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As SOA goes mainstream in the enterprise, its success may hinge on a crucial meeting of the minds -- a mashup of talent that can uncap a font of creative potential.
On one side of the mashup are architects and developers, who up to now have perhaps been designing point Web-services deployments or legacy systems wrappers. On the other side are business process modelers, who've been mapping out how your business really works and what it needs, often in isolation and with limited ability to act on their process insights.
Before enterprises deploy SOA on a large scale, experts say, getting these teams together in a disciplined planning exercise can unlock the business value that process modelers knew was there all along.
"I think the business process modelers were waiting for SOA to show up," says Sean Rhody, a chief architect at the CSC Consulting Group. "Without being able to define services, they were always talking at a level that didn't connect to the actual implementation at all."
Before SOA, says Sandy Carter, IBM's vice president of SOA and WebSphere strategy, "you could do all this wonderful mapping of processes, but the underlying technology didn't Click for larger view. exist to support any major changes in the process. Now IT has the technology to offer services on a business activity basis, whereas before it was on a technical subtask. Process is becoming that common vocabulary that exists between the business and IT."
And the payoff, says Forrester Research Vice President Randy Heffner, comes when the two groups work together to find business processes that share common services and prioritize the development of those services.
"It's capturing business capability as reusable digital services, in a way that can be connected to any business process," Heffner explains.
Across a range of enterprises, IT is laying the groundwork for SOA deployments that will have a transformative effect on IT, rolling out services that various applications can share and establishing governance rule for service design and interconnect. Yet woe to those who ignore business process planning and proceed directly to architectural design.
"If you don't factor in your business process, you really don't have an SOA," says Tim Vibbert, senior systems engineer at Lockheed Martin.
Lessons from the front
What does it take to model processes successfully in an SOA context? InfoWorld interviewed consultants, analysts, and enterprise architects and got an earful from those on the front lines, among them Wachovia vice president Rohn Griggs.
"We're just now scratching the surface around SOA," says Griggs, who oversees workflow, imaging, and integration technology in the company's business process modeling "center of excellence," a group that provides enterprise-wide ground rules and guidance.
Griggs explains that although the company started from the bottom up, exposing legacy apps as Web services, it's now trying to orchestrate those services around business processes such as loan origination.
"My team is trying to stand up some shared infrastructure with SOA capability," Griggs says. "We're good at business process modeling, and we're good at exposing legacy applications as Web services. Now its time to say, 'Let's bring the two together.'"
To do so, Griggs is leveraging his center of excellence, which sits within corporate IT and now also oversees integration. The group includes product specialists (developers familiar with modeling), process engineers (who interview business users for process-centric modeling), and a consulting organization that markets the technology to the bank's lines of business. The bank also has a roundtable steering committee for SOA and process modeling, made up of architects from each line-of-business organization.
"The way we typically start a project is with a daylong kickoff meeting, including breakout sessions where we interview subject-matter experts on their perspective," Griggs says. Then his team gets down to work, developing process maps that can be played back to the business in a two-day validation session -- including re-engineering proposals, for example, to eliminate costs or reduce cycle time.
Be prepared for resistance from the line of business when you try to map business processes as they actually are, Griggs warns. "You wouldn't believe the amount of pushback we get. They'll say, 'We don't need you to model, just do it like we tell you. I know how I do things today; I know my process is broken.'" Griggs advises IT to refuse this type of engagement.
"That's a big lesson learned for us. Validation of the as-is is imperative," Griggs says. "It's an eye-opening experience when the business sees a process-centric view of their work. They'll say, 'Geez, I never thought of our process that way. Why do we staple that in the upper left hand corner? That's the way we've always done it.'"
Another key is to completely ignore organizational constraints when mapping a business process, says Griggs. "We look at how do we make it end-to- end the most efficient, streamlined possible even if it crosses business boundaries."
Griggs recommends working with outside consultants who can help benchmark you against other organizations, but not giving them too much control. "Don't try to do it alone," he says. "You still need to run it as an internal project. Just use the consultant's expertise as staff augmentation."
