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The Fair Work Commission has bumped the minimum wage up by $15.80 per week to $622.20 a week.
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November 1st, 2007, 02:52 PM | #4 |
I swear by my Amsoil! I run it in everything i own and i beat the snot outta my quad and it dont burn a drop! I put 15,000 miles on an oil change in my truck! Run full synthetic in all my equipment. I 100% stand behind my Amsoil.
November 1st, 2007, 02:54 PM | #5 |
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he runs 15k on an oil change because he cannt afford the oil every 3k since its so dan expensive a damn quart... a gallon of the shit is 40 bucks last time i bought a case of it.... i run ams in all of my sleds and bikes i do run royal purple in a few trucks ive had and liked it... i have mobil 1 in my tranny in my duramax |
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Your so damn smart.... X2 on the Amsoil... |
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I have Amsoil in my 727TF in the Waggy that I just had rebuilt.
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November 5th, 2007, 05:21 PM | #11 |
American Leyland??
If it was rebuilt 10K miles ago, it probably already has ATF+4 in it, I don't even think you can buy ATF+3 anymore. YOu can buy some things that are compatable with ATF+? up to 3.
and you should either change your trans fluid often or never at all. X2 on the gauge though, and if your trans ever gets hot, you need a fluid change. |
November 5th, 2007, 05:23 PM | #12 | |
American Leyland??
you are pissing your money away if you change your oil every 3K miles if everything is in good working order. |
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Traded as | NYSE: MOH |
Industry | Healthcare |
Founded | 1980 |
Founder | Dr. C. David Molina |
Headquarters | Long Beach, California, USA |
Website | molinahealthcare.com |
Traded as | NYSE: MOH |
Industry | Healthcare |
Founded | 1980 |
Founder | Dr. C. David Molina |
Headquarters | Long Beach, California, USA |
Website | molinahealthcare.com |
Molina Healthcare (NYSE: MOH) is a managed care company headquartered in Long Beach, California, United States. In 2014, Molina Healthcare was ranked 393 in Fortune 500.[1]
Molina Healthcare was founded in 1980 by C. David Molina, an emergency room physician in Long Beach, CA.[2] He had seen an influx of patients using the emergency room for common illnesses such as a sore throat or the flu because they were being turned away by doctors who would not accept Medi-Cal.[3] As a result of his emergency room work, Dr. Molina established his first primary care clinic with the goal of treating the lowest-income patients, regardless of their ability to pay.[4]
The company is now run by Dr. Molina's son, J. Mario Molina, MD, who is also a physician. He is the current president and CEO of the company. John Molina, Mario's younger brother, is the current CFO of Molina Healthcare.[5] The two took over the Molina's operations after their father died in 1996 and continued to expand the company. According to SEC filings, in 2013 Dr. Mario Molina received total compensation of $11,903,124 and John Molina received $6,362,104. Altogether the top five executives at Molina Healthcare - J. Mario Molina, John C. Molina, Terry P. Bayer, Joseph W. White and Jeff D. Barlow - were paid a total of $26,425,047.[6] C. David Molina's daughter Martha Bernadett, MD is also a part of Molina Healthcare. Since receiving two Robert Wood Johnson Foundation awards in 2002, Dr. Bernadett has served as the Executive Vice President of Research and Innovation at Molina Healthcare. She founded the Molina Institute for Cultural Competency, Book Buddies and the Molina Foundation, a non-profit organization to promote access to education and health care to reduce disparities.[7]
The first Molina Medical clinic was opened in Long Beach, CA in 1980. Since then, 29 clinics have opened in Northern California, Southern California, Washington, New Mexico, Florida and Utah.[8][9] Molina Medical Group (MMG) also runs state-owned clinics in Fairfax County, Virginia. The clinics were opened to provide health care to low-income families and individuals.
Molina Healthcare has focused on government-paid health care programs such as SCHIP and Medicaid since it became a health maintenance organization in 1985. From 1985 to 1997, the company was only in California.
As of September 30, 2014, Molina Healthcare had over 2.3 million members in its health plans.[13] The health plans are operated by the respective subsidiaries in its states, each of which is a licensed HMO.[14]
Molina Healthcare filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial stock offering in December 2002 and went public in July 2003 with a stock offering of $102 million.[5] The shares were priced at $17.50, and Molina raised approximately $124 million in the initial public offering.[15] In its stock market debut, Molina sold 6.6 million shares at $20.30, making the company the third-best first day gainer of 2003.[16] Molina Healthcare was the first company from Inc. Magazine's Inner City 100 list to go public.[17]
Molina Healthcare entered the Medicare market in 2006. The company currently offers Medicare health plan options in ten states: California, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, New Mexico, Ohio, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wisconsin.[18]
Molina Healthcare acquired Unisys' health information management business in December 2010 to create Molina Medicaid Solutions (MMS).[19] MMS has Medicaid Management Information Systems (MMIS) contracts with Idaho, Louisiana, Maine, New Jersey and West Virginia. In June 2011 the state of Louisiana selected CNSI, a Maryland-based health care technology services company, to replace Molina as the state's MMIS and fiscal agent operations. However, in March 2013, Gov. Bobby Jindal canceled that contract. A new fiscal agent has yet to be named.[20] MMS also gained a contract with the U.S. Virgin Islands. Molina Medicaid Solutions will administer operations for the territory out of its West Virginia location.[21]
Beginning in 2014, Molina Healthcare offers Marketplace plans in nine states where it offers Medicaid health plans – California, Washington, Texas, Utah, New Mexico, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio and Florida.[22]
Molina was selected to participate in dual eligible demonstration projects in California,[23] Ohio[24] and Illinois[25] to serve patients who are eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid.
