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Photograph courtesy of Liz Cohen

Five ratchet-wielding years, one East German automobile, and several coats of bikini wax -- for Liz Cohen, it's been a long, sticky trip. The performance and documentary artist has built one of the most improbable custom cars in the country, and has the pictures to prove it.

Most recently on display at Arizona's Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Cohen first threw her Bodywork project into gear by cutting a 1987 Trabant 601 Deluxe in half. Then she ditched its 26-horsepower, 2-stroke motor for a 305 small-block engine nine times more powerful and rebuilt the vehicle from the wheels up.

The result is a former-Communist lawnmower that becomes a 1973 Chevy El Camino muscle car at the flip of a few switches, "just like some kind of incredible Frankenstein," Cohen says.

Thanks to hydraulics, the Trabantamino grows 14 inches in height and 6 feet in length when it goes Camino. Coiled Teflon brake and fuel lines and dovetailing fiberglass side panels extend and contract as it changes shape. The specially built drive shaft telescopes four times, and still runs at full speed without vibrating. "It's this weird thing that doesn't fit in but figures out a way to get accepted," she says.

Which is an apt description of the artist's whole journey. When she began working at Scottsdale's Elwood Body Works, Cohen had little experience with tools and was entering the mostly male world of custom car builders and owners. But rather than try to pass as a dude, she buffed up her own body and became a bikini model.

What does the custom car scene think of Cohen and her wild ride? "Auto shop owners get so excited when I tell them about the project that they give me discounts and things for free," she says. But the real test comes this summer, when she'll pull the Trabantamino into lowrider competitions across the country, jump in front in a skimpy outfit, and see if her monster wins any prizes.

>> Liz Cohen: myspace.com/trabantamino

From the column Made on Earth - MAKE 14, page 21 - Eric Smillie.

