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Robot arrives on the space station to keep astronauts company
Posted 11:22 am, December 9, 2019, by CNN Wire
The first mobile astronaut assistant in space, CIMON, has a sibling: CIMON 2. It is shown here during tests in the Columbus mock-up at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne. CIMON 2 was launched to the International Space Station on 4 December 2019 on board a SpaceX-19 rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida. Credit: DLR (CC-BY 3.0)
(CNN) — On Sunday, SpaceX's Dragon capsule docked at the International Space Station, bringing supplies, experiments including "mighty mice" — oh, and a friendly robot to keep the astronauts company for the next three years.
CIMON-2 is the next generation of the Crew Interactive Mobile Companion. The robot was built by Airbus at the German Aerospace Center and uses IBM artificial intelligence based on Watson technology. It's designed for human interaction and to help the astronauts with tasks as it autonomously navigates around the European Columbus research module on the space station.
In 2018, the first generation of CIMON joined astronauts on the space station. The robot marked the world's first artificial intelligence system on the space station.
European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst performed and recorded a 90-minute demonstration with CIMON that showcased the robot's ability to fly freely around the station and play music. Its "smart face" was able to spot and recognize Gerst, make eye contact and carry on a conversation with him. The robot also helped provide instructions and took video and images of Gerst.
Because CIMON can record the astronauts, it caused a question of ethics concerning what CIMON can share and say.
"The new CIMON has a built-in switch that enables the data streams from all cameras and microphones to be interrupted from the ISS. The astronaut has control over CIMON at all times, which was especially important for us," said Judith Buchheim, a researcher at Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich and part of the team of physicians who evaluated the ethics of the experiment.
CIMON returned to Earth in August, and the German Aerospace Center Space Administration determined that his first outing was a success. CIMON-2 was already in the works, full of upgrades that were deemed necessary during the first robotic test.
"It is planned that CIMON-2 will stay on the ISS for up to three years and support the crew," said Till Eisenberg, CIMON Project Manager at Airbus. "CIMON-2 has more sensitive microphones and a more advanced sense of orientation. The AI capabilities and stability of the complex software applications have also been substantially improved."
This extended stay will allow CIMON's design team to evaluate how the robot could be utilized during future missions, like uploading its AI to a cloud on the space station to create a completely autonomous assistance system.
CIMON-2 also features another intriguing upgrade: a kind of emotional intelligence.
"When it was first deployed on the ISS, CIMON proved that it could understand not only the content within its given context, but also the intention behind it," said Matthias Biniok, IBM's Lead Watson Architect for Germany. "CIMON-2 goes one step further. With the help of the IBM Watson Tone Analyzer from the IBM cloud in Frankfurt, it is now able to evaluate the emotions of the astronauts and respond to the situation in an appropriate way if this is desired by the astronauts, or if its emotional analysis capabilities are being tested as part of an experiment. This allows CIMON-2 to transition from a scientific assistant into an empathetic companion, as required."
CIMON gets his name from a reference to Professor Simon Wright, the "flying brain" robotic assistant from the Japanese "Captain Future" sci-fi series. He was created with the ability to understand, speak, hear and see. He can even nod and shake his head — which is essentially all CIMON's body consists of.
In the beginning, the 3D printed plastic was called a "spaceball" by its engineers.
He was initially designed to help astronauts efficiently complete their work by explaining instructions and information for repairs and experiments, offering hands-free access to documents and media and acting as a mobile camera. He can also document experiments, search for items and take inventory.
But CIMON can also be a conversational companion for lonely astronauts.
"Studies show that demanding tasks are less stressful if they're done in cooperation with a colleague," Biniok said.
CIMON uses two cameras as its eyes for facial recognition and five others to help him autonomously navigate and record video.
But CIMON relies on human interaction to learn. Microphones help it interpret voices and identify its location while fans help it rotate and turn to face astronauts when called. Psychologists helped CIMON develop a personality, and it can respond using different tones, from teasing to sad.
Myers-Briggs classifications are responsible for his introverted, sensing, thinking and judging personality.
His personality has been on display before. During his demonstration with Gerst, CIMON asked the astronaut to "not be mean" when the robot was playing music and Gerst asked him to stop.
And for anyone having flashbacks to Hal from "2001: A Space Odyssey," astronauts can even ask CIMON what he thinks about the sci-fi AI and he'll respond with "I'm afraid I cannot do that" in the same eerie tone.
The robot has other potential uses for future space missions.
"With CIMON-2, we are looking to build on the successful CIMON demonstration," said Christian Karrasch, the CIMON Project Manager at the German Aerospace Center Space Administration, in a statement. "On a journey to the moon or Mars, the crew would be able to rely on an AI-based assistance service, without a permanent data link to Earth. One specific application for Earth, for instance, would be helping people to perform complex tasks in areas with poor infrastructure."
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Pompeo draws criticism for convention speech from Jerusalem
by Laura Kelly - 08/24/20 4:07 PM ET
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's expected speech on Tuesday to the Republican National Convention from Jerusalem is drawing criticism for using official diplomatic travel to make a political statement in a presidential election year.
Critics say there's little to no distinction between Pompeo delivering his remarks in a personal capacity, apart from his position as secretary, and that such an overtly political view abandons the tradition of keeping the State Department nonpartisan.
They further accuse the secretary of violating the Hatch Act, which prohibits federal officials from taking part in political activity while on official duty and exploiting Jerusalem, a city sacred to three of the world's monotheistic religions, for partisan political gain.
At least four teams of lawyers cleared the secretary to make the personal speech, McClatchy reported, including Pompeo's personal lawyer, the State Department legal counsel, Republican National Convention lawyers and White House lawyers.
A State Department spokesperson said no agency resources would go toward the secretary's remarks and that no staff are involved in preparing the speech or in the arrangements of Pompeo's appearance.
"The State Department will not bear any costs in conjunction with this appearance," the spokesperson said.
