Celebrating the next 150 years, with all of you. And i would like to especially thank the exporatoriums board, staff, consultants, and supporters and friends. For with you all who were the innovators behind this vision, you all who had this dedication for too many years to count and you all who will make this all possible and so my ring, which i like to point out is going on top of davids ring. And that was a silly thing to say, david. Only when you go last. My ring, back to the point, mr. Mayor, thank god that i work for you. My ring symbolizes the conductors and the communicaters and it is representative of the planners, the collaborative ra tores and the producers who created this vision and those of you who will keep it fresh for the next 150 years, please take a big bow all of you here today and it is truly an achievement, thank you. [ applause ] thank you, monique very much. My team before you here is almost finished, we are going to ring the bell in just a few moments, let me ju
They say that victory and successes have many parents and i want to take a moment to add my thanks not just to the dreamers and the architects and the engineers and the builders, the donors and the exporatorium staff but i want to thank my neighborhood associations, the environmental groups and the transit organizations that worked together for many months for my aid and myself to make sure that we negotiated with city staff and i think Six Commission ss what i understand to balance all of the needs that we need to move this through unanimously. And i also want to say when i came at office five years ago, the piers that we are on today and many of the piers along the bay were crumbling into the sea and the fact that we opened up today and opened up and did a Ribbon Cutting on the cruise ship terminal and we will be opening up the americas cup we are truly building a 21st gem of a water front that is the envy to every city in the world. [ applause ] let me tell you, part of the reason i
A unique way and i am grateful for that, abc 7 is proud, Television Partner of the exporatorium and let me acknowledge the president and general manager, william burton, raise your hand if you would, and i want to say that because he has donated just countless amounts of Television Time to promote this event and be a part of it and so we are very proud to serve in that community. And so we are around a tv anchor and a bunch of politicians that they talk so much that we have to switch interpreters and we have warn them out and thank you for being here. That is how bad it is, right . Doctor rob stemp er is a renouned physicist and really is the thread that connects in so many ways, the history and the fundamentals and the core values of franks mission with the new modern day advancements and discoveries of the new exporatorium. Please welcome dr. Rob semper. Good morning, everyone. And welcome to the plaza, one of the wonderful things about the new exporatorium is that we have this wonde