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Sailing in Poland.Sailing in Poland.Have You Ever Dreamed of Planning Your Own Cruise?

If you have, then Le Boat is for you. With fleets of boats all across Europe, Le Boat gives travelers the opportunity to lead their own vacation on a boat. Whether you want to explore the waters of Ireland, Scotland, England, Holland, Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, or Poland, Le Boat is the way to do it, for the ability to stop whenever you want and the activities along the way are truly priceless.

The Newest Location

Beginning in 2014, Le Boat will be opening a new base in the Masurian Lakes of Poland. These lakes are perfect for couples, families, or any groups looking to have a relaxing vacation. This is also a great location for anyone who loves nature, wildlife, or water sports, for the cruising area is beautiful and full of activities.

The Masurian Lakes

This base opens up travelers to 45 lakes connected by 12 canals, 8 rivers, and 3 locks. Throughout the region there are eleven nature reserves, one of which, the Luknajo Lake Reserve, is listed by United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) because it contains around a thousand mute swans. The Luknajo Lake Reserve is one of the largest breeding areas for this species, making it one of the primary spots for Le Boat drivers to see.

PolandDo you need a license to drive a boat in Poland?

Luckily, no! Through Le Boat anyone can be their own captain, even if they have never driven a boat in their life. Upon arriving to the base, Le Boat employees will provide information about the boats and perform a demonstration to show you anything that you might need to know.

First, employees will explain the charts, going over your route with you to ensure that you will not get lost. Then they’ll explain the lock system and where you can moor. Although there are some restricted areas where the public cannot moor, finding free mooring typically is not hard. However, some guests prefer to moor in certain marinas that have other amenities like electric hook-ups, showers, and food. After going through all of this information, you will be all set to begin your vacation.

Brett Jenkins, the Le Boat Marketing Manager for North America, explains, “if you can drive a car, you can drive one of our boats.” This is in large part due to the fact that all of the waterways are free of commercial traffic, making navigation much easier.

What are the boats like?

Boats can sleep anywhere from two to ten people depending on the size, but all boats are fully equipped with all of the luxuries you would expect on a vacation: a full kitchen, running water, a living room, a bathroom with a shower, heat, and more. Some of the newer boats even contain air conditioning and televisions.

In addition to the being fully equipped for a vacation lifestyle, the boats also have everything necessary for a safe vacation. From navigational charts and boat hooks to life jackets and a basic first aid kit, whatever you could need will be on the boat. Fishing in Poland.Fishing in Poland. The boats are also self-sufficient. While cruising, the engine will charge the batteries, heat your water, and keep your refrigerator cold. This provides Le Boat captains with the ultimate freedom to control their own vacation.

What to bring?

Since you’ll be living on a boat throughout your cruise, it’s crucial to know what to bring. The boat will come fully stocked with pillows, sheets, kitchen utensils, and bath towels, which will greatly cut down on how much you need to pack.

Aside from the typical things you’d bring on vacation, such as clothes, sunscreen, and toiletries, there are a few other things you need while vacationing on your own boat. Kitchen and dish cleaning products and toilet paper are necessities, along with a flashlight in case you want to get off of the boat and walk around at night.

Additionally, it’s advised to get leather or gardening gloves because they help people hold the ropes in the boats locks. Of course, it is also necessary for people to bring any food, snacks, or drinks that they would like, but food will also be available at various stops throughout the lakes.

How far do people typically go on these trips?

Island residence in Poland.Island residence in Poland.The length of the trip is completely up to the traveler. From a short break trip of only three or four days to a longer vacation of fourteen days to a long break for one to two months, anything is possible.

Le Boat has numerous itineraries to choose from for each location. For the Masurian Lakes of Poland, Le Boat has options ranging from a twenty-nine kilometer trip that takes around four days to a 262 kilometer trip that takes fourteen trips.

On the bases, there will be many things you can rent to bring on the boat in order to add something extra to your trip. Many people choose to rent bicycles to take with them for when they dock the boat. If, on the other hand, you prefer being on the water, Le Boat offers fishing and paddleboard packages. Lastly, for the people who are just looking to relax, there are barbecues, deck cushions, and Wi-Fi mini routers available for rent.

The Details

The cost of the trip varies based on location, boat size, boat type, and length of trip. To find out specific prices, it is best to contact Le Boat or look at their website and determine what would best suit your needs. If you book your vacation early, you can receive special offers and save up to 15%. Learn more about Le Boat  or call them at 1-800-734-5491.

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History, politics, dirty tricks and a dramatic finish: all this and more lies behind this week's recording, the most famous and best selling classical album of the 1960's. And what a story it is!

The Times

1957. The Cold War is icing up and freezing over. The Russians are the enemy, Communism is the greatest threat to the Free World. Krushchev famously announces to the West "We will bury you!" and emphasises the point by banging his shoe on the polished UN tabletop.

In October Russia launches Sputnik, and Americans haplessly watch the skies as the Totalitarian technology cruises over their heads. There is a real fear that this same technology could easily deliver a cargo of nuclear weapons. The comfortable world of the 1950's has suddenly become a small and frightening place.

The Competition

In March, 1958 the First Moscow Tchaikovsky Piano Competition is about to begin. The line-up is daunting. The General Chairman is Dmitri Shostakovich, and the jurors include such revered names as Sviatoslav Richter, Emil Gilels, Dmitri Kabalevsky and Sir Arthur Bliss. 50 contestants from around the world, each required to play concertos by the very Russian Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov.

