Aye. Wow, this feels like a major win. Thank you, all. Great job, everyone. Great job. We already put the time in on this. Well done. All right. And i think were on final item here. Which is agenda item number 8 am i correct . Is there a seven . My script is missing. Item seven. Commissioner comments and questions. That is it. Thank you. I should have been looking at the agenda. Sorry. Item seven, commissioner comments and questions. Who has something to say . I do tonight. I dont know if anyone has noticed over the last month our officers have been wearing pink Police Patches on their shoulders, and i am remiss and i actually bought everyone one and i forgot to bring them tonight. I will bring them to the next meeting. This was an effort of our chief will scott as well as our Police Officers association who are present tony montoya and over the last month we raised over 20,000 for the cure. Simply selling our patches and pink shirts. And by the way, if you would rather get a pink shir
We have a quorum. Commissioners, before you, we have the minutes of november 12. Are there any additions or corrections . I would like to move the item. Second. Is there any Public Comment on this item . All those in favor. Aye. Opposed . The motion carries. Next item. Item 4 is general Public Comment. Members of the public may address the commission on matters that are within the commissions jurisdiction and are not on todays agenda. Mr. Decosta. Commissioners, today i want to give you my subjective opinion on some very important matters linked to the river. So any way you look at it, you have to go back years, thousands of years, to the tribes that preserved and protected and performed their sacred rituals. Very important when we talk about cultural competency. We talk about cultural competency, equity and resiliency but we dont know the meaning of those words. If we did, we would be more serious. So at times, there are some individuals, and im one of those, i like to talk about thos
We have a quorum. Commissioners, before you, we have the minutes of november 12. Are there any additions or corrections . I would like to move the item. Second. Is there any Public Comment on this item . All those in favor. Aye. Opposed . The motion carries. Next item. Item 4 is general Public Comment. Members of the public may address the commission on matters that are within the commissions jurisdiction and are not on todays agenda. Mr. Decosta. Commissioners, today i want to give you my subjective opinion on some very important matters linked to the river. So any way you look at it, you have to go back years, thousands of years, to the tribes that preserved and protected and performed their sacred rituals. Very important when we talk about cultural competency. We talk about cultural competency, equity and resiliency but we dont know the meaning of those words. If we did, we would be more serious. So at times, there are some individuals, and im one of those, i like to talk about thos
The message beyond microsofts campus with a new book, tools and weapons, the promise and the peril of the digital age. Im tom giles, in for emily chang. Joining me today on bloomberg studio 1. 0, brad smith, president of microsoft. Tom brad, thanks for being with us today. A lot of the last year has been spent talking about and spilling ink over this complex relationship between the u. S. And china. Id like to hear more about your concerns about the way this is playing out between the u. S. And china, and what impact that could have on u. S. Technological leadership on a global arena. Brad the u. S. Is the Digital Technology leader in the world today, but one of the important things for all of us to remember is that we dont actually invent or create technology by ourselves. If you buy an American Technology product, a product that is made by an american company, in all probability, it consists of inventions that came from Silicon Valley as well as bangalore and beijing and dublin and l
To test the legitimacy of Psychiatric Hospitals. A group of colleagues and i gained admission to Psychiatric Hospitals in simulating by faking a symptom a simple system. We said we heard voices. He voices said, empty, dull the moment we were admitted to the hospital, we abandoned our symptom, and we behaved the way we usually behave. The question was, would anyone detect we were sane . The answer was, no. Your new book, the great pretender, centers around the story of this man. Who is he . Susannah he is a stanford professor named David Rosenhan. He was the architect of this study. Inis called on being sane insane places. He and seven other people went undercover in Psychiatric Hospitals around the country. Their mission was to test the nature of diagnosis to see if their sanity would be detected. As he said, they were not. The study was done in the early 1970s. Why are you interested in it today . Susannah it came from a personal place. I emerged from my book, my memoir, brain on fire