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

diameter tunnel excavation and insert this pipe in that excavation and then we place a cement grout between the steel liner and the rough excavation of the tunnel to grout the liner in place. these photos show workers inside the tunnel including welding of the steel pipe lengths that are 50 feet along the three and a half miles of the tunnel. the grout is placed in that space after the photos were taken. now as i said at the beginning of my presentation the mew irvington tunnel construction had a setback after that space was grouted. namely between work shifts in the early morning hours of august 27 a 65-foot length of tunnel lining buckled at a location 8200 feet down stream of the alameda westportal of the tunnel and where in flows were very high and pressures are very high, and it's a very deep portion of the tunnel below a mountain. as can be seen on the photo on the left, the left-hand side of the steel lining of the tunnel actually buckled into the tunnel several feet and this is a view looking upstream towards the east. the photo on the right is a view of that same buckle fro

excavating over 2 million cubic yards of rock and sand.s cleanup of the site expose the ancient bad of the colorado -- a bed of the colorado river river, geologists read the , history of what happened ages ago. workman cleaned and prepared bad rock services to receive the first concrete. 12 miles upstream, drag lines, excavated sand and gravel. concrete was dispatched to all areas of construction. nine cable ways lower the concrete into the forms and handled other supplies and equipment as well. as the first bucket of concrete settled into its foundation on june 6, 1933, hoover dam began its rise from the depths of black canyon. as cable ways dropped load after load of concrete, dam soon reached its thickness in its base. the interlocking columns skyward as crew set new records daily. bucketful after bucketful ran a continuous cycle dumping its load of 16 tons. it was truly a modern engineering wonder. crews vibrated and compacted >> the c-span cities tour takes book tv and american history tv on the road traveling to u.s. cities to learn

mexican archaeologist angel garcia cook, excavated the cave with macneish. cook is now director of the mexican institute of archaeology. yeah, que bueno, yes, el tipo flaco. flaco. keach: this projectile point indicates that this cave was occupied at the same time as purron cave, about 5000 b.c. clues to the diet of the cave's ancient residents also began turning up. interpreter: this is a piece of maguey that was cooked over a fire and then chewed. it was a species of cactus that they chewed and then spat out. sometimes you can see the mark of people's teeth on these quids. so maguey was clearly a part of the diet of the people that came here at a certain season of the year. this is a leaf of nopal cactus, which you can find during all the seasons, but there are times when people eat it more often because there is nothing else to eat. keach: nopal still grows just outside the cave. macneish's workmen remember droughts when they ate nopal to stave off hunger and thirst. they call the cactus "starvation food." so, discovering cactus in the cave tells the arch

california versus the department of public works use and mapping 1411 is the denial of the utility excavation permit for the public right-of-way relate to a mount facility and the next appealing the denial on may 28, 2014, of the utility excavation in the public right-of-way with a mounted facility since those are denials we've started with at&t mr. johnson you'll start and have up to 14 minutes to present our case. - your case. >> thank you, commissioners. can i request that the exhibit be placed on the overhead i'd like to begin by addressing the departments brief and correct a few things for the administration record. there are some statement in the departments brief are untrue or misleading i'd like to correct those. i'd like to begin with page 17 of the departments brief. and this section of the brief concerns the city's flu to comply with the 60 day rules and the cities argument its failure to process the permit within 60 days is at&t's fault or not a problem because at&t explicitly waved its rights to comply with state law. as part of the argument the department offered this chart up o

not a deep excavation to accommodate a three 3-car parking garage. the rear view stepping down the hill towards the south and the west again and that can certainly be done without parking as well and space be given to these units. again, a slightly wider view on the corridor to the top of the steps. another scheme, 6 units, 1700 square -square foot each. no parking, same view cord or at the top of the steps, three stories 3 stories on the steps as well. there is the massing view from the step and to reduce the height on the steps, the top could be pushed back as well and a massing view from the rear stepping down the hill to the west and to the south and again pretty much the same view at the top of the step. then finally a four 4-unit idea of basically same layout very similar to the first one showed with the three 3 units facing the steps and a fourth tucked behind below and again probably three 3 story each stepping down the steps and more massing diagram with a third option and the rear stepping down breaking up the mass towards the west and tles

those images i juxtaposed with modern archaeological excavation of battle scared skeletons of real life amazons, women or our ray should buried with their weapons and horses. those real horse women of the steppes, whose graves can tell us so much, were alive at the very same time that the greeks were describing and paining pictures of barbarian warrior women they knew as the amazons, and i'm also included just a few maps for orientation. i don't know if you can see them. they might help you see where we're talking about, and i've added to the mix some thrilling images of modern-day amazons. who were the amazons? it's a simple question but complex answers. as many of you already know, in greek mythology, amazons were fierce women of exotic lands, as courageous and skilled in bat as the mightiest greek heroes. they were located in a vast territory that the greeks called, citly a, the land background the black sea and beyond the black sea, and played a role in thely trojan war ask the chronicles of the city of athens in greek myth, every great champion all had to prove their courage by ove

