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In order to calculate the true cost of a commercial earthquake retrofit, property owners must consider the money that a retrofit will save over the course of time. Buildings in California that are over twenty-five years old should be inspected for an earthquake retrofit. When considering strengthening a property to withstand a powerful earthquake, most property owners shop around, looking for the cheapest options. It is easy to believe that the price for reinforcing a commercial building to withstand devastation from powerful seismic activity is a complete and true cost. In reality, it is not. When considering the potential damage from even the mildest earthquakes, any steps taken to prevent the expenses related to an earthquake should be considered and calculated as savings. If you are contemplating the cost of an earthquake retrofit, make sure you look at the benefits as part of your decision-making process. Ask yourself, "How much will I save if I get an earthquake retrofit?"
There are several different ways that commercial property owners save money with a earthquake retrofit:
Property owners will have a stronger building in the California real estate market.
The marketability of any commercial property is improved when it's been through a maintenance process to improve the codes and standards. Those looking to purchase a commercial property are attracted to the safety and overall security that an earthquake retrofit provides to the building occupants. When a building is strengthened to withstand the severe impact of a devastating earthquake, the Probable Maximum Loss (PML) decreases. The number of potential lenders is often higher when the PML is low. When the number of lenders increases, it usually means more buyers are readily available and looking to make a purchase.
Property owners have better financing options.
Most lenders who want a PML of less than 20% are satisfied when a thorough earthquake retrofit has been completed by an experienced and reputable service provider, such as Saunders Commercial Seismic Retrofit. Banks and lending institutions have very stringent policies about the level of risk and loss they will take.
The risk of injury and legal litigation is reduced with better earthquake safety.
Building owners most certainly have a responsibility to ensure the safety of all tenants and customers. If injuries occur during or after an earthquake, property owners can potentially lose an extraordinary amount of money if it can be proven they were aware that their building needed structural work, but had no plan in place to correct the issues. Even with adequate insurance coverage, it is likely the coverage would not be enough to cover successful litigation against negligence. A complete earthquake retrofit will provide asset protection, as well as peace of mind, because it helps decrease the number of issues that could cause damage and injury.
The cost of earthquake insurance coverage can be reduced.
It is difficult for many building owners in California to get earthquake insurance because it is simply too expensive. A reinforced building, however, is usually more insurable than one that is not and often the coverage needed will be less. A lower cap can reduce premiums. Insurance rates have increased 3 to 6 times the rate charged since 2005, so reinforcing your building with an earthquake retrofit may well be the only solution available for you to consider in order to get the insurance coverage you need.
Removing hazards and having your building completely anchored and reinforced should be primary objectives of any earthquake readiness plan developed for commercial properties. Saunders Commercial Seismic Retrofit can provide Bay Area building owners with an insurance quote based on current and after-retrofitting values so they can see how the changes can help lower earthquake insurance premiums. Most property owners find that it is more cost effective to retrofit a building prior to an earthquake rather than repairing expensive damages or paying for subsequent liabilities after the earthquake occurs. If you have questions or would like additional information to help determine if your commercial building needs to be retrofitted, call Saunders Seismic Retrofit today!


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The Cowboys are coming off an 8-8 season in which two late-season losses to the New York Giants helped the Giants claim the division title with a 9-7 record. The Giants went on to win the Super Bowl.
The Cowboys play their final pre-season game tonight against Miami (7:30 p.m., Cowboys Stadium), then open the season Sept. 5 at the Giants.
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The little wooden people called Wemmicks scurry about their days doing what they always do: sticking gold stars on the pretty and talented Wemmicks or gray dots on those who make mistakes. But now the stickering is all the more important. The Festival is at hand. That means that the envied Most Stars Award and the dreaded Most Dots Award are about to be given out. And poor Punchinello is sure to be a shoo-in for the Most Dots.
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At this point, diagnosing depression and other mental illnesses is not a cut and dried, simple matter. There are no definitive medical tests that can be performed, and there are many types of depression that are different from each other in fairly subtle ways.
A good place to start is Depression Symptoms and Screening, which contains links to several online tests. Although these self-tests don't take the place of an evaluation by a medical professional, they will give you an idea of what your symptoms may be saying.
Your partner in finding out whether you are depressed or not is your doctor. After ruling out any physical causes, such as thyroid dysfunction, the doctor will ask a series of questions covering family history, past and current medical problems, and current state of mind. The doctor will also try to determine if there have been past episodes of depression.
The doctor will compare your symptoms to the diagnostic criteria in the DSM-V (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) to determine if you do have depression, and if so, which form. A good mental health professional will not rely solely on the DSM-V, however. If a patient is displaying four instead of five of the criteria, that does not mean that he or she does not need treatment. Depressive disorders occur along a continuum from mild to severe, and it's possible to fall somewhere between them.
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Since 2008, Holder has been entirely under German control again. Three successful entrepreneurs from Baden-wuerttemberg led the brand back to its original strength. Max Holder GmbH remembered what made the company strong: high quality, Swabian diligence and innovative ideas. The vehicles are still manufactured in the Swabian town of Metzingen. The commitment to the production location Germany is part of our corporate philosophy - and a promise to our customers. Because our professionally trained employees, high-quality components, as well as certifi ed and optimised production process are the guarantee for the excellent quality of every Holder.
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With the customer centre which was opened in 2010, we have created a modern meeting place for customers and fans of the brand Holder. Here, we introduce our latest models and are happy to answer your questions. a small museum with tenderly treasured exhibits reminds you of ground-breaking Holder inventions. another highlight is our demo park where you can put our products to the acid test. a vineyard with a gradient of 40 %, a municipal construction site, complicated lawns, dirty asphalt, planted slopes, steep stairs and a dry rock garden are the ideal requirements for the practical testing. experience Holder live - we are inviting you and are looking forward to your visit!