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Into this ferment steps a lanky (6'3") Texan with the unlikely name of Van Cliburn. The Hall is packed for the final round, the atmosphere electric. Most of the audience have never seen an American, their indoctrinated distrust overpowered by their curiosity and love of music.

Cliburn's choice is bold: the Tchaikovsky First Piano Concerto, and the Rachmaninov Third. Both well-known, well-loved and fiendishly difficult. This is not music to play wrong in front of the home crowd.

Cliburn plays his heart out. Technically perfect, full of insight and virtuosity, he breaths new vigour and personality into these concert-hall standards. The audience erupts into applause, applause that does not stop until Gilels leads Cliburn out onto the stage to finally acknowledge it.

The jurors are faced with a dilemma. Although Cliburn is clearly the best, he has one great disadvantage in their eyes: he is American. Many of the jurors had already picked out a Russian, Lev Vlasenko as the winner, a decision they thought would meet with the approval of Krushchev and the audience.

And so they give Cliburn a very average score. Richter senses what is happening and to redress the imbalance awards Cliburn a perfect 25 out of 25, and many of the other pianists zero. When confronted about his unusual scoring system, Richter replies "People either make music or they don't."

Richter and Gilels decide to approach Krushchev directly. Krushchev asks who is the best. Krushchev and Gilels reply that it is Cliburn. "Well," says Krushchev, "in that case, give him the Prize!"

The Homecoming

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Cliburn returns to the United States a hero, the “Texan who Conquered Russia”. He is given a ticker-tape parade welcome in New York City, and a string of concerts and recording contracts make him a household name.

His first recording on returning to the US is the same Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto no.1 with Kirill Kondrashin, the same conductor as for the competition. The record is an instant best-seller, the first classical record ever to sell over a million copies.

And that is the recording on this CD, coupled with the Rachmaninov Piano Concerto no.2 with Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony. The unforgetable twelve chords that open the Rachmaninov welling up and melting into one of the most gorgeous melodies of the twntieth century. Richly inventive, these recordings signalled the return of the personality to the stage, not surprising as Cliburn's teachers have a legacy dating back to Franz Liszt.

After a very successful and lauded career performing and recording, Van Cliburn gave it all up in 1978, initially aiming to rest for a year, but which stretched out to ten.
“I'd always known that someday I would take some time off just for myself. Even before Russia, I had said 'I know the first part of my life I would have to work very hard, and I would want an intermission because I know the last part of my life I would again have to work very hard'”
Only in 1987 did he return to the stage, at the invitation of the President Reagan. The occassion was a visit by Mikhail Gorbachev to celebrate the thaw in relations between the superpowers. Gorbachev invited Van Cliburn back to Russia for a series of concerts which were a huge success.

A full circle of art bridging enemy nations. And to think it all started with the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto - this is a recording to treasure.

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Study: LimeWire still top P2P software; uTorrent #2

Popular download choice hangs in after eight years

LimeWire, a grizzled veteran of the peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing scene, remains the most popular software for exchanging music, video and software -- much of it pirated -- through the Internet, according to a study released Wednesday.

LimeWire was used on 17.8 per cent of PCs in September last year, according to the latest Digital Media Desktop Report. Since about half of surveyed PCs have at least one peer-to-peer sharing application installed, that gives LimeWire a 36.4 per cent share -- more than three times the 11.3 per cent share of the next-most popular client, uTorrent.

The report is a collaboration of digital music consultancy BigChampagne, utility software provider PC Pitstop, and Digital Music News. More than 100,000 Windows PCs were polled each month, with a total of 1.67 million machines polled during the 12 months.

The first version of LimeWire was released in 2000 as an alternative to the pioneering Napster MP3 sharing network. Its contemporaries, such as KaZaa, Morpheus, FastTrack, SoulSeek, Audiogalaxy and (of course) Napster, have long since faded, though Napster now operates today as a small service dealing strictly in legal downloads, and Audiogalaxy evolved into the Rhapsody subscription service.

Overseen by US-based LimeWire, the open-source LimeWire software comes in free and pro versions. The latter costs US$21.95 and runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

LimeWire's ongoing dominance is surprising for a number of reasons. Two generations of college students -- often characterized as the most avid filesharers -- have graduated since its release. Indeed, today's college freshman would've been just 10 years old when LimeWire was first released.

Moreover, LimeWire long relied solely on the slower Gnutella network, which made it less suitable for exchanging large video files such as high-definition TV shows or movies. LimeWire only recently released an upgrade that lets users search and exchange files via BitTorrent.

Finally, like Napster, LimeWire has faced several lawsuits from music companies and the RIAA -- though unlike the former, LimeWire has survived them all without a major shutdown.

Nevertheless, LimeWire last month signaled its intention to, like the company behind BitTorrent, go at least partly legal. It launched a beta version of the LimeWire Store where users can buy music online, similar to Apple's iTunes store. Unlike iTunes, however, the LimeWire Store sells its music without DRM copyright restrictions.

Meanwhile, uTorrent's share nearly quadrupled over the course of the year, from 3 per cent in September 2006 to 11.3 per cent in September 2007. The BitTorrent client was the third most popular client, with 4.6 per cent market share.

BitTorrent -- the system as a whole, including both the network and the BitTorrent client -- has been heavily hyped in the past several years as a way of sharing files, especially large ones, due to its more efficient distributed technology. Besides BitTorrent, other popular desktop software that allow users to connect with others in the BitTorrent network include uTorrent, Azureus/Vuze, BitComet, BitLord and BitTornado. Those programs collectively held 28.2 per cent of the P2P market last September.