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p Plink. Plink. Tink. One billion dollars of up-front investment and it all comes down to this: a slow but steady trickle of milky white pebbles dropping from a funnel into an acrylic jar. The jar is locked inside a glass case that's inside a vault that's inside the high-security Red Area of a prefab aluminum building on the Canadian tundra. Every 24 hours, seven days a week, 365 days a year, miners for the South African company De Beers blast 3,150 tons of rock mdash; enough to fill 80 trucks mdash; from under the earth near this aluminum building and feed it into crushers, scrubbers, sifters, and x-ray machines. It's a lot of effort for a little, but the little is a lot: the equivalent of two coffee mugs a day full of rough diamonds. /p p Running a diamond mine in the Arctic is a mind-boggling undertaking. "This is a camp in the middle of nowhere," says Peter Mooney, manager of the processing plant at Snap Lake, "and a bloody horrible winter's day in Africa is the nicest summer day here. The real problem with diamonds isn't even their scarcity," he says. "It's that getting them takes a lot of science and engineering and lots and lots of money." /p !-- start article photo -- div id="embed"div id="pic" a href="#" onclick="launchWindow('/imageviewer/?imagePath=/images/article/magazine/1612/ff_diamonds_sb_air_f.jpgimageCaption=imageCredit=','1092','827')" title=""img src="http://www.wired.com/images/article/magazine/1612/ff_diamonds_sb_air_f.jpg" alt="" //a div class="zoom" a href="#" onclick="launchWindow('/imageviewer/?imagePath=/images/article/magazine/1612/ff_diamonds_sb_air_f.jpgimageCaption=imageCredit=','1092','827')" title=""img src="http://www.wired.com/images/zoom.gif" //a /div div id="caption" An aerial view shows the Snap Lake facility. br /emPhoto: Courtesy DeBeers/em /div/div/div !-- close pic -- p Fipke doesn't work for De Beers mdash; they're competitors mdash; but the Snap Lake project, just like the ones at Ekati and Diavik, is part of the new era that Fipke created. The only way in is by air on company charter flights, except for six to 10 weeks in winter when ice road truckers mdash; just like on the History Channel show mdash; cart in fuel, mining machines and haul trucks, dormitories and parts for generators, conveyor belts, explosives. /p p On a 4,000-foot gravel runway, commuter planes and 737s trade approaches and takeoffs with C-130 Hercules flights full of cargo. After my ATR threads its way to the ground, a yellow school bus picks me up and drops me at a snaking series of linked prefab trailers containing sleeping quarters, offices, and a cafeteria. I fill out forms. I agree to be searched at any time. I agree not pick up any rocks from the ground, even the smallest pebble. Hundreds of closed-circuit cameras watch my every move. /p p Snap Lake is unusual mdash; instead of blowing straight up to the surface, the magma followed a crooked path through fissures in the surrounding granite. Snap Lake's kimberlite is a 9-foot-thick, 2.5-by-1.6-mile seam angling slightly downward. It's also about 200 feet under a lake that's frozen most of the year. So all of Snap Lake's mining is underground mdash; a cold, wet, black world of rising and falling tunnels constantly leaking water from the lake above. /p !-- start article photo -- div id="embed"div id="pic" a href="#" onclick="launchWindow('/imageviewer/?imagePath=/images/article/magazine/1612/ff_diamonds_sb_miners_f.jpgimageCaption=imageCredit=','1092','827')" title=""img src="http://www.wired.com/images/article/magazine/1612/ff_diamonds_sb_miners_f.jpg" alt="" //a div class="zoom" a href="#" onclick="launchWindow('/imageviewer/?imagePath=/images/article/magazine/1612/ff_diamonds_sb_miners_f.jpgimageCaption=imageCredit=','1092','827')" title=""img src="http://www.wired.com/images/zoom.gif" //a /div div id="caption"Snap Lake miners work under the lake. br /emPhoto: Andrew Hetherington/em/div/div/div !-- close pic -- p The operation consumes 25,000 gallons of fuel a day mdash; and the work never stops. Miners drill holes in rock faces, insert explosives, and blow out over 1,500 tons of gray kimberlite per blast, twice a day. Trucks carry the ore to a large bin where it's stored. Then it's sent to a crusher that feeds the rock onto a mile-long conveyor belt that carries it to the surface, to the Blue Area, specifically a 5-story building of more crushers and sifters and shakers and screens and heavy liquid cyclone separators that pick out all the heavy ore. It's a roaring maze of steel grates and 60-foot staircases. /p p Eventually the conveyors pass into a more secure building-within-the-building, the Red Area. It's accessible only via a room the size of a closet; when the door behind me locks, cameras confirm that I'm alone. A green light tells me to proceed through zigzagging rooms that would be difficult to, say, kick a diamond through. /p p The ore passes down through another tower of sorters mdash; x-rays illuminate diamonds. A secondary (and secret) process uses lasers to further refine the stream. At the end of the line, past an 8-inch-thick steel door and a set of steel bars, is the vault itself, a small room with half a dozen cameras and a big, rectangular glass box shot with glove-lined holes, like an incubator for premature infants. Stones mdash; some the size of pin heads, others the size of gum balls mdash; drop into a jar. Sometimes five minutes pass with nary a gem, and then two or three tumble out at once. Over the course of a year, there will be 1.2 million carats. Some are opaque; some are as clear as glass. Of the 430 men and women working here, no more than 60 will ever see this vault mdash; or any diamonds. Ever. I slip my hands through the holes and into gloves, and pick up the biggest rock I see, a perfect 5-carat octahedral crystal three times older than the human species, formed during the age of the mastodons. A chunk of pure carbon, beautiful and banal. I ask how much it's worth. "Not allowed to say," Mooney says. "Put it this way: That's a hell of a lot of diamonds." /p !-- start article photo -- div id="embed"div id="pic" a href="#" onclick="launchWindow('/imageviewer/?imagePath=/images/article/magazine/1612/ff_diamonds_sb_trucks_f.jpgimageCaption=imageCredit=','1092','827')" title=""img src="http://www.wired.com/images/article/magazine/1612/ff_diamonds_sb_trucks_f.jpg" alt="" //a div class="zoom" a href="#" onclick="launchWindow('/imageviewer/?imagePath=/images/article/magazine/1612/ff_diamonds_sb_trucks_f.jpgimageCaption=imageCredit=','1092','827')" title=""img src="http://www.wired.com/images/zoom.gif" //a /div div id="caption" Dumptrucks loaded with ore exit Snap Lake mine. br /emPhoto: Andrew Hetherington/em /div/div/div !-- close pic -- p Diamond jewelry has never moved me. But suddenly, holding this stone, I can't help it. I want one. The gears in my mind whir. And it's as if Mooney can hear them. "People get very clever," he says, "and very determined. We haven't had any theft here yet, but we check the gloves for holes every day." I gently place the stone back in the pile. /p p Exiting requires an additional turn into a room with an x-ray machine and a glass wall. Under the gaze of a man who says, "Don't worry, I've seen it all," I strip to my underpants, place my clothes and shoes and socks through the x-ray machine. Open my mouth. Show behind my ears. Sit in a chair and show the bottoms of my feet. Stand and run my fingers under the band of my underpants. There's only one hiding place left, which happily they don't check. 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On the November 24 broadcast of his radio show, while discussing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) use of military planes to travel between Washington, D.C., and her home district in California, Mark Levin remarked, "[S]he's gotta have a big military jet. I mean, she's the first woman speaker. She wants a really, really big one. Remember this? And if she doesn't get it, well then that's sexual discrimination." Levin also claimed that Pelosi "fought like hell for [an] extra big military jet so she could take her staff, and her staff's staff, and her relatives, and her friends -- have a grand old party on that jet." In fact, as Media Matters for America has repeatedly noted, the House sergeant-at-arms -- who is responsible for the security of House members -- said that the larger military plane is necessary for "security purposes."

