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The Emmys, people. You've seen the major nominations, and if you haven't, you can browse the list right here. I struggled with how to parse these — as always, there are a lot of nominees that I don't hate, exactly, but that are taking up slots for people and shows that I love.
Finally I settled on a set of mirrored lists for the major categories, with a bit of commentary explaining why I picked different shows than the Academy did. Then I listed the individual nominations that made me happiest and unhappiest.
Please share your own lists in the comments.
Best Drama
Emmy's choices:
Breaking Bad
Downton Abbey
Game of Thrones
House of Cards
Mad Men
Matt's choices:
Breaking Bad
The Americans
Game of Thrones
Breaking Bad is incredible; Game of Thrones is terrific, epic storytelling; and though season six of Mad Men was uneven and sometimes a bit of a mess, the worst that show can offer is better than most of TV's very best, so I'm fine with those three grabbing top slots — though my own fantasy alternate list requires me to kick one of them to the curb, so adios, Mad Men. Downton Abbey had two great episodes this year — the one everyone talked about, and the one that came right after — and it was consistently tight, propulsive, and on message, but it didn't altogether impress me as deeply as some other dramas. House of Cards was good, sometimes very good, but I can't help feeling it's been slightly overrated because of the "event" factor (it was Netflix's first homegrown drama series) and the star power factor (Oscar winner Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright, Oscar-nominated director David Fincher in the driver's seat). If it had aired on a regular pay cable network, I suspect it might have been one of those shows that you keep forgetting to watch, and catch up with later on Netflix. And Homeland, oy. I enjoyed it, but too often it felt like a crazy show trying to pretend it was quality television.
Which is why Scandal is on my list: It knows what it is — basically 24 in pumps, as I wrote in an appreciation this past spring — and it's utterly brilliant at being that thing. Justified is the most deftly plotted series on TV right now, and one of the most consistently pleasurable. The Americans and Hannibal had two of the strongest freshman seasons I've ever seen. The Americans hit a lot of the same themes as Homeland better than Homeland hit them in either of its two seasons. And Hannibal is just otherworldly good, doing things with style, tone, photography, design, and music that I've never seen done anywhere.
If the writing on the final season of Southland were as consistently outstanding as its acting, direction, editing, and photography, I might have had to kick out another Emmy-nominated drama to make room for it. What a terrific show. It's a small miracle that it lasted as long as it did.
Best Comedy
Emmy's choices:
30 Rock
The Big Bang Theory
Modern Family
My choices:
30 Rock
Arrested Development
Parks and Recreation
I don't understand the voters' continued enthusiasm for Big Bang Theory and Modern Family. I just don't. So I'm going to leave it alone. The other four nominees — Girls, Louie, Veep and the final season of 30 Rock — are so strong, for one reason or another, that I can't imagine any awards group with eyes and ears failing to include them. But I think the second season of Enlightened, the most recent season of Parks and Rec, and the long-awaited forth season of Arrested Development are equal to, in some ways better than, any of the shows that did get nominated, including the very good ones. (Since there are only six slots, I had to drown one of my babies, so sorry, Veep.)
Season four of Arrested Development just blasts the rest of the comedies out of the water, including Louie, amazing as it is. I make the case for its greatness here. The fact that Netflix's House of Cards got nominated in the drama category while AD didn't get nominated in the comedy category offers further proof, as if you needed any, that these awards groups don't have any respect for innovations in form. Where House of Cards was a good adult drama series that just happens to appear on Netflix, Arrested Development was a comedy series that took structural risks that you can only take on Netflix (Orange Is the New Black is currently attempting similarly dazzling things).
Odds and ends
• I was worried that Vera Farmiga's exquisitely measured and empathetic performance as Norman Bates's mother on Bates Motel wouldn't get nominated. I'm so glad it did.
• I hated HBO's Phil Spector movie but was glad Al Pacino got nominated for his lead performance. As hammy as he usually is in theatrical films, he's equally as thoughtful in his cable performances.
• I could not be more pleased that American Horror Story led the miniseries nominations. It's consistently the most heedlessly inventive series on cable: a weekly explosion of midnight-movie style WTF, Did you See That? This category is where it belongs — the show is essentially an anthology series whose unit of measure is the season rather than the episode.
