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In the quiet of a Beverly Hills synagogue, a man shouts in Farsi. Something about a bankruptcy that never should have happened.
As a security guard escorts him out, he switches to English: "I have not done anything," he says, suddenly calm. "This is a free country. Tell the rabbi to come."
From the pulpit, a group of attorneys has been trying for an hour to placate a crowd of people angry over the bankruptcy. Each person in the pews has lost a lot of money — perhaps everything they have — and many are beyond calming.
"When I came to this country, I had a lot of respect for the government," a man shouts. "My respect is zero now. It is no different than Iran or Iraq!"
A woman cries out: "Nobody can take their money back from the gangster!"
The gangster in question is Ezri Namvar — better known as the "Bernie Madoff of Beverly Hills." When he was forced into bankruptcy three years ago, he left a trail of ruin and more than $1 billion in claims.
Namvar had built his business on the tight-knit relationships within the Persian Jewish community, and his collapse shattered that trust. With Namvar's affairs in shambles, his creditors have turned on each other — and even on their rabbis. By failing to condemn Namvar in the strongest terms, many say the rabbis have been complicit.
Until Namvar was forced out in disgrace, he served on the board of directors of the Nessah Synagogue. Outside the sanctuary, there is a plaque on the wall: "The dedication of the Hakham Yedidia Shofet Sanctuary was possible by the donation of [the] Namvar Family."
The recent meeting at the synagogue was intended to update creditors on the progress of the unwinding of the Namvar estate. There has been little progress. They want to know why.
One of the attorneys, Skip Koenig, tried to answer: "People have asked, 'GM got resolved in 30 days. Why is this taking two years?'
"The answer is: It's a lot more complicated than GM."
A few miles to the west, in the hills of Brentwood, Namvar is under house arrest. He's living in an $8 million mansion while he awaits sentencing for wire fraud. The mansion has been foreclosed and the bank is trying to evict him. There is a dispute over the water bill, and the lawn has turned to weeds.
Namvar is allowed to attend Saturday services at a Chabad temple near his house. He also can go to his lawyer's office, as well as see his doctor and his therapist. Otherwise, he must stay at home.
Speaking publicly for the first time, he gave his side of the story to L.A. Weekly:
"We got into trouble like everybody else — Lehman Brothers, Fannie Mae, everybody," Namvar says. "We would have paid everybody off if it wasn't for the bankruptcy."
He says his credit cards have been cut off. His situation is so dire that he relies on his brothers to buy him groceries. He used to have a $230,000 Mercedes. Now he drives his mother's Prius.
Standing on the front doorstep, he pulls up his pant leg to reveal his ankle monitor. It's made of hard, black plastic. He sleeps with it. He showers with it. The only thing he can't do is go into the pool.
The Namvar bankruptcy is a tangled mess of competing factions, with hidden agendas and allegations of secret payoffs. But it is also quite simple, says Dan Schechter, a professor of bankruptcy at Loyola Law School.
"At bottom, it's just a busted Ponzi scheme," Schechter says. "The pieces are all over the floor and the victims are scrambling around trying to get something."
Try as Namvar might to shed the Madoff label, it has stuck. It serves a useful parallel, up to a point. Like Madoff, Namvar's clients were largely drawn from the local Jewish community. Like Madoff, he built an unquestioned reputation for financial acumen over 30 years, which prompted many to trust him with their life savings. And like Madoff, the collapse of his financial empire has sown sorrow and destruction.
But there are many differences. For one thing, Namvar still has defenders. Surprisingly, many of them are his creditors.
They continue to believe, not because they are necessarily so fond of Namvar but because the consequences of losing faith in him are so severe. It would mean giving up hope that somehow, someday, he will pay them back.
"Let it go," Schechter advises. "That ship has sailed. He's a crook."
Also unlike Madoff, Namvar himself remains defiant. In May, he was convicted of four federal wire fraud charges for taking $21 million from depositors in his financial exchange. Yet he continues to maintain his innocence.
"This is not a Madoff," says Namvar's brother Mousa Namvar, also speaking to the press for the first time. "This is not a con man. This is not a fraud. This is a guy who got caught in a big storm. He was trying to save the ship and everyone in the ship. And a couple of people were drilling holes."
The scale of the destruction is hard to grasp. Four hundred people have lost their retirement savings, college funds, bar mitzvah money. Realistically, they have little chance of getting more than a fraction of it back.
The tragedy has not only engulfed Namvar. It also has touched prominent rabbis, who have seemed to give Namvar every benefit of the doubt. And it has been a moment for deep reflection among Iranian Jews, both victims and bystanders alike. The community known as Tehrangeles may never be the same.
"We are, today, a wounded and perplexed community," novelist Gina Nahai wrote in a column for The Jewish Journal. "For us, the question is no longer what a Jew will and will not do; it's what we, as a community, will and won't tolerate. It's whether our increasingly Orthodox rabbis will take a public stand against larceny in our own midst, or choose to look away."
The story of Ezri Namvar begins three decades ago with his father, Eilel Namvar, a well-to-do real estate speculator and moneylender in Iran. In the wake of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, his property was seized and he fled to the United States. His son, Ezri, had already gone to school at UCLA and settled in Los Angeles. In time, some 70 Namvar relatives took up residence in L.A.
The Namvar name was an important asset in a Tehrangeles community that runs on family connections that can stretch back more than a century. Added to that, Ezri was seen as a brilliant young man with a remarkable ability to keep the intricate details of real estate transactions in his head.
"This guy Ezri is probably one of the great geniuses in business," says Avi Hakim, a real estate investor and Namvar ally. "He would have a thousand deals, and he would remember details on every single deal."
Like his father, Ezri was a "hard money" lender. He made riskier loans than traditional banks offer, typically to real estate investors. He charged a higher rate of interest — perhaps 10 percent or 11 percent. In turn, he offered his lenders a higher yield than banks would give, something like 7 percent to 8 percent.
According to a source who asked not to be named due to the sensitivity of the case, Namvar got into financial difficulties when he was just starting out. He was saved by a wealthy Iranian businessman who stood up in front of his peers and — with a theatrical flourish — wrote Namvar a blank check. Open an account, he told the young man, and put in whatever you want. The wealthiest members of the Iranian community were persuaded to trust him with their funds.
In an email exchange with the Weekly, Namvar says many investors helped build the business through word of mouth. He attributed his success to "luck and G-d's blessing."
He was also a workaholic, putting in 18-hour days, says his brother Mousa.