But the Gnutella network, to which LimeWire users connect, also remains the most popular, with 40.5 per cent of the market. Other Gnutella software in the report's top thirteen includes BearShare and FrostWire.

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Forrester: Microsoft opens virtual desktop options

Licensing remains expensive and complicated for enterprises, but Microsoft is allowing new usage scenarios

Changes Microsoft has made to its desktop virtualization licensing are giving enterprises more scenarios for how they can virtualize Windows XP or Vista on corporate desktops, but it's still a complicated and relatively expensive endeavor, according to a recent report by Forrester Research.

Effective Jan. 1, Microsoft loosened some previous restrictions regarding how PCs can access a virtualized corporate desktop of Windows PCs in its Vista Enterprise Centralized Desktop (VECD) license, Forrester analyst Natalie Lambert wrote in the report, "Desktop Virtualization: The Updated Rules Of The Road For Virtualizing Windows."

However, the licensing is still tied to Software Assurance (SA), Microsoft's costly enterprise maintenance and update service, and Microsoft still requires companies to license Windows on top of whichever enabling virtualization software - its own, VMware or another competitor's - a company is using, she said.

"It's still very complicated, but the scenarios are opening up to make the vision of desktop virtualization possible," Lambert said.

Desktop virtualization allows an enterprise to run a virtual image of a user's desktop, complete with OS, applications and data an employee would normally have access to, in the data center rather than locally. Companies can, among other things, use this to take the cost out of their IT environments.

The changes to VECD licensing in particular open up two scenarios that allow contractors and full-time employees of enterprises to use their own PCs to access a virtualized corporate desktop that are among the problems enterprises are trying to solve using virtualization, she said.

On one hand, enterprises are trying to reduce the number of IT assets they provide to employees to reduce costs, Lambert said. This is particularly true with contractors who don't work full time for a company. On the other, full-time employees want access to their corporate desktops even when they are not in the office, which is another problem desktop virtualization can solve.

If an enterprise had virtualized its desktop PCs on a corporate network even before Jan. 1, these scenarios were possible, she said, but were not allowed under the previous version of VECD. Now Microsoft is allowing them, but with some caveats and additional fees, Lambert said.

The new licensing works like this: If an enterprise already has SA covering all of its devices, it costs them US$23 per device, per year, to grant employees the ability to access their corporate PCs through their company's virtualized desktop.

If a PC is not covered by SA - say, in the case of a contracted offshore developer working in India without a Microsoft SA contract - then it costs $110 per device, per year to grant someone access to the virtualized corporate desktop. Moreover, the company that wants to give a contractor access to the virtualized network has to purchase a business version of Vista or XP and have it installed on the contractor's PC for that person to legally under VECD access the virtualized network, Lambert said.

Employees who want to bring their own computers to work and use the corporate virtual desktop environment can access a Windows virtualized desktop environment for $110 per device, per year, but only if each employee who wants to do this already has purchased a copy of Windows and has it running on a PC that they own, Lambert said.

This type of scenario even makes it possible for an employee who prefers working on an Apple Mac computer rather than a Windows PC to use that computer at work to access the corporate desktop network, she added.

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GoldenEye 007 review: Is GoldenEye 007 on the Wii as good as the N64 original?

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  • Good AIs, gritty vibe, great gameplay, GoldenEye is back!

  • Not as groundbreaking as the original, four-way multiplayer with WiiMote/Nunchucks is a bit awkward

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GoldenEye 007 is a fun, respectable FPS that in no way tarnishes its beloved daddy. That said, it's unlikely to ever be regarded as a classic like the original.

Would you buy this?

Games based on movies are crap. When you broach this subject with a group of gamers, you'd probably incur eager nods of emphatic agreement. But then somebody will always ruin the moment with: "But what about GoldenEye 007 on the N64?"

Released back in the 1997 and based on the James Bond film of the same name, GoldenEye 007 was a revolutionary FPS that proved you can have a fulfilling single-player campaign and a mind-blowing multiplayer experience on a console.

This was when multiplayer meant playing with a four-way splitscreen on a small CRT TV (none of that 60in LCD TV business or the luxury of online multiplayer); which makes it even more impressive.

Having been earmarked as one of the best shooters of all time, you can imagine the joy of fanboys all around the world when Nintendo announced at E3 that the game was being remade for the Wii.

I think I may even have shed a tear.

This time around, the game is not developed by Rareware (the guys behind the original who subsequently went on to make Viva Pinata) and Pierce Brosnan has been unceremoniously dumped for Daniel Craig.

Even so, it's hard to rain on the parade of the many fervent GoldenEye fans and their impossibly high expectations. But alas, just as Daniel Craig is not as suave as Pierce Brosnan, Wii's GoldenEye can't match the N64 original. But that's not to say it's not good.

The name is Pierce... Sorry, Craig.

The storyline has appropriately been given a modern wash. The movie's premise remains intact, but the characters and finer plot details have 'gotten with the times'. Many familiar elements have been given a 21st century makeover. For instance, Bond plants his smartphone on the enemy helicopter to track its course to a secret enemy base (instead of a military tracking device). In fact, the smartphone also supplants the old Bond watch and performs a number of functions to aid you in the game, including taking photos to complete certain tasks.

Bond even uses a facial recognition app on his phone. Seriously, an app! To think I was already impressed with a watch-embedded laser from the original. Oh my, how times have moved on since GolenEye N64.

I do miss the cool introduction sequence from GoldenEye N64, where Bond saunters onto the screen and shoots you in the face with the classic 007 movie theme playing as the scene goes through the different characters in the game. Ah, memories.