• It's a pity the Academy didn't nominate Corey Stoll for his devastating supporting turn on House of Cards, or Noah Emmerich for his work on The Americans, which I wrote about here. I also would have liked to have seen a nomination for Derek Luke for his heartbreaking work as Gregory on The Americans, though I'm not sure he would have qualified as supporting given his limited screen time; guest, perhaps.
• I would have preferred they'd nominated Timothy Olyphant for Justified over, well, almost anyone in the drama category, except Jon Hamm and Bryan Cranston. As Raylan Givens, Olyphant's giving the kind of performance that almost nobody recognizes as "acting." It's an old-fashioned movie hero performance in which much of the emotional action is internal and articulated with great subtlety. You have to really pay attention to see how much he's doing with very little traditional maneuvering room.
• Tatiana Maslany of Orphan Black should have taken Michelle Dockery's Best Actress slot for Downton Abbey. And she should have gone on to win the category. She's giving a whole career's worth of performances in one show. What she's doing reminds me a bit of Toni Collette's work on The United States of Tara, but in many ways that are more convincing and fully imagined.
• Yay, Anna Chlumsky and Tony Hale for Veep!
• The lack of writing and directing nominations for Arrested Development would seem more scandalous if the show's format didn't make it so hard to judge the individual pieces in isolation. That said: Come on, people. Tobias dressed as the Thing from Fantastic Four did nothing for you?
• No David Lynch as Best Guest Actor on a Comedy, for Louie? I hope somebody sent him a can of creamed corn as a consolation prize. He was bizarre and amazing.
• Alan Menken got nominated for Best Original Song for ABC's The Neighbors. It was catchy, no doubt.
• Pleased to see so many nominations for Behind the Candelabra, including on the technical end of things. It does create a conundrum for director Steven Soderbergh, though. He photographed and edited the picture under pseudonyms, as Peter Andrews and Mary Ann Bernard, respectively. Fortunately for him, the technical awards are given out at a sidebar ceremony before the main event, so if he wins, he won't have to go up there in a fake mustache, or in drag, much as I'd enjoy it if he did.
• Patton Oswalt should have been nominated as guest actor for his turn as Constable Bob, the pipsqueak lawman who proves unexpectedly resilient in the end, on Justified. The hyphenate Oswalt doesn't necessarily need any more praise, but it'd be nice if he got more recognition for being a genuinely excellent actor, as opposed to a comedian who just happens to act.
• I'm slightly stunned, though pleased, that a miniseries as prickly, strident, earnest and altogether mesmerizing as Jane Campion's Top of the Lake could score a bunch of nominations. If Germaine Greer had written Twin Peaks, this is what it might have looked like.
• Does anyone else think it's weird and maybe unfair to let sketch comedy actors compete alongside actors who play one character in a comedy series? Bill Hader is hilarious on Saturday Night Live, but when you look at who he's up against in his category, it feels like somebody dropped an orange into the apple barrel.
• I wish Sundance's Rectify had been nominated for something. I didn't expect it to, but still.
• Obviously, if I had my way, The Americans would be nominated in every major category, sometimes more than once, but the omission of Keri Russell from the Best Actress category bugs the hell out of me. Not only was she flat-out terrific — as strong as Claire Danes on the similar Homeland, which is strong indeed — she obliterated past associations with her best-known character, Felicity. That's very hard to do, and not many TV stars have managed to do it. Danes is one. Bryan Cranston is another.
• Parker Posey should have been nominated as guest actress in a comedy for Louie, and gone on to win, then been carried out of the theater in a carriage pulled by animated horses while being serenaded by animated birds.
• Vincent Kartheiser should have been nominated as best supporting actor in a drama, and appeared at the awards ceremony in boxer's headgear. He's just so punchable!
• If Jonathan Banks doesn't win Best Supporting Actor for playing Mike on Breaking Bad, the award means nothing, and the word acting means nothing, and maybe everything means nothing, and we should all just go die in the tall grass.


