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WAI UA Teleconf 6 Apr 2000 Jon Gunderson (Chair) Ian Jacobs (Scribe) Charles McCathieNevile Kitch Barnicle Gregory Rosmaita Dick Brown Denis Anson Tim Lacy Jim Allan David Poehlman Mickey Quenzer Harvey Bingham Mark Novak Next teleconference: 13 April Next face-to-face: 10-11 April Agenda [1] [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/2000AprJun/0024.html 1) Announcements 1. FTF for Evaluation and Repair Tools working group in Amsterdam http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/2000/05/agenda 2.Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: Electronic and Information Technology Accessibility Standards by the United States ARCHITECTURAL AND TRANSPORTATION BARRIERS COMPLIANCE BOARD Comments will be accepted until May 30th http://www.access-board.gov/sec508/nprm.htm http://www.access-board.gov/sec508/overview.htm JG: If you have comments, consider drafting comments or coordinate with the W3C Team. 2) Review of Action items 1.IJ: Draft a preliminary executive summary/mini-FAQ for developers. (No deadline.) Status: Not done. 2.CMN: Send a proposal to the list related to a note for Checkpoint 2.1 clarifying UI verses API access Done. 3.DA: Review techniques for Guidelines 7 and 8 Status: Not done. 4.DB: Get Tim Lacy to review G+ TL: I haven't looked at them lately. I'll try to review before the meeting. 5.DB: Review techniques for Guidelines 3, 4, and 11 Status: Have read through them, will send comments to the list. 6.DP: Review techniques for Guidelines 1 and 2 Status: Will send editorial comments to the list 7.GR: Look into which checkpoints would benefit from audio examples in the techniques document. Status: Looking for software that works. I've made some requests for leads but haven't found anything yet. I may try to work on something in Princeton. HB: Get samples of digital talking book work at Princeton. 8.GR: Review techniques for Sections 3.7 and 3.8 Status: Not done. 9.MQ: Review techniques for Guidelines 9 and 10 Status: Not done. I have a hard time finding things. 3) Proposed Rec update. IJ: Still getting reviews. No substantial comments yet. 4) Face-to-face meeting information. http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/2000/04/ua-meeting-rfbd.html JG: 10 people have registered. JG: We'll have a bridge for the meeting. Tim, Mark, Denis, Jim Allan have requested a telephone connection. KB: I'll sit in with Mark. DP: I want to call as well. IJ: That means the entire bridge will be full. There are only six slots and the WG will need one. IJ: The bridge will be available from 10am ET to 5pm ET Monday and for the whole meeting on Tuesday. The number to call (the "Mystic" bridge) is +1-617-252-1859. /* Discussion of speaker quality */ DB: If there's a problem, Microsoft will be willing to rent necessary equipment. JG: Agenda items? IJ: From the PR, one comment - people want us to track support for the Guidelines. Furthermore, the WCAG WG would like the UA WG to take over support for the UA Support page. http://www.w3.org/WAI/Resources/WAI-UA-Support JG: Also, talk about long-term schedule, confs and meetings we might attend/hold. Other ideas: - Specialized guidelines for assistive technologies. JG: Please send agenda items to the list. DA: When you talk about conformance guidelines for AT, there's a group hosted in part by the US Census bureau working on a standard interface for ATs. GR: There was a guy from the US Census at the WAI IG meeting. Action DA: Look for name of this organization and send to list. IJ: Our charter expires at the end of April. /* IJ explains charter renewal process */ IJ: Send charter ideas to the list. (Consider this a call for charter ideas.) IJ: Development of a requirements document. Look at what WCAG is doing for its requirements document. JG: So I've got: - rechartering - at guidelines - improved techniques document - reqs document - education and outreach - future meetings 5) New info for implementation report? DA: I'll try for Mac. GR: I intend to go through the checkpoints with Netscape 6. I've already sent problems to the list about installation: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/2000AprJun/0036.html GR: I don't think that I will have a full review done before WWW9. DP: Please note that this is a pre-release. IJ: The implementation report is not urgent to go to REC. We should keep it up to date, but not urgent to do so now. 6) Issue PR#207: Interpretation checkpoint 2.1 http://cmos-eng.rehab.uiuc.edu/ua-issues/issues-linear.html#207 Refer to Ian's proposal: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/2000JanMar/0550.html IJ: JG has made a point that making regular content available is not an accessibility issue: everyone suffers, not just users with disabilities. IJ: So: all alternatives that can be recognized by the UA must be available through the UI. DA: If you render content natively, you must render it accessibly. TL: Another problem with source view: for large documents, doesn't show you all content. JG: The critical piece of 2.1 is that alt equivalents be available through the UI. I don't think anything else would be lost. Resolved: - Add a note to 2.1 that a source view, while useful, does not meet the requirements of 2.1. - It does not satisfy 8.6 ("outline view") either. In fact, the outline view is supposed to reduce signal-to-noise ratio, which is increased by a source view. (Ian reminds himself for the record that the content/ui division in G1 needs to be fixed. Action Ian: Fix this.) Topic : Definition of content. IJ: "Source view" is for viewing the document source. I think that we need a definition of "document source". (Refer to Note at W3C for Note about Terminology for the Web: the source is what you get as a result of a request). It's what the client gets. IJ: In DOM1, content generated by style sheets not in tree. This may change in DOM 3. JG: MS's implementation of the DOM today gives this information... TL: It's even more complicated than source/dom/rendered: you have server-side scripts that may or may not have an effect on the source. TL: What comes down the wire is "the source". Proposed: - Define these erms: * Document Source * Document Object * Rendered Content * What is content? Action IJ: Propose three terms to the list. Topic : Scope of 2.1. IJ: How do you know something is an alternative equivalent? What is lost if the scope is reduced to equivalent alternatives? I haven't been able to come up with anything other than "content" (primary or alternative). GR: In ATAG, we talked about "Content" (big "C") v. "content" (small "c"). IJ: If you define "content" to be what's meant for humans, then checkpoint 2.1 stays the same: it's what's meant for humans (primary or alternative content). CMN: I don't like this. At the meeting, I thought we decided we would not require that everything that is human readable be available through the UI. IJ: Why is this an accessibility issue? If the information is not meant for anyone, why does it need to be available for accessibility? GR: It's an authoring issue. IJ: How do you know what will be useful to users if it's not specified as being useful to humans? E.g., some URIs may be useful and others not, but you're not supposed to rely on the text of a URI to get information... JG: How many people think that what CMN is talking about was intended by 2.1 as written in the Proposed Rec? (Source information is important, not just content meant to be rendered, since it could provide access). CMN: Three weeks ago the WG rejected the idea of making explicit what needed to be rendered through the UI. JG: I don't think the WG understood the implications of 2.1 when it was discussed. When Phill asked about a source view, I woke up because I didn't think that 2.1 was about document source. CMN: I have no disagreement that alt content needs to be available through the UI and that for that content, the source view was not satisfactory. CMN: The only content that must be available through the user interface is what is meant for humans. IJ: Summary of what I've understood: - Consensus that all information meant for humans be available through the UI. - Current 2.1 does not require that. - CMN considers that information meant for machines can make information more accessible. - UA Guidelines does not require a source view. JG: Do people think we need a checkpoint that states that alternative content must be available through the UI? Consensus: It must be available. IJ: I just want to note that the above consensus may cause a change to the spec. DP: If you don't render audio but there is an equivalent, you need to render it. JG: If you don't do it for anyone, do you have to do it for users with a disability? IJ, GR, DP: Yes. -- Ian Jacobs (email@example.com) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs Tel: +1 831 457-2842 Cell: +1 917 450-8783Received on Thursday, 6 April 2000 15:43:26 UTC
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ST. PAUL, Minn. - Minnesota Wild goalie Niklas Backstrom left Wednesday night's game against Toronto in the first period with an upper-body injury, according to coach Mike Yeo.
