dave thomas it the owner of the san francisco water fair market i think you remember when we initiated this contract as the emerald lady out of pier 39 she hold 39 passengers and ran 35 thousands passengers with the one so we're hoping to get a lot of ridership we're pleased to welcome him. you can see what the vessel looked like you'll see her out on the bay. let's see next, i wanted to mention again due to a loss of agenda items we're scalding our april meeting so it will be in april 22nd and march 24 the small property owner exchange the small business exchange we're featured that the weekly periodical it's the port of san francisco diversity abounds and martin was interviewed and i was interviewed about the different contributes of our racial diversity focusing a lot on the diversity both gender and russialy of the commission itself and the senior management of the port all the way down and talking about our history with diversity and policymaking with regard to opportunity for all types of folks especially those represent by contractors. it's a nice article not everything was reit

. >>> we are back with etan, dave, and thomas. , your thoughts on the rights of student athletes? >> sometimes i wonder if the koch brothers run the -- the two revenue-producing sports are dominated by poor, overwhelmingly african-american athletes. you would have to be blind not to see the ways in which the ncaa benefits from it. the young people feel like they have very few options. that's what places like northwestern are going toward. >> coach, what do you think of that? and fans that watch your team and your players as the debate unfolds around the nation? >> well, it's sad that the truth isn't being told. there are quite a few benefits that come from being a student athlete. my daughter got her acceptance letters back last week. and this discussion we're having is probably too short. should there be tweaks in it? absolutely. comparing it to slavery, that's a hard one. some kids have a good deal. like johnny manziel and shabazz napier could get a better deal. >> well, if you told some of the student athletes this, they would s

thomas edison's laboratory. sunday. and casey sherman and dave wedge on the book "boston strong" about the bombings at last year's marathon. the book is based on the investigation of the attack. they spoke at fisher college for one hour. >> thank you. first, i would like to say thank you to our interns from fisher college. we have a group of really dedicated students that have been working with dave and i over the past several months to transcribe interviews, talk about the timeline of the bombing, timeline about some of the secondary stories that came out of the aftermath to this. i want to thank them. i want to thank jan courtney for this incredible opportunity, especially the fact that dave and i are sitting down. i am very short so when i stand next to him i look like his son. i have written about the best of the human condition. i have also written about the worst of the human condition. with "boston strong" we found a little bit of both. once this happened, some publishers started to approach me and ask if i would write a book about the tra