Pelath backs Pence plan over House GOP budget

INDIANAPOLIS ? Gov. Mike Pence is deriding House Republicans? state budget plan that would replace his proposed tax cut with more spending on roads and education.

And the Republican governor is winning a strange bedfellow in the process: Democratic House Minority Leader Scott Pelath.

House Ways and Means Chairman Tim Brown outlined a budget Friday that calls for $250 million more for roads each year and more than doubles the increase Pence sought for schools.

Pence says he?s ?disappointed? with the move and will ?protect taxpayers? from the House GOP plan in ongoing budget negotiations.

Pelath said Friday the House should vote on Pence?s $500 million proposed cut to Indiana?s personal income tax. He vigorously denied that his stance was a political move to back House Republicans into a corner.

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Shamed Chris Huhne takes taxpayers for a ride with ?600 iPad

SHAMED ex-minister Chris Huhne really is taking taxpayers for a ride by clutching his ?600 iPad before boarding a London bus.

Taxpayer funded ... iPad

London Media

Denial ... Vicky Pryce

We revealed how the lying politician, 58, claimed for the tablet on expenses just weeks before quitting in disgrace.

He faces jail after admitting perverting the course of justice by getting his then-wife Vicky Pryce, 60, to take his speeding points.

Pryce ? now divorced from Huhne after he left her for an aide ? denies the same charge, claiming a defence of marital coercion.

A jury is considering its verdict at London?s Southwark Crown Court.

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Big Plans For CrunchBase

CrunchBase has grown like a tree planted in a quiet corner of the yard and left to its own devices. Today, our free and editable industry database gets 1.5 million unique visitors a month and has had 90,000 users create 105,000 companies and 140,000 individual profiles. At age six, it’s proven to be one of the most successful of the products that TechCrunch has launched over the years Now it’s time to think about the future. We are?committing a significant amount of money to expanding the product and the team behind it. You’ll be hearing a lot more in the coming months, but here’s what we can share now. The team of long-time staffers and experienced additions –?Matt Kaufman,?Gen? McPherson,?Vineet Thanedar,?Anthony Nguyen, and?Kurt Freytag?– now has a blog. And on that blog, they’ve begun showcasing top developers from among the thousands using the CrunchBase API. Big data analytics startup SiSense has kicked things off today with a post about how it’s pulled in data to provide an investment dashboard and data visualizations. Investors and entrepreneurs using the product can learn important market information like the average time between startup funding rounds year over year. The CB team is going to be regularly featuring guest posts from any developer who has done something smart and useful with the data, provided that: Your application is publicly accessible Your application attributes CrunchBase according to the?CrunchBase API TOS Your application?directs users to CrunchBase to update missing or out-dated information As an added bonus, TechCrunch writers who are interested in analyzing data to break stories are going to be taking a hard look at these tools and potentially incorporating them into how we work. We’ll also be interested in writing about them. You can apply for the Developer Spotlight Program by sending them an email. The team itself is growing, too. If you join, you’ll get to work in our historic SOMA office alongside our editorial, product and business teams, right down the street from Caltrain, The Creamery, Giants Stadium, and thousands of tech companies large and small. You will be on the pulse of the Valley, developing a beloved product that plays a key role in keeping our industry up to date. Check out the hiring details here.

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A cooler way to protect silicon surfaces

Feb. 13, 2013 ? New room-temperature process could lead to less expensive solar cells and other electronic devices.

Silicon, the material of high-tech devices from computer chips to solar cells, requires a surface coating before use in these applications. The coating "passivates" the material, tying up loose atomic bonds to prevent oxidation that would ruin its electrical properties. But this passivation process consumes a lot of heat and energy, making it costly and limiting the kinds of materials that can be added to the devices.

Now a team of MIT researchers has found a way to passivate silicon at room temperature, which could be a significant boon to solar-cell production and other silicon-based technologies.

The research, by graduate student Rong Yang and engineering professors Karen Gleason and Tonio Buonassisi, was recently published online in the journal Advanced Materials.

Typically, silicon surfaces are passivated with a coating of silicon nitride, which requires heating a device to 400 degrees Celsius, explains Gleason, the Alexander and I. Michael Kasser Professor of Chemical Engineering. By contrast, the process Gleason's team uses decomposes organic vapors over wires heated to 300 C, but the silicon itself never goes above 20 C -- room temperature. Heating those wires requires much less power than illuminating an ordinary light bulb, so the energy costs of the process are quite low.

Conventional silicon-nitride passivation "is one of the more expensive parts, and one of the more finicky parts, in the processing" of silicon for solar cells and other uses, says Buonassisi, an associate professor of mechanical engineering, "so replacing part of silicon nitride's functionality with a simplified, robust organic layer has the potential to be a big win."