Molina Healthcare was awarded the 2011 Alfred P. Sloan Award for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility. The award ranks Molina Healthcare in the top 20 percent of employers nationally in terms of its programs, policies and culture for creating an effective and flexible workplace.[26]
In April 2011, a lawsuit was filed against the company and its outsourcing firm Cognizant Technologies in California state court. Both companies are accused of discriminating against American workers who claim they were fired and replaced with H-1B workers. The companies are accused of violating numerous federal and state labor laws. In July, the U.S. District Court, Central District of California ruled that there were no federal claims, which the plaintiff's attorney had acknowledged in his Declaration in Support of (the plaintiff's) Motion to Remand. Molina has expressed confidence it will "win in court because specific allegations have been examined and found false."[27]
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Lackland Air Force Base Joint Base San Antonio | |
Part of Air Education and Training Command (AETC) | |
Located in San Antonio, Texas | |
Military Training Instructors and New Airmen participating in the Basic Military Training graduation parade. | |
Coordinates | 29°23′17″N 98°37′14″W / 29.388009°N 98.620677°W |
Type | Air Force Base |
Site information | |
Controlled by | United States Air Force |
Site history | |
Built | 1941 |
In use | 1941–present |
Garrison information | |
Garrison | 802d Mission Support Group |
Lackland Air Force Base Joint Base San Antonio | |
Part of Air Education and Training Command (AETC) | |
Located in San Antonio, Texas | |
Military Training Instructors and New Airmen participating in the Basic Military Training graduation parade. | |
Coordinates | 29°23′17″N 98°37′14″W / 29.388009°N 98.620677°W |
Type | Air Force Base |
Site information | |
Controlled by | United States Air Force |
Site history | |
Built | 1941 |
In use | 1941–present |
Garrison information | |
Garrison | 802d Mission Support Group |
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Lackland Air Force Base (IATA: SKF, ICAO: KSKF, FAA LID: SKF) is a United States Air Force base located in San Antonio, Texas. The base is under the jurisdiction of the 802d Mission Support Group, Air Education and Training Command (AETC).
Lackland AFB is part of Joint Base San Antonio, an amalgamation of the United States Army Fort Sam Houston, the United States Air Force Randolph Air Force Base and Lackland Air Force Base, which were merged on 1 October 2010.[1]
Joint Base San Antonio (JBSA), which includes Lackland Air Force Base, was established in accordance with congressional legislation implementing the recommendations of the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Commission. The legislation ordered the consolidation of the three facilities which were adjoining, but separate military installations, into a single joint base – one of 12 joint bases formed in the United States as a result of the law.
Lackland AFB is named after Brigadier General Frank Lackland. It is the only entry processing station for Air Force enlisted Basic Military Training (BMT). It shared this status temporarily with Amarillo Air Force Base during the Vietnam War until Amarillo AFB's closure in 1968.
Lackland AFB hosts a collection of vintage military aircraft on static display on its parade grounds, including a B-52 Stratofortress, F-4 Phantom II, SR-71 Blackbird, B-29 Superfortress, C-121 Constellation, B-17 Flying Fortress and a B-25 Mitchell.
Lackland Air Force Base is home to the 37th Training Wing (37 TRW) which operates a variety of training squadrons. Within the 37th TRW is the 37th Training Group (37 TRG) which oversees the 5 technical training schools on the base, and the 737 TRG which oversees the Basic Military Training squadrons.
Lackland is best known for its role in being the sole location for U.S. Air Force enlisted Basic Military Training (BMT) for the Active Duty Air Force, Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard. BMT is organized into 9 basic training squadrons, each with their own training site on the base. Each squadron is equipped with either a dining facility or a medical clinic. Some BMT squadrons share dining facilities if they are located close enough together and the same is true for medical clinics. Each squadron also has a specific exercise area where basic trainees conduct physical readiness training (PRT). Also, AFOSI anti-terrorism teams are trained here.
In October 2008 the BMT was expanded an extra two weeks to implement more air base defense training as well as other rudimentary skills. It is now sitting even with the Navy's Basic course at 8 1⁄2 weeks.
Lackland, like many other Air Education and Training Command (AETC) bases, trains enlisted airmen out of basic training in a specific specialty via various "tech schools." Lackland currently has six technical training squadrons on base training multiple airmen in various Air Force Specialty Codes (AFSCs).
Construction on Lackland Air Force Base began on 15 Jun, 1941, and it was originally part of Kelly Field. One year later, it became an independent organization—the San Antonio Aviation Cadet Center. On 8 January 1943, the War Department constituted and activated the 78th Flying Training Wing (Preflight) at San Antonio and assigned it to the AAF Central Flying Training Command. The 78th provided aviation cadets the mechanics and physics of flight and required the cadets to pass courses in mathematics and the hard sciences. Then the cadets were taught to apply their knowledge practically by teaching them aeronautics, deflection shooting, and thinking in three dimensions. Once completed, the graduates were designated as aviation cadets and were sent to one of the primary flight schools for pilot training.
On 3 Feb 1948, the facility was named Lackland AFB after Brigadier General Frank Lackland, who was commissioned into the regular Army after serving in the National Guard, District of Columbia.
As a result of the Korean War, training populations at Lackland soared to 28 basic military training squadrons (BMTS) within the 3700th Military Training Wing. Temporary facilities, to include 129 "I dormitories", were hastily erected as a quick fix to replace tents cities housing recruits. In 1955 the number of BMTS was reduced to 16, where it remained for the next two decades.
The Vietnam War buildup necessitated a "split-phase" training from August 1965 to April 1966. This program provided for 22 days at Lackland and 8 days at a technical school, with directed duty assignees receiving the full 30 days at Lackland. When BMT returned to a single phase on 1 April 1966, it was briefly cut back to 24 days from April to July 1966. After that, basic training stabilized at a length of six weeks. This was the same length as the program used by the Army Air Forces when Lackland opened as a basic training base 20 years before. Training requirements also expanded to include teaching English to Allied military members from foreign countries.
No other item in the 1960s compared to the incident that occurred at Lackland in February 1966 with the death of a basic trainee. An airman died of spinal meningitis and while ten other cases were confirmed, no other deaths were reported. Virtually all non-essential activities requiring gatherings of basic trainees were canceled. To control the issue further, a cadre of personnel was assigned to activate the 3330th Basic Military Training School at Amarillo Air Force Base in Amarillo, Texas, in February 1966. As a result of the continuing expansion of the USAF, Amarillo AFB continued to conduct basic training until December 1968.
During the 1960s, more permanent facilities were constructed, including four 1,000-person steel and brick Recruit Housing and Training (RH&T) dormitories built between 1966 and 1970 for basic military training by the Lackland Military Training Center. These state-of-the-art buildings included living space, dining halls, and training areas for four basic training squadrons under one roof. Eventually six full-size dormitories, and two 600-person facilities, were constructed, enabling excess space to be converted to classroom use.
