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I haven't, as I don't have a Tesla yet. However, the Berry Patch Restaurant in Orland supposedly has a 70A/240V station. Presumably with that rating it's a J1772. Topping off there should certainly get you to Mount Shasta, in spite of the elevation change. However, you might have to continue all the way past Shasta to the Comfort Inn in Yreka to get a 70A/208V station. I don't know if that's open to the public, so you'd want to call it to find out, and call both to find out hours, etc. Of course, I don't know if you're willing to go and extra 40 miles north of Mount Shasta to recharge for the trip home. I don't know about
I'd be interested in hearing a report from you after you've made the trip.
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Chad Schwitters seems to have done all the active research on the Tesla Highway site.
If you don't mind talking longer to recharge, there is an RV park in Redding with several different NEMA chargers.
You get longer range by driving slower. It can be done with single charge, but you need to restrict yourself to no more than 50mph speeds and most parts slower than that.
2500 feet elevation would cause you to lose about 2.5kWh of battery, but OTOH you do get it all back in your way down (gravitational potential difference, as long as you don't need to engage regenerative braking you are getting it all back in form of less power needed to keep on going, if the downhill is steep enough that you do need to engage it you get only about 60% of it back to battery).
If you can use on road charging wherever you stop then do so, you almost have enough range without charging, so you don't need to charge long to get that missing part.
This would be a very, very difficult trip to complete on one charge. Driving 50mph on highways where people travel 70mph+ could be dangerous. You're much better off finding a place to charge for an hour or two and take a nice lunch break or something.
To enjoy the drive as much as possible, I would plan to stop in Orland at least for an hour, if not until fully charged, and also have a place to charge while staying in Mount Shasta:
Might as well plug in while you are parked, even if it's just with the household adapter.
Where are you staying? They might have RV plugs, check with the management and if you find a new place that can accommodate electric cars please let us know here on the board.
I have charged at the Mt Shasta KOA that BrianK's recargo listing points to. They have NEMA 14-50 and let me charge for free, although it was off-season and pretty much nobody was there. It's not the nicest campground and there's not much to do nearby, but it's fine if you need a charge.
It was snowing when I was there. The Roadster HVAC doesn't work while you're charging, so I loitered in the only heated area around--the restroom. Hopefully you will have warmer weather.
Timo's comments about hills are good, although in my experience they take a little more than that out, and you don't get quite as much back. The numbers of course vary, but for planning I generally use 6.5 miles of range lost per 1k of elevation gain, and 4.5 of those come back on the way down, so the net loss is 2 miles of range per 1k of elevation.
It depends of the hill do you get it all back, so you drive same way down as you went up and did you have to go to regen braking. "you get it all back" as in compared to driving same distance in flat plane. You should, but this is the one rare case where you might actually get more back than you lost (delta loss, not overall loss).
Note that the 70A/240V spec matches the Tesla HPC, and that's exactly what Recargo.com lists for the Orland Berry Patch Restaurant.
I was under the impression that none of the J1772 chargers can match the HPC, but maybe that impression is based on actual installations and not the capabilities of the technology itself, which may have higher limits. In other words, I recall reading that most J1772 chargers are only 30A, which puts them behind both the 70A (90A) HPC and the 40A (50A) UMC. Any charge is a good charge, especially if it's free, but a small miscalculation in amperage really affects your waiting time at the charging station. I found this out when traveling to the Wild Horse Wind Farm (NEMA 14-50) after estimating that I could schedule around the same charging time as documented at the Ellensburg HPC - needless to say, I was late.
I was under the same impression about the J1772 supporting 70A as well as 30A. I'm guessing that the J1772 chargers being installed at Nissan dealerships is only 30A, but the one dealer I talked to didn't know anything about it. There were two such chargers sitting outside the showroom (without any Leafs present).
I see you're familiar with Washington state and Northern California.
I'm still at least a year away from getting a Model S, but I'd been concerned about safely making it (without a long wait at an RV park) between Seattle and Spokane.
Thanks to Tom Saxton that's no longer a problem.
The J1772 spec does go up to 80A (thanks to Tesla's recommended modifications). But the DOE money that is installing charging stations only specifies 30A. Couple that with the fact that the Leaf and Volt only charge at 16A, and that a 40A breaker is cheaper and less likely to require an upgrade than a 90A breaker...and everybody is putting in 30A charging stations. Sigh.
I've been trying to get people to put in thicker wire so they can upgrade later; or at least conduit so they can feed thicker wire later. Reducing EV fueling time is the whole reason we are putting these things in, so mo amps == mo betta!
It just dawned on me.
Are you "The Chad S..."?
The one that did the Tesla Highways research?
But at least all of those chargers that get you from Canada to Mexico are 70A.
If the Leaf only charges at 16A, is that with the 240V cable or the 440V cable? Not to change the subject, but I just got a look at a Leaf in person today, and the owner is aware of the 440V charging port, even though she has never used it. Bystanders were talking about 30-minute charges at 440V, but I guess with the extremely limited range of the Leaf I shouldn't be impressed by a 30-minute charge time.
So far, it seems that you can drive about 4 hours with the Roadster, then recharge in 3.5 hours if you're lucky enough to find an HPC.
The 30 minute charge time makes sense with a DC charger at 440 V and over 100 A. I've been thinking that for a 300 mile range Tesla the charge time is about and hour and a half.
I'm waiting for Tesla to start a Q & A thread for technical questions.
I really want to know about their 480 V AC rapid charging and the infrastructure that it will be compatible with.
I have tested 4 J-1772 chargers and unfortunately they have been limited to 30 amps which is disappointing. But it is FAR better than the 110V trickle charger.
Regarding 440 V versus 480 V, they're basically the same. It's quite common to refer to 110 V and 120 V when referring to standard outlets, and 220 V or 240 V for two-phase. My home actually has 245 V when measured inside the power box, and this is what the Tesla reports. In other words, that's my long way of saying that the Tesla 480 V AC rapid charge might be quite compatible with the 440 V Leaf system, because those voltages refer to the same system. Nobody refers to the actually peak-to-peak voltages, which are alarmingly higher.
David70, yes I'm the ChadS that drove the West coast last year, and later put together a map of Tesla charging stations on the west coast (at http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF&msa=0&msid=
Rsdio, our talk of 16A, 30A and 80A has all been in relation to 240V charging, which is all that J1772 covers. There is no (US) standard and no infrastructure for 480V charging yet (aka "DC Fast Charge".
