Its awesome to see a wooden liner of this caliber. America is a 139' Luxury liner was build Scarano Boat Building (Kind of interesting what they do.) in their Albany shipyard (Yacht Chart Fleet). You can learn a little about America and its charter HERE.
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Another officer was shot and with sadness we can say we haven't yet got a handle on gun violence. I think we are dealing with the availability of certain guns on one side and the right to own guns on the other side. From a domestic disturbance response issue (violence and mental health may be at cause) it is sad to see things turn out this way (Meaning we need change that creates accountability and opportunity for help.). Somewhere and someday we are going to have to find the right balance between protection from gun misuse and the right to bear arms. We are not there yet...but people are certainly discussing it from a wider societal perspective. Either way, until we find a solution it will continue forward and some will misuse them; maybe always will. :(
Maybe we need to innovate the gun market to create more finger print protection. See an article by Daniel Trotta in Rueter's article 'Exclusive: Smart guns finally arriving in U.S., seeking to shake up firearms market'. However, guns are a controversial issue. I don't know all the arguments involved so I'm just sort of learning to formulate my own opinion (I haven't made up my mind on the idea yet. What I can say is useless death and violent crime damage our society.). What I can say is that I have talked to a lot of people who own guns and I think some of them don't respect its finite nature (The personality and gun are often the primary issues). There are others who are more serious about them and treat them with a level of respect (The type of gun owner I trust.)
Escanaba's townhall was a positive step in the adjustments needed to encourage this small town to be a place where people invest, live and thrive. It was also a productive meeting because it was informative to city council members in terms of how procedures work and why they exist. You will notice that from prior meetings until this meeting there is a higher sense of team cohesion and sense of direction (Go back to the Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, and Adjourning stages and some of the exhibited behaviors of groups. Tuckman's Stages). There will naturally be differences throughout their time in office but if they focus on actionable steps to improve future prospects and how their choices impact the lives of residence they will be accomplish much of what they set out to do.
Another step the team could take would be to take a look at personality attributes and area of interests and try and match that with roles and responsibilities. The benefit is that it can create increased engagement and motivation of team members because they already have the natural focus. One would want to of course keep in mind over interest in an area which could make someone blind. Where that might occur you may want multiple people working on that topical area. (See Personality Traits and Team Cohesion , Path-Goal Theory and Higher Performance Path-Goal)
As a side note. The speaker did a great job of connecting the concepts that universities can draw resources and provide an attractive draw for young people to move into the area. They also have the ability to use their intellectual resources to improve their communities and give "real life" experience (...thinking how things connect between different institutions and activities to create net positives community. The more you do that, according the a theory on innovative transactions, the higher the growth rate. It is also possible to also expand the system by new lines of "net positives" that come from efficient use of resources to create ROI in clusters.) That of course relies on the ability to attract and retain diverse faculty from a broad range of backgrounds that can help students prepare bright futures. While Escanaba is a small town nestled in the woods and lake in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan it has significant potential as an investment draw. (Small Business Online Success and Business Incubators)
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The hostage situation in Colleyville Texas highlights the reason why we need to understand how/why certain behaviors and beliefs lead to people acting in unacceptable ways. Geopolitical issues should not be played out on our streets (of any race, group or religion). I pray for the safe release of the hostages and people's hearts will warm to a better path forward where peace can be found. A best case scenario is that the attacker/perpetrator releases the hostages and gives himself up to protect himself and society at large (We can always hope). There is a type of redemption for people who come to their senses and do the right thing (Bad happened but maybe we can learn from it. Looks like from the updated new the attacker did not do the right thing and it ended in instant justice. In this case it appears justified as other lives were being scapegoated/used for the attackers desire. Threatening other lives leads to difficult choices and not the optimum outcome. A common problem with extremism is that it loses its rationality and moves down a distorted line of thinking; again not race, religion, or group specific.)
We may want to understand whether this person has mental health issues, comes from a network of extremists, or where they were radicalized (I have looked at a lot of religions in my life and the sanctity of life is part of all of them. It looks like ideological distortion....but one has to wait and see until the investigation is complete.). This is why I advocate a track and coding system for people who display extremist behaviors (of any race, group, religion). It provides an opportunity to get into the psychological underpinnings (likely to be similar to other precursor acts of group violence).
Knowing when to intervene on dangerous behavior and the key drivers are important for future prevention. America is a safe haven where people can practice any religion they so desire with peace and tranquility. No one has the right to take that from anyone else...it should be something we all stand behind as a national value (We must stand up for it together.). Failure here, in our hometowns, or in our Capital means we haven't learned the lessons of history and as a social structure haven't embedded more universal concepts. (There is no religion on the planet that I know of that would disagree with the right for people to worship...even when its different than the majority population. There may be people who disagree with freedom of worship based on their own extremist ethnocentric viewpoints but its not within the inherent religious text or values. Cherry picking any religious text without understanding its intended themes is almost always inappropriate. Personally, I think most religions lead to the very same path of wisdom/insight, knowledge/truth, moral conscious/prosocial values, and awareness/cognitive brightness but that's just my opinion. 🤷)
Tsunami Advisory for San Diego this AM. It ended up being just a little ran and small waves. Could of course been worse but it wasn't expected to be anything grandiose by the time it hit the west coast. You might enjoy a couple of pictures of Ocean Beach last night.
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Sioux Locks, Roads, and Erosion are where some of the infrastructure money will be spent. Michigan has lots of focus on the Auto Industry and $8 Billion influx (See EV Michigan, Fed Plots Course, EMP Concentric, MI Infrastructure, Values and Competition China). You may also want to read about MITA and the Michigan Infrastructure Office.