In late 1951 Air Defense Command selected Lackland Air Force Base as one of twenty-eight radar stations built as part of the second segment of the permanent radar surveillance network. Prompted by the start of the Korean War, on 11 July 1950, the Secretary of the Air Force asked the Secretary of Defense for approval to expedite construction of the second segment of the permanent network. Receiving the Defense Secretary's approval on 21 July, the Air Force directed the Corps of Engineers to proceed with construction.
On 1 February 1953 the 741st Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron was activated at Lackland (P-75) 29°23′16.4″N 98°37′59.9″W / 29.387889°N 98.633306°W with an AN/FPS-3 search radar and an AN/FPS-4 height-finder radar. In 1958 the AN/FPS-4 height-finder radar was replaced by AN/FPS-6 and AN/FPS-6A sets.
By late 1959 Lackland was also performing air-traffic-control duties for the Federal Aviation Administration. At this time the site hosted an AN/FPS-20A radar. One AN/FPS-6 was retired by 1963. On 31 July 1963, the site was redesignated as NORAD ID Z-75.
In addition to the main facility, Lackland operated an AN/FPS-14 Gap Filler site:
In 1965 AN/FPS-20A was upgraded to an AN/FPS-91A radar, then in 1969 it was modified to an AN/FPS-66A. The 741st Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron was inactivated in December 1969, and the FAA assumed control of the radar site.
In September 1972, the Houston-based 630th Radar Squadron sent a detachment (OL-D) to this FAA-operated site to set up an AN/FPS-6 height-finder radar to join the AN/FPS-66A search radar already in place (Z-241). The Air Force ceased using the Lackland AFB radar site on 30 September 1976.[2][3][4]
Today the Lackland ADC site has been taken over by the FAA (also known as 'San Antonio') and remains in operation. This now-FAA long-range radar site is now data-tied into the Joint Surveillance System. The site still operates the AN/FPS-66A search radar.
From the Cold War demise, base realignment and closure (BRAC) actions in the 1990s relocated several specialized training programs at Lackland. This included Air Education and Training Command's relocation of Air Force Officer Training School (OTS) from Lackland to Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama.
Lackland gained a flying mission when adjacent Kelly Air Force Base closed in 2001. The two-mile-long runway is now a joint-use facility between Lackland AFB and the city of San Antonio. The portion of the former Kelly AFB still under USAF control is now known as Lackland AFB/Kelly Field Annex and its permanently based flying units include the Air Force Reserve Command's (AFRC) 433d Airlift Wing, an Air Mobility Command (AMC)-gained unit flying the C-5 Galaxy and the 149th Fighter Wing of the Texas Air National Guard, an AETC-gained unit flying the F-16 Fighting Falcon. The civilian side of the former Kelly AFB is now known as Port San Antonio and hosts numerous major DoD defense contractors such as Boeing and Lockheed Martin, many of which directly or indirectly support major overhaul and repair of military aircraft previously conducted, and in facilities previously occupied, by the Air Force's former San Antonio Air Logistics Center (SA-ALC) when Kelly was an active Air Force Logistics Command (AFLC) and Air Force Material Command (AFMC) installation.
In addition, with the closure of Kelly AFB Lackland gained the section of base known as Security Hill. Security Hill is home to numerous units such as Air Force Space Command's 24th Air Force and 67th Network Warfare Wing and the Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency. All units on Security Hill are considered tenant units.
Lackland now consists of the Kelly airstrip, Security Hill, main base Lackland, and the old Medina officer training base now named Medina/Lackland Training Annex. With the exception of a few buildings most of the old Kelly air base including the housing has been turned over to civilian jurisdiction.
On 15 May 2009, Air Force officials announced that Lackland is the preferred alternative location for the 24th Air Force.[5]
In winter of 2009 it was decided to combine all the military bases in San Antonio into one large base named Joint Base San Antonio.[6][7]
In April 2012 Lackland served as an overflow shelter for an influx of illegal immigrant minors after the Administration for Children and Families determined that all other local shelters were filled to capacity.[8]
In the sexual assault scandal at the training centre, dozens of female and male recruits said that they were sexually harassed or raped by their instructors from 2010 onward.[9][10]
The U.S. Census Bureau counts the base as a census-designated place, with a population at the 2010 census of 9,918.[11]
As of the census[12] of 2000, there are 7,123 people, 174 households, and 152 families residing on the base. The population density is 642.6/km² (1,662.6/mi²). There are 412 housing units at an average density of 37.2/km² (96.2/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 65.20% White, 19.01% Black or African American, 0.86% Native American, 3.64% Asian, 0.32% Pacific Islander, 2.20% from other races, and 8.77% from two or more races. 13.77% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
There are 174 households out of which 79.9% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 73.0% are married couples living together, 9.2% have a female householder with no husband present, and 12.6% are non-families. 12.1% of all households are made up of individuals. The average household size is 3.49 and the average family size is 3.78.
On the base the population is spread out with 5.3% under the age of 18, 79.8% from 18 to 24, 14.5% from 25 to 44, 0.4% from 45 to 64, and none who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 20 years. For every 100 females there are 256 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 267.3 males.
The median income for a household in the base is $32,250, and the median income for a family is $31,923. Males have a median income of $16,435 versus $15,572 for females. The per capita income for the base is $10,048. 7.3% of the population and 6.9% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total population, 7.3% of those under the age of 18 are living below the poverty line.
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BSMW and Cold Hard Football Facts have teamed up to state the case against Ron Borges. There is also a link to an e-mail petition to the Globe to fire him. http://www.bostonsportsmedia.com I wonder how many e-mails the Globe will get? J D Sal
haha, sorry about that. I do like my title to the thread better, though. More to the point, lol. J D Sal
I sent them an e-mail. I am even going to boycott their site as much as that pains me not to read Reiss.
Thanks for the heads up.. GREAT ARTICLE and has a lot of facts to backup the point of it.. I usually don't follow up with these, especially against Borges but I felt this was a well deserved cause..