Backstrom, starting his first game since Oct. 28, was run over by Toronto's Nazem Kadri 7 minutes into the game and stayed flat on the ice for about 30 seconds before slowly sitting up. Kadri's elbow appeared to hit Backstrom in the head.
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Panel air filter production begins with research and testing of original equipment filters both in and out of the stock air box. Manufacturing of panel filters utilizes precision injection molding techniques using aluminum molds that are engineered and fabricated on-site at K&N. New production techniques and materials are constantly being tested as technologies change and air box construction evolves. Applications are updated year-round to stay up to date with new automotive releases and to confirm fitment and performance.
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Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) represent over 99% of businesses in the EU so it is crucial to support their growth and innovation. However, one of the most important issues facing SMEs is their difficulty accessing finance. The European Commission works to improve the financing environment for small businesses in Europe.
The Commission works with financial institutions to improve the funding available to SMEs by stimulating the provision of loans and venture capital through financial instruments.
The Commission also helps EU countries share good policy on improving access to finance which allows them to benefit from the experience of others.
EU financing programmes are generally not provided as direct funding. Aid is channelled through local, regional, or national authorities, or through financial intermediaries such as banks and venture capital organisations that provide funding through financial instruments.
To find such intermediaries, visit the EU Access to Finance portal.
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The European Commission uses financial instruments and helps EU countries share good policy in areas such as loans and guarantees, venture capital, business angels, growth stock markets, and crowdfunding.
The Commission monitors developments in SMEs' access to finance through the joint European Commission/European Central Bank Survey on the access to finance of enterprises (SAFE).
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Wacky Fitness Gear That Actually Works (tone your whole body, run faster and turn upside down!)
There are lots of weird fitness gimmicks that leave me wondering if they actually work (Shake Weight anyone?), but I'll do all sorts of crazy things in the name of fitness, and I'll try anything once. These three wacky workouts have the science to back up their claims.
While cruising around Central Park in an outdoor elliptical contraption garnered a lot of stares, a quick 10 minutes had my core engaged and heart pumping. The ElliptiGO combines the benefits of working out on an elliptical with the cardiovascular element of running and bicycling all while looking like a self-powered Segway.
"ElliptiGO riders stand in a natural upright position. This posture encourages the rider to use his/her core muscles for balance and power and also provides muscular toning for the upper body/arms," says Bryan Pate, Co-Founder and Co-President of ElliptiGO. "It is designed to emulate the experience of running outdoors while eliminating the impact. The ElliptiGO provides a high-intensity, low-impact 'running-like' workout experience outdoors allowing runners and fitness enthusiasts to get the cardiovascular benefits of running without the associated damage to the knees, back, hips or feet."
And just because you're swapping gear doesn't mean you're losing any benefits: 30 minutes of hard riding on the ElliptiGO is similar to a good 30 minute run in terms of aerobic conditioning and calorie burning.
AlterG Anti-Gravity Treadmill
Last week I headed to Equinox for a training session with Eugene Koenig on AlterG's Anti-Gravity Treadmill. No, it's not what you think... you're not running in mid-air, rather you're running (feet on the treadmill) with a percentage of your body weight removed. Originally developed for NASA astronauts, the Anti-Gravity Treadmill uses Advanced Differential Air Pressure technology for training and rehabilitation purposes. If injured, the treadmill allows for a slow integration of weight-bearing exercises (while provided an aerobic workout). Athletes use the treadmill to keep up mileage while reducing impact caused by running so they can concentrate on postural corrections and speedwork (reduced body weight allows you to increase the speed).
To run in the contraption you have to wear special neoprene shorts (pictured) which basically zip into the treadmill, creating a pressurized, airtight enclosure. The machine calibrates your body weight, then you can play with the speed and remove up to 80% of your body weight in 1% increments. It felt a bit weird a first, but eventually my waddle turned into a normal run, and I was able to push a 7-minute mile (which is a far cry from the normal 12-minute miles I run... running is not my forte!).
"Alter-G's performance treadmill is a highly effective athletic conditioning tool for both recreational and competitive athletes by allowing the user to train longer, run faster, gain additional strength and enhance cardiovascular performance while minimizing impact and stress on their joints," its website says. Check out videos of the treadmill in action here.
After a 30-minute run I felt slightly drunk trying to walk normally again (but it was a happy buzz)! And while I broke a sweat, I wasn't as winded as usual post-run. Since I was able to concentrate on correcting my gait and foot strike without fear of falling (because I was literally attached to the machine, pictured), I felt soreness in my glutes and hamstrings whereas usually my quads take the brunt of workout. Plus, there was no next-day shin splint pain!
Yoga Hammocks
Unfortunately (or fortunately) I don't have any photos of the AntiGravity Yoga class I took at Crunch a few months ago, but I still remember how sore my arms felt afterwards. Yoga is known for its slimming yet strengthening routine, and integrating the yoga "hammocks/wings" into the practice only amplifies the upper body workout.
I thought the yoga hammocks would make my job easier... I was in for a big surprise. Using the long, flowing fabric as a soft trapeze we swung, twisted, lifted and bended into inverted poses I wouldn't have been able to perform otherwise. (Although my favorite pose was the final rest, savasana, while wrapped up in my individual cocoon.)
The benefits of practicing with the yoga wings/hammocks is that it facilitates inversions (i.e. hanging upside down) which has been shown to help relieve compressed joints, elongate the spin, help with lower back pain, improve circulation and reduce stress.
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Take a look at the FreeMotion Controls in FIFA 08 on the Wii!
EA's football series makes a moderately successful debut on the Wii, with family-friendly control and some neat minigames.
News standard says region's interest in action and FPS dwarfed by that of US; Crytek CEO says EU sees shooters as "evil."
Take a look at the FreeMotion Controls in FIFA 08 on the Wii!
Check out this tutorial for right-analog-stick player switching in FIFA 08!
A little instructional video for through ball and cross passing.
Get a good feel of the mayhem that occurs at the FIFA Interactive World Cup 2008.
Industry trackers put software sales near $514 million while hardware tally more than doubles; Guitar Hero III takes four of the top 10 software sales spots.
Game Developer magazine names Brain Age-maker, Call of Duty-crafter top worldwide studios, Blizzard, EA Canada, and Valve round out top five.
The Adventure Game of the Year award and more are presented in part 6.
[UPDATE] EA reports $1.5B in quarter sales despite $33 million profit slide; Pandemic's shooter pushed back alongside Battlefield: Bad Company.
