The government has vowed to continue with South Africa's nuclear power programme despite Eskom's decision not to proceed with the construction of a second nuclear plant.

iScience, Vol. 322, No. 5907. (5 December 2008), pp. 1535-1539./ibr /br /Cryptochromes (CRY) are photolyase-like blue-light receptors that mediate light responses in plants and animals. How plant cryptochromes act in response to blue light is not well understood. We report here the identification and characterization of the Arabidopsis CIB1 (cryptochrome-interacting basic-helix-loop-helix) protein. CIB1 interacts with CRY2 (cryptochrome 2) in a blue light-specific manner in yeast and Arabidopsis cells, and it acts together with additional CIB1-related proteins to promote CRY2-dependent floral initiation. CIB1 binds to G box (CACGTG) in vitro with a higher affinity than its interaction with other E-box elements (CANNTG). However, CIB1 stimulates FT messenger RNA expression, and it interacts with chromatin DNA of the FT gene that possesses various E-box elements except G box. We propose that the blue light-dependent interaction of cryptochrome(s) with CIB1 and CIB1-related proteins represents an early photoreceptor signaling mechanism in plants. 10.1126/science.1163927br /iHongtao Liu, Xuhong Yu, Kunwu Li, John Klejnot, Hongyun Yang, Dominique Lisiero, Chentao Lin/i

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Scott Wade of San Marcos, Texas, thought he could do better than write "Wash Me" on the backside of a dusty car. He started drawing caricatures. His father was a cartoonist of sorts and had taught him to draw funny faces. It was Wade's idea to make a dirty car window his canvas.

"For the last 20 years living on a dirt road," he says, "there's always dirt on my car."

With the sun baking it, the dirt takes about two weeks to form a stable work surface. Wade began, like anyone else, by using his finger, and then tried popsicle sticks. To introduce shading, he decided to use brushes. Over time he developed a range of techniques, which included using plants and rubber paint-shaper tools.

Wade particularly likes the dirt of central Texas, where crushed limestone mixed with clay serves as a road base.

"It makes the perfect dirt," he says. "It's very light-colored and the contrast is great against the dark shadow inside the car."

As he got more requests to create his Dirty Car he realized that he had to figure out how to dust up a car himself. Now, he can prepare a car in minutes using a light coating of oil and pyro-lite, a less toxic alternative to fuller's earth.

At the Austin Maker Faire in 2007 (& 2008), Wade dusted up his Toyota and created Monsters from the Movies, featuring the Phantom of the Opera, Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Wolfman. The next day he painted a tribute to Willie Nelson that included Waylon Jennings. "After a good rain," he says, "it appears to wash off, but in a couple days it comes back in a ghostly form."

Recently, he was asked to draw Biff Henderson for the David Letterman show. In addition to portraits, he enjoys dusting up the old masters. "I have this grandiose idea of parking cars all the way up the ramp of the Guggenheim Museum and painting in dirt reproductions of the pieces that are on the wall next to it."

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From the column Made on Earth - MAKE 14, page 23 - Dale Dougherty.

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A co-worker clued me in to turn on my 3G today. Sure enough the 3G icon was on. I had the Wifi turned on, and had to initially turn it off to get 3G. The rest of the day it found 3G on the East side of town all the way into West Des Moines. Lost 3G a few times deep in a building which was a printing plant.

It did nicely transition to and from 3G as I went to places in and out of Wifi hotspots that I had access to. I also got on the Starbucks ATT Wifi using that neat Easy-Wi Fi application.

What a day for upgrades, got a new iPhone case, 3G, and my Squeezebox Boom found an firmware upgrade ;)

I hope 3G is really here and they were just not testing it. I was impressed with the speed over the Edge network, as long as the signal strength was there. Battery gulping? Maybe? I had the PowerSlide case on most of the day so it was hard to tell.