"Work becomes a game," Mousa says. "His nature is he wants to achieve, higher and higher. I'm not like that. I want a more quiet life."
According to a trustees' report in the bankruptcy case, the business ran smoothly until 1997, when Namvar changed course and started investing in real estate. In 2002, with credit becoming looser, Namvar "launched into a real estate buying frenzy," according to the report.
His acquisitions included hotels: the Hotel Angeleno, the downtown Marriott, the Cal Neva Resort in Lake Tahoe. He bought office buildings, including the Wilshire Bundy building. His company, Namco Capital Group, occupied the entire 14th floor there, with a commanding view of West L.A. He also bought apartment buildings, vacant land in rural areas, an equestrian center and a pistachio farm.
Many of these properties generated no revenue, and were not expected to pay off for years.
"The pistachio is a seven-year deal," says Mousa, who was responsible for that acquisition. "It's a long-term investment. My investors had the stomach to weather it."
According to the trustees' report, which Namvar vehemently disputes, purchases were made "with a wanton disregard for the underlying economics and financial viability of the project."
According to Bradley Sharp, the trustee of the Namco bankruptcy, the company never had more than six employees — hardly enough to manage such a vast and growing enterprise. Namvar used the most rudimentary accounting methods, recording transactions in a simple ledger.
"I have told him I don't have much respect for his business practices," Sharp says.
After two years, Sharp says he still isn't clear on whether Namvar was just sloppy, or whether he was more nefarious. He did routinely transfer assets to limited-liability companies controlled by his relatives.
"It does make me uncomfortable that the company that borrowed this money doesn't own the assets," Sharp says.
(Namvar and his relatives say they have already turned over whatever was owed to the trustee.)
In 2008, the market turned. Namvar never saw it coming. According to the trustee, instead of selling off properties and limiting losses, he continued on "his visionary pathway to riches." He was "delusional."
He was heavily leveraged — though, Namvar says, no more so than many others. According to Mousa, in the back of his mind, Namvar believed if he ever got into trouble, he could access a line of credit worth several hundred million dollars. But credit dried up and Namvar ran out of money. He stopped making interest payments, and his office lobby filled up with people trying to get their money back.
"It was a real rush to the bank," recalls George Haroonian, a creditor who witnessed the scene. "People didn't know what to do. I heard stories of screaming and fighting."
In a desperate scramble to stay afloat, Namvar paid off some of his most demanding investors with money from others. He "borrowed" from the financial exchange — where deposits were supposed to be secure, no matter what — then couldn't pay it back. He told different things to different people, and many say they were recruited to invest while Namvar knew he was floundering.
Michael Eshmoili, a fabric wholesaler who had lent Namvar $1 million, recalls being in the waiting area of Namvar's office around this time. Another investor, an elderly woman, asked if Eshmoili was there to get his money. He said he was. She said she was, too. She was owed $20,000.
Eshmoili figured that amount was so small that Namvar would just pull out his checkbook.
A while later, the woman came out of Namvar's office with a check for just $1,000.
Eshmoili says that's when the depth of the crisis hit him.
"How am I gonna ask for $1 million?" he wondered.
By November 2008, the lenders were growing even more frightened and anxious. Some had filed suit. Namvar called a meeting at the downtown Marriott to plead for time. Drop the lawsuits, he urged, and he would figure a way to pay everybody. It would take a while — maybe a few years. But everyone would be repaid.
Some creditors were angry. There was yelling. Then Eshmoili rose to speak.
"All of us gave this money to Namvar because of his name," he said. "We trusted his name and his father's name. If you trusted him then, you should trust him now. He will get us the money."
Many were persuaded. But not all.
Namvar's most formidable and dogged opponent has been Abraham Assil, a wealthy real estate investor who had parked $6 million with Namvar. When Assil heard the rumors of difficulty, he went to see Namvar.
"He played with my head," Assil says. "He sent me looking for a needle in a haystack."
Assil says Namvar promised to secure his loan with an interest in a penthouse in Israel. So Assil went to Israel to check it out. He says he later found out the penthouse was already being used as collateral for someone else. Assil says he concluded that Namvar had been transferring assets to his relatives and friends.
"Ezri is about misinformation and derailment," Assil says. "Finally it clicked. He was just buying time. I had to move quickly."
Assil gathered up a handful of other creditors and, in December 2008, forced Namvar into involuntary bankruptcy.
Meeting a reporter for coffee recently in the courtyard of the Montage Beverly Hills, the luxury hotel where Dodgers owner Frank McCourt has lived since separating from his wife, Assil shows up impeccably dressed and exuding old-world charm.
"What's your name?" he asks the waitress.
"Cassie," she says.
"My first girlfriend's name was Cassie."
He wastes no time getting down to business: "I'd rather get robbed off the street by someone who puts a gun to my head. When someone does what they did, it's different. They steal your trust. They steal your honor. They never apologized."
When the goat cheese arrives, he asks if it's kosher, then continues.
"A kid who steals a loaf of bread — he gets charged. But what about the guy who commits the biggest fraud in the history of L.A.? He gets only five to seven years?" Assil says, speculating about Namvar's coming prison sentence. "And they let him enjoy what he stole?"
Assil has harsh words for federal investigators, who, he says, barely scratched the surface of Namvar's crimes. He also is unsparing with the leaders of the Orthodox community. He believes they should have spoken out more forcefully and compelled the Namvar family to repay creditors.
"The religious authorities have an obligation to protect those who cannot defend themselves," he says. "Their silence speaks volumes."
Assil had hoped to be semiretired by now, but without the $6 million he lost to Namvar, he must keep working. Still, he acknowledges that he remains comfortable.
He is still following the money with grim determination. He believes "suitcases full of cash" went to Israel. Some may be in Turkey.
"He misjudged me," Assil says. "He miscalculated my abilities and my perseverance. This is not over yet. This is just the beginning."
When Michael Eshmoili spoke up in support of Namvar at the Marriott hotel, he had never met the man.
Eshmoili owns a fabric wholesaling business. It's downtown, and it used to be across the street from a branch of Security Pacific Bank, which Namvar owned, and which has since been seized by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Eshmoili kept a checking account there, and when he would go in to make deposits he would talk to a bank employee who urged him to invest his savings with Namvar. He would earn a high rate of return — 7.25 percent.
Eshmoili was told his money would be safe.
"He has hotels," he remembers being told. "They made it sound like an empire."