I complained to the Globe, and this is the answer I got back from firstname.lastname@example.com "Ron Borges is one of the best football writers in the country. As the author of "On Football" stories in the Globe, he's paid to have an opinion. One of his most recent opinions was that Bill Belichick should be the NFL's Coach of the Year. In past stories he has written that as a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame selection committee, he will lead the effort for Belichick's induction when the time comes. I see no bias in his work at the Globe." How should I respond?
A response I got from CHF as of 12pm PST said there had been at least 400 e-mails today and that they are all receiving the same auto-response from Sullivan. Should we flood Mike Reiss' mailbag with questions about how the Globe can allow Borges to stay on? Hate to drag him into it but if we expect action to be taken on this we'll have to resort to alternate strategies in mass.


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Is REST over-hyped? Is WS-* viable? Is SOA evil? Stefan steps up to the plate with RESTafarian SOA Killers.
Is REST over-hyped? Is WS-* viable? Is SOA evil? Stefan steps up to the plate with RESTafarian SOA Killers.
Update: My slides are here. However, they're not as effective without the demo.
What's left to say? It seems everyone who participated in the SOA track, as a speaker or attendee, has already posted their thoughts. And others who could not attend have run with Stefan's notes (go backwards from that link to see them all).
From my POV, it was a fantastic two days. All of the RESTians on the SOA track had excellent (if somewhat overlapping) presentations. The lone non-dyed-in-the-wool REST proponent, Sanjeeva, had a—uhm, err, shall I say—provocative presentation. So lets talk about some of the other sessions I was able to attend. On the Ruby track Obie Fernandez gave a presentation on "Designing RESTful Rails Applications." I knew most of what Obie had to say already, but still learned a thing or two, and also learned that there's more to learn. Must peak into the routing code. It was a good talk nonetheless, especially if you were Rails proficient, but new to RESTful application design. James Cox also gave an informative talk (with examples!) of what's new in Rails 2.0. And Jay Fields gave a wonderfully intriguing talk on using Ruby to build "Business Natural Languages." That is, highly specialized, English-like DSLs that can be used by subject matter experts to implement business rules. This talk was not a "gee, wouldn't it be nice" kinda thing either. He's really built them. With great success.
Brian Zimmer, lead architect at Orbitz, gave a talk on the Architecture Track about growing Orbitz both from an infrastructure and design viewpoint as well as from a U.S.-centric to a globally-capable system. Brian was a good speaker, but I can't say I learned much. Rule #1 seems to be, don't code yourself into a corner with U.S.-centric assumptions. Rule #2 seems to be don't architect yourself into a corner with bad design choices. Both true. Both hard. But what really moved this talk from "green" to "yellow" for me, was his discussion on caching. In order for Orbitz to not beat the crap out of their partner's systems, they cache results for a period of time (presumably based on SLAs, since there's no cache control info on the wire), but their original, home-grown, caching solution didn't scale. Brian described this system via the metaphor of a block of mailboxes that you might see in a post office or apartment building that could only hold so much information and only for a specific partner. And my thought was, well, who the heck designed that? They resolved the problem by purchasing a commercial caching solution, but he wouldn't say which one.
James Noble presented Thursday's keynote "The Lego Hypothesis." With a somewhat over-the-top presentation style, James said the right thing: Google is our software repository, and developers reuse code snippets and libraries just as people have been saying we should — albeit, without being weighed down by issues like "correctness."
I arrived late on Wednesday and so could only take in two sessions. The first had Chet Haase, Erik Meijer (LINQ), Charlie Nutter (JRuby), Joshua Bloch (large pieces of Java), and Rod Johnson (Spring) debating the future of Java. Everyone was (obviously) knowledgeable and pragmatic. They did not, however, all agree. I felt myself leaning towards Charlie's answers which can be summed up as "it's up to you, now." I also managed to attend Wednesday's closing presentation, "50 in 50," delivered by the eminent Dr. Richard Gabriel; a bizarre, delightful, entertaining multimedia romp through the history of programming languages. My favorite? HQ9+.
That's it. A wonderful conference made better by being able to meet many people face to face for the first time, including not only my fellow track speakers but Stu Charlton, Mike Herrick, Patrick Logan, and many others.
This is a long-delayed post.
Next week is QCon San Francisco. Stefan generously offered me a slot in the "Connecting SOA and the Web: How much REST do we need" track, alongside Steve Vinoski, Sanjiva Weerawarana, Dan Diephouse, and other luminaries. Woot.
For my part, I'll be demonstrating the "ilities" of REST. Yes, rather than just explain things and have the audience take my word for it, I'll be showing running code of a real (albeit simple) RESTful application. Thus, for the last two weeks, I've been busily learning Rails and enjoying its support for REST. It's a simple app, and if I knew when I started what I know now, it could have been done in a day or two. No loss, I'll be able to leverage this time for the REST Workshops I deliver as part of my Burton Group gig.
Of course the intent of the demo is not to show off Rails (I don't plan too) or to prove how leet I am (I'm not), but to put an emphasis on the fact that something as mundane as a Web application, when properly designed, leads to accessible information and evolvable systems. I'd love to demonstrate scalability and performance too, but, hey, I'll only have one laptop with me. (Oh, and VMWare rocks.)
Hope to see you there.
So the battle still rages over on SOA Discuss. However, the list server seems to have crapped out. So, while I haven't been an active participant by any means, I'm pulling this from my sent mail folder and posting it here.
Anne Thomas Manes wrote:
The problem is caused by the root culture of IT — project-driven funding models, a cobbler's kids perspective on investing in infrastructure that helps IT (rather than a particular project), and a propensity to never decommission applications. IT systems have grown organically for the last 40 years. They're a mess. It requires a fundamental change in the way IT operates as a service provider within the organization.
Now Anne's my new hero (of course, we work together). This hits the nail on the head. Business is culpable. IT is culpable. I'm culpable. So are you. I would refine Anne's point by saying that the ailments we're discussing are not entirely cultural. I would add two other factors.
1. A sensible desire on the business's part to maximize its investment. To not fix what isn't truly broken. If a business in 1990 spent $2M and 2 years building a widget management system, and that system was perfectly designed and executed, then there's an understandable reluctance to build it again. Similarly, from the IT perspective, if there's an existing system that used to meet all of your needs but now only meets 75% of them, it seems sensible to extend the system, rather than rebuild it. It's the same thinking that has me maintaining a house that's over 100 years old, even though it leaks heat like a sieve and has antiquated wiring on the second floor. (You're not allowed to beat up on that analogy.) This issue is deeply impacted by the incredible rate of change in technology, and all the things no one saw coming: PCs, universal networking, the Web, open source, etc.