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divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/46008?ns=guardianpageName=Art+and+design%3A+British+Museum+breaks+up+midwinter+gloom+to+forecast+an+Indian+summerch=Art+and+designc3=The+Guardianc4=Museums+%28Art+and+design%29%2CExhibitions%2CArt+%28visual+arts+only%29%2CArt+and+design%2CCulture+section%2CUK+newsc5=Art%2CNot+commercially+usefulc6=Maev+Kennedyc7=2008_12_05c8=1129178c9=articlec10=GUc11=Art+and+designc12=Museumsc13=c14=h2=GU%2FArt+and+design%2FMuseums" width="1" height="1" //divpIn the bleak midwinter, the British Museum yesterday announced a blaze of colour and perfume to come: an Indian garden blooming in paint on its exhibition walls, and in reality in a scented garden around a fountain and lotus pool which will be created in its rather grim Bloomsbury forecourt./pp"In some magical way I can't quite get my head around, the garden will also cover a geographical spread from the foothills of the Himalayas to the lushness of the rainforest," curator Richard Blurton promised./ppThe task of creating the perfumed garden in the pigeon-haunted surroundings of the museum's front doorstep, plagued by the eternal reek of frying onions from the burger stalls outside the gate, falls to the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, which will be celebrating its own 250th anniversary./ppBlurton has to concentrate on getting onto the gallery walls sequences of ravishing paintings from the Jodhpur court, never seen before in the west, ranging from scenes of luxurious opulent life in the palaces, to a mystical series created for a 19th-century ruler who turned over political power to an ascetic sect. /ppBlurton calls the pieces "a voyage from mundane certainty to supra-mundane speculation"./ppAs well as a haven for stressed city dwellers and visitors, the garden will highlight the use of plants in Indian food and medicine - such staples as chili, aubergine and tomatoes are all New World imports - and the perils of habitat and species loss from development pressures and deforestation of the subcontinent./ppThe exhibition, and the films, plays, music recitals, food tastings and other events being organised around it, will also flag up the importance of Blurton's own little kingdom, a department which is one of the richer but less known in the museum./ppAlthough the Indian sculpture gallery is one of the largest in the building, many visitors never reach it. "The trouble is we are right at the back of the building, and I think a lot of visitors have lost the will to live before they get to us," he said yesterday. "But the collection is probably the most important outside India, and in its range and variety, from the Old Stone Age to the present day, probably the greatest under one roof in the world."/ppThe paintings, all created by court artists for three generations of 18th and 19th-century rulers of Jodhpur, are the first major loan exhibition to come to Bloomsbury directly from India./ppAlthough fabulous jewel-like miniatures are the most famous Indian royal paintings, some of the Jodhpur pieces are over a metre wide. Blurton said it is still not clear how they were displayed - whether they were hung on a wall like western art, or held up one at a time to delight a lounging maharajah and his intimates./ppThe most intriguing are the 19th-century mystical works made for Man Singh. "It is clear that these are internal landscapes, using blocks of intense colour in reflections on the experience of meditation and spiritual thought," Blurton said. "The use of pulsating brilliant colour recalls the Rothko chapel - but much of their meaning is still hidden from us."/ppThe Indian garden will feature scented plants, including frangipane, sandalwood and jasmine. "Very heavily scented jasmine," Blurton, who is also worried about the frying onions, said./ppIt will replace a Chinese garden, also created by Kew, installed to coincide with the terracotta warriors exhibition, one of the most successful in the museum's history./ppThe 55 paintings will come from the Mehrangarh museum in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, which was established by the present maharajah, H H Gaj Singh II. More paintings are coming from the National Museum of India in Delhi, and from the British Museum's own collection./ppNeil MacGregor, director of the museum, said: "There is an enduring fascination with the rich diversity of the art and culture of India. Garden and Cosmos epitomises this diversity through the polarities expressed in the paintings, focusing on both the external courtly life of pleasure on the one hand, and an internal life of devotion and speculation on the other." /pp· Garden and Cosmos: the Royal Paintings of Jodhpur, at the British Museum, May 28 to August 23. India Landscape, May 2 to September 28, British Museum forecourt, free./ph2Culture of import/h2pstrongAt the British Museum this summer:/strong/pp· Bollywood film seasonbr /A first for the museum/pp· Indian Summer Latebr /Night of Indian performance, dance, music, and food/pp· Lunchtime lecturesbr /In the new garden, by museum curators and Kew gardeners, on Indian medicinal plants, horticulture, landscapes and ecology/pp· Painting and printing workshopsbr /Recreating traditional Indian craft techniques/pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/museums"Museums/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/exhibition"Exhibitions/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/art"Art/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/iSpmiRbOHHcAu3owARuMtMiwna0/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/iSpmiRbOHHcAu3owARuMtMiwna0/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

