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Archive » January 4, 2007
Letters to the Editor
By MJ Staff
Protect the Montecito Association
After my wife and I bought our house on Humphrey Road some years ago, we discovered a local developer had bought the one-third-acre property next door, intending to assert an ancient lot split and to build 2000-square-foot houses on each sixth-acre piece, half-clad like wainscoting in faux stone, with two-car garages ass-end to the street.
Humphrey Road is an odd little street next over to Eucalyptus, running between the SP tracks and the 101, a backwater little changed from when it was originally built out in the first decade of the last century, with modest cottages to house the butlers and gardeners of the big estates up the hill.
Those two proposed monster spec houses had no place on Humphrey Road. But the very successful developer-builder had a lot of relationships around town, and he made it clear through his architect that he didn't care about the street, the neighbors or anyone's opinion. He was rich and he wanted his way.
How do you fight money and influence? With the careful help of the Montecito Association, who walked me and our friends on the street through the sometimes confusing land use process (as Bob Collector did a couple of weeks ago in your paper), and with the thoughtful advice of its land use consultant (I believe this was the excellent Susan Keller, whose specific rebuttal of the ridiculous charges spewed by Warner's people was welcome reading too), we identified the specific steps in the process where our voice could be heard and we found the language of the Community Plan that spoke to our concerns.
We took our case to the MBAR, where the developer's attorney did us the great favor of arrogance. "Those people on Humphrey Road have to recognize that gentrification will come to them, regardless of whether they like it." Well, not really. When our charts and lot footprint diagrams, photographs and testimony were presented, the designs got sent back to San Diego or whatever suburb of hell they came from. And now, instead of two hideous tarted-up boxes stuffed into slices of our bucolic street, we have a lovely restored Craftsman house and a couple of cleaned-up creekside cottages as neighbors (and the folks that did those restorations made a bundle – only wish it had been me).
Without the Montecito Association's cautious shepherding of the planning and development of Montecito over decades, faithful to a vision spelled out in simple language and true to standards that are published law, not only my street but yours and yours and yours would be much the worse.
Right now there's a lot of blather about the Miramar, how glorious its past, how tragic Warner's abandonment, how vile the Montecito Association, its designated bad guys (as though they had anything to do with Warner's decision). How many of your readers stayed there in the decade before it closed? It was a mildewed tacky ruin, abutting the noisy 101 and skewered by the train tracks running a few paces from the beachfront rooms.
That's a screwy layout for an expensive hotel, yet the Schrager-made renovation plan had approvals at every level and even by the supposedly obstructionist Montecito Association. But Warner chose not to build out that plan, despite his promise to do so, and as a neighbor I haven't heard or seen an alternative from the Warner folks in the couple of years since the purchase.
Is it just possible that when you factor in the 20% rise in freight traffic over recent years (projected to grow more as oil prices stay high), the proposed increase in commuter trains, the possible widening of the 101, and the general surge in construction material costs as India and China started to suck up resources, that Mr. Warner's pencil snapped?
And that this decision, this betrayal of a promise made to the Miramar's neighbors and all of Montecito, had nothing at all to do with the Montecito Association, who became a whipping boy and the excuse du jour?
Now the Montecito Journal wants the Voices of Montecito, identified as developers and well-heeled businessmen who "want to make the planning procedures less burdensome" to beseech Ty Warner to reconsider, to petition the SP to build a wall, and to tunnel beneath their tracks? And when that fails, will the Journal turn to the so-called Voices of Montecito (the name itself how populist! how representative!) to petition to alter the CUP to allow the kind of development that the Montecito Association has fought to a standstill in the past?
The fear mongering that you publish, in your recent editorial and Private Property Report columns, as though the only alternative to the restoration of the once glorious Miramar is an onslaught of low-income housing under State mandates, is worthy of our President. There's no evidence of that threat associated with this property, is there?
And what's wrong with working people, anyway? When we moved into our quiet cottage on lovely, homely Humphrey Road, we had public school teachers, artists, and a fisherman for neighbors. Half of them are gone now, and their kind won't be coming back. Montecito has lost some of its raffish charm now that only millionaires can buy in. And it will lose more if the Montecito Association has its teeth yanked out by the kind of people who want to make it easy to build without their careful scrutiny.
Sincerely yours,
Caldecot Chubb
Santa Barbara county
(Publisher's Note: Those "working people" you speak of are people just like myself and as much as I would enjoy winning a lottery to a below-market unit, I don't believe in handouts or free/cheaper homes for "working people" or anybody else. As for the Miramar, how does warning Montecito that the Miramar property, if left undeveloped, might attract the Affordable Housing lobby fall under "fear mongering"? We don't want the Miramar to become housing, certainly not dense housing, just as you didn't want high-density units built next to your house. The Miramar site is zoned for a tourist-serving enterprise, but we fear if Mr. Warner doesn't act on this soon, that designation may change. The only thing the VOM is against, as far as we can tell, is the arbitrary nature of some of the conditions and approvals the Montecito Association has recommended. – TLB)
Farewell Gerald Ford
Many deserved tributes have been offered by the nation for President Gerald R. Ford, 38th President. There is one special aspect of his long life that has been missing from them all and should be mentioned for the record. On September 30th, 1949, Gerald Ford was initiated (along with his three half-brothers) into membership of Malta Lodge of the Fraternal Order of Freemasons at Grand Rapids, Michigan. After becoming a full member of his lodge he joined many other Masonic degrees while serving in Washington D.C.
Freemasonry is the oldest and largest fraternal order in the world and came to America in 1733 where it first became established in Boston. From George Washington to Gerald Ford, there have been fourteen presidents who were Masons. Masons have stood for integrity, freedom, and individual dignity – all characteristics that Brother Ford abundantly represented throughout his life. Brothers working individually and collectively toward the objective of Masonry can add much to leave the world in a better condition.
During 2003, President Ford was presented at Rancho Mirage with the Grand Lodge of Michigan's 50 Year Masonic Membership Award on their behalf by the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Free & Accepted Masons of California.
Freemasons take pride in the part which the fraternity has played in the history of America since its founding. The Masonic fraternity as well as the country mourn the passing of our 38th President.
NJD Gallimore
American Lodge of Research
Santa Barbara
A Hidden Treasure Lost
The demise of the "Miramar Hotel" is of great concern to many, not only residents, but former guests and employees, the latter of which I represent as the longest tenure than anyone. (Thirty-five years plus.) Consequently, I too have a selfish interest in wishing the beautiful piece of art could be quickly restored.
The hotel served as a haven for rest, as well as recuperation, for people from many parts of the World (Europe, Africa, Canada and Mexico).
It was questionable when the recent purchaser tore down practically everything! Then, for whatever reason, he stopped! Was it money?
A new "mogul" brought the property with renewed interest, and rebuilding seemed to be no problem, financially. He found the situation too difficult to solve, however. He too, threw in the towel! There is a problem somewhere…
Former property owners, guests and well wishers, for the restoration of a beautiful piece of "art" situated between majestic mountains and Pacific Ocean, for whatever reason, a hidden treasure lost by mankind, only mankind can resolve the problem.
Grover Barnes
Santa Barbara
(Publisher's Note: Mr. Barnes, we congratulate you for recently celebrating your 100th birthday – TLB)
Serenity at Westmont
Well, I find have reverted to the realm of my childhood by wishing every day could be Christmas. Why is that, you may ask. The answer is quite simple. Christmas Day offered an unusual, nay, rare blessing: it was perfectly, tranquilly, peacefully, blissfully silent at Westmont College. As I sat outside enjoying the warm sunny day I was struck by the absolute quiet. I must tell you that it was glorious and I cherished every blessed moment. This was an event to be relished and I did!
This morning at nine am, that peace was utterly shattered by some unbelievably loud equipment doing who knows what at the Westmont Campus. This, on the day after Christmas, when many of us have precious time off from work. But, of course, it was convenient for the campus as all or most of the students and staff are on their holiday elsewhere.
Just thought I'd share a day in the life of a Westmont neighbor. As I said, I wish every day could be Christmas at Westmont College.
Juliana Hydanus
(Publisher's Note: I empathize with your sentiments. Christmas is always a beautiful and quiet day, and not just around Westmont. Christmas day is the only day I don't wake up to the sound of leaf blowers and lawn mowers! – TLB)
A Charter School?
It will truly be a shame and a loss for our community if the Santa Barbara school board rejects Bob Noël's proposal to start a charter high school. The proposed pre-advanced placement academy will greatly benefit the average performing student while the proposed construction and police/fire academies will greatly benefit those students in need of something outside of the traditional school setting. Given that the News-Press has reported that 73% of new City College students failed tests of their readiness to take college entry level English writing and reading courses in 2003 and that 55% of City College freshman are from the local high schools, this new charter high school is sorely needed.
