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S. 3264 (106th): Records Access Improvements Act of 2000
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To ensure that individuals with histories of mental illness and other persons prohibited from owning or possessing firearms are stopped from buying firearms by requiring instant background checks prior to making a firearms purchase, and for other purposes.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
October 30 (legislative day, SEPTEMBER 22), 2000
Mr. LOTT (for Mr. ASHCROFT) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This bill may be cited as the 'Records Access Improvements Act of 2000'.
SEC. 2. RECORDS ACCESS IMPROVEMENTS.
(a) REQUIREMENTS FOR RECEIPT OF FEDERAL FUNDS- The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (Brady Act), Public Law No. 103-159, 107 Stat. 1563, is amended by adding at the end of Title I the following:
'SEC. 107. RECORDS OF PERSONS PROHIBITED FROM ACCESS TO FIREARMS.
'(a) NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW-
'(1) the total of the amounts of any appropriation hereafter derived or authorized from the Violent Crime Reduction Trust Fund (42 U.S.C. Sec. 14211) for grants to an individual State (and any local government in that State) in this Act, and in any other Act, is reduced by 10 percent on and after October 1, 2001, and another 10 percent each and every fiscal year thereafter, until no appropriation or authorization level is available, unless and until the chief executive officer for such State or local government receiving Violent Crime Reduction Trust Funds certifies to the Attorney General that at least ninety-five percent of all available records regarding persons who are--
'(A) adjudicated as mental defectives or been committed to a mental institution by a court, board, commission, or other lawful authority;
'(B) under indictment for, or have been convicted in any court of, a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year;
'(C) fugitives from justice;
'(D) unlawful users of or addicted to any controlled substance;
'(E) subject to a court order restraining them from committing domestic violence; and
'(F) convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence,
in that jurisdiction's system of record keeping (which includes executive and judicial record keeping systems) have been and continue to be provided to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to support implementation of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System; and
'(2) the reductions for each grant made pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be terminated upon such certification. For the fiscal year the certification is provided, the department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States authorized to make the grant shall restore that State or local jurisdiction's Violent Crime Reduction Trust Funds grants to those levels that would otherwise have been awarded and disbursed if the jurisdiction had been providing at least ninety-five percent of all the available records described in paragraph (1) in that jurisdiction's system of record keeping to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
'(b) FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION-
'(1) the term 'adjudicated as mental defectives or been committed to a mental institution' means an official record of a person--
'(A) adjudicated as mental defective by a court, board, commission, or other lawful authority. An adjudication as a mental defective occurs when a court, board, commission, or
other lawful authority determines that an individual is mentally retarded or of marked subnormal intelligence, mentally ill, or mentally incompetent, including defendants in criminal cases--
'(i) adjudicated as not guilty by reason of insanity, and
'(ii) found to be a danger to others as a result of a mental disorder or illness; or
'(B) committed to a mental institution through formal commitment by a court, board, commission, or other legal authority, including any person who has been committed involuntarily to a mental institution, including for reasons other than mental defectiveness or mental illness (such as for drug use), except that--
'(i) the mere presence of a person in a mental institution for observation; or
'(ii) a voluntary commitment to a mental institution, shall not be considered a disabling commitment, or a record to be reported to the National Instant Criminal Background Check system. 'Mental institutions' means mental health facilities, mental hospitals, sanitariums, psychiatric facilities, and other facilities that provide diagnoses by licensed professionals of mental retardation or mental illness.
'(2)(A) The term 'misdemeanor crime of domestic violence' means a Federal, State or local offense that--
'(i) is a misdemeanor under Federal or State law or, in States which do not classify offenses as misdemeanors, is an offense punishable by imprisonment for a term of one year or less, and includes offenses that are punishable only by a fine (offenses are included whether or not the State statute specifically defines the offense as a 'misdemeanor' or as a 'misdemeanor crime of domestic violence' and also includes all such misdemeanor convictions in Indian Courts established pursuant to 25 C.F.R. party.AE411);
'(ii) has, as an element, the use or attempted use of physical force (e.g., assault and battery), or the threatened use of a deadly weapon; and
'(iii) was committed by a current or former spouse, parent, or guardian of the victim, by a person with whom the victim shares a child in common, by a person who is cohabiting with or has cohabited with the victim as a spouse, parent, or guardian (e.g., the equivalent of a 'common law' marriage even if such relationship is not recognized under the law), or a person similarly situated to a spouse, parent, or guardian of the victim (e.g., two persons who are residing at the same location in an intimate relationship with the intent to make that place their home would be similarly situated to a spouse).
'(B) A person shall not be considered to have been convicted of such an offense for purposes of this section unless--
'(i) the person is considered to have been convicted by the jurisdiction in which the proceedings were held;
'(ii) the person was represented by counsel in the case, or knowingly and intelligently waived the right to counsel in the case; and
'(iii) in the case of a prosecution for which a person was entitled to a jury trial in the jurisdiction in which the case was tried, either--
'(I) the case was tried by a jury; or
'(II) the person knowingly and intelligently waived the right to have the case tried by a jury, by guilty plea or otherwise.
'(iv) A person shall not be considered to have been convicted of such an offense for purposes of this section if the conviction has been expunged or set aside, or is an offense for which the person has been pardoned or has had civil rights restored (if the law of the jurisdiction in which the proceedings were held provides for the loss of civil rights upon conviction for such an offense), unless the pardon, expunction, or restoration of civil rights expressly provides that the person may not ship, transport, possess, or receive firearms, and the person is not otherwise prohibited by the law of the jurisdiction in which the proceedings were held from receiving or possessing any firearms.
'(3)(A) The term 'persons who are under indictment for, or have been convicted in any court of, a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year,' means any person--
'(i) who currently is under indictment (or 'information') for a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year, or whose case has been referred to court-martial if that person is in the military; or
'(ii) who has been convicted in any court (including, for example, a military court) of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year ('information' refers to a formal accusation of a crime made by a prosecuting attorney, as distinguished from an 'indictment' presented by a grand jury). The maximum sentence that may be imposed determines whether a person is under indictment or information for a disabling crime. Similarly, the maximum sentence that may be imposed, rather than the actual sentence, determines whether a person has been convicted of a disabling crime.
'(B) Indictments, information, and convictions for the following crimes are exceptions and are not disabling:
'(i) Federal or State offenses pertaining to antitrust offenses, unfair trade practices, and other similar business-related offenses; and
'(ii) State offenses classified by State law as misdemeanors punishable by imprisonment for a term of 2 years or less.