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Rolls-Royce, the jet engine maker, and Balfour Beatty, the construction group, have announced an Anglo-French collaboration on the next generation of UK nuclear power plants.

Derwentwater The rare netted carpet moth has been re-established at a site after nine years, with a little help from some cows, the National Trust said. The moth is entirely dependent on a scarce plant, touch-me-not balsam, and the trust is working with a local farmer to introduce controlled winter grazing, which reduces the balsam’s competitors. The cows also help to transmit balsam seeds on their hooves. “As a result, the moth population is now more robust and able to weather natural fluctuations,” a trust official said. The technique was first used successfully at Coniston Water, and carpet moth larvae have been brought in from there.

Lil’ Wayne was the most nominated artist at Wednesday night’s Grammy Awards nomination special, pulling in a total of eight nominations including Album of the Year. Other Album of the Year contenders included Coldplay’s Viva La Vida, Radiohead’s In Rainbows, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss’ Raising Sand and Ne-Yo’s Year of the Gentleman. The Grammy Awards ceremony will air on February 8, 2009. [PopEater.com]

Beyonce scores her fifth chart-topping solo hit this week with “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It),” which is number one on the Hot 100. [Billboard.com]

Next April, Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones and Sonic Youth will perform a work by composer Takehisa Kosugi for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in honor of what would have been the forward-thinking choreographer’s 90th birthday. [Guardian.co.uk]

Former Long Blondes guitarist Dorian Cox, who suffered a debilitating stroke that paralyzed the right side of his body earlier in the year, is rehabilitating his hand with a special therapeutic glove called the SaeboFlex. [PitchforkMedia.com]

Elvis Costello has a beef with director Jared Hess, claiming that he came up with the name Napoleon Dynamite years before Hess made his 2004 movie of the same name. [Spinner.com]

Thrill Jockey has a holiday treat for you: They’ve got an advent calendar that offers a new, DRM-free, high-quality MP3 every day until December 24. [Exclaim.ca]

Seen here is a 2700-year-old stash of marijuana, found in a Gobi Desert grave near Turpan, China. Ethan Russo, a visiting professor at the Chinese Acadmy of Scineces, and his colleagues report the discovery in the current issue of the Journal of Experimental Botany (abstract). From Discovery News: The size of seeds mixed in with the leaves, along with their color and other characteristics, indicate the marijuana came from a cultivated strain. Before the burial, someone had carefully picked out all of the male plant parts, which are less psychoactive, so Russo and his team believe there is little doubt as to why the cannabis was grown. What is in question, however, is how the marijuana was administered, since no pipes or other objects associated with smoking were found in the grave. "Perhaps it was ingested orally," Russo said. "It might also have been fumigated, as the Scythian tribes to the north did subsequently." Oldest Marijuana Stash Found (Thanks, Tara McGinley!)...br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=8a2f2dffcd7b695667417f8390f7ad2dp=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=8a2f2dffcd7b695667417f8390f7ad2dp=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=8a2f2dffcd7b695667417f8390f7ad2d" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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iJournal of cell science (25 November 2008)/ibr /br /MOR1, the Arabidopsis thaliana homologue of the Xenopus microtubule-associated protein MAP215, is required for spatial organization of the acentrosomal microtubule arrays of plant cells. To determine how loss of MOR1 function affects microtubule dynamics, we compared various parameters of microtubule dynamics in the temperature-sensitive mor1-1 mutant at its permissive and restrictive temperatures, 21 degrees C and 31 degrees C, respectively. Dynamic events were tracked in live cells expressing either GFP-tagged beta-tubulin or the plus end tracking EB1. Microtubule growth and shrinkage velocities were both dramatically reduced in mor1-1 at 31 degrees C and the incidence and duration of pause events increased. Interestingly, the association of EB1 with microtubule plus ends was reduced in mor1-1 whereas side wall binding increased, suggesting that MOR1 influences the association of EB1 with microtubules either by modulating microtubule plus end structure or by interacting with EB1. Although mor1-1 microtubules grew and shrank more slowly than wild-type microtubules at 21 degrees C, the incidence of pause was not altered, suggesting that pause events, which occur more frequently at 31 degrees C, have a major detrimental role in the spatial organization of cortical microtubules. Extensive increases in microtubule dynamics in wild-type cells when shifted from 21 degrees C to 31 degrees C underline the importance of careful temperature control in live cell imaging.br /iEiko Kawamura, Geoffrey O Wasteneys/i

