we have a problem with two roman calendars the julian and the gregorian but the julian calendar. is named after julius caesar who established the calendar. as we know would put three hundred sixty five days and one leap year . that's known as the julian calendar so. it has a slight problem because it doesn't really account for some of the astronomical shifts so it begins to kind of slide away a little bit the problem you see in the for. centry when the feast of the nativity of christ was established it obviously existed in the church of rome and probably the latin churches of north africa in the third century it was unknown in the east actually originally. but then the christians decide it should we celebrate the date of the nativity of christ because the gospel doesn't say when christ was born. we don't know in what sees them actually. pretty much traditionally selected. supposed to be celebrated in the day of the winter solstice. so wonderful that the fourth century the winter solstice was around what today is january the seven. but over time it began to shift so basically. by

consent calendar considered to be routine. by the planning commission and may be acted upon by a single role call vote of the commission. there will be no separate discussion of this item also in member of the commission, the public or staff so requests. in which the matter shall be removed from the consent calendar and considered a separate item at this or a future hearing. item four, case number 2017-00506cua at 245 valencia street, conditional use authorization. i have no speaker cards. >> i have no public comment on item four. commissioner moore? >> move to approve. >> second. >> thank you, commissioners. on that motion to approve item four, under your consent calendar -- [roll call] >> so move, commissioners. that motion passes unanimously 6-0. and places us under commission matters. item five, minutes of december 27, 2017. >> any public comment on the draft minutes? we'll close public comment. commissioners? commissioner richards? >> move to approve. >> second. >> on that motion to adopt the minutes for december 7, 2017

you requested for the calendar, that's there. public finance office, if you haven't met him before. >> good morning members of the committee. briefly walk you through the projected issuances over the next few months. as a reminder the 2014 transportation and road improvement bonds and 2012 clean neighborhood park bonds are both in progress. the legislation is currently going through the board of supervisors process and i expect that it will be considered for full board final approval at tomorrow's board meeting and then we'll move forward with that in february. and then after that, in later spring, early summer, we'll have the 2014 earthquake safety emergency response bonds, full remaining amount 189.18 million. health and public safety, that amount is estimate, it may change depending on the review of expenditures which they're still in process. affordable housing about $82 million for them. we're hoping to go through all three of the programs at once to combine them into a single sale. if you have questions about the upcoming c

it will be under your regular calendar. item six was pulled off consent and take up the matter now for case 2014, 2906 fullsome street. you continued this matter from november 30 with the motion of intent to disapprove. commissioner hillis, you already acknowledge tad you reviewed the previous materials. >> good afternoon, commissioners. department staff. the project before you is a conditional use authorization for residential merger at 2906 fullsome street. the project involved new construction of dwelling units on a newly formed lot at the corner of 25th and fullsome street. currently 2906 fullsome possesses four dwelling units. the project would retain and expand two dwelling units at 2906 fullsome and construct two new four-single family residences on an adjacent lot. on november 30, the planning commission adopted a motion of intend to deny the project. currently what has been put forward in the commissioner's packet is the revised motion expressing the nile. this concludes our presentation and i'm available for fi qu

calendar year over calendar year. >> 1.3% is what, calendar year -- >> 2016 over 15 -- i don't think it's -- no, goodness. i did not bring the snapshot of the time frame. it must be 7/1 to 6/1, 17 over 16. we can't produce these until we have three months of runouts and then present on them. so probably mid year to mid year, 17 over 16. >> really nothing to do with trio, but all the rest of the things happening in terms of looking at services and accountability. >> a.c.o. >> well, you are correct, it does not have to do with the labelling trio but what is trio. 62% of your members are using trio today, and have been now we are refining that and focussing on the partnerships and calling it a product, trio. so, it is trio. and that's produced, just those trends alone, 22 million in savings. >> all right. commissioner lim. >> so, assuming the rest call for early retirees, way higher, but as far as medical trend and drug prescription which means our early retirees are more healthier probably because we didn't have that much medical claims and prescription claims. >> well, i will say that

