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The purpose of this RFP is to contract with a provider who will provide short term, emergency and transitional housing and supports to eligible adults with developmental disabilities.

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12 Questions: Meet Catherine Faletanoai (New Zeland ...

In our 12 Questions blog series, we feature interviews with someone from the crowdSPRING community. For these interviews, we pick people who add value to our community ? in the blog, in the forums, in the projects. Plainly ? activities that make crowdSPRING a better community. Be professional, treat others with respect, help us build something very special, and we?ll take notice.

We?re very proud to feature?Catherine Faletanoai (crowdSPRING username: Catalyst) today. Catherine lives and works in Auckland, New Zealand

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?1. Please tell us about yourself.

Ok, sure, or should I say ?surrrrre?? I grew up in Wyndham, Southland, New Zealand ? and we Southlanders are know to roll our ?rrrs? I live at the other end of the country now, Auckland, New Zealand and often get asked with questioning looks? ?where ARE you from??!? So apart from rolling rrrs Southland is a beautiful piece of New Zealand, perhaps the most beautiful?.yes. I was raised on a sheep farm with my 3 sisters, Mum and Dad. Great times, great childhood. I completed high school at Menzies College with Dux in my final year and went on to study at Otago University. I completed a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Design with my main focus being on Design and Communication. Fast forward a few years of working for Woodworx Design Agency, Chipmunks NZ Ltd, Kiwi Mortgage Market?. and we arrive in Auckland. I moved to the other end of the country to be with my Prince (Dwaine) and we now live here with 2 young children, (Mia, 4 and Mason, 1). Oh yea ? I nearly forgot ? work now??I don?t have a lot of time for a whole lot of designing ? kids have that affect on us stay at home mums! But I wouldn?t have it any other way, love being home with the kids every day and fit my work around that ? when they?re sleeping, glued to the TV (I mean books) and in the evenings with a tall glass of Coke to keep me awake!

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2. How did you become interested in design?
I remember knowing logos ? from a very young age I could remember a whole street of shop signage, logos, colours, fonts ? I?m a very observant person by nature, and I see it in my daughter too. I?m also a visual person, and have always been interested in art and anything design. That?s why I love my job as I don?t really see it as a ?job?, it?s more an outlet, a relaxing thing, entertainment for me. I look forward to evenings where I can sit down and just design, no pressing deadlines, just let the creativity happen. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn?t, and I think that?s the key to a good designer is knowing when to stop and when to go for it when you?re on a roll!
I?ve learnt to trust my instincts ? if something moves me, it must have value?so I strive to design with that in mind.

3. Which of your designs are your favorites and why?
It?s not a graphic piece ? but it?s something I did in design school that I?m very proud of. A scale replica or Alvar Aalto?s 406 Armchair, made completely from paper (see picture). It?s about the size of a matchbox, and took me many painstaking hours to weave the paper and get it just right. It?s perfect and still sits by my computer and reminds me that anything can be done with a bit of persistence!

4. Who/what are some of the biggest influences on your design work?
I used to be a complete minimalist ? influenced by my study of it at Design school. Lately this has changed though, after designing a logo for an interior design company I fell in love with all things beautiful, decorative and a bit ?fancy?!

5. Please tell us about your creative process.
I used to keep a pen and paper by my bed. Best ever ideas seemed to come to me during the night, so I needed to get them down before I forgot! I don?t wake during the night anymore unless I hear my kids crying, so I think on things through the day. I read and re-read the brief and get a really good understanding of what the client wants to convey. Then I just let ideas come to me when they will. Sometimes it?s straight away, sometimes it takes a bit more work. Most of the time I will go straight to the computer and draw it up once I have a good idea, if it?s taking a bit longer I?ll put pen to paper and scribble out some concepts. Each time is different, depending on the project.

6. Mac or PC?
Mac. Nothing other. I work on an Imac, using Macromedia Freehand. I learnt it in Uni and thus have always found it second nature. I do plan to learn Illy more in-depth once the kids have grown up a bit and I have some more time. But for now Freehand does everything I need it to do, and well, so I stick with that.

