we have a winter landscape. we have a summer landscape. we have the fall. if something all year. is never boring on this beautiful island. >> typical for sylt and the thatched cottages that can be rented by holidaymakers. those who prefer an modern touch can stay at the grand spa. the new five-star accommodation is beside -- beach side luxury at its best. it is fertile ground for the rich and stylish who have ample opportunity for boutique shopping. for those who want to listen to the roar of the ocean, the beach is the place to be. it stretches almost 40 kilometers along the west coach and bewitches tourists with its rough charm. >> it is not so often that you see the sea like this with the winter landscape. >> the snow creates an and the stealing of solitude. -- and endless feeling of solitude. >> it looks like the north pole. >> right of landscapes, romantic views, and the endless sea make it interesting to visit sylt in the winter. >> since the advent of google earth, anyone can have a bird's- eye view of just about anywhere. imagine having a view of your own living room or b

i am a member of the american society of landscape architects. commissioner kim: you are certified by a professional tree management organizations? >> i was listed in seat 2. commissioner kim: we know you are an applicant for six and seven. >> i am a landscape architect and have been for it the last 16 years. i have been for 12 years in san francisco with various organizations. dealing locally, regionally, and across the country on designing construction projects. everything from small, private projects to large-scale public works. that straddle the line between private and public realms. my work as a landscape architect, i am not only concerned about the aesthetics and sustaining the beauty, but also looking at the work i do as it relates to the community at large. a lot of the work that i have done dovetails with the work of the urban forestry council. their work not just to sustain the urban forest, but use that as an educational tool with the greater public and also the ecological goals that the urban forest can support. in my experience, the

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,

when you disturb soil to get rid of the landscape and put a new landscape in place, a lot of people don't know how the soil oxidizes and there is a huge amount of biological activity so that you get in n.y. -- a massive increase in the first part of your project. the reason there are questions on this page, the lansky releases greenhouse gases and is nowhere in the eir. that is why these are all question marked. we talked about this before. you add another 6000-8000 cars. it becomes ridiculous. i almost throw "you've got to be kidding me." you can have lower carbon emissions when you add this many parking spaces to a development. what we need instead is to have something like this, a scaled- down on demolished an alternative that uses gradual landscaping changes that are based on culture and carbon farming. using those techniques and retrofitting the old buildings that is what many people in this movement will tell you is the gold standard for greenhouse gas emissions, that is what could get us to the good of greenhouse gas profile. there is no alternative like that in the eir. in regard

over the centuries water and wind have crafted unique mountain landscapes. many of them are hidden from the inquisitive eyes of tourists only the staff of the nature reserve are aware of their vocation. fip over the top of this will file is cool to the ring is a unique natural feature of this century the cultures and the river has broken through lying stone beds here to make a hole in the shape of a ring there was a reflector that it forms a rainbow. thought wonderfalls like this one are rare not only in the caucasus but in the entire world the stone rate is about two metres wide. its broadest part consists of three layers of limestone the age of the rock is estimated between one hundred and one hundred twenty million years for. more than a start and the most is absolutely pure i would say it's the standard for natural water it's filmed in the coast examined in the limestone of the carioca range there also is crystal clear off the filtering through many kilometers of limestone not over. the cut since he came in with rock terraces grados and knishes begins ri

the key landscape components are already established. the northern shoreline, the are, and the wilds is intended to be rich with newly constructed habitats. it has storm water wetlands that are capturing storm water runoff from the majority of the urban footprint of the island and treating it in a way that creates habitat. there are trails for access. the waterfront, not goes along the edge. -- the waterfront promenade goes along the edge. this is protected by wind. there is the sports park. this is large enough that it can accommodate all of the existing recreations and facilities on the island. they could all fit in here. this is centered around an existing gym facility. this is not set currently for anyone sports type but allows for those to be incorporated into their. that ends up being what everyone wants. the 28 acre urban agriculture park will be a farm that will grow food, have an educational component, a public park component, and will literally be a new type of public landscaped that i think it will catch on quite a bit in the