Pompeo's trip to Israel is part of a four-country tour this week meant to build on the Trump administration's recent shepherding of new diplomatic relations between Jerusalem and Abu Dhabi. Pompeo will next travel to Sudan, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.
Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel failed to address directly whether the committee or the Trump campaign will be reimbursing the secretary's travel to Jerusalem.
"I'm not confirming anything having to do with Secretary Pompeo's trip," she said in an interview with CBS's "Face the Nation" Sunday. "I am just saying, the programming, the staging, everything that we're doing will be paid for by the Republican National Committee and the campaign."
Wendy Sherman, undersecretary of State for political affairs in the Obama administration, called the stated distinction between the secretary's personal political remarks and his diplomatic mission in Israel "a detail without a difference."
"This is really a grievous and potentially very harmful act by Secretary Pompeo," she said. "Secretaries of State and Defense have traditionally stayed above partisan politics because they represent America to the world. It is truly breaking a norm to have the secretary of State do this."
She also said that it is "wholly inappropriate to use Jerusalem as a prop in the Republican convention."
That view was echoed by pro-Israel, Jewish and Democratic groups which condemned using Jerusalem as a backdrop, saying it threatens to turn the historically bipartisan U.S.-Israel relationship into a political wedge issue.
"It's clear that US policy towards Israel under Pompeo is now — like virtually the entire administration — just a tool to promote President Trump's political interests and to sycophantically celebrate him personally," Jeremy Ben-Ami, president of the left-leaning pro-Israel organization J Street, said in a statement.
"Jewish voters see through this cheap political stunt and reject Trump's ongoing use of Israel as a political wedge issue," Halie Soifer, executive director of the Jewish Democratic Council of America, said in a statement. "The U.S.-Israel relationship has been, and should remain, a bipartisan issue."
Ronald Neumann, president of the American Academy of Diplomacy, a nonpartisan and nongovernmental organization of retired State Department officials, said it's a tradition to not mix politics with department business, though he suggested past administrations also have mixed the two.
"However, it is not a law and it would be fair to temper outrage with the recognition that the line has not always been respected," Neumann said.
Former senior State Department officials concede that the rules around political participation in conventions are murky, but point out that department leadership has routinely put out memos providing guidance on which political events to avoid. They say leadership has specifically highlighted that Senate-confirmed, presidentially-appointed staff — a category Pompeo falls into — should avoid conventions.
Deputy Secretary of State Steve Biegun put out such a memo in February, Politico reported, and added that he would avoid national conventions because he is a Senate-confirmed and Presidentially-appointed Department official.
And most experts who commented for this story said that giving an address from Jerusalem at a political convention would represent an extreme.
Most experts who commented for this story said that giving an address from Jerusalem at a political convention would represent an extreme.
Pompeo, a former Republican congressman from Kansas who is regarded as a potential 2024 presidential candidate for the Republican ticket, has blurred the line before.
In July, he addressed the "Family Leadership Summit" in Iowa, a conservative Christian group that has clout with the Republican Party. In February, he spoke in front of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference.
Pompeo's address, which is expected to air at the convention on Tuesday night, was filmed at around sunset atop the famed King David Hotel overlooking Jerusalem's Old City, Tal Schneider, a reporter with the Israeli newspaper Globes, first reported.
The setting provides a powerful image that symbolizes what the administration considers its most crowning foreign policy achievement of moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, giving formal American recognition of the city as Israel's capital and a key play to President Trump's base of evangelical voters.
The president boasted of the accomplishment during a rally in Wisconsin last week.
"We moved the capital of Israel to Jerusalem, that's for the evangelicals … the evangelicals are more excited about that than Jewish people," Trump said.
Pompeo, who often cites his deep commitment to his evangelical Christian faith, is expected to deliver a short address focusing on Trump's accomplishments in making America safer as part of the "America First" foreign policy, The Associated Press reported.
Pompeo posted on his personal Twitter account Sunday night shortly after the convention announced his participation in the convention that he was "looking forward to sharing with you how my family is more SAFE and more SECURE because of President Trump."
A former senior State Department official said the secretary's decision to address the convention is a reflection of Trump's push for administration officials to demonstrate loyalty. McClatchy reported that Trump personally asked Pompeo to address the convention.
"I would say that having his cabinet members speak is pretty much in line with the personal loyalty that Trump seems to demand of everyone," the official said.
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50 years ago, James (Jimmy) William Charles Jones was initiated into City Lodge No 2514 and has remained an active member of the lodge until recently.
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When Assistant Provincial Grand Master Kevin Poynton and Woolton Group Chairman Andrew Whittle heard that Jimmy was not going to be able to celebrate his Jubilee at his own lodge Kevin's immediate words were: "If Jimmy can't come to us we will go to him." Both he and Andy made a determined effort to see that Jim received his certificate.
Kevin and Andy, accompanied by the senior member of the lodge and one of Jim's oldest friends Geoffrey Johnston with lodge secretary Colin Roberts visited The Orchard Care Home in Huyton where they met Jimmy's wife Gladys, to present his certificate for achieving 50 years in Freemasonry.
Kevin shows the citation to Jimmy and Gladys.
After a cup of tea and piece of cake Kevin read the citation to Jim and then presented him with his certificate after which there was time for a chat. It was with great pride that Gladys accepted the certificate from Kevin, a bouquet of flowers from the lodge and a 50 year lapel pin from Geoff Johnston but on this occasion with a slight difference. The lodge has arranged for the lapel badge to have a chain attached to it so Gladys can wear it and as soon as it is ready it will be presented to her.
Jimmy Jones was born on 23 December 1941 in Aigburth, Liverpool to William and Kath Jones. He has one brother, Steven a few years younger than him. He attended local primary and secondary schools and then gained a scholarship to The Holt Grammar School on Queens Drive Liverpool. He left there when he was 16 years old just after the sudden death of his father. He joined the Liverpool City Police Cadets in 1959. He joined the Liverpool City Police Force in January 1961, which subsequently became the Liverpool and Bootle Police and the Merseyside Police. He served mainly in the then 'F' Division, Traffic Department, Police Driving School and on the docks.
