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Juglans regia
|Juglans regia
|Mature walnut tree
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|Juglans regia
Juglans duclouxiana Dode
Juglans regia, Persian walnut, English walnut, or especially in Great Britain, common walnut, is an Old World walnut tree species native to the region stretching from the Balkans eastward to the Himalayas and southwest China. The largest forests are in Kyrgyzstan, where trees occur in extensive, nearly pure walnut forests at 1,000–2,000 m altitude[1]—notably at Arslanbob in Jalal-Abad Province. It is widely cultivated across Europe.
Juglans regia is a large, deciduous tree attaining heights of 25–35 m, and a trunk up to 2 m diameter, commonly with a short trunk and broad crown, though taller and narrower in dense forest competition. It is a light-demanding species, requiring full sun to grow well.
The bark is smooth, olive-brown when young and silvery-grey on older branches, and features scattered broad fissures with a rougher texture. Like all walnuts, the pith of the twigs contains air spaces; this chambered pith is brownish in color. The leaves are alternately arranged, 25–40 cm long, odd-pinnate with 5–9 leaflets, paired alternately with one terminal leaflet. The largest leaflets are the three at the apex, 10–18 cm long and 6–8 cm broad; the basal pair of leaflets are much smaller, 5–8 cm long, with the margins of the leaflets entire. The male flowers are in drooping catkins 5–10 cm long, and the female flowers are terminal, in clusters of two to five, ripening in the autumn into a fruit with a green, semifleshy husk and a brown, corrugated nut. The whole fruit, including the husk, falls in autumn; the seed is large, with a relatively thin shell, and edible, with a rich flavour.
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The Latin name for the walnut was nux Gallica, "Gallic nut";[2] the Gaulish region of Galatia in Anatolia lies in highlands at the western end of the tree's presumed natural distribution.
For the etymology and meaning of the word in English and other Germanic languages, see "walnut".
"Walnut" does not distinguish the tree from other species of Juglans. Other names include common walnut in Britain; Persian walnut in South Africa[3] and Australia;[4] and English walnut in North America and Great Britain,[5] New Zealand,[6] and Australia,[4] the latter name possibly because English sailors were prominent in Juglans regia nut distribution at one time.[7] Alternatively, Walter Fox Allen stated in his 1912 treatise What You Need to Know About Planting, Cultivating and Harvesting this Most Delicious of Nuts:[8] "In America, it has commonly been known as English walnut to distinguish it from our native species."
In the Chinese language, the edible, cultivated walnut is called 胡桃 (hú táo in Mandarin), which means literally "Hu peach", suggesting the ancient Chinese associated the introduction of the tree into East Asia with the Hu barbarians of the regions north and northwest of China. In Mexico, it is called nogal de Castilla,[9] suggesting the Mexicans associated the introduction of the tree into Mexico with Spaniards from Castile (as opposed to the black walnuts native of America).
The Old English term wealhhnutu is a late book-name (Old English Vocabularies, Wright & Wulker), so the remark that the Anglo-Saxons inherited the walnut tree from the Romans does not follow from this name. Old English: walhhnutu is wealh (foreign) + hnutu (nut). Etymologically it "meant the nut of the Roman lands (Gaul and Italy) as distinguished from the native hazel" according to the Oxford English Dictionary.
Distribution and habitat
Original habitat
Juglans regia is native to the mountain ranges of Central Asia, extending from Xinjiang province of western China, parts of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and southern Kirghizia and from lower ranges of mountains in Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet, northern India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, through Afghanistan, Turkmenistan and Iran to portions of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia and eastern Turkey. In these countries, there is a great genetic diversity, in particular ancestral forms with lateral fruiting. During its migration to western Europe, the common walnut lost this character and became large trees with terminal fruiting. A small remnant population of these J. regia trees have survived the last glacial period in Southern Europe,[citation needed] but the bulk of the wild germplasm found in the Balkan peninsula and much of Turkey was most likely introduced from eastern Turkey by commerce and settlement several thousand years ago.[citation needed]
Introduction around the world
In the fourth century BC, Alexander the Great introduced this "Persian nut" (Theophrastus' καρυα ή Περσική[10]) in Macedonian and Greek ancestral forms with lateral fruiting from Iran and Central Asia. They hybridized with terminal-bearing forms to give lateral-bearing trees with larger fruit.[clarification needed] These lateral-bearers were spread in southern Europe and northern Africa by Romans. Recent prospections in walnut populations of the Mediterrean Basin allowed to select interesting trees of this type. In the Middle Ages, the lateral-bearing character was introduced again in southern Turkey by merchants travelling along the Silk Road. J. regia germplasm in China is thought to have been introduced from Central Asia about 2000 years ago, and in some areas has become naturalized. Cultivated J. regia was introduced into western and northern Europe very early, in Roman times or earlier, and to the Americas in the 17th century, by English colonists. Important nut-growing regions include France, Serbia, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary in Europe; China in Asia; Baja California and Coahuila in Mexico, and Chile in Latin America. Lately, cultivation has spread to other regions, such as New Zealand and the southeast of Australia.[11] It is cultivated extensively from 30° to 50° of latitude in the Northern Hemisphere and from 30° to 40° in the Southern Hemisphere. Its high-quality fruits are eaten both fresh or pressed for their richly flavored oil; numerous cultivars have been selected for larger nuts with thinner shells.