Eventually, he agreed to transfer his entire life savings — just over $1 million — to Namvar.
Eshmoili, who is 55, has suffered more than his share of tragedy. Eight years ago, his wife died of cancer. She was 34. He was left to raise their 6-year-old daughter on his own.
He was engaged to be remarried when he transferred his savings to Namvar. Shortly after, he made an offer on a three-bedroom house in Brentwood, where he planned to move with his fiancée. To make the down payment, he went to Namco. He was told the money wasn't there — he would have to wait. After repeated entreaties, one of Namvar's brothers gave him $60,000.
It wasn't nearly enough, and the escrow fell through. Eshmoili's business suffered a setback, and he couldn't draw on his savings to pay living expenses. So he fell behind on the payments on his small condominium and went into default. His credit score — once perfect — plummeted.
He is still living without a cushion, and without health insurance. The bankruptcy trustee is suing him to recover the $60,000, so it can be distributed evenly to the other creditors. He doesn't have it.
Despite all he has been through, Eshmoili continued to believe in Namvar until only a few months ago. Losing his belief meant admitting he had been duped. But he still hasn't given up hope that he will recover his savings.
"I will never forget my money," he says. "Until the day I die, I will be after my money."
Amid the collapse, Eshmoili's engagement fell through. He would prefer not to say too much about it, except that he is certain he would be married today if he had been able to buy the house in Brentwood.
Instead, he is still living in the condo in the Fairfax area with his daughter, now 14.
"She knows what I have lost," he says. "She refuses to spend money. Even on the smallest thing, even $5. That is sad. She asks, 'Daddy, are we poor?' I say, 'No, we are not. As long as I have you, I am a very rich man.'"
The creditors continue to fight over whether Assil was correct to force the bankruptcy. To some, he was extremely brave. If he had not done what he did, Namvar might have been allowed to dissipate whatever was left of the estate. Thanks to him, the creditors will at least get something — maybe between 5 percent and 15 percent of what they lost.
But many others believe Assil made a mistake by tying Namvar's hands. The bankruptcy trustees have consumed more than $20 million in fees for attorneys and forensic accountants. Many believe the trustees have sold off properties at fire-sale prices. So far, the creditors have not received anything.
If he had been given more time, they believe, Namvar would have found a way to pay.
"Ezri is not an angel. He's a terrible person," says Alex Hakakian, one of the creditors who has been most critical of Assil. "At the same time, he was trying to work something out. I think this would have been resolved by now if that was allowed to happen."
Namvar has encouraged this view.
"I was not allowed to participate in the handling of this big ship, or at least the navigating of it," he tells the Weekly by email. "The only people who are benefiting from the bankruptcy are the trustees and their teams of lawyers, accountants and staff. ... I warned the creditors that this would happen if I was put into bankruptcy — that the 'professionals' would devour all the assets, leaving the creditors with nothing. I am afraid that this is what is happening."
Brad Sharp, the trustee in charge of Namco Capital Group, rejects that out of hand. The bankruptcy would not cost so much, he says, if the parties involved were not fighting at every turn in court. They have taken untenable positions, and lost, and then appealed. They have demanded extensive discovery.
Much of the Namvar estate was lost to foreclosure. But the trustees have filed some 250 lawsuits to recover whatever assets are still out there. They have sued Namvar's wife, Ilana, to recover a $390,000 diamond. Another suit alleges that $200,000 was spent on Namvar's younger brother's wedding. The trustees have sued the Namvar brothers and other relatives for $300 million.
Mousa says they are chasing phantoms.
"This is bullshit," he says. "I swear to that. I bring the Torah. I put my blood on the line. ... There is no money. Do you think anybody can hide $300 million without a trace?"
A trial is still more than a year away. All of this costs money. Sharp says the trustees have had to hire professionals to run the estate, research the transactions and do the legwork that Namvar never did.
"When you build that infrastructure, you have to build it with professionals who charge by the hour," Sharp says.
The trustees are spending something like $800,000 per month. Unlike the creditors, they will get paid in full.
It's not unreasonable to wonder whether some of this could have been avoided. But that is the system we have, Sharp says.
"It is really tragic," he says. "There are a lot of people who believe that without the bankruptcy, they would have had their money back already. I can say categorically that is not true."
From the beginning, some creditors have urged religious authorities to intervene. Iranian rabbis have no legal power, but they do hold a moral authority in the community.
Rabbi David Shofet, the leader of Nessah Synagogue, and Rabbi David Zargary have been urged repeatedly to publicly require Ezri Namvar's brothers to repay his debts. They have demurred, leading many to conclude that they are in the pocket of the Namvars.
Last fall, Shofet and Zargary issued a letter saying they lacked expertise in this area and recommending that the case be referred to a Jewish court known as a Beit Din. The letter also criticized "the aggressive route of forced bankruptcy."
In language that seemed to give more weight to Namvar's view of events, the rabbis attributed his downfall to "rumors and panic coupled with plummeting real estate prices, as well as mistakes and lapse of judgment committed by Mr. Ezri Namvar."
For many, that wasn't good enough. Chief among them was Benjamin Hakakha, who launched a blog denouncing the Namvars and the rabbis.
"Here's the problem with the rabbis," Hakakha says. "They're not some sort of outside, uninvolved, disassociated entity. They're actually beneficiaries of funds given to them by the Namvars for many years. The same funds that were the clients' moneys fed those guys for years."
Hakakha accused the rabbis of "backstabbing" the community.
"They need to be put on the microscope and come to answer for what they've done," he says.
Zargary referred questions to Shofet. Reached by cellphone, Shofet declined to comment.
"Sir, I have nothing to tell you," he said. "Thank you very much. Bye-bye."
Many creditors have called for a Beit Din. That is how it would be handled back in Iran, where Persian Jews preferred, where possible, to settle matters among themselves rather than through the Islamic court system.
In the United States, Beit Din is the equivalent of an arbitration. A panel of three rabbis hears testimony, makes inquiries and issues a ruling in accord with Talmudic law. The affected parties — typically, though not always, Orthodox Jews — agree to be bound by the ruling.
"This is a court system that is almost three and a half thousand years old," says Rabbi Abraham Union, who serves on a Beit Din at the Rabbinical Council of California. "The law is rooted in the same lawgiver that gave us the Ten Commandments."
In the early going, Ezri Namvar himself suggested the case be handled by a Beit Din. Given the complexity of the case, however, it would have been a daunting challenge for three rabbis who are not lawyers or specialists in bankruptcy.