sees most of the fighting to the city of euro stuff like exploring job visions of breathtaking landscapes have been transformed into a business that's coming up. but the news the u.s. state department wants billions of dollars from congress to fight an information war against media outlets like our secretary of state hillary clinton admitted that america is losing the battle and needs to launch a counter attack professor of journalism christopher chambers thinks washington will fight through reporting with propaganda. the corporatization don't mess to clean of american news has basically thrown out the whole need for news gathering and real reporting in exchange for punditry and entertainment and sensationalism because that's going to deliver the demographics to the guys who pay for the commercials what's happening is we've opened up these huge gaps because we're more concerned with reality t.v. and people arguing and people attacking the president than we are with having people on the ground finding out what the problems the problems are and when you do that you can produce a product tha

we explore how age old traditions and breathtaking landscapes have been friends formed into a lucrative business coming up to you a little later in the program. the. price of. moon and sun moon from feinstein's. stance on t.v. don't come. hungry for the full sun we've got it for. the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers. thanks for staying with us here on r.t.e. eleven minutes past the hour and last out the u.s. state department wants billions of dollars from congress to fight an information war against media outlets like r t secretary of state hillary clinton admittedly u.s. is losing the battle and needs to launch a counterattack journalism professor christopher chambers things washington will fight through reporting with propaganda. the corporatization go mess to clean of american news has basically thrown out the whole need for news gathering and real reporting in exchange for punditry and entertainment and sensationalism because that's going to deliver the demographics to the guys who pay for the commercials what's happening is we've opened up these

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

[laughter] >> here is a monograph of my landscape interpretation in a book called earth forms in the book that is the publisher of the fine art photography. i will give you some examples. c-span is doing this and the lights cannot go off. here is that cover of birth forms here is the floor of the canyon here are some mud hills. here are some mud in the hills outside of the mexico and we spent time teaching on the navajo reservation. in any event i have also been challenged of the years to combine whenever fission i bring to interpreting terrestrial landscapes to put together what i hope this in my next book of earth and space which is the landscape interpretation combined with nasa images obtained with a planetary probes and landers and here are some examples. the left-hand image of the creature in hawaii. the right hand side is the rimm of a greater on the surface of mars. i think this is an opportunity photograph. these are dunes on the right-hand side, nemours on left hand side, windblown sand patterns, a frozen ice, left-hand side, co2 vice on mars, seaside view on the oregon coa

world's most unpopular regimes but their expertise could be being used to shape the future political landscape of a vulnerable region nor of its artsy london. now to poor heresies analyser of the news website axis of logic dot com he's joining us on the line from ontario canada or even she thinks a big with arsinoe your website so it's got a number of articles on it speaking out against the intervention of u.s. and western countries of libya what's the main threat then as you see it where do we stand tonight do you think. well from our perspective first of all what's going on. it appears on so we're going on news reports that are coming are not at all clear. the good for. america. the position of working. as a libyan it has nothing to do with any going to. know for most. one of your earlier reports that there is a. some indication that the united states are interested in your least problem. there is a belief that this results from the need for oil and quite frankly i think it doesn't understand. we really need to read a little bit yesterday but if you believe these reports talking about the sa

tees close up to the city of gallows where big schoolhouse age old traditions and breathtaking landscapes have been transformed into a lucrative business it's day two of our adventures there coming up here little bit later in the program. a feast this is not a provocation but warns. the forces that machete sticks everybody is sure to set a quick victory streak so they have no idea about the hardships the group face to. face one it is this is all too nice and for any army to life never use the other is the most precious thing in the world. is of self-sacrifice and heroism with those who understand it fully but you have to live a. real life stories from world war two this is. victory nineteen forty five dog r.t. top card. cosmonauts in russia are hoping to be cleared for an orbital mission to the international space station very soon the international crew of the main on the back of flights are undergoing final exams right now at russian star city but he's really going to school reports from that training center. examinations will take place over the next two days of the team will have to p