It is also cultivated as a handsome ornamental specimen tree in parks and large gardens. As such, it has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.[12]
See list of most planted cultivars in article Walnut
J. regia 'Buccaneer' produces an abundant crop of seeds. A self-fertile cultivar, it produces pollen over a long period and is thus a valuable pollinator for other cultivars. The tree is about the same size as an open-pollinated walnut, it comes into leaf very late and so usually avoids damage by late frosts.
Life cycle
Nutritional value
A study of ten cultivars of J. regia in Turkey showed significant variations in fatty acid content of the nuts:[13]
- 62% - 71% fat
- saturated fat (as a percentage of total fatty acids):
- unsaturated fat (as a percentage of total fatty acids):
- 21.2% - 40.2% oleate (monounsaturated fat)
- 43.9% - 60.1% linoleate (diunsaturated)
- 6.9% - 11.5% linolenate (triunsaturated)
Potential biological effects
Walnuts and other tree nuts are important food-allergen sources that have the potential to be associated with life-threatening, IgE-mediated allergic reactions in some individuals.[14][15]
Certain extracts of walnuts have in vitro antioxidant and antiproliferative activity due to a high phenolic content.[16]
Juglans regia is used to treat diabetes mellitus symptoms in Austrian traditional medicine, whereby air-dried leaves are used as aqueous decoction or liquor preparation and are consumed on a daily basis.[17]
In Skopelos, a Greek island in the Aegean Sea, local legend suggests whoever plants a walnut tree will die as soon as the tree can "see" the sea.[citation needed] Most planting is done by field rats (subfamily Murinae). In Flanders, a folk saying states: "By the time the tree is big, the planter surely will be dead." (Dutch: 'Boompje groot, plantertje dood). These sayings refer to the relatively slow growth rate and late fruiting of the tree.
Benevento in southern Italy is the home of an ancient tradition of stregoneria. The witches of Benevento were reputed to come from all over Italy to gather for their sabbats under the sacred walnut tree of Benevento. This legend inspired many cultural works, including the 1812 ballet Il Noce di Benevento (the walnut tree of Benevento) by Salvatore Viganò and Franz Xaver Süssmayr, a theme from which was adapted into a violin piece called Le Streghe by Niccolò Paganini. The Beneventan liqueur Strega depicts on its label the famous walnut tree with the witches dancing under it.
In rural villages of the Rađevian region of western Serbia, the head of household would crack a walnut on Christmas morning. If the walnut was sound, it was thought that the coming year would be prosperous. If the walnut was shrivelled, the head of household would avert the bad omen by running three times around his house, at the same time shouting what could be paraphrased as "Do not listen, God, to Jack, who is full of cack."[18]
Walnut trees grow best in rich, deep soil with full sun and long summers, such as the California central valley. In the U.S., J. regia is often grafted onto a rootstock of a native black walnut, Juglans hindsii to provide disease resistance. Other plants often will not grow under walnut trees because the fallen leaves and husks contain juglone, a chemical which acts as a natural herbicide. Horses that eat walnut leaves may develop laminitis, a hoof ailment. Mature trees may reach 50 feet (15 m) in height and width, and live more than 200 years, developing massive trunks more than 8 feet (2.4 m) thick.
Other uses
Walnut heartwood is a heavy, hard, open-grained hardwood. Freshly cut live wood may be Dijon-mustard colour, darkening to brown over a few days. The dried lumber is a rich chocolate-brown to black, with cream to tan sapwood, and may feature unusual figures, such as "curly", "bee's wing", "bird's eye", and "rat tail", among others. It is prized by fine woodworkers for its durability, lustre and chatoyance, and is used for high-end flooring, guitars, furniture, veneers, knobs and handles as well as gunstocks.