Bob Noël has secured $405,000 in state grant money to get this charter school started. As his grant proposal was only one of 45 selected out of 250 proposals, it will be a hugely wasted opportunity not to go forward with the charter high school. The community expects the board to put personal differences and grudges aside and do what is best for our students. It will also be very ironic if the other school board members do not approve this project and lose the $405,000 state grant money when one of their biggest arguments for proceeding with the Dos Pueblos Olympic pool project was the loss of "use or lose" funding.
Chris Messner
Santa Barbara
(Publisher's Note: We're with you. The charter high school concept is promising. For adolescents who would rather be working with their hands, fighting fire, or protecting our neighborhood this would be a great resource for them – certainly more effective than anything our current public academic system can offer. – TLB)
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By the end of the Orlando Pro Summer League, Boston Celtics fans were ready to unretire number 33 so Kelly Olynyk could win an NBA-record 14 MVPs in Larry Bird's jersey.
Okay, fine. Doling out Bird's number would be sacrilege (if it ever happened, I imagine doves would start dropping from the sky like hail), and a prediction of 14 MVPs sounds slightly high for a 13th pick with athletic limitations. Olynyk was still terrific during the summer, showcasing rare skills for a 7-footer while providing hope for a fan base reeling from the losses of Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett.
The lottery pick averaged 18.0 points and 7.8 rebounds, shot 57.8 percent from the field, led the Orlando summer league in PER, and unexpectedly showcased a smooth stroke from behind the arc. Though he started missing 3-pointers more often than not later in the week, the Celtics expect him to develop his outside shooting into a weapon, one he rarely showcased last season as a junior at Gonzaga.
Olynyk's hair earned him the nickname "Sunshine" from Jeff Green, and his play left veteran teammates (and new coach Brad Stevens) excited for the possibilities. Reigning Rookie of the Year Damian Lillard tweeted that he likes Olynyk's game and the rest of the basketball world seemed to agree, even if the Canadian wasn't exactly meeting all-defensive team caliber opponents.
With the Celtics in a transitional phase (and Doc Rivers, noted stickler of rookies, departed for more Clippers-ish pastures), it's easy to envision Olynyk filling a key role on opening night despite a case of plantar fasciitis that kept him off the Canadian national team this summer. Though coaches openly admit he needs work defensively and the team has more forwards than most hockey teams, throwing Olynyk into the fire makes all kinds of sense. If he's ready, he'll help the team win games. If not, he'll develop. Tankin' ain't easy. (Note: Actually, in some cases it can be.)
Could Olynyk make enough of an impact to garner consideration for Rookie of the Year? ESPN's Chad Ford believes he has a chance, but listed him sixth among preseason candidates for the award behind Victor Oladipo, Anthony Bennett, C.J. McCollum, Michael Carter-Williams and Ben McClemore.
Here's what Ford wrote about Olynyk:
The case for Olynyk: Olynyk was one of the few rookies to really shine at the Orlando summer league. He showed a sophisticated game that combined size and skill. Boston is going to be horrible this season, and you can expect the Celtics to try to do everything they can to showcase players like Olynyk.
The case against Olynyk: New head coach Brad Stevens emphasizes toughness and defense on his teams, and those are areas in which Olynyk is still lacking. With a bit of a logjam at power forward, Olynyk will likely be forced to play center this season, which doesn't really cater to his strengths.
The notion that Olynyk might have to play out of position at center reminds me: I'm fascinated by how the Celtics coaching staff decides to utilize the Olynyk-Jared Sullinger pairing. Because they're both skilled young big men, Stevens will likely want them on the court in unison quite a bit. But there's also the issue of whether they're athletic enough to coexist. That pairing's kind of like a bizarre lab creation of Daryl Morey's designed to match skill and basketball IQ vs. athleticism, and I have no idea if it will work out.
Anyway, a panel of ESPN writers also did not rank the Celtics rookie among the top five candidates for ROY, choosing Oladipo, Trey Burke, McLemore, Cody Zeller and McCollum instead.
But Olynyk should get plenty of chances to contribute. If he can rekindle his summer magic (not at all promised, but possible), he could find himself competing to become Boston's first Rookie of the Year since Bird.
And at least one Celtics fan -- unhappy that Tom Brady left practice Wednesday with an apparent knee injury -- is still convinced Olynyk has super powers after such an impressive summer league run. (Or, more likely, the fan made nice use of hyperbole.)
@ByJayKing @KellyOlynyk I think maybe he should be in Foxboro. #superman— Bill Koch (@allnameskaput) August 14, 2013


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Who is paying for political ads?UPDATED 6:37 PM CDT Mar 27, 2014
New ads attacking Attorney General Jon Bruning come from a nonprofit called American Freedom Fund. The group does not reveal its donors.Video Transcript
IT'S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN -- POLITICAL ADDS INUNDATE THE AIRWAVES ..BUT WHO'S PAYING FOR THEM? NEW ADS ATTACKING JON BRUNING COME FROM A NON-PROFIT.. "AMERICAN FUTURE FUND"..A GROUP THAT DOES áNOT REVEAL THEIR DONORS. K-E-T-V NEWSWATCH SEVEN'S KRISTYNA ENGDAHL..IS LIVE WITH THIS COMMITMENT 2014 REPORT YOU CAN'T FIND THE DONORS..YOU CAN'T FIND HARDLY ANYTHING ON THIS GROUP.. EXCEPT FOR THE HUNDREDS OF áTHOUSANDS OF DOLLARS..IN AD-CAMPAIGNS. THAT'S WHERE THE CONSERVATIVE GROUP "AMERICAN FUTURE FUND" .. SEEMS TO PLAY áFAVORITES..EVEN ATTACKING PEOPLE IN THEIR áOWN PARTY. WHEN YOU SEE AN ADVERTISEMENT LIKE áTHIS..ATTACKING ATTORNEY GENERAL JON BRUNING..(American Future Fund Advertisement: As attorney general he took a big pay raise while spending in his office sky-rocketed.) THEN..HEAR IT'S FROM A GROUP, BACKED BY áANONYMOUS DONORS. SOME PEOPLE SAY..IT'S DISTURBING.(Rudy Waltz: It's a democracy. It can only work if there's some honesty.)(Adam Placek: People got to know. They're the ones voting. Why shouldn't they know?) BUT NO ONE KNOWS FOR SURE..WHO'S BEHIND THE "AMERICAN FREEDOM FUND." NOT EVEN THE GOVERNOR.(Gov. Dave Heineman (R) Nebraska: Who is this outside group? Who contributed to their campaign? I think we deserve to know what's going on here.) WE DID OUR BEST TO GET SOME ANSWERS. BUT ALL YOU'LL FIND ON THEIR WEBSITE .. IS A DES MOINES AREA PHONE-NUMBER..AND UNNAMED PRESS RELEASES.(Gov. Dave Heineman (R) Nebraska: If you want to talk about the issues and you want to run a contrast ad, Okay, so be it, but tell us where you're getting your money because that's going to make a big difference to Nebraskans.) THE WATCH-DOG ORGANIZATION OPEN SECRETS(DOT) ORG.. ESTIMATES "AMERICAN FREEDOM FUND".. ALREADY SPENT ONE-HUNDRED-65 THOUSAND DOLLARS ON THE 20-14 CAMPAIGNS. (Gavin Geis/Exec Director, Common Cause: The way the law is written means that people can give unlimited amounts of money to organizations that act like non profits.) NOT ALL "AMERICAN FREEDOM FUND" ADS ARE NEGATIVE..LIKE THIS ONE FOR BEAU MCCOY.(American Future Fund Advertisement: Successful small businessman, conservative state senator..) MCCOY'S CAMPAIGN TELLS ME THE STATE SENATOR HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE ADS.. BUT THEY'RE QUOTE "GRATEFUL FOR THE COMMENTS." A-F-F CLAIMS TO BE A CONSERVATIVE GROUP.. BUT DOUGLAS COUNTY REPUBLICAN PARTY CHAIRMAN BRYAN BAUMGART SAYS.. IT'S A GROUP WITH NO áLOCAL TIES. (Bryan Baumgart/Douglas Co Chairman, Republican Party: There's not a whole lot we can do as a party, we don't endorse it, it's nothing we appreciate or support.) I ALSO ASKED BAUMGART ABOUT RUMORS THAT LOCAL CANDIDATES WERE áBEHIND SOME OF THOSE THIRD-PARTY ATTACK ADS.. HE WOULD ONLY TELL ME, QUOTE "THEY'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO." WE MADE SEVERAL ATTEMPTS TO CONTACT THE AMERICAN FREEDOM FUND..AND IT'S FOUNDER NICK RYAN. THOSE E-MAILS AND PHONE-CALLS WERE UNRETURNED.
