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NOTE: for a more detailed graph of the GCD with Celestial Focus taken into account vs no CF, click here.
New Cast Times
The following will become our new "base" cast times, before gear or raid buffs are added.
10 -> 9.09 seconds
3.5 -> 3.18 seconds
3.0 -> 2.72 seconds
Healing Touch, talented Starfire (Starlight Wrath)
2.5 -> 2.27 seconds
talented HT (Naturalist)
2.0 -> 1.82 seconds
Regrowth, Rebirth, Wrath
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This includes the GCD, Nourish, glyphed but untalented HT (no Naturalist), insta-casts (LB, Rejuv, WG, Swiftmend), and talented Wrath (Starlight Wrath).
1.0 -> .... you're already at the GCD cap. Grats on clippage ;)
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Haste from Buffs and Gear
It is from the new base cast times (with the talents and glyphs included) that raid buffs and haste gear is added.
- Bloodlust/Heroism - from shaman, 30%, or Power Infusion from disc priests, 20%
- Wrath of Air Totem - from shaman, 5%
- Nature's Grace - talent proc, 20%
- Imp Moonkin Aura - from balance druids, 3%, or Imp Pally Auras - from ret pallies, 3%
- Potions/Food Haste Rating
- Gear/Trinkets Haste Rating
1-Second GCD
The following are the haste ratings required to achieve a 1-second GCD with the listed buffs.
|GotEM3.3 and the GCD/Nourish/GlyphedHT
|Rating required for 1 second
|Nature's Grace proc
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|WoA + Aura
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The big winner in Thursday's surprise budget announcement may have been Assemblyman Tim Donnelly. The news that he was stopped trying to carry a loaded gun in his luggage through airport security in Ontario was pushed off the front pages, at least briefly.
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Donnelly was cited and faces charges -- he says he forgot the gun was in his bag -- but he was allowed to board the next flight. News reports say other travelers who did the same thing were taken into custody.
4. People still fly out of Ontario.
The inland Southern California airport has been losing flights and traffic (articles.latimes.com/2011/dec/16/local/la-me-ontario-terminal-story-20111216), in the face of deep economic trouble in its region and fierce competition from other LA-area airports. Good for Donnelly to keep patronizing.
3. Your enemies move fast on the web.
Within a few hours of the news breaking, someone was tweeting mischievously as @TimDonnellysGun.
2. Illegal immigrants are a terrible excuse.
If there's anything worse than Donnelly's handling of his gun, it's his explanation of why he needed a loaded gun: illegal immigrants. Donnelly said that his opposition to the California Dream Act, via an attempted referendum, had produced threats against him.
Even if that's true, this was not the time to bring it up. Stay classy, Assemblyman.
1. This wasn't bad politics.
Fearless predictions: this won't hurt the assemblyman much politically, if at all. That's because a gaffe in politics is when you do something dumb that's unexpected -- and contrary to your image. If U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein -- a committed supporter of gun control -- had tried to take a loaded gun through airport security, that would have been big news, and a major problem for her.
But Donnelly is an acknowledged gun nut. He's also known for taking gratuitous swipes at undocumented immigrants. So nothing about this is terribly surprising. It will only reinforce the image that people already had of him.
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Welcome to the website of award-winning author, Celia Rees
Celia Rees is one of Britain's foremost writers for teenagers with an international readership and reputation. Her novel Witch Child has been published in 28 languages and is required reading in secondary schools in the UK. Although her recent novels have been historical, she has written about everything from vampires to Shakespeare. She began by writing edgy, gritty thrillers for teenagers. This Is Not Forgiveness takes her back to her roots.
Costa winner and Carnegie shortlisted author Linda Newbery reviews This Is Not Forgiveness
Follow Celia on Twitter: @CeliaRees
Facebook fan page: Click here to join it!
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Glass Town Wars latest!
Glass Town Wars has been nominated for the Carnegie Medal!
Hear Celia talking about the book on Fun Kids Radio Podcast, and check out their page on it.
Here's a brilliant 5* review for Glass Town Wars from Books for Keeps! Here's the link to the full issue.
Read Celia's post about the writing of Glass Town Wars on the History Girls' Blog: http://the-history-girls.blogspot.com/2018/10/glass-town-wars-and-brontes-celia-rees.html
And read more about the Brontë siblings' secret world in the excellent Scoop Magazine http://www.scoopthemag.co.uk
Celia's first YA book for over six years, Glass Town Wars is inspired by the early writings of the Brontë siblings. Celia has taken the magical world that the siblings created and written an ambitious, intricate and innovative novel, featuring the Brontës as you have never seen them before, a teenage boy and an action-packed plot full of epic battles, new loves and old passions. Click here to read more about it!
Here's an interview that Celia recently did with Italian book Blogger Barbara Barducco – in Italian at the top, English underneath
Society of Authors
Celia is now on the Management Committee of the Society of Authors, the organization which looks after the interests of writers, illustrators, and literary translators.
Writers Review
Celia has joined Linda Newbery and Adele Geras on a new reviewing blog: Writers Review.
They will be reviewing books that they have enjoyed: fiction, non fiction, memoirs, nature writing, almost anything; but the emphasis will be on books for adults, rather than children. There will be a regular slot for guest reviewers, who are all writers, too.
You can find them at: http://reviewsbywriters.blogspot.co.uk/
Festival of Literature for Young People
Celia is looking forward to being at The University of East Anglia's exciting Festival of Literature for Young People – 20–24 June 2016.
Shakespeare's 400th Anniversary
1616–2016. It is four hundred years since William Shakespeare died in Stratford-upon-Avon. The anniversary of his death will be marked all around the world by performances, exhibitions, programmes of creative and cultural activities.
April, the month of his birth and his death, seems a good time to remember him and his work. Fellow History Girl Mary Hoffman's book Shakespeare's Ghost was published on 23rd April, and The History Girls had a whole month of Shakespeare-related blogs.
My date was 18th April: I wrote about one of my favourite plays, Twelfth Night, and how it inspired me to write The Fool's Girl.
Here I'm talking about the book in Shakespeare's garden:
Shakespeare Challenge
To celebrate his life, I think everyone should do at least one thing that is related to Shakespeare this year – watch or read one of his plays, visit Stratford-upon-Avon, go to an exhibition, write or paint something inspired by him or his plays. You can find just how much is going on at Shakespeare 400 . If you accept the Shakespeare Challenge, let me know how you get on. You can get in touch with me here.
World Book Day, March 3rd, 2016
On World Book Day, Celia was at King Edward VI School Handsworth and was very happy to take part in another Pirates! Day.