See also
- ↑ Hemery 1998
- ↑ Online Etymology Dictionary - "Walnut"
- ↑ L.C. van Zyl "Grafting of Walnut (Juglans regia L.) with Hot Callusing Techniques Under South African Conditions", University of the Free State, 2009 http://etd.uovs.ac.za/ETD-db//theses/available/etd-09172009-160603/unrestricted/VanZylLC.pdf
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Walnuts Australia - Nuts". Austnuts.com.au. Retrieved 2012-08-23.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ D.S. Hill, Skegness, Lincs, United Kingdom: Pests of Crops in Warmer Climates and Their Control p.651, Springer Science+Business Media, 2008
- ↑ "Ornamental Tree Photography - NZ Plant Pics Photography ornamental garden trees". Nzplantpics.com. Retrieved 2012-08-23.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
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- ↑ http://apps.rhs.org.uk/plantselector/plant?plantid=1067
- ↑ Ozkhan, Gulcan; Koyuncu, M. Ali (2005). "Physical and chemical composition of some walnut ( Juglans regia L) genotypes grown in Turkey". Grasas y Aceites (free)
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- ↑ Teuber, Suzanne S.; Jarvis, Koren C.; Dandekar, Abhaya M.; Peterson, W. Rich; Ansari, Aftab A. (1999). "Identification and cloning of a complementary DNA encoding a vicilin-like proprotein, Jug r 2, from English walnut kernel (Juglans regia), a major food allergen". Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 104 (6): 1311–1320. doi:10.1016/S0091-6749(99)70029-1.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ http://foodallergens.ifr.ac.uk/food.lasso?selected_food=53
- ↑ Negi, A. S.; Luqman, S.; Srivastava, S.; Krishna, V.; Gupta, N.; Darokar, M. P. (2011). "Antiproliferative and antioxidant activities of Juglans regia fruit extracts". Pharm Biol. 49 (6): 669–673. doi:10.3109/13880209.2010.537666.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Pitschmann A, Zehl M, Atanasov AG, Dirsch VM, Heiss E, Glasl S. Walnut leaf extract inhibits PTP1B and enhances glucose-uptake in vitro. J Ethnopharmacol. 2014 Mar 28;152(3):599-602. doi: 10.1016/j.jep.2014.02.017. PubMed PMID 24548753.
- ↑ Đurđev, Aleksandar (1988). "Божић" (in Serbian). Рађевина: обичаји, веровања и народно стваралаштво. Krupanj: Aleksandar Đurđev.
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- Chauhan, N., Wang, K.C., Wegiel, J. and Malik, M.N. (2004) "Walnut Extract Inhibits the Fibrillization of Amyloid Beta-Protein, and also Defibrillizes its Preformed Fibrils", Current Alzheimer Research, 1 (3), p. 183–188
- Hemery, G. E. (1998). Walnut seed-collecting expedition to Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia. Quarterly Journal of Forestry 92 (2): 153-157.
- Society for Neuroscience (2007). "News Release: Diet of walnuts, blueberries improve cognition; may help maintain brain function", Society for Neuroscience, 5 November 2007
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Schools often ask us if there is a prescribed set of information which has to be provided in order to be compliant with government legislation. This legislation was established in September 2012 and continues to evolve as regulatory demands change. Occasionally, local authorities will make recommendations for additional content to be shown on your school website. This is further compounded by the demands of schools within a diocesan setting. Please refer to your local setting for this guidance.
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The feedback we have gained leads us to recommend that, where possible, all information related to the regulatory matters are shown within one page. In order to help the school and the website visitor to fully deliver all of the information, we usually provide the bullet points from the government requirements, with supportive text, in the main body of the page, a little like you will see below. We then use sidebar content to provide the evidence to substantiate the bullet points. For example, where reference is made to OFSTED, within the sidebar we provide web links to OFSTED Parent View and also the OFSTED reports website. Likewise, where reference is made to policies or school statements and reports, we provide downloadable documents in the sidebar of the page.
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Each school chooses its own means how to display the most recent performance data relating to testing and assessment within schools. Tapiochre support this by including any textual information which the school offers so that it is displayed on the page under this heading. In addition, downloadable files which may contain significant detail about performance, in addition are website link to the Department of Education Performance Tables is usually also provided in the sidebar.
The Curriculum
- You must publish the following information about your school's curriculum:
- The content of the curriculum which your school follows in each academic year, for every subject
- With a relationship to pupils at key stage 4, a list of the courses available, including GCSEs, should be shown
- Information should be shown how parents or other members of the public can find out more about the curriculum which your school is following. Some schools use blogs to show what the year has been studying as a good evidence base, with downloadable files relating to each term's curriculum as an example.