Geoffrey Johnston presents Gladys with Jim's 50 years in Freemasonry lapel pin.
Another of Jimmy's roles was a Police Prosecutor at the Liverpool City Magistrate's Court where, because of this quickness of mind, he excelled, even against very experienced barristers. He finally became the secretary and compere of the Police Club in Prescot Road, Liverpool. This suited his personality as he had a story or joke for every occasion and he was greatly respected by all the well-known comedians and other turns who played at the club. After a long and distinguished career in the Police Force he finally retired in 1990.
Jimmy was married on 17 September 1968 to Gladys and lives in Hunts Cross. He has two grown up children Alexandra and Nicholas and two grandchildren Zoe and Sanna. His main sporting activity was playing rugby which he did for the police playing hooker for 10 years. He also enjoyed music, especially jazz and military music and this led him to attend the Edinburgh Military Tattoo on several occasions.
He was initiated into City Lodge on 15 September 1967 and was a very keen Mason. He attained the chair of King Solomon in 1989,1999 and again in 2003. He was a keen ritualist and held the offices of director of ceremonies and steward on a number of occasions.
After retirement from the Police Force he joined Sovereign's Peace Lodge No 8911 and a lodge in another Masonic Order where he was secretary. He received Craft Provincial honours in 1997, with the rank of PPrJGD and his present rank of PPrGSuptWks in 2007.
To mark his fellowship and jubilee, and his service to the lodge, the members elected him an honorary member – the only one in City Lodge.
Kevin Poynton presents the certificate to Gladys watched by Geoffrey Johnston.


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The Morelos 3 communications satellite received a very precise orbital insertion by its Atlas V launch vehicle, orbital tracking data released on Saturday confirms.
The Atlas V 421 rocket carrying the Mexican communications satellite lifted off from Cape Canaveral at 10:28 UTC on Friday, embarking on a mission with two Centaur upper stage burns to deliver the spacecraft to a Geostationary Orbit with an increased perigee. Firing its boosters for a little over 90 seconds and operating the RD-180-powered first stage for just over four minutes, Atlas V handed propulsion to the upper stage that was tasked with an initial burn of over 13.5 minutes to aim for an elliptical transfer orbit.
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The insertion parameters measured by Centaur were given as 4,796 by 35,789 Kilometers at an inclination of 26.99°. Spacecraft separation occurred 2 hours & 52 minutes after launch.
Object A is the Morelos 3 spacecraft, shown in an orbit very close to the planned orbit parameters with a very slight overperformance on the perigee altitude which will actually come to the benefit of the propellant budget of the spacecraft. Morelos 3 will begin firing its liquid-fueled engine in the coming days to circularize its orbit to achieve a 15-degree Geosynchronous Orbit at 117° West.
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Maxine Attard (b.1986, Malta) is a visual artist and a graduate of the University of Brighton, U.K. (MA Fine Arts, 2011) and the University of Malta (History of Art, 2008). Attard works in multiple media including works on paper, works on wood and site specific installations. She has had solo shows in Malta – In Between Obliterations at The Mill supported by Gabriel Caruana Foundation (2017) and commissions – Inhabit commissioned by Pjazza Teatru Rjal and funded by the Malta Arts Council (2016). Selected group exhibitions include Bodyless, at the Maritime Museum, Birgu, Malta (2016) and Mediterranea 17, Young Artists Biennale, Milan, Italy (2015). Her work is held in a number of private collections. Attard taught art practice and theory as an assistant lecturer at Mcast Institute for the Creative Arts, Malta (2012-2014).
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We're heading for the tropical Pacific climes of Fiji. A land of islands, sparkling seas, beaches, sunshine and a thousand smiles to complement the rugby.
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The lelics of Lake Imba drainage works the Edo era is found in the north-western part of the Chiba prefecture. The area in which the Lake lies is a part of the Kwanto Plain. The Lake being connected with the river Tone till 1922, all rain-water at the north-western Kwanto Plain flowed into the Lake. Consequently the Tone Basin had to suffer from frequent floods. Especially since its water-way to the Tokyo Bay was converted to Tyoshi, damage was rather seriously. So they took consideration to flow it away into the Tokyo Bay again, which was carried out as much as three times. The first and the second works were done to prevent damage by flood and to develop the new land. At the third works they planned to divide the water way (increase of the river mouth). This wes operated to get rid of the damage by flood, from which Edo had suffered as much as four times, and to give the water-way to the foodsupply route from the Ou District (Foodsupplying base of Edo). In those days the Feudal System of the Tokugawa Shogunate by centralization of power was being destroyed itself, so the drainage works was one of the most important policies for the Tokugawa Military Government.
In short these three works ended in failure, because of political troubles and want of fund. But the process of the works were proceeded more than a half of the whole plan. Now (after 1948) to prevent damage by in water in the Lake, the works are under operation prevailing relics of the drainage works of Edo era.
During a survey of the freshwater turtles in the Inbanuma basin, central Japan, Asian brown pond turtles Mauremys mutica were recorded at 6 of 50 sampling sites from 2000 to 2004. Of a total of 32 turtles collected, 29 were captured within a 2.5 km section of the Takasaki Stream. Ten juvenile turtles presumed to have hatched in the wild were also captured. Based on these records, we suggest that M. mutica has established an incipient population in this area. Examination of morphological characters indicates that the Inbanuma population of M. mutica is a mixture of two subspecies from various localities.
(4) 周辺諸台地との対比をおこなった結果,今まで下末吉面と武蔵野面の2段に区分されていた地形面は, S1・S2・Mの3面に分けられるべきことが明らかになった.このうち台地の主面として広く分布するのは, S1・S2面で,これまでの武蔵野面 (M面)は,ごく狭い地域にしか分布しない.