The great methodology debate
Although process modeling has been around for years, the mashup of process modeling and SOA is still new enough that analysts and consultants have strong and often differing opinions about best practices.
IBM, which worked with Wachovia on its pre-SOA deployment process mapping, emphasizes a rigorous methodology called component business modeling for synching up processes with services, starting with proactively selecting the processes that will help differentiate businesses.
"Today, people are selecting the project they dive into based on their history," IBM's Carter says. "If I'm an ERP shop, I'll start from an ERP perspective and move out. If I'm a datacentric shop, I'll start from my data view and move out. Only 20 percent are re-architecting from SOA; the other 80 percent are starting with their heritage." What enterprises should be doing, Carter argues, is looking at their processes across the board, and identifying the highest impact opportunities -- such as improving customer satisfaction, enabling better collaboration, or more quickly getting new products to market. "If you try to start with ESB [enterprise service bus], we'll push you to look at your process," Carter says.
"The process you select to start with SOA on is crucial."
As an example of how small process shortcomings can have huge business impacts, she cites a Columbian coffee company that had 17 different ways to label a single coffee bean. "Because they had different ways to qualify it around the world, they couldn't tell if they were in or out of stock -- it was there, but just designated a different way. It seemed like a simple little thing, but it was costing the company a lot of money."
In IBM's component business modeling framework, consultants typically pull together diverse business stakeholders for a rigorous, full-blown mapping exercise. A session with a retail industry client, for example, might include representatives from IT, business administration (HR, corporate strategy, financial planning, and compliance), distribution and warehousing (for logistics expertise), product merchandising, and marketing.
"This is all about governance," Carter says. "At the very highest level of business, most companies are doing it as a business transformation. You need alignment of business and IT, and a set decision-making process. And you need rules for compliance -- everyone will use this particular service."
Just don't expect any magic formulas that can be applied across the board, Forrester's Heffner says. "It's less important to figure out which process modeling method you're using, and more important to ensure that you're getting a rich dialogue between the business and IT," he says.
"Success now is characterized by personality," Heffner argues -- the involvement of self-starters who combine business and IT savvy, create opportunities by making connections, build relationships around a process area, and just make things happen.
"Forget about best practices," Heffner says. "Take bits from here and there ... just enough process modeling, just enough technology. This is not the kind of thing we've had in the industry long enough for it to be programmatized in a way that leads to good outcomes."
Focus too rigidly on either pure process modeling or services architecture, Heffner warns, and you could end up in a methodology boneyard. "Three years ago, somebody drew some maps, and they're not really part of any solution delivery process [today]. At this point, you should be establishing opportunities, designing your business as you're designing your services, understanding how your business will function in the digital world," he says. "You don't want to freeze either of these design points … success is characterized by the dynamics of the process."
Meeting in the middle
The key to a successful process/services mashup is how you execute it, according to analysts -- from methods for resolving conflicts, to grounding your assumptions in specifics, to leaving room for the business-use cases and SOA to evolve over time.
One frequent challenge that process-design teams face is getting past a small number of intractable disagreements, often while trying to consolidate redundant legacy systems that enable similar processes, CSC's Rhody says. "A lot of the conflicts are turf battles, people with competing agendas," he notes, citing billing and customer information as two frequent battlegrounds. "There may be another organization in the same company that wants to do the same thing, with their own technology."
The answer is what Rhody calls "the parking lot": Put the 20 percent conflict on hold while you get agreement on the rest.
"When people see we've got 80 percent agreement and are making significant progress, they now have to start to resolve things," Rhody explains. "Getting that forward momentum gives the sponsors the collateral they need to push forward."
Rhody also suggests making sure to ground your planning phase in reality and specifics, including a shared taxonomy. "Most issues are about technology, interoperability, and business choice," he explains. In a recent engagement where a client was trying to work out the process for getting a single view of a customer's financial holdings, for example, "it was pretty clear to everybody what the process was for querying the systems. What was less clear was whose definition of holdings should be used, and how do you get the consensus on that."