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At Holder, our aim is to make your hard working day as effortless and effi cient as possible. and we know that this takes more than an excellent product: people who know your needs and who are on hand with help and advice are just as important. therefore, customer proximity is not just a marketing term but reality at Holder. this starts with the individual consultation with your Holder partner and is everything but finished with the personal handover of the vehicle. Because during the many years in which you will be using your vehicle, we and your Holder partner are there for you at any time. your Holder partner who is well-informed and regularly trained by us and will carry out any service and maintenance work reliably and professionally.
Company History
The brothers Christian Friedrich and Martin Holder found a machinery factory and magnets factory in Urach on 16th September 1888. However, Martin Holder soon leaves the company and founds his own locksmiths shop.
The first automatic knapsack sprayer is presented and becomes world famous as the 'Holder sprayer'. Winning many prizes, it is now exhibited as an example of innovative development at the German Museum of Technology in Munich. Current developments only deviate in the choice of materials and very slightly in the design.
A side canal of the Erms and the resulting hydroelectric power caused the company to move to Metzingen. Buildings and sites of the Braun company are bought, refitting and extended.
The company is one of the first companies in the Erms Valley with over 100 employees and meets its social obligations in its customary way. Countless relationships to countries around the world ensure that soon almost a third of the goods produced in Metzingen are exported.
C. F. Holder and his Son present the first universally-applicable single-axle tractor. This revolutionary development is already fitted with many technical refinements. Details such as a single-wheeled brake, struts, the height and side of which can be adjusted, pulley as well as power take-off are brand new technologies. They permit a wide range of applications for the complete range of groundwork devices through to potato diggers and transport trailers. As a development for the future, this pioneering product is awards there DLG medal and can still be seen in the German Museum of Technology.
The first functioning small diesel motor astounds international specialists. The 'Holder Diesel' is compact, lightweight, reliable, high-powered and requires little maintenance and is thus ideal for installation in the single-axle tractors. This development soon goes into series production. The fast process of motorisation during this period causes Holder to pass on the patent rights to the company Fichtel & Sachs. Under the general name 'Sachs Diesel', the Holder invention becomes world-famous and is manufactured in large quantities. Even today, this development is considered a perfect example of top-flight engineering and can also be seen in the German Museum of Technology in Munich.
The first four-wheeled loader leaves the Metzingen factory. On account of their reliability, the countless applications and the wide range of attachments, the B 10 and B12 series are very successful. To the delight of many fans, some of these loaders can still be seen in areas with special cultivation (wine/fruit). If these tractors are still equipped with an original Holder diesel engine, then they are cherished by collectors.
The first four-wheel drive loader with continuous drive, articulated-frame steering and four equally sized wheels is presented.Originally developed for viticulture, this unusual construction quickly takes over other areas of work. In particular, it is on difficult farming areas that the benefits of the loader show their worth: Enormous pulling power through permanent four-wheel drive and the smallest turning circle through articulated steering.
The age of environmentally-friendly plant treatment is signalled by the turbines. The technology of the axial blower permits targeted treatment, the increased agent build-up, even on unreachable plant parts, reduces the need for sprays considerably.
The voluntary plant protection device check is introduced. The necessary diagnostics apparatus for the workshops are developed by Holder. Today, all plant protection devices are checked every two years.
'Dositron' is the name of the first German electronic dosing system. The processor-controlled dosing system scans at an accuracy previously only dreamt of. This basic research is the precondition for today's technology of field-based data recording up to the data exchange with a PC using a chip card and GPS control.
Crosscurrent technology is introduced in plant protection applications. A laminary air current generated by two standing cylindrical rotors is the basis of these sprayers. It works completely symmetrically and without a technical drift upwards. After evaluations by neutral institutes, this crosscurrent unit is still used as standard in application technology.
The MultiPark series is introduced to the public at the public administration trade fair in Cologne. The revolutionary construction of a complete family of municipal vehicles with five different basic models soon shows it to be one of Holder's most successful developments.
The C 4.74 is presented at the DemoPark in Fulda and awarded the gold medal for innovation.
Holder wants to regain its old strength with three new shareholders from the region.
In June 2010, Max Holder GmbH opened the new Holder Customer Centre in Metzingen. The 900 m² Customer Centre not only serves as a presentation area, but also as a meeting place for customers, suppliers, employees and others interested in Holder. The new offering is completed by the Demopark, right next to the building. It is used to test the vehicles in the most varied of terrain.
At the GaLaBau exhibition 2010 in Nuremberg, Holder presented a new generation of multifunctional implement-carriers, successors to the successful Multipark series. The types C 250 and C 270 are multifunctional work machines, boasting many improvements and new features which enhance the proven Holder system even further.
Holder presented its latest innovation, the 30 HP X 30 at the GaLaBau 2012 in Nuremberg/Germany: This multipurpose vehicle offers the most unique handling and working comfort in its class. This new system sets a new stand of high speed, innovative handling, and hydraulic power. The sweep suction system and the multipurpose stainless steel collector bin can be used to sweep-collect, cut-collect, or for irrigation.
To mark the 125th anniversary Holder invited its business partners as well as employees, fans and friends of the Holder brand to Metzingen. And they all came - in masses. The anniversary celebrations were held from 19th to 21st September 2013 at the Holder factory premises in Metzingen.
The traction drive Holder PowerDrive is awarded the German Industry prize in the category of "Drive and Fluid Technology". The renowned prize is well known throughout and beyond industry circles and focuses not only on the big players in the market but most of all on the medium-sized businesses as well as family owned companies. A top-class independent jury made up of numerous professors, industry experts, trade journalists and scientists evaluated the applications in 14 categories according to economic, social, technology and ecology factors.
Holder extends its product range by the high-performance, compact municipal vehicle Holder MUVO. With the MUVO, Holder relies on a high-quality vehicle system which has proven its performance in the municipal sector in year-round use. Real multifunctionality, compact dimensions, a small turning circle, high working and operating comfort in combination with sophisticated technical solutions - that's the MUVO. It can be used both in landscaping, road cleaning and winter maintenance and thanks to its high payload of 2.8 tons for special transport tasks as well.