'(C) Any conviction which has been expunged, set aside, or for which a person has been pardoned or has had civil rights restored remains disabling if;
'(i) the pardon, expunction, or restoration of civil rights expressly provides that the person may not ship, transport, possess, or receive firearms, or
'(ii) the person is prohibited by the law of the jurisdiction where the conviction occurred from receiving or possessing any firearm.
'(4) The term 'persons who are fugitives from justice' means persons (A) who know they have charges pending against them, even if only for a misdemeanor, and who leave the State of prosecution, or (B) who leave the State in order to avoid giving testimony in any criminal proceeding.
'(5)(A) The term 'persons who are unlawful users of, or addicted to, any controlled substance' means persons who are--
'(i) unlawful users of, or addicted to, any controlled substance, as defined in section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act. Controlled substances include, but are not limited to, marijuana, depressants, stimulants, and narcotic drugs. They do not include distilled spirits, wine, malt beverages, or tobacco. The use of any illegal controlled substance (such as PCP), or the use of any other controlled substance (such as morphine) in a manner other than as prescribed by a licensed physician, is also unlawful use; or
'(ii) addicted to a controlled substance, meaning any individual who is found to (I) habitually use a controlled substance so as to endanger the health, safety, welfare, or morals of the public, or (II) to have lost the power of self-control with reference to the addition.
'(B) To incur firearms disabilities, there must be evidence that a person is a current unlawful user of, or addict to, a controlled substance. Such unlawful use or addiction may be demonstrated by evidence of--
'(i) the recent use of a controlled substance, which is part of a pattern of unlawful use or addiction; or
'(ii) the current unlawful use of, or addiction to, a controlled substance.
'(6) The term 'persons who are subject to a court order restraining them from committing domestic violence' means any persons who, at the time they apply to receive a firearm, are under a court order that meets the following criteria--
'(A) the order must have been issued after a hearing of which the person subject to the order received actual notice, and at which the person had an opportunity to participate; and
'(B) the order must restrain the person subject to the order from harassing, stalking, or threatening an intimate partner of the person, or a child of the intimate partner or person, or engaging in other conduct that would place an intimate partner in reasonable fear of bodily injury to the partner or child; and
'(C) the order must include a finding that the person subject to the order represents a credible threat to the physical safety of the intimate partner or child, or the order must explicitly prohibit the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the intimate partner or child that would reasonably be expected to cause bodily injury.
'(7) The term 'intimate partner' is defined as a spouse, former spouse, an individual who is a parent of a child of the person, or an individual who cohabitates or has cohabited with the person.'
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE- The amendments made by this section shall take effect on January 1, 2001.
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Q: awk escape plus '+' sign Trying to find matching lines from 'wg' (wireguard) command output where public_keys are given which can have forward slash and/or '+' (plus) signs.
So I try: awk '$0~v' v="$peer" RS=
# peer="KDyRQuyvygoAamIMB/6RKWxyb7urysDCldIVbIM5DRQ="
# echo $peer
KDyRQuyvygoAamIMB/6RKWxyb7urysDCldIVbIM5DRQ=
# wg | awk '$0~v' v="$peer" RS=
peer: KDyRQuyvygoAamIMB/6RKWxyb7urysDCldIVbIM5DRQ=
  preshared key: (hidden)
  endpoint: 1.2.3.4:44529
  allowed ips: 10.33.17.0/24
  latest handshake: 41 seconds ago
  transfer: 3.64 KiB received, 7.43 KiB sent
  persistent keepalive: every 25 seconds

While the above works with forward slashes, the following does not work if public_keys/strings contain plus '+' sign:
# peer="JeMdiPUksJRpc+LNGbG9Nw/ubVSzj/eFGgrEVwp0z2w="
# echo $peer
JeMdiPUksJRpc+LNGbG9Nw/ubVSzj/eFGgrEVwp0z2w=
# wg | awk '$0~v' v="$peer" RS=
#

How would a match work in this situation?

A: Don't use regex match, use plain string search using index using any one of following options:
# if $peer needs to be matched at the start position of 2nd field
wg | awk -v v="$peer" -v RS= '$1=="peer:" && index($2, v) == 1'

# or if $peer needs to be full matched with 2nd field
wg | awk -v v="$peer" -v RS= '$1=="peer:" $2 == v'

This would match value of $peer at the start of $2 when $1 is peer:.

A: To do this robustly avoiding false matches with regexp metachars or substrings you should use full string matching on lines:
wg | awk -v v="$peer" '$0 == ("peer: " v){f=1} f'

or fields:
wg | awk -v v="$peer" -v RS= '$2 == v'

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E3 2018: Nintendo Will Focus on Super Smash Bros. For Switch
More information has been promised in the coming weeks.
byLucy O'Brien
Posted April 27, 2018, 10:17 a.m.
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Cubism > Print > Pablo Picasso
Portrait of Marie-Therese Walter
Pablo Picasso (After)
Spanish (1881–1973)
Portfolio: Marina Picasso Estate Lithograph Collection
Date: of Original: 1927-28 | Year Printed: 1979-1982
Lithograph on Arches
Edition of 345/500
Image Size: 19.25 x 14.75 inches
Frame Size: 28 x 22.5 inches
Default Title - 4500 - -
about Portrait of Marie-Therese Walter
Rendered against a blended background of yellow and blue, Pablo Picasso's portrayal of his former lover Marie Therese Walter is soft and elegant.
With smooth lines curving around the contours of her face, the model appears serene and beautiful against the simple background. Estate of Picasso, (Marina Picasso) pencil signature and embossed blindstamp lower right. Ink stamp verso 'Approved by the heirs of Pablo Picasso'.
About The Artist: Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso was born on October 25, 1881, in Málaga, Spain. The son of an academic painter, José Ruiz Blanco, he began to draw at an early age. In 1895, the family moved to Barcelona, and Picasso studied there at La Lonja, the academy of fine arts. His visit to Horta de Ebro from 1898 to 1899 and his association with the group at the café Els Quatre Gats about 1899 were crucial to his early artistic development. In 1900,...
of Original: 1927-28 | Year Printed: 1979-1982


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Ed Heinemann with the XA4D-1 prototype at the rollout ceremony in June 1954.
In a world where the focus seems to shift daily from one technological wonder to another, the value of solid engineering—a design well thought-out and well executed—is too often overlooked. This is as true in jet aviation as it is anywhere else. Today more than ever it's important to reflect on the work of pioneering aircraft designers, to better understand just what it takes to make a truly great airplane, then and now.
Ed Heinemann was once named by maverick designer Burt Rutan as among a handful of engineers who were the "pioneers who provided my inspiration." I first came to appreciate Heinemann's genius years ago as a young aerospace engineer, while I was conducting bench-marking studies for range and payload across a number of jet designs, the Douglas A-4 Skyhawk among them.