Services must be grounded in the real world, Rhody adds. "If every time your process is going to do a lookup by account number, and your services don't have an account number, they use a social security number, you've got to know that. Starting from the business process downward to services doesn't work -- you need to come bottom up and top down and meet in the middle."
Lockheed Martin's Vibbert, who developed a services-oriented modeling methodology for his company, includes tolerance for uncertainty as a best practice. Vibbert's methodology centers on breaking down goals, business cases, and use cases, while simultaneously starting to define potential services, their SLAs, and a data model. The next step is defining core or common services that can be re-used across use cases.
"The tricky part is when you start defining the use cases, you can only identify X number of them," Vibbert notes. "But there's always that N-plus-1 that you might not think of. The nature of an SOA is ad hoc. Someone can re-orchestrate the services in an unpredicted way and get value as well."
Because much of the execution-related learning on business process mapping and SOA is cumulative, experts recommend a continuous commitment to careful, collaborative planning efforts. "Organizations are building this in as part of an ongoing strategy to understand their business and data architecture," says Jan Popkin, chief strategist for architecture software firm Telelogic. "As projects come along, they plug into that."


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CRISTAN WILLIAMS | Cross-posted from Ehipassiko
Since my last post on this issue, I've met a few really cool folks in the "transsexual-not-transgender" camp. I was fortunate enough to meet one transsexual named Zoe. We messaged back and forth for quite some time over Facebook, and she really helped me to better understand where she's coming from. And you know what, I 100 percent support her decision to self-identify herself as transsexual and not as transgender. The thing that seems to separate Zoe from the seeming majority of those in the TS-not-TG camp is that she's not a hypocrite, she likes facts, and she speaks for herself instead of presuming to speak for all other transsexuals.
TS people don't identify as TG anymore
A big problem with the idea that TS people no longer identify as TG is that it's a demonstrably fallacious idea. The National Gay & Lesbian Task Force recently published the largest American trans study ever with more than 6,000 respondents. In this study, they actually asked how we self-identify. Care to guess how many self-identified with the term "transgender"? Ninety percent. Yup; as in almost everyone but a small minority.
Double standards are fun
Also, I've not yet seen the TS-not-TG group address a double standard I regularly observe:
• Most in the TS-not-TG group will regularly group TS and IS people together when talking about themselves because, they claim, being grouped together with other types of trans folk is offensive to them.
• However, most in the TS-not-TG group seem to have a blind-spot when it comes to acknowledging that in many regions of America, intersex people are offended when they are grouped with transsexuals.
• So, it's somehow OK to demand that all transsexual people stop being referred to as transgender because the very idea is seemingly too offensive to contemplate, but it doesn't matter that grouping themselves with IS people is incredibly offensive to some IS people. That double standard is what I think most might view as being hypocritical.
Grouping us together is something new that was done to us
I've also noticed that many of the TS-not-TG people feel that they were grouped with other types of trans folk only very recently. Perhaps where they come from, this is absolutely true. However, it's demonstrably incorrect to make that claim for all transsexuals. In Houston, for example, our community purposefully began working to create one unified community that encompassed all types of trans people in the mid-1970s.


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Most of us have a soft spot for good old macaroni and cheese, and personal preference usually depends on what we grew up eating at potlucks, church dinners, or our grandmother's table. Some folks insist on American cheese being the only cheese that can meld with macaroni, and some profess a strong affinity for a crispy breadcrumb topping that crunches up in the oven. Me? I'm a pretty straightforward, white-sauce-meets-pasta kind of gal, though I'll put just about any kind of cheese into the sauce (anything that grates, anyway–no brie or fresh mozzarella). I like an extra layer of cheese over the top, and I've developed a tendency to add a dollop of grainy Creole mustard to the sauce before I stir in the macaroni; it sparks the sauce a little bit, just the way I like it.
If you know how to make a white sauce by heart, you can make all kinds of good things to stretch what you've got on hand into baked pastas, cream soups, or sauces for plain veggies. And if you start with sausage bits or bacon drippings instead of butter, you've got a basic cream sausage gravy, which means the best breakfast ever, in my heart.
