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When automotive talk turns cheap, the most common vehicle that comes up is the Tata Nano, which currently holds the title as the Cheapest New Car in the World and is only available in India. So, Americans, how would you like to snag a brand-new electric car for the low, low price of just $865, right here in the United States? If you happen to live in Oklahoma, you can do just that… sort of.

There’s plenty of fine print, naturally. For instance, the electric car in question, the Kandi Coco, is really a Low Speed Vehicle (or LSV) capped by law to a top speed of 25 mph and restricted to roads with speed limits of 35 mph or less. And yes, it’s made in China and looks something like half a Smart Fortwo. Still, the Coco carries an MSRP of $10,599 and you may be able to score one dirt cheap thanks to a couple of state and federal rebates.

The first deduction comes from the federal government and cuts the price by $4,435. Next, the State of Oklahoma deducts another $5,299 from the starting price for a total rebate of $9,734. Do the math, and that equals one Kandi Coco for $865 – but only if you live in Oklahoma, and only if you make the purchase before the end of the year. Now… go out and get that giant red bow before it’s too late.

[Source: Kandi via Automobile Magazine]

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From China to Iran to Cuba, 136 journalists were jailed worldwide this year — a dozen more than last year. China comes in at the top for the 11th year running, with 24 people jailed this year, but was almost pipped by Iran’s 23 imprisoned journalists. In Africa, Eritrea’s relatively small size hasn’t kept it from imprisoning more journalists than the rest of the continent combined, a census by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reveals. Even the U.S. makes the list, holding a freelance photographer without charge in Iraq.

CPJ’s work has led to the release of 45 journalists this year. But their work must continue to be supported: since the December 1st report, a Liberian journalist and a printer were jailed for “maneuvering against the state,” a frighteningly broad term to which any oppositional activity can be applied. Freelancers increasingly find themselves imprisoned, a trend likely to grow as more journalists work independently on the internet. Already, web-based reporters constitute half of those jailed — they find themselves more exposed to abuses by a repressive government because they lack the financial or legal support contracted journalists enjoy, a Nazret article explains.

Many journalists have been jailed this year and subsequently released (like the Daily Show / Newsweek journalist jailed in Iran). And, of course, this number doesn’t reflect thhe threats, intimidation, violence, and laws being passed around the world continuing to make journalists’ jobs harder. Also this year, a record number of journalists have been killed. So it’s not just prison that they have to fear.

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Thirty thousand years is a long time to hang out in any one place, much less stuck inside a tiny salt crystal. But microbiologist Brian Schubert says he found just that in a crystal from sediments in Death Valley—bacteria-like archaeans that have lived inside the tiny enclosure for all those years.

The researchers announced in a paper in Geology that they could culture the archaeans in the liquid from inside the crystal, liquid they estimate to be 22,000 to 34,000 years old. Previous studies suggesting even longer lives for microbes stuck in salt crystals (one even getting up to an insane-sounding 250 million years) have been met with skepticism. But even doubters of those studies say Schubert’s could have more validity, as the Death Valley area wouldn’t have allowed recrystallization (which would permit the liquid to escape and fresh microbes to get in) for 10,000 years at the least.

From New Scientist:

Moreover, Schubert thinks he can explain how his microbes managed to stay alive so long. Every crystal that contained live archaeans also contained dead cells from a salt-lake alga known as Dunaliella, which contain high concentrations of glycerol. The team suggest that the glycerol had seeped out of the cells, and that the archaeans lived off this.

Dunaliella cells are such good fodder that the microbes could live much longer than 30,000 years, says Schubert. He calculates that a single Dunaliella cell contains enough glycerol to meet an archaean’s minimal needs for 12 million years. “We have inclusions with dozens of these algal cells inside and just a couple of archaeans, so they have basically a limitless supply,” he says.

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Arthur Rosenfeld–

James Cameron’s new film, Avatar, tells the fairly linear and predictable story of a handicapped ex-Marine who ships off to a faraway mining planet, where new technology temporarily transplants his consciousness into a whole and working body. And what a body it is! Alien, blue, tall, svelte and athletic, it provides the young man with the longed-for feeling of running and jumping, while at the same time serving his military masters with a way to infiltrate local aliens, gain their trust, learn their secrets, and then betray them.

The movie’s pure cinematic technology seems to command the lion’s share of critical attention to the film, and perhaps it should. I’ve never been so thoroughly and compellingly transported to another world, not even in The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars or Star Trek. If Cameron’s use of 3D technology does provide a blunt instrument for overtaking the senses, he is to be commended for using the club like a scalpel, creating worlds of tendrilous trees, giant mushrooms that shrink away from the slightest touch like anemones, and myriad monsters who claw, bite, jump and glide their way across a world so visually compelling and thematically cohesive that one you won’t even notice those thick, cheap plastic 3D glasses putting a dent on the bridge of your nose for a couple of hours.