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|Directed by Nettie Wild
|Canada, 2002 (documentary, 93 minutes, colour, English)
|Image: © National Film Board of Canada
Film Description:
"This documentary captures the pulse of one of the most controversial issues of our times. It is the story of Vancouver's struggle to open Canada's first safe injection site for drug users. It is the story of a man and of a city fighting drugs and addiction. Dean Wilson used to be an IBM salesman. Now he is possibly the most outspoken drug addict in Canada. He is a loud and articulate advocate for street addicts from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, one of Canada's poorest neighbourhoods, and the site of the highest HIV rate in North America. Ann Livingston is the charismatic organizer of Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU). She is a nonuser, driven by an impatient spirituality. She is extremely confrontational. In 27 cities around the world, safe injection sites have been proven to save lives. Together Ann and Dean lead an unpredictable crew of street addicts in their fight to open North America's first safe injection site for drug users in Vancouver."
-- National Film Board of Canada (source)
|Film Credits (partial):
|Written by:
|Nettie Wild
|Produced by:
|Betsy Carson, Nettie Wild, Gary Marcuse
|Nettie Wild
|Kirk Tougas, Nettie Wild
|Film Editing:
|Reginald Dean Harkema
|Dennis Burke, Sal Ferreras
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AVONDALE, Ariz. (AP) — He doesn't golf, fish or hunt. Roger Penske doesn't particularly have time for hobbies.
The automobile industry. Transportation. Trucking. Sales. Community improvement. Promotions. That takes up almost all of his time.
And, of course, racing.
A man with a rich career that is woven through America's fabric — last month he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Donald Trump — Penske is celebrating what is probably the crowning achievement of his 82 years: the acquisition of Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
This year is already on track to be one of the best ever for Penske.
His teams won the Indianapolis 500, the IndyCar championship, the IMSA sports car championship, the V8 Supercars championship, and he has been honored three different times this year by Trump at the White House. On Sunday at ISM Raceway, he will watch as NASCAR champion Joey Logano and Ryan Blaney each try to earn slots in next week's title-deciding finale.
But Monday's jaw-dropping announcement that he had purchased the national landmark speedway in Indianapolis and most of its assets from the family that had owned it for 74 years has given Penske a new legacy. He needed just six weeks to complete the deal, starting the process to become just the fourth owner of Indy in its 110 years the day after Tony George approached him on the pre-race grid at the Sept. 22 IndyCar finale.
The speedway was for sale, George told Penske, and, well, Penske is really the only one who could be entrusted to protect the 2.5-mile palace and its iconic Indianapolis 500.
"He's the Warren Buffet of the automobile industry," said rival team owner Chip Ganassi. "He's the right person for this."
Penske's purchase warded off the potential of a corporation or group of investors snagging the speedway and trampling over the tradition that looms large on the corner of 16th Street and Georgetown Road. He made it emotionally easier for George to part with the property his grandfather Tony Hulman had restored after World War II because he knows "The Captain" and his ironclad corporation will only protect the property.
Penske said George wanted to know if Penske was "even a possibility" as a potential buyer but didn't even need to make an official pitch in the first meeting between Penske, George and Hulman & Company head Mark Miles.
"My stomach was going 100 miles an hour at that point and I was thinking 'How can we do this, we need to do this if this makes sense,'" Penske said. "From that point we never put our pencils down, maybe it took six weeks, and that's how we do business. These things that linger, linger, linger put a concern on the people that work here already, and the fact is we know these people and we aren't just a lightning rod that showed up one day."
The deal, believed to have cost Penske about $300 million, is expected to close in January. But he already has walked the property, met with the existing management teams and started looking ahead to May's Indianapolis 500, a race Penske has won a record 18 times.
He credits his success to the way he was raised by his parents, who groomed Penske to be a titan. He spent three childhood summers at Culver Military Academy, where young boys gathered for eight weeks at a time to learn about leadership, teamwork, integrity and accountability.
His standards have been almost militant since and his work ethic relentless. He and "The Committee" of executives who surround him are always draped in crisp white shirts and pressed black slacks at the race track. The Penske work areas are immaculate and literally no detail goes ignored. Penske has been known to oversee the placement of a sponsor decal on a race car. The beverages in his hospitality coolers are lined up identical with labels out. Everything is "Penske Perfect" at all times.
Business casual doesn't exist at Penske Corp., and the sitcom "Seinfeld" was absolutely accurate in its running gag about a person being "Penske Material." His 64,000 employees are extremely loyal, understand the Penske mantra "effort equals results" and strive to meet his standard of excellence.
"Just the way you dress is such a big deal to what Team Penske is all about," Logano said. "He is not slowing down at all. Most people in his position might just say, 'Hey, I've got a great company' and just ride it out because he's already established. But he is always looking to better himself."