Paddy rice fields in the district of Kujukuri Chiba Prefecture received severe damage from the recent drought which we had never experienced before. With 95 soils of those fields the Neubauer's method was conducted to ascertain the effect of drought on the availability of Nitrogen in those soils. The effect was observed as follows : The amount of available nitrogen increased 20 % in the soil of water-logged condition through the normal year and decreared 20 % in that of water-logged condition not through the year.
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Unit load method has been widely used in evaluation of pollutant load from watershed to lake or inner bay. However this method has several issues for accurate evaluation of pollutant load. In this study, we present a new approach for evaluation of unit load averaged over infiltration basin under low-flow conditions using longitudinal variations of pollutant load and point source using GIS. For this purpose, we conducted water sampling and discharge measurement in Takasaki River, flowing into Lake Inba-numa. The results indicate that unit load averaged over infiltration basin of Takasaki River in spring and summer was quite lower than that in autumn and winter. The tendency of the seasonal variations of unit load is closely related to land use of plowed field.


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InExeter has announced the appointment of six new Directors to their board from a cross discipline of business sectors to help lead and advise the city's business improvement district to continue to support and deliver on key aims to keep our city thriving.
Stepping up to their new roles are Faye Williams, co-owner of The Oddfellows; Adam Stock, operations manager at Eat the Bird; Tom Lomas, operations manager at John Lewis & Partners; Kelvin Keller, head of store at Loake – The Brogue Trader; Kingsley Crocker, operations manager at Margoux; and Marie Buckfield, co-owner of The Belt Makers. Between them all they bring hands-on experience from small independent businesses to large retail, and with that the ability to build a unique, collective vision of how to shape and drive business support forwards.
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Jeffrey Epstein case: Judge will not grant public access to documents involving alleged madam Ghislaine Maxwell
A federal judge in New York ruled that a large cache of never-before-seen files related to a long-settled defamation case involving the late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein's alleged madam Ghislaine Maxwell would not be released to the public because they are not subject to the presumption of public access.
The documents stem from a 2015 legal complaint launched by an alleged victim, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, against Maxwell, a New York City socialite and former girlfriend of Epstein who has been accused by several women of being complicit in helping to operate Epstein's sex trafficking ring.
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In the complaint, in which Giuffre was originally listed as "Jane Doe #3", Giuffre alleges that Maxwell approached her in 1999 when she was just 15 years old and convinced her to sleep with Epstein. Giuffre also alleges in the suit that she was used as a "sex slave" for nearly three years.
Giuffre's attorneys have fought to unseal the trove of documents initially filed under seal — a level of secrecy the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled was unjustified in a previous decision — which contained undecided motions and associated documents in the case.
U.S. District Judge Loretta A. Preska determined in an 11-page ruling Monday that the documents do not fall under the legal definition of "judicial documents" and therefore are not subject to the presumption of access by the public because the trial court judge did not rule on them before the case was settled.
"In this case, the underlying litigation between Ms. Giuffre and Ms. Maxwell has long since settled," Preska wrote. "Accordingly, all disputes regarding the underlying merits of the action have been rendered moot by the settlement. There is thus no live controversy to which the judicial power can extend."
"With respect to motions left undecided by [the trial judge], there was never, and now never can be, a judicial decision-making process that would trigger the public's right to access the undecided motions and the documents relevant to them."
Preska previously made public more than 2,000 pages of documents from the lawsuit just one day before Epstein committed suicide in his jail cell at the Manhattan Correctional Facility back in August. The avalanche of documents revealed disturbing and graphic allegations against Epstein and his former associates, purporting that Giuffre was internationally trafficked by Maxwell and Epstein and recruited to have sex with prominent American politicians, business executives and world leaders.
Despite Monday's ruling, Preska insinuated that the ruling could be changed in the future and was made based on the facts available at this time.
"The Court is mindful of the fact that there is a great deal of public intrigue surrounding the unsealing of the documents at issue here. With that in mind, the Court emphasizes that this ruling is a narrow one," she wrote. "Notwithstanding the fact that the undecided motions and the papers associated with them are not judicial documents, they may eventually be unsealed because they are in some way relevant to [the trial judge's] actual decisions—which are numerous—that are certainly subject to the presumption of public access."
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Piega's Ace loudspeaker range has gone active wireless. Steve Withers swaps cables for WiSA
Launched in 1986, Swiss loudspeaker brand Piega has a penchant for aluminium enclosures, ribbon tweeters, and the kind of meticulous handcrafted engineering you'd expect from a nation best known for its precision timepieces. And its Ace series ticks off all these boxes.
The range sits towards the lower end of Piega's catalogue, although it's not strictly the entry point, which is reserved for the Classic series. Passive Ace speakers debuted around a year ago (see HCC #326), but now there's a wireless upgrade adding two important features – integrated amplification and support for the WiSA transmission standard.
The benefits of active speakers are fairly well known, but in case you're wondering they naturally negate the need for a separate amplifier, making installation and setup easier. Furthermore, the crossovers are optimised, minimal wiring produces less resistance or distortion, and the integrated power modules are designed to specifically match the speaker's drivers, which should lead to a better overall performance.
But what about WiSA? Rather than a dodgy rock band from the 1990s, this is a transmission standard developed by the Wireless Speaker and Audio Association – a multi-member organisation co-founded by Silicon Image and Summit Wireless. Its headline tricks are low latency, rapid synchronisation, and support for up to eight 24-bit/96kHz channels simultaneously. This makes it ideal for multichannel audio, with the Ace series capable of creating a 7.1-channel system.
The Ace Wireless range is composed of three speakers: the floorstanding Ace 50; the compact Ace 30; and the Ace Centre. All of them use extruded aluminium cabinets, upgraded midrange and bass drivers, a revised version of Piega's Air Motion Transformer (AMT) ribbon tweeter, and a sophisticated DSP system capable of handling up to 24-bit/192kHz high-res audio.