- 1 pound macaroni or other short pasta, uncooked
- 4 Tablespoons unsalted butter
- 4 Tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 3 cups low-fat milk
- 8 oz. grated cheese (I usually use a combination of mild cheddar and pepperjack)
- salt and black pepper to taste
- a few shakes of Tabasco sauce
- 2 teaspoons Creole mustard (optional)
- Preheat oven to 350. Bring 4 quarts of salted water to a boil in a stockpot. When the water boils, add the macaroni and cook for approximately 11 minutes, or until tender. Drain and set aside.
- Meanwhile, melt the butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Stir in the flour and cook, stirring with a whisk, for one minute. Gradually whisk in the milk and cook over medium heat for about 12 minutes, whisking almost constantly, until the mixture is smooth and a little thicker than heavy cream. Turn off heat and stir in most of the cheese, reserving about ½ cup to sprinkle over the top.
- Add salt, black pepper, Tabasco, and optional mustard to taste. Taste for seasoning--it should be a little tangy, because it'll mellow somewhat when mixed with all that pasta.
- Combine pasta and sauce, and pour into an oiled 2- to 3-quart casserole dish (it will seem very saucy, which is good because it thickens during baking and cooling). Bake uncovered at 350 for about 25 minutes, until hot and bubbling and the cheese on top is melted. If you want a crusty top, put the dish under the broiler for a few minutes.


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Central, Coe share softball top spot after split
CEDAR RAPIDS—After battling for 5.5 hours, the No. 19 Central College softball team and No. 13 Coe College finished Sunday where they started, tied for first place in the Iowa Conference after a wild doubleheader split.
The Dutch scratched out a dramatic 5-3, 10-inning victory in the opener, then launched a school-record five home runs in the nightcap, only to have a furious seventh-inning rally fizzle in a 7-5 loss.
That leaves Central and Coe tied for first in the league at 10-2 with one conference doubleheader remaining. But the Dutch must face No. 9 Luther College at Pella Saturday while Coe takes on the University of Dubuque.
Central, 26-7 overall, rallied after almost seeing the first game slip away. The Dutch, who've had an unhealthy habit of yielding seventh-inning home runs, surrendered one with a 3-2 lead, forcing extra innings. And Central, after scoring three runs in the first two innings, was held hitless for six innings by reliever Mackenzie Laux. But with one out in the 10th, third baseman Whitney Sowers (sophomore, Marshalltown) ignited the offense with a surprise bunt single. She moved to second on an error before scoring the go-ahead run on a base hit by designated player Karlee Rock (sophomore, Wheatland, Calamus-Wheatland HS). One out later, Rhianna Fleetwood (senior, Sycamore, Ill.) came off the bench to deliver another RBI hit for a 5-3 lead.
"The bunt by Whitney was huge," coach George Wares said. "She did that on her own and it was the right call. They were playing her deep and you couldn't have placed it any better than she did. She's a very smart hitter and that proved to be a catalyst for the whole inning.
"The hit by Karlee was big and the hit by Rhianna may have been even bigger because it was important to have that insurance run."
The Dutch had broken on top in the first inning on a pair of unearned runs and first baseman Katie Canney (sophomore, Adel, ADM HS) blasted a solo home run in the second.
Pitcher Mallory Schulenberg (sophomore, Kansas City, Mo., St. Pius X HS) pitched the first 6.2 innings, then returned in the 10th inning with the tying runs aboard to pick up a save while Kelsey Stender (freshman, Belle Plaine, Minn.) got the win with 2.1 innings of hitless relief, walking one while striking out three. Schulenberg threw 7.2 innings, allowing three runs on nine hits with no walks and seven strikeouts. Coe (28-4) outhit Central, 9-8.
"The game was a roller-coaster of emotion," Wares said. "For Mallory (Schulenberg), after giving up the home run in the seventh, to come back in a really tough spot in the 10th and close it out is impressive."
Stender started the second game but was relieved in the first inning by Brie Haycraft (junior, Eldridge, North Scott HS), who threw one hitless inning. Fleetwood followed, throwing the final 4.2 innings, giving up two earned runs on four hits with one walk and no strikeouts. Stender (9-4) was charged with the loss.