Previous Pirates! Day fun:
Trap in Time
Celia is delighted to announce the re-publication of her Trap in Time series: City of Shadows, A Trap in Time and The Host Rides Out as e books, all with splendid new covers. Trap in Time began as the HAUNTS series and was then turned into a trilogy. Celia is renowned for her ability to build fear into fiction and to create a sense of creeping dread. These novels contain some of her very best scary writing. There is no such thing as a safe scare – as you'll find out here. And see the new editions here!
HodderSilver is the home of all things Sci Fi, Fantasy and Speculative Fiction and it's an honour to be in the company of some of the greats of British Children's Fiction, including Robert Swindells, Nicholas Fisk, Jan Mark, Adele Geras and Jean Ure.
Read more at http://hoddersilver.tumblr.com, and follow this excellent blog, beginning with Celia writing about two of her writing heroes, Robert Swindells and Nicholas Fisk.
Witch Child is one of The Book People's Top 10 YA reads!
- A scene from Witch Child was part of The American Museum, Bath's Christmas Display. It is in their earliest room, a C17th keeping room, and will represent the point in the book where Mary is hiding her diary in the quilt.
The Christmas Displays were open from Saturday 22 November until Sunday 14 December. More information is on their website. This is particularly exciting as a visit to the American Museum supplied vital inspiration for Witch Child. Celia saw a Quilt Exhibition there and that was when she had the idea of hiding Mary's Diary in a quilt.
- Celia was in conversation with Penny Dolan and Leslie Wilson at the Oxford Literary Festival on 30th March, talking about Great Women from British History with Mary Hoffman trying to keep us in order. History Girls all!
- Celia is proud to be a History Girl and even prouder to be included in the new History Girls Anthology: Daughters of Time, published on International Women's Day, Saturday, March 8th, 2014.
Stories by Penny Dolan, Adele Geras, Mary Hoffman, Dianne Hofmeyr, Marie-Louise Jensen, Catherine Johnson, Katherine Langrish, Joan Lennon, Sue Purkiss, Katherine Roberts, Anne Rooney and Leslie Wilson who have each chosen remarkable women from British History, ranging from Boudica to Greenham Common's anti-nuclear activists.
Celia's story is about suffragette Emily Wilding Davison. Read Celia's History Girls blog about it, and her interview here.
- Witch Child has been included in the Booktrust's Ultimate List: The 100 Best Children's Books published in the last 100 years. See the other choices, vote for your choice or add your own comments here.
And read Celia's blog about what she would have included in the list!
- This Is Not Forgiveness has won!
Coventry Inspiration Book Awards Simply The Book – 14+
- This is Not Forgiveness was included in Kirkus Reviews 2012 Top Teen Books.
- It was also one of Maryom's Picks of the Year on networkedblogs.
- Celia was thrilled to see This is Not Forgiveness selected as one of the Top Ten Teen Titles for 2012 by Martin Chilton of the Daily Telegraph!
More great news for This is Not Forgiveness:
- Selected for the Booktrust Best Book Guide
- Shortlisted for the 2012 Southern Schools Book Award
- Selected for the 2013 Coventry Inspiration Book Awards
This Is Not Forgiveness has been given a starred review by Kirkus Reviews!
"I was hooked, fascinated by the voice of the story's central character and already feeling a mounting sense of anticipatory dread on his behalf – a sure sign you're in the hands of a fine storyteller."
Tony Bradman, The Guardian – read more
"It's a tale of love requited (but in the wrong way), and a plot loaded with contemporary, incendiary prescience. Slick and compelling, This is Not Forgiveness leaves a fiery afterburn in the mind."
Philip Womack, The Literary Review – read more
Blog Tour – in early February, Celia toured This Is Not Forgiveness
Click the tour dates image to the left, to get a full list of venues. Or click below to see the blog tour posts as they appeared:
Sister Spooky interviewed Celia on 30th January
The Mountains of Instead reviewed the book on 31st January
On 1st February Celia did a Q&A on The Great, the Good and the Bad
Read Celia's writing tips on Writing from the Tub, on 2nd February
And more Q&A on Books, Coffee & Anything Crafty on 3rd February
Celia talked about her This Is Not Forgiveness playlist on Readaraptor, on 6th February
On 7th February the book was reviewed at Serendipity Reviews
Celia described a day in her life on 8th February, for The Cait Files
And on 8th February she picked outthe best fictional deaths, for Feeling Fictional
To finish off the blog tour, on 10th February Celia talked on Belle Books about the film that inspired This Is Not Forgiveness.
Listen to Celia on the Guardian's podcast about This Is Not Forgiveness!
Celia's new book came out on 2nd February, and it's a bit of a departure, addressing hard-hitting issues that are prevalent in modern teenagers' lives.
Praise for This Is Not Forgiveness:
"Sleek, dark and dangerous. Celia Rees has ventured into new territory and returned with explosives." Patrick Ness
"In a remarkable book that manages to be both lyrical and gritty in the same breath, Celia Rees takes us into into a apparently ordinary world where love, betrayal, faith and violence appear hand in hand on virtually every page. I love it for its deceptively gentle prose, its totally believable characters and its vortex of a plot. It's a real achievement – Celia has really excelled herself with this one." Melvyn Burgess
"This is Not Forgiveness is a startling new novel by Celia Rees … a powerful story told as a multiple narrative … a brilliant read." Anne Cassidy
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The Best Children's Books Ever! – Celia's book Witch Child has been selected as one of the Guardian newspaper's best ever for 12-year-olds and over. Read what they had to say about it here.
"What Rees does frighteningly well is build up the slow tension in her stories."
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"Compelling and convincing… Rees has become a major writer for teenage readers."
The Independent
"Rees's outstanding fiction carries both historical and psychological conviction"
Books for Keeps
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ENGLISH 15Q: Family Trees: The Intergenerational Novel
The vast majority of novels feature a central protagonist, or a cast of characters whose interactions play out over weeks or months. But some stories overflow our life spans, and cannot be truthfully told without the novelist reaching far back in time. In this Sophomore Seminar, we will consider three novels that seek to tell larger, more ambitious stories that span decades and continents. In the process, we will discuss how novelists build believable worlds, craft memorable characters, keep us engaged as readers, and manage such ambitious projects.
Terms: Win | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
Instructors: Smith, A. (PI)
2019-2020 Winter
3 units |
UG Reqs: WAY-A-II |
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP) |
| Students enrolled: 14 / 16
01/06/2020 - 03/13/2020 Wed 3:00 PM - 5:50 PM at 460-429 with Smith, A. (PI)
Instructors: Smith, A. (PI)
Notes: Introductory Seminar. Preference to sophomores; first-year students admitted if space available. Advance sign-up process and deadlines at http://introsems.stanford.edu.