"It would have been much more efficient and cheaper," Namvar says. "But I do not think we can get a unified creditor force behind this."
Indeed, such cases work only when everyone agrees to be bound by the court's ruling. In a bankruptcy with 400 creditors, that would have been nearly impossible.
"We're very, very limited," Union says. "We're not going to take on a case where we don't have the ability to make legal rulings that will solve the case."
The issue with the rabbis has introduced one more point of conflict into an already labyrinthine case. Like Namvar, the rabbis do not lack for defenders. One of them, Isaac Khanzadeh, addressed an open letter to Hakakha, calling him "deranged" and "dim-witted trash."
"Spineless rodents like you are a plague upon our community," he wrote. He said he was "revolted by your lack of tact, absence of logic, guttural personality, vitriolic demeanor, dark aura and your absolute disregard for facts and truth."
In closing, though, Khanzadeh wished him "inner peace."
There also is a brewing fight between the trustees and the creditors' committees over how to manage the bankruptcy, which promises to be every bit as nasty.
If there is one person who has managed to find some "inner peace" in this, it is Fariborz David Diaan. He is an actor and comedian who had a part in The Stoning of Soraya M. He also lost $1.2 million in the Namvar bankruptcy.
He was — and in some ways, still is — quite bitter about it. Diaan was in the middle of a home renovation when his money went missing. He had to tell the contractors to stop work.
Early on, he began to see the humor in it. In some meetings, he says, he saw community elders behaving foolishly.
"It's as if they were little boys, including Ezri," he says. "The conversations were extremely comedic if you could detach from the misery."
Slowly, Diaan's concept of money began to shift.
"I realized that money and greed is something that can easily take over our minds and make us do irrational and stupid things, no matter how accomplished we think we are," he says. "If I can lose millions of dollars in the blink of an eye, then how important do I want to make that money?"
His thoughts turned into a script for a play. His character loses everything in a Ponzi scheme, then dies of a heart attack. The play, titled Death: A Very Serious Comedy, becomes a critique of Persian materialism (deathcomedy.com).
"It's all about columns and swimming pools," Diaan says. "Iranians like houses with tennis courts, so they can throw big parties on their tennis court. If you search the entire house, you won't find a racket."
In heaven, his character hears of a rabbi who went to hell for stealing cable. He gets to see his own funeral, and notices that the "Beverly Hills Madoff" is in the audience.
"He's not here to mourn my death but to celebrate one less creditor to worry about," he says.
After the play debuted, he saw Namvar at the gym.
"I heard you wrote a play about me," Namvar said.
"Yes," Diaan replied: "If I do 1,000 more performances, I can get back the money I lost."
Although he has learned something from the loss, that does not mean he is going to let it go.
"I know they took the fucking money," he says. "I know they have the money. I know they're trying to get away with it."
On a recent weekend, Namvar invited Diaan up to his house so he could explain everything. Diaan was told it would take four hours.
Diaan went and concluded that Namvar's defense amounted to "a lot of justification — nothing concrete, nothing clear."
But he was impressed by the atmosphere.
"His phone is ringing off the wall," Diaan says. "He's got a lot of friends and fans. His family loves him. If he's got 800 enemies, he's got 200 friends."
Namvar is small, maybe 5 feet 1, with an ebullient mien. He is putting on weight because he can't leave the house. His lawyers have asked for a new trial, arguing that he intended to pay his depositors back but was prevented from doing so by the bankruptcy.
Namvar's a compulsive guy, and he continues to make real estate deals over the phone. He has asked for permission to work for an investment company, but the U.S. Attorney has objected, saying a convicted "fraudster" should not be entrusted with other people's money.
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He still hopes he will not go to prison, and says he feels sorrow for the creditors.
"I feel tremendous sadness for all these people and feel very handicapped since I have no control, in order to help them more," he says in an email. "It is obvious that my life has turned around tremendously. ... I believe that G-d has a grander plan than what shows on the surface, but unfortunately it has been very difficult on the entire family."
He also expressed gratitude for the support he continues to enjoy.
"May G-d give me strength to weather the storm and show my appreciation."


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Time to take a break from all the defensive coordinator talk - for one post at least.
I recently noticed that Eagles rookie Brandon Graham was named to the All-Rookie Team over at Pro Football Focus. Here's what they wrote:
Quite clearly wasn't ready to start in Week 1, and he was far too one-dimensional a player to play the run. Graham did improve before his season ended, and maintained his pass rush throughout to finish the year as the most productive rookie pass rusher (37 total pressures).
Graham had three sacks last season, but if you're a regular reader, you know I emphasize that sacks don't always tell the full story. If a player has a sack on one play but gets no pressure the rest of the game, was he really effective? What if another pass-rusher forces several bad throws and turnovers, but doesn't pick up a sack? That doesn't always get measured.
Still, I found it curious that Graham made the team ahead of some other players, who on the surface looked like they were more productive. Joining Graham on the defensive line of the All-Rookie Team were Oakland's Lamarr Houston, Detroit's Ndamukong Suh and Tampa Bay's Gerald McCoy.
Here's a look at sack totals by the top rookie defensive linemen:
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I e-mailed Sam Monson over at Pro Football Focus to get his take on why Graham graded out so favorably by their metrics. He explained that by their numbers, Graham was far more effective than you might think. PFF totals up sacks, QB hits and other pressures to properly measure the effectiveness of a pass rusher. Here's how those overall numbers compare:
|Ndamukong Suh
Per PFF, Graham had seven hits and 27 pressures in addition to his three sacks. The only two rookies who had more were Suh and Houston.
But Graham also played fewer snaps than either of those guys. According to PFF, Graham had 271 chances to rush the passer, so he had a pressure once ever 7.3 snaps. For Houston, that number was once every 8.3 snaps. And for Suh, it was once every 14.1 snaps.
The numbers are interesting. As someone who watched and re-watched all of Graham's snaps last season, I was surprised. I thought he was OK during his rookie season, showing flashes of being an effective pass rusher, but also disappearing at times. And Graham obviously has work to do against the run.
By my unofficial count, he played about 45 percent of the Eagles' defensive snaps. Graham was active for the first 13 games before tearing his ACL against the Cowboys. He started the first four games, and then again in Weeks 11 and 12 when Juqua Parker was sidelined with an injury.
According to team stats, he had 13 hurries, second on the Eagles to Trent Cole. Parker had 12, and Darryl Tapp had 10.