calendar. on february 6 and 20, there will be two budget hearings. please let me know you will not be attending, for quorum issues and who needs to be updated on the side. that's all i have for the calendar, but it's before you if you have any questions. otherwise, it's adjournment. >> just one thing. i want to see if we can add an item to get an update on insured in san francisco, because there's new articles that just came out and said that last year there were actually an addition of 3 million people added in the united states. if we're ahead of the curve, i would like to know how ahead we are. >> we'll incorporate that into the mandate. >> thank you. >> yes. >> before we adjourn, i would like to recommend that the commission adjourn in memory of dr. matilda crim, who passed away today. she did tremendous work along with elizabeth taylor and others in research and advocacy at the early days of the aids epidemic. she did so much to address stigma in communities of color and she was a hero. >>

which is thirteen days behind the gregorian calendar used by catholics and protestants. russian orthodox christians celebrate christmas eve on january six. key talks are getting underway here in germany on possibly forming a new government a coalition to lead the country until americans conservatives and the center left social democrats are holding exploratory discussions to see how much common ground they can find major sticking points are expected to include germany's migration policies and its approach towards europe if the talks fail germany could face fresh elections and with them and uncertain future for chancellor merkel. will be going live to our correspondent in the next hour for more on those talks well how germany proceeds and its relations with turkey could also come up before discussion in the coalition talks times between the two nato allies have deteriorated since the failed coup against turkey as president of thai air to one in two thousand and sixteen but this weekend brought a meeting between germany and turkey's tom diplomats at which they pledged to t

which is thirteen days behind the gregorian calendar used by catholics and protestants. russian orthodox christians celebrate christmas eve on january sixth. german chancellor angela merkel is set to host a fresh round of talks on possibly forming a new coalition government the five day exploratory talks will include anglo-american as conservatives and the center left social democrats the parties are hoping to find some preliminary agreements on sticking points including germany's migration policies as well as its approach towards europe if the talks fail germany could face fresh elections and with them an uncertain future for chancellor merkel. how germany proceeds and its relations with turkey could also be up for discussion in the coalition talks ties between the two nato allies have deteriorated since the failed coup against turkey's president rich a type error to one in twenty sixteen but this weekend brought a meeting between germany and turkey's top diplomats at which they pledged to try and improve that your country's relationship. germany in taki scene trip stru

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madame, secretary, please read the consent calendar. >> item 11 is the consent calendar. all matters under are considered to be routine by the san francisco public utilities commission and acted upon by a single vote of the commission. that will be no separate discussion of the items unless a member of the commission or the public so requests in which event the matter will be removed from the calendar and considered as a separate item. >> commissioners, do you wish to remove anything from the consent calendar? >> i'd motion to move the consent calendar. >> second. >> any discussion? public comment? okay. all in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? >> the clerk: item 12 authorized memorandum of understanding for improvements on illinois straight between 18th and 19th street in concession with the mission bay loop project in the amount not to exceed 8 64,96. >> any public comment? all in favor ? >> aye. >> opposed? thank you. >> item 13. [reading item] >> may i make a comment on the item? i'd like to make a motion but before i do that, i'm wondering if as part of our budget discussio

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calendar. nothing that prevents us from saying oh, we need additional these days, can we work with you to find these days. it's just that they are not guaranteed on their calendar that we still have to work with them in case we want this month we need a couple more days, are you filled, do you have anything going on? >> i want to state for the public record that i'm not that comfortable with those type of gentlemen's or ladies' agreements, mainly because i know that things could change in the future and we have then no guarantee that we could actually do this in writing. >> i'm also very confident if we needed to amend again the days, we could do that with their negotiation and agreement. >> thank you. budget legislative analyst and hear the report. >> good morning, chair cohen and members of the committee, yes, as she pointed out, an existing lease with bcga management, for bill graham, that goes through 2030. it adds polk hall to the existing lease and revised the terms of the overall lease.