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Two on the Trot!
Getting back to winning ways, especially with the rarity of an away win, should stand us in good stead as we now face two consecutive home games.
With fixtures against Wisla Kracow (Europa League) and Spurs (Premier League), the expectation levels have been raised with it hoped that we`ll witness two wins.
Mark Schwarzer, a Fulham veteran, believes two wins is a possibility, remarking ahead of the clash, this Thursday, with Wisla Kracow,
"You`ve got to show teams the utmost respect but anything can happen and we give ourselves every opportunity of getting a result."
"That has been the case ever since I have been at the club - whoever came to Craven Cottage we`ve always felt we`re in with a chance."
But, pushed to choose, if you could guarantee which of those two games we`d prefer to win, is the answer a no-brainer?
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An Open Letter to QUT's Dr James Dale, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Convention on Biological Diversity.
Dear Dr Dale, QUT, Gates Foundation and CBD Delegates,
The Gates Foundation has invested 15 million dollars in Dr James Dale's GMO so-called 'super-bananas' developed at QUT. The project is being touted as philanthropy with a humanitarian purpose in combating micronutrient deficiency. The GMO bananas, grown in Australia, are currently in Iowa in the US undergoing what Scientific American calls Market Trials – that is, trials that have been designed for marketing purposes, rather than thorough clinical trials. While the Market Trials are gaining considerable media attention for the project, it is not at all clear that the GMO banana project is truly a charitable exercise. It is however a clear case of biopiracy.
Fe'i bananas (Musa troglodytarum L.) are a traditional food across the Asia-Pacific, found in an area ranging from Maluku in Indonesai to Tahiti and Hawaii in the Pacific. In 1788, Daniel Solander, accompanying botanist Joseph Banks and James Cook on the voyage of the Endeavour, noted several varieties of Fe'i bananas used in Tahiti. Artist Paul Gauguin's paintings Le Repas (The Meal), La Orana Maria (The Virgin Mary) and Tahitian Landscape, painted in 1891, depict these red-orange bananas. In Indonesia they are known as pisang tongkat langit (sky cane bananas) because of the distinctive upright fruiting stem.
Until recently local consumption of Fe'i bananas across the region had been largely displaced by imported food cultures. In the early 2000's US researcher Lois Englberger, living in Micronesia, after searching for sources of vitamin A in the traditional diet in Micronesia, found that Micronesian 'Karat' bananas – so called because of their orange flesh and high beta-carotene content – had been traditionally used as an infant weaning food. She presented her work on high beta-carotene local bananas at a symposium in Penang in 2004. Until then, few scientists were aware that there were orange fleshed bananas high in beta-carotene or that bananas could be used for addressing vitamin A deficiency. At the time, the existence of high beta-carotene local bananas drew much global media attention.
Englberger continued working with local communities and governments in the pacific to reintroduce the use of these highly nutritious local bananas as a means of promoting a healthy diet for local islanders until her death in 2011. Unlike Dr Dale and the Gates Foundation, she did not require a patent or GMOs. Based on Englberger's work, the Federated States of Micronesia have an ongoing program to bring back and encourage the cultivation and consumption of these local banana varieties. Englberger's work with the Island Food Community of Pohnpei in FSM has seen the use of these varieties widely adopted in a campaign called 'Let's Go Local!' The program has been so successful that the Karat banana has been adopted as the state emblem of Pohnpei and stamps have been issued featuring the Karat banana.
Englberger's work included nutritional surveying of pacific banana cultivars in Australia held in collection by the Queensland Department of Primary Industries collected 25 years earlier from Papua New Guinea, including the Asupina variety from which Dr Dale has taken the banana gene for beta-carotene. The Asupina is not a wild variety as Dr Dale has claimed – it is a domesticated cultivar from PNG. It is also not unpleasant to eat as Dr Dale has also claimed. As Englberger was at pains to point out, there are Fe'i banana varieties that are delicious when eaten raw, and others when baked or boiled.
(Paul Gauguin, Tahitian Landscape, 1891)
Dr Dale's globe trotting GMO bananas are a globe trotting case of biopiracy. Their gene for beta-carotene comes from the PNG Asupina variety. The traditional knowledge they have used comes from Micronesia and Englberger's work. The Q-DPI collection from which Jeff Daniels sourced the Asupina variety should have been a collection held in public trust. Moreover, their gene for disease resistance comes from Maluku in Indonesia. Their GMO 'super banana' project on which Dr Dale holds multiple patents for 'banana transformation' now proposes to sell these purloined treasures back to the world as their patented product from which they can derive royalties and to which they can determine access is being offered up as an act of charity. Rather this is an act of biopiracy. It is an act of biocolonialism.
Paul Gauguin, Le Repas (The Meal), 1891
Dr Dale has given lectures in Indonesia supported by the Australian Embassy in Jakarta where he has claimed bananas are going extinct, selectively ignoring the many hundreds of biodiverse varieties of banana that are the collective living cultural heritage of Africans, Asians and Pacific peoples, the very diversity on which he has have based his GMO bananas, while his real purposes appear to be bioprospecting of local banana varieties. Gates Foundation has accrued its wealth from Microsoft's aggressive pursuit of patent infringement and piracy of their software and technology, however, they do not hesitate to participate in the biopiracy of the banana biodiversity and traditional knowledge that is the cultural and biological heritage of generations of local communities and farmers in PNG and Micronesia.
Bananas are widely used traditionally as an infant weaning food. As noted, the 'Karat' banana is Pohnpei is used for this purpose. In Indonesia, the first meal for babies is banana. Slow Food Yogyakarta have a banana biodiversity project and several varieties have been nominated for the Slow Food Ark of Taste – including varieties from the Sultan of Yogyakarta's kraton gardens – perhaps the proponents of GMO bananas would like to get their hands on the Sultan of Yogyakarta's banana genes? A local school in Lampug, Sumatra has educational gardens which includes local banana biodiversity – perhaps they would like to steal from the mouths of those children? Babies and infants are particularly sensitive to the foods they consume hence the issue of GMOs in baby food is a contentious one in the West – why should Africans and Asians or any peoples be made to forcefeed their children with their patented GMOs?