It's easy to underestimate how phenomenal an accomplishment "Heinemann's Hot Rod"—as the A-4 became known— truly was. By the time Heinemann conceived of the design, he had already proved his mettle with more than a dozen aircraft, leaving his distinctive imprint on virtually every fighter, strike aircraft or experimental airplane to come out of Douglas during the 1940s and '50s. From the SBD Dauntless, which was instrumental in turning the tide at the Battle of Midway, to the experimental D-558-2 Skyrocket, which in November 1953 enabled Scott Crossfield to become the first man to fly at twice the speed of sound (see "Skyrocketing Through Mach 2," January 2014), Heinemann's team of engineers was a breed apart.
Known widely as "Mr. Attack Aviation," Heinemann himself never completed a formal degree as an engineer. He rose through the ranks, first as a draftsman, then as an apprentice to and colleague of other legendary aircraft designers—Donald Douglas, Jack Northrop and Howard Hughes among them—before finally becoming Douglas Aircraft's design engineering chief. He had learned engineering on the job, hands-on, and was widely recognized for his natural talent.
When the U.S. Navy first approved Douglas in January 1952 to design a new carrier-based strike jet, capable of carrying a 2,000-pound payload up to 300 nautical miles, with a maximum speed of 500 knots and a maximum takeoff weight of no more than 30,000 pounds, Heinemann confidently predicted that he could deliver the requested range and payload in an airplane that weighed less than half the Navy's requirement, and with a top speed 90 knots faster. What he proposed seemed impossible—an airplane too good to be true. And when the Navy nonetheless signed a contract putting Heinemann's confidence to the test, Admiral Thomas S. Combs emphasized in no uncertain terms that the strike jet was expected to meet all the Navy's objectives, and that it also "absolutely must not exceed one million dollars per copy." As time would prove, Heinemann's team delivered on every one of those promises: range, payload, takeoff weight and cost.
How did Ed Heinemann succeed in doing what the experts of his day had not imagined was possible? Some new super-secret alloy? A secret engine? No, nothing so elaborate. Heinemann succeeded by applying the first principles of engineering and by merciless attention to detail. Every aspect, every element of the airplane was scrutinized to reduce weight. Every unnecessary redundancy was challenged.
After considering a sweptwing design, as was fashionable at the time, Heinemann's team at El Segundo, Calif., selected a delta-wing configuration with a span short enough to avoid having to fold the wings to fit on a carrier deck. It also provided for maximum wing-root thickness, stiffness and fuel capacity. Eliminating the wing-folding mechanism alone saved an estimated 200 pounds. The airplane's black boxes, including the communications, navigation, IFF and power supply systems, were consolidated into a single unit, for a weight savings of some 40 pounds. The Skyhawk's ejection seat was similarly redesigned to eliminate a third of its parts, coming in at 58 pounds below the original weight estimate—less than half what the standard Navy ejection seat weighed. And when the subcontractor assigned to design the air conditioning system showed up at Heinemann's door with a unit that was 20 pounds over target, he was told to come back when it met the required weight. The air conditioning unit eventually came in at 5 pounds below the weight that Heinemann's team had allotted for that system.
When the first XA4D-1 rolled out of the assembly floor, it weighed 7,896 pounds, more than 270 pounds below the target empty weight that Douglas had signed up for. And when the Skyhawk finally reached production, the first 500 airplanes would cost an average of $860,000 each, well below the Navy's $1 million upper limit.
Ed Heinemann's guiding principles—simplifying every component to its bare minimum, combining functions into fewer components and designing direct load paths that maximized structural synergy—were reflected throughout the airplane. The main landing gear, for example, was anchored directly into the main wing spar, providing a straight load path between landing gear forces and the airframe. The main wing spars themselves were machined from a single forging, eliminating the need for fasteners between spar elements. And the skin of each wing was formed from a single sheet of aluminum, again eliminating the need for extra fasteners and maximizing structural strength.
Despite its diminutive size, the Skyhawk quickly demonstrated its ability to carry far larger bombloads than the 2,000 pounds that the Navy had specified. Beginning with the A4D-5 (later A-4E) model, the external stores stations were increased from three hardpoints to five, upping external capacity to 8,200 pounds. The A-4E also introduced the Pratt & Whitney J52 engine, increasing available thrust from the 7,700 pounds of the original Westinghouse J65 engine to 8,500 pounds in the J52-P-6A. Later versions of the J52 produced even more thrust, eventually culminating in the A-4M/N models' J52-P-408, which produced 11,200 pounds of thrust and increased the external weapons load to some 9,155 pounds. Not bad for a "light attack" jet. None of these later upgrades would have been possible, however, without the sound foundation established by Heinemann and his team so many years before.
To appreciate just how good the structural design of the A-4 really was, it's useful to compare its empty weight to its maximum takeoff weight on a logarithmic basis (see chart, P. 33). Com parisons like this are routinely used in conceptual design, to gauge how heavy an airplane will need to be to perform its required mission. Drawing on the published literature, and comparing the A-4 to its peers across decades of jet aviation, it is readily apparent that the Skyhawk far exceeded the maximum takeoff weight that was considered the norm for a fighter -bomber of its size. When viewed in this fashion, only a handful of strike aircraft, developed decades after the A-4 and with the benefit of composites and other structural technologies unavailable when it was designed, would actually exceed the standard the Skyhawk set.
The A-4 formed the backbone of U.S. Navy and Marine Corps close air support and strike capabilities throughout the Vietnam War. Navy Skyhawk squadrons made 107 cruises to Southeast Asia, as compared to 84 for the F-4 Phantom. Assigned to the most dangerous attack missions, the Skyhawk also racked up the most combat losses, though only one fell to an enemy MiG. All the other losses were attributed to groundfire or SAMs. The Skyhawk also flew into battle with the Israeli Air Force in the course of three wars. Stunningly nimble when stripped of its bombload, it would serve for decades more in the adversary units providing opposition for the Navy's "Top Gun" air combat training program. And in 1991—nearly 40 years after the first prototype flew—the A-4 would again serve in combat during Operation Desert Storm, as part of the Kuwait air force. The last TA-4 was not retired from active Navy service until May 2003, a testament to the enduring legacy of Heinemann's design.
It has been more than 20 years since I graduated with my degree in aerospace engineering. I've worked on many exciting programs, using materials that were not even envisioned when Ed Heinemann drew up the first plans for the A-4, and applying computer design tools that were never imagined in his day. Yet I still look back with admiration at what Heinemann and his El Segundo team accomplished. There are things I learned from the A-4 that I've carried with me throughout my career.