but that's still a full calendar day. wou >> would you be open -- you're basically putting back into place what's referred to the as the reed rule. at the time the rule was accepted in january of 2013, there was a 60 vote requirement. would you accept returning to that 60-vote requirement? >> i would not only in the sense that seems to be a geni out of the bottle at this point. i don't think how you undo that. so even if you undid it for this congress, there would be every sin incentive in future congress to flip it. >> one other question. you mentioned part of your motivation here is to open up more time for the senate to do a variety of things. what about allowing other matters to come before the senate during the post closure debate period if there is no debate on the no, ma'am snee. >> nominee. >> if you have a two, eight or thirty you wouldn't need that because you could dual track. so you could do for instance a district court judge in the morning at two hours or one in the afternoon -- do one that's eight hours and

>> the world's calendar is the gregorian calendar after pope gregory put in place in 1582.dar was messing up in the year. >> stephen: it was off-- >> by 10 days! and the pope said, "we've got to fix this." >> stephen: the pope fixed it? >> well, pope, jesuit scientists, jesuit priests were the academic order of the catholic-- you're catholic. you should be teaching this, okay? ( laughter ). >> stephen: i'm aware of my religion. >> okay! so there's a vatican observatory to this day that that at the time, before telescopes were invented, these jesuit priests were put into the service of figuring out why the calendar was shifting in the year. >> stephen: am i correct in saying that it was a catholic priest who first proposed the idea of the big bang? >> yes, george lematre, the big bang itself, using einstein's equations. einstein could have done it, but he did enough. >> stephen: he was busy. >> laid down the equations. other people calculated with his equations and he deduced the history of the universe must have start wade bang. >> stephen: okay. going to 2018-- >> so catho

. >> the consent calendar. >> we have a motion. we have a second. we'll open it to general public comment. are there any members of the public that would like to address the commission on the calendar? seeing none, we'll close general public comment. any discussion? being none, can we take the item without objection? item passes. >> no. 7, action item. >> this is a recommendation to hire a small cap manager. i would first like to introduce you to our new managing director. he has 20 years plus experience in investment experience. i would like him to introduce himself to the board, and we'll get to the recommendation. >> thank you. pleasure to meet you all. as bill mentioned, i have 27 years of investment management experience. the last 17 of which have been spent in san francisco working for two private asset management firms. i'm grateful for the opportunity to join such a qualified staff and to work with such an engaged board. i look forward to the opportunity to serve the participants of the retirement services. >> any questions, board? thank you

which was made by catholics and instead stick to the julian calendar which has a difference of thirteen days which of course means that christmas then falls on january the seventh and for them this holiday really is a religious one there's a very big focus on religion people fast for forty days in the run up to christmas the end they attend church services both on christmas eve and in christmas day itself and those services run into the early hours in the morning just behind me like you mentioned the joy of christ the savior you can see at the cathedral and people crowds have been pouring in there all evening and will be attending those services into the early hours we had a chance to talk to a few people here on the streets about what the holiday means to them so let's take a listen. there's just first of all a christmas for me is a family holiday my grandmother was a very religious person so i'm here. for her to one of my family tradition to see me in the bushes my family always meets a christmas which is a family holiday for me to bring my son with me when he went to sleep early on b

proceed tothe senate calendar 36, that the amendment that would provide for continuing resolution to fund be considered and agreed to, the bills be considered and passed, the motions be considered and weighed upon the table with no intervening action or to be. -- debate. >> i reserve the right to object. i am glad to hear that the gentleman from ohio once to get the government-funded. i also think wright-patterson is a great military installation. i come from a state that is the home of the global response force in fort bragg. also home to 45% of all marines who served in the marine corps. lot about the message we're sending men and women in uniform when we cannot get our act together. everybody here tonight is playing games with funding our government. a one days.ed for that did not happen. why don't we stay here until we get this done? not going tois come in eight or nine hours. he could get this done before 9:00 tomorrow morning. instead of asking for half measures, why don't we get in a room tonight and solve our problems? why are we kicking the can down the road a little bit? we

