i am the only undertaker in this town. i have a corner on the market." i think we have in some ways become estranged about death and the dead. we're among the first couple generations for whom the presence of the dead at their own funerals has become optional. we saw people start organizing sort of these commemorative events to which everyone was invited but the dead guy. and i see that as probably not good news for the culture at large. up until a couple generations ago, humans dealt with death by dealing with their dead. so that the way we processedss mortality was by processing from one place to the other, and both the dead and the living have some distance to go when someone we love dies. ( piano music in background ) >> well, my father was a funeral director. two of my brothers and i are funeral directors. our brother-in-law is a funeral director. five of our nieces and nephews are funeral directors. and my son, paddy, is entering mortuary school in the next few months. >> i assist him in any way he needs me-- getting cars lined up, helping him in c

thus, undertakings are the things we do to vest the lives we lead against the cold, the meaningless, the void, the noisy blather and the blinding dark. it is the voice we give to wonderment, to pain, to love and desire, anger and outrage; the words that we shape into song and prayer. which undertaking is it then that does not seek to make some sense of life and living, dying and the dead?" >> hi, anne. >> hi. >> tom lynch is here. >> oh, hello. >> i'm tom. nice to meet you. >> nice to meet you. this is your aunt? >> this is my aunt. >> is that mrs. leonard? or ms. leonard? >> ms. leonard. >> i'm tom lynch. i'm pleased to meet you. i'm going to sit down here and chat with you for a little bit, okay? >> oh, please do. >> aunt mary, mr. lynch would like to talk with you and i about what you would like to have... about funeral arrangements and death preparation. can you... would you like to speak with him about that? >> oh, yes. >> mary was getting progressively worse. she wanted very much to remain independent, but it came to a point she realized she really couldn't be on her own. she w

oh, ma'am, he had such a voice-- horrid as an undertaker. oh, undertaker? did i say "undertaker"? i didn't mean "undertaker". minnie. i would never say "undertaker" to you. for we all know it was an undertaker who cast you aside so cruelly. ( sobbing ) mr. pontefract must've hurt your sister terrible, miss pearl. minnie, leave now, and do not return until you can manage your tongue. yes, ma'am. please tell your sister i will never say "undertaker" again. ( sobbing ) minnie...go. ( water pouring ) but, ma'am, when miss ruby went to pontefract, she was happy ever after. she was. but if her undertaker was in love with her, then how could it stop? human frailty. what is that? we all want life to be simple, relationships to be enchanted. then along comes human frailty, and... before we know it, all is lost. ma'am, where does human frailty come from? who knows? the past. the darkest corners of the human soul. it simply creeps up on us. minnie, is there any water in that kettle? i--i did-- i did pour it in there. i don't know where it's gone. what are you all doing here? those candleford

so if we are serious about this undertaking, if we really want to achieve parity for women in the work force both as they participate and how they participate, then we must remove structural and social impediments that stack the deck against them. now i don't urge this because it is the right thing to do, though i believe it is, but for the sake of our children and our nations it is necessary to do. because a rising tide of women in an economy raises the fortunes of families and nations. my husband often says in making the argument that everyone should be involved that we don't have a person to waste. i think that's true. when it comes to the enormous challenge of our time, to systemically and relent leslie purse -- relent leslie purr sighs those things. the case for unlocking the potential of william and including them more fully in the economic life of our nation respect begins with an accounting of how women are driving growth. the 21 economies of apex is the most dynamic of the world. together we equal more than that half of global output. they are opening stores. they are running

i believe the national park service is undertaking an environmental assessment. could you tell us briefly how that meshes as well? >> that is an excellent question. the ceqa findings covers all of the implementation plans for the america's cup. there summarized and included within the eir. even though they are evolving, they are living documents each that will incorporate best practices. among those, they will respond to the performance requirements and all the mitigation measures you are proving as part of these actions. those are covered. with respect to the national park service and the national environmental protection act, the environment and review process, the ceqa equivalent they have to go through, that is ongoing and will be flowing through the documents in the spring. they have similar but somewhat different standards for their review. that information from the eir that is common to what needs to get covered gets picked up, and additional changes according to their interpretation of nepa will play out in those documents. for your purposes today, you ar

the report, i think the district would go a long way towards building more and more trust as we undertake these strategic initiatives together. thank you for your consideration and your time. president mendoza: thank you. anything else? questions from the board? seeing none, i wanted to move off the one other item on the appointment for one member of the pac. that would be moving up item l, an appointment of one member to the advisory council. recommendation is that we free up 0.1 regular member to serve from january 2012-in june 2013. the member recommended for appointment is roderick mills. i need a motion and a second. any public speakers on this? seeing none, comments from the board? commissioner murase: i want to thank you for stepping up. i think you'll have a good experience with the pac. it is such an important body for us, advising us in our work. i want to thank you for stepping up. >> you are welcome. president mendoza: did we hear whether you have children in our schools? >> i have a seventh grader at herbert hoover middle school and a 10th grader at wallenberg. president mend