ENGLISH 17Q: Political Poetry
This workshop is devoted to reading and creating politically engaged poetry. Students will look closely at the intersection between activism, identity, and form, focusing on 20th and 21st century poets responding to their sociohistorical moment.
Last offered: Spring 2019 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-CE
ENGLISH 19Q: I Bet You Think You're Funny: Humor Writing Workshop
Nothing is harder than being funny on purpose. We often associate humor with lightness, and sometimes that's appropriate, but humor is inextricably interlinked with pain and anger, and our funniest moments often spring from our deepest wounds. Humor can also allow us a platform for rage and indignation when other forms of rhetoric feel inadequate. This workshop will take students through the techniques and aesthetics of humor writing, in a variety of forms, and the main product of the quarter will be to submit for workshop a sustained piece of humor writing. For undergrads only.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-CE
Instructors: Porter, E. (PI)
2019-2020 Autumn
3 units |
UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-CE |
Class #
Section 01 |
Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit |
| Students enrolled: 18 / 16
09/23/2019 - 12/06/2019 Tue, Thu 1:30 PM - 2:50 PM at 240-110 with Porter, E. (PI)
Instructors: Porter, E. (PI)
Notes: Introductory Seminar. Preference to sophomores; first-year students admitted if space available. Advance sign-up process and deadlines at http://introsems.stanford.edu.
ENGLISH 20Q: Making of the Modern Woman: Robots, Aliens, & the Feminine in Science Fiction (FEMGEN 20Q)
What does the genre of science fiction have to say about gender identity? How are women in science fiction represented by themselves and by others? Who are women? What is gender and how is it constructed and performed? What is the relationship between man and machine? Between woman and machine? How is gender represented through narratives of literal alien otherness? What does it mean to be a woman online or in gamer culture? Material will include feminist analysis of gender in popular science fiction literature and visual media from 19th through 21st centuries. Texts range from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to Alex Garland¿s Ex Machina.nnThis course will be reading and writing intensive but should also offer opportunities for spirited discussion. We will be engaging with sensitive subjects such as race, class, gender, and sexuality. Assignments include weekly short essays, discussion leadership, individual presentations, and a final research paper.
Last offered: Spring 2019 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
ENGLISH 40N: Theatrical Wonders from Shakespeare to Mozart
What is the secret of theatrical illusion? How does the theater move us to wonder, sympathetic identification, and reflection? How can the theater help society understand and manage social conflict and historical change? We will ask these questions through a close examination--on the page and on the stage--of dramatic masterpieces by Shakespeare and Mozart. We will attend live performances of Gounod¿s opera Romeo and Juliet and of Mozart¿s opera The Marriage of Figaro. No prior knowledge of music or foreign languages is required; neither is prior experience in theatricals.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
Instructors: Hoxby, B. (PI)
2019-2020 Autumn
3 units |
UG Reqs: WAY-A-II |
Class #
Section 01 |
Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP) |
| Students enrolled: 6
09/23/2019 - 12/06/2019 Tue, Thu 10:30 AM - 11:50 AM at Econ 206 with Hoxby, B. (PI)
Instructors: Hoxby, B. (PI)
Notes: Introductory Seminar. Preference to first-year students; sophomores admitted if space available. Advance sign-up process and deadlines at http://introsems.stanford.edu.
ENGLISH 43A: American Indian Mythology, Legend, and Lore (AMSTUD 143M, ENGLISH 143A, NATIVEAM 143A)
(English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 143A.) Readings from American Indian literatures, old and new. Stories, songs, and rituals from the 19th century, including the Navajo Night Chant. Tricksters and trickster stories; war, healing, and hunting songs; Aztec songs from the 16th century. Readings from modern poets and novelists including N. Scott Momaday, Louise Erdrich, and Leslie Marmon Silko, and the classic autobiography, "Black Elk Speaks."
Last offered: Autumn 2018 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
ENGLISH 48N: The American Songbook and Love Poetry (AMSTUD 48N)
A study of performances (Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra etc) of songs by classic American composers (Porter, Rogers and Hart, Cohen).
Last offered: Winter 2019 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-CE
ENGLISH 51N: The Sisters: Poetry & Painting (ARTHIST 160N)
Poetry and painting have often been called the "sister arts". Why? Sometimes a poem or a painting stands out to us, asking that we stay with it, that we remember it, although we cannot exactly say why. Poems have a way of making pictures in the mind, and paintings turn "rhymes" amid the people, places, and things they portray. Each is a concentrated world, inviting an exhilarating closeness of response: why does this line come first? Why does the artist include that detail? Who knows but that as we write and talk about these poems and pictures we will be doing what John Keats said a painter does: that is, arriving at a "trembling delicate and snail-horn perception of Beauty." Each week explore the kinship between a different pair of painter and poet and also focuses on a particular problem or method of interpretation. Some of the artist/poet combinations we will consider: Shakespeare and Caravaggio; Jorie Graham and (the photographer) Henri Cartier-Bresson; Alexander Pope and Thomas Gainsborough; William Wordsworth and Caspar David Friedrich; Christina Rossetti and Mary Cassatt; Walt Whitman and Thomas Eakins; Thomas Hardy and Edward Hopper.
Last offered: Winter 2018 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
ENGLISH 60N: Living on the Edge: Language and Landscape of the Western Fringes
What does it feel like to live on the edge, facing an expanse between you and the next place? Who has lived on the Western fringes of Britain and America? Who has named, formed, and been inspired by that land? Whose voices are silenced in the (re)making of a place? Shaping the landscape through the words we use or the features we build is as old as recorded time and, in this seminar, we'll investigate how the land is imagined, defined, settled, and delimited throughout history, with particular reference to western Britain and California. We'll focus on specific elements in the landscape Water, Hill, Tree, Stone, and Border looking at a sequence of locations through historical, archaeological, placename, literary, and artistic analyses. Students will produce place-name studies; the depictions of landscape through creative work (poetry, prose, non-fiction, song, or picture) on three fieldtrips; and close readings of literary descriptions of landscape. Among the authors study will be John Muir, John Steinbeck, Edward Thomas, Linda Noel, Dylan Thomas, and Gwyneth Lewis.
Last offered: Spring 2019 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
ENGLISH 68N: Mark Twain and American Culture (AMSTUD 68N)
Preference to freshmen. Mark Twain defined the rhythms of our prose and the contours of our moral map. He recognized our extravagant promise and stunning failures, our comic foibles and tragic flaws. He is viewed as the most American of American authors--and as one of the most universal. How does his work illuminate his society's (and our society's) responses to such issues as race, gender, technology, heredity vs. environment, religion, education, art, imperialism, animal welfare, and what it means to be "American"?