We need more committed researchers like Lois Englberger working in tandem and partnership with local communities for real solutions to hunger and malnutrition. We do not need biopirates and biocolonialists like Dr Dale and Gates Foundation falsely claiming invention and monopoly rights over these local community controlled resources and biodiverse solutions for hunger and nutrition.
Dr Dale himself admits that the GMO bananas are a door-opener designed to facilitate the uptake of many more GMO crops in Africa and globally. The GMO 'super-bananas' are an expensive distraction away from real solutions for vitamin A deficiency. We do not need to waste time and millions on GMOs when we have viable existing solutions that are based on biodiversity and available right now, not in 2020. The problem of expensive patented medicinces hindering access to affordable healthcare in poorer nations is serious. Packaging the fight against malnutrition in the form of a patented GMO 'super-banana' on which millions of dollars have been wasted owned by a few rich white men only threatens to exacerbate this problem. Moreover, malnutrition is a complex problem that cannot be solved by monocultural solutions whether of the mind or of the field, not by 'Golden Rice' nor the cartoon solution of GMO 'super-bananas'.
Paul Gauguin, La Orana Maria (The Virgin Mary), 1891
Mantasa's work with local communities has shown that there are many diverse sources of vitamin A to be found in local biodiversity. In Indonesia these include purslane Portulaca oleracea, 43 gm of which provides 568 IU of vitamin A, which is 11% of daily required intake of vitamin A as well as providing 15% of daily vitamin C and 1% of daily folate requirement. The leaves of Moringa Moringa oleifera provide 7564 IU of vitamin A which is 252% of daily vitamin A requirement, per 100 grams of fresh leaves. In fact, Tanzania, Uganda's neighbour, has a program promoting the use of Moringa leaf in local diets to eliminate vitamin A deficiency. Ugandans also grow sweet potato, a staple food which is rich in vitamin A. The GMO banana project aims at 20 IU of vitamin A per gram of banana, a quite high amount, while Ugandans consume banana as a staple food. Excessive amounts of vitamin A can also be damaging to health as vitamin A is fat soluble and stored in the liver, excessive amounts can result in health problems such as liver damage.
Dr Dale and Gates Foundation must surely be aware that previous human feeding trials of so-called 'Golden Rice' in the US and in China have been plagued with violations of research ethics and are currently mired in international scandal. In Boston, Tufts University's Institutional Review Board has suspended the lead Chinese researcher from the Tufts human trials of 'Golden Rice' from her permission to conduct human subject researcher after admitting there were serious irregularities and violations of ethics in the human feeding trials of 'Golden Rice' carried out in Hunan. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition which published the Tufts study is reportedly retracting the article due to these violations of ethics. Nevertheless the Tufts study is positively referred to in the Australian government's OGTR risk assessment for the GMO 'super-bananas'.
Taking resources away from communities can only be done violently. The GMO banana project has begun violently, with the unacknowledged theft of traditional knowledge and cultural heritage of local communities and farmers in PNG and Micronesia, whose traditional knowledge and biological heritage has now been enclosed in patents for 'banana transformation'. It is continuing violently now with the Market Trials on unsuspecting human subjects in Iowa, female students, who are being paid 900 dollars to turn themselves into human guinea pigs, or rather, Mongolian gerbils, while no safety tests for human consumption of the GMO bananas have been done.
It is an inauspicious beginning and certainly bananas have a bloody history. A 2011 article in the New Yorker on the GMO bananas, in which the vitamin A bananas barely rate a mention, suggests that the GMO banana project's larger ambition is to enter the international banana trade, setting itself up as the United Fruit Co. of the 21st Century. Perhaps that is why the GMO banana project is focused on India and Uganda – the first and second biggest producers of bananas (See: 'We Have No Bananas' in The New Yorker by Mike Peed, January 10, 2011). The New Yorker article suggests the real intended market for the GMO banana is the rich western consumer for whom bananas remain one of the most popular fruits.
Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait Along the Border Line Between Mexico and the United States, 1932
Tellingly, The New Yorker article notes that United Fruit, from which we get the common phrase 'banana republic' was kept in force by means of coups, massacres, dictatorships, and, in the case of Guatemala, was a contributing factor in at least one genocide in Latin America. United Fruit was known as El Pulpo (The Octopus), for its machinations and was a key player behind the political instability and violent revolutionary foment ignited in Latin America during much of the 20th Century. The last public act of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo was to protest the US intervention in Guatemala on behalf of United Fruit. Frida's husband Diego Rivera depicted the US-sponsored coup in Guatemala in his 1954 mural 'Glorious Victory'.
Violently enforced monopolies in trade are something that Latin American, African, Asian and Pacific peoples know well. In Indonesia, the rule of the V.O.C. (Dutch East India Company) was established with the 1621 massacre of the Bandanese islanders in Maluku in order to gain monopoly control over the world's source of nutmeg. Every Indonesian school-child knows the book Max Havelaar, written by Edouard Dowes Dekker, a Dutchman who blew the whistle on the inquities of the Dutch colonial cultuurstelsel, or forced cultivation system, imposed on Indonesia's peasants, who were required to grow cash crops for export and turn these over to the colonial authorities – what Indonesians refer to as tanam paksa (enforcement planting). Indonesia's most famous author Pramoedya Ananta Toer has called Max Havelaar, 'the book that "killed" colonialism". The GMO 'super-banana' project's recipe for seed and life patent monopolies is hardly different from the Dutch colonial forced 'cultivation system' that Indonesian peoples know so well. It is colonialism re-invented as intellectual property. GMOs are no miracle solution for hunger and malnutrition. GMO's are a recipe for 'super-weeds' not 'super-bananas'.