2. People and groups of people are independent actors. They have their own biases, knowledge base, desires, needs, and motivations. Any time an overarching strategy tries to unify all the disparate players, it comes into friction with this, slowing it down and ultimately causing it to stop.
I suspect that there's no way to make all these things go away, and if we want to drive better business through technology, our planning has to account for these three factors (Anne's cultural issues plus my two). It's likely that the cultural issues can actually be fixed. We can change funding models and processes. We can even effect a change in mindset. However, the other two seem to be intrinsic to the human condition, and I think our planning is simply going to have incorporate that. Thus, we will need to discover processes and technologies that allow systems to be built at minimal costs (time and dollars) and that can, in effect, be thrown away. And we need to allow IT and the business to act as independently as possible from some central governing authority. A very delicate balance in both cases.
From a purely technical POV (and recognizing my own biases), it seems to me that we can partially address the cheap-fast-and-gone issue by moderating complexity. This might entail things such as promoting dynamic languages; building smaller, minimally functional components (using your favorite technology, but erring towards the simplest); hiding the brittle things behind facades; making strategic bets on very few technologies or technology patterns, and so on. Regarding the people-are-people thing, I think this means that we cannot dictate many universal behaviors. We can only strongly encourage (preferably by example) that players do what they can to minimize friction between themselves and others (technology wise, that is.) via the use of standards and by the use of system designs that allow actors to evolve independently.
What that doesn't address is how do we get IT to do what the business wants. Personally, I think IT does a pretty good job of that already. What seems to be the issue is that IT is building what business units want today. Both IT and the business units are not planning for tomorrow, nor are they are thinking about the rest of the business. And this is where competent CIOs and their minions, business analysts such as Steve [Jones] and Rob [Eamon], industry analysts such as Anne [Thomas Manes] and Nick [Gall], and consultants such as myself need to deliver on. That is, given the constraints above: project driven cultures within IT and without, rapid technological and business change in the face of sunk costs, and the fact that the enterprise (indeed the world) is an anarchic place, how do we get people to build systems that meet the needs of today and tomorrow? You can call this enterprise architecture if you want.
Previously I defined and redefined some terms to be used when discussing networked systems. With feedback from Sam Ruby, Josh Haberman (in the comments), and Steve Jones, plus smoe more thought on my part, I would like to present a more refined version of the same. With this post I'd like to introduce some new terms and revisit some old terms, all arranged in a taxonomical structure from most to least general. Note, the definitions given here will differ in places from those given earlier and from some defintions in general use.
Why bother? Principally because the terms in current use are heavily overloaded, especially SOA, which has at least three distinct definitions depending on who you ask. It's my hope that some agreed upon terminology will help keep people from talking past each other and to better crystalize our thinking on the subject.
This taxonomy only addresses network programming models that are to be used for general-purpose systems. It does not care about anything below layer 7 of the OSI network model and it does not care abouut dedicated network protocols such as LDAP or SQL*Net.
At the top of the stack there is network-centric computing (NCC). NCC is the generally held belief by all interested parties: developers, architects, business analysts, and the business itslef, that exposing functionality directly on the network in a standard and interoperable manner is superior to building application silos. NCC is completely technology independent; it is an approach to systems design, a mind set. Why not just use the existing term distributed computing? Mainly because that term includes extremely tightly bound systems, including distributed systems that are in fact a single system that happens to reside on multiple machines; such as Oracle RAC, or systems that parralellize processing, such as SETI@home.
Next we have NCC designs that take into account the vagaries of the network. These are termed netwok-oriented computing (NOC) designs. NOC systems have incorporated into their design the fact that networks are not reliable, do not have zero latency, etc. In contrast, there are NCC designs that attempt to abstract the network away, such as system exhibits a network-independent computing (NIC) design. Such a design attempts to ease the burden on the developer by modelling remote systems as if they were local.
Either model can be further refined by applying an architectural style. "An architectural style is a coordinated set of architectural constraints that has been given a name for ease of reference.1" In other words, by restricting the universe of possible design approaches an architectural style becomes a way of talking about architectural designs. An architecural design, then, is the blueprint of a running system. And an architecture is the system itself. Typically, as I do here, the latter two terms are conflated so that an architecure is an architectural design. By loose analogy, Art Deco is an architectural style, the plans for the Chrysler Building are an architecural design, and the Chrysler Building itself is an architecture.
The most commonly applied architecural style used in NOC systems is Representational State Transfer (REST). REST is a style that has the resource as it's key abstraction, where a resource is anything important enough to name. A resource has state that changes over time, and clients interact with the resource via a uniform interface. Critically, resources also point to other related or interesting resources. REST as an architecural style is one step removed from an architecture. One possible implementation of the REST style is the resource-oriented architecture (ROA). ROA is the set of best practices encouraging the principled use of HTTP to create RESTful systems.
As regards NIC designs (e.g. CORBA, DCOM, and WS-*) there is no identified architecural style. Such architectures have evolved over time to address the needs of their creators and users, and later systems are typically modeled after earlier systems. Even so, it is possible to infer certain fine-grained styles inherent in these architecures, such as distributed objects or client server. One thing such systems have in common is the promotion of the interface as the key abstraction, where the interface describes a collection of non-unifrom operations/methods exposed by a service. Collectively, we can refer to these systems as having a service-oriented architecture (SOA).
In my earlier post I claimed that while governance and business process analysis are selfevidently important, that SOA (and ROA) did not exhibit sufficient uniqueness from traitional application design and development to warrant specialized versions of these. I'm backing off that stance. After all, if devolving a network-accessible application into its constituent components can justify not one but six distinct concepts, then certainly the same is true for governance and business analysis. In addition, NCC is indeed different enough that it requires a level and style of governance that needs to be clearly spelled out and executed. Ditto business analysis. I firmly reject, however, the idea that governance and/or analysis equal architecture and that the technology is not important.
