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You can run through a tornado, watch a cell divide and prove that yawning is contagious. But if you want to experience the wonders of San Francisco's Exploratorium in its original home, you only have another week to do it.
After 43 years, the iconic museum of science, art and human perception is moving from the Palace of Fine Arts to Pier 15 in the center of the city's waterfront redevelopment. The last day to visit the Exploratorium in its original home is Jan. 2, the last of its Free First Wednesdays. It reopens April 17 on the Embarcadero.
Located between the Ferry Building and Fisherman's Wharf, the ambitious, nine-acre, $300 million project triples the museum's space. With easy access to public transportation, including ferry service from the East Bay, the move is expected to double the museum's annual attendance, exhibit developers say.
For the more than 300 employees and millions of visitors, the move is bittersweet. It may be cold and dark inside that 110,000-square-foot warehouse but most people who grew up in the Bay Area have warm memories of school field trips they took there as a child, where they dissected cow eyeballs, suspended their senses in the Tactile Dome, or participated in one of 600 interactive exhibits. It is widely recognized as the first children's museum in the country, if not the world.
"Third grade," says Robin Collins, a Turlock mother who recalls chasing her friends around the Palace's majestic pillars as a little girl. On Thursday, she brought her sons, Matt, 9, and Nick, 8, to the museum as a Christmas present.
"It's fun and educational," she says. "Any time you can have both of those things you've won."
At a neighboring exhibit, three generations of the Weatherford family hovered over the Turntable, an exhibit that tests motion when participants toss or roll plastic disks over spinning metal.
Dale Weatherford, of Mountain View, has had a membership to the museum since 1990, when she began home-schooling her children, then 6 and 8. "This is where we came to learn about science every two weeks," Weatherford says. Now, she brings her 4-year-old granddaughter, Rinnah.
"I'm so glad we made it out before the move. I'm sure the new location will be great, but it won't be here," she says, looking around the warehouse, which served as a garage space for Army jeeps and a fire station for San Francisco Fire Engine Company No. 6 before Exploratorium founder Frank Oppenheimer opened it as a museum in 1969. His exhibit, Coupled Pendulum, which he built in 1981 using hardware store pipes and a staff member's kitchen table, is the oldest piece in the museum.
Relocating such iconic pieces makes the move to Pier 15 a massive undertaking. The fish, small critters, and big tree in the Living Systems department completed their move Dec. 17. In January, the staff and 600 hands-on exhibits will move into the new space, which will house 150 more experiences than the Palace of Fine Arts location. A few exhibits, including the Sound Column, a musical instrument whose resonating chamber is a 60-foot-high room in a column of the Palace's rotunda, cannot be moved and will remain for future rotunda explorers.
The main level of the new space will be dedicated to exhibits while the second level will be used for staff, research and development activities, and visiting professionals. Three new clusters — buildings within the building — have been added inside, each respectful of the historic truss work and walls of the existing structure. The breathtaking San Francisco Bay views will serve as an inspiration for the artists and scientists who create the exhibits.
"The outdoor space allows us to be site-specific in our thinking," says Tom Rockwell, director of exhibitions and programs. "We can now use the wind, the sun hitting the water, and the view and angles of the (Bay) Bridge in our exhibits."
The Embarcadero location may offer the Exploratorium more physical visibility, but it has been a global leader in science and education for decades. Eighty percent of the world's science centers, from the New York Hall of Science to the Natural History Museum in London, use Exploratorium exhibits, programs or ideas. And, each year, the museum reaches 450,000 educators through its teaching programs, according to Quynh Tran of the museum's public information department.
With twice the number of classrooms and triple the capacity for teacher professional development, the new location could help the Exploratorium influence millions of teachers for generations to come.
"We want everyone who comes through that door to be engaged in critical thinking," Rockwell says.
Pier 15 at a glance
What will the new Exploratorium look like? Here are some facts:
The site: It will be between Fisherman's Wharf and the Ferry Building, in the heart of San Francisco's waterfront redevelopment.
The grounds: The 800-foot-long structure extends over San Francisco Bay — the length of nearly three football fields.
The view: It adds 1.5 acres of publicly accessible waterfront space with cafes, food carts and a store.
The layout: It links urban and marine environments with two pedestrian bridges, allowing the public to circumnavigate Pier 15.
The size: At 330,000 square feet, the nine-acre campus has three times the space of its original home.
The exhibits: It will offer nearly 600 hands-on exhibits, including 150 new experiences created by artists and scientists — 25 percent more than at the Palace of Fine Arts location.
The location: At the hub of all modes of public transportation, the new location is expected to double annual attendance to 1.2 million visitors.
The vision: Its sustainability goal is to become the largest net-zero-energy museum in the U.S., if not the world.


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In Between the Numbers: When a Blink of an Eye is Too Slow
A long-standing hypothesis around here is that we've entered a new age of internet-shaped shopper expectations.
The thinking is that, in this age of Google, Amazon, and ubiquitous connectivity, an increasing number of Western shoppers now expect the entire world to work like an iPad 3 hooked to a steroidal data pipe.
Where, with a flick of the finger, anything and everything can be found. In multiple choice. Where comparative price and product data is there for all to see. Where transparency is equated with authenticity, and authenticity with trust.
And where everything moves ahead at blink-of-an-eye speed.
Or faster.
Evidence of the latter was found this past week on the front page of the New York Times.
Steve Lohr ("For Impatient Web Users, an Eye Blink Is Just Too Long to Wait") reported that Google researchers found that a delay of four hundred milliseconds or more between key stroke and computer response – that's four-tenths of a second, literally the blink of an eye – will cause people to search less.
According to a computer scientist at Microsoft, a response time of 250 milliseconds is now the magic number "for a competitive advantage" on the web.
Truth be told, our impatient society will wait more than a few blinks for a big video file to download. But Google research shows that four of five online users will click away if a video stalls while loading.
In this day and age, it's lack of speed that kills.
Worth remembering as one designs the next web experience.
Worth remembering as one designs the next store experience.
Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines.
p.s. I will be speaking at the Catch Em and Keep Em Webcast on Thursday March 8th, 2012 about our research released at NRF 2012 back January. We will talk about what in our research show how retailers can catch and keep the channel hopping consumers. You can register to watch the event here.
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It looks these shakes are good but i have a doubt that does these shakes include steroids to increse energy level ...?
After a hard race or training session, you can help repair tired leg muscles by taking on protein, and For Goodness Shakes Recovery Drink is a very quick and easy way of doing it. As the name implies, this drink looks like a milkshake and tastes like a milkshake, and key ingredient is – you guessed it – milk, in the form of whey and casein.
According to the For Goodness Shakes website, the whey is fast-acting protein, while the casein is slow-acting, which together makes an ideal recovery formula. This drink also contains carbohydrate – providing a carb-to-protein ratio of 3:1 - plus various minerals to help replace those lost or 'burnt' during your ride and further help the recovery process.
This drink is available in 72g sachets of powder which you mix with 450ml water, and also ready-to-drink in 475ml bottles. Both varieties come in various flavours, including Banana, Chocolate and Vanilla.
There are many different recovery products on the market, so the type you prefer may come down to a question of taste. And on that score, For Goodness Shakes is a winner. The taste and texture is very good – pretty close to 'real' milkshake, although not quite as sweet - and slips down very easily indeed.
When it comes to cost, 12 bottles cost £25.20 on the For Goodness Shakes website – while 12 sachets of powder costs £24. You can also buy a large tub of powder (1.44 kg making 20 servings) for £36. At the time of writing, the 12 sachets are discounted to £21.60 and the tub is £32.40.
Specifically-designed recovery drinks are not essential (after a long ride you can help your muscles recover by stretching properly and eating something like a bowl of muesli) but they can help you benefit more from training and help improve your overall performance, so on that basis I'd say For Goodness Shakes is well worth trying.
Delicious milkshake-style drink to help muscles recover after a hard ride or training session.
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Make and model: For Goodness Shakes 3:1 Sports Recovery Shakes (12 pack)
Size tested: n/a
Tell us what the product is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
This product is a recovery drink, designed to help muscles recover and repair after exertion. It is not designed for use DURING a ride.
Under "why You Need to Recover", the For Goodness Shakes website says:
"Muscle soreness and stiffness occur when you stress them (exercise) causing disruption to muscle fibres and inflamation. Lactic acid building up doesn't help matters either.
Muscles that are sore, tired and inflamed are in a weakened state and cannot perform at full power. Reducing the effects of training so that the body can return to its normal state will help you get back training at full power faster ... By consuming a carbohydrate protein based drink after training, subjects experienced reduced muscle damage and felt less muscle soreness after resistance training compared with a carbohydrate only drink. ... For Goodness Shakes provides the optimum blend of protein and carbohydrate to promote protein synthesis, reduce protein degradation which helps to stimulate muscle tissue repair and adaptation."