Last offered: Autumn 2018 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
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MOSCOW -- Russia's foreign ministry said on Saturday that it hopes a monitoring mission in Ukraine will help ease the tensions in Ukraine. Ukraine was engulfed in anti-government rallies for three months before President Viktor Yanukovych fled the country and the interim government was appointed. Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said in a statement on Friday that Moscow hopes that the 200-strong team of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe "will help to overcome the internal Ukrainian crisis" and ensure the respect for human rights there.
Russia had raised concerns about the situation in Russian-speaking south-eastern regions including the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea. Moscow on Friday formally sealed Crimea's annexation, less than a week following a referendum that overwhelmingly voted to join Russia. Pro-Russian forces last week stopped OSCE military observers from entering Crimea. The organization on Friday did not specify whether the observers will go to Crimea. U.S. chief envoy Daniel Baer said the observers should have access to the territory because Crimea remains Ukrainian to the rest of the world. Lukashevich said on Saturday insisted that the OSCE's mission "will reflect the new political and legal order and will not cover Crimea and Sevastopol which became part of Russia."


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Lil bit of everything and anything! Mostly a place where I can share some of my craft projects.
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Happy Monday!! Well hopefully it'll be a happy Monday for everyone! It's a cold one here in Arizona, so I think a day of crafting and keeping warm is in order!!
I came across a great challenge at The Sweet Stop, a sketch challenge, which I hardly ever do, but I loved this one for some reason. So, I decided to give it a try. I made this card for a dear friend of mine that lost her husband a few days ago. I hope it lets her know how much we're all thinking about her. We love you Mary!
On to the sketch... The sketch below is what we were to follow at The Sweet Stop. We could turn it, flip it, change the shape but needed to stay as close as we could to it, so I believe I accomplished that. Sometimes it's nice to have that inspiration, whether a picture, a sketch, an idea to jumpstart your creative juices.
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To visit Charleston is to step into a world that harkens back to the antebellum South. They call this land the Lowcountry, where one finds life moving at a slower pace, the people laid back and speaking with a hospitable and endearing Southern drawl. One of the main highlights of stepping into this rich historical tapestry is by visiting some of the area's beautiful antebellum plantations, which were a staple of the economy, culture and lifestyle of the pre-Civil War South. Along the Ashley River Road National Scenic Byway, an 11-mile section of road with sunlight sifting in golden strands through Spanish moss hanging from massive live oaks, provides the perfect setting for three spectacular plantations: Middleton Place, Magnolia Plantation, and Drayton Hall, with Boone Hall Plantation & Gardens on the other side of the river.
The prettiest of them all is Middleton Place. This former plantation is home to America's oldest landscaped gardens, begun in 1741 by Henry Middleton, second president of the First Continental Congress. From camellias to roses, blooms of all seasons form floral allées along terraced lawns and gardens around a pair of ornamental lakes that are shaped like butterfly wings, in addition to panoramic marshland views featuring the magnificent 900-year-old Middleton Oak. As for the house, a large part of the three-building residential complex was destroyed during the Civil War, but the "South flanker" that contained the gentlemen's guest quarters was restored, and now serves as a house museum, displaying impressive English silver, furniture, original paintings, and historic documents, including an early silk copy of the Declaration of Independence.
In the stableyards, historic interpreters use authentic tools to demonstrate spinning, weaving, blacksmithing, and other skills from the plantation era. Heritage-breed farm animals, such as water buffalo and cashmere goats, are housed here, along with peacocks. A gorgeous walk during the height of Spring, a spectacular array of flowers bloom everywhere on the plantation, making Middleton, according to the Garden Club of America, one of the "most interesting and important gardens in the U.S." If all this leaves you feeling peckish, head over to the cozy Middleton Place Restaurant for excellent Lowcountry specialties, based on original recipes by renowned Southern Chef Edna Lewis who was the resident chef for several years.
"Where flowers bloom, so does hope."
– Lady Bird Johnson -
Middleton Plantation Reflection Pond with swans
Garden path overlooking the pond
Flowers in one of the 'Secret Gardens'
A quiet garden bench overlooking the reflecting pond
Garden path leading to the Camellia Allées
A camellia in full bloom
'The Four Seasons' sculpture nestled in the secret gardens
The 900 year old Middleton Oak off the formal gardens and overlooking the Ashley River
Moss covered oaks line the banks off the Ashley
A picturesque wood garden gate
Horse and carriage ambling through the 'greensward'
Middleton Plantation House viewed from the gardens
The Plantation Chapel
The Mill Pond behind the Chapel
One of the resident peacocks in full show, in the Middleton stable yard
Giving us a full showing, the peacock gave us a view from the backside too!
Protective of their area, the goose was attempting to stare me into retreat
A very sleepy Guinea Hog, which was a common breed on southern plantations until they were replaced by modern breeds — nowadays, they're a rare heritage breed
The candle and soap-making area of the plantation, where both free and enslaved workers spent much of their days
Chickens were also raised at Middleton
Coopers fashioned barrels for storage and shipment of rice which was the main crop of the Plantation, as shown by resident Cooper Doug Nesbit
Arthur-the-cat, who likes to lounge around the cooper, chewing on rice sheathes
The Blacksmith Shop
Harold, a cashmere goat
Horses were used to plough the fields
"Eliza's House", a circa 1870 two-family dwelling for the enslaved at Middleton Place, both before and after the Civil War
Carriage tours take guests around the plantation
A herd of Gulf Coast sheep keep the grass well trimmed
Middleton Place viewed from the side
View of the restored Middleton Place from the right side
Another gorgeous peacock strutting through the gardens
The restaurant at Middleton Place, which was once a guest house, serves low county lunch every day, and candlelit dinners in the evening based on original recipes by acclaimed chef Edna Lewis
The tranquil outdoor garden terrace of the restaurant
Middleton Place Pecan Pie
Serves 6-8
Recipe courtesy of Chef Edna Lewis, Middleton Place
1 cup lard
2 tbsp butter
2 cups flour
1 tsp salt
4 tbsp cold water
1 cup corn syrup
1 cup granulated sugar
2 tbsp butter, melted
1 tsp vanilla extract
3 large eggs
1 1/2 cups chopped pecans
Whipped cream, chopped nuts and mint, for garnish
In a large bowl, place the lard and butter. Add the flour and salt and rub together with fingers to form small balls. Add the cold water, 1 tablespoon at a time, mixing the flour mixture in between each tablespoon. Only add enough water until dough comes together in one large ball.
