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Thanks for all the great input and advice everyone!!
This is a discussion on Concealed carry options within the Concealed Carry Issues & Discussions forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; I have a N82 Tactical Holster (IWB) for my Windicator, and I love it. I use a shoulder rig for my 24/7 Pro .45. (Haven't ...
Just go with IWB its concealed and trusted get used to it.
OWB works best just wear bigger clothes.
Smartcarry! / Thunderwear!
Go with a smaller auto to conceal easier.
LCP! or other lightweight revolver in the pocket!
Concealed Carry pants/shorts if they dont exist make 'em!!!
I have a N82 Tactical Holster (IWB) for my Windicator, and I love it. I use a shoulder rig for my 24/7 Pro .45. (Haven't found any other good concealed holsters for it yet)
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Thanks for all the great input and advice everyone!!
The secret to successful IWB carry is to buy a size larger clothes. If your pants/shorts are size 36, buy size 38 to accommodate your handgun/holster. I have been doing this for 40 years - No Problem.
Invest in quality belt and IWB holster and you can carry even a large heavy handgun IWB with shorts and a t-shirt and no one can tell. The right equipment makes it both easy and comfortable. For all of the reasons we carry, it is well worth the investment in good equipment to make it easy for us to do so.
PS. I also find buying pants and shorts with the expandable waistband makes it super easy to carry IWB. Different clothes companies have various names for it, but it is basically a slot on each side at 3:00 position with an overlapping area and a swath of material (stretchy or not) that can give up to an inch or so on each side.
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The majority of my carry time has been OWB...I have a number of different brands, but really settled on a nice belt slide style from Lobo Gun Leather...
So recently, I went back to Lobo and got a very nice IWB, and I love it...
I picked up two pair of Levis and some summer shorts one waist size bigger than I normally carry for IWB...and I am very surprise with the comfort level and the serious lack of printing...
If I carry OWB, I have a collection of shirts in a size that really keeps things concealed...
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I've got three Galco OWB's for the various guns and a Galco Hidden Agenda that nicely conceals a Walther PPK/S and two extra magazines. I also have a concealment T-shirt and a belly band. Depending on the occasion, I can usually find something comfortable to wear.
If you're going to carry concealed, you have to be prepared to dress around the gun. This is a lifestyle change. A few recommendations that are probably going to summarize advice already given:
-Get a belt designed to carry the weight of a gun. A cheap, flimsy belt lets the gun sag and pivot
-Get a quality IWB and OWB holster
-To insure that you can carry the gun IWB comfortably, purchase your pants/jeans/trousers 2" oversize
-Form fitting or close fitting shirts are out. You need enough excess material to "blouse" and minimize printing
-Change the way you move. If something is on the top shelf at the store, reach for it with your off-side hand. Bottom shelf, kneel, don't bend over. This will reduce the possibility of printing or uncovering your weapon.
As I said, carrying a weapon is a change in lifestyle, the biggest change being the presence of the weapon itself. In addition to clothing and equipment, it neccessitates a different mindset than the general public has. A mindset of greater tolerance of the little things that people do.
I agree with the above advice. I have several holsters for my main carry gun. OWB, IWB, tuck able and smart carry... Preferred use, in that order.
I voted for a smaller firearm, AND to carry IWB.
I am 180-185 lb, 5-9, 1/2 tall.
I carry a S&W M&P 9c.
You sound like a big guy.
Even if you dropped some poundage, you probably would have a hard time with a very small 380'ish sized pistol.
I use a Desantis cozy partner holster, IWB. just wear some baggy shirts and you will conceal fine.
I am even able to tuck the shirt n around the holstered pistol, without it looking too odd.
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I am the same boat also (except I am 5'8 180). I wanted something for my G19 and G26. It was a tossup between the Supertuck and the Comp Tac Mtac. I went with the MTac (Minotaur IWB), it came yesterday and it has been on be for 8.5 hours today around my house and property. Based on other reviews and my experience, this holster is awesome. I am going to also get the standard clips to go along with the c clips I selected. Love the flexibility.
I know I've tried every conceivable carry option imaginable, but I always come back to the more practical IWB. Notwithstanding, I enjoy a shoulder rig the best!
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To start with, I live in FL where a concealed firearm needs only be concealed from "ordinary view." That means covered, as in can't physically see the firearm. No one gives a squat about printing--it's not "illegal" here. Any BG who suspects I have a firearm should probably think twice before proverbially targeting me. I'm just shy of sixty, have done more than my time in the serivice, put two wonderful kids through college, have hugged a great pair of grandkids, and if some dumb POS thinks I'm going to go down easy--bring it on! I've accomplished all of my goals except one; to die a happy man. So don't think I'm afraid to go out fighting.
