got photos of the work going on and excavation. in zone one at the deepest point you can see the equipment working. to refresh your memories, they put heavy equipment down in the bottom of the hole. the scrapers and the dozers. they pile the dirt up and extend the reach. the excavator is able to bring the dirt to the surface and put in it the trucks and progress. they can work multiple shifts, stockpiling or trucking where it doesn't impact the traffic and keep moving right along. the internal bracing continues. you can see the multiple levels of that down in zone one. the big change in area two. this is the access bridge completed to first there are shots of that being worked on. down in zone four -- just wanted to clarify, this was where the woolly mammoth tooth was found in the buttress operation, which is why it would be hard to get down to the 110-foot level and do anymore exploring. we have put the archaeologists associated -- they have put operators through a training program to help them identify archaeological things. not

it will take several seasons to excavate the remains of an entire household and several decades to excavatere community. the community buried beneath the sugar cane of ceren may one day be unearthed. but other sites in the maya region offer what ceren lacks -- evidence of ancient households easily seen on the surface. mira, arturo. una, dos, tres piedras. keach: here in honduras, a survey team combs the copan valley. their trained eyes recognize mounds of grass-covered stones as the remnants of ancient maya dwellings. okay. there's the road. mm-hmm. this...here's where we came in -- a small road. and we walked around this way, and we walked over into this pasture. and so this site is right about here, right on this little hill. keach: the copan valley lies 100 kilometers north of ceren. in 1975, archaeologists began a complete survey of the valley on foot. after 10 years of painstaking work, they have discovered the remains of 4,500 structures. más a usted... cinco centímetros. keach: archaeologist william sanders has been leading excavations in the copan valley since 1980. sanders: we deci

the excavation will be three feet from either side. their neighbor on the other side has a setback house too. so they're not as concerned because it's their yard. but my house, it's my house, all the way back, and up the hill. so the tunneling, the excavation, the shoring, the original plans that they put in, in awk, they had a firm geogrout incorporated, a very experienced firm, who put in the plans for the geogrout which came right to the border of my property. and in their two page report to them about it said they would need my sign-off in order to do the project that way. in late august, you can see on their sheets, it's august 30, is the most recent date for the geogrouting, it's now moved back one foot so that the two foot injections of the personaliation grout would somehow amazingly go down exactly like a cylinder two feet all the way down into the property and not leak over into my property. everything i read says that would not be the case, that it's not that controlled, it depends on the density of the ground below it, and

and it's like randy said, if you go to the beach, you excavate sand. at first, it's moist and it will stand up. it's moist and it will stand up. as soon as it dries, it starts to fall apart. so by turning it into this weak concrete or some people call it sandstone you do away with that. the process involves a grid of four foot six on center, not from the property line. at four foot six on center, there's a nozzle that's stuck down and there's a group of people that are trained nozzlemen. there's dials on their machine -- on the top of the rod. the hoses, the exact pressure, how much grout goes into the cement. it's a very safe process. all the trees -- major trees above the grouting process, they're all going to be preserved. we have an arborist, a very sophisticated operation that's going to take place. and these nozzlemen who do the work are very experienced, and there's two of them for each -- one of them watches the dials, the pressure, the amount of water, the amount of cement, the mixture, then there's two or three people on the truck, there's pe

quickly and just briefly in section, you'll see where the excavation is for the multi-purpose facility the section on the right is the existing condition, the blue shaded area is representing the massing of the new and the new section is there below, this is cutting through the south which is to my right to the north towards specific property owners to the left. the elevation along jackson street, the existing condition above where the horizontal work would be done, the central area is to accommodate the new core, the blue representing the glass and the taking off of the prechalet shall we call it and the elevations are there at the bottom. along jackson street, the existing photograph at the top, the existing section or existing elevation along jackson street -- scott street where the blue area is, you see the modest areas of addition and the new facade below. we're changing the look, we're trying to bring the school up to date visually, this is along jackson street, you can see the existing condition in the upper right, some material uses and moves are done by reference there by some

here, david webster and his team prepare to excavate. they will cut the brush that has grown on top of the buildings, and then attempt to clear away the mystery of the lineage heads. as copan evolved from a chiefdom to a state, did the lineage heads acquire an additional source of power ? the team plots the size and distribution of the mounds. large variations will show significant differences in wealth. man: okay, bring it a couple of centimeters closer to you. okay, a little bit farther away from you. good, good, right there. keach: from their measurements, the archaeologists create a contour map. the tallest mounds outside of the acropolis surround a central courtyard. the largest mounds date to the time following the death of 18 rabbit. surrounding the large mounds are smaller ones. they are almost unnoticeable. digging into the small mounds, the team discovers low stone foundations once covered with pole and thatched houses. david webster. webster: there's a lot of this cobbled masonry with stuff taken right out of the river. the ro