Diego Rivera, Glorious Victory, 1954
In 100 Years of Solitude, the late Columbian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez provides a fictionalised version of the December 6 1928 Columbian banana massacre in which Marquez's hero survives the massacre and returns to Macondo, only to find that all memory of the massacre is being systematically erased. However, today we say that we do not forget. We say there must be no GMO banana republic. Thus Mantasa is launching today, on October 2, 2014, Gandhi Jayanti, the anniversary of Gandhi's birthday, and UN International Day of Non-Violence, a pledge of non-cooperation with the GMO banana project, and we invite groups, organisations and individuals to join us in a pledge of creative non-violent resistance, in partnership with biodiversity, cultural diversity, diversity in traditional knowledge and our mother earth's diverse richness in species. We invite people everywhere to join with us in pledging non-violent non-cooperation with the GMO 'super-bananas' and other mad acts of biopiracy and biocolonialism as pseudo-solutions for hunger and malnutrition.
We say, 'No GMO Banana Republic. Stop Banana Biopiracy!'
Mantasa, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia, 2 October 2014
When the trumped sounded
everything was prepared on earth,
and Jehovah gave the world
to Coca-Cola Inc., Anaconda,
Ford Motors, and other corporations.
The United Fruit Company
reserved for itself the most juicy
piece, the central coast of my world,
the delicate waist of America.
It rebaptized these countries
Banana Republics,
and over the sleeping dead,
over the unquiet heroes
who won greatness,
liberty, and banners
it established a comic opera:
it abolished free will,
gave out imperial crowns,
encouraged envy, attracted
the dictatorship of flies:
Trujillo flies, Tachos flies
Carias flies, Martinez flies,
Ubico flies, flies sticky with
submissive blood and marmalade,
drunken flies that buzz over
the tombs of the people,
circus flies, wise flies
expert at tyranny.
With the bloodthirsty flies
came the Fruit company,
amassed coffee and fruit
in ships which put to sea like
overloaded trays with the treasures
from our sunken lands.
Meanwhile the Indians fall
into the sugared depths of the
harbors and are buried in the
morning mists;
a corpse rolls, a thing without
name, a discarded number
a bunch of rotten fruit
thrown on the garbage heap.
-Pablo Neruda, La United Fruit Co.
http://www.musalit.org/seeMore.php?id=8855 Englberger, L., Darnton-Hill, I., Coyne, T., Fitzgerald, M.H. and Marks, G.C. 2003. Carotenoid-rich bananas: A potential food source for alleviating vitamin A deficiency. Food and Nutrition Bulletin 24(4):303-318.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6120-orange-banana-to-boost-kids-eyes.html & http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/jul/08/research.health
"We Have No Bananas' by Mike Peed, January 10, 2011http://www.newyorker.com/.../2011/01/10/we-have-no-bananas


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Oh, a little how-to on how I have this set up. Click on the images below to take you to my pin for more info. Then click on the same image on the Pinterest website for more info. Maybe you didn't need that extra info, but hey, just trying to be helpful. :)
One of my favorite boards that I have is my healthy eating board. Healthy, in this case, being defined by me as any food that uses healthy ingredients. It maybe the that my healthy eating board may feature a dessert, but that dessert will contain real food...no trans fat, no HFCS. Lots of made-from-scratch here.
This one was a huge hit! We eat some form of muffin every Friday morning. But what could be more convenient that opening the box, adding vegetable oil, egg, milk and about 20 minutes? Plus, lets face it...I haven't been able to make a muffin that actually looked good. Mine usually have very low crowns and they just don't taste as good as the box or the bakery.
Those days are in the past.
The kids flipped out about these blueberry muffins. They were a work of art.
My other pin to share is a passenger van that I actually like. Yeah, I said it. I like this one.
A Nissan NV3500. 12 passenger max. Super-duper nice interior. Plus it looks like a Nissan Titan on the outside.


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Ricky Moore made only one trip home to Augusta during his freshman year at Connecticut.
That trip, which came in early October 1995, apparently caused university officials to declare him ineligible Thursday.
The former Westside High School basketball star and teammate Kirk King will miss at least Sunday's nationally televised home game against top-ranked Kansas. Officials from Connecticut and the Big East Conference are investigating accusations the two players received improper gifts.
Published reports Thursday said King, the team's senior captain and starting center, and Moore accepted airline tickets in 1995.
Dorothy Moore, the player's mother, said her son has confirmed he accepted a free roundtrip airline ticket from Hartford to Augusta shortly before the start of his first fall practice at the school. She said the ticket came from an unidentified friend of Ray Allen, the former UConn star now in his rookie season with the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks.
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"When you're a long way from home, you buddy up with someone and you think they're your friend," said Mrs. Moore, who spoke with Ricky by telephone Wednesday night. "He said he didn't know the guy was Ray's agent. I told him he has to take his knocks. He knew better. Ricky already was aware things like that could happen."
If the airline ticket was the only thing Moore accepted, his long-term eligibility probably won't be compromised. Typically, the NCAA asks the player to reimburse the donor for the cost of the ticket and a short suspension is handed down.
A Delta Airlines agent said Thursday that a 21-day advance flight roundtrip from Hartford to Augusta cost $471.
"I'm hoping the ticket is all that Ricky accepted," Mrs. Moore said. "I asked him if he's involved in anything else, and he assured me that he's not."
Moore, a 6-foot-2 sophomore point guard, is averaging 8.2 points and 6.5 assists for the 11-3 Huskies. He has started every game for UConn despite suffering a deviated septum in a season-opening loss to Indiana and a sprained ankle this week.
On Wednesday night, athletic director Lew Perkins spoke with reporters during an impromptu news conference to acknowledge the possible violation. Perkins, the athletic director and basketball coach at USC-Aiken from 1969-79, plans to submit a report to the NCAA today detailing the results of an internal investigation.
"The university, along with the Big East Conference, will work with the NCAA to determine when the student-athlete's eligibility to compete will be reinstated," the school said in a Thursday statement.
