Author: chuckparker425

Turkish Drone Maker To Change Warfare; Industry Growth Tenfold in 10 Years; Drones Now a Diplomatic Tool for Turkey Rise;

Drone warfare is or has or is about to be BIG;

Turkish drone manufacturer is dominating market;

Expect to see more drones in Ukraine and other conflicts;

Bayraktar, Turkish engineer invented innovative drone for warfare;

Turkish have invented & marketing drone—Bayraktar TB2;

Delivers laser guided bombs;

Selling them to all countries in Europe, presumably Russia also;

Bayraktar Technologies is married Turkish Leader daughter;

Means we will see more Turkey even in Ukraine;

More to the drone warfare than being reported;

Drones have got to be effective in warfare compared to planes & bombs;

Patient, Heal Thyself–Wearable Technology Transforming Heath Care; Patients Use to Care for Themselves More; Time to Prepare; Payoff in Money & Well Being Are There;

Wearables are about to be “Fix-ables” ;

Wearable technology is about to cause revolution in patient care;

Known as “Quantify Yourself” process;

Need & way to diagnose & treat people As Individuals;

Should Enable People to Provide Care for Themselves;

Will shape a forthcoming revolution in health care;

3 ways–Early diagnosis, personalized treatment & chronic disease management;

Creates data that leads to solutions for individual people;

Data from wearable devices are changing disease surveillance & medical research;

Hey Bro—Time to Man Up –Men Cause Abortions & Pregnancies; Take Responsibility for What You Did; Men Probably Know But Are No Consequences;

How can our society cause males to be responsible for pregnancies?

Most unintended pregnancies result from not using contraception;

Need to set up new system where men have to share burdens of unwanted pregnancies;

They don’t ask, and don’t think to ask, if they’ve making babies at all.

Why? Because there are zero consequences for men who cause unwanted pregnancies;

Never think of their sex drive with impregnation –just gratification,

Race Horses Keep Dying; No Other Sport Would Tolerate Deaths of Athletes; Two Horse Deaths at Santa Anita in 2 days;

Here we go again

More Deaths of Young horses at Santa Anita;

Has the glamour gone out of horse racing?

2nd horse dies in 2 days in May at Santa Anita Park;

Second & 3rd racehorse death in the 6 days.

The clock is ticking fast on horse racing in general;

That’s 8 more horses have died from racing or training injuries at Santa Anita.
Number of fatalities in 2022 are a sharp drop-off from 2019, when 42 horses died;

Widespread debate about safety issues at the track and about horse-racing in general.

The uproar led to procedural and veterinary oversight changes at the park.

The Power of Influence.– Why Can’t We Just Get Along? How We Can Persuade People to Unite & Work Together–Need to Make the Premises of This Book a Part of National Psyche, Purpose, & Education;

Wanna help people with their heads?

Buy give away copies of this book; Send to people who care.

Is probable the most influential books on human interaction in last 50;

Has shaped the workplace culture by developing effective leaders.

Recognizes that by creating a positive climate that inspires team members;

Contributes & influences to their best.

Great leaders are fully committed to the success of their people;

Seek potential and know how to bring out the best in them.

The Downfall of a Navy Seal; Review of Gallagher’s Corruption of America’s Finest As Accessed By a Marine NCO

The Navy Seals returned from Iraq as heroes.

However, Their credibility & standing came into question.

Eddiie Gallagher was their leader & acted out in the battlefield.

Did he murder Three civilians & become a hero or criminal?

A trial followed in which Gallagher got off.

Here is a Review of the court martial verdict & trial by a Marine, Journalist & Consultant

Reviewer Jim Thompson is a credible critic, analyst, & Marine.

Friday, the 13th–Supposed to be a Day of Caution & Threat; Here is What Seems Significant About Today’s News;

Every day something happens that impacts one or many;

Selecting what stands out as of significant is challenge;

Six developments from the past day have been selected

Range from China to California

SoftBank Lost $13.2 B on Tech Investments

Finnish Government Says Country To Join NATO & Membership
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Crypto Market Turbulence – Massive decline in value.