Coe jumped on top with a two-run homer in the first and a three-run shot in the second for a 5-0 lead. But Central didn't go away quietly. Canney belted her second homer of the day and fifth of the season in the third. Rock hit her third of the year in the fourth.
Coe added unearned runs in the fourth and fifth innings to put the game seemingly out of reach at 7-2. Those tallies proved costly, as the Dutch offense wasn't done. Meyer rocketed her team-high sixth homer of the year in the sixth inning, far over the right-center field fence to make it 7-3.
That remained the score with two outs in the seventh, but Central still wasn't finished. Sowers lined her second homer of the year, just over the fence, and three pitches later shortstop Annie Sarcone (junior, Des Moines, Dowling Catholic HS) ripped her second. Then Rock spoiled several good pitches before singling sharply to left to extend the rally and Meyer walked to put the potential tying run on at first before Coe's third pitcher of the game entered and coaxed the final out.
The Dutch outhit Coe 11-6, but committed four errors. While the five homers are the most in Central history, all came with the bases empty.
"When they've got you down 5-0, I think a lot of teams would have gotten run-ruled," Wares said. "But as we said to the players afterwards, if we'd just do a few of the little things better, that would have kept us closer and given us a better chance at the end. We had a stretch where we walked too many and made too many errors. In some ways, it was amazing we were still in the game.
"One thing this team has shown, though, is the ability to keep battling. I don't think we're ever out of a game."
After four road games in two days, Wares is grateful to have five days to prepare for defending league champion Luther and possibly even have some outdoor practices, a precious commodity in a weather-hampered spring.
"This was a tough stretch and it's good to be able to come away winning three of four," he said. "Now we have time to heal physically and maybe get outdoors to take care of some little things we need to work on."


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Don Heinzman
ECM Editorial Contributor
MNsure is taking a beating. Republicans are licking their chops over making the roll out of MNsure a way to vote out Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton. James Noble, the state's legislative auditor, can't wait to dig into the numbers to see if funds are being used correctly.
It's time to remember that MNsure is only a part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act (Obamacare), which has been the law of the land since March 2010.
To put this in perspective, 84 percent of U.S. citizens already have health insurance and are complying with the law.
So what is the Affordable Care Act, and why are we so concerned about it?
It is aimed to provide health insurance for 30 million uninsured citizens. The Henry J. Kaiser Foundation estimates 462,000 Minnesotans are uninsured.
MNsure's health exchange is criticized because of computer problems with the rollout. Despite this, it's estimated that 71,982 Minnesotans are in the process of enrolling in qualified health plans, MinnesotaCare and Medical Assistance.
Since Minnesota has decided to expand Medicaid, it's estimated that 67 percent of uninsured nonelderly people are eligible for coverage through Medicaid or the market places. Meanwhile, the law already has many benefits.
You can keep your youngsters on your health insurance until they are 26 years old. Your health insurance company no longer can reject you or your children because you have a pre-existing condition. Your health insurance company no longer can cap your benefits.
Seniors should know that under this law, the donut hole is shrinking. Before the Affordable Care Act, seniors paid 25 percent of the Medicare costs, with Medicare paying 75 percent up to $2,800. Then, seniors had to pay 100 percent of health care expenses up to $6,400 and 5 percent after that, with Medicare paying 95 percent.
Under the new law, seniors got a $250 rebate in 2010 and a 50 percent drug company discount in 2011 and 2013. By 2020, seniors will pay 25 percent of their Medicare costs.
Under this law, more people are eligible for health care paid by Medicaid. Medicaid is made up of 57 percent federal and state funds to help poor people pay their medical bills and live healthier lives. Much of it goes to care for the elderly.
Through Jan. 4, a total of 28,401 additional Minnesotans who meet the less restrictive guidelines, at 133 percent of the poverty level, had signed up for Medicaid.
Now, what about that health exchange?
Under the law, people have to be enrolled by March 31 or face a penalty of $95 for an individual or 1 percent of total income, whichever is greater. And that's only for the first year; the penalty fee will increase in subsequent years.
