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Ralf Nolden: Using KDevelop
KDevelop guru
cute, but rather useless..
After having tried a number of times to get going with KDevelop I can only say that this article is an other rather useless "one more introduction" story. Useless in a sense that there are enough beginners introductions, which show screendumps and tell what the features are. All these things can be found on the KDevelop website itself.
What WOULD be usefull is if someone who knows the system would sit down and update the REAL tutorials to bring them up to level with the current version of KDevelop. Trying a number of tutorials I havened found one which could guide me step by step to an actualy complete and compilable program.
Usually somewhere halfway they point you to classes that don't exists, options that are no longer there or files that cannot be found. As it seems a lot has been changed.
Anyhow, if someone could prove me wrong with a link to an up-to-date tutorial (KDevelop 2.0.2) I would be more than happy..
By Gerhard Hoogterp at Thu, 2002/03/07 - 6:00am
Re: cute, but rather useless..
Ralf Nolden is a main author of KDevelop, so he knows the system. This is also up-to-date, for he just wrote it. What's wrong, again?
By Jason Katz-Brown at Fri, 2002/03/08 - 6:00am
And now my 2 Aussie cents...
I too would just love to get my hands dirty with KDevelop and start pumping out apps for KDE. However, I have been unable to find a KDE programming guide that adequately explains the steps needed to get started. I remember a couple of months ago someone said they couldnt understand why more people didnt develop apps for KDE. Well this is the reason girls and boys. Its near impossible for novices like me to get started.
Im sure there is hundreds of other people who also need an extra helping hand to just get started. I have no programming experience in GUIs, and my C++ programming experience is still very limited, but the best way to get better is to do it. I would love to spend time developing KDE apps, but if I cant get started, Im going to have to look elsewhere.
This isnt a rant, and is not meant to be flame bait. It is a simple request. Could someone please write a very detailed tutorial/guide to help clueless people like me get started. I would do it myself, but obviously I cant :) . My brand new LFS/KDE system will be finished tonight and I want to do some coding with it :(
By the way, I havent read this tutorial yet. Hopefully it satisfies everything Ive requested and you can all call me a n00b :) . I just felt this needed to be said.
Thanks all for your time.
By Joel Carr at Fri, 2002/03/08 - 6:00am
Re: And now my 2 Aussie cents...
I think Anne-Marie Mahfouf's tutorial is pretty eas to understand.
By Kevin Krammer at Fri, 2002/03/08 - 6:00am
Re: And now my 2 Aussie cents...
... And my Canadian (well American really but that's irrellevant :) two cents....
Good luck,
By Allen Lair at Fri, 2002/03/08 - 6:00am
Re: And now my 2 Aussie cents...
This relates a bit more towards Qt, but since Qt is required to build KDE apps...
I didn't purchace a book, and I only checked out two or three tutorials, but the biggest problem I ran into was the lack of explaination and sample code on how best to run moc, parse .ui files, etc... because coders with experience often have their own conventions about building projects. I sort of had to poke and prod and semi-reverse engineer how moc handles files, and where it best fits in the build process.
For me, it wasn't that long, but it kinda annoyed me that the tutorials I read had so little information on the fundimental tools and how they actually work and relate to each other. It's really quite simple when you do figure out all the ways they work, but it's underdocumented in what I read when I first tried my hand at making a few KDE apps.
By Evan "JabberWok... at Fri, 2002/03/08 - 6:00am
Re: And now my 2 Aussie cents...
By Carsten at Sun, 2002/03/10 - 6:00am
Other language support
When is someone going to produce a java wrapper for QT and the KDElibraries and when will we see a java plug-in for KDevelop? Not being a C++ coder, this is all a bit beyond my very humble capabilities.
By Ez at Fri, 2002/03/08 - 6:00am
Re: Other language support
I heard rumors that someone did make a Java plug-in. Don't know where to find it :-(
By Andy "Storm" Go... at Fri, 2002/03/08 - 6:00am
Re: Other language support
KDevelop 3 (gideon) will hava java support - see 'kdevelop/parts/javasupport' in the HEAD branch. There is also a java plugin project template, which allows you to write plugins (ie KParts) in Java. The complete KDevelop 'core' plugin api is available to java programmers.
-- Richard
By Richard Dale at Fri, 2002/03/08 - 6:00am
Re: Other language support
Will KDevelop ever support other languages besides C++ and Java?
By sierrathedog04 at Fri, 2002/03/08 - 6:00am
Re: Other language support
That's funny. Why don't you check out KDevelop instead of trolling here? Maybe you'll be surprised to find out you can develop GNOME applications with it too.
By ac at Fri, 2002/03/08 - 6:00am
Re: Other language support
As far as I know Gideon currently supports C++ (C?), Fortran, Java, Perl, PHP and Python.
By Schwann at Fri, 2002/03/08 - 6:00am
Re: Other language support
And Objective-C too..
-- Richard
By Richard Dale at Fri, 2002/03/08 - 6:00am
Re: Other language support
dcopjava, qtjava and kdejava are in the kdebindings module.
By Aaron J. Seigo at Fri, 2002/03/08 - 6:00am
Re: Other language support
By Andy "Storm" Go... at Fri, 2002/03/08 - 6:00am
Re: Other language support
OK, cool! It's great that these bindings do exist even of documetation is a little sparse. I'll have to look into how to use them properly. If I understand what I've read correctly, Java support in KDE/KDeveloper isn't as simple as installing KDevelop and adding java classpaths etc. I take it there's no syntax highlighting etc for Java within KDevelop?
Still, the bindings are a very good (and necessary) start. I shall attempt to get set up to explore this a little and continue to wish for java support "out of the box" so to speak!
By Ez at Sat, 2002/03/09 - 6:00am
Re: Other language support
"It's great that these bindings do exist even of documetation is a little sparse."
Thanks, but sorry about the lack of documentation.. One thing thats been added recently are a large number of sample programs. See kdebindings/qtjava/javalib/examples for a good proportion of the Qt example apps translated into Java. Kenneth Pouncey has translated Ralf's KScribble example app - see kdebindings/kdejava/koala/examples/kscribble. I think, even without much documentation, it's much easier to get going if you have some sample code to hack around.
KDevelop 3 (gideon) has both class browsing and syntax highlighting. The plan is to base the development environment on gcj/gdb/automake 1.5, but I've had problems getting gcj 3.0.1 or 3.0.3 to work on my PowerPC machine. Recently Adam Dingle reported on the kde-java list that gcc 3.0.4/gcj work well with the bindings.
KDevelop 1.4/2.x has Java syntax highlighting only.
-- Richard
By Richard Dale at Sat, 2002/03/09 - 6:00am
Re: Other language support
pff.. if you know java, c++ shouldn't be too hard to learn
By domi at Sat, 2002/03/09 - 6:00am
license issue
By pep at Fri, 2002/03/08 - 6:00am
Re: license issue
Well, Qt is GPL.