Back to the thread on hand. I find IWBs marginally comfortable. OWBs are much easier to wear, almost as easy to "conceal", easier to draw from, and frankly, I don't give a rat's butt if some noisy old bitty "suspects" I have a firearm--I have a CWFL, you old coot! You should have one too!
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5'9", 185 lbs. I wear shorts, except to church. Shoulder rigs didn't seem to work for me. Belt holster make my shorts fall down, literally. My TCP, I pocket carry. Any bigger gun is in a pocket pal. I know you guys pan it, but it works for me and doesn't "poof" out like a "smart carry" style.
Thanks again everyone Ive looked around some more and Ill most likely start by getting an IWB, maybe a supertuck or another Ive seen reccomended here Ive seen a couple that look like they will really work for me so thanks again for that. Once I can get some money saved up Ill most likely be getting a ruger LCR for the days I wear my tripp style pants and throw it right in a oversized pocket....heck if the grip was about 3/4" shorter I could throw my taurus 24/7 .40 in my tripp pants no problem lol.


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"We've got a couple guys," Haynes said following Wednesday's practice. "That decision has not been made yet. We've got the rest of those guys rolling through and changing some guys around to see who that's going to be."
Haynes added that he expects the final decision to made around game time Saturday.
The team's most experienced player with 28 starts under his belt, Coleman was suspended for one game by the Big Ten after a helmet-to-helmet hit he applied in the final moments of the team's Sept. 26 contest with Illinois. In addition to having the most tackles of any player on the OSU roster for his career, the senior team captain has started all four games this season at strong safety.
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Russell had still seen plenty of action despite losing his starting spot, however. With the Buckeyes – in Haynes' estimation – in their nickel defense 70 percent of the time, the senior found himself still on the field as the Buckeyes employed five defensive backs.
In that alignment, Russell was the team's free safety and Hines slid over to the nickel back position, known as the 'star' at OSU. With all his experience, Russell is the most likely candidate to see more playing time in Coleman's absence.
The problem with Russell is that he has shown an alarming propensity to give up the big play in recent games. After allowing the game-winning touchdown in the Fiesta Bowl last season, Russell allowed two passing touchdowns to Navy in the season opener this year including an 85-yarder to the team's running back.
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Whoever steps into the void, Haynes said he knows what he is hoping to see from them this week.
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"If he can get lined up and be in the right place, then you've got a chance. That's the main thing you've got to look at and make sure that the kid is confident and can get himself lined up and he's talking and communicating."
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I'm removing the carpet in our bedroom to put laminate (12 mm with pad)
I have some plywood boards that are not flush together...
What could I do to fix this?
I thought I could at least sand the seams to minimize as much as possible
I would like to keep it simple (don't want to lay down a new layer of plywood !!!)
I will also put an underlayment (Bellawood premium) and it will help as well
Any idea?
Far better idea to lay at least an underlamnet of 3/8 underlaymant rated plywood first. Making sure the seams do not line up with the seams below and do not nail into the joist.
The floor will be stronger, less chance for squecks, no chance of air coming in from below.
You wasting your time trying to sand what's there now.
The problem is that I've already done 1 room (office) on the 2nd floor, so any additional layer in other rooms will be an issue.......Unless I accept to have a transition with 2 different heights
The transition itself is not an issue because all the rooms lead on the hallway. Layout in every rooms will be perpendicular to the layout in the hallway. So I will need transition bars between each room and the hallway
But having difference in height (3/8) is another story !!!
If I were to sand the seams, should I use #36 or #50?
Why I should not nail into the joists? And by the way, nails or screws?
If I use nails, which type should I use (gauge and diameter?) If I go that way, I will have to buy a nail gun: which type should I get?
Do I need to leave expansion gap between each board? if yes, how much?
I've read somewhere that the new boards should be parallel to the current one....is that correct?
No gaps needed.
The whole idea is to form a gap free layer over the OSB so it makes full contact.
There's always tiny low areas between the floor joist, if you nailed the underlayment to the joist there would still be a gap between the joist.
I use a narrow crown pnematic staple gun with 1-1/4 staples set in touch and go.
I can nail a whole sheet in about 1 min.
It needs to be fastened every 4" on the edges and 6 to 8" in the field.
If you do not want to buy a new tool it can be done by hand with underlayment nails. It will say that right on the box.
I have a brad nailer, will have to check if it does crown staples
But is seems to be a lot of staples per sheet..., so if I do that, I don't want to do manually !!!
What do you think is best:
*) put a plywood underlayment and lay down the laminate
*) fix the current OSB flooring (sanding?) and use the Bellawood premium underlayment (3 mm thick, from lumber liquidator - $72 for 100 sq ft roll)?