There is a Japanese standard, which uses a TEPCO connector and the CHAdeMO protocol. Nissan and Mitsubishi use this, and Toyota says they will in the Japanese market. But Ford, GM and European makers say they won't. There is DOE money to install some DC Fast chargers this year, and because TEPCO is the only standard available, that is what will be installed. But: the SAE is probably going to update J1772 to include DC Fast Charge. That means at some point, the TEPCO chargers may have to be changed to SAE. Yuk. I've been trying to get them to install units capable of supporting dual heads (Coloumb has announced one).
The DC Fast chargers will primarily be installed in the lead cities covered by the DOE's "The EV Project". But some other places, like the West Coast Green Highways collaborative, are planning to install fast chargers in other places, like the West coast.
I sure hope they manage to come up with Fast Chargers at enough appropriate locations by the time the Model S is actually released.
By appropriate, I mean spaced so that you can make it from Canada to Mexico as easily with the Fast Charge stations as you can now using the 70A J1772 connections.
It would also be great if that can come up with a similar East-West set along at least one major interstate (e.g., I-80, I-70, etc.)
"Dual heads" sounds like a smart move by Coulomb.
Chad, I keep hearing about the Leaf 440 V and whether it is compatible with the Tesla 480 V. My point was merely that 110/220/440 is the same as 120/240/480, but for some reason people and companies are not always precise about the voltage. i.e. I measure 254 V on what some companies refer to as a 220 V standard.
Of course, other questions include whether Nisson has established 440 V Leaf charging stations, and whether Tesla or a third party will design a physical adaptor that might work with the Roadster. If both of those are available, then the 440 versus 480 will not pose an incompatibility.
rsdio, your comment about 440 vs 480 is right for AC power. However, the DC charging stations have to produce DC at the voltage required for the battery, which would vary among different car models and would be communicated from the car to the charging station through the control signals of the connector. It is independent of whatever AC power may be input to the DC charging station.
So, the Leaf uses a 440 V DC charging system?
Reading the Tesla technology pages, it seems that the Roadster doesn't support more than around 260 VAC on its charging input, so any kind of 440 V or 480 V system will need significant conversion anyway.
Is the Model S planned to have 480 V charging capabilities?
The Leaf has an OPTIONAL level 3 charging input. It costs extra and cannot be installed after-market. The 440 v charger itself is not on-board. The actual charger is at the charging station. It communicates with the car and supplies 440 v DC. They claim 30 minutes to an 80% charge. That's 80 miles nominal range (LA4 cycle). Since people report getting around 85 miles actual range in real-life driving (slow freeway speed, no use of A/C or heater) the 30-minute fast charge probably provides 65 to 70 miles range, though gentle driving would get the full 80 miles.
One of the reasons I decided that the leaf was crap and I'm saving up for the model S instead is that it uses a dedicated charger that is limited to 3600 watts, so with the 30A 240v charge station you still can only charge twice as fast as with a regular 15A 120v cord.
From what I can tell, the Tesla connects the AC to the main inverter and charges the battery just like it does when regeneratively breaking, which is why it can handle 90A at 240v. It is also why it is limited. Most likely the inverter was only built to handle 240v, and the cabling is only heavy enough to handle 90A.
The leaf zap charge option seems to be a BS gimmick to me. It supposedly is just a DC wire harness direct to the battery so you need a very expensive external DC charger to connect to it, and since the battery pack is not thermally managed, and charging at that kind of rate generates a lot of heat, I very much doubt that this will ever see the light of day.
Even if it did, 80 miles of range is overly optimistic since you aren't going to coast up to the charger with a completely flat dead battery. More likely you will plug in and take it from 20% to 80%, giving 60 miles of range with a brand new battery.
If the Leaf battery gets too hot the car will just limit the charging current. I was also under the impression that the Leaf has a battery voltage of about 370V. Thus it will only fast charge at 370V, not 440V.
If a level 3 DC charging station is specified for 440V, does it mean it provides "up to" 440V? As I understand, the L3 charger continuously adapts amps as signaled by the EV. How about voltage?
jkirk: A battery charging system is not limited to strictly using the exact input voltage, even in DC mode. Transistors or other active semiconductors can alter the voltage and current as needed, either to boost or to drop voltage. Simple battery chargers are just wires, but modern "smart" battery chargers do vastly more than just connecting the input voltage directly to the battery. I have no information on the Leaf charging system in detail, but the battery voltage probably has nothing to do with fast charge, slow charge, or anything else.
Make sure to charge it on distance and your car will read the 240. And if driven right I have got 220 out of it when I had to.
I think you will find that with they kind of driving one does on a road trip, your estimated range will increase. I've even seen (on a freeway trip San Diego to Los Angeles) the estimated range go UP, as the car realizes it is on cruise control on a flat freeway, even though it's going more than a mile a minute.
So yeah, charge in range mode, and 130 miles is nothing at all to worry about.
Estimated range is calculated on the last 30 miles. So if you start on a road trip, initially it will be inaccurate (most likely very conservative). On my last road trip the number was going up, not down, for quite a while.
Once it's "gotten used" to your current driving style it is very accurate. Compare with the "distance to go" on your GPS to see if you're going to make it! If not, slow down. Or find a plug.
Cherif: I agree, charge it in range mode and find the fastest charges (Tesla HPC at 70A) you can find. The J1772 adapter would probably be really nice to have since that at least gets you 30A at most of the public J1772 chargers.
Also, be conservative with your mileage estimates so you don't run out of juice. That 240 ideal miles really is 'ideal' and hard to reach. Driving at normal highway speeds will take that down a good bit. Others who have done longer trips can speak to that better but don't assume 240 miles will actually get you 240 miles. It's possible as was pointed out above but you have to drive very slow and easy. Have fun!
I've done about 13k miles in the 13 months I've had my Roadster, much of it on long distance trips. I try not to use range mode when I can because I do so many long drives--instead I just try to find chargers.
If you are going on a flat highway at 61-62mph, I've found I can consistently match the ideal range. If you start getting behind, just slow down. At even 58mph you'll do a fair bit better than ideal. Range is amazingly sensitive to speed. You'll get there sooner by going slower (which also means the road noise is more pleasant and you can live with the top off BTW) and not having to charge as much.