In terms of gameplay, the developers haven't forgotten the crucial combination of shooting and stealth that made the original such a cult classic. Sneaking around and timely shooting to silence an enemy still underpins the Wii version.

While the game does contain levels from the original, they have been adapted to suit the revamped storyline. But that's fine with me. It is not a port of the N64 version and it does a good job breathing fresh life into an old favourite, while some parts will make dedicated fans stop and shout, "Oh! I remember this bit!"

Bond girls and other eye candy

The graphics are fairly good by Wii standards, although during some of the cutscenes Bond's face was so static it was reminiscent of the old jagged polygon flat-faced Bond from the N64 version. The detailed environment is impressive and features destructible elements.

Xenia Onatopp definitely looks a lot better (ahem, hotter) than she did in the old game.

GoldenEye Wii uses a modified version of the game engine Eurocom used for Dead Space: Extraction, adopting an aim-down sight system with a degree of auto-aim similar to those you see on first-person shooters like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 on the Xbox 360 or PS3. It also borrows bits from modern FPS games, such as slow-motion gunfire sequences as well as options to pull off stealth executions.

For those playing with the WiiMote and Nunchucks, certain actions such as jumping over obstacles require specific hand gestures. A quasi-cover system allows you to crouch behind objects and pull up to shoot once the ADS button is triggered which is pleasantly effective. The AI is a strong point of the game. Enemies can alert other guards once you are spotted and have an impressive repertoire of moves when it comes to evading your shots.

Four's a crowd

Multiplayer was a huge part of the original GoldenEye 007 game, it would be a kick in the guts if Eurocom didn't put 110 per cent effort into it in the Wii version. Luckily, the developer did good job at bringing some of that old magic back.

But I have a few nits to pick.

You can forget playing splitscreen multiplayer with the Nunchucks and WiiMote setup, sadly. Watching your mates wave their arms around in your peripheral vision during a tense game of cat-and-mouse is not only distracting but is annoying enough to induce intense gamer-rage. (Mind you, I was playing on a fairly small screen so if you have a cinema-sized display, you might have better luck than I did.)

I highly recommend investing in classic controllers or nicking your friend's old GameCube controllers. Either that, or play each other through online multiplayer mode, which is a welcome addition to GoldenEye 007 Wii.

You won't find all the multiplayer maps from the N64 in the new version (although there is a revamped Facility map) but old fans should be able to find some favourites in the new collection.

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Overall, the game feels much grittier than the original, reflective of how the recent 007 franchise reboot killed off some of the kitsch elements that made some of the older films laughable. Bond is no longer a pretty boy MI6 agent. He's a lean mean killing machine; cold and efficient.

But will GoldenEye Wii ever live up to the high expectations of hardened GoldenEye fans? Probably not.

A big reason why GoldenEye N64 is such a beloved game is its groundbreaking nature at the time of its release. No other title did FPS better at the time, and it is widely touted as the game that opened up many doors for the FPS games we see today.

While the Wii version is an enjoyable experience, it's really nothing new.

But we need not despair. GoldenEye Wii can stand on its own two feet. It is a solid FPS in its own right — even if it won't make its mark in the annals of gaming history.

For old fans, the nostalgia factor alone is worth giving this game a go. For newcomers who want a robust FPS adventure, you won't be disappointed.

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Publication numberUS4225216 A
Publication typeGrant
Application numberUS 06/013,385
Publication dateSep 30, 1980
Filing dateFeb 21, 1979
Priority dateFeb 21, 1979
Publication number013385, 06013385, US 4225216 A, US 4225216A, US-A-4225216, US4225216 A, US4225216A
InventorsGary D. Boyd, Ross A. Lemons, James C. Phillips, Joseph P. Remeika, Edward G. Spencer
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Tungsten niobate electrochromic device
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Disclosed is an electro-optical device in which color changes are electrically induced in an electrochromic material which is a single or polycrystalline niobium tungstate represented approximately by the formula W9 Nb8 O47. The device comprises an ion source and a source of an electrical field which may be reversible so as to produce coloring and bleaching of the electrochromic material. Due to high corrosion resistance of such material, the ion source may conveniently be a hydrous electrolyte.
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1. An electro-optical device comprising an electrochromic material, an electrolyte ion source in contact with at least a portion of a surface of said material, and means for producing an electric field across said portion to induce color change in said electrochromic material CHARACTERIZED IN THAT said material consists essentially of a single or polycrystalline tungsten niobate represented by the formula (9WO3)1+X (4Nb2 O5)1-X where X is a number in the range of -0.02 to +0.02.
2. The device of claim 1 in which said material forms a substrate-supported layer.
3. The device of claim 1 in which said ion source is a hydrous electrolyte.
4. The device of claim 2 in which said material has been deposited on a substrate by sputtering while said substrate was at a temperature in the range of 600-800 degrees C.
5. The device of claim 2 in which said material has been deposited on a substrate by sputtering or ion beam deposition followed by heating at a temperature in the range of 600-800 degrees C.
6. The device of claim 1 in which reactive impurities are present in said material in a combined amount of less than 1 weight percent.
7. The device of claim 1 in which said material is interspersed with at least one nonreactive additive.
8. The device of claim 7 in which said additive is elemental gold in an amount not exceeding 25 atomic percent.

The invention is concerned with electro-optical devices.