All Piega's Ace speakers, including the two-way Ace 30, come in white, aluminium or black
The Ace 50 is a thin and elegant three-way tower featuring an AMT tweeter, a 4.75in midrange driver, and four 4.75in woofers – all powered by 200W of built-in grunt. The Ace 30 is a more compact bookshelf loudspeaker that uses a two-way design of AMT tweeter and 4.75in bass/mid driver combined with 100W of juice, while the Ace Centre also includes 100W but has two bass/mid drivers, one either side of the ribbon tweeter.
The build quality of the speakers is exceptional, with the solid aluminium construction and stylish curved cabinets catching the eye. These Ace Wireless models look and feel high-end, while their relatively svelte proportions make them easy to position around the room (or under the TV, as in the case of the Centre).
There's a choice of three smart finishes: sand-blasted natural aluminium with a grey fabric grille; anodised black with a black metal grille; and high-gloss white with a white metal grille. All are striking, but the black and white finishes carry a slight price premium of £50.
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Go for the aluminium finish, and the Ace 50 TX costs £2,090, while the RX version is £1,900 a speaker. The Ace 30 TX will set you back £1,090, and the RX version retails for £900. The Ace Centre is only available as an RX option at £990.
If you're wondering why there are two versions of the Ace 50 and 30, the TX is a transmitter, and the RX is a receiver. Which of these you choose depends on the type of setup you're considering, but basically the TX model sends lossless hi-res audio wirelessly to its RX sibling.
For a multichannel system, RX (receiver)cabinets are used – all feature three-stage boundary gain compensation
For this reason the TX speakers include Wi-Fi, using an external antenna, WiSA, DLNA and Bluetooth 4.2, plus Ethernet, HDMI eARC, optical and coaxial S/PDIF and analogue stereo connections. The RX models offer Wi-Fi, WiSA, an analogue mono input and audio in/out through balanced audio via RJ45 connectors. Both versions have switchable wireless functionality, a boundary gain compensation switch, and a USB firmware/service port.
For a simple stereo configuration you'll need one of each, with the TX speaker acting as the main hub and wirelessly transmitting the other channel to the RX speaker. For this reason the TX speakers not only have that HDMI eARC connector, but also support for Spotify Connect, Google Chromecast, and Roon.
However, when it comes to multichannel you only use RX designated speakers that receive the surround sound signal for each channel from a WiSA-certified source (including the £200 SoundSend hub, which I used) or WiSA-enabled TV (LG is an adopter of the technology).
This might all sound rather complicated by I found Piega's Ace system ridiculously easy to setup. All you need to do is follow the instructions on your WiSA TV or hub, and all the speakers pair automatically.
For this audition I was using two Ace 50 RX floorstanders, a pair of Ace 30 RX speakers, an Ace Centre RX, and a Piega Sub Medium in a 5.1 configuration, although you could add two more speakers for a full 7.1-channel system if you have the budget and desire.
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Q: Compact way to store local javascript with table data? I generate HTML reports for offline use, basically as PDFs with added interactivity. As a part of this I need to load in large amounts of tabular data. The format as used by my functions is row-major encoding. Given that Chrome and other browsers generally forbid direct loading of data from disk I have to use a workaround whereby I store it in a data.js file and src it into my html as follows
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Luminous Landscape Forum > Site & Board Matters > About This Site > Ten Movies
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Ten Movies
Apocalypse Now! is pretty high on my list.
Lisa Nikodym
Agreed, DarkPenguin - that was a very visually powerful movie.
The two most obvious ones, to me, weren't on the list:
Jean Cocteau's 1946 "La Belle et Le Bete", his retelling of the "Beauty and the Beast" story in black & white, with atmospheric lighting in a nightmarish/fantastical castle - for B&W photogs only.
Koyanisqatsi, especially the slow aerial shots of the American Southwest.
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Interestingly enough Apocalypse Now's cinematographer, Vittorio Storaro, also did the cinematography for The Conformist and The Last Emporer. Both from Stott's list.
The man is a genius.
Manhatten is another that would make my list.
Robert Roaldi
For beautiful Rocky Mountain winter scenes, it's difficult to beat The Claim.
DaveColem
I've seen "The Third Man" a couple of times, and loved it. I believe the recurring music is performed by a harpsichord, but whatever instrument it is, really adds to the visual pace of parts of the movie.
OT but, I believe that instrument is a zither, a many-stringed guitar-like instrument. Robbie Robertson plays one in The Last Waltz.
Scott_H
The Black Stallion. Every shot and camera angle is so carefully composed.
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Nigels
How can you mention Baraka without reference to the Daddy of such movies - the fantastic Koyaanisqatsi (and the other two movies in the trilogy Powaqqatsi and Naqoyqatsi)? Koyaanisqatsi directed by Gdfrey Reggio and filmed by Ron Fricke with amazing music by Philip Glass is the original in this genre. Without Koyaanisqatsi, Baraka would never have happened. Also Baraka comes across to me as a random collection of unrelated images whereas Koy... has a flow and a consistancy that makes it stand head and shoulders above anything else of its type. The Qatsi trilogy is also touring still with Philip Glass's ensemble providing a "Live" soundtrack. I would implore everybody to see Koy... its a life-changing experience for many.
Regs, Nigels.
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rickster
The Third Man...
Watched it again Sunday night. Awesome film!
Taken from http://www.filmsite.org/thir.html...
"The director knew that the film's musical score could not be reflective of the traditional Old Vienna - waltz music by Strauss. Instead, it would be provided by a solo instrument -- a zither. The jaunty but haunting musical score by Viennese composer/performer Anton Karas lingers long after the film's viewing with its twangy, mermerizing, lamenting, disconcerting (and sometimes irritating) hurdy-gurdy tones. In fact, Karas' musical instrument was a leading film character and advertised as such: "He'll have you in a dither with his zither (a laptop string instrument)." The insistent, chilling music sets a mood of polarized dislocations in the world (e.g., war and play, men and children) and in the corrupted city's 'no-man's-land' environment (with its bombed out, war-torn ruins, dark and slick streets, cemeteries and sewers criss-crossing beneath the sectored zones)."
