they said you're landscaper can't talk to my landscaper. >> is that codify in the letter? >> i don't know, what we asked is what the landscapers should meet and figure out some way for this monstrosity to be hidden and they were told to pound sand. >> did you consider bringing this as a jurisdiction request rather than an appeal? >> i think the jurisdiction request is good, but the reality is that they are building on a wall that needs a variance. if one person needs a variant, they all need a variant. if the will was issued in error, then they can't build on it. that is what the current permit revives on. current permit is clearly showing that they are building on the wall. and of this wall needed a variant, the permit was issued in error. >> and the house does not depend to be built on the retaining walls that are subject -- should be subject to a jurisdiction request. the house is separate from the retaining wall that he is complaining about. you're correct, there should be a jurisdiction request. the fact of the matter is, if we are focusing on the retaining wall, he p

they said you're landscaper can't talk to my landscaper. >> is that codify in the letter? >> i don't know, what we asked is what the landscapers should meet and figure out some way for this monstrosity to be hidden and they were told to pound sand. >> did you consider bringing this as a jurisdiction request rather than an appeal? >> i think the jurisdiction request is good, but the reality is that they are building on a wall that needs a variance. if one person needs a variant, they all need a variant. if the will was issued in error, then they can't build on it.

it may be that it's not a landscape that makes you feel small, it's a landscape that gets rid of your sense of scale entirely because there have been so many times out there in the deep of winter camping for week after week in the open desert where at night it gets down to 10 below or 15 below zero and there's nothing in your life but the sky and the stars. and you are looking up into the sky and you think, i could just stand and walk into stars. i could become a giant. there are times in the desert when you are not small but you are infinite. you take up everything. there is no boundary between you and it. when i look at the artifacts that the anastazi made, especially the painted black and white, i see that landscape. i see the colorado plateau. this bowl is from american museum of natural history and that's where it is now. that's the storage place. where it was from before is pueblo bonito in chaco canyon where there were rooms filled to the ceiling with bowls stacked within each other, bowls like this. all their designs, you can kind of get a glimpse around this. they have this f

this landscape is all about water. and on the last trip you can see the sea of cortez out there on the horizon. we walked to the edge of the dunes and even out there, just past the edge of the dunes, you would find places where there's -- there were piles of pottery, pottery scattered in the sand, and then the desert pan extended out and then you reach the sea of cortez that lies beyond. you know, i should -- i want to show you guys these next slides. i'm kind of running out of time here but i've got to show you this place. i'm not going to go into heavy detail, i want to take you down here into the sierra madre. i was following routes all over for the house of rain, trying to figure out where the anastazi went when they left house of rain. many of them made the modern pueblos but other groups continued south. i followed pottery trails down into the sierra madre where my wife and two others went out and we came to these cliff dwellings. it seemed like every single cave we looked into had cliff dwellings. and this wasn'

she comments, urban landscapes are storehouses for these social memories, because streets, buildings,nd patterns of settlement frame the lives of many people and often out last many lifetimes. decades of urban renewal and redevelopment and the savage kind taught many committees that when the urban landscape is battered, employing collective memories are obliterated. the power of ordinary urban landscapes to nurture citizens public memory to encompass shared time in the form of share it territory remains untapped for most working people's neighborhoods for most american cities and for most ethnic in most women's history. she suggests that preservation efforts, for them to be inclusive of generates from a class, and ethnicity, they must claim the entire urban cultural landscape as an important part of american history, not just its architectural monuments. this means emphasizing the building types, such as tenement, actor, you call, but -- union hall, our church. this is a wonderfully useful framework that can be extended to articulate the specific challenges of preserving the sense of

landscape of the war but currently i don't think the group can be called a political union yet. actually they cannot make a corporation. needs to be further intensified. seems to think of china is more like a competitor rather than a partner still indeed it. needs further. further cooperation coordination is being in the economies economic development. political in the. states so. there is a long way to go for this war to become a close or. to make a war if you know war. if you are looking at next five years will this happen become a reality. i think the chances reasonably high dr bhaji coo a senior research fellow of the for emerging market studies in beijing thank you very much for talking to us and sharing your views with us here in the program. to other stories now here in our team ukraine's former prime minister yulia tymoshenko will face a court verdict later on tuesday she's on trial over charges related to alleged dodgy gas contracts with russia i just like to hear she ask you looks at the case which itself faces allegations of being politically motivated. the biggest tr