Engineer John Golan has worked in the U.S. aerospace industry for more than two decades as a designer, structures analyst and engineering manager on a variety of civil and military jet propulsion systems. For further reading, he recommends: Douglas A-4 Skyhawk, by Jim Winchester; Ed Heinemann: Combat Aircraft Designer, by Edward H. Heinemann and Rosario Rausa; and Aircraft Design, by Edward H. Heinemann, Rosario Rausa and K.E. Van Every.


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New Delhi, Oct 8 (IANS) Australia won two more gold medals in cycling, creating a record in the men's team sprint at the Commonwealth Games here Friday.
Australian men (43.772 seconds) defeated New Zealand (44.239) for the gold in the event at the Indira Gandhi Sports Complex velodrome and bettered the 44.282 record set by Scotland in Melbourne 2006.
Later, West Australian Cameron Meyer equalled Anna Meares' three gold medals in Delhi with a scintillating win in the men's scratch race.
In men's team sprint, Jason Niblett replaced Shane Perkins, who withdrew from the race following his two-fingered salute to the officials after being disqualified in the Keirin event. Niblett won the three-rider event.
Scott Sunderland won his third medal of the Games. He had collected a gold in the 1000m time trial and a silver in the sprint.
New Zealand kept it close to take the team sprint silver, despite a heavy fall involving second-pull rider Sam Michael Webster. His rear tire exploded as he pulled off, causing him to land heavily on his hip and right shoulder.
Malaysia won their third cycling track medal, beating Scotland to the bronze.
Australia's track cyclists wrapped up Friday with 12 gold medals from the 14 possible on the track. There are four more road events still to be decided and one more gold for Australia means that the team will take their tally past their haul at Melbourne Games.
Meanwhile, Alison Shanks got New Zealand their first gold with victory in the women's individual pursuit event.
Shanks pipped 2010 world track cycling championships silver medallist Wendy Houvenaghel (Northern Ireland) in the 3,000m race-against-the-clock to win her career's first Commonwealth Games gold in 3 minutes 30.875 seconds (3:30.875).
Shanks, who came in fourth at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, steadily improved her split times to overcome an early lead set by Houvenaghel.
In the battle for third place, Tara Whitten of Canada outpaced Jaime Nielsen of New Zealand and collected her second bronze with a time of 3:35.810.


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Lord Dunglass
Full name: Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home
Born: 2nd July 1903, Westminster, Middlesex, England
Died: 9th October 1995, The Hirsel, Coldstream, Berwickshire, Scotland
Bowling: Right-arm fast-medium
Biography: Styled Lord Dunglass until he succeeded his father as 14th Earl of Home in July 1951; disclaimed his peerage in 1963; created Lord Home of the Hirsel (life peer) in December 1974. Conservative MP for Lanark 1931-35 and 1950-51; for Kinross and West Perthshire 1963-74. Commonwealth Secretary 1955-60, Foreign Secretary 1960-63 and 1970-74; Prime Minister 1963-64 (as Sir Alec Douglas-Home). MCC president 1966-67.
Education: Eton College; Christ Church, Oxford University
Relations: Brother: EC Douglas-Home; Brother: HM Douglas-Home; Father-in-law: CA Alington; Nephew: A Douglas-Home; Son-in-law: JA Wolfe Murray
Teams: Middlesex (Main FC: 1924-1925); Oxford University (Main FC: 1926); Marylebone Cricket Club (Main FC: 1926/27); Free Foresters (Other FC: 1924); HDG Leveson-Gower's XI (Other FC: 1926); Harlequins (Other FC: 1927); All teams
External link: Wikipedia entry
Pictures: Batting Portrait of Lord Dunglass
Overall 10 15 6 147 37* 16.33 0 0 9
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Rangers win 4-2 in a game that was mostly noteworthy for its dullness until the 9th, when it was way too exciting
By Adam J. Morris Apr 16, 2013, 10:27pm CDT
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The nature of baseball and the 162 game schedule is such that there are some games that aren't going to be particularly exciting. That are, for lack of a better word, dull. This game fell in that category until the 9th, when Ron Washington's managerial incompetence almost cost the Rangers the game.
It was a cold and blustery night. The wind was blowing in and the ball wasn't carrying, so the pitchers could work up in the zone and challenge hitters without worrying too much that their mistakes would end up in the seats. It was like watching a game from the late 60s.
Derek Holland pitched quite well tonight, retiring 21 of the 23 batters he faced, and allowing just two hits on the game while striking out 6. He had issues early, needing almost 30 pitches to get through the first inning, but settled down after that and cruised, with 76 of 108 pitches going for strikes. He now has a 1.64 ERA on the year.
Tanner Scheppers pitched a solid 8th, and it looked like the Rangers had things safely in hand and were going to put the game away. But no, it can't be that easy.
There were a couple of interesting decisions by Wash tonight...first was having Leury Garcia pinch hit for Derek Holland to lead off the 8th inning in a 1-0 game. There was a lefty on the mound, and so you wouldn't have Murphy or Leonys hit there, and Geovany Soto isn't going to pinch hit when he's the only catcher on the bench unless there's no choice. Using Leury would seem to suggest that the Rangers didn't want to use Lance Berkman in the rain and cold.
The other interesting decision -- "interesting" being kind, "incompetent" possibly being more accurate -- was leaving Baker in to face the righty reliever Loe to start the 9th inning. I had assumed that Leonys or Murphy would come into the game for defensive purposes, and thus it would make sense to have them hit for Baker, but Wash left Baker in, and had Leonys hit for the pitcher's spot later in the inning. I then assumed Leonys would go into the game for Baker in left field, with the pitcher moving into Baker's spot. But no...Baker stayed in left field for the bottom of the 9th.
That decision to leave Baker in the field for the 9th almost cost the Rangers the game.
So, the fateful bottom of the 9th. It started out like it was going to be easy...Kirkman retired the first two batters of the inning. Then Starlin Castro hit a soft single to right field. Then Kirkman walked Anthony Rizzo.
At that point, Wash had seen enough, and summoned Joe Nathan. Honestly, I expected Nathan to start the 9th, given the off day yesterday and what appears to be the likelihood that at least one, of not both, of the next two games will be wiped out by inclement weather. But once two were one, Washington got Nathan, and before he threw his first pitch, either TAG or Busby talked about how this was going to be one of the easier saves Nathan would pick up.
After getting two strikes on Alfonso Soriano, Nathan allow him to hit a chopper deep in the hole between shortstop and third base. Elvis fielded it, had no chance at Soriano at first base, but could have had Castro at third, except Adrian Beltre was going to his left to try to field the ball and thus wasn't in position to cover the bag. Bases loaded, two outs.