In a February 8, 2007, statement, made in response to GOP allegations at the time that Pelosi "desire[d] a luxury taxpayer-funded Pelosi One to ferry her family and friends," House sergeant-at-arms Wilson Livingood said:

As the Sergeant at Arms, I have the responsibility to ensure the security of the members of the House of Representatives, to include the Speaker of the House. The Speaker requires additional precautions due to her responsibilities as the leader of the House and her Constitutional position as second in the line of succession to the presidency.

In a post 9/11 threat environment, it is reasonable and prudent to provide military aircraft to the Speaker for official travel between Washington and her district. The practice began with Speaker [Dennis] Hastert [R-IL] and I have recommended that it continue with Speaker Pelosi. The fact that Speaker Pelosi lives in California compelled me to request an aircraft that is capable of making non-stop flights for security purposes, unless such an aircraft is unavailable. This will ensure communications capabilities and also enhance security. I made the recommendation to use military aircraft based upon the need to provide necessary levels of security for ranking national leaders, such as the Speaker. I regret that an issue that is exclusively considered and decided in a security context has evolved into a political issue.

McClatchy Newspapers noted on October 31 of this year that the House sergeant-at-arms "requested a larger military aircraft" for Pelosi, and also reported that the Bush administration first "authorized the speaker of the House of Representatives ... to fly on military planes when they're available for official business."

During his November 24 broadcast, Levin also smeared Pelosi over her physical appearance, stating that he calls her " 'Stretch,' given her multiple facelifts." He added: "Do you think eyes bulge out like that? Do you think that's a natural look? No. She spent a fortune for that look. She loves it. Now, the rest of us recoil at it, but she apparently likes it." As Media Matters documented, on the April 5, 2007, broadcast of ABC Radio Networks' The Sean Hannity Show, Levin similarly said of Pelosi: "You could bounce a dime off her cheeks. The woman has had so many facelifts, isn't it obvious to everybody?"

From the November 24 broadcast of ABC Networks' The Mark Levin Show:

LEVIN: Now, Nancy Pelosi, or as we call her, with all due respect, "Stretch," given her multiple facelifts. Mark, what do you mean? Why do I have to explain this every time? Do you think eyes bulge out like that? Do you think that's a natural look? No. She spent a fortune for that look. She loves it. Now, the rest of us recoil at it, but she apparently likes it.