All J1772 chargers I've found are 30amp (usually ChargePoint), although I've read of 70amp ones around, they just aren't on my routes. I check Recargo, EVCharger, and ChargePoint apps on my Iphone to find chargers.
The comments about hills match my experience.
A couple more tips for long-range-road-trippers that are in a hurry to get somewhere is to not try to fully charge if you don't need to in order to get to your next charging location. The charging current above 80% or 90% charge is a lot slower so you may have to wait another half hour or more for that last 10%.
Once your charging current drops below the maximum (70 Amp for Tesla HPC, 40 Amps for UMC on a NEMA 14-50 at RV parks, or 30 Amps at most J-1772), you're better off getting back on the road to your next charging location where you can charge at the full current.
Regarding charging stations: Some operate at 208 volts and others at 240 volts. Some may have line drops and may not even get that high. Remember that a 240 volt charger will charge ~13% faster than a 240 volt one.
Remember that charging speed is proportional to the power available. Power (Watts) = Voltage (Volts) X Current (Amps).
Right. I've assumed that I'd go for range mode charging on overnight stops and standard on the rest. That is, if I ever get my Model S.
"Remember that a 240 volt charger will charge ~13% faster than a 240 volt one."
Trying to guess what the 3rd number was supposed to be. Failing.
I think he(they) meant 212V. 13% above that is about 240V.
Yeah, the 'rithmetic is obvious at that level -- but I've never heard of such a voltage standard. Seems like an odd comparison to make.
For you math wizzes out there: the 3rd number should have been 208 volts. 208 Volts is very common in the US as it is one leg of a 3-phase circuit. Public charging stations often just use 208 volts as it obviates the need to put in a transformer. Unfortunately, the result is slower charging. Of course, we also often see reductions from both 208 volts and 240 volts because of line losses.
So ... waiting with bated breath ... for Cherif's trip report ;-0
I just got back from a road trip where I got to use my new J-1772 adapter. Spent over 30 hours charging, averaged a little over 21 miles of charge per hour. All but one location had voltages between 195 - 205 volts. Probably started at 208 before the line drop.
Cherif -
I am in the Sacramento area, just 30 miles east. You can find me over on the TeslaMotorsForum.com under the same user name. Shoot me a private message over there if you see this post.
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My experience is that J-1772 chargers are poping up everywhere and most are only 208V (one leg of 3 phase power) and 30 amps. I have yet to find a J-1772 above 30 amps. The DOT money only specifies a 30 amp unit and it seems like that is what is being put in.
While charging this way is painfully slow it definately beats 110V.
Here's a blog about a coast-to-coast trip I'm making. Will include some tables of charge times, range, etc. (I still have just the old MC...)
It may be worth noting that there is a guy called Rafael De Mestre who is currently on a journey with his Tesla around the world. He is sharing his experience via his website:
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11.5.2012 RACE STARTED in Barcelona - exact 3 months later than the French - including the risk to fail due to missing papers for US.
15.5.2012 Arrival in Strasbourg
17.5.2012 Arrival in Cologne
18.5.2012 Ready to transport in Frankfurt - US insurance still missing. Without the insurance the car will be blocked in NY ...
21.5.2012 Yeah! Got the US insurance!
22.5.2012 Car and driver in NY now
23.5.2012 Departing heading west
05.6.2012 Arrival in San Francisco - China drive through license still not available
07.6.2012 Waiting in LA for transfer - China drive through license for 25.6. confirmed - will loose [lose] 14 days ...
17.6.2012 Car arrived China. Following the newest calculations I have to drive 400km per day starting with 26.6. to reach Barcelona 80 days after the start, race turns to a mission impossible ...
I don't know the route and charging circumstances, but I'd have to agree that doing the full range per day is pretty chancy. Keeping the speed below 80 kph might help with range, without much time penalty.
Nice guy. And entertaining! I had dinner with him, my son, and a couple of other Sacramento-area Roadster owners the night before he arrived in SF.
Damn. Bad news for a around a globe drive. Apparently a "pileup" caused by some BMW seven cars ahead of this one (based on explanation on facebook page).
Close enough for government work: 23,400 miles! Give him the award anyway.
Seems like he still wants to finish anyway, even if two or three weeks late. Attempts are made to repair his Roadster...
Just tweeted that car will be ready at 17h (probably meaning 5pm german time) today. No weeks, just three days after the crash. Great job Tesla!!
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GregK necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 48 diseños de 16 diseñadores freelance.
We are developing a web-based business whose ultimate goal is promoting the Mercedes Sprinter as the base for self-designed and/or self-built "eco-RVs" for the adventurous outdoors type - affordable, but fairly spartan compared to the mainstream RV crowd. Think OutsideVan (http://www.outsidevan.com), but on the cheap, and with solar panels, biodiesel, LED lighting, light, and offroad-ready.
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Paula Chandler-Laney, Ph.D. has been selected as this year's Named New Investigator for the UAB Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC). The center leadership selects among the funded pilot/feasibility recipients and then receives approval from National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases program, which funds NORC's grant.
Chandler-Laney is an assistant professor in the Department of Nutrition Sciences. She joined the faculty in 2011 after transferring from a postdoctoral fellow. Her research program is focused on understanding pre- and early post-natal behavioral and metabolic predictors of childhood obesity.