Seen here is a 2700-year-old stash of marijuana, found in a Gobi Desert grave near Turpan, China. Ethan Russo, a visiting professor at the Chinese Acadmy of Scineces, and his colleagues report the discovery in the current issue of the Journal of Experimental Botany (abstract). From Discovery News: The size of seeds mixed in with the leaves, along with their color and other characteristics, indicate the marijuana came from a cultivated strain. Before the burial, someone had carefully picked out all of the male plant parts, which are less psychoactive, so Russo and his team believe there is little doubt as to why the cannabis was grown. What is in question, however, is how the marijuana was administered, since no pipes or other objects associated with smoking were found in the grave. Perhaps it was ingested orally, Russo said. It might also have been fumigated, as the Scythian tribes to the north did subsequently. Oldest Marijuana Stash Found (Thanks, Tara McGinley!)...br style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=8a2f2dffcd7b695667417f8390f7ad2dp=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=8a2f2dffcd7b695667417f8390f7ad2dp=1//a img src=http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=8a2f2dffcd7b695667417f8390f7ad2d style=display: none; border=0 height=1 width=1 alt=/

On the December 3 broadcast of ABC's World News, national correspondent Chris Bury falsely claimed that "Ford, Chrysler, and GM pay union workers more than $73 an hour in wages and benefits." In fact, according to General Motors, which reportedly puts its current hourly labor costs at around $69, the figure is based not only on current workers' hourly wages and benefits, such as health care and retirement, but also retirement and health-care benefits that U.S. automakers are providing for current retirees, as Media Matters for America has noted.

Bury described the alleged $73 an hour pay rate as "the big stuff" that the United Auto Workers "did not offer to give back" as a concession to keep GM, Chrysler, and Ford from falling into bankruptcy. But the Associated Press reported that GM "says its total hourly labor costs dropped 6 percent this year from pre-contract levels, from $73.26 in 2006 to around $69 per hour," and according to a GM spokesman, "The new cost includes laborers' wages of $29.78 per hour, plus benefits, pensions and the cost of providing health care to more than 432,000 GM retirees."

Bury joins numerous other media figures who have advanced the falsehood that U.S. autoworkers employed by General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler earn $70 or more per hour in wages and benefits.

From the December 3 broadcast of ABC's World News with Charles Gibson:

BURY: But the union did not offer to give back the big stuff: pay and benefits that remain a fundamental problem. Ford, Chrysler, and GM pay union workers more than $73 an hour in wages and benefits. Japanese plants here shell out just over $44. For GM, that translates into $1,500 more per car than Toyota has to pay.

DAVID COLE (chairman, Center for Automotive Research): That's like trying to run a marathon, and your competition is wearing track shoes and a great track outfit, and you're wearing galoshes and an overcoat and carrying a bowling ball.

BURY: That competitive gap will shrink dramatically when big cuts in pay and benefits kick in over the next few years, but that's too late. Today the union chief bristled at blaming autoworkers.