Nate Schierholtz came up as a pinch hitter, and Nathan got two strikes on him before Schierholtz lifted a fly ball into medium deep left field. Should have been a fairly easy play to end the game.
But...Jeff Baker was playing left field. Jeff Baker, who is in his 9th season, and was playing only his 81st game in the outfield. Jeff Baker, who could have -- should have -- been lifted for Leonys or Murphy, because they are both much better defenders. Jeff Baker, who was also playing fairly deep in a "no doubles" alignment. Baker had the ball carom off his glove for a two run double (that should have been scored a two run error), and instead of the game being over, the tying run was at second and the winning run was up.
And then Joe Nathan hit Wellington Castillo, who I'd never heard of before today, and who I'm still not sure is a real person.
I couldn't deal with things at this point.
Darwin Barney ended up having an at bat that seemed to go on forever, and then hit a line drive to center field for what looked like a sure game-tying hit. But Craig Gentry, on the short list of the best defensive outfielders in the majors, made a spectacular diving catch to preserve the game and the win.
So yeah, it was a win. But I'm still furious with Ron Washington for his mis-management. Wash said after the game he didn't pull Baker for defensive purposes because if he did, he wouldn't have anyone available to play the infield if an infielder got hurt. Of course, that was because he used his only utility infielder as a pinch hitter in the 8th inning.
So yeah, that was way too stressful. Moving on to the rest of the wrap-up...
The Rangers had 9 hits and 3 walks, but for most of the game, had trouble getting the runners they got on base home. Jeff Baker had a big two out RBI double to bring Adrian Beltre home in the top of the 4th, and by the bottom of the 5th, I was rooting for a rainstorm to come and wash out the game after 5, because I wasn't confident the Rangers could get any more runs across.
However, Texas came up big in the 8th inning, giving the pitchers some breathing room. Ian Kinsler walked, and then Elvis Andrus executed a textbook hit-and-run play, chopping the ball into the spot vacated by the second baseman and into right field for a base hit that brought Kinsler over to third. Then reliever Shawn Camp, who had come close to picking off Kinsler a couple of times earlier in the inning, tried to nab Elvis, but threw it away, allowing Kinsler to score and Elvis to get to third. Beltre then made the error moot by blasting a ball into left-center that even the rain and wind couldn't keep in the park, giving the Rangers a 4-0 lead.
The Rangers should have had a fifth run, when Craig Gentry hit a chopper off of reliever Kam Loe that bounced over third baseman Alberto Gonzalez. Gentry was able to leg out a double, and then tried to score on an infield single by pinch hitter Leonys Martin. The replay showed that Gentry got his hand on the plate before he was tagged by catcher Wellington Castillo, but the umpire blew the call and called Gentry out. That didn't seem like a big deal at the time. It was almost a huge deal, of course.
Baker got the start in left field against the lefty Travis Wood, with Ron Washington giving the slumping David Murphy the day off, and Baker rewarded Wash with a 2 for 4 day. Elvis and Beltre also had a pair of hits, and Kinsler and Gentry each picked up a hit and a walk. Of course, there was that travesty in the 9th, but whatever.
Mitch Moreland was 0 for 4 tonight, but he had good at bats, hitting a screaming liner the other way that Gonzalez had to make a diving catch on, and then driving one in the gap in the 9th that was called a catch by the umpire, but that replays showed may have been trapped.


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The Gardens Between changes the game
Simon Joslin talks through this gorgeous story of childhood.
The Gardens Between is the winner of a 2019 Apple Design Award, which recognises the creative artistry and technical achievements of developers who reflect the best in design, innovation and technology on Apple platforms.
When asked to describe The Gardens Between, Voxel Agents co-founder Simon Joslin doesn't mention the word "game".
"It's an homage to friendship – the kind of childhood friendship that feels impossibly large, when the bonds seemed unbreakable," he says.
The game's design – down to the sketches on loose-leaf paper – is meant to evoke memories of childhood.
From its first moments, there's clearly something different about The Gardens Between, the 2018 Mac App Store Game of the Year and a stirring example of what happens when a project is powered by heart.
"We wanted it to be a broadly welcoming experience that expands the idea of what a game can be," Joslin says.
The Gardens Between is a brilliant game; it's also a story about childhood friendship. Nostalgic elements – like retro game consoles – pop up throughout, adding to the inventive sense of non-linear storytelling.
Developers, do you have an interesting story to tell? We'd love to hear it!
It worked. Yes, it's a surreal puzzler in which you control the passage of time instead of characters. But it's also the story of two best friends and how their relationship is changed by the years.
The beautifully crafted graphics alone make the game worth playing, but it's the sweet narrative that truly hits home. Joslin turned back to the clock to walk us through the development process.
We started from scratch, abandoning common game tropes like 'forward is always better' or 'finding a key is a step of progress'. Instead we made a 'voyage and return' story line, best known through tales like Alice in Wonderland, where the characters fall into an imaginary world that metaphorically represents challenges they are trying to escape.
In The Gardens Between, you're not controlling time as much as memory. It's like a conversation between two close friends about past events. The details aren't always accurate, and it's in the retelling that your shared memory merges. It's a poetic merge of gameplay and storytelling.
The Gardens Between was created by the Melbourne-based company Voxel Agents.
We created The Gardens Between to be a broadly welcoming experience that expands the idea of what a game can be. It invites players and 'nonplayers' through a relatable, simple story. It's straight from the heart, building on our own lived experiences.
We wanted to welcome a broad and diverse community with the highest level of accessibility. The game is free of text or speech. Not only is it hard to deliver the same story across translations and customs, the problem with written language is that the specificity of words constrains the possible interpretations, making it rigid and in effect inaccessible to some. A lack of words leaves room for interpretation that speaks to each and every player's own experiences.
The imaginative, intricate design of The Gardens Between started as a series of colourful concept sketches.
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5. Mount Pleasant
With the future Broadway Skytrain station being constructed at Main Street and Broadway, Mount Pleasant community members, including business owners, have been trying to get clarity from the City on change coming to this area for several years. Developers had been buying up buildings, suggesting the possibility of land assemblage of existing small individual lots. These are currently home to small, unique, independent businesses, artist studios and rental apartments with more affordable rents because they are in older buildings- something that contributes to the identity of Mount Pleasant.
In its Broadway Plan Emerging Directions document for Mount Pleasant, the City references the 2010 Mount Pleasant Community Plan's intent to retain the existing scale and character of this small portion of Mount Pleasant from 7th to 11th Ave. The City of Vancouver's 2010 Mount Pleasant Community Plan was co-created by the City of Vancouver and the community through many volunteer hours. Additionally, the Plan named the area the "Heritage Heart" and noted it as important for being a vibrant shopping, cultural and gathering spot both to the neighbourhood and city-wide.