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John D. Rateliff (b. 1958[1]) is a J.R.R. Tolkien scholar, who became well-known when publishing The History of The Hobbit in 2007. He received his Ph.D from the Marquette University with a dissertation on Lord Dunsany. He lives in the Seattle area and works as a professional editor.[2]
- 1993: Tolkien Portraiture (as assistant)
- 2002: The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Game - Core Book (contributor)
- 2007: The History of The Hobbit
- 2011: The History of The Hobbit: One-volume Edition
- 1981: Mythlore 8
- "She and Tolkien"
- 1986: Mythlore 45
- "'And Something Yet Remains to Be Said': Tolkien and Williams"
- 1991: Leaves from the Tree
- "Early Versions of Farmer Giles of Ham"
- 2000: Tolkien's Legendarium
- "The Lost Road, The Dark Tower, and The Notion Club Papers: Tolkien and Lewis's Time Travel Triad"
- 2006: The Lord of the Rings 1954-2004
- "'And All the Days of Her Life Are Forgotten': The Lord of the Rings as Mythic Prehistory"
- 2011: VII: An Anglo-American Literary Review, Vol.27
- "Woodland Prisoner" - by Clyde S. Kilby with introduction and annotations by John D. Rateliff
- 2011: Picturing Tolkien: Essays on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy
- "Two Kinds of Absence: Elision and Exclusion in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings"
- 2011: Tolkien and the Study of His Sources
- "She and Tolkien, Revisited"
- 2009 - Mythopoeic Award, Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inkling Studies, The History of The Hobbit Part I: Mr. Baggins
See also
External links
- Sacnoth's Scriptorium (official website)
- An Interview with John Rateliff at Middle-earth.Xenite.Org
- A Talk With John D. Rateliff
- Middle Earth meets Marquette: Tolkien historian lectures on campus
- Interview with John Rateliff
- ↑ Tonight I'm in . . . at Sacnoth's Scriptorium, dated 5 November 2011 (accessed 6 November 2011)
- ↑ The History of The Hobbit: One-volume Edition (dustjacket information)


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Hiking…and human acknowledgement…May 25, 2009 on 5:00 pm | In Human Systems | 3 Comments
While on a recent hike in Hawaii I was struck by something that has occurred to me before but that seemed even more noticeable on this occasion. I tend to say hello to people I'm passing on a trail and it is interesting to me – especially this time – that some people respond while others do not. On my hike in Hawaii, typically someone in the party passing me would smile brightly and greet me back. However, not in every case did this occur. This caused me to wonder what we gain by maintaining separateness such that to broach a silence in between ourselves seems an unnatural choice.
I thought about how much we need human contact and connection however simple and small; how much this need seems to grow with the stresses of the times. So how do people make decisions to either acknowledge another person or not? What do we gain by not greeting one another? I can understand the need for solitude and personal space. One of the reasons to be on this hike, in fact, was to go into a quiet place and away from the busyness of Honolulu. Does a short greeting, a quiet smile, or a nod interrupt reverie or cause a disruption of personal space? For some perhaps it does. Or are there other reasons for "containing" oneself? I wondered if fear of one another ever causes this distancing.
It is difficult not to make assumptions about why it is not consistently common to greet or acknowledge one another – why people don't do it and why people don't respond when they are greeted by another. However, it is clear I really don't know why we are different in this way. As I walked that trail to a beautiful waterfall, the number of people for whom this simple exchange was not a practice made me think hard about the practice of strangers greeting strangers.
As I said "hi" and smiled at some though, faces lit up (sometimes in surprise) and they greeted me back making me feel a bonheur that I know, for me, stems from the simple connection with another. Facial, verbal, and sometimes non-verbal expressions of greeting appear to be universally understood. Some people greeted me before I could greet them – it seemed natural and open. I passed German families, French couples, U.S. families, and the ability or willingness to exchange a brief human greeting was not related to nationality nor was it related to gender as far as I could tell.
Compartmentalizing ourselves has not helped in the past. The cocooning trend of the 1990's seems to be coming back as people cope with the stresses of their lives on their own. How much better would it be for us all if we actively looked for connections with each other? If we developed a higher degree of awareness of others near us and if we extended ourselves to each other – even a little bit? What would change? I was struck by these questions as I passed people on that trail – a trail we all had set out on because we knew it led through and to a beautiful place. We had commonality in that.
Peter Block's "Community: The Structure of Belonging" – Part Two: Leadership as ConveningJanuary 19, 2009 on 2:25 am | In Human Systems, Stimulated by the Literature, Transforming | Comments Off on Peter Block's "Community: The Structure of Belonging" – Part Two: Leadership as Convening
This is part two of a series devoted to reflections on Peter Block's book "Community: The Structure of Belonging".
Block discusses leadership from a slightly different perspective than one finds in most of the leadership literature. He perceives the central role of the leader – who could be anyone in any group or community with the will to be the leader – as one of convening. He speaks of convening as a powerful act that brings people together to jointly discover possibility meaningful to their given community. What is the power of merely convening a group of people? By convening the leader creates a viable – Block would even say "sacred" – space for the members of that community to find out what matters most to members as a collective, to bring the gifts of each individual to the center, and to embroider upon the possibilities they hold dear. This is the act of creating what we want to see – creating our future.
During this historic time in the United States – and in the world – and on the eve of Barack Obama's inauguration as the 44th president of the United States, the concept of leader as convener takes on a certain power. Perhaps it is the possibility that Obama so often invoked when he called us to believe "Yes we can!" during his campaign, that indicates he has the power to convene. Certainly there are problems for which we must find solutions but the most important work must be to bring people together in the spirit of community and to regain that sense of possibility that many of us had appeared to have lost.
Hope and possibility are the banners of the era that we enter in spite of the extraordinarily troubled world and national situations. This mix of optimism and hope with problems and anxieties is interesting in its ability to move us away from the concept of absolutes we have not only endured but also played a part in creating over the past decade or so.
Perhaps the lesson of the time is that by coming together – by convening – we can begin to remember that subtlety is more the hallmark of human thinking, meaningful human communication, and human aspiration than any absolutes are, that we do not need to choose between caring about the problems that worry us and the wishes we hold in our hearts – that they are, in fact, part of a whole.
Each of us can be a leader in our communities – and we all belong to numerous communities at work, in our neighborhoods, in our synagogues, mosques, and churches, in our schools, in our families, and in our society. Playing the role of convener is simple and requires only that we leave our egos at the door and that we pose the questions that start conversations. It is not about us "being leaders," it is about us having sentience and the presence of mind to realize that convening is what is needed. It can happen anywhere and at any time.
We can bring peace and prosperity to our communities and homes, we can develop the compassion and hope that will allow us to jointly design our futures. The difficult times we are experiencing have much to teach us about collaboration and "thinking in the future tense," in the words of anthropologist Jennifer James. James tells us that we need to learn how to see with new eyes, recognize the future, understand the social context, change and help others change, and to concentrate our energies in order to create progress.
