And whats a bit of both . So hang on for a wild ride. For in nature, and in the world of animals, the truth is always stranger than fiction. Just ask the kangaroo that lives in the tree or the dog with webbed feet or the bird that can look an elephant in the eye or the frog that looks like a tomato or any other astonishing animal you might meet. Lets start with a startli statement. Thats both so false and so true. Confused . Consider this. The river or nile hippopotamus, which is the great behemoth pachyderm most of us are familiar with, as well as the much smaller and much rarer pygmy hippopotamus, dont have true sweat glands. A thick red substance from their pores called, yes, blood sweat. Okay, its not blood, and its not sweat. But it does make the pygmy hippo shine. It even creates a foam behind the animals ears. Despite being thickskinned, hippos have very sensitive skin that needs to be k kt wet most of the day, which is why, more often than not, if you happen upon a hippo in the
Four years and as a form president and chief he must have realized that this before the war is going to take place if we fail. There mustve been a great sense of responsibility. Anybody else . Does anybody want to grab cspans attention with something outrageous . If not thank you so much, please get a copy of my book if its available outside. [inaudible] i would like to add real native genius thats a perfect conclusion to my talk. Thank you for coming. [applause] [inaudible conversations] our author today is Angela Hudson who is an associate and soontobe professor at texas a m university. Shes an expert in American Indian history, 19th century u. S. South, representations of American Indians and popculture as well as intersection of American Indian and africanamerican lives. She received her ph. D from yale in 2007, and has held fellowships at the newberry library, the american philosophical society, and the rare book and manuscript library, among others. Her first book was called cree
There some clear requirements about the operational planning about the strategic planning, and that planning will have to be drive the budget priorities, we fully intend to Parks Alliance two Oldest Department accountable and work with them closely on the development of those operational plans and how those operational plans translate into budget priorities. I think they will do that. I think that committed to us that they will do that. I think they want to do that for themselves. I think this really can usher in a new era for us much smarter and effective park policy. Thank you. Thank you very much for are there any other members of the public would like to comment on item number two . Seeing none, will close Public Comments. [gavel] commissioner farrell thank you everyone who came out today to speak on this measure. And to our rec center part and Parks Alliance and other members working on this for quite some time now. We look forward to the continuing discussions. Again want to thin
Evans. Any announcements . Please silence all cells phone and Electronic Devices and completed speaker cards should be submit today the clerk. Items today will appear january 12 meeting unless otherwise stated would like to thank Jessie Larsson squh gym smith for braus braud casting todays meeting. Item 1 is consider apointding 3 members terms ending february 1, 2015 to the parks and recreation Advisory Committee. There are 3 seats and 3 appicates great, we have seberate members of prosack who are here today. Looks like [inaudible] is first is not going to be able to make it. She has written testimony boy robert brooust, if you can please come forward. Good morning, supervisors. I am robert braust and thank you very much for hearing and giving me the opportunity to introduce myself, explain why i was original picked to represent district 8 on prosack. Explain a little of what i managed to get done in the first 2 years and what i hope to get done in the next. I am a Founding Member of d
June 7, 2017. Okay, supervisor farrell. Thank you supervisor avalos and supervisor cohen and everyone who is here. I will keep my comment brief. We brought this item before committee and will continue today until the next rules committee, but want to reiterate the purpose behind this. I think everyone shares this here, the parks inside the sit a are some the greatest assets qu provide a high quality of life and as the city grows in terms of population and otherwise and we feel it every day, the parks are used with greater intensity more than ever before. Over the last few years inside of city hall the parks budget has note grown and if we want to maintain had parks and new open space we ptd to develop in San Francisco, we need to make sure spending for the park saz priority and that is what this amendment does. Before i introduce this we had a huge neighborhood process across the city. I want to thank the Parks Alliance for a great partner throughout the process. Neighborhood groups in