is a good spot to circle on your calendar. the democrats are going to meet and at the same time scheduled right now that bipartisan group of senators we've been watching over the last two days they're also going to meet to talk about this. if it's those six or seven votes that jeff flake was talking about they're coming off out that bipartisan meeting. i don't expect to see some of the democrats be part of that. but there might be some that say enough is enough. >> your math is spotless, my friend, despite staring at the camera. >> jeff to the you, you heard what was asked to senator flake, if if it comes down to the house, if the senate does move forward with what mitch mcconnell just described on the floor about an hour ago, will it be a president donald trump that needs to get behind this before the house then signs off on what mitch mcnnell is suggesting sneer. >> it could be the case. the white house has been the wild card here for a while. you have democrats and some republicans, including majority leader mitch mcconnell

sources tell cnn that the calendars mentioned there were some sort of gag gift, putin-themed calendars that stroch purchased for employees working on the russia investigation. this coming into us today from one of the republicans who sounded the alarm over the secret society conspiracy is having a change of heart. let's go to jessica schneider with more on this from this republican senator, who is now, what, saying it's a joke? >> reporter: yeah. backpedalling here, brooke, after several sources had come forward to cnn to clarify these texts. after we've seen from senator johnson and a lot of republicans, they've been implicating scandal with this text as the basis. that message you just read there is from november 9th, referring to the calendars and the secret society. really, this was all an attempt at humor, they say, one day after the election. and we know that agent stroch was part of the russia investigation. even before the special counsel was appointed and, like you said, brooke, he had bought these putin calendars for people working on the investigation in the early stages of

of number -- calendar number 36. i yield the floor, mr. president. mrs. shaheen: mr. president. mr. president, like i assume most of the rest of the members of the senate, i'm disappointed to date we have not reached a bipartisan agreement to reopen the government. i think it's important to note that there's a lot of shared frustration on both sides of the aisle about how we got here. leader mcconnell and senator graham and other republicans have expressed their exasperation at the fact that for weeks president trump hasn't stuck to a position for longer than a couple of hours and he has derailed several proposals that would have addressed the concerns that have been expressed by democrats in this body about how to move forward to keep the government open. thankfully there is also a lot of bipartisan consensus in the senate that we need to work together to fix our situation to get the government up and running again and to address some of the long-term challenges that have led to this moment. but in order to do this,

consideration of calendar number 36, h.r. 1301, that the stabenow-casey-brown amendment at the desk providing for the permanent extension of the children's health insurance program, a five-year extension of the community health centers program and extensions of other expired medicaid, medicare, and health extensions be considered and agreed to, the bill as amended be considered read a third time and passed, and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. proom is there objection? -- the presiding officer: is there objection? the senator from north carolina. mr. tillis: i agree with the gentleman from new jersey. we wanted to fund the chip program which is why we voted to extend it for six years just a couple of days ago. the gentleman voted against it. i agree with him that the states are beginning to run out of money and we need to come up with a reauthorization soon. but this looks more like a way to atone for a bad vote that was made a couple of days ago on the part of people on the floor today. what we need to do is go back an

it had the calendar, the instructors, the meal plan. there's nothing you have to think about. everything is there for you. in three weeks, i lost 18 pounds. the more i did it, the more rounds that i did, the more weight came off. when i realized i lost 50 pounds, my mind was blown. i was surprised to lose 50 pounds just doing yoga. - i've never tried yoga before because of my weight. i thought it was something that only skinny people that were flexible were able to do. the 3 week yoga retreat has totally changed my life. doing it every single day, can make the weight come off quickly. the first three weeks, i was so excited that i lost 19 pounds, i did another three weeks, and i lost a total of 35 pounds. then i did another three weeks, i lost a total of 60 pounds. i never in a million years, thought that a yoga program would help me lose weight. - looking at the two of you right now, ladies, all i can say is wow. when you finished three rounds of 3 week yoga retreat you had lost-- - 60. - 60. - mm hmm. and have you lost even more now? - yes, 10 more pounds. 70 pounds so far.

