back in history, the catalan region was home to an important figure, gaspart laportala. finally touching in the san francisco bay area after a 10- month journey. we now turn our sights to the advances in technology and transportation as we forge ahead with our new sister city relationship. the committee has been formed. we lead efforts in streamlining sure of communication with our colleagues in barcelona and one of our first effort will be to lead the drive for direct flights between san francisco and the barcelona. transportation will be a key interplay between the two cities and san francisco looks forward to learning more about the high-speed train systems and learning about future space projects. further information sharing in business and technology and the areas of academia, a green tie, clean-cut, will be fostered and developed through these new lines of communication. san francisco and are still hold two of the largest gay communities in the world. we will do our effort to bring the two communities together to further their ideas and goals. last but not least, t