One of the first things I thought of when the Eagles announced that they had hired Jim Washburn was how he could help Graham. Of course, with Graham recovering from the ACL injury, we might not know the complete answer to that question until 2012.
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Friday, August 23, 2013
Marcus Lattimore will begin season on PUP
The 49ers, wisely, aren't going to let him.
According to Ian Rapoport of the NFL Network, 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh said the rookie running back will begin the season on the PUP list, making him ineligible for at least the first six games.
Lattimore was as explosive a back as in the college game in recent years, until a grotesque knee injury which many feared could be career-ending. The 49ers were able to take a flier on him in the fourth round because of their stockpile of draft picks, and with a deep backfield, they (and he) can afford to wait.
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ATLANTA -- The Internal Revenue Service is allowed to look at a Florida Indian tribe's financial records as part of an investigation into gambling profits, a federal appeals panel ruled Monday.
A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the IRS can subpoena banks for the records, despite the Miccosukee tribe's claims that it is protected by sovereign immunity.
The tribe is based in the Everglades west of Miami. The IRS is investigating whether federal tax withholding and reporting requirements were met for gambling profits distributed to 600 members of the tribe from 2006 to 2009.
The tribe itself does not have to pay taxes under federal law, but it does have to deduct and withhold income taxes from gambling revenues that are paid to tribal members.
The tribe failed to comply with its tax obligations from 2000 to 2005, according to the judges' ruling, which led the IRS to also investigate finances from 2006 to 2009. The tax agency subpoenaed the documents from four different banks because the tribe had refused to hand over the records, the judges said.
Tribal officials also had argued that the records would reveal confidential financial information and force them to change their banking practices to keep money on the reservation. The judges rejected that argument, noting that the Miccosukees gave the information to the banks. That made the records property of the banks, not the tribe, the judges said.
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An attorney for the Miccosukee tribe did not immediately return a phone call from The Associated Press.
The tribe has previously acknowledged that at least 100 Miccosukee members owe the IRS more than $25 million in back taxes, penalties and interest. The broader investigation likely involves much more money.
The Miccosukees sued their former chairman, Billy Cypress, arguing he stole $26 million in gambling profits for his lavish lifestyle. That lawsuit argues that two former U.S. attorneys conspired with Cypress to hide the theft. All three men deny the allegations.


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JavaScript MVC Frameworks fail the DRY principle...
Jose Delgado
No question that all these referred client-side frameworks have the good intention of avoiding "spaghetti code".
Unfortunately there is no magic cure for that malady. At the end of the day by "repeating the server code" on the client side there are exposing their web applications to unnecessary lengthy-costly-and-many-times-unperformant software development deliveries.
Thank you
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Re: JavaScript MVC Frameworks fail the DRY principle...
Michael Ahern
If you have tried to build a large AJAX application fully client sidethen look at a framework like Spine or BackBone you will appreciate how it fits together. With these tools and a Component based coding model (eg JqueryUI, Dijit, ExtJS) to decompose your View into digestible pieces you can now code an AJAX application primarily client side fairly elegantly.
The one case that is not well solved (if you own the logic for both the server and client) is form validation... however, even here - if your application service is Node.JS then you can use the same JavaScript code on BOTH the client and server; Java programmers (such as myself) are a bit behind on having a good framework in this case. I have not researched this last problem in a while, so hopefully someone will comment on this with a good framework to recommend :)
Re: JavaScript MVC Frameworks fail the DRY principle...
Jose Delgado
Couple of points on your post...
1) Could you please be more specific on your notion of "UI logic". Add some uses cases to understand you better.
2) I am a Java developer too and I found that with jQuery + Spring Web MVC is basically what you need for implemting ANY RIA WEB 2.0. Yes, including validation. As Java developer you just have to leverage JSR 303 for validation. That's it. You DRY on client-side for it.
Please review pragmatikroo.blogspot.com/2011/11/spring-roo-sy... and/or pragmatikroo.blogspot.com/2011/12/synergy-unlim... and/or pragmatikroo.blogspot.com/2011/11/codename-syne...
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adoption != favourite
denis krizanovic
I think if you want to understand favourite, you also need to ask the "least favourite" question too.
For example, I've only been involved in GWT, and GWT is a mistake. so I would vote "least favourite".
Or, you might want to ask the question in terms of "net promoter score". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Promoter to see, based on people's experience, if they'd "promote" the usage of this framework.
As it stands now, your answers will reflect age of framework and any marketing done for it. Hence, GWT.
how did u choose the voting candidates?
omri zisovitch
glad to see this vote since i am currently diving into this world of javascript MVC frameworks.
i just wonder how u chose these specific frameworks, some seems a bit awkward to me (coffescript is not really a MVC framework for example), and why other popular ones were left out (dojo, extJS and more)
Re: JavaScript MVC Frameworks fail the DRY principle...
Michael Ahern
Spine, Backbone, one of the 100 other JS MVC frameworks allow you to manage mapping of page state to URLs fairly well - which is the key problem for RIA I was thinking of.
@2 - I'll have to look at closer look at Roo then :) My knowledge here is pretty dated as this has not been a significant requirement on what I am currently working.
A couple projects ago, this issue I ran into with JSR 303 was that the Hibernate Validator (v4.0) implementation of JSR 303 - at least at the time - could not handle the requirements of bag-of-attribute type data structures (where the same type may be refined in multiple different ways - eg. multiple variants on string fields, such as hobbies vs. favorite color) [forum.hibernate.org/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=99.... Again, this was a while ago so hopefully this can be solved by today's JSR 303 implementations without the hacks above.
Re: JavaScript MVC Frameworks fail the DRY principle...
Jose Delgado
I am speaking for myself on this particular jQuery + Spring Framework integration. In other words: I am using Roo baseline and add what is missing to come up with RIA WEB 2.0 applications. Basically jQuery and jQuery components. That's it.
The mapping of page state to URL that you mentioned is pretty easy to implement with the already baseline deployed stack. You don't need anything else.
JSR 303 as any Java api, framework or class can be extended or customized to meet any use case. It is inherent on the Java programming language.
On the other hand: The first problem for the ones trying JS MVC frameworks. They have to decide to pick one from the 100 available. This is a very unproductive-time consuming task.
Bottom line whatever they pick they would be ending violating the DRY principle. Not good at all.
jD @ pragmatikroo.blogspot.com/?view=timeslide
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Abbas Zaidi
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Sandeep Tucknat
Disclaimer : I am not affiliated with either, just a happy end user :)
No JSF or Other option?
