the impact of rivers on the landscape is often spectacular. they can gouge out deep canyons, create gentle valleys with verdant meadows, or build enormous deltas. in creating these diverse landscapes, all rivers function in the same manner. they erode, transport, and deposit sediment. these processes enable rivers to continuously reshape the surrounding land. one of the most important factors influencing the geologic impact of a river is the velocity of its water. a swiftly flowing river erodes and transports more sediment than a slow river. velocity generally increases with the slope of the river, but channel shape also plays a role. if a channel has a nearly perfect semicircular cross-section, the frictional resistance is the minimum, so the water loses very little energy flowing over the channel. if it's a wide, flat channel, a fairly shallow river, there's a greater surface area along the banks and the bottom, and that slows the stream down, too. the texture of a stream bed also influences stream velocity. roughness is a function of the ma

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'

this is the memory of the landscape. that landscape is gone. it may never be seen again in the history of civilization and it's stored right here. without the voice of the cameras they would really have no voice and these landscapes would just disappear and nobody would be the wiser. it would be as if a tree fell in the forest and no one was there to hear the sound. it's the exact same conundrum. if a glacier melts in the arctic and there's no camera there to see it did it ever really exist? did it ever really happen? well, the cameras give life and voice to those processes and places. the scientific language that this story is told in is profoundly, profoundly, profoundly important. and it's what we build the pictures on. so i don't want to forget that. but then when you stack the visualization on top of the scientific understanding and then you marry those two things together, the art and the science, and you have something really powerful. >> when i saw the nasa satellite imagery of greenland i thought -- i honestly thought, "why doesn't jim

there's a direct connection to the lobby to the landscape courtyardwhich is frame by smaller buildingon fifteenth street with nine walk-up flats with stoops fronting the residential street on fifteenth as well as flats on the market street building. the market street building is the bigger building, is in the 65-ft. height zone; modulated with a distinct corridor and a double height retail space, 18-19 ft. in exposure. it will create an restaurant space as intended use and the smaller space down market street, 28-ft. retail bay; standard retail san francisco lotthen we have a lobby marked with a taller treatment of wood that wraps down and creates the lobby entry along market street. this is a view from the east. also one of the requirements market/octavia are the blank walls; it picks up the side, elevator core is here, stairs are here, and lobby form is represented here. on the fifteenth street side, this is where the development transitions down to the residential neighborhood; there are important aspects to where this fits. first of all there is a prominent, flatiron shape. there

this caused disastrousffects on this landscape.also, the problems of adapting to that situation caused severe nutritional stress and disease on the human population, all leading to a disappearance of the population by around 1200 a.d. keach: like all animals, we humans increase our numbers to fill the environments we inhabit. 800 years ago, the maya overreached their capacity to gain sustenance from this land, and they disappeared. a process that required more than 1,000 years in the past is now occurring in only a few generations. today, once again, about 25,000 people live in the copan valley. there is an ancient saying throughout most of latin america -- sembramos para cosechar. it means, literally, "we sow that we may reap." it is a metaphor that explains the dramatic population growth common to most of the third world's farmlands. here the impulse to have children fits a traditional logic -- they provide the labor essential for survival in these rural villages. but these children, unlike their maya predecessors, are in no imme

it may be that it's not a landscape that makes you feel small, it's a landscape that gets rid of you

your local library or ater efficient ater efficient landscaping now that makes sense! now that makes sense! and here we are on one of those spectacular california springtime afternoons. the sun is shining. there's a gentle breeze blowing. there's springtime color all around us here. and look at this scenery. look at this panorama out here. it's like a postcard. this is what california is all about.

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

improvements including -- along 15th street, and landscape in compliance with the better street plant. we are providing .5 parking in compliance with the code; 45 spaces for bicycle parking in a secured area; also complies with the -- and we will provide affordable housing units on-site, and 20% of the units to be affordable for the project. the project also provides community impact fees for the benefits of the market/octavia plan and funding for the housing fees. we have done extensive community outreach starting in july 2011; we had over 30 meetings with various community organizations, individual neighbors, and different civic leaders. the project is located at the intersection of many never hurts, eureka valleyand others. in response to community feedback, and planning staff feedback we alter the planning project in many ways; we reduced the size of the retail spaces and broke them up in smaller segments and make them more palatable since it was an issue in the neighborhood; we redefine the façade along the market street; in addition we change to detailing along 15th street build