Probably bets option is to do both, but budget becomes an issue.....
So what would you recommend?
That brad nailers a toy not going to work for this.
I have two guns a ridgid and a Porta Cable.
Both look like this.
How would I do it or what can you get by with?
If I was doing it I would install at least 1/4" underlayment rated plywood.
But you can get by with just the padding.
A better grade of flooring will have the padding built into the flooring so it's faster to install and less expencive in the long run because there's no padding to buy.
At least the plywood underlayment will help to fix the issue with the baseboard being too high....There is a gap between the bottom of the baseboard and the floor, and the 12 mm thick laminate is not enough in some spots to cover it. A 3/4 quarter round will cover it, but not too much surface of that quarter round will apply on the baseboard. So raising the whole floor by at least 1/4" will help
Is this an appropriate underlayment:
Should work, just do not use louon.
what is louon? A brand?
If you google it you'll find it spelled at least three differant ways.
And this is not good?
joe. how is 1/4" going to be stable on a subfloor that is not "flat " ? seems to me that would just create an open pocket that would cause problems.
french dude. did you try finding out why those boards are not setting flat/even ?
No, I don't know why...But it is only 2 boards, the rest is OK
So you think 1/4" won't be good enough? What is minimum you would recommend?
I do not want to remove the boards to find out though.......
i think you need to find out.
idk, seems to me it would be a problem. i would recommend 0" but a few .001's would probably be ok.
i think you do need to remove those boards.
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Polluted area at Old Inger, an abandoned petroleum refinery, where a massive spill occurred in 1981.
A microbiology doctoral student sporting protective boots and gloves trudged through Old Inger, the site of an abandoned petroleum refinery in Darrow, Louisiana. He had special clearance from state environmental authorities to take soil samples there because Old Inger was named a federal superfund site in 1981. That means that pollution at the site was so extensive it qualified for special government funds to help clean it up. In the case of Old Inger, one of the problems was benzo[a]pyrene, a carcinogen.
In some parts of Old Inger, weeds and trees are reclaiming the land; but in other parts, thick, black sludge remains. That day, something in a leaf pile caught Ken Wunch's eye—a light-tan mushroom about an inch-tall, of a species known as Marasmiellus troyanus.
Wunch took the mushroom back to Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, where another doctoral candidate, Toby Feibelman, cultured the fungus and got surprising results: The mushroom broke down benzo[a]pyrene better than anything tried before in their laboratory.
"We tested the Marasmiellus against Phanerochaete chrysosporium, formerly considered the "hot" fungus for breaking down benzo[a]pyrene," says Wunch. "When we checked how it did, the Marasmiellus had decomposed all but 10 percent of the contaminant, while the other fungus left 67 percent."
The 1993 finding was big news—especially for Wunch's mentor, molecular mycologist Joan W. Bennett.
Feibelman has since followed Professor Bennett's early career path, also doing postdoctoral research at ARS' Southern Regional Research Center (SRRC) in New Orleans. Bennett still keeps her ARS ties, working with chemists William J. Connick, Jr., and Donald J. Daigle on new formulation systems to deliver these helpful microorganisms—referred to as bioremediators—to clean up pollution.
"It's an example of technology transfer at its best," Bennett says. "Bill and Don are formulating living microorganisms in products that can be applied in farmers' fields to control weeds and insects.
"While biological controls and bioremediation differ, the need for reliable formulations is the same."
Alginate gel beads made by ARS chemists Don Daigle (left) and Bill Connick contain a fungus that can convert toxic chemicals to harmless ones.
"The right formula will make the fungus multiply," says Connick, "and that will allow us to spread it over a greater distance. With an extra food source, we can turn nature's odds in our favor. We also make the process economical, so growers—and industry—will want to try the technology."
The product standards for a biological control for pests or a bioremediator for pollution are high. The goal is to keep the beneficial organisms viable for 2 years at room temperature, so that unused product can be stored and used in the following growing season.
Storage requirements reflect the needs of potential users. Barns and storage bins tend to be hot and humid in summer—not the best conditions for preserving microorganisms. But refrigeration—which can prolong shelf life—is too expensive. And farmers and companies want products they can store over winter without viability losses, keeping overhead down.
Bioremediation got its first major publicity when ocean bacteria were harnessed to help clean Alaskan waters after the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
Now not only ARS, but more universities are supporting this kind of work. Bennett, for example, receives funding from the Tulane-Xavier Center for Bioenvironmental Research. But finding new bioremediators isn't easy. Some organisms may break pollutants down into something equally toxic, so pretesting is a must.