7. How do you promote your work?
I don?t. By word of mouth and referrals I get plenty to do as it is! Again, once the kids are a little older and I feel like putting some more hours in, I will get my website up and running. But for now there is enough 2ams as it is ? (the best hours to work by the way!)

8. What is your dream design project?
I?ve always wanted to work for Pixar or Dreamworks! Ever since I started illustrating, I?ve loved the style of Pixar films ? clean, bold and clever animation. I worked on a lot of digital wall art for Chipmunks NZ early on in my career ? sketching out scenes, vectorizing and adding colour and loved it. New Zealand doesn?t have an equivalent to these studios, so for now I will just admire the movies when my kids are watching!

9. Please describe your typical work day.
This is a tricky one ? each day is so different!
Wake up, run, swim, shower, breakfast with kids, kids dressed, drop Mia (my daughter) to preschool, housework, pick up Mia, lunch with kids, play with kids, afternoon nap (for kids), get dinner prepared, FIT IN SOME DESIGN TIME, kids wake, pre-dinner madness/kids complaining they?re hungry, dinner time, family time/or meetings out etc, kids to bed, hang out with my husband/relax/TV/movie/MEET DESIGN DEADLINES.
This is very general, and obviously always changes, but this is a very basic outline of what a day entails?there are many many more details mostly due to the nature of looking after preschoolers that all Mums and Dads out there will understand! The time I have for design work is in the afternoon while the kid sleep or in the evenings.

10. What are the most challenging and rewarding aspects of being a
graphic designer?
Challenging: creative blocks and getting in a rut where nothing you design seems new/fresh or even good!
Rewarding: seeing your work out there, on billboards, websites etc ? I still remember seeing my first work out in the real world for the first time ? a poster design I?d done for ?Taste Otago? a food and wine show in Dunedin. It was pasted along the walls of a sidewalk, at first glance I thought, ?hmm that looks familiar?, then realised ?that?s right..it?s mine!? I smiled all the way home.

11. What advice would you offer to someone considering graphic design
as a career?
Do you love it? Then go for it. If you don?t have a passion for design, for type, for kerning, for image and colour, then you?re going to run out of steam. It?s an awesome career path, but you have to be able to accept criticism and sometimes ?design? against your personal visual preference.

12. What do you do with your free time?
I don?t know what you?re talking about. What is this ?free time? you speak of? Just kidding, I love going on holidays with my family, swimming, beaches. I like to run, it gives me energy. I love watching movies with my husband. I like to shop, yea I like that a lot actually. Time with family and friends, my faith, everything good that can?t be bought really.

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Thanks so much, Catherine!

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Source: http://blog.crowdspring.com/2012/03/12-questions-meet-catherine-faletanoai-new-zeland/

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Duty of care: Workplace health and safety for your business travelers ...

Introduction

Duty of care: workplace health and safety for business travelersIf you want to know more, or don?t understand how duty of care and workplace health and safety affects your business travelers, then you must read this article. In this article we will examine duty of care, workplace health and safety and the how it relates to your business travelers.

After reading this article, you will have the correct understanding and subsequent approach to ensure you meet or exceed your obligations to provide a safe and secure environment for your business travelers.

The contents of this article do not constitute legal advice, is general in scope and will not substitute a specific approach for your company.

Duty of Care

Duty of care and the requirement for employers, so far as reasonably practicable, is to ensure that employees are not exposed to risk to their health and safety at work has been in place, in numerous countries for over 30 years. It is not however the primary act or legislation but rather a subset of the workplace or occupational health and safety laws.

The realization or acceptance that duty of care applies to business travel, equally if not more so than traditional static workplace environments, is a relatively new occurrence. This is not due to any significant alteration or refinement of related legislation or laws but more an awakening of conscious and greater volume of informed employees that are both aware and exercise their right to a managed workplace.

Improvement and adherence to workplace health and safety should be the primary focus to all businesses in support of business travel, not duty of care.

Workplace Health and Safety

Workplace or occupational health and safety systems, standards and requirement are already well developed. By expanding these systems and standards to include business travel activities, all companies can quickly and efficiently enhance the safety, security, health and environment of their business travelers without the adoption, implementation of completely new or foreign concepts. For some inexplicable reason, too few businesses have already included business travel as part of their workplace health and safety systems, exposing them and their employees to significant and foreseeable risk.