As pertains to governance, ROA and SOA are different enough from each other that the policies and processes that govern them should also be distinct. Hence we'll give them the simple terms ROA governance and SOA governance. But while the governance processes will be different, the governance needs will often be the same. For instance, either architecture could benefit from a directory. In today's SOA environments that typically means UDDI. While in a ROA environment it is likely a Web page or simply the result of a search. (Or vice-versa.) Therefore, the common governance abstractions (directories, repositories, documentation, etc.) are given the term network-centric governance.
Regarding business process analysis, I don't think that ROA and SOA warrant specialized techniques (but I'm willing to be convinced otherwise), thus we have simply networked business process analysis.
Summarizing the above taxonomically gives us:
– Network-centric computing (NCC)
—– Network-oriented computing (NOC)
—–Network-independent computing (NIC)
– Network-centric governance
—– SOA governance
—– ROA governance
– Networked business process analysis
(I would have used nested unordered lists, but WordPress keeps horking that up.)
To use these terms in discussion we might have the following:An enterprise that recognizes that application silos are to be avoided and exposes functionality directly on the network for general consumption in a standardized and interoperable manner is undertaking a network-centric computing initiative (an NCC initiative). They may choose to acknowledge that the network imposes certain architectural constraints on this initiative and thus choose a network-oriented computing approach. This would be especially likely whenever crossing network boundaries, but is considered by some to be a good approach to most NCC designs. Alternately, they may choose to abstract the network away by using a network-independent computing approach. This is especially likely when the clients and services are on a single, well managed, local area network.
Once again the participants in the SOA discussion group have got themselves all riled up about what exactly SOA is and why it may or may not be working. Here's my two cents. We'll start with another history lesson. (Skip it and get to the meaty bits.)
Once upon a time, the employees of Example Corp. complained to the Finance department that they were tired of using spreadsheets to file expense reports. So Finance went to IT and said, "Build me an expense report management system — and I want it by the end of the year." And IT went among the people in HR and Finance and the company at large and gathered requirements and analyzed business processes. After which they returned to Finance and said, "The end of the year's out. How 'bout June?"
"Just get it done," said Finance.
In December of the following year IT delivered a system that more or less met most of the requirements they had gathered. "Fine. Sure. Whatever," everyone said.
Then one day, Finance came back to IT and said, "Hey, I need to pull all expense data into our new ERP system."
"No problem," said IT, "We'll code up a batch process that produces a monthly report and then we'll insert that information right into the ERP system's database."
"Erm, Okay." said Finance, and went away bewildered. But some months later Finance returned to IT and said, "We've upgraded the ERP system, and now that expense thingy isn't working anymore." As it happens IT had just been visited by Consulting who had said, "My consultants are tired of entering expense data twice. Fix it."
IT was sullen. How were they ever going to integrate all these systems? And shouldn't they prepare ahead of time for the pending acquisition of Sample Systems?
"We could publish our database schema," said one IT member.
"Won't work. People will enter things wrong," said the lead developer.
"Stored procedures?"
"Maybe, but that means deploying database client libraries everywhere."
"We could create an API that we distribute to everyone who asks," suggested another IT member.
"Too many languages, frameworks, and operating systems," replied the lead developer.
"Didn't someone just buy an EAI engine? Couldn't we use that?" asked a third developer. Everyone laughed.
"What about CORBA?" queried the new guy.
"What about what?"
"CORBA. Look, see. Interoperable remote procedure calls. Keep the business logic over here, publish the interface, let the client worry about the rest. I've already built a prototype."
The IT people were impressed. They showed the prototype to Finance and Consulting. The prototype was quickly moved into production. Flush with success, the lead developer said, "You know what, we should make everyone do this. From now on no more application silos. Everyone must make functionality available over the network." But few listened. The Microsoft guys said that it sounded right in principle, but we should use DCOM. The mainframe guys went on building CICS apps. And, frankly, it went right over the heads of the PowerBuilder and ColdFusion guys. Worse, CORBA wasn't quite as easy to use as it seemed. It was complex, nothing interoperated, it didn't work through firewalls, and a bewildering number of specs were coming out of the OMG.
"Well, how about this new SOAP thing," said the new new guy. "It's simple, it works through firewalls, all the vendors are on board, and, look, there's only three specs, and we don't need this UDDI one." There was much rejoicing. "This just has to work," said the lead developer (now promoted to enterprise architect). "I can't prove it, but I can feel it in my bones. We just need to give this idea a name."
"I've heard it called service-oriented architecture," said the new new guy.
"Service-oriented architecture, ay? I like it. Nice acronym too. SOA. Lets pronounce it soh-uh."
Soon, the word spread throughout the land: No more silos. Make functionality available on the network using standardized, interoperable protocols. We're service-oriented now. And, believe it or not, people got it. Now that they could see that it just might work, it seemed like a painfully obvious idea. Building silos is bad. Exposing functionality on the network is good.
And… Well, you know the rest. They picked the wrong technology again, despite the fact that the right choice was staring them in the face. Like CORBA before it, SOAP wasn't quite as easy to use as it seemed, interoperability was problematic, and a bewildering number of specs were coming out of the W3C, OASIS, and the vendors themselves. Not only that, there was a big pile-on of suspect products, pie-in-the-sky promises, and ever changing architectures. But, really, all that's besides the point. The point is that more people than not understood the value of deploying standards-based, network accessible business logic.
So, then, what is SOA? For one thing, SOA is misnamed. It's not an architecture in any sense of the word. It is, to use a Burton Group phrase, a mind set. It is the generally held belief that when implementing systems one should expose system functionality for general consumption directly from the network, as well as or instead of burying it behind a user interface. It is, as well, the belief that there is a great deal of value to be generated by retrofitting network accessibility into most existing systems. And it is the belief that this can only work if the means of doing so aren't locked to a particular language, framework, operating system, vendor, or network architecture.
Another problem with the SOA name is the "service" bit. At least for me, the term "service" connotes a collection of non-uniform operations. I don't even like the phrase "REST Web services." Certainly, SOAP/WS-*, CORBA, DCOM, etc. fit this definition. But REST? Not so much. In REST the key abstraction is the resource, not the service interface. Therefore SOA (and I know this is not anyone's strict definition) encompasses the above mind set, but includes SOAP and similar technologies and excludes REST.