Figures from Chart Track and ELSPA show that 2007 was the best year ever for British gaming.
Buoyed by strong Christmas game sales, the UK retailer bolsters its profit expectations once again.
Five-on-five matches for EA Sports' annual soccer sim now available to PS3 and Xbox 360 owners in US and Europe.
The football season has kicked off in earnest, and this year's biggest releases are all on their way.
Exclusion of $296 million causes megapublisher to report 18 percent decline in revenue despite record-breaking sales; 350 layoffs announced, UK Chertsey office closing.
Valve's long-anticipated shooter compilation hits shelves alongside Puzzle Quest on XBL, Folklore on the PS3, the ceramic-white PSP Slim, and NeoGeo's debut on Nintendo's VC.
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Does Tom Brady Have Enough For One Final Super Bowl Hurrah?
Filling in on The Dan Patrick Show, Jason McIntyre and Rob Parker debate if Tom Brady and the 10-5 Patriots have enough bullets left in their chamber to make a run through a tricky AFC playoff bracket that will feature the league's most electric offense (Kansas City), the league's most dominant defense (Baltimore), and arguably the league's most dangerous dark horse (LA Chargers).
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Line-up for this weekend's Artisan Food Festival
We've got the schedule confirmed for the Slow Food Seattle booth (look for us near the Chef Demo stage) at the Pike Place Market Artisan Food Festival coming up this weekend on Saturday, Sept. 25 and Sunday, Sept. 26.
Our friends at Readers to Eaters will be joining us with books and speakers on both days. Readers to Eaters promotes food literacy through community food events, education programs, book publishing, and a mobile bookstore.
Saturday, Sept. 25
12pm - Hsiao-Ching Chou of Jamie Oliver Food Revolution Seattle (JOFRSEA) and Suzuki + Chou Communimedia in conversation with Eric Boutin, Director, Nutrition Services, Seattle Schools.
School-Food Revolution: What does it take to make a change to the school lunch program and what can parents do to help? Eric Boutin, the new school food program director for Seattle Schools, and Hsiao-Ching Chou, founder of Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution-Seattle, discuss the issues and challenges, and ways to get involved.
1pm - Amy Pennington, founder of Go Go Green Garden and author of Urban Pantry will be signing copies of her book.
2pm - Tiana Colovos and Anthony Warner of the Orca K-8 School Garden
3pm - Jon Rowley, food writer and Pellegrini Award winner
Jon will demonstrate how to use of a refractometer in assessing fruit and vegetable quality and flavor as well as taking Brix levels of local tomatoes as part of the 10-Brix Tomato Challenge.
4pm - Kathleen Flinn, author of The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry will demonstrate basic knife skills, plus offer tips on buying and caring for knives. She will also will be signing copies of her book.
Sunday, Sept. 26
Come by and learn more about what we do at Slow Food Seattle, our upcoming events, and how to get involved in the Slow Food movement.
Need a map of the festival? Right-click on the Adobe logo to download. Look for us near the Chef Demo stage.
The last quarter of the 20th Century has seen a craft food renaissance world wide. Slow Food, the powerful consumer movement founded in Italy as a counter to fast food, is said to be the biggest consumer based food movement in history. The U.S.-the country that invented the supermarket-now boasts almost 5,000 farmers markets. At the heart of it all is the famous Pike Place Market. On September 25th and 26th, Seattle will celebrate artisan food in the heart of our country's oldest public market and a leading food trendsetter.
The Pike Place Market Artisan Food Festival is produced by The Market Foundation and is a benefit for the Pike Place Market's human service agencies: Pike Market Medical Clinic, Child Care & Preschool, Senior Center and the Downtown Food Bank. More info can be found at www.artisanfoodfestival.org.


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A volunteer at the Forest Cafe in Edinburgh (the venue for the recent not-so-successful Comics Fare), found one of my little business card things in the shop there and very kindly got in touch to tell me she liked my website and would like to put a comic of mine in her magazine Mind The Gap. There were a bunch of themes, but the one I chose was Fucking Christmas. Note how the strip has nothing to do with it.
Also, you should have a look at the Paper Jam Comics Collective blog, I hear it's fab.
Thursday, 26 February 2009
Edinburgh Beckons Still
A volunteer at the Forest Cafe in Edinburgh (the venue for the recent not-so-successful Comics Fare), found one of my little business card things in the shop there and very kindly got in touch to tell me she liked my website and would like to put a comic of mine in her magazine Mind The Gap. There were a bunch of themes, but the one I chose was Fucking Christmas. Note how the strip has nothing to do with it.
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Thursday, 19 February 2009
Narc Round Two
More illustrations for Narc. These are both going in the March 09 issue, the first is for the NewcastleGateshead comedy festival thing that's happening soon, the second is for another Retrospective article, this time for a local punk band called Hurrah! Enjoy.
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Wednesday, 11 February 2009
Edinburgh...and all that could have been (v.02)
So me and Gary went to Edinburgh over the weekend for the second Zine-O-Rama comics/poetry/performance/gallery/zine fair, at the Forest Cafe. We got a stall for free and had lots of wares and a kick-ass display to entice the customers. We stayed with Gary's friend Dan, a splendid fellow who lives in a big lovely flat, where we were fed some delicious traditional Scottish porridge for breakfast two mornings in a row.
Despite all of this, the weekend was pretty disappointing. When we arrived we were asked by the organiser to help lug tables about for the stalls, before even really saying hello or introducing ourselves. Thankfully we only needed to move about four of them because nobody turned up except us, the Mallard crew and a Canadian guy called Hamish (who, incidentally, went off somewhere mid-way through the Saturday to teach people how to make books, and didn't come back until just before we gave up for the day). The Mallard crew sensibly decided to go home before the Saturday had even ended. Kudos, betrayers.
Now it's not that everyone wasn't perfectly civil, or that we didn't meet some really nice, cool people or didn't sell anything, because they were, and we did. But sitting in a cafe for two days straight while you watch a bunch of people way cooler than you dressed in clothes that they've made themselves, hair that they've cut themselves, with slogans spray painted on like Boycott Israeli Goods and World Trade Is A Death Machine - and you're sitting there with your colourful robot postcards and copies of the Gentleman Ghost, wearing a shirt that was ironed by your girlfriend and glasses that you bought from Specsavers, you start to feel A) Extremely unhip and B) Like you're ever so slightly out of your element.
Besides anything, mostly these hipsters only turned up for a vegan wrap and a bizarre Argentinean "herbal tea" (incidentally, I had a warm cashew and salad wrap and a vegetarian coconut curry, both of which were unbelievably delicious). Our sales were pretty much to people who just wandered over with vague curiosity, because apparently NOBODY besides us knew the thing was on. It's a shame because, had it been better promoted, it could've been killer. There was a bit of DIY hot-desking as the weekend went on, and we met some new faces, which was refreshing, because looking at Gary Bainbridge for any extended period of time has been known to give you vertigo.