If your soft is for internal use only, then there is no issue. With the GPL, you must publish your source code only if you distribute the software. If this only for your own work, a soft to be used only by yourself or your departement, then you have nothing to worry about. You should check with a lawyer though if you want to be absolutely sure.
If you plan on distributing the binaries without the sources, then you must pay a license fee to TrollTech (I think it is 1000$).
As far as I know, GTK is GPL only, meaning that if you redistribute your binaries, you must also redistribute your source code.
Hope this help!
By Daniel Lemire at Fri, 2002/03/08 - 6:00am
Re: license issue
I heard about people releasing closed sourced GTK products, maybe I'm wrong. What it would be definitely nice is writing in GTK and being able to run it in the KDE enviroment with the same copy/paste, open file dialogs, print infraestructure, look and feel... etc.
By pep at Fri, 2002/03/08 - 6:00am
Re: license issue
Was going to try to verify but http://www.gtk.org appears to be down.
Standards for interoperability would be nice, not sure that it
By AdHoc at Fri, 2002/03/08 - 6:00am
Re: license issue
Yeah, Gnome is LGPL. That's why sun chose it.
By Frans at Fri, 2002/03/08 - 6:00am
Re: license issue
Poor Sun, what have they gotten themselves into. They jumped on GNOME bandwagon when it was hot and popular, and now seem to be having nothing but troubles in getting out a release and still haven't replaced CDE. So much for the LGPL advantage. They have many developers and users who like and asked for KDE/Qt, maybe they should have listened.
What will they do when Mono becomes defacto standard on GNOME? Forget their Java? Well at least Sun still seem to control some GNOME desktop development for now.
By ac at Fri, 2002/03/08 - 6:00am
Re: license issue
Power outage at UC Berkeley. I guess somebody noticed.
By Devesh at Sat, 2002/03/09 - 6:00am
Re: license issue
the copy/paste problems are apparently a qt issue, which should be fixed in qt3. However i've not tried it myself yet.
By rogue at Fri, 2002/03/08 - 6:00am
Re: license issue
gtk is lgpl, you can use it for the gui without any problems, without having to release the source. (or you could buy a licence for qt if you need to distribute your app and don't want to gpl it, but using gtk's just less fuss)
By rogue at Fri, 2002/03/08 - 6:00am
Re: license issue
This is pretty bad for KDE I guess.
I guess GNOME wins in that situations. Again, it would be nice being able to program in GTK and that it could integrate into KDE nicely.
Anyway, you can allways use GNOME programs from KDE with X but it's not the same ...
By pep at Fri, 2002/03/08 - 6:00am
Re: license issue
try another university :)
honestly, yours is behind the times.
By ac at Fri, 2002/03/08 - 6:00am
Re: license issue
It sounds to me like his university is only too well with the times - they could be protecting their IP rights. I know that anything I do at my university is automatically the property of the college, and they can patent and commercialise it to any degree they wish. There's no way they'll agree to source distribution, especially via the GPL. I suspect this is whats going on in his case.
By Bryan Feeney at Fri, 2002/03/08 - 6:00am
Re: license issue
Right! At least they accepted to give the binaries and I wanted to add the GUI.
By pep at Fri, 2002/03/08 - 6:00am
Re: license issue
I really hope I am misunderstanding this, but it seems that you would have more freedom if you developed your code under windoze. Then you have no $1000 to pay, and are not required to distribute your source code. Or am I missing something?
By Rob at Fri, 2002/03/08 - 6:00am
Re: license issue
Why don't you separate the main engine from the GUI ? Make two apps: one that works in a terminal and a frontend written in QT/KDE. Then you ask your uni to be able to redistribute your frontend in GPL and the terminal version in binary-only. I think it's legal.
By Julien Olivier at Sat, 2002/03/09 - 6:00am
Re: Windows ends up cheaper and easier
All the freedoms preached re free open source software would seem to be a misnomer in such cases. It would seem to cost developers more to produce their code under KDE than under Windows. Then they can market their binaries to a much smaller user base. Maybe someone familiar with the GPL could clarify these questions.
By Smith at Sat, 2002/03/09 - 6:00am
Re: license issue
Did you think about the costs of Microsofts Visual Studio, Microsoft Windows license and maybe extra tools? I think you come better off when purchasing the QT licence and sell your binaries...
By MagMic at Thu, 2002/03/14 - 6:00am
Re: license issue
I don't think the cost of VC++ plus a copy of winDoze comes close to $1000 USD. And the winDoze market is much larger, so more potential payback too. Let's be honest - for a small one-man start-up company, QT licensing is pretty difficult to swallow.
By Smith at Thu, 2002/03/14 - 6:00am
Re: license issue
I'd say to be safe you'd have to use something other than Qt. GTK is okay, but not object-orientated, which might be awkward. GTK-- is the official OOP version, but I've heard it's quite hard to learn. There's another OOP GTK toolkit called INTI being developed at Redhat Advanced Labs, but development seems to have stalled in the last year.
There is one other alternative called FLTK. It's been _ages_ since I last saw this, but it's a fairly decent easy to learn toolkit, and it's become object orientated in the last few years. I'd try it out first, then go to GTK.
If you really want to impress, a final option would be to create a GUI shell in Java using Swing and hook it up to your application via JNI, but that all depends on your Java skills.
I'd got with FLTK.
By Bryan Feeney at Fri, 2002/03/08 - 6:00am
Re: license issue
Just to clear a common misunderstanding (which I had for quite a long time myself): Although GTK is written in C, it is designed in a very object oriented fashion, even featuring oo-types with type checking.
By Thorsten at Sat, 2002/03/09 - 6:00am
Re: license issue
except that the GTK+ bindings to Smalltalk, Ruby, Eiffel, Python, Cecil and others are barely used (well, maybe not python as much.. but still). I'd have to say 90% or more of GTK+ development happens in C. The support of other languages is just a advertising point :P
By fault at Sat, 2002/03/09 - 6:00am
fltk + correction about QT license
fltk is very good and works cross-platform. The mailing list is well populated and very helpful. I think all the other posters are incorrect about having to pay $1000 or distribute sources. According to the Trolltech web site, you may distribute binary-only for free if the application is non-commercial:
By Phillip at Thu, 2002/03/14 - 6:00am
Re: license issue
you might want to try wx/windows..
By fault at Sat, 2002/03/09 - 6:00am
Re: license issue
That's easy, you can release the source to the GUI and not the backend as long as they don't link.
By ac at Fri, 2002/03/08 - 6:00am
Re: license issue
So, how can I make both programs intract?
By pep at Fri, 2002/03/08 - 6:00am
Re: license issue
http://kdevelop.org/doc/programming/index-16.html has all the info on licenses.
