Sky Blue Sky

Sky Blue Sky is the sixth studio album by American rock band Wilco, released on May 15, 2007 by Nonesuch Records. Originally announced on January 17, 2007 at a show in Nashville, Tennessee, it was the band's first studio album with guitarist Nels Cline and multi-instrumentalist Pat Sansone. Before its release, the band streamed the entire album on its official website and offered a free download of "What Light".

Sky Blue Sky was Wilco's highest debuting album on the Billboard 200 at number four. The self-produced album received mostly favorable reviews by critics. Publications such as PopMatters and Rolling Stone praised its maturity, while Playlouder and Pitchfork Media criticized its "dad-rock" sound. While some critics praised the direct lyrical approach, others criticised it when compared to previous Wilco albums. The band licensed six songs from the Sky Blue Sky sessions to a Volkswagen advertisement campaign, a move that generated criticism from fans and the media.

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Sky blue

Sky blue is the name of a color that resembles the color of the sky at noon. The entry for "sky-blue" in Murray's New English Dictionary (1919) reports a first sighting of the term in the article on "silver" in Ephraim Chambers's Cyclopaedia of 1728. However, many writers had used the term "sky blue" to name a color before Chambers. For example, we find "sky blue" in A Collection of Voyages and Travels (London: Awnsham and John Churchill, 1704), vol. 2, p. 322, where John Nieuhoff describes certain flowers: "they are of a lovely sky blue colour, and yellow in the middle". The sense of this color may have been first used in 1585 in a book by Nicolas De Nicolay where he stated "the tulbant of the merchant must be skie coloured".

Displayed at right is the web colour sky blue.

Variations of sky blue

Celeste

Celeste (pronounced che-les-te in Italian se-lest in English) is the colloquial name for the pale turquoise blue colour associated with Italian bicycle manufacturer Bianchi S.p.A and sometimes known as Bianchi Green. In Italian, as the name indicates (Celestial), it is an attempt to reproduce the colour of clear skies. In English, this colour may also be referred to as Italian sky blue.

Sky Blue (album)

Sky Blue is the fifth studio album by American jazz composer, Maria Schneider. The album was released in 2007 through ArtistShare and was nominated for two 2008 Grammy Awards for "Best Large Jazz Ensemble" and "Best Instrumental Composition" (for 'Cerulean Skies')

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PlayStation Eye

The PlayStation Eye (trademarked PLAYSTATION Eye) is a digital camera device, similar to a webcam, for the PlayStation 3. The technology uses computer vision and gesture recognition to process images taken by the camera. This allows players to interact with games using motion and color detection as well as sound through its built-in microphone array. It is the successor to the EyeToy for the PlayStation 2, which was released in 2003.

The peripheral was launched in a bundle with The Eye of Judgment in the United States on October 23, 2007, in Japan and Australia on October 25, 2007 and in Europe on October 26, 2007.

The PlayStation Eye was also released as a stand-alone product in United States, Europe, and Australia. EyeToy designer Richard Marks stated that the EyeToy was used as a model for the rough cost design. In 2013 Sony announced the PlayStation Eye will be replaced with the PlayStation Camera for the PlayStation 4 console to compete with Microsoft Corporation's Kinect and Nintendo's Wii Remote Plus.

Blue Sky

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Blue Sky (navigation pod)

The Blue Sky navigation pod is an airborne navigation / targeting pod designed to provide aircraft with all-weather/night-attack capabilities. It was first revealed to the public at the 1998 Zhuhai Air Show, and it is designed by CLETRI, more commonly known as the 607th Institute. Blue Sky is the Chinese equivalent of the AN/AAQ-13 navigational pod of the LANTIRN system, and several derivatives have already been developed since its public debut.

Most detailed information released by the developer is that for the first-generation Blue Sky navigational pod, which consists of five parts: terrain following radar, wide-field forward looking infrared, environmental control unit (ECU), computer system (NPCC) and power system (NPPW).

Blue Sky (TV channel)

Blue Sky is a Greek, private regional television station, which started operating in November 1990. Emits digital by Ymittos and Parnitha and digitally from the Aegina in the periphery Attica s and Friday, July 20, 2012 and broadcast nationwide on the network platform the OTE TV via satellite and through Conn-X or IPTV. Its programs include informational and educational broadcasts and it was the first regional television station to broadcast a digital signal from the region of Aeginas. It is owned by General Broadcasting Enterprises Limited Company founded on May 20, 1992. President and CEO of the station is Victorious Kissandrakis while vice president and shareholder is Hercules Kissandrakis (100%).

Informative and entertaining shows

On 1 February 2010, the Terrence Kouik took over the presentation of the central bulletin the television station for six months to the end of cooperation with state television ERT3. After the departure of the journalist from the station position was replaced by Emi Livaniou despite the information that he was in discussions with the administration of ERT.