The man himself assures me that last year's was better organised, with more people, in a different (bigger) room, and that our turning up should be validated by this bar that was so deceptively set to rise as time went by. But this reassurance was outweighed by the pain of a wisdom tooth growing in, an ulcer on my tongue, the muscle ache from sleeping anywhere besides my bed at home, and the waking up with a nosebleed when my sinuses exploded in the wee hours. I felt, and still feel, like my entire soul has been ripped out through my nostrils, been kicked in by a thousand angry Doc Martens, spat on and stuffed back inside through my rectum.
Oh well, where's the next fair?
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Tuesday, 3 February 2009
So the Launch Event is tonight (see below), and heroic printer Jonny did indeed pull through, meaning I'll have these wares for sale. Extremely nervous about playing, as usual, but even more so this time around because I woke up in a practically comatose state of snot and pain this morning. My throat feels like a Black and Decker work surface and I'm still not really finished writing one of the songs I'm playing. Decided on a bit of a dramatic opener for the set too, so if my voice does decide to give up it'll be after this song I think.
Anyway, that's entertainment!
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Acknowledged author David B. Jenkins PhD wrote Hollinshead's Functional Anatomy of the Limbs and Back comprising 480 pages back in 2008. Textbook and etextbook are published under ISBN 1416049800 and 9781416049807. Since then Hollinshead's Functional Anatomy of the Limbs and Back textbook received total rating of 3.5 stars and was available to sell back to BooksRun online for the top buyback price of $5.60 or rent at the marketplace.
Learn everything you need to know about the anatomy of the limbs and back and how to apply the material to everyday activities and movements with this updated edition of the classic text. This user-friendly book is packed with detailed quick-reference tables and newly revised illustrations. Take advantage of expanded study questions and exercises at the end of each chapter to actively engage yourself in the learning process and enhance your comprehension of the material. Understanding the functional and clinical relevance of musculoskeletal anatomy has never been easier!Well-rounded, detailed coverage of the musculoskeletal system includes information on the head, neck, thorax, abdomen, and pelvis. Easy-to-understand, flowing text is presented in paragraph form. Abundant tables on muscles and nerves condense the information in the text for easy reference. Detailed discussions of specific movements focus on individual joints and muscles. A glossary provides a quick reference for useful terms. Evolve online resources for students and instructors include an image bank, test bank, Archie animations, and anatomy labeling exercises. UPDATED!! Clear, concise, and informative color illustrations enable you to better interpret the text.MORE Functional/Clinical Notes highlight the applications and importance of the material. MORE Analyses of Activities and Associated Movements boxes help you apply the anatomical information on movements and muscles to everyday life. EXPANDED information on surface anatomy describes palpable structures and how to "visualize anatomy through the skin. MORE Review Questions and Exercises are provided at the end of each chapter to enhance your level of comprehension.


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Value for New Hampshire (Percent): 8.7%
Data item: Persons below poverty level, percent, 2009-2013
Source: U. S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 5-Year Estimates. Updated every year. http://factfinder2.census.gov
Poverty statistics in ACS products adhere to the standards specified by the Office of Management and Budget in Statistical Policy Directive 14. The Census Bureau uses a set of dollar value thresholds that vary by family size and composition to determine who is in poverty. Further, poverty thresholds for people living alone or with nonrelatives (unrelated individuals) vary by age (under 65 years or 65 years and older). The poverty thresholds for two-person families also vary by the age of the householder. If a family's total income is less than the dollar value of the appropriate threshold, then that family and every individual in it are considered to be in poverty. Similarly, if an unrelated individual's total income is less than the appropriate threshold, then that individual is considered to be in poverty.
How the Census Bureau Determines Poverty Status
Poverty status is determined by comparing annual income to a set of dollar values called poverty thresholds that vary by family size, number of children and age of householder. If a family's before tax money income is less than the dollar value of their threshold, then that family and every individual in it are considered to be in poverty. For people not living in families, poverty status is determined by comparing the individual's income to his or her poverty threshold.
The poverty thresholds are updated annually to allow for changes in the cost of living using the Consumer Price Index (CPI-U). They do not vary geographically. The ACS is a continuous survey and people respond throughout the year. Since income is reported for the previous 12 months, the appropriate poverty threshold for each family is determined by multiplying the base-year poverty threshold (1982) by the average of monthly CPI values for the 12 months preceding the survey month.
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These data are collected in the American Community Survey (ACS). The data for each geographic area are presented together with margins of error at factfinder2.census.gov. The data are period estimates, that is, they represent the characteristics of the population over a specific 60-month data collection period.
Since answers to income questions are frequently based on memory and not on records, many people tended to forget minor or sporadic sources of income and, therefore, underreport their income. Underreporting tends to be more pronounced for income sources that are not derived from earnings, such as public assistance, interest, dividends, and net rental income.
Margins of Error (MOE). ACS estimates are based on a sample and are subject to sampling variability. The degree of uncertainty for an estimate arising from sampling variability is represented through the use of a MOE. The MOE used with ACS estimates can be interpreted as providing a 90 percent probability that the interval defined by the estimate plus the MOE and the estimate minus the MOE (the upper and lower confidence bounds) contains the full population value of the estimate.
For example, suppose the 5-year ACS reported the percentage of people 25 years and older in Birmingham, Alabama who had a bachelor's degree was 21.3 percent and that the MOE associated with this estimate is plus or minus (+/-) 0.9 percent. By adding and subtracting the MOE from the estimate, we can calculate the 90-percent confidence interval for this estimate at 21.3%, +/-0.9%:
Therefore, we can be 90 percent confident that the percent of the population in Birmingham, Alabama of age 25 years and older having a bachelor's degree in 2007-2011 falls somewhere between 20.4 percent and 22.2 percent.
For this Fact and other 5-year Economic Characteristic Facts (listed below), their estimates and margins of error or percents and percent margins of errors can be found on Data Profile - Economic Characteristics. This profile is displayed by geography. Click on the link for "Browse for Data sets (geography picked)" near the top of the Quick facts profile page, click on the link for People QuickLinks/American Community Survey - "Economic Characteristics" for the data profile.
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We want to congratulate Hannah Wilson for representing Marion County so well during this past weekend's Distinguished Young Women of Kentucky competition.
Wilson reached the finals of the competition, and finished in the top 10 Saturday evening. She also received a preliminary interview award and was the first person in the history of the state program to receive a "My Town" scholarship, which she won for a 30-second video she made about Marion County.
It doesn't surprise us that Wilson performed so well during the competition.
After all, the Distinguished Young Women program promotes scholarship, leadership and talent in young women. Wilson excels in all three of those areas.
And, just like the young women that represented Marion County before her, Wilson shares their humble attitudes and friendly demeanors.
This past summer, the Enterprise actually had the opportunity to help with mock interviews during the Marion County Distinguished Young Women program, and we were very impressed with Wilson, specifically her outgoing, down-to-earth personality. She was very at ease and comfortable during the interview process, and she left a lasting impression on the panel of interviewers.
The Enterprise has also observed Wilson in other settings, such as speaking in front of an audience during a Marion County Board of Education meeting. She is a well-spoken, confident, intelligent and determined young lady. And, she's not afraid to express her opinion. We appreciate her candor. In fact, we find it endearing, especially when speaking in front of a room full of adults. She's just a senior in high school, but her level of maturity goes far beyond her years.