By bjwbell at Sun, 2002/03/10 - 6:00am
Re: license issue
As long as you buy a commercial license for QT then you can release a commercial product linked to QT. Plain and simple.
By Anon E. Mous at Tue, 2002/03/12 - 6:00am
Designer & KDE style
I looked at the screenshots and noticed that Designer is used with the KDE "style". Just wondering, how is this done?
By Kristian at Fri, 2002/03/08 - 6:00am
Re: Designer & KDE style
With Qt 2, it is possible to compile in KDE support (./configure -kde). With Qt 3, the current KDE style is inherited without any recompiling.
By Justin at Fri, 2002/03/08 - 6:00am
Re: Designer & KDE style
and whereas in Qt2 this was something of a hack, in Qt3 this is now part of the Qt/KDE infrastructure and applies to all Qt apps not just designer. all you need to do in KDE3 is turn on the "Apply settings to non-KDE apps" and Qt apps will use the KDE style and colors.
By Aaron J. Seigo at Fri, 2002/03/08 - 6:00am
I think it would be very useful to read a "real" step-by-step tutorial. Like the books bout 'Learning Visual C++' If anybody out there wrote a tutorial 'Learning C++ with Kdevelop'...
... a book with cd: kdevelop on knoppix ready to run...
When will KBasic be ready?
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Do you want a phone that secures all of your data and communications, and can't be hacked by even the savviest of criminals and governments? Of course you do. But if you're a realist, you'd probably say that while strong security can be achieved with discipline, perfect security doesn't exist.
Yet, perfect security was the promise of a company called QSAlpha when it recently sent me an e-mail titled "Un-hackable Superphone to be Unveiled via Kickstarter." QSAlpha is seeking $2.1 million to build a phone it dubs the Quasar IV. Pledges starting at $395 would reserve backers a phone estimated for an April 2014 delivery.
A draft of the Kickstarter page and an accompanying video shared with Ars calls it the "world's most secure smartphone," featuring "unprecedented security with a military-grade encryption." Those kinds of claims—coupled with a lack of technical detail—make security experts who reviewed the Kickstarter page suspicious.
The phone a ninja would use
QSAlpha says it started by asking the question, "If a ninja had a phone, what would it look like?"
"The essence of digital security is the ability to operate in stealth mode, moving about undetected, leaving no trace in the digital world, the same way that a ninja leaves no trace in the real world," CEO and founder Steve Chao said in the video.
QSAlpha describes Chao as "an internationally recognized pioneer in digital security, communications and augmented reality." He said he previously built a now-defunct mobile search engine, Cgogo, which was used by China Mobile.
His encryption technology is called "Quatrix." Besides encrypting phones, QSAlpha says it plans its own app store where developers can distribute applications signed by Quatrix.
A preview of the Kickstarter link was temporarily live but is offline as of this writing. QSAlpha was planning to start the crowdfunding campaign this week, but said because of a backlog at Kickstarter it's been delayed until September 12.
Based on Android 4.3 and with various modifications to improve security, the Quasar IV uses a hardware-level encryption module. The contents of the phone are encrypted, and your communication with other users of Quasar IV phones are encrypted as well using public and private keys. Android phones can already be encrypted using a standard setting, but Chao says Quasar does it better.
"Instead of having a third-party hosting or giving out the public key, we have managed to create what we call a seed public key matrix that produces all possible keys up to 10^77 of keys for all the users out there," Chao told Ars in a phone interview. The chip contains both the public key matrix and the user's private key. When initiating communications with another user, the Quasar IV uses the recipient's identity to calculate their public key and encrypt the data. Once received, the user decrypts it with their private key.
All e-mails, text messages, and VoIP calls can be encrypted, he said. Quasar IV can still communicate with users of other phones and devices, but not in an encrypted manner.
If you don't use a Quasar phone, you're basically doomed, QSAlpha CTO Ben Vaughan said in one of the company's videos. "Every time you visit a website, every time you send an e-mail, and every time you make a phone call, you are exposing yourself to criminal activity," he said.
Experts: Proprietary encryption can't be trusted
While QSAlpha's general descriptions of its technology sound reasonable, claims of being "un-hackable" are bound to draw derision from security experts. After talking to Chao, Ars reached out to two experts to get neutral opinions on Quasar IV, speaking to Steve Thomas, who recently discovered a critical flaw in Cryptocat, and cryptographer Jean-Philippe Aumasson.
Thomas was blunt in his response. "The only thing you need to know about this phone is 'proprietary encryption.' If you aren't aware, this means it's probably broken. Don't trust me, just Google 'proprietary encryption,'" he told Ars in an e-mail. "They also 'absolutely guarantee the security of their personal data.' That sounds like something a cryptographer would never say."
According to the OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) Guide to Cryptography, "Proprietary encryption algorithms are not to be trusted as they typically rely on 'security through obscurity' and not sound mathematics. These algorithms should be avoided if possible."
Aumasson agreed with Thomas, noting that claims like "unprecedented security" without detailed technical explanations do not inspire confidence. Aumasson wrote:
Overall, the tone and content of this [Kickstarter] page suggest that it hasn't involved credible security experts.
That said, the idea of a "crypto phone" with a hardware root of trust is good, and would bring better security compared to software-only solutions (things like Silent Circle).
However at this point "Quasar IV" does not provide sufficient technical details to rigorously assess its security, and the marketing tone and FUD on that page suggest that it's unlikely to be a reliable technology, in my opinion.
For example, they write: "Both algorithms [RSA and Diffie-Hellman] are on the verge of being 'cracked' (proven to be vulnerable to attack) by academic mathematicians, according to researchers who presented at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas in August."
This is plain wrong, and shows that the authors do not know what they are talking about.
Don't trust us—trust Fox News
We passed Thomas' and Aumasson's concerns to QSAlpha's spokesperson. The spokesperson told us that "The RSA and Diffie-Hellman example does not come from QSAlpha—it comes from a news story recently published on Fox News."
Obviously, we don't look to Fox News for security information. For a more nuanced discussion of the RSA and Diffie-Hellman algorithms, you can check out our story from the Black Hat conference.
QSAlpha hasn't yet provided any further details in response to Thomas and Aumasson, although they tell us the company has a "security team that will be publishing technical papers on how Quatrix works." They also pointed to an ad they published in the New York Times last year with a message encrypted using their system. The fact that no one has decrypted this message is supposed to be proof of the Quasar IV's effectiveness:
When I interviewed Chao before this followup exchange, he explained that the company uses proprietary encryption schemes "because we have to secure the safety of all app developers and consumers on the Quasar device."
Quatrix uses both AES-256 and ECC (elliptic curve cryptography), he said.