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Author: Milano175
Date: Dec 24, 06 at 2:37pm (PST)
Subject: No Fee
U can buy some players for no fee, but when you submit your bid ( 0,- ) the board of the other club won't accept it. What is it that you need to do to make them accept it, or how can you buy players for no fee? Perhaps another possibility?
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Date: Jan 29, 09 at 7:02pm (PST)
Subject: re: No Fee
Click Make an offer
Put in a ridiculously large transfer fee so they accept straight away
Go to the players details page
Click make an offer
Click stop negotiations (if u lk at short list u should have offered £-0)
Then u will hav 2 agree personal terms
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Cal Bears: Jeff Tedford On The Hot Seat Now?September 2, 2012 – 11:21 pm by McD
Two days before the Cal Bears' first game, and for most of the offseason, Cal's athletic director Sandy Barbour was saying there's no way head football coach Jeff Tedford was on the hot seat. The 11th year coach was fine, supposedly, even after a 7-6 2011 season and a record of 20-18 over the last three seasons.
While it's hard to tell what the expectations are in Berkeley, this kind of mediocrity is usually not okay with most major-conference schools (unless you're Indiana, in which case you'd kill for that kind of mediocrity). This is especially true with Tedford's reputation as a football genius, though his teams haven't been very much above mediocre since the 2006 season.
Then the Bears' 31-24 loss to Nevada happened on Saturday.
The Wolfpack racked up 450 total yards, including 220 rushing, and dominated the time of possession by 10 minutes. All this in the debut of Cal's $300 million new stadium, which was finally free of tree people.
While the Bears had two turnovers on Saturday, they lost because they just weren't very good in every phase of the game, and that's got to have Tedford's critics howling. Cal was one of the more competitive teams in the Pac-10 in the early to mid 2000's. However, the rise of Oregon and Stanford and the re-rise of USC have left the Bears far in the dust in terms of recruiting and on-field success.
Literally everything about this team has to get better if the Bears are ever going to compete again in the Pac-12. Apparently, including the way Tedford handles his quarterbacks, which is drawing criticism even from his own players:
"To an extent, yes I do," said wide receiver Keenan Allen, who had a brilliant 39-yard end-around run for a touchdown in the third quarter. "All camp Zach's been with the ones (starters). We haven't taken many reps with Bridg. … It definitely would have helped us if Bridg had taken the reps in practice."
He was talking about quarterback Zach Maynard taking virtually all the snaps with the starters only to have backup Allan Bridgford start the game (and go 1-for-8, by the way). Tedford insisted that Maynard knew since June he wouldn't start, but apparently didn't tell the rest of the offense. You'd think that would be something of an important detail but whatever. The Bears haven't had a quarterback worth mentioning since Aaron Rodgers left in 2004.
Following the Nevada debacle, Cal has a home game Saturday against Southern Utah, so they'll likely be 1-1 heading into two road games at Ohio State and USC. This of course means Cal could well be 1-4 heading into their final seven games and they'll still have to play Oregon, Utah, and Washington.
Most fans (and probably athletic directors too) have to be looking at the schedule and wondering how the hell the Bears are going to make a bowl game if they can't even beat Nevada at home. And, therefore, if the Bears don't make a bowl, it sure seems like Tedford's hold on the Cal job is getting looser by the week.


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@ethanguy I thought of that too, but Qa8 fails to black moving HIS queen to the back rank, ...Qf8. Then if QxR, black can recapture. And so white must move his queen away. That's why Danny said it doesn't threaten anything.
Great vid Danny thanks so much..keep them coming
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Another great live sessions. I felt your pain when you took a5 blundering some of your achievments in the position.
I believe another winning continuation at 24:06 (after g6) was Nd7, immediately threatening the deadly fork on f6 and also the rook on b8. The queen must take d7, and then we take on b8 with check and will queen that pawn shortly. Although... I like your way too : )
way to come back and win it and great live session. thanks.
Very instructive live sessions - 1 of my favourite live sessions to date because the post-game analysis breaks it down for people at my level to fully understand everything that was going on - top lecture for sure
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hi everyone, where can i find the dzindi's review of the game danny mentioned in the beginning?
@nikakiller299 -- When white captures on a6 black can simply recapture with the Knight, guarding c7. Among other things...
@ethanguy -- The combination played is much more effective. Qa8 doesn't really threaten anything...
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By Sean Greene 8:34pm, August 13, 2014
(Courtesy: Barry Miller/NNLL)Jacques Dubecq and Dominic Pertrucci each drove in runs, but Newark National fell 4-2 to Midland, Mich. at the Junior League World Series Wednesday.
Newark fell behind 2-0 after the first inning before Petrucci's RBI single drove home Nate Hardcastle to cut the deficit in half.
Michigan jumped ahead 4-1 with a pair of RBI singles in the 3rd, before Dubecq's single to left made it a two run game after four innings.
Newark loaded the bases in the 7th, but a strikeout ended their chances for victory.
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I agree with you, maybe "battle" type sounds better than "fighter" but about the "explorer" vs "scout" issue I think the scout sounds as a military category like reconnoisant, but the explorer are closer to discoverer, like a fast and long-range ship to explore easily the far corners of the galaxy.
About reactor, engine, and boost. Boosts can be very diversified for improve the ship stats, or give a permanent passive ability or a temporary spell-like ability. So boosts are not necessary just "other" equipments. However engines are necessary and this defines the ship speed in the sun-system map and the range in the galaxy map. The reactor produce the energy for the ship and this effect not just the engines but the weapons, shields, and boosts too. And finally I thinking in small, medium, and long range weapons, and these can be projectile, energy, and missile weapons, just these details left from the presentation.
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The Philippines claimed the top rank in a 2012 Business English proficiency survey, beating 75 other countries--including the United States and the United Kingdom--in the annual Business English Index (BEI) released by the GlobalEnglish Corporation.
The world's average BEI level was pegged at 4.15, dropping from 4.46 in 2011. The Philippines scored 7.11. It was the only country to be ranked at the intermediate level, which required a score above 7.0; the country with the second highest score was Norway, at 6.54. Our score indicates that Filipinos' proficiency in English is high enough to "take an active role in business discussions and perform relatively complex tasks." The GlobalEnglish.com report noted that this was especially significant because the country "recently overtook India as a hub for call centers."
The GlobalEnglish Corporation spearheaded the research to measure the Business English proficiency of global workers in the field; they surveyed a total of 108,000 global employees across 76 countries. "Addressing English skills gaps and ensuring that employees can immediately perform at the necessary proficiency level should be viewed as a strategic imperative for multinational businesses as Enterprise Fluency, the ability to seamlessly communicate and collaborate within global organizations, can deliver significant financial upside," GlobalEnglish President Tom Kahl is quoted as saying.
Fluency in business English is a factor that can affect the economic growth of a country, as it expands the platform in market planning. "It's not surprising that both the Philippines and Norway—the only two countries in the top five in both 2011 and 2012—are improving economies, based on the latest GDP data from World Bank," the report stated.
The countries in the top five were as follows: the Philippines (7.11), Norway (6.54), Estonia (6.45), Serbia (6.38), and Slovenia (6.19). Rounding out the top 10 were Malaysia, India, Lithuania, Singapore, and Canada.
Meanwhile, the top five worst countries were Armenia, Cote d'Ivoire, Taiwan, Honduras, and Columbia.
[Click here to view the Business English Index.]
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text: Another step in my redoing of the WTC, here are both D major pairs. Elephant ears may detect the odd weak note, but these are done to the best of my ability, and I have been practising them for 3 months so they had better be good. I particularly love the BWV 874 fugue and I hope that is clear from the performance. Bach - BWV 850 - Das Wolhtemperierte Clavier I - Prelude and Fugue No.5 in D major (3:39) Bach - BWV 874 - Das Wolhtemperierte Clavier II - Prelude and Fugue No.5 in D major (10:51)


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'Glee' recap: 'Swan Song'
"Let's just enjoy this week and look forward to our big comeback next year." - Finn
I've reached a point with "Glee" where even when I enjoy a lot of things about an episode -- as I did with "Swan Song" -- it doesn't matter. The recent string of unbearable episodes has completely severed my connection to the show (a connection that survived through Season 2 and Season 3), possibly for good.
It'll take a lot more than a halfway decent episode to bring it back, and I just don't see that happening given the current state of the show.
Before we get to some of the good -- or at least better -- stuff, let's touch on a bit of the bad. Pretty much everything involving the future of New Directions and Sue Sylvester totally sucked. It was stupid. Terrible. Lame. Pick the derogatory adjective you like best. It's ridiculous to believe that disqualification at Sectionals would cause everyone to quit the club, but whatever. That's typical "Glee."