Electrochromic materials, i.e., materials susceptible to electrically induced change in coloration, have been considered for use in a variety of devices such as, e.g., optical filters and flat screen displays. These devices comprise an electrochromic material, typically in the form of a layer, a source of ions in contact with a surface of such layer, and a source of a variable electric field such as, e.g., a pair of transparent electrodes. Specific examples of electrochromic materials are WO3, MoO3, and V2 O5 ; additional materials are disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 3,521,941 (issued July 28, 1970). Various device structures are disclosed, e.g., in the above-cited patent and in U.S. Pat. No. 4,060,311 (issued Nov. 29, 1977). Application of electrochromic materials in optical communications is disclosed in pending U.S. Pat. application Ser. No. 973,162, filed Dec. 26, 1978, for L. F. Johnson-S. Singh-L. G. Van Uitert.

While color changes in electrochromic materials are generally believed to result from a valance change (charge compensation being provided by the movement of ions), the exact physical mechanism underlying the generation and annihilation of color absorption centers in electrochromic materials remains a subject of continuing investigations. For example, D. Krause et al., "Electrochromic Coatings for Reflectivity Control", Electro-Optical Systems Design, November 1977, page 54, describe a reaction involving simultaneous injection of equal numbers of protons and electrons into colorless WO3 and yielding a blue reaction product.

Electrical and optical properties of electrochromic WO3 have been extensively investigated and reported on in a series of papers comprising the following: S. K. Deb, "Optical and Photoelectric Properties and Colour Centers in Thin Films of Tungsten Oxide", Philosophic Magazine, Volume 27, page 801 (1973), Richard S. Crandall et al., "Measurement of the Diffusion Coefficient of Electrons in WO3 Films", Applied Physics Letters, Volume 26, No. 3, Feb. 1, 1975, page 120, Brian W. Faughnan et al., "Electrochromism in WO3 Amorphous Films", RCA Review, Volume 36, March 1975, page 177, Brian W. Faughnan et al., "Model for the Bleaching of WO3 Electrochromic Films by an Electric Field", Applied Physics Letters, Volume 27, No. 5, Sept. 1, 1975, page 275, Richard S. Crandall et al., "Dynamics of Coloration of Amorphous Electrochromic Films of WO3 at Low Voltages", Applied Physics Letters, Volume 28, No. 2, Jan. 15, 1976, page 95, E. K. Sichel et al., "Electrochromism in the Composite Material Au-WO3 ", Applied Physics Letters, Volume 31, No. 2, July 15, 1977, page 109, and P. Gerard et al., "Color in Tungsten Trioxide Thin Films", Journal of Applied Physics, Volume 48, No. 10, October 1977, page 4252.

Another practical concern is with operational reliability and service life of electrochromic devices. For example, use of an anhydrous source of ions as disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,059,341 (issued Nov. 22, 1977) is motivated by a desire to prolong the useful life of devices. While such concern may arise primarily when elevated operating voltages are employed, shortening of service life due to corrosion of the electrochromic material in the presence of a hydrous electrolyte is a concern even at lower operating voltages. Consequently, it is desirable to have available electrochromic materials which exhibit high corrosion resistance.

Additional references which are considered relevant in connection with the invention are as follows: H. Obayashi et al., "Intermediate Phases and Pseudophases in the System WO3 --Nb2 O5 : Tetragonal Tungsten Bronze Phases", Journal of Solid State Chemistry, Volume 17, pages 79-89 (1976), R. S. Roth et al., "Phase Equilibrium as Related to Crystal Structure in the System Niobium Pentoxide-Tungsten Trioxide", Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards, Volume 70A, Nov. 4, July-August 1966, Page 281, S. Iijima et al., "Structural Studies by High-resolution Electron Microscopy: Tetragonal Tungsten Bronze-Type Structures in the System Nb2 O5 --WO3 ", Acta Crystallographica, Volume A30, (1974), page 22, and S. Iijima et al., "Structural Studies by Electron Microscopy: Coherent Intergrowth of the ReO3 and Tetragonal Tungsten Bronze Structure Types in the System Nb2 O5 --WO3 ", Acta Crystallographica, Volume A30 (1974), page 29.

The invention is an electro-optical device comprising an electrochromic material which consists essentially of a tungsten niobate approximately represented by the formula W9 Nb8 O47. Coloring of such material ranges from a pale yellow to dark blue and persists in the absence of an electric field. On account of high corrosion resistance, the device may conveniently be operated with hydrous electrolytes such as, e.g., dilute sulfuric acid.

The FIGURE shows, in cross section, an electrochromic device which is reversibly connected to a source of a direct-current voltage.

The FIGURE shows first substrate 11, first contact layer 12, electrochromic layer 13, second substrate 14, second contact layer 15, spacer 16, liquid electrolyte 17 which is sealed between layers 13 and 15 by means of adhesive sealant 18, and source of direct current voltage 19 which is electrically connected to layers 12 and 15 via switch 20. According to the invention, layer 13 consists essentially of a single crystal or polycrystalline tungsten niobate which is approximately represented by the formula W9 Nb8 O47.

Device Manufacture. Devices of the invention may be manufactured, e.g., by layer deposition on substrates, fused silica and sapphire being among exemplary substrate materials. Both substrates may be transparent as, e.g., in projection devices; alternatively, one substrate may be opaque as, e.g., in devices utilizing reflected light. Substrates may serve to support contact and electrochromic layers and to contain a preferably liquid electrolyte, ion source having the consistency of a solid, paste, or gel being alternatives to a liquid electrolyte. Prior to deposition of contact layers 12 and 15, substrates 11 and 14 are preferably polished and cleaned to enhance adhesion of contact layers. Among suitable transparent contact materials are doped semiconducting tin oxide and indium tin oxide which may conveniently be deposited by sputtering. Contact layers may also be made by depositing thin layers of Ag, Au, or Pt by thermal or electron evaporation, choice of preferred contact layer material being generally based on degree of transparency or reflectivity, respectively, depending on whether a device is intended for operation in a transmission mode or a reflecting mode.