"We use a combination of ECC and our own algorithms to create those public and private seed key files," he said. "Once a file has been encrypted by AES-256, that key has been re-encrypted again using our own algorithm. It's a combination of several algorithms for trusted identity authentication and also file encryption. This is different from popular services out there such as Samsung Safe, which uses AES-256, Blackberry uses just ECC. We use a combination of such."
BlackBerry actually uses both ECC and AES-256.
Chao said QSAlpha's approach of tying the private key to a chip that also calculates all possible public keys is superior to any system that relies on a third-party server to store and authenticate public keys. With Quatrix, "there's no way to get hold of a third-party server to forge other peoples' identities," he said. On Quasar, all authentication happens offline, he said.
Quatrix's encryption can't be broken by conventional computers, he claimed. "The only possibility is if you use a quantum computer and try to break it from different angles, there's a possibility there," he said. "Using conventional computers, I would say it's impossible. It's very difficult. We are looking for ways to protect the system from quantum computers, and we will likely release a paper [on that topic] at the end of this year."
Aumasson wasn't impressed by the use of ECC and AES-256 in the absence of more details, saying, "More often crypto fails due to a poor combination and usage of good building blocks, than because of 'weak' algorithms." This isn't the first time Aumasson has seen companies "trying to impress with either many algorithms, very long keys, or exotic concepts, and in general it does much worse than a minimalist approach based on a robust and scientific architecture."
"Largest phone manufacturer" on board
QSAlpha claimed on its draft Kickstarter that it's "secured a relationship with the world's largest phone manufacturer to bring the product to the market."
"We have also fully validated every single component in the Quasar IV and teamed up with a reputable component procurement company to ensure timely delivery to the manufacturer for final assembly," the company wrote.
The specs of the device do sound appealing. They include a quad-core 2.3GHz Snapdragon 800 processor, 3GB of RAM, and 64 or 128GB of "encrypted local storage" along with 128GB of encrypted cloud storage. QSAlpha promises dual-rear facing 13MP cameras for "a new generation of augmented reality experiences," and a front-facing 8MP camera. It will support LTE, CDMA, and GSM. Gorilla Glass 3 will protect a 5" display with 1920x1080 resolution.
That's all good, but if you're looking for a phone that prevents any and all security threats, this probably isn't it—nor is such a thing likely to exist anytime soon.
UPDATE on Sept. 17: QSAlpha's crowdfunding project has gone live (now on Indiegogo rather than Kickstarter), with additional details on its encryption scheme.


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Jillian Michaels orders two eggs over easy with a smidgeon of oil and two slices of dry toast.
And coffee.
Coffee?! "Two strong cups, 400 milligrams, fights pancreatic cancer," she says, "plus Alzheimer's, Type 2 diabetes and improves cognitive functions."
Not that Michaels is a health-nut goodie-goodie.
"I still drink a little bit of alcohol," she confides. "And I haven't been to the gym in five days!"
No wonder. There's this grueling book tour on top of an always-heavy workload, plus the routine demands of parenting a 3-year-old daughter and an 11-month-old son who, along with her partner, Heidi Rhoades, have come with her on this recent New York visit.
But all is never lost, says Michaels, in the battle to lose weight and be healthy. "Even if you're just standing while you're talking on the phone," she offers, "you can burn up to 300 calories in a day."
That's the sort of forgiving advice found in her latest book, "Slim for Life: My Insider Secrets to Simple, Fast and Lasting Weight Loss" (Harmony Books).
"It's my softest approach to weight loss," says Michaels, a wellness coach to whom the word "soft" is seldom applied.
After all, she is famous as the drill-sergeant trainer on NBC's "The Biggest Loser," a 5-foot-2-inch force of nature who doesn't hesitate to throw her tautly muscled weight around.
But during this recent breakfast she seems different from her "Loser" persona. Clad in jeans, sweat shirt and Ugg boots, her hair pulled under a newsboy's cap, she could pass for half her 39 years. She is animated, high-rev. But no way overbearing.
"I wanted to write a book where you felt like I was sitting right there with you," she says, a vision of reassurance seated across the table, "providing a simple solution for every problem or complaint I've ever heard."
Fitness is too time-consuming, complicated, costly, inconvenient, plus I'm hungry all the time - Michaels has heard every excuse from the audience for her website, weekly podcast and speaking engagements.
"I wanted to integrate the answers and knock down the myths and the fad diets," she says. "For every possible dieting dilemma that you could ever have, I provide umpteen amount of solutions. Pick one!"
In her book, every strategy comes with a point system scored from 1 (a "bonus" tip) to 3 (most effective and important). Totaling the strategies you're able to adopt can help predict your rate of weight loss, she says.
If some of this stuff gets a little technical (she prescribes workouts complete with calories-per-minute burned for each exercise), Michaels also packs the book with simple no-brainers: Eat before you head to the party so you're less tempted by those fatty hors d'oeuvres. Nix foods tagged with "danger words" like smothered, loaded, tender, deep-fried and creamy. At the supermarket, avoid the center aisles (high-trafficked destinations for junk food, she warns) in favor of the store perimeter, where fresh foods are likely to be stocked.
For imbibers who aren't satisfied with the occasional red wine (pretty healthy in moderation), she even offers recipes for low-cal cocktails.
"I'm going to show you exactly what you need to understand, exactly what never to do, and what it looks like in your life," she says. "This is never going to be easy. But it's never gonna be easier than this."
Growing up, physical health wasn't something that came easily to Michaels.
Her dad was overweight, she says, "and one of the ways that we spent time together was through food: `Let's go get a pizza.'"
Her parents went through what she calls an ugly divorce when she was 12, which only hardened her image of herself as "a fat kid, a loser, someone who deserved to get picked on."
But a few years later she got hooked on martial arts. She had long felt like an outsider in school and most everywhere else, a feeling heightened by the fact that she was gay and hadn't yet accepted it. But here in the dojo she was part of a community. She felt supported. She blossomed.
Then came a real turning point: She broke two boards with a sidekick.
"The next day when I walked into the school, no one ever (messed) with me again," she says, her eyes blazing at the memory.
From there a career unfolded for Michaels as a trainer, physical therapy aide, then sports-medicine professional.
A decade ago, she signed on to "The Biggest Loser." There, instantly, she stood out as a taskmaster, even a bully.
"I always identify with the underdog, and I think that's one reason I feel fine yelling at them," she explains. "I feel like I'm yelling at a peer: Take responsibility, own this situation and bring your best. Let's start exploring your potential."
As "The Biggest Loser" heads toward its season conclusion (Monday at 8 p.m. EDT), Michaels has seen full potential reached by her current charge, Danni. A 26-year-old advertising account coordinator from Wheeling, Ill., Danni has lost 95 pounds under Michaels' dogged coaching and has guaranteed herself a slot as a finalist.