You know, we gotta get that Levin off the air as fast as we can, he is so --

Anyway, anyway, here we -- the outcry over the automakers' corporate jets. Remember that? AP: "After being skewered by Congress and lampooned on NBC's Saturday Night Live, the CEOs of Detroit's three automakers may end up making the return trip to Washington by car, as they seek a federal bailout." Now, this is fascinating to me. I'm not into all this populist crap. I don't care if they fly jets or not. I just don't want to subsidize them; it's none of my business otherwise. But maybe they can hitch a ride with Pelosi. Doesn't she have a big military jet? Why is it that these politicians can live like kings and queens? And nobody gives a damn. She fought like hell for extra big military jet so she could take her staff, and her staff's staff, and her relatives, and her friends -- have a grand old party on that jet. Does anybody know how much that jet costs? I don't have the foggiest idea. Does anybody know how much the staff on that jet costs? The pilot, the co-pilot, and all the rest -- I don't have an idea, do you? No. Where's Brian Ross of ABC News? How come he's not tracking that down?

Now, we all have to tighten our belts; we're all gonna have to sacrifice. We gotta cut the CO2s, except if you're speaker of the House. You'll spit out as much CO2 as you want. Yeah, I know, only in America.

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CALLER: Hey, Mark, I just wanted to fill you in on one thing. I was interested in your statement about wondering how much it costs to fly Nancy from D.C. to San Francisco.

LEVIN: This would be "Stretch" Pelosi, yes.

CALLER: Yes, yes. So, I did some googling, and I came up with just a fuel price alone of $32,500 dollars.

LEVIN: Really?

CALLER: Yep. That's no -- no oil, no people --

LEVIN: Well, let me ask you a question.

CALLER: Yeah.

LEVIN: Let me ask you a question. Are there any solar panels on this plane?

CALLER: No, I don't believe there are. I'm surprised. Maybe "The One" will figure that out.

LEVIN: And any wind power on this plane? Other than the tailwind?

CALLER: No, no, I think it's only her wind power.

LEVIN: That would be methane.

CALLER: Yes.

LEVIN: Any other -- any other kind of non-carbon dioxide-type fuel that they might use on this plane?

CALLER: No, no, all just dead dinosaurs.

LEVIN: All right, my friend, thank you for your call. Now, if Mike's accurate, that's 32 grand, and that's just for starters. So, it seems to me, if the executives of the Big Three are going to be using car vans now -- caravans, rather -- to come to Washington, why shouldn't Stretch? She can pick up some other losers along the way. I can just see it now. I mean, she is in San Francisco, she's got a long way to go before she gets to Washington. They can carpool, these leftists. They can, you know, teach us by example. But no, she's gotta have a big military jet. I mean, she's the first woman speaker. She wants a really, really big one. Remember this? And if she doesn't get it, well then that's sexual discrimination.

pEditors Note: Marine geophysicist Robin Bell is leading an expedition to Antarctica to explore a mysterious mountain range beneath the ice sheet. Following is the fourth of her updates on the effort as part of Scientific American.coms In-depth Report on quot;The Future of the Poles.quot;/ppMcMURDO STATION, ANTARCTICA--Ever since we first conceived of this project, the logistics have been complex. Now the pieces are beginning to converge on the center of Antarctica. Having been stalled in South America for over two weeks by weather and bureaucracy, the British Twin Otters finally landed on the gravel runway at the main British base on the peninsula. The surface traverse carrying the fuel for the southern camp and the heavy material for the camp has covered almost 400 miles across the very flat Ross Ice Shelf. Today we have our survey Twin Otter so we can begin to bolt equipment to the floor and the wings. But patience continues to be the name of the game.nbsp; a href=http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=dispatches-from-the-bottom-of-the-e-2008-12-01[More]/a