Spread some flour on a piece of waxed paper and place the dough on it. Sprinkle some more flour on top of the dough and proceed to roll out the dough until desired thickness, about 1/8 inch thick. Fold the dough over once to make a half moon and again to make it a quarter moon. Remove the dough from the waxed paper and place into a 9-inch pie pan. Unfold the dough so that it covers the entire pan. Press dough gently into pan. Using a fork, crimp the edges of the dough along the edge of the pie pan and cut away excess dough with a pairing knife. Set the pie shell aside.
Preheat the oven to 325°F. In a bowl, combine the corn syrup, sugar, butter, vanilla, and eggs. Mix with a whisk until well incorporated. Place the pecans in the pie shell and pour mixture over nuts. Be careful not to overflow the shell. Bake the pie for 45 minutes. The pie should be firm and golden brown. Let pie cool before cutting. Pie may be garnished with whipped cream, nuts and mint.
Middleton Place Corn Pudding
Serves 4
Recipe courtesy of Chef Edna Lewis, Middleton Place
2 cups yellow corn
2 whole eggs
3/4 qt heavy cream
1/4 tsp nutmeg
pinch of salt and pepper
Place yellow corn in a greased casserole pan. Mix all other ingredients together. Pour mixture over corn and bake for 45 minutes at 350°F or until golden brown.


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Cable cutting is almost a reflexively good thing, right? Wireless mice, wireless console controllers, wireless internet - but is this wireless KFA2 GeForce GTX460 graphics card just wireless for the pure sake of it? Or is this the future?
The ostensibly cool factor of a graphics card like this - which KFA2 claims can output 1080p video at 60hz via a monitor receiver - is that it'll allow you to place your display and (wireless) keyboard/mouse anywhere you want, freed from your desktop. Stick the desktop in the basement! Or under the bed! Or wherever. The appeal here lies in getting the desktop tower out of sight and, I suppose, saving space. Which is good!
But then what? I'm not sure where else most people are going to be using their desktop computers other than... a desk. And if you're already at the desk, is it really so much of a pain to have the computer next to you? Where does KFA2 free us to place the tower-less computer, with its 30m range? On a dining room table? In the kitchen? These all seem like places in a home where a tablet or laptop would hit the spot, rather than a PC monitor, mouse and keyboard. And keep in mind, that monitor still needs a power cable.
Hooking up KFA2's receiver to an HDTV is also an option, but, blech - the idea of sitting on my couch with a wireless mouse makes my skin crawl.
This is also to say nothing of the potential for wireless interference and range issues - not what you want to run into while gaming or watching a movie (or doing anything, really).
Cables are a hassle, for sure - but really only when they're meant to be hooked up to something that we're moving around with any frequency at all. An external hard drive. A phone. Which is why I couldn't care less about the rat's nest of HDMI cables behind my TV - I never go back there, and I never move the thing around. Wirelessly streaming video from a laptop to a TV, or a camera to a computer, or whatnot - these all make sense, as one object in the equation is either small or far away enough from the other to make mobility a factor. But the wireless desktop monitor? I'm not quite convinced anyone needs such a thing. [KFA2 via DVICE]


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If someone offers to talk about fixed income ETFs in the wake of the current fixed-income environment and interest rate "situation," we're all ears.
"Obviously, interest rate volatility is creating fixed income anxiety," William Belden, managing director of product development with Guggenheim Investments, told ThinkAdvisor on Thursday. "In the fixed income ETF space, an ebbing of inflows was seen and even outflows as investors wondered if rising rates portends a trend in and of itself," he added understatedly.
Of course it most likely does portend a trend, Belden (left) noted, but people are wondering how soon and how fast it will happen.
"We feel we are positioned well not only to guard against what's happening but to take advantage of it," he argued. "We have a suite of defined maturity ETFs, which have a definitive life attached to them so any interest rate risk is mitigated."
Belden was referring to Guggenheim BulletShares ETFs, with maturity dates spanning from 2013 to 2022. It includes 16 corporate bond and high-yield corporate bond ETFs from which to choose.
"Mutual funds and many other fixed income ETFs have that continuous maturity aspect attached to them," he continued. "The investor has no idea what it will be worth, let alone when they need it."
With that defined maturity, they have the confidence of knowing they will get a certain amount when needed, he claimed.
"It weds bond funds to individual bond component. As a result of this structure, we continue to see inflows, and, in fact, we're on track for the highest sales month in July in the product's history. We just passed $3 billion in assets under management in the BulletShare suite by being in the right place at the right time."
How else do you deal with all that's happening in fixed income, he asked?
"You can shorten your duration, obviously," says Belden (left). "Finding yield has always been a headwind, but it doesn't make much difference if you take on added risk to go from zero basis points to 25 basis points."
For this reason, he concluded, Guggenheim offers a short-duration product, the Guggenheim Enhanced Short Duration Bond ETF (GSY), that has a three- or four-month maturity with low risk and low volatility.
"You might get 100 basis points of yield, which again is not a lot, but for a strategic type of investment with low risk and low volatility, a money market type of play, it's very good for that."


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With From Africa with Fury: Rise, Seun Kuti creates an album that makes a direct connection and almost extension of his father Fela Kuti's work. While his previous albums did a notable job carrying on the Afrobeat torch, with this one he has really hit the nail on the head. In so many ways, Rise looks, sounds, and feels like his father's soul has a direct hand in its creation.
Pick up the album. Just look at the cover of the album. Look. And you'll see graphics that immediately draw you back to Fela's albums, and for good reason. For his latest release, Seun called upon Nigerian artist Lemi Ghariokwu, the same artists who created many of Fela's most well known covers.
Open up the album. Listen to the music. Backing Seun is Egypt 80, Fela's old band. And while all the members may not have directly played with Fela, the core of the band is a direct channel to the center of Afrobeat.
Listen more deeply. You'll find the heart of Afrobeat: protest. Songs of rebellions. Songs questioning the status quo. Songs seeking to address wrongs. The fuel that drove Fela and now his children.
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Sometimes its just so out of control that you dont know what to do. Even the best intentions are laid to waste, coz there's just no point in having a good intention. Nothing ever gets done. Nothing can be imlemented. Each day drags out to another. Before you know it, its become a cycle, and not one you especially wanna get caught in. How do you get out of it all ? How much can you erase from a written page before you tear it ?