"You found yourself and you just soared," Michaels told her last week in a voice choked with emotion, "and you became everything that I had hoped you would be."
Michaels returned to "The Biggest Loser" this season after a two-year absence. Her reasons for coming back included "a whole new group of producers I really trust and like," she says. "Besides, it's a heckuva platform."
But it's only one of many platforms from which this go-go fitness guru spreads her gospel - a gospel she says isn't really about fitness.
"It's never been about fitness for me," Michaels says. "I don't even really like to work out. But when you're strong physically and you feel confident about your body and your health, you're strong in every other facet of your life. It's transcendent."
Frazier Moore is a national television columnist for The Associated Press. He can be reached at fmoore(at)ap.org and at https://www.twitter.com/tvfrazier


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The day is dedicated to all individuals who have newly found true love and those whohave passed through all stages of their romantic relationships and are basking in the love found yester years ago. Thoughin today's times a lot of commercialisation and loads of expectations have crept into the celebrations, the day does infuse joy and liveliness into the lives of individuals.
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Abstract: Previous research tends to overemphasize frictions, cultural clashes and communication breakdowns in virtual teams. The author aims at exploring positive aspects of cross-cultural collaboration and identifying some of the conditions underlying trust-building, employee motivation and team effectiveness. Whereas much research on virtual teams has taken its point of departure in Western MNCs and primarily addressed headquarter concerns, this case study of a Danish MNC´s Indian R & D site gives voice to Indian managers and employees and explores through semi-structured interviews and observations how they perceive communication and collaboration within multinational and multicultural R & D teams, and how they try to find common ground. Based on the interviews accounts, there are several enablers of virtual team collaboration: advanced information and communication technology facilitated virtual communication, and high English-language proficiency among the engineers at different R & D sites made dialogue and knowledge exchange feasible. Moreover, team members shared a strong professional identity as engineers and technicians, and they displayed a strong identification with the MNC, a world leader in the wind power industry. Perceived national differences in leadership and communication style played a minor role, maybe because the majority of Indian managers and employees had previous experience working in other Western MNCs. Some of the Indian managers and employees were even able to act as boundary-spanners between headquarters and the Indian R&D site due to their study and work experiences in other business environments. Culture courses that introduced the Danish and Indian team members to a North European communication and management style, and to an Indian respectively, were introduced on the initiative of the Danish managing director, who - in contrast to the HR department - recognized the importance of facilitating the virtual teamwork through cultural awareness training. Suggestions for further cultural learning processes are given. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8566
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I was at Costco stocking up on bottled water, protein powder, and toilet paper (why two people need 36 rolls of Northern toilet tissue, I'll never know). On my way to the protein powder, I passed pineapples, tall, fragrant, ripe pineapples each topped with a crown fit for a king. They had no brown spots, no fuzzy fur on the bottoms—they were perfect. Better yet, they were only $2.99 each. I couldn't believe it! I put two in my carriage and buried them under the toilet paper.
Not 20 feet later on my way to the water, I passed a mountain of mangoes, whose green and yellow skins were taut and unblemished. Having just paid $1.75 each for some (which weren't even good), I stopped to check the price -- $8 for a whole case! I debated whether or not to buy them. What would we do with a whole case of mangoes? Would they be sweet? What if they all ripened at the same time? Then I heard my father's voice in my head saying, "Buy them! They won't go to waste." "But Dad, it's only the two of us." "Just buy them!" the voice echoed. After scanning left and right, I picked up a case and placed it in the carriage. What did I think? That the Farm Bureau was watching me on the surveillance camera? Feeling guilty, I wondered if the toilet paper could cover these too.
When Jeff came home from work that night, he saw the behemoth bowl of mangoes and pineapples on the counter and asked, "Costco?" "Costco," I replied.
That night we enjoyed a pineapple-mango salsa on swordfish for Jeff and tofu for me. Fruit salsas are a staple in our house because they're light, healthy, and versatile. This salsa is sweet, spicy, and tangy and tastes even better when allowed to rest at room temperature before serving. Also, the rich golden yellow of both fruits seemed just right to submit to Barbara's A Taste of Yellow event at the famed Winos and Foodies. In addition to raising awareness of cancer, Barbara's event has been approved by the Lance Armstrong Foundation as an official LIVESTRONG Day Event.
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Serving suggestion: steamed sugar snap peas lightly seasoned with extra virgin olive oil, fresh mint, & salt and pepper are a lovely side vegetable.
If you're unfamiliar with selecting and cutting a mango, then check out Rachel's tutorial at Coconut and Lime.
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04 September, 2012
This is not a rebel yell"War," released early in 1983, was U2's fullest and loudest album yet -- an album that started to separate the band from their New Wave peers. On this album, U2 both embraced and began wrestling with the identity of a Band with a Mission. Prior to this, their albums had featured oblique statements or pictures of uncertainty (the turmoil of adolescence on "Boy", the spiritual uncertainty of "October"). On "War," the band clearly and defiantly wrestled with the punk rock questions of politics, war, and personal/national identity. The faith that the band is famously known for kept them from embracing nihilism, and instead -- impossibly -- to land on notes of grace and hope. As a result, an album that features militaristic rhythms frequently resolves on hopeful submission. The fire of "Sunday Bloody Sunday" melts to the impatient faith of "40," while the uncertainty of "Two Hearts Beat As One" is answered by the elegaic "Surrender." These may not be rebel songs in the traditional sense, but in light of the faith that fuels each song, this may be the most rebellious U2 would ever be. The album was remastered in 2008 and released with a bonus disc of B-sides, showing an early and experimental side of the band. Long before the umpteenth Hexidecimal mix of "Discotheque," U2 was experimenting with remixes on both "Two Hearts Beat As One" and "New Year's Day". As a result, it's a fascinating release, and one essential for U2 fans old and new.
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War - an already legendary album made beWar has always been, for me, one of the best U2 albums of all time, from the loud militaristic drumbeat of "Sunday Bloody Sunday" to the quiet, atmospheric and beautiful "Drowning Man" (my personal favourite - gives me goosebumps), every song on this album is fantastic. I never thought this album could get any better until they released this deluxe edition which includes the fantastic previously unreleased song "Angels Too Tied To The Ground". What I love about this track is that Bono re-recorded his vocals for this reissue while maintaining the original music in the track recorded in 1983, it just sounds phenomenal, very underrated and unexpectedly awesome track! I also loved the inclusion of "Endless Deep" - a b-side which I hadn't heard before and upon listening to it, it's now in my favourite U2 song-list! Adam singing too! Overall, not only is this a timeless album but the reissue only makes this album more exciting by including the extra songs/remixes and even after many reissues being released now, it's still firmly my favourite U2 reissue! Not to mention the sound quality is nothing less than brilliant, Great job guys!