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/23215?ns=guardianpageName=Environment%3A+UK+climate+watchdog+urges+dramatic+cuts+in+greenhouse+gasesch=Environmentc3=guardian.co.ukc4=Climate+change+%28Environment%29%2CCarbon+emissions+%28Environment%29%2CGreen+politics%2CPolitics%2CEnvironment%2CCarbon+capture+and+storage+%28CCS%29%2CTravel+and+transport+environmental+impactc5=Environment+Conservation%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CClimate+Change%2CEthical+Livingc6=Juliette+Jowitc7=2008_12_01c8=1127073c9=articlec10=GUc11=Environmentc12=Climate+changec13=c14=h2=GU%2FEnvironment%2FClimate+change" width="1" height="1" //divpAmbitious targets to cut the UK's greenhouse gas emissions by at least one fifth in just over a decade were proposed today by the government's Climate Change Committee. /ppThe reductions would be achieved by transforming the way electricity is produced and redesigning buildings, appliances and cars./ppIf accepted by ministers, the changes could see as much as 30% of the country's electricity coming from renewable sources as soon as 2020, most of it from wind turbines, and by that date four out of 10 new cars would use electric power./ppThe independent committee also outlined the need for a wholesale change in public behaviour that could include slower driving to reduce fuel use and swapping more "carbon intensive" meats like beef for hill-bred lamb./ppThe report also recommended tough new rules to make coal plants fit equipment to capture and store their carbon emissions as soon as the early 2020s, which would push up operating costs. Critics of coal claimed this requirement would end government plans for up to eight new coal plants./ppIn its first report on how the UK could meet its pledge to cut carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases by 80% from 1990 levels by 2050, the eight-person committee recommended an interim target for 2020 of 34%, or 42% if there is a global deal to cut emissions. /ppThese reductions, which go further than existing UK commitments but are in line with what the UK would have to do under proposed European Union laws, equate to cuts from recent levels of 21% or 31% respectively - or from 11.6 tonnes per person to 7-8 tonnes on average. /ppThe committee also proposed shorter term targets. In the five years to 2012, the committee said average annual UK emissions should equate to 604 million tonnes of carbon dioxide, down from 695mt in 2006./ppBuying emissions cuts from schemes outside the EU should only be allowed if the higher target is adopted, added the committee./ppThe targeted reductions would make sure the UK makes a "fair contribution" towards keeping global temperature rises as close as possible to 2C, it said./ppThe report, Building a Low-Carbon Economy - The UK's Contribution to Tackling Climate Change, estimated the changes would cost less than 1% of the national economic wealth in 2020, or less than £15bn. That figure included the bill for helping up to 1.7m people who would otherwise be pushed into fuel poverty by higher energy bills ./ppThe cost, equivalent to reducing growth by 2020 from 30% to 29%, was "a price worth paying", said the report. /pp"Climate change poses a grave threat to human welfare, the environment and the economy," said Lord Turner, the committee chairman. "We need to act now, in the UK and as part of a global agreement, to significantly reduce our emissions."/ppThe report was broadly approved by environmental groups but there were widespread concerns about whether the government would enact the tough policies the committee said were needed to deliver the emissions cuts, such as regulation to limit emissions from power plants and cars, and financial incentives to encourage higher take up of more efficient goods./pp"Emissions reductions of more than 1% a year have only ever been achieved in significant economic recession, and [the committee's] proposing 2.5% a year so this requires a pretty radical framework," said Stephen Hale, director of the Green Alliance of environmental campaign groups. /pp"I think they [the government] will accept the budgets, but I'm not so confident they'll back that up with the policies needed to make sure we meet the budgets."/ppThe main political parties also welcomed the report, although neither the government nor the Conservatives explicitly accepted the recommendations. Ministers will respond next year. /ppTim Yeo, Conservative chairman of the MPs' Environmental Audit Committee said: "I urge both the government and the opposition to accept the committee's recommendations. Only a bipartisan approach can ensure that Britain achieves these important goals."/ppFriends of the Earth also urged the government to adopt the higher target for 2020, even if no international emissions deal was agreed at the UN conference in Copenhagen next year [2009]. "It's a small price for us to pay as there are quite a lot of economic opportunities if we move really fast," said Ed Matthew, the group's head of UK climate./ppCritics of coal were divided over whether the suggested tough new rules to ensure all coal power was fitted with equipment to trap and store gases in the early 2020s went far enough. Friends of the Earth said it wanted clearer guidelines that no coal stations should be built without the equipment already in place, even before 2020. /ppHowever Greenpeace said the recommendation would "kill" proposals for a new plant at Kingsnorth in Kent and up to seven others under the government's energy policy./ppDavid Kennedy, the Climate Change Committee chief executive, said: "If you put this [policy] in place the market will tell us how confident they are carbon capture and storage is going to come through. If they don't go ahead we'll know they didn't intend to fit CCS."