Ocean Desalination Plant Nixed- Commission Said No Need;

SoftBank tanks again;

Crypto market corrects;

Taking Stock—Making Employees Owners; As Award or by Purchase; Shows Commitment & Belief; Risk Less An Issue;

How bout employees being stockholders?

Will foster commitment, focus, and financial purpose;

As Stockholders Not easy to give workers part of the company;

Culture of ownership, you can minimize employee turnover;

Motivates your staff to work harder for those interested in ownership.

They want to feel that they are contributing to something.

Can minimize employee turnover and motivate staff to work harder.

Everyone is pulling in the same direction;

Would give equity to employees in something they built.

Epic CA Water Shortfall Forthcoming; Stand by for Water Rationing; Lakes Powell & Mead Are Shrinking; Proposed Cut Goes to 35% from 15%;

Enough water is not enough;

CA must have lot of water & people;

Water is NOT being conserved in CA;

Preservation levels remained lower than 15 % target;

More water is being used;

Increased consumption of water is increasing since March 2020;

Reservoir levels are low; Shifts in water cycles;

Water districts want to cut consumption by 35%;

Water, Water, And less we are to have;

Drought proposal about to be announced (in May);

Mother Nature is reminding us that drought is forthcoming;

Lock ‘Em Up! The Futility of Incarceration; Too Many People Over Sentenced; Need to Go To The Cause of Crime; Consider a National Policy on Imprisonment; Half of Sentences Are for Drugs;

Is a prisoner’s life over when jailed?

Are we locking up too many people?

For one — Stop imprisoning people just for drug use;

What happens in prison determines prisoner integration into society;

Prison Authority determines who can be rehabbed and who should be confined.

Use of imprisonment time to give prisoners options & opportunities;

Ongoing need to decarcerate and end the era of mass incarceration;

Ensuring that decarceration efforts center racial justice as a goal

Promoting voting rights for all regardless of conviction history.

No Longer Need For Union; Amazon Workers Don’t Want Unionization; Instead Should Be Offered to Own Stock In Amazon;

No Union yet;

Amazon workers do not seem ready to organize;

Amazon Workers Reject Union;

Employees at Staten Island facility voted against unionization;

Consider making workers owners of Amazon stock;

Set up a system or process to offer employees Amazon stock;

Being owners would take away need to bargain for benefits,

Stock and Stock options available 90 days after hiring;

Includes key career positions that have responsibility;

Workers become part of Team; Not opposing force.

Would be revolution in corporate ownership.

No Home? What Do We Do? Can a Working Plan to Get Homeless People Into Housing Work? Matching Real Needs With Community Resources & Recovery;

Homeless do not like group housing.

Or Homeless have low appetite for group shelters.

Loss of privacy causes resistance to living on the street;

In spite of that -Only 30% would accept housing as part of recovery.

Clearing public spaces is major challenge for Homeless Services Authority

Putting people in rooms in a private hotel seems ideal.

LA City has come to rely heavily on group shelters.

City seeks to lure people off the streets to enforce revised camping ban, A Municipal Code

Most people want housing, but they also want space to call them own.

An onslaught of living compromises.

Streets are not camp grounds but what is?

Get Your Head Set On Straight; Multisensory Enhancements on Metaverse Enable Users to Do Things With Sets as Avatars; Even Do Work & Buy Stuff;

Metaverse seems to be here?

But where & how exactly is it?

Like what becomes of Facebook?

Already experience enhanced forms of VR on the Metaverse;

Such as existing internet-based games incorporate a type of VR;

Virtual reality (VR) headsets enable users to do things;

Such as work, meet with friends, shop, & play games as digital avatars.