- The names of any phonics or reading schemes in use in KS1
An appropriate method for displaying this information is to use downloadable documents in the sidebar of this page. For example, if schools use curriculum map files, with one file being used for each year group, then these maps can be shown as downloadable documents in the sidebar of this page. This is becoming a common approach and allows visitors to understand clearly a holistic approach to support for the curriculum.
Information which is related to reading and phonic schemes within key stage one is often found within the body of the page as clear text.
Policies and Documentation
- Although you may wish to do so in a different format, our experience is that provision of downloadable documents for the key policies and other reports is satisfactory for the purposes of the regulatory requirement and OFSTED. As such, the following are the policies and other documents which are required to be shown within your website:
Behaviour policy
- Some schools may call this the Discipline policy and they also include the Anti-bullying policy in this category.
Charging and Remissions policy
- Provide a copy of this policy
Equality Policy
- Provide a copy of this policy
Special Education Needs and Disabilities (SEND) information
- This includes your school policy addressing SEND which may include the SEND Local Offer or this Local Offer information may be provided by a separate document. Some schools follow the Local Offer devised by their local authority. If this is the case then a web link to the local authority webpage for the Local offer should be provided.
PE and Sport Premium for Primary Schools
- If your school receives PE and Sport Premium Funding, then you must publish details of how your school spends this funding and the effect that it has on pupils as far as PE and sport participation and attainment is involved. Essentially, this document will describe the amount of funding you allocated in a school year and will show how it was spent and the impact it had in terms of improvement for the children for whom they funding is allocated.
Pupil Premium & Year 7 Literacy and Numeracy Catchup Funding
- Schools must publish details of how the school spends its pupil premium funding and the impact which it has had on the attainment of the pupils who attract the funding.
- If your school receives year 7 literacy and numeracy catch-up premium funding, you must publish details of how your school spends this funding and the effect this has had on the attainment of the pupils who attract it.
Childcare information
- If your school runs childcare provision, for example a Nursery, a Holiday Club, a before or after school provision, then information should be provided to describe what the provision is, how it is run and managed.
Any policies, reports, statements and other associated documentation, often extending beyond the boundaries set by these top level regulator requirements, are generally frown on the sidebar of the page. Examples of documentation which is found here include; Safeguarding policy, British Values statements, Inclusion information, Radicalisation policy and other key documents which the school feels is relevant and necessary to provide.
- Schools must provide information about the Governing Body. For each member of the governing body, the following information should be provided:
- Governor's name
- The category of Governor to which they belong
- Which body appointed the Governor
- The term of office of the Governor
- The committee(s) upon which the Governor serves
- Details of any position of responsibility which the Governor holds, for example Chair, Vice Chair, Chair of committee and so on.
- This same information is required for any associate member of the Governing Body and should also show their voting rights.
- A detail register of Governors' interests.These can extend from financial interests in the school out to relationships that the governor has with members of the school itself or other schools.
- A register of attendance must be provided showing the meetings which are being held and the attendance percentage (or other information) for each governor related to each appropriate meeting.
The detail and extent of information required in this section has increased significantly since it was initially mandated. In addition, it has become necessary to show the information in plain text on the page rather than as a downloadable series of information files about the governing body, its functions and associated data. This has resulted in Tapiochre taking the approach to dedicate a page to the governing body. The information needed is tabulated so that all aspects of the governing body is provided to clearly in one place. A link to the governing body page is provided within this section to allow the visitor to quickly reach that information.
Values and Ethos
- Your school should provide statement which describes the ethos of your school and values to which it adheres.
Tapiochre normally extract the statements required from the school prospectus and include them in the body of the page here in plain text.
These are the top level regulatory requirements. Schools should note that simply having this information available on the website does not release them from their duty to provide hardcopies the same information, at no charge, to parents who so request it.
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The Voices for Children Foundation continually puts its money where its mouth is by dazzling guests at its annual gala. The purpose of it all? Raising funds for its mission to provide abused, neglected and abandoned children in Miami-Dade County with a guardian, should they find themselves entangled in a legal matter.
Chaired by Alan Drecksler and Rhonda Rose-Drecksler, with co-chairs Christian and Brittany Slater, the evening welcomed the likes of radio host personality Paul Castronovo, who served as host for the spirited live auction, and The Bachelor's own Juan Pablo Galavis, who had more than a few female guests clamoring for a close-up moment of their own.