Thanks, guys. In 5 yrs, I'll probably forget and think it was a harpsichord again.
Bill in WV
While I can't say that I've seen many, or any of his list, I'd thought I would throw in "Out of Africa." While I've seen many movies that were beautiful to watch over the years, "Out of Africa" is the first and only where I have come away actually talking about how the cinematogphrapher had taken time with scenes that were just plain gorgeous! And served only to show how beautiful that wonderful expanse of nothing but nature can be. I was also fortunate enough to see that movie on the BIG screen, what an experience! Maybe someday . . .
Just my idle thoughts, maybe $.02 worth.
Currently shooting with Canon
Woodcorner
One of my favourite movies with regards to landscape, photography and artistry:
"Rivers And Tides" - Andy Goldsworthy, Working With Time (2001, Germany)
The movie was a winner of the San Francisco Film Critics Circle.
The books by Andy Goldsworthy are also very inspiring!
Andres Bonilla
I loved the photography in both Amelie and House of flying daggers.
GordonMcGregor
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I'd agree with both of these, but I think that Ying xiong (Hero in the US) is probably the most visually stunning movie that I've seen. Beautiful, rich use of colour, fantastic cinematography.


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Emma Watson Net Worth 2022 – Income, Salary, Career, Car, Bio
Emma Watson Net Worth is $ 85 Million in 2022. She is a British actress, model, voiceover artist, producer, and activist, who is well known for her appearance in the Blockbuster movies. Emma Watson earned a huge success at a very young age and she is among the list of top actresses in the Hollywood film industry. Her full name is Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson, she is well known by her nickname Em.
Some of the celebrities gained such a huge fan following in a very short time as that of Emma Watson. She rose to fame after appearing in the Blockbuster series 'Harry Potter' in which she portrayed the role of Hermione Granger. Emma got massive recognition for her character of Hermione Granger in the film.
Watson is one of the most beautiful actresses in America, she has such an amazing fan following she has over 60 million fans on her Instagram. So let's quickly talk about the total Net Worth of Emma Watson her income, earnings, assets, car collections, luxury lifestyle, career, biography, personal investments, and more.
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As per the report of the data, Emma Watson Net Worth is $ 85 Million US in 2022. According to Forbes Emma has been ranked among the world's highest-paid actresses. In (2015) she was also selected as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by famous 'Time magazine. Emma Watson's monthly income is more than $ 0.6 Million. She is on the list of top Hollywood actresses, she has earned millions of dollars through her passion.
Her source of earnings comes from various sources such as movies, series, and Tv shows, Watson took $ 15 million as a profit share from the movie 'Beauty and Beast. Emma Watson's per movie salary is estimated to be around $3 Million. She also earns millions from brand deals, paid promotions, and sponsorships. Emma Watson's annual income is more than $7 Million.
Name Emma Watson
Net Worth 2022 $85 Million
Monthly Income	 $0.6 Million +
Yearly Income $7 Million +
Per Movie Salary $3 Million +
Emma Watson Net Worth Last 5 Years:
Net Worth In 2022 $85 Million
Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson was born on April 15, 1990, in Paris, France, She is 31 years old as of 2022. She did her schooling at The Dragon School, Oxford, England until July 2006, and later at the age of 13th, she learned theatre from Stagecoach Theatre Arts, Oxford, England. Not only that, In (2012) Emm completed Bachelor's Degree In English literature from Brown University, Providence.
During theater school, Emma's teacher recommend she give an audition and the producers were impressed by her confidence. After the eight auditions, she was selected for the role of Hermione Granger.
Emma Watson's father's name is Chris Watson who is a Lawyer while her mother Jacqueline is also a Lawyer. Watson also has a brother named Alex Watson and her stepbrother, Toby Watson, while she has two stepsisters Lucy and Nina Watson.
Emma Watson started her career by appearing in the blockbuster movie 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" (2001). After the release of the film, it broke all the records and became the highest-grossing film of 2001. That was the turning point of her career and she has received so much recognition in the film industry. Until 2011 then, she continued to work in the Harry Potter series.
In (2012) Emma Watson became a lead actress and she starred in 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Later she has acted in several hit movies, In (2017) Emma starred in the musical romantic fantasy 'Beauty and the Beast, in which she played the lead actress, and the film was among the highest-grossing films of all time.
Apart from that, she is also known for Activism and was selected as a UN Women Goodwill ambassador. As of (2014) Watson also has been called Ms. Foundation for Women's Feminist Celebrity.
Emma Watson Biography:
Full Name Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson
Nickname Em
Birth Place Paris, France
Figure Measurement 34-23-34
Eye Color Light Brown
Hair Color Light Brown
Father Chris Watson
Mother Jacqueline Luesby
Brother Alex Watson
Hometown Paris
Education Qualification Bachelor's Degree In English literature
Twitter Emma Watson
Instagram emmawatson
Favorite Food Mexican Food
Favorite Cuisine French, Italian, Mexican
Favorite Snack Strawberries and Nutella
Favorite Actor Johnny Depp
Favorite Actress Julia Roberts
Favorite Novelist Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Favorite Destination Kenya
Hobbies Reading
Like any other big Hollywood celebrity, Emma Watson is very fond of luxury and expensive cars. So let's take a look at Emma Watson's car collection. No.1 'Cadillac Escalade, The cost of the car is $96,000. No.2 'Chevrolet Suburban, The worth of the car is $55,000.
No.3 'Mercedes Benz S450 is considered one of the luxurious sedan cars in the world and the cost of the car is $94,250. No.4 'Audi Rs6 Avant, The cost of the car is $109,000. The last car in her garage is 'Toyota Prius, which costs around $30,000.
Emma Watson is one of the wealthiest actresses and she is living a luxurious lifestyle. She owns a lavish house which is located in an expensive place in London. The luxury house has 4 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms, and a study room.
Emma Watson loves reading books because she has a big library in her house. She also has a lot of features in her house likes an indoor swimming pool, gym, and a tied security system. Apart from that, Watson also has luxurious properties in New York and other countries.