as the whole worldthrilled, death and the supernatural seemed to gin to prey upon the excavators. lord carnarvon died rst--from the bite of a mere mosquito. as death closed over him in april of 1923, only a few months after the opening of the tomb, the lights of cairo extinguished with him. stranger still, at the same instant in england, s dog gave a terrifying howl and died. then georges benedite, the head of egyptian antiquities at the louvre museum, died of a stroke after leaving a tomb. still another death occurred-- that of arthur c. mace from the metropolitan museum in new york, who was assisting carter. the bizarre events surrounding the opening of tutankhamun's tomb appear today to have been merely coincidental. the unextinguishable legend of the mummy's curse had begun. who was this king? what was he like? what did he achieve in a life lived 34 centuries ago? we don't know for sure. all we have are images. even with its discovery, the tomb still refuses to yield many of its secrets. we know only that the young boy king, tutankhamun, grew up during one of the most turbulen

they ordered excavations and had the most elegant finds removed to their palace.ord of the mysterious roman cities trapped in time spread throughout europe intrigued by the classical age. travelers added pompeii as a vital stop on their grand tour. sir william hamilton, the british envoy, arrived in naples in 1764 and stayed for 25 years. hamilton combined his interests in ancient history with a passion for the accumulation of knowledge for its own sake. his studies of vesuvian lava and other volcanic debris and its impact on the geology of the bay led to published accounts of his findings. at the same time, painters created imaginative images of the cataclysmic eruption of 79 a.d., as well as contemporary views of the still active vesuvius, which erupted sporadically but less lethally throughout the 18th century. writers and intellectuals began to visit pompeii in search of the wellsprings of western european culture. german writer wolfgang von goethe visited pompeii in 1787. reader: "the rooms, passages and arcades are gaily painted. the frescoes are surrounded

and i spoke individually with the 8 neighbors who are behind the playfield to discuss our plans to excavate, all of these neighbors have expressed support either in writing or verbally for our approach to them and for the project itself. before the summer construction started, both the school and our general contractor wrote a letter to all of our neighbors within a two block radius to have school explaining what would be happening with the summer construction project and if they had any concerns, our construction superintendent was on site daily by 6 a.m., and they sent them away prior to 7 a.m. to minimize many noise on the street. i have as mary woods mentioned 8 letters from neighbors that i can read for the commission and thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> you can leave them on the bench. >> thank you. >> any additional public comment? seeing none, the public comment is closed. commissioner moore. >> i'm in support of this project, we've seen a lot of schools come before us where they've had to go beyond their footprint to expand and we've had issues of lost housing, i know it's

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david webster is the archaeologist who excavated much of the noble's house. this man probably had about 200 to 300 people who were dependent on him in some way, including his wives, his brothers, his political retainers, his economic specialists, living in this patio group and the other patio groups. they're buried here. there are about 250 or 300 burials here. which are the people who were his dependents. and essentially what this is is an elaborate household. keach: the maya noble could support his household because he controlled the rich farmland surrounding the compound. the land was so fertile it could produce a surplus which fed the noble's dependents, including specialists like the artisan, who were not themselves farmers. this was the basis of the economic system of the elites in ancient copan. for the noble, the system worked well. the more dependents he controlled, the more powerful he appeared. but the system also created a problem. what was he to do with such a large family of elites ? i suspect that one of the things is what do you do with these

last week, we reached 10,300 feet of tunnel excavated out of 18,600 feet. we are starting to install the final pipeline between -- pipelining. last project i wanted to update you on. that facility has been operational for more than a year, we recently received certification for this facility. in their letter to us, they announced its as an example of sustainable design. the interesting thing is that this certification did not include the solar panels shown here. the contract only required silver certification. if we wanted to pursue gold certification, it would be an easy thing to do. we're trying to keep our costs down. that is the story of there. i would be happy to answer any questions you may have. president moran: commissioners? ++ calaveras situation is clearly a major. i reviewed the various resources we have. we're looking at the geologic data. it is a difficult circumstance and one that you know there is risks. i think it is not a good news, but where there is good news, i think we are in a -- i think we are appropriately on top of that. >> they ar

they ordered excavations and had the most elegant finds removed to their palace.ord of the mysterious roman cities trapped in time spread throughout europe intrigued by the classical age. travelers added pompeii as a vital stop on their grand tour. sir william hamilton, the british envoy, arrived in naples in 1764 and stayed for 25 years. hamilton combined his interests in ancient history with a passion for the accumulation of knowledge for its own sake. his studies of vesuvian lava and other volcanic debris and its impact on the geology of the bay led to published accounts of his findings. at the same time, painters created imaginative images of the cataclysmic eruption of 79 a.d., as well as contemporary views of the still active vesuvius, which erupted sporadically but less lethally throughout the 18th century. writers and intellectuals began to visit pompeii in search of the wellsprings of western european culture. german writer wolfgang von goethe visited pompeii in 1787. reader: "the rooms, passages and arcades are gaily painted. the frescoes are surrounded