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LONDON (AP) — Britain's Treasury chief offered a dampened view of the economy on Monday, warning that substantial savings must be gleaned from welfare cuts if the country is to eliminate the deficit.
The British economy has been enjoying a stronger recovery than most European countries, but George Osborne noted there are still big underlying problems.
He said 2014 is to be the "year of hard truths" and that the country faces a choice.
"Do we say: 'the worst is over; back we go to our bad habits of borrowing and spending and living beyond our means — and let the next generation pay the bill'?" he said.
Osborne told workers at a Birmingham company that supplies auto components that billions of pounds (dollars) in welfare cuts will be needed to reduce the deficit, which was swollen by the economic crisis.
The government deficit dropped to 5.2 percent of gross domestic product in the 2012-2013 fiscal year, from 7.6 percent in the previous one.
His sober message comes in stark contrast to the recent news on Britain's economy. Though the recovery from the 2008-2009 recession hasn't been electrifying, Britain is doing better than most other major economies around the world. Its quarterly growth rate of 0.8 percent in the third quarter is better than Germany's 0.3 percent and the overall European Union's 0.2 percent.
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No doubt some Americans, if they think about the French at all, entertain vague notions that our ostensible friends across the Atlantic are hygiene-challenged, eat strange, smelly food and like to walk around naked.
Here comes French actress and filmmaker Julie Delpy with a culture-clash comedy in which her character's hygiene-challenged father tries to smuggle strange, smelly food past customs, and her sister walks around the apartment naked.
Jokes this obvious shouldn't work at all, yet from time to time they do in "2 Days in New York" a sequel to Delpy's "2 Days in Paris" with a new love interest.
Marion (Delpy) is a photographer living with Mingus (Chris Rock) and their children from earlier relationships. Marion is two days from the biggest gallery opening of her life, and, of course, it's now that her father (Albert Delpy, the director's real-life dad) and sister Rose (Delpy's co-screenwriter Alexia Landeau) arrive for a visit.
The inevitable catastrophe is magnified by Rose's boyfriend, Manu (a brilliantly skeezy, clueless Alex Nahon), who's in New York basically to score weed and marvel at African-Americans and their gritty urban ways.
When he remarks that he'd make a great black person, Rock's expression seems to mingle stupefied disbelief with speculation about how hard one would have to hit this idiot to knock some sense into him.
Marion loves her impossible family, but she's also an artist, with an artist's occasional selfishness. Like every other working mother, her ceaseless, ever-shifting responsibilities are nibbling her to death.
Delpy's good at keeping Marion's complaints sharp and funny, rather than wan and whiny. Even so, the movie's a bumpy ride as her good farcical instincts vie with the yen for cheap laughs.
There's a very funny bit in a restaurant where, in front of someone Mingus is trying to impress, Marion and Rose begin bickering and smacking each other to the tune of a minor education in vulgar French slang.
Even better is the scene when Marion, unable to cope with an art critic's spectacularly passive-aggressive digs, becomes so unglued that she blurts, "Everybody hates you."
Compared with moments like that, it's a chore to encounter a close-up of a cat's hairball or a baby urinating during a diaper change.
Then, too, the denouement is rushed and pat, all but bringing the characters onstage for a curtain call.
Woody Allen's Manhattan-infused comedies are an obvious influence. Delpy definitely hasn't reached the point where she can withstand that comparison, but the best moments here suggest she may yet get there.


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The maintenance and facility management discipline is one of stunning diversity, ranging from basic upkeep at a single-site facility to asset management at a global enterprise. Unsurprisingly, there are a broad range of applications available to help facility managers control day-to-day operations. The global market for facility and maintenance software is projected to surpass $43 billion by 2019—almost doubling its current value of $24.7 billion.1 Commonly known as CMMS, or computerized maintenance management software, these solutions vary in complexity, price, and industry use, and without the right expertise, it can be difficult to choose the best CMMS software for your business. This buyer's guide will help you better understand what CMMS has to offer, how your organization can use it, how to narrow your search, and how to compare CMMS software products.
CMMS Software Overview
CMMS is an automated system for managing preventative and reactive maintenance of an organization's facilities and assets. It gives lower-level workers tools to work efficiently and enter data about repairs, parts, and materials, and gives managers control and visibility into maintenance histories, compliance, and the condition of company property.
By optimizing workflows for back-end upkeep and eliminating equipment downtime, CMMS helps organizations devote more time and resources to their bottom line.