Tell us some more about the technical aspects of the product?
The website goes on to say: "After exercise, the body is in an anabolic state: hungry to repair and rebuild muscles and make adaptive changes. ... To help the body repair and rebuild, you need protein. Whilst the body can produce some types of protein it cannot produce 9 'essential' amino acids (protein building blocks). After training the body needs at least 6g of these amino acids with at least 3g carbohydrate to produce the desired recovery effect post-exercise. A carbohydrate/protein based recovery drink made from milk contains a rich source of 'complete protein' - with all the 9 'essential' amino acids from whey and casein proteins. ... For Goodness Shakes contains 16g of protein and 46-59g of carbohydrate (depending on flavour) and is made from milk's natural whey and casein proteins."
Unlike energy products, where you can more easily gauge performance, it's hard to be sure if a recovery product is working or not. If you feel good when you go out trainming next time, is because of the drink, or for someother reason? However, it is possible to confirm that the texture of For Goodness Shakes is pleasant, the tatse is delicious, and there are no ill-effects on the stomach.
Recovery drinks are not cheap compared to carb-only energy drinks, but the price of For Goodness Shakes is about on a par with similar recovery drink products. Here's a rough comparison with two other brands:
For Goodness Shakes Recovery Drink - 1440g tub of powder costs £32 (enough for 20 drinks, with a 3:1 carb-to-protein mix).
SIS Rego Rapid Recovery - 1600g tub of powder costs £48 (enough for 30 drinks, with a 7:4 carb-to-protein mix)
Sponser Recovery Shake - 800g tub of powder costs £20 (enough for 20 drinks, although this product can be mixed with milk or water, so the carb-to-protein ratio varies)
Tell us what you particularly liked about the product
Taste and texture. Refreshing and non-sticky. Very easy to drink after a hard ride or training session.
Did you enjoy using the product? Yes.
Would you consider buying the product? Yes.
Would you recommend the product to a friend? Yes.
Anything further to say about the product in conclusion?
It's hard to gauge just how much your muscles might be recovering after drinking For Goodness Shakes compared to similar drinks from other manufacturers. Sometimes it comes down to persoanl choice on aspects such as taste. On that front, this drink is delicious and would score a 9 or 10, but the price - while fair - isn't astounding, so it earns an overall score of 8.
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Age: 51 Height: 5ft 10 / 178cm Weight: 11 stone / 70kg
I usually ride: an old Marin Alp, or an old steel classic My best bike is: an old Giant Cadex (can you see a theme here?)
I've been riding for: Over 20 years I ride: A few times a week I would class myself as: Experienced
I regularly do the following types of riding: touring, club rides, sportives, general fitness riding,


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Experts are predicting national record harvests of 10.4 billion bushels of corn (with an average yield of 141.9 bu./acre) and almost 3 billion bushels of soybeans (with an average yield of 40.7 bu./acre) this year. Whether you plan to store your commodities or send them directly to an elevator, these new grain handlers will help speed up and ease the movement of abundant amounts of product.
CrustBuster/Speed King says its new 10-in. BeltVeyor will solve most bulk material handling problems, including damaged grain and downtime.
The portable unit gently carries product on a 12-in. belt inside a 10-in. tube. An extra inch of belt runs on either side of the tube to help eliminate grain catching at the edges. Once inside the tube, the grain just lies on the belt until it's dropped in the bin or on the ground. The unit requires a minimal amount of power - about 30 rpm - and you can use an electric motor, gas engine, hydraulics or a PTO to run up to 5,000 bu./hr. Suggested retail price: $3,753 to $12,830 for 20- to 85-ft. lengths. Contact CrustBuster/Speed King, Dept. FIN, Box 1438, Dodge City, KS 67801, 316/227-7106 or circle 199.
Brandt Industries launches what it calls the highest-capacity 10-in. grain conveyor available. The GrainBelt is available in 65- and 75-ft. units (models 1565 and 1575, respectively). Both feature 15-in. belts that move more than 6,000 bu./hr. at a 25ø elevation. The conveyer comes with a 39- x 44-in. collapsible hopper made from tubing for a stronger frame and three drive options: electric, gas and PTO. Also new from the company is the 1515 low-profile transfer unit. Prices: 1565, $8,465; 1575, $9,039 (both with PTO drive). Contact Brandt Industries, Dept. FIN, Box 317, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada S4P 3A1, 306/525-1314 or circle 198.
Westfield Industries claims that its new auger reaches higher and longer than any other on the market. At 111 ft., the MK 130-111 grain auger has a raised height of 71 1/2 ft. for loading tall bins and a maximum reach of 54 ft. 7 in. for ground or flat storage. It needs only 120 PTO hp to move 10,000 bu. of dry wheat/hr. Price was not available at press time. Contact Westfield Industries, Dept. FIN, Box 39, Rosenort, Manitoba, Canada R06 1W0, 204/746-2396 or circle 197.
USDA records show that U.S. storage capacity is down 28% from four years ago while grain output has risen an average 4.4% a year in the past five years. And the agency expects this fall's crop to be among the biggest ever harvested, requiring 700 million bushels of storage more than was needed last fall. All this, coupled with low grain prices and a lot of carryover grain, may mean you need extra storage this year.
If your local elevator is strained with grain, here are some tips to help you store more on the farm. (Also, check out www.bae. umn.edu/extens/postharvest/temp stor.html for more information.)
v Use cylindrical metal bins first.
v Ask your neighbors if they have bins for rent; develop a written agreement stating who is responsible for electricity costs, checking grain and any repair needs.
v Fill a temporary structure last; empty it first.
v Store only grain that is high quality (no wet pockets or foreign or trashy material), cool (45øF or at least less than 65øF) and dry (1% below acceptable market moisture content) in temporary facilities. If foreign material is a problem, make two piles and segregate the low-quality grain.
v If storing grain in a machine shed or pole barn, clean the building carefully. Build piles no higher than 4 ft. along the walls of the buildings.
v Use aeration if grain will be stored more than a month.
v Use a layer of plastic at least 6 ml thick on concrete or dirt floors, which can wick moisture.
v Pile grain outside only as a last resort.


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The Hogan Lovells partner who was suspended for using his work computer to look at porn has now left the firm.
In November last year a lawyer with Irwin Mitchell*, whose London office is separated from Hogan Lovells by a narrow alleyway, looked out of their window and saw the Hogan Lovells partner watching skin flicks at his desk.
The Irwin Mitchell lawyer filmed the engrossed partner on a mobile phone and circulated it around their firm. The footage eventually made its way to staff at Hogan Lovells including the firm's HR department. At the time, Hogan Lovells said in a statement that "such behaviour is unacceptable" and that the firm had suspended the partner "pending a full internal investigation". Which ironically may have been exactly what the partner had been watching.
A spokeswoman for the firm has now told RollOnFriday, "after our investigation we agreed that the partner would not return after their suspension period and they are no longer with the firm". She added, "this incident is not a reflection of who we are and the culture and inclusive values we stand for."
RollOnFriday is not naming the partner because, stupid as the act was, they would hardly be the first lawyer to browse porn at work. However, as a reader commented on last year's story, most staffers who want to view NSFW content are savvy enough to "head to the bogs" with their smart phone.
*RollOnFriday would like to clarify that, at a perhaps misguided attempt to be funny, we referred to Irwin Mitchell as a "rival" firm to Hogan Lovells in our original story. The mainstream media that picked up on this took it literally and re-quoted the comment. One reader noted the "blatant trolling by ROF to refer to an IM lawyer as a 'rival' to a HogLover. IM is a two-time Golden Turd champ - it will take a lot more self-lovers at HL before it receives such an accolade". Other readers reserved their contempt for the firm by re-branding it as Irwin Snitchell.
It seems a bit much to sack him. Couldn't they just tell him off?


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FARMINGTON — Farmington police report after months of investigation following a burglary, they have arrested the man responsible.
Richard M. Folger III, 27, of Chestnut Hill Road, was arrested and charged with one count of burglary, listed as a Class A felony because he stolen firearms in addition to gift cards and approximately $10,000 worth of jewelry.
Police Chief Kevin Willey said Folger burglarized a home on Chestnut Hill Road in August and was arrested this past week on Nov. 21. He said Folger knew the victims of the home he burglarized, which he entered while the homeowners were on their honeymoon.
Willey said months of determined police work led to the arrest of the perpetrator.
"We were notified by the state crime lab that one of the latest prints we lifted was … ," Willey said. "(Folger's) prints and in interviewing the homeowner, he said (Folger) had not been inside the home and there was no reason for his print to be on anything in the house."
Folger was arraigned on Friday, Nov. 23 and released on personal recognizance bail with provisions for community corrections.
Willey said he is proud of the work of his officers.
"There were countless that were put into this case," he said. "There were a lot of leads that were followed. The officers were extremely tenacious in following up and bringing this to a successful resolution."