It has only been in recent times that the definition of the workplace and the conduct of business have been refined to include business travel activities. This and poorly understood or applied risk management systems that encompasses business travel created an Achilles heel for most businesses, who assumed that duty of care was their only corrective imperative.

While proof regarding taking steps to ensure ?reasonably practicable? health and safety measures for employees, or the failure to do so, rests with the prosecution in countries such as Australia, the onus of proving reasonable practability rests with the defendants in the United Kingdom, Singapore and Canada

Workplace Health and Safety for Business Travelers

An increasing number of legal cases are presenting that challenges and repositions the traditional notion that the work place is a single static location. More-and-more, the legislation and legal view is that the workplace is anywhere that a person or business conducting an undertaking is present. Additionally, the conventions that govern the definition of an employee are also expanding to include labour for hire, contractors and other temporary workers. This has clear implications and inclusions for business travel too.

Not withstanding the fact that business travel is likely to be undertaken by the top 5% of talent within an organization, in the pursuit of revenue as high as fifteen dollars per profit for every dollar spent on business travel, it is typically a competitive and financial advantage for businesses. This coupled the growing acceptance that it is considered a place of work by an employee means that all the typical hazard identification and risk mitigation strategies applied elsewhere in the companies processes, need also be applied.

The act of business travel result in numerous variations such as location, gender, airlines, weather, personal health, supporting infrastructure, crime and so on, it therefore stands to reason that commensurable threat analysis, risk mitigation, control measures, compliance, tracking and disclosure should follow. Too few are at this fundamental stage.

For those companies or managers that continue to permit this ?grey area? of business travel not to be considered or treated as required; part of the workplace health and safety system, your time may well be up sooner than you would like. More-and-more business travellers themselves are questioning or demanding they be afforded the same standards and considerations for a risk free work environment. The courts support their views also.

Business travel constitutes a workplace hazard to all employees, until proven otherwise. Only though demonstratable and consistent systems and processes can this be defensible with evidence of due diligence in the area of business travel and workplace or occupational safety.

Conclusion

You should now understand that there is a workplace health and safety obligation to your business travelers and how you must prepare or review adequate systems. Failure to do so may result in reputation, retention, safety, legal, market share and business operations disruptions or failures.

In this article we identified and explained the relationship between duty of care, workplace health and safety and business travelers. Apply this new understanding or review your current perceptions immediately and identify any corrective actions required to achieve adequate or advanced safety, security, health and environment support to your business travelers.

Tony Ridley

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Source: http://travelriskmanagementsolutions.com/duty-of-care/duty-of-care-workplace-health-and-safety-for-your-business-travelers

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Kaspersky Internet Security 2012 Review ? Simple Business Solutions

Kaspersky Internet Security 2012 is a computer aegis software affairs that provides antivirus, anti-spyware, firewall, anti-spam, anti-phishing and anti-malware protection. It has stand-alone programs for all the aegis accoutrement listed aloft and provides them for both home and business use.

Kaspersky Internet Security works with Microsoft Windows XP, Vista and 7 operating systems. And it has a Macintosh adaptation which provides able-bodied aegis adjoin bacilli and awful software threats that are targeted at this operating system.

We?ve put Kaspersky through its paces in our targeted antivirus tests at Best Buy Antivirus. And it has apparent absorbing after-effects and removed over 90% of the threats we installed on our analysis machine. Kaspersky has aswell been activated by the arch analysis labs like AV-Test, AV-Comparatives and Virus Bulletin. Overall, the tests appearance that Kaspersky is additional alone to BitDefender Internet Aegis 2012. And its best accomplishment was a 98.2% aegis account on an AV-Comparatives analysis and was awarded the Advanced+ award.

There are aswell abounding chump reviews on Kaspersky Internet Security and the all-inclusive majority are positive. They acknowledge that abounding users are blessed with its virus apprehension and abatement rates. Top Ten reviews, one of the arch antivirus and Internet aegis companies has awarded it the argent appraisement for its appearance and performance. So it beats over 25 programs and is alone surpassed by BitDefender.

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Pros

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2. The antecedent browse takes long, but consecutive scans are abrupt and trouble-free.