and mapping on missouri street protesting the issuance of july to bell engineering of a utility excavation permit to install a new permit this is with the appellant >> commissioner i'll recuse myself in the past it is the conflict and ask commissioner hurtado to chair this portion. >> thank you. the other microphone, sir >> use the other microphone please. commissioners. >> would you like copies of the point slide. >> that's not necessary thank you. >> good evening board. i want to take the opportunity to present i'm matthew brendon dpon no 1 on missouri street just three houses down i'll use my time to address the respondents brief please follow along with the brief that's helpful i plan to address all their points so first regarding their statement of of fact app at&t is exclaiming no community opposition was received at the time of the dpw hearing. you see here this is the order that dpw laid out at the may 19th meagerly or hearing the 5 dash 16 are part of the public record. as shown in the dpw comment tracking worksheet there were no comments in support. however, i believe those comme

excavating over 2 million cubic yards of rock and sand.cleanup of the site expose the ancient bad of the colorado river, geologists read the history of what happened ages ago. workman cleaned and prepared bad rock services to receive the first concrete. assuring utmost stability for hoover dams foundation. 12 miles upstream, drag lines, excavated sand and gravel. for the dams concrete from an old stream on the arizona side. the train hauled this raw material to an aggregate plant across the river a few miles above the dam site. the sand and gravel passed through various processes until it emerged as aggregate. then it was stock filed according to sizes. this process moved as called for two to mixing plants. , one in the canyon bottom, and the other on the nevada river. there sand and gravel were , blended with cement into a uniform mix, meeting rigid specifications for the concrete to be placed in the structure. ♪ from the mixing plants, concrete was dispatched to all points of construction. nine aerial cable ways spanning the canyon lower

workmen excavated over 1.5 million of material from the four tunnels in 13 months. then were lined with concrete three feet thick. explosions rocked the canyon almost daily for almost two years before actual placement of concrete in the dam began. acrobatic workmen called high scalers prepared the canyon walls for each blast. suspend on ropes they drilled holes in the rock and loaded them with dynamite. after each explosion these daredevils swarmed over the cliffs, prying loose rock and clearing the walls of debris. in november 1932, the colorado river was diverted. under control for the first time in its history, the river flowed around and past the site. men in trucks dumped earthen rock embankment across the canyon below the openings forcing the river from its age old bend through the huge diversion. a second earth and rock dam was thrown across the tunnel downstream keeping water from backing into the foundation area. isolated and protected from the river by the two copper dams, the site was pumped dry. men and machines dug 135 feet below the old river level to

>> on the excavation for the foundation for the deck which could be a foundation for a firewall that is a twam wall for a building or something like that any excavation will have to take into consideration the neighbors property they'll not be able to go below the neighbors foundation they'll have to get 3307 of the building code and 32 of the california civil code 10 days notice to any property line and take into consideration there will be test holes are they going below the neighbors foundations that's the permit holders responsibility the site plan didn't show the location of property so i wasn't able to determine that but if they brought i bought it up it would be will have to be addressed i--i don't know what the foundation was was but it is on the permit holders property. >> such for clearing that up. >> actually mr. duffy i'm not sure i read it the same way it appears the foundation is for the post of the deck then the sketch they have that centered probably across the fence line. >> i saw that. >> it's annexed to me symmetrical so whether you dig a hole for it a foundation f

it has been excavated by texas a&m. they went diving in the '80s and '90s and on the ship are remains from seven different cultures. it shows the international nature at the time. mostly it had 300 pounds of copper and tin and raw things from else where. in the ancient records from about this time we have one guy, the king of cypress, who apologizes and says i am only sending you 200 talon of copper. we have 300 on this ship. so he is not writing about this ship but another one. this is ancient tin. some in raw form and some used form of plates and other things. and then class -- ancient, raw glass. covered with cobalt and ivory and various other things. all kinds of material including resin. and unused vessels that would have been given or for sale. we are not sure if this ship belong today a private merchant or was a gift from a king. i can tell you when it went down that somebody lost a fortune. and they had insurers so i hope this degioia was insured. other things we have from here -- there is a letter from the sigh