Wilson went into the 2013 Distinguished Young Women of Kentucky program with a hard act to follow. After all, Marion Countians Christine Mattingly and Paige Wilson (no relation) won the state program in 2011 and 2012, respectively. There's a lot of pressure that comes just from participating in the program, much less representing the county that won in back-to-back years.
In our view, Hannah Wilson upheld the county's legacy with her well-rounded performance, and more importantly, by understanding that the program is about doing your best.
In interviews, Wilson spoke frequently about feeling blessed to be part of the Marion County program and to have gotten as far as she did in the state program. Well, Marion County should feel blessed, too, because we can count Wilson as one of our own.
We applaud her for continuing the tradition of showing our county and state what it truly means to be a Distinguished Young Woman.
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Andreas Werz has concertized extensively in the United States, Mexico, France, Italy, Spain and Germany, where he has also recorded for the Suedwestfunk radio station. He has toured Asia performing and giving master classes in Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand. In a review of his recording of works by Schumann, Schönberg and Rihm for Thorofon Records, FANFARE praises his "formidable technique and genuine sensitivity" and states, "the cohesive concept behind the program makes it very satisfying to any collector wanting to encounter a thoughtful younger artist with real ideas about music history".
Andreas Werz was born in Frankfurt, Germany, and began piano lessons at the age of five. He completed studies under Tiny Wirtz (Cologne, Germany), Philip Lorenz (Fresno, California), and James Avery (Freiburg, Germany). In addition, he participated in master classes with Yevgeni Malinin (Moscow), Bruno Leonardo Gelber (Buenos Aires), and Ivan Moravec (New York). At the Freiburg Conservatory he passed the Solistenprüfung which corresponds to the American Doctorate in piano performance "with distinction". He has received numerous honors at international piano competitions including the G.B. Viotti in Italy, the Joanna Hodges in California, and the Dr. Luis Sigall in Chile.
Andreas Werz is in his 21st year as Professor of Piano at California State University, Fresno. He is also artistic director of the internationally renowned recital series, "Philip Lorenz Memorial Keyboard Concerts".


text: Innovation Breeds Growth June 30, 2012 12:52 AM Brett DeBruycker independently owns cows in his family's Charolais herd, but he takes advantage of cooperative marketing and resources with his parents and siblings. Profit centers give this Montana family more flexibility The majestic Rocky Mountains can make any view beautiful, but the white Charolais cattle grazing before Brett DeBruycker are his idea of perfection. "The northern plains of Montana are as close to a cattle-raising mecca as it gets," DeBruycker says. "The mild summers, cool weather, higher altitude and native vegetation combine to create a near-perfect environment for raising premier breeding stock." DeBruycker should know—he and his family run the largest Charolais cattle operation in the country. The family's cattle legacy began in the 1930s. In 1963, DeBruycker's parents, Lloyd and Jane, purchased 12 Charolais heifers—the foundation of the herd today. The operation grew as cattle were added by the family's third generation. Mark, Jacque, Brett and brother-in-law Joe Campbell (married to their sister Cathy) are active in the operation; Tammy and Kelly own cattle in DeBruycker Charolais and help when able. Another sister, Jody, handles website design and advertising. All together, the DeBruyckers run more than 2,000 cows. They market females and more than 850 bulls each year through their annual bull sale and private treaty. While their success is due to the family operation as a whole, the nuts and bolts are still mostly divided. The DeBruycker and Campbell families have never incorporated their cattle operation or their farming operations, but Brett, Mark and Lloyd have set up a formal partnership for their feedlot placements. The DeBruyckers have divided their operation into what corporate business calls "profit-centered" accounts, meaning each section of the operation is a stand-alone entity that must prove its muster on the balance sheet. The familial operational design offers more flexibility if one family decides to grow, change or stop any part of its cattle or farming practices. It also helps reduce stress on family relationships, letting each family chart its own path, DeBruycker says. "In the Charolais operation, we are a family operation but not a corporation; nor are we a partnership. We each own our own cattle, pay the bills and reap any rewards of those females. However, we have chosen to market the offspring together. DeBruycker Charolais is really a marketing arm for the family," DeBruycker says. The family was one of the first in the industry to offer bulls for lease. Behind their bull success is a structured cow management system, supported by a Microsoft Access record-keeping program that Jacque and brother-in-law Chris Wend designed. "I'm always driving Jacque crazy, asking for different breeding or performance reports, trying to find ways to improve our genetics," DeBruycker says. Profit-minded diversity. The DeBruyckers take their quality mindset with them into the feedyard and the fields. Brett, Mark and Lloyd have a formal partnership agreement on cattle placed in the feedyard, since the majority are either owned or purchased together. The DeBruyckers keep the feedlot operations completely separate from the cow–calf operation. A full-time secretary maintains a Microsoft Access–based ledger of performance data, and a QuickBooks file is used for standard accounting paperwork. As in every other sector of the family operation, profit is the focus. In the feedlot, it comes down to feed availability and cost. With not a single stalk of corn on the horizon, the DeBruyckers use local supplies of barley and malt barley byproducts as their main feed ingredients. "People wonder why we don't just grow our own feed for the feedlot," DeBruycker says. "We try to raise high-quality winter wheat, barley and hay, in the hopes of not feeding it in the feedlot. The feedlot does best economically when it is feeding off-grade products that didn't meet the qualifications for malting." Brett, Mark, Lloyd and Joe also grow irrigated and dryland wheat, malt barley and hay, but each owns or rents his own land and equipment. Even so, they often help each other with labor or machinery. Grain is individually contracted to local malting or grain facilities. "This type of family business arrangement works for us because we are so expansive in different areas," DeBruycker says. "We're trying to be the highest-quality producer possible, whether it's in Charolais cattle, wheat or barley, or feedlot performance." Back to news


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PHOENIX — The Terminix International Company and The ServiceMaster Company violated federal law by subjecting a class of female employees to a sexually hostile work environment at its Salt Lake City, Utah facility, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it has filed.
The EEOC's lawsuit, (EEOC v. The ServiceMaster Company and The Terminix International Company, L.P., Civil Action No. 2:10-CV-00705 DAK), filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Utah (Northern Division), alleged that Terminix and ServiceMaster permitted a class of female employees to be repeatedly sexually harassed by a supervisor. The abuse included repeated sexual comments by a supervisor directed at a class of female employees.
The EEOC alleges that, on at least one occasion, a supervisor suggested to the female employees that they come to work not wearing a top. On another occasion, this same supervisor suggested that the women should wear nothing but Vaseline. This supervisor also made repeated comments to female employees telling them that they could be strippers and could give him lap dances, the EEOC said. According to the complaint, managers knew about the comments and failed to address the harassment.
This alleged conduct violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Civil Rights Act of 1991, which prohibit employment discrimination based on sex, race, color, religion, or national origin, as well as retaliation. The EEOC filed suit after first attempting to reach a voluntary settlement. The lawsuit seeks compensatory and punitive damages for the victim who filed a charge with the EEOC and for the other females affected, as well as appropriate injunctive relief to prevent discriminatory practices.