Everyone ignoring Santana's explanation for why Marley collapsed? Kitty not facing *any* repercussions or consequences for what she did? I hate all the new characters enough that I'm happy whenever their screen time is minimal, but that's just sloppy and nonsensical. Of course the eating disorder storyline has never been anything but sloppy and nonsensical, so again I say whatever.
Let's move on to the episode's biggest "controversy": pairing up Sam and Brittany. I like the two characters. I like the two actors. Their duet on "Somethin' Stupid" was sweet and endearing in a way the romantic numbers used to be on "Glee." But I wasn't really sure how I felt about them as a couple (I was sort of into the idea they'd be friends, since male-female friendships aren't explored much on the show outside of Kurt and Rachel).
As it turns out, that doesn't matter. "Glee" wants Sam and Brittany to be a couple, so they'll be a couple. Except there's one tiny problem: The Brittana fans who will never accept it. Instead of letting the audience see for ourselves why Sam and Brittany should be together, "Glee" delivers one of its strangest meta-moments yet by having Brittany address the issue head on:
"I just like you too much to put you in danger," she tells Sam. "It's not just Santana, it's like all lesbians of the nation. I don't know how they found out about Santana and I dating, but once they did they started sending me tweets and Facebook messages on Lord Tubbington's wall. I think it means a lot to them to see two super-hot popular girls in love. And I worry that if they find out about you and I dating that they'll turn on you and get really violent and hurt your beautiful face and mouth."
Now, I guess this is the show's attempt at trying to diffuse a situation but it feels a bit like pouring fuel on a fire instead. "Hey, lesbians! You don't like the idea of Brittany dating a guy again? Well, don't dare say anything about it because you'll just look dangerous and violent!"
That's an odd strategy for a show that's already bleeding fans.
And it's unfortunate, because it reminds me of this interview with Marti Noxon before she joined the show's writing staff in Season 3. Her time was short and not especially distinguished (her two writing credits were the OK "Choke" and awful "Extraordinary Merry Christmas"), but Noxon had an interesting take on where Brittany and Santana might be heading (before they officially coupled up in Season 3):
"It's so politically incorrect to make a character gay and then make them 'un-gay' again," Noxon said about Brittany. "Like once you become gay, you've crossed over, or, you're not allowed to be a person who doesn't want to be defined by a label like that. You're not allowed to be a person who says, 'I just love that person right now, and maybe I'll love something else at some point, so I don't really want to say if I'm gay or bi or straight or anything else. I just love this person.' I feel like that's where Brittany is. Without overthinking it, she's very evolved."
Noxon raised the issue by referencing "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" characters Tara and Willow, and noted the writers on that show discussed that sort of "evolved" thinking for one of them (presumably Willow), but never actually went there.
On one hand I think it's great that "Glee" is going there now, and it would be cool if we could really view Brittany in that way. But it takes more than snarky dialogue and meta references to actually pull it off. Brittany is a lovable character and I think most viewers would root for her relationship with Sam if we simply had a reason to. (And it might help ease possible complaints if Santana still had a meaningful role on the show, and maybe a new love interest of her own.)
But just like with Rachel and Brody, or any of the random romances between the new kids at McKinley, "Glee" is diving head first into the deep end, without bothering to see if there's any water in the pool.
Didn't I say I enjoyed a lot about "Swan Song"? I did. Especially Lea Michele's "O Holy Night" and Chris Colfer's "Being Alive" (he's destined to star in "Company" one day). Rachel and Finn had a sweet phone call that wasn't as moving as the discussion between Kurt and Blaine last week, but still showed us a glimmer of what once was.
And I really appreciated these words of wisdom from Rachel: "Glee is about the love of music. It's about people like Puck and Artie not just singing together but actually being friends. And Brittany and Mike dancing just for fun when no one else is around. It's even about the romances. I know they come and go, but they're just as important."
That's a pretty good description of why I really, really used to like "Glee."


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On Labor Day weekend, Mountainside Christian Academy will be having its Gigantic Garage Sale, including over 35 tables with thousands of items to sell. It will be taking place at the Mountainside Ministries parking lot and garage. There will also be some local vendors on site. Bring your appetites as well as your pocketbooks since there will also be baked goods and lunch on the grill.


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Louisiana outdoors enthusiasts who love to kick off the hunting seasons with a barbecue and dove hunt over Labor Day weekend won't get the chance this year.
That's because Labor Day falls on Sept. 2, which means the Saturday of the weekend is Aug. 31, and by federal law, there can be no dove hunting in August.
So hunters will have to wait until the next weekend to target resident doves.
Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries biologist Jimmy Stafford presented the proposed dates for the 2013-14 dove season to the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission on Thursday. The commission won't formally approve the dates until its July meeting because the framework for the season hasn't yet been officially announced by the feds.
"We're just presenting these dates now so that hunters will have a heads-up," Stafford told the commission Thursday.
The dates Stafford said the department expects to recommend are as follows:
- South Zone: Sept. 7-15, Oct. 19-Dec. 1 and Dec. 21-Jan. 6
- North Zone: Sept. 7-22, Oct. 12-Nov. 10 and Dec. 14-Jan. 6
The dates are based on a 70-day season framework, Stafford said.
Not sure if you're in the North or South zone? Here's the department's official explanation of the boundary: "Beginning at the Texas-Louisiana border on La. Hwy. 12; thence east along La. Hwy. 12 to its intersection with U.S. Hwy. 190; thence east along U.S. Hwy. 190 to its intersection with Interstate 12; thence east along I-12 to its intersection with Interstate 10; then east along I-10 to the Mississippi state line."


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JACKSON, MI – A grant will allow the Center for Family Health to expand its mobile dental services to more Jackson County students next year.
The Healthy Smiles, Healthy Children grant will provide up to $20,000. It will allow the center's mobile dental unit to visit more buildings in the Western and Michigan Center school districts, as well as add two new districts to the program in the 2013-14 school year, said Molly Kaser, Center For Family Health CEO.
"We are very excited," Kaser said. "This will give us more contact with more children in Jackson County."
The mobile dental unit currently visits children at Michigan Center, Western, Jackson Public, Columbia, Northwest and Vandercook Lake schools, as well as the Community Action Agency Head Start program and the ABC Academy preschools on Lansing and Lawrence avenues.
As of March 31, more than 1,200 students have been served this school year, according to a press release. Approximately 1,000 more Jackson County students could be served next year because of the grant, it said.
"Many of the students we see have never seen a dentist," Sheri Hardcastle, the center's dental office manager, said in the release.
The school-based visits eliminate transportation and schedule conflicts, and students can participate after parents fill out permission slips, Kaser said. The mobile program accepts Medicaid and other insurance, but no family is turned away because of inability to pay, she said.
The mobile unit's dentist, hygienist and dental assistants provide dental exams, X-rays, cleanings, fluoride treatments and sealants to students. Parents also receive education regarding the importance of children's dental care.
The grant will allow the center to encourage greater participation among families in the participating districts, the release said. Hygienists will visit the schools about a week before the mobile unit arrives to distribute toothbrushes and toothpaste to students and educational materials for parents, it said.
All mobile dental patients also have access to services at the center's main facility at 505 N. Jackson St. Services also are available at the Northeast Health Center at Northeast Elementary School, 1024 Fleming St.
"Improving children's oral health improves their physical health," Hardcastle said in the release. "We are thrilled to play a role in making our community's children healthier."
For more information, call the center at 748-5500 or visit its website.


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Rashid, Adil (1999) ISOLATION AND STRUCTURAL STUDIES IN THE CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS OF POLIANTHES TUBEROSE. PhD thesis, University of Karachi, Karachi.