Blaney likened his boss to Yoda, the wise and powerful Jedi master from "Star Wars," and cited a 2015 discussion with Penske after Blaney had given away the 2015 Xfinity Series win at Indy to Kyle Busch and was immensely disappointed to have failed his team owner.
"He likes to text, he texts me a lot and so I got the lead from Kyle with like 25 to go and I messed up off of (turn) 2 and gave the win to Kyle. I was thinking 'Oh my God, I lost a race at Indy for Roger, that's so embarrassing,'" Blaney said. "And he texted me to come to his bus the next day. And I was so scared. This was just a couple years of me into driving for him, and I was certain I was going to get fired and it was terrible and my career was over.
"But he sat me down and he was very reassuring, helped get my confidence back up and told me 'We all make mistakes, but it's how you learn from those mistakes and grow from them that is important.' It was something really special, for him to dig me out of that hole, something I will never forget."
George and the Hulman family won't ever forget what Penske did in stepping up and claiming stewardship of their family heirloom. George struggled several times with his emotions during the news conference Monday to announce the sale and has declined further interviews.
"It's obviously emotional, emotionally difficult, hence the choking up. We all love it, and we all care deeply for it. I think we all realize that as a family and as an organization, we probably had taken it as far as we can," George said. "I think that Roger, his structure, his resources, his capabilities that he demonstrates is only going to take this to another level.
"We're supporting that — elevating this asset and staking a new claim on its future. We, with emotion, are happy to be here today."
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The possibility of visiting NCAR has been at the back of our minds for some time, so when the rare honour of invitations to speak at the AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco plopped into both of our inboxes around June, we swung into action. A couple of months at NCAR rounded off with an easy hop to SF seemed too good an opportunity to miss, so jules sent an email to Bette who leads the paleo group at NCAR to ask if she could host us. There was a bona-fide research reason for the visit, in that we are hoping to extend/supersede this work (and simultaneously improve on this reconstruction!) by blending together model simulations with proxy data records to create a complete reanalysis of the last deglaciation, 21ka to the present. There's a forthcoming PMIP-supported plan for GCMs to simulate this entire period (the main instigators being next door in Leeds is a happy coincidence), but this may take a couple of years to actually happen, as 21 thousand years of simulation is a huge task for complex models. However, Bette is ahead of the pack having done this a few years ago with a slightly lower resolution model, so our plan was to use her model output (among other things) to work out how to do it in the meantime.
The view from (near) NCAR
Having started to arrange the visit, we then started fishing around for support and found out that NCAR (subsistence) and PEN (travel including AGU costs) were prepared to help us pay for the trip, for which we were and are very grateful. Then to top it off, another invitation arrived, for a workshop on "model dependence and sampling strategies in climate model ensemble prediction"…to be held at NCAR in early December, immediately prior to the AGU! I expect that the organiser Gab Abramowitz was really only inviting me out of politeness with no expectation that I'd fly there for a two day meeting at my own expense (they had no money for this) but of course we were now planning to be there so I was delighted to be able to accept. It then turned out that Reto Knutti was already at NCAR on a year's sabbatical, and a couple of his ex/current students who were working in this area and are now also supervised by Gab visited briefly en route to the AGU along with Gab.
We arrived in mid-October, though our luggage did not. Our departure from Leeds had been a bit disorganised, as the computer system there was down and all check-in/luggage drop had to be by done by hand. The resulting delay gave us a tighter than planned connection at Heathrow (including a terminal change) and therefore it wasn't a great surprise that our checked baggage with hand-written tags didn't turn up in Denver. So our first couple of days in Boulder were filled with emergency shopping (along with scrounging some free googlewear off our friend Rob who works there).
Fortunately all our stuff turned up over the following week, albeit in 3 separate deliveries all in the middle of the night which did nothing for the jet lag. Most of the luggage consisted of two travelling bicycles (S&S couplers) which we had used some 19 years previously on my first visit to Boulder. That didn't end so well – for us or the bikes (evidence) – when we met a Harley-Davidson on the wrong side of one of the twisty canyon roads, but fortunately there were no similar incidents this time around. Boulder is great for cycling around, being pretty much flat with a sunny dry climate and a wonderful network of bike/pedestrian paths many of which follow various creeks though and across town.
