I watched a Senate hearing on implementing decided upon innovation through the request for proposals securement of new weaponry.

I've had to refrain from debate once a decision has been made to pursue purchase or take a certain course of action rather than another course of action.  

What then happens is that the competitors whose proposal was turned down (at least in some significant way) then becomes an opponent, tying up the decision course of action in continued debate.

My way of handling that junction where competitors keep up the diatribe is to bring the losers to the "rfp" onto the design team to make changes and alterations of the accepted winner of the contract, so experience and know-how is not turned aside from the accepted proposal's team but becomes a source of improving on what has been adopted for development.  Who knows?--a lot of another's proposal (that wasn't adopted) might become incorporated into what was announced as the "winner!"

You get what I mean?  I'm suggesting that winning a contract through the "rfp" method is just a step in developing an innovation that becomes widely accepted because the input never stops, even by the competitors who didn't get the "rfp" go-ahead.  And there are ways to provide remuneration for their continued effort in the direction given by who won the "rfp."

The idea is to use every ounce of creativity you can get surrounding the event soliciting interest in getting the needed change done--with everybody interested being listened to and contributing (and recognized for their contributions). 

My opinion.     

My health aide is an expert at making political connections work for me.

 She's one in a million and I WANT TO LIVE.

My thankful self.

NO long-range to Ukrainian-Russian war now. Let conditions fester!

The Russian people and the Ukrainians both want the war to end--at least for a time.

Stress that any cease-fire is only a reprieve.  

What I see might work is this:

1.  Russia gets Crimea that it has control of since 2014.  That's the reason the peace is only for a time.

2.  Russia takes for awhile Donetsk, which it already has.

There is nothing that Putin would give or is needed for a cease-fire.  On his own, Zelensky could pose and start the cease-fire, for as many times it takes to take hold to people satisfaction.

Go to it; President Zelensky.  Show that your a man of peace; and you're dealing with a snake-charmer!

(Apply the story in the Bible: Abraham is willing to do what God says, even to take the life of his son on an altar--up to a point.)

My opinion.  '

P.S. I think the Russian people will get the message that Putin is holding them hostage!

   

To move military troops readily, I support a new canal in our hemisphere, one not given to blockage of passage through the locks.

I think the position of the US is such that it could make good use of another canal, in addition to alternate use of the Panama Canal.

Of course, there would have to be a naming ceremony for the newly proposed canal; and our current President has the idea in mind, I think.

Just a suggestion; and my opinion after having been at the Panama Canal, some years ago! 

My health aide also functions as my personal trainer to keep me active!

She comes from Africa, and doesn't know how to function smoothly as a citizen here.

She just incurred an emergency in her apartment with children that her apartment lost heat.  Temporarily, I gave her my space heater that my property management loaned to me to use whenever, which is occasionally, my unit in my room (attached to the wall) goes out.

Well, she saw it and wanted to take it to solve her immediate problem, but I didn't realize she thought it was mine; and given her disparate state of mind, I told her to take it.  I also said to bring it back, but evidently she did catch my drift!  They don't do that in Africa.

So, now I'm in hot water with my wonderful SOME management.

My solution is to try to get someone from her country or someone from the health care agency that I got her from.  I'm 87 and I am so thankful she knows how to function as a personal trainer too, because I function pretty well on the buses, stores, etc.  Let the agency explain to her to go to her property manager and make a complaint--no heat.

Meantime, since I've been living here over 7 years doing things as a volunteer for the government, I thought I would contribute to SOME's paying for a new space heater ($200), just in case- the health aide doesn't return the space heater I loaned her that belongs to the SOME building I live in.  And besides, the space heater I loaned her under emergency conditions has become well used through the years.

What do you think?  I want to retain my health aide who helps me adjust to old age living actively--doing normal, everyday things.  And I want to thank SOME for allowing me to live in their property so well adjusting to old  age.