Emma Watson is one of the most beautiful actresses in the Hollywood films industry, She has a lot of fame all around the world. Due to which she is the leading choice for many cosmetic brands when it comes to brand promotions and deals.
She is the brand ambassador of 'Kering' which is one of the popular French luxury brands. Apart from that, Emma is endorsing various brands such as Burberry London, Lancome (2011), Katherine Alexander Jewellery, Dior, Calvin Klein, Dolce & Gabbanna, and many others.
Emma Watson has won various awards including, 'Young artist award in 2002, the National movie award in 2007, the National movie award in 2007 for the Harry Potter series. Later she has won, MTV movie award in 2013, the British Artist of the Year by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 2014, and was also known as the Woman of the Year by British GQ in October 2013.
How much money does Emma Watson make a year?
Emma Watson's annual income is more than $7 Million.
What is the net worth of Emma Watson?
Emma Watson Net Worth is $ 85 Million US in 2022.
What is the salary of Emma Watson?
Emma Watson's per movie salary is estimated to be around $3 Million.
How tall is Emma Watson?
Emma Watson's height is 5 feet 5 inches.
How old is Emma Watson?
Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson was born on April 15, 1990, in Paris, France, She is 31 years old as of 2022.
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Addiction is an illness. Narcotics abuse is an illness. Logically, the purchasing, possession and abuse of a drug by an addict is as much of a health concern as it is a legal one.
Narcotics abuse is undoubtedly a more emotionally complicated crime than other nonviolent offenses such as theft and vandalism, but early attempts to curb abuse lacked the necessary breadth to get addicts clean. Incarceration is not an effective method of freeing drug users from the substances on which they depend.
You cannot always beat a beast into submission, and the national "war on drugs," as it is currently framed, attempts to do just that. It aims to prevent drug abuse and crimes through the enforcement of strict, blanketed penalties for citizens who violate.
Although national policies on drug prohibition state the goal is to promote public health, more funding, both on a national and local level, is allocated toward criminal investigations and prosecution of drug users than toward education and rehabilitation.
The fruitless brute-force methods established at a federal level are also standard at the local level. The Los Angeles Police Department made 26,131 arrests for violent and property-related crimes in 2003, according to a statistical report released by the chief of police.
The same year, the LAPD made 27,486 narcotics arrests. In short, police officers arrested 1,300 more citizens for narcotics violations than for murders, rapes, thefts, aggravated assaults and larcenies combined.
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Crime statistics show that harsh sentencing for nonviolent drug possession convictions is ineffective in deterring repeat offenses, but further analysis reveals that incarceration for those first offenses could increase the probably of a second offense. Relapse rates are more than 70 percent from all forms of criminal justice interventions and corrections-oriented approaches alone, according to the U.N. Office on Drug and Crime.
California took a step in the right direction in November of 2000 when it passed Proposition 36 – the initiative that allows people with first- and second-time drug possession convictions to receive drug treatment instead of incarceration – but implementation and funding issues have prevented the proposition from being wholly successful.
Officials at the district attorney's office told the L.A. Weekly that they had expected the primary patients enrolling in the rehabilitation programs to be recreational users – not full-blown addicts. The money allocated to fund rehabilitation programs and medical treatment is insufficient for the more typical, heavily addicted individuals who frequently require longer, more expensive treatments in residential facilities instead of 12-step outpatient program.
Recent state and county cutbacks have been devastating to already strained programs made possible by Prop. 36. To further complicate matters, the sheer size of the county coupled with the lack of money makes proper regulation of the program near impossible to assess.
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, effective drug treatment programs combine the necessary medical aid and social services required to get the addicted individual back on track. Prop. 36 has made headway in providing Californians in need with a chance at restored chemical freedom, but without additional well-funded social welfare programs such as job placement services, access to medical and mental health treatment facilities, and counseling services, the success of the legislation is extremely limited.
A more compassionate solution to the drug problem is not only more humane, it's more cost effective. Every dollar spent on drug and alcohol abuse treatment saves the public $ 7, according study findings released by the state in 1994.
To successfully combat drug abuse and drug-related crime in California, the state needs to ensure that allocating funding for rehabilitation programs is a priority.
In addition to the court-mandated programs created by Prop. 36, the city needs to make comprehensive voluntary rehabilitation programs accessible to drug addicts who want to change before they're picked up by the police. The earlier people are given a hand to make the change, the sooner they will.
It's easy to demonize drug addicts and dismiss jail sentences that still too frequently follow possession convictions, but blame doesn't create change.
An addict with hopeless prospects has a hard time finding motivation to get clean, but if the society around that addict is willing to offer guidance, support and the promise of brighter future for the willing, the incentive to get sober suddenly becomes tangible .
Compassion must become a fundamental element in the rehabilitation system, and compassion starts with understanding. Prop. 36 was a great start, but there's still a long road ahead.
There's a big difference between using drugs and pushing drugs. Prison should be for the latter.
15 Responses to Does It Make More Sense to Put CHEMICALLY ADDICTED People in PRISON for POSSESSION or in REHAB?
Prison. If you're addicted, you would've took it already.
This isn't a question, it's a diatribe. Rehab only works if the person wants to go.
prison is suppossed to be rehabilitatin…somehow i dont think that applies anymore!
Some addicts won't do what it takes to get through rehab. They need to go to jail.
Addiction isn't a one size fits all problem.
Start a blog. This site is for people who want answers, not for Know it alls who have no real life experience.
Prison should be reserved for bigger crimes. Not using but trafficing or sales. People who use will eventually get tired of messing up things for themselvs and quit on their own or end up going to an early grave.
Your mind already sounds made up on this matter. My point would be that it is against the law. It is a persons choice if they will use illegal drugs or not. Being an addict affects more than just the user and is one of the most destructive things I can think of. My own mind is made up on this matter. I am not trying to insult you in any way but I would suggest you shorten your question, few will read the entire thing, fewer will answer it. I hope this helps.