Summary

Overall, Kaspersky Internet Security 2012 is an absorbing affairs and we recommended it for both online and off-line protection. It aswell provides acceptable aegis for alien media like USB drives.

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UK Government Adds Broadband ISP Bundles to its Inflation ...

The governments Office for National Statistics (ONS) has quietly announced a notable change to the way it measures inflation (Consumer Prices Index (CPI) and Retail Prices Index (RPI)) by adding ?bundled communication services? (broadband internet access, phone and TV) to its calculations for the first time.

Inflation effectively represents how a country measures the general increase in prices (what we pay for goods etc.) and any fall in the purchasing value of money. It should be said that telephone charges, internet access and television subscriptions are ?already included in the basket? but surprisingly bundled packages have only just been added to help reflect ?the way in which people are buying these services?.

ONS ? 2012 Basket of Goods and Services

?A number of new items are introduced to represent specific markets where consumer spending is significant, and existing items in the basket may not adequately represent price changes for such goods. For example, baby wipes are being introduced to represent ?cleansers on the go?.

Bundled communication packages comprising telephone services, internet access and television subscriptions are also included for the first time. The three component parts were already in the basket and its addition reflects the way in which consumers are increasingly buying these services.?

On top of that?tablet computers (e.g. iPad, Samsung Galaxy Tab etc.), among several other things, have also been included for the first time. ?This mirrors the evolution of computer equipment through desktop personal computers, laptops and now tablets, and they are being introduced to capture price changes in this rapidly expanding market,? said the update.

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CBO sees higher near-term deficits under Obama plan

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Artist admits to shortcuts in show about Apple

In this undated image released by The Public Theater, Mike Daisey is shown in a scene from "The Agony and The Ecstasy of Steve Jobs," in New York. Daisey, whose latest show has been being credited with sparking probes into how Apple's high-tech devices are made, is finding himself under fire for distorting the truth. The public radio show ?This American Life? retracted a story Friday, March 16, 2012, that it broadcast in January about what Daisey said he saw while visiting a factory in China where iPads and iPhones are made. (AP Photo/The Public Theater, Stan Barouh)

In this undated image released by The Public Theater, Mike Daisey is shown in a scene from "The Agony and The Ecstasy of Steve Jobs," in New York. Daisey, whose latest show has been being credited with sparking probes into how Apple's high-tech devices are made, is finding himself under fire for distorting the truth. The public radio show ?This American Life? retracted a story Friday, March 16, 2012, that it broadcast in January about what Daisey said he saw while visiting a factory in China where iPads and iPhones are made. (AP Photo/The Public Theater, Stan Barouh)

(AP) ? An artist admitted Friday to taking shortcuts in crafting an often harrowing tale about Apple Inc.'s operations in China after the veracity of his one-man theatrical show was challenged by a public radio program that had based a broadcast on his work.

But writer Mike Daisey said he stands by his monologue and called what he does theater, and not journalism.

"It uses a combination of fact, memoir, and dramatic license to tell its story, and I believe it does so with integrity," Daisey said in a statement posted on his website.

Citing what he called "numerous fabrications," Ira Glass, the host of the popular public radio show "This American Life," said he could not vouch for the truth of a Jan. 6 broadcast excerpted from Daisey's critically acclaimed one-man show "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs."

Later Friday, The New York Times said it had removed a questionable paragraph from the online archive of an op-ed piece Daisey wrote for the newspaper in October.

Daisey also twisted the truth about his time in China during an interview with The Associated Press late last year. Paul Colford, a spokesman for the news cooperative, said the AP was reviewing its coverage of Daisey to determine what corrections will be necessary.

In his monologue performance, which currently running at the Public Theater in New York, Daisey describes meeting very young workers who put in very long hours and were forced to do crippling, repetitive motions at factories that make Apple products in China. Some he claimed had been poisoned by a chemical called hexane.

But "This American Life" says a China correspondent for the public radio show "Marketplace" named Rob Schmitz located and interviewed Daisey's Chinese interpreter, who disputed much of the artist's claims.

Daisey, in an interview with Glass broadcast as part of Friday's episode of "The American Life," admitted that he didn't meet any poisoned workers and guessed at the ages of some of the workers he met.