Peter Block describes the "retributive community" as one in which compassion is marginalized, associational life is devalued, and finding fault and allowing fear to power our conversations and actions reigns. The "restorative community," by contrast, is one in which isolation is not allowed to exist and one in which new energy is created, a new sense of aliveness and wholeness comes into being, and one in which we embrace belonging. It is belonging that will help us not only face the future but create it according to our greatest aspirations. So hope has a good reason to exist, after all.
And for those who worry about who will step up to the plate and take responsibility for creating community, Block wisely writes, "Accountability is the willingness to care for the whole, and it flows out of the kind of conversations we have about the new story we want to take our identity from…Entitlement is a conversation about what others can or need to do to create the future for us."
Future President Obama is certainly accountable to the people of the United States but he is, by no means, the only accountable individual in the story. We must all look for our leadership roles and consider how critical it is that we convene and attend to the development of the social fabric upon which our future depends.
Peter Block's "Community: The Structure of Belonging" – Part One: From Problems to PossibilitiesJanuary 8, 2009 on 1:29 am | In Stimulated by the Literature | Comments Off on Peter Block's "Community: The Structure of Belonging" – Part One: From Problems to Possibilities
Sometimes a book comes along that gets the attention of both heart and mind. Peter Block's book "Community: The Structure of Belonging" is such a book. It is one of the most powerful books I have read in quite a while. Why? Because in it Block focuses on how people come together to create the future and in insight after insight he describes what it takes for us to truly engage others in our various communities.
Compelling to me is his premise that to create the future we need to shift our communities from problem solving to considering or declaring possibilities desired by the community in question.Problem solving has, according to Block, limited capacity for transformation. In my workshops and presentations on creativity, I have often discussed the difference between creating and problem-solving. Problem solving keeps us in the present and often takes us into the past. Creating has more power to take us into the future and, in fact, we cannot go into the future without creating. Creating brings into being that which does not now exist. And communities that create must have deep conversations about what they think is important to create.
We, as humans, are natural problem solvers and in our (greatly reinforced) need to reach answers, come to conclusions, and achieve closure we lose the opportunity to exercise our equally powerful human capacity for creating.
Creating is all about possibility and what can be. We need look no further than our own offices or living rooms to see the results of the creating drive of others: everything around us has been dreamed of, created, made – sometimes even for the sheer joy of it. We are now, in our neighborhoods, organizations, countries, and world, at a most critical point where we need to turn that creating drive toward building (rebuilding?) our communities.
The deep learning for organizations remains how to join together to go to the future and resist being drawn into framing or discussing it by revisiting the past. Block outlines in powerful ways how we can create conversations around possibility – possibility being both the window we can dream through and the doorway we can collectively walk through in order to commit to our desired futures.
I am reminded, as I consider Block's book, of a slide in Stanford Law Professor Lawrence Lessig's 2002 "Free Culture" presentation. That riveting slide said simply "free societies enable the future by limiting the past." A little amnesia about the past may be a very good thing for us as we do the hard work of learning how to think in the arena of possibility rather than problems.
Changing Twice: Luc de BrabandereAugust 22, 2006 on 1:35 pm | In Human Systems, Stimulated by the Literature | 1 Comment
"If you want to change, you have to change twice. You not only need to change the reality of your situation, you also need to change your perception of this reality."
These are the words of Luc de Brabandere, an innovation consultant at Boston Consulting Group in Paris, written in his wonderful book: The Forgotten Half of Change. What he is trying to indicate is that you have to change things (structures, programs, ways of doing things, etc.) to improve and innovate, but you also have to change the way you look at these things: thus changing reality and changing perception are the two halves of change.
Though hard to choose one aspect of this book to focus on, one of his most interesting passages is about Seeing — perhaps because it so tied to the issue of our perceptions. He describes four seeing dichotomies:
Seeing and Perceiving — Our eyes are not cameras and we get ideas by changing our perceptions of things
Seeing and Believing — We believe what we see but sometimes we se what we believe (this is a significant problem in terms of perception of reality — I think of mental models)
Seeing and Knowing — Even though we know certain things we can still see something different; for instance, we know the earth revolves around the sun but we still see the sun setting (another mental models problem)
Seeing and Hoping — We don't see the world as it is but as we are
These seeing dichotomies pose some limitations on us and make getting clarity on reality more difficult. Yet our perceptions and our mental models (if tested) can serve as the keys to change. Seeing what is missing, seeing what exists that we didn't see before, seeing an "empty chair" at the table, seeing new landscapes of possibility, and seeing more clearly the essence of what we desire. All these are crucial to effectively changing, adapting, and innovating — to develop "the new" and the innovative for users and for ourselves.
Efforts to TransformAugust 21, 2006 on 12:10 pm | In Transforming | Comments Off on Efforts to Transform
Many university libraries are working to transform how they deliver services, assess and evaluate service and learning, and develop new types of relationships on campus to better influence learning and teaching. There are as many approaches to doing this as there are libraries. And these libraries are using blogging technology to communicate their work and intentions to a broader community. For a long time library strategy conversations were held internally and rarely invited the user community to be a part of them except obliquely through the use of focus groups and surveys.
McMaster University Libraries in Hamilton, Ontario (Canada) is one example of a more interactive approach to the shaping of strategy and the conducting of strategic conversations regarding transformation. Unvierstity Librarian, Jeff Trzeciak, has started a blog to open these conversations with the McMaster community. He has also established a Transformation Team to develop recommendations to him and to the rest of the Libraries regarding how to respond to the external environment within which they find themselves.
While there are no community members on the Transformation Team currently I wonder if this is not a way of changing/transforming even while in the process of discussing transformation? I applaud Jeff for starting the blog and appointing the Task Force and wonder how many intersections they will find once they begin to look for innovation (one of the charges to the Task Force).
The Possibility of SuccessJuly 18, 2006 on 8:35 pm | In Human Systems | Comments Off on The Possibility of Success
In a previous post I mentioned "Cirque du Soleil The Spark," a tale about a sports agent who, having lost his focus and his orignal driving passion, enters the world of the circus and rediscovers his creativity and inspiration.
One short passage has the protagonist, Frank Castle, being taught how to manage jumping up to a trapeze while on bungee cords — at some height. He is very apprehensive and this apprehension actually keeps him from accomplishing the task for a while. Of course when he lets go of his fears he is able to reach the trapeze bar. He reflects internally:
"It's amazing how much we fear the unknown — even though the unknown carries with it the possibility of success. We are so determined to stick to our comfort zones that we learn to live with disappointment, as long as it's familiar and safe….Our fears hold us back, make us fall short of our goals. Only by taking risks can we hope to accomplish the extraordinary."