Farmington Police: Months of work result in felony burglary arrest
FARMINGTON — Farmington police report after months of investigation following a burglary, they have arrested the man responsible.


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New Zealand Warriors forward Russell Packer heard nature calling and figured the green grass of a rugby field was as good a place as any to relieve himself.
You can sort of see him tinkle and then, disgustingly, shake himself dry (and his shorts likely wet) while standing with his hands on his hips. The league was aware of the incident almost immediately and his team was later fined. In case you were unconvinced by the video, Packer even admitted to taking the piss in a since-deleted tweet.
If that does sate your golden-shower thirst, here's a blast from the about-a-thousand-miles away-from-New-Zealand-Rugby past: Don McKinnon in 1988 with a full-stream piss on the field, right behind the referee. Back in those days there were no interchanges like there are now, making his transgression slightly less egregious. He was fined $1,000.
Weirdly, both Packer and McKinnon urinated on the same field while playing against the same team; the Brisbane Broncos, who must be...upset.
Warriors forward Russell Packer urinates during Broncos match at Suncorp Stadium, club fined $15,000 [news.com]


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|Whether a Three-Day Recess by One Chamber of Congress Constitutes an Adjournment for Purposes of the Pocket Veto Clause
It is doubtful that a three-day recess by the Senate, with the House continuing in session, constitutes an adjournment by Congress that would "prevent [the] Return" of a bill that has been presented to the President under the Pocket Veto Clause of the Constitution.
|Constitutionality of Legislation to Confer Citizenship Upon Albert Einstein
Congress has the authority to enact a law granting citizenship to Albert Einstein.
|Exercising the Pocket Veto
When the President wishes to disapprove a bill, and Congress's adjournment has prevented the President's return of the bill, the safer course for the President to exercise his power of disapproval is through a pocket veto, instead of endorsing the bill with the word "disapproved" and the President's signature.
|Legality of an Executive Order Requiring Executive Departments and Independent Establishments to Make Monthly Financial Reports
Although the regulations prescribed by the proposed executive order, requiring executive departments and independent establishments to provide the Secretary of the Treasury with monthly financial reports, are not expressly authorized by any statute, the President has authority to issue the order by virtue of his inherent power as Chief Executive.
|Removal of the Assistant Secretary of Commerce by the Appointment of a Successor
The removal from office of the Assistant Secretary of Commerce can be properly effected merely by the appointment of a successor by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate.
|Filling the Vacancy Following the Death of the Secretary of War
The performance of the duties of the Secretary of War by an acting secretary may not extend beyond thirty days from the date of the death of the late Secretary of War, and it will be necessary for a new Secretary of War to be appointed in accordance with the provisions of the Appointments Clause of the Constitution to perform those duties after that date.
There is some doubt whether the duties specifically imposed by Congress upon the Secretary of War may be performed by the President, as Commander in Chief of the Army, or by any other person not serving as the Secretary of War.
|Authority of the Federal Communications Commission to Deny a Broadcast License to a Newspaper Owner
The Federal Communications Commission does not have authority under the Communications Act of 1934 to refuse to grant broadcasting licenses on the ground that the ownership of the proposed facilities is in, or in common with, a newspaper.
It is doubtful that Congress has the power to broaden the Act to provide the FCC with such authority.
Such a provision would not violate the First Amendment clauses protecting the freedom of speech and of the press, but it would probably be held arbitrary and violative of the Fifth Amendment.
|Censorship of Transmission of Trotzky Speech From Mexico
The Federal Communications Commission does not have statutory authority to censor the telephone transmission from Mexico into the United States of a speech by Leon Trotzky.
|Presidential Authority to Direct Departments and Agencies to Withhold Expenditures From Appropriations Made
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In the absence of legislative sanction, an executive order withholding expenditures from appropriations made would not be binding on the disbursing officers in the event that a department head or other authorized official should desire funds from the amount ordered to be withheld.
The President may request or direct the heads of the departments and agencies to attempt to effect such savings as may be possible without violation of a duty prescribed by law.
|The President's Power in the Field of Foreign Relations
The first section of this memorandum canvasses the historical precedents that delineate the President's prerogatives vis-à-vis Congress in foreign relations. These precedents tend to fall into one of two categories: those reflecting the Hamiltonian view that the President as Chief Executive has sole and unlimited authority to determine the nation's foreign policy, and those reflecting the Madisonian view that Congress as the law-making body has primary authority to determine the nation's foreign policy, which the President must take care to enforce.
The second section of this memorandum concludes that the power of the President to repel invasion is unquestioned. It would not be necessary to resolve the conflict between the Hamiltonian and Madisonian views in the event of an invasion, because statutes expressly provide that "whenever the United States shall be invaded or in imminent danger of invasion by any foreign nation," the President may use the military and naval forces to repel such invasion.
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"Americans work harder than the people of any other wealthy nation. We are willing to tolerate more economic instability and are willing to take more personal risks to get ahead. But we can only compete if our government makes the investments that give us a fighting chance — and if we know our families have some net beneath which they cannot fall." — Barack Obama, "The Audacity of Hope"
The Obama-Biden Plan
As a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago, Barack Obama learned firsthand that urban poverty is more than just a function of not having enough in your pocketbook. It's also a matter of where you live — in some of our inner-city neighborhoods, poverty is difficult to escape because it's isolating and it's everywhere. Our job across America is to create communities of choice, not of destiny, and create conditions for neighborhoods where the odds are not stacked against the people who live there. Barack Obama will lead a new federal approach to America's high-poverty areas, an approach that facilitates the economic integration of families and communities with efforts to support the current low-income residents of those areas.
Strengthen Federal Commitment to our Cities
- Create a White House Office on Urban Policy: Obama and Biden will create a White House Office of Urban Policy to develop a strategy for metropolitan America and to ensure that all federal dollars targeted to urban areas are effectively spent on the highest-impact programs. The Director of Urban Policy will report directly to the president and coordinate all federal urban programs.
- Fully Fund the Community Development Block Grant: In the long run, regions are only as strong as their people and neighborhoods. The Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program is an important program that provides housing and creates jobs primarily for low- and moderate-income people and places. Barack Obama will restore funding for the CDBG program.
- Do No Harm: Barack Obama and Joe Biden do not support imposing unfunded mandates on states and localities. They strongly support providing necessary funding for programs such as No Child Left Behind.
Stimulate Economic Prosperity in our Metropolitan Regions
- Support Regional Innovation Clusters: Thriving innovation clusters across the country like the North Carolina Research Triangle Park and Nashville's thriving entertainment cluster prove that local stakeholders can successfully come together and help reshape their local economies. Barack Obama and Joe Biden will create a federal program to support "innovation clusters" — regional centers of innovation and next-generation industries. This innovation clusters program will provide $200 million in planning and matching grants for regional business, government, and university leaders to collaborate on leveraging a region's existing assets — from transportation infrastructure to universities — to enhance long-term regional growth.
- Support Job Creation: The federal government has a role to play to ensure that every American is able to work at his or her highest capacity. Barack Obama and Joe Biden will double federal funding for basic research, expand the deployment of broadband technology and make the research and development tax credit permanent so that businesses can invest in innovation and create high-paying, secure jobs.
- Enhance Workforce Training: Obama and Biden will make long-term investments in education, language training, and workforce development so that Americans can leverage our strengths — our ingenuity and entrepreneurialism — to create new high-wage jobs and prosper in a global economy. A critical part of this process is ensuring that we reauthorize the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) and ensure that it strengthens federal investments needed for success in the 21st Century.
- Increase Access to Capital for Underserved Businesses: Barack Obama and Joe Biden will strengthen Small Business Administration programs that provide capital to women and minority-owned businesses, support outreach programs that help business owners apply for loans, and work to encourage the growth and capacity of these firms. They will also strengthen Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs), which are engaged in innovative methods to provide capital to urban businesses.
- Create a National Network of Public-Private Business Incubators: Barack Obama and Joe Biden will support entrepreneurship and spur job growth by creating a national network of public-private business incubators, which facilitate the critical work of entrepreneurs in creating start-up companies. They will invest $250 million per year to increase the number and size of incubators in urban communities throughout the country.
- Convert our Manufacturing Centers into Clean Technology Leaders: America boasts the highest-skilled manufacturing workforce in the world and advanced manufacturing facilities that have powered economic growth in America for decades. Barack Obama and Joe Biden believe that America is at a competitive advantage when it comes to building the high-demand technologies of the future, and they will help nurture America's success in clean technology manufacturing by establishing a federal investment program to help manufacturing centers modernize.
- Strengthen Core Infrastructure: Barack Obama and Joe Biden will make strengthening our transportation systems, including our roads and bridges, a top priority. As part of this effort, Obama and Biden will create a National Infrastructure Reinvestment Bank to expand and enhance, not supplant, existing federal transportation investments. These projects will directly and indirectly create up to two million new jobs per year and stimulate approximately $35 billion per year in new economic activity.