Through the community work of Mount Pleasant Heritage Group, they have requested for several years formal recognition of this portion of the area named the "Heritage Heart" and a management plan be created for it.
Heritage Heart
Main Street Village has a cherished and distinctive character, and is regarded by many as the heart of Mount Pleasant. Contributing elements include the heritage buildings, a "human scale", small and interesting storefronts, strong presence of arts and culture, and the unique triangle block formed by Main/Kingsway/Broadway at the summit of "hilltown". The iconic seven storey Lee Building is a prominent heritage building at the northwest corner of Main and Broadway. The area's many local and independent businesses, including cafes and restaurants contribute to a vibrant public life and interesting walking experience during the day and at night.
Summary from "Main Street Village- Tomorrow" of the Heritage Heart area in City of Vancouver's Broadway Plan Emerging Directions Mount Pleasant document
Changing and evolving nature of Mount Pleasant is cherished as living heritage
History of Indigenous peoples and immigrants is an important aspect of Mount Pleasant's heritage.
The Broadway Plan area has a diversity of heritage resources, including tangible and intangible heritage. The plan will seek to build on and implement the goals and directions of the Vancouver Heritage Program for the Broadway neighbourhoods.
Explore opportunities to retain and support cultural and intangible heritage, informed by the Social/Cultural Integrated Impact Assessment.
Points from the Heritage Section of the City of Vancouver's Broadway Plan Emerging Directions Area Wide Policies Document
Historic Urban Landscape
In March of 2020, City Council approved an updated version of the Vancouver Heritage Program. One of the six drivers of change to the existing heritage program is an approach called Historic Urban Landscape (HUL). Already in use in Chinatown, it is an approach toward broadening and moving heritage to be about people and their connections to place.
Based on the emerging directions and the City's new heritage program, a management plan for the "Heritage Heart" as a "Historic Urban Landscape" would be a logical step to take.
The plan would be holistic and focus on our relationships to the area. How can the physical environment here express the various histories of the area both before and after the arrival of settlers? How can the existing affordability for arts and cultural spaces as well as renters be protected? How can the businesses that make up the quirky commercial character be supported? How about the ones that serve the demographics of the area and provide affordable goods and services? What about our relationship with older buildings that generate a layered, historic sense of place?
In short, the HUL-approached management plan would:
1. Identify in detail what is important to protect. For example: affordable rents for small businesses, the soundscape, older buildings for their historic aesthetic and/or use, and ways the landscape can reflect and/or tell the stories of Indigenous peoples, immigrants and the working class
2. Assess how vulnerable the important aspects of the Heritage Heart are
3. Integrate that information into the Broadway Plan for Mount Pleasant and/or the Vancouver Plan to inform how development should or should not be approached
4. And importantly, create actions and tools that protect and promote what has been identified as important.
To read more about the Heart of Mount Pleasant, please go to our 2019 Top10 Watch List.
Photo by Ben Geisberg
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Introduction: 2021 Top10 Watch List
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4. Reconciliation and the Fairmont Building
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"If there is one lament I cannot abide—and I hear it from adults as well as students—it is the poor, pitiful, withered cry, "Well, that's just the way I am." If you want to talk about discouragement, that phrase is one that discourages me. Though not a swearing man, I am always sorely tempted to try my hand when I hear that. Please spare me your speeches about "That's just the way I am." I've heard that from too many people who wanted to sin and call it psychology. And I use the word sin again to cover a vast range of habits, some seemingly innocent enough, that nevertheless bring discouragement and doubt and despair.


So, you're buying business software?
Congrats! Welcome to the world of defining hundreds (if not thousands) of software requirements, interacting with a dozen or more people needing a say in your selection, a sea of regulatory and financial concerns, a dumbfounding array of software review/evaluation sites, very persistent vendor representatives and more.
Sadly, it's not – especially if you want to select the right software the first time. And if you're replacing software, you definitely want to get it right this time.
in-depth discussion of these tips, read on.
You should know that nearly 70% of technology spend is wasteful. Don't make that same mistake.
Further, software selection (in many industries) happens many times a year.
To better prepare you for this serious undertaking, we've outlined 52 key tips across 8 essential categories. Study these tips and check out a software selection platform to help you make use of these best practices.
"It's best to approach the process of selecting a new software application for your business like you would consider adding a new member to your senior management team. Before hiring a new C-level executive, VP or director, the focus is on how well the candidates can contribute and strengthen your company's ability to reach its goals. There's also the issues of cultural fit, ability to collaborate, proven track record in the industry and how quickly they can get up to speed and become a core part of your business.
The same is true when selecting any new software application. The best selection processes are anchored in specific business goals, defining exactly what the expected contribution from the application is. Selection processes that are the most successful also evaluate how effective a proposed application is at fitting into the workflows and approaches your company does business today. Great software will not force you to change how you do business; it will have the flexibility of changing to match how you and your company work.
And now for the rest of the tips in a somewhat particular order….
Define your project scope. Think about the full range of functionality that must be involved, the business goals to be met and how to put that into a set of requirements for a platform or set of tools.
Risk assessment analysis. Looking carefully at risk is a responsible part of any good move, including software purchases. Take a categorical approach to figuring out how risk might apply to buying and implementing new technologies, and assess related issues like insurance, industry compliance, and more.
Assign an internal champion. Nowadays, companies are often using inside people dubbed "champions" to interact with vendors and to manage the sale. Getting a champion in place will help you to expedite the procurement process.
Get buy-in. Talk to stakeholders, present options and get consensus for a technology procurement project. That may involve negotiating the budget for tech or augmenting it with contingencies. Get people on the record with their support to avoid thorny decision-making challenges later on.
Establish a budget. Look at how much each aspect might cost (e.g. license, implementation fees, training, change management) and what funds are available to pursue procurement. Knowing what you can afford ahead of time will ease many future conversations.
Decide on what your expected ROI would be in both % improvement and time to ROI. Figuring out return on investment is a concrete way to look at the financial impact of the new service over time. Estimate what you expect for an ROI and how soon you'll get there.
Set a timeline and milestones to make the selection decision. Creating concrete timeline and setting specific milestones helps everything to go more smoothly, and helps you plan how new software will work, and what impact it will have on the business during a given year or set of years. It helps to make sure that things are going to go as planned, and not drag out or falter over time.
Use a tool to manage the entire selection process. Tools related to managing procurement can really add some level of technical capability to your process. For example, some of these items could include documentation resources for things like training, support and even contract negotiation. A tool also helps organize all these steps being outlined into a complete audit trail.