Librarians I know are extraordinary people. Yet whole organizations of these wonderful people settle for "pretty good" and sometimes mediocre due, I believe, to this fear of possible success. What would happen if we were wildly successful? What kinds of decisions and choices would we make?
I believe there are many extraordinary libraries but something about the fear of success fable in The Spark made me think of the many times I've heard librarians say "what if we can't handle the success of xyz service?" Certainly we don't want to live with disappointment in ourselves and our institutions.
What might be some ways of connecting with risk that allow us to actually take advantage of our natural passions for excellence?
The Inspired UserJuly 18, 2006 on 4:04 pm | In Human Systems | Comments Off on The Inspired User
Every user has her/his own reasons for seeking out libraries and library resources. All users are motivated by something — very often something exciting to them. So perhaps they enter the library inspired but then become somewhat daunted by unfamiliar surroundings, rules, practices, and mysteries. Some are further motivated to understand all these thngs that lie between them and the object of their interest but most feel like they are slogging through quick-sand to get to their stuff. The Mercurial wings on their feet vanish as they encounter obstacles -whether physical, virtual, or in the policy realm.
"Cirque du Soleil The Spark: Igniting the Creative Fire That Lives within Us All," a book about the Montreal circus Cirque du Soleil contains a few nuggets that caused some recognition in my mind of things libraries and librarians could be thinking about. The first little riff for me was triggered by the following comment:
"Every new layer of management, every new rule or form gets in the way. They deaden the magic — cut off the electicity of inspiration. If there are too many restrictions, you stop thinking about what you can do and start thinking about what you cannot do."
That last phrase: thinking about what one cannot do really got me thinking about whether this might not be the biggest challenge facing libraries in their attempt to invite users into their virtual and physical spaces and into the conversations that create those spaces.
How can we best preserve the users' ability to stay in their "zone" — to stay with their inspiration or motivation and not ask them to stop thinking about what they can do because they have to think about the things they cannot do in our spaces? Their passion is what carries them forward into the mysteries they will spend much time unravelling. These tantalizing mysteries should not be related to how to access what they are passionate about but about the very thing that motivated them to enter library spaces in the first place.
How do we recognize an inspired user and how do we recognize an inspired user who has been blocked by having to think about what they cannot do?
Innovating Human SystemsJuly 9, 2006 on 12:31 pm | In Human Systems | 11 Comments
Many innovations in the world relate to products and services. I would like to posit that we need to also attend to creating innovation in our human systems: our organizations (read libraries!), our society, our communities. What does this mean?
I believe we have the creative power to create human-centered systems that show positive belief in the abilities of people to get along, think together, work together, and live together. What it takes, I think, is getting out of our own way. As Darlene Fichter of the University of Saskatchewan has pointed out, we need radical trust — radical trust is trust in the community. (See: http://library.usask.ca/~fichter/blog_on_the_side/2006/04/web-2.html)
What all organizations, societies, and communities need is a measure of radical trust. Instead of judging each other so harshly might we not find ways to adopt a different viewpoint for a moment in order to understand one another? In my work as an organizational consultant I have seen what the lack of radical trust and the lack of innovation in the human system can do to a group of well-meaning and smart people. Typically the unfortunate results stem from emotional responses to a perceived threat — I say perceived because often that perception is only that and not a reality.
Essentially this is about overhauling our abilities of communication — to find new ways to break through our own blocks when it comes to how we communicate. How can we engender compassion and empathy in organizations and communities where disparate viewpoints often give rise to conflict?
I would like to hear from people who have tried to innovate the human systems at work or in their communities.
Hunting IntersectionsJuly 1, 2006 on 4:21 pm | In Stimulated by the Literature | 3 Comments
One of the more interesting and provocative books on innovation is Frans Johannson's book The Medici Effect. In this book, Johannson describes two types of innovation: directional innovation and intersectional innovation.
Directional innovation is that which develops within a field and which is a progression or evolution of the practices and combination of ideas in that field. Directional innovation improves a field.
Intersectional innovation is that which is created when ideas combine at the intersection of fields. At that crossroads, Johannson contends, is the most powerful potential for innovation. He points to the many intersectional discoveries of the Rennaisance (thus the title of his book) brought about by such overlapping disciplines as art and science, mathematics and music and so on. At the intersection ideas combine exponentially to create thousands of possibilities unknown in any one field. It is this quantity that leads to a new kind of quality. Intersectional innovation transforms a field and allows for unexpected leaps along new paths.
In thinking about these two types of innovation it occurs to me that libraries at this point in time must seek the intersectional in order to utilize the explosive power of today's technologies and changes in human communication patterns. Innovations often are tied to the creation of new knowledge, the offering and teaching of knowledge, and the broadening of privliege. Libraries have historically held society's most powerful role when it comes to knowledge and the broadening of privilege and human rights. What other fields might we meet up with to maximize our innovative potential? What do we need to do to put ourselves in the way of that possible meet up?
We need to engage our associative powers and abilities. It is quite possible that our associative abilities are the main thing that separates us from other animals on this planet. We can make associative leaps of thought that allow us to create new thoughts and to come up with ideas. So we need to lower the barriers to associative thought.
Johannson suggests that, to lower associative barriers, we need to do three things:
- learn differently — he says, "Expertise, for all its strengths, can make it more difficult to break out of established patterns of thought." He suggests self-education is a powerful way to learn differently — following threads outside of our normal pathways
- reverse assumptions — actively look for the opposite of your assumption and challenge yourself to consider a different point of view
- try on new perspectives — as Leonardo daVinci noted one needs to view something from at least three different perspectives to fully understand it
We need to purposefully make efforts to uncover unusual concept combinations and find unexpected partners in order to find new intersections. Intersectional innovation will help us transform our profession as it has so many other professions in the past.
However, Johannson notes that "The major difference between a directional innovation and an intersectional one is that we know where we are going with the former. Unfortunately, the intersection is a place where our understanding of what to do and how to do it is opaque, at best. An intersectional idea can go any number of directions." So, it would appear that if we truly want to transform our profession and our libraries we must be willing to not know where we are going and how we are going to get there. Discomfort indeed!
