now in 1921, father flanagan opened his doors further. he was able to purchase an overlooked farm on the outskirts, way on the outskirts, now i have to drive about 50 blocks east to get to it, it's surrounded by omaha, but that is the property that is now known iconically as boys town. it became an official village with its own post office in 1936. today, boys town serves more than two million children and milies across our country by parental counseling and boys town national hotline where it's also a counseling hotline where about 150,000 children and families are helped each year. the boys town national research hospital is a national leader in the field of hearing care and research of usher syndrome. all of this thanks to the vision of father flanagan when he borrowed $90 to start a boys home. now, also i should mention that probably around the 1970's, i can't remember the date, women, young girls, were allowed in there. nd in fact, when i just i was invited to dinner in one of the houses there where they have a host family and eight

see group where george parish i can't the fourth our condolences secondly, we also lost pacific flanagan mr. flanagan was the president of the standard fishries at the port i was a two-time president of the fisherman's wharf merchants association he was also a member of the fisherman's wharf waterfront advisory committee he was a strong advocate for rebuilding a port and a strong advocate for the build out of the hyde street fishing harbor he'll be missed it's legacy to the port is clear in the fishing industry i know some of his colleagues are here today, we lost perry kim who was the the pier 45 fishingy a long time gentleman with the fisherman's wharf i was a member of the golden gate bridge and has been a familiar face and waterfront for so long as i can remember and he passed away on august 16th and his legacy to the port and support of the port has meant a lot and latest unfortunately, we locals a staff person from the port near and dear to my heart david passed away september 8th he was a senior administrative active analyst 20 years with the city and county and you are started ou

i usually drop the flanagan. it is too many symbols. as you know, lynn is a coastal city north of boston. we have a population of about 90,000 people making us the ninth largest city in massachusetts. largest schoolth system. we have seen a great increase in our school system over the past couple of years. of 2012, my superintendent came to me and said, i have been noticing a large number of unaccompanied minors. unaccompanied children coming in from guatemala. she thought it was a city and it is a province and they are all comes from santa marcos. i do not understand how all of these people are making their way up to lynn. we met -- we at the numbers. two new out ofof admissions from guatemala. 26ough june of 2012, we had out of country at omissions into the school system. 13 --eptember 12 through 2013, we had 84 new admissions from out of country from guatemala. we started to look into this a little bit. a lot of these children that were coming into our city were common through a place called in sanilee center antonio, texas. our firs

. >> george parking space i can't act pacific flanagan and d.c. >> is there a second. >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> the meeting >> the meeting is called to order, at 5:34, i would like to thank you for making the meeting possible and for members of the public if you could remember to turn off your cell phone and with that, mr. president, i shall call, do roll call. >> yes. >> and commissioner steve adams? >> here. >> dooley. >> here. >> dwight. >> here. >> ortiz-cartagena is absent. >> commissioner tour-sarkissian? >> here. >> and commissioner riley. >> and commissioner white. >> here. >> mr. president, you have a quorum. >> next item please. >> before we can move into the minutes commissioners i want to let you know that there was a photo copying error with the agenda and so the second page is missing but what is missing is just the president's report, or the vice president's report, the standard items so, the president has a full copy, and we will read you through that. >> and all right, item number 2, is general public comment, and allows the members of the public to comment on

. >> george parking space i can't act pacific flanagan and d.c. >> is there a second. >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> the meeting >> good afternoon. welcome to the september 10, 2014, meeting of the san francisco board of appeals. the proceeding officer it commissioner president lazarus and she's join by commissioner hurtado and commissioner fung and commissioner honda one asset vacant on the board this evening and pursuant pursuant to the charter when a vacancy the board may overrule it by 3 members four votes are not required to my left is the deputy director and at the controls is the legals assistant i'm cynthia goldstein the boards executive director we're joined by the representatives that have matter before the board and shortly we'll be joined by scott sanchez and we have joseph duffey representing the department of building inspection and i believe we'll be joined by patrick from the department of building inspection and we have chris the department of public works and your honor, fory we may be joined by another representative of dpw for the evasion permit on appeal mr. pac

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. >> so again, this is a seat vacated by joseph flanagan who represented district 6 and we are incredibly i still miss his weekly appearance at city hall and our transportation authority and anybody that comes into that seat has shoes to fill we had applicants speak and i'll ask if there are any applicants for this seat who want to come up to the podium to speak and present? come on up mr. smith >> thank you supervisor kim. my name is ramona smith i've minding in san francisco for over thirty years of those years i've been spending most of the time volunteering my services with improvement for quality of life issues. my work history goes back to the daefgs before it was under the secretary of state at that time. i became involved that disable and today, i still have those concerns about access for our seniors our disabled as well as our veterans. my volunteer services is for the advisory committee and where i served as officers of the chair of the subcommittee and was definitely involved in the finance committee. i also was revolved with the study of barriers of transportation in the city

. >> george parking space i can't act pacific flanagan and d.c. >> is there a second. >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> the meeting >> good morning and, welcome to the transbay joint powers authority board of director's meeting on thursday, september 11th, and the board would like to recognize the staff at sfgtv who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available on-line and today we want to recognize charles who is filming today's meeting and madam clerk. >> we have a scheduling conflict and therefore will not be present. >> and we have director lee. and we have the representative for the court and the joint powers board. and with that, director lee, and here. >> lee, present. >> director nuru in >> present. >> harper present, and kim? >> present. >> madam chair you have a quorum. >> do we have any communications or board of director's new or old business? >> good morning, directors and members of the public, would i like to begin by thanking mayor lee, and the tax rates that were introduced in yul july and i would like to thank all of those in the process, and i have b