- Improve Access to Jobs: America's families and businesses depend upon workers having reasonable access to their places of employment. Barack Obama and Joe Biden will double the federal Jobs Access and Reverse Commute (JARC) program to ensure that additional federal public transportation dollars flow to the highest-need communities and that urban planning initiatives take this aspect of transportation policy into account. The Obama-Biden urban agenda will also help facilitate the creation of new jobs in underserved economic areas, so more low-income urban residents can find employment within their home communities.
- Invest in a Skilled Clean Technologies Workforce: Obama and Biden will increase funding for federal workforce training programs and direct these programs to incorporate green technologies training, such as advanced manufacturing and weatherization training, into their efforts to help Americans find and retain stable jobs. Obama and Biden will also create an energy-focused youth jobs program to invest in disconnected and disadvantaged youth.
- Lower Interest Payments by Creating a New Mortgage Interest Tax Credit: Many middle class Americans do not receive the existing mortgage interest tax deduction because they do not itemize their taxes. Obama and Biden will ensure that middle-class Americans get the financial assistance they need to purchase or keep their own home by creating a 10 percent universal mortgage credit that gives tax relief to 10 million Americans who have a home mortgage.
- Increase the Supply of Affordable Housing throughout Metropolitan Regions: Communities prosper when all families have access to affordable housing. Barack Obama and Joe Biden supported efforts to create an Affordable Housing Trust Fund to create thousands of new units of affordable housing every year. Barack Obama and Joe Biden will also restore cuts to public housing operating subsidies, and ensure that all Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) programs are restored to their original purpose.
- Establish 'Promise Neighborhoods' for Areas of Concentrated Poverty: Successful strategies to address concentrated, intergenerational poverty are comprehensive in nature and address the full range of obstacles that stand in the way of poor children. One highly-acclaimed model is the Harlem Children's Zone in New York City, which provides a full network of services to an entire neighborhood from birth to college. Obama and Biden will create 20 Promise Neighborhoods in cities that have high levels of poverty and crime and low levels of student academic achievement.
- Increase the Minimum Wage: As president, Obama will raise the minimum wage to $9.50 an hour by 2011 and index it to inflation so full-time workers can earn a living wage that allows them to raise their families and pay for basic needs such as food, transportation, and housing — things so many people take for granted.
- Expand the Earned Income Tax Credit: In the Illinois State Senate, Obama led the successful effort to create the $100 million Illinois Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). As president, Obama will reward work by increasing the number of working parents eligible for EITC benefits, increasing the benefit available to noncustodial parents who support their children through child support payments, increasing the benefit for families with three or more children, and reducing the EITC marriage penalty which hurts low-income families.
- Help Low-Income Workers Enter the Job Market: As president, Obama will invest $1 billion over five years in transitional jobs and career pathways programs that implement proven methods of helping low-income Americans succeed in the workforce. This investment will be coupled with other measures to encourage the private sector and state and local governments to increase their support of these effective employment programs.
Livability of Cities
- Build More Livable and Sustainable Communities: Our communities will better serve all of their residents if we are able to leave our cars to walk, bicycle and access other transportation alternatives. As president, Barack Obama will re-evaluate the transportation funding process to ensure that smart growth considerations are taken into account.
- Control Superfund Sites and Data: Obama and Biden will restore the strength of the Superfund program by requiring polluters to pay for the cleanup of contaminated sites they created.
- Use Innovative Measures to Dramatically Improve Efficiency of Buildings: Buildings account for nearly 40 percent of carbon emissions in the United States today and carbon emissions from buildings are expected to grow faster than emissions from other major parts of our economy. It is expected that 15 million new buildings will be constructed between today and 2015. Barack Obama and Joe Biden will work with cities so that we make our new and existing buildings more efficient consumers of electricity.
- Foster Healthy Communities: How a community is designed — including the layout of its roads, buildings and parks — has a huge impact on the health of its residents. For instance, nearly one-third of Americans live in neighborhoods without sidewalks and less than half of our country's children have a playground within walking distance of their homes. Barack Obama introduced the Healthy Places Act to help local governments assess the health impact of new policies and projects, like highways or shopping centers.
Urban Education
- Support Teachers in Urban Schools: Barack Obama and Joe Biden value teachers and the central role that they play in education. To ensure competent, effective teachers in schools that are organized for success, the Obama-Biden K-12 plan will expand service scholarships to underwrite high-quality preparation for teachers who commit to working in underserved districts and support ongoing improvements in teacher education.
- Expand Early Childhood Education: Obama and Biden's comprehensive "Zero to Five" plan will provide support to young children and their parents by investing $10 billion per year to create Early Learning Challenge Grants to stimulate and help fund state "zero to five" efforts; quadruple the number of children eligible for Early Head Start, increase Head Start funding, and improve the quality of both; work to ensure all children have access to pre-school; and create a Presidential Early Learning Council to increase collaboration and coordination across federal, state, and local programs.
- Reduce the High School Dropout Rate: The warning signs for high school dropouts often occur well before high school. Obama will sign into law his Success in the Middle Act to improve the education of middle school students in low-performing schools. Obama and Biden will also establish a competitive grant process for entities pursuing evidence-based models that have been proven to reduce dropouts.
Crime and Law Enforcement
- Support Local Law Enforcement: Barack Obama and Joe Biden are committed to fully funding the COPS program to put 50,000 police officers on the street and help address police brutality and accountability issues in local communities. Obama and Biden also support efforts to encourage young people to enter the law enforcement profession, so that our local police departments are not understaffed because of a dearth of qualified applicants.
- Reduce Crime Recidivism by Providing Ex-Offender Supports: America is facing an incarceration and post-incarceration crisis in urban communities. Obama and Biden will create a prison-to-work incentive program, modeled on the successful Welfare-to-Work Partnership, and work to reform correctional systems to break down barriers for ex-offenders to find employment.
- End the Dangerous Cycle of Youth Violence: Obama and Biden support innovative local programs, like the CeaseFire program in Chicago, which implement a community-based strategy to prevent youth violence and have been proven effective.
- Address Gun Violence in Cities: Obama and Biden would repeal the Tiahrt Amendment, which restricts the ability of local law enforcement to access important gun trace information, and give police officers across the nation the tools they need to solve gun crimes and fight the illegal arms trade. Obama and Biden also favor commonsense measures that respect the Second Amendment rights of gun owners, while keeping guns away from children and from criminals. They support closing the gun show loophole and making guns in this country childproof. They also support making the expired federal Assault Weapons Ban permanent.
Homeland Security
- Allocate Funds Based on Risk: Barack Obama and Joe Biden believe that the president and Congress should direct our precious homeland security dollars according to risk, not as a form of general revenue sharing. To address this pressing issue, Obama introduced an amendment, supported by the Families of 9/11 and former 9/11 Commissioners Lee Hamilton and Tim Roemer, to increase risk-based funding in the 9/11 bill.
- Prepare Effective Emergency Response Plans: As our nation witnessed in the Hurricane Katrina crisis and its aftermath, too many localities do not have integrated emergency response plans to handle disasters. As president, Obama will further improve coordination between all levels of government, create better evacuation plan guidelines, ensure prompt federal assistance to emergency zones, and increase medical surge capacity.
- Improve Interoperable Communications Systems: Barack Obama and Joe Biden support efforts to provide greater technical assistance to local and state first responders and dramatically increase funding for reliable, interoperable communications systems.
- Safeguard Mass Public Transportation: Every weekday, Americans take 34 million trips on public transportation systems to get to work, school and beyond. Obama and Biden will fight for greater information-sharing between national intelligence agents and local officials and provide local law enforcement agencies with the everyday tools they need to protect their transportation systems.
- Provide a Tax Cut for Working Families: Barack Obama and Joe Biden will restore fairness to the tax code and provide 150 million workers the tax relief they deserve. They will create a new "Making Work Pay" tax credit of up to $500 per person, or $1,000 per working family.
- Strengthening Fatherhood and Families: As president, Obama will sign his Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Families Act into law to remove some of the government penalties on married families, crack down on men avoiding child support payments, ensure that support payments go to families instead of state bureaucracies, fund support services for fathers and their families, and support domestic violence prevention efforts.
- Support Parents with Young Children: Barack Obama and Joe Biden will expand the highly successful Nurse-Family Partnership to all low-income, first-time mothers. The Nurse-Family Partnership provides home visits by trained registered nurses to low-income expectant mothers and their families. Researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis concluded that these programs produced an average of five dollars in savings for every dollar invested and produced more than $28,000 in net savings for every high-risk family enrolled in the program.
- Expand High-Quality Afterschool Opportunities: Barack Obama and Joe Biden will double funding for the main federal support for afterschool programs, the 21st Century Learning Centers program, to serve one million more children.