Boulder creek and its path
Our apartment was an easy distance for cycling (and sometimes running) to work, 6km direct (though with a 250m climb) with a range of longer options for more energetic days. NCAR also runs their own regular shuttle up to the lab and there's good public transport in Boulder, so we didn't plan to hire a car for our stay though thought we might do so for one or two weekend trips to the surrounding countryside and national parks. In fact in the end we forgot to pack our driving licenses so couldn't do this, which didn't turn out to be much of a hardship as there was enough to keep us busy in the vicinity of the town. Just outside the town, there are some huge hills to climb and some decent mountain biking.
The indirect way to work…
…and the really long way home!
NCAR is really well set up for visiting, there were several offices set aside for the use of visitors and we were up and running with ID cards and computers and internet access etc in a couple of hours on our first day, which would not likely have happened at JAMSTEC, or anywhere else we've been before. There's also a very good canteen which we made the most of, even including some breakfasts. NCAR seems to be on everyone's itinerary – there were many seminars from short-term visitors, and it was quite a surprise to bump into someone we knew from Bristol who was also passing through. So just being there was a good opportunity to meet with a range of people, though in fact our main work on the deglaciation turned out to be largely self-contained.
Snow usually appears around the middle of October in Boulder, but we were lucky to arrive during a particularly dry autumn and had a full month of warm sunny weather during which we made full use of Boulder's various leisure opportunities. We quickly bought some cheap old MTB tyres from Community Cycles and enjoyed visits to Dowdy Draw, the West Magnolia Drive trail area, and Marshall Mesa.
Somewhere on the trails
We also climbed up most of the mountain roads – Magnolia Drive to Nederland, Flagstaff, through Jamestown to Rob's place and finally up and down Lee Hill Drive.
West Magnolia trails
I also found a few of the local running groups and went out for a couple of rather gentle Sunday morning runs with the Boulder Roadrunners and more challenging runs with the Boulder Track Club who seemed to consist of quick to super-fast runners. Luckily the runs were basically out and back routes so I could watch them all zoom off into the distance and after turning round a bit early they would all zoom past me on the way back too. jules and I together joined the Trailrunners for the first hour of one of their monster mountain marathon days. We just went up Flagstaff but most of the rest went all the way to Bear Peak and back, about 24 miles with a lot of climbing.
The work went well, though it's far from finished and so we don't have a lot to report yet. We presented this poster at the AGU which summarised our research so far:
In short, it looks like at a minimum the basic idea should succeed fine but it's a bit early to say anything about what the overall result will look like, and there are plenty of opportunities for improving on the very simple method we used. It will also be very helpful to get some more PMIP simulations but we may have to wait some time for these, so there's no great rush for the methodology but we will keep working on it as time allows.
Towards the end of our visit, just about when we were starting to get a bit bored with sitting in an office and working on the deglaciation, we had to shift gears to prepare not only for the AGU meeting but also for the workshop on climate model ensembles. In all we had 4 presentations to give on entirely unrelated topics in a bare week (me talking twice, jules once, and a joint poster).
I don't think anything from the workshop is available on the web (it was a rather small and informal affair) but there are plans to write some sort of review paper. There was no real breakthrough but there was hopefully some shared understanding of the different ideas that people have come up with. I've also got a month to revise this manuscript, and now have a significant improvement to put in to it. Although the new idea didn't arise directly at the meeting, having to give a presentation about it and field questions afterwards did provoke the inspiration.
By this time the snow had arrived, giving a very different feel to the daily commute. We didn't really have enough winter clothing and temperatures down to -20C (with a daily max of -10C) were a bit of a struggle, though it looked pretty when not actually snowing:
A snowy ride
Straight after the workshop we flew over to San Francisco for the AGU meeting, about which I'll write separately. For now you can make do with the view from our hotel window (on the one sunny morning we had).
We came back and had a couple of days in Boulder, just enough to empty our office and tidy up the apartment and pack all our stuff for the long haul back to the UK. No drama on that trip, and a bizarre lack of jet lag following our return, perhaps because it's so peaceful and dark at night here in Settle that there's really no excuse to stay awake.
While we were in the USA, it seemed like there was some sort of election going on. The result didn't go down well with most (perhaps all!) of the staff at NCAR. I hope the institute survives for other people to have as enjoyable and useful visits as we did!