Contact layers may be composite as manufactured, e.g., by electron beam evaporation of Pt on a Cr flash. Finally, glass substrates coated with a suitable contact layer may be commercially available.

Deposition of electrochromic layer 13 may be, e.g., by sputtering or ion beam deposition. A single sputtering target may, e.g., consist essentially of single crystal or polycrystalline W9 Nb8 O47 or may consist essentially of a mixture of WO3 and Nb2 O5 in a molecular proportion of approximately 9:4. Deposition may also be by sputtering in oxygen from a target of W and Nb metallic powders (mixed in proper proportion) or from interlaced W and Nb ribbons (having properly proportioned surface areas). Oxygen pressure may typically be on the order of 1 to 10 micrometer mercury during such sputtering. Final layer thickness may be approximately 0.5 micrometer.

To produce a polycrystalline structure, sputtering is preferably carried out while the substrate is held at elevated temperature and, in particular, at a temperature in the range of 600-800 degrees C. Alternatively, a layer may be deposited at lower temperatures by sputtering or ion beam deposition, crystallinity being developed subsequent to deposition by heating to a temperature in such preferred range. Deposition of layers 12, 13, and 15 may be followed by selective removal of layers, e.g., by standard masking and etching techniques, so as to result in patterned layers as may be desired for specific displays.

Electrode spacing is not critical and may conveniently be on the order of 0.1 to 1 millimeter.

It is generally believed that electrochromism in W9 Nb8 O47 is based on a reversible valance change between W+6 and W+5 (blue), a proton being injected to provide charge compensation, and proton mobility being enhanced by a so-called tunnel structure in a crystalline state. Such structure is described in the papers by Obayshi, Roth, and Iijima cited above. Accordingly, polycrystalline or single crystal structure in layer 13 is preferred.

In the interest of adequate electrochromic response, composition should preferably be accurate to within 2 percent in the sense that proportional amounts of constituents Nb2 O5 and WO3 deviate preferably by at most 2 molecular percent from amounts present in a nominal composition represented by the formula W9 Nb8 O47 =(9WO3)(4Nb2 O5). Consequently, preferred compounds may be represented by formulas (9WO3)1+x (4Nb2 O5)1-x where x is a number in the preferred range of -0.02 to +0.02.

While reactive impurities are considered detrimental to electrochromic response and, accordingly, are preferably kept below 1 weight percent, certain nonreactive additives may be tolerable and even beneficial for certain applications. For example, elemental gold may be present in colloidal dispersion, resulting in a material analogous to the cermet disclosed in the paper by Sichel et al. cited above. Such additions may result in a shifted absorption edge and concomitant change of color range.

Application of a positive voltage to electrode 15 causes coloration of layer 13, coloration remains essentially unchanged when electrodes are open-circuited, and reversal of voltage causes bleaching. Color may vary from pale yellow in the bleached state to a deep blue in the colored state. Speed of color change depends directly on the magnitude of field strength; e.g., for a change between color extremes in an experimental device, approximately 4 seconds were required when voltage was 1 volt, but only about 2 seconds were required when voltage was 2 volts across a 0.5 micrometer thick layer of W9 Nb8 O47.

Corrosion Resistance. Deposited films of electrochromic W9 Nb8 O47 were found to have superior corrosion resistance. For example, no noticeable change in layer thickness was observed after holding selected films for one month in H2 O, in 1-molar H2 SO4, and in 5-molar NaOH.

Fused silica substrates 11 and 14 were coated with layers 12 and 15 of indium tin oxide by sputtering. For deposition of layer 13 by sputtering, a target was prepared from reagent grade (0.9999 pure) powders of Nb2 O5 and WO3 by ball milling 4 parts Nb2 O5 and 9 parts WO3 in alcohol using alumina balls, drying the mixture, pressing it by means of a 2-inch diameter steel die, and heating at 1250 degrees C. in air for 15 hours. A layer of W9 Nb8 O47 having a thickness of approximately 0.5 micrometers was deposited by sputtering from the target at a rate of approximately 100-200 Angstroms/min. Sputtering was carried out while the substrate was held at a temperature of approximately 650-700 degrees C. Radio frequency power was approximately 500 watts, and the atmosphere was 20 percent oxygen and 80 percent argon at a pressure of 20 torr. Polycrystalline structure of the resulting layer was verified by X-ray analysis according to Debye-Scherrer which revealed sharp lines. Operating characteristics were as described above.

Using a crystalline W9 Nb8 O47 target, thin films were deposited onto indium tin oxide coated sapphire substrates held near room temperature. Films were subsequently heated in air at 700 degrees C. for approximately 30 minutes to develop a polycrystalline structure. Operating characteristics were as described above.

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This week parents and officials from lower Manhattan announced the area would soon get another elementary school, the third new school recently slated for the area.

But parents in other sections of the city have less reason to applaud. An amendment to the city's five year capital plan for the Department of Education, to be voted on by the Panel for Education Policy on Wednesday, calls for a major rollback in plans for new school design and construction between now and 2014, with some sections of the city set to get thousands fewer seats than they had anticipated.