- Expand the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit: The Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit provides too little relief to families that struggle to afford child care expenses. Barack Obama and Joe Biden will reform the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit by making it refundable and allowing low-income families to receive up to a 50 percent credit for their child care expenses.
- Cap Outlandish Interest Rates on Payday Loans and Improve Disclosure: In the wake of reports that some service members were paying 800 percent interest on payday loans, the U.S. Congress took bipartisan action to limit interest rates charged to service members to 36 percent. Barack Obama and Joe Biden believe that we must extend this protection to all Americans, because predatory lending continues to be a major problem for low and middle income families alike.
- Encourage Responsible Lending Institutions to Make Small Consumer Loans: Some mainstream, responsible lending institutions are beginning to enter the short-term lending market to provide many Americans with fair alternatives to predatory lending institutions. Barack Obama and Joe Biden will work with his Secretary of the Treasury and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to encourage banks, credit unions and Community Development Financial Institutions to provide affordable short-term and small dollar loans — and to drive the sharks out of business.
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It is almost December and time for reverb12.
What is reverb? Started in 2010,
it was a daily writing practice that focused on examining the previous year and sending out reverberations for a positive year ahead.
So, the idea is, you get a prompt a day, and write and execute what the prompt is about-either on your blog, your journal, paint it, whatever.
I find this quite fun and refreshing to get these prompts in my email basket each morning.
Well, it's now developed into a rather free-form art, so I have cut and pasted various prompts from the last two years. I won't be getting these in my in-box; perhaps I won't go in order, but close my eyes and stab a pencil into a line, and use that prompt for the day-that way it is a bit more spontaneous for me.
So feel free to use these prompts for yourself, and reflect about 2012 and reverb into 2013!
1. One Word (Written by Gwen Bell): Encapsulate the year 2012 in one word. Explain why you're choosing that word. Now, imagine it's one year from today, what would you like the word to be that captures 2013 for you?
2. Blog Find of the Year (Inspired by Gwen Bell): Share the love — which blog did you discover this year
3. What Matters Now (Inspired by Seth Godin): Think about the here and now. What matters most to you right now? How are you going to nurture what matters in during 2013?
4. Time: Time is a valuable resource. Did you spend 2012 wisely? What can you do to maximize your time during 2013?
5. Health: How did you treat your body this year? You only get this one vessel one time around. How will you treat your body next year?
6. Plan: What didn't go according to plan this year? How have you adjusted your plan as a result?
7. Action (Written by Scott Belsky):When it comes to aspirations, its not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen. What's your next step?
8. Listen: What song do you listen to to completely change your mood?
9. Appreciate (Written by Victoria Klein): What's the one thing you have come to appreciate most in the past year? How do you express gratitude for it?
10.Lesson Learned (Written by Tara Weaver): What was the best thing you learned about yourself this past year? And how will you apply that lesson going forward?
11. Beyond Avoidance (Written by Jake Nickell): What should you have done this year but didn't because you were too scared, worried, unsure, busy or otherwise deterred from doing? (Bonus: Will you do it?)
12.Achieve (Written by Tara Sophia Mohr): What's the thing you most want to achieve next year? How do you imagine you'll feel when you get it? Free? Happy? Complete? Blissful? Write that feeling down. Then, brainstorm 10 things you can do, or 10 new thoughts you can think, in order to experience that feeling today.
13. Photo (Written by Tracey Clark): Sift through all the photos of you from the past year. Choose one that best captures you; either who you are, or who you strive to be. Find the shot of you that is worth a thousand words. Share the image, who shot it, where, and what it best reveals about you.
14. When did you feel the most relaxed?
15. When did you cry?
16. Letting Go (Inspired by Alice Bradley): What do you need to let go of to move forward in 2013?
17. Who was important to you?
18. Where did you spend money?
19. When were you most scared?
20. Friends: Begin to percolate a plan for "My friends day out in 2013", tell us what you envision
21. Who did you miss?
22. When did you take the easy way?
23. What was the most beautiful scenic place you saw in 2012?
24. Did you learn something new about the world in 2012? What was it?
25. What was your favorite Christmas present?
26. What new thought, idea or action have you taken this year that gave you a true sense of freedom?
27. Surprise: What event touched you in 2011 in an unexpected way?
28. What are 13 things your life doesn't need in 2013? How will you go about eliminating them? How will getting rid of these 13 things change your life?
29. Prompt: Everything's OK. What was the best moment that could serve as proof that everything is going to be alright? And how will you incorporate that discovery into the year ahead?
30.One Goal: If you could only do one thing in 2013, but do it very well to perfection, what would it be?
31 Where do you hope to be on Jan 1, 2014?


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In today's Chronicle column (Kubiak may be average now, but he still could be Super) I give an answer to: Do the Texans have a top-10 coach?
Um, no.
No need to fret, Texans fans. That doesn't mean Gary Kubiak can't lead the Texans to a Super Bowl.
As I pointed out in the piece, not one Super Bowl-winning coach in NFL history had won the Super Bowl before he, well, won a Super Bowl.
Kubiak has to get it done before one can say for sure that he can get it done, or retire before one can say for certain that he can't get it done. In other words, don't waste time arguing with drunks at a bar about this.
The good news is it doesn't actually take a top-10 coach to go to or win a Super Bowl. It just looks that way, because once a coach wins a Super Bowl he is THEN considered to be a top-10 coach.
NFL head coach rankings are almost as worthless as weekly NFL power rankings. Almost. (Nothing is as worthless as team power rankings. Team rank is decided on the field, period.)
Coaches' ranks are subjective, but hardly meaningful.
Pete Prisco, longtime writer for CBS Sports, has Kubiak ranked No. 16, behind the likes of Rex Ryan, Marvin Lewis, Pete Carroll and Jeff Fisher, the most overrated coach in NFL history.
Prisco describes Bill Belichick, who he ranks No. 1, as a "sensational coach." Well, that's not what he said when he ranked my man Belichick 30th entering the 2001 season, the year the Patriots won their first Super Bowl. (Note: there were only 31 teams in the league at the time.)
30. Bill Belichick, New England Patriots. His players don't like him, the media doesn't like him, and his inflexibility is tiring. So why is he back running an NFL team? It's because he's a great defensive coordinator who is from the Bill Parcells' tree. Belichick is a much better coordinator than head coach, which the Patriots will find out.
Prior to last season, Gregg Rosenthal of NFL.com had John Harbaugh of the Ravens, whose team would win the Super Bowl, in his "middle of the pack" ranking alongside Kubiak, and behind Ryan, Jim Schwartz and Dennis Allen.
In most instances (translation: pretty much all but Barry Switzer, who was a top-10 college coach) it takes a top-10 coach to win a Super Bowl.
The Texans don't have that coach yet. But they could by the end of the season.


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Here are a few opinion pieces from both sides of the bike lane.
Ben Shepard is an author, teacher and volunteer for the environmental action group Time's Up. He recently wrote an op-ed in the Brooklyn Paper about the recent ticket blitz and safer streets in NYC.
January 14, 2011 / Perspective
Focus on making streets safer for all
By Benjamin Shepard
for The Brooklyn Paper
Time's Up! Environmental Group has been advocating for safer streets for over two decades. We support efforts to make public spaces safer for all: pedestrians, cyclists and motorists. However, the crackdown targeting cycling announced by the NYPD will divert resources needed to address the real danger in our streets — speeding cars and red light-running motorists who kill people.
Over 200 pedestrians and cyclists killed by motor vehicles in New York City every year. Our concern is that this "ticketing blitz†which singles out cyclists will simply discourage bicycle usage.
The police do not have an encouraging track record. Hundreds of cyclists have filed civil complaints and successfully sued the NYPD over unlawful enforcement since 2004, including a lawsuit settled just a few months ago costing taxpayers nearly $1 million. Scores of police officers are issuing summonses without being properly trained on traffic laws pertaining to cyclists. Will Commissioner Kelly create yet another waste of taxpayer dollars with a new flood of cyclists fighting false tickets in traffic court?
Read more here.
During the recent snowpocolypse here in NYC, there was much hype from local residents that despite slow efforts by street plows, somehow the bike lanes got special treatment. These seem to be false claims and are responded to by another Time's Up volunteer Barbara Ross:
Talking Point
Critics can't roll back the progress on bike lanes
By Barbara Ross
The Villager, January 5th.
After being cooped up inside, watching the snow that blanketed the city melt from my apartment window, I grabbed the trusty bicycle I use daily for transport, eager to hit the streets again. I headed toward the First Ave. protected bike lane that I've become accustomed to using on all my uptown errands, only to find it still piled up with snow and unusable.
Being forced to ride with the fast-moving vehicle traffic heightened my appreciation for all the new bike lanes and other effective safety measures the Department of Transportation has put into place over the past three-and-a-half years. Although there is a small but loud anti-bike lane chorus, our City Council must resist the temptation to cater to the car-centric past and instead support healthier, lower-cost mobility with permanent protected bike lanes that help people of all ages ride safely in New York City.