Russ Healey
Where are the most popular Enterprise Frameworks?
Michael Mullany
Dojo is also in the same range of popularliry and is very widely used - particularly within Enterprises that use a lot of IBM technology since it's supported as part of Websphere.
jQueryUI is also used widely for smaller less complex apps within the Enterprise.
Dart is a language, not a framework...
Re: Where are the most popular Enterprise Frameworks?
Victor Grazi
Also, I don't have experience with most of these except GWT, which I would not vote for if offered Ext and/or jQuery.
But it forced me to vote to see the analysis.
So I logged in and voted, but when I tabbed to analysis, it told me I have to sign in. Ok, did that again, then pressed analysis, but it told me I had to vote. Argh! Done that! So I voted for GWT again, rinse wash repeat! I gave up after 2 specious votes for GWT.
Re: JavaScript MVC Frameworks fail the DRY principle...
marc prades
While we do everything to encode and protect our client side code
Re: Where are the most popular Enterprise Frameworks?
marc prades
there are more questions for Ext jS on Stackoverflow than almost all these options
Maybe because ExtJs is such a pain to use ?
While , SenchaTouch does the job on mobile , AngularJS is in my opinion better than ExtJS will ever be , and more easily testable. ExtJs is untestable , there is so much magic it is nearly impossible to know where errors come from .
Lacking something?
Domingo Savoretti
Re: JavaScript MVC Frameworks fail the DRY principle...
Chris Dawes
Re: Where are the most popular Enterprise Frameworks?
Chris Dawes
I'm guessing you haven't used ExtJS for a long time (years) if you conclude it's a pain, or is untestable. lmao.
I unit and ui test ExtJS apps all the time, and it's easy.
Magic... it's JavaScript bro, the source is right there in front of your eyes.


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j) Reboot machine if unit has not been rebooted in a long time as this will restart/refresh any used cycles that may be looping in the background
k) Hung application (Try to check the Windows Task Manager for any applications that says "not responding" and end task on those applications)
l) Extreme temperature or dusty environment (The laptop may over heat if temperature is too hot, or fan/vents are clogged with dust causing insufficient ventilation)
m) Transferring or installation of large files may cause the machine to run slow (Try to wait until hard drive activity stops and performance will be restored to normal)
If the unit is truly locked up, perform a hard shut down by pressing and holding the power button until the unit shuts down, then switch on the laptop again to see if the problem still persists. If it does, contact the Suzuki Service Centre near you. Click here for the contacts.
If this happens, you will need to perform a hardware reset by pressing and holding down the POWER button for several seconds until the POWER LED on your notebook is off. Restart your notebook by pressing POWER button again to see if the problem still persists. If it does, contact the Suzuki Service Centre near you. Click here for the contacts.
If your laptop is in the Windows environment, perform a Windows Shut Down. Then switch on the laptop again. Once you see the SUZUKI welcome screen, press the F2 key which will make the laptop go into the BIOS Setup Screen.
Note: Do not adjust the settings in the BIOS Setup Screen if you are not technically incline otherwise your laptop may not work normally. Please refer to the BIOS Utilities section of the User's Manual in PDF format for more information in this area.
If this happens, please bring your laptop and proof of purchase to the Suzuki Service Centre near you. Click here for the contacts.
Note: Service charges will apply for such service.
First of all, please ensure you have switched on the Wireless module in the laptop. To switch on the Wireless module, press Fn+F11 and check that the Wireless indicator light is Green in colour. Please refer to the User's Manual in both printed and PDF format for more details.
To be advised. Currently awaiting information from Suzuki's HDD supplier to confirm if they have a common 3rd party data recovery company in Singapore.


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October 23, 2012
News From the Law Practice
News From the Law Practice
Each year at this time, the ABA and the LPM Section celebrate our successes, just as our member lawyers celebrate with their clients and reflect on how they can provide even better service in the coming year. In 2008, LPM continued its leading-edge publishing and programming and also addressed current hot topics, including the impact of the economic downturn and the still-evolving world of electronic evidence and discovery. Thank you for the opportunity to serve your needs as a Section member this past year. In the coming year, get involved or let us know how we can help you succeed, and we will continue to address those areas of highest interest to our membership.
Highlights from Tucson.
Almost 300 legal professionals attended theLPM Fall Meeting and the sold-out ABA Women Rainmakers Mid-Career Workshop, held in October in Tucson, Arizona. Among the highlights were a presentation from Professor Myles Lynk on race, politics and the practice of law, and networking and business development programs for a diverse assembly of women lawyers. Selected materials from both the meetings and the workshop are now available on the Section Web site.
Third Thursday teleconferences: Ethics and Documenting the Client Relationship.
At this time of year, most firms take steps to recognize and appreciate their existing and prospective client relationships. But recognizing and integrating client and firm expectations is a year-round professional responsibility. So LPM continues its popular CLE audio teleconference series in December with Ethics and Documenting the Client Relationship, on Thursday, December 18. Secure your ethics CLE credits before year-end with this timely seminar.
Then in January, LPM will present a preview of the hot legal technology topics to be addressed at ABA TECHSHOW® 2009. From the new E-Discovery Boot Camp to the popular Solo/Small Firm Day, ABA TECHSHOW delivers a full array of CLE and other educational programming.
ABA and LPM members receive substantial discounts on Third Thursday teleconference programs. For complete details and to register, click here.
ABA TECHSHOW conference and hotel registration now open. ABA TECHSHOW, to be held at the Hilton Chicago, April 2-4, 2009, is the leading legal technology conference in the United States, designed primarily by lawyers for lawyers and other legal professionals. The 2009 conference will feature a keynote presentation by renowned legal technology author Richard Susskind. Whether you are a partner, associate, paralegal, litigation support specialist, librarian or IT professional, ABA TECHSHOW offers plenty: multiple tracks of educational programming, networking events and a trade show featuring well over 100 exhibiting companies.
ABA and LPM members receive substantial discounts on registration. For complete information and to register, visit ABA TECHSHOW Web site.
Midyear Meeting in Boston. The ABA LPM Midyear Meeting is scheduled for February 11-14, 2009, in Boston. Registration is free, so plan to join your Section colleagues for programs, business meetings and networking. For complete information, visit the LPM Section site at and the ABA Midyear site.