strategic about our resources and energy we could force towards supporting the district as it is undertaking these strategic initiatives. the district in use it the same way. it is trying to be strategic. the deputy commissioner met with us twice already in this half of the school year and. he mentioned the district intention to focus financial resources, prioritizing them in ways that will support the undertaking of a meeting the goals within these strategic initiatives. the main question is, how can we, the pac, and the district, deploy these resources strategically without information about what is working or not? in the last public report about the strategic initiatives was in march. the information that we hope to get in january would be answers to the questions such as what are the goals and how close are we to achieving that? what has happened since march of 2011?

every day, there is a balance between what we need to undertake to do our job and to prevent the results of a substantial terrorist attack, but every one of us understand it is a balance. particularly the bureau over the years has understood that in conducting investigations, you need revocation. you need start, and you build up a vacation before you take the next investigative step that may further intrude on one's privacy and the like. i will tell you that our agents are inculcated with the understanding that they are given a great deal power, a great deal of ability to affect persons lives. understanding the necessity of operating within the constitution, within the applicable statutes of the attorney general guidelines is drilled into all of our new agents. as i indicated before, my predecessor set up a process whereby every one of our agents goes to the holocaust museum to make certain that they understand they understand what happens when a law enforcement or intelligence agency gets off the tracks. >> you addressed one of my upcoming questions, but there was a variation on it that

or wherever by an organized crime group for the high-school student down the block in his room undertaking the cyber attack. consequently, the way we divide up our work -- espionage or terrorism or fraud -- does not really help us when you have an attrition, particularly if it is intrusion by a foreign government, which falls under the purview of foreign intelligence agencies. what we have found is we have had to adjust our organizational structure to develop the relationships, and i put together a task force when there is a cyber intrusion, that includes individuals from across the community because you do not know where that case will end up and you want to make certain you do not miss anything. whether it be offensive or defensive, we are generally defensive in the sense that operating domestically and the investigative authority within the united states. we would be helpless if we did not work with dhs, cia, nsa, and the rest of the intelligence community. if there is one substantial change that has made the biggest difference, i would say breaking down the traditional walls between th

those are the efforts we are undertaking. jeff and matt have been a fantastic partners in this. as far as we know, it is a new day in these efforts and really trying to work collaboratively and we hope to have all your support in doing that. [applause] >> of course, that is not to say that we are not going to fight it out in court because, of course, that is what we do. i would like to briefly introduce ross mirkarimi, who is a supervisor here in the city, and he has been a champion of many criminal justice issues, including prisoner reentry. i also want to thank and acknowledge debra atherton. thank you. supervisor mirkarimi: it is nice to see everybody. jeff is generous. i was not expecting to be up here. i know you have had a productive day. i think that the public defender's summit is something not to be missed and a template for the rest of california and probably the nation to follow. i am proud of our public defender. i am proud of our criminal justice partners because over the last four years, we have seen a great amount of innovation. jeff and i started the city's first

board of supervisors last year, estimated at $105 million, but it went up substantially as they undertake the work. we're not seeing in this proposal a financial participation in the way that we normally do with this. the terms do not provide for that participation rate at either piers 30-32 or the lot. and one that the ports that have started meeting on, the prospect of getting three distinct piers back six months after the event. we've been working with the capital planning staff and the real-estate staff to come up with some strategies to bring those back online. that concludes the analysis, and briefly our recommendations are to approve the project as modified through negotiations with the ceqa process, authorize support staff to develop a plan of finance for pork-fund improvements, and bring that recommendation back to the commission and approved the dba. i would like to and by making a few things to folks who have been working on this. this really has been an amazing team effort. finance and administration, the real-estate staff, the maritime staff has been working through the proce

. >> it's a massive undertaking. i anticipate the sunday paper coming. >> cutting coupons about to be a thing of the past. now saving money is going digital. we will explain. >> and a power house storm on the move. the reason tomorrow may be the trickiest travel day of the week. the news at 11 starts right now. >> we start with a story that's all new at 1. the grande prix hit by problems, now more could be on the way. we are live in federal hill with the latest on this controversy. >> reporter: it was supposed to be a financial win for the city. now the baltimore grande prix faces debt, lawsuits and now problems over some of the only money it did pay out. here in federal hill the grande prix remains a sore subject for many. business owners say they lost thousands when customers abandoned them overlay bartow weekend. beth owns a store. she said she needs a strong holiday season because she is still not making up for the grande prix losses. >> labor day weekend was devastating to loose a three day holiday weekend which