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College tuition costs skyrocket just as yields nose-dive; combine the two and you may have something.
SoFi, a startup based in San Francisco, is shaking up the student loan market at the time when it's sorely needed. With four-year tuition approaching the price of a comfortable suburban home, four alumni from the Stanford Graduate School of Business have stuck upon an idea to offer loans at lower costs that are then bundled to investors.
According to Dan Macklin, students like the savings and investors like the yield.
"The origins of the idea came from four students in the Stanford School of Business," explains Macklin, the firm's cofounder and vice president of alumni relationships. "We were struck, as were many of our classmates, by the high borrowing costs of student loans, especially at the graduate level."
He notes that 93% of all student loans are made by the federal government. Stafford loans at the graduate level have an interest rate currently of 6.8% for a direct loan and 7.9% for a Grad PLUS loan. It's considered quite high in today's low-interest-rate environment, where mortgages are being refinanced at historically low rates.
Because Stanford is located in the heart of Silicon Valley, the partners noticed the "new and creative ideas going on in the form of crowdfunding and crowdsourcing," Macklin says, before adding it isn't quite right for the student loan market.
"The finance industry is a two-way relationship; people deposit money with a bank with really no idea what the bank will do with it, and the bank makes loans and customers really have no idea what will happen to the note after that or if it will be sold off," he argues.
SoFi process, he counters is very transparent. It's an idea that relies heavily on social networking—media and otherwise. The key is to involve school alumni and other interested investors—someone with a child enrolled at a particular school, perhaps.
"In the summer of 2011, we began with $2 million from 40 investors and made loans to 100 Stanford Business School students. We have since expanded to 79 schools and $100 million. This year, we expect to $800 [million] and we're broadly on track to reach that now that we're one month in."
Macklin notes that although they reach out to schools to explain the concept, they don't need the institution's blessing, as students can borrow from wherever they like. The company is currently seeing $10 million of demand, on average, each week.
"The students see that we are a proper company sending proper statements and from there the idea is spread through word-of-mouth," he adds.
SoFi initially concentrated on borrowers, preferring to establish a solid track record before approaching investors. As a result, it prefunded many of the early loans.
With the aforementioned track record in place, the firm has begun approaching investors "for three or four months now."
"In this ongoing search for yield, assuming there is no leverage, the investor receives all of what the borrower pays minus our fees, which works out to 4% or 5%," Macklin claims. "With leverage, assuming some sort of securitization down the road, the return can reach double digits."
For those with an aversion to the word securitization in the wake of the AAA-rated subprime loan debacle, Macklin notes the high quality of the loans being made.
"The students we work with are from schools with historically low default rates—Harvard, Stanford, MIT—which are less than 1%," he says. "The government publishes its student loans default rates, which are obviously much higher. The government doesn't do any credit underwriting, but we do. Also, 85% of the loans we make are refinanced loans to people who have already graduated. We feel all of these factors will reduce the default rate at the schools we work with even lower."
But the key, he argues, is the social component.
"Schools are communities, and many students might have already reached out to alumni—who are often also investors—for job or career advice. If someone does lose their job, there is a network of people that have a vested interest in making sure that person gets another job and can continue to pay off the loan.
The firm has 50 staffers, of which about 20 are dedicated to raising capital and "getting the word out." As it is a private placement, they're limited in their marketing efforts under Regulation 144, so getting to the word out means relying on their own networks. Social media has also been a resource, in particular LinkedIn, which lists the school on a person's profile page.
People are searching for alternatives to find yield," Macklin concludes. "Many of these same people have a natural affinity for a school, so combining the two makes for something very interesting."


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Sol 114 Update on Curiosity from USGS Scientist Ken Herkenhoff: Looking Forward to AGU30 November 2012
I'm MAHLI/MARDI PUL1 again today, and again no MAHLI or MARDI activities made it into the plan. The focus of the Sol 114 plan is to deliver another sample of the wind ripple to SAM. The last scoop sample was saved in CHIMRA to allow the option of analyzing another sample; we are exercising that option now. This new SAM analysis of the scoop sample is motivated in part by the desire to better understand the results of the previous SAM analysis. The preliminary results will be reported at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco next week. About 20,000 scientists are expected to attend this meeting, so I expect that the MSL session will be well attended.


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The BIG POETRY GIVEAWAY is a giveaway of free poetry books, one of our own and one of our favorite poetry books.
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2) My next book, Hourglass Museum, will come out in 2014 from White Pine Press.
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Will.i.am has reportedly pulled out of helping Cheryl Fernandez-Versini in the judges' houses stage of The X Factor.
The Black Eyed Peas star - a coach on BBC rival singing talent show The Voice - had been due to join Cheryl to help her choose the three girls she would be taking through to the final of The X Factor, according to The Sun.
But Will - who helped Cheryl launch her solo career with Heartbreaker in 2008 and has appeared on The X Factor with her in the past - has now apparently pulled out of appearing in the ITV show because he couldn't fit it into his busy schedule.
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HR 2454 - Energy and Environmental Law Amendments ("Cap and Trade") - National Key Vote
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Title: Energy and Environmental Law Amendments ("Cap and Trade")
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Vote to pass a bill that amends various statutes related to energy, including, but not limited to, establishing a cap and trade program to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
- Establishes the following greenhouse gas emission reduction goals for the U.S. (Sec. 702):
- 3 percent reduction from 2005 levels in 2012;
- 20 percent reduction from 2005 levels in 2020;
- 42 percent reduction from 2005 levels in 2030; and
- 83 percent reduction from 2005 levels in 2050.
- Establishes a cap and trade program in which covered entities are prohibited from emitting greenhouse gas in excess of the number of emission allowances and offset credits that the entity acquired during each calendar year (Sec. 311).
- Specifies that a "covered entity" includes, but is not limited to, the following (Sec. 312):
- Any electricity source;
- Stationary source that produces and entities that import for sale or distribution in 2008 or any subsequent year petroleum-based or coal-based liquid fuel, petroleum coke, or natural gas liquid, the combustion of which would emit at least 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent of greenhouse gas;
- Any geologic sequestration site;
- Any stationary source involved in adipic acid production, primary aluminum production, ammonia manufacturing, cement production other than grinding-only operations, hydrochlorofluorocarbon production, lime manufacturing, nitric acid production, petroleum refining, phosphoric acid production, silicon carbine production, soda ash production, titanium dioxide production, and coal-based liquid or gaseous fuel production; and
- Natural gas local distribution companies that deliver at least 460 million cubic feet of natural gas.
- Specifies that any of the following constitute a greenhouse gas: carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, hydrofluorocarbons emitted from a chemical manufacturing process at an industrial stationary source, any perfluorocarbon, nitrogen trifluoride, and any other anthropogenic gas designated as a greenhouse gas by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (Sec. 311).