Read more here.
Ok, so where is the other side you ask? Those for a citywide crackdown on cyclists and removal of recent bike infrastructure? Here is a NY Times Op-Ed from two recent NYC officials former Deputy Mayor Norman Steisel and former transportation commissioner, Iris Weinshall:
Your editorial about the problems caused by law-evading bicyclists mentions data released by the New York City Department of Transportation that purport to show that the 50 miles of bike lanes it is adding each year "calm†traffic and cut down on fatalities.
But as the rest of your editorial suggests, the connection between encouraging biking — which we also strongly support — and making our streets safer and more pleasant for all users is far from established. The D.O.T. data produce more puzzlement than enlightenment.
When new bike lanes force the same volume of cars and trucks into fewer and narrower traffic lanes, the potential for accidents between cars, trucks and pedestrians goes up rather than down. At Prospect Park West in Brooklyn, for instance, where a two-way bike lane was put in last summer, our eyewitness reports show collisions of one sort or another to be on pace to be triple the former annual rates.
Furthermore, the D.O.T. data's lack of credibility is reinforced by our own videotapes. These show that the Prospect Park West bike lanes are used by half the number of riders the D.O.T. says, and that cyclists are not riding to commute as originally contemplated but are recreational users who could be better served by enhancing the existing lane 100 yards away in Prospect Park.
Finally, your point about the difficulty of giving tickets to cyclists who break the law is well taken. Educating bikers is a nice idea. But requiring them to be licensed like other potentially life-threatening high-speed vehicles is the only thing that will make enforcement any easier in the long run.
Louise Hainline
Norman Steisel
Iris Weinshall
Brooklyn, Dec. 17, 2010
The writers are members of Neighbors for Better Bike Lanes. Ms. Hainline is its president. Mr. Steisel is a former deputy mayor and sanitation commissioner of New York City, and Ms. Weinshall is a former transportation commissioner.
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Global Update - November 2012
European Consortia, ASML, Supplier Network Plan for 450mm Transition
"3D-IC Supply Chain Readiness" Forum at SEMICON Taiwan 2012
SMIC: Development of Technology in IC Design and Manaufacturing
Solar Cell Technology Standard Receives International Recognition
New Memory Cell Material Systems and Collaboration Models at SMC 2012
Opportunities in OLEDs, Energy Storage, and Power Semiconductors
Micromanufacturing Solutions Improve Performance for Batteries and Supercapacitors
SEMI Releases Additional Intellectual Property Survey Information
Event Calendar
December 5-7
SEMICON Japan
December 5-7
PV Japan
Jan 30-Feb 1, 2013
SEMICON Korea 2013
Jan 30-Feb 1, 2013
LED Korea 2013
January 22-23, 2013
European 3D TSV Summit
February 24-26, 2013
ISS Europe
November 4-7
International Technology Partners Conference
November 8
SEMI Pacific Northwest Dinner Forum
December 11
Webinar: Outlook on the Semiconductor Mfg Ind
January 13-16, 2013
Industry Strategy Symposium (ISS) US
Microchip Design & Fab
The 3D Pkg Revolution
CMOS Proc Integration
Acct Selling and Mgmt
European Consortia, ASML, Supplier Network Plan for 450mm Transition
European government representatives, consortia and suppliers discussed programs to support the anticipated conversion of leading-edge wafer manufacturing to 450mm wafers at SEMICON Europa in Dresden.
Related Presentation:
450 Update on SEMI Standards
450 Central:
Viewpoints, Industry News, Presentations, & More
"3D-IC Supply Chain Readiness" Forum at SEMICON Taiwan 2012
By Dr. Phil Garrou
Most industry leaders currently involved in 3D development believe that the realization of 3D-IC technology into high-volume manufacturing is not a question of "if" but "when," and this year's forum was focused on industrial readiness and infrastructure maturity.
Related Article:
3D TSV: Ready for Manufacturing?
SMIC: Sustained Development of Cutting-Edge Technology in IC Design and Manufacturing
By Gang Yao, SEMI China
SEMI China's Gang Yao interviewed SMIC's Li Xuwu about the company's efforts in accelerate development of cutting-edge technology in IC design and manufacturing.
Silicon Semiconductor
Global audience of 45,000 industry professionals
Focusing on the manufacturing technologies
Dedicated to the silicon semiconductor industry since 1978
Sister publication to Compound Semiconductor
Solar Cell Technology Standard Receives International Recognition
On October 3 at PV Taiwan 2012, SEMI and ITRI jointly announced a new standard that reduces damage to solar cells due to the vibration caused during transportation.
New Memory Cell Material Systems and Evolving Collaboration Models Highlight SMC 2012
John Smythe of Micron kicked off the Strategic Materials Conference on October 23, with an overview of the materials challenges to continued scaling in memory, including a status update on novel and emerging materials sets that may have potential at sub-20nm.
Supply Chain Opportunities in OLEDs, Energy Storage, and Power Semiconductors
By Paula Doe, SEMI Emerging Markets
Materials experts from across the supply chain gathered at SMC 2012, discussing key materials needs for micromanufacturing outside the CMOS mainstream-- from OLEDs and GaN-on-silicon power semiconductors to alternatives like graphene, CNTs and self-assembling polymers.
Micromanufacturing Solutions Improve Performance for Batteries and Supercapacitors
By Paula Doe, SEMI Emerging Markets
Solid state batteries are finally seeing real revenues in some specialty niches, but scaling the technology to more demanding mainstream applications still requires significant investment.
SEMI Releases Additional Intellectual Property Survey Information
As a follow up to the March SEMI IP survey, SEMI polled it members to gather additional anecdotal information regarding the challenges faced in protecting their IP in a real world setting.
Call for Papers:
ASMC 2013 - Due Date Extended to November 12
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This is a guest post written and contributed by Lance Albertson, director of the Oregon State University Open Source Lab. This week, Rackspace Training for OpenStack is teaching an OpenStack Fundamentals course at OSU.
Our mission at the Oregon State University Open Source Lab is to advance open source technologies. Recently, one such technology – OpenStack – has experienced massive growth and has generated a great deal of attention. To become more knowledgeable and increase our skills with OpenStack, we've connected with Rackspace Training for OpenStack to come to the OSU campus and teach us the fundamentals.
At the OSU OSL, we provide hosting for more than 160 projects, including the Apache Software Foundation, the Linux Foundation and Drupal. Our hosted sites deliver roughly 430 terabytes of information each month to people around the globe. As we strive to stay on the cutting edge of open source technology, we continually investigate new projects and technology.
OpenStack is such a large project and is making such an impact on the open source community, that we invited Rackspace Training for OpenStack to give us hands-on experience with OpenStack through the OpenStack Fundamentals course. OpenStack contains a lot of components, and this course on the fundamentals will show our students how everything ties together. The four-night training sessions will teach students how to properly design, deploy and operate a cloud at scale using OpenStack, the open source cloud software that Rackspace co-founded.
The ability to have hands-on interaction with new cloud servers will enable our students to discover new aspects of cloud computing they can then apply to projects in our lab. There's always an element of "wow, I never even thought of that."
It's obvious that cloud computing is here to stay and OpenStack will have a strong place in the market. We're excited to dig in and get more exposure to OpenStack.
Oregon State University is one of a number of stops Rackspace Training for OpenStack is making at universities this fall. If your college, university or research organization is interested in learning the ins and outs of OpenStack, please get in touch with us at training.rackspace.com/academia. We plan to add more seminars in coming months.
Check out Rackspace Training for OpenStack at Virginia Tech.


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Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 5:59 pm
Post subject: spelt flour
Hi everyone,
I am wanting to experiment with spelt flour having jumped on the gluten free bandwagon, with amazing results I might add.
Does anyone know if this flour can be used as it is or does it have to be mixed with wheat flour for good results. I was looking at Clotildes yummy cake recipe and wanted to give it a whirl but was pondering the question to spelt or not to spelt.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 7:31 pm
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There is a health food store across the street from my store here in Ottawa and they have a range of organic breads including some using spelt, not other flours are used in the spelt bread which is quite tasty, if somewhat expensive! I would however suggest that it may be a heavier flour and should be treated like a brown flour more than a refined white wheat flour.
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Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 3:58 am
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I have a friend who intolerant to wheat- she eats spelt bread. She said that she mixes it with something else- I don't recall what but obviously not wheat. It is also a lot heavier than wheat bread so you don't need to eat as much of it to feel full. Spelt actually has some gluten in it but not very much and apparently. It is a bit notorious for not rising very well and becoming a funny shape in the oven. I googled 'spelt bread recipes' and came back with a whole lot of them. Most of them were very similar- here's one of them:
Spelt Bread by Rebecca Wood
Yield: Two 8 ½" x 4 ½" loaves
For a lighter flavor and texture, use up to 50% white spelt flour. Some people who are sensitive to common wheat are able to enjoy spelt bread.