Review common feature sets of the category of software you are looking for. Contrast different vendor options and look carefully at what each ones does and doesn't do. You can use a handy dandy software selection platform to compare the offerings and assess their differences, to find the best fit.
Read buyer's guides and updated market reports on the software category you're evaluating. Look for particular criteria that have helped other businesses to make selections. Understand what's important about the software, and how the best companies put the right features into their platforms. A buyer's guide is like a summary: it presents the main points for you, and helps you to imagine how a product might help, or what might go wrong in implementation. Here's a sample written by HR software selection and implementation expert, Jeremy Ames.
Find out who leads the market. Look at leaderboards and analyst reports for the most popular products in the software category being evaluated. Check out who's highly rated by a mix of 3rd party sites (e.g. Gartner, Forrester) in order to guide your decisions about getting the right kinds of tools in place. Look at things like review scores and community ratings to figure out how popular a certain platform is in its market.
Find out who best fits your specific requirements. Every product is made for a slightly different set of uses. Figure out which companies' products align with your particular needs — for example, due to your business size, your sales strategy, and any online pipelines you may use for customer conversion and other purposes.
"Developing the requirements specification is the most time consuming part of the software selection process. However, a gap analysis based on a comprehensive requirements specification is essential to selecting the software that will return the greatest value to the organization.
Know the difference between on premise and cloud-based. Research what cloud technology can do for your business by untethering server workloads from your in-house business space, and delivering functionality over the web. Here's something to consider.
Decide how critical mobile access is to you. Mobile is not the future, it's now. Look at what types of information and functionalities are going to improve business processes when you can send them to any device anywhere in the field.
Talk to IT about the implications of adding new technology to your stack. Address any potential challenges and costs of getting new platforms and tools into your IT architecture, including data migration issues, security challenges and more. Bring this information to stakeholders as necessary so everyone's on the same page.
Think about what customization may be required. Figure out whether you will have to tweak vendor solutions to make them relevant to your business, and whether that might affect other variables like increased workloads, learning curves and costs.
Inventory your existing related technologies to see what you may need to connect (understanding things like APIs is helpful). Application programming interfaces or APIs are helping businesses to connect more different types of software together into a seamless architectures. Figuring out whether you can get in-house staff or consultants to link vendor software with APIs will help you decide how to implement new services. Many business-level softwares also offer native integrations to other software categories so find out if those options exist as well.
Take a closer look at security. Let's not forgot critical data breaches of recent: Target, Sony and more. What security issues need to be understood, e.g. database connectivity, private customer information storage, etc.? Where are the sensitive sets of data that need to be preserved from unauthorized access to avoid serious risk – and, just as importantly, when can those sets of data be hashed, encrypted, or substituted to make their transit safe?
Address segmented security, as well. This often starts with endpoint security — how will security be handled at the ultimate point of destination, on display screens on laptops or, more commonly, mobile devices? And how will the enterprise handle the risks of endpoint ports such as USB ports? Along with endpoint security, take a look at your business network and how to understand how data travels through various domains, in order to monitor and improve security for each one.
Eliminate vendors who don't offer your most critical requirements. Look at your list of needs and discard vendor options that don't have the core functionality that you absolutely have to have. Almost as important as finding the right vendor, culling your list of vendors that aren't good fits saves you significant time.
Ask about the development process. Have software products been thoroughly debugged? Have they gone through beta testing? Are they in beta still? In which cases have appropriate unit testing or larger tests been done? Knowing more about how products are tested prior to release will give you additional confidence that you are getting products that will work well for you.
Know the vendor's service level agreement (SLA). It's essential to know the scope of services, including uptime/downtime. SLAs should have concrete downtime estimates attached. For example, a 99% uptime and 1% downtime means the service can be unavailable, according to contract, for approximately 3.5 full 24-hour periods throughout a year. Talk to vendors about when downtime will occur to handle it.
Tune in to industry compliance. If you're in a business even slightly related to healthcare, get serious about understanding HIPAA compliance for a new software set. If you're in financial sectors where Basel or Sarbanes Oxley or other standards apply, make sure these are accommodated by the software in terms of the entire data transit process. Go back to consultants and find the best ways to address any outstanding compliance issues.
Make a checklist of all the things you need to think and do as you decide (hey, I'm doing that for you!). You can use a spreadsheet, read some articles or, your best bet, use a requirements template and tool to manage your list.
Make a list of all the pains you think the software can solve. Identify any problems in core operations that have come up, things that might be solved with an investment in technologies. Knowing your pains is a primary and fundamental part of knowing how to proceed with any change to a business.
Define Requirements/Criteria. Make any informal lists or punch lists into a formal set of requirements that you can reference further down the line.
Prepare your RFI/RFP. Do the research and delegate someone to actually write up a formal RFP to send to companies. Some requirements gathering tools also can turn your requirements document into a formal RFP document.
Have all stakeholders rank and prioritize the requirements you've defined. After identifying these requirements, it's important to rank them, so that you know what the priorities will be through the negotiation process.
Make a list of the metrics that the software aims to improve. Look at what you commonly benchmark, or what you might benchmark, to establish how well the business is doing and where it is excelling.
If you're changing software, make a list of reasons why. Creating a pros and cons list is a simple way to look at benefits and disadvantages of new vendor services. Even the high-tech companies in Silicon Valley use these types of processes to brainstorm why they are doing something. Just like it's part of agile software development, it should also be part of agile software procurement.
Create a list of vendors. Compile a list of all the possible vendors. Use landscape graphics (example 1, example 2) and product directories to get an idea of what's out there. Make a list of everyone who's selling the specific type of software you need, to that you can have access to all of the choices on the market in order to make a decision.
Get all stakeholders together that need a say in the software selection. Make sure all parties are included at every stage of the process. You may use diverse methods, from surveys to board meetings, or even eliciting written feedback from a number of people at any stage in the process. Keep it organized though so you have an audit trail for who made decisions and why.
Distribute your RFP. In some cases, you may have to advertise an RFP or a take other steps for industry compliance. Make sure the RFP gets out to the target audience that you're trying to contact. Here's a good guide on creating an effective RFP.
Ask for feedback from your peers/colleagues who've selected software in the category you're evaluating what their experience and obstacles were. Go around and get 'round robin input' to figure out how these technologies might be used and what some challenges might be. This helps you to avoid some of the common barriers that keep businesses from enjoying the best return on new software acquisitions.
Bring in a selection or implementation consultant if needed. When decisions go beyond the ability of staff, having a consultant on hand can be extremely valuable. In an ideal case, you could have these individuals on call, and ask them questions on a case-by-case basis. Write down sets of questions to ask these consultants, and determine the scope of their contract — how involved will they be in your purchase and implementation process?