cnn learned the calendars referenced there was a gag gift.here's a real possibility that the secret society comment was just made in jest. as for those missing text messages, the justice department inspector general said there's been a problem with fbi phones, missing texts, nonetheless, have been recovered. a good lesson for everyone, democrats, republicans, the media, when it comes to this investigation, when it comes to everything, stick to the facts of what we know. credibility's a valuable and fragile commodity. my political panel is here with me to discuss all of this. the focus in the recent weeks on investigations, these missing messages, key time period, and what are you making of how excitable some of the republican lawmakers who providing oversight, and, look, we need oversight of the fbiin, absolutely. what do you think happened this week? >> that was the consummate oops moment for a lot of these republicans. it's irresponsible. it seems as though the republicans have been ratcheting up this idea of undermining the credibility of

but what did they mean by "are you even going to give out your calendars? seems kind of depressing"? what calendars were they speaking of? was it some elaborate f.b.i. plan that unfolded over months? close. they were talking about "vladimir putin-themed calendars for those working on the early stage of the russia investigation." it was a gag gift. the gifting was the calendar, the gagging was when trump won. ( laughter ) but there's one person who took these texts very seriously, and that's wisconsin senator and the nation's highest ranking white walker, ron johnson. ( laughter ) johnson. a senator! he went on fox news to argue about the existence of this secret society with the fervor of a man who knows people are doing stuff without him. >> corruption at the highest levels of the f.b.i. now. secret society? we have an informant talking about a group that we are holding secret meetings off-site. there's so much smoke and suspicion-- >> let's stop there. a secret society? secret meetings off-site of the justice department? >> correct. >> stephen: really? co

i believe you have the calendar in front of you. at this time it's pretty standard as far as year over year. at least recent years. one addition later on i'll get to. starting in february, february 8th meeting, blackout notice will be presented. >> can you give a brief description counsel, what the blackout notice is? counsel. >> once the blackout notice goes into effect, commissioners are not supposed to have communications with the vendors. >> existing vendors or potential vendors. >> potential vendors. >> all right. restrictions on our communications as commissioners with the vendors. >> usually are existing unless we are doing an r.f.p. >> in addition, we'll be reviewing for you and presenting the fees, and stablization reserve. a presentation on co-pay benchmarking, co-pay, deductible and compare them against other government entities and private sectors, too, i believe included. then in march, 8 early board meetings of the month. we'll present for your approval the ten county average amount. also we'll bring you stop loss reco

we're almost through a calendar cheer of the trump presidency. president trump can no longer be given the benefit of the doubt that comes with learning one of the most toughest jobs in the world. our republican friends should not give him a pass if they should fail to speak out or take action. their silence unfortunately, but i have to say it, i feel it sincerely, is explicit in the degradation of the presidency and the power of this country. the american people expect our president to represent the united states with dignity and strength. that's not what we saw yesterday. it's time we all start speaking out against it. i yield the >> the house returns tomorrow for the first legislative is this of the second session of the 115th congress. it includes a resolution to support the rights of people of iran for free expression and condemning the regime for its crackdown on protests. on thursday, legislation to reauthorize the foreign ,ntelligence surveillance act set to expire on january 19. it is also the dates for federal government funding to run o

we're almost through a calendar cheer of the trump presidency.resident trump can no longer be given the benefit of the doubt that comes with learning one of the most toughest jobs in the world. our republican friends should not give him a pass if they should fail to speak out or take action. their silence unfortunately, but i have to say it, i feel it sincerely, is explicit in the degradation of the presidency and the power of this country. the american people expect our president to represent the united states with dignity and strength. that's not what we saw yesterday. it's time we all start speaking out against it. i yield the >> senator jones and senator smith reunited a ceremony in the oldest senate chamber, with vice president mike pence. senator jones and his family were escorted by president -- vice president joe biden. they were also scanned -- escorted by

