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test to where a link to the past and the future. so, we re a link to the past and the future, and more than anything we re a link to the community. and our motto is where science meets community. our team does really cutting edge research on different kinds of prevention strategies, pre-exposure prophylaxis. and if you go to our website, join prep hiv, you ll see all of the many exciting studies that we have as well as our partnership with san francisco city clinic in launching the first demonstration project of pre-exposure prophylaxis, taking antihiv medicines to prevent new infections. we re studying topical gels, retro microbicide. the way we re going to end this epidemic is through a vaccine, we ve controlled other infectious diseases through a cure. we re proud of our staff who contribute to this as well as the many study participants. and i m just going to close with a quick word about the project. the way that this project came about was actually one of our staf ....
the hiv prevention section formerly led it now it s led by tracy packer who is here in the crowd. (applause) and stacey leads an amazing team of people. they not only oversee and set the priorities for hiv prevention in the entire city and serve as really, again, one of the flagship prevention programs globally in making decisions about how to have the biggest impact on driving down new infections. but they re also a world class research organization that does research on testing, on linkage to care, community viral load, treatment of substance use as a way to prevent new hiv infections. and she, again, has a very difficult verse and very talented team and we re really excited to work with them as well. (applause) and then finally i want to introduce my staff. we were formally known as the hiv research section. but as you can see we have these other world class research organizations housed in our same institution. so, we ve renamed ourselves bridge hiv. and i m g ....
time. made a lot of friends here. crisises part of the 2008 clean neighborhood park fund, and this is so important to our families. for many people who live in chinatown, this is their backyard. this is where many people come to congregate, and we are so happy to be able to deliver this project on time and under budget. a reason we all agreed to name this memorex center is because it is part of the history of i hear to name this rec center, is because it is part of the history of san francisco. they took off from logan airport, and the call of duty was to alert american airlines that her plane was hijacked, and she stayed on the phone prior to the crash into the no. 9 world trade center. i would like to claim today the center and the naming of it. [applause] kmer i actually challenged me to a little bit of a ping pong the mayor actually challenge me to a little bit of a ping- pong, so i accept your challenge. it is an amazing spot. it is a state of the a ....
activity. this will be a state-of-the-art facility. during the depression, arthur brown jr. designed a new federal building in san francisco. he went out of his way to make this a complementary feature of the nearly-completed pacific center area. the civic center is a scene of events of great importance, including the founding of the united nations and the peace treaties with world war ii. this shows as a poll reform moving to the united states. the architecture and plans are regarded as some of the finest and most complete manifestations of the beautiful movement. there is a scholar of classical architecture that says that this is the greatest ensembles of architecture in america. in 1899, the mayor was considering concepts the proposed establishing the grand civic center for san francisco. and leon know what had happened. after the earthquake and devastating fire, there could be a new city hall to replace the one that was destroyed. over the next 17 years, there were ....
plumbing systems, the restoration of the historic significant to create modern offices, and this will be a hi- performance building. this is not the leak the new building that you make to keep standards, this is the old building that you preserved. this has lasted almost 80 years. this is without major renovation. the biggest impact is avoiding consuming raw resources. the configuration of the building has a lot direct control for the occupants. these are operable windows, and this is a very green concept. these will be high-efficiency, low-cost, and we will reuse the existing systems in the building. this was part of the image of gsa, serving the public and only seem minor changes and improvements, demanding very little investment. after a couple of those california earthquakes, the government said that they have to meet new seismic standards. we determined that this would require major investments in the facility. and the question was just that. the cost of the ....