The work embodied in this thesis is presented in two parts. Part-A describes the isolation and structure elucidation studies in the chemical constituents of Polianthes tuberose Linn. Part-B deals with methods development and methods validation of actives and vehicles in pharmaceutical formulations using high performances liquid chromatography. Part-A The introduction of Part-A provides a review of the early contributions made in the chemistry and a brief account of present work. Studies under taken in the chemical constituents of Polinathes tuberose Linn. have resulted in isolation and structure elucidation of twelve compounds including five new, three unreported and four known constituents, from the investigated species. New continents i)2ÃÂÃÂÃÂò, 3ÃÂÃÂÃÂò,16ÃÂÃÂÃÂò, 22(S) tetrahydroxy cholesta5-ene 16-O-ÃÂÃÂÃÂò-D- apiofuranoside(1) v)3,29-dihydroxy stigmast-5-ene 3-O- ÃÂÃÂÃÂò-D- galactopyranoside(2) iv)Ethyleneglycol 1,1ÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂ, 2ÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂ,2ÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂàdiribofuransoide(3) ii)Ethyl ÃÂÃÂÃÂò-D-galactoside(4) iii)Ethyl ÃÂÃÂÃÂñ-D- galacatoside(5) Unreported constituents vi)1-Tricosanol(6) vii)ÃÂÃÂÃÂò-sitosterol [24(R)-stigmasta-5-ene-3 ÃÂÃÂÃÂò-ol] (7) vii)Stigmasterol [24(S)-stigmasta-5,22E-diene-3 ÃÂÃÂÃÂò-ol] (8) Known constituents ix)Hecogenin(9) x)9,11-dehydrohecogenin (10) xi)Tigogenin (11) xii)Sarsasapogenin(12) Part-B This part of thesis deals with the studies on the development of new methods and method Validation of actives and vehicles in Pharmaceutical formulations. i)The work has effected into a new reversed phase separation technique fro the determination of Corticosteroids and Aromatic Alcohols in Pharmaceutical formulations. This is a state-of-art separation technique and is simple , quick and has been completely validated. The work was also presented in the 7th International Symposium on Natural Product Chemistry organized by HEJ Research Institute of Chemistry, University of Karachi, on Dec, 28,1997 ÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂJan 1,1998, under head: ÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂA new Separation Technique for the determination of anti-inflammatory corticosteroids and Aromatic alcoholsÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂàii)The reversed chromatographic method for the determination of sulphamathazine and trimethoprim in pharmaceutical suspensions is also a quick, simple and reliable method. Its complete validation has rendered it as milestone on way to Research and Development work. This work happened to be a prize winner during the 7th international Symposium on Natural Product Chemistry, organized by International Centre for Chemical Sciences ,H.E.J Research Institute of Chemistry, University of Karachi, Dec, 28,1997-Jan 1,1998
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Contents America Arabia Aztec China Egypt England France Germany Greece India Iroquois Japan Ottoman Empire Persia Rome Russia Siam Songhai The nations you'll face in Civilization 5 all field unique Units and wield special powers which lend themselves to certain kinds of game play. We've compiled a few facts and hints to help you best engage each competing culture in diplomacy, economics, and war.
Regardless of Leadership or nationality, all rival nations in the game are dangerous. Civilization 5's take on world politics is decidedly bloodier in nature than its recent prequels. Some nations act more aggressively than others, but any of them will attack you if they smell weakness. Beware. America
George Washington is a treacherous waffler. He can go from your best friend to your worst enemy in about ten turns. This guy can be helpful for a while, but in the long run he's 100% Manifest Destiny, and generally attacks with a well-prepared army.
Diplomacy is possible with America early in the game, and good relations can sometimes last quite a while once established. Create trade pacts and Research Agreements with Washington, but never trust him.
The Americans use both colonialism and conquest to grow big in the mid-game. If you have managed a hundred Turns of peace with America, pat yourself on the back and then invade their core Cities as soon as possible.
When fighting Renaissance and Industrial Era America, prioritize Rifling to counter the advantage of Minutemen. If fighting a Modern Era America, build Fighters and AA Assets aplenty. The B-17 is like the Hammer of Thor and must be intercepted. Arabia
The Arabs generate a lot of Gold and grow quickly mid-game. They tend to be expansive but not always vicious. Thanks to the Bazaar, they usually have trade goods available. Partner with them and use their surplus goods to fuel your own progress.
The best way to exploit Arabia is to kill them with kindness. Make them a friend for as long as you can, and prepare for war with them by stacking your Happiness with other sources. When conflict does come, you're likely to lose some trade goods and your Happiness will suffer if you're not prepared.
Their Camel Archers are annoying little suckers capable of shoot-and-scoot attacks which are difficult to counter. When warring with Medieval Arabia, try and keep fast horsemen handy to chase the snipers off your flanks. Also note that the Arabs have no Knights, so when forced into a stand-up battle they can usually be beaten down. Don't chase distant Camel Archers with Knights. Such pursuits often ends badly. Aztec
Montezuma is pure evil. Do not trust him, do not come to depend on him for goods, and do not approach him without a loaded gun.
Aztec Jaguars are a vicious early-game asset. They fight well relative to their cost and gain health and culture when they kill. The Aztec Cities seem to spawn near fertile ground, so there tend to be a lot of them. Counter them with massed, guarded archers.
Fortunately for you, Montezuma usually ticks off enough neighbors that the Aztecs are weakened or wiped out near mid-game. You should rarely have difficulty building Alliances against them. China
China enjoys a technical proficiency that ensures their economy and military remain consistently competitive. They have a fair chance of inaugurating the Apollo Program or the first Manhattan Project.
Chinese Chu-Ko-Nu are among the most dangerous Units in the game. When fighting China, choose your battlefields carefully. Build fast cavalry on your flanks and get in among the Chu-Ko-Nu even if it means sacrificing horsemen to do so.
You'll need to commit especially large numbers of Units when assulting Chinese cities. The ranged weapons they stock their metropolitan areas with are devastating against besiegers.
You can befriend China for a time, but it rarely lasts. Egypt Egypt uses its advantage in Wonders to the fullest. Keeping pace with Egypt's building projects is a challenge in any game they take part in.
If you locate Egypt in the Ancient or Classical Eras, allocate your Citizens to Production-oriented Terrain and develop Autocracy early to compete. Thanks to Burial Tombs, Egyptian Cities are full of Gold after the mid-game and make appealing targets for conquest.
Because of their skill in Building Wonders, Egypt is a late game threat to develop the Manhattan Project, Apollo Program or United Nations. England
England tends to be imperialistic but can be reasoned with on occasion and makes a decent trading partner.
Britannia rules the waves. Stay out of British sea-lanes. Counter old world naval power by going after their ports from inland attacks.
Never, ever embark ground Units against them. Their ships are just too fast. Don't go toe-to-toe with their vessels.
In the modern age, out-plane the English. Bomb their proud ships into dust.
Beware the range and power of the Longbowman. Attack these Units with a 3-1 numerical advantage and be prepared for high losses. If your Cities are besieged by Longbowmen, relieve them immediately or they will fall. France
Napoleon likes conquest...no surprise there. The French Military tends to be modern, well-equipped, experienced and aggressive in every Era.
When Napoleon is a neighbor during the Renaissance era, push your technology toward Riflemen immediately. You'll need them to counter French Musketeers, which will flat outfight your Musketmen.
Later in the game, treat Foreign Legion troops with respect. They're murderous outside of French territory.
Negotiate with Napoleon, but understand that he views you as a potential vassal. Germany
Bismark is a conqueror. He's a really dangerous foe that swallows up other Civilizations. Bismark cannot be reasoned with in the long run, and you should cripple him at the first opportunity. Try to make him irrelevant by mid-game. If he survives to the Modern Era you may find yourself facing the Panzer, a nightmare Unit. Deflect the Panzers with AT Guns protected by layered Infantry, and develop Bombers to deal with the threat. Don't try to match them Tank-for-Tank. They're tough. Greece
The Greeks like to get buddy-buddy with City-States. Don't even try subverting their Allies - you simply can't keep up with the huge Influence benefit Alexander holds. A hearty application of the mailed fist against their satellite City-States is recommended.
Alexander has no hesitation about riding straight through City-State territory, so watch your flanks. He's pretty aggressive.
Greek Hopilites are tough little suckers. Never attack them with cavalry. Build your own shield wall on high ground and let lose your archers, or use massed Swordsmen. Greek Companion Cavalry are the best horsemen in the early game and can be a real pain. Again, protected Archers are the best solution. India
India is composed of big, often peaceful Cities. Ghandi can usually provide a few decent trading goods. He tends not to be too conquest-minded, and can sometimes be reasoned with.
Indian War Elephants are not all that dangerous. Treat them as tougher Archers. The Indian Cities tend to build fortifications, so besiege them with large, well-prepared forces when forced to fight. Iroquois
The ability of Iroquois Units to move effortlessly through rough Terrain can not be underestimated. Forests and Jungles act like roads for all Iroquois. This means that they are moving three times as fast as your Units on the same Terrain. Iroquois Units can appear from outside your scope of vision and attack your Units before you ever get a chance to respond.
Couple this with the fact that the game seems to start the Iroquois in wooded areas and you have a real problem. Newly built Units come screaming to the front, and wounded ones often retreat too quickly to be finished off.
Also beware Mohawk Warriors. Bombard them or fight them in the open. In Forest, these guys gain combat bonuses.
To beat the Iroquois, fight on your own turf whenever you can and stick to the clear. Stay away from the edges of wooded land, and take more trouble than normal protecting your artillery from infantry attack.
