Not to get into a pedantic argument with you, friend, but the generally accepted definition of "model" in the MVC pattern is "the place that holds your business

Not to get into a pedantic argument with you, friend, but the generally accepted definition of "model" in the MVC pattern is "the place that holds your business logic." See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-view-controller http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-view-controller, for example (the article uses the term "domain logic," but it's the same thing - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_logic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_logic).