Lansing Public Library a Sirsi-Dynix Innovation Award FinalistJune 25, 2006 on 5:56 pm | In Zephyr Spotlights | 1 Comment
Zephyr congratulates Lansing (IL) Public Library on its nomination for the SirsiDynix Building Better Communities Award. Award winners were announced at the American Library Association Annual Conference in New Orleans on June 24, 2006. The four winners received cash awards of $10,000.
Lansing Public Libray is one of fifteen nominees for this innovation award. The fifteen finalists were chosen from among 130 by twelve judges and an advisorl Congratulations on the nomination Lansing P.L.! And a special congratulations to Kelli Staley who spear-headed the projects for which Lansing has been nominated.
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MIAMI (AP) — Duna Lopez started school in Miami last fall not knowing a single word of English.
The 8-year-old girl from Barcelona, Spain, with dark blond hair was placed in the Coral Way Bilingual K-8 Center, the nation's oldest bilingual school. For half the day, she receives classes in Spanish; it's English for the rest. During language arts, she gets pulled out with three other new arrivals for extra help on grammar and phonics.
After seven months, she's one of the most active participants in class.
"In five months, like that, I learned it," she said.
Duna's success is exceptional, but the language challenge she faced is increasingly common across the U.S. educational map. Nationwide, nonwhites are expected to become a majority of the population within a generation, and schools are at the cutting edge of that historic shift.
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School-age children who speak a language other than English at home are one of the fastest-growing populations. Their numbers doubled between 1980 and 2009, and they now make up 21 percent of school-age kids.
There were 4.7 million students classified as "English language learners" – those who have not yet achieved proficiency in English – in the 2009-10 school year, or about 10 percent of children enrolled, according to the most recent figures available from the U.S. Department of Education.
"This is part of a new reality that our public schools are facing," said Robert Linquanti, an expert in English learner students for WestEd, an education research agency based in San Francisco. "It's been coming for a long time but now it's hitting a tipping point."
Of all the challenges facing minority students and their schools, English learners are arguably the most disadvantaged. It's hard to find enough teachers who are qualified to instruct them, and there's little consistency in the programs used to educate them.
The country is divided over the best way to educate them, with bilingual programs gathering steam but also provoking a sometimes heated debate with those who favor an English-only approach. English learner students are more likely to be in poor, overcrowded schools and in many places represent an added cost to already cash-strapped school districts.
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The longer these students stay in special language programs, the further they fall behind in other subjects. In several states, their graduation rates are at less than 60 percent, and as low as 29 percent in Nevada, according to federal data.
Just 7 percent of fourth-grade and 3 percent of eighth-grade English learners scored "proficient" or above in a nationwide reading exam, and thousands languish for years in ineffective English-as-a-second-language programs.
On a scale of one to 10, the education of the nation's English learners is "below five," said Gary Cook, a specialist with the Wisconsin Center for Education Research.
"Their success is our success," Cook said. "If they really can't meet the educational expectations of what's coming – that is, the need to be knowledge workers, not necessarily physical workers – then we're in a world of hurt."
The vast majority of English learners, more than two-thirds at the elementary school level, were born in the United States. They represent many different languages and ethnicities, but the majority is Hispanic. Overall, 38 percent of Hispanic fourth-grade students were identified as English learners, as well as 20 percent of Hispanic eighth-grade students, according to the 2011 National Assessment of Education Progress math test.
Latino students overall have some of the highest dropout rates and the lowest share of the population with a bachelor's degree. The language barrier does not affect the majority, but for those who enter school as English learners the challenges are even greater.
Asian students represent the second largest group of English learners.
States such as California, Texas, New Mexico and Nevada have some of the largest proportions of English learners in their school-age populations. They also are widely concentrated in low-income, urban schools. A study by the Urban Institute found that 70 percent are educated in 5,000 elementary schools, just 10 percent of the nation's schools.
The segregation of these students is reflective of both neighborhood segregation and a decision on the part of some districts to group these students together in order to provide them with qualified teachers and bilingual programs that are scarce, said Richard Fry, a senior research associate for the Pew Hispanic Center. But the schools they attend also tend to have the highest rates of poverty, larger pupil-teacher ratios and bigger schools.
"They are clearly at risk," said Fry.
An English learner's entrance into the public school system usually starts with a home language survey, which asks whether another language is used at home and which language the child speaks most frequently. The questions can vary significantly from state to state, and in some places there's been criticism for including questions that identify children as being in need of language services when they are not.
In Miami, for example, one of the questions is what's the student's first language. But as Coral Way's principal, Josephine Otero, pointed out, that doesn't necessarily mean a child isn't fluent in his or her second language.
How best to teach English learners is under debate.
The research is inconclusive, though there has been recent momentum for bilingual education programs such as the one at Coral Way, which has been at it longer than most schools. The school adopted a bilingual program for all students, regardless of language proficiency, in the 1960s after receiving a wave of Cuban immigrants fleeing the 1959 communist revolution.
Believing they'd eventually return to Cuba, many families wanted to make sure their children didn't lose their Spanish. Most never returned to the island, but the dual-language program remained and the school has consistently been given an "A" by the state
Virginia Collier and Wayne Thomas from George Mason University in Virginia studied more than 6 million student records and found that full-immersion bilingual programs in which native and nonnative students are given instruction in both languages are the most effective. They studied bilingual programs in the Houston Independent School District and found that native-Spanish speakers were at or above grade level in English and Spanish in first grade through fifth grade.
"This is a program that is spreading all throughout the United States very, very fast," Collier said.
In some of the programs, students are taught half their subjects in English and the other half in Spanish, or they start with more time in the dominant language until becoming equally fluent in both.
One problem is that it's not always easy to find teachers who not only speak Spanish but also can teach and explain it academically as well. It's a challenge even in Miami, where speaking Spanish is practically a requirement for everyday life. A 1997 study found that only 2.5 percent of English-as-a-second-language teachers had a degree in bilingual or English language education.
"It's not in all cases bilingual education works better," Linquanti said. "It depends on quality of instruction, material and support for the community."
Bilingual programs also face a political hurdle. In California, Massachusetts and Arizona, bilingual education has been banned by proponents of an English-only approach.