he said let's make it one contiguous -- he would think about landscape and provide a lot of landscapeof these people had such massive egos that he would design a bridge -- olmstead was willing to accept that relationship. >> a lot of interesting other topics came up. the chicago world's fair was amazing because here was a guy -- >> would have been in his late 70s. >> he was told by that time. the fact that you mentioned google. but travel. you have all these commissions going on at the same time and he is doing this rush job. talk about that. >> olmstead was not sanguine in his old age. being in your 60s or 70s you out of your contemporaries and he did not settle into a restful latter years. he became fevered because landscape architecture is so different from a painting or work of music that is never final. he had a real anxiety that after he was gone all his work would be undone. he spent his whole adult life fighting against people who were meddling with central park which was always his place. they wanted to fix something. always battling to fight this thing. he had a sense becaus

>> this is a very narrow strip of land that will be used for access and landscaping?>> my concern is in general there will be a neat to have employees maintain the area unless each of the lease holders will parcel it out and the individual leaseholders take up that responsibility. there will be a need to maintain the area. that is what i am getting at. >> these require maintenance of the area and the sublease has the most modern form of sublease in the city attorney's office and it requires all of the prevailing wage requirements under section 24.22. >> can you direct me to a number within the file that refers to that prevailing wage provision? >> section 24.22, wages and working conditions. this was not in your packet because this is a different matter. >> we had a discussion about our desire to recognize that there is a particular wage rate for this type of work, landscaping, horticulture. my concern is that the prevailing wage that is on file at the department of industrial relations might not cover the type of work we have covered here with specific wage rate. tha

are still lush and use about 30% of what the subtropical landscape with turf would use. las vegas has adopted a drought tolerant ordinance. we're using less water today than we used five years ago, despite over 300,000 new residents. i think it's a pretty amazing example as to how a town can really turn on a dime if there's the political will and if the public gets behind it. narrator: even the casinos and resorts have adapted to efficient water use. mulroy: the las vegas strip uses only 3% of all the water that we deliver. and when you think about it, it's the largest economic driver in the state, the largest employer, bar none. they knew they had to go the extra mile. and they've embraced conservation. and it's almost beyond belief that they're right now in the process of building another 15,000 rooms. southern nevada recycles 100% of its wastewater. so for every gallon we put back in the colorado, we can take an additional gallon out, or we send it to reuse facilities. and we deliver it to golf courses and parks and other outside applications. man: water's about a thi

from that 25, we went through and chose tend to realize in the landscape. >> including this building, which is an amazing example of recycling. >> we are proud of this space. it was designed by a local architecture team. we said, we need something that is a temporary structure, something that can be brought onto the presidio in pieces, act as an exhibition space for one year. we came up with the notion of shipping containers. it was important for us that we made this project for the place, of the place. what i mean by that is participants would also used repurchased materials. >> we will be speaking to one of the artists that you selected. what excited you about his idea? >> have many things. first of all, i am a fan of his architecture. because of that creativity, i knew that he could come up with something unique. i love the fact that he was specifically addressing the landscape around here, and it was also about the human interaction with this place. >> what are your expectations with the people coming to presidio habitat? >> we really hope people will come with their family, dogs,

preventing construction whoa not disrupt the neighborhood landscape.sues contrary to what has been represented, and of the of the proposal offers greater pedestrian safety by clustering the existing front stairs which are an encroachment whiff of the driveway, though it eliminates an additional wall that appears on one side of the proposed driveway because you were nesting the two together. the planning commission of the neighborhood association in a letter of september 19 has asked the planning commission to determine if there is an alternate plan that would preserve the streets cave that we consider to be valuable to the neighborhood. the abbreviated analysis did not address into of my concerns from residential design guidelines. it is within the purview of the planning commission to take it as the d p w tree removal permits hearing and a board of appeals process he did not include an evaluation of residential design guidelines. this photo illustrates the proposals for the garage door. the red dotted line is the plan the sponsors, and the green dotte

the landscape's always changing, the river's changing... [narrator] the experience of running this project made the forest service realize the potential of historic sites such as these for tourists. their next project-- footprints--is more ambitious. [man] the basic concept we're trying to get is to bring people close to the land much in the same fashion that the kenaitze people lived here many, many years ago in this area, is to demonstrate their heritage, to demonstrate their closeness to the land, to try and get people to understand their culture-- not only their culture, but a native culture in general-- to show how they're linked with the land, the landscape, the vegetation, the water, the seasonal aspects, certain amount of mobility they would use to move to where the resources were at that time of year. the footprints site will be a larger, more developed interpretive opportunity. the real value is tying the prehistoric past with contemporary people and getting across the idea that cultures aren't static. cultures are changing things