the landscaping community supports it. they get to do more work, which is a good thing, so we have had broad support, and a number of agencies already participating in it. beyond that, i think i will conclude my remarks. i did take with interest your comments on a local hiring program. we did receive the letter theed harrington -- a letter from ed harrington. where are so looking at some of the issues to make sure we are well informed as well and can confirm the things that are in the letter. thank you. >> thank you. >> mr. president, we have no speaker cards on this item. >> thank you. next item. >> next item would be the san francisco public utilities commission citizens advisory committee that date. mr. kane and midwest will present in mr. landsbergis absence. -- mr. kane and ms. west will present. >> i expected someone else to join me to give this report. i was just going to not accordingly. i do not know how much some of you members are acquainted with the cac. we generally try to make a contribution that has some sub

and to occupy the proposed deck with landscape planters up to the deck level. the proposal is entirely code compliant and meets the residential guidelines and the d.r. requester misinterpreted the code requirements as well as the planning code section he cited. planning staff has found compliance and confirm with the interpretations as well and were carefully considered and the distance between structures and in particular the window he is concerned about are over 6 feet at the closest point and the limited use period and mutual desire for privacy and although there is limited sharing, they have offered additional screening to alleviate the d.r. requester's concerns. please note that the d.r. request represents from additional neighbors but only the d.r. requester has filed and the immediate adjacent neighbors are no part of any neighbor listed on here. the deck and property sits here and the signatures on the properties below and on the lowest part of san francisco. and pr pro posed modifications and no measurable impact and with the glass rail and the lightne

portals the globe i mean what else can be affected by the movement of plates in terms of global landscape. shifts in the plates in such cases may have been very significant affecting large territories if a ship is about ten meters the area affected on the surface will be thousands of square kilometers ship is very big territorially it's where the earthquake has happened to power may sink a little while the cult unable plate rises like yana work it will but not now that is the how reasonable is it to build nuclear power plants in earthquake zones after such disaster or that there was anything up in the area there is no option they don't have energy resources as for us we don't build nuclear power stations in seismic zones they do it. at least do you believe in such projects as glenn not to help predict earthquakes or more accurately. what should like each will get of the robot such technology is being worked on but so far it's not available our glue a system inherits most of the features from g.p.s. g.p.s. is used with secondary support from satellites and the information about the defamat

i mean, that is as a landscape architect i have to say this is the biggest folly i know, there is nothinglike it in the world. what is it, it looks like a great roman ship out in the bay whi once had trees and a little pavilion on it and fountains and flowers and statues, a stone boat that appears to be floating in the water in front of you but it's actually a breakwater. >> the barge evolved into a work of art as chalfin employed well known artist stirling calder to sculpt the tropical figures that would grace the prow. voluptuous mermaids were added, which led to much discussion about whether the sea creatures were featured appropriately. >> because, apparently, the mermaids were a little too overtly sexual for deering's taste. a workman had hung a sign off of the of the breasts of one of these women and so it was getting a little too much, so he gets calder to kind of tone it down and kind of soften up and a few seaweed gets carved over a few parts i think. >> the barge became an instant sensation with the press. in 1917, the architectural review dedicated seven pages in homage to the

i don't have relevant data but i think the landscape will become slightly lower for instance during the secret tunnel of quake of nine hundred ninety four in the southern karylle so it was a very powerful quake too with a magnitude of eight point four as a result the island of she could turn sank by sixty centimeters never to rise a landscape was changed it looks like the same may have happened in japan but i don't have direct data now portals what else can be affected by the movement of plates in terms of google landscape. chips in the plates in such cases may have been very significant affecting large territories if a ship is a ten meters the area affected on the surface will be thousands of square kilometers very big territorially it's where the earthquake has happened japan may sink a little while the continental plates rises to work it will quite know now that that is the how reasonable is it to build nuclear power plants in earthquake zones after such disaster already was when you hear from them there is no option they don't have energy resources as for us we don't build nuclear p