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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

the property on 699 protesting the issuance for the pacific bell of the excavation permit installing the permit for the application it is on for hearing tonight we'll start with the appellant. >> okay ms. fee would like to pass forward an identical set of photos. >> sure can we make sure we get the photos from the permit holder i don't know if there's a copy for the department as well we can take a look and pass them here's another set. >> i can share this. >> good evening madam president, vice president commissioner fung and commissioner honda my name is viola yee my property is located on the southeast corner of package and stereotyping streets i have been burdened with a disproportion share of graffiti and vandalism activities for more than 25 years my name is my property has been cited by the street management because of them the department of public works anti graffiti unit is aware of my burden dealing with graffiti based on the notice of violations that they've posted on my property and my porn's at the hard of hearing hearing i've informed them my property is vandalized on nu

permit to the site once filed there was no excavation permit and finally, there's the board can't reduce to deny the ordinance based on a claim that is preempt by state law a city and county may make and enforce it's regulations not in conflict with general law thank you and i'm here to answer questions. >> ms. fong and we'll let the courts decide whether this is properly before us or not but i'm still wondering in the course of departmental review the permit holders attorney has indicated that they are required then to provide all documents as to whether there are alternative sites or not to what extent does the department review their documentation. >> if the applicant proposes each alternative sites in this case there were no alternative sites proposed for 50 one missouri or no one for alternative sites. >> okay. thank you. >> any public comment on that item? seeing none, we'll have rebuttal mr. brendon no one you'll have 3 minutes. >> so with regards to meeting even though technical requirement in in this case, the attorney for at&t is talking about exhibit b those are guidelines for

the brief states at&t argues that dependings denials for the excavation permits vicinity public utilities this argument is not before the board the board lacks the power to declare the ordinance unconstitutional or to refuse to regulate a statute ordinance. this statement of law is half correct. so it's true and i'm going to put this exhibit on the overhead that the california institution imposes authority administrative agencies under the california insinuation can't refuse to enforce the statute on the basis it violates state law not open the base it violates the united states institution and on the basis it violate the california institution but no other limits on our 0 decisions to the department suggests otherwise it's mistaken. i will point out nothing in the municipal code limits i in that matter and nothing in state law limits our authority in that manner. to the extent that the department is suggesting that when you make our decisions you should simply ignore state law or you can't refuse or, you know, make decisions on the basis that a state status says that an issue is illegal

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 mereosquito. 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 turbulent

so it's not like we are on a flat lot and trying to make this excavation that creates a deeper hole. we will be leveling it out to do the work but it is a grade. the other thing is the counter proposal, somebody proposed six unit 6-unit and i think they said without any parking which means realistically you are going to have six cars searching around for places to park because nobody is going to buy those units and not

so it's not like we are on a flat lot and trying to make this excavation that creates a deeper hole. we will be leveling it out to do the work but it is a grade. the other thing is the counter proposal, somebody proposed six unit 6-unit and i think they said without any parking which means realistically you are going to have six cars searching around for places to park because nobody is going to buy those units and not have a car realistically. that is going to add to the traffic problems more than the three 3 units. there was a lot of support, there is 50 letters of support, and i like the things they did. i like the fact that there are separation in the three distinct units, there is a design that they can be a little bit more contrasting but they are unique units and single family homes which there is a scarcity in san francisco. i know there is construction on brotherhood after a 12 -year fight and they are building them now. i don't know of any other isolated homes. i think it's going to be four additional units. and i understand the access is when you couple the proposed openin

workmen excavated over 1.5 million cubic yards of blasted rock material from the four tunnels in 13 months. tunnels then were lined with concrete three feet thick. explosions rocked the canyon almost daily for almost two years before actual placement of concrete in the dam began. acrobatic workmen called high scalers prepared the canyon walls for each blast. suspended on ropes, they drilled holes in the rock and loaded them with dynamite. after each explosion these daredevils swarmed over the cliffs, prying loose rock and clearing the walls of debris. in november 1932, the colorado river was diverted. under control for the first time in its history, the river flowed around and past the site. men in trucks dumped earthen rock embankment across the canyon below the openings forcing the river from its age old bed through the huge diversion tubes. a second earth and rock dam was thrown across the tunnel downstream keeping water from backing into the foundation area. isolated and protected from the river by the two copper dams, the site was pumped dry. men and machines dug 135 feet below the ol