Overall, the department anticipates building 19 fewer schools than it did just a year ago, a reduction of almost 10,000 seats. Just one community education district -- 30, which includes Jackson Heights, Long Island City and Sunnyside -- stands to lose three schools with 1,744 places.

Although these cuts have attracted far less attention than the city's intention to lay off more than 4,000 teachers, they have raised concern among advocates who see the reduced plan as a recipe for more school overcrowding and larger classes. City officials blame the scaling back on proposed changes in the way the state reimburses the city for school construction.

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The administration proposes to reduce the $11.3 billion capital spending plan for 2010 to 2014, which was amended last February, to $9.3 billion. Only five months ago, in November, the city envisioned a much more ambitious program, never officially approved, totaling more than $16 billion.

The city attributes much of the cutback to an anticipated loss of state money. In 2010, the city expected the state to ante up $5.7 billion over five years. It now sees that dropping to $3.5 billion. The city has cut its anticipated spending by slightly over $100 million since the plan was approved last winter. To put it another way, the March plan saw the state putting up 49 percent of the money; the latest plan has the state contributing only 37 percent.

Much of the reduction will come in spending for new capacity, which was set at $4.0 billion in March 2010 and comes in at a bit under $1.8 billion now. The plan includes much smaller cuts in replacement capacity -- finding a new home for a school in a leased space -- and mandated expenses, such as improvements needed to comply with building codes.

Despite the anticipated cuts in state support, the city Department of Education still plans to provide $210 million to help charter schools build new facilities. In the budget plan, the department praises the partnership with charters and says it brings in "valuable private sector resources," with the education department having to pay only 73 percent of the cost of the new facilities for charters.

The latest plan also calls for an increase of $486 million to fund technology improvements, including those needed for new student assessments. Some of this money will go to accomodate the Innovation Zone program, an ambitious though still largely unrealized and untested plan to increase on-line learning and explore new approaches to the school day. This brings the amount slated for the iZone program next year alone to $542.25 million, according to Leonie Haimson of Class Size Matters.

Some believe said this money could be better spent elsewhere. Haimson said, "This an extraordinarily large amount to be spending in any one year, especially given the city's (and the DOE's) shaky record in investing in technology projects."

Contending there is no evidence that the iZone works, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer said in an emailed statement, "The DOE should either publicly release empirical data that justifies the large amount of funding it plans to dedicate to the iZone, or turn back to the basics and prioritize building school seats for our students who desperately need them now."

Finally, the plan calls for $141 million for efforts to increase energy efficiency "while simultaneously addressing the environmental issues associated with older lighting systems," as the education department put its -- in other words removing toxic PCBs from hundreds of school buildings across the city.

Jammed Up

The school crowding issue made headline earlier this year when School Chancellor Cathie Black famously quipped that birth control might be the best solution to the school system's capacity problems. But the shortage of space has been a persistent issue in many part of the city despite the addition -- completed or in progress -- of some 55,000 slots under the previous capital plan.

Although the system may not be above capacity overall, the department's figures show half of the city's children attend overcrowded schools, according to Helaine Doran of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity. That estimate, she said, is low because it does not include schools that uses trailers as classroom or students who have to be sent away from their neighborhood school.

One study found that more than half of all the city's high school students attend overcrowded schools. A report by the city comptroller's office in 2009 cited widespread overcrowding and stated, "The new capacity projected to be completed by 2012 will fall far short of the amount required to end overcrowding in primary and primary/intermediate schools in the following communities where enrollment exceeded capacity."

The latest capital proposal from the Department of Education scales back the number of new seats to be added by 2014, essentially reversing a November 2010 proposal to substantially increase capacity and building fewer schools than the city proposed a year ago.

The crowding is not spread evenly throughout the city. While the Department of Education maintains that some schools have far fewer students than they can accommodate, others are packed. The Upper West Side has twice as many young children now than it did in 2000, creating a squeeze in schools there. According to the education department's own figures, P.S. 236 in the Morris Heights section of the Bronx had almost double the number of students it should have.

"In districts all over the city enrollment has been increasing, especially in the early grades," said Haimson.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg has widely touted the jammed classrooms as proof that his school policies work. Earlier this week, he cited the shortage of classrooms as one of the "problems of success" that "Buffalo would love to have." Schools have improved, his reasoning goes, enough so that parents who once might have fled to the suburbs now remain in the five borough and send their children to the public schools.

Others additional explanations, including the shutting of parochial schools. Haimson of Class Size Matters believes that some of the mayor's own policies -- notably the closing of big schools and replacing them with small ones and the placing of charter schools in some district school buildings -- have contributed to the space crunch.

Some observers point out that New York, unlike many other cities, does not require builders of major new residential projects to somehow provide for new schools in the area. Such new homes have certainly fueled the space problems in Tribeca and the Upper West Side, forcing the city to play catch up after the developer's work is done.

Funding the Space

Large class size and jam-packed classrooms plaguing city schools were key issues in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit challenging school financing. As a result of the case -- though not as part of an actual legal settlement -- Gov. Eliot Spitzer agreed to fund about 50 percent of capital construction in the city.

The state no longer wants to adhere to that. For most years of the plan, the city will see between $500 million and $600 million in funds from the state -- down from the slightly more than $1 billion a year the city anticipated under the old plan.

Since the settlement of the suit, things have changed. "Both the state and the city have made major investment in education -- billions of dollars in increasing capacity. It's important to recognize that," said Morris Peters, a spokesman for the state Division of the Budget.