"This American Life" said in its statement that staffers asked Daisey for his interpreter's contact information while fact-checking the story. Daisey replied the cellphone number he had for her didn't work anymore and he had no way to reach her.

"At that point, we should've killed the story," Glass said. "But other things Daisey told us about Apple's operations in China checked out, and we saw no reason to doubt him."

Apple has been rebutting Daisey's allegations for months, to little effect. The Times also wrote an investigative series in January on dangerous working and living conditions for people who make Apple products in China, including explosions inside factories making iPads where four people were killed and 77 were injured.

An Apple spokeswoman declined to comment Friday. Daisey spokesman Philip Rinaldi said Friday his client was "not speaking to anyone about this right now."

The original "This American Life" episode, "Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory," has become the most popular podcast in the history of "This American Life" with nearly 890,000 downloads.

Daisey also claimed in an interview with AP late last year that he met Chinese workers whose joints in their hands had disintegrated because they were doing the same motion hundreds of thousands of times.

"I know that people in charge know about these things and chose not to address them. And that's hard to swallow when you see the damage it does and you know how little it would take to ameliorate a high degree of human suffering," he said then.

The Times, which published Daisey's op-ed piece following Steve Jobs' death in early October, removed a paragraph from the online version that discussed conditions at Apple's factory in China. The newspaper posted an editor's note warning readers that the section had been removed because "questions have been raised about the truth."

"The rest of the piece is his opinion as a performer and a thinker," said Eileen Murphy, a Times' spokeswoman. "If this were a news story it would be a different situation. It's not. It's an op-ed."

In his original monologue, Daisey splices Jobs career milestones and the transformation of Apple from a David into a Goliath with more personal stories about his own connection to the computer maker.

He has said that when he saw four photos posted online taken by workers at a Chinese factory to test the iPhone but mistakenly not erased, he suddenly realized people, not robots, were putting the sleek devices together.

In interviews and on stage, Daisey has said he traveled to the Chinese industrial zone of Shenzhen and interviewed hundreds of workers from Foxconn Technology Group, the world's largest electronics contract manufacturer, who suffered from their work.

"It's like carpal tunnel on a scale we can scarcely imagine," he said while performing the show in New York in October.

In this weekend's "This American Life," Daisey tells Glass he felt conflicted about presenting things that he knew weren't true. But he said he felt "trapped" and was afraid people would no longer care about the abuses at the factories if he didn't present things in a dramatic way.

"I'm not going to say that I didn't take a few shortcuts in my passion to be heard," he tells Glass.

Daisey has performed the monologue for some 50,000 people from Seattle to Washington, D.C., and it is now at The Public Theater until Sunday. Daisey was expected to take the show on tour, but its future is now in doubt.

In a statement, The Public Theater said the show would be performed in New York as scheduled and stood by what it called "a powerful work of art."

"Mike is an artist, not a journalist," the statement said. "Nevertheless, we wish he had been more precise with us and our audiences about what was and wasn't his personal experience in the piece."

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AP Drama Writer Mark Kennedy and Associated Press Business Writer Ryan Nakashima contributed to this report from New York.

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Online:

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?http://mikedaisey.blogspot.com

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Selecting a Laminate Floor | Home Improvement

Traditional look of wooden flooring is timeless; its beauty has brought a sense of comfort and elegance to houses around the world for generations. Wood flooring are however, not costly, very difficult and need quite a lot of routine care and servicing. Even the latest technological advances in exterior treatment have not been able to solve problems such as scratches, fading, dents and stains. This has led to the discovery wooden flooring. With your machine to do the construction and exterior photography plywood, wooden flooring surfaces is the perfect solution for the look and benefit actual wooden surfaces are more durable and need little servicing.

Since the introduction of wooden flooring surfaces in the U.S. in 1982, this sector has grown by 20% per year at the expense of other types of flooring surfaces, wooden flooring surfaces so that the soil type of the fastest growing in the country. Its charm lies not only in their aesthetic value of its representation of actual wooden, but also for exceptional durability and ease of servicing. Laminate flooring surfaces is built to withstand the rigors of today?s active lifestyle.