Core Group Committees Open. Don't forget that the LPM Core Groups, addressing the four principal areas of law practice management- marketing, management, technology and finance -are still open for LPM members to join. Core Group members have access to online discussion groups and have the opportunity to participate in planning future programming. There is no cost to join the groups. Simply log on to the ABA Web site with your ABA member ID, and at the MyABA screen, click on "Law Practice Management Section-Join a Committee."
LPM Book Spotligh
The Lawyer's Guide to Governing Your Firm by Arthur G. Greene.
Written especially for senior partners, managing partners and administrators of small and midsize firms, this new title is designed as a practical guidebook with step-by-step action plans for improving firm management. Topics include how financial challenges have affected law firm culture; the importance of a law firm vision; partnership ownership options, agreements and challenges; associate training; how to develop and manage effective practice groups; strategic planning; and financial management. In addition, the book details the basics of running the office, including everyday issues in human resources, space planning and technology. Order at the ABA Books Web site.
Law Practice Management Section Events
- February 11-14, 2009
ABA & LPM Midyear Meeting
Marriott Copley Place
Boston, MA
- April 2-4, 2009
Hilton Chicago
Chicago, IL
- May 13-16, 2009
LPM Spring Meeting
Hotel Monteleone
New Orleans, LA
- July 29-August 1, 2009
ABA & LPM Annual Meeting
The Westin Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL
- October 14-17, 2009
LPM Fall Meeting
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- November 12-13, 2009
Law Firm Marketing Strategies Conference
Four Seasons
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Make your plans now to join the LPM Section at the luxurious Hotel Monteleone for the Spring Meeting,
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Travel, Vacation, Local Living: 14 Great Posts from July
Vacation? Staycation? Either way we covered it this year. From the ten things to carry with you when you fly, expert tips on how to pack lighter, and advice for a successful house swap (the budget travel idea!), check out a few of our best posts from this past July.
• 1 The Top 10 Things To Carry With You When You Fly
• 2 Going on Vacation? Ready Your Home!
• 3 10 Tips To Green Your Camping Trip
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• 5 Tight on Budget? Plan a Socially Responsible Staycation
• 6 5 Really Cool Eco-Lodging Destinations
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What could be better than spending the holidays scared out of your mind? If you answered 'nothing,' then you're in luck -- well, if you own Nintendo's system, anyway. Konami confirmed on Thursday morning that Silent Hill: Shattered Memories will ship for Wii in America on December 8, despite rumors that the game might see a delay to next year.
The publisher also stated that the release dates for the PlayStation 2 and PSP versions of the game would be revealed at a later date, which suggests that these builds will in fact be pushed to the 2010 time frame, allowing Wii owners a temporary exclusive. Various online retailers have the PS2 and PSP titles listed for mid-January.
Shattered Memories, a re-imainging of the first game in the acclaimed horror series, stars Harry Mason, a distraught father with amnesia on a quest to find his daughter, who has gone missing in the eerie town of Silent Hill. Armed only with his flashlight and cell phone, Mason searches the town for clues and soon discovers that the area and its inhabitants are plagued by gruesome monsters. In addition to tight controls tied to Harry's flashlight, which illuminates the dark hallways and spooky woods he treks through, Silent Hill employs a psych profile system that analyzes players' decisions and moves and then dynamically modifies the game.
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories was named IGN's Wii Game of E3 2009.
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WASHINGTON | Just how sturdy is the U.S. job market?
That's the key question the Federal Reserve will face when it decides later this month whether to reduce its economic stimulus.
The answer depends on where you look.
The economy has added jobs for 35 straight months. Unemployment has reached a 4 1/2-year low of 7.3 percent. Layoffs are dwindling.
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Amber Wilson has completed three years of service with the U.S. Peace Corps.
Amber Wilson has completed three years of service with the U.S. Peace Corps.
Some of Wilson�s accomplishments during her service in the Dominican Republic include:
n Maintaining a computer lab, teaching 30 community members basic computers skills and helping raise funds for an Internet radio tower.
n Teaching an adult literacy course, preparing a curriculum for teaching English as a second language, graduating more than 60 community members in beginning level English and helped plan lessons for the high school English class.
n Teaching a monthly art class for more than 50 children in the community
n Helping her community receive a grant to build stoves in the community.
n Meeting with local clinics and organizing workshops on meal planning and preparation for families with hypertension and high blood sugar.
n Serving as an interpreter for clinic missions that offered free health service and medication.
Wilson also served as a Peace Corps Volunteer leader and a Peace Corps Volunteer trainer. She is now the field operations manager for the Foundation for the International Medical Relief of Children in Uganda. Wilson, the daughter of William and Timmi Deems, is a 2005 graduate of Swansboro High School and a 2009 graduate of UNCW.


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Prince settles Warner Bros dispute
Prince now owns the rights to the music he recorded for Warner Bros Records after years of disputes and battles with the label.
Warner Bros announced that it had reached an agreement with the pop star. Prince was signed to the label from 1978 to the mid-1990s, releasing key projects like Purple Rain, 1999 and Around The World In A Day.
Financial terms were not disclosed.
Warner Bros also said the 55-year-old singer would release "previously unheard material" from his tenure on the label. A 30th anniversary edition of Purple Rain will be released this summer.
Prince said in a statement that he is "pleased with the results of the negotiations".
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SAN DIEGO, April 11 (UPI) -- The use of cellphones while operating a vehicle is the leading cause of driver distraction crashes in California, a survey indicates.
Dr. Linda Hill of the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine said studies showed phoning and driving increase the risk of crashes four-fold, with hands-free and handheld devices equally dangerous; this is the same as driving with a blood alcohol content at the legal limit of 0.08 percent.
"Texting increases this risk eight to 16 times," Hill said in a statement. "A key initiative for the Training, Research and Education for Driving Safety -- TREDS -- program and goal of the survey is to understand distracted driving behavior and work on strategies to improve road safety."
The California Highway Patrol said cellphone use while driving isn't the only issue.
"Anything from drinking coffee to managing children can take your mind off the road at a critical moment," John Antillon, CHP border division assistant chief, said.
The Adult Cell Phone Survey of U.S. adults ages 30-64 was conducted Feb. 8-March 31. Overall, 715 participants completed the survey: 75 percent female, two-thirds married with an average age was 46.
The survey also found of the 512 respondents driving an average of 1-2 hours per day, the reported use of cellphones for talking, texting and other applications was: 30 percent ranged from sometimes to frequently, 53 percent rarely and 17 percent never. Fifty-six percent reported driving with a handheld phone and 92 percent drive with a hands-free phone.