The state has aid the city can have up to $1 billion in what it consider allowable expenses annually, with the state reimbursing over 60 percent of that, for a maximum of around $600 million. In addition to a smaller pool, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has proposed changing the system for distributing money, Peters said. It would set priorities for which projects to fund, focusing first on those that address health and safety concerns, then ones that correct overcrowding and so on down a list.

The reimbursement formula also considers the fiscal status of the district. Until now, Peters said, districts could choose a year, going back to the 1980s, that would put them at the best advantage. Under Cuomo's changes, they could no longer do this.

However the state determine's the city's allotment, the Bloomberg "administration understands that our school system needs more investment than that, which is why the city's relative share of this capital plan would actually skyrocket should Albany cap building aid," Department of Education Jack Zarin-Rosenfeld said in an email.

While some advocates say the city wants to lobby Albany for more funds, the Bloomberg administration so far has been relatively quiet on this issue, preferring to press its campaign to end the last in, first out system for laying off teachers.

The mayor did, however, discuss the proposed cuts in testimony before the legislature this year.

"The courts have ruled that class size is too great as it is. Just imagine what would happen if the state does cut its support for school construction by 67 percent. It would be a huge setback -- and make it much harder for us to relieve the pockets of overcrowding that exist," Bloomberg said.

He also criticized prosed changes in the state system for evaluating capital projects, calling it "a recipe, if I’ve ever heard of one, for bureaucratic inaction and delay [that] would also make it harder for local elected officials, and community leaders, to make their voices heard on projects in their districts."

In a joint statement issued yesterday City Council speaker Christine Quinn and Robert Jackson criticized the state for proposing a plan that they said "would force the DOE to scuttle its plans to add 36,000 new school seats." The two council members said they are "pushing hard to reverse this plan."

At least up until now, advocates have not focused on the capital spending either. "The cut is so big on operations," said Doran. "How many pieces can you go for?"

Haimson, though, believes the administration could find money to build schools. "The city has never put any effort into increasing capacity," she said. "There are plenty of capital funds available. They don’t want to spend it on schools."

"Kindergarten waiting lists, which we've never had in this city, and overcrowded schools are going to be this mayor's legacy," she said.

Winner and Losers

A few districts do fare better in this year's plan than last year's. The Upper West Side, for example, which had no new space under the February 2010 amendment now is set for 480 new seats.

The Corona section of Queens, widely seen as among the city's most overcrowded, will add room for 3,123 more students -- a slight increase over the amount in last year's plan.

On the other side of the ledger, Chelsea/Midtown West drops 800 seats. A new, unnamed school slated for District 8 in the Bronx is gone. In another part of the Bronx, District 10, which was supposed to get there new schools, will now only have one. The Van Nest/Pelham Bay section will lose almost half of its anticipated seats.

In Brooklyn, all 612 planned new slots in Williamsburg/Greenpoint have been deleted. A new school for Carroll Gardens and Red Hook is also off the table. Last year, District 20 in Bay Ridge could look forward to six schools with 3,046 seats; that's been cut to two schools with room for 1,075 students.

Bayside, Howard Beach and Hollis are no longer slated for new schools. Staten Island lost one school, in the New Dorp section.

In deciding which projects to drop, the education department said it considered a few factors.

"We study data by neighborhood so we can ensure our investments are going directly to the areas of the city that need the most new school seats. That means, by definition, our new construction investments are going into the neighborhoods with the most need," said Zarin-Rosenfeld. "In putting together this latest amendment, any project that is already in construction or has a site identified remained in the plan. Other projects were shifted to 'design only' for this five-year plan, while the remaining projects were deferred until the next plan."

Many of the projects being abandoned were in early stages of development without locations or advanced design plans. Department of Education documents identified most of them only by borough and number.

(Correction: This article originally attributed all $86 million for technology programs to spending on the Innovation Zone. Instead, according to the education department, that money will go for a number of programs, including the iZone and redesigned student assessments. The story has been corrected.)

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Verizon today announced the availability of the Samsung Galaxy S4, confirming a pre-order for tomorrow while also confirming an in-store release date for May 30th, the date that had popped up in a previous leak. That date of course comes long after several of the other scheduled release dates for the Galaxy S4 in the U.S. and means that Verizon customers will likely be waiting for quite awhile, if they don’t pre-order.

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Verizon has not said when pre-orders will be shipping out but as we’ve seen, there is a chance they could arrive earlier than in-stores. Carriers typically have two different release dates, in-store and online and it could be that Verizon’s online date comes sooner. We just aren’t sure yet and the carrier isn’t saying one way or another.

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A low-cost version of the Moto X would be competitive with Apple’s rumored iPhone 5C, which is said to be a low-cost version of the iPhone constructed with a 4-inch Retina Display screen and a unibody plastic shell rather than the aluminum casing of the flagship iPhone 5 currently and the iPhone 5S that will debut this fall.

Motorola had recently announced the Moto X that will be coming to all major U.S. carriers. In addition to the Moto X, the company also announced the Droid series for Verizon Wireless in the U.S. that consists of the Droid Ultra, Droid Maxx, and the Droid Mini.

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State budget cuts are thwarting a new state law designed to speed-up the clean-up of hundreds of hazardous waste sites in Georgia.

Earlier this year, the state legislature passed a law allowing property owners to pay $5000 plus expenses to have the Georgia Environmental Protection Division speed up its process for putting hazardous waste sites back to use.

The idea behind the law was that some property owners want to clean-up their land and return it to use but have no clue when the EPD will get around to approving their permits. The voluntary extra fees were intended to go toward hiring extra EPD staff to fast-track the bureaucracy.

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