/ppThere was also anger over the committee's lack of detailed recommendations for aviation policy, in particular the pending decision on whether to expand Heathrow airport. /ppLord Turner said the committee was not intended to recommend short-term policies. Initially, international aviation and shipping will not be part of the successive five year carbon budgets suggested by the committee, but those will be reduced to account for the omission./ppTurner defended the committee against concerns that it would not be able to enforce any of its policies. Last week the government's 80% cut pledge and the committee's role in recommending interim targets and monitoring progress were given legal status when the Climate Change Bill received royal assent. /pp"These [targets] are designed as much as possible to create an extra discipline ... we haven't had that before," said Turner. /ppThe UK is the first country to make a legally-binding commitment to such deep emissions reductions, though other countries have announced similar or deeper cuts./ppKennedy also denied concerns that the UK was going too far in targeting cuts which would not have any impact on global warming unless there was a global agreement. "Clearly if there wasn't a global agreement there wouldn't be much point in the UK trying to control climate change on its own [but] the 34% is very much to prepare for a global deal we hope and expect will ensue," said Kennedy./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/climatechange"Climate change/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/carbonemissions"Carbon emissions/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/greenpolitics"Green politics/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/carboncapturestorage"Carbon capture and storage (CCS)/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/travelandtransport"Travel and transport/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/_j5C4K5gjqamFQECrR-SSMMVrds/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/_j5C4K5gjqamFQECrR-SSMMVrds/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/spyphotos/" rel="tag"Spy Photos/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/convertibles/" rel="tag"Convertibles/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/coupes/" rel="tag"Coupes/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/sports/" rel="tag"Sports/GTs/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/jaguar/" rel="tag"Jaguar/a/pa href="http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Secret-new-cars/Search-Results/Spyshots/Jaguar-readies-new-diesel-XK-sports-car/"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" align="right" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/11/jagxk_ds_rvp.jpg" //aThe reports are true: a 3.0-liter a href="http:// http://www.autoblog.com/2008/07/23/report-jaguar-developing-diesel-xk/"diesel Jaguar XK/a is on the way. The new XK, long due for a serious refresh, will show up in 2009 with the minor addition of the JaguarDrive selector a la XF and the major addition of a diesel engine to boost fuel economy and sales, along with two new V8s. br /br /Since Jaguar's 2.7-liter V6, which puts out 204 hp and 320 lb-ft., is only getting bored out to 3.0 liters it probably won't match the numbers put up by BMW's 3.5-liter, at 286 hp and 427 lb-ft. But the larger lump should goose the horsepower number and seriously increase torque (we hope) at least to the level of Audi's 3.0-liter V6 diesel, which turns out 240 hp and 369 lb-ft.br /br /If diesel economy and pump prices still don't register with you, there will still be two gas options to fuel the fires. The 4.2-liter V8 goes away to make room for the new 5.0-liter with 400 hp, and if you want whipped cream and cherries on top, hit Jaguar up for the supercharged XK-R with 500 hp.br /br /[Source: a href="http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Secret-new-cars/Search-Results/Spyshots/Jaguar-readies-new-diesel-XK-sports-car/"CAR/a]p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/01/spy-shots-jaguar-xk-diesel-under-development/"Spy Shots: Jaguar XK diesel under development/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:35:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Secret-new-cars/Search-Results/Spyshots/Jaguar-readies-new-diesel-XK-sports-car/Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/01/spy-shots-jaguar-xk-diesel-under-development/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/1384252/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/01/spy-shots-jaguar-xk-diesel-under-development/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/A7tTteD7FYIbn9LNDvdMo-4G1cg/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/A7tTteD7FYIbn9LNDvdMo-4G1cg/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=mqUbDiW9"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=mqUbDiW9" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=DaFaw2je"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=DaFaw2je" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/LqLprJy-APo" height="1" width="1"/