Hope to connect people everywhere;

Many corporations intend to be at forefront of pioneering leap into Metaverse;

Metaverse could be where much of our globalized economy ends up existing;

Still not sure if a lot of people still do NOT know what is going on with Metaverse

Pass On The Salt; Drought Buster Too Costly–Desalination of Ocean Water Solution Not Cost Effective; Plus Damages Marine Coastal Environment & Raises Water Bills;

Managing water resources may be focus.

Not desalination or other means of extracting water from the air;

California continues to seek to confront water supply issues.

Governor & Activists advocate desalination; BUT

Water district oppose the proposed desalination actions

Would seriously damage the marine coastal environment.

To produce the costliest water of any source available

Also raise water bills for residents and businesses;

Cost of salt removal process is too much for now.

Back to basics of water management;

Think water conservation every day.

GETTING BATTERY-ED ABOUT—Lithium-Ion Batteries Are Dominant in China Vehicles & Now At Tesla; Safety, Longevity, & Cost Makes LFP Batteries More Attainable;

Eureka– we have a battery that really works;

Half of vehicles produced globally were built with lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries;

Increasingly popular lithium-ion battery chemistry tends to be safer & less expensive—

LFP became the dominant chemistry for batteries produced for Chinese EVs;

Made out of iron & phosphorus, both of which are more abundant & less expensive

LFP battery packs can cost less than $90 per kw;

Trade-offs include lower energy density, meaning lower range,

Had so far limited its use in EVs.

First was to produce an EV Battery with performance

Then cost reduction and supply.

It’s Been 100 Years—Finally Molokai Stream Water Is Back; Being Restored to Five Molokai Streams; Producing the Recharging of Ground Water & Restoring of Spring Flows;

Molokai in the middle of a chain is an Island in Time.

And Water is the life source for all

So a stream of restored water source is almost miraculous.

Water has been restored to five streams on Molokai;

After more than a century was almost fully diverted & often dry;

Molokai leadership & influencers finally said enough is enough.

No longer could just sit & watch this precious water being thrown away.

Flow standards set for the waterways that were often dry for almost a century.

Commission expects the restored stream flows will have dramatic benefits;

Change Your Understanding of Climate Change? Industry Analyst Suggests “No need to Be Alarmed”; Says Climate Change is Just Nature in Action Over Thousands of Years;

Things are a-changing?

Or Are They really? Academic says only as nature has done in past.

Mother Nature will change regardless of what we do;

So –Suggests eliminating Earth Day– for one thing.

Note – Ice shelves falling into the ocean in the Antarctic or Arctic seas are part of a natural cycle–

Part of a problem or cycle that is tens of thousands of years old;

Climate temperature data shows that the Earth is in a cooling cycle;

Act like it never ever really happened as to be the mode.

Per some environmental extremist claims- New York City should be underwater today.

Venice should be gone.

Live it Up; You Can Extend Your Life Span But It Takes Work Every Day; It’s a Mindset; A Way of Thinking & Acting; Can it be Done?

Getting older means you gotta get bolder;

It all a matter of your mental or mind set.

How do you do that?

You develop your own longevity mindset;

Adopt these 7 steps or means to accomplish an approach;

It’s about sleep, exercise, & basically taking care of your self.

Your attitude will prevail so think it out.

Stay active and move.

Examine and assess the seven basic areas:

1. Beliefs.
2. Media diet.
3. Community.
4. Sleep habits.
5. Your diet.
6. Exercise habits.
7. Mindset.

Wake Up & Listen Now. It’s All About Listening Leadership; Getting the Opposing Ideas on the Table; Taking the Sting Out of of Inconvenient Truths or Ideas We Don’t Want to Hear.

Another stupid idea or brilliant solution?

Got to listen to find out.

Even if it causes anxiety and even more conflict.

Need to embrace inconvenient truths that could help;

Better to learn this valuable lesson sooner rather than later.

Opportunity for learning & growth hides in perspectives we  don’t want to hear.

The perspectives that confuse, infuriate, and challenge us;

Ask yourself what learning and growth are you missing out on by ignoring inconvenient truths;

Ask people to share what’s missing in the solutions

Crime Stoppers–Why Do People Commit Crimes? Does Fear of Punishment Deter Crime? Most Violent Crimes Are Spur of the Moment; Neurochemicals Trigger Impulse;

Why commit a crime?