A better name for SOA, then, might be network-oriented computing (NOC). This encompasses both WS-* and REST (and most everything else from the socket level up). We can, if we want, make SOA and resource-oriented architecture (ROA) a subset of NOC. In which case the "architecture" bit makes sense again.
"But wait," I hear my SOA-loving readers say. "SOA is not about exposing business logic on the network. That's just a technology thing. SOA is about the business! CxOs and business units don't care about technology, they will only pay for business solutions." Which always makes me scratch my head. What exactly does IT ever do that's not about the business? Do they not work for the same company as the other BUs? Is a firewall about the business? Of course it is; there's a business requirement to maintain information security. Is a router about the business? Obviously, the business is demanding networked communications. Is an application server about the business? Yep, having someone else write all the plumbing gets systems out faster, and that's a business requirement. How about Agile? That too is a business requirement, faster, better software. Testing? Yes. VoIP? Yes. SOA? Yes.
"No, no," the SOA-is-business advocates reply. "It's not just 'business' it's better alignment with business. You see, if we can identify a business process such as 'open new account,' then we can create a service called OpenNewAccount. You see how those things line up there." All well and good, say I, but as Stu and Steve say, "Things change. And besides, what if you're in perfect alignment with the business, but the system doesn't work? What if it doesn't scale? What if clients can't use it? What if the programmers can't code it?"
"Well, it's not just about business alignment," another group of SOA advocates claim. "It's really about governance." Again, I'm scratching my head here. Everything is about governance! Software development (network-oriented or not) is about governance: 'You must use a version control system; you must write unit tests.' Moving systems into production is about governance. Updating a routing table is about governance. Hiring a new employee is about governance. Buying a plane ticket is about governance.
"No, no." They go on. "With SOA there's new things to govern." That's true, there are. But really, is it that much different than any other governance process? Not really.
(By the way, I'm also on record as saying that REST requires less governance than WS-*. While others might say the governance needs are the same. I stand by what I say by noting that if there's any chance in hell of getting all this to work, it's going to require a truck-load of governance.)
So, that's it. As Stefan also points out, SOA today has a number of fluid definitions: It's the notion of tearing down silos and making functionality available on the network (frequently with the WS-* stack implied), it's the use of governance to ensure that people do this right, and its the alignment of business with IT. If any of these can be considered more right than the other (by usage or historical precedent), then I would have to say it's the first.
No matter which definition works for you, though, SOA is misnamed. So I'll leave you with some updates to your lexicon:
Over on REST-Discuss, Roy Fielding dropped an innocuous message containing a link to the slides he's delivering (has delivered) today at RailsConf Europe. I'm pleased to see that much of the material lines up nicely with my own REST Easy workshop.
Tim beat me to the post, but as of around midnight last night we have no known issues with Atompub support in WordPress 2.3. Woot!
My dear departed father use to give me this piece of advice (left over from his Navy days), "never volunteer." But I did, and I'm happier for it. This is the first time I've contributed to an open source project, and you know what, it's a lot of fun—and rewarding. And working with Sam, Tim, Elias, and Joseph was a distinct honor and pleasure.
That said, Tim gives me too much credit. The bulk of the code is Elias's. All I did was patch some bugs and bring the code up to compliance with the latest spec. Sam nailed some gnarly ones too, and automated everything—a habit I have to get into. It took a little longer than expected because I had to relearn PHP, which I haven't used since 2001, and go spelunking through the WordPress codebase.
Currently, we expose posts and uploads (media entries). Once 2.3 is released I hope to add support in 2.4 for WordPress pages and comments among other things. I might also be convinced to back-port this to WP 2.2 if anyone's interested.
You may or may not know about Burton Group's Catalyst Conference that's held twice a year; once in North America and once in Europe. But at the North American conference we offer in-depth, 4-8 hour workshops on a variety of subjects. This year, I created and delivered a four hour workshop on REST, though it went for 4.5 hours and could easily have been six. The workshop gave a concise overview of REST, a lengthy tutorial on how to build RESTful systems, and a brief comparison of REST with WS-*. It even include working code to illustrate most of the concepts.
Well, after just a little bit of cajoling on my part, Burton Group is making the REST Workshop slides available—for free—to everyone. Yes, they're behind a registration wall. And, yes, you're likely to be contacted by us if you download them. But, if I do say so myself, it's a really good deck. It was even rated the best workshop at Catalyst by attendees. Now, paging through some slides is not going to make you all knowledgeable, but if you haven't got your mind fully around REST, maybe they'll help. More important to the readers of this blog is that you now have a resource that you can repurpose to help sell and explain REST to your colleagues and managers.
As mentioned, the workshop as delivered also showcased some running code. I've left the code out of this offering for several reasons. Mainly code quality. I wrote the services in Java using Restlet 1.0 (and the clients in Ruby). But Restlet's a moving target, and is now at 1.4. Furthermore, I wrote it fast, while learning Restlet at the same time. And I ignored everything except what was being demonstrated, like error handling and comments. In other words, while it all works, it's ugly and out of date. BTW, this explains why a number of slides are given over to Restlet architecture.
Aside: Restlet rocks. The Restlet mailing list rocks. Jerome Louvel rocks. The documentation, well, it doesn't rock. Note to Tim O'Reilly: Please give Jermoe enough money to live on for 6-12 months and have him write a Restlet book.
Burton Group also asked me to create a "Take 5″ on the subject. A Take 5 is an audio enhanced five minute PowerPoint show on a pertinent topic. The REST Take 5 is really 15 minutes, but gives a good 40,000 foot, managerial overview of REST. (That link goes straight to the 10MB PPT deck, unless you need to register or login. You'll need to view the deck in slide show mode to hear the voice over.) Give it a listen over your coffee this morning, email the link to your boss and the EA team, speak truth to power and all that.
Anyway, I hope you go through the trouble of downloading this material. Largely, it was you that created it (you might even find yourself quoted in there); I just compiled it. Of course, any errors are mine, so let me know if you find any and I'll fix them. And let me know if you'd like to have me present this to your organization (it's much better with a narrator to provide the details and answer questions).