"Employers who subject individuals to harassment based on sex are violating federal law," said Mary Jo O'Neill, regional attorney for the EEOC's Phoenix District Office, whose jurisdiction includes the state of Utah. "Employers must recognize their responsibility to assure that workers are not harassed by supervisors or co-workers. Where managers or other high-level officials observe the harassment and do nothing, they are putting the company at risk."
EEOC's Acting District Director Rayford O. Irvin, added, "Employers must take complaints of discrimination seriously and address them appropriately. The EEOC will continue to aggressively pursue employers who fail to prevent or promptly correct sexual harassment at their workplaces."
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Over 2,000 hours per year is available outside of the school day for children to pursue learning which is important to them, engage in the real-world, explore hands-on activities, develop social skills and enhance their interests. Learning during the school day is important, but the time spent outside of the classroom really adds up!
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Paul Kagame, 53, has been president of Rwanda for the past decade and vice-president – and de facto leader – for seven years before that. But for all the power and years of command he appears as lean and austere as he was as the 36-year-old guerrilla commander of the Rwandan Patriotic Front, a rebel army that fought an end to the 20th century's swiftest act of mass murder – the killing between April and July 1994 of some 800,000 Tutsis and Hutu sympathisers.
In the years since, we have met a number of times but this is our first lunch: the president is visiting London and suggests meeting at the Wyndham Grand in Chelsea Harbour, an expensive but unremarkable hotel not known for its restaurant. Our meal is to be prepared by a chef travelling with the presidential party. Kagame's aides assure me in advance that this is not out of fear of being poisoned. Rather, they explain, it is for organisational reasons – feeding the entourage and past experience with the vagaries of hotel catering – and I half-believe them. Kagame's administration, which has approached development with the same single-mindedness as it approached guerrilla warfare, is nothing if not well-organised.
The country that Kagame took over had collapsed, its institutions and people abandoned or destroyed during the genocide. In the ensuing years his government has overseen the return of millions of Rwandans displaced by conflict; hundreds of thousands of genocide crimes have been tried by village committees (see box below).
And, with the help of international aid, on which the government still depends for nearly 50 per cent of its budget, Rwanda has seen some of the highest growth rates in Africa. Yet no African leader divides opinion as sharply as Kagame does or inspires such contrasting caricatures: on the one hand, the visionary statesman, forging prosperity out of ruin and courageously tackling continental taboos; on the other, the blood-stained tyrant. He is accused of war crimes and human rights abuses at least as often as he is celebrated with honorary doctorates and global leadership awards.
The polemics are fuelled by Kagame's mixed record. Unlike many of his African peers, he has relentlessly pursued results in his bid to transform an inward-looking mountain nation into a regional centre for services, agro-processing, tourism and transport. But he has also been given extraordinary licence to repress dissent, and the prosperity of elites in Kigali derives at least partly from the plunder of minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo during Rwanda's serial invasions of its neighbour.
According to United Nations reports, tens of thousands of Rwandans and Congolese died at the hands of Kagame's army as he established authority and secured his country's borders in the face of continuing threats to surviving Tutsis. Political opponents and journalists still end up in exile, jail or, in some cases, six foot under.
Yet Kagame can count among his international supporters the likes of Tony Blair, Rick Warren, the evangelical US pastor, and Howard Schultz of Starbucks among other influential figures in the west. Members of his fan club tend to overlook the more troubling aspects of his rule or support the notion that he has done what was necessary to restore security and lay the foundations for development.
In the anonymous, faintly ascetic meeting room at the Wyndham Grand, where we are about to be served carrot and tomato soup, Kagame says, "I have no regrets about being who I am, and being what I am in my country for my people. No regrets at all." The round table where we are to eat, bedecked with white cloth and silver cutlery, is something of an oasis in a desert of empty carpet.
The wider global setting is more compelling: Kagame, though relaxed, is not a man for small talk and our conversation moves quickly to the conflict in Ivory Coast, revolutions sweeping the Arab world and the ramifications of both for sub-Saharan Africa. "These are not problems that just emerged yesterday: they are problems which people were not paying attention to because it suited their own interests not to," he says of the corruption, social injustice and repression that fuelled the Arab uprisings.
Such a statement might raise an eyebrow among his detractors, coming as it does from a head of state who has yet to allow a strong opponent to rival him, and who in 2001 locked up his predecessor Pasteur Bizimungu, when he formed an opposition party. But the attention Kagame has focused on developing Rwanda's essentially peasant economy has fostered the shoots of a remarkable recovery for anyone bothered to observe it closely. Few of Kagame's detractors do, something he finds infuriating.
Fiercely defensive of the moral high ground, he is not shy of playing on western guilt at having failed Rwanda in its hour of need. "I don't think anybody out there in the media, UN, human rights organisations, has any moral right whatsoever to level any accusations against me or against Rwanda. Because, when it came to the problems facing Rwanda, and the Congo, they were all useless," he says, quietly emptying his soup bowl.
Weary of the problems associated with being a recipient of international aid – from the patronising, bullying tactics of donor nations to the often fickle nature of their policies in Africa – Kagame has developed an acute sensitivity to western mendacity and double standards. He also has a strong sense of irony. So it is with a wry laugh that he suggests that the historic focus of western governments on stability over freedom and good governance in the Arab world has had its comeuppance. "They have to face the reality now I think. They just can't ignore it …"
If there is a broader lesson from the Arab Spring for countries south of the Sahara, he continues, it is in what happens to those in office who do not pay attention to the interests of their people. "You can be up there, talked about, appreciated all over the world, with people singing a lot of songs about you. But if you don't measure up and you are not really connected with your people …it will explode in your face, no question about it."
Next on the menu chosen for us by his chef is steak, with beans, green peppers, rice and potatoes. It looks fortifying, so I introduce an awkward comparison. Bahrain, ruled by a Sunni minority distrustful of a majority Shia population now in open revolt, could, I suggest, be compared to Rwanda, with its administration dominated by a minority – ethnic Tutsis, who make up around 14 per cent of the population and were victims of the 1994 genocide. Not unlike Bahrain's ruling elite, Rwanda's fears real democracy would lead to majority rule and that this would invite chaos given the history of extremism among majority Hutus.
Kagame reacts sharply to the comparison. For one, he is not a monarch, he says, like King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa. But, I murmur, you were elected by a remarkable 93 per cent of votes only last year, facing no real opposition.
"In Rwanda there is a constitution. There are term limits; there is a parliament, there are elections. Somebody who makes that comparison, I will just say is ignorant," he insists, defending the near unanimous result of last year's polls as a vote for stability in the context of the country's peculiarly bloody history.
Yet international concern is, if anything, mounting over whether the peace and economic growth Kagame has established is sustainable alongside a political system that remains rigidly controlled.
He continues with a tactic often deployed by African heads of state but which in this instance seems somewhat disingenuous: to harp on the exaggerated expectations made of developing nations by the west and the west's failure often to meet the same exacting standards. "Why isn't the majority in the developed world interpreted on the basis of race or colour or tribes? Why? You want to tell me that, in the United States, Barack Obama comes from which majority?" he asks.
We reach a point of agreement when we decide that had Rwanda been an oil-rich state like Libya it is unlikely that UN peacekeepers would have backed off when mass murder started as they did in 1994. We also agree that in the case of Ivory Coast, the elections that sparked this year's conflict were premature, symptomatic of the pressure applied on African nations to import political systems that are not always suited to local circumstance.