Attack their Cities with 50% more soldiers than you normally would to counter their ability to move troops quickly. Japan Throw away the book on Civilization tactics when you fight Japan. Unlike every other nation, their Units retain full Combat Strength when wounded. Japanese Units must be wiped out the turn they are first engaged, or else they will reciprocate with crippling (often fatal) suicide counter-charges. Focusing multiple attacks on a single healthy Japanese Unit is essential. Don't engage the Japanese without either a numerical or terrain advantage at the point of contact. Playing fair, their Units will beat yours. Nobunaga tends to be polite, obey the forms and act in a trustworthy manner. He can be warlike but usually telegraphs a changing mood against you. He can be traded with. Ottoman Empire
The Turks are a resourceful, happy bunch. They tend to get embroiled in conflicts alongside Allies, so try to get them on your side as often as possible.
The Ottoman Empire fields the Sipahi, probably the best horse Unit in the game. They are lightning fast and can tear your flanks to shreds if the catch you enfilade. The Ottoman Janissary is tougher than a Musketman and heals much like a Jaguar.
To beat the Turks, try joining them. They really seem to have a thing for partnering up. Failing in that, they have a lot of trouble with massed, protected artillery in tight formations that negates their Units' mobility. Persia Persia gets beat up a lot. Their powerful Immortals are poorly used by the AI, and the empire tends to be weakened by the time their wonderful Satrip's Court comes into play. Darius is kind of a jerk. He can be traded with but tends to get greedy. Persia often launches wars in concert with other powers, so be wary of changing attitudes. If you sense the wind shifting, attack them first. Rome
The Romans are politely imperialistic. They will out-build you if allowed to do so, and their early game Units have a lot of offensive punch.
Counter their aggressiveness with your own. If Rome is a neighbor, keep a strong, modern military.
Rome's quick Building powers give them a strong advantage in long games. It is best to cripple or defeat Rome early, as the more Buildings they generate, the more their margin of advantage grows.
If forced into a Late-Game conflict with Rome, try to build an alliance against them. Failing in that, methodically reduce intervening Cities and make your way to Rome proper. The loss of the Capital usually takes the fight out of them. Don't rush toward late game Rome. It's too well defended for quick victory. Russia
Catherine is land-hungry. She's usually peaceful enough until there's no more free real estate nearby. Then she'll come after yours.
As long as Catherine has other matters to attend to, she can be traded with. She often has more Strategic Resources than she can use.
Cossacks feast on wounded Units. Rotate injured troops away from them or counter their advantage with flanking and terrain bonuses. Siam
The Siamese are a diplomatic lot. They cultivate friendship with City-States and often make good trading partners.
Do not field cavalry against Naresuan Elephants, not even Knights. Engage them with infantry and artillery only. They can be beaten with relative ease when treated with respect. Songhai
Askia talks a friendly talk, but like George Washington he's a wishy-washy backstabber with a mind for conquest.
Songhai embarked Units can shoot back. Never, ever forget this! Unlike all other Civilizations, Askia's transports are not defenseless against attackers. While they are still no match for dedicated battle wagons, they can give weaker assailants trouble.
Do not allow Songhai horsemen near your Cities. Mandekalu Cavalry have enough punch to reduce even a strong City quickly. When in an early to mid-game military conflict with Askia, keep Pikemen between his forces and your territory, and even then be wary and cautious. Mandekalu are ridiculously tough. GO TO BUILDING YOUR CITY GO TO EXPLORATION GO TO DIPLOMACY
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Got a minute? Try this experiment
For students in Chris Tarling's sixth-grade science class at Federal Way Public Academy, one minute was the make-or-break mark.
The students all had the assignment to create a "one-minute timer." The project taught unit measurement.
"They have to use the scientific process," Tarling said. "They discover it while they are doing it. Sometimes it's not working and they have to think, 'How do I fix that?'"
Students' ideas ranged from sand or water timers in a sort of hourglass idea to devices created with magnetic toys to sinking a boat. Times for the devices also ranged from 25 seconds to a minute and a half. Owen Ishii's sand hourglass timer got it right, at exactly 60 seconds.
"It's a basic sand timer," Ishii said. "I had a problem with the amount of sand. I had to change it over and over." The class burst into applause when the time was announced.
One device that was almost spot on was that of Marta Frost. She used thick syrup in a jar and a jelly bean. Once Frost submerged the jelly bean, it took one minute and one second to reach the "one minute" mark she had drawn on the jar.
This was Tarling's sixth year doing the timers assignment. She said many of the older kids will stop and look and talk about how they remember doing that same assignment.
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The attorney for a Mandeville accountant charged last week with 45 counts of wire fraud in an alleged scheme to steal more than $170,000 from an oil consulting firm says his client "simply committed accounting malpractice."
Stephen Wiles said that Anthony Tulli, 54, a former certified public accountant and owner of the Mandeville-based bookkeeping business "Two Dagos in Heat," already has settled a civil lawsuit with Pelican Energy, LLC of Metairie.
According to a news release last week from U.S. Attorney Jim Letten's office, Tulli, who was contracted to perform payroll services for Pelican, fraudulently overstated the amount of state and federal unemployment taxes and Social Security withholdings in biweekly billings to the company and kept the difference for himself. Tulli "caused data to be transmitted via email which he used to prepare the fraudulently inflated invoices," authorities said.
Wiles contends "Mr. Tulli owned up to that error and his professional liability insurer and (he) paid a mediated settlement to Pelican Energy and the case was dismissed. Despite being aware of this, the federal government has decided to pursue criminal charges, which we contend should have never been brought in the first place, much less after there was a mediated settlement of the underlying dispute."
Tulli also faces one count of mail fraud after he allegedly devised a scheme to defraud a north shore salon out of more than $40,000 over a period of six years.
If convicted, Tulli faces a maximum of 20 years in prison for each count along with millions of dollars in fines, and he could be ordered to pay restitution to both businesses.


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How modeling improves SOA
The power of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) is in its ability to enable business agility through business process integration and reuse. SOA achieves this in two ways: By encouraging solutions organized around reusable services that encapsulate functional capabilities separated from their implementations and by providing facilities for managing coupling between functional capabilities. Modeling can be used to bridge the gap between business requirements and a deployed services-based solution. SoaML models raise the level of abstraction to allow you to focus on business services. Model-driven development approaches can be used to generate the designed solution implementations for platforms such as Java™ Platform, Enterprise Edition (JEE), IBM® CICS®, or Web-Oriented Architectures (WOA) by using RESTful Web services that meet business functional and nonfunctional objectives while enabling business agility.
The term service-oriented architecture (SOA) has several connotations. Practitioners commonly use SOA both to define an architectural style and to describe a common IT infrastructure that enables IT systems that are built by using that architectural style to operate. These are useful technology-focused perspectives, but, by themselves, they are not enough.
To achieve its potential, an SOA-based IT infrastructure (hereafter referred to as simply SOA) needs to be business-relevant, thus driven by the business and implemented to support the business. We need a way of designing SOA solutions that are connected to the business requirements that they fulfill. This is hard to do if the business requirements are given as a simple list of requirement items and the level of abstraction of the SOA is captured in several XML documents that describe a collection of Web services.
What we need is a way to formalize business requirements and raise the level of abstraction so that SOA can more closely resemble business services and how those services might meet business goals and objectives. This ties the deployed solution to its intended business value. At the same time, we need a way of isolating business concerns from the evolving SOA platforms that support them.
Modeling and model-driven development (MDD) can help achieve these goals. Models allow us to abstract away the implementation details and focus on the issues that drive business and architectural decisions. To some extent, the approach that we will be describing applies one of the fundamental principles of SOA to business and solution development: separation of concerns and loose coupling. Here, we cleanly separate the tasks and responsibilities of business analysts from those of IT staff members.
Creating agile, timely, reusable IT solutions to business problems can be difficult. It requires a focus on architecture that separates concerns and reduces coupling between parts, especially when solution components are owned by different organizations. Being able to rapidly respond to change through innovative integrated business solutions is even harder. Integration and interoperability require standards for components developed by different organizations at different times to be plugged together into new solutions. SoaML (Service-Oriented Architecture Modeling Language) is an Object Management Group (OMG) standard that is intended to fill this gap and to help realize the potential of SOA. SoaML is a small set of extensions to UML to support SOA modeling. It provides an abstraction of SOA that focuses on describing the needs and capabilities of participants and connecting them in service value chains.
