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by Alex Billington
October 14, 2012
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The Impossible Triumph of Team Rwanda. Today's indie trailer is for a documentary called Rising From Ashes, about the National Cycling Team from Rwanda, Africa that went on to compete in the London 2012 Olympics. The story is that cycling legend Jock Boyer moved to Rwanda in 2005 and helped cultivate an amazingly talented team of athletes from the "ashes of their past" and the horrible genocide of the 1990s. Forest Whitaker is an executive producer and the narrator. I hadn't heard much about this before, but after watching the trailer I knew I needed to show it, this looks outstanding. A film about hope and triumph.

Watch the trailer for T.C. Johnstone's documentary Rising From Ashes, in high def from Vimeo:

T.C. Johnstone's Rising from Ashes is a feature length documentary about two worlds colliding when cycling legend Jacques "Jock" Boyer moves to Rwanda, Africa to help a group of struggling genocide survivors pursue their dream of a national team. As they set out against impossible odds both Jock and the team find new purpose as they rise from the ashes of their past. Camera operator-turned-filmmaker T.C. Johnstone is making his feature debut this this. The film just played at the Hamptons Film Festival earlier this month and is showing at the Austin, Heartlands & Napa Valley Film Festivals coming up. For more info on the doc, and to find out how to see it, visit risingfromashesthemovie.com. It certainly looks worth seeing. Interested?

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Brazil 2012 « World Elections

The first round of municipal elections were held in Brazil on October 7, 2012 with a runoff to be held on October 28, 2012. Mayors, deputy mayors and local councillors in all 5,568 municipalities in Brazil. Runoffs are held in direct mayoral elections where no candidate has won 50%+1 of the votes, but runoffs are only held in municipalities with over 200,000 voters. Municipal city councils (câmaras municipais) are elected through an open list system similar to that use for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies.

Municipal elections in Brazil are the country's "midterm elections", they are the only elections held in between presidential elections and they are held halfway in the President's four-year term. While on the surface the sheer amount of parties, contradictory coalitions from city to city and the vast array of personalities make the water fairly murky, and it is true that these elections are very personalized and that local political machines play a large role. However, these "midterm" local elections are nonetheless marked by complex political calculations which are tied to national and state politics. Their results have major repercussions on national and state politics, for example playing a role in boosting (or weakening) the standings of potential presidential candidates and informing the ever changing game of Brazilian coalition politics at the federal level.

It has been two years since Dilma Rousseff was elected President in 2010, riding the popularity of her predecessor and mentor, Lula. A year and nine months down the road, Dilma maintains very strong approval ratings (with less than 10% judging her performance to be downright bad, and nearly 60% judging it to be excellent or good). Economic growth remains fairly strong, but slowed down to 2.7% in 2011 and is projected to grow by only 1.5% this year. Slower economic growth has forced the government to be surprisingly defiant to the demands of federal government employees, including teachers and federal police, who had been on strike since earlier this year demanding higher salary increases (they were granted an inflation-only offer of 15.8% over three years). This is surprising coming from a party, the PT, whose roots lay in the unions, but Dilma has continued to move the PT away from its historical socialist roots towards third-way politics.

She has favoured private sector growth and promised to reduce the high cost of doing business in Brazil, for example by extending payroll-tax cuts to more industries or cutting the very high electricity tariffs in the country. While

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Acoustic barcodes store data in sound, go on just about anything (video)

Technologies like NFC, RFID and QR codes are quickly becoming a normal part of everyday life, and now a group from Carnegie Mellon University has a fresh take on close-quarters data it calls acoustic barcodes. It involves physically etching a barcode-like pattern onto almost any surface, so it produces sound when something's dragged across it -- a fingernail, for example. A computer is then fed that sound through a microphone, recognizes the waveform and executes a command based on it. By altering the space between the grooves, it's possible to create endless unique identifiers that are associated with different actions. It's easy to see how smartphones could take advantage of this -- not that we recommend dragging your new iPhone over ridged surfaces -- but unlike the technologies mentioned earlier, not all potential applications envisage a personal reading device. Dot barcodes around an area, install the sound processing hardware on site, and you've got yourself an interactive space primed for breaking freshly manicured nails. We're pretty impressed by the simplicity of the concept, and the team does a good job of presenting scenarios for implementing it, which you can see in the video below. And, if you'd like to learn a little more about the idea or delve into the full academic paper, the source links await you. Continue reading Acoustic barcodes store data in sound, go on just about anything (video)Filed under: Cellphones, Misc, Software, AltAcoustic barcodes store data in sound, go on just about anything (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 13 Oct 2012 00:57:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink Hack a Day | Chris Harrison (1), (2) (PDF) | Email this | CommentsNexus 7 Coaster Brake Nexus 7 Cover Nexus 7 Cover (Dark Grey) Nexus 7 Cover Amazon Nexus 7 Cover Asus Nexus 7 Cover Blue Nexus 7 Cover Case Nexus 7 Cover Dark Grey Nexus 7 Cover Dark Grey Review Nexus 7 Cover Grey Nexus 7 Cover Hands On Nexus 7 Cover Keyboard Nexus 7 Cover Leather Nexus 7 Cover Magnet Nexus 7 Cover Pink Nexus 7 Cover Release Date Nexus 7 Cover Review Nexus 7 Cover Slim Nexus 7 Cover Stand Nexus 7 Cover This Week Nexus 7 Cover Today Nexus 7 Cover With Keyboard Nexus 7 Dock Nexus 7 Dock Asus Nexus 7 Dock Charging Nexus 7 Dock Connector Nexus 7 Dock Hdmi Nexus 7 Dock Keyboard Nexus 7 Dock Mode Nexus 7 Dock Pinout