Unlike actual wood, wooden flooring surfaces will not stain, fade, dent and scratch, and hold more water. Laminate guarantees range from 10 decades to lifetime and cover such factors as mentioned above. Basic of laminates is designed for light visitor?s areas and come with warranties of 10 to 15 decades. Most individuals set their expectations too great and we expect the access stage wooden flooring will perform under high-traffic conditions and still look good during the guarantee period. But this does not happen, as the input material laminated great visitors will start to show wear three to five decades.

Buy flooring surfaces that fits your needs will conserve your funds in the long run. This does not mean that every home needs high-end wooden flooring with extensive guarantee. Consider the quantity of visitors and how long you intend to stay in their houses today. There is no point in buying costly flooring surfaces with guarantee if you plan to move in the near future. Keep in mind, land is usually the first thing replaced by individuals when moving to a new home.

Laminate surfaces come with cores ranging from 6 mm to 12 mm. A thicker primary is more stable, less prone to buckling and will sound more like actual wooden when walking. A top quality wooden flooring sample is treated with water resilient chemicals, and resists swelling due to excessive moisture. This is particularly important when considering placing wooden flooring surfaces in lavatories and the kitchen. For this application is also considered a wooden flooring having joints impregnated with paraffin wax. Paraffin wax acts as water resilient and prevents water from penetrating topical spills into the laminated primary. Also you should consider the guarantee, as some wooden flooring surfaces are not covered for use in lavatories and the kitchen.

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Researchers create more efficient hydrogen fuel cells

ScienceDaily (Mar. 15, 2012) ? Hydrogen fuel cells, like those found in some "green" vehicles, have a lot of promise as an alternative fuel source, but making them practical on a large scale requires them to be more efficient and cost effective.

A research team from the University of Central Florida may have found a way around both hurdles.

The majority of hydrogen fuel cells use catalysts made of a rare and expensive metal -- platinum. There are few alternatives because most elements can't endure the fuel cell's highly acidic solvents present in the reaction that converts hydrogen's chemical energy into electrical power. Only four elements can resist the corrosive process -- platinum, iridium, gold and palladium. The first two are rare and expensive, which makes them impractical for large-scale use. The other two don't do well with the chemical reaction.

UCF Professor Sergey Stolbov and postdoctoral research associate Marisol Alc?ntara Ortigoza focused on making gold and palladium better suited for the reaction.

They created a sandwich-like structure that layers cheaper and more abundant elements with gold and palladium and other elements to make it more effective.

The outer monoatomic layer (the top of the sandwich) is either palladium or gold. Below it is a layer that works to enhance the energy conversion rate but also acts to protect the catalyst from the acidic environment. These two layers reside on the bottom slice of the sandwich -- an inexpensive substrate (tungsten), which also plays a role in the stability of the catalyst.

"We are very encouraged by our first attempts that suggest that we can create two cost-effective and highly active palladium- and gold-based catalysts -for hydrogen fuel cells, a clean and renewable energy source," Stolbov said.

Stolbov's work was recently published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.

By creating these structures, more energy is converted, and because the more expensive and rare metals are not used, the cost could be significantly less.

Stolbov said experiments are needed to test their predictions, but he says the approach is quite reliable. He's already working with a group within the U.S. Department of Energy to determine whether the results can be duplicated and have potential for large-scale application.

If a way could be found to make hydrogen fuel cells practical and cost effective, vehicles that run on gasoline and contribute to the destruction of the ozone layer could become a thing of the past.

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  1. Sergey Stolbov, Marisol Alc?ntara Ortigoza. Rational Design of Competitive Electrocatalysts for Hydrogen Fuel Cells. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2012; 3 (4): 463 DOI: 10.1021/jz201551e

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Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120315110407.htm

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Scramble with Friends now available in the Google Play Store

Scramble With Friends

Zynga has made some extremely popular mobile applications such as Words With Friends and a few others, and today Scramble With Friends has landed in the Google Play Store. Scramble with friends has been available on iOS for some time now, and it is equally as addictive as Words With Friends. The concept of the game is simple, connect the tiles you have to create words, the more letter the more points. Tokens are also collected as the game is played, and these can be used to buy help during the game, for example hints or the ability to free time if you wish.

The download is free, the game is addictive, so hit the break and download it today!

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