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Mark your calendars: Prince William and Kate Middleton are expecting their baby to arrive in July. People
Big Willy, aka Bill Clinton, surprised everyone by taking the stage at the Golden Globes. E! Online
While Michael Phelps' new mustache is questionable, his smoking hot body is not. Fit Perez
Yowza! A nude Lindsay Lohan may be coming to a computer screen near you. Radar Online
The girls shut-it-down on the red carpet at the Golden Globes, but let us not forget about the men. Très Sugar
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As someone who was going to travel to FIT alone, some of my main concerns were what kind of people I would meet there. Was everyone going to be really into fashion? Will they criticize my outfit? Do they even have sports there? Well, the answer is, FIT precollege students come from all over, with many different backgrounds and interests! Not everyone knows what Marc Jacob did last fashion week or who the editor of Vogue is. Not even all the students know who their favorite designer is, it all depends on the individual and how serious they take fashion.
As far as the people I've met at FIT, they've all been kind. There's so much to talk about; it's easy to start conversations with whoever's sitting next to you. Sometimes, you may not have very much in common, which has happened to me. I suggest sitting towards the middle of the room so there's people all around you to talk to, that way, there's bound to be someone with the same interests. Also, you only see these people once a week, so there's a lot to talk about. I usually ask my friends if they've had time to work on the project, go swatching, or get new supplies.
I don't know anyone who stays for two classes, so during my lunch break I go solo. I usually go for my 2nd or 3rd extra-large tea from Dunkin' Donuts, and maybe a large coffee (i'm the caffeine queen). During the warm weather, I like to go shop at American Apparel and other various stores around the block from FIT. During colder months, I stay closer to the school and eat lunch inside, or across the street at the pizza place. I also love the discount art store, I just got a 72 set of Prismacolor pencils for Easter! Last Saturday, there was a room full of people decorating bags to send to children in Haiti, and making paper cranes for children in Japan. They offered free food and made name plates and drew caricatures. I stopped by to decorate a bag or two.
In my second class, it's a lot more chatty as people are following the step-by-step instructions on how to create garments. I talk away with a friend as I sew and sometimes hang out in the room during break or go to grab another hot tea or a snack. I like to take notes of all the steps so it's easy to remember later, and I can make things later at home. After school, I grab something to eat for dinner and head to the subway. Every once in a while I wander around Time Square before catching my train, but most of the time I just get a magazine to read while I wait.
Spring Break was incredibly unpredictable, but completely fun. Of course, I procrastinated and spent much needed time with old friends, but I also hand-beaded most of my prom dress and finished my shrug and started my purse. I had various runs to the art supplies store and fabric store for my FIT projects, which are just about finished up. Shopping was also fun. I got a cute floral sheer shirt from Forever 21, as well as a sequined bandeau top and cream sweater. I went to Marshall's, which is totally great because their prices are always so good. I got a cheetah print dress, another floral top, and khaki capris. I also bought a white frilly blouse from New York & Company. My Spring Break definitely rounded out my wardrobe more. I've also been finishing a book I've recently rented called Models As Muse: Embodying Fashion.


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Planning For Success
This story appears in the March 1996 issue of . Subscribe »
A finished business plan serves as an operating tool to help you
manage your business and work toward its success. It allows you to
put nebulous thoughts into concrete form. It is the difference
between those who merely have an idea and those who make money on
one. And it is the most important step you can take towards making
your dream of owning a business a reality.
Regardless of what you've been told by friends and associates, writing a business plan is necessary for success. How much capital will you need to start the venture? What legal form will the business take? How long will it be before the business breaks even? What is it about your business that will make it succeed? Inquiring minds want to know-especially bankers, venture capitalists and any other sources you approach for start-up funding and expansion capital. Although there are many different structures for a business plan, they all contain the following elements:
Executive Summary
"An executive summary captures and presents succinctly the essence of the business plan. It is, in effect, a capsulized version of the entire plan," writes Harold J. McLaughlin, PhD, author of The Entrepreneur's Guide to Building a Better Business Plan (John Wiley & Sons). While the summary is placed first, you should write it last. "It is only after the entire plan has been thought through and written that one is able to capsulize effectively and concisely."
"In addition to facilitating a quick understanding of the proposal, an executive summary should get attention," says McLaughlin. "Many venture capitalists, investors and lenders indicate that it is not unusual for them to discard a proposal without reading beyond the executive summary."
Business Description
The business description is a detailed preface of your proposed venture and should explain the purpose of your business and describe your product or service in more detail. It sets up the rest of the sections by discussing variables affecting the business, the industry, its markets and success factors. The business description can range from a few paragraphs to a few pages in length. If your description is long and drawn out, you will lose the reader's attention. Unless your plan is a complicated one, a short statement conveys the information much more effectively.
Marketing Plan
Define your business' market and sales potential. This will help you develop successful sales, pricing and distribution strategies and will give an indication of growth potential within your industry.
Begin your market analysis by defining the market in terms of size, structure, growth prospects, trends and sales potential. Your potential market can be defined by total sales of your primary competitors (those within your target market) or by a combination of sales figures from primary and secondary competitors (less frequent competitors within your target market). Most of this information is available through trade associations, periodicals and government agencies. You can also gather information from the annual reports of publicly held firms or by surveying private competitors.
Lenders or investors will be most interested in your sales potential figures. Make sure this forecast is conservative and has its basis in a well-developed methodology that supports your claim for market share.
Your marketing strategies, based on your market research, will impact your market share, and consequently your sales potential. They should encompass pricing, distribution, advertising and sales, and illustrate how you will achieve sales. Explain why you are adopting specific strategies. For instance, if you are positioning your product as an upscale item, due to the quality of the components or ingredients, and you set your price at 10 percent above the competition's product, explain this in the plan.
Competitive Analysis
All too often, entrepreneurs fail to recognize that competition really exists, especially when they believe their product or service is the first of its kind. The purpose of the competitive analysis is to determine the strengths and weaknesses of your competitors, develop marketing strategies that will give you a distinct competitive advantage and erect barriers that will keep competitors out of your market share.
Identify both current and potential competitors in your plan, and group them by the intensity of their competition. Mail a questionnaire to your target customer base. Describe your product or service, and ask which companies the consumer would consider alternatives to yours.
A company's strengths and weaknesses are usually based on the key assets and skills that enable it to be competitive in the marketplace. An asset might be the ability to create a strong advertising campaign or a prime retail location. Examine your competitors' strategies and strengths, then list the skills and assets your start-up will need to be successful.
Design And Development
"It is not unusual to prepare a business plan before a business's full range of products and services is developed," say Eric. S. Siegel, Brian R. Ford and Jay M. Borstein, authors of The Ernst & Young Business Plan Guide (John Wiley & Sons). "In this light, it is worthwhile to present a summary of the development activities that the company will undertake."