Yes, the story is somewhat predictable, and yes we’ve seen the villains before. Yes the action is non-stop to the point that my nine-year-old son at one point quipped “enough killing already”, and yes this is a love-story and a morality play we’ve seen a thousand times. And yet…  Avatar is an environmentalist tale, pure and simple. It’s a plea for Mother Earth done up in such exotic garb that Earth isn’t even Earth anymore, but a far-away, multi-mooned sphere of rock called “Pandora,” and the plea thuds in the gut of a dyed-in-the-wool conservationist like me, a writer who would see people as a plague upon the planet if spiritual tendencies did not command me.

I’ve often written and spoken about evolution’s pressures on us leading inexorably to a spiritual leap that saves us, and Earth, from what otherwise appears, technology notwithstanding, to be certain demise. Cameron’s feast for the eyes embraces this idea, and revels in a non-dual philosophy (we’re all part of the web of life) as the film’s primary principle. I’m hoping that while the audience out there is fixated on the film’s technological candy, the medicinal message will go down all but unnoticed, and take root in young minds.

Then we’d really have a film worth $300,000.000.

Arthur Rosenfeld is an authority on the spiritual dimensions of Eastern thinking for a Western world. A novelist, martial arts master and philosopher, Rosenfeld is a contributor to national magazines, including Vogue, Vanity Fair, and Parade, has been seen on national tv and radio networks. The author of eleven acclaimed books and the creator of the fiction genre “Kung Fu Noir,” he combines stories with Eastern wisdom drawn from nearly 30 years of martial arts study. His latest title is Quiet Teacher.

A Yale graduate, Rosenfeld combines scientific background and communication skills gained through post-graduate studies at the University of California with real-world savvy gleaned from high-level corporate positions. Drawing on his background in medicine and science he has been cited in national media, including Newsweek, Ebony, and Parade. He has also written The Truth About Chronic Pain.

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Around Christmas time, I tend to have a surplus of peppermint candy canes lying around. They also last well into the new year because they keep very well (and go on sale after the holidays!). I like this about candy canes because if you’re a fan of peppermint, they make fantastic coffee stirs and it’s nice to have them around to infuse a little flavor into an otherwise plain cup of coffee.

This Double Chocolate Peppermint Mocha – inspired by the various peppermint-infused drinks I’ve had from coffee shops this season – is far from plain, however. It is a rich, creamy hot chocolate made with both dark and white chocolate. Milky white chocolate really adds a creaminess to the drink, while the dark chocolate makes for a very deep chocolate flavor. Truthfully, I rarely measure out any of the ingredients when I’m going to make up a batch of this drink. I just add a bit of white chocolate, a bit of dark chocolate and add more if I feel I need to. I recommend adopting the same strategy so you can make this at a moment’s notice, but use the recipe below as a jumping off point. Don’t forget to use the candy cane as a stirring stick to really infuse that peppermint flavor. It also adds some extra sweetness to the mocha, and most candy canes have a better flavor than simply adding in peppermint extract.

I garnish this with whipped cream and crushed peppermint, but a candy cane alone is a nice touch. A mini candy cane makes a cute garnish as well, especially if you want to double or triple the recipe for a bigger crowd.
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I was out shopping recently and saw a really cute candy jar. I thought it was cute until I saw the price tag. Rather than spend my money on that candy jar, I decided that I could make one just as nice, and I was right. I have a real cute candy jar for you to make and it didn’t cost anywhere near as much to make as the one that I was going to buy.

Kathy Zengolewicz

Here is what you will need to get started:

• A plain glass jar with a removable top
• Plaid glass paint in Wicker White and Engine Red
• Rubbing Alcohol or an ammonia glass cleaner
• A hot glue gun
• Red satin ribbon

Clean the glass jar with the rubbing alcohol or window cleaner. Your jar should be clean and grease free. Using the Wicker White glass paint randomly paint about 8 to 10 snowflakes on the jar. Make the snowflakes different sizes. To make a snowflake, paint a horizontal line, a vertical line and two more diagonal lines. Let them dry for about an hour and then paint dots on the end of each snowflake line.

Using the handle of the paint brush and Engine Red, paint dots around the edge of the jar lid and let it dry. Paint a few snowflakes on the jar lid and let that dry.