Essential process

Passivation is essential: Without it, silicon's surface is oxidized as soon as it's exposed to air, impeding its performance as a solar cell. "It would oxidize within minutes," Yang says. By contrast, the MIT team has tested silicon chips with the new polymer coating in place for more than 200 hours, observing no degradation at all in performance. "The electrical properties did not change," she says.

The low temperature of the silicon chip in this process means that it could be combined with other materials, such as organic compounds or polymers, that would be destroyed by the higher temperature of the conventional coating process. This could enable new applications of silicon chips -- for example, as biosensors following bonding with compounds that react with specific biological molecules. "People have grafted DNA and protein antibodies to silicon," Yang notes.

Saving energy

The energy used in manufacturing silicon solar cells is a critical concern because every bit of cost savings helps to make them more competitive with other sources of electricity. The lower temperatures could significantly reduce manufacturing costs, the MIT researchers say.

The new process also has an added benefit, providing an anti-reflective coating that improves a solar cell's overall efficiency, the team says.

Both the conventional process and the new process take place in a vacuum chamber. Liquid reactants evaporate, then adsorb and react on the surface. The adsorption step is much the same as mist forming on a cold bathroom window after you take a shower.

The process can easily be scaled to the size of conventional solar cells, Gleason says. Additionally, the materials involved are all commercially available, so implementing the new method for commercial production could be a relatively quick process.

Buonassisi describes lowering the cost of manufacturing equipment, including that used to apply the passivating and antireflection coating, as "one of the three steps that's needed to drive down the price of solar modules to widespread grid competitiveness." (The other two are improvements in efficiency and reducing the amount of materials used.) The next step for his team is to scale up the process from laboratory-scale to production levels that could lead to commercialization, he says.

The challenge in making this advance, he explains, was found at the atomic level -- specifically, at the interface between the organic coating material and the silicon, to ensure that the two bonded solidly. Tests have shown that the process this team developed has solved that challenge, Buonassisi says. While the team used one specific polymer for the coating, the process could be replicated using other organic materials.

The research was supported by the Italian energy company Eni S.p.A., under the Eni-MIT Alliance Solar Frontiers Program.

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Kate Upton says Sports Illustrated Swimsuit photo shoot caused her body to shut down

Kate Upton made her second consecutive Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover earlier this week. How she got there took a big physical toll.

"It was freezing ... I'm from Florida, so it wasn't great for me," Upton said. "Obviously, the pictures now ... it's incredible. I can't believe we were all able to accomplish that."

Appearing on "Today," Upton told the story of how going to Antarctica left her more than just under the weather.

"When I came back I was losing hearing and eyesight because my body was shutting down it was working so hard to keep me warm."

See more of the 2013 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue.

(Photo credit: SPORTS ILLUSTRATED/DEREK KETTELA)

Source: http://aol.sportingnews.com/sport/story/2013-02-13/kate-upton-si-2013-sports-illustrated-swimsuit-photos-video-today

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How To: Turn your iPad into a MacBook wannabe [Jailbreak]

So, you want to use your iPad as a MacBook, but you have no idea where to start. See the screenshot above (and gallery below)? That is my iPad?s screen. Yes, iPad, not MacBook. This was accomplished by using a simple theme from Cydia that works with DreamBoard, an advanced theming application. Best part? The theme and DreamBoard are completely free. Here?s how:

1. Install DreamBoard from Cydia.
2. Install the ?Mountain Lion Ultimatum? theme from Cydia.
3. Respring your device.
4. Once back to the main home screen, locate ?DreamBoard?.
5. Open and select ?Mountain Lion Ultimatum (Charity Theme)? from the selections.
6. That?s it! It will apply the theme, and you will see the above screen (or something similar).

Now, to take this to the next level, I also installed something named ?BTC Mouse & Trackpad? (screenshot above of the Cydia screen). If you look at the screenshots in the gallery, you will see a mouse on them that looks similar to that of the OS X mouse. That is thanks to this tweak. What it does is adds (as the name so obviously states) mouse and trackpad support to the native Bluetooth support found in iOS. This works with iPhones/iPod touches as well, if ?you want to use it there also. With this I was able to use my Magic Mouse and Hatch & Co. keyboard case to turn my iPad into a mini MacBook.

So there you have it, the most simple way possible to turn your iPad into a pseudo-MacBook. All of this except the BTC Mouse & Keyboard is completely free, with that tweak costing $4.98. If you feel you would use it, I highly recommend the tweak as it really gives the tablet a true computer feel. I was able to make an entire Keynote presentation in half the time it would have taken using solely touch. Let me know in the comments if you are installing this, and chat with me on Twitter @TiP_Kyle?about your experiences or other cool DreamBoard themes you found. Check out the gallery for more screenshots of the theme in action.

Source: http://www.todaysiphone.com/2013/02/how-to-turn-your-ipad-into-a-macbook-jailbreak/

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House Bill Seeks Equal Benefits For Gay Troops

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