and let me take a moment to thank former supervisors sophie maxwell, evan dufty, and michelangelo alioto-pier for your -- michaela alioto-pier for your support and trust of me. i am grateful and inspired by that show of support. but more importantly, i was inspired by what it portends. a new era of trust. a shared sense of purpose and commitment to this city that we all love. a sense of unity. i may be your interim mayor, but i intend to utilize this year and office to tackle our problems with resolve and seriousness of purpose. this is an unprecedented opportunity and perhaps it is just what san francisco needs at this time and in our moment of history. ness an opportunity to come together -- this is an opportunity to come together, to roll up our sleeves and go to work on the significant challenges we all face. for the benefit of all san franciscans. i hope to move us past the labels that have pigeonholed us at city hall or at least to not be bound by them. because if you're a so-called moderate, then i'm a moderate. i've spent the past two decades trying to make this city work, to work for

and let me take a moment to thank former supervisors sophie maxwell, evan dufty, and michelangelo alioto-pier for your -- michaela alioto-pier for your support and trust of me. i am grateful and inspired by that show of support. but more importantly, i was inspired by what it portends. a new era of trust. a shared sense of purpose and commitment to this city that we all love. a sense of unity. i may be your interim mayor, but i intend to utilize this year and office to tackle our problems with resolve and seriousness of purpose. this is an unprecedented opportunity and perhaps it is just what san francisco needs at this time and in our moment of history.

museum of fine art is a place to get the feeling of italy visitors are welcomed by the stage of michelangelo's david what's on their replica their real ones in florence king and masterpieces are already on their way to moscow to make the feeling of italy grow within these walls last year the museum hosted the biggest of a display of class so works in russia the pictures were brought to the russian capital from paris is part of the cultural exchange with france the exhibition was such a success you had to queue for an hour to get inside the museum. this year you have curvier i'd shown this boy thrown out of his works in moscow at the moment so the exhibition is bound to draw crowds it was good to talk until. caravaggio exhibit is very hard to put together but not so many of his works a left in italy in exchange for caravaggio where sending a very good collection of impressionists to milan at court. russia will also swap art with spain the bulk of it will be between the trades prado and simple is brooks hermitage moscow who is going to send one of its most precious masterpieces because who is gr

that's cultural friends of across the country pay homage to the land of michelangelo you know. just an hour ago the world's journey spaceship discovery successfully blasted out from cape canaveral in florida on its final mission its mission to the international space station comes after almost three decades of emotional travel the launch mark the beginning of the end of the space shuttle program with the remaining two craft also heading for the scrap heap later this year and as he's gay marriage to count the course it's a lot of americans are finding it hard to accept. by the end of this year nasa will no longer be able to send humans into space according to obama's plan responsibility will go to private companies which are expected to come up with cheaper ways to ferry astronauts to low earth orbit they know that they have a big step to take when they if they're thinking about putting humans into space and that's going to take a you know the next phase of their development so i have a oh gosh i. can't even estimate exactly no one can say for sure when the private american comp