"Elections must be held. But when? You don't carry out elections anyhow, or under any conditions," he says, pointing to the fact that Ivory Coast was divided when the vote took place under UN supervision in November, with rebels in control of the north, and a government army in the south. "It's as if elections or political processes were things worked out in a factory …They can't be made in the UK; they can't be made in America. No. If you force it, you end up with a problem."
The waiters remove our empty plates, and replace them with bowls of fruit salad with oranges, pineapples and blackberries. We find another point of agreement: had we been almost anywhere in Africa, the fruit would have tasted a great deal sweeter. "Pineapples are very bland here," says Kagame. "And the bananas are different."
As coffee is served, I ask Kagame a question that intrigues me. He has skilfully courted the evangelical Christian community in the US, a factor that I am told helped swing the Bush administration to his side, after a frosty start. But is he himself a believer? "Yes and no," he says. "I encourage believers to believe."
The complicity of members of the Catholic church in the Rwandan genocide partly inform this doubt. There were priests among the killers. "I've seen religions make blunders. Let's look at what the Catholics did in Rwanda, which still disturbs me," he says. "You see the Catholics apologising for child abuse by priests and bishops, and the Pope has gone out of the way to apologise to the Americans. Then he goes to Australia and does the same. But they will never apologise for their role in the Rwandan genocide."
For all the blame he heaps on the outside world for turmoil past, he tailors much of his rhetoric these days to chime with the times. He is acutely conscious, for example, that Africa will only catch up if Africans themselves live up to the task. He singles out the leaderships in Ethiopia, Gabon and Burkina Faso as like-minded. "People will patronise us but at the end of the day we have to remember it's our problem," he says. "Africa should not just wait to be exploited or influenced. No. We should be part of the conversation. We should raise ourselves to a level where there are certain terms we dictate in the conversation because we have a lot to offer."
It is partly Rwanda's meagre resources, he continues, that has made it so imperative that it behaves differently, that it roots out petty corruption and improves the business climate if it is to compete. And it has, becoming one of the world's fastest reformers, rising to 66th out of 178 countries in the World Bank's ease of doing business rankings. "We are landlocked, a very small country, in the middle somewhere. Some of our neighbours, they are richer than us, and they tend to attract people more than we do. So we have to strategically create uniqueness about us."
Unique too, is the ruling Rwandan Patriotic Front, which grew out of the rebel movement he led to power from exile in neighbouring Uganda. It is one of the best endowed political movements in the world. Funds it controls own large stakes in key sectors of the Rwandan economy, including telecoms, banking, real estate and energy, as well as investments abroad that were launched when his movement was still in the bush. Kagame puts the RPF's wealth at several hundred million dollars. "We don't go out begging. For example, we didn't have any money from Gaddafi for our elections …And the reason is really we want to maintain our independence all the time in everything we do."
That is one of the paradoxes about Rwanda. The country has depended on foreign donors to rebuild in the wake of 1994. Yet it is focused, as much as any aid-dependent African country, on becoming self-reliant. And its leader, despite the debt he owes to many foreign allies, never appears anything but independent-minded. "We've dealt with our problems very unconventionally and because we've had to do that," he says – adding that this has often infuriated foreign partners who would like everything done their way – "it's a struggle all the time."
William Wallis is the FT's Africa editor
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Jason Stearns on transitional justice in Rwanda
'Killers now live side-by-side with families of their victims'
Rwanda has long stood out as an extreme case in the fractious debate enveloping post-conflict justice. What do you do in a country with 800,000 victims and probably around 200,000 culprits?
President Paul Kagame has approached this challenge with hard-nosed pragmatism. The new regime obviously couldn't prosecute all the killers, nor could they let them go. The court system was in a shambles; most lawyers and judges were dead, in exile or tainted by the old regime. For years the new government run by the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) arrested many but prosecuted few. By 1999, 120,000 people were jailed under hellish conditions. It was estimated that the courts would take more than a century to clear the backlog.
In 2001 the government launched a new approach, setting up 11,000 courts around the country, drawing on a traditional form of justice called gacaca. This process is now coming to an end. More than 400,000 people – more than 10 per cent of the country's adult Hutu population – have stood trial. Most of those convicted have been given reduced sentences or been sent home, having served time in pre-trial detention.
This solution, even according to Kagame, is far from perfect. Killers now live side-by-side with families of their victims, and there are stories of villagers abusing the gacaca system to settle scores. This is the post-genocide landscape in Rwanda, a cobbled-together compromise, a fractured society held together by tight government control. But there is a far more troubling problem with this approach to justice: It has been almost entirely one-sided. The gacaca courts, the United Nations tribunal and Rwandan national courts have not tried any crimes committed by the RPF government. The government has insisted the few crimes committed by the RPF have been tried in military courts. In any case, they argue, any crimes were an utterly different nature and order of magnitude.
This is not a matter of moral equivalence – the government was not guilty of atrocities on the same scale as its predecessor. But there is more evidence to suggest that RPF abuses were not isolated acts of revenge. A UN report into RPF killings in 1994 has resurfaced, suggesting there could have been as many as 40,000 killings by the new government in that year alone. Only 32 RPF soldiers – two of them officers – have been prosecuted for 1994 crimes.
Jason Stearns is author of 'Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: the Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa' (PublicAffairs)
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French graphic designer Maloo makes some really awesome illustrations. I'm sure she's got a name. But research and me. Not best of friends. Just like hard work. I don't even think I spelled her show name right. Anyways. Maloo makes really thin pictorials of everyday and not so everyday things in a swanky, classy twisted way. It's the kind of thing you'll see around the walls of some 60′s inspired high class, sophisticated apartment in Malibu, Manhattan and…uhhh….Montreal (cough, cough). So check out her stuff after the jump. I'm telling you it won't disappoint. It'll make you wanna pick up a Martini and play that awkward, melancholy upbeat jazz. So uh, don't look at this at work. Or around people. [ Continue Reading ]


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- Release date of movie : 2014-10-12
- Companies of movie : 2929 Productions, Nick Wechsler Productions, Chockstone Pictures,
- Countries of movie : Czech Republic, France, United States of America,
- Language of movie : English,
- Durationof movie : 102 Min
- Average vote of movie : 5.4
- Youtube ID of movie : lITvFNhoxek
- Translation of movie : EN,DE,FR,PT,IT,ES,RU,HE,EL,HU,NL,DA,FI,SV,PL,
- Actors of movie :Jennifer Lawrence (Serena Pemberton), Bradley Cooper (George Pemberton), Rhys Ifans (Galloway), Toby Jones (Sheriff McDowell), Blake Ritson (Lowenstein), Sean Harris (Campbell), Sam Reid (Vaughn), Kim Bodnia (Abe Hermann), Ana Ularu (Rachel), Charity Wakefield (Agatha), David Dencik (Buchanan), Ned Dennehy (Ledbetter), Christian McKay (Banker in Boston), Mark O'Neal (Lumberjack), Jim High (Wood Cutter), Bodil Jørgensen (Mrs. Sloan), Michael Ryan (Coldfield)
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Director : Susanne Bier, Writer : Christopher Kyle, Novel : Ron Rash, Editor : Pernille Bech Christensen, Editor : Simon Webb, Producer : Ben Cosgrove, Producer : Susanne Bier, Set Decoration : Graeme Purdy, Producer : Paula Mae Schwartz, Music : Johan Söderqvist, Editor : Matthew Newman, Producer : Todd Wagner, Producer : Steve Schwartz, Producer : Ron Halpern, Casting : Jina Jay, Producer : Nick Wechsler, Production Design : Richard Bridgland, Set Costumer : Alena Koucka, Script Supervisor : Morag Cameron, Costume Design : Signe Sejlund, Supervising Art Director : Martin Kurel, Unit Publicist : Claudia Kalindjian, Director of Photography : Morten Søborg
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A group of architects, artists, and other big thinkers are certain that they don't have their heads in a cloud as they plan what could be the most startling structure to emerge from the London Olympic Games of 2012.