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/21713?ns=guardianpageName=World+news%3A+Israeli+navy+blocks+Gaza+aid+shipch=World+newsc3=guardian.co.ukc4=Israel+and+the+Palestinian+territories+%28News%29%2CLibya+%28News%29%2CMiddle+East+%28News%29%2CAid+and+development+%28Society%29%2CWorld+newsc5=Policy+Society%2CNot+commercially+usefulc6=Rory+McCarthyc7=2008_12_01c8=1126877c9=articlec10=GUc11=World+newsc12=Israel+and+the+Palestinian+territoriesc13=c14=h2=GU%2FWorld+news%2FIsrael+and+the+Palestinian+territories" width="1" height="1" //divpThe Israeli navy today prevented a Libyan ship carrying 3,000 tonnes of humanitarian aid for Palestinians from docking in Gaza./ppThe al-Marwa, carrying food, blankets and powdered milk, attempted to challenge a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/israelandthepalestinians"Israel/a's tight economic blockade on the Gaza Strip, which has worsened in recent weeks. /ppBut as the ship approached Gazan water at dawn, an Israeli naval ship ordered it to turn back. The al-Marwa headed south and has reportedly docked at al-Arish, an Egyptian port in the northern Sinai just south of Gaza./ppAn Israeli foreign ministry spokesman said there was no physical contact with the ship but it was ordered back by radio. "This is a policy we have had for a long time: if somebody wants to bring in humanitarian aid they can do it through the border with Egypt or the Israeli passages into Gaza," said the spokesman, Andy David./ppHowever, since the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas won parliamentary elections nearly three years ago, Israel has imposed a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/13/israel-gaza-blockade"ever tighter restrictions/a on Gaza. /ppWhen Hamas took full control of Gaza last summer those restrictions became an economic blockade, while Egypt has also kept its one crossing into Gaza at Rafah largely closed./ppAs a ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militant groups in Gaza has unravelled in the past month, so the blockade has again been tightened. Deliveries of food, aid and fuel have been prevented on most days and a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/20/israelandthepalestinians-pressandpublishing"journalists/a have been barred from entering./ppThree smaller boats carrying activists and some aid successfully crossed into Gaza from Cyprus without being stopped by the Israeli navy. However, the Israelis moved quickly to prevent the Libyan ship, which carried a much larger cargo, from entering./ppA crowd of Palestinians had gathered at the Gaza City harbour from early in the morning ready to meet the ship. Five trucks waited to offload the aid. /pp"The civilian boat carrying only humanitarian supplies and food was turned away by an Israeli warship," said Jamal Khoudary, a Palestinian MP and head of Gaza's Popular Committee against the Siege./ppSome reports suggested the aid might now be unloaded in Egypt and delivered by road, although until now Egypt has been reluctant to turn the Rafah crossing with Gaza into a regular route for deliveries. Egypt does not want to assume responsibility for the strip and is also wary of the influence of Hamas./ppConcern is mounting about the humanitarian conditions inside Gaza. Its sole power plant, which relies on fuel deliveries from Israel, paid for by the European Union, was closed for two weeks in November and only restarted last Thursday./ppIsrael says the crossings are being closed because of rocket fire from Gaza into southern Israel and because of reported security threats on the crossings themselves. /ppEvery few days a shipment of food or fuel is allowed in but figures from the UN show in the past month an average of less than five truckloads a day have been allowed in, compared to 123 in October and 475 in May last year, just before Hamas took control of Gaza./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/israelandthepalestinians"Israel and the Palestinian territories/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/libya"Libya/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/middleeast"Middle East/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/internationalaidanddevelopment"International aid and development/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/GLrYQgwPhhYeMuc_3Ej8lH5WUuA/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/GLrYQgwPhhYeMuc_3Ej8lH5WUuA/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

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