People can sign up for private insurance, Medicaid and MinnesotaCare. So far, 38 percent have signed up for private insurance.
If you qualify, the federal government will help pay your costs of buying health insurance through tax credits.
With all of the benefits already under the law, why is there so much criticism?
Not surprisingly, the nature of the media and the Republican Party is to concentrate on the flaws.
Those who are benefiting aren't talking because their health insurance needs are being met.
Stay tuned.
Don Heinzman is a columnist for ECM Publishers and a member of the ECM Editorial Board.


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|Jon Bannenberg: 1929-2002
A look back at the rule-breaking originality of the preeminent yacht designer.
By Diane M. Byrne — August 2002
The news that Jon Banneberg, the renowned megayacht designer, had died in late May came as a shock to many people in the marine business, particularly because few outside of his immediate circle knew he had been ill for some time.
"Jon was Jon--he didn't want people to know," says Paula Tebbs, reflecting on her boss' personality. Besides, she adds, even though he was battling an inoperable brain tumor, "he treated the issue as a Tyson vs. Lewis match and was absolutely dead set on winning, despite the odds." Indeed, so powerful was his conviction that, according to Tebbs, "we all went along with it."
This speaks to the very soul of what endeared Bannenberg to the legions of yacht owners, captains, and yards he worked with during a distinguished career that spanned four decades and saw about 200 yachts progress from imaginative concept to often-startling completion. It also characterizes his emergence as one of the most well-respected interior designers and exterior stylists in the business. Particularly during the 1970's and 1980's, Bannenberg was to yacht design what Beethoven was to symphonic composition: He brought his own distinct, rule-breaking style to a field that had been largely colored by tradition.
The music analogy is appropriate, as Bannenberg actually wanted to be a concert pianist as a young man. Born in Australia in 1929, the son of a Dutch father and Australian mother, he studied piano at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. While still a student he began playing in jazz clubs and bars and continued to do so after graduation, also developing an affinity for acting in the theater and designing some of the sets. He left for England in 1952 to pursue his musical passion, and while he continued to perform in clubs, he also continued to design sets, including ones for the famed Old Vic in London. In 1954 he and his wife Beau opened an interior design business, working mostly on houses and apartments, although Bannenberg did also form a partnership with a high-profile antiques shop and designed various antique exhibitions.
Bannenberg's life was forever changed the day a client showed him the plans for a new yacht and asked him what he thought. "I told him it was terrible," Bannenberg revealed to us when we interviewed him in 1985. "So he said, `If you're so bloody smart, do it better.' So I did. Fortunately his original design was so bad, it wasn't hard to improve on it!" And improve he did: The yacht became the center of attention at the 1963 London Boat Show.
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The Aldrovandi Villa Borghese has its own private garden, indoor pool, and seasonal outdoor pool. Guests have use of a fitness center, full-service spa, sauna, spa tubs, and steam room. The hotel provides an airport shuttle (surcharge) as well as private airport transfers, a complimentary area shuttle, and free bike rental. In addition to complimentary WiFi throughout the hotel, there are 6 meeting rooms and guests have access to free iPads and a computer station. Copy and fax services are available. The staff is multilingual.
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WORK to preserve one of Burnley's oldest surviving educational establishments has been praised - as efforts continue to promote crucial future developments in the Weavers' Triangle.
Engineers have shored up the former Habergham Eaves Parochial School, which is Grade Two listed and dates back to 1840, as part of the On The Banks initiative.
Once subsidence issues have been addressed then the school building will form part of the offices and leisure portion of the masterplan for the former cotton heartland.
And former Burnley mayor and historian Coun Roger Frost is happy to see such a storied landmark being safeguarded for future generations.
Coun Frost said: "The council has purchased the building and is carrying out this work to restore the building to what it used to look like.
"It was rendered at one point and this appears to have caused some problems within the building but that will be removed the original stonework will be exposed."
The original school served the thriving cotton industry in the area - the sprawling township of Habergham Eaves' once stretched up to the Burnley boundary, on the River Calder, just yards from where the town hall stands.