To make the candy cane I used a candy cane stencil, tape the stencil to the side of the jar and paint it using the Wicker White, let it dry. When it’s dry, use the Engine Red to paint the stripes on the candy cane.

Cut two pieces of red satin ribbon to fit around the top and the bottom of the jar. Use your hot glue gun to adhere the ribbon to the glass. Fill your jar with candy, pop the lid on and there you have it. It looks great when it’s finished.

This is a very inexpensive and nice looking finished project. You can fill it with candy, cookies or any other type of goodies. It’s also nice enough to give as a gift.

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Christmas Candy Jar

Eric Zeman from Information Week has tied together some interesting thread which led him to the inescapable conclusion that LG is announcing a Windows Mobile-powered WIMAX smartphone to run on Sprint and ClearWire’s network.

His evidence? Sprint has scheduled a press conference for Wednesday, January 6 — the day before the Consumer Electronics Show kicks off.LG and Microsoft factor large in the presentation, and Brooke Shields is involved, too. Remarks will  be made by Sprint CEO Dan Hesse and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Sprint and LG have sent out a separate invitation for a big party taking place the following evening, hosted by Brooke Shields. Sprint has been pitching this event hard to tech journalists as the "must-attend" event of the entire show, calling it the "Hottest Spot at CES!"

All this build up to a pretty big announcement, and to Eric that means a new WIMAX handset. To date the only WIMAX handset on Clearwire is the Samsung Mondi, and of course that is more a MID than a phone.

See if you can follow Mr Zeman’s logic here.

Back in May the “lifetime achievement” award winner (many times over) in vaporware, Duke Nukem Forever, officially went onto the permanent vaporware list as developer 3D Realms shut down. So what happened? How could one video game be under development for a dozen years, and despite promos from over a decade ago, still never come out? Clive Thompson, over at Wired, tried to piece together an autopsy of Duke Nukem Forever.

As with just about anything Thompson writes, it’s a great read, with some interesting lessons. While the crux of the story is that 3D Realms boss, George Broussard, had the earlier success stuck on his brain, it seems like there are a few other things to be learned. There is definitely this undercurrent of “this game must be perfect before it can be released” that runs through the whole story. And, in fact, that probably only got worse with time. Every year the game wasn’t released, the more it would have to “prove” to eventually live up to its reputation. But even more interesting is the constant changing of game engines. Basically (according to the story) Broussard kept focusing on why the game had to be the absolute best, and so every time a new (better) gaming engine came out, he wanted to use that, and dump all the development done on earlier engines. In some ways it’s a story that shows why just copying what other people do isn’t enough. By the time 3D Realms “caught up” with others (often by licensing their technology), someone else had already jumped ahead and gone further — leading 3D Realms to pull back and jump on board the next platform… leading to the same situation yet again.

The simple fact was that no one was ever going to be that far ahead of the game any more, and so there are times where you just release what you have and iterate. But 3D Realms put itself in the impossible position of both needing to be leaps and bounds ahead of everyone else, while at the same time relying on the technology of others they hoped to leapfrog. That’s a recipe for disaster. You can use others’ technologies if you want to be incrementally better, and to then continue to improve. But you’re simply not going to be so far ahead of the game that no one is ever going to catch you. And it appears that 3D Realms never got past that contradiction.

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When Audi announced its new GT3 class R8 LMS race car late last year it was expecting 2009 to be a year of learning and development. As it turned out, it was a hugely successful season, landing championships in the FIA European GT series, along with the German and Belgian national series. All told, the R8s captured 23 race victories.

In 2010 the new GT Challenge class for GT3 type cars will become a permanent fixture of the American Le Mans Series as the GT1 class is consigned to history. During the 2009 season, GT Challenge was mainly the province of Porsche 911s. However, with the R8s success in Europe this year, Audi is considering offering the car to North American customers for the 2011 season. While the car could probably be competitive in 2010, Audi wants to set up a customer support infrastructure first.

[Source: American Le Mans Series]

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The Federal Reserve today took a step toward improving the plumbing of the short-term funding markets for banks and securities dealers that locked up during the heat of the financial crisis. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has set up a task force of Wall Street banks to figure out how to make this market less vulnerable to shocks, and the group issued a status report today.

The market in question is the tri-party repo market, in which banks and dealers use their securities holdings as collateral for short-term funding from cash-rich investors and other banks.

Borrowing in this market soared during the credit boom. It also made Wall Street extremely vulnerable to modern-day runs on a bank; as the crisis worsened, lenders in the tri-party repo market pulled their cash back amidst worries that borrowers would fail or that the securities they used as collateral would fall in value.