Note: it is important that you don't over-knead spelt dough.
1 tablespoon active dry yeast
2 cups warm water (105° to 110° F)
3 tablespoons honey
3 tablespoons melted butter
2 teaspoons sea salt
6 cups spelt flour (use any combination of whole or white spelt)
Combine the yeast, water and honey in a large warm bowl. Let stand for 10 minutes or until the yeast softens. Stir in the butter and salt and 3 cups of the flour. Stir vigorously with a wooden spoon. Add the remaining flour in increments until the dough becomes too stiff to stir, then place the dough on a lightly floured surface. Knead for about 6 minutes, adding any remaining flour as necessary, until the dough becomes smooth and elastic. Do not overknead.
Place the dough in a lightly greased bowl. Cover and let rise in a warm, draft-free spot for about 2 hours or until doubled in bulk.
Grease two 8 ½" x 4 ½" loaf pans. Punch the dough down to deflate it and divide it in half. Form each half into a smooth loaf and place in a prepared pan. Cover and let rise in a warm, draft-free spot for about 1 hour or until the dough has risen to the top of the pans.
Preheat the oven to 350° F.
Uncover the risen loaves. Place the pans on a heavy baking sheet and bake for 45 minutes or until the tops are light brown and crusty. Remove from the oven and tap out of the pan into the baking sheet. Turn the oven off and return the breads to the oven to crisp for 5 minutes. Remove from the oven and let cool on a wire rack
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thanks emilyj and David,
Isis x
If it looks good, feels good and tastes good then it must be good!
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Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 1:19 am
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Hi Emilyj,
I made the spelt bread recipe today and it turned out fabulous. My husband called me a wicked woman for turning out such wonderful bread and for helping him wreck his waist line. hehehe.
Thanks again.
If it looks good, feels good and tastes good then it must be good!
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Location: North of Auckland, New Zealand
Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 3:07 am
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isis - At home I have an article about different types of flour (other than wheat) and what they are best used for. I know that sometimes, esp. for baking, you need to mix flours so the baked item doesn't become too heavy. I can also give you some gluten free recipes that were given to me by a nutritionist.
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Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 3:26 am
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Thank you Gisele,
I would really like to see some of these gluten free recipes. It's a definate health concern for me to avoid too much gluten. I love to experiement when I have time. I can get a lot of different flours and grains from The Bulk Barn, but I don't always know what to do with them when I get them home.
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Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 5:04 pm
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I cook a lot with spelt flour - it works better than other non-wheat flours - replacing it in my 'normal'-wheat recipes, and most things have worked out ok. It changes the texture slightly - especially dry things like biscuits, and the colour is often darker. But the taste is the same (I've done a few batches 1/2 with wheat & 1/2 with spelt, and nobody could tell the difference). I mainly stuck to quite moist cakes or cakes that don't require a lot of flour. Otherwise I try to find recipes that use ground almonds, rice flour, potato starch, cornflour or rye flour. There's a lot around once you start looking, even in many mainstream cookbooks.
I've never tried making pastry. I read somewhere that for that you need xanthum flour to provide the binding texture that gluten provides in wheat flour. Once I track down some xanthum gum that will be my next project.
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Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 2:42 am
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I am flush with sucess.
I just made a chocolate cake with spelt flour. It was truely yummy, moist and needed a little grated choclate sprinkled on top. Maybe tomorrow I will add a little whipped cream on the side for a bit of decadance. If anyone is interested I will post it for you.
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Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 3:50 am
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I'm really glad that the recipe worked out- the wonder of google
Spelt chocolate cake sounds very interesting! I never thought about using that kind of flour in anything except bread- how inventive
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Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 4:45 pm
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Bekbeka, check this site
they sell many products, including gomme xanthane.
Or try maybe the shop mentionned by Clotilde, G.Detout, if you are in Paris
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Thanks for the tip. I've tried a couple of shops here and mixed in with not knowing how 'xantham gum' translates into French (if it does at all) and my gorgeous accent, it was fairly amusing. But not to be done every day!
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Hi Bekbeka - haven't seen you on the forums for awhile. Hope it's going well in France.
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Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 8:47 am
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Sorry it's taken me so long, I've been too busy to even look at the computer when I'm at home!
I can't guarantee that all the follwoing flours are gluten-free, a lot of them only contain a little gluten, but at least you will have an idea as to what to use them for.
I found this list in the local magazine "Taste"
I started to type it all out from my magazine, but then found the page online...here is the link
Spelt flour is listed near the bottom, but it has a good description of what a whole range of non-wheat flours can be used for.
I have an awesome recipe for an orange almond cake which has no wheat flour 9or flour of any sort for that matter) which I shall post under "Recipe Box"
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Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 9:10 am
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And now for low-glute or gluten free recipes...
I wasn't sure whether I should have put these recipes in the "Recipe Box section, but as they apply directly to your topic i thought it best to post them here in case they get "lost" in the other section. I haven't made some of these, but the lady who gave them to me uses them all the time.
-3oz ground almonds, 3oz brown rice flour, 3oz butter. Mash together and press into a flan ring. (e.g. fill with tuna and sweetcorn, egg and soya milk and fresh chopped parsleyand bake)
-50g (2oz) softened butter, 100g(4oz) ground rice, 75g(3oz) finely grated eating apple. blend together, by fork, knead into a ball by hand and press into a greased dish. (e.g. spread with a fruit misture and bake at 230 degrees celsius/450 degrees farenheit for 20-25mins)
self-crusting quiche
-mix together in a large bowl: 1/4 cup olive oil or melted butter, 3 lightly beaten eggs, 1.5 cups milk (of choice), 1 cup tinned slamon or tuna or chopped cooked chicken and 1 cup of any mixture of vegies (eg corn, peas, cooked asparagus, broccoli florets etc) also add 1 finely chopped onion, 1/2 cup rye/brown rice flour, 1 tsp gluten free baking powder, 1 tbsp mixed herbs, some black pepper, and cayenne if desired. Don't over mix, and pour into a well greased quiche dish, decorate (optional) with parsley, chives, sliced tomatoes, sprinkle over paprika. Bake 50-60mins at 180 degrees celsius/350degrees farenheit
- mix in a bowl, 2 mashed ripe bananas, 2tbsp plus 2 tsp honey, 2tbsp plus 2 tsp cold pressed olive oil. Fold in 2 tsp vanilla extract, 1 and a quarter cups brown rice flour or buck wheat flour or maizemeal, 1 tsp gluten free baking powder and 2 heaped tbsp chopped walnuts. spoon into a non-stick muffin pan and bake in oven for 20-25mins at 180C/350F
Carrot and Zucchini Cake
2 med carrots, peeled and grated
2 medium zucchini, peeled and grated
2 1/2 cups wholemeal flour 9eg. rye, spelt)
2 tsp wheat free baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
2 tsp mixed spice
2/3 cup sultanas
1/3 cup chopped walnuts
2 large eggs
1 cup milk (eg. rice, soya)
1/2 cup orange or apple juice
Mix all dry ingredients together with carrots and zucchini. Beat eggs, milk and juice in a bowl and add to dry ingredients. Pour into a 20" cake tin. Bake at 350F (180C) for 40-45mins. Nice with a side of natural yoghurt and /or some stewed fruit.
Hopefully these should give you an idea as to what to do with some of the different non-wheat flours. I'm not sure how the pastry recipes will turn out, but as i said the lady who gave me the recipes uses them all the time.
I have another couple of muffin recipes if you would like them.
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The Last Universal Common Ancestor is the great-grandparent of everything that has ever lived on Earth. Scientists had long assumed it was a crude, simple thing, more a chemical mishmash than anything else. But our earliest ancestor holds some surprises.
Known as LUCA for short, it's hard to even know how to describe this...thing. For a long time, scientists assumed the LUCA was incredibly primitive, a basic assemblage of organic molecules that couldn't even be considered a cell. That might sound like the LUCA wasn't even alive in any sense we would understand, and that's probably true - that's the problem with coming up with a single organism from which everything on this planet could be descended. You have to go very, very far back into our evolutionary past to find it.
But maybe not quite as far back as we once thought. While we still don't have any direct evidence of what the LUCA was, researchers at the University of Illinois have found a particular organelle inside microbial cells responsible for polyphosphate storage. That may not sound like the most crucial of tasks, but the important thing is that this specific organelle is found not only in all multicellular organisms but also bacteria and their cousins the archaea. That makes it the first universal organelle, something that is shared by every living thing on the planet.
And, if a particular structure is found in every form of life, then that means it has to have evolved in the common ancestor of all those organisms - in other words, it goes all the way back to the LUCA. Co-author Gustavo Caetano-Anolles explains:
"There are many possible scenarios that could explain this, but the best, the most parsimonious, the most likely would be that you had already the enzyme even before diversification started on Earth. The protein was there to begin with and was then inherited into all emerging lineages."