If you have not yet designed and developed your product, this section of the business plan lets you formulate a procedural plan that charts all your product, organizational and marketing development goals; a schedule that associates timelines with the goals in the procedural plan; and a development budget that establishes costs to produce and bring your product or service to market. Those costs should include materials, direct labor, overhead required to operate the business during the development phase, the salaries of executive, administrative and office support personnel, miscellaneous product development costs and capital equipment costs.
Operations And Management Plan
According to the Business Plan Guide, "A production facility will probably require significant attention to operational issues. In contrast, most retail businesses and some service businesses will probably have less operational complexity."
The operations and management plan should provide a blueprint for the ongoing operations of the business once it becomes active, including its organizational structure and the expense and capital requirements associated with its operation.
The organizational structure (sole proprietorship, S-corporation, corporation, limited liability company, etc.) must be outlined to provide a basis from which to project operating expenses. This is critical to the formation of financial statements, which are heavily scrutinized by investors.
The expenses associated with the operation of the business (overhead) should be calculated and outlined in a table. Fixed expenses, such as rent and insurance, remain constant, while variable expenses like utilities, supplies and shipping fluctuate according to the volume of business you conduct. In addition to an operating expense table, include any other relevant costs and a schedule for depreciation and reinvestment into capital equipment.
Financial Plan
Convert your market analysis into financial statements that chart the projected growth of your business over a three-to-five year period. Key financial statements that must be included in this section are:
- The income statement: A projected financial summary of
profit and loss, estimated income and expenses, with a monthly
breakdown for the first year and quarterly thereafter.
- The cash-flow statement: A detailed account of the
amount of money coming into and going out of the business monthly
for the first year and quarterly for each consecutive year
- The balance sheet: A detailed summary of your business
assets, liabilities and equity for each year profiled. Include a
personal balance sheet.
You should include with each statement a thorough written analysis that explains the basis for your calculations and any conclusions that can be drawn from your projections. You may also want to include a break-even analysis and ratios such as return-on-investment and return on assets.
"With a start-up business there is no financial history," says Patrick D. O'Hara, PhD, author of The Total Business Plan (John Wiley & Sons). "Therefore, you should emphasize the reliability of the supporting data."
Though a business plan, alone, can't guarantee your business will be a success, it does let you evaluate your business idea. Ultimately, it is an operating tool that helps put you on the road to success.


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MANTECA - Bad guys with guns, take heed.
MANTECA - Bad guys with guns, take heed.
Manteca is serious about keeping its police officers and the public safe in the event of a hostage rescue, armed takeover, bomb threat or the need to transport officers into the heart of a high-risk incident.
The Manteca Police Department has taken ownership of an MRAP, short for mine-resistant ambush-protected tactical vehicle, better known as the Pentagon's solution to keeping soldiers safe from roadside bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Thousands of similar vehicles - with an estimated value of more than $700,000 apiece - were never deployed overseas and were declared surplus. They are now being made available free of charge to local police agencies around the nation through the Law Enforcement Support Office of the Defense Logistics Agency.
The MRAP - at 56,000 pounds, 10 feet high and 21 feet long with six-wheel drive and run-flat tires - can travel just about anywhere it wants to go, according to Manteca police Sgt. Paul Carmona, the only member of the department currently authorized to operate the massive machine.
"Primarily, this is for the protection of officers and the rescuing of officers and civilians," Carmona said.
"If there was an active shooter situation, we can drive the vehicle right up in the middle of it and start evacuations," he said.
Manteca's new MRAP has been assigned to the Police Department's Special Weapons and Tactics team - a joint operation of the Manteca and Ripon departments - and could be ready for service as soon as next month.
First, it will be repainted from its military khaki color to police black and outfitted with a light bar and the logos of the SWAT team and the Manteca and Ripon police departments. The vehicle requires a driver with a Class B commercial license with air brake endorsement and further training to operate it.
The MRAP is rated to withstand the impact of a 50-caliber round, something Carmona said he would rather not put to the test. It is also large enough to transport the entire joint SWAT team of 13 officers wherever they might be needed.
"We're here for mutual aid. All they have to do is call us," Carmona said of making the MRAP available in surrounding communities.
Carmona said because the vehicle was never deployed, everything in the engine is brand new, so "upkeep should be minimal." On the other hand, at just 4 to 6 miles per gallon, it will be expensive to operate. And according to the Department of Defense, they were never built to be sustained over time.
In a statement, Manteca Police Chief Nick Obligacion cited recent events across the country, including numerous school shootings, as one reason for his department to be prepared, saying it's necessary "to have every resource available to protect our citizens and officers."
While the MRAP will serve a specific function, its imposing size could possibly act as a deterrent to a gun incident escalating into something ugly.
"Part of it is, if we can get (armed suspects) to change their minds before they've done anything, it's done its job," Carmona said, quickly adding, "We didn't get it because it's big. We got it to save lives."
Contact reporter Joe Goldeen at (209) 546-8278 or email@example.com. Follow him at recordnet.com/goldeenblog and on Twitter @JoeGoldeen.


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The Houston Dynamo midfielder known for his large, habitual smile may wear a grin tonight that is four years in the making. Boniek Garcia, the dynamic midfielder who joined the Dynamo last June, is on the verge of clinching a place in his second consecutive World Cup.
The Honduras national team is currently alone in third place with 14 points in the final round of CONCACAF qualifying for next year's World Cup in Brazil, three points ahead of Mexico (11 points). The top three teams qualify for Brazil while the fourth place finisher must face New Zealand, the winner of the Oceania Federation, in a two-leg home-and-home playoff starting November 13.
Tonight, Honduras visits Jamaica at 8:30 p.m. CT (TV: BeIN Sport en Espanol) for its final qualifying match in the final round. Mexico and Costa Rica will also kick off at 8:30 p.m. CT (TV: Telemundo) while the United States visits Panama at 8:30 CT (TV: BeIN Sport).
If any of following occurs, Los Catrachos will qualify for the 2014 World Cup:
- Honduras defeats Jamaica
- Honduras draws with Jamaica
- Mexico loses at Costa Rica
- Mexico draws at Costa Rica
Honduras could slip to fourth place in the final standings if it loses to Jamaica and Mexico defeats Costa Rica and has a superior goal differential over the duration of the qualifying round. If EACH of the following occurred Honduras would finish fourth and enter the playoff with New Zealand:
- Honduras loses at Jamaica
- Mexico wins at Costa Rica
- Mexico (currently -1 goal differential) finishes with a superior goal differential than Honduras (currently +1 goal differential). *Conveniently, Honduras holds the second tiebreaker – greatest number of goals scored – over Mexico, with a commanding 11-6 advantage. To gain a superior goal differential, Mexico would have to defeat Panama by two or more goals or Honduras would have to lose to Jamaica by more than two goals. If Mexico and Honduras finish with the same goal differential (assuming Mexico doesn't score at least five goals tonight), Honduras would secure third place and a trip to Brazil due to the goals scored tiebreaker.