Planned or Impulse?

Multiple psychological, neurological, social, and personal reasons;

Substances brain releases to trigger body activity & hormones influencing criminal behavior.

Such a brain function could lead to greater risk-taking in life

Some criminals do not fear punishment as much as others;

Biological, psychological, social, and economic reasons to commit crimes;

Some consider a life of crime better than a regular job.

Retribution means punishment for crimes against society;

Depriving criminals of their freedom is a way of making them pay a debt to society.

Sacrificed For What?–Another Dead Race Horse; Gamblers & Greed Owners Gain; Look at the Causes of Death; 36 Race Horses Put Down at Major Tracks In March & April 20 2022

Horses are still dying on major race tracks

And being exploited basically for money;

Between 700 and 800 racehorses are injured & die every year,

National average of about two breakdowns for every 1,000 starts.

Industry not about to stop racing young horses.

Public & horse advocates consider banning the so called sport of horse racing;

May be the end of an era and an industry in present form.

Nearly 10 horses died every week at American racetracks in 2018.

And It still goes on. No end in sight

Experiential Appreciation Effective Pathway to Meaning in Life. Find the 3 Factors–Coherent Life Style, Goal Oriented, & Life Matters. The Beauty of Nature is Great Start;

What’s it all about, Alfy?

The meaning & purpose of Life?

What are we to do?

Maybe it all boils down to three factors:

1) gaining the feeling that one’s life is coherent and “makes sense,”

2) Take possession of clear and satisfying long-term goals

3) Belief that one’s life matters in the grand scheme of things.

Psychologists call these three things coherence, purpose & existential mattering.

Appreciate the Beauty if Nature Around Us Every day;

People managed stress by focusing on their appreciation for life’s beauty;

Now Chill Out & just be calm

Tell Me A True Story; Help Me See The Future; Narratives End Up As Our Truths: So We Have to Seek to Prepare For the Future; A Narrative is a Story about Something.

Tell me a story– and seek to make it the truth.

Use a narrative and tell me what it does.

Narratives have carved the paths of history;

Our narratives also bring out the best in us.

For decades now, people have been destabilizing the world,

We hav failed to imagine the consequences of our actions on our societies & our biosphere;

Global solutions begin with the right story or narrative;

Narratives shape our perceptions, form our realities & influence our choice.

Literature about narratives makes it clear that we think, act, & communicate in terms of narratives,

End up being the truths, or the ideas we accept as truths,

Being Kind May Be a Personality Trait; Maybe an Heroic Action; Or Could be Perceived as Weakness or Intrusion; Challenge for Strangers; Offer a Seat or Help;

Giving someone a helping hand with out being asked or thanked

Not always well received or understood.

Random acts of kindness could be a guide to life.

People tend to be cautious about offering to do something kind for a stranger.

Kindness assessed by asking people how often they carry out a list of kind acts.

Offering a seat on the bus to a woman sometimes manifests fear of embarrassment or rejection

In the US, the use of social media was more often given as a barrier to kindness.

Biggest factor associated with kindness wasn’t age or income, but personality;

Another finding which might shed light on our reticence to act;

Food Insecurity Threatens The Globe; Pricing, Shortages Causing Unrest in Low Income Countries; Now in China; Wants to be Self-Sufficient; U.S. Be Vulnerable Also? Food Prices Up In All Countries;

Are we going loose people to starvation? Starve to death?

Is Food insecurity really the biggest threat to World population?

Food & water may become the source of the economic survival of a given country;

Food shortage& security could be downfall countries?

Even Russia?

Need for a Global Food plan & doctrine backed by all countries;

Adopt technology & food production planning;

Mobilize food resources from every source, country, & expert;

Higher food prices can lead to social unrest in low-income countries;

Food accounts for a much larger share of spending.in all countries;