The university has not revealed how it learned of the possible violations, only saying it became aware of them earlier this week and wanted to deal with the situation as quickly as possible.
Moore's mother said she and her husband, Buck Moore, were surprised to see their son visit in October 1995. They questioned Ricky about the source of the ticket but assumed it was a gift from his former boss, Bob Cook, owner of American Yard Products in Augusta.
"We're not rich people," Dorothy Moore said. "When Ricky was working for Mr. Cook, Mr. Cook would help him out from time to time. I just assumed this ticket came from Mr. Cook, too. .°.°. I guess it was our fault, not really bearing down on Ricky."
Dorothy Moore is a registered nurse. Buck Moore, a PGA Tour caddy who works with golfer Kelly Gibson, is in Indian Wells, Calif., at the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic.
Mrs. Moore said the important thing now is for her son not to let the investigation affect his attitude or his schoolwork.
"He's been so plagued with injuries since he's been at Connecticut," she said. "Ricky's spirits have been down and he was just getting back up. I think he's handling this investigation pretty good. .°.°.
"I told him straight out: You knew what you did was wrong. Now take your lumps, hold your head up and keep hitting those books.'°"
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
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The Cowboys couldn't have asked for a better bye week.
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1. Work System Definition and Special Cases
Definition. The central idea in work system theory (WST) is that "work system" is a natural unit of analysis for thinking about systems in organizations. In organizational settings, work is the application of human, informational, physical, and other resources to produce products/services.
A work system is a system in which human participants and/or machines perform work (processes and activities) using information, technology, and other resources to produce specific products/services for specific internal and/or external customers. Typical business organizations contain work systems that procure materials from suppliers, produce products, deliver products to customers, find customers, create financial reports, hire employees, coordinate work across departments, and perform many other functions. It is possible to think of an organization as a set of work systems.
Special cases. The work system concept is like a common denominator for many of the types of systems that operate within or across organizations. Special cases of the general category work system include information system, service system, project, supply chain, self-service work system, and totally automated work systems.
- An information system is a work system whose processes and activities are devoted to processing information through activities including capturing, transmitting, storing, retrieving, deleting, manipulating, and displaying information. Many information systems, such as accounting systems, include human participants who perform important activities. Other information systems, such as search engines, are totally automated.
- A service system is a work system that produces services for its customers. In typical business conversations service systems are assumed to be sociotechnical systems with human participants. Direct customer participation in sociotechnical service systems is often called co-production of services. Other service systems, such as search engines, may be totally automated.
- A project is a temporary work system designed to produce a set of products/ services, after which it ceases to exist.
- A supply chain is an inter-organizational work system devoted to procuring materials and other inputs required to produce a firm's products.
- In a self-service work system, such as selecting and purchasing products/services using an ecommerce web site, customers are primary participants who perform processes and activities by applying resources provided for their use in order to obtain information, make purchases, or achieve other goals.
- A totally automated work system is a work system in which all of the processes and activities are performed by computer programs, physical machines, and other devices. People who create and maintain those programs, machines, and other devices are not participants in those automated work systems. Rather, they are participants in other work systems that create or maintain automated work systems.
The relationship between work systems in general and the special cases implies that many of the same basic concepts apply to all of the special cases, which also have their own specialized vocabulary. In turn, this implies that much of the body of knowledge for the current information systems discipline can be organized around a work system core.
Many different degrees of overlap are possible between an information system and a work system that it supports. Many specific information systems exist to produce products/services that are of direct value to their customers, e.g., information services and Internet search. Other specific information systems exist to support other work systems, e.g., an information system that helps sales people do their work. For example, an information system might provide information for a non-overlapping work system, as happens when a commercial marketing survey provides information that a firm's marketing managers use in market analysis and planning. In other cases, an information system may be an integral part of a work system, as happens in self-service work systems and in highly automated manufacturing. In those cases, the work system cannot operate properly without the information system, and the information system has little significance outside of the work system.
Covering structure and change. As a complete perspective on work systems, WST needs to cover both a static view of a work system during a period when it is relatively stable and a dynamic view of how a work system changes over time. The work system framework (shown below) is a pictorial representation of a work system in terms of nine elements included in a basic understanding of the work system's form, function, and environment during a period when it is relatively stable, even though incremental changes may occur during that period. The work system life cycle model (shown below) is a pictorial representation of the iterative process through which work systems evolve over time through a combination of planned change (formal projects) and emergent (unplanned) change involving adaptations, workarounds, and experimentation.
2. Work System Framework
The work system framework is a useful basis for describing and analyzing an IT-reliant work system in an organization because its nine elements are part of a basic understanding of a work system. The framework outlines a work system's form, function, and environment. It emphasizes business rather than IT concerns. It covers situations that might or might not have a tightly defined business process and might or might not be IT-intensive. Of the nine elements in the work system framework:
- Processes and activities, participants, information, and technologies are viewed as completely within the work system.
- Customers and products/services may be partially inside and partially outside because customers often participate in the processes and activities within the work system and because products/services take shape within the work system.
- Environment, infrastructure, and strategies are viewed as largely outside the work system even though they have direct and indirect effects within the work system.
This slightly updated version of the work system framework replaces "products and services" with "products/services" and "work practices" with "processes and activities."
The definitions of the 9 elements of a work system are as follows:
Processes and activities include everything that happens within the work system. The term processes and activities is used instead of the term business process because many work systems do not contain highly structured business processes involving a prescribed sequence of steps, each of which is triggered in a pre-defined manner. Rather, the sequence and details of work in some work systems depend on the skills, experience, and judgment of the work system participants. In effect, "business process" is but one of a number of different perspectives for analyzing the activities within a work system. Other perspectives with their own valuable concepts and terminology include decision-making, communication, coordination, control, and information processing.