"Bilingual education connects to a lot of lightning rod issues in the national discourse," Linquanti said. "Immigration. Multiculturalism. People will see bilingual education through those issues. That's why the controversy continues."
Many districts continue to separate English learners for special instruction, teaching them primarily in English. There are examples around the country that show that approach can be successful, though critics say it isolates students from their peers.
A 19-month U.S. Department of Education investigation of the Los Angeles Unified School District found the district failed to provide equal education to English learners and black students, resulting in wide academic disparities. Only 5 percent of high school English language learners were rated proficient in English or math; for black students, 32 percent were proficient in English and 9 percent in math, according to the district's 2009-10 report card.
The district, the nation's second largest, agreed to a complete overhaul of its English-learning program.
It takes students with the lowest skill levels five years to seven years to become proficient in English, research by Cook and Linquanti has shown. But in some places, students are getting stuck in English-as-a-second-language programs all the way until graduation.
In California, 59 percent of secondary school English learners were found to have been in U.S. schools for more than six years without reaching English proficiency, according to a study by Californians Together, a statewide coalition of parents, teachers and education advocates. The group found that many students received minimal or no help in developing their second language.
"Many are stuck at an intermediate level of development," said Shelly Spiegel-Coleman, the group's executive director.
After the report came out, districts around the state began devising new language courses. Academics also are hopeful that there soon will be greater national consistency in how English learners are identified and how proficiency is defined through the Common Core standards and assessments, a set of uniform benchmarks adopted by 45 states and the District of Columbia.
Regardless of the approach, resources remain limited. Schools with few English learners may get no money at all, and federal help is heavily tied to census figures, which are believed to significantly underrepresent the number of students in need of services.
One study by a Miami-Dade School Board member and Republican political consultant found it takes about $1,500 to provide English language instruction for each student. A 2008 study by the New York Immigration Coalition found quality English-learner education costs about twice as much as for students not in those programs.
On a recent day in Lopez's third-grade English class in Miami, the students learned the four points of the compass by reading and acting out a poem. The students are from Egypt, Puerto Rico, Cuba and Spain and eagerly put up their hands when teacher Julia Puentes asks them a question.
Puentes said with her school's approach, most start getting a firmer grasp of the language within three months.
"It's just amazing," she said.
The question is how well the rest of the nation can replicate that.


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There are few things more rewarding than having a pet. They love us unconditionally, shower us with attention, and because of them, we actually live longer. So, what can possibly be awkward about our animal BFFs? Well . . . nothing. In fact, we're the awkward ones. We adore our pets, but let's face it—sometimes L-O-V-E makes us go a little overboard. Like giving them middle names, throwing them elaborate birthday parties, and making them a Christmas sweater to match with the rest of the family. Truth is, what they cherish most is our companionship. And maybe that's the reason we care about them so much—because for such simple pleasures, they allow us to be as awkward as we want.
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Tolera Therapeutics Announces Appointment of Linda C. Hogan as Vice President, Business Development
KALAMAZOO, Mich., Oct. 1, 2012 – /PRNewswire/ – Tolera Therapeutics, Inc., a privately held biotechnology company focused on the development of immunotherapeutics directed at the transplantation, autoimmune and oncology markets announced today the appointment of Linda C. Hogan as Vice President of Business Development.
Linda has over 25 years of experience in the healthcare industry, having served as Vice President of Global Business Development for Aventis in addition to various roles in medical affairs, strategic planning and finance, new business market intelligence, and licensing for its predecessor companies of Marion Laboratories, Marion Merrell Dow, and Hoechst Marion Roussel. In addition to founding LLH Associates, a business development and strategic advisory consultancy, Linda was also Vice President of Business Development for Clearview Projects and has experience in venture capital as an Executive in Residence at Care Capital, LLC.
"Linda has extensive partnering and transaction skills and we are very pleased to add her to the Tolera team to help advance our partnering activities," commented President and CEO, John Puisis.
"I am excited to join Tolera Therapeutics and look forward to assisting with strategic and transactional activities at a key time in the company's history. It is a privilege to work with a group focused on bringing targeted and safer therapies to transplant patients as well as those suffering from other immunological diseases," said Ms. Hogan.
Prior to joining the pharmaceutical industry, Linda was Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Director of Drug Information Services for the University of Kansas (KU) School of Pharmacy and Kansas University Medical Center. She received an MS in Hospital Pharmacy from KU and holds an MBA from Rockhurst College and a CLP from the Licensing Executive Society.
About Tolera Therapeutics: Tolera Therapeutics is a Kalamazoo, Michigan based biotechnology company. Primary investors in the company include the SWMF Life Sciences Fund, Triathlon Medical Venture Partners, Hopen Life Sciences Fund and the Michigan Economic Development Corporation. Building upon research done at the University of Kentucky and the Cleveland Clinic, Tolera Therapeutics is developing and commercializing therapies for the immune modulation market with the goal of addressing unmet medical needs with safer, more targeted solutions to reduce the risk of serious and toxic side effects often associated with immunotherapy. The company is focusing on commercializing its therapeutic monoclonal antibody technology for the transplantation market. Additional information concerning the company and its technology can be found on its website www.tolera.com.
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Broiled Grape French Toast
This twist on classic French toast features the one-of-a-kind Concord grape and makes for a tasty and heart-healthy start to the morning.
- Turn broiler on high with the top rack approximately 6-8 inches from the top. Spray a baking sheet with nonstick cooking spray or line with parchment paper.
- In a shallow bowl, whisk the eggs, milk, grape juice and vanilla together. One by one, dip the slices of bread in the egg mixture until soaked through and place on the prepared baking sheet.
- Place the red grapes on the baking sheet around the bread. Place in the oven and broil until the tops of the bread are golden, about 3 minutes. Turn over the slices of bread and continue to broil an additional 2-3 minutes, or until the bread is golden.
- Remove the French toast from the pan. Return the grapes to the oven and continue broiling an additional 5 minutes.
- Service the French toast topped with broiled grapes.
Serving suggestion: Drizzle with pure maple syrup, if desired. Heart-Check certification does not apply to serving suggestion.
Recipe Created by: Brittany Poulson, MS, RDN, CDE
- 4 large eggs
- 1 cup 1% milk
- ½ cup Welch's 100% Grape Juice
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 8 slices 100% whole wheat bread
- 2 cups red or purple seedless grapes, washed with stems removed