In 2008, more than $2.8 trillion in securities holdings by banks were being financed with short-term money in this market. At the center of it all are two clearing banks – J.P. Morgan and Bank of New York Mellon – which manage the transactions and collateral.

The new group could push for tougher collateral requirements on these loans, the equivalent of demanding that a homeowner put down more equity on a mortgage. They’re also narrowing the kinds of securities that can be used as collateral.

The group hopes to complete its work by the end of March 2010 and hopes to make banks less vulnerable to another shock, as tougher rules in the tri-party repo market would make it harder for banks and securities dealers to go on another drunken borrowing binge when the next asset boom emerges.

The participating firms and associations in the “Reform Task Force” are: Bank of America Securities, The Bank of New York Mellon, Barclays Capital, Citadel Investment Group, Citigroup Global Markets, Credit Suisse Securities, The Depository Trust & Clearing Co., Deutsche Bank Securities, Federated Investors, Fidelity Management & Research Co., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Investment Company Institute, Invesco Ltd., J.P. Morgan Chase, Managed Funds Association, Morgan Stanley & Co., SIFMA, State Street Global Advisors and UBS Investment Bank.

The Internet is global, and so are threats to digital freedom. Over the past year, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has fought Internet censorship, oppressive copyright laws and privacy violations wherever they’ve been under threat around the world.

With the help of our global partners and supporters like you, EFF has been able to achieve great things over the past year:

• Protecting Freedom of Expression. EFF helped establish the Global Network Initiative, garnering commitments from leading technology companies worldwide to resist pressure from government censors in repressive countries and to advance freedom of expression in their products and services.
• Making Information More Accessible. EFF helped make knowledge and information accessible to more people across the world by fighting for exceptions and limitations to copyright for the reading disabled, for libraries and archives, for educational purposes, and for innovative services.
• Assembling the World’s Copyright Laws. EFF helped create Copyright-Watch.org, the most comprehensive publicly available database of international copyright laws ever assembled. Currently including the laws of 187 countries, Copyright-Watch.org was created to strengthen the global network of copyright experts, to facilitate comparative policy research, and to provide for national advocacy support.
• Creating Global Privacy Standards. EFF worked with public interest organizations from every continent to create international standards for privacy that ensure the priority of civil rights in the face of increasing surveillance and monitoring.
• Influencing European Internet Policy. EFF collaborated with digital rights and consumer protection advocates in Europe to preserve judicial oversight and due process in IP enforcement efforts and to fight Three Strikes proposals.
• Promoting Access to Knowledge in Developing Countries. EFF promoted access to knowledge in the developing world by encouraging government bodies to create interoperability standards that encouraged universal access.
• Exposing the Lack of Transparency in Trade Negotiations. EFF led the battle to shed sunlight on the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret multi-national pact that could severely limit digital rights.
• Fighting Against Abuse of Cybercrime Legislation. EFF supported local activists in Brazil, Kazakhstan, and Thailand fighting against the abuse and misuse of cybercrime laws to suppress legitimate activity. EFF also fought to secure privacy rights and civil liberties protections in the legislative implementation of the Council of Europe Cybercrime Convention.

This is but a sample of the things we’ve worked on in 2009. For more information about our international mission, see http://www.eff.org/issues/international.

Please donate to EFF today, and join us in the fight for a free and open Internet:

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The thing about goats, is that they really like to climb stuff. Goats have been known to climb up on top of livestock, just for a slightly better view. In 1981, Fairview Wine and Cheese owner Charles Back, who had a herd of some 750 Saanen goats had a genius idea. Why not build something the goats can climb on? In this way, the goat tower was born.

Built out of brick and mortar with a steep metal roof, and a spiraling wooden staircase the goat tower even has windows, and the goats enjoy both climbing and resting inside the two story tower. In honor of its goats, and the tower which has become a famous symbol of the winery, Fairview produces a wine called “goats do roam” a play on the French wine growing region Côtes du Rhône.

Though the first known purpose built goat tower, others followed in Fairview’s foot steps and three other goat towers are known to exist.

The other goat towers include the six story, 31 foot tall Tower of Baaa, constructed by farmer David Johnson, to serve his herd of 34 Saanen milk goats in Findlay, Illinois. (As Johnson says “Goats are the most curious animals in the world so they use the tower a lot. They come and go, passing each other on the ramp as needed.”) Johnson plans to also utilize the tower as an amateur observatory, which would make this certainly the only goat tower/ observatory in the world.

There yet is another goat tower on the Ekeby Farm, in Moss Norway, built by Finn-Erik Blakstad, based on and with permission from Fairview owner Charles Back. His goat tower serves as a advertisement for the restaurant he runs which utilizes the goats milk and cheese.