Participants are people who perform the work. Some may use computers and IT extensively, whereas others may use little or no technology. When analyzing a work system the more encompassing role of work system participant is more important than the more limited role of technology user (whether or not particular participants happen to be technology users). Customers are participants in many work systems, e.g., (e.g., patients in a medical exam, students in an educational setting, and clients in a consulting engagement).
Information includes codified and non-codified information that is used, created, captured, transmitted, stored, retrieved, manipulated, updated, displayed, and/or deleted by processes and activities. Typical informational entities include orders, invoices, warranties, schedules, income statements, reservations, medical histories, resumes, job descriptions, and job offers. The distinction between data and information is not important for understanding a work system since the only data/ information that is mentioned is information that is created, used or processed by the work system. Information within a work system includes information that is processed by computers and other information that is never computerized, such as the content of conversations, verbal commitments, and other unrecorded information/ knowledge that work system participants use as they perform processes and activities within the work system.
Technologies include tools (such as cell phones, projectors, spreadsheet software, and automobiles) and automated services (i.e., hardware/software configurations that perform totally automated activities). This distinction is crucial as work systems are decomposed during analysis and design activities into successively smaller subsystems, some of which are totally automated.
Product/services consist of information, physical things, social products such as agreements, intangibles such as entertainment or peace of mind, and/or actions produced by a work system for the benefit and use of its customers. The term "product/service" is used because the controversial distinction between products and services in marketing and service science is not important for WST even though product-like vs. service-like is the basis of a series of valuable design dimensions for characterizing and designing the things that a work system produces.
Customers are recipients of a work system's product/ services for purposes other than performing work activities within the work system. Since work systems exist to produce product/services for their customers, an analysis of a work system should consider who the customers are, what they want, and how they use whatever the work system produces. External customers are work system customers who are the enterprise's customers, whereas internal customers are work system customers who are employed by the enterprise, such as customers of a payroll work system.
Environment includes the relevant organizational, cultural, competitive, technical, regulatory, and demographic environment within which the work system operates, and that affects the work system's effectiveness and efficiency. Organizational aspects of the environment include stakeholders, policies and procedures, and organizational history and politics, all of which are relevant to the operational efficiency and effectiveness of many work systems. Factors in a work system's environment may have direct or indirect impacts on its performance results, aspiration levels, goals, and requirements for change. Analysis, design, evaluation, and/or research efforts that ignore important factors in the environment may overlook issues that degrade work system performance or even cause system failure.
Infrastructure includes relevant human, informational, and technical resources that are used by the work system but are managed outside of it and are shared with other work systems. From an organizational viewpoint rather than a purely technical viewpoint, infrastructure includes human infrastructure, informational infrastructure, and technical infrastructure, all of which can be essential to a work system's operation.
Strategies that are relevant to a work system include enterprise strategy, department strategy, and work system strategy. In general, strategies at the three levels should be in alignment, and work system strategies should support department and enterprise strategies. Unfortunately, strategies at any of the three levels may not be articulated or may be inconsistent with reality or with beliefs and understandings of important stakeholders.
3. Work System Life Cycle Model
The dynamic view of a work system starts with the work system life cycle (WSLC) model, which shows how a work system may evolve through multiple iterations of four phases: operation and maintenance, initiation, development, and implementation. The names of the phases were chosen to describe both computerized and non-computerized systems, and to apply regardless of whether application software is acquired, built from scratch, or not used at all.
This model encompasses both planned and unplanned change. Planned change occurs through a full iteration encompassing the four phases, i.e., starting with an operation and maintenance phase, flowing through initiation, development, and implementation, and arriving at a new operation and maintenance phase. Unplanned change occurs through fixes, adaptations, workarounds, and experimentation that can occur within any phase. The phases include the following activities:
Operation and maintenance
- Operation of the work system and monitoring of its performance
- Maintenance of the work system (which often includes at least part of the information systems that support it) by identifying small flaws and eliminating or minimizing them through fixes, adaptations, or workarounds.
- On-going improvement of processes and activities through analysis, experimentation, and adaptation
- Vision for the new or revised work system
- Operational goals
- Allocation of resources and clarification of time frames
- Economic, organizational, and technical feasibility of planned changes
- Detailed requirements for the new or revised work system (including requirements for information systems that support it)
- As necessary, creation, acquisition, configuration, and modification of procedures, documentation, training material, software, and hardware
- Debugging and testing of hardware, software, and documentation
- Implementation approach and plan (pilot? phased? big bang?)
- Change management efforts about the rationale and positive or negative impacts of changes
- Training on details of the new or revised information system and work system
- Conversion to the new or revised work system
- Acceptance testing
As an example of the iterative nature of a work system's life cycle, consider the sales system in a software start-up. The first sales system is the CEO selling directly. At some point the CEO can't do it alone, several salespeople are hired and trained, requiring production of marketing materials that can be used by someone less expert than the CEO. As the firm grows, the sales system becomes regionalized and an initial version of sales tracking software is developed and used. Later, the firm changes its sales system again to accommodate needs to track and control a larger sales force and predict sales several quarters in advance. A subsequent iteration might involve the acquisition and configuration of CRM software. The first iteration of the work system starts with an initiation phase. Each subsequent iteration involves deciding that the current sales system is insufficient; initiating a project that may or may not involve significant changes in software; developing the resources such as procedures, training materials, and software that are needed to support the new version of the work system; and finally, implementing the new work system.
The pictorial representation of the work system life cycle model places the four phases at the vertices of rectangle. Forward and backward arrows between each successive pair of phases indicate the planned sequence of phrase and allow the possibility of returning to a previous phase if necessary. To encompass both planned and unplanned change, each phase has an inward facing arrow to denote unanticipated opportunities and unanticipated adaptations, thereby recognizing the importance of diffusion of innovation, experimentation, adaptation, emergent change, and path dependence.