Called simply "the Cloud," the monument would consist of two slender towers rising hundreds of feet into the air. Atop the twin spires float digital displays and viewing platforms for the public, who would climb up by foot or bicycle using spiral ramps wrapped around one of the towers. The summit would also feature giant inflated plastic spheres, some of which visitors could enter. Real-time information about the Games and the surroundings would be displayed by Google.
In an emerging century with more and more online experience, the Cloud aims to form a connection from the virtual world to the real world, "from the world of bits to the physical world, the world of atoms," says Carlo Ratti, head of the SENSEable Cities Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., and a member of the international team working on the project. Other players include Arup, the architectural firm that designed the Sydney Opera House. Umberto Eco, the Italian philosopher and popular novelist, is serving as an adviser.
The Cloud team wants both the finished product, and the way it is conceived and financed, to be revolutionary. While traditional monuments emphasize their grandeur and permanence by expressing a sense of mass and weight, the Cloud "upturns the monumental tradition" with its airy, almost ephemeral design, says Sarah Goldhagen, architecture critic for The New Republic.
"I think the idea is incredibly cool," she says. Ms. Goldhagen, who also edits an academic journal on modern architecture, is one of three experts the Monitor asked to look at the plans for the Cloud, which are posted online at raisethecloud.org.
The Cloud is designed to be "carbon neutral," creating the energy it needs to operate from the use of regenerative brakes (similar to those used on hybrid cars). While visitors put in the initial effort by climbing the monument, the Cloud scheme then produces electricity as an elevator lowers visitors back to the ground. Solar panels will also generate electricity.
An Internet-based effort
The design team, which has met only once, last summer, includes members in Britain, Germany, Italy, Australia, and the United States. It mostly works over the Internet with little formal structure, though Professor Ratti at MIT is acting as a coordinator.
The project is among a handful being considered by London Mayor Boris Johnson to become an official part of the London Games.
But even if the Cloud isn't chosen by the mayor, its designers plan to find an appropriate venue in London in which to build it in time for the Games. "We can build our CLOUD with £5 million [$8 million] or £50 million," says Ratti on the group's website. "The flexibility of the structural system will allow us to tune the size of the CLOUD to the level of funding that is reached."
The group will raise funds via the Internet using social-media sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
"[W]e would like the Cloud to become a symbol of global ownership built through a bottom-up fundraising effort," Ratti says on the website, akin to the effort used by President Obama's campaign to collect a large number of small donations online.
The idea of a cloud also evokes "cloud computing," the concept of storing, manipulating, and sharing data online rather than in an individual computer. Ratti also uses the high-tech buzzword "crowdsourcing" to indicate how he expects a wide number of people to contribute thinking and funding to the effort.
Google says it will supply content for the Cloud's digital displays, using Google Trends, Google Maps, and its social-networking feature Google Latitude. "For instance, we could provide a custom feed of (aggregated and anonymous) searches made by Londoners during the Olympics to give a real time 'barometer' of the city's interests and mood," reads a statement from the search-engine giant. In addition, Google promises free advertising for the project through its website and YouTube, including fundraising efforts.
Google's feeds, Ratti says, could provide information to viewers near the Cloud about "energy use, spectator numbers, decibel levels, medal updates, transport patterns, mobile phone activity, Internet traffic, and [more]."
The shape of the Could evokes the elongated triangle of the Eiffel Tower standing on its head, something its designers see as itself a metaphor. While that 19th-century monument was a groundbreaking homage to the age of steel and heavy industry at the time, the Cloud involves "a lighter process that produces reams of data rather than plumes of smoke," writes Dan Hill, a team member and consultant at Arup, on the website.
Could the Cloud become a seminal example of 21st-century architecture? "I very much hope so. I mean, I can't think of a precedent like it," says team member Alex Haw, a London-based artist who trained as an architect. He contrasts the Cloud to the London Eye, the giant observation wheel that opened on the banks of the River Thames in 2000 as part of the millennium celebration. The operators of the Eye claim it is now London's most popular paid tourist attraction.
"The Eye is almost an 18th-century phenomenon, really, a 19th-century structure," Mr. Haw says. "It's an incredibly old-fashioned idea, a Ferris wheel.... We hope the Cloud will be a good example of something that could replace it."
The chief challenges ahead, Haw says, are finding a large donor, whose commitment would then attract smaller donations, and looking for an appropriate building site.
Best use of resources?
Experts contacted by the Monitor remain intrigued by the Cloud, while expressing some reservations. "The real test will be whether the carbon footprint of this large-scale design will fulfill the original intentions," says Mikyoung Kim, an environmental artist, urban designer, and professor at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, in an e-mail. "I look forward to seeing ... this design concept come to fruition and only then can an assessment about its innovation be understood."
Peter Bohlin, a partner at Bohlin Cywinski Jackson in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., questions whether physical projects on this scale are appropriate given the world's economic predicament. "One wonders if one can do many of these things in a more modest way that is more resource sensitive, and be more touching in the process," says Mr. Bohlin, who was honored by the American Institute of Architects with its Gold Medal, the profession's highest individual honor, in December. "I don't know, but certainly these are questions."
Bohlin adds that he doesn't mean to sound negative. It's "a wonderful, extraordinary challenge and one that interests me ... greatly," he says. But in trying to employ cutting-edge technologies, the Cloud may confront long-range problems. "You can very easily be trapped in those technologies" after hitting unforeseen complications, he says.
"The Cloud is quite ethereal," he says. "It's really an interesting challenge how to make ephemeral things out of real materials.... It is hard to make dreams out of physical things."
Some of the technologies may not work as expected, The New Republic's Goldhagen points out. Each of them "has to pan out in the way they say it will in order for this monument to have the kind of effect that they are hoping it will," she says. "We all should wish them absolutely the best and cross our fingers that they're going to be able to [get it built].... These people are very cutting-edge engineers, so maybe they're going to be able to pull it off."
Team member Ratti, for one, says he's optimistic that when the Olympics open in 2012 the Cloud will be a technological marvel floating overhead – and for a long time to come. "Hopefully, like the London Eye, it will stay forever," he says.
[Editor's note: The original version of this article misstated the Cloud's Web address. It's raisethecloud.org.]