- Specifies that the following measurements are all equal to 1 ton of carbon dioxide for the purposes of establishing the carbon dioxide equivalent of greenhouse gas (Sec. 311):
- 25 tons of methane;
- 298 tons of nitrous oxide;
- 14,800 tons of HFC-23 (fluoroform);
- 3,500 tons of HFC-125 (pentafluoroethane);
- 1,430 tons of HFC-134a (tetrafluoroethane);
- 4,470 tons of HFC-143a (trifluoroethane);
- 124 tons of HFC-152a (difluoroethane);
- 3,220 tons of HFC-227ea (heptafluoropropane);
- 9,810 tons of HFC-236fa (hexafluoropropane);
- 1,640 tons of HFC-43-10mee (decafluoropentane);
- 7,390 tons of CF4 (tetrafluoromethane);
- 12,200 tons of C2F6 (hexafluorethane);
- 8,860 tons of C4F10 (perfluorobutane);
- 9,300 tons of C6F14 (perfluorohexane);
- 22,800 tons of SF6 (sulfur hexafluoride); and
- 17,200 tons of NF3 (nitrogen fluoride).
- Specifies that one emission allowance is equal to one ton of carbon dioxide equivalent of greenhouse gas (Sec. 311).
- Specifies that emission allowances are not required for fugitive greenhouse gas emissions produced by electricity sources, nitrogen trifluoride sources, industrial stationary sources, and industrial fossil fuel-fired combustion devices, unless the Administrator of the EPA determines that such emissions can be determined with sufficient precision, reliability, accessibility and timeliness (Sec. 311).
- Specifies that emission allowances are not required for petroleum-based or coal-based liquid fuel, petroleum coke, natural gas liquid, fossil fuel-based carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, or fluorinated gas that is exported for sale or use (Sec. 311).
- Limits the number of available emission allowances to the following, with some exceptions for adjustments by the Administrator of the EPA (Sec. 311):
- 4.63 billion for 2012;
- 4.54 billion for 2013;
- 5.1 billion for 2014;
- 5 billion for 2015;
- 5.48 billion for 2016;
- 5.38 billion for 2017;
- 5.27 billion for 2018;
- 5.16 billion for 2019;
- 5.06 billion for for 2020;
- 4.9 billion for 2021;
- 4.75 billion for 2022;
- 4.6 billion for 2023;
- 4.45 billion for 2024;
- 4.29 billion for 2025;
- 4.14 billion for 2026;
- 3.99 billion for 2027;
- 3.84 billion for 2028;
- 3.69 billion for 2029;
- 3.53 billion for 2030;
- 3.41 billion for 2031;
- 3.28 billion for 2032;
- 3.16 billion for 2033;
- 3.03 billion for 2034;
- 2.91 billion for 2035;
- 2.78 billion for 2036;
- 2.66 billion for 2037;
- 2.53 billion for 2038;
- 2.41 billion for 2039
- 2.28 billion for 2040;
- 2.16 billion for 2041;
- 2.03 billion for 2042;
- 1.91 billion for 2043;
- 1.79 billion for 2044;
- 1.66 billion for 2045;
- 1.54 billion for 2046;
- 1.41 billion for 2047;
- 1.29 billion for 2048;
- 1.16 billion for 2049; and
- 1.04 billion for 2050 and each year thereafter.
- Allocates a specific annual percentage of emission allowances automatically for various purposes, including, but not limited to, the following (Sec. 321):
- For the benefit of electricity consumers:
- 43.75 percent for 2012 and 2013;
- 38.89 percent for 2014 and 2015;
- 35 percent for 2016 through 2025;
- 28 percent for 2026;
- 21 percent for 2027;
- 14 percent for 2028; and
- 7 percent for 2029;
- For support of state renewable energy and energy efficiency programs:
- 9.5 percent for 2012 and 2015;
- 6.5 percent for 2016 and 2017;
- 5.5 percent for 2018 and 2021;
- 1 percent for 2022 through 2025;
- 4.5 percent for 2026 through 2050; and
- At the same time allowances are distributed for years 2022 through 2025, 3.55 percent is distributed to be used in four years, in addition to the allocation for years 2026 through 2050;
- For the benefit of natural gas consumers:
- 9 percent for 2016 through 2025;
- 7.2 percent for 2026;
- 5.4 percent for 2027;
- 3.6 percent for 2028; and
- 1.8 percent for 2029;
- For supplemental emission reductions through the International Deforestation Reduction Program established by this Act:
- 5 percent for 2012 through 2025;
- 3 percent for 2026 through 2030; and
- 2 percent for 2031 through 2050;
- For the deployment of carbon capture and sequestration technology:
- 1.75 percent for 2014 through 2017;
- 4.75 percent for 2018 through 2019; and
- 5 percent for 2020 through 2050.
- Requires the Administrator of the EPA to hold a single-round, sealed-bid, uniform price auction 4 times per year at regular intervals, with the first auction to be held no later than March 31, 2011, in which covered entities may purchase emission allowances that were not automatically allocated for various purposes as described above (Sec. 311).
- Prohibits participants from purchasing more than 5 percent of the emission allowances offered for sale at any quarterly auction (Sec. 311).
- Requires the Administrator of the EPA to set aside a specific number of emission allowances for small businesses at each auction as follows (Sec. 311):
- 6.2 percent of the emission allowances from 2012 through 2013;
- 5.4 percent of the emission allowances from 2014 through 2015; and
- 4.9 percent of the emission allowances from 2016 through 2024.
- Authorizes covered entities to utilize offset credits to demonstrate compliance in the cap and trade program for projects that result in reductions or avoidance of greenhouse gas emissions or sequestration of greenhouse gas, provided that such credits do not exceed 2 billion tons of annual greenhouse gas emissions (Sec. 311).
- Authorizes the holder of an emission allowance, compensatory allowance, or offset credit to sell, exchange, transfer, hold for compliance, or request that the Administration retire the emission allowance, compensatory allowance, or offset credit (Sec. 311).
- Establishes a penalty for covered entities that emit greenhouse gases in excess of the amount of emission allowances and offset credits the covered entity has acquired. The penalty is equal to the product obtained by multiplying the following (Sec. 311):
- Total amount of carbon dioxide equivalent of greenhouse gas emissions for which the covered entity failed to demonstrate compliance; and
- Twice the auction clearing price for the earliest year emission allowances in the last auction carried out.
- Requires retail electric suppliers that supply more than 4 million megawatt hours of electric energy to consumers per year to derive the following amounts of the total electricity they sell from renewable sources (Sec. 101):
- 6 percent in 2012 and 2013;
- 9.5 percent in 2014 and 2015;
- 13 percent in 2016 and 2017;
- 16.5 percent in 2018 and 2019; and
- 20 percent from 2020 through 2039.