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In 1903, Parkhurst was still the most northerly section of a Braamfontein farm.
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Registered in 1904, Parkhurst was Johannesburg's 67th suburb. Although small, it's densely populated with over 2 200 plots averaging about 500m2.
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Allah has commissioned believers to spend their lives struggling with both their own selves and intellectually with the unbelievers. In so doing, they engage in endless tasks that are geared to earning Allah's good pleasure. Therefore, accomplishment is not a reason to take a break, but marks the beginning of further activity. In the Qur'an, Allah commands:
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"Everybody in the ballpark, 50,000 are rooting against me, and yelling as loud as they can. That's fun for me. I enjoy that. I enjoy it as much as being at home and having that atmosphere as well. You thrive off it. At one point they were chanting 'Let's go Oakland' and in my head every time they said 'Oakland' I said, 'Tigers.'"
"I've faced Verlander a lot, and that's the best I've ever seen him. He was throwing everything for strikes and when he elevates the fastball just above the strike zone, it's tough. The only time you're going to get to him is if he gets himself in trouble, and he didn't do that."
"In the first or second innings, I noticed it had good life and guys were swinging at it and wanted to go with it. If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
"It's frustrating. We had a tremendous season and it would be great not to put ourselves in a Game Five against Verlander again, but those are the cards we were dealt. It was a deja-vu situation."
"From our standpoint, we're kind of in awe with what all these guys are doing, to be honest with you. Mikey's 22 years old. Last year, he was playing at Texas A&M. Last year. I mean, what in the world? He's just ... it's amazing."
"The way this kid has gone about it has been ... it's really hard to describe. I don't want to keep describing it, because I'd like to watch it happen a few more times."
"It shows maturity. Some guys could come into those situations and think, 'Oh no, I have to face Greinke and Kershaw. We have no shot.' But instead, they rose to the occasion, went out and did the things that they needed to do to give us a chance to win."
"This is a tough spot to be in when you're 22 years old, and he's done a fantastic job and it's so much fun to watch. You watch the emotion, you watch the excitement of what he's doing, the poise. His talent is there, and to watch the mound presence and the things that he's doing throughout the game and in situations has been fantastic. It's been a lot of fun to be a part of it."
"I've never experienced his temperament with his kind of stuff. The guy is amazing. He's obviously very confident in his stuff, but his ability to stay focused and stay humble and continue to learn and process the stuff other guys are teaching him and then go out to the field and execute it, is quite amazing."
"That would be a shame for a great defensive play like that, the great throw by Carlos, and great play by Yadier at the plate to be overturned because of a technicality that he didn't graze him with the glove."
"It was pretty obvious I got tagged out. There was a collision at home plate. They're going to call you out every time. You run into it, you're out. That's how they're going to call it."
"I hope that's something that doesn't change, because that's an important part of the game. When you're back there personally as a catcher, you're trying to secure the catch and you're not really thinking about tagging. You're trying to hold on to the ball."
"There's no umpire alive that I think would call Mark safe because he didn't get tagged right there."
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"Now that I'm in a different phase of my life, if somebody were to have a conversation with me or somebody thought I would be right for a spot, I'd explore it. I don't know if I'd take it. I'm smart enough to say I'd listen."
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TIGERS MiSS NO-HITTER BUT GET KEY ALCS WIN
"Especially in this series, it's not about throwing a no-hitter. As you get some zeros inning by inning, and you face hitter by hitter, and get them out, it's more important. It's more important than the no-hitter at this point."
"At times, (Sanchez) probably has some of the nastiest stuff on the team, and this was definitely one of those nights. His ball had so much action on it, I don't even think he knew where it was going sometimes. And sometimes, I didn't. That's what makes him so good — he's very unpredictable; he throws stuff in counts a hitter wouldn't normally see, just to keep them off balance."
"The thing we found out – and we've had to do it a couple of times and it kind of backfired – is that Alburquerque, when he comes out for one inning and gives you that good one inning, if you try to send him back out, things don't normally turn out as good… He was absolutely lights-out."