Saturday, December 31, 2016
BlueSkiesResearch.org.uk: Blueskies tour of the USA
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Wednesday, December 07, 2016
It's colder in Boulder
Presently hunkered down at home awaiting the forthcoming -17C minimum temperature overnight, which is something I don't think I have experienced before. Possibly came close to it up a Japanese mountain once or twice. We've been very lucky with the weather for most of our trip, but it's certainly winter now!
At the start of December there is the annual "Colder Boulder" race, a counterpart to the "Bolder Boulder" in May that we've run a couple of times before. The December one is only 5k and has many fewer participants, allowing the event centre and finishing area to fit into an indoor arena which is probably a good idea given the season. In the event it was pretty comfortable, a bit chilly but bright and still. Biggest problem was the altitude, but the modest hills and numerous corners on the course also contributed to a slow run. Oh, and it was a good 100m too long too.
Taking account of these factors, I was reasonably satisfied to duck under 20 mins (by a whole second) and jules was also relatively fast at 26:05. In fact we were both the fastest in our respective age categories, thanks mainly to the organisers' decision to classify by year rather than the more usual decade (meaning there were only about 10 runners in each category). We are hoping to reap the benefits of the altitude training when we return to sea level shortly!
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Union workers at Boeing are set to vote Friday on a contract offer from the company similar to the one they overwhelmingly rejected less than two months ago.
The vote is key to efforts by some at the Machinists union to keep work at union-represented plants in the Seattle area well into the future.
Boeing (BA) has said if members don't ratify the company's latest offer, it will build the 777X, a new generation commercial jet, at a nonunion plant elsewhere in the country.
The new contract, if approved, would mean an end to the traditional pension plan for more than 33,000 Machinists at Boeing, replacing it with a 401(k) type of plan.
Related: Boeing to triple deliveries to China
The new vote is being pushed by the union's international office in Washington, D.C.
But the union's local leaders in the Seattle area are urging members to again reject the proposal.
Local union officials point to the loss of the pension as one reason. They also argue that approving the contract now would encourage the company to make continued threats to move work elsewhere in the future in order to win other concessions.
"[Even though] we believe you've already voted this very similar offer down on Nov. 13 by a 2-to-1 margin, the International is forcing us to vote to accept or reject," said a statement from the Seattle leadership to members. "The terms of this agreement are destructive to what we have gained over the last 78 years."
The international leadership insists this offer is better than the one rejected last year, adding about $1 billion in value to members. The improvements include a $5,000 bonus in 2020 and the continuation of the current formula for how new hires move up the pay scale.
Related: Big money dumps Boeing shares
In a letter to members, International President Tom Buffenbarger said that "overwhelmingly, members have asked for a new vote on the revised offer." He also said this will be the final chance to vote on the offer from Boeing and keep the work on the 777X at the union-represented plants.
Boeing said it has received proposals to build the plane from 22 different states, and that 54 other locations are being considered to build a new plant.


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Sony released an update to its PlayStation 3 on Tuesday that brings several new features and launches the PlayStation's first subscription gaming service.
Firmware update 3.40 is available to all PlayStation 3 owners and will be offered as a download the next time the console connects to the Internet. New features include a video editing application that can also upload the finished file to Facebook or YouTube and a network sharing function in the console's picture gallery that can send digital images to a Facebook or Picasa album.
For Sony perhaps the most important addition is PlayStation Plus.
Games and video can already be purchased through the console's PlayStation Store, but the new service attempts to secure a regular revenue stream from the 50 million users of its PlayStation Network online service. Microsoft has been successful with subscription packages for its Xbox 360, but Sony hasn't offered such a service until now.
Subscriptions are available for varying periods in different regions but Sony is hoping most will go for an annual membership, which costs US$50 in North America, €50 in Europe, and ¥5,000 in Japan.
Membership brings trial access to full versions of some PlayStation 3 titles, so they can be tried before they are purchased. The games will expire after a designated period but game play can continue with an online purchase. Unlimited access will also be offered to some games for as long as membership is effective.
Sony is also offering discounts on some titles. On Tuesday the game "WipEout HD" was being offered to users in Japan for ¥900, which is half the normal price, and "Star Strike HD" was also on sale at half price. Members are also promised early access to trials and beta versions of new games before wider public distribution.