The work system life cycle model is fundamentally different from the frequently cited system development life cycle (SDLC), which actually describes projects that attempt to produce software or produce changes in a work system. Current versions of the SDLC may contain iterations but they are basically iterations within a project. More important, the system in the SDLC is a basically a technical artifact that is being programmed. In contrast, the system in the WSLC is a work system that evolves over time through multiple iterations. That evolution occurs through a combination of defined projects and incremental changes resulting from small adaptations and experimentation. In contrast with control-oriented versions of the SDLC, the WSLC treats unplanned changes as part of a work system's natural evolution.
4. Work System Method
The work system method (WSM) was developed as a semi-formal systems analysis and design method that business professionals (and/or IT professionals) can use for understanding and analyzing a work system at whatever level of depth is appropriate for their particular concerns. It evolved iteratively starting in around 1997. At each stage, the then current version was tested by evaluating the areas of success and the difficulties experienced by MBA and EMBA students trying to use that version to produce a management briefing and tentative recommendation about a work system in an organization that employed them or one of their teammates. Many versions of a work system analysis template have been used by universities as part of the basic explanation of systems in organizations, to help students focus on business issues, and to help student teams communicate.
Results from analyses of real world systems by typical employed MBA and EMBA students indicate that a systems analysis method for business professionals should be much more prescriptive than approaches such as Checkland's soft system methodology, but less complex than high-precision notations and diagramming tools for IT professionals. While not a straitjacket, it must be at least somewhat procedural and must provide vocabulary and analysis concepts. At the same time, it should encourage performing the analysis at whatever level of detail is appropriate for the task at hand.
A problem solving approach. WSM is organized around a general problem-solving outline that includes the following:
- Identify the problem or opportunity
- Identify the work system that has that problem or opportunity (plus relevant constraints and other considerations)
- Use the work system framework to summarize the work system
- Gather relevant data.
- Analyze the situation using measures of performance, key incidents, root cause analysis, implications of structural characteristics, work system principles, and other factors.
- Identify possibilities for improvement.
- Decide what to recommend
- Justify the recommendation by explaining how work system performance should improve, expressed in terms of relevant metrics, principles and other factors.
Focus on work systems, not IT. . In contrast to systems analysis and design methods for IT professionals who need to produce a rigorous, totally consistent definition of a computerized system, WSM has the following characteristics:
- WSM encourages the user to decide how deep to go in the analysis. It is not necessary to specify everything that is needed to produce software because that will be done by IT professionals.
- WSM makes explicit use of the work system framework and work system life cycle model, thereby providing an organized vocabulary for describing and analyzing a work system.
- WSM treats the "as is" and "to be" systems as work systems, not IT systems, thereby providing more of a management and business focus than typical IT-oriented methods. Recommended changes and requirements are changes and requirements for the work system, not just the IT system.
- WSM treats work system participants as part of the system (not just users of the software)
- WSM makes explicit use of characteristics and metrics for the work system and its elements.
- WSM includes codified and non-codified information
- WSM includes IT and non-IT technologies.
- WSM suggests that recommendations specify which work system improvements rely on IS changes, which recommended work system changes don't rely on IS changes, and which recommended IS changes won't affect the work system's operational form.
5. Work System Metamodel
The Figure below is the sixth version of a metamodel that reinterprets elements of the work system framework to support more detailed analysis and design of work systems than is supported directly by the work system framework. Earlier versions were presented at conferences and published in the journal Service Science.. The need for the metamodel became apparent when users of the work system framework found it very helpful for discussing a work system's scope, but not as helpful for explaining in detail exactly what information and other resources are used by each step in a business process.
Since the metamodel itself looks quite complicated, an explanation below will summarize some of the individual ideas and relationships that it expresses. It won't seem as complicated when viewed piece-by-piece.
Starting at the top, the metamodel (version six) says the following:
- Enterprises and value constellations (value streams that cross enterprises) consist of work systems.
- Work systems always contain at least one activity. They may contain one or more business processes if a set of activities is sufficiently interrelated and sequential to qualify as a process.
- Activities use resources to produce one or more product/service from activity that may be used as a resource for subsequent activities and/or may contribute to a product/service offering for a customer. A product/service offering may combine multiple product/services from activities. Thus, only some of the product/services from activities are included in product/service offerings that are received or used by customer work systems, and hence by customers.
- Product/service offerings may or may not be governed by a service level agreement. Formal service level agreements are essential in some situations, especially for service offerings defined through extensive negotiations, but are unnecessary in other situations.
- Customer work systems create value for customers using their own resources plus product/service offerings produced by the provider work system. (Different views of value and value creation are discussed in this website's section on research papers related to service systems).
- Resources used by an activity may include human resources (participants), informational resources, technological resources, and other resources. The metamodel includes specific types within each resource type to minimize the likelihood of omissions in an analysis.
- Activities are performed by actor roles.
- Actor roles can be performed by three types of entities, noncustomer participants, customer participants, and encapsulated services. In medicine, a doctor is a noncustomer participant, the patient is a customer participant, and software that automatically identifies drug interactions is an encapsulated service.
- Encapsulated services may be automated services like (totally automated) search engines or sociotechnical services that happen to be encapsulated, such as performing pathology evaluations. The computer science idea of encapsulation is important because it says that a service is launched based on a specific service request and that the person or automated entity that made the request receives a response to the request but has no interaction with its execution by the encapsulated service.
- The outcome of activities that use human resources (participants) depends on attributes of those participants, such as knowledge/expertise, skills/capabilities, performance metrics, and motives.
- Technological resources used in an activity may include tools used directly by participants (e.g., a truck) or automated services that perform work autonomously after being launched (e.g., a search engine).
- Informational resources may include many types of informational entities such as transaction records, plans, forecasts, goals, guidelines, rules, structures, commitments and other information such as documents, video, images, messages, and even conversations.
- Other resources used by an activity may include physical entities; time; resources from the environment such as organizational culture, laws, standards, regulations, and policies; and resources from shared infrastructure including shared human resources, shared informational resources, and shared technical resources.
- Both the work system and customer work system may interact with other work systems with positive and/or negative impacts on the operation of either work system.