Civilization neither art of civilization are secure. Its a recognize that the federal government believed that art should and can enrich our lives. This project was taken out of the beauty parlor and put here ugly or usable and behalf. Theyve recognized the building art and its through those those types of collaborations that are become into the arts collaboration. I hope this continues to grow our infrastructure. I take it my dreamy know from experience if we can do it with the courtyard we can do it with infrastructure like water and bridges can be built and reflect the best qualifies of american democracy. Nancy pelosi said we should keep on building thanks or things that inspire and endure. Thank you clapping. thank you cliff im sure everyone will agree it is a wonderful particulars. Today youve heard about the objectives and goals but we wouldnt have been successful without the contractors i want to acknowledge the architects and the art and Architecture Design of cliff garden stu
Ready for another service hopefully it is something well be calling the great come back of our economy. I think mayor ed lee and everyone here for our leadership all your leadership because its more than a building its more than a workplace or a you mean its to growth and regional its the link from the past a great past as the un plaza to the future and i couldnt be happier to be here with you to celebrate that. So thank you very much all very much. Thank you so much congresswoman your leadership in the house that passed the recovery act not only helped to create and save millions of jobs but it is what made this project possible so thank you. Tiger lee is the director for the Administration Services hes served a vital role to build a responsible government for the American People. Hes been recognized and as our that administrator hes leading us to greater innovation as we report to the american taxpayers. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome him clapping. thank you very much ruth than
Nuisance sculptures he maintenance smallscale skurlz please well, mr. Cliff thank you and thank you congresswoman pelosi and mayor ed lee for your comments. This building and project represents many things i want to talk about the roll of art in the contemporary society. Within their design convalescence program. This court yard was done within the program. This program offered the opportunity to work with architect and engineers and significant collaborations that integrate art into the general mifgsdz public buildings. During this collaboration i had the pleasure to work with jennifer and ken barker in washington and don davis. As well as others from the construction site. And we also had an excellent contractor. That my most significant professional collaboration in the project was with two people don doug last from the Fine Arts Program and cliff low. Cliff lows sensitive were structural for me to create the landscape ribbons. Don douglas demanded the best quality. The sculptor in
Democracy. We have to make decisions about how to allocate resources that just dont build a structure and create jobs that way or a place to work and create jobs that way but to grow the economy in the surrounding area. That is what it makes it a model to the nation and thats what San Francisco is also ready and able to do. As we bring life into the building this is renovated in the Great Recession and now ready for another service hopefully it is something well be calling the great come back of our economy. I think mayor ed lee and everyone here for our leadership all your leadership because its more than a building its more than a workplace or a you mean its to growth and regional its the link from the past a great past as the un plaza to the future and i couldnt be happier to be here with you to celebrate that. So thank you very much all very much. Thank you so much congresswoman your leadership in the house that passed the recovery act not only helped to create and save millions of
Im jo with the sport. Seven of spains top clubs face investigations over illegal match fixing. Hello, there are hopes that some of russias most high profile prisoners could be home for christmas. Pussy riot and the green peace protesters are among 20,000 prisoners included in the amnesty. Although that is just a fraction of the half a Million People being held in jails lets get more. There are 30 green peace activists. They will be hoping this is the end of a particularly nasty three months. They were picked up while protesting an oil drugging rig. They spent nearly two months in jail before they were moved to st. Piecersberg, and finally a couple of weeks ago, green peace raced the raised the necessary bail, 60 million. They have been speaking in st. Petersburg. Here is what they had to say. We spent in jail for doing nothing wrong, and now we are deemed guilty but granted amnesty, and 26 of us will be able to go home sooner or later, but what does that mean for our russian colleagues