"We'll continually add new features and services to PlayStation Plus," said Jack Tretton, president and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment of America, when he announced the service earlier this month at the E3 gaming expo. "In all, subscribers will get an unprecedented amount of value, access and convenience for just over $3 a month."
Launch of PlayStation Plus comes as Sony finally begins to make money on the PS3. During the first three months of this year, the latest period for which data is available, Sony started making money on each console sold — a turnaround from the years of losses suffered due to high development costs and lower-than-expected sales. In the fourth quarter of 2009, sales of the console hit 6.5 million, up 2 million units from a year earlier, and in the first quarter of this year sales reached 2.2 million, up 600,000 from a year earlier.
Sony is due to report business results for the April to June quarter in late July.
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Kneeling Figure
Created by (Jocelyn) Barbara Hepworth
Date: 1934
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Material: wood - rosewood
Technique: carved
Exhibitions and other Events
Exhibited at Platt Hall, Rusholme, Unit One Exhibition, 1934
Catalogue of the Unit One Exhibition, Platt Hall, Rusholme, Manchester, 1934
Cat. No. 16, p. 7
Citing this record
'Kneeling Figure', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/object.php?id=msib5_1241028099, accessed 24 Sep 2023]


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I have to make a program that inputs the user's count of columns and rows to use in the chess board. When the board is created it has to be full of buttons fitting the amount of columns and rows specified by the user. I figured I'd have to make the buttons an array from the input because it is impossible to figure out how many buttons nor am i going to hard code 60+ new buttons. This is what I have so far.. It prompts the user to import the number of columns and rows and sets them to the int numRows,numCols. Where I am confused is the button array, we have not covered it in class and was just wondering how to set up the array with the buttons. The rest of the program is using ActionListener and actionPerformed so when the user clicks the button it will say "Button 1 clicked" etc, any help would be appreciated thanks!
import javax.swing.*; import java.awt.event.*; import java.awt.GridLayout; public class ButtonBoard { public static void main(String[] args){ String rows = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter number of rows"); String columns = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter number of columns"); int numRows = Integer.parseInt(rows); int numCol = Integer.parseInt(columns); JFrame frame = new JFrame(); JButton button1 = new JButton("Button1"); JButton button2 = new JButton("Button2"); frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); frame.setLayout((new GridLayout(numRows,numCol))); frame.add(button1); frame.add(button2); frame.setSize(300,300); frame.setVisible(true); } }


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NEW YORK -- The agent for suspended New York Islanders defenseman Lubomir Visnovsky says the player will report to the team by Feb. 11.
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text: nubbly5 0 Posted November 30, 2009 Member ID: 5,023 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 39 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 1,608 Content Per Day: 0.08 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 8,635 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 28/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 21, 2018 Share Posted November 30, 2009 (edited) On the 22nd Nov 2009 the BBC Great YF Symposium was held. Hosted by Renee and eagerly attended (might have been something to do with the food and beverages promised by Renee) by Kaz, RIPbudgies and Nubbly5. Sadly as 3 out of 4 of us had to drive, the alcohol was mainly consumed by Renee so I figure she might need this post to try and remember what actually happened on the afternoon . We were lucky enough to have a selection of birds on loan from Libby (via Kaz) as well as RIP, plus a few home growns from Renee too. I have tried to capture here information for all other BBC members from the symposium as well as sharing pics - so I hope you all find it useful. Some abbreviations that I have used: DF = double factor SF = single factor GF = golden face YF = yellow face M1 = mutant 1 M2 = mutant 2 So to start with RIP's decription of the Green, YF, Blue allelic series goes something like this. Originally budgies were green, mutations occurred that limited the production of yellow in the budgie to differing degrees. Completely in the case of blue budgies or incompletely in the case of YF & GF budgies. On a scale of 0-100% yellow pigment it would look something like this. 100%......................................................................50%..............................................................................0% Green.............SF GF...........SF M2 YF.................................DF