In addition, of the 261 respondents with children younger than age 11 in the car, 65 percent drive with a cellphone and 36 percent text.
Thirty-one percent of respondents said they felt obliged to take a work-related call while driving.
"Moreover, employers should be aware that encouraging workers to initiate and receive calls while driving on the job is putting their employees at risk and exposing their companies to potential liability," Hill said.
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Comparison of Business Analyst and Business Architect Roles Sparks Lively Debate
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Nick Malik, an Enterprise Architect at Microsoft, wrote a blog post differentiating business analysts from business architects and he received a swift rebuke of his stance. Malik contended that business analysts do fundamentally different work than business architects but Kevin Brennen of the International Institute of Business Analysts (IIBA) strongly disagreed and pointed out the resemblances between the roles.
In Malik's original blog post, he claimed that while both roles analyze the business, that is the only similarity between them. He proceeded to outline the purpose, technique, timing and characteristics of each role. According to Malik, business architects use advanced models and tools in an ongoing effort to identify gaps in business capabilities and they initiate efforts to fill those gaps. In contrast, business analysts work on existing initiatives and leverage stakeholder interviews to develop the system requirements that will be applied towards an IT solution. With this assessment in place, Malik punctuates his point by drawing a clear line between the roles.
There is nearly nothing about these roles that are actually the same. These are fundamentally different roles. Yes, there are people who can play both roles.
In fact, I have never seen a business analyst successfully transition to the role of business architect.
This position was quickly challenged by Brennen of the IIBA in a post entitled "Business Architecture is Business Analysis." Brennen took little offense at the definition of the business architect but had fundamental problem's with Malik's assertions about the business analyst role.
It's not that he's wrong about what a business architect does. It's that he's comparing his actual experience as a business architect to what he thinks business analysts spend their time doing. Nick's also, consciously or not, downplaying the actual complexity of the IT BA role while playing up the complexity and importance of business architecture.
Before we get into this, I'm not asserting that every business analyst can or should be involved in business architecture. It's one kind of business analysis, but there are lots of other career options for BAs. I'm just vehemently disagreeing with his claim that they are distinct professions.
Brennen then addressed each of Malik's role comparisons and highlighted where he found the argument deficient. While Brennen accepted that business architects and business analysts may work at different levels of the organization, he didn't consider this fact to be something that changed the essential aspects of the work involved.
There is one real difference I see here: a business architect works in the realm of strategy, and business systems analysts are engaged with tactics. I just can't see that as a sufficiently profound difference to call them distinct fields of study.
Malik responded to Brennen's arguments by updating his original post with further clarification. Among the updates, Malik amended his definition of business analysts to include their assignment to non-IT teams. He also reiterated that both roles have a primary focus on analyzing the business itself. In addition, Malik softened the language around the inequality of skills between the roles.
If you look at the people and their skills, there is some overlap. Certainly, smart people with excellent analysis skills can do many things. But we are not talking about the people. We are talking about the actual role.
Note that this is my personal experience, and I am willing to consider that there are many folks who have made that transition. I have watched many struggle, and fail, on that road. Given what I've seen, I consider this a very difficult transition.
A new concluding point was added to the post. Malik looked at how the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK) described the tasks of a business analyst. He lamented the fact that the broad set of tasks assigned by the BABOK do not help differentiate the analyst role.
This is a problem with the BABOK, not the analysts themselves. Including such a wide array of roles in the "definition" of a business analyst creates a situation where no other profession can define a role that cares about similar concerns without overlapping with this definition.
In a follow up post, Malik continued to draw distinctions between these two roles.
The business analyst role is much more tactical than the business architecture role. Traditionally, the business analyst is required to understand the problems of a business area and to document the requirements of the business in solving them. The business analyst is NOT accountable for developing the solution, or even the vision for the solution (The solution architect does that). He or she is accountable for understanding the problem and documenting the requirements that the solution must meet.
The business architect role is a more recent innovation. This role emerged out of the need to insure that departments and divisions are using IT resources correctly by asking for the right problems to be solved. From there, the role has expanded to a non-IT-focused value proposition. The business architecture role is important. Without the business architect involved, we may do an excellent job of solving problems that the overall enterprise does not need solved, when the real enterprise-level problems are going unaddressed or under-resourced due to the long list of demands from the existing businesses.
Malik decided that while these two roles could conceivably be performed by a single person, the preference would be to have distinct, but complimentary jobs defined. He highlighted the need for clear accountabilities between the roles and encouraged the continued growth and clarification of the business architect discipline.
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Business Analyst and Business Architect
Bernard Morris
With nearly ten years in practice and soon to complete a PhD in business architecture I have had the pleasure of working with business analysts whose contribution has been priceless.
I am sure Malik never meant to cause any offence - the fact is none of us can legally call ourselves architects with the exception of the one and only Paul Bodine of Chicago who formally practiced as a real architect.
In short we have more than enough to keep up with demand and a great future for those that keep their eye on the ball.
Good luck and keep learning.
Bernard Morris
Re: Business Analyst and Business Architect
Mark N
The problem with having fine lines between the roles and jobs is that in the real world, there is no fine line. The analysis bleeds into the architecture. The technology bleeds into the business. Most "BA" requirements end up being "technical" requirements as they are technology dependent. You have to have someone that can live in all the worlds. The, problem, as the posts state, is those are few and far between. The only realistic way is for there to be 2 (or more) people. From what I can tell from my ages old Systems and Analysis and Design Methods book is that ... that is the way to do it. Not sure where things fell of the rails.
BAnal v BArch debate
graham berri
- "analysis" and "architecture" as concepts (in whatever role)
- business analyst v business architect roles (in whatever job)
- business analyst and business architect jobs in the ideal world envisaged by the author
- business analyst and business architect jobs in the real job market - in a particular geography.
Observation: my public enterprise and solution architecture courses attract a wide variety of people. Two kinds of delegate tend to struggle more than others.
1) Infrastructure people who have little insight into business processes and business data.
2) "Business analysts" formerly employed in IT roles who have retreated from addressing technical issues.
Re: BAnal v BArch debate
graham berri
There is a large overlap of interest, concerns and competencies, however, business architect is to business analyst as enterprise architect is to solution architect?


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CHARLESTON, S.C., Jan. 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- A startup, GetAwayGrey, is now offering a nutraceutical multi-vitamin designed to reverse and prevent grey hair. The product is an alternative to the use of hair dyes, which contain irritating and potentially toxic chemicals.
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