In July 2012, a German botanist named Walter Müller had been murdered in Lwiro, just beyond the church, close to the perimeter of a huge plantation he owned.
Ford's studio is on the second floor of a former railroad warehouse, just beyond the tracks and close to the center of town.
To the south, over the rooftops and trees, I could see the church tower against the sky, while close by, just beyond the busy children's playground, a meadow was knee-deep in wild flowers.
A company called Beyond Verbal, which has just raised close to $3 million in venture financing, is working on a software tool that can analyze speech and, based on the tone of a person's voice, determine whether it indicates qualities like arrogance or annoyance, or both.
And by resolving some issues and leaving others floating just beyond our comprehension, he comes as close as he dares to explaining the unexplainable.
No one has to commit to a full day out if they don't want to as the closest beach is just beyond the back wall.
Fortunately, one of the early volunteers, whose farmhouse lay just beyond a row of trees, even closer to the river, was a man who had lived through every flood since 1947.
And there is strict segregation of the sexes: the women on the main floor and the men in three tiers of galleries above, an old symbol that men are "closer to God". Just beyond the church is the spacious central square--Place Louis XIV (what else?).
These futuristic confections are undoubtedly far-fetched, but they all make thrilling sense within Spider-Man's world – one that sits just beyond the bounds of possibility, yet just close enough to make these fantastical predictions irresistibly intriguing.
We were just really close".