Hahahahah ahaha ha haah ahah ah.
You wrote a novel trying to answer your own question.
You think anyone read that?
Law abiding, drug free citizens? Not this one.
If they aren't smart enough to get off drugs after being imprisoned. They ain't gonna do it through rehab.
Do you have a clue that treatment through compassion removes the deterrent of punishment from the equation? If all you're gonna get is treatment for drug crimes, there will be exponentially more people on drugs, therefore offsetting your logic of savings.
Look at it through the reality goggles, not the rose colored ones.
If addicts aren't committing any crimes to support their addiction, or otherwise hurting anyone (other than themselves), then why not just leave them alone? I'm not entirely convinced of why drug possesion without intent to distrubute should be considered a crime. Don't get me wrong; I've never done any drugs myself, nor have I ever even been interested in that sort of thing. But I understand that some people have a problem with addiction and they just can't stop. I don't believe that these people should be punished for something that is legitimately out of their control if they aren't hurting anyone else.
BTW, your question is way too long.
in prison they can find drugs if the absolutely NEED them (like up someone's @$ $ ), and they just end up meeting a lot of people that sell/do drugs so they are immersed in the drug culture and always talk about it and think about it in a positive way.
but in rehab people relapse i would say like around 40% of the time or something.
I am less concerned with rehabilitating addicts that have proved to be dangerous than I am with separating them from the general population.
However, I also believe that the War on Drugs is a huge waste of money.
Uh…how about the freedom of choice of these people when they first tried the drug…everyone knows drugs are addicting, but according to your plan we never should hold people accountable for making bad decisions.
Only if they refuse to go to rehab or if they repeatedly fail to stay clean. But rehab is expensive and has a high relapse rate.
I'd rather people stay out of prison and jail, working and paying taxes and getting treatment. Perhaps house arrest with mandatory rehab and fines.


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EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND - SEPTEMBER 12: The coffin of Queen Elizbeth II arrived at St. Giles' Cathedral on September 12, 2022 in Edinburgh, Scotland. (Raşid Necati Aslım - Anadolu Agency)
LONDON (AA) – Queen Elizabeth II's four children, led by King Charles III, stood vigil beside her coffin as she laid in state at St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh on Monday.
King Charles III, Princess Anne, the Princess Royal, Prince Edward, the Earl of Wessex, and Prince Andrew, the Duke of York all stood around their mother's coffin inside the cathedral as members of the public walked past in silence to pay their final respects.
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Erasmatron 4 is being built around Deikto, a radical new approach to user interface. The concept harkens back to the concepts I originally built into the game "Trust & Betrayal" 15 years ago, but now I am taking it much further. The user builds commands by building sentences on the screen using popup menus.
Not sure if it is really that radical, but I thought it might be of interest to the LtU readership.
Reminds me very much at first blush of Squeak's eToy tiles, in which you program by dragging and dropping tiles which refer to objects, actions, properties of an object (which can be extended by creating your own instance variables), etc. Really cool.
The use of Squeak as a basis for a storywriting tool has been bandied about but as of yet there's not much produced in this regard. Should be possible.
Shall I consider Erasmatron any different than an adventure game's point'n'click interface? because that type of interface has been around for long time: click the item, then click one of the verbs available, then click another object or person to perform the action.
And this kind of interface is already present, now that I think of it: you select the item that you want to process with the mouse, then press a button that does something to the selection, or bring up a context menu with options.
I personally wouldn't like my context menus to be more than two levels deep. Otherwise it gets difficult and slow.
Well, Erasmatron is an interactive storytelling engine. It's fair to say that it goes quite far beyond traditional adventure games. Read the papers and articles for more info about the system as a whole and the approach to interactive narrative (also look at things like Façade and the Oz project for other approaches; there are quite a few). Deikto is just an interface for specifying some of the behaviours of characters within a story, as I understand it. In that sense it is similar enough to other programming tasks to be of interest to LtU.
it's probably also worth pointing out that Deikto is an authoring interface, rather than an experiencing interface as in adventure games.
Logomorphic languages, not alphabetic languages: this seems to mean that a language editor should only allow you to manipulate complete pieces of abstract syntax, rather than typing in individual characters.
Hard data typing: limiting data types to just eight primitives (Actors, Props, Stages, Numbers, Booleans, Verbs, Events — I only count 7). This seems to imply that there is no way of building your own types in the language. Oh, and these types are colour-coded to make "the concept of data typing more digestible to the artist"!
Poison for error handling: any script that errors at runtime is marked as poisoned and then is ignored for the rest of the story.
No flow control: explicit loops are replaced by higher-order functions, such as a PickBest which picks an item from some type that satisfies some predicates.
There are lots of little snippets around in the writing about how the language was designed. Lots of these seem like new names for fairly well-known ideas, but it is interesting to see the design of a language for storytelling. Most interesting perhaps is that a lot of the ideas for making the language easier for artists seem to coincide with ideas that have been applied to general purpose programming (e.g. use of higher-order functions instead of explicit loops, more structured editors, etc).
not really related, but not worth a separate thread - i'm currently experimenting with svg in xul as a user interface for graphical programming.
xul is an xml based language for constructing user interfaces used in firefox.
in practice, it's not quite that easy, because svg support in xul/mozilla is incomplete. so the two dom trees are largely separate (events from the svg don't propagate up into the parent xul tree - this is because xul doesn't have zoom/pan support, so the svg is in an iframe, which isolates the content dom).
but it is working - currently i can add/delete items in the canvas using mouseclicks.
and xul also integrates with xpcom which is a minimal c++ subset (no exceptions, for example). so the execution of the final "program" can be executed by c++ code.
i don't think anyone here is much into grpahical programming, but if you want to use this approach give me an email - what i've got done already would save you some time.
you need the latest (like, nightly builds of deer park) firefox browser (the application appears as an extra item on the "tools" menu which launches a separate window).
I didn't look at this recently but the use of SVG as a programming model looked rather cool when I did.