. >> eddie: flanagan boarded the overnight flight.he disappearance of flight 370 and shootdown of malaysia flight 17 over ukraine have devastated the airline. >> this flight will take five hours and -- >> reporter: row after row of empty seats, 30% of the workforce laid off. we're on a flight to kuala lumpur and looking at a flight just under half full. >> reporter: six months into the most expensive and intense search launched, still not a trace of mh flight 370. for family members today the grief was again raw and very public. >> there's no corroborated evidence that the airplane went into the ocean. >> reporter: sarah hasn't seen her partner, phillip wood, since march 8th. >> i think it's a very real possibility that phillip is still alive because there's no proof that he's dead. >> reporter: investigators still believe someone diverted the plane and flew it to the southern indian ocean where it crashed. now, after spending months mapping the ocean floor, search teams are shifting the search zone to a new area. still though more th

all of this thanks to the vision of father flanagan when he borrowed $90 to start a boys home. now, also i should mention that probably around the 1970's, i can't remember the date, women, young girls, were allowed in there. nd in fact, when i just i was invited to dinner in one of the houses there where they have a host family and eight girls in this house that were then ordered by court or placed there by a family to help them with a variety of issues, mostly disciplinary and in fact boys town is the leader in research for pharmaceuticals for young children, for children, teenagers, most of them have come to the boys town with, while, geez, four, five different prescriptions and boys town in dealing with it, can get most of them off of the prescription drugs. but this is what boys town stands for. the father once said, i know when the idea of a group home grew in my mind i never thought anything remarkable in taking all of the races and creeds, to mimi they are all god's children, they are my brothers, they are children of zpwod. i must protect them to the best of my ability.

. >> mike flanagan at largo. thank you for making largo my home and introduced me to my love, mr.ants sheen. >> jimmy: i believe about half of america thinks you're dating charlie sheen. [ laughter ] >> that would be ridiculous. >> jimmy: well, it would be ridiculous. but it's also ridiculous to have a pot pipe in your purse on the way into the emmys. did that occur to you at all? >> no because -- because there's only one fancy pants. >> jimmy: i guess so. >> that is michael sheen. >> jimmy: michael sheen, who is on "masters of sex." >> yeah. >> jimmy: a show i enjoy a lot. i think he's great on that show. >> he's the best at what he does. he's so good. [ laughter ] i think he is. >> jimmy: they think you're making fun of me. >> no. i'm happy to have him be a part of my life. and i don't think i ever really knew what love was. you know? >> jimmy: uh-huh. [ laughter ] >> i don't think i've ever really been in love before. >> jimmy: right. >> and you guys have so much in common. >> jimmy: do we really? >> he starred in "frost/nixon." and you were the fat guy on "win ben stein's mone

flanagan in the country giving their skills courageously on behalf of the people of liberia. and the emperor are here on the status deferred departure that expires september 30th that i would hope he would do so because to send people back would be inappropriate to. but i will last dr. dr. fauci day you have this sense how fast this could be deployed? have you reached a point to that you say it is said huge risk but it has to be done? >> excellent question. the standard way to implement a vaccine goes through a series of steps is it safe for does it or doesn't have the hypersensitivity reactions and then to find out the right dose of the right to give you a response. then you go to larger numbers of people that is called phase to. then depending on the disease they you don't want to deploy a vaccine but it doesn't '01 that is more terrible or one that makes it worse. you have to consider that the with the emergent situation with the desire to get people protected, there are ways to get the answers. not as definitively but to employ a the people who'd be that backseat as part

flanagan in the country giving their skills courageously on behalf of the people of liberia. and the emperor are here on the status deferred departure that expires september 30th that i would hope he would do so because to send people back would be inappropriate to. but i will last dr. dr. fauci day you have this sense how fast this could be deployed? have you reached a point to that you say it is said huge risk but it has to be done? >> excellent question. the standard way to implement a vaccine goes through a series of steps is it safe for does it or doesn't have the hypersensitivity reactions and then to find out the right dose of the right to give you a response. then you go to larger numbers of people that is called phase to. then depending on the disease they you don't want to deploy a vaccine but it doesn't '01 that is more terrible or one that makes it worse. you have to consider that the with the emergent situation with the desire to get people protected, there are ways to get the answers. not as definitively but to employ a the people who'd be that backseat as part

eileen flanagan? >> that is correct. we are so excited to be here as part of the march.also came out yesterday and nonviolent actions against pnc bank, part of our campaign to get them to stop financing -- did you come from? >> i came from philadelphia. our organization was founded a little over four years ago in philadelphia, but we are becoming national. yesterday, we had people from florida to new england asking them to stop financing mountaintop removal coal mining, which is terrible for the climate, to blow up mountains to get the last bits of cold. it is also terrible for the people in appalachia who have cancer and birth defects. we are working on connecting it to this great march and the bigger issue of climate change. we want to highlight the role of people profiting from climate change. why are quakers involved with this? >> quakers have a long history of involvement. the man who organized the 1963 march on washington was actually a wake her. believeate change, we -- how is it ok for people in places like africa or the islands to be suffering so much for a prob