- Authorizes electric suppliers to opt out of the renewable sources requirement listed above and pay $25 per megawatt hour of electricity savings that would otherwise be due (Sec. 101).
- Requires electric utilities to develop a plan to support the use of plug-in electric drive vehicles, including the deployment of the charging infrastructure or other infrastructure necessary to adequately support the use of plug-in electric drive vehicles (Sec. 121).
- Requires the Secretary of Energy to establish a program to deploy and integrate plug-in electric drive vehicles into the the electricity grid in multiple regions, and authorizes the Secretary to provide financial assistance for the purchase of such vehicles, supporting the use of such vehicles, or other projects the Secretary determines appropriate to support the large-scale deployment of such vehicles (Sec. 122).
- Requires the Secretary of Energy to establish a program to provide financial assistance to automobile manufactures to facilitate the manufacture of plug-in electric drive vehicles, and requires the Secretary to select recipients that are most likely to be successful and are located in local markets that have the greatest need for such assistance (Sec. 123).
- Establishes the energy efficiency goal of the U.S. as an improvement of overall energy productivity by at least 2.5 percent per year through 2030, and requires the Secretary of Energy to develop a strategic plan to achieve this goal, which must include the following (Sec. 272):
- Future regulatory, funding, and policy priorities;
- Energy savings estimates for each sector; and
- Data collection methodologies and compilations used to establish baseline and energy savings data.
- Authorizes the states to utilize funds from their SEED Account, composed of federal funds appropriated pursuant to the Clean Air Act, to provide rebates of up to $7,500 to owners of manufactured homes constructed prior 1976 in which the total income of all members of the household does not exceed 200 percent of the Federal poverty level for income in the applicable area for the purposes of purchasing a new Energy Star qualified manufactured home (Sec. 203).
- Increases energy efficiency standards for electric motors and florescent and incandescent lamps beginning December 19, 2010 (Sec. 161).
- Increases energy efficiency standards for various domestic appliances (Sec. 213).
- Establishes the following national building code energy efficiency targets (Sec. 201):
- 30 percent reduction in energy use relative to a comparable building constructed in compliance with the baseline code effective on the date of enactment of this Act;
- 50 percent reduction in energy use relative to the baseline code beginning January 1, 2014 for residential buildings and January 1, 2015 for commercial buildings; and
- 5 percent additional reduction in energy use relative to the baseline code beginning January 1, 2017 for residential buildings and January 1, 2018 for commercial buildings, and every three years thereafter, respectively, through January 1, 2029.
- Appropriates $25 million to the Secretary of Energy to enforce the national energy efficiency building code (Sec. 201).
- Appropriates $600 million for fiscal years 2010-2011, 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 respectively to establish the Best in Class Appliances Deployment Program for the following reasons (Sec. 214):
- Provide bonus payments to retailers or distributors for the sale of best-in-class high-efficiency household appliance models, high efficiency installed building equipment, and high-efficiency consumer electronics;
- Provide bounties to retailers and manufacturers for the replacement, retirement, and recycling of old inefficient and environmentally harmful products; and
- Provide premium awards to manufacturers for developing and producing new Superefficient Best-in-Class Products.
- Appropriates $7.5 million for fiscal year 2009-2010, $10 million for fiscal year 2010-2011, $20 million for fiscal year 2011-2012, and $50 million for fiscal year 2012-2013 to establish the WaterSense program within the Environmental Protection Agency to promote water efficient products, buildings and landscapes, and services (Sec. 215).
- Appropriates $15 billion for fiscal years 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 respectively to establish the Clean Energy Manufacturing Revolving Loan Fund Program for issuing grants to States to issue loans to manufactures for investments in clean energy technology, including, but not limited to, wind turbines, solar energy, fuel cells, biomass equipment, geothermal equipment, advanced biofuels, ocean energy equipment, carbon capture and storage, and advanced batteries, battery systems, or storage devices (Sec. 246).
- Appropriates $200 million for fiscal year 2009-2010, $250 million for fiscal year 2010-2011, $300 million for fiscal year 2011-2012, $350 million for fiscal year 2012-2013 and $400 for fiscal year 2013-2014 for the Hollings Manufacturing Partnership Program (Sec. 247).
- Appropriates $2.5 billion to establish the Residential Energy Efficiency Block Grant Program for issuing grants to States, metropolitan cities and urban counties, Indian tribes, and insular areas to carry out energy efficiency improvements in new and existing single-family and multifamily housing (Sec. 296).
- Appropriates $5 billion to the Alternative Energy Sources State Loan Fund established by this Act for the Secretary of Energy to issue loans to states and Indian tribes to provide incentives to owners of single-family and multifamily housing, commercial properties, and public buildings to provide renewable energy sources, energy efficiency and energy conserving improvements, and infrastructure related to the delivery of electricity and hot water for structures lacking such amenities (Sec. 299D).
- Increases appropriation for loans to be issued by the Secretary of Energy under the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Incentive Program from $25 million to $50 million (Sec. 125).
- Increases appropriation for the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Worker Training Program from $125 million to $150 million (Sec. 422).
Legislation - Introduced (House) - May 15, 2009
Title: Energy and Environmental Law Amendments ("Cap and Trade")
- Henry A. Waxman (CA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Edward J. 'Ed' Markey (MA - D) (Out Of Office)


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"I made a nice roast pork tenderloin marinated in balsamic vinegar and maple syrup, and I served it with carrots and string beans on the side," she said.
"Carrots and string beans, together?" I asked.
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Roasted Carrots and String Beans with Citrus-Sage Glaze
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1/2 pound mini rainbow carrots, washed, trimmed, and thinly sliced lengthwise**
3/4 pound string beans, trimmed
2 teaspoons extra virgin olive oil
1/4 teaspoon orange zest
1/4 cup orange juice
1/4 teaspoon lemon zest
2 teaspoons Meyer lemon juice
coarse sea salt and 6-7 cranks of fresh black pepper
2 teaspoons honey
1 tablespoon chopped fresh sage
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Place carrots and string beans in a large rectangular baking dish.
In a small bowl, whisk olive oil, orange zest, orange juice, lemon zest, lemon juice, and salt & pepper. Pour over vegetables and toss until coated. Cover tightly with tinfoil and bake for 10 minutes. Remove the tinfoil. Add honey and fresh sage and toss to coat. Cook uncovered for 20 minutes, or until vegetables are tender yet crisp and a few brown spots appear.
Transfer vegetables to a platter or large bowl and drizzle with juices from the baking dish. Season with coarse sea salt and freshly ground black pepper, and garnish with additional sage, if desired.
**I used mini rainbow carrots, but any type of carrot is fine. I recommend slicing them to the approximate size of the string beans so they will cook evenly.
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