the landscape just continues around. you know, you can put eisenhower the general on one side and eisenhower the president. we tried it. i've got pictures of all this. when you do these things, the first thing you do is figure out the ten most obvious things to do, and then you do them and look at them and then reject them. but it's -- that's the normal process for guys like us. >> does that include -- you talked earlier about other memorials. is there a particular memorial that you think is good? >> lincoln. >> absolutely. lincoln, washington. >> and maya lin. >> oh, beautiful. that's great. >> she was my student, so i'm proud. >> that's right. [ laughter ] >> that's right. >> she was a good one. >> is that the end of the slides? >> i don't know. that's the dure. so you can see where tomas got it. he was very clever to do that. there's the more intense part at the bottom, which is still transparent. you can still see through it. and this is the conundrum representative, the man as president ran -- >> here's the homecomi

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

i said the landscape of texas is in all my work. so somehow this landscape is inherent in this great man. >> so frank, you have described

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'

first, on rural landscapes. the great landscape of america. you'll hear some wonderful people that secretary bill siebel lead about some of the work that we are doing. it is truly historic in nature. when you think about the crowd of the continents and gemstone who have come together in the rocky mountain front and the collaborative process that we have with the u.s. for service and fish and wildlife service and the blm and the national park service, we will protect the crown of the continent in those rural landscapes and the crown jewel of america forever. we will get that done and we have major investments that we will be making in that program this year. it doesn't stop there with gemstone. you can give him a round of applause. it is important. [applause] >> don't stop with gemstone. i think about jim faulstich who has been a leader around the country, including the wrenching organizations in 29 states now around the country who are moving forward with an approach to conservation that says we can conserve these lands by keeping the ranchers

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

we are prepared to do sidewalk landscaping. that is consistent with the property owner's desire. the 24 inch box i think would be more practical because of the cross slope, the steepness of that street. the soil rootball within the container has a level surface to it. we do not want to bury that down in order to create conformity to the cross slope. it would be harmful to the health of the tree. i would recommend that we go to a 24 inch box size, from a more practical standpoint. president garcia: do you think you could get three of those? >> i am certain two would fit. i am not certain about three. but i think if we had a smaller species -- i am not sure which species we would end up with. with a smaller species, there would be room for closer spacing. president garcia: i am going to assume that you are willing to assume that ms. short will be as reasonable as she always is. >> ms. short is always reasonable. we are happy to work with her again. president garcia: we believe those options open and as other commissioners have a different thought. commissioner fung: do you want to

rubens' landscapes are suffused with a kind of nostalgia. they evoke a dream of aristocratic life, a life based on the ownership of land. today it's only half an hour by car or train from the landlocked aristocratic landscape that rubens painted to the canals of the dutch netherlands. though not far apart physically, these two societies were as different at heart as their landscapes. the dutch escaped from feudalism by making new land. they built dikes against the sea in a communal effort that continues today. they made their own precarious land, and their peculiar geography made them. vermeer's view of delft shows us a secure town that has confidently mastered its difficult environment. the sea shaped dutch society. but 80 bitter years of a cruel and bloody war for independence from their snish rulers created a dutch nation. in the middle of the 17th century, seven provinces of the netherlands won their struggle for independence and established the predominantly protestant dutch republic. [bells ringing] in a europe dominated by absolutist

room for bison, cattle, and man on montana's vast landscape. anne thompson, nbc news, wolfpoint, montana. >>> that's our thursday night broadcast. thank you for being here with us. i'm brian williams, and of course, we hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening. good night. >>> good evening, ev. i'm jessica aguirre. >> and i'm raj mathieu. it's been called the smoking gun in the east bay. undercover videos that shows a drug deal between an undercover investigator and

this landscape. i met a woman who is a violinist a few years ago in taipei. she is from brooklyn, and i heard her playing in a concert, and she said to me afterwards,

some of us are very curious on to understand how this historical landscape has influenced so much of your writing, whether it's been c confederates in the attic or many of the articles you've written. as we've so dedicated to this historic swath from to monticello would like to open it this about your insight and thoughts about this landscape and how it inspires us. >> i thought you were going to ask something different, which is why i didn't write this book while i lived in waterford. as the crow flies, are we 15 miles from harper's ferry? i had to move to massachusetts before i got -- great book in my backyard, in my former backyard. yeah, i mean, well speaking to this subject tat least, first o all, i wrote confederates in the attic because of what happened 15 yards from here when reenactors sum belled into my front yard in waterford because they were reenacting for a movie here because it's such a great historic landscape. but with this book i think part of what -- drew me to write about it is that harper's ferry is still so intact, really. it's this incredible mix of natural bea