for a long, long time, people looked at stonehenge and excavated there as a stone circle, or a series of circles. has research goes back to the 17th century. now with this new technology that looks under the ground, we're begin to go realize that stonehenge was part of an norm and you say sacred landscape, and this is the exciting thing. we're now looking at the country, at the sites around it and the =phepbt 20 years are going to be very, very exciting. >> people have been studying stonehenge for centuries, there are research projects as army as the 1620's. with all this digging around the area for so long, why had none of these features been found? >> very simply because we couldn't do it. we are now in an amacing period in archaeology where for example there's a burial of an archer near stone hen where destroyeding his bones, we know he came from central europe. there was no way to do this 10 years ago. ten years ago, we certainly couldn't have looked under the ground like now. people did their best, but they are digging a monument, not looking at landscape. >> what does this tell

on page 22 of our report table 4 that shows the base excavation that the mta will pay not to exceed contract plus on page 23 of our report the mta has identified fund for 986, 995 not to exceed a billion dollars plus. so that there is still an unidentified funding source of $400 million plus. we have a number of recommendations supervisors and they're on page 26 of our report first, we recommend you amend the resolution to include two option for 40 additional light rail vehicles and 45 additional light rail vehicles respectfully and that recommendations is consistent with the intent of the mta. the second recommendation as we recommend you recommend the mta to remedy the board of supervisors approval prior to assessing the light rail vehicles contingent upon identification of $2 million resources to pay for such costs and any contract whether the funding source is not identified our recommendation is consistent we believe that the board of supervisors has at oversight authority and should continue with the oversight to make sure those funds are identified. >> mr. rose will we have our report

they located the timbers, studied the dimensions, and they will excavate it in the next few years. it looks like other building elsewhere, which are large timber structures standing by themselves. what would happen is you would die, and the people believed you'd become an ancess tore. what they did was expose your body in the charnal house, let the bones be exposed and the flesh decompose and then they'd gather them up and bury them in the soil. in a way, as a dead person, you returned to the soil and ball a revered ancestor. they were big here. >> a now find nearby was a line of 60 stone pillars, making a superhen j. any clues as to how the ancient builders built the monument. it's interesting. there's a lot of research on to stonehenge, which is massive. and the other side, which is brilliantly dug by michael, a british archeologists, they have stones now, and the question comes forward again. basically these people, farmers - there was nothing they didn't know about using leavers and weights to move things. no hydraulics. they use leavers, weights, slopes and slide. >> even for

a block like this, there are sites that not excavated.ure is >> they felt this place was totally excavated. --and in the >> i was actually -- >> in the spirit of the 18th century, we have a civil disagreement then. >> in addition to the great compromise, there were many iscussions, over 20, on how we would elect our president. they were uncomfortable with hamilton's monarchy with the nd also states and the people. ow did we get to the electoral college. >> rick calls it the single biggest thorn, the great piece coming back to you. >> i describe it as pure torment. here was the basic dilemma. way was wilson. it was the direct popular election of the president. one.as a minority of not because the framers thought stupid.e people were too , eldridge gary, bona fide bon curmudgeon. they didn't believe the people were too stupid but too ignorant. how in the world could a voter in georgia know the merits of a vice ate in new york and versa? vastness of the landscape, the rudimentary nature, made it not a viable alternative. worried about and appropriately worried about this stupidity, but provin

they immediately called firefighters who came to the rescue using this large excavator. they dug a hole next to the shaft 30 feet down. once they got down, they started digging over and cut a hole about 13 inches around in the side of this concrete-lined shaft in order to get this small child out. it took them several hours. >> super dangerous for them too, because they are digging this very deep hole. they have very little cribbing to put up. that could collapse on them, too, if they're not careful. >> i feel bad for the mom. she is working in an orchard and has her baby with her. that's not optimum for any mom or dad. >> you're right. the parents were terrified as they were waiting to see that their child was okay. we do see the moment rescuers are able to get this toddler out. he was immediately taken to the hospital and miraculously had no serious injuries as a result of this fall. >>> guess what? we have another winner in our rtm ipad mini give away. she is charlene from los angeles. watches us on fox 11. congratulati congratulations. we are adding one more week to

workmen excavated over 1.5 million yards of blasted rock material from the four tunnels in 13 months.s then were lined with concrete three feet thick. explosions rocked the canyon almost daily for two years before actual placement of concrete in the dam began. acrobatic workmen called high scalers prepared the canyon walls for each blast. suspended on ropes they drilled holes in the rock and loaded them with dynamite. after each explosion, these daredevils swarmed over the cliffs, prying loose rock and clearing the walls of debris. in november 1932, the colorado river was diverted. under control for the first time in its history, the river flowed around and past the site. men in trucks dumped earthen rock embankment across the canyon below the tunnel openings forcing the river from its age-old bend through the huge diversion tubes. a second earth and rock dam was thrown across the tunnel downstream keeping water from backing into the foundation area. isolated and protected from the river by the two copper dams, the site was pumped dry. men and machines dug 135 feet below the old river