and i guarantee you willie adams is on the right path to go down in history with our union. i think that at this point in his career of being a port commissioner, i think that's just another long chapter in the book of this man's life. both of those commissioners have worked hand to hand with our union to repeal support movement of cargo, people, and the maritime industry in this city that whole port commission and staff there doris republican and a lot of other people peter who's here today have been very instrumental in everything that's gone on in all the projects along the waterfront and i'm here today to thank them and please ask that both of them be reappointed thank you for your time >> thank you. >> indulge supervisors. shawn i'm the president of local 34 i'm going to talk about the willie i know willie who is my friend and will absolutely be there for anybody anytime no matter what and he does that in his job as commissioner if you show up at the meeting and need 5, 6, 7 minutes after the meeting is over he will take the time. and the reason you see that from willie

and i guarantee you willie adams is on the right path to go down in history with our union. i think that at this point in his career of being a port commissioner, i think that's just another long

this motion is approved next item >> item 59 motion conforming the reappointment of willie adams to 2018. >> same house, same call? this motion is depraved next. >> item 60 to authorize the supplement of a lawsuit filed by sonya on april 19, 2012, in the united states northern district of california. >> same house, same call? this ordinance is passed on the first reading. and madam clerk item 61 to 64. >> those were not forwarded to the board and are not before the board today. >> why don't we go to roll call. >> mr. president, you are the first supervisor to introduce new business. >> thank you madam clerk and colleagues it is with heavy heart i ask we adjourn today's meeting whom i worked with. shell thomas that was a community leader and a former staffer and passed away this weekend. shell was an north beach resident for over 15 years more than him he worked tieflsly to improve the northeast neighborhoods he got things done and in particular telephones a huge advocate for the north beach and broadway neighborhoods as a stave for our office of economic workforce development. i can spen

commissioner adams better he supports our port his work has brought him subtitling and it's important to have him on our team and also i think i really like what you said about bringing willie more education to the community and having to do with the waterfront so thank you for that and even with his busy schedule he has time for all things >> thank you there's another motion and we'll take that without objection. that item passes. congratulations. madam clerk item 3 >> it's a motion confirming the reappointment to the treasure island's board of directors term ending february 28, 2013. >> mr. ma idol would you like to come up and make a statement. >> good afternoon, supervisors. thank you for considering my reappointment to tida i've been on this tida board foreclose to 4 years and have served for vice president the last two years i have a great working relationship with staff. since i've been on the board one of my biggest priorities is to make sure that the residents are take the opportunity i think that tida and it's staff have done a fabulous job on holding meetings and meeting with the residents one-on-one to hear concerns. i plan to make sure that the residents voices

, john, in that speech at west point has been very adamant that this is the right foreign policy for the united states at this time. you can't go willyconflicts and instead to avoid these conflicts you have to engage in multi-lateral conflicts. you've heard the president throughout this week say that the united states and its allies and partners got together and basically came up with a sanctions program that held russia in check while they took crimea. they did not mount further incursions into eastern ukraine. now the united states is seeing russia pull back some troops from the ukrainian border. they caution, john, that they have not seen clear evidence that the russians are mounting an entire pullout from that region. they're keeping a weary eye on that process. keep in mind there's a chance he may meet with the russian president later on this week. lots of high drama. >> i was going to ask you about that. must be a few awkward moments on the d day celebrations on friday. they may come face to face in a dinner with the french prime minister. >> two separate dinners. it will be fascinating to watch. >> jim, we appreciate that. jim

adam, what is this thing? >> a smart guy you have to ask him what it is. i'm just a coach here! come on, willie!ink about to the segment watson wing in "jeopardy" it could read natural language text and tremendous quantities of information and process and understand questions and provide correct answers. this project is going beyond answering questions and see if we can build a computer system to help people discover new things and the idea is have it invent new recipes never been seen before and what the system is doing. it's read, thousands of represent peas from the bon appetite recipe and what goes to making the dish and works with the chef to create a set of never before seen recipes. >> watson, to my knowledge, does not have taste buds. how do you get past that, right? how does he sample? >> i'll take this one. the point you, as a cook, have taste buds so a degree of trust. home cooks will get a recipe based on the 9,000 recipes in the database that watson creates. i like the sound of that, that spiciness goes with that sort of sweetness and i'm going to try this but you probably would not