*Examples of score pairings that would qualify Honduras for 2014 World Cup: (Mexico wins 1-0 and Honduras loses 1-0; Mexico wins 2-1 and Honduras loses 2-1; Mexico wins 3-2 and Honduras loses 2-1; etc.).
Garcia, 29, has featured in all 15 of Honduras' World Cup qualifying matches since last June. He scored the opening goal in a 2-0 win over Jamaica on June 11. Garcia has 88 caps, the sixth-most appearances in Honduran national team history. Garcia was a part of Honduras' 2010 World Cup squad but did not play in South Africa. Qualification to Brazil would mark the third trip to the World Cup finals for Honduras after Los Catrachos qualified for the 1982 World Cup.
The United States (19 points) and Costa Rica (15 points) have already qualified for the World Cup. Panama could surpass Mexico for fourth place and the spot in the playoff with a win over the U.S. tonight and a loss by Mexico.


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RMI's formula for clearing human hurdles to a green economy
RMI's formula for clearing human hurdles to a green economy
It's 2050. The roads are much less crowded, and engine growls have given way to bird song. The old zoning rules have been repealed and sprawl is no longer subsidized; developers now pay the full costs they impose on public infrastructure. Workers still go to the office a few days a week, but many work from home exclusively. Fueling stations dispense biofuels and hydrogen, complementing the ubiquitous smart-charging points for electric vehicles. Clean energy has replaced fossil fuels in quantities sufficient to power society as we know it.
Such is the future described in Reinventing Fire, the Rocky Mountain Institute's meticulously-researched manifesto on the new energy era. Introduced in 2011, the book posits a business-driven transition to a sustainable future. Led by scientist Amory Lovins (interviewed here by Joel Makower), RMI's team of researchers weaves a fabric of futuristic, yet commercially viable technologies in buildings, electricity, industry, and transportation to "reinvent fire."
Laying out a formula for sustainable growth, the authors predict that in 2050, "Oil is rapidly becoming like whale oil after electric lights – a curiosity hardly worth selling." Greater national security and fewer traffic deaths are side benefits of an American economy expected to be 2.6 times the size of today's – all with one-third less natural gas, no oil, coal or nuclear energy, and at a $5 trillion lower net-present-value cost than business as usual. The vision is so universally attractive that we wonder what could possibly stand in our way to getting there.
People, naturally. "Non-technical" hurdles may be our most significant roadblocks to a clean energy future. Reinventing Fire identifies nine dominant barriers, most of which can be described as "human-related" -- that is, due to lack of incentives, leadership, and vision:
- Active or passive resistance by incumbents. Most organizations have an energy-using and -generating asset base dependent on fossil fuels. Moving away from it looks risky and costly.
- Economics and technology. Economic and technology barriers are shrinking as high-value efficiency and renewable solutions are brought to market, but hurdles persist in some sectors.
- Knowledge and culture. Energy is not a priority for most organizations, so many lack the knowledge, willingness or capabilities to move away from fossil fuels.
- Financing. Energy investments, often with sizable initial and relatively long paybacks, vie with others nearer a company's core priorities.
- Value chain complexity. Energy investments often link multiple parties across long value chains, with sometimes misaligned incentives, routing costs and benefits to different parties.
- Unclear value proposition. Energy is energy, clean or not, so selling efficiency and renewables to undiscriminating customers can be hard.
- Lack of long-term leadership. Changing the energy strategy of a company, state or nation requires planning and stewardship over decades – a far longer time period than profit or election horizons.
- Policy and regulatory structures. Some existing policies and regulatory structures impede energy transformation, so they must be changed or replaced to enable and accelerate it.
- Entanglement with partisan politics. Politicians apparently can't resist the temptation to hold short-term tax policies hostage to other issues, even if the result severely damages some of America's most vibrant and fast-growing high-tech industries.
Six Levers for Sustainable Transformation
Enacting this "business-driven" solution may be possible without an act of Congress, but will nevertheless require tremendous industrial, commercial, civic and individual cooperation focusing on six critical levers:
1. Transforming the auto industry
2. Dramatically shortening the distances traveled by auto and hauling trucks
3. Building efficient buildings and retrofitting existing ones on a tremendous scale
4. Accelerating energy savings and cogeneration in industry
5. Slashing the cost of renewable energy
6. Revamping utilities' rules and operating models
Reinventing Fire runs a gamut of ways to get involved, but maintaining the status quo is not among them. Four out of six chapters close with specific recommendations for key actors in each sector, with options labeled "No Regrets," "Opportunistic" and "Innovative." Electricity customers, for example, can go the "no regrets" route by taking personal responsibility for usage and participating in existing programs. They could be "opportunistic" by readying their homes and buildings for smart grid and demand response, or go "innovative" by advocating for the ability to net-meter fairly or install their own efficiency and renewables.
Concrete changes in transportation, buildings, electricity and industry can't happen without leaders casting a broad vision for constituencies across America. Altogether, there are nearly 200 synergistic actions that could be taken by a cross-section of society that includes:
- building owners, investors, and users
- commercial business owners
- electricity customers
- fuel providers
- fleet and private vehicle owners and operators
- government and NGOs
- plant owners and managers
- regulators
- utilities, service providers, and product suppliers
- vehicle makers and suppliers
The depth and breadth of engagement that will be necessary is daunting, but possible. Business can view the choices as obstacles or opportunities. Meaningful advocacy and public education can, in fact, become a communications strategy to bolster brand recognition, loyalty and visibility. Here in Dallas, for example, TXU installed two public charging stations in front of City Hall. The EV chargers are not only symbolic, but also convenient for a community built around cars, ensuring that the gesture facilitates cultural change (not merely good PR).
Organizations not directly involved in the four sectors can exercise influence by hosting events to raise awareness. The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture recently hosted 120 business and community leaders for a keynote presentation and panel discussion on Reinventing Fire. (Click here for my post-event video interview of RMI CEO Michael Potts.) Such high-level, targeted conferences provide a unique forum where local policy makers and interested citizens can mix with clean tech pioneers – an essential ingredient for fomenting the sorts of relationships that will move communities in the right direction.
Companies that are willing to help carry the conversation can bolster their brands and their bottom lines as a conservation-oriented culture takes root. Rather than staying quiet, relaying relevant and compelling sustainability messages can raise the company profile amidst forward-looking citizens -- the very people we all want as customers and investors. Watch this space for more on how to profit from internal and external sustainability communications strategies that underscore Reinventing Fire objectives.
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