you can do sidewalk landscaping. permeable landscaping refers to the fact that the water ends up in the ground not the sewer system. >> this sidewalk this runs in the curb and the -- >> that catch basin for water it goes to the grate. >> we will look at a framed signs and other stuff. thank you very much. >> we want to talk about a few items here as we end this little talk. first of all we have an a framed sign, moving must sell. >> [laughter]. >> do you need a permit for a moving sale sign? >> those are actually illegal. there are no permits, that's right. there are no permits that can be obtained for those signs a framed signs. >> we see them all over the city. >> thank you. >> currently its under the police code. >> okay. >> you know as we know the police have more important things to do. if they present a hazard ask also public works inspect ors have been assisting the police department. if we are inspecting the tables and chairs such as this and see they have an a framed sign. we will tell them to remove the a f

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

northern new mexico if particular has a very powerful draw i in terms of its enchanced landscape. indeed, the state -- official state nickname of new mexico is land of enchantment which carries a whiff, i think, of new age mysticism with it and makes it soft and glowy and warm and fuzzy and tends to on sure a much more complicated reality. and ultimately, that's what desert america is about. it's how we imagine the desert or how the desert has been imagined for us by the many distinct representations that have created this imagery, have created, you know, this vision of the desert for us that is consumedded, that is bought and sold, that is the stage upon which real estate, ultimately, is sold and hotels and staying at hotels and tourist packages, etc. and how complicated the actual human geography of the place is. there's the imagined place, and there's the lived place. so i'm going to take you to northern new mexico, um, briefly here. angela chose northern new mexico, she's from central new mexico, albuquerque. beith of our -- both of our families have issues with addiction. i t

not just development but the open space landscape. so based on the new information and new plans, we think it is prudent to revise the memo in a comprehensive manner in recognition of the plan that the city just adopted. so with that the department proposals in two weeks, on the 11th, the two commissions amend the 1989 memo to revise the absolute cumulative limits for the seven parks that has them that could potentially be shaded by buildings in plan area and be reflective of what was in the planned eir. additionally, the department also recommends that qualitative material be adopted. not just numerics because clearly the number doesn't show you the whole story but where the shadow would fall and how long it would last at any one time. like done for three parks given budgets or greater than 1989 we recommend commissions also adopt essentially criteria that any new shadows that would be considered within these new increased budgets would be consistent with shadow profiles analyzed in the plan's eir. so if a building came along that wa

there's a lot of subbasements in the area which impacts the opportunities for landscaping. ad a and paratransit access and our funding for this project is approximately $8 million, funding tlau a combination possibly of one berea grant and prop j funding. friday was our dead lane to collect surveys from the community to help us select a preferred alternative. the community is helping us select which design concept we will move forward as a preferred alternative. we're currently analyzing the results of those surveys. we hope it make an announcement of the preferred alternative by the end of the ph and then hold our third and last community meeting in november. that meeting will be to present the preferred alternative and some of the key design elements. assuming everything goes smoothly, we'll move into environmental review in november, expect to have that complete in may of next year, and then legislate the project and move to design. thank you. >> thank you so much for the presentation and just by the way, dpw has done amazing work doing outreach on second street. and the

they are dressing up the landscape. they are certainly not staying in their tent. but there is that notion. there have been fashion spreads in some magazines about that burner look. and but you will not see me in fluffy leggings. [laughter] that is fine for anyone that prefers them. i do not know. there are just a lot of people that do pay a lot of attention. i am one of them. i suppose, if you wanted to have that special, that look, you could spend a lot of money on it. >> i was going to ask you this, final question, but he may have answered it. what is your 60-second the idea to change the world? it sounds like it is get to the right gear. >> yeah. if you can just get the right gear, you can -- change the world? >> not change it in 60 seconds. >> i don't know. >> say how to change it. >> i don't know. >> for the better. >> just connect. just connect. >> all right. you have 54 seconds left. >> fluffy leggings. >> all right. let's have a big round of applause for larry. [applause]

. >> it's landscaping money that we would otherly spend. >> ground them up for compost. >> reporter: if you're on the road and see a dead deer it may not be a pretty sight but in maryland it may be a part of making the landscape even nicer. in annapolis, don harrison, abc2 news. >> wow. right now the stage is set in western maryland. they with like to expand it. >>> it is fash. the long awaited ipad mini is finally either apple unveiled their newest tablet today. t.j. winick has all the details. >> reporter: apple is taking on the mighty kindle, android devices and other e readers. >> what else can we do to find more uses for ipads. >> reporter: the new ipad min weighs as much as a pad of paper. it ships to stores november 2nd. >> this is ipad mini. >> reporter: the tablet wars are heating up. in june microsoft introduced the soon to be released tablet, considered to be the first real challenger. >> it's well designed. it's got cool, colorful accessories. >> reporter: ipad insisted the ipad mini -- >> there is a gigantic difference in these products. >> reporter: six months after int