In my earlier post about appfs I noted that WordPress wasn't up to snuff as far as supporting Atompub. Offline, Tim Bray, Elias Torres, and I had a brief discussion. It seems that many of the bugs that I've fixed, and many more besides, have already been fixed by Elias. The patch submitted to WordPress is here: http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4191. Alas, while this patch is tagged for inclusion in 2.3, there doesn't seem to be much activity around it.
I had indicated that I will fix WordPress Atompub bugs as I find them, and keep a working version over here. But given everything Elias has already done (and the WordPress team has not), I'm no longer sure that's a good idea. It looks like us WordPress users are simply out in the cold for a while when it comes to proper Atompub support.
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After 365….Archive 13
Drama Looming
Taken at Seal Rocks, NSW, Australia. I really liked the light in this one and the dramatic sky.
After 365…Archive 11
Waiting for the Right Moment
I watched this surfer for about 10 minutes as he stood waiting….waiting for the right moment.
This was taken up on the North Coast of NSW, Australia, back in December.
After 365….Archive 8
This is yet another shot that I took over Christmas, whilst we were at Seal Rocks. It's heaven for me, as far as photography goes.
After 365….Archive 7
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Seal Rocks, it's a place I love and feel so peaceful and at ease with the world whenever I am there.
This shot, was another taken over Christmas. I just sighed out loud as I wrote, because I so wish tht I was there right now.
After 365….Archive 6
Bondi Beach
Bondi Beach is somewhere, even though I lived in Sydney, I didn't visit all that often….I guess mainly because I lived on the Northern Beaches in Sydney, so didn't really need to go there, but when ever I did go….it was always a nice change. This shot was taken, when I went to see USA against Australia in a friendly waterpolo match.
After 365….Archive 4
Beautiful Manly
This was one of the beautiful sunrises I was fortunate to see in Manly, Sydney, Australia.
Happy days!
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When The Fog Rolls In…
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I am thinking of putting a scope on a Ruger 10/22. I am looking at a 3-9X32 or a 4X32. Now I don't see the need for a variable magnification on a 22 rifle for hunting. Or do I need it?
This is a discussion on Ruger 10/22 Scope within the General Firearm Discussion forums, part of the Related Topics category; I am thinking of putting a scope on a Ruger 10/22. I am looking at a 3-9X32 or a 4X32. Now I don't see the ...
I am thinking of putting a scope on a Ruger 10/22. I am looking at a 3-9X32 or a 4X32. Now I don't see the need for a variable magnification on a 22 rifle for hunting. Or do I need it?
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You don't really "need" a variable on it but I just happen to prefer one. Since your targets will be acquired at much shorter distances I would get a scope made for a rimfire... for example it would be set up to be parallax free at like 50 yards. Remember, you can't skimp on glass. You sure get what you pay for when it comes to optics. Don't think that you'll only use this scope for this gun. Get a good one and it will last your lifetime and you can use it for any other rimfires you might purchase. Enjoy it!
-"I may get killed with my own gun, but he's gonna have to beat me to death with it, 'cause it's going to be empty." -Clint Smith
Mine has a Tasco world class 3-9x40. The 40 helps in low light while hunting in the woods. The 9 power helps on head shots for squirrels (no brains for me, thank you very much).
Take a look at the simmons line of scopes.
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You don't mention your budget, but dollar for dollar, I LOVE the Mueller APV.
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I have one on my highly customized 10/22 and can't say enough good about it.
Do your self a favor, and forget the 3-9 variable, and buy a medium quality 6 power scope. If you typically would spend, say $125.00 for a 3x9, by spending the same money on a 6x, you will get a better scope. 6 power will work very well for all the capabilities that a 22 can do. Now you never have to worry about having it set on the right power, and you will be happy with the sight picture.
I have a couple of 6x's on my 22mags and like them far more than a 3x9 any day.
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For the .22 I love the Nikon Prostaff.
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Well we seem to be split between the variable and and fixed scopes. Soular you mentioned budget and I guess I should have included that. I would like to keep it under 150.00 thanks for the suggestions so for and keep them coming.
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I like the variables on my 10/22's. My thumbhole heavy wears a Simmons 4.5-14x40 AO TT, and the lightweight wears a BSA 4-16x40 AO. Both of my Rugers are the target models. No reason really that I went with the adjustable objectives other than the thumbhole rifle being my silhouette competition rifle. If you use a scope properly....(low power at closer ranges and incrementally higher powers for the longer ranges), one shouldn't really need an AO scope on a 22lr rifle. Some may beg to differ, but I figure the 22lr's limitations extend out to around 150yds at best. One of my favorite rounds for silhouette takes a full 34 1/4" clicks from a 25yd zero (which is also good for 50yd), to make good hits on target at 100yds and make the steel fall. Since I consider myself lucky to have 20/20 or 20/15 vision, I'm not sure as to whether an AO scope would aid or correct other vision capabilities. I would guess not and as the eyepiece should do the focusing for that. I do utilize my adjustable objective features on both scopes/rifles, and as another member previously posted......I seldom get out of the 6-10x magnification with either scope. After a day at the range, or a shoot, they always go back to 6x and 25yd settings. That's been good for varmints right here close to home and quick target acquisition even in low light. Maybe the current rage is adjustable objective scopes in the average range of cost, but when the scope quality increases..as with the dollar amount, you'll need to decide if the added cost of an AO scope will be beneficial enough to make up the balance of what you'd pay for a better quality scope in a fixed power (as explained before by someone else). Just remember.....you are talking about the 22lr.....you won't need a scope better than the gun IMO. But depending on what you're going to do with it, I'd still shy away from the basic rimfire scopes of 4x32...especially with the venerable Ruger 10/22. BTW, I've had Tasco scopes, and still have one mounted on a rifle. I'd go with the BSA over Tasco any day, and if I were new to the game, I'd also take a hard look at the CenterPoint scopes now on the market. Made here in the USA of course! Just Google the Centerpoint Optics to find out more.
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I'm looking to ditch my stock roof rack for a set up that will actually be of some real use. Out of local Craig's List ads, I found opportunities to go with a Thule XSporter set up or Thule base and cross 54" rail arrow bars with the 44" fairing, both for the same price (btw a WICKED good deal!!!).
I'm in a bit of a quandary as to what would be more practical. Using the roof keeps the bed clear and allows for use of my tonneau cover to keep things locked up and out of sight, but using the Thule XSporter allows for a larger load...
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