"You almost feel like you're behind in a place like this, feel like you're behind when you have just one run… With the Monster, although the ball wasn't really carrying tonight, you never feel comfortable. It would have been nice, but there would have been several guys involved no matter what."
"Obviously, you can't say this in the heat of the game because you would be mentioning the no-hitter in a way, but I was thinking, 'If we do no-hit these guys, do we even go out on the field to celebrate?' I don't think that's right. I think we win the baseball game, we go out there and slap hands and come back in. That sounds crazy. Yeah, no-hitters are great in the regular season and they're exciting for you and us as well, but there are much bigger things going on here.''
"I think I was made to be an everyday player. Sitting and watching, I'm just a ball of nerves."
"Characteristic of this team all year is to build a pitch count. I thought we were doing that against Sanchez. But the idea is to get to the bullpen, and as we went through that, anytime we had a man on base, he would get a strikeout when needed. But I wouldn't say patience working deep counts was the reason why we didn't get a hit until the ninth."
"I was just trying to get three outs. If it happens, it happens. But I was not worried about the no-hitter. I was just worried about preserving the win."
"I wasn't thinking anything about the no-hitter at that point. It was still a 1-0 game. We had been battling all night and we hadn't gotten anything to fall. Fortunately, I got that one to fall."
—"Who's Fabio?"
—Brett Anderson got a solid workout in thanks to Victor Martinez and Grant Balfour.
"It's a good feeling you end up winning because you don't have to answer all those questions. You try to put guys in the right position and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't ... sometimes it doesn't and then it still works ... that's what happened tonight."
"We've all seen Balfour when he pitches. He's yelling at baseballs, blades of grass, the mound, who knows. I think it was the heat of the moment, and Victor took it the wrong way. Balfour doesn't like to get stared down and he pretty much wins the staring contest 100 percent of the time, and he didn't appreciate it."
"I told the guys here the champagne better get nicer and better as we keep doing this."
"There's no one particular delivery that is superior to another, but there are movements that we're trying to identify and still looking at that will possibly enable a guy to be more consistent with his command and his control and perhaps prevent arm injuries and things like that. That's what we're trying to do. We were doing that down in St. Louis and hopefully we can do that down here in Houston."
"I still love to play, that's no secret. I still work out like I'm going to be out there every day. I hope to get a chance to get a job for next year. If not, and this is the last hurrah, I can't complain one bit. I can honestly say I never thought I'd play over 13 years in the big leagues. I'm grateful for every opportunity. Physically and mentally, I still feel like I can play at this level."
"If you go with what's been done in the past, I guess you're going to have to think you're going to get traded. That's kind of the way it's happened with this organization when pitchers kind of get to this period in their career. We've seen it happen a couple of times already. I don't know what's going to happen, but I know what's happened in the past."
"It would have been unbelievably embarrassing to lose 3 straight to these guys—especially these guys."
"With almost $100 million coming off their books, they feel they can fill most of their needs and still be under the $189 million. They're also looking at the rest of the division—and how they were able to hang in with all of them except the Red Sox, with the myriad of injuries and all the transition this year—and they're confident they can better improve themselves than the others because of their ability to still greatly out-spend them."
"It sounds like he wants to go out and test the market, and talk to whoever he needs or wants to talk to. And that's not unusual, of course. We want him back. He knows that. Within reason, we're going to do everything we can to make sure that happens. But time will tell."
"I sent my MRI results to a couple of doctors and knee specialists and we decided that in the long run and for my future as a baseball player, this surgery would be the best plan. I will immediately begin the rehabilitation process in hopes of being ready for the start of spring training."
"First of all, a lot of miscommunication and a few things that happened before. That's why we haven't got a great relationship with the organization. But I'm looking forward to one day, you work in Wrigley Field and see my statue, see my flag."
"I tell them little things. So much stuff is new for them. They're grown men, so you don't want to be pushy. It's better if they come to you and ask -- and most of the time, that's what happens. We just try to help, reassure them some ways."
"Breslow uses words in a normal conversation that I'm not used to. When he starts to speak, some guys might not be thinking along with him."
Nick Bacarella is an author of Baseball Prospectus.
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