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partners llp, rogers architects pllc and pwp landscape architecture. the memorial requirements and criteria and the eisenhower memorial philosophy and aspirations achl jury composed of design peers and led by a competitioned competition advisor reviewed them. they reviewed the jury findings as well as the design vision concepts. a contract was pursued and design began in january of 2010 and is currently in process. it is worth noting approval for a memorial of this importance is a deliberate project and engages a variety of consulting bodies. any proposed monument must undergo a rigorous review process with ample opportunity for public input and involvement. as an agent of the emc, gsa's role was to administer the process that helped select a highly qualified design firm. the resulting design concept itself has gone through a series of review processes which included the opportunity for public review and comment. in addition to providing staff and support services on a reimbursable basis and administering the selection of a design firm for the memorial

reason i'm on the phone, we've been forced to move our satellite truck because this is a different landscape than that of indiana or other parts

never before have we celebrated asian pacific heritage month and the landscape as we are today.h the ever-changing population, with the political landscape, heck, we even saw the first chinese american nba player, and we are proud to be part of it and celebrate throughout the month of may. so thank you very much for having us. [applause] >> we have our returning heritage champion, pacific gas and electric represented by ontario smith. ontario? and pg&e has been there since day one. [applause] [applause] and next joining us at the heritage partners level we have rebecca delgado representing the academy of universities. is rebecca here? [applause] and representing at&t we have jason chan. jason? jason is probably busy making phone calls. right here. [applause] and representing bank of america, rosana lunge. [applause] and representing croft , ron lowe, ron? [applause]

he sought a new tradition before him, landscape sculpture. >> you feel this extended human form underneath the surface of the earth struggling to emerge. eventually, it does. it articulates his idea that the earth is like flesh, and the archaeology and geology in the earth are like the bones, the structure of the earth. this tied in with his idea of mother earth, with the sense that we are all tied to nature and the earth. >> a half dozen bay area museums and private collectors loan the massive sculptures to the museum for its matter and spirit retrospective. but the most unusual contributions came from stephen himself. a wall of autobiographical masks and hence from the early decades of his private study. >> he had one of the most beautiful studios i have ever been in. when you walk in, your first impression is of these monumental figures that you see in the exhibition, but if you went into the back corner of his studio, there was a series of shells with these diminutive figures. he told me, these are the heart of my studio. these little, and held intimate study is that he referred to as

that are suitable for bison. >> making room for bison, cattle, and man on montana's vast landscape.hat's our thursday night broadcast. thank you for being here with us. i'm brian williams, and of course, we hope to see you right y

we seek to contract with the nation's most talented architects, landscape architects and engineers to design projects with outstanding quality and value. as part of this process, gs afrnlts utilizes the expertise of private sector peers to assist in the evaluation of proposals and design firms ensuring we benefit from the knowledge of a wide variety of individuals. at their request gsa worked with a commission to develop a highly qualified ae evaluation board of 11 members from the commission, gsa, the eisenhower family as well as private sector peers in a variety of design and architectural areas. the board used a three-stage process to make its selection. this included evaluating the work officials submitting proposals and inviting a short list officials to be invited for interviews and reviewing proo pose als of details of the memorial. in 2008 gsa asked for firms to submit portfolios of their work. there were 44 responses. the panel convened, reviewed the submissions and selected seven highly qualified firms based on the evaluation criteria outlined in the rfq. the seven firms wer

the endless landscape as it was, today's civilized by grain, cattle, and train.ison arrived this week in the dark, welcomed with a sacred song from the tribes to the reservation near the canadian border. for tribal leader tommy christian, the bison are his heritage. >> how we refer to ourselves as the buffalo people. >> historically, the bison provided food, clothing, and medicine. today, christian says they offer a cultural connection young members need. >> there's hope they'll understand just because we're different doesn't mean we're wrong. >> these links to the past are very much a present day threat to people here in montana who also make their living off this land. the bison were moved to a larger pasture, but will remain behind an eight-foot fence. that's not enough for rose stoneburg and her daughter who with other cattle ranchers are suing the state to prevent the bison from becoming a free roaming heard. >> we pro pose the bison being called wild. >> if there's no population control, ultimately, they will take over everything. >> but environmental group

of its residence, the makeup of the surrounding city and neighborhood, and, indeed, the cultural landscape of the united states changed dramatically. as a rare remaining example of a building where people were enslaved in an urban setting, it offers important evidence of their living and working conditions. situated less than 150 yards from the white house, this building elegantly conveys the clear and close presence of slavery in the landscape of the american presidency. attached to one of the country's most storied homes, it simultaneously demonstrates the absolute separation and intimate linkage between enslaver and enslaved that was intrinsic to the institution of slavery. the use of this building after emancipation offers vivid testimony about the incremental shift from bondage to paid servitude. and its modification and use by the national trust for historic preservation over the last 50 years illustrates changing attitudes about if and how the stories of slavery and servitude are preserved and told. as we work to understand more fully the institution of slavery in the united states

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