RON GETTELFINGER (president, United Auto Workers): Are we going to take a look at what's happened to our economy, to the housing crunch, to the Wall Street bailout, and the failures on Wall Street? Those are the things that we need to look at.

BURY: The concessions may not be enough to stem the bleeding, but they may help convince Congress that Detroit is serious about changing its ways, and today, President-elect Obama suggested he is warming to the bailout plan.

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pFiled under: a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/pc/" rel="tag"PC/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/ps3/" rel="tag"Sony PlayStation 3/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/xbox360/" rel="tag"Microsoft Xbox 360/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/action/" rel="tag"Action/a/pdiv align="center"a href="http://www.joystiq.com/photos/mirrors-edge-time-trial-dlc/1202988/full/"img width="490" vspace="4" hspace="0" height="276" border="1" align="middle" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/12/miredmultscrnwwrazzmatazz-490.jpg" //abr /smallemclick to enlarge/em/small/div br /Has there been a more difficult, frustrating and incredibly satisfying challenge this year than the time trials in a href="http://www.joystiq.com/tag/mirrors-edge"emMirror's Edge/em/a? We think not -- least of all when we end that spectacular string of wallruns, coil jumps, slides and vaults with a 100 a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_%22Tails%22_Prower"miles-per-hour/a concrete face plant. EA and developer DICE is hoping that the "just one more go" feeling will extend to your purchasing habits, as they've just announced the forthcoming release of downloadable content for the frantic first-person runner. br /br /Slated for release in "late January" for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC, the "Pure Time Trial Map Pack" will add nine races on seven "all-new and totally redesigned" stages. Which, judging by the trailer (check it out below!) and screenshots, is putting it emrather mildly. /emThree questions, though: br /embr /How much will it cost? /embr /br /$10 or 800img border="0" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.xbox360fanboy.com/media/2007/11/microsoftpointslogosmall.gif" alt="" /.br /br /emWait... when is the PC version out?br /br //emJanuary 13th in North America and January 16th in Not North America.br /br /emWhat happened to that "a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/09/02/mirrors-edge-receiving-exclusive-dlc-on-ps3/"exclusive/a" PS3 DLC? I gave up anti-aliasing for that!br /br //em"As an added bonus, all PlayStation 3 Mirror's Edge fans will be able to download an additional map for free." See? Additional map! Added bonus! Exclusive!br /div class="postgallery"pstrongGallery: a href="%GalleryURL%"Mirror's Edge Time Trial DLC/a/strong/pa href="/gallery/mirrors-edge-time-trial-dlc/1202989/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/12/miredmultscrnwwvelocity_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="/gallery/mirrors-edge-time-trial-dlc/1202988/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/12/miredmultscrnwwrazzmatazz_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="/gallery/mirrors-edge-time-trial-dlc/1202987/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/12/miredmultscrnwwkinetic_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="/gallery/mirrors-edge-time-trial-dlc/1202986/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/12/miredmultscrnww1pflow_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="/gallery/mirrors-edge-time-trial-dlc/1202985/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/12/miredmultscrnww1pchroma2_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //a/divpa href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/04/mirrors-edge-time-trial-dlc-coming-in-january/" rel="bookmark"Continue reading emMirror's Edge Time Trial DLC coming in January/em/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/04/mirrors-edge-time-trial-dlc-coming-in-january/"Mirror's Edge Time Trial DLC coming in January/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.joystiq.com"Joystiq/a on Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:25:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./pp style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"nbsp;/ppa href=http://investor.ea.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=352306Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/04/mirrors-edge-time-trial-dlc-coming-in-january/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/1391299/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/04/mirrors-edge-time-trial-dlc-coming-in-january/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/BJweZrrtrIovhhh2BgMspT0W5NI/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/BJweZrrtrIovhhh2BgMspT0W5NI/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=qHTrIutO"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=qHTrIutO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=l1hUGF5v"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=l1hUGF5v" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/joystiq/~4/fQ0aOBUFP8s" height="1" width="1"/