to safely undertake to define feats the world of russian cinema and t.v. by now. i lived to tell the tale i lied to them both in one take well it's long london is a market for many russians today the set to be almost half a million russian speakers in britain many call the capital grab as the ever changing multicultural city becomes a melting pot for russians so. british and french capitals russian influence and connections abroad. delve deep you'll find just how much russian culture is invented in too many aspects of western society one thing for sure promoting football clubs to major newspapers russians are certainly making their mark on the british capital. moving south into a series of russians have also been fascinated with french culture for centuries shows showcase how much christians devour the social scene in paris and as we proved the modern day french capital is scattered with russian connections and cultural aspects. well that we have a small selection from the dozens of shows we produce for you could buy twenty eleven how many people i meet in the u.k

top priorities, so i am glad to see that two of our questions today focus on what we are doing to undertake a speedy recovery for our economics and growing jobs in the city, and while my administration focuses on strengthening our economy, which will also keep focused on the day-to-day tasks, the challenges that san franciscos -- that san francisco -- san franciscans will work. this is what we rely on every day. with that, i am proud. with that, let's get started with the questions. >> thank you, mr. mayor. the first question will be provided. >> the current payroll tax system is detrimental, both to job growth, and is broken. we were trying to carve out things from the payroll tax. are you contemplating more about the business tax? >> i completely agree with you the we have to take a look at these policies in san francisco. it is my top priority. as you know, i was a strong supporter. i want to think the board for your support in making sure this city is an attractive place for companies to come and to grow. the very fact that we need to talk about this legislation, we have a more systemic

i want to talk more specifically about the program expansion that we are undertaking and how the city, over the last the less well, months, but have certainly come together over the last couple of weeks, has developed a plan to respond to the crisis that you, supervisor, have helped bring to everyone's attention, as well as our partners in the advocacy community. in the short term, it is a two- prong approach, one that involves the housing authority working in partnership with the human services agency and our number of the partners. the second approach is an expansion of our rental assistance programs that are also in ministered by our nonprofit partners. in the first, the housing authority partnership, we have long been working with the housing authority to give preference points and provide priorities for families who are in a homeless shelter system, priority for public housing units. what that means is that if the family has applied and they are on the waiting list, they get a certain amount of points that moves that family of on the waiting list to get into a vacant public housi

general, lloyd austin, called the final draw down the military's largest most complex logistical undertaking since world war ii. he stopped by with well wishes as the military met its deadline of having all troops gone by december thirty-first. >> i'm hopeful that things will move in the right direction. it's going to take the iraqi government and people to continue to make the right decisions, work together. >> reporter: the officers who planned the last troop movement had feared attacks from militias active in the south, but the 5-hour, 160-mile drive from the camp to the border went smoothly. >> the moment you across, can you take me through what your thoughts were? >> my thought was we made it and no casualties. >> reporter: as they stood on the side of a road, just inside inside kuwait, they began focusing on their next task, making it home for christmas. >> i'm going to be home for my son's fourth birthday and daughter's second birthday. it's going to be amazing. >> here in the bay area, area, enthusiastic welcome home for soldiers. >> the police unit returned to the bay area, flying i

the good neighbor policy and lists all of the conditions that keeps this as an orderly and clean undertaking. nobody wants this to create a trash problem for a traffic problem. we want a vital downtown. we want to enhance down town, not detract from it. that is why this legislation built these things in. this was clearly developed as an idea. it was developed with what the government should be doing, what is best for the entirety of san francisco. only to look at the audience that is here, and i don't think it will take a big stretch to understand what interests there are here. this is a young the idea. these people are young people and they are coming in, serving the young economy. serving a growing of the economy. i think it is essentially vital to the continuing economic well- being of our city. it is what they had in mind when the legislation was passed unanimously. i encourage you to hear from him as he describes the process by which they will enforce these permits and the process by which they decide whether to grant these permits or not. what we want to do is serve an economy for the

. >> this was one of the most complex, logistical undertakings in u.s. military history. 50,000 u.s. troops withdrawn seamlessly. dozens of bases closed or handed over. millions of pieces of equipment that had to be transferred. all while maintaining the security of our force s and the security of the iraqi people. >> more than 4,000 americans died fighting the war in iraq, which began almost nine years ago, and more than a million and a half americans served in iraq during that time. >>> new from overnight, another attempt by lawmakers to reach a deal on a spending package. house republicans unveiled a $1 trillion bill they hope will avert a government shutdown and keep workers from being furloughed right before the holidays. the white house opposes several provisions of that legislation, though. it's urging congress to approve a short-term bill to keep the government running until a final resolution can be reached. lawmakers must come to some agreement by tomorrow night or the government will shut down. some federal workers are being told to prepare fo

shows -- that, should this legislation be adopted, and these are the types of things the we would undertake to ensure sufficient out region to the community and adoption of the law. accretion of education outreach, materials, and a number of different languages. chinese, spanish, and