it, there is a certain musical gracefulness about a bridge like this. So people just wanted to think it was not anything wrong, that it was normal, and once they got all the concre
The storm system irtself is a couple hundred miles offshore. Clouds in place for much of the day. We have a couple of returns on live doppler 7 but the atmosphere still so dry that this is evaporating weave before it reaches the surface. Our storm system out to sea a couple hundred miles away from us. It is moving in our direction, and it will bring us our next chance of rain. Future weather, when do we expect rain . Tomorrow morning, 11 00 a. M. , thats when we expect that storm system close enough moving onshore that youll begin to see some drops reach the ground. With this storm system we do have a chance of seeing a thundershower. The Storm Prediction Center which monitors the entire u. S. For a chance of a thundershower is placing the region under an isolated chance any shower that does poppive could have lightning and hail. Well time out the storm system in a few minutes. People in san jose are still rebuilding from last years devastating floods and theyre not happy to see severa
Expleering the unique history and literary life. Were going to show you several stops to our visit of tacoma, washington. The western terms of the Northern Pacific railroad. The area is in the southern section of puget sound, which is sort of Washington State and the pacific northwests great inland water. And when the Transcontinental Railway came, there was talk of one day being able to expand puget sound. But really wasnt an undertaking anybody was prepared to do. During the depression federal programmed like the building of the grand coolly dam and stuff, there were big job creating works projects happening in the pacific northwest. And in the mid1930s there began be to talk of creating a bridge over puget sound to reach from tacoma to the Kitsap Peninsula. Tacoma narrows bridge was open in 1940 after two years of construction. The tacoma narrows is a bit of a wind tunnel and people working on the deck began to notice movement and almost like airplane wing lift in the bridge. So unl