GF.............SF M1 YF/DF M2 YF...........................DF M1 YF The double factor mutant 1 YF LOOKS identical to a normal blue budgie but is genetically different in other words the total reduction of yellow from the bird is due to different genes producing the same effect in the bird. Green, YF (all types) and blue genes ALL OCCUR ON THE SAME ALLELE so ONLY 2 of any of these genes can occur in the one bird. The dominance progression in this allelic series is as follows: Green is DOMINANT to YF, YF is DOMINANT to blue. It is therefore INCORRECT to suggest that green MASKS yellowface. In fact it is correct to say that green can be split for YF. Also when we say "Single Factor YF" it would be also be technically correct to say YF split for blue (but that would be like saying Spangle split for normal (which is technically correct but that we don't do for dominant genes)). Breeding expectations go like this: Pairing a green bird to a SF YF bird looks like this: Green/Green x YF/Blue = 50% Green/YF (green split for YF) & 50% Green/Blue (Green split for Blue) Pairing a SF YF to a Blue bird looks like this: YF/Blue x Blue/Blue = 50% YF/Blue (SF YF) & 50% Blue/Blue Pairing a DF YF to a Blue bird looks like this: YF/YF x Blue/Blue = 100% YF/Blue (SF YF) Pairing a DF YF to a Green bird looks like this: YF/YF x Green/Green = 100% Green/YF (Green split for YF) To clarify then - A green bird is just that A GREEN BIRD it does not MASK yellow face as you cannot ADD EXTRA YELLOW TO AN ALREADY 100% effective YELLOW PIGMENT. A green bird is SPLIT for YF as YF is recessive to green. Also you need to remember that there is a natural variation in the brightness of yellow shown in green variety budgies. A brighter yellow in some does NOT indicate that the bird is masking YF. It might or might not be SPLIT for YF, but like other recessive varieties it is NOT identifyable. So what do all the different YF varieties look like: I have been able to compile a group of photos to show you all the different YF forms. So starting with the least reduction of yellow pigment - the single factor golden face (or single factor Australian Yellow Face) This YF form reduces yellow pigment the least so single factor GF's appear to have a strong golden coloured face but also have strong yellow suffusion through the body colour (or better said, limited yellow reduction in the body colour). Shown here is a SF GF Mauve - see how this bird looks almost olive in colour which it would be if 100% of the yellow pigment was still present but due to some removal of the yellow pigment by the SF GF gene, the bird looks slighly different to an ordinary olive colour. okay, this fellow is a SF GF grey. Again notice how this bird is VERY NEARLY a grey green - but NOT QUITE. Again this is due to a small amount of yellow pigment reduction from the bird making the bird appear close to a grey green but on comparison is still slightly different. The DF GF form reduces Yellow pigment even more. Restricting it almost to face areas only but retaining the strong golden pigment on the face. We were lucky enough to get a photo of a bird that had significant white areas which shows up the restriction of the golden colour very well. Obviously on birds with darker body colour, any remaining yellow suffusion is hidden better, making the DF GF in violet or mauve and extremely attractive contrast, with little to no suffusion into the body colouration evident. Next is the YF Mutant 2. Below are several photos of SF YF M2's. This gene restricts yellow pigment more than the SF GF, but possibly less than the DF GF and shows a distinct lighter yellow suffusion throught the body colour but with a lighter yellow face colour than the GF. You can see in following photographs that the blue body colour is turned a distinctive aqua colour due to the suffusion of yellow through the body colour. In the case of the cinnamon opaline grey it is easy to see the yellow suffusion through the body colour. The next photo we decided was most likely a DF YF M2 due to the almost total restriction of yellow suffusion in the body colour, combined with the softer yellow face colouring and the almost completely white wing markings, showing little of the yellow pigment through the rest of the body. The YF M2 in the double factor form further reduces yellow colouration, leaving the lighter yellow colour almost soley on the face area. Lastly is the YF M1. This gene reduces yellow more strongly than the other 2 YF genes. In the single factor this bird looks just about identical to the DF YF M2, with yellow restricted to the face area and little suffusion of the yellow colour into the body colour. In the DF form the YF M1 has 100% yellow pigment removal and looks identical to a normal white faced bird but will be genetically different. Test mating to a known normal blue or grey will give 100% yellowfaced chicks. The hen bellow is the mother of the yellow faced chicks above. Out of a number of rounds to normal blue partners she only ever produced YF chicks. Some of which are shown above. So that's it for me. Kaz, RIP or Renee...... like to add anything? Edited November 30, 2009 by nubbly5 Link to comment