Since it has built-in tools for asset management, many consider CMMS interchangeable with enterprise asset management (EAM), at least from a semantic standpoint, but there are important distinctions between the two. EAM solutions tend to offer deeper functionality for handling assets of any kind—whether physical machinery or IT equipment—with centralized access across an entire enterprise. CMMS systems, on the other hand, are more often limited to physical assets in a smaller network of facilities, or even a single site. That said, CMMS and EAM are not mutually exclusive; many CMMS systems even integrate with EAMs and other enterprise software, such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions.
Many maintenance management solutions are sold as modular products, which gives buyers the opportunity to custom-build solutions, paying only for the features they need. Some products can be as basic as a work-order module built into a property management system.
Common Features of CMMS Platforms
Regardless of industry vertical or product packaging, there are a handful of common features buyers can expect to see in almost any CMMS system:
- Work orders: scheduling and allocating jobs for repairs, inspection, or breakdown, and tracking progress from job open to job closeout, sometimes with built-in reporting features
- Job and materials costing: recording and standardizing a database of job and materials expenses to be used for prioritizing work, reporting, and accounting
- Asset management: helps organizations track and control their physical (and sometimes digital) assets by location and condition, recording relevant data on warranties, service schedules, technical specifications, parts inventories, etc.
- Inventory and procurement: ensures the upkeep of appropriate parts, tools, and materials levels, tracks specific inventory locations, and allows built-in order placement/purchasing or integrates with outside catalogs
- Regulatory compliance management: stores data and documentation to help managers comply with safety, permits, and industry standards and respond to audit requests
- Preventative maintenance automation: preempts equipment and facility failure by using time-based or meter-based triggers to prompt regular equipment servicing
- Condition Monitoring: monitors triggers like heat, pressure, flow, voltage, etc. in order to schedule work or materials orders and provide performance insight
- Labor resource tracking: stores personnel skill profiles for future job/skills matching (for example, and electrical job, or a mechanical job) and forecasting of new labor needs
- Reporting: CMMS can report on any number of facility and equipment-specific metrics, from failure codes to downtime, work order history, and peak use hours, as well as key performance indicators (KPIs) such as work order resolution or inventory variance
Common CMMS Applications
CMMS is a smart investment for any business that manages a high-priority, high-traffic facility or a collection of depreciable assets. For this reason, CMMS is widely used in many industries, including manufacturing, education, healthcare, construction, energy and utilities, the public sector, and even data centers.2 Within these industries the target market is primarily divided into three tiers:
- Simple Facilities: Simple facilities are generally single-site and have fairly basic maintenance management needs revolving around facility upkeep and one-off troubleshooting. Managers at these types of facilities prefer simple, intuitive CMMS solutions for tracking work orders and building compliance.
- Asset/Equipment groupings: Organizations with collections of depreciable assets use CMMS as a central automation engine for the "care and feeding" of their assets. One of the most common examples is fleet management, such as found in school bus systems and other public sector vehicles.3 But a company's assets can also include stationary equipment (such as factory floor machines), hardware (printers, fax machines), and digital assets (such as servers).
- Complex Facilities: Complex facilities can span multiple locations or consist of a campus environment with multiple buildings, work zones, and interfering variables like terrain, environmental hazards, and pedestrian thoroughfares. Examples might include college campuses, medical installations, industrial plants, and even global enterprises. Of the three, complex facilities usually have the most extensive maintenance software needs, since they require tools for managing both facilities and assets across a wider geographic area.
Creating Executive Buy-In
To ensure successful adoption and long-term ROI, it's important for decision-makers to get leadership on-board; that means they have to agree with the initial need for CMMS and the value it will add after implementation. As the person carrying the torch on maintenance software procurement, your job is to build a compelling business case—one that sells CMMS to its future stakeholders in the company. Here are some talking points for specific executives to get you started:
Your chief information officer (or chief technology officer, in some cases) is already deeply invested in confluence of technology and business goals, so you shouldn't have much trouble getting them involved early on. In fact, your CIO is an excellent resource for sorting through the technical complexities of available solutions and choosing the safest, most stable system for you business. If your organization isn't using CMMS, you probably rely on some kind of home-baked system. These in-house systems are a sometimes necessary evil — for a time — but they often lack true end-to-end usability and fail to integrate with other crucial business applications. It's a familiar story: data falls into silos, employees don't collaborate like they could/should be, work orders get caught in the same bottlenecks over and over again, and so on. Tell your CIO that a CMMS solution will save them from piecemeal workflows and having to build a system in house that exhausts precious infrastructure resources and brings no guarantee of updates and support.