and it will destroy this treasured san francisco landscape that is part of our future. this costly plan is not even the environmentally superior plan as has been mentioned and it's not even improves the beauty of the park or quality of life for residents. introducing new and expanding habitats will personally highjack the small but precious recreational areas. for example, the historic sharp park recreation area is under attack even though manmade the freshwater habitats that was not previously used there. neither the endangered snakes or endangered frogs would live there of the salt water habitat was restored. this plan does not take into consideration these plans. people with dogs are only allocated freedom in 3% of the city park areas and the plant treats us like a nuisance and takes away an additional 20%. the monitoring plan will probably eliminate the rest. i resent being treated like an invasive part of the comedian and art treasured city parks. -- part of that community in our treasured city parks. thank you very much. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i have li

stories are everywhere out in this landscape. when you walk down into the bottom of the narrow canyons made of sandstone and you put your hands on the sand stone faces and the smooth shallow scallops that look like champagne glasses, you can feel the shape of the last flood that came through. every place in the desert is a story. every place is a passage way. it's really hard to walk very far in the desert for me because there are so many stories that start opening up and lead you from place to place and place and soon you start picking up the patterns of wind, of rain. you pick up the patterns of people who were there before you because, out there, things seem to last forever. if you put a footprint down in certain places, that footprint will stay for 5 years, maybe even 10 years for somebody who's got a really good eye where you come walking along and you see the slightest depression in the ground and you kneel at it and you figure out that it was a person with about a size 9 foot walking across the desert 8 years before you. e

the sky camera bouncing around and you see cloud shadows racing across the landscape, and the latest wind gusts, these are the peak wind gusts we have seen in the last few minutes, and 25-35-mile-per-hour gusts throughout the region. we could have gusts to near 40 miles per hour. temperatures are near 60 in washington, and in southern maryland near the bay, but father to the west they're in the mid-50s in many locations, and quite a chill in the air there. some of the high spots out there could have their first snow of the season tonight, but not here. just turning chillier after the afternoon when we climb into the

landscape protection. straw on the hillside slope protected it from erosion. unfortunately, we had rain durter the festival. this damage can be prevented by plywood being put down first. the most serious thing i noticed is kind of secretary to landscape protection, but has long term implications. the use of alcohol was totally unregulated. there were people selling alcohol. there were probably underage drinkers. there were beer bottles and packages all over the park for days. i do not have pictures of that. i do have reports from the community there were trash piles. i think we have a health hazard. i think we have a park problem. when we are talking about youth drinking, this is not the healthy and safe parks we are always talking about. lastly, there was also a great deal of smoking. that's also forbidden in our parks. i know we cannot prevent everything. there were people smoking under the neeucalyptus trees. i saw very little police presence. it was heaviest when the mayor was there speaking. compared to the other festivals, i hardly saw anyone -- i think

it is called a shifting landscape. i would like to introduce to you mr. perry surely, the juror who chaired the committee. supervisor campos: thank you, and welcome to the oversight committee. >> good morning, supervisor. we had taken up this report as a continuation of previous work done by the grand jury. it is a project that is granted take a year. it will be 2017 before the navy has transferred all the land over to the redevelopment agency and its of corn to go back to see what has happened since. there is many different aspects to this. the environmental cleanup -- most of that work is left up to the navy, and we realize there is very little the city can legally do to monitor that. however, we want to remind the board of supervisors that there is the conveyance agreement between the san francisco redevelopment agency and the navy that was created in signing of 2004, and it stipulates that the federal government's will work cooperatively with the redevelopment agency to find out what is the best way to clean up. one of the major decisions to come is w

landscape of the war. and we've got plenty more on the deals being made added meeting in our business update about fifteen minutes time. china has just overtaken germany and russia as the number one trading partners just cancel trading fees for you on the ruble operations and also those who countries are creating a four billion dollars investment fund to manage the rising flux of mutual fund one that's in business. now the eurozone is agonizingly close to accepting and new bailout plan for dad strapped nations but a final step could be a tough one tiny slovakia is a stumbling block the last country to ratify the agreement and push the deal through. has been following the story. smiter being smug bang at the center of attention recently is the you're using quite as well as on another member states of being off debate on the year of his debility plans we take a look at how these other countries ok playing with the pressure all eyes are on slovak here today to see if politicians who vote positively on the eur