And last but not least, there is the goat tower in the back of Silky O’Sullivans a bar in Memphis Tennessee, where patrons sneak beers to the goats who happily chug them down and then go climb the tower. Though the goats climb this tower while sauced, the goats can apparently hold their beer, as there has yet to be a single accident involving a falling goat. The same cannot be said about the bars simian patrons.

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‘Twas a couple nights before Christmas, and in the Autoblog house, Paukert and Shunk got Roth off the couch… For episode #158 of the Autoblog Podcast! What better way to get into the holiday spirit than an hour and a half of new Podcast? It’s fresher than egg nog this week, as the trio chews on the return of the 5.0 in the Ford Mustang, Audi’s more sane torque numbers for the E-Tron, and what may yet be a Christmas miracle: Spyker’s dogged pursuit of Saab. Rounding out the sextet of topics are the Alfa Giulietta and its potential as a Chrysler, the BMW Z4 GT3, and General Motors’ plan to bring the Buick Regal GS to the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, where it will also debut a Chevrolet Orlando-based vehicle called the GMC Granite.

For the long holiday drives, our colleagues at Joystiq and Engadget do fine work. Let us know what you think of our podcast by dropping us an email at Podcast at Autoblog dot com, reviewing the show in iTunes, filling out our survey, or even leaving us a voicemail on our Google Voice line 734-288-8POD (734-288-8763). Thanks for listening!

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As of today a federal appeals court is upholding the judgement to bar Microsoft from selling current versions of Word and Office. The question is, what does the patent actually entail? The original patent can be summarized as covering a “method and system for manipulating the architecture and the content of a document separately from each other.” With this broad an abstract, it appears that the patent could affect a lot more than simple word processing. But, as with all patents, the devil is in the details.

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As of Jan. 11, 2010, Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft will no longer sell its flagship word processing products in their current format. In August, a Texas jury filed in favor of i4i Inc. finding that Word infringes on the Canadian company’s software patent.

Microsoft announced that it is already taking steps to remove the “little-used” infringing software feature from Microsoft Word 2007 and Microsoft Office 2007.

The removal would make these versions of Word unable to open XML files for editing. An additional workaround may already be planned. In early August ZDNet UK’s Rupert Goodwins covered Microsoft’s patent for an SML Schema Document – a way of creating rich XML files so that word-processing applications recognize the file as a native document. Microsoft is also taking this opportunity to direct users to the beta versions of Word and Office 2010.

It’ll be interesting to see if this patent resurfaces to block additional consumer products or if the Word trial will be an isolated incident.

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This past September, California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed an executive order directing the California Air Resources Board to adopt regulations increasing California’s energy from renewable sources to 33% by 2020 and 20% by 2010.


On December 18 the states regulators approved a request by Southern California Edison to construct a 173 mile long electricity transmission line to bring wind power generated in the Tehachapi Wind Resource Area in Kern County to Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties.


“California leads the nation in developing renewable energy” said governor Schwarzenegger. “The thousands of megawatts of renewable energy capacity this transmission line will add to our grid will help California meets it ambitious renewable portfolio standard, protect our environment, increase our energy security and further the growth of our green economy” he added.


After evaluating environmental impacts of 11 different projects and alternatives, the final report identifies the approved project as the environmentally superior alternative.


About 70% of the approved projects route is on existing right-of-way in compliance with the state policy, known under state law as the Garamendi Principles, to site and expand transmission infrastructure within existing right of way.


The California Public Utilities Commission, set a maximum cost of $1.5 billion for the project, excluding allowance for funds used during construction, estimated at $261.82 million, for an estimated total project cost of $1.8 billion for the project.


This brings to 500 miles the total of new transmission approved by the CPUC for the states investor-owned utilities. Five major lines capable of carrying 9,000 megawatts of power have been approved in the past three years with an infrastructure investment of more than $4.5billion.

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The 2009 college football season will be capped by exciting college football bowl games, including the 2009 Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, the 2009 Fiesta Bowl in Phoenix, Arizona, the 2009 Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, Louisiana, the 2009 Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida and the 2009 BCS National Championship Game in Pasadena, CA.

The best college football teams from the major conferences, including the Big10 conference, Big 12 conference, Pac 10 conference, ACC conference, Big East conference, SEC conference, and Mountain West conference will face off in college football bowl games throughout December and into January.

If you’re looking for updated matchups, odds, insights, betting lines and online wagering for the college football bowl games, please be sure to try BangTheBook.com.

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