This particular organelle is the only known thing to be universal to all lifeforms, so it's the only feature of the LUCA that we can know about with any certainty. However, even this one organelle implies a surprising level of complexity in the LUCA, perhaps even outstripping that of its descendants. This original organism might actually have been more complicated than some of the bacteria and archaea that came after it.
Fellow researcher James Whitfield explains:
"You can't assume that the whole story of life is just building and assembling things. Some have argued that the reason that bacteria are so simple is because they have to live in extreme environments and they have to reproduce extremely quickly. So they may actually be reduced versions of what was there originally. According to this view, they've become streamlined genetically and structurally from what they originally were like. We may have underestimated how complex this common ancestor actually was."
Via the University of Illinois. Image by Marc Cappelletti on Flickr.


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Trail helps us celebrate heritage
I read a wonderful article by April Wright in the Dec. 15-16, 2008, edition of the Gazette, titled "Money Trail."
The article focused on the $23 million economic impact that the Crooked Road initiative brought to 10 counties and 19 towns stretching from Dickenson to Franklin County.
Of the $23 million, $13 million was attributed to direct sales of goods. The foundation for the Crooked Road was a regional effort to promote our heritage; one consisting of natural amenities, music and artisans.
Reader finds little to compliment in grammar mistakes
I was just about to write a letter to compliment a reporter on his correct use of the word "complement" in his "Enterprise Zone" article in The Gazette of Sept. 16, when I read his article about Grayson County school construction in the Sept. 18 edtion.
In this article, he uses the word "complement" incorrectly. I then realized that he must use the word "complement" for both the word "complement" and the word "compliment."
It was announced last week that the Town of Fries was successful in obtaining a $1 million grant to build a new 10,000-square-foot fire department.
This is very welcome news for the small town, and shows promise that its master plan could be moving forward.
Ever since the old Washington Mills left the former cotton mill town, Fries has been attempting to revitalize its downtown sector and make it appealing for prospective developers.
Parkway celebration to begin
The Blue Ridge Parkway will celebrate 75 years in September 2010.
At the 50th anniversary celebration in 1985, more than 6,000 people attended festivities at Cumberland Knob near Galax.
Parkway officials expect double that number for the 75th anniversary celebration to be held at the Blue Ridge Music Center and Cumberland Knob on Sept. 10-11, 2010.
A year-long schedule of events will lead up to the grand celebration in 2010, with the first occurring right here in Galax.
Healthcare answers insufficient
In rebuttal to the Aug. 21 story, U.S. Rep. Rick Boucher did not sound skeptical of the government option for health care to my wife and I.
We were at the meeting at New River Community College [that was referenced in the story] and we listened to his answers.
The first person to ask a question wanted to know where was wording in the Constitution that would allow the national government to be involved in health care?
The just-announced public utilities for Fancy Gap took two things — a honking big hunk of $8 million in stimulus funds from the federal government and the persistence of the people.
The everyday folks, who knew there was a need to promote development, asked for help. When the answer wasn't forthcoming, they asked again.
A bold mural being painted on front of the Jeff Matthews Museum has caused an uproar among Galax residents, city staff and the museum's board of directors.
The mural, started last month, remains unfinished until the Galax Planning Commission decides if artists David and Brigette Payseur should continue the painting.
However, since the mural has gone up, it has attracted attention from many tourists, as well as locals, who never knew the museum even existed.
Waddell has high rating
This is in regard to newspaper accounts of alleged abuse at Waddell Nursing and Rehab Center.
I'm confident that your reporting accurately represented the facts as alleged. However, your article in terms of what it didn't say, unintentionally did a serious disservice to the facility, employees and residents.
Officials deserve thanks
The Carroll County administrator and board of supervisors are well deserving of the encouragement of citizens of Carroll County.
In the past year this board and our administrator have taken Carroll County in such a positive direction.
We no longer pick up our newspaper to read about an argument or personal vendetta between board members.
We have progress for Carroll County like there has not been in so many, many years. As a citizen I believe Carroll County has a great future.
For decades now, the congressional debate over health care has been so distorted by politics and money that it has been worse than useless — it has been an active impediment to reform of a broken system that is too expensive, serves too few and rations care based on insurance company caprice.
If the conversation on Capitol Hill has been a national disgrace, what is going on in local meetings all over the country is more disturbing.
Writer suggests mural options
By no stretch of the imagination can you call that sign on the Jeff Matthews Museum a mural.
The definition of a mural is a picture or decoration — usually a very large one — on a wall or ceiling.
A mural of Matthews shooting a grizzly bear or an Indian encampment by the creek or of Main Street by [local artist] Raven Bilbrey would be better — or a conglomeration of native species of trees, bushes, wildflowers and galax leaves.
The saying goes that two heads are always better than one. Grayson leaders agree, as they seek to use three heads — their own, along with the towns of Independence and Fries — to seek acceptance into Virginia's Enterprise Zone Program.
The program provides various incentives for qualifying businesses if they create more than four jobs that pay at least 1.75 times the federal minimum wage rate and provide benefits.
We met in a small music shop in southern Virginia, some years ago.
The woodgrain of that violin was not finished to a lustrous sheen, but more to an appearance far beyond its years. We had that in common.
Overwhelmed by its rustic appeal to the eye, we went home together. That purchase, at the time, was much more a luxury than necessity.
Not being a musician, our first session was truly a revelation. What had I done? When bow first met strings absolute horror was revealed. That beautiful chunk of wood had no more music within it than its buyer had.
Congress poised to raise taxes
Many Americans are beginning to question whether our elected officials, both Democrats and Republicans, have abandoned their constituents to pursue a party-oriented agenda.
It seems that no matter how loud and often citizens demand a return to a common sense approach to governing, very few elected officials are listening.
Rep. Rick Boucher is charged with the responsibility of acting in the best interest of the 9th District, but refuses to talk directly to individuals he represents.
Universal health care a must
As we have watched business after business close in the past few years and unemployment levels reach unprecedented highs, there is a hidden cost we have not considered.
How many of those folks who found themselves unemployed also found themselves joining the millions of people in this country who do not have health insurance?
How many children are going without adequate medical care because their families cannot afford or no longer qualify for health insurance?
It may be impossible to find a better example about the importance of wearing safety belts than the three young women who escaped a dramatic accident July 11 with their lives.
The wreck was scary enough to come straight out of an action movie — a car goes into a skid on Interstate 77 due to hydroplaning in a thunderstorm, bounces off a guardrail, shoots across two lanes, strikes the other guardrail, springs over it and goes airborne, flipping as it falls down a steep ravine in Fancy Gap and coming to a stop right side up.
America's health care system is a financial and medical wreck, a collection of competing interests and incentives that guarantee inefficiency and reward sloth.
Our barbecue is the best
I was one of the judges for the Smoke on the Mountain barbeque contest held recently in Galax.
I would like thank all who had a hand in putting this GREAT affair on. I'm sure that many residents of Galax had a role in this.
If wronged, keep your faith strong
I am writing this letter as a reminder to myself as well as to possibly help others. I hope readers find peace with the contents.
Perhaps putting it into written words will sink the truth into my own heart. One can hope.
What do you do when you have been wronged by many people because, in their opinion, they could do the job better than you have?
What do you do when you have been lied about, and to, and talked about in circles that continuously grow?
It was one of the area's most finest dining destinations, but now it's gone.
Bye-bye, Bogeys. It was the spot for dinner dates, dining after a round of golf, relaxing with a cocktail or attending fundraisers.
The restaurant had to shut its doors last Saturday due to the stress of the economy. However, it went out with a bang, hosting its annual fundraiser for Project Lifesavers on the last day.
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My Mom used to make chili all the time in the fall. I'm not going to lie…. I hated it! Now that I have grown up a little bit and my taste buds have grown up, I am a chili fanatic! I still love my Mom's Chili but I sure do like trying new chili!
Skinny Slow Cooker White Bean Chicken Chili
3/4 pound boneless skinless chicken breasts
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1 medium onion, chopped
1 jalapeno pepper, seeded and chopped (optional)
2 teaspoons dried oregano
1 teaspoon ground cumin
4 garlic cloves, minced
2 cans (15 ounces each) white kidney or cannellini beans, rinsed and drained
3 cups fat free chicken broth
1-1/2 cups (6 ounces) low fat shredded cheese
Fat Free Sour cream and minced fresh cilantro, optional
Sprinkle chicken with salt and pepper then place it in the bottom of the Slow Cooker. Then add the onion, jalapeno, garlic, oregano and cumin on top of the chicken.
Next add white beans and pour the chicken broth over everything. Cover and cook on low for 6 to 8 hours or 4 to 6 hours on high.
Shred chicken and stir before serving. Sprinkle with cheese and garnish with sour cream and cilantro if desired.
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