Shortlist your favorites. Narrow down your potential lists to selections that you think will make the most sense for your business needs. Your shortlist will guide you as you continue through the process. You'll have to do less work, because you're no longer just paging through the market, but working off of a list of specifically screened vendors that have a better chance of offering you best-fit products and services.
Review case studies of your favorite vendors. In-depth case studies can give you insight into how other companies use these products. Case studies of companies closely related to yours (e.g. industry) are most appropriate as it will tell you better how the vendor will be able to meet your needs as well.
Read software reviews of the products you've shortlisted. Software reviews! People rely on them so, but perhaps to a fault. It's important to read what customers have said about specific products but it shouldn't be your primary (or only) reference for selecting a software. While it is important to drill down and do detailed reading on the particular products you've put together, don't neglect the other steps we're outlining here.
Demo and/or do trials of your favorites. Many companies have free trials available for their software. Some even have interactive demos online. Take the time to take these products for a test drive to understand more about what each one does, and about how to use the particular interface, which is going to be important later on in the process. Perhaps save this step for your shorter shortlist as it can be time-consuming, especially going through a full-fledged trial.
Request references for your shortlist. Reach out to these companies and ask them if they can provide references that show more about their track records and histories of what they have provided to customers in the past. This is just one way of doing the "due diligence" that ensures you are selecting the best vendor.
Research your shortlist. Read non-customer reviews/news e.g. financial performance, corporate news, etc. to make sure you'll be doing business with a viable and trustworthy organization. Vetting the company is another critical step in that chain of finding the best vendors, not just someone who's willing to sell you software. Just like in the hiring process, securing vendors should mean doing the background work to make sure you'll be in good hands later on.
Understand pricing. Talk to the vendor at length about what pricing options are available. Is subscription pricing available, which will allow you to benefit from "on-demand" services and add or subtract servicers month after month as needed? Are there multiple pricing options, for example, a "Basic" package or a "Gold" or "Premium" one? Also, what are the payment options? What's more convenient for your budget and schedule? With the advent of new cloud and web-delivered services, pricing structures and packages are more important than ever, and vendors should be able to present attractive options.
Start thinking about how to negotiate contract details. Start to look at sample Service Level Agreements (SLAs) or other contract documents to figure out what sort of costs you'd be looking at, and how you can influence vendors to provide products and services in a way that's more to your advantage.
Sign contracts. Make the agreement final with the selected vendor. Make sure all stakeholders know about this change and start fostering enthusiasm about the products and services to get a better chance of a successfully implementation and adoption.
Make a commitment. Cultivate connections with the vendor while doing even more research about the new products and services that are going to be part of the enterprise architecture. Stay engaged as the beginning steps occur — as people get trained, as functionality gets added to the existing systems, and as these changes actually start to affect internal operations. Generally, a (great) vendor becomes an ongoing proactive partner with you but your organization should commit the same.
Understand the implementation requirements of your shortlisted solutions. Ask in-house IT staff or others about exactly how you're going to blend the new product into your existing architecture. This is where all of your research on APIs and other tools becomes concrete and pragmatic. You may face problems related to manual data entry or a lack of connection between platforms that makes some types of combinations impractical.
Create a change management plan. This is one of the most important steps in the entire process. You're going to encounter change, so it makes sense to have a change management plan in place. This can cover the massive process of training people in new technology, as well as other aspects, such as a change in how people access data, and other changes to business processes that, if not documented and planned for, could be disruptive to business as usual over a long period of time.
Make a list of the people who are going to need to use it and what they'll use it for. One way to make training more precise is to figure out that list of 'power users' and how they would need to be prepared to use a new tool accurately and efficiently. When you have that list of key people, you can also start looking at Identity and Access Management and other protocols to fit a software setup to your business needs. These people would likely be influencers in your decision process as well.
Assign a tech liaison between IT and the department requiring the software, e.g. marketing or accounting. The tech liaison will serve an important role after the contract is completed — by keeping the channels of communication open for ongoing management and troubleshooting any problems that might arise. Since it's become more common for business units other than IT to select technology, establishing this liaison is key.
Lastly, take a deep breath. As you can clearly see now from the extensive tips above, the software purchase process is complex. That doesn't mean they have to be a drag or a burden. You and your organization should be excited to be acquiring technology that is going to move your business forward. Remember, you're trying to give your company the best chance of taking advantage of its new capabilities the right way, and benefiting from an informed, profound and thoughtful long-term relationship with a third-party vendor.
We tried to cover all the key areas in the software selection process but maybe we missed 1 or 9 things you think are key. Let us know in the comments and we'll add it in – giving you credit in the process.
One last note…SelectHub is, in essence, "software for buying software"; we help with nearly everything outlined above. Give us a gander.


Today, violence is everywhere. It can be found in all dimensions of society, and not only in France. Violence against homosexuals, journalists, teachers, politicians, and anyone who can make a little difference, or have a little bit of influence or power.
Many would like a situation whereby no one is able to criticize or challenge authority; and that everything be smooth, uniform and consensual.
Nothing is more dangerous. Firstly, of course, for democracy, where strength is never an argument. And more generally, it is always through debates that reasonable solutions are created and found.
In addition to these manifestations of individual violence, other sources of violence are re-emerging in international relations. Sources of tension that we believed that we had under control are once again opening up the paths to hell. And even if all the official statistics are reassuring, and show that all forms of violence are at their lowest rates, the facts show the opposite –both in the private sphere against individuals, and the political sphere, threats to nations.
We must take seriously the US President's announcement that he is willing to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), an agreement on intermediate-range nuclear weapons that was signed in 1987 by the last leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, and then-President Ronald Reagan.
This treaty, which abolished the use of a whole series of land-based missiles with ranges of 500 to 5,500 kilometers, had also put an end to the crisis triggered in the 1980s by the deployment of Soviet SS-20 nuclear warheads in Europe, more precisely in the Far East; and by the decision of the United States to install equivalent rockets in West Germany. That is until the negotiations led to the dismantling of these weapons, on both sides.
Berlin has also reacted by saying they "regretted" the withdrawal of the United States from the treaty, and asked that it be discussed within NATO, because such a decision cannot be unilateral.
If the situation worsens, one could imagine the deployment of US tactical nuclear weapons in Poland, which Russia cannot accept. We can also fear the denunciation of the New START treaty on strategic missiles, which is set to expire in 2021. We would then find ourselves in a situation that is eerily similar to what occurred in the 1980s, but with weapons that are infinitely more sophisticated.
And those who think that « it was better before, » will be once again contradicted by this new playing field.