Bennett's first bioremediation project with Connick and Daigle involved Phanerochaete chrysosporium, commonly known as the white rot fungus.
As Wunch mentioned, P. chrysosporium was considered the "gold standard" for breaking down benzo[a]pyrene. Other scientific literature, some going back to the 1960's, shows that the fungus has the capacity to decompose everything from paper to now-banned pesticides such as DDT.
"These fungi have enzymes to break down lignin, which is a tough material in wood. They tear down the lignin in order to get to their food supply," says Bennett. "But as it turns out, their enzymes are highly nonspecific. They can break down organic toxins, leaving other harmless compounds that other microorganisms use as food."
Tulane University molecular mycologist Joan Bennett examines a fungus that can degrade TNT (trinitrotoluene) in liquid culture.
Bennett wants to use the fungus' might against residues left from munitions production.
The Cold War's end brought closure for many weapons plants, but toxic souvenirs such as TNT (trinitrotoluene) remain.
Medical literature shows it can cause liver damage and anemia. TNT poisons a host of other life forms, including fish, algae—and some kinds of fungi. But if P. chrysosporium proves to be effective, it might help turn back the clock for these former weapon-production sites.
Part of its chances for success rests on finding the appropriate formulation. It's a task tailor-made for the two ARS researchers who have already developed several for biocontrol of weeds.
"We've also developed pretty extensive research protocols, allowing us to create formulas for a variety of organisms. We try to optimize acidity, nutrition, temperature, moisture, and a host of other conditions to stabilize a biological control product," Connick says.
Opening what looks like a refrigerator in the Connick/Daigle laboratory reveals a house cleaner's nightmare—molds, fungi, and bacteria happily thriving in various growth mediums, creating a pungent smell.
They could be living in alginate (derived from kelp), a formulation technology that Connick helped develop, or in wheat-based Pesta granules he co-invented for encapsulating living biocontrol agents. Some microorganisms will be growing in agricultural byproducts left over from processing midsouth commodities such as sugar, rice, or cotton. That midsouth connection stems from the SRRC's focus on crops of that region.
And don't be surprised if the scientists' "refrigerator" blows warm air. That's because it's an incubator designed to mimic warm conditions at those barns and clean-up sites. The experiments were designed to indicate product shelf life.
"We modified this Tupperware container so it has an inner shelf to hold small beakers of samples," says Daigle, bringing out one of the incubator's contents.
"See the small amount of water on the bottom? It contains specific salts that allow us to control humidity levels."
His year-long collaborative study with Bennett shows that white rot fungi prefer alginate over Pesta. But the work doesn't stop here.
Alginate is more costly--and expense is an important factor in whether bioremediation gets used by industry. Connick and Daigle plan to look for cheaper options and may modify the Pesta formula so it appeals to the finicky fungus.
"Pesta formulations have shown great success with two really effective biological controls used to stop swamp dodder in cranberries," says Daigle. "Maybe with white rot fungus we used too much wheat flour. We'll be looking at a lot of things to see if Pesta can't be adjusted to work with white rot, too."
And while Connick and Daigle are busy with that project, they'll also be getting ready for their newest guest--that mushroom survivor from Old Inger. — By Jill Lee, ARS.
Donald J. Daigle is in the USDA ARS Southern Regional Research Center, New Orleans, LA; phone (504) 286-4211.
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On Jan 15, 4:45 am, KenR <ramsey2... at msn.com> wrote:
> I am new to Mathematica and cant seem to get it to give a numeric
> answer to
> input y = 5; x = floor[sqrt[y+1.0]]; x.
> instead of a numeric it gives "out floor[sqrt[6.0]]"
> what am I doing wrong?
> I have Mathematica 8.0
> Thankyou, Kenneth Ramsey
I was looking at past posts and came upon a similar situation. Thanks
to those who e-mail me I am aware that the functions Floor and Sqrt
must be capitalized. It still apparently will not work because
Mathematica does not know whether a positive or negative answer is
A similar situation was posted below where the sqrt of meter^2 etc was
desired. A reader responded to write the code "Assuming[
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2nd floor addition
I have purchased a 1200 sq. ft. bungalow that has existing 8 ft interior ceiling height. I am planning to add up and will be ripping off the old roof. My question is: Is it possible to add a foot to the existing main floor ceiling height by framing a pony wall on top of the existing exterior walls before adding the second floor floor system and framing? This is preliminary, and if it can't be done, it can't be done and we will live with existing ceiling height.
There are simply too many variables in your question to be able to give you a direct answer.
I would suggest starting with talking to an Architect and/or residential designer to find out what you can do with the house to get what you need.
They will inspect and measure the present condition of the house and should be able to come up with some suggestions that could work for you.