SoaML offers several benefits
- Enables interoperability and integration at the model level
- Provides a higher level of abstraction separate from platform variability and the complexity of lower-level Web services XML document standards
- Addresses business integration and service interaction concerns at the architectural level by using architecture as the bridge between business requirements and automated IT solutions
- Enables SOA both on and between existing platforms through model-driven architecture (MDA)
- Allows for flexible platform choices
- Decouples solution architecture platform implementations to prevent existing solutions from inhibiting platform evolution
- Leverages and integrates with existing OMG standards for end-to-end life cycle development and management
About this series on modeling SOA
This series of articles shows how to use UML models that are extended with the OMG SoaML profile to design an SOA solution that is connected to business requirements, yet independent of the solution implementation. It is generally easier to understand concepts by following a concrete, typical, and complete example. That is the approach we'll take here. We won't spend much time dealing with SoaML details but will, instead, focus on how you can use SoaML to help with design and development.
Although this series of articles is about Web services solutions from SoaML models, we start here by focusing on the business goals and objectives that we're trying to achieve, so that we ground our solution in achieving something of value to the business. We then explore a business process that models what has to be done in the business to achieve those goals and objectives. This will provide the business functional requirements that the solution has to meet. We then use this business process to help identify needed business capabilities that can be realized as services in a designed solution that meets the business requirements.
In follow-on articles in this series, we'll create service specifications and implementations that fulfill those requirements with an architecture that enables future reuse and business agility. Finally, we'll use MDD to generate a Web services solution that can be deployed and executed.
To make the example even more real, we'll use existing IBM® Rational® tools to build the solution artifacts and link them together, so that we can verify the solution against the requirements and more effectively manage change. In addition, we extend the unified modeling language (UML) for services modeling by adding the OMG SoaML Profile to the UML models in IBM® Rational® Software Architect. Table 1 provides a summary of the overall process that we'll use in developing the example and the tools used to build the artifacts.
Table 1. Development process roles, tasks, and tools
|Business executive
|Convey business goals and objectives
|IBM® Rational® Requirements Composer
|Business analyst
|Analyze business requirements
|IBM Rational Requirements Composer
|Software architect
|Design the architecture of the solution
|IBM® Rational® Software Architect
|Web services developer
|Implement the solution
|IBM® Rational® Application Developer
This series of articles focuses on how to capture business requirements, build services models that fulfill them, and create and deploy solutions that realize the designs. We will also highlight the supporting tools demonstrating the services modeling capabilities currently offered by the IBM tools listed in Table 1. These articles do not focus much at all on methods or techniques for discovering requirements, approaches for analyzing and evaluating services solutions, or approaches to partitioning services into various architectural layers. For further information on those important topics, see IBM® Rational Unified Process® (RUP®) for SOMA (see Resources for links). These IBM® Rational® Method Composer plug-ins provide development processes, guidance, tool mentors, and articles that explain additional ways to use the tools to develop complete service models and solutions.
Purchase Order Process example
This example is based on the Purchase Order Process example taken from the OMG SoaML standard, and it is based on an example in the BPEL 1.1 specification (see Resources). The BPEL 1.1 spec contains only a partial solution, because correlation sets aren't defined, the business data is incomplete, and there is no fault handling or compensation. This version of the example includes some made-up data for completeness — in particular, data needed for correlation.
The example starts by using IBM Rational Requirements Composer to describe the business motivation that establishes the business goals and objectives that are to be achieved. This is followed by a high-level business process also captured using Rational Requirements Composer that sketches the business organizational and operational requirements necessary to meet the goals and objectives. These motivations and process models establish a context for identifying services that are connected to the business requirements.
After we understand the business requirements, we can proceed to the development of services that meets these requirements. The first step in an SOA solution is to identify the services. To do this, we will treat the business process as a Service Requirements contract. Then service specifications and service providers are designed and connected together in a manner that fulfills the business requirements while addressing software architectural concerns.
This process of identifying candidate services from a business model is also known as domain decomposition. IBM Rational Unified Process (RUP) for SOMA describes domain decomposition and several other approaches which, when used collectively, provide heightened assurance of identifying all the capabilities and services that are needed by the business.
Business requirements
Usually, business analysts will focus on business organizational and operational requirements necessary to meet business goals and objectives that achieve some business vision. Often, they are not concerned with (nor sufficiently skilled to deal with) IT concerns, such as reuse, cohesion and coupling, distribution, security, persistence, data integrity, concurrency, failure recovery, and so forth. Further, business process modeling tools do not often have the capabilities necessary to address these concerns, and, if they did, they probably would not be effective tools for business analysts. In this section, we use sketches of business process models to identify the business capabilities needed to meet some business objectives.
Scenario: A consortium of companies has decided to collaborate to produce a reusable service for processing purchase orders. These are the goals of this project:
- Establish a common means of processing purchase orders
- Ensure that orders are processed in a timely manner and deliver the required goods
- Help minimize stock on hand and inventory maintenance costs
- Minimize production and shipping costs
Figure 1 shows the requirements captured in Rational Requirements Composer. Notice that the Process Purchase Order business use case meets all of our business goals.
Figure 1. Business requirements shown in Rational Requirements Composer
We also create specific objective (or key performance indicator) that quantifies the "Timely order processing" goal (see Figure 2).
Figure 2. Objectives quantify goals
This objective will be something that we will want to observe in the business process model that realizes the business use case, will become a constraint in our SOA solution, and will be something that is monitored in our deployed Web service. This will allow the service to be monitored and managed to ensure that the business goals and objectives are actually met.
Business organizational processes
The business analysts from the member companies analyzed the requirements and determined that the following BPMN (Business Process Modeling Notation) business process captured in Rational Requirements Composer meets the business objectives, as well as business operational constraints. This process is intended to be sufficiently complete and detailed that it could be used as the basis of a formal service contract between the parties. Therefore, our SOA solution that meets these business requirements should adhere strictly to these business requirements (Figure 3).
Figure 3. Purchase Order Process business process model
The Purchase Order Process initiates three parallel activities: one for managing production and shipping scheduling, another for price calculation and invoicing, and a third for shipping the ordered products. Processing starts by initiating a price calculation based on the products ordered. This price is not yet complete, however, because the total invoice depends on where the products are produced and the amount of the shipping cost. At the same time, the order is sent to production to determine when the products will be available and from what locations. In parallel, the process requests shipping and then waits for a shipping schedule to be sent from a production scheduling provider. After the production schedule is available, the invoice can be completed and returned to the customer.
We also linked the Purchase Order Process to the Purchase Order Process business use case to indicate the process realizes the use case (Figure 4). Realization is a formal term in use case modeling that indicates the relationship between a specification of something and its various implementations.
Figure 4. Linking business processes to the business use cases that they implement
You can use this link to navigate between the business process and the business use case that it realizes.
The next section treats the business process as a specification of business requirements and shows how to identify capabilities and services needed fulfill the business operational requirements.
Services project organization
We are now ready to create a model to meet these requirements. Our solution will fulfill these requirements by identifying the capabilities, exposing appropriate capabilities as services, and then defining the architecture for how the services interact. When we design the solution, we need to specify the services, design their interfaces, and decide how they will be implemented (which service providers provide what services and how). This establishes the dependencies among the service participants and establishes the coupling in the system. Managing this coupling is a major part of designing SOA-based services. By separating the business requirements from the services, we have the flexibility to design the SOA to meet both the business and IT system requirements. This keeps the business requirements from overly constraining the SOA solution, which could lead to less reuse and less business agility.
First, we create a Rational Software Architect services modeling project called PurchaseOrderProcess. That project contains a services model called PurchaseOrderProcess. This model consists of an information model for the services, service data, specifications of the provided and required interfaces, and components providing the required services. But, for now, we are focused primarily on service identification.
As Figure 5 shows, there are five main packages in the PurchaseOrderProcess model:
- org::ordermanagement contains elements concerned with order management.
- org::crm contains the data model and common interfaces for some envisioned customer relationship management standard that service consumers and service providers have agreed upon for developing shared services.
- com::acme::credit contains elements concerned with invoicing and credit management.
- com::acme::productions contains elements that are concerned with productions and scheduling.
- com::acme::shipping contains elements concerned with shipping.
These packages divide the problem domain into different functional areas. This helps manage complexity, establishes required name spaces, facilitates reuse, and keeps separate concerns in different packages (see Figure 7).
Figure 5. Package dependencies diagram
This organization could be called the dominant organization of the service model. Perspective packages can be used to document other ways of organizing the same model elements, such as by the SOMA method, for example.
Service identification
Some business processes can be run directly on platforms such as IBM® WebSphere® Process Server. But there are situations where business processes have not sufficiently addressed IT concerns and could possibly be refactored for better reuse and to address nonfunctional requirements, such as performance, scalability, and security. In this case, the business processes may be thought of as specifications of the requirements for what an IT solution must do.