commissioners, i'll place it under your consent calendar. all matters listed here are considered to be routine by the planning commission and may be acted upon by a single roll call vote of the commission. there will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of commission of staff or the public so requests in which the matter will be removed from the consent calendar and considered as a separate item at this future hearing. item four, case number 2016. 519 ellis street. conditional use. conditional use authorization. i have no eke spaoer cards. >> any public comment on the items being -- or the consent calendar? seeing none, commissioner? commissioner koppel. >> move to approve [inaudible]. [coughing [ >> second. >> thank you, commissioners. on that motion to approve all items under your consent calendar. [roll call] so move, commissioners. that motion passes unanimously 5-0. and places us under commission matters. >> commissioner johnson. >> hi, everybody. i wanted to say that today will be my last hearing as a planning commi

this is our rdr calendar. director weiland. >> this is an rdr for 1525 pine street, and this is for a proposed residential and retail project. if you will recall, this is also the same address as grubstake, which is an extended hours premises permit, so you will see the owner of grubstake here, nick piggett. this is located within 300 feet of play land, which is a permitted place of entertainment. >> we just have a quick overview of the project. gr okay. great. good evening, commissioners. alexis peloni. the project sponsors asked that i give just a brief overview of the project before i turn it over to randy walldeck. he'll talk about the akucoustil analysis. it's the current location of the grubstake, and as noted, the sponsors are the current owner of the grubstake restaurant. they're proposing to demolish the existing cable car system and replace it with a residential unit. the project sponsor also intends to replace grubstake on the site and has promised a design that will hpay homage t the old cable car.

based around the seasons and agricultural luck inspired by the gene calendar. happy new years of people in algeria. celebrating the festivities. was time now for business news to lotus is. joins me hit hard as a lot of. that stuff by looking at this a man this is scandalous okay ways it for the dairy company locked us in the head of that companies in someone by the french foreign ministry spokesman that's right on the evening that happened earlier today the french government is. scrambling to send the damage done to the failure of hamas recall of baby milk products thirty five children have fallen ill in france from salmonella contamination. and french health authorities say one child in spain and steak and ale one another case is being investigated in greece. finance minister bellona matt has announced the recall would now be widened to cover all of that kind of speedy melt manufactured at its taxi in north west fronts. son harding reports. summoned to the french finance ministry french finance minister bruno in them at two officials from the front step every

. >> clerk: item 1 consent calendar leave and file action. disciplinary actions 2017. >> president turman: all right. in your packet is the san francisco police department's disciplinary actions 2017. it highlights the cases, charges, proceedings and actual penalties. it is in your packet. hopefully, you've had a chance to review it. any questions or comments? it is on the consent calendar. all in favor of approving this item? >> clerk: commissioner, we need public comment on this item. >> president turman: okay. you're right. all right. before we vote on that, any public comment? seeing none, public comment is now closed. okay. so -- >> second. >> president turman: okay. moved by commissioner melgar, and seconded by commissioner mazzucco. thank you. the disciplinary report of december 2017 is accepted into the record. item 2, please. >> clerk: -- presentation of the annual report regarding the department's work with the joint terrorism task force, jttf. >> president turman: good evening, commission -- good evening, chief. you would be the ch

there are 19 judges on calendar today that senator mcconnell could bring up. that's about the same number there were when the democrats did the nuclear option, but there are 105 executive nominations. that's twice as many as there were when senator reid did the nuclear option in 2013. do you think it would help us come to some bipartisan rules change if we could agree to reduce the number of executive nominations on the calendar and continue to argue a little bit more about the judges? >> it would certainly help the dialogue. i am reminded of, in 2013 when the agreement was reached in that january time period to change to the 2, 8 and 30 rule, that senator reid and senator mcconnell had a colloquy back and forth on floor at that point to be able to explain what was happening. and at that time, senator reid ever -- emphasized though we're talking about times for cloture, cloture still should not be used, and his term was except in extraordinary circumstances. so in his statement, even the two-hour time period shouldn't be used except in extraordinary circumstan