They may have to work with an engineer on the project.
Meeting with designer
Funny you should mention it, we are meeting a residential designer on Monday. I thought I would get a leg up on my questions prior to.Thanks again.
A residential designer in most cases would be the wrong person to be talking to.
There just going to be able to draw you some pretty pictures.
A real engineer will be looking at things like the soil, the foundation, how your walls were built.
I've never understood why people would buy a house with the intention of adding a second story as soon as they buy it.
Unless it's free, the cost ends up being about the same as if you built a two store house from scratch.
The house you just bought can not even be lived in until it's at least dryed in on the second story. A very real chance of the lower level being damaged from rain while the top floor is open.
Why would you want 10 ft. high ceilings? Cost more to heat and cool, and will add a tremendous amount to the cost.
Some of us actually do know something about building AND can do some pretty pictures. LOL.
I was a licensed GC here in Calif. for about 10 years and am thinking about renewing it.
Many jurisdictions already have data on the soil capacities of the area your house may be in, and have a prescriptive solution for most kinds of residential construction. Here in Orange County most do anyway, and I "design" prescriptive solutions accordingly.
I am not bagging on you Joe, just clarifying things a bit.
Lvl's are a great Idea. Otherwise a pony wall would create a hinge point to a structural wall.
This is exactly what we have done for additions and the upper lvl eliminated the need for updating the existing exterior wall headers to handle the new load placed on them from building upward.
^I never thought of that excellent !
I learned something thanks,
Thanks for all the input
FYI, the residential designer I use also has an architect working out of his office, and up here in the cold frozen north, all drawings have to have an engineers stamp prior to permits being issued.
I like the idea of the lvl's and will pass it on.
Thanks again for the input. I will keep you posted as to what happens.
We looked into doing that with our 50's era brick-on-block house. It can be done but will need to be properly engineered with approved permits. You're putting a lot of new weight up there, so the existing walls will need to be able to handle that load, or the structure improved to do it.
We decided to go with a complete demolition instead. By the time we stripped off the existing interior walls (1" furred walls and NO insulation) with drywall covered in lead paint, and then dealing with matching up the drywall levels, we'd still be stuck with the low basement ceilings below. Which has asphalt tiles with asbestos in them (fine, until you start breaking it up for removal). Turns out about even to just tear it all down instead of trying to patch the old and new together.
When adding a floor or additions onto an existing dwelling I'll get it priced out making the needed repairs and new construction, and doing it all new and let my client decide which way they want to go since they control the purse strings.
Good luck with your project!
Yup, not to hijack the thread, but we started doing an L out the back with a 2nd floor over everything. When we stepped through all the pros and cons it ends up being better to go with the same sort of layout, just in an all new structure. Along the way we lose the low basement ceilings and at least a month's added construction time. Shorter time, pretty much the same price, and everything exactly where we want it.
We were doing this to replace the kitchen (among other things), so that big ticket item was already part of the budget. I would strongly urge anyone thinking about adding a whole second floor to look into the costs for a total replacement.
If you're adding a second floor there's the weight of all the new materials. How the existing wall will handle it is a question often worth having an engineer answer. Seems pretty obvious, but if you're a 'framing contractor' you know this already.
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By TIM NICHOLSON in NEW YORK
HONDA'S premium brand Acura could expand to more markets beyond its North
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Mr Mendel said there was a possibility that the MDX could be produced in
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Acura had its best year in 2015 since the global financial crisis, shifting
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Acura claims that the MDX is the best-selling three-row luxury crossover of all
Mr Mendel was also coy when asked about the rumoured sub-NSX Acura/Honda
sportscar, possibly dubbed MSX, and instead highlighted Acura's commitment to
performance-focused models.
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UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND, Va. - The University of Richmond Spiders baseball team completed its three-game sweep of the Quinnipiac Bobcats on Sunday afternoon at Pitt Field, 7-5. With the victory, the Spiders extend their winning-streak to 11 games and push their overall record to 11-3 on the season. With the loss, Quinnipiac falls to 1-6 on the year.
The Spider offense was once again clicking on Sunday, as the team racked up 14 hits in the win. Senior Phil Ruzbarsky reached all four times he went to the plate and also hit a go-ahead two-run home run. Senior Robby Massar had a pair of sacrifice flies on the day, while classmate Bryan Conway also drove in two runs. Redshirt junior Adam McConnell had a season-high three hits with a pair of doubles.
On the mound, freshman Ryan Cook (2-0) pitched a strong five innings for the Spiders, earning his second win of the year. Cook struck out a pair while allowing just two earned runs. Out of the bullpen, senior Alex Maffett, redshirt junior Bret Williams, and freshman Ray Harron combined to toss three perfect, shutout innings.