Capabilities identifying candidate services
We start the service model by identifying the capabilities that are involved in processing a purchase order. At this point, we are not looking for any detail about what the services do or how they interact. We just want to create a sketch of what the required capabilities are and a high-level idea of how they might interact in order to identify any additional capabilities.
The details for how these capabilities were identified is beyond the scope of this article. IBM RUP for SOMA (see Resources) provides a process, methods, and guidance for how to identify capabilities from business motivation and strategy, business functional areas, business processes, and existing assets. IBM SOMA describes three techniques:
- Goal-service modeling, which identifies capabilities needed to realize business requirements such as strategies and goals
- Domain decomposition, which uses activities in business processes and other descriptions of business functions to identify needed capabilities
- Existing asset analysis, which mines capabilities from existing applications
By using goal-service modeling and domain decomposition techniques, we can identify the capabilities needed to process purchase orders. Figure 6, which follows, is a simple class diagram in Rational Software Architect that shows the identified capabilities. The only information given about the capability is its name. These capabilities were identified by examining the business process and organizing the tasks into operations of capabilities identified for each swim lane in the process.
The use dependencies in the diagram are shows how these capabilities are intended to relate to each other. At this point, we do not know what capabilities might be exposed as services, we don't have complete service specifications, nor do we know what service participants will provide or require what services. We also have not modeled any implementations of these services. Therefore, these use dependencies are simply an indication of anticipated relationships between the capabilities that might or might not be true when we complete the service specifications and implementations. However, these dependencies are valuable at this high level, because they start to identify uses and coupling between systems that needs to be managed carefully.
Figure 6. Service capabilities
We got the capabilities for the Purchase Order Process from the Rational Requirements Composer business requirements and processes. Service identification consists of determining which capabilities should be exposed as services. The IBM SOMA method provides a Service Litmus Test that can be applied to capabilities to determine which ones should be exposed as services. We do not cover those details here, so see RUP for SOMA for further information.
The Service Litmus Test would examine each capability and apply various configurable metrics to determine which one should be exposed as services. Figure 7 shows the services that were identified that expose the capabilities. For example, the InvoicingService service interface will expose the Invoicing capability. This means that any participant that provides this service will provide the capability, and any participant that requests it will use the capability.
Figure 7. Services identified for processing purchase orders
Services architecture
SoaML provides several ways of identifying services. The requirements from the business process could be viewed as a service architecture, thus indicating the participants in the business process, the service contracts that specify how they interact, and the choreography of their services and requests.
A service architecture is a formal specification of the business requirements that are performed by interacting service participants, without addressing any IT architectural or implementation concerns. In this case, the service architecture contains the same information as the original business process and can be treated as a specification for how to realize that business process.
Figure 8 shows the service architecture for processing purchase orders in IBM® Rational® Software Modeler. The details for the ServiceContracts referenced in Figure 8 are not covered in this article, but they will be addressed in subsequent articles in this series. For now, these ServiceContracts simply indicate the agreed-upon interactions between participants that play the indicated roles in the service architecture.
Figure 8: Services architecture for processing purchase orders
It helps to spend some time understanding this diagram, because we'll be seeing similar diagrams as we develop the SoaML solution.
«ServicesArchitecture» Manufacturer Architecture corresponds to the Process Purchase Order business process.
The service architecture is shown using the classifier notation (a partitioned rectangle), rather than the usual dashed ellipse notation for a UML collaboration. UML 2 allows either. This example uses the rectangle notation because it has more room for the roles.
When modeling service requirements or deriving service requirements from business processes, a service architecture answers these questions:
- What effect is the requirement intended to accomplish? This is the service architecture name that corresponds to the business requirements. These names are often verb phrases that indicate what the collaborating roles are intended to accomplish.
- Who participates to get it done? The service architecture roles specify the participants who interact to achieve the desired results.
- What are the roles responsible for? The types of the roles represent service participants. The responsibilities of the participants are specified by the service contracts that connect them. Anything in our services solution that plays a role must be capable of performing these responsibilities. That is, they must implement operations specified by the service contracts
- What roles interact? That is, which roles have to communicate with other roles? This establishes dependencies between the roles. This interaction is shown by references to service contracts defining the permissible interactions between the participants.
- What are the rules for how the roles interact? This is the behavior owned by the service architecture. The behavior could be an activity, interaction, state machine, or opaque behavior (code, for instance). This behavior says when the services of the roles are requested and may indicate the information exchanged between them.
- How do we evaluate whether the requirements were met? A service architecture can have constraints that specify the conditions that must be true for the requirements to be satisfied. These constraints correspond to the business objectives.
The Purchase Order Process is a service architecture with four roles, including one played by the process itself. These roles could be derived from the business process by examining the tasks assigned to the roles in the business process swim lanes. Rational Requirements Composer uses a Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) process-centered view of business requirements; whereas, the service architecture takes a role-centered view. This provides a more services-oriented view of business requirements, which makes it easier to bridge the gap between the process requirements and the architecture of service-oriented solutions. Alternatively, the service architecture could have been designed to realize the capabilities that were identified from the business requirements and processes. In fact, a service architecture could actually be a different view of a BPMN business process.
The service architecture can have constraints derived from the business objectives. These constraints indicate what the service architecture is intended to accomplish and how to measure success.
The service architecture can also realize use cases that capture information about the high-level functional and nonfunctional requirements for the business process from the perspectives of the key external stakeholders or actors. These use cases can be viewed in use case diagrams in Rational Requirements Composer or Rational Software Architect. This maintains the link between the service requirements contract, business processes, the business use case, and the business goals and objectives.
Whether you use business capabilities or service architectures, or both, to identify candidate services is a matter of personal preference. Business capability modeling is a straightforward way to decompose a business into competencies identifying the business capabilities and operations, and the relationships between capabilities needed to meet business objectives. Services architecture modeling provides a more formal way of specifying the participants and contracts governing their interactions. Both approaches can be used together. Use the approach most comfortable for you.
What's next
In this article, we outlined a technique to identify capabilities that are needed to meet business requirements. We started by capturing the business goals and objectives for the business vision. We then modeled the business operations and processes that are necessary to meet the goals and objectives. Then we used the business process to identify the required capabilities. This provides a formal way of identifying business-relevant capabilities that are linked to the business goals and objectives that they are intended to fulfill.
The next article in this series, "Part 2. Service specification," examines the capabilities and determines which ones should be exposed as services. We will then elaborate the service interfaces in more detail. Those interfaces will indicate the provided and required interfaces, the roles that the consumer and provider participants play in the service interface, and the rules or protocol for how those using the service operations.
- SoaML, an OMG standard profile that extends UML 2 for modeling services, service-oriented architecture (SOA), and service-oriented solutions. The profile has been implemented in IBM Rational Software Architect.
- Daniels, John, and Cheesman, John. UML Components: A Simple Process for Specifying Component-based Software. Addison-Wesley Professional (2000).
- Service-oriented modeling and architecture: How to identify, specify, and realize services for your SOA by Ali Arsanjani is about the IBM Global Business Services' Service Oriented Modeling and Architecture (SOMA) method (IBM® developerWorks®, November 2004).
- IBM Business service modeling, a developerWorks article by Jim Amsden (December 2005), describes the relationship between business process modeling and service modeling to achieve the benefits of both.
- Using model-driven development and pattern-based engineering to design SOA: Part 2. Patterns-based engineering, Part 2 of a four-part IBM developerWorks tutorial series by Lee Ackerman and Bertrand Portier (2007).
- Design SOA services with Rational Software Architect, a four-part IBM developerWorks tutorial series by Lee Ackerman and Bertrand Portier (2006-2007).
- Model service-oriented architecture with Rational Software Architect: Part 3. External system modeling, Part 3 of a five-part IBM developerWorks tutorial series by Gregory Hodgkinson and Bertrand Portier (2007).
- Modeling service-oriented solutions is Simon Johnston's great article describing the approach to service modeling that drove the development of the IBM UML Profile for Software Services, the RUP for SOA plug-in (developerWorks, July 2005) and SoaML.
- SOA programming model for implementing Web services: Part 1. Introduction to the IBM SOA programming model, by Donald Ferguson and Marcia Stockton (developerWorks, June 2005), describes the IBM programming model for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), which enables non-programmers to create and reuse IT assets. The model includes component types, wiring, templates, application adapters, uniform data representation, and an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). This is the first in a series of articles about the IBM SOA programming model and what is required to select, develop, deploy, and recommend programming model elements.
- Read SOA programming model for implementing Web services: Part 1. Introduction to the IBM SOA programming model, by Donald Ferguson and Marcia Stock, to learn more about Service Data Objects, which simplify and unify the way applications access and manipulate data from heterogeneous data sources (developerWorks, June 2005).
- See Web Servoces for Business Process Execution Language for more about the BPEL 1.1 specification.
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