my name is john updike, acting director of real estate. today we see the recommendation to acquire this property that jennings and newhall in the india basin subdivision. i have a general map in the overhead. the property is on a street that leads to the postal service facility and is somewhat disconnected from the basin as a result. it does a for the city to secure an excellent match for the office of the chief medical examiner, subject to design, cheaper review, and authorization of funding over the left -- the next two to 2.5 years. originally leased in 2006, housing the laundry facility, dislocated from a hospital project. primarily as a result of an arbitration between union representative laundry workers and the city. set aside, subsequently, the laundry is now an outsourced function that never moved into this location. however, the property jurisdiction has been used as a warehouse for off site storage during construction. it served a very valuable purpose, housing everything from art works to kitchen appliances. in the past year th

the pulitzer was won by john updike. so i lost to john updike. that is probably a given. grace is the person who began the book. who began the book. this is based on -- "mean spirit" is based on the oil boom in oklahoma and basically a true story with fictional characters woven in. it is about what happened during the oil boom. the non indian men came into the area to become oil wealthy and found they could do so by marion women. and receiving their land because they were men. they could become owners of the land. so they often, in certain areas, were guilty of killing women. eagle of killing their own children to have the land. the world was a very greedy place at times, most of the times it seems these days. the fbi formed around this. the fbi story, the movie has that in it. so they sent in one native man. i created the character of red hawk to be the fbi informant. and he's actually from -- he's a lakota. but i also discovered later that an indian writer named gertrude and discovered an american woman was and in real life, she is a writer and wrote several wonderful b

bill styron was on line for a really close range john updike all of them the brain said what all the only ones who thought of life now but don't you yourself live in an ivory tower no no no no i love because some russians thirty million created by some russians who are integrated got america they don't go to they don't read american books they don't go to american theater they don't learn properly. in this exactly they invented this vessel and cultural america aren't culturally the max is this problem but it's a very very problem using all french people the current sort of not. rational culture not know if you see it in the hour of. our pupils. in the school they make more and more grammatical mistakes on american it's a. to me this despite the promote cultural sunburns i give promotion for i'm tickled ok and i just want you to to say yes but this is a very important i had a discussion with my father who is of your generation he said that a cultured person should know a lot of poetry i said no to day to day you can you can be a culture person without poetry so who's right me or my da

bill styron was on one frame really close or in john updike all of them the brain said well paul the only ones who thought of life and around the don't you yourself live in an ivory tower no no no no i love the because some russians and thirty million created by sun are russians who are integrated going america they don't go to they don't read american books they don't go to american theater they don't learn properly. in this exactly they invented this vessel and cultural america aren't cultural marxists probably but it's a very very problem you think all french people because not. russians are culture not you know. you see in the our. our pupils. in the school they make more unorganized economists think than american too it's that the . seeing the display crowds will sometimes give promotion for i'm tickled i get and i just want you to to say yes this is a very important i had a discussion with my father and who is of your generation he said that a cultural person should know a lot of poetry i said no and again today you can you can be a culture person without poetry so who's right

. >> john updike, acting director of real estate. item 9 is related to the crystal springs pipeline number two improvement project. this property, i have an overhead for you. this is in the town of hillsborough. what is before the committee today is the purchase of temporary construction easements totaling 6440 square feet and a permanent easements of 4600 square feet. the settlement agreement calls for a purchase price of 87,005 and $7, which is between the appraised value and the requested amount from the owner and is pursuant to an summoned by the puc general manager and commission, who will approve this resolution. this is in conformance with the general plan, and with your approval, we would be able to execute the agreement for sale and the eastman documents for this project. i will do 10 and 11. if you have questions, i also have brian from the puc. item 10 is for the san joaquin pipeline system improvements. this location is in the city of tracy. this acquisition is on the tracy called country club, shown here. roughly where m

so i lost to john updike. pulitr but that is probably a given. ..to john updike. i lost to john updike but grace is the person who begins the book. this is -- mean spirit is based on the oil boom in oklahoma. it's basically a true story with fictionary characters woven in. and it's about what happened during the oil boom. the non-indian men tried to come into the area to become oil wealthy and they they felt they could do so by marrying indian women and because they were men they could become owners of the land and so they often in certain areas were guilty of killing women, of killing their own children to have the land. they were very -- the world is a very greedy place at times, most of the time it seems these days, and the fbi formed around this case. the fbi's story, the movie actually has this in it, so they sent in one native man. i created the character red hawk to be the fbi informant, and he's actually a lakota, but i discovered later and indian writer was also sent there in real life. she is a writer and wrote several wonderful books at the turn of the

these grand figures of world literature was quite a gathering of voices, anybody you can think of, john updike, on and on and on. me as the kid in the quarter and one of the things i remember which was different from the pen festivals we're having now is how bad tempered was. all the writers were fighting with each other like fight -- cats and dogs. got very upset that there was a panel in which politicians had been invited to speak, figures like bruno kreisky. he was an anti-semite in spite of the fact that he is a jew and had austria under his leadership had accepted more refugee jews from the soviet union than any other country. in spite of this he was anti-semitic. he had one brief meeting with yasir arafat. so she was collecting signatures against him and stood up -- i thought he responded with enormous up from. he said there are a lot of people in this room. it is too big to discuss these important matters. this was at the essex house hotel. what he suggested after the session was find a room in the hotel and i will undertake to be there with no time limit to discuss whatever you want to

we're joined by a panel of independent voters, john updike, director of development for independentvoting.orgegory moon, the president of independent voters of america and ricky moony, welcome to all of you. >> good morning, alisyn. >> good morning. gregory, i want to start with you. you say you believe that democrats are actually winning this war of words in the debt debate. why? >> i just believe their approach in terms of market strategy is working better than the republicans at this time because they seem to be including things, policies other than just the debt itself. and i think that approach is more appealing to the average voter. as opposed to what the republicans are doing. >> interesting. linda, you say something that we've heard echoed in polls from many americans and that is that you'd like to actually see a blending of the two plans with spending cuts and are you ok with tax hikes as well? >> well, i would personally not like to see my taxes go up probably every american would say the same thing. but, you know, we're all in this problem together. this is a shared responsibility

listening to all of these grand figures it was quite a gathering of voices of anybody you can think of, john updike, susan, on and on and done, and me, the kid in the corner. one of things i remember frompb the festival you are having now is how bad tempered it was. they were fighting with each other like cats and dogs. there was a panel in which politicians have been invited other figures like that, and decided that he was an anti-semite and this was in spite of the fact that he was a jew and had in fact austria under his leadership had accepted more refugees for the soviet union the had one brief meeting with yasser arafat to and so she was collecting signatures against them and so on and stood up from the floor of the congress to denounce him in his session and he responded with the enormous he said look there's a lot of people in this room it's too big of a session to discuss these important matters and what i suggest is on central park. he said what i suggest is after the session in this we find a room in the hotel and with no time limits to discuss whatever you want to discuss. nobody wanted