The 11-game winning streak is the longest for the Spiders since the team won a school-record 14 games in a row 77 years ago during the 1935 season.
After the Bobcats struck first, scoring a run in the top of the first inning, the Spiders responded to tie the game in the bottom of the second on a sacrifice fly off the bat of Massar.
Still tied at 1-1 in the bottom of the third, Richmond took a lead that it would not relinquish. After a double off the bat of senior Jacob Mayers, Ruzbarsky gave the Spiders a lead with a two-run homer deep over the fence in center field. Ruzbarsky's sixth home run of the season gave Richmond a 3-1 lead after three full innings.
In the fifth, the Spiders added to its lead with a four-run outburst. After a RBI double from Mayers, Conway hit a two-run single through the left side of the infield to push the lead to 6-1. Massar finished the scoring for the Richmond, hitting his second sacrifice fly of the game to extend the Spider lead to 7-1.
Quinnipiac threatened to cut in to the Richmond lead in the top of the sixth, chasing the Spider starter Cook. With the bases loaded and no outs, Maffett limited the damage to just one run, striking out a pair of batters. The Bobcats tried to make it interesting in the ninth, scoring three runs, but Richmond's Andrew Brockett was able to get out of the inning, securing the 7-5 win for the Spiders.
Also having strong offensive games for Richmond were Mayers and sophomore Adam Forrer. Mayers went 2-for-5 with two doubles, two runs scored, and a RBI, while Forrer also had a pair of hits.
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Ornamental Characteristics: Flower - Monoecious; male flowers in terminal clusters; female flowers terminal.Fruit - Cones usually several together, rarely solitary, globule, ovoid, 1.5" broad.Leaf - Evergreen, green or glaucous green; spirally arranged, those on the main axis standing out from all around the stem, those underneath turned upwards; persisting 5+ years alive, then dead but attached on the branches for several years more.Fall Color - Discoloring in cold weather, more or less bronze-green.Bark - Brown, scaling off in long irregular strips, exposing the reddish inner bark.Other Features - Highly prized tree in China and, next to bamboo, is the most useful for all around work. The wood is very rot resistant in contact with the soil.Possible Use - Season Of Interest -
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CIO Government Review –
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) can demolish the status quo. Decades of siloed system design have left most government organizations with antique, rickety systems that don't play well with others. By putting new SOA wrappers on old proprietary applications, modular interfaces can be built, shared, linked, reused and recombined as needed, to create an infinitely interoperable IT utopia.
No need to rip and replace old systems; instead, they can be refurbished and extended internally and even externally via the Web. This is where SOA shows promise well beyond rejuvenating legacy enterprise systems, says Bill St. Arnaud, senior director of advanced networks at Ottawa-based CANARIE Inc.
"SOA is now seen as a key component in a broad range of fields beyond enterprise IT: chemistry, biology, everything," he says. "Whether it's a traditional payroll application or radio telescope research, it makes sharing, mapping and transferring data, and creating new mash-ups, simple."
SOA can also have a profound impact on business processes. Many complex processes that require human back-and-forth can be automated as SOA-based Web services, which in turn can invoke other Web services, and then others, throughout the service chain. "If GM orders a phone line from Bell Canada [for example], it has to be validated, checked, tested, delivered and invoiced by many people," says St. Arnaud. Instead, all the specialized steps in the transactions can be itemized, agreed in a contract, and automated as interlinking Web services between both companies.
Take-up of SOA is stronger in more competitive markets, he says. In the U.S., about 70 percent of companies say they plan to invest in it over the next two years, according to IDC Canada research. In sluggish Canada, the figure is 40 percent, with the public sector lagging still further behind the private sector.
Building this SOA utopia won't be easy. There are many impediments, ranging from making the business case to fix systems that aren't entirely broken to governance and liability issues to standards wars, notes St. Arnaud. Nevertheless, SOA is slowly but surely creeping into many areas of Canadian government.
The way SOA works
In 2005, the Alberta Ministry of Justice deployed a SOA-based enhancement to its maintenance enforcement program (MEP), driven by new legislation enacted the year before. Dubbed "Deadbeat Dad" legislation, the Ministry was concerned with finding ways to track and enforce adherence to court orders by withholding access to government services, explains Stuart Charlton, enterprise architect at BEA Systems Inc. in Toronto. "So if someone doesn't pay child support, they might suspend their driver's licence."
As in other provinces, Alberta's ministries and government departments are far from integrated.
Tracking thousands of these MEP cases over time, sometimes more than 10 years, and building in the triggers for enforcement actions based on patterns of misbehavior was a major system undertaking within the Justice Ministry. But developing processes to ensure actions are executed by a multitude of external ministries would have been a monumental inter-departmental undertaking.