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

so a hydroelectric power dam would essentially eliminate that agricultural landscape.rrator: laos is not a democracy. even if local people wish to protest the elimination of their landscapes and lifestyles, even if local people they have few options. fox: geographers might think of them as "powerless place," and these corporations, in a world of globalization and global finance, might be thought of as "placeless power." and when those come together in time and space, it can have perhaps some unprecedented geographical impacts. i think the question needs to be... eds toe aske is this a viable long-term development strategy? will it...n 30 or 40 years, will these dams still be generating enough electricity to produce significant revenues, and even though it may increase the total g.n.p.-- or gross national product-- of laos, how will it actually impact people. narrator: but for now, laos's plans for engagement in the global economy are focused on exploiting its water resources and overcoming its geographic isolation by developing its transportation infrastructure. new ro

southwest curb and landscaping are scope elements of the 24th street mission. bart improvements project and full scope of plaza improvements should be completed in november 2013. we have representatives from the agencies requesting funds. they are responsive to questions, as am i. >> great. thank you for your presentation. i know the financing of this. we are pulling down money from future years. >> correct. >> if you could talk about how we are making sure -- how -- i understand how we are funding things in the present. how will that affect in the future besides the debt we are increasing the interest rate, we are increasing the debt in the future, what are we doing for the future? >> in the category specifically we are pulling funds from finally two years of programming, so funding would not be available on those two years as everything is currently structured it would be. that would be funding will be exhausted in to 2024-25 versus 2026-27. in terms of overall costs, they go up over the lifetime expenditure plan. if you consider the program as a whole that s

why should he stop when this landscape is at stake? >> four yes ago, georgia and russia fought a fierce war over regions of south ossetia. president saakashvili -- now georgia is facing a new political chapter. a millionaire will take over as georgia's new prime minister in 2013. where is he headed? will he leave georgia toward nato, or will he bring the country closer to moscow? >> we were told our journey would take a few hours. it leads us through beautiful countryside and we're on our way to a village that has become a household name. some say this is where george oppose a future started long ago. the homes have a new route set people are content. everyone here has an income. almost everyone has a blue t- shirt. >> this color is blue. he is a good man. he is from here. he gave this to me. >> giving away t-shirts might not seem the height of generosity, but ivanishvili does a lot more for his people. he pays health insurance for local families. he has paid for new routes. his former neighbor says he also gives the money. -- them mon

after returning i saw some lovely places and i wanted to be a landscape architect. i went to colpolly pomona and encouraged me to get involved in politics. i have been working on projects like civic centers, parks, fountains, restoration projects, and i was a member of the california native plant society and board member for 15 years, and we look forward to your support. thank you very much. >> thank you. mr. lagos. >> yes. i want to thank everybody for coming out tonight and enduring us, and i just want to let you know that in my opinion district seven needs a progressive in this upcoming election i believe i'm that person. i came in second in 2008. i am the only candidate up here that ran in 2008. garnered 19% of the vote and i came in second, and i believe that we need to make our city affordable again for working people, the middle class people. it's not an affordable place to live anymore for most working people so that is something i will work on. and i will oppose major land use development because i believe it's a threat to the preservation of our neighborho

the people blame the own are of a landscaping service. upset, people canceled his service. >> everybody in my neighborhood. >> neighbors are now suing the own are but the landscaping own are said the man in the video is not mow. >>> anglers in australia were trying to reel in a black marlin when the giant fish decided to hop right there on their boat. you can see the men trying to get out of the way of the marlin. the fesh weighs about 600 -- fish weighs about 600 pounds and the feisty fish was released back into the water. >> wow, 600 pounds? >>> energy drinks give a big boost of caffeine when you need it. >> but is it safe for is kids? >> you know fantasy football is popular, but some high schoolers took the concept and are turning it into a way to rate girls based on sexual activity. >> tonight is the final presidential debate, what the candidates will be talking about. >> our abc2 news app with an outstanding weather page. you can get the latest forecast 24/7. check it out. hundred and eighty million dollars for maryland schools. that

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