our team is also evaluates disposal sites, the material that will be excavated. as you can suspect, there's challenged associated with the disposal sites, and we've engageded resources for those additional sites. in terms of costs schedule impacts. the contractor will give preliminary costs by mid october. depending on how much we want to accelerate the work. we will take about at week to select one of those options. then, the contractor is commited to giving us a final cost proposal, on the one selected option as well as the revised schedule, by the ipd of november. ian participate it will take act a month, for final change order. so, by the end of the year, we should have the exact magnitude of the impacts. a month ago, the cost impact of the service condition is at least added 60,we'll need to costs. i also mentioned to you, there are a number of significance risks that remain, the 2 largest ones. design . upper spill way, and grouting requirements. and the dam foundations. to ahave account for the project uncertainty, our latest risk register showss for the p

mining here is lucrative, even if the excavation is costly environmental regulations strict.he people are divided on the issue. some residents are banding together to raise support for the mine. the mother of this young family is one of them. like 40% of the population, she is out of work. >> i hope that thanks to the mine, we will be able to stay and our family will have a future here. otherwise, we will have to move away. >> but where to? the effects of the economic crisis are being felt across spain. in this region, there is little industry outside of traditional coal mining, and its days are numbered. the regional government could sorely use the tax revenue the gold mine would generate. the socialist-led government does not want to talk about the controversial project on camera. if the conservatives had their way, the mine would already be open and creating jobs. >> we thought gold mining was history here. but in recent years, it is once again -- it has once again become an option. it is not an easy option. but one that is full of opportunity. >> gold is already being min

obviously, we are very anxious to start excavation began on that slope of the abutment. and i'm working very closely with the design team as well as the contractor to make that happen in the next few weeks. as you know, that work on the bae tunnel has progressed very well. however, we did encounter a situation late last week that will impact our project progress. last friday, we were notified by cargill, who is in charge of a salt pond operation in new work, that they had discovered some pretty significant cracking around one of their levees around their salt bond -- salt pond in the bay. and since we had just tunnel underneath that levee, the assumption iwas that the tunnelling was what was causing the cracking. keep in mind and our tunnelling is 680 ft. below surface. we immediately stopped our exploration activities and we're working with our project engineers and geologists on assessing the situation. we have also completed the repairs on the crack subsidence on the levee already. we have yet to determine whether or tunneling activities are what cause the cracking. i

proposes an existing k through 8 private school for boys, the majority of the work consists of excavation for a new multi-purpose room and a renovation of existing facilities. the project will add approximately 19 thousand square feet to the existing 55 thousand square feet for a total of 74 thousand square feet upon completion, the project requires modifications to the rear yard and parking requirements of the parking code. the sponsor is seeking a phase development in order to accommodate the academic year and fundraising for the proposed work. conditional use approval, this project if approved will be valid until 2021 or 9 years from now. a brief description of the three phases of construction includes phase 1 which involves window replacement at the back of the building, interior renovations, foundation and upgrade, and this work has started this summer. the next phase, phase 2 which is the bulk of the construction includes the excavation of the multi-purpose room below the existing athletic field, so even though you cannot see it but because it occupies the entire rear portion of the

especially when the excavation is starting. >> it's a very reasonable comment. >> great, other than that, i'll move to approve the conditions. >> second. >> i'm supportive of the project, i wanted to just acknowledge and thank the [inaudible] zone of anticipating the movements, in terms of startup of time, perhaps the page on the town school website can be set up with construction alerts if there's major movements or things out of the ordinary, i'm not supportive of changing the hours, this is something that has to happen within the context of school hours, i'm glad to see the student body is still at 400 and i think those were my comments and again i'm in support of. commissioner antonini. >> i think it's a great project, being the father that went to other private schools in san francisco and going through the same building process and seeing the difference after the new facilities are available, particularly recreationally but also academically, it's utilizing the land to its best use and of course land is precious in san francisco, it looks like a very well thought out plan and i'm s

excavation work so extensive they are digging in two directions from still one going south and to the west of the mosque and because of this digging houses a muslim artifacts get damaged but actually they haven't discovered any jewish artifacts during excavation one jewish archaeologists admitted that they had not found a single stone related to jewish history but there's no doubt that this dig will cause destruction of the mosque there already cracks in its southern eastern walls they remove soil from under the mosque uncovering the foundation is that the building is hanging in the air and geologists say there nurse great with a magnitude of five point zero will collapse the structure before they dug out these tunnels the mosque was good even the worst earthquakes the dig is very dangerous we have protested against it several times but the authorities have ignored us that with seven israeli extremists have gone as far as to call for the aqsa mosque to be twenty dollars and for the first and second jewish temples to be built in its place what do you have to say about this imagine what