Instead of labor-intensive back-and-forth between multiple departments -- phoning, faxing, exchanging forms and information -- the Ministry of Justice used Web services to automate the workflow. "The new approach is to agree on a shared contract that meets the needs of the consumers and producers of services and information," says Charlton. "The biggest challenges in SOA are coming to those contractual agreements between parties, and the processes and change management around that."
But once these issues are settled, the technology itself is relatively straightforward. A producer posts the services it has made available for common use -- for example, an application that identifies an Albertan as an MEP case -- through an electronic interface based on SOA standards, which can be used by any authorized consumer using the same Web-based technology. All the various conditions for an exchange between departments, including exceptions that require human judgement, are agreed and scripted in advance.
"So this is a conversation between the consumer's and producer's systems. The consumer says, I would like to request this service, and will validate the information I provide," says Charlton. "It will then grab and use the service automatically if there is no exceptional condition. If there is, it'll provide a worklist to another interface for human review. But all this communication is happening behind the scenes."
Like a high-tech version of an Amish barn-raising, all the departments touched by the MEP program share and link the applications, processes and data that relate to it, instead of building a specific system for it.
Back-seat drivers
While the quest for competitive advantage may be a clear driver for SOA uptake in the private sector, the scenario is more complicated in the public sector. Without a profit motive, SOA is typically a hard sell that must be tackled indirectly and incrementally.
"There's no imperative to adopt it. Instead, it comes up in IT projects after budgets are approved to renew applications or to build new ones. SOA is almost incidental," says Michael Turner, an e-government strategy consultant and former ADM with Public Works.
The Treasury Board's CIO branch has provided direction on SOA, he says. "It has done some ground-breaking work, providing overarching policies and standards," says Turner. "But there's no requirement for departments to comply or demonstrate they're doing it to get budgets approved."
Turner acknowledges that without a compelling need, it would be virtually impossible to obtain funding to rearchitect a system with SOA. "That implies jacking up the house to redo the foundation. People don't do that. Instead they say, the next time we develop this application, we'll build a different kind of foundation with more flexible components that can be re-used."
But the consequences of putting off repairs to faltering IT infrastructure are higher costs in the long run, he warns. "The operational costs of application management are significantly higher than they need to be. And it's more complex to make modifications or add-ons to non-SOA systems. We're paying for the fact we're not getting on board."
Even a trivial change like adding a new field to a legacy system can cost millions, agrees Tom Metzger, director of solutions engineering at Vancouver-based Make Technologies Inc., which specializes in modernizing legacy systems. "Future maintainability of systems is a big driver in the public sector. And many government organizations are on the hook to respond to legislative changes."
Some crown corporations have been early adopters of SOA, says BEA's Charlton. "We've seen some aggressive adoption at Farm Credit and Canada Post." He points out that Treasury Board is actively pursuing a strategy for IT transformation across the public sector. The challenge is overcoming the inertia to get started by focusing on agencies with a pressing need to undergo change.
"Agencies tasked with counter-terrorism are great examples," says Charlton. "The RCMP and DND are starting to adopt SOA. They're already doing it in front-line applications and they're modeling their approach after the U.S. Department of Defense, which is based on a SOA foundation."
The lack of a clear vision to sell to politicians and constituents contributes to funding issues, suggests Michael Kuhbock, founder and CEO of the Integration Consortium, an international industry association based in Calgary.
While creating citizen-centered services may be a worthy cause, the public doesn't perceive any urgency. "They say: Everything seems to work okay, so why spend millions on SOA when there are other needs?" says Kuhbock.
Kuhbock believes an issue that fires passions and unifies efforts, such as environmental stewardship, may play that role in the future. Every service the government provides, and every supplier the government uses, has an environmental impact. "Right now, the data around that is not tracked," he says, pointing out green issues are gaining traction with the public. "In the future, the public may say: We won't stand for this anymore. We want to ensure we know what every service organization in government is doing to the environment."
SOA is still a work in progress, and its capabilities are ill-defined and confusing. SOA facilitates system integration, but it doesn't actually do the integration. "It's an architecture, nothing more," says Kuhbock. "In the construction industry, you engage an architect to design the building so it has a sustainable infrastructure and everything works together - but then you engage construction crews to build it."
SOA design is counter-intuitive and difficult for IT staff trained in classic waterfall systems design, adds Turner. "The traditional way is to look at application suites as a whole, design in the most integrated way possible, internally within the system, and use programming logic that produces tightly-bound functions with minimal duplication."