kilometers from moscow jaroslav old one of the oldest cities in russia but apart from beautiful landscapes and historic buildings it's also a major player in the country's industrial future are teams losing friends takes a look at how locals have taken the initiative and turned it into a major tourist attraction. whether it's fast motors historic real estate or funny felt the people of the jaroslava region are not short of space for their robots their missions take the landscape for example almost thirty seven thousand square kilometers covered in snow in the winter months so back in the one nine hundred seventy s. rusco mechanica set up a factory in robinson churning out man's new best friend in the area the russian made snowmobile in russia actually that is not all the trails writing. we have. there are very good you can write anywhere. now the company is the number one snowmobile manufacturer in the country with seven hundred employees every machine is fully tested before it leaves the factory bound for customers who include even the local police. over four hundred thousand of these hav

felt the people of the jaroslava region are not short of space for their robust emissions take the landscape for example almost thirty seven thousand square kilometers covered in snow in the winter months so back in the one nine hundred seventy s. rusco mechanic factory and rubinstein churning out mans new best friend in the area the russian made snowmobile in russia actually that is not all the trails all its normal bells writing. we have a north territory yes i think you can write anywhere. now the company is the number one snowmobile manufacturer in the country with seven hundred employees every machine is fully tested before it leaves the factory grounds for customers who include even the local police. over four hundred thousand of these have been manufactured since the company began in one nine hundred seventy one and with the winter olympics hitting saki in twenty fourteen it's hoped that they will be used exclusively in running those winter games. moving at a slower pace is the sleepy village of yachts investor all a jar of showed me around and told me why he left a career in science

snatched from the landscape. >> it's a symptom or a subject of every day life.at are being overlooked and yet seen at the same time. >> reporter: ruscha's paintings now demand millions of dollars at auction. one was even selected by president obama to hang at the white house. but back in 1956, ruscha's desire was simply to get out of his home state of oklahoma and head west. >> i guess maybe it was a... there was an urge, some kind of primitive adolescent urge to get on the road and go see that. >> reporter: with his friend mason williams, who would later become famous as the composer of this music, classical gab, they set out along route 66 heading to los angeles. and ruscha started to notice classical gas stations. >> i felt like there was a happening out there with all these gas stations. and i had to do something about it. >> reporter: what he did about it led to the emergence of a unique vision of the american west. a vision that is now on view in texas at the modern art museum of fort worth. >> it wasn't just stopping and getting an easel and painting tree

, if you simply play a sort of a thought experiment which my coleague mike has done here for the landscape of the united states, and what he's done is taken a census of precipitation, day by day every event that's occurred over along period, and he's cataloged how many of those events occurred where temperatures were in the range of minus 3 degrees celsius, just below freezing and freezing and what's shaded on here is the fraction of time for a given location in which the precipitation has occurred in that temperature range. that's a range of what we might call vulnerability because if temperature rises by three degrees celsius, all of the sudden we're not snowing anymore we're raining. you can think of this as a flood vulnerability map or a potential loss of snowstorm or the western problem as you can see and particularly areas like the west slope of the sierras and the cascades and part of the rockies are especially vulnerable to this. we in california have a huge stake in this sort of - this kind of vulnerability to warming. you can see there's some in the northeast but not to the degre

the horizon, a black line against brilliant white landscape, pale blue sky above it, empty except for heat devil blur, a raindrop sound hits a wooden post against cloudless light, another, the lamb, his children, wife, then he drenched in bullet rain. blue. the final moment of night passing, exposes limbs, torsos, heads, breasts, humans, cows, goats, curved and knotted heaps, lays blue against bitten grass. final piece, the title is the headline for a newspaper. anti-war activist immoh lates along kennedy's express way near giant flame of the millennium skull up tour 4 days before november 2006 elections and no one pays attention. everything but the heart reduced to ash. thank you. . >> i just want to thank george for bringing to bear some of the numbers, some of the horrific things that are happening in iraq right now. this poem was drawn from my experiences in iraq from the culture, from the music and from its traditions. so i have dedicated this poem to iraq. i think it will be helpful for you to know el kubenchi, along with el watanabi. el kubenchi is famous for music, a great his