Your chief financial officer will want to know two things: how much does it cost, and how much can it save us? Pricing varies between CMMS vendors, according to scale, features, platform and other factors. So you'll have to bring a shortlist to you CFO for final consideration and approval. But in addition to that, you should outline a few ways CMMS will save the company in operational expenses and damage control. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, preventative maintenance systems can cut costs between 12 and 18 percent.4 CMMS solutions also reinforce more thorough documentation and data entry; along with supporting regulatory compliance, this data feeds into better insights for optimizing productivity, which—again—is money saved.
As you might've guessed, your CEO is focused on the big picture. They're concerned with how your company is positioning itself in the overall market and the strategic value contributed by different moving parts. A CMMS system is indubitably one of those moving parts, but they probably won't be swayed by granular details about a specific CMMS platform, like how many features and integrations it has. Instead, show them how the software can scale with future growth and help the company stay competitive by eliminating waste and proactively keeping valuable investments in working order.
Project Manager:
Depending on your industry, you may have an executive project manager who influences purchasing decisions, in addition to managing a portfolio of other, ongoing projects. One of the best ways to sway your project manager is to tell them that a CMMS system will accrete data that serves as a bedrock for future development projects. Information about building specs, repairs, electrical and plumbing schematics, and code compliance can all be poured into the ideation and design of—say—a new floor addition, or an elevator renovation. For manufacturing companies, CMMS supports lean production methodology by eliminating waste associated with defective equipment and sloppy parts inventory, which a project manager will also value.
CMMS Software Case Study
Siemens and MPulse CMMS5
The Siemens Building Technologies Group manufactures fire safety and security equipment, HVAC, building automation, and energy technology out of its manufacturing facility in Buffalo Grove, IL. With over 1,000 total employees, 3,500 pieces of equipment, and 115,000 square feet of space, they entrust maintenance and repair to a small, three-man technician crew.
Their search for CMMS was initiated by Vic Carrescia, supervisor of engineering support, who joined the department in 2009. "Everything was done on paper by records that were kept in checklists in Word or Excel," he said. The facility also had a custom program developed in-house that provided basic problem-targeting capability through a color-coded "cell status board." This board, while originally a good idea, didn't grow with the company, and didn't reflect changes made to infrastructure. With this in mind, Carrescia was looking for a system that could provide unified visibility of asset health and facility status.
After a thorough search, the Siemens facility selected MPulse Gold Edition in 2010, attracted to its features for preventative maintenance scheduling, work order management, and inventory control, among many others. During implementation, MPulse even developed a new, custom feature for Carrescia on-request, based on the cell status board. This feature is now called the "Asset Status Board" and included as a standard feature in MPulse Silver, Gold, and Platinum editions. Carrescia and his team enjoyed a number of strategic benefits after adopting MPulse's CMMS solution:
- Streamlined communication through visual management tools and faster response times
- Improved preventative maintenance scheduling, used on the manufacturing floor, and in calibration and quality assurance
- Employee development automation (through documentation and reminders on DOT and hazardous materials training)
- Work order completion rates averaging 80-90 percent for more than 100 orders per month
- 100 percent of preventative maintenance orders completed every month
- Direct inclusion of relevant vendors and technicians in work and purchase orders
Comparable Solutions
- "Facility Management Market by Solutions." PR Newswire. Last modified September 11, 2014. http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/facility-management-market-by-solutions-cafm-iwms-cmms-bim-iwms–services—worldwide-market-forecasts-and-analysis-2014-2019-274798591.html
- "Maintenance Management and Your Data Center." Data Center Knowledge. Last modified July 9, 2014. http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2014/07/09/maintenance-management-data-center/
- Sapp, Don. "Computerized Maintenance Management Systems." WBDG. Last modified October 23, 2014. http://www.wbdg.org/om/cmms.php
- "How to Estimate the ROI of a CMMS." DPSI. Last modified April 18, 2013. http://www.dpsi.com/blog/how-to-estimate-the-roi-of-a-cmms/
- "Green-Lighted for Success." MPulse. Accessed March 26, 2015. http://www.mpulsesoftware.com/sites/default/files/MPulse_Siemens_Case_Study.pdf


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Why does Pope Benedict bother to write books? Long before his election to the See of Peter he was established as a leading theologian of his generation. Being universal pastor of the Church is a crushing job, so why add to it by embarking on a massive scholarly project?
Evidently the pope enjoys writing theology. The deeper reason though is that Benedict knows, with all humility, that he is better at it than anyone else. Just as the soon-to-be-Blessed John Paul II knew that he had a special gift for leading massive, history-changing public manifestations of the faith, Benedict likely concludes that if the Lord wanted him as pope then he should do what God gave him the talent to do.