While it may be an elegant system initially, the costs to make any modifications or additions later are high, since the system isn't designed to change or grow over time, he says. "Then SOA comes along, intentionally breaking things down into blocks and duplicating functions so they can work as loosely coupled modules. It's less elegant, but in the end, they're cheaper to put together."
Governance and accountability issues are also stumbling points when sharing SOA infrastructure and interlinking modules -- a problem that's more acute in the public sector versus the private, he says. The horizontal shared services movement in government butts directly against the brick wall of vertical organizational structures.
"The cabinet system we have in Canada is built on the intentional design of silos," says Turner. "Each set of programs is enabled by legislation and statutes, and each organization supports a minister who's accountable to Parliament for that set of programs. Natural silos are designed into the system, so when you try to apply common technology across departments, it goes against the grain. It almost comes down to, do you want efficiency or accountability?"
The tendency to treat SOA as an IT project rather than a strategic architecture is a consequence of these silos, says Kuhbock. At a recent presentation he made to government IT officials, many of them said they had the same central issue: "They can do SOA in their own compartmentalized area, but they can't get it broadly driven; so they're just stuck in their silos again. It's like architecting a town, district by district, without thinking about how the whole town will interact, or mapping out the whole community."
Vendors and standards wars
Beyond the public sector, there are some industry-wide SOA issues that need to be settled. "SOA is on a hype cycle," says Kuhbock. "There's confusion about it in the marketplace across all industries. There's no universally accepted definition, so it's different from one industry to the next."
IT vendors feed this confusion by treating SOA as a selling point in their marketing strategies, suggests Kuhbock, with many branding their particular product or flavor around their own definitions.
"It's all based on what they're selling," he says. "Everybody has different reasons for being active in this space, be they producers or consumers of solutions. All have different objectives, so it's hard to get consensus, and this bleeds into every area of its use."
As a consequence, the number of SOA standards is rapidly proliferating. "At last count, there were over 110 SOA standards," says Kuhbock.
St. Arnaud agrees this lack of common standards is a major issue. "There are standards wars going on. Web services have exploded into a multitude of different variations and special sector types. Now suddenly, this great nirvana solution that could make everything compatible has itself become incompatible with different versions."
But various government entities -- the federal Treasury Board, the Ontario Government, Canada Health Infoway Inc. -- have done extensive work in defining SOA standards and providing technical guidance for their constituent areas. So any lack of standard definitions should in theory be less of an issue in government relative to other sectors that don't have top-down leadership.
Not so, says Kuhbock. "SOA has been muddled by the vendor community," he says, pointing out public sector IT people still need commercial software tools to re-architect their systems. "If the government is dealing with vendors A, B and C, and each of those has a set of standards around their SOA-based tools, then the government is back into analysis paralysis sorting it out. No one's really come out with best practices, methodologies and so on, and the vendors keep redefining the standards around their tools."


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CEDAR CITY, Utah, July 8 – Four Southern Utah University golfers have earned Academic All-American Sky Conference honors, the ASC has announced.
Sammy Cole, Jake Holt, Taylor Schone and Brady Welburn all earned a spot on the squad by posting a grade point average of 3.2 or better and being a member of the competition squad.
Cole, a sophomore from Aliso Viejeo, Calif., adds the academic all-ASC award to his list of honors which includes the 2012-13 SUU Athletic Department's Top Male Scholar Award as well as two Top T-Bird Awards after maintaining a perfect 4.0 cumulative GPA in economics and finance.
Holt, a junior from Tooele, Utah, is majoring in biology, while Schone, a junior from St. George, Utah, is a construction management major and Welburn, a freshman from Nephi, Utah, has not yet selected a major course of study.


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Elmo accuser and aspiring model, Sheldon Stephens past has come to the surface. The 24 year old from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania has a heavy criminal past that is sure to haunt him wherever he goes. Sheldon has had run in after run in with the law, dating back to 2009. The list includes reckless driving, writing bad checks, and robbery. But the apple does not fall too far from the tree. Sheldon's mother was charged with attempted murder for trying to stab her husband back in March.
According to TMZ, there may have been a six figure settlement on the table, to end the whole ordeal between Kevin Clash(Elmo) and Stephens and when the statement was issued about him recanting his allegation, it was issued as a favor from his former counsel, Andreozzi & Associate. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Sheldon may have been in dire straights, as a result of his own legal issues as well as his mom's.
The entire incident has definitely brought his face to the forefront, but maybe not how he may have intended or preferred. Sheldon seems like a troubled kid, with a very troubled past that has led to some not so rational decisions. This story seems to be unfolding before our very eyes. Who really knows what has transpired between Clash and Stephens, behind closed doors. But stay tuned. Something tells me there will be alot more twist and turns to this story.
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