This month marked the release of Jesus of Nazareth, Part Two, Holy Week: From the Entrance into Jerusalem to the Resurrection. Together with Part One, released in 2007, Benedict has produced a 700-page work of profound biblical theology on the person of Jesus of Nazareth.
To put that in perspective, a full-time theology professor, teaching a few hours of class a week, would consider such a work the capstone of a career. That Joseph Ratzinger completed this project in his 70s and 80s, while being pope, is simply staggering. Intelligence is not a prerequisite for being pope, or even to be a bishop or priest - evidence abounds! — but it is certainly a special grace of our time that the pope is the most learned man alive.
And to what purpose is that prodigious intellect put in this massive study of Jesus? Nothing less than a revolution in biblical theology, or to put it more accurately, to make biblical studies theological again.
"One thing is clear to me: in two hundred years of exegetical work, historical-critical exegesis has already yielded its essential fruit," declares Benedict in the foreword to Part Two.
"If scholarly exegesis is not to exhaust itself in constantly new hypotheses, becoming theologically irrelevant, it must make a methodological step forward and see itself once again as a theological discipline, without abandoning its historical character."
That's a mouthful. Exegesis is the technical term for the analysis of texts, and "historical-critical" exegesis is an approach to the Bible which studies the Scriptures according to the methods of history and literature.
The goal which has dominated biblical studies for two centuries is the discovery of the "historical Jesus" who lies somehow hidden behind the "Christ of faith."
The result has been catastrophic for biblical theology, as anyone who has been subject to academic biblical study in the last several generations can attest. My own undergraduate studies of the Scriptures at the Gregorian University in Rome — just steps away from the Pontifical Biblical Institute — were full of history and literary analysis, but included precious little theology.
I remember in particular a course on John's Gospel and letters that was worse than useless. So immersed were we in the linguistic analysis of chapter two — for years the result was a loathing for the wedding at Cana — that the course never even informed us that, say, St. Augustine, had written extensive commentaries on those texts. The dominant historical-critical approach actually avoids the question of why these texts were worth studying in the first place.
The deep flaw in an exclusively historical approach is that history remains always in the past, and cannot invite us into a relationship in the present. Also, because historical research cannot proceed by the scientific method, it remains always in the realm of hypotheses — many of which are little more than rank speculation.
I remember reading a work on Paul by the celebrated scholar, Jerome Murphy-O'Connor. Wondering how Paul's attitudes toward women were formed, Murphy-O'Connor opined that, given the frequency of earthquakes in the region, perhaps Paul lost his wife in one, and the grief soured him on marriage.
I closed the book there, realizing that a discipline that could elevate elaborate fabrications into scholarship had descended into the irrelevancy of which Benedict speaks.
Consequently, he has set out to fix that problem by example. He acknowledges that Christianity is a historical faith and the Scriptures are literary works, so history and criticism are necessary — demanded by the faith itself. They have produced "essential fruit." But that needs to be complemented by theology — reading the Scriptures with the eyes of faith in the tradition of the Church.
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My Christmas was grand and I was completely spoiled. I got the Uggs I wanted, some wonderful Forever 21 giftcards, this super sweet teapot which I'm going to make cool tea in and I might say that one of my favorite gifts was a little SWEET dirt devil vacum! I am so excited about it. I can't wait to use it later today while cleaning my house. I haven't worked out much because of my knee but I'm going to give it two more days of rest and hope that it heals. The only problem that I'm worried about is the swelling. Tomorrow I am going snowboarding. I am a little worried, but oh well. It will be fun, I'm sure.
So anyways, this last week of 2009 is going to be a full week of posts that are all reflective. I have a post with all the medals I got in 2009, a picture post (which has way to many pictures on it), a reflective racing post, this video post and the last one will be about what I hope to accomplish in 2010! So 2009 I got a little crazy and thought, hey people might want to see videos of me doing stupid things.
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Run up hills in San Francisco and make fun of the person who got me to start making videos in the first place, LA Runner:
Run half marathons in San Francisco and across the golden gate bridge:
Go through water stops during the San Francisco Marathon to try to show you that they were crazy. This water stop was by far the tamest water stop I've EVER been through:
And run marathons in the wind in Malibu in a tutu with Tara:
Walk up hills in Malibu in a tutu during a marathon and be humbled yet again by the distance :
And just for your viewing pleasure, have a cat eat treats off my nose for no apparent reason. And yes, that is the same cat that I found on the side of the road over a year ago! He's doing well and now weighs in at almost 15 pounds! My cousins, as you can tell, spoil him rotten:
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